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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- U.S. stock futures were pointing to a higher open Thursday, as investors awaited key data on private sector employment and economic growth.
European shares were also trading higher, although worries about Spain's deteriorating fiscal condition and Greece's future in the euro continues to drive demand for safe haven assets with German bond futures near record highs.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were up by 45 points at 12,426. S&P 500 futures were up by nearly 5 points at 1,313. Futures for the Nasdaq were rising by 6.5 points to 2,537.
Stocks fell sharply Wednesday as deepening fears about Spain's shaky financial condition spoiled risk appetite and drove investors into bonds, sending the yield on 10-year Treasuries to record lows.
With only one trading day in May left, the S&P 500 is on pace for its worst monthly slump since September. The index has declined 6% in May amid intensifying worries about the eurozone debt crisis. The Dow has had only five positive trading sessions over the month.
On Thursday, however, concerns about Europe might take a temporary backseat in the U.S. as investors digest a raft of data that could shed light on the health of the domestic economy.
The focus will be on the ADP Employment Report that will be released at 8:15 EDT. Economists expect the private sector to have added 148,000 jobs in May, according to Thomson Reuters. In April, companies created 119,000 jobs
Bad news on jobs could further dampen investor sentiment and revive expectations that the Federal Reserve will do more to boost the economy.
Ian Shepherdson of High Frequency Economics however expects the ADP to surprise. "...The markets have not yet had to deal with the combination of grim news from Europe and good news from the U.S," Shepherdson wrote ahead of the report. " The past two months' employment numbers have made it safer to be long Treasuries, but we are far from convinced that position is sustainable. The fox could be let loose in the chicken coop as soon as today, if the May ADP private employment report -- delayed by the Memorial Day holiday weekend -- is as strong as we expect."
At 8:30 a.m., the Bureau of Economic Analysis at the Department of Commerce will release its second estimate of first-quarter GDP. The report is expected to say that the economy expanded at a rate of 1.9% during the first quarter, down from the advance estimate of 2.2%.
Also at 8:30 a.m., the Labor Department will release its weekly jobless claims report. Initial jobless claims for the week ending May 26 is likely to come in at 370,000, unchanged from the previous week, according to economists polled by Thomson Reuters.
At 9:45 a.m., the Institute for Supply Management - Chicago will release its report on business conditions in the region.The consensus is for Chicago PMI to come in at 57 for May, up slightly from 56.2 in April.
Later at 10:30 a.m. ET, the Department of Energy will release its weekly status reports on natural gas, followed by a report on oil inventories at 11 a.m.
July oil futures were higher by 26 cents at $88.08 a barrel and August gold futures were adding $2.4 to $1,567 an ounce.
Meanwhile, the benchmark 10-year Treasury was lower by 4/32, raising the yield to 1.637% and the greenback was off by 0.25%, according to the dollar index.
The euro was recovering by 0.4% at $1.2411 after slipping close to its two-year low on Wednesday.
European markets were trading higher after an opinion poll showed Ireland will vote in favor of the fiscal stability pact designed to contain the European debt crisis.
Also boosting sentiment, inflation in the 17-nation area fell to 2.4% from 2.6%, the slowest pace since February 2011, while the German unemployment rate fell to 6.7% in April.
The FTSE in U.K. was gaining 0.8%, while the DAX in Europe was adding 0.4%. Asian markets sold off, tracking the risk-off trade in European and U.S. markets on Wednesday. Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 0.3%, while Japan's Nikkei declined 1%.
In corporate news, the nation's retailers including Gap(NYSE:GPS) and Target(NYSE:TGT) will report their same-store sales numbers for May.
Costco(NYSE:COST) said same-store sales rose 4%, short of the 4.3% analysts were expecting.
TiVo(NYSE:TIVO) reported weak first-quarter results and second-quarter guidance. The digital video recording company posted a loss of 17 cents a share on revenue of $67.8 million. Analysts were expecting a loss of 15 cents a share on $54.89 million in service and technology revenue.
For its fiscal second quarter, TiVo said it expects service and technology revenue to be between $53 million and $55 million and projects a net loss of $28 million to $30 million. Analysts expect revenue of $56.5 million and a loss of $27 million.
Ciena(NYSE:CIEN) is set to report on Thursday. The network equipment maker is expected to post a second-quarter loss of 3 cents a share on revenue of $447 million.


text: Another week, another article about brick-and-mortar stores phasing out their plus-sized clothing lines. (Edit: And here's another!) For those who missed it, Tatiana the Anonymous Model over at Jezebel posted an interesting essay on the economics of women's fashion, comparing pattern development issues designers face when developing both petite and plus sizes.

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Cooperation and trust, prerequisites for successful interpretation and communication
The AIIC Sign Language Network reports on the efsli 2018 conference in Dubrovnik
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By Helsa Borinstein, Chloé Chénetier-Kipping, Maya de Wit
A total of 300 attendees from 36 countries (including several non European countries) came to Dubrovnik, Croatia to attend the annual conference of the European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters (efsli) on 15 & 16 September 2018.
Interpreting in Employment Settings: You are (f/h)ired!
The theme for this year's conference was 'Interpreting in Employment Settings: You are (f/h)ired!' In some countries around the globe Deaf people are being given more access to education and as a result have increased employment opportunities. This makes the overarching topic of this conference, employment settings, highly relevant. The consumers' perspective was a large part of what was included in this year's conference programme.
Presentations ranged from how to conduct job interviews with an interpreter to how to work on the job with an interpreter; the stakes being high not only when obtaining employment but often in the daily nuanced interactions between colleagues, superiors, subordinates, and customers.
We learned about a range of struggles and successes in some areas. In Hungary, for example, only 24% of the Deaf population is employed. On the other hand, we heard about a Deaf professional who works with designated interpreters.
Maya de Wit, Chloé Chénetier, and Helsa B. Borinstein represented AIIC, furthering the Association's continued desire to foster a growing relationship with sign language interpreters. In addition to the official representatives, several other AIIC sign and spoken language interpreters were also in attendance, including Nina Okagbue and Elania Maggio Graw representing CACL.
A warm welcome
Ivanka Bucko, president of EFSLI, offered a warm welcome to start the conference. A representative from the municipality emphasized the need to elevate the profession of sign language interpreters, which has yet to be officially recognized in Croatia.
Debra Russell, president of the World Association of Sign Language interpreters (WASLI), Daniela Amodeo, president of European Legal Interpreters and Translators Association (EULITA), and Mirjana Juriša, president of Croatian Association of Sign Language Interpreters (CASLIFD) all offered their best wishes for a successful conference.
Markku Jokinen, president of the European Union of the Deaf (EUD) gave an inspiring opening keynote. His message was, in essence, a reminder of the "why" of what it is that we do. He emphasised the need for Deaf consumers and interpreters to discover a way of working together, describing it as learning to dance together.
Markku stressed the fact that there are situations where sign language interpreters are key protagonists when it comes to helping Deaf people sustain their interaction with hearing interlocutors and emphasized the need for Deaf people to work with sign language interpreters as allies helping to give them access to all the official documents and background knowledge they need to achieve the outcome they want, also describing good (shared) tactics as a means to establish a clear strategy. An effective working relationship requires a deep degree of flexibility and creativity which is sometimes at odds with the training programmes that interpreters undergo.
He went on to present, for the benefit of trainers, a list of what he feels Deaf people need.
The idea of how imperative it is to have trust came up in his presentation, as well as suggestions on how this can be fostered. Essentially, open communication allowing for constructive feedback to be given, heard and honoured. This often requires vulnerability, which can be difficult however it is necessary in order to reach the shared goal.
Cooperation challenges
Malin Tesfazion, from Stockholm University, looked at the cooperation challenges arising when sign language interpreters work with deaf and hearing signers - thereby providing ( i.a through the terminology she used – "hearing non-signer", "deaf signer", "hearing signer") new food for thought for colleagues not familiar with sign language interpreter settings.
