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A Deanship in Review
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The Law School is a perpetual institution, but it doesn't run itself. People – individuals of extraordinary talent and purpose – are what make it great. So when someone who has helped write the modern history of the Law School prepares to relinquish leadership, his influence on the direction and health of the institution deserves examination.
John Jeffries came to Virginia in 1970 directly from Yale. He became an illustrious member of an illustrious class stocked with future managing partners, general counsel, public servants, and distinguished lawyers. Even then he sowed the seeds of legend. John excelled as a student, a Supreme Court clerk, and, upon returning to Charlottesville, as a master in the classroom. In an age of restlessness and mobility, which has affected law faculties as well as law firms, John's lifelong commitment to the Law School is essential to appreciating his contributions as dean. After three decades as a student and professor, he brought to the job a sensibility, coupled with a singular devotion to his alma mater, that enabled him to order priorities and advance the Law School.
When he took over the front office in 2001, the Law School, by all outward appearances, was settled and strong. What couldn't be seen, and therefore easily explained, was the underlying shift in the Law School's financing. From coast to coast, states had begun defunding higher education to meet other needs. Legislatures were continuing to support public colleges and universities, but they had neither the political will nor the financial ability to fund excellence in higher education. Prior deans had called attention to this trend, and John knew he would have to press for an immediate solution.
State budgets were under enormous pressure at the beginning of this decade. The capital markets had collapsed after the technology bubble burst, and they sank even further after the 9/11 attacks. For Virginia to remain among the nation's elite law schools, it would have to react to the crisis in public funding and remake its relationship with the University. Specifically, the Law School had to put on its own shoulders the cost of providing competitive faculty support and meaningful student financial aid, as well as the expense of maintaining its buildings and grounds. These were essential needs. Realizing new ambitions – such as a law and business program and more generous loan forgiveness – would only add to the burden.
John took them in order, beginning with the foundational issue of the Law School's revenue model. The careful and sensitive process of negotiating financial self-sufficiency was tailored to John's particular gifts. He deeply admires the University and its special place in our national life. Ensuring stability for the Law School had to entail preserving that association and, by extension, our ties to the Commonwealth. Anything less was unacceptable. In the end, financial self-sufficiency accomplished everything the Law School and the University wanted. The Law School was allowed to finance itself and plan with confidence, and the University now had a premier law school that was entirely self-funding but whose governance remained intact.
From there, John organized the Law School around its signature culture and identity. The power of the student experience was the litmus test for improvement. The best initiatives raised the quality of instruction, made the Law School more accessible and attractive to the finest students, and every year produced stronger entering classes, more students in public interest law, and more money for financial aid and loan forgiveness. A closer look at the state of the Law School follows in these pages. We believe you will conclude that, under John's stewardship, Virginia has earned its place as the American ideal in legal education.


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Rosemary Tran: I think one of the best things about studying at the UTS Business School is the passion and the knowledge of all of the lecturers and tutors that you have as part of your degree.
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Moe Sawwas: Most of my lecturers were sort of either involved in the industry or they've been working in the industry for a long time.
Antoine Hermens: So not only have we got a very diverse student population, but we also have a very diverse academic staff area as well, and all of them have one thing in common of course; is they have a very broad range of practical experience - very highly academically qualified as well, and they have a real interest in outcomes - helping students improve their future career options as well.
Brett Whitford: The UTS Business School graduates are excellent to do business with, primarily because they have that blend of educational rigor and outside experience.
Maria Atkinson: I think the key thing that I learned at UTS was holistic thinking, and to understand that nothing is independent, and it's all connected. So we took a lot of theory and applied it in a very pragmatic way, which I could apply to multiple businesses and sectors that I've worked in since.
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This is a two part series on Mount Abu. This post includes some more sight-seeing places at Mount Abu and tips for travelers. See my earlier post on Mount Abu here.
We continued with our leisurely excursions of Mount Abu on Day three.
Like every hill station in India, there were 'points' that offered panoramic views. These included the ubiquitous 'Sunset point', the 'honeymoon point', and Guru Shikhar. I must warn you that though the Sunset point though offered lovely views, was extremely crowded and dirty with people eating and dumping their garbage right where they stood.
Other points of interest include the Mount Abu wildlife sanctuary, a fort 'Achalgarh', and the 'Achleshwar temple'. The Achleshwar Shiva temple built in the 9th century has an idol of the Nandi that is made of five metals and weighs 4 tons. Near the temple is a lake which has the idols of 3 buffaloes which were supposed to be demons in disguise. Legend goes that the lake was once filled with ghee <although I have no clue how that is possible!>
Mount Abu is also the headquarters of the Brahmakumaris spiritual university, an organization that teaches spirituality and meditation. The Brahmakumaris have several centers at Mount Abu that host visitors from all over the world in their residential programs. They also have a fabulous garden with an exquisite display of roses and other flora.
Mount Abu also has a little known museum with several artifacts and sculptures in it not far from the Nakki Lake. However the condition of this museum was not very good. Most of the artifacts were carelessly kept without proper labeling or descriptions. We were the only ones in the museum for quite a while and the caretaker had to literally switch on the lights when we reached there. Inner rooms of the museum (that were open) revealed what must have been ancient artifacts dumped and dust laden. The sheer callousness was apparent in the whole upkeep of the museum and it was quite sad.
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Mount Abu certainly makes for a weekend or an extended weekend excursion. With convenient modes of transport cheaply available to Mount Abu and for local transportation, and hotels to suit all pockets, Mount Abu can certainly be included in a budget travel destination list.
Accommodation – Most resorts and hotels are around the Nakki Lake. For those looking out for boating activities or prefer to be near the market, restaurants etc., there are a large number of hotel options around the lake that would suit all pockets right from Rs 1000 a night to Rs 10,000 a night. We stayed at Hotel Hilltone, which was an excellent resort with good facilities of a garden, game room, swimming pool, and good restaurants. Rooms in several formats were available and the service was quite good. I would highly recommend this resort to families.
Food – Being a tourist destination, most eateries offer a pan India cuisine from South Indian to Punjabi and even Indochinese. However, it was nicer to eat some of the traditional Rajasthani fare of Dal Baati and Churma which was much less unhealthy than the rest. 'Baatis' are baked/roasted tandoor balls of wheat flour dough that are broken up to eat and dipped in warm ghee (clarified butter) with the spicy dal or lentil soup. Churma comprises of broken baatis mixed with ghee and jaggery to make for a simple but delicious dessert. It was funny that the eatery owners on the way called out to us to grace their restaurants exactly when we were out to have our dinner and ceased to call us when we had finished! Another couple of things Mount Abu claimed were famous there was the 'Rabdi' (thickened flavored milk) and the Softy ice-cream. The Softy ice-cream easily available in the market at Mount Abu came in all flavors and toppings and was quite a delight!
