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An agreement between the City University of New York, the Professional Staff Congress (its faculty union) and state and city officials has provided a long-term financing plan for providing health insurance for CUNY adjunct instructors. Through the union's contract negotiations with CUNY, funds were provided to the union's Welfare Fund in the past, but the fund has been unable to keep up as more adjuncts were hired, and both faculty and university leaders have feared that the adjuncts could lose coverage. Under the agreement, the adjuncts will be covered through the City of New York benefits program. The university and the union issued a joint press release announcing the shift.
To qualify, adjuncts must have at least a six-credit courseload and not be covered by another plan. About 1,800 adjuncts will receive benefits through the new program.
At liberal arts institutions, writes Alan Hughes, teaching and community are crucial to your tenure bid.
The University of Colorado at Boulder has moved to fire a tenured philosophy professor, David Barnett, saying that he retaliated against a graduate student who reported that another graduate student had sexually assaulted her, The Daily Camera reported. The victim accused Barnett of preparing a report that depicted her as "sexually promiscuous," and saying that she made up the allegations. The Boulder philosophy department has been the subject of intense scrutiny and criticism over its treatment of women. Barnett declined to comment, but his lawyer said he would fight the dismissal. "Every male member of the CU philosophy department already has had his reputation damaged as a result of the administration's selective release of information," the lawyer said. "Now, even though professor Barnett is not accused of harassing anyone, the administration is attempting to make him the scapegoat." (Note: This story has been updated from a previous version to reflect that the graduate student, not the university, has publicly accused Barnett of preparing a report that was damaging to her reputation.)
Adjunct union organizers at the University of LaVerne, outside Los Angeles, have pulled their petition for a union election from the National Labor Relations Board. The election took place in February but ballot-counting was on hold for several months, as the board considered numerous unfair labor practice claims filed by the Service Employees International Union.
The NLRB dismissed those claims last week. But organizers decided that ballot-counting should not go forward, saying that administrative interference in the election process could not have made for a fair election. Organizers said they would most likely file for another election again in the future.
Alisha Rosas, university spokeswoman, said via email that LaVerne had "consistently stressed the importance of counting the ballots so that our adjuncts' voices can be heard. Unfortunately, because of the union's efforts, that will never occur. In deciding to withdraw, we can only assume that the union believed that it would lose the election if the ballots were counted."
The Montana senator accused of plagiarizing his final paper for his master's degree has ended his election campaign. John Walsh, a Democrat who was appointed by departing Sen. Max Baucus, and who was running for a full term this fall, came under fire last month after The New York Times reported he had apparently plagiarized large portions of his final paper at the U.S. Army War College. National Democrats initially supported Walsh, who attributed the flap in part to post-traumatic stress disorder from a deployment to Iraq with the National Guard. But public sentiment against the senator, including from Montana veterans, continued to grow. On Thursday, Walsh released a statement to supporters, reported by the Billings Gazette, saying "I am ending my campaign so that I can focus on fulfilling the responsibility entrusted to me as your U.S. senator." Walsh will serve out the rest of his current term, through 2015.
Updates and new developments on tensions on American campuses over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
The dismissal of Steven Salaita by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, just days before he was scheduled to start teaching classes, is a serious threat to academic freedom because it was based solely upon Salaita's extramural utterances on Twitter about Israel.
One thing should be clear: Salaita was fired. I've been turned down for jobs before, and it never included receiving a job offer, accepting that offer, moving halfway across the country, and being scheduled to teach classes.
This is not the first time the University of Illinois has fired a professor for his extramural utterances. In 1960, the University fired an assistant professor of biology, Leo Koch, because he wrote a letter to the student newspaper in which he denounced "a Christian code of ethics which was already decrepit in the days of Queen Victoria," attacked the "the widespread crusades against obscenity," and urged the university to condone sex among mature students.
The AAUP was unified in opposing the lack of due process in Koch's firing, and censured the University of Illinois. But the AAUP in 1960 was deeply divided about whether extramural utterances should receive the full protection that all citizens are entitled to, or if extramural utterances must meet the standards of "academic responsibility." Eventually, the AAUP reached a strong consensus: the 1964 Committee A Statement on Extramural Utterances declared: "a faculty member's expression of opinion as a citizen cannot constitute grounds for dismissal unless it clearly demonstrates the faculty member's unfitness to serve."
This is an extremely high standard, and the arguments against Salaita don't come anywhere close to meeting it. The best that Salaita's critics can come up with is the belief that Salaita's pro-Israel students might feel uncomfortable (by that standard, no professor could ever take a public stand on anything), or that criticizing a foreign government makes you guilty of hate speech (which is a slogan, not a category of prohibited speech), or proves you are uncivil (whatever that means), or that swearing on Twitter means you are evil (remember those "crusades against obscenity").
Now the University of Illinois and Cary Nelson, a longtime faculty member there, a past AAUP president, and now a critic of Salaita, are marking the 50th anniversary of that important statement by trying to take academic freedom backward to a half-century ago, when extramural utterances that offend the public could justify the firing of a professor.
Academic freedom means that scholars are hired, promoted, and fired based upon purely academic criteria, and not for their political opinions. There are not different kinds of academic freedom for hiring and for tenure. Nelson, by adding that consideration of extramural comments is legitimate before a hire, is attempting to draw a line in academic freedom that doesn't exist, between hiring and promotion decisions.
