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If you have never read the work of Megan Abbott, do yourself a
favor and get a copy of BURY ME DEEP right now. In this, just her
fourth novel, she has already established herself as one of the
great mystery writers working in America today and is on her way to
becoming a bestselling author.
Abbott labors in the hard-boiled, noir section of the mystery
genre. She, along with authors like Charles Ardai, Jason Starr and
Charlie Huston, is breathing fresh life into one of America's
most important literary contributions of the 20th century. All of
her previous novels were nominated for Edgar Awards, and QUEENPIN,
her second, won both an Edgar and Barry Award. BURY ME DEEP stands
an excellent chance of getting her another Edgar.
What Abbott does that is so unique and fresh is revisit old true
crime cases from the glory days of noir and re-imagine them. So
QUEENPIN was inspired by the true life story of Virginia Hill,
part-time actress, mob courier and, most famously, main squeeze of
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. Her third novel, THE SONG IS
YOU, fictionalized the real-life disappearance off the face of the
earth of dark-haired starlet Jean Spangler in 1946. Of course,
Abbott is not the only mystery writer who works this side of the
street. James Ellroy has turned the real history of 1950s Los
Angeles and modern America itself into noir in a series of
excellent books, the latest of which, BLOOD'S A ROVER, will
be out in September. BURY ME DEEP tackles the now forgotten but
once tabloid-fueled case of Winnie Ruth Judd, the "Trunk
Murderess" or "Blonde Butcher" as the papers
christened her. The case was right out of film noir.
In October 1931, the bodies of two young Phoenix women were
found dissected in two abandoned steamer trunks left at the
Southern Pacific Railroad Station in LA. After four days the trail
led to the 26-year-old Judd, who confessed, claiming self-defense.
Only an insanity plea kept her from the gallows. She would spend 30
years in a mental institution despite seven attempts to escape. In
her meticulous research, Abbot uncovered a sliver of doubt. After
all, in film noir, nothing is what it seems. Could Judd have been
set up by a powerful man in the community who she and the girls
were involved with? Using many of the actual details of the case,
Abbot weaves a spellbinding tale.
She tells the story from the point of view of Marion Seeley, a
young naïve woman whose doctor husband is a morphine junkie.
Unable to hold a medical license in the states, Dr. Seeley in
desperation takes a job as a doctor at a Mexican mine. He
can't bring his wife, so he gets her a job as a clerk in an
Arizona TB clinic until he can make some money and return for her.
The lonely girl is soon befriended by two women: Louise, a
world-wise nurse at the clinic, and her roommate, Ginny, who is
slowly dying from TB.
Abbott does a perfect job of bringing us back into this lost
world, a world of kidskin gloves, soft cloche hats and
"shingle bob" hairstyles. Prohibition is still in
effect, so the book floats along in a sea of bootleg gin and booze.
And even though the Depression is lingering into its second painful
year, the spirit of the Jazz Age is alive and well with the girls,
who are famous for their wild house parties. You can almost hear
"The Charleston" playing in the background. The
hilarity might still be there, but the world is suddenly a much
darker and more ominous place.
Louise, of course, has something of a reputation at the clinic.
Rumors swirl about the night the cops were called to the Dempsey
Hotel and Louise was spotted on the fifth floor corridor
"going on two o'clock in the morning, only one shoe on,
and they brought her in and they let her go because some calls were
made…" Rumor also has it that young Marion "liked
their (Louise and Ginny's) lively ways." Early on,
Marion wonders, "Who did these girls know?" Our heroine
is going to find out.
Within 34 days of her arrival, Marion has dyed her hair to look
like a "platinum pleasure blonde." She resembles
actress Joan Bennett. And here, Abbott turns classic film noir on
its head. Usually, it is the "femme fatale" who draws
the unsuspecting male to his doom. But here there is a "homme
fatale" who attracts Marion with his siren call.
"Gentleman Joe" Lanigan is an important man in the
community, owner of a chain of pharmacies and regular attendee at
Sunday mass. He is also married with children and an invalid wife
he must care for. "Gentleman Joe" is a frequent guest
at the girls' parties, and he, like many other outstanding
men in the community, including the sheriff, enjoys giving the
girls swell gifts and the most modern appliances.
There have been great female writers of hard-boiled crime
stories in the past, such as Dorothy B. Hughes and Patricia
Highsmith. It was never exclusively a male preserve. But Abbott
perfectly and beautifully captures Marion's descent into the
vortex: a sensual world she never knew existed. She falls hard for
Joe. Abbott writes noir from a female perspective, which makes this
not just a mystery novel but also a work of women's
literature. She writes: "When he looked at her, she could
feel it like his finger, the tip of his finger, was tickling the
lace bristles on her underthings. Like it was flicking up and down
down there. And she didn't know where she got this idea
because nothing like that had ever happened to her."
However, this is anything but a romance. This is noir where,
once the descent begins, it ends inevitably in disaster. Marion is
wretched by guilt while thrilled by desire. She imagines writing
her sick husband: "I am a sinner, Dr. Seeley.
What's more, I came to love my sin." And in
another imagined letter, Abbott puts in Marion's words the
very definition of noir: "For some things, there can be
no forgiveness, nor even words. Some things are meant only to be
fevers in the brain." Wow!
And like all great noir, Marion's plight sucks you in as
the ending steadily builds along with a growing sense of dread. In
recent years, film fans such as myself have been delighted to see a
return of interest in Pre-Production Code Hollywood movies. Those
were the films made from 1930-1934 before the iron-clad censorship
of the Production Code, dictated in large part by the Catholic
Church, decided what viewers would see for the next three
This book perfectly reflects that era. Imagine the great Barbara
Stanwyck in the 1934 movie Baby Face. That is
Abbott's Marion. She has to fend for herself in a man's
world --- a world where powerful men use women as sex objects and
then casually dispose of them when they become a threat. And as the
Jazz Age gave way to the Great Depression, desperation spread like
a fast-moving cancer. Desperate people must do desperate things to
BURY ME DEEP is not just a fine mystery. It is an American
novel, filled with humanity and a thirst for justice. We are going
to be enjoying the work of Megan Abbott for decades to come.
