text: diverdown 0 Posted September 23, 2006 (www.)"http://msnbc.msn/id/14963302/"]Link[/url] Chirac says no evidence bin Laden has died French newspaper published details of alleged intelligence memo Updated: 40 minutes ago PARIS - President Jacques Chirac said Saturday that information contained in a leaked intelligence document raising the possibility that Osama bin Laden may have died of typhoid in Pakistan last month is "in no way whatsoever confirmed.†Chirac said he was "a bit surprised†at the leak and has asked Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie to probe how a document from a French foreign intelligence service was published in the French press. The regional newspaper l'Est Republicain on Saturday printed what it described as a copy of a confidential document from the DGSE intelligence service citing an uncorroborated report from Saudi secret services that the leader of the al-Qaida terror network had died. The DGSE transmitted the document, dated Sept. 21 or Thursday, to Chirac and other top French officials, the newspaper said. "This information is in no way whatsoever confirmed,†Chirac said Saturday when asked about the document. "I have no comment.†In Washington, CIA duty officer Paul Gimigliano said he could not confirm the DGSE report. The Washington-based IntelCenter, which monitors terrorism communications, said it was not aware of any similar reports on the Internet. "We've seen nothing from any al-Qaida messaging or other indicators that would point to the death of Osama bin Laden,†IntelCenter director Ben N. Venzke told The Associated Press. Last date known is June 29 Al-Qaida would likely release information of his death fairly quickly if it were true, said Venzke, whose organization also provides counterterrorism intelligence services for the American government. "They would want to release that to sort of control the way that it unfolds. If they wait too long, they could lose the initiative on it,†he said. The last time the IntelCenter says it could be sure bin Laden was alive was June 29, when al-Qaida released an audiotape in which the terror leader eulogized the death of al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq earlier that month. Chirac spoke at a news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Compiegne, France, where the leaders were holding a summit. Putin suggested that leaks can be ways to manipulate. "When there are leaks ... one can say that (they) were done especially.†Earlier the French defense ministry said it was opening an investigation into the leak. "The information diffused this morning by the l'Est Republicain newspaper concerning the possible death of Osama bin Laden cannot be confirmed,†a Defense Ministry statement said. The DGSE, or Direction Generale des Services Exterieurs, indicated that its information came from a single source. "According to a reliable source, Saudi security services are now convinced that Osama bin Laden is dead,†said the intelligence report. There have been periodic reports of bin Laden's illness or death in recent years but none has been proven accurate. According to this report, Saudi security services were pursuing further details, notably the place of his burial. "The chief of al-Qaida was a victim of a severe typhoid crisis while in Pakistan on August 23, 2006,†the document says. His geographic isolation meant that medical assistance was impossible, the French report said, adding that his lower limbs were allegedly paralyzed. The report further said Saudi security services had their first information on bin Laden's alleged death on Sept. 4. In Pakistan, a senior official of that country's top spy agency, the ISI or Directorate of Inter-Service Intelligence, said he had no information to confirm bin Laden's whereabouts or that he might be dead. The official said he believed the report could be fabricated. The official was not authorized to speak publicly on the topic and spoke on condition of anonymity. U.S. Embassy officials in Pakistan and Afghanistan also said they could not confirm the French report. Gen. Henri Bentegeat, the French army chief of staff, said in a radio debate last Sunday that bin Laden's fate remained a mystery. "Today, bin Laden is certainly not in Afghanistan,†Bentegeat said. "No one is completely certain that he is even alive.†© 2006 The Associated Press. It would be great if Osama did die a slow, painful death from typhoid, but I don't believe it till I see his filthy corpse on a slab. He's probably living in Paris. That is where all the dirtbags go. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey health officials say 37 cases of fungal meningitis have now been reported in the state.
The cases, two confirmed and 35 considered probable, are linked to a recalled, potentially tainted steroid produced by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts. Nationally, officials say more than 500 cases have been reported in 19 states, including 36 deaths.
State health officials say no one in New Jersey has died from the illness. Fifteen patients remain hospitalized, and all of those sickened continue to recover.
Four more cases were recently announced by state health officials. They include a 32-year-old Gloucester County man and three Cumberland County residents — two women, ages 44 and 87, and a 55-year-old man.
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Your Inner Fish Takes to the Screen
A recurring image of Prof. Neil Shubin's new PBS miniseries "Your Inner Fish" places Shubin on a Chicago "L" train, marveling at fellow riders as they sprout fish heads, reptile tongues and ape tails.
The slick animations serve a scientific purpose. Shubin is reaching out to a national audience with the message that human body parts, talents, ailments and biological puzzles have origins in the genes and body plans of our animal relatives.
"Now, you might not think your body has much in common with a fish," he suggests, "but I see a family resemblance… You are related to them, and the clues to that connection are etched in ancient stone."
The three-part miniseries, which premieres April 9, brings to life Shubin's best-selling and highly readable 2008 book, Your Inner Fish. Chicago's dramatic scenery is a star of the show, as are the UChicago classrooms and laboratories where Shubin explains anatomical links between seemingly disparate relatives, including the brains of humans and sharks.
The episodes–made possible by a collaboration between Shubin, Tangled Bank Studios of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Public Broadcasting Service–also follow Shubin and fossil-hunting colleagues on expeditions to the Arctic, the deserts of Ethiopia and the high plains of South Africa.
For Shubin, the Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Service Professor of Anatomy, the new show's broad audience offers an unusual chance to bring complex ideas and discoveries in biology to new audiences, including young students.
"We live in an age of a big disconnect," Shubin said. "Just at a time when many of the issues we face as a society require a knowledge of science and technology, we have a large fraction people who are either intimidated by or antagonistic to science itself. Efforts like Your Inner Fish are an attempt to reveal the power of scientific reasoning to explain our world."
There is grandeur in this view of life, as Charles Darwin once put it. Shubin's book on the topic was an instant success. "Your Inner Fish is my favorite sort of book," wrote reviewer Oliver Sacks, "an intelligent, exhilarating, and compelling scientific adventure story, one which will change forever how you understand what it means to be human."
On television, Shubin is a genial guide for that adventure. Often wearing a trademark orange down vest, he returns to the scenes of many historic discoveries that helped establish the evolutionary story behind our body plan.
Shubin, a self-described "fish paleontologist," discovered one such stony clue. He led a team of researchers who found fossils of Tiktaalik roseae. Soon dubbed the "Fishapod," Titaalik was the missing evolutionary link between fish and the first animals that waddled out of water onto land, about 375 million years ago. This ancient creature, the real star of episode one, was at the cusp of the fish-tetrapod transition, combining a skull, a neck, ribs and parts of the limbs that are similar to four-legged animals with fish-like features such as a primitive jaw, fins, and scales.The discovery, published in the April 6, 2006, issue of the journal Nature, came at an opportune time, during the highly publicized "intelligent-design" court case in Dover, Pennsylvania. Stories about Tiktaalik ran on page one of the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. Time Magazine gave it three pages. ABC News featured Shubin as their "Person of the Week." He even turned up, a while later, on the Colbert Report, where he faced difficult questions. "What is it about evolutionary biologists," the host asked, "that they just can't let people think what they want about themselves?"