Of course, requirements are different for tenure denials. Every professor being fired deserves due process and a full explanation for dismissals, and that's not possible for the hundreds of applicants rejected with every academic job.
But the standards of academic freedom do not change, only the thoroughness of the procedures. If a university president decreed that no socialists could be hired for faculty positions, would Nelson (or anyone else) accept this principle if it only affected hiring decisions? Clearly, academic freedom does not change for hiring decisions; it is simply harder to identify violations that occur in the hiring process.
But the violations of academic freedom in Salaita's firing are easy to see because he was already hired. The arguments used to justify Salaita's dismissal do not withstand scrutiny. According to Nelson, "Salaita's extremist and uncivil views stand alone." The fact that a professor is deemed more "extreme" than the rest is no basis for dismissal. If it was acceptable for universities to fire the professor with the most "extreme" views on a particular topic, then dozens of faculty could be purged for their political views each year on every college campus.
The AAUP has never endorsed the firing of faculty members on grounds of "incivility." The only AAUP statement I can find that mentions civility is "On Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes" (1992), which declares, "On a campus that is free and open, no idea can be banned or forbidden."
Academic decisions, including job offers, must be based upon academic criteria, and not a judgment about an individual's tweeting decorum. It is also essential that academic decisions are made by qualified academics. Even if civility were a valid consideration in hiring (and it isn't), the people who would have to consider it are the faculty experts examining the full academic record and qualifications of a professor, not an administrator who chooses to fire a professor based solely upon public disapproval of extramural utterances. It is noteworthy that Nelson expressed support for Salaita's firing based entirely upon tweets, and without any consideration of Salaita's entire record of teaching, research, or service.
All the evidence indicates that the firing of Steven Salaita was purely a political decision, not an academic one, and it violates every principle of academic freedom.
John K. Wilson is the co-editor of AcademeBlog.org, editor of Illinois Academe (ilaaup.org), and the author of seven books, including Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies.
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This month, my campus, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was widely expected to welcome Steven Salaita as a new faculty member. He was to be a tenured professor in the American Indian studies program. But a decision not to present the appointment to the Board of Trustees was made by the chancellor. Although I was not involved in the process and did not communicate my views to the administration, I want to say why I believe the decision not to offer him a job was the right one.
Salaita has written credibly on fiction by Arab Americans and is, so I am told, knowledgeable about Native American studies. But Salaita's national profile — and the basis of his aspirations to being a public intellectual — is entirely based on his polemical interventions in debates over the Arab/Israeli conflict. Those interventions include his 2011 book Israel's Dead Soul, which I read last year, and his widely quoted and prolific tweeting. Israel's Dead Soul is published by Temple University Press, so it is part of his academic profile. His tweets cover precisely the same territory. This more public side of his persona would be widely available to his students; indeed his tweets would be better-known to students than his scholarly publications. His inflammatory tweets are already being widely read. I have been following his tweets for some months because I have been writing about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and co-editing a collection of essays titled The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel. I try to follow the work of all prominent pro-boycott leaders, Salaita among them.
Although I find many of his tweets quite loathsome — as well as sophomoric and irresponsible — I would defend without qualification his right to issue most of them. Academic freedom protects him from university reprisals for his extramural speech, unless he appears to be inciting violence, which one retweeted remark that a well-known American reporter wrote a story that "should have ended at the pointy end of a shiv" appears to do. His June 19 response to the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers — "You may be too refined to say it, but I'm not: I wish all the fucking West Bank settlers would go missing" — also invokes a violent response to the occupation, since "go missing" refers to kidnapping.
But his right to make most of these statements does not mean I would choose to have him as a colleague. His tweets are the sordid underbelly, the more frank and revealing counterpart, to his more extended arguments about Middle Eastern history and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. They are likely to shape his role on campus when 2015's Israeli Apartheid Week rolls around. I am told he can be quite charismatic in person, so he may deploy his tweeting rhetoric at public events on campus. Faculty members are well within their rights to evaluate someone as a potential colleague and to consider what contributions a candidate might make to the campus community. It is the whole Salaita package that defines in the end the desirability and appropriateness of offering him a faculty appointment.
I should add that this is not an issue of academic freedom. If Salaita were a faculty member here and he were being sanctioned for his public statements, it would be. But a campus and its faculty members have the right to consider whether, for example, a job candidate's publications, statements to the press, social media presence, public lectures, teaching profile, and so forth suggest he or she will make a positive contribution to the department, student life, and the community as a whole. Here at Illinois, even the department head who would have appointed Salaita agreed in Inside Higher Ed that "any public statement that someone makes is fair game for consideration." Had Salaita already signed a contract, then of course he would have to have received full due process, including a full hearing, before his prospective offer could be withdrawn. But my understanding is that he had not received a contract.
