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But now that Foster's finally saying something concrete, she offers the same bullshit false equivalencies that famous closet cases always love to fall back upon. Do we know every intimate detail of the life of David Hyde-Pierce? Has Jane Lynch's life turned into a reality show? Is every private element of Neil Patrick Harris's personal business being transmitted into our homes 24/7? No.
But for Foster to imply that the only choices are refusing to come out of the closet or becoming Honey Boo Boo is at best disingenuous and at worst an insult to the many artists who have been much braver than Foster, and who have stood up and been counted at a moment in our cultural history when famous people's speaking the truth of their lives has been an essential element in the battle for equal rights.
And don't give me that "everyone comes out when they're ready" excuse; Foster, by her own admission, has been out to the people in her life for years. She has very intentionally remained publicly enigmatic, well past the point when being more forthcoming would have had the slightest impact on her private or her professional life. There was a time when having someone of her stature speak out could have made a huge difference, and she chose to spend that time being silent.
So you'll forgive me if I'm not "moved" or "impressed" by Jodie Foster's "bravery." If anything, this is too little, too late.
Alonso Duralde is the author of 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men (Advocate Books) and Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas (Limelight Editions). He is the film critic for The Wrap/Reuters and has written about film for Movieline, Salon, MSNBC.com, and HitFix, among many other publications.
Andrew S | January 18, 2013 8:20 PM
You missed the point of the speech completely. This wasn't a coming out speech because she never felt the need or desire to do that and she still doesn't. Her comments about privacy completely went over the heads of most bloggers, who don't understand the concept of privacy. You think she's famous or a public figure so therefore she has to be an example for young lesbians. But, she is setting an example! She said she's been out for years - to the people that matter to her. Her art and what she has to say in her art matters to her - and she'll continued to say what she wants to say. Not be bullied by the likes of you.
Mia | January 17, 2013 11:27 PM
What you and some aren't getting is she brought up the Honey Boo Boo thing as a example of the extreme nature of the press and overexposure these days. It's called rhetoric. She wasn't at all denigrating people who came out before her. She was just explaining why she has been private her whole life. She said "that's not me" in regards to playing the spill-your-private-life media game. She didn't insult anyone who does. She said, "that's not me."
It's funny how people in her community have been begging for her to come out for years. She finally does in her own way on national television and she's beaten with a club by the judgmental people in her own community! Everyone has their mountain to climb in their own way.
Have some compassion and understanding for someone who has been in the spotlight her entire life and has had to deal with whackos, one who as you mentioned shot the President for her. She has a right to fight for a private life and only promote her work. If anything, she probably shouldn't have made the comments referencing sexuality at all because look at the vitrol you people are throwing her way when the award is really about her work. But of course you'd find a reason to complain still. She's damned if she does, damned if she doesn't.
You people judging her for coming out on national television in her own way sure do send a bad message to others who want to come out in their own way on their own time. Your sexuality is a personal thing and you should be able to decide for yourself how you approach it.
SamLowry | January 17, 2013 7:20 PM
Shame on anyone who thinks that celebrities aren't role models. Shame on anyone who thinks that celebrities don't have the power to change our attitudes.
If celebrities like Foster and Travolta and Cruise had come out at the peak of their popularity and proved that gays aren't a tiny freakish part of the population that exists only in seedy bars but are instead real, likeable people that you wouldn't mind paying to see at the theater and inviting into your living room to entertain you then maybe California wouldn't have passed Prop 8.
Gaining equality for all is a war, and it's sad to see how many people won't come out of their foxholes until they're certain the fight is over.
mark mcintyre | January 16, 2013 5:07 PM
Wow.... every once in a while you're clicking through the internet and come across a 'piece of writing' (being generous here) that makes me think; this guy should be asking someone if they 'Want Fries with That" or pumping gas at an all-serve station rather then attempting their lot as an author. When did it become 'normal' to go on line and judge other people and their lives by one's own limited knowledge and ethnocentric viewpoint? This Duralde character has taken trolling to a new level and unfortunately is probably making some bank off of it; like all those critics before him. Those who can, teach and those who can't, criticize. Well, the one good thing that comes of this is that if I ever see a link pointing to an 'article' (again, that generosity) by this clown, I'll know to just pass on it. Shame to anyone who points to this waste of space other than as a standard bad example.
Jay | January 16, 2013 12:53 PM
The writer here clearly has issues of his own that really needs to be dealt with; way to project your anger management failures onto Ms. Foster.
tomas_trent | January 15, 2013 9:48 AM
Dear Mr. Alonso, if I was you I'd seriously consider, after this "thing" you've written, to be re-christened A-lousy.
Doesn't matter that you don't want to hear the "everyone comes out when they're ready" excuse.. Like it or not, this is EXACTLY the way it is, and if miss Foster decided it was time to talk about her sexuality at 50 and during the Golden Globes, then be it. Saying that her announcement is "too little, too late", is so miopic and wrong of you; if it was THAT little, then why wasting your time writing this piece of crap and wasting the time of your readers?
Oh, and by the way, please enlighten us.. WHEN it is not "too late"? Was Ricky Martin in time or late? What about Ellen DeGeneres? Or Ian McKellen? Please, mr. A-lousy, let us now.. entertain us with yet another piece of bad journalism...
SamLowry | January 15, 2013 1:00 AM
I agree with Alonso on this one. How many openly gay leading men are there? None. How many openly gay leading women are there? Considering that Foster's age has pretty much taken her out of this category, none (Debate amongst yourselves just how brave it was for her to come out in the declining years of her career).
Yet these numbers would be far different if Foster, Cruise and Travolta had come out even as late as ten years ago. Instead, they all cowered in fear, worried that coming out would end their brilliant careers, and in doing so confirming that being gay is "bad".
Adam | January 14, 2013 7:44 PM
I find her lacking, not because of her sexuality or her wishes to maintain privacy, but because of her continued public support and friendship with a known racist, homophobe, anti-Semit, and wife-beater, Mel Gibson.
EK | January 14, 2013 7:29 PM
This guy's a lousy film "critic" and an even lamer commentator. Indiewire is poorly served by his "services."
Rotwang | January 14, 2013 6:02 PM
Get over it, Duralde. She doesn't owe you or anyone else anything. Yes, she's a public figure but she is not your property. Do you live in the wrong century? Foster is at least one thing you are not: intelligent. Oh, and she is creative while you like to apricate in reflected light. Get a decent job. Are there any dustbins around you that need emptying?
Margaret | January 14, 2013 3:52 PM
I would like to know (ALONSO DURALDE) when you got the idea that Jodie Foster cares what you think about what she says or does. Jodie, has the right to her privacy!!! Please, get off her back. And thank you ANDREW for your words!!!!!!!
