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Eating to Live on the Outside: Kaya's Kitchen
It's Friday, time for Eating to Live on the Outside. And this week I'm keeping it local. I'm looking at Kaya's Kitchen in Belmar, New Jersey. Based on the website, it looks good!
Okay, I just finished clicking through Kaya's menu and it's got a lot of potential. A ton of great salads and some other food that might tickle your fancy, take a look:
Oriental Sesame Salad
- Mixed field greens, diced tofu, carrot, mushroom, red onion, alfalfa sprouts and oriental sesame dressing; I dig it, but I'm getting the dressing on the side.
Spring Salad
- Mixed field greens, plum tomato, cucumber, carrot, sprouts, celery, bell pepper, sliced avocado, red onion and lemon-ginger dressing; very cool, avocado rocks!
Spicy Cajun Tofu Salad
- Mixed field greens, carrot, plum tomato, cucumber, bell pepper, red onion, sprouts, Cajun grilled tofu and ranch dressing; I think the dressing is vegan, but it's still going on the side.
Baby Spinach & Fresh Mozzarella Salad
- Baby spinach, field greens, grilled Portabella mushroom, plum tomato, fresh mozzarella (dairy), roasted red pepper and balsamic vinaigrette; I'll pass on the cheese.
Summer Salad
- Mixed field greens, plum tomato, carrot, cucumber, sliced avocado, red onions, sprouts, sunflower seeds and dressing; lots of good stuff here.
Harvest Salad
- Mixed field greens, sprouts, raisins, chopped apple, dried cranberries, carrot, red onion and dressing; this is great too! Dressing on the side.
Grilled Veggie Melt
- Marinated & grilled zucchini, squash, peppers, onion, eggplant, portabella mushrooms, tomato and vegan or dairy cheese; all those veggies are too good to pass up, but no cheese for me and I'd order it with steamed organic vegetables, instead of the other options. And the bread is a concession I can deal with.
Hummus & Avocado
- Homemade hummus, avocado, lettuce, tomato, onion and a warp or roll; same thing with the side and bread here too.
Portobello Mushroom Platter
- Sliced Portobello, eggplant, zucchini, squash, roasted red pepper, tomato marinated and grilled with garlic-tamari and brown rice; sounds great, I deal with the rice. I don't eat a lot of rice.
Happy Buddah Stew
- Sweet potatoes, mushrooms, onion, cauliflower, eggplant, chick peas, seitan, green peas, sauce and brown rice; lots of nice veggies here, now I'm not a big seitan fan, but I'd be okay with it in this instance.
Kaya's Kitchen looks pretty good. And it's in New Jersey, which makes it even cooler. My top two choices would be the Harvest Salad and Spring Salad. Like always, salads reign supreme!
So yeah, Kaya's Kitchen works! But what do you think? Check out Kaya's menu and tell me how you handle Eating to Live on the Outside. Until then, eat smartly! Peace.


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If you're looking for a new family tradition this year, head over to Park City on Dec. 21 for the second annual Electric Parade and watch the historic district light up the night on the shortest day of the year. The parade is free, open to the public, and involves a range of glittering cars, trucks, trolleys and bicycles that will have the kids clapping with excitement. KPCW will be in charge of some special holiday music programming, and there will be a chance for participants to win cash prizes in five different categories.
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This tiny cul-de-sac earned its unofficial title over 60 years ago, and they've been bringing holiday cheer to visitors ever since. The illuminating exhibition is best experienced on foot, so slip on some woolly socks and a pair of boots to take a stroll on "Christmas Street."
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Check out the festively decorated grounds of Winder Dairy as you wrap your hands around a warm cup of hot chocolate and indulge in fresh pastries. You'll feast with your eyes and your tastebuds during this afternoon of family fun.
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Abortion discussion
April 21, 2013
Dr. Jeremiah Glosenger, Minot Dr. Cain recently wrote a letter designed to instill some unfounded as well as outright false fears in an effort to have people opposed the Personhood bill (SB 2303)....
GREAT posts, angeR.
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There are a lot of people that refuse to accept that abortion is wrong. But you are not one of them. You've just confirmed that you believe it is wrong. Why is that? You must believe at some level that the life of an unborn child is a life worth protecting - that humanity exists within the womb. You say that you would never abort your child, but you adopt the posture of a bystander when it comes to other people.
Abortion is not an issue on which you can casually adopt that bystander persona. You either condone it, or you don't. And if you condone it, you are no better than the person that would commit the act.
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EB, I'll double down on your smile, and apply it to your analysis. It seems that you completely missed the point. Or maybe you just want to avoid it.
Just to be clear, the intent of the comparison was not suggest that women are forcefully coerced into abortions, nor doctors. I could have applied the comparison to any serious crime.
Murder. Rape. Theft. Extortion.
The point was that if we applied that standard of "let God sort it out" to all of these crimes, we would have anarchy. Most of our criminal code (Federal, state and local) is designed to protect human beings from the willful acts of other people who seek to do us harm or take something away from us.
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I almost have to smile with your comparison of armed robbery and abortion. Women are not held at gunpoint and their babies stolen from their bodies. To continue your comparison it would be more like a women going to the Dr and forcing him to perform her abortion at gunpoint.
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Anger69... It means I would not be in favor of a child of mine being aborted but I don't feel I have the right to take that decision away from you, if you want to kill your baby you will probably kill your baby in some horrible way if you don't have sanitary medical help. God will do the judging in my world. Procedamus in pace.
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EB, in response to the answer you've issued to your own poll, and with all due respect, I've never understood how someone could both personally oppose abortion, yet at the same time, condone it for others.
For you to be personally opposed to abortion, I have to presume that you are opposed to it on moral grounds - that you recognize the humanity of the life that would be extinguished in the abortion.
To me, it would be akin to saying "I believe armed robbery is wrong and I would never personally engage in that behavior, but I wouldn't want to interfere with another individual's right to make that decision for him or herself."
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Your welcome Loco and no offense taken. You are not offensive in your communications thankfully. I am hoping to see more unpolitical people like me comment but they catch so much*****from the political paparazzi on here they probably have to go throw up to cleanse themselves from such BS.
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a posse ad esse: from possibility to reality
Thanks, EB, I learned something today.
My viewpoint on abortion has been crystal clear up to this point, without poll participation. No offense meant, EB.
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I hope for participation in this poll;
A. Personally oppose abortion but favor Pro Choice as a Nation
B. Personally favor abortion but do not favor Pro Choice as a Nation
C. Personally favor Pro Choice as a Nation
D. Personally favor no Abortion as a nation
My choice is A.
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a posse ad esse
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I have been all three (barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen) at various times in my life and I lived to tell about it.
A man beat me? I don't think so...
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"Womens right to vote....If you don't like to vote, STAY HOME!!!! A LOT of women fought and died for your right to vote!!!
As far as Slavery...I REALLY don't think your that friggin STUPID!!!!"
icart, you're delightfully charming in your ways of conversation. I think telling everyone who disagrees with you that they're #@%$* STUPID is the best way to have meaningful dialogue, don't you?
Look up the SCOTUS decisions I mentioned: Dred Scott case 1857, no more black slavery 1865 & 1866, yes to women's votes 1920, Roe v. Wade 1973 plus 13 key abortion cases since then. Then we'll "talk."
