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Information provided pursuant to art. 13 of Regulation (EU) no. 2016/679 of the European Parliament and the Council
Data Protection Officer: Simone Bongiovanni
Manifattura Mario Colombo & C. S.p.A. wishes to inform you that, pursuant to art. 13 of Regulation (EU) no. 2016/679 of the European Parliament and the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data (hereinafter "European Regulation"), the company needs to process some personal data collected automatically or provided when you browse or use the Website https://www.colmar.it/ (hereinafter "Website").
This Data Protection Information therefore refers exclusively to the Website indicated, and does not regard other websites, pages or online services that may be reached via hyperlinks that may be published therein.
The Data Controller is Manifattura Mario Colombo & C. S.p.A., in the person of its legal representative, domiciled at the company's registered office in Monza (MB), in Via Olimpia no. 3 (hereinafter "Manifattura Mario Colombo & C." or "Data Controller").
Manifattura Mario Colombo & C. believes that the protection of personal data is of primary importance, and has thus appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO), whom you may write to at email@example.com for any questions regarding the protection of personal data.
To allow you to use the Website and its services, including the possibility to create a personal area, to make purchases, send a speculative application or contact Manifattura Mario Colombo & C. (hereinafter "Services"), the Data Controller needs to have and to process some personal data.
Browsing data
In the course of their normal activity, the IT systems and software procedures used for the functioning of Manifattura Mario Colombo & C. acquire some personal data, the transmission of which is implicit in the use of Internet communication protocols.
This category of data includes the IP addresses or the domain names of the computers used by visitors to the Website, the URI ("Uniform Resource Identifier") addresses of the resources requested, the time of the request, the method used to submit the request to the server, the size of the file obtained in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the response given by the server (completed successfully, error, etc.) and other parameters related to the operating system and the user's IT environment.
These data, necessary for the use of the Website, are processed only to obtain statistical information on the use of the Services (pages most frequently visited, number of visitors per time slot or per day, geographical areas of origin of visitors, etc.) and to check the Services offered are functioning properly.
Browsing data are not retained for longer than seven days, and are deleted immediately after they are aggregated, unless they are required by the Legal Authorities to verify the commission of offences.
Data voluntarily provided by users
To allow for the use of the Website and its Services, Manifattura Mario Colombo & C. processes the following personal data:
- for registration with the personal area "my account": name, surname, e-mail, password, gender, date of birth. To purchase products featured on the Website, billing and delivery addressed will also be required, if different;
- to sign up for the newsletter: e-mail address;
- to use the assistance services provided by the Call Centre: the personal data supplied for the Call Centre to provide the assistance requested.
The non-compulsory, explicit, voluntary sending of e-mail messages, and the sending of your CV allow us to acquire the name and surname of the sender and their e-mail address, which are necessary in order to reply to the requests, as well as other personal data that may be contained in the e-mail message, the forms or the CV, if attached.
Specifically, users who intend to send an application of a CV via the website are invited to pay maximum attention to the content thereof, and not to include, for any reason, any kind of personal data belonging to particular categories, or personal data that may reveal racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical convictions, membership of a trade union, or any data referring to sexual health or sexual orientation.
The Website uses the following types of cookies.
- Technical cookies
Technical cookies and session cookies are used. These are small text files that contain a certain amount of information exchanged between the Website and the terminal (or rather with the browser used), in order to allow for the proper functioning and use of the Website. No persistent cookies of any kind are used.
- Analytics cookies
The Website uses analytics cookies created and made available by a third party, i.e. Google Analytics. This occurs merely for the purpose of analysing internal statistics regarding access, to improve the Website and make it simpler to use, and to monitor it to make sure it is functioning properly. In any event, the Data Controller has adopted suitable methods to reduce to a minimum the ability of this kind of cookies to identify users. The Google Analytics cookie policy is published here.
- Profiling cookies
Only third-party profiling cookies are used. These cookies are not indispensable, but they help us to customise and improve your Website experience. For example, they help us indicate the Store nearest you, to find out and remember your preferences and show you pertinent, targeted advertising messages. They also allow us to limit the number of times each advertisement is shown, to measure the efficacy of the advertising campaign, remember your visit and share the data collected with third parties, for example advertisers.
The removal of these cookies, although it does not have an impact on the general usability of the Website, may limit a number of functions.
- Third-party cookies
As already mentioned, this website uses analytics cookies created and made available by Google Analytics.
Other third parties may also install cookies on your device for profiling purposes. We have no control over the used of third-party cookies, so we are not responsible for how they are used. Third parties have their own data protection information and ways of collecting data. Please find below a list of the third-party cookies used and links to the pertinent data protection information:
• Adwords - https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
• Facebook - https://it-it.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
• Instagram - https://help.instagram.com/1896641480634370?ref=ig
• Criteo - https://privacy.criteo.com/#/cookiecontrol
• Bing - https://privacy.microsoft.com/it-it/privacystatement/
• Tradelab - http://tradelab.com/en/privacy/
• Pingdom - https://www.pingdom.com/legal/cookie-policy
To withdraw consent for these cookies, you may refer to the following websites: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices or http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html
Options for regulating the use of cookies by the website by using your browser settings
You may deactivate all cookies by changing the settings of your browser. Please note, however, that such changes to your browser settings may make it impossible to use the Website, if the cookies required for providing our Services are blocked. Each browser has different settings for the deactivation of cookies. You can find links here to the instructions for the most common browsers: Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera.
- Social Login
If you decide to sign in to the website using one of your social network accounts ("Social Login"), you will automatically share some personal data with the Data Controller. Specifically, if you use the Social Login option, you will authorise the social network of your choice to send us the personal data necessary to sign in to the Website, so you do not have to enter them manually.
For information regarding the use of the personal data processed when you use the Social Login option on this Website, please view the Facebook data protection policy at the following link.
Any calls made to the Call Centre numbers indicated on the Website may result in the processing of the caller's personal data, in order to provide the services requested by the same, such as, merely by way of example, personal data required for managing requests regarding returns or post-sales assistance. Manifattura Mario Colombo & C. may also use the services of third-party call centres that operate - in full compliance with the data protection regulations - under the terms of a service agreement on behalf of the Data Controller, in their capacity as data processors, pursuant to art. 28 of the European Regulation.
The personal data the Data Controller comes into possession of are exclusively those provided when users browse the Website and use its Services.
The personal data are processed for the following purposes:
A) to conclude and execute the contract for the purchase of goods sold via the Website. It is mandatory to provide your personal data for this purpose, because they are a necessary requisite for the conclusion of the contract to which the purchaser is a party. Failure to provide your data would make it impossible for Manifattura Mario Colombo & C. to process your order, and you would not be able to purchase any of our products.
The legal basis processing is founded on is the need to execute a contract to which you are a party, and the need to comply with legal obligations.
B) to allow you to register with the personal area "my account" within the Website, and to use the services reserved for registered users. It is not mandatory to provide your personal data for this purpose. However, failure to provide your consent will make it impossible for you to access the advantages and all the Services the personal area offers you.
The legal basis processing is founded on is your explicit consent for the processing of your personal data.
C) to manage requests transmitted to the Call Centre. It is not mandatory to provide your personal data for this purpose. However, failure to provide your consent will make it impossible for Manifattura Mario Colombo & C. to process any requests you decide to make to our Call Centre.
The legal basis processing is founded on is your explicit consent for the processing of your personal data.
D) for sending your CV to apply for any work opportunities available. It is not mandatory to provide your personal data for this purpose. However, failure to provide your consent will make it impossible for Manifattura Mario Colombo & C. to accept and assess your speculative application.
