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Get started now at SCC. Applying is easy and it's free. Apply Online.
Become A Student at SCC
Complete and submit an Application for Admission.
Self-certify that you have graduated from high school or completed a GED program or submit transcripts to the SCC Admissions Office.
Complete an assessment/placement test or submit official college transcripts showing completion of English and mathematics credit (grade of C or higher).
Submit any additional information required for your chosen Program of Study. See program's webpage for specific information.
All students who are accepted for admission to a Program of Study must self-certify they have graduated from an accredited or approved high school or college, or have completed the requirements for a GED® certificate.
Students who have not graduated from high school or who do not have a GED® certificate must earn a GED® diploma before admission to a Program of Study.
Contact an Adult Education staff member for more information regarding obtaining the GED®. Due to federal financial aid policies, federal financial aid is not available to students who have not graduated from high school or completed a GED®.
Admissions Advisors
Admissions Advisors are available to discuss Programs of Study, admissions processes, and assessment/placement testing. Admissions Advisors can also facilitate career assessments to help students in identifying career interests.
Advisors will help you start your Path to Possible!
Detailed Steps for Admission to a Program of Study
1. Complete and submit an Application for Admission
All new students seeking admission to a Program of Study at SCC must complete an Application for Admission. Students are allowed to take classes at multiple SCC locations, although special permission may be required from the program director if classes are program specific. We encourage students to complete the Application for Admission online; paper copies are available in the Admissions Office and at SCC Learning Centers. There is no application fee.
Please note: If you plan to enroll in a few courses, do not plan to receive financial aid, and are not seeking a degree from SCC, you do not need to apply for admission. Registration for individual courses as a visiting student can be completed with assistance from an Admissions Advisor and/or at the Registration and Records Office. Individuals not seeking a degree from SCC and who desire to register for classes online should complete the Visiting Student Application.
2. Demonstrate Completion of High School or GED
Students may meet this requirement by self-certification on the Application for Admission or by submitting a copy of their high school or GED transcript.
A copy of the high school or GED transcript is not required for admission unless the high school/GED information provided on the Application for Admission is determined to be discrepant, inaccurate, or incomplete. If requested, please send a copy of your high school or GED transcript directly to the SCC Admissions Office at the appropriate campus.
Please note that some programs require a final high school or GED transcript as a condition of admission due to accreditation requirements. See special program requirements for your Program of Study for more information. Additionally, a high school or GED transcript may be required by Financial Aid for students receiving federal aid.
Request that a copy of your high school or GED® transcript be sent directly to SCC's Admissions Office at the appropriate campus. Provide an official transcript or self-certify (on the Application for Admission) that you graduated from an accredited or approved high school or college, or have completed the requirements for a GED certificate.
3. Demonstrate College Readiness
Southeast Community College requires competency in writing and mathematics in order to succeed in the selected Program of Study. All applicants for admission are evaluated on basic academic skills to better determine placement into courses and Programs of Study. To determine the entrance placement scores for specific programs, visit the Testing Center or request assistance from the Admissions staff.
Based on a student's placement score and/or previously completed post-secondary coursework, students may be required to complete developmental coursework before advancing to certain program courses. Specific information about developmental coursework is available from SCC Admissions staff. Developmental coursework and high school equivalency programs are available at SCC to students who do not meet admissions requirements into their chosen Program of Study. Applicants in need of course placement test scores will be notified and provided information about testing options, study materials, and instructions.
All students seeking admission to a Program of Study must demonstrate college readiness. This can be verified via a number of evaluative methods:
Completion of Assessment/Course Placement Test:
Completion of placement testing occurs through at least one of the following basic skill assessment/placement tests:
These scores may be reported by the testing service (ACT, SAT, etc.) listed on the high school transcript or submitted by the student.
Each Program of Study requires a specific score level for admission. Visit the Testing Center for more information.
Reading score results must be from within the past 5 years. Please note that reading test scores are used for placement in English courses.
Math score results must be from within the past 3 years.
A student who cannot fulfill any one of these criteria should discuss the available alternatives with an SCC Admissions or Transitions Advisor.
Please contact any of the SCC Testing & Assessment Centers or SCC Learning Centers to learn more about placement testing, retesting and arranging a time to take the Next Generation ACCUPLACER test. Retesting is possible for individuals who believe their course placement testing results do not represent their current ability. If a student has previously tested in the last 5 years, a $15 retest fee must be paid in advance of the retesting session. See the Testing & Assessment section for additional information about retesting policies.
Submit Transfer Coursework
Students can also demonstrate college readiness through prior successful post-secondary coursework. Official transcripts from all post-secondary institutions must be sent directly from the institution where the credit was earned to any of SCC's Admissions Offices. Transcripts from nationally accredited colleges, approved by the U.S. Department of Education, will be evaluated to determine if the student meets college entrance requirements through evidence of three (3) or more hours of transfer credit from an accredited postsecondary institution with a grade of "C" or better in each of the areas of English and/or math. If the demonstrated English coursework does not meet the minimum program requirement or is 5 years or older, testing is required. Please note, placement testing or additional proof of post-secondary course completion will be required when an individual has taken a prerequisite in mathematics more than 3 years ago or the completed course does not meet program requirements.
Electronic transcripts sent directly from the institution where the credit was earned will be accepted.
4. Submit any additional information required for your chosen program.
5. You will be notified of your admissions status within 1-2 weeks of submitting your application.
Being Re-Admitted to SCC
We are delighted to welcome you back to SCC! Our Admissions staff is available to answer your questions and assist you in the process of re-enrolling.
Former SCC students who were "declared" and once enrolled in a Program of Study and who have not been enrolled for one or more years need to reapply for admission to be eligible for re-entry into their former program or a new Program of Study.
Readmission is subject to available space and current requirements established by the College and the Program of Study.
Any person 16 years of age or older who is not enrolled in a regular secondary school program is eligible to enroll in SCC classes provided they meet any stated class prerequisites. Eligible high school students in good standing may enroll in college credit classes with written permission from their high school principal or counselor.
Students under 16 years of age will not be accepted for admission into a Program of Study. Students under 16 may enroll in credit classes with special permission from the Dean of Students. Contact the SCC Student Affairs Office to obtain a permission form.
Students under 16 years of age may enroll in special non-credit classes which are offered by SCC's Continuing Education Division. These special classes usually are designed for youth and adults who register and attend classes together. Other special enrollment opportunities for students under 16 will be identified in the course description and/or advertisement. High school students enrolling in distance learning classes must meet all of the College course prerequisites prior to the start of class. Contact the campus Registration and Records Office for additional information.
Reasonable Accommodations for Persons with Disabilities
SCC provides services and reasonable accommodations to allow persons with disabilities to participate in educational programs and other College activities. For more information on requesting ADA reasonable accommodations, contact the Student Services Office on the campus you plan to attend.
Spring Semester 2021 Jan. 11, 2021 May 6, 2021 Oct. 26, 2020
Summer 2021 3-Week Pre-session May 17, 2021 June 4, 2020 March 1, 2021
Summer 2021 1st 5-Week Session May 24, 2021 June 25, 2021 March 1, 2021
Summer 2021 8-Week Session May 24, 2021 July 16, 2021 March 1, 2021
Summer 2021 10-Week Session May 24, 2021 July 30, 2021 March 1, 2021
Summer 2021 2nd 5-Week Session June 28, 2021 July 30, 2021 March 1, 2021
Please see the calendar for other important dates.
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Introducing Huxley: My little dreamboat!
What kind of birth photographer would I be if I didn't have birth photos taken at my own birth? Luckily I have a good friend with a lot of photography talent that I made a deal with: I would take photos at her first birth if she would take photos at mine. The photos tell the story, but I'll give them some context first.
The Story: Early contractions started at Thursday night yoga class (check out Eileens Yoga Studio for awesome prenatal and postpartum yoga classes.) They continued every 8-15 minutes for the next 25 hours at which point my husband and I decided we wanted them to progress so we went on a 2km walk. When we came back home at 7:30pm Friday, my contractions were finally more intense and every 3-4 minutes apart. The midwife came and checked me 2 hours later to give me the most disappointing news of my life: "You are only 1-2 cm dilated." "WHAT? How can that be when I'm already in the worst pain of my life!!!" So she went home to get some shut eye, and I went on to labour at home with my husband through some seriously painful contractions that I feared were getting me nowhere. To my amazement at 1:15 am I started involuntarily pushing and my inner dialogue said, "Yikes, what is going on? Is this seriously happening already? Um... we better call the midwife back NOW!" So when she got there at 1:30, she confirmed to my relief that I was 9cm and could get in the tub. In a whirlwind, calls were made to the second midwife on-call, and my photographer Kyla Ewert (Pinball Photography) who shortly arrived to witness me explaining that I could feel ripping and the "ring of fire." The midwives didn't believe me at first until they moved the mirror forward and sure enough my little Hux was crowning. When his head finally came out the midwife's hand was in the water supporting it and to her surprise his little hand was also out and he grabbed her finger. He was officially born at 3:49am. 8.5 hours of labour sounds like a success, but I'll never consider a woman "lucky" for having a short labour again... labour is hard work whether it's 2 hours or 20 hours, but the prize at the end is worth it!
You're so cute in labor! Great pictures! I can totally see you AND Dust in little Huxley's face. I'm so proud of you Jayds! Can't wait to meet him in real life!


