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Charlotte Allen, in the Weekly Standard, gives her readers a tour of the dystopian future represented by California's Silicon Valley where left-wing politics goes hand-in-hand with spectacular inequality. The Tech Company owner lives in Atherton or owns, as the saying goes, "his own hilltop in Portola, while the merely upper-middle-class pay $1,200,000 to live in the sort of despicable ranch house equivalent of what a mailman might own in New Jersey. But they both have Mexican illegals to mow their lawns and paint their fences.
"If you live here, you've made it," David Berkey said to me as I rode shotgun in his car two months ago through the Silicon Valley's wealth belt. The massive house toward which he was pointing belongs to Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google. With a net worth of $24 billion, Brin is Silicon Valley's third-richest denizen and the fourteenth-richest man in America, according to Forbes. Berkey was chauffeuring me down Atherton Avenue, a wide, straight, completely tree-lined boulevard nicely bifurcating the city of Atherton (population 7,200), located 29 miles south of San Francisco, boasting no commercial real estate, and with a zip code (94027) that was recently listed by Forbes as America's most expensive.
You couldn't really see Brin's house from the car, though—just a swatch of rooftop, maybe a chimney—because the point of the trees lining Atherton Avenue and nearly every other street in Atherton is to hide the dwellings behind them. Where the screens of trees happen to thin, property owners have constructed high hedges, high wooden fences, and high brick walls, so that when you look down Atherton Avenue from the Santa Cruz Mountains to the west toward the commuter railroad station to the east, you see only the allée of trees—pine, palms, eucalyptus, sycamore, and juniper—shades of gray-green and brown-green shimmering placidly in the early autumn sun. "This is the Champs-Élysées of Atherton," Berkey explained. The other thing we didn't see from Berkey's car is people, except for the occasional driver on the road. …
Berkey himself doesn't live in Atherton. He can't afford to. He's a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, and his wife, Eleanor Lacey, is general counsel at SurveyMonkey, which occupies Facebook's old startup quarters in downtown Palo Alto. That makes them part of what is known as the "middle class" of Silicon Valley: two-career couples with family incomes in the low-to-mid six-figure-range. They and their two daughters live in neighboring Menlo Park, in what is essentially a modest 1950s tract house, the kind of flat-roofed, three-bedroom, two-bath, sliding-glass-patio-door, under-2,000-square-foot residences, pleasant but not pretentious, that were built en masse well into the 1970s as cheap starter homes, because back then it was conceivable that there could be such a thing as a cheap starter home in the valley. Berkey says his own house is currently valued at $1.2 million.
That's par for the course. Open on any random day the Daily Post, the throwaway newspaper serving the mid-peninsula, and there will be a full-page ad for a "charming updated contemporary home" in Menlo Park or Palo Alto or Mountain View or Sunnyvale, with its single story, its gravel-topped roof, its living-room picture window, its teensy garden strip running alongside the jutting two-car garage that plugs into the kitchen, its pocket-size but grassy front lawn reminiscent of The Wonder Years—and its 1,216 square feet of living space—all "offered at $949,000." That's a bargain for the valley.
Berkey drove us out of Atherton, across El Camino Real, the peninsula's main commercial highway, and across the railroad tracks past the tiny Atherton station, now part of California's state-run Caltrain system and a commuter stop only on weekends. We were now in the featureless, nearly treeless, semi-industrial flatlands of Menlo Park stretching eastward to the bay. The demographic change was instant: ¡No se habla inglés! There were suddenly plenty of people on the sidewalks—and nearly every single one of them was Latino. There were suddenly plenty of commercial establishments—ramshackle, brightly painted, graffiti-adorned storefronts with hand-painted business signs mostly in Spanish: "Comida Nicaraguense," "Restaurante Guatemalteco," "Carnicería" (pork chops and steaks crudely painted on the walls), "Pescadería" (fish and crustaceans crudely painted on the walls), "Panadería," "Check Cashing," "Gonzalez Auto Sales," "Sanchez Jewelry," "Check Cashing," "Arturo's Shoe Repair," "99¢ and Over," "Check Cashing."
Menlo Park is actually only about 20 percent Hispanic and is unabashedly affluent in its own right, but its Hispanic population concentrated next door to the hedgy scrim of Atherton makes for a startling study in contrasts. No one pretends that the gravel-roofed, shack-size houses in this particular neighborhood are "charming" midcentury modern gems. That would be hard to do, what with the weeds, the peeling paint, the chain-link fences, the chained-up guard dogs, and the front lawns paved over to accommodate multiple vehicles for multiple dwellers. The phrase "the other side of the tracks" has vivid meaning. "Look at the newspaper police blotters, and you'll see that in Atherton the main reported crime is identity theft," said Berkey. "Here, it's break-ins."
You can laud this underbelly barrio as vibrant immigrant culture or you can decry it as an instant-slum product of untrammeled illegal border-crossing, but it represents an important fact on the ground: These are the people who earn their livings tending to the needs of the high-tech "creative class" that has made Silicon Valley famous. I could see them on Atherton Avenue, the amanuensis class heading up from Menlo Park in their wee panel trucks and Dodge minivans and their Ford flatbeds fitted out with racks for garden tools among the Bentleys, BMWs, Audis, and Lexuses that are the standard Atherton vehicles. They tend the meticulously clipped lawns, flower beds, hedges, and trees of Atherton (Berkey said that it's not uncommon for an Atherton sentence to begin, "My arborist . . . "). They clean the houses and the swimming pools, they deliver the catering, they watch the children, and they repair the roofs, the plumbing, the balconies, and the wine cellars of the very affluent and the very busy. You might say that across-the-tracks Menlo Park, along with down-market Latino neighborhoods just like it up and down the peninsula—East Palo Alto, parts of Redwood City, the southern end of San Jose—functions as a kind of oversize servants' wing. It's safe to say that almost every hotel maid, restaurant busboy, cashier, janitor, retail stocker, and fast-food worker in the valley is Latino.
Master and servant. Cornucopian wealth for a few tech oligarchs plus relatively steady but relatively low-paying work for their lucky retainers. No middle class, unless the top 5 percent U.S. income bracket counts as middle class. Silicon Valley is a tableau vivant of what many economists and professional futurologists say is the coming fate of America itself, a fate to which Americans, if they can't embrace it as some futurologists hope, should at least resign themselves.