The legal basis processing is founded on is your explicit consent for the processing of your personal data.
E) for sending commercial and promotional messages containing offers of products and services similar to those you have already purchased ("soft spam"), using the e-mail address provided on the occasion of your previous purchase. It is not mandatory to provide your personal data for this purpose, and you may withdraw your consent at any time.
The legal basis processing is founded on is the Company's legitimate interest in developing relations with its customers and increasing the volume of sales of products in which you have already shown an interest.
F) with your specific, explicit consent, your e-mail address may be used to send messages of a commercial nature regarding our products and Services, providing you with updates on new products, new arrivals, exclusive products, offers and promotions. It is not mandatory to provide your personal data for this purpose. However, failure to provide your consent will make it impossible for Manifattura Mario Colombo & C. to keep you constantly updated on offers and promotions reserved for our customers.
The legal basis processing is founded on is your explicit consent for the processing of your personal data.
G) with your specific, explicit consent, your e-mail address may be used to send previews and commercial offers in line with your tastes and purchasing preferences. These customised messages will be drawn up by analysing your previous purchases and the other information described in the paragraph above "Definition and type of personal data processed". It is not mandatory to provide your personal data for this purpose. However, failure to provide your consent will make it impossible for Manifattura Mario Colombo & C.to send you offers in line with your tastes and purchasing preferences.
The legal basis processing is founded on is your explicit consent for the processing of your personal data.
Your personal data may be processed both with IT tools and by hard copy means.
The Data Controller intends to store the personal data for a period of time no longer than is necessary to achieve the purposes for which said data have been collected and processed.
With this in mind, and in observance of the regulatory measures in force, Manifattura Mario Colombo & C. will store the personal data acquired thanks to the sale of its products for a period of time no longer than 10 years, after which they will be deleted or permanently, irreversibly anonymised.
With regard to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes, if you have given your explicit authorisation, in observance with the regulatory requirements and the general measure adopted by the Data Protection Authority on 24 February 2015, Manifattura Mario Colombo & C. has established that your personal data processed for direct marketing purposes will be deleted within 24 months of the date on which they were recorded. Personal data processed for profiling purposes will be deleted within 12 months of the date on which they were recorded.
Data collected from you for personnel recruitment purchases will be stored for a maximum of 12 months.
With regard to other personal data, since it is not possible to accurately determine how long your personal data will be stored for, the Data Controller undertakes to ensure that your personal data are processed based on the principles of adequacy, relevance and minimisation, as required by the European Regulation, and to verify each year whether they still need to be stored. Therefore, once the purposes for which the data were collected and processed have been achieved, we will remove them from our systems and records and/or we will take appropriate measures to anonymise them, so that they cannot be used to identify you, without prejudice to instances in which it may be necessary to maintain said data in order to comply with regulatory obligations, or to verify, exercise or defend our rights in court.
The personal data processed will not be disclosed to third parties. Your data may, however, come to the attention of the following subjects, for the processing purposes set forth above:
• subjects who may access data under the terms of European Union law, or the law of the member state to which the Data Controller is subject;
• subjects who - within the European Union, completely independently, as separate Data Controllers, or as data processors appointed for the purpose by Mario Colombo & C. - perform activities accessory to the services mentioned in paragraph 4., i.e, banking operators, internet providers, courier and shipping companies, companies that carry out marketing activities, companies that offer IT infrastructures and IT assistance and consulting services, or design and create software and websites, legal firms, companies that offer services to customise and optimise our services, companies that offer data analysis and development services (including data on how users interact with our services), service centres, companies or consultants entrusted with providing other services to the Data Controller, within the limits established by the purposes for which they were collected;
• the company issuing the credit card you use, providers of services for anti-fraud checks connected with the payment process and (where necessary) for the activation of the procedure for anti-fraud checks.
In addition, your personal data may come to the attention of our employees, if they have been appointed as subjects acting under the authority of the Data Controller, in accordance with art. 29 of the European Regulation, or as a System Administrator.
Any disclosure of your personal data will be fully compliant with the legal measures provided for in the European Regulation and with the technical and organisational measures provided for by the Data Controller to guarantee an adequate level of security.
In order to provide services, the Data Controller may transfer your personal data to third-party countries. In such cases, we undertake to:
• ensure that the country your personal data are sent to is able to guarantee an adequate level of protection, as provided for in art. 45 of the European Regulation; or
• use the standard data protection contract clauses approved by the European Commission for the transfer of personal information outside the EEA (clauses approved pursuant to art. 46.2 of the European Regulation); or
• ensure, in the event we transfer your personal data to the USA, that the third-party subject is compliant with the Privacy Shield framework.
For further information on the norms governing the transfer of data to third-party countries, click here.
If you have given your consent for profiling, the data you provided may be used to analyse and predict preferences or behaviours, and to identify your GPS location, in order to customise the content of commercial communications and offer you products and offers dedicated to you and in line with your tastes and preferences.
Specifically, the following may be identified and analysed:
• the number and type of requests for information on the products featured on the Website over the last 12 months;
• the number and type of products featured on the Website purchased and the amount spent over the last 12 months;
• the number and type of visits to the Website in a set period of time, also via third-party profiling cookies.
As provided for in the regulations in force, for the installation of said profiling cookies, your prior consent is required. For this reason, when you log in to the Website, a banner will appear informing you that (i) profiling cookies are used on the Website, and that (ii) by closing the banner, scrolling down the home page or clicking on any element outside the banner, you agree to the use of said cookies. If you give your consent for the installation of cookies in this way, we will keep track of this consent with a dedicated technical cookie, to avoid you having to view the banner on your subsequent visits to the Website. Please note that if you delete this technical cookie from your device or from your browser, all trace of this consent will be lost, so the banner will appear again on your next visit.
You are of course free to block the installation of profiling cookies at any time; this will not affect your ability to visit the Website and use its services in any way.
Prior consent is also requested for the sending of offers, discounts and any other benefits and promotional initiatives modelled on your specific needs and purchase inclinations. For this reason, when you register with the Website, you can check the dedicated box to give your consent. Also in this case, you may change your choice at any time from the dedicated control panel in your personal area, accessible from https://www.colmar.it/rto/account/newsletterunsubscribe.
In any case, as required by art. 22, para 3 of the European Regulation, the Data Controller will adopt all the most appropriate measures to safeguard your rights, also in the case of profiling, as well as any other legitimate rights, as indicated in detail in Paragraph 9 ("Rights of the Data Subject") in this Data Protection Information.
With regard to the processing of your personal data, pursuant to the European Regulation, the data subject has the right to:
• withdraw consent for processing at any time. It must be made clear, however, that the withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal, as provided for in art. 7, para. 3 of the European Regulation;
• ask the Data Controller for access to personal data, as provided for in art. 15 of the European Regulation;
• obtain from the Data Controller the rectification of inaccurate personal data, including by means of providing a simple supplementary statement, as provided for in art. 16 of the European Regulation;
• obtain from the Data Controller the erasure of personal data where one or more of the grounds provided for in art. 17 of the European Regulation applies;
• obtain from the Data Controller restriction of processing where one or more of the cases provided for in art. 18 of the European Regulation applies;
• receive from the Data Controller the personal data concerning him or her in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance to another Data Controller, as provided for in art. 20 of the European Regulation;
• object, at any time, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to processing of personal data concerning him or her carried out pursuant to art. 6, para. 1, letters e) or f), including profiling based on those provisions, as provided for in art. 21 of the European Regulation;
• not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her, without his or her prior, specific consent, as provided for in art. 22 of the European Regulation. This category includes, but is not limited to, any form of automated processing of personal data with the aim of analysing or predicting aspects regarding consumer and purchase choices, economic situation, interests, reliability and behaviour;
• lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (art. 77) or seek an effective judicial remedy (art. 79), if he or she believes his or her data have been processed in breach of the European Regulation. The complaint may be lodged in the Member State in which the data subject is habitually resident or works, or in the place where the presumed breach occurred.
