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Play Video: Hamilton College Class of 1970 Annalist's letter
"Tumultuous Times on College Hill"
John Pitarresi, Class of 1970
I'd like to acknowledge how honored I am to have been selected to present this Annalist Letter for the Class of 1970.
Honored and intimidated.
So many of my predecessors were men of extreme distinction — millionaire abolitionist Gerrit Smith, for example, Class of 1818. Muckraker and Hamilton football founder Samuel Hopkins Adams, Class of 1891. Professor Jay Williams, Class of 1954, who taught many of us. In recent years, Barry Seaman '67, Chris Wilkinson '68, and Vin Strully '69. There are others whose names we might not recognize, but who were incredibly accomplished in their professions and in the world at large.
The letters have been presented nearly every year since 1865. Some of them have been dry and boring. Some have been witty. Some have been hilarious. All have been valuable historical records. I will try to live up to the best of them.
And, so:
It was early September, early afternoon I think. A beautiful day. We were just about to begin our junior year. It was going to be a very different from our first two. Why? Because there would be women on the Hill. Not College staff. Not fraternity cooks. Not faculty wives. Not the occasional faculty daughter. No, after 156 years of institutionally imposed monasticism and supposed celibate scholarship — two, or three, I guess, doubtful propositions if you include scholarship — Hamilton College was about to become, if not coeducational, at least coordinately educational. Classes would soon begin at the spanking new bunkers of Kirkland College (America's only school whose architecture was based on the Maginot Line) in the orchards and fields just across the road where some of us had not long before hunted rabbits, grouse, and deer.
Many of us didn't know what to think, although some certainly did.
When we arrived, 239 of us, two years before, one of the very few women even close to our ages whom we saw on a regular basis was the young lady who clerked at the College bookstore, then located in the basement of the new Bristol Campus Center. Her name was Linda, and if she had a last name, I don't believe any of us ever learned it. I didn't. To show you how brilliantly creative we were, we christened her "Linda College Store." Or maybe she already was known by that name. In my recollection, she was a pretty girl, maybe 22, perhaps younger. She was more alluring still given the lack of competition. She could have had a date seven nights a week, but apparently she was a woman of good taste and keen judgment with a knack for self-preservation, because, as far as I know, none of us ever succeeded in getting her to agree to such a thing.
With this as background, it can be seen that the creation of a women's college much closer than, say, Skidmore or Wells or Elmira, was a wonderful thing for us.
On one of the first days of the new College's existence, a group of us — several football players just out of practice and a few other louts of no particular persuasion — were informed that there was some kind of celebration over on the new campus. We — I mean they — piled into a unwashed maroon compact car — a Chevy II as I remember — piloted by a noted football player who would go on to a storied, or you might say notorious, career in criminal justice. There were five or six young men in the tiny vehicle and another half dozen hanging onto the roof, hood, and trunk.
The driver, unskilled at the task, careened around the drive that led to the picnic area. As the vehicle approached the group of several score of young women and their professors, the occupants cheered mightily, over and over again. There were women on the Hill! Women of their own age! Hallelujah!
The cheering and celebration continued. It was more fevered and intense than it might have been for any great victory on the football field or basketball court. It was, really, a bit over the top. Had these lads never seen a woman before? Did they not have sisters and girl cousins and mothers and aunts? Hadn't they gone to high school with girls? Well, some had not. Me? I had five sisters, but there was a distinction between sisters and women.
This incident, by the way, was recorded by The New York Times in its account of the first days of Kirkland. The future lawyer — his name was Bruce Cutler if you haven't guessed — when shown the story, was mortified and fearful: "Oh, no!" he exclaimed. "That's my mother's car. She's going to kill me!"
The coming of Kirkland and its eventual absorption changed Hamilton forever. In a good way, for sure, although single-gender education had its charms. You haven't lived until you've sat on a case of beer in the wrecked front seat of an unheated MG all the way to Aurora, N.Y., on a cold January night just to have a couple of cheap drafts with a member of the opposite sex.
So, the arrival of squadrons of women was one of the many highlights of our Hamilton experience. There were so many others — the bizarre presentation of American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell; the making of the movie, The Sterile Cuckoo; some great athletic accomplishments; Neil Armstrong walking on the moon, and, during our intense, nerve-wracking, divisive last couple of years, living through the assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., the first draft lottery, angry argumentation and protests over the shootings at Kent State, the bombing of Cambodia, and the Vietnam War in general.
We were an odd group of young men, or, maybe, more accurately, a group of odd young men. There were preppies, Upstaters, legacies, sons of immigrants, descendants of Mayflower families, a few who were the first in their families to go to college, almost all white, a few Jews, fewer Asians, a handful of foreign students, several African Americans. There was one guy who was remarkable for wearing just jeans and a T-shirt even in winter, and who sometimes walked to Commons barefoot — again, even in winter. He once found a deer hide that an upperclassman had left behind after skinning the animal in a Dunham bathroom, took it to his room, and slept on it. I believe he and his roommates found themselves infested with ticks the next day. He wasn't with us for long, but I understand he did return and graduate a few years after we did.
This all was attended by a faculty unlike any other, or certainly unlike any you would find today. Some of these fellows — and they were all fellows with maybe one exception — had been teaching on the Hill since before the stock market crash of 1929. "Digger" Graves and George Nesbitt had been on duty for four decades. There was "Strange and Wonderful" Paul Parker, whose art history classes stayed with and influenced some students more than almost anything ever taught on the Hill, even if they were regarded as "gut" courses, supposedly not requiring a great deal of sweat. Asian Ed Lee (he was not Asian, but taught Asian history), David "Spoolie" Ellis, Professor Charles Adler and his riveting Rasputin lecture, Tom Colby making his way slowly across the main quad, wrapped in his caped storm coat, cane in hand, mustachioed, intimidatingly unsmiling. The singular John Mattingly, crash-helmeted polymath. Fearsome Ivan Marki, master of American literature, capable of bringing a failed scholar to tears and occasionally actually doing so, although he sometimes provoked nervous laughter. "Mr. Pitarresi," he once told me after I gave a response that wasn't quite up to his standards, "it is refreshing at a college such as Hamilton to meet someone as inarticulate as yourself."
Legendary English Professor Robert "Bobo" Rudd, Hamilton Class of 1909, had retired by our time, but he frequently could be seen on campus, wearing Jodhpurs, boots, riding coat, and helmet, his dog Nipper Nap, a walking rug, at his side, his horse presumably tethered nearby. Bobo sometimes attended fraternity parties and was not always well behaved.
Some of us were lucky enough to take a speech course from Writer-in-Residence Alex Haley, who eventually garnered great fame as the author of Roots. Alex was an amiable man, prone to bumming cigarettes and having them bummed from him. His brand was Philip Morris Multifilters. Already notable thanks to The Autobiography of Malcolm X and his Playboy interviews — I think that's why some of us subscribed to the magazine — he told us much of his African origin story long before it was published. Alex also was a good bet to issue A grades, for some of us the only A we would see in four years on the Hill.
Indeed, most of the faculty had a 25-letter alphabet. "A" did not exist. They were not given to dispensing such marks or even high Bs easily — "dump trucks" was the term for those stingy with grades. Steve Katz remembers, as a freshman, overhearing a senior asking English Professor Edwin Barrett if he liked his 100-page thesis.
