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When fresh celebrity blood is in the water, a tabloid feeding frenzy is never far behind. This week, Christina Aguilera becomes newsstand chum in the wake of her public intoxication arrest, with several glossies piling it on.
The common theme: The beleaguered chanteuse (and mom of 3-year-old Max) is supposedly spiraling downward, causing concern among her inner circle.
First up is Us Weekly, which says Xtina stepped out on March 4 with DUI-busted boyfriend Matthew Rutler for dinner and two bottles of vino at an Italian restaurant in Los Angeles.
This is the same eatery where, three days before, they enjoyed a "wine-drenched feast" before their mug-shot-ending run-in with police.
"She acted as if the arrest never happened," a restaurant spy tells the mag. "When their server offered them dessert, they asked for more wine."
Xtina, whose craptacular start to 2011 has included a National Anthem fumble, an onstage Grammy stumble and a purported Goldilocks moment at Jeremy Renner's birthday party, "seemed tipsy" by the time they left, says the mole. On the plus side, a limo was waiting to take them home.
"She should see the arrest as a wake-up call, but she doesn't," head-shakes an insider. "She doesn't think things are that bad."
But things aren't necessarily good, according to another snitch: "She's nearly fall-down wasted nearly every night."
Us also speculates that Xtina's ostensible "crisis" could create problems in her custody arrangement with soon-to-be ex-husband Jordan Bratman.
Meanwhile, the cover of Star features an unflattering photo of Aguilera and declares that she has hit "rock bottom," claiming she's "lost her confidence" since her October split with Bratman.
"She gets terribly sad ... and she ends up numbing herself with booze and food," alleges a source, with a "concerned pal" adding, "Everyone is worried sick. She needs to get help before something even more serious happens."
Moving on, Life & Style repurposes the rumors that Christina has threatened to fire anyone who tries to talk to her about her "drinking and partying," while In Touch contends that she requires a booze boost before she goes out in order to "be in a good mood."
Then there's Rutler's dad, who swings and misses for Father of the Year honors by chatting with RadarOnline about his son's DUI arrest.
"I just feel bad he got into trouble like this, but it could have happened to anyone," says the elder Rutler. "He really didn't have that much to drink, he just got caught. … Matt was only like .01 over the legal limit... it's not like he was that drunk. There are drugs and gangs running rampant in L.A., and they have a press conference about Matt."
Like the aforementioned unnamed pal, Papa Rutler is "concerned" for both his son and Aguilera.
"I hope everything turns out OK," he says.
So do we.
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Approaching colour per era
When we were approached to do the colour correction for McDonald's 'Bungeejump' (TBWA\NEBOKO, Electric Zoo, directed by Martin Werner), I was asked how we could achieve different looks. In 'Bungeejump', our main character jumps off a tall brigde and has a several flashbacks of him enjoying the famous burger throughout his life. I also jumped to the opportunity to compile a few ideas myself and separate what could be done in post and in-camera. In the past I have been involved in many a session where I, as a colourist, sat with the cinematographer, make-up and art department. Synchronizing ideas, testing of stock, lenses, make-up, clothing, and ironing out potential issues long before the shoot. My experience is when all of these departments play the same sheets, it will all come together like a beautiful orchestrated piece in the end. The following is what I sent as ideas and suggestions. Hope you enjoy it.
1950: Vibrant technicolor tones of the skin. Muted blues and cyans, with a high contrast film-noir style of lighting. Classic studio hair lights and hard fill lights. Note the use of coloured props and clothing, the blue pj's, yellow raincoat, olive green vest and red bedspread.
1960: Improved film stocks delivered more detail in the blacks and highlights, producing less contrasty images and more subtle colour tones. Lots of pastel tones in the art-direction with the occasional vibrant primary colours. Earlier productions, like the examples of Spartacus, saw a less refined understanding of balancing the colour temperatures of the light sources. It produced an interesting look of deep blue, almost magenta, shadows with tungsten key light faces. Also note the studio-esque style of lighting.
1970: New styles of cinematography start to emerge. The 35mm film stocks have improved dramatically and so has the choice and quality of glass used. Being able to shoot on location, forced film crews to adapt its lighting techniques to more natural. Softer fills and careful bounces are the norm. Hair and rim lights are subtle to none, except for when intended for dramatic effect, as there is no need to accentuate the separation of subject from background as film stocks pick up on these subtleties. Popular warming in-camera filters create near sepia effects. Warm filters, combined with tungsten film and cool-toned art-direction, create the near duo-tone images like in 'Jaws'. Smaller 35mm and 16mm cameras also allowed for shooting on location more than before. Like shooting from inside a cab. This sort of pioneering in guerilla-style shooting produced interesting colour tones, due to the lack of controlled colour temperatures, like green in the blacks and warm highlights in 'Taxi Driver'.
1980: There is divide in high and low(er) budget productions. Carefully balancing the colour temperatures on set, is time consuming and therefore expensive. But the differences are clearly visible by comparing "Back to The Future" with "The Breakfast Club". Bigger productions reintroduced the use of hair and rim lights and carefully lit night-for-night shoots as an addition to their production value. In productions like 'The Goonies' and 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', we can clearly see the 'harder' studio lighting, creating film-noir-like venetian blinds effects in the shadows which are often cleverly combined with atmospheric elements like dust and water. In-camera filtering stepped up a gear as well with gradients. Very popular became the tobacco-gradient as seen in the 'Top Gun' examples. 'Miami Vice' took it to the next level by combining the film-noir lighting techniques with the heavy in-camera-filtering. Hair lights on a carefully lit night-for-night shoot. Note the subtle wet-down which is standard issue for any night shoot in the 80s, 'Blade Runner', 'Black Rain'
1990: In this era people either backed away from the heavy in-camera filtering, or experimented even more. Those who backed away regressed to an almost 70's style of high production value cinematography, but with the addition of improved film stocks creating more colour separation and therefor more saturated images. 'Forrest Gump', 'The Fugitive' and 'Silence of The Lambs' focussed more on clever editing and improved camera-motion enabled by smaller, more agile cranes and dolly's than their 70's counterparts. Those who did experiment more, did so in bleach-by-passing in the lab, creating high contrast images, cool and low saturated images like those in 'Saving Private Ryan'. Experiments with the shutter angle from 180 to 90 degrees. And purposely combining incandescent or fluorescent light with either daylight or tungsten film to create surreal tones.


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Department: Department of Physics
Decade: 1950-1959
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Absolute Beta Counting Using Thick Sources
Date: 1950
Creator: Anderson, Miles E., 1926-
Description: The problem with which we shall concern ourselves in this paper is the self-scattering and self-absorption of beta particles by the source.
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Radar Scattering Cross-section of Triangular Corner Reflectors
Date: 1957
Creator: Budwine, Robert E.
Description: The series of experimental studies to be described has been carried out in order to determine the feasibility of using corner reflectors as laboratory standards for model cross-section measurements.
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Magnetic Resonance of Protons in the Earth's Magnetic Field
Date: August 1959
Creator: Crosby, Richard Hill
Description: The purpose of the work reported here was to determine the feasibility of applying the nuclear induction technique of Bloch to the direct observation of nuclear magnetic resonance in the very weak magnetic field of the earth.
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The Angular Distribution and Total Flux of Neutrons Obtained from the Deuterium-Tritium Reaction
Date: 1956
Creator: Duggan, Jerome L.
Description: Mono-energetic neutrons have been produced with the low-voltage Cockroft-Walton accelerator at North Texas State College using two different reactions. It is the purpose of this paper to report the angular distribution and total flux of the neutrons obtained from the T(D,n) reaction.
