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Jeffrey Katzenberg is famous for his energy, his relentless work ethic and for demanding the same level of commitment in those around him.
He has brought the same drive to his work for the Motion Picture & Television Fund, and residents on the fund's Wasserman Campus in Woodland Hills, Calif., have reason to be grateful for it.
Less than four years ago the fund's hospital and long-term care facility were losing a reported $10 million a year and the fund announced plans to phase them out. Today there is new management in place, the fund is back on a sound financial footing and the hospital and home are to stay open.
"We've all heard the stories of Jeffrey being in at the office at 6:30 in the morning, and no stone unturned," says Academy prexy Hawk Koch. "That's how Jeffrey is at the fund." In addition to sweat equity, Katzenberg has raised some $200 million for the fund, and last month he and his DreamWorks partners, Steven Spielberg and David Geffen, each donated $30 million to the Fund as part of a $350 million fundraising campaign.
"He took us through a very rough time through the last few years, and almost singlehandedly turned that around," says Koch.
He also serves on the boards of California Institute of the Arts, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, AIDS Project Los Angeles, the Geffen Playhouse, the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
So the Academy Board of Governors recognized Katzenberg's work for the Fund and his other philanthropic endeavors with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, making him only the 34th Hersholt honoree.
Says Koch: "Jeffrey reminds us what the word humanitarian actually means: Having concern for people and doing something about it."
For his part, Katzenberg says giving back is something he simply has to do. "I feel like I have had so much good luck and so much good fortune, I feel as though if I didn't share it I'd be struck by lightning, and deservedly so."
Indeed, Katzenberg's commitment to giving and philanthropy runs deep, going back to his childhood in New York in the '50s and '60s.
Though he came from what he calls "a privileged household," Katzenberg says his father set an early example. "He really believed in supporting others," says Katzenberg. "At the earliest ages, I always had these strong memories of him just being generous."
Another early influence was New York mayor John Lindsay. Katzenberg went to work for Lindsay at age 15 and stayed on to work in Lindsay's office after high school.
"The purpose of good government is to help people in need, and that's something John Lindsay was famous for," says Katzenberg. "He had a great idealistic sense of what government can and should be. He very much supported (the) underprivileged, and had a great heart and great compassion for the needs of people. He was always out walking the streets of New York, being in the toughest places at the toughest times, being there for the people."
Later, as his career took him to Hollywood, Katzenberg found more mentors and examples: Spielberg and Geffen; Kirk Douglas; and Lew and Edie Wasserman. It was the Wassermans who asked him to go work with the Motion Picture
"Their commitment and their support of the Fund and the Home and everything around it is legend," says Katzenberg. "And honestly it was very easy to see why they loved it so much and why it was so valuable and important. So I was in from the go. They sold hard, but it was not a hard sale."
At the start of the great recession, Katzenberg saw that the combination of bad times, escalating medical costs and longer life expectancies was stressing the fund badly. "Every great government is facing it, ours is, and every great medical institution in the field is facing it," he says. "So it was a very very tough time for us. None of us were prepared to see this ship sink on our watch, and that made for very hard decisions."
The turnaround seems complete, and while Katzenberg is getting an Oscar, he hails the Fund's CEO, Bob Beitcher: "He's done an outstanding job of righting the ship and ensuring that this thing is going to be around for the next generations."
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: Jeffrey Katzenberg | Honorary Oscar: George Stevens Jr. | Honorary Oscar: Hal Needham | Honorary Oscar: D.A. Pennebaker


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With winter comes the inevitable cold and flu season. Everywhere you go you see someone coughing, sneezing or blowing their noses in misery. So far this year our winter has been mild with less snow than usual. Our household has been lucky enough to have escaped both colds and the flu for now. I'm sure one of us will get sick sooner or later, we always do. When that time comes I will be making up a dose of my fabulous Garlic Penicillin.
Garlic Penicillin
-6 minced garlic cloves
-olive oil
-1/4 tsp parsley
-1/2 tsp dried rosemary
-1/4 tsp. dried thyme
-1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper (optional)**
-1/4 tsp. dried thyme
-1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper (optional)**
juice of 1/4 of a lemon
Saute garlic briefly in olive oil. Add broth and simmer for 10 minutes. Add herbs and continue to simmer for 5 more minutes. Remove from heat and add juice from 1/4 of a lemon. Serve immediately. Sip carefully as it's pipping hot!
If you're serving broth to kids, omit the cayenne pepper.

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Maybe this was your first Olympics with access to NBC's online feeds (or perhaps you are a lucky Canadian who can access live events all the time). Maybe you coincidentally happened to have 14 days off work (counting weekends) during the 17 days of the Summer Olympics. Maybe you are now exhibiting symptoms such as disorientation with your sudden abundance of free time, queasiness when watching sports where anthems are played before the game begins, and a compulsion to introduce Olympic athletes into only tangentially related topics (such as, say, Usain Bolt in a conversation about stealing bases on a Cardinals broadcast). You may be suffering from an Olympics Hangover. And, like those other types of hangovers, there are various methods for dealing with it.
Hair of the Dog
Maybe the cure for too much Olympics is more Olympics. Take part in the Mckayla Maroney meme, review the Fug Girls' Olympic coverage (I'm partial to the rhythmic gymnastics review, but also ABS), or countdown the days until Sochi 2014 — or Rio! We just want you to feel better!
Sports Drinks
Rehydrate with some baseball. There was a perfect game yesterday, you know! Celebrate the USMNT's historic win over Mexico (while we're on the subject of Olympics hangovers…)! Or obsess over NFL training camp. (The latter not recommended if you happen to be a fan of a team employing a QB whose last name starts with T and ends with ow. You're already naseous.)
Pickle Juice
Maybe what you need, after two weeks of the best of sports, is something to leave a sour taste in your mouth. Melky Cabrera, anyone? Or perhaps, Chad Johnson*? Or, hey, anybody know if we're going to have an NHL season this year?
*I'm not even linking to that — all the articles I can find left me wanting to take a shower
Everybody needs a break now and then. (h/t Jezebel)


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MONCTON, New Brunswick — The man suspected in the shooting deaths of three Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the wounding of two others in a rare case of gun violence in eastern Canada was arrested early Friday, police said.
Justin Bourque was arrested around 12:30 a.m., said Paul Greene, a spokesman with the RCMP. Authorities had identified the 24-year-old Bourque as their suspect after the shootings Wednesday evening in the northwest area of the city.
The attack on the Mounties' ranks was the deadliest in nearly a decade.
Michelle Thibodeau said she saw the Moncton man arrested in the front yard of her home. Thibodeau, 21, said she heard the suspect say, "I'm done," before his arrest by officers with guns drawn.
Much of this normally quiet Canadian city of about 60,400 people had been on lockdown, with frightened residents huddled in their homes as Mounties scoured the quiet streets.
A motive for the shootings was not known. Neighbors of the suspect described a withdrawn man who collected guns and was an avid hunter of birds, deer and moose.
"He never missed a season," said Kerry Fitzpatrick, who lives half a block away from Bourque and was at home when he heard the sound of gunfire. When he later heard Bourque might be the shooter, he walked over to Bourque's trailer, found an open door and Bourque's wallet on the table.
The attack on the Mounties' ranks was the deadliest in nearly a decade.
"He lost it. The guy lost it," Fitzpatrick said.
Bourque, who was armed with high-powered long firearms, was spotted three times Thursday but still managed to elude the massive manhunt that all but shut down the city about 180 miles (290 kilometers) east of the Maine border.
Police released a map of a large portion of the northwest section of the city, including a heavily wooded area, where they wanted people to remain indoors with their doors locked. They urged residents to turn on exterior lights to help the search. Many parts of Moncton, including much of its popular downtown area, were completely shut down, with some businesses placing signs in windows explaining they were closed because of the manhunt.
Schools and government offices were closed. The city pulled its buses off the roads and mail delivery was suspended. Police commandeered armored trucks.
Dozens of police officers with their weapons drawn could be seen in a part of the search area, some glancing around buildings. Others, including members of a tactical unit, were patrolling streets within the cordoned-off area.
Nervous residents who live in the same trailer park as Bourque said he was a quiet, seemingly reclusive man who shared a small, worn trailer with a roommate.
Neighbor Holly Tingley said before the capture that residents feared that Bourque might return home.
"My kids keep asking me, 'Did they catch him? Did they catch him?' It puts me on edge every time they ask," she said.
Police used air support, tactical teams and canine units. Several hundred officers from New Brunswick and elsewhere from across Canada were involved.
Bourque was wearing military camouflage and carrying two rifles in a picture released by police on Twitter.
Police still have not released the identities of the three officers who were killed Wednesday night while responding to a call about an armed man. Two other officers, whose names also were not released, were wounded.
It was the deadliest attack on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police since four officers were killed by a gunman on a farm in the western Canadian province of Alberta in 2005. That attack remains the deadliest on Canadian police officers in 120 years.
Canada's Parliament on Thursday observed a moment of silence and the flag on Parliament Hill flew at half-staff.
Commanding Officer Roger Brown said the two wounded officers had surgery for non-life-threatening injuries Thursday and he met with their families. One was later released from the hospital. Police said they were unsure when the released officer would return to work.
"The RCMP family is hurting. As is Moncton, New Brunswick and our country," Brown said.
Fitzpatrick said he stopped by Bourque's trailer five days ago.
"He seemed fine, it was a normal conversation," Fitzpatrick told the Associated Press on Thursday by phone from his home.
Fitzpatrick said Bourque "obviously had things on his mind," based on a stretch of recent Facebook posts about guns and the police.
"It was never something that we took serious because we actually know him, as friends," he said.
The three officers were the first Canadian police killed in the line of duty since March 2013, when a police officer in northern Quebec was shot after responding to a domestic violence call. According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police website, the last officer to die from a gunshot wound was on Nov. 5, 2007.


