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Alien Abduction is a 2005 science-fiction horror film produced by The Asylum, and one of few by the same studio not produced to capitalize on the release of another film. It was released with the tagline: "The war of the worlds has just begun!", referencing the 1898 novel The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, which would be adapted to film by The Asylum two months later.

Plot
The film begins with a group of carefree teenagers on a camping trip. As they spend the night drinking and hanging out, a light appears overhead.

Jean is the first to notice something wrong when she videotapes a UFO overhead. At first, her friends do not believe her and are unconvinced by the tape. That night while they are sitting around the campfire, the aliens attack. The four flee for their lives but cannot escape, and they are abducted. They wake up in a cell. Jean uses the camera's night vision to explore the alien glyphs and passages. They are eventually rounded up and pushed into a room where they are tied down and examined.

Jean awakens in a hospital, suffering from terrible flashbacks. That night, a shadowy figure sneaks into her room and staples something into the back of her neck, causing the flashbacks to stop and leaving Jean with no memory of the abduction.

Jean is questioned by a staff psychiatrist, Dr. Booker, who reveals that she is in a special facility for UFO abductees. She has to remain there until they are sure that she can resume a normal life. The military attache, Commander Shakti, wants her lobotomized. Jean breaks into another wing of the hospital to find her friends and discovers that one part of the hospital is reserved for mutants, the insane and the lobotomized. She sees a woman having her skull drilled. Jean is then captured by Shakti and given electric shock therapy until she is unconscious. When Jean wakes up, Shakti interrogates her and then sends her to an execution room. Jean lobotomizes the nurse instead and disguises the nurse as herself by covering her with gore. She wanders around the basement, looking for a way out through the vents, until she finds an empty storage room. Jean explores the area, eventually uncovering her things in a box labeled with her name. She also finds her video camera with the tape missing, but still with its memory stick. Jean replays the video and is shocked to see the entire abduction on tape. She escapes the storage room, killing a guard on the way. She also sees and tapes a scientist tending alien larvae in a lab and a scientist masturbating the aliens' genitals to extract sperm.

Jean breaks into a worker's locker room and disguises herself. There, she runs into her doctor Thomas. She finds out that the aliens have escaped and are infecting the facility.

When the infected are killed, alien larvae crack out of their skulls and escape. Jean and Thomas try to save her friends, but they are a mess, and Todd barely remembers Jean. Jean gets them to safety, but Todd turns on them. Thomas shows Jean the way out and reveals that the hospital is actually part of the alien ship. Todd kills Britney and Thomas, and an alien larva bursts out of Thomas' head just as he dies. An adult alien captures Jean, but she shoots it in the throat.

Later, Jean finds herself in another lab, looking at a series of human clones of her and her friends. Shakti explains that Jean died in the abduction, and she was a clone. Jean furiously kills her clone by pulling out its umbilical cord. All the people who appear to be humans on the ship are actually just vessels containing aliens, and Dr. Shakti intends to replace as many humans as possible with members of the alien race in cloned human bodies. Dr. Brooks removes Jean's memory suppression chip, and she now has access to the aliens' collective memory. This enables her to recognize the alien symbols and numbers shown to her on cards that she had not recognized when her memory was suppressed. She says that she is now "ready to serve" out the mission from Earth.

Jean, Todd, Bud, and Britney suddenly find themselves hiking in the woods on a sunny day. A search and rescue helicopter spots them. They tell the rescue team that they are fine. An army officer asks Jean, "Where have you been for the last two weeks?" The movie ends with Jean giving him a look.

Cast

 Megan Lee Ethridge as Jean
 Griff Furst as Todd
 Marissa Morse as Britney
 Patrick Thomassie as Bud
 Jilon Ghai as Thomas
 Bobby James as Dr. Booker
 Claudia Katz as Major Shakti
 Edwin Craig as The Director
 Angela Landis as Nurse White
 Deirdre Schweisow as Nurse Green
 Amanda Weier as Captain Helens
 Robert Lucchesi as Lt. Biggs
 Scott F. Evans as Staffer Maurice
 Butch Leonard as Staffer Franks
 Lola Forsberg as Bonnie
 Justin Sloan as Private Strict
 Jared Cohn as Private Smalls

Reception
The review site The Zone gave the film three stars, stating that it was "cursed with ambitions beyond its meagre resources".

References

External links

 Alien Abduction at The Asylum

2005 films
2005 independent films
2000s science fiction horror films
Alien abduction films
American science fiction horror films
The Asylum films
Direct-to-video horror films
2000s English-language films
Films directed by Eric Forsberg
Films with screenplays by Eric Forsberg
2000s American films

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Goldie Ramos
UST Nursing Student Gets Hands-On Experience in Holistic Health Care
In senior Goldie Ramos' nursing courses, she gets hands-on experience with a pregnant patient Noelle. Through signs such as increased heart rate, blood pressure and words like "I'm feeling dizzy," Ramos learns if Noelle is about to hemorrhage or about to deliver. But Noelle is not a human patient – she's a high-tech manikin in the University of St. Thomas' Nursing Simulation Lab.
"We'll have scenarios when they'll give us a certain process she's going through," Ramos said. "It could be progression of pre-term labor, and you have to take care of it accordingly, acting on the right nursing intervention."
Ramos, who transferred from Houston Community College, said Noelle and other manikins help a lot when she works in clinical rotations, like working at Ben Taub General Hospital and an externship at Right of Passage birth center. She is interested in being a nurse for labor and delivery and going into a midwifery program.
"You don't have the opportunity to practice on someone who is in active labor," she said. "Here, you can stop and ask questions. It helps prepare you for real life."
Ramos always knew she wanted to go into the health field. Her mother is a private-duty nurse, and she would sometimes accompany her to care for her patient.
She was also inspired by her high school experience working at a summer camp counselor, taking care of a girl with Down Syndrome.
"It tests your patience, but it's a different kind of care," Ramos said. "I felt like I was really helping her. I got to learn more compassion for a person. I learned more about how I feel about helping people."
It is with compassion that students in the UST School of Nursing learn about holistic care of their patients.
Ramos and her classmates are the first to take a new pilot curriculum of holistic nursing courses that teach patient-centered care – Holistic Nursing: Care of Older Adults; Holistic Nursing: Care of the Critically Ill; and Holistic Nursing: Behavioral Health. The courses are part of the third and fourth year objectives of the School of Nursing Title V Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
Ramos said holistic care assesses not just physical and mental health, but a person as a whole, looking at how an illness may affect someone in their daily life. Her Catholic faith also helps her relate to the holistic program.
"What can you do to even out that imbalance in their life?" she described. "When they're ill, bringing them back to a whole person, and not just curing their disease or their signs and symptoms."
Ramos explored the many theories of nursing in her junior year course, Art and Science of Holistic Nursing, taught by Dr. Phyllis Waters, visiting professor of nursing and Director of Nursing Practice for Harris County Hospital Health System Nursing Services.
She wrote about the theory proposed by Martha Rogers, the Science of Unitary Human Beings.
Ramos' paper on the subject was accepted for inclusion in the Society of Rogerian Scholars Annual Conference on Oct. 9-11 in New York, where she will present a poster and answer questions as the only undergraduate in the conference.
In the rigorous St. Thomas School of Nursing, Ramos appreciates the small group of only 28 students, where students get personal attention from faculty.
"You appreciate that the professor stopped to ask you if everything is ok," she said. "They're treating us holistically. They're teaching and leading by example."
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Last week at my Saturday writer's group, we had a discussion about character names. One of our people is taking her first crack at fantasy, and one of the questions I had for her was whether or not she intended to change the plain Jane names she was using in her drafts. She was, she said, but was unsure of how to go about choosing fantasy names. This lead to a discussion on the different techniques for choosing character names, and how consistency within each universe is important.
Here are some naming themes you could use for your next story.
Real World Alternatives. These types of names are pretty straight forward, change a few letters around, add a suffix or prefix or mesh two names together. These names are perfect for a fictional world that resembles our own, or in worlds where you don't want the fantasy focus to be in the typical places. An added bonus is that these types of names will have a fresh feel while not being tongue twisters.
Anagrams. Creating an anagram of a name or character quality (or even both) is another way to go, especially if you want the name to have certain sounds. You might try this online anagram creator. Although I plugged several names in and didn't get anything, I tried several phrases or two-word names with better results. Taking the letters to actual paper is another alternative.
Using Dead Languages. This is my preferred method, primarily because a lot of my fantasy takes place in a spin of a previous era. Languages like ancient Greek and Latin are quite beautiful, and when you go this route you have the added bonus of some word roots being familiar to your readers, which could translate into less exposition.
Even if following a theme doesn't float your boat, there are some additional conventions to consider when creating names.
Test your fictional names aloud. Try them with different inflictions, and examine ways that they might be mispronounced. A high likelihood of a mispronunciation doesn't mean you need to change the name, it's just something to be aware of as you go.
Keep the length under control. Especially with non-standard names, you don't want your readers stumbling over a mouthful every three or four lines. If you have a character that necessitates a long and unwieldy name (such as royalty) give them a single syllable nickname.
Keep your setting in mind. This means taking worldbuilding components like the era and region a character was born, their age, and any root word meanings into consideration as you write. Be consistent, and take thorough notes as names are one of the most frequently changed parts of a story.
Characters trait based names. Choosing a quality that your character is going to extoll is a pretty common practice in fiction. Roll with it, by all means, but use it with finesse. Word geeks will pick up on overused names and too obvious ties will spoil the character's development.
Characters with similar sounding names. This goes without saying, but it's best to avoid this type of confusion. I know it's tempting in the case of twins, or characters you want to draw obvious parallels between, but you've got to resist the urge. Your story and your readers will thank you.
Easy on the apostrophes. I love beautifully written names as much as the next girl, but you have to balance the beauty of the word with its functionality within the sentence. Think about how readers might stumble over an oddly placed apostrophe, or how the name will look with an 's attached to the end.
There are other naming rules, such as never ending a name with an s and never throw random letters or syllables together, but those are less useful and more tropes. Ultimately, practice is likely to help you determine your favorite naming schemes for the different types of stories you write, but until then experiment and find what works. Don't be afraid to discard what doesn't, either, even if it comes from me. I promise I won't cry.
Super advice here. It's challenging to develop something that makes sense within the novel's future/alternate/fantasy structure. As part of doing this, I've taken to ancient languages and then modify them by one or two letter changes, As always, keeping up with decisions is a challenge. I keep a novel bible for that. The bible for 'Long Summer', sequel to 'Returnee', is 7,000 words, all in outline form.
I always check Google after I invent names. It's amazing how often other writers end up with the same ideas. Occasionally I'll discover the names in a computer game. Sometimes a social media persona will be tagged with my clever creation. Then it's back to the idea mill.
Great ideas. I tend to use plain names as well when writing my drafts.
Great tips. I'm planning to rename most of my characters in my second draft so this helps.