If centerish can assign homework, so can I.
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icart, have you read the Roe v. Wade decision?
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Since other "constitutional" issues have been addressed since our nation's founding (like abolishing slavery and votes for women), should we count on pro-CHOICE to be "constitutional" forever?
I would hope so loco...Otherwise the KNUCKLE-DRAGGERS on this post of billdoesnt, dusty, and subman would have both of us barefoot and preggers in the kitchen, while they beat us just because we are women!!
Womens right to vote....If you don't like to vote, STAY HOME!!!! A LOT of women fought and died for your right to vote!!!
As far as Slavery...I REALLY don't think your that friggin STUPID!!!!
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Well, the one thing your correct on loco is the year...otherwise...TOTAL BS!! The Supreme Court did not "invent" legal abortion, much less abortion itself, when it handed down its historic Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. Abortion, both legal and illegal, had long been part of life in America. Generally permitted at the nation's founding and for several decades thereafter, the procedure was made illegal under most circumstances in most states beginning in the mid-1800s. In the 1960s, states began reforming their strict antiabortion laws, so that when the Supreme Court made abortion legal nationwide, legal abortions were already available in 17 states under a range of circumstances beyond those necessary to SAVE a woman's life
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I think it's a decadent culture that allows one person's "choice" to end the life of...
(Let's see, how to fill this spot)
...a tissue blob, a mass of goo, a fetus, an inconvenience, an unborn child, or "other."
BTW, a woman's pro-CHOICE right to an abortion wasn't "constitutional" or even addressed until 1973. Then, a majority of Supreme Court justices ruled abortion "constitutional" under an implied right to privacy. The court also had to rule that the fetus had only the "potential of life" thus it didn't have any rights of its own.
Since other "constitutional" issues have been addressed since our nation's founding (like abolishing slavery and votes for women), should we count on pro-CHOICE to be "constitutional" forever?
I sure wish we could ask Dred Scott for his CHOICE opinion of the SCOTUS decision about his CHOICE to be a free black man in pre-Civil War USA.
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"Obama's Culture of Life: Abortion Rate Drops by Largest Percentage Since 2000."
There's just gotta be a way that former President Bush is responsible for this too.
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icart.. beati pacifici, Deo gratias.
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herves...subman...work on your spell check!!!
For all you bible thumpers...here's some "info" for you...
Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils, and the man became a living person.
Can I repeat it one more time?...
He breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils, and the man became a living person.
Note to all you repubics..It is not the unborn who are the most vulnerable amoung us. It is the millions of children who you seek to deprive of healthcare, food, and education.
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pro-choice... hmmm... since a single mom raises her kids.... how about her choice to kill them too when they get on her herves??? after all they are her kids... should be her right too... according to icart it just might be...
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FYI loco...The term is pro-"CHOICE" which means it is the CHOICE of the woman to do with HER BODY as she CHOOSES!! If she wants the baby...THAT'S HER CHOICE...If she doesn't...THAT's HER CHOICE!!!!
But I'm sure glad that you want to make that decision for her...ESPECIALLY since it IS NOT YOUR choice!!!!
And it's interesting to see how the pro-life people broadly generalize about pro-CHOICERS: how they love to protect their children from guns; their hate for war; and ESPECIALLY, how they are THE ONLY ONES WHO are there for the children who have already been born, but the re-pubics who cut funding for food, early childhood education, and just wasted millions of dollars for court costs against UNCONSTITUTIONAL right for all women!!!
Interesting, but very sad.
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Lets see I posted at 10:30 this morning and since that post 1370 babies have been killed...in just 10 hours.. almost like a factory.. baby killing on the assembly line.. Here comes another suckitup...wonder how many vacuum bags they fill a day.. I guess one could check the dumpsters and see..
Really sick isn't it but yet so very true..
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It's interesting to see the pro-abortion people talk about the defenseless fetus: it's only goo; let it arm itself with a gun and prevent its own abortion; if it's a person it should pay its own bills.
And it's interesting to see how the pro-abortion people broadly generalize about pro-lifers: they love their guns; they love war; they don't love children when they're born.
Interesting, but very sad.
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Bill Do you have a wife? Does she wear the pants in your family? Worried Americans wife shut him down from posting.. she rules his roost..
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Today, January 21, 2013, we welcome visitors to the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Festival at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, an event that celebrates the life and legacy of Dr. King. There are performances, speakers and admission to the Museum is free.
The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday observance is a time for people to reflect on the accomplishments of the African-American people, including the art form known today as rock and roll. If not for the struggles and sacrifices that Dr. King and his contemporaries made, the voices and musical talents of many African-American artists may not have come to be respected and recognized at the level they are today.
Naturally, the Rock Hall salutes those visionary musicians who were the genesis of rock and roll – not just on Martin Luther King Day, but every day. King's pioneering spirit is echoed in the music that is the foundation of rock and roll, the foundation of all the Rock Hall celebrates.
The Rock Hall's "Roots of Rock" exhibit highlights the importance of recognizing rock's origins – those true pioneers – including gospel, blues, jazz and R&B, soul, country and folk music artists.
The blues is arguably the ultimate expression of the African-American experience in America – delivering both history and parable in song. B.B. King called it the "mother of American music." Names like Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon, Jimmy Reed – quite simply: there would be no such thing as rock and roll without these pioneering men and women, and there would be no Rock Hall. (pictured: Lead Belly's acoustic guitar circa 1937, on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio.)
The wonderful tradition of gospel brought us the amazing voices of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mahalia Jackson, Clara Ward – women who would influence the likes of such seminal figures as Little Richard. It's the music that gave rise to vocal groups – such as Hall of Fame inductees the Soul Stirrers – and set the stage for the rise of R&B. It was gospel great Mahalia Jackson who sang "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" at her friend Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral. Then, in 1972, Aretha Franklin would sing that same song at Jackson's funeral. Franklin was the Rock Hall's 2011 American Music Masters honoree.
Doc Pomus once said that "Rock and roll would have never happened without him." He was talking about 1987 Hall of Fame inductee and one of R&B's first major figures, Big Joe Turner. Turner was among the first to mix R&B with boogie woogie, resulting in jump blues – a precursor to what became rock and roll. But Turner, when asked about rock and roll, said the genre was just given "A different name for the same music I had been singing all my life." He was spot on.
There's a reason Chuck Berry was the first ever inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, and again saluted as the 2012 American Music Masters honoree: it's not hyperbole when we say he's the poet laureate of rock and roll. He took the amalgam of R&B and country and western and gave it form and identity. A true original, Berry crafted many of rock and roll's greatest riffs and married them to lyrics that shaped the rock and roll vernacular for generations. Every budding rock guitarist has to learn the opening to "Johnny B. Goode."
And no discussion of soul, R&B or gospel – rock's roots – would be complete without mention of Sam Cooke.
Reflecting on the legacy of Dr. King today, it's hard not to recall the music that accompanied the civil rights movement, and among the most powerful songs of that era was Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come." The song was released in 1964 at the height of the civil rights movement and eloquently, honestly captured Cooke's own experiences: I go to the movie / And I go downtown / Somebody keep telling me, "Don't hang around" / It's been a long time coming / But I know a change is gonna come.
