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History's Great Debaters
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"The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom." - Caludia "Lady Bird" Johnson, First Lady of the United Statesread more
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Mark Salling who was best known for his portrayal of Puck on Glee has been found dead. Police have revealed the cause of death was suicide by hanging.
Mr Salling was awaiting sentencing after he pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography
He was set to receive his sentence sometime in March where he was facing up to 7 years in prison. He had been caught with over 50,000 illegal images of prepubescent children on his computer.
It is known that Mr Salling had previously cut his wrists in August last year although his lawyers insisted that this was not a suicide attempt.
It was at 3am that a family member approached the LAPD to report Salling missing. The police proceeded to perform a "welfare check" on Mr Salling. When they did not find him at his property they searched the wider area.
He was discovered hanged at a baseball field near to his house.
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MSigDB Collections: Details and Acknowledgments
General notes
Beginning in MSigDB 7.0, we are now using ENSEMBL as the platform annotation authority. Identifiers for genes are mapped to their HGNC approved Gene Symbol and NCBI Gene ID through annotations extracted from ENSEMBL's BioMart data service, and will be updated at each MSigDB release with the latest available version of ENSEMBL.
H collection: Hallmark gene setsWe envision this collection as the starting point for your exploration of the MSigDB resource and GSEA. Hallmark gene sets summarize and represent specific well-defined biological states or processes and display coherent expression. These gene sets were generated by a computational methodology based on identifying gene set overlaps and retaining genes that display coordinate expression. The hallmarks reduce noise and redundancy and provide a better delineated biological space for GSEA. We refer to the original overlapping gene sets, from which a hallmark is derived, as its 'founder' sets. Hallmark gene set pages provide links to the corresponding founder sets for deeper follow up.
This collection is an initial release of 50 hallmarks which condense information from over 4,000 original overlapping gene sets from v4.0 MSigDB collections C1 through C6. We refer to the original gene sets as "founder" sets.
Hallmark gene set pages provide links to the corresponding founder sets for more in-depth exploration. In addition, hallmark gene set pages include links to microarray data that served for refining and validation of the hallmark signatures.
To cite your use of the collection, and for further information, please refer to Liberzon A, Birger C, Thorvaldsdóttir H, Ghandi M, Mesirov JP, Tamayo P. The Molecular Signatures Database (MSigDB) hallmark gene set collection. Cell Syst. 2015 Dec 23;1(6):417-425.
C1 collection: Positional gene setsGene annotations for this collection are derived from the Chromosome and Karyotype band tracks from the ENSEMBL BioMart (version 97) and reflect the gene architecture as represented on the primary assembly. Decimals in cytogenetic bands were ignored. For example, 5q31.1 was considered 5q31. Therefore, genes annotated as 5q31.2 and those annotated as 5q31.3 were both placed in the same set, 5q31. These gene sets can be helpful in identifying effects related to chromosomal deletions or amplifications, dosage compensation, epigenetic silencing, and other regional effects.
C2 collection: Curated gene setsGene sets in this collection are curated from various sources, including online pathway databases and the biomedical literature. Many sets are also contributed by individual domain experts. The gene set page for each gene set lists its source. The C2 collection is divided into the following two sub-collections: Chemical and genetic perturbations (CGP) and Canonical pathways (CP).
> C2 sub-collection CGP: Chemical and genetic perturbationsGene sets that represent expression signatures of genetic and chemical perturbations.
Most of the CGP sets came from the biomedical literature. Over the past several years, microarray studies have identified signatures of several important biological and clinical states (e.g. cancer metastasis, stem cell characteristics, drug resistance). The C2 collection makes many of these signatures, originally published as tables in a paper, available as gene sets. To do this, we compiled a list of microarray articles with published gene expression signatures and, from each article, extracted one or more gene sets from tables in the main text or supplementary information. A number of these gene sets come in pairs: xxx_UP (and xxx_DN) gene sets representing genes induced (and repressed) by the perturbation. The majority of CGP sets were curated from publications. They include links to the PubMed citation, the exact source of the set (e.g., Table 1), and links to any corresponding raw data in GEO or ArrayExpress repositories. When the gene set involves a genetic perturbation, the set's brief description includes a link to the gene's entry in the NCBI Entrez Gene database. When the gene set involves a chemical perturbation, the set's brief description includes a link to the chemical's entry in the NCBI PubChem Compound database.
Other CGP gene sets include:
> C2 sub-collection CP: Canonical pathwaysThe pathway gene sets are curated from the following online databases:
C3 collection: Motif gene setsGene sets representing potential targets of regulation by transcription factors or microRNAs. The sets consist of genes grouped by short sequence motifs they share in their non-protein coding regions. The motifs represent known or likely cis-regulatory elements in promoters and 3'-UTRs. These gene sets make it possible to link changes in an expression profiling experiment to a putative cis-regulatory element. The C3 collection is divided into two sub-collections: microRNA targets (MIR) and transcription factor targets (TFT).
> C3 sub-collection MIR: microRNA targetsThese sets consist of genes sharing 7-nucleotide motifs in their 3' untranslated regions. Each 7-mer motif matches (is complementary to) the seed (bases 2 through 8) of the mature human microRNA (miRNAs) catalogued in v7.1 of miRBase (October 2005).
> C3 sub-collection TFT: transcription factor targetsGene sets that share upstream cis-regulatory motifs which can function as potential transcription factor binding sites. We used two approaches to generate these motif gene sets.
C4 collection: Computational gene setsComputational gene sets defined by mining large collections of cancer-oriented microarray data. This collection is divided into two sub-collections: Cancer gene neighborhoods (CGN) and Cancer modules (CM).
> C4 sub-collection CGN: Cancer gene neighborhoodsIn our GSEA paper, Subramanian, Tamayo et al. 2005, PNAS 102, 15545-15550, we mined 4 expression compendia datasets for correlated gene sets, starting with a list of 380 cancer-associated genes curated from internal resources and Brentani, Caballero et al. Human Cancer Genome Project/Cancer Genome Anatomy Project Annotation Consortium.; Human Cancer Genome Project Sequencing Consortium. The generation and utilization of a cancer-oriented representation of the human transcriptome by using expressed sequence tags. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Nov 11;100(23):13418-23. Using the profile of a given gene as a template, we ordered every other gene in the data set by its Pearson correlation coefficient. We applied a cutoff of R ≥ 0.85 to extract correlated genes. The calculation of neighborhoods is done independently in each compendium. In this way, a given oncogene may have up to four "types" of neighborhoods according to the correlation present in each compendium. Neighborhoods with <25 genes at this threshold were omitted yielding the final 427 sets.