Getting around – Tourist taxis are available for about Rs 1,000-1,500 to be rented for a day and they typically show you everything that is to be seen. These taxis can also be shared. There are options of bus tours and jeeps that are quite easy on the pocket too. Bikes can be rented for about Rs 100-500 depending on how much time you want them and the make of the bike. Getting to Abu road station from the top can set you back by Rs 500 in a private taxi or one can opt for the much cheaper shared jeeps that stuff them with passengers for a much smaller amount.
Tourist Information – A Rajasthan tourist information office is situated next to the hotel Hilltone and the police station. One can get information on what to do at Mount Abu, get maps and other information.
Reservations -A train reservation office is also present in the same building as the tourist information office. We booked our return tickets in a Tatkal booking so this office was God-sent to us with the train booking IRCTC site always super slow or down! There are also several tourist offices near the market that can make reservations and transport arrangements for all modes of transport.
To read my first post on the primary two attractions of Mount Abu -click here.


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Monday, February 12, 2007
He gave two reasons. First, according to Ray, it says so in PNAC. PNAC is a neoconservative document, the Project for a New American Century. To Ray it is the Bush Administration's Mein Kampf. Apparently, it says in PNAC that we need a new Pearl Harbor to mobilize Americans, so Ray thinks the September 11, 2001 attacks were done with the Bush administration's knowledge. Osama bin Laden is friends with the Bush family and his family was given a flight out of America after 9/11. Furthermore, Osama was not captured when we invaded Afghanistan (which was done to make the Bush family rich), and we know where Osama is today but we still do not capture him. It all adds up: Bush and Osama are in cahoots.
Second, Bush will bomb Iran because his family is in oil and, as in Afghanistan and Iraq, a war with Iran will make them richer.
A leftist caller agreed with Ray and said (quoting from memory), "The Republicans have made us the bad guys." We're the ones in the black hats now. America is now the worst nation on Earth. (I guess that makes our enemies the good guys. Certainly, they're justified in attacking us if we're initiating force just to make our capitalist elite rich.)
What a movie the leftist version of the war would make! Has Oliver Stone started working on it yet? It's all an evil Republican conspiracy to make themselves rich! These greedy capitalist pigs are willing to send American troops into a meat grinder just so they can make more money.
The people listening to this show are the Democrat base. Ray is hugely popular at Democratic Underground. And these are the people who boast that they are reality based! How many members of Congress do you think agree with all this, but are smart enough not to say it in public? (As I recall, Senator Kennedy did slip and said something about Republicans going to war to get rich.)
It looks to me like a good portion (25%? 30%?) of America cannot think about politics in terms any deeper than a cartoon. Has there ever been a study of the average IQ of Democrat voters?
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Prima facie imbecile, that's my term for those people who I talk with once, and for about five minutes, about any subject requiring mature levels of attention, and who in the course of things reveal themselves to be incapable of meaningful thought. I'd say the proportion approaches 75%, but then again my exposure is skewed by virtue of my profession.
Rather predictably, most of them are positively salivating at the prospect of the Democrat white house, although more than a few are Bush supporters. I'm busy trying to identify what makes them one and not the other since there are certainly few objective reasons.
- Monday, February 12, 2007 at 9:10:00 AM PST
- Dismuke said...
This is a good example of why the Left still terrifies me and why the prospect of the Democrats taking the White House along with both houses of Congress in 2008 sends chills down my spine.
What frightens me is not so much that they actually believe such bizarre nonsense is true but the basis that makes it possible for them to do so: psychological projection.
So the Project for a New American Century says that American will need a new Pearl Harbor to mobilize Americans? I have no idea of the context of the PNAC comment but, heck, I more or less said the same thing myself in my comments to your New World Order thread. Notice how the Left, therefore, finds it to be a totally logical next step that the Republicans would, therefore, manipulate events so that another Pearl Harbor does happen.
On what basis can they do so and actually believe it? How about an understanding of how they themselves would operate in a situation where they had vast amounts of power?
Observe, for example, that it was Bill Clinton and his cronies who, in the days following 9-11, were going around saying how unfair it was that 9-11 happened on Bush's watch and how Clinton was denied such a "defining moment" during his presidency. In other words, had reality been kind to Clinton, he would have had his own Pearl Harbor on which to build a legacy.
As for "greed" and Bush wanting to go to war for oil and make himself and his oil buddies rich - well, it is the Left that is obsessed with money and will not think twice about selling anyone and anything out for it. For example, it was Clinton and Gore who thought nothing of selling military secrets to the Red Chinese and breaking all sorts of other laws in order to raise campaign cash. Remember Hillary Clinton and the bizarre fortune she suddenly made in a matter of months trading cattle futures? It was Leftists who thought nothing about diverting money from a Girls and Boys Club charity subsidized by New York City in order to prop up the Leftist Air America radio network - and it was Left leaning mainstream media outlets who refused to cover the story for weeks after it came out and buried it on the back pages when they were finally forced to. It's John Kerry's kids, not the Bush twins, who refer to their dad's wife as their "step-money."
If you listen to the kook Left at Democratic Underground and people such as that radio host talk about what they would actually like to do if they ever get the power - well, it doesn't take long to see that these people are Stalinists. And the things that you mention in your posting are but a tip of the iceberg in terms of the bizarre accusations made against the Administration.
For example, they talk about Bush and Chaney have utter disregard for the Constitution and are setting up an American version of the KGB for domestic spying on their political enemies. Well, these people ought to know about how secret police such as the KGB operate - their ideologically minded comrades in Cuba, Venezuela and Russia are experts on such matters. And it wasn't the Bush Administration, it was the Clinton Administration that had a scandal involving top secret FBI files of prominent political enemies being discovered in White House offices.
When the Left talks like that, it is more than a case of the pot calling the kettle black. They are baring their souls for all to see. They are able to say such things because they are projecting what they would be inclined to consider doing if they were in political power and had the ideological aims that they think the Republicans have. And they don't even grasp it as an issue of the pot calling the kettle black. In their mind, there is a crucial difference - the Republican's alleged ends are evil while their motives and ends are noble and virtuous and fully justify the use of any means necessary.
It is very interesting how they refer to Bush as "Hitler." That's because they actually are Stalinists and are utterly incapable of conceiving of motives that are different from that which motivates them. So they buy into the notion that Hitler was somehow their polar opposite and, therefore, their enemies must also be Hitler as well - when, in fact, to use Ayn Rand's neat little phrase, Hitler and Stalin were but flip sides of the same coin. They think Bush and Chaney are wanna-be dictators because it is beyond their power to conceive of a person in a position of enormous power who would not want to become a dictator.
