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"Novell today announced the beta program for Mono 1.2, which now includes support for Microsoft Windows.Forms to more easily port .NET client-side applications to Linux. Other enhancements in this beta release include additional platform and hardware support, virtual machine upgrades, and enhanced Java support, as well as significant performance, memory consumption and stability improvements." And on a related note, Novell also released the code to the server side of iFolder.


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Armin van Buurens taste in music sets the standard to millions of trance fans around the globe. His A State of Trance radioshow, listened to by 10 million music lovers on a weekly base, serves a great selection of the best in trance. Armins Radio Top 20 cuts down this selection of the biggest highlights of the show and features whats going to be hot in January 2016.
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Late trio of 3-pointers lead No. 14 Virginia back as Cavaliers defeat Virginia Tech 57-53
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BLACKSBURG, Va. – Justin Anderson and Joe Harris made consecutive 3-pointers to cap No. 14 Virginia's rally from an 11-point, second-half deficit in a 57-53 victory over Virginia Tech on Tuesday night.
The Cavaliers (22-5, 13-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) trailed most of the game but outscored the Hokies 23-6 after falling behind 40-29 with just more than 14 minutes remaining. It was Virginia's 10th victory in a row and it matched the school's best start in ACC play since the 1980-81 team was also 13-1.
Malcolm Brogdon led Virginia with 12 points and London Perrantes had 11.
The Hokies (9-16, 2-11), who ended a 10-game losing streak in their previous outing on Saturday against Miami, got 13 points each from Joey Van Zegeren and Devin Wilson. They lost their fifth in a row in the series, but not before putting a huge scare into their state rivals, who have been on a roll.


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Red now has support for proper initialisation of the standard C library, for Red/System programs or other libraries that use it. This has been developed in collaboration between the Red and Syllable projects. Other platforms got by without it so far, but on Syllable Desktop, Red/System programs that use the C library required a workaround until now.
The bindings were written by the Syllable project and contributed to the Red project. The goal is to make sure that native and cross-platform Red programs will be able to run on Syllable Desktop. The bindings work on Syllable Desktop, Syllable Server, and other platforms. Red/System is currently implemented in REBOL 2. Therefore, the Red/System compiler doesn't run on Syllable Desktop yet, but Syllable programs can be cross-compiled from other systems. The bindings were developed on Syllable Server.
A new Syllable Desktop development version was released to support Red. It is required for the SQLite database binding (demo source). The new Syllable version fixes support for recent SQLite versions and includes the latest one. The other bindings also work on older versions of Syllable.
Here is a (Fibonacci micro-benchmark example). Like the Mandelbrot example, it is written to compare eight languages, mostly from the REBOL family. This screenshot shows Red/System reading a web page, through the cURL networking library (demo source). Here is an example of a simple paint program running on the SDL multimedia library (demos source). Finally, here is an example of playing audio through SDL.


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The adjustment process for each patient starting CPAP therapy for sleep apnea is unique, just as each patient's experience with sleep apnea is a unique combination of symptoms and consequences of the disorder. Most patients will require a period of adjusting to the presence of the CPAP mask on the face and the feel of the air pressure delivered by the CPAP unit. The time of this adjustment is variable – anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. I have had some patients take months to adjust to CPAP. The most important recommendation for any patient starting CPAP therapy is to not give up. Persistence really does pay off. Ask your sleep medicine clinic or laboratory for help if you have persistent difficulties.
Most patients will encounter side-effects from the CPAP machine at some point in their experience with it. The most common CPAP side-effects are mask or pressure related. Some patients will experience claustrophobia to the CPAP mask. Some patients will develop nasal congestion while others may experience rhinitis or a runny nose. While CPAP side-effects are a nuisance, serious side-effects are very uncommon. Furthermore, research has shown that CPAP side-effects are rarely the reason patients stop using CPAP. Simple things may really help with minimizing side-effects of CPAP: Here are a few tips.
* Make sure the mask you have is fitted appropriately. A mask that is too large or too small will be uncomfortable.
* Nasal symptoms frequently respond to heated humidification of the CPAP air. Most CPAP machines come with heated humidifiers but many patients do not use them.
* Do not overtighten the mask. This common mistake leads to mask discomfort and damage to the skin. If uncomfortable air leaks occur, think about changing to a different mask.


