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AFROAM 254 Introduction to African Studies (HSD)
Femi Richards
Monday 7:00 - 9:30 pm
Introduction to Africa from an interdisciplinary perspective. Historical approach;
chronological sequence from pre-history to contemporary times. Political
development and processes, the arts, ethnography, social structures, economies.
AFROAM 257 Contemporary African-American Novel
Esther Terry
Tuesday, Thursday 2:30 - 3:45 pm
See department for course description.
AFROAM 297B/ The Radical Tradition in American History
Manisha Sinha
HIST 297B Monday, Wednesday 1:00 - 2:15 pm
This course will examine the rise and fall of various radical movements in US
history from the American Revolution to the 1960s. It will look at the ideologies,
strategies, and accomplishments of these movements and prominent radical figures.
Under this rubric, the course will include an analysis of the women's rights
movement in the nineteenth century and modern feminism.
AFROAM 345 Southern Literature (ALD) Cynthia Packard
Wednesday 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Southern literature by African Americans, including slave narratives,
autobiography, fiction and poetry. To be considered: concepts and issues of time,
oppression and violence, culture and tradition, family and community, roots of
social change as they impact factors of identity, race, class, and gender.
AFROAM 394A Seminar in African Art History Femie Richards
Tuesday 7:00 - 9:30 pm
Reliable chronology for African art history of placing of the art forms of some of
the ethnic cultural groups, associations or countries in Africa in historical
perspective. Allied disciplines of anthropology and archaeology used to recover
early history of certain cultures. Related oral sources discussed.
AFROAM 597A/ Politics of Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War
Manisha Sinha
HIST 597B Wednesday 3:00 - 5:30 pm
See department for course description.
ANTH 104 Culture, Society & People (SBD) Jean
lecture: Monday, Wednesday 1:25 - 2:15 pm
section: check Schedule of Courses for times
The nature and cause of human cultural diversity. Topics include: lifeways of
diverse societies, forces of cultural change, sources of inequality, cultural
ecology, social theory. Examples from many different cultures. Note: 100-level
courses do not count toward the UMass major in Women's Studies.
ANTH 106 Culture Through Film (SBD) Arthur Keene
lecture: Tuesday 6:30 - 9:00 pm
section: check Schedule of Courses for times
Exploration of different societies and cultures, and cultural anthropology,
through films. Ethnographic and documentary films; focus on non-Western cultures
and ecological adaptations, sex roles, ethnicity, religion, politics and social
change. Film as a medium of communication and cross-cultural understanding.
Note: 100-level courses do not count toward the UMass major in Women's Studies.
ANTH 205 Inequality and Oppression (SBD) Robert Paynter
Tuesday, Thursday 11:15 am - 12:30 pm
The roots of racism and sexism and issues they raise. The cultural, biological and
social contexts of race and gender and examination of the truths and fallacies
about biological variation, genetic determinism, human adaptation and the bases of
human behavior. Historical influences on our views of how people differ from each
other and of overlap among biology, politics, and economics.
ANTH 365 Problems in Anthropology II Arturo Escobar
lecture: Monday, Wednesday 11:15 am - 12:05 pm
section: check Schedule of Courses for times
Continuation of ANTH 364. In depth consideration of theoretical developments in
Anthropology, with particular emphasis on Anthropology of Science and Technology,
feminist anthropology, and anthropological political economy.
ANTH 390A Contemporary Issues - North American Indians
Arthur Keene
Thursday 2:30 - 5:30 pm Robert Paynter
This course is designed to expose students to current issues relevant to the
Native peoples of New England. The course will center on guest presentations by
Native American scholars whose research is based in New England. These lectures
will form the basis for discussions and writing projects.
ANTH 497C Language and Power Jacqueline Urla
Tuesday, Thursday 1:00 - 2:15 pm
This course will examine the complex ways in which linguistic behavior is
implicated in the workings of social inequalities, modes of domination, and
resistance. Topics to be covered will include: the role of language in nation
building/nationalism; linguistic dimensions of colonialism; language as a form of
symbolic capital; as well as race, ethnic, class and gender differences in
communicative style. Class presentations and original research paper required.
Seminar format requires active participation in discussions. One prior course in
linguistic anthropology, communications, or permission of instructor.
ARTHIS 568 Contemporary Art Anne Mochon
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 12:20-1:15 pm
Issues and developments in American art after 1940 from the present perspective.
Cultural and art historical context of the postwar work of American artists from
Abstract Expressionism through the most recent options raised in the works
themselves, artists' writings, critics' interpretations, public reception, and
support. Prerequisite: ARTHIS 522. Enrollment limited to about 20. May
register for Honors.
CHINESE 154/ Chinese Literature: Tales, Short Donald Gjertson
COMLIT 154 Stories, Novels (ALD)
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:05 am
Introduction to Chinese fictional works from early times to fall of the empire in
1911. Approach will combine the historical with thematic, and a broad selection
of tales, short stories, and novels, concerned with adventure, revenge, crime and
detection, love, manners, religious allegory, karma, and the supernatural will be
read in English translation and discussed in class. Readings: a variety of
paperback texts will be assigned. Requirements: 4 short papers, in-class midterm,
take-home final, term paper. No prerequisites. Note: 100-level courses do
not count toward the UMass major in Women's Studies.
JAPAN 135 Japanese Art and Culture (ID) William Naff
Tuesday, Thursday 1:00-2:15 pm
Development of Japanese art from the prehistoric period to the mid-16th century.
Attention to the relation of written documents and artistic works. Note:
100-level courses do not count toward the UMass major in Women's Studies.
JAPAN 143/ Japanese Literature: Classical and Medieval (ALD)
Doris Bargen
COMLIT 240 Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10:10 am
Lecture, discussion. The course will trace the development of poetry, prose, and
drama from early times to the 16th century. All readings will be done in English
translation. They include examples of waka and haiku poetry; semi-fictional
memoirs written by court women; novelistic prose fiction; Noh plays. Requirements
include one class presentation on a topic of the student's choice, three essay
tests, and regular participation in class discussion. Note: 100-level
courses do not count toward the UMass major in Women's Studies.
CLSCS 224 Greek Mythology (AL) Ed Phinney
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 2:30 pm
Structure and meaning of ancient Greek myths. Political, social, artistic, and
religious expression of myths in both ancient and modern times. Emphasis on
creation, transformation, and heroic myths as told by Homer, Hesiod, Ovid, Vergil,
and Apuleius.
CLSCS 326 Egyptian and Indo-Iranian Mythology (AL) Ed Phinney
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11:15 am
Structure and meaning of ancient Egyptian, Hindu, and Persian myths. Political,
social, artistic, and religious expression of myths in both ancient and modern
times. Emphasis both on ritual, creation, funerary, heroic, and royal myths from
Pharaonic Giza and Karnak, India, and Iran.
COMLIT 122 Spiritual Autobiography (ALD) staff
lecture 1: Tuesday, Thursday 9:30 am - 10:45 am
lecture 2: Tuesday, Thursday 11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Lecture, discussion. Spiritual autobiography is writing about the self or selves
in confrontation with the unknown, during times of personal or social crisis, loss
and rebirth. (Spiritual in this sense does not necessarily refer to
institutionalized religion - in fact, a spiritual crisis may happen through the
failure of religion). We will read autobiographies from several traditions and
many time periods - medieval Christianity, 11th century Japan, 20th century Black
America, the slums of Modern Brazil, China just before WWII, etc. Some possible
readings: The Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The Book of Margery Kempe, The
Education of Henry Adams, Black Elk Speaks, Carlo Levi's Christ Stopped
at Eboli, Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Daughter of Han,
Chogyan Trungpa's Born in Tibet, Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book, and others.
