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With Bruins development camp in the rear-view mirror and the Bruins roster pretty close to full barring any bold moves from B's general manager Don Sweeney, there isn't much movement anticipated for the Black and Gold the next few weeks.
Certainly there isn't much expected until the Bruins learn about their chances in the Jimmy Vesey Sweepstakes Aug. 15. The addition of the Hobey Baker winner and Harvard captain could spur on a couple of moves from the Bruins front office and would certainly result in some alterations in terms of talent and salary cap makeup on the NHL roster.
But it's all quiet on the Black and Gold front for right now, so there's ample time for another edition of the Hagg Bag mailbag. As always, these are tweets to my Twitter account using the #HaggBag hash tag, emails to my email@example.com and messages to my CSN Facebook page. Now, on to the tag:
I still keep coming back to that interview, which for a Bruins fan had to make you giddy like Jimmy [Vesey] was when he responded to you about the possibility of putting a B's jersey on.
After hearing your podcast with Jim Murphy, I agree with you there are a lot of options out there such as Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, San Jose to play with [Joe] Thornton his idol, or New Jersey but if his father lets him make his own decision, as he's stated, then the B's have a great chance of signing him.
He wanted the B's to [draft] him but Don was not the GM then so being given a chance on August 15 to do just that has to be one of his biggest factors. Add that to having his family close by, knowing Jimmy Hayes, Matt Grzelcyk, & Ryan Donato (plus knowing and appreciating Torey) I can't wait until the 15th. Why wait until your later years to play in Boston when you can sign now?
Question is with Loui gone taking 30 goals off the board I think his signing on top of acquiring [David] Backes will be more than replace those goals. But who then can the B's trade away, not right away, but into the season to acquire some help in other areas?
The first name is [David] Krejci, [Adam] McQuaid, and possibly Jimmy Hayes if he has a second subpar season. Could the inclusion of Krejci, who can produce, be dealt along with some other pieces to acquire a player like [Jonas] Brodin or [Matthew] Dumba & also have a chance of getting a player like Charlie Coyle?
What lines do you see? What about the following:
1st Line- Jimmy Vesey-David Krejci- David Backes
2nd Line- Brad Marchand-Patrice Bergeron-& David Pastrnak who, like Seguin, might be better suited with Patrice?
3rd Line- Matt Beleskey-Ryan Spooner-Jimmy Hayes
4th Line- Frank Vatrano- Noel Acciari- Riley Nash
Backend- Zdeno Chara-Colin Miller; Torey Krug-Kevan Miller; & John Michael Liles-Adam McQuaid or Brandon Carlo (long shot is to acquire Jacob Trouba from Winnipeg because he wants top four minutes and has Buff and Myers ahead of him on the depth chart…if possible slot him in the second unit with Torey and deal either McQuaid or Miller)
Another point I would like to touch on is also from your comments on the podcast or NHL XM/Sirius radio when you mentioned the Bruins have to caution themselves from dealing away valuable picks, or assets, for rental players at the trade deadline. One point that Don Sweeney has made on a number of occasions was that the Bruins targeted defensemen and big center-men. My hope now is that since they have re-stocked the system they need to draft the top potential player available on the board rather than selecting based upon a particular need. Not to knock who they have drafted but they need to pick the best player available keeping in mind the importance placed on picks to having hockey sense and leadership or character traits. The selection of David Pastrnak is a case in point as he's a high skilled player who needed to learn the defensive game. I hope that future drafts will see the Bruins focused on the best player available not based on the position they play.
Greig Young
JH: Glad you enjoyed the Jimmy Vesey, interview. I came away with a much better feeling about the kid in general than I did going in without knowing much about him. I think a lot of the whispered stuff you hear about him is coming from those around him rather than him. It's understandable that Vesey's dad might have strong opinions about it all given that he played in the NHL. So, surely he's advising his son, but I got the strong sense this is about the 23-year-old Vesey making the decision for himself, and what's best for his career and his own chances of NHL success.
I went into the interview thinking that the Bruins had a very good chance based upon what I'd heard, and talking with Vesey did nothing to dissuade me from that feeling. Could the Blackhawks swoop in and snatch him at the last minute? Maybe. Or maybe he's had designs on going to Toronto all the time.
But I've heard Boston was one of the frontrunners all along, and I'm going to continue to believe that until we know for sure.
Whether it's Brodin, Dumba, Kevin Shattenkirk, Cam Fowler, Jacob Trouba, Tyson Barrie or somebody else, I do think the Bruins are poised to pull the trigger on another move if Vesey does indeed sign with Boston next month. It would certainly make a winger on the NHL roster expendable, and the Bruins already have a slew of NHL-caliber centers as well.
As for the draft, I'm a firm believer in always picking the best player available. When you pick by positional needs over best player, that's when you end up with nonsensical choices like Malcolm Subban in the first round in 2012.
If they get Vesey do they run at Barrie with 54, 72 & 51?
--Russ Romandini (@goldenpipesss)
JH: Who knows? If the arbitration process goes badly enough for Tyson Barrie and the Avalanche then perhaps he'll get dealt somewhere. If the Bruins sign Vesey, then I'd expect a couple of those players you mentioned (Adam McQuaid, Frank Vatrano, Ryan Spooner) might be in play to get a dynamic, young top-four defenseman the Bruins could immediately plug in as a top-pairing candidate with Zdeno Chara.
That would be my expectation of how things go down with the Bruins, but if we've learned one thing it should be this: it's awfully, awfully difficult to close a deal in the NHL for a high-caliber defenseman, and it might not be in the cards for Don Sweeney and the Bruins prior to the start of the season.
The Bruins need to get one of those D-men if they really want to compete this season, so we'll see what happens if/when Vesey signs with them. If Vesey signs elsewhere then I'd expect the Bruins will go into the season with what they currently have.
#StrangerThings have you ever played D&D like Mike, Dustin and Lucas? Did you ever sport a mullet in the 80s?
--borisan (@borisan28)
JH: Yes, and don't forget about poor Will. He was there playing at the beginning and the end too. Right around that age I played my share of Dungeons and Dragons along with love of baseball cards, addiction to Strat-O-Matic baseball, football, basketball and hockey and a steady diet of outdoor sports playing with the many kids in my neighborhood.
I definitely owned a Players Handbook (though I was never hardcore enough into it to be a Dungeon Master, and wasn't nearly geeky enough to suitably fit in with the real bone fide D&D nerds in the town I grew up in), and had a longstanding high-level fighter/magic user named Huon Pendragon that I role-played with. I'm willing to bet I still have some 20-sided dice around the house somewhere. And don't forget about the golden age of Nintendo right around then as well: RBI Baseball, Tecmo Bowl, Mike Tyson's Punchout, Spy Hunter, and Nintendo Hockey among others.
What a great time to be a kid. I definitely had some form of a mullet in middle school during the mid-1980's, but it was probably not as definitive as many during that time period.
Which prospect will surprise us and make the roster?
--Michael Matthews (@MMATTHEWS4)
JH: Brandon Carlo and Danton Heinen are both expected to compete for spots, so I'm not sure I'd label either one of them a surprise. How about Jeremy Lauzon? He's a 2015 second-round pick coming off a big junior season and the Bruins rave about his approach, his work ethic and certainly seem to think he'll be a top-four defenseman someday soon. Perhaps it's as soon as this season. Jake DeBrusk would be my best guess among the forwards after a strong development camp performance. Claude Julien is already on record as being a fan of his toughness and his willingness to do the work as a young player, and the NHL bloodlines from his dad Louie don't hurt either.
With plenty of cap space and losing a 30 goal scorer, was it foolish of Sweeney not getting Versteeg for a cheap 1 or 2 yrs?
--Jeremiah Kilburn (@vtmxjer66)
JH: Not a huge Kris Versteeg fan and, incidentally, neither is the rest of the NHL if he had to go to Europe for steady work for next season. Versteeg is a tough player: good enough to be paid decently in the NHL based on his numbers, but not a good fit in anything but a supporting role on a good hockey team. I'd rather see the Bruins bring along young kids in that spot or hope that something has inspired Jimmy Hayes this summer.
Will Rask bounce back from last year? What will Cassidy provide behind the bench to help the B's this year?
--Bob Falfa (@FalfaBob)
JH: I think Rask will have a better season provided the Bruins can execute a deal for another puck-moving defenseman. If they go into the season with the current group of D-men, then I think Rask will be in line for another season similar to this past one. Why would anybody think there's going to be a radically different result?