The intense and persisting interest in ancient fish bones gave Shubin the idea to write the book, which evolved into the TV series with Tangled Bank Studios. Old bones, properly examined, "can be a path to knowledge about who we are and how we got that way," he wrote. "We learn about our own bodies in seemingly bizarre places, ranging from the fossils of worms and fish recovered from rocks from around the world to the DNA in virtually every animal alive on earth today… I can imagine few things more beautiful or intellectually profound than finding the basis for our humanity and remedies for many of the ills we suffer, nestled inside some of the most humble creatures that have ever lived on our planet."
Each of the three hour-long episodes focuses on an important transition: the fish-to-tetrapod transition starting about 375 million years ago, when our predecessors transitioned from living in water as fish to living on land; followed by the reptile-to-mammal transition and the early primate-to-human transition.
EPISODE ONE: Your Inner Fish, April 9
Where did humans get arms, legs, and hands — as well as our tendency to hiccup? In this program, common traits are traced to Tiktaalik. The search takes viewers from a Pennsylvania highway to the Arctic Circle to uncover humankind's "inner fish."
EPISODE TWO: Your Inner Reptile, April 16
How did humans wind up with skin and teeth, sweat and mammary glands, the ability to grasp and an acute sense of hearing? This episode traces these features to early reptiles and a tiny mammal-like creature. The journey begins in Nova Scotia and winds up in South Africa.
EPISODE THREE: Your Inner Mammal, April 23
Why do humans have color vision, a highly efficient gait, endless back trouble, and a very large brain? Viewers follow legendary fossil hunters to Africa on the trail of humans' "inner ape."
This may be a television show, but its source material comes from the University of Chicago. There will be a quiz. The web site includes a Classroom Guide, with instructions for teachers, suggested reading assignments, and key concepts. Although this show focuses on the evolution of the human body, "it is important to reinforce for students that there is nothing unique about the evolutionary processes that shaped our bodies compared to those that shaped all other life on Earth," Shubin insists.
Prof. Shubin talks about his most recent discovery, showing that Tiktaalik's hind legs actually began as enhanced hind fins.


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Researcher Looks into Effects of Saharan Dust Cloud
Students Advance to Finals of Global Competition
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Professor Talks Climate Change in the Oil Industry's Training Ground
Memorial to Rodger E. "Tim" Denison 1932–2016
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April 2016
Q&A with Arden Wells, Future Geoscientist, Newest NSF Fellow
March 2016
UT Dallas places 2nd at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Imperial Barrell Award Program
Scientist's Space Weather Work Gets Support from Air Force Grant
UT Dallas Joins National Network to Grow STEM Teaching Force
Project Aims to Make Breathing Easier by Mapping Air Quality
More than 1,200 Students Earn Spots on Dean's List for Fall Semester
Students, Alumni Network with Companies at Career Expo
February 2016
Feedback Sought for Ways to Increase Student Success
Teaching Excellence at Core of New Center
January 2016
New Theory Turns Back Clock on Conditions Behind Universe's Origin
November 2015
President Wildenthal Details Progress of University at Annual Address
Enrollment Growth Stays on Pace to Exceed Strategic Plan Goals
Elite Students Invited to Join Phi Kappa Phi
Findings Rock Long-Held Assumptions about Ancient Mass Extinction
October 2015
For Alumni, Center Will Be Place to Call Home
New Hires Expand Depth and Breadth of Natural Sciences Faculty
Supporters' Generosity Benefits UT Dallas on North Texas Giving Day
Tests of Mind, Body Unite in Karate Club
Immersive Research Fellowship Inspires UT Dallas Undergraduates
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'Minecraft' Mod Offers World of Scholarships, Learning Opportunities
Tradition Brings Families Back Together for Day of Fun, Food
September 2015
Professors Earn Top Honors as Titans of Tech
New Group Joins Expanding List of University's Terry Scholars
Gifts to UT Dallas Will Get a Boost on North Texas Giving Day
Clark Scholars Dive into Research Through Summer Program
U.S. News Gives UT Dallas High Marks for Diversity, Low Student Debt
Student Ambassadors Play Key Role as University Connection
Mexican Undergraduates Conduct Research with Faculty Mentors
August 2015
Freshmen, Parents Get Helping Hand on Residence Hall Move-In Day
Faculty Members Create University Legacies Through Planned Gifts
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July 2015
Slideshow: Students Find Fresh Start — From Move-In Day to Finals
McDermott Scholars Exhibit Array of Abilities
June 2015
Over 1,000 Students Earn Spots on Dean's List for Spring Semester
Juneteenth Celebration to Commemorate Day That Defined Freedom
UT Dallas Program Promotes STEM Careers for Young Women
Recipients of NSM Teaching Awards Go the Extra Mile for Students
Faculty, Students Honored for Creative Works; Newly Tenured Lauded
Rings, Sentiments at Ceremony a Reflection of Dedication to Education
Photographer Captures the Still, Changing Life of the University
May 2015
Three Undergrad Researchers Receive Goldwater Scholarships
Spring Graduates to Celebrate at 8 Ceremonies
Full Picture of Undergrad Projects Comes into Focus at Poster Contest
April 2015
University Plants Seeds of Science at Dallas Arboretum for Earth Day
Bioenergy Specialist to Deliver Clowes Memorial Lecture on April 22
'Science' Editor to Discuss Methods to Reduce Climate Change
UT Dallas to Promote Undergraduate Research During Annual Exhibition of Excellence
March 2015
More than 1,100 Students Earn Spots on Dean's List for Fall Semester
December 2014
Achievements of Students Take Center Stage During Fall Graduation Ceremonies
November 2014
Founding Geosciences Faculty Member Reflects on Campus Journey
Expertise in Math, Natural Sciences Multiplies with Professor Additions
August 2014
Geosciences Lecturer Dives Deep into the Abyss on Pacific Expedition
As University and Enrollment Grow, Services Expand to Make Navigating Campus Easier
July 2014
More than 950 Named to Dean's List for Spring 2014 Semester
June 2014
Science Counselor Earns Campuswide Advisor of the Year Award
May 2014
NSM Honors Teachers, Advisor for Dedication, Service to Students
Family, Friends Celebrate Accomplishments of Newest Graduates
April 2014
University Achieves $200 Million Campaign Goal
Tuesday's Total Lunar Eclipse Ushers in Series of Four
March 2014
Professor Uses Satellite Data, Plant Biology to Track Water Usage
15 Distinguished Faculty Members Honored at Investiture Ceremony
Inspirational, Nobel-Winning Scientist to Deliver Clark Lecture
