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Academic Calendar - NJIT Registration Calendar
Academic Calendar - Rutgers Newark Registration for Non-Matriculated Students
Advisor Approval Registration Priority
Applying for Graduation Registration for Project, Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Cross Registration: Essex County College Registration for Study Abroad
Cross Registration: Rutgers-Newark Registration for New Transfer Students
Cross Registration University of Medicine and Dentistry Refunds and Withdrawals
Disability Support Services Tuition and Fees
Family Education Rights to Privacy Act Veterans
Graduate Courses For Undergraduate Students
Maintaining Registration
New Jersey Tuition Rate Eligibility

Registration Information

Visiting and current NJIT students should consult with their academic advisor to be certain that courses taken during the summer conform to the requirements of their course of study. Credit earned during the summer will be applied toward all degrees granted by the New Jersey Institute of Technology and may be transferred to colleges and universities throughout the country.

Registration Priority

The Registration period for all students is scheduled according to class year. Class year represents the total credits earned at NJIT including currently enrolled credits (this does not include any Rutgers or ECC courses) in addition to any transfer credit using the formula listed below.

Undergraduate Graduate
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Sophomores 29-56 Credits 2nd Year Graduate 8-15 Credits
Juniors 57-90 Credits 3rd Year Graduate 16-22 Credits
Seniors 91+ Credits 4th Year Graduate 22+ Credits

Registration Calendar

All registration will take place online following the schedule listed below.

Undergraduate students may begin registering at 9:30 PM on their scheduled day.

Seniors March 26
Juniors March 27
Sophomores  March 28
Freshman March 29
All NJIT & Non-Matric Students March 30

Graduate and Doctoral students may begin registering at 5:00 AM on their scheduled day.

M4 and P4 March 27
M3 and P3 March 28
M2 and P2 March 29
M1 and P1 March 30

Late registration fee starts August 30, 2017. For more information please visit the Academic Calendar.

University policies and procedures are outlined in the NJIT graduate and undergraduate catalogues. Students are responsible for awareness of and adherence to these policies and procedures.

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In order to register for the current semester all students must meet with an advisor and have their registration approved. Contact your department for specific instructions. Students registering without the necessary approval may have their registration canceled.

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Contact your academic department to determine the advisor’s availability. In addition, academic advisors will be available during transfer orientation, which will occur in July and August. Information about transfer orientation will be mailed to all new students.

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Undergraduate Students

Students presently maintaining registration should access the course schedule and registration information online.

Students who intend to maintain registration must choose for the subject MR--Maintaining Registration and register for the appropriate section via online.

Graduate Students

Graduate Students enrolled in a degree program who find it necessary to temporarily discontinue their studies are permitted to maintain registration with approval of the office of Graduate Studies for a fee of $50 for each semester they do not register and for a maximum of two consecutive semesters. Students working on project, thesis or dissertation are generally not permitted to register for maintaining registration. International students on F-1 and J-1 visa status may not maintain registration unless they have obtained prior written permission from the Office of International Students and Faculty.

Each semester in which registration is maintained is counted in the total time period allotted to complete degree requirements except for students with an approved leave of absence. The Graduate Studies Office and the academic department will generally place registration holds on students who maintain registration for two semesters or more.

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Students must have their advisor's signature and section number each time they register for project, thesis or dissertation. Students who choose the option of spreading their project, thesis or dissertation over several semesters will have the final grade posted in the semester in which the work is completed.  Students are not permitted to maintain registration while working on project, thesis or dissertation. If the topic is not final, you must obtain tentative approval and register before the late registration date to avoid a late fee (See Graduate catalog for policy).

NOTE: International Students: Extended project or thesis registration may not be allowable for students (such as those on F-1 or J-1 visas) who must maintain full-time status each semester. Please consult the Graduate Studies office if you require information on full-time certification.

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Undergraduate students may register for graduate courses, 500 level or higher, only with the written approval of the undergraduate advisor and written approval of the graduate program advisor for the program offering the course. Tuition will be calculated at the undergraduate tuition rate and the credit applied to the undergraduate academic record.

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Students cross registering will need two forms: the NJIT registration form and an Exchange Registration form, which can be obtained in the Registrar's office. Students cross registering must include the course(s) taken at Essex County and RBHS (the host school) on their NJIT registration form when registering. List the same course(s) on the Exchange Registration form and obtain permission from the NJIT departmental representative. After obtaining approval, take the Exchange Registration form to the host school during their registration period. NJIT students adding, changing or withdrawing from courses at the host school must also complete a NJIT schedule change form and bring it to the NJIT Registrar's Office on the same date. All courses and all grades received at Essex County and RBHS are posted on the NJIT transcript.

Newark RBHS and ECC students follow the procedure noted above using the home school cross-registration approval forms.  Registrations will be processed in-person at the NJIT Registrar's Office on a space available basis.

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NJIT students registering for Rutgers-Newark courses must complete the registration form designated for Rutgers registration and submit it in person to the Registrar's Office in the Student Services Mall. All courses and all grades received at Rutgers-Newark are posted on the NJIT transcript. Please review the Rutgers schedule of courses before attempting to register. Rutgers University Schedule of Classes

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Students planning to attend NJIT as non-matriculated students must complete the application for non-matriculated students. Select the course(s) from the schedule of classes, complete the non-matric registration form and report with a copy of your college transcript to the University Admissions Office.

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If you are a continuing non-matriculating student, you do NOT need to go to the Office of University Admissions prior to registration, PROVIDED you meet the following conditions:

  1. Including the courses you plan to take, you will not exceed 9 semester hours of graduate course work,  or 15 hours of undergraduate course work.
  2. You are in good academic standing (3.0 for graduate students, 2.0 for undergraduates).
  3. You receive permission from the departmental advisor (graduate courses only).
  4. Non-Matriculated students should refer to the registration calendar for registration dates

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In order to be eligible for educational benefits for the term, all Veterans and members of the New Jersey National Guard must contact the Veterans Coordinator located in the Registrar's Office.

