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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Annoyed Gamer Sony?s Silly Secrets
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Droid Parade Is Scheduled on Sunday, March 17th
Droid Parade Is Scheduled on Sunday, March 17th
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The Southern R2 Builders are part of a worldwide fan group that share a hobby of star wars. They build Astromech Droids (replicas)? from the movie and use them for charities and other special events. The Droid parade will take place on Sunday March the 17th, and will start from the droid booth at 12:00pm and end up in the lobby of the convention center.
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Starz developing ballet project from Lawrence Bender, 'Breaking Bad' co-producer
NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Starz is developing a ballet drama from "Breaking Bad" co-executive producer Moira Walley-Beckett and Lawrence Bender, both former ballet dancers, the network announced Tuesday.
The currently untitled drama follows a young and troubled dancer, Claire, as she joins a prestigious ballet company in New York. The series will trace the dark underbelly of the ballet world.
It will be produced by Starz Entertainment with Bender, the Oscar-nominated producer of "Inglourious Basterds" and "Pulp Fiction," and Kevin Brown ("Roswell"). Brown's family is made up entirely of former ballet dancers.
Walley-Beckett is writing and executive producing the project.
Starz will retain domestic and international multiplatform rights including television, home entertainment and digital.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/starz-developing-ballet-project-lawrence-bender-breaking-bad-221822681.html
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3 months after Sandy, victims waiting for relief
In this Jan. 27, 2013 photo, Devon Lawrence poses for a picture in his kitchen, which is currently heated by a kerosene heater and his stove top, in the Far Rockaway neighborhood of New York. Lawrence hasn't had working heat since Superstorm Sandy's floodwaters destroyed the oil burner in the basement. Three months after Sandy struck, thousands of storm victims in New York and New Jersey are stuck in limbo. Waiting for the heat to come on, for insurance money to come through, for loans to be approved. Waiting, in a broader sense, for their upended lives to get back to normal. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
In this Jan. 27, 2013 photo, Devon Lawrence poses for a picture in his kitchen, which is currently heated by a kerosene heater and his stove top, in the Far Rockaway neighborhood of New York. Lawrence hasn't had working heat since Superstorm Sandy's floodwaters destroyed the oil burner in the basement. Three months after Sandy struck, thousands of storm victims in New York and New Jersey are stuck in limbo. Waiting for the heat to come on, for insurance money to come through, for loans to be approved. Waiting, in a broader sense, for their upended lives to get back to normal. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 file photo, seen through the beams of a gutted wall, Irene Sobolov, left, sits at a table while her 10-year-old son Joey Sobolov works on his fifth grade science homework in their home in Hoboken, N.J. The living and dining rooms of the Sobolov's home, which are below ground in the basement of their home, were damaged in the floods caused by Superstorm Sandy. Three months after Sandy struck, thousands of storm victims in New York and New Jersey are stuck in limbo. Waiting for the heat to come on, for insurance money to come through, for loans to be approved. Waiting, in a broader sense, for their upended lives to get back to normal. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2013, file photo, Kim Baker works to clean up her Superstorm Sandy-damaged home in Seaside Heights, N.J. Three months after Sandy struck, thousands of storm victims in New York and New Jersey are stuck in limbo. Waiting for the heat to come on, for insurance money to come through, for loans to be approved. Waiting, in a broader sense, for their upended lives to get back to normal. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
FILE - In this file photo of Jan. 24, 2013, Ayanna Diego looks over her living room while waiting for inspectors at her home, which was damaged by Superstorm Sandy, in the Rockaways section of New York. Three months after Sandy struck, thousands of storm victims in New York and New Jersey are stuck in limbo. Waiting for the heat to come on, for insurance money to come through, for loans to be approved. Waiting, in a broader sense, for their upended lives to get back to normal. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
FILE - In this file photo of Jan. 24, 2013, dry cleaning employee Xiao Mei Zhang wears a down coat and wool hat indoors to keep warm in the absence of heat as she talks to customer Beso Khomeroke about cleaning his oil-stained pants in New York. The Rockaways store where Zhang works hasn't had heat since Superstorm Sandy. While businesses have begun reopening and communities plow ahead with rebuilding, fatigue and frustration have set in over the painfully slow recovery process. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Devon Lawrence neatly stacked bricks on the gas burner of his kitchen stove and turned up the blue flame, creating a sort of radiator that warmed the ice-cold room.
His two-story house in the Far Rockaway section of Queens hasn't had working heat since Superstorm Sandy's floodwaters destroyed the oil burner in the basement. Now mold is growing upstairs because the house has been cold and damp for so long.
Lawrence wakes early every morning to heat the bricks and light a kerosene space heater while his 75-year-old mother sits in bed in a hat and gloves.
"That way she doesn't freeze," said Lawrence, a former Army medic who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. "Even the dog is cold."
Three months after Sandy struck, thousands of storm victims in New York and New Jersey are stuck in limbo. Waiting for the heat to come on, for insurance money to come through, for loans to be approved. Waiting, in a broader sense, for their upended lives to get back to normal.
While Congress passed a $50.5 billion emergency aid package on Monday, many say the rebuilding has been complicated over the past several weeks by bureaucracy. Some people are still living in mold-infested homes, while others are desperately trying to persuade the city to tear theirs down. Illegal immigrants who don't qualify for federal aid are struggling to scrape by. Small businesses are shutting down in neighborhoods where nobody seems to shop anymore.
Federal officials say they understand the frustration and are working as quickly as possible to compensate people for their losses and rebuild.
"The infrastructure and the homes that were in place that Sandy took away took a lot longer than 90 days to be built up and put into place," said Michael Byrne, who is overseeing the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Sandy response in New York state. "If there's any assurances I can give folks that feel that way, we're not leaving until we get it done."
The Oct. 29 storm damaged or destroyed 305,000 housing units and disrupted more than 265,000 businesses in New York state. About 14,000 housing units have been repaired so far through New York City's Rapid Repairs program. In New Jersey, 346,000 housing units were destroyed or damaged, and 190,000 businesses affected. Nearly 18,000 households have received aid for repairs from FEMA.
