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James Dooley moved to Geneva in 1978, expecting to stay a few years. He was 30 and had recently been hired as CEO of Geneva General Hospital.
Landing a CEO job-his second as a hospital administrator-was a coup, Dooley thought. But he had bigger plans than running a 170-bed small-town hospital.
It was not only that Dooley wanted to work for a bigger, more sophisticated organization. He had grown up in Boston as the youngest son of a large family with deep roots in the city's south-side Irish Catholic community. His wife, Caryl, whom Dooley had started dating when they were in high school and married soon after she graduated from college, also had family in Boston.
"I thought I'd be here three, three and a half years and then work my way back east," Dooley says, leaning back in his chair 31 years later as he contemplates the polished cherry expanse of the conference table in Geneva General's board room.
He now heads Finger Lakes Health, a health system with two hospitals and four nursing homes. It includes Soldiers and Sailors Hospital in Penn Yan as well as Geneva General.
Part of what kept the couple in Geneva was their two children. The Dooleys adopted their first child, son Paul, now 31, shortly after moving to Geneva and adopted daughter Katelyn, 26, several years later. They came to think that a small town might be a better place to raise children than a big city, Dooley says. But it was not only Geneva's charm or Seneca Lake views that kept Dooley there. The job turned out to have its tribulations, but it also held rewards.
"After a while," Dooley says, "I started to realize we were doing cutting-edge stuff."
In the late 1970s, the earliest rumblings of issues that are still roiling U.S. health care were starting to be heard. The basic question still bedevils Congress: How can rising medical costs be contained while still ensuring that as many people as possible have access to high-quality care?
One answer regional health care planners saw then was to cut the number of hospital beds, a process that inevitably would involve closing hospitals and consolidating their operations.
Few communities willingly accept such shutdowns. And when he accepted the Geneva General position, Dooley unwittingly positioned himself to be at the center of more than one bitter hospital closing debate. He also would be on the ground floor of a movement that would see the increasing consolidation of U.S. health care facilities from freestanding and independently run hospitals, clinics and nursing homes to integrated health care systems.
Formation of multi-facility health systems in Rochester and much of the country did not begin to take hold until the mid-1990s. Under Dooley, Geneva General anticipated the trend by nearly a decade, merging with and absorbing 50-bed hospitals in the nearby Seneca County towns of Seneca Falls and Waterloo in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
By the late 1990s, an already experienced Dooley was bringing in the financially challenged Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital in Yates County.
In financial terms, the closure and absorption of Waterloo's Taylor-Brown Hospital and Seneca Falls Memorial Hospital along with Geneva General's 1998 merger with Soldiers and Sailors, which remains open as a critical-care facility providing inpatient care but not inpatient surgeries, until recently have been a success.
Berger Commission
In 2006, the state formed the Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century, commonly called the Berger Commission, to investigate and come up with a plan to deal with a statewide oversupply of hospital and nursing home beds.
For most communities, the commission's recommendations, which had the force of law, were harsh, calling for heavy bed reductions and facility closures. The counties of Monroe, Ontario and Wayne, which already had shed many hospital beds, were spared.
When Dooley testified before the commission's regional advisory committee in 2006, he reported that Finger Lakes Health, then a $120 million operation, was able to realize a 3.8 percent operating margin in 2005, a ratio it maintained until 2007.
In much of the country, 4 percent or better is seen as a minimally safe level for health care facilities. But in New York, where more than half of the state's hospitals trail red ink, such margins-some two points better than two of Rochester's health systems-put Finger Lakes Health in the top quartile among health systems.
The system's financial stability has made it able to maintain a level of care and services residents might not otherwise enjoy in the rural and semi-rural areas and small towns it serves, says Lawrence Farnand, Finger Lakes Health chief financial officer and Dooley's longtime right-hand man.
After Taylor-Brown shut down, Finger Lakes Health built a new nursing home on the former hospital's site. The health system includes skilled-nursing facilities and primary-care clinics in Ontario, Wayne, Yates and Seneca counties-regions where relatively low population density would otherwise make it hard to attract and retain specialists and top-quality nurses.
The busy Soldiers and Sailors emergency room is staffed with emergency medicine specialists and its acute-care floors with hospitalists who rotate between there and Geneva General. Geneva General has a dialysis unit. Although state approval so far has escaped the hospital, Dooley hopes also to add a cardiac catheterization laboratory.
"If we hadn't done those consolidations, we couldn't have attracted those doctors and nurses," Farnand says.
In shepherding the consolidations needed to create Finger Lakes Health, Dooley was a visionary, says Timothy McCormick, Unity Health System CEO. Dooley and McCormick, who plans to retire at the end of this year, have a 30-year history as professional colleagues and partners in a golf foursome.
"Tim helped me out quite a bit when I first came here," Dooley says.
The men have a halfway serious rivalry over their respective lengths of service and believe themselves to be the longest-serving hospital or health system CEOs in the state. McCormick, who has been an administrator with the Unity/Park Ridge organization for 38 years, is older than Dooley and has worked in the state two years longer. He has held a CEO title, however, for 32 of those years, giving Dooley a six-month edge.
"I will never catch up to him now," says McCormick, noting his upcoming retirement in mock lament.
Dooley chuckles about "stealing" Farnand from Park Ridge, where he had worked as controller under CFO Warren Hern for several years before Dooley offered Farnand a CFO position some 30 years ago.
"I was in a meeting with Warren and Tim, and I noticed that every time I asked a financial question, Warren kept going out of the room to get information from somebody, so I asked to meet the guy he was going to. It was Larry Farnand," Dooley says. "Later, I offered him a job."
The main trick in successfully melding disparate institutions into a new entity, says McCormick, who oversaw a merger of St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester and Park Ridge Hospital in Greece to create Unity Health System, lies as much in getting the institutions' separate cultures to accept and work with their new partners as in mapping out administrative and operational changes.
Dooley, a politically astute judge of character with street smarts to match his administrative skills, excels in both areas, McCormick says.
Tough start
Dooley's start at Geneva General was a baptism by fire that put the young administrator through a crash course in navigating New York's health care system. It ranks as one of the most tightly regulated in the country.
"I wouldn't have admitted it at the time," Dooley says, "but for my first three months on the job, I felt like throwing up on most days."
The hospital was in the middle of a $6 million upgrade of its operating rooms, intensive-care unit and radiology department. Soon after starting, Dooley learned that the hospital was $1 million short of funds needed to complete the job. The shortfall was due to an oversight: Planners had neglected to figure in the cost of new X-ray equipment. But the why was irrelevant. Dooley's job was to find the $1 million and see the renovation through to completion.
Dooley, whose previous job had been as an assistant administrator for the Guthrie Clinic in Sayre, Pa., made frequent trips to Albany, interceding with state Health Department officials to get the hospital's certificate-of-need application amended.
