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|I The Internet Trinity
|II Foucault & Digital Libertarianism
|III Safe Harbours and Unintended Consequences
|IV Privatised Panopticons and Legalised Enclosures
|V A Communications Sampler
[T]he problems to which the theory of sovereignty were addressed
were in effect confined to the general mechanisms of power, to the way
in which its forms of existence at the higher level of society influenced
its exercise at the lowest levels.. In effect, the mode in which power
was exercised could be defined in its essentials in terms of the relationship
sovereign-subject. But ..we have the .. emergence or rather the invention
of a new mechanism of power possessed of a highly specific procedural techniques..
which is also, I believe, absolutely incompatible with the relations of
sovereignty...It is a type of power which is constantly exercised by means
of surveillance rather than in a discontinuous manner by means of a system
of levies or obligations distributed over time....It presupposes a tightly
knit grid of material coercions rather than the physical existence of a
sovereign... This non-sovereign power, which lies outside the form of sovereignty,
is disciplinary power...(2)
This is an essay about law in cyberspace. I focus on three interdependent
phenomena: a set of political and legal assumptions that I call the jurisprudence
of digital libertarianism, a separate but related set of beliefs about
the state's supposed inability to regulate the Internet, and a preference
for technological solutions to hard legal issues on-line. I make the familiar
criticism that digital libertarianism is inadequate because of its blindness
towards the effects of private power, and the less familiar claim that
digital libertarianism is also surprisingly blind to the state's own power
in cyberspace. In fact, I argue that the conceptual structure and jurisprudential
assumptions of digital libertarianism lead its practitioners to ignore
the ways in which the state can often use privatized enforcement and state-backed
technologies to evade some of the supposed practical (and constitutional)
restraints on the exercise of legal power over the Net. Finally, I argue
that technological solutions which provide the keys to the first two phenomena
are neither as neutral nor as benign as they are currently perceived to
be. Some of my illustrations will come from the current Administration
proposals for Internet copyright regulation, others from the Communications
Decency Act(3) and the cryptography debate.
In the process, I make opportunistic and unsystematic use of the late Michel
Foucault's work to criticise some the jurisprudential orthodoxy of the
For a long time, the Internet's enthusiasts have believed
that it would be largely immune from state regulation. It was not so much
that nation states would not want to regulate the Net, it was that they
would be unable to do so; forestalled by the technology of the medium,
the geographical distribution of its users and the nature of
its content. This tripartite immunity came to be a kind of Internet
Holy Trinity, faith in it was a condition of acceptance into the community.
Indeed the ideas I am about to discuss are so well known on the Net, that
they have actually acquired the highest status that a culture can confer;
they have become cliches.
This quote from John Gilmore,(4) one
of the Founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has the twin advantages
of being pithy and technologically accurate. The Internet was originally
designed to survive a nuclear war; its distributed architecture and its
technique of packet switching were built around the problem of getting
messages delivered despite blockages, holes and malfunctions.(5)
Imagine the poor censor faced with such a system. There is no central exchange
to seize and hold; messages actively "seek out" alternative routes
so that even if one path is blocked another may open up. Here was the civil
libertarian's dream, a technology with comparatively low cost of
entry to speakers and listeners alike, technologically resistant to censorship,
yet politically and economically important enough that it cannot easily
be ignored. The Net offers obvious advantages to the countries, research
communities, cultures and companies that use it, but it is extemely hard
to control the amount and type of information available; access is like
a tap that only has two settings -- "off" and "full."
For governments, this has been seen as one of the biggest problems posed
by the Internet. For the Net's devotees, most of whom embrace some variety
of libertarianism, the Net's structural resistance to censorship -- or
any externally imposed selectivity -- is "not a bug but a feature."
To the technological obstacles the Net raises against externally imposed
content filtration, one must add the geographic obstacles raised by its
global extent; since a document can as easily be retrieved from a server
5,000 miles away as one five miles away, geographical proximity and content
availability are independent of each other. If the king's writ reaches
only as far as the king's sword, then much of the content on the Net might
be presumed to be free from the regulation of any particular sovereign.
The libertarian culture that dominates the Net at present posits that
state intervention into private action is only necessary to prevent "harms."
Seeing the Net as a "speech-dominated" realm of human activity
in which harm would be comparatively hard to inflict, libertarians have
been even more resistant to state regulation of the digital environment
than of, the disdainfully named, "meatspace." "Sticks and
stones can break my bones but bytes can never hurt me," or so goes
their assumption. Thus, the postulate that a global Net cannot be regulated
by national governments has been seen as an unequivocally positive thing.
John Perry Barlow's description of the First Amendment as a local
ordinance, offers the sobering reminder that it is not merely "bad"
state traditions, interventions and regulations that are enfeebled by cyberspace.
There is a difference between speech being constitutionally protected and
practically unregulable, indeed the latter situation may in some cases
undermine the former protection.
To a person interested in political theory, one of the most striking
things about the Net is the instability of the political cartography. We
divide our world up into contiguous and opposing territories -- public
and private, property and sovereignty, regulation and laissez-faire --
"solving" problems by inquiring as to their placement on this
map. In the everyday world these divisions seem comparatively solid and
lumpish to most people, even if clever academic critics may harp on their
theoretical indeterminacy. On the Net, things are different. Concepts
and political forces seem to be up for grabs. Nothing illustrates this
point better than the debate over intellectual property on-line. In the
digital environment, is intellectual property just property, the precondition
to an unregulated market, just another example of the rights that libertarians
believe the state was specifically created to protect? Or is intellectual
property actually public regulation, artificial rather than natural,
an invented monopoly imposed by a sovereign state, a distorting and liberty-reducing
intervention in an otherwise free domain?
While it would be hard to find anyone who believes entirely in either
of these two stereotypes, recognisable versions of both do exist in the
debate over intellectual property and -- more interestingly -- can be found
across the political spectrum. George Gilder of the conservative Manhattan
Institute, a fervent booster of capitalism and laissez faire, shows considerable
skepticism about intellectual property(7)
-- Peter Huber, from the same conservative think tank, pronounces it the
very acme of liberty, privacy and natural right.(8)
The Clinton Administration attempts to extend intellectual property rights
on-line(9) and is roundly criticised by
both civil liberties groups and right wing intellectuals.(10)
This isn't just a disagreement as to tactics among people who might be
said to share the same ideology: it is a fundamental set of disputes over
the very social construction and normative significance of a particular
phenomenon -- as if the Libertarian party couldn't agree on whether its
motto was to be "Taxation is theft" or "Property is theft."
Stewart Brand's phrase "information wants to be free" has
now penetrated the culture sufficiently deeply that it is now actually
parodied in advertisements. Yet its ubiquitous nature may work to
conceal the claims that it makes.
