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I am a fluent native speaker, and can teach Biblical and modern Hebrew. I combine reading and conversation in order to put Hebrew into context. Lessons will focus on students' needs, whether it be bnei mitzvah tutoring, learning the language, learning prayers, etc.
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I am an advanced/fluent Hebrew speaker. I'm not a native, but my accent is excellent. With my extensive experience teaching language, and years as a university student in all Hebrew courses, I can help you become conversational and confident.
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I also have familiarity with spoken Latin and Ancient Greek, and I teach all of my professional courses in a 100% immersion setting. My passion is to show every interested student that they have the capability to master these languages.
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I am completely fluent in Hebrew and have been teaching for over ten years.
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I try to incorporate all of the language skills necessary for mastery.
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My background includes experience in developing educational lesson plans and behavior modification plans. Through my work as a teacher, I have had the opportunity to work with students with special needs in middle school as well as in High School. I truly enjoy developing effective learning strategies to address all students' needs.
Throughout my career, my approach to education has been creative; I enjoy developing multifaceted programs to engage all students and meet group as well as individual needs. My professional experience is supported by a solid academic background.
Please note that I am fluent in English, Hebrew, Dutch, French and German.
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I am a bilingual English and Hebrew speaker with a great love for teaching! I know learning a new language can be hard at times, but with the use of music, movies and games we are able to acquire a new language naturally and intuitively. I have taught many different levels in Hebrew and in English and I have a few openings that can be scheduled. feel free to contact me with any questions
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Lessons are flexible, fun and fit for the students needs. I take great pride in my students success and can't wait to welcome new ones!
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Hi Everyone,
I am so happy you chose to study Hebrew, this is my first language and I teach this subject for more than 4 years. I was tutor for University students and elementary school pupils. I always liked this profession, and I think that Hebrew is beautiful language, like so many others. If you want to learn the Holy Language or if you exciting to hear about cultural characteristics of Middle East country, this is the place where you can have them both. I look forward to meeting you:)) Odaya
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My name is Odaya and I live in San Francisco, CA. Six (6) years ago I moved from Israel to London and from London to the US. Since then I have been teaching Hebrew, ESL (English as a Second Language), Statistics, and Research Methods online. I love writing, poetry, literature, philosophy, art, people, and specially my students:).
I would be happy to assist you in achieving your personal goals by using the extensive experience I gained working with students all ages. I taught young children (4-10) and undergraduate students for many years and have developed a teaching method that will keep you concentrate and assist you in remembering the materials we will be working on in our classes.
Your time is valuable to me, and you will see how easily and quickly you can learn new subjects.
I invite you to start your journey and take
I look forward to meeting you,
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Experienced teacher of 2 years, specializing in the beginner/intermediate Hebrew student! All ages welcome. Lessons are customized and catered to the needs/goals of each student. Let's get started!
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Hi! I am passionate about teaching! Hebrew is a fun language to learn, using puppets, props, flashcards, songs and so much more. We explore letters, vowels, root words, prefixes and suffixes, building essential skills for communicating in Hebrew as well as reading Hebrew in a newspaper or a Siddur. Let's start exploring today!
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Hebrew and English students can expect to improve week to week in their ability to speak, read and write in Hebrew. I can help students to gain not only skills, but confidence in their comprehension and communication in Hebrew and in English. Each lesson is tailored to the specific academic needs, interests and age, or maturity of the student. Adapting the lesson to the learner enables them to stay engaged and to see their progress.
During the lessons, students will learn letters, vowels, prefix
I look forward to meeting you and joining you on your journey of learning to read, speak and write in Hebrew or English.
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My knowledge of Semitic linguistics - except for Modern and Biblical Hebrew I know many other Semitic languages, like different dialects of Aramaic. Such a knowledge helps to understand the syntax of Hebrew, its morphology and structure on a deeper level, which, in its own turn, helps a student to grasp the features of a new language faster.
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My name is Noa and Im from Israel :)
I have B.A in Humanities and Social Sciences , at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheba.
I have had experience teaching Hebrew language to students from five years old to adults.
For every age, I Incorporated games and motions to facilitate learning.
I am sensitive to learners' needs and understand that students learn best when they feel Accepted and encouraged. Mastering new skills empowers students. It is true I offer Praise, but student success comes when they believe in themselves.
In conclusion I have years of teaching experience in Israel and the United States in a positive manner and with my way of teaching you will gain a lot .
About Noa
I have B.A in Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheba.
I have had experience teaching Hebrew language to students from five years old to adults.
For every age, I Incorporated games and motions to facilitate learning.
I am sensitive to learners' needs and understand that students learn best when they feel
Accepted and encouraged. Mastering new skills empowers students. It is true I offer
Praise, but student success comes when they believe in themselves.
In conclusion I have years of teaching experience in Israel and the United States in a positive manner and with my way of teaching you will gain a lot .
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The Big East is dead. Long live the Big East.
Thirty-four years after its establishment as a premier basketball conference anchored around major East coast cities, the Big East name will live on in what officials expect to be another premier basketball conference anchored in major East coast cities.
Big East commissioner Michael Aresco announced Friday a split of the Big East effective July 1 with seven of the league's Catholic schools leaving to form their own basketball-dominated league that will take the Big East name and stage its postseason tournament at Madison Square Garden.
"I am pleased that this agreement has been reached," Aresco said in a statement. "With the long-term well-being of our outstanding institutions and their student-athletes of paramount importance, each group worked through a number of complex issues in an orderly, comprehensive and amicable manner marked by mutual respect. We part ways as friends and colleagues and look forward to the success of both conferences."
PREVIOUSLY: Catholic 7 to keep Big East name, MSG
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In a joint statement released through the Big East, the presidents of the seven Catholic institutions that will form their own league said: "We are grateful to Commissioner Michael Aresco for spearheading an agreement that truly represents the best path forward for each of our great institutions and the thousands of student-athletes who compete for our schools annually. It is a great credit to Mike, our colleagues, and all involved that we were able to work through a host of highly complex and time-sensitive issues in such a short period of time. We are pleased that we reached this amicable and mutually-beneficial separation by approaching each issue with a spirit of cooperation and shared respect."
As part of the breakup agreement, football-playing members remaining are expected to split approximately $100 million of a $110 million Big East reserve fund. The departing Catholic 7 will split the remainder.
The seven charter members of the new Big East will be DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John's, Seton Hall and Villanova. It is expected to be an all-sports league with up to 12 members, with possible additions including Butler, Creighton, Dayton, St. Louis and Xavier.
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"I'm really happy that we're going to start this, which I think could be the best basketball league in the country," Villanova coach Jay Wright told USA TODAY Sports. "It's going to be killer basketball. It's the northeast and metropolitan areas, where basketball is a passion."
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Oracle limbers up for big storage surprise
Data centre game changer, apparently
Oracle says it has a game-changing data centre storage announcement coming on 31 January.
There are no details, but there is a claim that new technology is involved. You can register for the webcast here.
The background is straightforward: Sun used to resell HDS's USP-V high-end array as its 9990V and 9980V storage products.
