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Our View: Baltimore riots provide opportunity for introspection
It's easy for us in West Texas to watch the rioting, looting and sheer absurdity happening in Baltimore, and think "thank goodness that's not our problem."
The riots are a community tragedy of the highest order. When the people of a community turn their sights on the community, watch out.
We can never understand the logic in destroying private property, ransacking local businesses and causing terror. This has nothing to do with bringing justice to any one situation or protesting any act of government. They are hooligan tactics, plain and simple.
And while it is easy to think, "that's not our problem," we hope the people in Midland would never believe "that couldn't happen in our community." Don't ever underestimate potential problems in a community. Better yet, get ahead of potential problems with preventative activism.
We hope leaders in our community continue:
- to ensure that relations between local law enforcement and the community are at a level where it is clear we are working together.
We credit the city of Midland for having police officials available for interaction with the community at events such as Friday's Pachanga (6-8 p.m. at Hogan Park, 1201 E. Wadley Ave.). Pachanga is hosted by Comunidad in Action, a non-denominational, non-partisan, grassroots organization committed to promote community involvement and awareness of issues that affect our neighborhoods. Coffee with a Cop is another periodic event community members should take advantage of.
- to make development a priority in all areas of Midland. In our view, better neighborhoods create better neighbors. You don't have to see million-dollar houses to believe development is taking place; you just have to see some semblance of revitalization. The question is: "What is a community, not necessarily government, doing to bring real development to areas of town?" Here, we can't help but credit organizations such as Greater Ideal Baptist Church for the work it has done to promote building from within and to not accept the status quo.
-- to ensure that education lifts up all students. A community has to continually examine its education system to ascertain that all students realize the opportunity an education can offer.
In building an education system that makes sense for Midland, the challenge isn't necessarily watering down programs for more students, but making kids realize the benefit of being in school. When a student doesn't see that benefit, you lose the child. When you lose the child, you also lose opportunities.
- to focus on home and spirit. Today, we are a quick to blame many problems on what is happening -- or not happening -- at home. Are family units in tact to teach right from wrong? Are family units together to listen to one another about the issues taking place in their lives? We aren't talking about just good parenting but strong families. When looking at what is happening in Baltimore and the disintegration of a community taking, we also can't help but think of the spiritual vacancies apparent in every rock thrown, every building being burned and every car damaged. We should always be asking about this community's spiritual well-being. Our churches and places of worship play a critical role in building better communities, and we welcome more involvement in faith-based organizations. In our view, reaching some people -- including those wreaking havoc on the streets of Baltimore -- may take a power greater than what ordinary people can offer.


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I'm selling a set of polished stainless steel beetle hinge covers from Aircooled Accessories.
"These are identical reproductions of a very hard to find accessory. Originally available through Perohaus of Europe, they neatly fit over the hinges on all years of the Beetle to give that finishing touch."
Unfortunately, they don't quite fit on my car. The space between the hinge and the pinch weld on the drivers side is a little to tight for the covers to slip in as they are supposed to, due to a front end collision my '67 had years ago.
They came shipped in a nice box along with an AAC logo sticker and an AAC logo air freshener to hang from the mirror.
Status: For Sale
Location: Providence, RI
Price: $40.00. Shipped Priority Mail
Contact: Jody Sauvageau | 401-744-6798
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Video games are an incredibly engaging source of entertainment and even offer helpful life skills. They can help develop eye-hand coordination, visual-spatial acuity, and many teachers are using these twenty-first century amusements to make learning fun. A young person who plays video games to excess, however, often struggles with stunted social-skill development, an inability to self-regulate screen use, and even emotional outbursts. If you're reading this and say to yourself, "that's my child," then you may need to call in professional help. Reading my books is best done BEFORE a serious problem takes root!
By the time parents call me, they are usually in dire straits, perhaps trying to confront a teenager who has angry outbursts when they try to curtail his or her screen use. While I regularly work with such situations, it is far better to start modeling healthy screen behavior when children are young, so that healthy habits grow and mature along with your child. So often, family life consists of everyone using every spare, or idle, moment to bond with the screen. You have to find other activities to do. In Get Off That Game Now!, I spend a great deal of time mentoring the reader in developing a healthy array of non-screen behavior.
I am involved in a scientific study with Detroit Children's Hospital that suggests there are some disturbing patterns emerging in the brains of young people who spend large amounts of time in front of a screen. This issue is much deeper than screen use getting in the way of children doing their homework or chores. It goes to the fundamentals of how the brain develops. If we have children, for example, who prefer screens to people, that pattern, evidence continues to mount, will likely continue into adulthood. Then there are studies from the University of Bolton that suggest screen-addicted young people can develop some of the traits characteristic of a condition called Asperger's Syndrome: lowered levels of extraversion and agreeableness and higher levels of neurotic behavior. Incidentally, "neurotic" simply means that when a person gets in a negative state, say perhaps depression or anxiety, he or she is likely to stay there for a while and not be able to transition out of it. If you do nothing else, follow these five steps that I have been recommending for years:
Kevin's Top Five Family Technology Tips
1. Have at least some tech-free time as a family. Don't allow smart phones at the dinner table, for example.
2. In addition to tech-free time, have tech-free zones. Many families I work with choose to use the family room for this purpose. Cell phones, video game consoles, laptops, iPads, and computers are not allowed in there.
3. Set a maximum time allowed on video games and the computer. I recommend no more than two hours a day.
4. For each minute spent on the computer or video game, require a corresponding minute of exercise. This will allow you to combat the tendency for technology to create sedentary and obese children.
5. No TV's, computers, or video game consoles in the bedroom.
Kevin Roberts is an internationally-known expert on screen addiction, ADHD, and success in school. He was recently featured on ABC's 20/20 and the BBC's FiveLive program. Roberts is also the author of Cyber Junkie: Escape the Gaming and Internet Trap, which details his own struggles with screen addiction as well as his professional work with screen-addicted individuals.


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Thursday, June 5, 2014
The Peculiarities of Date Prep
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I just went on a first date the other night, and I can totally relate. It's a process from finding the right outfit. I know I had several ideas, from wearing jeans with a nice blouse, or a dress. Then taking pictures to share with my girlfriends for their opinion. I just want to say great article!