> C4 sub-collection CM: Cancer modulesGene sets defined by Segal E, Friedman N, Koller D, Regev A. A module map showing conditional activity of expression modules in cancer. Nat Genet. 2004 Oct;36(10):1090-8. Briefly, the authors compiled gene sets ('modules') from a variety of resources such as KEGG, GO, and others. By mining a large compendium of cancer-related microarray data, they identified 456 such modules as significantly changed in a variety of cancer conditions. See also http://robotics.stanford.edu/~erans/cancer.
C5 collection: Gene Ontology (GO) gene setsGene sets in this collection are derived from Gene Ontology (GO) annotations. GO is a collaborative effort to develop and use ontologies to support biologically meaningful annotation of genes and their products. A GO annotation consists of a GO term associated with a specific reference that describes the work or analysis upon which the association between a specific GO term and gene product is based. A gene product might be associated with one or more GO terms. Each annotation also includes an evidence code to indicate how the annotation to a particular term is supported (http://geneontology.org/page/guide-go-evidence-codes).
The gene sets in the C5 collection are based on GO terms (go-basic.obo, downloaded on 21 February, 2019) and their associations to human genes (gene2go, downloaded from the NCBI FTP server on 21 February, 2019). The GO terms in the collection belong to one of three GO ontologies: molecular function (MF), cellular component (CC) or biological process (BP), and the collection is divided into sub-collections accordingly. We omitted GO terms for very broad categories that would produce extremely large gene sets. GO terms that produced gene sets with fewer than 5 genes have also been omitted. Gene sets in each sub-collection were filtered to remove inter-set redundancy (see MSigDB 7.0 release notes).
Note to GSEA users: Gene set enrichment analysis identifies gene sets consisting of co-regulated genes; GO gene sets are based on ontologies and do not necessarily comprise co-regulated genes.
C6 collection: Oncogenic signaturesGene sets represent signatures of cellular pathways which are often dis-regulated in cancer. The majority of signatures were generated directly from microarray data from NCBI GEO or from internal unpublished profiling experiments which involved perturbation of known cancer genes. In addition, a small number of oncogenic signatures were curated from scientific publications.
C7 collection: Immunologic signaturesImmunologic signatures collection (also called ImmuneSigDB) is composed of gene sets that represent cell types, states, and perturbations within the immune system. The signatures were generated by manual curation of published studies in human and mouse immunology.
We first captured relevant microarray datasets published in the immunology literature that have raw data deposited to Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). For each published study, the relevant comparisons were identified (e.g. WT vs. KO; pre- vs. post-treatment etc.) and brief, biologically meaningful descriptions were created. All data was processed and normalized the same way to identify the gene sets, which correspond to the top or bottom genes (FDR < 0.02 or maximum of 200 genes) ranked by mutual information for each assigned comparison.
The immunologic signatures collection was generated as part of our collaboration with the Haining Lab at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Human Immunology Project Consortium (HIPC). To cite your use of the collection, and for further information, please refer to Godec J, Tan Y, Liberzon A, Tamayo P, Bhattacharya S, Butte A, Mesirov JP, Haining WN, Compendium of Immune Signatures Identifies Conserved and Species-Specific Biology in Response to Inflammation, 2016, Immunity 44(1), 194-206.


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Speeding Limerick mayor's penalty points 'could have been quashed'
A FORMER Mayor of Limerick says he was advised by a senior official at City Hall that he was entitled to have penalty points cancelled after he was caught speeding.
Cllr Jim Long says he received two penalty points and was fined €80 after he was detected driving in excess of the speed limit on the outskirts of the city.
While the incident happened during Cllr Long's term in office in 2011-12, he was not on official mayoral business at the time.
Cllr Long says after he received the fixed penalty notice, he paid the fine and did not seek to have the penalty points cancelled, despite being informed he could do so.
"It was brought to my notice that I could have made an approach to have them quashed but I decided not to do it. It was brought to my notice; 'Look pick up the phone, because of who you are they will be put away'," he said, claiming the advice was given to him by a "senior official" at City Hall.
Cllr Long, who is seeking to retain his seat in the upcoming Limerick local elections, disclosed details of the incident following the publication of a report by the Garda Inspectorate into the operation of the penalty points system last week.
Figures released by the Inspectorate show a total of 3,459 motorists had penalty points quashed by gardai in Limerick during 2011 and 2012.
According to the report, this represents 5.4% of all penalty points issued across the Limerick garda division during that time.
Of the penalty points which were quashed locally, more than half were cancelled as a result of applications made at either Henry Street or Roxboro Road garda stations in the city.
In the wake of the figures from the Inspectorate, Cllr Long says those who had penalty points cancelled by gardai should also be refunded the fine.
"Those people who had them (penalty points) quashed because of a lack of procedure or incorrect procedures should be refunded their money," he said.


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text: Background: During the 2000s, there has been an increased interest in studying business management and strategy implementation with customer focus in public organisations. To achieve business goals it is important to continuously work with strategies to meet customerdemands for increased efficiency and service. Purpose: The aim of the essay is to examine how to work on strategy implementation in a municipal real estate company from a management perspective in order to achieve overall goals. Method: The study's methodology is a case study based on qualitative telephone interviews that were conducted with representatives in managerial positions from various levels of the company. The choice of the qualitative data was considered relevant in relation to the chosen topic of the thesis. The empirical data was then compared to the theoretical framework of the thesis. Results: Strategies guide the company to achieve the overall goals, which are later on broken down into operational targets. The implementation of strategies takes place through changes in the work practices and procedures. The use of continuous feedback and established routines generates distinct efficiency advantages.


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The Seven Types of Hackers
Roger Grimes has an article describing "the seven types of malicious hackers." I generally like taxonomies, and this one is pretty good.
He says the seven types are:
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- Spammers and adware spreaders
- Advanced persistent threat (APT) agents
- Corporate spies
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Justin Bieber: Why His Dad Made That Awkward Penis Joke On Twitter
Eek! Justin Bieber's dad, Jeremy Bieber, joked about his son's penis size on Twitter after the singer was photographed nude. It seems gross for Jeremy to even look at Justin's manhood, but HollywoodLife.com has EXCLUSIVELY learned why he tweeted such a thing!
Justin Bieber, 21, has been through a lot these past few days. Not only did nude photos of him leak on Oct. 7, but then his dad Jeremy Bieber, 43, escalated the matter by tweeting about JB's penis size on Oct. 9. What was he thinking?! HollywoodLife.com has exclusive details!
