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Law School: Help. Full Brain. Must Disgorge.Posted on July 27, 2008
And on that note, I think I'm going to stop trying to cram things inside it. Good luck to all of my friends, and all of the other full-brained people out there taking the bar exam this week. I hope you have a clear and focused mind that instantly recalls all of the stuff BarBRI, PMBR, and whoever else crammed inside it over the past 6-8 weeks...
Politics: The news within the news on Iraq, and the U.S. positionPosted on July 26, 2008
The New York Times front page (of their Web site at least) ran an article today entitled 4,000 U.S. Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images. The article discussed noted independent photojournalist Zoriah Miller. For those who have not been following this story (and I'm among them), the Marine Corps banned Miller from his embed position with Corps units after Miller posted on his blog several
Politics: Today's not news (but still interesting)Posted on July 26, 2008
ABC's Political Punch blog posts a conversation they captured today between Barack Obama and David Cameron, the Tory leader, in London. One thing I'm kind of sick of hearing is about how Obama has an ego or, the alternate line, that McCain is domineering, rash, and angry...
Law School: Adventures in Contracting -OR- When Marketing Campaigns Go AwryPosted on July 25, 2008
Today, while surfing Breitbart's Web site to watch a news video, I saw this banner advertisement: I guess this explains why the "e-Research Council" also resorts to spamming me to try and get me to sign up for their "offers."* This reminds me of another silly promotion going on...
Law School: Deer Park Management n Bloomington has horrible ratingsPosted on July 24, 2008
Given the latest account from Pete, Bess Courtney and Deer Park Management here in Bloomington, Indiana are really reprehensible. The reviewers over at Apartment Ratings (even on other Deer Park managed properties, like Bart Villa) seem to agree wholeheartedly...
Law School: Only on the Internet (but at least this could be useful)Posted on July 24, 2008
Law school--no, life in general--has two drawbacks. First, you always have a lack of time. It's the ultimate non-renewable resource. No matter who you are and what you do, you never have enough time to do it. Somewhere around the age of 12 or 13, I lost the ability to do everything...
Politics: Wall Street drunk, Congress was bartenderPosted on July 23, 2008
Apparently, President Bush said something at a private fundraiser that has the chattering classes all atwitter. He boiled down the housing crisis to "Wall Street got drunk" and said that the country is feeling the hangover. That's a pretty apropos analogy, if you ask me...
Politics: Veep updatesPosted on July 23, 2008
Time reports today that former senators John Edwards and Sam Nunn are on the short list for Barack Obama's VP choice. The former disappoints me, and I hope Edwards' earlier denials hold true. I have to say, the latter excites me (no, not that way, Chutch)...
Politics: The rich now pay 97% of all income taxes, so we should...um...take...more???Posted on July 21, 2008
In case you've forgotten what I've discussed at length in the past, I'll say it again. One of the most distorted, unfair partisan political games is the one Dems and Republicans play over taxation in this country. The U.S. already places among the highest tax burdens on its corporate citizens among OECD countries, and our personal income tax has become increasingly progressive over the years.
Politics: Life imitates art--the silly season continuesPosted on July 17, 2008
A couple of weeks ago, I saw a political cartoon of a small McCain being crushed by a massive newspaper whose front page was covered in ridiculous blow-by-blow coverage of everything Obama did upon waking up in the morning. Life imitates art. Are we seriously going to make a story about how much Obama works out? Come on...
Life: Fun with voice mail the YouMail way (and, darn you, Skype)Posted on July 16, 2008
Are you sick of your cell phone carrier's voice mail service? Wish you didn't have to pay $3-$4 a month just for the privilege of a longer message and keeping your messages longer than a few days? Try YouMail! It's free (ad-supported) and only requires you to set up a simple conditional call forward on your phone...
Life: Fun with Blogger WidgetsPosted on July 11, 2008
Google has added a new widget recently--and by recently, I mean last month--that makes blogrolls even more fun. I'm not quite used to it yet, but the blogroll down on the right side will update as posts update, and you (well, I) can see what everyone has posted right from here...
Politics: Right-wing media hide-the-ball games on AfghanistanPosted on July 11, 2008
I would like to note two things about MRC's coverage of the Iraq issue that I mentioned yesterday. The Washington Post ran a front-page article on troop shortages in Afghanistan on July 2nd. The MRC laments that this is a shift in the "bad-news spotlight...
Politics: In case you missed it (and you probably did)Posted on July 10, 2008
In case you missed it last week, because you don't tend to read Page 8 of the Washington Post, there's more positive progress in Iraq. As part of one of the war funding authorizations last year, Congress required the White House to report progress on 18 separate benchmarks...
Politics: What church is he Reverend of again?Posted on July 09, 2008
I wonder how Jesse Jackson will explain away his latest statements. Apparently, Fox News and Sean Hannity have a tape of Jackson disparaging Obama after an interview. One of the microphones was still up, and he said--among other things--that he was angry that Obama was "talking down to black people on matters of faith" and wants to "rip Obama's nuts off...
Law School: So BarBRI has it's moments...Posted on June 30, 2008
Moments like this morning: In explaining the rule for ameliorative waste (tearing down an old mansion to make the property more valuable, despite the holder of a future interest objecting): Professor: Can the life tenant tear it down? Yes! Why, because of the American rule that we'd rather be rich than happy!
Life: Epic FailPosted on June 25, 2008
I've seen this before, but it's still worth posting, if for no other reason than I can say the words "epic fail" in a post. O.k. Back to those fun Fed Jur essay questions from BarBRI. The rest of you can go to the Fail Blog for more epic failures...
Law School: Published is published!Posted on June 24, 2008
Congratulations to my fellow IU alum, Pete, for getting his article on Alabama football published. Pete says he's no me. I disagree! Published is published!
Life: Do they think I'm desperate?Posted on June 23, 2008
Apparently, some people think Craigslist posters are desperate to feed a crack habit, to get more singles for the strip club, to get some cash to buy scratch-offs, or just plain stupid. A few days ago, I posted a Craigslist ad for a generator that I have for sale...
Business: Skype finally gets it together; How to create a truly "mobile" company with Skype, TrustFaxPosted on June 18, 2008
I've been a Skype user for several years, but only here-and-there because of its limited usefulness for any serious business purpose. I liked saving some money on international calling when I was stationary out of the country, but it was missing a major feature for me to use for serious purposes...
Media: Going overboard for RussertPosted on June 17, 2008
Hal Boedecker of the Orlando Sentinel writes about NBC and the rest of the MSM: Here's one thing you can say about journalists: Surely no one loves us as much as we love ourselves. That's one lesson of the Tim Russert coverage. A friend told me Sunday: "I now know more about Tim Russert than I do many members of my family...
Life: Renewable Petroleum, the Bush Administration, and Stupid Tax PolicyPosted on June 16, 2008
Pete has a post up from yesterday afternoon that bears a few comments. I'm right with him on the ability of the intersection of science, entrepreneurship, and market forces to produce some truly extraordinary advances. The London's Times' article on LS9's oil-pooping bioorganisms seems to be getting some renewed play for the company, but the story isn't a new one...
Sports: U.S. Open Finale and IBM's failuresPosted on June 16, 2008
Hopefully, you got a chance to see the thrilling playoff round in the U.S. Open and see Tiger Woods win for the record 7th time at Torrey Pines. Tiger blew a three shot lead, but Rocco Mediate was fantastic in keeping the pressure on. Tiger stopped hitting putts, and Mediate hit when he needed with birdies on 13, 14, and 15...
Politics: Not all politics is stuffyPosted on June 15, 2008
Barack Obama made a cliched remark at a campaign fundraiser on Friday: "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." Kudos to the McCain campaign for their witty response. In a statement, the campaign praised Obama for abandoning his opposition to the manufacture, sale, or possession of handguns, but concluded: [W]e're having second thoughts about our proposed series of town halls.
