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Posted on November 14, 2011. Filed under: Blogging, Blogs, Business Strategy, Inbound Marketing, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Online Marketing, Small Business | Tags: , , , , , , |

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Dear Subscribers,

Today is moving day. I’m launching a new blog called ‘the inbound-i blog’. It’s a continuation and evolution of New PR Words and Music, which will remain here so that you can come back and access the 110 posts created here. When you click on the link to the new blog and read the first post, you’ll understand why I’m making the change.

While you’re there, please subscribe by email or RSS feed so that you receive the latest information, ideas and intelligence about inbound marketing without interruption.

The new blog is a result of the evolution of online marketing and my own business focus. In explaining why the new blog, there’s also some good information for you about the importance of tailoring your online marketing to maximize the use of inbound marketing analytics.

Come with me to the new blog for future posts and come back here as often as you like to re-read and to re-listen to your musical favorites.

I will, too.

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Blogging: Why Wouldn’t You Do Something That Works?

Posted on October 5, 2011. Filed under: Blogging, Blogs, Business Strategy, Content, Marketing Strategy, Small Business, Social Media, Writing | Tags: , , , , , |

Blogging Opens Doors

Blogging Opens Doors

Why would you not do something guaranteed to bring people to your website and introduce your company’s expertise and offerings? There are so many marketing efforts people chase that cost time and money with no guarantee that they’ll yield anything. So, I ask again…Why wouldn’t you spend a few hours a week on an activity guaranteed to pay off?

I’m talking about blogging. I guarantee you that when I write and publish this post today, I will get traffic. And I’ll get more traffic than yesterday when I didn’t post. I get traffic to my blog every day when I’m posting at least three times a week.

Some of it comes from publicizing the posts on social media. But lots of it comes from organic search – people searching online for topics represented in keywords contained in the posts — and they find me.

I almost talked myself out of posting today in favor of other things that require my attention. But I prioritized getting a post out – regardless of how short. Because I know it will get results. It will provide opportunities for new relationships and potential business.

That feels great to me and I hope that sharing this with you will be motivating and helpful. Success feels great. Blog for success!

Image from Ben Zvan under Creative Commons license.

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Social Media Does Not Equal Inbound Marketing

Posted on September 30, 2011. Filed under: Blogging, Blogs, Business Strategy, Inbound Marketing, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Small Business, Social Media | Tags: , , , , , , |

Welcome to Inbound Marketing

Inbound Marketing is a bigger, more strategic concept than Social Media

When someone asks me what I do for a living and I say, “I’m an Inbound Marketing consultant and they get that blank stare, I try to help them by saying, “Online Marketing,” as a potentially more understandable explanation. Almost inevitably, they then say, “Oh. Social Media. We’re doing that.”

Then I say to myself, “There’s still so much education necessary to help people understand that:

  • Inbound Marketing is a total process for growing business online
  • Social media engagement is one important part of implementing Inbound Marketing, but to really make social media pay off, you first have to understand its purpose in the big picture.

 Here’s a list of what Social Media is good for:

  • Identifying people online who can buy your products/services or refer others who can.
  • Cultivating relationships with those individuals.
  • Publicizing your website, blog posts and other valuable original content to drive traffic.
  • Providing outposts for your company other than your website to engage with audiences in different ways.

This is all great and these activities can stand on their own to a point. But Inbound Marketing as an overall approach:

  • Originates from a more strategic than tactical mindset.
  • Looks at marketing as a driver of growth and takes business objectives and metrics into consideration.
  • Is concerned with not only creating online traffic but converting it to sales.
  • Tailors tactics to address a prospect’s progress in the purchase cycle.
  • Incorporates analytics to measure success and set productive marketing directions.
  • Offers ROI proofs.

So if your company has a Facebook page, a Twitter, LinkedIn and/or Google+ account – even if you’re blogging like crazy in addition to your social media efforts – and you’re not sure what it’s actually contributing to the bottom line, it’s time to graduate to the next level of online marketing. Start thinking and implementing like an Inbound Marketer.

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A Marketing View: 20 Steps to a Website that Maximizes Business Growth

Posted on September 26, 2011. Filed under: Blogging, Blogs, Business Strategy, Human Business, Inbound Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Online Marketing, Small Business, Website Design | Tags: , , , , , |

Grow Your Business Online

Marketing Strategy is the First Step to Growing Business Online

In the past, if you wanted a new website – or to redesign an existing one – the first step was to find a web design firm. This was fine when your website was an online brochure.

Today, if you make your first concern the design and look/feel of your site, you’re missing valuable opportunities to use the web project to refine or redefine your business focus, to add new business lines – and to get found.

A marketing/business consultant is well suited to help you in this effort and is a prudent first stop. Getting an outside eye on your business and online marketing can yield fresh ideas about how you can use your web presence to grow.

Then find a good design/web development firm capable of implementing your brand identity and web strategy, offering technical advice, and organizing your content for usability. Your marketing consultant will undoubtedly be able to help you source the right partner.

Here are 20 steps to structuring a website project to maximize business growth:

1. Review and audit your current marketing, as well as new marketing approaches you’d like to add.

2. Be able to articulate, “What’s our business?”

3. Do a lot of competitive research. Look at other sites. See what your competitors are doing or not doing. A good consultant will come up with ways that you can leap-frog them with your expanded web presence. (Tip: SEO utilizing current best practices provides fertile soil for growth. Most businesses simply aren’t doing it, or doing it right.)

4. Be sure to answer the question: “Are there any new products, services or offerings related to our core business that we can and should add?”

5. Make sure you’re focused on the right customer.

6. Identify your market positioning.

7. Think out of the box to identify all stakeholders and key influencers.

8. Interview a few of them

9. Develop your key messages – the most important ideas you want to convey consistently to your audiences.

10. Do your keyword research – identify the words/phrases people are actually using to search on line for products/services like yours. (Hint: Not necessarily the words you’d use to search for them).

11. Organize your site by developing a sample navigation. Be sure to include a blog if you want to drive maximum traffic to your site. Have your consultant recommend internal linking strategies to help users work efficiently through your site.

12. Decide: What existing content can be re-used? What content should be scrapped? What new pages do you need to develop?

13. Determine the level of control you want or need to have over your website. What edits do you want to be able to make in-house without tech assistance. We recommend having as much control as possible if you want to use your website to help grow your business.

14. Source a web designer/developer who works in technology platforms that will accommodate the level of control you desire.

15. Provide the navigation and all the guidance you’ve developed in completing the steps above to your web developer. It will help them prepare a realistic budget.

16. Write/develop the content for all of your pages – including all SEO information for each page, any photos, videos and other media you’ll want to use – and provide the content to the web developer.

17. Get into the design process and have fun with the visual.

18. Code the site in accordance with the provided SEO, content and linking strategies. In the case of website re-do’s, make sure to properly re-direct existing pages and to retain important backlinks to the site.

19. Test and tweak for usability.

20. LAUNCH!!

Emphasizing business and marketing strategy first in the web development process has never failed to yield new directions for our clients’ businesses.

The illustration “Dollar Sign in Space” is by DonkeyHotey under Creative Commons license.

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A Relationship Between Labor Day and Education

Posted on September 5, 2011. Filed under: Business Management, Business Strategy, Education, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

Labor and Education

President David Dubinsky discusses workers' education at an ILGWU luncheon for students and teachers at the Center Hotel, April 10, 1937.

Two thinkers who I respect blogged about some aspect of education in the past couple of days. Seth Godin offered a rather chilling history of how our modern education system is tied to the workforce and capitalism. It’s a must read:

A new friend and fellow Philadelphia native – marketing consultant Jim Matorin – @cannes53 – wrote about the new classroom.

I commented on Jim’s blog that what education needs to focus on is what students need to learn in order to score one of the rare jobs available these days that will contribute to the future of work.

To synthesize the two posts – and I encourage you to read both of them – in order to positively influence the future of a global economy, education must foster tech-aware and savvy practitioners who feel empowered to trust their own knowledge and intellects.