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Euro data protection: Great for punters, not for biz - MoJ wonk
Whitehall man seeks views on 'disproportionate' draft law
Comment A colleague of mine went to a lecture on the European Commission's proposed Data Protection Regulation last week*. One of the speakers was John Bowman, Head of International Data Protection and Policy at the UK's Ministry of Justice. His opening question to the floor was: "How many of you here represent consumer groups?"
Not surprisingly, a couple of attendees raised their hands. "Exactly," he said, warming to his theme, and went on to explain how the MoJ wanted to hear from business as to how the proposed Regulation would affect them and, in particular, the costs they would have to incur to meet the requirements.
He said that the government's view was that the Regulation was all about protecting the citizen and that the Regulation was biased; he added that there needed to be more of a balance towards the interests of companies (ie, data controllers).
Bowman went on to say that the UK is in an economic downturn and we need to make sure business interests are protected at such a time. He said the Regulation "gold-plated citizens' rights", was "disproportionate" and that we needed to "plough on with the British economy".
He added that the US and the UK were leading the world on a digital agenda and that there was a strong economic argument that these interests should be protected (by minimising the impact of the Regulation the internet). He finished by asking all businesses to respond to the MoJ's "call for evidence" (closing in early March).
The MoJ link to the "call for evidence"** echoes this data controller emphasis. It states that: "In particular, we would like information on the potential impact on organisations processing personal data, as well as the likely benefits to individuals through strengthened rights. Wherever possible, we would like this information to include practical, day-to-day examples of the proposals' possible effects and monetised cost and benefit figures. We would also like views on the extent to which these proposals build trust in the online environment, whether they can contribute to economic growth".
This approach is not surprising. All UK governments (from John Major's government in 1990) have always had a minimal approach to data protection from the data subject's perspective. That is why the European Commission claims that the Data Protection Act 1998 does not properly implement Directive 95/46/EC. (Readers may be aware that 18 of the 34 articles in the Directive have not been properly implemented.***)
My own view is that the MoJ "call for evidence" is fatuous. Has the MoJ issued a document that explains the Regulation in detail? (Answer: No.) So how can businesses make informed comments as to costings if they don't know how in detail the Regulation will apply? Is the MoJ expecting businesses to make their own interpretation of the Regulation by some strange osmotic process? In short, I think all the MoJ will collect is a spate of inaccurate costings and comments based on incorrect or incomplete interpretation of the Regulation.
And what will data subjects do? Well it's obvious – if they have any sense at all they will write to the MoJ in their hundreds in support of the extended protection afforded by a Regulation (hopefully adding that they support the Regulation because the UK Government cannot be trusted following its failure to implement the Directive 95/46/EC properly***).
In short, the MoJ has set up a numbers game where the ministry wants to say that the vast majority of respondents are opposed to costly changes to the Data Protection Act. however, an embarrassing number of data subjects writing in support of the changes proposed in the Regulation would make that claim "sort of difficult". ®
This story originally appeared at HAWKTALK, the blog of Amberhawk Training Ltd.
* The lecture was organised by Field Fisher Waterhouse – the city law firm that employs data protection stalwart Stewart Room and which hosts meetings of the National Association of Data Protection Officers – a information law grouping which has expanded its interest to cover FOI and RIPA issues as well)
** The MoJ's call for evidence closes on 6 March (a short time span) and can be accessed here.
*** A list of deficiencies in UK's Data Protection Act identified by the European Commission.


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Sunscreen helps prevent skin cancer. You know this. Now, however, scientists finally have proof for something else beauty editors have been telling us all along: SPF, when used often enough, also prevents wrinkles and signs of skin aging. How's that for application motivation?
It's true: Despite what you may have heard for years, there had never actually been any scientific proof -- in terms of human clinical trials, that is -- that sunscreen use had real effects on skin "age." So researchers from Australia and the U.K. set out to test this hypothesis, by recruiting 903 participants under age 55 for a side-by-side comparison.
All participants underwent photoaging tests on the back of one hand at the start of the study, published yesterday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, and then were split into groups: Half were advised to use a sunscreen with SPF 15 or higher, every day, on their head, arms, neck and hands; the other half was told to use it on a "discretionary" basis.
After four and a half years, those who'd slathered on the SPF daily showed no detectable increase in skin aging. And overall, their aging scores were 24% lower than those in the SPF-whenever group! The study also tested whether the antioxidant beta carotene could help reduce skin aging (another commonly held belief), but the results found no differences between those who took supplements and those who took placebos.
What's cool about this study is that the average participant age was 39; the researchers say this proves that even middle age is not too late to start a daily SPF routine and still see real results. Also, the aging tests were done on the backs of their hands -- one place that I know I, personally, forget about on a daily basis (even though I'm really good at applying SPF moisturizer to my face every morning).
So, go slather on some SPF and tweet us your thoughts at @amandaemac and @SELFmagazine!
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You know Zendaya as the beyond gorge girl with the killer nails and even hotter dance moves. But just wait until you see this side of her! In her new Disney Channel special This Is Who I Am, she's taking us back home to Oakland, CA and giving us a tour of her middle school! You'll see the theater girl inside her come out—plus, watch her play around in the costume closet, interact with her former teachers, and even toss current students a few tips!
Check out the sneak peek below—and catch more of Z in the This Is Who I Am segment on Disney Channel!
What celebs would you love to go to high school with? Dish in the comments!
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This foto in no way conveys the intensity of this moment: that car crept down Iberville Street at dusk blasting out a shock wave of engine roar that rivaled the scream of 747 engines.
Here too the noise of beaded necklace flinging Shiners on Tchoupitoulas Street.
The shadow of Christ emerges on this end of St. Louis Cathedral as night falls.
Tugster dips his toe in the Mississippi near where Capt. John hugs the wharf just northeast of JacksonSquare.
This statue is called Old Man River, and I'm intrigued though
these words (by Robert Schoen?) leave me as mystified as the sculpture.
Traffic at the intersection of St. Ann's and Chartres includes this mule (?) and a texting swamp man.
Down by the river, bowsprite begins to weigh her appreciation for 1937 ferry Louis B. Porterie, one of the free ferries operated by
LA DOTD, the second "D" being development. Here's a better foto of the ferry, which whirls and spins between the French Quarter and the neighborhood intriguingly-named Algiers.
I looked in vain for formerly-sixth boro Glen Cove but did find a Kirby tug, Miss Susan.
More of this type of traffic tomorrow. All fotos by either bowsprite or tugster.