Papa Bieber was just being friendly, a source tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. "Justin and his dad are friends; their relationship is not at all the typical father-son relationship," our source says. "People are judging Jeremy for making that d*ck joke, but it was all in good fun. Justin is extremely upset about these pictures and his dad's just trying to make him laugh about it and take off some of the stress," the source continues. "It might not be what the average dad would do, but their relationship is not average — Jeremy is Justin's best friend. He never acts like the typical dad and Justin wouldn't want it any other way." Looks like Jeremy was just trying to relieve Justin's stress over the photos!
Justin Bieber's 'Proud' Dad Jokes About Penis Size
Justin's pop deleted the tweet a little while later, so in case you missed it, he tweeted, "@justinbieber what do you feed that thing? #proud daddy." Okay, proud parents always tend to brag about their kids, but we don't blame Jeremy for deleting the tweet — it's just a little too awkward, even if he was trying to lighten up the situation. Understandably, the 'What Do You Mean?' singer is super mad. As an insider previously told HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY, "It's violating and creepy to know that someone was shooting him in such a private moment. Justin isn't embarrassed by those pictures, but he's angry. The whole trip was arranged to give him privacy and they still managed to stalk him, it's not a good feeling."
HollywoodLifers, do you think JB's dad crossed the line, or was it all in good fun? Sound off in the comments!
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€88,934.30 sanctioned for CLG Naomh Muire by Minister of State Kyne
Minister of State for Gaeltacht Affairs, Seán Kyne T.D., has announced that he has sanctioned a grant of up to €88,934.30 for Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Naomh Muire, Mullach Dearg, Cionn Caslach, Co. Donegal.
Announcing the grant, Minister of State Kyne said that he was very pleased to provide a grant that would help the club to carry out construction work and to upgrade the building, in particular by adding an elevator for people with disabilities. The Minister of State added that the Club will be able to serve the whole community, making facilities available to all, as they focus on Comórtas Peile na Gaeltachta 2021.


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When our skin becomes
When our skin becomes
a backdrop of stars
to a world not in light
Layered over
bones and shells
and mountains
our ancestors once scaled
Then we advance to a
civilization past any
we've ever been
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An expose of the oil industry's cover-up of the diminishing oil supply, that paints a bleak picture of the future in which the price of oil skyrockets, economies and communities shudder worldwide, and the globe must move to renewable source to give it power.
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The son of Hall of Fame trainer William Burch and the father of Hall of Fame trainer Elliott Burch, Preston Burch enjoyed success as a breeder, owner and trainer of racehorses for himself and others both in America and overseas for more than a half-century.
Burch began training in 1902, saddling his first winner, Stuyve, that year at Gravesend. His early success attracted wealthy patrons for whom he trained stakes winners on the flat and over fences in New York, Canada, Cuba, France, Belgium, Germany and Italy before World War I. With racing in New York shut down in 1911 and 1912, Burch enjoyed success in Europe for owners such as John Sanford, William Astor Chanler, Harry LaMontagne and George P. Eustis. One of Burch's top victories abroad came in the Grand Steeplechase International in Milan, Italy, with the LaMontagne-owned Sultan VII.
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Flash Stakes — 1949
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Monmouth Handicap — 1950
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I've marked the new finds in red, in case you're just looking for the new stuff. If there is new information - a link to Amazon, a release date, an excerpt, or something has changed, then it's red. I've also put an (e) next to the books that have an excerpt out, clicking the (e) will take you to my listing of excerpts. For the books I've already read and reviewed there is a link to my review of the book.
01/25/11 Archangel's Consort (Guild Hunter Book 3) Nalini Singh (e)
02/15/11 Dreams of a Dark Warrior (Immortals After Dark Series) by Kresley Cole (e)
02/22/11 This Side of the Grave (Cat & Bones #5, Night Huntress) by Jeaniene Frost (e)
02/22/11 Pale Demon (The Hollows Rachel Morgan, Book 9) by Kim Harrison (e) (my review)
03/01/11 River Marked (Mercy Thompson, Book 6) by Patricia Briggs (e)
03/01/11 Blackout (Cal Leandros, Book 6) by Rob Thurman
03/01/11 Moon Cursed (Nightcreature Novels, Book 10) by Lori Handeland
03/01/11 Late Eclipses (October Daye, Book 4) by Seanan McGuire
03/15/11 Steel by Carrie Vaughn
03/22/11 Invincible (Chronicles of Nick Volume 2) by Sherrilyn Kenyon (e)
03/29/11 Master and Apprentice (Master of None series Book 2) by Sonya Bateman
Spring/11 Blood Rock (Dakota Frost / Skindancer series book two) by Anthony Francis (e)
Spring/11 Blood Rock (Dakota Frost / Skindancer series book two) by Anthony Francis (e)
04/05/11 Magic on the Hunt (Allie Beckstrom Book 6) by Devon Monk
04/26/11 Tangled Threads (Elemental Assassin, Book 4) by Jennifer Estep (e)
04/26/11 Mercy Burns (Myth & Magic Bk 2) by Keri Arthur
05/03/11 Dead Reckoning (Sookie Stackhouse Bk 11) by Charlaine Harris (e)
05/31/11 Magic Slays (Kate Daniels, Book 5) by Ilona Andrews (e)
05/31/11 Kiss of Snow (Psy/Changeling #10, Hawke's book) by Nalini Singh (e)05/31/11 Shadow Fall (Shadowchaser book 3) by Seressia Glass
Smmr/11 Smokin' Seventeen (Stephanie Plum #17) by Janet Evanovich
06/09/11 Hit List (Anita Blake book 20) by Laurell K. Hamilton
06/28/11 Kitty's Big Trouble (Kitty Norville Book Nine) by Carrie Vaughn
06/28/11 Crave The Moon (Nightcreature Novels, Book 11) by Lori Handeland
07/??/11 Demons at the Gates (Phoenix Chronicles, Book 5) by Lori Handeland
07/??/11 Demons at the Gates (Phoenix Chronicles, Book 5) by Lori Handeland
07/05/11 Vampire Instinct (Vampire Queen Book 7) by Joey W. Hill (e)
07/05/11 Vision Impossible (Psychic Eye Mystery Book 9) by Victoria Laurie
07/26/11 Ghost Story (Dresden Files, Book 13) by Jim Butcher
07/26/11 Spell Bound (Savannah) (Women/Otherworld Bk 12) Kelley Armstrong
07/27/11 Eye of the Tempest (Jane True Book 4) by Nicole Peeler
08/02/11 Retribution (Dark Hunters #20) by Sherrilyn Kenyon
08/16/11 Kitty's Greatest Hits (Kitty Norville series) by by Carrie Vaughn
08/20/11 The Sookie Stackhouse Companion: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel by Charlaine Harris
FALL/11 Killing Rites (Black Sun's Daughter Book 1) by M.L.N. HanoverLate/11 Vampire Queen's Return (Vampire Queen Book 8) by Joey W. Hill
Fall/11 The Renfield Syndrom (Rhiannon's Law series book 2) by J.A. Saare (e)Late/11 Raven Cursed (Jane Yellowrock, Book 4) by Faith Hunter
Fall/11 Second Diesel/Unmentionables book by Janet Evanovich
Fall/11 Second Diesel/Unmentionables book by Janet Evanovich
Late/11 Unnamed (Justine Jones Disillusionist Book 3) by Carolyn Crane
09/11/11 The Brightest Fell (October Daye, Book 5) by Seanan McGuire
09/27/11 Darkness Unbound (Dark Angel series - new Risa books) by Keri Arthur (e)
10/01/11 Alpha (Dark Hunters, Daria's story) by Sherrilyn Kenyon
10/??/11 Spider's Revenge (Elemental Assassin, Book 5) by Jennifer Estep (e)
10/??/11 Bound by a Vampire Queen (Vampire Queen Book 8) by Joey W. Hill
12/??/11 Virtual Virgin (Delilah Street #5) by Carole Nelson Douglas
??/??/11 Liquid Fire (Dakota Frost / Skindancer series book3 ) by Anthony Francis (e)
??/??/?? Darkness Rising (Dark Angel series - new Risa book #2) by Keri Arthur
01/??/12 Alpha and Omega series, Book 3 Patricia Briggs
??/??/12 Unnamed Jaime story (Women/Otherworld Bk 13) Kelley Armstrong
09/01/12 Daemon's Angel (Dark Hunters) by Sherrilyn Kenyon
??/??/11 Supernaturals on Vacation (Anthology)
Not all of the series I keep up with have another book listed as coming out. The authors have stated there will be more, but to my knowledge they haven't said when, or given a title name. I've listed those series below.