While I was driving with Berkey around Atherton, Tyler Cowen, economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Great Stagnation (2011), published a new book, Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation. There, Cowen bluntly predicted what he called "wage polarization." The increasing ability of computers to perform ordinary tasks will inexorably transform America into an income oligarchy in which the top 15 percent of people—with skills "that are a complement to the computer"—will enjoy "cheery" labor-market prospects and soaring incomes, while the bottom 85 percent, that is to say, 267 million out of America's 315 million people, will be lucky to find Walmart-level jobs or scrape together marginal "freelance" livings running $25-a-pop errands for their betters via TaskRabbit (say, picking up and delivering a pair of designer shoes from Nordstrom) or renting out their spare bedrooms (if they have any) to overnight lodgers via Airbnb. That is, if they'll be working at all. "There are many other historical periods, including medieval times, where inequality is high, upward mobility is fairly low, and the social order is fairly stable, even if we as moderns find some aspects of that order objectionable," Cowen writes in his new book.
In other words, what is coming is the "new feudalism," a phrase coined by Chapman University urban studies professor Joel Kotkin, a prolific media presence whose New Geography website is an outlet for the trend's most vocal critics. "It's a weird Upstairs, Downstairs world in which there's the gentry, and the role for everybody else is to be their servants," Kotkin said in a telephone interview. "The agenda of the gentry is to force the working class to live in apartments for the rest of their lives and be serfs. But there's a weird cognitive dissonance. Everyone who says people ought to be living in apartments actually lives in gigantic houses or has multiple houses."
It's hard to travel anywhere in the valley and not see what Kotkin is talking about.
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From "Inside America's Dirty Wars" by Jeremy Scahill (The Nation, May 13, 2013):
Three days after Obama's news conference on bin Laden, the president's counterterrorism team presented him with an urgent intelligence update on Awlaki. Along with signals intercepts by JSOC and the CIA and "vital details of Awlaki's whereabouts" from Yemeni intelligence, the White House now had what it believed was its best shot to date at killing the radical cleric, whose fiery speeches denouncing the United States—and praising attacks on Americans—had placed him in the cross-hairs of the US counterterrorism apparatus.
US military aircraft were at the ready. Obama gave the green light. JSOC would run the operation. A Special Ops Dragon Spear aircraft mounted with short-range Griffin missiles blasted into Yemeni airspace, backed by Marine Harrier jets and Predator drones, and headed toward Shabwah Province. A Global Hawk surveillance aircraft would hover above to relay a live feed back to the mission planners.
On the evening of May 5, Awlaki and some friends were driving through Jahwa, in rural southern Shabwah, when their pickup truck was rocked by a massive explosion nearby, shattering its windows. Awlaki saw a flash of light and believed that a rocket had been fired at their vehicle. "Speed up!" he yelled at the driver. Awlaki looked around the truck and took stock of the situation. No one was hurt. The back of the pickup was filled with canisters of gasoline, yet the vehicle had not exploded. Alhamdulillah, Awlaki thought, according to his detailed account of the incident that later appeared in Inspire, the English-language magazine published by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). "Praise God." He called for help.
While Awlaki and his colleagues scrambled to get away from what they thought was an ambush, JSOC planners watched via satellite as his truck emerged from the dust clouds that the Griffin missile had caused. They'd missed—there had been a malfunction in the targeting pod, and the missile's guidance system was unable to keep a lock on Awlaki's vehicle. It would now be up to the Harriers and the drones. Strike two: a massive fireball lit up the sky. Just as the celebrations at JSOC were about to begin, the mission's planners watched in shock as the truck emerged once again from the smoke. Its back bumper had been damaged, but the truck was on the run. The Harriers were running low on fuel and had to abandon the mission. The third strike had to come from one of the drones. Awlaki peered out the window, looking for the perpetrators of the ambush. It was then that he saw it: a drone hovering in the sky. As smoke and dust engulfed the area, Awlaki told the driver not to head toward any populated areas. They pulled into a small valley with some trees.
Two brothers, Abdullah and Musa'd Mubarak al Daghari, known among the members of AQAP as the al Harad brothers, were speeding to Awlaki's rescue. As the drone hovered overhead, the US personnel running the op could not see what was happening below. A former JSOC planner, who read the after-action reports on the strike, told me that the mission had satellites that provided only "top-down imagery." With such satellites, he said, "You're looking down at ants moving. All they saw were vehicles, and the people in the vehicles were smart." Dust, gravel, smoke and flames had shielded the High Value Target. The Harad brothers quickly marshaled Awlaki and his driver into their Suzuki Vitara SUV and took Awlaki's vehicle. They gave Awlaki directions to a mountain area where he could take shelter. Awlaki hastily said goodbye and sped off in the Suzuki. The Harad brothers then headed in the opposite direction, driving in the truck the Americans had tried to blow up moments earlier.
As the two vehicles took off in opposite directions, the Americans running the operation had to decide which one to follow. They stuck with Awlaki's truck. Awlaki looked up and saw the drones still hovering. He managed to make it to the mountains. From there, he watched as another round of missiles shot out of the sky and blew up the truck, killing the Harad brothers.
As JSOC celebrated what it thought was a successful hit, Awlaki performed his evening prayers and reflected on the situation. That night, he later recalled, had "increased my certainty that no human being will die until they complete their livelihood and [reach their] appointed time." He fell asleep in the mountains.
As news spread of the attack, anonymous US officials confirmed that the strike had been aimed at Awlaki. And for a time, they thought they had accomplished the mission. The US drone operators "did not know that vehicles were exchanged and resulted in the wrong people dying and [that] Awlaki [was] still alive," a Yemeni security official told CNN.[…]
By early September, however, US surveillance aircraft had pinpointed Anwar al-Awlaki's location far from Shabwah—at a small house in Khashef, a village in Jawf about ninety miles northeast of Sana'a. Villagers began seeing drones hovering in the skies above. Washington's drone war had kicked into full gear in Yemen, so the presence of the aircraft was not particularly out of the ordinary. But what the villagers did not know was that the White House's counterterrorism teams were watching one specific house—watching and waiting. Once they got a lock on Awlaki's coordinates, the CIA deployed several armed Predator drones from its new base in Saudi Arabia and took operational control of some JSOC drones launched from Djibouti as well. The plan to assassinate Awlaki was code-named Operation Troy. The name implied that the United States had a mole leading its forces to Awlaki.