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Wash my hair, spend 20 minutes styling it only to hate it and put it in a messy bun or risk wearing it down and looking like a wet lion, Throw some make up on and battle within myself on if I want to look "natural" or "glam", shave my legs (one of my most hated parts of prepping), send pictures to my bestfriend to see if I look okay, call my mom for a pep talk, wish I didn't drink that soda earlier because I'm bloated and I don't think spanx come in my size, and then decide if I want my heels to be cute of comfy. Final step is debating on lipstick vs lip stain (depending on how much smooching I anticipate happening), and I usually just go with chap stick and call it a day.
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The Grants Review Committee acts as an "arms-length" peer review and advisory body to the North Vancouver Recreation & Culture Commission. It reviews all grant applications and provides recommendations to the governing body of the North Vancouver Recreation & Culture Commission.
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The Grants Review Committee is a volunteer body, consisting of five impartial and qualified members with appropriate experience and expertise in the arts as well as cultural and community-based practices. All members of the Committee are appointed by motion of the North Vancouver Recreation & Culture Commission and must be residents of North Vancouver. Committee Members are initially appointed for a two-year term, however appointments can be extended to a maximum of two consecutive terms. The composition, roles and responsibilities the Grants Review Committee are governed by a procedural Terms of Reference.
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that the Committee represents a breadth of experience and expertise in and across a wide range of artistsic practices and cultural traditions: visual, studio and gallery arts, community-engaged arts practices, music, dance, theatre and other performing arts, community events, cultural celebrations, community public art projects, as well as the local not-for-profit sector generally.
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Executive Director of the National Aids Commission Doctor Martin Cuellar also mentioned that some of the latest HIV and aids data will be released at the conference.
Martin Cuellar, Director of the National Aids Commission
"The national response including all of our partner agencies and our support and technical partners including in this case PASCA from the USAID agencies are frivoling one of our most important elements of national strategic plan for the next 5 years which is for us to prioritize and coordinate the work that we are doing in stigma or against stigma and discrimination as it relates and as it impacts HIV and so in that light we've organized stigma and discrimination conference focusing on - again set against the backdrop of HIV."
"The conference opens tonight where we will receive a presentation of the results of a study that was done by the CARICOM partners PANCAP looking at what is the evidence and what is the presence of stigma and discrimination towards people who either living with HIV or those affected by HIV - what we always call our most vulnerable groups."
"This particular study looked at 5 sub-populations and to see what was the presence on stigma in those groups as well as the impact that stigma has had on their lives and so we look at fake based organizations, we looked at young people, we looked at uniformed population such as immigration, customs, police etc. we looked at sexual minorities and we looked at people living with HIV. We are looking at how these populations might be receiving stigma or they might be part of the problem and the results of that study is being shared at the opening ceremony tonight at the Biltmore Hotel and tomorrow we continue with similar reports."
"We will be looking at other studies that describe stigma and discrimination in Belize as it relates to HIV in particular, but then we will also look at stigma and discrimination and how it impacts the specific lives of those who are most vulnerable to HIV. Here we are talking about men who have sex with men, our trans community (transsexual community), we are talking people who are living with HIV and sex workers and that's not comprehensive but those are the ones we have information on that we can discuss today."
The conference will continue tomorrow at the Biltmore from 9am to 5pm.
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Hailing from Indianapolis, Ceasar Frazier was a funky soul-jazz organist who recorded several albums for the Eastbound/Westbound label family during the '70s. First making his mark in 1972 with one of saxman Lou Donaldson's funkier bands, Frazier cut his first album Hail Ceasar! later that year, which featured musicians commonly associated with the Prestige label's jazz-funk outings -- Melvin Sparks (guitar), Houston Person (tenor), and Idris Muhammad (drums). The follow-up, Ceasar Frazier '75, featured the likes of guitarist Cornell Dupree and drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie; the album's key track, "Funk It Down," was later sampled by jazz-obsessed hip-hoppers Gang Starr for their "Ex-Girl to the Next Girl." In 1978, Frazier resurfaced as a smooth soul/disco vocalist with the LP Another Life, and while he showed some affinity for the idiom, it failed to reinvent him as a commercial force outside the jazz-funk marketplace. In addition to recording on his own, Frazier also played keyboards in Marvin Gaye's backing band. ~ Steve Huey
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System.out.println(new HashSet(m.entrySet()).size());
When you've got the answer, scroll down...
The answer is 1. Even though this is an identity-based HashMap, String literals are interned, so after the first entry is created, it is overwritten two times leaving a map of size one. This single entry will then be placed into the HashSet, so the HashSet has size one.
If you got it right, congrats. Now let's make a small change.
public static void main(String[] args) {
Map m = new IdentityHashMap();
m.put("a", 1);
m.put("b", 2);
m.put("c", 3);
System.out.println(new HashSet(m.entrySet()).size());
Now what does it print?
Once you've decided on your answer, compile and run the code (sorry about the warnings). Were you right?
Update: Ok, this isn't doing the same thing for y'all that it was doing for me. And now it's not doing it for me either. :) Ok look. Try this: remove the call to .size(). Just print out the entry set itself. Guess what it's going to be first. Then see. It'll be worth it, really!


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SARAWAK, Malaysia — Nestled at the base of Mount Santubong, in a land made famous by the head-hunters, who only decades ago still fought here for honor, a Kenyah elder holds a dagger in his right hand and a hand-carved wooden shield in his left. He moves quickly, genuinely shocking his foe, a bare-chested Maori warrior, who moments earlier was intensely focused on the crowd in front of him.
Bats fly overhead.
Matthew Ngau is an artist and sculptor who rarely leaves his forested Borneo home and Te Hira Paenga is in training to become an Anglican minister, when he's not performing the Hakka and other traditional arts.
Only on the stage of the Rainforest World Music Festival is it likely that these two men would cross weapons. Cross-cultural surprises and jam sessions define this three-day festival, created 12 years ago to introduce Sarawakian musicians to the world and world musicians to Malaysia.
