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Illinois Coach Sees Differences, Similarities in Special Olympics in Spain
Ben Berg has been working closely with Special Olympics since 2010 at Fox Valley Special Recreation Association (FVSRA). He also was an athletics coach for the Illinois delegation at the 2014 Special Olympics USA Games in New Jersey. Now he is continuing his dedication to Special Olympics in Spain, while he is there teaching English. Below are questions and answers regarding his current journey in Spain.
Q. When did you get to Spain?
A. I arrived in Spain in February and am only here until May. I am doing a 3 month homestay program which means I live with a host family and teach them English and in return they provide me with room and board. I also have some private tutor lessons that I get paid for.
Q. What made you decide to go teach in Spain?
A. A friend of mine did this same program and recommended it. I was interested in the idea of traveling so I applied just to see what would happen and within 24 hours I had a host family already lined up to stay with.
Q. What did you do at Fox Valley SRA?
A. I started at FVSRA in 2010 as a part-time staff for about a year and a half. I was hired on full time as the Athletics Coordinator which is how I became involved with Special Olympics. I was in that position for almost 2 years before becoming the Operations Manager, which is the position I held when I left for Spain.
Q. Are you teaching English or something else too? In a school? What ages?
A. I teach English to the host family at their home, however I have also been able to pick up some extra private tutoring sessions. The people I teach in these lessons range for elementary school kids to business professionals.
Q. What do you plan to do when you return to the states?
A. I'm still trying to figure that out. Ha! The plan is to find a job (when I left for the homestay program I resigned from FVSRA) but as of right now I don't know what that job will be.
Q. What is the biggest challenge you've had teaching the students English?
A. There is a lot of diversity among the students I teach in terms of age, current level of English speaking and comprehension, and motivations for learning English. Because of this I can't just plan one lesson and implement it to everybody I tutor. Each lesson is different so I have to do a lot more planning and adapting depending on who it is that I am tutoring. For example, as I mentioned earlier, some of my students are children who are learning English in their school so I just help them with their homework. Others are business people and need to learn English for professional reasons so in those classes we work on reading/writing sample office emails or memos or translating their resumes into English. Lastly, some I tutor just want to increase their English so they can travel more easily. With these students we practice scenarios where they have to order food from a restaurant or make a hotel reservation over the phone; things that they will need to know how to do when they travel.
Q. What's your greatest accomplishment with the students? Has any student had a particular effect on you?
A. Because this is such a short term teaching opportunity I haven't had a lot of time to really see the fruits of my labor. None of my students have made really significant improvements in their English, but they all seem to enjoy the learning process. I think my greatest accomplishment is when I can plan an activity for a particular lesson that has a direct application to the student's personal/professional life.
Q. How did you get involved with volunteering with Special Olympics in Madrid?
A. Because Special Olympics was a big part of what I did at FVSRA, I was curious to see how Special Olympics programs in other places/countries function.
Q. Is volunteering for Special Olympics there different or the same? How so?
A. Getting involved with Special Olympics in Spain was the first time I experienced Special Olympics from a volunteer perspective. At FVSRA my role with Special Olympics was different. I did more planning and coordinating. I was a contact person for the FVSRA families who were involved with Special Olympics. My experience with Special Olympics in Madrid has been different because here I just show up and lend a hand and try to help out however I can. The head coach, who also speaks English, does a great job in making me feel comfortable at practice and informing me of what the different exercises will be each practice and how he wants me to help. He also teaches me about how the Special Olympics program in Madrid functions and the structure of their competition seasons. The way he welcomes volunteers and makes them feel comfortable in the program is the same way I hope I welcomed new Special Olympics volunteers when I was in the leadership position at FVSRA.
Special Olympics Madrid has a lot of differences to that of Special Olympics Illinois, but there are also a lot of similarities. The most significant difference, a part from the language, is the size of the program. In the entire country of Spain there are about 19,000 Special Olympics athletes. In Illinois alone there are 21,000. This difference is evident at the local level. I have been volunteering with a basketball program, and in the Madrid area there is only one team. In Illinois, basketball is a much more popular sport so it is common for one special recreation association to have several teams. Because there is only one team in Madrid, the team is very diverse in terms of age and ability level.
Despite the differences there are also a lot of similarities. At its heart, I think Special Olympics is the same whether you're in Illinois or Madrid. In my experiences with both programs, you see great coaches and volunteers who are enthusiastic and keep practices fun and entertaining while encouraging and challenging the athletes, you see families who are supportive of their children and the program, and lastly, you see the athletes demonstrate the same camaraderie with their teammates and coaches and display the same joy and excitement in accomplishing their goals.
Q. How has your previous Special Olympics and coaching experience here in the U.S. helped you navigate your job over there?
A. I think my previous Special Olympics experience has helped me with teaching English here in Spain. Through coaching Special Olympics, I have learned that it is important to identify an athlete's ability level and know how to meet them at that level and build upon the skills and abilities they already possess. It is equally important to know how to accomplish this through means that are fun and engaging. In teaching English, I have taken a similar approach; identifying their current level of English and building upon that through games and activities that they enjoy.
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Buffalo, New York has 5 communications schools for you to consider if you are interested in pursuing a degree in communications. With an overall population of 292,648 and a student population of 73,039, approximately 63,119 of Buffalo students attend one of Buffalo's schools that offer communications programs.
The largest communications school in Buffalo, by student population, is University at Buffalo. Approximately 298 students graduated in 2010 from University at Buffalo with credentials in communications.
A total of 601 students graduated with credentials in communications from communications schools in Buffalo in 2010. If you decide to attend one of Buffalo's communications schools, you can expect to pay an average of $28,352 per year in instate tuition and $32,302 per year in out of state tuition.
You should also anticipate spending about $967 for communications related books and supplies every year. And if you live on campus, you will face an additional expense of $9,868 per year, on average, for room and board at Buffalo-based communications schools. Students who live at home can cut this cost down to approximately $16,622.
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Many communications graduates choose to work as communications professionals after graduation. If you choose to follow that path and remain in Buffalo, your job prospects are not very good. There were 28,860 communications professionals working in New York and 400 working in the greater Buffalo area in 2010. Buffalo's communications professional workforce is projected to decrease by 0% by the year 2018. This anticipated change is slower than the projected nationwide trend for communications professionals.
The average salary you can expect to earn as a communications professional in Buffalo is $39,390 per year. This is higher than the state-wide average salary for communications professionals.
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IT chimes has been providing exceptional services for digital marketing needs and IT related solutions to its global clients since its inception in 2008.
Having achieved the status of Microsoft Gold Partnership this year has enabled IT Chimes to provide the clients with even better quality of services. We have been serving our clients across different parts of the globe including US, Europe, Singapore, Middle East, Australia and India.
The company ensures to visit the clients personally in order to deliver the best services and to provide clear solutions for their unique business requirements. Our technological and consultative services caters to the business requirements of clients from various industries like healthcare, technology, fashion, social networking, food industry and other sectors.
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We create and develop Apps for our global clients on the platforms likes iOS, Android, Windows, J2ME, Cross Platform. We also provide quality assurance services by testing on a number of mobile platforms.
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The above policy applies if you are studying on a full-time undergraduate programme or for one of the following qualifications MA, MSc, LLM, MEd, PGDip, PGCert, GDip, GCert, BPhil, CertHE, AdCert, UDip, UCert; where the tuition fee charge is for the whole programme rather than individual modules and the programme has standard start dates.
If you are paying your tuition fees via a loan from the Student Loan Company (SLC), your withdrawal date will be reported to the SLC and your Tuition Fee Loan will be adjusted accordingly to reflect the correct liability and any interest accrued.
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If you take a leave of absence, your tuition fees will be prorated so that you are charged only for the period that you have attended in each academic year. If your tuition fees are being paid via a student loan, the University will need to notify Student Finance England of your revised fee liability so that you can borrow the correct amount in each academic year.
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Getting your phone via carriers can be beneficial for a number of reasons. You can get probably better exchange value for your previous phone or avail easy EMI options with bundled service plans. Some carriers do offer phone upgrade schemes where you can switch to your favorite OEM's new flagship just after its release.
The list of cons is fairly long though. Carrier branded phones often lack some global network bands and come by default SIM-locked. For users who want to tinker with their gadgets, these phones are a big no-no. Bundled bloatwares, throttled down updates, little or no official bootloader unlock are common syndromes on these devices.
Unfortunately smartphone geeks occupy a tiny percentage of the whole consumers. To reach to a larger user base, companies need to advertise big, establish themselves in each and every corner of the market and do tie-ups – in this case, with cellular service providers.