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A Two-Dimensional Model Study of Elastic Waves
Date: 1955
Creator: Fulton, Thomas K.
Description: In seismic field operations complex problems often arise which cannot be solved mathematically. In recent years investigators in both the commercial and academic fields have begun to approach the problems of elastic wave propagation by the use of seismic scale models. This thesis discusses the results measured from simulated seismic activity on a scale model built by the researcher.
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Foil Depression Factors for Disc-shaped Detectors
Date: June 1954
Creator: Gallagher, Tom Lewis
Description: The generalized data which are presented in this thesis are the culmination of the determination of the foil depression factor using oblate spheroidal coordinates.
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An Investigation for Gamma Rays Resulting from the Bombardment of As75 with 14 Mev Neutrons
Date: 1957
Creator: Givens, Wyatt Wendell
Description: It is the purpose of this paper to set forth the method and results of studying the gamma rays resulting from the bombardment of As75 with approximately 14 Mev neutrons. The source of these neutrons was the H3(d,n)He4 reaction. The deuterons of 325 Kev energy were obtained from a Van de Graff electrostatic accelerator. A NaI scintillation spectrometer was used to determine the gamma-ray energies.
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The Angular Distribution of the Deuterium-Deuterium Neutrons with 100 Kev Deuterons
Date: 1956
Creator: Hackfield, Bobby J.
Description: It is the purpose of this paper to present the experimental techniques used in obtaining. 3.25 MeV neutrons from the H2(d,n)He3 reaction, as well as an analysis of the experimental data.
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A Continuously Sensitive Cloud Chamber
Date: 1951
Creator: Hughes, James E.
Description: A continuous cloud chamber would be a valuable asset to laboratory work in nuclear and atomic physics. For this reason the construction and investigation of a continuously sensitive diffusion cloud chamber has been undertaken. It is the purpose of this paper to report the design and operating characteristics of such a chamber.
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Gamma Rays from Neutron Excitation of Cs133
Date: January 1959
Creator: Lamb, Billy Leonard
Description: This thesis explores gamma rays from neutron excitation of Cs133.
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Effect of sample size on total context bias calculation. To determine the effect of stochastic variation in pattern frequencies on our context bias estimates, we calculated total context bias at a variety of sample sizes. We repeatedly sampled with replacement from from our full transposon data set. We took a total of 5380 samples at 120 sample sizes. Here we have plotted the median total context bias at each sample size against sample size. For comparison we've also included the no-bias controls. At low sample sizes stochastic effects elevate context bias. This effect diminishes rapidly with increasing amounts of data.
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Haskell Murray and Anne Tucker recently blogged quite engagingly about their Fear of Missing Out (FOMO). They made me feel old--not only because of these newfangled acronyms, but also because I remember feeling that way myself. I found particularly brave their articulation of the suspicion that they weren't "good enough" and had somehow lucked into the job. I remember feeling that way, too, and I have a sneaking suspicion that there are 2 kinds of junior faculty members: 1) those who think they're not really as smart as everyone else, and 2) those who really aren't as smart as everyone else. "Arrogance" is just a few letters away from "ignorance."
But I digress. I remember feeling this way, and I had a mentor give me excellent advice my first year:
Just say no.
At least, your default answer should be "no." To my chagrin, I realized something at the end of my first year of teaching: This job has infinite demands. There are 3 elements to it: teaching, scholarship, and service. You could devote every waking moment to your teaching, and still have more you could do. Ditto for service. Ditto to the nth degree for scholarship: always another talk you could attend, an article you could read. But you can't do those things and write. At least, I can't. You have to get used to always feeling like there's more you can do. You'll feel guilt, but you have to make your peace with it.
I set boundaries for myself, like trying not to travel more than once a month while classes are in session. But the best piece of advice I got was that your default answer should be "no."
P.S. Haskell, I'd love for people to think that I'm some kind of superwoman, but that was my schedule for a brief period of my life. Baby #3 started sleeping through the night at about 6 months. Hallelujah!
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Looking to the future of legal education and the legal services industry, the University of Chicago announced today a radical new curriculum that respond to claims that law school is too expensive, too long, and irrelevant to the delivery of legal services. These changes will go into effect beginning with the incoming class of 2014-15.
A new orientation day will replace earlier attempts at "welcome to law school" programs. New legal careers will begin on Day One. On this day, students will be given a type of aptitude test that will tell students in which broad legal field they may thrive in and in which they are most likely to find satisfaction. The results of these tests are confidential and not mandatory, students will be able to choose the next day which field of study they will enter; however, this choice is irreversible.
Chicago has announced five fields of legal study, which will be organized into "factions": Abnegation, which will focus on public interest work and "street law;" Amity, which will focus on dispute resolution; Erudite, which will focus on the most cerebral of legal work, corporate, securities and tax law; Candor, which will focus on governmental agency work; and Dauntless, which will focus on litigation. Each field of study will require different lengths of training. Dauntless training will be completed in three months by zip-lining from the Sears Tower through downtown Chicago. Erudite training will take six years and take place exclusively indoors.
However, should a student drop out or be counseled out of training, the student will be "factionless," or in other words be unable to sit for the bar unless a law school beyond the fence is willing to retrain the student.
The law school acknowledges that some educators (and parents) believe that some students may have skills or talents that could serve them well in different factions; however, this gifted "divergent" student is more myth than reality, according to experts.
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Gary Rosin has a post at Faculty Lounge with interesting statistics about law school-funded jobs to new graduates. Of course, the reason that we care is because of the rankings. Law schools report their employment statistics and put these jobs in the "Bar Admission Required, Full-Time, Long-Term" category according to the post. So, if you back out these jobs, then the numbers are different for about 14% of law schools. The differences range from 1 percentage point to 20, with a median of about 2.65 percentage points.
I agree that students would be much better off if these law school-funded jobs were reported in a separate category, and that in general, if all employement statistics were reported at a much more granular level.
However, the tone of much of the discourse about law school-funded jobs is that students would be better off if there were no law school-funded jobs. And there I feel I must disagree. Disclosure: Illinois is above the median on that list.
Shenanigans designed to merely move schools up or down in the rankings generally have no positive non-ranking effects. However, law school-funded jobs have substantial non-ranking effects. First, a law graduate without a job now has a job, with a salary, where there was none before. Second, the best designed law school-funded jobs convert to employer-funded jobs. For example, a law school may ask a firm, public interest organization, or corporation to take a chance on a law graduate with a promise of salary support for a certain period of time. At the end of that period, if all goes well, then the employer will put the law grad on the payroll. And, next year, that same organization may be more inclined to hire a new law grad on their own. As long as this arrangement is disclosed, it seems similar to a summer internship for credit or a graduate school post-doc.
Of course, critics will point to two things, even if disclosed. The first is just a variation on the scamblog meme: See, you guys can't get your graduates jobs, so you have to offer them this second-rate "opportunity." They went to law school because you said they would get real jobs. OK, awesome. It would be great if every graduate had an employment offer at graduation, but when it happens that they don't, isn't this a better solution than nothing? Second, one argument would be that the law school is funding all of this with tuition dollars, so students are subsidizing these arrangements. Yes, students tuition pays for many things, including facilities, utilities, salaries, programs, speaker series, colloquia, clinics, and scholarships. Some students pay more than others, and some students get "costlier" education. So yes, students without scholarships subsidize students with scholarships. Students that don't take colloquia or clinics subsidize those that do. At some schools, students not on journals may subsidize students on journals that are not self-supporting. In undergraduate colleges, students in cheaper majors may subsidize students in more expensive majors.