"There were a couple of good sentences," Barrett replied.
Apparently it was always thus at Hamilton. The annalist for the Class of 1873, for example, told the tale of the young man who was given a zero by Dr. Ellicott Evans.
"Do you think I deserve that?" the student asked.
"No," Evans said, "but that is the lowest mark we have."
These guys were cold.
In truth, we regarded a few of our teachers as lazy and unfair, but they were, for the most part, distinguished scholars and demanding taskmasters who knew, even if we lamented it, that it wasn't going to be easy if it was going to be any good. They, like Jimmy Dugan of A League of Their Own, knew the score: "It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great."
Most of us, probably all of us, thought we were pretty smart when we arrived that fall so long ago. The faculty, with its stringent, old-school standards, showed us that, other than a few truly gifted scholars, we were not. Many of us quickly became acquainted with academic humility for the very first time in our lives.
You sometimes hear that we — the Hamiltonians of long ago — could never get into the Hamilton of today. Perhaps, but that would have less to do with native intelligence and scholastic accomplishment than it would with a propensity for odd, aberrant, curious, and/or mindless behavior that generally stopped just short of criminality … but sometimes didn't. I could go into detail, but I won't. The movie Animal House? Amateurs! Didn't even scratch the surface. That is the truth and everyone here knows it. For those who were churchgoing, big-family, wet-behind-the-ears kids, the culture was a shock. So shocking, some of us — them, I mean — eventually participated in some of the not-so-harmless activities. I don't believe anyone in the class ever spent a night in jail, at least while in school, but we — I mean they — probably should have.
Don't get me wrong. There were a goodly amount of straight-arrow, serious, play-it-by-the-book students who did what they were supposed to and never got out of line, but the rest of us — I mean, you — you know the truth of what I say.
Food fights in Commons, which served freshmen, their dorm advisors, and independents in our day, were … yes, common. And they sometimes were real fights, with the occasional flipped tables, flying plates, broken windows, defaced portraits of distinguished alumni, and, sometimes, a punch or two. Do you remember the dinner rolls? Like a baseball cut in half and easy to throw with great velocity and accuracy.
In any case, the professors knew, if we didn't, that their demands and our proper responses would all pay off in the end.
And they cared, sometimes perhaps more than we did. Sidney Wertimer seemed to know the name, hometown, genealogy, SAT score, and political affiliation of every kid on campus, and he wanted you to succeed. Kevin Kennedy, one of our more creative miscreants before going on to a very successful career in finance and serving as chairman of the College's Board of Trustees, did succeed, largely because of the elfin Wertimer.
"Sidney Wertimer saved me from expulsion, forced me to get my act together, wrote my business school recommendations, and was my North Star and life mentor as long as he lived. I was one of many for Sidney," Kevin said.
And then there was "The Dean." Tie askew and pants sagging at the end of the cocktail hour. Attired in those same baggy pants and a stained undershirt as he drove down the Hill on Sunday mornings, when he sometimes would pick up the rare early-rising student headed to the village for whatever reason, including services at St. Mary's or St. James. I remember running beside him through knee-deep snow along with hundreds of students at the Oneida County Airport to greet the hockey team after it qualified for the ECAC playoffs. He wanted you to succeed, too. The Dean, Winton Tolles, Hamilton Class of 1928. How much rope did he give to how many mindless rabble rousers? How many final warnings did he hand out to the same short-falling students who just couldn't get it done in the classroom? How many lost and hidden credits did he find for those coming up short as graduation approached? How many recommendations did he make — written, by phone, in person — to help a guy get into graduate school? How many of us owed him, big time, in terms of careers or otherwise?
There was no one else anywhere ever like The Dean and never will be again. But then, it was a different day in so many ways.
Michael Lordi remembers all his textbooks costing a total of about $50 and recalls writing to his parents to assure them that $5 a week would be an adequate allowance. Really, some of us never saw $5 at any one time, but it wasn't a problem. With a small draft beer costing a quarter, two or three bucks could get you through a Saturday night at The Rok downtown or The Shoe out on Route 5, although if you had a date it could get complicated. Girls who drank beer were preferred, but the prettier the girl, the more she rated a $1.25 gin and tonic or sloe gin fizz or two. Sloe gin fizz! Who has heard those words in the last 50 years? In that case you drank your draft very slowly and hoped your date didn't want more than one drink. Two at the most.
Houseparties, three of them a year, were the highlights of on-campus entertainment. Friday night, Saturday morning, Saturday night, Sunday morning. Each fraternity had its specialty, but every party had one thing in common — oceans of alcohol, usually consumed with little care. Entertainment at the houses featured some top Central New York bands — Otis and the All-Night Workers, the Electric Elves, Willie and the New Yorkers.
And the big show on Saturday nights? Popular national acts such as Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, Sam & Dave, Mary Wells, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Laura Nyro, Sly and the Family Stone, The Box Tops, and, perhaps most memorably, the Four Tops. How did they show up here? You couldn't book acts like that today at any price.
It wasn't all struggling to do well academically and partying mightily to make up for it when we didn't. There was tragedy to deal with. Whit Ferguson '68, a lacrosse teammate of some of us, was killed in Vietnam. Our classmate, easygoing Bob Bankert, outstanding golfer and basketball player, son of a Hamilton graduate, was killed in an auto accident. We learned of that in the middle of a Saturday night, Parents Weekend, 1968. It was a severe kick in the teeth, and for some of us, maybe most of us, our first brush with death involving a person so close to us. We haven't forgotten it to this day.
The next year, basketball coach Ken Patrick, "The Silver Fox," died right on the court, falling into the laps of several of his players early in the season-opening game. Whit and Bob were gone not long out of their teens. We thought Coach Patrick was old. He was 63 when he died. How does that sound now? By the time we graduated, with all that and a war playing out in the headlines and on TV, we repeatedly had been shocked into seeing what the real world was like.
Sports? We had our successes. Hockey had a very long and proud tradition, and had an especially great season when we were sophomores with classmates Kevin Kennedy and Peter Kennedy playing key roles. Football had some really outstanding teams now and then. The coaching staff was presided over by the Lincolnesque, extremely proper athletic director — and, unknown to us, terrific former college athlete — Mox Weber. There was the dashing Don Jones, still Hamilton's winningest football coach, by far, with 97 wins. Trainer and track coach Gene Long, taskmaster of the football team's preseason workouts. Coach Patrick had been a legendary athlete at Ithaca College. The mercurial swimming coach Eric MacDonald, sometimes outrageous, who had a heart of gold and more than a little coaching genius. Hockey coach Greg Batt, beyond amiable, a legendary player in his day, and still able to make his players look silly on the ice when we were in school. Soccer and lacrosse coach Manfred Von Schiller, sometimes mocked for his supposed malaprops — in four years playing for him, I never actually heard him say any of the things he supposedly said — but one of the toughest guys and finest people you'd ever meet. He had all the players, class by class, over to his house for dinner one year. The experience was beyond memorable — platters with huge steaks falling over the edges, enormous salads, mounds of potatoes, endless rounds of … ginger ale. What a generous man he was and remains working on his farm in Sodus as he closes in on age 92.
And, of course, there was Lyle Jeffris, the stingy equipment manager. You could never get an extra shirt or pair of socks out of Lyle, but he did his job well, and if you got to know him, you discovered he was a sweetheart. I got to be friends with him, and I can assure you he would help anyone out, any time. We were friendly until the day he died a few years ago.