To exercise each of your rights, you may contact the Data Controller, in the person of the legal representative, by writing to Via Olimpia no. 3, Monza (MB), or you may contact the Data Protection Officer, by writing to Studio Legale Bongiovanni, Via Susa no. 31, Turin (TURIN) or email@example.com, providing the following personal data:
- name, surname and postal address;
- Details of the request;
- Purchase code;
- Photocopy of a valid identity document.
It is explicitly forbidden for minors under the age of sixteen (16) to use the Services provided through the Website. Considering the technologies available and the services provided, Manifattura Mario Colombo & C. has provided for checking systems designed to verify that consent for the processing of the personal data of a minor has been granted or authorised by the parent or legal guardian. By registering with or making a purchase on the Website, you confirm that you have reached the age of majority established in your country of residence.
In the event of a breach of personal data, Manifattura Mario Colombo & C. has set up a crisis team and provided for specific intervention procedures, in order to swiftly resolve the problem and alert the user so that he or she can adopt suitable precautions to reduce to a minimum the potential damage that may caused by the breach.
The information provided to users in the event of a breach will specifically indicate:
- the name and contact data of the Data Protection Officer, or any other contact that can provide information;
- any consequences of the breach of personal data;
- the measures adopted or proposed by the Legal Representative to remedy the breach of personal data and, if appropriate, to limit the possible negative effects.
Manifattura Mario Colombo & C. will issue a public communication, or take similar measures, and will not be obliged to inform the user if adequate technical and organisational measures are implemented to protect the data affected by the breach, if measures are subsequently adopted to prevent the user's rights being placed at high risk again, or when the communication would require a disproportionate effort. In any case, Manifattura Mario Colombo & C. will consider whether it is opportune - even if it is not strictly compulsory - to keep the user informed.
Where necessary, Manifattura Mario Colombo & C. will also inform the Data Protection Authority of the breach within 72 hours.
For this reason, if a breach comes to the attention of a Data Processor, or another processor appointed thereby, he or she must notify the violation, within 12 and 24 hours respectively of discovery.
Any breaches of personal data may be notified by writing to email@example.com.


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Leading Enterprise Performance Management Company Expands Core Team to Meet Healthcare Market Demand
January 15, 2013 — Portland, OR — Axiom EPM, a leading provider of financial planning and performance management software, today announced that the company has made two strategic additions to its team in response to rapid client growth in the healthcare vertical. Karen Nychay has been hired as the healthcare practice manager, where she will work collaboratively with clients and direct the Axiom EPM Healthcare consulting team to develop and execute best practice Healthcare Performance Management systems. Anthony Martino will join Axiom EPM as a healthcare solutions engineer, helping to build out a robust set of healthcare starter sets and solution accelerators. Together, Karen and Anthony bring over 35 years of experience in the healthcare sector – further expanding Axiom EPM's already deep knowledge in this strategic vertical.
"In 2012, we saw incredible growth across our healthcare client base and we are confident that momentum will continue going into the new year," said Michael Choi, CEO, Axiom EPM. "As healthcare organizations face more complex finance challenges, the demand for our intuitive solutions has rapidly increased. The additions we've made to our team are a testament to that, and we are certain that both Karen and Anthony will be exceptional assets as we continue to thrive in the healthcare sector."
Axiom EPM provides the highest level of support to their clients, earning a satisfaction rating of 4.9 out of 5.0 in the BPM Pulse Survey. Axiom EPM's healthcare clients are some of the country's leading academic medical centers and health systems, such as: Meridian, Sentara, Lake Region Healthcare and LifePoint. Axiom EPM provides their clients with familiar and intuitive tools that unify financial planning and decision support functions in a single platform, empowering healthcare executives to reach their financial goals.
"While Axiom EPM provides the sophistication and control I need, it doesn't require a highly specialized skill set to manage and deploy," said Steve Esposito, senior manager of budgets and finance, Meridian Health.
"We looked at several products but none were as finance orientated as Axiom EPM," said Karen Becker, budget manager, Sentara Healthcare.
Axiom EPM's unified platform is unique in that it embeds powerful modeling and planning capabilities in the familiar Microsoft Excel® format, allowing healthcare finance professionals to manage data more efficiently without needing to learn a new application. Their solutions are designed specifically for users, and that has differentiated Axiom EPM as one of the most innovative and user-friendly companies of its kind.
About AxiomEPM
Founded by industry leaders with over two decades of experience in enterprise planning and reporting, Axiom EPM specializes in enterprise performance management solutions for mid-sized and large healthcare organizations around the world. Axiom EPM provides customers with a unified performance management software platform that embraces and extends familiar Microsoft Excel® functionality, allowing finance professionals to manage data in a familiar environment – while providing unmatched modeling flexibility and enterprise performance.

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"So, Phil Collins has just retired. What are you up to, Andy?"
The drummer smiles. Takes a fork loaded with egg and bacon to his mouth. Swallows and smiles again, chuckling a little to himself.
"No, sorry. Ask me a question."
I'm at The Wolseley, on Piccadilly in central London, for a breakfast appointment with Andy Burrows, one-fourth of chart-conquering and world-touring rock act* Razorlight* and writer of the band's huge hit 'America'. But even though the band is busy at work writing and recording their third studio LP, I'm not here to discuss matters directly involving his bandmates Johnny Borrell, Carl Dalemo and Bjorn Agren. I'm here because Burrows has recorded an understated solo record, The Colour Of My Dreams – hardly an album 'proper' at just 13 minutes in length, but running to 11 tracks – and is donating the proceeds from its release to a charity both he and I are familiar with: Naomi House's Jacksplace appeal.
Naomi House is a hospice near Winchester caring for life-limited and terminally ill children; it's based in Winchester, where both Burrows and I were born, at the city's hospital, not a year apart. It is raising funds to construct a new building, Jacksplace, aimed at providing the teenagers it offers a home to a level of privacy, independence and dignity that its present facilities can not deliver. A very worthy cause, then, and one of many that popular musicians have gotten behind in recent years. This is something that will set alarm bells ringing in the minds of some readers, knowledgeable that a number of charity releases have served as springboards for a certain artist's career, the original causes for said song/s sometimes clouded out by growing egos and blossoming profiles.
"At the end of the day, what does it matter who these people have done this work for, so long as they've done it?" questions Burrows between mouthfuls. "It's important that they have done the charity work. There are so many charities out there, all of which involve people working really hard for something they're passionate about, and they put their heart and soul into it. Compared to going around the world playing drums, with people telling you that you're great, it's _that which I think is really incredible."_
Video: Andy explains a little about the record and Naomi's House...
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So why Naomi House?
"_Well, I visited Naomi House a few years ago, I think actually before Razorlight. I don't remember why I visited it, but I did, and I remember thinking what an incredible place it was. It was so full-on, and I had this fantasy that I could help them in some way, but as this drunk in Winchester at the time, that was a little out of the question.
