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P&G Scores in Tampon War; Toys 'R' Us Suit Granted Class Status
We're not ashamed to say that when tampon commercials flash across the Law Blog's Samsung television, our eyes tend to glaze over.
It turns out, though, there's a long-running legal battle between Playtex Products and toiletries giant Procter & Gamble, whose headquarters in Cincinnati doesn't offer tours to the public, the Law Blog was sad to learn earlier this year on our first visit to the land of Five-Way Chili.
Manhattan federal district court judge William Pauley III ruled on Tuesday in favor of P&G, repped by Kramer Levin, by denying Platex's request for a preliminary injunction to stop P&G from boasting that its Tampax Pearl provides better protection and comfort than Playtex's Gentle Glide. Here's the story from AmLaw Litigation Daily.
It all started in 2002 when Playtex, now repped by Davis Polk, filed a false claims suit against P&G. The case eventually went to a jury in 2003, which returned a verdict in favor of Playtex, resulting in an injunction preventing P&G from making certain claims about its Tampax Pearl. But last year Judge Pauley granted a request by P&G to modify the injunction after the company had made improvements to its product.
A different battle is heating up in Philly. According to this WSJ story, a federal judge granted class-action status to a consumer lawsuit that accuses Babies 'R' Us, a unit of Toys "R" Us, and five manufacturers of conspiring to fix prices on a variety of baby goods, including strollers, high chairs, car seats and breast pumps.
The suit survived despite a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that minimum-pricing agreements between manufacturers and retailers were no longer inherently illegal, as they had been treated judicially for decades. Numerous price-fixing allegations across the country have been thrown out by judges in the wake of the Supreme Court decision.
In her ruling Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Anita Brody said that while agreements "setting minimum resale prices can have pro-competitive justifications," the Supreme Court "stated that lower courts must be diligent in eliminating their anti-competitive uses from the market."

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Women with sexual problems should also consider getting a comprehensive physical, to determine if poor health, urinary-tract problems, sexually transmitted diseases, or stress might be contributing to their difficulties.
If emotional problems are at the root of the sexual distress, counseling with a competent therapist might help.
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In June, another possible solution is due on the market: a genital suction device (called the EROS-CTD), recently approved by the FDA. It's used before intercourse to draw blood to the genitals and increase sensation.
In a test by the manufacturer, UroMetrics, 20 women used the device; sensation improved in 90%, lubrication in 80%, and an increase in orgasms was reported by 55%. The $359 device requires a prescription and is expected to be covered by some health plans.
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Several drugs under development also may help women. The first is Uprima. Made by Pentech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., in Buffalo Grove, Ill., it is awaiting final approval from the FDA for use in men and is now being tested in women. Meant to be taken about half an hour before sex, it's held under the tongue for 10 minutes, it quickly enters the bloodstream, and it acts on the brain to stimulate arousal.
Another drug, Vasofem, is under study by Zonagen, Inc., in The Woodlands, Texas. It's also meant to be taken a few minutes before sex and acts on the brain to increase blood flow to the genitals and promote sexual arousal.
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Though these developments look promising, solving women's sexual problems won't happen overnight. For their part, women need to become informed about sexual dysfunction, ask questions, and demand new treatments.
Women like Peggie are role models. She's not embarrassed or too shy to ask her doctor about how she can improve her sex life. "After all," she says, "if men can have Viagra, why can't we get help, too?"
Carol Potera is a journalist from Great Falls, Mont., who writes for WebMD, Shape magazine, and other publications.


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The most gansta member of the gang that is named after the coolest gangsta of all time, Amanada. A strawhacker is commonly know as a "strawhacka" and is the highest rank in Amanda's gang of Asian gurus in the field of gansta'rism. Just under the strawhacker, the second-most powerful position in an Amanda clan is the weedwhacker, or the "weedwacka". From generations to generations, the "strawhacka" has often been a prominent gangsta named Amanda. This goes back to when the Amanda clan wuz geetin down wit da Anglo Rappers, Wyrd!
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By Sylvia Hui and Angela Charlton Associated Press
PARIS — The Icelandic volcano that has kept much of Europe land-bound is far from finished spitting out its grit, and offered up new mini-eruptions Saturday that raise concerns about longer-term damage to world air travel and trade.
Facing days to come under the Eyjafjallajokull volcano's unpredictable, ashy plume, Europeans are looking at temporary airport layoffs and getting creative with flight patterns.
Air space across a swath from Britain to Ukraine was closed and set to stay that way until today or Monday in some countries, affecting airports from New Zealand to San Francisco. Millions of passengers have had plans foiled or delayed.
Activity in the Iceland volcano increased early Saturday, and showed no sign of abating.
"There doesn't seem to be an end in sight," Icelandic geologist Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson said. "The activity has been quite vigorous overnight, causing the eruption column to grow."
The forecast: Bad
Southern Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano began erupting for the second time in a month Wednesday, sending ash several miles into the air.
In Iceland, torrents of water have carried away chunks of ice the size of small houses. More floods from melting waters are expected as long as the volcano keeps erupting; in 1821, the same volcano managed to erupt for more than a year.
Scientists say that because the volcano is below a glacial ice cap, the magma is being cooled quickly, causing explosions and plumes of grit that can be catastrophic to plane engines, depending on prevailing winds. The ash is toxic — the fluoride causes long-term bone damage that makes teeth fall out and bones break.
Forecasters say light prevailing winds in Europe — and large amounts of unmelted glacial ice above the volcano — mean that the situation is unlikely to change quickly.
"Currently the U.K. and much of Europe is under the influence of high pressure, which means winds are relatively light and the dispersal of the cloud is slow," said Graeme Leitch, a meteorologist at Britain's National Weather Service. "We don't expect a great deal of change over the next few days."
A Dutch geologist who is in Iceland observing the volcano, Edwin Zanen, described the scene near the volcano: "We're at 25 kilometers (16 miles) distance from the crater now. We're looking at a sun-soaked ice shelf, and above it is looming a cloud of ashes of oh, 4 to 5 kilometers (2.5 to 3 miles) high. There are lightening flashes in it. It's a real inferno we're looking at."
Aviation tries to adjust
With the prospect of days under the cloud of ash, pilots and aviation officials sought to dodge the dangerous grit by adjusting altitude levels.
Lufthansa flew 10 empty planes to Frankfurt from Munich on Saturday in order to have them in the right place when the restrictions are lifted, an airline spokesman said. The planes flew at about 9,843 feet, well below usual altitude.
Also in Germany, KLM is carrying out a test flight from Schiphol to Dusseldorf at that height or lower, hoping for approval to carry out more low-altitude flights in Europe if the ash problem continues.
The Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation began allowing flights Saturday above Swiss air space as long as the aircraft were at least at 36,000 feet, above the ash cloud. It also allowed flights at lower altitudes under visual flight rules.
The aviation industry, already reeling from a punishing period, is facing at least $200 million in losses every day, according to the International Air Transport Association.
Scandinavian airline operator SAS AB said it has given notice of a temporary layoff of up to 2,500 ground service staff in Norway as a result of the flight disruptions. Budget airline Norwegian ASA is holding meetings with unions Monday to discuss potential temporary layoffs, spokeswoman Asta Braathen said.
