The administration's plan, soon to be released, could unleash private partnerships and reduce Washington's role.
Presidents ritually lament America's decaying infrastructure and promise to improve it—and they've failed every time. But now there's finally someone in the White House with a workable strategy. The Trump administration really does know how to make infrastructure great again: get the federal government out of the way.
Whether Donald Trump will actually follow this strategy won't be clear until the White House releases the details of its infrastructure plan, expected in the next several weeks. But if he follows the guiding principles already put forth by his administration—and can somehow persuade Congress to go along—he could start undoing the costly mistakes that have left the country with dilapidated bridges, deteriorating transit systems, and congested highways.
In previews of their infrastructure initiative, administration officials have promised to shift responsibility back where it belongs: to the cities and states that benefit from these projects. The administration has vowed to streamline the federal permitting process, to ease other regulations that have blocked projects, and to change policies discouraging local governments from partnering with the private sector. The goal is to stimulate grass-roots creativity along with $1 trillion in spending, as Trump promised during his campaign, with most of the money coming from user fees and local tax dollars, not Washington.
This philosophical shift appalls many members of Congress, especially Democrats who want to go on showering federal largesse on their union supporters, but it's the only practical way to pay for the necessary work. It's also the only way to force localities to focus on cost-effective projects, instead of squandering other people's money on boondoggles like the infamous "bridge to nowhere" in Alaska or the bullet train to nowhere in California.
Making local taxpayers and users pay for their bridges, roads, and transit systems may sound radical, but it was the standard approach during America's rise as an industrial power in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. New York built the Brooklyn Bridge and the subway system on its own, mostly by relying on private companies. Why should it need help from Washington just to maintain them? Why should taxpayers in Texas subsidize the outrageously inflated costs of running and upgrading New York's subway system? If New York politicians want to reward campaign contributors and union supporters with sweetheart contracts, they should give the bill to their own constituents.
In reality, though, the Interstate system is the most powerful illustration of how a perfectly sound and seemingly simple project can be ruined by central planners. There was no need to nationalize highways, which had traditionally been a state responsibility. Pennsylvania and other states pioneered the expressway era with their own network of turnpikes, which generated plenty of revenue to maintain the roads while repaying the bondholders who financed them. But then Eisenhower and Congress, arguing that a highway network was necessary for national defense, concentrated money, power, and decision-making in Washington.
The new Interstate system, financed by gas taxes, seemed to work well at first. Drivers marveled at how they could zoom on open highways without stopping at traffic lights or toll booths. But the Interstates were ultimately doomed by the inherent inflexibility and political deal-making of a centralized system. The highways were needlessly expensive, particularly in cities. In order to get urban members of Congress to go along, Washington bribed them with extra money to build highways that obliterated neighborhoods; the projects would never have been built if cities and states had been spending their own money. The damage to cities was compounded by Washington's one-size-fits-all requirements to build highways with wide lanes and shoulders—an attractive safety feature for an expressway through the prairies of Kansas but one that doesn't make sense in a dense urban neighborhood. Worst of all, the central planners outlawed tolls on new federally funded highways, thus preventing states from using a financing mechanism that would have ensured proper long-term maintenance and could be used to reduce congestion at peak times.
The result, half a century later: a highway system that no longer works. It's horribly congested and in bad shape physically. Much of the system needs to be rebuilt because the highways are at the end of their useful life, yet there's not even enough money to maintain the existing roads. That's partly because gas taxes haven't kept up with inflation and partly because Congress has been raiding the highway "trust fund" for non-highway projects like transit systems, museums, bike paths, and trails for snowmobiles and horses.
But that's also the good news: the shortage of government revenue means that politicians must look for alternative sources. They've turned to private companies to maintain and build highways in Virginia, Indiana, Florida, Colorado, Texas, and other states. These public-private partnerships aren't a panacea for America's infrastructure problems, but they have remarkable potential. They're common around the world, where many roads are financed, built, and run by companies that recoup the investments through toll revenues. In America, they're rarer because of federal policies, but if Trump can persuade Congress to remove these obstacles, investors will be ready to back more American projects.
What's needed is a new kind of highway system: Interstate 2.0, as Robert Poole of the Reason Foundation calls it, which could ease traffic jams by using congestion pricing at peak times and create separate lanes especially built for huge trucks. Building it requires giving the states freedom to innovate, as Poole and other reformers have been urging for decades—unsuccessfully, for the most part, because Washington has been reluctant to surrender its stranglehold on transportation policy and funding. But now it's the White House pushing the reforms.
Winning support will be difficult, and not only because so many Democrats are loath to give Trump any kind of legislative victory. Many Democrats still cling to the progressive belief that infrastructure should be managed by central planners, and members of both parties want to go on dispensing federal grants to their districts. Pork-barrel spending is always good politics, especially when the money is going for something that sounds as virtuous as a bridge or transit system. But if Congress really wants to improve America's infrastructure, it should turn the job over to someone else.


