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Government Finance Officers Association Awards Mayor Gerald Williams and The Town of White Castle Certificate for Excellence in Financial Reporting
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Baton Rouge, LA, October 18, 2017 –(PR.com)– The Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting has been awarded to Town of White Castle by Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) for its comprehensive annual financial report (CAFR). The Certificate of Achievement is the highest form of recognition in the area of governmental accounting and financial reporting, and its attainment represents a significant accomplishment by a government and its management.
An Award of Financial Reporting Achievement has been awarded to the individual(s) or department designated by the government as primarily responsible for preparing the award-winning CAFR.
The CAFR has been judged by an impartial panel to meet the high standards of the program, which includes demonstrating a constructive "spirit of full disclosure" to clearly communicate its financial story and motivate potential users and user groups to read the CAFR.
Government Finance Officers Association is a major professional association servicing the needs of nearly 19,000 appointed and elected local, state, and provincial-level government officials and other finance practitioners. It provides top quality publications, training programs, services, and products designed to enhance the skills and performance of those responsible for government finance policy and management. The association is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with offices in Washington, DC.
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ENM1220
WOMEN'S WRITING IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES
To Be Arranged
Intended for use in future years
Professor Diane Watt
Delivery length / details
Seminars / Tutorials 5 x 2-hour seminars
Semester Assessment 1 x 5,000 word essay Essay:
Supplementary Assessment Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. Where this involves re-submission of work, a new topic must be selected.
Recent scholarship has recovered a great deal of previously neglected medieval women's writing. Spiritual texts (often of an autobiographical nature) make up perhaps three quarters of this material, but some early secular works also exist. The aim of this module is not only to introduce a selection of early women's literature, but also to examine the often problematic circumstances of its production. The whole spectrum of writing will be considered, from personal meditations and prayers to biographies and romances. Topics covered will include: representations of women; the anti-feminist tradition and defences of women; women's exclusion from history and from the literary canon; definitions of 'women's writing'; women's style; representations and self-representations of women; the anti-feminist tradition and defences of women; women and religion; feminine piety; and women in medieval society.
_SEMINAR PROGRAMME
_1. Women's Literary History: the Medieval Phase
Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, the Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (Introduction to the section on the Middle Ages and Renaissance)
Virginia Woolf, "A Room of One's Own"
Janet Todd, "Feminist Literary History" (Chapter 1)
Alexandra Barratt, "Women's Writing in Middle English" (Introduction).
_2. A Cell of One's Own
"The Life of Christina of Markyate"
The St Albans Psalter
_3. Women Writing Fiction
Marie de France's "Lais", "Fables" and "St Alban's Psalter"
_4. Who's Afraid of Margery Kempe?
Julian of Norwich: "A Revelation of Love"
"The Book of Margery Kempe"
"A Revelation of Purgatory"
_5. Do Letters Have Authors?
The Paston letters
Should Be Purchased
Alexandra Barratt (ed.) (1992) Women's Writing in Middle English Selections of most of these texts can be found in London: Longman Annotated Texts Primo search Burgess, Glyn S and Keith Busby, trans (1986) The Lais of Marie de Frnace Penguin Primo search Speigel, Harriet (1987) Marie de Frnace: Fables University of Toronto Press Primo search
Kempe, Margery. (1985.) The book of Margery Kempe /translated by B.A. Windeatt. Primo search Talbot, C. H. (May 1998) The Life of Christina of Markyate:A twelfth century recluse Primo search Watt, Diane (2004.) The Paston women :selected letters /translated from the Middle English with intorduction notes and interpretive essay [by] Diane Watt. Primo search

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One fifth of charities with an income of less than £1m are "struggling to survive", according to the Charity Landscape report 2019 from the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF).
A smaller percentage, 14 per cent, of charities of all sizes feel the same.
CAF surveyed 238 leaders of charities with incomes of less than £1m, and a total of 452 charity leaders in November 2018.
The survey found that nearly all charities (92 per cent) expected to fill gaps in public service provision.
Only a fifth of leaders believed government would value their advocacy work and the constructive challenges they offered in the next five years.
The charities instead agreed that government would view them more as service providers.
In terms of negative media attention, the percentage of charities that feel badly impacted by the media is unchanged since CAF's Social Landscape 2017 report, at 59 per cent.
In terms of Brexit, nearly two thirds of charity leaders (63 per cent) said Britain's departure from the EU would be bad for their organisations.
Pinkney said: "[Charity leaders] are fearful of the impact that Brexit will have, for example on staff retention and the ongoing funding that allows them to provide services for those who need them."
A quarter of charities supported the idea that media support and success stories could help rebuild public trust, and around one fifth believed there should be more transparency in the sector.
Pinkney said the high percentage (87 per cent) of charity leaders investing in technological innovation to meet evolving needs from their beneficiaries reflected a strong desire to plan ahead for the future.
However, less than half of all charities, and only 38 per cent of small charities, have a strategy in place for dealing with technological change.
Allthough the report says nearly all charities (95 per cent) have increased or plan to increase their social media presence, activities and campaigns.


According to a 2015 National Sleep Foundation survey an estimated 23% of American couples are now sleeping apart. Dr. Neil Stanley, a sleep expert at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, says that's largely because couples who continue to share a bed suffer from 50 percent more sleep disturbances than those who sleep alone. Small wonder that the bed-sharing culture—once viewed as a litmus test for healthy marriages—has shifted drastically over the last few years, with couples increasingly working to find a balance between their needs for closeness and a good night's rest.
While creating separate bedrooms is an obvious solution, many couples find their desire for intimacy and sheer proximity outweigh the drawbacks of sleep disturbances. If you're one of those couples willing to stick it out in the bedroom, here are a few coping mechanisms for the top 7 contributors to sleep loss.
Snoring and sleep apnea can be nothing short of a nightmare for lighter sleep partners—but taking stock of the current situation is essential says Suzan E. Jaffe, Ph.D., a board-certified psychiatrist and expert in behavioral sleep disorders. It may be that your new bed partner is the first to discover you snore, or significantly, have a more serious sleep disorder. On the other hand, if you've been married for years and suddenly find you're losing more sleep than ever due to your spouse's snoring or sleep apnea, you both need to determine what's changed. Getting to the heart of the matter, as well as finding the most effective solutions, is essential.
Earplugs, noise canceling earbuds or headbands, along with white noise sound machines or apps are all straightforward fixes if your partner is a light snorer. Turning a fan or AC unit on high can have the same effect (though these measures will likely increase your utility bill). If the cause of snoring is nasal congestion, then nasal strips are a safe way to open air passages and reduce heavier breathing.
Most sleepers who are prone to snore do so more heavily when sleeping on their backs. Training a partner to sleep on his or her side is tricky, though—sewing a tennis ball, for instance, into your partner's pajamas can be effective only if he or she wears the right clothing to bed. Your best bet is to ensure your bed is not too hard. To sleep on your side, you need adequate pressure point relief for your hips, neck, and shoulders. Mattresses featuring latex—or a latex alternative foam that provides just enough support with the right amount of bounce—is optimal. You should also make sure your pillow is the right height with just the right amount of loft. Latex pillows are a good choice for head and neck support due to their immediate recovery following compression.


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I'm sure we all remember the White House OSTP's recent memo on open access — a huge step forward that extends an NIH-like Green OA policy to all US federally funded research. It was a triumph for common sense, an explicit repudiation of the mindset behind the Research Works Act, and an affirmation for the ongoing FASTR legislation.