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After you have selected your classes, you may contact Disability Support Services, 973-596-5598, to discuss NJIT accommodations services or visit their website at http://www5.njit.edu/studentsuccess/disability-support-services-0/.

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Please refer to the graduation web site for information regarding applying for graduation.

A detailed statement of charges can be viewed via Highlander Pipeline.  Payment must be received by the due date. Unpaid registration will be subject to cancellation and a late fee. Students are responsible for payment of tuition and fees and must monitor their billing status via Highlander Pipeline. Under no circumstances will canceled registrations be reinstated after semester classes have ended.

Tuition and Fees

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In order to pay the New Jersey resident tuition rate students must have been legal residents of New Jersey at the time of application or have established New Jersey as their legal domicile since the time of admission. Students falling into this category must complete and submit a residency analysis form to the Registrar. It is assumed that full-time non-resident students who subsequently move to New Jersey after admission to NJIT are moving to the state in order to attend school. These students will not be considered residents of the state for tuition purposes.

New Jersey Institute of Technology may waive, at its discretion, for U.S. citizens and permanent residents the additional tuition normally charged students who are not legal residents of New Jersey if they are employed full-time by an industrial firm or business located within New Jersey. The student's employer must certify, in writing, that the course of study pursued at NJIT will enhance their value to the firm or business. Certification must be submitted each semester with payment of tuition.

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Eligible students must register in-person on the first day of the semester on a space available basis.  See the Office of Financial Aid for additional information.

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Students who withdraw from NJIT voluntarily will receive a tuition refund based upon the refund schedule. They cannot be made via telephone. There will be no refund of tuition and fees after the second week of the semester for partial withdrawals. Refunds will only be granted for complete withdrawal from the university after the second week of classes.

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March 9, 2007 7:59 pm

The best way to identify a user’s location (onsite or offsite) during login and thereby select options to run or not within the login script.

By reading the network address portion of their %NETWORK variable and storing it in a temporary variable, this can be used in “IF” statements to avoid executing certain programs (Installs, updates, etc.) when the user is connecting from offsite.

Update: 08/24/2007

By storing the significant portion of the network address in the IPNET environment variable, it can also control distribution of ZENworks Apps and ZENworks distributed configuration settings by requiring the app to verify the value of the environment variable prior to app distribution. This way, when your users visit another location in your company, outside your responsibility, and they log into a local workstation there, neither your login script, nor your ZENworks apps/configs, will get distributed to that “foreign” workstation.

There is not a variable that prints the IP address directly, but there is the “Network” variable. The “Network” variable is the IP address in HEX. You can offset the “Network” variable.
For example if your IP address is then your “Network” variable would equal (in HEX) C0-A8-0C-2D. To see this in a login script you can add this to your login script:

Write "Network address = %network"

If your IP is then the output of the above command would be:

"Network address = C0A80C2D"

Now here’s the fun part. I make a variable “ipnet”. Add the next 5 lines to your login script:

set ipnet="%NETWORK" >> 4
write "%ipnet"
if "%ipnet" = "C0A8" then
map root h:=.clustervolume.context.ou.tree
map root h:=.ipxloginmethodhere.ou.tree
endRemember the C0A8 matches 192.168. You'll have to change that to match
your subnet.  The >> 4 part takes off the last 4 digits of the HEX address.
If you change >> 4 to >> 2 then only two digits would come off and
the example above would look like: "C0A80C"

(PS. any simple calculator can translate decimal to HEX and vise versa. Use KCalc or even the Windows Calc program.)

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Hat’s off to Brad Bendily, whose original post in January 2005 taught us to crack open the Network variable! (The explanation in the example on how to use this method is straight from his post!) I’m just using the same means to a different end.

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Reading 2: Newspaper Article, from the Early Years of Statehood

The following is an opinion article published by the Nebraska Statesman newspaper in 1869. In it, the author responds to an earlier article published by the Nebraska City News.

The Nebraska Statesman

July 10, 1869
Lincoln, Nebraska

The [Nebraska City] News (we think) asks "who of the state officers has made the most money out of Lincoln?"
We do not keep the private books of [our?] State officers, but believe we are safe in saying that Governor Butler has. He is probably $25,000 better off than when Lincoln was located. Mr. Kennard has made several thousand dollars, Mr. Gillespie has some; so has Mr. Sweet. We (not a State officer, however), have made eighty-one cents clear.
Whose business is it?
Yet, although it is nobody's business, we propose to state a fact or two.
On the day of the first sale, September 17, 1867, Lincoln was but a hair's breadth from a fizzle. The weather was cold and drizzly, not a tenth part of the buyers who had promised to be here had, in consequence of the weather, been able to arrive. Bidders, speculators, State officers, and small boys, felt dispirited and disheartened, and when the first lot was put up the auctioneer's hammer fell with a dull thud like a clod on a coffin. The thing looked busted. The Commissioners looked busted--for they were in for $1,000, which they had borrowed on their personal credit to pay the preliminary expenses. Everybody looked busted, and the forlorn appearance of affairs was not dispelled until Butler, Kennard, Gillespie, and Sweet, by bidding freely for lots at considerable advances over appraisements, and showing strangers that they were willing to take the risk, induced others to bid and buy, and thus established the first success. The Commissioners and Mr. Sweet bought, in all, at the first sales, about $20,000 worth of lots. The Governor and Mr. Sweet being tolerably well off planked down the cash. The other two not being blessed with large fortunes, sold part of their possessions, borrowed some money from their friends, and scratched gravel for the balance, and paid for their lots. They have also purchased freely at subsequent sales. They bid against determined opposition and had to pay as good prices as anybody.