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Tag: Jazz Fest
Review: 'Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story,' starring George Wein, Quint Davis, Wynton Marsalis, Irma Thomas, Jimmy Buffett and Bruce Springsteen
Verdine White of Earth, Wind & Fire in "Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story" (Photo courtesy of The Kennedy/Marshall Company and Sony Pictures Classics)
"Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story"
Directed by Frank Marshall and Ryan Suffern
Culture Representation: Taking place in New Orleans, the documentary "Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story" features a cast of white and black people (with a few Latinos), mostly music artists, who are connected in some way to Jazz Fest, an annual music and cultural festival in New Orleans.
Culture Clash: Jazz Fest has had its share of obstacles, including overcoming racial segregation issues, Hurricane Katrina and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Culture Audience: "Jazz Fest" will appeal primarily to people who are interested in this festival and its impact on New Orleans and pop culture.
Nashville Super Choir in "Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story" (Photo courtesy of The Kennedy/Marshall Company and Sony Pictures Classics)
"Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story" is a purely laudatory documentary, told mostly from artists' perspectives. The film is sometimes unfocused, and some of the commentary praise is too effusive, but the dynamic concert scenes make the movie a worthwhile watch. The movie capably demonstrates how Jazz Fest has become a necessary and influential cultural institution in New Orleans.
Directed by Frank Marshall and Ryan Suffern, "Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story" does nothing groundbreaking in how the film is presented. It's a traditionally formatted documentary that blends archival footage with the movie's exclusive interviews. "Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story" does an excellent job of showing the diversity of Jazz Fest, the commonly used name for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Despite its name, this beloved event isn't just a festival for jazz music. Jazz Fest—an outdoor festival which traditionally takes place in the spring at Fair Grounds Race Course and Slots—also features R&B, rock, pop, country, gospel, blues, Latin music, Americana, world music, and a number of other music genres from numerous artists from around the world. Jazz Fest, which launched in 1970, is owned by the non-profit New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Foundation Inc. The event is produced by AEG Presents and Festival Productions Inc.-New Orleans.
Jazz Fest founder George Wein (who died in 2021, at age 95) is one of the people interviewed in the documentary. A longtime concert promoter, Wein says in the documentary that he was first approached to do Jazz Fest in 1962 by "someone from the Hotel Corporation of America" to do a "Newport [Jazz Festival] type of festival." Wein said that because of Jim Crow laws at the time that made racial segregation legal in Louisiana, "I couldn't have white musicians and African [black] musicians on stage at the same time."
And so, Jazz Fest had to wait to launch only after the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed into law and ended legal racial segregation in the United States. Shell Oil Company signed on to be Jazz Fest's first corporate sponsor. Jazz Fest's first concert lineup in the event's inaugural year included Mahalia Jackson, Duke Wellington, Pete Fountain, Al Hirt, Clifton Chenier, Fats Domino, The Meters, and the Preservation Hall Band.
Jazz Fest received support from the artistic community from the beginning, although attendance from the public was very low by today's Jazz Fest standards. In the first year of Jazz Fest, which took place in Congo Square in 1970, about 350 people attended. Since then, Jazz Fest has become the biggest annual concert event in New Orleans, with an estimated 425,000 to 475,000 people in attendance, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jazz Fest founding producer Quint Davis comments in the documentary: "When Jazz Fest started, it was like we were presenting this music to the world … There were a lot of reasons everybody thought we would fail. One of them was bringing Cajun people and Latin people together."
Davis adds, "Well, everybody eats, and everybody dances. So, if we can get people together to see what they eat and see what they dance to, I think that can work. When it was all put together in one place, it was stunning to the local people. They were amazed at themselves and felt tremendous pride."
One particular New Orleans family became integral to Jazz Fest: the Marsalis family, who are world-renowned for their musical accomplishments, particularly in jazz. Ellis Marsalis Jr. (who died in 2020, at age 85) and four of his six sons—Wynton, Branson, Delfeayo, and Jason—are interviewed in the documentary, and they share fond memories of performing at Jazz Fest. The Marsalis brothers literally grew up at Jazz Fest and frequently performed as part of the musical group called the Ellis Marsalis Family Tribute. Branford Marsalis comments on performing with his brothers and his father Ellis: "When we walked out on stage, he ceased being my dad. He was the leader of the group."
Davis comments on another popular Jazz Fest artist: "Jimmy Buffett is very, very special to us. He's been responsible for drawing more people to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival than maybe anybody else." Buffett says in the documentary: "Everything I do, from writing shows to writing songs comes out from being a child of the Mardi Gras."
Other artists interviewed include Irma Thomas; Pitbull; Boyfriend; Sony Landreth; Big Freedia; Tom Jones; Divine Ladies member Angelina Sever; Preservation Hall Jazz Band member Ben Jaffe; Cowboy Mouth member Fred LeBlanc; High Steppers Brass Band member Daryl Fields; Tab Benoit; Marc Savoy; John Hammond; and Earth, Wind & Fire members Philip Bailey, Verdine White and Ralph Johnson. The documentary also has archival footage of several performances, including those by Aaron Neville; Katy Perry with the Gospel Soul Children; Thomas; Pitbull; B.B. King; Al Green; Hammond; Big Freedia; Preservation Hall Jazz Band; Herbie Hancock; Nashville Super Choir; and Earth, Wind & Fire.
There's an entire segment in the documentary about the food of Jazz Fest, with soundbites from some Jazz Fest food vendors, along with the expected delectable-looking display of New Orleans cuisine, such as jambalaya, crawfish, pralines and beignets. The movie tends to drift off-topic in the middle of the film, when it veers into a prolonged discussion of Mardi Gras, including the history of Mardi Gras and how Mardi Gras has impacted New Orleans Fortunately, the documentary eventually gets back on track to talking about Jazz Fest.
One of the best aspects of the documentary is the discussion about how Jazz Fest had a triumphant comeback in 2006, after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Bruce Springsteen's emotionally moving Jazz Fest 2006 performance of "My City of Ruins" is in the documentary. Springsteen comments, "There are certain moments when you meet your audience, and that's when the healing begins. It was one of the most beautiful concert experiences I ever had."
The epilogue of "Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story" includes mention of how, for the first time in Jazz Fest history, the event was cancelled. It happened in 2020 and 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The epilogue includes a brief mention of Jazz Fest's return in 2022, with footage of Buffet performing a rousing cover version of the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want."
"Jazz Fest" is a documentary that often comes across as an electronic press kit video, because the commentary is non-stop praise of Jazz Fest and/or New Orleans, with no mention of any under-reported problems of Jazz Fest. The movie lacks any constructive criticism of the event and doesn't talk about issues such as overcrowding or overpricing. But as a documentary that's meant to celebrate the event, "Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story" is at its best when it lets the music and performances do the talking.
Sony Pictures Classics released "Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story" in select U.S. cinemas on May 13, 2022.
2019 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival: Rolling Stones, Katy Perry, Dave Matthews Band among headliners
The Rolling Stones (Photo by Dave J Hogan)
The Rolling Stones, Katy Perry, Dave Matthews Band, Jimmy Buffett & The Coral Reefer Band, Chris Stapleton and Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band are among the headliners at the 50th New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which will take place at the New Orleans Fairgrounds from April 25 to April 28 and from May 2 to May 5, 2019. It will be the first time that the Rolling Stones will perform at the event, which is also known as Jazz Fest,
Other artists announced for Jazz Fest 2019 include Santana, Van Morrison, Al Green, Earth, Wind & Fire, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue with Nevilles, Gladys Knight, The Revivalists, Leon Bridges, John Fogerty, Chaka Khan, Herbie Hancock, Tank and The Bangas, Bonnie Raitt, Irma Thomas, Gary Clark Jr., The Head and The Heart, The Doobie Brothers, Jimmy Cliff, Ziggy Marley, Aaron Neville, Boz Scaggs, Galactic, Jerry Lee Lewis, Indigo Girls, Rebirth Brass Band, Mavis Staples, Los Lobos, Big Freedia, Kamasi Washington, Rita Coolidge, Buddy Guy, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Taj Mahal & the Phantom Blues Band, Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk,Ani DiFranco, the Radiators, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Little Feat, Anders Osborne, North Mississippi Allstars, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Foundation of Funk, George Porter Jr. & Runnin' Pardners, Steve Earle & the Dukes and The Soul Rebels.
March 30, 2019 UPDATE: The Rolling Stones have canceled their Jazz Fest 2019 performance on May 2 because lead singer Mick Jagger is being treated for an undisclosed medical problem. Click here for more information.
April 4, 2019 UPDATE: Fleetwood Mac has replaced the Rolling Stones at Jazz Fest 2019.
April 8, 2019 UPDATE: Fleetwood Mac has canceled its Jazz Fest 2019 performance due to singer Stevie Nicks having the flu. The band has postponed four of its tour dates because of the illness. Jazz Fest issued this statement that said in part: "Stay tuned for updates about May 2 talent and tickets."

