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Honors Opportunities
Sociology, Social Psychology and Criminology & Criminal Justice majors can receive an honors distinction in the following ways:
- Honors Awards for graduating seniors, issued at the time of Spring commencement
- Honors Majors in Sociology, Social Psychology and Criminology & Criminal Justice
- The Sociology and Criminal Justice Honors Societies (requires a dues payment)
- The University Honors College degree, an 18 credit minor that can be added to your major
This page provides more information about the first three options, which are awarded directly by the Sociology Department. Please visit the University Honors College website for more information about the Honors degree option: https://www.umb.edu/academics/honors.
Honors Awards
The Sociology Department, with support from the University administration, issues Honors Awards to graduating seniors with outstanding records of academic achievement. This includes The T. Scott Miyakawa Memorial Prize in Sociology which is awarded to undergraduate students with an outstanding record of academic achievement and community engagement. Students receive these awards based on their GPA and nominations by Sociology faculty, not through the completion of additional coursework. All of these awards are issued to students at the end of the Spring semester at the Sociology Department Honors Convocation. Students who receive these awards are also invited to attend the College of Liberal Arts Honors Convocation and receive a special acknowledgement at the University Commencement ceremony.
Honors Majors in Sociology, Social Psychology and Criminology & Criminal Justice
The Honors Majors recognize special achievement and provide a more integrated and in-depth academic program. Registration in the honors major requires a 3.5 GPA in sociology, social psychology, or criminal justice and a 3.0 GPA overall. Successful completion of the honors major is noted on the student's transcript and in the program for the College of Liberal Arts Honors Convocation.
Honors Major distinctions are officially awarded to students at the Sociology Department's Honors Convocation at the end of each Spring Semester. Students who want to receive these distinctions must register for the Honors Major at the beginning of the prior Fall Semester (for example, if you plan on receiving the award in Spring 2015, you should register in Fall 2014). To register, complete this Registration Form and submit it to Genevieve Morse in the Sociology Department main office. You may submit a hardcopy or send by email to email@example.com.
Honors Major requirements that are specific to each major are provided below.
The Sociology Honors Major
Sociology honors majors write an honors paper and complete an extra course. One faculty member directs the honors paper and a second faculty member reads the paper. The honors paper is then presented to interested students and faculty in an open meeting. The extra course may be:
- SOCIOL 478/479 - Directed Study in Sociology
- Any 400-level course in the Sociology Department (excluding internships)
- SOCIOL 340 - Field Work Methods
- SCOIOL 350 - Social Statistics (if not taken as part of the major)
- Any course in the graduate program in applied sociology
- Any 400-level course in anthropology, economics, history, political science, or psychology
The Criminology & Criminal Justice Honors Major
Criminology & Criminal Justice students wishing to complete the major with honors are required to take either Sociol 478 or Sociol 479, Directed Study in Sociology. During this course students develop and complete a lengthy independent research paper that will be presented to Criminology & Criminal Justice faculty members and interested students in an open forum.
The Social Psychology Honors Major
Students may earn honors in one of two ways, as described below. The first option is offered by the Psychology Department and the second option is offered by the Sociology Department.
- Completing the year-long Honors Program for seniors offered by the Psychology Department. This program offers the opportunity to receive training and experience in conducting original research. To be eligible, students must have a cumulative GPA of 3.20, a 3.50 GPA in the social psychology major, and must have completed PSYCH 270 (Psychological Statistics). Students arrange to be sponsored by a full-time faculty member in psychology whose research interests coincide with their own area of interest. Once students have arranged sponsorship with a faculty member and decided on a research project, they must apply for admission to the Honors program. Complete details can be found on the Psychology Department's website.
- Completing the Honors Program for seniors offered by the Sociology Department. Students must have a cumulative GPA of 3.00 and a 3.50 GPA in social psychology. Students complete an extra course and write an honors paper. One faculty member directs the honors paper and a second faculty member reads the paper. The honors paper is then presented to interested students and faculty in an open meeting. The extra course may be:
- SOCIOL 478/479 - Directed Study in Sociology
- Any 400-level course in the Sociology Department (excluding internships)
- SOCIOL 340 - Field Work Methods
- SOCIOL 350 - Social Statistics (if not taken as part of the major)
- Any course in the graduate program in applied sociology
- Any 400-level course in anthropology, economics, history, political science, or psychology
Honor Societies: Sociology and Criminal Justice
Membership in a national honor society provides a wonderful springboard for professional growth. Honor society members have expanded opportunities for promoting their research, applying for conference funding, receiving national recognition, and interacting with leaders in their field. Active participation in an honor society enables students to develop stronger professional and social networks among the Sociology Department's faculty, students, and alumni. Family and friends of new members are invited to the annual Honor Society Induction Ceremony, which is held at the end of the spring semester.
Alpha Kappa Delta - The Sociology Honor Society
Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD), the International Sociology Honor Society, was founded in 1920. The chapter at UMass Boston is one of 490 worldwide chapters. Eligible undergraduate students are sociology and social psychology majors and minors who rank in the top 35% of their class, have an overall GPA of 3.3 or higher, and have a GPA of 3.2 or higher in the major or minor. Eligible graduate students have completed 12 or more graduate credits with an overall GPA of 3.2 or higher. Sociology professors make announcements and send emails early in the spring semester to inform students of application procedures. Students may also request an application in the Sociology Office (W-04-12). A one-time fee of $40 pays for lifetime membership and a year's subscription to the journal Sociological Inquiry.
For online information about the history, benefits and programs of Alpha Kappa Delta, please visit its home page. For further inquiries, contact the local AKD chapter faculty representative, Professor Philip Kretsedemas.