The festival also likely presents the world's best showcase of indigenous instruments.
"I'm looking to excite, amaze, enjoy, have a good time and also educate a little bit," says artistic director and festival co-founder Randy Raine-Reusch. "This is a voyage of discovery for the audience. I want concert-goers to say `WOW, I've never seen that before!'"
The festival features an eclectic mix of bands including American country & bluegrass, East African drumming, Indonesian gamelan, Portuguese hard rock and Korean shamanistic tunes rarely heard outside traditional ceremonies. But every group has one common trait: each integrates indigenous instruments into its music. Some instruments have exotic names like the sumpoton, a free-reed mouth organ made with a calabash and bamboo pipes by villagers in northeast Borneo, or the hurdy gurdy, a European fiddle popular during the Renaissance which is played not with a bow but by cranking an attached wheel. Others like the Swedish nyckelharpa — an elongated fiddle with sixteen strings and an overlay of wooden pegs to control the pitch — are even more bizarre in appearance.
"These instruments are disappearing and I want that culture to survive," explains Raine-Reusch, who plays hundreds of instruments as well. "I want to hear what that culture sounded like on the real thing. I'm not interested in hearing Balkan music on an electric guitar. I want to hear authenticity, even if it is in fusion music."
Raine-Reusche estimates there are more than 5,000 instruments in the world — and that's if you don't count all the bells and rattles. Throw those into the mix and the count tops 10,000. At this year's Rainforest festival, 17 bands performed, yet only six used a guitar, well, seven if you count the one made from bamboo by Kinabalu Merdu Sound. Even fewer had a drum set.
Instead of drums, the Hungarian group Muszikas uses a gardon, an instrument that at first glance appears more suited to a string ensemble. The gardon player sets the tempo by hitting the instrument's strings with a stick. This "cello-beating" technique must have been tiring for traditional Hungarian musicians who earned their living by playing up to 40 hours non-stop at wedding parties.
This is not a festival of purists. Don't be fooled by the instruments. More than 20,000 music-lovers flock to the Sarawak Cultural Village each year for the Rainforest World Music Festival. Teenagers (and the not-so-young) dance for hours, but instead of partying to guitars, bass and drums, the mainstay of most pop bands, they jam to the sounds of the sapé, llimba and jouhikko.
(The sapé is a four-stringed instrument from Borneo whose lyrical melodies belie its cricket bat shape. llimba is an African thumb-piano, traditionally played by herders to mark their distance travelled. Jouhikko is a Finnish word, pronounced "yo-hee-ko", for horsehair and Europe's oldest bowed instrument. )
"The tunes we are playing were really very cool two to three hundred years ago," says jouhikko player Pekko Kappi. "We're still kind of shaking a little bit from how much fun we had," says American musician Jeff Burke of the Jeff & Vida Band. "First of all, it's kind of packed here tonight, so there's a sea of people, in the middle of one of the most pristine areas that we've ever played a concert in. And the crowd here responds to what we do and music in general totally different than an American crowd would."
Fans weaved a conga line through the crowd and sang along with every chorus, even though the tunes sung by Vida Wakeman in a raspy southern voice were original compositions they had never heard before.
"In the States, there's an etiquette, especially in bluegrass music" Burke explains. " You sit quietly and listen and even if you love it and it's the best thing you've ever heard, you'll be quiet and when the song is over, you'll clap real loud and then stop really quickly so that the next song can happen, which always seemed nice until now, because it seems much more fun to have a crowd like this who kind of really throws themselves into the experience."


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In thinking about negotiation—the act of making a deal or bargain with others—it is a business tactic that you either love or hate. But no matter what your take on negotiation is, it's a very important skill to learn and practice. For entrepreneurs and small businesses, it can be crucial in the start-up and growth phases.
According to Jenna Goudreau, a Forbes staff writer who assistant edited the annual World's 100 Most Powerful Women package and helped launch and grow ForbesWoman.com, negotiating is truly an art. She also recognizes that successful negotiations occur when people leave their egos out of the equation.
Focus on Results
Rather than focusing on the specifics of you as a leader and your company/product (which can lead to conversations about not only strengths and opportunities, but to potential weaknesses and threats), stick to discussing results. What are the positive results that both parties would be getting out of a deal? Try not to take things too personally.
Share Your Concerns
If you have a concern about a term in the negotiation, address it up front. Ask questions and be sure of the answer before moving further. If you can speak with references or other partners about the negotiation process or a deal that had been worked out, be sure to reach out. You should feel comfortable about the terms of an agreement before signing anything.
Stop Saying "I"
"I want, I want, I want." This is a phrase that no one wants to hear in business. Negotiation is all about reaching a common ground—finding out how you can get what you want while helping someone else in a mutually beneficial way. What will you be providing? How can you help move the process along? Working together and using words like "we" and "us" can help you get farther in the negotiation process.
In addition to these techniques, can also engage the other person by using your body language (maintaining eye contact and leaning forward into a conversation). It is also important to respect the other party and frame the negotiation around mutual interests.
How do you negotiate? What technique works best for you in that type of situation?
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Upskilling through apprenticeship can sustain today's business needs, and secure future demands. Find out how to leverage incumbent workforce education as a positive long-term outcome project for your business.
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We modernized workforce recruitment, education, training, and development through Apprenticeship. Together, we can collectively make the cultural shift necessary to help reform dated, ineffective systems that impair America's ability to compete successfully in the global economy.
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The talent gap is a national crisis that threatens America's competitive edge. Expanding US apprenticeship programs in existing industries, as well as developing programs in high growth industries such as IT, Healthcare, Advanced Manufacturing, and Professional Services, can help fill this gap.
Apprenticeships are real-life, inventive learning programs that create endless possibilities for young adults, and can help solve America's 21st Century workforce issues.
Why Apprenticeships?
Modernizing the age-old practice of apprenticeships can help revitalize America's higher education and training systems—systems that have become disconnected from the needs of employers across the nation. The status quo:
- Saddles Americans with debt.
- Overburdens businesses with costly talent acquisition.