I don’t think that’s where education is at the moment. And I believe that’s where it must go.

Image from Kheel Center, Cornell University under Creative Commons license.

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Web Crossroads: Quantity vs Quality

Posted on August 31, 2011. Filed under: Business Strategy, Communications, Human Business, Marketing Strategy, Small Business, Social Media | Tags: , , , , |

Is Social Media at a Crossroad?

Is Social Media at a Quantity vs Quality Crossroad?

For the past couple of months you may have been noticing some posts here complaining about  social media etiquette – lack of it, actually – over-commercialization and inattention to community that was the original hallmark of social media.

These days, so much activity seems to be related to numbers over substance. Get as many followers as possible. Maybe they’ll help you monetize your blog. Maybe you can sell them something right away and get your revenues up. It’s all about me, not about you. Relationship building is going by the wayside.

The counter measure to this phenomenon seems to be happening on Google+. People – mostly online-early-adopter types – are building different kinds of connections. They’re savoring the non-reciprocal nature of the place and experimenting, including communicating interests and passions other than what they share on their existing business and social networks.

Why is this happening? I say that it’s out of a dissatisfaction – and perhaps a fast-cycling nostalgia — for the hopes they saw in social media. Instead of companies getting on board for the journey, their inevitable push for results and ROI is grating against the notion of building trusting relationships that will lead to longer term rewards.

Among other recent blogs I’ve read  expressing this thought, a couple of days ago social media consultant and author Jay Baer wrote a post on his well-regarded blog railing against the expectation that’s been developing that online marketing should be easy and yield instant results. I felt compelled to comment on his post having written with a similar sentiment recently.

Although it’s a young marketing approach, it seems to me that online marketing is at a Quantity vs Quality crossroads. Are you experiencing any evidence of this. This is an important conversation to have and hope you’ll join in.

The image is by Soundlessfall under Creative Commons license.

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Web DIY: Why You Must Take Control of Your Site – And How to Do It

Posted on August 29, 2011. Filed under: Business Strategy, Inbound Marketing, Jazz, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Online Marketing, SEO, Small Business, Social Media | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

DIY Web Take Control of your Website

To Succeed in Online Marketing You Must Take Control of Your Website

I was in the mood for some music today. This post is about embracing new systems for managing your own website. Listen to the upbeat, funky instrumental Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda by The Crusaders with Joe Sample on keyboards. Hope that’s not us!

Today the way to reach customers, prospects and other key audiences is to connect with them where they are – Online. And to do that you must have the right web-based marketing tools. The days of calling the IT department or your webmaster to update your website are over. Marketing has changed forever. It’s moved online, too, and now has lots of moving parts that need to be integrated to be as effective as possible.

For that reason, it’s absolutely essential that you have control of your website. You need to be able to update it frequently, publish new content constantly, optimize your pages and content for search engines, add pages whenever you need to, create landing pages as destinations for respondents to email campaigns or social media site links.

For that matter, you need to be able to implement email campaigns from your site – and if you’re selling products and/or services you need to incorporate ecommerce, too. And don’t forget capturing the contact info for those who download your white papers, or subscribe to your blog.

Once you have those contacts engaging with you on your site, you need to be able to keep track of how they’re interacting with you over time so that you can keep offering content of value, convert them to customers, retain them and have them as brand advocates. You need integrated analytics so that you can track all of this – beginning with where traffic is coming from to begin with and which of your offers convert best.

So many companies are still trying to handle their online marketing piecemeal – and they’re losing opportunities – and precious time. If you don’t make online marketing efficient, it can be a voracious productivity gobbler.

I’ve written about this before, til I’m almost bored hearing myself say it. But we’re in an evolving process (I’ll say that again, too) and change – especially in times of change and innovation — never comes without repeatedly educating oneself and one’s audiences. So thanks for indulging my repetitions.

For those who are in marketing denial or just plain overwhelmed/confused, hopefully you’ll find some answers and a way forward in one of the online marketing systems that follow.

The good news is that there are more and more tools available all the time for online/inbound marketing education. Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that I use HubSpot to manage and integrate my own inbound marketing efforts and that I am a HubSpot VAR.

HubSpot has received some fanfare lately as it launched its App Marketplace. There is a great deal of independent plug-in development going on at the present time to make HubSpot an even more robust option.

Adobe Business Catalyst

There are also other platforms. Of note is Adobe Business Catalyst, a hosted service available through professional website developers with modules for content management, email, ecommerce, CRM, blogging and a host of other online marketing activities – all connected to integrated analytics.

WordPress offers a free hosted, templated blogging platform with limited plug-ins and customization at Or you can download the far more customizable version at and host it with your own service provider. There are probably thousands of WordPress plug-ins and widgets that you can add to make a full-function website – or ecommerce site – using what was began as open platform blogging software.

Drupal and Joomla

These templated content management systems allow for some customization and also have numerous functionalities available via plug-ins. These are probably best for website DIY’ers who are a bit more tech-savvy than your average user.

Bottom line: If you’ve done nothing to update your website in the past two to three years, you’re undoubtedly not in control and in danger of falling seriously behind your competitors. If you take control now, you can get ahead!!

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Biz Lessons from Jazz: The Power of Listening, Nonverbal Cues, Storytelling and Respect!

Posted on August 22, 2011. Filed under: Business Strategy, Communications, Marketing Strategy, Small Business | Tags: , , , , , , , |

George Cables

George Cables, Jazz Pianist and Musical Story Teller

On Saturday evening, Jeff and I went into NY City to hear a classic jazz trio – piano, bass and drums — of the highest caliber at the intimate jazz room in the Kitano Hotel. The trio was led by George Cables on piano, who has played with everyone from Art Blakey to Sarah Vaughan to Sonny Rollins. He was joined by the best rhythm section in the business, Peter Washington on stand-up bass and Lewis Nash on drums.

That evening’s performance reminded me again why I love jazz. It is the single most intelligent and creative art form I’ve ever experienced – and when it’s melodic, rhythmic and it swings, it’s heaven on earth. At the highest levels, it demonstrates improvisational qualities that we can all seek to emulate and bring into our work lives. If we’re able to do that, we will surely elevate our business games.

Let me explain. I’ve heard many hundreds of live jazz sets over the years. Every once in awhile, one stands out as spectacular — beyond special. That happened on Saturday. The jazz musicians we heard this weekend have their skills honed and fine tuned to the max – as many of us do in our chosen fields. When they play their solos, their virtuosity is unmistakable. That’s job one for all of us: get our chops up.

It’s what they do in the ensemble environment that provides awesome lessons for business – and, in this political season, for government, too.

Jazz bassist Peter Washington

Peter Washington - Listening Enhances Playing

We observed the epitome of active listening. There was an intensity to it – although it seemed effortless. You could see – and hear the result of — the three listening to one another. It enabled them to pick up on a musical phrase played by one and allowed the others to echo it or bend it or transform it.

Do you think this level of listening could boost the results of corporate teams, small businesses and the US Congress? It’s not about what power I can gain by pushing my idea, but what we can all achieve together by listening to each other’s ideas to synthesize new and exciting solutions.

Non-Verbal Cues

There were also non-verbal cues: a nod, a gesture, fingers held up in a silent count. The trio picked them all up and used them to create a polished performance that has never before or will ever again be created. It was seamless and precise. It sounded like they were reading from a score, but they weren’t. They were playing from a basic set of chords and improvising on the fly.

It reminded me of a moment a while back at a meeting with a prospective client, the owner of a business. He had invited key staff members to join us and provide their input. When they got too far from his vision and tolerances, I saw his expression change.

I chose that moment to make eye contact with him to express that I was happy to engage with his staff, but that I recognized that ultimately he was the client and decision maker. In that brief instant, he and I communicated how we would proceed together.

Story Telling

In an hour of music, there was also a lesson in story telling. Several of the tunes were George Cable compositions. Original works by jazz musicians fill the jazz repertoire.

Young players feel compelled to follow in this tradition but don’t really understand what makes a great tune. They think that if they write a theme — a few notes — and improvise on those notes seemingly endlessly, they’ve composed a song worthy of recording. Not!