Aside from the early days of college football, when Hamilton was ranked among the powers of the game, and outstanding hockey and basketball teams on occasion, athletic success on the Hill was a sometime thing. It's a fact, however, that members of the Class of 1970 contributed to some truly outstanding sports teams during their time here.
MacDonald's swim teams? Who but Eric could get fans to jam into the old pool and go wild over shaved-up guys splashing water all over the place? The Class of 1970 swimmers went 35-4-1 during their time, and they were fun to watch, a strange thing to say about swimmers.
Numerous members of our class contributed heavily to the 1967 football team, which went 6-1, was ranked sixth in the Lambert Bowl competition for small college schools, and scored an epic, highly unlikely, come-from-way-behind victory over St. Lawrence University that every team member remembers to this day. The basketball team was very competitive every year and especially during the 1968-69 season, going 15-3 for the best record in the College's history up to that time. It might be that that team — Bob Voss was the wheelhorse and won the Gelas Award as the College's top athlete the next year, with 1970's Jerry Pisanelli and Mike Grieco also playing significant roles — set the stage for Hamilton becoming known as a "basketball school" in the coming years under Tom Murphy and being thought of that way athletically ever since.
Soccer, track, cross country all had their successes during our time, as did golf and tennis — two sports that you might have called Hamilton specialties in the '50s and '60s.
Some of us had big successes as fans, too. The New York Jets' shocking upset of the Baltimore Colts helped launch the NFL's dominance of the American sports world, and they were a part of a triumphant 1969 for Hamiltonians from Metropolitan New York, with the Miracle Mets and the New York Knicks also winning championships.
Some Hamiltonians had a brush with fame — and at least one Kirklander, Sandra Faison '72, began a long and successful theatrical career — when part of The Sterile Cuckoo, adapted from a book by Hamilton graduate John Nichols '62, was shot on campus in 1968.
Our Bob Linder was not one of them.
Linder had been in a couple of plays on campus, and, like at least a few other students, was hopeful that he might somehow luck into a small role in the movie and perhaps launch a great cinematic career. He saw a chance one day when a shoot was going on near the Alexander Hamilton statue
"I walked by on the fringes of the crowd, a bright red sweater my mom had given me tied around my neck," he recalled. "Suddenly, Alan Pakula, who was directing his first film, stopped the shoot. He motioned me over to him. 'This is it!' I thought. 'Welcome to Hollywood!'
"'You, you, come here!' Pakula said.
"'Yes, sir, how can I help?'"
Bob, who I remember as being always well-groomed, trim, well-dressed, and, I guess, handsome enough — I haven't seen him in quite a while so I have no idea if that is still the case — was thinking, of course, that his future and fortune were made. However … "Your sweater," Pakula said. "We need your sweater in this shoot ... could you please?"
Bob sighed. "Sure. Okay."
The film came out in 1969. Leonard Maltin gave it three stars. "My sweater never got a mention,"
Bob said.
There are many Sterile Cuckoo stories. That might be the best one.
The biggest story in our history on the Hill, however, undoubtedly was the one toward the end — the war in Vietnam and the tumultuous effect it had on our lives then and forever after. The first draft lottery was held on Dec. 1, 1969, a day that still fills those subjected to the finger of fate with dread. Brad Townley pulled a 9 and eventually was inducted. He almost had to go through basic training twice after failing physical training, but an Army clerk with a Hamilton degree from a year or two before finagled him out of it. Phil Rossbach went to Utica and joined the Amy Reserves the morning after the lottery, delaying law school for a year. Still, he somewhat resented his friend Gary Clark, who drew number 366 … and was 4-F with a bad knee.
There had been increasing debate on college campuses across the country regarding American involvement in Vietnam and the widening of the war there during our time in school. There were those who felt Hamiltonians simply didn't care about the world around them, but the truth is more likely that there was not widespread opposition to the war for our first couple of years on the Hill.
Chris Wilkinson, half-century annalist for the Class of 1968, reported that a November 1965 poll showed that more than half the student body and nearly half the faculty supported the war, and — this is what some would call scarcely credible — that 26 percent of the faculty reportedly favored the use of nuclear weapons. The numbers would change dramatically over the next four years, especially after the U.S. bombings of Cambodia in the spring of 1970 and the Kent State shootings on May 4 of that year.
I have approached this topic with a good deal of trepidation. A divisive issue to be sure, but we are used to such things by now. The war was an increasing matter of hot debate throughout our college careers. The "discussion" only grew in intensity as time went by and reached a crescendo in the final months of our senior year with marches and gatherings in Clinton and meeting upon meeting on campus.
Finals were delayed or not administered, tensions were high, accusations were made. High principle was involved, and everyone was convinced of his or her righteousness. Not so different from today, and perhaps not so different from times before, but it might have been the most obvious indication that the nation was of two minds, and two minds that weren't going to agree on much of anything.
Stew Herman remembers, after fighting environmental battles in the Utica area in preparation for the first Earth Day (April 22, 1970), attending strike meetings on campus, and classes grinding to a halt after the Kent State shootings.
One upshot was a determination by some students to not wear robes at graduation, but, eventually, all but six seniors — Percy Luney was one, protesting what he felt was American imperialism abroad and oppressive racial policies at home — wore them, although the money for them, or at least part of it, was donated to the strike fund.
The scars of that time are still with us. They undoubtedly never will fade away completely. I'm not sure our time was quite so different than earlier eras, even if we felt ours was special. There was plenty to worry about in the fifties, as a quick scan of any newspaper from that era will tell you.
"The old world was changing, as it always does; Hamilton College was changing, as it always will," Professor Williams wrote in his annalist letter for the Class of 1954.
True. Changing, but always the same, in a way.
For some, college is a practical matter, a way station on the path to a career, a good life, and not necessarily anything to be recalled with great emotion. I've spoken to more than one classmate who felt that way. For others, maybe for most, certainly for those of us who are here now, who have supported the College in numerous ways, over more than five decades, it is something much more — something spiritual, perhaps. I can't put a word on it. Friendship, hardship, memories made, egos bruised, senses sharpened, old rivalries forgotten.
Again, I will steal from a previous annalist, Carl Carmer, a distinguished author and folklorist, Class of 1914:
"Dorothy Parker said Alexander Woollcott, Class of 1909, believed if he were a good boy that when he died he would go to Hamilton College. (He did. He is buried in the College Cemetery.) To use the poetic imagery of the Indian tribes for whose education this institution was founded [this is still Carmer], we calculate that when we saunter the Milky Way, tasting strawberries that grow beside it, we will not insist on going to Hamilton College. Wherever we may go, Hamilton College — the state of mind, the remembered dwelling place of beauty, the rendezvous of our youthful fellowship — will be going with us.
Thank you, boys.
John Pitarresi '70 arrived at Hamilton College from LaSalle High School in Niagara Falls, N.Y. He majored in history, loved his courses in English, art, and speech, struggled in the sciences and languages, and misbehaved a bit. He wrote for The Spectator, earned four letters in football and three in lacrosse, and served as a captain of both sports. After a brief teaching career, he joined the Utica Newspapers and spent more than four decades covering sports at every level, along with other topics. He continues to write the newspaper's outdoor column, as he has since 1980. He bleeds buff and blue and feels extremely lucky to have had the opportunity to attend Hamilton College. He is proud that his brothers, Jerry '71 and Charlie '80, and nephews Matt '08 and Marc '10, also are Hamilton graduates.


