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Celebrating club football and shining the light on incompetent and biased journos indulging in stereotyping and negativity.
Rollin' Wit Da Dane(s)
There is a change of media base for this one as we mosey on over to BBC1 to watch the game with Jonathan Pearce and that brightest of consultant commodities, Martin Keown. In the jingle just before the teams' exit onto the pitch, the Dutch and the Danish teams are represented by pictures of windmills and Danish swirls, respectively. Presumably these symbols have been statistically verified to be the ones that the majority of British people most immediately associate with the two countries. I suppose they could have done worse with some Gouda cheese (or worse even, tulips) and a great Dane. Something has gone terribly wrong with British media this year – is it the Murdoch scandal, the lowest expectations of the national squad ever, or the depressing reality of the jubilee? The in-studio consultant panel – a star studded affair with uncle Arry and the token Dutch star Seedorf – is also oddly dressed, as if Diddy was hired as the wardrobe consultant and is preparing to whisk them all of to the grand re-opening of Studio 54.
Netherlands – Denmark, 9 June 2012, 18h kick-off;
Team: Netherlands
Hollywood factor: Nigel de Jong's world cup kung fu kick in the final has already landed him offers to take over from Jackie Chan once the latter reaches 80, or co-star alongside Jason Streatham as a crazy side kick in Crank 4.
Old/mean man kudos: Without any doubt it has to be Mark Van Bommel, possibly Europe's most detested leg-breaking midfielder.
French connection: The Dutch and the French don't mix. Not in the same animated, confrontational manner as the Dutch and ze Germans, but the fact is that you will be hard pressed to find Dutch internationals in Ligue 1. Most of them come from either Ajax or PSV and when they are ready to move on to bigger and better things, tend to favor the EPL. I mean, even Khalid Boulahrouz managed to get hired by Chelsea – not one of José's best picks. Must have been a tip from Frank Arnsesen. I have located the trace of one Rajiv van La Parra, who played for two seasons at Caen (2008-2011, the first season being in L1), but he came from Feyenoord Rotterdam – told ya! Before him, there was Boudewijn Zenden at Marseille (2007-2009), and an unremarkable last season for Patrick Kluivert at Lille in 2007-2008.
New hype kid most touted to join the English Premier League: There's not that many in this team, apart from Willems (18) and Gregory Van der Wiel (23); the others are all over 25, including Affelay, who is fairly well tied to Barça and 26. Most already play in the EPL. Speculation will probably be rife for a Sneijder move to either City or United (Manchester), but hopefully it will all be wishful thinking. Someone may be tempted to come and fetch Maarten Stekelenburg from Rome, hoping he will be able to emulate the inspirational Dutch goalkeeper magic demonstrated by Tim Krul (for Newcastle) and Michael Vorm (for Swansea) this season. Oops, well, not after letting that one through his legs.
Team: Denmark
Hollywood factor: Simon Kjaer's true blond locks and looks constitute significant credentials for featuring in all sorts of surfer or skater movies.
Old/mean man kudos: More old than mean, but at 33, Dennis Romedahl is definitely the senior fella in this squad. Apparently he has stated that he feels he can continue for another 8 or 9.
French connection: After frantically transferring around Europe for a number of years like a crazed US college kid on a Euro-rail back-pack holiday with a countdown, Christian Poulsen officiated in midfield for the newly promoted Evian Thonon Gaillard last season – and somehow they managed to stay up. They're sponsored by a yogurt, you know.
New hype kid most touted to join the English Premier League: He's Danish, but he's at Ajax, which is probably what has got Christian Ericksen noticed by a number of observers. It wasn't really a great evening for him – according to Seedorf at half-time, the Danes were locked in a style of play that does not help to bring out the best of his skills.
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Historic moment of the match: The completely against the run of play first Danish goal by the fabulously named Michael Krohn-Dehli, whose picture on UEFA's Matchcentre is reminiscent of a really haggard Richie Cunningham.
Hero of the game: probably Krohn-Delhi, if the Danes manage to hold on to the score (I am publishing this on the 92nd minute of the game).


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LYING (Hebr. "shaḳar," "kazab," "kaḥash," and "shaw"):(Redirected from FALSEHOOD.)
Telling a falsehood with the intent of deceiving.—Biblical Data:
Lying is most vigorously condemned in the Law: "Keep thee far from a false matter" (Ex. xxiii. 7); "Neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another" (Lev. xix. 11). Regarding the false oath see Perjury. Lying on the witness-stand to harm another is a crime specially mentioned in the Decalogue (Ex. xx. 16), and the punishment is that the false witness be dealt with as the one witnessed against would have been dealt with if guilty (Deut. xix. 15-21). Regarding lying in fraudulent dealing see Fraud and Mistake.
Lying is abhorred throughout Scripture as an offense against the holy God who "lieth not" (I Sam. xv. 29; Ps. lxxxix. 34-35); it is "an abomination of the Lord" (Prov. xii. 29). "He that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight" (Ps. ci. 7; comp. xxiv. 4 and xv. 2). "They speak falsely every one with his neighbor; with flattering lips and with a double heart. . . . The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips" (Ps. xii. 3-4, Hebr. [A. V. 2-3]). "Speak ye every one the truth to his neighbor . . . love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord" (Zech. viii. 16-17). "The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth" (Zeph. iii. 13). With the Psalmist, one should "hate every false way" and "abhor lying" (Ps. cxix. 104, 128, 163).—In Apocryphal and Rabbinical Literature:
Ben Sira warns against the habit of lying as even worse than theft, because it brings ruin and disgrace (Ecclus. xx. 24-26; comp. vii. 12-14); he warns also against duplicity of tongue (ib. v. 9, 14; xxviii. 13), which "is a snare of death" ("Didache," i. 4). The spirit of lying is one of the seven evil spirits in man (Test. Twelve Patr., Reuben, 3). "Hate lying in order that the Lord may live among you and Belial flee from you," warns Dan (ib. Dan, 1-6). Especially emphatic are the Rabbis in condemning lying. "God's seal is truth" (Shab. 55a; Gen. R. lxxxi.). "He who changes his word acts as if he were worshiping other gods" (Sanh. 92a). Among the "three God hateth is he who speaks the thing he means not," "with duplicity of tongue" (Pes. 113b). "Liars can not behold the majesty of God" (Soṭah 42a). "To conceal the truth, or to deceive others by creating a false impression, even for a good purpose, is a transgression of the command, 'Thou shalt keep thee far from a false matter'" (Shebu. 31a). To pretend an affectionate feeling in order to win the good opinion of another is sinning against truth (Tos. to B. Ḳ. vii. 8). The Shammaites declared it sinful even to lavish, at the wedding-feast, laudations on a bride which are not in harmony with the truth, as, for instance, to call her beautiful when she is ugly (Ket. 17a). "In case of doubt, train thy tongue always to say 'I do not know,' lest thou be caught in an untruth" (Ber. 4a). "Never tell a child 'I shall give you so-and-so' unless you actually will give it to him; else the child will learn to utter untruths himself" (Suk. 46b). "Canaan, in his last will, told his children not to speak the truth" (Pes. 113b). "Let thy 'yea' be 'yea' and thy 'nay' 'nay'" (B. M. 49a). "Truth will abide; falsehood will not abide" (Shab. 104a). In case a life depends upon your telling a falsehood, as, for instance, when a robber or murderer inquires after one he pursues, the law permits lying (Ned. ii. 4; Shulḥan 'Aruk, Yoreh De'ah, 232, 14; see also Hypocrisy;
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- F. Perles, Bousset's Religion des Judenthums, pp. 71-74, Berlin, 1903.