As the Americans surveilled the house where Anwar was staying in Jawf, Abdulrahman arrived in Ataq, Shabwah. He was picked up at the bus station by his relatives, who told him that they did not know where his father was. The boy decided to wait in the hope that his father would come to meet him. His grandmother called the family he was with in Shabwah, but Abdulrahman refused to speak with her. "They said, 'He's OK, he's here,' but I didn't talk to him," Saleha recalled. "He tried to avoid talking to us, because he knows we will tell him to come back. And he wanted to see his father." Abdulrahman traveled with some of his cousins to the town of Azzan, where he planned to await word from his dad.
At the White House, President Obama was faced with a decision—not of morality or legality, but of timing. He had already sentenced Anwar al-Awlaki to death without trial. A secret legal authorization had been prepared and internal administration critics sidelined or brought on board. All that remained to be sorted out was the day Awlaki would die. Obama, one of his advisers recalled, had "no qualms" about this kill. When the president was briefed on Awlaki's location in Jawf and also told that children were in the house, he was explicit that he did not want to rule any options out. Awlaki was not to escape again. "Bring it to me and let me decide in the reality of the moment rather than in the abstract," Obama told his advisers, according to author Daniel Klaidman. Although scores of US drone strikes had killed civilians in various countries around the globe, it was official policy to avoid such deaths if at all possible. "In this one instance," an Obama confidant told Klaidman, "the president considered relaxing some of his collateral requirements."
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Awlaki had evaded US drones and cruise missiles for at least two years. He rarely stayed in one place more than a night or two. This time was different. For some reason, he had stayed in the same house in Khashef much longer, all the while being monitored by the United States. Now the Americans had him clean in their sights. "They were living in this house for at least two weeks. Small mud house," Nasser said he was later told by the locals. "I think they wanted to make some videotape. Samir Khan was with him."
On the morning of September 30, 2011, Awlaki and Khan, a young Pakistani-American from North Carolina who is believed to have been the editor of Inspire, finished their breakfast inside the house. US spy cameras and satellites broadcast images back to Washington and Virginia of the two men and a handful of their cohorts piling into vehicles and driving away. They were headed toward the province of Marib. As the vehicles made their way over the dusty, unpaved roads, US drones, armed with Hellfire missiles, were dispatched to hunt them down. The drones were technically under the command of the CIA, though JSOC aircraft and ground forces were poised to assist. A team of commandos stood at the ready to board V-22 helicopters. As an added measure, Marine Harrier jets scrambled in a backup maneuver.
Six months earlier, Awlaki had narrowly avoided death by US missiles. "This time eleven missiles missed [their] target but the next time, the first rocket may hit it," he had said. As the cars sped down the road, Awlaki's prophecy came true. Two of the Predator drones locked onto the car carrying him, while other aircraft hovered as backup. A Hellfire missile fired by a drone slammed into his car, transforming it into a fireball. A second missile hit moments later, ensuring that the men inside would never escape if they had managed to survive.
The Yemeni government sent out a text message to journalists. "The terrorist Anwar Awlaki has been killed along with some of his companions," it read. It was 9:55 am local time. When villagers in the area arrived at the scene of the missile strike, they reported that the bodies inside the car had been burned beyond recognition. There were no survivors. Amid the wreckage, they found a symbol more reliable than a fingerprint in Yemeni culture: the charred rhinoceros-horn handle of a jambiya dagger. There was no doubt that it belonged to Anwar al-Awlaki.
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According to the latest market report published by Credence Research, Inc. "Sepsis and Septic Shock Treatment Market – Growth, Future Prospects and Competitive Analysis, 2017 – 2025" the global sepsis and septic shock market, expanding at a CAGR of 6.1% from 2017 to 2025.
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Sepsis is treated as a medical emergency. It is a life-threatening complication due to presence of both infection and overwhelming immune response to infection. The global sepsis and septic shock market is categorized on the basis of treatment types such as antimicrobial therapy (antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal) and adjunctive therapy (mechanical ventilation, vasopressor therapy, fluid therapy, corticosteroids, blood transfusion, dialysis and insulin therapy). It is observed that sepsis and septic shock treatment market is currently dominated by antimicrobial therapy as it is viewed as the first line treatment option. Antimicrobials will show significant market growth over the forecast period due to strong presence of pipeline molecules such as MDX 1105, CYT-107, ALT-836, LB-1148, IFX-1, etc. In the category of antimicrobials, antibacterial drugs are the largest revenue generating segment because bacteria (Staphylococcus and Escherichia coli) are the most common cause of sepsis.
The complete report is available at http://www.credenceresearch.com/report/sepsis-and-septic-shock-treatment-market
At present, North America leads the global sepsis and septic shock treatment market and growth is majorly driven by U.S. due to wide availability of technologically advance devices, higher cost of treatment drugs, early diagnosis of the disease, wide availability of technologically advance devices, significant investment in R&D activities and easy accessibility to therapeutics. On the other hand, it is anticipated that Asia Pacific will witness the highest growth rate due to increasing penetration of key players in emerging countries like China, and India, and developing healthcare infrastructure would mainly assist the sepsis and septic shock treatment market growth during forecast period.
Market Competition Assessment:
Currently, there is no specific regimen approved in market to cure sepsis and septic shock, however antimicrobial drugs and other adjunctive therapies are used according to treat and management of sepsis. Key players involved in R&D activities are Adrenomed AG, Altor BioScience Corporation, Asahi Kasei Pharma, Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH, Bristol-Myers Squibb, InflaRx GmbH, Inotrem SA, Pfizer Inc. and others.
Key Market Movements:
- Factors such as rising number of affected population, strong presence of pipeline drugs, and technological advancement in sepsis assessment would drive the growth of sepsis and septic shock treatment market over the forecast period
- There are higher number of unmet needs for the treatment of sepsis and septic shock and thus key players in the market are focusing in development of ideal therapeutics would further assist sepsis and septic shock market growth
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Rhys Millen is competing in the Global RallyCross series since its inaugural year 2011, but did not claim an overall win till last weekend. In Round 6 at Daytona in Florida the US-based racer from New Zealand has now bagged his first GRC victory.
