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Dave Hartnett, the former permanent secretary for tax at HMRC, was honoured "for services to tax avoidance" by tax protesters at the Practical Tax Planning conference in Oxford last week.
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The final sentence is ...
... to me both illuminating in some respects and opaque in others. If the NAO says that what he did was kosher, then who am I, in the absence of all of the facts, to condemn him? The NAO has a history, after all, of being less than sympathetic to HMRC in the round.
What would interest me is if all of the evidence on which the NAO came to its conclusion is in the public domain (I suspect not), or whether it might be made public in a few decades.
With kind regards
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Reasonable does not always mean kosher
If the NAO says that what he did was kosher, then who am I, in the absence of all of the facts, to condemn him? The NAO has a history, after all, of being less than sympathetic to HMRC in the round.
The NAO did not say that what he did was kosher, and in fact said that HMRC's litigation strategy policy was either not followed or "it was not clear that it was followed". The judge did say that he thought that the settlements HMRC had reached were reasonable, given the wider uncertainties, other disputes with the same taxpayer, and what HMRC had agreed to in other similar cases. They are different things.
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Tony Blair receives an award for his outstanding contribution to peace in the middle east.Gordon Brown receives an award for services to covert tape recording,The entire population of Greece receive an award for services to the euro.Gordon Ramsay receives an award for services to the F***ing english language.The England football team receive an award for outstanding comedy moment by claiming they could win the world cup.
Henry Kissinger's beaten you to it
When he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, Tom Lehrer was moved to remark that it was the day that satire died.
@Clint Try a freedom of information request
Sadly, we will not now find out what Mr Hartnett thinks.
Having agreed in principle to an interview with me for TAXtv discussing the highs and lows of his Revenue career, he has now withdrawn from all such media work because of continued 'stunts'.
Why wouldn't he give an explanation? By going into hiding he enforces the view that he has something to hide.
The public are concerned that large corporations appear to be getting very favourable deals from someone who is regularly wined & dined by these same corporations.
It isn't unreasonable of the public to want explanations rather than cut & dried verdicts.
I would expect an application under FOI to be rejected due to DPA protections.
With kind regards
Clint Westwood
@Clint Dont pre-judge.I personally think a FOI request would be successful as its the sort of information that should be in the public domain after all its a public body.Give it a go and appeal if not successful.Be an optomist.
I got the impression (rightly or wrongly) that the NAO implied that the agreement was acceptable because the costs of pursuing the penalties/interest would have outweighed the benefits to the taxpayer. This is quite different to saying everything these corporations, and Hartnett, did was kosher.
I admit I am biased, but isn't this always the result of aggressive avoidance by large corporations and wealthy individuals. Whether the taxpayer wins or loses it ends up costing the country vast amounts of money, either in lost revenue, or investigation/litigation costs.
Well, if ...
... a proper cost/benefit analysis accurately concluded that the cost to the taxpayer in pursuing a debt (multiplied by the probably of ultimate success etc) would outweigh the debt being pursued, and if that was the sole or main reason for the deal that was done, then it seems to me that that is no indictment of Hartnett. It might be an indictment of someone else (or some other body); just not Hartnett.
Somehow I would take some persuading that this type of calculation stacks up where the write-off of Vodafone's bill was about £5 bn, but I keep an open mind.
With kind regards
Clint Westwood
Tony Blair said he regretted..
the Freedom of Information Act - which just about says it all. People do need to be called to account for their actions and this is sometimes through FOI.
The thought and knowledge that what you do in secret can be made public can and should have a positive effect on your actions.
Personally I thought the 'stunt' was brilliant. There are so few ways of effectively dealing with the 'big boys' (as noted above with cost/benefit, NAO et al) but comedy and stunts like these do help to change public policy and the actions of individuals.
Scum? It could have been worse.
"A dinner guest, believed to be a senior tax lawyer, called the protesters "trespassing scum" and told them to leave "before we set the dogs on you"."
Just as well they were at Oxford. Imagine what he would have done if they had been plebs!


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By Pete on Friday, June 14, 2013 at 2:01 PM
Dallas may have been passed over in the first wave of wall-projection guerilla promotions for Kanye West's Yeezus album, downloads of which leaked just a couple hours ago. (Have you listened? It's pretty good, you guys!) But now, it seems Dallas is finally getting what San Antonio, Austin and Houston got last month.
Tonight, a video promoting the new album -- it's been set to the album's "New Slaves" elsewhere to date -- will be projected onto walls all across the city. The times and locations of these half-hour-long projections are as follows, according to Kanye's own site:
- Union Station (400 S. Houston St.) at 9:30 p.m.