"This is a war zone down here still," said Donna Graziano, who has been running a 24-hour relief hub near the beach on Staten Island in a tiny white tent heated by a generator. "This looks no better than it did three months ago."
On a recent snowy evening, at least a dozen people huddled over plates of food in Graziano's tent, which has become a gathering place where displaced residents can exchange greetings and get daily updates.
"This is three months now. And we're still fighting," said Nicole Chati, who is waging a battle to convince the city that her flood-damaged home must be torn down. "And we're still filling out more paperwork. And we're still cutting more red tape."
Chati said two contractors have advised her that it would be safer to demolish the home rather than try to salvage what's left of it. But the city's Buildings Department disagreed.
Along with her husband, 7-year-old daughter and mother, Chati is renting a basement apartment with aid from FEMA. But the family can't move forward with plans to rebuild until the house comes down.
"I had to hire my own engineer, my own architect, to prove that my house is caving in on itself," she said.
Government officials and nonprofit groups could not provide numbers on exactly how many people are still living in damaged homes, but stories abound in neighborhoods that suffered the worst flooding.
The furniture is still wet and the curtains are black with mold in Pura Gonzalo's Far Rockaway home, where the 89-year-old Cuban immigrant says she has throat problems and feels exhausted.
"My son tried to clean the basement as much as he could, but the mold is still there," said Gonzalo, who lives with her son, Jorge. "I feel very frustrated seeing my home like this, but I don't have the strength in my body to do anything anymore. I feel sick."
Anthony DiFrancisco refuses to move his family of seven out of his mold-infested ranch home on Staten Island. Until about two weeks ago, the family had been living without heat or hot water, relying on electric heaters to keep warm and showering at friends' homes.
"We're cleaning the mold as we go," he said. "I'm cleaning it with the bleach and doing it a little bit at a time, so we don't kill everybody."
Mold remediation usually requires people to move out of their homes for days at a time, and the job can cost as much as $15,000. Some homeowners complain that the lump-sum payments they get from FEMA aren't big enough to cover mold removal along with rent and all the other things that need to be repaired.
Advocates for immigrants and other poor storm victims say many people have also been subjected to the whims of corrupt landlords who aren't repairing flood damage and are still demanding the rent.
Norma Mancia, a Salvadoran immigrant, lost precious documents when her Far Rockaway home flooded. Because she lives illegally in the U.S., she hasn't received any FEMA money. Her destroyed furniture is still piled up in the backyard.
"We lost all the receipts and papers we could need in case we have the opportunity of solving our legal status here," said Mancia, who has received only $500 in aid from a local church. "I have cried a lot."
The past three months haven't been easy for small-business owners like Violet Sanabria, whose flower shop in Hoboken, N.J., was filled with floating lilies and roses when the water rushed in. Sanabria spent weeks cleaning up Vera's Flower Shop, where she has worked for seven years and officially became the owner ? a long-coveted dream ? on Nov. 1.
She has yet to receive any insurance money.
"The storm just killed everything," she said. "We used to make 24 orders a day. Now we're down to one if we're lucky."
Sanabria fears she may have to close the shop. "When are we going to see the light?" she asked.
On Staten Island, Chati visits her sodden little bungalow every day in a ritual that keeps her going and renews her resolve to rebuild.
"Sometimes I curse at it," she said. "Sometimes I cry. Sometimes I just look at it in disbelief."
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Associated Press Writer Katie Zezima contributed to this report from Hoboken, N.J.
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G-Unit Was Better Broke, Tony Yayo Reveals
'When everybody got money, it's like things just went downhill,' Yayo tells MTV News of old G-Unit days.
By Rob Markman
Tony Yayo
Photo: MTV News
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1701029/tony-yayo-g-unit-reunion.jhtml
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Barack Obama Pledges $155 Million More Aid To Syria
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama authorized an additional $155 million in humanitarian aid for the Syrian people Tuesday, as his administration grapples for a way to stem the violence there without direct U.S. military involvement.
Obama announced the additional funding Tuesday in a video aimed at the Syrian people.
"The relief we send doesn't say `Made in America,' but make no mistake ? our aid reflects the commitment of the American people," Obama said in the video, which was posted on the White House website.
The fresh funding brings the total U.S. humanitarian aid to Syria over two years to $365 million, according to the White House. Officials said the money was being used to immunize one million Syrian children, purchase winter supplies for a half million people, and to help alleviate food shortages.
The United Nations says more than 60,000 people have been killed since March 2011, when the clashes between the Syrian government and rebel forces started. The violence has also forced millions of people from their homes, destroyed the country's cities and created food and fuel shortages.
The U.S. has long called for Syrian President Bashar Assad to leave power and said the fall of his regime is inevitable. In addition to the humanitarian aid, the White House has also ratcheted up economic sanctions on Assad's regime and recognized the rebel-led Syrian Opposition Council as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people.
But mindful of the nation's war weariness, Obama is reluctant to directly intervene in the Syrian civil war.
"There are transitions and transformations taking place all around the world. We are not going to be able to control every aspect of every transition and transformation," Obama said Sunday in an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes." The president said his job is to protect the United States and engage where the U.S. can make a difference.
In his video released Tuesday, Obama said he was "under no illusions" about the situation in Syria, but continues to believe that Assad's regime will come to an end.
"The Syrian people will have their chance to forge their own future," Obama said. "And they will continue to find a partner in the United States of America."
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/29/obama-syria-aid_n_2574276.html
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5 tips for cancer screenings that could save your life
Sometime during 2012, U.S. Latinos crossed a disappointing threshold; cancer surpassed heart disease to become the leading cause of death.? According to an American cancer society report,? one in every two Latino men and one of three Latino women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, with one in five Latino men and one in six Latino women dying from the disease. ?In total, 112,800 Latinos will be diagnosed with cancer this year, and 33,200 will die from some form of cancer.