Life: SurrealPosted on June 15, 2008
If you were looking for a photo that captured the meaning of the word "surreal" for a person who had never heard the word before, you might well choose this one: (Credit: AP/Jeff Roberson) Those are houses that have washed up against a train bridge...
Politics: Global (Jupiter) warmingPosted on May 23, 2008
NASA reports today that Jupiter is undergoing global warming: Jupiter's recent outbreak of red spots is likely related to large scale climate change as the gas giant planet is getting warmer near the equator.Of course, this contradicts what NASA and other researchers predicted in 2004, when they said Jupiter would lose most of its red spots...
Media: More Google hypocrisyPosted on May 21, 2008
Maybe I'm a little torqued that Google took six weeks to fix their Google Apps bug that prevented users from verifying e-mail addresses, but I am pretty sure this would have jumped out at me right away anyways. Remember when Google agreed to censor search results for the Chinese government? Now comes the news that Google--under the rubric of "free speech" and a "right to express unpopular
Politics: Update on important legislationPosted on May 20, 2008
Speaking about Congress and passing bills, Congressman Paul Ryan introduced a bill earlier this month that would take care of the problems with the Fed: Five: Stop stoking inflation Additional responsibility for our current state of affairs rests with the Federal Reserve, whose dramatic interest rate cuts since last fall have pushed crude oil prices to new heights and stoked inflation...
Politics: And they say BUSH is the stupid onePosted on May 20, 2008
Congress has record low approval ratings, and today they showed why. By a 324-84 vote, the mental giants learned representatives passed a bill permitting the Justice Department to actually sue OPEC over the price of oil. OPEC. Over the price of oil...
Politics: Stop the presses!Posted on May 14, 2008
Yet another sign that the Democrat primary has jumped the shark (please, please, please Hillary--give up already!): You may have missed it on account of John Edwards finally getting off the fence and backing Obama, the College Democrats of America have decided to *drum roll* endorsed Obama...
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Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat synthesized academic work on globalization into a book for everyone. Now Steingart (Washington, DC, correspondent, Der Spiegel) examines the dark side of globalization for a similarly broad audience. Forcefully, he hammers home his thesis that globalization comes with many negatives and dangers. He warns that nations like India and China are aggressively setting the stage for a redistribution of wealth from the West to Asia. He explains that they and other Asian nations have gradually come to dominate first manufacturing and then services and will soon dominate research and development. He says that U.S. and European jobs lost to Asia are not being replaced with comparable ones: workers in general are losing their economic power as Asian businesses exploit their own glut of low-cost, easily controlled labor. Steingart cautions that in addition to economic strength, these Asian nations are building up their military might not unlike the European powers did before World War I. Ultimately, he provides a glimmer of hope with suggestions for how the West can regain its economic vitality. His cautionary work is deeply thoughtful, accessible to all, and highly recommended for all libraries. [This edition has additional material not in the original German one.-Ed.]
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Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com), a world leader in healthcare and medical publishing and online solutions, today announced that Dallas-based CHRISTUS Health, one of the top 10 Catholic health systems in the U.S., will install five of Elsevier's online clinical decision support (CDS) solutions to meet the diverse and evolving clinical decision support needs of its physicians, nurses and pharmacists.
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As the lockout dragged on, more NHL players joined European teams. Earlier we gave you our first-team honorees. Here are our second and third NHL refugee all-star teams – and some honorable mentions -- for players toiling overseas:SECOND TEAMW – Jaromir Jagr, Rytiri Kladno, Czech Republic: A minor groin strain slowed this would-be Dallas Stars newcomer for a spell, but he has 18 goals and 23 assists in his first 27 games back home.W – Ilya Kovalchuk, SKA St. Petersburg, Russia: He started quickly to earn the KHL's player-of-the-month honors in October. The New Jersey Devils star has scored 14 goals and 20 assists in his first 29 games.C – John Tavares, SC Bern, Switzerland: In 25 games he has scored 16 goals and added 23 assists. The Spengler Cup Tournament gave him a taste of international play. "You can really feel the mystique of this tournament," Tavares told reporters. "The history, the crowds . . ."D – Marek Zidlicky, Rytiri Kladno, Czech Republic: Jaromir Jagr's teammate-for-now
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On March 17, 2008, the Commonwealth of Virginia joined 39 other states in enacting data breach notification laws, with Governor Tim Kaine's signature on the latest data breach notification legislation in the country.
Beginning on July 1, 2008, individuals or entities that own or license computerized data that includes personal information of Virginia residents will be required to notify consumers, the Attorney General of Virginia, and in certain situations consumer reporting agencies when unencrypted or unredacted personal information was or is accessed and acquired by an unauthorized person and causes, or it is reasonably believed that it has or will cause identity theft or another fraud to Virginia residents.
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This picture book is really cute with great illustration. like "Chalk" this book too has a focus on imagination and it would be fun for the kids to pretend they are this character in the book.
I love how simplistic the pictures are. Like comic strips with the multiple pictures per page. Fun and easy to follow.
Setting: It goes through different lands.
Theme: There are many areas to explore
Genre: Picture novel
Summary: This story is about a little character named Polo. The story tells the voyage of Polo going into different lands. As soon as he leaves his house, is journeys into different places and areas. It starts off from him starting from the sky and going onto the land, then heading into the ocean.
Audience: Children.
Curriculum ties: Exploration of areas.
Personal response: While looking at this book, I enjoyed every part of it. The book tells so many stories with just a few images. First off, tells kids to explore the outside world. By exploring outside the house, kids will find many different adventures and things they have never seen before. Next, it gives kids the exposure to different details within a given area. For instance, when it shows the water, it shows Polo dropping from the sky, it shows the sky with clouds and animals. And as soon as he hits the water, he is exposed to fishing. In the different areas, the kids are exposed to different things to do within that area. For instance, when Polo goes to the water, he is exposed to fishing. I think that the book showing what kids can see in the outside world, will get them exploring instead of staying indoors.
It's a story about a dog named Polo who sets out on a great journey. He takes a backpack and supplies he thinks will be necessary. Polo was constantly using his imagination every step of the way. He started out leaving from his tree house and made a staircase up into the sky all the way to the clouds. From the clouds, he had a friend drop him down to his boat in the ocean, where he would soon jump in and continue deeper and deeper. The author really kept the reader guessing about where Polo would end up next and how he would get there.
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I didn't like it since it is wordless and it drove me nuts! But I do have to give the author credit for the illustrations, because thats what really made this graphic novel interesting and made me want to flip the next page. I would use this book with younger children to help them use their imagination and also introduce them wordless books.
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1.Have students act out one of the scenes and pretend to be Polo.
2. Have a around the globe theme unit.
3. Have students bring what they beleive is neccessary while traveling.
Polo who is a puppy ventures out of his island tree house. He is off to see the world. He meets different kind of creatures in his adventure to include a royal fish, monkeys who are in a band, and many other characters. At the end he is given a ride home by a friendly pelican.
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This was cute graphic novel. Had sequential cartoon panels that were easy to follow. Is a wordless graphic novel. Great for young children.
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1. In a group discuss Polo's adventure, what did he see?
2. Have the children draw out something Polo did.
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This is quintessential Gottesman--charming, witty, modest, even self-deprecating, but also attentive to his reputation in a field whose researchers, practitioners, and students regard him as a giant and a legend. And at 85, more than a decade beyond "retirement," he is still working, still making waves, still piling up accolades.
Reopening the debate
When Gottesman joined the clinical psychology graduate program as a student in the Department of Psychology in 1956, an academic battle that had been raging in the discipline for some time--nature v. nurture--had been all but settled at U.S. universities (on the nurture side of the equation). But not at the University of Minnesota. With interests at the intersection of behavioral psychology and genetics, Gottesman found a receptive and congenial home in a department already known for its rigorous adherence to methods of empirical observation and measurement. The climate was ripe for a bit of scientific cage rattling. New data were shaking up the discipline, and twins studies would soon be underway, promising a sea change in psychology research.