- Majestic Theater (1925 Elm St.) at 10:30 p.m.
- The Double Wide (3510 Commerce St.) at 11:30 p.m.
- The old Union Bankers/Knights of Pythias Temple building (2551 Elm St.) at 12:30 a.m.
- The Fair Park Esplanade at 1:30 a.m.
Here's hoping that these screenings go down more smoothly than the ones in Houston last month did, as police shut down at least one projection because of crowd control and trespassing concerns.
Also, we should note, this projection effort is just one of a few connections that North Texas now shares with Yeezus. Dallas-based producer Symbolyc One, who produced "Power" on 2010's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and the second half of "Murder to Excellence" on 2011's Watch The Throne, has two tracks on Yeezus: "Guilt Trip" and the album-closing "Bound." Meanwhile, West's cousin, the Fort Worth-dwelling R&B singer Tony Williams (who performed at Dallas' The Dram last night) appears on the song "Blood on the Leaves."
Says Larry Griffin Jr., the man behind the Symbolyc One moniker, of his contributions to the release (as posted to his personal Facebook page today): "Anticipating another Grammy for my work on the new Kanye album!"
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Update at 5:10 p.m.: Earlier today, we left a message with Double Wide owner Kim Finch to see if she's heard anything about these projections. Moments ago, she called us back. Her response: "I had no idea about it until I heard your message. I've heard nothing about it. I guess it's cool, though."


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The complementary online activities with St. Gabriel Online School enhance student learning even further.
Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools district spokeswoman Jeanne Davis said she believes the learning model is unique to Central Alberta.
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Davis predicted this will happen eventually in every school. Some institutions, including University of Lethbridge, are already using this blended learning model.
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This column has recently become skeptical of the view--nearly universal on the liberal left but common as well among conservative elites--that Rick Santorum is "unelectable" or far less likely than Mitt Romney to defeat President Obama in November. A new USA Today poll reinforces our skepticism.
The survey, conducted by Gallup, included two samples of registered voters: 1,137 from a dozen "swing states," all of which Obama carried in 2008, and another 881 nationwide. The swing states included six that George W. Bush carried twice (Colorado, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia), three that Bush carried once (Iowa, New Hampshire and New Mexico), and three that last went Republican in 1988 or earlier (Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin).
The findings: Santorum leads Obama in the swing states, 50% to 45%, and nationwide 49% to 46%. This gives him an edge of three percentage points over Romney, whose swing-state lead is 48% to 46% and who ties the president nationally at 47%.
To be sure, this is only one poll, and the election is still more than eight months off. One possible explanation is that voters are less unfavorably disposed toward Santorum because they don't know him as well as they know Romney, and that once they learn how hard-core the former senator is on social issues, they'd bolt for Obama if Santorum becomes the nominee.
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An obvious exception is the most successful Democratic politician of the past half-century, Bill Clinton. Clinton's elite credentials were as impressive as those of his successors (Georgetown, Oxford, Yale Law), and he was, and is, a man of the liberal left. But he had an emotional understanding of Middle America and was ideologically supple enough to avoid or defuse bitter conflicts over social issues. Even Hillary Clinton, by the time she ran for president in 2008, had absorbed some of these qualities from her husband.
Oddly, the name Clinton never appears in Crook's column. The only populist Democratic politician he mentions is Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia, who styles himself a Democrat in the Jacksonian mold and, among other things, is a strong critic of racial preferences. Webb is an intriguing political character, but a flukish one: a Reagan administration official whose 2006 Senate victory--his only run for elected office--was unexpected, and who is retiring after a single term.
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This is attention-grabbing but frivolous. There's no doubt Springsteen is a man of the left; he endorsed both Kerry and Obama. Some of his songs have political overtones, though we're not sure we agree with Crook that the gist is pro-American. From "Born in the U.S.A.":
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That sounds more like the John Kerry of 1971 than the one who posed as a war hero to run for president 33 years later.
But the main point is that Springsteen is an entertainer, not a politician. While there is some overlap in the two professions' skill sets, inasmuch as both place great emphasis on public performance, attracting fans is very different from attracting voters. No doubt there are some for whom Springsteen's politics enhances their enjoyment of his music. But there are others who like his work despite his politics. And our guess would be that the vast majority don't care one way or the other and simply enjoy the tunes. It seems to us the only lesson Springsteen has for Democrats is that if you want to be a rock star, you should stick to music.
What actually caught our attention about the Crook essay, though, was what Mickey Kaus identified as a "clarifying sentence": "When prosperous liberals vote their values, not their interests, that's enlightened. When poor conservatives do it, it's dumb."