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Man accused of firing gun while driving on I-95
Report: Thomas Ellis didn't remember shooting out of Ford Bronco
A southwest Florida man was arrested Friday in Fort Pierce after he was firing a gun out the window of his SUV while driving along Interstate 95, authorities said.
Thomas Ellis, 55, of Port Charlotte, faces a second-degree felony charge of discharging a firearm from a vehicle and a second-degree misdemeanor charge of carrying a concealed weapon.
MUGSHOTS: Who Got Arrested In South Florida?
St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office deputies said a 911 caller traveling south on I-95 reported seeing the driver of a Ford Bronco firing a gun out of the passenger side window. The caller then followed the SUV into Fort Pierce.
Fort Pierce police followed the SUV to a RaceTrac gas station, where officers took the driver, later identified as Ellis, into custody.
Police said they found a gun in the SUV.
According to the arrest report, Ellis told deputies he was on his way to visit his uncle in Merritt Island and "wanted to have some fun by firing his gun while he was fishing." Ellis told detectives he was firing at paper targets.
Detectives said Ellis became very worried and asked if anyone was hurt. Detectives said he told them he hadn't slept in four days and didn't remember shooting out of his Bronco.
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The question is in no way meant to be provocative, let alone insulting. But the world, including vast numbers of Muslims, needs this question answered.
After having studied Arabic at college and lectured on comparative religion for decades, and having devoted years to writing my upcoming book comparing American values with leftist and Islamist values, I have become convinced of two things regarding Islam: It must be reformed, and it can be reformed.
Both suppositions are highly controversial. Few believing Muslims think that Islam needs to be reformed; the suggestion would strike most religious Muslims as absurd, if not insulting and ultimately blasphemous. And it would strike many non-Muslim critics of Islam as naive. As Lord Cromer, British consul-general in Egypt from 1883 to 1907, put it in a quote known to all Western students of Islam, "Islam reformed is Islam no longer."
Let's deal first with the question of whether Islam needs reforming.
The case for it is compelling. Here are a few reasons:
-- Majority-Muslim and Islam-based countries are not, and have not been, free societies. According to the 2010 Freedom House "Freedom in the World" survey, of the world's 47 Muslim-majority countries, only two are free, 18 are partly free, and 27 are not free. There is no honest explanation for this nearly total absence of liberty in Muslim countries that does not reflect in some way on Islam.
-- Muslim treatment of Jews and Christians in places like medieval Spain was morally far superior to the treatment of non-Christians by European Christians during the same period. But in the modern period, nowhere that Islam has controlled has afforded non-Muslims anywhere near the equality that non-Christians have taken for granted in the Christian world.
-- There was a burst of intellectual and scientific creativity in the Muslim world for a few hundred years, but then the opponents of reason came to dominate Islam, and with it came a loss of scientific and intellectual curiosity.
How could it have been otherwise? The dominant Muslim view was that the natural world had no laws. Everything that occurred did so solely because Allah willed it. If an arrow hit its target, it was not because of the archer's ability or wind patterns or laws of physics; it was because Allah willed it.
According to a United Nations report written by Arab scholars, the Arab world's lack of interest in the non-Arab and non-Muslim worlds is so great that in any given year comparatively tiny Greece translates more books into Greek than all the Arab countries combined translate into Arabic.
-- Regarding women, one cannot name a culture or religion in which the status of women is as low as it is in many Muslim societies. Moreover, the status of women has actually declined in many Muslim societies in the present generation. For example, the veil is more common in Egypt today than it was a hundred years ago.
-- In nearly every Muslim country in which non-Muslims live (usually Christians) -- from Nigeria to Egypt to Iraq -- they suffer persecution.
-- A very small percentage of Muslims are terrorists. But nearly every international terrorist is Muslim. And according to every poll I have seen, at least 70 million of the world's more than a billion Muslims support Islamist actions and theology.
-- Every state that calls itself an Islamic Republic and rules according to Islamic law is a totalitarian state, and it is usually a bloodthirsty one. Saudi Arabia is an example of the first; Taliban Afghanistan, Islamist Iran and Islamist Sudan are examples of both.
So, yes, Islam needs to be reformed. This is no insult to Muslims. Judaism and Christianity have undergone major changes. And needed to.
Can Islam be reformed? I do not agree with Lord Cromer. I believe it can.
What is necessary is that Muslim reformers:
1. Honestly acknowledge the Muslim moral record -- i.e. the lack of liberty in Muslim nations, the killing of large numbers of non-Muslims, the low status of women, etc. This does not necessitate rejecting the Quran or Islam.
2. Eschew incorporating Sharia into state law and oppose the establishment of any Islamic theocracy (which is not, in any event, Quran-based, according to moderate Muslims).
3. Publicly and unambiguously condemn all violence in the name of Islam, including violence against Israel.
4. Express a deep appreciation of the moral record of America, including its superb treatment of both its Muslim citizens and Muslim immigrants, along with a complete rejection of the Islamist notion that America is hostile to Muslims.
5. Fully accept the existence of Israel as a Jewish state, and distance themselves from the Muslim/Arab obsession with Israel.
At this very moment, there are Muslim reformers who believe and express all five of these propositions.
Examples include University of Delaware Professor Muqtedar Khan, who runs www.ijtihad.com: "American Muslims really have no reason to feel they are victims of anything ... ." The Muslim American community is thriving, proof of "America's benevolence and tolerance of Islam."
Another is Ahmed al-Rahim, a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia: "The most important message is that we condemn all kinds of hate speech, including anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism, and that we come out as boldly as possible against violence committed by Muslims in Iraq, in Israel ... . "
Regarding the Muslim obsession with Israel, Khan has written: "It is time the leaders of the American Muslim community woke up and realized that ... Islam is not about defeating Jews or conquering Jerusalem. It is about mercy, about virtue, about sacrifice and about duty. Above all, it is the pursuit of moral perfection."
Zainab Al-Suwaij, a refugee from Saddam Hussein's Iraq and executive director of the moderate American Islamic Congress, publicly declared that America "has given Iraqis the most precious gift any nation has ever given another -- the gift of democracy and the freedom to determine its own future."
And Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a physician in Arizona whose parents fled Syria in the 1960s, is the founder and chairman of the board of the moderate American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD). A believing and practicing Muslim, Jasser advocates American values, promotes a Quran-based life to be practiced by the individual Muslim and never imposed by the state. He is courageous in confronting the Islamist Muslim groups that the mainstream media in the Western world have promoted to appear as the spokesmen for Western Muslims.
As Jasser says of organizations such as CAIR and other so-called Muslim civil rights organizations, "There was more concern with hate crimes against Muslims, which I think were relatively low; there was more focus on that than actually looking at the violence and the hate speech that has been committed in the name of Islam."
Islam is too important to deny its need to reform. And it is too important to deny its ability to ever reform.
And if it does reform, Muslims who have embraced America and American values will lead the way.


