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SFO crash: Asiana Flight 214 crew tried to abort landing, NTSB says
Photo Galleries: Asiana Flight 214 crashes in San Francisco
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WEST HILLS - West Valley Christian Church leaders said they were shocked and devastated Sunday to learn that the two teens killed in Saturday's plane crash in San Francisco were among about 35 Chinese students planning to attend a three-week academic camp its school was set to host starting Monday.
We're "like stunned and kind of numb," said Rev. Glenn Kirby of West Valley Christian Church between morning services. "We didn't know them, hadn't met them yet, but we can imagine what it's like to lose teenagers and our hearts go out to the families."
While the academic summer camp is run and organized by a third-party and not by the church, the news still hit leaders and the parishioners hard since they were planning to see the students here on Monday. The church's school hosts several such camps for international students a year and church members are sometimes among the host families.
Derek Swales, administrator of West Valley Christian School, said he got a text Saturday from a third-party who is helping to organize the camp about the plane crash while heading back from San Francisco after a July Fourth celebration.
"We were devastated; is this really happening?," Swales told reporters outside the church Sunday. "Our first response was there is now way there are any survivors on that airplane."
Although they've confirmed that the two teenage girls who were killed were scheduled to attend the camp, Swales said, "we have no idea how many of the (other) students were burn victims; how many were injured critically."
Earlier Sunday, federal officials identified the two 16-year-olds killed as Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia.
The San Mateo County Coroner's Office is trying to determine if one of the girls was run over and killed by a rescue vehicle on the runway after the plane crashed, according to the Associated Press.
Swales said he understands that camp has been called off in light of the accident and said he completely understands.
"If I was a parent, I'd want to be with my kids. I'd want to come here," to the U.S., he said.
The students were all scheduled to stay with host families within the area so they could attend the camp at their school. The church did not assist with placement of families nor recruit teachers in this case, he said.
"There are a couple of (host) families that are really struggling with this," Swales said, noting that he did not believe any of the families are parishioners of the church. "They're just kind of laying low."
The camp was going to offer English-language and likely American culture classes as well as sight-seeing opportunities for the students in the afternoon, including visiting premiere colleges in the area, Swales said. He said he believed this particular program was a secular one.
"They are exceptional students," Swales said. "These are kids that are very driven academically and their parents are putting a great investment for them to come to America for them to learn the English language" and to encourage them to study in the U.S. This group of Chinese high school and possibly middle school students was the first of four groups West Valley Christian School was planning to host this summer, he said. Two other student groups from China and from Korea are scheduled to attend similar programs based at the school in the coming five weeks.
"I hope they don't identify this place as a place that is associated with a tragedy," Swales said. "We believe it will be a great place for people to come in the future and know that they'll be taken care of."
Derek's wife, Michelle Swales, a part-time teacher's aide at the school, said she was deeply saddened over the incident and particularly what the Chinese students on the plane as well as their families have gone through.
"They lost two friends yesterday," she said. "Your heart goes out to them. I wish we could be there to hug them, to love them."
Rev. Kirby said his church is going to open up their worship center at 7 p.m. Thursday for a community prayer for the victims of the crash.
"It will be a prayer meeting and we'll share whatever updates," he said. "We asked our church to pray...and we're also offering an opportunity to give money" to help the students on that plane and their families in some way.
Derek Swales said the money could be used to purchase a "gesture of sorrow for their loss."


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Consider this popular complaint about male gymnasium enthusiasts: "Roughly half of a man's workout consists of admiring his muscles in the gym mirror."
True, a lot of us go to the gym to improve our image. We want results, so we commit ourselves to a workout routine. While I admire the commitment it requires, I want to focus on what exercise, in itself, actually is. Notice that the act of working out is not the act of growing muscles. We might feel our muscles fill with blood and expand during use, but the resulting growth we expect is just that — a result. Ignoring all ends and results, the actual experience of working out is naturally not image focused, but pain focused. The actual activity of exercise centers more on pain felt than muscle growth experienced. The pain we feel signals muscle tissue breaking down, not becoming better and stronger.
So what is working out really all about, if the growth so often correlated with it concerns more the outcome than the actual activity?
This semester I am taking a rigorous weight lifting class in which my coach has addressed this very question. Whenever everyone in the room is absolutely exhausted, struggling to keep up with the pace of the workout, the coach says, "Keep it up, men. Remember, we're doing this for Christ."
I initially reacted adversely to these words of encouragement. We aren't exercising for Christ. Christ does not command us to exercise. Neither does our workout take the form of undergoing persecution for Christ's sake. How on earth can we be exercising for Christ?
However, upon further reflection on Christ as a man who walked this earth, I realized he was a ripped guy. He was a practicing carpenter for years and years which, back in the days before the invention of power tools, meant that he must have been really buff. But he was also ripped in a very different way, ripped by the Roman scourge, and thereby bearing the excruciating pain reserved for us. Christ uses the human experience of pain he knows so well to bring His church together as well as the meaningful tastes of pain we experience to remind us of Himself.
Exercise presents an opportunity to worship Christ for the small taste of His sacrificial pain we can partake of. That's probably what my coach meant when he reminded us that we are exercising "for Christ:" not that Christ somehow needs us to lift weights for Him, but that we offer up our hard work and painful experience to Him in praise. Exercise is a form of praise both because we get to exert ourselves bodily and because we get to taste of his sacrificial suffering and, realizing our pain is but a meager taste of His pain, praise Him all the more for the pain he underwent on our account. For Christians, a difficult workout is a time of meaningful Communion, in remembrance of Him.
It is also a unique way to taste how Christ builds up His church in that exercise isn't an activity for loners. It is extremely unwise and dangerous to do it alone. Conventional wisdom tells long-distance runners to bring a buddy. Weight lifters always weight train with a spotter, a friend who can safely disengage the weights when the lifter's own strength fails him. Both runners and weight lifters can push themselves further and with greater confidence in the company of others than would have been possible in isolation. In this way, it is unique from most other pain. Hitting myself in the thumb while nailing together my wooden fence does not reflect Christ's pain because it is self-absorbed: I look for any way to ease the throbbing pain I feel. Experiencing the pain of exercise, however, challenges me not to seek ease, but to look beyond myself and rely on others in order to arrive beyond my own pain. They help me bear my burden, and we all increase in unity, coordination, and strength.
The centrality of community in painful exercises like lifting weights illustrates the building up and strengthening of the Church. We experience pain together and we depend on the light Christ shines through the hearts of our fellow Christians in order to be raised up beyond the isolation our pain tempts us to seek. We find not short-lived, haphazard ease from our pain, but a refocused comfort beyond it. Building the body of Christ by tasting Christ's pain together deepens and strengthens our relationships in unfathomable ways just as the pain of Christ we taste is itself unfathomable.
As Romans 12:1 says, "I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is spiritual worship."
More than anything, exercise is an opportunity to commune with Christ, build up the Church, build up our bodies, and lift it all up to the praise of His glorious name. Exercise does more than build your body; it builds Christ's. At the end of such a workout we are exhausted, but surprisingly fulfilled, know it is Christ's work we have tasted, it is Him we have adored, and it is His body we have tended.
We don't go to the gym to contrive an image; we go there to be conformed to the image of His Son. We experience both the way he builds us up into His glorious body and the meaningful pain he suffered, that we might praise him all the more as his return approaches.