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Office Space » Saint Mary's Street, WR1 1HB, Worcester, United Kingdom
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Serviced offices from £275 per person per month
Located adjacent to the Shire Hall, this is a prominent building on Saint Mary's Street, in a prime location, at the heart of Worcester city centre. The site is only 4 miles from junction 6 of the M5 motorway, within a few minutes' walking distance from the Foregate Street railway station and easily accessible on the Worcester Park and Ride service.
This 1920s building has undergone considerable refurbishment, now boasting 24-hour access, full disabled access, 24-hour CCTV, two lifts providing access to all floors, kitchen and lavatory facilities, two internal courtyards, on-site management and on-site car parking. Tenants may use their own phone system in this building.
State / Province: Worcestershire
Postal Code: WR1 1HB
Nearest Train Station: Foregate Street
Max Size Available: 100
Total Workstations: 250
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Financial Services Act 2021: what you need to know
The UK Financial Services Bill has officially become an Act in the first piece of financial services legislation published since the UK left the EU.
Changes brought about by the Act include increased sentences for insider trading and market manipulation, and increased powers for the FCA in overseeing the transition away from LIBOR.
Currently, under the Criminal Justice Act 1993, insider trading and market manipulation each carry a maximum prison sentence of seven years. The Act increases this to 10 years in both cases to bring it in line with the maximum sentence for fraud (also 10 years).
John Glen, the UK's Economic Secretary to the Treasury, said: "For the first time in decades, the UK has full control of its own financial services regulation. This Act will protect people who rely on financial services day-to-day and boost the competitiveness of our dynamic global financial centre. It marks a major milestone in our plans to develop a regulatory regime that works for the UK and helps us seize new opportunities in the global economy."
Firms should also be aware of changes made to responsibilities for maintaining insider lists. Under current legislation, it is unclear whether third parties who act on behalf of issuers must also issue a separate insider list of their own. The Act confirms that from 29th June 2021, listed issuers and anyone acting on their behalf must both maintain an insider list.
Read the Financial Services Act in full
More from RiskBusiness on regulatory developments:
Updating your whistleblowing policy: the EU Whistleblowing Directive and more
ESG regulation: what you need to know
Banking data and Brexit
AML: the regulatory landscape
GDPR: the next challenge


Searching for the eggs of Easter!
Real winter doesn't want to come yet, but these are good days for hiking!
We're on holidays ourselves, so now something completely different!
Mainstreet of Jisp, to Neck, 'Lisdodde en waterlelie' Kayakking at 't Zwet', the lake where I made my first moves by kayak, where we learnt to swim, and to skate as well, in winter.


Chinese scientist He Jiankui made headlines earlier this month when he claimed that he had help create the world's first gene-edited babies.
New research conducted by BrainGate and recently published in PLOS ONE has shown that paralyzed patients may have a new way of not only communicating, but of playing music, surfing the web and more.
According to a first-of-its-kind study conducted by researchers from Leiden University in the Netherlands, consuming a microdose of magic mushrooms (also known as psilocybin or truffles) has the ability to improve cognitive function.
Vacuum pumps are used across a variety of industries for a number of purposes, but not all vacuum pumps are created equal. If you're considering purchasing a vacuum pump, make sure you ask yourself the questions below.
What will you be using the vacuum for?
The age-old adage about the annual Thanksgiving turkey-induced, post-dinner comma is all too common, especially as the fourth Thursday in November approaches, but is turkey really to blame?


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Business, academia, community finance — all mourn Sir Adrian Cadbury
Sir Adrian Cadbury, whose death aged 86 has been announced
The death of Sir Adrian Cadbury on the 3rd September 2015 aged 86 has just been announced.
Sir Adrian was chairman of Cadbury and Cadbury Schweppes for over twenty-four years. But in his long and busy life of business, public service and civic activism he was also much more than this. He was an olympic rower; a past director of the Bank of England and of IBM; and chairman of the UK Committee on Corporate Governance that so bore his remarkable stamp that its 1992 report — still considered a benchmark on the subject today — became known as the Cadbury Code.
I wouldn't presume to say I knew Sir Adrian, but on the few occasions I met him — usually in some connection with an ART event, whose founding Chairman he was in 1997, and whose President he served as from 2004 until the time of his death — he radiated an old world charm, modesty and moral purpose that one couldn't fail to respond to.
It was a report from the Aston Commission, chaired by Sir Adrian, which heralded the start of ART (Aston Reinvestment Trust) – then a new type of finance provider, designed to raise money from social investors to lend to local businesses enabling them to create or protect local jobs for local people.
Steve Walker, chief exec of ART, worked alongside Sir Adrian from the outset. "Sir Adrian was an astute businessman guided by a strong moral compass," he says. "He was a great enthusiast when it came to business and loved to talk to entrepreneurs, business owners and managers about their ideas and plans for growth, but he was also a philanthropist and encouraged others to follow his example."
In 1996 community finance was a new concept — but Sir Adrian was its tireless evangelist amongst his vast network of friends, associates, business colleagues and co-philanthropists. His energy and powers of persuasion were crucial in securing the seed investment which allowed ART to get started.
There are tributes in The Guardian, The Birmingham Mail, The Birmingham Post, The Daily Telegraph (and more fully in the online The Telegraph), the Financial Times, Business Quarter, and on the Aston University website.
That Sir Adrian is mourned so widely and by such a range of institutions and individuals is a mark not just of his long and active life, but also of the high esteem and affection so many felt for him.
"Without Sir Adrian, ART — and indeed the community finance sector which we have helped to build — wouldn't be where it is today. He was always a friend and everyone at ART will miss him greatly." — Steve Walker, ART


There comes a time in every young car person's life that they have to learn a few important life skills in order to be fulfilled, happy, and healthy. In this case I'm talking about the ability to clutch dump, rip a hydraulic handbrake, and properly steer through a donut. Or rather a series of donuts that lasts nearly a minute. Oh, and by the way, that time is when you're nine years old.
When I was nine, I had barely mastered the art of riding a bicycle, let alone even thought about driving a car. Ruslan Yankilevich, however, is already racing UTVs in off road environments. He dropped by the Hoonigan garage to see if he could take his Polaris RZR 570 off the "double stack" jump in the yard. Spoiler alert: He can.
While he was there, the Hoonigans put Ruslan in their endearingly termed "Shart Kart", a Mazda MX-5 with all of the bodywork taken off. The kid had never driven anything with a stick shift and clutch combo, so they wanted to see how quickly he could pick up the talent.
As it turns out, very quickly. Within minutes he was ripping donuts with the best of them.


