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The School of City and Regional Planning has a rich history, dating back to 1952 when planning instruction first began at Georgia Tech.
The early years of planning instruction at Tech, beginning in 1952, were characterized by frequent practitioner and policy-maker lectures, a program advisory committee that included noted developers and civic leaders, and regular studio projects in which students engaged the issues of the region. The Georgia Power Company was a backer of early projects, motivated by its concern for rural growth in its service area.
Early graduates often became planning directors of small and medium-sized cities in Georgia and neighboring states, while others joined consultancies or staffs at state planning boards across the South, or with national planning organizations such as the American Society of Planning Officials.
Tech faculty were responsible for drafting Georgia's General Planning and Zoning Enabling Act, writing A Planning Manual for Community Development (Georgia's basic community planning manual), and organized an annual Summer Institute in City Planning that offered continuing education to planners throughout the South.
Pushed by Atlanta's civic leadership, Georgia Tech set about to create a Graduate City Planning Program in 1950, bringing Howard Menhinick to Atlanta from the Tennessee Valley Authority to become Regents Professor and the first Program Director.
Menhinick had been the editor of Planners Journal and Director of the United Nations Headquarters planning staff as well as Director of Regional Studies for TVA. With grant support from the Rockefeller Foundation, he welcomed the charter incoming class of ten students in 1952.
Menhinick and his early colleagues, including Malcolm Little who joined the faculty in 1953, sought to pioneer an integrative planning curriculum drawing on the design professions, social sciences, and law aimed at educating generalist planners who would work in land use and regional resource development.
The first female graduate of the Program, Thera Richter (MCP '59), was also the first woman to earn any graduate degree at Georgia Tech.
In the 1960s the generalist planner model gave way to the introduction of specializations in the core curriculum and dual degree programs. A joint degree in the field of transportation planning was developed in 1962 with the School of Civil Engineering and another in urban design in 1968 with the Architecture Program.
Improving analytical capabilities were a focus of the late 60s and 70s, led by Anthony Catanese's teaching. Research clients in the heady planning days of the 1970s included Atlanta's new MARTA rapid transit system, U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, General Dynamics Corporation, and a long list of Georgia state agencies and local governments.
Arthur Campbell (MCP '70) was the first African-American graduate.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Tech's city planning graduates were widely sought after in municipal and regional planning agencies across the South. The era was capped by a Malcolm G. Little Roast and Testimonial Dinner held in mid-town Atlanta's Biltmore Hotel in May 1978.
By the early 1980s, the core curriculum focused on theory, history, scientific methods, and law; and students were asked to concentrate on either development or redevelopment. Reagan-Thatcher era government retrenchment, combined with spiraling interest rates, challenged enrollments and contract funding with the result that when David Sawicki arrived as Program Director in 1983, his mandate was to reshape the Program toward increased scholarship and expanded extramural funding.
Sawicki brought a microcomputer with him, the first in the Program, and soon had microcomputers on every faculty desk and available to students.
The core was reorganized emphasizing regional theory and methods and the specialization list expanded to include transportation, urban development and redevelopment, land use and environment, economic development, and urban design.
A concentration in city planning was started as part of the new College of Architecture (now College of Design) Ph.D. program. The Journal of the American Planning Association's Planners Notebook section editorship moved to Tech. Many faculty departures and arrivals occurred in these transitional years with the result that by 1988 all ten full-time faculty held doctoral degrees.
The 1990s program retained the original concept of providing a broad, comprehensive planning education with the technical skills necessary to accomplish a wide range of tasks.
Steven French arrived as the Program's fifth director, and city planner Tom Galloway began as the College of Architecture's (now College of Design's) third dean. The roster of specializations was redefined to include community and land development, economic development, environmental planning, geographic information systems, land use, transportation and urban design.
New dual degree programs were instituted with environmental management, law, public policy, and water resources. The law dual degree partnered with Georgia State University. New graduate certificate programs in historic preservation and real estate development also partnered with GSU.
An undergraduate land development certificate was created to promote interest in the planning profession and to build an understanding of planning concepts among future architects, engineers, and others.
Tech faculty became leaders in developing applications of the new geographic information systems technology for planning, leading to the creation of a Center for GIS with a dual mission of state service and technological innovation.
Student recruitment broadened both geographically and demographically. Tech formalized a Co-op Work-Study Program through which many planning students gained real-world experience applying classroom learning as well as earning financial aid.