Alpha Phi Sigma - The Criminal Justice Honor Society
Alpha Phi Sigma, the national Criminal Justice Honor Society, was founded in Washington in 1942. It is proudly associated with the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. The purposes of Alpha Phi Sigma are to promote critical thinking, rigorous scholarship and lifelong learning; to keep abreast of the advances in scientific research; to elevate the ethical standards of the criminal justice professions; and to sustain in the public mind the benefit and necessity of education and professional training. Members are required to maintain a minimum 3.2 GPA in both Criminal Justice courses and overall courses. Eligible juniors and seniors are contacted via mail and email during the Fall and Spring semesters. A one-time fee of $50 pays for lifetime membership.
For online information about the history, benefits and programs of Alpha Phi Sigma, please visit its home page. For further inquiries, contact the local Alpha Phi Sigma faculty advisor, Professor Bianca Bersani.


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LAS VEGAS — Here in Sin City, where it is easier to find a wedding chapel than a McDonald's, honeymoons are big business.
Alas, what follows a Las Vegas honeymoon is not always pretty. Case in point: Bobby Hauck and the UNLV football program.
Hauck, anointed the latest would-be savior of the long-suffering Rebels when he arrived three years ago, owns a 4-23 record. Barely 15,000 fans turned out last Saturday to watch the Rebels blow a 14-0 halftime lead in a 17-14 loss to a Northern Arizona squad picked to finish seventh in the Big Sky Conference.
"We know," Hauck says, "we're hard to love right now."
The Washington State Cougars know the feeling, having drawn a blank on winning seasons and bowl games since 2003. However, the Cougars are favored by 81/2 points tonight at UNLV, a team that CBSSports.com ranks fourth worst in the nation.
Some might view the betting line as a slight to the Cougars, since they routed UNLV 59-7 last year in Pullman.
It must be remembered, however, that CBSSports.com ranks Washington State 86th among the 124 teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision. Also, WSU is 2-26 outside Pullman since 2008 and barely beat projected Big Sky runner-up Eastern Washington at home last week.
Redshirt sophomore Connor Halliday likely will make his second career start for WSU. Last week's starter Jeff Tuel suffered a knee injury against Eastern Washington and saw little practice time this week.
Youth and inexperience is a cause for concern at many positions for the Cougars and Rebels. Redshirt freshman Nick Sherry starts at quarterback for UNLV.
Pass blocking has been shaky on both sides. The Cougars lack a prime-time running back, but UNLV's Tim Cornett has run for 100-plus yards in four of the past five games.
Sherry lacks Halliday's arm. Most college quarterbacks do, but Halliday tends to gamble on some throws, resulting in outcomes all too familiar in Vegas.
Halliday has only played one quarter in a much-hyped new offense that has yet to work out all the kinks. UNLV lists just one senior starter on a defense that has yielded fewer points and yards than the Cougars and is far better at stopping rivals on third down (22 for 28).
Both teams are seeking momentum heading into their conference openers next week — UNLV in the Mountain West Conference, WSU in the Pacific-12 Conference. The Cougars are 5-0 all-time against the Rebels, but Washington State coach Mike Leach says history won't automatically repeat itself.
"They're playing together a lot better than they have in the past," he said.
Perhaps, but plenty of UNLV fans are calling for Hauck's head, threatening to stop attending games. Some of the negative comments have been rather clever.
One message board item on the Las Vegas Sun newspaper's website read: "I heard a district court judge offered a punishment choice to a convicted felon, 6 months in jail or attend a UNLV football game.
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European energy consumers could save 2.4 billion euros from electricity bills using psychology to nudge them into consuming less, says energy-management firm Opower Inc. Using behavioral science insights, popularized in the book"Nudge" by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, utilities can reduce consumption as much as 3 percent. Opower will use data from utilities to analyze customer habits and tailor recommendations on how to cut power use. They can also send household reports comparing usage with neighbors, and can even offer early warning if they are using more energy than normal.
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Solar makers are set to ship a record number of panels this year, with the biggest makers expected to deliver 52 percent more panel 52 percent more panel between them compared to last year's deliveries. Trina Solar Ltd., First Solar Inc., JinkoSolar Holding Co., Canadian Solar Inc., and JA Solar Holdings Co. all reported profits in the quarter. Global installations are anticipated to reach a record 52 GW this year up from 40.3 GW last year. The top seven manufacturers expect to account for about 20 GW of that.
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Solarworld AG, the sole major German solar panel maker nbso online casino reviews that survived a plunge in prices triggered by competition from China, said it delivered near-record modules in August and the most in the company's history last July and seeks to continue selling at the same pace for the following 18 months. The Bonn-based solar panel maker survived a solar price war that bankrupted more than a dozen competitors as cheap cells from China flooded the market. Solarworld has won rulings in the Europe and the U.S. against Chinese solar panel dumping.
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On Wednesday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that top-25 federal contractor Fluor Corporation paid $1.1 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit alleging the company had violated the False Claims Act by improperly using federal funds for lobbying. The settlement agreement is posted here.
As the Project On Government Oversight explained when we first blogged about the case back in November, the Byrd Amendment prohibits contractors from using federal funds to lobby the federal government in connection with awarding, extending, or modifying a contract. Contractors must certify (see FAR Subpart 52.203-11) that they will comply with this prohibition.
Fluor was the managing contractor at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Hanford Nuclear Site in Washington State from 1996 until 2009, when management was taken over by Mission Support Alliance, LLC (MSA), a joint venture consisting of Lockheed Martin, Jacobs Engineering, and Wackenhut. A whistleblower named Loydene Rambo filed a lawsuit alleging that Fluor and MSA spent approximately $670,000 in DOE funds to lobby Congress and the executive branch for additional appropriations and contracts for the Volpentest HAMMER (Hazardous Materials Management and Emergency Response) Training Facility at the site. The DOJ intervened in the lawsuit only as to the claims against Fluor.