Yesterday, the publishers announced their response to this: an initiative named CHORUS (ClearingHouse for the Open Research of the United States), described most fully on the Scholarly Kitchen blog. The idea is that publishers themselves will make articles available open access after embargo periods have expired, and that they will provide a portal (they suggest chorus.gov) that links out to the various publishers' green-OA papers. With this established, the publishers think the government can then dispose of PubMed Central.
This does look potentially positive, though I think there is a big trust gap to be bridged before researchers, librarians and indeed the government will be happy entrusting all this to the very publishers who up till now have made themselves roadblocks in the path of all such initiatives.
That's the kicker. Those of us who remember PRISM, the RWA and the Georgia lawsuit are not predisposed to imagine that publishers' notions of what is "reasonable" will coincide with ours. To pick one obvious example, I'm pretty confident that the OSTP's 12-month embargo periods will quickly become 24 or 48.
I think publishers have a lot of bridge-building to do before librarians and researchers will trust them with something as important as a PMC replacement, and the CHORUS proposal has come too soon for that to have happened.
Other opinions were not slow to appear.
Jonathan Eisen wrote one of those posts whose title tells you much of what you need to know: I am highly skeptical of the CHORUS system proposed by scientific publishers as an end run around PubMed Central. He gives the example of Nature Publishing Group's repeated failures to keep to its own policy of making genome papers freely available.
PLOS co-founder Michael Eisen (Jonathan's brother) offered A CHORUS of boos: publishers offer their "solution" to public access. He points out that the Association of American Publishers (AAP), who are behind this proposal, "have been, and continue to be, the most vocal opponent of public access policies. They have been trying for years to roll back the NIH's Public Access Policy and to defeat any and all efforts to launch new public access policies at the federal and state levels. And CHORUS does not reflect a change of heart on their part – just last month they filed a lengthy (and incredibly deceptive) brief opposing a bill in the California Assembly would provide public access to state funded research." Skepticism about their motives is understandable.
Public access needs public stewardship.
"CHORUS is little more than window dressing on the status quo" michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1382 by @mbeisen. Yep.
.@emckiernan13 So instead of having papers in 1 place, we get redirected to different publishers so they can show us advertisements. Great.
.@phylogenomics @mbeisen I'm strugging to find a warm welcome for CHORUS anywhere outside the Scholarly Kitchen. Anyone wanna chip in?
<crickets> MT @MikeTaylor: I'm strugging to find a warm welcome for #CHORUS anywhere outside the Scholarly Kitchen. Anyone wanna chip in?
I'm afraid it's still the case that no-one outside of traditional publishing (i.e. the vested interests) seem to have a remotely positive perspective on CHORUS. It's perceived as at best irrelevant, and at worst a land-grab.
It's really astonishing people could have such misconceptions, unless paleo is VERY different from other fields.
The full version of Mickey's comment is now up at the Scholarly Kitchen.
My point about the government being reasonable is that if they are not then we are all in for a big legal battle. My personal view is that PMC is illegal because the government has no property right in papers it did not pay to have written. This will be an issue for the Supreme Court to decide, which means nothing will be done for 15 years. If that is your preference so be it, but CHORUS is the compromise.
Honestly, David, the notion that PubMed Central is illegal is the stuff of tinfoil hats. Like any funding agency, a government has the right to say "we will give you this money if and only if you adhere to the following quid pro quo conditions". Once such is depositing works in PMC. Authors who don't like that condition are free not to accept federal funds; and publishers who don't like the condition are at liberty to decline submissions from federally funded authors.
True enough Mike but there is no contract clause that actually says that. Check the FAR. The government does not get a perpetual license to whatever one writes just because you did some work for them.
FAR are the federal aquisition regulations. They govern federal procurement. PMC is based on vague language in the NIH policy manual which does not have the force of law. The issue has yet to be tested but if CHORUS is rejected it probably will be. This is not 2006 when the publishers rolled over.
@David – what is to stop the Government stipulating in the legal contract that you sign when you accept monies from NIH, NSF etc. that published results arising from the granting of an award must be deposited in PMC? Nothing. They might need to tighten up the legalese but they could certainly do that. I don't see why forcing a fight on this is in the long-term interests of publishers. It's the people's money and publishers have no right to control how the results of that money are disseminated.
Mike – I'm certainly sceptical about the ability of publishers to stick to the agreements to automatically move content from pay-walled to Green OA on the lapse of the embargo. But if we step beyond that for the moment, CHORUS is not a bad idea in principle. There will be a one-stop place to access meta-data which allow works to be resolved, with open APIs so anyone can build on top of them. Publishers can still monetise their data base of papers through advertising etc., and as not all works will be federally-funded and thus within the meta data, researchers can then search on to find content.
It is not ideal – but neither is duplication of resource by funding PMC. PMC is brilliant but it does replicate existing systems. Expanding PMC is a valid option because we don't trust publishers to do what is right or what they've agreed to.
I'm concerned the meta-data is only going to be handed to CrossRef. I'd prefer if it were made fully open so that anyone could build a product on top of the meta-data and not be reliant on the API that CrossRef implements.
But the deeper issue is that the government cannot simply do whatever it likes. Claiming an ownership right on my article just because of some work I once did is probably an uncompensated taking in violation of the fifth amendment (the Bill or Rights).
Even worse the legal principle is not viable. The principle seems to be that the government has a perpetual ownership interest simply because I could not have written the article if I had not first done the work. By that principle the school that taught me how to write has an ownership interest in everything I write, which is nuts. If there is some other legal principle involved I cannot figure it out, but I am open to suggestions.
David, none of this is complicated. There is an implicit understanding that if the Government (or indeed anyone) funds your work, then they have a say in how it's disseminated. You point out that an implicit understanding may not be good enough (essentially because you posit weasly researchers who for some unexplained reason want to avoid their work being read). Very well; make it explicit. If it's not already in place, have grant recipients sign a contract stating that they will make the results of their outputs open access on the funder's terms.
@David Citing earlier work does not transfer an obligation to submit the new paper to PMC, doesn't virally allow the Government to claim some ownership of the new paper. That is quite frankly a bizarre suggestion, which makes me think your are trolling? The results are published, you cite them that is fine. If you get new money and then publish those new results, it is right the Government has a say in where you publish those new results. The issue is not that you receive funding at some point but that the specific set of results were funded by the public purse.
Your second paragraph is just absurd; no one is suggesting such a thing.
Thanks to you OA folks there are a lot of angry publishers out there so if the government tries to roll the publishers litigation is quite possible. People do not like being demonized. I am an issue analyst and this is clearly an emerging issue, hence my research.
As for the rest the US Government has no say in where results are published, and at this point claims none. This is a copyright issue. The government is claiming an ownership interest, specifically a federal use license, for work that it does not pay for. I see no legal basis for this claim, so I am looking for one.
Ucfagls: I did not say citation. The standard language in the government's claim is "based in whole or in part on federally funded research." This is usually piggybacked on the Rights in Data FAR clauses (even though journal articles are not data developed during the research). So if I include data from my 1978 study in a 2014 paper does the government have a claim on the new paper? The paper is clearly based in part on that prior funded work.
What is absurd is the government's blanket claim. In legal language it is probably void for vagueness. Just because I do some work for them, does not give then a perpetual license to my expressed thoughts about it thereafter. Lines need to be drawn.
There is this slogan about taxpayers having a right to the research they pay for, and so they do. But that research is the paid labor plus expenses and the final report which the government owns. If journal articles are written after the contract ends, or are not charged to the contract, then I see no basis for the government's claim.
Of course implicit understandings have no force in law. No-one ever said they did. It's what civilised people use in place of running to lawyers. Since it now seems apparent that some publishers don't want to play by civilised rules, it may become necessary for that implicit understanding to be replaced by an explicit one. If it's necessary, it will be done. No problem.
