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incidentally that just make any reduction on the password security layer worse.
if we assume that ppl uses exact identical password for both then they would fall to it guaranteed.
but if they varied it instead, then the degree in which they vary it often times are within a certain range from the other passwords, reducing the password permutations magnify the size of password that will get pished from the insecure source.

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Frequently Asked Questions:
This document addresses common questions regarding MongoDB indexes.
If you don't find the answer you're looking for, check the complete list of FAQs or post your question to the MongoDB User Mailing List. See also Indexing Tutorials.
No. You only need to create an index once for a single collection. After initial creation, MongoDB automatically updates the index as data changes.
While running ensureIndex() is usually ok, if an index doesn't exist because of ongoing administrative work, a call to ensureIndex() may disrupt database availability. Running ensureIndex() can render a replica set inaccessible as the index creation is happening. See Build Indexes on Replica Sets.
To list a collection's indexes, use the db.collection.getIndexes() method or a similar method for your driver.
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When an index is too large to fit into RAM, MongoDB must read the index from disk, which is a much slower operation than reading from RAM. Keep in mind an index fits into RAM when your server has RAM available for the index combined with the rest of the working set.
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If you build a large index without the background option, and if doing so causes the database to stop responding, do one of the following:
You can use the min() and max() methods to constrain the results of the cursor returned from find() by using index keys.
The $ne and $nin operators are not selective. See Create Queries that Ensure Selectivity. If you need to use these, it is often best to make sure that an additional, more selective criterion is part of the query.
Not entirely. The index can partially support these queries because it can speed the selection of the first element of the array; however, comparing all subsequent items in the array cannot use the index and must scan the documents individually.
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{ _id : ObjectId(...),
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{ k: "color", v: "red" },
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{ k: "color": v: "blue" },
{ k: "avail": v: true }
Both of the following queries could use the same { "attrib.k": 1, "attrib.v": 1 } index:
db.mycollection.find( { attrib: { $elemMatch : { k: "color", v: "blue" } } } )
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From the Dept. of Psychiatry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Correspondence to Dr. Shirazi; email@example.com (e-mail).
Received April 29, 2009; Revised September 8, 2009; Revised November 6, 2009; Accepted November 8, 2009.
Objective: Standardized patients (SPs) have been developed to measure practitioner performance in actual practice settings, but results have not been fully validated for psychiatric disorders. This study describes the process of creating reliable and valid SPs for unannounced assessment of general-practitioners' management of depression disorders in Iran.
Method: Ten psychology and nursing students (potential SPs) took part in a five-session course involving training in dialogue and body language. Five scenarios, along with corresponding checklists representing common presentations of mood disorders in primary-care settings, were developed by an expert group. The SPs' role-play performance of their respective scenario was videotaped and scored independently by three psychiatrists according to an observational rating scale to assess validity. The role-play was repeated after 1 week with the same scenario and the same doctor, to assess test–retest reliability. The reliability of each checklist to be used by the SPs was assessed by testing interrater reliability between groups of SPs.
Results: The cutoff score for the SPs' portrayal validity was 90% or above for all SPs. Mean interrater reliability for the checklists was acceptable for the SPs watching the same videos and filling in the checklists, while the mean kappa for assessing concurrent validity in filling in the checklists was lower. The test–retest performance for assessing reliability resulted in a mean kappa of 0.72. All SPs except one, who was not recruited, performed acceptably well.
Conclusion: The authors have demonstrated a thorough validation of the technique of using standardized patients in the portrayal of depressive disorders in primary-care settings in Iran, which creates confidence in employing this technique to evaluate doctors' performance, for example, after an educational intervention. Similar methods of validation can be used for SPs' portrayal of other psychiatric disorders.
The outcome of healthcare education should preferably be measured by providers' performance in the real-world setting by the use of valid and reliable tools (1–3). Standardized patients (SPs) have been used in different domains of medical education for assessment of undergraduates' and postgraduates' skills. SPs were first introduced in 1963 by Howard Barrows and Steve Abrahamson, who used them for education and assessment in neurological disorders. They constructed an examination for third-year students by using volunteer SPs, who demonstrated neurological disorders (2). An SP is defined as an individual who has been well-trained to replicate the patient presentation in a clinical-encounter setting in a consistent and realistic way. To assess health professionals' performance in real practice, unannounced SP visits are recommended and have been used in a limited number of studies (3). The time for the visit of the unannounced SP should ideally not be known by the participating doctors. Such an arrangement requires fully-informed consent from the doctors, who accept that they may be visited by an SP a specified number of times within a defined time-frame.
Unannounced SPs have been used in educational research, including two randomized clinical trials (RCTs) to assess the effectiveness of educational interventions on the performance of general practitioners (GPs) regarding cancer control (4) and of GP trainees regarding nutrition (5). A more extensive use of simulations in continuing medical education (CME), encompassing SPs and other techniques, has been proposed to assess the clinical reasoning and skills of health professionals (6). Before extending the use of unannounced SPs to evaluation of educational interventions related to psychiatry, however, it is vital to determine the validity and reliability of the technique. In a literature review conducted in 2007, more than 5,000 articles or books were found on simulation and health-professional education, although only 72 of these were related to psychiatry education (7).
We report here on the procedures and results of training and validation of SPs' portrayal of depressive disorders in primary care, as part of an RCT that assessed various educational strategies for teaching GPs in Tehran, Iran, on how to manage depressive disorders (8–10). The SPs were used in the study for unannounced assessment of the GPs' performance in their own practice on two occasions, before and after the education. The aim of the present study was to assess the accuracy (validity) and consistency (reliability) of the SPs and the tools used for the assessment.
In order to assess performance of doctors through SPs, the following steps and procedures must be followed: 1) development of scenarios; 2) selection and training of SPs to portray the scenarios; 3) identification of relevant aspects or items for assessment; 4) choosing a method for assessing the items; and 5) training the SPs to use the method. We describe here how these steps and procedures were developed, validated, and tested for reliability. All parts of the study were conducted in Farsi.
Five different scenarios regarding depressive disorders were compiled by three psychiatrists on the research team. The scenarios were related to depression, combined with various problems, such as acute risk of suicide, pathologic grief, headache, hypothyroidism, and bipolar disorders. The scenarios were based on issues relating to the diagnosis and treatment of depressive disorders, which had been emphasized in a guidebook (11) for GPs, compiled by an expert team (three psychiatrists, two general physicians, one epidemiologist, and an educator), based on World Health Organization (WHO) documents (12) and the World Psychiatry Association Bulletin on depressive disorders (13). The scenarios were finally developed during the SP training program. Optimally-written SP scenarios should be highly detailed, envisaging more information than any GP might elicit. To be convincing, the SP should respond with the same certainty as a true client might show in answering any of the questions.
The content validity of the scenarios was determined by consensus in an expert panel with 10 faculty members from the department of psychiatry at Tehran University of Medical Science (TUMS).
Twenty-five psychology and nursing students responded to an invitation and were interviewed and assessed with certain criteria related to well-being, availability and importance of payment. Fifteen students were assessed as eligible, although only 10 decided to participate in the training. The students were between 21 and 43 years of age; four students were men. All had some knowledge of psychiatric disorders.
SPs were trained by three psychiatrists (MSa, AT, MA) and an educator (MSh) in a small-group setting utilizing five sessions of 2 hours each regarding SP portrayal, plus a 3-hour training session on how to fill in the checklists that summarized each GPs' performance. Before each educational meeting, the SPs read handouts on depressive disorders, watched videos regarding depressed patients, and participated in the ambulatory psychiatry clinic. They also read their assigned scenarios carefully and discussed their roles with other SPs. In each educational session, the trainees performed audio-recorded role-play based on their scenarios with one of the psychiatrists acting as the doctor. Continuous feedback was given by the trainers, and the SPs also received the audiotapes for their own use.