Stranded travelers are suffering
Around the world, anxious passengers have told stories of missed weddings, business deals and holidays because of the ominous plume. Stranded passengers reported the delays were causing financial hardships. Some had to check out of hotels and sleep in airports.
"It's like a refugee camp," said Rhiannon Thomas, of Birmingham, England, describing the scene at New York's Kennedy Airport.
Her family spent the night at the airport Friday, and may be there for days before they can get a flight home.
"At least we got beds," said Thomas' mother, Pat, referring to the hundreds of narrow blue cots brought in to JFK's Terminal 4. "Some people slept on cardboard."


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The American Industry/Government Emissions Research (AIGER) Consortium is working to facilitate the automobile industry meeting more stringent 2003 Federal Tier II and California LEV II emission regulations to be implemented in 2010. NIST participates in AIGER as a stakeholder and receives input from AIGER's Standards Committee regarding requirements for new Standard Reference Materials (SRMs). AIGER members include: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Fuel and Emission Lab, California Air Resources Board, General Motors Powertrain, Ford Motor Company/VEE, and Daimler-Chrysler.
NIST currently supports AIGER members by maintaining reasonable inventories of required gas SRMs that consist of dilute mixtures of key pollutants such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and nitric oxide. Newer vehicles produce lower levels of these pollutants because their engines employ fuel injection with air-to-fuel ratios optimized by an on-board computer and emissions reduced by efficient catalytic converters. During testing the tailpipe exhaust levels are diluted with clean air and collected using constant volume sampling bags or new mini-diluter technology. AIGER stakeholders have identified the need for gas standards with significantly lower concentrations of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, hydrocarbons, and nitric oxide.
NIST has responded to AIGER needs by developing four new SRMs with significantly lower concentrations of carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, and propane. They are:
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Her humorous, inspirational essays are featured in family and parenting magazines throughout North America, and in Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms. Her book marketing advice has been featured in Writer's Digest.
Lela is also Vice President | General Manager of One Country Media. Since joining the company in 2013, Davidson has launched a media business inside the venture backed e-commerce success story and built One Country into the #1 media outlet for country music entertainment and lifestyle in its first year of operation. After working as a CPA for a decade, Davidson learned the digital media business from the ground up creating content, managing editorial teams, and providing strategic direction to a variety of brands and publications.
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Born in 1969 to a 17-year-old runaway living in a San Francisco commune, I might have taken a straighter path to the writing life. But somehow I emerged from a childhood haze of macrame, alfalfa sprouts, and basement band rehearsal to rebel in the extreme: I became a CPA. I married an engineer who excelled at table manners, had two kids, and moved to an idyllic cul-de-sac, where—it turns out—life is just as ridiculous as it was in my unconventional upbringing. So in 2007 I let my accounting license lapse and started telling stories that made me laugh, cry, or cope. Sometimes all three.
I believe it is your moral responsibility to find the thing that makes you lose track of time, the thing that empties all the racing thoughts from your head and leaves you deaf to the oven timer so you forget about the cookies until the smoke finds you. Writing is my thing. Here's to hoping you find yours. And do it.
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Pets are members of our family and part of giving back the love they give to us is providing them with the very best care, which requires proper pet health insurance. Pet health insurance can help ensure that your pet receives the quality health care they deserve and the peace of mind that comes from knowing you can always take care of your pet in any emergency.
George Eliot, the famous writer once said, "Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."
Anyone whose life has ever been touched by an animal can tell you that the effect they have on the lives of humans is immeasurable. Pet health insurance can guarantee that their owners will be there for them when they need it most.
What is Pet Health Insurance?
What started in Europe in the early 1900s has now become the premiere method to pay for pet health care today. You may find it interesting to know that the first animal in America to receive health insurance was the adorable rough collie that appeared on the Lassie movies and television show.
Just like health insurance for people, pet health insurance is a way of paying for the critical medical attention your pet could need someday. Veterinary care can be expensive when paid out of pocket and when your pet is suffering, the last thing you want to think about is money. With billions of dollars spent on pet health care each year, pet health insurance can help remove this anxiety so that you can concentrate on the needs of your pet.
For one yearly payment, pet health insurance covers a majority of the costs for your pet's health needs, including check-ups, grooming and surgery. Pet health insurance can also help you stay on top of your animal friend's health history with reminders about important treatments and other preventative measures to keep your pet in peak condition. In addition, studies have shown that when you have health insurance for your pet, you are more likely to take your pet to the doctor more often for regular care, which can prevent the occurrence of other serious problems later.
Pet insurance doesn't make sense for everyone, but it can be especially useful if you have a new or older pet. New pets typically require a host of procedures to get them ready for your home and family, such as spaying or neutering. Thanks to new improvements in the veterinary discipline, our pets can be with us much longer now so an elderly pet can develop many health issues, such as arthritis or cancer, which will need medical care.
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Many animal organizations offer some form of pet health insurance. Some pet food companies now recognize the benefits of pet health care enough to offer it to everyone. Some also provide a list of quality veterinarians in your local area. According to the ASPCA, the coverage you get and the cost depends largely on the age, type, and health of your pet. You can purchase varying degrees of coverage for a variety of needs like accidents, x-rays, flea and tick prevention, and hospital visits.
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There are several companies, which have forms online that you can use to apply for pet health insurance, just by giving some basic information. Your vet may also be aware of a few reputable pet health insurance providers. Be wary of plans that are significantly less expensive than all others are. Remember, you get what you pay for and those plans might not cover the services you need or they may have complicated methods for reimbursement.
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Notes from the Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Zverkov Timeline and Summary
- The Underground Man introduces us to Zverkov by talking about how much he hated the man. Zverkov, he explains, was pretty and rich. Everyone used to kiss up to him for his cash and looks.
- He also owns an estate with 200 serfs, and he used to talk about how he could have sex with all the new brides because that was his right as master.
- The Underground Man invites himself to Zverkov's going-away dinner. When we finally meet Zverkov, the guy seems to be taking pains not to make a scene with the Underground Man.
- He asks the Underground Man a series of questions about his work, seemingly to make small talk.
- Zverkov also has a stutter, which the Underground Man finds to be offensive and mocks.
- In turn, Zverkov mocks the Underground Man's pithy salary.
- But he then tries to change the subject to something more pleasant, like his womanizing.
- This lasts for about three minutes before the Underground Man decides to toast Zverkov. Of course his toast is offensive. While the other men are outraged, Zverkov tries to let it slide.
- He and the other men move from the dinner table to the lounge, leaving the Underground Man behind. They converse about intellectual matters while the Underground Man sulks.
- Before he leaves the restaurant, Zverkov responds to the Underground Man's attempted apology. "Insulted?" he asks. "You insulted me? Understand, sir, that you never, under any circumstances, could possibly insult me."
- At the end of the night, the Underground Man decides he will either get forgiveness from Zverkov, or he'll slap him in the face.
- Shortly thereafter, he settles on the slap. Fortunately for all, Zverkov is gone by the time the Underground Man arrives at the brothel.


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'Tis a pity that Linda Brown isn't as celebrated as Rosa Parks in the annals of the Civil Rights Movement because the little Topeka, Kansas third grader at the center of public school integration is as much a symbolic heroine as the Montgomery, Alabama seamstress who refused to move to the back of the bus.
Linda was the first named plaintiff in the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education case in which the Supreme Court in 1954 declared state laws establishing separate public schools for Black and White students unconstitutional.