When Barack Obama became the nation's first African-American President in 2009, "A Change is Gonna Come" became a song of victory for the campaign.
When the BBC World Service broadcast its international call-in show "World Have Your Say" from the Rock Hall's studios in 2011, the subject was protest songs. As the program drew to a close, a 23-year-old woman in Baghdad recommended that show host Ros Atkins play "A Change is Gonna Come" as an example of protest music. The woman's suggestion highlighted the timelessness of Cooke's masterpiece, the cross-cultural appeal of music and how songs continue to be reinterpreted by generations and defy geographical boundaries. Cooke's song – much like Dr. King's message – still has a powerful resonance and relevance around the world – and perhaps more so now than ever. Decades after Dr. King's passing, his message continues to inspire musicians.
In 1981, another Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee – Stevie Wonder – used music to help raise awareness for a Federal holiday to celebrate King's legacy. That track, "Happy Birthday," featured Wonder singing I just never understood / how a man who died for good / could not have a day that would be set aside for his recognition.
Ireland's U2 released "Pride (In the Name of Love)" in 1984 as a testament to Dr. King's Legacy. It includes the lyrics: Early morning, April 4 / Shot rings out in the Memphis sky / Free at last, they took your life / They could not take your pride/In the name of love. The bracing lyric recalls the assassination of King and its impact. U2 lead singer Bono also penned a song quite simply titled "MLK" on that same album, The Unforgettable Fire.
This year, the Rock Hall will induct rap visionaries Public Enemy. Led by Chuck D., the group's 1991 release "By the Time I get to Arizona" was a direct response to Arizona officials not recognizing Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
More recently, Bruce Springsteen recorded "We Shall Overcome" in 2006, an overt homage to King's famous speech.
The point is rock and roll is the most relevant and accessible art form, and unquestionably one that has affected the most social change – Vietnam, Concert for Bangladesh, Civil Rights, Women's Rights, Live Aid, Farm Aid – the list goes on. Time and time again, music has given a voice to those who otherwise might not have been heard. Martin Luther King Jr. not only helped bring those voices to the forefront, but also continues to inspire artists, and the world is a better place for it. Certainly, rock and roll is.


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Board of Trustees Meeting
- When:
- Wednesday, December 4, 2013 6:00 p.m.
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Special Meeting of the Board of Trustees. Please see Agenda for start times and location.
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Atau Tanaka bridges the fields of media art, experimental music, and research. He worked at IRCAM, was Artistic Ambassador for Apple France, has been researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, and was an Artistic Co-Director of STEIM in Amsterdam. Atau creates sensor-based musical instruments for performance, and is known for his work with biosignal interfaces. He seeks to harness collective musical creativity in mobile environments, seeking out the continued place of the artist in democratized digital forms. www.ataut.net/site/
Presenting his Sensor performance Adam & Atau – 4 Hands iPhone.
Adam & Atau exploit a commonly available consumer electronics device, the Apple iPhone, as an expressive, gestural musical instrument. The device is well known an iconic object of desire in our society of consumption. The iPhone can play music as a commodity, and this is the way most listeners interact with it. Adam & Atau reappropriate the iPhone and its advanced technical capabilities to transform the consumer object into an expressive musical instrument for concert performance. In a duo, with one in each hand, they create a chamber music, 4-hands iPhone. The accelerometers which typically serve as tilt sensors to rotate photos in fact allow high precision capture of the performer's free space gestures. The multitouch screen, otherwise used for scrolling and pinch-zooming text, becomes a reconfigurable graphic user interface akin to the JazzMutant Lemur, with programmable faders, buttons, and 2D controllers that control synthesis parameters in real time. All this drives open source Pure Data (PD) patches running out of the free RJDJ iPhone app. A single advanced granular synthesis patch becomes the process by which a battery of sounds from the natural world are stretched, frozen, scattered, and restitched. The fact that all system components – sensor input, signal processing and sound synthesis, and audio output, are embodied in a single device make it very different than the typical controller + laptop model for digital music performance. The encapsulation in a self-contained, manipulable object take the iPhone beyond consumer icon to become a powerful, expressive musical instrument.
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Doctor of Management Program Frequently Asked Questions
What makes a strong candidate for the DM Program?
- Motivated to apply research to management practice in organizations
- Achieved significant leadership and supervisory management experience
- Exhibits strong writing skills including the ability to support arguments with properly cited reference sources
- Expresses ideas and concepts in a clear and understandable manner
- Reflectively interprets and synthesizes information
- Possesses the intellectual curiosity to undertake extensive reading, research, scholarly discussions, and written assignments that comprise doctoral-level learning
- Demonstrates a working level understanding of statistics and research methodology
- Maintains time management skills to effectively complete a rigorous doctoral program
How does the DM degree compare to a PhD degree?
The PhD degree is a discipline-oriented research degree with a narrow focus, designed to train students for roles as researchers or faculty members in a specific academic area. The DM degree develops higher-order thinking and conceptual skills through an interdisciplinary orientation and prepares students to apply evidence-based research in practical management situations. The traditional career path for a PhD graduate is in the academic world, while the traditional career path for a DM graduate is a management practitioner in specialties associated with a broad range of professions.
What are the application requirements?
- Online Application
- Personal Statement, which includes the review and critique of four scholarly article reviews
- Up-to-date Resume
- Official Recommendations, one academic and one professional
- Official transcripts from the institution that conferred your graduate degree
- Successful completion of DMGT 600 – above documents required for consideration in DMGT 600
See Academic Policy 170.10 for the admissions criteria.
What is DMGT 600 Foundations of Doctoral Study (3)?
DMGT 600 is a pre-requisite course geared to introduce potential Doctor of Management (DM) candidates to doctoral studies in management.
Is DMGT 600 the first course in the DM program?
No. DMGT 600 is a pre-admission assessment course that all applicants must pass with an A or a B to gain admittance to the DM program.
What can I expect if I take the prerequisite course, DMGT 600? How hard is it to pass and gain admission into the DM program?
After submitting the application and required admission documents, you may be officially admitted into the DM program after either:
- Successfully completing DMGT 600 by earning an A or a B in the class.
- Taking the GRE or GMAT standardized assessment and scoring in the 75 percentile or higher.
In both cases, admission is determined by assessment of your abilities.
DMGT 600, a 10-week online course, is very challenging, and it is designed so the DM program and the applicant can make an informed decision about whether the applicant is prepared to start a doctoral program. The course includes statistical analysis, analysis of the research methods of scholarly articles and critical thinking and writing assignments written in APA style. Along with these assignments , there are discussion conferences about the doctoral courses in the DM program, the dissertation process and the expectations of students once admitted into the program. Students spend on average of 15 to 20 hours per week working on course assignments. If an applicant successfully passes DMGT 600 with an A or a B, he or she is admitted into the DM program.
Are GRE or GMAT scores required for the DM Program?
No. The GRE or GMAT assessment is not required for the DM Program.
Upon successful completion of DMGT 600, may I defer the start of the DM program?
Yes, you may defer your start of the DM program for one semester without a justifiable explanation. A deferment request of more than one semester requires a written request for an extension which will be reviewed by the Graduate School.
If I do not earn an A or a B, can I retake DMGT 600?