As for the idea that thanks to the big, bully OA folks, the poor little oppressed publishers have become angry — watch as a I weep copious tears. Of laughter. If there's any anger in this situation it resides, rightly, with the authors and libraries who have been exploited so grotesquely for the last decades. I see very little anger from legacy publishers. What I do see is fear — the city is rank with it. Fear that the gravy train is coming to an end. Cameron Neylon said it best: they never had a business model, they had a government subsidy. Now the government is realising it can spend its citizens' money more efficiently.
Finally, if you truly think this is a copyright issue than I can only conclude you haven't been paying any attention at all. The government holds copyright in no papers. Even the ones written by its own employees are placed in the public domain. That's because the government is about improving the lot of its citizens, not in exploiting a monopoly for financial gain. For the same reason, Federal grant recipients publishing with BMC, PLOS, eLife or PeerJ all retain copyright on their work. The government doesn't care. What it cares about is that the world has the right use the work it funded.
Civilized Americans do not let the government roll over them. Rule making has its own laws, some of which I helped write.
It is a copyright issue because the government is claiming it has a perpetual federal use license to all works based in whole or in part on federally funded research. Perhaps you did not know this.
Civilised Americans also realise that accepting Federal money comes with a quid pro quo. Like I said, if that implicitly obvious fact is not apparent to certain parties, it's not hard to write it into a contract.
@David – The generally accepted idea is that the results, data, whatever of the originally-funded work should be open. If you go on to make use of these results in non-funded work that doesn't/shouldn't count – is that being claimed by the US Government, NIH/NSF?
2. Research is funded by the public and conducted by researchers and their institutions for the sake of research progress, productivity and applications — not in order to guarantee publishers' current revenue streams and modus operandi: Research publishing is a service industry and must adapt to the revolutionary new potential that the online era has opened up for research.
3. That is why both research funders (like NIH) and research institutions (like Harvard) — in the US as well as in the rest of the world — are increasingly mandating (requiring) OA: See ROARMAP.
6. And, without any sense of the irony, the publisher lobby (which already consumes so much of the scarce funds available for research) is attempting to do this under the pretext of saving "precious research funds" for research!
7. It is for researchers to provide OA, and for their funders and institutions to mandate and monitor OA provision by requiring deposit in their institutional repositories — which already exist, for multiple purposes.
10. The publishing industry's previous ploys — PRISM and the Research Works Act — were obviously self-serving Trojan Horses, promoting the publishing industry's interests disguised as the interests of research.
Giles, J. (2007) PR's 'pit bull' takes on open access. Nature 5 January 2007.
Stevan, I really appreciate having your voice on this blog. And as it happens I think your analysis of CHORUS is excellent. But this long comment is merely a cut-and-paste of your post over on your own blog.
I really don't think it's right for your to use other people's blogs as platforms for your posts. When commenting here in future, please write an actual comment on what's been said here (in the article or comments), not your own independent take on the subject. You're also welcome to post a short comment saying "Go here to read my thoughts on this" and linking to your blog.
Stevan's manifesto does not address the CHORUS issue, which is simply should the federal funding agencies create a bunch of new embargo based repository systems or send readers to the publisher's websites via CHORUS? In the latter case the publishers will match the federally specified embargo periods. In return for keeping the readers they will pay the processing costs. CHORUS also reduces the burden on the authors who will not have to deal with new federal repository systems.
The kind of immediate access, local repository system Stevan describes is not on the table. Basically it is CHORUS versus a bunch of federally funded PMC clones. In either case the default embargo period is 12 months.
I don't understand why publishers keep talking as though PMC doesn't already exist, or as though there is some profound technical barrier preventing it from accepting work funded by other federal agencies as well as the NIH.
Mike: In principle PubMed Central could become PubFed Central and they have a marketing team out promoting that. There are several obstacles. First there is a general policy against one agency funding another. Second each agency already has its own little publishing empire which wants to grow. Perhaps the biggest problem is that NIH, NLM and PMC are the rich kids in the federal system. Budgets are shrinking so no one can afford what PMC would cost to handle their papers. This is what makes CHORUS attractive. The publishers are buying back the eyeballs.
"PubFed Central" — nice name! Did you make it up?
Yes I coined it. I used it in a Kitchen comment and others have picked it up. As an issue analyst I look for the simplest way to express the essence of a complex issue. PubFed Central is one of the basic US OA policy options.
If anyone is interested I have a crude-but-free textbook on Issue Analysis, written many years ago when I taught it at Carnegie Mellon, It was just something simple written for classroom use.
The issue tree is a fundamental logical structure of all complex issues. Knowing this can be helpful.
I am also happy that my voice is being heard. Stevan chopped my stuff but I think the reasoning gets through.


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Ultima IV (Completed) - the virtues and final thoughts
Well that was a journey. But now that it's over, why I do have to say about Ultima IV? Let's start off with probably the most controversial of my musings; what IS the theme of Ultima IV, and what effect do the virtues actually have?
Virtues -v- Stranger in a Strange Land: the theme of Ultima IV
In my very first post I said that the theme of Ultima IV is "stranger in a strange land", not the virtues. Was I right?
Let's look at the beginning sequence. You'll note that the framing device clearly put the focus on you, the player, being pulled into a strange new land, NOT virtues. Let's look a bit more closely:
It begins with you in the everyday world, but with the mysterious circle of stones in the background as foreshadowing. Then a portal appears, it drops a book that speaks of "a land strange to you", which you read. You then rise "unbidden" to your feet and walk off to find a traveling fair, "strange that you came that way earlier and noticed nothing". Then we have the very first line of text that anyone in this game says to you:
"Welcome friend. Enter in peace and find your path". And the second line of speech is...
"You may approach, O seeker". By now we've read about 15-odd screens worth of text and not a word about virtues, it's all about strange new worlds and exploration.
Then we get to the much-vaunted "virtue selection" screen. This is the first time virtues are mentioned, but note how they are introduced:
What is really happening here is that the player is being asked to pick a class. But they don't know that, and they won't know that unless they start the game twice. There's no explanation, no re-cap of how many virtues there are (or what they are), it's just straight into a series of apparently unrelated questions. The player's mind is most likely going "What is going on here?" not "Is compassion better than honesty?".
The questions continue, with no explanation of what is going on until finally:
That's it. The player starts next to a town and the game begins.
The lack of a tutorial or quest markers means the player's focus remains "where do I go and what do I do?" for a long time. All of the early quests involve finding something (mantras, runes, shrines, etc); by the time the player realises that they even have "virtue points" there is a good chance they've already reached sufficient levels just from normal gameplay. As I said in the very first post, there is mechanically no difference between searching for the "rune of valour" and the "silver ring of kicking Minax's butt".
The exception is if the player has been acting like a psychopath since the start, because then when they need virtue points they'll realise that they have to change their behaviour. But even then the emphasis is less "embody the 8 virtues" and more "please stop slaughtering innocent people".
This was probably Garriott's original intent - he's said that he wanted to create the virtue system to impose consequences for immoral behaviour. Apparently his publisher kept fan mail from him until after Ultima III, so it wasn't until then that he realised that most players weren't "role playing" at all, they were just killing everything that moved. He wanted to add consequences for that behaviour.
It is not until well into the game that the player realises that they need to understand the virtues on a deeper level. This happens when the player realises that each of the 8 virtues is a unique combination of Truth, Love and Courage, and they have to figure out the exact combination for each virtue.