"So I'd been thinking about that for a while, and then they asked us, the band, about being patrons. They got in touch with someone at our management, I think – I'd talked about them somewhere. I went down there again, and we spent a day playing the drums with the children. It was really humbling – I drove away feeling quite odd. They've this room there, The Butterfly Room. It's where they lay the children when they die. That was pretty heavy man; I was like, 'Bloody hell'. The people that work there, they are incredible, so I had to think of some way of doing something. But I didn't think of anything, that's how brilliant I am."
Eventually the solution presented itself: after completing their touring for 2006's self-titled second album, Razorlight's members took some time out from each other, and it was during this period that the seeds for The Colour Of My Dreams were sewn.
"I was just milling about my flat after we'd got back, not knowing what to do. Me and Johnny had been writing a few pieces, but he'd gone away, and I wanted to continue writing. I thought, I'm not really much of a wordsmith but I'm writing songs all the time, and I don't want to bother Johnny at the moment because we're taking time off. So I got one of Peter Dixon's books. He's an incredible man, a really really_ amazing man. He's my little brother's godfather, and he's been in my life for, well, all my life as he's a lot older than I am. He's a published poet, like a much-less-famous Roger McGough, and he's got this artist, David Thomas, who's sort of like Quentin Blake – they've that kind of vibe going. He, David, actually set up my first-ever drum kit, and we all lived on the same road when I was really little, me and my brother and sister careering up and down the street on bikes while those two were arty figures. It was nice, y'know.
"So I thought: How can I write songs without having to work very hard on any lyrics? And I love Peter's poems; they've a real child's-eye-view type vibe, but touch on subjects that everyone can relate to. So I thought they'd be good to put to songs, and I started learning how to use my computer, albeit in a very primitive fashion – I'm still absolutely useless, but I worked out how to use start and stop, and left and right pan and stuff. After five of these little songs I thought I'd keep it going – it was a nice way to write songs without bugging the rest of the band while we were on holiday."_
Using Dixon's poems as lyrical inspiration, literally quoting them word for word, Burrows set about writing acoustic guitar arrangements to complement the imagery conjured by his lifelong family friend. The result is The Colour Of My Dreams, and its artwork features the drawings of David Thomas. While Burrows was wary of writing his own lyrics, the record showcases quite wonderfully his natural singing voice, already compared to Elliott Smith by one leading music magazine – such a comparison is, in Burrow's words, "absolutely incredible". But how did his solo endeavour get from GarageBand, upon which the whole thing is recorded, to a major label and, subsequently, your local music store?
"I gave some songs to someone at our label, hand on heart, just to show him what I'd been up to. He said, really to my surprise because it seemed like such a short and incomplete project, that it was really good, and that it'd be nice to get it out there. It was then that I had to work out how to justify putting out this little record that's only a few minutes long, but that I'm really proud of. A record that sounds like it was done in a traffic jam, down a phone, while it's recorded through a television, or something. Maybe because it is that little bit different, and wasn't done at a proper studio, I thought it might be something to tie in with this charity I'd been wanting to support for ages. I'd been racking my brain how to help them, and this seemed to suit.
"I am proud of the record – I don't see any reason why people shouldn't listen to it as a 'real' record, apart from the fact that it's very short. I like listening to it, y'know; it's quite chilled out and very different to what I'm used to hearing, just drums."
Chilled out it certainly is, so spectral of sound it'll pass you completely by, given its brief running time, unless you focus upon its slight frame. An opportunity – the only opportunity at present – to get a visual aid to appreciate the record arrives on May 28, when Burrows performs – again for Naomi House; every part of this project is arranged with the Winchester hospice's interests in mind – at London's Union Chapel, in Highbury. It could prove rather shambolic, he admits, but he's not especially worried about rendering each song perfectly so long as the messages are heard.
"The gig next week will feel weird, as I'm not really used to that. I did one gig at The Railway Inn, in Winchester, on my own in 2002, and I've done a few sets with Johnny where we've both played guitar, but I don't think I've played on my own, really. No, I can't think of a time. It'll be weird to be so far forward on the stage, but again, without wanting to sound to righteous, I hope a certain vibe will be there on the night, whatever happens. It could be a total shambles – I've asked so many people to be involved and I keep forgetting who I've asked! People will call me and I'm like, Shit, I've asked you too!"
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So who else is involved, other than Johnny, who was confirmed a while back?
"Tom [Smith] from Editors came over to rehearse this song he said he'd do with me, and I'm very flattered he is. So he came to my flat and then we went to the pub and… Seriously, where I live is like _Stella Street, as Dom [Howard] from Muse lives on the other side of the road, so I invited him to the pub. I said to him that Tom and I had been practising this song, and he said: 'Oh, I've been at home working out every single drum part to these songs, and I've sent you an e-mail.' Shit. I'd abandoned the idea of having drums, but now we have to work that back in – I had to tell people, 'Shit, put Dom on the flyer!' It might be total chaos, a relay in band form.
"But this gig will be great, so different to the shows we've done as Razorlight. I hope if it's a shambles it'll be a lovely shambles, y'know what I mean – I don't mind it being a shambles if it raises some cash for Naomi House. It's all for charity – that's the reason for doing this. I didn't want to put the record out, at this stage, on my own, without a reason like this for doing so. I think that might happen at some stage, but we're right in the thick of things in Razorlight at the moment, and everyone's loving it. I mean, it's funny how this has happened – I meant for it to happen in our time off, but things have been pushed back and Razorlight got brought forward, but it's okay – it keeps you on your toes, keeps you busy."_
You say it's something you might do again in the future, record more solo material?
"I would like, one day, to follow it up, maybe in five years' time if the band takes a year off or something. I tell you one thing I do like the idea of doing on my own: those festivals that are set in forests, y'know, really low-key events, that vibe. I couldn't do the whole 'rock band' thing, though, and that's why I hold Johnny so highly: to be able to get up there, with your top off and go mental. I'm happy back there, behind all that metalwork. I could never do what he does. But this is the exact vibe I'd aim for; I feel comfortable like this. I don't feel comfortable singing out really loudly, and being all… y'know… I'm a showman in my own local pub. I like talking a lot – I can tire people out just talking, and then apologising. As soon as I'm on a big stage… well, at this gig I'll just be talking, and everyone will be like, 'Play a song' or something!
"I want this gig to have a school fete vibe, so I've got Jamie Oliver to come and run a barbecue, all in the name of charity. The hot dogs will be a couple of quid and all the money will go to Naomi House, so everyone who comes should not eat beforehand – don't fill up on kebabs on the way to the gig because Jamie's going to be there! And having watched his programmes and read his books, I think these hot dogs are going to be quite nice. The other thing I need to mention is my drum kit – it's on eBay now, and all the money from that will go to Naomi House. It's my favourite drum kit, too, and part of me doesn't know why I'm auctioning it. I'm quit lucky to have one in reserve, but this is my favourite one, so I'm desperate for it to get a bit of cash._
"I'm not pretending I've worked down there, at Naomi House, but I know a bit about it, and when I went there it really made me think about things. I've been so lucky with this band, so lucky. Literally… well, I've just been really lucky, and I just want to do something that's a bit useful. I really enjoyed doing it, and I'm really proud of it. It'd be nice to think that people like this, but at the end of the day it's a little for me and a lot for charity, and I won't start crying about it if people don't like it… Actually I probably will start crying if people are nasty about it!"
Fortunately for Burrows it seems few people are likely to not take to The Colour Of My Dreams; a nice album in the most sincere way, sweet without being overly cloying, its marriage of poetic lyrics and subtle instrumentation is a surprising success, and an encouraging sign that this drummer by day could, if the mood was to ever take him, down sticks for a quite remarkable reinvention.