Lots which were appraised like others on the same street, at $50, and the Governor bought at $80, have been sold as high as $1,200. Others bought by other State officers have brought one, two, and as high as six hundred per cent. Real estate business has been profitable in Lincoln.
Whose business is it, if the State officers have each made ten cents or ten thousand dollars? They deserve all they have made. They took big risks—risked all they had, and fortune—by their faithfulness in carrying out the "Lincoln scheme" has favored them. It was their own money they bought with, and it was their own property they have sold for more money than it cost. These men have had a burden to carry, and they have carried it well. They have never, at any moment, shrunk from any of their responsibilities; and at all times stood ready to perform any extraordinary service that the exigencies of the case required. When the work on the State House exceeded the amount of money received at the first sale, the Commission were waiting for the second sale to provide the necessary funds—and in the face of the most dismal cloakings and predictions that after all Lincoln would still fail—these men did not hesitate to advance the money from $5,000 to $10,000 to shut the clamorings of unpaid workmen. Out of their own pockets and credit, the risked the necessary funds. They knew that if Lincoln succeeded they would recover their loans; and if it failed, that Lincoln Sale wouldn't them, financially, politically or otherwise.
But the experiment – which the founding of this town was – is a success, and for the success thereof the credit is due to David Butler, Thomas P. Kennard, John Gillespie, and James Sweet. They saved it when fizzling and their cash account has been increased thereby—in an honest, legitimate way, by buying and selling lots.
Now, whose business is it?

Questions for Reading 2

1) Why did the Nebraska Statesman, printed in Lincoln, call the founding of Lincoln an "experiment?"

2) According to the editorial, how did the Commissioners and James Sweet show and establish confidence in Lincoln?

3) What did Thomas Kennard and John Gillespie risk in this "experiment?" What would they lose if it failed?

4) Why do you think this article was written? Did the Nebraska Statesman defend or attack the commissioners? What criticisms do you think the Nebraska City News had made of the Commissioners' action? Do you think it was fair that they profited from the sale of the lots?

Reading 2 is from July 10, 1869 issue of the Nebraska Statesman.

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Gut geography: Are obesity-linked gut bacteria more prevalent in northern areas?

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People living at more northern lattitudes have a different relative abundance ot key obesity-linked microbes, according to the new data.
People living at more northern lattitudes have a different relative abundance ot key obesity-linked microbes, according to the new data.
People living in cold, northern latitudes have a greater proportion of gut bacteria that may predispose them to obesity, according to new meta-analysis data.

Led byTaichi Suzuki from the University of California, Berkeley, the team behind the study noted that although it is known that there is considerable variation in gut microbial composition within host species, very little is known about how this variation is shaped and why such variation exists.

For example, in humans, obesity has been associated with the relative abundance of two dominant bacterial groups - an increase in the proportion of Firmicutes and a decrease in the proportion of Bacteroidetes.

The meta-analysis findings, pooled from more than 1,000 people living in 23 different populations and involved in six earlier studies, suggest that people living in northern latitudes have a greater proportion of the obesity-related bacteria Firmicutes in their microflora.

"People think obesity is a bad thing, but maybe in the past getting more fat and more energy from the diet might have been important to survival in cold places. Our gut microbes today might be influenced by our ancestors," said Suzuki, noting that one theory is that obesity-linked bacteria are better at extracting energy from food. "This suggests that what we call 'healthy microbiota' may differ in different geographic regions."

Gut geography

Suzuki reasoned that, since animals and humans in the north tend to be larger in size – an observation called Bergmann's rule – then perhaps their gut microbiota would contain a greater proportion of Firmicutes than Bacteriodetes.

"It was almost as a lark," explained senior author Professor Michael Worobey of the University of Arizona. "Taichi thought that if Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes are linked to obesity, why not look at large scale trends in humans."

"When he came back with results that really showed there was something to it, it was quite a surprise."

Writing in Biology Letters, the Suzuki and his colleagues used data published in six previous studies, totalling 1,020 people from 23 populations in Africa, Europe, North and South America and Asia.

After analysing the data, he found that the proportion of Firmicutes increased with latitude and the proportion of Bacteriodetes decreased with latitude, regardless of sex, age, or detection methods.

Indeed, African Americans showed the same patterns as Europeans and North Americans, not the pattern of Africans living in tropical areas, he noted.

"This observation is pretty cool, but it is not clear why we are seeing the relationship we do with latitude," said Worobey. "There is something amazing and weird going on with microbiomes."

Indeed, the senior author added that the results are also fascinating from an evolutionary biology perspective.

"Maybe changes to your gut community of bacteria are important for allowing populations to adapt to different environmental conditions in lots of animals, including humans," he said.

Source: Biology Letters
Published online ahead of print, doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.1037
"Geographical variation of human gut microbial composition"
Authors: Taichi A. Suzuki, Michael Worobey

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 Song of Solomon 1:4

We will be glad and rejoice in You. We will not open the gates of the year to the sorrowful notes of the organ, but to the sweet strains of the harp of joy and the high-sounding cymbals of gladness. "O come, let us sing to the LORD; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation."1

We, the called and faithful and chosen, will drive away our griefs and set up our banners of confidence in the name of God. Let others lament over their troubles; we with joy will magnify the Lord. Eternal Spirit, our effectual Comforter, we who are the temples in which You dwell will never cease from adoring and blessing the name of Jesus.

Jesus must have the crown of our heart's delight; we will not dishonor our Bridegroom by mourning in His presence. We are ordained to be the minstrels of the skies; let us rehearse our everlasting anthem before we sing it in the halls of the New Jerusalem. We will exult and rejoice: two words with one sense, double joy, blessedness upon blessedness.

Need there be any limit to our rejoicing in the Lord even now? Do not men of grace find their Lord to be the sweetest of incense even now, and what better fragrance have they in heaven itself? We will be glad and rejoice in You. That last word is the meat in the dish, the kernel of the nut, the soul of the text.

What heavens are laid up in Jesus! What rivers of infinite bliss have their source, aye, and every drop of their fullness in Him! Since, O sweet Lord Jesus, You are the present portion of Your people, favor us this year with such a sense of Your preciousness that from its first to its last day we may be glad and rejoice in You. Let January open with joy in the Lord, and December close with gladness in Jesus.