* Meredith Gentry series by Laurell K Hamilton (taking a year off)
* Bloodhound Files by DD Barant
* Bewitching Mysteries by Madelyn Alt
* The Edge series by Ilona Andrews
* The Edge series by Ilona Andrews
Below are series I follow, but it is unclear whether there will be more books in the series:
* Bronwyn the Witch series by Candace Havens
* Nadia Stafford series by Kelley Armstrong
* Nature of Desire series by Joey W. Hill
* Daughters of Arianne series by Joey W. Hill
* Felix Gomez series Mario Acevedo
* Spellman series by Lisa Lutz (Spring 2012?)
* Nadia Stafford series by Kelley Armstrong
* Nature of Desire series by Joey W. Hill
* Daughters of Arianne series by Joey W. Hill
* Felix Gomez series Mario Acevedo
* Spellman series by Lisa Lutz (Spring 2012?)
* Anya Kalinczyk / Embers series by Laura Bickle
* Dexter series by Jeff Lindsay
* Caruthers Sisters series by Candace Havens
* Nikki Heat series by Richard Castle
* Succubus Diaries by Jill Myles
You can read an excerpt of many of these books, to see my list of excerpts please go here.
If someone wants to send me an ARC of one of the books on my Anxiously Awaiting list, I will read it within a day or two of it arriving (assuming I'm home and I'm not sick or anything), and will get a blog post up of it as soon as I've finished reading it. You may send me a digital version at chained lightning at g mail dot com, or to send a hard copy you may contact me at that email address to ask for a shipping address. If you have an ARC you would like to send that is not on my Anxiously Awaiting list I will attempt to read and review it in a timely manner but it may not be placed topmost in my TBR pile. Feel free to email me to see if I'd be interested in reading something, as well. I've found a few authors this way that I may not have read had I not received a review copy -- and now I'm hooked on a few of those series, just waiting for the next book.


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We've had some good weather here in the midst of winter so I've been enjoying that rather than blogging. Last night was perhaps the most social I've been in a while. D, a friend of P's, had a birthday get-together and we had a good few glasses of champagne. It was fun to see P get a bit drunk for the first time since I've known her. She was singing along to The Committments and getting all nostalgic about her trip to Ireland and her Irish roots. And then it was Jimi Hendrix and all the oldies, and more champagne.
I had a rather surreal conversation with D's boyfriend J about Granny V, who I assumed was an old lady who lived upstairs and who didn't like the puppy's barking. At one point I asked, "So does Granny V own the house?" J replied about how Granny V mostly keeps to her room and tries to ignore the puppy. I thought it was a bit odd that this woman mostly stayed in her room while there was a big party going on downstairs. And then I discovered of course that Granny V is their cat!
This morning P woke up with a sore head but I think it was worth it. Tonight we have another birthday do at the restaurant where one of my exes does some singing. I'm sure it will be fine, and good to hear her sing again.
On to today's meme (thanks to Charlotte and Doctordi for the tags). I originally did this as a blogging-under-the-influence (BUI) post but I had the good sense not to post that. Very revealing no doubt but I think a sober approach is probably better.
In the BUI post I listed my seven personality traits as: 1) not handling my liquor well 2) a tendency to anger 3) general anxiety 4) social anxiety 5) being critical 6) not sure what this one was but it was about working for various journalistic publications; and 7) curiosity.
But I'm not in a critical mood today and so I think I'll just mention a few things that come to mind, and also refer to three personality tests (16PF, the Myers-Briggs and the MMPI). I see from the discussion of Personality at Wikipedia that the word traits refers to "habitual patterns of behaviour, thought and emotion". I would put it the other way round: "emotion, thought and behaviour" but I guess that the point here is that the three are intimately connected.
Quick quote here from Wikipedia on the "Big Five" theory of personality factors:
The Big Five factors and their constituent traits can be summarized as follows:
• Openness – appreciation for art, emotion, adventure, unusual ideas, curiosity, and variety of experience.
• Conscientiousness – a tendency to show self-discipline, act dutifully, and aim for achievement; planned rather than spontaneous behavior.
• Extraversion – energy, positive emotions, surgency, and the tendency to seek stimulation and the company of others.
• Agreeableness – a tendency to be compassionate and cooperative rather than suspicious and antagonistic towards others.
• Neuroticism – a tendency to experience unpleasant emotions easily, such as anger, anxiety, depression, or vulnerability; sometimes called emotional instability.
I don't want to get bogged down in the details but I think I'd definitely score five out of five here! I definitely have a tendency to experience the unpleasant emotions easily but I also seek out and enjoy the more pleasant aspects of life. And I also think that empathy (for ourselves and others) is a big factor in determining how we connect with people.
Another aspect to consider, especially today since it's Mandela Day (in which we're encouraged to spend 67 minutes helping out in the community) is how Nelson Mandela would score on a personality test and how useful (or not useful) such a test would be in describing this extraordinary man and the huge influence he has had both in South Africa and internationally. My sense is that we would need to pay far greater attention to the broader social context rather than locating factors within his personality.