There is only a handful of musicians who are also great composers; whose songs, in my opinion, are worth recording. Dave Brubeck is one and George Cables is another. The reason they stand out is that they know how to tell a musical story.

Their stories are about something that we can relate to. They have a beginning, a middle and an end. Go to You’ll spontaneously hear part of one of his compositions called Song for Helen. He wrote it for his life partner, a woman whose love saw him through a liver and kidney transplant. You’ve probably never heard it before. But you’ll want to hear it again. You’ll get what their relationship is about. We who create content need to keep story telling top of mind.

Jazz Drummer Lewis Nash

Lewis Nash and Other Great Jazz Players Have Respect for the Talents of Those They Play With and Their Own

The final business lesson from jazz in this post is that none of the above could happen without respect. It all started with musicians who respect one another’s talents and skills. Without that they could not have listened without ego, subjugating their own needs to what they could create as a group. Nor could they have trusted their nonverbal cues to be understood and acted upon.

The story telling part comes from self respect, which allows us to honestly communication our life experiences. I hope you enjoyed this story of a Saturday night out that led to some thoughts that could propel me into a more effective Monday.

What are your passions that give you lessons for your work life? And thanks for sharing one or two.

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Ticked Off on Twitter: How Not to Thank Me for Following

Posted on August 14, 2011. Filed under: Business Strategy, Communications, Content, Human Business, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Small Business, Social Media, Twitter | Tags: , , , , , |

Get 4100 Twitter Followers

Need I Say More?

People use Twitter in different ways. Some go for volume. Get as many followers as possible. This is often part of a monetization strategy and utilizes some automation program or builds from following others’ lists, which is fine.

I’ve made the decision to build a smaller community on Twitter based on mutual interests and the ability to gain and add value. My community is focused on two groups: other marketing professionals and small-to-mid-sized businesses (SMBs), the kind of companies that my business serves.

Perusing my Twitter stream gives me access to information about my profession and my target audiences that I might not ever connect with otherwise. It’s a great listening station. It also affords me the opportunity to give back information and experience-based knowledge, as well as to engage with people who may be able to refer business or to hire me directly. The way I approach Twitter and other social media is in exactly that order.

Before I follow someone, I check their profile to be sure they meet the above criteria. When someone follows me, I also check their profile before following back. Before I thank someone for following me, I check their profile so that I can reference something specific about them that I’m interested in knowing more about or that we share in common.

That’s one of the benefits of cultivating a smaller group of followers. You can get to know them over time. I recognize almost everyone in my Twitter stream and have a good idea of the kinds of information they’ll share or be interested in.

So what ticks me off? Automated ‘Thanks for following’ direct messages. They’re cold and impersonal to me. I feel this way: Why bother thanking me at all? You don’t really care about who I am or what I can share with you. You just connected with me based on some keyword to build your followers. It’s about you…not us. If you are going to thank me, at least make it for the right thing.

I especially hate it when the auto DM contains a further ask: Thanks for following. Now connect with us on Facebook, too, or visit our website, or check out how we can make you a million online with our great software. It reminds me of how annoyed I used to get when I’d drive two hours to visit my dear, departed grandmother and the first thing she’d say to me when I got out of the car wasn’t, “Hello, darling,” but, “So when are you going to come again?”

Call me old fashioned, but I like the idea of community and getting acquainted first. Let me know why you’re looking forward to following each other and I can better deliver on my end of the bargain!

How do you use Twitter? How do you feel about auto DMs that say thank you and sell you more at the same time?

Image ‘Get 4100 Twitter Followers for $12.95″ is from redplasticmonkey under Creative Commons license.

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Smaller Companies: Keep Marketing Through Adversity

Posted on August 11, 2011. Filed under: Business Management, Business Strategy, Communications, Inbound Marketing, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Small Business, Social Media | Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Keep Your Marketing Engines Running

Keep Your Marketing Engines Running!

Every time we hit a moment when the stock market crashes – or worse, fluctuates wildly – it’s predictable that smaller businesses will instantly turn off their marketing engines.

This is just as short sighted as selling off stocks the day of the crash and similarly forfeits the upside. The smartest investors and financial advisors, like my networking partner Pat Morrow, who runs a private wealth management practice at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, are exploring the current landscape for opportunities for their clients. And they’re finding them, too.

On the marketing side, I’m similarly engaged. In this environment, it makes sense that if our competitors panic and stop promoting their businesses, we stand to pick up market share.

The reason that I like Inbound Marketing is that it’s possible to create great efficiencies. Does it take time and money resources? Of course. But if cash flow becomes a problem, or if business slows down a bit, it gives you time to take on some of the marketing tasks that you might otherwise outsource. Pay only for what you can’t do yourself.

Even though I sell marketing services to businesses like yours, I can empathize with you. I’m in the same small business boat. Limited time. Limited resources. But today I took some time to build an email marketing campaign to my opt-in list giving them some reasons to consider Inbound Marketing and my services in an uncertain economy.

My Hubspot content management system allowed me to do this without any assistance. As far as I’m concerned it was a cost effective use of my time. When I got back from some meetings late this afternoon, I sat down and wrote this blog post, which will bring traffic to my site and help me engage with my audiences.

I have no intention of cutting back my marketing efforts. I’m happy to invest  to get my company in front of opportunities that will help me build through these uncertain economic times. And I don’t mind putting in some sweat equity.

What can you contribute to your own marketing efforts? Farm out less. But don’t stop marketing.

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August 8, 2016                                                                                (916) 445-4950
Seven More California Prisons Accredited with the
American Correctional Association
With 30 California prisons now accredited, CDCR on track to have
all adult institutions accredited by 2017
SACRAMENTO – The Commission on Accreditation for Corrections accredited seven more California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) prisons, bringing the total number of accredited state prisons to 30. The most recent round of accreditations was announced yesterday during the American Correctional Association’s (ACA) 146th Congress of Corrections in Boston.
“Our success with accreditation is proof of the progress CDCR is making in improving our prison system,” said CDCR Secretary Scott Kernan. “We started this ACA process six years ago at a time when there were still too many inmates in our prisons and too few resources to rehabilitate them. ACA accreditation demonstrates our efforts to reform and improve California’s correctional system are working well.”
Institutions seeking accreditation must undergo intensive evaluations by the ACA that culminate in the accreditation audit, a comprehensive assessment that encompasses every area of prison management including administrative and fiscal controls, staff training and development, the physical plant, safety and emergency procedures, conditions of confinement, rules and discipline, inmate programs, health care, food service, sanitation, and the provision of basic services affecting the life, safety and health of inmates and staff.
Institutions seeking accreditation have to comply with 525 ACA standards and score 100 percent for 62 mandatory requirements and at least 90 percent on 463 non-mandatory requirements. Half of the mandatory standards address health care.
California Correctional Center, California Institution for Men, California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran, Calipatria State Prison, Pleasant Valley State Prison, Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility and Valley State Prison met all of the mandatory requirements and considerably surpassed the 90 percent mark for non-mandatory items.
In addition, Correctional Training Facility, High Desert State Prison, Mule Creek State Prison, North Kern State Prison and Pelican Bay State Prison – accredited in 2013 – were re-accredited for three more years.
For the non-mandatory requirements, California Correctional Center received a score of 98.3 percent, California Institution for Men received 98.0 percent, California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran received 99.1 percent, Calipatria State Prison received 98.8 percent, Pleasant Valley State Prison received 99.3 percent, Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility received 97.7 percent and Valley State Prison received 99.3 percent.
California City Correctional Facility, California Correctional Institution, California Health Care Facility, California Rehabilitation Center and Deuel Vocational Institution have started the process of seeking accreditation in 2017. In addition, the eight institutions accredited in 2014 will seek reaccreditation.
Founded in 1870, the ACA is the leading internationally recognized authority on corrections and its role in the criminal justice system and in society. It develops standards based on valid, reliable research designed to improve correctional facilities on all levels. The ACA facilitates the accreditation process and its Commission on Accreditation for Corrections certifies prisons. ACA standards have been integrated in more than 1,300 facilities and agencies around the world.
CDCR began the process of seeking nationally recognized accreditation from the ACA in 2010. CDCR is slated to accomplish its goal of having all of its 34 state-owned institutions and one leased prison accredited by next year.
CDCR’s Special Review Unit in the Office of Audits and Court Compliance provides departmental oversight and works with its Division of Health Care Services in the accreditation process.
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Report shows substance abuse treatment is a major factor in reducing recidivism

SACRAMENTO – The rate at which offenders return to state prison continues to fall, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). CDCR released its latest annual recidivism report today and it shows the total three-year return-to-prison rate for all offenders released during fiscal year 2010-2011 is 44.6 percent, down from 54.3 percent last year.