In New York, that approval is a precondition of health care facility construction or major renovation. The radiology program had been approved in its inadvertently incomplete form. The reviews, which are done by a succession of panels, typically take a year to complete.
Dooley, who managed to thread the state's bureaucratic needle to get the extra equipment added to the project, recalls the exercise as a quick course in "Mother may I."
That effort was dwarfed by the complexities of forming Finger Lakes Health, a process that called for creative thinking and drew on Dooley's political skills.
"There were years when I used to have someone else start my car," Dooley recalls in a deadpan exaggeration of the heat he took from Seneca Falls and Waterloo residents.
Though no one physically harmed him or his family, Dooley says, he fielded more than a few late-night calls from irate citizens. There were also potential bureaucratic hurdles. Even if the state went along with consolidation plans as proposed, the certificate-of-need process would slow any action.
Dooley had started laying groundwork for consolidation of the Geneva, Waterloo and Seneca Falls hospitals in the late 1970s by drawing the three institutions' board members into a Finger Lakes area hospital group.
Geneva General also held merger talks with F.F. Thompson Hospital in Canandaigua, but the two institutions were not a cultural fit, Dooley says. In the Waterloo and Seneca Falls talks, getting the disparate board members on a single body helped to bring them together and foster cooperation.
"I've found that if you get people from different organizations or backgrounds together in a neutral body, they completely forget their individual concerns," Dooley says, waving his arms as if to shoo parochial concerns out of the room.
The group produced a study, concluding that Taylor-Brown and Seneca Falls Memorial, which sat three miles apart, should be closed and folded into Geneva General.
Working with Binghamton attorney Richard Pille of Hinman, Howard & Kattell LLP, Dooley employed a legal tactic that let the hospitals skirt state Health Department approval of the merger.
The three hospitals were organized as corporate member organizations, a structure in which community members with voting power are the institutions' owners. Members could approve a merger with no state approval or review.
"We went to DOH and told them what we were doing in advance. They weren't very pleased," Dooley says.
When he later used the same member tactic to arrange the Soldiers and Sailors merger, he did not tip off the state in advance, Dooley says. To create a merged organization, Finger Lakes Health appointed "mirror boards" whose members were also directors of the component organizations.
Geneva General today has 120 medical-surgical beds, 50 beds fewer than the three hospitals started out with. Soldiers and Sailors has 30 acute-care beds; 130 of the hospital's beds have been converted to long-term care.
The leader
As a boss, Dooley shows a relentlessly positive attitude and goes to some lengths to acquaint himself with frontline workers' issues, Farnand says. On holidays, for example, Dooley visits Finger Lakes Health facilities as a gesture of solidarity with workers who have pulled holiday shifts.
Dooley is a big man who stands just over six feet. He has a full head of gray hair and a direct, off-the-cuff manner.
He traces his people skills to childhood and early teen years on the streets of Southie, on Boston's south side. His family was "lace-curtain Irish," Dooley says, but not far removed from more working-class roots.
Both of his parents were Boston College graduates. Both are deceased. His mother was a homemaker, and his father taught school. There were seven children in the family; Dooley was the youngest boy.
Gangs, loosely organized along ethnic and racial lines, were a prevalent social structure in the neighborhood, but they were not the violent gangs of today. Rather than automatic weapons or nail-shooting zip guns, they used homemade weapons that shot lighted matches at rivals.
Still, they were not church choirs. An older brother, who is now a union carpenter, was an accomplished hot wirer of cars and spent time in reform school.
Dooley was thrown out of Boston Latin School, a high school that claims to be the oldest public school in America and is known nationally for its adherence to a tough, traditional curriculum. Admission requires good academic standing and a good grade on its admission exam.
For reasons he says he does not remember, Dooley threw a chair at his French teacher and was expelled after less than a year. On hearing that he would go to a public school, nuns threw one of his sisters out of her parochial school. Ironically, Dooley says, he went back to a parochial school and his sister ended up graduating from a public school. After his brother was sent to reform school, the family moved out of Southie, decamping to a more upscale suburb. The move put him on a less self-destructive path, Dooley says.
Breaking with his family's Boston College tradition, Dooley went to St. Anselm College, a school run by the Benedictine order in Manchester, N.H. Disconsolate over his son's defiance in spurning Boston College, his father barely spoke to him for a year. Dooley's mother secretly handed him a laundry bag and told him to bring it home when it was full. His father relented after Dooley was elected class president at the end of his freshman year.
Because his parents hoped he would be a doctor, Dooley majored in biology. He played hockey in college, developing a lifelong interest in the sport. In Geneva, Dooley coached a high school hockey team for a number of years and coached a girls hockey team after his daughter showed an interest in playing. He has not played in years but gave up coaching only three years ago.
Dooley maintained his position as class president for the rest of his four years at St. Anselm. Realizing that he enjoyed his presidential duties and political role more than his biology labs, he dropped plans to go to medical school.
After an adviser suggested a career in hospital administration, Dooley applied to several schools with good graduate programs in hospital administration and ended up attending the University of Minnesota. He graduated with a master's in hospital administration in 1972 and went to work for the Guthrie Clinic shortly thereafter.
When a Geneva General board member approached him several years later to interview for the Geneva hospital's top job, Dooley was reluctant but decided the job could be a stepping stone. Now he says that he accepted Geneva as his home long ago and has no plans to leave the community.
He and Caryl have a home with a dock on Seneca Lake. Dooley recently bought a 21-foot inboard motorboat.
System's future
After keeping Finger Lakes Health on a stable track through the '80s, '90s and early years of this century, Dooley is facing a less congenial future.
Geneva General recently won state approval for a $55 million upgrade of much of its emergency department, operating rooms and intensive-care unit, and for a new suite of private-room medical-surgical beds.
The project would create new nursing education space. The upgrades are needed, Dooley says.
However, Farnand says, Finger Lakes Health's financial picture is clouding. The health system's operating margin slipped from 3.8 percent to less than 2 percent last year and is likely to end up in negative territory this year.
Dooley is not panicking yet. To a large extent, the system is hostage to larger events. State cuts in nursing home and hospital reimbursements largely are responsible for its financial slippage, Farnand says.
Eighty percent of Finger Lakes Health's nursing home residents are on Medicaid, as are some 15 percent of its hospital and clinic patients. And the state-administered government insurance program notoriously pays providers less than their cost to deliver care. In more populous areas, nursing homes and hospitals often are able to offset Medicaid losses with profits from first- and third-party private payers.
That option is not available in the communities Finger Lakes Health serves, Farnand says. Yates County is one of the state's poorest.
Like his boss, neither is Farnand worried yet. The organization has a strong balance sheet and little long-term debt. Over three decades, Farnand says, he has seen Dooley pull out of financial funks before, and the CFO is certain Dooley can do it again.