Salaita condenses boycott-divestment-sanctions wisdom into a continuing series of sophomoric, bombastic, or anti-Semitic tweets: "UCSCdivest passes. Mark Yudoff nervously twirls his two remaining hairs, puts in an angry call to Janet Napolitano" (May 28, 2014); "10,000 students at USF call for divestment. The university dismisses it out of hand. That's Israel-style democracy" (May 28, 2014); "Somebody just told me F.W. DeKlerk doesn't believe Israel is an apartheid state. This is what Zionists have been reduced to" (May 28, 2014); "All of Israel's hand-wringing about demography leads one to only one reasonable conclusion: Zionists are ineffective lovers" (May 26, 2014); "Universities are filled with faculty and admins whose primary focus is policing criticism of Israel that exceeds their stringent preferences" (May 25, 2014); "'Israel army' and 'moral code' go together like polar bears and rainforests" (May 25, 2014); "Keep BDS going! The more time Israel spends on it, the fewer resources it can devote to pillaging and plundering" (May 23, 2014); "So, how long will it be before the Israeli government starts dropping white phosphorous on American college campuses?" (May 23, 1014); "Even the most tepid overture to Palestinian humanity can result in Zionist histrionics" (May 21, 2014); "All life is sacred. Unless you're a Zionist, for whom most life is a mere inconvenience to ethnographic supremacy" (May 20, 2014); "I fully expect the Israeli soldiers who murdered two teens in cold blood to receive a commendation or promotion" (May 20, 2014); "Understand that whenever a Zionist frets about Palestinian violence, it is a projection of his own brute psyche" (May 20, 2014); "I don't want to hear another damn word about 'nonviolence.' Save it for Israel's child-killing soldiers" (May 19, 2014); "I stopped listening at 'dialogue' " (May 27, 2014). The last example here presumably advises BDS students how interested they should be in conversations with people holding different views.
More recently he has said "if Netanyahu appeared on TV with a necklace made from the teeth of Palestinian children, would anyone be surprised" (July 19, 2014) and "By eagerly conflating Jewishness and Israel, Zionists are partly responsible when people say anti-Semitic shit in response to Israeli terror" (July 18, 2014). The following day he offered a definition: "Zionists: transforming 'anti-Semitism' from something horrible into something honorable since 1948" (July 19).
It is remarkable that a senior faculty member chooses to present himself in public this way. Meanwhile, the mix of deadly seriousness, vehemence, and low comedy in this appeal to students is genuinely unsettling. Will Jewish students in his classes feel comfortable after they read ""Let's cut to the chase: If you're defending Israel right now you're an awful human being" (July 8), "Zionist uplift in America: every little Jewish boy and girl can grow up to be the leader of a murderous colonial regime" (July 14), or "No wonder Israel prefers killing Palestinians from the sky. It turns out American college kids aren't very good at ground combat?" (July 23)? The last of these tweets obviously disparages the two young American volunteers who lost their lives fighting with the Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza. What would he say if the Arab/Israeli conflict were to come up in a class he was teaching on Arab-American fiction? Would he welcome dissent to his views? Would students believe him if he appeared to do so? As Salaita says of his opposition in an accusation better applied to himself, he has found in Twitter "the perfect medium" in which to "dispense slogans in order to validate collective self-righteousness" (May 14, 2014).
While universities need to study all positions on an issue, even the most outrageous ones, I see no good reason to offer a permanent faculty position to someone whose discourse crosses the line into anti-Semitism. I also do not believe this was a political decision. There are many opponents of Israeli policy on the faculty here and many faculty as well who publicly or privately support the boycott movement. If some faculty expressed their view to the chancellor that Salaita's recent tweets — tweets published long after the search committee made its recommendation — justify not making the appointment, they had a right to do so. I believe this was an academic, not a political, decision.
Were I to have evidence to the contrary, my view would be different. I regret that the decision was not made until the summer, but then many of the most disturbing of Salaita's tweets did not go online until the summer of 2014, no doubt provoked by events. That is the time frame in which the statements in question were made. That alone made this an exceptional case. I do not think it would have been responsible for the university to have ignored the evolving character of his public profile. For all these reasons I agree that Salaita's appointment is one that should not have been made.
Cary Nelson served as national president of the American Association of University Professors from 2006 to 2012. He teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Attacks on business and business education (including this one recently at Inside Higher Ed) are commonplace, and not just in higher education. The Obama administration's call to action on income inequality more or less explicitly lays blame at the feet of corporate America, and Pope Francis wrote a letter last December widely interpreted as denigrating business. There is no doubt that the U.S. middle class is suffering downward mobility. Victims include the humanities professors who call for us to close business schools in order to save humanities education. But polarizing comments on these issues from within the academy do little to help us embrace the role that U.S. higher education institutions can and should play in promoting good citizenship, ethical leadership, and national economic vitality.
The cost of a residential four-year college or university experience will contribute to inequality unless we can figure out ways to increase access. This will require both cost control and creative approaches for new revenue generation. Some activities on our campuses generate profits, while others require subsidies. At the undergraduate level, at least, business schools hosted by liberal arts colleges or as parts of large universities that have an arts and sciences college typically generate revenue considerably above costs and have some of the highest "contribution margins" on campus.
Business school deans in these settings, and perhaps others, feel great pressure to balance educational quality and post-graduate opportunity against cost control because, on the one hand, families demand a "return on investment" and, on the other, salaries and infrastructure expenses at business schools tend to be higher than the campus average. Whatever our politics, most of us business school deans believe in the still-great promise of U.S. higher education, with its liberal arts roots, and are pleased to help balance the campuswide budget.
But beyond feeling good, we need the humanities departments precisely because they help our business students become individuals whose actions will demonstrate strong moral and ethical behavior. Around the time of the Enron scandal, as corporations and individual business leaders appeared to lose their way more than usual, many business schools took up the challenge of educating for greater social responsibility. In 1999, business schools around the globe began competing to be highly ranked for their commitment to business education emphasizing social and environmental concerns. So successful was that effort, sponsored by the Aspen Institute, that it was disbanded in 2012 because the issues and concerns initially highlighted as absent from business education had become mainstream.