Vera Wusu presented her research results on what the requirements are to have fluent sign language interpreting in the workplace: cooperation, openness, trust, familiarity and suitable interpreters. The latter proved to be not easy as it requires humbleness. Hilde Haualand, confirmed this by stating: "There is no handbook about how we, Deaf professionals, work and interact with interpreters. In a way it has changed my identity."
Dr. Christian Rathmann, presenting the DESIGNS project on Deaf people's access to employment through interpreters, stressed how valuable it was as it allowed for the "tri-partite" engagement from the research, Deaf, and interpreting communities, acknowledging that the respective work done by the three entities on development for training resources and the exchange for best practices to facilitate greater participation of Deaf sign language users in employment (for example the timely availability of interpreters matching the dynamics and demands of the labour market) does not take place in silos. The way forward will be more collaboration.
Over the two days, a number of speakers gave presentations describing the situation of sign language interpretation in a professional setting in their country (UK, Russian Federation, Hungary, Scotland, USA) through surveys or experiments.
The presentation by Patricia Bruck and Elke Schaumberger (Austria) on their work as designated interpreters for a Deaf pharmacist at St Mary's Pharmacy in Vienna highlighted a number of interesting issues. Over five years of weekly presence they have witnessed a change from a situation where the Deaf professional was perceived as not competent because he always needed an interpreter, to a situation where, because of the regular presence of the interpreters he is now a recognized and integrated member of the team (as are the interpreters) and trust and cooperation have emerged. Additionally, the pharmacy has become a place of invaluable health-related information for the Deaf community in Vienna.
Frequently sign language interpreters are faced with terminology for which no sign is available. These must be established by or with deaf professionals who are experts on that subject. This, as well as the problem of sustainable funding, were themes that ran through all the "national" presentations, with Marija Kefelja (Croatia) emphasizing another recurring issue: how difficult it can be for sign language interpreters to bridge theory and practice and to know where to draw the ethical line.
From a "conference interpretation" point of view, this in turn leads to the question of whether, in certain circumstances, the ethical lines can be drawn in the same way for sign language interpretation and spoken-languages interpretation and what the guiding criteria should be (with corresponding implications for training).
Professional standards at high-level meetings
Maya de Wit presented on behalf of AIIC and the AIIC Sign Language Network (SLN) "Making it work: applying interpreters' professional standards at high-level meetings". She focused on the advanced expertise that is required of the conference interpreter, and on the lack of awareness among consumers, as well as among sign language interpreters, of the fundamental professional standards for conference interpreters.
The aim of the presentation was to provide the participants with information and references on where to find the professional standards, technical requirements, and the international agreements with the institutions, in order to demand good working conditions and linguistic access.
Apart from the Q&A sessions and coffee breaks which were buzzing with energy, workshops made it possible for participants to take a more active part in the event, through group work or instant surveys.
Hilda Haualand and Vibeke Bo looked at the match between Deaf professionals and interpreters and the ways of making it work, however hard it may sometimes be. Type-casting the interpreter, coping with jargon, preparation, management of dialogue and the professional image of the sign language interpreter were the topics discussed. Some of them particularly thought-provoking for spoken-languages interpreters and leading to very interesting exchanges between participants.
Throughout the event, participants –many of them sign language interpreters or spoken language interpreters themselves – were able to benefit from and admire the outstanding interpretation performance provided by the team of interpreters covering the conference. This was a fascinating – and in many ways a very moving – experience for newcomers.
Next year, Sweden!
Next year, the efsli 2019 AGM and conference will take place in Malmö from 6 to 9 September. The event will be organized by STTF, the Swedish Association of Sign Language Interpreters, celebrating their 50th anniversary. The topic of the conference is "Let's have a fika- culture in a cup!" The AIIC Sign Language Network is looking forward to another inspiring conference.
Articles published in this section reflect the views of the author(s) and should not be taken to represent the official position of AIIC.


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WORK TYPE: Full Time
Provides the necessary functions to bill, collect, analyze, and adjudicate hospital and billing and collection functions for all clinical service lines with respect to the hospitals within the Geisinger Health System. This position executes and performs programs to insure efficient operations of the Geisinger Health System Revenue Management program in order to generate sufficient cash flow to support GHS operations and strategic initiatives. In the position of Revenue Management Service Line Specialist, responsibilities include billing and collecting for all third party insurance payers adjustment functions, adjudicating, identifying, analyzing, reducing and resolving various revenue enhancement, and credit balance issues associated with hospital accounts receivable and insuring monthly cash flow for the previously mentioned service lines. These responsibilities further include the management of a portfolio of accounts (Hospital) per Revenue Management Service Line Specialist (collector) and/or the processing of (Hospital) claims per month per Revenue Cycle Service Line Specialist (biller), with respect to the successful adjudication of claims.
Reports to the Revenue Management Supervisor or the Revenue Management Manager.
Demonstrates a strong working knowledge and understanding of federal, state, and other third party billing requirements including HCPCS, ICD9, HIPAA and medical terminology.
Demonstrates strong presentation skills, with the ability to effectively communicate to many different audience levels.
Demonstrates familiarity with multiple computerized applications (i.e. Siemens, IDX, Tower, Contract Manager, Cadence, Epic, Electronic Medical Health Record, ePremise, NaviNet, Artiva, etc.).
Demonstrates ability to meet standards set forth for both productivity and quality of work.
Associate's or Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, or related Healthcare field required.
High School diploma or equivalent required. Minimum of three years relevant experience in a healthcare setting to include third party insurance training, credit and collection experience with a solid knowledge of insurance cover (Managed Care, Worker's Compensation and No-Fault) required.
Minimum of two years as Revenue Management Specialist required.
Work is typically performed in an office environment.
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Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
One of the nation's most innovative health services organizations, Geisinger serves more than 1.5 million patients in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The system includes 13 hospital campuses, a nearly 600,000-member health plan, two research centers and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. Geisinger is known for its focus on caring and innovative programs including the ProvenCare® best-practice approach to maximize quality, safety and value; ProvenHealth Navigator® advanced medical home; Springboard Health® population health program to improve the health of an entire community; ProvenExperience™ to provide refunds to patients unhappy with their care experience; and Geisinger's MyCode® Community Health Initiative, the largest healthcare system-based precision health project in the world. With more than 215,000 volunteer participants enrolled, MyCode is conducting extensive research and returning medically actionable results to participants. A physician-led organization, with approximately 32,000 employees and more than 1,800 employed physicians, Geisinger leverages an estimated $12.7 billion positive annual impact on the Pennsylvania and New Jersey economies. Repeatedly recognized nationally for integration, quality and service, Geisinger has a long-standing commitment to patient care, medical education, research and community service. For more information, visit geisinger.org or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
** Does not qualify for J-1 waiver. We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status.
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Harper 3PC Set quilt, dot sheet, crib skirt
A pretty bouquet of roses in grey, white, yellow and cherry red are screen printed on fabric with a linen like texture for a vintage look. Quilt is lined with super soft fabric, and is the perfect size to wrap baby in cozy comfort (34×42). Trimmed with silver piping. Stylized chevron has a watercolor look with colors that fade into one another. Hemmed skirt has a 16″ drop. Fitted sheet is printed with cream and grey polka dot with ikat edges. Fully elasticized sheet for a secure fit that won't slip. Patched bumper includes ivory pintuck fabric and ribbon ties. Quality fabrics last longer. Hand sewn in USA. Durable and machine washable.


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ACCORD's TfP Programme, represented by Senior Programme Officer, Karishma Rajoo participated in the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) meeting that was held in Berlin, Germany from 26-28 April 2006. Several organizations involved in the field of peace and security, mainly across Europe, attended a workshop in Brindisi, Italy to discuss the standardization of DDR training
in accordance with the United Nations Integrated DDR Standards (IDDRS). Following this meeting, a DDR consortium was set up and this first meeting included the Centre for International Peace Operations (ZIF – www.zif-berlin.org) and the Bonn International Centre for Conversion (BICC – www.bicc.de) as key partners. The TfP Programme was also invited to participate due to the programme's initiative to develop an African-centred DDR curriculum for peacekeeping operations on the continent, and the conducting of DDR trainings using the curriculum developed this year.