At Minnesota, Gottesman took a class on individual differences (taught by Donald G. Paterson and James Jenkins) that he says "changed [his] whole life." Intrigued by the question of causation, he began his own twins research--using the MMPI--for a doctoral dissertation that made a strong case for a genetic basis for individual differences. He was well on his way toward creating a new field, behavior genetics.
Like all great researchers, Gottesman approached his work from the beginning with more questions than answers, challenging prevailing orthodoxies and their true believers. Among other things, he took on the "atrocious" idea that people developed mental illness because of bad mothering. And as paradigm shifts inevitably do, his recalibration of the nature-nurture balance raised some eyebrows and hackles.
Early in his career, Gottesman spent three years as a lecturer at Harvard, where he was was viewed by more senior colleagues with both skepticism and condescension as bringing "dustbowl empiricism" from the Midwest. "They set out to smooth the rough edges," he says. "They were theorists. They saw collection of data to be pedestrian. They were already famous. I was trembling in in my boots."
As it turned out, those boots would leave some mighty large footprints for the rest of the 20th century and into the 21st. Some years later, students he taught at Harvard would thank him for rocking their academic world. In 1966, he would return to Minnesota to launch the Behavioral Genetics Center. Today, Gottesman's work is the coin of the psychology realm, not only in the classroom but also in clinical and laboratory settings throughout the world. And his landmark work has brought his way a steady stream of prizes--including the 2013 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology, which he views as his proudest achievement.
So, is it nature or nurture?
Nature-nurture questions continue to vex researchers today, even as Gottesman's findings are confirmed by continued large-scale studies and brain imaging. As the neurological roots of human behavior have become more discoverable, the balance has tilted away from good/bad mother explanations toward a far more nuanced and elastic view of human behavior, rooted in genetics but also shaped by pre- and post-natal environment.
As for those who insist on the primacy and determinacy of genes, Gottesman has as little patience for them as he does for the nurturists. Wary of absolutism on either side, he goes out of his way to testify against "wholly unsupported" beliefs in such "nonsense" as inherent racial differences in intelligence.
"Enlightened views never put down environment as unimportant. We just begin from a biological point," he says, adding that genes may influence IQ, for example, but only in conjunction with such factors as education, money and social class, nutrition, and social relationships.
Work keeps rippling outward
Gottesman's most enduring legacy? Students, he says--his "intellectual offspring." In 1966, he taught a class in behavior genetics that had never been taught before--and then taught 55 students a year until 1979. "You do the math," he says, grinning.
He has also advised 36 Ph.D.s and seven post-docs, many of whom are continuing and expanding his work--investigating, for example, how genes interact with environment to affect propensity for criminal behavior, addiction, attachment disorders, and more. "I threw a rock into a pond," he says. "Or maybe I'm the rock. These are the ripples."
Over the decades, those ripples have built to a tidal wave, transforming the way we think about human behavior and personality and treat mental illness. Today, we are closer than ever to solving the intricate puzzle of who we are (and why) and what makes our brains--and our behavior--go awry. We have incontrovertible evidence that nature and nurture operate in tandem to create our selves. We know that mental illness and many personality characteristics have a neurological basis, and that we are bundles of nature poised to be leavened and activated (or not) by nurture. Biology is not destiny, nor is bad parenting.
This integrative view, once so subversive of the status quo, is now widely accepted. But it is also provisional and evolving, in a field that is very much a work in progress--especially in an age of increasingly sophisticated biotechnologies.
"We're panning for gold dust," Gottesman says, "and we will eventually find nuggets. The gold bars will be actual genes involved in neuropathology."
"I'm happy that I've lasted long enough to see this. But I would like to be 50 years younger, to be part of the developments in imaging and genotyping."
-- Genie Smith
If you studied Tudor/Stuart England in the 1970s or '80s, odds are good you knew Stan Lehmberg. Born in 1931, Stan taught in the Department of History from 1969 to the late 1990s. He passed away in New Mexico on June 14, 2013. His many book publications on English history included Sir Thomas Elyot, Tudor Humanist (1960), a modernized edition of Elyot's The Book Named the Governor (1962), Sir Walter Mildmay and Tudor Government (1964), The Reformation Parliament, 1529-1536 (1970), The Later Parliaments of Henry VIII, 1536-1547 (1977),The Reformation of Cathedrals: Cathedrals in English Society, 1485-1603 (1988), The Peoples of the British Isles, from Prehistoric Times to 1688 (1991), and another study of cathedrals, Cathedral Under Siege: Cathedrals in English Society, 1600-1700 (1996).
Stan served as chair of the department and was also an accomplished musician. For 28 years he was organist and choir director for St. Clement's Episcopal Church in St. Paul. Stan and Phyllis, his wife, were famous for their hospitality in St. Louis Park. Their gazebo, their piano, their excellent fare enchanted fellow faculty. Stan was devoted to his students, entertaining them regularly, and establishing close mentoring relations with them. He was a superbly polished lecturer, trained as a specialist of Tudor/Stuart England, yet fully attuned to the evolution of his field into early modern studies.
Stan was loyal to his friends and enthusiastically supportive of his colleagues. He was always ready to offer his help to anybody who asked for it. In fact, he had the gift of anticipating needs and trying to ameliorate situations. He was particularly moved when a special fellowship to support graduate students in modern European history was established in his honor and announced at his retirement party. He will be missed.
Kay Reyerson and Theofanis Stavrou
Posthumous Publication for Rudy Vecoli, New Publication by Wim Phillips
Rudy Vecoli, who joined the History faculty in 1969 and passed away in 2008, has just had a book posthumously published with co-author Francesco Durante. Oh Capitano! La vita favolosa di Celso Cesare Moreno in quattro continenti, 1831-1901 (Oh Captain! The Fabulous Life of Celso Cesare Moreno on Four Continents, 1832-1901) was published by Venice's Marsilio press in 2014, adding another accomplishment to his legacy as one of America's most eminent scholars of immigration and long-time director of the University's Immigration History Research Center.
Wim Phillips has published a new book, Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013). Learn more about this book and other recent books by History faculty here.
David and Rosemary Good Graduate Fellowship
David Good (emeritus faculty member, former department chair and long-time director of the Center for Austrian Studies) and his wife Rosemary have now fully endowed their fellowship, which provides annual funding to support a graduate student's education.
Recent Retirements
If you would like to support the legacy of any of these faculty members, contributions in their honor will be gratefully accepted. You may make a secure gift online at http://www.hist.umn.edu/gift/; please specify the faculty member's name when you make your contribution. For more information or assistance in making a gift, please contact Eva Widder (email@example.com).
Lastly, if you were a grad student here from 1996-2011, you probably worked with Phillip Voxland, longtime CLA-OIT, MPC, and History Department technology guru. Phil retired in 2011 after more than 40 years of service at UMN. CLA-OIT and History partnered to host a retirement event for Phil (firstname.lastname@example.com).
More about Phil's life and times at the UMN
Photos from Phil's retirement event
The funded projects cover a wide array of topics, but share a tendency to approach subject matter in innovative and creative ways. These projects aptly display the range and breadth of periods and places under study in our department, and the exciting new directions to which graduate students are taking their respective fields.
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Until now all of the Learning Abroad Center's FSAs had been offered in spring and traveled for a week during spring break, yet the week-long trip was too short for courses that traveled much further afield than western Europe, South America, or Tokyo (a direct flight from Minneapolis), which were compromised by lengthy travel and tired students. As graduates of the History department know, there is much more to the world than those continents! I volunteered to be the first leader of a fall freshman seminar abroad, with a shorter on-campus component and longer travel learning section. With two full weeks abroad, the new format let us travel to New Zealand, gave students greater immersion in the culture of the country they were studying, and allowed more time for reflective learning.