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xXx 3 Return of Xander Cage
Here's the official track list of the soundtrack of of xXx 3 Return of Xander Cage, the upcoming action thriller movie sequel directed by D.J. Caruso and starring Vin Diesel, Deepika Padukone, Donnie Yen, Samuel L. Jackson, Tony Jaa, Nina Dobrev, Ruby Rose, Rory McCann, Kris Wu, Ariadna Gutierrez, Toni Collette , Nicky Jam, Rory McCann, Al Sapienza, Michael Bisping, Ariadna Gutiérrez, Hermione Corfield,Tony Gonzalez, Neymar, and Andrey Ivchenko:
xXx 3 Return of Xander Cage Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Various artists.
1. In My Foreign – The Americanos (feat. Ty Dolla $ign, Lil Yachty, Nicky Jam & French Montana) (3:38)
2. All the Way Up (Remix) – Fat Joe, Remy Ma, David Guetta & GLOWINTHEDARK (feat. French Montana & Infared) (3:31)
3. Divebomb – Madsonik & Jake Stanczak (feat. Tom Morello) (3:33)
4. Anthem – Alesso (5:17)
5. Gun Shy – ImanoS (feat. Pusha T & Karen Harding) (3:54)
6. Mercy – Bishop Briggs (2:48)
7. Burning Man – watt (feat. Post Malone) (3:17)
8. Blood in the Cut – K.Flay (3:08)
9. Juice – Kris Wu (3:10)
10. Take It to the Top – Madsonik (3:53)
11. Thank God – Ice Cube (5:16)
Check out the official music video of the theme song:
The Americanos – In My Foreign ft. Ty Dolla $ign, Lil Yachty, Nicky Jam & French Montana [Video]
Music videos are available for some of the other songs:
Fat Joe, Remy Ma, David Guetta, GLOWINTHEDARK – All The Way Up (Remix) (Audio)
Madsonik, Kill the Noise, Tom Morello – 'Divebomb' Behind the Scenes
Anthem – Alesso
Extreme athlete turned government operative Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) comes out of self-imposed exile, thought to be long dead, and is set on a collision course with deadly alpha warrior Xiang (Donnie Yen) and his team in a race to recover a sinister and seemingly unstoppable weapon known as Pandora's Box. Recruiting an all-new group of thrill-seeking cohorts, Xander finds himself enmeshed in a deadly conspiracy that points to collusion at the highest levels of world governments.
The movie soundtrack of xXx 3 Return of Xander Cage will be released on January 20, 2017 by Paramount Music.
And here's the track list of the film score:
xXx 3 Return of Xander Cage Original Motion Picture Score
Music by Brian Tyler and Robert Lydecker.
1. xXx The Return of Xander Cage (4:05)
2. Xander Cage … Live and In Concert (1:55)
3. I Live for This $#!% (4:15)
4. Windfall (2:22)
5. Carte Blanche (3:01)
6. Launched (4:08)
7. The Last Great Adventure (5:38)
8. Pandora's Box (2:58)
9. Rock, Paper, Scissors, Grenade Launcher (2:19)
10. A New Ride (2:42)
11. Tattoos and Triangulation (3:34)
12. Evolution (5:42)
13. Wave Riders (3:45)
14. Twenty Two and a Half (3:05)
15. Battle of the X's (5:33)
16. Not So Special Forces (2:42)
17. Read Between the Lines (3:51)
18. Besting the Best of the Best (2:28)
19. xXx Incorporated (2:40)
20. Xero Gravity (2:38)
21. Brotherhood (1:35)
Watch the movie trailer:
20 January 2017 tags: Brian Tyler, Paramount Music, Robert Lydecker, xXx 3