Yes. If the applicant receives a grade of "C" in DMGT 600, then he or she has the option to repeat the course only once. The course cannot be repeated with a final grade of "F". However, if you withdraw from the course before the final withdrawal deadline, you will not have earned a grade and may take the course again.
Is DMGT 600 covered by financial aid?
No, DMGT 600 is a prerequisite course to the DM Program and therefore cannot be covered by financial aid. If the student passes DMGT 600 with a grade of A or B and is offered official admittance to the DM program, then the student could qualify for financial aid assistance.
Is the UMUC Doctor of Management degree accredited?
UMUC is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools for more than 50 years. In addition, UMUC is a state university in the University System of Maryland.
Please access accreditation for additional information.
Is UMUC AACSB accredited?
UMUC has not sought AACSB* International accreditation.
* The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International
How long will it take me to complete my degree?
Highly motivated students can complete the degree, including the dissertation, in three years. However, time to degree will vary depending upon individual progress, as well as individual circumstances while enrolled in the program. You are granted seven years to complete the program; however, the average completion time remains at four years.
How often does the mandatory residency occur throughout the doctoral program?
Doctoral students are required to attend a mandatory on-site residency each term on campus. These on-site residencies are normally scheduled on Fridays and Saturdays and consist of two days of classroom instruction. Residency attendance is mandatory for the full two-day period each term. Otherwise, if students are unable to meet these requirements, they must defer enrollment until the next available term. A student can complete three courses within a calendar year with a total of three visits per year to the UMUC campus. Courses in this doctoral program are offered in the spring, summer, and fall terms. Residencies for new students enrolled in DMGT 800 are typically held in the first or second week of the term. Residencies for continuing students are typically held in the fifth or sixth week of the term. (There is no residency for applicants enrolled in DMGT 600.)
How do students follow their 'cohort' through the DM program?
Upon acceptance into the doctoral program, students are expected to make progress through each course in a common group called a cohort. As they progress through the program together, they build helpful working relationships with each other and support each other's development. Beyond their cohort, students in the DM program are also members of the broader scholar-practitioner learning community that includes other DM students, DM and other UMUC faculty, and alumni of the DM program.
Can I take doctoral-level courses provisionally or without applying and receiving an acceptance letter?
No, doctoral level courses are not available for enrollment until successful completion of the pre-admission course, DMGT 600. DMGT 600 is the only doctoral-level course that can be taken prior to official admission to the doctoral program. A completed application, including supplemental documents, is required in order to be considered for DMGT 600.
How many credits do I need to take to receive my degree?
All DM students must complete the required 48 credits to complete the program. All courses must be taken in the structured order. Only 1 course per term is allowed.
Are transfer credits accepted?
No, we do not accept transfer credits.
If I receive my degree, will I be able to teach at the college/university level?
The DM degree from UMUC is a doctoral degree from a regionally accredited university. That is typically one of the requirements for teaching in higher education. However, the Doctor of Management program is not designed for students who aspire to tenure-track positions at research universities. Individuals with this goal may wish to consider pursuing a specialized PhD degree. The Doctor of Management degree is designed for people who hold, or who aspire to hold, senior leadership or management positions in the public, private, higher education, and not-for-profit sectors.
Can I pursue the Doctor of Management degree while employed full time?
Yes, UMUC has designed the Doctor of Management program specifically for students who are working full time. The Doctor of Management program consists of three semesters of 4-6 credits per semester. Most students in the program are working full time. Doctoral students can expect to spend approximately 25 to 35 hours per week on their studies.
Are UMUC's Library Resources available to applicants/prospective students?
No. Due to licensing restrictions, only currently enrolled UMUC students have remote access to the UMUC Library's online databases. Applicants can find scholarly articles by using Google Scholar, the Social Science Research Network, and/or the Directory of Open Access Journals. Local public libraries may also be able to provide access to research databases. For more information on how to select a scholarly, please visit this web site.
How many semesters per year does the Doctor of Management program run?
The DM program has three semesters per year: fall, spring and summer. (Not all courses are offered each term.)
Does this program qualify for financial aid?
Yes, financial aid is available. You can contact financial aid at 800-888-8682 or request assistance online. Financial aid is only available after official admission to the program. It does not cover the pre-requisite course DMGT 600, if required.
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"I love being creative and mixing and matching styles."
Hip hop violinist Lindsey Stirling takes a few minutes to chat with fans at Coffee Pod in her hometown, Provo. She didn't know anyone would approach her, and since she just left church, she's still wearing high heels and tights—not her usual mix of clothes from mall stores and local shops like Cherry Lane Boutique. But she is wearing her signature thick-frame glasses, and as she takes a seat on a coffeehouse sofa, she kicks off her heels.
"I love being creative and mixing and matching styles," Stirling says. Of course, fans recognize her even when she's dressed as Link from The Legend of Zelda video game, since it's a costume she wears in music videos, which have millions of views on her YouTube channel, Lindseystomp.
The channel features the 26-year-old America's Got Talent alum playing covers and original tunes. "The violin can do anything," she says. "I do everything from video game soundtracks to dubstep and rock 'n' roll." But she isn't just YouTube famous. She's sold out shows all over the world, recently released an album that topped the electronic charts on iTunes and has appeared on Fox News and Larry King Now.
The violin virtuoso has been playing since she was 6 years old. "My parents would always take my sisters and me to orchestra concerts," she says. "I started begging for violin lessons."
Raised in Arizona, she moved to Provo to attend Brigham Young University, where she took film classes. As for the choreography in her videos, she says she learned it all online. "I'm the first YouTube-trained dancer," she jokes. "I'd search for videos on how to moonwalk, glide or c-walk, and I'd watch online episodes of So You Think You Can Dance."
When not making videos or touring, Stirling preps for shows with her band and sharpens her skills in dance and violin. And she loves meeting fans. "It's one thing to say I'm doing this on my own, but it's really my fans that are sharing my videos and supporting what I do," she says.
She was pumped to play her first show in Germany in January, since she has tons of fans there, and says she can't wait to one day play Japan. Stirling will perform at In the Venue in SLC on March 29. "It was so cool to look at the crowd and see my old roommates, neighbors and friends from college," she says of her October show there. "Salt Lake rocked it."
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FDA approved Novo Nordisk's long-acting Levemir® (insulin detemir [rDNA origin] injection) for the treatment of type 1 diabetes in patients aged 2–5 years. The drug is the only basal insulin analog indicated for use in young children, the firm points out.
Levemir is now approved for the treatment of type 1 diabetes in patients of all ages from 2 years and for treating type 2 diabetes in adults. In September 2011, EMA's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) adopted a positive opinion on the extended use of Levemir in type 1 diabetic children aged two to five years.
FDA clearance of the drug for 2–5 year-olds was based on clinical data in 82 patients, which demonstrated the therapeutic equivalence of Levemir to Neutral Protamine Hagedorn (NPH) insulin. Moreover, none of the patients receiving Levemir plus the firm's rapid-acting insulin analog NovoLog® (insulin aspart [rDNA origin] injhection) experienced a severe hypoglycemic episode, whereas there were six reported episodes of severe hypoglycemia in three patients treated with NPH and NovoLog.