One week after the end of the training course, the SPs performed their final role-plays with one GP as the doctor. The performance was assessed by the three psychiatrists, using an observational rating scale (available from the first author) comprising five items for verbal expression and four for nonverbal. The scale was developed specifically for this purpose, and the content validity of the scale was determined by consensus among the panel of experts. The psychiatrists had also compiled a guideline for assessment of the various case scenarios. For the data analysis, the ratings of the verbal expression were collapsed to a score of 1 for "always" or "frequently," a score of 2 for "randomly/sometimes," and a score of 3 for "rarely" or "never." For the nonverbal items, a score of 1 was given for "very poor" or "poor," a score of 2 for "mild," and a score of 3 for "good" or "excellent." The final score was calculated as the mean score of the nine items, where a score of 1 meant overall poor performance, and a score of 3 meant excellent performance.
Each of the 10 SPs was given one scenario, which was portrayed twice with the same GP. Each session took about 15 minutes, and afterward the SPs filled in the checklists (see below). The second role-play took place after an interval of about 10 minutes. Each of the five scenarios was performed by two SPs. All interactions were videotaped, for a total of 20 videos. The three psychiatrists individually watched each video and completed the observational rating scale.
The validity of the SPs' portrayals was assessed by comparing the score for the first role-play with the criterion of reaching at least 90% or more of the maximum mean score of 3.0.
The reliability of the SPs' portrayals was assessed using a test–retest approach where the degree of identical scoring of the items for the first and second (final) role-play was determined.
The SPs were trained to be able to make unannounced visits at GPs' practices. To assess the performance of the doctors, aspects of management of depression were identified, related to diagnosis and treatment. One checklist was compiled for each of the scenarios, by the same expert group that had developed the guidebook on the management of depression. The specified content of the checklists was based on DSM-IV criteria (13) for diagnosis and management of depression (the checklists are available from the first author).
Each checklist had two parts. The first part (Diagnosis) included 13–16 items, with binary questions (Yes/No) related to the most important aspects to be considered by the GPs when encountering a suspected case of depressive disorder. It was to be completed by the SP after the consultation with the GP. The second part (Treatment) had 2–4 items, related to the appropriate treatment procedure. This part was completed by the three psychiatrists based on documents collected by the SP, such as prescription, laboratory tests, and referral to a specialist. The content validity of the checklists was assessed by the panel of 10 psychiatrists from TUMS.
The reliability of the checklists was tested by assessing interrater concordance between groups of SPs, each SP assessing her or his own role plays plus two of the others' after watching the respective video recordings.
The concurrent validity of the SPs' completion of the checklists was assessed by determining the correlation between the SPs' completed checklists and the checklists completed by the three psychiatrists individually.
The reliability was assessed by a test–retest approach, where the SPs' initial checklists were compared with a checklist assessment made 1 week later, after watching the video recording of their own performance.
The criterion for assessing the actual performance of the SPs' portrayal was the reported detection rate by the GPs.
The study protocol was approved by the Ethics committee at TUMS. The potential SPs were informed that they would remain anonymous in all publication of results from the study and that they could receive direct support via mobile telephone contact with the main investigator (MSh) if they encountered any problem during their visits to the GPs. Studies using SPs do normally require the consent of the participating physicians (3). All 192 GPs in the intervention study (8–10) were informed about the objectives of the study and methods used for education and assessment, such as unannounced SPs. All GPs accepted these terms and signed an informed consent.
SPSS software Version 16 (SPSS, Inc, Chicago, IL) was used for analyzing data. For assessing the correlation, the kappa (κ) coefficient was computed.
The mean score for assessing the validity of SPs' portrayal was 2.95 (range: 2.86–3.0). The testing for reliability of the portrayals showed a mean of 90.5% (range: 80%–100%) identical responses to the items on the observational rating scale.
The mean κ for validity of completed checklists by individual SPs was 0.55 (range: 0.22–0.90). The mean κ for reliability of completed checklists was 0.72 (range: 0.26–1.0).
The scores and individual test results for the 10 participants are shown in Table 1. One of the trainees (#6) was assessed as not eligible to act as an unannounced SP, because of low performance in completing the checklist.
The mean κ for reliability of the five checklists was 0.82 (0.71, 0.74, 0.80, 0.83, and 1.0, respectively). Of the total of 372 unannounced visits made by the nine trained SPs to the GPs participating in the intervention study (8–10), only one SP was detected by the GP on the first visit.
This study demonstrates that SPs can be trained to become a reliable and valid tool for assessing performance of individual GPs with regard to diagnosis and management of depression disorders when they serve as unannounced patients in the clinical practice. Our overall findings are in concordance with studies in other areas of medicine (3, 15–18), which all concluded that unannounced SPs can reliably rate some aspects of physician behavior, such as physician examination, test-ordering, consultations, or physician response to specific patient requests. However, evaluation with SPs is more complicated in practice-based settings. Unlike structured direct observations of out-of-clinic examinations, like OSCE, we have no control over any of them in the unannounced SP setting. The participants in an OSCE setting are also aware of being assessed, which makes the setting different from that of the natural environment (3, 15–18).
An important aspect that distinguishes the present study is the development of a valid observational rating scale to assess various aspects of the SP's portrayal. The state of the art has been dominated by global rating scales, which assess the overall quality of the SP (19), although some researchers have used a combination of detailed checklists and global rating scales (20–22). In the present study, we developed a valid and reliable scale to ensure an accurate rating by the psychiatrists of the SP's portrayal in defined skill components. This also enabled the psychiatrists to use the checklist as an instructional tool to provide the SP candidates with effective feedback. We assume that the thoroughness of the training contributed to the high levels of validity and reliability of the SP portrayals.
As mentioned in the most comprehensive review article (3), previous studies have paid attention to only a few aspects of SP validation, whereas we have covered the whole range of aspects of the validation process. Moreover, this is the first study using unannounced SPs that have been used for evaluation of the performance by such a large number of doctors and number of visits. Also, it is the first time in Iran that SPs have been systematically trained and validated to perform unannounced visits to practicing doctors.
We regard the reliability and validity of case presentations to be acceptable for all trained SPs. We also conclude that the validity and reliability of potential SPs' competence to complete the checklists was excellent or acceptable for all SPs but one, who was also excluded from the group of SPs that visited the GPs. Other researchers have surmised that inaccuracies of recording by unannounced SPs might be a bias in studies on provider performance (23). Our study has shown that standardized procedures for training and validation of SPs can be protective against such bias.
Another aspect regarding unannounced SPs is related to the detection rate of SPs by the general-practitioners, which has been reported to be sometimes as high as 70%, although the majority of studies report rates below 15% (3). The low rate in our study confirms that careful and systematic training of SPs could reduce this almost to zero.
The process of training and validation of SPs that we have used, is quite detailed and time-consuming, as it involves bringing together an expert group to create a valid scenario, development of a checklist to ensure adherence to the scenario, considerable training for the SP, and then validation through review of one or more rehearsals of the scenario. However, we argue that it is necessary to follow a process like this in order to ensure that the collected information about the providers' performance is as accurate as possible. Still, no independent verification of the actual performance of the SP in the real-world setting was obtained—which would have been ideal. Alternatively, SPs could be rechecked on their performance at the end of the study period. Careful SP training for completing checklists is necessary to ensure validity and reliability of the data for assessment of performance of doctors.