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THE FUTURE OF LONG BEACH'S PAST: The saga of the Long Beach Heritage Museum is older than some of the memorabilia in its massive collection. The main plot of the saga is the fact that it's looking - always looking - for a home.
Its heart and soul and chief procurer, Ken Larkey, who died last year at 82, began collecting Long Beach artifacts when he was 9 years old, when he rescued a 1906 panorama of Long Beach from a garbage can.
That began a lifelong obsession with collecting items from the city's past - and he never thought twice about diving into Dumpsters to collect old city files, furniture and fixtures. He could frequently be found roaming through the rubble of demolition sites at old buildings and businesses.
Nor did he ever slow down in his relentless pursuit of a permanent space to display his collection to the public. Even when he couldn't forage around town, he worked eBay like an old pro, sniping off anything of interest to Long Beach.
For nearly half a century, he hectored the city and other property owners for a public space to house his stuff - and it has grown to a tremendous amount of stuff, from cartons of ephemera such as tourist brochures, matchbook covers, postcards, pageant ribbons, to more elaborate pieces such as the entire 10-stool soda fountain from the Harriman Jones clinic and the entire contents of the Iowa Barber Shop that was on Pine Avenue and Third Street - all the way down to scissors and combs.
"There's stuff all over the place," says Marshall Pumphrey, Larkey's longtime friend and the person left in charge of the Long Beach Heritage Museum's belongings after the founder's passing.
"We found the Iowa barber pole in three pieces in three different locations."
Larkey had some successes in establishing a home for his museum, but nothing permanent or big enough to do justice to his collection. He opened a museum for just a few months in 1971 in Downtown Long Beach. And he had a good run for 20 years, from 1974 till 1994 in a storefront on Third Street and Elm Avenue - unfortunately, this was before the East Village's renaissance.
The beat goes on for Pumphrey, who is tackling the huge project of packing up stuff to store in various locations as the museum was given the heave-ho from yet another temporary storage site.
"Seaside Printing (1220 E. Fourth St.) is giving us an entire loft - they've been a hero for us. And the city is letting us use some 40-foot containers to store some of our bigger things. We'll be storing a lot of our archival papers and smaller artifacts there. And there's a gallery room downstairs where we've got some old electrical equipment and parking meters."
As for hunting for a permanent space, that's still a dream, but Pumphrey is looking at more innovative ways to get the Long Beach Heritage Museum's collection in front of the public.
"Ken always wanted a dedicated building to show everything, or nothing at all," said Pumphrey.
"But there's so much wonderful stuff here, I'd like to get as much out as I can."
Toward that end, the museum has loaned artifacts to various businesses around town, and is looking for more.
"We have a 12-foot redwood surfboard that Ken found in a hotel on Ocean, and we're going to let Polly's Coffee in Belmont Shore display that - they're redecorating now.
"We've got an old cast-iron mailbox at Mail Boxes Etc. in Belmont Shore.
"And the poster child of what we can do" is the restored Cyclone Racer roller-coaster car that's at Loof's Lite-A-Line at 2500 Long Beach Blvd. "(Owner) Mike Cincola put about $15,000 of his own money into restoring it, so it's kind of a permanent loan. And he has some great signs - the NuPike sign and a sign from the old saltwater taffy shop."
What Pumphrey would like, he says, are storefronts in which he can put up static displays. "If we could just use the windows of some of the vacant places downtown, we could make it look so much better," he says.
"We've got so much. We could put up the contents of an entire old-time grocery store, we could do an entire old hardware store. We have file cabinets Ken rescued from City Hall, complete with all the files that were in them. Ice boxes, old stoves, church pews from the First Congregational Church, theater seats from the Palace Theater."
What's the weirdest thing in the sprawling collection?
"Well," said Pumphrey. "I just found this: It's called Dr. Hubbell's Rectal Dilator."
"What the ...?" we said, cartoon-style. "What does it look like? I'm seeing a tire-jack or something with ratchets."
"No, it's a set of wooden things. It says it's for a variety of medical uses. It comes with a 12-page instruction book.
"That's an instruction book you're going to want to read carefully."
"I'm kind of afraid of it," said Pumphrey. "You're supposed to use it four times a week for 15 minutes at a time."
We moved on.
Pumphrey has items in his various properties around town, and he's moving into an office soon at the Long Beach Senior Center at 1150 E. Fourth St., just a couple of blocks from Seaside Printing.
"I'll be working with seniors who'll be volunteering their time to archive things, identify old businesses and looking things up. It'll be handy, because I can just walk down the street to Seaside and pick up a box and go through them one at a time."
Meanwhile, the saga continues. If you're in a position to donate some space, to display some artifacts, volunteer your time or even give the museum a permanent home, swing by the website at www.longbeachheritagemuseum.org, or call 562-987-1904.
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These irons have given me more confidence from the fairway. I am now gaining yardage and lowering my scores. These irons sit on the ground great. Callaway outdid themselves on this club.
I am very impressed with the quality of the clubs. The quality was listed as "value" but they are in great shape! I have gotten out to swing them a couple of times at the driving range and the HL is living up to its name. I am getting great loft out of my 8, 9, PW, and AW. They are very forgiving and I am getting a few more yards than my old Wilsons.
Loved my clubs, they came in the mail faster than I anticipated and they work great! My only thing is I thought they would be in better shape but they still weren't bad.
These irons are great if you are having trouble getting the ball in the air. I bought them but I didn't have an issue with ball flight to begin with. I feel that the ball goes way higher than normal with my swing but it makes for an easy landing. They are easy to hit and great for players who lack control with their irons. However, I would stay clear if you don't have trouble getting the ball in the air. Go with the regular Callaway Razor X irons.
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Pics! Meet Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck's Baby Boy, Samuel!
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner took their family out and about for the 4th of July—giving us a glimpse of Baby Samuel in the process!
-Lucia Peters
Celeb sweeties Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck welcomed their third child and first son, Samuel Garner Affleck, just about four months ago—and hey, guess what? We've finally gotten a peek at a baby pic, and predictably, it is absolutely adorable. Awwww!
We think he looks a lot like Dad, don't you? According to People, Ben, Jen, six-year-old Violet, three-year-old Seraphina, and itty bitty baby Samuel stepped out to celebrate the 4th of July on Wednesday in Pacific Palisades, CA. Just for the record, they're still out reigning champions of favorite celebrity family—mostly because they don't SEEM like a celebrity family.
Read Prince William Installed as Knight of the Order of the Thistle, Wears Silly Hat
And just for the extra cute factor, here's a shot of Mom, Dad, and Seraphina that was taken at the parade that day. We're loving her patriotic pigtails. How about you?
Happy not-quite-4th-of-July-anymore, Bettys!
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The Bluetooth iFrog keyboard.
Bluetooth iFrog keyboard, $355
The original Frogpad, a one-handed keyboard, was designed around the ergonomic benefits of the natural motion of the hand. With only 15 main keys (operated by the three centre fingers) and five command keys (pinky and thumb), the Frogpad is about a third the size of conventional keyboards and comes in left and right-handed versions. But the addition of Bluetooth wireless - doing away with the need to tether the keyboard - makes it most portable. There's still the small matter of breaking the QWERTY keyboard habit.
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Oakley Thump digital music eyewear, $US395 ($536)
Eyewear maker Oakley has effectively stuck an MP3 player on a pair of sunnies. The idea is that whatever the activity, you can listen to music without a player on your hip or wires getting in the way. Weighing about 50 grams, the player holds about four hours of music and can play continuously for six hours. The lenses also flip up so you can wear your specs indoors while still listening. It holds 128Mb but there's also a 256Mb model ($US495). Available in Australia next year.