Requirements: 4 short autobiographical papers, 2 pages each. Midterm in class,
take-home final. No prerequisites. Heavy Readings.
COMLIT 131 Brave New World (ALD) staff
lectures 1 & 2: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10:10 am
lecture 3: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11:15 am
Lecture, discussion. Aim: this course studies novels that present and represent
Modernist totalitarian worlds, and Postmodern worlds of fragmentation, diversity
and abandonment. Address issues of interest in the current cultural crisis, for
example: What have governments done and what should they do? Is individualism
tenable in a world of five billion people? Is freedom an absolute condition? And
what role does art in particular and culture in general hope to play in the era of
global Consumerism? Readings (subject to revision): Huxley, Brave New Worlds
and Island; Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and/or
A Scanner Darkly; Gibson, Neuromancer; Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale;
Piercy, :Woman on the Edge of Time, etc. WARNING: THIS IS A HEAVY READING
COMLIT 141 Good and Evil, East and West (ALD) TBA
lecture: Tuesday, Thursday 11:15 am
section: check Schedule of Courses for times
The imaginative representation of good and evil in Western and Eastern classics,
folktales, children's stories, and 20th-century literature. Cross-cultural
comparison of ethical approaches to moral problems such as the suffering of the
innocent, the existence of evil, the development of a moral consciousness and
social responsibility, and the role of faith in a broken world. Contemporary
issues of nuclear war, holocaust, AIDS, abortion, marginal persons, anawim,
unwanted children.
COMLIT 154/ Chinese Literature: Tales, Short Stories, Novels
Donald Gjertson
CHINESE 154 Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:05 am
Introduction to Chinese fictional works from early times to fall of the empire in
1911. Approach will combine the historical with thematic, and a broad selection
of tales, short stories, and novels, concerned with adventure, revenge, crime and
detection, love, manners, religious allegory, karma, and the supernatural will be
read in English translation and discussed in class. Readings: a variety of
paperback texts will be assigned. Requirements: 4 short papers, in-class midterm,
take-home final, term paper. No prerequisites. Note: 100-level courses
do not count toward the UMass major in Women's Studies.
COMLIT 240/ Japanese Literature: Classical and Medieval Doris Bargen
JAPAN 143 Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10:10 am
Lecture, discussion. The course will trace the development of poetry, prose, and
drama from early times to the 16th century. All readings will be done in English
translation. They include examples of waka and haiku poetry; semi-fictional
memoirs written by court women; novelistic prose fiction; Noh plays. Requirements
include one class presentation on a topic of the student's choice, three essay
tests, and regular participation in class discussion.
COMLIT 597A Cold War Culture Cathy Portuges
Tuesday 4:00 - 7:00 pm
Thursday 4:00 - 7:00 pm
The primary cultural paradigm of the past half-century has been that of the cold
war. This course means to interrogate the visual legacy of the bipolar modes of
thought that emerged from that system by asking if and how it is being supplanted
and superseded in the 1990s. Students will engage in a comparative analysis of the
intellectual and visual ramifications of the era's culture as represented in
selected feature and documentary films from the US and Europe, producing a 25-page
research paper to be accompanied by oral presentation. Close textual readings will
be undertaken in conjunction with readings from works of film theory and history,
popular and material culture, and selected essays and works of fiction. Topics
include: the concept oppositional "blocs" as narrative, global categories for
conceptualizing subjectivity; cinematic encounters with - and interventions
between - socialism and capitalism; the centrality of genre (e.g. the spy movie,
science fiction) as a cultural construct; gendered constructions of cold war
culture; psychoanalytic and anthropological interpretations of "otherings," such
as the repressed other in the subject/self; national origins and international
significance of the Wall; and discursive inscriptions of the divisions between
east and west.
COMM 397U Special Topics: Communication, Identity and Community
Hannah Kliger
Monday 3:35 - 6:30 pm
Lecture, discussion. This course examines communication practices within specific
cultural contexts to see the forms of personal and group identity that emerge from
the creation and sharing of meanings. We examine the stories told and lived by
real people, and we analyze how individuals and communities actively interpret
their social activities and cultural experiences to foster a sense of belonging.
Readings include the representation of cultural knowledge in interpersonal and
mass media settings regarding the expression of ethnic affiliation, gender
differences, and those identities shaped by the workplace, by residence, by age,
and by voluntary association.
COMM 397V Special Topics: Film and Physical Disabilities
Martin Norden
Tuesday, Thursday 2:30 - 4:45 pm
Lecture, discussion, lab. An exploration of mainstream movie ("Hollywood")
constructions of physical disability, how they have changed throughout the 20th
century, and how they have influenced and/or reflected our society. We will
examine not only representative narrative movies but also the industrial and
socio-cultural circumstances that allowed these movies to be made. We will
approach the movies as forms of political discourse designed to keep people with
disabilities "in their place" by defining them primarily as objects of pity, awe,
humor, or fear. Requirements: TBA. Text: Norden, The Cinema of Isolation: A
History of Physical Disability in the Movies, perhaps others. A background in
film studies is preferred but not required. COMM Juniors and Seniors or permission
of instructor. Preference will be given to COMM majors.
COMM 491E Seminar - Media and Family Michael Morgan
Tuesday, Thursday 9:30 - 10:45 am
Lecture, discussion. Over the years, the family has gradually given up many of its
functions and much of its authority to outside institutions. Unique among these
are mass media, which come inside the home; television in particular shapes family
interaction patterns while spreading the dominant images and values of society.
This seminar explores existing theory and research in order to assess what we know
about such issues as the images of families presented in the media and what they
contribute to our beliefs about families, the ways in which media influence family
interaction, how families can and do mediate the effects of television, and
related questions. Course requirements include a brief written commentaries and
oral presentations based on the readings, and a final research project.
COMM 594C Seminar: Communication and Socialization Hannah Kliger
Wednesday 3:35 - 6:30 pm
This course is concerned with the role of communication in the socialization
process, from childhood through old age. How do we come to belong to a social
group and acquire some its values, beliefs, perspectives, and preferences?
Emphasis is on methodological issues in studying the extent to which communication
behavior is related to the socialization or resocialization of individuals.
Seminar participants will be expected to complete research reports about designing
and implementing fieldwork related to the course.
CS 155 Dress and Culture (SBD) Susan Michelman
Tuesday, Thursday 11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Dress and culture examined from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural
perspective focusing on diversity and social change. Discussion of sociocultural
meaning of dress in European, African, North and South American, Pacific, and
Asian cultures. Note: 100-level courses do not count toward the UMass
major in Women's Studies.
CS 597A Special Topics: 19th Century Costume History
Pat Warner
Tuesday and Thursday 11:15 am - 12:30 pm
See department for course description.
ECON 105 Introduction to Political Economy (SBD)
Richard Wolff
lecture: Monday, Wednesday 10:10 am
section: Friday 9:05, 10:10, or 11:15 am
Lecture plus discussion section. Introduction to economic analysis for majors and
non-majors. Facts and concepts basic to understanding the US Economy today.
Topics include: unemployment, economic development, inequality, technology,
government economic policy, economic alternatives, and discrimination.
Contrasting theoretical perspectives. Note: 100-level courses do not count toward
the UMass major in Women's Studies.