The most common causes of cancer in Latino men are those of the prostate followed by colorectal, lung and leukemia.? In women, breast, colon, rectal, lung and thyroid are the most frequently reported. However, in men, lung and colorectal, liver and prostate cancer are the most common causes of death, whereas in women, breast, lung, colon/rectal, pancreas and ovarian cancer are the most common. The painful truth is that many of these cancer deaths could be prevented.? Detection and removal of early cancer lesions in the breast, colorectal, cervix, oral cavity and skin, as well as vaccinations against cancer causing viruses (human papilloma virus causes cervical cancer in women) are likely to lead to successful cancer treatment.
Are there differences between cancers in Latinos versus non Latinos???????
Not all the news is bad regarding Latino cancer.? Overall, the number of new cases and death rates are lower among Latinos than among non-Latinos. Yet Latinos are likely to be diagnosed with a more advanced stage of cancer than a non-Latino which directly points to a lack of early screening.? Sadly, we Latinos have not completely embraced life saving cancer screening and do not seek medical checkups when symptoms occur which often means it is too late.
Why such low levels of cancer screening in Latinos??
The most common reason for poor screening pertains to healthcare barriers, such as lack of health insurance.? Unfortunately, Latinos have a lower rate of access and use of all preventative services such as cancer screening.? In addition, Latinos may not have benefited from educational awareness and outreach campaigns that led to improved screening practices in non Latinos.? Studies show that effective communication strategies and presence of social support may improve participation in screening examinations.? It is essential that we continue to promote and highlight early cancer detection as an effective way for improving cancer screening participation overall.
In addition to a yearly medical checkup which should include periodic screening for various cancers depending upon age and gender, here are some important tips for cancer screening that could save your life for some of the more commonly-occurring cancers:
- ?Breast cancer: Yearly mammograms are recommended starting at the age of 40.? Clinical breast exams should be part of a periodic health exam every three years for women in their 20s and 30s and every year for women 40 years and older.
- Colon/ rectal cancer:? Beginning at age 50, men and women should begin screening with either colonoscopy every 10 years or flexible sigmoidoscopy every five years, barium enema every five years or CT colonography every five years.? You also need to have an annual stool blood and immunochemical tests with high-test sensitivity for cancer DNA.
- ?Prostate cancer: Healthcare providers should discuss the benefits of early prostate cancer detection including rectal exams and PSA blood tests ? a specific marker for prostate cancer.? African-American men and men with a strong family history of one or more first-degree relatives diagnosed with prostate cancer at an early age should have a discussion with their healthcare provider beginning at the age of 45.
- ?Uterine-cervical cancer: Screening should begin within three years after a woman begins having sex but no later than 20 years of age.? Screening should be done every year with a regular Pap test or every two years with other types of specific tests.? At age 30, women who have had three normal test results in a row may get screened every two to three years.
- ?Uterine-Endometrium cancer: ??The American Cancer Society recommends at the time of menopause all women should be informed about the risks and symptoms of endometrial cancer and encouraged to report any unexpected bleeding or spotting to their physician.? Screening for endometrial cancer with endometrial biopsy beginning at age 35 should be offered to women with or at risk for hereditary colon cancer otherwise known as Lynch syndrome ? a condition associated with multiple cancer types.
It is essential that everyone be aware of cancer risks so that once and for all we should not have the dubious distinction of having cancer as the top killer of Latinos in the U.S.
Dr. Joseph Sirven is a first-generation Cuban-American. He is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurology and was past Director of Education for Mayo Clinic Arizona. He is editor-in-chief of?epilepsy.com?and has served U.S. and global governmental agencies including the Institute of Medicine, NASA, FAA, NIH and CDC.
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Source: http://nbclatino.com/2013/01/28/5-tips-for-cancer-screenings-that-could-save-your-life/
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Bradley Cooper As Lance Armstrong: JJ Abrams Confirms Actor Is In Talks For Biopic
Bradley Cooper is reportedly in talks for the Lance Armstrong role.
Bradley Cooper may just be getting exactly what he's wished for. Last week the "Silver Linings Playbook" actor told BBC News that he would be interested in playing Lance Armstrong in the upcoming biopic, and now, director JJ Abrams said that he has been speaking to Cooper about the part.
"[Cooper] sent me an email and we've been talking," Abrams told ET.
"I would be interested in [playing Armstrong]," Cooper told BBC News. "I think he's fascinating. What a fascinating character."
Abrams is directing the film adaptation of Juliet Macur's upcoming "Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong."
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Pentagon to boost cybersecurity force fivefold - report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has approved a major expansion of its cybersecurity force to counter a growing threat of hacking and to conduct offensive operations against foreign foes, the Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing U.S. officials.
The officials, who were not named because the plan is not yet public, said the move would increase the cybersecurity force fivefold, from 900 personnel to a total of 4,900 troops and civilians.
It said senior Pentagon officials made the decision late last year amid a string of attacks, including one that wiped out more than 30,000 computers at a Saudi Arabian state oil company.
The increase in personnel was requested by the head of the Defense Department's Cyber Command.
A Pentagon spokesman had no immediate comment, but said he was aware of the report in the Washington Post.
The plan, the paper said, calls for creating three types of force under the Cyber Command.
"National mission forces," would protect computer systems that undergird electrical grids and other kinds of infrastructure. "Combat mission forces," would help commanders abroad execute attacks or other offensive operations, while "cyber protection forces," would focus on protecting the Defense Department's own systems.
(Reporting by Sarah Lynch; Editing by David Brunnstrom)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-boost-cybersecurity-force-fivefold-report-034248436.html
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Sunday, January 27, 2013
Business Management Education?Think Again ? For Progress, Not ...
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In an HBR Blog Network article Gianpiero Petriglieri, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Director of the Management Acceleration Programme at INSEAD, spoke to the question are business schools clueless or evil? ?Professor Petriglieri?s answer is ?business schools are neither clueless nor evil. They are?like most students that flock to their classrooms?in transition.? Overtly working to improve their competence and image and covertly wrestling with questions about identity and purpose.?