Fluor's public statement about the settlement emphasizes that it did not admit to any improper conduct. "To the contrary," the company insists, "Fluor Hanford's contract with the Department of Energy obligated the Company to encourage other government agencies to use the HAMMER facility….Fluor was prepared to prove that the use of consultants to contact other government agencies to market the HAMMER facility was fully known to and overseen by ranking Department of Energy officials, who themselves were involved in meetings and communications with the consultants, and other government agencies."
Rambo will receive $200,000 from the settlement. She still has claims pending against MSA, Lockheed, Jacobs, Wackenhut, and the two lobbying firms Fluor and MSA hired—Congressional Strategies, LLC, and Secure Horizons Consulting, LLC. The settlement also leaves open the possibility of the government pursuing criminal charges and administrative remedies, including suspension and debarment, against Fluor and its current or former employees.
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The current population of Aroostook County is 71,536 with the median age of 46. Aroostook County's median household income is $37,154, and the average household net worth is $283,532.
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Age distribution represents the distribution of the population in Aroostook County by age group. In Aroostook County, the male-to-female ratio is 35,243:36,293, which is 1% higher than the ratio of Maine, which is 654,305:683,100. Age demographic data is sourced from census, 2015.
Crime rate index represents the average crime rate for a local area in comparison to nearby areas and the national average. A crime index of 100 represents the national average. Aroostook County, has 17% less property crime than Maine, and is 35% below the nation's average. Aroostook County, has 8% less personal crime than Maine and when compared to that of United States, Aroostook County is 76% below the national average.
Marital status represents the percent of residents in Aroostook County that are single, married, widowed and divorced. In Aroostook County, 78% of people are married and 22% of people are single. The percent of people married is 1% higher than the ratio of Maine, which is 77%. Marital data is sourced from census, 2015.
Household income distribution represents the distribution of Aroostook County income brackets at the household level. Overall, the median household income for Aroostook County is $37,154, which is 22% lower than that of Maine ($47,660). Income data for Aroostook County is sourced from census, 2015.
Education data represents the highest level of education attained by residents in Aroostook County. In Aroostook County, 23% of residents 18 and over graduated from high school and 19% completed a Bachelor's degree or higher, which is 14% lower than that of Maine. Education statistics is sourced from census, 2015.


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McCain campaign aide Charlie Black is in hot water after word spread that he'd suggested McCain's chances for taking over the White House would improve if another terrorist attack happened on U.S. soil, as well as for characterizing Benazir Bhutto's assassination as potentially beneficial for McCain's presidential bid. Well, here are another few things to worry about vis-à-vis Black, courtesy of MoveOn.org.
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Gordon Brown's Free Fall
Britain's prime minister may be on his way out.
It's hard to believe it's been 30 years since Margaret Thatcher became Britain's prime minister. She is now in declining health and no longer speaks in public, but if this week's anniversary of Mrs. Thatcher's election proves anything, it's that mention of her name can still start an argument.
Some honor her as an unwavering champion of common people and simple principles. Others denounce her as an unbending, heartless ideologue. But virtually all agree that no American president has had a more reliable foreign ally.
A generation later, facing tremendous international dangers, President Barack Obama could use such a partner. That's why the unraveling of Gordon Brown's government and Britain's economic emergency are such bad news for Washington.
Just how poorly are things going for Mr. Brown? His popularity has fallen further and faster than any prime minister since reliable polling became available nearly 80 years ago.
Just six weeks ago, the G-20 summit in London provided him the opportunity to play the role of effective economic crisis manager. But since the event, he's had to fire a close adviser, Damian McBride, when the press discovered that Mr. McBride had attempted to smear various members of the opposition with salacious falsehoods. Mr. Brown's annual budget drew an avalanche of criticism because it raises the income tax rate for top earners to 50%. He thus broke the Labour Party's pledge not to raise income taxes. He's also losing control of his parliamentary majority.
On the foreign-policy side, Mr. Brown drew surprisingly little attention at home for his visit last week to Afghanistan and Pakistan. He won faint domestic praise for the final British pull-out from Basra in southern Iraq. In fact, pressure is now growing in London for a 9/11-style commission to study how and why British troops were sent to Iraq in the first place.
Cameras and microphones now trail Labour Party heavyweights in hopes of capturing a major public blow against what's left of Mr. Brown's authority. And polls show that Labour now trails the Conservative Party by 15 to 20 percentage points.
Mr. Brown needn't face national elections for a year, but he will have to endure local and European Parliament elections in early June -- and his party will likely suffer blowout losses. Unless Labour sharply outperforms expectations four weeks from now, the prime minister will face intense pressure to resign.
Will Mr. Brown go down without a fight? Not likely. He waited his turn for a decade as Tony Blair's chancellor of the exchequer. Perhaps he believes a hoped-for economic revival over the next year will boost his popularity and provide him his first true mandate.
If he is forced to resign later this summer, his most likely immediate successors are Alan Johnson (the popular health secretary) and Jack Straw (the former foreign secretary, now justice minister). Either would likely be forced to call early elections, since the British public -- especially the media -- will not long accept another unelected prime minister.
If, as expected, the Conservatives return to power following the next elections and David Cameron becomes prime minister, Mr. Obama will again have a reliable ally across the Atlantic. In the meantime -- whether Mr. Brown clings to power or a transitional prime minister emerges to guide Labour -- the U.S.-British partnership will face a period of frustrating stagnation because both governments are consumed by political and economic headaches at home.
That's too bad for the foreign-policy interests of both countries. The United Kingdom remains the world's fifth-largest economy, and London is still its second-largest financial center. It's a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, one of three drivers (with Germany and France) of European Union policy. It's the world's second-largest source of foreign direct investment and its third largest foreign-aid donor.