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Are e-books out? Which will be the next big fantasy novel? Here are book trends to look out for in 2016.
Come inside the Tardis with me, or incant a few runes by the fire, or maybe just pull a novel off the shelf to see what lies in the future. What will happen in 2016 in books? Here are trends to look out for.
Books are back
Print books, that is. In December, Nielsen BookScan reported that 571 million more print books were sold in 2015 than the year before. Meanwhile, e-books, which were once predicted to reach 50 percent to 60 percent of total book sales, hovered at just 25 percent. Big print hits proved that it's no single demographic that wants books on paper: Harper Lee's second novel, "Go Set a Watchman," appealed to readers of all ages; "The Wright Brothers" by historian David McCullough had an older readership; teens gobbled up print books by YouTube stars; and "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School," Jeff Kinney's latest novel for middle-schoolers, sold a remarkable 95 percent of its copies in print. The most age-defying driver of print book sales was the spike in demand for adult coloring books. While some are available as e-books or apps, adult coloring fans seem to be using them as an escape from time spent staring at a screen.
The 'Star Wars' effect
Book sales numbers aside, readers don't exist in a vacuum — they live in the same cultural universe as the one that gave "The Force Awakens" the biggest opening weekend in movie history. After viewers have watched every "Star Wars" film possible, publishers expect some will turn to their local bookstores seeking further space adventures. Orbit, a science fiction and fantasy imprint of Hachette, is doubling its annual output next year to 90 titles. In 2015, Simon & Schuster launched a science fiction imprint, Saga; late last year, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced the creation of an imprint, John Joseph Adams Books, named for and run by the editor of "The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy" anthology, who believes we are in a new golden age of science fiction. Head to your local bookstore and start browsing.
If you can't read George R.R. Martin, join him
Readers have had to endure excruciatingly long intervals between the epic fantasy novels by George R.R. Martin, whose bestselling "Song of Ice and Fire" series has earned legions more fans with the HBO adaptation, "Game of Thrones." Martin has steadfastly refused to specify a release date for the next book, "The Winds of Winter." Writing on his blog, he says, "It will be finished when it's finished." Filling the void are other authors writing their own epic fantasies. Most notable in this crowd is Marlon James, the Jamaican American novelist who won the 2015 Man Booker Prize with "A Brief History of Seven Killings." Since finishing that massive, complex novel about the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976, the ambitious and wildly talented James has been writing what he calls "an African 'Game of Thrones.'" James' novel is tentatively titled "Black Leopard, Red Wolf," and like Martin's, it doesn't yet have a release date. But it proves that more epic fantasy is coming.
Long-form nonfiction is in peril
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Once the darling of the new-media landscape, long-form nonfiction spawned vibrant startups like the Atavist and Byliner, which garnered glowing publicity and scored major investors. They were nimble, online publishers that brought rich, reported stories directly to readers without the constraints of magazine page counts. Byliner, for example, published Jon Krakauer's expansive and controversial expose of author and activist Greg Mortenson, "Three Cups of Deceit." The Atavist's creative platform, which integrates audio, video, sound, maps and other interactivity, made its publications stand out with multidimensional promise, and its storytelling skills prompted investors to expand back into traditional publishing. But Byliner closed in 2014; the Atavist's publishing venture lasted less than a year, and in December a slimmed Atavist laid off half its staff. With the success of the podcast "Serial" and Netflix's "Making a Murderer" series, it's clear that deeply reported nonfiction stories have a ready audience — but that audience seems, for the moment, to have drifted from reading.
It's a big, diverse world
In 2015, the Nobel Prize in literature went to Russian author Svetlana Alexievich; to some, the award was significant because Alexievich is a nonfiction writer, only the third to win the prize. But to American publishers, it was an all-too-familiar brush-off. Despite a string of 20th century laureates, no American has been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature since Toni Morrison's 1993 win. Our writing is seen as being "too isolated, too insular," according one Nobel committee member. This highbrow critique has been reflected at home in calls for increased diversity in the characters represented in books for children and young adults. The organization We Need Diverse Books, which grew out of a 2014 Twitter conversation, has begun taking action. It now helps fund internships, school visits and emerging writer and illustrator grants, and has launched a mentorship program for diverse writers and their work. In 2016, our growing literary diversity will be nurtured from the ground up.

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Cosmic Expansion: Supernovas shed light on dark energy
Eight years ago, astronomers made an astonishing discovery: The rate at which the universe is expanding, assumed to have been steadily slowing since the Big Bang, is in fact speeding up. The entity revving up cosmic expansion remains elusive (SN: 5/22/04, p. 330: Dark Doings), but scientists have dubbed it dark energy. This week, a team reported gains in its efforts to understand and describe it.


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Though Google's Q3 2013 financial results were stellar, beating industry analyst expectations and causing their stock price to surge this morning, one thing remains troubling. Motorola, Google's recent hardware and patent acquisition, continues to suffer losses. Though the handset maker is poised for a revival, it's just not happening.
In Q3 2013, Motorola's revenue was $1.18 billion. Though nothing to sneeze at, their Q3 2012 revenue was $1.78 billion. They made up 8% of Google's revenue for this quarter, compared to 13% this time last year.
The operating losses increased dramatically as well for Motorola, as they claim $248 million this year. Last year, their operating losses were $192 million. If you're keeping track, we've got more operating losses on less revenue.
On paper, these seem like troubling figures, but let's look at the satellite benefits. While Motorola is not doing Google any favors right now, they recently launched a string of very respectable devices. They bolstered their position with the nation's largest carrier with the Droid lineup, and increased their position with AT&T by offering the Moto X customization to them exclusively.
Motorola is said to be offering a lower-cost device soon, which falls in line with CEO Dennis Woodside's comments earlier this year that they would be diversifying their lineup with such a phone. As much as Motorola affects Google, in the grand scheme of it all, theirs is a long play, not a quick gain.