When Oracle acquired Sun Larry E dropped this reselling deal, leaving Sun with a high-end storage hole that was not filled by its Sun 7000 open storage ZFS-using product. That is more of a mid-range offering.
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Suffolk polling center puts Florida, Virginia and North Carolina safely in Mitt Romney's column
The Suffolk University Political Research Center has determined Mitt Romney is a lock to win the battleground states of Florida, Virginia and North Carolina and will not conduct additional polls there during the final four weeks of the presidential election.
The three states are generally considered to be competitive battlegrounds with uncertain Election Day outcomes.
"In places like North Carolina, Virginia and Florida, we've already painted those red,'' David Paleologos, the center's director, said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday night. "We're not polling any of those states again. We're focusing on the remaining states.''
The announcement appeared to surprise conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly, who paused his interview with Paleologos to ask, "your polling agency is convinced that Florida, North Carolina and Virginia are going to go for Romney?''
"That's right,'' Paleologos replied, "and here's why: Before the debate, the Suffolk poll had Obama winning, 46-43, in the head-to-head number [in Florida] — a poor place to be for a couple of reasons. Number one, his ballot test. His head-to-head number was under 47 before the debate, and it's very difficult when you're the known quantity, the incumbent, to claw your way up to 50, so that was a very, very poor place for him to be. And so we're looking at this polling data, not only in Florida but in Virginia and in North Carolina, and it's overwhelming.''
The Suffolk University Political Research Center, based in Boston, is a widely respected polling agency that has conducted surveys for prominent news outlets, including the Globe. It claims to have a 96 percent record of accuracy in predicting winners since 2002.
The gap between Obama and Romney has been tightening since the strong debate performance by the Republican nominee. Polls in Michigan and Pennsylvania suggest those two states, previously thought to be strongly leaning toward the president, could be in play on Nov. 6. Also, on Tuesday night, the latest WMUR Granite State Poll showed Romney trailing the president by only 6 percentage points in New Hampshire, down from 15 points a week before.
The new poll was conducted between Sept. 30 and Oct. 6, partly before and partly after the Oct. 3 debate in Denver, suggesting the full impact of the debate might not yet be visible.
In the survey of 559 likely voters, 47 percent said they plan to vote for Obama, and 41 percent said they back Romney.


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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
At Burberry…….Carine Roitfeld, Vogue Paris
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I love the shoes.
Wow, that's a sheer skirt! Nice Balenciaga gladiator wedges!
Hmm…those shoes look familiar. :)
Attractive lady…but is the see through thing on bottom really the way you want to get attention?
I think this is the first time I've seen Carine in a color other than black– much less, white! Bravo!!!
A nice picture of ms Roitfeld.Her hair matches her shoes well and the surrounding isn´t bad either.
Oh my!
Wow. Down to the shoes, stopped me in my tracks.
I've never seen Carine in white! The dress looks a bit sheer, though. And I give her credit for being seen in the same shoes more than once; she's gotten a lot of mileage out of those Balenciagas.
i'm not sure about those shoes w/that dress. i think i liked them better paired with the simpler tank dress you posted a few days ago. they appear to be competing with the dress in this outfit and sort of steal the show. a more classic sandal would allow the dress to shine.
also, i wouldn't be comfortable in a dress that sheer, but if she is, more power to her. it looks lovely on her.
The outfit's her, in a heartbeat. But, um, the skirt part of the dress bothers me a bit. The drape and the see-throughness of it all. I feel like that part might have made the shoes more detached from the rest of the outfit. But I've never really appreciated the appeal of the Carine aesthetic anyway.
Her shoes, wow
I love the see through dress, it's perfect! Bellisima!
I don't like the combination: fresh, delicate coloured fluttering dress with "material" black wedges. Sorry.
She certainly does look different away from the black…and I have to hand it to her, that smile is the thing that really makes the look work.
She is so gorgeous. She always looks youthful and refined. and not in the least like someone who's TRYING to dress 'young'.
She's always perfect.
Dress looks really great on her, but the shoes spoil the overall picture, too big of a contrast. Although I wouldn't mind wearing it with menswear shorts…
There's a lot of tension going on between the airy dress and the clunky shoe–I think she's trying a bit too hard to be young. A bit too tongue-in-cheek (which you would be able to see, were it happening).
She looks great as always.
But I prefer her in "stricter" clothes, I don´t know if the airy-floaty things do he a favor.
But then again…she is Carine, even the worst choice she plays it cooly
It is an interesting choice, those shoes with that dress…but I think it anchors it a bit. If you wore an airy shoe, it would look like too much cotton candy.
Carine Roitfeld is such a fashion maven. She is the epitome of French Vogue- and I follow her style moves wisely. She is fabulous and cutting edge almost always.
As for the more structured shoes, it balences out and strengthens the look as a whole. With flats, she look like a stump (she recognizes that heels do wonders for legs) and wispy stilletos would make it look trampy with that neckline. So much cleavage would be slutty without the "barrier" the shoes bring to the ensemble.
This woman is a mother as well. I only hope I remain this amazing after a couple kids and middle age.
Have you guys been paying attention to fashion magazines, stylist profiles, designers, trendsetters? If so, you'd see that she is on top of her game, no doubt helping get the trend of the strong shoe balancing a wispy dress started in the first place (I'm thinking of those violet YSL heels with thick "ribbon-esque" ties from winter '05 she rocked with fitted suits, etc.
This is what is hot right now, and she (of all people) has to stay on top as editor of the fashion bible.
Very pretty! The heavy gladiator wedges look out-of-place with the lightness of the dress though.
I also think the wedges are too heavy for the dress, current trends nothwithstanding.
i'm inspired to see breasts dressed beautifully. any size is beautiful, but mine are c's, so i have to look hard for fashion inspiration that is other than the music video look. thanks!
The Epitome of
Style and Confidence
Being the leader of the pack
Madame Carine
what is just Enough
to Tantalise
to Dare
to Understand
what-ever Age
Viva La Carine!
Fashion is sometimes vulgar, but it's only by pushing the boundaries of 'good taste' that new ways of looking and dressing come to the consumer.
As a woman who obviously knows what she's doing and has access to the top fashion ideas and images, Ms. Roitfeld embodies the stretching of comfort zones in this photo, I think.
Are the heavily ornamented shoes a bit much? Probably.
Is the low-cut utterly sheer dress for daytime a bit much? Probably.
But it's in exploring the extremes that fashion pioneers such as Roitfeld make way for all who follow.
I wonder how I would look at this picture without comparing (unfavorably, malgre tout) with Guccigirl of the previous post?
I think this is Carine deviating from her normal "status black" while keeping an element of that look with the shoes– and it works for me.
That style of shoes is so hideous it grieves me to see them everywhere. To me it says whoever is wearing them is simply following what is in fashion, not using their good sense.
LOVE THE SHOES – though not with this dress…. LOVE the color and the sheerness of the dress.
This outfit is tight out of a recurring nightmare I used to have all through my teens and twenties: I'd leave the house, thinking I was fully dressed, and then look down and realize my skirt was transparent. (Shudder.)
like her longer hair/lighter attitude – she seems less heavy in spirit than prior posts. the smile seems really hers – good thing she took time out to pose for your shot (referencing first shot you posted of her)! I'm suprised on all the "too sheer" comments – what are we really seeing? I don't make out anything under the dress?