Anyway, if I were a prospective students, as long as these arrangements were transparently disclosed and all other employment statistics were similar to peers, I would see them as a signal that the school supported its students and thought about problems in a creative way.
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Over at the business prof blog, Haskell Murray has taken up the mantle of relaying job announcements for law professors in business schools, and he does a nice assessment of the three most recent opportunities to come over the transom. Well worth a look, if you're looking for a job.
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Matt follows up on his posts about funding legal scholarship with a post on professor-produced publications that are sold, with the profits going (mainly) to the publisher and (in smaller quantities) to the professor-author. Some of the questions that emanate from this model are (1) why law schools/universities don't require these works to be "work for hire" with the profits going to the law school; (2) why professors engage in this type of time-intensive writing; and (3) [my question] wouldn't a direct-to-student model be better?
Work for hire. In my second year of teaching legal writing, my co-author and I sold a programming for teaching the Bluebook to Lexis. I remember a tenured colleague sneering at me that the profits should go to the university. Well, the university never called, and I never called them. I'm now at a university that has seen faculty create some extraordinarily lucrative products without much, if any, remuneration. I just don't think that universities are great about tech transfer or commercializing professor works, even when the profits are worth the hassle. Some universities are better about creating structures for professors and their universities to share in profits of lucrative discoveries. Books may just fall into a category of "not worth it on average." If the average book royalties professors received were halved with their institution, professors may not produce them. Because these books create some marketing/branding/prestige for their institutions, universities may be happy to let publishers pay the university employees for their production.
Incentives. Going to the first point, the incentives are fairly "on the line" for many professor publications. Casebook profits vary widely depending on whether its suited for a course that is widely taught and widely taken or for a niche course. I'm sure monographs also vary widely between "purchased by a few libraries but given as complimentary copies" and trade publications that end up on the best seller list, with most toward the former. I've heard proflific monograph authors tell me that they aren't looking for profitable sales; they just want the book on law professor shelves. And, once upon a time, university tenure standards required books to be a full professor because that's what people write in other disciplines.
The direct-to-student model for casebooks. I've been thinking about this since I discovered how much a new edition of the Torts book I use cost (gasp). So, currently, I can use my work time to write a casebook that is then sold to law students, including mine, who pay $200/ea, and I get $20/ea. For doing my job. (I know, others deviate from this model, including paying their own students back their royalties .) But why not just self-publish? I spend my summer coming up with my own materials (as many do for their own courses anyway) and make them free for my students online? All the cases are available on the internet, and so are all the statutes/Restatement sections/etc. The only thing missing is the commentary and the questions (which I usually skip). This could save students $1000/semester. I'm teaching a course for the first time this semester, BA II, and I put together my own materials -- cases, law review articles, public disclosure documents. It takes a lot of time, but it's not crazy. What about first-time professors? Well, I would be happy to share my materials. In fact, all the Torts professors here could combine forces. Just a thought.
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I was pointed to an article on ATL last weekend, and you can tell from the name of the post the substance of it: A Law Professor's Detailed, Ridiculous, Condescending "Local Rules" for Class. The author, Joe Patrice, has posted the course description/syllabus from a professor at Santa Clara who teaches legal analysis, research and writing. The professor, Ray Bernstein, has designed his syllabus to read like "local rules" for his class. He has identified writing issues that students have, like not Bluebooking, having typos, not analyzing professor feedback via Word "Track Changes" but merely clicking "accept all" to the mark up, lateness, and more. For each of these areas of concern, the professor has created a consequence, generally having work handed back, or reduction in grade. Apparently this is just too crazy for words.
A few rants:
1. I taught LRW for 5 years, 4 as a director. Many professors run their LRW classes in this way (no, not at NYU where Joe went -- maybe he had that slacker David Zaring for a professor or used a silly textbook written by me). The idea, which doesn't seem that hard to grasp, is that students need to learn that many courts have picayune rules with draconian consequences. I don't, however, think Prof. Bernstein's rules or consequences are unreasonable at all. I have seen syllabi where lateness equals a zero. Moreover, go read some local rules. The Delaware Chancery Court even has supplemental guidelines to the rules. Importantly, many law students have not done a lot of writing in their educational career, and most have not butted up against actual real-world rules. I think Prof. Bernstein is doing them a service.
2. Joe believes that students don't need this transition, this law practice boot camp. He thinks that students can pivot between the laissez-faire world of law school and the crazy, rule-infested world of law practice without condescending professors pointing out that "the practice of law is hard." OK, maybe. Professionalism is rarely innate. Some students have acquired this skill by the time they get to law school and may be able to turn it on and off depending on the arena. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on how widespread this is.
3. It seems like ATL and other blogs like to rant about law schools not teaching practical courses, not preparing law students for law practice, and generally just taking in tuition and offering not much in return. Here is a professor who is trying to provide a service and run his class like a courtroom, and we will mock him for that? I won't. My former Dean Nancy Rapoport doesn't seem inclined to do so, either.
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About four years ago, my then 10-year old daughter said to me, "Wouldn't it be great if all the really smart people who lived before could talk to the really smart people now?" I tried not to jump up and down, but instead said calmly, "That's what we call the academic record. That's why really smart people write their ideas and discoveries down, so future smart people can build on their work."
Matt's blog post this week on Funding Legal Scholarship doesn't focus on this aspect, so I'll take up the torch for awhile. Matt gives us the breakdown of how scholarship is funded (salaries and summer grants to professors; law schools may fund law reviews, which defray costs by selling subscriptions; law schools and law firms purchase direct/indirect subscriptions) and then the speculation on how much an article is worth to the professor (incentive summer grants, raises, lateral moves) and to the institution (prestige). (The creation of really pricey practitioner treatises, pricey textbooks and not-so-pricey monographs was not mentioned.) But this closed system cannot be the reason that scholarship is produced. If so, then there is no "there" there.
In other units on this campus (and I assume yours), research is expensive. Labs, graduate assistants, materials, animals, human subjects. But the end result is for the public good. Research conducted by universities creates medicine, fills in gaps in the historical record (where were dinosaur ears?), explains human and animal behavior and development, makes hardier crops, etc. Every week I get a campus newspaper with exciting discoveries (i.e., research). In other units, prize-winning novels, plays, music performances. This type of scholarship has great value to science, to knowledge, to art.
Legal scholarship has to have a value beyond the value to the creators, professors and their institutions. Our scholarship should strive to add to scholarly knowledge and directly or (mostly) indirectly move the law. Or at least explain it better so that others can understand it. With the decades-recent push to have more scholarship produced by professors at every institution (even traditional "teaching" institutions), we may have a glut of articles that were created not because the author had a lot to say or a passion to say it, but because that was the expectation.
The take-away from Matt's post (and the comments) seems to be that scholarship is a luxury good that not all law schools can afford in the near future. I don't disagree with that. A few weeks ago something was circulating on FB that said that professors tend to send their own kids to liberal arts colleges, where the professors aren't focused on their own research and teach undergraduates. I look forward to market differentiation. But, high-level, quality legal scholarship is necessary so that really smart people today can continue to talk to the really smart people who haven't been born yet.
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Over at Prawfs, Matt Bodie has a provocative post on faculty compensation. I'm not sure I have a lot to add, but that has never stopped me before.