OnePlus did the same with the intention of penetrating USA's smartphone market. Previously OnePlus phones were sold in US directly via official channel or third party distributors. With OnePlus 6T, OnePlus worked with T-Mobile and launched it as exclusive to the carrier.
The differences between the global and T-Mobile variants are easy to spot. The carrier exclusive model lacks the second SIM and runs a special variant of magenta themed Oxygen OS with some extra pre-installed apps.
If purchased through T-Mobile, the phone can't use other networks until it is paid in full and utilized on T-Mobile network for 40 continuous days. The bootloader can only be unlocked if it is network unlocked first.
As speculated, the update cycle is drastically slow compared to the global version. The T-Mobile variant got 3 updates since the launch vs. 6 updates for the global one till now. The beta channel also remains closed for the carrier exclusive model.
We have discussed the (intentional) delays of updates on the OnePlus 6T T-Mobile edition in another article. The firmware also seems to has some weird bugs which are not part of the global package.
I have had a few customers come into my T-Mobile store with the T-Mobile variant OnePlus 6T indicating that the Phone application was crashing when you either open it or open it and select the Contacts tab. I was able to reproduce the issue and immediately began troubleshooting the device such as wiping the cache partition, clearing the Phone app and Contacts app cache; still no luck.
What fixed the issue? I uninstalled the T-Mobile Visual Voicemail application and reinstalled it to the phone and it fixed the problem. Please note that you cannot just uninstall the VVM application, you have to reinstall it. I'm not too sure what is causing the issue itself or how they correlate with one another, but it worked. I'm sure with the update T-Mobile is pushing out soon that it will be fixed.
The community tried hard to support the variant, but ultimately chose to keep it aside. The final nail in the coffin: Oxygen Updater decided to drop support for the T-Mobile OP6T completely.
There was a long discussion between the lead developer and the active members, referring the issues described in this article. Ultimately the decision had to made.
Users are advised to convert their T-Mobile version to global one, if they don't want to be the victim of the shortcomings.


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Irish Kate 1858 Outpost of Doc-Maynard Chapter 54-40 E Clampus Vitus(wow that's a mouthful ain't it) are a group of gentlemen(in the loosest terms possible) who are dedicated the the preservation and restoration of historical places for the widow and orphan...especially the widow.
We are an organization dedicated to the restoration, preservation, and recognition of places of historical interest. Specifically in the areas in Washington which made up Spokane County in 1858 these include current Spokane, Adams, Lincoln, Whitman, and Stevens Counties. We are also dedicated to helping those in need especially widows and orphans in recognition of the mission of those who have come before. In the language of normal people, we do work in the community that furthers the goals of The Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus to preserve and highlight historical events and places through community service work and erecting monuments. We volunteer our time to help those in need by doing community service work such as delivering gifts on Christmas, serving at food banks, and general labor work for those who cannot do it themselves.
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It can be exceptionally difficult to leave the house in the morning when your acne is at it's worst. These tips can help boost your confidence, and help you control your acne so that you can have lovely skin.
It is common for those affected by blemishes to attempt to squeeze them until they burst. If they are sore or extremely bothersome and you feel you need to pop them, then at least wash your hands and fingernails thoroughly beforehand to avoid any extra bacteria getting into the pores. If you follow this advice, there should be fewer and less severe breakouts.
Do not use tooth whitening products. If you are experiencing acne breakouts around your mouth, you should stop using teeth whitening products. The chemicals present in some mouth washes, whitening strips and whitening toothpastes can irritate skin and make acne worse. Therefore, it is advisable that these products are avoided to minimize outbreaks.
Extreme temperatures can also cause acne. When it is warm outside, your body will sweat more. Your pores can get clogged and your skin can get irritated from sweating. This can result in an acne flareup. When the weather is cool, your skin may dry out. Protect your skin in all weather conditions.
Do what you can to avoid high-stress situations. While stress does not cause acne, it can worsen already existing acne.
Switch to a more natural skin product if you have stubborn acne that won't go away. Products that are common and widely available in stores often contain harsh chemicals that will worsen your current skin condition. When you strip the skin of its natural oils, you are practically signing yourself up for blocked pores and acne. Your skin can be healed by natural products because they have antibacterial elements within them.
If you have acne, zinc can help you to prevent free radicals from damaging your skin. To treat your cystic acne and reduce the appearance of bumps on your skin, look for a daily supplement that contains zinc.
Did you know that acne breakouts can be caused by talking too much on a cellular phone? Constantly pressing your dirty phone to your skin can encourage acne breakouts. Keep your phone clean by wiping it with an alcohol-dampened, soft material. When you are on the phone do not hold it right against your face.
Acne symptoms may be reduced if one can avoid touching one's face. Never pop any pimples that have already developed. Your hands tend to have oils on them which then transfer to your face, so the less you touch your face, the less oil your skin has to deal with. Additionally, popping blemishes is risky and can sometimes result in pain, infections and scarring.
Having a lot of pressure and stress in your daily life may be the driver for any acne you may have. It is important for you to find time to wind down and relax. By frequently partaking in activities that you enjoy, your stress levels will be lowered. Cigarettes and caffeine can also make acne worse, so avoid them.
You might get an itch you desperately want to scratch, but spreading the oil and dirt from your fingers onto your skin is a bad idea. Your pores will absorb all the oils on your fingers and cause further blemishes.
Do you worry that your face will never be free of acne? Hay fever and mites cause skin problems as well. Finally, reduce the amount of stress in your life. The hormone responses caused by stress can further invite irritation.
Blemish sticks are a good way to conceal pimples. When using this product, you can focus on the blemishes that you are trying to hide. Unlike regular concealer, blemish stick concealers are a bit thinner, helping your skin breathe more.
A great way to reduce your acne is to control the amount of stress in your life. Hormones produced from stress can cause your skin to break out, and affect your health. There are lots of ways to reduce stress in your life, like listening to music or meditating. You can help acne problems by eliminating stress.
Tanning beds can worsen an acne problem. Direct sunlight can make an acne problem worse, as you probably know. Tanning beds and natural sunlight all have the same UV rays that are hard on your skin and acne. You should avoid tanning altogether if you have acne.
Make sure that, no matter what acne treatments you employ, you use them on your entire face, not just trouble spots. Acne can hide under the skin, and you may have problem areas that just haven't erupted yet. Don't forget to apply medications to your forehead.
Have a strict skin care regime to keep acne at bay. Make a daily schedule to ensure that your skin is always clean and fresh. Wash your face in the morning and in the evening with an effective cleansing agent. Do not wash too much, because that can cause more oil to be produced. The greatest thing you can do to prevent acne is wash your face.
Exercise is essential to treating and reducing the appearance of acne. Exercise improves your circulation and naturally works to remove toxins from your body. An exercise regimen can thus, be an important part of body hygiene, maintenance, and toning. It also helps to relieve stress, and stress can cause acne.
You may know a lot about acne. Even if you think you have all the information you need about this skin malady, there are things to learn and new ways to tackle the embarrassment of acne. This article provides information and suggestions on steps towards a healthier complexion and how to feel better about your appearance. Use our information and improved skin will be close at hand.


Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2019, Andrew Heaney threw 5,444 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2014 and 2018, including pitches thrown in the MLB Regular Season and Spring Training. In 2018, he relied primarily on his Sinker (93mph) and Curve (79mph), also mixing in a Change (84mph). He also rarely threw a Fourseam Fastball (93mph).
His sinker generates a high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers' sinkers, has less armside run than typical, has little sinking action compared to a true sinker, results in somewhat more flyballs compared to other pitchers' sinkers and has slightly above average velo. His curve generates a high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers' curves, has little depth, is slightly harder than usual and has primarily 12-6 movement. His change is slightly firmer than usual, results in somewhat more groundballs compared to other pitchers' changeups, has slight armside fade and has some natural sink to it. His fourseam fastball is a real worm killer that generates an extreme number of groundballs compared to other pitchers' fourseamers, has some natural sinking action, has slight armside run and has slightly above average velo.


Location: Merrion Sq. & Fitzwilliam Sq.
The Dead City invites you to a public light performance: At exactly 8.00pm the properties facing onto Merrion Square and Fitzwilliam Square will turn on their lights for exactly one hour. A celebration of our Georgian heritage and a transitory illumination of our potential urban future. Number Twenty-Nine, the Georgian House Museum, Fitzwilliam Street Lower, will be open for viewing.