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People are increasingly on their own when it comes to providing for their retirement. Traditional pensions are all but unheard of now, outside of the civil service or heavily unionized industries; both employers and the government have increasingly transferred more and more responsibility (and risk) to the individual worker. When it comes to employer-sponsored plans like 401(k)s, it is vital for workers, savers and investors (and you should see yourself as all three) to make the most they can out of the plans. While there are some differences with other plans like 403(b)s, most of this advice applies fairly well across the major plans in the United States.
Work Backwards
For employees who have the ambition and the financial wherewithal to truly make the most of their 401(k), one of the best ways to begin is by working backwards. Take your maximum allowable annual contribution (your 401(k) plan documents should make this number relatively clear, or you can ask for help), divide it by the number of pay periods in a year and see where that leaves you. For 2019, the maximum you can contribute is $19,000 (up $500 from 2018). If you're 50 or older, you can add $6,000 in annual catch-up contributions for both years. These limits may be revised upward every fall – especially in inflationary environments.
Your employer may give you the choice between a regular 401(k) and the newer Roth 401(k). The contribution limit is the same, but the Roth 401(k) is funded with after-tax dollars, like a Roth IRA (see below). Either 401(k) option is an important way to save for retirement. The Roth 401(k) provides taxpayers who earn too much to contribute to a Roth IRA to gain Roth IRA benefits (tax-free distributions, no RMDs in your lifetime), as that money can later be rolled over into a Roth IRA.
Can you afford to save this amount? If so, there is not much more that you need to do apart from making the best investment decisions you can within the plan options. If you cannot afford this amount, whittle it down until you can. Clearly, expenses like mortgage or rent payments, utilities and food need to be covered, and it makes little sense to put aside so much that you need to accumulate credit card debt to make it through a month.
Even if you cannot make the maximum contribution, consider supplementing this with any bonuses or profit-sharing payments you receive. Many companies will allow you to have these amounts deposited directly into your 401(k), and this is a good idea whenever possible — many good intentions have gone awry once a bonus check is in hand or in the checking account.
Above all, try to be consistent. Set a specific per-paycheck amount and do not change it unless you really have to. Likewise, do not try to time the market or curtail contributions just because the economic or political news seems depressing for a while.
If you can, try to save a minimum of 15% of your gross pay. This amount, coupled with reasonable investment returns on those savings, should be sufficient to not only supplement Social Security down the line (in whatever form that remains), but also fund a pretty secure retirement.
Make the Match
Fully exploiting employer matching is one of the most vital strategies in getting the most out of a 401(k) plan. Matching is pretty much exactly what it sounds like – subject to certain rules and limits, your employer will contribute the same amount of money you contribute or a percentage thereof, effectively doubling your retirement savings without decreasing your salary or increasing your tax burden. Many employer matches kick in at 3% of your pay (or higher), so try as hard as you can to at least contribute this much.
Want another reason to max out your employer match? In many cases, employers calculate their costs and base their staffers' salaries on the basis of full matching; if you don't take advantage of this, you're basically handing back free money that you're not going to get back in the form of salary or bonuses.
Some employers will elect to match your contributions in company stock. While this is not always as desirable as straight cash, it shouldn't dissuade you from maximizing your match. In many cases, that stock can be sold and converted to cash within a fairly short period of time and at a reasonable cost.
Watch the Costs
As part of some employee retirement plans, workers can avail themselves of investment advice from independent professionals. Unfortunately, this advice is rarely free and you may find that you pay 1% to 2% of your funds to get this help.
It's understandable that many workers feel overwhelmed when it comes to calculating their contributions, and then investing that money. Even still, paying for investment advice is a dicey proposition, particularly when it involves a 401(k) plan and investors are given a relatively fixed menu of investment options.
Savers also need to pay careful attention to the costs of the investments they buy within their 401(k). While mutual fund expenses have come down in general over the years, and many fund families offer no-load funds for 401(k) plans, as well as low-cost index funds, it's still important to compare and contrast the numbers; fees still vary a good deal.
Along similar lines, investors need to be careful with annuities and target date funds. Annuities arguably do not have much of a place in tax-sheltered accounts to begin with (a topic for another day), and their often high expense ratios can eat away at their value over time. Likewise, while target date funds are popular options in many plans, these funds often charge higher fees than normal funds without correspondingly better results.
Consider Borrowing
For workers who save some funds in a 401(k) but find that they cannot contribute more because they are saddled with expensive debt, there may be a counterintuitive option. Most plans have provisions that allow employees to borrow funds from their own account. This money comes relatively free of strings (insofar as what the funds can be used for), and it is possible to use it to pay off high-interest loans or credit card balances. This money does not come free, but the good news is that the interest charged is basically being paid to you.
This is clearly not a risk-free maneuver. That money has to be repaid on time, or the borrower will incur penalties. Moreover, some workers will find that borrowing from their retirement savings is just a little too convenient, which opens a Pandora's Box of future trouble. Nevertheless, this can be an effective means of interest arbitrage that can free up more money for savings. It is not a step for everyone, but borrowing low-cost money from a 401(k) in order to repay high-cost credit card debt and ultimately invest even more in the 401(k), can be a prudent step for many.
Explore Other Options
What do you do if you have maxed out your 401(k) or you really hate the investment options offered? Or you want to save even more using a well-known investment vehicle? Thankfully, there are many options available to you, including traditional individual retirement accounts (IRA) and Roth IRAs.
IRAs and 401(k)s are funded with pre-tax contributions; up to $19,000 for 401(k)s and $6,000 for IRAs for 2019. The Roth IRA and Roth 401(k) are funded with after-tax dollars. Again, contributions are limited to $19,000 for the Roth 401(k) and $6,000 for the Roth IRA. And if you are age 50 or older, the 401(k) and Roth 401(k) give you the opportunity to make $6,000 catch-up contributions per year; IRAs will let you add $1,000.
Of course, eligibility and deductibility will depend on your adjusted gross income and the phase-outs imposed on it. Note: there is no income limit on the Roth 401(k). (For 2018, contributions are limited to $18,500 for a 401(k) and $5,500 for an IRA, either Roth or traditional.)
As discussed above, even if you don't like the investment options, max out your 401(k) employer match before you go elsewhere. It's still free money.
Once you have contributed as much as possible to these tax-sheltered accounts, there are still other ways to save for retirement. People who are lucky to have maxed out their 401(k) or IRAs in a year can consider buying and investing in annuities. There are a lot of advantages and disadvantages with annuities – they can carry high sales loads, they typically have high expenses and sponsors have continually transferred more risk to the investor. All of that said, money in an annuity can accumulate without year-to-year taxation, and it is a worthwhile option if protecting even more retirement savings from the taxman is important.
Last, and by no means least, complaining about a deficient plan can be an effective means of improving your options (and those of your co-workers). If you do not like how a plan is organized or the investment options on offer, say so.