Apropos of many current compensation discussions (faculty buy-outs, faculty reductions, faculty salary cuts), Matt throws out an example of what an alternative compensation regime might look like. The general theme of these discussions are that many tenured faculty are overpaid compared to their contributions, but tenure insulates them from either being fired or having their salary cut substantially. Because law schools are losing revenues, they must cut their fixed costs; salaries are the big ticket item. Matt's thought experiment goes something like this: If a professor's salary is X, cut it to .6X. Then give professors the opportunity to be granted up to .3X in discretionary amounts, maybe .1X for scholarship; .1X for service; .1X for teaching. The comments hit on a lot of points, including the benefits of public disclosure of salaries, and here are mine.
1. My salary is public, as are all UI salaries. I don't know if the public nature of salaries adds much to the debate, but it does provide us with data, which is helpful.
2. In law firms, (and I would guess in other businesses), a very easy metric has emerged for differentiating the contributions of lawyers: billable hours and the collectibles they represent. Associates may be paid lock-step, but their billable hours (or collectibles) may be used to award bonuses or at least remembered for purposes of partnership. Bringing in business is also easy to quantify: how many billable hours did you provide to the firm, in the form of your billables or other lawyers. How many lawyers do you keep busy? Partners' compensation varies widely and is hashed out by the whole or by a committee, with partners being awarded "shares" in the profits based on billables/collectibles/business brought in that keeps others busy. All dollars earned for the firm are equal. Now, there may be cases where particular partners get/retain shares based on intangibles (being President of the local bar association, which takes a lot of time, etc.), but I would guess that hard numbers are used more often than qualitative measures.
3. This model is hard to map on to academia (or any business model). We don't have an easy metric like dollars. Yes, some people bring in grant money, but in most law schools that is not widespread enough to design a compensation scheme around. So, we would have to resort to "measuring" service, scholarship and teaching. This will be fairly discretionary -- how do my Y number of articles compare to your Y-1 peer reviewed articles or your Y-2 articles plus monograph? Or my Y+2 articles last year and zero this year? Or my teaching evaluations in this class compared to yours in your other class? Or the fact that I chaired a committee, but the Dean didn't appoint you head of any committees?
4. Raises at many law schools are to be doled out according to Matt's metric. Say the pool would be $3000 if applied evenly. I would guess that most faculty are put into batches, with the variance being the lowest being $1000 and the highest being $4000. Maybe one faculty member would get lower than $1k (if any). There just isn't that much variance. ( I have personal knowledge of the variance at one institution being $500). Mostly because we don't like to distinguish on squishy factors (which is why we grade students mostly A's and B's and don't use the entire grading range) and because the amount is so small. So, in a law firm, compensation can range from the 100Ks to the millions with many, many gradations. But in a law school, the differences between the highest and lowest paid tenured professor is not that wide (100k?).
5. But the regime that Matt throws out would make the gap a little wider by lowering the "guaranteed" portion of the salary. While a merit raise scheme assures your current salary will not decrease, here a large portion would be up for grabs. I just have doubts that your peers would be that calculating. Would anyone really get .6X? I would predict that if the ceiling is .9X, then most faculty would end up with .8X, .85X or .9X. As, Bs and Cs.
6. Incentives. Would those who expect to always be .8X take a buyout? Because you would want the .8X people to do so, not the .9X folks.
7. Incentives 2. How would professors adjust the way they do service, teaching, and scholarship? As some of the comments suggested, you would spread out your scholarship. You wouldn't publish a lot one year and not so much the next. (This could be fixed by being adjudged according to a 3 year-window or something.) Also, you might not be innovative in your teaching. Students don't reward innovative teaching, even when it is good for them -- they tend not to give good evaluations when their are written assignments or midterms in doctrinal classes. Innovative teaching also takes time to work out the kinks, so even if the students were eventually on board, the first couple of times would have a lot of bugs, which would show up on the evaluations. I would personally bring a lot of food and show a lot of movies. We just don't have a great way of evaluating teaching. We could base this component on how many courses/hours you teach or how many students, or have that be part of it. But then professors who teach small enrollment classes (Corporate Tax, for instance) would lose out, even though the courses aren't hobbyhorse classes. Professors may be more inclined to take on service opportunities, but the institution would have to define "service."
8. Morale. At least one commenter pointed to studies that showed that salary differentiation led to bad morale. I can definitely see that. In a law school, the decisions would be made by a dean or probably a committee, all of whom are faculty who will be subject to the same differentiation norms that they set. So it will be in the interest of the committee members not to make the range .6X to .9X with a flat distribution. In corporations (and law firms), those who set salary generally don't go back in the ranks to be adjudged by those that they just assessed.
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Last week witnessed two very different views of how faculties can and should evaluate junior scholars for hiring and tenure. Compare this academic study (with the catchy title Moneyball for Academics ) with KerryAnn O'Meara's essay in Slate on countering implicit bias in tenure reviews.
Both works leave a lot of questions unanswered. Even if the Moneyball approach one day delivers on its promise – to use network analysis of citations to predict the success of junior academics – it would also prove less than satisfying. Scholars who start out at citation hubs and collaborate with other scholars at those hubs – may be more likely to be cited going forward. But does that make their work more valuable? If financial markets are marked by fads, fashions, herding, and information cascades, the "market for ideas" (whatever that means) is even more susceptible to these dynamics. At least financial markets have arbitrageurs. (If only Socrates was able to ride out his short sale of Athenian democracy a little bit longer.)
The Slate article lies at the opposite end of the spectrum of Moneyball. O'Meara is critical of excessive reliance of quantitative factors –including citation counts – in evaluating scholarship. She argues that, to address problems of implicit bias, faculties should take a broader view of what constitutes scholarly contributions than traditional measures, including the use of external reviewers. But what does that look like in practice? If there is an inescapable level of subjectivity to any evaluation of scholarship, what standards should apply?
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Caren Ulrich Stacy, a legal development professional, has created "OnRamp" fellowships, or "returnships" aimed at creating a pipeline for women to re-enter the legal profession. These fellowships seem to be targeted toward female attorneys who left (generally big) law firm life to focus on family or other opportunities and now would like to return. As summer internships are (still, for the most part) the pipeline from law school to large law firms, these one-year fellowships are designed to be a pipeline for experienced past associates to rejoin the work force. So far, four firms, including Baker Botts, a firm at which I enjoyed spending many billable hours, have signed up for the program. Applications are due February 28, and the target start date is in April.
I think these fellowships could be fantastic, and at the very least, interesting. The pay is $125,000, which is an awful lot of money, but less than a first-year associate at these firms, and less than a summer associate on a weekly basis. So, a firm could get an experienced attorney who may need a little time to get back up to speed cheaper than a new attorney who might take a lot longer. Then, at the end of a year, the firm could hire the fellow at some negotiated rate, or not. Either way, the fellow would be in a better position to interview for a different job now that she is in the game. Could this program be a threat to new law graduates? Would a firm that normally hires 40 summer associates for (40-X) slots now hire fewer associates for fewer slots, filling the difference with OnRamp-ers? Or, will the number of OnRamp applicants be so low that the difference won't be felt. I hope we see information on the number of applicants, the number of fellows, and the conversion rates. Depending on the strength of the resumes, law firms might be silly not to participate.