I obviously don't think Rask was consistently at his best last season, but I also think 80-90 percent of his troubles last season are attributable to the shoddy defense in front of him. Plain and simple, cut and dried. Bruce Cassidy is a keen offensive mind and he's good with young players, which means he either A) will be a nice compliment to Julien as sort of a counter-point on the coaching staff or B) will end up replacing Julien and pushing the Bruins more in the offense and youth direction if the B's struggle mightily at the start of next season.
The Bruins should get more out of Ryan Spooner and Colin Miller with Cassidy on the staff, or should in theory at least.
I've long been of the opinion that things are a little stale with this Bruins group, and that a change of coaching voice might be the best thing for them given the current direction of the franchise. It doesn't take away what Julien has done over the past 10 years, or reflect his standing as an excellent hockey coach. He just might not be the right coach for this Bruins team and the direction that they're headed. It should be a really interesting season because I don't think Cassidy takes the NHL assistant gig in Boston unless he thinks there's another NHL head coaching shot in his future. That's just my opinion, of course, but certainly an informed one.
Hey Joe - why do the Bruins not promote Tommy Cross? Too old now?
--John Thiell (via CSN Facebook page)
JH: Tommy Cross is what he is: a solid, tough pro and leader of men at the AHL level, who can perform in spots when called upon at the NHL level. I just don't think he skates well enough anymore to be a regular NHL D-man after all of his knee surgeries, and it's a shame given the kind of player he was before all of the knee issues. He would not be an upgrade if he was among the Bruins D-men group to break NHL camp this fall.
I think the B's will be better than predicted. But if things go south do you think they move Chara at the deadline? #HaggBag
--Ray Guarino (@rayguarino)
JH: I like your optimism. If things go south for the Bruins, I would hope they'd explore that kind of a move while clearly changing the blue line guard. They should have explored it last year as well, in my humble opinion.
Who the hell is Chief Hopper feeding in @Stranger_Things? Elle? Demogorgon? Ryan Fitzpatrick?
--CP (@cpierce1994)
JH: I'm going with "El", but not ruling out Ryan Fitzpatrick. Something tells me that El and the Demogorgon are linked together, or perhaps two sides of the same being. It will be interesting to see how they explore it in Season Two, but suffice to say that I recommend "Stranger Things" on Netflix to anybody that hasn't seen it: an awesome, addictive 1980's homage eight episode series that combines E.T., Poltergeist, Firestarter, War Games, Goonies and Nightmare on Elm Street. It's just that good.
Brad Marchand for Hampus Lindholm and Chris Wagner
--Joe Harris (via CSN Facebook page)
JH: Okay, but are you asking me or telling me? If you're asking me, I don't think the Ducks are going to do that unless Marchand is signed to a reasonable, long-term contract. And I don't think he's going to be signing one of those: he's going to get something in the neighborhood of eight years and $50 million on a new contract if the Bruins are willing to go there.
Joe, will the Bruins look at either Kris Russell or James Wisniewski before camp or wait till to see what happens with the young guys
--Eugene Mannarino (@steelman58)
JH: Perhaps, but the price would have to be right. I also don't think either of those would be candidates unless the Bruins go into training camp and don't like what they see out of Joe Morrow, Miller and Carlo. Russell was a consideration, but I think he's still looking for far too much money and term for the Bruins to be interested right now.
What is the most realistic situation for the Bruins adding to their D? And who do you see as the most promising B's prospect
--Colin Miller (@sportschatterHD)
JH: The most realistic situation is the Bruins signing Vesey, and then trading Vatrano or Spooner and a first round pick to St. Louis for Kevin Shattenkirk, or perhaps even trading David Krejci to the Blues for Shattenkirk once they get into the season and show that he's fully recovered from his hip surgery. I think Charlie McAvoy is the most promising Bruins prospect and that he's a legit top-pairing talent a couple of years down the line.
He's got the skating, the passing, the size, the willingness to mix it up physically, and the offensive instincts to be effective while skating big, big minutes. He says he wants to play like Drew Doughty and there's more than a little of that kind of player within McAvoy's game. Even if he can be 80 percent of Doughty, that is a guy the Bruins can win with as one of their top defenders. He's exactly what they need, but it will be a year or two before the 18-year-old is ready for Boston.
Combine McAvoy with Carlo, Jakub Zboril, Lauzon and a young NHL talent in Torey Krug, and you have the makings of a pretty talented back end a few years down the road. That doesn't excuse the mess of a blue line the Bruins have right now, however, that's alarmingly the same as last year's weak unit that dragged down the hockey club.
I am very disillusioned with the Boston Bruins. I am angry they traded Seguin (Chiarelli), Reilly Smith and Dougie Hamilton, for essentially nothing.
They allowed Eriksson to walk, not even getting a draft pick. They draft terribly and usually choose checkers…meanwhile, other teams in the East are improving. Bruins are not pro-active. I honestly think they do not know what they are doing. Sweeney and Neely must be listening to dinosaur Harry Sinden. Harry also hated scorers and offensive-minded prayers.
This team needs an upgraded defense, plus some young dynamic scoring (work so hard to score goals) talent up front, especially now that Eriksson is gone. I am so frustrated with idiots Don Sweeny, Cam Neely, Gretzky, Claude and scouts. I want them to be fired immediately; I want Jacobs to sell the team. I want some young scoring forwards on this team... and a coach/organization that is more offensive-minded/friendly. They are so boring....
Thanks for your attention.
J.E. Shay
JH: Get it all, out. Get it all out, J.E. This mailbag is cheaper than any Bruins therapy session you'd ever attend in person. I suspect your opinion will change if the Bruins make the playoffs this season while introducing more of the young talent in their pipeline. If they don't, then I'll expect another one of these from you next summer. See you guys in a couple of weeks and thanks for the great questions.


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It entirely depends on whether the filesystem on the FTP server is case sensitive or not. Typically, on non-Windows systems, the filesystem is case-sensitive, and on Windows systems the filesystem is case-insensitive. There's nothing you can really do..
For example, on a Linux server, you might have all of these file existing simultaneously: "Abc.txt", "ABC.txt", "abC.txt", "abc.TXT", "abc.txt", etc. The FTP server can only do one thing: try to open the filename requested by the FTP client. On a case-sensitive filesystem, the match must be exact. On a case-insensitive filesystem, the FTP server will succeed in opening the file even if the case does not match.

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Eight years on, Syria army conscripts pack bags for home
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Damascus (AFP)
After eight years of military service, Syrian conscript Sonel Ali swapped his drab army uniform for bright civilian clothes last week as he packed his things one last time.
Ali was among thousands of young men who was enlisted in 2010, a year before the brutal repression of anti-government protests in Syria spiralled into one of the worst conflicts of the century.
He thought he was joining the military for a maximum of two years, but instead ended up serving in Syria's war until now.
His drawn-out deployment ended last Friday, after the army ordered 2010 conscripts to demobilise.
"I'm finally leaving guns and dirt barricades behind," said the ecstatic 34-year-old, who hails from the central city of Homs but was last deployed hours away in Syria's south.
As he packed, Ali's phone buzzed with calls from loved ones congratulating him, but also from comrades for whom the good news had not yet arrived.
"We're the first ones and you will join us," he reassured a friend over the phone. "The biggest battles are over."
The number of frontlines has diminished now and Syria's regime has retaken more than half of the country with Russian backing, this year notching up a string of victories against rebels near Damascus.
Before he zipped up his black canvas bag, Ali dropped in the gourd and traditional straw he had used to slurp bitter mate tea throughout the seven-year war.
"I'm keeping" these, he said. "They were my companions throughout my military service."
All packed, he posed with fellow fighters for their first group picture out of army slacks, before heading their separate ways back to civilian life.
- Hero's welcome -
Before Syria's conflict erupted in 2011, men 18 and older had to serve up to two years in the armed forces, after which they remained part of the reserves.
But when war began, anyone enlisted stayed on active duty.
The government's 300,000-strong army is estimated to have been nearly halved by deaths, injuries and defections, and conscripts kept having their deployments extended.
Mohammad Damour had always wanted to become a reporter, but his dreams were postponed when his 18-month deployment turned into an eight-year tour.
"War set me back 10 years, but I was demobilised today," Damour told AFP in a bustling market in Damascus, snapping pictures of sweet stands with his camera.
"I was supposed to have graduated at 22. But I'm 27 and still in the first year of journalism school," he said.
On the edge of Syria's second city Aleppo, Maher Daro's family had prepared a hero's welcome.