ECON 144 Political Economy of Racism (SBD) TBA
Tuesday, Thursday 9:30 - 10:45 am
The interaction between economics and racial discrimination. The economic history
of race relations and the economic experience of non-whites in the US
conservative, liberal, and radical views of discrimination evaluated. Policy
questions and current issues discussed. Note: 100-level courses do not
count toward the UMass major in Women's Studies.
ECON 305 Marxian Economic Theory TBA
Tuesday, Thursday 11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Introduction to Marxian theory and modern political economy. Logic and methods of Marxian analysis of economic change; comparisons between Marxian and non-Marxian theories.
ECON 330 Labor in the American Economy Lois Yachetta
Tuesday, Thursday 1:00 - 2:15 pm
Introduction to labor economics; emphasis on public policy issues such as
unemployment, age and sex discrimination, collective bargaining, labor law reform,
occupational safety and health.
EDUC 210 Social Diversity in Education (ID)
Maurianne Adams
Issues of social group identity and diversity. Social oppression by race, gender,
religion, and physical or mental ability. Contact department at 545-2803 for
registration information and meeting times.
EDUC 392D Racism Ximena Zuniga
Weekend session on 4/20 and 4/21.
EDUC 392E Sexism Barbara Love
Weekend session on 4/27 and 4/28.
EDUC 392F Jewish Oppression Maurianne Adams
Weekend session on 4/24 and 4/25.
EDUC 392G Disability Oppression Pat Griffin
Weekend session on 3/2 and 3/3.
EDUC 392K Classism Barbara Love
Weekend session on 3/9 and 3/10.
EDUC 392L Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Oppression Pat Griffin
Weekend session on 3/30 and 3/31.
EDUC 462 Teaching Elementary Science Klaus Schultz
Wednesday 4:00 - 6:30 pm
In the process of learning science concepts through the eyes of children,
reflecting on our own learning and that of others, one significant component
concerns how gender and gender role expectations interact with learning science.
The course is hands-on and discussion-oriented. Assignments consist of
observations, projects, and reflective writings. Assessment is based on these
assignments. Primarily for prospective teachers, but also for prospective
"informal" teachers such as parents, and for students of learning. Contact
instructor for registration information.
EDUC 491P Seminar: Day Care Supervision Meg Barden Cline
Tuesday 4:00 - 6:30 pm
See department for course description.
EDUC 505 Documentary Filmmaking for Education
Liane Brandon
Wednesday 4:00-6:30 pm
This introductory course provides students, teachers, human service workers,
educational professionals and others with practical filmmaking experience and
skills to document aspects of their research programs, interests and educational
endeavors. Students make three short documentary films during the semester.
EDUC 539 Using Film and Video in Education Liane Brandon
Tuesday 4:00-6:30 pm
This course is designed to explore and encourage the use of creative and relevant
films and videos in educational settings; to examine the visual, psychological and
technical methods used by video and filmmakers to convey their messages; and to
suggest a variety of techniques for structuring discussions in the class-room.
Emphasis will be on developing critical, aesthetic, and social media awareness,
and on examining films and videos for their cultural and historical perspectives
and biases, as well as their messages in regard to gender, race, age, language
EDUC 698P Practicum in Day Care Administration
Meg Barden Cline
1-6 credits; by arrangement
Opportunities to learn about administration by working with women administrators
of day care centers, nursery schools, or resource and referral agencies in the
ENGL 290B American Identities Judith Fryer
Lecture 01: Tuesday, Thursday 2:30 - 3:45 pm
Explores the ways literature participates in the definition of national identity. Readings focus on ways
American issues of creed, class, status, gender, self and community, possession and dispossession,
nationhood and ethnicity, and language have contributed to American identities. Prerequisite: ENGLWP 112,
or equivalent.
ENGL 361H Modern Novel, 1890-1930 - Honors (AL) R. Radhakrishnan
Monday, Wednesday 9:05 - 11:00 am
Intensive analysis of modernity from the point of view of gender and the third world. Readings from literature, sociology and philosophy, feminism, modernity, narratives of the nation.
ENGL 480D Asian-American Writers: Ethnicity and the Politics of Location
Ketu Katrak
Thursday 11:15 am - 2:15 pm
This course explores the work of selected Asian American writers in the English language. Our study
analyzes the politics of location and how locations impact ethnicities. Writers' identities are
negotiated along issues of race, gender, language, nationality, and crucially in our contemporary time,
geography. Asian American writers embrace a multiplicity of identities as immigrant/citizen/expatriate.
Identities require complex negotiations in terms of ethnic and political affiliations between one's
"native" and one's "adoptive" home. Identities are forged around the overarching search for home and a
need to belong. Our study includes recent South Asian writers as well as second and third generation US
citizens of Japanese and Chinese ancestry with the use of a historical perspective. This historical
perspective emphasis explores the overlaps and differences in literary traditions and experiences of
race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Representative selection of literary genres will be studied: novels,
poems, drams, essays by writers such as Joy Kogawa, Jessica Hagedorn, Velina Houston, Agha Shahid Ali,
Maxine Hong Kingston among others.
ENGL 708 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Arlyn Diamond
Thursday 4:00 - 6:30 pm
An examination of the tales as a literary collection and a cultural document. How does Chaucer represent
the social conflicts - e.g. about religion, marriage, youth vs. age, the role of women, honor and
violence - which generate the tales? What is his literary and historical context?
ENGL 891E Asian American Writers Ketu Katrak
Wednesday 10:10 am - 1:10 pm
See department for course description.
ENGL 892 Body/Politics Judith Fryer
Wednesday 1:25-4:25
Explores representations of the body in visual and verbal documents of the 20th century;
interdisciplinary American Studies course.
GEOG 360 Economic Geography (SBD) Julie Graham
Tuesday, Thursday 11:15 -am - 12:30 pm
See department for course description.
GEOG 660 Industrial Geography Julie Graham
Tuesday 2:30 - 5:15 pm
See department for course description.
HIST 131/Middle Eastern History II (HSD)Yvonne Haddad
NEAST 101 Tuesday, Thursday 11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Understanding of the peoples and cultures of the Middle East. Emphasis on the
events of the 20th century that helped shape the present. Note:
100-level courses do not count toward the UMass major in Women's Studies.
HIST 161 History of Africa since 1500 (HSD)
Joye Bowman
lecture: Tuesday, Thursday 10:10 am
section: Th 11:15, or 1:25; Fri 10:10 or 11:15
Lecture and discussion. Topics to be covered include African and European
imperialism, nationalism, and independence; how these developments have changed
the life and culture of African people. No prerequisites. Note:
100-level courses do not count toward the UMass major in Women's Studies.
HIST 297B/ The Radical Tradition in American History Manisha
AFROAM 297B Monday, Wednesday 1:00 - 2:15 pm
This course will examine the rise and fall of various radical movements in US history from the American Revolution to the 1960s. It will look at the ideologies, strategies, and accomplishments of these movements and prominent radical figures. Under this rubric, the course will include an analysis of the women's rights movement in the nineteenth century and modern feminism.
HIST 340 Civilization of Islam I Yvonne Haddad
Tuesday, Thursday 1:00 - 2:15 pm
History of Islam from the time of Mohammed to 1600. The development of Islamic
thought, practice, beliefs, and institutions during the height of Islamic
HIST 405H American Biography: The Kennedy Era Steve Oates
Monday 2:30 - 5:30 pm
Honors seminar. The spring 96 version of this course focuses on some of the
leading figures of the Kennedy Era and the 1960s: Jack and Robert Kennedy, Lyndon
B. Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Marilyn
Monroe. As we study the Kennedy Era through biography, I hope that my students
will learn a great deal about seven unique human beings, about one of the most
extraordinary decades of modern times, about the importance of individuals in
shaping the course of recent American history, and about a unique genre of
historical writing.