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SBA loan programs are backed by the federal government and provide a more flexible loan structure, more time to repay and lower down payments. There are several SBA business loan options available.
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Habeas Petition by Military Prisoner
In Thomas v. US Disciplinary Barracks, No. 09-3291, a habeas petition by a military prisoner, the court affirmed the dismissal of the petition where the district court correctly applied the court of appeals' precedent in determining that petitioner's claims were not entitled to additional review because the military courts gave them full and fair consideration.
As the court wrote: "Rochester Thomas, a military prisoner, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, which the district court dismissed. Thomas then voluntarily abated his appeal in this court to petition a military court to consider his claims of ineffective appellate counsel. The military court summarily denied Thomas's petition and, on remand, the district court again dismissed Thomas's habeas petition."
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Introducing the Windows Experience Pack
I want to take a moment and let folks know about the Windows Experience Pack we are making available starting today for people with PCs running Windows 7 and/or Windows Live Essentials. While we cant send all of you on vacation, we can give you something special to help you daydream and customize your PC and online experience.
With the Windows Experience Pack, you are able create an alter-ego of yourself in a specific destination a beach, mountain, safari, or city. When you create your alter-ego, you create a fully customized avatar for that destination that becomes a part of a Windows Live Messenger and Windows 7 theme for your PC. Youll also be able to download a .jpg image of your avatar to share, print, or use as your icon on social networks.
For a specific destination you pick, the following Windows Live Messenger elements are created for you to use in Messenger for your alter-ego:
The Windows Experience Pack was created and optimized for Windows 7, but it can be downloaded and used on PCs running Windows XP or Windows Vista too (although performance and features may vary).
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"The state has taken $62 million this year and another $13 million this next year in May. So it's $75 million the state is taking out of redevelopment agency funding," Reed said.
Reed lamented cuts to an agency responsible for much of the city's economic development. Before the recession, San Jose had one of the largest redevelopment agency's in the state.
This year's layoffs affect 20 percent of the San Jose Redevelopment Agency staff. 62 of the agency's workers were let go in 2009.
Reed said the slimmed down department's work to revitalize struggling neighborhoods and attract new businesses would now focus on big ticket projects such as a proposed downtown baseball park.
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By Dawn M. Swidorski
Most of us are familiar with millet, though they might not associate it as people food. Millet is most often seen as the main ingredient in bird seed – I assure you though, it is not just "for the birds."
Millet is actually a seed and not a grain, though for culinary purposes it is used as a grain. Millet is tiny in size and round in shape and can be white, gray, yellow or red. The most widely available form found in stores is the hulled variety, though cracked can also be found.
Archaeologists believe the cultivation of millet was of greater importance in prehistory than rice, especially in northern China and Korea. It was millet, rather than rice, that formed important parts of the prehistoric diet in Indian, Chinese Neolithic and Korean societies. Some of the earliest evidence of cultivation in China dates to 8300–6700 BC and in Korea from 3500–2000. Millet made its way from China to the Black Sea region of Europe by 5000 BC. The cultivation has been attributed to its resistance to drought and has been suggested this aided in its spread.
In the Middle Ages, before potatoes and corn were introduced, millet became a staple grain in Europe, especially in countries in Eastern Europe. The Setaria variety of millet was introduced into the United States in the 19th century.
Millet is still an extremely important food staple in Africa where it is finely ground and used to make a traditional flat bread. It is still a major food sources in arid and semi-arid regions of the world, and feature in the traditional cuisine of many others.While millet has been used primarily for birdseed and animal fodder in Western Europe and North America, it is now gaining popularity for its unique virtues and it's a gluten-free grain alternative to wheat.
The protein content in millet is very close to that of wheat; both provide about 11% protein by weight. It is rich in B vitamins, especially niacin, B6 and folic acid, calcium, iron, potassium, magnesium, and zinc.
Millet porridge is a traditional food in Russian, German and Chinese cuisine. In Russia it is eaten sweet with milk and sugar added or savory with meat or vegetable stews. In China it is eaten plain, with beans, sweet potato, and/or various types of squash.
Depending on how it's cooked millet can be creamy like mashed potatoes or fluffy like rice. Any way you serve it, millet is a delicious grain that can accompany many types of food.
How to Select and Store
Millet is available in its hulled and whole-grain form. Whether purchasing millet in bulk or in a packaged container, make sure that there is no evidence of moisture.
Store millet in an airtight container in a cool, dry and dark place, where it will keep for several months.
How to Enjoy
Rinse millet thoroughly to remove any dirt or debris. After rinsing, add one part millet to two and a half parts boiling water or broth. After the liquid has returned to a boil, turn down the heat, cover and simmer for about 25 minutes. The texture of millet cooked this way will be fluffy like rice. If you want the millet to have a more creamy consistency, stir it frequently adding a little water every now and then.
To give a nuttier flavor to the cooked millet, place the grains in a dry skillet over medium heat and stir them frequently. When they have achieved a golden color, add them to the boiling cooking liquid.
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- Cooked millet can be served as a breakfast porridge to which you can add your favorite nuts and fruits.
- Ground millet can be added to bread and muffin recipes.
- Toss cooked and chilled millet with chopped vegetables and chicken or tofu. Add a nice vinaigrette dressing and you have an easy to prepare meal.
Next time you are looking for an alternative to rice or potatoes, serve millet instead.


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…and then you tried to tell us that Tim Tebow was better than other backup quarterbacks in the league right now.
We're not buying that, even if you gave it to us for free and threw in a copy of your book. And we liked your book.
The former Vikings punter was on "Olbermann" last night discussing the piece he wrote for Deadspin about his final season, and offseason, in Minnesota. The discussion turned to the broader idea of having an individual identity in a league that values conformity above all. It's actually a topic that we covered on our podcast yesterday — team management is more likely to value a player that keeps his mouth shut over one that doesn't, all things being equal.
Olbermann himself made a comparison to Tim Tebow, ex-NFL quarterback and current ESPN analyst. Kluwe agreed (emphasis ours):
"As much as we are polar opposites on the things we stand for, Tebow is the exact same way.