Again, this probably reflects Garriott's own interest in the virtues. Apparently once he decided to introduce a morality system, he did a lot of reading in philosophy to come up with the virtue system. So it's fitting that the player, like Garriott himself, develops from a simplistic player-morality of "don't kill people" to a more nuanced understanding of how the virtues fit together.
So is the theme "exploration" or "virtues"?
Well, both. It shifts from the first to the second during play. And this shift, whether deliberate or not, is brilliant. Because it means that once the player feels comfortable with the world of Ultima IV the game opens up and offers them a new theme to explore; it keeps the game world interesting and engaging despite its length.
Comparison to previous Ultima games and his contemporaries:
I also want to take a moment here to give Garriott a shout-out for how he was pushing himself with each Ultima sequel. It is so easy, even today, to make sequels that are really just more of the same. At the time, at least for RPG games, that seemed to be the standard - Wizardry I - III and Bard's Tale I - III spring to mind.
Wizardry I, II and III. Seriously.
But each of the early Ultima games were really significantly different from the last, and elements from older games are significantly tweaked to improve how they fit together. For example:
Aklabeth ("Ultima 0") has the dungeons;
Ultima I has the overworld;
Ultima II has the moon gates, multiple towns with NPCs who have information, horses and sailing ships;
Ultima III drops the arcade elements of Ultima I and II, and introduces party combat, a hard-copy spell book and "wind direction"; and
Ultima IV drops the sci-fi elements, introduces virtues and also starts providing significant stat bonuses on levelling up (stat increases were previously a big focus). The "balloon" sequence is reminiscent of the earlier arcade sequences, though much easier.
This is probably a big reason for the enduring success of the Ultima games. Compare that to Eye of the Beholder; I loved the first two, but I had just stopped caring by EOB III.
Aklabeth, Ultima I and Ultima II.
So overall, what do I say about UIV? Is it a good game?
Yes. As I've said before, its strength really lies in how it mechanically requires the player to engage with its world, which makes the world feel alive in a way that's very rare without either significant graphical fidelity (Skyrim) or complex interlocking systems (GTA III).
This is a massive achievement considering it was designed for the Apple II.
Its biggest weakness is that its systems are not sufficiently deep to remain engaging for the length of the game. Combat is the biggest culprit. That could have been avoided by either adding more variation (as happens in the dungeons) or just reducing the amount of combat from mid-game onwards through, for example, special items or spells.
An interesting question is whether it would have been just as fun with a quest-log, instead of having to keep all those notes? I say - no. Physically taking the notes yourself is a big part of what forces you to engage with the game world despite the primitive graphics and lack of a complex world-systems (such as a day/night cycle, or NPCs that interact with each other). I accept it's a hurdle for modern gamers, but that doesn't make it a bad part of its design.
Recommended for - People who want to see a vibrant world created out of simple elements, RPG historians.
Not recommended for - Anyone else. I would love to recommend this game because I did enjoy it, but I think the combat is just too tedious for me to make a general recommendation.
Release date: 16 September 1985 on Apple II.
Platform: For me, PC (via GOG)
Time to finish: Approx 70hrs
Last word: Amazing for its creation of a living world using elements you don't see used at all in modern games, but not recommended for modern play due to repetitive combat.


Another chord struck, so it seems appropriate to expand upon this blog topic.
I did not mean to imply that it is easy being with what IS. Yes there are times, like when you can't find the right shoes or a parking spot, that we can let things flow better, depending on our mood. But when it really impacts your life, like having your job on the line or a health issue, it is much more difficult to accept and move forward. The little child in us gets triggered by the threat and the whole survival issue contracts our bodies, hearts and minds.
1. Understanding that railing against whatever shows up will not change things, but will only make things worse by draining our energy and distorting our ability to respond constructively.
2. Trusting that whatever shows up ultimately will lead to a better result than what you had originally envisioned.
My day to day life is full of the benefits of flowing through life even when it hurts. One of my favorites examples is how I got my job at the Visiting Nurse Service (VNS) Mobile Crisis Unit. I was working as a researcher at Hillside Psychiatric Hospital and I had just gotten into a big disagreement with the head of the research department about his desire to change my duties (see my story). I loved working there but chose to let go and look for another job since I knew it was only a matter of time before I got fired. I immediately started asking everyone to let me know if they hear of a job opening for me.
Among the people I asked was a young social worker who had a love/hate relationship with me. She seemed to really respect me, but something bothered her about me. When I related my situation to her, she told me that she had interviewed the day before at VNS, and did not think the job was for her. She suggested I look them up. When I asked her for more details, she rushed off saying she would tell me more about it some other time. I could feel that she was withholding and knew she would not give me any more info. I was frustrated and disappointed – this after all was about my livelihood. Instead of getting triggered and coming from survival, I chose to not confront her and just look up VNS's phone number to see what I could find.
Of course I looked in the Queens phone book, since I was a single parent and needed to work close to home, to Leor. When I called, the switchboard operator wasn't sure about any job openings and forwarded the call to the only social work department in the company. A gentleman, Steve, got on the phone and explained that I reached the Mobile Crisis Unit but there was no opening in his department. He suggested that I send in a resume anyway since maybe something will open up in the future.
Needless to say, I was disappointed. This would have been an ideal job at an ideal location ten minutes from my home. I sent out the resume without giving it much thought. I wondered which position that young social worker was talking about, but again I let it go and continued to look for other positions. A week later I got a call from Steve informing me that his social worker had just quit and asking if I would like to come in for an interview. Of course I did and of course I got the position. No place could have been more perfect for me.
The day before my last day at Hillside Hospital, I bumped into the young social worker and told her of the "coincidence." I then asked her, "Where did you interview?" She answered it was the Manhattan VNS office. I walked away smiling at my fortune and knowing that Spirit works in mysterious ways. You see, because she withheld the information that the position was in Manhattan, I went looking at the Queens office. Had she told me that it was in Manhattan, I would have not pursued it because Manhattan was not an option.
Epilogue: Steve left after nine months and I got promoted to his position, as head of the unit. I worked there for almost eight years and I can wholeheartedly say it was the most important and life affirming job I have ever had. (See Dear Brothers and Sisters for more).


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"Food Deserts" and the Geography of Hunger
foodanthro October 22, 2021 October 22, 2021 anthropology, food deserts, food justice
Tea for clowns in Russia. Photo courtesy of the author, all rights reserved.
Editor's Note: This is part of a series of postings by students in a graduate seminar on food justice at the University of New Orleans. You can read more about the class and find the syllabus here. The class is part of a new PhD program in Justice Studies at UNO.
Bob Danton
When I was young and still looking at the world through rose-colored glasses, I had the opportunity to travel to Russia for three weeks, as part of an international humanitarian clowning trip led by Patch Adams and the Gesundheit! Institute. As my first trip outside the United States, I experienced "culture shock" on a wide array of different levels. This was my first time navigating what was, to me, a truly foreign food system.
One day, after an exhausting but deeply rewarding bout of clowning, we were offered a respite in the form of tea. Nestled somewhere deep inside in a large brutalist Soviet-era building, we were presented with a delightful array of meat pastries and biscuits and many things I didn't recognize then and have since forgotten. After regaining some energy, I found myself filled with questions for our host, and asked one which at the time seemed simple, and in retrospect seems painfully naïve: 'was your life better under the communist USSR, or is it better now under capitalism?'
The woman pondered for just a moment before responding simply 'I used to stand in a line for bread; now I have no money for bread.' While many years have passed and I cannot promise to quote her words exactly, the message was clear: nothing had truly changed materially in her life. Here, in one of the biggest cities in the world, capital of a global superpower, surrounded by glittering skyscrapers, palaces, and other symbols of extravagant wealth, was a woman who was deeply food insecure; and despite my naivety, I was acutely aware that her situation was likely not far from the norm. Suddenly I lost my appetite for the delicious meat pies in front of me: in front of us visitors was more food than she probably fed her family in a week. The rose-colored glasses had shattered.