John Perry Barlow begins his famous essay "Selling Wine Without
Bottles: The Economy of Mind on the Global Net" with this quote from
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of
exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea,
which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself;
but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of
everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar
character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other
possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction
himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives
light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to
another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and
improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently
designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all
space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in
which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement
or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject
of property.(11)
The quotation expresses perfectly the mixture of Enlightenment values
and upbeat public goods theory that typifies Net analysis of information
flows. Information is costless to copy, should be spread
widely, and cannot be confined. Beyond the Jeffersonian credo lies
a kind of Darwinian anthropomorphism. Information really does want
to be free. John Perry Barlow credits Brand's phrase with
recognizing both the natural desire of secrets to be told and the fact
that they might be capable of possessing something like a "desire"
in the first place. English biologist and philosopher Richard Dawkins proposed
the idea of "memes," self-replicating, patterns of information
which propagate themselves across the ecologies of mind, saying they were
like life forms. I believe they are life forms in every respect but a basis
in the carbon atom. They self-reproduce, they interact with their surroundings
and adapt to them, they mutate, they persist. Like any other life form
they evolve to fill the possibility spaces of their local environments,
which are, in this case the surrounding belief systems and cultures of
their hosts, namely, us. Indeed, the sociobiologists like Dawkins make
a plausible case that carbon-based life forms are information as well,
that, as the chicken is an egg's way of making another egg, the entire
biological spectacle is just the DNA molecule's means of copying out more
information strings exactly like itself.(12)
Viewed through this lens, the Net is the ultimate natural environment
for information and trying to regulate the Net is like trying to prohibit
Taken together the three quotations assert that the technology of the
medium, the geographical distribution of its users and the nature of its
content all make the Net it specially resistant to state regulation. The
state is too big, too slow, too geographically and technically limited
to regulate a global citizenry's fleeting interactions over a mercurial
medium. Though I do not subscribe to the full-throated versions of any
of these slogans, I have sympathy with each of them. It does excite me
that the Net is highly resistant to externally imposed content filtration
-- though I tend to worry about structural private filters as well as command-based
public ones, and I recognise that speech and information can and will produce
harm as well as good. I do think that the global nature of the Net is --
by and large -- a positive thing, though we need to pay more attention
to things like the cost of the technology required to play the game, or
the effects on workers of a networked economy in which companies can relocate
around the world and find a new on-line workforce in an afternoon.(13)
Finally, I am optimistic about the historical conjunction of technologies
based on nearly costless copying and a political tradition that treats
information in a more egalitarian way than other resources.(14)
It is possible, of course, to conjure up a world in which rampant info-kleptocracy
undermines scientific and artistic development. I have argued elsewhere
that the main danger is not that information will be unduly free, but that
intellectual property rights will become so extensive that they will actually
stifle innovation, free speech and educational potential. In any event,
I want to set aside my agreement or disagreement with the values behind
the Net catechism, and focus instead on the factual and legal assumptions
on which it relies. My argument is that info-libertarians should not be
so quick to write off the state. In fact, I argue that the work of the
distinctively non-digital philosopher, Michel Foucault, provides some suggestive
insights into the ways in which power can be exercised on the Net and the
reasons why much contemporary analysis is so dismissive of the power of
law and the state.
|I The Internet Trinity
|II Foucault & Digital Libertarianism
|III Safe Harbours and Unintended Consequences
|IV Privatised Panopticons and Legalised Enclosures
|V A Communications Sampler
1. Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University. My remarks at the conference dealt more specifically with the law and policy of proposed changes to copyright on the Internet. However, I have already outlined some of those views in print, and at some length. See James Boyle, Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society at 136-39, 192-200 (Harvard University Press 1996), Intellectual Property Policy On-Line: A Young Person's Guide, 10 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 47 (1996), Sold Out, N.Y. Times, March 31st 1996, at E15, Overregulating the Internet?, Insight, January 15th, 1996, at 24, A Politics of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism for the Net, Duke L.J. (forthcoming). The editors of the Cincinnati Law Review were kind enough to allow me to address myself in this article to a slightly different issue, though one of profound importance to the symposium as a whole -- the extent to which state regulation of the Net is possible at all, and the costs and benefits of "technical solutions." In the course of that discussion, I use a number of examples drawn from the recent proposals on Internet copyright.
2. Michel Foucault, Two Lectures, in Michael Foucault, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977, 78, 104 (Colin Gordon ed. & Colin Gordon et al. trans., 1980).
3. The Telecommunications Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-104, tit. V, §§ 501- 61, 110 Stat. 56 (1996).
4. There are a variety of versions of the claim but the content is pretty consistent. See, e.g., John Perry Barlow, Passing the Buck on Porn (visited June 24, 1996) <http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/porn_and_responsibility.html> "The Internet, in the words of ... John Gilmore, 'deals with censorship as though it were a malfunction and routes around it.'" Judith Lewis, Why Johnny Can't Surf, LA Weekly, Feb. 21, 1997, at 43. "[I]t's not easy to push standards of decency on a network that, as ... John Gilmore put it (though even he can't remember where), treats censorship as damage and routes around it."
5. See generally, Todd Flaming, An Introduction to the Internet, 83 Ill. B.J., 311, (1995); Joshua Eddings, How the Internet Works 13 (1994); Bruce Sterling, Short History of the Internet (Feb. 1993), (available at <gopher:// gopher.isoc.org:70/00/Internet/history/short.history.of.Internet>).For background information on Internet legal issues, see generally Lawrence Lessig, The Zones Of Cyberspace, 48 Stan. L. Rev. 1403 (May 1996),The Path Of Cyberlaw 104 Yale L.J. 1743 (May 1995), David R. Johnson & David Post, Law And Borders--the Rise Of Law In Cyberspace 48 Stan. L. Rev. 1367 (May 1996). For a recent article dealing with some of the issues discussed here and arguing that individual network systems often can and should become the regulators, see David R. Johnson & David G. Post, And How Shall the Net Be Governed? A Meditation on the Relative Virtues of Decentralized, Emergent Law (visited June 24, 1997) <http://www.cli.org/emdraft.html>
6. John Perry Barlow, Leaving the Physical World (visited June 24, 1997) <http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/leaving_the_physical_world.html>(discussing the inapplicability of physical-world standards in Cyberspace).
7. One of the strongest statements of his position comes in the manifesto he co-authored with a number of other prominent members of the digerati. "Unlike the mass knowledge of the Second Wave -- public good knowledge that was useful to everyone because most people's information needs were standardized -- Third Wave customized knowledge is by nature a private good. If this analysis is correct, copyright and patent protection of knowledge (or at least many forms of it) may no longer be necessary. In fact, the marketplace may already be creating vehicles to compensate creators of customized knowledge outside the cumbersome copyright/ patent process, as suggested by John Perry Barlow." George Gilder, Esther Dyson, Jay Keyworth, Alvin Toffler, A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age, 11 New Perspectives Quarterly 26 (1994) (emphasis added).
8. Huber, in fact, has taken a direct shot at the notion that "information wants to be free." See Peter Huber, Tangled Wires: The Intellectual Confusion and Hypocrisy of the Wired Crowd, Slate, Oct. 18, 1996 at <http://www.slate.com/Features/TangledWires/TangledWires.asp>. Huber labels the intellectual property rights skeptics as hypocrites whose real attitude is merely a desire for liberal redistribution of everyone else's stuff. His views are frankly dismissive; he is criticising a group of people, some of whom have argued in favour of maintaining the existing intellectual property rules in cyberspace and others of whom have argued that reliance on rules rather than technological innovation would actually inhibit the operation of capitalism online. Yet his description of this "Wired Crowd," many of whom make Ayn Rand sound like Vladimir Ilyich, is that their position is that of a hypocritical New Dealer -- "My property is mine; yours is for sharing." Id. Wired, we are supposed to believe, is the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts in cyberspace. (Would that it were true! In fact, Wired's ideal of scathing social commentary is to claim that someone's computer is out of date.) Huber seeks to restore normative appeal to intellectual property by arguing that it "is just a commercial form of privacy law. Indeed for some, it's the only kind of privacy they still own." This powerful argument suffers a little from the example that follows. "Madonna can no longer stop you from gazing at her breasts. Copyright at least makes you pay for the pleasure." Id. Our sympathies are with her.. (and with him if this is the best illustration that comes to mind.) Stopping the world from gazing at her breasts has never seemed to be particularly high on Madonna's list of priorities -- at least as a matter of "privacy." True, Madonna might prefer a legal regime which would allow her to wring the maximum commercial advantage in every market for images of her and references to her -- for example by making people like Huber pay if they wished to use her as an example, restricting the fair use privilege, limiting news reporting and biography to authorized images and so on. Yet it is not clear why this desire, in itself, makes the notion of such a regime normatively compelling as a matter of social policy. There is also a danger in labelling critics of extensive intellectual property rights "anti-privacy." If there is a "privacy" interest consisting solely in the extraction of the maximum rent for one's intellectual property, then was the Justice Department's investigation of Microsoft's allegedly anti-competitive practices an attempt to cut down on Bill Gates' "privacy" interest in Windows 95? Or are we referring simply to spin-off effects in a particular case? Are Federal automobile emissions standards "anti-privacy"if they make it harder for me to leave the paparazzi in the dust? Intellectual property can be used to preserve privacy and I have used a stout and WASP-y pair of wingtips to hammer in a nail; this does not mean that the manufacturers of Birkenstock sandals are "anti-carpentry." There are indeed profound and interesting linkages and tensions between property and privacy, and this point has been made for some time. Compare Samuel D. Warren & Louis D. Brandeis, The Right to Privacy, 4 Harv. L. Rev. 113 (1890). with Michael Madow, Private Ownership of Public Image: Popular Culture and Publicity Rights, 81 Cal. L. Rev. 127 (Jan. 1993). Yet, as these articles both show, intellectual property most definitely is not "just a commercial form of privacy law."