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Wisdom// March 29, 2019
I Spent a Week Asking Parents to Share Their Top Parenting Tips — Here Are the 9 Best Things They Told Me
For starters, it's OK to occasionally make mistakes in front of your child.
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Becoming a new parent can be an overwhelming experience.
I spent a week asking parents I knew for their best pieces ofparenting advice.
They told me to make mistakes in front of my child, let them take risks, and not to forget to save some time for just myself.
Parenting is as overwhelming as it is gratifying — and it's overwhelming long before it's gratifying, in my opinion.
I remember preparing to be discharged from the hospital one day after my daughter was born. My husband and I looked at each, our faces distorted in confusion, and then we looked at the nurses.
They were letting us go? With the baby? Who would take care of her? How would she survive?
For new parents, gathering wisdom from people in a similar situation can provide some comfort. That's why for the past week, I asked every parent I knew for their best parenting advice. Their advice ranged from allowing your child to take risks to remembering to take some time for just yourself.
Here are the nine best pieces of advice I got from parents.
Have dinner with your kids
Between work, school and extra-curricular classes, life with kids can feel incredibly busy. Treating a single part of your day as sacred family time is one way to help slow the pace down and prioritize connecting with one another.
For Kekona, a statistician and a father of two, that dedicated time is dinner — without screens, toys or other distractions. He told me he and his family might share the day's highs and lows around the table. The idea is simply to be present and together.
If dinner doesn't work in your schedule, pick another time of day. Beatriz, a preschool teacher, said she makes the morning special with her young daughter, even if it's just 20 minutes. She sings a good-morning lullaby, opens the curtains with her child, looks at a wall of family photos, gets her dressed, and so on.
"Having this focused time together allows for joyful conversation each day and makes our mornings that much smoother," Beatriz said. "And it really does help lessen my stress each morning."
Talk about your emotions with them
Research shows that conversing with young children promotes brain growth and verbal aptitude. It's not the volume of words that matter, rather that the verbal connection involves some authentic back-and-forth between parties.
Jordan, a writer and a father, recommended talking with your child about emotions in particular. Name and be honest about your own emotions, he says. This follows the teachings of author and psychiatrist Dan Siegel, who coined the phrase "name it to tame it."
The idea is that when children — and adults — can name the feeling they're dealing with in a given moment, they are more likely to respond in a reasonable way. Parents can model this through their own emotional conversations.
"Children are shockingly intuitive, and nothing will undermine their confidence like a parent trying to save face by saying 'everything is fine,' when it is not," he said.
"Kids understand and appreciate honesty. Putting (your) feelings into words isn't just setting an example for your child to be comfortable with their own emotions, it's also good practice to step back and reassess your own self when it's needed most."
Make mistakes and keep trying
For Caro, an entrepreneur and dad of two, the business world has informed his parenting philosophy: Make mistakes, and be OK with those mistakes.
When kids see the adults in their lives try and fail, then get up and try again, they are more likely to embody a similar flexibility and sense of resilience.
Find a support network
There's strength in numbers.
That's why Ellen, a mother of two, relies on a group of moms to help her navigate the ups and downs of parenthood. Instead of feeling overwhelmed by your child's tantrum phase and lonely in your struggle, you might find peace in the fact that you're not the only one tackling such things.
"I never joined a baby group — it wasn't my thing and I worked full time — but I did have five women I was friendly with, who became my support group," she said. "It was nice to bounce ideas off each other, from what was happening with our bodies or our relationships to what our kids were going through developmentally."
Take time for yourself
"A happy mom equals happy kids," said Esther, an editor and a mother of three. "Don't feel guilty about taking time for yourself and doing something you need to feel human again."
That will surely look different for every parent — a hike on a sunny morning, a good workout, or a solo trip to Target after bedtime, perhaps. But parents who give, give, give and rarely come up for air can run out of steam quickly. Replenishing your own energy and nurturing your soul, even in a simple or small way, can make the parenthood marathon more manageable.
Let your kids take risks
Jenna, a preschool teacher and mother of one, said she was pretty much forced to do this one.
Her son walked at nine months old and could climb like a monkey before his first birthday. Catching his every fall would have been nearly impossible. Instead, Jenna said she embraced who her son was.
"I let him tumble and fall all the time, and therefore learn from his mistakes," Jenna said. "Now he has great judgement when it comes to taking physical risks and exploring his environment."
Norwegian professor Ellen Sandseter named six commontypes of risky play that children lean toward: great heights, rapid speeds, dangerous tools, dangerous elements, rough and tumble play, and disappearing or getting lost. Some research shows that, as frightening as that list feels, this kind of risk-taking in play promotes greater social health, creativity, and resilience.
Figure out what makes your child feel loved, and prioritize that
Anna, a writer and mother, knows that "The 5 Love Languages" is meant to be applied to romantic relationships. Nevertheless, she's found the oft-cited book helpful in getting to know her toddler.
Even in a young person, some clues emerge as to what your child most values: physical touch, words of affirmation, quality time, special gifts, or acts of service.
"Really thinking about my own daughter's love languages makes it easier for me to help her feel loved in a way that she deeply appreciates," Anna said. "It also has the added bonus of letting me conserve my energy as her parent. For example, my daughter's love languages are quality time and physical touch.
"This means I can spend more of my time watching her play with her dolls or cuddling on the rocking chair to read books, versus trying to surprise her with little gifts or planning elaborate outings for her entertainment."
Do what feels right for your child
For Amanda, a public relations manager, the adage "go with your gut" has been vital to parenting her young son. She says that often looks like actually shutting out advice from others.
"Our parenting approach is very focused on following our own instincts about what's right for our child," Amanda said. "It's cliche but true — that every person is different, and what works for one kid will not work for another. And we're doing a decent job of not letting other people's successes and failures with their children influence how we approach similar situations with our son."
Rachel, a teacher and mother of one, agrees, especially when it comes to not playing the comparison game.
"You know what's best for your babe," Rachel said. "And don't compare yourself with Instagram or Pinterest moms. What you see isn't real."
Salute your 'ghost ship'
When I asked Susan, a financial manager and mother of one, for her top parenting tips, she pointed me to words from Cheryl Strayed, back when she was an advice columnist for The Rumpus.
"Strayed's advice is something I always come back to it when I'm faced with a difficult situation, parenting or not," Susan said.
For parents, common decision crossroads include picking a care provider or school for your child, making a career change that would impact the family, or determining whether or not to have more children.
Strayed's post ends with these words:
"I'll never know and neither will you of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore."
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-When the Spectrum guy came to replace our cable modem, he left behind a formal troubleshooting document. But now we can't find the writ they wrote to right the router.
-We hired a consultant to get us a presence in the cloud, but due to budget constraints we wound up somewhere in a light fog.
-When the IBM computer asked us what level of school we reached, we said "Junior High, my dear Watson." Wait, this is the wrong place. Please read this joke next week.
-Instead of relying on positive reinforcement for your fitness requirements, we took the opposite approach. Called the FatBat, it's really just a piece of wood you hit yourself with each time you go to McDonalds.
-Similarly, while there are many applications to monitor sodium, saturated fat and caloric intake, we took the opposite approach with our new product, the iPeed.
-Also in development is gender based text icons, based on the emotions you may experience during a typical day. The femoji's number over 2.5 million and counting while the hemoji's stand at 7, including one for each major holiday.