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Childhood bullying may lead to social, health issues in adulthood
By Michelle Castillo
August 19, 2013 / 5:17 PM / CBS News
Being bullied as a child may have long-lasting repercussions that can follow into adulthood.
A new study published in Psychological Science on Aug. 19 shows that being bullied as a youth was linked to more struggles to hold a regular job, more health problems and poor social relationships when the victim became an adult.
"We cannot continue to dismiss bullying as a harmless, almost inevitable, part of growing up," Dieter Wolke, a professor in the department of psychology at the University of Warwick in the U.K., said in a press release. "We need to change this mindset and acknowledge this as a serious problem for both the individual and the country as a whole; the effects are long-lasting and significant."
About 20 percent of U.S. students in grades 9 through 12 were bullied at some point in 2011, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey.
For the new study, researchers looked at 1,420 children between the ages of nine to 16, and followed up with them when they were 24 through 26 years old. Each participant was surveyed four to six times during the study.
Researchers were particularly interested in the impact on victims, bullies and people who were in both categories, which they called "bully-victims."
All three groups were twice as likely to have problems with maintaining employment and actively saving money when they grew up compared to those who weren't involved in bullying. They were also all more likely to have financial problems as adults.
In addition, the subjects had problems forming adult social relationships, meaning it was hard for them to have long-term friendships or good relationships with their parents. This was the same whether or not the person was married.
But when all factors were considered, just being a bully was shown to have very little impact on adult problems. Kids who bullied were more likely to have childhood psychiatric problems and difficulties with their family, which may have accounted for their problems later in life.
The people who may have been worst off were the bully-victims. They had the greatest chance of developing health problems as an adult: They were more than six times more likely to have a serious illness, smoke regularly or develop a psychiatric disorder compared to those who did not bully anyone at all.
"In the case of bully-victims, it shows how bullying can spread when left untreated," Wolke added. "Some interventions are already available in schools but new tools are needed to help health professionals to identify, monitor, and deal with the ill-effects of bullying. The challenge we face now is committing the time and resources to these interventions to try and put an end to bullying."
Previous studies had linked being bullied to increased risk of adult psychiatric problems. Teens bullied by their peers are 2.5 times more likely to have suicidal thoughts than those who haven't been recently bullied, an October 2012 study in the Archives of Pediatric Medicine showed.
Emma-Jane Cross, founder of the anti-bullying charity BeatBullying, added that the study shows that bullying can affect society and the economy.
"The findings demonstrate for the first time just how far-reaching and damaging the consequences of bullying can be," she told the BBC.
It's more than just monetary and social consequences at risk. Psychologist Guy Winch told TIME that emotional trauma might be as harmful as physical injuries. One particular study using brain image scans showed that people who have been rejected have the same areas of the brain activated as those who are experiencing physical pain, he said.
"The intensity of the emotional pain bullying elicits, and the fact that other people underestimate how much hurt they feel makes being bullied an incredibly traumatic experience that can leave significant emotional scars," says Winch, who wrote "Emotional First Aid: Practical Strategies for Treating Failure, Rejection, Guilt, and Other Everyday Psychological Injuries," explained.
The bullies don't have to be the child's classmates. A June study in Pediatrics showed that people who were bullied by their siblings may have more adult metal health problems like depression and anxiety than those who had been bullied by their peers.
Winch said that targeting certain issues that affect bullied victims may be able to help prevent any further damage. Areas of focus should include building up their self-esteem, helping them heal from the emotional pain, helping them manage their anger and aggression and aiding them in understanding that they are wanted and belong.
"Some people are more resilient and tend to do some of these healing and curative things naturally. They might seek out their close friends and get emotional support from them, and by doing so remind themselves that they're accepted and appreciated," Winch said.
First published on August 19, 2013 / 5:17 PM
Michelle Castillo
Michelle Castillo is an associate editor for CBSNews.com.
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What does LYC stand for?
LYC stands for Lauderdale Yacht Club (est. 1938; Fort Lauderdale, FL)
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Deeply ingrained patterns inhibiting mindful expansion continue to challenge our collective. This demonstrates how tightly the human mind is tethered to limbic responses of fear and striving, severely limiting access to higher/deeper dimensions.
An important part of the MICH experience is opening dimensions of perception, in particular, the one associated with the "Spiritual" Dimension of mind. We sometimes hesitate to use the term "spiritual" as it sometimes seems to cause the loss of the humility necessary to access this dimension. Perhaps by calling it the "Implicate, Archetypal or Contemplative" dimension, it will be easier for us to stay close to the ultimate ground of existence to which that dimension really refers.
Through it, we perceive the deeper, soul dimensions of ourselves and everyone in our lives. This understanding can be useful in any therapeutic setting, in personal contemplation and in any relationship. It helps us use homeopathy as an instrument of awakening to higher consciousness; knowing that healing involves a multidimensional return to wholeness for all of humanity, for all of life, and the entire planet.
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VoiceFM 89.9 News Entertainment BET Awards Make Changes To Best International Act Category
BET Awards Make Changes To Best International Act Category
The BET Best International Act award would be presented on the main stage for the first time ever at the 2018 edition of the awards.
For many years since the existence of the BET Awards, the winners of the Best International Act category received their prize behind the curtains. The likes of Davido, Wizkid, 2Baba, D'Banj, Stonebwoy, Sarkodie were winners of the award in previous editions.
Following intense pressure from the international music community, especially from artistes like Wizkid and Yemi Alade, the organisers of the BET Awards have now made a move to give victors in the 'Best International Act' category better recognition.
It was recently announced via the official social handle of BET Africa that the winner of the 2018 edition of the Best International Act category would receive his/her prize on the main stage.
The list of the potential winners of the award was recently published and it includes names like; Davido, Tiwa Savage, Nasty C, Stormzy (of UK) among others.
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Der Bannwald Wehratal ist ein Naturschutzgebiet bei Wehr (Baden) im Landkreis Waldshut.