I'm surprised that so many are tut-tutting the sheer skirt. What's the biggie? The shirt dress wearer just below is showing one heck of a lot more leg.
I love the heightened drama of the warrior goddess wedge. A great combination with the dress and simple cardigan, I think.
I love the sheer skirt with the heavy shoes. Perfect for sultry days moving into evenings on the patio. Or going from hot pavement to ice cube offices. Either way it is a great look that moves through a day.
I like it. I like the softness of the dress, it's lines and that it's sheer. I think the wedges fit beautifully because there's lots of skin showing on her feet too – they're not too "solid".
she needs a slip…otherwise it is right on par
I don't like the shoes with that dress. I think that she needs something more dainty.
I give her points for lowering her cost per wearing with the shoes though.
She looks beautiful in this picture. I like how soft and a bit ephemereal she looks because I'm usually accustomed to seeing her in a lot of black. The shoes are awesome of course. :)
magnifique !!!!
The shoe reads organic to me which works back to the organic nature of the dress.
And, who ARE you out there who are tsk-tsking the sheerness of that garment as it drapes this stunning woman? What a vision that would be as you watched her walk by.
I don't know loads about Carine, but whenever I see a picture of her she is always looks very cutting edge and dare I say fierce. This strikes me as something very different, it's soft and feminine. A look that that I wouldn't attribute to her (based on previous pictures). But still she pulls if off with panache! And gosh how I adore those Balenciaga shoes.
I love it–Ms. Roitfeld is one of my personal style icons, and I love to see her rock a look that may have been "done" before, but she carries it off well. And it's so different from what she normally wears, it's refreshing.
ahhh i love her.
i agree…her shoes are rockin' (as a previous commenter said).
the sheer bottom doesn't really appeal to me, but she looks great!
she's always a little bit sexy, a little bit unexpected. i like it.
I love this, the shoes are stunning on her beautiful look for her
Those are wonderful cardigan, dress, and shoes.. but together, I'm not very sure..
I love Carine's style. Although I have seen her in better looks, she still manages to elevate the defition of true style, unlike Anna Wintour. Carine is truly a style maven.
love carine…..
Queen of all cougars and effortlessly elegant to boot.
bravo satorialist…
she's really gorgeous, as always, but i don't see the appeal of a totally sheer skirt. yes, she undoubtedly has a magnificent rear view, but putting it in a thong (i assume) and a see-through dress does not, in my opinion, highlight it to its best advantage. plus, i love good slips and they're terribly hard to find–i bet the editrix of paris vogue knows more than a few good places to find them, though.
thoes shoes – rawrrr! i love.
i think this combo works beautifully – it just looked right to my eye. if i had to say why – here are a few thoughts –
1) the much-mentioned shoes. not just because i like them, but because they keep an element of that tough carine that we know and love.
2a) the sultriness of the dress. that dress is HOT!! everyone is commenting on the sheerness… but it doesn't actually show anything! in fact, the middle of the skirt portion is more heavily pleated just enough to keep it proper, to me. i can imagine that on a hot summer day, this dress feels divine.
2b) more on the sultriness of the dress. the shapeliness of her body really comes out – she's not really that delicate, right? the strength of her body comes out, i think, which is reflected in the shoes.
2c) ok i don't know how i got into the lettering here – but also on the dress – the ruching in the middle is a less light-and-floaty, more controlled sort of design element… again harkening back to familiar carine territory.
3) and then the cardigan – dare i call it a "shrug"? – just perfectly tops it off. to me, this makes perfect sense as far as what a woman like carine would wear on a hot summer day in paris.
Gorgeous & inspiring –
Love the entire look.
Carine, you always look terrific. But this dress…..you have the body, but it's too sheer I guess. Bisou
She seems really nice! A good company… Thats the impression I had of her in this pic.
No need to mention the great outfit.
I absolutely want that cardigan! I really like the neckline of the dress, and I think the light-coloured embellishment on the shoes ties them in very successfully. I would say the best picture I've ever seen of her! Stunning figure and beautiful smile (although I always want to tell her to get her hair back so we can see her lovely face. If I could say it in French I'd sound like her maman, no doubt).
NOT BLACK!!! Carine is such a bad ass.
the priestess and the acolytes
Aside from the fact that I can see her underwear, I love the dress. Wear it with a slip underneath, and it's absolutely perfect.
Also, I like the shoes with it. As someone said, anything else would've made the whole thing too floaty.
she really knows how to make great shoes work! they are the same pair as the last time you shot her , july 04, but they add to the outfit in a completely different way
That revealing yet not revealing white is just so sensuous and tempting. Like a sunbath.
Neat pick – very travesty of men's subdued desires – best for Holidays and honeymoon reunion.
Match it cheap and discounted 0ff-white retro leather jacket for women
I know it's been a long time since this photo of Carine was published but does anyone know who the designer of this lovely dress is?


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State energy management agency GSE, which ran the auction process, said roughly another 600MW of projects lost out in the auction.
Numerous other projects were not admitted because they did not meet auction criteria. This differs from the first tender earlier this year, when all bidders were admitted to the auction and received a Fit, some with a discount of just 2.5%.
For wind projects coming online in 2014, the base auction price stands at EUR124.46/MWh, meaning that Fit awardees able to complete projects next year will receive a tariff between EUR100.19/MWh and EUR112.64/MWh.
Another 52.5MW in small-scale wind projects were assigned a Fit outside of the auction process, with the largest of these coming in at 1MW.
There were no bidders for an offshore tariff, although the incentive price was potentially available for up to 620MW in offshore projects.


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Have we been wrong in the way we've configured devolution? Specifically, have we [English] been wrong in the way we've understood devolution as, to an extent, setting Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland free to govern their own affairs and forge their own identities; while we [English] have been denied the choice of self-determination and self-identity: subjected to the imposition both of British rule and British identity?
Could we [English] perhaps not reverse this paradigm? Could it not be argued, on the contrary, that in being allowed to run many of their own affairs, the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish have been allowed to affirm and own their very Britishness; while it is we [English] that have set out in a different direction: a distinctive, [English] direction, albeit under the direction of the British polity and in a way that is predicated on the absence of a distinct Englishness?
That's why I'm choosing to call it [English] – in red font and square brackets – rather than just 'English'. The post-devolution [England] has been a virtual, shadowy 'Anti-England': the unacknowledged Real that is the actual ground of meaning (and also 'ground' in the sense of 'territory') and the referent of the symbols of Britishness and of the imagined country that is 'Britain'. In other words, the UK government – particularly in relation to devolved matters – has become in one sense 'really' an English government. That is to say, its actions and laws relate in reality – on the ground and in terms of their impact on real people's lives – primarily to England. But those actions and laws are symbolised as 'British' not 'English': they are not spoken of as the actions of an English government that affect a land called England and people who are English. Though the government itself is comprised mainly of English people, elected from English constituencies for which they are, at least in theory, elected to provide national government, the members of the UK government and parliament speak of themselves as a British government of a country called Britain.
