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Spark At Park lecture series

This past Wednesday, Roy H. Park School of Communications students got the opportunity to Skype with Disney CEO and IC alumnus Bob Iger '73 as part of their Spark At Park lecture series. It also just happened to be the day that Marvel was announcing their full Phase 3 line up of movies so the students were excited to talk with him. In fact, they were so excited, they made him a trending topic in NY on Twitter.

Find out what advice he gave them, as someone who used to be in their shoes.

Disney Chief Bob Iger’s Advice to Students: Don’t Make Stupid Decisions

The Ithaca College alum tells students about Marvel plans, and how to achieve career success

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ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ANNOUNCES THREE-CONCERT SERIES AT ITHACA COLLEGE

July 10, 2012

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Contact: Nicole Marie Milano, 585-399-3652
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July 9, 2012

ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ANNOUNCES THREE-CONCERT SERIES AT ITHACA COLLEGE

Educational Partnership Allows School of Music Students to Attend for Free Through Student Rush Program

The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) is excited to partner with the Ithaca College School of Music to co-present three concerts in 2012–13. These concerts will take place in Ford Hall on Friday, October 5 at 7:30 PM; Friday, February 8 at 7:30 PM; and Sunday, March 24 at 4 PM. Through this partnership between Ithaca College and the RPO, all Ithaca College students will be given the opportunity to attend the RPO concerts free of charge through the Student Rush Ticket Program.

Next season’s RPO performances will feature larger orchestral works including Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8; Howard Hanson’s Symphony No. 1, “Nordic;” and Gershwin’s classic Rhapsody in Blue. The RPO partnership will provide a platform for educational collaborations with the Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra.

Jeffrey Meyer, Director of Orchestras at Ithaca College said, “This newly developed partnership will add great depth to our already very strong orchestral program. Our students are already fortunate to have frequent interaction with a very fine professional chamber orchestra. This partnership with the RPO, one of the Northeast's top professional orchestras, will greatly expand our students' education and professional advancement potential by putting them in close contact with an excellent full symphony orchestra.”

RPO President & CEO Charlie Owens noted, “This exciting partnership is truly the cornerstone of the RPO’s efforts to expand our regional presence and deepening our connections to many of the leading cultural and educational institutions throughout the region. We are thrilled to provide Ithaca College students with opportunities to hear more great symphonic music, and to finding creative ways to enrich their educational experience.”

For more information, go online to ithaca.edu/music or rpo.org.

Editors Please Note:

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Ford Hall at Ithaca College

Opening Weekend Celebration
Friday, October 5 at 7:30 PM
Arild Remmereit, conductor
James Ehnes, violin

ELLEN TAAFFE ZWILICH Celebration Overture
KORNGOLD Violin Concerto
GOOSSENS Tam o’Shanter, Scherzo after Robert Burns
HANSON Symphony No. 1, “Nordic”

Rhapsody in Blue
Friday, February 8 at 7:30 PM
Ward Stare, guest conductor
Terrence Wilson, piano

STILL Symphony No. 1, Afro-American Symphony
DOUGLAS LOWRY Commissioned work
HINDEMITH Mathis der Maler
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue

Romantic Dvořák
Sunday, March 24 at 4 PM
Andreas Delfs, guest conductor

WAGENAAR Cyrano de Bergerac Overture
PERSICHETTI Concerto for English Horn
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8

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Touching Research.

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich., USA (April 8, 2009). There has been much controversy about touching in various cultures. The debate started when US President Barack Obama extended his hand to England's Queen Elizabeth and was further fueled when the First Lady was photographed touching the Queen on the back.Throughout the world the act of touching has cultural meaning.

In Asia it is considered disrespectful to touch an older person on the head, back, or shoulders. Even if the intent is to show respect or to comfort the person the act of touching these areas conveys insult. Touching a business card in many oriental cultures, especially Japan, is the same as touching the individual. Great care should be given to the business card by grasping the card with both hands, admiring it, and then placing it in your pocket closest to your heart. Also remember it is extremely rude to write on the business card, fold it, or to place it in your back pocket.

General TouchingIn the Middle East it is rude to not hold the hand of a friend of the same gender while walking down the street. However it is rude, and could violate local law, to publically hold hands with a friend of the opposite gender. Publically touching in France is normal. It is normal to touch while greeting someone, if you agree with them, or to make a point. The touching is not violent of considered an invasion of personal space as it is expected. In a study done by Jourard (1966) in Paris recorded an average of 110 touches by friends or parents in cafes as compared to 2 touches at coffee shops in Miami. Interestingly observers found that touching in Miami was more aggressive 37 percent of the time. Italy and Greece had high rates of touching while Australia, New Zealand, and England were more aligned with the Miami touch rates. Additional studies in later years found similar results. Mediterranean cultures are also very touching.