I also wonder how the fellowships play out over the span of a year in terms of lifestyle and culture. Say Associate W works at a law firm for 5 years, then leaves to have a baby. Now, 3 years later, Associate W is hired by one of these four firms as an OnRamp fellow in April. By June, the summer associates arrive, who are making more than she does, even though she may be supervising them. How many billable hours are expected of Associate W? Is she sheltered, and recruited, like a summer associate, or fully operationalized, like a fifth-year associate? After a few more months, will Associate W be wondering why she is working as much as other 5th years, but making substantially less, or will she just be happy for the opportunity to prove herself again? A year is a long time to try out for a job, particularly when you are billing full blast. But, I assume that fellows who treat it like a contract job and think "I'm not getting paid to work around the clock" will be treated like a contract worker at the end of the contract.
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Between knee surgery (arthroscopic,torn meniscus, recovering well) and holiday travel (6 day trip to Maryland and back with 3 children ranging in age from 1-6, recovering so-so), my blogging and blogreading has been light of late. So I am late to the Nancy Leong kerfuffle (which made Slate, no less): a recap of sorts available here, and Professor Leong has a series of worthwhile posts here. As far as I could tell yesterday getting up to speed via cellphone screen southbound on I-85, Leong has been the target of cyberbullying and attacks based on her gender and race. Mostly by a public defender in Colorado who seems oddly fixated on her (writing 2 plays about someone? Really?) as a manifestation of the privileged, entitled law professor that has no business teaching law and must have been hired because she looks good. Many have decried these identity-based attacks, and rightly so: they are unjustified, loathsome, and wrong. I don't feel I have anything to add to these protests, but I agree with them.
With that caveat, amidst all of Leong's persecutor's vitriol, one note sounds true: the grievance of the practictioner against the law professor who has never practiced. While Leong has practiced, I predict that we will hear more and more complaints of this kind. Looking at the future of law and the tenuous state of the legal academy, it doesn't seem wise or even sustainable to me to continue to hire significant numbers of law professors who haven't practiced.
There, I said it.
In my experience, most practitioners actually like and respect law professors a good deal. But if you're a law professor and talk with alums or lawyers of any kind, eventually they'll come around to this observation: "It's great to talk to a law professor who has actually practiced." Sotto voce, what they're saying is, "How can there be so many law professors who haven't actually practiced?"
Law school is a professional school, no longer able in this economic climate to be the liberal arts finishing school it only ever was to the privileged few. I can't help but think that voce will be less sotto going forward, as alums, hiring partners, and prospective students seek professors that can credibly impart the skills and thinking that will get them a job. Lawyers, particularly the ones who are hiring, tend to be smart and skeptical. Particularly of claims that people who never practiced law know enough about the practice of law to help students prepare to practice law.
I'm not saying that every new law professor needs to have practiced, or that there aren't many superlative professors who have never practiced--indeed, I know many. But going forward, I predict that that model will be harder and harder to justify.
Update: It has been pointed out that Professor Leong has one year of practice experience on her CV, as a fellow for the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. In addition, she practiced in a pro bono capacity. When reviewing her C.V. initially, I mistakenly read "fellow" to be an academic position, as it often is in academia. I apologize for my implication that she has never practiced.
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Tulane Law School is currently accepting applications for a two-year position of visiting assistant professor. The position is being supported by the Murphy Institute at Tulane (http://murphy.tulane.edu/home/), an interdisciplinary unit specializing in political economy and ethics that draws faculty from the economics, philosophy, history, and political science departments. The position is designed for scholars focusing on regulation of economic activity very broadly construed (including, for example, research with a methodological or analytical focus relevant to scholars of regulation). It is also designed for individuals who plan to apply for tenure-track law school positions during the second year of the professorship. The law school will provide significant informal support for such. The person selected for the position will be expected to participate in scholarly activities at the law school and at the Murphy Institute, including faculty workshops, and will be expected to teach a law school course or seminar in three of the four semesters of the professorship (presumably the last three semesters). The annual salary for the position is $65,000 plus eligibility for benefits. To apply, please send a CV identifying at least three references, a law school transcript, electronic copies of any scholarship completed or in-progress, and a letter explaining your teaching interests and your research agenda to firstname.lastname@example.com. If you have any questions, please contact Adam Feibelman at that same email address. The law school aims to fill this position by March 2014. Tulane is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women and members of minority communities to apply.
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So, last night we were introduced to the ACT "World of Work" map at a meeting designed to prepare us for our sophomore daughter preparing herself for college. I can't get past the map. Besides the categories being just plain weird ("working with data" equals "police officer," but "statistician" is working with "ideas and things"), law school applicants are getting some very bad advice. So, law is contained in "community services," located straight out on the "working with people vector." Lawyer is included with social worker, counselor and other helping professions such as nursing and teaching.
Of course, the practice of law is a helping profession, but if your instincts tell you that you would like to work closely with individuals to help them, then law school is a pretty expensive way to do that. Yes, some lawyers do work one-on-one with individual clients to solve daily problems, and there is great satisfaction in those jobs. And, lawyers have the tools to help in ways that social workers can't. But if you go to law school to do that, you may find yourself in a job very far removed from that in order to recoup your investment. A job like this.
Possibly, law careers could be broken down into different groups, some in "working with ideas" (appellate lawyers, transactional lawyers," some in "working with people and ideas" (trial lawyers). And this doesn't even touch on the potential law jobs working with data. But telling high school sophomores that "if you like the idea of helping people, you might think of being a nurse or being a lawyer" might be contributing to disillusionment of law students and lonely first-year associates (and a shortage of nurses).
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The new buzzword in legal education is practice "ready." Check a few websites or glossy brochures, and the word "ready" will jump out at you. I think for most people, this means clinics or other experiential courses. I recently had an experience that made me think that readiness is not just a third-year clinic.
A few weeks ago, I heard from a student as he was going through multiple rounds of interviews for a legal job at a financial firm. Though law firm hiring seems to still follow the on-campus interivew -to- callback model, this process was much more like business school hiring. One fairly early round involved analyzing a bond (trust indenture and security agreement) over three days. I called around to counsel at hedge funds and other firms to see if they had ever done this, and the response was "Wow, we don't do that, but it's a great idea". And this was when I realized that we do not prepare our students for this type of interviewing.
Historically, most student interviewing was in the fall of second year, when students had just taken the first-year basics and were just starting other courses. Some interviewing, and more these days, takes place in the fall of third year, after two years of coursework. Of course, many students now are interviewing even after graduation, but I think the basic expectations of interviewers has usually been that the interview is not designed to test any type of legal knowledge. Law students, particularly those who were given offers in their third semester, were hired on the basis of their grades, resume and personality. Summer clerkships would sort them further, if at all.
Now, however, students are being interviewed later and for different kinds of jobs. It seems very reasonable that students might be expected to show some level of knowledge about the field they are entering. And this means that law schools need to change. Law students cannot find themselves in the fall of their third year without having gotten on a curricular path. Chicago-Kent just announced a program for students to start to specialize in their first year. For those of us who enjoy the liberal arts atmosphere of the "teach lawyers how to learn like lawyers" approach, specialization so early is anathema. But I think that has to change. Teaching in a way that produces third years who still haven't taken the basic classes to try out for jobs in their field may not work in a changing interview environment. But yes, this means that students will have to choose a field earlier instead of later, and instead of letting their field choose them when they show up at their jobs.
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The University of Connecticut solicits applications for a joint appointment within the School of Business and The Human Rights Institute at the rank of Assistant Professor. This tenure-track position resides in the School of Business, and is a 9-month appointment. The successful candidate is expected to engage in scholarly research with a focus on human rights as related to business practices, law and ethics, corporate social responsibility, and/or public policy, and publish in high quality journals. This position includes undergraduate and graduate teaching assignments in the School of Business and the Human Rights Institute. In addition, the faculty member is expected to perform service and outreach as needed and consistent with the School of Business, the Human Rights Institute, and The University of Connecticut's interests and priorities. The appointment begins August 23, 2014. The compensation package will be commensurate with background, qualifications, and experience.