Lisa Marie | January 14, 2013 3:14 PM
I"m sorry. I totally disagree with this author. I believe that "coming out" is a completely western, privileged way of thinking about "how to be queer" in the world. There are many ways to be 'out' and one of those includes living your life without feeling forced to share your sexuality with the public world if you choose not to. This perspective is all about participating in heteronormativity and being 'accepted', rather than just living and being. I admire women like Foster and Queen Latifah who refuse the party line - and are constantly badgered to 'come out of the closet' as if they are ashamed because they haven't made a friggin announcement to the world. They are and have been already out to everyone who is important in their lives and for me, this is what matters. Calling people cowards and belittling their choices to be self determined about their lives is hypocritical, at best coming from a community that knows what it is to be demonized. There are many ways to be queer and the notion / false dichotomy of if you are not 'out', you are then, 'closeted' is bullshit.
Max | January 14, 2013 2:17 PM
I feel like I'm in the minority but, I liked this article. Although much of her speech was genuine, she did seem to make numerous excused for why she hadn't come out before.
Andrew | January 14, 2013 1:36 PM
So, essentially you're telling the LGBT struggling youth that the only way to be counted as a legitimate homosexual in mainstream media is to be publicly out and visible and transparent? Are you aware that being visibly out is a privilege that not everyone is able, or willing for that matter, to bear for the rest of us? What is so cowardly about someone wanting to live their life without having to be a figurehead? In the years of her life, she lived openly to her family and friends. She has a family she's proud of. She's living the life the heteronormative tells us that we can't - yet you're of the opinion that her life is illegitimate?
I'm proud of her because she's strong enough to tell you that she doesn't give a damn what the rest of you, in the media, have to say about her life because there's nothing abnormal about it. I applaud her for being proud of herself against what everyone tells her she should be instead, and how dare you pass judgement.
timothy | January 14, 2013 1:31 PM
I find after reading this article I am not moved or impressed. Alonso Duralde, apparently you want to push your bitter finger in the face of someone that was enjoying "her" experience..Lame ass article for sure.
Bill | January 14, 2013 1:28 PM
It's a good thing she has no reason to need to impress you, then.
False Schmalse | January 14, 2013 12:54 PM
I'll forgive you, Mr Alonso Duralde, because clearly there's somethign wrong with your listening comprehension skills. Her speech may have been exactly about situations like this: a bitter blogger feels he's entitled to judge an actress and her private life.
Christine Loriol | January 14, 2013 12:01 PM
I can still not be too late (I wish it would): this weekend ten thousands were on the streets against homosexual marriage and adotion rights and to say that "1 mum + 1 dad + children = natural". An this in France, a country who invented "liberty equality fraternity" at the time.
Aneesah | January 14, 2013 11:47 AM
Wooooow! Insensitive, jaded, shameful article! I literally just "liked" IndieWire on Facebook, had this article in my news feed... and now I'm about to "UNLIKE" IndieWire. Why would you even publish that? In deed entitlement of opinion but really.... no cool!
jasper | January 14, 2013 11:41 AM
well it does come as a comfort, that a phoenix unversity graduate in journalism like yourself, has enough of a conscience to allow yourself to be bother with trivial crap of a real talent, of course she was after all pointing out how people, like youself, bring in to fame the "scrapping of the Barrel people" and are leaping/hanging from trees to get a picture, asking personal questions, basically making a journalistic ass of yourselves.
No one will ever ask you about your job. because we already know. they'd rather be a drug dealer
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Scott Mendelson | January 14, 2013 11:03 AM
First of all, the idea of celebrities coming out to relative indifference is a relatively new one. We've actually seen articles specifically talking about how neat it now is that celebs like Jim Parsons can come out without anyone even caring. Second of all, I would argue her climactic bit about privacy isn't so much about other well-known gay stars but about celebrities who do have their lives under a microscope, such as Kristen Stewart, whom she wrote a passionate essay in defense of late this summer when the 'cheating scandal' broke.
Plaything | January 14, 2013 10:45 AM
I was more taken by her comment, drunk on the love of her peers and equals, that making a film together was the "most intimate thing" that humans can do. Also, her perch of superiority over honey boo boo, as if the being a child star is so much superior. As for her being a lesbian, who cares? She apparently thinks we all do, exceedingly.
j | January 14, 2013 10:29 AM
Embarrassing piece of, pardon my French, bullshit writing. A bit humiliating to have this on indieWire's front page, no?
jingmei | January 14, 2013 10:15 AM
This article is a piece of sick bullshit. Have read the transcript of Jodie Foster's speech. People even are just as audiences no matter men or women admire her as a marvelous human figure. This absolutely amazing respectful intelligent independent actress is awesome.
tederick | January 14, 2013 10:13 AM
Aren't we dealing with a generational issue here, though? She's fifty years old. She didn't grow up in the world Zachary Quito grew up in. I suspect officially "coming out" is informed by a much higher incidence of personal anxiety in Foster's case - and that would be even without the Hinkley incident, which I doubt any one of us can adequately empathize with in terms of its impact on her relationship with life as a public figure.
No | January 14, 2013 9:49 AM
It seems that some people want their politics, identities, and sexuality confirmed by Hollywood stars. I believe in the right to privacy and the right to lead one's life without encumbrances. If Ms. Foster chose not to disclose her sexual preferences, what business is it of yours or any one else's? Oh, yes. The MOVEMENT. On the other hand, I think it is wrong for the government to discriminate against gay people who want to serve their country and then force them to deny themselves. We don't need Hollywood people voicing their sexual preferences. As a straight guy I'm more impressed with the ordinary folks who are gay and come out and show us that they are our mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, uncles and aunts, the butcher, the baker, the candle stick maker.
Rob | January 14, 2013 9:33 AM
There's a difference between TV actors in sitcom ensembles and actresses who get sole above-the-title billing in studio movies. Jodie broke ground, and yes, it's up to her how she wants to do it.
DukeD | January 14, 2013 9:31 AM
Wow, way to sound unreasonably bitter. You must lead one sad life if this story can apparently ruin your day.
Jonah | January 14, 2013 9:29 AM
Terrible logic.
Kyle | January 14, 2013 9:23 AM
Embarrassing response. What straight people have stood up and declared their heterosexuality at awards shows? That's the point.


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Andover never held a centennial event but that was understandable as most residents were still in a food, clothing, and shelter mode. However, by 1846 Andover was doing pretty well; yet, there is no record of a bicentennial event. One possible reason is that Andover and North Andover were in their last decade of being one town, and folks understood the break-up was inevitable, except that a few in North Andover were fighting it.