The TfP Programme is interested in coordinating the programme's DDR initiative with that of the consortium, and the United Nations Inter Agency Working Group on DDR. The meeting reflected on the draft Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of the consortium and it was agreed unanimously that the group of training institutions be referred to as the Integrated DDR Training Group (IDDRTG). The IDDRTG is in the process of adopting a cooperation agreement, and partners discussed ways in which they could share training information and material, and how best the IDDRTG could create synergies among the partners.
The meeting also reflected on the two DDR training simulation exercises, Carana and Gazebo. The group discussed the simulations in detail reflecting on gaps in the programme, and issues of strengths and weaknesses, and whether there was a need to for two separate simulations that were obviously very similar. The Carana and Gazebo exercises will be developed into a hybrid training simulation, to reflect UN and non-UN operations, for use by the partner organizations for upcoming trainings this year. The next meeting of the IDDRTG is scheduled for 13-15 December in Pisa, Italy, where the group will review the effectiveness of the hybrid simulation and matters in regard to funding.


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Anthill Magazine necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 45 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
This button/logo will become the symbol of a national awards initiative designed to promote innovation in Australia. It will also feature prominently as the front cover of a national business magazine in Australia.
Anthill Magazine (http://www.anthillonline.com)
We're launching a new awards program called the SMART 100. It will recognise the 100 most innovative products in Australia. The button/logo will be used prominently on the front cover of a national business magazine in Australia. It must also be suitable for flyers and the placement of winners' websites. Think... innovation, cleverness, ideas, grand thoughts, business, success. It must also be presentable in three forms (see below).
- It must heavily feature the words 'SMART 100'
- Form 1... It must be able to incorporate the Anthill Magazine logo (for promotional purposes)
- Form 2... It must also be presentable without the Anthill Magazine logo (for the front cover of the magazine)
- Form 3... It must be presentable with the Anthill Magazine logo and the words WINNER (or TOP 50 etc) for winners' websites
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Or should I say "damned" Arkansas town. Last year, Beebe, Arkansas experienced a massive blackbird die-off that captured a perplexed populace's attention. The deaths were later chalked up to confused birds colliding as fireworks went off. This year, blackbirds once again rained from the sky, showering the citizens of Beebe with a necrotic avian rain. Explains AP:
Police in Beebe said dozens of blackbirds had fallen dead, prompting officers to ban residents from shooting fireworks Saturday night. It wasn't immediately clear if fireworks were again to blame, but authorities weren't taking a chance.
Officer John Weeks said the first reports of "birds on the streets" came around 7 p.m. as residents celebrated the year's end with fireworks in their neighborhoods.
"We started shutting down fireworks," he said. "We're working on cleaning up the birds now."
Happy 2012, everybody! Who's ready for a solid 366 days of every deceased marmot, dyspeptic toucan, and farting narwhal being interpreted as a sign of an eschatological meltdown? 2012 is a leap year, after all!
Hat tip to Jon. Painting by Viktor Vasnetsov, but know that I almost used a still from Manowar's "Gloves of Metal" music video.


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For the 2012 *fiscal year, Judge Anne H Pate has disposed 356 cases at the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR) in Shreveport, Louisiana. Out of those 356 dispostions, 55 were dismissed, 113 were approved and 188 were denied. This means that the percentage of dispositions that Judge Pate has approved in Shreveport for the 2012 fiscal year is 32%. The information below for Judge Anne H Pate was last updated on 6/11/2019.
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ENG 497 Seminar in English Literature: Gender Criticism
In what ways do conceptions of "masculinity" and "femininity" shape the way we create and respond to texts? In this seminar, we will consider this question, one that has been central to literary study for the past two decades. We will also look at gender criticism in relation to other critical currents like formalism, psychoanalysis, multiculturalism, new historicism, gay studies, and cultural studies. During the first half of the semester we will read and view a range of works to create a common context for our discussions. (Writers and filmmakers might be chosen from among Shakespeare, Austen, Melville, Dickinson, Cather, Hemingway, E.M. Forster, John Ford, Richard Wright, Anne Sexton, Russell Banks, Jane Campion, Toni Morrison). The second half of the semester will be devoted to individual research projects shared with the class. This course is offered in the spring semester (Not offered 2005-2006)
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On Stage - Performance and Performing for Young Adults
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Books for young adults about performance, performers, and being on stage. Mostly fiction, some nonfiction at the end of each section.
Article in the Themes and Category:Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
- Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You, by Dorian Cirrone
- The Melting Season, by Celeste Conway
- Dancer, by Lorri Hewett
- House of Dance, by Beth Kephart
- Confessions of a Backup Dancer, by Anonymous, as told to Tucker Shaw
- Another way to dance, by Martha Southgate
- Poor Dancer's Almanac: Managing life and work in the Performing Arts, edited by David R. White, Life Friedman, and Tia Tibbitts Levinson
Acting, Theater & Spoken Word
- Drama by Raina Telgemeier
- Love on Cue by Catherine Hapka
- Dramarama, by E. Lockhart
- Klepto. by Jenny Pollack
- Zap, by Paul Fleischman
- Suite Scarlett, by Maureen Johnson
- Talk, by Kathe Koja
- Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To Do List, by Janette Rallison
- Surviving the Applewhites, by Stephanie Tolan
- The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generatio, edited by Mark Eleveld - Examples and history of slam poetry, hip hop, performance artists, the Beat poets...with an accompanying CD.
Singing & Playing Music
- Beige, by Cecil Castellucci
- Pop Princess, by Rachel Cohn
- When the Curtain Rises, by Rachel Dunstan
- Diva, by Alex Flinn
- Fat Kid Rules the World, by K. L. Going
- Lemonade Mouth, by Mark Peter Hughes
- Guitar Girl, by Sarra Manning
- Rock Star, Superstar, by Blake Nelson
- Plastic Angel, by Nerissa Nields
- Born Blue, by Han Nolan
- Sky: a Novel in Three Sets and an Encore, by Roderick Townley
- Backstage Pass, by Gaby Triana
- The Mozart Season, by Virginia Euwer Wolff
- When the Black Girl Sings, by Bil Wright - Lahni struggles with being the only African American in her school - and in her family - but finds a new voice when she starts to sing in a church choir and at a school competition.
- Good Enough, by Paula Yoo
- Trollbridge, a Rock'n'Roll Fairy Tale, by Jane Yolen & Adam Stemple
- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing the Guitar, by Frederick Noad and other resources for learning to play the guitar, or play it better.
Performing Arts in General
- It Chicks, by Tia Williams
- Overcoming Stage Fright in Everyday Life, by Joyce Ashley
- Speak up! A Guide to Public Speaking, by Patricia Sternberg
- How to be Your Own Booking Agent: a Performing Artist's guide to a Successful Touring Career, by Jeri Goldstein
- Opportunities in Performing Arts Careers, by Bonnie Bjorguine Bekken


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How do you feel about breastfeeding in public?
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A South Korean soccer player who displayed a political banner at the London Olympics will get his bronze medal back, the IOC announced Tuesday.
Park Jong-woo was issued with just a warning for his actions after his team's 2-0 victory over Japan, the IOC executive board ruled. The South Korean Olympic committee will be warned and required to educate its athletes about competition rules.
Park must receive his medal "without fanfare or publicity," as a condition of the sanction, International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams said.
The IOC withheld Park's medal after the Aug. 10 match pending a disciplinary hearing, which was held Monday in Lausanne.
Park displayed a sign in national colors after the game in Cardiff, Wales, which was played amid sensitive diplomatic relations at home.
The slogan said "Dokdo is our territory" in Korean to support his country's sovereignty over islets also claimed by Japan.
IOC and FIFA rules prohibit on-field political statements, but South Korean officials argued Park had not planned a protest and merely picked up a banner thrown on the field by a fan.
"It was obvious he didn't make a political statement," IOC disciplinary panel chairman Thomas Bach told The Associated Press. "He was very fair with a Japan player who was sitting on the ground weeping after the match.
"You can see from this gesture he had nothing against Japanese people," Bach said.