In an event titled "The Dead City", the authors of REDRAWING DUBLIN participated in Dublin Contemporary in 2011. We 'invited' the properties owners, tenants and residents on both Merrion and Fitzwilliam Square on the evening of Saturday 8th of October to simultaneously turn on the lights of their property at exactly 8pm for one hour before turning them off again at 9pm.
city, yet this is also an oddly underperforming urban asset. Very few people choose to live here . In what other European Capital City would a street like Mount Street Upper (vista terminated by the Pepper Canister Church) not be one of the most desirable and sought after fashionable streets on which to live? In 'turning on the lights' the "Dead City" sought to temporally and metaphorically breathe life back into the Georgian City, to recapture and re-imagine the glory of past light-filled residential squares.
The "Dead City" was billed, perhaps with an exaggerated sense of theatrical flourish, as "ultimately a grand urban performance, the public street not the piano nobile becoming the viewing space. The temporary illumination inviting the citizen – standing on the street outside – to look though the window, simultaneously looking inside but looking back in time in admiration of the ambition of Georgian urbanism" . The lights indeed did come on, admittedly not in every building or along every street. We greatly appreciated those who did contribute. Many of those working in the buildings, although intrigued and supportive didn't participate for the very simply reason that they lived too far away. Travelling back to Fitzwilliam Square to from Kildare or Balbriggan to turn on the lights was a 'big ask'. Sprawl worked against us. We note the irony.
In many ways, this is just the beginning of a bigger conversation about the future of the South Georgian core and an opportunity to further engage with an altogether more intriguing and related question. Why do the affluent of Dublin City – apart from a few household names – unlike their counterparts in Paris, New York and London choose not to live in the most beautiful and central part of their city? And how can Dublin attract middle and higher income people back into the heart of their city to live, to sustain local business, to generate vitality on the streets in the evening, but most importantly, to promote the status of urban living that is essential for the future sustainability of Dublin?
REDRAWING DUBLIN has written extensively on the challenges and opportunities of how to sustain city living in Dublin's Inner City.
Successful residential urbanism is not the mysterious subject it is often presented to be. Until the inner city offers a meaningful supply of spacious well-designed affordable high density homes, quality public schools, safe local parks, clean, green and traffic managed streets, an extensive quality everyday Dublin urbanism is unlikely to emerge.
But the urban residential challenges of the South Georgian Core are surely different? What explains the reluctance of the Dublin elite, the trendsetters, to choose the pleasures of an urban life on Fitzwilliam Square over life in suburban Foxrock or Dalkey?
Before endeavouring to answer that question, it is worth refreshing ourselves of the ambition and imagination of the Georgian urbanists.
the delight of urban voyeurism in favour of the hidden domestic defensiveness of the Victorian and suburban garden. With their desire for high-density living, delightful volumes, spacious dimensions, new technologies, and an eager embrace of relatively tall, mass residential housing, one can only imagine what the Georgian architects and engineers might be building today.
So what are the challenges or barriers to attracting higher income Dubliners back to Georgian Dublin?
Perhaps the reasons are no less prosaic than how to sustain quality city living in Dublin's inner city. Is it traffic and parking or the challenges of anti-social behaviour? Certainly the semi-permanent parking of a minor fleet of Double Decker buses with engines running on the South side of Merrion Square doesn't instil confidence of the civic 'management' of public space. Perhaps it's the quality of local schools? Yet some of the best schools in the State are located St Stephens Green. Is it the lack of a suitable sized garden that isn't overlooked?
It has been suggested by some that the houses are "simply too big".
Perhaps the city, Dublin' city centre is simply not interesting or big enough to sustain a 24-7 interest in urban living? Perhaps it's something altogether more esoteric but none the less compelling – 'taste' and 'status' – where do my peers choose to live? Which comes first for suburban middle class Dubliners, the perceived or real lack of urban choice or the decision not to choose urban?
Whatever the reasons, they are worth discussing. This is not simply an intriguing deconstruction of the mind of middle class suburban Dublin. There are both significant opportunities and economic challenges facing the South Georgian Core. Currently up to one in five properties in Merrion and Fitzwilliam Square have a For Sale or To Let sign".
Anecdotal evidence suggests Georgian Dublin is becoming increasingly unattractive for the office market as businesses move to more convenient purpose built office blocks on the M50 or to the Docklands.
The authors of REDRAWING DUBLIN have argued that attracting middle-income earners to live in the heart of the city should be a policy priority for Dublin. We would further argue that Dublin City Council needs to set out a strategic vision for the long term sustainable future of the South Georgian core, and that this vision should be to repopulate the area as a desirable place to live. The merits of that vision are many, overlapping and reinforcing. Despite a doubling of its population in the last 15 years, the inner city continues to remain the home of extensive pockets of dereliction and underperforming urbanism.
Attracting middle-income families back into the heart of the city would assist in consolidating, often fragile, residential living elsewhere in the city centre and inner city.
A residential vision would give significant practical support in advancing the UNESCO application for world heritage status. An interesting comparison is the city of Tel Aviv. The city was designated a World Heritage City in 2003 on account of its unique Bauhaus and International Style architectural legacy. Interestingly a significant proportion of the city's population resides in purpose-built Bauhaus apartments, a fact that gives real meaning and credibility to the city's urban identity and critically was an important factor the decision to grant the city its UNESCO status. UNESCO status underpinned by a residential vision provides a significant opportunity to 'branding the City'. Dublin's Georgian 'redbricks' along Upper Mount Street may, in time, become the fashionable equivalent of the 'brownstones' New York.
Residential consolidation has the potential to unify wider Dublin civic society around a shared vision for a collective Dublin regeneration project, to enthuse Dubliner 'ownership' of the city's Georgian heritage. A residential vision should not favour or preclude specific models of residential ownership but instead be driven by the primary desire to provide demonstration models for quality urban living. Perhaps for too long The City has not fully acknowledged or successfully challenged a lingering widespread Dubliner perception that inner urban Georgian living is either the preserve of the eccentric or the fate of the destitute and impoverished (student bed-sits).
The residential revitalisation of the South Georgian core may over time permeate to more challenging areas of the inner city, providing an economic rationale for investment to consolidate and reuse vulnerable historic fabric in places like Thomas Street and the North inner city.
A final thought. Do the preferences of the rich drive local urban culture or does the local urban culture drive the preference of the rich? If it is the former, how do you influence the preferences of the rich to deliver a successful city? And should urban regeneration not also focus on the rich? Achieving sustainable mixed income areas are after all an important goal in any successful urban regeneration.
 The 2006 Census tells us that a mere 388 people live in private households in the South Georgian core (Ward of Mansion House B) with just 217 persons living in homes built prior to 1919. (Census 2006, Theme 1:1 population, and Theme 6:2(a) – Number of private household by year built).
 Dead City Open House October 2011.
 During the property boom "the largest and best preserved Georgians often made up to €1,200 @ sqft (€12,916 @ sqm) working out at between 3.5 million and 5 million euro per house – depending on size, condition, and availability of car parking at the rear, In recent months most of the period houses going for sale have been priced between 1 million and 2 million euro depending on condition and whether a mews house is included".
Irish Times 15 June 2011.
The article was published in Architecture Ireland Magazine January 2012.
This entry was posted on October 13, 2011 by Redrawing Project in Articles, Events, Exhibitions and tagged Dublin Contemporary, Dublin Contemporary 2012.


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Workday's Bhusri points to Aon milestone as fiscal 2019 gets off to a strong start
By Stuart Lauchlan May 31, 2018
Workday gets fiscal 2019 off to a strong start, but CEO Aneel Bhusri remains pragmatic about progress.
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A strong start to fiscal 2019 for Workday. Revenues were up 28.9% year on year to $618.6 million. Subscription revenues increased by 30.6% year on year to $522.1 million. Operating loss was $71.3 million.
New customers during the quarter included, for HCM, Inter IKEA Services, Tyson Shared Services, Unisys Corporation and "a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company", while go-lives included 21st Century Fox, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Limited, Ingram Micro and PricewaterhouseCoopers. For Financial Management, new customers included Sprouts Farmers Market, Rivera and Race Truck Petroleum.
CEO Aneel Bhusri says that bringing customers on board and getting them live remains the key focus for Workday, pointing to Aon as a case in point. Aon became an HCM customer back in 2013:
Since that time, has added additional products including Workday Financial Management. Aon is now live on financial management in 28 countries, including Australia, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand and the U.S.
He adds that Aon is a "big milestone" as "a complex global financial services company, proving that Workday is a strong platform". The success there should lead to more opportunities:
The first wave of larger financial services opportunities, I think, will still be in the U.S., U.S.-based multi-nationals, but we are beginning to see the pipeline emerge in markets that are natural markets, like the UK, like Australia, like Canada, which are more similar to the US. And, over time, you'll see the large multi-nationals in the rest the world emerge as well. That's the pattern that we're seeing and I very much expect to continue to see over the next 12 to 18 months.
