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By Shane Thomas
There is a sporting aphorism favoured by football journalists, pundits, commentators and bloggers in moments of incredulity. "You couldn't script this!" I remember the filmmaker, Spike Lee expressing similar sentiments before the final game of the epic series of matches between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees back in 2004 (for which I highly recommend you watch the 30 for 30 documentary, "Four Days in October").


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The married couple suspected of committing America's deadliest mass killing in years were armed with an arsenal that included 1,600 rounds of ammunition and stockpiled pipe bombs, as the FBI says its too soon to label the attack terrorism.
Suspected attackers Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, opened fire on a social services center in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday, killing 14 people and leaving 21 injured; before the pair fled and were fatally shot during a police chase hours later.
The pair carried two assault rifles, two handguns and more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition, and wore masks and tactical gear and left a set of three pipe bombs attached to a remote-controlled car at the scene of the shooting, though they were never detonated.
Syed Rizwan Farook who has been named as the suspect in the San Bernardino, Calif., shootings. Farook communicated with individuals who were under FBI scrutiny in connection with a terrorism investigation.
Police have said all four guns were purchased legally.
More than 4,500 rounds, 12 pipe bombs and "hundreds of tools that could be used to construct [improvised explosive devices] or pipe bombs" at a house the suspects were using in the nearby town of Redlands, Burguan said.
Police say Farook had attended a holiday party at the center earlier that day and angrily left earlier Wednesday at the Inland Regional Center, police say.
The F.B.I. is treating the shooting as a potential terrorist act, as they investigate the pair's recent middle east travel and alleged contact with people with Islamist extremist views.
"Clearly they were equipped and they could have done another attack," San Bernardino police chief Jarrod Burguan said.
"We intercepted them before that happened, obviously."
However authorities have said they were not ready to call it terrorism.
"There was obviously a mission here. We know that. We do not know why," FBI assistant director for Los Angeles David Bowdich said.
"It would be irresponsible of me to call this terrorism. The FBI defines terrorism very specifically."
Police continue to investigate a mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino that left at least 14 people dead
The Associated Press reported a U.S. official as saying Farook communicated with individuals who were under FBI scrutiny in connection with a terrorism investigation.
But the official said the contact was with "people who weren't significant players on our radar," dated back some time, and there was no immediate indication of any "surge" in communication ahead of the shooting.
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On Thursday evening, the San Bernardino County Coroner's office released the names of the 14 dead.
Victims include fellow health inspectors who were at the holiday party and a coffee shop owner who worked at the Inland Regional Center when the shooting took place.
Friends and families of the victims expressed their grief on Thursday.
Environmental health specialist Sierra Clayborn, 27, was among those killed.
Like many people, Clayborn added the French flag to her Facebook profile soon after the terrorist attack in Paris on Nov. 13.


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Carnegie Medal winning Tanya Landman is the author of more than thirty books for children and young adults.
Born and brought up in Kent, Tanya had no intention of becoming a writer until the idea for Waking Merlin popped into her head. "It came from nowhere. It was completely out of the blue."
Tanya now lives and works in Bideford and the nearby coastline was the inspiration for her Flotsam & Jetsam series.
Tanya's first books were "adventure stories with a sprinkling of magic and spoonful of humour." But then Tanya turned to crime, writing Mondays are Murder (winner of a Red House Book Award) - the first in a series of ten "Agatha-Christie-for-kids" featuring child sleuth Poppy Fields and her friend Graham. Her new highly illustrated books for younger children feature Sam Swann, an accident-prone boy sleuth and his faithful canine sidekick Watson.
Although she writes across a broad age range, Tanya is probably best known for her historical novels for young adults. Apache - set in 19th century America - was shortlisted for several UK awards including the Teenage Book Trust and the Carnegie Medal (where it was voted the Shadowing Groups favourite). The US edition won a Borders Original Voices prize and a Spur award from the Western Writers of America. The Goldsmith's Daughter - set in the Aztec empire during the Spanish invasion - was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction prize. Buffalo Soldier won the 2015 Carnegie Medal. Hell and High Water - a swashbuckling thriller set in 18th century Devon - was shortlisted for the 2016 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Her latest book Beyond the Wall is set in Roman Britain. Passing for White comes out later this year.
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Innovations Improve Drilling Accuracy and Efficiency Leading to Increased Well Output
In late November, Nabors Drilling, the largest land drilling rig contractor in the world, invited a few members of Rockwell Automation staff and the media down to Houston, Texas, to see the latest innovations they've made in drilling automation to improve drill time, accuracy and efficiency while enhancing worker safety.
Our tour included a look at the services Nabors provides to support rig operation remotely, new software solutions Nabors is engineering to automate drilling navigation, and a visit to a rig build site to tour a SmartRig™.
The Services
The first stop on our tour was the Rigline 24/7™ operations center: a glass-walled area where expert technicians remotely monitor the status of hundreds of drilling rigs in operation all over the globe.
The technicians can view KPIs like rate of penetration, directional path, weight on the drill bit, torques, fluid flow rates and various other parameters throughout all phases of the well construction process.
They watch for alerts of rig issues, answer phone calls from rig operators who have questions, and intervene if a "red-status" is created. The Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk® suite of information solutions is used to capture all the rig data in real time, and contextualize and display it as useful information.
The level of expertise the staff can provide from afar is impressive – some of the rigs are even equipped with video cameras in key places to provide visual insight in addition to the data coming in from the controllers on the rig. This allows experts to operate the rig remotely from Houston, if needed.
The Software
Next, we stopped down in the software simulation area to learn about the software Nabors has developed to automate navigation, including directional drilling. Nabors sought to fix an industry issue that was causing extra expense and downtime during the drilling process: the need to bring an experienced directional driller on-site when it was time to execute a slide, and the variability associated with relying on human operation.
In the software simulation area, Nabors has a full drilling operator station set up so engineers can test the constraints of this new software, and also to allow for operator training on how to use it. We got a peek at the ways Allen-Bradley PACs and motor control centers are powering the drilling equipment and feeding data to the software to help automate control of the rig equipment and enable this more efficient and accurate drilling.
The Rig
Finally, it was time to drive 40 minutes over to Crosby, Texas, to see a Nabors SmartRig in person. The rig stood an impressive 90 feet tall, with the platform, operator cab, and e-house standing 45 feet in the air.
The rig we saw was a walking side-saddle design, with automated pipe racking capability: which means the pipe can be racked without any human intervention off on the side of the rig.
When drilling a multiwell pad, the entire rig can be walked in any direction to drill the next well without needing to disassemble or move the racking equipment out of the way.
The modular rig design allows Nabors to rig down and move all the equipment to the next drilling site in as little as 36 hours. Nabors next iteration of the SmartRig, which they're branding as the iRig, will have a robotic arm that completely automates movement of rig floor equipment and pipe through Rigtelligent™ controls, powered by Rockwell Automation.
It was interesting to see the innovative ways Nabors has leveraged the capabilities of MCCs, PACs and software to automate the well drilling process. The industry is taking giant leaps forward, and we're getting closer to seeing completely automated, remotely monitored drilling rigs – which opens up a ton of additional possibilities to reduce drilling cost, improve drilling operations and safeguard workers.
For more information on the work Nabors is doing, visit their website. And to learn more about the ways Rockwell Automation technology is supporting greater efficiency and innovation in the oil and gas industry, visit the oil and gas section of their website.


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Feb. 20, 2004
KALAMAZOO--Entrepreneurs looking to do business with branches of the U.S. military can learn more about government packaging requirements and important protocol at an upcoming workshop at Western Michigan University.