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Microsoft's ongoing layoffs are hitting its home turf, with new notices affecting 1,248 people in the Redmond, Bellevue and Issaquah, Wash. areas in May.
Microsoft's latest collaboration application, Loop, is now available as a public preview.
Here's your guide to all the IT training sessions, partner meet-ups and annual Microsoft conferences you won't want to miss.
Microsoft's top partner executives detailed several changes it plans to make to the 6-month-old Microsoft Cloud Partner Program (MCPP).
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Let's go to Cambridge, named after the University Of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders who were the 700 original Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who believed in reforming the Church of England because it was corrupt. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent universities, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reflecting the value placed on education. Originally the city was called 'Newe Towne' in 1632, it was safely up river from Boston Harbor, and had its own healing spring. It is one of the most populated cities in the state and is on the 'other side' of the Charles River.
To get to Cambridge I ride on the Red Line Subway; "America's First Subway" known by locals as "The T" which "is as Boston as the Boston Tea Party"! I get off at the northern terminus of the red line called the Harvard Square stop which is also a major transfer station between subway, trackless trolley and buses. Parking is hard to come by and street traffic if often heavy so subway is faster and easier. There is a tunnel adjacent to the subway tunnel that was originally built for streetcars till 1958, now it's used by trackless trolleys and buses serving the north and west areas. The tunnel prevents bus traffic from crossing The Square and interfering with automobiles and safer covered access between subways and buses.
I find myself in the hustle and bustle of the red brick walkways of Harvard Square, feeling the buzz of "The Square" with street entertainers, musicians and chess matches in action. Harvard Square is the historic center of Cambridge which is a large triangular area, at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, Brattle Street andJohn F. Kennedy Street. As the historic heart of Harvard University it is the commercial center for Harvard students, as well as residents in the surrounding areas. In an extended sense the name "Harvard Square" also refers to the entire neighborhood surrounding the intersection for several blocks in each direction.
On Saturdays I love hanging out on Harvard Square to enjoy a meal, check out one of its many entertainment spots, but mostly in order to stick to my budget I peruse the quaint shops and the Harvard Bookstore.
I travel north to the nearby Cambridge Common on Massachusetts Avenue, a 16 acre park with a playground, baseball field and a number of monuments. This is where George Washington gathered his troops during the Revolutionary War which now is honored by a trio of bronze cannons. There is also a Civil War Memorial with a statue of Abraham Lincoln under it and a soldier on top. I walk under all the beautiful trees covering the common going west to Garden Street.
Walking south on Garden Street I come upon Radcliffe Yard and Radcliffe College awomen's liberal arts college, and the coordinate college for Harvard University. It was founded by woman for women in 1879, since women were not allowed into Harvard. It is a part of the Seven Sister Colleges in New England that were started and supported by women. Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas began in 1963.As I stand here I am appalled that the best schools in the country are for men only and women are still 2nd class citizens.
I continue walking south on Garden Street towards the "Old Burial Place/Old Burial Ground"which is on the corner where Massachusetts Avenue crosses Garden Street. Taking a quote from the Cambridge Historical Commission:
"The first cemetery in "Newtowne" was "without the Common Pales" on the south side of Brattle Street, probably between present Ash Street and Longfellow Park. Being outside the perimeter fence, it was not safe from wild animals, and was discontinued before the West End fields were opened for settlement in 1634. No trace of this cemetery has been found."
First I come across the Christ Church at Zero Garden Street which was constructed in 1760 establishing both the line of Garden Street and the western boundary of the colonial cemetery.
The Old Burying Ground which was established inside the pales before 1635 originally only covered about an acre but it doubled as more of the common was enclosed. It was the only cemetery in Cambridge for nearly two hundred years so it received a cross section of the people who had lived there, from the poor to the rich Harvard presidents. This is a great place to do stone rubbings on paper.
In the early years burial spaces did not have permanent headstones so it contains many more remains than the 1,218 marked graves. The slate headstones have scalloped shoulders, one is dated 1653 even though headstones were not used till the 1670s so it must have been added later. I find death's-heads or winged skull of medieval origin which was a non-religious symbol used on the oldest headstones in the late 16th through the late 17th century. I come across winged cherubs on other headstones which show up mid 17th to early 18th century from the Renaissance period which are the most striking with interesting epitaphs and details. The third type is the willow and the urn from neoclassic period that showed up in the mid 18th and early 19th century.
The alter stones of the late 18th century wealthy Anglicans and those with social standing, I find among the traditional markers, for the upper-class families were buried in vaults. The most famous and elaborate is the John Vassal tomb which is an extensive subterranean vault containing twenty-five caskets.
I continue to head south and come across the First Parish Church, built in 1833 and known for its liberal religious thoughts. I learn that in Cambridge the churches were built after the cemetery where as in many New England towns the burying ground was placed next to the meeting house.
I decide to head east towards Harvard Yard which is a grassy area of about 25 acres, adjacent to The Square that is Harvard University's center and its oldest part. On its west is Massachusetts Avenue and Peabody Street, north is Cambridge Street, northeast is Broadway, Quincy Street is east, while Harvard Street and Massachusetts Avenue is south. There are thirteen of the seventeen dormitories there in addition to four libraries, five building of classrooms and academic departments, and the central administrative offices. There are students all over the place congregating in small groups or walking to their next destination.
As I walk south I come to The Old Yard at Johnston Gate which opens onto Massachusetts Avenue where most of the freshman dormitories are; the oldest being Massachusetts Hall constructed in 1720 which makes it one of the two oldest academic buildings in the United States. To be in such an old area with so much history put my family history in perspective giving me a glimpse of the development on my country.
In the heart of Harvard Square I walk west to Brattle Street, which exudes an 18th century flavor with its seven historic Colonial mansions, where many Loyalists lived at the time of the American Revolution, so it was called the "King's Highway" or "Tory Row". This was an area of great conflict during the Revolution for many mansions were confiscated by George Washington's army, later some were restored to their former owners if they proved themselves no longer supportive of the king of England. Originally it was a forest path to the Charles River. Now there are many structures from the 19th century and the more recent times, all squished together made of wood, brick, many business awnings and glass reflecting the eclectic life style of present day man.
Samuel Atkins Eliot wrote in 1912 calling the area "not only one of the most beautiful but also one of the most historic streets in America." "As a fashionable address it is doubtful if any other residential street in this country has enjoyed such long and uninterrupted prestige." We are talking almost 300 years!
I amble down the street and enter Longfellow's Mansion/House at 105 Brattle Street, the home of the 19th century poet and Abolitionist Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Inside you can see how he lived, surrounded by literature, a massive art collection, amazing photographs, letters and documents preserved as a National Historic Site. In 1775 General George Washington took command of the Continental Army and moved into the empty mansion, living in it for almost a year during the Siege of Boston. Outside there is just less than two acres, located in a built up environment, with a carriage barn and a pergola surrounded by gardens. There is so much history exuding these walls reflecting conflict and war while America was forming its beliefs about freedom.
I saunter down the street to 42 Brattle Street and admire the Brattle House which is of Georgian Architecture and built in 1725 by one of the wealthiest men in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, General-Major William Brattle. In 1774 he and his family fled to Boston when an angry mob surrounded his home. He was able to recover it in 1778 when he showed his support for America's independence.
As I walk briskly to the subway to get home before dark my head is spinning with all that I have learned today about the making of a great country and the fight for freedom, the freedom that I take for granted. I am thinking there still needs to be more freedom granted to the people of color, those with different sexual preferences than the 'norm', and religious freedom, the list goes on. I even apply this concept to myself; to give myself permission to define my own beliefs and morals, rather than just accepting the ones my family instilled in me, to explore those handed and decide which to keep and which to let go of. What does true freedom look and feel like?