Having a limited budget was the important reason for restricting the number of trained and validated SPs in this study. Moreover, our findings regarding the individual or group of SPs cannot be generalized, and this was not the aim of the study. However, what can be transferred to other studies, with similar objectives of evaluating performance, is how we developed the processes of validation and how the testing took place.
We describe, for the first time, a thorough validation of the technique of standardized patients in the portrayal of depressive disorders in primary-care settings. The methods of validation of SPs allows for confidence in employing this technique for evaluation of educational interventions in the field of management of depression in primary care. Similar techniques can be used for other psychiatric disorders in continuing medical education and professional development. Further research is needed to find the most appropriate ways of ensuring the accuracy and consistency of unannounced SPs in real practice.
The study was supported by the Tehran University of Medical Sciences through an educational study grant. Great thanks to the voluntary "standardized patients," the staff of the Continuing Medical Education office, and the faculty members of the psychiatry department.
At the time of submission, the authors reported no competing interests.
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I know this thread is like 2 years late but I adjusted the graphics settings to use about 998/1009 mb of my graphics card and it's running slow I thought it would run fine as long as it doesn't go over 1009 in the settings? But I heard you can edit config files to get better frame rates etc. etc.
Rebuild the game from the ground up and it should help. Other than that, lower settings, perhaps try some visual mods.
Oh I installed it and it runs alright with some stuff reduced but just thought seeing as you can edit the command files there would be tweaks and stuff, much like fallout had that .dll file that gave you better performance
overclock alot GTA IV is cpu limited most of the time crank the clock speed up and you will see an improvement keeping slighly lower settings will help as well.
o i thought my cpu was rad and could handle it I might overclock any idea which settings give the biggest hit to performance?
View distance if I remember takes up alot of Vram and CPU power. 4GHz should have been on the recommended list for the game
nope i dont remember for the life of me, but i do know more cores and more mhz = more fps usually with GTA IV, going from say 3400 on the cpu 2000 on the nb to 3800 2400 i saw an average frame rate increase of 6fps on average and minimum frame rate jumped 4 fps so it alls relative whatever extra performance you can squeeze out will help and GTA IV dosent support multi gpu in fact with 2x 6970s the game refuses to allow me to change any GPU settings in game period it sits red lined at 200mb out of 2048 and im stuck at 800x600 if i turn crossfire off all is well every setting works and game plays fine.
Game works for me in SLI. That card isn't powerful enough to run modern games by itself, you need at least another. This game was designed to run around 30 FPS on modern high end systems @ max settings. It is one of those "games for future PCs". Rockstar actually stated that.
There's no performance increase by having more than one card SLI or CF as the game don't support it. GTA is tricky to get perfect and like some have said overclocking the cpu will help and it surly does. The other thing you can do is each time you change the settings restart the game as i found out the game don't give the true performance of the new settings all the time and some times can be really bad.
Worst PORT for the PC evar! even in the future you wouldn't want to be playing such a ugly game, Rockstar did a shit job no excuses will fix that.
Hah. Don't fall for that bs. I haven't tried that game yet since having crossfire again. I should give it a whirl soon...
I just tested GTA IV with SLI both on and off and I can say with 100% confidence that both of you have no idea what you are talking about. They patched in SLI support with their patches. FPS is improved dramatically in SLI. Both cards are being utilized in Afterburner, I checked before I posted. Too bad SLI doesn't literally double the FPS or I would be locked @ 54, the max for this game. The city with all its massive buildings are a beast to render. The slowest part of Just Cause 2 BY FAR is the Panau City area. My framerate drops off from locked @ 60 to even as low as 15 FPS there. Makes me realize what Rockstar had to work with. GTA IV looks nice at max settings. Playing @ 1920x1200 helps with the lack of AA support. This is the reason I wonder if BF3 will run for anyone any higher than 30 FPS. You play in cities with massive buildings that are fully destructible. Destructible environments always bring framerates down. That and it looks photo realistic. Look forward to benchmarks.
GTA IV has such a horrible engine. Kinda remind me of the Crysis 1 engine. hehe. Frames are almost never good in that game unless you have a $3000 PC it seems. :/ Correct me otherwise
Everyone wants this game to run locked @ 60 FPS (54 is the max actually). It is a quad core game and you need a high end card for it to run okay, they tell you that up front with the system requirements. It is one of those "Games for future PCs" as previously stated. Latest nVidia WHQL drivers help the FPS department. Actually, Rockstar did a great job with the port and the patches improved performance more than significantly. They are rendering a truckload of data onscreen all at once. PC version runs better than the console versions, everyone's expectations of how PC games should run are much higher. Crysis was released before quads caught on. That is a shame because the game would be locked @ 60 FPS for a lot of people otherwise. Hopefully Crysis 3 will get back to the game's roots of innovation. If it is another console port, chances are it won't.
Since you only have 4GB of ram I'd say it's rather important that you close as many background programs as possible before launching. Perhaps use a memory trimming tool, like mine . Overclocking your gpu a bit will help a lot. Also get that 1055T up around 3.2-3.4GHz. In my experience GTAIV uses about 3 cores max (though the threads may distribute evenly giving it the appearance that it's using all of your cores). Since your system is so similar to mine, here's what my in game settings are: 1920x1080 @ 60Hz Texture Quality: High Reflection Resolution: High Water Quality: Very High Shadow Quality: High Night Shadows: Off Texture Filter Quality: Anisotropic x4 View Distance: 25 Details Distance: 31 Vehicle Density: 51 Definition: On Vsync: On I also use "Disable Desktop Composition" on the GTAIV executable to free up an extra one or two MB of video ram . There are also some command line options for the main executable that you can fiddle around with. Plays fine on my PC and it looks brilliant too. When I played it on the PS3 and the 360 I was horrified by the terrible graphics and frame rates.
I seem to remember turning off the recording feature seems to really help framerates, I can't remember what it is called, and I can be bothered to re-install to tell you, but I know that really helped performance.
oh that's where I might have been goin' wrong "View Distance: 25 Details Distance: 31 Vehicle Density: 51" I dragged my details and vehicle ones to 100 because it didn't show that it was using more graphics memory XD
GTA IV is all about the CPU. Get a Sandy bridge chip, clock it to 4.5GHz or over and it owns the game. I play at 2048x1536 with a HD 5870 . No stutters and framerate drops at all, smooth as silk. I only have a 2500K, I daresay a 2600K would decimate the game.
I have a buddy who worked for Rockstar Toronto, and I've heard nothing but bad about the engine and how badly it is optimized for PC. It's just a badly made PC port, honestly. They didn't even add animations for some of the guns in certain scenarios. It's a half-assed port. Even with my system it averages around 35 fps and dips sometimes, and that's with the view distance/detail distance sliders at under 33% and shadows at low lol, rediculous.
I also set the Detail distance and vehicle density to 100% but I do turn off the night shadows as the HD 5870 just can't handle it at my res with the 1.7 patch. MLG - that sounds like really low fps tbh, I never dip below 45(normally always over 50fps)
Lucky you. Edit: it's your processor. I probably need to overclock, although I don't think it's safe with the stock 1090T cooler.
I played it with a GTX295, comming from a GTX480 way back just to test on same proc speed. It really chugged down even if I lowered the graphic settings to fit video mem spec
I can confirm this. -I also noticed that the game does not support Xfire, because when its on, all of my settings go to lowest and my "available memory" goes red even though it says 200/4096 .