That's sarcasm. Crook was ironically summing up the view of former Enron adviser Paul Krugman, which Krugman borrowed from Thomas Frank's "What's the Matter With Kansas?," and thereby making a point we made last week (and have made before, as long ago as 2005).
When we clicked through to Crook's piece, though, we were astounded to find this sentence qualifying his just-stated sympathy for pro-American populism: "Of course, not many black Americans and not many women long for the lives their parents led." A whole world of condescension and presumption is wrapped in those 17 words, and we'd like to unpack it.
What Crook is saying more precisely is that blacks and women are grateful for the mid-20th-century liberation movements, which culminated in the 1950s and '60s for blacks and in the '60s and '70s for women. When you put it that way, it's hard to deny the statement is true for blacks, who were in fact liberated from an unjust system. It would be shocking to find a black person who longs for a return to Jim Crow.
Yet Crook's disparagement of "the lives their parents led" is awfully reductive. There is more to a black person's life than the way he is treated by the government or by whites. When one considers the social problems that have beset the black community since the civil rights era--the decline of marriage and rise of illegitimacy, drug abuse, the shockingly high incarceration rate for young black men--it's not hard to imagine that many blacks might be nostalgic for the relative social stability of 50 to 60 years ago, as distinct from the undeniably oppressive political regime.
As for women, their "liberation" has been considerably more ambiguous. The sexual revolution and feminism are undeniably liberating for women who are sexually adventurous and professionally ambitious. But what about women who don't fit that description? The life of a chaste homemaker/mother may not be for every woman, but it is for some, and a combination of social and economic pressures makes it much more difficult to realize than it was half a century ago. As Jeffrey Bell notes in "The Case for Polarized Politics":
Phillip Longman cites a number of polls suggesting that increasing numbers of women (as well as most men) hope to get married and have children. He also notes that couples are overly optimistic about how adversely the trend toward postponing marriage and children affects their lifetime fertility, and in practice they wind up giving birth to fewer children than they would have liked. Furthermore, contrary to stereotypes, more American women express a desire to quit or cut back on paying jobs to be at home with their young children than was the case a decade or so ago.
Yet year after year, American marriages seem to result in fewer children. The most recent fertility rate is less than 1.3 children per marriage (with the remainder of 0.8 children now being born to unmarried women). And marriages show no sign of witnessing a reduction in the average number of hours a wife works for pay outside the home. The trend continues to be strikingly and overwhelmingly in the other direction.
It certainly sounds to us as though "many women" long to lead lives more similar to those of their pre-"liberation" midcentury predecessors.
Clive Crook doesn't strike us as somebody with an ideological ax to grind. For one thing, he's British, which allows him to take in American politics with a degree of detachment. He has some liberal predispositions, as evidenced by his disdain for Santorum's supposed "extremism on sexual politics." But on the whole, he's about as disinterested a commentator as you're likely to find these days.
In the clarifying sentence and the condescending one, however, we find a fascinating mirror of contemporary left-liberalism. Crook's piece is directed at liberals, and he adopts a sympathetic tone, which is wise because he intends to challenge them. The clarifying sentence directly confronts a cherished but false and self-defeating liberal belief.
The condescending sentence is meant as a concession to the liberal worldview: Of course you're right about X, even though you ought to reconsider your opinion about Y. It's a smart rhetorical strategy. But we're fascinated by the substance. The liberal assumption that Crook dares not challenge is that both blacks and women pretty much all think alike.
'Nits Will Make Lice'
On Friday we took note of a pair of tweets, one bigoted and one hateful, by New York Times columnist Charles Blow. The first gratuitously mocked Mitt Romney for being Mormon; the second described Blow's Twitter detractors as "lice."
Blow apologized for the anti-Mormon tweet but not for the "lice" one, which in our opinion was worse because it was downright dehumanizing. Likening one's foes to vermin has been a rhetorical trope of some of the worst regimes in history. In a 2007 article for Public Culture, a scholarly journal, anthropologist Hugh Raffles quotes Heinrich Himmler in 1943:
Antisemitism is exactly the same as delousing. Getting rid of lice is not a question of ideology. It is a matter of cleanliness. In just the same way, antisemitism, for us, has not been a question of ideology, but a matter of cleanliness, which now will soon have been dealt with. We shall soon be deloused. We have only 20,000 lice left, and then the matter is finished within the whole of Germany.