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There's an elephant in the room. This particular elephant is eating your sales career lunch!
You know about the elephant, that "topic" nobody seems to want to recognize and talk about. There's a big elephant in the middle of most sales floors. This elephant is called missed sales opportunities.
These missed opportunities are ups that flow in and out of our showrooms:
Sales people thirst for the fresh up, but their opportunity is the elephant. This elephant is made up of be-back, repeat and referral ups that statistically are the big missed opportunities in car sales. Here's what I mean. CAR-Research statistics tell us something very different from the industry rule-of-thumb rate of 18 percent fresh up closing rates. In fact, of 100 fresh ups who come into your store, just nine will buy -- just 9 percent of fresh ups buy!
This is the opportunity we chase in closing percentages and gross; when the elephant is easier to catch and more profitable. Our research also shows:
Yet we so often fail to follow up with customers:
Our elephant of missed opportunity is a big one – closing rates with five to six times greater closing opportunity than the daily up that crosses our curbs every day.
Think about this math for a minute... If you have 100 fresh ups:
We must work daily ups to keep the customer base fresh. But we do more damage to the long-term health of the dealership and to individual sales careers when we neglect to continue important relationships with customers and fail to ask them for referral business.
Is the elephant eating your sales career one bite at a time?
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Keith, As a consultant, I deal with processes and marketing, not sales training.
This is a discussion that I have brought up on here and other sites like DealerRefresh. It isn't something that gains traction. In fact, it is usually a thread stopper.
We use these statistics because we don't have newer ones to use. The statistic that buyers shopped an average of 1.8 stores, suggests that they all actually had to visit stores. The point of my posts is that we need more focus on closing ratios. Today, we have more buyers and much less tire kickers. I don't think there has ever been a time where having highly trained professional salespeople has been more important. I can't think of anything more detrimental, to a dealership, than flooding the floor with green peas salespeople.
Also, to the ".8" math, what that also means is that no more than 4 out of ten buyers visit three dealerships. And it can actually be NONE out of ten visit three dealerships. Just because they considered 3 online doesn't mean they actually visited 3 at all.
I think there's still value in the old averages because they get the attention of folks who have been doing this for decades--and then it's also even more valuable to "adjust" the stats to reflect the Internet. I find that follows along like an up-sell strategy, rising from the comfort to the next step. It's still a very hard conversation.
Keith, I really appreciate your comments. It is like the dirty little secret that dealerships don't want to address. With dealerships still not fully embracing the internet, this is something that the majority don't want to hear.
We are dealing with sales averages, statistics and ratios, many are decades old. They don't consider the influence of the internet.
Doug is correct. The most telling stat is the 1.8 dealers visited.
Understand what this does to the be-back, because a shopper cannot visit ".8" dealers. Using Doug's stat of three dealers researched to visit, which is also accurate, mathematically this means that at LEAST 3 out of ten buyers are visiting only ONE dealership.
Back in the 80's, this average was 4.3. Starting to get the picture?
Essentially, getting the be-back for your dealership is more important than ever. And your marketing, which had the luxury of sucking for decades, is now your #1 draw. Say, how's your Internet site doing? Inventory right? Pricing?
Beth, I'm afraid that my statistics are accurate and yes, there is more accountability in the internet department because of the electronic paper trail.
The internet has completely changed our business and we are using decades old ratios to measure it. Not only has logging customers been a problem, Managers will remove customers to improve their closing percentage. That is truly sad, when I say that the 20% is far too low to begin with.
A client took me to lunch, yesterday. He was really excited that his internet department delivered over 22% of their leads. I went over the same information that I discussed on this thread and the importance of focusing on overall closing ratios. I'm certain that his GSM will not appreciate my input but you are not going to develop excellence from low expectations.
Too often, I see Sales Managers sitting at the desk waiting for a salesperson to bring them a deal. A twenty minute meeting, to open the day, is the extent of their training program. They are quick to complain when a customer isn't handled properly. These people do not want to hear that a 20% closing ratio is not acceptable.
Thanks Patrick! I too have seen similar statistics over the years and work with sales teams to help them realize the benefits that accurate data collection provides.
Two benefits (among many) we talk about are:
Accurate tracking can provide sales teams with a guide as to how many opportunities, demos and write ups they need to reach their goals AND they can get an idea of what part of the sales process the team needs to work on in order to improve their results.
Yet as you state so succinctly, they must have accurate data first and here is where it gets interesting. That's because you get a chance to find out who, from the DP on down wants to grow by pressing the reset button and getting an accurate look at where they currently are.
Thanks again for the post!
CRMs are there for a reason and if the salesperson brooms a customer at the door, the loss is more than just revenue. Not only do people share negative experiences with one another, but they also use networking and review sites to air their grievances. Log the customer and always TO.