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Population 7.285 million
GDP 50.806 US$ billion
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Inflation (yearly average) (%)
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- Low public debt
- Prudent macroeconomic policies
- A consolidated banking sector
- Stable exchange rate due to currency board
- Cheap labour force
- Weak export industry
- Very vulnerable to external shocks
- Still high external debt
- Companies highly exposed to exchange rate risk
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Despite the recession across the euro zone in 2012, growth remained positive, especially due to resilient domestic demand. Growth slowed in Bulgaria's main trading partners (Germany, Romania, and Turkey) in conjunction with the euro zone recession. Consequently, the demand for Bulgarian products was weaker. Economic recovery in the euro zone is not expected before the fourth quarter of 2013, so the trade balance will continue to put pressure on growth. Private consumption will remain the driver of growth in 2013. In fact, higher disposable income comes together with lower interest rates on bank loans which will facilitate borrowing. However, the banks are excessively prudent and tend to prefer to remain "over-liquid". Tensions in terms of bank liquidity in Western Europe can only strengthen this attitude. The conditions for granting credit could, therefore, tighten rapidly. Meanwhile, investment will increase in 2013. In particular Bulgaria has signed an agreement with Russia to allow the South Stream gas pipeline to transit the country. This project will have numerous positive effects on the local economy especially regarding jobs. Moreover, several public investment projects, co-financed by the European Union, are planned. Unemployment, which dropped in late 2012 (unemployment at 12%), will continue to fall in 2013. Inflation will increase slightly in 2013 in a context of dynamic domestic demand. Nevertheless, with oil and food prices stabilising, there is less risk of sudden inflationary pressure.
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Weak exports, together with higher imports, will affect the current account balance, which will post a deficit in 2013. Transfers from expatriate workers will remain unchanged. However, better absorption of European structural funds (greater number of projects) will help reduce the scale of the deficit. Foreign direct investments will fully cover the financing of the current account deficit. Along with projects related to the South Stream gas pipeline, many investors want to benefit from low Bulgarian wages. For example, Chinese companies are planning to penetrate the eastern European car market by building a plant in Bulgaria. In 2012, foreign exchange reserves (6 months of imports) exceeded their highest historical level and will continue to build up in 2013. This level is reassuring in the framework of the currency board (Lev pegged to the euro), transition to adopting the euro in the medium term. However, euro zone entry has been postponed in the light of the current crisis. Meanwhile, maintaining such a rigid exchange rate system has the disadvantage of making the real economy bear the whole adjustment in case of external shocks. On the other hand, public finances are prudently managed and one can expect deficit reduction to continue in 2013 in a context of contained public borrowing. A new tax is due to be introduced in 2013: interests on bank deposits will be taxed at 10%.


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The beauty of match play in golf is that it often evens the playing field, allowing lesser golfers to beat their more accomplished counterparts on any given day.
Such was the case Sunday at Watertown Golf Club as the 2012 City Men's Championships began the match play portion of the tournament. Not only did the top seed and defending champion, Ryan Clark, bow out, the qualifying medalist, Steve Ahlgrim, also lost in a day of major upsets.
And both of the top seeds were beaten by players who needed an extra hole Saturday just to qualify for the championship flight.
Clark was ousted by veteran city campaigner Ralph Larsen, the 32nd-and-final championship flight seed, 1 up in the first match of the day.
Ahlgrim, who led the 61-player field in qualifying with a 69 on Saturday, saw his dreams of a second city crown dashed when No. 31 Michael Burgess made birdie on the first playoff hole in the day's final match off the first tee.
Only a couple of other higher seeds lost, setting up some intriguing second-round matches that must be completed by Wednesday.
Clark, who won last year's city title with a stirring run at Ives Hill Country Club, was not sharp in his match versus Larsen.
"I just didn't hit enough good shots, and I didn't make many putts," said Clark, a recent South Jefferson graduate who will attend St. John Fisher in the fall. "If you only make two birdies in a match, it's going to be tough to win."
Larsen, who had to make a six-foot par putt on Saturday to earn his championship flight spot, said he didn't play exceptionally well, but made some good shots at opportune times.
"I got off to a good start and that gave me some confidence," said Larsen, one of the few players in the field that uses a long putter. "And even when I got down I thought I could win."
Larsen made consecutive birdies on holes 2-4 to seize a 3 up lead after five holes. He finished 1 up after a front-nine 36, but eventually fell behind on No. 14.
A wayward tee shot on 16 cost Clark as he fell a hole down for good, and Larsen held on over the final two tough finishing holes.
"I've had a history of losing first-round matches to the eventual champions so this felt good,'' Larsen said. "A day like this will make my whole season."
Competing in just his second city tournament, Burgess played a steady round against Ahlgrim, the 1989 champion. And for the second straight day he hit an almost perfect chip to within a few feet on the first playoff hole to make a birdie 3 in a playoff.
"Today's (chip) was a lot easier than the one on Saturday," Burgess said. "I played really consistent today and didn't get myself into too much trouble."
Ahlgrim said he didn't play badly, but he could never get his usually reliable putter going.
"For the second day in a row I left some makeable putts on the course," Ahlgrim said. "But Mike played very consistently. And I knew after a couple holes it would be a close match.''
Larsen now plays No. 17 Jason Sweeny, while Burgess draws No. 15 Mike Bufalini.
In a couple of mild upsets, No. 21 Bob Phillips beat No. 12 Andrew Marks 5 and 3, No. 22 Brian Phillips eliminated No. 11 Tom Cotter 4 and 3, and No. 19 Tyler Woodward, the 2010 champ, beat former champion and No. 14 seed Tim Phillips 2 and 1.
Multiple champions John Bufalini and Bob Hughes had easy days, winning their matches 6 and 5 over E. J. Mentry and Mike Donnelly, respectively.
Paul Ahlgrim, the No. 3 seed, coasted to a 7 and 6 win over Jacob Baldwin, while No. 6 James Ambrose posted a 5 and 4 win over Jim Nevers.
Also advancing were former champions Toby Draper, 1 up over Shane Wisner, Joe Tufo, 4 and 2 against Adam Brehm, and Adam Brown, 3 and 2 against Tom Bedard.
Bufalini now meets Draper in a matchup of champions. Hughes takes on Bob Phillips, Tufo plays Eric Burke, Ambrose draws Brian Phiillips, Paul Ahlgrim meets Woodward, and Brown meets Chris Denesha.


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Ryan's spending cuts aren't just big, they are impossible
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By Alex Hern Published 14 August 2012 8:07Yesterday, we touched on why Paul Ryan's budget will inevitably lead to skyrocketing deficits. But one part of that in particular deserves unpacking: Ryan wants to cut almost all of the discretionary federal budget down to just 0.75 per cent of GDP. That is, bluntly, impossible.
The (simplified) argument against Ryan's "fiscal credibility" is that he wants to cut taxes and spending. But while no-one ever argues with tax cuts, the spending cuts he has laid out are implausible. As a result, his plan would result in lower taxes but the same spending, creating a budgetary black hole which will rapidly increase the deficit.
The claim about spending cuts, however, deserves some unpacking. Leaving aside for the moment Ryan's plans for Medicare, Medicaid and social security, he wants to reduce spending on everything else to 3.75 per cent of GDP by 2050.
That "everything else" includes defence spending, which Mitt Romney has separately promised to guarantee receives 4 per cent of GDP, and which has in fact never fallen below 3 per cent of GDP. Given even Ryan doesn't plan to fund federal services with negative money, lets assume that his plan calls for 3 per cent of GDP to be spent on defence, leaving 0.75 per cent of GDP to be spent on everything in the federal budget which is not Medicare, Medicaid, social security or defence.
America's GDP for 2011 was $15.09trn, which means Ryan's discretionary budget has a little over $113bn to allocate. What costs $113bn?