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Q: FileSystemWatcher OnChanged event Is there a way to see what exactly changed when OnChanged is called?  I am trying to filter out file attribute changes.

A: The method provides an argument of type FileSystemEventArgs, which supplies data on the type and path of the change.
You can use this to filter only the WatcherChangeTypes.Changed value, which is:

The change of a file or folder. The types of changes include: changes
  to size, attributes, security settings, last write, and last access
  time.

See @Oliver's answer for the supplemental info to this answer, I was just about to add that :)

A: You can use NotifyFilter property to specify what kind of change you want to observe. As Rotem already stated the FileSystemEventArgs class also provides some information of a change.

A: I don't think you can filter out anything as granular as which attributes were changed.  You can use the NotifyFilters property to specify that you only want to raise events when file attributes were changed.  The event is raised when each change happens so you can in response to the event simply create a FileInfo class with the provided path of the file and inspect the new attributes.

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Q: WinSCP script file with username and password How to run WinSCP script file that needs username and password.
I want to run this using batch file:
cd C:\Program Files\WinSCP

WinSCP.com

open ftp://ipaddress:port -passive=on

....after that, I need to input my username
...and after that I need to input my password
Here is my batch file, but it always fails:
cd C:\Program Files\WinSCP
WinSCP.com /command "option batch on" "option confirm off" "open ftp://ipaddress:port -passive=on"""
"-username myusername"
"-password mypassword"
"cd PO"
"cd D:\"
"mget *.*"

Thank for your help...

A: Use
open ftp://user:password@ipaddress:port

References:

*

*open command;

*session URL

Also note that WinSCP has the put command for recursive uploads. The mput is just an alias to the put, supported for compatibility reasons.

You probably wanted to do lcd D:\, instead of cd D:\.

A: According to the help file you are making up your own parameters which is why they don't work.
Use traditional means of specifing your password as Help shows. NOTE: These techniques are REMOVED from Windows for security reasons.
ftp://username:password@ftp.microsoft.com

According to Help you can also pipe standard in with parameters.
http://winscp.net/eng/docs/commandline


This movie is a Christmas favorite of mine. We always watch it on Christmas Eve before putting the kids to bed. Call me a sentimental fool, but I find the story heartwarming.
Recently, the "lost ending" of It's a Wonderful Life was unearthed. Watch it and enjoy!


Dinner with friends? Show your authentic side, with a sophisticated serving suggestion for your Le Rustique cheeses. When serving drinks, dice a Brie and put the pieces on cocktail sticks, offering your friends a choice of jams or spices such as cumin as an accompaniment. Later in the evening, bring out your Le Rustique cheeses on a wood or slate board. We recommend spacing them out, so they don't touch and retain their unique characters. Accompany everything with bread, fruit and wine! Enjoy a Le Rustique cheeseboard with friends: A warm and authentic recipe for a top quality evening!
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Q: $f$ not measurable, but $\lvert f\rvert$ measurable Do you know an example of a function $f\colon\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ which is not $\mathcal{B}$-measurable but $\lvert f\rvert$ is $\mathcal{B}$-measurable?

A: Pick any non-measurable set $A$. Define:
$$
f(x) = \begin{cases}
1 &: x \in A \\
-1 &: x \not\in A
\end{cases}
$$
$|f| = 1$ is a constant function, hence measurable. $f$ is easily seen to be non-measurable.


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Prepares and facilitates communication between engineering disciplines, clients, agencies, consultants and contractors. Prepares and conducts presentations to clients, public interest groups and Commissions.
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Applicants must meet the minimum qualifications by the final filing date unless otherwise noted.
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.Wells Fargo's In-House Agency (IHA) is looking for a Senior Copywriter to join a newly forming three-person Digital Transformation Team (that also includes a Senior Art Director and a Senior Account Executive).
More specifically, we're looking for a digitally centric senior copywriter who's known for coming up with amazing ideas – someone who can consistently wow us and our clients with creativity in concept, presentation and execution. It's not the usual agency grind. But it is a good challenge, an opportunity to be a true difference maker and build your own career adventure.
Our digital dream team will sit in San Francisco, joining a vibrant in-house agency that has gone through a transformation in the last 24 months. We've aligned teams to every line of business, tightened process to focus on clear and actionable assignments from internal clients and built a culture of inclusiveness and camaraderie. This new digitally focused team will lead the development of campaign-level work across various Wells Fargo Lines of Business while also helping to raise the digital game for the entire 60-plus creative group of the In-House Agency.
We're looking to dial up our digital chops in a big way. The opportunity is to help lead us to the digital high ground. Our agency has a singular focus on helping Wells Fargo customers succeed in life financially. We're all in on delivering great work that works – for our customers, for our brand, for our business.
As the senior senator of copywriting for this digital SWAT team, you must be a powerhouse thinker and writer, an inspirational leader, and a joy to work with as we build a truly world-class in-house agency together.
• Creating digital marketing (paid/owned/earned) from insights to implementation and developing integrated marketing campaigns that encompass the entire spectrum of digital experiences.
• Shaping customer experiences across all digital touchpoints – from websites and landing pages to online advertising and distributed branded content, including animated and live-action video.
• Thinking conceptually, in partnership with Senior Art Director, during brainstorming and idea generation.
• Collaborating closely with Art Directors and Designers throughout concept development, presentation, and execution.
• Working closely with other copywriters to shape the vocabulary for communicating in channels across various lines of business.
• Representing the IHA team in both internal and client presentations, effectively communicating both strategic quality and creative rationale.
Portfolios will be requested from selected candidates.