If these people ever gain complete control over all branches of our government - well, remember how they what they were willing to stoop to when they were out of power in order to try to win elections that they, in fact, did not win? If they were able to act that way OUT of power - well, imagine what they will do WITH power in order to make sure that something like 1994 never happens again? Whether they will be able to get away with it remains to be seen. But mark my words, if they ever gain full power, they WILL try and give it everything they have. That's why the strategy of Objectivists of voting against Republicans only makes sense to the degree that it results in divided government.
- Monday, February 12, 2007 at 11:02:00 AM PST
A movie has been made of this. Please rent the remake of "The Manchurian Candidate." It is the movie version of the Left's view of the war.
Please see it if you haven't and post on it. Everything about this movie (including the song that goes with the opening credits) screams "down with America." I felt like I needed a shower after seeing it. It was that disgusting. It really is a longer version of Farenheith 9/11.
Bill Visconti
- Monday, February 12, 2007 at 4:40:00 PM PST
- Myrhaf said...
I saw the original with Angela Lansbury. Was there a remake?
- Monday, February 12, 2007 at 8:57:00 PM PST
- Myrhaf said...
Dismuke and K, I agree with everything you write, except that I find it hard to believe that 75% of the people are stupid, or at least stupid enough to believe wacky conspiracy theories.
- Monday, February 12, 2007 at 9:42:00 PM PST
Of the 16 people in my department at work, at least two of them genuinely believe in leftist conspiracy theories. What really stuns me, however, is the ignorance of the youth. I know folks have been saying this for years, but it really is worse with the latest generations emerging from public schools. They have no idea - literally none - of what is going on around them.
My sincerest hope in regards to them is that they simply never vote or express a political opinion in any way. It's the best I think we can hope for.
- Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at 1:54:00 AM PST
Oh no, the proportion of those who believe in conspiracy theories is about exactly the same as Inspector. I also have 16 people in my department and 3 believe in that rubbish. The rest are just your garden variety ignorant.
The young, I don't even want to get started on that...
As for my figure of 75%, well it is a view partly skewed like I said by the nature of my employment. For example, it is standard practice for us to issue a literacy test to applicants.
- Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at 5:28:00 AM PST
- Dismuke said...
Moments after I read Inspector and Kriegsgegahrzustand's comments, I checked my inbox and someone sent me the following joke. It immediately made me think of the people that they were talking about:
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A Must Read Joke!
A man walked into a very high-tech restaurant in a fancy hotel.
As he waited to be seated, he noticed that the Maitre D' was a robot.
The robot clicked to attention and said, "Sir, there is a one hour
And I am programmed to converse with you until a table is ready, If
Intrigued, the man said, "OK."
The robot clicked a couple more times and then asked, "Sir, what is
The man answered, "Oh, about 164."
The robot then proceeded to discuss the theory of relativity,
space travel, the latest medical breakthroughs, etc . .
The man was most impressed. The next day he returned, But thought he
try a different tack.
The robot again asked, "What is your IQ, sir?" This time the man
"Oh, about 100".
So the robot started discussing NASCAR racing, the latest basketball
Scores,and what to expect the Red Sox to do this weekend.
The guy had to try it one more time. So the next day he returned.
Again the robot asked the question, "What is your IQ?"
This time the man drawled out, " Uh.....'bout 50."
The robot clicked, then leaned close and very slowly asked,
"A-r-e?? y-o-u-r?? p-e-o-p-l-e?? g-o-i-n-g?? t-o
- Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at 10:48:00 AM PST
I should also point out that I live in Chicago draw what conclusions you will from that.
- Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at 11:03:00 AM PST
The remake was made in 2004 and stars Merryl Streep and Denzel Washington. In the original, the Commies were the bad guys. In this version, we are. But you should see it because it depicts perfectly the way the Left sees this war. And, of course, Islam is non-existent.
Bill Visconti
- Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at 5:14:00 PM PST
By the way,
"Prima facie imbecile."
That's good. I was laughing for a bit on that one.
And the robot, that's good too. Especially the way it t-a-l-k-s s-l-o-w-l-y.
As for Chicago, well, from my admittedly limited experience there, it really seems like a lot of its denizens, even the wealthy ones, are stuck in some kind of permanent childhood. They're more mature in some ways than suburbanites but in other ways much, much less so. It's hard to describe. How can one be hard-headed and decadently soft at the same time? Some day I'll figure that one out.
- Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 1:53:00 AM PST
- EdMcGon said...
I have to disagree with you somewhat. In the remake, Meryl Streep played Hillary Clinton perfectly. And Streep's character was NOT sympathetic.
BTW, I thought the original was MUCH better, mostly because Angela Lansbury was so deliciously evil. In her prime, Lansbury was a far better actress than Streep can ever hope to be.
- Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 4:32:00 AM PST
- madmax said...
Here is an Objectivist review of the movie that I agree with:
I actually think that Merryl Streep's character was intended to be a Republican. The whole plot revolved around (to use a phrase) the "military-industrial complex" with Manchurian Global being the movie version of Haliburton. It fits in with the Left's view of the world perfectly.
- Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 8:28:00 PM PST
- Myrhaf said...
Some people argue that Hollywood only cares about money. That is not true. Why has a phenomenal best-seller like Atlas Shrugged gone 50 years without a movie version? Why don't we see movies with Islamic terrorists as bad guys? Why is that movies used to call Germans and Japanese "krauts" and "japs" but we will never hear a movie soldier say, "Let's go kill some ragheads"? Why are businessmen and corporations almost always evil? Why did the Dixie Chicks win five Grammys?
- Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 10:46:00 PM PST
- madmax said...
"Some people argue that Hollywood only cares about money. That is not true."
Great point. Hollywood would fight against such pro-American projects tooth and nail because it conflicts with their dedication to altruism. As you repeatedly remind us, the Left considers themselves moral and superior because they are committed altruists. If they were to make pro-American, pro-egoist movies, they would lose their moral superiority in their eyes. They wouldn't do that even for money.
It would take a cultural revolution and survival pressure to change Hollywood. Such is not even remotely possible for the short-term future.
- Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 1:27:00 PM PST
I agree on Hollywood. But I think that even if some studio wanted to portray muslims as villians and were to make a great movie depicting such, the film would still probably fail for a number reasons. First, the distributors would probably pull the movie because of fear of offending muslims and their leftist soulmates. Second, I think that all a muslim would have to do was bomb or threaten to bomb a movie theatre playing the film. Who would come to the movie's defense? It would be shunned.