The administration for children and families is a centralised agency under the aegis of the Department of Health & Human Services which provides most welfare services aimed at children and families. It takes up $16.2bn of federal funding.
Food and nutrition assistance distributed by the Department of Agriculture stops people starving. It costs $7.8bn.
The National Science Foundation spends $1.4bn on Maths and Physics research, its largest single spending area (largely due to the fact that health research is given to the National Institutes of Health instead).
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – NOAA – is roughly the equivalent of the Met Office. It costs $5.5bn a year.
The Department of Energy spends $0.5bn on advanced computing research, $0.8bn on High Energy Physics, and $2.0bn on basic energy research, all of which ensure that American energy supplies are fit for the future.
NASA cost $18.7bn in 2012, and managed to land a rover on Mars this year, which has got to count towards some value for money.
The Internal Revenue Service – although mostly concerned with bringing money in, rather than spending it – required a budget of $13.3bn to do just that.
$2.4bn was spent on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment domestically and $5.6bn on the same overseas. $2bn was spent on public health responses and dealing with infectious diseases, and $4.6bn was spent on the Indian Health Service, which provides healthcare to Native Americans.
The Postal Service cost $5.9bn and the Federal Aviation Administration spent $13.1bn. Proving, yet again, that trains rule and planes drool, the Federal Railroad Administration cost just $3bn.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives – which, yes, sounds less like a government department and more like the best party shop ever – had a budget of $1.1bn in 2012.
The two highest resourced Institutes of Health were the Cancer Institute, and Allergy and Infectious Diseases. They got $5.2bn and $5.0bn respectively.
Those programs alone – some big, some small - spend, between them, $114.1bn a year. That is $900m more than what Paul Ryan wants to spend on the entire non-defence discretionary budget.
Or, to put it another way, we have used up the US budget on projects which are entirely valuable, and which would cause real pain if cut, without even touching on:
The FBI ($8.1bn), Elementary and Secondary Education ($41.4bn), Financial Aid to university students ($31.4bn), the entire legislative, judicial and presidential branches ($12.3bn), public housing and housing assistance ($35bn), the FDA ($2.7bn), the EPA ($9.0bn) and FEMA ($6.8), the highway administration ($43.6bn) and the entire department of the interior ($12.0bn).
(Those departments, by the way, have a budget totalling $202bn. So even if everything else in the entire discretionary budget didn't exist, they would still have to lose almost half their budgets to stay within Ryan's spending limits)
Oh, and that's not even mentioning the smaller agencies, which would likely come under the knife in an attempt to squeeze out every last cent. Agencies like the FTC, Holocaust Memorial Museum, FCC, Smithsonian Institution, SEC and the entire District of Columbia may have budgets which amount to little more than rounding errors in the grand scheme of things, but you can be sure some of them will go as well.
But all of this assumes that Paul Ryan will be able to get defence spending down to its historic minimum of 3 per cent of GDP. Right now, the National Security budget is $754bn, and the Department of Defense alone commands $671bn. That is 5.0 per cent, and 4.4 per cent, of GDP, which Ryan would need to slash.
The spending cuts he desires are impossible. They will not materialise, and never could be expected to. And so Ryan will either have to abandon his plan entirely, or pass unfunded tax cuts. If he really is a deficit hawk, that has got to qualify him as one of the most incompetent ever
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I don't see any grounds to assume the US economy will ever return to the conditions held by some to be normal. The high growth of the 1950s was due to very special global conditions - all their competitors were in ruins and rebuilding shattered infrastructure.
This kind of situation is unlikely to recur (thankfully) and the US will have to make it's projections based on what is a likely cycle of short term booms and intermittent recessions/depressions.
It's extremely foolish or just dishonest to claim there will be high growth for any significant period during this century.
There is also a major brake on growth - either the US (and others) start curbing greenhouse emissions or they live with the consequences - already apparent during every weather report. For a while they will have to deal with both since much of the damage is already done.
It's also tragic that the US military continues to consume so much while achieving so little. It is the nature of militaries to plan and equip for the last war and not the next war, meaning the US has some quite ridiculous assets that soak up resources and accomplish nothing. New spending on fighter jets is one area that has pulled in billions and yet they have no credible enemy. There are many more.
We know Obama has been a bit of a disappointment. His hands have been tied by obstructive Republicans who should have been more patriotic and his feet shackled by a financial crisis/depression that he had no hand in making.
It is easy for the right wing loonies to criticism Obama for the economy but they have zero concrete suggestions and just repeat the mantra about 'entrepreneurs, lower taxes making America being 'strong' again'.
America is in dire straits and needs to address itself to it's real problems - it will never be rich again like it was or strong again like it was. There is no time to waste on silly right wing fantasies.
Love the "scouring" of the Ryan budget when Obama can't get a budget approved & the Dem Senate just sits on their hands... Barry o has spent $4 trillion since taking office & we have what??? 10,000 senior boomers hit 65 years each day in the US. This race shouldn't even be close. Two paths: "equal outcomes" or equal opportunity". Take your pick. This will be a beatdown!
Um, it may have escaped your notice that the Republicans hold the House, which may explain why they are blocking the budget. Most of them voted for the Ryan budget, so hopefully Dems will hang it like an albatross around their necks.
Let's start by cutting Ryan's salary for even proposing such a silly "budget".
You must realize that the current GDP is in a depression era environment. Once the drivers are in place to get the economy back to 'normal', which will mean to reduce spending on irrelevant (unproductive) sectors while providing a predictable long term tax structure for entreuperneurs to take chances again, the GDP will grow, thus reducing the percentages. Until then, all of Ryan's plans look impossible. Government spending is, and always has been, the most inefficient means to produce anything. It presupposes what the people want and need, invites waste, fraud and abuse. Why would anyone advocate continuing it as a formula for success when it has never worked in the history of man? When will people finally get their head out of the sand? Just look at Europe, USSR, Cuba, etc. The proof is everywhere.
You must realize that the current GDP is in a depression era environment. Once the drivers are in place to get the economy back to 'normal', which will mean to reduce spending on irrelevant (unproductive) sectors while providing a predictable long term tax structure for entreuperneurs to take chances again, the GDP will grow, thus reducing the percentages. Until then, all of Ryan's plans look impossible. Government spending is, and always has been, the most inefficient means to produce anything. It presupposes what the people want and need, invites waste, fraud and abuse. Why would anyone advocate continuing it as a formula for success when it has never worked in the history of man? When will people finally get their head out of the sand? Just look at Europe, USSR, Cuba, etc. The proof is everywhere.
But what is the evidence the private sector are more efficient at spending money? After all, the primary goal of most private sector companies is to make not just *a* profit, but year on year, to make a bigger profit than the year before, regardless of where the country is in the economic cycle.
Evidence from the UK tends to suggest that chargeable privatised services (i.e. service where the public pay up-front, e.g. utilities, public transport) tend to accumulate wealth at the top of the organisation, increase prices far faster than inflation, and over time aggregate into an oligarchy of a handful of companies (or even worse, local monopolies) which reduces most of the benefits of competition.
Only yesterday was it simultaneously announced that rail companies will increase fares by an average of 6.2% in January and that our fares are significantly higher than the rest of Europe (where, in most countries, there's still a national rail operator). Most bus services are run by one of three companies (First, Stagecoach, National Express - who also run a significant portion of the rail network together with Arriva Trains), and many companies are based overseas (including significant ones owned by other governments) - one of our biggest electricity suppliers is EDF (80% owned by the French government), while Arriva Trains is part of Deutsch Bahn (100% owned by the German government).
