ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) — The Interior Ministry in the violent Russian republic of Dagestan says three suspected insurgents have been killed in a shootout with police.
Ministry spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov said Friday that a police patrol during the …
House Republican leader John Boehner says nationwide protests known as "tea parties" are the result of pushback against Democrats' spending.
Boehner says his Democratic colleagues are "bankrupting" the country.
People are demonstrating and attending town hall meetings because, Boehner says, "we're in the midst of a political rebellion in America."
The …
ATLANTA (AP) — Rapper Lil Wayne easily topped the charts this week with his latest album. Now the self-proclaimed "Best Rapper Alive" has the most nominations for the BET Hip-Hop Awards.
His 18 nominations include MVP of the Year, Best Live Performer and Hustler of the Year.
Lil Wayne's album "Tha Carter IV" debuted Aug. 29 at No. 1 on Billboard's Top 200 charts, selling 964,000 for …
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev plans to travel this month to Cuba and Venezuela, which have increasing military and trade ties with Moscow.
The U.S. has objected to Russia's greater links with the two countries that have antagonistic relations with Washington.
Medvedev will visit Cuba on Nov. 27, the Kremlin press service said. He will also visit Brazil during …
Poor George and Laura! As Michael Sneed reports [column, April18], the Ryans are facing destitution. They are broke but living in arented apartment downtown. They are broke but fly back and forth fromKankakee, a 90-minute drive. They are broke despite getting millionsof dollars of free legal defense.
The …
Blount Inc. president Dennis Eagan was on hand at DEMO 2004 to present Log a Load for Kids Canada with a $2,000 donation. "We are proud to be part of the forest industry and the family of loggers who have banded together through Log a Load to raise money to help critically ill and injured children," Eagan …
Former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian resumed a hunger strike Tuesday to protest his arrest in a corruption case, after accepting glucose and saline injections to stabilize his deteriorating condition, a doctor said.
Also Tuesday, a group of Chen supporters announced a mass protest against his jailing on corruption charges.
Chen, 57, has refused solid food since early Wednesday of last week, after a three-judge panel ordered him locked up, while prosecutors pursue bribery and other graft allegations against him.
Chen was moved from a suburban Taipei jail late Sunday to a nearby hospital, after doctors observed that he was suffering from an …
Frank T. "Mooney" Bregovy, 67, a retired employee of the H. P.Smith Paper Co., died Monday in Holy Cross Hospital.
Mr. Bregovy was born in the Back of the Yards neighborhood andlived there until last December, when he moved to Burbank. Afterworking for 40 years at Smith's Bedford Park plant, he retired as amachine operator in 1981.
A World War II Army veteran in the Pacific theater, Mr. Bregovywas nicknamed …
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani lawmakers passed a government-backed resolution Monday demanding Britain withdraw the knighthood awarded to author Salman Rushdie, condemning the honor as an insult to the religious sentiments of Muslims.
In the eastern city of Multan, hard-line Muslim students burned effigies of Queen Elizabeth II and Rushdie. About 100 students carrying banners condemning the author also chanted, "Kill Him! Kill Him!"
On Saturday, Britain announced the knighthood for the author the of "The Satanic Verses" in an honors list timed for the official celebration of the queen's 81st birthday.
The resolution in the lower house of parliament on Monday …
West Indies have been bowled out for 256 in the second innings of the first test at Lord's, meaning England needs just 32 runs for victory.
A partnership of 143 between Denesh Ramdin (61) and Brendan Nash (81) spared the West …
Now, in a bizarre twist, the neighbor who shot the three hasbeen released, and second-degree murder and assault charges againsthim have been dismissed, all because of a new "Make My Day" lawintended to protect from prosecution residents who kill intruders.
Colorado, California and a growing handful of other states haveadopted such laws in …
Sir Percy Cradock, the British diplomat who negotiated terms for returning Hong Kong to Chinese rule, has died at 86, his family said.
Cradock died on Jan. 22 following a brief illness, the family announced in The Times newspaper on Thursday.
Cradock was first posted to Hong Kong in 1961, then moved to Beijing the following year. After a stint in London, he was posted to Beijing again from 1966-69, and was taken prisoner when the embassy was besieged by a mob during the Cultural Revolution.
He returned to Beijing as ambassador in 1978 as Britain began to deal with the looming return of most of the territory of the Hong Kong colony in 1997.
China had ceded the island of Hong Kong in perpetuity in the 19th century but Britain held only a 99-year lease on the New Territories, which represented 92 percent of the colony's land area.
Given China's overwhelming military advantage, and Hong Kong's dependence on China for food and water, Cradock said "Britain had virtually no cards" to play in negotiations.
Giving up Hong Kong grated against Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's instincts, and she was often suspicious of professional diplomats.
Cradock in turn was wary of politicians. "It's not the other side you have to worry about, but your own, the inability to influence London on matters where you have special knowledge and interest," he wrote in a 1994 memoir.
However, Thatcher relied on Cradock's expertise, putting him in charge of negotiations on Hong Kong in 1983 and then appointing him as her security adviser the following year.
In 1984, Britain and China agreed on a "one nation, two systems" approach that preserved aspects of Hong Kong's democratic and economic freedoms for 50 years.
Following the Tiananmen massacre in 1989, the agreement drew attacks from those who thought Britain had ceded too much to a brutal and oppressive regime.
Cradock responded that negotiators were under no illusion that Chinese leader Deng Xiaopeng was a European liberal.
"We signed that bloody agreement with him because he ruled China and because he could harm Hong Kong or could help it. We were absolutely cold realists about it," he said.
Cradock retired from government in 1992, and later was sharply critical of the pugnacious approach of Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten toward the Chinese.
"If you want to score points in some virility contest with China and be applauded in the press in Britain and America, all well and good," Cradock said. "But if you are concerned with the protection of Hong Kong, then we must recognize that no political institution will survive there unless underwritten by China."
Cradock is survived by his wife, Birthe Dyrlund. A funeral service is scheduled at St. Mary's Church in Twickenham, west of London, on Feb. 3.
Scoreboard at lunch on the third day of the fourth test between West Indies and England at Kensington Oval:
England 1st Innings 600-6 declared
West Indies 1st Innings
(overnight 85-1)
Devon Smith lbw b Swann 55
Chris Gayle lbw b Anderson 6
Ramnaresh Sarwan not out 81
Ryan Hinds lbw b Swann 15
Shivnarine Chanderpaul not out 4
Extras: (2lb) 2
TOTAL: (for three wickets) 163
Overs: 50.
Still to bat: Brendan Nash, Denesh Ramdin, Jerome Taylor, Sulieman Benn, Daren Powell, Fidel Edwards.
Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-121, 3-159.
Bowling: James Anderson 12-2-40-1, Ryan Sidebottom 11-0-42-0, Stuart Broad 11-2-34-0, Graeme Swann 14-5-38-2, Kevin Pietersen 2-1-7-0.
Umpires: Aleem Dar, Pakistan, and Russell Tiffin, Zimbabwe.
Third umpire: Daryl Harper, Australia. Match referee: Alan Hurst, Australia.
Democrat Barack Obama told voters Saturday he would push an aggressive economic agenda as president: cutting taxes for the middle class, raising taxes on the wealthy, pouring money into "green energy" and requiring employers to set up retirement saving plans for their workers.
Campaigning in Pennsylvania, a key battleground in the fall campaign, Obama said he would take a much more hands-on approach than would Republican John McCain. He again criticized McCain's proposal for a temporary halt in the federal gasoline tax. It would "actually do real harm," Obama said, by reducing revenue for road and bridge construction even as oil companies make record profits.
Obama planned to visit the flooded Midwest later Saturday, stopping in Quincy, Ill., to help fill sandbags.