Doug, those numbers, if accurate, are shocking. I took a break from advertising and ran a BDC recently and truly believe there is more accountability in the internet department because the calls/emails and appointments are all funneling through it. Everything has to get logged and is naturally very organized. The salespeople are on the floor as fresh ups or appointments arrive, and if the salesperson doesn't feel like there will be a lot of profit or they cannot give the customer what they want, it's easy to pretend they never existed... It's not until the BDC does follow up and finds out the customer had indeed arrived. Unfortunately, that "paper" trail does not exist for fresh ups. :-(
Logging customers has been an issue for the more than 30 years that I have been in the business. It will continue to be a problem after I am gone.
These closing percentages are a product of NADA and date back decades. What has changed? Before the internet, customers set out to shop a half dozen stores. These were shoppers. They had very little idea of what they wanted or what was out there. Today, 92% of our customers spend an average of 17 hours doing research, online. They eliminate all but three dealerships. On average they only visit 1.8 stores. Traffic is down because there are fewer shoppers but mostly buyers. NADA has held that we should close 20% of our fresh ups. I believe that would be a disaster.
When I was an Internet Director, we closed over 80% of our appointments. This was a large metro import store. Those deliveries were put on the sales log. Consider that the internet department was responsible for 70% of sales, what should that closing percentage be? While 92% of customers do their research, online, 60% never email or phone a dealership before they arrive. Dealerships need to be aware of the amount of influence their internet marketing has on consumers. This makes qualifying the customers extremely important.
I don't know what that closing ratio should be. I do know that if we consider 20% acceptable, we are losing money. If you have low percentage salespeople, that is costing you money.
I remember going to a seminar where the speaker stated that the average sales person actually worked less than an hour everyday. And this was before the internet! That they did little to no prospecting and very little follow-up. The right way is to put a process in place, and work the process everyday. When I started, I had a mentor who wrote everything in his diary, everyday! Time, date, weather, "ups" with numbers and what they bought or were looking to buy. When business was slow, he was busy. If his sales were slow, he would go back and start calling those folks in his diary just to say "Hi!" I only beat his sales one time, and he never took his eye off the ball while I was around him again. I followed his lead. And he is the gent that taught me that we were not in competition for the "ups." If I sold everyone that I touched, how could we be in competition?
My point, get a process in place and work the process.
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I call baloney on the supposed Black Friday Retail Sales party, ditto with the continuing rumor mill regarding Europe – to call both "tales" is the understatement of the year. Equity futures gapped up huge and are now more than 400 points higher than Friday's low. The dollar is sharply lower, bonds sharply lower, oil higher, gold & silver higher, and food commodities higher as well.
Watching the "news" this weekend looked like nothing but a giant cheerleading advertisement for "black Friday" shopping. The completely biased National Retail Federation released a survey on Sunday saying that "Major retailers reported record sales of $52.4 billion over Black Friday weekend -- up 16% from last year."
To which, I can only call major league bullshit to go along with a giant gaffaahaha. These self-interested clowns are very similar to the jokers who run the MBA (Mortgage Banker's Association), in that they compile false and exaggerated reports in order to manipulate people's perception of the market from which they derive their living – and to which the media also depend upon promoting.
No person in their right mind would believe for a second that retail sales actually rose 16% in just one year, anytime you see numbers that large, you should immediately think of Bernie Madoff and your scam detecting radar should begin screaming at you. First of all, if we go back and look at prior years, this scam is the same scam the NRF runs every year, and after their wild releases meant to create a shopping frenzy, reality is never what they proclaim. Secondly, this was a survey. Surveys are notoriously inaccurate, and they don't survey the businesses that have failed in the past year! Also, sales are measured in dollars, not units, thus the outrageous production of money creates inflation – inflation does not equal growth in sales, it equals growth in money production!
M1 Percent Change from a Year Ago:
Hmmm… notice that M1 is up about 17% from a year ago, not too far from that Black Friday Sales Figure, no? Truth is that a number like that should scare the heck out of you, ditto with what used to be our free markets.
Now let's look at the other measurements of money from the "Fed," all expressed in percent change from a year ago:
Base Money 35% Change from a year ago!
M2 10% Change from a year ago:
MZM 9% Change from a year ago:
Speaking of money(ness), the BIS (Bank of International Settlement) reported that in just half a year the notional value of derivatives in the United States jumped by $107 trillion to $707 Trillion! That's a six month increase of 17.8%! Again, simply unbelievable! In this case, I believe the value of derivatives to be understated and I don't think the BIS or any group has a real handle on just how much money(ness) there is out there. Thus it seems out of control because it is out of control. Of course the failure of MF Global may be the first derivatives domino to topple...
Now do we really need to talk about Europe again? Same old stuff. Impossible math, debt saturated nations, corrupt bankers creating rumors about grand bailout schemes all of which simply make more debt money from nothing to imprison countries already in debt way over their heads. Any such solution will only translate into inflation, the Germans are right to be scared of it. The only solutions that will actually work are solutions that include shrinking the amount of debt – the exact opposite of what bankers would like.
And to think that the same narcissists who got the world into this mess will lead us out of it, is simply insane.
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."- Albert Einstein
A lot of data this week, the highlight being the Employment Situation report for November released this Friday. This morning is New Home Sales and the Dallas Fed Survey, both will be reported inside of today's Daily Thread.
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One version of the membrane paradigm states that as far as outside observers are concerned, black holes can be replaced by a dissipative membrane with simple physical properties located at the stretched horizon. We demonstrate that such a membrane paradigm is incomplete in several aspects. We argue that it generically fails to capture the massive quasinormal modes, unless we replace the stretched horizon by the exact event horizon, and illustrate this with a scalar field in a BTZ black hole background.
A prime challenge to our understanding of galaxy formation concerns the scarcity of dwarf galaxies compared with the numerous low-mass halos expected in the current ΛCDM paradigm. This is usually accounted for by assuming that energetic feedback from evolving stars confines dwarf galaxy formation to relatively massive halos spanning a narrow mass range. I will highlight a number of observations that may be used to test this assumption and discuss the puzzles and challenges that arise from this analysis.
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There are about nine astrophysical black holes with measurements of the black hole's spin via the continuum fitting method. Several of these black holes drive powerful jets, which appear to extract the black hole's rotational energy. I will discuss the theory behind these observations, with a particular focus on the black hole membrane paradigm. The membrane paradigm is useful on a practical level for understanding black hole jets. However, it may also be related to fundamental physics through holography and AdS/CFT.