His father was waiting to ferry the returning soldier home in a sleek black Mercedes, specially festooned with red and white flowers. He had even hired a drumming band.
As soon as Daro pulled up in his car, the drums kicked off, celebratory gunfire rang out, and relieved relatives broke into a traditional Arabic circle dance.
Daro's mother and sisters let off shrill ululations typically heard at weddings and other celebrations.
"It's like a new birth," Daro said. "Those who go to war are lost, and those who return are born again."
Grinning from ear to ear, he embraced long-lost friends and distributed sweets to those who had come to greet him.
Late at night after most guests had left, he regaled his closest friends with stories from the front, including the former rebel bastion of Eastern Ghouta outside Damascus that the regime recaptured in April.
- 'Where will I go?' -
Syria's government has recovered more than half the country, bolstered by air strikes from its Russian ally, by local militias and regional fighters.
The army has replenished its ranks with thousands of young men living in these areas who had not completed their compulsory service.
"It's a five-star war now," said Daro. "Everywhere I fought is safe now: Damascus, Homs, Latakia."
But such a warm welcome was not in store for all.
In a military barracks outside Damascus, Mohammed Ala, 31, huddled in a corner of his room after hearing he would be among those demobilised.
"Where will I go?" he asked again and again, cupping his forehead in his palm.
Ala, speaking under a pseudonym, said he was cut off from his northern home city of Raqa after it was overrun by rebels and then the Islamic State group, before falling to US-backed fighters.
His family had fled to Turkey, and he had no way to reach his childhood home and beloved farmland.
"I would spend all my leaves at the barracks," he told AFP on the eve of the demobilisation order.
"But in a day's time, I have no idea where I will sleep, or what I will eat or drink."
Ala gazed nostalgically at an old picture of his mother, fretting over what awaited him.
"For those without shelter, military service was the closest thing to a fixed job with a decent salary," he said.


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Phil Spector Gets Likely Life Sentence For Murder
Phil Spector was sentenced today for the killing of actress Lana Clarkson to 19 years to life, a sentence that means the 69-year old music producer will likely die in prison.
Spector was among the recording industry's most important producers in the 1960s, creating his trademark "wall of sound" and producing one of the greatest hits of all time, the Righteous Brothers, "You've Lost that Loving Feeling." He also produced solo efforts by John Lennon and George Harrison, including Lennon's "Imagine" album.
Here's the Associated Press story:
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Music producer Phil Spector has been sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson.
A Los Angeles judge sentenced Spector on Friday to 15 years to life for second-degree murder and four years for personal use of a gun. The judge is also ordering restitution payments.
A jury convicted the 69-year-old Spector in the fatal shooting of Clarkson at his home in 2003.
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Mein Kampf Revisited
The Plan
The funding for this will be a new US slush fund of $80 million increased by $20 million per year, plus all the dirty destabilization money (unknown multimillions per year) now being funneled through AID, NED, the so-called NGO's in Florida, and the US Interests Section in Havana.
Under the Plan, in the future all Cuban communication, electric power, transport, mining, industry, agriculture, medical, and other productive enterprise will be privatized and the vital actors (US and its entrepreneurs) will build and create for Cuba a water and sanitation system, a health care system, an education system, a transportation system, a communication system, a shelter system (homes for everyone), a food security system (a chicken in every pot), all presumably similar to what we are doing for or to the Iraqi people. Much more, in fact, than we are willing to do for the people of New Orleans.
Our generosity to the Cubans is conditioned however on their acceptance of a new political economy which is similar to our own. There's very little said in the Plan about what already exists in Cuba, and nothing about the effects of our blockade and terrorism against Cubans. It's as if the institutions, infrastructure and protective capabilities which have been created in 45 years of independence are so insignificant they're not worth mentioning.
Not surprisingly, this plan is rife with the usual code words this Administration uses to manipulate public opinion, such as "democracy" (commercial oligarchy), "freedom" (of the big fish to eat the little ones), and "dissenters" (the few hundred Cubans, US paid mercenaries, on the island). The Plan is also full of statements about what changes the Cuban people want (with no supporting evidence), but says little about any role for them in pursuing their supposed desires. Indeed, they are treated as the objects of a transformation to be carried out by others. They are seen as helpless and ignorant, in desperate need of education and training in the complexities of modern consumer society. Somewhat similar in tone but much more intense than the 19th century French idea of "noblesse oblige" (the noble obligation) or the English idea of "the white man's burden." (Kipling)
The Plan is to rebuild the Cuban nation from the bottom up, from scratch to an eventual capitalist neo-colony similar to those that now exist in Central America and the Caribbean. Very little is said, however, about how we get from present reality to "scratch." The first six months are said to be crucial. This is when the Cuban Transition Government (CTG) will be set up. Clearly this means a puppet government such as were created for Afghanistan and Iraq. The nation building will be done on request of these puppets. Funding will consist of an imposed IMF structural adjustment loan, other International bank loans, international investment, especially by the "Cuban community abroad," and direct US taxpayer help where deemed appropriate.
The Cuban Constitution
Much concern is expressed in the Plan about Fidel Castro's "strategy" for succession. Cuba has a constitution, but no mention of it is made in the Plan. Nor, seemingly, is one to be written for them, as was done in Afghanistan and Iraq. Apparently constitutions are no longer considered necessary. The Plan says that Castro's strategy is that his brother becomes president when he leaves office, which the Plan's vital actors (US and its entrepreneurs) will not allow to happen.
The Cuban Constitution was developed at local and provincial levels in the early 1970s, and was approved by 97% of eligible Cuban voters in 1976. Following the "rectification" period in the late 1980s, it was substantially amended in 1992 by the same process and a more than 2/3 vote in the National Assembly as required. In 2002, in response to the proposed Varela Project, it was reaffirmed by a vote of over 8 m Cubans, 93% of the adult population.
This constitution establishes a nonpartisan participatory-representative electoral system, which is not similar to ours, but in many respects is more accountable and democratic. At the local and provincial levels there must be two or more candidates for each office, at the national level it's a parliamentary type system where any candidate for the 619, five-year National Assembly seats must receive at least 50% of the vote to win office.
The executive (called the Council of State, analogous to our president and cabinet) consists of 24 elected (every five years) members of the Assembly headed by a president and vice president, which presently are the duly elected Castro brothers.
The Constitution provides that if the president is unable to continue or leaves for any reason, the Vice President will take his place until the National Assembly elects a new President. The Assembly and the Castro brothers have frequently said any succession will occur according to the Constitution. The only way it could be stopped or changed is by a US military intervention. Thus, this Plan is in effect, as Cuba's Assembly President Richard Alarcon has stated, a declaration of war. It's a combination of unsupported, vague generalities, gross exaggeration, insults, hypocrisy and outright falsehoods. It's a tunnel-visioned ultimatum that acknowledges no possibility that there may be other views and perspectives about Cuba. It eliminates the likelihood of public discussion of such in the US before our superior military power is introduced to settle the matter. It bears no relation to the reality of Cuba or the century and half struggle of its people for autonomy. It's another blast in the relentless Cuba propaganda campaign that our government has been conducting for years.
Many Americans are
becoming aware of how unreliable our media is and how we are being
manipulated through it by our government. After all, for most of us,
everything we know about foreign countries comes from the media. In the
past, by exercising our constitutional right to travel to other countries
at peace with us, we were able to see and learn the truth ourselves or
from reports by honest people. In the case of Cuba, however, the effects
of the false propaganda are multiplied exponentially by prohibiting travel
there. Our government knows that if we were able to learn the reality of
Cuba, its entire re-colonization effort would quickly collapse in
It's unusual to publicly issue beforehand a plan for the subjugation of a sovereign nation. The last historical example which comes to mind is the 1924 publication of Adolph Hitler's Mein Kampf, which outlined his proposed steps in the upcoming takeover of Germany by the Nazi Party. Unfortunately, no one in Europe paid much attention to it. Americans should ask themselves why our government is issuing a Plan like this at this time.
Clearly, pander is
an important factor. The South Florida business community, which consists
of people with all kinds of ancestry, including Cuban, American, Latin,
has always seen Cuba as its competitor in the main industry, tourism. It
funds most of our national and Florida anti-Cuba politicians and receives
from them in return a brutal blockade, a vicious anti-Cuba policy, and
even more taxpayer money in return.
Americans would be wise, in their own self-interest, to try to reign in this Administration before it further executes this Plan. Any intervention in Cuba will lead to a brutal war and a long, harsh, bloody occupation/insurgency, which will end only when the Americans withdraw completely.