Initially many aspects of the course were similar to other History freshman seminars: students read texts closely, had involved discussions, were introduced to primary historical sources and the thrill of a large academic library system, and worked on different types of college writing. I drew on my ongoing research about the health and mortality of World War I soldiers to introduce students to primary research with New Zealand archival sources, from which they prepared short biographies of selected soldiers. With the centenary of World War I approaching, there are many public history events and exhibits about World War I in New Zealand, some of which the students would see on their trip. As the focus of the course shifted to preparation for learning abroad, students worked in teams to prepare short presentations about the sites and people they were going to meet and took charge of briefing their classmates about our daily activities and connecting the learning abroad to the learning on campus.
When we arrived in New Zealand, the class tried to visit as many historic sites, cities, and museums as possible, making the trip full, even with a longer time away. But not all of the time abroad was faculty led. We started our formal, scheduled activities relatively early in the day, which gave students time to explore on their own in the afternoons. New Zealand was an ideal place for students to find their way in a foreign city, being relatively safe (but do look right, then left!) and speaking mostly the same language. At dinner, drinks, or breakfast we would chat about their discoveries the previous afternoon, which included a good amount of culture shock. One student, Jordan Ecker, was impressed by the level of respect shown to the Maori culture and language in contrast to American attitudes towards Native American heritage, but she was also struck by how little New Zealanders knew about the middle of the U.S., having been exposed to a steady diet of LA- or New York-based American television.
Everyone wanted to maximize their time in the southern summer, and as many classes and discussions as possible were held outside. Although we all got sunburned one sunny day on a volcano early in the trip, the class was a success and the Learning Abroad Center is preparing to offer more fall FSAs in the future. Offering the class in the fall and traveling together in the first break students had from college led to most of the class becoming firm friends, with the class keeping in contact through the spring semester. Nearly all of the students are making plans for their next study abroad experience (Jordan Ecker is even evangelizing as an intern at the Learning Abroad Center!), and several of the students are taking more history courses than they initially planned.
Evan Roberts,
with contributions from Jordan Ecker and Hui-Han Jin
Seven of our graduates students have had children since 2012: Cameron Bradley and his wife Grace welcomed their son, Wyatt Allen Thomas Bradley, on 25 July 2012. Elaine Minerva Madden Snyder was born 4 April 2012, to Mollie Madden and Edward Snyder. Nate Holdren's family grew last year when his daughter Kit (age 4) welcomed her new sister Ayla Mortensen Holdren on May 1, 2013. The same month, Johanna LaVelle was born to Blair Williams. On July 8, 2013, Alex Wisnoski and his wife Lauren welcomed Norah Grace Wisnoski to the world, and a few weeks later on August 5, 2013 Leo Jacob Phillips was born to Jake and Katie Phillips. And just this spring, Ming-hsi Hsia (Brian Hsia), was born to Hui-Han Jin and Wen-chen Hsia on April 1, 2014.
Not to be outdone, several faculty members met new children or grandchildren for the first time in the past few years. Simon Francis Fitch-Roberts was born October 21, 2013 to Assistant Professor Evan Roberts (2007 PhD) and Catherine Fitch (2005 PhD). Professor and current Department Chair Ruth Mazo Karras welcomed a granddaughter, Theodora Ruth Francesca Wilson, on October 31, 2012. Finally, MJ Maynes tells us that she and Ron Aminzade "are thrilled to have a grandchild (and he's perfect, of course!). Luke Turner Aminzade was born on January 5, 2013. Luke's parents are our son Dan and his wife Jen. It's been wonderful watching Luke grow and change over the past year. Only problem is that he lives in California!"
Congratulations to all the new parents and grandparents! We wish you all the best in raising the next generation of U of M scholars!
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Phillips first became interested in this topic while attending the Apple Fest, a yearly tourist event at the Red Cliff reservation in northern Wisconsin. She and her mother were poring through a shelf of old books when they found The Indian Pageant Cookbook, originally printed for a pageant staged on their reservation in 1924 and 1925. Neither had ever heard of these pageants, so Phillips decided to research further. As an undergraduate, her work had focused on the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, and during the original stage of her graduate work she studied dance and diplomacy; she views her serendipitous discovery of a little-studied historical topic as a reminder "to be open-minded about research possibilities because there's always something new to discover."
Phillips works hard to maintain a healthy work-life balance. She finds that pursuing a variety of interests, whether it is running, knitting, or teaching dance classes, helps her handle grad-student stress. She also encourages graduate students to remain connected to their classmates and faculty: "You'd be surprised how inspired you can be after a casual conversation over a cup of coffee," she says, noting that these meetings "can be just as productive as hiding in the library or the office." These skills will come in handy now more than ever, as Phillips and her husband welcomed baby Leo into the family in August 2013. It is not unusual to see Phillips strolling Leo into workshops or library stacks, where she has joined the growing community of hard-working scholar-parents in the department.
Elizabeth Williams
Professor Ruggles is best known among demographers for creating the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), the world's largest population database. IPUMS data span two centuries and 100 countries, are publicly available, and now serve some 65,000 registered users. Ruggles is also Principal Investigator of Terra Populus, a project to bring the world's population data under one interoperable umbrella and to integrate them with sources from other domains, such as satellite imagery and climate models. Over the past 25 years, Ruggles has been awarded some 50 major grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation to develop large-scale data infrastructure for economic, demographic, and health research.
Ruggles is also well-known for his contributions to our understanding of long run demographic change. His most recent article, titled "Breaking Up is Hard to Count: the Rise of Divorce in the United States, 1980-2010," challenges the widely held view that the risk of divorce has declined over the past 30 years and shows instead that it has actually increased by as much as 40%, due largely to a sharp increase in divorce among people over 40. The 2014 article, co-authored with Sheela Kennedy and published in Demography, has been highlighted in popular media ranging from the Washington Post, Time Magazine, and The Guardian to 60+ blogs and twitter feeds of think tanks, law firms, family therapy centers, and individual pundits.
Professor Ruggles' PAA presidency begins in January 2015. As a historian, he will bring an appreciation for the importance of change over time to the organization dominated by present-minded social scientists -- along with a little Minnesota common sense.
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This was not, of course, the real Ellery Schempp, now a retired physicist who lives in Boston. This was Nick Reed of Jackson County Central High School, who won the "Senior Performance" event at the Minnesota State Finals of History Day. Reed and 1,300 other students competed at the U on May 3, the best of over 25,000 middle school and high school students who competed statewide. Students completed a historical research project, either individually or in groups, and presented their findings in one of five formats: as a research paper (familiar to all history majors), performance, exhibit, documentary, or web site. Whatever the event, students also prepare an annotated bibliography. The top two students or teams in each division compete at the national finals, where Minnesota always does extremely well.
History Day in Minnesota is sponsored by the Minnesota Historical Society and by the U of M History Department. Other units of the U participate too: for example, Wilson Library received a special award this year for the assistance that they provide, each and every year, to student researchers who come to campus. What the History Department provides, especially, is the brainpower of our students. Tim Hoogland of the Minnesota Historical Society (also known as Mr. History Day) supervises 27 undergraduate History Day interns, who enroll for a course with him in spring semester. These students mentor high school and middle school students working on History Day projects, as well as assisting with the state event itself. They receive a stipend funded by several generous donors. Two of the students, Sam Carlson and Khou Lee, will travel to Washington, D.C. for nationals along with the state winners and runners-up. Each year, two History graduate students work with these mentors and as liaisons between teachers/students and University resources, such as Wilson Library and various archives. Other students and faculty can, if they wish, serve as judges at the state event, or for the papers, which are judged in advance rather than on the day.