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Plasma-filled magnetospheres can extract energy from a spinning black hole and provide the power source for a variety of observed astrophysical phenomena. These magnetospheres are described by the highly nonlinear equations of force-free electrodynamics, or FFE. Typically these equations can only be solved numerically. In this talk I will explain how to analytically obtain several infinite families of exact solutions of the full nonlinear FFE equations very near the horizon of a maximally spinning black hole, where the energy extraction takes place.
Recent numerical simulations [1] have suggested that two dimensional superfluid turbulence is characterized by a direct cascade of energy to small length scales, in contrast to the inverse cascade of normal fluids, where energy is transported to large length scales. This direct cascade is characterized by many vortex-antivortex annihilation events. Recent experimental work [2] on Bose-Einstein condensates appears to demonstrate qualitatively similar physics.
Astronomical observation suggests the existence of near-extreme Kerr black holes whose horizons spin at nearly the speed of light. Properties of diffeomorphisms imply that the dynamics of the high-redshift near-horizon region of near-extreme Kerr, which includes the innermost-stable-circular-orbit (ISCO), is governed by an infinite-dimensional emergent conformal symmetry. This symmetry may be exploited to analytically, rather than numerically, compute a variety of potentially observable processes.
Our current definition of what a black hole is relies heavily on the assumption that there exists a finite maximum speed of propagation for any signal. Indeed, one is tempted to think that the notion of a black hole has no place in a world with infinitely fast signal propagation. I will use concrete examples from Lorentz-violating gravity theories to demonstrate that this naive expectation is not necessarily true.
A geometric inequality in General Relativity relates quantities that have both a physical interpretation and a geometrical definition. It is well known that the parameters that characterize the Kerr-Newman black hole (angular momentum, charge, mass and horizon area) satisfy several important geometric inequalities. Remarkably enough, some of these inequalities also hold for dynamical black holes. This kind of inequalities, which are valid in the dynamical and strong field regime, play an important role in the characterization of the gravitational collapse.


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'Children' is an appropriate word in the title. As for the 'Mind', not so much. Card's finishes his quadrilogy – which started with two classics – on a ridiculous low. It's not that the novel is bad, but that the flaws are brand new. Card succumbs to all the flaws he avoided when he first started.
Why did the two books split up? Considering how much Card had to say in Speaker for the Dead, it makes sense. His intelligence and complex philosophy still shines through. Instead of shining through storytelling, it's one essay after another. Sometimes it's inside the characters' heads. Sometimes they ruminate and we get the whole thing, uncensored and unabridged. If this was part of a style, fine. It's not. Rather, it's a collection of notes – events, ruminations, extended dialogues that all should've been trimmed down.
The quadrilogy has philosophical weight, but in the end these novels aren't pure philosophy. There is an engaging story beneath them about saving the world and what it means to be human. The constant ruminations are like a decent guitar solo extended for 10 minutes. One or two profound phrase is okay since it helps us focus on the themes. When there are whole paragraphs where nothing happens, that's when you know the editors were dead.
If Card is so against destroying other species, why are the editors extinct? This is a flaw I encounter a lot when reading works by unpublished writers. They're confused, not sure entirely what their story is about and afraid the audience won't get them. The fear is justified considering how everyone loved Fight Club for the wrong reasons. So they fill their stories with character thoughts and speculations.
When I get these stories fresh from the oven, I don't mind. Nobody has gone over them to trim the unnecessary stuff and what should remain as notes. A story doesn't come fully formed from our minds. We must write it down, see how it looks like on paper and then play around with the pieces. You don't really know how your story works until you actually write it down. If I read a story where half of it is notes the author should've kept to himself, that's fine. They needed to write this to get the information out of their heads, to acknowledge it exists.
When I read a story filled with notes by a published author, I get angry. Card doesn't show ideas. He doesn't even let characters' personalities filter them. Philosophies are the main characters now. The novel is filled with philosophical conversations and ruminations, and it's all so disconnected from the story.
Philosophical essays contain ideas, but fiction is how we imagine them taking from. We need literature because that's how we imagine the effect philosophies have on our live. I can write an essay about how everyone should have assisted suicide easily available for them, but through fiction I can imagine how such an idea might impact society.
The danger of piling philosophical conversations and ruminations in your novel is this. If they overpower the story, they lose connection. We no longer see the ideas in action, so we no longer see the importance. A good story doesn't just give me insight into an idea, but makes me care about it. By having an emotionally engaging or thrilling story, I get emotionally invested and see the importance of the idea.
The philosophical conversations have no element of humanity in them. They rarely inform us about the characters or their big worldviews. Watching them is like watching a discussion on CMV-Reddit. You see the ideas isolated from a person dissected, analyzed and evolved. That's fascinating, but that's not a story. Moreover, CMV has an abundance of people. This novel written by one person. It's really one long monologue in disguise, which is a shame. A monologue by a person – especially a talented writer like Card – could've been fascinating.
Children of the Mind isn't an unrestrained novel. It's a novel without purpose that jumps from topic to topic but in the end goes anywhere. We shouldn't kill other people. We should try to understand people. Haven't we heard this all before? Wasn't it more convincing when characters were either morally grey, or when we saw the weight of heroism? The absence of Ender makes his character duller. Without him to show us the weight of his virtues, everyone just opens up a fanclub.
Everyone also acts like douchebags towards each other. Suddenly 21st-century internet lingo caught on and characters swear. Dirty words don't offend me, but their sudden appearance is odd. Even more similar to stereotypical internet talk is how many dialogues go. So much belittling, being sarcastic and condescending you have to wonder why these people are doing with each other. Nothing actually happened between this novel and Xenocide, so when did everyone started swaggering like Tarantino?
The basic idea behind the ending couldn't have been better. It ties the novel directly to the first one, but it's still anticlimatic. Besides that tie to the first novel, nothing actually happened in that ending. The conflict was solved, events happened but no conclusions reached. The people of Lusitania may feel better and may be able to expand their colony, but I'm in the same place.
Children of the Mind gets by only because it's a part of the Ender Saga. There are interesting ideas, but Card is trying hard to push himself when he ran out of things to say. It even lacks the occasional outrageous moment of Xenocide. That novel was empty, but you could trim it to a decent novella. A kind editor should've told Card that he's writing a story, not a hodge-podge collection of conversations with self, ruminations and the occasional encounter with aliens. At least the first two books are constructed well enough they stand on their own.