“Most offenders sent to prison are eventually released, and so rehabilitation is in everyone’s best interest – our staff, the inmates and the community at large,” said CDCR Secretary Scott Kernan. “The latest recidivism rate shows that we’re helping more inmates learn how to live a law-abiding, productive life.”

The rate at which people return to prison has consistently trended downward since fiscal year 2005-2006 when the rate was 67.5 percent. For the first time, more people released in one year stayed out of prison than returned.

CDCR also examines the return-to-prison rates of offenders who received in-prison substance abuse treatment and community-based substance abuse treatment programs. Offenders who received both in-prison substance abuse treatment and completed post-release aftercare had a 15.3 percent return-to-prison rate, the lowest of all people released in fiscal year 2010-2011.

CDCR tracks the 95,690 people who were released from state prison after serving their sentence between July 1, 2010, and June 30, 2011, for three years. Not only are their one-, two- and three-year return-to-prison rates analyzed, offender demographics and characteristics including age, gender, ethnicity, length of sentence, type of offense, county of commitment, prior incarcerations, mental health status and risk for a reconviction are also examined.

The implementation of Public Safety Realignment in 2011 continues to have an impact on the state’s return-to-prison rate. Under Realignment, no offenders were released early. Effective October 1, 2011, offenders arrested on a parole violation or convicted of non-violent, non-serious, non-registrable sex offense felonies serve their sentences under county supervision instead of in state prison. Although all the offenders in the fiscal year 2010-2011 cohort were released before the passage of Assembly Bill 109, the law was in effect for varying amounts of time during their three-year follow-up period and contributed to the decline in the number of people returning to prison for parole violations.

CDCR studies recidivism by tracking arrests, convictions and returns to prison and uses returns to prison as its primary measure. An offender is counted as a recidivist if he or she has returned to state prison for a new crime or for a parole violation within a three-year period. This approach is consistent with previous reports so policymakers and researchers have year-to-year comparisons.

The latest Outcome Evaluation Report is published annually by CDCR’s Office of Research, which provides research, data analysis and evaluation to implement and assess evidence-based programs and practices, strengthen policy, inform management decisions and ensure accountability. The office has reported the rates at which adult offenders return to prison following release from state prison since 1977.

For media inquiries concerning California’s return-to-prison rate report, please contact Terry Thornton and for more information about the CDCR, please contact Albert Rivas
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Former Citadel quant seeks equity researchers to get out into the real world

Mark Pacitti worked as a quant at both Citadel and Goldman Sachs, but is now getting away from spreadsheets and stats. Instead, he’s looking to hire equity researchers for his new independent research firm Woozle, but he wants them to get out into the field and talk to people.

“Our research is in the field, on the ground and away from excel models or computer screens. We are in the field speaking directly to key stakeholders so we are looking for candidates who are out going, enthusiastic, are able to persevere, have doggedness, are comfortable with cold calling, engaging, able to strike up conversations with strangers, perceptive, and able to think on their feet,” he says.

Pacitti has spent the last three years working in global quantitative strategies at hedge fund Citadel and before this worked at Goldman Sachs for nearly three years. As MiFID II looms, an increasing number of research professionals have started their own boutiques to capitalise on the potential demand for more in-depth insights as the ‘unbundling’ of research from other trading cost is likely to make the buy-side more discerning about what they consume.

He believes that MiFID II will ultimately lead to less research being produced and that some sell-side institutions with weaker offerings will end up exposed. “Sell-side research firms now having to offer a menu of explicit prices for research is likely to make buy-side firms more closely examine the value these reports are adding to their investment process,” he says. “I think some of the weaker research houses that don’t offer global breadth or an in-depth specialism will be forced to consolidate, reshape, or leave the industry.”

Predictably, Pacitti believes that niche players will benefit. For Woozle, he says the aim is the get away from the pure ‘theory’ around equity research and the reliance on big data and algorithms, and actually get out into the field and speak to people. It gathers “real-time intelligence” from employees, customers, suppliers and competitors of particular companies. For example, it recently interviewed 1,500 store managers across Europe across 50 consumer companies for one of its products.

“Almost all investment and equity research textbooks and courses focus on theoretical and mathematical formulas to predict returns,” he says. “This misses a huge alpha opportunity by not addressing primary research and field work which can often uncover interesting insights into company operations and performance.”

Pacitti says that it’s looking to hire junior equity researchers who have studied any degree subject, as long as they can demonstrate and interest in “equity research or stock-picking”.

Despite the tendency of large banks to focus on top universities and academics, Pacitti believes that more is needed.

“Do not be expectant, do not assume the right background, university or test scores is a guaranteed entry,” he says. “Be unique, show the personality traits which appeal to that type of fund. Enthusiasm, perseverance, creativity, things that cannot be taught or learned are the key differentiating factors to any candidate as almost all applications will have strong academic and professional experience.”

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Heather Bouwman

English Professor Sets Imagination Adrift in Second Fantasy Novel

Heather Bouwman, Ph.D., an English professor at the University of St. Thomas, lives and breathes her belief that we never outgrow children’s literature. Her second novel, a historical fantasy adventure for children called A Crack in the Sea, was published in January.
Joel Korte

Joel Korte ’07 Is Making His Own Beat

Joel Korte '06 has changed the role stuttering plays in his life. Once a shameful aspect, stuttering is now a part of his flourishing life that he openly talks about on a monthly podcast, StutterTalk.
Kyle Reid

The Weight of His World

Junior Kyle Reid has survived the unthinkable – in Afghanistan and at home. His dogged determination continues to inspire those around him.
Carol Bruess

Life’s a Bruess

Communication and journalism professor Carol Bruess delivers positive support and “radical encouragement.”
B.B. King

Depth of Field Icons: B.B. King

The legendary King of the Blues gave a "magical" performance and talk to a captivated sold-out audience at St. Thomas on Feb. 16, 1990.
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Writing the Book on Canoes

Mark Neuzil’s love of nature (and everything that flows through it) is evident in his new book on the history of North American canoes.
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‘I Am Somebody!’

Prodeo Academy, a K-3 charter school founded by two St. Thomas alumni, is working to address the achievement gap in North Minneapolis.


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Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Population 400,000
Beds 841
Income £246,979k
Comprehensive Surplus £382k
Operating Surplus £10,266k
PPI Cap 0.7%
PPI £1,818k
Public Members 11,234

In 2011/12 the trust was still under review due to previous breaches to the terms of its authorisation. In addition, the trust received a qualified audit certificate from their external auditors [1]:

Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – this relates to the intervention by Monitor in November 2009 following a significant breach of the terms of authorisation as a result of serious concerns around patient safety and experience. The trust remained in significant breach during 2011/12.

The trust expects to increase private patient activity once the PPI cap is removed [2].

Private patient income to remain within the Private Patient Cap and plans to be developed for subsequent implementation if the Cap is removed or relaxed. Review contract with Ramsey Healthcare until cap removed.

The trust’s private patient unit is called the Orwell Cardiothoracic Unit and is run by Ramsay [3]:

The Orwell Private Cardiothoracic Unit is a leading private patient facility situated within the Essex Cardiothoracic Centre located within the grounds of Basildon University Hospital. This private unit is a dedicated facility managed and staffed by Ramsay Health Care. The unit opened in May 2008 and currently has eight single rooms with ensuite facilties. The Orwell Private Cardiothoracic Unit is staffed with dedicated Ramsay Health Care staff and offers a high level of hotel services.