FIFA previously banned Park for two World Cup matches in its own investigation of the case. He will serve his suspension when South Korea hosts Qatar on March 26 and plays at Lebanon on June 4.
The 23-year-old midfielder was called into the senior national team weeks after the Olympics, and played in a World Cup qualifier against Iran in October.
FIFA also warned the South Korean soccer association about future sanctions if the actions were repeated.
At Park's hearing Monday, South Korean Olympic officials accepted that team leaders "did not properly advise all of its players" about complying with game-time rules of conduct.
Hours before kickoff last August, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak traveled to the islets where his country stations a small contingent of police officers in a show of control. The presidential visit prompted Japan to recall its ambassador from Seoul.
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This week Tri-County Animal Rescue has three little Jack Russell Terrier pups ready to jump into your heart.
Larry, Moe and Curly are 9 weeks-old and fun-loving puppies. They have had 2 parvo vaccines, been de-wormed, micro-chipped and come with a certificate to cover the cost of neuter and rabies vaccine. These boys are ready for a permanent home.
We believe they will be small sized dogs (around 15-20 pounds). Come see these stooges at the PetSmart from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday and noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, 3698 E. Franklin Blvd., Gastonia.
There will be many other pets for adoption at PetSmart this weekend.
UPDATE: LadyBug , the beagle, and one of the puppies from last week are still looking for homes. Eight pups were adopted from last week�s litters.
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Apart from the rare exception—someone in the mold of Robert LeFevre or Leo Tolstoy—most anarchists are not pacifists. They suppose, that is, that there are occasions when it might be appropriate to use force—most commonly, to protect oneself or someone else against unjust attack or to secure compensation for such an attack. While the anarchist seeks to realize an ideal of peaceful, voluntary cooperation, she is likely to be very much aware that it may sometimes be necessary to call the people with guns. Force may sometimes be employed to settle disputes over just control over possessions—what I will call property rights without attempt to settle the question of just when someone might be thought justly to control a given possession. However, forcibly defending property rights in a stateless society is not the moral equivalent of state aggression.
In Part II, I briefly describe different sources of legal rules that might obtain in a stateless society and note the kinds of conflicts that might arise in such a society. In Part III, I explain why I believe the forcible resolution of conflicts between participants in the same regime would not qualify as state-like aggression and offer reasons for thinking that the same would be true of the forcible resolution of conflicts between participants in different regimes that upheld the same property rules or that were parties to agreements governing conflicts involving divergent legal norms. In Part IV, I consider two problems posed by the way I've framed my claim that legal regimes forcibly protecting participants' property rights need not be viewed as state-like: the fact that the interdefinability of consent and aggression requires a pre-legal definition of property rights, and the fact that, if such a definition is available, affirming it might seem to be inconsistent with embracing the notion of polycentric law. In Part V, I argue that a regime's use of force against an outlaw need not be state-like any more than its use of force against a participant in another regime. I conclude in Part VI.
II. Rules and Conflicts
We can imagine that legal rules in a stateless society might be generated by at least three different kinds of institutions (for simplicity's sake, I'll refer to these sorts of institutions collectively as legal regimes and those who voluntarily agree to accept the legal rules they establish and maintain as participants):
- the territorialized consensus-based legal regime, in which most people in a given geographic area accept a given set of legal norms. The regime might often be maintained by mutualized institutions formerly part of a state apparatus. The difference between this sort of regime and a state would be that no one in the relevant geographic area would be treated as having accepted the regime's authority without her actual consent.
- the deterritorialized contractual legal regime, in which people who might not occupy geographically contiguous territory opted for the dispute resolution services of the same cooperative, for-profit, volunteer-based, or not-for-profit dispute resolution agency.
- the deterritorialized communal legal regime, in which people who might not occupy geographically contiguous territory opted for the dispute resolution services of a religious or cultural community to which they belonged for reasons independent of its provision of dispute resolution services.
A property-related conflict (PRC) in a stateless society could occur, in theory, between
- two participants in the same legal regime;
- two participants in different legal regimes;
- a participant in a legal regime an someone not affiliated with any regime (without assuming anything about whether such a person engages in violent behavior, we can refer to her conveniently as an outlaw).
III. Regulated Conflicts
Conflicts between participants in the same regime, and between participants in different regimes with appropriate rules or agreements or both, would be consensual. Using force to secure compliance with a regime's rules in order to end such conflicts need not be state-like.
A. Conflicts between Participants in the Same Regime
When a PRC occurs between two participants in the same legal regime, it is clear that, given that the legal regime is genuinely consensual, featuring full exit rights, the participants will either have agreed directly to the rules governing their conflict or have agreed to standards governing procedures for the determination of such rules in the awareness that such rules would, in fact, be determined. In either case, they will have voluntarily accepted the jurisdiction of the relevant legal regime—and, in the prior case, to the specific applicable norms. Using force to compel them to accept it is clearly not on all fours with using force to impose state dictates on people who have not actually consented to them.
B. Cross-Regime Conflicts
Different legal regimes may feature the same norms relevant to a particular conflict, or different ones. When a PRC occurs between participants in different consensual legal regimes with the same relevant norms, the participants will have voluntarily consented to the norms or to procedures used to generate them. Thus, again, using force to ensure their cooperation will be justified given their prior consent to the applicable norms.
If different regimes feature different norms applicable to a particular kind of PRC, then it will obviously be in the best interests of each regime to establish guidelines—choice-of-law and conflict-of-law rules, primarily—for resolving cross-regime disagreements about the resolution of disputes of this kind (typically, though not necessarily, embodied in agreements with the relevant competitor regimes). If a given regime is fully consensual, then a participant in that regime will have accepted these second-order norm directly or will, again, have consented in one way or another to procedures for their determination. A participant in a legal regime will thus have consented to the employment by the regime of such second-order norms to reach a conclusion regarding the substantive principles to be applied in resolving a dispute and then to use force, if need be, to resolve the dispute. So, again, the use of force here will be legitimate.
IV. Aggression, Consent, and Polycentricity
There are two further related problems here, however. Someone might object that talk about free consent only makes sense given a definition of aggression, but that aggression can only be defined by a legal regime, so that no one could be said to consent to a legal regime. I argue in Section A that a pre-legal account of property rights is at least to some extent possible, so that the objection is unsuccessful. An objector might also hold that relatively stable, uniform property norms would be incompatible with the existence of a truly polycentric legal order. In Section B, I explain why it is possible to support polycentricity and endorse the existence of pre-legal norms.
A. Defining Consent and Aggression Pre-Legally
The first concerns the nature of consent to the jurisdiction of a given regime. We can imagine such consent taking the form of joining a particular religious community (in principle, I suppose, someone might opt to have legal disputes resolved by a religious community to which she didn't belong, but it seems more likely that people will opt for full-scale involvement in a community and then take advantage of its legal system as an incident of membership), contracting with a for-profit dispute resolution agency, or joining a cooperative. The problem is that whether someone's decision to consent to a regime's jurisdiction was voluntary depends on how her rights were defined prior to membership. For I understand a voluntary act as one in which I am not compelled to engage by aggressive force (that is, force not intended to defend against unjust attack or secure compensation for such an attack) or the threat of aggressive force. But what counts as aggression is obviously dependent on what rights someone is judged to have. Thus, for the notion of free consent to have any meaningful content, it must be possible to specify a core of relevant rights that obtain independently of the determinations of any legal regime.
However, the notion of a polycentric legal order presupposes the existence of multiple legal regimes, specifying different legally recognized rights. It might seem as if the reasonableness of a polycentric legal order implied that all rights were legal rights, dependent on the existence and operation of some legal regime or other. If this is so, then there would be no pre-legal rights. And so, in turn, there would be no way of specifying content for the notion of voluntary consent to a legal regime. And this would suggest that the notion of a consensual legal order, fundamental to the concept of a stateless society, was unsustainable and perhaps incoherent.