Opportunity Funds Are Increasingly Popular Way to Support UT Dallas
February 2014
School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Adds Expertise to Ranks
January 2014
Industry Support Drives Geosciences Department's Evolution
December 2013
University Remembers Founding Faculty Member Istvan Ozsváth
Rescheduled Graduation Draws Thousands to Honor Fall Class of 2013
July 2013
Mathematician Helps Reveal Mysteries Beneath Earth's Surface
May 2013
NSM Awards Recognize Exemplary Teaching and Staff Service
Solar Flares May Interrupt GPS Navigation, Researcher Says
Professor Uses Language of Math to Describe Natural Phenomena
UT Dallas to Celebrate More Than 3,000 New Grads
April 2013
Sally Ride Festival Draws Hundreds of Budding Scientists
UTeach Dallas Meets Fundraising Challenge, Receives $2 Million
October 2012
School of Natural Sciences and Math Celebratesits Roots in Research Center a Half Century Ago
Investiture Ceremonies to Recognize FacultyHolding Endowed Chairs and Professorships
September 2012
UT Dallas Student Catches Jupiter Fireball on Video
August 2012
Clark Research Program Spans University's History
July 2012
Geophysics Society to Bestow Highest Honor on Professor
Solar Car Project Shines Light on Camp for High-Schoolers
May 2012
Sky Watchers Await a Rare Celestial Experience
Grad Ceremonies Celebrate Journeys Ending — and Beginning
Student Champion of Environment Wins Udall Award
April 2012
Competition Spotlights Top Undergrad Research
Math and Science Teacher Program Gets a Boost
Realize the Vision: University Celebrates First Campaign
February 2012
Two UT Dallas Papers Honored by Geophysics Society
Researchers Find Rare Life in Pacific Ocean's Depths
Investiture Ceremonies Begin New Tradition
UT Dallas to Honor Faculty in Endowed Chairs, Professorships in Week of Investiture Ceremonies
Sister Institutions Make Plans to Collaborate on Research
January 2012
Largest Ever Cohort Named to Fall Dean's List
Company's Investment Benefits Geosciences Students
December 2011
UT Dallas Family, Friends Celebrate Newest Grads
Grant Aids Push to Train Math and Science Teachers
August 2011
Prof Selected to Lead Geological Society of America
Students give to scholarship fund in lieu of birthday gift for professor.
April 2011
Space Summoned 'Elite Scientists' featuring Alumnus James Reilly
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March 2011
UT Dallas Quake Experts Watching Events in Japan and Region
June 2010
NS&M Names Geosciences Prof Outstanding Teacher
January 2010
Haiti Events Offer Insight, Chance to Help
Ancient Volcanic Eruptions Still Taking Lives
December 2009
A Conversation With Robert Rutford
November 2009
UT Dallas Geophysical Consortium at SEG 09
March 2009
Announcing the George McMechan Student Support Fund
Geosciences Grad Students Showcase Research
GeoNews Department Newsletter Volume 1
February 2009
Professor Journeys Once More Into the Deep
August 2008
New Geosciences Dept Head Leads Field Research in Western USA and Southern Italy
Spring '09 Geological Society of America meeting will be hosted at UT Dallas
July 2008
Researchers Link Kidney Stones to Climate Change
University of Idaho Geologist to Head UT Dallas Department of Geosciences
Graduate Student Earns Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) Scholarship
June 2008
Researchers Plan Voyage Near Bottom of Sea
UT Dallas Geology Students Find River Water is Better Than Bottled - At Least in the Rio Gallinas
May 2008
UT Dallas, Louisiana State University, & Univeristy of Idaho Professors Provide Rapid Response to Image Large Texas Sinkhole
April 2008
Kusch Lecture to Study 3-D Imaging of Energy Resources
Geologist Will Give a History Lesson on Dallas
January 2008
U.S. Coal Panel Taps Expertise of Dr. Finkelman
With Moon Dirt in Demand, Business is Booming
Geoscientist Finds Surprise Hidden in the Pacific
November 2007
Announcing the James L. Carter Scholarship Fund
June 2007
Former President Robert Rutford Named President Emeritus at UT Dallas
Geosciences Research Professor Dr. Finkelman invited to be a keynote speaker at Environmin 2007 Conference, in South Africa
UT Dallas Lecturer Develops Earth Science Training Program for Elementary School Teachers
April 2007
Geosciences Students Find Human Skull
Our Changing Greenhouse: The Importance of CO2 (Public Sigma XI Lecture)
Geosciences undergraduate Alex Biholar answers 'Why geology?' in Modest Proposal
New Research Suggests Tidal Motion Influences Flow of The Rutford Ice Stream
March 2007
UT Dallas Geosciences Student Wins SCAUG Student Competition
UT Dallas Geosciences Student Receives 'Best Poster' Award at the AAPG/SEG Student Expo
Antarctic Peak named for Robert Rutford, UT Dallas Professor, Former President
February 2007
UT Dallas Geoscientist Stern to Help Lead International Field Conference in Egypt
December 2006
UT Dallas Geosciences Department Founder Passes Away
July 2006
UT Dallas Geoscientist to Present Findings At 1st International Snowball Earth Conference
June 2006
UT Dallas Geoscientist Helps Convene Wyoming Conference on Plate Tectonics
May 2006
UTD Scientist Co-authors Nature Paper Describing Undersea Volcanic Eruptions
April 2006
Seven UTD Faculty Members Win $584,000 In Texas Advanced Research Program Awards
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Whole-wheat flour and ground-up almonds give these blueberry muffins extra texture; the streusel topping adds a bit of sweet crunch.
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September 2013
Selecting the right search term in query-based systems for deduplication
Harald Jele, University of Klagenfurt, Austria, firstname.lastname@example.com
LIBRES Volume 23, Issue 2 (September 2013)
This two-stage study provides an in-depth examination of iSchool's interdisciplinary approach in education and research via the lens of iSchool faculty members' background and experiences. At the first stage, a content analysis of faculty online profiles was conducted to examine faculty members' rank, PhD field, teaching and research descriptions. At the second stage, a survey study was conducted to investigate faculty's interdisciplinary experiences in teaching and research.
This section contains the three research papers delivered at the recent Workshop on Global Collaboration of Information Schools http://www.cisap.asia/IFLA2013/index.html held before the IFLA 2013 Singapore conference. I approached the workshop organisers, CiSAP http://www.cisap.asia/ and was granted permission to reprint them in LIBRES, in the interests of promoting a research approach to workshop and conference papers.
Technology impacts on curriculum of library and information science (LIS) – a United States (US) perspective
Sharon Hu, Chicago State University, USA, email@example.com
LIBRES Volume 23, Issue 2 (September 2013)
This paper will present a quantitative analysis and comparative descriptions of several selected American LIS educational institutions for the above issues and conclude with some emerging trends on the curriculum and educational techniques for LIS education.