9. See generally Information Infrastructure Task Force, Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure: The Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights (Sept. 1995)
10. See James Boyle, Intellectual Property Policy On-Line: A Young Person's Guide, 10 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 47, 52 (1996)
11. John Perry Barlow, Selling Wine Without Bottles: The Economy of Mind on the Global Net, Wired 2.03 (1993) at 86 (visited Jun. 24, 1997)
<http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/idea_economy_article.html> (quoting 13 The Writings of Thomas Jefferson 333-34 (Albert E. Bergh ed., 1907) (letter from Jefferson to Isaac McPherson, Aug. 13, 1813)).
12. John Perry Barlow, Selling Wine Without Bottles: The Economy of Mind on the Global Net, (visited Jun. 24, 1997)
13. Global, lightspeed mobility of labour is not something that Adam Smith had contemplated; is it a quantitative or a qualitative distinction?
14. See James Boyle, Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society at 182-83 (Harvard University Press 1996) "To someone like me, who believes a lot of our social ills come from the restriction of egalitarian norms, [the] fact [that our current ideas about information have strong egalitarian underpinnings] has an optimistic ring." See also Eugene Volokh, Cheap Speech and What It Will Do, 104 Yale L.J. 1805, 1847 (May 1995) "[T]he Supreme Court has based its jurisprudence on an idealized view of the world, a view that doesn't quite correspond to the world in which we live.... [T]his idealized world ... is much closer to the electronic media world of the future than it is to the print and broadcast media world of the present. If my predictions are right, the new technologies will make it much easier for all ideas, whether backed by the rich or the poor, to participate in the marketplace. ... [D]uring the print age, the Supreme Court created a First Amendment for the electronic age. The fictions the Court found necessary to embrace are turning, at least in part, into fact."
15. John Austin, The Province Of Jurisprudence Determined (H.L.A. Hart ed. 1954) See also James Boyle, Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism: Reflections on Language, Power, and Essentialism, 135 U. Pa. L. Rev. 383 (Jan. 1987).


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Day 2 of the weekend training. I seemed to be in a better mood, even though I had some very weird dreams. I also received a call from Jen Wicker and she, Steve, Kelby and Keri were all coming to the beach. I was super excited although I felt bad as it was cloudy and raining. They said that they would come anyways. I still felt bad, so I hoped to get in 2 hours of swimming before they arrived to avoid them being in the elements more than necessary.
I left my little cottage by the river at around 10:45am and arrived at the boat launch at 10:50am. I was in the water around 11:04am. I began my swim by swimming against the current. Since I was starting an hour earlier than planned the currents weren't as strong, so that took me about 40 minutes. I shot back the same distance in 10 minutes when swimming with the current. Swimming with the current is something I could get used to. Unfortunately, heading back against the current the 2nd time was more difficult. I spent quite a bit of time swimming in one place. I just tried to think about it as if I was 1 mile from France and the tides were changing. It was a "Now or Never" move. I slowly watched the weeds and rocks slip slowly beneath me. Oh and the crabs, there were tons of crabs. And they were moving, as they had chosen to move with the current. I figured I could actually make a profit during my training as I could tell all the crab fisherman just exactly where to put their pots. Or maybe I would catch the things myself. Hey last year I caught a fish in my suit, how hard would a crab be? Deadliest Catch here I come! (I'm addicted to this Discovery show).
On my way back, I spotted my friends on the beach. I had set my watch for 1:45 countdown. I was out of the water with 8 minutes remaining. Not quite the 2 hours I had hoped to get in, but I was able to swim this long without a feeding which was a good sign. It had also stopped raining! I took some time to chat and to feed (tea mixture, peaches). I gave Steve my remaining feedings and told him that I had about 2 hours 30 minutes left. Little did I know how to heart he would take this. (2 hours 30 minutes would put me at about a 4 hour 15 minute swim by my watch).
The Crew:
Steve and Kelby were going to be kayaking with me and feeding me every hour. Jen and Keri were going to sit on the beach for as long as they could tolerate the clouds and mist. I warned everyone that watching me swim is sometimes worse than watching paint dry and that they would have to kayak at a very slow speed. All assured me that they were fine and for some reason I believed them. I took off swimming as I couldn't be out of the water any longer as I was starting to shiver. Steve and Kelby would catch up to me in a few minutes.
Off I went against the current again. I made it almost to the point before I saw Steve and Kelby. I thought that they had went for a quick turn about the bay before joining me. Turns out the current was affecting them as much as me. Once joined up, I told them I would just follow them where ever they kayaked. This would be the first time that I really took my feedings in the middle of a swim without exiting the water first.
Now I had a watch on during the swim and I stopped expecting my 1st feeding. Steve promptly informed me that I had 5 minutes left and I better get swimming. Now this was just what I needed. I thought about protesting, but figured having a 5 minute debate with Steve about a feeding wasn't worth the effort, so I put my head down and swam. After 5 minutes, I took on some tea mixture and some Clif shot blocks. Kelby started to sing "If your happy and you know it" but with different words. I could have capsized him because now for the next hour, I would have this ridiculous song in my head.
True to form, the song "if your happy and you know it" ran through my head for the whole hour. I tried getting rid of it by saying the alphabet backwards a trick one of my old coaches taught me to stave off bordom while swimming distance. No luck there. It took me stopping for my second feeding to finally rid me of the song. Again Steve wouldn't let me stop until exactly 1 hour had passed. And this time he made sure to stop in an area I couldn't stand. Dang it! More tea and shot blocks. These things seemed to be going down better. Sometime in the 2nd hour the sun had come out as well. I mentioned during this feeding that according to my watch I only had about 20 minutes left on the swim. Steve's reply "Well we aren't swimming by your watch and mine says you have 30 minutes". Alrightly then, let's get going.
Swimming along Michelle and Steve:
Steve and Kelby steered me to the other side of the bay and kept getting in closer and closer to shore. I thought for sure that they were going to have me inact my landing on the French coast. Luckily they just turned around and when I popped up for a sighting as only Steve can said "You're going the wrong way!" I turned around and Steve made a deal with me. I could race them across the bay and if I finished in under the 20 minutes left on HIS watch, I could get out. A CHALLENGE! Now I knew I couldn't beat them across, but I thought maybe I could beat the 20 minute mark. I picked up my pace. My stroke count went from a consistent 62 to about 68 and settled in at 66. I finished 4 minutes before 20 minutes were up. By my watch, I had swum for 4 hours 2 minutes (2 rounds on the 1:45 countdown and 13 showing as remaining on the 3rd countdown). I was super excited. And I managed to bring back a small souvenior for the girls on the beach. It was just a small shell as I don't have a ton of storage space in my suit.
End of Swim kneeling in Bay:
Jen had packed me a sandwich, which I promptly ate. Then I ate the 1/2 of someone elses sandwich. Jen and Keri also agreed to drive me back to Portland, which worried me after a long swim. We did manage to stop in Cannon Beach for a nice dinner out on the patio as the sun was still shining. I also got to spend the drive back catching up with Keri and Jen as it has been a while since we talked. All in all it was a very good day.
Swimming Notes:
- Water temp: 64 degrees. I remembered the water thermometer today.
- Tongue again started to swell. Lips puckered as I forgot to put on grease.
- Chaffing: Inside of both biceps. Also some in the left armpit. Need to grease heavier next time. So far neck chaffing held to a minimum.
- My neck seems to be the first thing that tightens up during my swims. I'm hoping that this is due to sighting of which I don't think that I will have to do a lot of during the Channel.
- Need to up the sunscreen to 45+ as after 4 hours 30 doesn't do the trick. May need to do a double layer.