Levemir achieved sales of DKK 2.2 billion (about $375 million) in the first three months of 2012, up 24% on sales during Q1 2011. The firm's diabetes franchise, which includes Victoza®, modern insulins (including Levmir, NovoRapid®, and NovoMix®), human insulins, oral antidiabetics, and protein-related products, achieved Q1 2012 sales of nearly DKK 13.9 billion (nearly $2.4 billion), up 18%.
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Winn-Dixie stores is inviting shoppers to a free "Pig Roast Fest" on Saturday, December 15, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., where they will have the opportunity to sample roast pork prepared onsite and other holiday favorites, as well as enjoy live entertainment, giveaways and more. ¡Que Rico!
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Thomas "Tickey" Green, 44, of Parker Street, passed away Thursday, June 13, 2013, at his residences.
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I loved these as a kid. They were one of the most colorful offerings in the bins at the grocery store my Mom would shop at, so naturally I was attracted to them right away. I'd chose them as my treat on occasions when I wanted something hefty and chewy that delivered a good flavor punch. I also would reach for these when I wanted chocolate but wasn't allowed it. Something about these just satisfied the craving so I didn't end up making myself crazy.
The Royals, or Milk Maids as they're called in some areas, are really just little logs of sweet caramel with a flavored creme filling. Colorfully coded by type, you can easily tell at the store which flavors the masses prefer. When I bought mine the bin was woefully lacking in the blue Vanilla variety. Oddly enough, you can also guess as to the manufacturer's favorite (or least favorite, I should say) because when I found my grab bag of these, not a single Maple flavored one was in the mix. I found that mildly annoying.
Chocolate (brown): I mainly taste the caramel in this one, it's sweet with a few milky notes thrown in. The chocolate creme center only delivers a mild cocoa flavor and left me craving a bigger chocolate hit. Overall it reminds me a little of a tootsie roll with a softer texture.
Raspberry (dark pink): The rasberry flavor is very light and floral with a juicy kick to it. It's not as strong as I hoped but it does work nicely with the caramel coating.
Vanilla (blue): The vanilla filling gives a great robust flavor and an extra milky punch to the whole caramel. It's really lovely.
Orange (orange): This one is really cool because the combination of the sweet milky notes of the caramel with the orange center makes it taste of a creamsicle.
Butter Rum (yellow): The strong butter flavor tastes artificial to me. However, the slight "burning" flavor of the rum goes seamlessly with the caramel which I find really nice.
Maple (red): The one I was looking forward to the most! The maple flavor is detectable, but it's more of a fake pancake syrup flavor as opposed to the real thing. It adds a nice woodsy and brown sugar flavor which really compliments the caramel.
I can see why I haven't really visited these since my childhood. The flavors are mediocre and when you're a kid eager to get a sugar hit, theses deliver enough flavor to satisfy the taste buds too. I find as an adult, I crave something more sophisticated than what these have to offer. I think my Mom summed it up perfectly when she saw my bag of Royals in my shopping bag: "Oh, I love those, but I haven't had them in years!". Some candies are best in memory.
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Jan. 18, 2012
TUCSON, Ariz. -
Arizona's No. 1/5 Swimming and Diving teams will travel to No. 6/2 California and No. 3/6 Stanford on Friday, Jan. 20 and Saturday, Jan. 21, in their first pair of dual road meets this season. Friday's meet versus the Bears is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. PT at the Spieker Aquatics Center in Berkeley, Calif. and Saturday's meet versus the Cardinal will start at 11 a.m. PT at Avery Aquatic Center in Palo Alto, Calif.
The Wildcats are coming off of a multi-dual meet in which the men's team defeated No. 15 Iowa and the women's team conquered Iowa, Oregon State, Northern Arizona and New Mexico State.
On the women's side, Arizona is led by senior Alyssa Anderson (Granite Bay, Calif.), who currently holds the third-fastest time in the country in the 200 free and 200 fly and the fourth-fastest time in the 500 free.
Sophomore Sarah Denninghoff (Tucson, Ariz.) has also proven herself this season, with the fourth-fastest times in the country in the 100 back and the 200 back.
The Wildcat womens' most impressive races are all four of their relay teams. Arizona holds the fastest times in the country in the 400 free and medley relays and the second-fastest times in the 200 free and medley relays.
On the men's side, Arizona is led by senior Cory Chitwood (Union, Ky.), who currently has the fastest times in the country in the 200 back and 200 IM, the second-fastest time in the country in the 100 back and the sixth-fastest time in the 200 free.
In addition, four other Wildcats have the fastest times in the country in their respective events. Sophomore Mitchell Friedemann (Allenton, Wis.) has the fastest time in the 100 back, freshman Kevin Cordes (Naperville, Ill.) in the 100 breast, junior Carl Mickelson (Chandler, Ariz.) in the 200 breast and senior Austen Thompson (Chandler, Ariz.) in the 400 IM.
Arizona's men's relay teams currently own the fastest times in the country in the 200 medley and 400 medley relays, second-fastest in the 200 free relay and third-fastest in the 400 free relay.
California, the defending NCAA National Champion for both men and women, boasts six women with 12 of the top-10 times in the country. The Bears are led by Tucson, Ariz. native Caitlin Leverenz, who has a top-10 time in five events. Liv Jensen and Sara Isakovic have two times in the top-10 and Catherine Breed, Shelley Harper and Cindy Tran all have one each.
For the men, the Bears have six athletes with 13 of the top-10 times in the country. Cal is led by junior Tom Shields, who holds the fastest time in the country in the 100 fly and 200 fly and three top-10 times in three additional events.
The Stanford women boast eight swimmers with 12 of the top-10 times in the country, led by senior Sam Woodward in the 50 free and the 100 fly. The Cardinal also have three relay teams ranked in the top 10, including the fastest time in the country in the 200 free relay.
The Stanford men's team is led by freshman David Nolan, who has times in the top-10 in the country in four events. The Cardinal finished second at the Texas Invite in December, where Arizona finished fourth and California finished sixth.
For complete results and continued coverage of Arizona Swimming and Diving, check back with ArizonaWildcats.com.