Playing a similar role, Net Impact is a business-school centered "community of more than 50,000 student and professional leaders creating positive social and environmental change in the workplace and the world." In 2013, leading business schools joined forces with powerful corporate sponsors to launch a national U.S. conference on how business schools can do more to support "underserved communities."
We need humanities departments to help illuminate the powerful ways in which business can be a force for good. "The freedom and extent of human commerce depend entirely on a fidelity with regard to promises," wrote David Hume, a leading thinker of the Enlightenment. Confucius put it succinctly, as always: "Virtue is the root, while wealth is the branch." The Quran says that "Profit cannot be but fair if business follows the religious instructions." Other examples abound across time and across cultures, including from the U.S.'s pre-Civil War history. Study of business through the lens of the humanities helps explain the language used today by many business leaders who speak about earning and preserving corporations' "social license to operate."
Higher education administration makes little sense if one has no faith in our social purpose, but our social license to operate is also under attack. Rather than scurry to meet demand for pre-professional majors on four-year liberal arts campuses and risk aggravating tensions among schools and departments, we should be getting out of our foxholes and looking for alignment and synergy.
The case made for computational thinking skills gained in STEM majors, for example, sounds a lot like the case made for humanities majors. Absent support from a vibrant humanities faculty, I certainly cannot achieve my goal of delivering a "values-based" business education that molds individuals whose actions will affirm corporate commitment to ethical standards and social responsibility. The current bureaucratic structure of most higher-education institutions makes interdisciplinary teaching harder than it should be, and the tenure system arguably militates against cross-disciplinary research. But rather than succumbing to fear and negativity in the face of financial pressures, faculty should take up the challenge of being credible, respected advocates for integrative learning and for the changes required to make it a reality.
Sylvia Maxfield is dean of the Providence College School of Business.
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This volume brings together all the poems Daniel Sloate has written to date. A poet and translator, Daniel Sloate was a Professor in Linguistics at Universit de Montreal and Director of the Translation Program at McGill University.
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"[T]his book raises a series of new questions and calls for developing new approaches and ideas to analyze the last Ottoman century and understand better the rise of national states in the Balkans and the Middle East, especially Turkey. . . . In short, this is a thought-provoking book and I recommend it highly."--Kemal H. Karpat, American Historical Review
"Forgoing 'the worn-out paradigms of modernization and Westernization,' Hanioglu opts instead for a consideration of Ottoman responses to the challenge of modernity. . . . [This book] is a pleasure to read."--Kate Fleet, Journal of Islamic Studies
"The Ottoman Empire was the longest-lived regional regime in the Middle East since antiquity; it was also the most recent, and left enduring traces. ?ükrü Hanio?lu's A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire is a major contribution to the better understanding of the region. His account is based on intimate knowledge of the Ottoman archives, as well as of many other sources, both internal and external. Concerned with trends more than events, this book illuminates the ideas and movements that shaped the course of history."--Bernard Lewis, Middle East Strategy at Harvard
"This timely history is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the legacy left in the ruins of the empire--a legacy the world still grapples with today."--Turkish Daily News
"A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the legacy left in this empire's ruins--a legacy the world still grapples with today."--Spartacus Educational
"A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire deserves only unqualified praise. It is well written and comprehensive in its coverage--with diplomatic, economic and intellectual history interacting."--Peter Clark, Asian Affairs
"In all, this is a fine effort well worth reading for its valuable background to WWI, to the politics of modern Turkey and the other Ottoman successor states. Its maps are particularly useful."--Len Shurtleff, Listening Post
"[T]o readers familiar with the Ottoman Empire through the Balkans, A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire is especially commendable as a fresh introduction to a bygone view from Istanbul."--Seth C. Elder, Balkanalysis
"Hanioglu's seminal work presents a true spring of ideas not only for the late Ottoman history but also for the search of some earlier East Roman and Byzantine interplays of structures and identities."--Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Sehepunkte
"A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire is a recommendable book to the specialist and novice alike. It would also appeal to public readership as a fine sample of international history."--Nur Bilge Criss, Turkish Studies
"The strength of A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire is its view of the late Ottoman Empire both from the imperial inside as well as from a reflective and inspiring historical distance. This concise book is very appropriate for general history classes."--Hans-Lukas Kieser, H-Net Reviews
"Without a doubt or reservation, this brief history is must reading for scholars and students of Ottoman history, and the author is to be commended for his excellent approach to the study of this period, for this reviewer cannot think of any other scholar better equipped intellectually to analyze and place it in the proper perspective for a meaningful understanding of this critical phase of an empire on the verge of disintegration."--Caesar E. Farah, Historian
"Historians and general readers embarking on an introduction to the Ottoman Empire could do far worse than to start with M. Sükrü Hanio?lu's A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire. Concise, well-written, and narrative, it nonetheless successfully revises decades of misconceptions about the Ottoman Empire, creating a new model for our understanding of this long-lived system. The author presents several key arguments worth presenting. He encourages his readers to move beyond previous interpretations of Ottoman history, including the perception of the empire as a decrepit and dynastic straitjacket for nationalisms."--Wayne H. Bowen, Canadian Journal of History
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"Without doubt the best history of the development of political ideas in the late Ottoman Empire. Haniogluu situates this history of ideas in the context of the political and diplomatic history of the empire as well as in the history of European political thought, of which he demonstrates a deep knowledge."--Erik J. Zürcher, author of Turkey: A Modern History
"A significant contribution, not only to the historiography of the late Ottoman Empire but also to the field of comparative studies of empires."--Fikret Adanir, coeditor of The Ottomans and the Balkans--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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There are those in other places in our world who are feeding the hate in America
in a subtle way, and in a way where they cannot be traced.