- Having someone push me and give me challenges helps to pass the time during the swim
- Big pieces of weeds and kelp that bypass my hands and hit me in the face first really freak me out. Jumped more than once when this happened. As long as my hand touches things first, they don't seem to scare me as much.
- My skin will be extremely dry and flaky for a day after the swim, which is really gross.
- Will not be able to sleep after longer swim as too tired and too sore, every movement wakes me up. Will have to try ibuprofen after next swim. I forgot it this time.


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Reg's Dlog (Well, what else would you call a dog's blog?)
Firstly, if you are sharp-eyed, you might spot that the Old Girl has a new domain name. No? Well don't worry. Until yesterday, I had no idea what a domain name was – and I'm still a bit vague about the details. Her site is now dawnknox.com, rather than dawnknox.wordpress.com. Was it worth the change? I don't think so but what would I know? I suggested that since we share the site, she ought to use Reg.com but she said that particular domain name has already gone and that actually, we don't "share" a site. I think there was mention of me hijacking her site. Cheek.
Well, anyway, I'll let her use dawnknox.com so long as she allows me to post in my dlog, from time to time – and sometimes even more frequently than that. It really doesn't matter to me. The Young 'Un did all the hard work and transferred her site from the old domain name to the new one but some of the photos wouldn't load, so we're not sure whether photos will be missing from some of the earlier posts. I can't think why anyone would be bothered about missing pictures (unless they are of me, of course) but if you can't see any photos in previous posts and you'd like to, let me know and I'll get the Old Girl to do something about it.
And still on the subject of photos, I thought I'd tell you about my photoshoot with Cinnamon Photography in Brentwood. You can see my portrait above. Peter Spicer, the photographer took quite a few photos of me in his studio and sometimes he allowed the others in too. The Old Boy wasn't happy about having his photo taken but Peter made everyone laugh so much, it was quite a lot of fun. He also told us about his photobooths which sound like fun. Apparently, you can hire them for parties and celebrations. They're like those photobooths that you find in stations but you get your own personal one for the evening. If you fancy one, check out Cinnamon Photography's website, here. It's almost worth organising a party, just to have a photobooth.
And while I think of it, there's a crucial photo in the Old Girl's ebook, 'Daffodil and the Thin Place', which Daffodil takes with her phone. I won't tell you who she photographs or why the picture is so important because you've probably read the ebook and you will already know. No? What do you mean you haven't read it yet? What are you waiting for? You can get your copy of 'Daffodil and the Thin Place' here on the Muse It Up Publishing website or from your favourite ebook retailer. All profits from the sale of the ebook will go towards the St. Nicholas Church, Laindon with Dunton renovation fund. 'Daffodil and the Thin Place' is set in the church and you can actually visit some of the places mentioned in the book, if you come to Laindon. Hopefully, the renovation fund will keep the building there for years to come.
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The Senior Foreign Service (SFS) comprises the top four ranks of the United States Foreign Service. These ranks were created by the Foreign Service Act of 1980 and Executive Order 12293 in order to provide the Foreign Service with senior grades equivalent to general- and flag ranks in the military and naval establishments, respectively, and to grades in the Senior Executive Service. Like military ranks and other Foreign Service ranks, the Senior Foreign Service grade system assigns rank in person, not rank in position.
Grade structureEdit
The four grades, from highest to lowest, with their military and former Senior Executive Service equivalents (i.e., prior to the SES's shift to an open-range compensation system[1]), are:
|SFS rank
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|Career Ambassador (FE-CA)
|Career Minister (FE-CM)
|Minister Counselor (FE-MC)
|Counselor (FE-OC)
Only one of these ranks, Career Ambassador, is established by law. The Foreign Service Act of 1980 stipulates, "The President may, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, confer the personal rank of career ambassador upon a career member of the Senior Foreign Service in recognition of especially distinguished service over a sustained period."[2] Otherwise, the 1980 Act states the President shall "prescribe salary classes for the Senior Foreign Service and shall prescribe an appropriate title for each class."[3] President Ronald Reagan established the other three Senior Foreign Service ranks with Executive Order 12293.
According to McCaffree's Protocol: The Complete Handbook of Diplomatic, Official & Social Usage, Career Ministers of the Senior Foreign Service are to be accorded the honorific "The Honorable". Career Ambassadors, as ambassadors, are accorded the honorific "Her/His Excellency".[4]
Pay scaleEdit
|Counselor (OC)
|Minister Counselor (MC)
|Career Minister (CM)
The Senior Foreign Service pay system is an open-range, performance-based pay system that is linked to the Senior Executive Service (SES) pay system. SFS members, like SES members, are not entitled to automatic across-the-board increases and locality-based comparability payments. Instead, pay adjustments are based on a member's individual performance and/or contribution to the agency's performance.
As amended under 5 U.S.C. 5376, Executive Order 12293 prescribes three SFS salary classes linked to the Executive Schedule, ranging from 120 percent of the pay rate for a GS-15, step 1 to the pay rate for ES-II:
- Career Minister (CM) with a pay cap equal to the rate of pay for ES-II (Note: Career Ambassador (CA) SFS members are also paid within the CM rate range);
- Minister-Counselor (MC) with a pay cap equal to 1.07 times the rate of pay for ES-III; and
- Counselor (OC) with a pay cap equal to 1.02 times the rate of pay for ES-III.[6]
The Executive Order originally prescribed three SFS salary classes linked to the SES as follows:
- Career Minister (CM) with a range from 94 percent of the rate payable to level III of the Executive Schedule to 100 percent of the rate payable to level II of the Executive Schedule;
- Minister-Counselor (MC) with a range from 90 percent of the rate payable to level III of the Executive Schedule to 100 percent of the rate payable to level III of the Executive Schedule; and
- Counselor (OC), with a range from 120 percent of the rate payable to GS–15, step 1 to 100 percent of the rate payable to level III of the Executive Schedule.[7]
Prior to creation of the Senior Foreign Service (i.e., prior to implementation of the Foreign Service Act of 1980) Career Ministers were paid at the same rate as Class 1 Foreign Service Officers. In 1979, an FSO-1 earned from $61,903 to $65,750 per annum, with the caveat that civil service and Foreign Service salaries were capped at $50,112.50 per annum, equal to the pay rate for Level V of the Executive Schedule, per Section 5308 of Title 5 of the U.S. Code. The top theoretical annual salary, $65,750, was equal to that of a GS-18.[8]
Prior to passage of the Foreign Service Act of 1980, the Rogers Act and subsequently the Foreign Service Act of 1946 had established a grade system from FSS-22 up to FSO-1. A single "senior" grade, Career Minister, was established by the 1946 Act for Foreign Service Officers who had served with noteworthy distinction in ambassadorships or other, equivalent positions (usually as Assistant Secretary or Under Secretary of State). Since Career Ministers were paid at the same rate as senior FSO-1s, however, the "promotion" was merely symbolic.
The rank of Career Ambassador
"was first established by an Act of Congress on Aug 5, 1955, as an amendment to the Foreign Service Act of 1946. Under its provisions, the President with the advice and consent of the Senate was empowered to appoint individuals to the class who had (1) served at least 15 years in a position of responsibility in a government agency, including at least 3 years as a Career Minister; (2) rendered exceptionally distinguished service to the government; and (3) met other requirements prescribed by the Secretary of State."[9]
Ambassadors were appointed as a rule from the ranks of FSO-2s and FSO-1s, with very senior ambassadorships going to the relatively rare Career Ministers and exceedingly rare Career Ambassadors. Following reform of the civil service in 1949, when the General Schedule with its three "supergrades" (GS-16 through GS-18) was created, and then following creation of the Senior Executive Service in 1978, however, Foreign Service Officers in senior policy positions found themselves regularly equated to mid-level counterparts in the military and the civil service. The 1980 Act sought in part to redress this imbalance in perceived status versus level of authority and responsibility.