1Psalm 95:1

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It Is Good

Matthew 28:20

It is good that there is One who is always the same and who is always with us. It is good that there is one stable rock amidst the billows of the sea of life. Let us not set our soul's affections upon rusting, moth-eaten, decaying treasures but set our hearts upon Him who remains faithful forever. Let us not build our house upon the moving quicksands of a deceitful world but base our hopes upon this rock that, amid descending rain and roaring floods, shall stand immovably secure.

My soul, I charge you, lay up your treasure in the only secure cabinet; store your jewels where you can never lose them. Put your all in Christ; set all your affections on His person, all your hope in His merit, all your trust in His efficacious blood, all your joy in His presence, and then you may laugh at loss and defy destruction. Remember that all the flowers in the world's garden fade by turns, and the day comes when nothing will be left but the black, cold earth and death will soon put out your candle.

How sweet to have the sunlight when the candle is gone! The dark flood must soon roll between you and all you have; so join your heart to Him who will never leave you; trust Him who will go with you through the surging current of death's stream and who will bring you safely to the celestial shore and have you sit with Him in heavenly places forever. In the sorrows of affliction, tell your secrets to the Friend who sticks closer than a brother. Trust all your concerns to Him who can never be taken from you, who will never leave you, and who will never let you leave Him, even "Jesus Christ [who] is the same yesterday and today and forever." "I am with you always" is enough for my soul to live upon no matter who forsakes me.

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An Ordinary Item Tells the Story of an Extraordinary Journey

An Ordinary Item Tells the Story of an Extraordinary Journey

This video is part of a series of interviews with photographers featured in Moving Walls 21. Moving Walls is an annual exhibit produced by the Open Society Documentary Photography Project exploring a variety of social justice and human rights issues.

When we decided to include Shannon Jensen’s work in Moving Walls 21, her images of the refugee crisis in South Sudan in 2012 had already received a good deal of attention. The situation was ongoing, however, and we wanted to continue to shine a light on the turbulence that accompanied South Sudan’s independence. In fact, in the months between the time we selected the work for exhibition and when Moving Walls opened in January 2014, the situation in South Sudan grew even more dire.

The way that Shannon photographed the refugees was new, and we were drawn in by the simplicity of her photographing just their shoes. Personally, the more I look at the photos, the more I want to learn about the situation and the people who made this difficult journey over many weeks, fleeing for their lives, and leaving loved ones and home behind.

We hoped viewers would have a similar response. I have given many tours of Moving Walls, and the response to Shannon’s exhibit has been nearly universal. Rather than dismiss the story as a crisis happening in a faraway place that has nothing to do with them, visitors are moved by the images. They want to go deeper.

Shannon has said that she does not want viewers to pity the people who made these journeys. She wants audiences to see their resilience and strength. A visitor recently commented that when she sees a person’s shoes, something we all wear, it allows her to imagine the person wearing them. She then wants to read the individual stories of people who made the journeys and learn more about the crisis. A personal connection becomes the opening to the larger story.

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The shoes refugees wear tell more than the eyes see them. lf only they could talk l wonder how the world would react to their stories. l wish for a peaceful world where people are love and understand each other.

"... a totally different experience than they might be going through" definitely. Also a testament to the indomitable human spirit.

It was a real stroke of genius to photograph the shoes, and surprisingly moving.

Thank you for showcasing Shannon's art. This photography is powerful and should be shared just as the shoes are shared to the landscape they walk across. Simply staring at the diversity of footwear evokes the many individual lives existing in the crisis.

Thank you Greg for the comment. I am so glad that the diversity struck you, as it was certainly one of the things I hoped to communicate.

Thank you for showing the world the reality in Sudan i wish next time to visit western site of Sudan ,

Its a great feature and sympolic artfact which inspires an individual to want to explore more to understand how those refugees made it,their physical and mental wellbeing and their enduring spirit to save their lives.

the world must act now to stop the senseless killings and suffering in South Sudan.

true, the used shoes of the journeying refugees reflected their resilience in hoping for a better community living.

not only in Sudan, look anywhere at the corner streets at the byways in any other alleys or country roads, people are always moving from one place to another to seek adjustments in our changing sociological development.

The photos tell a powerful story of pain, displacement, resilience, poverty, the will to continue living............the people of Sudan have seen it all, war has become part of their daily life.......those shoes have been through many difficult times, but they continue to walk, continue to look for freedom and a better life. May it be granted soon.
Thanks for sharing these very meaningful photos.

Thank you for such a beautifully phrased comment Zipporah.

Shannon Jensen = engaged art = heightened public awareness = progress towards social justice, peace and shared prosperity.

I hope that I can continue living up to that with future work! Thank you Russell.

Better than 1000 words -

Helmut, I couldn't agree more! That's the power of photography.

A very simple way to celebrate and acknowledge the extraordinary resiliency of these men and women, boys and girls, and to bridge the divides that separate our worlds, uniting us in our own humanity.

Absolutely, India. That shared humanity comes through in the comments to this post as well as the conversations I have with visitors to the gallery. Well said.

Thank you for this video it is very good edition for human right in Arab world. We look forward for better democratic world for helping people to eliminate poverty from country which have problems such as Sudan.

hi, first of all am a photojournalist working and based in kenya. i would like to say that this work of jensen was very inspirational...
good work and told very well

Thank you Mbugua! I got my start as a photographer in Kenya, so the country has a very special place in my heart. I hope to return soon for some new work there. I am always glad when my work can serve as inspiration for others' work because this project certainly was born of inspiration from many other photographers. An ongoing dialogue.

Brilliant but perhaps verging on the gimmicky and not comparable in impact with, for example, with some of the Auschwitz pictures

Thank you Ralph. I am happy that these images seem to be resonating with the public in a special way at least in some small sense. The challenge nowadays with the ubiquity of photographs (and the internet) is trying to find new ways of telling these types of stories in a way that doesn't feel repetitive. I'm okay with gimmicks as long as the work feels genuine and humanizing.

Very touching.Could not help but think of the those who walked in those shoes and how the physical pain and discomfort is just a fraction of what they must be going through emotionally , mentally and spritiually. Thank you for this video ,It told an amazing story.