In short, we [English] have had, since devolution, 'government of the [English] people by British (but in fact mainly [English]) people for the British state (though ostensibly for the [English] people). It's been a sort of 'not-the-English government': both really English, in the sense outlined above, but not-English / anti-English / British at the same time. Of England, by English people but not in England's name, which would mean it was democratically accountable to a nation that knows itself as 'England', and acknowledges that government and those MPs as its representatives: which would, in other words, be real English (not [English]) government.
So I'm suggesting a new typographical convention – [England] and [English] in red and square brackets – as a way to refer to the 'really' English character of what tends to be referred to and imagined as 'British' even though it primarily relates to England in terms of its material import, and reflects an English perspective – political and cultural – on 'the country'. For the avoidance of doubt, I'm not suggesting that 'British' and [English] are in some sense equivalent terms: that if we all know that what is spoken of as 'British' is in fact really [English], but that we're all just being inclusive and politically correct by referring to it as 'British', it doesn't really matter whether you call it [English] or British.
For example, I'm not saying, as some Scottish nationalists do, that the British government and establishment are 'really' an English government and establishment. Well, yes, it is an English establishment, but one that is best evoked as an [English] establishment. The establishment, and particularly our present government, is comprised of privileged, largely public school- and Oxbridge-educated English people, with a typically English cultural and political perspective on the nation they like to imagine as 'Britain' and the polity they refer to as the UK. But it cannot really be referred to as an 'English establishment' when the people involved present themselves primarily as 'British', and see themselves as governing a country called 'Britain'. They are English-as-British people that view themselves as governing England-as-the-UK; and it seems somewhat unfair, but understandable, for Scots nats to feed that back as 'British-but-really-English' people governing in the interests of a Britain-that-is-really-England. The whole point is that, whereas it might in fact be 'really' an English government, it's not a government in England's name that holds itself accountable to the English nation: it's an English-but-not-English government, a 'not-the-English' government – an [English] government.
The more 'British', the more not-English, in fact – by which I'm trying to suggest a paradox that the more post-devolution British governments have tried to affirm their 'British' character and deny their [English] reality, the more distinct from the rest of Britain / residual Britain have their [English] policies been. In other words, the more they've led [England] in a distinct direction, different from the devolved nations, the more indistinct from 'Britain' has been their way of talking about [England] – as if the way to deny the separating of [England] away from the other nations of Britain that has been driven as much by their distinct policies for [England] as by devolution is to talk more and more as if that [England] and those [English] policies were all there is of Britain: to retreat into a solipsism, as much as a solecism, which denies the splitting up of Britain by re-imagining [England] as 'Britain as a whole' and, indeed, as 'Britain as whole'. So in fact, the more 'British' England's governance and self-representation has become, the more [English] it has in fact been: distinct from the rest of Britain, which has a justifiable claim to represent the 'true Britain' and the true (at least, post-war) traditions and consensus of British government and political values.
The Labour governments of Blair and Brown neatly illustrate this paradigm and paradox. As I've argued elsewhere, one of the purposes behind devolution to Scotland and Wales was to allow Labour to maintain its hegemony over those countries in perpetuity, and to pursue Old Labour social-democratic policies there that Labour had given up on for [England]. New Labour, ostensibly a project for a 'New Britain', was in fact a programme for [England] only. New Labour's Big Lie and act of treachery towards England was that, at the very moment that it plotted a neo-Thatcherite course for [England] only (on the assumption that Old Labour was unelectable in England), it had the gall to make out that this was a programme for Britain (as a whole). Old Labour was true British Labour – a party that thought that, by definition, socialist principles should be applied across Britain as a whole. New Labour, on the other hand, is really [English] Labour: charting a distinct (neo-liberal, market-capitalist) direction for [England] while at the same time presenting this as if it were a project for a New Britain and consistent with, but modernising, British Labour's values – whereas, in fact, those British Labour principles had been abandoned for [England] but remained alive, well and funded by the British state in the devolved nations.
So, contrary to the language and our [English] conception of devolution, it was the devolved countries that remained more truly British, whereas it was the land that could be referred to only as 'Britain' (i.e. [England]) that set off in a different direction. This is not so much 'England is Britain is England', as the Scots-nats would have it, but 'Scotland / Wales / N. Ireland is Britain and "Britain" is [England]'.
But I don't think one should impute deliberate treachery and deceit to the whole Labour movement in this matter; although I'm positive the Labour leadership knew what it was doing by spinning [England] as Britain. For the mass of [English] Labour members and New Labour apologists, [England] could be referred to only as 'Britain' because Labour was in massive denial that its distinct policy agenda for [England] was separating [England] from the old socialist Britain for which Labour was supposed to stand just as firmly as devolution was doing. Devolution and a distinct agenda for [England] in fact went hand in hand for New Labour: devolving Scotland and Wales to pursue separate policy agendas for the devolved countries and for [England]; but denying it was pursuing divide and rule, and abandoning its socialist principles for [England] only, by making out that [England]
was Britain – ultimately not divided from 'the rest of Britain' because it had been re-imagined as the 'whole of Britain' and no longer actually included the 'rest of Britain' within its New Labour horizons. The New Britain was in fact [England].
But what of the oh-so [English] present government and the not-PM-for-England, David Cameron, himself? Laughably, David Cameron's Canute-like refusal to endorse a new EU fiscal-consolidation treaty back in December of last year was portrayed by some as an example of a new Conservative 'English nationalism', something which I refute in turn here. But there are some senior Tories who would explicitly like to champion this sort of 'go-it-alone-England' – free from the two Unions: European and British – as the new English nationalism. Tories such as John Redwood, who described this anti-EU English nationalism recently, and paradoxically, as "the new force in UK politics". (Paradoxically, because he still refers to "UK politics"; and English nationalism as such can be talked of as a reality only when it starts to become possible to use the phrase 'English politics'.)
John Redwood is perhaps something of an exception, in that, unlike many of his parliamentary colleagues, he has never been ashamed of talking about England as a nation in her own right, with her own claims to self-determination. But for most Conservative MPs, it would be more appropriate to talk of [English] nationalism rather than English nationalism. Yes, they are, mostly, English MPs, elected from English constituencies, with a typically 'English' cultural outlook, conception of the UK and antipathy towards EU interference in [English] affairs. But the 'nation' they wish to safeguard from absorption into continental Europe is 'Britain'. And if it's necessary to accept the secession of Scotland as the price for being able to preserve, govern and shape that Britain in accordance with their ideological precepts, then so be it. Their Britain will just keep calm and carry on – with or without Scotland, and preferably without the EU – except that, without Scotland, it would be, err, mainly at least, England. But why let reality stand in the way of a good political fiction?
So the [English] nationalism of the New Tories is far from being a positive political programme for a new, self-governing England (which is true English nationalism). In fact, it represents a radical continuation of the distinct, Blairite policy agenda and vision for [England] originally set by New Labour, and which is so resolute to resist anything that might stand in its way that it's prepared to go even further than New Labour in splitting [England] off from (the rest of) Britain. Whereas, for New Labour, it was sufficient to hive Scotland and Wales into devolved Old Labour enclaves in order to continue the Thatcherite agenda in [England], for the New Tories, it may be necessary to ditch Scotland altogether – if not, perhaps, Wales; at least, not yet – in order to continue the work of Blair.