The intent of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 in establishing the Senior Foreign Service was to create a cadre of senior, policy-level foreign affairs professionals on a par with the senior, policy-level officers of the military and naval establishments, and with the civil service-based Senior Executive Service, which had been formed a few years prior. The 1980 Act describes the Senior Foreign Service as the "corps of leaders and experts for the management of the Service and the performance of its functions."[10] The Act provides, moreover, that for promotion into and within the Senior Foreign Service, the precepts used by selection boards (the bodies responsible for recommending promotions and involuntary separations of underperformers) "shall emphasize performance which demonstrates the strong policy formulation capabilities, executive leadership qualities, and highly developed functional and area expertise" requisite for these positions.[11]
In addition to their eligibility to serve in ambassadorships, SFS officers serve in senior positions in U.S. diplomatic missions (e.g., as deputy chief of mission, as head of section in a large embassy, or as consul general in a large consulate general) as well as in headquarters positions in their respective foreign affairs agencies.
Eligibility and time in classEdit
In order to be promoted into the Senior Foreign Service, an FS-1 Foreign Service Officer or Specialist must "open his/her window", that is, must formally request in writing consideration for promotion into the Senior Foreign Service. This application starts a clock; if the officer is not promoted into the Senior Foreign Service within a specific number of convocations of Selection Boards (set by regulation in each foreign affairs agency), the officer is mandatorily retired.
Like the rest of the Foreign Service, as well as their military counterparts, Senior Foreign Service officers are subject to time-in-class provisions. If not promoted within a specific "time in class" for the rank encumbered, the officer is mandatorily retired. The time in class for each grade varies both by grade and by foreign affairs agency, and is established by agency regulation. Times in class are now cumulative, so that early promotion to higher grades no longer leads to rapid retirement of rapidly rising officers.
These stipulations ensure flow-through of the senior ranks of the service, a specific goal of the rank-in-person Foreign Service personnel system.[12][13][14][15]
See alsoEdit
- ^ "Senior Executive Service Pay and Performance Awards". U.S. Office of Personnel Management. 2004. Archived from the original on 2018-03-31. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
- ^ Foreign Service Act of 1980, Section 302(2)(A)
- ^ Foreign Service Act of 1980, Section 402
- ^ McCaffree, Protocol: The Complete Handbook of Diplomatic, Official & Social Usage
- ^ "Pay Schedules". Diplomacy in Action. U.S Department of State. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
- ^ "State Department Pay Scales".
- ^ United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions Archived 2009-08-07 at the Wayback Machine, page 208
- ^ Department of State Salary Chart 1979
- ^ State Department: Career Ambassadors.
- ^ Foreign Service Act of 1980, Section 103(3)
- ^ 22 U.S. Code § 4003
- ^ Kopp and Gillespie, Career Diplomacy, pp. 3-4
- ^ Schmick, Henry (April 2010). "Up or Out". V.P. Voice: FAS. Foreign Service Journal.
- ^ Schmick, Henry (May 2010). "Up or Out, Part II". V.P. Voice: FAS. Foreign Service Journal.
- ^ Schmick, Henry (July 2010). "Up or Out, Part III". V.P. Voice: FAS. Foreign Service Journal.
- Kopp, Harry W.; Charles A. Gillespie (2008). Career Diplomacy: Life and Work in the U.S. Foreign Service. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-1-58901-219-6.
- McCaffree, Mary Jane (2002). Protocol: The Complete Handbook of Diplomatic, Official & Social Usage. Durban House Press. ISBN 978-1-930754-18-8.


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The part that is stumping me the most is the speedometer. I have the transmission gears figured out but I'm 99% sure I can't make my mechanical speedometer cable mount to the back of the cluster. Is there a way i could possible take the stock mitsu cable end and crimp it to the new cable? I know nothing about the workings of a speedometer cable so I'm sorry if that sounds stupid I really have no idea.
I saw this part https://www.hawksmotorsports.com/ele...clip-on-style/ but for the price of this I could get a full jegs set with Speedo, tach, temp, voltage, and oil pressure. Do you guys think this could work??
Does anyone Know of an electronic speedometer that could take the place of ours possibly a later model mitsu? What years did they switch to electronic speed sensor? I've been kicking around the idea of keeping the stock gauge face and using a vss style and mounting it behind and using an adapter to calibrate it.
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There's been much debate about 'genetics' since Scotland manager Gordon Strachan mentioned them in his post match press conference following the 2-2 draw with Slovenia in Ljubljana.
The draw meant Scotland had gone on an undefeated run of six games but also resulted in the country failing to secure a play-off place for the 2018 World Cup Finals in Russia.
Whether WGS deliberately mentioned we're 'too small genetically' to take away from the fact Scotland failed to qualify or not, he succeeded. He's now the focus, mostly of ridicule, with his statement. But f you think back, Sunday was NOT the first time he commented on the size of players we produce.
I remember him using the same analogy when Shaun Maloney was playing, in fact I'm sure it was after the European qualifiers against the Republic of Ireland. So, it's obvious, rightly or wrongly, he believes he's right.
Like Gordon himself, there are many contradictions to the validity of the genetic argument, namely the fact most of the best players in the world are on the small side, Messi, Iniesta, Xavi aren't exactly giants, but to be fair, with their ability, size isn't too much of an issue.
Scotland simply don't have players with that ability, or even near that ability.
I do get the physicality argument, bigger, stronger players tend to be more athletic, but to blame it on genetics is a bit of a no-no, in my opinion.There are way too many connotations as to how you win a football match.
If Scotland's 'taller' players, Charlie Mulgrew, Christoph Berra and Darren Fletcher had dealt with the two set pieces better, then wee Leigh Griffiths goal might have been enough..


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TMZ.com reports that they've heard Kevin Federline is telling his lawyer to make Britney Spears' attempts at a smooth divorce to become as difficult as possible in a bid to force the singer to offer a generous settlement. The thought is that the longer the divorce drags on, the more difficult a musical comeback would be for Spears. One thing Britney won't negotiate on is custody of their two children, and she's resigned herself to the fact that he has no interest in being part of Sean Preston or Jayden James' lives. Read more.


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*the name game*
(just a fun e-mail thing i got from a friend! give it a try, its fun!)
REAL NAME: shaina christina lee-ann longstreet
GANGSTA NAME: (first 4 letters of your real name + izzle) shaizzle
DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color + favorite animal) pink elephant
SOAP OPERA NAME: (your middle name + street you live on) lee-ann hemlock
STAR WARS NAME: (first 3 letters of your last name + first 2 of middle name) lonle
SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favorite color + favorite drink) green mocha
WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (parents middle names) christina elliot
GOTH NAME: ("black" + name of a pet) black tucker
ok that was silly.... oh well. :P
so i started my new job yesterday morning. LOVE IT!!! i made all the blended drinks yesterday and all the drive up window orders today. so much fun! i really like my boss and i'm picking things up pretty fast. and i made 7 bucks in tips today. i've never had a job making tips before, so this is a big deal to me.
in other news: its september!! holy cow. when did that happen? seriously, this summer has gone by soooo fast! but fall is by far my favorite season. i love the crispness in the air, wearing jackets and scarfs, and the changing of the leaves. some people say that its the end of things....the leaves die, everything goes brown, etc.... but i feel so alive during the autumn. it makes me smile just thinking about it. :D
so, in honor of fall....i have the first sunset of september to share with you. enjoy.
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
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congrats on the new job..love that photo:)ReplyDelete
what a riot that name game is!ReplyDelete
yaaaay!!! it looks great!!!ReplyDelete
I love that name game, we could be the dynamic duo of, Green Mocha & Aqua Tea!!ReplyDelete
I love te fall and September for all those reasons too--love that sunset photo! And the blog make over--super sweet!ReplyDelete
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The subject of whether accreditation matters when it comes to Christian colleges is important because it addresses the institution's academic and public standing. It should not be confused with licensing, which establishes grounds to operate within a state and which qualifies them for approval with the Federal Government or the Department of Education. Although accreditation is a voluntary process, it carries much weight because it speaks to an institution's level of credibility, accountability, recognition and reputation. From the employment and academic perspectives, status counts. Therefore, accreditation must not be taken lightly.