Kenndaten
Das Naturschutzgebiet wurde mit Verordnung des Regierungspräsidiums Freiburg vom 24. September 1982 ausgewiesen und hat eine Größe von rund 120 Hektar. Es wird unter der Schutzgebietsnummer 3.122 geführt. Der CDDA-Code für das Naturschutzgebiet lautet 81358 und entspricht der WDPA-ID.

Lage
Das Naturschutzgebiet Bannwald Wehratal erstreckt sich nördlich der Stadt Wehr (Baden). Es umfasst aber nur den landschaftlich großartigsten Teil der Wehratalschlucht, die als Ganzes zwischen Todtmoos-Au und Wehr unter Landschaftsschutz steht. Durch rückschreitende Erosion in das Grundgebirge hat die Wehra in diesem Abschnitt eine tiefe Felsenklamm geschaffen. Mit den Felstürmen und Felsrippen hat die Landschaft fast alpinen Charakter.

Schutzzweck
Wesentlicher Schutzzweck ist die Erhaltung und Sicherung des Bannwald Wehratal
 als Lebensraum für zahlreiche, zum Teil sehr seltene und vom Aussterben bedrohte Tier- und Pflanzenarten;
 als naturhafter Landschaftsteil von besonderer Eigenart und Schönheit;
 als Gebiet von hervorragender Bedeutung für die Wissenschaft.

Arteninventar
Im Naturschutzgebiet Bannwald Wehratal wurden folgende Arten erfasst:

 Höhere Pflanzen/Farne
 Angelica sylvestris (Wilde Engelwurz), Anthyllis vulneraria (Gewöhnlicher Wundklee), Arabis glabra (Turmkraut), Arum maculatum (Aronstab), Aruncus dioicus (Wald-Geißbart), Asplenium ruta-muraria (Mauerraute), Asplenium scolopendrium (Hirschzunge), Asplenium septentrionale (Nordischer Strichfarn), Asplenium trichomanes (Schwarzstieliger Strichfarn), Asplenium viride (Grüner Strichfarn), Blechnum spicant (Rippenfarn), Caltha palustris (Sumpf-Dotterblume), Campanula rotundifolia agg. (Artengruppe Rundblättrige Glockenblume), Campanula trachelium (Nesselblättrige Glockenblume), Carex brachystachys (Kurzährige Segge), Cephalanthera longifolia (Schwertblättriges Waldvöglein), Chrysosplenium alternifolium (Wechselblättriges Milzkraut), Chrysosplenium oppositifolium (Gegenblättriges Milzkraut), Digitalis grandiflora (Großblütiger Fingerhut), Digitalis purpurea (Roter Fingerhut), Hieracium schmidtii (Blasses Habichtskraut), Huperzia selago (Tannen-Bärlapp), Juniperus communis (Gewöhnlicher Wacholder), Leucojum vernum (Märzenbecher), Linaria vulgaris (Gewöhnliches Leinkraut), Lunaria rediviva (Wildes Silberblatt), Melampyrum pratense (Wiesen-Wachtelweizen), Monotropa hypopitys (Echter Fichtenspargel), Neottia nidus-avis (Nestwurz), Platanthera bifolia (Weiße Waldhyazinthe), Polygonatum multiflorum (Vielblütige Weißwurz), Polystichum aculeatum agg. (Artengruppe Gelappter Schildfarn), Polystichum braunii (Zarter Schildfarn), Primula elatior (Große Schlüsselblume), Ranunculus aconitifolius (Eisenhutblättriger Hahnenfuß), Rosa pendulina (Gebirgs-Rose), Sedum dasyphyllum (Dickblättrige Fetthenne), Sedum telephium agg. (Artengruppe Purpur-Fetthenne), Silene nutans (Nickendes Leimkraut), Silene rupestris (Felsen-Leimkraut), Sorbus aria (Echte Mehlbeere), Valeriana tripteris (Dreischnittiger Baldrian), Vincetoxicum hirundinaria (Schwalbenwurz), Viscum album subsp. abietis (Tannen-Mistel)

Siehe auch
 Liste der Naturschutzgebiete in Baden-Württemberg
 Liste der Naturschutzgebiete im Landkreis Waldshut

Literatur
  Regierungspräsidium Freiburg (Hrsg.): Die Naturschutzgebiete im Regierungsbezirk Freiburg. Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-7995-5177-9, S. 649–650.

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Fritz Hellwig (Saarbrücken, 3 augustus 1912 – Bonn, 22 juli 2017) was een Duits politicus voor de CDU.

Hellwig bezocht het gymnasium in Saarbrücken en studeerde vervolgens in Marburg, Wenen en Berlijn. Tijdens zijn studie in Berlijn werd hij na de machtsovername door de NSDAP lid van deze partij. In december 1933 promoveerde hij met een proefschrift over het Saargebied in de periode 1860-1870. Na zijn terugkeer in het Saargebied, dat op dat moment door Frankrijk werd bezet, was hij hier voor de NSDAP actief. Hij werkte in Saarbrücken voor de Kamer van Koophandel. Daarnaast was hij vanaf 1937 ook docent aan de lerarenopleiding in Saarbrücken. In 1936 volgde aan de universiteit van Heidelberg zijn habilitatie. Vanaf 1939 was hij voor Duitsland actief in de organisatie van de ijzer- en staalindustrie. In februari 1943 werd hij opgeroepen voor de Wehrmacht en eind 1943 werd hij krijgsgevangen gemaakt.

In 1947 keerde Hellwig terug uit de krijgsgevangenschap. Hij werkte in Düsseldorf en Duisburg omdat hij in het door Frankrijk bezette Saarland niet welkom was. Hij werd lid van de CDU en was van 1953 tot 1959 lid van de Bondsdag. In 1959 was hij tevens lid van het Europees Parlement.

In 1959 trad hij terug als parlementslid om lid te worden van de hoge autoriteit van de Europese Gemeenschap voor Kolen en Staal (EGKS). Nadat de commissies van de EGKS, de EEG en Euratom in 1967 werden samengevoegd was hij vicevoorzitter van de nieuwe commissie van de Europese gemeenschappen tot 1970.