Whether in Moscow or in New Orleans, Louisiana where I live and where I am studying Food Justice with Dr. Beriss, urban citizens across the globe, in nations both rich and poor, live with food insecurity every day. This insecurity, while pervasive and global, is also spatially located. Most of us by now have heard and become familiar with the concept of 'food deserts' as geographical areas where food is inaccessible. In her book Black Food Geographies, Dr. Ashanté Reese tackles this terminology in the context of her study of food geographies in the Black neighborhood of Deanwood in Washington, DC. She effectively argues against the use of the term, noting that its origin in the field of natural (physical) geography implies a given state; that is, it implies that the 'food desert,' like a real desert, is a naturally occurring phenomena, and not the result of human factors as is the case in reality. 'Food swamps,' a newer term created to designate areas with an overabundance of unhealthy and low-nutritional value foods, can be critiqued in this same light; these are human-made geographies, not naturally occurring phenomena like deserts and swamps. Reese explores other terms including 'supermarket redlining,' which she argues is too narrow in its focus on supermarkets (a critique she also places on much of the current literature on urban 'food deserts') and instead offers the phrase 'food apartheid.' Reese frames the new phrase as able to demonstrate the social and economic factors leading to the creation of these points of inaccessibility; like formal apartheid, she argues that there is a broad structural and ideological policy of racism which keeps Black people separate, subordinate, and in this particular instance, deprived of access to (healthy) food. Dr. Nathan McClintock further explores these power balances in the food systems (or lack thereof) in Oakland, California, linking lack of food access in the flatlands of East and West Oakland directly to the city's history of legal redlining and institutionalized spatial racism.
How then, should we perceive the spatial elements of hunger, especially as they play out in urban cores, in an increasingly globalized world? Perhaps it is time to develop a new terminology, one that considers the pervasiveness of unequal development in cities around the world. I have, for much of my time in New Orleans, and in the San Francisco Bay Area before that, lived in spaces that may be termed 'food deserts.' As a middle-class white man, I hardly feel that it would be just to describe myself as a victim of 'food apartheid,' despite factors such as my lack of a car often meaning I must travel farther than I would like to on bike or foot to buy groceries. For my Russian hostess, on the other hand, that term seems perhaps more appropriate; despite the lack of a racial element in her situation, it is clear that there has been systematic repression of access and power in her life- even, in fact, transcending national regime and economic shifts.
Food, considered by many to be one of the most basic human rights, can be an effective window into broader considerations of justice in our society. Jason Hackworth, professor of geography and planning at the University of Toronto, examines in depth the issue of unequal urban development in his book The Neoliberal City. His basic thesis revolves around the modern trend towards increasingly blurred lines between political and economic actors in American cities and the massively unequal development that has resulted from what he terms 'glocalization,' a simultaneous movement of power from the national and state levels downward to local governments and upwards to transnational corporations. The power balance between these actors is clear: the corporations outpower the local governments. The resulting uneven development affects not only the homes and other real estate Hackworth examines, but our food as well. The end result is a system wherein local governments and the communities and people they represent are left with few options to respond to problems such as major grocery chains disinvesting in poor inner-city neighborhoods. Even if an enlightened Oakland wanted to repair the inequalities created by its historic racist politics, it no longer has any real power to do so- the city's power is dwarfed by that of the transnational corporate forces now in control of our foodways. The power over our food access has been transferred wholesale from our communities and governments into the cold and uncaring hands of the "free market."
Taking into account these factors I argue that we need a new terminology for our spatial awareness of disparities in our globalized food system. I am no more a victim of 'food apartheid' than the residents of Deanwood are inhabitants of some naturally occurring, unchanging 'desert.' The woman I met in Russia was not a victim of 'supermarket redlining' but rather of a much broader set of economic policies in Russia that have largely kept the poor poor from feudalism through communism and into capitalism. What we all share is a level of food insecurity that has a spatial dimension in our local cities as well as a relationship to massive transnational corporations and economic processes. Viewing food access through a spatial lens allows us to understand broader patterns of injustice in the world, explore ways in which local community identities and cultures are linked to and influenced by global economic factors, and see more clearly the ties between community, culture, economy, and power. Residents of Deanwood see food access as linked to factors in their community far beyond access itself; a grocery store in the neighborhood to them also represents both economic power and community identity, both now under massive pressure from powerful neoliberal forces. Driving or bussing to neighboring states or richer neighborhoods in D.C. for access to good food, beyond merely being a hardship, takes money out of Deanwood, removes the local food store as a location of community and cultural interaction, and erodes civic pride in the neighborhood.
Terminology can be important to framing the way we see the world; just as the phrase 'the third world' has been understood as racist and gradually replaced with 'developing world' or 'global south', we must be aware that the way we talk about areas lacking food access and the people who live within them have real world effects on our efforts to create change. Perhaps then, it is time to retire 'food desert.' Indeed, there may be no single term that meets our needs to describe differing, localized patterns of hunger; food apartheid may be a great fit for Deanwood, but perhaps not for Moscow, or for poor rural white communities in America. Although I do not yet have the answer as to an ideal new terminology for these globally created, transnationally connected, hyper-locally expressed patterns of food insecurity and in-access, I believe it is a conversation worth pursuing.
Hackworth, J. (2007). The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism. Cornell University Press.
McClintock, N. (2011). From Industrial Garden to Food Desert: Demarcated Devaluation in the Flatlands of Oakland, California. In A. H. Alkon & J. Agyeman (Eds.), Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability (pp. 89–120). The MIT Press.
Reese, A. M. (2019). Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. University of North Carolina Press.
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JAMES MANNING
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Recording Artist James Manning On Touring, Inspirations, Favorite Artists
James Manning's music tells the stories of our lives through song. He's his own man – songwriter, performer, business entrepreneur, family guy. A native of Orange County California , Manning has been described as a visionary storyteller with an infectious spirit and a warm touch. He has developed a contemporary sound that fuses an eclectic collaboration of pop and rock leaning songs that are fun, catchy and heartfelt.
Manning's musical influences will remind one of the catchy hooks of Bryan Adams to the zany fun of Zack Brown to one of the greatest storytellers of our time the great Neil Diamond. In his own words: "I love music and performing! I am in a peaceful place when I am on stage. My songwriting helps me to get out the creative messages of what's inside of me. I love to find that emotional connection and message in a song and bring that out of me for my fans when performing. I really want to make a difference in the world and believe that songwriting and performing is one of the outlets where I can do that through my music."
Manning has opened for platinum artists including Leon Russell, Loverboy and Grammy award winning LeAnn Womack. His frequent appearances in such Southern California venues as House of Blues, The Coach House, Saban Theatre and the world famous Whiskey On Sunset have earned Manning a growing, loyal and passionate following.
Manning prides himself in being an artist that loves to collaborate with artists regardless of genre. He has been blessed to have worked with many great musicians such as venerable artists / producers Frank Wright and Bruce Walker.
Most recently, Manning had the opportunity to work with acclaimed singer/song writer and producer Brett Boyett. Their creative endeavors will bring about James Manning's new EP "Unforgettable" to be released in 2016. Manning described his inner thoughts on writing two of the songs on his project. "I wrote the title song 'Unforgettable' about a time in my life when I was very busy but when true love came knocking it was absolutely unforgettable. 'To Get My Heart' is about a person's deep desire and pursuit to get the one they know they love to connect with their hearts and fall in love."