NCAA Division I Top-10 Times:
50 Free
3. Liv Jensen, California
4. Margo Geer, Arizona
6. Samantha Woodward, Stanford
9. Madeline Schaefer, Stanford
10. Elizabeth Webb, Stanford
100 Free
6. Jensen, California
9. Schaefer, Stanford
10. Andrea Murez, Stanford
200 Free
3. Alyssa Anderson, Arizona
9. Catherine Breed, California
500 Free
4. Anderson, Arizona
5. Shelley Harper, California
100 Back
4. Sarah Denninghoff, Arizona
6. Cindy Tran, California
200 Back
1. Madeline DiRado, Stanford
4. Denninghoff, Arizona
100 Breast
4. Caitlin Leverenz, California
7. Ellyn Baumgardner, Arizona
200 Breast
2. Leverenz, California
100 Fly
2. Woodward, Stanford
10. Sara Isakovic, California
200 Fly
1. Kate Dwelley, Stanford
3. Leverenz, California
4. Anderson, Arizona
9. Isakovic, California
1 Dwelley, Stanford
2. Elaine Breeden, Stanford
3. Elizabeth Smith, Stanford
5. DiRado, Stanford
7. Leverenz, California
2. Leverenz, California
3. DiRado, Stanford
200 Free Relay
1. Stanford
2. Arizona
3. California
400 Free Relay
1. Arizona
2. Stanford
7. California
200 Medley Relay
1. California
2. Arizona
10. Stanford
400 Medley Relay
1. Arizona
7. California
50 Free
2. Kelley Wyman, Arizona
10. Giles Smith, Arizona
100 Free
7. Thomas Shields, California
9. David Nolan, Stanford
200 Free
3. Shields, California
6. Cory Chitwood, Arizona
10. Matt Barber, Arizona
500 Free
3. Barber, Arizona
100 Back
1. Mitchell Friedemann, Arizona
2. Chitwood, Arizona
4. Shields, California
8. Mathias Gydesen, California
200 Back
1. Chitwood, Arizona
3. Michael Sheppard, Arizona
5. Nolan, Stanford
6. Matthew Swanston, Stanford
7. Ellis Miller, Arizona
8. Matthew Thompson, Stanford
9. Pete Stacy, Arizona
100 Breast
1. Kevin Cordes, Arizona
2. Carl Mickelson, Arizona
3. Nolan Koon, California
4. Wyman, Arizona
7. Martin Liivamagi, California
200 Breast
1. Mickelson, Arizona
2. Austen Thompson, Arizona
3. Cordes, Arizona
4. Trevor Hoyt, California
5. Kevi Munsch, Arizona
7. Curtis Lovelace, Stanford
10. Koon, California
100 Fly
1. Shields, California
3. Smith, Arizona
6. Nolan, Stanford
7. Gydesen, California
200 Fly
1. Shields, California
2. Bobby Bollier, Stanford
9. Barber, Arizona
10. Robert Sullivan, California
1. Chitwood, Arizona
2. Thompson, Arizona
5. Nolan, Stanford
9. Liivamagi, California
10. Sam Rowan, Arizona
1. Thompson, Arizona
3. Rowan, Arizona
4. Matthew Thompson, Stanford
200 Free Relay
2. Arizona
6. California
400 Free Relay
3. Arizona
4. Stanford
200 Medley Relay
1. Arizona
4. California
8. Stanford
400 Medley Relay
1. Arizona
6. Stanford
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The Delaware Division of Public Health is reviewing a drug recall March 19 to determine if Delaware received any of the recalled products from Med Prep Consulting Inc. of Tinton, Falls, N.J.
Med Prep is voluntarily recalling all lots of products compounded at its facility. The recall resulted from the pharmacy being notified by a Connecticut hospital that it observed visible contaminants in 50 ml bags of Magnesium Sulfate intravenous solution that were confirmed to be mold.
The pharmacy included all compounded products in the voluntary recall due to lack of sterility assurance. Although administration of an intravenous product found to be contaminated with mold could result in a fatal infection, it is uncertain whether the mold found in these products can cause illness in humans. Additional information will be provided on Wednesday.
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Even though I've loathed my husband many times—I'm convinced that you aren't truly, happily married until you've been so filled with the black bile of resentment, it threatens to blow you apart—I will not live without him. To say I love him seems trite because it's voicing the obvious, although I do tell him this every day.
So I will go to my mother, as we both knew I would before the conversation even started.
Like many other women who married in the 1950s, my mother is my father's lieutenant. She protects him from the ditherings of daily life. So she will hear my case first, then make a recommendation to him.
My mother's father quit school at age 12 to support his family after his father and brother drowned in a lake. Later, he married a beautiful young Swedish woman, started a family and moved into a small two-bedroom apartment on the South Side of Chicago. A streetcar conductor, he rose at 4 am six days a week. My mother and her two sisters grew up knowing the price of everything and distrusting credit or a deal that sounded too good to be true. Their faces were cast by the land their grandparents came from: cheekbones like bluffs and ice-blue eyes. Andersens. Johnsens. Lundquists. The sisters also grew up knowing that having enough money meant they would never have to ask for anything. And if a Swede can die without ever having asked for one goddamn thing, that's one successful Swede.
I am my mother's daughter and have learned this lesson well. I've spent hours at bus stops rather than ask for a ride home from a friend. I had to be persuaded to call my OB-GYN when my water broke in the middle of the night (I didn't want to wake him). This pathological self-reliance is probably the reason I've done relatively well in an uncertain profession, but it also explains why my shoulders grow taut when I think of asking my mother for help.
She sits at the kitchen table with her calendar. For as long as I can remember, my mother has filled in the squares of each month with family comings and goings, along with deadlines for art contests she wants to enter. In the morning, she consults her calendar and writes down a plan for that day, even scheduling her breaks.
I look over her shoulder to glance at her schedule. Aha: She's having coffee until she dusts the living room at 10. My pulse quickens. This might be the best moment to ask her.
I figure I should soften things up before launching into my request for a loan. If it leaps out with no preamble, I'll seem desperate. Of course, I amdesperate. I shuffle through our usual topics: politics, the children, books, clothes. Nothing catches. I pull out a chair and sit down. Just ask her, I tell myself. But my throat is tight, as if it's trying to prevent the request from being voiced at all. Am I going to have to write it down on paper and slide it to her as if I were holding up a bank?
My mother looks at me, her eyes misty, her fine, high cheekbones evincing her younger self. My throat constricts even more.
"I'm worried about Muriel," she says. I hear her but don't fully take it in. It's a reprieve. A change of subject.
"What's wrong with Muriel?" I ask— stupidly, because everything's wrong with Muriel. My mother's older sister has been in the hospital for more than two years. After spending 10 years caring for her husband, who had advanced Alzheimer's, and enduring a crippling case of rheumatoid arthritis, my aunt barely eats. She sleeps most of the day, hoping for death to come soon and lift her up, her corporeal self almost ether now, to meet her husband in a world beyond pain.
"It's so sad," my mother says. Her jaw goes slack. She looks past me to the lake. I want to reach out and hold her hand. My reason for coming into the kitchen has evaporated. Now it seems that my only reason was to sit with her like this, unable to reach for her because she would not be able to bear it.


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The Stuttgart Police Department is investigating the 12th commercial theft of 2013 after Hoskyn Enterprises reported copper, a utility trailer and other scrap metal stolen on April 18.
"I looked at the surveillance tapes and found a man walk onto the property from the road going to the back of Delta Plastics at 1:54 a.m. And walk around the lot and then get into the skid loader use it to move the pipe and then load the scrap metal onto a white pickup with it," SPD Sgt. Keith Smith wrote in his incident report about the business located at 3020 S. Main St.
The suspect, described as a white male around 6-feet tall with a stocky build wearing what appeared to a be a camoflage shirt and dark colored pants, moved the trailer by hand and loaded it with scrap metal and then drove off.
The report did not list an estimated amount the materials were worth.
Charges in the case could include theft of scrap metal, theft less than $500 all others and unauthorized use of a vehicle, all misdemeanor charges.
La Petite Cajun Bistro, Petrus Chevrolet, First Baptist Church and the City of Stuttgart have all reported a theft in April.
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This is the next in my series of interviews with my favorite women in philosophy, and a few others that have been recommended to me (see the intro to my interview with Susan Haack for why I am running this series and how you can help me, and the intro to my interview with Elizabeth Anderson for a bit more on that). This was composed two weeks ago but has been awaiting a time slot to go up on my blog.