Ted Hollanders, packaging field support representative for the Defense Contract Management Agency East, is the speaker for "Packaging, Barcoding and Marking," a military packaging seminar scheduled for 9 a.m. Wednesday, March 11, at the Southwest Michigan Innovation Center, 4717 Campus Dr. on WMU's Parkview Campus. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. at the center.
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The crowd at the Parc Olympique Lyonnais in Lyon chanted "Equal pay!" as the US women's soccer team defeated the Netherlands 2-0 to win their fourth World Cup title. Before the final, US co-captain Megan Rapinoe criticized FIFA for disparities in prize money between the men and women.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino proposed doubling the total prize money of the World Cup to $60 million last week. The men's edition in Russia last year, featuring 32 teams, had a total prize money pot of $400 million. That amount for the men will rise to $440 million for the Qatar World Cup in 2022.
In March, 28 members of the US women's national team filed a lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation, accusing it of gender discrimination.
"It certainly is not fair," Rapinoe said in an interview before the World Cup final. "We should double it now and then use that number to double it or quadruple it for the next time. That's what I mean when I talk about do we feel respected? If you really care about each game in the same way, are you letting the gap grow? I'm not saying the prize money is $450 million this time or next time around. I understand that, for a lot of different reasons, the men's game financially is far advanced than the women's game. If you really care, are you letting the gap grow, are you scheduling three finals on the same day? No, you're not."
But the pay gap is not unique to women's soccer. The World Economic Forum's 2018 Global Pay Gap report looked at 200 countries. "To date, no country has achieved parity, and only the top seven countries in the rankings have closed at least 80% of the gap," the report says.
Saadia Zahidi is a managing editor at the World Economic Forum and led the team that compiled the gender gap report.
She, too, sees the disparity between the US men's and women's teams.
"If you look at how that team is performing, what they're doing, what they're delivering, they're actually doing so much better than the male soccer team," she said.
Zahidi says in the last 10 years, the pay gap has actually widened because of increases in men's pay.
"Why is that? I think it's because ... there is still this continued gap when it comes to the care infrastructure and women are still primarily responsible for providing the care responsibilities in most families," she says. "That's one aspect that continues to lead to a situation in which women are actually not able to rise into positions of leadership or, in some cases, make it into professions that require more of a time commitment."
The World's Marco Werman spoke with Zahidi about how long it would take to close the global pay gap.
Marco Werman: So, let's look at somewhat differently in the reverse: the homecare part of this. I know some stay-at-home dads, but very few still. Won't that number have to increase?
It's not just childcare. It's also elder care, it's aging societies, it's very young societies in other parts of the world. There is a broader opportunity here for job creation when it comes to essentially developing the care economy, whether that's childcare, whether that's elder care or other forms of care and division of responsibilities inside families. There are commercial solutions that are being offered and one aspect that is — and there's not a lot of evidence to support this but there's some speculation about where we could be heading in the future — where women essentially have a comparative advantage when it comes to the care sector. It's just that it happens to be a very informal sector and it happens to be a very low-paid sector. So we've actually turned that around. Use that comparative advantage and get a lot more women into well-paid, well-regulated, certified roles inside the care economy. But we're a long way from having formalized that and very few economies have started thinking about that as an actual job creation opportunity.
Related: Can quotas solve gender inequality in government?
If we're just talking about closing the gender gap, the pay gap, your research for the World Economic Forum shows that for some countries it's going to take more than 200 years to close the gap. And I'm not talking about Pakistan or Iran here, I'm speaking of the US.
So the US is ranked 51 at the moment, or in last year's study out of 149 countries. And you're absolutely right — it will take more than 200 years to close that gap in the US. In fact, countries like Saudi Arabia are bound to close the gap faster if they stay on the current trajectory as compared to the United States. A large part of that stalling has to do with the sort of broader economic gender gap. A second part of it is political leadership. I think political leadership is another area where the US is lagging behind when it comes to parliamentary positions, when it comes to essentially ministerial-level positions. And, of course, the US has not had a female head of government, unlike an increasingly large number of countries that have.
Related: The 'glass cliff' puts women in power during crisis — often without support
Can things only get better or is there a chance for things to get even worse?
In the US, there's a massive shortage, for example, of people with computer science and data science skills. Now, how is that shortage going to be fulfilled? I think a lot of companies are starting to realize they have to actually reach out into either minority groups or they have to start looking at women as part of that pipeline of talent instead of limiting themselves to the groups that they're looking at.
I'm imagining that you had to have been looking at some historical precedents to determine how events might unfold that would favor progress in closing the pay gap. I mean to say that it will take like 500 years for the gender gap to end in Iran and Pakistan or over 200 years in the US. What do you base that on?
It's absolutely within our control to decide how fast we want to close some of these gender gaps. In the Nordic countries, this is not about historical inertia. This is about the policies that they are very deliberately putting in place, whether that is about mandating pay parity inside the workplace and otherwise having very significant penalization for companies that do not provide that kind of pay parity. Whether that is paternity leave, which is something that they really sort of put in place and accelerated on in the last decade only. I think this is not about historical trends moving out into the future unless we do nothing.
This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. Reuters contributed to this report.
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What is it with "comfort food"? It seems I can't open a menu these days without finding it. Macaroni and cheese. Meatloaf. Fried chicken.
I guess, in a moribund economy, nothing sells like nostalgia.
Personally, I'm far from nostalgic about comfort food. I'm unmoved by mac 'n' cheese, I eschew any meat dish that ends in "loaf," and I've pitied many a restaurant's attempt to rouse the memory of my grandmother's fried chicken.
So three months ago, when I was walking my dogs in the Coronado Historic District and passed a new restaurant in the unlikeliest of spots, the hopefulness that welled inside me lasted only until I glimpsed the menu. It read: "Tuck Shop: Neighborhood Comfort Food."
Still, when an independently owned restaurant opens in your 'hood, you have to give it a chance—especially when that restaurant is as aesthetically appealing as the Tuck Shop.
The Tuck Shop is the creation of a local architect (DJ Fernandes of Construction Zone), and it shows. What was once a nondescript brick building is now a testament to thoughtful modernism. I was instantly enamored by the "reading room," a waiting area cum lounge with a comfy couch, white candles and a shelving unit carefully cluttered with books and games. Think of the coolest neighbors your family had in 1979: this is their den.
In the front of the restaurant, separating the kitchen from the dining room, is a small bar with architect's stools. The Tuck Shop stocks about 20 wines and a half-dozen bottled beers, and it serves Four Peaks on tap (including a special brew called Tuck Shop Ale).
But the bar's real genius lies in its selection of spirits: It has one—and only one—of everything. Order whiskey and you'll get Wild Turkey Rye. Order vodka and you'll get Tito's. Order gin and you'll get Hendrick's. The bar's shelves are also home to such inspired labels as Bruichladdich Scotch and Pimms No. 1.
Basically, the Tuck Shop is to libations what Google Reader is to information. It's a refreshing concept, and one that alters the matrix for bar patrons who can never seem to decide which fruit-flavored vodka they want to mix with their Red Bull.
Despite the three paragraphs I just devoted to the bar, the Tuck Shop is very much a restaurant first, watering hole second. The intimate dining room is dominated by a beautiful, carved-wood sharing table (I'm told it came from Passport Imports, on Indian School), and every chair that surrounds it—in fact, every chair in the restaurant—is different than its neighbor. The chairs are plucked from old kitchen-table sets, and you're likely to recognize a model that supported your derriere for a lifetime of Frosted Flake munching and spaghetti slurping.
Finally, the food: As a persnickety meat-and-potatoes guy, I state up front that I'm an unqualified critic of cuisine. For assessments of Tuck Shop by people with more sophisticated palates than mine, I suggest you troll Yelp or check out The Arizona Republic's recent review (4.5 out of 5 stars). But I can tell you this: Every night at about 7 p.m., my lizard brain flashes to the flavor of the Tuck Shop's maple-roasted pork tenderloin. And the citrus-brined fried chicken? Better than my grandmom's.