Look for Manning to be playing out supporting the new EP "Unforgettable".
Learn more about Manning in the following All Accessinterview:
As a native of Orange County, California, do you think your upbringing there influenced your pop-country sound and really you as an artist?
Yes – I grew up in the mountains of Orange County California "Silverado Canyon" listening to John Denver, Eagles, The Outlaws, Waylon Jennings, Loggins and Messina, Fleetwood Mac. All good heartfelt music.
Growing up, did you always know that you wanted to be a musician? Can you recall your earliest musical memory?
Yes – there was always a message inside me that its something I needed to do to fulfill my life and what I desired in life and this message was very alive inside me.
It's funny that you recently performed with Lee Ann Womack since I just interviewed her daughter, Aubrie Sellers who is also a very talented country singer. What was it like performing with Lee Ann? How did that performance come together?
My Manager worked with LeAnn's management and made it happen. It was great performing with LeAnn! She is a great person and I have so much respect for her as an artist and her music career.
I've read descriptions of you as being a visionary storyteller. Can you talk about your songwriting style? What do you think are the most important elements of storytelling?
Following what you feel inside and being patient with a song when its not coming out right away. Sometimes great songs take time to write and find all the lyrics that fit the message in the song.
Let's talk about your forthcoming EP, "Unforgettable" to be released this year. What was the recording process like of it? How do you think you have grown as musician on this project? Since "Another Round", how do you think you have changed?
I have grown a ton because of the collaboration of writing with the talented producer/songwriter Brett Boyettand recording these songs in Nashville with the top studio musicians in the music business. The songs are all really good and the journey has been so amazing and rewarding.
The EP's lead single, "To Get To My Heart" is incredibly personal. Can you talk about writing it and where it came from?
That was one of those songs that just came out really fast and I had it written in like an hour. The song was about a time and a relationship I had with a girl I fell in love with and a lot of the message in the song is about those experiences.
You've worked with some remarkable artists and producers in the past. What experience was particularly memorable and rewarding to you?
They're all special in their own way. Performing with Leon Russell was really cool, LeAnn Womack was so great cause its in my music wheel house and Loverboy was a blast from the past and lots of fun!
Over the year, what musicians have continued to inspire you? What would you love to work with in the future?
Gary Allen is somebody I really love and respect. Zac Brown is somebody too who I have always just admired and I love Bryan Adams and I have followed him for the past 30 years.
As a frequent LA performed, what are your favorite venues to play at in town? What are the LA crowds like? Where are you going to be playing at next?
I love the Saban/Wilshire Theater its a great venue and they're on it with the engineering and sound check. I have a special place in my heart for the Coach House. I've enjoyed House of Blues, The Mint and many others. My next show right now is June 2nd with Leon Russell at the Coach House unless one comes up sooner which could happen.
At the end of the day, what do you hope is the message of your music? What do you hope listeners take away from your songs?
That it makes them change in some way that is positive in there life that something in my song had a positive effect in their lives. And that in listening to my songs they were entertained along the way.
James Manning "To Get My Heart" on MusicExistence
Pop Country sensation James Manning is coming off a string of shows – like the recent performance opening for Lee Ann Womack at the Coach House. At the show, Manning sang a few popular country covers and debuted his single "To Get My Heart."
James Manning on EnterTwine
Influences: Influenced by all musical genres. I love to sit back and listen to Tim McGraw and then flip on some Earth Wind and Fire.
Upcoming Shows: Performance with Leon Russell June 2nd at the Coach House in Orange County, CA.
Pop Country sensation James Manning is coming off a string of shows – like the recent performance opening for Lee Ann Womack at the Coach House. At the show, James sang a few popular country covers and debuted his single "To Get My Heart." The music world was introduced to James a year ago, with his smash single, Another Round, that virally spread online.
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Genre: Pop/Country
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
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"When students (particularly teenagers!) get angry and hurl insults at the teacher, DON'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY, it's not about YOU. The students are bringing in things from outside the classroom, issues related to their home life, their relationship (or lack of) with their peers, their academic struggles and much more. So taking it personally is a huge mistake. The insults roughly fall into two main categories – insults regarding the teacher's appearance or insults regarding the teacher's professional abilities.
Supposedly only an inexperienced teacher (or an unprofessional one) gets insulted. This is the cause of all the teacher's troubles, and what is obstructing a calm and cool response.
At an in-service teacher's training session I attended at school today, the instructor took a refreshingly different approach, one that rings true and makes more sense to me.
In a nutshell, the instructor explained that feeling insulted is an automatic and instinctive human reaction, a survival strategy which indicates the person must protect himself /herself.
Therefore, it is utter nonsense to tell a teacher not to take insults personally. We're human beings, that's what makes us caring teachers. Students crave empathy, to be really and truly seen, that requires emotions.
Actually, the instructor claimed, teachers who can respond appropriately and in a constructive manner to a student's outburst are those that RECOGNIZE their feelings and have given thought to how he/she reacts to such feelings and what works to enable them to regain their equilibrium. Teacher's aren't robots! I believe Palmer discussed this in "The Courage to Teach" but I read that a long time ago and don't encounter such an attitude in my reality.
"You took that personally? What?! You should know better by now"!
Wow, what a skillful writer who can really pack a punch!
The author is "only" describing two couples (two brothers and their wives) spending an evening out in a fancy restaurant, but a whole lifetime and a tense plot pops up cleverly between the minuscule food portions such upscale restaurants have a reputation of serving.
Believe me, it's best not to know more in advance. Let the author present the story in his way.
Interesting side note the author makes in the book – what do people the world over really read about Holland and famous Dutch people? There are the famous painters and there was Anna Frank (and some other heroic stories I might add). Don't forget "Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates" ! But I really can't recall reading anything else that takes place in the Netherlands.
The only thing I resent is one of the comments on the front cover of the book. It IS a thought-provoking book but I most certainly do not identify in any way with the characters.
Sometimes things turn up just when you need them. I always like to practice a point that needs highlighting by using something thought-provoking or generally informative.
A few days ago I read a very inspiring lesson plan called "Image challenge – how to teach critical thinking through INSTAGRAM" on Magdalena Wasilewska's blog. I really recommend checking it out!
My lovely colleague pointed out yesterday that some of our Deaf and hard of hearing students may have a problem in the upcoming exam with the word "most" since we've been reviewing superlatives for the last few weeks. In their reading passage, the word is used when describing the results of a survey, as in "Most of the young people said that…".
The topic of teenagers who post pictures of themselves in an alternative reality, works beautifully for my purposes.
I chose a different video than the one Magda used as I thought it was less suitable for my class, especially as the characters clearly seem to be talking. What they are saying doesn't matter, but with my students I prefer videos where it is clear that you don't need to hear the audio.
Today I started using the following worksheet in class. All sentences include the word "most" but are related to the video.
I hope it works well for you too!
As the cover states, it's a charming book.
It really is. Charming is the apt description. There's even a different take on "Prince Charming"!
It's sweet (and short!) and makes you feel like saying "aw, nice!". It has some unusual (quirky, perhaps? ) ways to express a theme that I, of course, believe in – reading books and writing tales (AND reading aloud!!!!) are really good for you, in many ways.
I wonder if the author was influenced by "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" as there is the same theme of people doing menial jobs that are almost invisible to society, yet who have a rich literary world going on in private.
In short, not raving about the book but I'm glad I read it.


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The Kid Who Couldn't Climb
At the age of nine, Jimmy was a faster bike rider than most of the kids in the neighborhood, a competent softball player, and a decent student.
