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'Rethinking the Radiator' is Rochus Jacob's modern-day approach towards temperature control.
Most New Yorkers are used to the hissing and clanking of the radiator – a noisy reminder of something we have no control over. Enter, New York based industrial designer, Rochus Jacob, who decided to change all that with his concept 'Rethinking the Radiator.' His campfire inspired design suggests placing the apparatus in the middle of a living space, allowing it to heat the room faster while saving energy (and money). Rochus considered the fact that heat, in every culture holds a significant value, whether it be emotional or social. The heating system works using hot water or steam just like regular radiators and can be integrated into any home.
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|Thanks for your feedback, i checked out the honest kitchen which looks great but i wont be able to get it in time before she goes to the trainer to test it out to see if she is ok with it or not .... i have to either order it online or drive a fair distance to get it. She was on the acana first and had runny stools which is why we switched to raw. The sales person at Global pets recommended canine caviar ....any input about the venison canine caviar? anyways i plan on going raw after the 2 weeks is done and she is back home
|If you've already switched her to the Acana and her stools have been fine on it, I would say to stick with that during her time at the kennel.
The closest thing you will find to raw is a 100% Human grade De-hydrated food called The Honest Kitchen.
It is the ONLY pet food company in the USA that the FDA legally allows to use the words "HUMAN GRADE" on its packaging and advertisements.
Don't let the price fool you! a 10 pound box re-hydrates to 35-40 pounds of food. It is not the same equivalent as 40 pounds of kibble exactly, but it is REAL living food! It resembles cooked oat meal. I suggest "Embark" as it is grain free. Check the site specifics to see how long a box will last per your dogs weight.
Maybe you can send along some recreational bones to keep your baby happy!
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I have a 6 month gsd who has been on raw food for 3 months. I switched her on the advice of her trainer from Acana large puppy as she was having loose stools. Here is the problem : I need to leave her at the kennel/ farm for 2 weeks as I am going away...what should I feed her wet or dry food while she is there? There is not enough freezer space to leave that much raw with the kennel. Please advice or give suggestions ....on dry vs.wet and brands to make the change .Thanks
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The "Big Decompression" in Lake City
Neighbors say it's too much too soon.
The Lake City father and daughter shot in a drive-by Thursday night have been released from the hospital.
The shots rang close enough to those still on edge over a shooting last week; one that may have been much worse if a neighbor wasn't nosey.
"He was watching over us, protecting us from harms way," said Angela Williams of Lake City.
Williams says angels were with her last week.
"When he came out, he could have turned around and shot us," she said.
Williams lives next door to the now boarded up home, that was surrounded by SWAT teams and helicopters just a week ago.
"This big decompression that everyone is going through, its going to take a little time, it's not something at the snap of a finger is going to go away," said Captain John Blanchard with the Lake City Police Department.
The havoc Jesse Custer, 26, brought to a neighborhood before taking his life, is still being investigated by the state.
Custer shot three officers responding to a domestic violence call, then barricading himself inside his ex-wife's house before making it his tomb.
Williams missed all the action; she was on her way to a doctors appointment in Gainesville when shots were fired.
Before they left the house, Williams says her husband noticed something suspicious going on in the neighbor's driveway.
"Guns going in the house...him taking the guns in the house," she said.
About a half hour before the shootings took place, Williams says her husband reported what he saw to the police: Custer transporting weapons from his trunk to the house.
Police wouldn't comment on details, but encourage a "see something, say something" policy.
"I would say people should be more cautious, pay attention to their surroundings. When you do things like that, you're less likely to become a victim," said Blanchard.
Williams says after 30 years in the neighborhood, she finally knows her neighbors.
"I made it a pattern to go over and meet my other neighbors because I didn't know them and I didn't know their names," she said.
According to police, the three officers are all out of the hospital and recovering at home.
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DORNEY, England, July 31 Niger's Hamadou Djibo Issaka, the novice rower who has earned comparisons to the slow swimmer Eric "The Eel", vowed to improve on Tuesday after again finishing last in an Olympic semi-final that was some 28 seconds slower than his previous race.
Djibo Issaka has won huge support from the mostly British crowd in his three races at the Olympic regatta, with the commentator encouraging him down the course on Tuesday as the 35-year-old lagged the field by 300 metres on the 2,000m course.