By the time of the 250th Anniversary in 1896, the town celebrated in a big way, and the tercentennial celebration in 1946 may have been the grandest event ever held in Andover, but there was a major gaffe. As told by Claude Fuess, who was chairman of the tercentennial committee, the honored guests were the mayor and "mayoress" of Andover, England. The committee assumed the mayor and mayoress were married and booked the honeymoon suite at the Andover Inn for them. The committee was right about the mayoress; she was happily married but not to the bachelor mayor. In many places, including Andover, England, an unmarried mayor chose someone in his town to serve as his social co-host for events such as visiting our town. It was, of course, an honor to be chosen. When word of the mistake became public, newspapers around the country wisecracked about it, much to the chagrin of all involved from both Andovers.
As it turned out, the mayor had made a wise choice as the mayoress was the best speaker at the tercentennial banquet.
Ballardvale is named for Timothy Ballard, who acquired land and water rights on the Shawsheen River in the later 18th Century at the current site of the mill building that exist in the 'Vale. In 1836, his land and rights were purchased by John Marland and others, who created the Ballardvale Manufacturing Company and constructed the first of the mill buildings.
Marcus Morton Jr. (1819-1891), for whom Morton Street was named, was the most important judge in Mass. He was one of the 10 original judges of the Massachusetts Superior Court, appointed in 1859, and 10 years later he was appointed to the state's highest court, the Supreme Judicial Court. Finally, he became chief justice in 1882 and held that post until he retired in 1890. He lived on the corner of Morton and School streets.
There has never been a commons in what is now Andover. Andover's Commons has been located in North Andover since the towns legally split up in 1855. The Park has always been a park and was birthed in the late 19th Century, long after commons were being created. However, Andover had a small village green in front of the Elm House, a hotel with a livery stable that was replaced by the Musgrove Building in 1894. Historian Bessie Goldsmith wrote that, as a 5-year-old in 1887, she walked unaided across Elm Square to school and back. Now, during rush hour, it takes a lot longer to drive a car across the square than it took little Bessie to walk it.
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Switzerland is famed for its neutrality in any and every war, but it still has a military. Unfortunately for Georgia basketball coach Mark Fox, the Swiss army was not quite neutral enough recently. Fox will be losing freshman walk-on Dusan Langura for at least a major portion of the 2013-14 season following a bomb explosion that left him with a torn ACL.
We guarantee that this is the first time you have read anything like this: A Georgia basketball player tore his ACL while fulfilling his military service duties in his native Switzerland.
"It really is a unique story," Fox told The Telegraph. "He was injured in the explosion, and one of the injuries was a torn ACL. We had committed to have him come. He can really shoot the ball. He was gonna be on our team. He had to serve his military commitment, and this happened during it. "
When asked if Langura would still be making the move from the middle of Europe to the middle of Georgia, Fox responded in the affirmative.
"We're still gonna honor our commitment to him, and once he gets healthy he'll be out there with us," Fox said. "But he probably won't be cleared to practice until January or February."
Navigating raucous SEC arenas should be a piece of cake for Langura after this one.
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An Albemarle County company is making the move into downtown Charlottesville. The CFA Institute name now covers the signs of the former Martha Jefferson Hospital.
Wednesday, the institute is in the process of transferring equipment and employees from its facility in the Fontaine Research Park to its new global operations center.
All of CFA's more than 400 employees will begin working out of the Charlottesville building by January 10.Statement from the CFA Institute:
"Following just over a year of construction at the former Martha Jefferson Hospital site, we are pleased to be starting the move to our new Global Operations Center on December 13, 2013," said Tim McLaughlin, CFA, CPA, chief administrative officer and chief financial officer of CFA Institute. "More than 400 members of staff will be relocated to the new building by January 10, 2014, where they will enjoy a healthy working environment which uses some major green initiatives, such as a water reuse system and solar panels, in order to preserve the community around us. As a member of the Charlottesville community for five decades and one of the largest employers in the Albemarle area, we are delighted to be able to continue our mission to lead the global investment profession from here and we thank the people of Charlottesville for their continued support."
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President's Campus Communication 9/07/10
Dear Colleagues,
It's great to have everyone back on campus, and I'm looking forward to building on the work we began last year. First, I'd like to invite you to the State of the University Address, which will be Sept. 21 at noon in the University Center ballrooms. Lunch is complimentary but space is limited, so please RSVP by e-mail to email@example.com or by calling 351-2121 by Sept. 10.
It was a busy summer for policy makers in Denver, and the Colorado Higher Education Strategic Planning effort launched by the Governor has given us a clearer picture of where the state is headed with higher education funding. There is no question that the state's ability to invest in higher education has been significantly, and probably permanently, impaired. In addition, the results of the state planning process indicate that the priority for state higher education funding will be undergraduate instruction, particularly access to low- and middle-income students. It's also apparent there is little understanding of the other valuable things universities do, such as civic and community engagement, research and graduate education. Along with this lack of understanding comes the perception that we are not efficient and should be subject to greater regulation.
This context of limited funding, emphasis on undergraduate credit hour production and misperception of what it means to be a University confirms it remains imperative for UNC to take control of the things we can control. We have already made a number of important steps by articulating our shared vision for the University, developing our strategic enrollment management and multi-year financial planning capabilities, launching our Bringing Education to Life branding campaign, and beginning to better connect our fundraising and alumni operations to the University. Last fall, we began preparing for a $14 million loss in state funding over a two- or three-year period. We have already lost $3.5 million of the $14 million, which is reflected in our current budget, and it's likely we will lose an additional $10.5 million next year (FY12).
To address this drop in state funding, we must keep focusing on revenue generation and further define our efforts to contain costs. We will be discussing this at the upcoming Board of Trustees retreat, and I will recommend that we generate revenue to address half of the lost state funding and identify sustainable cost savings to address the other half. Using this approach, we would need to identify at least $5 million in cost savings during this fiscal year for implementation over the next three fiscal years (FY12, FY13 and FY14).
By "sustainable cost savings" I don't mean one-time or draconian budget cuts. I believe this is an opportunity for us to liberate ourselves from thinking about doing more with less (or even doing the same with less) and start thinking about how to operate differently. In fact, it is crucial that we not approach this as a budget cutting exercise. We simply can't get where we need to go by slashing line items and temporarily paring back necessary expenditures.
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Don't get him confused with Conor O'Neill, a linebacker from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. who has also given Bret Bielema a verbal commitment.
Imagine those two on the field at the same time: "Conor O'Neal and Conor O'Neill combine for the tackle. Really it was O'Neill with an "I" who forced the pressure, while O'Neal with an "A" came and cleaned him up."
Some other links:
- Thursday's game against Minnesota is certainly a scary one, but as our friends at FromtheBarn.com know, the Gophers haven't won in Madison in a long, long time.
- JSOnine.com takes a look at some of the projected seedings for Badgers right now.
- The Journal Times has a good story on the torch being passed to John Clay.
- Todd Milewski of The Capital Times has an interesting story on how history is on the men's hockey team's side.