For details, see https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3424
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The Department of Risk Management of the Smeal College of Business at The Pennsylvania State University seeks to fill a full-time, tenure-track or clinical appointment in Business Law. The successful candidate will be hired at the Assistant Professor or Clinical Assistant Professor rank.
This position is a tenure-track or clinical appointment with teaching responsibilities at the undergraduate and MBA levels. A qualified candidate for the tenure track appointment must demonstrate the capacity to conduct quality scholarly research and, if successful, will be expected to pursue an active research program. Both tenure track and clinical candidates must demonstrate a high level of teaching competence and would be expected to perform undergraduate and graduate teaching, and supervise graduate students. Candidates must have a J.D. degree from an ABA accredited law school by time of appointment. Candidates with a second degree in a business-related field at either the masters or undergraduate level, a record of publishing in the field of business law, and/or teaching experience in higher education in the field of business law are particularly encouraged to apply.
POSITION AVAILABLE: August 2014
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The University of Georgia's Terry College of Business invites applications for a position in legal studies at the full or associate professor rank beginning Fall 2014.
Qualified candidates are required to hold a J.D. from an accredited institution and to have produced high quality research publications in top tier legal journals. Candidates should also have evidence of excellence in teaching and possess an ability and willingness to mentor junior faculty. A successful candidate is expected to continue an active research agenda and to teach at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Periodic participation in service activities appropriate to the rank is also expected. Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications.
Applications received by November 15, 2013, are assured of consideration; however, applications will continue to be accepted until the position is filled. To apply, send a letter of introduction and a full vita to: Legal Studies Search Committee Chair, 206 Brooks Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-6255 or in a PDF file via email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
The University of Georgia is located in Athens, Georgia. Georgia is well known for its quality of life with both outdoor and urban activities (www.georgia.gov). UGA (www.uga.edu) is a land grant/sea grant institution located approximately 60 miles northeast of Atlanta.
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I am seeking a dedicated and qualified online adjunct(s) to potentially teach Business Law I or possibly a graduate course in International Business Law at Texas A&M University-Central Texas in the upcoming spring term and beyond (including summers). I presently have tried to manage all of these sections, but I need to back off my teaching load in order to concentrate on my duties as department chair. Adding to the demand is the fact that we have been growing at an annual rate of 20% over the last three years. I use the Miller/Jentz text Business Law Today: Comprehensive Ed. I basically cover chapters 1-6, 8-19, 21-23. If you are unfamiliar with the text, this is Legal Background, Con. Law, Dispute Resolution, Torts, IP, Criminal Law, Ethics, Contracts, UCC (Sales), Warranties and Products Liability, and Negotiability/Banking. For the graduate course in International Business Law, I use International Law and its Environment by Schaffer, Agusti, Dhooge and Earle.
The following are essential qualifications:
1. Experience teaching online and with Blackboard as a Learning Management System
2. An earned J.D. from an ABA accredited Law School
As a part of the assignment, you would also need to follow my guidance on material coverage (chapters), complete our required online instructor training program (can be done remotely in a couple of days), and demonstrate the ability to maintain an active instructor presence in the online classroom. The instructor's experiences, explanations, and feedback are vital to the online learning environment. Demonstration of this skill will be required and we can discuss how this can be accomplished. The course(s) will either be 16 weeks, starting January 13th, or 8 weeks, starting March 17th. I have a basic template that may be altered or you may construct your own after we talk about qualifications, experience and preferences.
Adjunct positions are subject to demand and the needs of the university. As such, they can be terminated at anytime and teaching one semester does not guarantee employment in subsequent semesters. An application may be found at: http://www.tamuct.edu/departments/humanresources/employmentopportunities.php. Please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com if you have any questions or want to discuss possibilities prior to applying. Any applicant would also need to email me a brief statement of their online teaching philosophy and qualifications for the position as described above.
The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University seeksapplications for lecturer positions in the Department of Business Law and Ethics, effective August 2014. The candidates selected will join a well-established department of 15 full-time facultymembers who teach a variety of courses on legal topics and business ethics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
To be qualified, a candidate must have a J.D. degree with an excellent academic record and must demonstrate the potential to be an outstanding teacher in business law and ethics courses.The ideal candidate will also have training in applied ethics or experience teaching ethics.
Interested candidates should review the application requirements and submit their application athttp://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/452. Candidates should direct any questions to Jane Mallor, Chair, Department ofBusiness Law and Ethics, Kelley School of Business, 1309 E 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405 or email@example.com .
Application materials received by November 15, 2013, will be given full consideration.
Indiana University is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity. The University actively encourages applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.
College of Business and Management- Northeastern Illinois University
One tenure-track position at Assistant/Associate Professor of Business Law available beginning August, 2014. Job responsibilities are teaching courses in business law and legal environment of business. Additional responsibilities are research and service. Minimum qualifications are Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from ABA-accredited law schools, and admission to any State Bar. Preferred qualifications include an L.L. M. degree in Taxation from an ABA accredited school, and or an MBA degree from AACSB accredited institution. All candidates must be "Academically Qualified," as defined by the AACSB. Selection process begins on October 15, 2013 and continues until position is filled. To apply for this position, send application letter, resume with e-mail address, transcripts, and names and contact information of three references to Dr. Rasoul Rezvanian, Chair, Department of Accounting, Business Law and Finance; E-mail email@example.com.
For more details, check employment opportunities on our website at www.neiu.edu. Northeastern Illinois University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, and invites allocations from women and minorities as well as other qualified individuals.
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When I returned from my National Guard deployment in 2007, I met my future wife. I told her about my experience in Iraq, to which she replied, "Thank God there are people like you."
When I asked her about her career, she told me about her service as a special education teacher, to which I replied, "Thank God there are people like you."
I'm inspired by others' patriotism and the men and women with whom I serve. My wife is inspired by her students and the dedication of her fellow educators. Though our careers are vastly different, our passions are similar, and we got married three years later.
I have learned so much from her about the teaching profession. I watch how hard she works, how much of herself she puts into her job and her students. It is inspiring for me and it gives me hope. Despite the struggles of our nation's education system, she is working to make the system better. Some people call me a hero for my service to our country, but my wife is my hero. I could never do what she does every day.
Yet current Minnesota law forces local superintendents and principals to consider seniority more important than performance when they make important personnel decisions. This means that great teachers like my wife could be removed from the classroom while more senior, but less effective, teachers are kept. Does this make sense? In the military we always want our most effective personnel working on our greatest challenges.
In the past month, both the House and Senate had the opportunity to vote to change this outdated policy that not only hurts our best teachers, but the students they serve. While the effort failed in both bodies, the fact that several DFL legislators joined Republicans to vote for this amendment is encouraging. In the meantime, no matter how well my wife performs and what difference she makes in her students' lives, under current state law she and other great educators like her could continue to arbitrarily lose their jobs.
To Minnesota lawmakers I say that is no way to treat a hero. Please put the needs of students and excellent teachers over politics and have the courage to do what is right: repeal outdated seniority staffing laws.
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Note: I'm told this does not work for forum topics or diaries. Sorry.
I've seen some posts use a fancy link that's part of the text. I want to do that too.
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I want to get fancier than that.
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I need to create a table and copy/paste from Excel looks messy.
- Go to this link.