The Colour Of My Dreams is released via Vertigo on May 26, and Andy Burrows plays The Union Chapel on May 28 (tickets) alongside a supporting cast including Tom Smith, Dom Howard, Johnny Borrell and Fyfe Dangerfield. For more information on the record, and to hear clips and win tickets to the gig, click to MySpace here.
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This past Saturday night, my wife Roberta and I stood with a group of people on Hollywood Boulevard, holding flickering candles. Passers-by might have assumed we were Christmas caroling. But we were holding a vigil for the children and adults massacred in Newtown, Connecticut last week. Roberta organized the event earlier in the day, via MoveOn.org. For her, Saturday had a special significance. Her father was shot, randomly, on that night 40 years ago in Baltimore, and later died. Whenever there's an incident of gun violence in the news, she grieves afresh. So there we stood, a semi-circle of family, friends, and strangers who became neighbors, lifting little lights into the night. We didn't have a "cause" other than remembrance for the lives of those who died and hope for a society free from such tragedies in the future. There were no chants or speeches or picket signs. If people thought we were doing something Christmassy, perhaps they were right. 'Tis the season to practice compassion.
Our President, reflecting on the tragedy at the interfaith memorial service in Newtown, said that we can do better. We can't accept that the possibility of such mayhem is just a price we pay for our freedom. We must change, he said. His words were understated but powerful. He said rare things for a leader to say in this day and age when most so-called leaders are really followers, shaping their messages and actions to conform with the latest polling data. If we must change, that suggests we aren't okay the way we are. Who wants to hear that? Such words take us outside our comfort zones, outside our smug self-concepts, and into the unknown.
The birthday of Jesus celebrates a change in human consciousness. Some thinkers suggest that the first Christmas was a moment in the longer Axial Age, the time span between the birth of Buddha and the death of Mohammed, when humanity underwent a developmental shift toward greater justice and compassion. Christmas is a time to celebrate this shift out of an old way of being and into the new. It's a time to melt our guns into guitar strings on which to strum Christmas carols of praise for the coming of the Prince of Peace on earth.
For the sake of the memory of the children of Newtown, Connecticut, Christian churches must dump any dogma and jargon that get in the way of compassion and joy. The church needs to simplify its message and structure, and focus on being a community of people who support each other in becoming kinder human beings. We don't have time for petty church politics and theological hair-splitting. We have lives to save from loneliness, meaninglessness, hopelessness, violence. We have higher consciousness to reach.
There is a creative tension in the Christian religion between admitting our limits and transcending them. Our tradition tells us we're hopeless sinners, and then turns around and challenges us with Jesus' admonition to be perfect, even as our Father in heaven is perfect. It is a healthy contradiction. A careful cultivation of humility must accompany our evolution. To become more than we are, we must remember that we always will be less than we need to be.
I am attracted to the idea of "evolutionary panentheism", which suggests that the universe is evolving toward the divinity that is latent in every thing and event. It's the idea that creation is developing in consciousness toward its Creator, who exists in every aspect of the creation. I don't know that this view has a solid basis in science. But whether or not we are part of some divine, cosmic tendency toward higher consciousness, we appear to be able to shape our destiny. We can choose to evolve toward greater creativity and kindness. We got here through random mutation and natural selection. But now that we're here, we can develop our consciousness consciously.
This is what I'm celebrating this Christmas: our emerging awareness that we can shape ourselves toward greater goodness. We can become more and better than we have been. We can give up our fear and our guns. We can turn off the violent video games and the blood-drenched Hollywood movies. We can befriend our troubled, isolated neighbors, especially the young ones. With intention, we can shape our society so that ordinary human beings cooperate to achieve extraordinarily positive things.
A German bishop, Franz Kamphaus, once said: "Christmas: Do it like God. Become human." To become more fully human, to do it like God, means we must change. Weak as we are, like babes in mangers, we still have the Christ-potential latent within us. Consciously, intentionally, we can become better than we've been, both as individuals and as communities. Let this be our Christmas wish and choice!
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Cigarette harassment at Yale?
A Yale faculty member who is a professor in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department "has been accused of sexual harassment, according to a Yale Police Department report filed April 8". Such was reported by the Yale Daily News. And according to the YDN,
The accusation will likely be handled internally by Yale Graduate School administrators, YPD spokesman Sgt. Steven Woznyk told the News on Tuesday. The YPD and the Graduate School have agreed to try to resolve the harassment complaint without formal police action, Woznyk said. Despite the confirmation of the report, administrators within the department and Graduate School remain tight-lipped, and the accused faculty member – whose name the News is withholding because no formal charges have been filed and no finding has been made by the University – denied the accusation to the News.
I think the policy of the YDN not reporting the name of the Yale professor is a wise policy particularly since there has been no formal charge lodged against the professor. However, the policy as implemented by the YDN appears to the dankprofessor as a psuedo-implementation since the the YDN report narrowed the suspect population to male profs in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilization Department. The population was further narrowed down when the YDN reported that the professor was a cigarette smoker.
When contacted by phone by the YDN and informed of the sexual harassment charge, the professor responded-"You are incorrect, if I were harassing someone, I would know."
The YDN then reported on the comments of an anonymous department insider with knowledge about the case who said
the faculty member asked a lector to purchase cigarettes from Walgreens and bring them to the faculty member's residence. The professor then refused to pay back the lector, the insider said.
"There was a condition for [the lector] to pick up the check," the insider continued.
The lector rejected the condition and left the residence immediately, the insider said, and the nature of this situation made the lector very uncomfortable.
The faculty member returned to the NELC department on Tuesday, April 8 – the day the case was filed with the YPD. According to the insider, the faculty member called the lector into the hallway at the beginning of a class the lector was teaching and proceeded to yell at the lector in the hallway, insisting that the lector take the money for the cigarettes.
"Everybody was uncomfortable," the insider said. "All the students were scared because of the way [the faculty member] was talking and the way [the faculty member] was making noise in the hallway."
There were roughly 20 students in the classroom at the time of the incident. A student in the class confirmed the information relayed by the insider, which was shared with the class on Thursday.
The insider said the loud conversation outside the classroom hinged on discussion of the cigarettes and the money.
"Everybody was wondering what happened," the insider said.
The dankprofessor must admit to being perplexed in regards to this case since a sexual harassment charge is at issue but there was no indication in the YDN report that anything happened of a sexual nature. Apparently the lector was uncomfortable in regards to exchanging money for cigarettes. Of course, some persons regard cigarette smoking in itself as being sexual and apply a Freudian interpretation to cigarettes.
A more likely scenario is that the lector viewed the professor as trying to seduce her into becoming a cigarette smoker. Such could be regarded as cigarette harassment. Given Yale's politically correct environment, it seems to me that it is rather problematic for a professor to have a student or lector buy his cigarettes. In this kind of case, shouldn't the professor being doing his own dirty work? Shouldn't he be the one going to a cancer promoting cigarette peddling Walgreens to purchase his own smokes?
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It's been a surprise story for the national media. During hearings held by the State Department this week, some of the loudest opposition to the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, which will move tar-sands oil from Alberta to Texas refineries, is coming from Nebraska, a deep-red state whose citizens are often isolated from and a bit suspicious of federal politics.
We've become used to a political narrative that says conservatives aren't interested in environmental issues—and certainly aren't likely to join hands with greenies or raise Cain to fight the oil industry. But sometimes there's a realpolitik in Nebraska that transcends conventional political ideologies—it's about land and the practicalities of living on it.