The sculler, dubbed by the British press as the "sculling sloth", received a wild card to the Olympics, allocated to ensure all 204 National Olympic Committees can take part even if no athletes have qualified.
The gardener and swimming-pool attendant, who said he had only trained properly for three months before the Games, received a rapturous reception by the more than 20,000 spectators who yelled him on as he crawled over the finish line, before slumping over his oars and gasping for breath.
"I don't have any technique," the slight sculler told reporters after the race, fielding questions from what he had for breakfast to was he aware of his new found notoriety.
"I've been learning only three months. But with the time and the years, I'll get the technique," he said. "It's all about courage. I'm getting ready for (2016). The crowd encourage me and helps me finish the race."
The commentator used the build up before the race to largely ignore the opposition and concentrate instead on some of the problems faced by Niger, ranging from what he described as a poor education system to a lack of infrastructure.
The west African nation of Niger, which has sent six athletes to London, is landlocked and 80 percent desert.
Ahmadou Youssoufou, a member of the Niger NOC and president of the water sports federation of Niger, told reporters they were very proud of their athlete's efforts, especially as Niger lacks the correct boats to practise in.
"In the next Olympiad, in the next Games Hamadou will be stronger and faster," he said.
"We don't have any boats. No boats. We are getting two single sculls and two double sculls and some oars. They are coming in the next month so we can begin this sport in our country with the equipment."
Djibo Issaka started out as a swimmer but switched to rowing and spent two weeks training in Egypt, two months in Tunisia, as his coach is Tunisian, and a week in Belgium.
He has been compared to one of the Olympic's most famous underdogs, swimmer Eric "The Eel" Moussambani from Equatorial Guinea, who became a sensation at Sydney.
Having trained for only eight months in a 20 metre-hotel pool, Moussambani swam his heat on his own after the other two competitors were disqualified for false starts and he flagged near the end, appearing to almost sink near the finish.
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Hillary to Cornyn: "The Clintons don't forget."
On Tuesday, Politico's Glenn Thrush reported about a little tête-à-tête between Hillary Clinton and John Cornyn in the Capitol. Cornyn, you'll recall, had just prevented a unanimous consent vote on Hillary's nomination and Thrush, who saw but did not hear the discussion, characterized the exchange as "heated," which Cornyn denied.
Well, one of our eagle-eyed sources spotted the same discussion and was able to get within earshot just in time to hear Clinton warn Cornyn, "The Clintons don't forget." One day later, Cornyn's objections to Clinton's confirmation magically disappeared and the man who had set the roll call vote in motion voted in favor of confirming Clinton. Now let's see how she handles Hamid Karzai.
UPDATE: A spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee emailed Madam Secretary with this:
This story about what Sen. Clinton allegedly told Sen. Cornyn is false and it's disappointing that the Senator's office was not contacted before it was posted. Senator Cornyn has made clear, including in an op-ed in the Austin American Statesman today, that this situation had nothing to do with Senator Clinton personally, and everything to do with his long record as an advocate for transparency in government.
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This September, Marshall headphones presents On the Road, a documentary series produced by Vice Media. Presented by Jesse Hughes the epic front-man of Eagles of Death Metal and Tim Harrington from Les Savy Fav, On the Road celebrates the travelling rock 'n' roll lifestyle playing tribute to the unsung, behind-the-scenes heroes that make the gigs happen.
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White edged out Mark King 5-4 to reach the last four, but O'Sullivan was beaten 5-3 by World number 12 Peter Ebdon at a high-quality encounter.
Despite struggling with his form all evening, the "Whirlwind" pieced together a run of 61 in the deciding frame to clinch victory and move into his first ranking tournament semi-final since the Regal Welsh Open last January.
"I felt relaxed in the last frame, made a good break and I'm delighted to win," said White, who now meets Paul Hunter.
"It's pleasing to be playing well, and if I wasn't here to win it, I'd already have gone home."
O'Sullivan barely missed a ball in the opening three frames as breaks of 81 and 98 helped him establish a 2-1 lead, with Ebdon clinching a scrappy third in three visits.