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The Paulson Institute
The Paulson Institute is a private foundation based in Chicago, IL that was founded in 2011. As of 2019 they had $12 million in revenue and $23 million in assets.
The Paulson Institute is a "think and do tank" that promotes sustainable growth and environmental protection in China and the United States.
Previous legal names or variations of their name include: The Henry M Paulson Jr Institute.
paulsoninstitute.org
facebook.com/thepaulsoninstitute
@paulsoninst
T20: Private foundations
Program areas at The Paulson Institute
Sustainable urbanization our sustainable urbanization work is is focused on The energy, transportation, and building systems that underpin The transition to a more sustainable economy. Through our programs, publications, and high-level advocacy, we work to support a transition to this more sustainable economic model in both china and The united states. Research and publicationswe produce thought leadership on policy, technology and market-based solutions that will advance china's industrial and energy-sector transformation. Our 2015 work included six papers: five with a focus on power sector reform and one about creating a sustainable economic transition in china's jing-jin-ji capital region. Mayor's training program on sustainable urbanizationthe mayors training program, organized in conjunction with cciee is now in its fourth year. In 2015, our delegation came from The province of zhejiang. The three-week-long program included time in beijing, chicago, portland, and san francisco for 2015. The delegation visited model projects; listened to experts ...
Climate change and air qualitythis program advances solutions to climate change and air pollution in china and The united states, ultimately contributing to sustainable and mutually beneficial economic growth. This is done through research, projects, advocacy, and working together with a network of nonprofit, commercial, and government organizations.
Conservation, energy, and environmentour work is focused on The energy, transportation, and building systems that underpin The transition to a more sustainable economy. We believe that truly sustainable economic growth is only possible if it simultaneously advances economic prosperity, a healthy environment, and low-carbon development solutions in The face of climate change. Through our projects, events, publications, and high-level advocacy, we work to support a transition to this more sustainable economic model in both china and The united states. The overarching goal of pi's conservation programs is to protect The critical ecosystems and biodiversity with global significance in china and other countries that are china's major overseas investment destinations or major commodity trade partners. The programs focuses on three thematic areas and they are: 1) support The chinese government to strengthen conservation of The coastal wetlands; 2) support The chinese government to establish a national park system; and 3) support ...
Form 990s for The Paulson Institute
2018-12 Dec 4, 2019 990PF View PDF
2017-12 Feb 21, 2019 990PF View PDF
2016-12 Oct 11, 2017 990PF View PDF
2015-12 Nov 23, 2016 990 View PDF
...and four more Form 990 PDFs
Financials for The Paulson Institute
Total grants, contributions, etc. $12,262,948 $11,450,000 7.1%
Investment income and dividends $259,493 $75,546 243.5%
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets $1,266 $-12,335 110.3%
Gross sales of inventory $0 $0
Miscellaneous revenues $129,941 $707,273 -81.6%
Compensation of current officers, etc. $762,125 34.3%
Non-officer salaries and wages $2,823,024 9.5%
Pension/retirement accruals and contributions $505,229 31.4%
Legal fees $42,800 -5.2%
Accounting fees $74,231 -17.0%
Other fee-for-service $938,109 -15.4%
Interest $0
Depreciation, amortization, etc. $79,008 35.4%
Occupancy $237,933 2.9%
Travel $677,838 -18.6%
Office expenses 116.5%
Grants to all govts., orgs., and individuals $614,874 $936,318 -34.3%
All other expenses $482,324 9.7%
Total expenses $7,680,701 $7,718,477 -0.5%
Cash (non-interest-bearing) $4,945,363 $4,351,314 13.7%
Savings, short-term investments, etc. $12,354,409 $12,384,205 -0.2%
Accounts receivable $0 $0
Pledges and grants receivable $6,096,760 $1,650,000 269.5%
Inventories for use $0 $0
Prepaid expenses and deferred charges $146,681 $442,474 -66.8%
Investments in government obligations $0 $0
Investments in corporate stock $0 $0
Investments in corporate bonds $0 $0
Investments in land, buildings, and equipment $0 $0
Investments in mortgage loans $0 $0
Other types of investments $0 $0
Buildings, equipment, etc. post-depreciation $274,535 $217,556 26.2%
Other assets $86,788 $37,028 134.4%
Total assets $23,904,536 $19,082,577 25.3%
Accounts payable and accrued expenses $412,542 $444,409 -7.2%
Grants payable $304,378 $371,195 -18.0%
Secured mortgages and notes payable to unrelated third parties $0 $0
Total liabilities $716,920 $815,604 -12.1%
Unrestricted net assets $16,616,973 $11,268,612 47.5%
Temporarily restricted net assets $1,650,000 $2,500,000 -34%
Vendors for The Paulson Institute
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█████████ ███ Program Strategy; Consulting $283,120 2019-12-04
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...and eight more vendors
Personnel at The Paulson Institute
Jin Xu Chief Executive Officer Council Director, China - Dec. 22, 2017
Henry M. Paulson Chief of Staff To Chairman $0 May 28, 2020
██████ ██████ Chief of Staff - May 28, 2020
███████ ██ ████ Vice Chairman and Executive Director / Consultant , Senior Fellow $250,000 May 28, 2020
██████ ███ Senior Advisor and Managing Director of Green Finance Center - May 28, 2020
█████ ██ Chief Representative of China Office and Managing Director - May 28, 2020
█████ ██ Managing Director / Managing Dir Climat $210,082 May 28, 2020
████ ███ Director of Communications , China - May 28, 2020
██████ ████ Director , Government Affairs , Beijing Representative Office - May 28, 2020
█████ ███████ Director , Human Resources - May 28, 2020
...and 19 more key personnel
Peer private foundations
1 Pcpi Foundation 501(c)(3) $3.5 million Chicago, IL
2 Center for Economic Research and Social Change 501(c)(3) $4.2 million Chicago, IL
3 Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) 501(c)(3) $13 million San Francisco, CA
4 Lincoln Institute of Land Policy 501(c)(3) $56 million Phoenix, AZ
5 Center for Inquiry 501(c)(3) $5.4 million Amherst, NY
6 Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance 501(c)(3) $4.7 million Chicago, IL
7 Global Philanthropy Partnership (GPP) 501(c)(3) $6.9 million Chicago, IL
8 Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD) 501(c)(3) $11 million Washington, DC
9 International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) 501(c)(3) $27 million United Kingdom,
10 Manomet 501(c)(3) $3.7 million Manomet, MA
11 World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) 501(c)(3) $57 million Kenya,
12 The SASB Foundation prev Sustainability Actg Standards Board (SASB) 501(c)(3) $14 million San Francisco, CA
13 Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) 501(c)(3) $10 million Washington, DC
14 Regional Plan Association 501(c)(3) $4.5 million New York, NY
15 The B Team 501(c)(3) $4.1 million New York, NY
16 Verra (VCS) 501(c)(3) $13 million Washington, DC
17 Bioversity International 501(c)(3) $30 million Italy,
18 Center for International Environmental Law 501(c)(3) $3.4 million Washington, DC
19 The Morton Arboretum 501(c)(3) $55 million Lisle, IL
20 TransitCenter 501(c)(3) $10 million New York, NY
21 Interactivity Foundation (IF) 501(c)(3) $3.6 million Parkersburg, WV
22 Hopelab 501(c)(3) $13 million San Francisco, CA
23 Institute for New Economic Thinking 501(c)(3) $5.3 million New York, NY
24 Markle Foundation 501(c)(3) $10 million New York, NY
25 Bertelsmann Foundation 501(c)(3) $4.1 million Washington, DC
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Nauru and PNG refugee support group
Tricia Reade
Wendy Oakley
Juliet Donald and Ben Winsor are organizing this fundraiser.
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The Fund-raising for Kamran is now Complete. Thank you!
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Kamran's refugee sponsorship to Canada | LGBT+ Iranian man, Manus Island
Please help us sponsor Kamran, a gay Iranian refugee who fled blackmailers who threatened to "out" him in Iran only to be held in detention by the Australian government for six years on Manus Island.
He's university educated in web development, has been teaching computer skills to fellow refugees on Manus Island, and aspires to continue his career in Canada.
We're raising money to support his application for private sponsorship in Canada, for which the Canadian government requires $18,000 CAD to support resettlement costs.
Please contribute now and help Kamran escape to a new life in Canada. Please share this fundraiser with your social networks.
Kamran's story
Kamran, a software engineer in his 30s, was forced to flee his home, his family and his life in Tehran, Iran. He fled after being blackmailed by friends of his ex-partner.
They threatened to 'out' him to the religious police if he did not pay increasing bribes. Unable to continue paying the blackmailers, Kamran was forced to flee the country.
He has reason to believe that the authorities were investigating him, and cannot return to Iran due to fear of being found out for his homosexuality, a crime punishable by imprisonment, corporal punishment or execution in Iran.
For the past six years, Kamran has been stranded on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, as part of the Australian government's refugee deterrence policy. He has been assessed as a valid refugee and it is unlawful for Australia to return him to face persecution in Iran, but because he arrived by boat, Australia refuses to resettle him -- instead leaving him stranded indefinitely on Manus.
The conditions on Manus are horrific; the United Nations has determined that the situation is dangerous, and that the physical and mental health of the men there is deteriorating with ongoing violence and daily incidents of self-harm. According to PEN International, "Manus Island has become notorious for its ill-treatment of detainees where violence, sexual abuse and self-harm are reportedly common".
Kamran's name has been altered to protect his safety.
Life on Manus
Despite the horrific conditions, Kamran is known by fellow detainees to be a respectful, calm, polite and resilient person. During his 6 years' detainment on Manus Island, he has continued to stay productive. He furthered his studies by self-teaching web development from the internet. He states that he desires to be a productive and useful member of Canadian society.
Approximately 2 months ago Kamran was medically evacuated to an immigration detention medical facility in mainland Australia. Despite being in Australia, Kamran is not allowed to lodge a claim of asylum in that country. He remains in indefinite detention, with no foreseeable future, outside of the detention system. After years of detention, he has no hope of ever getting out.
We need to get Kamran to a new country where he can be free and safe and can begin a new life. He has university level education in software engineering, and is very motivated to further his English skills, and develop a career and a life in Canada. We want to bring him to Canada under the government's Private Sponsorship of Refugees program.
Before we can submit an application, we need to confirm to the Canadian government that we have funds to support Kamran's first 12 months of life in Canada (CAD$16,500 = AUD$17,340 = USD$12,600) and that we have a group of Canadian and Australian sponsors willing to help Kamran settle into his new life here.
Your donation will contribute to Kamran's living expenses for the first year. These include:
· $13,200 for 12 months of income
· $3,300 for startup costs
The 12 months' income will go towards Kamran's first year of living expenses, such as housing, food, clothing and transport. The startup costs go towards a one-time payment for expenses such as winter clothing, household items, furniture, linens, and rent deposits. We are aiming for $18,000 in fundraising, with a small margin for unexpected costs.
As money is donated, I will transfer it in full from my account to be held in trust in a secure bank account managed by Community Matters Toronto, a registered charity that will also serve as Kamran's official sponsor. When Kamran arrives, the money will be disbursed by Community Matters Toronto, under guidelines laid out by the Canadian government.
We are part of a group of committed volunteers who are ready and excited to help Kamran start a new life. We belong to Ads-Up (Australian Diaspora Steps Up), a network of Australian expatriates who believe that the conditions of indefinite detention on Manus Island and Nauru, and on the mainland, go against Australian principles of fairness and decency. All based in Toronto, our circle includes Juliet Donald, Eileen Pyne Rudzik and other Toronto residents.
We have our sponsorship group in place, and we now just need the necessary funds. As soon as we have raised this money and it is in the secure bank account managed by Community Matters Toronto (who will oversee the application), we can submit the paperwork and start the formal process of getting Kamran out of detention and out of danger.
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When Kamran arrives, the money will be disbursed under guidelines laid out by the Canadian government. Start-up funds are given on arrival in Canada and the living expenses are distributed to him on a monthly basis.
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Kate Winslet Vanity Fair Pics Airbrushed?
Kate Winslet dared to bare a little more skin in the current issue of Vanity Fair. And it has sparked another "photoshop" controversy. Her photo spread looked fantastic which led the UK Daily Mail to hire an airbrush expert, Chris Bickmore, to examine the photos. Bickmore opined that her faced lacked details which is unnatural. There were no eyebags, wrinkles, nor blemishes. He likewise stated that the most apparent modifications were on her hands and feet — there were no wrinkles, lines nor any veins. He also believes that her bottom was rounded off to look perfect and her thighs were made to look more firm and even-toned.
Howe ver, Winslet's rep denied allegations of major repairs on the photos. The spokesperson claims that Winslet is in terrific shape and no major digital enhancements were made on the pictures. Vanity Fair confirms that there were no major alterations done, just some smoothening of the skin and removal of blemishes. They insist that no changes were made on the shape of her body. We've heard that one before.
This is not the first time that Winslet has been the center of a photoshop controversy. She apologized to fans in 2003 when GQ overdid alterations on her photo. She didn't want fans to think she lost that much weight and claimed she doesn't want to look that thin. Winslet has always been outspoken about her disgust over the unrealistic standards that media has placed on women with their perfect representations of models and actresses.
Judging by the pictures, what do you think? Is this the real Kate Winslet or not?