Bondsdaglid
CDU-politicus (Bondsrepubliek)
Duits Eurocommissaris
NSDAP-lid
Duits honderdplusser
SA-lid
Duits krijgsgevangene


The latest semi-annual release of "The Web CMS Report" examines Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and concludes that despite its strengths in managing documents in a collaborative environment, the software isn't a smart choice for managing traditional Web sites. MOSS 2007 replaces SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Content Management Server.
The report was published by CMS Watch, an independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies and strategies.
"SharePoint has always been a good platform for managing Office documents and the new version is even better at that," said CMS Watch founder Tony Byrne, in a statement, "but managing Web content represents a very different challenge, and here, Microsoft has not hit the mark."
MOSS lacks strong native support for translation workflows, so its effectiveness for multinational Web sites is limited.
There were some bright spots in the report. For example, it notes that MOSS 2007 can be heavily customized and extended through traditional .NET approaches.
"MOSS 2007 might make sense for certain document-heavy Intranets," Byrne said, "but prospective customers should not assume that its ease of deployment for simple file sharing will equate to ease of implementation for managing complex Web publishing operations -- for Web Content Management, MOSS is really more of a development platform."
The research firm conducted hundreds of interviews with Web content management system (CMS) customers worldwide. The report compares 30 vendors across 18 major feature categories and evaluates the suitability of each product for a dozen scenarios. Though it does not name a "best" vendor, it does detail the strengths and weaknesses of each supplier and explains the suitability of each product.
More information is available at http://www.cmswatch.com.
This article is courtesy of Enterprise Systems. James E. Powell is editorial director of ESJ.com.


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Les mètres au-dessus de la mer, en allemand , sont le système géodésique national de référence de la Suisse et du Liechtenstein. Son point d'origine sont les pierres du Niton à Genève dont l'altitude est elle-même définie par le nivellement général de la France ayant pour repère de référence le marégraphe de Marseille.

Histoire

Ce système géodésique est défini en 1902.

Références

Articles connexes
 Référent altimétrique
 Altimétrie
 Nivellement
 Système géodésique
 Niveau de la mer