At 3-1, the tide turned when Ebdon fluked the pink for 3-2 and he then took control. A break of 88 made it 3-3, he clinched a 4-3 lead with runs of 33 and 36, and stylishly wrapped things up with a break of 81.
Ebdon then revealed that some hard work during the close-season has quickened him up and ironed out any problems in his game.
"I have been putting a lot of work in on the practise table over the summer," Ebdon explained. "I didn't realise I'd slowed down, but when you've been around a long time, you can see too much at the table.
"People came up to me during the summer to ask if I'd retired, which got me thinking. I haven't been on television recently as much as I used to be, but I'm determined to do well this season."
Afterwards, Ebdon paid warm tribute to the "Rocket", who lost his first match of the season by failing to reach the semi-finals.
"Ronnie is awesome when he gets in amongst the balls. His ability is unbelievable - the man's a genius."
Ebdon now faces the equally dogged Scot Alan McManus for a place in the final.
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Simonton Offers New Condensation Brochure
"Understanding Condensation in Your Home" is the name of a new brochure introduced by Simonton Windows. It is available for download from the manufacturer's website.
"We often get calls from homeowners who are concerned that their windows are 'sweating' or leaking either inside or outside the home because they see moisture on the glass," says Christopher Burk, Simonton's technical product manager. "In reality, that's simply not the case. While condensation may collect on the interior or exterior of energy-efficient windows, the units are really doing their job by helping serve as a barrier in the home."
Burk emphasizes that windows do not cause condensation–they simply prevent the moisture in the home from escaping to the outside. "If the inside glass surface on double- or triple-glazed windows show excessive moisture, you can be reasonably sure that the moisture is also collecting on your walls and ceilings," says Burk. "This means you should take steps to reduce the humidity level in your home by using exhaust fans and dehumidifiers."
The manufacturer notes that homeowners create much of the water vapor in the home themselves on a daily basis. It also offers a number of tips to reduce condensation:
- Use kitchen and bathroom exhaust fans.
- Set humidifier, if used, to the correct outside temperature.
- If a home is overly humid, or if the basement is damp, use a dehumidifier.
- Properly vent clothes dryers, gas appliances and stoves.
- Open a window in the bathroom.
- Make sure the attic, basement and crawl spaces are well ventilated and free from obstructions.
- Store firewood outside. Freshly-cut wood can consist of up to 45 percent water, which adds water vapor to the home. Even well-seasoned firewood generally has a 20 to 25 percent moisture content.
- Open curtains and blinds to allow more air circulation around your windows.
Simonton's Burk also points out that it is important to know the difference between condensation on the glass and between the glass panes of the window. "If you are seeing moisture, fogging or cloudiness between the panes of glass in your window, this is a strong indication that the seal of your window has failed and it's time to get a new window," he says. "Failed seals lack the energy efficiency and features necessary to help you keep energy bills low and enjoy comfortable living in your home. While condensation on the interior or exterior of the glass is manageable, moisture between the glass needs swift attention by homeowners."


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Dishonored - Interview @ The Creators Project
Art Director Sébastien Mitton and video game director Viktor Antonovare interviewed at The Creators project about Dishonored, its begining and how it got to be what it is now.
The Creators Project: How long have you been working on Dishonored? How did this project come to life?
Viktor Antonov: We've been working on it for three years, since 2009. The project came to life in quite a dramatic way. I was an independent author at the time, and Arkane was an indie studio with great potential to sign a big contract with Bethesda. For legal reasons, their initial project was aborted. We were given three weeks to come up with a sufficiently interesting suggestion. But I was extremely enthusiastic because it's such a rare opportunity to start from scratch and design something to fit a colossal budget.
At this stage, there was no preliminary draft, just a budget?
Sébastien Mitton: No, there were only intentions for gameplay. Bethesda knew that we had an expertise in first person shooters, and they knew we were looking to achieve dense and visceral games. At that time, Dishonored was supposed to take place in Japan during medieval times, but we told them it was hardly conceivable—as Europeans, we can easily fall into cheap stereotypes. After several discussions, we told them that we wanted the game to be based in London, which was our starting point.
Information aboutDishonored
SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Technofantasy
Genre: Shooter-RPG
Platform: PC, Xbox 360, PS3
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As Founder of Keith Williams Law Group, I dedicate my practice to helping everyday people and their families in accident, injury and wrongful death cases. I am certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. I am honored to be a frequent lecturer at legal seminars and webinars to attorneys in Tennessee and across the country.