At least in the area of public education, this decision overturned the Supreme Court's appalling Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling of 1896 that upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
But in Brown vs. Board of Education, the Supreme Court said that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." As a result, legally mandated racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution and the ruling paved the way for the eventual integration of all public facilities and institutions in America.
In addition, the case made a hero of Thurgood Marshall, the NACCP Legal Defense Fund lawyer who argued it before the Supreme Court and who went on to become the Court's first Black justice.
While the ruling was obviously a major victory of the Civil Rights Movement and changed the way of life in America, things didn't exactly happen the way historical legend paints it.
Whenever Brown vs. Board of Education is referenced, for instance, it's almost always accompanied by the phrase "the Supreme Court's unanimous decision," when in fact, this ruling almost wasn't reached by the Supreme Court at all; the vote was far from unanimous – it took some arm twisting to make all the justices of the Court put on a united front and cast an official 9-0 "for the record" vote; and had it not been for two random acts of nature (or God), things might have turned out quite differently.
And part of the reason it all happened anyway was because of a little White lady who got pissed off about some light bulbs.
At least, all that is the supposition of Douglas O. Linder, professor of law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, who wrote an account of the Brown vs. Board of Education case for the school's website called Famous Trials (of history).
In the Beginning, Separate and Not Equal
According to Linder, Kansas was originally an enlightened state that in 1876 required that all of its public schools be open to all students regardless of race, but backed away from that stance three years later when the legislature authorized school boards in Kansas cities with populations over 15,000 to establish separate schools for Black and White elementary and junior high students.
Topeka did that and its segregation policy was upheld by the Kansas Supreme Court in 1903, just seven years after the Plessy vs. Ferguson "separate but equal" ruling.
Forty-five years later in 1948, 60 miles away from Topeka in the Kansas City suburb of Merriam, Kansas, a little 30-year-old Jewish lady named Esther Brown (not the one in Brown vs. Board) was disheartened to hear her Black maid tell her about the local Black school, Walker Elementary.
It was an 88-year-old, two-room facility without indoor plumbing, cafeteria or even a principal. In the meantime, the area's white students were getting ready to move into the South Park School, a brand spanking new brick building constructed thanks to a bond issue pushed through by the local school board.
The little White lady, Esther Brown, complained about the unfairness to the all-White school board, which agreed to make minimal changes at the dilapidated Black school, such as putting in new light bulbs. Esther went wtf! and began organizing Black and White parents to protest the school board. When it still did nothing, she enlisted a Black Topeka attorney, Elisha Scott, to file suit against the South Park School District.
That suit led to victory in the Kansas Supreme Court in 1949, when Webb vs. School District No. 90 held that Blacks had the right to attend the new, previously all-White South Park School…basically because although the two schools were separate, they most assuredly were not equal. That ruling would later become very important in Brown vs. Board of Education.
The 1951 Topeka Trial
After that success, Esther threw her support behind the Topeka NAACP's already established efforts to integrate the city's elementary schools through petition to the school board, which the board ignored.
Legal action was needed and the local NAACP, along with lawyers from New York's NAACP Legal Defense Fund, recruited 13 willing Black parents of 20 Topeka elementary school children to be plaintiffs in the suit against the school board.
The first plaintiff was Oliver Brown, an assistant minister with an eight-year-old daughter named Linda, who was a third-grader at all-Black Monroe Elementary School at the time. The case went to trial in 1951 – Esther Brown arranged accommodations for all the lawyers – and revealed that though there was a school for Whites six blocks away from her home, Linda had to walk seven blocks to even catch the bus to go to the Black school, which was 21 blocks from where she lived.
That inconvenience didn't cut much ice with trial judge Walter Huxman, who said parents always want their kids at schools closer to home. But he was considerate of testimony from experts who testified about the negative effects segregation had on learning.
Kansas University psychology professor Louisa Holt testified that the policy of segregation "is inevitably interpreted both by White people and Negroes as denoting the inferiority of the Negro group." She said that the internalized "sense of inferiority" of Black students affects their motivation, as they fatalistically assume that any efforts to prove they were not inferior to Whites "would be doomed to failure."
However, testimony also revealed that basically, the separate White and Black schools in Topeka were equal: the board staffed and supplied Black and White schools on an equal basis; students at both sets of schools had identical curriculum; the physical facilities were basically the same.
In fact, the Black schools might have offered a better educational opportunity because the class sizes were smaller – 25 Black kindergarteners compared to 42 White kindergarteners in a class, for instance. The salary, training, and workload for Black and White teachers were the same.
The three-judge panel unanimously decided that since all things seemed equal, and legal segregation was still the law of the land (Plessy vs. Ferguson had not been overturned), the Topeka school board should win the case.
But Judge Huxman did conclude: "Segregation of White and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of law, for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the Negro group. A sense of inferiority affects the motivation of a child to learn. Segregation with the sanction of law, therefore, has a tendency to retard the educational and mental development of Negro children and to deprive them of some of the benefits they would receive in a racially integrated school system."
Heading For The Supreme Court
In a way, that was a great decision because now there was a model case for the NAACP to appeal to the Supreme Court.
As Linder wrote: "The Brown decision was especially critical to the NAACP's challenge, because Judge Huxman's finding about the psychological impact of segregation had to be accepted unless it was found to be clearly erroneous, as would his finding that the facilities, quality of staff, and quality of Black and White instruction were equal.
"The Brown decision boxed the Supreme Court in. It left the Court little option but to either uphold the separate but equal education in Topeka, relying on the Plessy precedent, or to overrule Plessy and hold that segregated education was inherently unequal." So the issue became whether separate was equal.
The Brown v. Board of Education case that appeared before the Supreme Court on December 9, 1952 was actually the name used for five different cases that had been working their way through the court system, known collectively as the School Segregation cases. In addition to Brown in Kansas, the cases involved Delaware, Virginia, South Carolina, and the District of Columbia.
Brown was the first case to be argued, with Atty. Robert Carter telling the justices that the Topeka court's findings in Brown meant the case presented a challenge to the constitutionality of segregation itself. Thurgood Marshall next argued that the South Carolina case's policy of segregation violated equal protection principles.
The NAACP lawyers argued that schools and other public facilities were separate, but hardly equal. They presented social science data showing that segregated schools harmed Black children because segregation imposed a distorted sense of social reality on children of both races; it perpetuated stereotypes, increased distrust and led to violent outbreaks of racial tension.
Arguments ended on December 11, 1952 and the case went to the justices, who were a mixed bag and badly split. One, Stanley Reed, was a proclaimed segregationist. Two others, Robert Jackson, and the Chief Justice himself Fred Vinson, were hardly integrationists. A couple of the justices were wafflers, and there were only four clear votes to end policies of segregation. So there was no majority either way and a good chance that "separate but equal" could be upheld by a single vote.
Before a deciding vote was taken, however, one of the wafflers, Justice Felix Frankfurter, suggested that the entire case be kicked back and re-argued in the Supreme Court's next session. He suggested arguments along the lines of whether the 14th Amendment of 1868, which has an Equal Protection clause requiring each state to provide equal protection under the law to all people within its jurisdiction, prohibited the operation of separate schools for Black and Whites, and whether it gave the Supreme Court the power to abolish segregation.