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Cosmetic Makeover
In the vast majority of business schools the MBA curriculum is fundamentally no different than the line up of courses found in the undergraduate curriculum.? Like any respectable reductionist would have it the core of the curriculum is based on the sum of the separate departments and disciplines of Finance, Marketing, Accounting, Management and Economics.
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The way we educate management hasn?t fundamentally changed since business schools were first created.? There may be courses here and there that have been inserted or appended to a school?s curriculum but the principles of management that are taught have not changed much.? Yes there may be a variety of pedagogical strategies?group work, casework, experiential exercises, or global experiences for example?but the subjects of focus as separate functions of business haven?t changed since the beginning of time, or so it seems.? No wonder we see organizations similarly organized and managed?not a hint of systems and statistical thinking! Talk about being attached to the past!
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How can schools possibly foster creativity and teach how to be innovative when they themselves are the antithesis of creativity and innovation? Those in authority of business schools aren?t clueless or evil it is more likely they are just risk-averse and quite attached to what they know.
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Good Idea But
Do we really need a different way of thinking about how to prepare management of business?? Henry Mintzberg believes so.? He contends that you can?t (and shouldn?t) teach management to those who have no experience in management practice. Mintzberg advances the idea that the managing is learned best through experiencing it in practice.? As he stated that once you are tapped for a managerial position ?that is when your management education will begin.? Prepare then to learn about management. Live it. Experience it.? And ?by then you?ll be ready for some formal management education.?
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So it is not that ideas for a different curriculum haven?t been offered.? For example the IMPM program (in which Mintzberg was a collaborator) offers an alternative to the Executive MBA?it is for experienced managers whose company will pay the price (approximately $60K not including travel and personal expenses which exceed $20K).
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It is wonderful that the IMPM?s curriculum is a break from the traditional subject-focused curriculum. It offers a curriculum that rests upon five managing practices?with particular emphasis on cross-cultural global environment?involving reflective, analytic, worldly, collaborative, and action mindsets.? Moreover the program relies on the extensive experience of its business-minded students (average age 45) ?to shape the content of learning around their own agendas.? ?Accordingly the program gives a unique experience to those privileged enough to afford it.
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Under this model we have managers initially practicing management without a sound theory of management as their guide until they are fortunate enough to gain recognition and a high enough management level in their company.? As Deming asserted, in the absence of theory experience teaches us nothing! ??And so our problems will continue.
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What Is Believed Traps Us
The problem that most of us experience in organizations stems from being traditionally managed.? That is, managed by someone who acts consistent with the ill-conceived narrow-minded belief that the business of business is profit.
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According to this belief system, it is not that business is without value it is that value is solely instrumentally or materially defined.? Therefore, within this belief system, we are to relate to everyone as if he/she has no inherent value in light of the overall purpose?everyone is commodified and of little significance relative to the business of maximizing profit.
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One of many manifestation of this belief is the all too frequent and unapologetic management decision to transfer the company?s manufacturing, production and/or services to lower wage labor countries.? Why the transfer?? It improves the bottom line and shareholder value, of course!
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It also leaves a large number of society?s citizens struggling to make a living?but within this system of belief this is of no concern to the corporation and its management.? Perhaps corporate profit maximization isn?t as centrally important to society as we are led to believe!? When the business of business is profit and not quality a lot of people suffer.? Clearly the focus of concern must be wider and deeper than the legal entity we call the corporation?the unit of survival cannot be limited to the corporate entity.
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Where did this widely held belief in the primacy of profit come from?? It either was learned in business school or from reading business-minded publications or tacitly learned from following those in management (who likely had attended business school or read business-minded publications).
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The problem is not so much that we haven?t a global view?as the current fad of additions to business curriculums reflect?but that the view we have is quite individualistic, materialistic and mechanistic.? Unfortunately this critical issue is never acknowledged, so we continue with cosmetic changes to the curriculum thus denying the need for foundational or fundamental change.
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But wait fear not, competition will bring forth innovative ideas; it brings out the best in us, does it not?? Even though business school competition is highly intense, competition hasn?t lead to innovation.? That competition does so is a widely held fallacy and just another misguided belief advanced in the traditional business curriculum.
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However what it does lead to is imitation.? Those below the top seek to be more like those at the top?after all they are at the top so they must be doing what is right?so those below copy. ?Furthermore, those at the top tend to believe what they are doing is right; otherwise they wouldn?t be so successful and others wouldn?t be imitating them, now would they! ?After all, imitation is the best form of flattery.
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Why should those at the top take a chance and risk losing their position in the market!? Hence no fundamental changes?no innovation.? Market leaders rarely advance theory and practice, yet followers do continue following.
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The Prospect of Extinction Moves Us
However as Rita McGrath pointed out there is ?diminishing returns on the investment in an MBA degree? which portends a decreasing demand for the degree itself.? Rita asserts that? ?business schools without some strong form of differentiation or demonstrable value-added will find it increasingly difficult to stay in the business.? Perhaps then a need for something other than or different than the traditional MBA will command a new demand.
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The good news is that when faced with the prospects of extinction the risk of doing something different?of trying creative ideas to advance theory and practice?becomes much smaller relative to the risk of extinction.? The bad news is it may be too late.
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Denying or ignoring the need for change just ensures one will have to deal with the change in its extreme. Unfortunately times of crisis do not present the most favorable conditions for success with change.? Thus those who should have changed in the past, but didn?t have the courage to do so, most often fail with change when in crisis?unless of course they are propped up by outside forces (e.g. GM who had been afraid to innovate had to be propped up by the U.S. government to remain in existence). ?To paraphrase a familiar saying, nothing concentrates the mind better than knowing you will hang in the morning!
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Higher Learning Frees Us to See Anew
So today business schools need to engage in this thinking well before the forces of destruction are at the gate and evident to most.? Substantive change is needed, not mere appendages to the traditional curriculum.