However they participate, History Day students learn the same skills we hope history majors will acquire, skills that they can use in whatever career they choose: research in a variety of sources and considering a wide variety of points of view; analyzing the material they find; articulating a thesis; situating their work in a larger context; and presenting it in an engaging manner. They also learn something else we hope history majors will acquire: a love of learning about the world around them through an understanding of its past.
Ruth Karras
Now that he had a dissertation topic, James just needed a graduate program! The University of Minnesota made a great fit for James, with its strong reputation in African and gender history and its focus on interdisciplinary methods. He was eager to work with Professor Allen Isaacman, an expert on the history of Mozambique, and to engage with the Interdisciplinary Center for the study of Global Change (ICGC), which facilitates scholarly exchanges with the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. Over the course of his graduate career, James's project has shifted from a purely social historical perspective to one that is more cognizant of the politics of doing history; his work engages with a set of post-colonial critics and theorists who demand that scholars consider the role played by historians and the discipline of history itself in shaping (post)colonial spaces.
Now that he is approaching the end of his graduate studies, James has several pieces of advice for students beginning their studies at the U of M. First, take notes! Record lectures, talks, seminars (always with permission, of course) so that you can create your own "personal archive." Make sure you store your notes and recordings in a safe and accessible place. Dissertation ideas evolve considerably over time, so he recommends keeping a journal so that you can keep track of changes and sparks of inspiration. Finally, don't forget to enjoy the Twin Cities! James especially enjoys the arts scene in the city, citing live music performances and visits to the Walker Art Center as favorite study-break activities.
Elizabeth Williams
At the center of her interdisciplinary research is her rewriting of the dominant narrative of New England history. Her critical reading of a wide array of written settler sources, full of distinct racial, cultural and class biases, and her creative analysis of monuments, public memorials and other cultural representations, have effectively subverted the prevailing claim that European settlers were the principal historical actors and that fast-disappearing Native Americans were inconsequential remnants of an earlier historical period. Her two books, Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790, and Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England, have broken new ground in the study of the native American past. Furthermore, in order to strengthen the institutional support for further examination of native American history, O'Brien, along with several other colleagues, founded the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, a new scholarly association which has been recognized as changing the face of American Indian studies in the United States.
And O'Brien's accolades show no sign of letting up; in recognition of her numerous national and international accomplishments and many contributions across the campus, she has just received the University's Sara Evans Faculty Woman Scholar/Leader Award for 2014!
Thomas Wolfe
We talked to RJ Devick, an alumnus of the Department of History, to find out how an education in the humanities prepared him for career success. Mr. Devick is a partner at Bond & Devick, a financial planning firm in St. Louis Park which helps retirees and executives with retirement, investment, tax and estate planning. He credits his training in history with developing solid research skills, which he uses on a daily basis to analyze and contextualize financial data in order to produce sound investment plans for his clients, and honing his writing ability; he notes that "all of the writing and critiquing I had to do while a history student has certainly helped me be a better communicator with my clients."
The classes that Devick took in the department, particularly those with Professors Theo Stavrou and David Kieft, inspired an intellectual curiosity about the past that has stayed with him to this day. Along with diplomatic history, he cites his courses in cultural history, and, yes, art history (!!!) as influential experiences which "really sparked my lifelong enthusiasm for learning."
So, given the chance to do it all again, would Devick choose to major in history? "If I could start over again I would double major in history and economics, because I am passionate about both fields of study and both are very germane to my line of work." Perhaps the answer, then, is not to abandon the humanities, but to actively explore the connections between history, other areas of study, and a wide range of career possibilities.
To this end, we have just launched a new section of our website highlighting many possible career paths for history majors both inside and outside the academy. If you are an alum and would like to let us know how a degree in history benefited your chosen career path, tell us your story.
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Waltner was the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the U of M, a position she held for nine years before stepping down this year, during which she shepherded the IAS from a small program within CLA into an all-University powerhouse of innovative interdisciplinary research and collaboration. Over the course of her career in History, Professor Waltner has served on most of the department's major committees, including the Graduate Studies Committee and the Committee on Promotion, Tenure, and Merit. She has also served as Associate Chair of History, and helped to found the Workshop for the Comparative History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (WCHWGS), one of the department's longest-running workshops. Outside the department, she has also served on the editorial board of several journals, including Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (1990-95), The Journal of Asian Studies (1995-2000; editor 2000-2005), The Journal of Early Modern History (1995-1999), Ming Studies (2000), and Gender and History (2008-).
Waltner has also gone above and beyond the call of duty to support graduate students, faculty, and undergraduates in her field, holding a weekly reading group in her home to help students and colleagues tackle difficult Chinese-language texts. As Professor Ruth Mazo Karras, the current Chair of the History Department, notes, this reading group "has been nothing less than the crucible of several generations of East Asianists." Congratulations to Professor Waltner on this significant achievement!
Elizabeth Williams]]>
Professor Casale's teaching has been particularly innovative in integrating language instruction and study abroad experiences into the History curriculum. In 2005, he secured a three-year seed grant from the Institute for Turkish Studies which partially supported Turkish language instruction. In conjunction with this initiative, he developed a freshman seminar on Turkish history and culture that culminated in a three-week study abroad trip to Istanbul; of the twelve students who attended, most went on to complete multiple years of Turkish language classes. Casale's students have been impressed by his intensive knowledge of his field, his compelling lectures, and his willingness to provide them with support for their intellectual and extracurricular pursuits. Several of his undergraduate students have gone on to pursue graduate degrees in related fields, or to spend time in Turkey working or volunteering.
Professor Casale's contributions as a public scholar also impressed committee members: this year, he has served as a local scholar for a book discussion series entitled Let's Talk About It: Muslim Journeys-Connected Histories. Over thirty community members attended the five sessions at the Hennepin County Public Library, where he received rave reviews for his innovative and thought-provoking presentations.
The History Department is proud to see this award-winning scholar in our midst add richly deserved teaching accolades to his already impressive list of accomplishments.
Elizabeth Williams]]>
George Klevorn (2013), who was in Kevin Murphy's section of major paper class in Spring 2013, submitted his major paper essay to FOUNDATIONS, and it was published by Johns Hopkins University in 2014. It's out now! Grinding Away the Past: The Adaptive Re-Usage of the Minneapolis Mill District. (pgs 62-83)
Gus Gleiter (2013), who majored in History and Communications Studies, received a Talle Family Merit Scholarship for Excellence in History for 2012-2013. His video greeting from Egypt was played at the CLA Scholarship & Fellowship Event in October 2012. In his short video, he describes his studies and experiences in Egypt, his future academic and career goals, and how the skills and knowledge from his CLA education will be used in pursuit of these goals, and he expresses his gratitude for the extraordinary opportunity provided by the Talle Scholarship.
Gus has recently returned to Egypt for a 4-week summer Arabic language course. He has resumed posting to the blog he created to document his first trip trip to Egypt: Trading the Mississippi for the Nile.
Katie Hiatt (2010) received a Fullbright Scholarship to research the religious life of prisoners in forced labor camps in Ukraine for 2013-14.
*Update from Theo Stavrou, May 2014: "Katie returned a few weeks ago for a short visit to Minneapolis. She is doing great and her dissertation is progressing well. She did not seem concerned about her safety while in Ukraine. She told me that she was again returning to Ukraine, but this time instead of staying in Kiev, she was going to be staying in Lviv, which is a much quieter place. She should be in Ukraine by now."
Drew Horwood (2013) History honors major and former winner of the Howard Reinmuth Prize in European History, had a record run on Jeopardy shortly after his graduation, winning eight straight games and amassing over $138,000!
11 History Undergrads Elected to Phi Beta Kappa
For 2014, 11 students with History undergraduate majors have been elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa by the Alpha Chapter of the University of Minnesota.