Two other things you need to know about the Tuck Shop: One, it takes its name from the term commonly given to a commissary at an English private school. (Owner Fernandes attended an English-style boarding school in Rhode Island.) Two, if you're fond of alt-country bands and singer-songwriters (such as My Morning Jacket, Whiskeytown, Neko Case, Bright Eyes, etc.), you're going to dig the background music.
Fernandes might be an architect, but he got the restaurant thing right on his first try. The food is fantastic, yes. But it's everything else that makes the Tuck Shop so intoxicatingly comfortable.
Just how comfortble is it? Consider: I live five blocks from the place. I have a couch. I have a little bar. I have an iTouch full of good music. I probably even have a pork loin in the freezer. Yet three nights this week I left my house and walked, trancelike, to this green building on the corner of Oak and 12th streets.
It's like an opium den opened in my neighborhood. And I can't stop chasing the dragon.


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This factory churns out humour! And why not? Owned and run by the inimitable Jaspal Bhatti, his Mohali-based Joke Factory is now one of the most sought after studios for many upcoming films and TV shows. Jaspal Bhatti is a 1978 Electrical Engineering graduate from PEC.
The unique production studio spread over five kanals in the Industrial Area here is wooing stars and big production houses to its funky interiors most of which have a joke to go with it.
Other than the big sound shooting floor (40 feet by 50 feet), which is the main studio, we have a big lawn for outside shoots as well. And if you notice the small hut in the corner of the lawn you will realise it is called the pachhtava hut. This is the place where the producer can go and regret the project he has taken up. It happens so often that we thought we should give the poor man a special place to do it, said Bhatti.
And this thoughtful gesture is just the beginning. The entire place is full of small jokes built within the structure. The studio has a set of small shops all of which sell things like the Dilkharab Sweet Shop: pichle hafte ki taazi mithayiana and bahumulya rishte todne ke liye Gift Shop and the Disposable Garment Shop.
Other than the nooks and corners of the building that are being designed to look like an office, a bedroom, a drawing room and a canteen the Joke Factory also has a big reception hall set, a clinic, a conference hall and a police station. Now we are thinking of having a dhaba built here. A lot of films demand a highway dhaba locale and it can be easily set up here, he said, adding that most of the shooting for the super hit Punjabi film Jijaji was done here and the first of his son Jasraj- Ladla Driver was also shot here, he said.
Stating that his was the only well equipped studio in the area, Bhatti pointed out that studio services were more in demand now.
Earlier people used to allow shoots to take place in the houses but soon they realised that it was quite a bother. Now every producer wants to come to studios where most of the other accessories are available, he said.
Stating that the Chandigarh Administration was going all over Mumbai trying to woo people from there to set up film production centres here, Bhatti added that he found the entire exercise odd.
Its strange they never contacted us. We were one of the pioneers in the field. No one offered us any place in the proposed film city or even asked for any help, he rued.
Jaspal Bhatti has larger plans for the studio. This is not going to be merely a film shooting studio. We would be creating a data bank of original jokes and provide these to mobile companies for pumping into mobile phones. Weekly magazine cartoon strips and daily political cartoons and even funny features for newspapers and magazines would be made available, he said


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Traci Place started her involvement as a Teamster in 1994 with the Town of Kittery. She then served Local 340 as Political Coordinator as a temporary assignment. Traci went on to work at the City of Presque Isle. In 2008 she became a Business Agent for Teamsters Local 340.
During her thirteen years in the public sector, Traci served as steward for over half of that time, gaining valuable experience with grievance handling & resolution, negotiations, as well as invaluable experience with the municipal budget process & Town/City government. This prepared her for the 28 municipal, school, and county government contracts she handles in Aroostook, Penobscot and Washington counties. In addition to the public sector, Traci also represents the private sector with a nursing home, technicians at the Aroostook Medical Center, and pharmacists at Osco's.
Traci has attended many trainings and seminars including Business Agent training with the IBT, arbitration, FMLA, and negotiating trainings. She is a member of the Joint Council 10 Women's Committee, coordinates the Local 340 Annual State-Wide Food Drive, serves on the MainePERS PLD committee, and is awaiting confirmation to the Local Workforce Development Board for Aroostook-Washington Counties.
Stacy lives in Gray with her husband John, they have two children Lance and Lindsay. She is a 1985 graduate of Andover College with an Associate's Degree in Accounting. Since 1988 Stacy has put her education to work for her as our Bookkeeper. She is invaluable in telephone service to our members' many inquires, concerning such matters as Health and Welfare, Credit Union and countless public sector issues.
Stacy has attended a number of seminars of value to the Local Union, including training on the IBT's QuickBooks record keeping system and TITAN dues system. She is well qualified to perform all the staff functions of a well organized Union office as well as to teach them to new employees.
Peggy resides in Windham, Maine with her husband, Bobby, who owns and operates Timmons Machine and Fabrication. Together they have two children, Nicole and Bobby III and two dogs Spike and Tia.
Peggy has been employed as a full time office staff member for Teamsters Local 340 since 1988. She is a jack of all trades at the local where she is skilled in all office functions as well as being responsible for many extra activities, including scheduling and organizing the Local's functions, retirees' activities, updating the website and past newsletters, picnics and shop steward seminars.


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In early April, a new study that was published by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, explores a noted increase in residential radon in Pennsylvania due to hydraulic fracturing or "fracking." The research involves a review of radon levels collected from over 700,000 buildings in Pennsylvania from 1989 to 2013. While this study (Predictors of Indoor Radon Concentrations in Pennsylvania 1989 - 2013) cannot undeniably conclude that fracking is responsible for the radon level increases, it is important to note that radon levels began an upward trend from 2004 to 2012 with higher levels in counties with more than 100 drilled wells.
Radon is a recognized carcinogenic gas that is produced by the decay of uranium in soil. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that radon is responsible for 21,000 lung cancer deaths in the United States each year. The primary source of radon in homes is gas that has travelled through soil and entered the building through foundation openings such as cracks, sump pits, foundation joints, crawlspaces, or utility access penetrations. Soil or geologic changes or disturbances such as nearby construction can open new travel pathways for radon. In fact, the EPA recommends routine radon testing every two years because geologic changes can affect your radon level. In areas where natural gas is being extracted by methods that involve soil and rock fracturing, it seems unavoidable that other soil gases, such as radon, would also be released.
As residents and homeowners in Pennsylvania, the important points to consider are these:
- Pennsylvania has some of the highest radon levels in the country. Over 40% of Pennsylvania homes test above the EPA accepted level for radon gas.
- In recent years, natural gas extraction via fracking has become well established in many areas in Pennsylvania.
- Exposure to radon gas is a recognized health risk.
- Radon testing is the only way to know if you and your family are exposed to radon in your home, school, or workplace.
Radon testing is the first line of defense in protecting yourself and your family from radon related lung cancer. When radon is found, a radon mitigation system is an effective and affordable way to reduce your exposure to the dangers of radon gas. Professional radon testing is available, but a homeowner can conduct a simple radon test in just a few days to determine the radon level in their home. The EPA and the US Surgeon General recognize 4.0 pCi/L as the highest "acceptable" radon level and recommend the installation of a radon mitigation system when radon test results fall above this standard.
The need for radon testing and radon mitigation has long been a fact of life for Pennsylvania residents. When radon is found, it is important to consult with a certified Pennsylvania radon mitigation professional regarding the radon levels in your home. In light of this recent study results, all homeowners should consider radon testing and radon remediation to protect lung health.