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As Deming asserted in his book The new economics: For industry, government and education, ?people blame their plight on the government and its leaders or to management and its leaders.? They may be correct. But will change in leadership assure better living? What if the new leaders are no better?? How could they be??? Underlying Deming?s questions are the notions that there can be no substitute for knowledge and without a theory even a new experience will not teach us anything.
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New methods or techniques for teaching management (or leadership if you wish to call it) will not bring us quality organizations or quality managers/leaders for that matter?a better job of teaching the wrong thing can?t really help.? What we do need is knowledge (a different understanding) that can reveal a better way of thinking about business and management?better for all of us not just a few of us?that in turn can inform an innovative curriculum.
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We need people who not only can but also want to collaborate.? We need people adept at the disciplines of business but we need them to understand them as a system.? And in this system we need people to know how to understand people, individually and collectively.? We need people to be systems thinkers and to see the world around as a deeply interconnected living system.? We also need people who understand that variation is inherent in all that manifests and so accordingly we need people who can think statistically?no more misuse and abuse of data. ?Reacting to the most recent, the highest or the lowest can only make things worse?we don?t need to intensify our obsession with raising standards, results and accountability!? That is, we count and measure far too much and understand far too little!
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In short, we need a transmutation of education, especially of business education.? In this time of so much need it is astounding (at least to me) how so few seek to see and understand anew! ?The willingness to do so requires letting go of our egoic attachments.? To quote Tolstoy:
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The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.
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Learning to be more efficient and effective at doing what we believe is not sufficient.? We cannot progress by holding onto and not challenging our beliefs and assumptions. We must begin to understand that the viability of humankind rests on its ability to learn how to learn?to learn at a higher level.? Yes we each must let go of what we believe?and now is the best time to do so?so that we can perceive and conceive a better way of being-in-this-world. ?We mustn?t wait until the destructive forces?that we largely bring about?darken our doorway.? Unless we focus on truly educating people?on freeing the mind to think critically?and less on training for skills that keeps the profit making machine runnin g we are destined for extinction.
Source: http://forprogressnotgrowth.com/2013/01/26/business-management-education-think-again/
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What Alfred Russel Wallace Really Thought About Darwin
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Copyright owner: Copyright of the A. R. Wallace Literary Estate
Record scrutiny: 01/12/2011 - Catchpole, Caroline;
I'm curious about the copyright field. Aren't the letters supposed to be public domain? Since Wallaced died in 1913, which is well past the 50-75 years after death clause of most countries' copyright regimes, shouldn't the copyright on the letters have lapsed already?
IANAL but I'm assuming that the letters have already been "published" by virtue of their having been snail-mailed and read by a second party. It's not as if they're some long-lost manuscript that's been hidden in some author's dusty drawer, which can arguably be considered as unpublished.
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Azerbaijan police arrest youths at anti-government protest
BAKU (Reuters) - Police arrested about 40 activists demonstrating in Azerbaijan's capital on Saturday against President Ilham Aliyev's government and voicing support for residents of a northern town where protests were crushed this week.
More than 100 protesters gathered in central Baku, some chanting "Freedom!" and calling for the resignation of Aliyev, who succeeded his father in 2003 and has tolerated little dissent in the oil-producing former Soviet republic.
Police swiftly stopped the protest, forcing demonstrators out of a park and then arresting some in the street.
The protest was triggered by unrest in Ismailli, about 200 km (125 miles) northwest of Baku, where police used teargas and water cannon on Thursday to disperse hundreds of protesters demanding the resignation of a regional leader. Cars were torched and a hotel set ablaze in a night of rioting.
The protests and rioting in the small town reflect frustration at what some Azeris see as an overbearing government, corruption and a big divide between rich and poor in the mostly Muslim Caspian Sea nation of nine million.
Western governments and human rights groups accuse Aliyev of rigging elections and clamping down on dissent, and he is expected to win a new presidential term in October.
Azerbaijan produces oil and gas and is part of a route for energy supplies to Europe that bypasses Russia.
(Reporting by Nailia Bagirova; Writing by Margarita Antidze; Editing by Louise Ireland and Steve Gutterman)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/azerbaijan-police-arrest-youths-anti-government-protest-154428795.html
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Saturday, January 26, 2013
Charges won't be filed against 49ers' Crabtree
San Francisco 49ers' Michael Crabtree dives into the end zone for a touchdown under pressure from Green Bay Packers San Shields during the second quarter of during an NFC divisional playoff NFL football game on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/The Sacramento Bee, Jose Luis Villegas)
San Francisco 49ers' Michael Crabtree dives into the end zone for a touchdown under pressure from Green Bay Packers San Shields during the second quarter of during an NFC divisional playoff NFL football game on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/The Sacramento Bee, Jose Luis Villegas)
This photo taken Jan. 12, 2013 shows San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree (15) against the Green Bay Packers in an NFC divisional playoff NFL football game in San Francisco. Police in San Francisco say they're investigating a sexual assault allegation involving Crabtree. Police said in a statement released Friday Jan. 18, 2013, that the alleged assault occurred in a city hotel room early Sunday after the 49ers' playoff victory over the Green Bay Packers. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree (15) practices at an NFL football training facility in Santa Clara, Calif., Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. The 49ers are scheduled to play the Baltimore Ravens in the Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 3. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Criminal charges won't be filed against 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree after an alleged sexual assault in a hotel after the team's playoff victory over the Green Bay Packers, San Francisco's district attorney said Friday.
After examining information submitted by police, District Attorney George Gascon said his office determined that no charges would be filed "at this time."
"The San Francisco Police Department - Special Victims Unit completed and submitted a thorough investigation of the allegations against Michael Crabtree," Gascon said.
Crabtree's attorney, Joshua Bentley, didn't immediately return a call seeking comment.
San Francisco police said Crabtree was never detained or arrested in the matter, and that he cooperated fully with their investigation.
The 49ers are preparing to meet the Baltimore Ravens in the Super Bowl on Feb. 3 in New Orleans.
49ers general manager Trent Baalke said the team was pleased that the district attorney decided to not file charges after reviewing the matter.
"Michael and the team can now put this behind us and move forward," Baalke said in a statement.