Speaking to about 200 people in Wayne, a Philadelphia suburb, Obama made no new proposals but emphasized earlier ones in light of rising gas prices, inflation and job losses. They include a $1,000 tax cut for most working families; a new Social Security tax on incomes above $250,000; a "windfall profits" tax on oil companies; a $4,000 annual college tuition credit for those who commit to national or community service programs; and an end to income taxes for elderly people making less than $50,000 a year.
Obama said he could pay for his programs by eliminating the Bush administration's tax cuts for the wealthy, winding down the Iraq war and spending more on alternative energy programs that eventually will save money.
He said employers should be required to set up retirement saving plans for workers even if they contribute no money to them. Workers would automatically be enrolled unless they choose to opt out, he said. That way, he said, "most people will save more."
He also vowed to spend $150 billion over 10 years to establish a "green energy sector." It would require greater fuel efficiency in cars and devote more money to solar, wind, and biodiesel energy.
Taking audience questions, Obama praised Thursday's Supreme Court decision to allow detainees at Guantanamo Bay to challenge their imprisonment in federal courts. Enforcing habeas corpus rights, he said, is "the essence of who we are."
Even when Nazis' atrocities became known in the 1940s, he said, "we still gave them a day in court" at the Nuremberg trials. "That taught the entire world about who we are," he said.
McCain sharply criticized the court ruling, saying it would hamper the war on terrorism.
Obama said McCain would be likely to appoint Supreme Court nominees who would allow states to outlaw abortion. "You're just one justice away from that," he said, alluding to the court's narrow ideological divisions.
McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said Saturday that Obama was railing against "the very energy policy that he voted for." Obama told the Wayne audience that he voted for an energy bill "that was far from perfect" because "it contained the largest investment in renewable sources of energy in our nations history."
Democrats have carried Pennsylvania in the last four presidential elections, although narrowly at times. Obama lost badly in the primary here to Hillary Rodham Clinton, and he is struggling to attract white working-class voters who heavily favored her.
Should McCain manage to win Pennsylvania and its 21 electoral votes, Obama would have to compensate in other areas, such as in the Rockies, where Republicans have done well in recent campaigns.
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Officials say a cargo ship has collided with a tanker during a storm in the Black Sea and sunk, leaving five sailors missing.
Navy vessels and helicopters were searching for the missing off Bulgaria on Tuesday.
The Transport Ministry says the Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship Karam 1 sank late Monday after colliding with the Dutch tanker Alessandro DP, 10 miles (16 kilometers) off Cape Emine.
Five sailors of the cargo ship's of crew of nine Syrians and an Egyptian were rescued and five are missing.
The cargo ship was loaded with scrap metal en route to Istanbul, while the tanker was empty and heading to the nearby Bulgarian port of Varna.
ACCOUNTING
- The public accounting firm Gibbons & Kawash has announced sixadditions to its staff: Ann Harris, Shannon Newhouse, Jennifer Smithand Rebecca Wolfe have joined the firm's audit staff as staffaccountants. Kim Eskew and Zellia Campbell have joined the firm'sadministrative staff.
ASSOCIATIONS
- Linda Bowman has been elected president of the West VirginiaChapter of the International Personnel Management Association. Alsoelected: Pat Quinlan, president-elect; Diana Spence, secretary;Andrea Fout, treasurer. Elected board members-at-large: Kim Akers,Ginny Fitzwater and Mark Isabella. The immediate past president isBarbara Wimer.
- John Williams of Fairmont, a Prudential agent, has been electedpresident of the West Virginia Association of Life Underwriters.Also elected: Janet Roe of the L.L. Roe Insurance Agency,Barboursville, president-elect; Richard Maze of Mountain HeritageInc., Charleston, vice president; Vernon Brinegar of Smith-Nadenbousch Insurance Inc., Martinsburg, secretary-treasurer.Serving as directors are Alan Zielinski of ABC Insurance Services,Fairmont; James Fox of Liberty Life, Bluefield; Clifford Marstillerof Innovative Investments, Elkins; Christine Ralstin of IntegratedBenefits, Charleston; and Doris Hughes of Lutheran Brotherhood,Martinsburg.
- Joseph McGlothlin was installed as president of the WestVirginia Pharmacists Association at the organization's 93rd annualconvention June 18 at The Greenbrier. He is the owner of TheMedicine Shoppe in Huntington. Also elected: Carl Malanga of theWest Virginia University School of Pharmacy, president-elect; LoraLewellyn of Elkview, who practices at Loop Plaza Pharmacy in St.Albans, secretary; and Charles Selby, who practices at the VeteransAdministration Center in Beckley, treasurer. Installed as directorswere Zachariah Phillips of CVS, Beckley; Jule Davis of AppalachianRegional Hospital, Beckley; Roger Shallis, owner of South BerkeleyPharmacy, Martinsburg; Steve Judy, owner of Judy's Drug Store,Petersburg; and Roger Cole, owner of Moundsville Pharmacy,Moundsville.
BANKING
- Bank One Corp. has promoted Michelle Townsend to districtmanager, overseeing Bank One's Banking Center operations in Logan,Beckley and Huntington.
CHEMICALS
- James Hansen has been named a corporate fellow by Union CarbideCorp. Hansen is senior development scientist and group manager forthe Applied Statistics Group in the South Charleston TechnicalCenter's Process Engineering and Engineering Technologyorganization.
- The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers'Petroleum and Chemical Industries Committee has awarded itsElectrical Safety Excellence Award for 2000 to Bruce McClung.
GOVERNMENT
- Paul Hart, a research chemist with Union Carbide Corp. in SouthCharleston for 17 years, has been named associate director forenvironmental management at the U.S. Department of Energy's NationalEnergy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Morgantown.
HEALTH CARE
- Genesis Hospital System, a three-hospital affiliationconsisting of Cabell Huntington and St. Mary's Hospitals inHuntington, Pleasant Valley Hospital in Point Pleasant and Hospiceof Huntington, announced three appointments to its marketing andpublic affairs staff: Christine Rice Koenig has been named assistantdirector of advertising. She previously was assistant director ofmarketing at Cabell Huntington Hospital. Dayna Massie has been namedmanager of public affairs for Cabell Huntington Hospital. Shepreviously was publications specialist for Cabell Huntington.
Julia Noland has been named manager of public affairs for St.Mary's Hospital. She previously was communications manager for St.Mary's.
INSURANCE
- Commercial Insurance Services announced Geoff Christian hasbeen named sales executive in the Benefits Division and KathrynBurkholder has been named director of information technology.
NONPROFIT
- The West Virginia Association for Persons in SupportedEmployment has honored several people and organizations for theirefforts in working with individuals with disabilities or inovercoming their own personal barriers. Jan Lilly-Stewart of theDevelopmental Disabilities Council received the John Lipscomb Award.
The Arc of Harrison County received the Supported EmploymentProvider, Best Practices Award. Pat McIntyre, Trish Armstead, TerryMellott and Judy Greathouse received Supported EmploymentProfessional awards.
Libby Garlic, Richard Cunningham, David Perry and Jean McGaryreceived Personal Achievement awards.
Mountainside Media of Huntington received the Employer for SmallBusiness Award.
Thomas Memorial Hospital received the Employer for Large BusinessAward. Cindy Kitchen received the Rehabilitation Counselor Award.
Tom and Linda Gunnoe received the Parent Support Award. LindaQuinn received the Leadership Award.
Chelsea residents pay homage to Chick Corea with street
How many of us get to have the street where we lived named after us? Jazzman Chick Corea achieves that honor this weekend, thanks largely to the efforts of three African American men who grew up in the same Chelsea neighborhood.