In short, Britain matters. Any coordinated solution to problems facing the global economy must involve British policy makers. Britain's is one of a dwindling number of governments that has been both willing and able to add troops in Afghanistan, play a leading role on climate change and other transnational challenges, and may even take in a few prisoners soon to be released from Guantanamo.
But Britain's political leadership is mightily distracted at the moment. Its public finances are in rough shape. The 2009 budget deficit appears set to reach 175 billion pounds -- about 12.5% of the country's GDP. The national debt will likely grow from 50% to 80% of GDP within the next five years and could run higher. Total personal debt has increased to about 1.5 trillion pounds. Unemployment has surpassed two million, and may well reach three million -- a rate of 10% -- sometime next year. In other words, the next prime minister will inherit such a mess that Labour's next generation might actually prefer to let Mr. Cameron's Conservatives try to sort it all out.
Some will say Mrs. Thatcher and Mr. Brown have little in common. But as many British commentators noted this week, senior officials within Mrs. Thatcher's party -- not voters -- put an end to her leadership. A generation later, another prime minister looks increasingly vulnerable to just such an uprising.
Mr. Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group, is co-author of the "The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing" (Oxford University Press, 2009).
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Index Universe reports US ETF Inflows Hit A Record $188B In 2012
Investors poured a record $188 billion into U.S.-listed ETFs in 2012, eclipsing a previous record of more than $175 billion in 2008, as a variety of asset classes shined—including domestic as well as international equities, and particularly fixed income.Overall, total ETF assets ended the year at almost $1.349 trillion, 27 percent higher than the $1.062 trillion a year earlier and 2 1/2 times as much as the $537 billion total at the end of 2008, according to data compiled by IndexUniverse.The 2012 year-end asset total, just shy of an all-time record of $1.350 trillion reached on Thursday, Dec. 20, also reflects the rise in global stock markets, including a 7.3 percent increase in the Dow Jones industrial average in all of 2012.To The Giants Go The SpoilsOf the $188 billion in 2012 inflows, $151 billion, or 80 percent of the total, came from the three biggest firms: BlackRock's iShares, State Street Global Advisors and Vanguard.The dominance of bigger firms is by now a familiar tale in the U.S. ETF industry, which began about 20 years ago with the launch of SSgA's SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY).In that light, it's no surprise that last year's asset-gathering winner was SPY, the biggest ETF in the world. It pulled in $15.77 billion, or more than 8 percent of the total asset haul.Overall, bond funds pulled in around $56 billion, or about 30 percent of the total asset haul.More to the point, the nearly $44 billion that flowed into U.S. bond funds was almost 20 percent of the total, while the nearly $12 billion in new money invested in international bond funds constituted more than 45 percent of the total—both higher percentages than in either U.S. or international equities.Also, we've spilled a bit of ink this year on the Nos. 2 and 3 funds: the Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) and the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund (EEM).They both gathered about $10.5 billion, with the lion's share of EEM's asset haul occurring after Oct. 2, when Vanguard announced that next year it will abandon the MSCI index VWO has shared with EEM in favor of a benchmark created by FTSE.
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A conservative backlash against Republicans over their deal with Barack Obama to lift taxes has hardened the party leadership's resolve to demand huge spending cuts as the price for increasing the country's borrowing limit.Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate minority leader, rejecting Mr Obama's statement that he would not negotiate over the issue, said the debt ceiling debate in coming months was the ideal time to force the administration to cut outlays."The President may not want to have a fight about government spending over the next few months, but it's the fight he is going to have, because it's a debate the country needs," Mr McConnell said in an opinion article on Yahoo.com.Mr McConnell, who is up for election in 2014, and his Republican colleagues in the Senate, have been stung by criticism on the right for their role in brokering a deal with the White House over the fiscal cliff.The final deal, negotiated between Mr McConnell and Joe Biden, the vice-president, was passed overwhelmingly in the Senate, marking the first time Republicans in Washington have voted for income tax increases in more than two decades. The administration had also wanted to adopt a proposal first advanced by Mr McConnell, which would have curtailed the ability of Congress' to refuse to limit the debt ceiling.But Mr McConnell no longer seems to support this plan and also says that the fiscal cliff agreement is the last time Republicans will support tax increases."The moment he [Obama] and virtually every elected Democrat in Washington signed off on the terms of the current arrangement, it was the last word on taxes. That debate is over," he said.
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LOS ANGELES - Janet Leigh's most famous scene was so terrifying it put her off showers for the rest of her life.
Leigh, who died Sunday, insisted she always took baths after seeing the finished cut of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," in which her character was slashed to death in a motel shower in what may be the silver screen's most memorable murder.
"I know she used to get very scared about that scene," said the director's daughter, Pat Hitchcock, who had a small part in "Psycho" as a co-worker of Leigh's.
Leigh died at her Beverly Hills home, with husband Robert Brandt and her daughters, actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis, at her side. She was 77.
"She died peacefully," Heidi Schaeffer, a spokeswoman for Jamie Lee Curtis, said Monday.
Leigh had suffered from vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels, for the past year.
The blond beauty had 60-odd film and TV roles in a career whose highlights included playing Frank Sinatra's romantic interest in "The Manchurian Candidate" and Charlton Heston's abducted bride in Orson Welles' "Touch of Evil."
"She was a doll," said Dick Van Dyke, whose big-screen break came starring opposite Leigh in the 1963 musical "Bye Bye Birdie." "She was always in good humor despite the fact that to a newcomer like me, she was a big movie star. She had no ego, no vanity at all. She was as nice a lady as I've ever met."
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The shower scene in "Psycho" became Leigh's defining moment, the role earning her an Academy Award nomination for supporting actress.