We live under a death threat imposed by Islam and our own government is complicit in that they wouldn't lift a finger to defend our freedom of speech from muslim aggression. That is how much we have lost.
Bill Visconti
- Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 3:43:00 PM PST
- Dismuke said...
Madmax wrote:
"It would take a cultural revolution and survival pressure to change Hollywood. Such is not even remotely possible for the short-term future."
Actually, I hold out optimism that "Hollywood," at least as we know it, won't even exist in the not too distant future and will find itself as an economic and technological dinosaur.
It is not as far fetched as you might think. How many people can even name the old big four coast-to-coast radio networks? Two don't even exist anymore and modern incarnation of one will very soon be sold and exist in name only.
Remember the power once enjoyed by the Big Three television networks? Remember how influential their evening newscasts were? My understanding is that the ads sold on those newscasts today are mostly for laxities and denture cream which tells you something about who watches them. I say "my understanding" because the only time I have watched one in recent years was to tune in briefly to gloat and bid a fond "good riddance" to Dan Rather.
Remember the record industry? It still exists but only as a shell of its former self and having to rely on court battles as the only way of preserving some economic reason for its existence. I am not, by the way, talking about illegal downloads so much as its attempts to destroy emerging media venues such as Internet radio which remove the economic barriers to entry that have helped it maintain its ability to promote its artists much more effectively than artists who are with an independent label or who produce their own recordings. Besides their current ability to create hits by promoting music to a handful of FM stations, who needs the recording industry anymore? There are a number of companies here in Fort Worth/Dallas alone who will manufacture CDs for you. It is not uncommon for people to have recording studios in their garage and there are several professional grade studios in any city that one can rent by the hour. CD retail stores are dying very quickly with the biggest market for CDs now being those over 30. ANYONE with intermediate computer skills can upload and distribute music via a website. All of these things - production, manufacturing and distribution - at one time had very high economic barriers to entry and gave the big record labels a reason to exist.
I think the same factors are eventually going to impact and knock down Hollywood.
Traditionally, it has required a small fortune to produce even a low budget picture. But technology is lowering the costs of production and the economic barriers to entry in that area as well. As this process continues to happen, more and more independent films targeted towards more specialized audiences will become viable. These days, Hollywood makes more money off of DVD sales than it does box office receipts. But DVDs don't cost much money to manufacture - and we are slowly getting to the point where movies will be distributed through the Internet which is even less expensive.
Sure, independent films will not have the polish and glitzy special effects that a large budget film will have. But which would you rather watch - a low budget version of The Fountainhead with talented but no-name actors and is true to the book or a film with lots of modern garbage running through but with spectacular and expensive special effects?
As soon as it becomes possible to make a profit by putting out a movie with a target audience of, let's say, less than 200,000 people, eventually people will begin to make such movies. And such movies will catch on in a very big way with their previously overlooked and entertainment starved intended audiences.
In some very small respects, this is starting to happen already. Recently NBC announced it is cutting its budget for dramatic television programs in order to invest in Internet programming. It stated as one of its reasons the fact that the popularity of YouTube is cutting into television viewership. Have you ever seen the production quality of most YouTube videos? Yuck. And they are less than 10 minutes in length. Yet they are stealing viewers from television productions with budgets in the millions of dollars.
Some television networks are now having success by offering their programing as on-demand streams off their websites. Here, too, is an instance of the public being willing to forego technological quality - in this case, for convenience. And, for now, these online streams help the networks as well because such viewers actually tend to watch the commercials. But don't the networks realize that they are actually participating in the process of their eventual destruction? Once most homes have fiber and can watch Internet video in the same quality as they can now with cable, why on earth would the producers of a soap opera or a sitcom need the websites of NBC, CBS or ABC? They could stream the program just as easily from their own websites. Why would there even be a need for a television network at all in a world of on-demand streams of programs?
This is the world that Hollywood is going to have to deal with in the future and it will open it up to all sorts of competition that it has never seen in its almost 100 year old history.
One of the things that does give me grounds for optimism in the future is what I see as the very possible end of what we have come to know as mass market popular culture that I think will result from all of this. The phenomenon of mass culture only goes back to around the 1910s and gained momentum with the advent of national radio networks in the late 1920s.
For decades, pretty much everybody across the country and even, to some degree, abroad, all watched more or less the the same television programs, the same movies, the same newscasts, read the same wire reports in the papers, listened to the same music, etc. Since all of these things were enormously expensive to produce, competition was limited. There were four radio networks and three television networks. There was a small handful of Hollywood studios. Even during the boom years of the 1920s, there were only about a dozen companies that recorded music. During the Depression, that was down to three. Since the 1950s, there have been lots of independent labels thus making it possible to buy a very wide variety of music. But, during that same period, popular success has been largely based on the ability to get air play on a relatively small handful of major AM and later FM stations.
Since the advent of mass media, the technical quality of its output has gone up and the aesthetic and journalistic value has gone down by more or less the same degree. Part of this, of course, has to do with the philosophical decline of the wider culture. But I think there are other factors at play that also enhance that trend. The economic barriers to entry tends to concentrate competition to a very small handful of players who tend to remain the same from decade to decade and their need to appeal to as wide an audience as possible, I think, creates risk adversiveness and opportunities for "orthodoxies" to develop. The need to appeal to the widest audience possible, I think, leads one down a certain logical path towards appealing towards an ever lower intellectual common denominator.
All of that has been under assault since the advent of cable TV in the 1980s and has accelerated since the advent of the Internet.
I think mass media popular culture is going to be replaced by countless numbers of subcultures each of which will be able to support their own full fledged music, entertainment and news venues. People will tend to participate in the two or three subcultures which most appeal to them - as I already do with the subcultures of Objectivists and early 1900s enthusiasts that are beginning to emerge online - and they will occasionally sample entertainment and informational offerings from other subcultures as well.
Eventually, I think you will see the results of this segmentation into smaller subcultures manifest itself in the attitude and manners of the people you encounter in real life. Once these subcultures become more defined, it will be easier and less expensive to market towards them, which will result in even more specialized product and entertainment offerings.
In the end, I think what young people will experience is not so much competition between media outlets and movie studios for their attention but rather competition between a great many viable subcultures competing for their imagination and loyalty. Of course, some of these subcultures are going to be very horrible and worse than what we see today in mainstream venues. But excellent subcultures will also be economically viable - and, I think in head-to-head competition, the best will ultimately win out. And, of course, what will define the identity of the various subcultures that will emerge to replace the mass media culture will be the wider ideas that animate them. And, for those like us who have better ideas to promote, I think this will be enormously beneficial.