Keep in mind that many employers choose 401(k) plans on the basis of what is cheapest and most convenient to offer, and they may not even be aware of its deficiencies. While it is true that many workers do not like to be a squeaky wheel, and some companies are certainly apt to be more responsive than others, doing nothing is a pretty good way to ensure that the plan will get no better.
The Bottom Line
Tax-advantaged retirement savings plans are one of the relatively few boons that the government gives to ordinary workers. Careful savings is not likely to be the gateway to becoming a millionaire or independently wealthy, but it can at least go a long way towards ensuring a more comfortable and desirable retirement. Whatever the specifics on offer to you, be it a 401(k), a 403(b), or an IRA, make sure to contribute as much as you can afford and take full advantage of your opportunity to stock away money for the future.

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An innovative raft manufactured from environmentally friendly recycled plastic has proved a major hit for nesting terns at an RSPB nature reserve in Northern Ireland.
Designed and manufactured by Fusion Marine Ltd, the raft at Portmore Lough in Co. Antrim attracted a large colony of nesting common terns during its first summer of operation, underlining the effectiveness of artificial floating platforms in providing aquatic birds with safe nesting sites.
Donnell Black, Site Manager at Portmore Lough Reserve, said: "We wanted to use recycled plastic to manufacture the raft as it is an extremely buoyant material, as well as being durable in harsh environments, lasting up to 50 years. It also goes without saying that because it's recycled we're also doing our bit to keep waste to a minimum!
"The raft has proved really popular with the terns, with around 40 birds taking up residence and breeding on the new island since it was installed. The raft is anchored near the shore of Portmore Lough, and can easily be seen from the bird hide on the edge of the water."
The raft is made from two pontoon sections that have been joined together to create an 8.5m x 4.2m floating platform for the nesting terns. Recycled plastic offers a number of important advantages over traditional materials such as wood and metal, including much having a much longer lifespan and requiring minimal maintenance.
The success of the tern raft has generated strong interest from a number of conservation organisations. Iain Forbes of Fusion Marine said: "We are delighted that the raft has proved so successful for nesting terns. Recycled plastic is durable and lasts much longer than wood. The material is corrosion proof and blends in well with the natural environment."
Fusion Marine's recycled plastics division also specialises in the supply of a wide range of outdoor furniture and other associated equipment such as boardwalks. In recent years, the company has supplied boardwalks to the Hermaness Nature Reserve in Shetland, a major access pathway project in Argyll, and for a sand-dune system at Balmedie in Aberdeenshire.
"Recycled plastic is an incredibly versatile material and has a number of useful applications for nature reserves and other outdoor areas," states Iain Forbes.


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The Grant Hall Hotel became a landmark in Moose Jaw and remained an active hotel for over 60 years providing accommodations, and a site for weddings and social gatherings for people around the world. The hotel closed its doors in 1989 only to take a break before beginning a new chapter in history.
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Comfort Food, College Style.
In the days of yore, when I was a 'real' student that didn't live at home, this was the specialty dish of one of my roommates. Traditionally, it is made with turkey steaks, because Tesco generally had them on special offer, though chicken makes a fine turkey substitute. I'd imagine chucking in a few extra beans would make this into a really tasty vegetarian this, though as this was a Boy!Dish (Made by boys, for boys and whatever girls were foolish enough to live with them) vegetarian experimentation was frowned upon ('That's a snack, not a meal').
The other thing about living with boys is that there were never any leftovers. Had there been, it would not have come as such a revelation to me that, delicious and all as this non-traditional curry is fresh off the (prohibited-under-college-regulations) hob, it is even better reheated on Day 2. The chickpeas have absorbed stuff and the flavours have matured, or developed and done whatever else it is that flavours do, and the results are good.
'Frisby's Fragrant Curry'
Serves 4 (though we used to stretch it to serve 6 with lashings of basmati rice). We didn't have a food processor, so we used a hand-held blender instead. It worked, but it's definitely easier with a food processor.
4 turkey steaks, roughly diced.
3 onions, quartered
4 fat garlic cloves
2 inch piece root ginger, peeled and roughly chopped
3 tbsp medium curry powder
1 tsp tumeric
2 tsp paprika
2 fresh red chillies, roughly chopped
2 handfuls fresh coriander
1 chicken stock cube
750 ml hot water
2 x 400g tins of chickpeas (or 200g dried beans, soaked and cooked – I used half black-eyed peas and half chickpeas)
1. Combine the onions, garlic, ginger, curry powder, ground spices, chillies and one handful of the coriander (stalks and all) in a foodprocessor. Add a pinch of salt and blend to a puree.
2. Tip the mix into a large saucepan and cook over a low heat for 10 minutes, stirring to prevent sticking.
3. Crumble in the stock cube, add the water and bring to the boil. Add the turkey and stir before lowering the heat and simmering for 20 minutes.
4. Add the chickpeas and heat through. Serve with the chopped coriander and basmati rice.
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This sounds great. I should even be able to get all the ingredients fairly easily over here, so I'll definitely have to give it a try!
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The sunflower (Helianthus sp), this picture was taken by the side of the road today in Saraburi Provence of Thailand. At this time of the year Thais flock to have their pictures taken with the flowers against the beautiful back drop of the mountains.
Of course no self respecting Thai would miss the opportunity to taste some of the (I counted 14 different) dishes which are made by the sides of the fields.
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The following article hits close to home as I was recently denied a post boost by Facebook because it was deemed a political ad.
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Sears and Blockbuster fell because neither was able to adapt and grow with its consumer base. Is Facebook making the same mistakes?
Over the last several years, Facebook has gone from facilitating the free flow of information to inhibiting it through incremental censorship and account purges. What began with the ban of Alex Jones last summer has since escalated to include the expulsion of hundreds of additional pages, each political in nature. And as more people become wary of the social media platform's motives, one thing is absolutely certain: we need more market competition in the realm of social media. read more


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Every homeowner who want to change their living space starts at the same place, a general disappointment at what they currently are looking at every day. It usually starts soft and subtle like a whisper but after one to many days of staring at the less than ideal part of your home that seems to becoming more unattractive daily, the whisper becomes a scream that says " I can't take it!!". So after months or years, you decide to take the plunge and make some changes. But where to start can be as daunting as putting up with the less than savory part of your design that is driving you nuts. A good place to start is with some simple steps to give your creative juices a chance to shine.
The next obstacle many homeowners face is the how to manage the cost involved in creating transformations. Beyond the simple but not particularly attractive option of painting over an ugly tile the options can seem limited. At first glance, a new back splash can be surprisingly expensive or may seem out of reach due to material cost and the price contractors charge for a smaller job. So please keep these two things to keep in mind. First when it comes to your home and improving it, think INVEST not EXPENSE. That does not mean be silly about the cost but remember that you are improving your home by investing in making it better. The results will be both an increased emotional happiness with your home and the real property value should go up as well ( NOTE: some people go into very personalized interior design which can limit a future audience when it comes to sale of the home). Second, you do not have to have expensive materials or tiles to create stunning interior design. A great example of this is Beyond Tile's new 2X4 Glass Subway Tile.