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Etch A Sketch ETO, $69.95
The Etch A Sketch drawing tablet most of us grew up with has had an electronic touch-up. The ETO is cannily shaped like a video game control and plugs into the TV. The experience is more like using the basic drawing software on a PC but with controls that seem more fiddly. There's also a slot for plug-in cartridges.


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Harry Williams caught up with Brendan Loughnane of Team UK 'The Smashes' fame, ahead of his featherweight bout with Mike Wilkinson at UFC On FX 6 this weekend:
http://www.yourmma.tv/fighters/inter...-interview.htm"Everything has changed in my life," explained Loughnane. "Before I went there, I was just a local fighter that competed on shows like Ultimate Cage Championships and Clash of Warriors back in the day, I wasn't really doing too much. I always believed I could do it at this level though. I was always wishing for the chance to get myself out there.
"Since I've been back, I feel different as a person and a fighter. I feel that I walked into the house as a boy and left as a man. I found out what areas needed improving too.
It's a great interview and insight into how the opportunity changed his life for the better.


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Benjamin Franklin once said that "time is money," and in Long Beach, a pair of community members have made it a form of currency.
Two years ago, Tony Damico and Christine Petit founded the Long Beach Time Exchange, a time banking community where members use time credits to pay for services ranging from child care and tutoring to tax preparation and small-business development.
Participants bank a time dollar for every hour they help someone and those dollars - as well as offers and requests - are tracked by Community Weaver, a Web-based software system developed by Time Banks USA.
Celebrating its second anniversary this month, the Long Beach Time Exchange boasts 300 active members, a new office on Atlantic Avenue and a partnership with Long Beach Building Healthy Communities initiative, thanks to The California Endowment.
"We've done a lot in two years, especially with very little money," Petit said. "We do have a really diverse network and I think that's a big accomplishment."
The concept of time banking is not new. Developed in 1980 by law professor Edgar Cahn, time banking was created as an answer to funding cuts to social programs. From Austin to Maine, time exchanges have popped up all over the nation.
"I was very excited about the idea and felt that Long Beach was up for it because we're such a diverse city and people here have skills and experiences to share with one another," Petit said.
And in an economy where jobless rates remain high, the time exchange has been helpful, she said.
"Some people come to us when they're unemployed and left out of the traditional economy," she said. "For some unemployed folks, it means that they can keep practicing their skills while they're looking for a job or developing new skills. For some, it could lead to jobs down the road."
For Tanya Quinn, who owns a Long Beach-based healthy lifestyle consulting business, the time exchange has been professionally beneficial.
"As a business owner, it helps me promote my business as a whole," she said. "When I have open seats for a class, I give them to time bankers either at discounted rates or for free to fill those spots, which for my business it's nice to have a full class."
It also translates to more revenue for Quinn.
"I've gotten quite a few referrals through the time exchange and it makes more people aware of what I do in a more personal way," she said. "It's one thing to put advertisements and press releases out there. But this adds a personal element, and it helps the community as a whole."
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The purpose of aircrack and similar tools are to audit ones own networks- so no you are not going to get in trouble for 'cracking' your own ap if it is indeed your own.
The tools can be used to test for various levels of security and vulnerabilities so one can tweak the network to meet their own standards, whatever they are...hope that helps. jd
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By Eric Stevick Herald Writer
EVERETT — Police have arrested an Everett man for investigation of an October robbery, thanks in part to a good Samaritan who snagged some of the suspect's DNA.
An Everett couple were in a Safeway parking lot in the 7600 block of Evergreen Way on Oct. 3 when a young attacker grabbed a wallet from the hand of the woman, 70, and ran, police said.
The husband, 69, gave chase but collapsed with a medical problem at an apartment complex. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Rafael Aguirre, a tenant of the apartments, picked up the pursuit.
The suspect dropped a backpack before attempting to jump a fence. That's when Aguirre caught up with him, according to police reports.
The suspect was able to wriggle free by pulling out of his shirt and running off. Aguirre tore the suspect's backpack and hooded sweatshirt and pulled a gray knit cap off his head.
Surveillance video from Safeway showed a man wearing the same clothing as the suspect shoplifting from the store minutes before the robbery.
Earlier this week, an Everett detective received notice from the Washington State Patrol crime lab that DNA taken from the cap was a match for an Everett man, 24. He was arrested for investigation of first-degree robbery and booked into the Snohomish County Jail.
Aguirre returned to find the husband was unconscious.
When police arrived, officer Brett Gailey was waved over by a group of people. He found another Good Samaritan, Larry McLynne, giving the man chest compressions.
The man was not breathing, police said.
Gailey took over CPR until the man began breathing on his own.
Both Aguirre and McLynne recently received commendations at an Everett Police Department awards ceremony.
Eric Stevick: 425-339-3446, email@example.com.


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Baltimore Schools to Get 400 Computers on "TECH Day II"
August 1, 1996
Contact: Jason McManigal
(202) 501-1231
Michael Preston
(410) 783-4455
Officials from the Office of the Vice President and federal agencies will join U.S. Representative Ben Cardin and other state and local leaders at Dunbar High School for "TECH Day II" on Saturday, August 3, to transfer nearly 400 excess federal computers to public schools and educational nonprofits in the Baltimore Empowerment Zone.
"TECH Day II" will demonstrate how local, state and federal leadership can work together to help put computers in America's schools. The project is a pilot for the implementation of Executive Order 12999, "Education Technology: Ensuring Opportunity for All Children in the Next Century," signed by President Clinton and announced by Vice President Gore on April 17, 1996. "TECH Day II" will bring together community volunteers, teachers, parents, and students from about 20 Empowerment Zone schools to participate in a hands-on workshop to learn to test, repair, and refurbish the computers to have them ready for the start of the school year.
Saturday, August 3, 1996
Dunbar High School
1400 Orleans St. (corner of Orleans and Central Ave.)
Baltimore, MD.
Executive Order 12999 and "TECH Day II"
Fact Sheet
President Clinton's Executive Order 12999, "Education Technology: Ensuring Opportunity for All Children in the Next Century," issued on April 17, 1996, streamlines the process by which federal agencies can give their excess computer equipment to schools and educational nonprofit groups. It is part of the Administration's four-part initiative to ensure that all children in America get access to the computer technology they will need in the information-intensive 21st century. Working with the private sector, the Administration is committed to helping put computers in schools, connect students to the information superhighway, assist teachers with professional development, and encourage the creation of excellent educational software.
"TECH Day II" represents the kind of partnership envisioned by the President in Executive Order 12999: six federal agencies (the Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Highway Administration, NASA, the General Services Administration, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Education) have donated computers and delivery resources; Microsoft has donated operating systems for each machine; the Baltimore City Public Schools, Empower Baltimore Management Corporation, and the Baltimore Federal Executive Board have recruited schools and Village Center volunteers as well as federal resources; and the Lazarus Foundation, a local nonprofit computer recycling organization, has been working with the volunteers to test and upgrade the machines and supplement the federal donations. At the start of the school year, about 20 Empowerment Zone schools and nonprofits will have nearly 400 computers up and running thanks to this successful partnership.
After the successful completion of the Baltimore project, "TECH Day" will be replicated in other Empowerment Zones and communities throughout America.