The justices agreed and the re-argument was scheduled for October 1953. That's when fate stepped in.
Arm Twisting For Unanimity
In September 1953, probable Brown dissenter Chief Justice Vinson died of a heart attack and was replaced by Earl Warren, who came in as Chief Justice and vigorously wanted to end public segregation. Now there were five clear votes on the Court in favor of Brown – a majority – so it really didn't matter what was said during the re-argument that was held in October 1953.
However, Warren knew a 5-4 majority vote wasn't good enough to overcome massive Southern resistance to a decision by a splintered Court, so he worked for months before the decision was handed down to arrive at a unanimous opinion to show America how strongly the Court felt on the issue. But it wasn't easy.
Instead of pushing for an immediate vote, Warren lobbied all the justices first. He told them simply that the only reason to sustain segregation was if one held an honest and personal belief that Black people are inferior and he told them he believed that segregation violated the Constitution.
Former waffler Frankfurter quickly came over to the Brown side, as did another justice, giving Brown a 7-2 majority. That left only justices Robert Jackson and Stanley Reed to be swayed.
Jackson's stance was best summed up in papers he had written in which he concluded that while he personally believed "segregation elsewhere had outlived whatever justification it may have had," it was an important social practice in the South, and Northerners on the Court should be sensitive to the conditions that brought segregation to the South.
In the second twist of fate in the Brown case, Robert Jackson also had a heart attack, on March 30, 1954. Chief Justice Warren visited him several times in the hospital and somehow got him to agree to go along with Brown. Jackson died in October 1954, five months after the Brown decision was announced. He never spoke much about the case and no one is sure what Warren said to convince him.
But once Jackson's vote was in the bag for an 8-0 majority, Warren went to Justice Reed, who was trying to write a dissent to the majority opinion and said, "Stanley, you're all by yourself now. Eight of us are going to find segregation unconstitutional. It would be a terrible thing for this country for there to be a dissent on this question. You've got to decide it that's really what's best."
Reed never agreed with the Brown decision, but shoe-boxed like he was by Earl Warren and not wanting the spotlight of the world to shine on him as the lone dissenter – which would have put him in a Donald Sterling-like position – Reed agreed to go along.
On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling holding that "in the field of public education, the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place."
And Linda Brown's two younger siblings were able to attend the integrated public elementary school just six blocks from their home.
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going -- to graduate school, that is. In 2001, when the economy took its last tumble, applications to graduate-degree programs doubled and then doubled again in 2002 before starting to drop back in 2003, according to the Council of Graduate Schools. Preliminary data indicates that applications are up again at most schools as would-be students hope to wait out a rough job market.
That strategy makes sense if the added credential puts you further along in your career or helps you change careers altogether. Still, at an average total cost of $28,375 a year for a master's degree at a public school and $38,665 at a private school (most master's programs take one to two years), grad school is an expensive way to buff up your resume. Before you commit to it, consider these ways to cover the bills.
Shop the schools. Unlike undergraduate programs, which rely on the school's financial-aid office to dispense institutional grants to applicants, graduate programs give each department a pool of money to divvy up. To gauge your odds for bagging a fellowship (otherwise known as a grant) or tuition discount, contact each of the departments you are considering and ask how much money is available and how it is allocated.
Chances are, you'll find slim pickings at the master's-degree level. In the 2007-08 academic year, only about 9% of master's-degree candidates received an institutional fellowship, according to the Council of Graduate Schools, and 7% scored a break on tuition. (The two groups may overlap.) Still, some universities carve out the bucks to help master's programs compete for top-tier applicants. For instance, Boston University has a highly regarded creative-writing program and ample funding to attract talented students, says J. Scott Whitaker, associate dean of BU's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
At the doctoral level, strong students have a decent shot at receiving a fellowship as well as a departmental assistantship, which pays a stipend for 20 or so hours a week of teaching, research or administrative work. About one-fourth of doctoral candidates received fellowships, tuition waivers or both in 2007P08, according to the council, and half received an assistantship; research assistants were paid an average of $14,055, and teaching assistants, $11,763.
While you investigate the possibilities, take note of whether the application for admission puts you in the pool for free money or whether the school expects you to apply separately. Either way, you'll also have to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as the FAFSA, to qualify for federally sponsored loans, grants and work-study, the on-campus jobs awarded to students with need. Grad students are required to report only their own financial information on the FAFSA, not that of their parents, but some schools ask about the parents' finances as well.
Find a benefactor. Also scout out independent fellowships, offered through the U.S. Department of Education as well as professional groups and foundations. Such awards range from a few hundred dollars to enough to cover the cost of attendance. The AAUW (formerly the Association of American University Women) offers awards from $5,000 to $30,000 to women who are returning to school to advance or change their careers. The Truman Scholarship provides up to $30,000 to grad students who commit to a career in public service.
Even modest fellowships attract their share of applicants, but major prizes draw thousands of well-qualified contenders from around the country. To give yourself the best shot at the brass ring, begin the application process at least a year before you'll need the money, preferably in your junior year of college, says Paula Warrick, director of the office of merit awards at American University. "Developing relationships with faculty who will support your application is critical. You need to start building those relationships right away."
You can also get help from campus offices such as Warrick's, which encourage students to apply for big-ticket fellowships. For instance, the awards office at the City University of New York (CUNY) works with students on meeting deadlines, refining essays and polishing interview techniques. CUNY students have snagged several prestigious scholarships in recent years, including a Rhodes Scholarship and two Fulbrights.


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Saturday, June 30, 2012
Tonight! 06/30/12 L.A. Guns/ Dokken/ Tempted Fate/ Annex @ Buffalo Valley Music Festival at Buffalo House, Duluth, MN
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Friday, June 29, 2012
Skyline Passion
Last Time In NYC - 07/03/10 (Image via NYCDreamin Archives)
As I mentioned a week or so ago, The Gorgeous One and I are off to honeymoon/vacation in New York City. We leave later today and should arrive back home two weeks from today. I've set some stuff up to publish while we're gone - lots going on - so TATSOL will not become a dead-zone for the duration of our absence. Unfortunately, I've recently had to set my comments feature here to "moderated" due to Spamming issues - so if you do comment on anything in the next two weeks, it most likely won't appear here until I get back. Likewise, any emails to us here at TATSOL duing the next two weeks will remain unanswered until mid-July due to the fact that we'll hardly see a computer until then. Should be a nice, well needed break from it all.
Happy 4th of July to you all...
Tonight! 06/29/12 Ron Thompson with The Butanes @ Famous Dave's Uptown, Minneapolis, MN
Tonight! 06/29/12 Dokken/ Hoodlum Johnny/ The Grand Machine/ Next To Nothing @ Station 4, St. Paul, MN
One From The Archives: 06/29/06 - 07/05/06 CBGB Schedule Ad
Tonight! 06/29/12 Heart/ Joan Jett & The Blackhearts @ Mystic Lake Casino Amphitheater, Prior Lake, MN
More Info: Mystic Lake.com
Thursday, June 28, 2012
One From The Archives: 06/28/06 Foghat @ Murray Street Grill, NYC, NY
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
New York City Images As Album/CD Cover Art #76: Blondie "Rapture" b/w "Walk Like Me" - 7" Single
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Artist: Blondie
Title: "Rapture" b/w "Walk Like Me" - 7" Single
Released: January 1981
Tonight! 06/27/12 Dream Theater/ The Crimson Projekct @ State Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Friday, June 22, 2012
06/02/12 - The Wedding Photos
As I mentioned HERE a few weeks ago, The Gorgeous One and I were married in a beautiful ceremony, surrounded by over 100 friends and family members on Saturday, June 2nd, 2012 at the Medina Entertainment Center in Medina, MN. As promised, here are a few photos we'd like to share with you...