Bottom line is I think the day where the ability of a handful of Ellsworth Tooheys to worm their way to positions of power in major media organizations and manipulate public opinion and the thinking of millions is drawing to a close. The Tooheys of the world will find themselves having to preach to their own choirs. Nor will everything be run by Gail Wynand types who measure success by the degree that they sell their souls to the mob. Those perceived (rightly or wrongly) as "sell outs" don't fare very well with specialized audiences - and my guess is Bob Tracinski, for example, could say a thing or two about that right now.
The impending death of the mass media and what I speculate will replace it is, of course, all made possible by recent technological advances and represents what I think is the most remarkable and exiting development in my lifetime. And I do think it gives rational people with good taste grounds for hope and optimism. In this sort of world, Hollywood will be a dinosaur - and perhaps that aspiring Objectivist writer with the really great and powerful screenplay sitting in a desk drawer will actually have a chance to see it produced.
- Friday, February 16, 2007 at 5:29:00 AM PST
Wow! What a perceptive and fascinating post! Thanks so much for sharing your views.
Bill Visconti
- Friday, February 16, 2007 at 2:22:00 PM PST
- Myrhaf said...
In the same amount of time, Dismuke could turn a comment like that into a blog post, but he doesn't want to blog. Which is fine, I can certainly understand anyone who is worried about the time commitment of a blog. Believe me, I worry about it myself. Every minute I spend on this blog is a minute I didn't spend playwriting.
- Friday, February 16, 2007 at 4:28:00 PM PST
Bill - Thanks for your very nice comment.
Myrhaf -
"In the same amount of time, Dismuke could turn a comment like that into a blog post, but he doesn't want to blog."
But actually, it would take me a lot more time. I think the points I made were interesting enough - otherwise, I wouldn't have made them. On the other hand, my posting is very long winded - and that is very typical of me both in person and when I write. And, as lengthy as it is, when I was writing it, I had to stop myself from going down a couple of other tangents that I thought were interesting and would be fun to explore. If I were to publish it for a wider audience, well, it would need a bit of editing down and to be brought into a sharper focus. And that is why it would not take the same amount of time.
I can type out such "stream of consciousness" type postings of whatever happens to be on my mind fairly quickly. But editing for me is a very slow and almost painful process. And it is even more difficult to do immediately after I just finished writing my draft - my brain is in the same long-winded mindset as when I wrote it. If I came back to it the next day, I would have a much easier time of editing it. But that significantly adds to the time it takes to turn it out.
Such postings are ok for message boards and blog comments - and even then, I sometimes get sharply criticized for being too long winded.
The other factor is that it is much easier to respond to someone else's posting within the context of that posting or other postings in a message board thread. If I were to have a blog, I would have to initiate the topic of discussion and it would be up to me to provide the wider context.
Providing context brings up another issue: who would be the blog's intended audience? Would it be aimed towards an Objectivist audience? If not - well, I would not be able to use the blog to post what's on my mind with regard to Objectivism simply because many of my readers would have little knowledge or interest in what I am talking about. And if I were to aim my postings towards an Objectivist audience - well, quite frankly, I go through periods when I temporarily become somewhat "anti-intellectual" and simply wish to live strictly in the moment and not even think about ideas and worry about what is wrong with the world and the direction it is going. I have to take an occasional vacation from that kind of stuff or else I would probably go bonkers. Sometimes that phase lasts a couple of days - sometimes it lasts a few months. For me to write about issues of interest to Objectivists during such a phase would be an enormous chore for me.
Also, if I blogged and wished to build up a readership (which I would) I would need to post on at least a semi-regular basis. And, if I had nothing on my mind that I really wanted to share - well, keeping it up-to-date would become a chore. As things are right now, as much as I love presenting vintage music on my website and through my online station, sometimes I simply don't feel like working on it - but I do so anyway because it is a long term project that I value. If I were to blog and were to take the blog seriously, I would need to have the same approach towards it and write when I don't feel like writing - and when one is in that position, writing IS time consuming.
Message board postings and blog comments provide me the best of all worlds. There are boards out there where most of what is on my mind is more or less on topic. Since it is informal, I don't have to worry too much about editing or being too long winded so long as I don't make a total ass of myself in that regard. And if I am not in the mood to post - well, I don't have to and the audience for that board will still be intact for the next time I do feel like posting.
One of the things I value about posting online is the ability to interact with other interesting people. Of course, I would still have that if I were to blog. But the role I would be in would be somewhat changed. I would basically be the host and I would need to act in a manner somewhat different than if I were just one of many regular members. I run a message board that is associated with my website and radio station - and, oddly enough, I rarely post there. As host, I don't think it would be appropriate for me to speak my mind about certain things to the degree I would if I were just a regular member and the people I was interacting with were not my guests.
I have no doubt that if I were willing to put in enough time, effort and mental focus, I could put out a very interesting and certainly unique sort of blog. I just have too much on my plate as it is - and I am soon to have even more if I can ever get certain things to come to fruition.
Anyhow - see what I mean about being long winded and tangential? Since this is but a blog comment, all I have ahead of me is to spell check it and give it a quick read through to at least make sure what I wrote makes sense. If I were posting my own blog - well, I would at least have to edit it some more and might very well end up throwing it out and starting from scratch.
- Friday, February 16, 2007 at 9:52:00 PM PST


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With what we know now, some of Robin's pictures are related to the Alexandres and not to the Bleaus.
This is who I believe is Marie Elmire Alexandre.
This young woman could be another daughter of Jean-Baptiste Alexandre and Philomène Lagacé.
Could be?
We have some pictures of someone who is identified as Aunt Mary Alexander in Robin's collection.
Mary was never married.
She was born Marie Elmire Alexandre on March 27, 1881.
This I know for sure.
I have her birth certificate.
I think Joe once told me that she went by the name of Mary.
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If the captions are right, Mary is on the left in the back row.
Her sister Agnes Alexandre is in the picture with her daughter Sylvia Bleau and her granddaughter Sylvia Combe.
This is the original picture Robin had.
She said it was sad to have the names right on the picture.
So I did a little editing in my spare time…
Now maybe we have identified one more of Jean-Baptiste Alexandre's daughter in Robin's photo collection… Aunt Mary Alexander.
Mary never married so she had no descendants to search for her.
But that does not deter me a bit to talk about Aunt Mary.
As a footnote, Robin contacted some relatives.