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There are lots of articles and essays of interest to modern Pagans out there, sometimes more than I can write about in-depth in any given week. So The Wild Hunt must unleash the hounds in order to round them all up.According to a Gallup poll, confidence in organized religion has reached an all-time low in the United States. Only 44% of those polled had a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in "the church or organized religion" today. Quote: "Two major findings apparent in Gallup's confidence in the church and organized religion trend are, first, the long-term decline in Americans' confidence in this societal institution since 1973, and second, the suppressed confidence among … [Read more...]
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My teaching is based on one of my favorite sayings "Don't just pass through the university. Let the university pass through you." Whether it's writing news stories, preparing the front page of a newspaper or magazine, learning about culture or musing on the media's influence, I want my students to gain the knowledge and skills that will help them appreciate diversity and be open to various experiences. I want them to be active and responsible participants in their education by taking part in activities and opportunities beyond the classroom so they can get a taste of "real world" situations and are better prepared to face whatever comes their way.
My job is to train and prepare the next generation of engineering students for a world and workplace that is ever-evolving. After completing any course I teach, my hope is that I give students the knowledge of how to approach a problem and empower them with the tools to be able to solve it. Put simply, my goal is to teach students how to critically think.
The intellectual and social visionary W.E.B. DuBois once said, Education must not simply teach work — it must teach life. To enact an ethically responsible life, in the context of living in the wonderfully diverse U.S. and larger global world, one must possess a robust sociocultural knowledge about the racial, cultural, gender and economic conditions that shape individuals, communities and social relations. The teacher that seeks to help students acquire this complex knowledge must view the teaching process as one that not only informs and empowers, but ultimately seeks to transform lives, schools and society for the betterment of all.
The study of literature and the arts offers students an immersion into the incredible versatility of human expression, language and communication. In the playfulness of literary works or artworks, language unveils its own ambiguities and gaps in meaning; words, images or sounds cannot simply be reduced to one literal definition or a direct empirical correlation. Through classroom exercises in discussing the language of literature and the arts, I constantly seek to cultivate intellectual flexibility in my students and to foster the analytical skills necessary to grapple with multiple interpretations, viewpoints and situations, which are, to me, key dimensions in the formation of students as citizens in the contemporary world.
My teaching is based on the belief that students are most engaged and inspired when challenged to understand architecture as a situated dialog rather than a stand-alone discipline, and to create designs which achieve meaning through thoughtful response to their complex physical, social and cultural contexts. Engagement is the consistent goal of my teaching, guided by the belief that students who develop the skills to critically interpret and operate effectively within our complex world will become our best architects, as well as our best citizens.
In computer science, students can often "learn by doing." This is key to my teaching strategy. I offer challenging implementation assignments that require students to understand the mathematical models and algorithms to the point where each step is explicit---and usually along the way, realize which steps they had overlooked in passing. I strive to make the context of the assignment intriguing, so that they are problems that students simply want to solve. My goal is for the course material not only to provide sound background, but also to foster "aha" moments, where abstract technical concepts become concrete and thus more firmly understood.
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Romney Wins Electability Primary
Mitt Romney's huge win tonight in Florida was sufficiently large that it is not possible to interpret it as anything but a stamp of approval from a broad cross-section of Republican voters in a closed primary. Given that by the last week the primary had become a two-man race, it is also impossible to avoid the conclusion that it was a resounding rejection of Newt Gingrich. Gingrich appears likely to take the sore loser scenario in the coming weeks as he attempts to foul the well for the likely nominee by branding him as not just a relative moderate — which is what Romney actually is — but a liberal. Gingrich may be able to convince his large donors to fund a last ditch and probably futile effort to derail the frontrunner. But he is unlikely to persuade most Republicans they are better off with a crippled nominee simply to vent his personal spleen at Romney for having beaten him at his own game with negative ads.
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Exit polls show electability was the most important issue for primary voters. Gingrich claims repeatedly that his debating skills make him the most likely to beat President Obama in the fall but getting spanked twice last week put a period to his claim to being Mr. "Lincoln-Douglas." Florida confirmed what most Republicans who are not bitterly opposed to Romney already knew: he is the only GOP candidate with a chance to win the wavering Democrats and independents who will decide who is elected president in November.
Gingrich appears to have no strategy to win the nomination. As Florida demonstrated, he has an unlikely chance of winning the general election if he were to be nominated. The only choice left to him is how much damage he wants to do to the only candidate with the ability to beat Obama.
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A Secularist vs. the Progressive Faith
A double standard is, in fact, a standard. Just an immoral one.
Really it should come as no surprise that the scientist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins is the latest public figure to have fallen victim to a disinviting mania. After all, if a darling of the left feminist like Germaine Greer can face a campaign to silence her over her views on transgenderism or a woman of color like Ayaan Hirsi Ali can face similar attempts to have her free speech on campus canceled, why should Dawkins be spared?
The English geneticist was slated to give a talk in Berkeley, California in August on his new book Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist. Over the weekend, however, the organizers (the local community radio station KPFA) announced that they are canceling the event because, apparently, it had been discovered that Dawkins is, in fact, an Islamophobe. They explained that, while their station "emphatically supports serious free speech," that nevertheless KPFA "does not endorse hurtful speech."
Disappointingly, the statement from KPFA Radio doesn't elaborate on what constitutes serious free speech. Nor does it define where the bounds of hurtful speech lie. Of course, it should go without saying that those who wish to do away with all speech that might ever be deemed hurtful to someone don't actually take the value of free speech that seriously at all.
For what little good it will do him, Dawkins has hit back by insisting that his criticism of the "appalling misogyny and homophobia of Islam" has been made in defense of the rights of Muslims. As he put it in an open letter to the radio: "far from attacking Muslims, I understand–as perhaps you do not–that Muslims themselves are the prime victims of the oppressive cruelties of Islamism, especially Muslim women."
Given Richard Dawkins's pretty damning view on religious belief in general, you would have thought the event organizers might have anticipated that this arch-secularist wouldn't have anything very complimentary to say about Islam either. Yet there is something rather troubling in KFPA's statement on their discovery of Dawkins's "hurtful speech." As the radio station explained: "We had booked this event based entirely on his excellent new book on science, when we didn't know he had offended and hurt–in his tweets and other comments on Islam, so many people."
This leaves a question. If Dawkins's incriminating tweets on Islam eventually came to the organizer's attention, what about all of his other pronouncements on religion? As in, the many writings and speeches that deal with insulting all the other religions. Are KPFA Radio still yet to stumble upon Dawkins's international best-selling The God Delusion? Imagine their sense of horror when they learn of all those hurt Jewish and Christian feelings. After all, Dawkins has had some pretty fiery things to say on the "God of the Old Testament".
Unless, of course, the organizers already knew all about Dawkins's past comments on the other religions, but it only became a problem for them when they found out that Dawkins had been saying similar things about Islam. Had Dawkins been silent on Islam and only derided Christianity and Judaism, would he then have still been welcome at the Berkeley event? It rather sounds like it.
Presumably, few would claim that because of his views on the Hebrew Bible, Richard Dawkins is an anti-Semite? Yet these days it seems that it is rather easier for militant secularists to fall foul of the Islamophobia charge. Dawkins has himself spoken out against the Islamic practice of serving apostates with the death penalty. Would calling such things barbaric cross the line into Islamophobia?
And what of atheists more generally, who presumably believe that without exception, all the prophets of the world's great religions were either wildly self-deluded, or otherwise shamelessly and knowingly fabricated their various holy texts? Would making such a claim about the founder of Islam be classed as insulting the prophet? Judging by previous cases, making such a claim would steer one dangerously close to the borders of Islamophobia, or worse.