"I'd be walking down Everett Avenue past the corner of Chestnut St. where Chick lived and I could hear Chick play 'cause he practiced constantly, piano and trumpet too," recalls Lenny Nelson, who notably was Corea's drummer in his first professional group and famously, in Chelsea lore, the 25th child of a brood of 26 Nelsons.
They went to the same public schools: Corea, Lenny Nelson and the Robinson brothers, Leo and Ron. The latter two men are Chelsea historians, most notably promoters of the Lewis H. Latimer Society which brings public attention to the Chelsea-born 19th century inventor of the light switch and a host of other important scientific products.
Also, Leo is a Chelsea City Councilor. the second African American in the history of the city to hold the position (the first being William Williams in 1906). Three of the soldiers in the fabled 54th that fought in the Civil War were from Chelsea. The African American population in Chelsea has increased over 100 percent in the last ten years.
The festivities for the street naming start at 3 p.m. with a public celebration on Everett Avenue between Walnut and Arlington Streets.
Armando "Chick" Corea was born in Chelsea in 1941 and lived there until 1958. He attended the Williams School, k - 9, where he was class president his final year.
After Chelsea High, Corea went on to be a renowned jazz keyboardist. playing with Miles Davis and his most widely known electric group from 1968-'70, among others, and fronting his own group Return to Forever. He has won eight Grammys out of 25 nominations. His most recent release, "Past, Present & Futures" (Stretch Records) includes a tribute to Chelsea, "The Chelsea Shuffle."
Later in the week, May 23 and 25, Corea will be featured in a Boston Pops program at Symphony Hall, "Born in Boston." The evenings led by conductor Keith Lockhart will also spotlight jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard and jazz singer Jane Monheit in a tribute to the Boston-born songwriter Jmmy McHugh.
Walk down Everett Ave. nowadays where the Chick Corea Way sign will be posted and you'll see the new Windham Chelsea Hotel and the world famous old Chelsea Clock Company. Of course, there's a Dunkin' Donuts, but there's also a sausage factory, a deli, a pastry shop, an office building, an auto body shop and some residential apartments, businesses typical of a largely blue collar, small New England city.
"The sign honoring Chick's going up to show kids from Chelsea it's possible for you to do great things," says Ron Robinson, who adds that the Latimer Society is another example of the ongoing effort "to present role models."
Corea has been true blue to his Chelsea roots. In 1997 when he gave the commencement address at Berklee, which began with his reminiscing about his home town, he advised the graduates of the music school to be creative and to be themselves.
Some years previous, his former drummer Lenny Nelson had taught drumming at Berklee. That was before joining the MBTA, where Nelson earned nine consecutive medals for safe driving and now is the collector at Roxbury Crossing.
Drumming continues to have his heart, however, and Nelson, who now lives in the South End, has embarked on the unique project of video taping "the tradition of great drumming." He has recorded the playing of 550 different drummers thus far beginning with Buddy Rich. His goal is 720 tapes. He says that each of his tapes begin with the drummer he is memorializing then continues with his reflections on the drumming using his own drumming skill "to break down the style."
Nelson has fond memories of playing with Corea and recalls how "his Mom and Dad stood by him. His mother was so wonderful, very peaceful and an excellent cook. I remember we'd get back from a gig at 2 a.m. and she'd get up and cook for us. That was every single time."
On Corea's new CD, he has a musical tribute to his mother "Anna's Tango."
Nelson says that family support makes all the difference. His own dad, a blacksmith, who'd drive his carriage with six horses across Chelsea bridge into Boston, "worked three jobs for 15 or 20 years to support such a big family. We all worked around the clock. I'm proud of that."
Photo (Ron Robinson, Lenny Nelson, Leo Robinson)
The Editorial Advisory Board of the Business History Review and the Newcomen Society of the United States announce the winners of the 2004 NEWCOMEN-HARVARD AWARDS in BUSINESS HISTORY.
Article Award
Marcelo Bucheli, "Enforcing Business Contracts in South America: The United Fruit Company and the Colombian Banana Planters in the Twentieth Century"
Special Award
Brian P. Luskey, "'What Is My Prospects?': The Contours of Mercantile Apprenticeship, Ambition, and Advancement in the Early American Economy"
The Editorial Advisory Board of the Business History Review annually awards two prizes to the authors of articles appearing in its pages. The first, consisting of a scroll and cash prize of $1,000, is presented to the author of the best article published in the volume. The second, called the "special award," consists of a cash prize of $500 and a scroll, and is presented to the author of the best article written by a graduate student or recent Ph.D. who has not yet published a book in the field of business history. The awards are made possible through the generosity of the Newcomen Society of the United States.
The ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND will hold an international conference in Brisbane, Australia, in February 2006. The School of International Business, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), is pleased to be hosting this conference.
Call for papers: Papers and proposals for sessions are invited from management scientists, historians of business and society, archivists, economists, and others on the conference topic, which is "Learning, Discovery, and Institutional Development," as well as other topics in economic and business history. The conference organizers are particularly interested in attracting papers that examine developments within the Asia-Pacific region broadly defined and/or papers that provide an international comparative perspective. The main theme for the 2006 conference is the relationship between learning, the discovery of new technologies and products, and institutional development. Innovation in products, technology, routines, systems, and business processes that shape corporate strategies are important sources of competitive advantages for firms. The proliferation of these improvements, as well as incremental gains from learning, affects patterns of international specialization.
Paper proposals: Papers of up to 7,000 words (not synopses) may be submitted at any time up to December i, 2005. All submissions will be independently refereed, and accepted papers will be published in full in the conference proceedings.
Session proposals may be submitted any time up to November 1 in the form of a 500-word statement outlining the main objectives of the session. For further information, go to the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand Web site, http://www.bus.qut.edu.au/ schools/international/EHSANZCover.jsp, or contact:
Professor Simon Ville
School of Economics & Information Systems
Faculty of Commerce
University of Wollongong
NSW 2522, Australia
Telephone:+ 61 02 4221 3098
E-mail: sville@uow.edu.au
or
Dr. John Singleton
School of Economics & Finance
Faculty of Commerce & Administration
Victoria University of Wellington
P.O. Box 600
Wellington, New Zealand
E-mail: John.Singleton@vuw.ac.nz
The ECONOMIC & BUSINESS HISTORICAL SOCIETY welcomes proposals for presentations on all aspects of business and economic history at its thirty-first annual conference in Pittsburgh, from April 27 to April 29. In keeping with its traditions, the Society seeks proposals for both individual papers and panel sessions. Graduate students are invited to apply, and may qualify for reduced registration fees.
Papers presented at the conference may be submitted for publication in the Society's peer-reviewed journal, Essays in Economic and Business History, edited by David Whitten of the University of Auburn University.
Composed of some three hundred North American and international members, the Economic & Business Historical Society offers participants an opportunity for continuing intellectual interchange within a modest-sized collegial, interdisciplinary group. The Society holds its annual convention in locations of historical significance. Both the annual membership ($30) and conference registration fees are modest. Final arrangements with the hotel are being concluded and the details will be posted on our Web site in the very near future.
Proposals for individual papers should include an abstract of no more than 500 words, a brief CV, postal and e-mail addresses, and telephone and fax numbers. Panel proposals should also suggest a title and a panel chair. Graduate students and nonacademic affiliates are welcome. Submissions imply that at least one author will register for the conference and be present at the time designated in the conference program. Proposals must be submitted by January 15, 2006.
Proposals maybe submitted in one of three ways:
* on line submission using the form on our Web site: http:// www.ebhsoc.org/papers.html
* by e-mail to: hsmvn@sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu
* by conventional mail to:
Dr. Michael Namorato
Department of History
The University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677
HARVARD-NEWCOMEN POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP. Harvard Business School and the Newcomen Society of the United States support a postdoctoral fellowship in business history for twelve months of residence and research at Harvard Business School. Fellowships normally run for the academic year, July 1 to June 30; the stipend is currently $46,000.