The Wedding Party
(Photo by Mackenzie Lobby)
The Bride and Groom
(Photo by Jim Landsay)
One week from today we leave for our honeymoon/vacation in (where else?) New York City. Plans include (but are not limited to) lots of exploration of the city on foot, eating too much, staying out too late, catching music and a movie in Tompkins Square Park, a visit to the World Trade Center site and 9/11 Memorial, watching the spectacular July 4th Macy's firworks display on the Hudson River, a day at the ocean at Jones Beach on Long Island, a trip to the soon-to-be-razed 5Pointz Aerosol Art Center in Long Island City - and - for our final night in the city - an evening of getting our New York Groove on with Ace Frehley at the Best Buy Theater in Times Square on July 11th!
The Wedding Party
(Photo by Mackenzie Lobby)
The Bride and Groom
(Photo by Jim Landsay)
One week from today we leave for our honeymoon/vacation in (where else?) New York City. Plans include (but are not limited to) lots of exploration of the city on foot, eating too much, staying out too late, catching music and a movie in Tompkins Square Park, a visit to the World Trade Center site and 9/11 Memorial, watching the spectacular July 4th Macy's firworks display on the Hudson River, a day at the ocean at Jones Beach on Long Island, a trip to the soon-to-be-razed 5Pointz Aerosol Art Center in Long Island City - and - for our final night in the city - an evening of getting our New York Groove on with Ace Frehley at the Best Buy Theater in Times Square on July 11th!
One From The Archives: 06/22/88 Death Angel/ Virus/ Acid Reagn @ Clarendon Hoetl Ballroom, London, England
Tonight! 06/22/12 Jack Russell's Great White/ Faster Pussycat/ Bullet Boys/ Pretty Boy Floyd/ Lillian Axe @ Neisen's, Savage, MN
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
New York City Images As Album/CD Cover Art #75: Blondie "Union City Blue"/Living In The Real World" - UK 7" Picture Sleeve (1979)
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Artist: Blondie
Title: "Union City Blue" b/w "Living In The Real World" - UK 7" single
Released: 1979
I've posted the official video for the song before, but it kicks much ass - so let's do it again, shall we?
Sunday, June 17, 2012
06/16/12 Aerosmith/ Cheap Trick @ Target Center, Minneapolis, MN
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Aerosmith along with special guests Cheap Trick kicked off their 2012 "Global Warming Tour" at the Target Center in Minneapolis last night to an enthusiastic sold-out crowd of around 14,000. This is the first time Aerosmith has played a show in the U.S. in nearly 3 years and marks the bands first show in Minneapolis since 2006.
This was the view from section 201 as the Target Center began to fill up as we waited for the show to get under way.
At 8:00pm sharp, the house lights went down and the pride of Rockford, IL, Cheap Trick, took the stage while people continued to stream in.
Cheap Trick Setlist:
Intro-Hello There
California Man
Ain't That A Shame
Never Had A Lot To Lose
Sick Man Of Europe
Baby Love To Rock
Need Your Love
I Know What I Want
The Flame
I Want You To Want Me
Dream Police-Goodnight
Maybe not the most energetic set by Cheap Trick I've ever seen, but still plenty entertaining all the same and definatley worth the price of admission alone from my point of view. Aerosmith was just a bonus.
After a somewhat lengthy set change, which is to be expected on the opening night of any given arena tour, Aerosmith made their way to the stage amidst thunderous applause from the sold out Minneapolis crowd. The band came out strong right away but it took the sound guys a few songs to dial in a good mix between the vocals and the guitars. They got it right a few songs in and after that, the Boston boys sounded pretty damn good for the rest of the night. The show was an enjoyable mix of classic 70's era obscura and 80's/90's pop-chart toppers with a new tune, "Oh Yeah" (from the bands forthcoming CD "Music From Another Dimension") thrown in for good measure.
Aerosmith Setlist:
Intro-Draw The Line
Love In A Elevator
Oh Yeah
Walkin' The Dog
Livin' On The Edge
Rag Doll
Home Sweet Home
S.O.S. (Too Bad)
What It Takes
Last Child
I Don't Want To Miss A Thing
Mama Kin
Sweet Emotion
Walk This Way
Dream On
Train Kept A Rollin'
Well, this really sucks! Seems Aerosmith's record label (Columbia/Sony) has been trolling Youtube and my videos and others from the show have all been disabled and removed from Youtube due to "copyright infringement" claims. Because, you know, I was making so much money on 'em and everything. I kinda looked at it as free promotion for the tour - but whatever. Soooo, I've removed them from the post here as well. Hope you got a chance to watch 'em while they were up. So if you get the chance, go out and see the boys from Boston this summer - take your camera and film the show - and then burn DVD's for your friends. Just don't post 'em on Youtube. Columbia/Sony is watching. Now back to the original post:
The reviews, so far, have been kind:
*Mineapolis Star Tribune: "Tyler, Aerosmith Back In The Saddle"
*St. Paul Pioneer Press: "Aerosmith Show No Signs Of Slowing Down..."
*Rolling Stone.com: "Aerosmith Kick Off Global Warming Tour In Mpls."
After several days of pre-production/rehearsal and a sold out opening night in Minneapolis, the tour now heads east, stopping next in Cleveland, OH on Tuesday, June 19th.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Tonight! 06/15/12 Ted Nugent/ Laura Wilde @ Medina Entertainment Center, Medina, MN
(Images via NYCDreamin Archives)
The show was typically ass kicking - see for yourself - we go the complete show for you right here!
As for the Gorgeous One and I, we're off to see Aerosmith/Cheap Trick in Minneapolis.
More on that tomorrow...
(Video - NYCDreamin Archives)
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Tonight! 06/14/12 Ted Nugent/ Laura Wilde @ Vetterstone Amphitheater at Riverfront Park, Mankato, MN
New York City Images As Album/CD Cover Art #74: Ben E. King "Spanish Harlem" (1961)
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
One From The Archives: June 1980 Madame Wongs (Chinatown, L.A./Santa Monica, CA) Concert Schedule
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
06/12/12 - In Stores Today! Rush - 'Clockwork Angles'
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Monday, June 11, 2012
IHeartRadio's "CBGB Radio" Down...Again.
Not sure when it happened, but the "CBGB Radio" channel at IHeartRadio.com, which we've proudly and conveniently featured on our front page here for most of the past few years seems to be "off" the air again. In recent days when trying to click on the station for a listen all you get is some static and a "Taylor Swift"(!) graphic. So if you're wondering why the radio player is not over there on the right as usual anymore - now you know. Guess you'll have to get your "Birthplace of Punk" audio fix someplace else for the time being. This depressing development comes just in time for the upcoming CBGB Festival, taking place in New York City July 5th - 8th.