I am actively involved in a number of legal organizations that work to maximize the rights of injured people. Nationally, I am an Chair-Elect of the AAJ Aviation Section as well as a member of the Public Justice Foundation. Locally, I am on the Board of the Tennessee Association for Justice (TAJ), serve on the Executive Committee and Board of Governors of the TAJ, a member of the TAJ Circle of Advocates, and serve as Co-Chairman of the TAJ Legislative Committee. I also a contributing member of Lawyers Involved for Tennessee.
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For example, I represented the estate and minor child of one of the victims of the Comair Flight 5191 crash in Lexington, Kentucky. During that lengthy litigation—which involved dozens of plaintiffs, numerous defendants, and countless other attorneys—I was actively involved as part of the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee (which guided the litigation for the various Plaintiffs) and served with a group of select attorneys chosen for the Plaintiffs' trial team. I also recently represented a family whose child was severely injured in a trucking accident. We were able to prove not only liability from the trucking company, but also 3rd party broker liability from the freight broker. That case settled for a Confidential amount.
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Publication Date: 6/1/2002
Citation: MOORE, S., PAYTON, P., GIOVANNONI, J.J. DNA MICROARRAYS FOR GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. PRACTICAL APPROACH MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY. 2002. V. 2. P. 65-76. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: Microarrays allow analysis of expression patterns of thousands of genes within the confines of one experiment. Arrays are direct descendants of DNA gel-blot (Southern) based assays that exploit interactions between complimentary strands of DNA. The addition of a solid glass substrate, precision robotics, and the use of fluorescence provide expression arrays with increased precision, speed, and scale over their filter and radioactivity based cousins. These qualities make microarrays a particularly attractive partner for the huge amounts of gene sequence information generated in the current genomics era. Although transcript monitoring is currently the most popular use for arrays, they have been successfully utilized in fields ranging from mutation detection to evolutionary sequence analysis. Microarray publications seem to appear with increasing fervor, however very few concern work in the plant sector. Here we provide a basic outline of microarray construction and use as we have optimized for our work with plant species (in particular tomato), with focus on sample preparation, probe synthesis, and data generation.


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A week or so ago, my boat was stolen. I decided to try and scout some fields for ducks since water is out of the question unless i find a walk in spot. Trying to avoid walk in because they are usually overhunted and skybusted. I have a few field for goose hunting but have never seen a duck anywhere near them. I have driven around trying to find some fields that have ducks and no luck, which brings me to my question. When scouting for fields to hunt for ducks, is it essential to look close to large bodies of water (horicon, sheboygan, large lakes, etc)? I have only been duck hunting 3 or 4 years and only hunted ducks over water. So this is all new territory for me.
I do live close to Lake Michigan ( in Fredonia, north of Port Washington), so should i just drive country roads up and down the shore a mile or two inland watching fields? Any suggestions would be great, as usual, not looking for spots, more of a plan of attack.


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April 29, 1999
Charlie Munger: Warren's Right-Hand Man
by Dale Wettlaufer (TMF Ralegh)
Vice-Chairman Charlie Munger is the lesser known of Berkshire Hathaway's dynamic duo, but Munger has had a significant, almost unquantifiable impact on the way Warren Buffett thinks and on the fortunes of Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders.
Like Buffett, Charles T. Munger is a product of Omaha and, indeed, worked at the same grocery in Omaha as Buffett did, but not at the same time. The grocery, incidentally was Buffett & Son -- Warren Buffett's grandfather's store. They met in 1959 when the two were introduced by a mutual friend. They immediately hit it off. At the time, Munger was a lawyer, but within a decade he would move onto other things completely.
Charlie Munger is somewhat unusual in that he received his law degree from Harvard without having attained an undergraduate degree. The Los Angeles-based law firm of Munger, Tolles, & Olson is one of the most powerful on the West Coast, though Munger isn't involved any longer. He spends his time mainly as the Chairman and CEO of Berkshire subsidiary Wesco Financial (AMEX: WSC) and as the constant and longtime collaborator with Warren Buffett.