Bhusri sees the drivers for customer adoption of financials in terms that are not, as some other CEOs have suggested of late, tied to a booming U.S. economy:
I think, frankly, what's driving CFOs is more a focus on operational efficiency first and where the legacy systems are falling down, but, more importantly, now moving towards analysis and prediction as to trying to get ahead of the curve with these faster and faster business cycles.
And there are conservative ones, to be sure I think they have been more cautious than the HR or the sales worlds, but they are coming around. I think what people are realizing is that, if you're on the legacy system, those systems are not changing. The vendors that sell those legacy systems aren't adding new capabilities there. So, those systems are falling behind.
And at some point, you don't have a choice. I think that's really what's changed the mindset of the CFO. It's now a matter of when, not if. And so, they're looking for the capabilities that would give them business advantage rather than just updating the platform technology wise, and that's why Planning and Prism Analytics have been so powerful for us.
For all that, he still takes a conservative view on financials take-up, referencing the comparison with HCM:
If I were to guess, looking at all the data in terms of adoption rates, I think we're probably five years behind where HR was in terms of adoption and maybe even a year or two later. So, when I go back to five years, five, six years ago, cloud HR amongst large companies was beginning to take off. Our first big customer was Flextronics in 2008. By 2011/2012, it was becoming more mainstream. And that's the time we went public in 2012.
It feels about that in terms of the number of companies coming to market and the pace of growth of the pipeline, which bodes well. I've been saying about four, five years behind the last couple of years, but the data has moved around quarter-to-quarter. I think now we've got trendlines that say it's probably five years behind, and maybe slightly further behind outside the U.S., but it's growing nicely and now it's a consistent business, which is a big change in the last couple of years.
Elsewhere, Workday's platform play is attracting customer attention, says Bhusri, even though "we're trying to keep it out of the sales cycle". He explains:
We are showing our customers and prospects the evolution of the Workday cloud platform, where it was a year ago and where it is today. And we made tremendous progress.
I think where it's getting more exciting is as we're working through the pricing models, and they're going to be very fair to the customers, probably some combination of access fee and then a usage model. You can see how that scales into a nice business over time.
I also think that there are good partners in our ecosystem. We've got a great partnership with Salesforce. There are some companies within the broader ecosystem that frankly are burning our compute cycles and we have somewhat of a free rider problem. This is not the indirect access issue. They're burning our compute cycles that we're paying for.
And with the Workday Cloud Platform, we will rework some of the partnership dynamics, so at least it's a fair model for us. As a system of record, we have so many different systems hitting our system and we just need to make sure that it's in the best interest of Workday, our customers and our shareholders.
As is by now de rigeur for enterprise tech vendors, there's a machine learning/AI element on display, although Bhusri characteristically avoids the hype cycle temptations here:
We've had some machine learning capabilities for now multiple years in areas like retention risk and talent scorecard and customer collections...I think there's a lot around machine learning. We're providing the technology for our customers to use. They're still getting comfortable with it.
The tech vendors are out selling and marketing it, probably ahead of where customers are in terms of using it. But it's picking up and it's definitely a differentiator because I think many customers have plans to use it in the next 12 to 18 months once they get their data and processes in order and a big part of that is getting clean data going forward. In some cases, they're coming off of systems where they don't have clean data. So, it takes a while to up-ramp it.
It's a very positive aspect of Workday's corporate DNA that there's a reluctance to jump on the hype bandwagon and instead a pragmatic disposition to proceed steadily with deliverable product and demonstrable proof points, most notably long-standing and expanding customer relationships. This is a very solid start to fiscal 2019 and sets the course for the rest of the year.
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Fifteen pounds of marijuana were found in plastic bags on the side of a freeway in La Crescenta during a litter cleanup this weekend, authorities said.
Two organizations were doing their monthly sweep along the 210 Freeway at La Crescenta Avenue on Saturday when City Councilman Mike Classens came across one bag.
"I could tell immediately it was full of marijuana. It emitted a really strong odor, no question about it," Classens said.
He said it's typical to see discarded bottles used for medical marijuana during a cleanup, but not the actual herb itself.
Classens took the bag over to another part of the cleanup area to show a friend when he noticed a second large bag about 20 feet away. It was also filled with marijuana.
"It was quite a lot of marijuana. I've never seen so much," he said.
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies were eventually called in and took custody of the bags. Lt. Mark Slater, with the Crescenta Valley station, said it is unknown who left the marijuana behind.
"We'll make an attempt at trying to find out who the owner is, but the likelihood of that happening is very slim," he said.
Slater said the bags contained marijuana trimmings — the discarded leaves and stems left behind when the plant is harvested and manicured for sale — not the bud of the plant, which is favored by users.
It's unknown what will happen if the owner of the trimmings is found.
At the least, Slater said, the owner would be charged with illegal dumping.
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Fox News Returns To Trump's Good Graces In Time For Impeachment Vote
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 11: U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a second Hanukkah reception of the evening, in the East Room of the White House on December 11, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
By Summer Concepcion
December 18, 2019 10:03 a.m.
President Trump's relationship with Fox News seems to have gotten back on good terms.
Despite spending Saturday night accusing his favorite network of being "politically correct" by having House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) and former FBI Director James Comey appear on its Sunday morning program, Trump appeared to sing Fox News' praises by tweeting quotes from various hosts and programs.
Hours before the House's impeachment vote began, Trump tweeted quotes from "Fox & Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade and Rep. Doug Collins' (R-GA) appearance on the morning program.
.@foxandfriends "My hope is that impeachment will never become this trivial again." @kilmeade Well said Brian!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 18, 2019
"They just wanted to get at the President. They had no intention of having a proper investigation. They couldn't find any crimes so they did a vague abuse of power and abuse of Congress, which every administration from the beginning has done." @RepDougCollins @foxandfriends
….said, "I'm going to clean up Washington, I'm going to help people." He gave big tax cuts, he's made our military strong. They're mad at him because he actually did what he said he was going to do. History will record we're experiencing some of the best times we've ever…..
….out, and he's been amazing at it. The Democrsts have no message, they have no hope for 2020." @RepDougCollins @foxandfriends Thank you Doug!
Trump didn't just tweet "Fox & Friends" quotes. On Wednesday morning, he retweeted a link that Fox News host Sean Hannity posted the night before regarding Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) denying Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) impeachment witness requests. The President also retweeted Fox News host Jeanine Pirro's take on FISA court issues.
BREAKING: McConnell shoots down Schumer impeachment demands https://t.co/y0c1TxnPpH
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) December 17, 2019
Fisa court issues 'strong rebuke' ie, TRASHES FBI for warrant errors against @realDonaldTrump. NOT errors -they were intentional, illegal, lawless and treasonous efforts to bring down the man WE PUT IN THE OVAL. LOCK THEM UP
— Jeanine Pirro (@JudgeJeanine) December 18, 2019
The President also threw in retweets from Fox News pundits such as Dan Bongino and Byron York.
Liberals Embarrassingly Upset About Neil Gorsuch Saying "Merry Christmas" ??????♂ https://t.co/8enEzXlqwA
— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) December 18, 2019
Sean P is a much stronger candidate! https://t.co/LPGqDiVi1J
BREAKING: FISA Chief Judge Blasts FBI for Submitting False Info on Carter Page ???? https://t.co/0gUbZMZdvN
Swing Voters Reveal They are Sticking with Trump in 2020 https://t.co/5EIgRzFosq
Finally FISA court is heard from. They know FBI misled them in Carter Page case–so much that it calls other FISA warrants into doubt. Officials face a reckoning. And obviously, commentators who claimed FBI did it all by the book look ridiculous, or worse. https://t.co/AQQS59vVYU pic.twitter.com/K0GiryK0wK
— Byron York (@ByronYork) December 17, 2019
Trump's renewed praise of his favorite cable news network shouldn't come as a surprise given how he previewed the action on the eve before the impeachment vote by tweeting a quote from Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen, a Fox News quote on the FISA court and a graphic of a poll that the network featured Tuesday night (which he would quote-tweet the following morning.)
Wow! "In a stunning rebuke of the FBI, the FISA court severly chastised the FBI for the FISA abuses brought to light in the recent Inspector General's Report. There were at least 17 significant errors." @FoxNews Statement by the Court was long and tough. Means my case was a SCAM!