Tom Crumpacker is a member of the Miami Coalition to End the US Embargo of Cuba. He lives in Austin, Texas.


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DiscoverTheNetworks (DTN) is a database/search website meant to track "the left" and terrorists, with an implicit connection between the two, with some similarities to SourceWatch. It is a project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. DiscoverTheNetworks was launched on February 15, 2005, but Horowitz claims it was two-years under development. The About Us section explains, DTN:
- is a "Guide to the Political Left." It identifies the individuals and organizations that make up the left and also the institutions that fund and sustain it; it maps the paths through which the left exerts its influence on the larger body politic; it defines the left's (often hidden) programmatic agendas and it provides an understanding of its history and ideas.
It continues:
- By browsing this database, and familiarizing oneself with the agendas of the individuals and organizations it contains, with the scope of their activities and with the tens of millions of dollars available to support them, a user of this base will find ample evidence for the existence of this left and for the fact that it is a major player in the political destinies of the nation. (See in particular the organizations and individuals associated with ANTI-WAR groups and The Shadow Party.)
The movement to protest the war in Iraq reconfigured the presidential campaign of 2004 and has affected American policy not only in Iraq but in the War on Terror generally. It has changed the face of the Democratic Party and of American politics in general. What is the nature of this '??anti-war'? movement, who are its leaders, and what are its agendas? The scope and features of this database allow for definitive answers to these questions.
...The database also provides group profiles of the organizations engaged in organizing opposition to the Patriot Act, as well as to frontline homeland security defenses such as border control (GROUPS/IMMIGRATION) and the linkages between them. Following the network of these organizations and individuals through the base reveals that they have agendas and perspectives that range far beyond the legal issues themselves and are rooted in their radical opposition to the American status quo. These agendas are anti-corporate and socialist.[1]
DTN copies the Campus Watch formula, but is applied to the broader political movement, as the About Us section explains:
- Other concerns are certain to be raised that we will not regard as legitimate but rather as veiled expressions of distress over the factual information revealed on the site. A cry of such distress has already greeted a perfectly reasonable database called Campus Watch, provided by the Middle East Forum. This site records and analyzes the views of leftwing academics concerning terrorism in the Islamic world, views that can fairly be described as apologetic and even sympathetic to the radical Islamist cause. Critics of Campus Watch, many of them with views identical to those reviewed on the site, have claimed that the very enterprise of posting such critical reviews is '??McCarthyism'? and an Internet '??witch-hunt'.? Such responses reflect an anti-intellectual attitude that seeks to embargo the political debate before it takes place.[2]
Overall, DTN is a Smear Portal on academics, journalists, and activists on the left. It is a website where all the smears and red baiting that can be found in FrontPageMag, Campus Watch, and similar-ilk-organizations are put under one roof for "research".
Smear Portal
The DTN website contains a section on individuals, and states: "This section examines activists for leftwing agendas and causes, radical egalitarians, and opponents of American 'imperialism' "[1]. It applies a smearing by association to the well known "leftists". Namely, DTN provides a list of leftists and intersperses the names/photos of demonized "terrorists" or people the neo-cons love to hate. For example, the first person on the list is "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi" (a demonized terrorist) and next to him is Al Sharpton. It continues, Dennis Kucinich, Fidel Castro, George Soros, Harold Ickes, Howard Dean, Jane Fonda, Jesse Jackson, Jim McDermott, etc. Guilt by association is implied, but there isn'??t any association between many of the people on the list. The only thing that is attempted here is to smear some of the individuals involved, implying that there is an association with unsavory terrorists - although they forgot to add OBL! NB: DTN considers John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi as leftists, thus its remit is rather wide.
Noam Chomsky's DTN profile reveals further the bias of the author and director of this website. Most of the smears, misrepresentation and abuse in this section derive from David Horowitz's The Sick Mind of Noam Chomsky, The Sick Mind of Noam Chomsky, Part II: Method and Madness, etc. There is a long list of articles of a similar nature by the likes of Horowitz, Peter Collier, Elliot Jager, Bruce Thornton, Anders G. Lewis, Benjamin Kerstein, Paul Crespo etc.[3]
Just like Campus Watch, DTN is a hardline zionist organization[4]. Both organizations have targeted critics of Israel or of US foreign policy in the Middle East. The Issues section of the DTN website lists The Middle East, and it ports much of the material available on Campus Watch and Middle East Forum.
Leftists that DTN loves to hate:
Personnel and writers
- David Horowitz, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
- John Perazzo, Content Editor
- Genesio Zenone, Design, Web Construction
- David Dennick, web assistant
- Joel Mowbray, Consultant
Researchers & Writers
- Lowell Ponte
- Richard Poe
- Mike Bauer
- Jacob Laksin
- Karen Hickey
- Roberta Leguizamon
- Joe Wilson
- Thomas Ryan
- Joe Kaufman
- Lisa Makson
- Claude Cartaginese
- Jeff Wiener
- Greg Yardley
- Kevin Beckman
- Larry Cott
- Lee Kaplan
- Anders G. Lewis
Source viewed February 16, 2005.
Contact details
Web: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org
External articles
- Kurt Nimmo, "DiscoverTheNetwork: David Horowitz's Smear Portal", February 15, 2005.
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Dunno if naming conventions are different here then at Wikipedia, but if not this content needs to be moved to Discover_the_Networks (with an "s", reflecting the name change a while back) with redirects from DiscoverTheNetwork and Discover_The_Network (both exist, the latter virtually empty of content). Andyvphil 06:33, 15 January 2007 (EST)


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The FBI on Wednesday released more details on its investigation into the recent shooting at a GOP baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, saying 66-year-old James Hodgkinson acted alone and the attack did not have a "nexus to terrorism."
The shooting last Wednesday injured five, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who is still hospitalized in serious condition.
Police shot Hodgkinson at the scene, and he later died of his injuries.
Hodgkinson had been living in his car near the Alexandria area since March, and had told a family member he was travelling to Washington, DC, the FBI said. Shortly before he left his home in Belleville, Illinois, local police had responded to several complaints about target practice Hodgkinson had been conducting at his home, although they determined he had been breaking no laws.
Hodgkinson carried out the Alexandria attack using a SKS 7.62mm-calibre rifle and 9mm handgun he had purchased legally, according to the FBI.
After the attack, investigators found a piece of paper on his body that listed the names of six members of Congress, but no other context, the FBI said. They did not specify which six lawmakers were named.
Investigators also found that Hodgkinson had visited his unit at a storage facility more than 43 times between April and June. The unit contained a laptop, more than 200 rounds of ammunition, the receipt for his 2016 rifle purchase, and other rifle components.
The FBI also analysed Hodgkinson's devices and social media accounts, and said that although his posts included numerous "anti-Republican" sentiments, they appear so far to be First Amendment-protected speech. He had also Google searched a map from Alexandria to his Belleville home, as well as the term "2017 Republican Convention," the night before the shooting.
The FBI also confirmed an account given to media by Rep. Ron DeSantis, who said Hodgkinson had approached him just minutes before the shooting and asked whether the baseball players on the field were Republicans or Democrats.
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margin lending
Use margin lending in a sentence
" There was some margin lending going on and there was some lending institutions that were allowing an individual to borrow money. "
" James Hulton got the large sum of $10,000 from margin lending in order to invest some money in his blossoming bee keeping business. "
" The brokerage was cautious about margin lending to customers, but the seasoned investor's portfolio success was more than enough to convince them that he could handle the risks. "


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International Monetary Fund Annual Report 1970
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International Monetary Fund Annual Report 1970
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- Part II: REVIEW OF THE YEAR
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- Chapter 5 Economic Policies and Balance of Payments Adjustment
- Chapter 6 Foreign Exchange and Gold Markets
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- Appendix I. Executive Board Decisions and Report to the Board of Governors
- Appendix II. Executive Directors and Voting Power on April 30, 1970
- Appendix III. Changes in Membership of Executive Board
- Appendix IV. Administrative Budget
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Last month I sent two BlogCoach readers copies of the new book, The Huffington Post - Complete Guide to Blogging in exchange for their telling us what they thought. Readers Rebecca and Julie did a marvelous job with their reviews. The first review is below. I'll post the second review tomorrow.
This guest review of is from newbie frugal blogger Rebecca, who blogs at The Copper Brick Road.