Leigh played embezzling office worker Marion Crane, who checks into the Bates Motel and never checks out. Dressed as his own mother, psychotic hotel clerk Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) repeatedly stabs Marion in the harrowing sequence, which was accompanied by the shrieking violins of composer Bernard Herrmann's score.
"`Psycho' scared the hell out of me when I saw it finished. Making it and seeing it are two different things," Leigh told The Associated Press in 2001, when "Psycho" was picked No. 1 on the American Film Institute's top 100 list of most thrilling U.S. movies. "That staccato music and the knife flashing. You'd swear it's going into the body. I still don't take showers, and that's the truth."
The scene left countless moviegoers sneaking the occasional peak around the shower curtain to make sure the bathroom was clear of knife-wielding lunatics. It also was a drastic departure from Hollywood convention, defying expectations of audiences who until that point had identified with Leigh as the movie's main character.
"I think first of all it was having a big movie star playing the part and dying early in the movie," said Pat Hitchcock. "That was the shock value."
Leigh had a classic storybook introduction to Hollywood. Born in Merced, Calif., on July 6, 1927, she was attending the University of the Pacific when retired screen star Norma Shearer saw her photograph at a ski resort. Shearer recommended the teenager to talent agent Lew Wasserman, who negotiated a contract at MGM for $50 a week.
Dubbed Janet Leigh (her birth name was Jeanette Helen Morrison) she starred at 19 in her first movie, "The Romance of Rosy Ridge," opposite Van Johnson, and her salary was quickly boosted to $150 a week. She became one of MGM's busiest stars, appearing in six movies in 1949.
Among her films: "Act of Violence" (with Van Heflin), "Little Women," "Holiday Affair" (Robert Mitchum), "Strictly Dishonorable" (Ezio Pinza), "The Naked Spur" (James Stewart), "Living It Up" (Martin and Lewis), "Jet Pilot" (John Wayne) and "Safari" (Victor Mature).
Leigh had been married twice before coming to Hollywood: to John K. Carlyle, 1942, the marriage later annulled; and Stanley Reames in 1946, whom she divorced two years later.
In 1951, she married Tony Curtis when their stardoms were at a peak. Both their studios, MGM and Universal, worried that their immense popularity with teenagers would be hindered if they were married.
Aided by a splurge of fan magazine publicity, their appeal rose. They appeared in four films together, including "Houdini" and "The Vikings." The "ideal couple" divorced in 1963. In her 1984 autobiography, "There Really Was a Hollywood," she refrained from criticizing Curtis.
"Tony and I had a wonderful time together; it was an exciting, glamorous period in Hollywood," she said in an interview. "A lot of great things happened, most of all, two beautiful children (Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis)."
Her 1964 marriage to businessman Brandt was longer lasting.
Leigh appeared in Jamie Lee's 1980 thriller "The Fog" and co-starred again with her daughter in one of her last roles in 1998's slasher sequel "Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later."
In recent years, Leigh was very choosy about acting projects and except for her daughter's flicks, declined regular offers to trade on her "Psycho" fame with other horror roles, said her agent, John Frazier.
"Every year at this time of the year, she would be approached to do something tied into Halloween," Frazier said. "She never did that. She thought it would have cheapened it."


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Games and Animation are two totally different animals. While much of what is required is the same - Intensive pre-production, careful planning, and endless refinement – games are in many ways much more limited. Coming up with a concept and getting it on screen are only the first steps. Then you have to make it WORK. Then you have to make it FUN.
We were extremely ambitious considering this was our first attempt at creating a game. We wanted to bring the same level of visual style and complexity we put into our animation, to the game. Unfortunately, internet based 3D software is pretty primitive. Each time we created something and we were happy with, it had to be scrapped for a variety of technical reason. We actually have an enormous amount of art that was discarded entirely (sorry Luke) as features were stripped back.
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On-the-job fatalities at road construction sites
January 04, 2005
From the beginning of 1995 through 2002, a total of 844 workers were killed while working at road construction sites.
More than half of these fatalities were attributable to a worker being struck by a vehicle or mobile equipment. The range of these fatal occupational injuries was a low of 93 in 1996 and a high of 124 in 1999, as shown in the chart.
Fatal workplace injuries at road construction sites were first identified as a separate category in the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries in 1995. Since that time, workplace fatalities have generally declined overall, but fatalities at road construction sites have fluctuated, staying in the low 100s since 1998. Workplace fatalities at road construction sites typically account for 1.5 percent to 2.0 percent of all workplace fatalities.
These data are from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, which is part of the Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities program. For additional information, see "Fatal occupational injuries at road construction sites," by Stephen Pegula, Monthly Labor Review, December 2004.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, On-the-job fatalities at road construction sites on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2005/jan/wk1/art02.htm (visited May 28, 2016).
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Journalists, Judges and Justice Vie in Coverage of Courts
Harper, Jennifer, The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
The jury, it seems, is still out in the case of justice vs. journalism. Can a free press coexist with a fair trial?
Maybe, maybe not.
Cameras in the courtroom distill complex testimony into sound bites. Attorneys emulate actors, judges talk off the record. Journalists, meanwhile, trade objectivity for the lucrative glamour of "legal commentary." Meanwhile, many Americans get their entire sense of our legal system by its portrayal in the media.
"There's a huge amount of public attention on the courts now," said Robert Giles of the Media Studies Center in New York, which has just published "Covering the Courts," an analysis of the media's impact on the courtroom. The 125-page study includes comments and interviews with 21 lawyers, journalists and judges stuck in the middle.
"Journalists are taking a larger and larger role in the judicial process. They have a responsibility. Our study is a road map of the fundamentals," Mr. Giles said.
The imprint of the O.J. Simpson trials is everywhere.
And no wonder. The trials dragged on for 900 days, inspired 50 books, required 30 broadcast trailers and drew more news coverage than Bosnia, Tiananmen Square and the collapse of Soviet communism.