HIST 491A The Kennedys Through Film Steve Oates
Tuesday, Thursday 4:00 - 5:15 pm
Through the powerful mediums of film and the written and spoken word, the course seeks to illuminate the turbulent 1960s through the lives and careers of John and Robert Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Martin Luther King, Jr., Lyndon Baines Johnson, and other significant figures of the period. Each weekly class period will be devoted to a chapter in the unfolding saga of the Kennedys and the Sixties, and will involve the showing of one or more films. Films include The Kennedys, Scandalous Mayor, Eyes on the Prize, Marilyn, Missiles of October, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, and LBJ. Readings: biographies of John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Lyndon Johnson; Robert Kennedy's memoir of the Cuban Missile crisis; and essays on the JFK assassination and the Vietnam war. Written work: two essay examinations and an optional independent paper.
HIST 493 Seminar - Colonial Africa Joye Bowman
Tuesday 1:00-4:00 pm
The meaning of colonialism in Africa. The evolution, implementation, and development of European colonialism. Also, the demise of the system. The meaning of colonialism for the common people.
HIST 597A/ Politics of Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War
Manisha Sinha
AFROAM 597B Wednesday 3:00 - 5:30 pm
See department for course description.
JOURN 375 News Editing (4 credits) Sara Grimes
Tuesday, Thursday 9:30 - 10:45 am
Teaches the theory and techniques of news editing and headline writing. Focusing
on the copy editor's role, this course includes review of basic language and
research skills. Lectures and discussions are broader areas of editing
responsibility such as news value, libel and taste. Prerequisite: JOURN 300 or
permission of instructor.
JOURN 492M Magazine Writing (4 credits) Sara Grimes
lect. 1 only: Tuesday, Thursday 11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Instruction and practice in magazine journalism. This course helps students
develop writing, research and reporting skills through attention to longer more
complex forms of journalistic writing. Students propose, research, report, write,
and revise articles. Readings in current and classic magazine literature.
JUDAIC 192A Seminar - Judaism and Social Issues (1 credit)
Saul Perlmutter
Monday 2:30 pm
This course will explore modern social issues such as the environment, sexuality,
abortion, and intermarriage ... through the eyes of the Jewish tradition.
Note: 100-level courses do not count toward the UMass major in Women's
LABOR 290A Labor and Work in the U.S. (ID) TBA
lecture: Tuesday 2:30 - 3:45 pm
section: Thursday 2:30 - 3:45 pm or 4:00 - 5:15 pm
The evolution and current status of labor and work in the US. Examines multiple
perspectives on workers, unions, workplace systems, and worker rights.
LS 460 Legalization of American Indians (HSD) Peter d'Errico
Tuesday, Thursday 1:00 - 2:15 pm
Native people in American history. Law as mechanism of cultural oppression, land
expropriation. Native culture, social structure through contemporary accounts,
recent books, film, etc.
LS 491B Seminar - Film Censorship Dianne Brooks
Thursday 6:00 - 8:30 pm
See department for course description.
LS 497D Special Topics: Civil Rights, Post-Brown
Jerrold Levinsky
Wednesday 7:00-9:00 p.m.
See department for course description.
NURSE 212 Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness (ID)
Dorothy Gilbert
Monday, Wednesday 12:15 - 1:30 pm
Explores theoretical foundations for understanding cultural diversity in health
and illness beliefs and behaviors, and selected practical implications of this
understanding. Cultures within the US emphasized. Open to non-majors.
PHIL 702F Graduate Seminar in Foucault Ann Ferguson
Monday 7:00 - 9:30 pm
Seminar on the philosopher Michel Foucault. Reading will include Madness and
Civilization, The Order of Things, Discipline and Punish, History of Sexuality, v.
1, Power/Knowledge and other lectures and interviews connected to his core
concepts of epistemes, power/knowledge and the deployment of sexuality. We will
also explore the relation of Foucault's view on sexuality and the self to feminist
concerns and queer theory. A good background in social theory is recommended.
Undergraduates require permission of instructor to enroll.
PHIL 792M Seventeenth Century Metaphysics Eileen O'Neill
Wednesday 3:35 - 6:00 pm
The course will focus on two central themes in early modern metaphysics:
and causation. We shall examine the nature of corporeal body, the nature of mind,
the relation of mind and body, perception, the extent of God's causal efficacy,
philosophical method and the relation of gender and rationality. Readings will
reflect a gender-balanced historical approach; they will include texts by St.
Thomas, Giambattista della Porta, Marie de Gournay, Rene Descartes, Elisabeth of
Bohemia, Thomas Hobbes, Pierre Gassendi, Margaret Cavendish, Nicolas Malebranche,
Mary Astell and G.W. Leibniz.
PS 363 The Politics of Law John Brigham
Tuesday, Thursday 1:00 - 2:15 pm
This course is about how law is political. We will study jurisprudential
traditions including how people give meaning to law, the role of institutions like
lawyers, courts and police in the construction of society -- particularly class,
race and sexual relations, and contemporary movements in law such as Feminism,
Critical Legal Studies and Critical Race Theory. Throughout, the implications of
women entering the field in large numbers will be explored.
PSYCH 217 The Psychology of Good and Evil Ervin Staub
Tuesday, Thursday 11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Lecture. Important forms of kindness and cruelty (helping and harming among
individuals like sexual, youth and other types of violence; generosity, everyday
kindness, or heroic rescue of people in danger, and lives of moral commitment;
violence between groups like genocide, ethnic conflict, war and police violence).
Historical conditions, cultures, personal characteristics that lead to altruism
and aggression, kindness or cruelty. Differentiation between "us" and "them",
devaluation, scapegoating, hate; the role of ideology; prosocial values, empathy,
feelings of responsibility. Socialization in the home and in schools, experience
with peers, culture promoting kindness or cruelty.
PSYCH 392 The Development of Caring, Nonviolent and Optimally
Functioning Person: Psychological
and Personal Experience
Ervin Staub
Tuesday, Thursday 2:30 - 3:45 pm
For psychology majors fulfilling Junior Year Writing Requirement - Open to
Psychology majors only. The determinants or origins of people helping or harming
others, of altruism and aggression between individuals and groups The role of
personal characteristics (value, empathy, motives, the self concept) and
cultural-societal characteristics. The focus will be on the socialization of
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functioning, or the development of full humanness. The course will focus on both
existing psychological knowledge and the personal experiences of class members.
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Deals of the Day: WaMu Fails. Jamie Dimon Wins Again.
By Stephen Grocer and Heidi Moore
Deals of the Day includes all the major news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions and financing. For breaking deal news, turn to the WSJ's Deals & Deal Makers page, or click here to automatically sign up for Deals Alert emails.