Being interdisciplinary: a look into the background and experiences of iSchool faculty members
Lili Luo, San Jose State University, USA, firstname.lastname@example.com
LIBRES Volume 23, Issue 2 (September 2013)
This study deepens the understanding of how faculty members work across disciplines in their teaching and research, and yields insights on how to help them overcome challenges and employ effective strategies to accomplish their interdisciplinary objectives. Both educators and researchers can learn from this study how to successfully fuse different disciplines in the study of "information" and create an interdisciplinary environment that truly fosters collaborative research and education.
Detecting collaboration patterns among iSchools by linking scholarly communication to social networking at the macro and micro levels
So-Young Yu, Hannam University, Korea, firstname.lastname@example.com
LIBRES Volume 23, Issue 2 (September 2013)
The analysis provided evidence of the current prominent collaborating bodies and their neighbors as proactive actors accelerating scholarly communication and social networking. The social networking pattern and institution-profiling pattern were significantly related at the micro level, and the co-authorship pattern was significantly related to the institution-profiling pattern at macro-level. Additionally, iSchools that actively elaborate social networking and scholarly communication at the micro or macro levels were identified and compared to determine whether iSchools that could bridge other iSchools and non-iSchools in both social networking and research. The significant interest in social networking revealed in this study was related to IT trends and higher education while the research interest in the iField was related to linking information science to society, technology, and culture.
LIBRES Editorial Board for this issue:
Kerry Smith (Editor-in-Chief)
Curtin University, Western Australia
Section Editors
Heather Lea Moulaison (Research and Applications Editor)
Mary Beth Weber (Essays and Opinions Editor)
Rutgers University Libraries
Kerry Smith (News, Meetings Editor)
Curtin University
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Salome Husselmann (Web Manager)
Curtin University
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Trying to Put the 'Rapids' Back Into Grand Rapids
Civic leaders are hoping to reintroduce long dormant rapids to a river in Grand Rapids, Mich. The estimated $27 million project still has no financial backers, but supporters include Michigan's governor. WSJ's Matthew Dolan reports via #WorldStream.
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Arrow's daddy issues are about to get real.
On Wednesday's episode, Thea (Willa Holland) comes face-to-face with Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman) for the first time since learning that he's her father. With the recent death of her mother, the youngest Queen might just hit rock bottom. And if that wasn't bad enough, Slade's soldiers are launching a major attack on Starling City.
Check out our daily series, Watch This Tonight, to see why you should tune in:
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Curt Jones and Mike Holland, supervisors for the Fulton Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) joined conservation leaders from Ohio's 88 SWCDs and others in Columbus for the Ohio Federation of Soil and Water Conservation District's 67th Annual Meeting. This year's meeting of nearly 400 leaders focused on the theme "Conservation: Leading into the Future."
During the two-day event, participants were involved in a live taping of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation's "Town Hall Ohio" concerning conservation issues and challenges facing Ohio, leadership training activities and workshops focused on a diverse array of conservation topics.
"Conservation programs and practices have a tremendous positive impact on our state and nation's economy, our food resources, energy, education and environment," Holland said.
"Working together with various partners, key Ohio businesses, and dedicated conservation leaders has enabled us to make a positive impact to our quality of living today–and for the future," Jones added.
Another highlight of this year's event was a community service initiative supported by the meeting participants, who made food and monetary donations to benefit the Mid Ohio Food Bank. As a result of this campaign, 421 pounds of food and $520 dollars were donated to the bank, providing 421 meals to individuals in need, as well as $4,160 dollars in purchasing power to buy additional resources to benefit food pantries located throughout Ohio.
For more information on the programs offered by the Fulton Soil and Water Conservation District, visit www.fultoncountyoh.


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And the crackdown continues. The latest in the continuing saga of speaking bans, censures, and reprimands for theologians comes from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, where a prominent and widely respected deacon theologian, who previously headed the bishops' secretariat for the diaconate, is no longer allowed to speak.
Deacon William Ditewig has been disinvited from a talk he was scheduled to give to the archdiocese's deacons in March. The cancellation of this talk comes after the archdiocese's Speaker Approval Commission recommended that he not be approved to speak in the archdiocese because his appearance would "cause doctrinal confusion."
So which church teaching has Ditewig dared to question? Actually none. The thought crime he is being accused of committing is entertaining the possibility that women could again be ordained to the diaconate, a practice that was well established in the church for many centuries.
Ditewig and his two co-authours, Phyllis Zagano and Gary Macy, point out in their recent book Women Deacons: Past, Present, Future (Paulist) that, while the question of the ordination of women to the priesthood has officially been ruled out by the Catholic Church, the question of ordaining women to the diaconate is entirely different and remains open for discussion.
The speaker approval commission itself acknowledges that the magisterium "has not made a definitive pronouncement" on Ditewig's positions about the diaconate for women but claims that "an argument can be made that the ordinary universal magisterium has moved against" those positions. Having him as a speaker—on an unrelated topic, by the way—"would introduce the possibility of doctrinal confusion."
In other words, even though Ditewig has not publicly questioned a church teaching, the commission's speculation about what the magisterium might at some point say about the question at hand is now enough to prohibit a well-respected theologian from talking about any topic whatsoever.
As the National Catholic Reporter notes, among many other bishops, Chicago's Cardinal Francis George recently referred to the possibility of ordination of women to the diaconate as an "open question."
Given the "doctrinal confusion" that statement could sow, one wonders when Cardinal George will be banned from speaking in the Philadelphia Archdiocese as well?
For more background on the "open question" of women deacons, please see our interviews with Deacon Ditewig's two co-authors, Phyllis Zagano and Gary Macy.


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TORONTO – Father Tom McKillop, who dedicated much of his life to youth ministry, died in Toronto Feb. 15. He was 83.
"I was on fire with enthusiasm, I had finally found my niche," McKillop said about his work with youth.
He was a teacher in Toronto before deciding to enter the Paulist Fathers. But he was asked to leave as the order felt he worked too hard and was too intense.
He entered St. Augustine's Seminary and was ordained at the age of 36. It was at this point McKillop discovered his passion for youth ministry.
After a year of working with teens and young adults in a parish, he became director of the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO). Convinced the CYO should include a more apostolic component, he formed Youth Corps in 1966.
First based in parishes in the Toronto Archdiocese, the original Youth Corps team was made up of three men and three women who focused on community outreach.
Its founding vision was based on Jesus' communal vision in chapters 9 and 10 of Luke's Gospel: "Then Jesus called the 12 together . . . and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God."
In 2005, McKillop received the Order of Canada for his work in promoting social engagement among youth.