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Noether's Theorem: Quantum vs Stochastic
In 1915 Emmy Noether discovered an important connection between the symmetries of a system and its conserved quantities. Her result has become a staple of modern physics and is known as Noether's theorem.
The theorem and its generalizations have found particularly wide use in quantum theory. Those of you following the Network Theory series here on Azimuth might recall Part 11 where John Baez and Brendan Fong proved a version of Noether's theorem for stochastic systems. Their result is now published here:
? John Baez and Brendan Fong, A Noether theorem for stochastic mechanics, J. Math. Phys. 54:013301 (2013).
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7's! You have had three things due this week...
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Here is the timeline, article and assignment sheet. We will look to have your comics due on Thursday May 31 (Next Thursday).
Confederation Project due tuesday
You'll have time on Monday to finish up the presentation and then it should be ready to go for Tuesday! Please see the image below for motivation.
You're going to present to a small group and then hand it in to your teacher after.
Confederation project
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We're doing notes individually today, here is your link:
Portfolio Assignment
Please work on this assignment this morning in lieu of HS. Try to get as much completed as you can!
You are going to create a personal portfolio showing evidence of interests, assets and skills. A portfolio is something you compile in order to "sell yourself" in a job interview or volunteer position. It shows people what you have accomplished, what your interests are, and tells them a little bit about you as a whole.
Before you begin this assignment, you should brainstorm categories to include in a personal skills and interests portfolio. For example, you could include interests, skills, goals, talents, or educational accomplishments. Your next step is to collect and/or create information for your portfolio. Some things to include could be pictures, certificates, awards and letters. For example, you can include pictures of family, travel, projects, or anything else you have done. You could ask for a reference letter from any paid or volunteer work that you have done. You need to explain all of the items and pictures that you put into your portfolio. For example, if you include a picture of your family, you need to provide a brief description of who each person is, what they are like, what they are interested in etc. This is where your creativity comes in. You need to think of things that you can use to describe yourself, describe the things you enjoy in life, and showcase your achievements.
You must have a minimum of 5 different categories in your portfolio. Please see the back of this sheet for suggestions and ideas. You should compile your information into a duotang or something that can be easily carried with you to show a prospective employer. Do not use a binder. You also need to create a detailed table of contents for your personal skills and interests portfolio. This should be right after your cover page. You should put a substantial amount of work into this assignment so that you are proud of your final project.
The following are mandatory requirements:
•Cover page
•Table of contents
•Minimum 5 categories
•Bound with protective covering and backing (no binders)
DUE: The last week of May
Portfolio Mandatory Requirements
•Cover page
Title with first and last name
Picture of yourself (hand-drawn, photograph, or collage)
•Bound with protective cover and backing
Be creative (no binders)
•Pictures in each section
•Table of contents – see below for proper format
Table of Contents
Section (ex. Family, Relatives and Pets) Page 1-5
Sub-Section 1 (ex. Family) Page 1-3
Sub-Section 2 (ex. Relatives) Page 4
Sub-Section 3 (ex. Pets) Page 5
Portfolio Ideas and Suggestions (pick 5)
•Family, Relatives, Pets
photos, travel
•Interests and Hobbies
For example: cooking, art, skateboarding, music, dance, construction, drama
•Skills, Talents, and Accomplishments
languages, typing, computer skills, first aid, CPR
•Schoolwork Samples
school accomplishments, report cards, principal's/academic list, positive panther
•Goals and Aspirations
current or future goals, future employment aspirations
•Work experience
volunteer experience, reference letters, Tuck Shop, courses, babysitting
YMCA, Cadets
•Awards, Certificates and Badges
school and community, sports
•Inspirations/Role models
parents, sports figures, celebrities
•Sports/Athletic involvement
community or school teams, awards, cert
Please be ready to go for Monday. You have todays class plus Wednesday and Thursday to finish. You will need to have a copy of your script ready to hand in while your presenting.
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As promised, we send the pictures of our detractors online for you to see who they really are. These are the guys who sent various emails to us of the London branch of SCOAN announcing their resignation from the church and giving reasons for doing so. Some made very serious unsubstantiated allegations against the man of God only to write on their blog they didn't have 'evidence to support their case'.
Some of these persons are XXXXXXXX who write under different pen names and complain 'their loved ones are still holed up in SCOAN', Karina and Morne van Niekerk, Dr John Hardeker, Tracey De Souza, Leon and wife. There are many more names but since they have not written to us personally, we are not going comment about them. These include Giles.
For those of us who did not respond to their nauseating articles and their attempts to woo us to their fold, this is the time for us to respond to them, by exposing their identities and their evil machinations. Dr John Harderker, a medical practitioner, who is supposed to be intelligent enough and who supervised most of the healings that took place in the London branch by explaining or diagnosing their sickness before and after healing to the congregation, claimed the SCOAN was a cult and lifted whole articles from the net to support his case.
John had been a member of SCOAN for over seven years and acted on several occasions as the person with the expertise who took the medical history of the patients who were to be arraigned before the prayer line. After healing, he explains to the congregation the severity or otherwise of the patient who had been healed. Those healed are then told to see their doctors for confirmation of their healing. Those who get the confirmation get back to testify to their healing. It was this same doctor that stood behind the pulpit to confirm the healing
and to explain to the congregation the intricate nature of the illness and how it was only God who could bring about the healing. What has now changed? Is he saying the healings are not true? Is it all hallucination? If, it is, then it makes him a liar, a fraud and someone who could not to be trusted to tell the truth. How sad could he collude to tell us people have been healed while it was obviously not so. Why should he throw dust in our eyes by now turning around later on to say he didn't have the full medical history of the people in question. Has he now become a latter day 'apologetic'?
Now, we at Watching TB Joshua believe God still heals today and that the bible is not a historical document but a present day reality. Oniel who comes from Cardiff came to SCOAN with an acute fibroid which was giving her much problems, she was arraigned before the prayer line and was prayed for by ex-pastors Angie and Dave using the anointing water as a point of contact. She went back to the doctors and was told there was no trace of fibroid in her womb. She brought with her medical proofs showing the fibroid before and after healing. Dr Hardeker was stunned and after going through her medical history
remarked that this could only be done by God. Why is he now having doubts? What changed his mind after Haiti?


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Legislature must increase state contribution to teacher health care
The Texas State Teachers Association today urged members of two key Texas House committees to recommend that the Legislature increase the state's contribution to health insurance costs for active school employees as well as retirees.