Veteran court reporter Linda Deutsch of the Associated Press was horrified by it all.
"Never in my 30 years of covering trials have I entered a courtroom with the objective of creating entertainment. Social history, yes; entertainment, no," she wrote.
Journalists who aspire to be the old-fashioned eyes and ears of the public must use "a careful eye to separate the spin from the substance."
Indeed, it takes a savvy but disciplined reporter to winnow legal points from the show biz of a high-profile trial, agreed Andrew Cohen, a lawyer who covered the Oklahoma City bombing trials for Fox News. …


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Phew! I can exhale now because tropical prints are still a thing. Anything related to a humid climate with the combined scent of Plumeria and salt water has me longing for aloe, some sort of blue cocktail, sandy skin and board shorts…I LOVE board shorts!
But see, next spring will be different. Instead of graphic palm trees and waves; it's going to be all about the vintage-inspired Hawaiian print. This may be a way of designers yearning to pay tribute to the unforgettable pipes (and fun button-down shirts) of Don Ho and even Elvis Presley. And because we won't get to cover ourselves with these blooms for several months, it might be time to watch Blue Crush over and over again until the tide comes in.
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As we all know by now, supermodel Naomi Campbell shut it down with her surprise runway appearance at Diane von Furstenberg's Spring 2014 show at New York Fashion Week. With the likes of Rachel Zoe, Jessica Alba and Paris Hilton watching in awe, Naomi's embellished shift, wavy tresses, and unmistakable swagger were in full effect, setting the blogosphere on fire.
And then there's her jawdropping, ageless physique. Perhaps The Guardian put it best: "It's not just an awesome body for 43. It's an awesome body full stop."
But Naomi's working more than the catwalk these days: She joined forces with fellow fashion icon Iman to form the "Diversity Coalition" in an effort to get more women of color on runways, and will serve as mentor and Executive Producer of the modeling competition show The Face. And at tennis pro Novak Djokovic's recent fundraising dinner, she wowed partygoers like Tommy Hilfiger and Kate Hudson in a showstopping Atelier Versace dress. Check her out!
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If the present processes of suburban land conversion continue to the year 2000, what results are likely? What reason is there to expect that the cities and suburbs of 2000 will be anything but more of the same that we have now? To what extent might processes of the recent past and of the present lead to something different in the future, owing to changing elements in the system and in the whole economy and society?
Some changes, of course, are inevitable; nothing stands still for long in a dynamic world. But the process of suburban land conversion has changed only gradually since the war, and the changes have not been significant. For the present, let us assume that something like the postwar rate of change will continue, without attempting to specify what it may include.
This chapter is written in recognition of the serious social, racial, economic, and related problems which afflict most American cities, especially the larger ones and especially their older centers. It can reasonably be argued that the United States faces as divisive a situation as at any time since the Civil War. Any thoughtful citizen must have been gravely disturbed at some of the events in the larger cities during the past decade. In this total urban situation, the lily-white suburb is surely a major part and must bear a major part of the responsibility for the whole situation. Urban problems must engage the most earnest attention of governments at all levels and of citizens of both political parties and of many economic and social groups. Any program to improve this situation will almost surely have some repercussions on suburban land conversion. However, urban problems go far beyond suburban land conversion, if the latter be defined with any clarity.
Suburban growth and suburban land conversion, if considered only as a means of providing new homes for the upper half of the income scale, do not face a real crisis. The processes and the results we now have are not the best attainable, but there has not been and there will not be a real breakdown in the process. The United States can continue a process of slow evolution in its city-growing mechanisms, and probably will do so. The results will not be perfect or even as good as reasonably attainable, but neither will they be chaos. Findings of this study show that there is plenty of land in suburbs to accommodate urban expansion for another generation. Implicit in the findings is the fact that life in the suburbs is not intolerable but rather pleasant, and that the suburbs are well-regarded by those who live


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We've long suspected Kanye West has a sense of humor buried somewhere between his ego and his seemingly-endless battles with pre-menstrual syndrome. He finally proved it last week, when he poked fun at himself and Britney Spears on Twitter.
The rapper was beaten to the top spot on the iTunes chart by Spears' dance track "Hold it Against Me." Rather than throwing a tantrum — similar to the fit he pitched when MTV enlisted Britney and not him to open the 2008 Video Music Awards — Kanye jokingly referenced his infamous beef with Taylor Swift and conceded defeat via Twitter, telling the world he was gonna let her "be #1″ but his new single "H.A.M," featuring Jay-Z, was still "one of the best songs of all time."
After Britney Fans had a coronary, West insisted that the comment was in good fun and not designed to hurt the pop star's feelings.
"When I said the comment about Brittney I was giving her props for being #1 not dissing her at all! How can you 'let' someone be number one??!! That was the whole joke!!! I know intelligent people know this so bear with me, (sic)" he explained. "But stop making it seem that my aim is to hurt or down people! That's just not my style! As pop stars we're all in this shit together! We on the inside of the TV!"
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High production costs shut down Cadbury factory in Lebanon
High production costs and fierce competition has prompted Cadbury Adams Company to shut down its factory in Lebanon, sources said Friday. The factory, which was located in Zouk Mikael and produced Chiclets, a brand of candy-coated chewing gum, has informed the Labor Ministry of its decision to halt production.
The company said that it would exert its utmost efforts to ensure the rights of its employees; adding that it will not back down from its decision.
More than 100 employees will become jobless after its closure.
Caretaker Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud, who is a leading industrialist, told The Daily Star Cadbury had wanted to shut down its operations in Lebanon a long time ago.
"I think the main reason for this closure is the high cost of energy production in Lebanon. Cadbury can produce Chiclets in Egypt [for] 60 percent [less] than in Lebanon," Abboud explained.