Handshakes are not as common as a hug and cheek kiss among people of the same gender. This cultural norm typically is retained by Mediterranean travelers or immigrants. Shaking HandsShaking hands has some cultural implications:In Russia and Poland shaking hands is okay provided it is not done in a doorway or over a threshold. It is considered to be unlucky for both people. Hand shaking should occur before one gets to the door or after they have already entered.In Europe it is considered impolite to shake hands while wearing gloves. Even on the coldest days it is expected the other person is important enough for you to remove your gloves. Fashion gloves worn by women are an exception as these gloves can remain on the woman's hands – however only if the gloves are designed specifically to be worn indoors.In sub-Sahara Africa a handshake typically involves both hands. The right hands clasp while left hands are laid over the right hands during the shake.In most Western cultures, such as the United States it is rude for a man to shake extend his hand to a woman unless she first extends her hand. Although this cultural courtesy is dying it is still expected to be followed in the elite and those in the Builder Generation.Never attempt to shake the hand of a German man if he is with his wife unless you first shake her hand. It is disrespectful and belittling to the woman if you seek to first shake her husband's hand.

About MBC GlobalMBC Global is an international organization based near Detroit, Michigan, dedicated solely to increasing cultural knowledge and awareness. MBC Global, a division of Max Impact Corporation, offers training programs, employee assessments, project management, and business development emphasizing the many cultures flavoring the world.

For more information about MBC Global, send an email to info@mbcglobal.org or visit www.mbcglobal.org.

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Human Rights to Full Discovery

The Central Issue of the 21st Century, as well as inquiry are the Fundemental Human Rights to Full Discovery.

It is the basic definitions, as well as the verbal and written forms of communications, their interrelationship to ones own environment cultural dynamics in the personal development of perceptions, and how within the present dynamics of globalization this is transmitted and the demands this will have on International InterCultural Communications.

Who are the adjudicators in establishing defined terms?

What is the overall impact this will have on personal rights to self - determination?

How in the development of these rights, whether they are legislated into existance, or paid for by additional education of the individual who are the assigned facilitators?

What are the legal constraints in such immediate and direct concerns on further experimentation on recently fertilized human female ovum for example?

All of which calls into further attention ones own cultural heritage, personal faith issues, and what are connections in whether one has the full rights to recieve access to higher education, and ownership of their research as well. This likewise calls basic challenges to the pedagogic mission of each University, College, and Technical educating institution beyond secondary education.

In International relations, more important for the United States and its allies, how the International aid is to be modified, and the realistic focus in confering with the population on the ground what this means to them personally and as a community.

It is this focus and the need to advance its real proposition which demand and informed sector to act as an adovcate; for the principals itself is likewise as important as to defeat the human aging process itself,

In the effort to full investigate the complete environment envelop within life itself, it is the advocacy of fundemental Human Rights to Full Discovery which in the end will create a full life with out aging.

Mr. Roger Meredith Christian, Ithaca, New York, 14850.

Onward to The Moon

Jeff Taylor, University of Hawaii astronomy professor and science communicator, will give a free, family-friendly, public lecture on "Lunar Settlements, Lunar Science," Sunday, Oct. 12, at Cornell University's Bailey Hall at 7:30 p.m. Bill Nye (Cornell Engineering '77) The Science Guy  will host the evening.

Taylor's lecture is part of the 40th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences conference in Ithaca, Oct. 10-15.

Why do scientists and explorers want to return to the Moon and settle it? Taylor says that lunar settlements will pave the way for a broad human presence on other planetary bodies. In many ways, the Moon is the eighth continent, he explains.

Taylor is the winner of the 2008 Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary Science. He has communicated science through children's books, a novel and a series of educational videos. In 1996, he collaborated on a Web site called Planetary Science Research Discoveries - PSRD (http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/) - and in 12 years, he has written 73 articles for PSRD about discoveries on the Moon, planets, planetary satellites, asteroids, comets and astrobiology. The site now gets 80,000 hits a month and its subscriber list includes people from 44 countries.

Contact: Blaine FriedlanderPhone: (607) 254-8093Cell: (607) 351-2610 bpf2@cornell.edu