Tech's graduates were included in planning faculties including the universities of California, Florida, Pennsylvania, Florida State and Virginia Tech.
By the end of the decade, the Program was widely recognized as a significant national generator of new ideas for planning practice and scholarship.
In the 2000s, under the leadership of Director Cheryl Contant, the Program re-conceptualized its work as promoting sustainable cities and regional planning and development. The Program and master's degree names were changed to City and Regional Planning.
With endowment funds created to honor retiring Atlanta Regional Commission chief planner Harry West, a Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development and a named professorship were created. Catherine Ross, returning from her position as Executive Director of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority, was named Director of the Center and the first Harry West Professor.
In 2003, 300 alumni and friends returned to Tech to celebrate the Program's 50th anniversary. As part of the celebration, Larry Keating, Professor Emeritus, wrote a comprehensive 35-year history, "Georgia Institute of Technology Graduate Program in City and Regional Planning: The First 35 Years."
A Healthy Places Research Group was formed involving faculty and practitioners from City and Regional Planning, other Tech units, Emory University's Public Health School, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. In 2005, David Sawicki was named editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association.
In 2007, Planetizen, a commercial website/publisher focused on urban planning, released the results of its first reputational survey of planning programs, naming Georgia Tech 10th nationally among U.S. planning schools.
In 2010, Georgia Tech established the School of City and Regional Planning by bringing together the Master of City and Regional Planning Program and the recently approved City and Regional Planning Ph.D. program. Students previously enrolled in the College of Architecture Ph.D. program in City Planning were transferred to the new Ph.D. program within the school.
In 2011, Planetizen ranked Georgia Tech 8th in the nation among U.S. planning schools, and the editorship of the JPER moved to Tech under Subhrajit Guhathakurta and Nancey Green Leigh.
In 2012, the U.S. Department of Transportation designated a National Center for Transportation System Productivity and Management at Georgia Tech. New degree programs in Geographic Information Science Technology and Urban Design enrolled their first students.
In 2014, Tech was ranked 5th in the U.S. by Planetizen. In 2017, Tech was, for the third time in a row, ranked in the top ten planning schools in the nation, coming in at number 7.
In 2018, Bruce Stiftel, FAICP, retired after 10 years of service as the chair of the School of City and Regional Planning. Subhrajit Guhathakurta became the second chair of the School of City and Regional Planning effective July 1, 2018.
Douglas Allen, FASLA, 1947-2014
Douglas C. Allen served Georgia Tech as a professor and administrator from 1977 until his death in 2014. While his formal appointment was in the Architecture Program (later the School of Architecture), his courses were heavily subscribed by city and regional planning students and he served on many city and regional planning student supervisory committees. Allen's History of Urban Design course is often cited by city planning alumni as among the most influential courses they completed at Tech.
Harry West, 1941-2014
Harry West served as Professor of Practice in the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development (CQGRD) from 2005 until his death in 2014. Prior to joining the Tech faculty, he had more than 48 years experience managing and planning public projects and reviewing private development proposals. Early in his career, Mr. West was the County Manager of Fulton County, Georgia's largest and most diverse county as well as home to the City of Atlanta. Major public works projects, capital improvement budgets and bond funds were a part of his responsibility.
Jamie Cochran, FAICP, 1953-2019
Over her 45-year career, Jamie accomplished many achievements. She was exceptionally proud of becoming a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP) in 2016. Jamie spent her career in Florida and Georgia in both private and public sectors. While maintaining a full-time job, she also taught as an adjunct professor at Georgia Tech in her "spare time."
A Timeline for Planning at Tech
1950 - Harold Bush-Brown (Director of the College of Architecture, now College of Design), together with John Gaus (Director of City Planning, Harvard University), Frederick J. Adams (Director of City Planning, M.I.T.), and Howard Menhinick (Director of Regional Studies, Tennessee Valley Authority) meet to recommend the establishment of a city planning program at Georgia Tech.
1951 - Georgia Tech receives $251,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to start the City Planning Program; Howard Menhenick is hired as the first Graduate City Planning Program Director.
1952 - The City Planning Program welcomes its first class of ten students in the Fall of 1952.
1954 - The Student Planning Society is founded.
1955 - W.R. Gable becomes first Ph.D. recipient on the city planning faculty.
1959 - Thera H. Richter becomes first female MCP graduate and the first female to graduate with a master's degree from Georgia Tech.