Accreditation helps to ensure that the institution upholds certain study ethics and code of conduct. This has significance to their level of operation, their program offerings and their grading system. To achieve accreditation status, colleges must pass several examinations to meet certain criteria. This process is done by a specified body to ensure delivery of high-quality education.
An institution that is not answerable to a governing body is left to take matters into their own hands. Students want the assurance of being able to present a matter to higher authority if necessary. Accreditation means that an institution must be accountable for any academic decisions they make. This accountability includes the weight carried by their credit hours. It is usually easier to transfer college credits from an accredited Christian college. No worthwhile accredited college will automatically accept credits from a non-accredited Christian college. This dilemma often forces students who desire to transfer to repeat certain courses or take additional ones.
Three types of accreditation distinguish education at the tertiary level. Regional accreditation focuses more on the academics and is non-profit. National accredited schools are also non-profit. They have no geographic limitations, and their specialty is vocational training and technical and career-oriented programs. Institutions that offer professional degrees like law seek professional or specialized accreditation. Not all accreditation bodies are the same. Since some are more recognized than others, it is important for Christian colleges to seek accreditation with one of high recognition. Like secular colleges, accredited Christian colleges also seem to be more recognized in the world of academia.
Without the accreditation process, colleges have greater latitude to confer degrees simply for the monetary benefits. However, accreditation holds them to stricter graduation criteria. In years past, Christian colleges have been less favored by employers, unless it was a religious organization to which a prospective employer made application. This stigma has changed for the better, especially if the degree is from an accredited Christian college; it has greater value when job seeking. In the employment arena, accreditation helps to distinguish authentic degrees form paper mill degrees.
Non-accreditation does not mean that a Christian college cannot deliver high-quality education. Some have opted out because they do not want to be affected by regulations that oppose their religious philosophies. However, for students to protect their investments of time, money and effort, they need to play it safe. Since earning a degree is all about securing one's future, attending an accredited Christian college seems to be a better investment.


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Rachel Delilah "Leta" Clark Payne
Aggie C. Reynolds
Transcribed from newspaper clippings, most have unknown dates or newspaper name.
Rachel Delilah "Leta" Clark Payne of Berkshire
Leta Clark Payne, wife of the late John Payne, died Tuesday night in the home of her son, Henry Payne, at North Berkshire.
Mrs. Payne was born in 1870 in Richford, the daughter of George and Martha Clark. All her younger life was spent in Richford.
In 1888, she was married to John Payne and went to Berkshire to live.
Sometime in September, she suffered from a slight stroke and about a week before her death, became worse.
She is survived by two sons, Parsons Payne of Ithaca, and Henry Payne, of North Berkshire, where she made her home.
Services for her were held Friday afternoon in the church at Richford. The Rev. J. Albert Hammond, pastor, officiated.
Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery in Berkshire.
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Exchange builds skills, relationship among athletes
Whistler Mountain Ski Club racers at the K1 (age 11 to 12) and K2 (13 to 14) level are playing host to nine of their Italian counterparts from July 25 to Aug. 7 as part of an athlete exchange.
The kids train on the snow in the mornings and take part in dryland training exercises in the afternoon and evenings.
On Aug. 15, nine Whistler skiers will fly to Italy for one week to train on the glacier at Madonna di Campiglio and complete the exchange.
According to WMSC program director Leslie Clarke, the Whistler skiers that are billeting the Italian representatives are learning more than European racing techniques.
"Theres the language thing, but thats not a problem for the kids they get along in any language, and skiing is something they all have in common," says Clarke. "We encouraged them and all the billeting families to pick up an Italian phrase book beforehand because we dont speak Italian and they dont speak English, but were communicating."
The Whistler kids have also learned a few lessons about soccer, one of the dryland activities that has been scheduled for the Italians visit. Other activities included Ultimate, mountain biking, capture the flag, inline skating, rafting, and agility drills.
This is the first athlete exchange that the WMSC has ever held, and Clarke says that it has been so successful that the club will look into the possibility of arranging similar exchanges in the future.
"We did a good job of keeping the costs down by arranging billets for the athletes, and weve gotten great support from the club. Most people recognize this as a great opportunity," Clarke said.
The Italian technical delegate for the Whistler Cup race first suggested the idea to Clarke back in April. They e-mailed back and forth after the competition to organize the exchange.
"Its great that it actually happened and so soon," says Clarke. "The kids are having a blast."


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Showing Top rated movies from 2011
Blood Out (2011)
Blood In. Blood Out.
Rating: 4.5/10
Luke Goss, Val Kilmer, 50 Cent, Vinnie Jones, Tamer Hassan,
"Blue Bloods" Hall of Mirrors (2011)
Rating: 7.8/10
Crime, Drama, Tv Series,
Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes, Len Cariou, Tom Selleck,
Tekken: Blood Vengeance (2011)
Rating: 5.9/10
Animation, Action, Sci Fi,
Isshin Chiba, Darren Daniels, Kyle Hebert, Carrie Keranen, Erik Scott Kimerer,
"Bloomers" (2011)
Grow up already.
Rating: 8.6/10
Comedy, Drama, Tv Series,
Jay Ali, Kristin Barker, Fernanda Espíndola, Nathan Frizzell, Holly Holstein,
Blue Door (2011)
A Husband and wife endure a tragedy...
Rating: 7.7/10
Renny Grames, Tod Huntington, Chelsea Earlewine, William Ferrer, Larry Filion,
Hâdo romanchikkâ (2011)
Rating: 6.0/10
Shôta Matsuda, Kento Nagayama, Tokio Emoto, Sei Ashina, Keiko Awaji,
The Future (2011)
Rating: 6.1/10
Comedy, Drama, Sci Fi,
Hamish Linklater, Miranda July, David Warshofsky, Isabella Acres, Joe Putterlik,
Blur (2011)
Everything you know is wrong.
Rating: 7.6/10
Drama, Mystery, Thriller,
Burt Bulos, Emily Marie Grant, Lila Green, Mark Halfmoon, Conor Hamill,
The Boatshed (2011)
Rating: ?/10
Short, Horror,
Matthew Richard Harris, Richard Leighton Harris,
Bob Dylan Revealed (2011)
Rating: 5.0/10
Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, Bob Dylan, Jack Elliott, Joel Gilbert, Mickey Jones,
"Body of Proof" (2011)
Get away with murder? Over their dead bodies.
Rating: 7.0/10
Crime, Drama, Tv Series,
Dana Delany, Jeri Ryan, Geoffrey Arend, Windell Middlebrooks, Mary Mouser,
The Change-Up (2011)
Who says men can't change?
Rating: 6.4/10
Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Leslie Mann, Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin,
"Bones" The Sin in the Sisterhood (2011)
Rating: 7.6/10
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Tv Series,
Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, Tamara Taylor, T.J. Thyne,
"Bones" The Body in the Bag (2011)
Rating: 7.8/10
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Tv Series,
Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, Tamara Taylor, T.J. Thyne,
Body Language (2011)
The Dream is New York, The Language is Dance
Rating: 4.1/10
Drama, Music,
Floris Bosveld, Lorenzo van Velzen Bottazzi, Chandler Bullock, Luciano Hiwat, Ingrid Jansen,
"Bones" The Daredevil in the Mold (2011)
Rating: 7.9/10
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Tv Series,
Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, Tamara Taylor, T.J. Thyne,
Bomb Squad (2011)
Rating: 3.6/10
Craig Beeman, Andrew Chamberlin, Bob Diven, Joe Duerksen, Dave Edwards,
"Homeland" The Vest (2011)
Rating: 8.7/10
Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Tv Series,
Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, Morena Baccarin, David Harewood, Diego Klattenhoff,
Ballada o bombere (2011)
Now their life is at stake
Rating: 6.5/10
Action, Drama, War,
Nikita Efremov, Ekaterina Astakhova, Aleksandr Davydov, Vladislav Abashin, Egor Barinov,
"Bones" The Finder (2011)
Rating: 7.7/10
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Tv Series,
Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, Tamara Taylor, T.J. Thyne,
Bong of the Dead (2011)
There will be bud!