Like most of the Plains, Nebraska has a lot of farmland and pasture—more than 90 percent of its land base is agricultural. State law banned corporations from owning farms from 1982 to 2006, when a federal court struck down the ban. But the vast majority of Nebraska's farmland is still family-owned, and the pipeline crosses land that has belonged to some ranch families for several generations. The planned pipeline route also transects the Sandhills, an iconic 12-million-acre landscape of fragile sandy soil, rolling dunes, prairie grasses, yucca, and migrating waterbirds. "The Sandhills are Nebraska's wild land. It's this place where we still have our cattle ranching traditions. It's still a lot like it was 100 years ago," says Ben Gotschall, a fourth-generation Nebraska rancher and one of lead campaigners against the Keystone XL pipeline.
The aquifer that runs through the Sandhills is so shallow that in some places locals say you can touch water just by digging your arm elbow-deep into the dirt. And it's not just any groundwater, but the giant Ogallala Aquifer, which underlies eight states and supplies 65 percent of the nation's irrigation water. After this summer's highly publicized spill in Yellowstone River and several spills along TransCanada's first Keystone pipeline, which runs from Canada to Illinois, locals are deeply concerned about what could happen to ranching communities when an oil leak hits the Sandhills' shallow water table.
For many, the TransCanada route through the Sandhills feels like both an assault on the agricultural economy and on Nebraska's very identity. "Our family has been in this ranching business and on this ranch for over a hundred years … and we were not going to stand by and in one fell swoop let TransCanada destroy it," says Teri Taylor, one of many Nebraska landowners who testified this week against the pipeline at State Department hearings.
In total, more than 2,000 people turned out for the two Nebraska hearings. Roughly as many people showed up in the rural town of Atkinson, population 1,200, as in Lincoln, the capital city. At both hearings there was a crowd of pipeline supporters—many of whom were union workers hoping that TransCanada would offer construction jobs. According to InsideClimate News, the American Petroleum Institute offered many pipeline supporters bus transportation to the hearings. Union representatives also traveled to the hearings from out of state.
The hearings, though generally civil, sometimes had the feel of a football game. Pipeline opponents cheered enthusiastically for anti-Keystone testimony. Some claims about the pipeline's safety standards got snickers. A union worker from Oklahoma won applause for an appeal about jobs that seemed to strike a chord. A soft-spoken rancher received a roar of approval from the crowd as he haltingly read testimony about his fears for the water supply. Multiple speakers voiced their anger over corporate influence in state and federal politics. "Why should we in Nebraska take all the risk for none of the benefits while a powerful corporation makes even more obscene profits?" said Jean Lewis, a Nebraska photographer.
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Locals say it's unusual for Nebraskans to react this strongly to anything—they say people here tend to be diffident, private, and uncomfortable when others meddle in their business. That may be one reason the project has roused such heated controversy. TransCanada's public relations strategies have generally failed to comprehend Nebraskan sensibilities. The company stirred outrage when it sent threats of eminent domain to landowners along the pipeline. It aired ads about the pipeline on video screens earlier this month at Husker football games, a mainstay of Nebraska cultural life: Inside the 85,000-person stadium, the crowd booed when the ad appeared. Days after the second round of ads aired, the university canceled its contract with TransCanada because of fierce opposition from football fans.
Randy Thompson, who has fought to deny TransCanada rights to build the pipeline through his farm, was appalled when company representatives recently sent flowers to his mother's funeral: "I said, 'I want these in the dumpster right now.' … That's the last thing I wanted to see at that time."
For ranchers like Thompson, the pipeline fight has been eye-opening. It's made political opponents into allies, uniting progressives concerned about climate change with conservative ranchers wanting to protect the integrity of their farmland and their water supplies.
The opposition has succeeded in getting the public's attention in Nebraska. Three years ago, ranchers and environmentalists working against the pipeline believed it was a "done deal." Now 64 percent of Nebraska voters support a regulatory proposal that could shift the pipeline route, and 47 percent oppose Keystone XL outright, according to a poll commissioned by Bold Nebraska. Public outcry has moved Governor Dave Heinemann, who was previously tepid on the subject, to ask Obama to deny approval to Keystone XL.
But what's happening in Nebraska suggests something larger—that it could be possible to have environmental politics driven by common values rather than hot-button issues and divisive ideology. It's not a partisan issue to protect drinking water. It's common sense to find alternatives to importing expensive oil from Canada. And if farmers in the country's breadbasket want to survive the decades to come, it will be necessary to stop climate change.
Politics in Nebraska will never look like California, but the pipeline has opened a back-to-basics dialogue in the center of the country about what people value and what they want for their children—such as a decent, unpolluted, stable place to live in.


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Sunday, March 02, 2008
Soothsayers in suits
This impulse to divine the future accounts for the palm readers, tarot card readers, and astrologers found in every city and minor burg. And, this impulse also drives sales of checkout counter tabloids which often feature amazing predictions around the New Year said to be important to your health and your finances. It is this last category, finances, which brings us to the acceptable face of fortunetelling, the soothsayers in suits.
Any good fortuneteller will gladly discuss your future finances with you. But unlike the soothsayers in suits, she will not give you any details about how she arrived at her conclusions. As for those soothsayers in suits--they go by many titles such as economist, forecaster, director of investment research, and analyst--most offer mountains of so-called evidence that their forecasts are correct. Billions are lost and made on the basis of such predictions, though the billions lost are not so often remembered or storied as the billions made.
For the average person all this so-called evidence adduced to buttress an argument for a knowable future might as well not exist. He or she would be unlikely to understand it even if he or she were to review it. (And, in fact, understanding it might actually make it less believable!) But so desperate is the need to push back the menacing shroud of the future that the average citizen gives about as much scrutiny to the forecast of so-called economic experts as he or she does to the methods of the local fortuneteller.
This is not a new phenomenon, of course. The ancient Romans had their augurs, priests who divined the future through an examination of the flights of birds. The ancient Greeks, of course, had their famous oracles. Neither enabled their respective societies to avoid the kind of folly all humans are subject to. But today we face obstacles that test not just an individual society but our entire interlinked global community. When we try to predict something trivial such as the winner of an athletic contest and even bet money on it, say, in an office pool, it is a largely inconsequential affair, a form of entertainment (unless we are compulsive gamblers). But when the fate of global society hangs in the balance on forecasts of global oil supplies or the trajectory of global warming, we must examine our reliance on such soothsaying much more closely.
A heuristic tool or rule of thumb suggested by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a self-styled philosopher of uncertainty and author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, may be useful. He says that he is more inclined to take seriously the predictions of people who don't wear suits than ones who do. His logic is that scientists generally don't wear suits--often not even ties--while economists and Wall Street analysts almost always wear them.
Optimistic pronouncements about world oil supplies come mostly from economists and non-scientific analysts. On the other hand, our predictions about the trajectory of global warming come almost exclusively from scientists. There is great uncertainty in such predictions. But, Taleb's second admonition is not to accept predictions from somebody who cannot or will not tell you his or her error rate. Scientists can generally tell you what it has been and what it is now for their work. Sometimes this error rate goes by the name of "degree of confidence" or "range." Economists and financial analysts almost never talk about such things, especially about their past records (usually out of embarrassment).