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ukulele debut

I’ve had a lighter week than I’ve had in a few months, so I made a commitment to myself to write a song a day for a week. I’ve been EXTREMELY passionate about my ukulele. Yesterday, I woke up and wrote 3 ukulele songs.

Not all of the songs make it (a few of them might), but I really like this one and made a video to celebrate:

my favourite place

The Scottish book trust had a competition recently called “my favourite place”. The place had to be in Scotland, so I chose my flat – a place that has been an absolute gift to me. I have lived here for 1.5 of the 2 years I’ve been in Scotland, had lots of friends round for dinner and have written most of my songs here.

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NOII Video – Anniversary of Laibar Singh Airport Action

Posted by admin on Dec 14th, 2010

Watch a recently made video to commemorate the 3-year anniversary of the airport action to prevent the deportation of Laibar Singh in 2007. This video was screened at our Rhymes and Resistance event on Dec 10th in remembrance of our victories and commitment to continued resistance

Advancing anti-racism and anti-colonial struggle: Re-examining the question “Where was the Color in Seattle”

Posted by admin on Nov 28th, 2008

Saturday, December 13  from 4-7pm. An evening of discussion — hearty dinner provided. 706 Clarke Drive )between Venebles and Hastings)

Along with many other important struggles, December 10th, 2008 – International Human Rights Day – marks the one year anniversary of the historic airport action to prevent the deportation of Mr. Laibar Singh. Over 1500 supporters – primarily elderly, women, and working class South Asians – converged at the Vancouver International Airport and surrounded the vehicle holding Mr. Singh. This physical prevention of a deportation by a grassroots community mobilization has served as a powerful inspiration to movements across North America.

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Update: Laibar Singh’s “Return” to India

Posted by admin on Oct 22nd, 2008

Dear friends and allies, As you all might have heard by now, Mr. Laibar Singh will be returning to India. In a statement released by his legal counsel Peter Edelmann to media via No One Is Illegal “Mr. Laibar Singh intends to present himself to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) for removal to India. On a number of recent occasions agents from CBSA have attended at the Abbortsford Gurudwara- despite the clear indication that it was a sanctuary zone- to tell Mr. Singh that there was no chance for him to remain in Canada. Mr. Singh continues to hope that the Canadian government will allow him to remain on humanitarian and compassionate grounds, but is no longer able to endure this state of limbo. He is thankful to all his supporters for their kindness.”

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Mainstream media coverage of Sunday July 13 “One year in Sanctuary is too Many- Status for Laibar Singh”

Posted by admin on Jul 14th, 2008

IMMIGRATION: PARALYZED INDIAN REFUGEE CLAIMANT MARKS ONE YEAR OF SANCTUARY. Border Service visits alarm Singh supporters, JEREMY HAINSWORTH. The Canadian Press. July 14, 2008

VANCOUVER — As paralyzed refugee claimant Laibar Singh marked one year in sanctuary yesterday, his supporters were concerned about visits by Canada Border Services agents to the Sikh temple where he has sought protection. Spokeswoman Harsha Walia said the unannounced visits are making the tradition of religious sanctuary meaningless. “The fact that they’re entering into sanctuary without notice and without consent is of concern,” Ms. Walia said. “Immigration authorities themselves have typically respected sanctuary because that’s the intention of that tradition, but for them even to come for any purpose is a concern. “It’s just told to them that they really shouldn’t be doing that,” Ms. Walia said. “They haven’t attempted a removal because they know he’s in sanctuary but it is a little bit alarming.”

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One year too many in Sanctuary- Status for Laibar Singh!

Posted by admin on Jul 7th, 2008

Sunday July 13. Gathering at Abbottsford Gurudwara. Meet at 11 am for rides from Vancouver. Safeway Parking Lot (Commercial and Broadway). Return by 2 pm. To confirm a spot in car (or if you have a vehicle- we need a few more- we’ll cover gas) please email andr_e_a at or call 778 999 9219 or 604 568 7430.

Over the past year in sanctuary, Laibar Singh has been through conditions that few of us can imagine, let alone bear. Despite an outpouring of support and incredible actions to defend him, he remains in sanctuary- unable to leave for fear of being arrested and deported. In the past few weeks, Canadian Border Services Agency officials have been ‘visiting’ Laibar Singh in sanctuary in Abbottsford without any prior notice or consent. While they are not overtly threatening removal and their visits might seem ‘harmless’, the entering of sanctuary for any such purpose is a clear and dangerous violation of the integrity of the sanctuary of the gurudwara.

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Bush Meeting With Cabinet, Lawmakers Wednesday January 3, 2007

Posted by notapundit in US News, White House.

WASHINGTON (AP)–President George W. Bush, facing a new, Democratic Congress deeply skeptical of his policies, will meet with his Cabinet on Wednesday about domestic priorities and court key lawmakers at a social reception.

Bush also is under pressure to announce a new Iraq strategy, but officials say he is still making decisions and won’t reveal any changes this week. When he makes his announcement, Bush is expected to say he is sending additional U.S. troops to Iraq.

Wednesday’s schedule represents Bush’s official return to work after a Christmas vacation at his Texas ranch. Bush spoke at the funeral of President Gerald Ford on Tuesday but remained out of sight the remainder of the day.

In a seismic shift of power, Democrats will claim control of both the House and Senate on Thursday for the first time in 12 years. Eager for their turn at power, Democrats have complained that Bush has kept them at arms length and hasn’t consulted on key decisions. Even a senior Republican, Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, said on Sunday that Bush has been inclined “to not take Congress very seriously” on Iraq policy.

With two more years in office and Republicans losing control of Congress, Bush has little alternative but to reach out to Democrats. The president will have an op-ed article in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday pledging to work cooperatively with Congress on shared priorities.

Bush invited about a dozen members of Congress – Democrats and Republicans alike – to a reception, along with their spouses, Wednesday evening. Officials said it was a social gathering – not what Bush was talking about last week when he said he planned more consultations with Congress before announcing a new Iraq plan. The consultations will take place later, officials said.

Bush will begin the day Wednesday by meeting with his Cabinet, and he’ll make a statement afterward in the Rose Garden.

White House deputy press secretary Scott Stanzel said the focus of the Cabinet meeting would be working with the new Congress and the administration’s domestic agenda.

In recent weeks, Bush has signaled a willingness to go along with a Democratic priority for raising the minimum wage, if it is accompanied by tax and regulatory relief for small businesses. Bush also has suggested that progress could be made on an immigration policy overhaul, including a way for some illegal workers to move toward citizenship. That was stymied this year primarily by conservative Republicans who favored a get-tough-only approach.

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Exigers of Pamaltela in Mythras – on the trail of Jeff Okamoto Campaign Log

I have long been fascinated by Jeff Okamoto’s campaign log of the epic Sandy Petersen campaign ranging from Pavis to Pamaltela. Years and years ago the original manuscript was on sale at Convulsion (somewhere in the 90’s) and even while fiercely trying with a friend of mine (hi Nigel) we could not get enough money together in the auction to purchase it. Luckily few years ago the manuscript became publicly available.

One of the highlights of the log was the exiger campaign. Now with some new information unearthed by Guide to Glorantha and the wonderful community at Google+ Glorantha forum I put together the exigers for Runequest 6 Encounter Generator.

Exigers are a group of fierce mountain clans in Mari Mountains in Pamaltela ruling over their Menial slaves who farm and live in the valleys while exigers trade with outsiders.

First exigers depicted here are Humakt worshippers. Very few of them actually ride horses – usually there are not enough horses to equip the men at arms. Some  tribes have ‘tamed’ mountain trolls – they gray giants in the Okamoto log.

All exiger at initiate level and higher are usually the original exigers each commanding half a dozen men at arms who usually have been flocking together to the fortresses of the exigers. Sometimes the exigers have a sorcerer with them.