1962 - A joint degree was established in Transportation Planning (with Civil Engineering).
1964 - Georgia Tech receives $100,000 grant from the Richard King Mellon Charitable Trust and $120,000 in the following year for program funding.
1965 - Malcolm Little (MCP MIT '47) becomes second Program Director.
1968 - A joint degree was established in Urban Design (with Architecture program). Howard Menhinick retires and is awarded the American Institute of Planners' Distinguished Service Award.
1969 - MCP Program is recognized by the National Education Committee of the American Institute of Planners.
1970 - City Planning moves to the Old Civil Engineering Building. Arthur Campbell becomes the first African-American MCP graduate.
1979 - Frederick K. Bell Memorial Scholarship instituted and Catherine Ross (Ph.D., Cornell) becomes the Program's first African-American faculty member.
1981 - Leon S. Eplan (Atlanta Planning and Budgeting Commissioner, and former President of the American Institute of Planners) becomes the third Program Director.
1982 - City Planning moves back to the "Old" Architecture-East Building.
1983 - A doctoral degree option in City Planning was added. David Sawicki (Chair at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) becomes the fourth Program Director.
1985 - Georgia Tech is the host of the 27th Annual Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) conference in Atlanta.
1987 - The program now offers five specializations: Transportation, Urban Development and Redevelopment, Land Use and Environment, Economic Development, and Urban Design. The program is first accredited by the newly formed Planning Accreditation Board.
1989 - Shi Hak Noh becomes the first Ph.D. graduate. Stan Fitterman's (MCP '88) thesis, Mortgage Redlining in Metropolitan Atlanta, receives the Edward McClure award for best master's student paper from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
1990 - The GRA Co-Op Program is established. The first sponsoring organizations were Central Atlanta Progress, Georgia Power, City of Powder Springs, and the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.
1992 - City planner Thomas D. Galloway (Dean of the College of Environmental Design, Iowa State University) becomes the third Dean of the College of Architecture (now College of Design); Steven P. French (Professor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo) becomes fifth Program Director.
1993 - The program redefines its specializations to include seven specific areas: Economic Development, Environmental Planning, Geographic Information Systems, Land Development, Land Use, Transportation, and Urban Design. Rachel Matthews Prioleau earns her MCP, joining Eleanor Quinn Matthews (MCP'78) in the first mother/daughter pair to earn planning master's degrees at Tech.
1995 - The program moves to new offices in Architecture-East building. The Thera H. Richter Award is initiated, honoring the first woman MCP graduate (also the first woman to graduate with a master's degree from Tech). The Hahira Town Plan MCP studio project receives an American Planning Association National Student Project Award.
1996 - The Center for Geographic Information Systems is founded; Steven French becomes the first Center Director. Center offices and labs are located in Architecture Annex.
1997 - Joint degrees are established in Water Resources and Environmental Management (both with the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering). Tom Galloway and Georgia Tech host the inaugural Administrators Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Sandy Glatting Salsbury earns MCP joining Jack F. Glatting Sr. (MCP '65) in the first father/daughter pair to earn planning master's degrees at Tech.
1999 - Cheryl K. Contant (Program Director at University of Iowa) becomes sixth Program Director. The Glatting-Jackson Fellowship is instituted. Carol Barrett (MCP '75) and Lester Solin (MCP '70) are inducted in the inaugural class of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
2000 - Georiga Tech was the host of 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning in Atlanta.
2002 - The City Planning program becomes The City and Regional Planning program. The Master of City Planning (MCP) degree becomes the Master of City and Regional Planning (MCRP) degree.
2003 - Catherine Ross becomes Harry West Professor and Director of the newly founded Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development located in the new Technology Square Economic Development Building.
2005 - David Sawicki, FAICP, becomes Editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association.
2007 - Thomas D. Galloway dies tragically while serving as dean.
2008 - Bruce Stiftel, FAICP (Associate Dean at Florida State University) becomes seventh Program Director.
2009 - Galloway family endows Thomas D. Galloway Fellowships.
2010 - City & Regional Planning Program becomes the School of City & Regional Planning; Bruce Stiftel becomes the founding School Chair. The City and Regional Planning Ph.D. degree program is approved by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents.