Canceling an event with an internationally renowned atheist on the grounds that he has offended the feelings of religious people is, of course, absurd.
That KPFA Radio in Berkeley feel they would like to impose something akin to blasphemy laws now is no less bizarre. Acting in defense of the hurt feelings of one religion is a far more concerning development.
Hopefully, whoever's job it is at Berkeley to safeguard equal opportunities for religious and ethnic groups will be taking this matter in hand.
Unmasking Is Not a Distraction
Democrats will regret treating this as a partisan issue.
Whenever a former Obama administration official's name comes up in the process of investigating the Trump campaign's alleged links to Russian sources, Democrats take the position that the right's penchant for "whataboutism" neutralizes the implication of wrongdoing. The Democratic objective is to shame those who are committed to crafting a full and unbiased portrait of the events of 2016 into ignoring inconvenient facts, but the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee remains unintimidated.
This month, the committee has met with a variety of senior Obama officials behind closed doors amid its probe of the Russia affair, including former Chief-of-Staff Denis McDonough, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and National Security Advisor Susan Rice. The committee will meet with former United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power on Friday.
These interviews are apparently being conducted in the effort to get to the bottom of why incoming Trump administration officials who were inadvertently captured in intelligence intercepts of foreign targets were conspicuously "unmasked" with their names and the details of their conversations leaked to the press. Trump administration opponents call the issue a distraction, but it's a matter of grave national importance.
Those who are disinclined to look too deeply into the issue of "unmasking" have latched onto a comment from Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr like flotsam in a shipwreck. "The unmasking thing was all created by Devin Nunes," Burr said of the House Intelligence Committee chairman whose reckless conduct compelled him to recuse himself from the investigation into the Trump campaign's conduct. "I'll wait to go through our full evaluation to see if there was anything improper that happened," he added. Fewer have, however, paid much attention to Burr's full quote. "Clearly," he added, "there were individuals unmasked. Some of that became public which it's not supposed to, and our business is to understand that, and explain it."
Indeed, there is a lot to explain. Only weeks into the new Trump administration, unnamed former Obama administration officials began telling reporters to expect to see details involving the surveillance of administration officials and Trump associates' communications with their Russian counterparts. The New York Times, for example, revealed how these Obama officials left a "trail" of evidence of these contacts for investigators to uncover.
A month earlier, the Washington Post disclosed that former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn had privately discussed U.S. sanctions with Russia's ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, in phone calls prior to the inauguration. The transcript of those intercepted communications was related to reporters, despite its highly classified nature. This revelation contradicted the transition team's repeated denials that any such conversations between Flynn and Kislyak took place and it served as just cause for Flynn's termination.
Flynn was a liability and should never have been placed in such a sensitive role. His dismissal was a relief, but the methods by which he was discredited established a dangerous precedent. If a private citizen swept up in routine intercepts of communications with foreign agents can be "unmasked" to achieve a political purpose, even if that purpose is defensible, it won't be long before that precedent is applied toward more ambiguous ends.
Now, Attorney General Jeff Sessions appears to have been the target of a politically motivated intelligence reveal. As reported by, again, the Washington Post, the attorney general apparently misled U.S. officials and members of Congress with regard to the nature of his contacts with Russian officials. According to communications intercepted by "U.S. spy agencies," Kislyak related the details of two conversations he apparently had with then-campaign advisor Sessions to his superiors in Moscow. Sessions was not personally swept up in those intercepts, but Kislyak mentioned his name and the substance of those intercepts was related to Post reporters.
The outlet stressed that it could not confirm the authenticity of the intercepts as they could in Flynn's case, but President Trump went ahead and did that for them. "A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post, this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions," the president declared on Twitter. "These illegal leaks, like [former FBI Director James] Comey's, must stop!"
This particular leak was widely viewed within the context of the ongoing public feud between the president and his attorney general, but it should not be so quickly dismissed. In cryptic testimony before Congress, Comey revealed that Sessions's recusal from the investigation into the Trump campaign's links to Russia had nothing to do with Justice Department rules. He said he knew that recusal would be forthcoming, but he could not say why in an unclassified setting. Comey's disclosure and this leak may not be unrelated.
Trump administration opponents who celebrate these unprecedented disclosures because they damage the administration are being extraordinarily parochial. This is an assault on the American social compact. The precedent being established now erodes the prohibitions on using intelligence gathering as a tool to discredit your political enemies. Democrats can bet that this practice will be deployed against them in the foreseeable future. In the process, political actors will render intelligence products suspect, weakening their utility for policymakers and, thus, making America less safe.
It is a tragedy that Democrats have not followed the lead of Senator Burr and other Republicans who are treating the issue of "unmasking" as seriously as they are the unprecedented efforts by Moscow to shape the course of American political affairs in 2016. Like the hacks of Democratic targets, this is not a partisan issue. The "unmaskers" will one day come for Democrats, and they will regret their silence in this pivotal hour.
Will Mattis Betray the Gulf Allies?
Has Mattis gone rogue?
At the core of the Qatar dispute is the question of Qatar's support for extremism. While many Gulf states have histories of donating to or promoting radical Islamism, many have made real reforms. Saudi Arabia, for example, became much more serious about the need to curtail support for radical groups after the Kingdom started suffering blowback with terrorists targeting foreigners living in Saudi Arabia and senior Saudi officials. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, meanwhile, has cracked down not only on the Muslim Brotherhood but has also moved to sever the life-line Egypt often provided Hamas leaders in Gaza. Qatar, however, continues to set itself above the rest in its support for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and other moderate Arab states are rightly confused, if not frustrated, by the muddled U.S. response so far. After all, diplomats and official from these states say, both Democratic and Republican administrations in the United States have both long beseeched them to take a no-nonsense approach to extremism and to operate in a coordinated fashion against regional threats.
When they finally do, the White House flip-flops and the State Department urges compromise and negotiation. Evenhandedness is not a virtue when one side is right and the other wrong. To negotiate with regard to the acceptance of terrorist groups is, however, a very dangerous precedent. If the United States re-engaged in Afghanistan to eliminate al-Qaeda's bases there or began operations in Syria to counter the Islamic State, Washington would greatly resent outside powers demanding that the United States compromise with either.
In the wake of the Qatar crisis, now in its second month, Turkey set up a military base in Qatar, much to the outrage of the states seeking to pressure Qatar into compliance. That base's closure remains a key demand among moderate Arab countries.
Now word comes that the U.S. military is planning to conduct military exercises in Qatar with the Qatari and Turkish militaries. Daily Sabah, a once independent paper which was seized by Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government and transferred to his son-in-law, quoted Qatari Defense Minister Khalid bin Mohammed al-Attiyah as saying, "Qatar, Turkey and the U.S. regularly conduct military drills in Qatar. In the near future, a joint drill will begin by the three countries."
Like Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has sought to temper President Trump's impetuousness on a number of foreign policy issues. While this can often be a good thing when done behind-the-scenes and in the course of a normal policy process through the National Security Council, the Pentagon conducting its own private foreign policy creates confusion and risks antagonizing allies.