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Mercer County (Pennsylvania, USA)
Mercer County, Pennsylvania, bordering Ohio, in 1956 had two Amish (one now Mennonite) settlements. The Old Order Amish settlement northwest of Jackson Center, consisting of 109 baptized members in 1956, began in 1942 when Jacob J. Byler with his four brothers and families moved there from Atlantic, in Crawford County. Other families left Atlantic for the Jackson Center settlement because of the munitions plant established two miles from Atlantic. Eli K. Byler of Geauga County, Ohio, served as their first bishop. In 1956 the bishop was Henry M. Miller. For an account of the Mennonites (MC) near Hadley in the same county, see Maple Grove Mennonite Church.
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Hostetler, John A. "Mercer County (Pennsylvania, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 2 Dec 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Mercer_County_(Pennsylvania,_USA)&oldid=113516.
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Hostetler, John A. (1957). Mercer County (Pennsylvania, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 2 December 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Mercer_County_(Pennsylvania,_USA)&oldid=113516.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, p. 655. All rights reserved.
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The foundation's mission is to improve the health and health care of all Americans. Its efforts focus on fostering environments that promote health and on improving how health care in America is delivered and paid for, and how well it does for patients and their families.Hide
Incorporated in 1936 in NJ; became a national philanthropy in 1972 - Founded by the late Robert Wood Johnson, who built the family firm, Johnson & Johnson, (which was founded by his father Robert Wood Johnson, I) into a worldwide health and medical care products company. Because of his service during World War II as a brigadier general in charge of the New York Ordnance District, people who knew him addressed him as the General. President Roosevelt appointed him as Vice Chairman of the War Production Board and Chairman of the Smaller War Plants Corporation. He endowed the foundation with a $1.2 billion bequest from his personal fortune.
In 2014 the foundation announced that it will continue to work on issues it believes are key to the well-being of all Americans, but within its organization it will no longer divide its efforts into the silos of health and health care. Rather, all that it does will serve one goal: building a culture of health.
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21st Century Leadership
The foundation identifies leaders who have the potential to transform our nation's health and providing them with the support they need to realize their promise. It is committed to investing in the development of health innovators and to develop new health-focused leadership programs that connect people across sectors as well as disciplines, capitalize on technology to promote networking and mentoring, and reach and help many more individuals.
Bridging Health and Health Care
The foundation believes that for too long being healthy has been defined as not being sick. It also believes that good health extends beyond the walls of medical offices to the places where people live, learn, work and play. As such, the foundation will continue to invest in programs that bridge health and health care, balancing treatment with prevention, community action and individual responsibility.
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The foundation is committed to seeking the best possible outcomes and highest value from our national investments in health care, public health and population health. This includes reducing wasteful spending, increasing the reach and efficacy of fundamental health services, and investing in the identification and spread of strategies to improve the quality and reduce the costs of health care and other health services.
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The prize is awarded annually to honor outstanding community efforts and partnerships that are helping people live healthier lives. Winning communities will each receive a $25,000 cash prize and have their accomplishments celebrated and shared broadly with the goal of raising awareness and inspiring locally-driven change across the country. The prize is a place-based prize that honors whole U.S. communities; submissions representing the work of a single organization or initiative will not be considered. Each applicant community will be required to designate a local U.S. governmental or tax exempt public charity operating in its community to accept the $25,000 prize on the community's behalf, should they win. Community partners can decide together how to use the funds to benefit the community; reports to RWJF or UWPHI on prize expenditures are not required. See foundation web site eligibility and selection criteria and online application process.
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The foundation works with other foundations, organizations, and businesses that have long worked to increase opportunities in education, housing, and community development to make the fruits of good health available to all. In 2013, it established Forward Promise, a $9.5 million initiative focused on promoting opportunities for the health and success of middle school and high school-aged boys and young men of color.The foundation will continue to delve more deeply into the causes of the unacceptable gaps in opportunity for good health and identify additional areas that we believe call for immediate attention.
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The goal of the program is to develop the next generation of PhD-prepared nurse leaders who are committed to long-term careers that advance science and discovery, strengthen nursing education, and bring transformational change to nursing and health care. Schools with research-focused PhD programs in nursing are eligible to apply for the program. Selected schools will choose the PhD students to be designated as Future of Nursing Scholars. The school must be committed to facilitating the scholar's completion of the PhD in three academic years. The scholars selected by the school must also be committed to completing their PhD program in three academic years. Each scholar will receive $75,000 to be used over the three years of the program. This award must be matched by $50,000 in support from the school (which may be in-kind). See foundation web site for online application process.
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For decades, the foundation has worked to improve access to affordable, high-quality coverage for all Americans. The Affordable Care Act has created new opportunities for more than 30 million uninsured Americans to acquire coverage. The foundation's objective is to ensure that all who are eligible for coverage know what is available to them and how to make the most of it.
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To help build public demand for a culture of health, the foundation will identify, support, and spread the word about individual and community actions that promote lifelong health for all Americans. It is committed to finding strong examples of places and practices reflecting a culture of health, and sharing the lessons they have to offer with others so Americans can link forces and build small victories into a national movement.
Healthy Weight for All Children
In 2007, the foundation announced that it would dedicate $500 million to reversing the childhood obesity epidemic in America. The relentless rise in childhood obesity rates has abated, and in some areas has even decreased. Moving forward, the foundation will stress the importance of achieving a healthy weight for all of our nation's children, especially in poor communities and those of color.
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The foundation has made PRIs in the form of loans in a pooled PRI fund to improve economically disadvantaged urban communities and the lives of their residents and for an expansion of playworks to promote youth development in school. The foundation has made a PRI to provide a reserve for a loan fund serving women and minorities in medicine. In the following years, PRI support has included funding for organizations focused on the aging, the housing needs of the chronic mentally ill, and increasing the effectiveness of rural hospitals. Specifically, PRIs have supported facilities improvement and equipment acquisition, and capitalized earned income ventures and housing development projects.