Returning to those three tests above, the 16PF test (designed by Raymond Cattell in 1946) measures 16 personality variables: warmth, reasoning, emotional stability, dominance, liveliness, rule-consciousness, social boldness, sensitivity, vigilance, abstractedness, privateness, apprehension, openness to change, self-reliance, perfectionism and tension.
The Myers-Briggs test was derived from the work of Carl Jung. There are four scales: Extraversion / Intraversion (E/I); Sensing / Intuiting (S/N); Thinking / Feeling (T/F); Judging / Perceiving (J/P). Last time I did the test I was an ENFJ (although the E has probably changed into an I).
The MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) tests for personality structure and psychopathology. I'm not going to go into that here.
For today I'll stay with the big five: open, conscientious, extraverted, agreeable and neurotic.
In the interests of spreading this meme around I'll tag the following seven bloggers:
Sarah at Devoted Reader
Sandy from Blogging Behavioural
Novalis from Blue to Blue
Phd in Yogurty
Bee Drunken
Update: The rules of this meme are simple: Describe seven personality traits you have and tag seven other bloggers.


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Discussion in 'Steel Droid - D3' started by darthbird1, Nov 4, 2011.
Hows everyones battery life on Steel Droid?
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Mine seems to be really good. Was having crazy drain with Liberty, but have been very happy with SD's battery life.
It's been very good. I've been on SD since 1.0 and the battery life is stellar.
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Same here, have been loyal to Chevy from day one with SDv1, and my battery is awesome, much better then stock
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If my phone is 100% charged, the battery manager says that my phone will last about 3 hours if used, 4 if it just sits in my pocket and I don't use it. I also have the 3g network disabled when the screen turns off. What are other peoples numbers?
Don't forget to wipe the battery cache in safestrap then drain battery tell it turns off phone by itself then fully charge again and give it a week.
I was getting 30-36 hour with heavy use before I read about wiping cache after I did this my battery life has greatly improved.
i have the 1800 mah battery from Verizon and get about 19 hours heavy use lol. make sure you wipe your bat stats and i do not use a task killer i have taskmanger frozen. When using data im primarily in wifi range, unless at work. Wifi is allways on though and i do not use bluetooth.
I have problem with my droid 3 battery life.
I use Steel rom 4.6 Gigerbread. My phone is 100% charged. it's standby overnight.
At the morning, Android OS is 82% of Battery Use.
I use Badass Bettery monitor to check, i see that Kernel is 70% of Battery.
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I also have not been incredibly impressed with battery life on 4.6. Even with juice defender helping I still can easily burn through a full battery in a half day. I don't use my phone hardly a work, no phone calls, no real serious browsing, a few texts here and there or the occasional draw something/wordfeud round and I stay on wifi. Can't figure out what's sucking batt per. Maybe I nd 2 shrtn my txts 2 sv time
That's kind surprising to me. I tried 4.6 a month ago and had no issues with the battery. Every device is different so maybe try another launcher?
Look to see what's draining the battery. This might not be the ROM for you.
i think keeping wifi on and connected drains your battery
when i leave my phone alone with just 3g, my standby time is like 2%/hr
I turn off my wifi when im not using it. Less drain then 3g by a long shot. Again its gotta be something else.


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Culture Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos told the BBC it would be "impossible" for Greece to cede control of its tax and spending powers.
There are concerns the measures Greece has taken to cut its budget deficit have not gone far enough.
Meanwhile, Greece and its private creditors are close to a deal to cut dramatically the country's debt levels.
Charles Dallara and Jean Lemierre, representing the creditors, said on Saturday they were "close to the finalisation" of a deal that would see banks and investors write off about 50% of money they are owed.
They said a deal, which is necessary for Greece to receive much-needed further bailout funds, should be agreed this week.
On Sunday, Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos said he and his coalition partners were in "complete agreement" over the positions to adopt in the talks, both with private creditors and with the EU and International Monetary Fund officials over any subsequent bailout.
He said delays in cutting Greece's budget deficit had led to demands for greater austerity measures.
'Red line'
Greek officials reacted angrily to the leaked German proposal for an EU budget commissioner with veto powers over Greek taxes and spending.
"It's going to be impossible for the Greek government to accept such a deal - I don't think it would be supported by any of the heads of the parties that are involved in the coalition," said Mr Yeroulanos.
"We have been giving up quite a bit, but I think sovereignty is a red line that no-one would dare cross.
"I would rather resign as a minister than allow anybody to tell us the way we should be spending our money."
Earlier, Greek government spokesman Pantelis Kapsis told the BBC that Greece's budget was "the responsibility of the Greek government and there is no need for such measures".
He said a similar idea had been raised before and should be avoided.
"We have gone a long way in reducing our deficit and are on the right track," he added.
Under the German proposal, a budget commissioner would have veto powers over Greek budgetary measures if they were not in line with targets set by international lenders.
Greece would also legally commit itself to servicing its debt, before spending any money in any other way.
Debt deal
Mr Kapsis also said the discussions between Greece and its private creditors had gone well and the two parties were "close to an agreement".
Athens is negotiating with the Institute of International Finance (IIF), which represents Greece's private creditors. The main sticking point in the discussions is the interest rate that Greece will pay on newly-issued bonds that will replace its existing debts.
The IIF said last week it wants no less than 4%, while Athens, backed by eurozone finance ministers, wants the rate to be well below 3.5%.
Agreeing a deal is a precondition of receiving further bailout funds from the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Greece needs these funds to pay back more than 14.5bn ($19.2bn; £12.2bn) euros of debt which needs to repayed in March.
If a deal is not agreed, Greece could decide itself what, if anything, to repay its creditors.
This so-called disorderly default would undermine confidence in the eurozone economy and its banking system.
Some analysts believe it could result in Greece being forced to give up the euro.
European leaders are attending a summit on Monday as part of their continuing attempts to resolve the crisis.
They are looking to forge closer economic ties between member states by agreeing the details of a treaty imposing strict rules on government spending.
They are also trying to agree the details of a permanent eurozone bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Mechanism, to deal with sovereign debt crises in the future.
BBC News


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Several California lawmakers, including Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg are headed to Central America later this morning to talk about immigration.
Steinberg's office says the Sacramento Democrat will meet with the President of El Salvador and leaders from Guatemala and Panama to discuss immigration issues, such as the thousands of unaccompanied children arriving at the U.S. border. Talks are also expected to address trade.
The lawmakers will stay in Central America until July 23rd.


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Many libraries in the world provide remote access to electronic resources via EZproxy .