Mattis already displayed a tin ear for timing when, just days after Trump sided with the moderate Arab states and called Qatar out on its funding of extremists, the Pentagon announced a multi-billion dollar arms sale to Qatar. To conduct military exercises in Qatar with Turkey suggests Mattis is choosing sides and endorsing the positions of Qatar and Turkey. Perhaps he is motivated by the desire to maintain access to the al-Udeid Air Base. If this is the case, though, he confuses the Pentagon's preference for the status quo with broader U.S. interests. To prioritize preservation of the al-Udeid Air Base over broader interests effectively tells Doha that it need not reform its behavior and that it can use the U.S. presence as a "get out of jail free card."
Should Qatar's announcement of military drills be true and should Mattis go ahead with the exercises, he also risks undercutting efforts to repair the damage which the Obama administration caused with America's traditional allies Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt. Those governments remain furious with how they believe President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry threw them under the bus.
Mattis may be more refined than Tillerson in his efforts to blunt Trump's excesses. To conduct his own foreign policy, however, is bad in any instance. To do so in such a counterproductive way and to again betray moderate states, which have only done what successive U.S. administrations have asked them to do, may risk damaging alliances beyond the point of no return.
Partisanship Masquerading as Wisdom
Anger over health care clouds the left's judgment.
Nate Silver spoke for most of the liberal blogosphere when he objected to the mainstream media's coverage of Senator John McCain's speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday.
McCain appeared in the Capitol just days after he had a blood clot removed from above his left eye. Amid that process, doctors discovered that a particularly malignant form of brain cancer was responsible for the clot. Despite his condition and his recovery, McCain made his way back to Washington to vote on a motion to proceed with a debate over the process of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. Following his critical vote, which allowed the motion to carry only after the vice president broke a tie, McCain gave a stirring address extolling the virtues of the republic and the Senate, while also castigating his congressional colleagues over their approach to the health-care reform process.
"Among younger and less traditional reporters on Twitter," Silver began, "a lot of people are pointing out McCain's inconsistency in scolding McConnell's process but nevertheless voting for the motion to proceed." Silver added, however, that more traditional reporting outlets in print and on television were far more awed by the remarks. They didn't seem to recognize the inconsistency that so irritated the Twitter-verse.
"Longtime readers of FiveThirtyEight know that I have a lot of beefs with the establishment media," Silver wrote. "Moments like these, where they elevate style over substance, are a big part of why."
The self-selected, cloistered, like-thinking population of professional cynics on political Twitter is a bad target for professional statistical analysts to critique. Moreover, this criticism is a value judgment founded not in rationality but pique.
McCain's speech on the floor of the Senate was worthy of all the praise it received if only because not every political observer has yet abandoned basic human decency (a frailty that political Twitter discourages). McCain is by any definition an American hero who spent his life serving his country. On what may be his last speech to the nation from the upper chamber of Congress, the man deserves a hearing. Silver and his colleagues did not give him that.
McCain's speech was mostly dedicated to the dysfunction of the body in which he serves. "When I hear the Senate referred to as the world's greatest deliberative body, I'm not so sure we can claim that distinction with a straight face today," he said. "Our deliberations can still be important and useful, but I think we'd all agree they haven't been overburdened by greatness lately."
McCain implored his colleagues to ignore the professional rabble-rousers who have made a career of sowing internecine discord. "To hell with them," he said. "They don't want anything done for the public good. Our incapacity is their livelihood." If this speech started to sound like an appeal to bipartisanship, that became explicit in the following sentence.
The senator said that the virtue of the American system is found in those features that stifle one-party governance. "Top-down" "parliamentary maneuvers" that abandon the process of regular order to govern without bipartisan consent have poisoned and radicalized the country. And to repeat Democratic mistakes by shutting the other party out of the process of reforming one-sixth of the American economy would be a mistake.
"I voted for the motion to proceed to allow debate to continue and amendments to be offered," McCain said. "I will not vote for this bill as it is today."
Only ignorance of what a motion to proceed is or rage-induced blindness over the concept of repealing the Affordable Care Act could lead Silver or those for whom he speaks to make their claim. McCain's vote to proceed with a debate is entirely consistent with regular order, to say nothing of his stated reverence for the process of deliberation in the Senate. His insistence that he would not support the health care bill as it exists, without major reforms (including a bipartisan buy-in and, likely, a return to the committee process), is also intellectually consistent.
I would add that it is clear that the activist left with whom Silver has lumped himself simply didn't, or wouldn't, hear the substance of McCain's address. The senior senator from Arizona delivered a moving and eloquent statement of affection for the extraordinary history of the American republic. He painted a portrait of the United States as a fundamentally moral nation. He shared his love for the institutions that have made the American Constitution the world's longest surviving governmental charter. And while he criticized American politics and the politicians who practice it, his reverence for the American system of government—to say nothing of the prosperity and security it has afforded the American people for nearly a quarter thousand years—was infectious.
The left dislikes that kind of sentimentality. They find it mawkish, at best; chauvinistic, at worst. But an American who has dedicated his life to his countrymen, often at great cost, is owed a little maudlin schmaltz, even if the popular Twitter clique does not share those sentiments. Not only was McCain's vote consistent with his opinions, his speech was a moving tribute to the country he loves. It's a shame, but a telling one, that the left didn't hear any of it.
A Familiar Paranoia
Donald Trump sees disloyalty even in his closest supporters.
In a performance that would have shocked sensibilities if they weren't already flogged to the point of numbness, President Trump delivered a nostalgic, campaign-style stem-winder on Monday to a troop of boy scouts. The commander-in-chief meandered between crippling self-pity and gauche triumphalism; he moaned about his treatment by the "fake media," praised himself for the scale of his Electoral College victory, and pondered aloud whether to dub the nation's capital a "cesspool" or a "sewer." Most illuminating in this manic display was an exposition on the virtues of fealty. "We could use some more loyalty; I will tell you that," the president mused. These days, Trump seems fixated on treachery—among Republicans in Congress, among his Cabinet officials, and among his subordinates in the administration. His obsession may yet prove his undoing.
Donald Trump wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign. That has become obvious, and not just because Trump's new communications director (whose portfolio seems to consist of inflating the president's ego in friendly media venues and purging the administration of experienced political professionals) admitted as much. Trump told the New York Times that Sessions's decision to recuse himself from any investigation into the campaign was "very unfair" to him personally. The president has criticized his "beleaguered" attorney general for taking a "weak" position on prosecuting Trump's 2016 rival, Hillary Clinton, and investigating the Ukrainian government's efforts to support the Clinton campaign.
This is all post hoc. Trump expressed no interest in re-litigating the charges against Hillary Clinton (which his former FBI director dismissed as beyond the scope of prosecution) in November of last year. The tenor of Trump's agitation with his attorney general is proportional to the tempo of new revelations regarding the special counsel investigation into the president's campaign, many of which were first revealed to the public cryptically in Trump's own public pronouncements. As a self-described campaign operative, Sessions was obliged to recuse himself from any investigation into the campaign's activities, and he did so in February. The move reportedly irritated Trump at the time, but his outrage has boiled over only as the probe has begun to ensnare his family.
There is no small amount of absurdity in the fact that Jeff Sessions is perhaps the most loyal of Trump's associates in Washington. His every action has been designed to shield Trump from the consequences of his own recklessness. When Donald Trump was still regarded by the majority of GOP officeholders as a liability and a usurper, Sessions was the first sitting U.S. senator to endorse the rogue candidate. He was a stalwart campaign-trail surrogate and turned in a workmanlike performance at the Justice Department. When Trump fired his FBI director, Sessions refused to testify before Congress as to the nature of pertinent conversations between the president and his Cabinet. When privilege did not protect those conversations, Sessions insisted that he had simply forgotten many of the particulars.