During the regular season, Crabtree became the first San Francisco wide receiver with more than 1,000 yards in a season since Terrell Owens in 2003.
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Can 'Hansel & Gretel' Hunt Down The Box Office, Too?
Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton will likely knock Jessica Chastain's "Mama" out of the #1 spot.
By Ryan J. Downey
Jeremy Renner in "Hansel and Gretel"
Photo: Paramount Pictures
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1700793/hansel-and-gretel-weekend-box-office.jhtml
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Friday, January 25, 2013
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Assange: WikiLeaks film script leaked to WikiLeaks
LONDON (AP) ? If you're making a movie about WikiLeaks, this is the kind of thing you probably see coming.
Julian Assange says he has obtained a leaked copy of the script for "The Fifth Estate," a DreamWorks film about the maverick computer expert and his famed secret-busting site. In a speech before the Oxford Union debating society earlier this week, Assange said his unauthorized sneak peek has left him convinced the film is a hit piece.
"It is a mass propaganda attack against WikiLeaks, the organization (and) the character of my staff," he said, adding that the movie ? the opening scenes of which Assange described as taking place in Tehran and Cairo ? also hyped Western fears over the Islamic Republic's disputed atomic energy program.
"It is not just an attack against us, it is an attack against Iran. It fans the flames of an attack against Iran," he said.
A DreamWorks spokeswoman declined to comment on Assange's claims.
In a telephone interview late Friday, Assange said that the film's plot revolves around a fictional mole in Iran's nuclear program who discovers that the country has nearly finished building an atom bomb and will soon be in a position to load it onto ballistic missiles. The film has the informant fleeing to Iraq when WikiLeaks publishes his name among its massive trove of classified material.
Assange says the whole story is "a lie built on a lie," claiming that the U.S. intelligence community generally believes that Iran stopped comprehensive secret work on developing nuclear arms in 2003, and that, in any case, the world had yet to see evidence of a case in which WikiLeaks had exposed a CIA informant.
"They tried to frame Iran as having an active nuclear weapons program. Then they try to frame WikiLeaks as the reason why that's not known to the public now," Assange said, comparing the movie to Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," another film whose artistic liberties with recent history have drawn allegations of political bias.
Assange declined to say where he got the script, although he hinted that he had been supplied with several copies of it over time. He also declined to say whether the script would be posted to the WikiLeaks website, saying only that "we are examining options closely."
"The Fifth Estate" stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Assange and Daniel Bruhl as Daniel Domscheit-Berg, an early Assange ally who eventually fell out with WikiLeaks.
The film is due for release in November, and in a statement earlier this week director Bill Condon was quoted as saying that those behind the movie want "to explore the complexities and challenges of transparency in the information age" and "enliven and enrich the conversations WikiLeaks has already provoked."
Assange made his comments to the Oxford Union on Wednesday via videolink from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he has been holed up for more than six months in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden as part of a long-running sex crimes case.
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Finding My Italian Family ? Channel 3's Dennis House Blogs
It seems one of the big questions people ask in January is about travel. ?Any good trips planned for 2013?? Whatever vacation we may take this year can?t possibly top our summer 2012 trip.???My family and I?had a once in a lifetime adventure that was exciting,?educational and surprisingly?emotional.? We met our Italian relatives for the very first time.
This was a trip that was really many years in the making, decades in fact.??I had?been told about my?Italian ancestry for as long as I can remember, but I knew few details about it until 2010.?? As a boy, my mother talked with great affection about her late father Crescenzo Chully; the surname being an Americanized version of Chiulli.??Crescenzo was killed in a horrific hornet attack at the age of 37, when my mother was young. She remembers his father, Paolo, but he died a few years before his son.
Our exposure to our Italian heritage came through Paolo?s other children, Crescenzo?s siblings, but they too were in the dark about where our forefathers had lived. My best source of information was my great-aunt Angie, who died just a few years ago at the doorstep of?98. All she was ever told was that her father (my great-grandfather)?was from ?Abruzzo.?
When I was in junior high, a teacher assigned the task of researching our geneaology to coincide with the landmark television event, ?Roots.????? I did pretty well on the other branches of my family, but when it came to the Italian branch, I couldn?t learn anything beyond my great-grandfather, Paolo Chiulli.
Life happened and I put researching my Italian heritage on the back burner, and picked it up now and then with zero luck.
While in Italy in 1996, I checked the telephone books for people named Chiulli, but I didn?t speak Italian so I never called any of the many names listed.??But as I walked through Rome, Venice, Florence, Pisa and Milan, I could feel it: I had family there. ?
I returned to Italy three more times in the following ten years. My wife Kara and I honeymooned on the Amalfi Coast, Portofino and Lake Como, and again, being in Italy felt like being home. I also returned to Rome to cover Pope John Paul II in 2002, and his funeral three years later.
During that period I searched for my great-grandfather?s name in ship manifests, scoured websites where I connected with other people with Chiulli ancestors who were also looking for?relatives, but I never?found anything.?? I figured my great-grandfather must have changed his name, or perhaps someone misspelled it in the list of passengers heading to America.???? I wanted to know, why did he come here, and who did he leave behind?
In?2009, I had a stroke of great luck.??? A man from Utah, named John Nelson, ?was researching Chiullis in his family tree, when he came across my great-grandfather?s name.???John had discovered the town where my grandfather was born, his siblings, parents and grandparents.????? As it turns out, what John had discovered was a dead end for him, but the holy grail for me. It?cleared the path for me to answer questions that had stymied my family for decades.
Armed with that information, I stepped up my search efforts, but on a sporadic basis.??? As a working father with two young children, I had little time to sit down and finish my Italian family tree.???? I would occasionally try to e-mail someone named Chiulli in Italy on Facebook, but never found any relatives.?? Then, when my aunt Angie died in late 2010 as she approached her 98th birthday, I decided it was time to get the job done.