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Place the cream cheese, pesto, Parmesan, cream and cayenne in a mixing bowl and mix at medium speed until smooth. Transfer to a serving bowl and garnish with pepitas or pine nuts. Serve with crackers.
Note: If you have time, this dip benefits from an hour in the refrigerator to allow the flavors to meld.


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Some Democratic operatives keep targeting Trump even after Virginia election setbacks
The top super PAC that supports Democratic candidates is taking aim at former President Donald Trump and the party he still dominates with a new ad blitz as the nation marks the one-year anniversary of the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol.
But the ads, as well as the Thursday launch of a new anti-Trump super PAC, appear to fly in the face of advice from some leading Democrats in the wake of a GOP surge in November's statewide and legislative elections in Virginia and New Jersey. Those Democrats suggest spotlighting the former president in this year's midterms is the wrong political recipe.
"Last time was just a test run," argues the narrator in a new spot by Priorities USA, the powerhouse Democratic outside group.
CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS REPORTING ON THE ATTACK ON THE U.S. CAPITOL
The narrator speaks over news clips of the Jan. 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol by right-wing extremists and other supporters of then-President Trump who attempted to disrupt congressional certification of Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over Trump.
"Donald Trump is putting people in place now to dictate the outcome of the next presidential election in Congress and in states all around the country," the narrator claims, pointing to the former president's endorsements of loyal candidates for the House and Senate and in key states across the country who are running in this year's elections.
"We stopped it once," the narrator emphasizes. And in an apparent move to energize Democratic voters ahead of this year's midterms, when the party aims to defend its razor-thin majorities in the House and Senate, the narrator urges that "we need to show up, speak out, because every vote we take this November is a vote against Trump."
In a separate ad, the narrator claims that the former president is "organizing to take over Congress in 2022. The only way to stop Trump is with your vote."
TRUMP ENTERS 2022 AS THE CLEAR FRONT-RUNNER RIGHT NOW FOR THE 2024 GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION
Trump, who remains very popular and influential among Republican voters and GOP politicians, has continued to play a kingmaker's role in party politics as he repeatedly flirts with another presidential run in 2024. And his repeated unfounded claims that the 2020 election was "rigged" and "stolen," motivated nearly 20 Republican-controlled states to pass laws last year tightening voting access rules.
The new spots by Priorities USA – the group says it's initially spending six figures to run ads in key battleground states – come as a group of veteran Democratic operatives are launching a new anti-Trump super PAC named "Stop Him Now."
The aim of the new group, which was first reported by CNN, is to spotlight Trump's close ties to GOP candidates on the ballot in November and to warn that Republican victories in the midterms – from the bottom of the ballot to the top– could further weaken the nation's ability to hold fair elections.
"Donald Trump is marshaling another force to take over the U.S. Capitol – his army of Republican supporters. Many running in this year's midterms, intend on helping him return to power," claims the narrator in the new super PAC's first ad, which incorporates video clips from the attack on the Capitol.
In this Jan. 6, 2021 photo, supporters of then-President Trump scale the west wall of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
During his four years in the White House, Trump was a major motivator in fueling Democratic turnout. A surge in turnout in the 2018 midterms helped the Democrats retake the House majority, and another huge showing in 2020 led the party to regain control of the White House and the Senate.
2022 MIDTERMS: WILL A RED WAVE OVERCOME A BLUE WALL?
Facing a push by Republicans to oust him, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California framed last year's gubernatorial recall election as a push by Trump and top Republicans to oust a leading Democrat. And after Larry Elder jumped into the race and quickly became a front-runner among the 46 replacement candidates on the ballot, Newsom targeted the conservative talk radio host, regularly comparing him to Trump.
The strategy worked in the deep blue state of California, as Newsom easily squashed the push to oust him in September's recall election.
Former President Trump greets supporters during his Save America rally in Perry, Ga., Sept. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)
But less than two months later in Virginia's gubernatorial election, former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe's repeated attempts to link GOP nominee Glenn Youngkin to Trump appeared to backfire. Youngkin narrowly defeated McAuliffe to become the first Republican to win statewide in Virginia in a dozen years. The GOP also flipped from blue to red the offices of the lieutenant governor and attorney general and the House of Delegates.
In the wake of the Democrats' setbacks in Virginia and New Jersey – where Republicans fared better than expected in elections for governor and the state legislature – a report conducted by a leading Democratic think tank argued that attempts to make the race all about the former president failed.
"If our most effective message in 2022 is that Republicans = Trump, we're going to get creamed," argued the authors of the report by the Third Way and ALG Research.
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Wholesaler SP Richards has promoted Chad Lee to the post of VP Logistics.
Lee was previously DC General Manager of the company's Memphis operation from 2004 and prior to that managed the operations of the Atlanta distribution centre.
In his new role, Lee will be responsible for facility planning and optimisation, quality assurance and all aspects of inbound/outbound freight.
Lee will report to CIO and SVP of Technology Boyd Rice who commented on Lee's promotion: "Chad has done an excellent job during his time in Memphis and we anticipate great things from him in his new capacity. He brings a current marketplace perspective to the team and has the drive and innovative mindset to lead our operational and logistical efforts."
Lee said: "We have significant opportunities to drive operational improvements and deliver excellence to and on behalf of our dealer customers. I'm looking forward to the challenge."
Long-serving Lyreco executive Bernhard Ruf will take over as the new Managing Director Sales of Staples Advantage Germany next year.
Ruf will take up his new post on 1 January 2011 after spending the last 13 years with Lyreco in various national and international sales and marketing roles, most recently as head of field sales in Australia.
Ruf will be responsible for the overall sales and customer service functions for Staples' contract customers in Germany and will report directly to Rainer Thews, Regional VP Staples Central Europe and CEO of Staples Germany.
"In Bernhard Ruf we believe we have found the best candidate for this important and challenging role, and look forward to his contributions to our goal of becoming the undisputed market leader in office products," said Thews.
Spicers has confirmed the appointment of Sarah Jones as the new Finance Director of its UK business. Jones began in her new role on 20 September, taking over from Andrew Cowan who has left the business to pursue other interests.
Jones joins Spicers from retailer Carpetright where she was also Finance Director.
UK Managing Director Alan Ball told OPI that he had been given notice of Cowan's departure and that it is not linked in any way with the recent decision of Group CEO George Adams to step down.
Ball also confirmed that UK Marketing and Communications Director, Jane Rowe, had not left Spicers, following rumours that she is no longer with the wholesaler. Rowe herself could not immediately be reached for a comment on these rumours.
Italian stationery and office products association AIFU has named its new President.
Well-known Italian office products executive Adriano Alessio has been elected to serve as AIFU's President for a three-year term.
Alessio is Managing Director of leading Italian office supplier In Ufficio and has also been a member of BPGI's executive committee.
He will be assisted by Errebian's Ferdinando Rese, who has been elected Vice-President, while the rest of AIFU's board comprises Luca Borroni (Office Depot), Gianluca Gibelli (Lyreco) and Franco Villa (Buffetti Group).
Staples has confirmed the appointment of Eric de Laage as the new head of its French operations.
De Laage has been with Staples since it acquired the Bernard mail order business in 2002 as part of the acquisition of Guilbert's mail order arm.
He first joined Bernard back in 1998, rising to become Managing Director of the France/Belgium jan/san catalogue business in 2000.
Most recently he had been Managing Director of Staples European Catalogue from March 2008.
Staples does not have retail operations in France, so de Laage will be in charge of the Staples Advantage and Staples Direct businesses. Staples Direct is the new name for he rebranded JPG business.
French discount office supplies chain Top Office has named a new managing director as it looks to speed up its development.
Raphael Vanneste, formerly head of international development at mail order giant La Redoute, was named as Top Office's new Managing Director in August, taking over from Charles Malvache.
Top Office, which is owned by French retail dynasty, the Mulliez family, owners of the Auchan hypermarket chain, has 38 stores in France, but its development has stalled in recent years and it reportedly made a loss of 12.4 million in 2009. In 2006, Top Office introduced a franchise model, but so far there are only 8 franchised stores. Vanneste will no doubt be looking to speed this rate up.
Arno Alberty, former EVP Sales Europe at Pelikan, has been named Managing Director of leading presentation technology supplier Medium.
Alberty took his new post on 1 September and says that he aims to expand the company's market leading position through a pan-European growth strategy.
"I am expecting further dynamic impulses in the field of presentation technology, but I also recognise potential in commercial entertainment," said Alberty. "We will continue to emphasise technological stimuli," he added. "For instance, by developing high-quality product generations such as projectors that are supplied with a maintenance-free lamp technology, interactive boards or even 3D-screens."
Medium has been in business for around 30 years and employs about 120 people. Alberty will be based at the group's head office in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Printing equipment and document management services provider Danwood has appointed a Divisional Manager for its Graphics and Production Systems division (GPSD) in the south west of the UK.
Chris Ashmeade joins the company from Konica Minolta where he was Regional Production Manager.
Ashmeade will report to Danwood's Public Sector Director, Rory Atkins, who recently merged his Gloucestershire-based business, Topaz, with Danwood.
OP vendor Durable has named a new Managing Director of its Benelux operations to succeed Eddy Catry who is retiring at the end of the year.
The new Managing Director is Philippe Heymans, currently Country Manager Benelux for Elba Office Products. Heymans has also worked for Esselte and Planorga.
Durable Benelux was founded in 1997 and currently employs 12 staff in sales and marketing roles.
Wholesaler VOW has appointed a new regional director for the south of the UK.
David Taylor has been promoted from his role of regional sales manager, having full responsibility for the field sales team in the southern region.
Taylor has worked in the office supplies industry for 15 years holding a variety of positions at wholesalers, back office system providers and resellers.
Hans Servas, a 30-year veteran of the office products business in South Africa, stepped down as Managing Director of leading manufacturer and distributor SSC on 1 September.
In a planned succession handover, the new Managing Director is Trevor Girnun, who joined SSC several months ago as Deputy Managing Director.
Servas is staying on as Marketing Director and will continue to sit on SSC's executive board until he retires at the end of 2011 in order to ensure a smooth transition.
Long-serving National Accounts Sales Manager Jimmy Millinger also retired from SSC earlier this summer and he has been succeeded by Janet Barker.
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install new applications, although the document didn't ask you to.
Please let me know if there is still any problem. Thanks!
> just copy the code and deploy it,that` s all.
>>   Did you successfully start the Geronimo server in Eclipse?
>> what sets off the error.  Thanks.
>>> Distribution of module failed.  See log for details.
>>>> well,I will try jdk1.5 !
>>>>> May I ask which version of GEP are you using?
>>>>> We recommend that you start from a clean Eclipse and a clean GEP.
>>>>> to run Geronimo 2.1.4 with JDK 5? Thanks.