But don't let's fool ourselves that this will involve building a New England as the continuation of Blair's New Britain, because, just like New Labour, the New Tory project involves a radical denial of England as a nation in her own right, and with rights of her own. In fact, just as Cameron's Conservatives are prepared to risk separating off 'Old Britain' (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) from [England] even further than devolution by happily tolerating Scottish secession, they are also pushing the England-denying project to its radical limits by privatising the last vestiges of the post-war British-national settlement in [England], which ultimately means privatising [England] itself.
This is the profound meaning of the [English] government's Big Society agenda and programme of privatisation of things like the [English] NHS (which I now like to call the 'English Public Health-care System' (EPHS), as it is no longer British, nor nationalised, nor a single 'service' as such but is definitely English), [English] education, [English] policing and even [English] local government and public administration. Are you getting the point now? Thatcherism was about privatising British nationalised industries. But Thatcher's New Labour and New Tory continuators have extended this programme of privatisation and marketisation beyond industry to the institutions and organisations that symbolised and embodied a shared British nation – but only within [England]. And once you've torn down – brick by brick, as Cameron put it last week – the edifice of the British state in [England] that was once publicly owned and run in the public interest, you're left not with a new England but an atomised landscape in which health care, education, planning, policing and all the rest are no longer seen as being ultimately the responsibility of a national (e.g. English) government but are all in the hands of the private domain and the market: private enterprise, private individuals, social enterprises and co-operatives, competitive health-care providers, public-private partnerships, local GP consortia, local development plans concocted by democratically unaccountable local cliques in place of proper local democracy, etc.
In short, abolishing the national in [England] (nationalised industries, and nationally owned and accountable public services) ultimately means abolishing the English nation. The ultimate logic of Thatcherite privatisation and marketisation is the asset-stripping of nationhood, so that all you're left with is the private sphere (and its extension, the micro-local) and the market. But for [England] only: they've made sure of that.
But the left – or the post-Blairite wasteland that passes for one in [England] – have got no answer to this, because any sort of answer would have to be national, and the nation to which the answer would apply could only be 'England'. That's why I have absolutely no confidence in the claims made this week that Labour, if re-elected into [English] government, would 'repeal' the present government's privatisation of the [English] NHS, or the EPHS, if you've followed me to this point. And that's not just because the [English] Health and Social Care Bill was in fact no more than a continuation to its logical limit of many of the marketisation measures New Labour introduced into the [English] NHS, but because Labour has no language in which to articulate a vision for the / an English nation as such, let alone for a new NHS that would be per force an English NHS now, because all possibility of maintaining the pretence that the now abolished [English] NHS was the NHS (i.e. the original, British one, founded by the post-war Labour government) has vanished. Just as Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have remained true to the post-war British settlement, they still have their British NHS: state-run, -owned and -funded. So a new Labour (not New Labour?) [English] government couldn't 'reintroduce' or 're-nationalise' the NHS (the British one) because it still exists, except not in England. No, they'd have to create something new: an English health service.
Is the left in [England] at all capable of articulating a vision of and for England? Well, that is the 64,000-dollar (donation) question. And it's a question, ultimately, that applies to all of our [English] political class, not just to Labour. Politicians will not be able to 'reconnect' with the [English] public, as the saying goes, until they reconnect with their own Englishness: until they liberate themselves from the mental chains, repression and 'enclosures' that prevent them from seeing and accepting themselves as English, and as having a primary purpose, as English politicians, to serve the English people and nation.
I use the expression 'enclosure' to refer to a confinement of the English and of England to the private realm, both in the context of the wholesale privatisation of England I've just described and in the context of a process whereby persons engaged in public life in [England] close off their 'inner Englishness' into their private life: not to be spoken of in politically correct, British (i.e. [English]) society. Of course, the two processes are linked. I was struck by this recently when reading an article entitled, 'Britain is not just "undergoing privatisation", this is a modern enclosure movement'. This described the process of privatisation of [English] public services, essentially as I have described it, as a latter-day version of the enclosure of common land in England from the 16th century onwards, but without mentioning that either the modern or original enclosures were largely limited to England – something that I wasted no time in pointing out in the comments!
What sort of mental enclosure, intellectual barrier or self-censorship prevents the author and many like him from acknowledging that public assets and services are being closed off into the private realm in [England] only or primarily, not 'Britain'? Is it because they themselves – in the wake of Thatcher and Blair – fundamentally do not believe in an English public realm, out of some sort of internalised hatred and contempt for England, the common English people and themselves as English? It is as if, in their minds, England and the English – and themselves as English – deserve no better: deserve, that is, to be just cut-off, isolated, private individuals striving and competing against one another for the services and goods they need from private suppliers and employers, rather than expecting as of right the dignity of a nation that takes care of its own.
Politicians, left or right, will not be able to make an effective stand against the privatisation of England until they are prepared to resist the privatisation of their own Englishness. They're going to have to 'out' themselves from their own British enclosures – 'come out' publicly as English – before they can pretend to speak in the name of an English public: an idea that they have thus far repudiated just as they have repudiated their own Englishness. English ownership of public assets means English people owning their Englishness. But until such time as those who would represent [England] can think of themselves as English, and identify with the English people, England will remain in the British enclosure.
In short, New Labour brought us an England re-imagined and marketed as 'Cool Britannia'. The New Tories have brought us 'Rule Brit-Anglia': an England privatised and branded by the market as 'Britain'. But for England to come into its own, to 'unrule Brit-Anglia', English people must first break open the mental 'Eng-closure' that prevents them from saying 'England' and choosing to speak in her name – which is, after all, what a real English parliament would be for. Then, perhaps, we'll at last be able to talk of a self-governing England, not a Brit-ruled [England].


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Rep. Ted Poe is doing his best to save Uncle Sam some money.
And to send a message to the government of Pakistan.
Poe introduced, and helped pass, an amendment to the Pentagon funding bill that would cut off approximately $650 million of aid to Pakistan.
Poe, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, explained his proposal this way:
"Pakistan is the 'Benedict Arnold' to America in the war on terror. They are disloyal, deceptive and a danger to the United States. This so-called ally continues to take billions in U.S. aid, while funding the militants who attack us. And we've kept the money flowing. It's time we turn off the tap. By continuing to provide aid to Pakistan, we are funding the enemy, endangering Americans and undermining our efforts in the region. We don't need to pay them to betray us; they are already doing it for free."
Poe originally proposed to cut $1.3 billion, the full funding for Pakistan, however the proposed amount was cut in half to allow for greater bipartisan agreement.
The bill passed in the House in a voice vote, with Democrats joining Republicans to send a message to the South Asian nation.


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Why is everybody picking on my Baylor Bears?
Am I the only one willing to stand up for the little guy?
Picking on Baylor for the SWC breakup and for now wanting the Big 12 to stay together is like calling out a goldfish for coming along when a family moves to a new house.