These people are standing on the sidelines watching how we are learning to malign and hate those who used to be our friends, neighbors, and acquaintances.
A large number of America's powerful politicians, and well know radio hosts are only looking to strengthening their own egos and wealth.
There will be no more planes flown into buildings. Those who want to see our country fail have only to whisper rumor, anger and distrust in the appropriate places to bolster the flames of our country's destruction.
America is destroying itself to it's core from within with the help of numerous outside sources.
Strange that more citizens cannot see this truth.
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Romney didn't say how he would deal with Democrats stonewalling and
refusing to negotiate the budget. Most likely he would have done the same thing
Orrin Hatch did -- ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
I am sick and tired of "politics as usual." Americans deserve honesty and integrity in our leaders, not candidates that make promises they have no intention of keeping and purposely lying.
Romney is wrong that we need "moderate" Republican candidates. Democrats are taxing and spending America into extinction. We need hard-nosed politicians, like Lee and Cruz, who are willing to fight for America.
And then their is a media that fails to vet politicians and hold them to their word. Case in point, it is disingenuous for papers, such as the Deseret News, to insinuating that the Republican hardline approach caused a "near-default on the nations debt." Anyone that believes government needs to borrow trillions of dollars each year to pay our bills is a fool. The media should never be a sounding board for such lies and deception.
Lack of accountability and balanced journalism is part of the problem. Do your job!
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I wish we could start from scratch and boot all the current office holders out of D.C. and bring in a whole new crop of representatives and Senators who will truly work for the American people and uphold the Constitution. I don't care about Party affiliation as much as I care about patriotism and honesty and morality. I don't think morality should be legislated, but I do think those who hold office should have a strong moral compass by which they make their decisions and determinations. I love this country and believe we should elect those who also love this country and aren't afraid to uphold the Constitution and put the needs of this country and it's citizens before their personal agenda.
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Romney was better than obama. But a Rino. sorry to tell you. I didn't think he was dynamic enough. And failed miserably to attack Obama. You have to be a freedom fighter to see what Obama stands for. A need to point out the ideological defects was not there. No one seems to want to do this other than the Tea Party. We need a fighter. Romney is not a fighter. He's a lover. For some reason no one wants to attack Obama. Is it because he's half black? Isn't FREEDOM worth fighting for. We need a general, OAKS is my suggestion,
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NeilT, the TEA Party didn't exist when Obama was first sworn in. He and the other Socialists helped create their own nemesis and now conveniently use them as scapegoats for their own failed policies and agenda.
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Thanks you for your contribution msc. If the system would allow it, I, too, think that there should be considerable house cleaning in Washington. Though, considering the nature of the electorate, it is not likely that we will get exactly what you suggested. Too many people have eaten from the Democrat trough and will always support them in order to keep the entitlements flowing. "when you rob Peter to pay Paul, you will always have a friend in Paul".
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More from a chameleon whose colors change with what the perceives voters want - even turning socialist - "I had a very conservative platform . . . My own plan was to say to each state, 'You've got a requirement to move to a point where all your people are insured. . .' "
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Tea in Tea party means . Taxed enough already. I for one stand with said party because I can not afford to pay more taxes.
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Did Romney say he would have initiated a Federal requirement for everyone to have insurance with no pre-existing conditions? I didn't see the full quote in this article. If so where is the difference when we are being forced to buy something regardless if its from the Federal or State Government. The Commerce Clause comes to mind? I am more convinced everyday that my decision to join the Constitution Party has been the right decision.
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You didn't address the comment about Obama's dishonesty. This president has said more than 47 times "If you like your health care you can keep your health care, period!" That has proven to be a totally dishonest statement when the Federal Register said that between 40 and 67 percent of those could not.
Stay on subject...
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Mayhem...so you think it was a "distinguished" thing to do to label Christie as "puffer fish"? Was it "distinguished" for his son to come out the day after the loss and say well my mother and I didn't really want him to take the job in the first place...after the countless hours his volunteers put in tirelessly? To me it was a slap in the face. I voted for him but I believe it was his race to lose and he did with bad choices...including too many people like his kids who didn't know what they were doing. He should have hired the Huntsman girls who seem to have more political savvy than his kids.
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MRKJ, I trust your little diatribe helps you feel better about your current president?
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Obama and Reid were the bullheaded leaders that would not do what has been done in the past negotiate and compromise. Obama and Reid refused to give the house any input and just said its my way or the highway. They shut the government down but the media is so invested in Obama they refused to report the facts.
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Flip. Flop. Flip. Flop. Typical Romney. I thank everything that is holy that he isn't in the White House.
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We keep the two party system, everyone loses. Those brought forward by either party are owned BY that party, to run for specific positions, not by his qualifications. All but several Politicians in office today are there to do what their party tells them to do. Who do you think has put America in the position it is in now ? Anyone else besides the Republican and Democratic parties? Has ANY ONE of them come out and exposed the corruption in our Federal Government? Of course not because they are a party to it. Have ANY ONE of the pressed the Constitutionality of all of the laws that are stripping us of our Constitutional freedoms? Of course not, let alone Government agencies (over 1300) that should not even exist or that the Federal Reserve is a private corporation not a Fed. Agency. We need a third party folks.