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Q: Map[String,Array[Byte]] to CaseClass with Scala Shapeless So I have a working implementation of this except I cannot get my HList in the correct order before I use LabelledGenerics to build the CaseClass Object.
What works right now is
case class Foo(a:int, b:String)
val serializedRecord("a" -> somebytes, "b" -> someotherbytes)
val caseClassObject = HBaseSerDe[Foo].deserialize(serializedRecord)

What doesn't work is:
case class Foo(a:int, b:String)
val serializedRecord(x -> value1 ,"a" -> somebytes, "b" -> someotherbytes, z -> value2)
//expected Foo(somebytes, someotherbytes)
val caseClassObject = HBaseSerDe[Foo].deserialize(serializedRecord)

From what I have read I am supposed to use Align and Intersect to get my Hlist sorted out before deserializing but in all examples i could find they use something like the following (taken from github.com/underscoreio/shapeless-guide)
implicit def genericMigration[
    A, B,
    ARepr <: HList, BRepr <: HList,
    Unaligned <: HList
](
    implicit
    aGen : LabelledGeneric.Aux[A, ARepr],
    bGen : LabelledGeneric.Aux[B, BRepr],
    inter : hlist.Intersection.Aux[ARepr, BRepr, Unaligned],
    align : hlist.Align[Unaligned, BRepr]
): Migration[A, B] = new Migration[A, B] {
    def apply(a: A): B =
        bGen.from(align.apply(inter.apply(aGen.to(a))))
}

However I do not have a CaseClass A and i couldn't figure out how to build its representation on the fly. Below you can find the current code:
 implicit val hNilEncoder = instance[HNil](
    r => Map(),
    l => HNil
  )

  implicit def hListSerDe[
      Key <: Symbol,
      H,
      T <: HList
    ](
     implicit
     key: Witness.Aux[Key],
     headSerDe: HBaseFieldShapelessSerDe[H],
     tailSerDe: HBaseRecordShapelessSerDe[T]
     ): HBaseRecordShapelessSerDe[FieldType[Key, H] :: T] =
    instance[FieldType[Key, H] :: T](
      hList => {
        Map(key.value.name -> headSerDe.serialize(hList.head)) ++ tailSerDe.serialize(hList.tail)
      },
      byteList => {
        field[Key](headSerDe.deSerialize(byteList.head._2)) :: tailSerDe.deSerialize(byteList.tail)
      }
    )

  implicit def caseClassSerDe[
      TargetType,
      L <: HList
  ](
    implicit
    genRepr: LabelledGeneric.Aux[TargetType, L],
    hListSerDe: HBaseRecordShapelessSerDe[L]
    ): HBaseRecordShapelessSerDe[TargetType] =
    instance[TargetType](
      hList => {
        hListSerDe.serialize(genRepr.to(hList))
      },
      byteList => {

        genRepr.from(hListSerDe.deSerialize(byteList))
      }
    )

  def apply[RecordSerDeType](implicit serde: HBaseRecordShapelessSerDe[RecordSerDeType]): HBaseRecordShapelessSerDe[RecordSerDeType] = serde

  def instance[RecordSerDeType](serializeFunc: RecordSerDeType => Map[String, Array[Byte]], deserializeFunc: Map[String, Array[Byte]] => RecordSerDeType): HBaseRecordShapelessSerDe[RecordSerDeType] = {
    new HBaseRecordShapelessSerDe[RecordSerDeType] {
      override def serialize(value: RecordSerDeType): Map[String, Array[Byte]] = serializeFunc(value)

      override def deSerialize(value: Map[String, Array[Byte]]): RecordSerDeType = deserializeFunc(value)
    }
  }

A: I solved it by now and here's the solution for posterity. In hindsight it was pretty simple.
import shapeless.labelled.FieldType
import shapeless.{::, Generic, HList, HNil, LabelledGeneric, Witness}
import shapeless.labelled.{FieldType, _}

object MapToCaseClass {

  sealed trait RecordConverter[V, TargetType] {
    def convert(rawRecord: Map[String,V]):TargetType
  }

  implicit def hNilConverter[V]:RecordConverter[V, HNil] = instance[V,HNil](
    _ => HNil
  )

  implicit def hListConverter[V, H, T <: HList, K <: Symbol](implicit fieldConverter: FieldConverter[V, H], tailConverter:RecordConverter[V, T], key: Witness.Aux[K]):RecordConverter[V, FieldType[K, H] :: T] =
    instance[V, FieldType[K, H] :: T](
      fieldMap => {
        val currentKeyName = key.value.name
        val value = fieldMap(currentKeyName)
        val mapRest = fieldMap.filterKeys(_!=currentKeyName)
        //TODO: Add a way for default value providing, Option handling and nested HLists for in case no value was found
        field[K](fieldConverter.convert(value)) :: tailConverter.convert(mapRest)
      }
    )

  implicit def caseClassConverter[V, C, CRepr <: HList](implicit caseClassGenRepr: LabelledGeneric.Aux[C,CRepr], recordConverter:RecordConverter[V, CRepr]):RecordConverter[V, C] =
    instance[V, C](
      fieldMap => {
        caseClassGenRepr.from(recordConverter.convert(fieldMap))
      }
    )

  private[this] def instance[V, T](func: Map[String,V] => T) : RecordConverter[V, T] = new RecordConverter[V, T] {
    override def convert(rawRecord: Map[String, V]): T = func(rawRecord)
  }

  //summoner
  def apply[V, T](implicit recordConverter: RecordConverter[V, T]):RecordConverter[V, T] = recordConverter