The purpose of the award is to enable scholars who have received a Ph.D. in history, economics, or a related discipline within the past ten years to improve their professional acquaintance with business and economic history, to increase their skills as they relate to this field, and to engage in research that will benefit from the resources of Harvard Business School and the Boston-area scholarly community. The successful applicant will participate in the school's business history courses, seminars, and case development activities.
The annual application deadline is October 1 of the year preceding the fellowship. For additional information, write to:
Walter A. Friedman
Rock Center 104
Harvard Business School
Boston, MA 02163
E-mail: wfriedman@hbs.edu
For further information and an application, visit our Web site at: http://www.hbs.edu/businesshistory/fellowships.html
The ALFRED D. CHANDLER JR. TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS. The purpose of this fellowship is to facilitate library and archival research in business or institutional economic history, broadly defined. The program will encourage research concerned to relate historical reality to underlying economic theories of business. Individual grants range from $1,000 to $3,000; the total fund is $15,000.
Three categories of applicants will be eligible for grants:
* Harvard University graduate students in history, economics, business administration, or a related discipline, such as sociology, government, or law, whose research requires travel to distant archives or repositories
* Graduate students or nontenured faculty in those fields from other universities, in the United States and abroad, whose research requires travel to the Boston-Cambridge area (to study, for example, in the collections of the Baker, Widener, McKay, Langdell, Kress, or Houghton libraries)
* Harvard College undergraduates writing senior theses in these fields, whose research requires travel away from Cambridge
The deadline for receipt of applications is November 1 of the calendar year preceding that in which the fellowship is to be used. For additional information, write to:
Walter A. Friedman
Rock Center 104
Harvard Business School
Boston, MA 02163
E-mail wfriedman@hbs.edu
For further information and an application, visit our Web site at: http://www.hbs.edu/businesshistory/fellowships.html
BUSINESS HISTORY CONFERENCE. The 2006 annual meeting of the Business History Conference (BHC) will take place June 8-10 in Toronto, Canada, at the Munk Centre for International Studies of the University of Toronto.
The theme for the conference is Political Economy of Enterprise. Business, the political system, and government have influenced one another from time immemorial. This year's program theme invites us to reflect on those interactions. (In keeping with longstanding BHC policy, the committee will also entertain submissions not directly related to the conference theme.)
Potential presenters may submit proposals either for individual papers or for entire panels. Proposals also are invited for the Herman E. Krooss Prize for the best dissertation in business history. The Krooss Prize Committee welcomes submissions from recent Ph.D.s (2003-6) in history, economics, business administration, history of science and technology, law, and related fields. The BHC also awards the K. Austin Kerr Prize for the best first paper by a Ph.D. candidate or recent Ph.D. (2003-6). If you wish to participate in this competition, please indicate this in your proposal. Proposals accepted for the Krooss Prize panel are not eligible for the Kerr Prize.
The deadline for receipt of all proposals is October 15, 2005. For more information, please contact:
Dr. Roger Horowitz, Secretary-Treasurer
Business History Conference
P.O. Box 3630
Wilmington, DE 19807, USA
Phone: 302-658-2400
Fax: 302-655-3188
E-mail: rh@udel.edu
NEWCOMEN SOCIETYTRAVEL GRANT. The Newcomen Society contributes $1,500 to defray costs to attend the Business History Conference annual meeting by graduate students who are delivering papers. These grants are administered by the secretary-Treasurer, in consultation with the Grants and Prizes Committee, to all graduate students who are giving papers, roughly in accordance with need and whether the student has additional funding to cover expenses. Preference will be given to first-time paper givers. For more information, contact the Business History Conference at the address given above.
CHANDLER TRAVEL GRANT. The Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Travel Grants honor the dean of American business history and are used to defray costs to attend the Business History annual meeting by graduate students who are delivering papers. These grants are administered by the Secretary-Treasurer, in consultation with the Grants and Prizes Committee, to all graduate students who are giving papers, roughly in accordance with need and whether the student has additional funding to cover expenses. Preference will be given to first-time paper givers. For more information, contact the Business History Conference at the address given above.
The JAMES J. HILL LIBRARY will award a number of grants of up to $2,000 to support research in the James J. Hill, Louis W. Hill, and Reed/Hyde papers. The James J. Hill Papers (1856-1916) are an extensive and rich source for studies of transportation, politics, finance, Native American relations, art collecting, philanthropy, urbanization, immigration, and economic development in the Upper Midwest, Pacific Northwest, and Western Canada. The Louis W. Hill Papers (1886-1948) document similar subjects, as well as Hill's involvement in the development of Minnesota's iron-mining industry and the development of Glacier National Park and the related tourist industry. Additionally, they detail social and cultural activities from the Gilded Age through World War II. The Reed/Hyde Papers (1985-1960) document the business activities, family, and social lives of four generations, beginning with Samuel Reed, a civil engineer who was best known for his work during construction of the Union Pacific Railroad in the 1860s.
The deadline for applications is November i, 2005. For more information, contact:
Thomas White, Curator
James J. Hill Library
80 West Fourth Street
St. Paul, MN 55102
Tel: 651-265-5441
E-mail: twhite@jjhill.org
Web site: www.jjhill.org/History/manuscript_program.html
The CENTER FOR THE HISTORY OF BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY will sponsor a conference entitled "Producing Fashion" on October 28 and 29 (Friday and Saturday) at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. The conference will feature fourteen papers that consider how fashion is produced on the level of ideas, style, and materials. The panel, "National Identity and the Problem of Paris," opens the conference with papers assessing the reaction against French fashion that led to the development of distinctive national styles in the United States, Austria, and Belgium. Papers prepared for the panel on "Early Transnational Fashion" will look at the impact of new textiles and an invigorated fashion press on clothing styles before 1900. The influence of nostalgia on modern fashions in clothing, home furnishings, and personal toiletries is the subject of "Old-Fashioned Fashion," the panel that concludes Friday's proceedings. Saturday begins with three provocative papers on the influence of gender, ranging from the manly advertising campaign that remade Marlboro cigarettes, the development of men's leisurewear, and the influence of feminism on the marketing of beauty products to women. The conference closes, appropriately, with a panel entitled "Remaking Contemporary Fashion," featuring papers on style in Communist Hungary and postwar France, and the dramatic impact of Lycra on clothing worldwide.
Regular registration is $30, $20 for Hagley Associates. The conference is free for graduate students. Lunches are $15 and Friday dinner, $35. To register or obtain more information (including the full program), contact Carol Lockman at 302-658-2400, ext. 243, or clockman@ Hagley.org.
HAGLEY-WINTERTHUR FELLOWSHIPS in ARTS and INDUSTRIES. This is a cooperative program of short- to medium-term research fellowships for scholars interested in the historical and cultural relationships between economic life and the arts, including design architecture, crafts, and the fine arts. Fellows receive a stipend, make use of the rich research collections of both Winterthur Museum, Gardens and Library (www.winterthur.org) and the Hagley Museum and Library. These fellowships are intended to support serious scholarly work. They are available to both degree candidates and senior scholars, as well as applicants without advanced degrees. Applications are welcome from scholars and writers working independently as well as college and university teachers, librarians, archivists, museum curators, and scholars from fields other than the humanities. As much as possible, recipients should be prepared to devote their full time to the fellowship for the duration of their appointment. As centers for advanced study in the humanities, Hagley and Winterthur are focal points for a community of scholars. Fellows are expected to participate in seminars, which meet at both institutions, as well as attend noontime colloquia, lectures, and other public programs offered during their research stay. Low-cost accommodations may be available at both institutions. Stipends are for a minimum of one month and a maximum of six months at no more than $1,400 per month. The deadline for applications is December i, 2005.