Guide to Glorantha has a picture of an exiger at page 588.

Menials are slaves of the exigers who have been forbidden to use arms. They have been using staves and unarmed combat to defend themselves. Menials know of friendly shamans in the mountains – of whom the exigers are wary of.

Added also Doraddi Hair color and Appearance – Doraddi Skin to the additional feature tables and Exiger Tribes to party additional feature tables.

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Hey everyone, my name is Noam and I am the newest member of the Not Your Average Hockey Blog writers team. I am a massive hockey fan, and have been a loyal Maple Leafs fan for all my life. Hockey is my life, and I am very exited to be able to write about it. What you can expect from me – analysis of transactions, and a lot of predictions. I love to see which side got the better of a trade, who gained and who lost on a signing/departure, and the impact of draft choices.

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Colombia offers asylum to ousted Venezuelan Attorney General Luisa Ortega

nsnbc : Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos, on Monday, offered asylum to Venezuela’s ousted Attorney General Luisa Ortega who arrived in Colombia last week. Meanwhile, the Venezuelan government described Ortega as a fugitive. Ortega is scheduled to travel to Brazil to testify about Venezuelan government official’s role in the Odebrecht corruption scandal.

Attorney General Ortega - Being outspoken and upholding the Constitution now criminal?

Attorney General Ortega – Being outspoken and upholding the Constitution now criminal?

President Juan Manuel Santos, on Monday, used his Twitter account to publicly state that Luisa Ortega and her husband, who arrived in Colombia on Friday last week, is being protected by Colombian authorities and that they would be granted asylum if they decided to apply for it.

Ortega and her husmand German Ferrer left Venezuela after Venezuelan authorities ordered Ferrer arrested for allegedly running an extortion ring out of the office of the Attorney General.

Ortega was once a strong supporter of Venezuela’s socialist PSUV and the administration of President Nicolas Maduro. She broke with the PSUV administration after the Supreme Court suspended the legislative branch of government (National Assembly) where the Roundtable of Democratic Unity held an absolute majority. The rift widened even further when the PSUV administration moved to rewrite the Constitution adopted under the late Hugo Chavez in 1999.

Ortega, when confronted with accusations about her husband, immediately claimed she would be able to present evidence that implicated Maduro, rather than her husband, in extortion and corruption.

Maduro, in turn claimed Ortega had been hiding behind a ‘Chavista mask,’ pledging allegiance to the socialist government installed by the late President Hugo Chavez while working with Washington to damage his administration. ‘Tell me who you walk with and I will tell you who you are,’ Maduro, who is becoming increasingly paranoid (or rhetorical) about “traitors everywhere”, told reporters, ‘You keep company with the Colombian oligarchy, Luisa Marvelia,’ he added, invoking her middle name. ‘You keep the company of the coup-mongering Brazilians, Luisa Marvelia.’

Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht is at the center of a corruption scandal spanning 12 countries. (Reuters/Rodrigo Paiva)

Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht is at the center of a corruption scandal spanning 12 countries. (Reuters/Rodrigo Paiva)

Maduro’s declaration came shortly after Ortega announced that she was traveling to Brazil to participate in a meeting of the Mercosur group at which she plans to present incriminating evidence against Venezuela’s president. The South American trade bloc suspended Venezuela in early August for failing to uphold democratic norms. Ortega did not present any details, but on Friday she told a group of Latin American prosecutors that Maduro removed her in order to halt a probe linking him and his inner circle to nearly $100 million in bribes from the huge Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.

The company last year admitted in a plea agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to paying bribes to officials throughout Latin America in exchange for lucrative contracts. ‘This event will allow me to show the world the proof that incriminates Nicolas Maduro and his associates in grave acts of corruption,’ she said in a statement released to the Venezuelan opposition news site La Patilla.

Maduro said Tuesday that he was alerting international police organizations that Ortega and Ferrer were both fugitives from justice. The couple went into hiding after state security forces raided their home last week. Maduro said authorities found vast ‘riches’ inside that he called ‘an incredible thing.’ ‘I never imagined such a betrayal as this,’ he said. Ortega and Ferrer arrived in Colombia on Friday aboard a private plane from Aruba, adding to a growing list of dissident lawmakers and officials who have fled Venezuela in recent months.

Chile announced Tuesday that it would grant political asylum to five Venezuelans who have been threatened by the PSUV-stacked Supreme Court after being named to the court by the opposition-controlled congress. The judges were among 33 appointed by the National Assembly in late July to replace current Supreme Court magistrates. The high court accused them of illegally usurping power and warned they would face consequences. At least one magistrate was jailed after participating in a ceremony announcing the new appointments.

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Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas could fetch a staggering $250,000 for a single photo of their new bouncing baby girl – but the money-hungry Hollywood couple will have to keep her hidden in order to cash in.

Media experts told The Post last night that paparazzi all over the world will try to snap candid photos of little Carys, who was born three days ago.

“An official photo could pull in a quarter-million,” said Linda Mann, president of Mann Media, a top lifestyles p.r. firm in Manhattan.

“But the picture to really get is Catherine Zeta-Jones sitting on a park bench and breast-feeding her kid.

“That one would fetch a lot more. And you can bet that armies of photographers will be out in full force to get it.”

The stars took a public beating this year when they sued Britain’s Hello! magazine for running sneak “unauthorized” photos of their wedding after they had made a million-dollar deal to supply official pictures to rival mag OK!

The couple won certain aspects of the trial but failed to win a ruling that celebrities had a right to privacy.

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Vultures circling

Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross yesterday said he’s ready to save beleaguered Manhattan apartment complex Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village the moment someone asks for his help.

“To the degree there is a role for capital — whether to give [StuyTown’s bondholders] an exit for cash or put new cash into the property — we would be prepared to do that,” Ross told The Post. “We’re waiting to see what the bondholders would like to do and we’ll try to accommodate them.”

Ross has teamed up with Richard LeFrak of the LeFrak Organization and investment firm Centerbridge Partners in a proposal to manage the 11,000-apartment complex whose fate has hung in the balance ever since owners Tishman Speyer Properties and BlackRock defaulted on a $3 billion loan earlier this month.

Though he was short on specifics, the billionaire, who specializes in snapping up distressed assets, appeared willing to entertain any number of scenarios for rescuing the property.

“We could do a financial transaction of some sort as well, but for the moment, the big vacuum that needs to be filled” is property manager, Ross said. “Richard has more experience managing rent controlled and rent-stabilized properties than anyone else.”

His comments come after the Tishman decided to turn over the keys to StuyTown to its creditors after negotiations between Tishman and the creditors broke down after loan servicer CW Capital offered to give Tishman a long-term contract as property manager without an ownership stake for it or its partners, according to a person briefed on the talks.

This person added that after Tishman decided to walk away, a group of debtholders led by Winthrop Capital Management offered a so-called “standstill agreement,” suggesting they were taken aback by Tishman move. The standstill would have stopped the lender from demanding payment until a new deal could be crafted, not unlike a forbearance. However, Tishman declined the offer, this person said. It is a stunning defeat for Tishman, which ponied up just $112 million of its own money and took on a huge debt load to pay a record $5.4 billion for the East Side complex in 2006 — still the highest price ever paid in the US for a residential property.

Ross isn’t the only one vying for a piece of the property.

With Tishman out as manager of the complex, the door is open for a number of parties to land a potentially lucrative contract to manage StuyTown. Among those in contention are Prudential Douglas Elliman, Related and Rose Associates, sources said. Related declined comment.

A spokeswoman for Prudential confirmed the group’s interest in the role. Adam Rose, Rose Associates’ co-president, declined to comment.

Meanwhile, Alvin Doyle, president of the property’s tenants association, told The Post that StuyTown’s tenants are also interested in making a bid for the property. They were outbid in 2006 by the Tishman group.

“There’s a lot of interest in the neighborhood,” he said. “If we had the opportunity we would be interested.”

Like Ross, Doyle also was short on specifics, saying it all depends on how the creditors proceed.