}

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The course is designed for participants to become an instructor in delivering safe and effective manual handling training to their employees. You will learn about common workplace injuries, body mechanics, and lifting techniques. It includes education on risk management within the workplace, and the application and teaching of correct manual handling techniques with a thorough practical component with current industry exposed trainers, assessors and clinicians.
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The course offers participants a basic understanding of common workplace injuries, body mechanics, poor lifting techniques, and teaches participants effective strategies to prevent these.
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Diametros
A Journal of Philosophy
Extended Editorial Board
Vol. 17 No. 64 (2020)
Some Challenges for Research on Emotion and Moral Judgment: The Moral Foreign-Language Effect as a Case Study
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33392/diam.1476
moral judgment moral psychology emotion foreign-language effect FLE moral foreign-language effect MFLE
Steven McFarlane
University of Minnesota, Morris
Heather Cipolletti Perez
In this article, we discuss a number of challenges with the empirical study of emotion and its relation to moral judgment. We examine a case study involving the moral foreign-language effect, according to which people show an increased utilitarian response tendency in moral dilemmas when using their non-native language. One important proposed explanation for this effect is that using one's non-native language reduces emotional arousal, and that reduced emotion is responsible for this tendency. We offer reasons to think that there is insufficient evidence for accepting this explanation at present. We argue that there are three themes that constrain our current ability to draw firm empirical conclusions: 1) the frequent use of proxies or partial measures for emotions, 2) the lack of a predictive and generalizable theory of emotion and specific emotion-types, and 3) the obscurity of a baseline level of neutrality with respect to participant emotion. These lessons apply not only to research on the moral foreign-language effect, but to empirical research in moral psychology more generally.
McFarlane, Steven, and Heather Cipolletti Perez. 2020. "Some Challenges for Research on Emotion and Moral Judgment: The Moral Foreign-Language Effect As a Case Study". Diametros 17 (64):56-71. https://doi.org/10.33392/diam.1476.
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The best general philosophy journal published in Poland in the Scopus and Web of Science rankings.
Founded in 2004, Diametros (ISSN 1733-5566) is a scholarly journal that publishes original research and review articles in both English and Polish. It welcomes submissions from all areas of philosophy, as well as those at the intersections between philosophy and other disciplines. An open-access journal, indexed by all of the most important databases (Scopus, Web of Science), Diametros is free for readers & authors. Włodzimierz Galewicz (Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland) is the founder of the journal and the editor-in-chief.
Special issue: Ethical challenges in contemporary social research
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Extended Deadline: 31 March 2023
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Two a priori proofs of the existence of God
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A Kantian Defense of Abortion Rights with Respect for Intrauterine Life
Organ Transplant in Present-Day Japan: Reasons behind Low Numbers of Deceased Donors
Solidarity and Justice in Health Care. A Critical Analysis of their Relationship
Ruud ter Meulen
Pacifism and moral theory
Jeff McMahan
The Platonic roots of just war doctrine: a reading of Plato's Republic
Henrik Syse
The Myth of the Given and the Grip of the Given
Robert Hanna
Defining Death: Beyond Biology
John P. Lizza
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'Just as an architect will establish a style in his or her work that is immediately recognisable, the 'Pontos' has particular characteristics that make it instantly identifiable as a Maurice Lacroix design,' says David Sanchez, the Swiss watchmaker's product director.
'With Jean Nouvel and Oki Sato we have two highly respected names, from different generations, with two very different approaches to their work,' says Sanchez. This year, the pair have been invited to reimagine the Maurice Lacroix Pontos 'Day Date' model.
A classic combination of craftmanship and design, the 'Pontos' model has been at the centre of Wallpaper's previous collaborations in the Maurice Lacroix Bespoke series, which began in 2009. Back then, we asked product and interior designer Gwenaël Nicolas, industrial designer Arik Levy and fashion designer Neil Barrett to reconsider the 'Pontos Décentrique GMT' model. By 2011, architects and designers Rodolfo Dordoni and Patricia Urquiola, and fashion designer Kris Van Assche had contributed to our design collaboration.
'Design is key to everything we do and we don't want to be limited in any way,' says Sanchez, who is based at the watchmaker's manufacture in Saignelégier. Jean Nouvel was similarly inclined to push Maurice Lacroix's 'Pontos' archetype 'to its limits, making it clearer and more substantial by employing a single material, stainless steel'.
Nouvel says he wanted to highlight the Pontos' design's inherent simplicity, using the plainest numerals, most slender hands, and glass with as little shine and reflectivity as possible. 'When you achieve this balance of tension, you will succeed in giving an object character. It's all about the scale of the watch in relation to the size of the individual, and the scale of the watch in relation to the strap, which needs to be relatively abstract to give more presence to the object itself. These are all the parameters you use to integrate an object into a context. The context in this case is a man's wrist', says Nouvel.


Pelosi, Ligia (2017) Whispering into knowing: teachers as creative beings. PhD thesis, Victoria University.
This study (re)presents how teachers enact pedagogy in order to become transformative agents of change in their students' lives. The importance of teacher agency and creative, arts-based practices in the teaching and learning of literacy was explored during interviews with a small sample of Australian primary school practitioners. The field texts are (re)presented in the form of a novel that interrogates the contemporary landscape of schooling as a datadriven, political instrument. The novel, which should be read first, looks at the impact of creativity in classrooms and on teachers' lives and reframes the meaning of teacher agency. The study sought to define, reflect on and re-evaluate how creative processes in literacy education have flow-on effects for the broader literacy curriculum in Australian schools. The focus on the constraints and challenges of teaching and learning in neoliberal times frames the concept of childhood in the novel. The accompanying exegesis contextualises the contemporary educational landscape as an environment into which teachers are inducted into didactic, mechanistic and metric-driven practices. The novel and the exegesis seek to articulate the effects of the neoliberal landscape on the teaching and learning interface by looking at the role of creativity in shaping professional practice and children's learning.


The OpenPOWER consortium was born of IBM's own volition only two years ago last month. Back then, OpenPOWER was a partnership between five companies, IBM, Google, Mellanox Technologies, NVIDIA and Tyan. Recently, the OpenPOWER Foundation marked their two year anniversary by talking about the growth of the foundation and its membership to 149 members in 22 countries and the broad licensing that has occurred thanks to IBM's open licensing model. I talked about the OpenPOWER Foundation back in April of last year and the announcement of IBM's new Power8 processors with their OpenPOWER partners. Since launch and last April's announcement, OpenPOWER has really come along quite a bit and I wanted to take a 50,000 foot level view at where OpenPOWER started and where IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation have gone since then.
There were two sides to OpenPOWER's launch two years ago, one on IBM and POWER8 systems and another for the OpenPOWER Foundation's launch where they wanted to create an open, server ecosystem. The launch two years ago answered many questions on IBM's POWER8 systems paired with IBM software for IBM's enterprise customers, of which I was complementary. I was also quite impressed with their accelerator interface, called CAPI (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface). If you weren't a believer in CAPI or accelerators before, Intel's $16B Altera acquisition should close the debate. However, there were many unanswered questions about systems outside of the IBM enterprise and software sphere, particularly in the hyperscale server market.
The hyperscale server market over the years has become a DIY (do-it-yourself) market with Google, Amazon.com AWS, Microsoft Azure, Baidu and FaceBook leading the charge. When OpenPOWER launched, I thought hyperscale was a not a place where IBM had recent history or a business model to attack in the future.
Since then, OpenPOWER has gained a lot of momentum. Google, the hardware they showed off a few weeks after the OpenPOWER launch, and the commitment to port their software for at least a POC (proof of concept) was the first big hyperscale milestone. OpenPOWER then had a strong showing at Open Compute versus ARM Holdings. In two years, IBM and the OpenPOWER consortium have achieved a lot including support for all Linux distros. 2015 as a whole has been a very busy year for OpenPOWER's work groups with all of them completing their charters and many of them releasing their specs. Some of these include the CAPI Linux SDK, 64b ABI (Application Binary Interface), 25g IO Spec, OpenCL SDK and many others. The Foundation is up to 11 chartered workgroups and they say they tell me they have more on the way.
In addition to the working group announcements, there have been big announcements from OpenPOWER members in different ways. Even though Altera will now be part of Intel (pending government approval), IBM and Altera did work together to create a DMI connection between Altera's FPGAs and IBM's Power8 CPU. Convey created a developer kit which is based on the company's Xilinx-based co-processors and IBM announced with Suzhou PowerCore, the first Chinese POWER licensed chip, the CP1. Suzhou PowerCore announced this summer that they reached general availability for the CP1 processor. I'm looking forward to third party benchmarks on the processor and accompanying systems. There were also announcements from companies like Tyan who released the first commercially available OpenPOWER third-party server and a CAPI-based interconnect solution from Mellanox as well. There were also new systems and platforms from the likes of Rackspace Hosting, RedPower, Inspur, Wistron and Cirrascale.
Many of these developments show IBM and OpenPOWER's focus on China. China's government-led operations in finance, military, research, healthcare and education have a government mandate to have all new systems on 100% controlled hardware, software and middleware. This is referred sometimes as "China 2016" in the industry and OpenPOWER wants the datacenter side of it to be based on their technology.
OpenPOWER has also shown its relevance in the HPC (high performance computing) space in ways that IBM has struggled in the past. Just this year, IBM, Mellanox and NVIDIA won two DoE (Department of Energy) supercomputer bids for Oak Ridge and Lawrence Livermore on tap in 2017. All three companies are founding members of the OpenPOWER Foundation and collaborated closely to win the $325 million deal. These systems are expected to reach into the 150+ Petaflop space, which is at least 3x faster than anything today, including China's Tianhe 2. This is potentially a huge boon for IBM's HPC business because it not only lends credibility, but it also lends expertise. As the world moves towards larger and larger computing problems a need to have HPC expertise will be important for any high performance solutions provider or chip vendor. It also helps that IBM, NVIDIA and Mellanox have synced up their roadmaps for HPC in order to bring vast improvements with each year.
IBM also plan to make money through collaboration and enablement services, which IBM always looks for ways to implement. Last but not least is the IP part of things which includes IP licensing and royalties from the various licenses and agreements that are created as a result of OpenPOWER's growth. Finally, let's also not forget that any IP development into OpenPOWER is money IBM doesn't have to expend, and quite frankly, couldn't shoulder on their own.
IBM has come quite a long way over the course of the last two years, and it shows. They have some pretty significant HPC deals and there's no saying what kind of demand Watson could create for IBM's POWER Systems and the OpenPOWER Foundation. However, the OpenPOWER Foundation still has a lot to prove by ways of non-IBM silicon, non-IBM systems and non-IBM cloud software benchmarks since much of what's been shown has centered on IBM, but there are others that are part of the Foundation that should have something more to contribute. 2014 and 2015 were building years for the OpenPOWER Foundation and 2016 will be the proving ground as systems move from research to POC (proof of concept) to mass deployments. Keep in mind, too, in this hyperscale space, Intel has nearly 100% of all the processor business and are architecting business models and architectures to combat this. In HPC, Intel just closely partnered with Hewlett-Packard on a multi-year HPC collaboration effort.