"For years, teachers and other school workers have seen rising health care costs dig deeper and deeper into their take-home pay, and that makes it harder to keep experienced, highly qualified teachers in our children's classrooms," said TSTA President Rita Haecker. "The state hasn't increased its health care contribution for active school employees in 12 years, and with another round of premium increases coming this fall, it is time for the legislature to act."
"The TRS-Care insurance program for retired teachers, many of whom are on fixed incomes, also faces financial difficulties that will require legislative action," Haecker added.
Some teachers with families will be paying $900 or more a month – a huge chunk of their paychecks – for premiums under the state health insurance plan, TRS-ActiveCare, following a rate increase recently approved by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas. Employees in many larger school districts that provide their own insurance coverage have experienced similar premium increases.
The state contributes only $75 a month, an amount that hasn't been increased since 2002, while premiums for some educators have increased by as much as 238 percent during the same period. School districts are required to cover at least $150 per employee. Some contribute more, but many don't.
"These premium increases amount to pay cuts for school workers," Haecker added. "The average teacher in Texas is paid $49,000 a year, about $7,000 less than the national average."
The House Pensions Committee and House Appropriations Subcommittee on Pensions are holding a public hearing today on the affordability of health care for public school employees and retirees.


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Before you give your handset to repair shop or buy new handset, please try the following procedure to repair your device. First charge your battery more then 70%, backup your important data like phone-book, message, email, images and settings and in most cases take out SIM card and SD card. After doing hard reset not possible to recover your data, so online backup is always important. For all of your data, a backup should be done on a external device, hard drive, raid system media or SD card.
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Soft Reset
Use the stylus to press and quickly release the Reset button on the bottom of your device.
Hard Reset
- Press and hold the REC and Contacts buttons while you press the Reset button with the stylus.
- Release the Reset button ?rst. Then release the REC and Contact buttons. A blue screen appears asking Delete all your programs, data, and settings in memory?
- Press the Que button to select Yes or the Calendar button to select No. If you select Yes, another question appears: Also delete all your permanent storage? Select Yes to delete contacts, appointments, and other PIM data. The device resets itself.
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Tagged: sf
Misspent Youth by Peter F. Hamilton (Pan Macmillan, 2002)
In a relatively short space of time Peter F Hamilton has established himself as one of today's bestselling British SF authors, due in no small part to the Night's Dawn trilogy. This success has given him the freedom to explore new territories, and his latest novel marks an admirable departure from his usual fare. Unfortunately enough, Misspent Youth isn't very good.
Misspent Youth tells the story of an aged scientist, Jeff Baker, who is chosen as the first recipient of a newly developed rejuvenation treatment. Baker's work on data storage technology led to the creation of the Internet's successor, the Datasphere, and so he is considered to be worthy of the extravagent expense that is entailed. After eighteen months in a German clinic, Baker emerges as a seventy year old man in a twenty year old's body and is determined to make the most of his regained vitality. His teenage son, Tim, bears the brunt of his inconsiderate actions and must deal with the consequences of Baker's wish-fulfillment. Set against the background of a federal Europe under threat from separatist terrorists, the Baker family's upheavals may have further reaching consequences than anyone could have predicted.
Using the perspectives of both Tim and Jeff to narrate the story, with occasional interludes from Tim's girlfriend Annabelle, Hamilton contrasts the angst of Tim's teenage years with the hedonism of Jeff's second youth. Jeff has been there and done that before, and this time around he is fully intent on enjoying himself without the crutch of inexperience. Tim has no such wisdom to his name and so lurches from crisis to crisis as he desperately strives to be accepted as one of the guys. In the initial stages this works quite well and it's enjoyable to watch Tim adapt in the wake of the havoc wreacked by Jeff and to empathise with his concerns, even if they are of the teen soap variety.
In comparison, the character of Jeff does not bear up so well in the face of close scrutiny. Jeff's reaction to his new found youth is limited to alienating his old friends and sleeping with every woman he meets, including many of Tim's classmates, who are as one-dimensional and devoid of substance as Jeff himself. His attempt to rejoin the scientific community and continue his research is sketched out almost as an afterthought, whilst his musings over his earlier success imply that science is more about luck than hard work and dedication and so there's no point to it once you've made your money. The description of Jeff's life after rejuvenation centers wholly around sex and only scratches the surface of what could have been achieved with the premise of a man in search of a new purpose to his extended life. After a few chapters of Jeff's exploits, it becomes clear that the plot is going to center around Jeff and Tim falling out and their reconcilation. Other than the lurid sex scenes, this pretty much sums up the entire story.
One of the advantages of using a near-future setting is that less effort is diverted towards the worldbuilding and so one can concentrate on the characters and the story. This does not mean that the background can lack credibility in any way and this is the case here and it is doubly so when the characters and story lack depth. Hamilton's vision of a United Europe domineering over an isolationist United States just does not ring true and is largely in the background until the closing chapters of the book. The characters opposed to the United Europe, such as Tim, merely regurgitate nationalistic rhetoric commonly heard today and no effort is made to show the flip side of the coin. Hence readers must endure a polemic diatribe on the evils of a European Union that is frankly insulting.
If this was truly intended as a social comedy, then Hamilton wasted countless opportunities to show up Jeff's outmoded way of thinking and social graces amongst the younger generation. The only interesting fact about Baker is the real reason why he refused to patent the data crystal technology, though it is well in keeping with his character. As a result, even when Baker starts to change his ways, one is sceptical of his motives and a special effort is required to feel any sympathy for him when things all start to go wrong. Misspent Youth might have been salvaged if the story had been told in its entirety from Tim's perspective. This would have meant losing the viewpoint of Tim's girlfriend, including the hilarious moment where a romantic encounter between Tim and Annabelle is shown from both sides, but as this is the only highlight of her contributions it would have been a bearable sacrifice to make.
To give Hamilton his due, he is trying out new areas and this is to be applauded in a time where authors are more comfortable finding themselves a niche and plundering it for all its worth rather than take any chances. It's just a shame that he attempted to write a character drama and neglected to create a cast of people that the reader can empathise with. A leash on the polemic ranting about the evils of the European Union would also have been useful.
At 368 pages, Misspent Youth is practically a short story by Hamilton's usual standards but this should be viewed as a positive aspect. It's all over very quickly, with Hamilton's fluid writing making strangely compelling reading, though more in the manner of watching a train wreck than due to any inherent tension or an unpredictable plot. Hamilton has done far better than this in the past and one hopes that his next book will mark a return to form, whether in the far reaches of space or somewhere else.
This review first appeared in The Alien Online (March, 2003)
Embedded by Dan Abnett (Angry Robot, 2011)
Lex Falk, you are an acclaimed correspondent with several agency awards to your name and a reputation for hard facts and penetrating coverage, therefore the SO is very pleased to welcome you to Settlement Eighty-Six, and to validate your accreditation. Having you here proves to the public back home that, despite reports of open conflict, the Settlement Office has nothing to conceal on Eighty-Six, and your reportage will be received as unvarnished and credible.