For more information, contact:
Dr. Philip Scranton
Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society
P.O. Box 3630
Wilmington, DE 19807-0630
Web site: http://www.hagley.lib.de.us/grants.html
The HENRY BELIN DU PONT DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP. This fellowship is designed for graduate students who have completed all course work for the doctoral degree and are conducting research on their dissertation. We invite applications from Ph.D. candidates whose research on important historical questions would benefit from use of the Hagley Museum and Library's research collections. Applications should demonstrate superior intellectual quality, present a persuasive methodology for the project, and show that there are significant research materials at Hagley pertinent to the dissertation. This is a residential fellowship with a term of four months. The fellowship provides $6,000, free housing on Hagley's grounds, use of a computer, mail and internet access, and an office. Recipients are expected to have no other obligations during the term of the fellowship, to maintain continuous residence at Hagley for its duration, and to participate in events organized by Hagley's Center of the History of Business, Technology, and Society. At the end of residency the recipient will make a presentation at Hagley based on research conducted during the fellowship. Hagley will also receive a copy of the dissertation, as well as any publications aided by the fellowship.
Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to consult with Hagley staff prior to submitting their dossier. The deadline for submission is November 15, 2005. For more information, contact:
Dr. Roger Horowitz
Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society
P.O. Box 3630
Wilmington, DE 19807-0630
E-mail: rhorowitz@hagley.org
Web site: http://www.hagley.lib.de.us/grants.html
The GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE of AMERICAN HISTORY. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History invites applications for short-term fellowships in two categories: research fellowships for postdoctoral scholars at every faculty rank, and dissertation fellowships for doctoral candidates who have completed exams and begun dissertation reading and writing. The Gilder Lehrman Fellowships support work in one of five archives: the Gilder Lehrman Collection, on deposit at the New-York Historical Society; the Library of the New-York Historical Society; the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library; the New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYPL).
Fellowships range in duration from a week to two months. Fellowships are not available for scholars who live within commuting distance of New York City. Stipends range from $1,500 to $4,000. The deadline for submission is December 2, 2005. Application materials should be sent to:
Gilder Lehrman Fellowship Program
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
19 West 44th Street, Suite 500
New York, NY10036
Tel: 646-366-9666
Fax: 646-366-9669
Web site: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historians/fellowshipi.html
The CLEMENTS CENTER-DEGOLYER LIBRARY Center for Southwest Studies offers research travel grants of $500 a week for up to four weeks to applicants living outside the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area to encourage a broader and more intensive use of the special collections at the DeGolyer Library. The library contains over 90,000 volumes of rare and scholarly works, 350,000 photographs, and approximately 40,000 linear feet of archival materials pertaining to the trans-Mississippi West, the Spanish Borderlands, the history of transportation, especially railroads worldwide, and matters of business and labor. Special collections include those of Stanley Marcus and Horton Foote; collections of Texas banknotes and maps; the Women's Archives of the Southwest; petroleum in the West; photography of the West; and the J. C. Penny & Co. collection. Grant applications are accepted throughout the year.
Web site: www.smu.edu/swcenter
E-mail: swcenter@smu.edu
The INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION (IEHA) will hold its fourteenth International Congress in Helsinki, Finland, August 21-25, 2006. The local organizing institutions are the Department of Social Science History and the Department of History at the University of Helsinki.
The scientific program of the Congress will comprise approximately 100 sessions. The IEHA welcomes proposals for sessions on all topics in economic history, the history of economics, demographic history, social history, urban history, cultural history, gender studies, methodological aspects of historical research, and related fields. Proposals for sessions on the period before 1800, and for sessions that cover countries other than those of Western Europe and North America, are particularly welcome. The session organizers will be given wide discretion in the choice of format. The Congress will last five days. Each day will be divided into four time blocks of ninety minutes (two before and two after lunch). Following the first call for session proposals, the Executive Committee of the IEHA has to date approved forty-eight sessions for the academic program of the Helsinki 2006 Congress, which can be viewed on the Congress Web site.
The Executive Committee will fill all but five of the remaining session slots from submissions received before January 31, 2005. The five remaining slots will be filled at the discretion of the Executive Committee. Proposals should include a tentative list of participants, but the committee encourages session organizers to issue an open call for papers once their session has been selected for the program. A final list of participants and paper titles for all sessions must be submitted by January 1, 2006.
There will be no distinction between sessions submitted in reply to the first or second call for papers. Each session organizer will get two time blocks. The Executive Committee may give extra time blocks if the number of papers or the dimension of the topic requires it. Time blocks will be sequential on the same day, unless organizers ask for an alternative timing. Congress papers or abstracts are slated for publication on the Congress Web site by May 31, 2006. For more information please contact:
Secretary-General Prof. dr. J. L. van Zanden
c/o IISG
Cruquiusweg 31
1019 AT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Fax: + 31 20 665 4181
E-mail: ieha@iisg.nl
Web site: www.helsinki.fi/iehc2006
The AGRICULTURAL HISTORY SOCIETY sponsors several annual awards for various agricultural history publications, manuscripts, and projects. Each year the society announces its award winners at the Agricultural History Society luncheon during the Organization of American Historians conference.
The Gilbert C. Fife Award, which includes a $300 honorarium, is given to the author of the best dissertation on any aspect of agricultural history, broadly interpreted, completed during the current calendar year in honor of Fite's distinguished corpus of work and lifelong devotion to student excellence.
The Everett E. Edwards Award, with a $200 honorarium, is given to the graduate student who submits the best manuscript on any aspect of agricultural and rural studies during the calendar year.
The society offers the Wayne D. Rasmussen Award to the author of the best article on agricultural history published by a journal other than Agricultural History during the calendar year. The award includes an honorarium of $200 and certificates for the author and publisher.
The Vernon Carstensen Memorial Award, with an honorarium of $200, is presented to the author of the best article published in Agricultural History during the calendar year.
Inquiries should be addressed to:
Claire Strom, Editor
Agricultural History
Minard Hall 203, P.O. Box 5075
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND 58105
Phone: 701-231-6405
E-mail: Claire.Strom@ndsu.nodak.edu
Web site: ndsu.agricultural.history@ndsu.nodak.edu
The PROGRAM IN EARLY AMERICAN ECONOMY AND SOCIETY at the Library Company of Philadelphia will award long-term dissertation-level and postdoctoral fellowships for September 1, 2006 to May 31, 2007. The dissertation-level fellowship carries a stipend of $18,000 for the full academic year, or two half-year fellowships of $9,000 each. The postdoctoral fellowship carries a stipend of $40,000 for the full year, or two half-year fellowships of $20,0000 each. Applicants for both the dissertation-level and postdoctoral fellowships may apply for the entire term or for the half-year periods from September 1, 2006 to January 15, 2007, or January 15 to May 31, 2007. The program will also award four one-month research fellowships carrying stipends of $1,800, tenable from June i, 2006 to May 31, 2007.
These fellowships are designed to promote scholarship on the origins and development of the early American economy, broadly conceived, to roughly 1850. They provide scholars the opportunity to use the extensive printed and manuscript collections related to the history of commerce, finance, technology, manufacturing, agriculture, internal improvements, economic policymaking, and other topics that are held by the Library Company and numerous other institutions in its vicinity.