- I participate in these power rankings every year on BadgerNation.com. Unfortunately you have to subscribe to the web site to read the story, but if you access to it, it's worth checking out. For the record, this is how I voted:
- Michigan State
- Purdue
- Minnesota
- Wisconsin
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- Illinois
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Will try this again. The main pic shows that of a full body man dressed in a biblical type clothing. The face of a man can be seen and what is depicted as a white collar also. This photo was extracted from film shot in Great Falls, Montana. The supernatural at its finest. There is no logical explanation for what is seen here.
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INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) - A 2-year-old Indianapolis girl fighting a rare and deadly disease wanted to do something many kids dread doing every day, she wanted to ride a bus and go to school.Buses arrive every day at Liberty Early Elementary School in Decatur Township, but Tuesday, one bus was different. It carried a special young passenger and her family."It's about a celebration of life," said Christie Parker, Ava Parker's grandmother."When we found out last Monday, that our days are truly numbered with her, I wanted to give her what she truly wanted," said Kacy Parker, Ava's mother.Read More: http://bit.ly/1bP6ns9
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Here is a list of the 25 highest-paid employees in Gloucester County government. This list does not include the school system. These records were obtained from the county by a Freedom of Information Act request of the Daily Press.
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Formative Peer Review of Teaching
Considerations for peer review (pdf) and article by Chism, N., 2007 (pdf)
Materials from the Chairs Workshop, May 16, 2012: Presentation (pdf) and peer observation forms (pdf)
Classroom Assessment Techniques
Short in-class writing activities that are designed to help instructors diagnose what / how students are learning in a course and use this information to adjust their instruction. The activities are non-graded, anonymous and give both you and your students helpful feedback on the teaching-learning process. It is central that the instructor shares a summary of what was learned from the activity with the students.
Details and listing of in-class writing activities (pdf)
Early / Mid-Semester Student Feedback
The early semester (weeks 4-6) student feedback process is formative in nature (for improvement purposes) and designed to give instructors a sense of how students are experiencing the learning environment. The formative feedback process opens up dialogue about the learning process between students and faculty and affirms student responsibility in this process. It is central to explain the purpose of the feedback to the students: to take the pulse of the class and learn what is helpful to their learning, could be more helpful and try to make adjustments for the remainder of the semester. The feedback will not impact their grade. After faculty have reviewed the feedback and identified major patterns in responses, faculty need to get back to the students with a short summary of what you've learned and what suggestions they will try to respond to for the rest of the semester.
The feedback may be collected in the following ways: students complete in class-please leave the room to assure confidentiality, designate student to collect responses in prepared envelope and bring to your departmental office; students complete online via Sakai tests and quizzes tool or via Qualtrics survey tool.
Sample feedback form, CTL (.doc)
Sample introduction and open-ended questions (pdf)
End-of-Semester Student Evaluations
UD Online Course Evaluation
Web-based course evaluation application that is based on sound assessment practices and that can be customized by instructor/department and/or college. The confidential, anonymous online system collects student responses and reports those results to the appropriate constituents. Results are not published on the Web for public review. Questions: Joy Lynam.
End of Course Ratings: Course Evaluation Item Pool
In addition to your required departmental course rating form, you may want to use the items we have selected from the Flashlight Current Student Inventory to assess active and collaborative learning and the use of instructional technology. The selected sample of survey items are indexed by various aspects of instruction and are available to University of Delaware faculty to supplement existing evaluation instruments.
IDEA Form (Individual Development and Educational Assessment), IDEA Center, Manhattan, Kansas
The IDEA student rating system is available from the CTL to supplement your departmental and college forms. Published by the IDEA Center, a not-for-profit corporation, the instrument is based on instructional research, addresses teacher behaviors that lead to selected instructional goals, student progress on these goals, and provides space for you to add 25 additional items to tailor your course. The IDEA Survey Form (long form) scores are adjusted for student motivation, class size, student effort, course difficulty, and student work habits--factors that impact student ratings data. The IDEA Center also provides research publications on student ratings.
Teaching Portfolios
Teaching portfolio materials, Tom DiLorenzo, Psychology, 2005. (rtf)
Promotion and Tenure
Promotion and Tenure (.doc)
Summary of annual faculty panel discussions: Planning ahead and preparing for the promotion and tenure process; putting the dossier together and the role of external reviewers; and addressing promotion and tenure policies and procedures effectively.
Promotion & Tenure Process at UD by Eric Kmiec, Chairperson, University Promotions & Tenure Committee; Professor Biological Sciences - presentation at 2007 P&T panel discussion (ppt)
P&T Advice by Yan Jin, Professor, Plant & Soil Sciences - presentation at 2007 P&T panel discussion (ppt)
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I'm downloading a bunch of movies, and the dl's generally go fast (depending on the seeds, which are mostly very high) until they reach 99.9% and then it just stops... for EVERY movie... it's weird, this has never happened to me before - any suggestions or reasons?
thx a lot!
False torrents often do that.
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On Paramagnetic And Diamagmetic Forces
The notion of an attractive force, which draws bodies toward the centre of the earth, was entertained by Anaxagoras and his pupils, by Democritus, Pythagoras, and Epicurus; and the conjectures of these ancients were renewed by Galileo, Huyghens, and others, who stated that bodies attract each other as a magnet attracts iron.
Physical Basis Of Solar Chemistry
Omitting all preface, attention was first drawn to an experimental arrangement intended to prove that gaseous bodies radiate heat in different degrees. Near a double screen of polished tin was placed an ordinary ring gas-burner, and on this was placed a hot copper ball, from which a column of heated air ascended.
Elementary Magnetism
We have no reason to believe that the sheep or the dog, or indeed any of the lower animals, feel an interest in the laws by which natural phenomena are regulated.
Physics - On Force
A SPHERE of lead was suspended at a height of 16 feet above the theatre floor of the Royal Institution. It was liberated, and fell by gravity. That weight required a second to fall to the floor from that elevation; and the instant before it touched the floor it had a velocity of 32 feet a second.
Contributions To Molecular Physics
Having on previous occasions dwelt upon the enormous differences which exist among gaseous bodies both as regards their power of absorbing and emitting radiant heat, I have now to consider the effect of a change of aggregation.
Life And Letters Of Faraday
Undertaken and executed in a reverent and loving spirit, the work of Dr. Bence Jones makes Faraday the virtual writer of his own life. Every-body now knows the story of the philosopher's birth.
The Copley Medalist Of 1870
Thrity years ago Electro-magnetism was looked to as a motive power which might possibly compete with steam. In centres of industry, such as Manchester, attempts to investigate and apply this power were numerous.