Meanwhile, many civilian public sector contracts and posts are being outsourced to a single company - G4S. Need I say any more about why privatisation isn't always the panacea to every problem?
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At a time when state officials are scurrying to explain billions of dollars in "found" money, the Monterey Bay air district is sitting on a $7.8 million reserve, nearly 50 percent of its budget.
The reserve dwarfs those of the county, other municipalities and special districts, some of which are struggling to maintain reserves of as little as 3 percent, or even declaring bankruptcy.
The San Luis Obispo County air district to the south has a 3 percent reserve. The massive Bay Area Air Quality Management District to the north struggled to keep its reserves at 7 percent this year, down from its previous standard of 15 percent.
Some current and former employees believe the local nest egg may be the result of the district overcharging "stationary source" polluters, such as gas stations, dry cleaners and the Moss Landing power plant, which pay annual permit fees.
Richard Stedman, chief officer of the Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District, denied the allegation and said the surplus is largely the result of penalties paid by air-standard violators, many in years prior to his 2010 arrival.
The district is responsible for enforcing air quality laws in Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties and is governed by an 11-member board of elected officials from the three jurisdictions.
State law allows such districts to charge permit fees to cover the cost of regulatory programs as long as the revenue does not exceed the cost of the program. The fees may be increased annually if needed, according to the Consumer Price Index.
The Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District has used that index to increase fees for permitted polluters virtually every year for more than a decade. While the fees were originally based on a cost analysis, Stedman said, he has not seen it and one has not been conducted in years.
While the law, Health and Safety Code 42311(a), does not specifically require an annual accounting of program costs, it would seem a regular review would be necessary to ensure the fees don't exceed costs.
Additionally, a 1985 appellate court ruling (Beaumont Investors v. Beaumont-Cherry Valley Water District) held that such fees are taxes unless the government proves what the estimated costs of the regulatory activity are and shows the basis for determining the way the costs are apportioned.
The air district had asked for another 2.9 percent fee increase in its 2012-13 budget. That request was rejected by the board on a 9-2 vote in May after a former district employee, Jean Getchell, raised questions about its legality.
Getchell, an attorney and the district's former planning supervisor, said her contract was "not renewed" in 2011 after she raised concerns about the district allegedly co-mingling non-discretionary funds, such as the $4 it receives from the DMV for each resident's vehicle registration. Subsequent research, she said, raised flags about the stationary source permit fees.
Board chairman Jerry Muenzer, a San Benito County supervisor, said the vote to maintain current fees was a nod to the difficult times local businesses are having making ends meet.
Monterey County Supervisor Jane Parker agreed, but said the board also asked for a rationale for raising fees in the future.
Stedman said he plans to conduct a cost analysis, an effort that will be assisted by a system he initiated to track the percent of time staff members spend on the district's various programs.
Both Stedman and Muenzer said the controversy is coming in the wake of a particularly contentious year of tensions between management and staff.
Indeed, one employee who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution said the issue of the reserve was raised during negotiations that resulted in a 1.8 percent wage increase and additional benefits for employees, who are represented by the Service Employees International Union.
That employee said tensions between the administration and staff have more to do with the management styles of Stedman and his new deputy, Mike Gilroy.
In October, the union filed a grievance against the two alleging a hostile work environment, then delivered to the board an overwhelming vote of no confidence in their management team.
The board responded by hiring San Francisco law firm Liebert Cassidy Whitmore to conduct a study into the causes of the vote and the allegations in the grievance.
The firm has delivered a report of its conclusions, a summary of which was released to the union this week. Both Stedman and a union representative said they were told by the County Counsel's Office, which represents the district, that the report was privileged attorney work product and could not be shared. Deputy County Counsel Les Gerard refused to release the document Friday.
Stedman said the district's "surplus," which he inherited, is actually only about $5 million. On his recommendation, the board has adopted a policy maintaining a reserve equaling a fiscal quarter of its budget, which accounts for the other $2.8 million.
Nevertheless, he said, he has already informed staff that the district will be developing a "spend-down" plan that will put money back in permit holders' pockets by holding steady or reducing fees in coming years.
He said that news was delivered at a staff meeting after the budget passed in June, a time that also followed initial questions about the reserve.
Stedman and Muenzer said the district must be cautious because of the possibility that it could lose the $1 million-plus in fees paid by Dynegy, the owner of the Moss Landing power plant. The company is bankrupt and facing state mandate to do away with the plant's once-through cooling system.
Stedman said he had to face a similar loss shortly after his arrival in Monterey when the Cemex cement plant in Davenport closed, taking its $1 million annual permit fee with it. He said he responded by consolidating several positions — a move that brought Gilroy on board — and paid off the district's building off Monterey-Salinas Highway in Monterey, saving the district about $300,000 in annual finance fees.
Getchell and district employees said the early payoff should have resulted in a reduction of fees for permit holders. Instead, fees were again increased that year.
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Mellon Post-Doctoral Program: Fellows
Current Fellows
Andrew Cornell
Andrew Cornell holds degrees in American Studies from the University of Michigan and New York University and has taught at Williams College in Massachusetts and Université Stendhal in southeastern France. His research and teaching focuses on two broad topics: (1) radical social movements of the 20th and 21st century; and (2) U.S. political economy, globalization, and empire. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to these topics, he combines historical methods with the insights of various schools of critical social theory.
Cornell is the author of Oppose and Propose! Lessons from Movement for a New Society (AK Press, 2011), a history of a Philadelphia-based feminist pacifist organization active during the 1970s and 1980s. He recently published an essay on consensus decision making in the Occupy Wall Street movement .He is currently completing a book project on the history of anarchist movements and ideas in the mid-20th century United States. The project explores anarchists' relationships to an array of contemporary social and cultural movements, including the black freedom struggle, radical pacifism, and the writers of the Beat generation.
Donovan Schaefer
Donovan Schaefer is the 2012-2014 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at HCAH and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Religion department. His PhD was granted by the Department of Religion at Syracuse (2012) and he received his B.A. in Religion, Literature, and the Arts from the University of British Columbia in 2003. His research brings poststructuralism, material feminism, and evolutionary theory into conversation to think through a variety of topics at the intersection of affect and embodied religion, including atheism, globalization, sexuality, narratives of Islamophobia, and contemporary American religion and politics.
While participating in the 2012-2013 HCAH Faculty seminar on "The Affective Turn," Schaefer is completing a revision of his dissertation in book form, Animal Religion: Evolution, Embodiment, and the Affective Turn in Religious Studies, in which he argues for a systematic encounter between religious studies and the dimensions of affect theory to further develop accounts of embodied, material religion. He is also developing a book-length project examining post-Darwinian atheisms through the lens of affect theory, tentatively titled Embodied Disbelief: Affective Disciplines and Atheism after Darwin.
Also Teaching with HCAH
Vicky Funari
Vicky Funari is a documentary filmmaker and is Artist-in-Residence. She directed and edited the award-winning feature documentaries MAQUILÁPOLIS, Paulina, and Live Nude Girls Unite!. Her short films include skin•es•the•si•a and Alternative Conceptions. Her work has screened in many of the world's most respected film festivals including Sundance, Locarno, Havana, Rotterdam and Tribeca; and her films have won numerous awards, including Grand Jury Prize and Audience Awards/San Francisco International Film Festival; Lifetime Television's Vision Award/Hamptons Film Festival; and Audience Award for Best Documentary/Women's International Film Festival of Barcelona. Her films have aired nationally on PBS, Cinemax, and the Sundance Channel. She is a Guggenheim fellow and a MacDowell Colony fellow.