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Academic capitalism is a unique hybrid that unites the scientific search for truth and the economic maximization of profits. It turns universities into enterprises competing for capital accumulation and businesses into knowledge producers looking for new findings that can be turned into patents and profitable commodities. To understand what this new institutional setting means for science and the evolution of scientific knowledge, science as a field in a Bourdieusian perspective, which operates in the tension field between autonomy and heteronomy, is explored. On this basis, crucial features of academic capitalism and their impact on science as well as the evolution of scientific knowledge are described. Academic capitalism is located in the zone of the intersection of scientific research, economic profit maximization, and innovation policy. The institutional conflicts of interest involved in the corporate funding of academic research are addressed. The logic of academic capital accumulation is spelled out by describing the entrepreneurial university. Field effects of academic capital accumulation on science, namely increasing inequality, over-investment at the top, and under-investment among the rank and file are examined, along with the organizational effects of academic capital accumulation in terms of tightened managerial quality assurance on diversity and creativity as crucial prerequisites of advancing scientific knowledge. The main results of the analysis are summarized and some guidelines for future research are presented.
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Richard Münch
Sanneke Kuipers and Annika Brändström
The post-crisis accountability process is a purification ritual that serves to channel public emotions and enables re-equilibration after a severe disturbance of the sociopolitical order. Crisis accountability literature can be reviewed in terms of forums, actors, and consequences. This setup allows a systematic discussion of how crises impact: the accountability process in influencing its setting (the forum); the strategies of accountees and their opponents (actors); and the resulting outcomes in terms of reputation damage, sanctions, and restoration (consequences). There is a clear distinction between formal and informal accountability forums, with the media being almost exclusively informal, and judicial forums, accident investigators, and political inquiries having formal authority over accountability assessments. Yet, through the presence of formal authorities in media reporting, and because media frames influence the work of formal authorities, the different forums intensively interact in accountability processes. Looking at accountability strategies reveals that the number of actors involved in blame games is likely rising because of increasingly networked crisis responses, and the role of actors has become more important and personal in the crisis aftermath and accountability process. The consequences and success of individual actors in influencing the accountability outcomes is shaped by both institutional settings and individual skills and strategies. A current political power position that exceeds prior mistakes is an effective shield, and denial is the least effective though most commonly used strategy. Accountability processes remain a balancing act between rebuttal and repair. Yet after major crisis, renewal is possible, and post-crisis accountability can play a crucial role therein.
Robert Gregory
Accountability and responsibility are related ideas that are central to political, constitutional, and institutional arrangements in Western liberal democracies. However, political elites in non-democratic systems are generally not held accountable by citizens through such arrangements, and accountability is primarily a means of securing the compliance of state functionaries to the will of these elites. In liberal democracies the terms "accountability" and "responsibility" are often used in common discourse as if they were synonyms, but they are not. The former is a concept that embodies a number of different types, with a common theme of answerability by an accountor to an accountee, usually—but not necessarily—in a hierarchical relationship designed to ensure compliance and control. Responsibility, on the other hand, speaks of the associated but different domain of individual moral choice, where often conflicting duties of obligation are experienced by those in official positions. Beginning in the 1980s, the so-called new public management movement, which brought major changes to many Western systems of public administration, sought to enhance the accountability of public bureaucrats, especially their answerability to their elected political superiors. The effects have been mixed and uncertain, often with unintended consequences, such as the reinforcement of risk aversion and blame shifting and gaming behavior. The quest for accountability is inherently a political process, in which "holding to account" may often depend much less on any forensic determination of specific culpability and much more on evidential and political disputation, where the search for the "truth" is highly—and increasingly—contestable.
George M. Bob-Milliar
Since the early 1990s, African states have been democratizing. Political parties now dominate the public spaces in many African democracies. The past 26 years have witnessed the growth and consolidation of "party democracy" in Africa. This is the longest period of uninterrupted growth of electoral politics in many countries on the continent. Recent Afrobarometer surveys show that almost two-thirds (63%) of Africans support pluralistic politics. Party identification in sub-Saharan Africa has also been on the rise. Across 16 states Afrobarometer surveyed, a majority of Africans (65%) claim they "feel close to" a political party in their country. The mass public who identified with a particular political party increased by 7 percentage points between 2002 and 2015. Political parties are the vehicles for citizens to engage in party activism. The women and men who join a political party become the party activists. Party activists are the lifeblood of the party organization. And political party activism in sub-Saharan Africa is geared toward the election of the party and its candidates into office. Consequently, party activism is a continuum of high-intensity and low-intensity political activities. Party activists vary in their levels of involvement. Thus, it is a mixture of fanfare and aggressive participation. Political party activism is a multifaceted process where party members undertake any of the following political activities: display a poster, donate money, help with fund-raising, deliver election leaflets, help at a party function, attend party meetings, undertake door-to-door campaigning, and run for party office. The involvement of party members usually varies from active engagement to passive attachment to the party. There were several motives for party activists getting involved in "high-intensity participation." Because of the crucial role party activists play in the intra- and inter-party competition, the parties provide some incentives to get members commitment. At the organizational level, party activists present themselves for election into party offices at the grassroots, regionally or nationally. They devote their time and financial resources in furtherance of the party agenda. In return, party activists expect the party to reward them with selective incentives when power is won. That said, more research is required at the country level to enable us to construct the profile of the African party activists.
Muiris MacCarthaigh and Leno Saarniit
Administrative culture is an established and prominent theme in public administration research. It is frequently used to explain or contextualize a variety of phenomena in the discipline, ranging from differences in governing styles and policy outcomes between national bureaucracies to making sense of the informal norms and values that determine the activities of individual public organizations and how they interact with political and non-state interests. It is also occasionally used to characterize a particular "type" of organizational culture, with features that distinguish it from the private or third sectors. With such varied uses of the term, as well as related concepts such as administrative style, tradition, and legacies, administrative culture attracts multiple interpretations as well as its fair share of criticisms as an explanatory tool. In some contexts, administrative culture is an independent variable that helps explain divergence and variety in policy outcomes within and across national borders, while in others it is a dependent variable that attracts experiments and new measurement tools with the aim of producing more sophisticated understanding of its place in public governance. Early skepticism about the study of administrative culture mainly arose due to the absence of adequate methodology as well as uncertainty about how to begin empirical research into the concept. The emergence of such a methodology and tools for inquiry since the 1970s has meant that administrative culture is now firmly located in the literature and practice of government and a burgeoning literature now exists across the globe. Some of the key contemporary debates around administrative culture concern the interplay between cultures and sub-cultures within bureaucracies, the influence of distinctive administrative traditions and styles on policy outcomes, and the role culture plays in public sector reform.