GRC: Millen's first strike
GRC: Block takes dirty Charlotte
American 'Big Carhoona' Ken Block has made North Carolina's Charlotte his by winning Round 5 of the Global RallyCross series from Norwegian 'Viking Warrior' Sverre Isachsen and Brazilian Nelson 'Nelsinho' Piquet Jr.
GRC: Sandell takes US capital
Swedish former World Rally Championship ace Patrik Sandell has taken the US capital Washington, DC, by winning Round 3 of the Global RallyCross series that was hosted last weekend outside the RFK Stadium.
GRC: Speed to X Games win
After making GRC Round 1 at the isle of Barbados his that former Formula One driver Scott Speed has now also won the RallyCross feature of the Austin X Games in Texas. Read more »
GRC: X Games with WRX aces
The 23rd running of the Summer X Games, to be held in the US state of Texas later this week, will see in Liam Doran, Toomas Heikkinen and Anton Marklund three regulars of the 2014 FIA World Rallycross Championship.
GRC: The First Lady
Since the event at Barbados that Kiwi Rally ace Emma Gilmour is the first female competitor in the short history of the Global RallyCross series.
GRC: VW conquers Barbados
At the Carribean island of Barbados former Formula One racer American Scott Speed turned his first race with a VW Polo Mk5 SuperCar into a triumph over four Ford Fiesta Mk7 drivers.


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Duluth cops are called as a woman asserts her right to sunbathe topless
About two weeks ago, Michelle Bennett, a photographer in Duluth, went down to Park Point beach with some friends. It was the first really warm day of the summer, and the beach was unusually crowded.
They chose a less frequented access point and settled in. Bennett – just as she has done at the beach for about two years now – took her top off.
About 20 minutes into sunbathing, a woman approached and asked her to cover up. She said Bennett was "making her children uncomfortable."
Bennett politely told her "no," and pointed out there was a large umbrella between their group and the woman and her children. It would be fairly easy, she said, to avoid looking at her if they didn't want to.
What if Bennett decided to get in the water? the woman countered.
"I don't know what to tell you," Bennett shrugged.
Shortly after their exchange, the woman took out her phone. About a half-hour later, a Duluth police officer showed up, told Bennett this wasn't a "nude beach," and told her to cover up.
"Well, nobody here is nude," she said. She only had her breasts showing.
What followed was about an hour-long back-and-forth between the officer and Bennett in which he had to call in for legal expertise and find out what the statutes actually said about breasts. As it turns out, they say very little.
It's considered indecent exposure in Minnesota to show your "private parts," but nowhere does it say a woman's breasts count as "private." There are also laws about nudity that do count breasts, but it's only considered wrong if you're "lewdly" showing them to an audience.
Bennett says she wasn't being lewd. She was trying to enjoy her day at the beach without "two wet triangles" of swimsuit material covering her chest, making "big, stupid boob marks" in her suntan and otherwise doing nothing to contribute to her experience.
While this lengthy discussion was going on, the woman and her family were smiling and playing and enjoying their sunny day, she says, largely unperturbed by Bennett's breasts.
The officer didn't hit her with a citation, but he told her she had to put a shirt on – which she did.
Still, the whole thing left "a bad taste" in her mouth. A lot of women she knows go topless at the beach. Just because they do doesn't mean they're doing it for attention, or because they want to have their "tits out" at "restaurants and banks."
"I just want to be topless anywhere a man can," she says.
She shared her story on social media and with local news stations, and she's been overwhelmingly bolstered with support. A lot of people are asking the same questions she is – like, what's the difference between a male breast and a female breast, and what about gender fluidity? What about people who neither identify as men nor women, or women who have had double mastectomies, or trans men who have breasts? Whose chests are okay to view in public, whose aren't, and why?
If you examine Fox 21's Facebook post about the story, you'll find a few people not particularly sympathetic, arguing that Bennett was being "indecent," that she was "looking for her 15 minutes of fame," or that she was one of purportedly many "needy women always rocking the boat."
Either way, Bennett wants answers more concrete than online sniping. She called city officials and got limited responses back – mostly to verify she hadn't been issued a citation. What she really wants is for statutes to be clarified so police know whether this is actually okay and aren't asked to litigate on the spot.
She hasn't been back to the beach since the incident, if you don't count the interviews she's done. She says she will, eventually – and she will be topless when she does.
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- Institution: School of Visual Arts
- Location: New York, New York
- Duration: 2 - 3 Classes
Using Haring's Subway drawings as a starting point, New York City high school student will create prints of their own personal symbols.
Students will interpret the work of Keith Haring.
Students will discover that different students have different interpretations of the same symbols.
Students will develop a series of prints bases on a personally relevant symbol or combination of symbols.
The art work of Keith Haring, concentrating on his Subway Series.
Printing ink
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Tracing paper
Begin the discussions by asking students to make observations about the artworks they see. After some general observations have been made, encourage the students to point out and examine the symbols in the work, making assumptions about their possible meaning. Have them explain why.
What symbols does this artist use in his work? What do you think the symbols mean? How does color influence the meaning of a symbol? What else can influence a symbols meaning?
Have the students come up with symbol to represent themselves or their interest. Have them begin by drawing out their ideas on paper. When they have created symbols that they are satisfied with, then draw the symbol into the Styrofoam plate. Have them think about the colors they are going to use to print their symbol.
Demonstrate the Styrofoam plate printing procedure. Inform the students that their prints with be a mirror reflection of their drawing. This is important if the students want to write words into their image. Show how much ink to use, how to roll the ink with the brayer until the ink has become tacky, and then how to apply the ink by rolling over the Styrofoam plate. Have the students create a series of prints, which they explore a range of color.
If the students want to experiment, they can create smaller Styrofoam plate and juxtapose another image over the first print. Also show the students how to two color onto the same plate. Encourage experimentation.
Have the students hang up their series of work and explain which of their prints is the strongest. See if the rest of the students agree or disagree.
Assessment will be judged on closure discussion when the students justify which print is the strongest based on how it was printed or the color they used.
If the students are having trouble coming up with ideas for symbols just have them tell you about what they draw in their notebooks. Usually, what students doodle in their notebook are very symbolic and can be the prefect subject for this project. Students can also represent what they are interested in, like sports or what they do with their friends.