Staring down at a positive home pregnancy test can come as a shock — especially if the pregnancy is unplanned. If you find yourself in this situation and are unsure whether you are ready to be a parent, know that you have options — and help is available to you.
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Remember, American Adoptions' social workers are always available to answer your questions and provide the support and resources you need at 1-800-ADOPTION. We can help you explore all of your unplanned pregnancy options — not just adoption — for free and with no obligation.
Below, learn more about the benefits and challenges of parenting, adoption and abortion to help you decide which is best for you and your baby.
Accidentally getting pregnant can feel like the end of the world, but any women experience an unintended pregnancy in the United States has options – and she isn't alone. If you are facing an unexpected pregnancy, get the unplanned pregnancy help you need here.
Facing an unplanned pregnancy? Not sure which unplanned pregnancy options are right for you? Learn more about each of your options for pregnancy here, and contact our adoption specialists for more guidance.
If you're unsure whether you should pursue adoption instead of keeping the baby, or vice versa, below are four questions you can ask yourself to help you determine whether to choose adoption or keep the baby.
There are likely countless thoughts running through your head at once: I'm pregnant and don't know what to do. What are my options? How will I ever decide what to do with an unplanned pregnancy? What are the first steps to take after finding out you're pregnant? What happens now?
Coping with an unwanted pregnancy can be easier said than done. Not only is there coming to terms with being pregnant, but you also have to decide how to deal with an unplanned pregnancy. If this describes your situation, American Adoptions is here to help.
A woman learning of an unplanned pregnancy will have hundreds of thoughts running through her head, and thinking about adoption can complicate these emotions even more. If you are wondering about your pregnancy adoption options, American Adoptions can help.
If you are facing an unplanned pregnancy, options counseling can help you explore your choices and make the best possible decision for yourself and your baby. Here's where to find the pregnancy counseling you need.
When facing an unplanned pregnancy, it's natural to consider both the benefits of being pregnant and the problems associated with unwanted pregnancy. By considering both the pros of pregnancy and the cons of pregnancy, you can work towards making an informed decision about your unplanned pregnancy options.
If you're experiencing an unplanned second pregnancy or an unexpected third pregnancy, it can feel like your only option is parenting. That, however, could not be further from the truth. An unwanted second pregnancy (or third, fourth, etc.) comes with the same three options as any other pregnancy: parenting, abortion or adoption.


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Birmingham pub bombings
Chris Mullin defends refusal to name Birmingham pub bombing suspects
Families of victims accused former MP of obstruction after inquest into 1974 attacks
Chris Mullin leaves Birmingham's civil justice centre after giving evidence at the Birmingham pub bombings inquests in March. Photograph: Matthew Cooper/PA
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Chris Mullin, the journalist, justice campaigner and former Labour MP, has responded to criticism from families of victims of the 1974 Birmingham bombings, saying the names of suspected bombers were known to them only because of his investigations.
Mullin, whose investigative work helped to exonerate the Birmingham Six, was angrily denounced by some bereaved relatives when he refused to name any of the still-living suspected bombers while giving evidence at the recent inquest into the atrocities.
He has maintained that journalistic ethics have precluded him from naming the suspects, having given assurances that he would not disclose the identities of IRA members he interviewed in the past.
But Julie Hambleton, who lost her older sister in the bombings, said after the end of the six-week inquest on Friday that "the first port of call" for any new official inquiry into the bombing should be Mullin, whom she accused of obstructing previous police investigations.
Mullin, who was confronted by some relatives while leaving Birmingham civil justice centre last month, told the Guardian: "Far from obstructing justice, I am the person who helped clear up the mess and it would be nice if some of those concerned could bring themselves to acknowledge that."
The convictions of six innocent men over the bombings, one of the British legal system's gravest miscarriages of justice, were quashed in 1991 after years of campaigning by their families, supporters and others.
Mullin initially investigated the case for Granada TV and wrote a 1986 book setting out a detailed case supporting the men's claims. He said: "No one was doing any investigating when I came on the scene; indeed much of Birmingham was in denial and remained so until relatively recently."
As part of this, he said he tracked down and interviewed 16 or 17 people who had been planting IRA bombs in and around Birmingham.
"In order to track down the bombers, I had to give assurances not only to guilty but to innocent intermediaries that I would not, during their lifetime, disclose the names of those who cooperated. Had I not done so, no one would have cooperated," he said.
On Friday, relatives of the 21 people killed in the 1974 bombings urged police in Britain and Ireland to bring the alleged perpetrators to justice after an inquest ruled the victims had been unlawfully killed.
The plea was made at the end of a hearing that resulted in a jury ruling that a botched warning call in advance of the attacks caused or contributed to the deaths.
Seizing on the evidence of a convicted IRA bomber, who named four men as being responsible for the attacks, relatives demanded that police launch fresh criminal investigations and charge living suspects with what was now officially known as murder.
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"Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?" anime film's Philippine screening details revealed
The popular light novel's anime film adaptation will be screened on May 25 at SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City.
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As previously reported, Southeast Asian anime channel ANIPLUS Asia has announced that the Philippine screening of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of Orion anime film is now scheduled on May 25.
The anime channel has revealed on Wednesday additional details on the anime film's upcoming screening.
The anime film will be screened on Saturday, May 25, at Cinema 11 of SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City. The screening will start at 04:30pm.
Tickets for the upcoming screening will cost PHP350 (additional charges may apply), which includes the following premium items for each ticket holder:
1pc Character Board (Random 1 out of 3 designs)
1pc Film Strip (Chosen at random)
To book your tickets, you may visit the ticket counter at SM Megamall or book online at smcinema.com.
Photo from ANIPLUS Asia
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion is an anime film based on the light novel series, written by Fujimo Oomori and illustrated by Suzuhito Yasuda, which is being published by SB Creative under the GA Bunko imprint since January 2013. The light novel series currently has 14 volumes.
Katsushi Sakurabi, who previously worked in Gunparade March and Alice & Zoroku, directed the anime film, while Shigeki Kimoto returned to handle character designs, which was produced by J.C. Staff. Light novel author Oomori handled the film's scripts.
DanMachi's anime film was released in 43 theaters in Japan last February 15. ANIPLUS Asia will be distributing the film in cinemas in select Southeast Asian countries.
Inori Minase (as Hestia) and Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (as Bell Cranell), was joined by populars inger and voice actor Maaya Sakamoto as "Artemis".
ANIPLUS Asia had aired the DanMachi anime series on a simulcast basis in Spring of 2015. The series also made its free-to-air premiere on terrestrial broadcaster TV5 in May 2017, which was dubbed in Filipino.
The anime channel also aired Sword Oratoria: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side, which is a spin-off of the original series, in Spring 2017.