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This Precious Plot
As Silicon Valley sprawl closes in, Stanford's vast acreage is more prized than ever. How will the University use it, and what do its neighbors have to say about it?
Leo Holub
Kevin Cool
Leland Stanford knew what he was doing. When imagining the "University of high degree" that he hoped to convey to generations of unborn college students 115 years ago, he recognized the importance of land. With land come options and opportunities, and throughout Stanford's history, its 8,180-acre plot has been a formidable asset.
But recently the Farm has become the subject of intense public interest and political maneuvering, motivated in part by Silicon Valley's growing unease about overdevelopment. In November, after almost two years of rancorous debate and hardball negotiation--punctuated by a battle over Stanford's Foothills--Santa Clara County approved the University's application for a 10-year land-use plan. The specific provisions of that plan will govern Stanford's growth over the next decade, and the process required to secure its approval signaled a new era in community relations that will inform Stanford's decision-making far beyond then.
The University confronts an enormous dilemma. A serious housing shortage caused by the region's exorbitant cost of living requires extraordinary measures for the University to remain competitive for top faculty and students. And as the pool of developable land in its core campus shrinks, Stanford must also deal with new, vigorous oversight by local governing bodies that will constrain its land-use options. Meanwhile, a skeptical public has placed Stanford in an uncomfortable and unfamiliar defensive posture.
In short, Stanford faces a future that will require difficult choices--about how large to grow, about where to place its curricular emphasis and about how to reconcile its ambitions with its limitations. And it must deal with the fact that those decisions will not always be made according to the wishes of the occupant in Building 10.
Stanford has bumped up against a new reality. The fight over Farm land may be just beginning.
On a drizzly, dreary Monday evening late in October, a chartered bus pulled up outside the Santa Clara County Government Center in San Jose, drawing curious glances from office workers leaving the building. A moment later the bus doors opened and out streamed a torrent of men and women representing a cross section of the Stanford community--faculty, staff members from two dozen different offices, spouses of employees, and Palo Alto residents sympathetic to the University. Two more buses arrived right behind the first, depositing a couple of hundred more Stanford people onto the broad plaza.
They had come to lobby the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors for approval of the General Use Permit (GUP) and Community Plan that would authorize and manage Stanford's campus development over the next 10 years. Most of them were there because of what had happened a week earlier.
On October 24, in a dramatic public hearing in Palo Alto, Supervisor Joe Simitian had stunned University officials with a sweeping proposal--that Stanford surrender development rights to 1,000 acres of its Foothills for 99 years in exchange for the county's authorization of the GUP. Simitian supporters, mostly mid-Peninsula residents hungry for open-space preservation, hailed the proposal. Stanford President John Hennessy called it an illegal public taking of private land and insisted that Stanford's trustees would never accept it.
At a subdued Faculty Senate meeting on the day after Simitian's announcement, Provost John Etchemendy, PhD '82, was direct in assessing the situation. "What is at stake," he told faculty members, "is nothing less than the future of the University."
The battle touched off by Simitian's 99-year preservation demand was merely the latest skirmish in a contentious and complex two-year saga that pitted Stanford against a vocal and aggressive opposition made up of elected officials, environmentalists and special interests. Along the way, it featured hyperbolic headlines, feverish rhetoric and a cast of characters that included homeless graduate students, disgruntled dog-walkers and a tiny, spotted amphibian struggling for survival. It became one of the most serious public relations and policy battles in Stanford's history, dividing residents in Palo Alto and adjoining communities and raising questions about the rights and responsibilities of private landowners.
During most of that two-year period, the University was on the defensive, warding off a steady drumbeat of criticism about its land-use policies. Opponents of its development plan had filled hearing rooms for months while Stanford's supporters remained relatively quiet and uninvolved. But Simitian's proposal on October 24 galvanized the University's advocates. Upset by what they viewed as a governmental land grab and encouraged by appeals from Hennessy and other officials for a show of support, more than 300 people piled into buses for the trip to San Jose. When the group arrived, a Stanford entourage distributed "I Support Stanford" stickers in the lobby. A few feet away, wearing "Save the Foothills" stickers, several dozen protesters, including some Stanford alumni, gathered for their own demonstration, chanting slogans and brandishing signs. They had come to urge supervisors to deny the permit and accept Simitian's 99-year easement.
The hearing chamber overflowed. When the 250-plus chairs were filled, a ring of spectators three deep formed a haphazard half-moon in the back of the room, and a few more opted for seats in an adjacent area to watch the proceedings via a live tv feed.
For almost six hours, speakers for and against Stanford's development plan trudged to the microphone to offer two-minute arguments. There was eloquence and conviction on both sides. A "grateful" former cancer patient at Stanford Medical Center said his strong connection to the University did not preclude his opposition to its continued growth. Graduate Student Council Chair Paul Hartke, MS '99, who had vowed months earlier not to shave until the GUP was passed--and who had the beard to prove it--decried Simitian's last-minute changes, saying they threatened to derail Stanford's plan.
The hearing finally ended at 12:45 a.m., when Isaac Stein, MBA '72, JD '72, chair of the Stanford Board of Trustees, strode to the speakers' table. "We are not a company that can threaten to move; Stanford isn't going anywhere," Stein said. "We aren't asking for special favors; we only ask for the right to have future leaders decide what's best."
October 30 had turned to October 31. It was Halloween, and for University officials who already faced a frightening scenario, the pursuit of the GUP had become a full-blown nightmare.
What is the General Use Permit, and why all the fuss? Essentially, it's a permission slip from Santa Clara County for Stanford to continue developing its property in unincorporated areas. (The county has jurisdiction over 4,017 acres of unincorporated University land, including the core campus and the Foothills. The remainder lies in San Mateo County, to the north.) Stanford sought a GUP thumbs-up for 10 years' worth of construction--a total of 2 million square feet in academic buildings as well as housing units for 2,000 single students, apartments for 350 medical residents and postgraduate fellows, and as many as 687 new homes for faculty and staff. The academic development included Phase II of the biomedical engineering (BioX) complex, expansions of other science buildings, a performing arts center, library support additions, football stadium renovations and a new basketball arena. The county estimated that, with the housing included, Stanford's development would total 4.8 million square feet. But the buildings themselves were not the source of the controversy. Instead, debate centered on the Foothills, which county officials and environmentalists wanted preserved beyond the life of the GUP as a trade-off for Stanford's construction.
When Stanford last went through the GUP process, in 1989, it requested two million square feet of new construction. Stanford was granted the permit with a minimum of public outcry. The terms of that permit required the University to submit a new GUP application when it reached 75 percent of its allotted growth. Stanford hit that ceiling in 1998 and subsequently began the process of resubmission. This time, however, the environment into which it introduced its growth plan was decidedly different, as was the inclination of the county's land stewards. In particular, Fifth District Supervisor Joe Simitian.
Because Stanford was in his district and because of his urban planning background--Simitian has a law degree and a master's in city planning from UC-Berkeley--he took the lead in the public and professional review of Stanford's plans. (He was elected in November to the California Assembly.)
From the outset, Simitian was determined to apply a firm regulatory hand to Stanford. "Historically, the county has pursued a policy of benign neglect with respect to the University's land use," he said during an interview in his Palo Alto office last summer. "I think it's fair to say that's changed."
Not just the process had been altered; the attitude had changed as well. "The University is an extraordinary community asset," Simitian said, "but at the end of the day, they're a land-use applicant coming before the county."
Supervisors, rather than okaying Stanford's request for a modified GUP, asked for a more detailed Community Plan that spelled out where and how Stanford would develop all of its 8,180 acres--something it had never been required to do. In addition, an Environmental Impact Report was conducted to determine how the new construction would affect traffic, congestion, noise and other quality-of-life issues important to the University's neighbors. Ultimately, Stanford's development--in particular, the two million square feet in new academic buildings--was judged by its effect on the surrounding community. "It's not two million square feet per se," said Simitian. "It's the impact of two million square feet."
The GUP itinerary eventually would include 40 public meetings and hearings. According to Stanford director of government and community relations Larry Horton, '62, MA '66, the scope and intensity of the process was "unprecedented in Santa Clara County."
Early on, there were clear indications that the public was clamoring for action on open-space issues. In March of 1999, six months before the University's initial proposal had been submitted, the San Jose Mercury News already was pushing for long-term protection of Stanford's Foothills. "The county should use its leverage to encourage the university to preserve open space, and to include planning for its land outside the county," the newspaper said in an editorial.
In some ways, what Stanford experienced during the GUP process was typical of town-gown faceoffs that occur nationwide. Harvard, for example, must negotiate a minefield of public opinion, regulatory oversight and neighborhood activism to expand its campus even modestly. And one could argue that Stanford is only now being asked to compromise its autonomy in the same way that many other universities have done for a long time. But this case is distinguished by Stanford's role in the making of the confrontation. The conflict sprang directly from the University's remarkable performance as a boomtown generator.
For decades, Stanford has been a cauldron of innovation, producing graduates whose technical wizardry and entrepreneurial mojo defined Silicon Valley. Since the mid-'80s, especially, the University has incubated a passel of Valley successes, remaking the sedate Peninsula into an economic juggernaut. But the prosperity has become a two-edged sword for area residents, and for Stanford.
What once was a verdant farming region covered with orchards has morphed into an urbanized, gridlocked monster. Stoked by dot-com riches and the Valley's millionaire-a-minute reputation, local developers have devoured the orchards and everything around them. Property values have soared, driving housing prices so high that only the very wealthy can afford even a modest place to live. The median price of a Palo Alto home last fall was a jaw-dropping $800,000.
Relocating to the Farm from other areas of the country is an ordeal for tenured scholars, let alone junior professors and graduate students whose incomes would not even buy a room in a sturdy garage. That's assuming there was a room in a sturdy garage. The rental vacancy rate last fall was 0.6 percent. (See related story, page 66.)
Were it not for off-the-chart local housing costs, says Hennessy, much of the building Stanford asked for wouldn't be necessary. "We have to deal with this housing situation head-on," he said in an interview. "We've already lost faculty recruits who recognized they would never be able to afford to live here."
The University's difficulty in attracting top faculty is "on the edge of being catastrophic," according to senior associate dean of engineering Jeffrey Koseff, MS '78, PhD '83. "We are barely containing the problem right now, and the only way we are able to do that is by putting huge investments of Stanford capital into housing packages," says Koseff, a professor of civil and environmental engineering.
Stanford in November announced a new program that bolstered what already was the most generous housing benefit in the country for faculty. Deferred, fixed-interest loans with low monthly payments will make it possible for a faculty member earning $63,000 to purchase a home worth $724,000. It will cost Stanford about $85 million over the next five years.