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Contract & Grievances
Welcome to United Academics! By joining your union, you are strengthening our collective voice and ability to enact positive change for our colleagues and our students.
Once you've filled out the form linked below, our staff organizer Heather will confirm your intent via email. Dues are 1.1% of salary and are deducted monthly, typically starting the first paycheck after joining.
If you were previously a member of the union and are rejoining the bargaining unit (for instance, after being department head) you do not need to re-join.
Even if you don't have time to serve, you can stay informed by attending our regular membership meetings.
Get Involved ...
There are lots of ways to make a difference in our community. United Academics offers opportunities to work with other good people doing good things.
We have three standing caucuses—some meet to solve issues, others meet to find community—which get together quarterly.
We have faculty representatives, stewards, committees, and bargaining teams. There's always something to do around here! (Even if "here" means via Zoom).
We're bargaining a new Collective Bargaining Agreement this Winter.
Find your community here!
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Share what's happening in your unit by becoming a steward or rep!
Stewards serve in a voluntary capacity. Each department/unit may select at least one steward. An important piece of being a good steward is to listen to your colleagues and share any concerns with union leadership or staff. It is also possible that a colleague may ask you to accompany them to a meeting. Additional information about being a steward can be found here in the Bylaws of United Academics.
Representatives (reps) are elected to 2-year terms and have the authority to vote on union business, including approval of the budget and any changes tothe Constitution or other internal policies. Representative positions are allotted on the basis of employment classification and by college or school. Representatives also serve as stewards for their department or unit.
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Representatives and stewards constitute the Representative Assembly. The Representative Assembly meets twice per term to discuss workplace and organizational concerns, as well as the strategic direction of our union.
Want to learn more? Email Heather!
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Chair of the Representative Assembly
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Where do you work? Department Religious Studies and the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies
How long have you been at UO? 16 years
Why did you want to be on the team? The union protects faculty and gives voice to our collective values. As a member of United Academics, I am committed to ensuring that my colleagues are treated with the respect they deserve and to helping the university solve problems that impede student and faculty success. I have served on the bargaining team twice before, and I hope that my experience will help the team as it negotiates a new contract. In my previous career, I worked for national employee benefit and compensation consulting firms. I have found that this knowledge has been valuable as we discuss relevant issues at the table.
Where did you go on your last vacation? Los Angeles – Thanksgiving with my family.
OMCAT
Organizing and Membership focuses on maintaining a strong membership in the union and organizing events such as General Membership Meetings (GMMs) and the Representative Assembly.
The CAT focuses on engaging and communicating with faculty throughout the bargaining process. We talk with faculty and keep them informed about what's happening at the table, and relay member concerns back to the negotiating team. We develop messaging and plan campaigns and actions (think slogans, posters, buttons, rallies). CAT members increase faculty participation in bargaining by turning colleagues out to sessions and recruiting new activists, stewards/reps, and CAT members.
Because the work between the two committees overlap, we have joined forces and now we are the OMCAT! (Meow.)
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Memorial garden designed by TGP Landscape Architects opens in Aberdeen
Posted by Amy Fitz-Hugh | Jun 24, 2019 | Design, Featured, Latest
The Aberdeen memorial garden for families affected by past practices around the cremation of babies has opened to the public.
The space at Hazlehead Park has been named the Rainbow Garden by the Working Group of parents affected who designed it, with inspiration from the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
The song was also the inspiration from the stunning bronze sculpture in the middle of the garden, which features flying birds.
The design of the garden and the sculpture were agreed last year (2018) by the Working Group. Designed to evoke feelings of reflectiveness, peace, remembrance, forward-looking, uplifting, sorrow, hope, love, stillness, responsibility and reconciliation. It is designed to be open and welcoming, while at the same time is a place which allows for private emotions.
A spokesperson for the Working Group said:
"The design of both the garden and the sculpture are beautiful and have captured what we were looking for. We hope parents and other people affected will find the space to be a nice quiet place for contemplation and remembering."
The garden has been designed by TGP Landscape Architects. It includes an arched entrance and several seated areas in the circumference of a grassed circular area with the sculpture as the main feature. A more private area has been incorporatedwhere families affected can sit, and also have names of those affected permanently inscribed on plaques if they wish.
TGP prepared options and then worked together with the Working Group to develop its preferred design. The area chosen in Hazlehead Park for the garden and sculpture is a secluded quieter area, away from the main park while at the same time is easily accessible.
Maja Quille was chosen as the artist for the bronze 1.4m high sculpture. Her flowing design of flying birds enclosing a seat was chosen from a shortlist of four after 20 people submitted proposals for the sculpture.
The Working Group meetings were chaired by John Birrell from Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland, who has vast experience in bereavement care and was a member of the Infant
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Matthieu Pigasse to quit as CEO of Lazard France
Paris (AFP)
French investment banker Matthieu Pigasse, a major shareholder in France's Le Monde newspaper, is to resign his executive positions at Lazard, the US investment bank announced Sunday.
Pigasse, chairman and chief executive of Lazard France, will step down at the end of the year, said the statement on the bank's website.
"I am excited to begin my next chapter beyond investment banking in a new entrepreneurial project," Pigasse said in the statement.
While he has given no details of the project, one source told AFP Sunday that Pigasse would be elaborating in the coming weeks.
Pigasse is also deputy CEO of Lazard's financial advisory.
As well as his roles at Lazard, Pigasse is known in France as a major investor in the news media. His LNEI group owns a package of media outlets including Les Inrocks magazine and radio stations.
In 2010, he also helped refinance France's centre-left daily newspaper Le Monde, along with other investors.
He sold some of his stake last year to billionaire Czech investor Daniel Kretinsky, sparking fears at the paper over its editorial independence.
In September, around 500 writers, artists and activists including US whistleblower Edward Snowden and novelist Salman Rushdie signed an open letter of support for journalists seeking guarantees.
Pigasse and other investors signed an agreement later the same month to allay those concerns.
While Lazard praised Pigasse's role at the bank in its statement Sunday, some news reports have suggested there were tensions between Pigasse and other senior executives at the bank.
France's investigative website Mediapart reported on Wednesday that Pigasse was on the way out. Lazard chief executive Ken Jacob had decided on an impromptu visit to Paris from Sunday to Tuesday to finalise Pigasse's departure, it reported.
Lazard France said in its statement Sunday that a new management team for its French operation would be announced shortly.