"There are backup quarterbacks in the NFL right now that Tebow is certainly better than — he could fill a role with a team," Kluwe said. "But because he brings this other stuff with him, just like I bring my other stuff with me, teams look at it like, 'We don't want it. We don't want players speaking out. We don't want players doing anything other than football.'"
Did Tebow's circus act (which comes from a combination of his outspoken faith and his ridiculous, only kinda-justified popularity) play a role in keeping him off an NFL roster? Probably. Does Kluwe's stance — now bolstered by the scathing piece he wrote — keep him from getting looks? Probably.
But from what we've seen of Tebow, he's not an NFL quarterback. Sorry. He can't throw a consistent spiral. That's pretty much rule number one for being a QB. He also has trouble remembering plays. That's rule number two. If he was a good football player, he could be the most outspoken, moronic, insane dude in the world — someone would give him a job. So, nice try, Chris.
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As previously reported, Matilda was the big winner at London's 2012 Olivier Awards on April 15, taking home a record seven trophies—and the musical's quartet of young Best Actress winners and their choreographer could not be more excited.
"This is coming everywhere with me," 10-year-old Cleo Demetriou told Broadway.com at the after-party, clutching her trophy close. "I feel ecstatic," echoed a second Matilda, 10-year-old Eleanor Worthington Cox. And what of the two actresses who have performed the demanding title role for the last time? "It's an absolute honor to finish with an Olivier Award," said Kerry Ingram, who turns 13 next month and gave her final performance at the Cambridge Theatre on April 12. Also departing is Sophia Kiely, who had her final show the night before the Oliviers and was preparing to return to school on April 16. "I feel very sad that I'm leaving, but it's good to get an education," she said. As for her Olivier, "I'll treasure it forever," she said.
Also celebrating was Matilda choreographer Peter Darling, winner of Olivier and Tony Awards for Billy Elliot, and now a second Olivier for yet another musical that puts pre-pubescents first. "I only work with people under five foot," Darling joked, adding, "Kids are great fun to work with: They link into that core story of triumph over adversity, and there's more of an emotional punch when it's happening to a little 11-year-old."
Darling's next West End musical promises variations on this very theme: In February 2012 he begins rehearsals for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, director Sam Mendes' adaptation of the Roald Dahl story that focuses around an 11-year-old boy.


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This coming September, the city of Toronto will be teaming with multitudes of RUSH fans eager to see them on their current tour and attend the annual RushCon fan convention.With RUSH's highly acclaimed recent release, "Snakes & Arrows", making an impressive showing on the Billboard chart debuting in the #3 spot, fans are flocking to concerts across North America. This is RUSH's highest chart debut since 1993, and the group's eleventh top-ten album in the U.S. In support of "Snakes & Arrows" the band will conclude its North American tour in Toronto on Saturday September 22. It couldn't be more perfect for RUSH fans everywhere as they can make a full weekend out of it by attending both the RushCon fan convention as well as see RUSH's final North American show, live on Saturday night. This years' RushCon fan convention includes a variety of events and entertainment options offered throughout the weekend, beginning with an exclusive "In the Mood" mixer and RUSH tribute band concert to be held on Friday, September 21 at the historic Opera House. What better way to welcome traveling fans and set the tone for the weekend? This year's tribute band is none other than New York's own LIMELIGHT — a well seasoned tribute band who previously headlined at RushCon 4 and plays extensively throughout the New York area. Once again, this remarkable band will be treating the audience to painstakingly accurate and energetic renditions of RUSH's most classic tunes. Saturday, September 22 begins with the main fan convention held at the Days Inn Conference Center in Downtown Toronto. Activities to include shopping rare and collectible merchandise vendors as well as hosts a variety of contests, games, and fan participation events. This is the place to show your skills, win fabulous prizes and meet fellow fans from around the world and get pumped up for the show. That night, fans will be transported to the Air Canada Centre to enjoy RUSH in concert for its final show on the North American tour. (Note: Tickets to the concert are not included with RushCon admission.) Sunday, September 23 activities will include the annual RUSH memorabilia charity auction, where rare and autographed items are sold to the highest bidder and 100% of the proceeds benefit the Toronto Daily Bread Food Bank. Items will include many rare and autographed items spanning their three-decade-long career. Over the years, this successful auction has raised over $40,000 for the Daily Bread Food Bank of Toronto. Admission for all events (mixer/tribute band concert, convention and auction) is $65 CND available via online store at www.rushcon.org or at the door the day of. (Tribute concert only, $12 CND at the door.) Tickets to the RUSH concert itself are not included in this package. RushCon is hosted by Force 10 Enterprises, a non-profit organization formed entirely by RUSH fans for RUSH fans. Force 10 was formed exclusively to host RushCon and ensure that each year the proceeds are donated to our designated charity, the Daily Bread Food Bank of Toronto.
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The Supreme Court has been busy this week, disposing of cases and dispensing decisions.
The Nine followed up yesterday's decisions in CompuCredit Corp. v. Greenwood, Gonzalez v. Thaler, Minneci v. Pollard, and Smith v. Cain with three more 2012 Supreme Court opinions.
Here's a quick review of the most-recently decided issues:
- Hosanna-Tabor Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC. The Supreme Court reversed the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in a unanimous decision, finding that the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment bar suits brought on behalf of ministers against their churches, claiming termination in violation of employment discrimination laws. As the teacher who brought the claim against Hosanna-Tabor was a "called" -- read: ordained -- teacher at the school, she fell within the ministerial exception.
- Perry v. New Hampshire. Eyewitness identification is by no means perfect, but the Supreme Court says that it's still up to the jury to decide whether an eyewitness is reliable. In an 8-1 decision, the Court held that the Due Process Clause does not require a preliminary judicial inquiry into the reliability of an eyewitness identification when the identification was not procured under unnecessarily suggestive circumstances arranged by law enforcement.