"The amount of money that we have to invest to make living here affordable for faculty is not sustainable," says Koseff. "The only way we can address this is if we increase the pool [of available homes]."
The housing situation for graduate students is even more dire. "There, we are truly in a crisis," says Hennessy. "Graduate students don't expect to live like kings, but they don't expect to be homeless, or to not be able to eat."
Because of these problems, say both faculty and administrators, the GUP constituted far more than just the University's building blueprint for the coming decade. It was a critical element in Stanford's bid to remain one of the country's premier institutions. "If we do not address this problem now, the slow deterioration of the academic renewal process is going to set in and we will be a weaker university. Once it starts, it's hard to stop," says Koseff. With the GUP authorization in hand, Stanford will proceed immediately to augment graduate student housing with new units in Escondido Village, administrators say.
If housing is at the core of Stanford's dilemma, rapacious development in the mid-Peninsula also is a contributor. As office parks and commercial buildings have proliferated, open space has disappeared in vast chunks. Untrammeled natural areas now are considered so precious that any attempt to build on them draws swift opposition.
Andy Coe, community relations director, says the degradation of Bay Area quality of life was a powerful informant during the GUP process. "Our proposal was injected into the public arena at just the time people were becoming very concerned about development--any development. And even though our proposal makes positive contributions to housing and traffic and other issues, people still see it as development and are concerned," he says.
Open space is one of the most striking features of the Stanford campus. With its eucalyptus groves and oak meadows, the place can still be called the Farm without irony. For those seeking respite from traffic jams and noisy sprawl, the campus's open lands provide easily accessible relief.
But Stanford officials hasten to point out that the University does not exist to provide the urban-weary public a sanctuary in perpetuity. "While we're glad our neighbors can enjoy this," Horton says, "we're not running a public park."
Seated at a conference table in his Waverly Associates law offices on University Avenue, Stanford board chair Isaac Stein produces an aerial map of Palo Alto and environs. "Look at this," he says, pointing to a red line that outlines the irregular perimeter of Stanford's campus. "Our neighbors have built literally right up to our borders. The only open areas on this map are on our campus."
Surrounding the red line in all directions are thousands of tiny white patches seemingly sewn together with the finest thread. Those, of course, are buildings. Even in density-allergic Portola Valley, whose white patches aren't quite as quiltlike as those in Palo Alto and Menlo Park, the map starkly reveals a triangular wedge of green that juts into the city from the east. "That is Stanford land," Stein says.
His point is clear. Having marshaled its own land intelligently over the past several decades, Stein argues, Stanford now is being asked to provide open space to communities that squandered theirs. "We understand clustered development. It was intuitively the way the University organized land use for over 100 years," Stein says. "We probably haven't said that enough, that we value open space as open space."
That's not how local elected officials see it. "Stanford has never had any parameters," says former Palo Alto Mayor Liz Kniss, who was elected in November to succeed Simitian on the Board of Supervisors. "It is such a special place, and we are so lucky to have it here in our backyard, but there are limits to what it can do."
Simitian points out that Stanford doubled in size between 1960 and 1985, from four million to more than eight million square feet. If the 10 years covered by the GUP application were included, he says, the University would double in size again between 1985 and 2010. "This level of exponential growth, that is to say a doubling in size every 25 years, cannot continue in perpetuity--or even, I think most of us would agree, for the next 25 or 50 years," Simitian said in his October statement regarding Stanford's plan.
But those numbers ignore the fact that more than half of the construction slated over the next 10 years is housing for faculty, staff and graduate students, says Stein. He notes that when opponents talk about Stanford's "massive expansion," they regularly include the housing, despite widespread agreement that it is desperately needed. "Everybody wants us to build more housing, but that doesn't stop them from using it against us when they're making their arguments," he says.
Simitian says that Stanford's continued expansion isn't a given, but "it's difficult to know or plan for whatever the University has in mind, because the University has never been obliged to determine and describe its vision of ultimate buildout."
University administrators say such a plan would be useful if Stanford were a typical developer, but it isn't. "We aren't coming in to build a mall and then going away," Stein says. "We have to constantly adapt and change. We can try to make some guesses, but the further out we go the cloudier our crystal ball gets."
And the idea that the University could relinquish control of 1,000 acres of its land for the next century was, according to Hennessy, "simply untenable."
"The president and the Board of Trustees have an obligation not to create for their successors some burden which will make it impossible for them to do their jobs," he adds. "We can't know what the needs of the University will be 99 years from now. And a burden for me is the notion of breaking the trust that Leland and Jane Stanford gave when they provided their land for the good of the University's academic mission."
To Hennessy and Stein, the stewardship of the founding grant is inviolate. "Our lives would be much easier if we just released the Foothills and were done with it," Stein says. "The most frustrating part of this is that we have not asked to build in the Foothills."
Stein believes that lost in the debate over Foothills preservation was the fact that the University can never build there without county approval. "We have no intention of building in the Foothills. But we aren't going to give up the right to ask."
The fiduciary obligation and managerial prudence of University leaders, placed in opposition to the public's profound hunger for open-space preservation, presented a fundamental tension that could not have been overcome easily or without some anxiety. Simitian recognized this, as did Hennessy. "I worry," Simitian said in his public statement on October 24, "that many of the legitimate competing interests who have raised their voices during the course of this conversation seem less and less inclined to acknowledge that, however eminent and worthy their interests may be, none is entitled to consider itself preeminent, at least not in the context of larger community concerns."
"What's tough is making hard choices," Hennessy says. "Elected officials are under a lot of pressure, as are we, knowing that some of our decisions will elicit strong negative reactions. There are no 'free' decisions."
Although it had never developed a plan with as much detail as the county was seeking, says Horton, Stanford did its best to comply and to accommodate the concerns of its neighbors. Beginning in July 1999, the University presented programs at four community forums that Simitian had requested, including presentations by then-provost Hennessy and former president Donald Kennedy, an environmental scientist, who spoke about open-space and habitat preservation.
Also appearing at those meetings was Peter Drekmeier, the son of two former Stanford professors, who would later mobilize the Stanford Open Space Alliance (SOSA) and become an influential force in the GUP process.
In September 1999, Stanford submitted a draft proposal for comment. It was not well received. Supervisors asked for more specificity that incorporated concerns from public hearings and county planners. The University went back to work and two months later submitted a final draft, a document that had mushroomed from 25 pages to more than 100. Included in the plan was the establishment of an Academic Growth Boundary designed to cluster long-term development in the "core campus" between El Camino Real and Junipero Serra Boulevard. (That boundary could be moved, but only if four out of five county supervisors agreed to the change.) The proposal also expressly protected the Foothills from development for the life of the 10-year plan and created seven land-use designations governing various areas of the Farm. But it didn't go far enough, said critics of the plan, who wanted stronger language describing Foothills protection.
By this time, SOSA and the Committee for Green Foothills had begun an intensive campaign for permanent protection of Stanford land southwest of Junipero Serra, SOSA's "Save the Foothills" campaign, which eventually attracted 15,000 signatories during its petition drive, argued that the Foothills are a community resource and should be preserved as such. "As urban sprawl covers the fertile soils of Santa Clara County, our remaining open spaces have become increasingly more valuable as wildlife habitat and places to escape the hustle and bustle of Silicon Valley," read the sosa petition. The University responded that the Foothills already were preserved and had been for more than 100 years. "Two-thirds of our land, after a century of dynamic operation, is essentially open," Horton told an interviewer last summer. "We've been excellent stewards."
Over the next several months, as the University continued to modify the plan to come closer to county planners' expectations, the rhetoric and activism of its opponents intensified. Included in the chorus was a letter to the Board of Trustees last April from 200 mostly local alumni. "We write as alumni with deep love for the University, but great concern regarding its current direction," the letter said. "Accordingly, it is time to think seriously about how big the University really needs to become." Among the pledges the alumni wanted the trustees to make: permanent protection of the Foothills.
Andy Coe of Stanford's community relations office said the calls for open space were difficult to counter because most people, including most people who work at Stanford, support the principle of preservation. "Open-space preservation, that's Mom and apple pie," says Coe. "We've done several public opinion surveys over the past several years, and when you ask an open-ended question, 'How long should Stanford's open space be preserved?' a lot of people, 50 percent at least, are going to say 'forever.' I mean, why not? If you give me the choice, sure, I would just as soon have them open forever. And the University would, too."
SOSA focused originally on Stanford's proposal to change the land-use designation of the so-called Lathrop District to allow future development there. A 154-acre plot on the Foothills side of Junipero Serra, Lathrop currently houses some artists' studios and think tanks as well as several holes of Stanford Golf Course. Drekmeier considered the University's Lathrop proposal an encroachment into the Foothills--"the camel's nose in the tent," as he put it. "Utter nonsense," responded Horton, noting that 85 percent of the Lathrop area already was developed. The county rejected the overall proposal but did allow for 20,000 square feet of future development in areas already disturbed, excluding the golf course.
The golf course itself became the subject of controversy. In late summer, declaring that there were no suitable locations left for a new neighborhood of faculty homes, Stanford planners considered siting it on a parcel that included the first fairway of the course. That idea added irate golfers to the list of GUP opponents, but University officials scrapped the plan when the city of Palo Alto agreed to allow housing on an alternate site near Searsville Road. (See "Off-Course Housing Site Solves Hole Problem," November/December.)
By the time Hennessy was inaugurated as president on October 20, several hurdles toward the GUP authorization had been cleared. Stanford had expanded its timeframe for Foothills protection to 25 years and had mitigated all of the environmental concerns identified by county planners. That should have been enough, says Horton. "We compromised in a lot of areas that, frankly, are going to cause us great difficulty," he says. For example, he says, Stanford agreed to a provision requiring "no new net commute trips." What that means, essentially, is that every new employee or student at the University who drives to work must be offset by another employee or student who does not. "We are the only landowner in Santa Clara County and perhaps the only landowner in the state of California who has agreed to such a strict standard," Horton says.
Additional community benefits offered by Stanford were a $10 million contribution to the Palo Alto Unified School District and an agreement, contingent on passage of the GUP, to lease to the city six acres of land at the corner of Page Mill Road and El Camino for $1 a year, for a new Jewish Community Center.
The Mercury News and San Francisco Chronicle both supported the compromise plan and urged supervisors to accept it. As October wound down, administrators crossed their fingers that the GUP authorization was imminent. Then, at a town hall meeting on October 24--seven days before supervisors planned to vote on the GUP application--Simitian dropped his bombshell. He would okay the GUP permit provided the University would commit 1,000 acres of its Foothills as open space for 99 years.