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Chris Fraser
Living life adventuring in a conspicuous manner, never forgetting to trail run and hike along the way, and somewhere in the midst of it all, taking the time to write a story or two….
Land of A
Living in the *Land of A forever….
"Can We Have a Good Day?"
Moviestar'in Costco…
PTASD'ing a day in the Land of A…
A Before and an After (*Land of A) Mountain Trail…
The Battlefield of the Land of A
Shards of Light…
Re-Invention…
The Last Day of the Last Year…
Two and Five…
"Are You Sure You Want To Book Those Tickets?"
Joe's Place
"It's Easy to Find…"
Bean and Pocket: The Story Of The Hummingbird Elixir
Bean and Pocket: Now available on Amazon!
"With Whom am I Speaking?
Available Hold Notice: Bean and Pocket is at the Library….
"But what about my Illustrations?"
"Do You Want to See My Dragon…?"
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Tag: Wild Wall of China
Posted on June 9, 2017 June 9, 2017 by Chris Fraser
(The Coiled Dragon)
Jimmy explained as he gave directions on how to find the Great Wall. He pointed out where to go on a simple water-colored drawing that served as a map in the front room of The Great Wall Box House. The last thing I wanted was to get lost in China so I listened carefully, intent on memorizing the way, my eyes not leaving the map as he spoke.
After asking a few more questions of Jimmy, he must have felt it best to personally show us the way. His offer wasn't something I was going to refuse so we all left together out the front door. Dani ran ahead as is her restless manner. Jake was content, walking alongside Jimmy as they spoken animatedly to each other in Chinese.
I walked behind them, examining my camera to make sure it was in working order. Satisfied that it was, I began to look around, not wanting to miss out on all there was to see in Gubeikou, the small village we were staying in.
To be honest, I had hoped to be well into our hike by now. My original plan had been to get up before dawn so that we could see the sunrise on The Great Wall. But when my alarm had gone off, I just couldn't will myself out of bed that early. My mind had been ready but my body had thought otherwise. So I waited until Dani and Jake were awake. Once they were, the three of us quickly packed our backpacks with food and water, the binoculars and our cameras and headed on our way.
Deep blue sky rimmed the top of the buildings and walls that formed the small courtyard that our hostel room door opened out to. It was cold outside, the air fresh and clean, with the faint but delicious smell of smoke from the night before. I was loving the fact that we had bypassed Beijing and it's gray overhead pollution of yesterday for the choice of being in the mountains instead.
Winding our way through narrow alleys, I listened as the loud honking of caged geese mingled with the sounds of hammers and electric saws. It sounded as if the village was going through a giant remodel but what we saw was a bit different. Workers were busy with what appeared to be adding on rather than repairing old and dilapidated looking buildings.
We passed people that stared at us curiously. Others stood in small crowds visiting with each other while watching the workers. Occasionally we also passed groups of three or four men gathered on the sides of the street around makeshift tables, smoking cigarettes while playing Mahjong and drinking tea.
There was a temple on a mountain that overlooked the village. Once we reached it, Jimmy again explained the way to the Wall. It seemed that there were two sets of stairs, one to the left, one to the right, with both sets ultimately leading up the mountain. We were to look for a person with tickets to buy in exchange for our access to the Wall. If nobody was around, we were not to worry, just continue on our way. Sooner or later, we would meet someone that would collect the fee.
In a similar manner, Jimmy also explained the way in which we were to exit off the Wall. Evidently there were two sets of stairways, the gray or the white, each descending back into the valley on different routes. Either set of stairs would eventually lead back to the the small village.
We thanked Jimmy and he left to return to the house. Not seeing anyone who was selling tickets, we climbed the first and only set of stairs that we noticed and hesitantly began walking. There really wasn't a trail so we trudged up the dusty slope hoping we were on the right track.
Stretched away and high above the valley to the left of where we were hiking were layers upon layers of craggy blue mountains. Laced and draped, something that stretches the imagination to no end as to how it's builders may have constructed it, we saw at last, the Great Wall of China. It threaded its way upward through the mountains, formidable in it's size and and the steep elevation gain that promised to be a difficult hike. With a large valley positioned between the Wall and where we were hiking, I soon realized we were hiking away from it.
I wasn't sure what to think as we hiked in the opposite direction except to assume we would circle around at some point. But that's not the way it happened. The trail we were on looped along the side of a ridge in a different direction altogether. After a while we began to see crumbled chunks of ruin. It was hard to imagine that what we were seeing might be actual segments of the Great Wall.
The sad thing was, that is exactly what the chunks of ruin were. As hard as it was to believe at first, it did make sense. After all, we were to hike the Wild Wall, the section of the wall that had not been restored. After following several faint traces of trail to dead ends, with debate and discussion on which grassy path to continue on, we had found the Wall at last.
I won't lie. I was thrilled. Completely in my element, I could have hiked forever or at least all day. Dani and Jake, not so much. The cold air of earlier had warmed considerably and continued to rise in temperature. Dani was still wearing her down jacket, with four other layers of clothing underneath. She didn't see any reasons to shed any of those layers even though it was obvious she was getting uncomfortable in the heat.