We can imagine at least four possible moral conclusions regarding the status of property rights, in particular: (i) there is one just set of property rights; (ii) there are several just sets of property rights; (iii) there are no just property rights, because it is wrong for anyone to claim to control any part of the material world; (iv) there are no just property rights because there are no true moral claims at all; or (v) there are no just property rights because, for one reason or another, while there are true moral claims about other matters, there are no true moral claims about our relationships with items in the material world apart from the determination of an organized legal system (I ignore the possibility that pre-legal social consensus might play the same role, because this option can be handled under [ii], above).
If (i) is correct, then there will, indeed, be an unequivocal baseline against which it will be possible to measure the freedom of consent. An act will be free just insofar as someone is not compelled to engage in it by aggression or the threat of aggression against that person's rights, including her property rights.
If (ii) is correct, then there will not be a single set of property rights that can serve as a baseline against which it will be possible to measure the freedom of consent. However, there will be, ex hypthesi, moral constraints on what a just set of property rights can be like. So while (on this view) different social or legal norms might define property rights in different ways, the choice among just norms would not be unlimited (and might, in fact, be fairly narrow): there are some norms such that acting as if they were in place would be wrong; acting in relation to someone's possessions in a way that was not consistent with any reasonable property norm would be morally wrong and would certainly count as aggression against that person. So, again, if (ii) were correct, the notion of aggression would have determinate content.
Of course, if (iii) were correct, this would indeed establish a moral equivalence between actions with respect to property claims in a stateless society and actions with respect to property claims by a state. But it would do so at the cost of rendering orderly, purposeful action in the world impossible. No reasonable person would endorse (iii).
It is certainly possible that (iv) might be correct (though the very notion of correctness here is, of course, a normative one, and it would be difficult to affirm the validity of an epistemic norm while accepting the sorts of arguments likely to lead to skepticism about moral norms). Accepting (iv) as true would mean denying any moral difference between self-defense and state coercion. But it would also deny anyone who accepted it any basis for engaging in intelligible moral criticism of the anarchist or of anyone else. In any event, generalized moral skepticism cannot simply be asserted; it has to be defended in one way or another. Until it is, we need not be overly troubled by it; and if its validity ultimately is established there will be more serious problems to resolve than the best way to talk about possessions in a stateless society.
If (v) were correct, so that there were no moral constraints on property rules in the absence of a legal system, if a legal regime could create just any property rules, then there would, indeed, be no way to specify a contentful notion of aggression that could provide the basis for the justified claim that someone had consented freely to the regime's jurisdiction. But I cannot see why anyone would suppose that this was true. A vast array of approaches to moral reasoning have fairly obvious implications for the moral status of possessions. The notion that there were lots of true moral claims but that none of them constrained how someone could appropriately treat someone else's possessions is just barely conceivable. It would, however, be bizarre to suppose that an approach to morality developed, in whatever fashion, for the benefit of embodied persons in a world remotely like ours would lack implications regarding the just treatment of their possessions. I believe we can safely proceed on the assumption that no such approach to morality would be credible absent substantial counter-arguments.
B. Right Answers and Polycentricity
It is perfectly possible to affirm that some property systems are just and some are not while still supporting the existence of a polycentric legal order featuring multiple property rules.
It is reasonable to assume that there are constraints on when something can be justly possessed and how others may justly treat someone's just possessions sufficient to give the notion of aggression, and so of free consent, determinate content. But it might be thought that the existence of these constraints was incompatible with the existence of a genuinely polycentric legal order. In the absence of an overarching authority ensuring the operation of a consistent set of legal norms, some of the property rules enforced by some regimes in a polycentric legal order will doubtless be unjust. Since no one can reasonably want unjust norms to obtain, the argument might run, we must all be obligated to oppose the existence of a polycentric legal order and to favor the establishment and enforcement of a uniform set of legal norms.
A stateless society could, in principle, feature such a uniform set of norms. Murray Rothbard famously called for the adoption by the members of a stateless society of a Libertarian Code. But I think it is clear that the voluntary adoption of such a code would require far more consensus than is likely to be evident in the foreseeable future. In a society without the state, there would undoubtedly be multiple, probably overlapping, sets of legal rules.
It will certainly be possible to object to some of these rules. Different legal systems will doubtless make mistakes, perhaps sometimes very serious ones. And a stateless society's equivalent of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade may sometimes have reason to become involved in remedying clear injustices perpetrated by some legal systems. But belief in objective constraints on property norms is quite compatible with supporting, rather than opposing, legal polycentricity.
First, that there is a fact of the matter about which property rules are just does not mean that everyone, or anyone, has infallible knowledge of those rules. Polycentricity creates room for experimentation and discovery.
Second, some just rules may be appropriate for people with particular characteristics—histories, personalities, and so forth—and communities of such people may tend to opt for those rules. It does not follow that other just rules won't be appropriate for people with other characteristics.
Third, even if it is obvious that a given legal regime's property rules are thoroughly wrong-headed, I can quite reasonably welcome a system that allows for the participants in that legal regime to voluntarily adopt those rules. I could only object to such a system if I believed a coercive authority with the power to impose legal norms on the unconsenting was preferable to a system that allowed for genuine diversity.
It is worth emphasizing that diverse property regimes could be just even if, as is surely unlikely, everyone in a given society endorsed the same underlying rules. For, since legal regimes would be fully consensual, participants would obviously be free to contract out of the baseline property rules everyone treated as society-wide defaults.
V. Outlaws
A regime responding to the behavior of people not affiliated with any regime need not be regarded as behaving in a state-like manner. I explain in Section A why the outlaw might be thought to pose for the clear delineation of the difference between a consensual legal regime and a state. I note in Section B that a regime can largely avoid the risk of engaging in state-like behavior by not engaging in non-contractual contact with outlaws. In Section C, I suggest that a regime responding to simple aggression by outlaws by forcibly upholding what are clearly legitimate property rights need not be seen as state-like aggression.
A. Why the Outlaw Is a Problem
A given legal regime will have various occasions to interact with outlaws. It's easy to envision a PRC between the outlaw and a participant in the regime—perhaps the regime is mutualist, while she favors Lockean property rules, or vice versa. Because she's an outlaw, she's not a participant in any legal regime other than her own (by definition), and it's likely that she doesn't have any pre-existing agreement with the relevant regime about PRC (if she does, her case raises no special concerns and can be ignored). In this case, there's no basis for saying she's consented either to the substantive property rules enforced by the regime or to any second-order choice-of-law rules. Would the regime function like a state in relation to her?
B. Avoiding Non-Contractual Contact with Outlaws
If she sought to involve the regime in a contractual PRC between her and one of its participants who was, let us suppose, following the regime's preferred legal norms but not her own, the regime could obviously decline to become involved. If it did, it certainly would not be engaging in the deployment of state-like force. The regime could similarly avoid being state-like if it declined to become involved when one of its participants asked it to resolve a contractual PRC with her using its preferred legal norms rather than hers. When the PRC involved a participant's claim to property currently occupied by an outlaw, or an outlaw's claim to property currently occupied by a participant, the regime could generally decline to become involved at all, absent the outlaw's agreement, when preferred legal norms were different. And the outlaw would obviously have good reason to want to agree to the regime's involvement to facilitate orderly dispute resolution. The regime could also instruct participants that, when concluding agreements with outlaws regarding matters affected by disputed property rules, they should incorporate provisions specifying that PRCs be settled by the regime.
C. Aggressive Outlaws
Following a policy combining preemptive contracting with a refusal in general to become involved with participants' voluntary relationships with unconsenting outlaws would make it relatively easy for a regime to avoid state-like behavior. This does not mean, of course, that a regime would always be able to avoid using force against outlaws. Many PRCs are likely to involve good-faith disagreements about the contents of just property rules. But some outlaws may engage in what the regime regards as simple aggression against participants. In this case, it can reasonably be expected that the regime will use force to repel them and to secure compensation for the harm they have done.
In so doing, however, it would not be acting in a state-like manner, for its use of force would not be best understood as a matter of imposing legal norms on unconsenting third parties. Given the legitimacy of its property rules, in defending participants' property it would be doing only what they would be entitled to do in its absence. This is obviously the case if there is a single set of just property rules. People who believed that there were and that they had identified them could obviously act in good faith in forcibly repelling aggression against property rights consistent with those rules. But forcibly repelling aggression could also be legitimate if multiple sets of property rules were just: diverse property systems will preclude the same kinds of infringements, and most or all will treat people's reasonably settled expectations as worth honoring in many or most cases.