Louisa Bayerlein and Christoph Knill
There are distinct characteristics to the ways and procedures through which public administrations typically accomplish their daily tasks. The informal routines that characterize the behavior and activities of public administrations in the policymaking process are called administrative styles. They can be understood as the meso-level of organizational culture. Studying administrative styles is important for comparative research on policymaking because they capture and explain variance in policymaking and implementation beyond merely structural aspects or formal institutions. Similar to policy styles and regulatory styles, the concept of administrative styles has long been employed to describe state–society relationships. It has found to be a useful independent variable in the study various phenomena, such as divergent policy developments across European states, national idiosyncrasies in regulatory regimes or the impact of Europeanization on national administrations. However, administrative styles can also be informative of the relationship between the bureaucracy with both their political masters and society and bureaucratic influence in policymaking. In this regard, one can distinguish two orientations underpinning administrative styles, namely positional and functional orientations characterizing informal bureaucratic routines and standard operating procedures. Depending on the prevalence of positional and functional orientations in behavioral patterns, it is possible to distinguish four ideal-typical administrative styles that apply to administrative routines of influencing the policymaking process: a servant style, an advocacy style, a consolidator style, and an entrepreneurial style. Variation in administrative styles across different organizations can be explained by two factors, namely the internal and external challenges they face. Understood this way, administrative styles could enable a comparative assessment of bureaucratic routines and influence in policymaking across different countries or sectors as well as in supra- and international bureaucracies.
Fabián A. Borges
The last two decades witnessed an unprecedented decline in poverty across the developing world, a decline partly explained by the adoption of social cash transfer programs. Ironically, Latin America, traditionally the world's most unequal region, has been a global trendsetter in this regard. Beginning in the late 1990s, governments across the region and across the ideological spectrum began adopting conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs, which award poor families regular stipends conditional on their children attending school and/or getting regular medical check-ups, and non-contributory pension (NCP) schemes for low-income and/or uncovered seniors. There is robust evidence that CCT programs achieve their short-term goals of reducing poverty while increasing school attendance and usage of health services. However, they do not improve learning and appear to be failing at their long-term goal of breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Likely as a result of low-quality education, long-term CCT beneficiaries do not have significantly better economic prospects than comparable non-beneficiaries. CCTs also have electoral effects—there is robust evidence from across the region that they increase support for incumbent presidential candidates. CCTs were a response to the two big transformations the region underwent during the 1980s: the debt crisis and subsequent lost decade and the transition of most countries to democracy. Increased economic insecurity following the crisis and subsequent neoliberal reforms represented both a threat to the survival of newly elected governments and an opportunity for politicians to win over voters through increased social assistance. Pioneered by Mexico and Brazil in the mid-1990s, CCTs were by far the most effective policies to emerge from that context. They quickly diffused across the region, often with support from international financial institutions. Counterintuitively, adoption appears to be unrelated to the ascendance of left-wing governments in the region during the 2000s. The politics of CCT design are less understood. The myriad ways in which design can be conceptualized and measured, combined with the relative newness of this literature, have limited the accumulation of knowledge. It does appear that left-wing governments adopt more expansive CCTs and de-emphasize conditionality enforcement. Whereas their initial adoption and expansion, which coincided with the 2000s economic boom, proved politically easy, further reductions in poverty will require politically difficult choices, namely, raising taxes and/or redirecting funds away from programs benefiting the better-off. Improving the long-term effectiveness of CCTs will require improving education quality, which in turn will require challenging the region's powerful teachers' unions.
Jonathan Pierce and Katherine Hicks
The advocacy coalition framework (ACF) was developed to explain policy processes where contentious coalitions of actors seek to translate competing belief systems into public policy. Advocacy coalitions may include interest groups, members of the media, scientists and academics, and government officials that share beliefs about a public issue and coordinate their behavior. These advocacy coalitions engage in various strategies using resources to influence policy change or stasis. As part of this process, advocacy coalition members may learn within and/or across coalitions. This framework is one of the most prominent and widely applied approaches to explain public policy. While it has been applied hundreds of times, in over 50 different countries, the vast majority of ACF applications have sought to explain domestic policy processes. A reason for the paucity of applications to foreign policy is that some ACF assumptions may not seem congruent to foreign policy issues. For example, the ACF uses a policy subsystem as the unit of analysis that may include a territorial dimension. Yet, the purpose of the territorial dimension is to limit the scope of the study. Therefore, this dimension can be substituted for a government body that has the authority or potential authority to make and implement foreign policy. In addition, the ACF assumes a central role for technical and scientific information in the policy process. Such information makes learning across coalitions more conducive, but the ACF can and should also be applied to normative issues, such as those more common among foreign policy research. This article introduces the ACF; provides an overview of the framework, including assumptions, key concepts and theories, and transferability of the ACF to foreign policy analysis; and discusses four exemplary applications. In addition, it proposes future research that scholars should explore as part of the nexus of the ACF and foreign policy analysis. In the final analysis, the authors suggest the ACF can and should be applied to foreign policy analysis to better understand the development of advocacy coalitions and how they influence changes and stasis in foreign policy.
Pavlos Vasilopoulos
Affective intelligence theory offers a novel and systematic treatment on the impact of affective reactions on citizens' information processes and political decisions based on neuroscience. Individuals have two distinct emotional systems that lead to two separate decision-making strategies. On the one hand, the disposition system, governed by enthusiasm and aversion, leads people to rely on habit or their sets of previously learned behaviors. On the other, the surveillance system is activated in novel or threating circumstances and is governed by anxiety. Once activated, anxiety leads individuals to seek for political information, break away from habitual political identifications, and consequently renders them more open to persuasion.
Jonathan Fisher
International Relations theory has tended to overlook the role of Africa and Africans in the international system. Traditionally, the discipline's most influential theorists have focused instead on relationships between and perspectives of "major powers." A growing body of work, however, has challenged these more limited efforts to conceptualize African agency in international politics. This scholarship has emphasized the significant space available to, and carved-out by, African states in molding the agendas of international institutions, and the role of African governments and advocacy networks in influencing the trajectory of major international debates around issues such as aid, development, trade, climate change, and migration. The study of African agency in international politics continues to wrestle with two key debates: the meanings of "agency" and "African." Much of the literature focuses primarily on the role and influence of African states rather than that of African citizens and communities. This focus provides, at best, only a partial and qualified view of the ways in which African agency is secured and exercised at the global level, particularly given the significant structural constraints imposed on Africa by global economic and political inequalities. The extent to which contemporary analysis captures the breadth of African engagement with the international system is also compromised by current state-centric approaches. It is thus necessary to examine a range of approaches adopted by scholars to deepen and nuance the study of African agency in international politics, including work on agenda-setting, mesolevel dynamics and microlevel dynamics.
Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Africa turned the corner of marginalization in international affairs at the beginning of the 21st century. The end of the Cold War and global shifts in power toward the end of the previous century were closely followed by "Africa rising." This contrasted previous decades-long narratives of a hopeless, war-ravaged, and plague-ridden continent. The Africa rising mantra followed reforms implemented in the late 1980s and early 1990s that improved institutional capacities and established African countries on firm business, economic, and political trajectories. This promised improved business environment, economic vitality, and positive democratic outlook. Africa has thus become important to major powers. They court it for its support to govern challenges that necessitate international cooperation and to enhance the major powers' influence in global institutions and on the world. Rising Asian economies such as China and India compete for Africa's natural resources against traditional global powers like the European Union (EU). The EU has long been economically and politically involved with Africa and has generally dominated these relations. Leading theories, discussions, and research that examine the historic, economic, and geopolitical factors at play in the evolution of African Union (AU)-EU relations suggest that elements of dependency are a calculated creation of colonialism and encounters that occurred between Africa and Europe before the advent of colonialism. Dependency continues to characterize these relations, as shown by formal AU-EU pacts. Decolonial scholars argue that the dependency is real, as Africa did not demolish colonial structures at independence. Some critical scholars further argue that the history of colonialism is also pertinent to the history of the EU in that the history of European integration was partly influenced by the history of colonialism. That is, the history of colonialism contributed to the political creation of the EU, and attempts by Western European countries to form a pan-European organization coincided with early 20th-century efforts to stabilize colonialism in Africa. The European countries could only efficiently exploit Africa by combining their political and economic capacities. AU-EU relations face many challenges in the 21st century. Influence in the relations is predominately unidirectional, with the EU determining the terms of engagement even on issues peculiar to Africa or the AU and where the latter appears to have the upper hand. The challenges show that the AU and EU are interdependent, but the onus is on the AU to set priorities right and enhance capabilities for engaging the EU. This would be easier if the EU were not continuously devising ways to maintain its dominance in the "partnership." An overarching challenge in the partnership, therefore, is finding common ground and leveling the playing field.
Thomas Kwasi Tieku
The African Union (AU), an international organization comprising all 54 independent states in Africa and Western Sahara, was established in May 2001 to, among other things, promote regional integration, interstate solidarity, peace, good governance and to enhance the African voice in the global system. Pan-African organization is like the proverbial forest that has bad trees dotted around its many good trees. The AU has been very successful in addressing the needs of the African political class but it is yet to make a significant difference in the lives of many ordinary Africans. The importance of the pan-African organization to African political elite is such that they would have created it today if it did not already exist. The AU has socialized African leaders to accept liberal values as the foundation of international cooperation in Africa; enhanced the agency of African political class on the world stage; and established progressive and innovative rules and norms for the African continent. It has also created many useful decision-making structures that have contributed to the prevention, management, and resolution of conflicts in Africa. The AU has, however, been less successful in connecting its activities and programs to many ordinary Africans; providing common public goods and services valued by commoners in Africa; giving voice to the majority of young people in Africa; promoting intra-Africa trade, good governance, and financial independence of the African continent as well as struggled to address the expressed material needs and quotidian concerns of ordinary Africans.
This article examines the rise of Afro-Latin social movements in Latin America and the Caribbean from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. It seeks to understand what factors explain the rise of black consciousness and black social movements. Theoretically, it explores the multidimensional nature and meaning of blackness as a social constructions and how such constructions may contribute to or limit Afro-based social movements. Contrary to popular perception, Afro-Latin social movements are not new, but form part of the long history of black resistance in the Americas. Although Black social movements in Latin America and the Caribbean are not new and have long histories like those of Maroon, Quilombo, Cimarròn, and Palenque societies, it is argued that the1970s witnessed an uptick in Afro-referenced social movements across the region. These movements, although in no way monolithic, represented a repertoire of various identities, ideas, and philosophies. Their agendas were framed in the context of racial and social justice demanding social, economic, and cultural rights long denied to them. Theoretically, Afro civil society as a specific Black space and cultural site, is theorized to show how many of these movements emerged. Afro civil society therefore is used to place these movements within a theoretical and historical timeframe.
Jaclyn M. Johnson and Clayton L. Thyne
The devastating Syrian civil war that began after the Arab Spring in 2011 has reminded the international community of the many consequences of civil war. However, this conflict is simply one of many ongoing conflicts around the globe. Civil war has a number of effects on individual lives, the country experiencing the conflict, as well as the international system more broadly. The humanitarian costs of civil war are steep. Individuals are negatively impacted by civil war in a myriad of ways. Three main areas of research are of interest: mortality, physical and mental trauma, and education. Several factors increase the number of deaths in a civil war, including a lack of democracy, economic downturns, and foreign assistance to combatants. Even if civilians survive conflict, they are likely to endure trauma that affects both mental and physical health. Strong evidence indicates that civil war spreads infectious diseases and severely diminishes life expectancy. Mental health is also likely to suffer in the face of conflict, as individuals often must overcome debilitating trauma. Finally, children are particularly susceptible in civil war settings. Children are often unable to continue their education as a consequence of civil war because combatants often target schools strategically or the state is unable to fund education as a result of funneling resources to the conflict. Civil wars also pose a number of threats to the state itself. First, a state that has experienced a civil war is much more likely to have another civil war in its future. Conflict recurrence has been explained through the type of settlement that concludes the initial civil war, institutions that may prevent recurrence like proportional representation, and the role of third parties in providing peace-ensuring security guarantees. Beyond recurrence of war, scholars have looked at the impact that civil wars have on state-level institutions, including democratization. While most state-level effects of civil war seem to be deleterious, there may also be positive effects, specifically in terms of female representation. Civil war in sub-Saharan Africa has been shown to increase the number of female representatives, perhaps providing an avenue for gender equality. Civil wars have ripple effects that impact neighboring countries and the international system more broadly. Proximate states are often challenged with an influx of refugees that may burden social programs or facilitate the spread of diseases and illicit arms. However, positive consequences of hosting refugees may include trading opportunities or economic growth from remittances. Moving beyond proximate states, civil wars have consequences for the entire globe. For example, civil wars have been demonstrated to spur international terrorism. The civil war literature has explored the various effects of conflict at the individual, state, and interstate level.
Jarrod Hayes
For much of the history of the study of international relations, and of foreign policy as a distinctive subfield, scholars have debated the relative weight of agency and structure in shaping the course of international events. Often, the significance of agency versus structure depends on the scope of inquiry. Efforts to identify broad patterns of social interaction tend to play up the significance of structure, while studies of specific events bring agency to the fore. International relations theory is typically associated with the former, and foreign policy analysis (FPA) is more closely linked to the latter. That association suggests that the question of agency versus structure in international outcomes is settled in FPA in favor of agency. An assessment of the literature in FPA shows such a suggestion to be wide of the mark. Not only does FPA struggle with the question of agency versus structure that pervades the study of international relations generally, but also it wrestles with how to reconcile agency and structure in the context of psychological constraints on human cognition. Thus, rather than resolving the debate between agency and structure, the literature on FPA shows that it extends down to the level of individual policymakers. The debate over the role of agency and structure occupies two axes. The first is the engagement of FPA with broader debates over agency and structure in international relations scholarship. The second is the tension between agency and structure in FPA that emerges once psychology is incorporated into the analytical matrix. In both cases, the significance of structure in the actual analysis of foreign policy is far greater than common conception recognizes. This reality means that FPA represents the cutting edge for theoretical and analytical efforts to understand the relationship between structure and agency in international outcomes.