Recently, members of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil-USA (ASPO-USA) offered a $100,000 wager to the analysts of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), perhaps the most well-known of the world's energy consulting firms. CERA has continually reaffirmed its forecast of a peak in world oil production 30 years in the future followed by a long, undulating plateau. On a shorter timespan the firm predicts robust oil supply growth through 2017. There is, of course, the question of how anyone can know much about anything that will happen 9 years hence, let alone 30 years hence. What CERA has not done is release its past error rate (that is, the amount by which its past predictions have been off) nor has the firm assigned even a range to its predictions 9 or 30 years out.
ASPO-USA has released a reconstruction of CERA's past error rate based on the firm's public pronouncements. (It's not a pretty picture.) CERA now predicts that world oil production capacity will reach 112 million barrels per day by 2017 which ASPO-USA says is the equivalent of about 107 million barrels of actual production since capacity is never used to 100 percent for various reasons. The ASPO-USA gamblers don't see how this production level can be reached. They have implicitly offered a fairly wide range in their forecast via their wager, that is, anything less than 107 million barrels of average daily production for 2017.
The ASPO-USA group's purpose is educative. (They plan to give the money to charity if they win.) They want to highlight the risks in such a production forecast and also the possible consequences (which could be severe) if it's wrong. Why? Because virtually every major organization public and private bases its planning on such optimistic projections.
So far, CERA has not responded to the wager. I do not expect them to. Doing so would inaugurate an ongoing discussion of their previous faulty forecasts and of the risks attendant in any forecast. Such a discussion would cast doubt on the wisdom of paying fees to those who make such forecasts, fees that can be very lucrative indeed.
Despite the dangers which lurk ahead due to oil depletion (and myriad other resource issues), the public remains largely ignorant of the risks. Perhaps it is not because the information about those risks is unavailable. Try an internet search using the words "peak oil" and you'll see how much information is there.
But, just as people prefer to hear positive news from fortunetellers, they also find the reassuring pronouncements of the soothsayers in suits much more to their liking. The adult in us ought to see those suits as a warning flag that calls forth our skepticism. But it is the child in us that seems to be prevailing, seeking out soothing bedtime stories that will help us brave the dark night of the future rather than facing up to the uncertainties that ought to guide our efforts in the years ahead.
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Hmmm. I'm on board with discounting the soothsayers, even especially those in suits.
But that certainly wouldn't prove for me that some alternate thesis (with or without suits) is therefore correct.
The disproof of a prediction is not a proof of the converse.
I sometimes get the feeling that in peak oil circles folks are saying "we cannot trust those other predictions, so we must fall back to my old favorite."
I choose not to have a favorite. when the future is up in the air, I think it's wise to call it just that.
- Alan said...
Well, odograph is right to reserve judgment on issues upon which there is substantial disagreement and upon which there is no resolution short of the actual passing of time.
But, we all have to make some estimation of the likelihood of various events and scenarios in order to avoid stumbling through life in a continuous haze of shock and surprise. Or, even worse, encountering something damaging or fatal which we could have avoided had we paid attention to some predictive evidence.
We're not disinterested observers of the future of petroleum. Planning our lives and trying to preserve our civilization are not the same as keeping up with sports teams.
One of the interesting tensions, for me, is between my closer acceptance of anthropogenic global warming, and my lessor acceptance of peak oil.
(That puts them on a fuzzy scale rather than as binary true and false.)
There are many ways to approach that tension, but one I think is to say that AGW is closer to a science (building from the chemistry and physics of the atmosphere), and PO is closer to economics (taking as its inputs and outputs human behavior).
I think we ARE better at prediction in physical systems and less so at human systems.
And so, in my fuzzy determination of risks, I'm more likely to rein myself in on PO than on AGW.
Note - I think we are clearly in an energy transition. It is entirely appropriate to make more investment in that direction. We can hedge our risk at small costs.
(In fact, I drive a Prius.)


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As professors step out from behind lecterns to stand beside laptops or in front of cameras—or both—the top concern for campus information-technology departments across the country is how they can help faculty members move smoothly into the digital age of learning.
That's one finding of the Campus Computing Project's annual survey of senior technology administrators, released on Thursday. The survey found that as technology continues to grow on campuses—through both online classes and the increasing ubiquity of mobile devices—the ability of faculty members to use and integrate technology is a big concern. Another worry is the effectiveness of information-technology spending.This year's survey data are based on answers from chief information officers and other senior IT officials at 451 two- and four-year, public and private colleges across the United States.
Kenneth C. Green, founding director of the Campus Computing Project, said the major concerns expressed by campus technology officials focused on services, like user support and mobile computing, rather than on technology evolutions like cloud networking or upgrades in existing networks.
"The instructional integration of IT, user support, mobile computing, online education, and leveraging IT for student success are all service issues that support larger institutional goals and priorities," Mr. Green said in a news release.
Wariness of MOOCs
For nearly 80 percent of those who replied to the survey, helping faculty members acclimate to new classroom technologies was their biggest concern for the next two or three years.
Those surveyed were none too keen, however, on massive open online courses—and they were particularly wary of the idea that MOOCs would prove to be good sources of revenue for their colleges. While a little more than half of those surveyed agreed that MOOCs were an effective model for online education, only 29 percent said they were a reliable way to gain new revenue.
Even so, 34 percent of public-university respondents said they used third-party applications to enhance online resources in such areas as curriculum and recruitment. At community colleges, about 11 percent outsourced online resources for students.
Less than half agreed that outsourcing instruction would be a good strategy for their online efforts, while only a third thought outsourcing offered a reliable revenue strategy.
Terry Robb, a spokesman for the University of Missouri's Division of Information Technology, filled out the survey for his institution. Top priorities for Missouri, he said, include integrating classroom technology and accommodating mobile users.
As classes move to online platforms, he said, students and faculty members must adjust not only to using learning-management systems like Blackboard, but also to doing things like capturing video for online courses.
"We're continually adding new technology for collaboration between students and faculty," Mr. Robb said. "We've moved from the 2,000-year-old paradigm of standing in front of a class."
'OK to Good' Spending
As for the effectiveness of campus IT spending, 67 percent of those surveyed thought investments in library resources and services were "very effective," while only 42 percent thought spending on online courses and programs was effective. In the news release, Mr. Green said the survey data suggest IT officials think the investments are "OK to good, but not great."
Another priority identified in the survey was supporting and managing mobility and access for students.
About 86 percent of those surveyed said planning for tablets would be important for IT departments, and 82 percent said planning for smartphones would be essential as well. Laptops, by contrast, were less of a concern—only 62 percent of survey participants listed accommodating them as among top campus-computing worries.
Mr. Green said the shift to mobile devices showed colleges were "playing catch-up with the consumer experience."
Mr. Robb agreed, noting that the demand for wireless connectivity was among the developments many colleges had failed to anticipate. "Fifteen years ago we were concerned with Ethernet and getting everyone wired," he said. "And now the clamor from students is for wireless."
Though information-technology offices are worried about their ability to support all the devices students are bringing with them, officials are also adapting, the survey found.
Compared with last fall's survey, for instance, this year's revealed a big jump in the number of colleges that have mobile applications or plan to unveil one within the next year.
Last fall only 60 percent of colleges represented in the survey had active mobile apps. This year almost 80 percent of institutions reported they had an app for students to use. That figure was just 42 percent in 2011 and about half that in 2010.
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Butterfly Kiss
Butterfly Kiss unfolds the story of Lily Ross's life – and her crime – through oblique, shifting and mesmeric scenes, her interlaced memories revealing the psychosexual tangle of her childhood and the events that led up to her trial.