All hell broke loose. Outraged Stanford officials said the University would pull the plug on GUP rather than agree to Simitian's 99-year easement. Hennessy declared that the proposal was "unwarranted" and "unlawful." In any case, he said, "the Stanford University trustees, under the terms of their duties, cannot surrender the rights to 1,000 acres of Stanford property for the next century."
Then came the highly charged public hearing on October 30. Inside the supervisors' chamber, the contrasts were striking. Seated in the second row, a few steps from the dais, sat Hennessy and Stein. Directly in front of them was Drekmeier, flanked by an ally displaying a sign that read, "Don't Pave My Pond," a reference to the habitat of the California tiger salamander. (See related story, page 68.)
Simitian opened the hearing with an impassioned defense of his proposal and his motives, encouraging both sides to keep their discussion "on the merits." When he finished, supporters of his 99-year plan applauded loudly.
A few moments later, Hennessy approached the microphone to present the University's position. A brief give-and-take between him and Simitian followed. Most of it was cordial, but there was one brisk exchange. Simitian, noting that Stanford had extended 99-year leases to tenants in its industrial park on Page Mill Road, wondered why revenue-generating agreements "didn't inhibit flexibility" but open-space agreements did. At that, Hennessy stiffened. "We are a nonprofit institution. We aren't putting money in people's pockets," he said. "Every dime we get goes directly to help students receive a Stanford education." Again the chamber erupted with loud applause, this time from hundreds of Stanford supporters.
Supervisors had expected to vote on the matter October 31 but delayed their decision until November 27 to allow for more negotiation and to absorb the huge volume of public comment coming from both sides. Stanford and its opponents both used the four-week extension to woo public support. SOSA seized upon a 1987 study titled "Foothills Region Plan" that it said suggested Stanford was preparing to build "long cul-de-sacs and structures" in the Dish area. "Stanford asks us to trust them not to develop the Foothills, yet their internal documents prove their intentions are just the opposite," Drekmeier said in sosa's press release. It was another example, said Horton, of sosa's campaign of "distortions and misinformation." The study was never intended to be a prelude to building in the Foothills, Horton said, and was discarded long ago. One week later, on November 16, the Committee for Green Foothills published an ad in the Palo Alto Daily News depicting a Stanford-of-the-future with skyscrapers towering above Memorial Church from the Foothills beyond. Stanford prepared a counter ad but decided not to run it, because, according to Horton, "Why get into this tit-for-tat with them?"
As it turned out, Palo Alto residents responded on behalf of Stanford. A group called Approve the GUP bought their own full-page ad featuring a list of more than 750 supporters, imploring Simitian to okay the compromise plan.
When the supervisors' decision finally came, it was almost anticlimactic. Stanford got its GUP, albeit with some provisions thrown in by Simitian to harden the county's position that the Foothills not be touched. The Foothills were rezoned as "hillside," a designation that effectively puts 90 percent of that land off limits for 25 years, and the University must produce a sustainable development plan spelling out how future growth will be sited to prevent sprawl.
Surrounded by a phalanx of reporters outside the supervisors' chamber after the vote, Drekmeier called the final plan "a step in the right direction. It used to be that Stanford got everything they wanted, and now they only get most of what they want," he said.
Hennessy expressed relief about the outcome but stopped short of calling it a victory. "It's not what we would have come up with, but it's a compromise we can live with," he said. "It means we can remain a strong university."
Simitian, whose vote on the GUP was one of his final acts as a supervisor before leaving for his new duties in Sacramento, said he was satisfied that the months of wrangling produced a good result. "We've gotten to a very good place," he said. "The University can build its housing, and in the longer term, we don't have to worry about willy-nilly sprawl across the Foothills."
Throughout the long GUP debate, a great deal of ambivalence was evident among Stanford faculty, alumni and staff. For some, generally positive feelings about Stanford were overshadowed by their strong disapproval of the University's position on land use. Others, despite professed support for the goals of preservation, bristled at depictions of Stanford as a gluttonous, villainous landowner. As the tenor of the debate reached a high pitch, people took sides.
"Like a lot of people who work here, I'm torn," says Steve Monismith, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and a member of a community resource group involved in the GUP process. "On the surface, open-space preservation is a good thing; I don't see how anybody can argue that it isn't. If you drove down Palm Drive and looked over MemChu and didn't see those Foothills, I think the way you feel about Stanford at that moment would be fundamentally different. But [Hennessy's] point that we can't know what our needs will be in 50 or 100 years is the overriding one for me."
Many alumni expressed the view that the Foothills are sacrosanct and should be preserved regardless of what issues might compel the University to build there. Steve Pappas, '81, is a lawyer who has lived in Palo Alto for 30 years. "Stanford is called the Farm, but I feel like they're destroying that legacy. I love Stanford and all it stands for--I just want to make sure that the administration doesn't change the essential character," he says.
Similarly, Richard Harris, '68, is concerned that the University has "lost its bearings" with respect to land use. A San Francisco attorney and a former captain of the Stanford golf team, Harris wears a ring on his right hand embossed with a large "S." "I love the University, and I don't believe I should be considered disloyal for speaking up when I think it's taking a direction I disagree with," he says. While Harris concedes he would be included among those who have a special interest at stake--the future of the golf course--he's unsettled by recent decisions regarding land use. "When they go after a shrine, which I believe the golf course is, I'm worried about what might be next."
Megan McCaslin, '78, last January signed on to help the University's government and community relations office help spread the word about Stanford's land-use plan. "I went to work there with some trepidation," she admits. "I'm an open-space person; I like to walk the Dish with my dog. I was concerned about whether I could support something that might lead to the development of open space in the future."
But after hearing Stanford's position in detail, she says, she was convinced that its plans for construction over the next 10 years were based on legitimate needs. Six months of relentless criticism from fellow residents in Palo Alto left McCaslin weary, frustrated and firmly in Stanford's corner. Everywhere she went, she says, people familiar with her connection to Stanford accosted her about what they viewed as the University's subversive attempt to sully the Foothills. "I'd be in a perfectly benign situation and someone would just go off on me about how horrible Stanford is," she says. "It was like they were attacking General Motors or some deep-pocketed company--whatever Stanford does, they automatically oppose it."
Particularly galling, says Monismith, were complaints from people whose primary objections to Stanford's land-use plan were new rules that restricted access in the Dish area. (See related story, page 64.) "I consider myself a strong open-space defender, but I differentiate between true environmentalists and the 'walk-their-dog people,' " he says, referring to residents angered by the banning of dogs from the Dish. "When we moved to a house in Palo Alto, my wife and I were wondering when we'd get our entitlement card [saying we could hike in the Foothills]."
And he is troubled by the public's willingness to ascribe sinister motives to Stanford's development. "I mean, what do they think we're doing up here? The engine that drives that growth is the innovation of the faculty. It's not as if John Hennessy sits down in his office and imagines two million square feet of space that the University will need. Those needs bubble up from the bottom, based on expansions of curricular areas and research projects. We try to hire innovators, and innovators tend to push the envelope."
Former mayor Liz Kniss says people are suspicious because "they see two Stanfords. There is Stanford the academic institution and Stanford the developer. It's the developer side they have a problem with."
Stein says that sentiment underscores why Stanford must improve its outreach. "I think one of our fundamental issues is that we have done a poor job through the years of communicating with our local community about how we impact them. Universities generally are very inward-looking, so we tend to view all of these issues as to how they affect us. And sometimes the way in which we do that creates its own set of issues," Stein says.
Repairing its image among its neighbors is only one challenge facing the University. Stanford also must learn how to live with new constraints.
To a casual observer, Stanford's declarations of alarm over shrinking space seem questionable. How can the University possibly need more land? It's 8,000-plus acres stretch from El Camino Real to the coastal side of Interstate-280, passing through two counties and four municipalities along the way. Princeton, by comparison, has 2,000 acres. UT-Austin, which has the largest student population in the country, has a total square footage of about 15 million, compared with Stanford's roughly 12 million. University officials say the comparisons with those schools, or any other school for that matter, don't work. Stanford may have more land, they say, but most of it is unavailable for development. Much of it has been reserved for "low-intensity" use such as field study conducted in the Foothills.
Even if the University were inclined to use some of that land--roughly 5,000 acres remain open--such an attempt would be met with vigorous opposition. On campus as well as off. "As much as I believe that we must remain flexible and continue to change to meet our needs," says Jeff Koseff, "I would strongly oppose any plan to build in the Foothills. I would have to be convinced in a number of ways before I would see that as being a good option."
Again, says Stein, the issue comes back to housing. Stanford houses a higher percentage of its faculty and staff (approximately 30 percent) than any comparable school. "The bulk of our growth is in housing. That is the core of this dilemma," says Stein. "If the housing market continues to worsen, we may have to house 100 percent of our employees."
And even on the core campus there are open-space needs, says Horton. "We do not want to build in the Arboretum," he says. "The outcry we would get if we tried to build there would make the golf course controversy look minor."
On top of its inherent constraints, Stanford must accommodate greater public scrutiny and regulation. The days when governing bodies would cede to Stanford the presumption that what was good for the University was also good for the community are probably gone forever.
These issues place in sharp relief the key question for Stanford going forward. How will it use the land it has left in the core campus to avoid a scenario in which building in the Foothills might be a temptation?
Any number of ways, says Stein. Among the possibilities: replacing old buildings with new ones, increasing the density in its student housing areas, and perhaps moving some University functions or storage facilities off campus. There are undesirable trade-offs in all cases, says Stein, but he acknowledges that eventually Stanford's total footprint must stop growing. The University must bring the same spirit of innovation and imagination to solving its land-use problems that it brings to the academic sphere, he says. "We are discussing these issues internally right now, and we will need to discuss them publicly, too, to help people understand our challenges and work with us to solve them.
"We absolutely have to be more thoughtful about long-term growth," he says. "If the goal of our opponents was to send us that message--and it is a legitimate message--it has been received."
Reporting by Chaney Rankin, '00, and Jennie Berry, '01, contributed to this article.
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Q: In r, how can I iterate through subsets to find the max of a column in each subset and the date and build new object I'm not a programmer so please forgive me if my vocabulary isn't exact.  I want to build an object consisting of a column yearly minimum prices for the SP500 (GSPC), another column containing the dates those prices were observed and then two more columns of the max and their dates.  I can get the GSPC^ table of data and subset by year using tidyquant. And i can get the minimum and maximum dates using foreach and lapply but I am having trouble getting the dates out of the index of the data.  I can get the row number but I can't seem to get the dates.
I'm using  and  to pull and subset the data. I am using  and  and  to iterate through the subsets and get me the minimum and maximum (as well as the closing price twice) of each year.
I start with this...
getSymbols("^GSPC",from="1970-01-01", to = "2019-08-09")
GSPC_yearly <- split(GSPC,f="years")