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The foundation supports finding innovative and effective ways of addressing the many factors that influence the health of our nation's most vulnerable people. Its work in this area will focus on mental wellness and violence prevention, particularly in early childhood. The foundation believes we cannot call ourselves a healthy nation if we continue to be a violent one. The foundation has chosen to address how health is diminished by all forms of violence—child abuse, bullying, post-traumatic stress, domestic abuse, street violence—and how the cycle can be broken.
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BUILD Health Challenge Awards $8 Million for Community Health
The implementation and planning grants support nineteen projects designed to improve health in low-income communities across the country....
Adult Obesity Rates Showing Signs of Leveling Off, Study Finds
The annual study by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that adult obesity rates rose in four states in 2016, fell in one, and remained stable in the rest....
RWJF Awards $1.1 Million for Healthy School Model Initiative
The grant to Washington University will enable researchers to study schools in St. Louis and begin to develop models for African-American students that better serve their physical and emotional needs....
Rutgers Receives $4 Million for Cancer Research Partnership
The grants, which include $2 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will enable RCI and the Center for Cancer Research to share knowledge and more rapidly advance discoveries leading to drug development, clinical trials, and new therapies for cancer patients....
NAS, RWJF Award $10.8 Million for Resilient Gulf Coast Communities
The grants will fund projects in Louisiana and Alabama focused on enhancing the science and practice of climate and disaster resilience....
< RWJF Awards $6.3 Million for Community Health Program
The grant to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement will expand initiatives aimed at advancing health, well-being, and health equity....
Americans Seek Actionable Healthcare Price Information, Survey Finds
Funded by RWJF and the NYS Health Foundation, the report from Public Agenda finds that 20 percent of Americans compare providers' prices....
Drug Overdoses Fueling Rise in Premature Death Rates, Study Finds
The rankings by RWJF and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute found premature death rates up across urban and rural counties....
Forward Promise Program Moves to Penn Graduate School of Education
Supported by a $12 million grant from RWJF, the program will work to promote a culture of health for young boys and men of color....
$90 Million Equitable Infrastructure Initiative Launched
The Strong, Prosperous and Resilient Communities Challenge will fund infrastructure and climate resilience projects benefiting low-income communities....
RWJF Names Richard Besser as New President and CEO
After a career largely spent at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Besser will succeed Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, who is stepping down after fourteen years....
RWJF Awards Fourth Round of Future of Nursing Grants
The grants will provide fifty-one nurses with financial support, mentoring, and leadership development over the three years of their Ph.D. program....
Support for Investing in Improving Community Health High, Survey Finds
The RWJF and Trust for America's Health report found that 73 percent of registered voters support an increase in investments aimed at improving the health of communities....
Repeal of ACA Would See Uncompensated Costs, Unmet Needs Soar
Partial repeal of the Affordable Care Act would result in 29.8 million people losing their coverage by 2019....
U.S. Healthcare System Failing High-Need Patients, Survey Finds
A Commonwealth Fund survey found that while most high-need respondents have a doctor or place of care, 44 percent delayed care in the past year....
'Culture of Health' Requires Focus on Young Men of Color, Study Finds
Issue briefs commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examine key barriers to health and success faced by young men of color....
Smith Family Foundation Awards $10 Million for Pediatric Mental Health
The TEAM UP for Children initiative will fund efforts to integrate primary and behavioral health care for children at three community health centers in the Boston area....
RWJF Awards $1.5 Million for Health Equity Initiative
The Allies for Reaching Community Health Equity initiative will work to address the social determinants of health....
RWJF Announces Inaugural Cohort of Leadership Fellows
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Risa Lavizzo-Mourey to Step Down as Head of RWJF
Lavizzo-Mourey has headed the foundation since 2003 and spearheaded its major initiatives, including its vision fof a Culture of Health....
Adult Obesity Rates Fell in Four States, Study Finds
The study by Trust for America's Health and RWJF found that rates fell in Minnesota, Montana, New York, and Ohio but remained high overall....
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Once again, turnover was the theme of this year's list, with sixteen first-time honorees and eight returnees....
Foundations Combine Forces to Improve Health Care, Reduce Costs
Five foundations will collaborate to transform care delivery for chronically ill patients with the greatest need....
Reinvestment Fund, RWJF Award $3 Million for Low-Income Communities
Fifty cities will receive $60,000 each in support of the efforts of local leaders to work together to improve health in poor neighborhoods....
Ten Foundations Commit $125 Million in Support of Flint
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The Revolving Door: A Report on U.S. Hospital ReadmissionsBy Elliott S. Fisher; David C. Goodman; Michael Perry; Chiang-Hua Chang
Investing in Boys and Young Men of Color: The Promise of OpportunityBy Kisha Bird; Linda Harris; Rhonda Bryant Funders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Health Affairs/RWJF Health Policy Brief: Medicaid ReformFunders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Health Affairs/RWJF Health Policy Brief: The Independent Payment Advisory BoardFunders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Eliminating the Individual Mandate: Effects on Premiums, Coverage, and Uncompensated CareBy Matthew Buettgens; Caitlin Carroll Funders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Physician Faculty Scholars Program 2005-2012Funders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Case for Public Reporting of Cost & Resource Use MeasuresFunders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Public Reporting of Cost and Resource Use Measures to ConsumersFunders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Risk Adjustment and Reinsurance: A Work Plan for State OfficialsBy Patrick Holland; James Woolman; Julie Peper; Mary Hegemann; Ross Winkelman; Syed Mehmud; Tom Leonard Funders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
A Broken Promise to Our Children: The 1998 State Tobacco Settlement 13 Years LaterFunders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Improving School Foods Through the Team Nutrition Program: New Findings From U.S. Elementary SchoolsFunders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Determining Health Benefit Designs to Be Offered on a State Health Insurance ExchangeFunders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation
The State of Quality Improvement Science in HealthBy Kelly J. Devers Funders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Healthy Corridor for All: A Community Health Impact Assessment of Transit-Oriented Development Policy in Saint Paul, MinnesotaBy Shireen Malekafzali; Danielle Bergstrom Funders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Blue Cross Blue Shield Center for Prevention
Addressing Nutrition, Overweight and Obesity Among Latino YouthFunders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
RWJF Assessment Report 2011Funders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Physical Activity, Overweight and Obesity Among Latino YouthBy Amelie Ramirez; Kara Nyberg; Kipling Gallion Funders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Influence of Media on Overweight and Obesity Among Latino YouthBy Amelie Ramirez; Kara Nyberg; Kipling Gallion Funders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Hospital Community Benefits After the ACA: Partnerships for Community Health ImprovementBy Cynthia L. Boddie-Willis; Donna C. Folkemer; Carl H. Mueller; Martha H. Somerville; Elyse R. Grossman Funders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Kresge Foundation
Premium Incentives to Drive Wellness in the Workplace: A Review of the Issues and Recommendations for PolicymakersBy JoAnn Volk; Sabrina Corlette Funders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Health Affairs/RWJF Health Policy Brief: Premium Support in MedicareFunders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Assessing the Economics of Obesity and Obesity InterventionsBy James C. Capretta; Michael J. O'Grady Funders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Using Data to Drive State Improvement in Enrollment and Retention PerformanceBy Andrew Snyder; Christopher Trenholm; Alice M. Weiss; Mary Harrington Funders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Impact Capital Measurement: Approaches to Measuring the Social Impact of Program-Related InvestmentsFunders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Technical Assistance Matters: Schools Need Support to Become HealthierFunders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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Syria conflict: Chemical arms experts cross border
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A team of international disarmament experts has arrived in Syria to begin work on dismantling the country's stockpile of chemical weapons.