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The Effects of Beauty on Speed
I was intrigued by this line from a new paper by John N. Ivan, Norman W. Garrick, and Gilbert Hanson titled "Designing Roads That Guide Drivers to Choose Safer Speeds":
The aesthetics or "beauty" of a road environment has also been investigated in relation to traffic safety. Drottenborg (1999) studied the impact of speed on streets that appear as "beautiful" due to the blossoming of cherry trees along the streets in Lund during springtime, and similar streets that lack such beautification. She found that the free-flow mean speed decreased by about 5 percent and the number of vehicles traveling at high speeds between 50-60 km/h decreased by about 12 percent during the cherry blossom period.
One imagines a whole new sub-field of traffic engineering, with myriad questions: Do certain buildings or even architectural styles affect driver behavior? Can beautiful people literally "stop traffic"? Road aesthetics in general is a rather lost art; there's a whole interesting strand of research from the optimistic 1950s, particularly from the U.K., looking into things like which sorts of road-side plants read most legibly at design speeds.
Of course, in so much of contemporary America, what James Howard Kunstler lovingly calls our "National Automobile Slum," there's not much present that would make anyone slow down (just the opposite really); indeed, the only seeming role of aesthetics in these environments is to transmit basic information (e.g., branding messages) at highway speed. When one actually gets out of the car in something like a big-box parking lot the effect is rather soul-crushing.
The aforementioned paper (which looked at a variety of locations in Connecticut), by the way, found that, perhaps not surprisingly, "drivers slow down where the road feels "hemmed- in" or there is noticeable street activity, and they speed up where the road feels "wide open" or street activity is less noticeable. This finding is not surprising, but these relationships are quite strong in the observed data, and it is a useful result to isolate this short list of factors that are significantly correlated with actual vehicle running speeds."
And speaking of aesthetics, roads, and Connecticut, the Merritt Parkway is in trouble. The Depression-era Merritt Parkway had made the World Monuments Fund list of endangered global treasures, joining Machu Picchu, among others.
Built in the 1930s, the Parkway was intended for cars going a leisurely 35 mph, not today's high speeds. More than simply a road to get drivers from one place to another, it provides a uniquely relaxing experience, said Jill Smyth, executive director of the Merritt Parkway Conservancy, the nonprofit that nominated the road for a slot on the World Monuments Fund list. She touted its gently rolling topography, quintessentially New England landscape and historic stone bridges…
…Newman said he and other Merritt fans are currently at "loggerheads" with ConnDOT over a plan that is underway near Trumbull, Conn., which will restore 12 bridges, but also involves the removal of many trees.
The Merritt is a case where the presence of trees and aesthetics doesn't seem to affect speed choice for many drivers — I'm always amazed at how fast people pass me. I'd hate to see the Parkway turned into some sterile version of I-95 because of the actions of a few people driving, as the police summons puts it, "too fast for conditions."
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Jon Jones: Chael Sonnen 'doesn't deserve to fight me'
- Sonnen often refers to the champ as "Little J.J." and offers wisecracks related to Jones' May arrest
- If Sonnen's barbs didn't bother Jones, then why take the fight?
- Jones says he's excited about facing Sonnen in the pressure cooker that is 'The Ultimate Fighter'
Five months from now, Chael Sonnen will fight for the UFC's light heavyweight title.
He hasn't registered a 205-pound win in the octagon since 2006, and he was soundly defeated by UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva in his most recent appearance. So why did UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones agree to coach opposite Sonnen on The Ultimate Fighter 17 and ultimately face him in the octagon?
"Bones" said it was an easy choice. This is his chance to silence the trash-talking master by beating him down in a cage.
"Chael definitely doesn't deserve to fight me, and everybody sees that," Jones told USA TODAY Sports. "As long as people see that at the end of the day, I'm happy with that. But at the same time, a lot of people have said, 'Why not be the guy to shut him up once and for all? Why not be the guy to make his words very irrelevant once and for all – put a stamp on what Anderson did to him.' That's what I'm going to try to do."
Sonnen, of course, has in recent years established himself as one of the sport's biggest superstars by not only beating the likes of Michael Bisping, Nate Marquardt, Yushin Okami and Brian Stann but also serving up some of the most memorable trashtalk in MMA history. For the past few years, Silva had been Sonnen's primary target, but after falling short in a July rematch with "The Spider," the self-described "gangster from West Linn, Oregon" turned his attention to Jones.
Sonnen often refers to the champ as "Little J.J." and frequently offers wisecracks related to Jones' May arrest on a misdemeanor DWI charge. Of course, Sonnen was willing to back up the talk when he accepted a proposed UFC 151 with Jones that the champ ultimately turned down, resulting in the cancellation of the event.
In typical Sonnen fashion, he responded by offering up "The Jon Jones" at his Oregon restaurant Mean Street Pizza. "Loaded with chicken and full of cheese," the menu read. "Comes with a six-pack of beer."
Jones has endured previous run-ins with the likes of Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Rashad Evans, and he admits their verbal barbs often affected him personally. This time around, however, he insists Sonnen's quips are more entertaining than hurtful.
"Earlier in my career, I would have taken things a lot more to heart, I think," Jones said. "But I've faced so much adversity in such a short amount of time, it's just really making the game so easy. I'm facing all the drama, all the controversy, I'm facing it at such an early stage, there's going to be nothing left for me sooner or later."
Still, if Sonnen's barbs didn't bother Jones, then why take the fight? After all, Jones has defeated former UFC champions in each of his past five appearances, so facing a middleweight coming off of a loss hardly seems necessary.
Jones said it was the challenge of taking on the sport's most-revered trash talker and doing so in the pressure cooker that is "The Ultimate Fighter."
"I'm doing what most people wouldn't dare to do: face this guy's main gift while being around him all day, every day for six weeks," Jones said. "Most people can't stand to have Chael be interviewed about them. Most people want Chael on their side. Chael can be intimidating when it comes to insults and selling a fight. But I'm doing what most people would think I'm crazy to do. I'm going to be around you all day, every day. Let's hear what you got.
"I'm a winner. I believe I'm a winner. When you're a winner, why should you be afraid of anybody's gift? He's got the gift of gab. So what? I believe me just simply being myself will prevail. I'll out-do any tactics or insult that Chael has for me, and at the end of the day, I think I'll win because I'm confident in being a good person."
Jones, Sonnen and a cast of prospective UFC fighters are currently in Las Vegas filming "TUF 17," which debuts in January on FX. The two coaches then face off on April 27 at a UFC pay-per-view event that is expected to take place in New Jersey.
Sonnen's wit is unquestionably going to play a major role in not only the reality competition series but also the build-up to their championship fight, and the tension is expected to build. Additionally, both Jones and Sonnen have proven polarizing figures in their UFC careers and seem to strike major chords with fans who either love or hate both the dominant champion and the brash challenger. So while the fight between the two doesn't necessarily make a ton of sense in a traditional rankings manner, most fans seem to a have vested interest in watching one of the two men get his ass kicked.
Jones said it's that fan emotion that ultimately swayed him toward taking the fight.
"First and foremost, it was about giving people what they wanted to see," Jones said. "Chael Sonnen is somebody that I respect because of his past performances, but he doesn't intimidate me at all. I have no doubt in my mind that I'll beat Chael. But this is a chance to give the fans what they want, to show who I am as a person for 'TUF' and to let Chael show who he is as a person and to just entertain the fans – to be that guy.
"I'm confident. I have no worries. People will get to see who I am, and that's awesome. In the cage, that speaks for itself. Outside of the cage, I'm excited to let who I am speak for itself, too."
John Morgan writes for MMAJunkie.com, a USA TODAY Sports Media property.


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Head of Google Glass Babak Parviz talks what is next for the platform
As 2013 kicks off, Babak Parviz, head of the Google Glass project that launched in spring of last year, sat down in an interview with IEEE Spectrum to give word on what to expect next.
We saw several prototype versions of Google Glass, as it readies shipping to the mainstream, and today, Parviz gave some insight into what has changed. "We constantly try out new ideas of how this platform can be used. There's a lot of experimentation going on at all times in Google," said Parviz. "We're also trying to make the platform more robust. This includes making the hardware more robust and the software more robust, so we can ship it to developers early this year." The early 2013 shipping time was announced at Google I/O 2012. It is nice to see Google is still on-track; however, new features for the platform have not been revealed. "The feature set for the device is not set yet. It is still in flux," Parviz said.
Parviz also covered how Google will make a business out of Google Glass, and, maybe as a surprise to many, the Mountain View company currently doesn't have plans to include advertising—its bread and butter. The business model is still being worked on: "This is still being worked on, but we are quite interested in providing the hardware…At the moment, there are no plans for advertising on this device."
Other revelations in the interview include a cloud-based API so developers can integrate their Android apps into Google Glass. An example given was email and calendar services. Lastly, Parviz said the Glass team has worked hard on battery life and making sure the device is safe on the eyes. You can read the full interview for more. [IEEE Spectrum] Expand


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US Markets Wrap Up Strong Week With Gains
U.S. markets closed out a winning week with fresh gains Friday, buoyed by economic reports showing inflation easing and consumer sentiment on the rise.
U.S. markets closed out a winning week with fresh gains Friday, buoyed by economic reports showing inflation easing and consumer sentiment on the rise.
Orgasm is often presented as the peak experience of a sexual encounter in movies and porn, but experts say it's not the only pleasurable part of sex.
Retired optometrist Terry Sanderson is seeking $3 million in damages compared to Paltrow, who is asking for $1, plus reimbursed attorney fees.
Trump's defense attorney, Joe Tacopina, went on CNN multiple times to discuss the hush money payment and once said that it's "fair game" for scrutiny.
The previously pro-Trump tabloid offered some harsh truths for Trump supporters.
Annetta Able, now 99, said she and her identical twin sister, Stephanie Heller, were subjected to horrific experiments by Josef Mengele at Auschwitz.
Joseph Baena is being sued for $1.5 million, and father Arnold Schwarzenegger is looking to demand something huge as a result.
Donald Trump has made his thoughts known about his possible indictment on Truth Social, but many people have been wondering about what Melania Trump thinks about the legal situation — especially when it involves her husband and his alleged affair partner, Stormy Daniels. Well, it sounds like the former first lady wishes the entire situation […]
The new warning from the DEA over "the deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced" follows escalating concerns in Massachusetts over the dangerous animal tranquilizer.
Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth said they are "moving forward with deep love, kindness" as they announced their divorce
After Memphis women's basketball's season-ending WNIT loss, things got ugly when the Tigers' Jamirah Shutes struck a Bowling Green player postgame
Reports from the Florida Highway patrol released dashcam footage Thursday morning that shows the driver of a green Toyota causing a dump truck driver to lose control and crash into two semi-trucks on I-75 in Tampa.
A teacher was sucked out of her classroom by the powerful winds of a tornado near downtown Los Angeles on March 22.
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department put out a video showing a suspect, later identified as 32-year-old Khadree Renfro, attacking a 45-year-old in a laundry mat Wednesday in Nashville, Tennessee.
Jordan initially said he hadn't read Trump's post. When a reporter showed it to him, Jordan said he couldn't read well without his glasses.
The former Republican party boss summed up the modern GOP in a blunt nutshell.
The Florida governor addressed whether he'd be Trump's 2024 vice-presidential running mate.
The Colorado football coach was known for his speed and skills as a two-sport star, but here he showed off his strength.
After a reader tip, a New York Times reporter found the painting, gifted by El Salvador's president, in an obscure room at a Trump Hotel in Miami.
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Brad Marchand took immediate action after Montreal's Rem Pitlick delivered a cheap shot on Patrice Bergeron, and Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery full endorsed that action.