- Pacific Operators v. Valladolid. In another unanimous decision, the Court held that the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act extends the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act coverage to an employee who can establish a substantial nexus between his injury and his employer's extractive operations on the Outer Continental Shelf.
The Court's decision in Perry is particularly frustrating in light of the numerous wrongful convictions secured through eyewitness identification. Justice Ginsburg touched on the issue in her opinion. "We do not doubt either the fallibility or the importance of eyewitness evidence generally ... We have concluded in other contexts, however, that the potential unreliability of a type of evidence does not alone render its introduction at the defendant's trial fundamentally unfair."
Related Resources:
- Supreme Court Rejects Special Review of Eyewitness Testimony (Thomson Reuters News & Insight)
- Eyewitness Identification Review: 2011 Supreme Court Cases (FindLaw's Supreme Court blog)
- The Perils of Eyewitness Identification: A Personal Account (FindLaw)


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A woman from San Diego county is the latest Jeopardy! champion.
Jennifer Montgomery of Encinitas is the development director for Jazz 88.3. That means she raises money for the public radio station.
Montgomery won by a healthy margin on Monday, but she almost humiliated herself on a clue specifically about San Diego.
"Padres fans know this feathered trickster has been called 'the Sir Laurence Olivier of mascots. Jennifer," asked host Alex Trebek.
"What is the Chicken?" replied Montgomery.
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The Scientific World Journal
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 645201, 4 pages
On Satnoianu-Wu's Inequality
College of Mathematics, Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities, Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia 028043, China
Received 22 April 2013; Accepted 28 June 2013
Academic Editors: F. J. Garcia-Pacheco, Y. Sawano, and S. Tikhonov
Copyright © 2013 Bo-Yan Xi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
By applying techniques in the theory of convex functions and Schur-geometrically convex functions, the author investigates a conjecture of Satnoianu on an algebraic inequality and generalizes some known results in recent years.
1. Introduction
For and with , let These quantities are, respectively, called the arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic means of a positive sequence . For more information on the theory of means, see the monograph [1] or the papers [2–5] and plenty of references therein.
For convenience, in what follows, we use the notation for and .
In [6], Satnoianu posed the following conjecture.
Conjecture 1. For , , and , it is valid that
This conjecture has been solved and researched in [7–10]. Among them, Wu obtained in [10] the following result.
Theorem 2 (see [10, Theorem 1]). Let be a positive integer and let , , and for be positive numbers. If and then
It is clear that inequality (5) generalizes (3). Therefore, we would like to call inequality (5) Satnoianu-Wu's inequality.
Now we naturally pose the following questions: (1)Can one improve the condition (4)? (2)Does the reversed inequality of (5) exist? (3)Are there other types of inequalities of Satnoianu-Wu type?
The goal of this paper is to answer these questions.
2. Definitions and Lemmas
We need the following definitions and lemmas.
Definition 3 (see [11, page 8]). Let and . We say that is majorized by (in symbols ) if for , where and are rearrangements of and in a descending order.
Definition 4 (see [12]). Let .(1)The set is said to be geometrically convex if for every and .(2)A function is said to be Schur-geometrically convex on if implies for every .(3)A function is said to be Schur-geometrically concave on if implies for every .
Lemma 5 (see [12]). Let be a symmetric and geometrically convex set with inner points and a symmetric and differentiable function in . Then is a Schur-geometrically convex (or Schur-geometrically concave, resp.) function on if and only if
Lemma 6 (see [1, page 4, Bernoulli's inequality]). The inequality holds for and or for and . If and , inequality (8) is reversed.
3. Main Results
Now we start off to demonstrate our main results.
Theorem 7. Let be defined as in (2) and , let for , and let with . If , then If , inequality (9) is reversed.
Proof. For and with , since
then(1)for , or for and , the function is convex on ;(2)for , or for and , the function is concave on .By Jensen's inequality, when , or when and , we have
where . When , or when and , inequality (11) is reversed.
Let for , , , and . Then it is easy to show that . Making use of (11), we obtain inequality (9). The proof of Theorem 7 is complete.
Corollary 8. Under the conditions of Theorem 7 and when , if , then if , inequality (12) is reversed.
Corollary 9. Let , for , and . If , then if , inequality (13) is reversed.
Proof. This follows from Theorem 7 by considering that if , we have and that if , we have .
Theorem 10. Let , for , with , and defined by (2). If , then if , inequality (14) is reversed.
Proof. For , let
for . When , or when and , we have
when and , inequality (17) is reversed.
Using Lemma 5, we have the following conclusions:(1)if , or if and , the function is Schur-geometrically convex on ;(2)if and , the function is Schur-geometrically concave on .By the fact that and by Definition 4, if , or if and , we have if and , inequality (19) is reversed.
Letting for leads to . Putting , and in inequality (19) results in inequality (14). The proof of Theorem 10 is complete.
Corollary 11. Under the conditions of Theorem 10 and when , if , then if , inequality (20) is reversed.
Remark 12. When and , from Lemma 6 and (4), it follows that
Theorem 13. Let , for , and with . If , then if , inequality (22) is reversed.
Proof. Since is a convex (or concave, resp.) function on for or (or for , resp.), by Jensen's inequality, if or , we have
if , inequality (23) is reversed.
Letting and shows . Further from (23), we obtain inequality (22). The proof of Theorem 13 is complete.
Remark 14. It is clear that inequalities (9) and (22) both generalize inequality (3).
Corollary 15. Let , for , with , and defined as in (2).(1)When , one has (2)When and , one has (3)When and , one has (4)When and , one has
Proof. This follows from utilizing the well-known harmonic-geometric-arithmetic mean inequality and Theorems 7 to 13.
Corollary 16. Under the conditions of Corollary 15 and when ,(1)if and , one has (2)if and , one has (3)if and , one has
The author thanks four anonymous referees for their careful corrections to and valuable comments on the original version of this paper. This work was partially supported by the Foundation of the Research Program of Science and Technology at Universities of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region under Grant no. NJZY13159, China.