Today I'm speaking with Laura Purdy, who was until just recently (she is now retired) Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Wells College, NY (see her brief bio at IHEU). She is best known for her books In Their Best Interest? The Case against Equal Rights for Children (Cornell 1992), which is one of the only fully-articulated defenses there are of the principle (which we normally take for granted) that children do not (and should not) have the same rights as adults; and Reproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist Bioethics (Cornell 1996), which is now one of the classical texts in the area of abortion and reproductive rights [for more see her cv].
Purdy's work in feminism and bioethics has influenced me (especially on abortion, women's rights, children's rights, and the right to die), but I confess was not on my radar when developing this series (she was just one among many philosophers I consulted and benefited from before reaching my own conclusions on these issues; although my conclusions usually did end up very near to hers), until someone suggested I interview her. I thought, quite so! She is not only a significant philosopher but also an unabashed atheist.
Interview with Laura Purdy
R.C.: Thank you so much for taking the time and agreeing to this interview for FreethoughtBlogs. As a philosopher myself, I often encounter the attitude that philosophers are useless to society, not important, they don't even do anything except dress up opinions in academic language, that philosophy is a career dead-end or a waste of potential ("Why didn't you become a doctor or a physicist or at least a lawyer something?"). I have my own way of responding to that. But I'm curious about yours. There's a lot of pain and labor and sacrifice and expense to get all the way to completing a Ph.D., so we have to be really driven by something! So why did you pursue a career in philosophy? And I don't mean as a teacher, but as a philosopher, actually doing philosophy, not just teaching it.
L.P.: My first philosophy course was such fun! It was the first course I encountered in college where you were free to question sacred cows, like the existence of God. As well, I'd always loved to argue, and here was a place where that trait was valued and encouraged. So I went on to take all the philosophy courses available to me. At the same time, because of my rather limited educational background and life experience, I was relatively unaware of the huge range of possible jobs, and my unusually narrow education prior to college meant that there would have been huge hurdles to some career choices such as medicine. So choosing to go on in philosophy was a result both of the pull of the field and a push toward it by those outside factors. I might well not have stayed in the field had the timing not been right, however: what really excited me were the newly developing areas in applied ethics and political philosophy, especially bioethics.
R.C.: Which brings me to my next question. Of all your work (books and articles), what do you think most represents you and sets you apart as a philosopher? And why that?
L.P.: I would be hard put to choose any one particular book or article, since I think they all reflect the same characteristics that seem to me to distinguish my work from that of many other philosophers. One of those characteristics is my somewhat reckless willingness to let empirical facts and judgments play quite an important role in my arguments. By now, much of the bioethics literature does the same, but at the time I started writing, in the mid-70s, the mainstream view was that philosophy's role was still primarily to focus on the conceptual issues, unsullied by dependence on such empirical work. Another is my assumption (from the outset) that what mattered was writing in such a way as to be accessible and interesting to intelligent people, regardless of philosophical background. Last, perhaps, I have always written from a feminist perspective, starting with basic assumptions that no morally sensitive person could deny. But I've also been committed to finding my own way on the issues, even where that implied disagreement with established feminist positions.
R.C.: I've noticed that. Your philosophical empiricism and dependence on science was ahead of its time (and now rightly defines how philosophy should always conduct itself), and I've always agreed we should be writing for all educated readers, not just other philosophers (peer reviewers in philosophy still often push back against that principle, to the detriment of their whole field). I've also found your pragmatic, analytically sound feminism to be one of many good examples refuting the straw-man stereotype that feminist philosophy is all just a bunch of postmodern wishywash. So I thank you for all of that! What are you working on now? And why that?
L.P.: I'm working on a paper on sex reassignment therapy (working title "A Bioethics Perspective on Sex Reassignment Therapy"). As is often the case, I was drawn into the topic by having been invited to speak on a panel on the topic, so I had some investment in it. But also, I could not find a comfortable position on it, and wanted to be able to reconcile my conflicting intuitions and judgments about these therapies. On the one hand, I believe that health care should address human suffering and advance welfare; given the suffering experienced by those with gender dysphoria, I wanted medicine to find ways to relieve it. But I am also horrified by the invasive and potentially dangerous therapies now on offer. I think the therapies currently in use are hugely invasive, and we do not know the long-term consequences. I think the emphasis should be on using the least invasive therapies, preferably psycho-social ones first.
R.C.: I'm not sure I will agree with you on that. But I'll look forward to your article. Another thing relevant to your focus on feminism is the position and treatment of women in your field, so I have a few questions relating to that (inspired by the Being a Woman in Philosophy blog, a project of the Women in Philosophy Task Force at MIT). In the process of becoming a philosopher, and now in being a philosopher, have you met with any particular difficulties or annoyances because you are a woman?
L.P.: Yes, although for me, the issues were worse at the beginning of my career. I was not a member of the real pioneering women philosophers of the 50s and 60s, coming along, as I did, in the 70s. So there was a small precedent then for women in philosophy, although I still felt much like a square peg in a round hole. Graduate school radicalized me. I was the only woman in my class admitted into the Ph.D. program, and there was one woman admitted in the class after mine. Both of us were required to sign statements that we would never ask for money from the school (I don't know [why]; [but] they did relent pretty quickly when I asked to be a TA and RA). There were no women faculty for my first year or so. The whole vibe was thoroughly male, and at one point I was in a small group of men that the department chair addressed as "gentlemen."
Once out of school and in a postdoc, I was both valued, but also treated as naïve (which I was), and as lacking understanding of what was philosophy and what wasn't. Once I was established in my position at Wells College, in most ways things got better. On the one hand, it was a women's college, and there was a lot of support in the administration for the kind of work I thought was worth doing. Because my school is so small and my only colleague in philosophy was a woman, I was spared the kind of sexist harassment experienced by some other female philosophers. On the other, the feminist movement in academe was growing by leaps and bounds, and even in that laggard [field of] Philosophy, women (and our organizations) were an increasing presence. Nonetheless, it was clear to me that I was in a relatively comfortable bubble from which it would have been difficult to break out into the more mainstream world of the field.
R.C.: Do you think more women should pursue advanced degrees in philosophy? And what would you tell women that might inspire them to do that?
L.P.: In principle, yes: plenty of women have philosophical minds, and it's good for the field to be challenged by what is often a different take on things. But practically speaking, I have always told students that they should pursue philosophy only if that's the only path to happiness for them, given the ever-increasing difficulties facing those who want to try to earn a living in the liberal arts. So I don't encourage women (or men) to go on in philosophy (unless they want to do it for its own sake), although I think that I have been a model that has led a few young women to follow my path.
R.C.: What advice would you give to women already aspiring to be philosophers?
L.P.: Know what you are getting into—there are many more woman-friendly fields available.
R.C.: That's unfortunate, but I see what you mean. Although more women in the field is probably what it needs to make it more woman-friendly, you really do need to be passionate about it, and know what you'll face. Of course, such knowledge can be imparted, while passion is a function of seeing the potential in a thing. Which brings me back to my opening subject and explore the future of philosophy in general. Do you see philosophers as "useful" to society? In what ways?
L.P.: Yes and no. It looks to me as if many philosophers are talking only to each other, and about topics that are extremely remote from the problems facing humanity, which I don't see as particularly useful. However, those of us who take up topics that are relevant to society, and who write accessibly about them, could be very useful. . . if intelligent laypersons read us and thought about what we have to say. Unfortunately, it appears that reasoned viewpoints are barely relevant in policy-making any more.