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The City Opera House of Traverse City, a turn-of-the-century opera house, once hosted vaudville shows and live circuses. Today, this gem located on Front Street, right downtown, has undergone a spectacular renovation and is packed with modern-day people attending music concerts, dance nights, educational events, private receptions and so much more.
The City Opera House was a valued gathering place from the moment it opened its doors on February 5, 1892 with ballroom dancing and dinner. Over the next couple of decades the space saw everything from masquerade balls to basketballs, with melodramas and light comedy theater drawing large crowds, a few of which had short runs for being perceived as too risqué.
There were periods when the Opera House was closed and decades when it seemed it might languish as a forgotten gem. Thanks to William Vortruba, the owner of the building from 1945 until 1985, the building remained open for local group tours. Having gotten the opera house onto the National Register of Historic Places, The Votruba family donated the City Opera House to the City of Traverse City in 1980. A capital campaign to raise funds for an extensive renovation and long-term vitality has neared completion at $8.5 million. The renovation was largely completed in January 2007 and among other things, increased seating by 150% to 700.
Today, the City Opera House hosts 75,000 persons annually who attend more than 200 events. Performances, priced to allow people of all income levels to attend, have included Jeff Daniels, Shawn Colvin, Sweet Honey and the Rock, Little Feat as well as sold out comedy performances by Mike Birbiglia, Kathleen Madigan.
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04/05/2015 "Design your Fridge" – create a fridge and win
Liebherr's domestic appliances division is running a "Design your Fridge" competition in which participants can create their own fridge design. The fridge colours and patterns can be chosen online using the 3D configurator. The finished designs will then be rated by the community.
The three designs with the most votes and the most active participants will receive a prize from Liebherr's domestic appliances division in mid July. The company will make the winners' individually designed fridges for them. Furthermore, the best design will be presented to the public at the International Broadcasting Convention in Berlin (IFA 2015).
The website designyourfridge.com/register is now open for registrations. From 05.05.2015, participants can create their own unique product and upload their finished design so that it can be rated by the community.
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We don't want to alarm you, but your weekend style is in grave danger of being a real snoozefest. It's time to call in the super team of Black Book.
Founders Thomas Hwang and Maaki Shiroyama joined forces with local artist and student Jenna Nakai to create stylish, cartoon-like characters that are screen printed onto T-shirts by Ryan Ohisa of Status Designs. After a successful debut at Kawaii Kon last month, their newest series is now available to the general public.
The lineup, which features adorable comic book-based bears, is bound to take any outfit by surprise. Skeptics will crumble at the sight of Iron Bear, Spider Bear and Panda Thor on soft, comfy cotton tees, available in both men's and fitted women's styles. Pair any shirt with a blazer and skinny jeans to avenge your off-duty wardrobe.
If you need reinforcements, Black Book's characters are also available as vinyl decals for a whimsical touch to any laptop or notebook. Our favorites: Alice meeting an upside-down Cheshire Cat, and a mustached bear in a slick two-button vest.
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Your life will be happier and healthier if you take control
It's never too late to take control of your choices to improve your overall health and your quality of life.
The benefits of positive lifestyle changes are swift. For example, your heart rate and blood pressure drop within 20 minutes when you stop smoking. After five years, an ex-smoker's risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, and bladder are cut in half, and—for women—cervical cancer risk falls to that of a nonsmoker. And the benefits of exercise and diet changes can become apparent in a few months. Make a change in your life today!
Steps on the road to healthy aging:
Eat nutritious foods.
Know your body mass index, or BMI, and whether it is in the normal range.
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Stay mentally and socially active—for instance, by becoming more active in your community.
Be safe—that means seat belts, air bags, no cell phone calls in the car, and helmets for bicycle and motorcycle riding.
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Time to Count Street Harassment as Hostile Acts
By K.C. Wagner and Emily May
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
The community around fighting street harassment is growing stronger and has pointed to its pervasiveness. K.C. Wagner and Emily May say more research is needed to lay the groundwork necessary to end this type of harassment.
(WOMENSENEWS)–The rape allegations against former International Monetary Fund Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and now Egyptian former bank chair Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar by two hotel maids have refocused the world's attention on the risks that women face by going to work.
Comments about someone's body, assumptions based on race or sexuality, inappropriate touching, gestures, or sexual requests–it seems that everyone either has a story or knows someone that does. And we never know when these situations will escalate.
As egregious as the allegations are against Strauss-Kahn and Omar, there's a fundamental difference between harassment in the past and today. Today, a name exists for what has happened, systems of accountability are in place and laws protect those who are victimized.
Even this limited progress has not extended to the streets though. Today a silent epidemic rages on. Street harassment–or sexual harassment in public spaces–is fast becoming the flashpoint issue for an emerging generation of activists, just as workplace harassment was in 1980s. And like in the 1980s, a solid coordination of activism, research and analysis is needed to move street harassment from the background to the forefront.
In 1991, when the Anita Hill v. Clarence Thomas case captured the public's attention about "sexual harassment," activists, academics, legal scholars, legislators and practitioners had been at least a decade "in the trenches." They had already been developing vehicles for women's voices across the country, analyzing crisis counseling and hotline records, conducting scientifically based studies and writing academic articles, articulating a feminist jurisprudence, defending women in court and beginning to influence workplace prevention and policies and challenging workplace norms. A strong platform from this decade of academic and activist work was in place to challenge the victim-blaming and vilification of Hill and to continue the fight.
No Difference
Street harassment is no different than workplace harassment in its purpose and its effect. It is meant to put victims in their place, to remind them that they are objects and that their safety is a privilege, not a right. As a result, people change jobs, leave apartments or whole cities and suffer long-term stress and anxiety orders.
Now young activists internationally, at nonprofits such as Hollaback! and in projects such as Stop Street Harassment, Blank Noise Project and WomenSpeak, are beginning to stand up and say "no more."
In 2005, a group of young friends, men and women from ages 21 to 24, were telling their stories of street harassment. When they walked alone, they felt vulnerable and powerless; when they would yell at the instigators of the harassment, the situation escalated; police did not seem to respond to their concerns. One of the men in the group said to his female friends: "You live in a different New York City than we do."
They did what many youth would do when faced with a similar challenge: they started a blog. Called Hollaback!, it was intended to bring awareness to street harassment. They were quickly inundated by others' stories and supporters. Today 24 Hollaback! sites are up and running, from Croatia to Argentina to Atlanta. This newly forming community of voices combines story-telling with on-the-ground activism. And with coverage in The New York Times, the BBC and NPR in the past year, the world is clearly listening. We believe the time is right to tackle this long overdue issue once and for all.
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Little Data Available
However, the leaders of the movement to end street harassment face a challenge similar to the early days of the workplace harassment movement: little data.
Activists working to end street harassment have responded by collecting crowd-sourced data. With the more than 2,000 stories collected and mapped on ihollaback.org through Hollaback!'s iPhone and Droid applications, we know that no one is alone in his or her experiences. Street harassment impacts young women in particular, with factors like race and sexuality tending to increase the frequency and severity of the harassment. A study conducted through an online survey tool by Holly Kearl, published in her 2010 book "Stop Street Harassment," indicates that between 80-100 percent of women have been harassed at some point during their lives.
But knowing that crowd-sourced data is self-selecting and cannot paint a broader, more complete picture, street harassment activists are asking for more.
In October 2010, over 100 activists crowded into a standing-room-only city council room at New York City's first ever hearing on street harassment, hosted by Councilmember Julissa Ferrarras, and sounded a call for more research.
During the hearing, advocates called for a study that would produce the data needed to address street harassment in New York City. The study would look at the long-term impact of street harassment and the effectiveness of both formal and informal solutions in making people feel safer in their communities.
It would be the first of its kind at a time when governments internationally are searching for solutions. In this ever-tightening budget year, a study on street harassment is a relatively inexpensive method for New York City to lead the way. More important, such research provides an opportunity to provide concrete solutions to a deep-seated social issue.
Street harassment activists know they have many more battles ahead. But research is a critical early step as it allows us to move this issue from an individual to a collective experience. If we wait, we fear that yet another generation will have to endure the same harassing experiences.
Now is the time for City Council to take this small first step toward a day when street harassment is taken as seriously as workplace sexist behavior.
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K.C. Wagner is the director of workplace issues at Cornell University-ILR School. She testified as an expert witness for the plaintiff in the U.N. case of Claxton v Gomez and was the counseling director at Working Women's Institute from 1980-86. Emily May is the executive director of Hollaback!, a nonprofit dedicated to ending street harassment.
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There are exactly three days remaining before pitchers and catchers begin filing into the clubhouse at Camelback Ranch. Still, outfielder Bryce Harper remains unsigned.
And, believe it or not, some folks are linking him to the Dodgers, even after all this time.
On Thursday, Randy J. Miller of nj.com added fuel to the gossip in Los Angeles when he wrote, "I've heard that if he didn't go back to the Nationals that his preference was to go to the Giants or the Dodgers" and that "recent rumors suggest that he may be willing to take a three-year contract."
Of course, Los Angeles was immediately thrown back into the picture, just because people enjoy the marvel of speculation.
Yet, for fans of the Dodgers who remain on the edge of their seats hoping for the improbable, the Dodgers already have a very crowded outfield and seem content with the squad's landscape after signing A.J. Pollock to a multi-year deal two weeks ago.
Besides, president Stan Kasten insists that there are many advantages involved with remaining beneath the luxury tax threshold, although he still hasn't exactly explained those exact reasons to the fans.
"I'm not going to go into that because that's real inside baseball economic stuff," Kasten said when he was pressed for details about his comment.
Regardless, the Giants, another team labelled as underachievers as far as roster upgrades go this winter, were also thrown into the rumor mix, specifically after the whispers surfaced about Harper possibly being willing to settle for a contract—a deal that's much shorter in length than the 10-year version he was believed to be seeking early in the offseason.
Farhan Zaidi, the current San Francisco GM and former right-hand man to Dodgers' boss Andrew Friedman, traveled to Vegas this week to meet with Harper. Zaidi didn't offer many details about the meeting, except stating that there was interest from both parties about a potential deal.
"There's obviously mutual interest on both sides, so we thought it made sense to get together," Zaidi told reporters. "We had a good conversation over a few hours, and he's obviously got a lot of suitors and a lot of interest."
Even San Francisco catcher Buster Posey got in on the action.
"Yeah, sign him up!" Posey said. "What team out there wouldn't want a Bryce Harper, a Manny Machado or a lot of free agents out there?"
The last we heard, "at least eight teams are still checking in on Harper," according to a tweet by Jon Heyman. He didn't mention exactly which clubs are at the forefront, but the Phillies are among the clubs believed to be the top suitors.
It may be worth mentioning, though, that Harper turned down an extension offered by the Nationals before the 2018 season ever came to an end. The exact numbers of the proposition were not revealed, but reports guessed the deal to be worth somewhere in the 10-year/$300 million range, which is notable, considering the current state of the MLB free agent market.
Initially, some pundits actually believed that Harper could command a pact in the range of $400 million; however, due to the premise that many GMs are unwilling to spend this winter—aside from Philadelphia's Matt Klentak—the supposition that Harper may agree to a short-term deal has now surfaced.
As far as number go, like clockwork, Harper's offensive output has teeter-tottered over the past four seasons. After a monumental 1.109 OPS and an MVP award back in 2015, he posted a .814 OPS and a paltry .243 batting average in 2016. Consequently, he rebounded and impressed with a four-digit OPS of 1.008 in 2017, but fell back down to earth a bit last season with an OPS of .889, despite leading the majors with 130 walks.
Many followers of the Dodgers have compared Harper's 2018 offensive campaign to the numbers put up by Max Muncy last year. Muncy led the Dodgers with an astronomical .973 OPS, suggesting that Harper may not be as much of a significant upgrade as many perceive.
Furthermore, while Harper has always ranked well-above average in defensive metrics and range factors, Jeff Sullivan of Fangraphs put together a story in November showing some not-so-impressive numbers from last season. Harper played a lot more center field in 2018, however, which could have played a part in his regression in 2018.
Perhaps Friedman took all those numbers into consideration when deciding to pass on the superstar.
And maybe the Dodgers are better for it.