One summer day, he and I set out with a couple of other kids to have an adventure. At the curve of the river, where centuries of erosion had cut away the clay, was the cliff we called Blue Banks.
Usually, we swam in the river, but this particular day we started teasing each other. "You're scared to climb the cliff." "No, you're a big chicken yourself!"
At first, it was easy to scramble up the slope, but as we moved higher, the cliff face became almost vertical. Fifty feet up, looking at the sparkling blue river below, my stomach was suddenly queasy.
Beside me, Jimmy's handhold broke away, the clay clattering down Blue Banks. With tears in his eyes, he moaned, "I can't go up and I can't get down. I'm scared."
We argued with him, "You can do it!" But he was paralyzed with fear.
So the rest of us scrambled to the top, ran to find an adult, and lowered a ladder. Jimmy grabbed a rung, and quickly climbed to safety.
Getting Unstuck Restores Confidence
The day after our climb, Jimmy was still the fastest bike rider in the neighborhood, a competent softball player, and a decent student. There was nothing inadequate about him. He simply got stuck on a particular cliff.
The challenge, for those of us who work with people, is to help them extricate themselves from situations that make them appear, and even feel, incompetent.
How Feedback Helps
Training and development are among the best ways of lowering a ladder. The recipients still have to do the work, but now there's a tool to support them.
360-degree feedback is especially valuable because it clearly identifies the things at which they excel. It reminds them to stay committed to the skills that have made them successful, and identifies areas where they need further development.
So when everyone is urging you to cut back on your support for people, keep the faith. There are a million Jimmies stuck on cliff sides out there, some of whom who could be propelling your organization to greater success.
All they need is a little help getting unstuck.
[A 60-Second Consultant encore.]
Timothy Bentley is Chief Operating Officer of Panoramic Feedback.
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Trump Goes After Iran's Supreme Leader
After pulling back from a strike on Iran, the Trump administration opted to impose sanctions on Ali Khamenei. But it's unclear how effective they'll really be.
By Kathy Gilsinan
Alex Brandon / AP
President Donald Trump has declined to strike Iran for now over the downing of an American drone. Instead, he chose to retaliate by reaching again for a favorite tool: economic warfare.
On Monday, Trump announced he would impose sanctions on Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and other individuals close to him, denying their access to "key financial resources and support." This follows reports over the weekend that the U.S. also launched cyberattacks on computers used by Iranian intelligence.
"The supreme leader of Iran is one who ultimately is responsible for the hostile conduct of the regime," Trump said from the Oval Office. "His office oversees the regime's most brutal instruments."
Following repeated rounds of financial penalties since Trump withdrew from the nuclear agreement last year, about 80 percent of Iran's economy is already sanctioned, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. This includes virtually all of its oil exports; a major arm of its military, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is also deeply interwoven in Iran's economy; and petrochemicals and metals.
The results have been twofold: First, Iran's economy has withered. Second, Iran has lashed out.
Read: A boom time for U.S. sanctions
Pompeo recently characterized weeks of Iranian provocations ahead of the drone being shot down—including explosions on energy tankers and missile and rocket attacks in Saudi Arabia and Iraq—as evidence of a successful "maximum pressure" campaign. Officially, that campaign's aim is to drive the Iranians back to the negotiating table. But administration officials have cited what they see as a side benefit of depriving Iran of the resources it uses to fund terrorism. The past week has demonstrated that, after more than a year under Trump's sanctions, Iran still has plenty of means to harass the U.S. and its allies.
Will this set of sanctions finally be what gets Iran to give up its hostility to negotiating with the U.S.? Or will it at least make it appreciably harder to stage attacks? Elizabeth Rosenberg, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, told me she doubted that Khamenei was using financial instruments that are exposed to U.S. jurisdiction anyway. Rosenberg, who worked on Iran sanctions during the Obama administration, said the sanctions are more symbolic than practical. "Not only do [the new sanctions] not have a major economic impact on Iran, they're also kind of a sideshow to the military tensions and escalations and levers available that have been used so far by the United States and Iran," she said.
Yet it's a major step to sanction the leader of a country. It "puts the supreme leader in the same position as other untouchable leaders of the past, like Qaddafi of Libya, Assad of Syria, and Maduro of Venezuela," John Smith, a partner at the law firm Morrison Foerster and the former director of the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, told me. "The U.S. designates a head of state generally at the point of no return, where the U.S. believes there are no communications, negotiations ,or other deliberations needed with that government."
He noted that this was not what one would expect from an administration still seeking negotiations. Speaking to reporters following the sanctions announcement, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin also said he planned to designate Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif later this week.
Iran is by far the biggest target of U.S. sanctions, but the Trump administration has also leaned on economic pressure in pursuit of changes in Venezuela, North Korea, and elsewhere. Previous administrations have relied on the tool as something sharper than diplomacy but gentler than war, but Trump has far stepped up the frequency of their use. Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro has withstood the economic-pressure campaign aimed at forcing him to step down, though Trump has cited sanctions' success in bringing the North Koreans to negotiate with him over their nuclear program. These negotiations have yet to yield a deal, however.
On Iran, other powers may have incentives to undermine the United States, if they think economic relief for Tehran is the only way to resolve the crisis. European countries have been scrambling to calm tensions, especially since Iran threatened in May to breach the nuclear deal absent economic incentives. Russia's national security adviser vowed that Moscow would look out for Iran's interests at an upcoming meeting of Russian, U.S., and Israeli officials this week.
There are, meanwhile, faint signs of softening on both sides. The administration has offered to negotiate without preconditions. Critics of Barack Obama's nuclear deal complain that the deal addressed only the nuclear issue and left other destabilizing Iranian activity, including ballistic-missile testing and support for militant proxies, in place—Pompeo last year laid out 12 far-reaching demands touching on those and other issues he said would have to be a part of any new deal. But Trump seemed to walk that back slightly over the weekend, telling NBC's Chuck Todd on Meet the Press: "I think they want to make a deal. And my deal is nuclear. Look, they're not going to have a nuclear weapon … I don't think they like the position they're in. Their economy is, is absolutely broken."
Read: Is there still a deal to be done with Iran?
Monday, however, he vowed that the U.S. would increase the pressure on Tehran "until the regime abandons its dangerous activities and its aspirations, including the pursuit of nuclear weapons, increased enrichment of uranium, development of ballistic missiles, engagement in support for terrorism, fueling of foreign conflicts, and belligerent acts directed against the United States and its allies."
For the Iranians' part, Ray Takeyh, a Middle East scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations, has argued that the recent attacks attributed to or claimed by Iran are intended not to start a war, but to enter negotiations from a position of strength. "Before negotiating with the United States, Iran needs a narrative of success," he wrote in Politico Magazine. "And the events of the past few days, in which the Trump administration threatened and then backed off a military confrontation, have finally provided Tehran with a justification to enter talks with, in Iran's telling, a chastened Washington."
Washington, however, is certainly not presenting itself as chastened. While the administration has stuck with sanctions for the time being, Trump was quick to warn: "I think a lot of restraint has been shown by us—a lot of restraint—and that doesn't mean we're going to show it in the future."


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ABA puts Arizona Summit School of Law on probation
By Stephanie Francis Ward
March 27, 2017, 3:24 pm CDT
Corrected: Arizona Summit School of Law, which is part of the for-profit InfiLaw System, received notification Monday that it has been put on probation by the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. It follows a November 2016 ABA decision that put Charlotte School of Law, another InfiLaw school, on probation.
Arizona Summit was found to be out of compliance with ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools (PDF) 301(a), 308(a) and 309(b), as well as various sections of Standard 501 (PDF), according to the council decision (PDF).