Now of course Himmler's metaphor was half literal: The Nazis really did seek to exterminate the Jews. And the Nazis did not invent the lice metaphor. A reader calls our attention to an example from more than a century earlier. Here is an excerpt from the Church History in the Fullness of Times Institute Student Manual, available on the website of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The book describes the 1838 Haun's Mill Massacre in Missouri:
At about 4:00 P.M. the mob approached Haun's Mill. The women and children fled into the woods, while the men sought protection in the blacksmith shop. David Evans, the military leader of the Saints, swung his hat and cried for peace. The sound of a hundred rifles answered him, most of them aimed at the blacksmith shop. The mobbers shot mercilessly at everyone in sight, including women, elderly men, and children. . . .
The rabble entered the blacksmith shop and found ten-year-old Sardius Smith, son of Amanda Smith, hiding under the blacksmith's bellows. One ruffian put the muzzle of his gun against the boy's skull and blew off the upper part of his head. The man later explained, "Nits will make lice, and if he had lived he would have become a Mormon."
About a year ago, the newspaper that employs Blow was issuing dire warnings about the dangers of "incivility" in general and "eliminationist rhetoric" in particular. We thought this was overwrought and dishonest at the time, and as we wrote Friday, we don't think Blow's use of such rhetoric is dangerous. But it is hypocritical--and, more important, indecent.
Hope and Jail
"The creator of the Barack Obama 'HOPE' poster pleaded guilty Friday to criminal contempt, saying he made a 'terrible decision' in 2009 to destroy some documents and fabricate others in a civil lawsuit pertaining to The Associated Press photograph he relied upon to make the poster," the AP reports.
What's hilarious about this is that the poster-maker, Shepard Fairey, was the one who brought the suit, after the AP accused him, accurately as it turns out, of misappropriating its intellectual property. (The AP then countersued.) WSJ.com reports that "prosecutors are likely to seek some term of imprisonment in the case."
Fairey has got to be hoping Obama loses his re-election bid, so he can get a pardon in 2013 instead of 2017.
Homer Nods
In a Friday item, we wrote that Barry Goldwater "in his dotage . . . was a strong opponent of social conservatism." In support we cited a comment the then-senator made in 1981: "Every good Christian ought to kick Jerry Falwell right in the ass." Reader Ron Ackert disputes "dotage":
Do you really mean that? In 1981, he was 72 years old. He served another six years in the Senate. He continued to comment on social issues for years thereafter, notably during the don't-ask-don't-tell debate in 1993 ("you don't have to be straight to serve your country, you just have to shoot straight"). He was 84 when he said that, and made more sense than Rick Santorum's managed to do on the best day Santorum's ever had.
A point of personal privilege: We remember seeing Goldwater make the Falwell comment at the time, and as we were quite young and still in our militant atheist phase, we totally agreed. Later, as our view of religion mellowed, we remembered the comment with less sympathy. But while it was certainly a curmudgeonly thing to say, Ackert is quite right to insist we had no basis to suggest there was anything addle-brained about it. We should have simply written "in his later years."
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There's Always Room for Jello
"Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said he 'almost threw up' after reading President John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech on the separation of church and state," WSJ.com reports:
"I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute," Mr. Santorum said on "This Week" on ABC News. "The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country." . . .
"To say that people of faith have no role in the public square--you bet that makes you throw up," Mr. Santorum said. "What kind of country do we live in that says only people of nonfaith can come in the public square and make their case? That makes me throw up,"
Santorum's detractors are sure to pounce on this, but it seems obvious to us that he is making an ironic reference to the 1981 hardcore punk song "Religious Vomit," sung by Jello Biafra, né Eric Boucher, a Santorum contemporary (both men were born in the spring of 1958). Here's the chorus:
All religions suck
All religions make me wanna throw up
All religions suck
All religions make me wanna bleah
Now, we know what you're thinking. We had the same thought. "Rick Santorum" and "hardcore punk" just seem totally incongruous.
But it's too perfect to be a coincidence. The name of Biafra's band was Dead Kennedys.
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Why must this dumb shit happen to me. Anyway,I pop in my brand spakin new FFXI beta disc, and what do i get? NOthing. Nothing at all, my xbox tries to read it, then just tells me that its an unrecognized disc. My xbox has no problems with any other games, i've played flawlessly through games, until now. Anyone else in my boat?
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its a bad disc.. take that shit back yo. i guess their pressing machines are beta too.
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What kind of strength work do you do? Where were you when you started and how much are you lifting now?
I have increased my strength while losing weight over the months, but doubling in 3 weeks is a lot.
How does your protein intake now compare with what you were consuming previously? Eating low protein can hold a person back until you binge on it and then bam, you see increases.


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10 Ways to Grow your Reach Through Better ContentAlison Faulkner
1. Be consistent
Whether you post once a day, or once a week, try to be dependable. People like to know what they can expect, even if it is your inconsistency.