About the Author:
Katherine Fisher is the co-owner and Vice President of SWAT Environmental of Pennsylvania. She holds a Bachelors degree from Purdue University in Environmental Sciences and is NRPP certified in radon measurement and radon mitigation.
To purchase a radon test kit or to get a free quote on radon mitigation for your home, contact the experts at SWAT Environmental of Pennsylvania at 1-800-NO-RADON.
Our highly trained professional staff is here to provide you and your customers with the best in radon mitigation services, including:
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Public Comment
KPFA: A Response
In his discussion of "What's at Stake in the KPFA Board Election?" Matthew Hallinan starts out on the right track: there really are important substantive differences between the group he's part of—the Concerned Listeners (CL)—and just about everyone else involved in the election, including not only the ticket I'm on—Independents for Community Radio—but also the other two slates in the race for the Local Station Board.
But in seeking to explain these issues, Matthew sets up a straw man that only obscures the real nature of the contest. Critics of the current CL majority and the status quo it supports, he tells us, "propose what is essentially an all-volunteer KPFA [with] no professional management and no paid staff."
With all due respect, this is sheer fantasy. No one on the Independents for Community Radio list nor anyone else involved in the current election has made any such proposal, directly or indirectly. All the candidates recognize the need for paid management and staff. I for one wish we had stronger, more professional management—i.e., managers with training and/or pre-KPFA experience in running a media outlet.
The question that actually divides us is not whether we need management, but how management should relate to other elements of the KPFA community. In the view of Independents for Community Radio and other critics of CL, the station's traditions and professed values, not to mention the letter and spirit of the Pacifica by-laws, require that listeners and unpaid as well as paid staff should have a real voice in major decisions.
In contrast, Concerned Listeners, in the name of "professionalism," believe the station's managers should make all major decisions by themselves. They have consistently supported the current management's policy of dismantling, disempowering, or disregarding every representative body that has evolved over past years at the station. Some examples:
• Management unilaterally dismantled the Program Council, a decades-old body that brought together representatives from management, paid and unpaid staff, the board, and community representatives to evaluate existing programs and new program proposals. Now top managers alone make all decisions about programming, without consulting anyone else—such as the current plan to eliminate the morning "Music of the World" show. There's no longer even a procedure for anyone to submit a proposal for a new program. The by-laws oblige the Local Station Board to ensure that programming decisions are made in "a fair, collaborative and respectful manner." Can anyone seriously claim that that's the case today?
• Management unilaterally "de-recognized" the Unpaid Staff Organization, the body that defends the interests of the people who produce about 70 percent of KPFA's programming. Yes, UPSO hadn't been functioning effectively for several years, but that apparently didn't bother management - they "derecognized" the group only when it started to get its act back together. When both KPFA Local Station Board and the Pacifica National Board passed resolutions directing management to reverse this "derecognition," KPFA management defied them for months, giving in only in the face of direct orders from Pacifica's interim Executive Director.
• On the LSB itself, the Concerned Listeners group has used the majority it has maintained for three years to impose a do-nothing policy. After management called the police into the station to deal with a minor, non-violent dispute with unpaid programmer Nadra Foster, and the police brutalized Foster and hauled her off to the Santa Rita jail on five felony charges, we in the minority sought to have the board investigate the incident with an eye to developing policies that could prevent a repetition; CL refused to put the issue on the agenda. (To this day, the board has not held even one moment's discussion of this deeply troubling incident.) On another occasion the minority, concerned about staff complaints of unfairness and unclarity in policies applied to them, as well as repeated complaints of sexual harassment (and expensive lawsuits as a result), requested copies of any written personnel policies in effect at the station, but CL went along with management's refusal to turn over such policies—even though reviewing personnel policies is surely a basic function of a non-profit board.
This year, CL's response to declining listenership, a large financial deficit, and serious staff morale issues was to reduce the frequency of board meetings from the traditional monthly schedule to bi-monthly. They claim this will allow time for more work to be done in committee—an argument that might sound reasonable, except that the board under their control has no functioning committees!
The CL majority has also gone out of its way to minimize communications between the LSB and the wider KPFA community. The by-laws oblige the LSB to "conduct 'town hall' style meetings at least twice a year, devoted to hearing listeners views, needs and concerns." Under CL control the board has simply ignored this requirement—no such meeting has been held in years.
And the CL member the majority elected to serve as secretary of the board—normally a capable person—has not managed to post either agendas or minutes of board meetings on the KPFA website since November 2008.
Altogether, these realities are what Independents for Community Radio and other critics of the status quo mean when we talk about top-down, corporate-style management. Matthew Hallinan asks why seasoned progressive activists like CL would support such a model. That's a good question. I wish he'd answered it.
What, concretely, do the rest of us propose as an alternative?
• The Program Council should be restored, so all elements of the KPFA community can work together to preserve and enhance what's best in the station's current programming and bring in new approaches and new voices to replace what's gone stale.
• The LSB, which is charged by the by-laws with the duty of evaluating the station's general manager and program director, must make clear that respecting the letter and spirit of the by-laws is a requirement for these jobs. That means, among other things, that the general manager should attend LSB meetings regularly and use her time on the agenda not just to boast about fundraising successes (the current pattern), but to get input and feedback from the board and the community about major policy decisions.
• The board itself should meet at least monthly, probably more often, rotating through all parts of the KPFA listening area. It should make complete, comprehensible agendas and minutes readily and promptly available. It should have functioning committees to (among other things) increase outreach and develop a strategic plan for enhancing KPFA's online presence, which falls farther behind the technological curve by the month. And it should live up to all of its by-laws-mandated obligations.
That's some of what we mean by our slogan, "Putting the community back in community radio!"
If you haven't voted yet, you have until midnight tonight (Oct. 15). Please cast your top votes for me and others endorsed by Independents for Community Radio.
Henry Norr is a candidate for re-election to KPFA's Local Station Board.


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By Aaron Jackson,
The NFL Draft is here! After weeks of hearing the talking heads tell you who will be picked, there's no better tradition than tomorrow when we can mock them incessantly when nothing they said comes true. Not one to be left out any time there's a chance to be mocked, here are my predictions for the first few rounds. Remember, if I get only ONE of these right I'm counting it as a great success. Mocking can only happen if I get all 5 wrong.
Pick 32: Noah Fant, TE, Iowa: I know Sterling has had some aspirations that the Patriots will trade up and take the other tight end from Iowa, T.J. Hockenson. However, he's widely regarded of the better of the two for some reason, and is going in the top-20 on most draft boards. Personally, I think Fant is the better option to begin with, and he's much more likely to fall to the Pats at 32. I'm not sure how much stock you put in the combine, but here's something interesting for you: Fant finished at the top of the list in 5 of the 7 drills for his position. So he's an incredible athlete, and at 6'4" still has good size. I'm not sure if they take him at #32 or move that pick up a little bit to grab him, but my best guess is he's Gronk's heir apparent.
Pick 56: Irv Smith, TE, Alabama: Look, am I doubling down on one position? Heck yes. That position is clearly their biggest need, and I just want to be able to say I predicted something right in a draft that is the hardest to try and figure out. Fant making it to New England is a best case scenario. So when it doesn't happen I've got my backup pick ready. That's Smith, a great athlete who doesn't really fit the size criteria for tight end but does have the quickness to be a difference maker. Think Vernon Davis in his prime. If the Patriots don't get Fant I think they get Smith.
Pick 64: Nasir Adderley, S, Delaware: When you expect the Patriots to zig they typically zag. Nasir isn't necessarily fitting a need for New England in the short term, but in the long term he makes sense. The biggest complaint against him is that he plays for an FCS school, and coach Bill Belichick won't care about that. And we all know he plans for the future. Who knows how much longer the McCourty twins will play in the NFL?