Worse, much of it comes from schools that would have done just what Baylor did had they had the chance. Rats and roaches mad at the goldfish for leaving them behind? Please.
Let it go, UH fans.
Baylor had NOTHING to do with the SWC breakup, and it didn't keep UH from joining the new conference.
And do note that when Arkansas left the conference, the breakup could have (and probably should have) happened then, but Grant Teaff fought to keep the league together. For you loudmouth youngsters who don't know, Grant Teaff worked at Baylor.
So yeah, while you're interested in being so simplistic (and inaccurate) in calling Baylor's Ken Starr a hypocrite for pointing to tradition as part of the reason the four Texas schools in the Big 12 should stay together, try not to ignore the fact that Baylor gets credit for having kept the league together for those final few years. (I won't even mention that Starr was investigating Whitewater when the SWC broke up and had nothing at all to do with the fallout.)
More importantly, the Big Eight didn't want to add Houston in the first place. UT and A&M were adamant about not bringing Houston along.
Blame the Longhorns and the Aggies. They are the evil ones, who carry all the might.
The then Pac-10 wasn't interested in Houston. Point fingers at those West Coast wusses.
The SEC told A&M that it couldn't come alone, but if it brought another school that would be cool. But UH could not be that school. Dog those backwoods, cheating rascals if you like.
Yeah, UH blame everybody.
And rewrite history. When the SWC broke up, UH was among the least popular sports entities in this pro sports town. And everybody knew it.
Its athletic department was in shambles. And I'm talking on the fields and courts, and in attendance. Its own athletic director didn't believe in the school's ability to make much noise in the city.
Rudy Davalos wanted out (and considered it a promotion to take the same job at New Mexico) because he said UH was only the sixth most popular team in Houston, behind the Oilers, Astros, Rockets, Texas and Texas A&M. Heck, he even said UH was only a tad more popular than Rice, and the Owls were gaining, which to him really made UH 6.5 in popularity rank in Houston.
You thought that was a local secret? You don't think everyone in the country recognized that?
That wasn't Baylor's fault.
In 1993 Kim Helton had turned John Jenkins' mess into a worse mess, and UH averaged only 17,000 per game at the Astrodome, while Rice averaged almost 24,000 at Rice Stadium.
Baylor didn't keep the Big 12 from adding Houston. It simply took the last seat on the bus, to save itself and in doing so, it stayed with two schools that it had long rivalries with as original SWC members.
Only four SWC charter members were in the league when it was obvious that it was about to crumble. The only one not invited to join the Big 12 was Rice, and if you need an explanation as to why Rice wasn't welcomed into the new conference, you need more help than I can give you.
What's so wrong with Baylor wanting to stick with its oldest rival Texas A&M? After all, the first football loss in Baylor history was to A&M (33-0 in 1899). That's tradition.
Did Baylor turn its back on TCU, SMU and UH? Yeah, the same way the goldfish turned its back on the rats and cockroaches that weren't brought along on the family move.
The rats and cockroaches wouldn't have given a darn about the goldfish had it been flushed down the toilet. But the point is neither rats, cockroaches nor goldfish had enough power to bring along any of the others when the family moved.
So what if Baylor hadn't been sitting in a little protective bowl (it had some political clout) it never would have been brought along? Big whoop.
What does that have to do with what is going on now?
This is all about the Orangebloods and Aggies. Always had been and always will be.
In this Big 12 divorce, now that the kids have left and gone off to college, you think either parent is going to give a darn about the poor little goldfish?
It was their school presidents who came together and basically threatened the other members of the SWC in 1990 (when Arkansas left); telling them to shape up or they were shipping out.
Can you blame the goldfish for trying to keep divorcing parents together?
It worked in 1990. It failed in 1994, so the goldfish did the next best thing. It went to the new house instead of the toilet.
But let some of you tell it, Baylor, the cute little green-and-goldfish, is a killer whale. Gimme a break.


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U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke joined Vice President Joe Biden and other administration officials today at the White House to introduce the U.S. Government's intellectual property enforcement strategy. Participants included U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Ron Kirk and U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel. In her White House Blog, Espinel wrote,
"I am pleased to announce that today we unveiled the administration's first Joint Strategic Plan to combat intellectual property theft. The U.S. economy leads the world in innovation and creativity thanks to American inventors, artists and workers. Our ability to develop new technology, designs and artistic works supports jobs and allows us to export great new products and services around the world. Our citizens need to feel confident that they can invest in new innovation and intellectual property, knowing it will be safe from theft. Ensuring that our ideas and ingenuity are protected helps us create jobs and increase our exports."
Intellectual property refers to the ideas behind inventions, the artistry that goes into books and music, and the logos of companies whose brands we have come to trust that must be protected. Intellectual property represents the hard work, creativity, resourcefulness, investment and ingenuity of the American public. White House Intellectual Property Website White House video
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U.S. sends warships for Sochi
Two Navy warships deployed to the Black Sea will give U.S. commanders more options in case of a security problem at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
Col. Steve Warren told reporters the ships — the amphibious command ship USS Mount Whitney and the frigate USS Taylor — have orders to conduct "routine security operations and patrols" and to be on hand just in case of a problem in Sochi.
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"We've made it clear previously that having them in position in the Black Sea during the Sochi Olympics gives us an added capability in the region," Warren said.
( Also on POLITICO: King: Sochi threat 'very concerning')
The Mount Whitney arrived in the Black Sea on Tuesday, the Navy said. The Taylor is expected to arrive Wednesday.
Gaeta, Italy-based Mount Whitney, with its crew of about 300 sailors and civilian mariners of the Military Sealift Command, is the flagship of the Navy's 6th Fleet. It bristles with radio and satellite communications gear but carries no heavy weapons. The Mayport, Fla.-based Taylor, which carries at least one helicopter, belongs to an aging class designed as Cold War convoy escorts and is on its last deployment, set to leave the fleet next year.
Warren was asked about the decision to send these two ships, as opposed to the amphibious transports, destroyers and others available in the fleet.
( Also on POLITICO: Schumer seeks release of Sochi yogurt shipment)
"These are the two ships the combatant commander feels are most appropriate for the operation there," he said.
The Navy has at least two other ships — destroyers — deployed in the Mediterranean thatcould also sail to the Black Sea in case of a problem in Sochi. Plus, the U.S. European Command has helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and troops based in Great Britain, Germany and elsewhere that also could respond.
For now, the Mount Whitney and the Taylor are an unsubtle reminder to Moscow that Washington remains worried about the potential security threat to the Winter Games. American officials have repeatedly offered to lend any assistance that Russia needs to preserve the security of the Winter Olympics, which have been threatened with attacks by fighters from Russia's restive Muslim regions.
( Also on POLITICO: Billie Jean King won't attend Sochi opening)
The Pentagon and State Department have said they're conducting "prudent planning" to be ready in case of a security problem in Sochi. President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel have phoned their Russian counterparts to offer U.S. assistance if needed.
Hagel, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, National Security Adviser Susan Rice and other top officials briefed Obama about Olympics security preparations at the White House on Tuesday.