2. Make it relevant
If people think of you as a style guru, don't think you can just all of the sudden start giving advice on how to change a tire and grow your readership. We're not saying you can't evolve, just do so with care and honesty, and make sure to remember all the little people you stepped on along the way.
3. Keep it simple
Is that post your writing more like two or three posts? Less is more. We all like to belly up to the trough once in a while, but for the most part, small bites are easier to digest.
4. Encourage engagement
Hang out where your tribe is. Maybe your readers don't comment very much on your blog, but they love to chat on Instagram. If so, you should be there.
5. Put YOUR own spin on it
We'd be idiots if we thought we were the first people to make a list about "Growing your Readership" or "Better Content." We're sure you've heard tons of ideas, but what you haven't heard are OUR ideas. So whatever your topic, make sure it has YOUR spin and your mark on it.
6. Make it stimulating
Are you creating content for content's sake? WRIST SLAP. Stop it. People are looking for fun or thought provoking content. Isn't that the type of content you want to create anyway?
7. Take note of trends
We're not talking about neon or ombre, we mean take note of what your readers and followers respond to. Do you get a million likes on pictures of your kitty cat drinking beer? What kind of a person are you? No, but really, post more pictures in that vein and see what happens to your reach.
8. Strive to be better
Don't get discouraged when content doesn't stick, just take note and make tiny adjustments on your path to awesomeness.
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Believe in yourself and your ideas. It's easy to lose who you are if you are constantly trying to adjust to please others. That's why we say, "take note of trends" not be a slave to them. There's only one you, and you're great!
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Use the previous 9 tips to help you find your rhythm. The key is, once you've found your stride, just go with it.
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WASHINGTON (Warren County) On March 5, Brian Vasilante, 41, of Northampton, Pa. was arrested by Warren County Sheriff's officers at the courthouse.
He was wanted on an outstanding Pohatcong Township Municipal Court warrant for eluding charges, the Sheriff's Office reported.
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The Cardinals put together 3 wins in a row for the first time since, like, 1987 over the weekend. Luckily we get to feast on these bottom feeders 6 times per season, ensuring 4-5 wins in interleague play.
Are the Cardinals back on track? Ready to push the Reds for the NL Central lead? Who the hell knows. A stiffer test awaits in Miami this week and we can reassess after that. But let's not get cozy with the idea that this squad is anything more than some post riders until they push to at least 5 games over .500.
In the meantime (and in anticipation of a very feminine Bachlorette post tonight) let's take a look at some pictures from the tryouts for the new St. Louis Saints franchise stating this year in the LFF.
Lingerie Football League. That's right, men. Ladies in sports bras tackling eachother.
PS: The original St. Louis Saints might not be too happy about all this. Has anyone gotten a comment from them: LINK HERE
Some observations, if we may:
The coaching staff is so 2002 it hurts. He left tryouts to go see Minority Report in the theaters.
This woman can't get enough attention, can she? I mean, she already ruined the Athletica. Not the Saints, Hope. NOT the Saints!
These guys. Webster's has already changed out 'Leering' on their online dictionary.
Sometimes the jokes write themselves. (Yes, his name is not spelled correctly on this photo. But I think he should spell it like this, so it's not getting changed.)
See the full slideshow with video (LINK HERE). And consider this payment for the past 6 weeks of Bachlorette talk.


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What is Facebook Connect?
Facebook Connect is a utility that links your alum.barnard.edu account with your Facebook profile.
How do I initially sign in using Facebook Connect?
When you visit the alum.barnard.edu login page you will see the "Connect with Facebook" icon:
If this is your first visit to our site, you will need to activate your account using our first time login option.
After activating your account, you can sign in using your alumni community username and password. Or, you can click the "Connect with Facebook" icon.
Once you click the icon, a pop-up window will appear on your screen. Enter the e-mail address and password associated with your Facebook account. The pop-up will close, and your Facebook profile picture will appear onscreen with a short confirmation message.
Next, input your alumni community username and password in the fields to the left of your profile picture. Click the login button. This completes the link between Facebook and alum.barnard.edu, and only needs to be done once. The system will return you to the alum.barnard.edu homepage.
You are now Facebook Connect-ed!
What if I'm automatically logged into alum.barnard.edu because I checked the "remember my password" box?
No problem. Log out of the community by clicking "logout" at the bottom of our left-hand navigation menu. Then, activate Facebook Connect via the login page.
How do I sign in on subsequent visits to alum.barnard.edu?
When you return to the site and wish to log in, visit the login page and click the "Connect with Facebook" icon, rather than entering your community username and password. Provide your Facebook e-mail address and password in the pop-up window, and you will be able to access alum.barnard.edu services as usual.
How does an event or gift post to my news feed?