The Copley Medalist Of 1871
DR. JULIUS ROBERT MAYER was educated for the medical profession. In the summer of 1840, as he himself informs us, he was at Java, and there observed that the venous blood of some of his patients had a singularly bright red color.
Death By Lightning
PEOPLE in general imagine, when they think at all about the matter, that an impression upon the nerves—a blow, for example, or the prick of a pin—is felt at the moment it is inflicted. But this is not the case.
Science And The Spirits
Since the time when the foregoing remarks were written I have been more than once among the spirits, at their own invitation. They do not improve on acquaintance. Surely no baser delusion ever obtained dominance over the weak mind of man.
The Whooping, or White Crane (Grus americana), the largest bird we have, measuring as it does over four feet in length, rarely comes east of the Mississippi, although its migrations extend from South America to the Arctic Circle.
Rails, Gallinules, Coots
A rarer sight still is to see a clapper rail running, with head tilted downward and tail upward, in a ludicrous gait, threading in and out of the grassy maze.
Virginia Rail
When the original grant of Queen Elizabeth included nearly all the territory east of the Mississippi that the Massachusetts Bay Colony did not take in, the Virginia rail's name would have been more appropriate than it is today.
The Yellow, or New York, or Yellow-breasted Rail (Porzana noveboracensis), an even more skulking, timid species than the sora, has a reputation for rarity that doubtless the blackbirds, bobolinks, and marsh wrens, which alone can penetrate into the mysteries of the sedges, would express differently were they able to retail secrets.
Common Gallinule
The Purple Gallinule (Ionornis martinica), a common bird in the southern states, nests so far north as southern Illinois and Carolina, and occasionally strays northward to New England and Wisconsin.
American Coot
But coots are shy of men, albeit the young and old alike have flesh no one not starving could eat; and they usually live in some inaccessible pond or swamp, especially at the nesting season.
The Northern Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus), a very small, slaty gray, chestnut red, buff and white bird, the smallest of all the swimmers, passes along the coasts of the United States, from its nesting grounds in the Arctic regions, to winter in the tropics.
American Avocet
The avocet is, perhaps, the best swimmer among the waders, owing to its webbed toes. The thick, waterproof plumage of its under parts keeps its body dry.
Blacked Necked Stilt
Wading about, with decided and measured steps, in shallow pools, preferably among the salt and alkaline marshes, where the avocets often keep them company, the stilts pick up, from first one side, then the other, insects and larvae, small shell fish, worms, fish fry, etc., often plunging both head and neck under water to seize some deep swimmer.
By the first of August the woodcocks, deserting the low, wet lands, scatter themselves over the country in corn fields, grassy meadows, birch covered hillsides, alder runs, pine forests, and thick, cool, moist undergrowth, near woods; and now they moult.
Wilson's Snipe
When the early frosts of autumn harden the soil at the north, so that the bill can no longer penetrate it, the snipe, migrating by night, again visit us, this time fatter, more lazy, or at any rate less nervous than they were during the mating season.
The Long-billed or Western Dowitcher (Macrorhamphus scolopaceus), the representative of the preceding species from the Mississippi Valley westward to Alaska, may be distinguished from it chiefly by its slightly larger size and longer bill and possibly by its more uniformly rusty under parts and the heavier dusky bars on its sides in the summer plumage only.
Stilt Sandpiper
Like most birds that spend part of their lives at least in Arctic desolation, these sandpipers, not knowing man, have little fear of him, being of the same gentle, confiding disposition, apparently, as the dowitchers.
The Purple Sandpiper, Winter or Rock Snipe (Tringa maritima), an extremely northern species, also observed by General Greely near Thank God Harbor, comes down our Atlantic coast between November and March, but not often farther than Long Island or the Great Lakes.
Pectoral Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper (Tringa bairdii), far more common in the interior than on the Atlantic coast, closely resembles the whiterumped species in size and plumage, and may be distinguished from it by the fuscous instead of white middle upper tail-coverts, says Mr. Frank Chapman.
Least Sandpiper
The Western Semipalmated Sandpiper (Ereunetes occident-ails), the representative of the preceding species west of the Mississippi, differs from it in having the plumage of its upper parts more distinctly chestnut red, the breast more heavily streaked, and the bill a trifle longer; but neither species differs perceptibly in habits from the least sandpiper, and neither one is larger than an English sparrow.
Red Backed Sandpiper
In the spring, when lively impulses move all birds to interesting performances, these dunlins, as our English cousins call them, go through some beautiful wing manoeuvres calculated to inspire admiration in the speckled breast of the well beloved.
Among the semipalmated, the least, and other sandpipers they often hunt with, sanderlings may be readily picked out by the attitude of the head and their fearful eagerness.
Marbled Godwit
Conspicuous by its size and coloration among the waders, the great marbled godwit might be confused only with the long-billed curlew at a distance where the slight curve upward of the godwit's bill and the pronounced downward curve of the curlew's could not be noted.
Greater Yellowlegs
Noisy, hilarious chatterers, their shrill notes, four times repeated, coming from an entire flock at once, after the manner of old squaws, these tattlers, that are always inviting kindred flocks to join theirs, excite other birds to restless habits like their own, and keep themselves well advertised in the marshes and about the bays and estuaries where they feed.
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When I was growing up, I was always the thinnest person around. When I was in elementary school, I was always that one boy whose knees are the thickest part of his legs. And all the way through high school and for most of my college days I stayed that way, thin as a supermodel even though I was never leading too healthy a lifestyle. And then, all of a sudden, I started getting fatter and fatter. I stopped most of my activities when I got a job and I started eating more and more junk food. On top of all that, my metabolism just seemed to shut down on me, as if someone turned it off with a press of a button. In three years, I put on more than 45 pounds. And then I decided to change it all. I approached the people from All Star Running and they came up with a program for me. They modified my diet and they came up with an exercise regimen. At first it was really difficult to stick with the whole program, but in two weeks I started seeing results and I decided to put myself entirely into it. It has now been two years and I am once again my old self. I am healthier than ever and I am happier than ever.
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After I was involved in a car accident, it took me more than a year to fully recover. It was a really bad one. And as I started living my old life once again, I discovered that I was in the worst shape of my life. I could not walk a flight of stairs before getting winded and I put on at least 30 pounds during my recovery. Luckily, I had people from All Star Running work out a program for me that not only helped me get rid of all the excess weight, but that also gave me my strength back.
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The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket, poem by Robert Lowell, published in 1946 in the collection Lord Weary's Castle. This frequently anthologized elegy for a cousin who died at sea during World War II echoes both Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau in its exploration of innocence, corruption, and redemption. all played out against the violent backdrop of the ocean. The poem is divided into seven parts and is written in rhymed iambic pentameter with occasional trimeter lines.