Thank you! https://t.co/UWMjeqdue4
.@marcthiessen "Voters say the Democrats are trying to take away their votes. Pelosi was right the first time. Impeachment has backfired thoroughly on the Democrats. How can you Impeach the President for going to the courts?"
Summer Concepcion is a newswriter for TPM based in New York. She previously covered the 2016 election for Fusion, conducted investigative research for The Nation Institute, and has written for NBC Chicago and the Chicago Reader.
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How Much is a 5kW Solar System in 2019?
Trying to work out how much to pay for a 5kW solar system in 2019 isn't easy – many of our customers tell us how steep the learning curve is when trying to choose a system.
Unfortunately, a lot of solar systems you see advertised online are far too cheap – they use no-name panels, and we hear stories every week of people being left high and dry by installers who go belly-up, or simply won't return phone calls. More on cheap solar here: An incredible 1 in 5 solar systems are defected by the Clean Energy Council.
If you are new to solar power, your very first online search could have you believing a good quality 5kW solar system costs around $4000, maybe even less. The ads use words like 'premium' and 'tier 1'.
It all sounds great… except it's not. $4000 is far too cheap for a good quality 5kW solar system.
If you were to get 3 quotes for a 5kW solar system from reputable solar installers in Sydney, you would find that our prices are all within a few hundred dollars of each other. Yes, there can be slight differences, but for the most part, the quotes will be around the same price.
To put it another way, you won't find a $6,000 5kW system 'on sale' for $4000. Even if you're happy for the installer to cut a few corners, you simply can't get top quality brands for that type of money.
Good quality solar panels have dropped in price to the point that it no longer makes sense to consider the bottom end of the solar market when buying a 5kW solar system. You can have the best solar panels from the world's leading manufacturers, online monitoring, a professional installation, full technical support, and still get a return on your money in 3-5 years.
To help you cut through the confusion, we believe you should have all the information you need to make an informed decision, including pricing.
For a good quality 5kW solar system, the average solar price in Sydney starts at $5,500, fully installed. If you want panel-level output, expect to pay around $7,000. High-efficiency panels with all the bells and whistles will set you back around $8,500. This 18-panel system will output around 20kWh a day, and can save you up to $500 every quarterly power bill.
A 5kW solar system in Sydney is a great sized solar system for medium family sized home. This article will look at the benefits of installing a 5kW system, the main brands you should be looking at and provide detailed information to make sure this size system is the right fit for your household.
According to the Clean Energy Council Guidelines, A 5kW solar system in Sydney will output around 20 kWh a day (averaged out across the year), outputting more on the longer summer days, and less in winter. It is important to understand that this 20 kWh of solar power will be produced during daylight hours, and typically as a bell curve as illustrated below. Depending on how much power you use during the day, typically you would want to have a quarterly power bill of around $600 to $1000 (up to around 30 kWh a day excluding any off-peak hot water) to make good use of a 5kW system. These numbers will vary if you are planning on installing battery storage, as it is now possible to store excess solar power to be used in the evening, allowing households to run almost entirely off solar power. Please contact us for more information about this and how to accurately size up a battery ready solar system.
A solar system will peak when the sun is shining directly onto the panels, so for an array facing north, this will be for approximately 4 hours during the middle of the day. This system is installed on a roof facing north-west. This is a common orientation to face a solar array in Sydney, especially if you have time of use billing where power is most expensive between 2 pm and 8 pm. You can see in the graph how even in autumn the system will continue operating until 7 pm if you have the panels installed to catch the late afternoon sun.
The other important point to take away from this image, is that a 5kW system will almost never reach it's peak output. This system reached a maximum output of 3.84 kW and yet produced 29.1 kWh of power across the day. For a 5kW system to output 5kW at any one time, it has to be the right time of the day and the right time of the year, which is very rare. In this example, the system is installed on a tile roof with a normal pitch of about 20 degrees. There are 19 panels all facing north-west. This helps extend the output into the late afternoon, as seen in the graph above. In Sydney during summer, panels that are installed flat will be working at their peak efficiency because the sun is so high in the sky.
For these panels installed at 20 degrees, the output will be higher than average in spring and autumn and slightly lower than average in summer and winter. The peak output on this system during a sunny March day is only 3.84 kW, however, even in March, this 5kW system will typically produce around 30 kWh a day, much higher than the Clean Energy Council guideline of 19.5 kWh.
Solaray is the largest and most experienced installer of Enphase Systems in NSW, and our expertise ensures your system is installed in a manner that optimises output and system performance. The performance of our Enphase portfolio is on average 110% of expected output, including systems that are installed on shaded roofs. This real-world performance is why thousands of households in NSW choose Solaray Energy for their solar installation.
Standard residential solar panels have been improving rapidly. LG Solar is now offering 360W panels, and as technology improves we are now seeing high-efficiency panels drop in price such as the LG NeON 2 325W panel. The Trina Honey Range now have a 275W panel as standard. This means that for a 5kW Solar Installation in Sydney, Solaray systems typically include 15 to 18 panels, either in series with a string inverter or as a 5kW Micro Inverter System powered by Enphase.
Solaray are the number one installer of Enphase Micro Inverter systems in NSW, and our system design team are experts at putting together a professional solar array that will maximise solar output in all conditions.
The main benefit of microinverters is that each panel is independent of the others, making it possible to design arrays in different orientations and at different angles. A common panel layout is to have some panels facing north, and the others west – to spread out the output of solar power across the day, making it easier to use most of the solar power as it is generated. Having panels west is also advantageous if you are on time of use billing, where you typically pay around 50c per kWh between 2 pm and 8 pm for your power.
With solar prices so low these days, we find many customers buying larger systems up to around 10kW or so, even when their quarterly power bills are less than $1000 – the average size system we are currently installing is now well over 5kW. This is also due to skyrocketing feed-in tariffs. They have increased from around 5 cents per kWh to up over 12 cents per kWh. Many Solaray customers are now getting a lot more money for the solar power they aren't using.
By installing extra capacity and taking advantage of generous government rebates, we see many households increasing their power usage to invest in their lifestyle by running pool pumps, air conditions and even spas from solar power.
As solar batteries become more popular, installing a large enough solar array to power your house from solar power 24 hours a day ensures you are 100% ready to invest in batteries when you choose to do so; many households are now sizing up a system based on their daily usage rather than their daytime usage in readiness for solar storage.
Please contact us for more information about battery-ready solar systems to discover what your options are, as not all systems are easily expandable.
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August 17, 2014 (nine years ago)
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Coltsnid is a midfag who is a co-founder and supreme leader of The Vortex Coalition, and has been so for the entirety of VoCo's existence.
He is also the owner of the Spawn Infrastructure Group, which oversees the building of 2b2t spawn highways.
Coltsnid is a moderator for HermeticLock's 2b2t.online project.
Coltsnid joined on August 17th, 2014, finding the server from a Reddit thread. During his first few months, he would simply explore and die in and around spawn. This continued until December of 2014 when AmericanOreo, an IRL friend of Colt's for 7 years, first joined. The two decided to walk through the nether to 100,000 blocks out from spawn (overworld) and started a small base which they would work on once in awhile. Eventually, the two founded the Vortex Coalition in late May of 2015 and transitioned their aforementioned base into the first VoCo HQ, and invited some friends to the base.
Eventually Coltsnid created the spambot DeadlyMause. Colt and Oreo then designed several dozen messages for it, in order to establish VoCo's presence on the server, and gain new members. This is when several oldfags and other midfags at the time began to get annoyed by the slowly rising group, and claimed the group as a small and retarded newfag group, that would never be able to achieve Valkyria's great wonder and die in a month. However, as the group's presence increased, and they gained attention (from constant spam) and power, the hate began to diminish, many former VoCo skeptics simply stopped caring, some eventually accepting them as an actual group.
During the early parts of 2016, Colt and Oreo were not too active and VoCo was not as present on the server. The two returned, however, right before the Rusher influx began. Colt and Oreo established the VoCo discord in mid-2016, in which all members could join. They faced their first "competition" with the 4th Reich, a group that formed on discord and were supposed to be VoCo's opposite. The two had a "war", however the whole scenario was actually a publicity stunt, which worked very well.
During the Rusher Period, VoCo remained relatively neutral, and achieved the highest pinnacle of their power as the group gained members from the flood of Rushers. The Vortex Coalition remained very active until January of 2017, when Phase II came to a close.
There was a lot of controversy near the end of Phase II due to a very high level of complex memes being produced by several parties. Coltsnid "disbanded" the group and deleted their original discord server which brought a lot of attention to those involved. He then started a new discord server with the name "VoCo II" and then "sold" it to HermeticLock as a meme. After the deletion of the first VoCo discord server, the new "VoCo II" discord gained far more members than the original one had, over 200.