Once you confirm your online event registration or gift, you will see an option at the top of the confirmation screen to publish this item on Facebook. Click "Publish" or "Skip." You can set the default action by checking "Always do this for alum.barnard.edu" in the bottom left corner before making your choice. PLEASE NOTE: THE AMOUNT OF YOUR GIFT WILL NOT APPEAR IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT.
If, once I've activated Facebook Connect, I login using my community username and password, will my site activity post to my Facebook profile?
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How do I Facebook disConnect? (Or, how do I turn the thing off?)
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Barnard Alumnae Affairs is on Facebook! Become a fan of "Barnard Alumnae" to keep in touch with old friends, find new ones, see pictures and video from past events, and stay up-to-date on alumnae news.


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Joe Savery is back where he was last season with the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, but under much different circumstances. In the place where his career appeared to be flaming out as a starting pitcher, Savery, the Phillies' 2007 first-round draft choice, has revived himself in the bullpen.
In between pitching assignments, the 25-year-old attempted to reinvent himself as a hitter this year.
"It's certainly been a roller coaster," Savery said in a phone interview.
Savery's dizzying baseball season has featured three stops and what he hopes is a career-altering position change. He was promoted during the past week from double-A Reading to triple-A Lehigh Valley, where the lefthander will be used as a relief pitcher.


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|Semester 2 Credit Value:
|ECTS Credits:
This module aims to:
1. Enable students to understand the changing significance of television in systems of mass communication, in cultures, and in human relationships.
2. Provide a critical understanding of the key theoretical approaches to the study of television and encourage students to consolidate these critical skills in their study of television texts, contexts and audiences.
3. Provide a critical understanding of the key production processes and techniques of television.
4. Discuss and evaluate recent debates surrounding the changing function and value of television in contemporary national and international cultures (e.g. the impact of digitalization, the rise of global television, marketization and public service broadcasting, transmedia television)
5. Examine and assess studies of television in relation to audiences, texts, industry, regulation, and policy.
Television Studies is a relatively new discipline which engages with what is the most pervasive and prevalent of the communication mediums. As a medium, television shapes how individuals and communities perceive and make sense of local and international spheres, and offers representational frameworks through which subjects construct a sense of identity. Television is seen by its critics as a problem: lowering moral standards, vulgar, having a negative impact on violence, behaviour, and motivation. Yet television is also used to bring communities together, shaping the values and opinions which serve to shape 'national' identities, represent minority communities and issues, and acts as a significant point of emotional engagement and attachment.
Television Studies examines these tensions and approaches television as a psychological, social and cultural form, as well as an economic and political one.
This module will examine the principal themes, issues, and debates in contemporary television studies, and explore possible future directions. The module will allow students to both develop a detailed understanding of principal perspectives in the analysis of factual and fictional television output, and to explore and evaluate empirical and theoretical tools for the understanding of television in recent history.
The module will include analyses of key issues, including TV audiences and identities, methods of textual analysis, social and critical theory and television, technological and economic changes and challenges, and issues in TV history and contemporary output. This includes topics such as quality and programming, reality TV, drama, soap and documentary, genre and textual analysis, the development of television at key moments in television history, and questions of the relationship between television and social formations in public and private spheres such as class, gender, national identity, and race.
Television Studies: key concepts and disciplinary history
National television, mass communication and the public sphere, marketization, policy and regulation
Genre: soap, documentary, fact and fiction, hybrid genres
Audience studies, television consumption, media effects and ideology
Reality television: celebrity, spectacle, visibility
Makeover television: identity, social and cultural taste
Representation, fandom and the emotional politics of television
Post-broadcasting, transmedia and digital television
The module will allow students to gain a knowledge of:
1. The role and power of television in communication, in contemporary culture and society, in the local, national and global spheres of meaning, in social and inter-personal relationships and in personal lives
2. The codes, forms, and conventions of a range of television texts, genres and practices
3. The ways in which TV (at levels of production and consumption) shapes messages and constructs a sense of what the world 'is' , could be, or should be, and the ways in which television constructs genres, messages and narratives which contribute to the construction of the social and the personal.
4. How to plan and execute research assessments, engage critically with media and cultural texts, develop case studies and make use of theoretical and empirical material from within the discipline of television studies in their independent and group work.
The module will allow students to consolidate skills in the following:
1. Analysis and evaluation skills with regard to television texts, television flow and processes/practices of production and consumption.