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How does U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan live with what must be some of the most painful cognitive dissonance in the history of mankind? I mean how, fresh off of doing all he could to make even more untimely the untimely death of the D.C. voucher program – and opposing private school choice generally – could Duncan say this in a new Time interview:
I'm a big fan of choice and competition, and in our country, historically, wealthy families have had a lot of options as to where to send their children. And families that didn't come from a lot of money had one option — and usually that option wasn't a good one. The more options available, the more we give parents a chance to figure out what the best learning environment is for their child.
How could Duncan say all this great stuff about competition and maximizing choice right after what he's done to private school choice – which maximizes options for the very poor who have typically had none – in the nation's capital? It is simply impossible to reconcile the words and actions.
Unless, that is, the words don't really mean what the words, to a normal person, really mean. And to Duncan – like lots of political creatures – they don't. He offered those gushing words of love for choice and competition in response to a question about charter schools, and in continuing to answer the question went right into this:
To me it's not about letting a thousand flowers bloom. You need to have a really high bar about whom you let open the charter school. [You need] a really rigorous front-end competitive process. If not, you just get mediocrity. Once you let them in, you need to have two things. You need to give those charter operators great autonomy — to really free them from the education bureaucracy. You have to couple that with very strong accountability.
And finally, it is clear how Duncan twistedly reconciles both killing school choice and competition, and loving school choice and competition: It is all about who is doing the choosing. If schools and potential schools have to compete for the approval of government – of the same smarter-than-thou, bureaucratic apparatchiks who have given us atrocious public schools for decades – then that's competition Duncan can embrace. But compete based on the approval and demands of the people the schools are actually supposed to serve, the people most interested in schools performing to high standards? In other words, compete for the approval and business of parents, especially without the choices first being fully vetted and approved by parents' government betters? Well, that just shouldn't be any choice at all!


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Global Truss Ø 6,0 m 45° V
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Spring flurry! OK, I know many of us are tired of a winter that wouldn't quit and we do not want to see any spring flurries, but I want to talk about "Spring Flurry," a cultivated variety or "cultivar" of downey serviceberry.
Spring flurry! OK, I know many of us are tired of a winter that wouldn't quit and we do not want to see any spring flurries, but I want to talk about "Spring Flurry," a cultivated variety or "cultivar" of downey serviceberry. Serviceberry is a native flowering tree that goes by many common names. Some other common names of serviceberry include shadbush, shadblow, sarvus-tree, and juneberry. These all refer to small to medium, native, early spring flowering trees in the genus Amelenchier. There are several native species in the genus Amelenchier. These species can hybridize, so Amelenchier taxonomy can be difficult and parentage of hybrids can be guesswork. The two species I am describing are Amelenchier arborea and Amelenchier laevis.
These common names have interesting legends of how they came about, and while some are true others are myths. For instance, the name serviceberry is sometimes said to have originated because this beautiful tree blooms when the Appalachian roads became passable enough in the spring for the circuit riding preachers to resume regular church services. Another related myth is that serviceberry trees bloomed when the New England ground was thawed enough for funeral services for those who passed away during the deep winter. In actuality, serviceberry was connected by colonists to a similar tree known to Europeans as Sorbus, and that is the likely source of the service or sarvis name.
The real source of the common names shadbush or shadblow has ties to the Massachusetts shad fishery. When the shadblows bloomed, the shad were running. Native Americans knew and taught colonists that when the Amelenchiers were blooming they could expect the annual spawning run in the great shad fishery. This fishery is slowly recovering in part due to the Clean Water Act and efforts by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation to reintroduce shad to historical waterways like the Charles River. Once again the shadbush will herald the returning shad from the Holyoke dam to Boston.
Whatever common name we use for Amelenchier, this is a great tree for its interesting winter bark, beautiful early spring flowers, the delicious fruit that is prized by people and birds, and the often spectacular fall foliage. While the common names are mostly tied to springtime, Amelenchier is an excellent four season landscape tree.
The Amelenchier laevis cultivar "Spring Flurry" exhibits a good upright oval tree form and in my experience it is a robust grower. This is a Schmidt's Nursery introduction and I first planted them in Ithaca, N.Y., as part of a trial program in the late 1990s. They performed very well and established quickly in a park setting. Under ideal conditions "Spring Flurry" might grow to 35 feet in height and about 20 feet wide. It has white flowers, edible blue fruits, and orange fall color. This tree really has four season interest, but I am interested in spring!
Andrew Hillman is an urban forester on contract with the city of Fall River through a grant from Mass. DCR.