Repère géographique
Géographie de la Suisse
Géographie du Liechtenstein
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Teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
-Psalm 90:12 (NIV)
I've been contemplating the empty nest lately.
Well, the idea of it. We still have a few months to go. We still have the summer, but our son has been making his decision about college, and the time's getting closer. Won't be long now until we leave him at a dorm on a college campus and come home without him, not long at all until staying in touch with him will mean phone calls and texts and FaceTime instead of dinner conversations.
Look, I know, a lot of parents are separated from their kids under much worse terms: estrangement, imprisonment, or even worse. I'm really not complaining. This is a happy occasion. It's a time we've always assumed would come, that we started making preparations for 18 years ago. I don't intend to mope around after he's off to school — not for too long, anyway. Laura and I will stay busy, and maybe even take on some new things.
But life will never be the same, so I have been thinking. Contemplating the empty nest.
Nearly 13 years ago now, I wrote this:
We drove him to school, gave him a hug, and sent him off down the hall to his classroom. He never even looked back, of course, which thrilled and broke our hearts all at the same time. To him, it's all a big adventure, full of wonder and promise. It's a milestone, a rite of passage. He's a big kid now, ready to take on the world. And we know he's ready, and we want him to. We wouldn't hold him back, even if we could. Still, there's a part of us that wants to. There's a part of us that knows that life will never be the same from this moment on, that wants to look back instead of forward…
Looking back. That was my problem then, and it's still my problem now.
Well, not looking back, exactly. God gave us memory, didn't he, so we could do just that? The ability to remember is a wonderful gift. Sometimes, though, it can keep us in thrall to the past. It can make us regret its loss, and make us doubt that there's anything nearly as good in the future.
"Teach us to number our days," the psalmist writes. Maybe it sounds dark to you, morbid, to contemplate mortality like that, especially with the rest of the world droning in our ears about now and youth and distracting us from the uncomfortable fact that time is passing. But there's wisdom in numbering our days. The psalmist doesn't mean to live in fear of death, unable to take joy in anything. He means, I think, to recognize that nothing lasts forever. "There's a time for everything," the Teacher of Ecclesiastes put it, "and a season for every activity under the heavens."
Sure, it can make you live in fear of the future. It can make you hold so tightly to your children that you suffocate them, stunt their growth. It can make you enshrine the past as ideal. It can leave you bitter, certain that life is all about losing and saying goodbye and giving up what you love. But there's no faith in that. It leaves entirely out of the picture a God who is faithful, and for whom the future poses no threat or worry at all.
So I'm numbering my days until school starts in the fall. Literally, in this case — I know exactly how many there are. I intend to spend them joyfully, to enjoy being with my son and wife, to remember the past with gratitude and to look toward the future with faith. Maybe there are a few things I can teach him yet. We can talk about football, and faith, and look forward to the next Star Wars movie. Maybe he'll have some questions to ask. Maybe more likely, he'll be so looking forward to this new chapter in his life that questions won't even occur to him. To him, maybe, this transition won't seem any more frightening than did that walk down the hall on the first day of kindergarten. Why should it? He'll know that he always has his family in his corner. And, more importantly, he'll know that his God goes with him. And so his future, still, is full of wonder and promise.
And so is mine. God's people don't look toward the future with fear. We number our days so that we'll be smart about the decisions we make with our time and our resources. But we look toward the future with faith, secure in our God and his love, power, and faithfulness.
The psalmist ends that psalm with this prayer:
May your deeds be shown to your servants,
your splendor to their children.
May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us;
establish the work of our hands for us—
yes, establish the work of our hands.
So that'll be my prayer in this part of my life, too: that God will show his deeds and splendor to me and to my son, that his favor will rest on us, and that he'll establish the work of our hands. That's a prayer that will lead us into the future with our heads high, our shoulders squared, our faces smiling, our hearts singing with hope, joy, and gratitude — because of what God has given us in the past, and because of his faithfulness for the future.
So number your days. Pay attention to the changes that are coming in your life. (Because they are.) But remember that your God doesn't change. So you can walk with confidence into the future. His future.
Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
-1 Peter 1:8-9 (NIV)
One of my many important functions around the Odum house is the vital role of Canine Exercise and Waste Evacuation Consultant. To the layman, the job is often known as "Dog Walker," but in my opinion that title trivializes the time, dedication, training, and hardship that must be invested in what the unenlightened refer to so dismissively as "walking the dog."
But I digress. Our dog, Isaiah, knows enough to be able to identify me as chief C.E.W.E.C. So every night after dinner he shadows me everywhere. Every time I turn around, there he is staring at me expectantly and hopefully. Every time I take a step, I have to be careful not to trip over the little mutt. If I don't respond promptly enough, he whines to get my attention and when he has it looks at me with pleading brown eyes, as if to say, "You didn't forget, did you?"
And so eventually, almost every night, I get his leash and a plastic grocery bag. He's never far away, and when he sees me get the leash and bag he goes berserk. His tail wags so hard he can't run right, and so when he runs toward me momentum pulls his back end around so that he's almost running sideways. He tries, oh how he tries, to sit still so I can clip his leash to his collar, but more often than not he'll be so excited that before I can get the leash on he jumps up and runs a circle or two around me before flopping down on his back so I can get the leash on.
Once leashed, he pulls me toward the door, then leaps up past doorknob height while I open it. Then we're off; he pulls me down the steps and we set off down the sidewalk in a sprint.
One night as we went through this ritual, a thought occurred to me. I said it out loud to Laura, hoping that maybe she'd correct me. She didn't, which suggests to me that I'm not wrong.
The thought that occurred to me was that I doubted that I could ever make another living thing as happy as I make Isaiah simply by taking him for a walk.
It was just a random thought, but the more I think about it the more I think it may be true. That's less a reflection on me, though, as it is on human beings in general. Frankly, we're a little hard to impress. As kids we can get pretty excited, but as we get older unbridled joy gets harder and harder to come by. For a whole variety of reasons, by the time we're adults we turn into grouches who get very good at complaining and finding fault and rehearsing what's wrong, but seem to lose our ability to rejoice in simple, small, good things.
I suppose that's a part of the fall, just another symptom that something of God's image has been lost , or clouded, or broken. Maybe it has to do, too, with the expectations that we have of our lives, and the disappointment that inevitably comes when what we've dreamed of doesn't happen. Maybe it's that joylessness is contagious, and we live around so many sullen, angry, discouraged people. Or maybe, and I think this is very likely too, we just forget to be joyful. We've cultivated the habits of grumbling and fault-finding and finding the cloud in every blue sky, and have neglected to develop the habit of celebrating the many forms – often small and unexpected – that God's grace takes in our lives.
At Walk Time, Isaiah has the habit of joy nailed. If he's had a rough day, he doesn't remember at that moment. All he knows right at that moment is that it's time to celebrate. It's time to wag the tail and jump and run and bark in excitement. I should take notes. Find reasons to be joyful, and when I find one I should be joyful without reservation, inhibition, or equivocation.
I have a theory, and since you've chosen to read this far I'll presume to share it with you. I think that part of what is "saved" in the process of salvation is our ability to be joyful. Think about all the times in the Bible God's people are told to rejoice in the things that God has done. Think of all the times we're reminded that joy is an appropriate response – really the only appropriate response – to God's grace. In Scripture, God's people celebrate when he does something amazing on their behalf; think of Miriam leading the women in singing and dancing on the western shore of the Red Sea. They celebrate the harvest, when he blesses all their hard work. Isaiah promised Israel that when they came home from exile the trees themselves would "clap their hands" and join in their joy. David danced before the LORD with all his might. Jesus was "full of joy through the Holy Spirit." "Rejoice in the Lord always," Paul instructed the church in Philippi. And Peter, maybe thinking back on the joy he felt in Jesus' presence, wrote with amazement that even those who hadn't seen him with their physical eyes felt that same inexpressible joy because of their faith that he was coming again.
Oh, I think so – part of what Jesus saved when he saved us was our ability to feel and live and act out of joy. When we rejoice, it's "in the Lord" – out of our new life in him. When we're full of joy, it's "through the Holy Spirit." You've seen it, haven't you? You've seen people who because of their relationship with Jesus and the presence of the Holy Spirit in their lives are just overflowing with joy. Sometimes they overflow with joy even when there's no earthly reason – even when they're suffering pain and disappointment. And that's how you know that their joy comes from somewhere else, outside their own bodies and minds. It's God's gift to us, to his daughters and sons in whom he takes such joy.
So don't forget to wag your tail, so to speak. Don't forget to jump for joy. Don't feel ashamed to dance before the Lord with all your might, despite the Michals who might not approve. Inexpressible joy is God's gift to you – the restoration of something sin had taken away. The people around you need to see it, because they need it restored in themselves, too.
Come take our dog for a walk one night if you want to see how it's done.
The State Book of Tennessee
In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.
-Daniel 2:44 (NIV)
I grew up in Tennessee, where the state flower is the iris, the state tree is the tulip poplar, and the state bird is the mockingbird. (I knew those from memory.) The good people of Tennessee also have a state insect (lightning bug), a state reptile (the eastern box turtle), a state wild animal (the raccoon), and two state fish (the largemouth bass and the channel cat). There are, amazingly, nine state songs. (Yes, Tennessee Waltz and Rocky Top are two of them.) There's even a state rifle, as of two months ago — the Barrett M82/M107. (a 50-cal. semiautomatic just like Davey Crockett used to use, I guess)
Tennessee does not, however, have a state book, as the governor, Bill Haslam, just killed a bill that would have given the Bible that designation. His rationale: "this bill trivializes the Bible, which I believe is a sacred text." He later wrote, "Our founders recognized that when the church and state were combined, it was the church that suffered in the long run."
A century ago another Tennesseean, David Lipscomb, came to a similar conclusion during the Civil War:
Finally the years of sectional strife, war, bloodshed, destruction and desolation swept over our land, and the spectacle was presented, of disciples of the Prince of Peace, with murderous weapons seeking the lives of their fellowmen. Brethren for whom Christ died…were found imbruing their hands in the blood of their own brethren in Christ, making their sisters widows and their sisters' children orphans. It took but little thought to see that this course is abhorrent to the principles of the religion of the Savior, who died that even his enemies might live. He had plainly declared that his children could not fight with carnal weapons even for the establishment of his own Kingdom. Much less could they slay and destroy one another in the contentions and strivings of the kingdoms of this world. It took but little thought to see that Christians cannot fight, cannot slay one another or their fellowmen, at the behest of any earthly ruler, or to establish or maintain any human government. But if he cannot fight himself, can he vote to make another fight?
Haslam, as a political leader who doesn't want the Bible trivialized, and Lipscomb, as a church leader who doesn't want Christians to lose their identity for the sake of the state, are singing the same tune.