Recently Angie at the BlogCoach Community gave me the opportunity to review The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging which was written by the editors of The Huffington Post. If you've never heard of the Huffington Post, they give a background on the site in the book. The site has several celebrity bloggers I never knew even blogged (i.e Jamie Lee Curtis, Harry Shearer). I am so glad I got the chance to read it! It was a very educational book! I got soooo much from it!
I am not lying to you whenever I say this book should be the bible to the blogging movement. The first night I got it, I read half way through and actually had to email Angie to tell her that. As a relatively new blogger I certainly appreciated the light wit and the easy-to-understand wording. I mean, as I was reading, I felt like someone had sat me down and was talking me through it step by step. When defining technical terms, I really grasped what they were saying. I do have to admit, when I received the book and saw the front cover, I was really thinking the book was going to have more of that encyclopedia tone. You know, big words and a systematic way of talking. That just goes to show you really can't judge a book by its cover.
The book covers everything! It covers the history of blogs, starting up a blog (finding a subject), how to blog, how blogging works, how to attract more visitors, optimizing your blog for search engines, using sharing tools, how to make money with your blog, and so much more (yes, really...a lot more!). Now I'm being generic here so I don't ruin it for you, but I mean they get really specific like: describing the differences between the blogging sites (i.e Wordpress, Blogger) and about how important it is to have a personality in your writing…just to name two subjects. It was funny how as I was reading I had to grab my laptop and go to the sites they were naming. I'm such a nerd!
Now I know some of you regulars are reading this and saying, "Well, I know all of that." I am telling you though, it is worth everyone's reading. There is always room for improvement and the tips they offer you (especially their guide regarding comments) is really worth it. I mean, you've got editors from a pretty successful blogging site telling you what's worked for them. This book now sits next to my computer as a source of reference. It really is a book you can continue to look back to.
All in all, like I've been saying all along, it truly is an awesome book. It isn't expensive; however it truly is rich in information.
Read another review of The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Review: Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging
Last month I sent two BlogCoach readers copies of the new book, The Huffington Post - Complete Guide to Blogging in exchange for their telling us what they thought. Readers Rebecca and Julie did a marvelous job with their reviews. The first review is below. I'll post the second review tomorrow.


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Dizziness is one of the most common symptoms of anxiety. Referred to by doctors as vertigo, it can feel like a spinning sensation, as if objects are actually spinning round. The dizziness can also feel like the floor is unsteady, rocking up and down like a boat.
One explanation for why anxiety and dizziness often go together is to do with the fight or flight response. When we are anxious our bodies natural protection mechanism, the flight or flight response, tries to protect us by focusing our energy and attention on the perceived threat. It draws blood towards our core and gives less resources to unnecessary functions.
Somewhere along the line our balance mechanism in our inner ear is disrupted causing what is a harmless although unpleasant symptom. It should be noted that dizziness can be caused by other things than anxiety, so a trip to the doctor to rule out ear infections, viruses, labyrinthitis and other physical causes is important.
Assuming it is anxiety, the best thing to do is to come to terms with it. It is harmless and passes quickly as soon as you relax. The problem is that because it feels so unpleasant we tend to assume it is more serious than it is, and this causes us to worry more and feed the fear cycle.
Also read Does Anxiety Cause Dizziness?
If dizziness from anxiety is a serious problem for you then the normal anxiety medications like SSRI's and Benzodiazepines may well help. There is also a drug called prochlorperazine (marketed as Stemetil and Buccastem) which is used to treat dizziness and associated nausea or vomiting.
Really though, drugs should be a last resort. Easier to say than do, but if you can accept anxiety symptoms they will pass, lessen and eventually disappear, and dizziness is no exception. Try taking some calming breaths and telling yourself that the dizziness you are experiencing is just an unpleasant symptom and nothing else.


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Our phones have become such a jack-of-all-trades that slimming down its functionality for any one task, on multiple occasions, seems almost unfair. And yet I know people who do it all the time. Moreover, I know more people than I should that have repeatedly told me that their phone does "more than it needs to," or that "they'll never use" all the features on their phone. Just because. I don't think anyone's going to use *all* the features on their phone all the time, but to just outright dismiss the idea of even using them ever is kind of crazy to me. What if you miss out on things!
More to the point, when Samsung was busy loading their phones with a bunch of different features, basically throwing in everything except the kitchen sink, I remember talking about several of those features to people who I knew didn't use their phone all that often. I told them about things like eye-tracking, and how the particular device would stop playing a video if you looked away from the screen. This, and the other features, all elicited the same response: "That's cool!" but then when asked if they'd use it, I generally got the same shrug of the shoulders, and sometimes a "maybe" for good measure.
Okay, fine. Your phone is a tool and you can use it however you want, that goes without saying. All I'm saying is that they're such cool tools that can do so much, limiting them to one simple thing takes you away from so many cool features! Explore and live a little! Go crazy!
I say this, but there are often days that I use my phone for only one thing, maybe even a couple of days in a row.
Recently, my device has become a blunt instrument in my search for new things. Or, things in general, I guess. Places, landmarks, restaurants, movie theaters, whatever else I can think of at the time, I've used my phone to search for it. I can remember times when that wasn't really possible, outside of calling someone and getting directions, so you'll have to forgive me if I just dwell on the fact my phone's a magical piece of equipment and I can't live without it, okay?
Anyway, my curiosity has gotten the better of me when it comes to singular usage patterns for a smartphone. There's a strong chance that today I'll use my computer more often than not to reply to people who try to get in touch with me, and if I don't play a game on it at some point, then it's very likely that my phone's just going to be a search tool today.
So I started wondering if you, or anyone you know, uses their smartphone in the same way. That, despite all of the features (or maybe because of them), you (or they) will just focus on one thing above all others, and use your phone for that. Even if that's just communication, or just playing games, or maybe even just taking pictures, I want to know what that single use scenario is. So let me know!


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Dentist Assaults And Chokes 6 Year Old Girl While Mom Is Told To Sit In The Waiting Room.
As I was looking through Facebook today, I noticed one of my friends shared a post from Brandi Fagg's Facebook page.
As I saw the photos, and read her complaint, I was absolutely taken back!
I thought it was important to share her story and raise awareness for parents taking their young children to the dentist!
This is what she wrote:
"Okay taking this man public! In December 2014 I took my daughter to the dentist for a cleaning, was told everything looked great. Then I get a call saying I needed to bring her back ASAP due to a tooth in the front that was having problems coming out and the adult tooth was poking through. Well, I took her in on Monday, sit there for two hours. They tell me I cannot go back with her (I did not know the law here that he couldn't refuse me that right) so I did not go back I sit in the waiting room three more hours waiting for her to have one tooth pulled. I went to the window three times to see what was going on and got no answers. Finally the lady came and got me and said there was an accident. I walked in the room and my daughter has bruises and scratches all over her. The nurse said we had her on a papoose board and stepped out of the room. When we came back she was face down on the floor. At this point I grabbed her and walked out to get in my car. My daughter takes the gauze out of her mouth and says 'mommy they are lying to you the man threw me and choked me while the lady sat on me.' At that moment I noticed she was missing 7 teeth, all she had left was her jaw teeth. I said Jesus please take this wheel or I will be going to jail today for life. I take her straight to the emergency room and the police met me there. My daughter had a fractured nose, a fractured eye and a bruised handprint around her neck. His name is Dr. Howard Snyder. Please share the word so no other kids go through this! Look him up, this isn't the first time he has done this. He is awful!"
This dentist Dr. Howard Snyder is located in Jacksonville, Florida. Please, especially if you are from this area, SHARE this information with your friends.
Even if you are not in the Jacksonville, Florida area and you have children, please be aware that they cannot stop you from going into the back with your child!
You have a right to be with your child when they go to the dentist. If they don't allow you to stay with your child, find another dentist!


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A petition convinced Seventeen Magazine to "not alter the body size or face shape of the girls and models in the magazine"… now Teen Vogue is being petitioned…
Tag: Girls
Girls are like Apples on Trees
I just ran across a quote I liked and wanted to share in a visual way. It starts, "Girls are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree…"


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Friday, April 15, 2011
Posted: 10:54 a.m. Updated: 3:08 p.m.By Tracey Myers
CSNChicago.comVANCOUVER, British Columbia The Chicago Blackhawks got pushed around to start Game 1 against the Vancouver Canucks. Now they need to push back.
Tomas Kopecky is out and Fernando Pisani is in as the Blackhawks try to even up their Western Conference quarterfinal series with the Canucks tonight at Rogers Arena. Its not unusual for the Blackhawks to be down 1-0 in a series they were in this same spot against this same team last postseason. But if the Blackhawks have another gritless start like they did on Wednesday night, they could be looking at the unusual 0-2 hole.