Ofer Yardeni’s Stonehenge Partners, an unsuccessful bidder in 2006, is also interested in either managing or buying, a source said.

Indeed, with Tishman out, StuyTown’s creditors are in control, with a company called CW Capital calling the shots. However, it’s unclear whether the creditors want to keep the property under their control or try to get someone else to take it over.

Another wild card is a group of secondary creditors who also have the power to seize control of StuyTown by either foreclosing on the ownership entity or working out a deal with the senior lenders.

Representatives of the secondary creditors, including Philadelphia attorney Steven Ostrow, either declined to comment or didn’t respond to comment. With Lois Weiss


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Student Activity:

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Achievement Objectives:

Achievement Objective: S5-1: Plan and conduct surveys and experiments using the statistical enquiry cycle: determining appropriate variables and measures; considering sources of variation; gathering and cleaning data; using multiple displays, and re-categorising data to find patterns, variations, relationships, and trends in multivariate data sets; comparing sample distributions visually, using measures of centre, spread, and proportion; presenting a report of findings.
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Achievement Objective: S5-2: Evaluate statistical investigations or probability activities undertaken by others, including data collection methods, choice of measures, and validity of findings.
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Achievement Objective: NA5-3: Understand operations on fractions, decimals, percentages, and integers.
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This is a level 5 statistics activity from the Figure It Out series.
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Specific Learning Outcomes:

find mean, median, mode of data

construct a graph

interpret data on a graph

comapre different graphs and decide which shows the data most clearly

Required Resource Materials:
FIO, Level 4+, Statistics, Book Two,Action and Reaction, pages 6-7
30 centimetre ruler
square grid paper
a computer
a classmate

In question 1, students use a ruler for an interesting purpose: to measure reaction time. In question 2a, they graph the data they have collected.

Question 2b asks students to compare the mean, median, and mode. Each of these is a measure of central tendency, that is, the way the values in a distribution tend to cluster around a middle point. The mean, median, or mode for a distribution is a single number chosen to represent the entire data set. In any given situation, one of these measures will prove more useful than the others. For a fuller treatment of the mean, see the activity Just Average (pages 14–15 of the students’ book) and the accompanying notes.
Question 3 introduces students to truncation. Sometimes outliers are valid and should be retained; sometimes they are not and should be discarded. In question 3, trial number 7 is within the bounds of what is reasonable, so it should be retained, but trial 8 is unusually low so is probably an error. In diving competitions, scored by 10 judges, the highest and lowest scores are discarded. Discuss with your students why this automatic truncation might give a better (fairer) result.
Sometimes people choose to limit the length of each of the whiskers on a box-and-whisker plot to 11/2 times the length of the box. Data values outside these limits can be represented by a cross and considered outliers.
Using this guideline in question 4, there would be no outliers at the low end of the data, but the 25.7 at the upper end would count as one.
Question 4 asks the students to compare two different graphs. Histograms have an advantage over box-and-whisker plots in that they show where the clusters and the gaps are, and every member of the data set contributes to the shape. Box-and-whisker plots, on the other hand, only identify five individual members of the data set, but because they show the median and quartiles (neither of which is obvious on a histogram), they give a very good idea of the spread of the distribution.
Histograms look similar to bar graphs, but the bars on a histogram always touch. They are used when data of the same kind (either discrete or continuous) is grouped into equal intervals. For guidance on formatting computer-generated histograms, see the introductory section of these notes (pages 18–20).

Answers to Activity

1. a.–b. Practical activity. Results will vary.
2. a. Results will vary. Reaction times will probably improve with practice.
b. Results will vary. The mean or median will be the most useful measure. The mean takes account of every individual trial; the median is unaffected by extremes.
c. Results will vary. Your conclusion needs to be supported by the mean or median (or both).
3. Trial 7 has the longest measurement recorded but it is still reasonable, so it should be retained.  Trial 8 is unusually low compared with all the other measurements recorded, so it is probably an error. It could be truncated.
4. The box-and-whisker plot clearly shows the median, quartiles, and range. The histogram shows how the results were clustered and whether there were any rogue results.
5. Graphs will vary.

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Court Support needed tomorrow January 23rd

COME SUPPORT ADAM WEATHERS  tomorrow at 9am Dept 11 at Rene C. Davidson courthouse (by the lake). This will be a bail reduction hearing and community support  can play an important factor in the judges decision.   Adam was arrested on J28 in front of the YMCA  with hundreds of other comrades while serving as a medic. He was brutalized by police, including being kicked in the head by his arresting officer. It has long been a practice of OPD to stick those they brutalize most with the most severe … Continued

Confronting the Many Faces of Repression

Rethinking Repression Over the past year, we have experienced many forms of overt police repression, from the camp eviction and night of tear gas on October 25th, to raids on the vigil, to snatch and grab squads on May Day.  We have come to expect the riot-clad police, with their batons and chemical weapons, although repression comes in other forms as well.  As a community, we have not been sufficiently attuned to these other faces of repression.  As the Anti-Repression Committee (ARC), we too have focused primarily on the overt … Continued

TONIGHT: Sunday, August 19 – 7:30pm Gather to bring in the sunset for our sister Tsega. Join us as we gather at the site of Tsega’s murder for a candlight vigil and open mic. Lake Merritt (on Grand Avenue between Harrison and Bay, near Fairy Land) “I didn’t come to die. I came to sunshine.” REST in POWER TSEGA! 38769

Financial Statement from the Anti Repression Committee

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING for the ANTI REPRESSION COMMITTEE JULY 29, 2012 The following is a full accounting of all funds raised and spent by Occupy Oakland’s Anti Repression Committee (ARC) as of July 29, 2012. Anti Repression funds are only used for providing support for OO arrestees.   Total Funds Raised: $40,874.38 $20,000.00 – Occupy Wall Street Donation $19,464.38 – Funds raised through the ARC’s We Pay account and fundraising activities $480.00      – O100 Support Committee Donation $ 930.00     – Fundraiser event at the Starry Plough   Total Funds Spent: $21,020.14 … Continued

Court Support 6/18-6/22

6.18: Chris in Dept 104, Wiley Manuel, 9-11am. 6.20: Kali’s sentencing. 8:45am Dept 513 Hayward Hall Of Justice 24405 Amador Street Hayward (Facebook event for more info: 6.21: One comrade in dept 104, Wiley Manuel, 9am. Pretrial hearing. 6.22: One comrade in dept 104, Wiley Manuel, 9am. Preliminary hearing. 34320

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Update on Kali’s Sentencing

KALI’S SENTENCING Kali had a hearing this morning in Pleasanton where he plead to a deal negotiated by his public defender. He plead no contest to one felony count of 241.1 (assault on a custodial officer), with a sentence of 2 years. He also admitted to one prior “strike” for the purposes of sentencing, therefore doubling the two year sentence. He has thus agreed to 4 years of state time (the original offer was 6 years) at 80% time served (meaning he has to actually serve 80% of those 4 … Continued

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5/22: Pretrial hearing for Kali in Dept 704 of Gale-Schenone Hall of Justice (Pleasanton), 9am. 5/23: One comrade in Dept 115 of Wiley Manuel, 9am. 5/24: SENTENCING HEARING FOR JESUS, Dept 14, Rene Davidson, 9am. Two comrades in 104 for pretrial at Wiley, 9am. One arrested at the farm, one arrested on May Day. 5/25: One comrade in Dept 111 of Wiley Manuel, 9am. chris in dept 112, 2pm, wiley manuel (arraignment). 31820


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Lamb’s Bread from One Love medical marijuana review

Lamb’s Bread, also known as Jamaican Lambsbread (one word), is a wonderfully uplifting sativa.  It was supposedly Bob Marley’s strain of choice, and if there is truth to that, it explains why he was captured beaming wide in so many photos.  It is an energetic strain that has long been grown in Jamaica, and like any self-respecting pure sativa, Lamb’s Bread is light and tacky to the touch.  This sample comes to us from One Love in Santa Ana.  This is a relatively new dispensary, but the strains and set up smack of a relationship with Rite Greens, a popular destination that is now delivery only in Santa Ana.