2. Speaking and listening skills in group and seminar work.
3. Writing and reading skills in independent assessment work.
4. Critical viewing skills and representation skills.
|Graduate Skills Framework Applicable:
|Student Hours
|Guided Independent Study
|Assessment preparation and completion
|Two assessments
|Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities
|Guided Independent Study
|Directed research and reading
|Weekly key text and further reading
|Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities
|Small group teaching
|Guided Independent Study
|Reflective learning activity
|Guided Independent Study
|Student-led group activity
The module aims to encourage the development and comprehension of television (content, form, production, and consumption). Lectures introduce and develop ideas and supporting seminars allows students to consider material in more detail. Students support this scheduled learning with student-led critical viewing and reflective discussion sessions, which will enable them to explore ideas and consolidate skills for their Project Work. A mixture of lecture, seminar, small-group work and spoken presentations will be combined with private study, essay writing and project work development.
The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners
|When Set
|Essay, 2500 words
|Critical Assessment Essay, 1500 words
Project Work allows students to measure theories of flow, production, and consumption in popular media. This assessment asks students to focus upon a specific television text and to consider how it (re)produces social and cultural meaning, using the conceptual models of the module. This assessment represents the cumulation of ongoing critical viewing work which they are asked to reflect upon in student-led group sessions. This fits well with formative side of the module as well as realities of 'life' in media industries (e.g. the log of work in production settings). It also enables students to consolidate their analysis and evaluative skills by applying themselves to an example of their own choosing.
The longer essay will allow students to bring together critical and evaluative skills in an extended piece of work. They are asked to respond to one of a list of essay questions set by the Convenor, drawing upon conceptual and empirical material introduced in the module as well as social and cultural theories of television production and consumption.
These assessments allow students to establish practical, theoretical, critical and evaluative skills and stress the importance of working to deadlines and goals.
Note: The Module Catalogue now reflects module information relating to academic year 16/17. Please contact your School Office if you require module information for a previous academic year.
Disclaimer: The University will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver modules in accordance with the descriptions set out in this catalogue. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information, however, the University reserves the right to introduce changes to the information given including the addition, withdrawal or restructuring of modules if it considers such action to be necessary.


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Crazy but True: Some Single Guys Have Engagement Ring FundsCarolyn Castiglia
Continuing on last week's theme of engagement ring obsession, I bring you this shocker: some savvy single guys are saving up for engagement rings while they're still single. Or so says Juan Garcia in an interesting essay for Cosmo. Garcia first tells the story of his former roommate Ian, who began saving for an engagement ring upon his father's urging at age 18. Ian successfully bought a diamond ring before meeting the woman who is now his wife, and kept it "stashed away inside the seat cushion of an orange 1970's recliner in his father's hobby room."
Garcia recently set up a "ring fund" himself, because, he says, "When a guy realizes what he wants in life, he begins preparing, whether it's consciously or subconsciously." Garcia seems pleased with his decision to save for an engagement ring. That way, he writes, "When I'm ready to pop the question, I won't be scrambling for cash." It's an interesting planning strategy, to be sure, but the more important question no jeweler wants me to ask is, should anyone who might be wiser to start saving up for, say, a house, be keeping thousands of dollars set aside to spend on one small token of love?
As I mentioned last week in my examination of engagement ring fixation, I myself was not immune to the diamond industry's ploy to get everyone in America to buy their product as proof of an everlasting passion and desire for commitment. But I'm happy to witness to you, as a divorced person, that while diamonds are forever, half of marriages are not. And since one of the things couples fight over most is money, maybe it would be better for everyone if we stopped encouraging young and youngish people to spend thousands of dollars on diamonds before starting a life together. Furthermore, while I appreciate the positive thinking and determination that goes hand-in-hand with saving for a ring for a true love yet-to-be manifested, I think buying the actual ring a decade before even meeting your future wife, as Ian did, shows a lack of consideration for the recipient. I mean, what if she doesn't like gold? Or diamonds, for that matter?
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Bucs See 'Sloppy' Effort in 44-16 Preseason Route by the Ravens
The?Tampa Bay Buccaneers' suffered a tough 44-16 loss to the defending Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens Thursday night before a crowd of 47,599 at Raymond James Stadium in a game coach Greg Schiano called 'sloppy' after his first-teamers left the field.
On the Ravens' opening possession, Lavonte David?sacked Joe Flacco for a 10-yard loss. Cornerback Danny Gorrer, who started in place of Darrelle Revis, then jumped out in front of Jacoby Jones, picking off Flacco?on third-and-15.
?I thought we played competitively on defense, with the sack? and then the interception -- that?s a third-down stop," said head coach Greg Schiano after the game.
"Danny Gorrer had two ? he had an interception and a PBU. That?s great against one team?s ones. I mean, they were missing some people and we were missing a lot of guys, too. But that was, I guess it was 6-0 at the end of the first quarter, and that was a positive. Certainly we got sloppy a bit after."