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Our New Neighbors - June 2012 Edition
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These seemingly always hungry and noisy young birds hatched a while back and have been squeaking and peeping up a storm and generally making themselves noticed for the past few days. There are five of the youngsters all crammed into their small nest tucked up into the canopy that covers the entry way to the south side of our apartment building. I'm guessing that just about any day now they'll be ready to try out their wings and fly off out of here in search of food and less cramped, less crap-covered living quarters.
Saturday, June 9, 2012
06/09/12 A Few Scenes From The 8th Annual Famous Dave's BBQ-Blues Fest @ Downtown Minneapolis, MN
(Images via NYCDreamin Archives)
Taking full advantage of the absoluetly beautiful and cloudless 90-degree day, the Gorgeous One and I made an early afternoon trip into Minneapolis to enjoy some Famous Daves BBQ and to check out a couple hours of Blues performances at the 8th annual Famous Dave's BBQ-Blues Fest.
This year the festival was uprooted from the relative comfort of the landscape-terraced and somewhat shady Peavy Plaza, which is undergoing some renovations this summer. The new location? A flat, sun-drenched parking lot located on Nicollet Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets where the old Minneapolis Rib-Fest used to be held before it was moved off to Harriet Island in St. Paul and consequently died off a few years later. We could hear the music from a few blocks away as we walked over to Nicollet Avenue. This was the scene looking to the south-west when we arrived just after 1:30pm.
The grills were already fired up and smokin' up the area with that most pleasant of summer smells...BBQ! A fleet of Famous Daves vehicles from around the Twin Cities metro area continued to pull in and drop off even more food for the event, which will run through around 11:00pm tonight.
The Gorgeous One ordered up a fresh-squeezed ice cold lemonade and then we stepped over to the BBQ booth and placed our orders. She had the 4-bone platter of ribs and a cob of grilled corn. I settled on a pulled pork sandwhich drenched in Famous Dave's award winning Devil's Spit and Georgia Mustard sauces with a side of beans to finish it off. The food, delicious as it was, was gone so fast we didn't even get a chance to take a photo!
Quite a crowd was already assembled in the south-west corner of the parking lot in front of the two stages set up sid-by-side for the days musical performers.
When we arrived, Sena Ehrhardt and her band (photo below) were on the main stage, belting out some smooth and funky sounding blues standards. They sounded pretty good and repeatedly and enthusiastically thanked the crowd for coming out early to catch their set.
We also caught the short 2:30pm set by the Cole Allen Band. Just as we were leaving around 3:00pm, the Johnny Rawls Band took the main stage.
During all this, as we finished off our meal, an ambulance with lights a-flashing and sirens a-wailing, pulled into the east side of the lot right near the bank of Biff's porta-johns that were set up on site. Seems someone was having some kind of medical difficulty. I speculated that maybe they were overcome by the undescribably noxious fumes coming from the porta-johns.
After the cops and paramedics placed the victim (turns out it was a lady) onto a stretcher and then into the back of the ambulance, an announcement was made from the stage that she had been overcome by dehydration and slight heat exhaustion. Everyone was encouraged to "please stay hydrated" due to the extreme heat. With that bit of advice, the Gorgeous One and I polished off the rest of her now piss-warm lemonade and got up to get a re-fill.
A few minutes after the ambulance left the parking lot and the music continued on, and as we began to contemplate heading for home, a Biff's truck pulled up. This rather large proportioned, obviously hard working dude stepped out of the cab of the truck and then began the "someone's gotta do it" job of visually inspecting each of the the porta-potties. After he pulled the coiled hose attatched to the truck's large sewage tank off it's cradle, this poor fellow stepped back in to each of the "full" toilets and quickly suctioned out the contents. As fast as he emptied each one it seemed someone stepped up to begin the process of filling it with digested BBQ and beer all over again. I told the Gorgeous One I hoped the poor guy made some good money today.
We had no real intention of spending the entire day at the Dave's Fest this year, in fact going at all was kind of a last minute idea. So, just after 3:00pm, with our BBQ-Blues jones satiated - and our medical emergency/scatologically voyeuristic curiosities satisfied - we decided it was time to g.t.f.o. of the sun and head off for home.
Maybe next year we'll plan to stay a bit longer - and hopefully they move the whole thing back to Peavy Paza. Yeah, that would be nice I think.
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Tonight! 06/09/12 Joan Jett & the Blackhearts @ Mountaineer Casino, Chester, WV
Thursday, June 7, 2012
06/07/12 RIP Bob Welch - Guitarist
(Image via BobWelch.com)
Word came late today that 66 year-old former Fleetwood Mac guitarist and successful solo artist Bob Welch was found dead in his Nashville, TN home earlier today, the apparent victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. Nashville Police spokesman Don Aaron stated that Welch, who had recently been experiencing some health related issues, was found by his wife and that the guitarist had indeed left a suicide note that was also found at the scene.
Word came late today that 66 year-old former Fleetwood Mac guitarist and successful solo artist Bob Welch was found dead in his Nashville, TN home earlier today, the apparent victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. Nashville Police spokesman Don Aaron stated that Welch, who had recently been experiencing some health related issues, was found by his wife and that the guitarist had indeed left a suicide note that was also found at the scene.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
One From The Archives: June 1976 Rainbow "Rising" U.S. Tour Ad
New York City Images As Album/CD Cover Art #73: Bad Brains "Live At CBGB 1982" (2006)
Monday, June 4, 2012
Kreator: "Phantom Antichrist" - In Stores Tomorrow
For those haters and doubters who deny Kreator is one of the most ferocious musical forces on this planet...your day of reckoning has arrived. Their latest higly anticipated release, "Phantom Antichrist," hits store shelves in North America tomorrow, 06/05/12. Do what you gotta do to get a copy.
This Saturday! 06/09/12 Division Nine (Outdoors!) @ Stone Creek Golf Club, Foley, MN
Yesterday! 06-03-12 Roger Waters @ Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, MN
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Another Ironman journey
Good effort Tim
I volunteered Ali but said i didnt want to go on the entrance to the leisure centre as i dont have the adequate tollerence level for idiots.
Arleya & I did the bike mount/dismount for the Spring Waveney last year so i think we may be on that again. Are you racing or helping?
Easy day for me today
AM - Swim - 30mins recovery
LUNCH TIME - 4 mile mixed pace run along the river
28 hilly miles on bike, ave 16.8mph. My average is up from 15mph, pleased about that.
Lovely sunny day, arms and legs out, mouthful of flies. Ah, spring.
Just a shade under 51.5 miles biked this afternoon. Why did I pick a route which was uphill all the way home? Feels good anyhoo.
PS Well done Tim, speedier than me!
Because if its downhill all the way home thats cheating
Good biking you two. Ive managed 6 miles this week
I've just got my first iPhone so this just to to see if I can post from it!
Well whaddyaknow?!
Well check you out !! Lil Miss technology!!I fully intend to finish work at 2pm today and get out on my mtb for a few hours, whats the betting it will rain ??
Meldy, rain and mountain bikes go together!
I have an 80miler planned for this eveing ... and its dam windy here at the moment
80 miles in the evening will fair play.. That's a fair old jaunt after work I'm off for a leisurely 18 mile run
Tim that is indeed true but I have had quite enough of the wet stuff to last a lifetime thank you !!
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. Are you racing or helping? Both getting there early to get in the first wave then helping out afterwards. Well I think that's the plan I'm down for marshal point 9 on the bike route with 2 others.