Syria has said it will co-operate with the mission, set up after a US-Russia deal endorsed by the UN.
It is the first time the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has been asked to destroy a country's chemical arms during a war.
Correspondents say the OPCW inspectors face a daunting task.
Syria's Foreign Minister Walid Muallem has said that seven out of the 19 chemical weapons sites declared by the government last month are in combat zones.
The BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut says it could be complicated for the inspectors to gain access to these areas; local truces may be needed to allow the work to proceed.
A spokesman for the opposition Syrian National Coalition, Monzer Akbik, told the BBC that the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) would ensure that inspectors "will be protected, and granted access to all locations".
However, the FSA is only one of several rebel factions operating in Syria, and its local commanders have often displayed a high degree of autonomy.
UN chemical weapons inspectors filed an interim report last month confirming that the nerve agent sarin had been used in an attack on the outskirts of Damascus on 21 August that killed hundreds of people.
Syria's chemical weapons arsenal is believed to include more than 1,000 tonnes of sarin, the blister agent sulphur mustard and other banned chemicals stored at dozens of sites.
Last month, it submitted to the OPCW a full account of its arsenal, as part of the US-Russian initiative that saw it accede to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
An OPCW official told the AFP news agency on Sunday: "At this point, we have absolutely no reason to doubt the information provided by the Syrian regime."
Logistics talks
The OPCW inspectors - based in The Hague - stayed overnight in Beirut, Lebanon, before crossing into Syria on Tuesday.
They were first expected to visit the foreign ministry in Damascus to discuss operational logistics before verifying the sites and making assessments.
The arms monitors are then expected to destroy the equipment used for mixing and preparing chemical weapons, as well as the munitions used to deliver them.
Under the agreement between the United States and Russia, this work should be finished by November. Some chemical stocks will be removed safely and destroyed outside Syria, while others will be collected up for destruction inside the country.
All this material is supposed to have been disposed of by the target date of the middle of next year.
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has promised to comply with the disarmament deal. "History proves that we have always honoured all treaties we have signed," he said in an interview with Italian television on Sunday.
Russia and America are in the process of destroying their own chemical arsenals. This process has taken years longer than expected.
Washington, Moscow and others are hoping to build on the rare consensus achieved over the chemical weapons issue, to push for peace settlement talks in Geneva. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has proposed a date in mid-November for the discussions.
But correspondents say many obstacles remain to be overcome before credible and serious negotiations can take place.
Also on Tuesday, campaign group Human Rights Watch reported that a secondary school in the rebel-held town of Raqqa had been hit on 29 September by "a Syrian government airstrike using fuel-air explosive bombs", killing 14 civilians.
Twelve of the dead were students attending their first day of classes, according to the group.
The group has also documented the use of incendiary devices suspected to contain substances like napalm elsewhere in the conflict.
Like fuel-air explosive bombs, the weapons allegedly used in the Raqqa attack are not classified as chemical weapons but rights groups have condemned their use in populated areas as causing widespread civilian casualties.


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Homeowners may face mold problems after Sandy
The damage from Sandy is extensive, but for those returning to their homes, there may be a harder-to-see problem that could pose a potential health risk.
With all the flooding and standing waters caused by the storm, mold may become a problem for many. Mold can cause a stuffy nose, irritated eyes, wheezing, or skin irritation. People allergic to mold may notice they are having a hard time breathing or shortness of breath. Those with asthma, allergies, other breathing conditions or a suppressed immune system, may be more sensitive to mold.
More moisture brings a higher chance that mold can grow. People can tell if mold has infringed on their living space by looking to see if the walls and ceiling are discolored or show signs of mold growth or water damage. Smelling a bad odor such as a musty earthy smell or foul stench may also be a clue there is a mold problem.
The Environmental Protection Agency suggests reducing indoor humidity to 30 to 60 percent to stop further mold growth by using air conditioners and dehumidifiers which could get rid of the moisture. Fans can also help remove moisture once the water has been removed from the area. Clean and dry any damp or wet materials and furnishings within 24 to 48 hours of water exposure to prevent mold growth. Keep windows and doors open to have fresh air circulate, the EPA recommends, and if you are using towels to mop up water, put them in a hot clothes dryer or hang them outside to dry so you don't get sick.
In areas where there might be a continual moisture problems, such as cracks that have been temporarily fixed, try not to lay down carpeting or rugs. Make sure to get those areas fixed as soon as possible, the CDC recommends.
To keep hard surfaces clean, use water and detergent and make sure to dry everything completely. You can also remove mold growth from hard surfaces using a solution of no more than one cup of bleach in one gallon of water, but make sure there is no ammonia in your solution, the CDC advised. Scrub with a hard brush or rough surface sponge.
Porous materials, like ceiling tiles, should be thrown away following water damage from a storm. Not only does this include carpet and carpet padding - especially if it has been soaking for two days or more -- but upholstered furniture, mattresses, wood, food and leather may be at risk. The bad news is that most North American homes have walls made out of sheet rock, a porous material also known as drywall, which will probably need to be discarded and replaced by a professional if the area is greater than three feet by three feet, the Connecticut Department of Public Health said. Bed sheets can be washed in a washing machine and dried in a hot clothes dryer. If you want to file claims on expensive items damaged by the storm, store them outside to avoid health risks.