- Weakens a community's economic stability.
Franklin Apprenticeship Delivery Programs help stakeholders administer, execute and maintain effective, efficient, sustainable workforce strategies. They also help job seekers to unlock their future career, providing new pathways to high paying jobs. We are #ChangingTheAmericanWorkforce.
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Working in partnership with businesses, educators, families, and economic and workforce development agencies, Franklin Apprenticeships is the first US-based firm dedicated solely to delivering on the promise for expansion of Apprenticeship Programs across the country.
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We help businesses solve skilled labor shortages, communities attract workforce talent, and individuals find pathways to high-paying careers.
The U.S. skills gap has gotten wider, while the student loan crisis has reached over $1.48 trillion. The ability to afford — or justify— the rising cost of secondary education is under question.
- An increasing number of individuals lack employable skills.
- A growing disconnect between job seeker capabilities and employer needs.
- A rise in under/unemployment resulting in 7.1 million unfulfilled jobs.


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Conscious Human: How amazing are you?
How did you feel when you learned that no two snowflakes are identical? When you realized that each snow crystal is uniquely beautiful in its shape and pattern were you awestruck? It blew my mind to try to calculate just how many snowflakes fell–every snowstorm–every year–knowing that they are infinite in their designs! It is hard to get one's mind around. It's incredible! It's a miracle!
How amazing are you? YOU are more wonderful and unique in your creation than any snow crystal!
Let's look only a few different ways that you are incredibly amazing just by being YOURSELF! If you ever you doubt it remember this list and then take a deep breath and strut your stuff.
Physically an Individual
- Consider the fact that your fingerprints are unique to only you just like the snowflakes design.
- Another little known fact is, that our tongue-prints just like our fingerprints, are unique.
- And of course, your smell is yours alone, allowing a bloodhound to track you for miles.
- As you know, your individual DNA is unique to you too. Your DNA is so complex that it could stretch from the earth to the sun 600 times.
- If that's not amazing enough: As we have seen on TV shows, our eyes are original in design too. Their pattern can be used as a security lock for secret government instillations. Ha ha.
Individualized Personality
Not only are you unique in physical qualities but in personality too. The science of astrology is calculated by the position of the sun, moon, and each of the planets at the exact time and place of your birth. This calculation of this unique heavenly alignment is based on complex mathematical influences in the solar system.
Numerology is another way to make self-discovery using the date of your birth and numbers associated with your name. Since numbers are the essence of all life, delving into a Numerology reveals our inner selves. It is yet another way of uncovering your uniqueness.
There is also a science called personology that measures your facial features and describes your personality by analyzing them. For example, if your lips are full you are a generous person. If your eyebrows tend to grow together in the middle, you are artistic. It is interesting to see what is written in our features. Imagine, your personal characteristics inside are reflected on the outside.
Even in palm reading and the latest— toe reading is your individual signature. Oh yeah, you also have a unique signature in your writing that those forgers are trying to copy. Your uniqueness seems to be written everywhere in your material, physical and emotional universe.
Are you beginning to get a sense of how incredible you are?
Unique Life Experience
Your unique way of perceiving the world is unlike any other living person. No one has your life experiences, they are yours alone. Even if the same event were to happen to someone else your understanding of it would be different.
Can you appreciate just how amazing you are just in terms of your physical and psychological make-up? You are surely as original and beautiful as is each crystalline snowflake and much more.
Cosmic Consciousness
In truth the Universe cherishes the energetic vibration that you and only you can bring to life. You are a unique point of light in the infinite possibilities of ALL THAT IS. You are a vibratory sound in the music of the spheres that is incomplete without your tone. Life loves you with more passion than you can possibly fathom. Without you the fabric of Cosmic Consciousness is incomplete.
Next time you are tempted to feel less-than someone else remember just how original and uniquely special you are. There is NO ONE in the whole Universe like you! Be inspired to be the best version of YOU that there is!
When you wonder about your identity or someone wants to know "who do you think you are?"–remember the snowflake.
How amazing are you?….Infinitely amazing!


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Eighty teams with over 1,000 participants raised over $138,000 at Georgetown's annual Relay for Life fundraiser to benefit the American Cancer Society Friday, breaking 2015's total of $133,000.
The theme of this year's Relay for Life was "Cirque du Relay," where the Relay committee sought to create a carnival atmosphere with games, dance classes, soccer matches and music from Georgetown student groups. A silent memory walk late in the night — the "Luminaria Ceremony" — encouraged students to reflect on how they and others have been touched by cancer, and included a performance by the Georgetown Phantoms.
According to event co-chair Emily Horne (COL '18), the group's fundraising has declined each year for the past five years, following the first Relay for Life event in 2007. Last year marked the first time in five years that the event raised more than the prior year's event.
The Relay for Life Executive Committee, Georgetown Sigma Phi Epsilon, the American Cancer Society's Can Extreme team, Fred's Fighters and Georgetown Kappa Kappa Gamma raised the most money at the 2016 event. The Executive Committee raised $31,015.55 as of press time, followed by SigEp and the Can Extreme team at $28,268 and $9,383, respectively.
"It's definitely been my favorite Relay at Georgetown but I also just think it's been such a successful night after a year of planning," Horne said.
Event co-chair Stephen Laufer (SFS '16) said the event is consistently strong because of its ability to bring Georgetown students together.
"I think everyone in some sort of way is touched by cancer, and Relay for Life is a really great opportunity for people at Georgetown who normally wouldn't attend the same events to come together for a common cause," Laufer said. "It's something that really unites and bonds people and provides support for one another."
This year's event featured many changes as a result of turnover within the Relay for Life executive board, after many members graduated. Laufer praised the underclassmen for pulling off the event.
"All of these sophomores and juniors who had never experienced what it was like to be on the executive team really stepped up to the plate to make this event happen." Laufer said.
According to Horne, the tents and booths at the event were also rearranged on Cooper Field to make the event feel more intimate, with luminaries forming a border around field.
Alexander Zigerelli (MSB '17), a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, said he believes participation is especially important for Greek organizations given the reputation of Greek life nationally and its status as unrecognized at Georgetown.