Today in the Crisis
WaMu fails: Federal regulators seized Washington Mutual and struck a deal to sell the bulk of its operations to J.P. Morgan in what is by far the largest bank failure in U.S. history. [WSJ]
Related: J.P. Morgan's acquisition of WaMu assets is just what J. Pierpont himself would have done. [Associated Press via BusinessWeek]
Meanwhile, negotiations over the bailout is in disarray: Political wrangling threw the $700 billion bailout plan into disarray, despite a day of negotiations that seemed to promise a deal. Talks broke off with no agreement and with plans to reconvene in the morning, without House Republicans. [WSJ]
Related: George Soros believes Paulson's plan is "ill-conceived" and proposed his own plan: "The injection of government funds would be much less problematic if it were applied to the equity rather than the balance sheet. $700bn in preferred stock with warrants may be sufficient to make up the hole created by the bursting of the housing bubble." [eFinancialNews.com]
Related: Investors will soon realize that the $700 billion bank bailout, while stopping bank stocks from falling off a cliff, won't give them much of a long-term boost. [WSJ]
Related: "Having failed to deliver victory in the War on Terror, President Bush is hoping for better luck in the War on Error." [Daily Telegraph]
The crisis spreads: The Wall Street turmoil is shaking an already-weakened U.S. economy. [WSJ]
Related: Short-term money markets remained in turmoil, heightening the likelihood the credit pullback will harm the broader economy. [WSJ]
But really the question everyone wants to know: Will the bailout work? [WSJ]
The British impact: Why the bailout matters across the pond. [The Independent]
Achtung, baby: The German finance minister slammed greedy Anglo-American capitalism in outburst and predicts that the US will now be toppled as the global financial superpower. [Daily Telegraph]
Is that all?: The four things it will take to end the credit crunch. [BusinessWeek]
Mergers & Acquisitions
The Buffett effect: Warren Buffett's decision to rescue Constellation Energy Group could reshape the future of the nuclear-power industry. [WSJ]
Related: Buffett is no Clark Kent, writes Tracy Corrigan. [Daily Telegraph]
Sounding the alarm: Concerns are mounting about Lloyds TSB's emergency takeover of HBOS. [The Independent]
Related: Over in the Church of England, the Archbishops of York and Canterbury are not pleased with short-selling and the fall of HBOS. A spokesman for the asset management industry said, "We welcome the Archbishops' interest in our sector, however the Archbishops are wrong to say that all short selling should have an outright long term ban." [eFinancialNews.com]
Macquarie Group: Australia's biggest investment bank plans to sell its investment lending business after higher funding costs due to the global credit squeeze. [The Australian]
Australian for beer: Deutsche Bank has bought shares of Foster's Group and now owns 5.3% of the company, amid speculation Australia's largest brewer may be acquired. SABMiller and Heineken are considered the most likely suitors. [Sydney Morning Herald]
Financial Institutions
J.P. Morgan: Yesterday, it fell to No. 2 in the rankings for helping companies raise equity, because Goldman Sachs raised $2.5 billion for itself and claimed the credit. But today, wily J.P. Morgan has seized the No. 1 spot again by declaring its own $8 billion capital-raising. Will Jamie and Lloyd battle it out with pistols at dawn? [eFinancialNews.com]
Cutting back: Bradford & Bingley has begun to cut jobs as hopes of a white knight receded. [Times of London]
Related: HSBC takes the axe to 1,100 jobs, about 500 in London. [Daily Telegraph]
Falling to Earth: Philip Falcone has been the envy of the hedge-fund world. Now, however, he has given up most of the 40%-plus gains his biggest fund scored during the first half of the year. [WSJ]
Casting a wide net: NYSE and Nasdaq representatives say the exchanges have been reviewing requests from listed companies to be added to the no-short list. [WSJ]
Related: Shortsellers get set to disclose positions. [WSJ]
Related: The SEC's short-selling ban has effectively shut down the convertible bond market, a crucial area of financing for struggling companies. [WSJ]
People & Players
Jeffrey Mayer: The former co-head of fixed income at Bear Stearns turned down $27 million to join J.P. Morgan and has just resurfaced at UBS. [eFinancialNews.com]


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A Tribute To Every Beautiful Part Of Nicholas Hoult
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2. If he looks familiar, that's probably because he's been acting his whole life. For example, this role in "About A Boy" when he was 11.
Nic (that's what I call him now) played a 12-year-old boy with a depressed mother, who he'd do anything to help. It was adorable. He also had a pretty epic bowl cut.
3. Or when he was 7 and acted in "Intimate Relations."
Here he played a character named Bobby, and other than the fact that he looks pretty cute with a side part, that's all you need to know.
4. Then he played a bit of a sociopath on the UK TV series "Skins" when he was 18.
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5. But you probably know him more recently as that oddly hot zombie in "Warm Bodies."
6. Yeah, he's dead, but look at those eyes and cheekbones. Dang, baby, dang.
7. He's also in the upcoming film "Jack the Giant Slayer" where, apparently, this lucky bitch gets to touch him.
8. And did I mention he also models for Tom Ford sometimes?
Enjoy your moment of greatness, crows!
9. And then sometimes stars in Tom Ford's sexy period films, like "A Single Man"?
10. But he's not just a pretty face with excellent acting chops.
Did we mention that he's also in X-Men: First Class?
11. No, he's also a pretty face in a lovely suit.
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19. Definitely looking at his face here.
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Two people have been arrested in connection with Sunday's fatal shooting at a Saginaw gas station, police say.
Jeffrey Hansana, 24, of Haltom City has been arrested on a charge of murder in the death of Deidra Blackmon.
Heather Rene Thompson, 22, from Euless was also arrested and charged with failing to report a felony.
Blackmon, 33, was shot in the head while in her car after an altercation at a gas station in the 200 block of East Bailey Boswell Road. She was rushed to John Peter Smith Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Public records show that Hansana and Thompson both have criminal records.
Hansana has been arrested twice, once in 2006 for engaging in organized criminal activity and burglary of a vehicle and once in 2011 for possession of a controlled substance.
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Nearly 700 people have applied for a one-off grant from Richmond Council to help pay their fuel bills.
The local authority's winter fuel grant was launched last month and allows residents on benefits or on low incomes a grant of up to £100 per household.
Applications are now being processed so the money can be released to those eligible.
Deputy leader cllr Geoffrey Samuel said: "This is yet another example of the council looking out for those who need our help most. We have made sure every person who is eligible for help will receive exactly that during these tough economic and the council is looking at more ways to tackle fuel poverty in the future."
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Leaping to Their Aid
As amphibians continue to decline faster than any other group of vertebrates, Smithsonian scientists and their partners work together to save them.
by Dan Stone
A few years ago, while rescuing frogs in Panama, Smithsonian National Zoo biologist Matt Evans and his colleagues were in a pinch. After removing the amphibians from the path of a deadly microscopic fungus also known as chytrid, they had no place to hold the rescued frogs while an evacuation center was built. So what did they do? What any resourceful scientist would do: put them up in a hotel.
Evans, who at the time worked for the National Aquarium in Baltimore, went to Panama as part of a rapid response team that was helping save a number of species in the path of the dangerous fungus. "We had to act quickly," Evans says. "Chytrid was already devastating some of the area's amphibian population, so we targeted specific species in specific localities."
After they caught the frogs, Evans and his associates tested them for the fungus and then brought them to a hotel near the El Valle de Antón region of Panama. The hotel actually donated a few of its rooms and a holding facility for the cause. "It was an amazing sight to see all these rare frogs together in a few rooms," says Evans. "From June to August 2005, 42 species and 624 amphibians were collected as part of this project. Most frogs were housed in individual containers prior to their trip to the United States via our carry-on luggage."
|Panamanian golden frogs are considered extinct in the wild but can be found at the National Zoo. (Jessie Cohen/NZP)
Amphibian Decline
With each passing day, amphibians around the world continue to disappear. A recent five-year survey by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Conservation International of all 5,743 known amphibian species—including frogs, toads, salamanders, and caecilians—found that 42 percent were in danger of extinction. This number is much higher than any other class of vertebrates, including birds (13 percent are threatened with extinction) and mammals (26 percent). Scientists believe that at least 122 amphibian species have gone extinct since 1980, compared to five bird species and no mammals.