At the urging of Buffett, Munger set to managing money full-time, and he burned up the track with the Munger Partnership (see below). Munger came to own a considerable chunk of Berkshire through the merger of companies he and Berkshire both owned, and he became Vice-Chairman of Berkshire in 1979.*
Munger is a unique intellectual talent, which is manifest in the Berkshire Hathaway of today. Buffett acknowledges that Charlie was the person to get him to buy high quality companies at a fair price and move away from the cigar-butt, short-term value arbitrage approach practiced by Ben Graham and his employees at Graham-Newman Corporation and then elsewhere.
If Charlie Munger left nothing else on earth but the transcript of a talk he gave at USC in 1994 (available through subscription to Outstanding Investors' Digest), he would have led a successful life. In this address, titled "A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom as it Relates to Investment Management and Business," Munger lays out what can stand alongside Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor and Phil Fisher's Common Stocks, Uncommon Profits as great and enduring statements of investment philosophy.
I think I could reasonably sum up a central tenet of Charlie Munger's investment philosophy as "make fewer decisions, make better decisions." While the Buffett Partnership did extremely well engaging in value arbitrage, Buffett and Berkshire have done best capitalizing on a few important big insights rather than a number of small insights. In the 1994 address, Munger said, "We've really made the money out of high quality businesses. In some cases, we bought the whole business. And in some cases, we just bought a big block of stock. But when you analyze what happened, the big money's been made in the high quality businesses."
That hasn't happened as the result of Munger and Buffett being timid about allocating small amounts of capital to their best ideas. It has come from concentrating their capital in the big ideas. Munger addressed this issue in a 1998 speech to directors of charitable foundations: "In the United States, a person or institution with almost all wealth invested, long-term, in just three fine domestic corporations is securely rich. And why should such an owner care if at any time most other investors are faring somewhat better or worse. And particularly so when he rationally believes, like Berkshire, that his long-term results will be superior by reason of his lower costs, required emphasis on long-term effects, and concentration in his most preferred choices."
Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett believe that "time is the best friend of the great companies and the enemy of the poor ones." Fiddling around with low-quality businesses entails paying the opportunity costs of not allocating that capital to the world-class investment opportunities that make themselves available from time to time.
One thing that must be understood about Berkshire is that Buffett and Munger let a lot of ideas pass through their brains. If their brains were gold pans, they would have highly permeable screens in them, and only the biggest chunks of gold are trapped by the screens. As Buffett says, there are no "called strikes" in investing. They can wait for the great businesses to come to them, which is an "emotional IQ" attribute that can be attributed to Warren Buffett's training with Ben Graham as well as mind melding with Charlie Munger over the last four decades.
As a footnote, readers might be interested in the following data from Robert Hagstrom's latest book, The Warren Buffett Portfolio, a rangy look at diversification and risk, behavioral finance, and really, the way the world works for some of the country's best investors. This is the track record of the Charles Munger Partnership, year-by-year, versus the Dow Jones Industrial Average:
Annual percentage change Partnership DJIA 1962 30.1 -7.6 1963 71.7 20.6 1964 49.7 18.7 1965 8.4 14.2 1966 12.4 -15.8 1967 56.2 19.0 1968 40.4 7.7 1969 28.3 -11.6 1970 -0.1 8.7 1971 25.4 9.8 1972 8.3 18.2 1973 -31.9 -13.1 1974 -31.5 -23.1 1975 73.2 44.4 Average Return 24.3 6.4 Standard Deviation 33.0 18.5 Minimum -31.9 -23.1 Maximum 73.2 44.4 [Compound annual return] 19.8 4.9
The data alone is pretty good evidence that this is an unusual individual. The readings I have suggested in this article, however, are a far better look into Charlie Munger's outstanding mind, as primary materials, than I can deliver to you.
* This background information relies heavily on Andy Kilpatrick's 1998 Edition of the 30 billion-pound gorilla, Of Permanent Value.
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Battle of the Books
In just a few days, summer reading fun starts at the library and, with it, our first ever Battle of the Books! This summer, we want you to help us pick the very best novel in three categories: Adult Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, and Children's Fiction. Best of all, anyone can vote in any category - whether you've read the books or not. We'll be voting, bracket-style, so stop by each week to drop a ballot in the box and keep your favorite novels in the game!