Perhaps more than most, Sessions helped to make Donald Trump the president. As attorney general, the former senator has been effective in overseeing an increasingly restless Justice Department populated by people who chafe amid Trump's regular attacks on them and their superiors. Even now, by declining to be goaded into resignation, Sessions is protecting the president. Trump seems to imagine that Session's removal would clear the way for a new attorney general, who would be free to dismiss Robert Mueller and dissolve the special counsel's office at will. But that wouldn't happen. Trump would merely ignite a political firestorm and be faced with the task of finding another person to serve as a punching bag atop his least favorite agency.
This is all to say nothing of the fact that such a masochistic individual would have to be confirmed by Republicans in the Senate. In that process, lawmakers would surely seek assurances that the new attorney general would not touch the special counsel's office. The Republican-led Congress is already conducting four of their own investigations into Trump's campaign. The president's extraordinary relationship with Russia has forced the GOP-led legislature to prepare a sanctions bill that robs the presidency of its freedom to administer those injunctions.
This all might seem like hostility, but it's precisely the opposite; it's guidance of a kind that a political novice with self-destructive impulses sorely needs. But this sort of protection, too, has led the president to wallow in melancholy and a sense of betrayal. "It's very sad that Republicans do very little to protect their president," he wrote of the incoming sanctions bill.
The kind of paranoia on display in Trump's attacks on his most loyal partners in government is not unfamiliar. It is the kind that mistakes a desire for self-preservation—an instinct found in every successful political actor—as weakness and perfidy. Trump is fortunate enough to have surrounded himself with people devoted enough to him to know when his requests are inappropriate or when the president is better served by preserving the appearance of their independence. The fact that Trump finds even that kind of pantomimed insubordination intolerable is disturbing. This is a man who would sacrifice competence for sycophancy. In a less robust system of constitutional laws, they are the impulses of a leader who would corrupt the very government he manages. They still might.
In his attacks on Sessions—an early Trump supporter, a dedicated public servant, and a man with more goodwill among Republicans on Capitol Hill than the president may ever possess—Trump might have gone too far. Even Trump surrogates who are loath to criticize the president when he most deserves it are no longer being shy. Perhaps they know the bell will toll for them one day, or maybe they sense the danger of the moment. If past behavior is a guide, these defections won't compel Trump to rethink his conduct. In fact, they might only reinforce in Trump the notion that he is surrounded by traitors.


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The Richard T. Barker Friends of the University Library is sponsoring its annual reception for faculty who published books during the past academic year (2010-2011) or who have achieved similar recognition in their fields. For example, music faculty who had works published or art faculty who had pieces accepted for major collections should be honored.
Below is the list of faculty who had works published from July 2010 to June 2011. If we have missed your publication, please send your citation to Mary Ann Forrester (firstname.lastname@example.com /828-262-2188) by Thursday, October 20 and we will add you to the list.
The reception will be held on Tuesday, November 1 at 3:30 p.m. with remarks at 4:00 p.m. in Room 421 in Belk Library and Information Commons. Chancellor Peacock and Provost Lori Gonzalez will be on hand to present the certificates. Invitations will be sent to the honorees and department chairs as soon as we hear from you.
This is one of our favorite annual events, and we look forward to honoring many members of our faculty.
Cheryl P. Claassen. Feasting With Shellfish in the Southern Ohio Valley. University of Tennessee Press. (2010)
Municipalidad Indígena de Sololá and Timothy J. Smith, eds. Autoridad y Gobierno Kaqchikel de Sololá/Runuk'ulem ri Kaqchikel Q'atbäl Tzij richin Tz'olöj Ya' (Kaqchikel Authority and Government of Sololá). Guatemala: Editorial Junajpu'. (2011)
Schug G. Robbins. Bioarchaeology and climate change: a view from South Asian prehistory. Gainesville: University Press Florida. (Book series: Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, ed. by Clark Larsen). (2011)
Timothy J. Smith and Abigail E. Adams, eds. After the Coup: An Ethnographic Reframing of Guatemala 1954. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. (2011)
M. W. Denslow, M. W. Palmer, and Z. E. Murrell. A bibliography of North Carolina local floras. Castanea. 75(4): 475-483. (2010)
D. Poindexter and Z. E. Murrell. Noteworthy Collections Virginia. Castanea. 76(2): 197-198. (2011)
Michael Windelspecht. Essentials of Biology - Third Edition. McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math. (2011)
-- Human Biology - Twelfth Edition. McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math. (2011)
Steve Smith. Heirlooms CD of original and traditional Appalachian Music. Copyright 2005-2011. Cabin Cove Music.
A. Losardo & A. Notari-Syverson. Alternative approaches to assessing young children (2nd ed.). Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes. (2011).
C. C. Chen. Publishing for Success: Effective Writing Strategies for Non-Native English Scholars, Taipei, Taiwan: Future Career Publishing Co., Ltd. (2011)
C.C. Chen. Workbook: Publishing for Success – Effective Writing Strategies for Non-Native English Scholars, Taipei, Taiwan: Future Career Publishing Co., Ltd. (2001)
John Whitehead, editor. Preference Data for Environmental Valuation: Combining Revealed and Stated Approaches. (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics) Publisher: Routledge (2011)
William D. Brewer, ed. Walsingham; or, The Pupil of Nature, by Mary Robinson. The Works of Mary Robinson. Vol. 5. London: Pickering & Chatto, (2010)
William D. Brewer, co-ed. with Sharon Setzer. Miscellaneous Prose and Dramas, by Mary Robinson. The Works of Mary Robinson. Vol. 8. London: Pickering & Chatto. (2010)
Rosemary Horowitz, ed. The Memorial Books of Eastern European Jewry, McFarland Press, Jefferson, N C. (2011)
Leon Lewis, Editor. Critical Insights: Sherman Alexie. Salem Press/EBSCO Publishing: Pasadena, CA. (2011)
Victoria Cox co-authored with Dr. Nora Glickman of City University of New York: El inglés en el teatro y el cine argentino: De los orígenes a Malvinas. (The Portrayal of the English Colonial Invasion in Argentine Popular Theatre and Film). Buenos Aires: Editorial Corregidor. (2011)
Martial K. Frindethie. Globalization and the Seduction of Africa's Ruling Class: An Argument for a New Philosophy of Development. McFarland (2010)
Jeanne Dubin. Virginia Woolf and the Literary Marketplace (Palgrave Macmillan). (2010)
Love, Nancy S., Dogmas and Dreams: A Reader in Modern Political Ideologies, edited with introductions, 4th ed. (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press/SAGE Publications, 2010), pp. 799; 3rd ed. (CQ Press, 2005); 1st and 2nd eds. (Chatham, New Jersey: Chatham House Publishers, Inc., 1991, 1998).
Matthew B. Robinson. Media Coverage of Crime and Criminal Justice. Carolina Academic Press. (2011)
Judkin J. Browning. Shifting Loyalties: The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina. University of North Carolina Press. (2011)
Anthony Gene Carey, Sold Down the River: Slavery in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. (2011).