Pick 73: Ryan Finley, QB, NC State: Finley isn't going all that high because he doesn't throw a great deep ball, and doesn't have a ton of muscle. But scouting reports tout his accuracy in the short game and good decision making, as well as a quick release. I'd consider those things top priority in a future Pats quarterback. I'm not sure he's the long term solution, but give him a couple years under Brady and lets see what happens.
Pick 97: Mack Wilson, LB, Alabama: There are very few predictors that are reliable when it comes to predicting a Belichick draft, but to me the most accurate one is team/coach the player played for. It's no secret Belichick and Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban are close friends, and Belichick has a tendency to rely on those relationships come draft time. Plus Alabama tends to be pretty good at football. Hence the second player from that team headed to New England. Wilson could step in and play immediately in a linebacking core that is strong up front but lacks much depth outside of Dont'a Hightower and Kyle Van Noy. Add in Wilson and a healthy Ja'Whuan Bentley and that's a formidable core.
Aaron Jackson is a co-host on The Drive, weekdays 4pm to 6pm on 92.9fm The Ticket and streaming live at DriveShowMaine.com. Follow us on Twitter, @DriveShowMaine and "Like Us" on Facebook, Drive Show Maine.


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Saturday, February 13, 2010
A Sketch For You to Try
Well, it's a good day to stamp. But I can't. And I don't have an SFYTT card for ya'll today either. It's been a crazy weekend to say the least, with an unexpected early release for the kids on Thursday due to the weather, 12.5 inches of snow falling in 24 hours IN NORTH TEXAS, no school for the girls on Friday and my sister's family coming to stay with us because their power went out night before last. Then this morning, we are on the road to Eldorado (wasn't that a movie or something?), TX for a funeral. Yes. It's 6AM and it will take us 6 hours to get there. A major Starbuck's and McDonald's run is factored into that time. I don't do 5AM starts.
Anyway, I wanted to be sure and at least show ya'll the sketch and remind you about the BIG BIG PRIZE! Jen's got all the details about how to play on her blog HERE.
Ok, I've got to go blow dry my hair so I'm not an icicle head. Maybe I'll share some snow pictures in the next few days.
Posted by Susan (susiestampalot) at 5:52 AM
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Stay warm and safe, I have enough snow here to share if you don't have enough.ReplyDelete
I feel your pain with the early morning wake up time LOL! It took me four days to recover from getting up at 5:30 a.m. to watch the Olympic Torch relay! Sorry to hear the reason for the early rise.... Hopefully the snow will disappear soon too.ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh Susan! 12.5 inches of snow? YIKES Sending some sunshine your way from Phoenix, AZ :)ReplyDelete
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In recent years, more and more entrepreneurial advisors from wirehouses and captive insurance companies have been opting to go independent to gain greater flexibility in how they serve their clients. With recent regulation that has put potential conflicts of interest related to proprietary products in the spotlight, that trend is expected to continue.
Making the decision to leave even easier, many wirehouse and insurance-based advisors are discovering they don't have to completely give up the structure they've become accustomed to. By joining an existing branch, they can enjoy the freedom of independence along with the support of experienced supervision, compliance and practice management professionals.
But it isn't just wirehouse advisors discovering the many upsides to joining a branch. Some independents, like Margie Swanson of Charlottesville, Va., have benefitted from it as well.
In 2003, Swanson started out as an independent advisor in a solo office with her broker-dealer. But in 2011, she chose to become an independent advisor under branch manager Jack Connealy with JFC Financial in Lincoln, Neb.
"I joined Jack's branch so I would feel as though my voice was magnified," Swanson said. "Being part of an organization with some clout in the industry has helped me get more done. The branch is tremendously supportive and a great group of individuals to network and share expertise with."
By moving to an established branch, independent advisors like Swanson also reduce overhead costs including rent, staffing and training and gain valuable networking, support and service from other advisors and staff.
"Branch models definitely benefit everyone, even when each advisor has a different business model," said Todd Terhorst, branch manager for Diversified Wealth in St. Louis Park, Minn. "Advisors can share their unique business styles and product knowledge and receive feedback on their choices. There are common support systems in place including staff, software and systems. I don't know too many people in this business who are really a one-person shop. There's value in being part of a group while still being a maverick and doing your own thing."
Branches can provide a balance of FLEXIBILITY and SUPPORT.
Two Layers of Service
Advisors in branch offices benefit from the added security of being backed by two levels of service and support — one from the branch and another from the broker-dealer.
"When you join an existing branch office, you get the best of both worlds," said Gregg Johnson, Securities America's executive vice president of Branch Office Development and acquisition. "You have the values of independence in strategy and in product choice, the support of an experienced branch and successful peers and the extensive resources offered by the broker-dealer."
Branches provide administrative services, supervision oversight and best practice solutions to their advisors. In addition, branch managers often work closely with skilled professionals at the broker-dealer level so they can pass on information about new products, technology and training.
Size and scale are important when deciding on the perfect branch and its broker-dealer counterpart. It's important to partner with a firm that is large enough to provide leading products, services and technology, but small enough to give personalized support and maintenance.
To get the most support from joining an existing branch office, look for one with top producers and a professional, non-producing management team with the responsibility of running the day-to-day business and supporting advisors. This model couples the benefits of peer-level mentoring and coaching with experienced business management.
Build Brand Prestige
In the independent environment, advisors rely on their unique brand to attract and retain clients. Moving from a solo practice to a branch office can help reinforce your brand, when marketed as a new partnership, or build your brand into the existing branch, adding credibility to the advisor as being trustworthy and collaborative.
"It's a common misconception that it is difficult to grow a business without a major brand backing you up," Johnson said. "The fact is, most clients don't care about a known-brand parent company. They are looking for a knowledgeable financial advisor with whom they can build a long-term relationship based on trust. Independent advisors are able to further that relationship by putting their clients' need before their broker-dealer's needs."
The Flexibility to Choose
Independent advisors can structure their work lifestyle to complement rather than overpower their personal lifestyle. They have the flexibility to choose the type of people and support staff with whom they want to work and can structure their office hours and work days to accommodate their needs and the needs of their clients.
Most successful branch offices allow advisors seeking greater independence with maximum flexibility the opportunity to create a personalized business model that works best for them and their clients.
For instance, at Cooper McManus in Irvine, Calif., advisors can choose to run their business on a platform that provides a 60 percent payout and help with rent and administrative costs or a more independent platform with a 90 percent payout that leaves them to cover their own expenses.
"Either way, when you factor in that wirehouse payouts have dropped significantly over the years, and they no longer carry the caché they once did, joining an independent branch office is an attractive option on many levels," said Arthur Cooper, co-founder of Cooper McManus, in Irvine, Calif.
Built-In Succession and Continuity Planning
Many advisors, including solo advisors, struggle to find the right successor for their business after running it for years on their own. Advisors who join a branch often build relationships with other advisors they may eventually feel comfortable transferring their business to. And clients see the strength of continuity as a back-up plan in case their advisor should be away or something unexpected happens.
Grier Laughlin began Quintus Financial Services in Englewood, Colo., in 2008 as an independent advisor under branch manager Jack Connealy with JFC Financial. After receiving branch manager training, Laughlin began to build his own branch, expanding Quintus Financial to include three other advisors. In February 2011, Laughlin was killed in a tragic car accident, leaving his family, the community and the firm devastated.
By expanding from a solo office to a team model, Laughlin's partners – with support from JFC Financial and Securities America's Practice Management team – were able to carry on the business, taking care of his clients and helping secure his legacy for his family.
Choosing to be an independent financial advisor means you can supply your clients with optimum product selection and a vast array of services. It also means taking on more responsibility. But as advisors opting to join a branch are discovering, you don't have to do it all yourself. With the support of a team at an established branch office, you can tap into resources and benefits you might not have had otherwise.