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In-line holographic microscopy of micrometer-scale colloidal spheres yields heterodyne scattering patterns that may be interpreted with Lorenz-Mie theory to obtain precise time-resolved information on the refractive index of the suspending medium. We demonstrate this approach to spatially resolved refractometry with measurements on calibrated refractive index standards and use it to monitor chemical concentration in a microfluidic channel. Using commercially available colloidal spheres as probe particles and a standard video camera for detection yields values for the fluid's refractive index at the position of each probe particle in each holographic snapshot with a demonstrated resolution of refractive index units (RIU) and a potential resolution surpassing . The combination of spatial resolution, temporal resolution, multi-point in situ access, and technical simplicity recommends this technique for cost-effective lab-on-a-chip applications.
Non-destructive imaging of an individual protein101(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4748113View Description Hide Description
Imaging a single biomolecule at atomic resolution without averaging over different conformations is the ultimate goal in structural biology. We report recordings of a protein at nanometer resolution obtained from one individual ferritin by means of low-energy electron holography. One single protein could be imaged for an extended period of time without any sign of radiation damage. Since the fragile protein shell encloses a robust iron cluster, the holographicreconstructions could also be cross-validated against transmission electron microscopyimages of the very same molecule by imaging its iron core.
Plasma-assisted atomic layer deposition of Al2O3 and parylene C bi-layer encapsulation for chronic implantable electronics101(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4748322View Description Hide Description
Encapsulation of biomedical implants with complex three dimensional geometries is one of the greatest challenges achieving long-term functionality and stability. This report presents an encapsulation scheme that combines Al2O3 by atomic layer deposition with parylene C for implantable electronic systems. The Al2O3-parylene C bi-layer was used to encapsulate interdigitated electrodes, which were tested invitro by soak testing in phosphate buffered saline solution at body temperature (37 °C) and elevated temperatures (57 °C and 67 °C) for accelerated lifetime testing up to 5 months. Leakage current and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy were measured for evaluating the integrity and insulation performance of the coating. Leakage current was stably about 15 pA at 5 V dc, and impedance was constantly about 3.5 MΩ at 1 kHz by using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy for samples under 67 °C about 5 months (approximately equivalent to 40 months at 37 °C). Alumina and parylene coating lasted at least 3 times longer than parylene coated samples tested at 80 °C. The excellent insulation performance of the encapsulation shows its potential usefulness for chronic implants.
Electrical characterization of deoxyribonucleic acid hybridization in metal-oxide-semiconductor-like structures101(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4747452View Description Hide Description
In this work, metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS)-like sensors in which deoxyribonucleic acid(DNA) strands are covalently immobilized either on Si oxide or on a goldsurface were electrically characterized. Si oxide fabrication process allowed us to have a surface insensitive to the solution pH. A significant shift in the flat band voltage was measured after single strand DNA immobilization (+0.47 ± 0.04 V) and after the complementary strand binding (+0.07 ± 0.02 V). The results show that DNA sensing can be performed using a MOS structure which can be easily integrated in a more complex design, thus avoiding the problems related to the integration of micro-electrochemical cells.
Noise spectroscopy as an equilibrium analysis tool for highly sensitive electrical biosensing101(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4748931View Description Hide Description
We demonstrate an approach for highly sensitive bio-detection based on silicon nanowirefield-effect transistors by employing low frequency noise spectroscopy analysis. The inverse of noise amplitude of the device exhibits an enhanced gate coupling effect in strong inversion regime when measured in buffer solution than that in air. The approach was further validated by the detection of cardiac troponin I of 0.23 ng/ml in fetal bovine serum, in which 2 orders of change in noise amplitude was characterized. The selectivity of the proposed approach was also assessed by the addition of 10 μg/ml bovine serum albumin solution.
Mid-infrared (λ = 8.4–9.9 μm) light scattering from porcine tissue101(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4748331View Description Hide Description
Back-scattering of mid-infrared light from porcine skin is studied versus wavelength and angle for a Quantum Cascade laser and a broadband infrared light source. Scattering is detected over 30° away from the specular angle for both sources, and modulation patterns with angle are seen when using the laser. A nonlinear increase in scattered light intensity versus input power indicates that directional scattering from within the skin is dominant. Collagen fibers in the dermis layer, over 200 μm deep into the skin, are conducive to such scattering. We conclude that mid-infrared light penetrates deep enough for potential glucose detection in dermal interstitial fluid.
Efficacy of an AC sinusoidal electric field for apoptosis induction in lung carcinoma cells (A549)101(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4748871View Description Hide Description
An AC sinusoidal electric field was applied to lungcarcinomacells for the induction of apoptosis. The occurrence of apoptosis was determined by analysis of Annexin V/PI and DNA fragmentation. Additional evidence of apoptosis was confirmed by caspase-3 cleavage and disruption of mitochondrial membrane potential. These results demonstrated that the expression of apoptosis can be controlled by varying the magnitude and the duration of the field, and that the application of an ACelectric field can stimulate the apoptosis via mitochondria-mediated pathway.
Microheater platform for selective detachment of DNA101(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4748308View Description Hide Description
Despite deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)'s well-known temperature sensitivity, not much work has been reported on leveraging temperature to manipulate the interaction of DNA with surfaces. This paper describes a microheater device that enables the application of a temperature field on a glass surface, thereby enabling the study of temperature-dependence of DNA-surface interactions. Experimental data for thermal performance of the device agree well with finite-element simulation results. Experiments demonstrate the capability of spatially selective detachment of DNA from a glass surface using the device. The integration of thermal-based capabilities described here with analysis tools such as polymerase chain reaction may help improve DNA detection and separation capabilities.