"He was assured by his team that they are taking all appropriate steps regarding the safety of Americans," the White House said. "He directed them to continue to work closely with the Russian government and other partners toward a secure and successful Sochi games and to review carefully and act on any new information that might affect the security of the games."


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The past week has definitely been all about juggling work with our office move… so it was nice to dress up on Thursday evening and attend the Drapers Awards 2013, an annual evening of glamour and celebration with some of the most renowned names in the UK fashion retail industry.
It was the 2nd time in a week I had been to an event at Old Billingsgate in the City of London; the NOAH tech conference after party was also held there.
An audience of more than 800 gathered for the black-tie awards dinner and Girl Meets Dress were seated with a fabulous group from the retail and ecommerce industry at our table. Our host Victoria from Drapers led an extremely fun dinner, deciding to monopolise the twitter feed on the big screen above the stage by creating our own hashtag #table72 – and as we browsed the lots on auction from the ipads placed on each table, we enjoyed courses of pumpkin, duck and chocolate cheesecake.
The dresses on show were extremely impressive, with all the female attendees choosing to go high in the glamour stakes and the obvious trends of the night were fully sequinned mini dresses, short lace dresses with sleeves, and black full length gowns. I decided to go for colour, and picked a red lace cocktail dress by a new brand to Girl Meets Dress Honor Gold. I was in the mood for sleeves, and teamed the dress with black tights, metallic slingback sandals and a black snakeskin box clutch bag.
We bumped into lots of familar faces from the retail and online industry and it was great to catch up with friends we hadn't seen in a while. The Drapers ladies looked stunning as usual, and had all decided to go for dresses with a shine, whether chunky multicoloured beads, sequins or glittery strands sewn into chiffon.
Dara O'Briain was our host for the evening, announcing the award winners, and the hilarious Irishman helped make the night a memorable one.
The after dinner party was circus themed and contained a photo booth, a popcorn stand and a pick and mix cart. When the evening ended at 2am on the dance floor, we collected our coats and headed out into the night, as I glanced back and caught sight of Drapers team shimmering away to the music.


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Blue Knights Take Home Win from Rams
Mount Saint Mary - 64, Farmingdale State - 40
Farmingdale, N.Y. - Increasing their win streak to
12 games, the visiting Mount Saint Mary College women's basketball
team (16-4, 13-0) took a 64-40 conference win from the Rams today
in Farmingdale, N.Y. The loss broke Farmingdale State's seven-game
win streak and they now stand at 14-5, 12-2 in Skyline play.
Farmingdale jumped out to a quick 7-2 lead early in the first half, but the Blue Knights cut the lead to one with 13:18 left to play and then used a 10-0 run over the next four minutes to take the 21-10 lead. Three minutes later, Mount Saint Mary went on another 10-0 run, holding a 33-15 advantage with 2:35 left to play in the first half. They would go into the lockerroom with the score 35-19.
In the second, the Rams cut the deficit to nine points, 39-30, but struggled shooting and the Blue Knights ran away with the 64-40 victory.
Junior guard Kimberly Blakney (Brooklyn, N.Y./Benjamin Banneker) led for Farmingdale with 14 points, four blocks and four steals. Junior forward Gabby Green (North Babylon, N.Y./North Babylon) finished with nine rebounds and seven points. Junior guard Tiffara Steward (Elmont, N.Y./Sewanhaka) totaled six points, three steals and two blocks.
For Mount Saint Mary, Jess Tice grabbed a game-high 18 rebounds, along with scoring 10 points and two blocked shots. Meredith Paggi had 14 points and Chrissy Zrowka tallied eight assists.
The Rams now host St. Joseph's on Thursday, February 12th. The Rams will be participating in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's Pink Zone Week, along with 1,200 other colleges around the country, joining in the fight against breast cancer. All proceeds raised from this game will benefit the late Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund. Kay Yow, a legendary basketball coach from NC State, lost her battle to breast cancer on January 24th, 2009.
The game starts at 6:00 p.m., followed by the men's game at 8:00 p.m. Fans are encouraged to wear pink to the game, or t-shirts are available to purchase for $10. The Athletic Department is asking for a $2 donation at the door. Raffle prizes will be available from Starbucks, Chili's, Houlihan's, Dave & Buster's, Changing Times Pub, and more.


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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane says there is "no way" he would be host of the Oscars again after serving as emcee of Sunday's ceremony in Los Angeles.
Asked via Twitter if he would lead the festivities at a future Oscars show, MacFarlane tweeted early Tuesday: "No way. Lotta fun to have done it, though."
MacFarlane earned mixed reviews for his handling of the 2013 telecast, which was seen by more than 40.3 million viewers in the United States.


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Last year I was contacted by Libby McInerny, who was working on a film project she thought was ripe for screening at public libraries. She had heard about The September Project, and was interested in learning more about how we operate and more importantly, how the project started. The more we chatted and shared, the more I wanted to support this important project.
She and I reconnected this year, and I'm happy to report the film is ready for viewing. From the web site:
Not in Our Town: Light In The Darkness is a one-hour documentary about a town coming together to take action after anti-immigrant violence devastates the community. In 2008, a series of attacks against Latino residents in Patchogue, New York, ended with the killing of Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorian immigrant who had lived in the village for thirteen years. Seven local high school students arrested for the crime admitted they were "looking for a Mexican" to beat up. Over a two-year period, Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness follows Mayor Paul Pontieri; the victim's brother, Joselo Lucero; and diverse community stakeholders—including local librarians—as they openly address the underlying causes of the violence, work to heal divisions, and initiate ongoing actions to ensure everyone in the village will be safe and respected. Library Journal's 2011 Paralibrarian of the Year, Gilda Ramos, is featured in the film, along with other Patchogue-Medford librarians."
As expected, librarians and the local library play a big part in this story. Librarians and the Patchogue-Medford Library emerge as important community resources before and after the tragedy. Not surprisingly, the project organizers are promoting this film to public libraries and others as an opportunity to spark conversations around issues that matter in our communities.
From Libby, here are four ways libraries can engage in the film project:
- Schedule a screening and discussion of Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness at your library during Not In Our Town Week of Action.
- Encourage community partners to host screening events at your library in September and beyond.
- Promote and participate in a "One Community/Once Book" Club.
- Email your ideas, stories, and event announcements. They will be added to the project website, and your library might be featured in a future Not In Our Town video story.
Over the years, many libraries have organized film screenings and discussions for September Project events, and I encourage you to consider using this film as a thought-provoking activity to spark conversations in your community this Fall. The film is free, and you can learn more about the project at their project web site, http://www.niot.org.


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April 10, 2009
Los Angeles-- Sanford M. Jacoby, UCLA Anderson's Howard Noble Professor of Management, History, and Public Policy, has been awarded the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. The Fellowship is granted annually to individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or stellar creative ability in the arts. This year, the Guggenheim Board of Trustees granted 180 Fellowships from a pool of almost 3,000 distinguished applicants.
"The Guggenheim Fellowship is the most apt recognition for Sandy's intellectual contributions in the field of labor relations, and on the formation of global regulatory frameworks and governance systems," said Judy D. Olian, dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management. "We appreciate the stature of such a coveted award, and have no doubt that Sandy will continue to break new ground with his important research on the connections between labor movements and financial markets."