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I finally understand why Jack and Meg White named their band what they did. They were offering a prescient and forward-thinking warning to cyclists! The White Stripes were a cycling advocacy band! Amazing!ReplyDelete
Six inches of paint doesn't equal three feet of roadway.ReplyDelete
Ditto on the crosswalks. Did you see that a pedestrian was hit this morning at Penn and 9th? She was still in the crosswalk and a fire truck and various personnel were there when I went through at about 7.30 this morning.ReplyDelete
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ENGLISH 48N: The American Songbook and Love Poetry (AMSTUD 48N)
A study of performances (Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra etc) of songs by classic American composers (Porter, Rogers and Hart, Cohen).
Last offered: Winter 2019 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
ENGLISH 51N: The Sisters: Poetry & Painting (ARTHIST 160N)
Poetry and painting have often been called the "sister arts". Why? Sometimes a poem or a painting stands out to us, asking that we stay with it, that we remember it, although we cannot exactly say why. Poems have a way of making pictures in the mind, and paintings turn "rhymes" amid the people, places, and things they portray. Each is a concentrated world, inviting an exhilarating closeness of response: why does this line come first? Why does the artist include that detail? Who knows but that as we write and talk about these poems and pictures we will be doing what John Keats said a painter does: that is, arriving at a "trembling delicate and snail-horn perception of Beauty." Each week explore the kinship between a different pair of painter and poet and also focuses on a particular problem or method of interpretation. Some of the artist/poet combinations we will consider: Shakespeare and Caravaggio; Jorie Graham and (the photographer) Henri Cartier-Bresson; Alexander Pope and Thomas Gainsborough; William Wordsworth and Caspar David Friedrich; Christina Rossetti and Mary Cassatt; Walt Whitman and Thomas Eakins; Thomas Hardy and Edward Hopper.
Last offered: Winter 2018 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 60N: Living on the Edge: Language and Landscape of the Western Fringes
What does it feel like to live on the edge, facing an expanse between you and the next place? Who has lived on the Western fringes of Britain and America? Who has named, formed, and been inspired by that land? Whose voices are silenced in the (re)making of a place? Shaping the landscape through the words we use or the features we build is as old as recorded time and, in this seminar, we'll investigate how the land is imagined, defined, settled, and delimited throughout history, with particular reference to western Britain and California. We'll focus on specific elements in the landscape Water, Hill, Tree, Stone, and Border looking at a sequence of locations through historical, archaeological, placename, literary, and artistic analyses. Students will produce place-name studies; the depictions of landscape through creative work (poetry, prose, non-fiction, song, or picture) on three fieldtrips; and close readings of literary descriptions of landscape. Among the authors study will be John Muir, John Steinbeck, Edward Thomas, Linda Noel, Dylan Thomas, and Gwyneth Lewis.
Last offered: Spring 2019 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 68N: Mark Twain and American Culture (AMSTUD 68N)
Preference to freshmen. Mark Twain defined the rhythms of our prose and the contours of our moral map. He recognized our extravagant promise and stunning failures, our comic foibles and tragic flaws. He is viewed as the most American of American authors--and as one of the most universal. How does his work illuminate his society's (and our society's) responses to such issues as race, gender, technology, heredity vs. environment, religion, education, art, imperialism, animal welfare, and what it means to be "American"?
Last offered: Autumn 2018 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
ENGLISH 72N: Serial Storytelling
"TV's Lost Weekends," a recent headline says, referring to the modern habit of binge-watching television shows. Such news stories debate the right way to watch TV. They also echo longstanding arguments about how to read books. This course juxtaposes contemporary television with classic serial novels in order to explore different ways of experiencing longform narratives. How do we read or watch when we're forced to wait before the next episode---or, conversely, given the opportunity to binge?
Last offered: Winter 2019 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 75N: American Short Stories (AMSTUD 75N)
How and why did the short story take root and flourish in an American context? Early works of classic American literature read alongside stories by women and minority writers, stretching from the early nineteenth century to the contemporary period.
Last offered: Autumn 2017 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 76: After the Apocalypse
What happens after the world, as we know it, has ended? In the course of examining classic and newer speculative fictional narratives detailing the ravages of various post-apocalyptic societies and the challenges those societies pose to the survivors, we explore several related questions: What is an apocalypse? What resources does speculative fiction offer for understanding and responding to oppressive societies? Where does the idea of the apocalypse originate? Is an apocalypse always in the future? Or has it already occurred? For whom might apocalypse constitute an ongoing present? In this course, we use the tools of close reading and historical criticism to build an archive of knowledge about the narrative, visual, and aural features of apocalypse. Students will be guided through the creation of a multimedia portfolio over the course of the quarter, for presentation at the end. No written midterm or final exam.
Last offered: Spring 2017 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
ENGLISH 79N: The Renaissance: Culture as Conflict
Focus is on the Renaissance not as a cultural rebirth but as a scene of cultural conflict. Course materials are selected from Renaissance art, history, philosophy, politics, religion, and travel writing; authors include More, Luther, Erasmus, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Montaigne, Shakespeare. Among the conflicts we will explore are: old (world)/new (world), wealth/poverty, individual/collectivity, manuscript/print, religion/secularism, Catholicism/Protestantism, monarchism/republicanism, femininity/masculinity, heterosexuality/homosexuality.
Last offered: Autumn 2018 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 80N: Modern "Meanings of Life": Aestheticism, Perfectionism, Ecstasy
This course asks about the "meaning of life" in our time, the 21st century, and over the past 200 years. It proposes that some classic reasons for living, and modes of giving value to life, ethics, religion, family are no longer particularly active; while new, poorly articulated and ill-acknowledged systems of life-evaluation rule our senses of meaning. In particular, the course will discover, try to systematize, and then test a few of these covert modern life philosophies: aestheticism; perfectionism; ecstasy. Representatives of more classic systems of meaning Christian experience, and Aristotelian ethics will offer comparative cases. Students will be challenged to articulate and evaluate their own reasons for living and anticipated meanings of life, and to become skillful interpreters of both art and ideas in texts, learning methods from literature, philosophy, and history. They should also develop richer and more precise understandings of those contested terms, modern and modernity. Readings may include Wordsworth, Thoreau, Flaubert, Aristotle, Thomas à Kempis, Theresa of Avila, Whitman, Dickinson, Sontag, plus contemporary sources.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
Instructors: Greif, M. (PI)
2019-2020 Winter
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UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ER |
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
| Students enrolled: 9 / 16
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Tue, Thu 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM at 200-202 with Greif, M. (PI)
Instructors: Greif, M. (PI)
Notes: Introductory Seminar. Preference to first-year students; sophomores admitted if space available. Advance sign-up process and deadlines at http://introsems.stanford.edu.