In June of 2017, VoCo awoke from dormancy and began Phase III, this was the latest The Vortex Coalition had ever began a phase, with the first two beginning in May of both 2015 and 2016. With 2b2t falling into decline, activity in The Vortex Coalition will likely never reach the levels it had during the Rusher Era, but the current Vortex Coalition discord (the aforementioned "VoCo II" discord) has a current population of 145 members, after purging inactive accounts.
Coltsnid continues to guide The Vortex Coalition into the direction of success, having built infrastructure to recruit and house an influx of new members, in anticipation for the server population spike from the AntVenom video.
Today (mid-2018), The Vortex Coalition discord server has over 700 members, with over 200 of them being registered members of VoCo. Inactive members of the discord are removed regularly.
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RUSH Transcript: Dr. Ben Carson//CNN Republican Presidential Town Hall Greenville, SC
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ANDERSON COOPER, HOST: And, good evening, everyone.
In just three days, Republicans here are going to go to the polls and if history is any guide, Saturday's South Carolina primary will make some campaigns and break others.
It matters that much, which is why tonight matters so much, with three candidates one last chance for voters to ask the kind of questions face-to-face to help them decide.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tonight, a conversation with three leading Republicans in South Carolina. They're facing the voters and fighting for every last vote.
SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R-FL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: If you ever want to fall in love with the American people, run for president.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Marco Rubio rising.
Ted Cruz talking tough.
SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The time for games is over.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ben Carson running behind, hoping to rise above the fray.
And the rest of the field.
BEN CARSON (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I think I can win South Carolina.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Three contenders, men of faith in a state where faith runs deep and the faithful vote.
But it's not all sweetness and light. South Carolina is a state that knows raw politics.
RUBIO: He's now literally just making things up.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Marco Rubio hitting Cruz, Cruz hitting back.
CRUZ: Whenever anyone points out their record, they simply start screaming, "Liar, liar, liar!"
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Three contenders in a state where manners matter, but winning matters more. Just days before the first Southern primary, at the end of a campaign like we and the voters have never seen before, this is an ANDERSON COOPER 360 CNN Republican town hall. Voters seeking answers, a chance to drive the debating before making a choice that could make history.
(APPLAUSE)
COOPER: And good evening and welcome from the Old Cigar Warehouse in Greenville in South Carolina.
What a night ahead.
We are here tonight with just three days to go until primary day, just three days left to decide. Yet a lot of voters in this state remain undecided.
So tonight, Senators Rubio and Cruz, and Dr. Carson are here with voters and viewers for a conversation.
Tomorrow night, I'll be with John Kasich, Jeb Bush and Donald Trump, the voters and I not too far from here in Columbia, South Carolina.
I want to welcome our viewers watching in the United States, watching here in South Carolina and around the world on CNN International.
I also want to extend a warm welcome to all our service men and women who are watching on the American Forces Network and to those who are listening on the Westwood 1 radio network and on CNN Channel 116 on SiriusXM.
In the audience tonight here in Greenville, people who tell us they will be participating in Saturday's Republican primary. Some decided, some undecided.
We asked audience members to come up with their own questions, which we reviewed to make sure that they don't overlap. I'll ask some questions, as well.
But tonight, we really hope this is about South Carolina voters getting to know the candidates.
So let's get started.
Joining us first tonight is retired neurosurgeon, Dr. Ben Carson.
COOPER: And welcome.
Great to see you.
Have a seat.
COOPER: How's it going?
BEN CARSON (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Very good.
COOPER: Good.
I want to start just, you obviously are a retired neurosurgeon. You've been running now — you've been out on the campaign trail for 10 months.
What's harder, brain surgery or politics?
CARSON: Brain surgery is a lot harder.
COOPER: Yes.
CARSON: But, you know, the interesting thing that I've discovered about politics, good things and bad things. It's been wonderful having an opportunity to meet so many people across the country and hear what their concerns are.
It hadn't been that great, you know, dealing with the press.
COOPER: Are you looking at me or?
COOPER: Well, that's what really tonight is about, it's really you interacting with the voters. I'm just going to ask a couple of questions and then we're going to turn it over, really, to the voters.
CARSON: OK.
COOPER: I want to ask you just about a couple of items in the news.
As you know, the government is trying to unlock the cell phone of one of the terrorists in San Bernardino. They've been unable to do that. They've now, they've gotten a judge to — to ask Apple or to try to order Apple to create new operating software that would allow them essentially a back door to — to open up and get access.
Do you think Apple should be forced to do that, because Apple says that's going to violate not only privacy rights, but it's going to make everybody's cell phone vulnerable, potentially, to hackers.
CARSON: Sure. Well, you know, the interesting thing is I think that Apple and probably a lot of other people don't the privacy rights but it's going to make everybody's cell-phone vulnerable potentially to hackers.
CARSON: Well you know, the interesting thing is I think that Apple and probably a lot of other people don't necessarily trust the government these days. There is probably a very good reason for people not to trust the government but we're going to have to get over that because right now we're faced with tremendous threats and individual radical jihadist who want destroy us. And we're going to have to weigh these things one against the other.
I believe what we need is a public private partnership when it comes to all of these technical things and cyber-security because we're all at risk in a very significant way. So it's going to be a matter of people learning to trust each other which means, Apple needs to sit down with those trustworthy in the government. And that may have wait until the next election, I don't know but we'll see. They need to sit down with people they can trust and hammer out the relationship.
COOPER: If you were president right and you just have 11 months left in your term, would you nominate someone to fill Justice Scalia's seat.
CARSON: I probably would. I probably would take the opportunity to nominate someone. It doesn't necessarily mean that, that person is going to be acted on confirmed but why not do it?
But here is the real problem, you know, the Supreme Court is a very important part of our governing system. It was originally intended to consist of jurists who were people who loved America, and were people who fully understood our constitution, and were there to make sure that America preserved it's constitutional traditions. It was not suppose to be a partisan group.
It has become very partisan, so as a result everything that is done surrounding it; the pics, the confirmation hearings, deciding on whether to actually make the vote, all of it has become partisan in reaction to what is happening. Does it mean that we're forever gone? No, I think it means that these are things that we're going to have to start looking at.
We're going to start figuring out how in the world do we once again get back to a reasonable judicial system. We do not have that now. We have overreaching. We have a Congress that for some reason has become the peanut gallery, and is just watching what the Executive branch and the judiciary do and not really stepping up to correct some of the incorrect decisions that has been made by the Supreme Court.
COOPER: How would a President Carson pick judges? Would you have a litmus test as people often say?
CARSON: Yes, the litmus test would be their life. I would look back at what they have done throughout their lives, what kind of rulings they have had throughout their lives, what kind of associations they have had. You can tell a lot more about how a person has lived their life than you can with a series of interviews which they have been prepped for, which they know exactly how to answer. We've been burned by those kinds of things before.
COOPER: So you wouldn't necessarily have a list of questions on abortion, on whatever other issues?
CARSON: I think I could find out what their opinions are by looking back at their life.
You know, the bible says in Matthew:1720, by their fruit you will know them.
COOPER: I want to have you meet a voter. Her name is Jessica Fuller. She works in advertising. She's a voter here in Greenville. She says, she is still undecided so you could pick up a vote right here tonight.
CARSON: Excellent.
COOPER: Welcome Jessica, go ahead.
JESSICA FULLER, PARTICIPANT: Dr. Carson, how do you reconcile the differences between traditional Christian values, specifically caring the least of these and current GOP stances on social issues such as welfare and subsidies for the poor?
CARSON: Well, when you say current GOP, I'm a part of the GOP and let me tell you what my stance is. My stance is that, we the people have the responsibility to take care of the indigent in our society. It's not the government's job. You can read the constitution all you want, it never says that it is the government's job and I think where we've gotten confused.
In the old days of America when communities were separated by hundreds of miles, why were they able to thrive? Because if it was harvest time and the farmer was up in the tree picking apples and fell down and broke his leg, everybody pitched in and harvested his crops for him. If somebody got killed by a bear, everybody took care of their family.
So we have a history a taking care of each other. Now, for some strange reason starting sort of in the 20's with Woodrow Wiilson, the government started getting involved in everything. It kept growing and by the time they got to the 60's LBJ was saying…So we have a history of taking care of each other.
Now for some strange reason, starting sort of in the '20s with Woodrow Wilson, the government started getting involved in everything. It kept growing, metastasizing. By the time we got to the '60s, LBJ was saying, we, the government, are going to eliminate poverty.