I began with a fruitless attempt to e-mail folks in the town hall of? Alanno, Italy, birthplace of my?great-grandfather.???? I hoped to?locate some records, that would?hopefully lead me to some cousins.?? It was fruitless.? I didn?t get any responses, and when I called once, there was no one who spoke English, and my Italian wasn?t cutting it.
In early 2011, I decided to contact a fellow journalist in Italy.?? I figured we reporters can pretty much track down anyone here, surely someone in the old country would be able to get through to the town hall.????? Reporter Marirosa Barbieri?of the magazine ?Prima Da Noi? suggested that she write an article about my search for my Italian ancestors.???? The story was a big success.??? The day after the?article went on line,? I received a call from a?woman here in Connecticut, whose cousin called her from Italy to say she and I?were related.?? The woman, by the way, is not related to me, but her cousin is.???? Within days, through e-mail and Facebook I had connected with a handful of people, my people, my family! Marirosa had also been contacted by a few others.
Through my newly discovered family, I learned the reason I couldn?t find any cousins named Chiulli, is because there aren?t any.?? My great-grandfather had five sisters and a brother who died in childhood.??? Those sisters all married and so when Paolo Chiulli emigrated to America, he took the Chiulli name with him.?? Truth be told, there are plenty of Chiullis in Abruzzo, but they are probably very distant cousins.
The first few weeks of our cyber-reunion were exciting.??? I swapped pictures and information with my newly found cousins, Donatella, Paola, Andrea, Cristina, and the list goes on.??? I now had dozens of cousins there.?? ??Just like I always felt I had cousins in Italy, my Italian cousins told me they always knew they had family in the United States.??? They had heard stories of their Zio (Uncle) Paolo leaving Abruzzo, never to return, but?didn?t know anything about his descendents here.??? In fact,? my cousin Paola?e-mailed me a family tree that they could now fill in with the 26 people descended from their long lost Uncle.
Almost immediately after connecting with the Italian relatives,? I decided to plan a trip to the ancestral homeland in 2012 ?for a huge family reunion.???Ideally,?it would great if all 26 descendants and their spouses could go, although I knew it was unlikely.??In the end, there were 9 of us who made the trek:? Kara, our children, my mother, brother, sister-in-law and their two sons.
Overseas, the planning was masterminded by cousins Donatella, Miriam, Paola and Cristina, who?coordinated a week like no other we?d ever experienced.?????Sure, flying with four children under the age?of 5 can be challenging, but once we arrived?in Italy, we?all focused on the upcoming festivities and this momentous event in our family history. ??? We stayed in Rome for a few days before heading to Abruzzo.??? Kara and I had been to the Eternal City before, but my brother and sister-in-law wanted to see the sights.?? 48 hours at the Hilton Garden Inn near the Villa Borghese was just what we needed.
Why a Hilton when traveling in Italy? First, we?ve learned that Hiltons are great hotels. When we had to attend a wedding in Hawaii we stayed at two of them. Read about that trip here: http://dennishouse.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/from-hartford-to-hawaii/
The Hilton Cavalieri is a jewel in Rome where Kara and I are planning to stay in the future for a romantic trip, but in this case, we didn?t think a pack of kids was fair to the Cavalieri guests! Instead we chose the Hilton Garden Inn, partly because of its king-sized beds, great for a mom and dad weary from a long flight and herding children. King beds are rare in Europe, and they are a welcome change from the tiny twin beds many hotels have. Best of all, for the somewhat fussy youngsters: the Hilton served American breakfast, waffles, eggs, nutella and the works. There was even nutella gelato at a shop nearby. There would be plenty of time for traditional Italian food when we reached Abruzzo.
With our body clocks now on Italian time, we loaded up our Ford Transit van and began our two hour journey to one of the most anticipated destinations of my life.? By the way I was the only one who drive a stick shift, so the burden of navigating narrow medieval streets was all mine for 10 days. ? The mountains were amazing and the Adriatic Sea a Caribbean aqua that looked like an instagram.?? The quaint villages were something out of a postcard.
Our home in Abruzzo was a mountainside villa called ?Casa Mimosa,?? and it was the ultimate retreat.??It was an old barn of stone at the top of a hill accessible by a steep, winding road in the town of Castiglione Messer Raimondo.?? A couple from Britain bought it and refurbished into into an idyllic retreat to rent to tourists. ? The views were truly awe inspiring, and we spent as time much outdoors as possible.
The next day was the reunion and quite frankly, we weren?t sure what to expect. ?? The cousins had told us not to worry about a thing;? they would take care of all the food and drink, and that a caterer would show up first, followed by trays of homemade goodies.?? What a spread it was.?? Traditional Abruzzese dishes, homemade wine, garnished with?Italian and American flags.??The caterers showed up and transformed the villa into an Italian restaurant.? Then the doorbell rang.
The first cousins we met were not part of the e-mail conversations that had been going on for the past 17 months.??? ?You are my cousin,?? said Carlo Iulianetti, a man in his 40s with rock star hair. He came with his mother, Cesaria de Melis.????? We hugged, and my mom cried.???? Within an hour, fifty cousins had arrived, some from as far away as Rome.?? We studied each other faces, and I definitely saw similarities.? Donatella bore a strong resemblance to my great aunt Lucia, Crescenzo?s sister. ?Even though some of the?cousins didn?t speak English we communicated and we connected.? I had been studying Italian on my iPad app and I actually think I did pretty well.
The highlight of the reunion took place on the piazza when my cousins delivered some hearfelt words welcoming us to their country.? I was prepared, and had written a speech that I read in Italian, with the help of my cousin Elisa, who translated a few ad libs for me.?? Then, three of the cousins of my mother?s generation, Donatella, Miriam and Paola, presented us with a basket of rocks, sitting on red silk.?? These weren?t just any rocks?they were pieces of rubble belonging to my great-grandfather?s farmhouse where he was born in 1879.