He said energy costs in Arab countries was a fraction of that in Lebanon.
Industrialists have constantly complained about the high cost of energy, labor and land and have urged the successive governments to take measures to protect the Lebanese industry.
There is growing concern that other energy-intensive factories in Lebanon may face the same fate as Cadbury unless the authorities come up with ways to reduce the cost of production on manufacturers.
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Ok, gotta weigh in. Eagles Nest is too much like Birdhouse: we'll have the Audubon Society 100 deep dinking with their binos when Old Sckool comes hurtling down the trail.
"Cows Nest"? I know about pies but didn't know cows did nests. But I'll trust PT here since I'm not intimately familiar with the personal habits of farm animals.
I like the bone theme after seeing what a dedicated bike shop and many volunteers accomplished up at Phil's World in Cortez. No mountains but fun riding. So more bones may appear...
Bottom line: I really don't give a rat's arse (hey, sort of punchy but inappropriate) about the trail name. I just want Skerry to line up some more projects: I'm feeling definite withdrawal symptoms...
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|TIMKEN US CORPORATION Patent applications
|Patent application number
|MAGNETIC SENSOR WITH HIGH AND LOW RESOLUTION TRACKS - A sensing apparatus includes high and low-resolution tracks, and a compensation track. The low-resolution track includes a first magnet that has a first magnetic field. The high-resolution track is spaced apart from the low-resolution track by a first gap and includes a second magnet and a third magnet. The second magnet has a second magnetic field that is substantially identical to the first magnetic field, and the third magnet has a third magnetic field that is substantially opposite to the first magnetic field. The compensation track is spaced apart from the high-resolution track by a second gap and includes a fourth magnet having a fourth magnetic field that is substantially opposite to the first magnetic field and configured to reduce a magnetic field from the first magnet that is superimposed on the second and third magnets.
|TURNING DEVICE POSITION SENSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for determining an absolute position of a motor. The system includes first and second multi-polar magnetic rings, first and second processing units, and at least one external sensor The first multi-polar magnetic ring is concentrically positioned around the motor, and has a plurality of pole pairs. The second multi-polar magnetic ring is concentrically positioned around the first multi-polar magnetic ring, and has at least one pole pair. The first processing unit is positioned near the first multi-polar magnetic ring to determine an angular position over one of the pole pairs of the first multi-polar magnetic ring. The sensor is positioned external to the processing unit and over the second multi-polar magnetic ring to indicate a state of the pole pair of the second multi-polar magnetic ring. The second processing unit generates an absolute position of the motor based on the angular position and the state.
|THRUST BEARING ASSEMBLY - A thrust bearing assembly generally includes a cage and a plurality of rolling elements. The cage has first and second cage halves with each cage half having a respective radial segment with a plurality of circumferentially spaced openings. Each opening has an opening perimeter. The cage halves are interconnected with portions of the radial segments circumferentially between the plurality of openings abutting along a given plane and the respective openings aligned to defined rolling element pockets. The rolling elements are positioned in the rolling element pockets such that a centerline of each rolling element lies in or in proximity to the given plane. A flange extends along at least a portion of each opening perimeter to retain the rolling elements within a respective one of the rolling element pockets.
|Magnetic Sensor with High and Low Resolution Tracks - A sensing apparatus that includes first and second magnet assemblies. The first magnet assembly includes first and second magnets that have respective first and second opposite magnetic fields, and respective first and second dimensions. The first dimension is relatively smaller than the second dimension. The second magnet assembly is positioned at a distance from the first magnet assembly. The second magnet assembly includes a third magnet that has a third magnetic field which is opposite to the first magnetic field.
|Magnetic Sensor With Compensation - A sensing assembly. The sensing assembly is spaced apart from a magnet that has a magnet length, and includes a compensation module and a string of magnetic sensors that has a string length. The magnetic sensors are grouped into a plurality of magnetic sensor groups. Each of the magnetic sensors generates a respective intermediate signal based on the magnet. The compensation module assigns a plurality of respective gains to the respective magnetic sensor groups based on a difference between the magnet length and the string length, and applies the respective gains to the respective intermediate signals of the respective magnetic sensor groups to generate respective adjusted signals.
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A large-scale installation of 1,000-plus origami flowers greets visitors near the entrance, and the yarn-bombing artist collective BombShells created pop-up flower gardens to tie the theme of "Bloom" throughout. Neighborhood residents and student volunteers from the University of Cincinnati also recently color-coded the space, painting hallways, doors and walls to help visitors maneuver the vast labyrinth of artists' galleries within. A coordinating map also highlights food and wine stops along the way for your art-viewing pleasure. Put on your petal pushers and start "Walking." 6-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
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Thank you for your interest in hosting a teacher on your field research project. Your commitment to linking polar research with education is an important contribution to both the research and education communities and the goals of the National Science Foundation (NSF). PolarTREC will use the information you provide in your application to select research projects and teachers that match in interest and availability. If your project is selected, you will be asked to review 5-10 teacher applications and interview the top applicants for your project. We anticipate interviews being conducted in October - November 2015 with final matches being made before January 2016.
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Liberia - a Model for US Development Aid
Spatz, Benjamin J, The Christian Science Monitor
Some in Congress want to cut US development aid. They should consider Liberia and its remarkable progress since a brutal civil war. This week's election shows the country is a work in progress, but American aid has helped improve Liberian health, literacy, law, and the army.
As Liberians trickled to the polls in a presidential run-off election yesterday, this war-ravaged nation's remarkable transformation is best summed up by the contrast between its two most recent presidents:
Former President Charles Taylor faces 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity while his successor, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, will accept a Nobel Peace Prize this year.