We all have to take responsibility. Everyone has to be engaged, coach Joel Quenneville said. Everybody has to bring that part of the (physical) game.
Ryan Johnson said a lot was made of physical play being dominated by them and it was because we didnt do a good job of putting ourselves in position to play physical. There were a lot of east-west plays. Its very important for third and fourth lines to establish ourselves.
The Blackhawks were saying all the right things on Friday morning: they need to be more physical, get traffic around Roberto Luongo and earn the split. Theyve done it before. They know what itll take to do it again.
If we had it our way wouldve won game 1 in all those series, Patrick Sharp said. You cant spot a good team games but we cant worry about whats happened. We have to focus on tonights game.
Johnson, who didnt finish Game 1 after taking a knee-to-knee hit with Vancouver left wing Tanner glass, will play tonight. He said his knee is fine and that it doesnt hamper his speed.
Im just thankful it isnt any worse than it is, Johnson said. The first few seconds afterward I wasnt feeling too good, I was a little worried. But I feel good and ready to go.Tracey Myers is CSNChicago.com's Blackhawks Insider. Follow Tracey on Twitter @TramyersCSN for up-to-the-minute Hawks information.


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Journal club offers opportunity to improve teaching practices
Science classes are as old as academia, but a program at the UO is helping science instructors hone some new tricks to engage nonscience majors in their courses.
The University of Oregon's Science Teaching Journal Club is a partnership between the Science Literacy Program and the Teaching Engagement Program. It brings faculty members and students together to discuss strategies and methods for engaging more students in science, technology, engineering and math courses.
Unlike most journal clubs, the participants don't meet solely to critique and debate the points of their readings. Instead, they evaluate articles and research about teaching science and study broader teaching methods to incorporate into their teaching.
Read the full article on Around the O.
Find a permanent PDF version here.
UO earns grant to strengthen STEM education
When it comes to improving education in science, technology, engineering and math, one challenge UO educators have been wrestling with in recent years has been coordinating curricula among different STEM majors.
Thanks to a "mini-grant" from the Association of American Universities' Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative, project leaders will be working over the course of the next few years to align curricula across different STEM majors. The UO was one of 12 universities named on Feb. 20 as part of a cohort of AAU member campuses committed to improving undergraduate STEM education.
Read the full article on Around the O.
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Read the AAU grant press release.
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UO's science literacy program cultivates scientific curiosity
The program strives to improve science literacy by providing instructors and graduate students with effective teaching methods. Rather than lecturing, SLP instructors are encouraged to build an inquiry-based teaching style to promote student curiosity and engagement. "The biggest things are about trying to shift the mindset from it being the instructor delivering information to the students working through the information themselves," graduate education mentor Austin Hocker said.
Read the full article on the Daily Emerald.
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UO biologist Judith Eisen elected into elite American academy
By Jim Barlow, University Communications
April 23, 2018
UO biologist Judith Eisen is best known to the world as a pioneer in using zebrafish as a model to study the nervous system.
On campus, in addition to her research, she played a lead role in establishing the Science Literacy Program and has influenced how faculty members teach in biology, chemistry and biochemistry, physics, geological sciences and human physiology.
Read the full article on Around the O.
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It's an incredible time to be studying STEM fields at many of Northwest's Largest Colleges:
STEM Changes underway at University of Oregon
By Bruce Sussman
January 28, 2018
The University of Oregon is also doing some unique things in STEM studies, developing an award-winning Science Literacy Program. The program is designed to make science study relevant and successful for both science majors and non-science majors who have to take science courses.
Read the full article online at the Oregonian.
Find a permanent PDF version here.
Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching 2017
By Molly Blancett
July 25, 2017
Even teachers need to go back to school, especially when it comes to learning how to teach science better.
That's an idea the University of Oregon has embraced with such gusto it has become a leader in efforts to make science classes more effective and engaging. And interest is spreading, from veteran professors to young doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows.
Read the full article online at Around the O.
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Elly Vandegrift – Thomas F. Herman Award for Specialized Pedagogy
May 23, 2017
Elly Vandegrift, senior instructor of biology and associate director of the Science Literacy Program, was recognized for her constant and astonishing dedication to education in the Department of Biology and the Science Literacy Program. In the words of department head Bruce Bowerman, "Eleanor is bringing us together to explicitly and deliberately focus on how we can systematically improve both our curriculum and our approaches to teaching." In recognition of her achievement and expertise in the area of science literacy, Elly Vandegrift was a recipient of a 2017 Thomas F. Herman Award for Specialized Pedagogy.
Read the full announcement from Academic Affairs.
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These scientists study plants and animals by land and sea
By Bethany Brookshire
December 6, 2016
Some people love learning about science, but others suffer through their science classes. Vandegrift wants to change that. She's an ecologist who runs the Science Literacy Program at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Her goal, she says, is to make science classes "interesting, accessible, engaging and relevant for all students."
Read the full article online at Science News for Students.
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Nicola Barber Joins UO Science Literacy Program
October 2016
Nicola Barber's research career began by looking at genetic diversity in sockeye salmon while spending the summer in her hometown of Victoria, British Columbia. Hooked on research, she spent the next three years at Colgate University applying genetics and cell biology to uncover a connection between nuclear pores and cell-division machinery in budding yeast. The project brought her to the National Cancer Institute in Maryland for six months, where she worked with collaborators and a robot named Rascal to perform high-throughput genetic analyses. She returned to the West Coast for her PhD in molecular cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley. A turning point in Nicola's career occurred the first time she stepped to the front of the classroom as a graduate student instructor and discovered her enthusiasm for education.
Read more about Nicola Barber's career, research interests, and future goals.
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Elly Vandegrift, Daniel HoSang receive teaching honors
By Emily Halnon
June 27, 2016
Two UO faculty members known for innovative teaching and their ability to inspire fellow faculty and students are this year's recipients of the UO's Williams Fellowships.
The 2016 awards go to Elly Vandegrift, associate director of the UO Science Literacy Program and a senior instructor in biology, and Daniel HoSang, an associate professor of ethnic studies and political science. Williams Fellowships honor faculty members whose work elevates undergraduate education.
Read the full article online at Around the O.
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Science for the rest of us: UO fights for science literacy
By Mike Mendoza
November 5, 2015
He describes himself as an absolute stereotype of a scientist: Bald with glasses, with facial hair reminiscent of Walter White. But his attitude about the way science courses should be taught is anything but stereotypical: He starts most classes with "What's up, my fine peoples?"
Read full article in the Oregon Daily Emerald.
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UO named an affiliate of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science
September 17, 2015
Following a successful two-day workshop on Science Communication in May 2015, the University of Oregon has been invited to become an affiliated university with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University.
Read the full announcement from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation.
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UO is host to West Coast Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education
July 13, 2015
Fifty-nine science educators from 20 institutions are on the UO campus this week for five days of workshops in the annual West Coast National Academies Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching.
Read the full article at Around the O.
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Telling the Story of Scientific Research
May 29, 2015
For many researchers, telling a great story can be a challenge, but a group of two-dozen faculty, post-docs, and graduate students at the University of Oregon found the process got easier after spending two days sharpening their communication skills in a workshop led by faculty from the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University.
Read the full article at the Research and Innovation website.
Find the permanent PDF version here.
The workshop was also featured in Around the O on June 1, 2015. Find the permanent PDF version here.
Extreme Makeover: Leaving the lecture behind in favor of active learning
By Greg Bolt
May 13, 2015
Okay, class, raise your hand if you spent most of your time in college sitting in a big room listening to a professor talk.
Thought so. Lecturing has dominated college classrooms for the last 800 years—they don't call them "lecture halls" for nothing—and it's a safe bet the lecture isn't going away anytime soon. But some erstwhile lecturers at the UO are showing that for many classes, especially science, students learn more when professors talk less.
Read the full article in Cascade Magazine.
Find the permanent PDF version here.
UO 2015 Strategic Initiative to Fund Science Literacy Program
May 4, 2015
he SLP, co-operated under the College of Arts and Science, with Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Geological Sciences, and Human Physiology, has been named a recipient of long-term recurring funding under the UO's 2015 Strategic Initiative.
This award will provide stable funding for between 16 and 24 graduate SLP Fellows per year to work alongside faculty to co-develop and co-teach science courses for non-science majors. We will continue to provide professional development opportunities for faculty and students to learn about and use the best pedagogy for courses at this level. SLP is also moving toward supporting and impacting more 'gateway' courses for potential science majors.