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Biotechnology is now applied to the production of a wide range of chemical, pharmaceutical, agricultural and food products. Increasingly, there has been a need for the biotechnological processes themselves, not just the products, to be regulated and for possible hazards to be identified. This book provides a practical approach to the industrial and international regulatory aspects of biosafety in biotechnology. Chapters cover relevant national (and international) legal requirements, policy-making bodies and regulatory agencies, providing practical guidelines to industry on how to comply with the regulations. Industrial aspects covered include a review of potential health hazards, effluent management and equipment monitoring procedures. This book is an essential source of practical advice and reference for industrial biotechnologists, particularly those with responsibility for safety, ecotoxicologists, health inspectors and chemical engineers. This book should be of interest to production managers, quality managers, safety managers and biological safety officers in biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies; process equipment designers, fabricators and users; and researchers and lecturers in biochemical engineering, biotechnology process design and development, industrial hygiene and occupational health departments in universities and technical colleges.
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Occupying the Academy
Just How Important Is Diversity Work in Higher Education?
Edited by
Christine Clark; Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner and Mark Brimhall-Vargas
In the wake of the election of President Obama, many diversity scholars and practitioners imagined that renewed commitments to educational equity and justice were just around the corner. Unfortunately, the opposite has become the Obama-era reality. Across the country, equity and diversity workers at all levels in university and colleges, but especially Chief Diversity Officers in public institutions, are under assault. Is this assault a result of a pre-meditated and carefully calculated conservative political agenda or the unfortunate consequence of how largely white, politically conservative—and the power bases they represent—are expressing their anger about the changing racial landscape in the United States? This volume explores and deconstructs the reasons for this assault from various perspectives. This volume also illustrates how the national assault on equity and diversity has resulted in a continuum. At one end are "diversity-friendly" institutions that are benignly neglecting equity/diversity efforts because of state budget crises. At the other end of the spectrum are the deliberate efforts being made to systematically dismantle equity and diversity work in especially politically conservative states.
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Christine Clark
is professor and senior scholar for multicultural education, and founding vice president for diversity and inclusion at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Clark was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in México and Guatemala, where she conducted research on school and community violence.
Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner
is the Shirley B. Barton and Assistant Professor in elementary education at Louisiana State University. His areas of expertise include educational foundations, pre-service teacher development, reflective practice, literacy, second language development, critical race theory, culturally relevant pedagogy, and multicultural education.
Mark Brimhall-Vargas
is the associate director of the Office of Diversity Education and Compliance (ODEC), an arm of the Office of the President, and a visiting scholar for Multicultural Education and Organizational Development in the Center for Leadership and Organizational Change (CLOC), both at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Sonia Nieto
The Permanence of Diversity
Mark Brimhall-Vargas, Christine Clark, and Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner
La Permanencia de la Diversidad
Mark Brimhall-Vargas, Christine Clark, y Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner
Occupying Academia, Re-Affirming Diversity
Christine Clark, Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner, and Mark Brimhall-Vargas
Stories from the
Chief Diversity Officer
Bailey Jackson
Case 1: Extra, Extra, Read All About It! Diversity Soul-ed Out (and Sold/Out) Here
Christine Clark
Case 2:
Balancing Act: A Contextual Case Analysis on Re-Centering Diversity in the Midst of Social and Economic Fluctuations
Katrice A. Albert and Marco J. Barker
Case 3:
Deconstructing Hope: A Chief Diversity Officer's Dilemma in the Obama Era
A. Leslie Anderson
Case 4: Transforming Lives and Communities: Case Study of a Diversity and Community Engagement Portfolio at a Flagship Institution
Gregory J. Vincent, Sherri L. Sanders, and S. Kiersten Ferguson
Case 5: Southern Predominantly White Institutions, Targeted Students, and the Intersectionality of Identity: Two Case Studies
Allison Daniel Anders,
James M. DeVita,
and Steven Thurston Oliver
Stories from the
Mid-Level Administrator
Bailey Jackson
Case 6: The Myth of Institutionalizing Diversity: Structures and the Covert Decisions they Make
Mark Brimhall-Vargas
Case 7:
Swimming up Mainstream: Facing the Challenges to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion on a University of ACME, Regional Campus in Obama's Era
Virginia Lea, Hollace Anne Teuber, Glenda Jones, and Susan Wolfgram
Case 8: The Search for Questions and Tellings of Silenced Students
Douglas J. Loveless and Bryant Griffith
Case 9:
The Evolution of a Campus: From the Seat of the Civil War to a Seat on the Freedom Rides
Shaunna Payne Gold and Leah K. Cox
Case 10:
The Unmet Promise: A Critical Race Theory Analysis of the Rise of an African
American Studies Program
Michael E. Jennings
Stories from the
Bailey Jackson
Case 11:
"Just (Don't) Do It!" Tensions Between Articulated Commitments and Action at The ACME State University
Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner and Vanessa Dodo Seriki
Case 12:
Déjà Vu:Dynamism of Racism in Policies and Practices Aimed at Alleviating Discrimination
Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers
Case 13: "Isn't Affirmative Action Illegal?"