It's nothing new for political leaders to try to use the Bible in their platforms. Co-opt the Bible, and you might gain a lot of voters for whom the Bible has great meaning. Lawmakers in Tennessee explained that they intended their bill to "recognize the Bible's role as a record of family history" and honor "the importance of Bible publishers in Nashville." But once the Bible gets too tightly tangled in the machinery of civil government, it's hard to untangle it. It can be (and has been) pointed like a gun at whatever elements of citizenry are deemed to be enemies. It can be (and has been) used to justify horrendous abuses and injustices. When the state becomes too identified with Scripture, it tends to go deaf to the ways in which the Scripture speaks in judgment of its sins.
And when the church becomes too cozy with the state, then the church has become the oppressors. That's just history. When we get too comfortable with the trappings of civil power, we forget that we're supposed to identify with the One who came with love and grace, especially for the poor and marginalized. We give up our identity as citizens of the Kingdom of God in order to hold and exercise civil power in defense of our narrow interests and agendas.
If you could take a survey of deputies turning fire hoses on demonstrating blacks in the 60's, or Gestapo rounding up Jews in Nazi Germany, or Calvinists persecuting Anabaptists in Geneva, you'd find they have one thing in common. They would say they were Christians.
I see these things happening in Tennessee, though, from a distance, for the simple reason that for the last couple of decades I've been a citizen of Illinois. I'm interested, to a degree. I have family there, and I visit often, and still feel some sense of connection to the Volunteer State. But that's not who I am now.
And that, I think, is how Christians ought to view the noise and bustle of civil government, whether local, state, national, or international. We have connections to it. It affects the way we live day-to-day. But we should see it from a distance, because that's not who we are. We're not, primarily, citizens of our own towns or states or countries. We belong to the kingdom of heaven, and we're still looking for the day when Jesus comes and his kingdom comes in power and his will is done, finally and completely, on earth as it is in heaven. That's the hope we have, and the reason we live.
Daniel looked forward to the day when God's rule would topple every civil government on earth. Jesus preached that he was bringing that same kingdom was near. Paul wrote that those who trust in Jesus are citizens of that kingdom, and the hope we wait for isn't anything that a civil government can provide.
Maybe believers shouldn't vote, or serve in civil government: maybe they should. But never with the intent of folding up the Kingdom of God into the boundaries and self-concern of a particular country, or political party, or interest group. No human legislature ever adequately represented the will of God. No party platform ever satisfactorily contained the gospel.
Remember that in this election season.
Stay Out There
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
-Philippians 3:12-14 (NIV)
Ernie Els is a pretty good golfer.
I say that because of what I'm about to say about him. Honestly, he's no slouch. He has 19 career wins on the PGA Tour. He has 28 wins on the European Tour (good for seventh all-time). He's won the US Open twice, the British Open twice, finished second at the Masters twice, and third at the PGA Championship twice. If those stats don't mean much to you, then just take it from me: There are very few golfers in the world who have accomplished anything like what Ernie Els has accomplished.
Ernie Els is a very good golfer. And that's what makes what happened to him on his first hole of the Masters this week so shocking. On the par-4 first at Augusta National, Els shot a 9. A 9. Five over par.
You'd think maybe he hit his drive wide, or went into some water, or visited a deep bunker. You'd be wrong. Els hit a good drive. His second shot wasn't great, but he only left the ball just short of the green. With his third shot, he chipped to within 3 feet of the hole. He was putting for an easy par. And that's when the wheels came off.
A three-foot putt — well, even I can make one of those. Most of the time, even. Els missed. And then again. And then again. He missed 5 times, in fact. A professional golfer who has played the game at a championship level for more than two decades, and he six-putted from three feet. For all of Els' professional accomplishments, he now owns a record he doesn't want: a 9 is the highest score ever carded on Augusta National number one at The Masters.
"I don't know how I stayed out there," he said later.
I think I know how. I mean, I haven't played professional sports, but I've been acquainted with a fair number of people who "stayed out there" after devastating failures. Professional failures, lost marriages, financial setbacks, broken relationships, failures of character: sometimes there's no way to downplay or sidestep your mistakes. They're public, they're undeniable, and there is no doubt who is to blame. They rest heavy on you, and everyone who knows you see them writ large. If you've been there, or loved someone who was there, you know what I mean.
None of us, like Paul said, have arrived yet. None of us have "tak[en] hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of [us]." We're heading for something, we know that, but we're not there yet. And there are times when, all of us, we look like nothing short of spectacular failures. And you can let those gigantic failures define you, sink you, destroy you. Or you can stay out there — keep swinging, keep putting, weather the storm, finish the course.
And, to do that, you're going to have to have a selective memory.
Paul says that he forgot what was in his past. He says he put his failures out of his mind. And, you know, Paul had some pretty significant failures in his past. He had made the lives of believers miserable, in fact, so much so that when he met Jesus and became a Christian, a lot of other believers didn't trust him. Which goes to show that there will be people in your world who'll be slow to let you forget your failures. And sometimes that's understandable, and even appropriate. Sometimes our failures hurt people, and they need time to heal. But it doesn't mean you have to define yourself by them.
Paul was capable of remembering his failures well when it suited his purpose. When he said he forgot what was behind, he didn't mean literally, of course. What he meant is that he no longer let those failures define his identity. His sins were real, but they were about who he had been. Jesus had taken hold of him, and now he had a new identity. And so he pressed on toward the future the Lord had given him.
That's what we need to understand when our failures threaten to get the better of us: Jesus has taken hold of us and given us a new future. So he invites us to forget what's behind and sprint with him toward what's ahead. It's not about making up for our failures, balancing some cosmic scales with our good deeds until we hit some sort of equilibrium. The new future we have is in Christ, and we have it because he sacrificed himself to in some way take away the power of our failures. Though it sounds too good to be true, it's as real as his cross and his empty tomb. And to live with the weight of our failures is foolish, and even worse it's faithless.
A few years after he wrote about forgetting, pressing on, and straining toward the promises Jesus had given him, near the end of his life, Paul wrote, "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day." That's our hope, too, and it's all the reason we need to forget the epic failures that we all look back on with shame. Put them out of your mind, trusting that Christ has taken away their power. Strain toward what's ahead, lean into the future that God has given you in Jesus. Press on with your eyes set firmly on the goal at the end of the race.
That's how you stay out there. That's how a person who believes in Jesus copes when they six-putt.
Keep the faith. Ernie Els won't win The Masters this year. But because of Jesus, our victory is sure.
Cashing Your Check
[The kingdom of heaven] will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them. To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. The man who had received five bags of gold went at once and put his money to work and gained five bags more. So also, the one with two bags of gold gained two more. But the man who had received one bag went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.
-Matthew 25:14-18 (NIV)
Sean Weatherspoon has changed jobs — and cities — a couple of times in the last few years. He's moved from Atlanta to Phoenix and now back to Atlanta. And sometimes when you move, it's hard to keep track of things.
Like, for example, a paycheck from 2015.
Sean, who plays linebacker in the NFL, was packing after being traded by the Arizona Cardinals back to the Atlanta Falcons when his girlfriend came across the the check: one week's check for around $138,000. He apparently hadn't even missed it.
Now, I have to admit to misplacing a check once or twice. But I knew pretty quickly that it was gone. And there was never one worth $138,000.
I think Sean might want to look into direct deposit.
Apparently Sean isn't the only pro athlete to run into this problem, either. Former Cleveland Indians slugger Manny Ramirez once had the team contact them because their books were off by a million dollars or two: the value of a drawerful of paychecks Ramirez had apparently neglected to cash.
Jesus told a story to explain what it's like to live under the reign of God, a story about a wealthy man who called the household staff together and gave them some cash to use to do some business on his behalf while he was away on a trip. He was the kind of guy, apparently, who expected his people to produce some results with what he'd given them, so when he returned he asked them to open the books. Two of his agents had doubled their master's money, but it's the third that Jesus is particularly interested in. This guy, concerned about how tough the boss could be when he didn't get the results he wanted, pulled a Weatherspoon. He didn't lose what he had been given, but he didn't use it either.
In case the point of the story isn't clear, it's this: people who want to live under the rule of God need to use what he's given them to do his business.
We can easily forget this, living as we do with a form of Christianity that more often than not seems to stress what we shouldn't do. But life with Jesus was never supposed to be about hunkering down and holding on, digging in to our trench works and keeping our heads down while the battle rages around us. Personal salvation and piety has never been the goal for which Jesus came.
The marching orders sound more like this: "Proclaim this message: 'The kingdom of heaven has come near.' Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons." A heavy responsibility it is to do kingdom business, to preach the message of the kingdom of God coming near while showing exactly what that means, and what difference it makes. If it were entirely up to us, in fact, we'd think it was beyond us. And we'd be right. But it's not — not entirely up to us, that is. "Freely you have received," Jesus says. "Freely give."
And so what we're supposed to do is take what the Lord has given us, go out into the world with it, and use it to "heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, and drive out demons." We've been give much, but not just for ourselves and those we love. The Lord has given to us freely so that we can give freely to the world around us. So that they might see what life in the Kingdom of God looks like.
So we mustn't Weatherspoon it. When we fill our prayers with orders for the blessings we want God to bestow on us and on our loved ones, without any thought as to how he might want us to use the blessings we already have, we're Weatherspooning it. When we're too caught up in the urgency of day-to-day life to notice the ways we might put what he's blessed us with to work for him in the world, we're Weatherspooning it. When we're callous to the ways that sin, poverty, injustice, disease and death have defaced God's creation, and callous to the ways in which we can put things right, we're Weatherspooning it. When we're so afraid of failure that we don't even try, so intimidated by how bad things are that we don't even try to do good any longer, we're stuffing God's blessings in a drawer.
Time for us to turn those drawers upside down and see what resources we've been hiding. Some free time, maybe, now that the kids are grown. Some discretionary income. Maybe you're good at prayer, or have a lot of musical ability, or can drive a truck. Maybe you're handy around the house, or exceptionally compassionate, or love children, or are a good listener. These are your bags of gold, your talents, and they've been given to you by the Lord so that you can invest them in his kingdom.
I don't know what Sean Weatherspoon wants out of life, but I know this: in the drawer, that paycheck wasn't going to help him get it. You know what your Lord wants. You know what he wants to happen in your world, in the lives of people around you. And between you and your church, he's given you what you need to get busy with his business. Freely you have received. Freely give.
What have you left in the drawer?