Now how did that work out? You know, $19 trillion later, 10 times more people on food stamps, more poverty, more welfare, broken homes, out-of-wedlock births, crime, incarceration. Everything is not only worse, it's much worse.
And that's because it's not their job. It's our job. I wish the government would read the Constitution. I think that would probably help quite a bit. And maybe they did read it and maybe they got confused when they read the preamble which says one of the duties is to promote the general welfare.
They probably thought that meant putting everybody on welfare. But in fact…
CARSON: … I don't think it means that at all. And what we need to do is level the playing field.
But the government can play a very important role in facilitating what we, the people, do. Let me give you one quick example.
Look at all of the out-of-wedlock births that are going on, particularly in our inner cities. I have been speaking at a lot of the non-profit organizations that support organizations that support these women so that they don't have an abortion, so that they have the baby.
But usually their education stops when they have that baby. Now if you not only support them through that pregnancy, but now provide childcare for them so they can go back to school and get their GED or their associate's degree or bachelor's degree or their master's degree, learn how to take care of themselves, teach their baby how to take care of themselves so that you break the cycle of the dependency.
That's the only way we're going to get through these programs. That is true compassion. Having people become dependent on others is not compassion at all.
COOPER: Dr. Carson, I want you to meet, this is Katie Busbee. She works for the Chamber of Commerce here in Greenville. And she says she is undecided.
Katie, welcome.
KATIE BUSBEE, GREENVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Dr. Carson, I know you would probably agree that one of the biggest issues facing our country is national security threats. So with groups like ISIS and the Middle East becoming more and more unstable, you are running as a candidate that has never governed before.
Are you qualified to be commander-in-chief? And are you qualified to deal with these national security threats?
CARSON: I obviously think so or I wouldn't be running for president. You know, it's the political class that has tried to convince everybody that they are the only ones who can solve our problems.
But the fact of the matter is our system was designed for citizen statesmen. It was designed for people who have had real-life experiences and then can transfer that to government work.
You know, I can guarantee you that I've had more 2:00 a.m. phone calls than anybody else, all the rest of them, had to make life and death decisions, had to derive information frequently from interns or residents who didn't know a lot but you've still got to manage to get the right information, make the right decisions, put together teams, complex teams to accomplish things that have never before been accomplished before.
You know, I think what we really need are people who know how to solve problems, not people who know how to talk. You know, we can all talk, but we can't all solve problems.
And what I think you need to look at is the course of a person's life. Go back and see, what kinds of things have they had to face? What kinds of things have they had to overcome?
And, you know, the people who say, well, you've never run anything, you don't know how to do anything. Maybe none of the things that they want to do. But I'll tell you, it does take skill to take — you know, the division of pediatric neurosurgery, when I became chief, it wasn't even on the map.
And to take it to number one in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report, by 2008, that's not something that's done lightly.
You know, to start the Carson Scholars Fund. These are things that are outside of medicine. And people said, you can't start another scholarship program. There are tens of thousands of them. But we started it. It's in all 50 states, has won major national awards that are only given to one organization in the country.
Obviously, you have to know how to do things. You know, I've spent 18 years on the board of Kellogg's, 16 years on the board of Costco, learned a tremendous amount about business, both domestically and internationally, and a lot of things that people who are politicians who are running have never done.
So I think you have to really look at what a person accomplishes in their life and not whether they have a specific pedigree of the political class who thinks that they rule us when, in fact, this country is of, for, and by the people. And it's we, the people, who need to assume once again the pinnacle position.
COOPER: Dr. Carson, this Alexander Sexton (ph). He works in the defense industry, right here…CARSON: … people, and it's we the people who need to assume once again the pinnacle position.
COOPER: Dr. Carson, this is Alexander Sexton, he works in the defense industry right here in Greenville. He says he is also undecided, but leaning in your favor. Welcome.
QUESTION: Dr. Carson, thank you for your time. Like many Americans, I've only recently felt the need to own a gun, and you know, right now the world is in a dangerous place. So, what is your plan to preserve my rights to own a gun, and also to protect the American people?
CARSON: Sure. Well, you know the Second Amendment is there for a very good reason. It was so that the people could assist the government in case of an invasion. More importantly, it was so that the people could protect themselves in case the government itself ever became tyrannical, and tried to rule the people.
So, we've had guns for hundreds of years, and we've been free for hundreds of years. I think there may be a correlation there.
And, you know, I think, you know, after the San Bernardino attacks, and the Paris attacks, you know? The current administration, their ideal of solving the problem was to take guns away from the people. Somehow that's going to solve your problem because there are terrorists trying to kill you. Take your guns away. It makes absolutely no sense.
What they should be doing is offering free classes in gun safety to all the citizens who want to take it so they can protect themselves. It is the fundamental right that we have to be able to protect ourselves, but we also need to take safety into account. Once we do that in a reasonable way, I think you're right, my right, all of our rights should be preserved.
COOPER: I just want to follow up on Alexander's question. He was saying he's gotten a gun for the first time in his life. Have you ever — do you own a gun? Have you ever felt the need to have a gun?
CARSON: Yes. I don't know that I felt the need to have a gun, but I like having a gun. It's a nice thing to have. You know, I have multiple marksmanship awards from ROTC, and I'm very much in favor of preserving those rights.
COOPER: I want you to meet Vickie Burns. She's a retired small business owner. She says she's leaning towards Governor Bush, but she has not yet made up her mind. Welcome…
CARSON: … OK.
QUESTION: Hi, Dr. Carson. My question for you is if you are elected president, what would be your big idea? In the past we've had great presidents that have united our country with programs such as the space program, the WPC, and we are in much need of a big idea.
CARSON: Well, I have multiple big ideas, but here's one of the things that I really want to get across to the country. We have only 330 million people. Sounds like a lot of people, but China has 1.4 billion people. India has 1.1 billion people. We have to compete with them on the world stage which means we can't afford to waste any of our people, so it doesn't make sense for us to have 20 plus percent of people who enter high school dropping out of highschool in the technological age, in the information age.
It makes no sense for us to have 5% of the world's population, and 25% of the inmates. And, we have to reorient ourselves in a way that we keep those things from happening because for everyone of those young people we can keep from going down that path of self destruction, that's one more person that we all don't have to be afraid of, or protect our family from. One more person that we don't have to pay for in the penal system, or the welfare system.
One more taxpaying, productive member of society who may discover the cure for cancer, or a new energy source. We can't afford to throw away any of our people. that's a big idea.
COOPER: This is Richard Leland, he's a family physician right here in Greenville, and he also says he's undecided. Richard, welcome.
QUESTION: Thank you. Dr. Carson, in the event that you did not win the presidency, but one of your fellow Republicans did, if they were to ask you to consider serving as the Surgeon General, or head of the Department of Health and Human services, with your passion and your ability, would you be willing, at some point, to consider this?
CARSON: Well, I got to tell you, I'm not looking for a job, you know?
CARSON: You know? After…
COOPER: … Well, there is one job you're looking for.
CARSON: After 15,000 operations, and a very arduous career, I'm definitely not just looking for something to do. I feel that our country is on the precipice and it's about to go over the edge. And, if we continue with politics…CARSON: Operations in a very arduous career.
I'm definitely not just looking for something to do.
I feel that our country is on the precipice and it's about to go over the edge. And if we continue with politics as usual, Democrats or Republicans, we are going to go over that edge.
And I think we have to reach down and recognize that we're — we can't just tinker around the edges. We're going to have to have some real ideas here, ideals of how we get that economic engine which is the most dynamic and powerful economic engine that the world has ever known rolling again.
I've got good ideas about that, bencarson.com. And I can explain them if anybody asks me that question.
But, you know, also, when we look at what's happening to our nation in terms of our vision for who we are, I think we're starting to lose sight of who we are.
We are so busily giving away our identity, our values and our principles for the sake of political correction — correctness that we don't know who we are.
And the Bible says without a vision, the people perish.
So I have a vision that I think I share with a lot of "we, the people," and that's the direction I want to go in.
It would be very difficult for me to serve in an administration that didn't have that same philosophy.
COOPER: OK, thank you.
We're going to take a short break, Dr. Carson.
COOPER: We're going to have more questions from the audience for Dr. Carson when we come back.
You're watching a CNN Republican town hall from Greenville, South Carolina.
Marco Rubio and Senator Ted Cruz are also coming up.
We'll be back in a moment.
COOPER: Welcome back to the CNN townhall here in Greenville, South Carolina. We're talking to Dr. Ben Carson.
Our next question comes from Katie Abrames. She's a Clemson student. And she is undecided.