Fried, Benjamin J
Goeke, Megan T
Housewright, Victoria V
Johnson, Erik M
Kiefer, Matthew Scott
Larsen, Craig Andrew
Neisen, Samuel Thomas
Norman, Miles
Owen, Stephen M
Ryan, Nicholas M
White, Torrie Jay


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New Delhi: India and China will jointly conduct research on the impact of global warming on glaciers in the Himalayan and Tibetan regions, Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Saturday.
"There is a need for a joint study on the glaciers in the regions. The Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology and its Chinese counterpart, the Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research, have been roped in to conduct the research," Mr. Ramesh said.
The decision was taken last week during his visit to Beijing, the Minister said on the sidelines of a function after releasing a report, the Security Implication of Climate Change for India, prepared by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses.
Mr. Ramesh said it was mind-boggling to know the way China has invested heavily — both monetary and resource wise — to study glaciology in the Himalayan region in the past ten years.
"We are just beginning. A joint research will be better for in-depth findings." he said. Besides seeking joint research with the neighbouring countries, he emphasised on strengthening scientific capabilities of the institutions to combat the climate change threat. — PTI


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Saints use draft to double down on defense
by Jordan Fiegel
posted May 2 2015 3:03PM
The Saints took not one, not two, but three defenders in the 5th round. They stood pat with their original two picks and then traded back into the end of the 5th to take one more. I love what the Saints did in this round. By the 5th round, you're not going to get any immediate impact guys. Teams are looking for depth and potential, and the Saints hit on both with their three picks.
Davis Tull
The Saints used their second pick of the 5th round to select Davis Tull, a DE/OLB out of Chattanooga. The Black and Gold nabbed a great pass-rusher in Hau'oli Kikaha in the 2nd round, and they decided to double dip with one of their 5th rounders.
Tull was an All-American at the FCS level for three straight years, and he was the Southern Conference's Defensive Player of the Year as a senior after recording 58 tackles, 18 tackles for a loss, and 10.5 sacks. He played with his hand in the dirt as a defensive end; but at 6'2, 246lbs, Tull fits as an outside linebacker.
First, some negatives. Tull has tiny arms (31 ¼''), and he is a tweener. He isn't a huge factor in the rung game, and bigger offensive linemen can neutralize him. He's had some injuries and actually had surgery on a torn labrum in his shoulder in March.
However, I loved watching Tull's tape. He plays with a high, high motor and doesn't give up on plays. He uses a variety of pass-rush moves. He may try a speed rush a couple times, then use a bull rush, then he'll try his spin move. Tull needs time to refine those moves, as they're not always effective or executed well; but it's good to see he's not a one trick pony.
Tull also has some amazing measurables. Despite having a torn labrum in his shoulder, he put up 26 reps on the bench press. He also ran the 40 yard dash in 4.57. Even better, he has some incredible explosive numbers (very important for a pass-rusher). 42.5'' vertical and a 132'' broad jump.
He may not make an immediate impact, but he has the potential and he's coachable. Rob Ryan should have some fun with him. The Saints were 25th in sacks last season, and they're taking clear steps to improve that.
Tyeler Davison
With their second 5th round pick, the 154th pick overall, the Saints took Tyeler Davison, a defensive tackle out of Fresno State. Davison has impressive size (6'1, 316lbs) and long arms (34''). He had a breakout senior season, collecting 61 tackles and 8.5 sacks for the Bulldogs.
While he mainly lined up as a 0 or 1 technique nose tackle, Davison also spent some time at 5 technique defensive end. He would need to bulk up some to be a true NT in the Saints 3-4, but he could play DE and DT in 4 man fronts.
Like Tull, Davison is a player who needs some work but has a lot of potential. The Saints are a little thin at DE, so he can immediately provide depth there.
Damian Swann
The Saints traded back into the 5th round to take Damian Swann, a cornerback out of Georgia, doubling up on the position after drafting P.J. Williams in the 3rd round.
I'll admit, I knew very little of Swann before the pick. His measurables aren't bad, but they aren't great. He put up solid stats, with a goo number of pass break ups (29 over his last three years) Only 4 interceptions, but at least he can bat down some balls. In his press conference, Sean Payton cited the versatility of the two corners they drafted, and I absolutely see that in Swann.
I was more impressed watching his tape, though. I went back and watched his games against Tennessee and Louisville from 2014.
What immediately stood out to me was how physical he is. He played a good bit of press coverage and was not afraid of contact with the receivers, though he played too physical sometimes, drawing three penalties (holding, facemask, and unsportsmanlike conduct) in the Tennessee game. With how strict NFL refs are, he'll have to learn to be less handsy.
His last collegiate game against Louisville really showcased his versatility, and I have to imagine that's a huge plus to Rob Ryan. Swann lined up against outside WRs, against slot receivers, as the deep safety, and inside the box.
He's solid in run support and an excellent blitzer (caused what should have been a sack fumble against Louisville, but it wasn't reviewable).He'll need some work, of course; but I can easily see Swann sticking around because of his ability to play multiple roles and on special teams.
Swann probably will never be a top cornerback in the NFL, but he can carve out a spot for himself with his versatility and fiery nature.
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by Jordan Fiegel
posted May 1 2015 3:27PM
The Saints have seven picks for the remaining six rounds, so let's take a look and see who they may select. I won't be projecting any trades in the mock draft, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Saints moved up one or two times before the final pick is in.
2.12 (44) – Randy Gregory, DE/OLB, Nebraska:
With the 12th pick of the 2nd Round, the New Orleans Saints select....Randy Gregory. Gregory was one of the surprises of the 1st Round. He has top 10 talent, but he reportedly failed a drug test (marijuana) at the Combine. He also had some issues with fluctuating weight. However, at this point in the draft, Gregory's natural talent is too good to pass up. I think he's the second best pass-rusher in the draft behind Vic Beasley (who went to the Falcons), and he could be a terror in the backfield. The 6'5, 238lbs Cornhusker racked up 17.5 sacks in two seasons in Lincoln.
3.11 (75) – Steven Nelson, CB, Oregon State:
There's no stepping around it; the Saints secondary in 2014 was putrid. Steps have been made to improve it, but more help needs to be added in the draft. Steven Nelson would be a great pick-up. He's a little smaller at 5'10, 197lbs; but "Mighty Mouse" certainly doesn't play that way. He's a quick, physical (sometimes too handsy) corner that can also make an impact defending the run. He sticks with receivers, though bigger ones can give him trouble. He held Nelson Agholor (who was drafted 20th overall) to just 3 catches for 27 yards. Nelson can compete immediately as the nickel corner and has a ceiling of eventually becoming a CB2.
3.14 (78) – Tre McBride, WR, William and Mary:
The Saints have two third rounders thanks to the Kenny Stills trade, and it's fitting that a new wide out. At 6'0, 210lbs, McBride has nice size for the NFL; and he put up good measurables at the NFL Combine, running the 40 yard dash in 4.41 seconds. He's a willing blocker and a pretty solid one at that. He played against weaker competition at the FCS level, but he caught at least 55 passes in three straight years. He's a smooth route-runner with good hands. The Saints nabbed a great small-school WR once before, and McBride could be the next one.
5.12 (189) – Shaq Mason, G/C, Georgia Tech:
The Saints shored up their offensive line by taking OT Andrus Peat in the 1st, but offensive line depth is still needed. The 6'1, 300lbs Mason needs to work on his technique and pass-protection some coming out of the option attack that Georgia Tech runs; but he has the ability to play center or either guard spot. He may be a natural RG after spending his college career there. He could provide the desired OL depth with the potential to be a starter in a couple years.
5.18 (154) – Xavier Williams, DL, Northern Iowa:
The Saints against dip into the FCS ranks to grab a player, this time on the defensive line. Williams, 6'2, 325lbs, has the size and experience to play nose tackle; but he could also play defensive end in the Saints scheme. With only three DEs on the roster, some depth is needed. After redshirting his first year, Williams got better each season, culminating in a 93 tackle, 8 sack season his senior year.