Rating: 3.2/10
Action, Comedy, Horror,
Simone Bailly, Mark Wynn, Jy Harris, Barry Nerling, Vince Laxton,
Killing Bono (2011)
Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll Rivalry
Rating: 6.4/10
Comedy, Music,
Ben Barnes, Ralph Brown, Jason Byrne, Sam Corry, Seán Doyle,
The Curse of Babylon (2011)
Rating: 7.3/10
Action, Crime, Sci Fi,
Charles Duran, Rebekah Kennedy, Arianne Martin, Justin Henry, Katherine Willis,
Book of Dragons (2011)
Rating: 6.1/10
Animation, Short, Comedy, Fantasy,
Jay Baruchel, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jim Cummings,
"Smallville" Booster (2011)
Rating: 8.4/10
Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci Fi, Tv Series,
Tom Welling, Erica Durance, Cassidy Freeman, Justin Hartley, Keri Lynn Pratt,
Breaking Bad - Hermanos "SE04-EP08" (2011)
Rating: 9.4/10
Crime, Drama, Thriller, Tv Series,
Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt,
"Borgia" (2011)
Rating: 7.9/10
Drama, Tv Series,
John Doman, Mark Ryder, Isolda Dychauk, Diarmuid Noyes, Marta Gastini,
In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
Rating: 4.2/10
Drama, Romance, War,
Zana Marjanovic, Goran Kostic, Rade Serbedzija, Vanessa Glodjo, Nikola Djuricko,
"Boston Massacre" (2011)
Rating: 7.7/10
Crime, Tv Series,
Richard Chandler, Joe Campanella, George Raynor, Seregon O'Dassey, Carver Riot,
Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular (2011)
Rating: ?/10
Boston Pops Orchestra, Michael Chiklis, Martina McBride,
"Transformers: Rescue Bots" (2011)
Rating: 6.5/10
Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Tv Series,
Lacey Chabert, Elan Garfias, Maurice LaMarche, Jason Marsden, Shannon McKain,
Pill Bottle Angels (2011)
Rating: ?/10
Short, Drama,
Jennifer Marks, Robert Factor, Jack Rubio Jr., Michael Valentino, Arineh Gharakhanian,
Une bouteille à la mer (2011)
Rating: 7.1/10
Agathe Bonitzer, Mahmud Shalaby, Hiam Abbass, Riff Cohen, Abraham Belaga,
Doomsday Prophecy (2011)
Rating: 3.9/10
Sci Fi,
A.J. Buckley, Jewel Staite, Alan Dale, Bruce Ramsay, Rick Ravanello,
Fase 7 (2011)
World War III knocking at your door.
Rating: 5.9/10
Comedy, Sci Fi, Thriller,
Daniel Hendler, Jazmín Stuart, Yayo Guridi, Federico Luppi, Carlos Bermejo,
5 Broken Cameras (2011)
Rating: 7.9/10
Emad Burnat, Soraya Burnat, Mohammed Burnat, Yasin Burnat, Taky-Adin Burnat,
Breaking Bad - Box Cutter "SE04-EP01" (2011)
Rating: 9.3/10
Crime, Drama, Thriller, Tv Series,
Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt,
Knockout (2011)
Rating: 5.0/10
Action, Family,
Steve Austin, Daniel Magder, Janet Kidder, Emma Grabinsky, Jaren Brandt Bartlett,
Some Guy Who Kills People (2011)
Ken Boyd, a lonely man fresh out of the loony bin, sets out to kill those he deems responsible for his miserable life.
Rating: 6.4/10
Comedy, Horror, Thriller,
Kevin Corrigan, Barry Bostwick, Karen Black, Leo Fitzpatrick, Ariel Gade,
"The Slap" (2011)
Whose Side Are You On?
Rating: 7.6/10
Drama, Tv Series,
Jonathan LaPaglia, Sophie Okonedo, Alex Dimitriades, Essie Davis, Lex Marinos,
Boy Toy (2011)
He's within inches of his dream job!
Rating: 4.3/10
John White, Mircea Monroe, Dov Tiefenbach, Vivian Bang, Morgan Fairchild,
Long Branch (2011)
It's too late to turn back.
Rating: 7.3/10
Short, Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Alex House, Jenny Raven, Al Maini,
Brawler (2011)
Rating: 3.9/10
Nathan Grubbs, Marc Senter, Pell James, Dane Rhodes, Brian Stapf,
Monster Brawl (2011)
It's the fight of the living dead!
Rating: 3.6/10
Action, Comedy, Horror, Sport,
Dave Foley, Art Hindle, Robert Maillet, Jimmy Hart, Herb Dean,
"Breaking In" (2011)
Rating: 7.1/10
Comedy, Crime, Tv Series,
Bret Harrison, Alphonso McAuley, Christian Slater, Jennifer Irwin, Megan Mullally,
The Break Up (2011)
Rating: ?/10
Short, Comedy, Family, Romance,
Nay Nay Kirby, Damien Luvara, Nick Naldi,
Breakaway (2011)
Rating: 5.7/10
Comedy, Drama, Sport,
Vinay Virmani, Camilla Belle, Russell Peters, Rob Lowe, Anupam Kher,
Vile (2011)
Rating: 4.9/10
Eric Jay Beck, April Matson, Akeem Smith, Greg Cipes, Maya Hazen,
Breaking Bad - Crawl Space "SE04-EP11" (2011)
Rating: 7.9/10
Crime, Drama, Thriller, Tv Series,
Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt,
Breaking Bad - Open House "SE04-EP03" (2011)
Rating: 8.3/10
Crime, Drama, Thriller, Tv Series,
Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt,


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Reading and Note-taking online resources from UNSW
Effective Reading
Lengthy reading lists for courses and essays can be frightening, particularly when the subject is unfamiliar. This guide assists with reading strategies you will find helpful.
Reading for Understanding: The SQW3R Method of Study
Reading is one of the core activities of study. You need to be able to understand what you read and to be able to recall the main ideas when you need them. You can use the SQW3R method to improve your comprehension, to remember a reading for tutorials, seminars or to revise for exams.
Note-taking: an introduction
An outline of effective note-taking strategies to help you get the most out of lectures and readings. The guide suggests procedures such as symbols and abbreviations, diagrams and note cards.
Effective Note-making from Written Text
A simple method to use when you are making notes from any written sources of information.
Selecting Information
When you select material and information for your assignments, it should never be used indiscriminately should be a continual evaluation process occurring. This guide features a list of questions you should ask yourself when examining information.
Five powerful approaches to revision:
Retrieval Practice
Questioning and Elaboration
Concrete Examples
Spaced Practice
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International Applicants
Denison prides itself on offering a culturally diverse environment for its students. Our strong academic reputation attracts talented students from 50 states and nearly as many countries, so our students interact with people of many different faiths and cultural backgrounds.
Admission Deadlines
International students (anyone who is not a citizen or permanent resident of the United States: 16% of our first-year class) are also given the opportunity to work closely with faculty and staff, forming long-lasting and meaningful relationships. Faculty and staff (including our president) recognize the needs of international students and are supportive of their academic and social endeavors.
Below are dates specific for International applicants.
Application Round
Submission Deadline
Decision Notification Sent
Reply Deadline
Early Decision I (binding)
November 15
December 15
7-10 days
Early Decision II (binding)
January 15
February 15
7-10 days
Regular Decision
January 15
May 1
Regardless of when an admission decision is released, all admission decisions become final and official on April 1. Any appeals must be submitted prior to April 1.
Required Documents
Our admission committee gives careful attention to the following components of your application:
In evaluating your application to Denison, we take a number of things into consideration about you as an individual. We are seeking students who have demonstrated a seriousness toward their academic life and who, in addition, would bring a variety of interests, characteristics, and personal qualities to our dynamic campus community.
Required Items
Additional Information
Once you submit your application, you will be emailed a confirmation that includes login information for your online portal (where you can keep track of your other application materials). A personal essay is included in this application.
Counselor Recommendation
Your counselor will submit this recommendation directly to us. If you do not have a counselor at your school, you may ask a teacher or another school official instead.
High School Transcript
Your counselor must send us a copy of your official transcript. We will use this to recalculate your GPA and evaluate your academic performance and course selection*.