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CNJ staff
Incarnate Word (11-7, 7-4 Lone Star
Conference) at ENMU (12-8, 5-6)
• When: 4 p.m. today at Greyhound Arena.
• Radio: KSEL-FM 105.9.
• Last time out: The Cardinals posted a 63-53 victory over West Texas A&M on Thursday at Canyon, Texas. The Greyhounds erased a 13-point, second-half deficit to edge Texas A&M-Kingsville 60-56 on Thursday at Greyhound Arena.
• Last meeting: UIW beat ENMU 85-70 at San Antonio on Dec. 3.
• Of note: The Cardinals come in sporting a five-game winning streak since a Dec. 29 overtime loss to St. Mary's. … UIW is 5-4 on the road this season. … Leading scorers for the Cardinals are 6-7 senior F Chris Johnson (12.8 ppg), 6-3 senior G Shaun Umeh (12.2) and 6-4 junior forward Dionelle Rucker (11.4). Johnson leads the team with 8.5 rpg and shoots 82 percent from the FT line while Rucker, who has come off the bench in 13 of the 18 games, is shooting 61 percent from the floor.
Incarnate Word (10-8, 5-7 Lone Star
Conference) at ENMU (5-13, 3-9)
• When: 2 p.m. today at Greyhound Arena.
• Radio: KSEL-FM 105.9.
• Last time out: UIW lost to West Texas A&M 67-60 on Thursday at Canyon, Texas. The Zias absored a 72-66 setback at the hands of Texas A&M-Kingsville on Thursday at Greyhound Arena.
• Last meeting: UIW routed the Zias 61-41 at San Antonio on Dec. 3.
• Of note: The Cardinals are second in the LSC in team defense, allowing just over 57 ppg. … Leading scorers are 5-6 junior G Katy Cooke (12.1 ppg), 5-9 sophomore G/F Ifunanya Mora (11.3) and 5-7 junior G Ashlyn Green (10.6). Cooke has 62 assists and is shooting 89 percent (56-of-63) from the FT line. … The primary starters account for 84 percent of the Cardinals' scoring. … UIW has lost seven of 11 after a 6-1 start. … Cardinals coach Angela Lawson helped Louisiana Tech win an NCAA Division I championship as a senior in 1988 and was a grad assistant on Tennessee's 1990 national championship team. She also spent time as an assistant coach at Southwest Texas State and Baylor before taking her first head coaching position at UIW in 2000.
— Compiled by Dave Wagner


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Prep sports round up: Shamrocks bounce back against Fowler
The Portland St. Patrick girls basketball team rebounded well from it's loss to Pewamo-Westphalia by earning a 63-34 win over Fowler Thursday night at home.
"We had a lot of energy tonight and our defense was much more aggressive," Shamrock coach Al Schrauben said. "We also hit a lot of shots.
St. Pats set the tone early, starting the game on an 18-0 run. The Shamrocks held the Eagles scoreless until 1:06 left in the opening quarter, and took a 23-5 advantage into the second. By the half, St. Pats held a 33-12 advantage.
In the third, the Lady Rocks used their full-court press to outscore Fowler 20-8.
Anne Mackowiak led St. Pats with 14 points, while Anna Bosworth finished with 12 points to go along with seven rebounds and four blocks. Danielle Simon chipped in with 10 points.
Savanah Feldpausch paced Fowler with eight points.
St. Pats (4-1, 3-1 in CMAC) will travel to Dansville on Tuesday.
Bath 43, Saranac 28
BATH — The Bees started fast offensively, then finished strong on defense Thursday night as they handed the Redskins their third-straight loss.
Bath scored 16 points in the first quarter to take an eight-point advantage after one. Then in the fourth, the Bees held Saranac to four points and added 10 to their total to pull away.
The Redskins were led by Kaylee Hardy, who finished with 11 points. Betsy Simpson scored six points and pulled down 10 rebounds, while Kendal Seiler nabbed four steals.
Saranac (3-3, 1-3 in CMAC) will play host to Laingsburg on Tuesday in its home opener.
Ionia 35, Fowlerville 14 (JV)
IONIA — The JV Bulldogs improved to 3-2 on the season Thursday night with a home win over the Gladiators.
Camryn Klein paced Ionia with eight points, five steals and five assists. Cheyenne Ferris finished with seven points and seven rebounds, while Sydney Arns, Madison De Laney and Madeline Wieber each finished with five points.
Eileen Wieber scored three points and pulled down five rebounds, while Paige Hartman nabbed six steals and four boards to go along with two points.
Ionia will play host to Charlotte on Tuesday.
Boys Swim
Ionia 100, Lansing Legacy 65
LANSING — The Dawg Fish put together a strong start to the season Thursday night, scoring 100 points against their hosts from Lansing.
Earning fist-place finishes for Ionia were Skyler Fish in the 50 Free (23.91) and the 100 Breast (1:07.56), Patrick Wood in the 200 Free (1:55.07) and 100 Back (1:00.57), Conner Arnold in the 200 Individual Medley (2:35.41), Luke Van Ess in the 100 Fly (1:20.21), Peter Pelon in the 100 Free (55.09) and Brice Brown in the 500 Free (6:10.89).
Aaron Flynn (100 Fly), Van Ess (100 Back) and Arnold (100 Breast) took seconds, while Flynn (200 Free), Pelon (50 Free) and Christiaan Duell (500 Free) took home third-place finishes.
The team of Fish, Brown, Wood and Pelon took first in the 200 Medley Relay (1:51.14); while Flynn, Brown, Cody Nutt and Van Ess won the 200 Free Relay (1:47.18); and Pelon, Arnold, Wood and Fish won the 400 Free Relay (3:45.66).
Ionia (1-0) will travel to Grand Rapids Central on Saturday.