KATIE ABRAMES, CLEMSON STUDENT: Hi, Dr. Carson. My name is Katie. And when I was 18 and I had just graduated from high school, I lost one of my dearest friends to a senseless murder. It's one of the main reasons that I'm extremely passionate about impacting positive change in the current criminal justice system.
Personally I believe that people who go to prison should have the ability if they get parole or probation to re-assimilate into society and serve the community that they negatively impacted.
So if you are elected president, how would you work alongside policymakers to impact positive criminal justice reform?
CARSON: Well, you know, as I mentioned a little earlier, you know, we have 5 percent of the population of the world and 25 percent of the inmates. And that, obviously, means that something is askew.
And we're putting a lot of people in prison who don't need to be in prison. They're not violent criminals, and all we do is send them to the university (sic) where they become violent criminals, and then we release them on society. That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
But when we send people to prison, we need to be thinking about whether they are going there for life or whether they're going to be reintegrated into society. If they are going to be reintegrated into society, we need to be thinking about, how are we going to make that a successful reintegration?
In many cases that may mean we should be offer something practical training. There's no reason people can't learn how to become a welder or a plumber or a whole host of different things.
Plus, you know, there are high level courses where people can learn mathematics and, you know, engineering skills. So we really ought to be thinking about how do we take these people and turn them away from a life that's going down the wrong pathway to one where they become part of the fabric of success in America.
COOPER: So does that mean for you re-looking at mandatory minimum sentences for…
CARSON: Absolutely.
COOPER: … low level, non-violent offenders?
CARSON: Absolutely it means that. And it also means we need to look at those who are mentally ill. There are a lot of mentally ill people who are being housed in prisons. That doesn't make any sense.
We have facilities all over the country that are sitting empty because we have decided that it's too expensive to take care of the mentally ill. So they end up on the street where frequently they become victimized by people and then they wind up in the criminal justice system.
And then we put them in amongst people who are violent criminals. So now you take somebody mentally unstable and now you are teaching them how to be a violent criminal, and then you're releasing them on our society. That doesn't make any sense.
So I think it would be a lot cheaper if we begin to take care of these people the way they should be taken care of.
And there's going to be, quite frankly, plenty of money to take care of people when we stop doing all the silly stuff that we're doing with all of these unnecessary regulations which tamp down our business with a tax system that absolutely is asinine and makes no sense whatsoever.
And then the money will be drawn in that's sitting on the sidelines. And we once again begin to create the can-do attitude as opposed to the what can you do for me attitude. And I think America will be on its way pretty quickly.
COOPER: Katie, thank you for your question, appreciate it.
COOPER: This is Will Richter who goes to Clemson. He's involved with student government at Clemson. He says he's deciding between you and Senator Rubio.
CARSON: That should be an easy choice.
WILL RICHTER, CLEMSON STUDENT: Hi, Dr. Carson. According to a "60 Minutes" investigation, the Justice Department says that China's corporate espionage is so vast that it constitutes a national security emergency, costing American companies hundreds of billions of dollars and American citizens over 2 million jobs.
If elected president, how would you go about protecting American intellectual property rights abroad while maintaining diplomatic relations?
CARSON: A very important question. I mean, we are being hit thousands of times a day. And if you go to individual Americans, millions of times every day by cyber attacks from China and other places.
CARSON: … I mean, we are being hit thousands of times a day, and if you go to individual Americans, millions of times, every day by cyber attacks from China, and other places.
And, that's why, you know, I have advocated for a comprehensive solution for cyber security, and again, you can read about that on the website. But, again, public-private partnerships so that we can create the kind of common monitoring process so that if you get attacked, or your company gets attacked, you know? We have a common place that we can report that, and we can begin to see where the pieces fit together so that we understand where it's coming from.
And, quite frankly, we have some pretty substantial offensive cyber capabilities. Our administration is reluctant to use them. I would not be reluctant to use them.
If somebody hit us from another country with a cyber attack, they would not do it a second time, believe me. And, people think that I'm nice, and I am nice, but I also want to protect our people. And protect — if you stand up to people who are doing these things, it makes the much less likely to continue.
But, again, by having a public-private partnership being able to tap into all of our resources I think we'd have a much better opportunity to defend ourselves, and put up the kinds of defenses that can keep morphing so that they will not be able to keep up with us.
Americans have always been incredibly innovative, and if we can release that innovation again, and get rid of some of the things that dampen that innovation, I think we'll stay far ahead of the competition.
COOPER: Thank you for your question, appreciate it.
COOPER: I want you to meet Jillian Rogiers. She's a stay at home Mom, she's also still undecided. Gillian?
QUESTION: Hello, Dr. Carson…
CARSON: … Hi.
QUESTION: I do appreciate your mild-mannered nature in this campaign, however…
CARSON: … Uh-oh.
QUESTION: … If you are…
QUESTION: If you are the Republican nominee, how do you plan to not — how do you plan to get your message out over a boisterous Democrat?
CARSON: What boisterous Democrat would that be?
CARSON: No, quite simply. What I have discovered, you know? As a pediatric neurosurgeon, and as someone who dealt with loss of children — I had a program at the hospital where I bring in 800 students at a time, frequently elementary students, and you would say how are you going to speak to 800 elementary students and keep them quiet?
You know what? By speaking softly because then they would — what's he saying? They would shut up.
CARSON: It actually worked extremely well. But, really the key is not so much the volume with which you speak, but it's the content of what you say. That's what's going to make the difference. And, I think the American people are smart enough to be able to understand bluster, and rhetoric versus truth.
And, when it comes to the general election, you know? People who are running around saying things like free college for everyone, it'll be very easy to counter that by simply educating people as to the actual financial condition of our nation. And, that's not done, you know?
I think Margaret Thatcher probably said it best. She said socialism is great until you run out of other people's money, and that's exactly what would happen when we would explain that to people, and I think they would understand. So, I look forward to such a challenge.
COOPER: Of course — a follow up to that. It's not just obviously in a general election, you've been on a stage with some pretty boisterous folks the last couple of months. I'm not going to name any names, but do you — what are you thinking when you're on a stage in those debates? What is going through your mind?
CARSON: Well, I'll tell you, honestly what was going to my mind is will these guys in any way remember what happened in 2012 when they tried to tear each other apart, which was probably the only reason that President Obama was able to win reelection with a record that even noone could have won on.
So, we have to stop finding ways to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
COOPER: Do you have a candidate you would prefer to run against in a general, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton?
CARSON: I would relish running against either one of them. It would not be a problem.
COOPER: Right.
COOPER: Our next question comes from, oh, I'm sorry, we're going to go for some of the personal questions here. Actually, if you would take a seat here. So, was it hard.. Was it hard for you to give up surgery? I mean, you trained for this for so long. You were an excellent surgeon by all accounts.
CARSON: Some people have said, "I was just an OK surgeon." No, I miss very much what medicine used to be. I do not miss what it has become. And I think you will find if you talk to a lot of people in the medical profession that they're not very happy today.
COOPER: Because they're not able to spend time with patients?
CARSON: There are so many new rules and regulations and yes, the epicenter in all the various things that you have typed in – you don't even have a chance to look at the patient. There's a lot of information that you can gain from just looking at somebody when you're talking to them which is an essential part of medical care that's being lost.
That's the reason that I denoted a different type of system that actually costs less than either the current so-called Affordable Care Act or the system that we had before that. It would provide excellent care for everybody including the indigent and doesn't have any second class citizens. We have enough money to do it. We spend almost twice as much per capita as many other nations that have much better access.
We have so much disruption and inefficiency in our system that can be easily corrected.
COOPER: We know President Obama plays golf, we know former President George W. Bush, he used to play down in Texas. What do you do to relax?
CARSON: Play pool.
COOPER: Play pool?
CARSON: I love to play pool.
COOPER: Are you competitive when you play pool?
CARSON: I like to win and I'll tell you it relaxes me. When I would come home from a busy day of surgery, I would shoot pool. And my wife who didn't know how to play pool, learned how to play pool and has become an excellent player. She's good competition, if I mess up, she will beat me.
COOPER: What sort of music do you listen to?
CARSON: I primarily like classical music, particularly baroque music.
COOPER: Did you listen to that when you did surgery?
CARSON: Absolutely. All the residents knew when they came and did their pediatric nuero-surgery rotation that they would also learn classical music. I remember one resident, I would always ask him questions and he would always say, "that's the 1812 overture." And then he says, "I know I'm going to be right one time."
COOPER: Dr. Carson, a pleasure.
CARSON: Thank you very much.
COOPER: Dr. Ben Carson.
When we come back, Senator Marco Rubio takes the stage and takes the questions.
We'll be right back.