Georgia Tech hosts the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning annual Ph.D. Workshop. Steve French is workshop chair. Troels Adrian's (MCRP '10) paper, Funding Supportive Housing in Georgia, receives the Edward McClure award for best master's student paper from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
Georgia Tech is co-organizer (with Sun Yat Sen University) of the 9th International Conference of the Urban Planning and Environments Association held in Guanzhou, China. Nancey Green Leigh and Perry Yang are co-chairs.
Georgia Tech Master of Science in Urban Design program is approved by Georgia Board of Regents with joint administration by the School of Architecture and the School of City and Regional Planning.
2011 - Georgia Tech's MCRP program is ranked 8th in the nation by Planetizen.
Subhrajit Guhathakurta (Associate Director of the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University) becomes the second Director of the Center for Geographic Information Systems
Ning Ai is the first graduate of the School of City & Regional Planning Ph.D. program.
2012 - Professors Subhrajit Guhathakurta and Nancey Green Leigh become co-editors of the Journal of Planning Education and Research published by Sage Publications in conjunction with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
The U.S. Department of Transportation names Georgia Tech home to one of ten national university transportation centers. Harry West Professor Catherine Ross is named as Co-Director of this National Center for Transportation Productivity and Management.
The Action Plan for the Fort Macpherson Community MCRP studio project receives an American Planning Association National Student Project Award.
2013 - Steven French is appointed Dean of the College of Architecture (now College of Design).
The Master of Science in Geographic Information Science and Technology (MS-GIST) degree program is approved by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents. The first 5 students enroll in the fall.
Thomas Hamed (MCRP Class of '15) is elected to the APA Student Representatives Council, Executive Committee.
Jesse Zaro-Moore's (MCRP Class of '14) paper, Notes from the Field on NSP1,NSP2, and NSP3: Policy Alternatives for Mitigating the Effects of Foreclosed and Abandoned Properties on Neighborhoods, receives the Edward McClure award for best master's student paper from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
2014 - The School is ranked 5th best planning school in the nation by Planetizen.
Georgia Tech team comprised of School of Architecture and School of City and Regional Planning Students reaches the finals in the Urban Land Institute Gerald D. Hines Urban Design Competition.Taylor Tyger (MCRP Class of '14) and Thomas Douthat are awarded Fulbright Scholarships. The Fall 2012 Sea Level Rise Studio wins the National APA Student Project Award.
2015 - Shelley Price (MCRP Class of '16) is elected to APA Student Representatives Council, Executive Committee.
Bruce Stiftel receives the Martin Meyerson Award for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
2016 - Georgia Tech team of MCRP, MS-UD, and MS-Computer Science students reaches the finals in the Urban Land Institute Gerald D. Hines Urban Design Competition.
The Georgia Tech College of Architecture becomes the Georgia Tech College of Design.
2017 - Georgia Tech's MCRP program is ranked 7th in the nation by Planetizen. Rebecca Van Dyke (MCRP Class of '18) is elected to APA Student Representatives Council, Executive Committee.
2018- Subhrajit Guhathakurta becomes the second chair of the School of City & Regional Planning.
Two Georgia Tech teams comprised of School of Architecture and School of City and Regional Planning Students reach the finals in the Urban Land Institute Gerald D. Hines Urban Design Competition.
Catherine Ross is named a Regents Professor by the University System of Georgia.
The first modular short course, "Confronting Homelessness," is taught to a group of students and industry professionals.
2019 - Two Ph.D. students, Evan Mallen and Jessica Fisch win Institute-wide awards for Outstanding Graduate Instructor and Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, respectively. The first student-driven studio in Puerto Rico takes place.
The inaugural SCaRP Advisory Board is formed with Jennifer Ball, Claudia M. Bilotto, AICP, Douglas R. Hooker, Debbie Kimerling, Cristina Pastore, AICP, P.E., and Steve Weir as the first members.
2020 - The Covid-19 pandemic sends students and faculty home to conduct classes virtually beginning in March after spring break.
As part of the growing Black Lives Matter movement that began in June after the killing of George Floyd by a member of the Minneapolis Police Department, SCaRP issued Our Commitment to Justice and Inclusive Communities with an action plan to combat racism in planning.
Larry Keating, Professor Emeritus at the Georgia Tech College of Design, wrote a comprehensive 35-year history of the planning at Tech for the discipline's 50th anniversary. View and read the paper: "Georgia Institute of Technology Graduate Program in City and Regional Planning: The First 35 Years," by Larry Keating (2003).


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Horrifying Images and Footage of a man displaying the charms that were used to bury up the fortune of an entire family has emerged online, which was shared by CIAO Naija on Facebook.