My mother wept, as she handled the limestone, majella stone, and ancient concrete.???? But there was more.??? Paola?s husband, architect Gustavo Del Rossi,? unveiled a gift we will treasure always: the most beautiful and intricate family tree I?d ever seen.??It was hand drawn on parchment paper that was 15 feet long.?? Gustavo had worked on it for months, and it included every relative at the party, and my cousins back home in?America.? More than a hundred names in all.? It went as far back as my great-great-great grandparents, Antonio and Maria Chiulli.
The night was spent learning about each other over copious amounts of food, washed down by homemade wine and limoncello.? I got to try out my Italian, but I must admit my cousins speak my native language better than I speak theirs.???We also learned for the first time, why my great-grandfather emigrated to America.
Paolo Chiulli had a? childhood, that was marred by sadness.??? He was one of seven children, and his only brother Gennaro, died as a child.???? His mother died in childbirth as his youngest sister was born.???He later served in the Italian military, and played a key role in the upbringing of his family.?? He finished school, which was uncommon for this rural part of Abruzzo and worked at a vineyard.??Paolo is remembered?as well liked, and adored by his sisters.???According to legend, he left Italy after a dark chapter:? he was?framed for a crime and fled to the United States.?? Great.? Cue Speak Softly Love, please.
The story of Zio Paolo (Uncle Paul) that has been handed down generation to generation among my cousins is that my great-grandfather left after some sort of fight.??With the help of?Maria Odoardi, one of the older cousins, my cousin Mauro Morelli, an attorney in Pescara, ?told the story in great detail, with some legalese tossed in for good measure.? ?Now, this is not confirmed,? he would say as he recanted the story told to him by his grandmother, who was my great-grandfather?s niece.???? Apparently someone planted a wallet in Paolo?s jacket, and then a group accused him of stealing it and they pounced on him.????During that fight or a brawl,? as Mauro put it, someone died.?? Again, ?not confirmed.?
Paolo was later toiling in the vineyard, when he was approached by friends who told him had to leave the country or go to prison.?? He hastily said goodbye to his sisters and left Abruzzo never to return.??? Someone gave him a passport to use, which is why I could never find my great-grandfather?s name in any of the manifests of ships carrying Italian immigrants to the United States.??? We will never know the name on the passport Paolo showed immigration officials that got him into this country.???By the way, he never became a U.S.?citizen, but certainly became an American patriot.?? He tried to enlist?to serve in World War I and World War II.??He was 62 when he went to the recruiting office a month after Pearl Harbor.
The Italian cousins also solved a few other smaller mysteries.??? When my mother was a child, Paolo, her grandfather, called her Mariuccia.? After 65 years of not knowing where that name came from one, we learned in Abruzzo in the summer of 2012, that Mariuccia was what Paolo called his younger sister.
A few days after the reunion, we loaded up our van and headed to the ancestral town of Alanno, where my great-grandfather was born.??? The mayor there was honoring us with a reception at town hall.??? Sindaco Vincenzo deMelis gave us a warm welcome and presented us with a plaque with my name on it and literature and information on the town.?? The mayor is a cousin of a cousin, but not one of my cousins.?? Capisce?
Italians love food and this day was no exception.??? After our ceremony at the town hall, were were feted at a luncheon where the dishes kept coming and coming.
Across a small valley from the ancient town center sits my great-grandfather?s farm, which is still in the family.?? Cousins live in homes on the sprawling hillside,? not far from a pile of rubble where Paolo?s birthplace? once stood.?? A fig tree now grows out of it, surrounded by acres of olive trees, some of them more than a hundred years old.
We couldn?t help but be pensive as we walked the grounds that afford spectacular views of the mountains and the medieval town.?? As my children and nephews played with giant wheels of hay,? I tried to imagine what life was like here for my ancestors.???? My daughter picked flowers, and my mother huddled with her cousins of her generation as they together gazed at the land that is their roots.
The kids were beyond thrilled to be feeding figs and juice to the goats and slobbering sheep,? and to climb on a Lamborghini tractor.
At a more modern house at the farm, came another emotional experience.??We met my grandfather?s first cousins, whom he had never met, the only survivors of his generation.????? 90 year old Luciano Odoardi and his sister Guisseppina, age 92.???? Now blinded by old age, Luciano held my hand with a vise-like? grip as he went through the family history. ?? He also shared how his Zio Paolo sent his mother post cards from Boston and Norwood, cards that were lost just recently when he moved in with his son.?? ? How I would?love to read those.
Guiseppina and my mother fought back tears as they bonded, despite? their difficulty in speaking each other?s language. ? ? For my mother,? meeting Luciano and Guissepina gave her a sense at what her father may have looked like had he not been taken from us so early.??? Giuseppina, too, added details to the legend of Paolo Chiulli and she had always wondered what happened to him and the family he created in America.
Not far from the homestead is the rustic church of St. Stefano, where my grandfather and his sisters were baptized.? It is closed to the public, badly damaged by the L?Aquila earthquake of 2009.??? There is no money to fix it, so unless a generous benefactor comes forward, it may continue to detoriate.??? A cousin?s home on the Chiulli ?farm also bears the scars of the earthquake.
The next day we loaded again into the Ford van and trekked to Pescara to go the beach on the Adriatic with Donatella and crew. We lunched under her family?s giant umbrella, whose American counterpart would be a cabana.
Our sendoff celebration was held on a warm night at the home in Chieti in the town of Ripa Teatina of my cousin Cristina Del Rossi and her husband Mimmo Mangiafesta. Along with Cristina?s brother Andrea, an accomplished mountain climber, they have young children about the ages of my children and nephews. The youngest generation also bonded over toys and cookies.
Cristina is a bakery chef, who created not only a huge cake for the reunion, but another one for this night. My daughter Helena, still talks about helping Cristina with the frosting and decorations.
The highlight of this celebration was arrosticini, a grilled lamb cooked on skewers on a special grill. It is a specialty of Abruzzo, and Mimmo cooked over 300 of them.
We also learned there is a particular way to eat arrosticini.
The goodbyes were tearful, but we left Italy a bigger and stronger family. We?re planning a return trip to Abruzzo with a larger American entourage of Chiulli descendants, and our doors are open for our Italian cousins to come here.
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