As Andrew Perry explains here
"Essentially, Ezproxy uses some URL mangling, rewriting all hyperlinks, to pass traffic via the proxy (rather than using a conventional browser proxy setting). If the user is not logged in to the proxy (ie has no fresh & valid cookie), a login screen is given before being forwarded to the journal site."
In the case of NUS Libraries, a user visiting http://www.springerlink.com/content/j187567w723h43m4 will not be able to logged in via NUS Libraries and hence cannot access full text. However if he accesses the same link with the extra string in red appended http://www.springerlink.com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/content/j187567w723h43m4/ , he will be accessing the page via NUS Libraries and hence will have full text access.
While links from our library portal will typically have being specially treated to include the string in red, in today's world, a user is more than likely to stumble upon a journal vendor site from some outside source that did not rewrite the link (e.g. Blogs, forums, web search engine results). As a result, users will not be able to access the full-text article.
This is particularly so for users using Google or Google scholar. Ideally if everyone was linking using openurl (which google scholar does) and every library had a openurl resolver (not all have) things would be a lot easier (besides being a much superior method for being certain whether a library has access if the same article can be found in different sources/vendor platforms) but ….. In any case, this post assumes that linking via Openurl has not occured and one is dealing with a simple link to a specific vendor url.
In such cases, one can always manually add the string ".libproxy1.nus.edu.sg" to the url just after the domain name but clever librarians have come up with many ingenous ways to speed things up.
Some methods that can be used include
1. Bookmarklet
2. Libx
3. Greasemonkey
4. Zotero
5 Others
This is perhaps the most commonly used method. For this to work, one installs a bookmarklet into the browser. Clicking on the bookmarklet will automatically append the needed ezproxy portion of the url into whatever url the user is on, hence allowing him to access the resource.
Example : NUS Library bookmarklet
Lightweight, works on most browsers.
The bookmarklet can only work retrospectively, after the user is already on the url. In most cases, as the user is initially not authenticated via EZproxy, the page shown will be the public page. Clicking on the bookmarklet will then convert the page into the subscribed version. Unfortunately, some vendors will detect that you are not authorized to access the page and redirect the page to a generic error page. Obviously, clicking on the bookmarklet now, would be futile. Vendors that do this include Web of Science and Scopus?.
Also certain vendor sites (Wiley-blackwell is one) will report errors with cookies, when using the bookmarklet. The only way around these problems would be to convert the url on the fly before even hitting the page (Which the Greasemonkey script, Libx and Zotero do).
As I covered in a past post , Libx toolbar is a specialized custom toolbar that libraries can offer to their users to help enhance access to their collections. Among the many functions of Libx is the ability to support the use of EZproxy. This is done via two methods
1. When the user is already on the page.
Similar to the bookmarklet method, when the user is on a page that he is unable to access, he can right click and select the option "Reload samplepage.com via Library proxy", and this will automatically reload the page he is on, with the ezproxy built in.
2. Prior to visiting the page.
Alternatively, before even hitting the page, he can right click on the link and select "go to samplepage.com via Library proxy". This can be helpful in avoiding the situation mentioned above with vendors redirecting to generic error pages.
Example : NUS Libx toolbar demo
Because one can rewrite the url link , before even visting the url, this avoids the problem mentioned above with vendors redirecting to generic error pages. Also Libx supports both main browsers Firefox and Internet Explorer, although the bookmarklet supports more browsers.
Libx adds a ton of features, and is probably overkill, if all you want is just some way to add support to exproxy. It is of course possible to create a small simple Firefox addon that does just these functions, for instance recently I discovered this from way back in 2005!
Using Greasemonkey script
Greasemonkey is a Firefox addon that allows users to dynamically rewrite webpages. It is possible to create a greasemonkey script that will on selected domains (which user can add) rewrite outgoing urls to work with ezproxy.
Example : Greasemonkey script demo (NUS libraries) , Script originally from Andrew Perry
Unlike using bookmarklets or Libx, once configured properly, outgoing links will be automatically rewritten. Users save time, because they don't have to click on the bookmarklet or right click and select context menu etc for it to work everytime you go to Jstor via Google scholar. You can also add more domains into the list.
Greasemonkey is Firefox only, though Internet explorer users might try it with greasemonkey with IE.
Once a domain is added, all outgoing links will be converted. This can cause problems in some instances. For example, one can't simply add http://scholar.google.com* and hope to convert all Google scholar links, because the next page button doesn't work then!
Zotero is a well known opensource citation manager that runs as a Firefox add-on. It has tons of powerful features. However the latest 1.5 beta adds automatic proxy support
When I first read about it, I thought it worked like Libx's. But I was wrong, it's far cleverer.
It works as follows, the first time you visit any url via ezproxy, Zotero will popup the following dialog box.
There isn't much detail on how it works. But here's my understanding, if you click "add proxy", Zotero will silently track any urls that use ezproxy, and automatically create pattern matching rules so that similar urls to the same domain will be converted as well.
For instance if you visit http://www.springerlink.com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/content/j187567w723h43m4/ for the first time, Zotero will notice that you are using a proxy to access Springerlink.com. If you click "Add proxy", two things will happen
1) In the future whenever you go to any link that has springerlink.com in it, libproxy1.nus.edu.sg will be automatically appended.
2) In addition, you are not just restricted to Springer. if you next visit say JSTOR at http://www.jstor.org.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/action/doBasicSearch?Query=stated+preference&wc=on&dc=All+Disciplines , Zotero will silently learn (no prompt) about JSTOR links as well, so again in the future similar links to JSTOR urls will be converted.
The more vendor sites you visit via ezproxy, the more Zotero learns about which links (based on domain) should be converted. All this works transparently, the user does not need to do any work at all!
In short, what you have here is a simple autolearning system, that automatically learns what urls should be converted and appends the needed string!
Very user friendly. Domains that should be converted to use with ezproxy are automatically added without intervention by user. Once Zotero has learnt that certain url from a domain should be passed through Ezproxy, it will work automatically, saving time compared to using bookmarklets or Libx.
Do note that Zotero proactively converts recognized urls similarly to greasemonkey, so it works fine with links to Web of Science or Wiley unlike using bookmarklets. Unlike greasemonkey script it selectively converts only recognized urls, rather than all urls on the page, so it works great with say Google scholar and there is less chance of problems.
Unfortunately, Zotero is Firefox only add-on, so users using other browsers are out of luck.
Also though Zotero automatically recognises urls that require the ezproxy string to be added, it does not itself add the ezproxy string when you first visit a domain it doesn't recognize.
One can of course combine methods. Use any of the earlier methods to append the ezproxy string to any new domains not yet recognized by Zotero, and the next time when you visit links in those domains, Zotero will kick in and work automatically.