Despite the pick, Flacco had a brief-but-solid outing, completing 7 of 9 passes for 57 yards passing. His backup, Tyrod Taylor, had an impressive performance, passing for 154 yards with two touchdowns and no INTs.
Like Flacco, Bucs quarterback Josh Freeman?saw limited action, completing 4 of 7?passes?for 34 yards, with no touchdowns and no interceptions.?
On Freeman's first series, the offense went three-and-out and?surrendered a sack?to Chris Canty.
Freeman came back for a second series,?hitting Kevin Ogletree for a 22-yard reception on third-and-7 that was set up by Gorrer's pick. He?then found Vincent Jackson along the sideline of the Baltimore 5 yard line for a 20-yard gain.
The play was originally ruled a catch, but a challenge from Ravens head coach John Harbaugh saw the play overturned, and Freeman's second of two offensive series stalled at the Baltimore 11.
The?Bucs?settled for a 29-yard field goal by Derek Dimke, the first of three for the night.
Mike Glennon stepped in and saw the most action of the Buccaneers quarterbacks, completing 11 of 23 passes for 169 yards passing, zero touchdowns, and one interception.
"I thought Mike Glennon handled himself with really good poise," said Schiano. "The one interception was a good throw, it was the wrong route. You?ve got to throw that route before it breaks. So, it looked awful because it was awful, but it was not on him."
On his very first play of the game, just before the start of the second quarter, he stood tall despite heavy pressure, finding tight end Tom Crabtree for a 61-yard reception -- the longest pass play of the night.
"It kind of looked like everything was breaking down and he found [Tom] Crabtree and he's just a special guy with a special arm," said Ogletree, who was targeted eight times between Freeman and Glennon, catching five passes for 65 yards receiving.
Glennon was far from perfect, but he?appeared comfortable as a signal caller and methodically drove the ball downfield. With the help of two pass interference calls on the Ravens, Brian Leonard ran it in for a 3-yard touchdown -- the only touchdown of the night for Tampa Bay.
?"What I was joking about with the guys was how great pass interference is in the NFL compared to college," said Glennon after the game. "You throw two deep balls, you get two pass interference calls and all a sudden you're on the three-yard line. That was a great way to get a touchdown out of that drive."
Leonard, who?also lined up as a tight end,?rushed for 23 yards on six carries and a touchdown in his debut as a Buccaneer.
Peyton Hillis, who is competing with Leonard for a backup role behind Doug Martin, had four rushes for 13 yards. He took a helmet to the knee and was forced to leave the game. He did not return and was seen after the game?limping heavily.
Schiano did not know the severity of the injury immediately after the game. "That?s a shame. He and Brian Leonard really did a nice job. We?re looking for that depth behind Doug, so that?s a positive. But, let?s hope he?s well.?
Second-year receiver Chris Owusu, who has looked sharp throughout camp practices, did not have a good night. He was targeted seven times but managed just two catches -- although significant at 48 yards -- and set up a Ravens' touchdown by Bernard Pierce with a muffed punt in the second quarter as rain started to fall.
Owusu's error wasn't the only glitch on special teams. Just before halftime,?Ravens safety Brynden Trawick?blocked a punt by Chas Henry, with LeQuan Williams running it in for a touchdown. "It was a technique error that may not be easily correctable," said Schiano in regards to Owusu's muffed catch.
"Sometimes that?s part of why guys are cut." Schiano added, "The blocked punt, it was a young guy and they were four and four, it was a basic rush. A guy just individually beat another guy."
Rookie cornerback Johnthan Banks led the defense with five tackles and a pass breakup. Schiano was pleased with his second-round draft pick's effort, along with the effort of the defensive backs unit as a whole.
?I thought Johnthan ? without watching the tape, it?s hard to tell, but I thought he showed up a few times. And that?s a guy who the stage wasn?t too big for tonight, and that?s promising. I think there?s a couple other guys at the corner position that kind of showed up tonight, which is good. That?s what we?re hoping for."
The Bucs rested a total of 13 players: K Lawrence Tynes, CB Darrelle Revis, S Sean Baker, FB Erik Lorig, LB Jacon Cutrera, G Davin Joseph, G Carl Nicks, TE Luke Stocker, WR David Douglas, DT Derek Landri, DE Adrian Clayborn, DT Gary Gibson, and DE Aaron Morgan.
For the Ravens, WR David Reed, Ladarius Webb, S Omar Brown, LB Jameel McClain, DE Kapron Lewis-Moore, G/T Marshal Yanda, C Ryan Jensen, TE Ed Dickson, and TE Dennis Pitta were inactive.