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Bosnia: Transnational Stock Fraud Group Dismantled
Organized Crime investigators have arrested 22 people and are investigating another 50 on suspicion of organized crime, money laundering, and tax evasion. All appear to have been involved in a stock scam and posed as employees of a fictitious company that defrauded European Union citizens out of millions.
At the center of the scheme is "Dunmorr Group AG" whose majority holder, as the Center for Investigative Reporting in Sarajevo (CIN) found, is a Bosnian national Goran Samardzija. Samardzija lives in Belgrade, Serbia, and his company is registered in Switzerland, with branches in Bosnia and Serbia.
Reports naming Dunmorr as the orchestrator of the fraud scheme appeared on German Internet forums in July 2011, CIN reports. According to these posts, Dunmorr offered stocks of various western companies for sale, from phone numbers registered in Bosnia, Germany and Monaco.
The forum posts also claim that Dunmorr purchased large amounts of worthless stocks from failing companies. Its "employees" then called citizens promising huge payoff for these stocks. As the number of people who agreed to buy the stocks grew, so did the value of the stocks, and the earnings of the fraudsters. After the stocks were purchased, their value dropped and the fraudsters made off with their victims' money.
Dunmorr was founded in 1997 in Glattburgg, Switzerland, under the name "Selab." Its starting capital was 20, 000 Swiss franks (US$13,800 in 1997).
Selab's founders were Swiss nationals Alfred Ariger von Litau and Antonio Odesti von Gansingen. Their business adviser was Fiedrich Auf der Maur. At the start, Selab developed and sold software, in addition to various other merchandise.
In 2000, following Ariger's death, his family and Odesti sold the company to Maur. The company sales contract states that Odesti and Ariger's family got 500 francs each. In early 2001, Maur moved the company to Zurich, and in May 2002, he registered Selab as a joint stock company. He increased Selab's capital to 100,000 francs.
The following year, Selab got another new owner – Martin Grossmann from Zurich. Under his ownership, Selab became an agricultural company.
In 2007, Selab changed its name to the "Dunmorr Group AG." Grossmann again changed the company's activity, this time to financial counseling and stock trade. He also increased the number of shares, and their value decreased. The company had 1,000 stocks, each one worth 100 francs. Grosmman was the only stockholder and only board member until October 2009, when Zoran Samardzija, then using a German address, became the board president.
During 2010, Goran Samardzija from Belgrade, Serbia recapitalized the company, adding 1.13 million francs to its capital and increasing the number of stocks by 9,000. In 2008, Goran Samardzija founded a business consulting company in Serbia, "Stonehard Consulting." Stonehard was blacklisted by Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). The company was liquidated in June 2010.
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The wife of a man who died after stun-gun shocks in a scuffle with deputies is suing Los Angeles County and the weapon's manufacturer.
Caroline Silva says in the lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court that deputies went far beyond reasonable force to detain her husband, 32-year-old Cesar Silva. She's also suing Taser International Inc., saying the company failed to warn of the stun gun's danger.
Authorities say Cesar Silva fought with as many as five deputies responding to a call of a neighborhood disturbance near South Los Angeles in 2007 and injured two of them. The lawsuit says Silva was unarmed when deputies used the Taser on him more than 10 times.
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One can never have too many USB ports, and the Satechi 10-Port USB 3.O hub (On sale for $59.99, usualy $69.99) certainly is welcome in my office. It looks like a power strip, but it's really a mighty USB hub. Because it is such a gathering spot, I call mine the hub Pub.
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I guess I never paid much attention, but it seems most hubs only have four ports. I have a whole gang of them chained together. I'm surprised they don't blow out my computer.
This arrangement makes an ideal data transfer center with your computer and external drives all connected to it. It also solves the issue of iPads sometimes not charging from computer USB ports.
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Cuba Gooding Jr has confessed he felt under pressure after winning an Academy Award and admits he made some bad choices with his career afterwards.
The 45-year-old actor - who is currently starring on Broadway in The Trip To Bountiful - shot to fame after picking up the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1996 for his role in romantic comedy Jerry Maguire as an energetic sports star whose catchphrase was "Show me the money!"
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I wanted to get a few screenshot from an avi, but can't seem to get the video to stop exactly where I need it to. Is there a program that lets me move frame by frame, or do I have to keep trying to pause and try again? Thanks for your help!
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If you use Vdub, you can select "GoTo" and type the frame number in, it also lets you move forward and backwards in frames. You can then copy the frame to the clipboard Video > Copy source frame to clipboard.
For small AVI's you can load them into "Animation Shop 3" it comes with Paint Shop Pro. There are other programs but they are expensive.
To prevent confusion, by VDub he meant VirtualDub. It can be found at http://www.virtualdub.org I think. Check the tools section to be safe.
I want/need some app/util to view/compare (SIDE-BY-SIDE!) frames of input/output video files ...
I find that I can not use ViDub for this 'cuz the ViDub display pane goes grainy/blurry (to varying degress)
when not the O/S current "ACTIVE" window ... i.e., having multiple instances of ViDub open
means that the display pane of "INACTIVE" ViDub windows goes grainy/blurry ...
so comparisons can not really be made ...
As always ... Any helpful replies/insights appreciated ...
VirtualDub, and restart it for the change to take effect.
By the way, VirtualDub doesn't have a simple "save this frame as in image" function. You have to Copy the frame to the Windows Clipboard (Video -> Copy Source Frame to Clipboard), then start an image editor and Paste as a new image. Then save from the image editor.
But VirtualDubMod can save images directly. Use Video -> Snapshot Source Frame, and you can select from TGA, BMP, or PNG.
Last edited by jagabo; 4th Jan 2014 at 20:40.
MPC-HC will do it for existing video (I assume you're not trying to compare the original video with a filtered version before it's actually re-encoded?). There's a button on the navigation bar to step forward frame by frame, or the Ctrl key in combination with the back/forward arrows on your keyboard will step in either direction. The "Navigate/Go To" menu (Ctrl+G) lets you navigate to a specific frame number/time. I don't think MPC-HC can display the current frame number or the exact timecode in the navigation bar as VirtualDub does, but it probably doesn't matter for what you're wanting to do.