The deadline for receipt of postdoctoral fellowship applications is November 1, 2005. A decision will be made by December 15. The deadline for receipt of one-month and dissertation fellowship applications is March 1, 2006. A decision will be made by March 31. To apply for a long-term fellowship, send (by mail, no faxes please) five copies each of a c.v., a detailed description of the nature of the research to be undertaken during the fellowship period, a relevant writing sample of no more than twenty-five pages, and two letters of reference. For one-month fellowships, send a c.v., a two- to four-page project description, and one letter of reference. Applicants for a long-term fellowship should state clearly which of the tenable periods they seek, and whether they also wish to be considered for a short-term fellowship. Send all materials by mail to:
PEAES
The Library Company of Philadelphia
1314 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA19107
For more information about the program and its fellowships, see the Web site at www.librarycompany.org, or contact Cathy Matson, Program Director, at cmatson@udel.edu.
More than 200 fans stood in line at the United Center, with the first arriving at 5:30a.m. Tickets went on sale at 10, and the early arrivals were greeted by former first-round draft choices Cam Barker and Jack Skille, who passed out doughnuts, hats and T-shirts and thanked the fans for coming.
At day's end, the Hawks announced that full-season-ticket sales had topped 12,000 and Monday's sales, coupled with the season-ticket purchases, accounted for more than 500,000 single-game tickets sold. That represents an increase of more than 300 percent from this time last season, the team said.
Tickets, however, remain available for every game. Monday's customers could buy up to eight per game, and a limited number of two-for-one $15 tickets was available for select games in October and November.
Tickets will remain on sale at Ticketmaster locations, the United Center box office, HawkQuarters and chicagoblackhawks.com. The Hawks begin training camp Sept. 19, with the first of four preseason home games scheduled for Sept. 23. The first of 41 regular-season home games is Oct. 13 against Nashville.
Monday's sale didn't include tickets for the Jan. 1 Winter Classic against the Detroit Red Wings at Wrigley Field. Those will go on sale at a later date, with the NHL determining seating options and ticket prices.
Comment at suntimes.com.
Photo: Rich Hein, Sun-Times / Heather Marsala, 26, proudly wears her Hawks jersey while waiting in line for tickets. ; Photo: Rich Hein, Sun-Times / Jack Skille (left) and Cam Barker sign autographs for fans Monday. ;
VALDEZ, Alaska (AP) The Exxon oil slick was spotted just offanother national park Friday as state and federal officials blastedthe giant corporation's "entirely inadequate" cleanup and declared,"This is a war."
A 40-square-mile slick was reported three miles from CapeDouglas in Katmai National Park, park spokesman John Quinley said.Oil continued to wash ashore along the coast at nearby Kenai FjordsNational Park, he said.
Katmai, on the mainland west of the Kodiak islands, is 250 milessouthwest of Bligh Reef, where the Exxon Valdez went aground March24.
Bruce Erickson, an environmental engineer for the stateEnvironmental Conservation Department, said oil churned into a thickmousse by waves was sighted at Shuyak Island, and an oil sheen wasoff Afognak Island.
Officials fear lucrative crab, salmon, herring and otherfisheries around the islands may be destroyed by the spill.
The oil could threaten Kamishak Bay, a major herring fisherynorth of Cape Douglas, and the mouth of the McNeil River, which feedsthe bay, Quinley said. The river is a game sanctuary that attractsphotographers from around the world to take pictures of brown bearsfeeding on salmon.
Earlier reports had placed the oil only as far south as theBarren Islands, the northernmost in the Kodiak archipelago and aprime breeding habitat for seabirds.
Dennis Kelso, commissioner of the Environmental ConservationDepartment, said his department has been left on standby three weeksafter the 10.1 million-gallon spill. Officials are awaiting Exxon'splan to clean 3,000 shore sites.
"No plan has been submitted," Kelso said. "I do not think thereis a written plan."
Gov. Steve Cowper and Coast Guard Commandant Paul Yost returnedto survey the hundreds of miles of twisting, oily coastline. Yostset a deadline of today for Exxon to produce a cleanup plan for thespill, which officials said was not breaking up as fast as they hadhoped. Authorities said they probably would have to usehigh-pressure hot water spray to cleanse many beaches, acontroversial technique because it kills organisms on and beneath thesurface of the beach.
"This is a war," Yost said.
"Don't look for a miracle on beach cleaning," he said. "We needhundreds of people, maybe multihundreds, maybe multithousands."
Cowper, who arrived Friday wearing faded jeans and rubber boots,said he was pleased Yost had taken over command of the cleanup.
"We were not satisfied with the way the operation was beingcoordinated," he said. "I think it's obvious that we, the state andthe Coast Guard, are not satisfied with the way Exxon has performed."
Exxon had good intentions, he said, but "good intentions andgood performance are two separate items."
Cowper led loud denunciations of Exxon by state officials lastweek, threatening even to shut down the trans-Alaska oil pipeline.But officials had been more muted this week until Kelso's latestcomments.
"We've been frustrated by the in-the-water cleanup. We don'twant to see that replicated on the shoreline," Kelso said, callingExxon's efforts "entirely inadequate."
Added Yost: "I'm not satisfied with the beach cleanup program.I want a lot of people on the beach cleaning up."
Exxon officials did not respond to a request for comment.
Earlier, officials had placed the lead section of the spill atthe Barren Islands, said Larry Dietrich, the director ofenvironmental quality for the Environmental Conservation Department.
Recent storms broke up the slick less than officials hoped, hesaid.
"We're concerned that it's holding together," Dietrich said. "Idon't think it's dispersing as well as people had hoped that itmight."
Thousands of sea birds and mammals have died in the oily muck,and there are fears for the rich fisheries in Prince William Sound.But damage has been greatest on the oiled beaches. Of the 3,000separate cleanup areas on islands in Prince William Sound, 44 areready for cleanup crews, Kelso said.
Workers are already at a few beaches, shoveling up oil, scrapingrocks and using low-pressure hoses to flush the oil back into thewater where it is trapped and recovered.
A consensus is building to clean the shores with jets ofhigh-pressure hot water and steam, Dietrich said.
But he said, "It's going to be difficult to launch a cleanupeffort on the beaches until the floating product is removed."
The total oil recovered so far was about 9 percent of the spill,or 882,000 gallons, Deitrich said, with some of the remainingmaterial having the consistency of asphalt.
Cowper said it isn't known whether the steam-cleaning machineswill work in Alaska's rugged wilderness because fresh water was usedin previous operations, and crews in Prince William Sound will beusing salt water.
A judge ruled Monday in favor of "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling in her copyright infringement lawsuit against a fan and Web site operator who was set to publish a Potter encyclopedia.
U.S. District Judge Robert P. Patterson said Rowling had proven that Steven Vander Ark's "Harry Potter Lexicon" would cause her irreparable harm as a writer. He permanently blocked publication of the reference guide and awarded Rowling and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. $6,750 in statutory damages.
Rowling and Warner Bros., maker of the Harry Potter films and owner of intellectual property rights to the Potter books and movies, sued Michigan-based RDR Books last year to stop publication of material from the Harry Potter Lexicon Web site. Vander Ark, a former school librarian, runs the site, which is a guide to the seven Potter books and includes detailed descriptions of characters, creatures, spells and potions.
The small publisher was not contesting that the lexicon infringes upon Rowling's copyright but argued that it was a fair use allowable by law for reference books. In his ruling, Patterson noted that reference materials are generally useful to the public but that in this case, Vander Ark went too far.
"While the lexicon, in its current state, is not a fair use of the Harry Potter works, reference works that share the lexicon's purpose of aiding readers of literature generally should be encouraged rather than stifled," he said.
He added that he ruled in Rowling's favor because the "Lexicon appropriates too much of Rowling's creative work for its purposes as a reference guide."
Anthony Falzone, who argued the case for RDR Books, said he had not yet seen the ruling and could not immediately comment. RDR publisher Roger Rapoport did not immediately return a telephone message for comment. A spokeswoman for Rowling and Warner Bros. did not immediately return a telephone message for comment.