"There's a lot of negative stigma about fraternities and sororities because people think we only party but there's so much more to the culture," Zigerelli said. "There's so much more we do in trying to help out the community in every way we can."
SigEp's Vice President of Philanthropy Christian DeRosa (COL '17) said his fraternity comes together every year for Relay due to his chapter's longstanding connection with the effects of cancer. SigEp captured second place for funds raised this year, and raised more than the Relay Executive Committee last year at $34,690, the first in the event's history.
"It's something that we can all kind of bond over. I mean, one of our founding brothers actually had testicular cancer his senior year when he graduated, and then went on to become a doctor, and he definitely still keeps us motivated on that front," DeRosa said. "I think every single person in the fraternity has either a direct or indirect tie to cancer, and in the same way that at Relay itself people share stories, we do that internally as well."
Stephen Tranchina (COL '18), who participated in Relay as a member of Club Swimming, also stressed the importance of volunteering for a good cause.
"It's a tradition we have because we like to get involved with campus outreach, and we all either have known someone or been affected by cancer in some way whether it's a relative or a friend," Tranchina said. "So it's our way to give back and do something more than just swim."


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10 biggest oil spills - 3: Deepwater Horizon
Since the dawn of modern oil exploitation in the 19th century, a sad but inevitable truth has rung true: accidents happen and oil spills. The ten biggest oil disasters in the oil and gas industry and gas industry in this list amount to a cumulative hydrocarbons loss of 40.8 million barrels and cost 53 lives:
3. Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
When: April 22, 2010
Where: Gulf of Mexico
Casualties: 11 dead
Amount spilled: An estimated 4.9 million barrels (140 million gallons)
A wellhead blowout and subsequent explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig set in motion the worst oil disaster in the history of the Gulf of Mexico. A rupture in the 5,000 foot deep Macondo 252 high pressure high temperature well entrained an oil jet of as much 60,000 barrels of oil per day pumping into the Gulf.
After several unsuccessful attempts to kill the well, it was finally capped on July 15th, 2010.
At its greatest extent the slick covered as much as 180,000 km2 of the Gulf's surface, with the great majority of oil remaining submerged after the use of 1.82 million gallons of dispersant.
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THE PRETTY THINGS - Honey, I Need / I Can Never Say (Fruits de Mer) 7" single
Side A is a scorching version of "Honey, I Need" taped live at the 100 Club in 2010 (from their upcoming live LP). B-side is a rough and rockin' never-before-released 1965 demo version of that song's original flipside "I Can Never Say" taken from an acetate demodisc. Nice cardstock picture sleeve based on the original '65 Dutch release, including liners by three of the band. White vinyl.
Fruits de Mer pressed a total of just 1,000 copies.
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"Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so." Like many of you, I learned the song early in my Sunday School career. But our Sunday School teachers probably didn't mention Karl Barth, one of the twentieth century's premier theologians. Toward the end of his life he was asked to sum up the meaning of all he'd learned about Christian theology. He reflected a moment, then said simply, "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so." Another time we'll explore the depth of that profoundly simple sentence. Right now let's focus on that last phrase–"…the Bible tells me so."
The Bible is Christianity's sacred text. Some Christians use "The Bible says…" as a "bulletproof" phrase that automatically validates their position. Trouble is, different Christians read the same book and conclude that "the Bible says" very different and often contradictory things. In relatively recent history that's happened with regard to slavery, racial segregation, the place of women in the life of the church and in society, abortion, eschatology–the final chapter of the divine-human drama–and homosexuality. Both sides in the curent homosexuality debate insist their position is the truly biblical one. Common ground is excruciatingly hard to find. After nearly three decades of debate on the issue, last spring's United Methodist General Conference couldn't even pass a motion that said in effect, "We agree that we disagree." Other mainline denominations have had their own bitterly divisive struggles. The church leaders caught up in these fierce struggles have prayerfully and thoughtfully reached strongly-held but diametrically-opposed conclusions about the issue. Most would affirm that "…the Bible tells me so"—even though the Bible told their neighbor something very different.
So what's an ordinary, non-seminary-trained, non-Ph.D. person of faith to do? A complete answer requires a dense, thick book like the ones Karl Barth wrote. But Barth gave us a starting point: "I take the Bible too seriously to take it literally." The Bible isn"t one book. It's a rich, diverse collection of sixty-six books, not including the Apocrypha. These books were composed over more than a thousand years in various places by various people, many of whom we cannot identify. The most recent of those writings was completed in the late first century or early second century CE. The world of these writings is very different from our own. "Taking the Bible seriously" means for me that discovering what "the Bible says" to us today begins with understanding what a particular passage said to those who first heard it. How did those people live? What historical events affected them? What languages did they speak and write? How have those languages (mostly Hebrew in the Old Testament, Greek and a little Aramaic in the New Testament) evolved? What were these peoples' religious beliefs? What other nations, religions, and civilizations influenced them? What energized them? What kept them up at night?
"Taking the Bible seriously" means not superimposing our ideas and worldview on these ancient texts. We let poetry be poetry (Psalms, Song of Solomon, and much more). We let Genesis affirm the power and glory of God who created all that is without trying to turn it into a science text. We marvel at the way God used great sinners like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and many more. We worry less about who wrote a book (often many people through a long process of revision and editing) and more about what's said and what it means.We don't apply contemporary standards of accuracy to the historical and biographical books. We understand that the gospels are faith statements about who Jesus is more than biography. We understand apocalyptic literature (e.g. Daniel, Revelation) first by its message to its original audience. We refuse to treat these books or any part of the Bible as encrypted code that describes the end of history.
In short, "taking the Bible seriously" for me means appreciating its "other-ness" and being skeptical of folks who say "the Bible says" too easily and too casually. Those folks likely haven't done their homework; worse yet, they don't think it's necessary. Repeating "The Bible says" too easily suggests that the speaker is manipulating the Bible to validate an already-chosen position, rather than using it in a process of open-ended seeking of God's wisdom.