Then iterate over the years to get a list of the minimum and maximum for each year.  My primary goal is to also retrieve the dates that the minimum and maximums occurred and create accompanying columns to store their respective dates.
yrminmaxtable <- foreach(i = 1:length(GSPC_yearly), .combine=rbind) %do%     {
  spyannmin<-as.numeric(lapply(GSPC_yearly[[i]]$GSPC.Low,min))
  spamindt<-(lapply(GSPC_yearly[[i]]$GSPC.Low,which.min))
  spyannmax<-as.numeric(lapply(GSPC_yearly[[i]]$GSPC.High,max))
  spamaxdt<-(lapply(GSPC_yearly[[i]]$GSPC.High,which.max))
  result.data<-c(spamindt,spyannmin,spamaxdt,spyannmax)
}

colnames(yrminmaxtable) <-c("DATE1", "SPANNMIN", "DATE2", "SPANNMAX")

The resulting table just has "result.1, result.2, result.3, etc..." as the row names.  The DATE1 and DATE2 columns have what appear to be row numbers as their values. I would like to get the dates when those minimums and maximums occurred, either during the process of extracting the minimum and maximum values or by going back through the GSPC subset data using the values to identify the row that contains them and extract the corresponding date from the index.
        DATE1 SPANNMIN DATE2 SPANNMAX
result.1 101   68.61    2     94.25
result.2 227   89.34    81    105.6
result.3 2     100.87   240   119.79
result.4 242   91.05    8     121.74
result.5 193   60.96    51    101.05