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We were on the El Rito campus of the Northern New Mexico College back in the spring
and I got some photos of the hornos that had been built
by the Adobe Construction Program there.
Having gotten much interest in the recent post-
I thought these ovens would be a nice contrast.
The above photo shows two contrasting styles-
the traditional one on the right that is found all over northern New Mexico
and on the left the smaller, lower type that requires less wood to heat up.
Root Simple recently did a great post, Our New Earth Oven And How We Built It
on a workshop conducted by Kurt Gardella on how to build a sand cast horno
using sand to form the inside space and then once completed the sand is scraped out.
The sand allows for a much lower profile and is built with clay mud.
The traditional style, above, is made from adobe bricks
that are laid up to form a type of dome.
Regular 4"x10"x14" bricks can be used or in some cases angled bricks
that are shaped to fit in a circular pattern to create the dome are used.
I am not sure of the regional origins of this type of horno,
but I would normally think it would date from Native Americans from the local pueblos
and was then adopted by the early Spanish settlers;
but Wikipedia states that it comes from the Moors when they occupied the Iberian Peninsula,
picked up by the Spanish
and exported to the "new world",
which is the case with so much of adobe technology.
On the back side is the smoke vent.
The above horno is ready for replastering,
though I would prefer a simple shed style metal roof
to protect the adobe from the elements.
The location of the smoke vent seems to vary,
even to the point of not having one at all.
The above horno is a bit stylized and you may notice that it rests on a pallet,
not standard,
but for instructional purposes it is probably nice
to be able to move it around (with a forklift presumably).
These last two photos come from the post- Wood Ovens And Hornos.
Above is from Arroyo Seco, New Mexico, near Taos,
and in contrast to the others shown here which have adobe plaster ,
it has a cement stucco.
And lastly, this horno is from the Kit Carson Home and Museum in Taos.
To see more on hornos go to the right sidebar
and look under LABELS- ADOBE AND BRICK
and click on Kilns And Hornos.
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John F. O'Brien Fund Teaches Students and Adds to Collection
Through a new program, endowed by John F. O'Brien, a longtime Friend of the Yale Center for British Art, the Center recently received a David Wilkie (1785–1841) pen-and-ink drawing, Naval Figures Aboard a Ship. The process allowed eleven student guides from the Center to gain hands-on experience in acquiring art.
David Wilkie, Naval Figures Aboard a Ship, pen and sepia ink. Martyn Gregory Gallery, London
"I wanted students to understand the business aspect of the art world but also to come away with the understanding that art is accessible and can be a part of their lives," said O'Brien, who majored in economics and history in college.
Students who have worked at the Center as guides for at least a year were eligible to participate. Scott Wilcox, the Center's Deputy Director for Collections; Gillian Forrester, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings; and Linda Friedlaender, Senior Curator of Education, met with students to provide training in connoisseurial skills and to acquaint them with the Center's process for acquiring art for the collection. Subsequently, accompanied by Amy Meyers, the Center's Director, the group traveled to New York and visited an art fair, Master Drawings in New York. They viewed sixteen objects offered by four dealers and made initial selections. Three teams of students presented their research, each advocating for a separate piece of art. The Center staff involved in the program made the final selection for acquisition.
Olga Karnas (SM '16) and Daniel Leibovic (TC '17) exchanged high-fives and hugged after convincing the judges to choose the Wilkie drawing. A drawing by James Ward (1769–1859), Fishing Boats on a Beach (pencil and gray wash), and one by George Rommey (1734–1802), John Howard Visiting a Prison (pencil on woven paper), were eliminated from the competition.
Leibovic noted that the Center has seventy-four works by Wilkie, but only four brown-ink sketches. "Among the sketches we do have, Naval Figures is undeniably the most raw, uninhibited, and embryonic exhibition of Wilkie's process," he said. He pointed out that the main figure in this sketch is drawn with a similar posture, garb, and facial structure compared to those in the other, more polished Wilkie sketches. Leibovic noted, "Together, we see that regardless of the briskness with which he sketched out his ideas, he still approached some things the same, such as placing emphasis on a main figure."
"I was just really, really excited—and proud. I can't wait to welcome the drawing home to the YCBA," said Karnas.
As an undergraduate at Georgetown University, O'Brien began visiting galleries in Washington, DC, meeting and working with dealers. The experience proved invaluable as he formed a significant collection of Japanese prints and Italian paintings. In helping the Center to establish this program, he hopes to cultivate similar learning opportunities and relationships for future generations.
Additional participants in this year's program included Yonadav Greenwood (BR '16), Matthew Hennessy (TD '17), Kathryn Kaelin (SY '15), Caroline Kanner (JE '17), Rebecca Levinsky (MC '15), Anna Meixler (ES '16), Daniel Roza (SM '15), Katharine Spooner (TD '16), and Ari Zimmet (CC '17).
Friedlaneder emphasized that the program provides students an educational vehicle rarely available to college-level students. "Working with the galleries and art dealers in New York City as a living laboratory adds a new dimension to their appreciation and knowledge of art," she said.
"An amazing network of people from across the world seemed to spring out of the woodwork and began interacting with each other in such a respectful and caring way. Everybody involved was driven by a deep love of art and their desire to pass on and share their knowledge and expertise," said Zimmet.
Director Amy Meyers believes the program exemplifies the spirit of the Center, with its emphasis on research and education as it raises public consciousness about the importance of British art. She noted that the students' hard work, research, and commitment, clearly evident in their thoroughly prepared presentations, reinforced the success of the program. "We are grateful that John truly understands our mission and is an integral member of the Yale Center for British Art's family," said Meyers.
O'Brien, who currently resides in South Carolina, lived in Connecticut for more than twenty years. He, too, still refers to the Center as home. "When I say 'home' that means it's a place where you are welcome and where you belong. The Center matters to me, and I matter to the Center," he said.
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RECALL: Lick your chops kitten/cat dry, Evolve kitten and more coming
Well, it's Friday, time for pet food recalls. Please stay tuned to Itchmo
as apparently there might be more\ according to the NY Times. Lick Your
Chops dry food is made by Chenago Valley and while it doesn't contain any
glutens/rice protein concentrate, it was made during the same time as the
contaminated feed. All I can say is, that these pet food manufacturers are
really a sloppy bunch. And the dilution effect doesn't seem to work for
pets does it or they wouldn't be pulling product made in a plant at the same
time as contaminated stuff.
Lick Your Chops Kitten & Cat dry food in the 4# and 18# bags with a Best By
date of 4/29/08, due to the remote possibility this product may have been
Again, the voluntary recall on the Lick Your Chops Kitten & Cat Food with a
Best By Date of 4/29/08 is a precautionary measure we are taking with the
FDA and our supplier. All other date codes on the Kitten & Cat dry food,
including the most recent production run with a Best By date of 7/25/08 are
safe to feed.
Evolve recall was apparently a silent pull from store shelves with 168
pounds now not accounted for. There's no date of posting on their website
for this retro recall:
* Evolve Kitten Food made on March 12, 2007 has now been included in [the
recalled pet food] group.
As of today, 99.4% of the 27,560 lbs. of product made on March 12, 2007
(Best Used By Sep 13 08) has been accounted for and removed from sale.
Currently there is 168 lbs. that has not been accounted for. The above 168
lbs. is a total of 9 units in 3# and 7# sizes. Based on the date of
manufacture, retail information, consumer contact and expected daily
consumption, we strongly believe ALL remaining products from this date have
been safely consumed with no adverse effects.
The Evolve formulae do NOT contain any wheat gluten or rice protein
concentrate, and the FDA tests confirmed that no melamine was present.