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On Thursday, California joined Hawaii, Vermont, Rhode Island, Maryland and New Mexico in calling for an amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The decision paved the way for an unprecedented increase in campaign spending by outside groups by ruling that limits on corporate or union spending on elections violates the First Amendment. According to California Assembly Member Bob Wieckowski (D), who introduced the bill calling for an amendment, the fight for reform is a challenge. "No one is underestimating how difficult it is, and justifiably so, to amend the Constitution," he said. "But being silent is worse. Failing to speak out, to organize, to hold rallies and to take action would be much worse."
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The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency: Campaigning to end secrecy in lobbying.
Lobbyists are paid to influence government decisions. So, whether it's the private healthcare lobby pushing for the current NHS reforms; or banks lobbying against reform of the financial system; or the construction industry wanting to get their hands on greenbelt land, the activities of lobbyists affect our lives in countless ways.
We think the public should know who is influencing government decisions.
And the government agrees in principle - it has promised to make lobbying transparent with a register of lobbyists. But its current plans to open up the influence industry are a sham. Now is the time to tell them what you think, and put an end to the back-room deal nature of politics. Read on.
1 July 2014
On the eve of the Conservative Party's annual fundraising dinner, the Guardian today reveals last year's secret guest list and, with it, the murky world of political donations and lobbying.
The Conservative Party intended the list to remain private. Despite promises by this government to be 'the most transparent in the world', the public aren't to know the company that they keep.
But, as the final preparations are made for tonight's fundraiser at the Hurlingham private members' club in west London, documents passed to TBIJ show the web of bankers, businesspeople, foreign interests and lobbyists that twelve months ago pressed the flesh with Conservative politicians.
Among those that David Cameron and members of the Cabinet spent the evening with are:
Buying a seat at a minister's table provides these already influential and advantaged individuals – there was an estimated total wealth in the room last year of £11bn – with an opportunity to forge relationships with our politicians, demonstrate their support for the party, and crucially open discussions with Ministers about their concerns.
The consequences of such a system – one that provides private access for the wealthy and well connected, while everyone else is excluded – are all around us.
27 June 2014
Here's a little test for the government's statutory lobbying register (when it eventually arrives).
Former Planning Minister, Bob Neill (on the left here at a lobbing agency reception), has taken a job with a lobbying agency that has so far refused to sign up to any of the voluntary registers that the statutory register will replace.
This means that his new employer, planning specialist, Cratus Communcations, does not currently declare its clients, which include housebuilders and developers.
Nor would it – probably – under the government's new statutory system given the enormous loopholes. Nearly 40% of agency lobbyists (the only section of the industry that is covered by the new legislation) say they won't have to register and declare their clients, as they "never" have direct face-to-face engagement with ministers or permanent secretaries (one of the criteria that triggers the requirement to register). Only 9% of agency lobbyists say they meet ministers or permanent secretaries regularly. The rest only do so occasionally.
This means that Cratus Communications, which now employs a Tory ex-minister that less than two years ago was responsible for local government and planning, is unlikely to start declaring who it is lobbying for any time soon. We'll be as much in the dark as we are now.
"We must be the party that sorts all this out," David Cameron said of lobbying in the run up to the last general election, singling out the problem of 'ex-ministers for hire".
What he's done instead is give us a sham register.
12 May 2014
A businessman who spent a year advising the government has revealed his shock at the influence and access lobbyists have with ministers.
As "entrepreneur in residence" at the Business Department, Lawrence Tomlinson had an unrivalled view of how lobbyists operate. He concluded that finance lobbyists are seen as "indispensable" by ministers.
What was shocking, he said, was the "influence of certain organisations, trade associations and individuals within government," singling out the British Banking Association, who he noted "have their foot through the door" of government and are capable of overwhelming attempts by others to change policies.
Tomlinson added that, while lobbying can serve a valid purpose, the process must be transparent, and conflicts and interests must be declared. He also criticised the common practice where former senior officials and special advisors who write government policy go on to work for major corporations: "In parts of government, there is a revolving door with the large corporates who have a deep interest in government policy," he said.
"The conflicts of interest are plainly apparent, and the number of lobbyists and force they have, can hardly be matched by the business community. These interests need to be made more transparent to prevent these conflicts having an impact on our policy making processes."
The laughable response from the government to Tomlinson's damning observations was to point out that David Cameron had just introduced a register of lobbyists, which he claims will shine a light on lobbying. It is widely acknowledged that the register introduced by the Coalition in January is a sham. For a start, it would not include the British Bankers Association, or any lobbyists working in-house for corporations (large or small). In fact, it deliberately excludes more than 80% of the UK's £2billion lobbying industry. And then, it requires those lobbyists that fall into its tiny net (with massive loopholes) to declare nothing of their lobbying activity.
Tomlinson, who has seen lobbyists operate from inside government, is right to speak out. His remit was how to improve policy for small firms. He has seen with his own eyes that SMEs don't have a hope in hell against the influence of big business and bankers.
As Spinwatch's Tamasin Cave and Andy Rowell set out in their new book on lobbying, A Quiet Word, large corporations have been allowed to become dominant in government. The amount they spend on lobbying and the associated influence of their lobbyists has bought them a structural advantage. They are drowning out everyone else.
A Quiet Word also notes, as Tomlinson does, that rather than being seen as parasitical, corporate lobbyists should more accurately be viewed as subsidising government. As lobbying activity has increased, so our government has become ever more dependent on lobbyists to function.
As the book reveals, politicians can on occasion be candid about this: "Lobbying is absolutely fundamental to the way we legislate in the UK, right across the board," according to Tim (Lord) Razzall, a politician of forty years' experience, at the 2011 Liberal Democrat Conference. "The lobbying organisations do your . . ." He corrects himself: ". . . a lot of the work for you." Legislators are "inundated" with appeals from lobbyists whenever laws are being crafted. "Very often" the way to get changes to proposed laws is simply to email them over. Do politicians actually take any notice of the overtures of lobbyists? "Absolutely," said Razzall. The government takes a "huge amount" of notice.
And why do large corporations spend disproportionately more on lobbying that anyone else? Because they see lobbying as a tactical investment. Put simply, lobbying pays. It delivers a financial return. And the payback can be "astronomic", as the FT noted yesterday, describing the return on lobbying by hedge funds in Washington.
When it comes to lobbying, it is the case that there is a corporate elite and there is everyone else (SMEs, NGOs, the public etc). Transparency in lobbying is one small step to addressing the disparity. It is one that this government has yet to take.
To discover more about corporate lobbying, and how commercial lobbyists buy access and influence to our government, get hold of a copy of A Quiet Word: Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain by Tamasin Cave and Andy Rowell. "A timely account of how voters are conceding power to a silent industry", says the Mail on Sunday.
29 April 2014
Statement from Tamasin Cave of the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency following the decision to ban Conservative MP, Patrick Mercer from Parliament for six months. Mercer has now resigned triggering a byelection in his Newark seat.