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Night at the Museum' Family Arts Day
The Art Museum of Southeast Texas invites children and their families to "Night at the Museum" Family Arts Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9. This free event will feature hands-on art activities, refreshments and entertainment designed to encourage families to explore the museum and learn more about the artwork on display.
"Night at the Museum" Family Arts Day will allow visitors to create works of art with mood lighting after viewing the night scene paintings of Sarah Williams and the swamp scene photographs of David Gibson. Families are then encouraged to make clay vessels after viewing a collection of ceramics from the San Angelo Museum of Art. In addition, this Family Arts Day will feature a celebration of Valentine's Day, President's Day and Mardi Gras. Festive activities will include decorating Valentine's Day cookies and making Lincoln hats, Freedom hats and Mardi Gras masks.
As an added bonus, children are invited to visit the "Brass Instrument Petting Zoo," a brass quintet presented by the Symphony of Southeast Texas at 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall.
Face painting, refreshments and lively entertainment will round out the event. For more information, call (409) 832-3432 or visit www.amset.org.


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Enhancing Social Commitment
Malaysia Airports supports various community activities including school activities, sports activities, non-government associations (NGOs), orphanages and homes. During the month of Ramadhan, Malaysia Airports also contributes to Tahfiz Centers.
In 2012, Malaysia Airports built a mosque (Surau Mulu) in Mulu, Sarawak for the community and airport staff.
In order to maximise our contributions to our immediate community, Malaysia Airports collaborates with Lembaga Zakat Selangor. Our zakat contribution not only benefits the schools that we have adopted in our Beyond Borders program, but also goes to various orphanages and mosques within our community for education and expenses purposes. A portion of our zakat redistribution is also channelled towards our own qualified employees.
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Naked man stunned and sprayed by cops
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BRIDGEPORT -- A man who was naked, screaming and banging on the hood of a car Wednesday morning had to be subdued with a stun gun and pepper spray, police said.
Shon McKenzie, 31, of Alexander Avenue, was likely high on PCP, police said. When officers responded to a report of a naked man standing on the hood of a car near the corner of Washington and Park avenues, they found the subject standing next to the driver's side door, the report states. There were marks on the hood of the Buick where the 6-foot-1, 220-pound man had stood. McKenzie got into the car and drove away when he saw police, going through a red light at Coleman Street.
Officers boxed in the car in front of the Walgreen's on Park Avenue, but McKenzie refused to step out, they said. Instead, he grabbed onto the steering wheel, resisting the efforts of two officers trying to pull him from the vehicle. The man was hit with an electronic stun gun twice, once on the right shoulder and once in the back.
When that failed to get him to comply, officers sprayed McKenzie in the face with pepper spray. He was then removed from the car, handcuffed and taken to St. Vincent Medical Center for treatment. When he began spitting at medical personnel en route to the hospital, a white nylon bag was placed over his face to shield attendants, the report stated.
McKenzie was charged with driving while intoxicated, breach of peace, interfering with police and failure to obey a traffic control signal, and held in lieu of $5,000 bond.
Officers said in their report that the subject exhibited the blank stare, unusual strength and belligerent behavior consistent with the use of PCP. Users of the drug feel hot and so often take off their clothes, police said.


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Jesse Barnes has posted a screenshot showing two clocks implemented in Qt, drawn natively in Wayland, the next-generation display server.
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It rely on KMS, so OpenBSD will probably have it before other BSD.
I seem to recall that FreeBSD was working on KMS too.
Wayland use Mesa, Gallium3D and X drivers.
A small correction: Wayland can not use Gallium currently (though it theoretically could), and it doesn't use X drivers, just Mesa for rendering and KMS for display management.
The really great thing about Wayland is that it is the first new display server that doesn't need its own drivers. Unfortunately, the NVIDIA blob will probably be one of the major things holding it back (sorry, but Nouveau will not ever be good enough for gaming). Personally, I would like to see NVIDIA abstract their driver away from X, and just implement EGL, OpenGL, OpenVG, VDPAU, and a mode setting API such as OpenSC or the DRM API. This would give X.org developers more freedom with their internal API, and would make alternative display servers like Wayland possible.


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Baltimore, MD, October 26-30, 2012
Completeness, Coverage & Equivalence in Scientific Data Records
Andrea Thomer, Karen Baker, Simone Sacchi and David Dubin
Monday, 6:30pm
Earlier we asked, "When is a record data and when is it a fish?" (Wickett et al., 2012a). In this work, we ask, "when and in what contexts are a record and a fish equivalent?" We describe and compare a collection of potentially equivalent records describing a Mola mola, or Ocean Sunfish, specimen. We calculate the Metadata Coverage Index (MCI) of each record and explore the use the Systematic Assertion Model (Dubin, 2010) to support investigation of the assertions contained in these data records.
Natural history museum specimen records are increasingly provisioned and discovered online through cloud-hosted databases such as GBIF and VertNet. While increased use of standard vocabularies like Darwin Core means that these records are more easily aggregated and made interoperable (Wieczorek et al., 2012), the act of cross-walking legacy data and then transferring records from local to cloud-based databases with different representation formats, encodings, and harvesting protocols results in the proliferation of different versions of the "same" record. Depending on the vocabulary and/or schema used, these roughly equivalent records make different amounts and types of data available, and, thus, their fitness-for-purpose or analytic potential in different contexts varies (Hill et al., 2010; Palmer, Weber & Cramer, 2011). In prior work (Wickett et al., 2012a, 2012b) we considered a Mola mola species occurrence record pulled from a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) file available on the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute Integrated Publishing Toolkit (KUBI IPT) installation to explore these issues ("Gbif.org - Darwin Core Archives"). Here, we compare five records downloaded from different data providers describing this same specimen, explore the metadata coverage and completeness of these records, and more fully discuss the nuances of determining their equivalence. SAM was used to begin comparing conflicting assertions between data sources when they arose.