"As a group, amphibians have the same evolutionary importance as mammals, and what's happening to them could happen to mammals—including humans," says Claude Gascon, executive vice president of programs and science at Conservation International. "That should open our eyes to our collective footprint on the planet and its effect on living things."
What's to blame for amphibian decline? One of the main culprits is habitat destruction. But that's not the only problem. Climate change and pollution are also wreaking havoc on our amphibian friends.
Since the 1980s, scientists have studied enigmatic declines and inexplicable crashes in populations of mountain-dwelling amphibians in the United States, Australia, and Central and South America. Smithsonian scientist Bill Laurence first speculated in 1996 that a disease might have been responsible for these population reductions. He was right; in 1999, scientists at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and University of Maine discovered the chytrid fungus and determined that it was the cause of a deadly amphibian disease (see "More Than Skin Deep").
"The Zoo's discovery of the fungus completely changed the way scientists and conservationists viewed amphibian declines," says Brian Gratwicke, interdisciplinary research biologist at the National Zoo. "Many historic disappearances of species were then re-examined and attributed to the chytrid epidemic."
A Crisis in Panama
Recent investigations by scientists have documented the wave-like spread of chytrid through the mountainous regions of Central and South America. One of these scientists, Karen Lips, a Smithsonian associate, has studied the fungus in Panama and parts of South America since the early 1990s. From conducting disease surveillance to testing frogs to predicting where chytrid will hit next, Lips has been on the front lines of amphibian conservation for years.
Researcher Brian Gratwicke with a cane toad.(Brian Gratwicke/NZP)
"I've seen chytrid's devastating effects firsthand," she says. "Before it enters a site, the area is abundant with life and has a high diversity of amphibian species. Then, almost instantly, there is sort of this widespread infection and within four months the abundance of amphibians and numbers of species significantly decrease."
Even Panama's national symbol, the Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus zeteki), has suffered at the hands of chytrid. Many scientists believe these frogs are now completely extinct in the wild because of the fungus and habitat loss.
Thus far, scientists have determined that chytrid travels about 13 miles a year in Central America. When, as predicted by Lips, chytrid arrived at El Copé in western Panama in late 2004, species from all seven frog families in the area started dying. "Within months, half of all the species vanished all together, and the abundance of many surviving species plummeted to about 20 percent of what it should be," says Gratwicke.
Continuing its spread eastward, the fungus arrived in the El Valle region, about 22 miles west of El Copé, in late 2006.
Here, conservationists associated with the Houston Zoo began capturing and housing species in a quarantined, managed-care facility that provided protection from chytrid exposure. Today, this small center at the El Nispero Zoo in Panama houses 50 amphibian species, 17 of which are likely extinct in the wild at El Valle.
Across the Canal
Biologists had hoped that the low-lying Panama Canal region would serve as a natural barrier to the spread of chytrid. However, by late 2007, the fungus was found for the first time east of the canal in Soberania National Park. "We're not exactly sure how it crossed the canal," says Lips. "It may have traveled naturally or people may have tracked it over on their boots, cars, or trucks."
Now that the fungus has jumped the canal, Lips and her colleagues expect it will continue its eastward march toward the mountainous Darien Region, the last intact amphibian hotspot in Central America. This area contains at least 121 amphibian species—61 percent of all of Panama's amphibian fauna—and is a stronghold for about 60 species listed as critically endangered or endangered by the IUCN.
"The diversity in the Darien Region is incredible," says Evans. "It is a biological paradise—and not just for amphibians, but for many species. It would be a tragedy if anything happened to that pristine habitat."
|Frog habitat in Panama. (Brian Gratwicke /NZP)
Golden Frogs at the Zoo
Throughout the United States, only eight zoos breed Panamanian golden frogs (about 50 have them on exhibit). The National Zoo, which has one of the largest holding facilities for these amphibians, has bred golden frogs in hopes of contributing to a reservoir of zoo genes that will help ensure their survival.
"Four pairs of Panamanian golden frogs came to the Zoo in 2004," says Evans. "Over the years they have produced hundreds of offspring, some of which have gone to other zoos to participate in the Panamanian golden frog Species Survival Plan."
At the Reptile Discovery Center, visitors can see about 12 Panamanian golden frogs on exhibit. But this number represents only a fraction of the Zoo's entire golden frog collection; more than 80 live in an off-exhibit, temperature-controlled holding facility at the Reptile Discovery Center. All of the Zoo's current collection descended from the original pairs.
Found in high elevations and cloudy forested areas, Panamanian golden frogs need climate-controlled environments when living in zoos. An ideal temperature for them is around 70 degrees Fahrenheit with high humidity.
The more Zoo visitors learn about Panamanian golden frogs, the more fascinating they find these charismatic amphibians. "Many people don't know that golden frogs are actually toads," says Evans. "They are from the genus Atelopus, but from the family Bufonidae, which are true toads. Of course, their appearance is quite different from other toads and they don't have warty skin."
In the wild, Panamanian golden frogs eat mites and ants that make them poisonous. Since their Zoo diet doesn't include
these insects, the Zoo's collection carries no threat for keepers or other animals.
A Potential Cure?
Among frog populations in zoos, the chytrid fungus can be eliminated with fungicides. But using massive amounts of this
treatment in the wild would likely cause irreparable harm to natural ecosystems, probably without stamping out all the chytrid fungus. That's why Reid Harris, a biology professor at James Madison University in Virginia, is studying an alternative solution. He and his colleagues recently identified several species of bacteria that live on the skin of certain amphibians. But these are no ordinary bacteria—they produce anti-fungal chemicals that inhibit the growth of chytrid.
One of Harris's most promising studies involved treating uninfected mountain yellow-legged frogs with the anti-chytrid bacterium. Of the frogs treated with the bacterium, 100 percent survived exposure to the chytrid fungus. In another study, 13 chytrid-infected frogs treated with the bacterium lost less weight when compared with untreated individuals. Weight loss is one symptom of chytrid infection.
Smithsonian research associate Louise Rollins-Smith plans to build on Harris's work. She and her team at Vanderbilt University are hoping to find a way to protect amphibians in Panama, either by vaccination against the chytrid fungus or by finding some kind of bacterium on a Panamanian amphibian that is similar to what Harris found on the skin of mountain yellow-legged frogs. "Our research is helping us understand the immune response of Panamanian amphibians," Rollins-Smith says. "We hope to use that information to help save them."
Rollins-Smith and her colleagues believe frogs' skin holds benefits for humans, too. They are researching whether certain antiviral peptides in amphibians' skin may prevent the transmission of the HIV/AIDS virus. "If we lose amphibians, we lose the opportunity to study the medicines that might be found in their skin," she says. "We must do all we can to ensure their survival."
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The City of Vinton is getting closer to finishing up with the removal of stumps that resulted from the removal of around 800 right-of-way trees that were severely damaged last year. We now want to begin to concentrate on replacing the trees and bring back the aesthetic and environmental benefits that were taken away from us by the July 2011 windstorm. The city has received $5,500 from the Benton County Community Foundation and $5,000 from Trees Forever towards this effort.
Because the community as a whole was affected by the windstorm, this replacement needs to be a community-wide effort. We want to enlist those property owners who want trees in the right-of-way area in front of their property. In exchange for agreeing to help, the property owner will receive a tree free of charge and a second tree, if desired, for half-price.