A regime's decision-makers would need to consider the limits on forcible responses to what they view as aggression by outlaws, it seems to me, only when outlaws made good-faith claims to be acting on the basis of publicly defensible moral norms justifying the conduct the regime regards as aggressive. Outlaws who understand themselves simply to be using force to subdue others, who are, in effect, aggressors by their own lights, may always be repelled using proportionate force.
Even if a regime's decision-makers were uncertain whether it was just to respond forcibly to some behavior by outlaws when it affected participants' property, they could still in good conscience, and without behaving in a state-like manner, use force in two additional ways. (i) They could reasonably employ force to ensure that the relevant PRC be resolved through negotiation rather than through force. (ii) They could reasonably employ force to defend participants from bodily harm.
The same kinds of considerations would obviously apply if the aggression involved were undertaken not by outlaws but by another regime that simply refused to negotiate choice-of-law agreement with the regime. Such a regime could reasonably be treated as a collection of outlaws—not in order to justify hunting and killing its participants, but to ensure that they were treated with the wary respect due dangerous and uncivil predators.
VI. Conclusion
Forcibly resolving disputes regarding property rights need not make a legal regime in a stateless society state-like. Consensual rules accepted by regime participants and consensual agreements within regimes can resolve most property disputes, and, because they are consensual, enforcing them need not be state-like. While there may not be a single set of just property rights, there are, at minimum, constraints on the range of possibly just schemes of rights, and the existence of such constraints makes it possible for talk about the consensuality of regime membership to be meaningful. A polycentric legal order can certainly feature multiple property rights schemes; and, even if not all of those schemes are just, there will still be good reason to support the existence of the legal order as a whole, even though it makes room for the maintenance of some undesirable regimes (this certainly does not mean that organized and disorganized individuals are not free to actively challenge unjust regimes).
Whatever the legal rules upheld by a just regime, the existence of outlaws need not compel it to behave like a state. In large part, it can avoid non-consensual relationships with them, and when it has no choice to engage with them, it does not act unjustly if it uses force to prevent them from engaging in conduct which would be inconsistent with any just scheme of property rights.
There will obviously be considerable economic and social pressure on outlaws in a stateless society to affiliate with legal regimes and on regimes to standardize mechanisms for resolving cross-regime disputes. There will also be real, if less intense, pressures for regimes to adopt similar rules—though diverse cultural values, moral beliefs, and geographic circumstances may all tend to promote continued diversity. While the injustice of state-like conduct does not depend on its extent—subjecting anyone to aggressive violence is wrong—there need be relatively few pressures on a regime to engage in such conduct. It can, in any case, avoid such conduct by ensuring that its internal rules rest on the content of its participants, that it orders its relationships with other regimes consensually (and in ways that merit the consensual self-obligation of its members), by avoiding non-consensual contacts with outlaws where possible, and by using force against them only to defend unequivocally just claims.
This essay emerged from an extended conversation involving Sheldon Richman, Brad Spangler, Kevin Carson, Charles Johnson, Roderick T. Long, Thomas Knapp, and others. While none of them is to blame for its final form, it certainly reflects their insights and perhaps even on occasion their choice of language. I am grateful for and honored by the chance to have such thoughtful dialogue partners and friends.


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So we have this wonderful application, "Crystal Reports Server 2008 V1". Property of SAP, fomerly property of "Business Objects", formerly property of Seagate Software, formerly… nevermind.
CR Server claims to run on IIS, so we had hoped to deploy the new version without needing to add the usual pile of unmaintainable WAMP cruft. Unfortunately, it turns out there are bits of it that out-and-out require a J2EE web server, such as Tomcat. Rather than manage IIS and Tomcat, We are just going to run with the cat. Good decision? Meh…
Here is the quick-and-dirty on some simple security measures we took to protect the app:
- Remove the sample and documentation webapps from the Tomcat server "webapps" directory. Delete jsp-examples, servlet-examples, tomcat-docs. Consider also removing ROOT, balancer, webdav, if not needed by your application.
- Use the java "keytool.exe" to create a java keystore. Create web server key pair in the keystore, then generate a CSR from the pair. Have the CSR signed and import the signed cert back into the same keystore alias. The best doc on CSR generation and import is probably this one:
But note that you may need to specify a "keyAlias" parameter in your Tomcat server.xml , if you did not use the alias "tomcat" when generating your key. This tidbit is not in the documentation.
Also note that you likely will need to add the parameter "-keylength 2048" to your "genkey" command, if you want to ensure a key length of at least 2048 bits (most modern CAs will not issue a cert less than this length). Additionally, you can add the "-storepass" parameter towards the start of your command string to help with automation of future commands within the same shell session.
- Using the same doc as above, update the stanza in the Tomcat server.xml to use TLS. In the stanza, include the following additional parameter:
ciphers="SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5, SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, SSL_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA"
This will prevent the use of weak cryptographic ciphers.
- To the Tomcat web.xml config file, add a "security-constraint" stanza, as documented here. (can't post the code directly to stupid wordpress because it clobbers XML.)This will enforce the use of SSL for all web apps running in tomcat.
- If you want a redirect from standard HTTP port 80 to the secure port, add a second connector stanza to "server.xml", with the following parameter:


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Freud deciphered our dreams; Proust and Proustian fiction make sense of our fantasies. In some ways, the latter are far more important than the former. Our fantasies shape in a tangible and real way our identities. They determine how we perceive ourselves and others; give us so much to look forward to; help us glance back at the past with nostalgia, and offer us a much-needed escape from the grind of daily reality. Proust's works stand the test of time partly because they delve so deeply into our fantasy life, the blueprint of our beings. Yet exploring how our fantasies determine who we are and how we live was not, for Proust, an escape from reality. The author simultaneously placed a magnifying glass on the world of 20th-century French aristocracy–studying them as an entomologist would examine insects–to magnify the neuroses, deviancy and intrigue that lie beneath a thin veneer of worldliness and respectability.
This is what the Romanian-American writer, Dumitru Radu Popa, does for contemporary American society in his Proustian novel Crossing Washington Square (1999), which I've had the pleasure of translating into English. The author of several novels and short story collections, including Fisura (1985), Panic Syndrome! (1997), Inchide ochii! Povestirile Semintei (1998), Sabrina si Alte Suspiciuni (2003) translated as Sabrina and Other Good Suspicions (2011) and Lady V. si Alte Povestiri (2006) translated as Lady V. and Other Stories (2007) among others, Dumitru Radu Popa continues the genre of psychological fiction for our times. Psychological fiction is, in some respects, timeless. As much as our social and political institutions may change, arguably the basics of human nature remain more or less the same. However, the challenge for a fiction writer is to render basic human fears, emotions, obsessions and desires interesting and engaging for a contemporary audience. Dumitru Radu Popa relies upon his broad cultural training in literature, philosophy, philology and law–as well as his keen poetic sensibility–to accomplish this task, in his short stories, novellas and novels that have won critical acclaim both in his native Romania and in his host country, the United States.
Of all his works, Crossing Washington Square is, at least in my opinion, the closest in style and introspective bent to Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. The first part of the novel traces the (potential) affair between a professor and his young, beautiful and assertive Swedish graduate student, Linda Magnusson. The second part of the novel offers a parallel story about that same male narrator voyeuristically following the correspondence between two secret lovers who furtively exchange letters in a tree hole. These letters, in turn, discuss at length the love affair of Abelard and Eloise. While in the first part of the novel we are privy mostly to the male perspective, in the second part the converse is true. We only get to speculate about the male perspective through reading Cara's letters to her male interlocutor.