From her jail cell, Lily summons up her past: a vivid collage of cross-fades and flashbacks, which reveals aspects of her experience cumulatively, not chronologically. At the age of fourteen, her father, a lepidopterist, sets her up as a girlfriend for his ex-Marine buddy. A relationship blossoms with Martha, a woman she meets in a bar. Her grandmother forces her to watch her father and mother together. She runs after her father on his way to visit her mother, who is in hospital with hypochondria. Lily's relationships are spikily chronicled in hard-edged scenes, all leading in an impossible multiplicity of ways to the terrible truth of what she has done to her mother.
Butterfly Kiss was first performed at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 1994.


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'Mom's Night Out' focuses on healthy families
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[January 13, 2014]
On Feb. 28 from 7 to 9 p.m.,
"Mom's Night Out — Leading Your Family to Health" will give
local moms an opportunity to learn about creating and maintaining a
healthy lifestyle for their families. This free event will be
at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital and is being sponsored by
Healthy Communities Partnership and ALMH.
All participants will enjoy healthy appetizers, refreshments and
will be entered to win an iPad provided by the ALMH Auxiliary.
"In the past 10 years, the percentage of overweight and obese
individuals in Logan County has increased by 10 percent. Over 66
percent of our population is now overweight or obese," said Angela
Stoltzenburg, manager of the Healthy Communities Partnership. "It's
time to reverse that trend. Healthy Communities Partnership hopes
that events like this one will give families an opportunity to learn
how to make healthy changes. If we could address obesity in Logan
County, we could have fewer chronic diseases like diabetes and
cardiovascular disease.
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"At this event we decided to focus on moms because oftentimes they
are buying the groceries and planning menus. They are also important
role models to their children, and their behaviors have an enormous
impact on the health of their children. We felt it was important to
support local moms. Instilling healthy habits in our children is so
important and much easier than changing behaviors later in life,"
Stoltzenburg said.
Space is very limited. To reserve a spot, interested moms should
call 217-605-5008 by Feb. 24. Registration and social hour begins at
6 p.m.
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Alphen, the Netherlands. 30 December. Just before Christmas I received an email from a friend of mine for whom I have great respect and have known many a year. He is a fifty-something and like me a tired British social democrat and one-time believer in the great idea that was Europe. His email came as a shock. He suggested that I was 'right', the Eurozone crisis had parted the waves of Euro-speak to reveal Germany and France for what they have always been, Britain's natural and irreconcilable enemies. I beg to differ.
My friend had been following closely my strident defence of Britain in the teeth of the Eurozone crisis and my critique of Germany and France for their flawed and self-assumed 'leadership' in the name of 'Europe'. Not a natural ally of mine the Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Junker summed up the flawed strategy perfectly when he said, "we know how to solve the problem, we just do not know how to get re-elected afterwards".
French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in the nineteenth century that political liberty is easily lost because democratic peoples want equality even if it means losing liberty. Germany and France are trying to achieve something much more ambitious - leadership, equality and democracy in crisis. That does not make Germany and France enemies. Yes, it is a fairly fundamental squabble about who is in charge of Europe and how it should be organised but my objection has not been in principle to the leadership of Berlin and Paris, but rather their attempts to exclude London.
My friend's email also touched on much deeper issues that all of us in our fifties and beyond are forced to consider. None of us can expect to die from the land into which we were born. Change happens. However, since my 1958 birth the change that has taken place in my land of Europe has been so revolutionary – for better and for worse. Like him and millions of my fellow time-travellers I do indeed feel alienated not least because much of the change has been imposed upon me. He is also right that 'positive' discrimination does indeed condemn many men in their fifties to the wastes of 'freelancery' (unemployment without benefits). But we are where we are.
Weak governments Europe-wide are now forced to make difficult choices to manage the dangerous consequences of their previous inactions. Youth unemployment is soaring, populations are rising seemingly uncontrollably and social and cultural diversity now challenges old concepts of society. Britain is a case in point. One only has to look at the place to realise that the London-elite are utterly detached from the everyday reality of ordinary Britons.
So why do I persevere sending out blogs into the unfathomable ether? It is precisely because I do feel alienated from the political process however futile my blogging may on occasions seem. Far from retreating from politics now is the moment to engage. Indeed, if I do not engage liberty in Europe will slowly die. And, strangely, being a fifties-something man I have earned the liberty not to cow-tow to anyone, however powerful or important they believe themselves to be.
Irish poet W.B. Yeats once wrote; "When you are old and grey and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book, and slowly read, and dream of the soft look, your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep".
So, my friend, I am sorry you misunderstood my meaning but Germany and France are not Britain's enemies, they are not even friends, they are family. The shadows are indeed deep but there is always hope and you too must engage for the sake of our Europe.
Happy New Year!
Julian Lindley-French


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For Lacy K. Ford, the division between the states of the upper South (Virginia along with the border slave states) and those of the lower South (South Carolina and the cotton-producing states to its south and west) best explains how white Southerners "understood their position with regard to slavery, and how they saw themslves as citizens of the United States right down to secession and Civil War."...
In extraordinarily close detail, he demonstrates how white slave-owning Southerners in the two regions followed sharply different trajectories in addressing the slavery question, and he argues that the development of a Southern nationality and its controversy with the North must be understood from the inside out rather than the outside in.
Donna Dennis was on C-Span Book TV this weekend, discussing Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and its Prosecution in Nineteenth Century New York, and now you can watch on-line.
David Cole discusses his new book, The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable, with the Boston Globe, and takes up the case against the lawyers in an essay in the New York Review of Books.


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To Rob Carley BA '72 and wife Katie Carley, daughter Madison Suzanne, April 17, 2008.
To Ron Allen BS '88 and Christine Goo Allen BA '90, daughter Angela 'Alohilani Michiko, March 18, 2008. Angela joins sister Camille, 5.
To Margaret Lawson BA '92 and Mike Dunlop, son James Ian Dunlop, May 9, 2008.
To Christopher Abbruzzese BA '93 and Shaanti Abbruzzese, daughter Wren Charlotte, August 26, 2008. She joins sister Brooke, 5, and brother Will, 2.
To Jolene Reed Laughlin BA '94 and John Laughlin, son Collin, August 16, 2007.
To Jennifer Mitchell BA '95 and Manny Venegas, daughter Luna Violet. She joins brother Jack.
To Cable Green BS '95 and Lesley Parker Green BA '96 son Casey Stephen, November 28, 2007. He joins brother Nate.
To Samuel Jordan BA '97 and wife Silvana, daughter Sofia Nuri, May 28, 2008.
To Jefna McCuistion BA '97 and her husband, son Zev Fannon Cohen, in March 2008.
To Jon Lukas BA '98 and wife Connie, daughter Savannah Bebe, November 22, 2008.
To Laura Benson BA '99 and Jeremy Brown BA '99, son Henry Alan Brown, June 26, 2007.
To Tim Murphy JD '00 and Allison LaPlante JD '02, son Finnian Joseph Murphy, June 8, 2008.
To Tracy Sullivan JD '00 and husband Michael Hallas, daughter Asa Sullivan Hallas, May 29, 2008.
To Melissa Chureau JD '02 and husband Pascal, daughter Amelie Miette, April 12, 2008.
To Amanda Hughes BA '02 and husband Noah, daughter Josephine Evelyn, May 5, 2008. Josie joins sister Edie.
To Shems Baker-Jud JD '06 and wife Crystal, daughter Tealia Marion, May 24, 2008.
To Kimberly Graves JD '06 and spouse Peter, daughter Lola Riley Graves, May 9, 2008.
To Frederick Schroeder JD '07 and his wife, daughter Keira Noelle.


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