The punishment comes as a result of revelations published last year, when it was alleged that he accepted cash in return for tabling questions in the Commons, agreeing to set up an All Party Parliamentary Group and offering to produce a Parliamentary report on behalf of a client in return for £4,000.
"Mercer must be reeling after this judgement. There is no question he will have seen others behaving in a similar way and getting away with it. There is a culture within British politics where accepting cash for influence is deemed, if not acceptable, then not overtly risky behaviour.
Three years ago the Prime Minister said that lobbying was the 'next big scandal waiting to happen'. Since then, nothing has been done to rein in the commercial lobbying industry. Cameron has introduced what is widely-viewed as a bogus register of lobbyists.
Mercer did wrong, but he will also be aware that while he has been severely punished, the government has refused to control, or in any way expose the £2bn lobbying business to scrutiny.
Politicians know better than most that we have a problem with commercial lobbying in this country. The scandal is that they refuse to do anything about it. Mercer's going won't solve it."
23 April 2014
Australia's rules for lobbyists, which the UK has chosen to copy, are set to be reformed in the wake of yet more lobbying scandals.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott is said to be 'deeply concerned' about the continuing behaviour of officials and former MPs in his Liberal Party as they try to covertly influence government decisions outside of the rules. In recent weeks, an official inquiry has exposed evidence of murky political influence-peddling in the party.
As a consequence, Australia's weak transparency regulations for lobbyists have come under scrutiny. Currently, only lobbyists-for-hire working on behalf of third party clients are required to declare their existence on a public register. Lobbyists working in-house for corporations are exempt from the rules.
This is the model register of lobbyists adopted by the UK government earlier this year. It will require that only a tiny fraction of lobbyists sign up. As one former Australian politician says of this system: 'What you've got covered is the tip of the iceberg.'
'Chairmen of boards, boards of directors, CEOs, directors of government relations for any Australian company can walk in and out of any Australian parliament unrecorded and unregulated.'
The UK government has been warned that scandals involving lobbyists will continue to dog politics unless robust transparency rules are put in place. Yet, it is determined to follow the weak system adopted by Australia, a system now undergoing urgent reform.
"We need to bite the bullet and get this process done and dusted," Liberal party member and long-term advocate for party reform, John Ruddick, told the Guardian.
The UK government seems intent on taking the same road, one that inevitably leads to more scandals, resignations and damage to the reputation of politics.
4 April 2014
Labour has pledged to repeal the Lobbying Act if it gets into power. This is welcome news. The 'dog's breakfast' of a law is not fit-for-purpose and must be rewritten.
The Lobbying Act, which was passed by the Coalition in January this year, purports to introduce new transparency rules for lobbyists. The statutory register of lobbyists contained in the Act, however, is a fake. It will not allow the public to see who is lobbying the government.
Ed Miliband has now committed Labour to introducing a more robust register. Sensibly, Labour's register would cover all lobbyists. The Coalition's covers only a small fraction of the industry. It remains to be seen, however, whether the opposition would require lobbyists to reveal enough information to allow us to know who is lobbying whom in government, what they are seeking to influence, whether that's fracking regulations, NHS contracts, or more tax breaks for multi-nationals. The current register, as laid out in the Lobbying Act, would reveal none of this. It is merely a list of (some) lobbying companies and their clients.
A robust register of lobbyists that is fit-for-purpose must:
The government must now own up to the fact that its new rules for lobbyists are a sham. Everyone knows they are a sham (including the commercial lobbying industry). Any more lobbying scandals in the run up to the general election will expose them for what they are.
29 January 2014
The government's proposed register of lobbyists is set to become law, as the controversial Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill passed through the Lords last night.
The register of lobbyists that will now be introduced will not open lobbying as promised by the coalition in May 2010. As the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency has said all along, the government's register is a sham. A fake. It will not allow the public to see who is influencing our politicians. It merely allows the government to tick a box.
As the graphics below show, the government's register fails in two key ways. First, it covers barely any lobbyists, requiring only those working as lobbyists-for-hire who meet ministers (or permanent secretaries) to register. All in-house lobbyists working inside banks, energy firms, payday loan lenders, alcohol and tobacco companies etc are exempt, as are corporate lobbyists in business lobby groups like the CBI, as is anyone who doesn't lobby a minister directly, which is the majority.
Second, it will reveal nothing of what or whom they are seeking to influence. Lobbyists in those agencies that have direct contact with ministers will be required to list merely their clients. There will be no record of dealings with special advisers, civil servants or regulators; no information on what they are seeking to influence or what deals are being done; nor how much money is being spent to sway government.
The government's decision to pretend to open up lobbying will come back to bite them. Lobbyists are a permanent feature in British politics. They are not going away and neither will the widespread feeling that their private interests are being favoured over the public interest.
This new law will do nothing to open up decision-making and restore trust. It is an exercise in time-wasting.
22 January 2014
The government's register of lobbyists being yanked through Parliament will do nothing to expose the £2bn influence industry that is embedded in our political system.
Today ministers rejected even minor improvements put forward by the Lords to the Lobbying Bill. Crucially, the government has ignored pleas to include lobbying of ministerial special advisers (as a trigger for registration). This is to wilfully ignore the central role these advisers play in the lives of lobbyists.
The government has shown itself to be deaf to the legitimate concerns people have over 'secret corporate lobbying', as David Cameron described it in opposition. The panicked way the bill is being rushed through Parliament also reveals the government's contempt for Parliamentary process and public debate.
The bill does nothing to expose big money corporate lobbying, but it will muzzle public interest campaign groups. You couldn't make it up.
Commercial lobbyists overwhelmingly think that they should be regulated, according to a poll published today by lobbyists' trade body the Public Relations Consultants Association.
Ninety one per cent of the industry polled thought that the proposed register of lobbyists should include all lobbyists, regardless of whether they work for an agency or in-house.
The government, in its wisdom, disagrees. The register it is introducing, which could compete its journey through Parliament in a matter of days, excludes all in-house lobbyists and even some working in agencies.
Which is why, according to the survey, only four per cent of lobbyists believe the government's lobbying bill will significantly increase the transparency of the industry.
17 January 2014
The Lobbying Bill, working its way through the Lords, remains a dog's breakfast, despite efforts by some peers to improve it.
Monday's session in the House of Lords created the potential for a tiny tweak to the Bill. One of the major loopholes in the government's Bill was made marginally smaller when peers voted through an amendment that would require lobbyists who meet with ministerial special advisers (SpAds) to register their lobbying.
As it is currently drafted, only lobbying of ministers and permanent secretaries would trigger registration, which as any commercial lobbyist will confirm, is seldom the case. It remains to be seen whether the government will accept this minor change to the Bill.