The author of this lesson, Deidre Kenna, a Masters in Art Education student of the School of Visual Arts in NYC, is the 2003-2004 scholarship recipient of the Keith Haring Scholarship award. This project is a collaboration with The School of Visual Arts & a local NYC public high school.
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The Scottish vote is a resounding Yes!
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews vo
For over two and a half centuries the home of golf has not been admitting woman members into its hallowed club. But time change for the better and last week more than three quarters of the club's global membership took part in a ballot, with a decisive 85% voting for women to become members!
This vote is immediate and is was confirmed that a 'significant' number of women in prominent positions within the golfing community will be fast-tracked into membership at the exclusive club.
Look back here soon when we shall report on who has been admitted.
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Todd Garrett
In an exclusive interview with radio host Kelly Golden (94.3 WSC), Charleston County School Board member Todd Garrett explained how the school district ran an $18 million deficit in the 2014-5 fiscal year. The school district overestimated property tax revenue by $9 million and over-spent $9 million. You can hear the 15-minute interview on this link: http://943wsc.iheart.com/onair/kelly-golden-15841/943-wsc-goes-in-depth-as-14853996/.
Garrett noted that school district officials never checked with the Charleston County Auditor's office to track property tax revenue coming in. The School Board did not become aware of the shortfall until nearly three months after the fiscal year closed out June 30, 2015. Nine school district employees have either been fired or resigned as the result of the budget fiasco.
Charleston County School District's $429 million annual operating budget is 27% greater than Greenville County's even though it has nearly 30,000 fewer students enrolled. The educational achievement in Charleston County is abysmal, with 84% of African-American students reading below grade level at the end of third grade.
A forensic audit conducted by the Columbia firm Elliott, Davis and DeCosimo revealed some of the budgeting practices resulting in the shortfall, including submitting budgets for electricity and printing well below previous annual costs, excessive numbers of assistant principals in many schools and heavy utilization of consultants.
Garrett says systems are in place to prevent future shortfalls, including detailed monthly budget reports broken down by line item, a $1 million reduction in central office staff salaries, reduction in the number of assistant principals and the cancellation of an elementary school literacy program that wasn't effective. There was also a tax increase on commercial property of about $100 for a $250,000 property.


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Welcome to December!
Sometimes the best way to clear your head is to clear your workspace. Simple, isn't it?
- Clutter is a large, untidy collection of objects, especially objects that are unnecessary or not used.
To get rid of something is to throw it out because you don't want or need it anymore.
- clutter とは、多くの散らかった物、特に不要な物や使われていない物をさします。
get rid of は、いらなくなったり、必要なくなったりしたために、何かを処分する、という意味です。
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- How can you work with all this clutter on your desk?
- I've spent all day sorting through the clutter in the storage room and trying to organize things a little.
- When are you going to get rid of some of this clutter? Half of these things you don't even use anymore.
- a: Can I get rid of these boxes of old receipts?
b: Definitely not! We have to keep those in case we're audited.
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Ruben Mars: Postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, lab of Prof. Uwe Sauer
«All diseases start in the gut» Hippocrates said over 2000 years ago. Was he actually right? What are the technologies that can make us find out? And why are people only looking into this now?
In an attempt to separate promise from the hype, Dr. Ruben Mars will discuss the exciting science of the microbiome, the collection of microorganisms on and within your body. Most of these microorganisms are our friends that help our bodies with essential functions such as protecting against infections, producing vitamins, and educating your immune system. Using bacteria or some of their products as drugs may help us prevent or treat difficult diseases. We will discuss what these new drugs might be and which diseases seem to be within reach of the biotech and pharma millions.
2. Talk: The impact of viruses on fecal microbiota transplantation
Mirjam Zünd: PhD candidate at ETH Zurich, microbiome lab of Prof. Shinichi Sunagawa
The role of the gut bacteria with regard to human health has been intensively discussed in recent years. The main focus was on the interaction of bacteria and host, leaving aside the role of viruses that infect bacteria (bacteriophages) and thus shape the intestinal bacterial community. In this talk, Mirjam will give you a glance into the world of gut bacteriophages and show you what role such small particles can play in respect to fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT). FMT aims to restore the intestinal flora of a patient through the infusion of stool from a healthy donor. FMT is successfully used to treat severe cases of C. difficile infections, which lead to chronic diarrhea or colitis.


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A brown pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, relaxes on a people-watching and photography trip at the Port Aransas Birding Center, Texas.
Birds in Science
A £200,000 study into what happens when people hear birdsong is taking off. Researchers at Aberdeen University in Great Britain will spend two years listening to birds to find out how their songs, calls and cries become a part of people's lives. "Listening to birds: an anthropological approach to bird sounds" has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The team is keen to hear from anyone interested in birds from across Britain and throughout the world.
People Hurting Birds
Californians are part of a paradox that includes birders throughout the country. More and more scientific reports show that many of the birds we so love are in decline. That includes many of the species that San Francisco has always provided for each winter. Surf scoters have declined by 70 percent over the last three decades; greater scaup, by 50 percent. So if the numbers of American bird enthusiasts are on the rise, why are our birds on the decline? The answer is probably not surprising: Most Americans still do not make the connection between the "stuff" we consume and the impact it has on the environment.
Conservationists are calling for a developer to take down a nearly mile-long glass wall built around a new housing development near the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach after they say at least a dozen birds, including several birds of prey, died when they flew into the structure. In recent weeks, two harrier hawks, a mourning dove, a yellow rumped warbler and a hummingbird, are among those that have died after flying into the see-through wall, conservationists said. "You could not build a better passive bird killer in a better spot than they did here," said Scott Thomas, conservation director for Sea & Sage Audubon, an Orange County chapter of the Audubon Society. He is offering walking tours of what conservationists have dubbed "the wall of death."