If it does, you could use ffdshow for decoding and enable it's on screen display. That'd give you a screenshot which includes the frame number etc. Like this:
By default, MPC-HC will only open one video at a time (double clicking on a file in Windows Explorer). If you use View/Options, under the Player menu there's an option to "open a new player for each media file". Restart MPC-HC for it to take effect.
The "File/Save Image" menu does the screenshot saving. BMP, JPG or PNG.
Last edited by hello_hello; 5th Jan 2014 at 00:28.
SEEMS to have done the trick!
I am comparing input files (could be avi, mp4, mkv ...) with various output files ... and
comparing various output files with each other ...
I prefer to be able to jump around to various frames ...
rather than repeatedly save/compare individual frames ...
... which I was (already) aware could be done .... e.g.,
with MPC-HC's save frame functionality ... & etc ...
auf jeden Fall ... vielen Dank!
An even better method is to use AviSynth and interleave or stack (side by side) the two videos. Then use VirtualDub to view the AVS script.
v1 = AviSource("file1.avi") v2 = AviSource("file2.avi") Interleave(v1, v2)Code:
v1 = AviSource("file1.avi") v2 = AviSource("file2.avi") StackHorizontal(v1, v2)
v1 = AviSource("file1.avi") v2 = AviSource("file2.avi") Subtract(v1, v2) Tweak(cont=8.0) # enhance the difference 8x
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New York Times best-selling author and biographer Charles J. Shields crafts this fascinating portrait of literary icon Kurt Vonnegut. The first authorized biography of the influential American writer, And So It Goes examines Vonnegut's life, from his childhood to his death in 2007, and explores how the author changed the conversation of American literature.
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Vonnegut is very different from the public persona he created over the decades. He was, in fact, a miserable man who seemed to enjoy making people around him miserable as well. Not a particularly fun book to read, but being a huge Vonnegut fan, I'm still glad I read it.
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For listeners interested in Vonnegut's life and work this is a good reading of the biography. However, the author seems to believe that he could have run Vonnegut's life far better than Vonnegut himself. That Vonnegut does not always live up to his ideals is not surprising, but the book seems to focus on Vonnegut disappointing his friends, family and himself year after year. Vonnegut's son Mark said that his father was not the bitter young man who evolves into the bitter lonely man portrayed in the book and that Shield's book does not reflect Vonnegut's true life and nature. I agree.
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This book is a well written, exceptionally researched, in-depth, and informative look at the life and writings of Kurt Vonnegut. The book moves through Vonnegut's life in chronological order, moving from childhood to death and recounts the changes in Vonnegut's life and fortune that shaped his life, his writing, and his legacy. Citing primary documents, letters, interviews, and Vonnegut's own writings, the author paints a very real and highly tangible representation of what life was like for Kurt Vonnegut. We are taken through a youth in Indiana, a soldier in World War II, a writer having a hard time getting published, a teacher at Iowa, and finally long awaited recognition and financial stability.
This is a great book for fans of Vonnegut's writing. There is much to be gleamed from Vonnegut's motivations, thoughts on craft and his ideas on the world.
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Kathy Ryan, the magazine's director of photography, who has been part of the magazine staff since 1987, and Lesley A. Martin of the Aperture Foundation have co-curated an exhibition of photographs from the magazine, primarily from the last 15 years, which is now on exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville.
The exhibition, which continues through Aug. 24, demonstrates the imaginative ways in which photographs are used in the magazine's storytelling. Included are more than 125 images divided into 11 modules. In addition to the final images that were seen in the magazine, the exhibition includes text describing the projects, shot lists, work prints, contact sheets, videos, tear sheets and an extensive series of tearsheets and covers from the last 30 years of the magazine.
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■ Great Performers: Every year since 2004, the magazine has featured portraits of actors. Ryan called an image Rineke Dijkstra took of Cate Blanchett perhaps the best portrait of an actress ever to appear in the magazine.
"It's commanding, it's simple, and it's stripped down," Ryan said.
■ The Kuwaiti Inferno: Sebastiao Salgado documented the raging fires created when retreating Iraqi soldiers set the oil fields of Kuwait on fire in 1991.
■ An Impossible Occupation, How Did Darfur Happen? and The Exodus: Three stories on which Ryan worked with Italian photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin.
■ A Response to 9/11: After the World Trade Center was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, Adam Moss, then the editor of the magazine, worked to produce an issue that provided context and commemoration. The issue's cover showed two light beams in place of the Twin Towers.
■ The Korengal Valley: Afgahnistan's Korengal Valley has been called "the deadliest place on earth. In their story "Battle Company Is Out There," the photographer-writer team of Lynsey Addario and Elizabeth Rubin accompanied 26-year-old Army Capt. Dan Kearney as he led a patrol through the valley.
■ Dream House: Photographer Gregory Crewdson convinced seven actors — Tilda Swinton, Gwyneth Paltrow, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dylan Baker, Julianne Moore, William H. Macy and Agnes Bruckner —to pose for photos in a Rutland, Vt., home that had been left untouched after the owner had died.
■ Fashion Cross-Overs: Portfolios by photographers Roger Ballen, Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin, Jeff Koons, Malick Sidibé and Alfred Seiland broadly interpret style.
■ Olympic Athletes: For perennial topics, the magazine's staff must find inventive ways to tell the story. In 2004 Ryan McGinley, while photographing Olympic swimmers, focused on the sensation of the human body moving through water.
"Some of these stories that we return to over time, they need to be made urgent and meaningful for readers," Ryan said. "... How do you make it fresh?"
■ Where the Protons Will Play: While photographing the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, Simon Norfolk concentrated on the large circular forms, evoking religious iconography.
■ Assignment: Times Square: In 1997, the magazine assigned about 20 photographers to document events in Times Square, then in the midst commercial redevelopment.