"The council determined that the law school's admissions practices, academic program…and outcomes…have resulted in the law school now being in a position where only immediate and substantial action can bring about sufficient change to put the law school on a realistic path back to being in compliance within the time allowed by the Standards and Rules of Procedure," the document reads.
Among its graduates who took the Arizona state bar for the first time in July 2016, there was a 24.6 percent pass rate, according to information (PDF) released by the state supreme court.
Required remedial actions listed in the document include the law school providing the section admissions data and methodology for the spring and summer 2017 classes, and reporting Arizona bar exam results within five days of receiving them. Further hearings with the section's accreditation committee will take place in September 2017, according to the document, and with its council in November 2017, to review the law school's progress.
In March, the law school announced that it would sign an affiliation agreement with Bethune-Cookman University, a nonprofit, historically black college in Florida. Donald Lively, the president of Arizona Summit, was not available for comment at press time. Bethune-Cookman told the ABA Journal that the school had no comment on the matter.
Also, the section announced Monday that a teach-out plan for Charlotte School of Law, which is currently on probation for not meeting various standards, has been deferred. The school remains on probation.
In December, the U.S. Department of Education announced plans to cut Direct Loan funds to Charlotte School of Law students after a finding that the school made substantial misrepresentations to current and prospective students regarding its compliance with ABA accreditation standards. The department terminated the law school's participation in the loan program Dec. 31.
But in a recent Department of Education letter that a Charlotte School of Law spokeswoman says former dean Jay Conison shared with Legal Ed, it appears that the agency "provided a pathway" for some law students to have access to second or subsequent federal loan disbursements, according to a March 27 letter (PDF) the section sent Charlotte School of Law President Chidi Ogene and Interim Dean D. Scott Broyles. "In light of the above, it is not clear that the council must review and act on a teach-out plan at the present time," the letter reads.
Broyles declined to comment to the ABA Journal. R. Lee Robertson Jr., president of the school's alumni association, told the ABA Journal that the loans released were a continuation of the loans that were guaranteed at the beginning of the year.
"The alumni association is thrilled that the ABA has delayed its vote on the teach-out plan. We are confident that under Dean Broyles' leadership, the law school can restore the confidence in its admissions standards and return its focus to educating its students to make a difference in their communities," said Robertson, who practices in Charlotte.
Updated at 9:52 p.m. to note that a Charlotte School of Law spokeswoman said that it was Conison who shared the Department of Education letter with the section. Updated at 5:26 p.m. to report on the section's deferral of Charlotte School of Law's teach-out plan and at 5:43 p.m. to note that Broyles declined to comment.
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Hartselle: The first 150 years
Published 10:25 pm Monday, August 31, 2020
City of Southern Hospitality celebrates its sesquicentennial
By Jennifer L. Williams
As Hartselle commemorates its 150th year in 2020, the city is celebrating the past, the present and the future.
Many Hartselle residents, past and present, likely know about Hartselle's intertwined history with the railroad and the 50-year battle to settle on the spelling of the town's name, but they might not know about the community's economic evolution, beginning with the very early town square that once boasted beautiful buildings fronting tree-lined streets.
It is perhaps not surprising that most of the hustle and bustle of Hartselle's early days was centered around the town's railroad stop, but the first main road in town was not Main Street but Front Street, now called Railroad Street. The old town square continued on the east side of the tracks to what was Railroad Avenue, and many wood-frame businesses lined the square until two major fires in the early 1900s forever altered the town's layout.
Today there's not much left of the old Railroad Avenue – just a grassy knoll on the east side of the tracks – and only a few photos remain of those early Hartselle businesses, but their legacy lives on in the spirit of today's independent business owners.
The initial focus of the town was the railroad. Hartselle grew out of a small railroad stop on the L&N line that eventually ran from Louisville, Kentucky, to Montgomery and then on down to the Gulf of Mexico. At one time – and for a long time – the railroad was this area's lifeblood, and businesses supporting and benefitting from that connection flourished.
According to the Alabama Enquirer, which later became the Hartselle Enquirer, in 1895, with an area population of about 1,200, Hartselle had two hotels, one college, six physicians, three blacksmiths, three jewelers, nine general merchandise stores, three family grocery stores, seven preachers, "many fine residences" and "scores of pretty young ladies."
Hartselle had fully evolved into a cotton-centered town by the early 1900s, when seven cotton gins operated within the town, and farmers and buyers would meet to buy and sell the popular Southern commodity. Once Hartselle's cotton industry waned, it gave rise to other business ventures and opportunities, and companies and industries based in Hartselle today are local, national and international in scope.
At the time of Hartselle's centennial in 1970, U.S. Highway 31 had been rerouted from Sparkman Street to its current location to the west, and Interstate 65 was just being built to the east. Growth continued in all directions, but today, the center of town remains around the depot area.
Spirit of Hartselle
The people of Hartselle have always had an independent spirit, and most would agree that education and religion have been driving forces in the town since its beginnings.
The Hartselle Male and Female College was chartered in 1883 and was considered to be one of the best in north Alabama. It later was sold to the Town of Hartselle and became an elementary school when the Morgan County High School was built in 1909. That elementary school evolved into F.E. Burleson Elementary and still stands today as the historic Burleson Center, just next to the Hartselle City Schools offices on College Street.
The old Morgan County High School, which resembled the Burleson Center in style, was torn down in the 1980s after what is now Hartselle Junior High School was built on the same property. Hartselle voted in the 1970s to split from the Morgan County School system, and Hartselle High School came to be in 1980.
The school system today, with its three elementary schools, intermediate school, junior high school and high school, continues to draw students and teachers from all over, who come for an award-winning educational experience.
Hartselle has always had a religious center, with church groups meeting in the area well before the town was established. With the coming of the railroad, saloons also popped up in town – six by the year 1878. Four churches – the M.E. Church South (1874), Presbyterian Church (1876), Christian Church (1882) and Baptist Church (1883) – had officially organized by 1885, with many more to come. Today, it is said there's a church on every corner in Hartselle, and while it's said in fun, it is not too far from the truth. There are many denominations and styles to suit the city's growing and diverse population.
Sports have become another great Hartselle tradition, from baseball to football and more. There used to be a swimming pool located behind where the Junior High sits today. The ball fields have changed locations – teams used to play on Picken Fields, across from the Hartselle City Cemetery on Railroad Street Northwest – but the commitment to our local sports teams has remained strong.
A new jumbotron scoreboard was recently installed at J.P. Cain Stadium, a lighted stadium that opened in 1964 after being built mostly with money raised from reserved seat sales and volunteer labor. It is not uncommon to see people attend home football games who have not had a child in school for a long time; those Friday Night Lights are just a part of the community.
Hartselle was once home to the annual Morgan County Fair, where there were horse races, entertainment and prizes for the "best" of everything, from cakes and quilts to the best-decorated buggy. The fair was originally held on the high school grounds, but it later moved just north of the city with a new grandstand for the racetrack. Those fairs faded during the Great Depression in the 1930s.
When one door closes, however, another one opens, and downtown Hartselle has seen drive-in theaters, hospitals and large box stores and shopping mall trends, only to reemerge with varied merchants and services as the vibrant center of the community.
Recent projects have improved the city's walkability and aesthetics, and plans are in place to continue this trend of civic improvement, including relocating City Hall to a former bank building.
In 2020, even with an unexpected and overwhelming global health pandemic gripping the country and the world, Hartselle home sales are booming, schools are continuing to grow in student population, and more people continue to discover what a wonderful place Hartselle is – a reality that bodes well for the next 150 years and beyond.