Regardless, the register of lobbyists proposed in the Bill remains bogus. It will not allow us to see who is influencing our politicians and for what, whether that's a tax break, more privatisation or fighting against public health measures. As shadow cabinet office minister, Baroness Hayter remarked this week: 'It introduces a register of lobbyists so limited that it is not worthy of the name and might actually make things worse.'
Meanwhile the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and others campaigning for a register have given evidence this week to Members of the Scottish Parliament conducting an inquiry into the need for a register at Holyrood. Commercial lobbyists in Scotland were also given the opportunity to present their case.
Downplaying their role in influencing the decisions of government, representatives of the lobbying industry insisted their role was merely to 'inform' politicians' decisions. No mention was made of the massive, persuasive campaigns orchestrated by lobbyists to shift government thinking.
A representative from the trade body, the Association of Professional Political Consultants, Illiam Costain McCade, did suggest, however, that commercial lobbyists would be willing to reveal more information on their lobbying activity, namely their interactions with politicians. He told the inquiry that lobbyists in the APPC would be willing to publicly declare more than just who is lobbying, but also who they're meeting in government and what was discussed. Previously, the lobbying body has agreed only to reveal the names of lobbyists and their clients, information that is useless for anyone trying to find out about lobbyists' dealings with politicians. This is a welcome step forward.
The Scottish inquiry comes on the back of a commitment in the summer by the Scottish government to introduce a bill on Lobbying Transparency within this session of the Scottish Parliament, after Labour MSP Neil Findlay's private members' bill got cross-party support in Edinburgh.
Finally, looking forward to this programme from the BBC on Monday: Declared Interests: the business of politics (Radio 4, 8pm). It promises to expose 'the ways in which outside interests try to gain access to the corridors of power without anyone breaking the rules.' Timely stuff.


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When the starting pitcher exits the game in the second inning, the offense gets shut out, and you lose 8-0 to the Houston Astros, it's probably not your day. Such was the case Tuesday night for the Texas Rangers.
Matt Harrison gave up three runs, including a two-run homer to L.J. Hoes, before exiting the game with stiffness in his lower back after 1.2 innings pitched. After visiting the mound three times, it became apparent to manager Ron Washington that something was wrong with Harrison, and that removing him from the game would be the best option.
"We asked him how he was, he said his back was stiff, so I took the ball from him right there" said Washington. "You're always concerned, but all we know is it's back stiffness, and we'll know more tomorrow."
A healthy Harrison throws in the lower 90s, so reports that Harrison was throwing in the 80s initially raised concern. After walking back-to-back batters in the first, it became apparent that Harrison had lost control.
"I felt OK warming up, and then midway through the first, my back started getting a little stiff. And then as I went on going, it kept getting worse" Harrison said. "I felt my velocity going down lower and lower, and I knew my timing wasn't right. It's just a frustrating thing."
Harrison will return to Arlington on Wednesday to have further evaluations on his back. With an already injury-plagued roster, now may be the time for Rangers fans to hope for a miracle. Or else, face the return of Joe Saunders.
Justin Germano came in to pitch for Harrison, and would give up the remaining five runs to the Astros. One run came in the fourth, after a Jose Altuve single was followed by a RBI single from Geory Springer. The other four runs came in the fifth, one off a RBI single from Hoes, and the other three off a Carlos Corporan three-run home run.
It was a complete game shutout for Astros' starter Dallas Keuchel, who gave up seven hits, but was able to prevent any Rangers from making it past second base.
"He was changing speeds real well; when he had to make a pitch, he threw that sinker," Washington said. "We just couldn't center in. Everything we hit, we just beat it in the ground. Gotta give him credit."
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Described as a bittersweet evening by those in attendance, members of the community met at the Linwood bike bath to reflect on the life of April Kauffman.
"She was a doer. She got things done," said close friend Lee Darby.
"She didn't take no for an answer and she was just a special person. She was there to help anyone who needed help."
Many people took to the microphone Friday evening to share their memories of April one year after her murder.
And while friends say the evening provided some degree of closure, they say peace will not be achieved until the person or persons responsible come forward.
"I think they need to admit they did this and that would be a big thing, to give the people the closure they should get cause either way, you're going down," said friend of April Joseph Rullo.
With April's daughter Kim in attendance, the creation of justice for April Kauffman fund was announced with several guests pledging to donate money once the charity was established.
The charity will raise reward money for answers, something that guests say April's husband, noticeably absent, Jim failed to do.
"If it was up to me, or if it had been my spouse, I certainly would have immediately offered a huge reward," said Darby.
And while the shock of April's death is still difficult for those who were closest to her. . .
"Nothing can ever replace April, she is going to be missed for ever," said Darby.
"Its devastating to me, in my lifetime I have never met anyone with the energy she has," said Rullo.
Friends, family and the lives she touched hope that answers are around the corner and questions will be answered by next year's anniversary.
"The hope is to meet in a courtroom. Absolutely," said Darby.
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Kids all over south Georgia will hit the streets tomorrow night to trick or treat. Fire officials urge you to stay away from open flames and make sure all your family's costumes are safe.
Dressing up as a ghost using this cotton bed sheet might not be the best idea for Halloween. Fire officials say cotton material is highly flammable.
"If you make a homemade costume like out of 100% cotton that will burn and burn quickly," said Assistant Fire Chief Sebon Burns with the Albany Fire Department.
Material content can be found on the costume's package and warning signs to keep away from flames can also be found on the costume's tag. Fire officials say costumes that are flame resistant or flame retardant are your best bet.
"That means if you put an open flame on those material they self extinguish so they won't sustain a fire, so polyester or 100% cotton it will sustain a fire so you want to stay away from those kind of costumes," said Burns.
Fire officials say purchasing a flame resistant costume is great, but the accessories that come with it can also do damage.
"The wigs, the bows, grass skirts that don't have those same flame resistant qualities about them and then that'll catch on fire instead of the costume itself," said Burns.
Fire officials say the best way to avoid catching on fire is to stay away from open flames.
"Like a Jack-O-lantern or a candle," said Burns.
Fire officials say if your clothes do catch on fire, the best way to get it out is to stop, drop and roll.
"If you stop drop and roll and continue to roll until the fire goes out you will minimize the damage you do to your body," said Burns.
Costume shop owners are also encouraging trick or treaters to be careful.
"You can't have the long robes on jumping around fires," said Blair Doyal, Manager of Doyal's Costume Rentals.
So before you dress up as your favorite character, do some research on the material that the costume is made of, so that you can have a fun and safe Halloween night. Drivers also need to slow down tomorrow evening and be aware of trick or treaters in the area and parents need to keep a close eye on their small children at all times. You should also keep your cell phone with you if you're trick or treating tomorrow so if there is an emergency you can call 9-1-1 right away.
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