But most importantly, make sure your building is safe before returning after the stom. Call an electrician to make sure that there are no power cords, wiring, outlets or switches that can electrocute you before entering, the Connecticut Department of Public Health reminded. Look out for natural gas smells or leaking fuel.


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Get excited iApple iNerds! Ghost House has joined forces with Trigger Apps to develop a handy dandy "Evil Dead" shooter game for the iPhone and iPad. They follow the path of the first film and then branch off into a whole new storyline. It'll also come with Bryce Campbell's home phone number. Alright that might be a lie.
The advertising hot dogs behind the upcoming film "Priest" have jumped in to launch an online game for the film. The game can be played in both 2D and 3D, if you can find some glasses, and for those of you that are hammed right now it can even be played in 6D. Because you see double sometimes when you're drunk. Get it? It was either that or a "play with yourself" joke so consider yourselves lucky.
I'm a firm believer that if dogs have the opportunity they will turn on us and make us their slaves. For that reason it's pretty obvious that all dogs should be put in cages and treated like deadly criminals. Apparently though the makers of the new short film "Play Dead", which has a trailer and poster out on the tubes, think when the zombies take over "man's best friend" will be our only allies. Adorable idea, but completely inaccurate.
William Fichtner, who I'm 99% sure is a robot, is all ready to join the cast of Neill Blomkamp's new sci-fi flick "Elysium". The movie also stars Jodie Foster and Matt Damon or as I like to call them Fostermon. I don't think they're dating or anything but it's fun to make up names for people isn't it?


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Curators applaud his strong leadership, strategic direction and achievements
COLUMBIA, Mo.–University of Missouri System President Gary D. Forsee told curators in a special meeting today that he is stepping down from his role, effective immediately, "solely for personal reasons."
Forsee told curators his wife Sherry is recovering well from recent surgery and will "soon begin a treatment regimen to ensure she remains cancer-free. I'd like to extend my special thanks to all of you for your support over the past several years and for your important service to this university."
Warren Erdman, chair of the university's Board of Curators said, "We are clearly saddened to lose such a great leader for our four-campus enterprise, but know that his place is with Sherry as she undergoes the typically rigorous treatment facing cancer patients. We respect Gary's decision, and the entire university community joins us in wishing Gary and Sherry all the best for the future."
Erdman said the board will begin a search immediately for the 23rd system president. In addition, he said the curators have appointed Steve Owens, general counsel, as interim president. Owens will assume this responsibility, which he has overseen on Forsee's behalf since Dec. 2, with significant input and consultation with other university general officers, including chancellors. Phillip
J. Hoskins also was appointed acting general counsel. Both Owens' and Hoskins' appointments are effective immediately.
Erdman underscored the curators' commitment to the current direction of the university system and expressed confidence in the ability of the campus chancellors and system officers to continue taking on the tough issues facing higher education in Missouri and in our country. "We are proud of what this team under Gary's leadership has accomplished in the past several years," he said.
These accomplishments include:
- Reinvigoration of the system's research and economic development program, including a $5-million Enterprise Investment Program to support business collaboration with university researchers;
- Consistently strong operating performance during the most challenging economic climate due to strategic financial decisions and stringent cost controls that resulted in improved credit ratings (to Aa1 and AA+). These strategies included: issuance of nearly $600 million in debt financing at historically low interest rates to fund overdue maintenance/repair of facilities and other critical campus needs; adoption and implementation of new asset allocation policies for the endowment and retirement trust funds; and targeted expense reductions;
- Implementation of a comprehensive system of accountability measures to support more transparent operations and performance;
- Advocacy for more competitive faculty and staff salaries and benefits by cutting non-strategic expenses and aligning available funds for this and other priorities;
- Creation of the new University of Missouri Health Care enterprise;
- New private-public partnerships, such as the Mizzou-Cerner Tiger Institute for Health Innovation, that are focused on innovation and creation of new university revenue streams;
- Systemwide evaluation and implementation of a "shared services" organization model to significantly improve quality and cost-effectiveness of administrative processes in human resources, information technology and finance;
- Two statewide summits, on energy and the life sciences, which uniquely brought together businesses, investors, elected officials and the academic community to explore new collaboration and cultivation of new enterprises across the state;
- Investment in the university's eLearning infrastructure to provide greater access to courses and programs on all four campuses via a single eLearning web "portal," and to bolster eLearning applications that enhance teaching and learning for on- and off-campus courses;
- Agreement with Gov. Nixon, the General Assembly and the campuses to hold tuition flat for two years, and leadership in achieving parity on Access Missouri scholarships for public and private higher education students;
- Achievement of $115 million in documented cost savings through campus and system efficiency and effectiveness measures;
- Creation of two task forces--one that focused on identifying ways to ensure students have a clear pathway to college from their earliest school days, and the other to evaluate how well the university is preparing students for success in the workplace; and
- Advocacy for greater access to the university for under-represented minorities and economically disadvantaged students by participating in the national Access to Success initiative.
In a letter to University employees, Forsee said it has been an honor to serve as president for the past three years, and committed his full support to the University of Missouri System long into the future. "The University President's role is a statewide, '24X7' commitment to support the teaching, research, service and economic development mission of our four campuses," he said. "This is a role both Sherry and I have taken on, and with passion. We have enjoyed the opportunity to serve our state and help in any way we could during what has certainly proven to be a challenging time. "
Erdman added the curators also appreciate the lasting gift of the four TelePresence rooms that the Forsees have given the campuses. "These rooms enable our faculty, researchers and students--and even our board--to have quality face-to-face meetings at a distance. These high-tech facilities have improved inter-campus communications while significantly reducing travel expenses, and we are still among the very few universities in the country with this capability," he noted.
Erdman also lauded Forsee's commitment to "being part of the solution" to the state's economic challenges, despite the decade-long slide in state funding support for the university.
"We've been fortunate to have a leader of the highest order," he said. "And we appreciate that he put a team in place that's moving forward on the path that he so thoughtfully put forth. We will miss him, but will always count him as a valued member of our community through his status as an alumnus, donor and past president."
Reviewed 2013-09-16