■ Bedrooms of the Fallen: Ashley Gilbertson's images depict the bedrooms of 40 soldiers who were killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Ryan, who has also edited a 448-page book, "The New York Times Magazine Photographs," said that she hopes the book and exhibit not only show great work but show how great work gets made.
"I hope they get some insight into what the process is like — what went into making those pictures happen and the wonderful collaborative part of it," she said.
Beginning Thursday and continuing through Aug. 21, MOCA will offer free Thursday night tours beginning at 7 p.m. The 45-minute tours of the museum galleries are sponsored by Bank of America and the The Jessie Ball duPont Fund.
On Saturday, MOCA will celebrate its 90th anniversary with free admission and special events from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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After traveling the world as a performing artist, Stubblefield took to the studio in 1976, producing, composing and writing songs with the likes of Phil Spector and Quincy Jones. Other world-famous collaborators would include Jim Capaldi of Traffic and singer-songwriter/guitarist Larry Lee.
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While studying at Berklee, Jeff met and played in a band with Steve Vai and Baron Brown called "Winter". This experience turned Jeff on to a wide world of music and rhythm which gave him valuable tools that he still carries with him today.
After his stay in Boston, Jeff moved to Atlanta in 1983. There he began gigging and teaching at the Atlanta Institute for Music and at a popular hang out for Atlanta drummers, Atlanta Drums and Percussion. Jeff spent time sitting in with local musicians and was introduced to Bruce Hampton through Dan Wall, a keyboardist that he had been playing with..and that's the rest of the story. It seemed too fitting that their first meeting took place at a wedding because not only was there a marriage there was a wedding of vast musical intention. Jeff then asked Oteil Burbridge and Jimmy Herring to sit in on this free willed musical band wagon and the Aquarium Rescue Unit was born.
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Count M'Butu was born Harold L. Jones in Georgia, 1945. As a young boy he sang in the church choir and from that moment on he could see the sun, he knew that music would be in his future. But it wouldn't be until many years later that the Count would be able to fulfill his dream.
In 1976 the Count studied music at Georgia State University. He then transferred to The Neighborhood Arts Center College in Atlanta, GA where he learned more about African history and music. That same year he was invited to Nigeria to continue his studies. The sights and sounds of Africa's beautiful green surroundings awakened deep spiritual feelings for the Count. He knew he was on the right path.
While in Africa, the Count not only learned more about playing the drums but he also learned the art of drum making. It was there that he became enthralled with the wide array of percussion instruments. And the drum became his instrument of choice. He also performed in various African ballets, which tell the history of Africa through song and dance.
Upon returning to Georgia, the Count completed his degree in African studies but continued to study under the great Armando Peraza, percussionist for Santana. In 1979 the Count began performing publicly. His first big break was playing percussion on a Nationally syndicated music variety show called "The Memphis Music Store. " Guests included Herbie Hancock, Kenny Rogers, Loretta Lynn and Rufus Thomas, among others. When the show was canceled, the Count went on the road with artists Nancy Wilson, The Manhattans and George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic.
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Providing Online Books to those Without a Chance to Attend School
As part of the Organization's efforts to provide education to Iraqi Internally Displaced Persons (IDP), refugees, and out of school students, UNESCO Iraq Office has launched a website dedicated to the Iraqi School Textbooks.
Iraqi School Textbooks On-Line aims at providing the possibility to download electronic versions (PDF Files) of all available Iraqi school textbooks. It will not only be available for Iraqi students, IDPs and refugees, but also for Iraqi school principles, teachers, and local and international NGOs with a quick, simple and efficient access to read, download and print.
IDPs and out of school students who were not able to get basic school books will highly benefit from the project. Also, Iraqi refugee students who cannot join their hosting country education system or cope with the local school curricula will be able to resume their studies.
The website can be accessed on www.schooltextbooks.org. It includes approximately 100 school textbooks that can be used right away. The quality of the textbooks are generally good, nevertheless, due to cicumstances some have had to be scanned from hard copies; the rest are large as they were provided as photos and not texts (electronically). These will be replaced with better versions once received and electronic versions of the remaining textbooks will be uploaded as soon as they are received by the Ministry.
The website, which is in Arabic, includes useful links to Iraqi educational institutes, universities and governmental organizations that are involved in the education process in Iraq. The most important list of links is the one that includes all NGOs supporting the project by printing and distributing copies of the downloaded textbooks to students who need this essential service.
All NGOs located in countries hosting Iraqis, mainly in Jordan, Syria and Egypt, are registered. If other organizations are interested in participating in this project, they are welcome to register their organizations directly on the website. Registered NGOs have no commitment to the management of the project and their services to the Iraqi students will be provided voluntarily based on their own decisions and on their own available resources.


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National Academy of Education director to speak at UGA College of Education on Jan. 17
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Athens, Ga. - Michael J. Feuer, president of the National Academy of Education, will speak about "Why Evidence from Evaluation Matters: The Case of Teacher Preparation," in a visit to the University of Georgia College of Education on Jan. 17.
Feuer is dean of the graduate school of education and human development at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. His talk will be at 11 a.m. in Room G-5 in Aderhold Hall. The lecture is based on a recent NAEd report, which urged more focus on designing evaluations of teacher training programs.
The report titled, "Evaluation of Teacher Preparation Programs; Purposes, Methods and Policy Options," aims to provide clearer information about existing evaluation measures and systems in teacher preparation and develops a framework for improving the evaluation of those programs. Funded by a National Science Foundation grant, the final report was released Oct. 25.
"In order to be constructively critical of teaching programs and teachers' education, one needs to be more confident that we have the right kinds of questions and mechanisms to answer these questions," said Feuer, a co-author of the report.
The report emphasizes that validity is the key principle in assessing the quality of evaluation approaches. The authors conclude that while program evaluation is critical, it should not be the sole path to improvement, and that evaluation systems should be adaptable based on a program's mission, goals and standards.
Feuer holds a doctorate in public policy from the University of Pennsylvania. He was elected to the National Academy of Education in 2003.
The report is available at www.naeducation.org/xpedio/groups/naedsite/documents/webpage/naed_085581.pdf.
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