. Are you racing or helping?
Both getting there early to get in the first wave then helping out afterwards. Well I think that's the plan I'm down for marshal point 9 on the bike route with 2 others.
90 mins on the mountain bike in the sun Just what the doctor ordered
See you tomorrow then Ali. I'm on the cycle dismount area with Arleya
bit of good news today. Despite my tendonites preventing me from swimming or running, i just did a 54 mile bike ride with no discomfort
Weekly Update
You can tell the weather has got better .... the post count has come down 11 miles run earlier along the tow path in lovely sunshine
Andy, great news on the bike ride mate.
Ah sun, isn't it lovely! Rest day today, off for a walk with the family.
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I just got home from snowboarding in Saas-Fee for the past 2 weeks. For the people who have never been there, here are some pictures of the always beautiful Saas-Fee.. enjoy!
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Bosses Boost Productivity, But In Surprising Ways
Researchers have spent a lot of time studying workplace peers and teams, but surprisingly little on the impact of supervisors.
In a step toward filling this gap, a trio of business school professors studied a large firm whose workers perform technology-based services that are monitored by computer, providing ready productivity data.
In a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, the professors found that bosses matter a lot, that they vary widely in quality, and that going from a worst decile boss to a best decile boss improves productivity as much as adding another worker to a nine-member team. Even more surprising, the boss's main contribution isn't made by motivating workers. Bosses make a difference by teaching skills that improve productivity.
Counter-intuitively, the study found, it pays to assign the best workers to the best bosses, because that results in the largest productivity gains. One finding will bring comfort to workers afflicted with inept supervisors: the worst bosses are the most likely to leave, the study found.
Readers, how do you think bosses make the greatest contribution? Are good bosses rare or common? And what's the number one thing you'd like to see change in your boss?


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These blogs were written by students studying abroad in the 2007-08 academic year. If any links are broken, please email us at email@example.com. Go here to see blogs by students currently studying abroad.
Amherst to Edinburgh
A collaborative blog effort by Nateene Diu and Don Everhart as they study abroad at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Don is studying philosophy of science while Nateene concentrates on art history and museum studies.
Don and Nateene were Div II students studying in Edinburgh through Hampshire Exchange in Scotland (Spring '08).Dani's Weblog Abroad
Danielle Slabaugh is studying in South Africa at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Durban for the semester. Dani is a Div II student concentrating on community-based education and empowerment through the arts. In addition to taking courses at the university, she is involved in a service-learning project with an organization called Street-Wise Durban. Dani continues her blog while "WWOOFing" in France over the summer.
Dani was a Div II student on Field Study while studying in Durban, South Africa (Spring '08).
Open For Suggestions
Jill Erwich blogs abroad during her semester as a visiting student studying photography at Goldsmiths College in London, England.
Nero Burning London Bridges
Vincent Banzaca blogs abroad while studying film and video production in London, England. At Goldsmiths College, he is participating in the studio practice course, which enables students to develop their own artwork through exploring select media and approaches.
Jill and Vinny studied abroad at Goldsmiths as Div II students on Hampshire Exchange in England (Spring '08).
Sam Verran's Photoblog: ChinaRaphael Franca's Photoblog: China Sam and Raphael studied abroad as Div II students in Hefei on Hampshire Exchange in China (Spring '08).Rethinking Globalization
Emma Jones blogs about her experience studying abroad with the International Honors Program in Rethinking Globalization: Nature, Culture, and Justice. Participating in this two-semester around-the-world comparative program, she will travel from the United States to Britain, Tanzania, India, New Zealand, and Mexico studying issues of globalization, ecological sustainability, and social justice.
From Fall '07-Spring '08 Emma was a Div II student on Field Study with the International Honors Program. IHP offers a unique set of theme-based, multi-country study abroad programs designed with a comparative approach that allows students to contrast and analyze thematic issues on a global scale.
Hampshire Alum and Fulbright Scholar Photographing Youth Culture in Vietnam
Jamie Maxtone-Graham (S'80) moved to Vietnam on a Fulbright research grant (2007-2008) and will remain there indefinitely after the grant concludes. He has shot numerous films (features and documentaries) in Vietnam and is available as a resource for Hampshire students interested in this industry as well as in the country and region. (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Stranger in a Strange Land
Lynne Powers blogs abroad during her semester as a visiting student in London. Her Div II academic focus was on cultural studies and writing.Lynne studied at Goldsmiths College on Hampshire Exchange in England (Fall '07).
OutsideInsider: Japan
Samuel Ross is a Div III student with a concentration in broadcast journalism and Japanese language and culture. In terms of cultural studies, his focus is on concepts of "foreignness" in relation to Japan and within Japanese society, such as (for example) orientalism and concepts of uchi/soto (inside/outside) that have been used to describe social dynamics in Japanese culture. (Sam's blog is no longer online.)Sam went on Field Study (Fall '07) to study at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. His abroad experience was financially supported by the receipt of both the Freeman-ASIA Award and The Bridging Scholarship.
A Telling Collective Blog: South Africa and Tanzania
Katelin Wilton and Nicole le Roux will share their experiences using body mapping in southern and east Africa. These two young women are converging their studies at Hampshire College through this initiative, spending June-December in southern and eastern Africa learning, exploring, and working to adapt storytelling tools.Katelin and Nicole are Div II students who have self-designed an independent Field Study abroad. For more information about these young women, their proposal, and the Telling Collective Initiative, check out their Web site Kukummi.
Stories from Sydney: Australia
"One desperate and lost American's literary masterpiece wherein he describes the life and death struggles he encounters... studying at Macquarie University..."Jonathan Fanning studied abroad in Fall '07 on Hampshire Exchange in Australia. His Div II concentration was cognitive neurobiology.


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Robyn Whittaker from the University of Auckland and colleagues argue that information technology (IT)-based programs can improve cardiovascular disease (CVD) management and patient empowerment, but must be accompanied by supportive social and political environments and active patient and clinician engagement.
In an Essay in this week's PLoS Medicine the authors argue that despite good evidence for the effectiveness of CVD management, large gaps between what is known and what is actually done in health care remain. IT has the potential to support clinicians to close these gaps throughout processes of care delivery. For example, IT can be used to support identification of at-risk individuals, CVD risk assessment and management, care planning, patient self-management, and evaluation of improvements in care and health outcomes, say the authors.
But the authors emphasize the point that to achieve the potential of IT-based programmes, they require a supportive social and political environment, substantial organizational changes, and active patient and clinician engagement.
Explore further: Chronic disease management: Does it improve health and save money?
More information:
Wells S, Whittaker R, Dorey E, Bullen C (2010) Harnessing Health IT for Improved Cardiovascular Risk Management. PLoS Med 7(8): e1000313.doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000313


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Is your business culture truly open to change? Your colleagues' reaction to a simple exercise might surprise you…
A simple exercise, with surprising results
Most people would say they are open to change, but challenge them with the following simple exercise. Ask them to extend their arm out straight forwards, with their hand pointing upward, so their palm is flat towards you. Now place your hand in the same position against theirs and gently push, without warning.