6.11 (187) – Blake Bell, TE, Oklahoma:
Sean Payton is high on Josh Hill to take over for Jimmy Graham, but the Black and Gold could use another tight end on the roster. Ben Watson isn't getting any younger, and Orson Charles is an unknown factor. Bell only has one year at TE after converting from quarterback his senior year. He has amazing size for the position at 6'6, 252lbs; but he is raw and inexperienced. However, this is a great situation for Bell. He can come in without the pressure to compete right away and continue learning the position.
7.13 (230) – Jeff Luc, ILB, Cincinnati
: The Saints drafted an inside linebacker in the 1st, but that wouldn't stop them from drafting another. Luc has the potential of going undrafted, but he's worth a flier in the 7th. He's got decent size at 6'0, 251lbs and put up solid numbers at his Pro Day. Luc broke out his senior year, racking up 133 tackles (first on his team), 6.5 sacks, and 5 forced fumbles.
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by Jordan Fiegel
posted May 1 2015 12:09PM
The 1st round of the 2015 NFL Draft is in the books. Despite having lots of ammunition to move up if they wanted, the Saints chose to stand pat and picked at 13th and 31st. The Saints split the picks, going offense first then finishing up with defense.
With their first 1st rounder, the Saints selected Andrus Peat, an offensive tackle out of Stanford. The move surprised some, but Peat was considered by many to be the top offensive tackle in the draft (he was my #1 OT).
Protecting Drew Brees has been a priority, and Peat can help in that regard. Offensive tackle wasn't the biggest need for the Saints with Terron Armstead at LT and Zach Strief at RT, and I thought the Saints would address the holes on defense first.
However, Peat is still a solid pick. Brees was under pressure a good bit, and Peat has the potential to start right away at RT. Games are often won in the trenches, and the Black and Gold shored theirs up.
Perhaps the Saints took a lesson from the Dallas Cowboys, of all teams. In Week 4, the Saints saw first hand what investing in the offensive line can do. The Cowboys rushed for 190 yards on 35 runs (5.4yds per carry) in route to a 38-17 win.
In the 2011, 2013, and 2014 drafts, the Cowboys selected an offensive lineman in the first round. Those three players (Tyron Smith, Travis Frederick, and Zack Martin) have accounted for four Pro Bowl appearances and five All-Pro selections. That's pretty darn impressive. Demarco Murray had a career year behind that o-line, rushing for 1,845 yards and 13 touchdowns.
The Saints have started investing in beefing up the run game. They obtained an All-Pro center in Max Unger from the Jimmy Graham trade. They signed Mark Ingram and C.J. Spiller each to $4 million a year contracts. Selecting Peat just furthers that goal.
But, the Saints already have a RT, you say! True. Strief struggled at times last year, but he was one of the best right tackles in the NFL in 2013. He may not return to that form, but he is a dependable, quality player.
Bryce Harris was a liability as the primary back-up tackle last season. Whoever ends up starting out of Peat and Strief, the Saints will have a back-up who can immediately jump in at left or right tackle. Terron Armstead missed time last season with injuries while Strief was nicked up some too. Having a player who can come off the bench without a quality
The Saints defense was a huge problem last season, but the offensive line was a concern as well. The Saints just gave Brees added protection and helped themselves in the run game.
I'm not sure I agree with drafting a player 13th overall who may only see the field if an injury happens, but Sean Payton and Mickey Loomis have a plan. Peat is clearly the future at RT, and he gives the Saints another option when Armstead's rookie contract runs out and the Saints try to re-sign him.
With their second pick of the 1st round, the 31st overall, the Saints selected Stephone Anthony, an inside linebacker from Clemson.
Inside linebacker was a huge hole for the Saints (I thought it was the biggest need), and Anthony plugs that hole nicely.
While there may have been higher rated players available, make no mistake, Anthony is a great pick. He checks in at 6'3, 243lbs. Great, great size for an inside linebacker.
As of just a couple weeks ago, the Saints had only three ILBs (David Hawthorne, Ramon Humbar, Kyle Knox) on the roster. They acquired Dannell Ellerbe in the Kenny Stills trade and didn't stop there, adding the co-team captain in the 1st round.
Watching Anthony's film, I came away impressed. He has good reaction time; and he's quick, with good change of direction. Some complained that Anthony was a little too stiff, but that's not what I saw. He also performed well at several of the Combine drills that try to measure agility.
Anthony doesn't have the best coverage skills in the draft, but they are above average. That was a weakness for the Saints linebacker corps last year, but he will provide a boost. Anthony has an eye for diagnosing screens and can blow them up. He also has the ability to hang with running backs and tight ends.
He can be too aggressive at times and will take some bad angles (a downside to reacting so quickly). But I bet Rob Ryan is happy to get his hands on an aggressive defender.
If you want to see Anthony at his best, I highly recommend taking 11 minutes and watching his tape against Florida State, possibly his best game last season. He racked up 8 tackles, 2 tackles for a loss, 1 sack, 2 quarterback hurries, and 1 pass break-up against the defending national champions. Clemson ultimately lost but not through any fault of his.
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The Saints said they wanted to strengthen the defense when they traded Jimmy Graham to the Seahawks. Well, they used the pick they acquired in that trade to do just that.
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China's Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, lunar rover is functioning again after shutting down for a 14-day lunar night, officials said on Thursday.
"Yutu has come back to life," Pei Zhaoyu, a spokesman for China's lunar exploration programme, told state media.
The rover's "normal signal reception function" was restored and scientists were working to identify the cause of a mechanical problem reported on January 25, when the Jade Rabbit entered its "sleep" mode for the freezing lunar night, the official Xinhua news agency quoted Mr. Pei as saying.
"Yutu went into sleep [mode] under an abnormal status," Mr. Pei said.
"The rover stands a chance of being saved now that it is still alive." Space officials said earlier that the unspecified problem with the solar-powered rover was due to a "complicated lunar surface environment," but they gave no further explanations.
International space experts speculated that the problem could be in the electric motors that close the rover's solar panels.
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China became the third nation to land a spacecraft on the moon, after the United States and the former Soviet Union, when Chang'e-3 touched down on the lunar surface on December 14.
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The first conviction was thrown out by the Idaho Supreme Court.
Now, Day could be eligible for parole after five years.
Day spoke in court, saying he knew his victim and would give her a hug if he saw her.
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If you watch TV or movies, you see this with virtually any subject you could imagine. What it boils down to is that generally the people making the content need to dumb down everything to what Joe Average expects to see. If you've got greater-than-average knowledge of any field, chances are when you see people doing it on TV they're fucking something up.
We've already heard countless examples of computer GUIs. How about medicine? I was a paramedic, and my wife is an ER doc, and both of us cringe every time we see someone onscreen get a giant needle stabbed into their chest. Ever since Uma got the treatment in Pulp Fiction (maybe there were earlier ones, but that's the first time I remember seeing it) this is a great little dramatic moment that they love to stick into films and TV shows. In real life drugs go into a vein and even if the heart isn't going you can circulate with a little CPR. Jamming giant needles into the heart is just silly.
And while we're on the subject, all the CPR I see onscreen is shit. The last time I was certified was 2005 so I might be out of date, but last I checked we were at 30:2 compression/breath ratio at a rate of about 100 compressions per minute. Our memory aid was that we could compress to the tune of Queen's 'Another One Bites the Dust' (funny, I know) and that would get us pretty close. On TV it's way too slow, not to mention pretty rare that 30 seconds of CPR will magically revive someone without the addition of a defibrillator and lots of drugs.
I don't know dick about car repair, but I know what to do if I'm in a movie. I ask the hot chick on the side of the road to pop the hood, I stick my head in there, jiggle a few wires, then say, "Try it now." Then it'll start right up. Or possibly blow up, depending on the movie. Oh, and if you need to hotwire a car, you just yank that bundle of wires out from under the dash and tap a couple of them together until it sparks.