Faculty and graduate students are encouraged to contact SLP staff to enquire about participating in the upcoming school year.
SLP Co-director Receives Thomas F. Herman Award for Excellence in Pedagogy
May 4, 2015
Judith Eisen, Co-Director of the Science Literacy Program, has been awarded the 2015 Thomas F. Herman Award for Excellence in Pedagogy awarded to a senior UO faculty member who has "demonstrated outstanding achievement and expertise" in pedagogy, for excellence in her own teaching, and her work directing the Science Literacy Program and the positive impact the program has had on thousands of students at the UO.
Read more about the 2015 Distinguished Teaching Awards winners at Around the O.
Find the permanent PDF version here.
SLP Featured in Chronicle of Higher Education
By Dan Berrett
May 4, 2015
Scott Fisher gets a lot of educational mileage from a postcard. Each quarter Mr. Fisher, a lecturer in astronomy at the University of Oregon, asks students in his introductory course to write to him at his cosmic address. That means not only including his room number here in Willamette Hall and his ZIP code, 97403, but also locating him in the universe.
The extra-credit assignment serves one of Mr. Fisher's main goals for the course: helping students develop a sense of scale, or what he calls "a cosmic perspective." Along the way, he hopes to firm up their tenuous grasp of scientific reasoning and make them more comfortable with science. That's the idea behind several revamped courses in biology, chemistry, geology, and physics at Oregon, to raise an often paltry level of science literacy among nonmajors.
Read the full article online in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Find the permanent PDF version here.
National food association honors teaching approach of UO's 'Bread 101'
April 13, 2015
Bread 101, a course offered last spring in the UO's Robert D. Clark Honors College, has won the 2015 Pedagogy Award from the Association for the Study of Food and Society for its innovative interdisciplinary and hands-on approach for teaching about food.
As an experimental offering in the Clark Honors College, Bread 101 also served as a course development laboratory for the UO's Science Literacy Program, which seeks to improve general science literacy courses.
Read the article in Around the O.
Find the permanent PDF version here.
Bread 101
By Bonnie Henderson
March 2, 2015
Simple carb. Staff of life. Sacrament, mitzvah, the very body of Christ. Prisoner's rations. The highest expression of the baker's art. Irritant, allergen, toxin.
Bread has been baked and consumed, in one form or another, for at least 10,000 years. It requires only four simple ingredients. Yet everything about it—on close examination—is complex, from the interaction of those ingredients in the rising dough to the social and political history bread has been shaped by and has helped to shape. No surprise, then, that when five University of Oregon professors—food lovers all—met last year to kick around ideas for an interdisciplinary life science–humanities honors college colloquium organized around one foodstuff or another, bread quickly emerged as the obvious focus.
Read the full article online at Oregon Quarterly.
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In a Clark Honors College course, the bread dough did rise
By Jim Barlow
July 3, 2014
Mix 19 upper-level undergraduate students from the Robert D. Clark Honors College with five faculty members from biology, physics and literature for 10 weeks and you'll get bread: yeast, rye, wheat, white, sourdough and Russian.
"Bread 101" was offered spring quarter as an experimental colloquium. On the final day, as everyone detailed what they had learned and bread smells filled the classroom, it was clear the course had not been a half-baked idea.
Read the full article at Around the O.
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Three of the faculty blogged about their experiences during the term as well.
- Fairmount Neighborhood Farmers Market post about Bread Starter
- Culinaria Eugenius post about the Bread 101 course
- Eggsasparagus with several posts about the Bread 101 course and learning experience
Four UO Faculty Participate in Summer Academy
June 30, 2014
Four UO representatives participated in the West Coast National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education at University of California, Riverside in June.
Throughout the National Academies Summer Institute, they focused on applying research on how people learn to develop and create undergraduate science classroom activities. Following the completion of the program Michelle Wood (Professor of Biology), Ann Petersen (Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Institute of Ecological and Evolution) and Elizabeth "Tish" Toomey Wiles (Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Institute of Molecular Biology) have been named National Academies Education Fellows in the Life Sciences for 2014-15 and Eleanor "Elly" Vandegrift (Associate Director of the Science Literacy Program and Senior Instructor of Biology) has been named a National Academies Education Mentor in the Life Sciences for 2014-15.
Read more about the Summer Institute at UCR Today.
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Science Literacy Program Community of Practice
December 14, 2014
Life Science Teaching Resource Community Blog
We also have cultivated a science education community of practice at the University of Oregon (UO) that follows many of your recommendations. In 2010 the UO Science Literacy Program (SLP, scilit.uoregon.edu), funded in part by HHMI, and UO Teaching Effectiveness Program (TEP, tep.uoregon.edu) teamed up to offer a science education journal club for participants interested in implementing active learning. SLP focuses on improving general education courses in the sciences by adopting evidence-based, student-centered teaching and providing mentored teaching opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students. TEP is the campus professional development center for faculty and graduate students interested in implementing best teaching practices. Our journal club is currently organized and facilitated by the associate director of the SLP and a faculty consultant from TEP.
The journal club began with a grassroots effort by science faculty and graduate students to support and encourage more effective teaching. From the beginning, we have offered two sections to accommodate a diversity of schedules. While each meeting is anchored with a reading (our extended bibliography may be found at https://scilit.uoregon.edu/journal-club/bibliography/bibliography-by-topic/), we include small-scale teaching experiments, try out a diversity of pedagogical approaches together, and support exploration of theory. The community of practice also provides for future faculty and science communicators a training ground in pedagogical theory and practice. All this happens within an interdisciplinary, cross-rank community; the participant mix includes undergraduate students, graduate students, post-docs, librarians, and faculty from a wide variety of disciplines.
What started as a handful of individuals wanting to improve their teaching has developed into a supportive education community with 20-30 people attending each week (many of whom have been coming faithfully for several years) and over 350 people on our mailing list. The journal club is the one place where many of our participants have the space and time to discuss teaching innovations and challenges with colleagues. We have a community who now have a common language about science education and are challenging themselves to try new techniques to support student learning.
UO Science Literacy Program excels through active learning
By Lee Rumbarger
August 21, 2013
During a class earlier this year for Biology/Chemistry 140, biology professor Judith Eisen flashed this question on the front screen: Which of the following experimental results would allow you to conclude that a mutation in a specific gene caused disease symptoms?
A. Finding a correlation between the mutation and the disease.
B. Making the same mutation in an animal model and showing that this has disease symptoms.
C. Both A and B.
D. Neither.
Students answered on "clickers," handheld devices that look like television remote controls. A graph illustrated their answers on screen. Most got it—"B"; but as other students explained their choices, Eisen was persuaded to refine the language of the question on the spot—it had left some wiggle room, the class decided. "C" might have been correct, too.
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The Science of Good Teaching: Program Invites Wide-Ranging Innovation
By Lee Rumbarger
June 27, 2013
It's 2 o'clock on Monday of Week Nine. Professor of Biology Judith Eisen and Associate Professor of Chemistry Andy Berglund's Biology/Chemistry 140: "Science, Policy, and Biology" students—just over 90 of them—are settling into pod-style tables dotting HEDCO 220. Today's topic: genetic testing and gene modification. This is one of 21 new or significantly revised courses developed as part of the UO Science Literacy Program's (SLP) four-year, $1.5 million Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant aimed at boosting public competence and interest in science through revived general education teaching. In addition to these courses, the SLP supports a weekly reading group about science pedagogy and a major assessment project.
Read the full article online at the Teaching Engagement Program blog.
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UO delegation leads faculty development event in Japan
April 30, 2013
A five-person delegation from the University of Oregon led a two-day faclty development workshop for instructors at Japan's Nagoya University on March 16 and 17. Center for Asian and Pacific Studies director Jeff Hanes, along with Lee Rumbarger, director of the Teaching Effectiveness Program; Trish Pashby, senior instructor at the American English Institute; Georgeanne Cooper, former director of the Teaching Effectiveness Program; and Elly Vandegrift, associate director of the Science Literacy Program, comprised the team that facilitated the workshop.
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Video: UO program aims to improve science literacy
April 19, 2013
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SPUR internship leads UO undergrad into prestigious program
February, 2013
Research conducted as an intern in the University of Oregon's Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) not only sealed an interest in science by Christine Liu, it also landed her an award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to support her efforts.
Read the full article online from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation.