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- Click "switch to plain text editor". This is a link at the bottom of the text box for either a comment or post/diary.
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I still need help; the sticky isn't covering my problem.
Leave a comment here. We're fortunate to have a lot of knowledgeable and friendly posters here on the board, and someone will have an answer for you.
- Thanks to Raoul, Seth and MGoShoe for their work in the suggestions thread, and Michigan Shirt for the ShockFX link; some of the work above is yours and you deserve credit.
- Thank you everyone who made suggestions in the prior thread.
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EDIT: Hmm, so it works fine when I load it from my own machine, but if I load it from the link it doesn't seem to work, even though it seems to be exactly the same code. I'll try to figure this out before the next release.
EDIT EDIT: Alright, if you download the zip file from the link below, unpack it, and open the file in chrome, it works. This is much more complicated than just clicking the link. Many apologies.
Alright everyone. In the site improvements thread from earlier today, someone mentioned that my suggestion of allowing us to block users with negative points might be able to be taken care of via a greasemonkey script.
I hadn't ever tried them before, but it turns out hiding posts by users with negative points is actually pretty simple. Anyway, if you're in Chrome or if you have GreaseMonkey installed on FireFox, clicking this link should allow you to install the script.
DISCLAIMER: I haven't put anything purposely malicious into this, but I also haven't ever written a GreaseMonkey script before, so there's always a possibility that this will cause other sites to go haywire. For instance, I haven't put any checking in to make sure you're actually on MGoBlog, etc. Try at your own risk.
When I've got more time I'm going to try to tweak it so you can adjust point thresholds, etc. All this does is look for the - in front of the point total. Thresholds would require parsing the points, which I wasn't able to do in the half hour I spent putting this together.
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Just a reminder, for those who have forgotten the link at the top of the page, or use the app exclusively, that you can link to Amazon through MGoBlog and a good portion (I think Seth said around 10%) of your purchase gets funneled back to the folks bringing you Michigan-related holiday joy.
If you're going to spend the money anyway (or if you weren't, but are now so inclined), may as well make sure some of the money goes to support something you love. This is also a good option for those who can't swing the beveled guilt but want to help out the blog.
[I realize it's not Black Friday yet, but Amazon and most other websites have their deals up already, and people will need a distraction from the Lions, so I figured an early PSA was warranted.]
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Hello: Isabelle Kistler (Thanksgiving Baby Class of 2033 Commit)
The 20.5 inch, 6 lb 7oz Isabelle "Izzy" Kistler committed to Michigan as a class of 2033 way to early enrollee (I think it's 2033, I can't do math right now) at 11:01pm on November 25th, 2015. "I was just glad to get out so I could watch The Game on Saturday", said the new commit. After many "hails" and fist pumps, Isabelle said, "Beat Ohio", the promptly took a nap.
On Chad and Us
I met Tammi Carr once, briefly, at a fund raiser, before Chad was born. She was warm and engaging, the sort of person who makes you feel better about yourself for the interaction.
I have known Lloyd Carr for more than 10 years. He breaks all stereotypes. Coach Carr is passionate about passion. He is more interested in his former players, their lives, than what they accomplished on the field. He is more interested in literature than sports; more interested in ideas and the obstacles that others have overcome than his own achievements. The coach has helped me in ways that he does not acknowledge or, perhaps, even understand, but I will be grateful until my last breath for what he has done for me. And, as time has proven, between the interests of Michigan and his own personal interests, he will choose and has chosen Michigan. I have never been a believer in the notion of a "Michigan Man." The construct seems both too limited and too broad. But, if there is such a thing, I think Coach Carr embodies it as much as any person I know.
I never met Chad Carr though I feel as if I have, and I think many who have posted here feel the same way. I know he was handsome and tough and lived for longer than any of his doctors projected or thought possible. More than this, I think Chad has given all of us the gift of his struggle, the gift of allowing us the opportunity to be empathic and to care about him. And, perhaps, to be caring about others, even those we don't know. I am crying while I write this, was crying while I read Seth's lovely note and the passionate and thoughtful notes of others on this board. I don't want to leave it for today; for only today, that is. I want his passing to help me to be more forgiving, to be more thoughtful and generous towards others. Maybe, Chad's life, and our response to his tragedy, can make us all better and that's a legacy of monument.


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Political correctness in colleges and public schools over the last decade has gone a long way toward replacing patriotism with the trendy dicta of multiculturalism, diversity and global citizenship. Are we losing our identity as Americans?
To address this question, the Bradley Foundation has started a national conversation on America's National Identity called "E Pluribus Unum." The question is: Is America still "from many, one" ("indivisible," as our Pledge of Allegiance affirms), or are we fast becoming "from one, many"?
A review of history textbooks used in public schools today reveals a big source of the problem. Textbooks now emphasize America's faults and mistakes rather than our incredible achievements.
History textbooks should tell the exciting story that the United States has produced nearly all the world's greatest inventions and that these inventions have produced living standards that are the envy of the world. This exciting narrative is not based on Americans being smarter than other nationalities, or our having more natural resources than other countries, but on the wisdom of the Founding Fathers, who gave us the superior political and economic system enshrined in our Constitution.
We should celebrate and honor our nation's heroes, starting with George Washington. Federal law clearly specifies that the name of the "legal public holiday" on the third Monday in February is "Washington's Birthday."
Americans should refuse to buy the calendars that wrongly label this February holiday as "Presidents Day." This calendar mischief is very offensive because there are quite a few presidents who are not worthy of a special "day."
Maintaining our national identity depends on keeping our Constitution safe from the supremacist judges who want to change it to comport with what they call "emerging standards." Our national identity depends on keeping English as our official, national language so we don't suffer the conflicts endured by nations with competing languages.
America was founded by men who shared a common inheritance in the British rule of law developed over centuries (beginning with the Magna Carta), the Christian religion and the English language. They also shared the belief later expressed by Alexis de Tocqueville that America is "quite exceptional" and by Ronald Reagan that America is "the shining city on the hill."
Phyllis Schlafly is a national leader of the pro-family movement, a nationally syndicated columnist and author of Feminist Fantasies.
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Updated: 11/22/2010 - The roadways are expected to be packed with travelers this week. Triple-A predicts a near 12-percent increase in road travel.
Updated: 11/22/2010 - The roadways are expected to be packed with travelers this week. Triple-A predicts a near 12-percent increase in road travel.
Updated: 11/23/2010 - Former Governor Mike Easley will pay a $1,000 fine in connection with a campaign finance violation. Easley entered an Alford Plea, in which the defendant does not admit guilt but agrees the state has evidence that could lead to a conviction.
Updated: 11/22/2010 - Governor Beverly Perdue made her way to Eastern Carolina Monday to meet with business representatives to hear concerns they may have about regulations.
Posted: 11/22/2010 - The State Employees Credit Union says some of its customers have received phishing emails.
Updated: 11/21/2010 - The state fund that provides grants for low-income students to go to North Carolina colleges and universities is running low.
Posted: 11/21/2010 - A North Carolina woman accused of appearing in a gross video at a Domino's Pizza kitchen last year has received a suspended sentenced after pleading guilty to charges stemming from the video.
Updated: 11/21/2010 - North Carolina Rep. Heath Shuler is pushing the Democratic Party to adopt more centrist policies after the GOP's huge gains nationwide in this month's election. And he's looking to President Barack Obama to follow suit.
Posted: 11/21/2010 - A North Carolina jury has sentenced a man to death for killing a 77-year-old Meals on Wheels volunteer and to life without parole for beating one of the clients to death.