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Md. Lawmakers Mull Hogan's $48B Budget Proposal
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A $47.9 billion budget proposed by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan sets aside money for public safety, education, transportation and other expenditures in the state.
Most importantly for Hogan's fiscal 2021 spending plan he labeled the "Accountability Budget": no tax increases.
"We haven't had a single tax increase in the entire five years since I've been governor," he said Thursday, Jan. 16 while announcing legislation to provide tax relief for 230,000 Marylanders. "Over the past five years, we've been standing up and fighting hard to make it easier for all of our Maryland taxpayers."
According to a report last month from the Spending Affordability Committee, the state faces a structural deficit of $491 million next year and could rise to $1.2 billion by fiscal year 2025. The committee, comprised of state lawmakers and citizen advisory panel, recommended passing a balanced budget by the end of this year's 90-day session.
Those figures, highlighted in the report, "is forecast before accounting for any recommendations" from the $4 billion public school plan from the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education. The commission seeks to expand early childhood, increase teacher salaries and implement college- and career-readiness programs by 2030.
Based on legislation approved last year, the budget allocates roughly $355 million toward some of the recommendations in the plan, called "Blueprint for Maryland's Future."
Hogan agrees with some of the educational proposals, but has said he won't support any new tax increases to help for pay it.
However, the Democratic-controlled legislature made approving the plan a top priority. One way floated to pay for the ambitious plan to restructure the state's public education system is tax digital advertising.
The legislation proposed by Senate President Bill Ferguson and his predecessor, Sen. Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert County), seeks to tax revenue on internet companies such as Google up to 10 percent for users with a Maryland internet protocol (IP) address.
According to the bill, the state comptroller would administer the tax with gross revenues going toward the education plan. The bill, scheduled to be reviewed by the Senate's Budget and Taxation Committee, allows companies to report how much they earned from digital ads.
If revenue exceeds $1 million, then a company would file a state tax return to outline how much money was generated and to keep a record of the sales.
Other anticipated revenue in the budget estimated at $47.6 billion includes $13 billion in federal dollars, $11 billion from income taxes and $5 billion from sales taxes.
Meanwhile, Hogan's proposed budget earmarks $733 million for school construction that includes 19 projects in Baltimore City, 16 in Montgomery County, six in Anne Arundel County and three in Prince George's County.
In Prince George's, the budget allocates $15 million for renovations at the Largo campus of the county's community college.
Another $66 million would go toward transportation projects, including $19 million to complete work on a new interchange at Route 210 and Kirby Hill/Livingston roads in Oxon Hill.
What's missing from the budget, said Del. Erek Barron (D-District 24) of Mitchellville, is $7 million from a state program that helps revitalize communities. According to a description of the National Capital Strategic Economic Development fund, about 85 percent of projects approved are between Interstate 495 and D.C.
"That's a big hit for us and totally contrary to the governor's stated priorities," Barron said. "So we will work to correct this."
If lawmakers approve a balanced spending plan for the operating and capital budgets, it would take effect in the next fiscal year that begins July 1.
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Security situation in yazidi regions in northern iraq "precarious"
Yezidi refugees © Stefanie Jarkel
Five years ago, the IS attack on Yazidis in Iraq caused worldwide horror. To this day, the region is barely inhabitable and dominated by militias. A court nevertheless sees no reason for the victims to have regular refugee status.
The areas traditionally inhabited by Yazidis in northern Iraq are still unsafe a year and a half after the military victory over the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS). A Foreign Office spokesman described the security situation as "precarious". Although the Sinjar region is formally under Baghdad's control, the Iraqi government can "only provide limited security". Numerous militias are present there. This is a major obstacle to the return of Yazidi IDPs to their homes, she said.
The Sinjar region had been invaded by IS fighters five years ago – in early August 2014. The terrorists killed the men, and the women and girls were sold as sex slaves.
Many missing and displaced
Many of them are still missing. Tens of thousands of people fled to the mountains then, where they waited for help in intense heat and little shade. Before the IS attack, about 600.000 Yazidis lived in the Sinjar region. Today, it is estimated that there are only about 40.000.
According to the German Foreign Office, there are still around 300 in Iraq.000 Yazidi internally displaced persons. Of them, 87 percent would have said in a survey that they did not want to return to their homeland. In addition to the difficult security situation, the reasons for this are the destroyed infrastructure, the lack of basic necessities for subsistence as well as severe trauma and great mistrust of the Arab neighbors. However, the situation varies greatly from place to place in some cases.