"So what's an ordinary, non-seminary-trained, non-Ph.D. person of faith to do?" Take the Bible too seriously to take it literally. Learn all you can about the people and cultures that produced the biblical books. Don't settle for too-simple answers. Ask your pastor to provide Bible study that takes the Bible seriously, not literally. Disciple Bible Study is a great United Methodist option. Read books like N.T. Wright's Simply Jesus, or Eugene Peterson's Reversed Thunder and Eat This Book. Walter Brueggemann's writings are also helpful, though some may find them more scholarly and less accessible. We want to learn to think like biblical people as well as contemporary people.
Here's the Good News. When, with Barth, we "take the Bible too seriously to take it literally," we discover at a deeper level the simple truth that he identified as his bottom line bedrock faith: "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so."


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The week before the marathon is sometimes called the weekly smogisborg. OK, no one calls it that. But it's important to carbo load a few days before running 26 miles.
Carbo loading- before a marathon or any long distance event, adding a few more carbs in your diet so you can dip into the reserves to get you through the amazing event you are doing.
One of the great things about the Seattle Marathon is that is lands right after the big turkey day, mashes potato day, pie day, and the weird cobbler your aunt makes that may have more butter in it then a barn full of cows can produce in an hour. Mmmm Butter.
I take it very seriously. I eat very good and healthy for the most part, but come pre-marathon, I partake in the most wonderful goodness of mac and cheese, donuts, and risotto. And BEER!
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Unless Europe's policymakers seize the initiative to secure the position of Spain and Italy, we could see a new seizure in bank funding markets which would force the euro area either to underpin monetary union with some mutual fiscal guarantees or to fragment.
In the first half of 2008, the banking industry seemed to be recovering from the initial sub-prime shock. Capital was raised and interbank spreads narrowed. Liquidity support and the rescues of Bear Stearns and European banks demonstrated the authorities' determination to stabilise markets if necessary with public funds.
However the limits to that support especially in the US were not made clear and, over the summer, markets tested its credibility. We saw a succession of banks deny they needed help only to be forced into state rescues until the US tried to draw the line at Lehman.
Its failure triggered a general loss of confidence in banks which was only reversed by explicit government guarantees of all their banks' liabilities, going far beyond what would have been needed to save Lehman.
This year doubts have been growing about the guarantees of euro members. Taken as a whole the euro area is in a better position to meet its debts and to bail out its banks than the US or Japan. It is in broad current account balance, its debt burden is not exceptional and its taxable capacity is huge.
What is unclear is how far it is willing to act collectively. And, without fiscal support from the rest of the union, it seems doubtful that Greece can dig its own way out of its sovereign debt hole or that Ireland can redeem its banks' debts.
First Greece, then Ireland have been forced to turn to the EU and IMF for help. But the rescues have offered only more time to pay and have stopped short of promising transfers either now or if the plans go off track. Not surprisingly markets have continued to price in defaults in those cases and have moved on to question whether, on these terms, others can honour their debts and stand behind their banks.
It only needs a small level of risk to make it sensible to steer clear. So now it is Portugal and Spain issuing the denials while Italy, Belgium and even France try to dismiss any threat as absurd.
A simple way out would be for the euro area to underpin its members' guarantees with a measure of fiscal support conditional on domestic reform and retrenchment. This would be a deepening of the union which was expected and desired by its designers. But there does not appear to be sufficient political support for that, particularly in Germany.
Although for the present, banks and sovereigns can turn to the European Central Bank for funding, the ECB is wary of being drawn into providing fiscal transfers through the back door (by buying sovereign and bank debt which will in time be written down). In short, the uncertainty is not resolved.
One lesson of 2008 is that once market confidence begins to ebb, it develops its own momentum. Any bank requires a continuous flow of funds and the question ceases to be whether it is solvent as a going concern and becomes simply whether it will be able to refinance maturing debt at an acceptable price. The worry that it won't becomes self fulfilling. And in the complex and opaque network of international finance doubts about one bank swiftly spread to others.
The euro area is standing on the brink of such a meltdown today. It needs urgently to establish a firewall against contagion by identifying a country which can demonstrate its ability to meet its debts and then giving it full support. I suspect it could still do this in Spain. For Spain, with continuing access to finance at reasonable rates, should be able to service its own debts and support its banks as it wants.
But it is failing to persuade the markets of this because it cannot be sure of continued funding at affordable rates and because it appears still to be in denial about the true level of bad debts in its banking system (widely thought to be at least €50bn (£42bn) more than published).
The best course is for Spain to announce a credible plan for its banks with fiscal retrenchment and supply side reforms, and for the euro area to back that with facilities, at a modest spread over bunds, which are sufficiently long term and sufficiently large to give Spain time to earn its way out of trouble. That would allow the ECB to reinforce the firewall by increasing purchases of Spain's bonds. In time it should then be possible to manage the debt restructuring Ireland and Greece need.
If the euro area waits for the crisis to deepen and spread before acting, there is a real risk of a run on their banks like that in 2008. Not only will that set back recovery but the euro area will only restore calm and preserve the union by issuing the sort of collective guarantees of sovereign and bank debt they have been so desperate to avoid.
Sir John Gieve is senior adviser to GLG Partners, part of Man Group, and a former deputy governor of the Bank of England


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Still LOVING the sentiments in Growth... that font is so ME! Haha! I layered the sentiment over a shape I cut with my Cameo- 5 bracket labels with shadow. I stamped this label shape with Funky Herringbone!
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Do you think you have what it takes to win Big Brother Canada?
Are you a big personality with strong opinions?
Are you competitive and willing to fight for what you believe in?
Big Brother Canada plucks a group of hand-picked strangers from their homes, sequesters them from the outside world, and places them inside a house outfitted wall-to-wall with cameras and microphones that capture their every move.
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Competing for a grand cash prize, the houseguests battle in a series of challenges each week that empower or punish them, voting each other out until the fate of the final two is decided by a jury of fellow houseguests.
Big personalities, competition beasts, and strategic planners are all welcome as the series returns to Global in 2019.
Starting today, Canadians can apply online at BigBrotherCanada.ca for a chance to compete in the new season.