A shear lag analysis predicts the strong size effect on the persistence length of microtubules101(2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4748908View Description Hide Description
As one essential component in cytoskeleton, the persistence length of a microtubule was reported to strongly depend on its contour length. To understand this intriguing size effect, here we develop a composite model for a microtubule with an adapted shear lag analysis. A characteristic length is identified, over which the persistence length of a microtubule monotonously increases with its contour length until it saturates, in consistency with the experimental data. This work clearly shows that shear lag between neighboring protofilaments due to the highly anisotropy leads to the strong size effect on the persistence lengths of microtubules.


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Waterbury continues to tackle secondary roads after blizzard
|Mayor Neil M. O'Leary checks on a city plow truck that got stuck on Division Street in Waterbury Sunday morning. The Mayor and his staff were driving around the city assessing the road conditions as the city continued to dig themselves out after a blizzard dumped more than two feet of snow in the area. Christopher Massa Republican-American
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I had planned to hike the Kungsleden in Sweden in July and have already got flights in/out of Stockholm. However, my boyfriend is now also coming to Sweden for 8 days. He's not as into remote multi-day hikes as I am. He is pretty fit, but doesn't relish the idea of hiking with a heavy rucksack on his back the whole time. Experience tells me that we can travel much lighter and quicker if we buy food as we go. We can be even lighter if we stay in refuges rather than camp (although I prefer…
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An increased emphasis on remedial work for students who are struggling in Henderson County Schools should not come at the expense of academically gifted students who should be fully challenged, School Board Chairman Ervin Bazzle said Friday.
Bazzle spoke during the first of a two-day board retreat at The Kellogg Center just outside of Hendersonville.
The retreat will conclude this morning and is an annual gathering of board members and key staff to set priorities for the coming year.
Kathy Revis, assistant superintendent for curriculum, said Bazzle had a good point. As she outlined some of the recent initiatives aimed at improving the performance of struggling students, she said, "You're right, we weren't getting the growth out of them (gifted students) that we should have been.
"We don't need to make them tutors (of students with learning problems). We need to push them, too," she said.
"We have to go beyond what's in the standard course of study" to do that, Superintendent Tom Burnham said.
Revis said the county is going way beyond the state's minimum standards for student (performance) accountability.
Reading problems are being attacked aggressively in the early grades, she said.
"We've got to make it our goal that people read at grade level at the end of third grade. The evidence is pretty clear what happens thereafter if they don't. If we can start remediating, that does nothing but help the child."
State requirements for remediation after a child fails a grade are not enough, Revis said. For grades kindergarten through eight, if a child is not making progress by Christmas (or earlier), officials intervene and develop a plan of action for the student, she said.
A similar program has just begun in the high schools.
"Our teachers and our principals believe very strongly that all children can learn," Revis said.
Burnham agreed.
"They don't learn at the same rate," he said. "They don't learn at the same speed. Time is the variable."
That's why school officials are trying to add hours to the instructional routine faced by students, he said.
Revis said because the school system is concerned about recent sixth-grade reading scores, reading consultants have been brought in to help raise those scores.
"We've seen a lot of good results from that. It's very expensive, but it's worth it," she said.
According to Burnham, "Standards have gone up for all students. The standards have gone up and students are doing better."
Other topics of discussion at the retreat Friday included efforts to improve communication with parents and the community, to get the community more involved in the schools, to get school officials more involved in the community, and to try new ways of doing things.
The retreat moderator is Doug McQueen, director of the training institute for American Electric Power in Columbus, Ohio. A former school administrator, he said long range planning is critical to school systems.
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What an amazing view! We arrived around sunset and immediately enjoyed a fresh Imperial on the 'terrace'. After enjoying the sunset, Javier took the time to have a chat with us and he gave us some good tips for dinner.
The hotel is great to enjoy the ocean view, relaxing atmosphere,... especially if you like to surf (we're not surfers, but I guess the other guests were).
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Saint Paul: the drink recipe
Looking through a list of vintage drink recipes, I was excited to find a cocktail called Saint Paul. A gin and rum drink made with bitter lemon soda and Angostura bitters provided one challenge--locating bitter lemon soda. The soda is a product made by Schweppes (not lemon sour) and not commonly available. No worries, since I found an easy recipe for homemade bitter lemon, made from lemon, sugar, water, and club soda. Or, if you're a purist, you can find the soda online, or have it ordered by a store that carries Schweppes products. This drink was nice and light, perfect for a summer sipper.
Saint Paul 1 1/2 oz white rum
1 1/2 oz gin
bitter lemon soda (recipe below)
one dash Angostura bitters
Fill a tall glass with ice--stack the cubes one on top of the other--add gin and rum, fill with bitter lemon soda. Run one dash Angostura bitters over the top ice cube and let it slowly track through the drink--some sort of biblical martyr reference?
Bitter lemon soda (recipe courtesy of recipezaar):
2 lemons, cut with rinds on
2 1/2 cups of water
3/8 cup of sugar (just shy of 1/2 cup)
club soda
Bring water and lemons to a boil. Simmer 10-15 minutes, until lemons are soft. Remove from heat and stir in sugar. Cover and let cool, then strain into a separate container. Add club soda to taste. This soda is good on its own, too.