No regular refugee status
Nevertheless, Yazidis are not entitled to regular refugee status, according to recent court rulings. Last Tuesday, the Lower Saxony Higher Administrative Court had ruled in two rulings that Yazidis from the Sinjar region "do not face group persecution" if they return (case numbers 9 LB 133/19 and 9 LB 148/19).
In the first instance, an Iraqi Yazidi and his sister were granted refugee status in Germany on the amption of group persecution. But the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf) had rejected this and only granted subordinate "subsidiary protection".
At the request of the Bamf, the Higher Administrative Court allowed the appeal in order to clarify in principle the question of whether Yazidis are subject to group persecution because of their religious affiliation. This is "not sufficiently probable at present following the military pushback against the Islamic State," the court said. An appeal to the Federal Administrative Court was not admitted.
Yazidis in Iraq receive only little attention
Subsidiary protection is granted in Germany if there is no danger to life and limb due to discrimination against an entire group, but in a specific case. Refugees with such protection status must have it renewed annually and generally have a harder time bringing their closest relatives – spouses or minor children – to join them.
Meanwhile, the Yazidis in Iraq are receiving less and less attention. The aid organization Care said, "We are at a crucial turning point: humanitarian aid money is increasingly going to other parts of the country."According to the Bonn-based aid agency's project officer for Iraq, Lena Siedentopp, international donors are following the media attention focused on crisis areas such as the former IS stronghold of Mol.
But the people who fled five years ago are still holding out in the camps, he said. It warned in Dohuk, northern Iraq, where many refugee camps are, that funding shortfalls could put many lives at risk.
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I believe success as a performer at whatever level requires education. To fully experience the industry in all it's weirdness, to rock the opportunities as they are presented and to create magic, you must understand it and the people who work in it – the non-performers, the creators and the decision makers.
I love to help and advise people – it is my favorite thing to do but I am a New Zealander and I do struggle with pushing my views on others. Ask for help – please.
Communication is vital. I can't always take your calls but I am very quick to respond to email and text and I do try to return calls the same day.
Trust is also vital. You must trust me to believe in you and do my best and I must trust you to believe in me and do your best.
Yes I sell stuff….specifically and only an online course on The Village Online. This course is for anybody who is serious about becoming a working professional actor. It contains all the information I wish I had time to tell each individual client but I don't – and it changes A LOT AND OFTEN. It's easier to update one source.
Why do we charge for it? Because we want to work with those who understand that investing in their career is necessary.
When I choose to work with a performer, I do so with bucket loads of hope. It doesn't always work out. Such is life and no-one is perfect but you can be sure I tried my hardest to make it work with the tolls I have been given by the performer.
I don't work with or acknowledge haters, trolls or intolerant people….no exceptions.
I am plain spoken. What you need to hear is what you will hear. It will not always be what you want to hear.
I love to travel. Lucky for me the industry and my job is global so I am not tied to any one region – and neither are you.


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Teresa Milbrodt grew up in Bowling Green, Ohio, where she developed an odd affinity for Midwestern flatness and gray skies. She received her MFA in Creative Writing and her MA in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University, and was then permitted to move to the Rocky Mountains. She is the author of a short story collection, Bearded Women: Stories .
Milbrodt's stories have appeared in Nimrod , North American Review , Crazyhorse , Natural Bridge , Indiana Review , The Cream City Review , Hayden's Ferry Review , and New Orleans Review , among other literary journals. Several of her stories have also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Western State Colorado University in Gunnison, Colorado, where she lives with her husband Tristan and cat Aspen. She is still adjusting to absurdly sunny January days.
BEARDED WOMEN: STORIES by Teresa Milbrodt
Find Teresa Milbrodt on:
Teresa Milbrodt, Fictioneer
Teresa Milbrodt interviewed at Scholars and Rogues
"[Bearded Women] takes human characteristics which we would normally associate with 'freak shows' and weds them to narratives about 'normal' human problems. It's a brilliant conceit—and Milbrodt executes it so well that the reader finds him/herself following each story not with the voyeur's eye to the main character's 'otherness' but with the sympathy/empathy that we would show to anyone we encountered who was struggling with problems that we've either faced and solved ourselves or helped friends or family members face and solve."