Although Crossing Washington Square could be loosely described as two parallel love stories, the plot is treated with some irony and becomes secondary to a rich and nuanced philosophical reflection. When one delves deeper into the text, one discovers a profound, existential, meditation about the nature of time; a psychological analysis about how poignant childhood experiences infiltrate our memory in unexpected ways and shape our identities as adults, as well as a lyrical description of love and mortality. More concerned with ontology than with ethics, this novel takes away some of the moral implications of the extramarital affair (or affairs) it describes. Ultimately, we don't even know if they are real or just fantasies. The novel retains a sense of poetic purity; no moral judgments can be justifiably leveled against it or its characters. The line between speculation and truth, reality and fantasy is so often crossed that, in the end, readers are obliged to reach an even stronger conclusion than the observation that fantasy shapes our lives. In reading Crossing Washington Square we realize the more profound truth that our lives and identities would be empty without a rich fantasy life.
Claudia Moscovici, Ann Arbor, Michigan 2012


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Masset on DL; Brown called up for bullpen
DENVER -- When right-handed reliever Brooks Brown makes his Major League debut, he will be the 25th pitcher to appear for the Rockies this season. The Rockies purchased Brown's contract from Triple-A Colorado Springs on Sunday, and placed righty Nick Masset on the 15-day disabled list with a left patellar tendon strain.
Brown, 29, pitched in the D-backs, Tigers and Pirates organizations before joining the Rockies this season and going 1-0 with a 4.35 ERA in 31 appearances at Triple-A Colorado Springs. Brown experienced a career breakthrough in 2011 when a shoulder injury put him out of action for two-plus months, leading to a return in a different role. This is his first year as a full-time reliever.
"I started moving more toward the bullpen and finished the year in the bullpen, and it's been a good fit for me," Brown said.
Masset (1-0, 4.94 ERA in 28 games) suffered the injury after throwing a pitch that eluded catcher Wilin Rosario for a passed ball during Saturday's 8-7 victory over the Dodgers. Masset's knee buckled before he reached the plate, and it hyperextended when Rosario threw wildly after chasing down the ball. Rosario has made progress defensively, but some of the miscues around the plate have been costly. Jordan Lyles (broken hand) this year and Roy Oswalt (hamstring strain) last season were also injured while covering when pitches eluded Rosario.
Head athletic trainer Keith Dugger said Masset's MRI was the best-case scenario because there was no damage to ligaments or cartilage. The thought was Masset might have been able to return after a few games, but the bullpen could not afford to be short a pitcher. Masset also will consult with the team's orthopedist, Dr. Thomas J. Noonan.
To make room for Brown on the 40-man Major League roster, the Rockies designated Class A right-hander Raul Fernandez for assignment.


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WCTV Eyewitness News
According to the Georgia State Patrol, a crash that killed three Brooks County football players has been confirmed as due to speed and driving error.
Jicarre Watkins, Johnnie Parker, and Shawn Waters were killed when their SUV crashed into a tree on July 9, 2013.
Because of the demolished nature of the vehicle, it was suspected that speed was a factor in the wreck.
WCTV will bring you updates on this story as they are available.
By: Kara Duffy
July 9, 2013
Brooks County, GA- Friends and family members gathered at the Brooks County Board Of Education just hours after they heard the heartbreaking news.
Three high school football players were killed and a fourth injured after their SUV slammed into a tree along North Webster Road, just north of Quitman.
Troopers say, the teens were on their way home from football practice.
"The vehicle for whatever reason ran partially off the right shoulder of the roadway," said Sgt. First Class Carl Taylor with the Georgia State Patrol. "The driver over-reacted, brought the vehicle back on the roadway. It rotated into the ditch on the opposite side of the road. The vehicle started to overturn and struck the tree."
Rising seniors Jicarre Watkins and Shawn Waters, and rising junior, Johnnie Parker, died on the scene.
Devron Whitfield, also a rising junior, was air-lifted to Shands Hospital in Florida.
"The community is just devastated," said Owen Clemmons, the superindentient for Brooks County Schools. Both the school community and our general community is just really in shock. It such a tragedy here in Brooks County."
School officials say students, teammates and the entire community, are in need of support now, more than ever.
"We just solicit the prayers and thoughts from our community and it's going to take a community effort to really pull us through this. We're looking for answers, but we need help now," Clemmons added.
Clemmons said the school has counselors available for students who are in need.
Also, at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow, the Brooks County football coach will be meeting with the team, along with local pastors and counselors to offer their support during this extremely difficult time.
According to Brooks County Schools
Rising seniors Jicarre Watkins and Shawn Waters, and rising junior, Johnnie Parker, were all three killed in a Brooks County car accident this morning.
Devron Whitfield, also a rising junior at Brooks County, is in critical condition and was air-lifted to Shands Hospital in Florida.
Brooks County Schools has announced that they will be having a prayer vigil at 6pm tonight in the cafeteria at Brooks County High School.
Statement from Brooks County Schools
QUITMAN - Brooks County Schools is saddened by the tragic car accident that killed three of its high school students and left one in critical condition. Counselors are available to support students and staff during this difficult time.
Brooks County Schools ask that the community, students and staff please keep the families of these students in this tragic accident in their prayers.
At this time we are unable to confirm any further details. There will be a prayer vigil at 6pm tonight in the cafeteria at Brooks County High School.
According to Brooks County Sheriff's Office
Three Brooks County football players have been killed in a car accident, and one person is being air-lifted to Shands Hospital in Florida after a one-car crash in Brooks County this morning at about 9:30 a.m.
The wreck happened on Webster Road, by Brooks County High School near Quitman.
Right now, the road is blocked and the Georgia State Patrol is investigating.
One person ejected out of the vehicle was lifted to Gainesville about 9:30 this morning.
As of right now, the names of those involved have not been released. Please stay with WCTV Eyewitness News for the latest on this developing story.


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California's Graduate Students in Environmental Sciences Lag Behind in Technology, Computation
Students are also generally untrained in archiving data, UC Riverside study finds
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have conducted a study showing that many skills and practices that could help scientists make use of technological and computational opportunities are only marginally being taught in California's formal graduate programs in the environmental sciences.
The researchers found, too, that graduate students in the state were, in general, not engaged in data management practices. Of the students surveyed who had already completed their graduate degree, only 29.3 percent had made their research data products available online. Further, one-third of the surveyed students whose research was in progress were unfamiliar with creating metadata for their data sets.
"These findings raised a red flag for us," said Rebecca R. Hernandez, the lead author of the study published in the December 2012 issue of BioScience. "We conducted the study because we were concerned that early career and aspiring scientists were not being trained with the skills and tools they will need to handle large, complex data sets that have become 'normal' in scientific labs and institutions across the globe."
Hernandez explained that the findings suggest that scientists are not being trained as well as they could be in keeping up with the pace of technology and computation.
"At a time when jobs have become internationally competitive, scientists also need employable skills," she said. "Knowing basic programming or how to infer meaningful and accurate information from large data sets could be the difference between unemployment and a job offer. Moreover, data sets are useful beyond their initial application making them a valuable and powerful commodity. If graduate students are not trained in data archival methods, they may be less likely to archive data sets in future research endeavors, resulting in a huge loss of knowledge and opportunity to the academic community."
Nearly 500 scientists participated in the UC Riverside study. Hernandez and colleagues conducted an online survey in June-August 2011 and solicited responses from master's and doctoral students in academic departments related to environmental or ecological sciences from 27 California universities, including 4 private schools, 9 public universities in the UC system, and 14 public universities in the California State University system.
The researchers focused on environmental sciences because the field includes biologists, plant scientists, geneticists, ecologists, modelers, oceanographers, earth system scientists, evolutionists, foresters, geographers, energy scientists, and others.
"To administrators and educators, our study suggests several areas that may enrich the education of environmental scientists, including coursework in the computer and information sciences; proficiency in programming, computation, and the analysis of large and complex data-sets; skills in the application of advanced technologies to the scientific method; interdisciplinary collaborations; and the understanding and practice of proper data management," Hernandez said.
The research team is hopeful that the study will embolden scientists at all career stages to be more proactive in getting the skills they need to solve environmental problems and imparting these skills to the next generation.
"We also hope more scientists learn about proper data management and commit to archiving their data online for everyone to freely use and re-use," Hernandez said.