Though Rowling had once praised the Web site, she testified earlier this year that the lexicon was nothing more than a rearrangement of her material.
She said she was so distressed at the prospect that it would be published that she had stopped work on a new novel. "It's really decimated my creative work over the last month," she said during the trial in April.
If the lexicon is published, she went on, "I firmly believe that carte blanche will be given to anyone who wants to make a quick bit of money, to divert some Harry Potter profits into their own pockets."
Vander Ark, a devoted fan of Rowling, began work on his Web site in 1999 and launched it in 2000.
The seven Potter books, which ended last year with the final book in the series "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," have been published in 64 languages, sold more than 400 million copies and produced a film franchise that has pulled in $4.5 billion at the worldwide box office.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Daimler AG said Friday it will recall about 2,300 Mercedes-Benz sport utility vehicles and sedans to fix fuel filters that could leak diesel fuel.
The recall covers certain diesel versions of the 2011 E Class sedan and 2011 GL Class, M Class and R Class SUVs and crossover vehicles. The vehicles included in the recall were built from November 2009 through October 2010.
The automaker said a lack of lubrication in the diesel engine fuel filters could cause the filters to leak.
Fuel could leak onto the road, causing slippery conditions and a potential crash.
Mercedes-Benz USA spokesman Rob Moran said the automaker was not aware of any injuries connected with the recall.
Owners will be notified later this month. Dealers will replace the fuel filter free of charge.
ROME (AP) — Italian police and coast guard officials on Sunday rescued some 400 illegal migrants coming from Libya whose boat was tossed against rocks near port in southern Italy after the steering malfunctioned, officials said.
Images of the rescue showed panicked migrants jumping or falling into the choppy waters as their boat heaved in the waves off the tiny island of Lampedusa. Some managed to make their way to shore holding on to ropes that had been attached to the boat's stern; others were hauled up on shore by rescue crews in the water.
Financial police official Fabrizio Pisanelli said the boat's steering had stopped working as the boat was nearing Lampedusa's port shortly after 4 a.m. Sunday. Strong winds had pushed the boat against rocks, throwing migrants overboard.
Three police officials who had boarded the boat in open seas helped control the situation, and rescuers reached the migrants immediately, saving them all. Pisanelli said they included women and children, and were from sub-Saharan Africa.
Tens of thousands of migrants have fled unrest in northern Africa since January, most arriving at Lampedusa, the nearest Italian port to Africa.
A Brazilian woman whose short, pink dress caused a near riot at a private college and led to her expulsion will be allowed to return to class.
The private Bandeirante University backed down Monday on its decision to expel 20-year-old Geisy Arruda following a flood of negative reaction in a nation where skimpy attire is common. Videos of students ridiculing her and making catcalls Oct. 22 made her an Internet sensation.
Just hours after the Brazilian government sought an explanation from the university, its dean released a note saying he was reversing the school's decision to expel Arruda.
The Education Ministry had given the university 10 days to clarify its reasoning for kicking out Arruda, who had to put on a professor's white coat and was escorted away by police amid a hail of insults and curses from other students.
A video of the incident was posted on YouTube and quickly made headlines across Brazil. The university's decision to expel the student Sunday prompted complaints from the national student union and the country's minister in charge of women's policy, among others.
Sao Paulo state prosecutors had said they would investigate what led to the university's decision to expel Arruda, and the student later told reporters through her lawyer that she was going to sue the teaching institution in hopes she could finish the semester there.
The dean's note gave no reasons for why the decision was being overturned.
Arruda and her lawyer could not be reached immediately for comment on the school's reversal.
Although Brazil is known for revealing clothing _ especially in beach cities, where many bikinis are referred to locally as "dental floss" _ most college students dress more modestly on campus, commonly in jeans and T-shirts.
The university published newspaper advertisements Sunday saying it expelled Arruda for disrespecting "ethical principles, academic dignity and morality."
The ads also alleged Arruda acted in a provocative manner incompatible with the university environment.
University lawyer Decio Lencioni told Globo TV that the institution was only following its rules.
"The problem is not her clothes; it's her behavior, her attitude," he said.
Lencioni and the university said Arruda even raised her dress and stopped to pose for photos the night she wore the short dress on campus. He said she also chose the longest way to get to class to attract the attention of more students.
In Sunday's ads, titled "Educational Responsibility," the college said it had previously warned Arruda to change her behavior and decided to expel her after talking to students, staff and Arruda herself.
Arruda, who was studying tourism, said she was disheartened by the decision.
"It's a great injustice," she told Globo TV. "I always dressed in a way that makes me feel good and that doesn't offend anybody. I was always like that and was never recriminated by anybody."
Civil police in the city of Sao Bernardo do Campo, where the university is located, said they will investigate the students accused of heckling Arruda. The university said it would temporarily suspend some of them.
Brazil's national student union, the Brazilian BAR Association, and several other institutions condemned Arruda's expulsion. Brazil's minister for women's policy, Nilcea Freire, told the official Agencia Brasil news service Sunday that the decision showed "intolerance and discrimination."
Mennonite Church Canada
Please give thanks for the early release of Le Thi Hong lien, a Mennonite church worker in Vietnam who was arrested last June and sentenced to a year in prison. She was released on April 28, after serving 10 months of her sentence.
Continue to pray for Lien, her family, and others in the Vietnamese Mennonite Church, as they seek to provide healing and hope to her. Lien's mental and physical health deteriorated due to the conditions of imprisonment. Arrangements are being made to assist Lien with needed medical support.
Nhien Pham, president of the North American Vietnamese Mennonite Fellowship, expressed thanks on behalf of lien, her family and the Vietnamese Mennonite Church, to all those who have prayed for her during this difficult time.
Please continue to remember two other Mennonite leaders who remain in prison: Nguyen Hong Quang, pastor, and Pham Ngoc Thach, evangelist.
ROME (AP) — Bruce Springsteen rocked the Rome Film Festival when he showed up for the screening of a documentary on his famous 1978 album "Darkness on the Edge of Town."
Hundreds of fans gathered Monday night to greet the Boss as he walked on the red carpet.
Organizers had to scramble with a surge in demand for tickets when the news spread days ago that Springsteen would attend the event.
The documentary "The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town" features contemporary interviews with Springsteen and his band along with rehearsal and studio footage as they made the 1978 record. The documentary by Thom Zimny premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
As a chill wind blows in, the Bakhtiari nomads pack up at the end of summer and start a long journey _ women and children on horseback, men on foot, belongings in tow _ for the warmer regions here in southwestern Iran.
In April, when the desert heat begins to fire up, they will make the reverse trip to the cool, mountainous regions more than 160 kilometers (100 miles) to the north, crossing flood-swollen rivers and mountain passes to better grazing lands for their goats and sheep.
"This has been our way of life as long as history can remember. We've got used to this lifestyle," Hasan Qoli Soleimani said in his home _ a large black tent made of tough goat hides.
Every winter, Soleimani and his family settle in Dasht-e-Bozorg, a region outside Shoushtar, a city in oil-rich Khuzestan province.
Iran has one of the largest nomadic populations in the world, an estimated 1.5 million in a country of some 70 million, according to the government's agency for nomad affairs.
But experts say it's a way of life that is slowly disappearing.
"Nomadic life is on the brink of extinction. If this trend continues, there will be no more nomads living in Iran in the next 20 years," researcher Ali Qoli Mahmoudi Bakhtiari said.
"Few grazing lands and water resources are left for them. Nomadic life will soon be legend," said Bakhtiari, a retired professor of linguistics and Persian literature.
Numbers for the decline are hard to come by. The government's figures show the population down 200,000 from a century ago. But Bakhtiari says that doesn't show the real rate of the fall, which he says has accelerated in recent years as the attractions of urban life draw some away from nomadism and the construction of factories, roads and the growth of cities eat away at the pastures where nomads' goats and sheep once grazed.