Meanwhile, it wasn't very long before Jake began to ask if we were done hiking yet. Reassuring him that we were going to be hiking for a while, he than asked when it was exactly, we would be done hiking. He felt compelled to repeat this question over and over. Knowing running for Jake was like kryptonite to Superman, I thought maybe he was viewing today's hike in the same way. Encouraging Dani to get her camera out and take photos while giving Jake a visual of exactly where we were to stop and turn around in our hike helped and we continued on our way.
As we hiked, the crumbled segments turned into a continuous trail of wall. Watchtower after watchtower began to appear, small in the distance at first, growing larger as we hiked closer. We all felt the same sense of accomplishment every time we reached a new one and excitement on how long it would take to get to the next one.
Hiking the Wall where it perched on top of one particular mountain ridge like a king's crown, Jake was the first to spot a figure on top of a watchtower, the next in line from the one that we were climbing. In the distance, the figure held out his arms to the sky, standing still as if he was a statue. He stayed put as we drew closer.
The man was waiting for us when we reached the tower. Silent and alone, he reminded me of the Wall with his dark weathered face, framed by a blue stocking cap on his head. He smiled a welcome as he smoked a cigarette. Dani spoke to him in Chinese and we soon found out he was the Wall Keeper. We would pay him for tickets to continue our hike on The Wall.
He told us we only had to buy two tickets instead of three for a total of fifty yuan, approximately seven dollars total. I gave him the money and than we sat down with him while eating a snack. With great interest he spoke with Dani and Jake and I could tell he was trying to wrap his brain around the idea of two Asian children having a Caucasian mom.
The Wall Keeper told us basically the same thing that Jimmy had told us earlier. He pointed to the watchtower further up the mountain that would be the turnaround point in our hike because of the military base somewhere in the mountains. He than pointed out the two stairways in the distance, one white, one gray, both leading away from the Wall. Either one of which would take us down the mountainside to where we could follow along the river and find our way back to the village.
As we hiked on, it occurred to all of us that we still had a long way to go to the last watchtower. I wondered if we should just take one of the staircases and work our way back to the village. Dani, Jake, and I discussed this possibility but quickly dismissed the idea. We all agreed we weren't stopping short of our goal without at least trying to get there first.
This decision was one that would be tested as the day went on. It was apparent why the area we were hiking was called the Wild Wall. Except in rare occasions, the Wall had been left in it's natural state. Broken and hard to find, sometimes narrow with sheer drop-offs, steep stairways, and watchtowers that sometimes look no more than in the last stages of ruin, hiking was often times dangerous going.
We came to a big sign in Chinese, awkwardly translated into English. It was easy enough to understand that it meant danger. We took the detour indicated and bypassed the watchtower in question. The next watchtower almost brought an end to our hike and I questioned why there wasn't a danger sign posted there as well.
The extra steep stairs, the only entrance to the tower and continued hike on the wall, were precarious at best. Jake scrambled up ahead, disappearing over the edge of the arched doorway, looking back with a wide grin on his face. Not to be outdone, Dani quickly climbed up after him. They both made it look easy but I still hesitated before following them. Gingerly making my way up the broken steps, I was relieved when I too, was safely over the edge, and standing beside Jake and Dani inside the tower.
Two remaining watch towers left to the turnaround point, we hiked uphill to the stairs of the first one. A big tower, the inside was heavily littered with trash. I remembered that Jimmy had explained that people often camped in or around the towers and that this must be one of them. Two of the walls were relatively intact while the other two were more than halfway gone, crumbled away in the passing of hundreds of years since it's creation.
The second tower was so close to the first, it was easy to see the huge sheet of metal that sealed off the entrance to it. After we walked around the second tower just to make sure there was no way to pass through it, we retraced our steps and climbed back into the big tower to explore it a bit more.
The section of the Wall we had been hiking and which we now viewed from both sides of the tower was called the Coiled Dragon. It was easy to understand why as we sat in the ancient watchtower taking it all in. The Wall uncoiled from the direction in which we had hiked, on and away into the mountains on the far side. Not hard to imagine that it could go on forever, I was in awe of its sheer power and majestic beauty.
We stayed for a while, mostly sitting in thoughtful silence, aware that this was a place we might only see once in our lifetime. Eventually though, it was time to return to the village. We hiked back to the gray stairs that Jake picked as the way to return and the path quickly led us down to the valley below. Soon the Wall was no longer in sight, hiding behind the mountains it belonged to. Leaving it didn't take away the gratitude that I felt in being able to share with my children the opportunity to see such an incredible part of China's history. Thankful, at peace, and excited as well, I looked forward for the tomorrow that would bring with it another opportunity to explore the beauty of the Great Wall…..
-Chris-
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Posted on May 16, 2017 May 17, 2017 by Chris Fraser
photo credit: Dani Fraser
(The Great Wall Box House)
There was a golden square of light down the hill, framed by a set of solid wooden doors. The doors hadn't been closed and locked for the night because we were expected, and they were waiting for us.
I let out a sigh as I heaved my backpack one last time for this part of our journey and slung it over my shoulder. Sleepily, Dani and Jake did the same. We silently wrestled with handles that twisted in our hands as the wheels of our second backpack-slash-suitcases, bumped and bounced behind us down the dirt path. The golden light growing bigger as we walked closer, a finish line that felt as good in crossing as what I imagined an Ultra race finish line must feel for any runner brave enough to run.