The study was conducted while Hernandez was a junior specialist working for Michael F. Allen, the director of UCR's Center for Conservation Biology and the principal investigator of the research project. Currently, Hernandez is a Ph.D. student at Stanford University where she is examining processes that elucidate the functioning of the Earth system and cover a broad range of topics from global environmental change to renewable energy systems.
"I am supporting my analyses with advanced technologies, field methods, and computational programming," she said. "And yes, I plan to archive all my research data sets in online repositories!"
The study was funded by the National Science Foundation and the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing.
Hernandez and Allen were joined in the study by Matthew S. Mayernik and Michelle L. Murphy-Mariscal.
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A Minnesota man accused of killing a 9-year-old boy by standing in the street and firing indiscriminately at passing cars told investigators he did it because people had been waking him up by revving their engines in front of his home, according to a search warrant affidavit.
When police arrested 34-year-old Nhan Lap Tran after the February rampage, they found a note in his bedroom that read, "Random Kill, Fake Plates," the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported ( https://bit.ly/13Mwdyh ).
The date "12/12/12" was also scrawled all over the walls of the bedroom, according to the affidavit filed in Washington County District Court.
Tran is charged with six felonies, including second-degree intentional murder and second-degree murder during an assault. He had previously admitted to the shootings but hadn't given a motive, prosecutors said.
Tran's attorney, Susan Drabek, did not immediately return a phone call to The Associated Press for comment Saturday.
The shooting rampage happened shortly after 6 p.m. on Feb. 11 in the St. Paul suburb of Oakdale, a few yards from Tran's home. Fourth-grader Devin Aryal died in the shootings, and his mother and another woman were wounded. Two other motorists escaped as they were being fired upon, according to the criminal complaint.
Tran told investigators that "cars had been following him around for a while, and the persons driving the cars had been revving up their engines while parked in front of his house waking him up," the affidavit said. "Nhan Tran said this is why he shot at the cars tonight."
Prosecutors said Tran had roughly 200 rounds of ammunition stuffed into his jacket pocket, a backpack and the fanny pack he was wearing when arrested several blocks away.
He was also carrying two loaded 9 mm magazines and two large knives at the time. A loaded 9 mm handgun with a bullet in the chamber was found just feet from him. He admitted he tossed the gun aside when he saw authorities closing in, the criminal complaint said.
During Tran's first court appearance in February, his public defender requested a mental health evaluation. A review hearing is scheduled for March 25.
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Fresh from its Champions Trophy triumph in England, an upbeat Indian cricket team landed here today to compete in an ODI tri-series against the West Indies and Sri Lanka starting tomorrow.
"Jamaica welcomes us with bright sun shine and some lovely cricket fans.Not to forget hoardings of the great Usain Bolt," tweeted off-spinner R Ashwin upon arrival here.
The Indian team, riding high on its unbeaten run in the Champions Trophy, will start its campaign on Sunday against the hosts.
The first three matches of the series would be played in Jamaica (from June 28 to July 2) before the action shifts to Trinidad (from July 5 to July 11).
Squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Dinesh Karthik, Murali Vijay, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Amit Mishra, R Vinay Kumar.


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Earlier this week I made two large aviation photography prints; the first one was a 130 cm wide canvas of my recent DC-3 Dakota shot.
The second one, a large black and white print of this 1936 Lockheed 12A, made at the 2011 Sun 'n Fun fly-in Lakeland, Florida. The aircraft underwent a 19 year long restoration and first flew again in 2007. This beautiful aircraft which appeared in the movie "Amelia" is in pristine condition and has won multiple awards at fly-ins like Airventure and Sun 'n Fun.
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Nikon D700 with 24-70 2.8
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One can clearly see yours truly in the reflection of the spinner. The detail in the print is amazing!
One can clearly see yours truly in the reflection of the spinner. The detail in the print is amazing!
The original color image can be found here.
On a different note, in a few days I'll be off the the French Pyrenees to do some more paragliding. More than likely my Pic(k) of the week will be late by a few days... Expect the 31 one around August 5.
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Karen Hye
Class of 2010
Major/Minor: psychology, Studio Art
Art For AIDS' Sake
Karen Hye '10 always knew that she wanted to work in art therapy, but she didn't expect to have already made such an impact on lives across the globe.
Double-majoring in psychology and art, Karen took an early interest in HIV activism. From there, she determined that studying abroad in South Africa would be the most enriching learning experience. During her academic exchange at Rhodes University, Karen contacted an AIDS clinic in Grahamstown and started conducting weekly art therapy with women there.
During each meeting at the Raphael Centre, Karen asked the women to express a different aspect of themselves, such as their dreams, identities or experience of being HIV-positive. Though they had never before talked at this level, Karen observed how the art inspired them to be more open with their peers. "It gave them the confidence to tell their stories out loud to a larger audience," Karen remembers. "It was really powerful to see that."
Karen gave each woman a disposable camera and asked them to document their lives with HIV/AIDS. The clinic's manager recognized the potency of these artistic expressions and suggested that the photographs—together with drawings and personal testimonies—be exhibited during the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
Karen recalls that one of the most stunning photographs was a street scene—with a funeral parlor as the focal point. The exhibit, "Defined by Four Letters," received national press. Karen herself was interviewed for television and print. "It was unbelievable to have that happen from an idea I had," Karen muses.
Working from her own mother's belief that beading is a form of art therapy, Karen also encouraged the women to make beadwork, which they sold at the festival. The women made 800 rand ($100), which equals a month's worth of groceries for each woman.
Karen is conducting a similar art therapy project for HIV patients in New York City this summer, examining happiness, contentment and self-esteem during the three stages of treatment. She intends to compare the NY and Africa studies in her psychology senior thesis.This is work she hopes to continue in India and China, where HIV is prevalent. After graduating, she hopes to enroll in NYU's art therapy program and to continue her work abroad.
Karen's art therapy project in New York City is supported by the Clarence Hodson Prize, which "rewards creativity, initiative, and intellectual curiosity" by providing funding to art students for study anywhere in the world. As preference is often given to music majors, Karen was particularly honored to win the prize: "I couldn't have done this without the grant."
Read more about Karen's experience on her "Art for AIDS' Sake" blog, or see the women's art on Flickr.
Additional Info
- Blog: Art for AIDS' Sake
- Twitter: karenhye
- Flickr: karenhye
On Being A Peer Mentor
As a senior I wish I had taken the opportunity to be a Peer Mentor sooner. The experience was very rewarding and I am glad to have been a part of the Peer Mentor program. Being a Peer Mentor gives upperclassmen a valuable chance to shape the experience of a first-year student at the beginning of their Washington College experience, when it matters most. As a Peer Mentor you have a unique relationship with the first year students and you help them through a variety of situations in the first couple of weeks of school. Over time you prove to be an invaluable resource for the students. My favorite part of being a Peer Mentor has been seeing my mentees interact with one another long after orientation has finished. My mentee group broke off into several sets of close friends, and the fact that our group had an impact on their friendship and helped them discover close friends from the beginning is really exciting to me!
Hometown and high school? Monroe Township, NJ; Monroe Township High School.
Favorite class? Experimental Social Psychology with Dr. McKillop was really engaging and I was able to learn a lot about current psychology and also about my peers
Recommended professor? Dr. Littlefield and Dr. Tsui. They're both really remarkable professors who care a lot about their students and their interests. It's wonderful learning from someone who truly loves what they do and the field they are a part of.
Most memorable experience as a first-year student? Helping out with the Humor and Satire festival.
If you could be a condiment, which one would you be and why? I would be mustard because it's versatile—it can be sweet or spicy—and it's loved across cultures.
If you had a superpower, what would it be and why? I would have the power to alter time. I would like to be able to stop, rewind, and fast-forward time. There are a lot of moments in life that I'd just like to fast-forward through, or others that I'd like to pause and relish. And as one gets older it would be nice to rewind to the past.
Campus Involvement
- Majors: Psychology, Studio Art
- Peer Mentor
- Layout Editor: The Collegian
- Editor-in-Chief: The Medium
- Secretary: Psi Chi
- President: Art History Club
- Peer Tutor
- Research Assistant: Psychology and Art History