We strongly recommend that you complete four years of a primary language and at least three years of mathematics, a secondary language, science, and social studies during high school. We also encourage you to challenge yourself with rigorous courses, when available and within reason.
School Report
Your counselor or another school official will submit this form directly to us.
Teacher Evaluation
At least one teacher of a core course must submit a teacher evaluation form for you. You can invite your teachers to do this online, which is how they will submit the evaluation to us.
English Proficiency Demonstration
All international applicants must demonstrate adequate English proficiency to qualify for admission. English proficiency waivers are considered on a case-by-case basis after a student applies for admission. Considerations include, but are not limited to, the following: English as the primary language of school instruction; English as the first/native language; TOEFL of 80+; IELTS* of 6.5+; Duolingo English Test (DET) of 105+; SAT Reading of 600+; ACT English Language Arts of 26+; and an admission interview.
Denison University International Student Certification of Finances
All international applicants are required to submit this form.
Early Decision Agreement
This contract—signed by you, a parent/guardian, and your counselor—is required for early decision applicants.
The following items are optional in addition to the required items above.
Optional Items
Additional Information
Submission of test scores is optional. Any test scores submitted are superscored.
Interview (to set up an interview, email firstname.lastname@example.com)
Interviews are optional but recommended when logistically possible.
Students interested in creative writing, dance, music, studio art, or theatre may submit supplementary arts materials for evaluation. This is done through the Denison Applicant Portal, which is available once the Common or Coalition Application has been submitted.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, Denison offers exactly the same need-based financial aid and merit-based scholarships to international students as it does to U.S. citizens and permanent residents, and Denison meets 100% of each student's demonstrated financial need. All international applicants are required to submit the Denison University International Student Certification of Finances, regardless of whether or not they want to be considered for need-based financial aid.
You may apply for need-based financial aid only during the admission process. International students who enroll at Denison without need-based financial aid cannot apply for funding in the future.
The majority of international students in the United States enroll with the F-1 student visa. These students are admitted to the United States for "duration of status" (indicated as "D/S" on their I-94 and Form I-201D). In order to maintain status, students must:
- have a valid passport;
- attend the school for which they are authorized;
- be enrolled in a full course of study (12 or more credit hours);
- acquire a signature for travel on the I-20;
- engage only in authorized employment; and
- comply with all immigration regulations pertaining to F-1 status. (Authorized employment for F-1 students entails on-campus employment of a maximum of 20 hours per week when school is in session and 40 hours per week over the summer and during holiday breaks. Additional authorization is required for off-campus employment, as outlined by F-1 student immigration regulations.)
We have study abroad opportunities, faculty and staff who help students achieve their goals, and many different programs that focus on multicultural areas of study.
Multicultural Activities
Besides interacting with classmates from various backgrounds, international students can also join organizations with multicultural focuses, where they can embrace their individuality and get to know other students with similar interests. Throughout the year, we also offer numerous lectures, concerts, and events that introduce our community to new art forms, cultures, and ways of life.
International Friendship Program
Denison sponsors a non-residential host (International Friendship Program) family program that brings international students together with local families. Host families give international students the opportunity to learn more about our culture, and they can introduce their students to the local community and off-campus life. In turn, local families are able to expand their own horizons through friendships with students from other countries. International students meet their host families upon arrival and occasionally throughout their time at Denison. While there are different levels of involvement that are agreed upon between students and host families, most host families meet their student during the orientation program and make a commitment to spend some time together during the year. For international students, the program is voluntary, so students requesting host families should be genuinely interested in learning more about family life in the United States and developing personal relationships beyond the college campus.
International Student Services
International Student Services offers students who have been educated abroad the tools, guidance, and instruction to engage and perform at their optimal level in the U.S. academic domain. ISS provides a pre-orientation program for entering students, one-on-one advising on the academic, social, and personal challenges associated with living and learning in an unfamiliar culture, and continuing education on the immigration regulations, requirements, and expectations pertinent to the non-immigrant student visa.
Once you are admitted and choose to attend Denison, you will receive the I-20 Form needed to obtain your F1 visa (NOT a visitor visa). Please read the information on the form carefully. Along with your passport, the visa is needed to avoid immigration problems during your stay in the United States.
Yes, we have the Denison International Students Association (DISA). This very active group is run by students. The association frequently holds meetings to discuss general student concerns and to plan upcoming events such as holiday celebrations, retreats, International Week, and debates on international issues.
Denison students come from all around the world. Students in our first-year class alone represent 40 states and 23 countries, 19% are international, and 20% are domestic students of color.
Dear Prospective Students and Families,
We are so glad you are considering Denison as the place you will live and learn for the next four years.
Denison is a special place. Our community is warm, diverse, and filled with people who are committed to an intensive academic program. We approach learning through mentorship, and you'll find that all classes are taught by faculty who are committed to your success. Professors meet with you outside of class, they attend concerts and events, and they become part of your life by helping you succeed.
You'll remain close with your Denison friends for the rest of your life. Over and over, our alumni tell us how much they cherish the friends they made here and how important they have been in their lives – both personally and professionally. With more than 30,000 Denison alumni living across the globe, chances are you'll find a Denison connection in your corner of the world.
As an international student, you'll be part of a large global community right here in Granville. Students in our first-year class come from all 50 U.S. states and 40 countries, 16% are international, and 23% are domestic multicultural students of various backgrounds. About one-fifth of our faculty are from countries other than the United States, and more than half of our students study abroad. Denison has sister colleges in 17 countries, and we are building connections with four sister schools in Asia, Africa, and Europe. We believe in the power of global learning, and we integrate it across the campus in classrooms, programs, and events.
The outcomes for alumni highlight the value of a Denison degree. Within five years of graduation, 99% of alumni reported that they are employed or in graduate school (at prestigious institutions like Yale, Cambridge, and Harvard). Career readiness is a top priority of our strategic plan, and the newly named and endowed Austin E. Knowlton Center for Career Exploration has doubled in size over the past few years. The center provides robust internships, workplace skills training, national and global networking ventures, and new learning-by-doing programs, all designed to prepare Denison students for a competitive global job market.
We look at your time at Denison as a very unique moment in your life. During these four years, you'll acquire knowledge that you haven't even imagined of, build inner resources that will hold you steady in the future, and excite your curiosity about the world around you. In other words, you'll learn how to fulfill your potential — and we'll be beside you every step of the way.
Adam Weinberg
President, Denison University
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Let's start with the current and work our way back. Currently, we have a nice overstuffed fabric couch and loveseat. They are a neutral tan and well broke in... a little too broke in. The loveseat isn't so bad, but the sofa has a couple dips that resemble the backside of a certain family member. We'll just leave it at that. Even still, it's a far cry from the one we had before. It was a leather sofa and overstuffed chair. I bought them used and knew as soon as I got them home I had made a HUGE mistake. Colossal mistake. The kind of mistake that makes your 1980's hair and wardrobe choices look like a good idea. When I went to go look at it, there was a strong candle burning. First sign, missed it. There were multiple dogs barking from the bedroom. Second sign, missed it. It was way too cheap. Third sign, missed it.
When I got it home, it smelled. I don't mean your average smell, I mean a smell that a skunk would have run from. I discovered that the original stuffing had been removed from the back cushions and filled with a few cheap pillows. The backs had been cut out for some reason. Someone later told me that people sometimes remove stuffing from their furniture to hide drugs. Seriously?! Seriously?! Great, I had brought the drug couch home to my family. How did I miss this stuff?! Well, once in a while I get caught up in a "great deal" and my common sense oozes out my ear. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
|Said, smelly couch
Why am I telling you this, you ask. In case you haven't guessed yet, I bought another sofa... It is leather and it is a good deal. This time I wasn't going to let my common sense get away from me. I knocked on the door, ready. No candles, check. No dogs, check. However, I was greeted by a bright eyed, 2 foot blond who promptly insisted on my name. We exchanged names and pleasantries and I'm happy to report we are now new friends. Her mother, the owner of said new couch, was quite nice as well.
I'm very excited, but don't want to show you just yet. Tomorrow, I promise. For today, I'll leave you with a couple more before shots of the living room.


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