As a valuable Evolve customer, we want you to be aware of this situation
despite the fact no melamine have been found by independent testing. This
action is a precautionary measure only, as there is no evidence to suggest
these products in any way pose a health hazard.*
...........Now, don't you feel better? Your cats ate it and it was safe
because nothing happened to them, well it could have, but it didn't, so it's
really not a big deal, OK?
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The ball hit the vase. It fell and shattered into pieces.
Sapna entered the room and shouted, "How many times have I told you not to play inside. Who will pay for it now?"
Rahul replied, "Mom, it's not my fault. Hari hit the ball hard," shifting the blame on their maid's son.
Hari's eyes welled with tears. Sapna screamed at the maid, "Don't ever bring your son here, again."
That night, Hari kept crying with guilt.
Sapna was happy because a diamond ring, thought to be lost, was found inside the broken vase. The vase didn't matter anymore.
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Being Audenesque Part II
Continuing with the collection of excerpts, from the period around 1940.
Tradition and Value (Essays and Review, 1940)
"Human history is a wave-series of civilizations. At the crest of each, society is united in a community of belief, a standard concept of the True and the Real 'with reference to which its activities can be given purpose and meaning and value.' In each trough this common standard disintegrates; 'public truth is shattered into innumerable private truths.' An artist is always confronted with the problem, What has value? What and according to what pattern of emphasis shall I select my materials? Those born in the crest periods can give the answer of their society in which they are assenting members; but those born in troughs can only give personal subjective answers with no guarantee that they will be valid for others."
(This reminds me of Kuhnian Paradigms in a socio-historical context. Even though Kuhn himself restricted the use of the term to the hard sciences, the term paradigm shift has been widely applied to many realms of human experience as a change in a fundamental model of events. But, this quote presents an inkling of the concept of paradigm shift before Kuhn and his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). )
"In our own time, the Machine has deprived even words like society and class of any real meaning. Instead there are only small groups, each united by a common specialization which dictates economic interest; men no longer have neighbours tied to them by geography, only a far-flung association of personal friends kept in touch with by machinery. The effect of the machine on life overshadows completely any political effects. Capitalist America is far more like a Communist Russia than it is like the America of 1800, and there is not the slightest reason to suppose that owning the means of production will create for the people a sudden traditional source of value."
"I welcome the atomization of society and I look forward to a socialism based on it, to the day when the disintegration of tradition will be as final and universal for the masses as it is already for the artists, because it will be only when they fully realize their 'aloneness' and accept it, that men will be able to achieve a real unity through a common recognition of their diversity, and only when they are conscious that all symbols are symbols and not life, that they will be able to use them properly to live and communicate with each other […]"
Empirics for the Million (Review of Dangerous Thoughts. By Lancelot Hogben. 1940)
"Much as Professor Hogben dislikes Plato and Rousseau, his humanism seems to me to imply one or the other: either the scientists are the philosophical elite who know what man's 'fundamental needs' are and must take the appropriate political steps to see that he lives in small communities, does not travel, has four children, and looks at 'common things' like daffodils and not at 'second-hand things' like paintings, or the common man is a Noble Savage who instinctively knows what is good and has faith in the future and only needs the scientist to teach him the technique while the few misfits are take care of by expert psychiatrists.
There is something to be said for both points of view. The empirical technique is the only successful method for doing anything, whether it is warfare, scientific research or writing poetry, and many of the faults of the common man are due, in part at least, to material conditions which are absurd because not only does no one like them, but technological advance has made them unnecessary.
But is empiricism enough?"
A Review of How to Read a Book, by Mortimer J. Adler (Essays and Reviews 1940)
"Intellectual training, in my opinion, begins with and only with specialization in one of the three principal disciplines; the linguistic, the scientific, or the mathematical. It is only by going some distance into a single problem of knowledge that we are made aware of our natural indolence and woolly mindedness, and of how many particulars are needed in order to make a single generalization."
Romantic or Free? (The Smith College Commencement Address, June 17, 1940)
"Art as a means to satisfy internal spiritual needs and science as a means to satisfy external material needs are included in an undifferentiated complex of communal activities."
"For the statement that two atoms of hydrogen combined with an atom of oxygen form the molecule of water […] you must make four acts of faith, four assumptions that you cannot prove. These are (to quote Collingwood):
- That there is a world of nature, i.e., that there are things which happen of themselves and cannot be produced or prevented by anybody's act.
- That the world of nature is a world of events, i.e., that the things of which it is composed are things to which events happen or things which move.
- But throughout this world there is one set of laws according to which all movements or events, in spite of all differences, agree in happening.
- That nevertheless there are in the world many different realms, each composed of a class of things peculiar to itself, to which events of a peculiar kind happen, and that the peculiar laws of these several realms are modifications of the universal law mentioned in the third article."
What is Culture? (Review of Historian and Scientist, By Gaetano Salvemini. 1940)
"Until a student has learnt the following things:
- 'Disconnected facts have no interest in themselves. They were all born free and equal. Facts begin to acquire significance only when they are grouped in a system of cause and effect. Only then does knowledge contribute to wisdom.'
- 'The statistical method is valid when one wants to learn the average weight of pigs of various ages, but does not work when one wishes to measure the power of the human brain or the strength of revolutions.'
- 'Objectivity results not from the absence of bias but from controversy between conflicting preconceptions, a controversy which is at bottom cooperation.'
- 'One must give up the illusion of being able to learn everything.'
– until he has learned this, the student is incapable of learning anything else.
"The discovery of intensity with which men have believed in ideas and values has often been due, not as they imagined to their logic, but to their cultural or economic environment, [which] instead of teaching them greater logical caution and moral vigilance, has led many people, […] to deny the possibility of making any judgment except one of practical expediency."
A Note on Order (Essays and Reviews, 1941)
"Fascism is what happens to an industrial society when disorder is accepted as inevitable but has reached a point where it is felt as intolerable. It provides a positive satisfaction to the ambition of the few, and a negative satisfaction to the inertia of the many."
"Science is a method of questioning which presupposes that the questioner has a particular question he wishes to ask of a particular subject. An essential feature of the method is a deliberate isolation of the experimental field from the rest of nature. The practical success of this technical device has led society to believe that this isolation is a characteristic of nature itself, and, while admitting in theory that the peculiar laws are modifications of the universal laws, to deny it in practice by ignoring that this implies relations between peculiar realms themselves.
The social aspect of this has been the atomic view of society as multiplicity of unrelated special individuals pursuing special unrelated occupations, typical of liberal capitalist democracy. (In education, it appears as a doctrine of 'self-expression'; in literature as the formless 'naturalistic' novel.)"
"In a civilized society, that is, one in which a common faith is combined with a skepticism about its finality, and which agrees with Pascal that 'Nier, croire, et douter bien sont á l'homme ce que le courir est au cheval [to deny, to believe, and to doubt well are to man what the race is to the horse],' orthodoxy can only be secured by a cooperation of which free controversy is an essential part."
The Prolific and the Devourer (A book of aphorisms and reflections written in the summer of 1939, only to be abandoned in the autumn of the same year)
"Human law rests upon Force and Belief, belief in its rightness. The Way rests upon Faith and Skepticism. Faith that the divine law exists, and that our knowledge of it can improve; and skepticism that our knowledge of these laws can ever be perfect: to have perfect knowledge we should have to know perfectly, i.e., become the universe."
"Kafka is […] wrong in saying: 'Faith in progress does not mean that progress has already been made. That would be no faith.' On the contrary, faith that progress will take place, on a basis of belief that no progress has so far been made, would not be faith but superstition.
"Our scientific knowledge is sufficient to justify our thinking that evil does not exist in the inorganic world. It is only with the appearance of life [that] disharmony, i.e., absence of regularity, becomes observable."