The changes in lifestyle are clear in the village of Abid, where settled members of the Bakhtiari ethnic group _ to which Soleimani belongs _ live in mud-brick homes on the edge of the desert.
The Bakhtiaris, who speak a Persian dialect known as Luri, are one of two main nomadic groups in Iran, along with the ethnic Turkic Qashqai group.
Soleimani's encampment, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Abid, was a collection of six tents, occupied by his relatives and their families, in a hilly region where the clans' herds of goats and sheeps grazed.
Soleimani's wife Golbanou wove their tent last year before the trip north. As Soleimani spoke to an Associated Press reporter, Golbanou _ mother of three children _ baked bread in a small mud brick oven. Next to her, a kettle filled with fresh meat, potatoes, beans, peas and tomato bubbled over an open fire.
Their elder son, a teenager, was outside, playing a small homemade flute as he took care of the livestock. Their daughter, Belqeis, wove a sheep's wool jacket for her older brother as her younger brother, a 4-year-old, played outside.
Belqeis wore a colorful long shirt with a pink headscarf, a distinctive syle of the Bakhtiaris.
"This is a symbol of our cultural identity," she said, pointing to her shirt. The father had a round black hat, puffy black trousers and a long cream and black coat, handwoven by his wife.
But Soleimani sees the path of his ancestors eroding, with some of his own relatives giving up nomadic life and settling in cities.
"Some of those who went to study never returned," he said. "Perhaps they had enough money to make ends meet in big cities. We don't have such an opportunity."
Oil and gas exploration activities in the region near Shoushtar and Masjid Soleiman have taken their toll on grazing lands.
The government pays little attention to nomadic groups, though it has started a program of "tent schools" to ensure children are literate. While it does not directly encourage nomads to settle down, many of its industrial projects use up their pasture lands.
Soleimani says he never wants to abandon his life of motion.
"This is our destiny to follow a migratory lifestyle. Personally, I'm proud of it. I don't like to live in a house where there is a ceiling. It's suffocating to me," he said.
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About SafeHome Filters: SafeHome Filters is the leading provider of replacement home air filters that address odors, harmful gases such as VOCs, and particulates. Unlike standard air filters that only address particulates such as dust, SafeHome Filters incorporate the same highly advanced chemisorbants as industrial air purification systems in order to trap odors and harmful household gases in addition to particulates. SafeHome Filters is focused on providing highly effective solutions for indoor air quality that are affordable and easy to use.
For more information please visit www.safehomefilters.com.
About Safe Home Products: Safe Home Products, Inc. is a growing online retailer that offers a complete line of products to improve safety, security, health and quality of life, both at home and in the workplace. Established in 1999 as a woman-owned business, Safe Home serves over 150,000 clients worldwide from its customer service and fulfillment headquarters in Iowa City, Iowa. The company offers over 20,000 products including air purification filters and systems, carbon monoxide and radon detectors, emergency preparedness equipment, environmentally-friendly cleaning supplies, pet products, pest control solutions, and home medical equipment. Safe Home ships to all 50 states and U.S. territories and to most countries. For more information about Safe Home Products or to place an order, please call toll free (877) 358-0900 or visit www.safehomeproducts.com.
Editor's note: Safe Home Products[R], Safe Home Filters[R], and the Safe Home house logo are registered trademarks and Safe Home™ is a trademark of Safe Home Products, Inc.
SOURCE Safe Home Products, Inc.
Keywords: Advertising, Carbon Monoxide, Chemicals, Chemistry, Marketing, Quality of Life, Safe Home Products, Safe Home Products Inc.
This article was prepared by Health & Medicine Week editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2011, Health & Medicine Week via NewsRx.com.
Safe Home Acquires SafeHome Filters.Safe Home Products[R] (Safe Home™) has acquired Asheville, NC based SafeHome Filters[R], a leading provider of premier home air filter replacements. Based on technologies used in hospitals and airports, SafeHome Filters developed replacements for standard home air filters that are unique in addressing odors, many harmful gases, and particulates such as dust. Safe Home's existing infrastructure and marketing strength creates the ability to grow the sales of SafeHome Filters across multiple channels (see also Safe Home Products, Inc.).
"SafeHome Filters offers the type of solution that Safe Home is focused on; high quality, cost effective solutions that improve safety, health and quality of life," said Barbara Staib, Founder and CEO of Safe Home. "Through our combined operations, we see great opportunity to increase awareness of SafeHome Filters and the solutions they provide while supporting multiple channels for customer convenience."
"We are excited to watch SafeHome Filters reach its potential as part of Safe Home. Their focus on quality and customer service is extremely important to us. We are excited about the opportunities for growing SafeHome Filters given the systems and strengths that Safe Home has established over twelve years," said Sam McLamb, co-founder of SafeHome Filters.
With this acquisition, SafeHome Filters will become wholly owned by Safe Home Products. SafeHome Filters will continue to be available through multiple channels, including online and physical retail stores.
About SafeHome Filters: SafeHome Filters is the leading provider of replacement home air filters that address odors, harmful gases such as VOCs, and particulates. Unlike standard air filters that only address particulates such as dust, SafeHome Filters incorporate the same highly advanced chemisorbants as industrial air purification systems in order to trap odors and harmful household gases in addition to particulates. SafeHome Filters is focused on providing highly effective solutions for indoor air quality that are affordable and easy to use.
For more information please visit www.safehomefilters.com.
About Safe Home Products: Safe Home Products, Inc. is a growing online retailer that offers a complete line of products to improve safety, security, health and quality of life, both at home and in the workplace. Established in 1999 as a woman-owned business, Safe Home serves over 150,000 clients worldwide from its customer service and fulfillment headquarters in Iowa City, Iowa. The company offers over 20,000 products including air purification filters and systems, carbon monoxide and radon detectors, emergency preparedness equipment, environmentally-friendly cleaning supplies, pet products, pest control solutions, and home medical equipment. Safe Home ships to all 50 states and U.S. territories and to most countries. For more information about Safe Home Products or to place an order, please call toll free (877) 358-0900 or visit www.safehomeproducts.com.
Editor's note: Safe Home Products[R], Safe Home Filters[R], and the Safe Home house logo are registered trademarks and Safe Home™ is a trademark of Safe Home Products, Inc.
SOURCE Safe Home Products, Inc.
Keywords: Advertising, Carbon Monoxide, Chemicals, Chemistry, Marketing, Quality of Life, Safe Home Products, Safe Home Products Inc.
This article was prepared by Health & Medicine Week editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2011, Health & Medicine Week via NewsRx.com.
China Energy Recovery, Inc. (CER; Shanghai; www.chinaenergyrecovery.com), in alliance with CMIIC Engineering and Construction Corp. (Beijing; www.cmiic.com), plans to design and build what is claimed to be the world's largest straw-pulp-alkali recovery system. The $11.6-million contract is a key part of the Shandong Hai River Basin Pollution Control Project, sponsored by the Asian Development Bank. …
Junior forward Geoff Walker received three awards, including Most Valuable Player honors, as Siena College held its men's basketball banquet Monday night at Wolferts Roost Country Club.
Walker was the second leading scorer (11 points per game) and the leading rebounder (7.2 per game) for the Saints, who finished with a 5-22 record. Walker received the Doc Marcelle Most Valuable Player Award, the Dan Cunha Best Defensive Player Award and the Billy Harrell Rebounding Award.
Two other awards were also presented.
The Jim Sullivan Most Improved Player Award went to Jeff Muszynski, and the Benjamin Kuhn, OFM, Student Athlete Award was presented to Jim …