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Google's head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced as a side note during his panel at SXSW that Google is releasing an algorithm update specifically to target sites over doing their SEO.
Google will introduce a filter / penalty / change. What Matt said was vague at best but he said one thing that leaves little room for speculation.
All those people doing, for lack of a better word, over optimization or overly SEO – versus those making great content and great site.
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Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, Roy Yamaguchi took a home economics class in high school, not knowing it would lead to a lifetime of culinary discoveries. He attended the Culinary Institute of America in New York's Hyde Park, where he was exposed to classical traditions. In 1984, he opened his first restaurant in Hollywood called 385 North. However, the desire to further expand his culinary horizons while getting closer to his roots led Roy to open his first Roy's in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1988. One of his major contributions to American cooking has been helping to develop and popularise Hawaiian regional cuisine.
Describe the Pacific: Natural beauty
What is your favourite ingredient to cook with? Palm sugar.
What is your favourite regional dish? Tripe stew with a side of Naau Puaa (pork chitterlings and taro leaf stew).
What tasty bite should travellers to the Pacific not miss? Laulau (a dish with taro leaves, salted butterfish and pork wrapped around ti leaves and steamed) with poi (a Polynesian staple made from the corn of the taro plant) and lomi salmon (taro leaves, salted butterfish and pork steamed and served with tomato, salmon and green onions).
What inspires you about your region? The rich natural and cultural history of our islands inspires me. From the lava that spews from the volcanoes, to the roaring surf, to the rainbows and waterfalls, and the snow-like, white-sand beaches of Maui, I am inspired every day.
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What's your favourite place to visit in the US? Pebble Beach, California.
Where is your favourite city to eat in the US? Los Angeles, California.
Who/What inspired you to become a chef? My grandfather owned a restaurant in the 1940s on Maui, and my Dad loved to cook.
How are you inspired by your environment and the seasonal foods in the US? Hawaii has a bounty of local fruits, produce, seafood and meat from our land and sea – all within miles from my home and restaurants. With Hawaii's natural beauty, how can you not be inspired?
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My DM gave this recipe to me years ago, and I have used nothing else since. Very easy to work with.
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- 1⁄4 cup milk
- 2 tablespoons vinegar
- 2 1⁄4 cups flour
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- 1 teaspoon salt
- Mix milk and vinegar together, and set aside.
- Mix flour and salt.
- Cut in shortening with fork.
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All I could taste was vinegar and it took away from the pumpkin pie I made it with. I will keep looking for a good crust recipe, specifically one without vinegar!
This didn't fail me either, Aunt Paula! I've made this twice now; once to make jam tarts, and once to make an apple pie. (see photos.) I refrigerated the dough overnight, then took it out of the refrigerator about 10 minutes before using it. For the jam tarts, I pressed the dough into ungreased muffin tins, and the tarts were easy to remove when baked. For the apple pie, I found the dough very easy to roll out. I folded the edges of the dough inwards before placing inside the pie plate, then I gently unfolded it. There were no cracks or tears, and the dough was a dream to work with! The crust was flaky and tender. I recommend this to anyone who is looking for a trouble-free pie crust recipe!
Very good. Flaky, with wonderful texture. I chose it because I am not very good with baking from scratch and it worked wonderful. I will use it again.


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Hello, I do not understand the null hypothesis topic I am learning in my statistics class this week. I am hoping someone can answer my question by showing each step and explaining each step so that I can learn how to do this on my own. I have been working on these types of problems for many hours this week, and it just hasn't clicked yet.
The following hypotheses are given.
H0: π = .40
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Since the ANZ Championship's inception in 2008, the Steel has
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The victory banishes a long-standing bogey, even if it is
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Jamaican shooter Jhaniele Fowler had a big impact when she
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Steel nudged ahead to hold a 33-28 advantage going into the
final spell.
But a handful of errors early in the phase proved costly as
the Fever racked up five unanswered goals to lock it up 36-36
with four minutes remaining. Swooping on any available
possession, the Fever clung to the narrowest advantage until
the final whistle.
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Trying to figure out what is wrong with my code. I'm using WP_Query to loop through a custom post type called "Event." I'm also limiting the posts to only those with a date newer than today, using a custom field. Finally, I'm using the WP Paginate plugin for pagination.
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Russian authorities say a 7-year-old boy named Artyom arrived all alone in Moscow after an overnight flight from Washington, D.C. - with cookies and coloring pens in his backpack, and a letter from his adoptive American mother.
"I am sorry to say that for the safety of my family, friends, and myself," the letter said, "I no longer wish to parent this child. As he is a Russian national, I am returning him to your guardianship."
CBS News correspondent Richard Roth reports the letter was signed, "Torry Hansen."
At a Siberian orphanage, they remember Hansen as the 33-year-old nurse from Tennessee who played happily with Artyom before adopting him last September. But her letter called the boy violent and mentally unstable.
Shown on Russian TV today, talking to a child care official, Artyom's was asked, "did she hit you?"
"No," says the boy, gesturing to show his hair was pulled.
The Seattle agency that arranged the adoption says it's "saddened", but sheds no light on what happened.
The U.S. State Department says it's "troubled" by the case.
Tennessee authorities went to Torry Hansen's home looking for an explanation. Her lawyer says she'll meet with them next week. In Moscow officials say Artyom now needs good care; he needs to be "rehabilitated."
To Russia, Without Love
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