You will, of course, report only what we permit you to report." (1% [1])
Suffering from the burnout that comes with decades of space travel, Falk has come to Settlement Eighty-Six in expectation of the usual media show-and-tell and a fat pay cheque, not because he actually gives a shit about what may or may not be happening. According to the Settlement Office Military Directorate, an outfit not so much an army as a "very, very slick PR company with added guns" (12%), Eighty-Six is the site of a local dispute with anti-corporate paramilitaries and not, as rumour would have it, a war with Central Bloc forces.
"The Cold War's been cold for nearly three hundred years, Falk. As we move out and expand, all it ever does is get colder and colder. Hard space sucks all the warmth out of it. We were at close quarters when it started, sharing one world, and still it started cold. It must be approaching heat death by now." (8%)
Aha! It's an alternate future history! Through casual conversation and narrative musings by Falk, we discover that Earth has diverged significantly from our present history and is made up of three superpowers: the United Status, the Central Bloc (aka the Russians) and China, all of whom compete for resources on each newly discovered planet, as overseen by the nominally neutral Settlement Office and its military arm. In this future, media control is extremely tight to the point where journalists are given hundred-page long vocabulary guides ("dispute" should be used instead of the sensitivity-averse word "conflict") and corporations sponsor expletives and ling-patches that force journalists and soldiers to say the safe expletive in place of any other swear word.
Naturally Falk is too cynical to believe the SO cover story. In fact no one believes it, least of all the post-global corporations who are taking the blame for the situation. When Falk meets his former data engineer, Cleesh who has been forced out of orbit for health reasons, she hints at the bigger picture but refuses to let him in for fear of him scooping her. Meanwhile, Falk does some investigation of his own and partners up with a rookie reporter who finds hard evidence the official story is bullshit.
The rookie shags Falk to keep him on side and promptly takes a back seat after Cleesh introduces Falk to a corporation who intends to get the real story out there by embedding war reporters in the warzone. Since the SOMD won't allow journalists to travel to the real front line, the corporation intends to "embed" Falk's consciousness into the head of a chipped active duty soldier.
Falk's embeddee is Private First Nestor Bloom, a twenty-something alpha male whose male and female buddies talk with gung-ho machismo, complete with fist-bumping and "bringing [one's] A game". Witness the briefing from Bloom's staff sergeant Huck:
"This is no fuckabout. It's come down from the top, the gloves are off. We're going in live, so I do not expect you rat-ass motherfuckers to make me look like a pretard. Every day for months you've been telling me you want the real thing. Here we go, the real thing. You fumble this, so help me I will sodomise each and every one of you with a loaded PAP 20." (27%)
Nice. Being experimental technology, nobody is entirely sure what the embedding experience will feel like for either person involved. What happens is that Falk's anxiety starts to affect Bloom's performance, leading to a serious case of nerves just when the team is deployed to the front line. "He felt the other him pulling against him, like an anti-him, equal and opposite, blocking his ever urge, his every desire, negating his every move." (28%) Things promptly go to hell in a hand basket and most of Team Kilo get, as parlance has it, scorched. Bloom himself is critically injured and Falk finds himself in control of Bloom's body, with the aims of getting Bloom out of the firing line without giving himself away and trying to find out precisely what is worth starting a hot war over.
Being mil-sf and not from the hand of David Weber or Elizabeth Moon, I didn't go in expecting strong female characterisation, but Pyrofennec's enthusiastic review of Abnett's Warhammer 40K trilogy Ravenor led me to hope otherwise. However at this point I was in despair. I'd been disappointed by Noma Berlin shagging Falk, even if it was shown as being entirely her choice to keep him from breaking the story early, disappointed by Cleesh being reduced to technical support and then even more disappointed when Salter, the sole female member of Team Kilo gets killed off so that Falk could experience Bloom's subconscious grief. It gets even better when the three Central Bloc Russian sex slaves show up in a bizarrely tangential sub-plot, though at least one of them gets to save the day by driving everyone to safety. Fuck yeah!
In between tightly written, albeit slightly samey firefights, Falk starts putting the pieces together and discovers that the SO has been illegally giving prime planetary resources to the US. Whilst this seems like a good way of providing some balance it comes so late in the book as to be utterly redundant. There's no obvious ideological slant, which makes a refreshing change from the usual gamut of mil-sf, but the narrative places the Central Bloc squarely as the bad guys, guilty of procuring sex slaves and slaughtering a large number of Eighty-Six's settlers (I refuse to use Abnett's word "settlementeer" because it's clunky as hell, like the other neologisms scattered about such as "presearch", "undertractive", "conflirtation" and "pretard"). There's no attempt to paint the Central Bloc in a favourable light even though the ultimate prize is something that every side would quite happily go to war over. Also, where the hell were the Chinese in this? All three superpowers provide military personnel to the SOMD and yet we only ever see the perspective of US soldiers. It would have been nice to have had confused Central Bloc SOMD units involved, or some oblivious Chinese units who simply got caught in the crossfire.
Going back a little, the concept of a future conflict with Russia the Central Bloc seems like a misstep of sorts. Despite being a modern mil-sf novel, there was a quaint feel to the proceedings that one gets from reading Cold War era sf after the Cold War ended (Greg Bear's Eon would be a prime example). I'd almost have been happier if it had been the Chinese who were the bad guys, although that would have come under heavy scrutiny if they had been as obviously villainous as the Central Bloc here and I suppose one should be grateful that he avoided dragging the Middle East into this.
The ending when it comes is rather abrupt, with the macguffin (well, the second if one counts the sketchily described embedding technology) being painfully obvious and yet not explicitly stated. Make of that what you will, but in certain respects it's good when an author leaves something to the imagination instead of tying off all the loose ends in painstakingly tedious detail.
Anyone coming in for instant gratification like that girl on GoodReads who gave up after a few chapters should adjust their expectations accordingly. Abnett takes his time with a slow burn start before the Hollywood-styled action mayhem begins. Overall, it's a good read and a refreshing change from the usual right-wing weapon fetish junk, but sadly it's too under developed to warrant re-reading.
[1] Page numbers are sadly lacking on my Kindle edition of Embedded so quotations are referenced by how far into the book they are. I have no idea if this is Amazon or Angry Robot's problem but someone sort this shit out please.


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|Two guys whose names I should remember. They worked the line putting up the new soup. That's Ron in the middle.
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KANPUR: When did this begin, all these men were throwing themselves at the endeavour to construct one kilometre long stretch of the link road connecting it with the nearest town road head? Such instance had also been attempted by a man in his sixties months ago. With an upright estimation that the rural men singularly would like to build one km long road, while the politicians build a self-fulfilling prediction. Why it is so that people's requirements are believed to be so tough in the first place in order to make that idea pretty unnecessary.