Very moving pictures. Stripped of their homes and belongings, the shoes are all they have, in their journey to a better life.

It brings to mind the quote of "do not judge until you have walked in my shoes" ! This is an excellent piece of work to demonstrate the determination and strength that lies within all cultures.

I wanted to write while my emotions are close to the surface. I was surprised when I felt tears welling-up as I watched photo after photo of shoes. Shoes for god sake. Compelling, moving ... There are no words. Thanks to this wonderful photographer for her vision and talent.

Thank you so much Catherine. It is wonderful to know that this simple work can elicit such a powerful response. Trying to find the most authentic and effective way to tell someone's story is an endeavor frequently fraught with frustration and self-doubt, so it's profoundly gratifying to know that this depiction of the experience of the Blue Nile refugees deeply resonates with many people. I certainly have learned a lot from how this work has been received and hope I carry those lessons into future projects.

I like the photographs but I think that the situation in Sudan could have been shown more effectively . I would like to see the people who belonged to the shoes. I think the photographer missed an opportunity.

While not their faces, Shannon did include text with their stories and those captions can be found in the slideshow on our website:

She also has a body of work that is more than just shoes and shows the people and their situations. She found it hard, though, to get the media to respond to those images. Looking at photography is an individual experience that elicits different responses. It's subjective and I appreciate hearing your perspective.

The pictures are extremely moving and paint an impressive and lasting impression of what people will endure to find safety. As a refugee sponsorship coordinator for my Diocese I intend to ensure that it gets screening at our Synod in late May.Thank you.

Beautiful and touching. Thank you.

These shoes makes me to remember so many things, not only because I have been through this situation before but also because I know what they are going through. I see exactly the message of the photographer. Doing my master in development studies at University of Manchester now, I wish for a world without refugees. I wish I could help people in war zone countries. Hope we find answers to end war in Africa and all nations.

This is outrageous, totally unacceptable situation.

I have seen alot and heard alot. I have a friend that is a doctor, and she went to Sudan for six months and showed me photos and told me stories. It is very sad and all those that suffer are always close to my heart but I also believe that if more Christians can stand together for the right reasons God will heal Sudan. But the world has lost what is important and that is money instead of God and no matter what we do until people can stop be selfish and only care about themselves first we will not heal Sudan and it will start in our own country.

Great work indeed! The images should move from one wall to other walls!

As my own experience and grown up as a refugee child in Pakistan during the Russian invasion on my country, Afghanistan. I know what it means to live as a refugee. The shoes refugees wear tell more than the eyes see. Everyone will have a lot to tell about their refugee lives and the hardship they are going through. Children and women are the most vulnerable groups in such situations. Among five of my other siblings it was only I and my youngest sister who could make it to go to school. These pictures remind me of my old bike and my sandals that I was wearing while I was going to school in cold winter and my cracked feet were bleeding. Some of my classmates were asking if I was living nearby the school. I can never forget my old bike that even now my classmates refer to it while they communicate with me. It was that old that thanks to one of my classmates who was more often my walk mate as he also was living as a refugee and was taking the same path to school. He was helping me by pushing my bike after it was getting stacked in the mud in heavy rains. I have this unpleasant experience which will never be washed out of my mind. I wish for a peaceful world without any sufferings where people could live happily ( I am so sorry for my English. I know there will be lots of mistakes)

Thank you for sharing this deeply personal perspective. I also wish for a more peaceful world -- situations such as yours and those Shannon depicts are a tragedy.

terrific idea. Anyway you could hotograph the feet that are in the shoes too?

The shoes not only tell a story of hardship, but also of humanity. The colors, design, patters, and textures of each shoe is a metaphor or the hopes and desires that have been trampled up. Would love to see large prints of them. Really need to see and feel the texture.

Yes, looking at them printed on the walls of our exhibit space, you can get close to them and see the rich detail in each shoe. The stitching, repairs, and handiwork are testaments to resilience and creativity.

Thank you for all of the responses you've written to the post. What you've written is what I've been hearing since we opened the exhibit. If you want to come see them in person, we welcome you to our gallery at the Open Society Foundations, 224 West 57th Street, New York, NY. We are open to the public for free from 10-4 Monday-Fridays except holidays. The exhibit is also free. Please come by.

Having worked with Sudanese refugees, it is remarkable to note their resilience, spirit, and determination. I continue to pull for them through yet another devastating time in their country. I honor the photographer for a warm and thoughtful representation of the refugee plight.

I'm struck by the way the dust and the dirt, the frayed edges of the shoes are so evocative for me. They conjure up the larger story of each individual and make me curious about the places and experiences they had to walk through to get to where they are now. They convey the time and distance traveled, and the way we all carry the evidence of our experiences through the wrinkles, scars, dust and dirt we gather as we move through life. Yet how sobering these are as symbols of lives lived in a very harsh and unjust circumstance.

i can see some of the shoes and individuals in my own district of Arua (north west Nile region) how ever the suffering is evident of frequent movements and persecution in south Sudan which calls for every body Spiritual, Religious, Politicians, Civilians, and NGOs to take actions for their emergency.

This photographies remind me the KOSOVO WAR, albanian people and serbs violence. As my own experience during long walking after I and my family was moving awey do to serbs violenc I can say that same album is still fresh in my mind. I honor the photographer for a warm and thoughtful representation of the refugee plight.

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The easiest thing is to just stick with Cannes this week and pretend the whole Arrested Development thing isn't happening. The Un Certain Regard prizes were announced yesterday, and the main competitions prizes are being announced as I type this and will be edited in as they're announced by El Presidente Senor Speilbergo and his gang of eight (director Ang Lee, director Lynne Ramsay, actor Christoph Waltz, director Naomi Kawase, actor Nicole Kidman, actor Vidya Balan, director Daniel Auteuil and director Christian Mungiu).

You can tell a lot about who won by who shows up to the ceremony. If you don't think you're going to win there is no reason to stick around. Alexander Payne (Nebraska),  Asgar Farhadi (The Past) and director Abdellatif Kechiche and actors Lea Soydeux and Adèle Exarchopoulos from Blue is the Warmest Color are all on the red carpet right now. It is likely that all three films will be winners tonight (though, usually, films don't win more than once). Paolo Sorrentino and the Coens are noticeably absent.