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After 9/11 — What?
A Historian Contemplates the Future of Memory
Claire Potter
Co-executive Editor, Public Seminar and Professor of History, The New School for Social Research
I can see the American flag on the top of the Google building in New York's Chelsea neighborhood every morning when I wake up. Today, it was at half-mast and at first I was confused, and then not. The attacks were over 15 years ago: three dogs ago, four cats ago, two houses ago, and one job ago. "It was just like today," I said to our current dog as we went downstairs to make coffee. "The sky was blue, just like this. It was a perfect day."
My editorial colleague Jeff Goldfarb told me yesterday that he was going to re-publish one of his reflections from September 11, 2001, and I decided to do so too. But I didn't become a blogger until 2006, and then, it appears — perhaps because, however schmaltzy, commemorations of the attack always make me emotional – that I almost always failed to post on 9/11. In 2011, I got around that by publishing the day before, perhaps determined not to let my audience down on the tenth anniversary of the attacks. For the next several days, I updated the post with other contributions from my blogging network, and have edited it slightly to make it readable outside the context of my old blog, Tenured Radical. You can read the original here.
Commemorations of the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, and of the deaths of passengers murdered on a fourth plane brought down in western Pennsylvania, began long ago and will culminate tomorrow. Here at Tenured Radical we have promised you no commemoration. Other media have a grander scope than we do, and ours will be trivial by comparison, even though memories of that day occasionally cause us to tear up unexpectedly. We also believe that life can sometimes become so saturated with commemoration that as citizens we become besieged by memory and unable to recall what it is, exactly, we experienced.
September 11 2001 is perhaps as fine an example of the role of simultaneity in generating nationalism as Benedict Anderson, or any American Studies scholar teaching Anderson, could invent. As I drove up to Northampton yesterday, where la famille Radical is spending the weekend, I was listening to an episode of "Where We Live," a Connecticut Public Radio show, whose host had gathered together Connecticut officials, reporters, and politicians to talk about their experiences on that day. Some of them are astonishingly similar. For example: an overwhelming number of 9/11 memories begin with a telephone call that moves the narrator towards a television and a mesmerizing view of a previously unthinkable disaster that has to be assimilated in a matter of minutes.
An event like 9/11 is, of course, no longer unthinkable, especially to those of us in the East who had particularly immediate connections to it. For example, although I knew no one who died on that day, I knew two people who lost friends or family members (one, whose relative was buried in the rubble, received calls from that person's cell phone, with a faint and unrecognizable voice at the other end, for several days after the event.) Because we had a New York apartment, we were the recipients of numerous frantic phone calls trying to ascertain our whereabouts (we were, respectively, on Cape Cod and in Middletown, CT.) And although my first thought was that my sister, who lived in Harlem at the time, was undoubtedly safe, when we were finally able to make contact days later, it turned out that she had had business downtown that day. She emerged from the subway in time to see the towers burning above her, and made it far enough north to be safe when they fell.
But she did not escape the vision of people flinging themselves out of the building to their death on the plaza below.
Some day historians will ask the question: how did we experience 9/11, not as a nation, but regionally and locally? For those of us in the Northeast, and around Washington, it was an entirely different, and less mass mediated, event than it was elsewhere. Class also mattered. You could be absolutely sure, for example, if you taught at a private northeastern college like Wesleyan University, as I did, that there would be students who had lost parents and siblings. Furthermore, as a caller pointed out on NPR, there are an extraordinary number of both wealthy and working-class people who make round trips of up to five or six hours to work in New York each day. Hence, places like central Connecticut, suburban Philadelphia and communities in Pennsylvania's Poconos anxiously awaited casualty counts and phone calls just as those of us in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut did.
Of course, there were also people in places like Minneapolis, Oaxaca, Bankok, Mumbai and Beijing who waited for word on 9/11: that local documentation will be important too. In the sense that I have just described, 9/11 was a national and an international event whose scope has yet to be even minimally accounted for. Memory is far more powerful, and the generation of memory an ongoing event. We don't even need official memorials to connect to that day: we are surrounded by memorials that are now part of ordinary life. All of us relive 9/11 in a residual sense when we go through a security line to get to an airline flight, when we present a photo ID to get on a train to Boston, when we are reminded to "see something, say something," when we face the frustration of the xenophobia that is playing such a pivotal role in politics nowadays. We relive some version of the event every time we are lectured by our politicians that bombing the $hit out of the northern provinces of Pakistan is more important than feeding, clothing and educating poor people in the United States and in Pakistan. We relive it every time we fail to protest a Republican agenda, and Democratic acquiescence to, a fiscal agenda that promotes corporate profits over the interests of ordinary people, most of whom are too anxious and battered to contemplate a jihad.
As a citizen, I am tired of memory: I want to move forward. But as a historian, I want a critical appraisal of how 9/11 stopped our society dead in the water, allowing the Madoffs to rule the roost while the government bled money into a wild goose chase in Iraq and Afghanistan. Understanding this requires the assembling and collation of government documents (many of which we do not yet have access to); and it requires an assessment of how new modes of spreading information (Wikileaks) have emerged at the same time as new modes of concealing information (the USA Patriot Act.)
However, it also requires the assembling and collation of memory. To this end I recommend to you the September 11 Digital Archive, a collaboration between the American Social History Project(CUNY) and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (read a review by Tenured Radical here.) I also recommend the 9/11 Oral History Project at the Columbia University Center for Oral History. Another project yet to be addressed to the best of my knowledge is exploring how 9/11 has been rendered in literature and culture, both realistically and allegorically (go here for a post from Tim Burke on the World Trade Center in comic books prior to the attacks, and the eerie message these mags deliver. (Update: in 2015, David Kieran edited a wonderful collection of essays, The War of My Generation: Youth Culture and the War on Terror)
These resources point up a lesson not yet learned by much of the history profession after 9/11: that too few of us are interested in assembling archives at critical moments in contemporary history. In the case of both 9/11 archiving projects, historians mobilized immediately to send researchers into the streets with voice recorders and cameras. At the Columbia University library, where I was doing research at the time, archivists immediately set up collection boxes so that people could drop off material memories of that day: scraps of paper, flyers, cassettes from telephone answering machines and the like.
How many of us are prepared to respond in this way? I certainly wasn't. We have too few institutions in our universities devoted to collecting the stuff of contemporary history and prioritizing the preservation of public memories. Such institutions mobilize individuals as a collective when they might not be able, or know, how to mobilize themselves as individuals.
In this vein, tomorrow I will be in the streets of Northampton (where there is a weekly gathering of anti-war protestors, as well as Tea Party counter-protestors) taking pictures. Historian Matthew Frye Jacobson writes: "If you find yourself in ANY public setting where the 10th anniversary of 9/11 is being marked and observed this weekend, I hope you will consider taking a cellphone photo of the proceedings for the Historian's Eye." As you can see, this is a digital startup based at Yale University that relies on all of us for the collection it is building. Take pictures and upload them by Flickr as per the instructions on the website, or send them to historians eye@gmail.com.
And with that, as part of this archival project, I invites readers to submit their own memories of 9-11-01 in the comments section of this blog. You need not leave your name, but in the spirit of usefulness for the future, tell us where you were, geographically and in your life, at the time. You might also want to reflect on how that day changed your life, if in fact you think it did.
Aggregator Update: reflection from Dr. Crazy at Reassigned Time, with a link to her fifth anniversary post; Michelle Moravec at History in the City (who is also in the comments section); Flavia, also with a link to a prior post, on exasperation; Historiann escapes the trauma narrative by asking why, despite the expressed desire to do so, we do not learn from studying history; Jeffery Brodi on the 9/11 collection at the Postal Museum at Smithsonian Blog (courtesy of Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe's Historian Daily); Sepoy reports on Islamophobia and the German far-right at Chapati Mystery; and Paul Harvey on "Fear Itself: Literary Reflections on 9/11," which has even more wonderful links at Religion in History. See also an article in Al-Jazeera on low-wage workers, many undocumented, hired to do early clean-up on the toxic WTC site (hat tip).
Just in at 12:00: A wonderful reflection by Brian Ulrich, assistant professor of Middle Eastern History at Shippensburg University, on how the actual suffering of Muslims communicated in a changing media environment is part of the historical context of 9/11: see Community in an Age of Hatred. See also Christiane Wilke, professor of law and human rights at Carleton University, Ottawa, on how 9/11 altered an intellectual trajectory and Urban Exile, who was on the scene and lived to tell a beautiful tale of the day's effect on her life.
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Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Entrepreneur College (Taicang)
Location: Suzhou
Contract Type: Full-Time for an initial 3 years, renewable.
University Overview:
Located in Suzhou, China, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) is a young, dynamic and EMI university founded in 2006, and is a unique collaborative institution and first joint-venture university in China to offer both UK (University of Liverpool) and Chinese (Ministry of Education) accredited undergraduate degrees for more than 100 programmes. XJTLU also aims to become truly research-led and has committed significant investment into research development and the expansion of master's and PhD student numbers on campus. The university has over 18,000 students and nearly 1000 academic staff representing in excess of 90 nationalities. For detailed information about the university, please visit www.xjtlu.edu.cn
About the Taicang campus:
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) is building a new teaching site in Taicang city - XJTLU Entrepreneur College (Taicang campus), with the collaboration of the Taicang Municipal Government and industry partners, as part of its strategic priorities for the next ten years. The new Taicang campus will be a pioneer of, and an educational model for developing talent and industry leaders to meet local, national, and global challenges of the 4th Industrial Revolution, in a state-of-the-art campus. XJTLU Entrepreneur College (Taicang campus) is directed by a Leadership Team, which is comprised of the Taicang Principal, Taicang Associate Principal, Chief Operating Officer, School Deans and Director of Innovation Factories.
Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Hub Overview:
The Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Hub is a growing hub for teaching, learning, entrepreneurship and innovation under the guidance of the Director of the Innovation Factory, which is becoming thoroughly integrated into the university, local and regional innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. As part of the Entrepreneur College (Taicang), the Hub is responsible for all entrepreneurial activity, including the delivery of all the Entrepreneurship modules within the Taicang Industry-oriented Entrepreneur bachelor degrees, as well as developing the unique Master's degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The aim of the degree programmes is to produce high-end talents who are future ready for industry 4.0. It recognises that the successful graduates of tomorrow must combine subject-specific knowledge with the soft-skills gained through, creative teamwork and entrepreneurial skills.
Candidates should have expertise in one or more of the following areas: Innovation Management; Entrepreneurship; Technology Management and Strategic Management. Experience of developing innovation and entrepreneurship-related programmes would be an advantage. Applicants should be comfortable with innovative teaching approaches, and working with students from a variety of backgrounds. Application should ideally also have industry experience. The successful applicant should be able to:
design and teach modules in entrepreneurship, innovation and small business management
understand and have an entrepreneur and innovative spirit
deliver high-quality teaching to undergraduate and graduate students
supervise undergraduate students and postgraduate students,
conduct high-quality research, as evidenced by publications in leading journals,
provide administrative service to the School, the University and its stakeholders.
For senior positions, candidates should be able to additionally:
contribute to leadership in the Entrepreneur and Enterprise Hubs business engagement initiatives through building adequate enterprise and innovation resources within campus
build extensive industry and entrepreneurial networks and partnerships
contribute to teaching and research development through mentoring and supporting early career academics
contribute significantly to establishing the unit as a centre of entrepreneurial research excellence
work collaboratively across campus and wider university to ensure an inclusive, enriching and enabling entrepreneurial learning experience
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Ideally a PhD degree in areas such as: Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship, Small Enterprise Management, Innovation Management or a related discipline.
Teaching experience in a Higher Education Institute or significant equivalent experience facilitating/training teams in an industrial context.
Knowledge of current debates, trends and issues relating to the expanding field of Entrepreneurship and start-up cultures.
A track record of innovation in Learning and Teaching
Evidence of excellent organisational and administrative skills.
Self-motivated for innovative teaching.
Fluency in English.
Strong team-work spirit.
Be willing to take further teaching training courses under the UK Professional Standards Framework(PSF)
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A track record of academic and/or industry achievement in an Entrepreneurial and Enterprise context
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A good track record of engagement with business and industry.
University-level teaching and supervisory experience.
Appropriate research experience as evidenced by peer-reviewed journal publications for the corresponding academic position.
For non-Chinese applicants, two years, full time, same subject teaching in a college/university, as is required by the Chinese work permit policy.
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Evidence of being an institutional builder, who can work with wider disciplines across the Taicang campus.
The ability to motivate and inspire a range of colleagues and stakeholders to understand and be involved in the work of the Entrepreneur and Enterprise Hub, the Entrepreneur College (Taicang) and wider university.
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Members of Academic Staff are entitled to subsidies for accommodation, travel, and children's educational, medical insurance, and a one-time relocation allowance is provided. Overseas staff may receive a tax "holiday," depending on nationality and personal circumstances.
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Employment at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University is regulated by Chinese Labour Laws and must comply with the regulations of the provincial government. These regulations stipulate who is eligible for legal employment with regard to obtaining work permits and visas. Please be advised candidates over 65 may be not eligible for PRC work visa.
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MediaLink CEO Michael Kassan: It's a "brave new world for Cannes Lions"
by Michael Kassan June 30, 2017
Cannes Lions is a precursor for what's next in the world of marketing, and newcomers have always met with opposition, he says.
If you are someone for whom Cannes Lions Festival has devolved into a giant, rosé-infused party, you need to look deeper.
Cannes is a crucible that reflects the realities of our industry. Curated properly, it is a master class in data-driven creativity and storytelling across new technology, screens and devices. It's required learning for anyone hoping to connect a brand to an audience in the 21st Century.
If you can't extract value from Cannes Lions, you aren't approaching it properly. And if you lost your compass because Cannes looks so different than it used to, that's because our industry is in the midst of transformation. The new players—media platforms, tech companies, consultancies and entertainment companies—are taking up residence in the old (and new) familiar places. Cannes has been reinvented the same way the industry is being reinvented. Fast and furiously. The only thing that hasn't changed in Cannes is the color of the wine that too often captures the attention of the critics.
Over the past 10 years, I've witnessed the transformation of the event. Cannes Lions is (and always has been), a precursor for what's next in the world of marketing. And newcomers have always met with opposition.
When the media agencies came to the Festival in 1999, there was hue and cry about "the end of creativity at the Festival." It wasn't the end of creativity. It was an overdue recognition that engaging people in the right context, time, place and through the best experience was as important as "what" a brand decided to say to that consumer at the point of intersection.
When Microsoft became the first tech company to "invade" the Festival in 2001 as a sponsor, the move was also hailed as the end of times. It wasn't the end of times. Microsoft's arrival heralded a new era defined by technology-driven platforms, tools and insights that were able to connect a brand message to a person in the age of digital empowerment.
When Jim Stengel took the first significant P&G delegation to Cannes in 2003, inspiring many other marketers to follow suit, agencies declared an end to the magic of creativity. But magic prevailed…as clients became active partners in the pursuit of imagination, invention and innovation. (There is a good reason why marketers like P&G, Unilever, Burger King, AT&T and Heineken have agreed to join the Festival's new task force).
Fast forward to 2017. More than 20 yachts were branded by ad tech companies, including Nielsen, Teads, Pandora, DataXu, OpenX, Rubicon, Merkle and AppNexus.
The Palais agenda was rich with unexpected voices:
McKinsey's research on the business effectiveness of creativity
Google ZOO's vision of using tech to prototype ideas
IBM Watson's perspective on AI and the digital health space
Adobe Sensei's use of AI to enhance the creative product and impact how people create
Accenture's recommendations on building a bridge between creatives and data experts
Startup ZEFR's advice for brands on relinquishing control of the message to influencers
Oracle's use of data to deliver content to the right people in the best context
Google's "machine learning for everyone" and how it applies to creativity
Deloitte's sponsorship and presence across the entire Cannes Lions Academy
And that's just a taste of what happened inside the Palais. The entire length of the Croisette has become the epicenter of the partnership economy as marketers seek collaborators who can help them leverage new opportunities—data, machine learning, virtual reality, voice, artificial intelligence, experiential content—in pursuit of brilliant, successful, brand work.
Cannes is a celebration of creativity. That will never change. But I believe it will increasingly be the primordial pool from which future partners are explored and chosen, particularly as the business of building brands grows more and more complex.
To be clear, I write this not as a newfound sibling of Cannes Lions under our mutual parent, Ascential plc, but as someone that has been attending and enjoying the fruits of the Festival for the last twenty years. Even amidst our newfound relationship, I am, and will continue to be, a card-carrying (delegate-pass-wearing…) participant…and given the strict ethical walls between our companies, a happy sponsor and customer.
Michael Kassan is founder and CEO of MediaLink.
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