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ST. LOUIS -- Blues goalie Jaroslav Halak stood tall in the third period and thwarted the slumping Coyotes on a number of quality scoring chances in a 2-1 St. Louis victory Tuesday night at Scottrade Center.
The Coyotes outshot St. Louis 8-2 in the third period, but Halak stood tall on each occasion, including two saves in the first two minutes, the highlight being a sprawling stick save on Phoenix right wing David Moss at 1:42 to help preserve the victory for the Blues.
"I knew the guy was backdoor," Halak said. "I tried to get there. I didn't know what I was doing. I just tried to put a stick on it, and it hit me and stayed out. I think, for the most part, we did a good job except the last period. We didn't play our game."
Moss said he waited too long to shoot.
"I tried to settle it down and get it up," Moss said. "I probably should have shot it quicker, but he got across and got a block on it."
Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored the lone goal for the Coyotes. He also scored Monday in a 5-1 loss to the Winnipeg Jets.
A night after seeing 38 shots, Coyotes goalie Mike Smith stopped 16 shots, but fell to 0-5-2 in his past nine appearances.
"We gave ourselves a chance to win, at least," Coyotes Head Coach Dave Tippett said. "For a hard back-to-back, we were competitive in the game. We did a lot of little things very well and we had opportunities to get points with great chances in the third, and we couldn't capitalize. Usually when you're in a bit of a slump, you've got to earn your way out of it, and we took steps in the right direction."
Radim Vrbata had another great scoring chance for the Coyotes with 4:16 remaining in the game, but his wrister rang off the cross bar from the left slot.
"You have to earn it against him," Vrbata said of Halak. "We didn't play well enough to earn it, I guess, so this is the result. We have to keep working and hopefully it will change."
Blues Head Coach Ken Hitchcock gave Halak credit for the win.
"This is a game where our goalie saved us," Hitchcock said. "We wanted to play a different game than was out there, and our goalie saved us. He was terrific from the start to the finish. He made three big saves in the third period early, and this was a game probably if you look at it, we didn't deserve to win. We probably deserved a better fate in Vancouver [Friday], a much better fate, and we probably deserved a worse fate [Tuesday]. Hopefully, it equals out, but this is a game that we were looking for an easier game and we didn't get it."
Since being named New Year's Day to the U.S. team for the 2014 Sochi Olympics, Blues forward T.J. Oshie has stepped up his game. His second two-goal game since Jan. 2 provided the Blues all the offense they needed to win their fifth in a row on home ice.
The Blues won for the seventh time in nine tries (7-1-1) against the Coyotes, who lost their fourth in a row and sixth in seven games.
Oshie gave the Blues a 1-0 lead when he took an Alex Pietrangelo feed at the top of the right circle and ripped a one-timer past Smith 9:54 into the first period. It was Pietrangelo's ninth point (seven assists) during a six-game point streak.
"I was yelling from about the red line when I got on the ice," Oshie said. "[Pietrangelo] kind of put it on a tee. I didn't even see it go in. I just heard everyone started cheering."
Halak saw little action in the first, stopping four shots, but he made a nice blocker save on Ekman-Larsson with 4:42 left to preserve the Blues' slim lead.
Oshie struck again to give the Blues a 2-0 lead when his shot from the blue line found its way through traffic and past Smith, who was screened on the play by Jaden Schwartz. The power-play goal came at 12:54 of the second period.
But the Coyotes scored late in the period on the power play to get to within 2-1, when Ekman-Larsson's wrister from the right circle got past Halak with 47.9 seconds left. Defenseman Keith Yandle kept the play alive with a terrific stop of an attempted clear on the blue line in front of the Coyotes bench.
Halak regrouped and had to be sharp right off the bat in the third period, making a point-blank stop on Lauri Korpikoski 14 seconds in. Halak outdid himself with 18:18 remaining in the game, taking a sure goal away from Moss with a stick stop while sliding from left to right.
"The third period was more along the lines of what we think we're capable of," Coyotes captain Shane Doan said. "The results weren't there and we're in a results business so we have to make sure we take care of that. But the process was there."
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Stephen Espinoza calls Al Haymon's NBC deal 'a great move for the sport'
With Al Haymon's big deal with NBC in place, you'd think Showtime's Stephen Espinoza would be somewhat intimidated. Seemingly, that's not the case at all.
With Al Haymon's big deal with NBC in place, you'd think Showtime's Stephen Espinoza would be somewhat intimidated. Seemingly, that's not the case at all.
Just when you think boxing on free TV is a great thing, the news gets better: As part of NBC's 'Premier Boxing Champions' series, fighters will undergo stringent drug-testing and brain studies.
Sam Watson, aide to adviser Al Haymon, believes a mega-bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao is bound to happen on May 2 in Las Vegas.
Tasked with providing expert commentary for NBC's new boxing series, 'Premier Boxing Champions,' Sugar Ray Leonard believes Al Haymon and the network put 'good pressure' on premium cable giants HBO and Showtime.
Former two-division titlist Tim Bradley isn't just in the final stages of preparation for Diego Chaves this weekend; he also offered his opinion on a potential Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.
According to Sam Watson, right-hand man to adviser Al Haymon, Floyd Mayweather Jr. has talked about a potential superfight with Manny Pacquiao every day following Pacquiao's win over Chris Algieri.
Enigmatic manager/advisor Al Haymon recently added four more fighters, all undefeated, to his already immense stable this week.
In Lem Satterfield's latest notebook, we learn that Al Haymon's signing spree continues with Abner Mares and Andrzej Fonfara becoming the enigmatic advisor's latest signees.
At this year's annual Boxing Writers Association of America dinner, WBO welterweight titlist Tim Bradley took a moment to plead for a resolution between the sport's feuding power players.
In a very frank assessment about his recent loss to IBF welterweight titlist Shawn Porter, Paul Malignaggi talks about his post-fight condition and how he feels about the man who might've ended his career.
RING and WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson shared his thoughts with RingTV.com on his recent jump to Showtime and his new deal with advisor Al Haymon leading up to his May 24 defense against Andrzej Fonfara.
Unbeaten junior lightweight Rances Barthelemy has signed with Al Haymon, joining a list of recent clients that include Adonis Stevenson, Lamont Peterson, Chad Dawson and Luis Collazo.
Brothers Lamont and Anthony Peterson look forward to new career possibilities aligning with boxing adviser Al Haymon.
Former RING and WBC light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson has signed with Al Haymon, Haymon associate Sam Watson informed RingTV.com on Friday.
RING junior welterweight champion Danny Garcia could soon rise into the welteweight division if he is successful on Saturday night against Zab Judah.
The kick-off presser for the Feb. 9 Danny Garcia-Zab Judah fight exploded into prolonged chaos when the former champ objected to Angel Garcia's inflammatory statements. (Warning: this video contains explicit language.)
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The St. Catharine College women have won just one basketball game in four outings this year. While that may be a concern for most teams, Patriot head coach Lena Bramblett only sees good things as a result of the early tough schedule.
"I can say that three of those four losses have made us a better team," said Bramblett, whose squad split a pair of games in the last week. "We really played well in those losses."
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4-H members, parents and volunteer leaders recite the 4-H pledge at club meetings. But like any pledge or song that is memorized, we often forget to think about the actual words and what they mean.