So, it's been about a half hour since I wrote that last graph and the ceremony is over, the winners announced. It's not surprising that Bruce Dern won Best Actor for Nebraska (Payne accepted), Berenice Bejo won Best Actress for The Past and that Blue is the Warmest Color won the coveted Palme d'Or. Sorrentino was shut out on the night, though the Coen BrosInside Llewyn Davis won the Grand Prix. Koreeda's Like Father, Like Son won the jury prize, which I'm happy about, Best Screenplay went to Jia Jhangke for A Touch of Sin and Heli director Amat Escalante won best director.

Having not seen it, I can't really say much about Blue is the Warmest Color, but there is a bit of cynicism rolling around out there that the only reason it won Palme d'Or was for it's 20 minute long lesbian sex scene that "older males" liked. Somehow, I can't see Steven Spielberg sitting on the edge of his seat hiding a woody while filling out his jury ballot -- and anyway, four of the eight other jurors were women, so that logic doesn't really wash. To say, also, that no one would go for the film if it were about gay guys instead, I would say that Brokeback Mountain and Weekend were extremely well liked and award winning films, so that logic doesn't really wash either.

Do people want to watch Lea Soydeux have sex with another girl? Yes, I'm sure. But that doesn't mean it's not also a great film -- and it's a three hour film, so would you really ignore 2 hours and 40 minutes because of a sex scene? Was Magic Mike a great film, or did people just want to watch Channing Tatum strip? What about 300? To get caught up in all of that other stuff is just nonsense and it doesn't serve the films at all.

News, links, etc:

-The early awards at Cannes: the FIPRESCI (critics) Prize went to Blue is the Warmest Color, Manuscripts Don't Burn and Blue Ruin. (Variety)

-The long out of print 96 page Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey. You should probably read this. (Cinephilia and Beyond)

-Angie Han thinks Fast Six can teach Star Trek a thing or two about half-naked ladies. She's right. (/Film)

-That Jesus Quintana spinoff from The Big Lebowski? Yeah, it's not going to happen. (The Toronto Star)

-Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach on Frances Ha, which opens the Enzian on Friday. (@TheAcademy)

-Kim Morgan kills it on he appraisal of Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank. (SunsetGun)

-Chaz Ebert on her first Cannes without Roger. (Vulture)

-Harpo Marx... speaks. (

-Matt Groening gives up a (mostly unsurprsing) tidbit about where the Simpsons might live in a long interview with the Smithsonian this month. (Smithsonian Magazine)

-Black Rock director Katie Aselton on making the jump from mumblecore films like The Puffy Chair to revenge thrillers. Black Rock, starring Aselton, Kate Bosworth and Lake Bell is out now on VOD. (AV Club)

-Does the idea of Francis Ford Coppola making another epic -- no matter the story -- worry anyone else after his last three films? (The Film Stage)

-A Q&A with filmmaker and critic Mark Cousins about his new documentary, A Story of Children and Film, which focuses on how childhood is depicted on film. (Film4)

Trailers, posters, etc:

-Two clips from the newest Palme d'Or winner, Blue is the Warmest Color, starring Lea Seydoux. (Awards Daily)

-The first trailer for Metallica's Through the Never, with Dane DeHaan. (Yahoo)

-Claire Danes, James Marsden and Sara Bolger in As Cool as I Am. (The Wrap)

-That's Larry David under all of that hair in the teaser trailer for the new HBO movie Clear History. (The Wrap)

-A new red-band trailer for This is the End, with Franco, Rogan, Hill et al. (Yahoo)

-JC Chandor's All is Lost, featuring Robert Redford. (CriterionCast)

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If you had a $30,000 annual slush fund courtesy of someone else, what would you do?

If you were Orlando city commissioner Daisy Lynum, you'd travel. A lot. You'd fly to places like Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere, going to conferences and staying in top-flight hotels, all on the taxpayers' dime. In a two-year period, you'd rack up at least $22,538 in travel expenses.

If you were commissioner Sam Ings, you'd spend more than $31,000 over a two-year period on your city-issued Visa, including parties in the city's Amway Arena skybox, $350-plus bills at soul food restaurant Mama Nems' and trips.

In the abstract, these numbers represent a miniscule portion of the city's $359 million annual general fund budget. But at a time when Mayor Buddy Dyer is threatening to lay off cops and firefighters to plug a $40 million budget deficit, looking at how the city's six commissioners spend their travel and community funds sheds light on how they view their stewardship of public money.

As it turns out, some are much thriftier than others.

If their planned 3 percent pay raise goes through for the 2009-2010 budget, commissioners each will earn $49,383 for a part-time job; total compensation for each is between $130,000 and $150,000, including a salary and benefits for their aides. In addition to the salary and benefits packages awarded to commissioners, each gets two pots of money to spend as they please: a district budget and a capital improvement project fund, or CIP.

The CIP is fixed at $100,000 per year per district. If the commissioners don't spend it, what's left rolls over, which is why District 1 commissioner Phil Diamond had more than $450,000 in his CIP account at the end of 2008, according to city records. This money pays for things like speed bumps, brick street restorations and, in one case, a $4,420 "Lake Eola swan statue pedestal." These are minor projects that benefit constituents.

Each commissioner's district budget, on the other hand, is divvied up into pots of money for travel, community expenses and supplies. Commissioners don't all get the same amount of money in their district budgets. District 3 commissioner Robert Stuart's district budget is $22,539. Ings' budget is more than double that: $48,679 in the current fiscal year. Lynum comes a close second with a $45,671 district budget. Besides Lynum and Ings, no commissioner's district budget is more than $26,000, according to city records.

For the four commissioners on the low end of the spectrum, supplies and other operating expenses eat up half of their budgets. For instance, of Stuart's $22,539, $13,610 is dedicated to supplies. For Ings and Lynum, however, supplies constitute a much lower proportion, roughly 20 percent.