Jacoby was selected as a recipient for his historical and comparative study of how labor movements in industrial nations have tried to shape financial markets and corporate governance through regulatory efforts and strategic use of pension assets. His research focuses on the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Japan. Jacoby has been working on the project - entitled "Labor and Finance: Perspectives on Risk, Inequality, and Democracy"- for the past three years, and hopes to use the fellowship to support his authoring a book on the topic.
"It's a great honor to receive this fellowship," Jacoby said. "The greatest gift for a scholar is time, and the fellowship will give me the opportunity in the coming year to further my research in this area."
Guggenheim fellowships have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to individual artists, scholars and scientists who have demonstrated distinguished achievement and who show exceptional promise for future accomplishments. Since its establishment, the Foundation has granted more than $273 million in Fellowships to nearly 16,700 individuals.
To view a complete list of 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship recipients, please visit:
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management, established in 1935, is regarded among the leading business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty members are renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,700 students enrolled in MBA, Executive MBA, Fully-Employed MBA and doctoral programs, and to more than 2,000 professional managers through executive education programs. Combining highly selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs, and a world-wide network of 36,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson develops and prepares global leaders.


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By Ki Fanning, ruminant nutritionist at Great Plains Livestock Consulting
With winter just around the corner and calving season set to start in 60 to 90 days, it's time to evaluate cows' body condition. Body condition scoring (BCS) determines the amount of flesh that an animal is carrying. This can be used to evaluate the current feeding regimen. Animals in proper body condition are healthier, take less feed to maintain their body weight (especially in the winter), have increased reproductive performance and wean a larger calf due to age and milk production.
Beef cattle use a 1 through 9 numbering system with 1 being an extremely thin condition without any body fat that can be palpated and near death. A BCS of 9 indicates extreme fat, similar to an animal just prior to slaughter. A cow with a BCS of 5 has a good overall appearance. Upon palpation, fat cover over ribs feels spongy and areas on either side of the tailhead have palpable fat cover. A cow with a BCS of 6 requires firm pressure applied to feel the spinous processes. A high degree of fat is palpable over the ribs and around the tailhead. Cows with a BCS of 7 are considered at the top end of the optimum range for reproduction (5 to 7); however, it is possible that too much money is being spent on feeding these animals and the herd may be more profi table with an average BCS of 6.
Low score, low returns. Cows with a BCS that is not in the 5 to 7 range can experience reduced reproductive performance. When a herd's BCS average is 6, there should be only a small percentage of cows that are culled each year for being open or late. BCS is a great tool to continually improve the herd's genetic ability for efficiency of energy utilization.
Before excess body fat can be added, there are eight other metabolic functions that must have their energy requirements met. They are, in order of priority: basal metabolism (including maintaining body temperature); physical activities (including grazing); growth; supporting basic energy reserves; maintaining an existing pregnancy; milk production; adding to energy reserves; and estrous cycling and initiating pregnancy. Once these metabolic functions have their needs met, it takes only small amounts of energy to increase the body condition of an animal.
Research agrees. In my experience, BCS is the single biggest factor affecting conception rates in cattle. Recent research has revealed that cows with a BCS between 5 and 6 will cycle and rebreed sooner than cows with a BCS of 4. In fact, Rick Rasby, a beef specialist at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, reported cows that cycled at 89, 70, 59, 52 and 31 days postpartum at a BCS of 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, respectively. Therefore, the cows in greater body condition have the best chance to rebreed and not fall behind in the herd's calving date. Mike Apley of Kansas State University and Mark Hilton of Purdue University reported the differences in production of heifers with a BCS of 4, 5 and 6. Heifers with BCS 6 had conception rates of 90% by day 40 and 96% by day 60, compared with 65% and 80% for the heifers with BCS 5 and 43% and 56% for the heifers with BCS 4.
The birth weights of the calves averaged 64 lb., 67 lb. and 71 lb. for the heifers with a BCS of 4, 5 and 6; however, there were no differences in the dystocia score. Heifers that calved in the first week of the calving season made $250 per head more compared with heifers that calved in the last week of the calving season, which lost $265 per
head. This loss was due to a lighter calf and a greater chance of the cow falling out of the herd because she was open or late calving.
With the high cost of feed, there is economic advantage to keeping cows in an appropriate BCS to maintain conception rates and profi tability. A body condition scoring chart that gives detailed explanations of what to look for and examples of each BCS can be found at http://beef.unl.edu/learning/condition25.shtml.


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Countries around the world are trying to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels, due to both the environmental impact and the rising costs. But Denmark is looking to not only reduce the use of fossil fuels, but eliminate it all together.
The Danish climate commission has published a report, which suggests that the country could very be fossil fuel free by the year 2050. According to the report, all of the country's power could come from sustainable sources such as wind and biomass power. The island of Samsø has already achieved this feat, as 100 percent of its power is produced by wind turbines. The report also suggests that in order to achieve this goal the government of Denmark will need to spend 0.5 percent of its annual GDP on renewable energy. That amounts to a little over $3 billion over the next four decades.
As of 2008, wind power accounted for nearly 20 percent of Denmark's total energy production.
Via The Guardian.


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Memphis, Tenn.
Adrienne Smith, a sophomore biology major from Memphis, has found a second home at UT Martin and wouldn't want to be anywhere else.
Originally choosing UT Martin because of her experience with the Governor's School for the Humanities (one of two governor's schools hosted by UT Martin) in 2010, Smith remained at UT Martin because of the comfortable atmosphere and small class sizes.
"I see people all the time on campus, and I don't know them, but I recognize their faces," she said. "I love how it's a small school, but it's not so small that everyone knows everything (about everyone else)."
Smith, who hopes to become a physician's assistant after graduation, feels that her UT Martin education is preparing her for the challenges ahead.
"These classes aren't easy, by any means, so I feel like they are preparing me to go toward grad school where they're even harder. They are helping me hone in on what kind of studier I am and what kind of student I am, so that once I get to those upper-level grad school courses, I will be able to go in head first knowing who I am, how I am and how I learn best, without flailing in the water," she said. "It's preparing me to be me and to understand who I am in order to move forward."
Smith appreciates how her professors are willing to help, but also expect her to be an adult and be responsible for her own grades and success. "I feel like they are helping me to not be so reliant on others, but to rely solely on myself for my own grades," she said. She knows this mindset will help her be successful in graduate school, as well as in the workforce.
"Someone said during freshman orientation that, 'You're getting a private school education at a public school price,' and that really hit home for me. I realized, 'Wow, that is very true!'" she added. "Even when you're in intro classes, they're not gigantic. … You can really get to know your teachers and they can get to know you. Even if you're not going in to ask questions all the time, they will still know your name by the end of the semester."
She also enjoys the campus life and community, saying, "There's always something to do. There are always fliers for this, that or the other. There's always something going on, so people who say Martin's boring just haven't been looking." Smith is involved with the honor society Phi Eta Sigma, and hopes to become more involved on campus as her education progresses.
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