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$1.5 million grant to change way many non-science students are taught at the UO
May 20, 2010
Non-science majors at the University of Oregon in the future will benefit from a $1.5 million grant that will have four departments working together to change the way they teach their courses. The grant to the UO was among $79 million in grants announced by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to help universities strengthen undergraduate and precollege science education nationwide.
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The union has not agreed on an extension with General Motors Co, whose labor contract is still due to expire at midnight on Sept. 14. The UAW has targeted GM first out of the Detroit automakers to conclude a contract.
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- The OS X Installer app from the Mac App Store.
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- A Mac running OS X Yosemite.
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sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources
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East Haven man vows to take Facebook-related charge to trial
Breach of peace charge continued
EAST HAVEN >> The man police charged with breach of peace for posting a Facebook comment that allegedly created panic at a middle school appeared in court Wednesday and has vowed to take his case to a jury trial.
Police say Angelo Appi Jr. prompted his daughter's principal at Joseph Melillo Middle School to file a criminal complaint after he made a reference to a toy gun in a Facebook post criticizing school security measures. He appeared in court a day after Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced East Haven will receive $331,519 to help address school security needs.
Appi wrote on his Facebook page that he may have to walk into his daughter's school with "toy guns just to prove a point" about lax security. Joseph Melillo Middle School Principal Matthew Espinosa told police Appi's post prompted a flood of calls to his office from concerned parents.
Tuesday's press release from state Reps. James Albis, D-East Haven, and Roland Lemar, D-New Haven, said that both "welcomed state assistance, especially in the wake of what has happened recently at Joseph Melillo Middle School, where potential problems with after-hours security have been brought to light."
Last month, Appi filmed himself entering the school on two occasions. He shot his first video on a school day after students had been dismissed. Appi arrived at the school to pick up his daughter, and said he was startled to see that the front door was propped wide open.
Appi shot his second video on a Sunday. He said he was at the school to watch his daughter's cheerleading team perform during a football game when he heard the building's fire alarm go off. His video shows him entering the school via an unlocked side door.
Appi posted both videos to his Facebook account. Police did not get involved until Espinosa filed a complaint.
The comment appearing in Appi's arrest warrant was pulled from a lengthier post in which the defendant criticized school security.
Appi's attorney, Joseph Wicklow, has pointed out that the officer who wrote the report "took literary license" by adding an exclamation point to the comment, which originally read as "Maybe I have to walk in with toy guns just to prove a point."
On Wednesday, Wicklow said he and his client are committed to taking the case to a jury trial. At Appi's arraignment last month, Wicklow had said he hoped the Police Department would "come to their senses" and drop the charge.
Appi pleaded not guilty at his Oct. 30 arraignment. "Once we get to the pretrial, I'll have a better idea of what East Haven's position is," Wicklow said Wednesday.
Asked about the timing of Malloy's announcement of East Haven's $331,519 allotment of the School Security Grant Program, Wicklow called it "long overdue."
"Putting the demagoguery aside, how can you be so lax after so many horrible tragedies?" Wicklow said.
Appi is scheduled to return to court Dec. 16.
Call Evan Lips at 203-789-5727. Have questions, feedback or ideas about our news coverage? Connect directly with the editors of the New Haven Register at AskTheRegister.com.


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Anthropologists and prehistorians have debated the origins of the peoples of Southeast Asia for more than a century, often without consensus over the relative importance of successive migrations from external sources versus indigenous continuity through time. The analysis of ancient whole-genome DNA from archaeological skeletons brings a new view to this debate (1, 2). On pages 88 and 92 of this issue, McColl et al. (3) and Lipson et al. (4), respectively, use genomic DNA sequencing data from 43 ancient Southeast Asian skeletons excavated by archaeologists to explain how the region was peopled during the past 10,000 years. Both teams show that human migration was highly significant, especially the migration of mid-Holocene Neolithic farming populations, ∼5000 to 4000 years ago, from southern China into both mainland and island Southeast Asia.
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Valtteri VICTOR Bottas
Jolyon Palmer was the news of practice in Russia, with an engine problem preventing him getting anywhere near the laps in prior to qualifying.
Sainz had a 3-place penalty after colliding with Stroll in Bahrain, while Vandoorne lost 15 places for a new MGU-H and turbocharger exceeding the limit of 4 of each of the 6 components in a season. The fact this was happening at only the 4th race did not bode well for McLaren.
The first mistake in qualifying, surprisingly, was by Lewis Hamilton, dropping the car and running wide, forcing him to abort his lap while teammate Bottas set the pace.
Palmer and Wehrlein both spun on their last Q1 laps, the Renault hitting the wall head-on and the Sauber avoiding the barriers but wasting the final lap.
Palmer, Vandoorne, Wehrlein, Ericsson and Grosjean all fell, the last few laps from the drivers further up the order unable to go faster due to yellow flags.
Q2 was a more orderly affair, Alonso slowest behind Magnussen, Kvyat, Stroll and 11th-placed Sainz.
Hamilton had a scrap with Hulkenberg at the start of Q3, complaining the Renault driver was driving "dangerously" before going 12 seconds slower than the Renault on their respective first timed laps, following a pattern from all 3 sessions that really should have told Hamilton to move aside a lot earlier.
Ocon continued his love affair with 10th in Q3, although that was his best qualifying to date. Vettel stole pole from Raikkonen, Bottas taking 3rd before Hamilton went through to take only 4th. Ricciardo and Verstappen were split by Massa, Hulkenberg then ahead of the row 5 lockout for Force India.
Verstappen was lucky not to have an engine change on Sunday morning, with a water leak proving elusive for a while.
Everyone started the race on ultra-soft tyres, with the exception of the Saubers and Vandoorne who opted for super-softs instead. From the back of the grid with a pace deficit, the alternative strategy had to be worth a shot.
Alonso made it to the pit entry on the formation lap before parking the McLaren, forcing an aborted start.
Bottas led from Bettel, Raikkonen, Hamilton, Verstappen, Massa, Ricciardo, Perez, Ocon and Hulkenberg. Ericsson and Vandoorne switched to ultras under the Safety Car, brought out after Palmer ploughed into Grosjean at turn 2. Stroll was running 17th after a spin that appeared unforced, although Hulkenberg was put under investigation for contact. No further action was taken, while Grosjean/Palmer was investigated after the race.
Lap 4 saw the Safety Car pull off and promptly Ricciardo's brakes catching fire, forcing the Red Bull to retire.
Magnussen received a 5-second penalty for breaching the track limits at turn 2. Vandoorne received the same penalty, both presumably for the first lap.
Hamilton reported "sensations", the team telling him to maximise cooling for an intermittent fault.
Wehrlein was the first driver to pit under racing conditions, taking ultra-soft tyres and probably not aiming to run to the flag from lap 21.
Massa, Magnussen and Kvyat all pitted on lap 22, all taking on super-soft tyres. Ericsson also took his second stop.
Lap 27 saw Bottas become the first front-runner to pit, taking super-soft tyres and releasing Vettel into the lead. The Finn rejoined behind Hamilton, but far enough back that there was no risk of the two interfering with each other. Perez followed him in, Ocon having stopped the lap before.
Raikkonen, oddly, was the first Ferrari into the pits on lap 29. Verstappen chose the same time to stop. Hamilton pitted a lap later, a lick of flame from the left front brakes apparently not a problem for the Mercedes. Vettel in the lead was being told his laps were still fast enough not to pit, although he was called in on lap 34, dropping back to 2nd ahead of Raikkonen.
Bottas gave himself a pair of flat spots, losing a huge chunk of time to Vettel as a result. Further back Sainz was told to keep off the kerbs due to "something strange" at the rear.
Hulkenberg pitted on his 40th lap, rejoining 9th behind the Force India pair. Massa stopped a couple of laps later, dropping in turn behind the Renault. Unfortunately for the Brazilian, he had a slow puncture which forced that stop.
Bottas led to the flag, Vettel compromised by lapping Massa on the final lap and finding himself unable to prevent Bottas winning his first F1 race. Raikkonen took 3rd from Hamilton, Verstappen, Perez, Ocon, Hulkenberg, Massa and Sainz. Stroll led the non-scorers ahead of Kvyat, Magnussen, Vandoorne and the Sauber pair. Ricciardo, Alonso, Palmer and Grosjean was the order of the retirees, if not the actual retirements.
Bottas taking his first win in commanding fashion was undoubtedly the story of the day, but credit was also due to Verstappen and Red Bull for getting car number 33 to the flag – and even the grid, really. Similarly Vandoorne managed to drag the remaining McLaren home, albeit not in the points.


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