—Scholars & Rogues
"The bizarre aspects of the characters in the stories of Bearded Women serve a particular function, to help us to look closely. Because the narrator in 'Bianca's Body' has a lower torso with sexual organs sticking out of her abdomen, we pay closer attention to the dilemma she faces. Consciously or not, we analyze much more deeply than we would if the narrator had nothing odd about her. In this way, Milbrodt is able to present us universal problems in a way that seems absolutely fresh and new."
—PANK Magazine
"The stories are grounded in literary realism, then crack the boundaries of the form and launch into magical realist dimensions . . . firmly establishing Milbrodt as a premier writer, and maybe the founder, of Midwestern mythic."
"Milbrodt grounds the extraordinary inside a framework that forces the reader to look away from the freak-show qualities of a single-eyed girl and instead focus on how one would cope with that situation. The payoff is quiet and poignant, but powerful in unexpectedly ways because the oddity of the protagonist's appearance does not single her out as much as it makes us all too aware of the frustrations, dashed hopes, and resigned sighs that we all experience in our lives, especially for those of us who feel stuck in dead-end jobs or stagnant relationships."
—OF Blog
"ChiZine Publications delivers a phenomenal collection with Teresa Milbrodt's Bearded Women. . . . Milbrodt's writing is akin to that of Carol Emshwiller or Karen Russell (Swamplandia!). The most outré beings and events are presented with matter-of-fact mimetic clarity and emotional empathy."
—Asimov's
"Dehumanized by a world which has used their oddities for entertainment purposes, the women in Teresa Milbrodt's Bearded Women: Stories challenge our thoughts on genetic variances and humanity and how we view our own selves. With wit and charm, she beautifully weaves short stories about women who are as real as we, who are strong in the presence of adversity, and whose only desire is to live their lives, embracing those aspects which make them so different than those around them. These stories of women cause us to examine our own thoughts and challenge the big top freak spectacular."
—Living Peacefully With Children
"Freakish in mind or body they may be, but Milbrodt's characters have the same problems as everyone else. . . . The characters are worth knowing, and the insight they provide into unusual lives is worth pondering."
—Tzer Island
"[Bearded Women] was beautifully written but it had this strange, lyrical feel to it. The thing I loved about this novel was that even though each of the short stories contained a 'freak' per se, their emotions and feelings of being different were relatable, tangible and so very real."
—Chasing Empty Pavements


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Q: Img in h2 not lining up in Internet Explorer I'm designing my personal website at the moment and want to have images inside h2 headlines in the same line. The markup I'm currently using validates, so does the css and the desired effect shows up on Firefox, Chrome, Safari and IE8 in standards mode.
IE8 in compatibility mode and IE6+7 however put the image into the next line which looks awful, of course. I'm not quite sure how to work around this and currently I'm stuck. Help and an explanation, possibly a pointer where I could educate myself more about those particular things with IE would be greatly appreciated.
The code can be viewed live here: http://storage.planet-tiax.de/test/index.html

A: Don't use the <img> tag for what you're trying to do. Although they are images, they are not what the <img> tag is meant for. The tag is meant to display images that are content on the page. In your case, the images are stylistic elements of the page and therefore belong in the CSS, i.e. as background images.
Placing the images instead inside the CSS, as background images, should also alleviate your IE concerns:
h2#weblog { background: url(images/weblog.png) right no-repeat }
As far as a resource that will let you know of IE headaches, I find that QuirksMode gives a good overview of the problems involved in IE, as well as some insight into how to fix them.

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buying a suit today in Austin, TX. would appreciate any local shops or chains that have a good reputation. I'm 5 foot 8 and weigh 140 with slightly larger than normal hips so I assume massive amounts of tailoring will be required. Any general advice thanked.
Oh, price range is up to about 800.
And that pic is close to what I'm looking for.
followup question, is it better to buy a 300-500 dollar suit from mens warehouse and spend the rest of the money on getting to tailored to all hell somewhere else.
Also, tailoring will be required either way but be sure that you know what you want. Most tailors work for normies and don't alter things to look like your pic. You'll need to be adamant about having the cuffs/sleeves higher than normal and having the sleeves slimmed.
yea, but the closest one to me is 150 miles away.
yea, I'd like to be able to talk to an employee who knows what he talking about while buying it. Might just resort to getting in online then tailored.
self bump, going to get my suit now, ill post a picture when i get back. obviously it will be before it tailored.