Vicky has been an artist-in-residence in Independent College Programs since the Spring of 2009 and will teach an advanced filmmaking course in the Spring 2013 semester.
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Zainab Saleh
Zainab Saleh is the John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities' 2011-13 Mellon Post-Doc Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology. She received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University. She earned a B.A. in English Literature and Language from Baghdad University and a B.A. in Anthropology/Sociology at the American University of Beirut. Zainab was a Sultan Postdoctoral Fellow in Arab Studies at the University of California, Berkeley in Spring 2011.
Based on two years of fieldwork in London, Zainab's research is an ethnographic study of the Iraqi diasporic community in the UK. She approaches the formation of the community in light of the utopian visions of the past and their translation into exile and tragedies in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Through the use of life history with Iraqi exiles from different socioeconomic backgrounds, she documents the persecution suffered under Saddam Hussein's regime since the late 1970s; life in exile in London; relationships among members of the diasporic Iraqi community therein; and the ways in which those in exile reconfigure the past in relation to the political present. In addition, she examines the heightened salience of sectarianism among Iraqis in exile and in Iraq since the 1990s. She shows how sectarianism was employed by the Iraqi opposition to Saddam Hussein's regime in the UK, becoming further institutionalized after the fall of the regime in 2003 with the support of the US Administration.
In 2011-2012, Zainab participated in the Center's Faculty Humanities Seminar "Changing Technologies of Power in the Entrepreneurial Age" while she revised her dissertation, entitled "Diminishing Returns: An Anthropological Study of Iraqis in the UK," for publication. For 2012-13, she is organizing her Mellon Symposium, "Shades of Occupation: Iraq After 10 Years" to be held Friday, March 29th, 2013. Her Fall 2012 course is Gender & Sexuality in the Middle East. For Spring 2013, she will teach "Memory, History, Anthropology".
Farid Azfar
Farid Azfar received his Ph.D. in History from Brown University and his Master of Arts degree in Geography from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He comes to Haverford after spending two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Scripps College in Claremont, CA.
He is currently working on revising his dissertation, entitled "Disordered Bodies and Bodies-Politic in British Enlightenment Culture, 1720-1740," for publication as a book. He has also started work on a new project, which examines ideas of sex and shame in early Enlightenment culture. He is particularly interested in how notions of sexual shame transformed in response to urban modernity and European interactions with ottoman and Indian societies.
In 2010-11, Azfar will participate in the John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities' Faculty Seminar "Sex, State and Society in the Early Modern World." He will teach "Sex and Gender in the Early Modern Islamic World" (History) in the fall and "Cosmopolitanism and Coexistence in Europe and the Ottoman Empire" (History) in the spring.
Ruti Talmor
Ruti Talmor is the Center's 2009-11 Mellon Post-Doc Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology. She holds a B.A. in Art History, a Certificate in Culture and Media, and a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from New York University (2008). Talmor came to Haverford from the University of Michigan, where she was the DuBois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies in 2008-2009.
Drawing on her training in anthropology and her background in art and documentary film, Ruti Talmor's work combines visual, oral, and archival history with ethnographic methodologies. She works in Ghana, the Ghanaian diaspora, and global tourism and art systems, investigating art worlds as intercultural zones where globally-circulating cultural and discursive models of Africa provide a contentious, shared language for Ghanaians and foreigners. She explores how participation in art worlds past and present as well as engagements with media representations of Africa transform notions of gender, race, nation, knowledge, and power, and serve as a conduit for cosmopolitan ambitions, transnational desires, and political struggles for Africans, members of the African diaspora, and Westerners.
In 2009-2010, Ruti participated in the John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities' Faculty Seminar "Material Identity." Her courses last year were "Artworlds: Contact Zones" (Anthropology, History of Art at Bryn Mawr) in the fall and "African Masculinities" (Anthropology, Gender and Sexuality Studies, African and Africana Studies) in the spring. For Fall 2010 she is teaching "Urban Life: Ethnography of the City". Her Spring 2011 course, "Double-Take: The Art and Anthropology of Photography " will be built around the Cantor Fitzgerald exhibition "Urban Dreams: African Photography and Video Art" (March 18-April 29, 2011). The exhibition is also the subject of the annual Mellon Symposium organized by Ruti Talmor, March 18 and 19, 2011.
Rachel Oberter
Rachel is the Center's 2008-10 Mellon Post-Doc Fellow, holding a B.A. with Highest Honors in Art History from Williams College and earning her Ph.D. in History of Art from Yale University in May 2007. Her dissertation is entitled "Channeling Art: Spiritualism and the Visual Imagination in Victorian Britain," and her work has been published in the interdisciplinary journals Victorian Studies and Shofar. Rachel's research focuses on religion, gender, and the intersection of the visual and the verbal in 19th- and early 20th-century European art. She came to Haverford from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a visiting scholar.
Rachel will teach "Picturing Religion: Spiritual Art in an Age of Materialism" in Fall 2009 for Independent College Programs, cross-listed in Religion; her course for the spring will be "Ocular Anxiety: Visuality in the Nineteenth Century." She will organize a Spring symposium about Visual Culture.
John Muse
John was Haverford College's Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow for 2007-09 and taught courses listed in Fine Arts, Comparative Literature, Philosophy, and Independent College Programs. In 2006 he received a Ph.D. in Rhetoric from U.C. Berkeley. His dissertation, The Rhetorical Afterlife of Photographic Evidence: Roland Barthes, Avital Ronell, Roni Horn, co-chaired by Judith Butler and Kaja Silverman, analyzes Barthes' numerous writings on photography, an artwork by Horn entitled "Another Water (the River Thames, for Example)," and an essay by Ronell on the videotaped beating of Rodney King, "TraumaTV: Twelve Steps Beyond the Pleasure Principle." Muse shows how these works use photographs to promulgate a crisis of the evident.
His single-channel videotapes and multi-media installations have been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe. In 2003 New Langton Arts in San Francisco staged a mid-career retrospective of the installation works that he and frequent collaborator Jeanne C. Finley have created. In 2001 Muse and Finley received a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship for their experimental documentary project, Age of Consent. In 1999 they received a Creative Capital Foundation Award. In 1995 they received Artist in Residence fellowships from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. The Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco represents his installation works, and the Video Data Bank distributes his single-channel works. Visit Finley+Muse for more information.
John taught "Beauty: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, Philosophy" in Fall, 2008; his course for the spring, 2009 was "The Theory and Practice of Conceptual Art." John's 2009 Mellon Symposium, "among friends," was a week-long artist residency program. To check up on the project, visit among friends.
John Muse will remain at Haverford during the 09-10 academic year as Visiting Assistant Professor.. In Fall 2009, he will teach "Topics in Rhetorical Theory: Roland Barthes and the Image" for Independent College Programs, cross-listed in Fine Arts and Comparative Literature. He will also mount an exhibit with his frequent collaborator Jeanne C. Finley as part of the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery's 2009-10 season of exhibits, October 23 – December 11, 2009. In Spring 2010, John will teach "The Theory and Practice of Conceptual Art" for Independent College Programs, cross-listed in Fine Arts, and "The Language of Argument" in the Writing Program.
Michael Booth
Michael was HHC's Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow for 2006-08. Professor Booth came to Haverford from Boston University, where he was Assistant Professor of Humanities; he has also taught at Brandeis and Georgetown Universities. His doctoral work focused on the relationships between science and language, and between science and literature, during the Early Modern period. In his second year, Michael organized "Shakespeare and the Blending Mind," an interdisciplinary symposium considering Shakespeare's poetic and dramatic artistry from the perspective of "conceptual blending," the mind's ability to create things by tactics of combination ranging from metaphor to theatrical illusion. Presenters included the expositors of conceptual blending theory Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, as well as seven other visiting scholars.