In particular, given that both Zotero and Libx are opensource tools that are popular with users of Firefox, many librarians have began to recommend the use of both . So use the later to append the ezproxy string to unrecognized domains for Zotero to learn.
These are only some methods that can be used to append the ezproxy string. No doubt there are some other methods (e.g. other Firefox add-ons such as redirector and quieturl). Update 21/4/09 : The 5th method is courtesy of a library user from my institution. He uses shortcut typing tools and recommends the following typinator, textexpander (os x); fastfox, phrase express (pc). These tools allow you to type a letter or two and expand it into a whole phrase, like a macro.
Overall I think Zotero's method is the smartest and easiest way to solve the problem of automatically adding the ezproxy string. It might even be worth installing it alone for this feature, if you constantly find yourself needing this feature.
Do note that if you append the ezproxy string and you still don't have access, it doesn't necessarily mean your library does not have access to that article. It is possible that you can still access the same article via another vendor or site.


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I have discussed the need to place what MRC is doing in the context of its current work on cross-platform targeting measurement, including the ad/media industry's 3MS initiative. We need to invite independent outside experts who can help us discuss MRC. As you may know, MRC is coordinating the 3MS (Making Measurement Make Sense) initiative "created by the ANA, the 4As and the IAB to tackle the big issues surrounding cross-media measurement in a digital age. Those steps include the shift from an ad impression served model to one of "viewable impressions" – a standard in which at least 50% of an ad is viewable to a consumer for at least one second, the transition to an "e-GRP" for cross-platform measurement." [cite via Mediapost] Cross platform measurement tracking with analytics used to improve targeting in campaigns has a direct impact on our work, I believe. I am happy to ask leading online ad scholars whether they wish to be on a call if we have a MRC discussion. More info on 3MS here: http://www.iab.net/mmms; http://www.measurementnow.net/benefits.html Jeff Jeffrey Chester Center for Digital Democracy 1621 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 550 Washington, DC 20009 www.democraticmedia.org www.digitalads.org 202-986-2220 On Nov 1, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Rigo Wenning wrote: > Chris, > > here is the reminder that you wanted to try to find someone in MRC > who could present to the Working Group. > > I think the best would be to get a set of questions to him/her. A > presentation and Q&A session would be done during the TP WG call. > > I encourage Ed and others to help with the questions. I remember the > following: > > 1/ How does opt-out work with MRC? Is data collection mandatory? > 2/ Is MRC collecting identified or identifiable data? > 3/ If 2/ is yes, are there plans to change that in the foreseeable > future? > > Chris, feel free to suggest changes if you find the questions too > provocative (I find them exploratory as I don't know nothing about > MRC). > > I talked to the chairs and Aleecia also said it is a good idea. So > can you help us to make this happen? > > Rigo > > On Friday 26 October 2012 16:05:06 Chris Mejia wrote: >> Hi Rigo, >> >> A quick note to let you know that I'm not ignoring this, just very >> busy with other business today (non-W3C-related), so I'll get >> back to you when my head is above water. If you don't hear back >> from me before mid next week, please feel free to ping me again. >> >> Best, >> >> Chris >> >> Chris Mejia | Digital Supply Chain Solutions | Ad Technology Group >> | Interactive Advertising Bureau - IAB | firstname.lastname@example.com |w >> 212-380-4711 >> | c 347-949-8279 | Skype christopheramejia | AIM oskibearchris | >> | Twitter >> @oskibearchris | LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismejia >> >> On 10/26/12 5:13 AM, "Rigo Wenning" <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >>> Chris, >>> >>> can you please indicate a person at MRC that we can invite for a >>> presentation? >>> >>> Rigo >>> >>> On Thursday 25 October 2012 16:17:24 Chris Mejia wrote: >>>> Ed, respectfully, I had posted answer (before you asked your >>>> question)‹ I guess you must have missed it when conducting your >>>> research. Let's follow-up offline and I'll be happy to point >>>> you >>>> to it. >Received on Friday, 2 November 2012 12:52:03 UTC
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Dear President Sexton: About the StrikeNews at Home
"NEW YORK UNIVERSITY'S PRESIDENT warned striking teaching assistants on Monday that those who fail to return to the classroom by December 5 will lose their teaching assignments -- and stipends -- for the spring semester."--Chronicle of Higher Education 11-29-95
To: John Sexton, President, New York University [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]
From: Jesse Lemisch, Professor Emeritus of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY [firstname.lastname@example.com]
A word about the GSOC [Graduate Student Organizing Committee] strike, historians, and how NYU looks to the larger world:
It's simply grotesque that a university that seeks to show an advanced and somewhat liberal face to the world should use the retrograde action of Bush's NLRB [National Labor Relations Board] as a basis for an attack on the existence of GSOC. I said to one member of your faculty that your recent email to striking graduate student employees (below) suggested to me that NYU was following a repressive strategy earlier developed by Columbia and its provost, Alan Brinkley (see my History News Network article, "Alan Brinkley: Liberalism in Collapse?"). Your colleague responded that NYU has less in common with the Ivy League than with Wal-Mart. The spreading perception of this shameful behavior is bound to have implications for NYU's faculty and graduate student recruitment and for its general standing in and beyond academe.
I have enjoyed immensely my contacts with GESO at Yale, GSEU at Columbia, and GSOC. I don't have the figures at hand, but it's certainly my impression that history graduate students play a disproportionate role in these unions. I know these people and their work. Let me tell you, President Sexton, these are our very best young people. They are among the most serious and dedicated scholars and teachers I have known in a career that has included Yale, the University of Chicago, Northwestern, SUNY/Buffalo, and CUNY. They have seamlessly welded together a moving and admirable quest for social justice with deep, serious and original scholarship.
It's also germane to mention that the University of Chicago Alumni Association has, in frustration and regret, labeled the classes of 1964-74 the "Lost Classes." These alums are embittered and alienated from their alma mater now -- thirty to forty years later -- because of unprincipled repressive acts committed by the U of C in those days, including political firings and mass expulsions, closely related to what you are now threatening.
Together with others, I will do everything I can within and beyond my discipline to bring attention to your unacceptable behavior -- in the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the CUNY faculty, and every outlet for publication that I have. A large audience will be watching you closely.
Jesse Lemisch
Message from John Sexton to Graduate Assistants
From: NYU President John Sexton [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 12:21 PM
Subject: A Letter to NYU Graduate Assistants
Dear Graduate Assistants,
Your admission to NYU's graduate programs represents recognition of your potential to be part of the next generation of intellectual leaders, as men and women who will fill the ranks of university faculty throughout the world, as individuals who will lead lives devoted to advanced inquiry. In providing you with financial aid and the opportunities and responsibilities of assistantships, we hope to help prepare you for that life.