What happens? Do they push back without being asked to? Most people do – it's self-preservation against losing balance. They push back because:
- the change in their position was unexpected
- they needed to retain their own safe position (i.e. not be pushed over)
- they were unaware it was going to happen
Engaging your staff in the process of change
The same applies to change within an organisation, and a Harvard Business Review blog post by Rosabeth Moss Kanter* expands on the reasons for resistance to change, most of which centre around the failure to engage staff in the process of change. Lack of involvement means change comes as a surprise, and lack of awareness means lack of preparation too, for the extra work, learning curve and inevitable working adjustments change creates.
"Leaders of change (should) understand the predictable, universal sources of resistance in each situation and then strategize around them."
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Think like a Scout; be prepared
Thinking back to the hand exercise, what would the difference have been if you had simply told the person what was going to happen? Chances are, they would prepare, both mentally and physically, perhaps putting one foot back to steady themselves. Not only are they prepared for what may happen, they are also involved at a much earlier stage, pre-push so to speak.
It's a simple exercise but at its core is the fundamental business lesson that if you don't involve people in the preparation for innovation, they will often resist the execution phase as a reflex.
And finally…
In practice, not all areas of change can be pre-empted in this way, but having people as part of the change as opposed to subject to the change is an important and fundamental difference. They might also have some great ideas for the future too….
Have you experienced serious pushback against innovation, and if so, how did you overcome it? Leave us a comment and share your experiences.
At TalkFreely, we specialize in easy to use software solutions that keep everyone talking about innovation – call us to talk through how to banish your innovation silences.


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Media release: 5 September 2002
Mahar Mangahas
According to about nine out of ten Filipinos surveyed by SWS, the priests in their own areas never take sexual advantage of children, and never have a mistress.
The overwhelming opinion of Filipinos, Catholics and non-Catholics alike, is that a priest caught in a single incident of abuse of youth should be immediately expelled from the priesthood and not given a second chance.
Those who say that the priests in their area often take sexual advantage of youth are 1%, and those who say that the priests in their area often have mistresses is close to 2%. The balance from 100% are those who say that, in their own areas, such sexual misbehavior happens rarely.
Meanwhile, the proportion of Filipinos who favor allowing Catholics priests to get married has grown slightly to one out every four now, compared to only one out of five in 1996. Filipinos are the most conservative Catholics in the world, on the matter of allowing marriage for priests.
Sexual abuse of youth
After being told of the recent U.S. cases of Catholic priests taking sexual advantage of youth and then covered up by church authorities so as to avoid scandal, almost 90% said that this kind of abuse never happens, 9% said that it rarely happens, and 1% said that it often happens, in their own areas (Table 1).
One strike and out
When asked whether a priest who had sexually abused a child (bata) should be allowed to stay in the prieshood if his bishop felt that the sin would not be repeated, or whether he should be expelled immediately, 91% favored expulsion (Table 2).
The desire to apply a "one strike and out" rule to erring priests is equally strong among Filipino Catholics and the 15% of Filipinos who are not Catholics.
In the United States, recent polls also show that the demand for a "one-strike" rule is equally strong among American Catholics and the 75% of Americans who are not Catholics.
This shows that, in both countries, the moral standard demanded of priests is
related more to the general national culture than to the Catholic religion specifically (Table
Regarding the issue of a priest taking a mistress or kerida, on the other hand, 88% said that this kind of abuse never happens, 10% said that it rarely happens, and 1.7% said that it often happens, in their own areas (Table 4).
Allowing priests to get married
As to whether Catholic priests should be allowed to get married, the new 2002 SWS survey found 60% opposed, 26% in favor, and 14% undecided, in response to a question that allowed a neutral answer. (Table 5).
This compares with a 1996 SWS survey that found 79% opposed and 21% in favor of allowing marriage for priests, using a forced-choice Yes or No question (Table 6). Notwithstanding the difference between questions used in 1996 and 2002, the results do indicate a small yet statistically significant growth in Filipino amenability to marriage for priests.
The 1996 Philippine survey was conducted jointly with surveys of Catholics in six other countries, on the general topic of possible future reforms in the Catholic Church. As of 1996, large majorities of German, Irish, Spanish, American, and Italian Catholics were in favor of permitting priests to get married, while Polish Catholics were evenly divided on the issue.
Only in the Philippines was a minority in favor of allowing priests to be married.
Survey background
This report is based on the 2nd Quarter 2002 Social Weather Survey of 1,200 statistically representative households, conducted over May 17 to June 3, 2002, for an error margin of ±3% at the 95% confidence level. The 1996 survey, with the same sample size and error margin, was done over November 21 to December 17.
SWS presented these survey findings on July 7, 2002 to the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, on the invitation of the CBCP, which neither sponsored nor requested for the survey.
The survey items in this report were included on SWS's own account, and not commissioned. The Social Weather Surveys are supported by subscribers, who have no proprietary rights over the data.
The SWS webpage at http://www.sws.org.ph may be consulted for more information,
including SWS official releases to media and a list of SWS public reports. SWS's email addresses
are firstname.lastname@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com. Address of the SWS Office and Survey Data Library:
#52 Malingap Street, Sikatuna Village, Quezon City, 1101, Philippines.
SWS MEDIA RELEASES archives
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Among the scores of generous vendors, was Floral Occasions Floral Artistry who created 21 personalized wedding bouquets. Arrangements consisted of locally grown ivory and white hydrangea and roses. Brides were allowed to pick an accent color to personalize her bouquet. Using flowers that are locally grown and sold is a great way to ensure your flowers are fresh and helps to patronize a local company.
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Nike Stadium Soccer Over-The-Calf Socks
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Jarred Christmas won rave reviews for his performance in New Wimbledon Theatre's panto this year and has appeared on Never Mind The Buzzcocks, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Mock the Week, Dave's One Night Stand and dancing as Madonna for Comic Relief's Let's Dance.
Jarred has a unique style that deftly mixes gags with storytelling. He has a dynamic onstage persona and the ability to improvise and roll with anything that's thrown his way, making his comedy sizzle with originality. Jarred will be supported by his fellow cast member Lee Carrol, who played Muddles in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Lee has appeared on BBC's The Stand-up Show and also performed his own 30 minute special for Sky1. Jarred and Lee will also be joined by a special guest who will be announced soon.
Expect hilarious gags, comical storytelling and two hours of side-splitting comedy in this exclusive gig at New Wimbledon Theatre, this is a comedy event not to be missed!
Jarred Christmas
Kiwi comedian with a good reputation in the comedy world. He has a unique style that deftly mixes gags with storytelling, and a dynamic onstage persona and the ability to improvise and roll with anything that's thrown his way. This makes his comedy sizzle with originality.
Star of 'Mock The Week' 'Flight Of The Conchords', '8 Out Of 10 Cats' and the Pot Noodle adverts.
'One of the funniest men to pick up a microphone' (Time Out)
'Likeable, intelligent and full of unpredictable energy' (The Scotsman)
'Christmas is robustly funny, his delivery confident and his show not to be missed' (The List, Edinburgh).
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Ok, I know I am a massive Nike Fan Boy. I have recently written about all they have been doing during the olympics with pop-up stores But this Camp Victory is immense and certainly worth a mention.
The temporary installation was created for the Olympics and sits within the Oregon University campus. Severe geometric shapes illuminated by L.E.D lighting form the various facades of the building. Inside, scattered amongst the various display walls and glass tanks are more interactive innovations along the lines of what we have seen in the Fuelstation and House of Innovation.