Those who think they have what it takes to make it in the Big Brother Canada house are asked to submit a photo and short video explaining why they are the ideal candidate.
READ: Behind-The-Scenes At Home With CP24 Breakfast Anchor Gurdeep Ahluwalia
Applicants must be 19 years of age by February 1, 2019 and the online submission deadline is Saturday, November 17. More information, including a complete list of rules and eligibility, can be found at BigBrotherCanada.ca.
When To Watch This Season
Season 20 of Big Brother airs Sundays at 8 p.m. ET/PT, Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT, and Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Global.
Casting Deadline
The application deadline at this time is Saturday, November 17, 2018.
How To Prepare
You will be asked some questions pertaining to all of the above in the application.
How To Apply
There are two ways to apply for Big Brother Canada:
Complete the online application, submit a photo and upload a video.
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Photo from ABC/Grey's Anatomy
While I was doing my daily website reading, I came across a photo of Ellen Pompeo over at Celeb Baby.
She was filming for the upcoming season of Grey's Anatomy, but was definitely not hiding her real-life baby bump. Hmm. This is totally just me saying this aloud, but does this mean there might be a baby in the works for Meredith and Derek?
The photo also mentioned she was alongside co-star Katherine Heigl (not pictured). If you saw the finale, you know why this shocks me.
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Lisa Keeney and Trish Volk reinforce company's sales initiatives
MENOMONEE FALLS, WI (October 23, 2018) – Arandell Corporation., the trusted leader in premier catalog printing and omni-channel solutions, announced today the addition of two sales account executives, Lisa Keeney and Trish Volk, to join the company's New Business Development Sales Team.
Keeney and Volk are the newest members to join Arandell's sales team, following Jim Ford and Clark Vialle who were hired earlier this spring, to contribute to the company's increased sales initiatives and continued growth plan. Both Keeney and Volk have a strong history of success in the print industry and proven track records of delivering effective results.
Keeney, hired to reinforce Arandell's sales presence in the Western region, joins Arandell after six years of sales at R.R. Donnelley, where she cultivated new business growth efforts, managed the sales and account management team, and successfully sustained long-term relationships for a Fortune 500 company. She also has over 20 years experience on the client side in marketing brand operations.
Volk, hired to further expand Arandell's sales efforts in the Midwestern region, joins Arandell after 33 years of sales at LSC Communications and its predecessor entities RR Donnelley and Perry Judd's. She is a seasoned sales executive in the print industry and has extensive experience in effectively managing customer needs across multiple print facilities.
At Arandell, Keeney and Volk are responsible for new client acquisition and client consultation in areas of marketing strategy, quality and color improvements, paper, print production and postal optimization. They report to Stephen Sanfelippo, Arandell's Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing who's been leading the sales force since joining the company earlier this year.
"Keeney brings tremendous energy, drive and passion for quality and customer satisfaction," stated Sanfelippo. "Her unique mix of work experience on both the client side business acumen and print sales will play a significant role in the company's new business development efforts."
"Volk contributes unmatched skills in providing innovative ideas and solutions to customers and will contribute tirelessly to their execution to the satisfaction of customer's needs" said Sanfelippo. "Both Keeney and Volk are excellent additions to our sales team and we're thrilled to have them on board."
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Within the platform, employees can select topics that they are interested in and fill in their location, preferred event and the languages they speak. With these filters, the employee can find their perfect event that fits their needs. Creating an event is just as easy; employees simply insert the events' title, place, date, category and descriptions. Furthermore, employees can add pictures and videos to make the event more attractive to possible participants. This module is ideal to meet and spend time with colleagues, all with the use of an easily accessible platform.


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I agree with Jason. Until a pressing need is identified for this feature, I would not introduce it in the next rev. of the spec. In the versioning protocol, we have been using live properties to reflect information that varies from resource to resource, while using OPTIONS only for information about "capabilities of the server", i.e. information that is the same for all resources implemented by a given server. Cheers, Geoff -----Original Message----- From: Jason Crawford [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 8:43 PM To: Jim Whitehead Cc: WebDAV WG Subject: Re: Issue: OPTION_WITH_DEPTH Since noone else has spoken up, I'll respond just to try to get discussion going. << "Should the Depth header be usable with OPTIONS to perform a query of the capabilities of all resources in a hierarchy?" To me, the underlying issue is: Do clients need to be able to query the capabilities of all resources in a collection hierarchy in one network round trip? >> Unless someone speaks out vigorously in favor of OPTIONS with depth header, I suggest that we remain silent on that (to leave ourselves this option in the future) and leave it on the issues list.Received on Saturday, 21 April 2001 09:29:33 UTC
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The Rotherham scandal is high in the newspapers at the time being, and one of the depressing things is the way the threat of race discrimination was used by gang members on occasion to deter action on the streets by the police.
In fact, the whole fear of racial discrimination seriously undermined the decisions to take any action against those sexually exploiting young girls, because the majority of those involved were Asian.
The men themselves held an attitude of those perpetrators was that the girls, white, and not with the dress codes and subservient attitudes they expected of women. We can see exactly many places in the world where this is the case today - the Islamic State, areas controlled or terrorised by the Taliban around Afghanistan.
Just as witch trials - "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" were a perversion of Christianity, so this attitude to women is a perversion of Islam, but the trouble is that - like the witch craze - it has become widespread because any attack on the misogyny is seen as an attack on Islam.
There is a widespread fear from those in authority of anything which could be deemed racial discrimination. And the attitude even spread to the top echelons of the civil servants involved, where the attitude became one that these girls were in care already, and were the type of girl who would be provocative sexually, almost "asking for it".
Morality was jettisoned in favour of value judgements on people, on how much they were worth. It seems that some girls were judged not by what had happened to them, but on the basis of how they were perceived by the prejudiced eyes of those in charge. The fact that the grooming and sexual abuse would have been wrong as such, whatever the background of the girls, was ignored.
Racial discrimination is now prohibited by law in Jersey (the law comes into force next week), and it is important to understand that the law is there to prevent people being targeted because of their race. As far as behaviour towards others goes, it is to ensure that there is not a specific kind of bullying based on race, although it should be noted that all kinds of bullying are reprehensible.