"If there is one method in which we have faith to-day, and with reason, for it has consistently succeeded, it is the Scientific method of Faith and Skepticism. […] For what is the Scientific attitude but the attitude of love, the love that does not reject even the humblest fact, the love that resists not evil (recalcitrant evidence) nor judges, but is patient, believing all things, hoping all things, enduring all things.
The teaching of Jesus is the first application of the scientific approach to human behavior – reasoning from the particular to the universal. The Church only too rapidly retreated to the Greek method of starting with universals and making the particulars fit by force, but the see once sown, grew in secret. What we call Science is the application of the Way to our relations with the non-human world."
"Man the Maker, i.e., man in his relation to the non-human world, as cultivator, herdsman, engineer, artist, has always followed the way of love. He discovered very early that it is useless to make moral judgments about Nature or to punish or even try to coerce her, that practical success depended upon a harmonization of his will with hers."
"An idea has two purposes, to justify our satisfactions, and to find a way to remove our wants. In its aspects as justification, an idea is a pure reflection of our material life and neither can re-enter history as an effective agent nor wants to. In its aspect as a means to remove wants, it demands a change in our actions and so becomes an agent of change."
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Shenyang FHSU students get a taste of the FHSU culture
06/29/16 lds
HAYS, Kan. -- Seventeen students from Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, China, visited Fort Hays State University's campus for cultural and academic experience.
The students arrived in the United States on June 19 and stayed a day in Los Angeles before coming to Hays on June 20. While in Hays, students attended lectures by FHSU faculty on such topics as global challenges, leadership, sustainability, wind energy, tourism and hospitality management, business ethics, and entrepreneurship.
The students were also in Hays on a "fun" level. Students were able to go to a rifle range to learn about firearms and to experiment with shooting a shotgun. They toured the FHSU farm and went mini golfing.
The Office of Internationalization and Global Partnerships hosted the students, who are studying in the FHSU program in Shenyang, which enables them to earn an FHSU degree while studying in China.
"The main goal was to provide an American educational and cultural experience along with some fun activities," said Philip Wittkorn, director of operations for Chinese partnerships.
The students were in Hays for four days before visiting the Capitol in Topeka. The scholars also visited Kansas City, where they shopped, went to Worlds of Fun and took part in the KC Zipline before flying to the east coast, where they will spend a week visiting Washington, D.C., New York and Boston before flying back to China on July 2.


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Document Type
Date of Degree
Fall 2015
Degree Name
PhD (Doctor of Philosophy)
Degree In
Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
First Advisor
Ali, Saba R
First Committee Member
Westefeld, John S
Second Committee Member
Liu, William M
Third Committee Member
Nicpon, Megan Foley
Fourth Committee Member
Thomas, Volker K
Counseling psychology doctoral trainees' satisfaction with their clinical methods training is an important predictor of their self-efficacy as counselors, persistence in graduate programs, and probability of practicing psychotherapy in their careers (Fernando &Hulse-Killacky, 2005; Hadjipavlou &Ogrodniczuk, 2007; Morton &;Worthley, 1995). Much of the extant literature related to assessing psychology graduate students' satisfaction with their training has focused on supervision processes and has not adequately assessed other elements of training such as coursework, clinical experiences, and the learning contexts of practicum sites and program settings. Additionally, the available research is largely quantitative data based on geographically restricted samples that does not adequately explain reasons for trainees' satisfaction or dissatisfaction.
The purpose of the present study was to broadly identify factors that contribute to counseling psychology doctoral students' satisfaction with their clinical methods training in coursework, clinical experiences, supervision, and practicum and program contexts. Eight advanced doctoral trainees from APA-accredited programs in counseling psychology were interviewed about their satisfaction with their training experiences. Data was analyzed using Consensual Qualitative Research (Hill, 2012). Results indicated that trainees generally entered programs with broad/unclear expectations, but some identified preferences for practicum settings, developing clinical skills, learning approaches to psychotherapy, and training in multicultural competence. Participants expressed higher satisfaction with courses that included multicultural content, training in theoretical approaches to therapy, and clinically-applicable content using teaching methods that included combining lecture with dialogue and experiential exercises. Diversity in clients' demographics, presenting concerns, therapeutic modalities, and distress levels contributed to higher satisfaction with clinical experiences. Additionally, participants expressed their value for the opportunity to accrue client contact towards internship requirements. Strong supervisory relationships were most frequently identified as contributing to participants' satisfaction with supervision. Participants expressed highest satisfaction with supervisors who conveyed care and support; were respectful, invested, competent, and experienced; provided new learning and feedback; and demonstrated multicultural competence. Practicum sites which provided an appropriate balance of training and clinical work, met trainees' expectations for developmentally-appropriate training and clinical experiences, and fostered positive relationships between trainees and competent, invested staff members were described to produce highest satisfaction. Participants also expressed highest satisfaction when they had open, safe interpersonal relationships with faculty and felt secure in their ability to secure practicum placements in a range of settings. All participants stated they would feel more satisfied with their programs if more courses were available, but opinions varied as to the type of additional training desired. Findings are considered from the perspective of experiential learning theory (Kolb, 1984) and situated learning theory (Lave &Wenger, 1991). Implications for program faculty, practicum staff, and future research are discussed.
Public Abstract
In this study, eight doctoral students in counseling psychology were interviewed about their satisfaction with the training provided by their programs. Since prior research has focused primarily on students' views of the supervision they receive, participants in this study were also asked about their opinions of their classes, the psychological services they provided as practicum students, and their views of their practicum sites and training programs. The interview transcripts were discussed by a team of researchers who identified themes in participants' responses. Participants felt more satisfied with classes where they learned theories and techniques about psychotherapy and working with culturally diverse people. They also valued combining course lectures with more active methods of learning, such as discussions or in-class exercises. In their clinical work, participants valued working with a wide range of clients for a significant amount of time. Participants expressed high satisfaction in relationships with supervisors who were caring, supportive, and safe, who helped them learn, and who were competent and ethical. More satisfactory practicum sites were described as providing a good balance of clinical work and training which suited the participants' expectations for the site. Participants also valued strong relationships with practicum site staff and program faculty and being able to participate in a wide range of practicum sites. All participants recommended additional course offerings from programs to further improve their satisfaction with their training.
publicabstract, clinical methods training, counselor trainees, didactic training, experiential training, satisfaction, supervision
ix, 207 pages
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-207).
Copyright 2015 Kristen Ann Menke
Recommended Citation
Menke, Kristen Ann. "Counseling psychology doctoral trainees' satisfaction with clinical methods training." PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) thesis, University of Iowa, 2015.


text: The Jordanian government has said that there is not enough evidence to investigate the scrambling of Al Jazeera's sports channel during the football world cup. Al Jazeera Satellite Network confirmed last month that its June transmissions of the competition in South Africa were deliberately jammed by a party in Jordan, using sophisticated equipment. In reply to a request from Al Jazeera for further action, Ali al-Ayed, Jordan's minister for media affairs, said in a statement on Monday that "no government or international body could agree to participate based on mere allegations, without providing evidence and information about them". Al Jazeera has previously said that it undertook extensive investigations conducted by independent international technology experts. The UK's Guardian newspaper also reported in September that it had obtained evidence showing that Jordan was the party behind the jamming, which frustrated thousands of Al Jazeera subscribers. The Guardian said that the jamming was believed to have been in retaliation to the collapse of a deal that would have allowed Jordanian football fans free access to the matches. However, Jordan has always maintained that it knows nothing of the blocked transmissions. Al Jazeera had exclusive pay-TV rights to broadcast World Cup matches across the Middle East from North Africa to Iran.The jamming has infuriated millions of Al Jazeera's subscribers, when transmission suddenly turned to blank screens, pixelated images or commentary in the wrong languages during the opening match. SOURCE: Al Jazeera Middle East Jordan