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Martínez de Campos, Arsenio
Martínez de Campos, Arsenio ärsā´nyō märtē´nĕth dā käm´pōs [key], 1831–1900, Spanish general. He served in Morocco (1859–60), in Mexico (1861–63), and in Cuba (1869–72). He played a leading role in the proclamation (1874) of Alfonso XII as king and helped bring the Carlist Wars to an end (1876; see Carlists). In 1877 he was sent to Cuba, where he ended the Ten Years War. In 1879 he was briefly prime minister of Spain and later war minister. In 1895 he was sent to put down the insurgents in the Cuban revolution, but his lenient attitude caused his replacement by Weyler. He later was president of the Spanish senate.
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A think tank opinion piece that claims the threat from the Heartbleed bug is overblown has sparked a debate among researchers over the seriousness of the OpenSSL flaw.
[Hackers prepping for OpenSSL Heartbleed attacks]
In his column entitled "Heartbleed: Cybersecurity as Melodrama," James Andrew Lewis, director and senior fellow of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, argued Tuesday that cybercriminals would likely choose a much easier, and more effective, way than Heartbleed to steal valuable assets from companies.
"There are several steps between compromise and money," Lewis said. "Cybercriminals, a professional lot, use the most efficient techniques. These are people looking to make millions of dollars."
Heartbleed would not easily translate into the "industrial-scale crime" hackers seek, Lewis said. Examples would include the Target breach last year that led to the theft of millions of credit- and debit-card numbers. Such breaches typically occur through email phishing attacks aimed directly at the company, or in the case of Target, one of its suppliers.
In a recent Heartbleed challenge, one researcher had to send 2.5 million requests against a test server to get its private encryption key, while another participant had to make 100,000 requests. In Lewis' opinion, such an exploit would not be cost effective for most cybercriminals.
"They engage in industrial-scale crime, not piecework hacking of individual accounts," Lewis said. "Stealing your password, accessing your account, getting your credit card information, and then figuring out how to do this hundreds of thousands of times and monetize the date [sic] is too much work."
Joni Brennan, executive director of the Kantara Initiative, which is focused on developing better digital identity management, agreed that there is a "sensational element" to the Heartbleed media coverage.
"Likely this story has more relevance from the perspective of mass surveillance and vulnerabilities that underpin the Internet as a whole versus criminal behavior," Brennan said. "As the author notes, criminals tend to be much more sophisticated and targeted."
Among experts contacted, Brennan was in the minority. The others believed Heartbleed deserved all the attention it was getting from software and website developers and hardware manufacturers, all scrambling to patch products.
Researchers also pointed out that the Canada Revenue Agency, the country's tax-collection agency, has recently blamed Heartbleed for the loss of tax-related information. In addition, the BBC reported Monday that the leading U.K. site for parents, Mumsnet, had user passwords and personal messages stolen by cyber thieves who took advantage of the vulnerability.
"If you don't patch everything that's vulnerable and you don't fix everything you find, you're destined to lose," Mark Hoit, vice chancellor for information technology at North Carolina State University, said.
Critics of Lewis' piece also pointed out that a hacker exploiting the Heartbleed bug can steal data without leaving a trace, so a company can get hit over and over again and never know it.
[How to defend against the OpenSSL Heartbleed flaw]
"The capability to use Heartbleed to capture encryption keys and decrypt SSL is not something that should casually be dismissed as the author of this article seems too," Paul Henry, senior instructor for the SANS Institute, said. "HeartBleed is an issue that should be top of mind from a risk mitigation perspective for all organizations on both the server and client side."


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The following immigration-related bills were introduced into the House of Representatives and the Senate in July-August 2011 and summarized below by AILA (American Immigration Lawyers Association):
Senate Bills
Immigration Fraud Prevention Act of 2011 – S. 1336
Introduced by Sen. Feinstein (D-CA) on 7/7/11 Summary: Prevents immigration fraud by making it a Federal crime to defraud individuals in connection with any matter arising under immigration laws.
Hinder the Administration's Legalization Temptation (HALT) Act – S. 1380
Introduced by Sen. Vitter (R-LA) on 7/12/11 Summary: Suspends until Jan. 21, 2013 certain provisions of federal immigration law.
Trafficking in Persons Report Improvement Act of 2011 – S. 1362
Introduced by Sen. Webb (D-VA) on 7/13/11 Summary: Simplifies the Trafficking in Persons Report by reducing the number of country categories and ranking countries within each category according to their relative adherence to the minimum standards set forth in TVPA of 2000.
Helping Agriculture Receive Verifiable Employees Securely and Temporarily (HARVEST) Act of 2011 – S. 1384
Introduced by Sen. Chambliss (R-GA) on 7/19/11 Summary: Amends the INA to provide for the temporary employment of foreign agricultural workers.
Humane Enforcement and Legal Protections for (HELP) Separated Children Act – S. 1399
Introduced by Sen. Franken (D-MN) on 7/21/11 Summary: Protects children affected by immigration enforcement actions.
Introduced by Sen. Feinstein (D-CA) on 7/21/11 Summary: Private bill for the relief of Guy Privat Tape and Lou Nazie Raymonde Toto.
House Bills
Introduced by Rep. Lofgren (D-CA) on 8/5/11 Summary: Amends Section 220 of the Immigration and Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 1994 to make permanent made by the section.
Strengthening the Child Welfare Response to Human Trafficking Act of 2011- H.R. 2730
Introduced by Rep. Bass (D-CA) on 8/1/11 Summary: Amends Part E of Title IV of the Social Security Act to better enable State child welfare agencies to prevent human trafficking of children and serve the needs of children who are victims of human trafficking.
Hinder the Administration's Legalization Temptation (HALT) Act – H.R. 2497
Introduced by Rep. Smith (R-TX) on 7/12/11 Summary: Suspends until Jan. 21, 2013 certain provisions of federal immigration law.
Introduced by Rep. Ryan (D-OH) on 7/15/11 Summary: Suspends the issuance of visas to nationals of Brazil until Brazil amends it laws to remove the prohibition on extradition of nationals of Brazil to other countries.
Humane Enforcement and Legal Protections for (HELP) Separated Children Act – H.R. 2607
Introduced by Rep. Woolsey (D-CA) on 7/21/11 Summary: Protects children affected by immigration enforcement actions.
Military Families Act – H.R. 2638
Introduced by Rep. Filner (D-CA) on 7/25/11 Summary: Authorizes the adjustment of status for immediate family members of individuals who served honorably in the Armed Forces of the United States during the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts.
Jobs for Americans Act of 2011 – H.R. 2670
Introduced by Rep. Brooks (R-AL) 7/27/11 Summary: Provides that States and local government may pass laws that identify illegal aliens, deter illegal aliens from entering the United States, apprehend illegal aliens, or encourage or otherwise cause illegal aliens to leave the United States.
Introduced by Rep. Ryan (D-OH) on 7/15/11 Summary: Prohibits the issuance of a visa to a citizen, subject, national, or resident of Brazil until Brazil has removed the prohibition on extradition of Brazilian nationals to other countries. The bill authorizes the President to waive such prohibition on a case-by-case basis if in the U.S. national interest.
Source: "AILA InfoNet Doc. No. 11082563 (posted Aug. 25, 2011)"