I'll have to admit, when our driver first pulled up to what seemed like the side of the road in the middle of nowhere, I had a uneasy sense of trepidation. Trust issues are like my extra set of contacts. For years, I've been packing them along for the just in case. Two hours of a drive in a dark landscape to somewhere in the nowhere after a many hour flight, I was shell shocked by the passing traffic of beat-up work trucks with Character writings all over them. I was back in China and a really long way from home. And as much as I thought I was oozing independence and had this journey all under control, the reality of it was, this trip depended also on the help that others were to offer along the way…
The night air had a cold bite to it and it was hard to stop shivering, let alone stop the chattering of my teeth. So when our driver Pong, opened a modern version of a front door that was set inside the building a couple of feet from the wooden outer doors, it was a relief to feel the warmth of the front room that went along with the golden light.
Joe was behind a large tea table with two other men sitting on stools, sipping tea in their quiet companionship. I put my backpack down, and slid onto an empty stool, Dani and Jake doing the same. My brain was fast shutting down after twenty-four hours and more of no sleep except the head-bobbing, cat-napping that had occurred on the plane. But I knew I had several important arrangements that needed to be checked off my list for the next part of my trip in two days. And Joe, in our variety pack of internet conversations, (Facebook, WeChat, and phone calls), a few weeks prior, had offered to help with what needed to be done.
The room we were in was a contrast of new
blended with the old building that I had observed it to be from the outside. Walls of honey colored wood reflected the light and warmth of the room and there was a faint smoky smell of what I assumed must be someone's outdoor campfire or maybe a wood stove. This made perfect sense to me because the air outside felt like the cold that the night brings to the mountains of the Pacific Northwest where the warmth of a campfire or stove would be more than welcome.
Joe's Zen-like manner quickly put me at ease as he introduced his friends, and offered hot tea in a little glass cup that I drank in two gulps. With concern he explained that because of Qingming Festival, train tickets to Guangzhou were almost completely full for the following Tuesday, the day we needed to travel. He had managed to find three seats on a very early train and advised me to buy them that night. Joe and his friends didn't understand why I couldn't purchase my tickets via WeChat. I didn't understand the why and how that could even be done at all. To make it all simple, Joe's young friend Jimmy, who became our new friend in the following days, made the purchase for us.
Relieved and oh so ready to meet with some sleep, I thanked Joe as he had Jimmy show us the way out a narrow side door by the tea table, out to a small courtyard. Too dark to see much, the smoke smell was stronger in the courtyard. In an odd way, it mingled with the cold mountain air. Surprisingly clean and fresh, I drew in a deep breath before ducking past Jimmy who held the door to our room open for us.
Our room had hardwood floors and there were several Asian antique-looking dressers that reminded me of the fact that we really were in China. But the very best part were two twin beds pushed together with snow-white, puffy down comforters. Jake sailed his way to jump on the bed, leaving his things in a heap in the middle of the floor. Dani was more careful, placing her backpacks in a corner, before leaping her own way to bounce at his side. Jimmy showed us how to use the heater, than said goodnight and we were left to ourselves.
Exclamations from the kids on how amazing our room was, the lights were quickly turned off and they were fast asleep. I crawled under the comforter and closed my eyes to the dark of the room. As tired as I was, in the funny way that seems to happen, my mind revved up, staving off the sleep I would have gladly welcomed.
I thought about how stressed I had been in the weeks prior to traveling. It had woken me up in the middle of many nights, sometimes to the point of keeping me up for hours at a time. But the minute I had walked out of my house and stepped onto the first flight of this trip, I had gone into a state of auto-pilot calmness. I wondered about that and thought of the reasons why.
Sure thing, I had been unsettled when our driver was gone-missing when we landed in Beijing. But there truly had been a light shining on us when a lady approached to ask if we needed help. She was able to locate our driver and keep in contact with him until he found us.
Pong had that same light in his presence. Even though it was late, he was thoughtful in his offer to stop if we were hungry so that we might find something to eat. He was patient in my questions as to why he would live in Gubeikou, the village that we were on our way to. His answers of clear blue skies and beautiful mountains, and concern for the ever increasing pollutants of our Earth, reflections of what I held to be of great importance as well.
Than there was Joe who gave us one of his best rooms at no extra charge because we had arrived late in the night. Inviting us to sit at his table, he had included us as if we were already a part of his circle of friends, and not the three strangers that we really were, having barely just walked in the door ten minutes before.
The same light just kept shining through the people we were meeting, the places we were going. Somewhere outside and very close, was the Great Wall of China. I was excited for the morning and the adventure it would bring. In the silence of the late night I was also at peace, thankful that I could feel so safe in a place so far away from my home. Instinctively I knew we were staying with good people and that we were exactly where we were supposed to be. As the peace in knowing this eased my mind to rest, it was with trust that I finally
fell asleep….
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