ENGLISH 81: Philosophy and Literature (CLASSICS 42, COMPLIT 181, FRENCH 181, GERMAN 181, ILAC 181, ITALIAN 181, PHIL 81, SLAVIC 181)
What, if anything, does reading literature do for our lives? What can literature offer that other forms of writing cannot? Can fictions teach us anything? Can they make people more moral? Why do we take pleasure in tragic stories? This course introduces students to major problems at the intersection of philosophy and literature. It addresses key questions about the value of literature, philosophical puzzles about the nature of fiction and literary language, and ways that philosophy and literature interact. Readings span literature, film, and philosophical theories of art. Authors may include Sophocles, Dickinson, Toni Morrison, Proust, Woolf, Walton, Nietzsche, and Sartre. Students master close reading techniques and philosophical analysis, and write papers combining the two. This is the required gateway course for the Philosophy and Literature major tracks. Majors should register in their home department.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors: Holliday, J. (PI) ; Hoyos, H. (PI) ; Parmer, W. (TA) ... more instructors for ENGLISH 81 »
Instructors: Holliday, J. (PI) ; Hoyos, H. (PI) ; Parmer, W. (TA) ; Soler, C. (TA) ; Therieau, M. (TA)
2019-2020 Winter
3-5 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II |
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
| Students enrolled: 5
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Mon, Wed 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM at 260-113 with Holliday, J. (PI); Hoyos, H. (PI); Parmer, W. (TA); Soler, C. (TA); Therieau, M. (TA)
Exam Date/Time: 2020-03-17 8:30am - 11:30am (Exam Schedule)
Instructors: Holliday, J. (PI); Hoyos, H. (PI); Parmer, W. (TA); Soler, C. (TA); Therieau, M. (TA)
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Post-Lakers, Antawn Jamison approaching free agency with caution
Antawn Jamison doesn't regret his decision to join the Los Angeles Lakers as a free agent.
He admits that, based on the team they had on paper in 2012-13, the Lakers didn't live up to their full potential. Looking back, he knows that they had too many issues to remain focused and too many injuries to remain intact.
Still, he values the experience. That doesn't mean he won't be more careful in picking his next free agency destination, though.
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Jamison said he will definitely tread more cautiously through this latest decision on his NBA future. As he did when he chose to sign a one-year veteran's minimum deal with the Lakers last summer, Jamison has suitors. The Bulls, Clippers, Grizzlies and Bobcats have all showed interest in the 37-year-old free agent, who believes he has a couple more years left of competing at a high level.
"I think last year, getting the opportunity to play for the Lakers and their organization, I really jumped into it," Jamison said. "Didn't really view my options, but this year I really want to make sure I'm going to the right situation, where I have a good rapport with the coaching staff and also with management I'm able to communicate and get an understanding of what they want from me.
"Because it looks good on paper doesn't mean it's the perfect fit, so I really want to make sure the next team I go to, whether it's a one- or two-year deal, that it's a really good fit and we have a understanding with each other as well. That's why you really have to take your time and key into what's best not just for me but for my family as well."
Jamison was outspoken about problems he had in Los Angeles, namely the lack of playing time he saw under coach Mike D'Antoni. His numbers were at their worst since his rookie season, but that was more about playing time than injury. Jamison averaged 9.4 points and 4.8 rebounds last season. By contrast, his career numbers average out at 18.8 points and 7.6 rebounds.
But Jamison, who comes off as a nice guy, didn't want to throw former teammates or coaches under the bus. He referred to most of the rumblings surrounding last year's Lakers as "nonsense", making sure not to implicate any one person or isolate any one incident.
He used similar language when he talked about free agency, saying he wants to enjoy basketball and have fun much more often than he mentioned money or individual numbers. So, the question had to be asked: Was playing in Los Angeles fun?
"It was fun," Jamison said. "There was just a lot of unnecessary nonsense that really prevented us from accomplishing what we could have accomplished. Of course you can't do anything with injuries and the coaches being fired..."
Then Jamison tapered off, leaving his sentence unfinished.
"You see it," he said. "Every week there was something new."
As a veteran player whose accomplished nearly everything short of winning an NBA title, Jamison doesn't want to play for a team with an ever-changing dynamic. He's want stability and he wants to win.
"I made the money, accomplished a lot of things individually," Jamison said. "I have a couple years left where I can compete night in and night out and really have an opportunity to enjoy basketball and not dealing with losses and other nonsense. I just want to have fun and be a part of something special."


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It's another very special day in the CU movement today….
The very first credit union was established 100 years ago today in Manchester, New Hampshire. It's called St. Mary's Bank, and you can visit the place where the U.S. branch of the movement started on that same spot in what is now America's Credit Union Museum. I've been there several times, and trust me, if you are at all passionate about the movement, you need to visit the mecca and see and feel where it all began… the mill where the first members worked (mostly French Canadians who came south from Quebec in search of a better life) is still two blocks down the hill from that house.
Here's an article that CUNA ran today.
I think it's very appropriate that this day often falls on Thanksgiving. It's a great time to give thanks to our country, our employers, our members, our families, our friends. So I'll take this moment to give thanks to the thousands of credit union professionals who make EverythingCU the outstanding community that it is.
What is your credit union doing to celebrate this historic occasion? What does the future look like for credit unions for the next one hundred years?