President Sirleaf, Africa's first female head of state, emerged from yesterday's election having secured a second term. Hopefully, she will be able to count on continued American assistance - unless Congress cuts development aid, as some members threaten.
True, Liberia's latest marker of democratic progress also highlights the country's continued fragility. Politicking, baseless allegations of electoral fraud, and one tragic death in pre- election turmoil sparked a needless voter boycott and carried headlines.
But without US support, Liberia - founded by freed American slaves - would never have gotten as far as it has.
Even more relevant is that Liberia offers an example of how well- designed US development aid can build strong partnerships and enhance America's long-term security. This, at minimal cost and without putting US troops in danger.
Contrary to the mantra that development dollars are misspent, Liberia's promising example demonstrates the impact of aid done well.
Less than a decade ago, Liberia was in the throes of a quarter century of societal collapse. It was seen as a hopeless failed state that presented policy challenges similar to those the US now faces in Somalia, Yemen, and parts of Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
Former President Taylor, after training in Libya, fomented one of the most brutal civil wars in the modern era. It inflamed the entire region. Over 14 years, more than 250,000 Liberians were killed; 500,000 were displaced. The economy shrank by 90 percent.
The country was a poster child for all the evils of the world, synonymous with anarchy and rife with corruption and poverty. The US embassy in Liberia gained the dubious distinction of being the most- often evacuated American embassy in the world.
Turn the page to 2011 and this emerging West African democracy of 3.5 million people is nearly unrecognizable from its not-so-distant past.
Drug-addled child soldiers and combatants with names like General Butt Naked - known for charging into battle naked - no longer roam the streets. Instead, the US vetted and trained new Liberian soldiers, the start of the country's first professional army.
Literacy rates that bottomed out at an abysmal 20 percent are on the rise with US support to train teachers and build teaching colleges; future child scholars, not child soldiers, are busy in classrooms.
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In his latest column, Brad Cummings insists that the Republican Party should "reach out" to embrace the black vote if they want to take these voters from the Democrat Party. According to the New York Times, since 2013, nine states predominantly controlled by Republican legislatures in swing states have changed voting requirements, making it disproportionately harder for black voters to vote. Seems "reaching out" is not what the Republican Party actually wants.
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The Crack: Ulster-Scots Presidents
Seventeen of the 43 American Presidents were of Ulster ancestry. Some have more direct Ulster links than others, but the connection to 18th and 19th century immigrants from the north of Ireland is tangible. This fifth article from the 'Ulster-Scots in America' series researched by journalist-author Billy Kennedy uncovers facts that you can astound your American cousins with!
ANDREW JACKSON: (Democrat 1829-37). This seventh American President and founder of the Democratic Party in the United States was born in a frontier log cabin in the Waxhaws region of the Carolinas in 1767, his parents Andrew and Elizabeth Jackson having left their home at Boneybefore near Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim 18 months earlier. Andrew, a lawyer, helped draft the constitution for Tennessee, which set up as the 16th state of the Union in 1796. He was the victorious United States commander at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. Like his parents, Jackson was a Presbyterian and his wife Rachel was also of Ulster lineage.
JAMES KNOX POLK: (Democrat 1845-49). The 11th American President, James Knox Polk was born in 1795 near Charlotte in North Carolina. His Scottish- born great-grandfather Robert Bruce Polk (Pollok), of Lifford Co. Donegal, arrived in the American colonies about 1680. James Knox Polk was Governor of Tennessee before becoming US President and he and his wife Sarah are buried in Nashville. Both were Presbyterians. Polk served seven terms in the US Congress and was Speaker of the House. His great uncle Thomas Polk signed, with other Scots-Irish (Ulster-Scots) citizens in North Carolina, the Mecklenburg Declaration of May, 1775, a very significant document which preceded the Declaration of Independence.
JAMES BUCHANAN: (Democrat 1857-61). Born 1791 in a log cabin in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, 15th American President James Buchanan was also a Presbyterian. The Buchanan family, parents James and Elizabeth Speer Buchanan and some of their 11 children, lived at Deroran near Omagh and left Londonderry for America in 1783. Buchanan, a lawyer, was the only bachelor President. He spent 42 years as a Democratic state Assembly man, US Congress member, US minister to Russia, Secretary of State, minister to Britain and President. Buchanan once said: "My Ulster blood is my most priceless heritage".
ANDREW JOHNSON: (Democrat 1865-69). The 17th American President was born in a log cabin at Raleigh, North Carolina in 1808. His Presbyterian namesake and grandfather from Mounthill outside Larne, Co Antrim arrived in America about 1750. Johnson worked as a tailor for many years and was Mayor of Greeneville in East Tennessee, a town largely inhabited by Scots-Irish settlers, and became Governor of Tennessee and Vice-President to Abraham Lincoln before assuming the Presidency on Lincoln's assassination. Johnson's mother Mary 'Polly' McDonough was of Ulster stock, as was his wife Eliza McCardle.
ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT: (Republican 1869-77). Born 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio, the 18th American President, also of Presbyterian stock, successfully commanded the Union Army in the American Civil War. His mother Hannah Simpson was descended from the Simpson family of Dergenagh between Dungannon and Ballygawley in Co Tyrone. His great grandfather John Simpson left Ulster for America in 1760. President Grant, a Methodist, admitted he was more of a soldier and a farmer than a politician. In July 1878, Grant travelled to Ulster to receive the freedom of Londonderry and also visited the Simpson homestead near Ballygawley.
CHESTER ALAN ARTHUR: (Republican 1881-85). The 21st American President was born at Fairfield, Vermont in 1830. Arthur's grandfather and his father, Baptist pastor the Rev William Arthur, emigrated to Dunham, Quebec, Canada from Dreen near Cullybackey, Co Antrim in 1801, and the family settled in the neighbouring American state of Vermont. …