Jill Stauffer
Jill joined the John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for 2005-07 in the Philosophy Department. She came to Haverford from a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College. She received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric in 2003 from the University of California at Berkeley with a dissertation entitled "This Weakness is Needed: An Intervention in Social Contract Theory." Her research and teaching interests include modern and contemporary political and legal theory, ethics, continental philosophy, liberalism and rights, theories of justice, international human rights law, and social contract theory. For 2005-06, Stauffer taught a social and political philosophy course, "Politics and the Passions" in the fall, and "This Weakness is Needed," a course on the work of French-Jewish-Lithuanian thinker of ethics, Emmanuel Levinas, in the spring semester. She participated in the Faculty Seminar "Representations of Political Violence and Terrorism" led by Professor Raji Mohan of the English Department. During her second year, Jill convened "Seeing Justice Done: Interrogating the Margins of Law," her Mellon Symposium focusing on law's limits and possibilities, bringing together thinkers across disciplines to consider theoretical and practical issues in contemporary law, justice, and politics.
Marianne Tettlebaum
Marianne joined the John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities as Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow for 2004-06, with a joint appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Music. She received her Ph.D. in music from Cornell University with a dissertation titled, "Kant's Noisy Neighbors: The Experience of Music and Community in the Critique of Judgment." In addition to Mozart, Kant, and music aesthetics, her research interests include the culture of eighteenth-century Vienna, North German Pietism and the work of Johann Gottfried Herder and Johann Friedrich Reichardt, and the aesthetics and philosophy of Theodor Adorno. In addition to participating in the 2004-05 John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities' Faculty Seminar, "Music-Text-Performance," she taught a 200-level course, "Music and the 'Origin of Language' in the Eighteenth Century," in the fall and a 300-level course, "Art and Aesthetic Theory: The Model of Theodor Adorno," in the spring. During her time at Haverford, she also founded the Center's Dialogues on Art program. Her Mellon Symposium was entitled "Art on the Edge: Aesthetic Encounters at the Limits of Representation," a symposium on aesthetics and the relationship of the arts and humanities at the college level. Among the questions explored were: What is the role of art in a humanistic education? What role do the humanities play in the study of art? The inquiry was situated at the intersection of the arts and the humanities within colleges and universities in North America, in particular against the backdrop of a rising interest in interdisciplinary programs of study as well as the foundation and development of "Humanities Centers," such as Haverford's John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities itself.
Yiman Wang
Yiman joined the John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for 2003-05, with a joint appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies. After education in her native China, including her B.A in Anglo-American Literature from Nanjing University and her M.A. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from Peking University, Yiman worked in the Chinese media industry, specializing in film animation technology. Combining this background in literature and media studies, Yiman received the Ph.D. in May, 2003 from Duke University's Literature Program, with a specialization in Film and Video. Her dissertation focuses on the cultural politics of transregional and transnational image translation, with particular scrutiny paid to cinematic exchange between China and the West. Yiman participated in the Faculty Seminar on Translation led by Deborah Roberts.
Jennifer Patico
Jennifer joined the John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in July, 2002, with a joint appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology. After earning her B.A. magna cum laude in Anthropology and Russian Studies at Williams College and spending time in Russia through the postgraduate program of the American Council of Teachers of Russian, Jennifer proceeded to NYU's Department of Anthropology, where she completed her Ph.D. in 2001. Based on ethnographic research among public school teachers in St. Petersburg, Jennifer's dissertation examines changing ideas of value and identity in post-Soviet civil society. Jennifer participated in the Faculty Humanities Seminar directed by Gus Stadler ("Culture, Value, Cultural Value"), and taught a 200-level course first term called "Culture in the Global Economy" and a 300-level course in the spring on "Theories of Consumption and Material Culture." Jennifer taught during her second year a 200-level course in the fall on "Anthropology of Postsocialism: Russia and East Europe," while in the spring her 300-level course, "Love and the Market: Anthropological Explorations in Gender, Economy, and Morality" initiated the program's Mellon Fellows Symposium Course format, culminating in the conference on "Cultures of Capitalism" that took place at Haverford April 23-34, 2004.
Claudia Milian
Claudia, Fellow in Latino/a Studies from 2001-03, received a B.A. in American Studies from Hampshire and the Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown. Claudia has served in editorial capacities for a number of journals and projects, including the Radical Philosophy Review, ((ñ)) Magazine, and The International Dictionary of Women's Biography, and was consultant to the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities. Her research interests include Latino, Latina, and African-American literatures and cultural studies; Central American and Caribbean literatures; New World postcolonial studies; and critical race theory. While at Haverford, Claudia taught courses on Latino/a Cultural Productions Since the 1960s, Borderlands and Double Consciousness in the Americas, Central America in the U.S. Neocolonial Imaginary, and African-American, Latina, and Latino Autobiography and Memoir.
Linda Schlossberg
Linda, Fellow in Queer/Gender Studies from 2000-01, received a B.A. from Brandeis in English and Women's Studies, and a Ph.D. from Harvard in English and American Literature. Linda served on the faculty and as Assistant Director of Harvard's Women's Studies Program before coming to Haverford, and was Co-Coordinator of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Seminar at Harvard's Center for Literary and Cultural Studies. Her research interests include Victorian and Edwardian literature and culture, gay and lesbian studies, women's studies, histories of the body, and critical race theory. While at Haverford, Linda taught courses on The Queer Novel and Transgender Studies.
Rebekah Kowal
Rebekah Kowal, Fellow in Performance Studies from 1999-2001, received a B.A. at Barnard College in English with a minor in Dance, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from NYU. Rebekah studied ballet in New York City with Nanette Charisse, Cindi Green, and Zvi Gotheiner and modern at the Merce Cunningham Studio, and while in New York performed with Bryan Hayes, Pat Cremmins, Molly Rabinowitz, and Heidi Henderson. Her research interests include 19th and 20th century American dance and cultural history, the theatricality of everyday life, the avant-garde, leisure and work, and world dance. While at Haverford, Rebekah taught courses in American Studies, Performance Studies, Third World Dance, and Urban Culture, and hosted a symposium on Native American Culture.


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Fine Dining & Menus
The fine dining experience at Lindeth Howe is second to none. We have been awarded two Rosettes by the AA for the fabulous 5 course candlelit dinners served daily in the dining room. The menu is seasonal and all the dishes use quality local produce wherever possible, smart casual dress code applies.
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Born: February 23, 1958 in Montebello, CA
College: USC (school history) (McDonald college stats)
Drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the 4th round (109th overall) of the 1980 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 15 (5920th overall since 1950)


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Center for Production Services
The Center for Production Services (formerly Audio Visual Production Services and the Center for Instructional Resources), located on the lower level of the library, is the campus media-production support facility. The CPS provides video production and editing services, photographic and audio services, and training and instruction in the use of equipment.
The CPS services are available to all campus offices, students, and student organizations, as well as the Neuberger Museum of Art, Performing Arts Center and off-campus groups using Purchase facilities. Students wishing to use media equipment for class projects are invited to inquire at CPS.
Day | Open | Close |
Monday | 8:30am | 5 PM |
Tuesday | 8:30am | 5pm |
Wednesday | 8:30am | 5pm |
Thurday | 8:30am | 5pm |
Friday | 8:30am | 4:30pm |
Saturday | closed | closed |
Sunday | closed | closed |
Center for Production Services
Director: Nancy Kane
Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Rd.
Purchase, NY 10577-1400
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