Tags: 100, 100 years, America's Credit Union Museum, centennial, credit unions, Manchester, New Hampshire, NH, St. Mary's Bank, Thanksgiving


text: The Daily Record has named John Racanelli, CEO of National Aquarium, to the 2013 Maryland's Most Admired CEOs List. A passionate advocate for the ocean, Racanelli is immersed in the pursuit of the Aquarium's nonprofit mission to inspire conservation of the world's aquatic treasures. As CEO, he strives to drive conservation action worldwide, ensure the success of one of the nation's leading aquarium enterprises and fundamentally change the way the world views the ocean and aquatic systems. More than 1.5 million people annually visit the Aquarium's venues in Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, DC, while millions more are touched by the Aquarium's education programs, outreach activities, social media campaigns and conservation initiatives. Racanelli joined National Aquarium in July 2011 after 10 years as president of Racanelli Partners, Inc. The San Francisco-based consulting firm served the needs of nonprofit leaders nationally and globally, focusing on cultural and conservation organizations including Mission Blue/Sylvia Earle Alliance, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the Surfrider Foundation. Prior to founding his firm, John spent 16 years in leadership positions at U.S. aquariums. He was the first CEO of the Florida Aquarium in Tampa. He also served for nine years on the leadership team of the world-renowned Monterey Bay Aquarium as its vice-president of marketing and development, joining the aquarium a year before its opening. The winners of The Daily Record Most Admired CEOs List were selected based on several criteria: leadership and vision; competitiveness and innovation; community leadership and service; financial performance and growth; corporate leadership; and board service and nonprofit involvement. In addition, each nominee submitted a letter of recommendation from a current staff member and at least one letter from a nonprofit or other board on which the CEO serves. Nominees were evaluated based on company size and broken down into six categories: private companies with 150 or more employees; private companies with 51 to 149 employees; private companies with 50 or fewer employees; public companies; nonprofits with more than $10 million in annual revenue; and nonprofits with less than $10 million in annual revenue. The Daily Record created Maryland's Most Admired CEOs List in 2012 to recognize business executives who have excelled professionally and serve their communities. "This year's class of The Daily Record's Maryland's Most Admired CEOs share numerous leadership traits. Those traits include integrity, values, vision and commitment to excellence as well as service within their communities," said Suzanne Fischer-Huettner, publisher of The Daily Record. "The honorees know they cannot succeed by themselves and have learned the value of surrounding themselves with great team members." A group of nine judges, including eight who received the 2012 Maryland's Most Admired CEO honor, selected 26 winners to the 2013 Maryland's Most Admired CEOs List. The winners will be honored Sept. 19 at a cocktail reception at the Hilton Baltimore BWI Airport. They will be profiled in a special magazine to be included in the Sept. 20 edition of The Daily Record. The Daily Record For 125 years, The Daily Record Company has provided trusted legal and business information to Maryland readers. In addition to the daily newspaper published five days a week, The Daily Record publishes its website, www.TheDailyRecord.com; six blogs, On the Record, Eye on Annapolis, Maryland Business, Movers and Shakers, Generation JD and Small Biz Buzz; four e-newsletters, TDR Insider, Real Estate Weekly, TDR Auction Notices and Best Practices; and a variety of special publications on topics of interest to Maryland business and legal professionals. The Daily Record also honors leading Marylanders through eight annual awards events: Maryland's Top 100 Women, Influential Marylanders, 20 in Their Twenties, VIP List, Maryland's Most Admired CEOs, Innovator of the Year, Leadership in Law and Leading Women. The Daily Record is owned by The Dolan Co., trading as DM, of Minneapolis, Minn. Categories:


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TOKYO (AP) -- Toyota's global sales for the first nine months of the year reached 7.41 million vehicles, little changed from the previous year but outpacing General Motors to keep its lead as the world's top-selling automaker.
Detroit-based GM said earlier this month that its global sales for January through September totaled 7.25 million vehicles, up 4.6 percent from a year earlier.
Toyota's vehicle sales for the first three quarters inched up 0.1 percent.
Germany's Volkswagen AG sold just over 7 million vehicles worldwide during the nine months, making it a close third. Volkswagen's global sales increased almost 5 percent during that period from last year.
Toyota Motor Corp. said Monday that it sold about 2.5 million cars, trucks and buses in the July-September quarter, led by overseas growth.
GM had the global sales throne for seven decades before losing the title to Toyota in 2008. GM retook the crown in 2011, when Toyota's plants were slowed by an earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan that damaged suppliers of parts.
Toyota has since recovered and was at the top again last year.
Although the maker of the Camry sedan, Prius hybrid and Lexus luxury models is likely to stay the top selling automaker for the whole year, competition with GM and VW remains intense.
GM and VW are growing in China, but Toyota's sales have suffered there because of anti-Japanese sentiment that flared up last year over territorial disputes.
Toyota's growth came largely from strong sales in the U.S., where its Camry, Corolla and Tundra were popular, the company said.
Toyota's nine-month sales number includes heavy trucks made by its group company Hino Motors, which sold 119,000 vehicles, up nearly 3 percent from the previous year.
The competition gets even tighter when such models, not in GM's lineup, are excluded from Toyota's tally.
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When I was working with Vittorio Castelli, Columbia University Professor and Xerox Senior Research Fellow, I observed, listened, and always learned. His understanding and insight brought fundamental design principles to light in both what existed and what was yet to be.
For over 30 years, Rino, as he was known to all, guided and inspired me and others as a mentor, educator, and inventor with unbounded energy and passion. Mentoring is a key element in fostering innovation. Each one of us can be that mentor for a young engineer or student. What are these fundamental design principles, and how can they become ingrained in an individual?
When viewing an existing design or creating a concept to solve a need, fundamental principles as images will guide the designer to achieve what was thought impossible. As breadth of knowledge has been continuously traded for depth of knowledge, awareness of these principles has diminished. Here is a top ten list with brief explanations, many from the works of A. Slocum and J. Skakoon:
1. Laws of nature. Predict before you build! Understanding the basic laws of nature is essential to know the fundamental limitations of a design, to predict how a design will perform, and to know how to improve an existing machine.
2. Simplicity vs. complexity. Create designs that are explicitly simple. Keep complexity intrinsic, buried, and invisible. The less thought and less knowledge a device requires for production, testing, and use, the simpler it is.
3. Exact-constraint vs. elastically-averaged design. Use exact constraint when designing precision structures and mechanisms. That is, apply just enough constraints to define a position or motion, no more, no less. Controlled compliance can make an overconstrained design more stable, however — for example, a five-caster chair to improve load bearing, a multiple ball bearing to compensate for geometric errors.
4. Load paths. Plan load paths in parts, structures, and assemblies. Keep them short, direct, symmetric, locally closed, and easily analyzed — for example, the bicycle handbrake, which is squeezed rather than pulled or pushed.
5. Self-help. Forces applied to a structure or mechanism are used to great advantage when they create new, useful forces, transform or redirect themselves, balance themselves or existing loads, and help to distribute loads. Examples are the tubeless tire, left- and right-handed scissors, and a balanced door with an articulated hinge.
6. Independent functions. Keep the functions of a design independent from one another. Of course, everything in design is a compromise. Combining functionality might have benefits.
7. Accuracy, precision, and resolution. Accuracy, precision, and resolution of a machine's components and the manner in which they are combined are the most important factors affecting the quality of a machine. Always identify the directions in which accuracy and precision are most important (i.e., the sensitive directions).
8. Stability. Before performance, there must be stability. Marginally stable designs work only on paper. Designs must have adequate stability margins. Beware of buckling of compression members.
9. Saint-Venant's principle. Several characteristic dimensions away from an effect, the effect is essentially dissipated. And if an effect is to dominate a system, it must be applied over several characteristic dimensions of the system.
10. Manage friction. Friction is always present, that is certain. How much friction, and its consequences, is uncertain. Manage it! Avoid sliding friction and use rolling element bearings whenever possible.
This PDF includes a more extensive list, with details and references. Please comment and add to the list. Your experience is invaluable!
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