Whereas Diamond has $13,000 set aside in his community fund and nothing for travel, Ings has $20,610 for events and another $11,039 in his travel fund. Lynum has $15,000 in each pot.

Only one commissioner has lodged an official objection regarding the lopsided pots of money. In a May letter to the mayor, Stuart recommended reducing and evening out the commissioners' district budgets, though he concedes that his suggestion has little chance of passing. According to Stuart's letter, the commissioners' district budgets were fairly uniform up until the 2006-2007 fiscal year. Since then, Ings and Lynum have seen their budgets skyrocket, while the other commissioners' have stayed roughly the same.

The city can't exactly say why that is the case. Spokeswoman Heather Allebaugh says Ings and Lynum requested the increases, and the finance department and city council approved them.

One could argue that Lynum's and Ings' larger budgets are justified because they represent the city's poorest districts. Perhaps that is what Lynum and Ings would have argued, had they returned phone calls and e-mails seeking comment for this story. (All six commissioners were contacted and asked to explain their district-budget expenditures. Only Stuart and Diamond responded. See the accompanying text on pages 12 and 13 for their quotes.)

But what's in it for constituents? Do the residents of District 5 benefit from Lynum's many out-of-state trips? Do the people Ings represents get anything in return when he spends $500 at an Orlando Magic game?

No one who has ever sat through a city council meeting can argue that Ings and Lynum are better informed or offer more critical insights than, say, commissioners Stuart and Patty Sheehan, who travel and spend considerably less. In fact, Lynum frequently misses council meetings because she's out of town, including one on July 13 when she was in Biloxi, Miss.

What follows is a sampling of the non-supplies-related district budget expenses commissioners have accumulated in the last two years; this is not everything they've spent. It's a glimpse into how your money is spent by your elected officials when they are allowed to spend it on just about anything.

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Sam Ings, District 6
Annual district
budget: $48,679

August 2007 Ings goes to Ft. Lauderdale for a conference. You pay for his hotel, gas and rental car: $1,202. He also shells out $948 for a crime prevention week picnic and a "rental," though the records don't indicate what was rented.

Oct. 25-Nov. 7, 2007 Ings spends $33 at Old Time Pottery; $230 at Great Western Meats, a food-service distributor (later, his card received a $100 credit from this purchase); $41 at Publix; $80 at Party City; $84 at Wal-Mart; $159 at Great Western Meats; $17 at Wal-Mart; $111 at another Wal-Mart; $737 at Handy Rentals, which rents party supplies; $21 at a 7-Eleven; $95 at Wal-Mart; $70 at Publix; and $177 at another Publix.

Nov. 12-18, 2007 Ings goes to New Orleans for a National League of Cities conference (the NLC is an organization that lobbies on behalf of municipalities). The trip costs taxpayers $2,664. Sheehan goes to the same conference and charges the city about $1,000 less.

December 2007 Ings buys "Christmas bears," stockings and candy for a parade: $695.

February 2008 You pay $150 for Ings' membership in the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, and another $200 to register for a NOBLE conference. This month, he also rents a car to drive to Atlanta ($120, plus about $100 in gas) and gets a hotel room ($390). When he gets back, Ings spends $590 on food while watching an Orlando Magic basketball game from the city's skybox. Then he goes to a National League of Cities conference in Washington, D.C., for which you spend $874.

March 2008 Ings spends $243 at Joissu, a novelty gift shop on.B. McLeod Road, for what is labeled "miscellaneous." He spends another $78 there for "duck whistle bubbles." For what was apparently an Easter egg hunt, Ings spends $467 on eggs at Publix, and $723 with Handy Rentals, the equipment rental company. He also pays Orlando Food Partners, the food-service company that caters the arena and other city venues, $579.

April 2008 Ings spends another $731 for food from Orlando Food Partners (he later received a $35 refund). He also spends $469 to print invitations for an event and $284 at Johnson's Diner.

May 2008 Ings spends $3,187 to set up a tent and audio at the Hawkins Park Cultural Festival.

June 2008 Ings spends $91 for funeral flowers.

August 2008 Ings goes to a Florida League of Cities Conference in Tampa. Between a rental car, registration, hotel, parking and gas, the tab comes to $1,086. He pays $745 to register for a National League of Cities conference in Orlando and $1,567 for a New York City hotel for a NOBLE conference.

November 2008 Ings spends $437 on food inside the city's Amway Arena skybox.

January 2009 Ings drops $358 for a luncheon at Mama Nems'. He also pays $350 to participate in a Martin Luther King Day parade.

February 2009 Ings registers for another NOBLE conference ($450) and buys "various tickets" for that conference ($210).

Feb. 22, 2009 Ings goes to another Magic game. In the city's skybox, he runs up another $487 in food charges and $92 in service charges for 20 orders of chicken wings ($9.95 each), a dozen orders of fruits and another dozen orders of vegetables, plus 10 deli platters.

April 2009 Another month, another Magic game. Tab: $421. Surely, such perks don't influence commissioners' votes on half-billion dollar basketball arenas.

Ings did not return a phone call seeking comment.

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Daisy Lynum, District 5
Annual district
budget: $45,671

June 2007 Lynum goes to China for the U.S.-China Business Matchmaking Conference in Shanghai. Her Visa bill doesn't account for the whole cost of the trip, but we know that she charged taxpayers $325 for her per diem costs and $233 for trip insurance. In the same month, she goes to Ft. Lauderdale, where between the rental car and hotel she runs up a $527 bill.

July 2007 Lynum goes to Indianapolis for a National League of Cities board of directors meeting. Airfare is $234, and her stay at the Conrad Hotel runs $756 for three nights. On July 17, she sends $50 via PayPal to something called Friendsmove in California for a power lunch. On July 23, she books a flight to New Orleans for $264.

August 2007 Lynum pays $712 for a hotel in Biloxi, Miss., and books airfare to Los Angeles for $382.

September 2007 Lynum spends $483 at an.A. hotel.