Elizabeth A. Lane and Ryan C. Black
The Supreme Court's docket consists of thousands of cases each term, with petitioners hoping at least four justices will be compelled to grant review to their case. The decision to move a case from their docket to their calendar for oral arguments and all intermediate steps is what is known as the agenda-setting process. This is a fundamental step in the judicial process, as the Supreme Court cannot establish precedent and affect policy change without first deciding to review.
Thomas A. Birkland and Kathryn L. Schwaeble
Agenda setting is a crucial aspect of the public policy process. Sudden, rare, and harmful events, known as focusing events, can be important influences on the policy process. Such events can reveal current and potential future harms, mobilize people and groups to address the policy failures that may be revealed by such events, and open the "window of opportunity" for intensive policy discussion and potential policy change. But focusing events operate differently at different times and in different policy domains. Although the idea of focusing events is firmly rooted in Kingdon's "streams approach" to the policy process, focusing events are an important element of most contemporary theories of the policy process. But not every event works as a focusing event. The process by which a focusing event can yield policy change is complex and involves attention to the problems revealed by the event as well as evidence of learning from the event on the part of policymakers. Although focusing events are important, in many ways the concept remains underdeveloped, with few researchers seeking to understand the dynamics of these important events.
Jonathan Klüser and Marco Radojevic
Research on policy agendas and agenda-setting has developed into an important subdiscipline of comparative politics, which seeks to understand how political actors allocate scarce attention. The theoretical origins of the field describe agenda-setting as a "conflict of conflicts," that is the political struggle over the question of which issues receive attention. Modern scholars have expanded on these ideas and turned them into important theoretical models of the agenda-setting process. The most influential of these models are Kingdon's multiple streams approach and Baumgartner and Jones' punctuated equilibrium theory. The former analyses the emergence of issues in the separate streams of policies, politics, and problems, whose coupling is necessary for any issue in order to be considered for political decision-making. In contrast, the latter stresses the importance of negative and positive feedback mechanisms in order to explain long periods of incremental policy change and sudden radical changes, which characterize the policy process. Inspired by the second approach is the Comparative Agendas Project, which is a comprehensive and comparative data collection effort about policy agendas using a unified taxonomy. These data enable scholars to research the entire political process from media inputs via government throughput to legislative output. Studying governmental agendas, it is paramount to stress that—against common wisdom—political ideology does not play a decisive role in the agenda-setting process. Rather, both leftist and rightist governments seek to portray themselves as potent problem-solvers and respond to problematic societal condition in order to prove their competence. Looking at the media as one potentially powerful political agenda-setter, it turns out that newspapers and television channels' power to steer the political agenda hinges on a variety of conditions. Generally, media outlets are most successful in setting the agenda if they report on issues that otherwise would not have been brought to the public's attention. But even then, the media's role appears to be restricted to narrowing down the issue menu from which politicians can choose when setting their agenda. The study of political agendas is by no means limited to these areas, as shown by the hundreds of articles that have been published in major political science journals over the past decades. While the agenda approach has not yet developed into a theory of politics, it has certainly become a major subdiscipline of comparative politics, which has helped make sense of the political world.
Claudio Cioffi-Revilla
Agent-based computational modeling (ABM, for short) is a formal and supplementary methodological approach used in international relations (IR) theory and research, based on the general ABM paradigm and computational methodology as applied to IR phenomena. ABM of such phenomena varies according to three fundamental dimensions: scale of organization—spanning foreign policy, international relations, regional systems, and global politics—as well as by geospatial and temporal scales. ABM is part of the broader complexity science paradigm, although ABMs can also be applied without complexity concepts. There have been scores of peer-reviewed publications using ABM to develop IR theory in recent years, based on earlier pioneering work in computational IR that originated in the 1960s that was pre-agent based. Main areas of theory and research using ABM in IR theory include dynamics of polity formation (politogenesis), foreign policy decision making, conflict dynamics, transnational terrorism, and environment impacts such as climate change. Enduring challenges for ABM in IR theory include learning the applicable ABM methodology itself, publishing sufficiently complete models, accumulation of knowledge, evolving new standards and methodology, and the special demands of interdisciplinary research, among others. Besides further development of main themes identified thus far, future research directions include ABM applied to IR in political interaction domains of space and cyber; new integrated models of IR dynamics across domains of land, sea, air, space, and cyber; and world order and long-range models.
Lin Qiu and Riyang Phang
Political systems involve citizens, voters, politicians, parties, legislatures, and governments. These political actors interact with each other and dynamically alter their strategies according to the results of their interactions. A major challenge in political science is to understand the dynamic interactions between political actors and extrapolate from the process of individual political decision making to collective outcomes. Agent-based modeling (ABM) offers a means to comprehend and theorize the nonlinear, recursive, and interactive political process. It views political systems as complex, self-organizing, self-reproducing, and adaptive systems consisting of large numbers of heterogeneous agents that follow a set of rules governing their interactions. It allows the specification of agent properties and rules governing agent interactions in a simulation to observe how micro-level processes generate macro-level phenomena. It forces researchers to make assumptions surrounding a theory explicit, facilitates the discovery of extensions and boundary conditions of the modeled theory through what-if computational experiments, and helps researchers understand dynamic processes in the real-world. ABM models have been built to address critical questions in political decision making, including why voter turnouts remain high, how party coalitions form, how voters' knowledge and emotion affect election outcomes, and how political attitudes change through a campaign. These models illustrate the use of ABM in explicating assumptions and rules of theoretical frameworks, simulating repeated execution of these rules, and revealing emergent patterns and their boundary conditions. While ABM has limitations in external validity and robustness, it provides political scientists a bottom-up approach to study a complex system by clearly defining the behavior of various actors and generate theoretical insights on political phenomena.


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James Caan has signed on to star in an ABC comedy pilot from Las Vegas writers Mark and Robb Cullen.
The Oscar nominee will star as Terry Sr. in the Untitled Cullen Brothers Project, a single-camera comedy about a recently divorced single mom who temporarily moves in with her estranged father, a beer-drinking former baseball player. She reluctantly starts coaching her son's Little League team and finds herself drawn back into the sports world she once vowed to leave behind.
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Aaron Kaplan will also serve as an executive producer.
The project marks a reunion for the Cullen brothers and Caan, who starred on Las Vegas for four seasons. He recently appeared on his son Scott's series, Hawaii Five-0. He will next recur on the new season of Starz's Magic City.


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Everyday I seem to find more and more ways to play with my E61i.
Python is a extremely powerful language , wich is finding everyday more and more ways to apply itself to the mobile world.
So this is how you would go on about pairing your S60 phone with Windows XP.
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What if Airlines Were Run Like Starbucks?
Scott McCartney has a look at why the airline industry can penalize customers, surprise them with fees, change prices multiple times a day, and still turn a profit.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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