Nearly three weeks after a container ship spilled toxic fuel into San Francisco Bay, birds continue to show up covered with oil on the shoreline, and wildlife biologists say more than 20,000 may have died in the disaster. About 2,150 birds have been found dead or have died at the bird rescue center since Nov. 7, the day the Cosco Busan crashed into the Bay Bridge and spilled 58,000 gallons of heavy bunker fuel oil. Bird experts figure that for every bird found dead or alive, about five to 10 others go unreported because they sink at sea, get eaten by predators or fly elsewhere. That would put the fatality number at up to 21,500 birds. The oil damage to some of the species is causing special concern among bird biologists, who warn that numbers already are falling. Snowy plovers, marbled murrelets, sanderlings, Clark's grebes and rhinoceros auklets, among others, all of which have been found covered in oil, are considered species at risk of maintaining healthy populations.
As if oil spills weren't enough, hundreds of dead or injured seabirds have washed up on the shores of Monterey Bay, California, in recent weeks, and scientists believe a red tide of marine algae is to blame. About 600 birds have been found stranded on beaches in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties since a large rust-colored algal bloom began circulating in the bay about three weeks ago, scientists say. About 70 of the birds have died, while 530 have been taken to wildlife rescue centers, said Michael Ziccardi, director of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network. The affected birds include loons, pelicans, western grebes, northern fulmars and surf scoters, said Dave Jessup, a veterinarian with the state Department of Fish and Game. Fish and marine mammals do not appear to be affected.
The African Tourism and Travel Association has become the latest to voice concern over a huge chemical production plant proposed for Tanzania's Lake Natron, the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK). "Spectacular flocks of flamingos are one of the major attractions for tourists visiting the Great Rift Valley from all over the world. Given the massive contribution ecotourism makes to the East African economy, it just doesn't make sense to jeopardise these wonderful birds and this very special and unspoilt place. If this development goes ahead who knows what may happen next," said Nigel Vere Nicholl, chairman of the African Tourism and Travel Association (ATTA).
People Helping Birds
When two Atlantic piping plovers nested on busy Revere Beach, Massachusetts, last summer, scientists knew that the tiny birds indicated something big. The Atlantic piping plover has been on the endangered species list for more than 20 years after dwindling to 722 nesting pairs. Scientists have gone through a difficult, and sometimes contentious, program to restore them, which involved shutting down parts of various beaches for weeks at a time and banning off-road vehicles. In 2006, biologists tracked 1,743 pairs of mating plovers on the Atlantic Coast. And the population appears to be heading toward the 2,000-pair mark that will take the bird off the endangered species list. "It's a good indication that we're doing something right; we think it's a positive sign," said Rebecca J. Harris, director of the Coastal Waterbird Program at the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
More than 200 years ago, rats jumped ship for Rat Island. The muscular Norway rat climbed ashore on the rugged, uninhabited island in far southwestern Alaska in 1780 after a rodent-infested Japanese ship ran aground. It was the first time rats had made it to Alaska. Since then, Rat Island, as the piece of rock was dubbed by a sea captain in the 1800s, has gone eerily silent. The sounds of birds are missing. That is because the rats feed on eggs, chicks and adult seabirds, which come to the mostly treeless island to nest on the ground or in crevices in the volcanic rock. "As far as bird life, it is a dead zone," said Steve Ebbert, a biologist at the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, whose 2,500 mostly uninhabited islands include the Aleutian chain, of which Rat Island is a part.
Bird Studies Canada (BirdLife's Canadian co-Partner) has expressed delight at news that a pair of Kirtland's Warbler, Dendroica kirtlandii, have bred in Canada -- the first in over 60 years. The discovery of the birds -- found at a Canadian Forces Base in eastern Ontario -- has provided useful data for scientists researching the distribution of this species, listed globally as Near Threatened by BirdLife. "With confirmed nesting in these new locations in 2007, we hope to see the population continue to expand in the years to come." commented Bird Studies Canada.
One hundred and seventy eight species of birds in the continental U.S. and 39 in Hawaii have the dubious distinction of being on the latest list of America's most endangered birds. WatchList 2007, a joint effort between Audubon (BirdLife in the US) and American Bird Conservancy, reveals those in greatest need of immediate conservation help. "We call this a 'WatchList' but it is really a call to action, because the alternative is to watch these species slip ever closer to oblivion", said Audubon Bird Conservation Director and co-author of the new list, Greg Butcher. "Agreeing on which species are at the greatest risk is the first step in building the public policies, funding support, innovative conservation initiatives and public commitment needed to save them."
Forest & Bird (BirdLife in New Zealand) has announced that the Stitchbirds (or hihi), Notiomystis cincta, which were returned to the mainland earlier this year, after an absence of more than a century, have hatched chicks. The fact that the first generation brought to the Waitakere Ranges is breeding successfully is a good sign that they have adapted well to their new home and are thriving," said Ark in the Park project manager Sandra Jack. "It's a very exciting stage in what is basically an experiment to see if hihi can thrive in an area with low predator numbers," she added. "If chicks fledge successfully and survive through to being able to breed themselves, then it's looking very promising for the future of these rare and special birds. If they can survive at the Ark, they may have a future in other areas on the mainland, where they were once common".
This is a really interesting online diary describing the release of White-tailed (Sea) Eagles on Scotland's east coast that you might be interested to read. Includes some lovely images of the birds.
The world's rarest penguin found only in New Zealand has a new haven thanks to DOC and the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust. A wildlife reserve has been opened in South Otago to protect the bird. The yellow-eyed penguin is so rare that there are fewer than 500 breeding pairs left in the world. Now, 50 hectares of land along a South Otago coastline has been secured to ensure the birds' future. "I'll be bringing my grandchildren here to have a look, and know that they'll come back and bring their children. And they'll see that some people made a line in the sand for NZ, love this country, and away they went," says Environment Minister Steve Chadwick.
A new wildlife rescue centre on Torrens Island in Adelaide's (Australia) north-west is capable of caring for up to 200 injured sea birds or other animals including seals and turtles. Volunteers have built the $400,000 rehabilitation facility over 14 months. Aaron Machado, from the organization, Project Dolphin Safe, says it is important that the public knows about the center. "For those general public that walk anywhere near the ocean or the [Port] River so to speak and happen to come across an injured animal or an entangled animal in fishing tackle, they can give us a call 24 hours a day," he said.
This is a long essay about the "Bernhard Goetz of birders", Jim Stevenson. In short, he was caught killing (by shooting) a cat that was killing endangered piping plovers in Texas. He has since received death threats. This is his story.