At this special time of year, my family and I like to pause to give thanks for our many blessings. This season is known for the fall harvest and bountiful meals with friends and family, so it is especially appropriate to give thanks for Kentucky's farmers. Kentucky's farmers – and those throughout America – produce the food and fiber we all depend on. Thanks to their skill, ingenuity and hard work, we are blessed with the safest, most abundant and most affordable food supply in the world.
Craig Mattingly began training in martial arts 20 years ago because he was interested in the mechanics of it. A fan of kung fu films as a child, he was intrigued by how a man getting along in years could throw people around as if they were light as a feather.
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Mary Beth and Jack Butler of Louisville announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Allyson Marie Butler, to Ryan Jerome Hamilton, son of Rose and Jerry Hamilton of Bardstown.
The wedding will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009 at St. Louis Bertrand Catholic Church in Louisville.
The reception will follow at The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Louisville.
This weekend's scheduled performances of "A Tuna Christmas," scheduled for Nov. 13, 14 and 15, have been canceled due to the illness of one of the actors.
The Nov. 20, 21 and 22 shows will still be performed as scheduled.
A Mackville man has been charged with allegedly trying to hire someone to commit murder.
Ryan Lynn Dean, 20, of Mackville, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Louisville on charges of soliciting a murder for hire, according to U.S. Attorney General Candace Hill of the Western District of Kentucky.
The indictment alleges that in June 2009, Dean tried to hire someone to carry out a murder, promising to pay 10 pounds of marijuana in exchange for the killing.
It wouldn't be hard to think of the seniors in this year's Washington County Marching Commander band as spoiled. After all, they've been in high school for four years and have never missed reaching the state finals of the Kentucky Music Educators' Association marching band championships.
The seniors and the other Commanders were back in the finals Saturday night at Papa John's Stadium in Louisville, and for the second time in as many years, they came home with a state championship.
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Parkinson's disease belongs to a group of conditions called motor system disorders, which are the result of the loss of dopamine-producing brain cells. The four primary symptoms of PD are:
Other symptoms may include:
TreatmentAt present, there is no cure for Parkinson's disease, but a variety of medications provide dramatic relief from the symptoms. Usually, patients are given L-dopa (levodopa) combined with carbidopa. Carbidopa delays the conversion of levodopa into dopamine until it reaches the brain. Nerve cells can use levodopa to make dopamine and replenish the brain's dwindling supply. Although levodopa helps at least three-quarters of parkinsonian cases, not all symptoms respond equally to the drug. Bradykinesia and rigidity respond best, while tremor may be only marginally reduced. Problems with balance and other symptoms may not be alleviated at all. Anticholinergics may help control tremor and rigidity. Other drugs, such as bromocriptine, pramipexole, and ropinirole, mimic the role of dopamine in the brain, causing the neurons to react as they would to dopamine. An antiviral drug, amantadine, also appears to reduce symptoms. In May 2006, the FDA approved rasagiline to be used along with levodopa for patients with advanced Parkinson's disease or as a single-drug treatment for early Parkinson's disease.
In some cases, surgery may be appropriate if the disease doesn't respond to drugs. A therapy called deep brain stimulation (DBS) has now been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In DBS, electrodes are implanted into the brain and connected to a small electrical device called a pulse generator that can be externally programmed. DBS can reduce the need for levodopa and related drugs, which in turn decreases the involuntary movements called dyskinesias that are a common side effect of levodopa. It also helps to alleviate fluctuations of symptoms and to reduce tremors, slowness of movements, and gait problems. DBS requires careful programming of the stimulator device in order to work correctly.
PrognosisParkinson's disease is both chronic, meaning it persists over a long period of time, and progressive, meaning its symptoms grow worse over time. Although some people become severely disabled, others experience only minor motor disruptions. Tremor is the major symptom for some patients, while for others tremor is only a minor complaint and other symptoms are more troublesome. No one can predict which symptoms will affect an individual patient, and the intensity of the symptoms also varies from person to person.
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Towards the end of September I traveled to Vermont on a mission to capture some amazing fall foliage pictures. Leading up to this trip, I carefully monitored several websites that provided Fall Foliage reports so I would know what type of color I could expect to see. I was aware that I would be visiting Vermont during what was usually the very early stages of foliage, but I knew I'd be renting a car and was willing to drive as many hours necessary in order to "chase" the foliage.
A couple of weeks prior to my trip, after contemplating the purchase of a new digital camera, I decided to rent one instead, which I rented from BorrowLenses.com. I ended up renting a Nikon D3x, which is the top of the line camera that Nikon carries and has a reputation of being an incredible camera to use for landscape photos. This was actually one of the new digital cameras I had been thinking of purchasing but at a cost of $7999.00, I chose to rent it instead to find out if I'd be happy with it.
There was a lot more reasoning as to why I chose to rent instead of buy the Nikon D3x and I wrote an article that was published on the CameraLabs.com website by my friend, Gordon Laing. My "Nikon D3x Review" article takes you through an adventure in my mind as I try to decide what would be the best type of camera for me to upgrade to. I discussed what I liked and didn't like about the D3x, along with some other insight I think many people will enjoy hearing about. You can read my article here. Even if my article doesn't sound like something of interest to you, if you've been trying to figure out what type of camera you'd like to purchase, Gordon's site is filled with tons of awesome camera reviews on most DSLR cameras.
As expected, I arrived in Vermont a bit early for the foliage season, but I still managed to get some amazing shots. I was also able to drive to the Northernmost areas of the state, where foliage appeared much further along.
Because I had such a great time during my visit to Vermont, I decided to travel back there just 2 short weeks later. This time, I brought my three daughters because I felt they really needed to experience the Fall Foliage season for themselves.
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|Steven Stamkos makes his NHL debut with Tampa Saturday, September 20, against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Stamkos has been as heralded off the ice as he has been on it. The forward finished second in the Ontario Hockey League with 58 goals and fifth with 105 points.
"All I expect of (Stamkos) is to come in and work as hard as he can every night," Lightning coach Barry Melrose said. "That's what he's been doing his whole life since he was 10-years-old, so we're not expecting him to carry this team or be the best player, but we expect him to be the hardest working 18-year-old on the Tampa Bay Lightning. If he does that, we'll get some results."
He also was the subject of an elaborate marketing campaign by the Lightning that included a Web site entitled SeenStamkos.com.
Stamkos is expected to center the Lightning's second line when the regular season starts.
Prior to being selected with the first pick at Scotiabank Place on June 20, Stamkos finished fifth overall in the OHL with 105 points for the Sarnia Sting. Despite a 6-foot, 176-pound frame, his rare combination of skill and speed make him a good candidate for second-line duty with the big club right out of training camp.
Stamkos realizes the expectations that accompany the No. 1 pick in the draft.
Stamkos, who had six points in seven games during Canada's gold medal-winning effort at the 2008 World Junior Championships, could be as successful as Kane was in his rookie season. Kane scored 21 goals and 72 points on the way to earning the Calder Trophy.
"Coach (Melrose) expects me to play in the NHL this year and I know there's a lot of hard work to be done until then, but I also expect to be there," Stamkos said. "I feel, based on my playing experience in juniors and the way I developed over the last few seasons, he thinks I'm ready and I think I'm ready. The management brought in a lot of great players and a lot of guys I feel I can really look up to and that will only help ease my transition.
"I know the media will compare me to the (Sidney) Crosbys, (Alex) Ovechkins and (Patrick) Kanes, who came into the League and tore it up at a young age," he continued. "For me, I'm just going to go in and hope for the best. In saying that, I'm going to work as hard as I can with the goal of producing and becoming a good player right away."