As a huge fan of sativas, I’ve been yearning to try this strain for some time.  Lamb’s Bread is normally a dark hunter green; however, One Love’s batch is so frosty, it comes across as a soft, pale green.  Bark and pine scents mix with an acidic, skunky after note.  I always pick strains by smell because it speaks to the way it will taste when I get it home, and Lamb’s Bread is no different.  The smoke is peculiar in that it is both light in the lungs but harsh in the throat.  I used a glass piece, and after several bowls, there was little fatigue in my medicating.  I feel like I could have smoked this strain continuously all day.

The high is superb: it hits immediately and is strong but mellow.  There is no paranoia, no edge, no too much.  Lamb’s Bread just picks you up and carries you along, elevated and unbothered.  Stress doesn’t melt away; it vanishes.  There is also a caffeine affect that destroys the lazy stoner stereotype.  Some people swear by this strain for relief from migraines.  I suffer from them much less often now than I had in the past and did not get a chance to test this quality.  However, there was a marked release of tension in my forehead and neck, something I experience from working on a computer all day.  If you suffer from any of the typical anxieties of this modern life we live, Lamb’s Bread will make a substantial difference in your mindset and outward attitude.  I always consider the desert island strain I would be willing to smoke day in and day out forever: Lamb’s Bread from One Love just made the short list.

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MediZen’s Gummy California Apples edible review

While wandering around the LA Cannabis Cup, I stumbled on a corner booth laden with row after row of vibrant gummy treats.  Personally, I happen to be addicted to gummy anything, so my attention was caught.  Sliding through the crowd, I concluded to take a closer look.

They were selling C02 infused edibles from MediZen.  I decided upon the California Apples, assuming with some sarcasm that they would taste like going to Oak Glen, California, to the apple farms.  In truth, they were nothing more than the candies I used to get from the nickel candy shop down the street growing up–non-medicated, of course.  These little disks come in sour green and sweet red apple, and now there is a grown up version infused with what the packaging calls “Standard MMJ Extract”.  They were a very soft and fresh edible, bursting with either a sweet Red Delicious or a slightly sour Granny Smith apple taste.  A rich gummy treat, there was some lingering bitterness from the cannabis.

Each package contains approximately 300 mg of THC.  This makes for 20 mg each candy.  Using smaller candies as the edible made for an incredibly variable medicating experience.  I had total control and could use fewer or more sours to fine tune my medicating.  I got three complete dosings of 100 mg.  Even those I was able to spread out, by eating the candies two at a time at intervals throughout the work day.

I experienced a body dominant high that manifested first in the neck and limbs.  There wasn’t much in head or eyes, and I found psychosomatic effects to be minimal.  This made for an effective respite from joint and muscle pain during work, when I couldn’t be too impaired.  Although there was noticeable body relief, there was no couch lock at my doses.  Instead it was a mellow and relaxing way to ease aches and soreness.  A soothing and unwinding edible, it was also useful for anti-anxiety as well.  I’ve seen comparable edibles with less THC and higher price points elsewhere in the OC.  Instead, grab some of MediZen’s products and get more for less.

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Abarbanel on the Parsha

For the week ending 2 March 2013 / 19 Adar I 5773

The Sin of the Golden Calf

by Rabbi Pinchas Kasnett
The Color of Heaven Artscroll

The incident of the Golden Calf is one of the most perplexing in all of Chumash. The difficulties are obvious: What exactly were the people looking for and why did some of them lapse into idolatry after having experienced G-d’s miraculous interventions? Also, why Aharon did accede to their demands and why was he not punished as well?

Abarbanel offers an ingenious and logical explanation based on a careful analysis of the text.

It is important to realize that the people who left Egypt, especially the mixed multitude of Egyptians, were still steeped in the idolatry and superstitions of Egyptian society. They had not yet connected to the idea of an intangible G-d, but were much more connected to Moshe as their leader. Seeing that 40 days had passed since Moshe had ascended Mt. Sinai, and fearing the worst, they looked for a new symbol of leadership. It would have been logical to turn to Aharon but they were afraid that as a mortal human being the same fate would befall him. Instead they asked Aharon to fashion a talisman, or amulet—a physical object which was considered to have magical powers to bring about the miraculous interventions in nature that they had been experiencing. They assumed that Moshe himself had used such an item and they wanted to replace it as soon as possible.

They wanted the amulet to be in the shape of a calf since the constellation of Taurus the Bull precedes the constellation of Aries the Ram, which was the symbol of Egyptian idolatry. Since Taurus precedes Aries astronomically they considered it superior spiritually as well. They assumed that this was the symbol that Moshe relied upon, or that it the calf was the symbol that Aharon would choose as most appropriate.

At this point Aharon employed every delaying tactic possible, knowing that Moshe’s return was imminent. He asked for the women’s gold jewelry, knowing that they would not easily relinquish it. He told them to give according to their means, hoping that the inevitable arguments over who should give what would cause a further delay. However, the men, in their eagerness, removed their jewelry immediately. Aharon then threw the gold into a fire and after it melted he took a long time to craft it into a small calf. His intention was to cause a further delay and to make a perfect amulet. This way, when it would be shown to be powerless, they could not claim that it was hastily and imperfectly manufactured.

However, there were those who bowed down to it immediately in an idolatrous fashion, assuming it as a replication of the item that Moshe had used. Because this initial group was from the mixed multitude of Egyptians, they referred to the amulet as ‘your god’, meaning the intermediary which Moshe had relied upon to bring ‘you’, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. This explains why Aharon did not sacrifice his life rather than create an idol, since it was not intended to be an actual idol. The people, however, turned it into an object of worship. Aharon then built an altar for sacrifices and a celebration to take place the next day. He was careful to point out that this would be a celebration to honor G-d — not the amulet. In order to cause further delay, he rejected their offer of assistance and built the altar by himself, claiming that it would be disrespectful for anyone other than he, the Kohen Gadol, participated in the construction. However, 3,000 of the Jewish people took matters into their own hands, offered their own sacrifices and proceeded to engage in wild idolatrous revelry.

When Moshe finally descended and destroyed the amulet he asked Aharon to explain what the people had done to him. Moshe recognized that Aharon was not responsible for manufacturing a forbidden idol. What was originally intended to be a symbol of leadership was turned by the people into an object of idolatrous worship. As a result, Aharon was not punished. However, in Sefer Devarim, chapter 20, Moshe recalls this incident and says that G-d became very angry with Aharon and would have destroyed him if not for Moshe’s entreaties on his behalf. When all is said and done the tragedy did come about, at least indirectly, through his actions. As a result, the incident of the golden calf in combination with the incident of the striking of the rock later on result in Aharon’s being denied entry into the Land of Israel.

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A Salary of Celery?

February 20, 2011

According to my dad, the word salary originates from the word celery. In some twisted tale he told the other night, people used to be paid in celery and over time the word celery changed into salary.

This is of course, completely wrong. The word salary actually originated from salarium, a Roman word meaning to give salt (or something similar). Moral of the story is do not accept celery as a form of payment for work, but gladly receive salt.

Eaten today:

12:00- Crumpets and a smell of some Marmite (stage one)

15:00- 3 pancakes

19:15- Roast pork, potatoes, green beans, carrot, cauliflower cheese.

Relevant celery fact: If you see celery in a dream… “it represents your need to be cleansed, either physically or emotionally. The dream may also be a pun on ‘salary'” How is it possible for a dream to be a pun?!

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As I tried to look for a hike in an area with little or no rain, I came across this one. The South Cascades region wasn’t going to be get rain until early afternoon. That would give us plenty of time to get to the top, but with the possibility of seeing rain the way down. Mostly high clouds at the top with severe wind, but I was able to snatch some nice pictures.

The hike overall was moderate, as we spent most of our time on a forest service road. From end of the service road to the lookout site was steeper, but it was totally doable in my micropikes. Snowshoes were strapped to my backpack the entire time.

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