Birds Helping People
After registering success on beach and wildlife tourism, Kenya is now turning an eye to its priceless birds to shore up revenues. Though part of the wildlife, bird tourism has for long been ignored despite its potential to bring in extra foreign exchange earnings. Currently, there are only 250 'birders' also known as bird watchers, who come to Kenya each year, spending about Sh45 million. But the problem that has left many players desperate for answers is that despite having less bird diversity than Kenya, some African countries have managed to attract more visitors, hence making more money from bird watching. In Nairobi, for example, over 600 bird species have been recorded, more than in any other capital city in the world. But unlike South Africa, for example, Kenya's potential in bird tourism has not yet been translated into an industry -- yet.
Imperiled Bird News
Forty birds in the state of Montana, including the sage grouse, are among the "most imperiled" birds in the United States, conservationists announced. The National Audubon Society this week released "WatchList 2007" of 178 species of birds in the continental United States and 39 species in Hawaii that the group says are in the greatest danger of extinction and need "immediate conservation help." Audubon and the America Bird Conservancy compiled the list based on an assessment of the bird's population size, range size, threats, and population trend.
Parrot News
Yacolt's (WA state) Monk parrots are in a holding pattern. The tropical birds are no longer under an imminent death sentence, but the town's parrot advocates must find a new hangout for their feathered friends. And it has to be the right kind of hangout: an enclosure that will keep the birds from flying free, according to Clark Public Utilities. The birds -- also known as Quaker parrots -- have been weaving their nests around electrical transformers atop power poles in the north-county town. The wickerwork of twigs and sticks is a fire danger and a threat to electrical service, so Clark Public Utilities hired a private electrical contractor, as well as wildlife specialists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to capture the birds and remove the nests from the transformers. "There are bird rescue groups, and we will give them an opportunity," said Lena Wittler, Clark Public Utilities spokeswoman. "We won't get in their way, Wittler said, adding that, "We will provide mechanical equipment if they need assistance to place a humane netting box in a tree." GrrlScientist note: NYC had the same problem with their own population of quaker parrots, and the community managed to solve it by providing nesting platforms for the birds so they stopped building their nests on the power transformers. Considering that it is likely that any future damages caused by this alien species will be minimal, I can't image why the Yacolt PUD aren't interested in promoting such a solution there.
Authorities in Cameroon have arrested two Ghanaians for trying to illegally export 500 African Grey parrots out of the central African country to Bahrain, officials said. The parrots, estimated to be worth US$400,000 in all, were thought to have been captured in the rainforest of southeastern Cameroon and would be released back into the wild, according to Ofir Drori, director of the Last Great Ape Organization conservation group which helped catch the alleged smugglers. "I'm happy the government of Cameroon is taking the illegal trade in African Grey parrots quite seriously," Drori said.
A New York City couple has offered $10,000 for the return of an African gray parrot that disappeared from a pet-sitting business during the Thanksgiving weekend. "Our baby, one of our most important family members, is gone," Leigh Ann Frankel told the New York Post. "Franklin is my child -- every day he wakes up and says, 'Hi, mommy, how are ya?' " GrrlScientist comment: This would NEVER have happened if they had hired me to care for their parrot! I guarantee it!
Avian Zoonotic News
The regional health authority GGD in Nijmegen is further investigating the cases of parrot disease (Psittacosis) which broke out two weeks ago among people who had held stands at a bird show in Weurt, Netherlands, according to a spokesperson for the GGD. The investigation is aimed at gaining more insight into the disease. "We will then know how to take quicker action and how to treat the disease in case of another outbreak," said the spokesperson. The GGD is approaching the approximately 200 people who visited the bird show on 2,3 and 4 November as part of its investigation.
The avian influenza virus H5N1 could become entrenched in chickens and domestic ducks and geese in parts of Europe, FAO warned. The agency stressed that healthy domestic ducks and geese may transmit the virus to chickens and play a more important role in the persistence of the virus in the region than previously thought. H5N1 surveillance in countries with significant domestic duck and geese populations should be urgently increased. "It seems that a new chapter in the evolution of avian influenza may be unfolding silently in the heart of Europe," said FAO's Chief Veterinary Officer, Joseph Domenech. "If it turns out to be true that the H5N1 virus can persist in apparently healthy domestic duck and geese populations, then countries need to urgently reinforce their monitoring and surveillance schemes in all regions with significant duck and geese production for the presence of H5N1."
A recent study has found that a simple task like washing your hands regularly can help prevent spread of respiratory viruses like influenza and SARS. It also found that physical barriers like wearing masks, gloves and gowns were more effective than drugs, in preventing the viruses. The UK government had announced that it was doubling its stockpile of antiviral medicines in preparation for any future flu pandemic, but researchers believe that these simple, low cost physical measures should be given higher priority in national pandemic preparation.
The initial epidemiologic report on the United Kingdom's recent outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza in Suffolk said the source of the virus is unknown but could have been wild birds. The 24-page report from the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), released on the department's Web site, said the H5N1 virus infected poultry at the Redgrave Farm facility near Diss, then was transmitted by vehicles, people, or other means to a second farm owned by the same company. "Wild birds cannot be ruled out as a source of infection," DEFRA said in a press release. "To date, there is no evidence of H5N1 infection in the local wild bird population or in GB [Great Britain] as a whole, but the continued surveillance may help clarify the infection status of the wild bird population."
H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in domestic birds in Romania, Saudi Arabia, and Myanmar and in wild birds in Germany.
Christmas Bird Count and Other Bird Survey News
The 2007 Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) in the United States occur between 14 December 2007 and 5 January 2008. Already, some state CBC schedules are online; already the schedules for Alabama, Illinois, Kansas, New York State, both North and South Carolina (also see here) and Washington State CBC schedules are in the process of being updated for 2007. Be sure to check back on those links because they are still being updated. Of course, I am eager to link to all online CBC schedules so be sure to email your links to me.
The biggest ever wild bird survey to hit Wales will be launched in December. The British Trust for Ornithology is working with birdwatchers in Wales to undertake a new count of every Welsh bird species. Over 250 species will be surveyed, including the 40 red-listed and 121 amber-listed Species of Conservation Concern. The results will set the agenda for bird conservation in the next two decades, helping answer questions such as, have Willow Tit and Hawfinch become extinct in some Welsh counties?