How about firearms? Again, I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure when you shoot someone with a 9mm it won't knock them off their feet and throw their body 10 feet backwards through a plate glass window. But it sure looks nifty.
General electronics? It doesn't really matter what you're doing here; defusing a bomb, fixing a broken radio, breaking into a vault, etc. You just open up whatever device you're dealing with, connect a few jumpers with alligator clips on the end, clip another wire with a set of cutters and poof, you're golden. Just don't cut the green wire. Or was it the blue wire?
I'm sure most people could come up with similar things they see all the time, these are just a few of the ones that I notice. I probably gloss over lots more simply because for those subjects, I am the Joe Average and whatever they're doing looks totally plausible to me even though someone somewhere is gnashing their teeth over it.
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Not only did I do something that pisses me off royally when I see other people do it (giant blocks of text with no whitespace), I compounded the idiocy by not using the 'Preview' button.
I'm really annoyed at myself, mainly because this was the first thing I'd read on Slashdot that I actually felt I had something which I could contribute, and then I went and screwed up the posting. I'm guessing a lot of people are like me, and when faced with a giant chunk of text, just skip it and go on to the next post.
Luckily I saved a copy in case the form conked out in mid-post, as has happened numerous times before. So if you skipped the first one, now you can save your retinas and read this properly formatted one.
Did you know the company actually doesn't want you to call them Legos? I think they prefer something like 'Lego bricks'. They get all uppity when it comes to trademark names.
Anyway, I had a pretty good stash of Legos when I was younger. Currently my sister and I are both in our mid-thirties with two kids each, and our Legos were sitting alone in some boxes in our parent's basement. One day my dad decided that those Legos should be in the hands of his grandchildren, so he set to work.
He could have just roughly split them in halves and sent them to us, but he's far too anal retentive for that. No, first he organized all the bricks by color. Now this wasn't a ridiculously large collection like some people probably have, but it's still maybe 4-5 cubic feet of Legos.
Then once he had that done, the real fun began. He pulled out all the instruction sheets we'd saved and started pulling out the blocks for them. I'm not sure what he sent to my sister, but I got one big set and three smaller ones, all nicely segregated in their own little Ziploc bag. Of course that was along with the other six bags of bricks, neatly organized by color.
Whether it was luck, or maybe him remembering that it was my favorite, I ended up with the Galaxy Explorer. Just a few weeks ago my 3 1/2 year old was bored, and I told him about this cool rocket ship we could build, so I pulled it out and started putting it together. The instruction booklet has all these cute little check marks next to all the pieces; my dad marking off what he'd found. Occasionally there's an 'X'; something that was missing that I needed to go find a substitute for. As it was, my finished Galaxy Explorer had some odd white plates underneath and a few other out of place bricks, but it was good enough.
My son played with it every night after our youngest went to bed. (Didn't want him eating any carelessly dropped bricks.) It didn't take him long before he'd progressed to a new favorite method of play: pulling the heads off of all the minifigs and making neat little stacks of them, along with little rows of legs and torsos. I'd think there was something wrong with him, but I distinctly remember making little stacks of minifig heads myself.
Much to the chagrin of my wife, I've used this as an opportunity to start buying more Lego sets, which is great, because he can't really follow directions yet, so I get to put them all together.


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"You can't get corporate jets, you can't go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer's dime"…noted President Obama last February in response to a question about financial institutions that had received TARP money holding lavish events…
…fair enough and quite appropriate
The problem is that additional Congressional criticism of companies and industry associations holding meetings or events, especially in Las Vegas or Reno or Orlando or in Hawaii, etc., has added tens of thousands of people to the unemployment roles. These are companies and associations that never received any government funds, but want to avoid any chance of criticism from the Congress and the media…
…those former hotel bell staffers, those former hotel and restaurant workers, those former flight attendants, those former cab drivers, those former travel industry employees of all types have suffered a one-two punch of 1) the "Great Recession" and 2) doing what is "acceptable" in the eyes of the imperial Congress.
Nearly 200,000 travel-related jobs were eliminated in the U.S. economy during 2008. Perhaps 300,000 or more positions will be lost this year. That equates to roughly 10,000 lost jobs per state…people who are now unemployed.
The point is that the "AIG effect"…wherein the insurance giant had a significant number of high-level executives travel to a luxurious California resort just a week after the Federal Reserve provided an $85,000,000,000 bailout…has had unintended consequences that have led to tens of thousands of job losses.
Did I mention that Congressional spending on overseas travel has tripled in the past eight years, or that Congressional members are allotted $500 per day for expenses, can travel in either first or business class, and have very limited accountability as to the purpose of the trip or who they met with?
A recent story in USA TODAY notes that Las Vegas, Palm Springs, San Francisco, and Hawaii have experienced serious declines in people traveling to their cities for meetings, including a 26% decline in Las Vegas. The same story mentioned that "safe cities" such as Denver and Dallas are seeing future bookings rise, as companies and associations try to stay under the Congressional radar.
Did I mention that Nevada's current statewide unemployment rate is 13.2%, the second highest in the nation?
The story also mentioned the "Katrina effect"…wherein New Orleans has benefited from companies and associations trying to steer business toward the city, with many attendees involved in community rebuilding while there. Detroit has also benefited from event planners promoting the city for meetings as a way to help the economy in a state that has seen total employment decline during EACH of the past nine years.
Other casualties of Presidential and Congressional criticism of business-related travel have been incentive programs within numerous companies. Wells Fargo was singled out earlier this year for Congressional and media criticism because a number of lower-to-mid-level employees had qualified for a few days at company expense in Las Vegas.
The National Business Travel Association notes that incentive programs are "two to three times more effective than cash at motivating employee performance." We all know someone, perhaps a family member or neighbor, who in the past had handled their job responsibilities professionally enough to quality for a perk from the company…
…no more, and what a shame
Did I mention that Congressional overseas travel has jumped by 50% since the Democrats took control of the Congress less than three years ago?
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After getting hammered during the past two years, the estimated net worth of the American household rose during 2009's second quarter. The total increased to $53.1 trillion, a jump of $2 trillion ($2,000,000,000,000, up 3.9%) versus the prior quarter's $51.1 trillion total.
Net worth is derived from the Federal Reserve's quarterly flow of funds report. The total represents the difference between all household assets, including stocks, mutual funds, real estate, CDs, etc, minus all debts, including home mortgages, consumer debt, bank loans, etc.
The rise in net worth is a positive sign and will likely be followed by another gain during 2009's third quarter. Still, the $53.1 trillion total is 19% below the peak of $65.3 trillion during 2007's third quarter, just before the Dow average reached an all-time high of 14192.
The second quarter jump was driven by rising stock prices and modestly higher home values. Stocks owned by households rose an estimated $1.4 trillion in value, while real estate rose by $139 billion (up 1.8%), the first increase since 2006's final quarter.
In addition, households cut down total debt at a 1.7% annual rate during the second quarter, with reductions in both mortgage debt and consumer credit. Consumers have been aggressive, where possible, in paying down debt during the past two years in response to serious recession, painful job cuts, and higher levels of anxiety. The estimated savings rate reached 6.0% in May, the highest level since 1998.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The state Court of Appeals has upheld the drug conviction for a man who claimed he should have been allowed to show that he can legally possess marijuana in California for medical purposes.
Jeffrey Thiel was convicted of fifth-degree possession of a controlled substance after authorities found two jars of marijuana in his vehicle in 2011. He wanted the case dismissed, saying Minnesota law violates his rights. But the appeals court disagreed.
Thiel also argued he should've been allowed to present a defense showing he can have the drug in California. But the appeals court says that evidence is irrelevant.
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Minnesota recently passed legislation that bans smoking the drug, but allows certain patients to use it in oil or pill form.
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