Updated: 11/20/2010 - North Carolina's education agency warns that additional budget cuts for next year could mean 5,300 fewer teaching positions and larger class sizes.
Posted: 11/20/2010 - House Republicans have chosen Rep. Thom Tillis as their nominee to become the next speaker of the North Carolina House.
Updated: 11/20/2010 - Trustees at two North Carolina universities have approved tuition increases for next fall to help cover as much as a 15 percent reduction in state funding.
Updated: 11/20/2010 - The Senate has approved almost $4.6 billion to settle longstanding claims brought by American Indians and black farmers against the government.
Posted: 11/19/2010 - A recount in North Carolina's closest congressional race has confirmed a victory for Republican candidate Renee Ellmers.
Posted: 11/19/2010 - Businesses and job-seekers will learn whether North Carolina's unemployment rate remains on par with the rest of the country's sluggish economy.
Posted: 11/18/2010 - The governing board at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has agreed tuition should go up by 6.5 percent across the board next fall.
Updated: 11/18/2010 - If you're thinking of buying gift cards for holiday presents, you might want to consider some of them come with fees.
Updated: 11/18/2010 - Recounts in three close races for the North Carolina state House are complete, with no change in the outcomes from Election Day.
Updated: 11/17/2010 - A panel at North Carolina's flagship public university has recommended raising tuition the maximum 6.5 percent to dampen expected cuts by the Legislature.
Posted: 11/17/2010 - Pelosi turned back a challenge from North Carolina Rep. Heath Shuler, a member of the party's diminished centrist "Blue Dog" faction, in a 150 to 43 vote.
Posted: 11/17/2010 - Inch by inch, year after year, the Mountains-to-Sea Trail is taking shape -- with some of the latest progress around Falls Lake. The trail will eventually allow hikers to cover 1,000 miles from the Great Smokey Mountains to the Outer Banks.
Posted: 11/17/2010 - Democratic Rep. Bob Etheridge requested a recount after Republican candidate Renee Ellmers held a lead of about 1,500 votes after Election Day.
Updated: 11/17/2010 - Gov. Beverly Perdue says local North Carolina school systems may be unhappy when she recommends more government cuts for the coming year.
Posted: 11/16/2010 - State officials, builders and utilities want to help give North Carolina consumers a break if they purchase energy efficient manufactured homes.
Updated: 11/17/2010 - A sad and angry crowd of hundreds gathered in a western North Carolina town to remember a disabled girl whose remains were found more than a month after she was reported missing.
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COLLEGE STATION -- We know the Brazos Valley Bombers are talented. They are defending their TCL title and are off to a good start this season with an 11-3 record.
The players are also doing great things off the baseball field.
Several of the Bombers visited Covenant Presbyterian Church in College Station Monday.
They spent time with the kids from the children's center, likely sharing great tips for the future baseball stars.
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Billionaire investor George Soros said he shared concerns about a "currency war" and China must do more to accept its responsibilities in the global monetary system.
"I share the growing concern about the misalignment of currencies," Soros wrote in an article for the Financial Times. "Brazil's finance minister speaks of a latent currency war, and he is not far off the mark. It is in the currency markets where different economic policies and different economic and political systems interact and clash."
China this week stiffened its opposition to a rapid appreciation of the yuan, with Premier Wen Jiabao saying his country will stick to its policy of gradually increasing the currency's flexibility and lashed out at European Union leaders for teaming with the U.S. to pressure his government.
China's case may be bolstered by the recent willingness of Japan, Brazil, Switzerland and other nations to temper the strength of their currencies through intervention.
The world's second-largest economy remains the target of the greatest criticism. Even as it boasts the fastest-growing major economy, it has limited the yuan's appreciation to about 2 percent versus the dollar since pledging in June to make it more flexible.
"Whether it realizes it or not, China has emerged as a leader of the world," said Soros. "If it fails to live up to the responsibilities of leadership, the global currency system is liable to break down and take the global economy with it."
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U.S. impatience with China boiled over on Sept. 29 when the House of Representatives passed a measure that would let American companies seek import duties to prevent Chinese manufacturers from using an artificially weak yuan as a competitive tool. The measure won't go to the Senate until after U.S. congressional elections in November.
Even so, a U.S. solo run may be counterproductive, Soros said. "Currency adjustments must be part of an internationally coordinated plan to reduce global imbalances."
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Members of community of Hempstead gathered together today to sign petitions, write letters and also made phone calls in protest of the construction of a new landfill along Highway 6 near Highway 290.
Representatives from the group claim that the out-of-state landfill company is reportedly paying Texas lobbyists one million dollars for the permit and transfer of the landfill to be inside the city limits.
Hempstead residents fear the landfill could decrease property values and have a negative environmental impact.
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It was a pretty impressive chorus of better than 250 people exuberantly singing "The Wild Rover," and especially the lines "No, Nay, Never, no-nay-never no more!" and adding "at The Beachcomber!" And then a bit later in the same song, Dropkick Murphys leader Ken Casey amended it somewhat, to say "No-nay-never, no-nay-never-no more, at The Beachcomber..for Jimmy McGettrick!"
Even a trip to the North Shore wasn't enough to break Cardinal Spellman's spirits as the Cardinals played their most dominant game yet this season, topping their first Central Catholic League opponent, Austin Prep, 38-0, on Saturday...
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BROCKTON – Former mayoral candidate Jacob Tagger is publicly accusing state Rep. Michelle DuBois of trying to bribe him. The allegations rose to a heated exchange between Tagger and DuBois last week on the social media page,...
The woman died in the hospital as a result of injuries she suffered in the crash.
BROCKTON – Children wore red plastic fire helmets and yellow fire jackets while climbing ladders, spraying hoses and learning about fire safety.
Senior running back Carlton Williamson sparks the Bears' offense in a 34-27 win over Western Connecticut State.
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Having turkey sticker shock?
The Environmental Protection Agency has a cow over methane gas in the San Joaquin Valley.
It's the Great Recession, right?
Imagine a 12-ton pile of garbage.
Using self-serve check-outs is like walking into quick sand.
Jay Holmes – a retired principal of a California Youth Authority school for boys – holds court every Tuesday as president of the Manteca Morning Rotary Club that meets at the Doctors Hospital conference center.
How do you help the homeless?
Frank Capra made it clear in 1946.
It's the time of year when flies make robo calls seem like pleasant interludes.
Manteca City Councilman Vince Hernandez is a full-blooded American citizen.
RIPON - One Ripon business woman had cause to join in the sponsorship of the "News 10 Coats for Kids Drive" Tuesday in the Ace Hardware Shopping Center, along with The Salvation Army, Swanson's Cleaners and with her own Baskin Robbins ice cream shop, and Ripon's Kid Red Entertainment.
They are there.
Is there really a new day at City Hall?
IONE – Forget Paranormal Activity 3.
It is easy to sympathize with some of the sentiments of the Occupy Anything Because We Have Nothing Better To Do movement.
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Should adults be required to wear helmets when they bicycle?
Pray for rain.
It' amazing how you remember something and it leads to remembering something else.
I was my washing my microwave food cover Saturday when I realized something - it was once made out of clear plastic.
What happened to the Jerry Brown of old?
Why does Manteca - a city of 73,000 – still have a library that was designed for a community of 36,000?
"I pay taxes."
Water - or the periodic lack thereof - isn't the biggest threat to the San Joaquin Valley's economic vitality. It's air quality.
Steve Martarano is a hired gun for the Bay-Delta Office of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
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