René Harder Horst. El Regimen de Stroessner y la Resistencia Indigena, Centro de Estudios Antoropologicos de la Universidad Catolica, Biblioteca de Estudios Paraguayos Vol. 89, Asuncion, Paraguay. (2011)
Rene D. Horst. Military Struggle and Identity Formation in Latin America. University Press of Florida. (2010)
Anatoly V. Isaenko. Polygon of Satan: Ethnic Traumas and Conflicts in the Caucasus. Kendal/Hunt Publishing Company. (2010)
Bruce E. Stewart. Moonshiners and Prohibitionists: The Battle over Alcohol in Southern Appalachia. University Press of Kentucky. (2011)
Michael J. Turner. An International History of British Power, 1957-1970. Teneo Press. (2010)
-- Britain's International Role, 1970-1991. Palgrave Macmillan. (2010)
Geraldine A. Miller. Fundamentals of Crisis Counseling. Wiley Press (2011)
Geraldine A. Miller. Learning the Language of Addiction Counseling-3rd Edition. Wiley Press. (2010)
Constance R. Green. Religious Diversity and Children's Literature. Information Age Publishing. (2011)
Sandra B. Oldendorf. Religious Diversity and Children's Literature. Information Age Publishing. (2011)
Kim E. Becnel. Bloom's How to Write About George Orwell. Chelsea House. (2010)
Bill Harbinson. Kallalanta (Symphonic Orchestra), Alfred Publishing (Van Nuys, CA) (2011)
Bill Harbinson. Converse Fantasy (Concert Band), Carl Fischer Publishing (NY) (2011)
Bill Harbinson. Sparkle (Concert Band), Alfred Publishing (Van Nuys, CA) (2011)
William M. Hutchins. Ibrahim Al-Koni's The Puppet [translation]. Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin. (2010)
Cameron D. Lippard. Being Brown in Dixie: Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Immigration in the New South. Lynne Rienner Publishing. (2010)


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Loss of pregnancy symptoms
I am new to this Site, and have a question!
I am currently 9.5 weeks pregnant, and 4 days ago had to go to my GP with an ear ache and had my ear syringed. In a moment of stupidity I didn't mention I was pregnant (not really connecting my sore ear to pregnancy!).
Anyway, prior to having my ear syringed I was suffering from horrid morning sickness and nausea. This all stopped the day after I had my ear syringed.
I went back to my GP - and they told me ear syringing during pregnancy was safe, but I am still worried. It just seems like such a strange coincidence! I have a 12 week NT appointment, but that is still nearly 3 weeks away... anyway I am now worried that something has happened to the baby...
15th February 2012 11:12 PM #2
Hi Jane82,
As a member of this forum as well as a qualified Audiologist (hearing and balance specialist) I thought it would be helpful for me to address your concerns. I have not come across any evidence (during my training or through seeing patients in the clinic) that ear syringing is harmful in pregnancy.
Sometimes ear ache can also cause dizziness and even sickness as the balance organ is located in the inner ear so it can be affected by ear problems. So it may be that your previous nausea was actually (at least in part) down to your ear ache.
Alternatively, it could just be a coincidence and it was morning sickness that happened to disappear the same day you had the syringing performed. Morning sickness usually goes towards the end of the first trimester.
Please try not to worry as there is not any evidence ear syringing can cause problems in pregnancy. But if you still have any concerns why don't you give your midwife a call so she can reassure you or offer you a check up? I can emphasise with you as I had morning sickness throughout a significant amount of my pregnancy with my son. On the occasional days I didn't feel sick this also made me worry that something was wrong. So I understand how you feel.
I hope this has helped to reassure you. Let us know how you are feeling.
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Hi ljmarsden,
I just wanted to say a quick thanks - I really appreciate your response.
16th February 2012 04:58 PM #4
Hi Jane82 - I agree with ljmarsden your earache could have contributed to the way you were feeling. So long as you've had no concerning signs (i.e. vaginal bleeding) I would not be concerned. The ear syringing will not harm your pregnancy. However if you have any concerns at all talk to your midwife or doctor. Good luck. We'd love to hear how your ultrasound goes.
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I agree with what the other women have said. I for one, never had morning sickness. Maybe the feelings you were associating with pregnancy are actually related to the earache. Also, you are close to the end of the first trimester, so like LJ said, it could just be a coincidence. Either way, I wouldn't worry too much.
I am looking forward to hearing more from you!
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Hi Ladies,
Thank you all for your replies. I had an appointment with my ob today (finally!) and all appeared to be fine.
I think I am going to be one of those people who just worry about everything during pregnancy!
Like you mentioned, it is possible that my nausea was actually in part related to my ear ache (which I hadn't previously considered) because am still feeling fine.
Thanks again.
Anyway, I am feeling VERY relieved now.
3rd March 2012 12:25 AM #8
I am so pleased that everything is okay.
8th March 2012 03:14 AM #9
Dear Jane82,
That's great to hear that everything is going well in your pregnancy. Don't hesitate to post any other pregnancy questions you have on this forum. I know when I was pregnant with my first every week seemed to result in more questions!
Best wishes,


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The new Tascam soundcards now have ALSA drivers, thanks to the work done
by Martin Langer [1]. You will need
a recent kernels (>= 2.6.5 ?) have the usx2y driver. You will also need
to have the and the
package. The most recent version of the driver are available in the
package. You will also need the hotplug scripts and the
utility, which are found in alsa-firmware. The hotplug scripts execute
the following at "plug" time:
modprobe snd-usb-usx2y
/sbin/fxload -s ${prefix}/share/alsa/firmware/usx2yloader/tascam_loader.ihx \
-I ${prefix}/share/alsa/firmware/usx2yloader/us122fw.ihx \
-D /proc/bus/usb/001/002
You will still need to manually run :
On debian, the cards work with current kernel-image 2.6.10 along with:
Midi support is provided by the
usb-audio module.
usb-usx2y module is in charge of the audio. Note there is no
software mixer. The following is an example for
.asoundrc file:
pcm.us122 {
type hw;
card 3;
pcm.usx {
type plug;
slave.pcm us122;
Kernel version must be >=2.6.1 (otherwise audio would not work at all, and trying to remove the module would freeze the machine). MIDI seem to work ok (provided snd-seq is loaded). Right now, still a few bugs, where the sync is lost:
ALSA /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/usb/usx2y/usbusx2yaudio.c:363: play urb->status = -63
The card does not seem to work well when plugged to an ohci usb bus.
I could not have jack working using directly the alsa drivers. Instead, jack worked in OSS mode, playback only with a 128 long buffer. Trying to have jack in alsa mode give the following error, and jackd crashes soon after:
Mar 10 11:53:58 localhost kernel: -28
Mar 10 11:53:58 localhost kernel: Sequence Error!(ep=10;nuc=1,frame=106)
Mar 10 11:53:58 localhost kernel: Sequence Error!(ep=8;nuc=0,frame=106)
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Junjie wanted to study in the United States because of the country's advanced techonlogy. He learned about Green River College from an agency called Shinyway. They told him that Green River has a very good Engineering program and that students transfer into top universities after graduation. Junjie learned this first hand. He said, "If you study hard, you can get into a top university."
Junjie likes Green River College because of the small class sizes and the one-on-one personal attention he gets from instructors and staff. "College education in the U.S. is different from China," said Junjie. "The classes are smaller and there are more opportunities to talk to instructors. In China there are more than 100 students in a class, so opportunites to talk to instructors is minimal."
Junjie works part-time in the International Programs office as a Student Marketing Assistant for Stephanie Scoby. He gets to interact with the International Programs staff quite a bit. "They give valuable advice and help to clarify things for you. They really look after you. If you have any questions about school, housing, life, even buying a car, they are there for you."
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