R.C.: Amen to all that. Many of us have been saying that for years! When I do, one of the pushbacks I get is the claim that no one needs to read philosophy because it's all just "dressing up opinions in academic language." I have my own answer. But how do you react to that?
L.P.: Well, obviously, some philosophy is just that. But the best work does genuinely explore alternative views about specific issues, and, hopefully, goes on to show why one of them is the solidest, where that's the case.
R.C.: Okay. Now for the Big Question at FtB. Do you identify as an atheist, or with any particular religion or worldview?
L.P.: I do see myself as an atheist. For me, that means that there is no evidence, and considerable counter-evidence, for anything like an all-powerful, all-knowing, good creature. However, if life in the universe is widely distributed, it's quite possible that creatures more powerful and decent than us have evolved elsewhere and we might come to know about them.
R.C.: Indeed!
That reminds me of Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. A corollary would be: Any sufficiently advanced species is indistinguishable from God. Not in being able to be everywhere at once and do literally anything at will (in defiance of Clarke's First Law, I suspect that the physics of this universe will make that impossible), but in being able to create (and thus govern) their own universe (in which they are everywhere at once and can do any logically possible thing at will). We will probably be such a species some day. We will then face profoundly serious ethical questions that right now we don't seem prepared to handle well. Just imagine any average billionaire today being empowered to create his own universe and play god in it. It's hard to imagine it will go well for anyone inhabiting it.
That will only change if we become more ethically serious as a species. Which I think will have a lot to do with whether we cast off faith-based and superstitious thinking, and more widely inculcate skeptical and critical thinking in its place, plus a more abiding sense of humanism. Which in turn depends a lot on what we atheists do to make that happen (since no one else seems all that keen on it). Which brings me to my next question. Knowing that thousands of atheists are reading this–in fact you have an audience of thousands of them at this very moment–what do you most want to say to them?
L.P.: Stick to your considered opinions, and don't let the opposition wear you down. None of which precludes taking on as allies religious individuals who share your values. I'd like for atheists all to be humanists (where that assumes basic feminism as well), and to work tirelessly for the welfare of humans and other sentient beings. This would lead to a very different world from the one that is being constructed now.
R.C.: Which brings me to my concern over the future of philosophy.
In 2001 Mario Bunge wrote a book called Philosophy in Crisis, in which he outlined ten ways philosophy was failing as a field, ten ways in which philosophy had lost its way. His basic point was that philosophy used to be more relevant to the common man, more engaged with the real world, and more interested in making progress in its conclusions. Before I read that book I had come to some of the same conclusions on my own, and I have since read some other things making similar points, and I've heard the same from others both inside and outside the field. So I'm always curious what professional philosophers think about this.
Not all of Bunge's complaints are of equal worry or true of all philosophers. But some of them do seem to be worrying trends that have sapped the relevance out of philosophy for most of the public. It would be too much to talk about them all. So I'll just pick two of the five or so that I find most important.
The first is that philosophers are no longer building worldviews.
Instead, it seems like all we have are isolated specialists, who don't do any work in establishing the foundations even for their specialty. Aristotle wrote on epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and politics and sought to integrate them all into a coherent system, so that each could rest on the foundation of the other, and if they couldn't, he knew he had to adjust one or the other. Other philosophical schools then built their own systems and debated whether theirs was closer to the truth than his. But no one does this anymore. (I'm pretty sure my book Sense and Goodness without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism [AuthorHouse 2005] is the only one of its kind in nearly a century.)
Why are philosophers no longer doing this? Shouldn't they be?
L.P.: Why aren't we doing it? I suspect a number of reasons. At least one is the need to publish a lot to get and maintain standing in the field, and these bigger issues take more time to mature. Another is that it's hard work, and very hard to get it right. Certainly, any time I've ventured beyond rather narrow issues to try to make more sweeping claims, the criticism has been so intense that it just doesn't seem worth it. So, it probably is worth doing, but the costs are quite high.
R.C.: Bunge's second most worrying point (to me, at least) was that philosophers aren't defending any standard of progress in their field. I would assume anyone committed to logic should agree that a conclusion reached by logically valid argument from premises whose truth is highly probable should be agreed upon as most probably the correct conclusion. For example, it can be proven that "free will" can be defined in various ways, and that on some of those definitions, given present scientific facts, "free will" almost certainly exists, and on others it almost certainly does not (and only new scientific evidence could change either conclusion).
So my next questions are: Shouldn't conclusions reached by logically valid argument, from premises that are agreed to be very probably true, be considered by all philosophers as resolved? Couldn't we just catalogue all this progress as "established philosophy," on some website perhaps, so philosophers can build on that, rather than having to reinvent the wheel over and over again? Or is there no such thing as progress in philosophy?
L.P.: It would be neat to have such a website. And, pretty eye-opening and provocative to see what people think are compellingly solid arguments—as well as whether (and on what grounds) they would be seen as starting points for additional argument. There certainly are positions that are as solid as you can get, and we should accept them, but I also suspect that in a society as pluralistic is the US, that's virtually never going to happen.
R.C.: True. But then, that describes science, too: our society can't agree even on the well-established facts of reality (like vaccines, global warming, evolution), even whole institutes of degreed intellectuals exist to argue against them. So I don't really see that as a concern. We can still have creationists alongside progress in evolution science. Philosophy can likewise leave its own naysayers in the dust while those who accept fact-based standards of progress move on. So as I see it, a significant number of philosophers just need to band together and start doing this.
But that's just my soapbox. What about you? Do you yourself see anything about the way philosophy is done today that could be changed for the better?
L.P.: When I first opened my philosophical eyes, people were making the point that it's neither philosophically nor desirable in human terms for discussion to be conducted on the model of war. I don't see that that has changed much in mainstream philosophy, where the goal still seems to be to crush any opposing view.
R.C.: Could you expand on that? What should philosophers be doing differently in this respect? Considering that debate is always going to be in some measure conflict-modeled and some positions are so bad they can and should be "destroyed" by conclusive demonstration, what is the difference between that, and what philosophers "shouldn't" be doing, or should do differently?
L.P.: I agree, we are debating positions and claims. And, obviously, some positions are so absurd it's hard to be polite. But overall, arguments can be couched either in gentle terms, based on the effort to try to understand why the opposition might be saying what it is, or in contemptuous terms. The latter is all too common–even in feminist writing, as I discovered to my horror early on. But I also got some very good coaching about being an editor early on. All of us have been on the receiving end of readers' reports that focus solely on what the reader sees as problems, not an even handed recognition of what they see as strong or weak–and that dismiss the work on the basis of what they see as weak, instead of making constructive suggestions about improvements.
R.C.: You're right, I have seen that, too. Okay. Changing gears. There is one last off-the-wall question I have. Imagine the world is about to face a cataclysm. Humanity will survive it, but almost all information will be lost, except for a collection of books that are being sent into space to return in a hundred years. You are appointed as the representative for the field of philosophy. You are allowed to put three books in that capsule. What are they?
L.P.: Not an easy question! But I might plump for JS Mill's Subjection of Women [1869], David Hume's An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals [1751], and Mary Anne Warren's Gendercide [1985].