Dec. 18, 2007 Lynum pays $304 to treat 10 members of a Chinese delegation to the buffet at the Grand Bohemian.

January 2008 Lynum spends $243 on a car for the MLK Day parade and $32 to gas it up. She also buys airfare to Washington, D.C., for a meeting of the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials for $394.

February 2008 Lynum spends $230 for a Washington, D.C., hotel room. She also spends another $279 on airfare to D.C. for a National League of Cities conference in March. This time, her stay at the Hilton costs Orlando taxpayers $1,347.

April 2008 Registering Lynum for the NLC conference costs $815. She also spends $604 on catering for a black history event, $92 to have dinner with the NLC president and $219 for airfare to Philadelphia.

May 2008 Lynum pays $450 for a Delta Sigma Theta convention. She also spends $486 on her Visa for another China trip and $800 on catering for a UCF Medical School reception.

June 2008 Lynum travels to Philly for a Women in Municipal Government convention, where she spends $842 on a hotel and $325 on registration.

July 2008 Lynum flies to Huntsville, Ala., for another National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials meeting. Airfare is $436, hotel is $470, and cabs run her another $64. She also spends $332 for airfare to Atlanta for a NBC-LEO function, $427 at an Atlanta hotel and $89 more on taxis.

Aug. 16, 2008 Taxpayers fund Lynum's stay at the Amelia Island Plantation, a resort hotel off Florida's northeast coast that bills itself as "Florida's premier AAA-Four Diamond destination island resort in perfect harmony with nature." It costs $209. She's there for a Black Business Investment Fund meeting. The BBIF is a nonprofit that receives most of its income from local governments. Lynum sits on its board and has steered development deals its way `see "A sucker deal," July 28, 2005`.

September 2008 Lynum buys plane tickets to Washington, D.C., for $239. Her hotel bill for the NBC-LEO trip (which appears on October's Visa statement) totals $685.

November 2008 Lynum attends the National League of Cities' Conference of Cities. Lynum and a friend stay at the Marriott at a cost of $1,158, according to records. The conference is in Orlando. The hotel is on World Center Drive. It's a 25-minute drive from City Hall. On Nov. 15 taxpayers pay $370 so Lynum's aide, Marcia Davis, can stay at the Caribe Royale Orlando, another hotel on World Center Drive.

January 2009 Lynum pays $710 for the National League of Cities conference, again in Washington, D.C. She spends $1,130 on a hotel.

March 2009 Lynum spends $306 on airfare and $974 for yet another conference in Washington, D.C.

Lynum could not be reached for a comment.

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Tony Ortiz, Distric 2
Annual district
budget: $25,965

June 2008 Soon after taking office, Ortiz goes to lunch with some constituents and spends $53.

August 2008 Ortiz goes to Tampa for the Florida League of Cities conference. He pays $327 for a hotel (including taxes and parking).

September 2008 Ortiz pays $35 for a lunch at Beef O'Brady's, $103 for food from Publix for a homeowners association meeting and $81 for refreshments at a town hall.

November 2008 Ortiz shells out $1,247 for a "family event day."

April 2009 Ortiz travels to Washington, D.C. for a meeting of Hispanic elected officials, at a cost of $179. His annual travel budget is $3,850, and he has another $9,800 set aside for events and community functions.

Ortiz did not return a phone call seeking comment.

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Patty Sheehan, District 4
Annual district
budget: $25,217

Oct. 16-17, 2007 Sheehan and her police liaison, Officer James Young, travel to Sunrise, Fla., to witness the opening of an IKEA. They stay at the Vacation Village, for a combined total of $140. She spends $66 on gas getting there.

November 2007 Sheehan attends the National League of Cities conference in New Orleans. Registration is $645, and she spends $587 on lodging (that's $174 per night at the Chateau Sonesta). Her total trip costs $1,501 — more than $1,000 less than Ings charged the city on this very same trip.

January 2009 Sheehan rents a car for the MLK Day parade. She pays $132. As of Orlando Weekly's public records request in early June, that was the only expense Sheehan had billed to her city credit card this year. She too has a rather small travel allowance — just $3,793 in the current fiscal year. She has just shy of $12,000 budgeted for community events.

Sheehan did not return a phone call seeking comment.

call seeking comment.

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Phil Diamond, Distric 1
Annual district
budget: $22,608

October 2007 Diamond hosts his fall picnic, for which he spends $1,124.

January 2008 Diamond rents a car for the MLK Day parade for $50. He gets a $2.75 fine for running a toll.

March 15, 2008 Diamond hosts a picnic in Amhurst Park. He spends $2,493.

October 2008 Diamond hosts yet another picnic and food drive. He spends $1,206.

January 2009 Diamond rents a car for the MLK Day parade ($78). This time, it has an E-Pass, on which he spends $3.50.

March 14, 2009 Diamond has another picnic. He spends $1,598. Many of Diamond's expenses don't appear on Visa bills because he, like all the other commissioners except Ings, pays for them out of pocket and gets reimbursed by the city. (Ings tends to use his Visa instead.) Still, his entire events and community fund budget for this two-year span is $26,000.

Asked about his expenses, Diamond says, "I've tried to focus on doing things that are things my constituents want me to be focused on."

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Robert Stuart, District 3
Annual district
budget: $22,539

May 2007 Stuart goes to Washington, D.C., for a regional fly-in to lobby for federal money. He spends $1,700.

April 2008 Stuart goes to Washington, D.C., for the Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce's legislative fly-in. $1,700 covers his flight, hotel and registration.

December 2008 Stuart pays $164 for coffee and dessert at an event. Of all the commissioners, he has the least amount of money allocated for events, just $7,010. He also has a $1,500 travel fund.

Asked about commissioners' expenses, Stuart says, "I believe our commissioners ought to be part-time commissioners, and ought to travel on behalf of the city."

Moreover, he says, there should be a "bona fide city benefit" to such travel — and to demonstrate that benefit, commissioners should give a report on their taxpayer-funded trips. Outside City Hall, that's common sense. On this city council, Stuart's is apparently quite a radical idea.

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