We recognize that for some of you there is an unfortunate disparity between the ideal and the reality. In some instances, assistantships have not been structured to accomplish what we want: to enhance professional development. There is always a delicate balance between matching undergraduate curricular needs with the academic and scholarly interests of those who teach; in the case of GAs, we have not always achieved that balance. While this is not true in every department, it is true in some.
Our exchanges with one another have been shaped by this reality and the mistrust engendered by it. We know we must work to bridge the gulf that has developed, and to align our realities with our ideals.
The recent announcement within Arts and Science limiting assistantship responsibilities in languages and literature departments to one stand alone course per semester is a first step. We know we must take others, but these academic decisions are best determined by schools and departments. The University will commit resources in support of these efforts. Moving closer to this ideal, however, will be difficult without restoring an atmosphere of mutual respect and good faith within the University community.
We appreciate that for some GAs a collectively bargained contract, driven by a union, provides a greater sense of security; for them the University's August decision to move ahead without the union was wrong. For them and others, the changes to the student health plan and the errors surrounding Blackboard created doubts about the University's good will, when both of these issues could be understood quite differently in an environment of mutual good faith.
For my part, I will not repeat the challenging history that contributed to the University's decision to work directly with our graduate students rather than through the intermediary of a union. Suffice it to say that we accept that, as we move forward, the burden is on the University to create an environment of trust as we aim to achieve the ideal.
To this end, we propose the following pathway: for all current and incoming graduate assistants, the University will offer written contracts based upon their appointment letters. From our perspective, these commitments already are binding; nonetheless, we will proceed to document them in a manner that makes clear to all that these contracts obligate the University and are legally enforceable. These contracts will detail the terms described last summer, including:
$1000/year minimum increases in stipends for the 2005-06 academic year (already enacted), as well as 2006-07 and 2007-08, plus the publication each April of the next three year's stipends; continued payment by the University of 100 percent of health care premiums for the comprehensive student health insurance plan; and full tuition remission.
But there is more work to be done, and much of it must be driven by graduate students themselves. Since the beginning of the fall semester, two groups of graduate students have set to work on matters of importance to graduate students generally, and graduate assistants in particular.
The Graduate Student Working Group is crafting a rights-and- responsibilities compact that will provide a basis for defining the relationship between graduate students and the University. The Working Group is also formulating a permanent grievance procedure for graduate students to replace the interim procedures presently in place. Some members of the NYU community have expressed concern about the fairness of a grievance procedure that ends with the Provost, a University official.
While we must await the Working Group's proposals, we are open to any suggestions they may have regarding how members from the academy outside the University might play a role in this process.
The Graduate Affairs Committee of the Student Senators Council has also started to address economic and benefit issues affecting graduate students in general and GAs in particular. Again, we must see what this group proposes; were it, however, to offer a new mechanism that would enable graduate assistantselected at the department level to act as representatives of all GAs in annual discussions of stipend levels, health care benefits, and other matters of importance, we would embrace that as part of our university governance procedures.
Lastly, I wish to talk about the strike.
Many GAs have continued teaching, others have taught at off-campus locations, and still others have not been teaching. I believe that those striking have been acting out of conscience. Though I fervently disagree with their decision not to teach, I do not think they made this choice lightly. But however strongly felt a graduate assistant's act of conscience may be, it should not be pursued any longer at the expense of undergraduates.
So far, those who have been on strike have been able to act out of conscience without experiencing consequences for their actions; instead, the burdens have fallen on departments, faculty, and, in particular, our undergraduates. Because graduate assistants are also our students, those on strike have continued to receive their stipends, they have continued to receive free tuition, and they have continued to receive free health insurance.
Their points have been made and heard. The time has come for the University to insist that the academic needs of its undergraduates be met. All of us should share a deep commitment to meeting these needs. Those undergraduates in classes affected by the strike are understandably anxious about the disruption to their studies. Such disruption must not continue. I thank those who have been teaching, and I ask those who have not to return to the classroom.
For those graduate assistants who resume teaching and other assistantship assignments by Monday, December 5th (or the first class meeting thereafter) at the assigned times and places, and who fulfill all assigned responsibilities for the remainder of the semester, including grading, there will be no consequences. These GAs will be eligible for teaching and other assignments by the department for the spring semester. This amnesty represents a balance between our respect for the principled positions of those choosing to strike and our obligation to undergraduates, who have a right to complete their semester?s work and experience no disruption in their courses next semester.
Because we take both responsibilities seriously, graduate assistants who do not resume their duties by December 5 or the first scheduled teaching assignment thereafter while experiencing no consequences for this semester will for the spring semester lose their stipend and their eligibility to teach.
For those graduate assistants who return by December 5th and accept a teaching assignment for the spring, this acceptance comes with the commitment to meet their responsibilities without interruption throughout the spring semester. Absences not approved by the dean will result in suspension from assistantship assignments and loss of stipend for the following two consecutive semesters. Graduating students will be assessed comparably.
None of the striking graduate students will have their ability to continue their own studies affected. In all cases, their tuition and health benefits will remain in place, and where the suspension of stipend would create economic hardship, loans will be provided to students upon their request.
For those who will be satisfied with nothing less than a union, I know it will be a disappointment that the University will not recognize GSOC/UAW as the collective bargaining representatives of NYU?s graduate assistants. I nonetheless hope that we share a goal to make graduate education at NYU better, even if we differ about the vehicle for achieving this, and that we can come together around this goal.
This has been a difficult and rancorous semester. While I do not condone what has been done by those who have been striking, their actions have caused us to take a hard and unflinching look at ourselves and our practices, and these self-examinations will lead to significant, enduring improvements. I hope that in this spirit we can work together to complete the semester and rebuild the trust we need.
John Sexton
Related Links:
Op Ed in NY Daily News by Maggie Clinton, graduate teacher in the history department of New York University
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Tom Sweetnam - 12/12/2005
So internecine bitching and whining within New York University's faculty is President Bush's fault? I had some uneasy suspicions that might the case. I wasn't completely convinced of President Bush's culpability in all of life's miseries at first, but after New York University's faculty blamed Hurricane Katrina on President Bush, and after New York University's faculty blamed the Indian Ocean Tsunami on President Bush, and especially after New York University's faculty blamed the extinction of the dinosaurs on President Bush, well I have to tell you, that pretty much clinched the bastard's guilt in my mind's eye. After all Professor Lemisch, who but a fool could argue with what passes for empirical scholarship in this day and age?
Tom L Cox - 12/5/2005
Form a union go out on strike and be replaced. Welcome to the real world.
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