What was earlier experienced in Kalwan village existing just 45 kms far from Dehradun brought no touching effect on the initiative or proposal of building another same length road in Pende village, seven kilometres from Bhimtal. These reports provide a clear picture of people's pain in the state of Uttarakhand. There was taken no action for constructing the link roads in that hilly region despite the fact that a farmer in his sixties had built a km-long road in Kalwan village following his wife's death in the paucity of a proper navigable road. That man lost his wife while navigating a treacherous footpath in the way.
The villagers build a road in Uttarakhand village was a recent terrifying but exciting news for all of us. Where does stand the development theory that has not been successful in reaching to the rural areas even after sovereign seventy-year-old independence? We are fighting over those topics which are fruitful for political reasons. We are not thinking of basic amenities to the common people. However, the election time becomes ripe for tall promises, big assurances and high aspirations. According to the news reports, as many as 150 residents—men, women and even children were working on a kilometre-long stretch of the link road to the nearest road head.


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Candidates running for Student Government president and vice president had the chance to make their case and state their positions during Wednesday evening's debate at the Student Center. Presidential candidates Josh Lowe and his running mate Jacob Speck, David Yanagi and his running mate Ryan Roper and Matthew Norfleet and his running mate Desmond Miller were questioned by moderators Katrease Stafford, Editor-in-Chief of The Eastern Echo and Mary Larkin, the program coordinator for the LGBT Resource Center.
The candidates were asked to name one specific idea they were focusing their campaigns on and the answers varied.
Norfleet and Miller said if elected, they plan to lobby Dining Services and work with purchasers to lower prices at campus convenience stores. Lowe and Speck said they would focus on fixing the roads around campus, namely N. Huron Drive. Yanagai and Roper plan to bring the campus together by creating marketing solutions for EMU organizations, namely by adding information kiosks around campus.
The candidates answered questions throughout the two-hour debate on many topics such as how they think students perceive their leadership styles, to what they would do first if elected, and what they think the most challenging aspect of being Student Government president/vice president would be. The most challenging aspect, they all agreed on, would be working with the administration and building up communication between the student body, Student Government and the administration.
The candidates were also asked about a hot button issue with most EMU students; the perpetual problem of parking prices and availability. Roper said he and Yanagi would push for a second parking structure to be built and provide AATA bus passes for students at a reduced cost. Norfleet responded by saying that he and Miller would push for free AATA bus passes to be paid for from student fees and lower parking fees. Roper disagreed with Norfleet feeling that the cost of bus passes shouldn't be added to students' tuition and fees because many commuters wouldn't use bus passes. Lowe said he and Speck would try to get the cost of parking tags lowered back to a more affordable price.
The debate took a more personal turn with a question about what the candidates thought about the inclusiveness of EMU regarding the LGBT community. Lowe and Speck said they were proud of the inclusiveness of the EMU campus and talked about how much they enjoyed the LGBT Pride Prom that had been held on campus earlier this month.
"EMU is a safe campus because of our diversity," Yangai said.
It was for Norfleet that this question was the most personal. He became emotional while sharing that he was a member of the LGBT community. He told the audience how he had came out as a homosexual when he was 15 years old.
Norfleet said when he transferred to EMU from Henry Ford Community College, he immediately felt welcomed.
"EMU has been great," he said.
Lowe was the next candidate to face a personal and difficult question, this time from an audience member, about his "abrupt" departure from student organizations last year. Lowe replied that the word "abrupt" was not accurate. He explained that he had to leave the senate because of a heart condition and had been told by his doctor to drop a few things.
Lowe stressed though that he is ready to get back to work.
"I'm capable," he assured the audience.
Miller, the youngest candidate, was questioned on whether the fact that he was a freshman with limited leadership experience would be a hindrance in office.
"Students shouldn't judge me on my age," Miller said.
He went on to talk about the many meetings he had sat in on regarding issues like Wi-Fi and parking issues. He also reiterated that statement his running mate had made earlier about how he had completed the most projects of any senator.
The next question was aimed at Yanagi who was asked whether the fact that he was a commuter student would hinder his serving as Student Government president if elected. Yanagi answered that as a commuter, he would have a point of view that a resident student would not. He also went on to refute that being a commuter would be a hindrance by saying that he gets to all his classes on time, goes to work, is an active part of his fraternity and still maintains a high GPA, so he could handle the duties of president.
At the end of the debate, each pair of candidates made their last statements on why students should vote for them. Norfleet said he and Miller intend to make EMU a better place for students, commuters and residents.
"We will do our best to fulfill our promises," he said.
Roper said that he and Yanagi see a need for constant improvement in Student Government on campus.
"We will represent the students if elected. We need to reclaim our campus and take charge of our education," Roper said in closing.
Lowe and Speck said if elected, they would be accessible and approachable to students and would work on their behalf. Lowe closed by urging students to get out and vote.
"Please take part in the voting process, even if you don't vote for us," Lowe sad.
The Student Government president/vice president election takes place on Wednesday, March 28 and Thursday, March 29.


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Your charming little town will never be the same — Pyeongchang to host 2018 Winter Olympics.
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LANDLORD Fall/Winter 2017
For LANDLORD's third season, Creative Director, Ryohei Kawanishi, finds inspiration in the hip-hop fashion scene of the 90s-00's; noting the impact of Southern hip-hop artists, their influence on fashion, and the style cues that Kawanishi continues to see to this day in his neighborhood in Harlem, NY. The Fall/Winter 2017 collection fuses this aesthetic with LANDLORD's utilitarian DNA to present streetwear through a new lens.
Kawanishi also takes inspiration from Mauri, an Italian footwear brand that many of his favorite rappers were in the late 90's. "I always loved Mauri because of the way they used exotic skins in their designs," says Kawanishi. "I wanted to incorporate a similar sensibility into this collection so we could bring an element of luxury back into today's streetwear conversation." Kawanishi accomplishes this idea—not only by styling models in Mauri footwear—but by applying plackets of alligator and stingray skins to the pockets on LANDLORD's hats and oversized work shirts.
This season LANDLORD also debuts a capsule collection, inspired by Kawanishi's 2010 visit to the James Howard exhibit at Saatchi Gallery in London. He was enamored with the artist's cut-copy-paste style of digital artwork, particularly because it was reminiscent of the Texas-based graphic design team, Pen & Pixel, whose gaudy, diamond-encrusted hip-hop album covers helped define the "bling bling" era of the early-aughts. Kawanishi's sense of nostalgia combined with the cynical, ironic nature of Howard's visuals, led to a "LANDLORD X JAMES HOWARD" collaboration of graphic T-shirts and hoodies, which can be seen throughout the Fall/Winter 2017 collection.