Eugene Oropeza Fujimoto
Case 14: Equity at the Fringes: The Continuing Peripheral Enactment of Equity and Diversity in the Preparation of K-12 Teachers
Roderick L. Carey and Laura S. Yee
Case 15:
On the Battlefield for Social Justice in the Education of Teachers:
The Dangers and Dangerousness of Challenging Whiteness in Predominantly White Institutions and Teacher Preparation Programs
Brenda G. Juárez and Cleveland Hayes
So What? Who Cares? And What's Our Point About Diversity?
Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell
Carta Abierta: Una Lamada para Ocupar
J. Fasching-Varner, Christine Clark, y Mark Brimhall-Vargas
An Open Letter: A Call to Occupy
Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner, Christine Clark, and Mark Brimhall-Vargas
Damon A. Williams
Editor and Contributor Biographies
This book looks courageously at diversity in higher education through critical, social justice-oriented theoretical lenses. The strength of this edited volume rests in the various case studies as told from the perspective of academic leaders specifically employed as Chief Diversity Officers, Mid-Level Administrators, and faculty members. These case studies uncover the persistent challenges of racism in higher education. This volume also highlights the incredible resistance and resilience, embedded in both individual and collective agency,
that can move institutions of higher education forward. While asking, '
Just How Important Is Diversity Work in Higher Education?
' this volume responds by illuminating its potential role to genuinely affirm our humanity, to pursue continual (institutional) improvement, and to realize the call to justice.
Francisco A. Rios, Western Washington University
The editors of this volume take on the ambitious project of examining race and racism in higher education. This volume particularly appeals to those interested in applying a variety of critical lenses to explain the persistence of racial inequality and it's relationship to white privilege.
Adrienne D. Dixson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
To explore race/racism in the Obama era is to question how race/racism could persist simultaneously with the election of the country's first black president. The conversations around President Obama buttressed against the stories of equity/diversity workers in this volume are a constant reminder that the journey to a society devoid of race/racism is ongoing. However, with the type of honesty and courage represented in this volume…we may yet get there. After all, the
journey to the promised land requires an acceptance of the past, energy to redress the patterns that perpetuate discrimination in the present, so the future looks very different.
Kimberly L. King-Jupiter, Albany State University
Occupying the Academy
is a compelling and important examination of the realities of race and racism in higher education. It brings to light how inequity not only continues to manifest itself through institutions, but the subversive and shifting composition of whiteness as a powerful and controlling entity in the workplace. Some readers will be shocked, others will be validated; all readers will continue to be disappointed by the enabled assaults on equity/diversity workers and their work.
Thandeka K. Chapman, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Occupying the Academy
comprises a variety of case studies of diversity work at different public colleges and university, illustrating a broad range of institutional attitudes toward diversity work -- from nominal support to outright hostility.
Inside Higher Ed
Occupying the Academy: Just How Important Is Diversity Work in Higher Education?
," the authors describe eight configurations of diversity structures they found in use at colleges and universities. The configurations ranged from having he president claim the additional title or responsibility, either to foster or subvert the diversity effort, to having real diversity infrastructure in evidence.
The "to-do list of issues that the people Christine Clark, one of the book's editors, calls "diversity workers" must tackle are becoming more varied and complex, reaching far beyond racial/ethnic diversity or gender equity.
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