The term "race" in this context is a legal, not a biological one. There is no biological definition of race, nor can there be, as biology knows only of continuums within a species, and not discrete items which can be placed into non-overlapping sets. The law defines "race" in terms of "protected characteristics" - colour, nationality, nation of birth, and ethnicity. None of these can be defined precisely in terms of biology, and nationality actually has nothing to do with biological race at all. It is a complete accident of history, and nation states are subject to change all the time.
In a recent seminar I attended on the law, the presenter suggested that one of the protected characteristics, colour, was able to be defined precisely. The speaker self-identified themselves as "white". In fact, as what we may term "coloured " and "white" people can, and do, quite happily interbreed, the genetic coding for darker skin can lead to a whole spectrum of differing skin tones. Colour of skin is not nearly as discrete as we imagine it to be, because we tend to think in terms of contrast, not those populations which are hard to place on into our little boxes.
What racial discrimination legislation is about is not discriminating against anyone because of the colour of their skin, or making comments about skin colour which would be offensive. Whether metacomments, comments about comments that are offensive, are acceptable, is more problematic. I would imagine a lot depends upon context. It would be entirely legitimate for a television series like "Roots", or more recently the movie "Ten years a Slave", to portray the prejudices of the slave owners because that is not glamorising or promoting those attitudes as acceptable.
Racial attitudes can be more subtle. Notions that the Germans have no sense of humour are common, and there is a basis in fact. The fact, however, is not that Germans have no sense of humour, but that some of their humour is different from ours. This is because of linguistic reasons, as their language is constructed differently, and relies more on humorous ideas than wordplay in English language humour.
But to say "Of course you wouldn't find that funny. Germans have no sense of humour" could be deemed offensive, because this is a statement designed to ridicule and embarrass someone because of their nationality. It is a question of good manners, as much as anything.
There is one area where matters clash, and that is humour, which operates in part, on the basis of stereotypes. I have heard it suggested that humour based on national stereotypes will gradually fall out of favour, and will be culturally unacceptable. I do not think this is likely. Humour always as a subversive element, to upset the status quo, and that will not go away. But it will change.
"Love Thy Neighbour" (which was always a rather appalling comedy anyway) will not be coming back. Citizen Khan, on the other hand, is a self-reflecting comedy from within a community, and invites outsiders to share the joke, and understand some of the sensibilities and absurdities of different cultures.
Once a society loses the ability to laugh at itself, it loses a valuable self-critical element. As Orwell noted, Oswald Mosley rapidly became the butt of jokes, and lost credibility. But who in Germany or Russia would dare to mock Hitler or Stalin openly, and hope they could get away with it.
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Burger King Unveils the Black Whopper Just in Time for Halloween
You my or may not remember those viral pics of fast food sandwiches in Japan with the black buns. Well it looks like those wacky burgers are coming stateside thanks to Burger King.
Just in time for Halloween, Burger King just released the Black Whopper. Where as its Asian counter part used squid ink and bamboo charcoal to darken their buns, the American Black Whopper uses A1 Sauce and black pepper for a unique look and flavor. The interrior of the sandwich remains the same except for some more A1 sauce for an added smokey flavor.
"We tailored the flavor of the black bun to the American palate with A.1. sauce, a flavor this country loves, and we're delivering it in a way that's never been done before by baking it into the bun," said Burger King Chief Marketing Officer Eric Hirschhorn in a press release. "It may look Japanese but it tastes like America."
So if you want to get into the holiday spirit early you may want to muster up some courage to try this spooky sandwich. The Black Whopper is available now but only for a limited time.


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U-M Professor to Erect Inflatable Monument to the Romanian Revolution in Ann Arbor and Romania
DATE: Displayed in Ann Arbor: October 2; Timisoara, Romania: November 3-7, 2009
In December 2009, twenty years after the Romanian government was overthrown and its dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, and his wife were quickly tried, sentenced to death, and executed, U-M professor Anca Trandafirescu will erect a monument to that dark chapter in the otherwise peaceful events of Central and Eastern Europe's 1989 revolutions. Trandafirescu, an assistant professor in architecture, is constructing an inflatable, inhabitable monument?in the iconic shape of the head of a fallen statue?that will first be displayed in Ann Arbor on October 2 from 3:30-6:00 pm at Palmer Field on the University of Michigan campus (in case of inclement weather, it will be rescheduled for October 5). She will then transport the materials to Romania, where the project, HOT AIR, will again be on display, this time on the Piata Victoriei (Victory Plaza) in Timisoara. The location is an expansive public space and was chosen for this project because it was the site of the first large demonstrations that led to the fall of the Ceausescu dictatorship. The inflatable monument will be erected and remain open throughout the duration of the American-Romanian Music Festival, where Prof. Trandafirescu intends for HOT AIR to be a venue for visitation by the public, small concerts, planned talks, and impromptu events. The name HOT AIR refers to both the unusually warm temperatures in Romania during that special week in December 1989, which helped to bring citizens out into the streets to rally against the government; and also to the large amount of rhetoric surrounding these events. An anticipated by-product of the staging of HOT AIR is a video archive of citizen responses to the monument and reflections on the revolutionary events of 1989.
Professor Anca Trandafirescu came to the Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning at the University of Michigan in 2005, where she teaches courses in architecture design, theory, and representation. She has a B.Arch. from Temple University and an M.Arch. from The Bartlett, University College London. A Romanian by birth, she relocated to the United States in 1973, two years after her family fled the Ceausescu dictatorship.
SPONSORS: The project is sponsored by the following U-M units: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Center for European Studies-European Union Center, Center for Russian and East European Studies, and Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning; as well as the City of Timisoara. HOT AIR is a sponsored project in the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia's fall series, "The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions of Possibility—from 1789-2009." The project also is among several programs, performances, and events presented by the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia in the Fall 2009 "Focus: Romania" series, which is co-sponsored in part by the American Romanian Festival.
WEB LINKS: www.hotair2009.blogspot.com/ and www.ii.umich.edu/wcee


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