Streaming Birds
On BirdNote, for the week of 3 December 2007: Monday, how birds survive cold winter nights; Tuesday, the varieties of beaks and bills; Wednesday, Birds of Paradise; Thursday, eco-birding, about hiring local guides to help you find birds on your travels; Friday, "As the Crow Flies," exploring sayings about birds. BirdNotes can be heard live, Monday through Friday, 8:58-9:00am in Western Washington state and Southern British Columbia, Canada, on KPLU radio and now also in North Central Washington state on KOHO radio. All episodes are available in the BirdNote archives, both in written transcript and mp3 formats, along with photographs, so you can listen to them anytime, anywhere. Listener ideas and comments are welcomed. [rss].
Scientists in Argentina are taking part in a program designed to save one of the world's most endangered species -- the Andean Condor [BBCNews: 1:41].
Live Allen's hummingbird nest cam in Irvine California has 2 babies -- username and password are both "guest".
Miscellaneous Bird News
Already this year there's been a bumper crop of winter finches in the southeastern U.S.; along with these have come good numbers of Red-breasted Nuthatches that are seldom seen locally. In fact, they've recently banded all three eastern nuthatches at Hilton Pond Center, providing a nice opportunity to compare these short-tailed bark clingers. For an up-close view of nuthatch similarities and differences, please visit the "This Week at Hilton Pond" photo essay for 15-21 November 2007. As always, the naturalists include lists of birds banded and recaptured, plus some miscellaneous nature notes and a mug shot of a Fox Sparrow.
"Seventy-one Over A" not only could see the cluster of birding telescopes, she could make out the veins in every retina looking through the lenses. If she minded, she didn't show it. She was too busy scraping the pigeon blood off her beak. The peregrine falcon flicked her beak across the steel girder like someone sharpening a carving knife. Two hundred feet down and north across the Lake Washington Ship Canal in Seattle, 16 birders on a Seattle Audubon Society tour aimed several thousand dollars worth of optical equipment at her perch under the Interstate 5 Ship Canal Bridge. GrrlScientist note: this is agreat story about several of the birds that I left behind when I moved from Seattle to NYC. It's great to learn that they are doing well.
The Fine Print: Thanks to Katie, Frederick, Jim, Jeff, Caren, Joseph, Mary Anne, Katie, Bill, Ellen, Jeremy and Ron for sending story links and to Chazz, Brenda, Chuck, Michael, Kent and Urs for updating and maintaining the online state CBC schedules. Thanks in advance to Ian for catching my typos; as you probably know by now, I put a few typographical errors in these documents just so Ian can find them!
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text: Hollywood Silent's Songs: Keeping Alive an Old Hollywood Tradition By Todd Bookman • Jan 28, 2018 Courtesy Jeff Rapsis is a hard man to shut up once he gets going on his favorite subject. Ask him about how silent movies used to be staged, and Rapsis overwhelms you with information, a walking Wikipedia entry with actor anecdotes and deep history at his fingertips. He's been into the genre since he was a kid growing up in Nashua. The Biggest Movies Of The Year, And Where To See Them By The Exchange • Jan 26, 2018 Movies, politics, culture... and the Oscars. We look at what this year's Academy Awards try to reflect about American society, and whether they do it well. We also talk about other movies that were huge hits last year, even if they weren't considered "Oscar-worthy", and the films to look forward to in 2018. 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Pirate Joe's, Hollywood Animal Fails, And Abolishing Tips By Virginia Prescott • Dec 2, 2013 Tom Magliery via flickr Creative Commons A montage of new ideas, picked fresh from the Word of Mouth vault: Abolishing tips: usually, the debate around gratuity revolves around whether to leave 15 or 20 %.... Head of the Sustainable Restaurant Project at the University of Guelph , Bruce McAdams, is in favor of getting rid of tips altogether. Balloon Brigade: the career aptitude test video game. A new startup designs mobile games that could help match fresh grads with job opportunities. The science behind the buzz: journalist and science writer Joseph Stromberg explains caffeine addiction. A Biologist's Plea To Hollywood: Make 'Real' Animals The Stars By Virginia Prescott • Aug 26, 2013 via wikimedia commons Turbo is a big budget, animated, kid's comedy about a snail's dream to win the Indy 500, though the movie didn't do as well as studios had hoped, one ecologist thinks it failed on a different level – accuracy. Fictional talking snail aside, Marlene Zuk argues that Turbo was another example in a long line of movies that misrepresent the biology of the animal kingdom. Marlene Zuk is an evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecologist and currently teaches at the University of Minnesota. Her recent opinion piece in the L.A. Times: "Animals to Hollywood: Get it Right" discusses the egregious errors filmmakers make when it comes to animals. Making Movies With The Pentagon By Taylor Quimby • Jun 4, 2013 DVIDSHUB via flickr Creative Commons The Pentagon has often played a role in shaping blockbuster films…at least those featuring tanks, ships, and other military gear. 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Brooks Barnes is a media reporter for the New York Times – he recently wrote about Vinny Bruzzese, a statistician and former professor who's using big data to slice and dice Hollywood screenplays There's A Razzie For That: Awarding The Worst Of American Cinema By Virginia Prescott • Feb 21, 2013 Razzies.com On Sunday, tens of millions of people worldwide will watch the dazzling gowns, jewels, and strained smiles on display at the eighty-fifth annual Academy Awards. On Saturday, a much, much, much smaller audience will watch the Razzies! For the 33rd year, film buffs and industry professionals gather to recognize the biggest flops, lamest performances, and most tired screenplays of the year. It's a dubious honor, but still, some, uh, winners do show up at the Razzies to accept their dis-honor...like Halle Berry for her worst-actress worthy performance in 2004's Catwoman (*note: the video contains some expletives). 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A successful leadership is what drives a business in to its path of success. A strong leader is required at the management level of very business in order to align the productivity in terms of client delivery, bringing in new opportunities, foreseeing the potential market and industry threats and guiding the organization in times of crisis. But hiring the management people does not end the process. Preparing the next line of individuals or the similar positions is also very important for companies. That is the reason when outplacement service agencies are now providing middle management hiring services also. Middle management hiring refers to the recruitment of candidates who have the ability to develop themselves as leaders and take up various managerial positions within an organization. There are certain strategies which have been adopted by companies in recent times towards leadership development.
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