The rows here correspond to the years 1970-1974 but the Date columns are giving me row numbers from the respective subsets.
Then I tried this... which I borrowed from somewhere
```
    x <- list()
for(i in 1:length(GSPC_yearly)) {
    Ps <- index(GSPC_yearly[[i]][yrminmaxtable[i,1]])
    x[[paste0(i)]] <- Ps
}
```

And ended up with this
$`1`
[1] "1970-05-26"

$`2`
[1] "1971-11-23"

$`3`
[1] "1972-01-04"

$`4`
[1] "1973-12-14"

$`5`
[1] "1974-10-04"

Which is the data I want but not the format.
This ...
```
min(index(GSPC_yearly[[1]]))
min(index(GSPC_yearly[[2]]))
```

...works when I run each line independently.  I get
[1] "1970-01-02"
[1] "1971-01-04"

but if I try it with an iteration technique and build a list, it reverts back to row numbers.

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Q: How to handle null value in byte[] I have binary images in the Image column of my database table, but there are some null values in the Image column. So an exception is thrown at,

byte[] data = (byte[])ds.Tables[0].Rows[0][0]` because of null.

How to handle this?
Exception message,

Unable to cast object of type 'System.DBNull' to type 'System.Byte[]'.

My code,
using (var sqlConn = new SqlConnection(connstr))
{
    sqlConn.Open();
    ds = new DataSet();

    SqlDataAdapter sqa = new SqlDataAdapter("Select Image from Templates where Shoe='" + selectedShoe + "'", sqlConn);

    sqa.Fill(ds);

    //i got error here
    byte[] data = (byte[])ds.Tables[0].Rows[0][0];

    .....

A: You need to specifically check for DBNull in that column before attempting the cast:
byte[] data = null;
if (!ds.Tables[0].Rows[0].IsNull(0))
    data = (byte[])ds.Tables[0].Rows[0][0];

Note that this will fail with the same type of exception if the column in question does in fact not contain a byte array.

A: Handling nulls at the SQL query worked for me. If your Image column is null, the ISNULL() function will return your next value (0 in this example).
SqlDataAdapter sqa = new SqlDataAdapter("SELECT ISNULL([Image],0) AS Image FROM Templates where Shoe='" + selectedShoe + "'", sqlConn);


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Already a major technology trend, 2012 promises to be a watershed for "big data." A shorthand term for the proliferation of large datasets, big data also refers to the expansion of analytic techniques for teasing meaning from the vast archives of information produced by the digital world. The New York Times' Steve Lohr declared we have entered the "age of big data" in a recent article that compared it with another revolutionary research tool -- the microscope.
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As I observed last year, big data is beginning to filter into the urban planning world. Here are a few examples of the intersection of cities and big data (two from this PlaceMatters blog post):
a visualization of people's paths through the city created by researcher Eric Fischer using geotagged tweets;
explorations of social ties and commuting patterns gleaned from AT&T's telephone network data by researchers at MIT's Senseable City Lab;
research on New York City's taxicab system using GPS data collected by meters by Columbia's David King;
analyses of the color and location of Flickr photographs;
finally, the collection and analysis of data lies at the core of "smarter cities" initiatives by IBM, Cisco, and Siemens.
What do all these exciting examples of big data have in common? If you have modest technical skills and work for a local government or community-based organization, you probably do not have access to the data and skills necessary to replicate the projects.
Inequalities of data access are not new in planning. Sixteen years ago David Sawicki and William Craig argued in a Journal of the American Planning Association article titled "The Democratization of Data" that the most important ingredients to expanded access to the first generation of data wasn't advances of computing power or analysis skills, but the rise of data intermediaries that worked with community groups in low-income communities to ensure they had access to quality data and skills. Whether nonprofits, local governments, or university-led projects, these intermediaries helped equalize access to data in the public sphere.
However, as the size of datasets has increased, so have the skills necessary to manage and analyze the data. No longer is mastery of a few desktop applications sufficient for analysis, since wrangling today's large datasets requires database servers and analysts skilled at statistical and algorithmic data mining techniques. Although government datasets may have been the original big data, many of the new datasets are provided by corporations, introducing a morass of ethical and practical challenges. Frequently collected at the individual level, negotiating access requires navigating privacy and security concerns. Even when companies provide public access, extracting and using their data requires programming skills to tap application programming interfaces (APIs) or manipulate unusual data formats.
Finally, lurking beneath the big data hype are problematic unstated assumptions about the nature of truth. In the 1980s, the so-called quantitative-qualitative debate raged across several social science fields among scholars arguing the merits of various research methods. Some researchers stressed the need to collect empirical evidence and rely solely on quantitative analysis for research. Others argued social science required qualitative analysis such as interviews and observation to understand society. Although the debate is different today, important differences of opinion remain.
We should be cautious about claims that big data will necessarily answer important or relevant research or policy questions. Are cell phone traces sufficient to intuit travel behavior, or are surveys or interviews required to understand how people make choices? Can postings to social networking websites provide as much insight as a windshield survey, or an in-depth interview of community residents? The big data hype also runs counter to important developments in social science that stress the role of experiments and counterfactual reasoning, instead of relying on ever-more-complicated statistical models to explain the world.
What are some practical steps that big data could take to expand access by community-based organizations? A start might be to provide data in formats and sizes (perhaps through summary versions) that they can be analyzed in common software packages, such as ArcMap, Excel, and Google Earth. Data providers should provide documentation about the source, variables, and assumptions used to collect and process the data. Existing data intermediaries should explore the new datasets, and strategically expand their expertise where it seems appropriate. Although the proliferation of broadband and Internet-connected smartphones has reduced the prominence of the "digital divide," we must take steps now to reduce the emergence of a new "data divide" between sophisticated analysts and communities seeking to plan for their futures.
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Robert Goodspeed is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. He holds a PhD from the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning and previously worked for the Boston Metropolitan Area Planning Council.
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Q: "msg":"[doc=null] missing required field: id","code":400} when Iam posting json object to apache solr 6 while indexing through java code Iam getting error as below:
the error message is as below:

"{"metadata":["error-class","org.apache.solr.common.SolrException","root-error-class","org.apache.solr.common.SolrException"],"msg":"[doc=null]
  missing required field: id","code":400}}"

and my json object is as below:
"_childDocuments_" :[
    {
      "entityname": "ReportDuplicate"
    }
  ],
"_childDocuments_" :[
    {
      "entityname": "LinkedReport"
    }
  ],

"_childDocuments_" :[
    {
      "entityname": "Source"
    }
  ],
"_childDocuments_" :[
    {
      "entityname": "Literature",
"_childDocuments_" :[
        {
          "entityname": "Authors"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
"_childDocuments_" :[

    {
      "entityname": "AdditionalInformation"
    }
  ],

And my java code to post the json object is as below:
org.apache.http.client.HttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();

                HttpPost post = new HttpPost("http://localhost:8983/solr/icsr/update/json?wt=json&commit=true");
                StringEntity entity  = new StringEntity("{\"add\": { \"doc\":"+value+" }}", "UTF-8");

                entity.setContentType("application/json");
                post.setEntity(entity);
                HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
                HttpEntity httpEntity = response.getEntity();
                InputStream in = httpEntity.getContent();

                String encoding = httpEntity.getContentEncoding() == null ? "UTF-8" : httpEntity.getContentEncoding().getName();
                encoding = encoding == null ? "UTF-8" : encoding;
                String responseText = IOUtils.toString(in, encoding);
                System.out.println("response Text is " + responseText);

Im using solr 6 server to index the data from java code :
As im geeting bad HTTP request while debugging and Im new to solr,
And no changes are done in managed-schema.xml file :
thansk in advance

A: Check your schema.xml file . There must be a declaration like
<field name="id" type="string" multiValued="false" required="true" stored="true"/>

You have may be set required=true , while indexing a document either provide its id also, or just make required=false , it will 100% work !! Let me know if it helps you.

A: Solr always accept date in format 2016-06-20T14:54:27.734Z (it is an example) .
Send date only in this kind of format YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ , where

YYYY is the year.
  MM is the month.
  DD is the day of the month.
  hh is the hour of the day as on a 24-hour clock.
  mm is minutes.
  ss is seconds.
  Z is a literal 'Z' character indicating that this string representation of the date is in UTC

Send date in this format . This will 100% work !! Let me know if this helped you .


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