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Why Is Facebook a Threat to Google?
Just a year after Facebook started selling mobile ads, the social media giant has become a bigger threat to the dominant player in the space, Google, Ben Pimentel reports. Photo: Getty Images.
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By Lisa Capobianco
Staff Writer
Southington honored three law enforcement officials last week during the 26th annual Public Safety Awards dinner in recognition of their long history of contributions to the town.
Hosted by the Southington Elks Lodge, the event honored Master Sergeant Jay Suski of the Southington Police Department, retired Southington firefighter Robert Upson and Connecticut State Trooper Sergeant William Blumenthal.
A lifelong resident of the town, Suski began his law enforcement career as an auxiliary police officer at the age of 19 with the Southington Police Department. He first served as a uniformed patrol officer in 1991, and became a detective ten years later, undergoing advanced training in criminal investigation disciplines, including crime scene investigation, interview and interrogation, sexual assault, child abuse and homicide investigations.
Suski also played a role in the investigation of a variety of crimes including a 2007 Christmas Eve murder.
"Police work and fire work is a balancing act…between work and family," said Southington Police Chief John Daly. "It is a balancing act between having a position in a department you are comfortable in versus having the challenge of rising through the ranks of attempting to maximize your potential. Jay has done an exceptional job finding that balance."
Besides serving as a detective, Suski also became the liaison for the State Police Sex Offender Registry Unit as well as a member of the Central Connecticut Multidisciplinary Team. Becoming a Sergeant in 2010, Suski got promoted to the rank of Master Sergeant just two years later.
Calling the award humbling, Suski recalled how he has grown throughout his career in law enforcement.
"This truly has been an amazing journey," Suski said. "I have always known I wanted to be a police officer."
Emphasizing his passion for helping people during his speech, Suski not only recognized his colleagues in the police department, but he also acknowledged other law enforcement officials, including Upson.
Upson grew up in Marion, where at the age of six, he discovered his calling through Engine Company 4, the sponsor of his Boy Scout troop. The Upson family has a background in fire service with the town. W.C. Upson, a cousin, once served as the department's chief, and Robert E. Upson, a great-grandfather, became a member of the ad hoc committee who brought Engine Company 4 to Marion.
During his 31-year career, Upson has served as a firefighter/EMT, a Lieutenant, a Fire Inspector and the department's Training Captain. In 2005, Upson traveled to Louisiana where he served as a Red Cross volunteer in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, offering health services support in church based shelters.
Upson mentioned in his speech how proud he was of his fellow colleagues as well as police officers in Southington and state troopers.
"In the fire department we do everything as a team, so for me to receive this award, it is really for every firefighter in the department," said Upson, who retired from the fire department this past September to pursue his new career in the Engineering Department of the National Fire Sprinkler Association as the Manager of Installation Standards (NFSA), a trade organization responsible for creating and updating fire protection standards. "I am proud to have been a part of this department."
Sergeant William Blumenthal also expressed pride and appreciation for his colleagues during his speech. Serving four years on active duty in the United States Marine Corps before becoming a state trooper, Blumenthal earned a degree in nursing, applying his medical skills to the Emergency Department at New Britain General Hospital and in other hospitals along the east coast. Over a decade ago, Blumenthal started his career with Connecticut State Police, serving in Southbury for Troop A, where he was assigned to Patrol. This past September he received a promotion to the rank of Sergeant.
"This definitely is an honor," said Blumenthal who serves for Troop F in Westbrook.
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BODY WEIGHT SUPPORTED AMBULATION TRAINING AFTER SPINAL CORD INJURY Release Date: March 5, 1998 RFA: HD-98-005 P.T. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Letter of Intent Receipt Date: May 11, 1998 Application Receipt Date: June 11, 1998 PURPOSE The National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR) of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) seeks to initiate a clinical trial of body-weight-supported ambulation training following spinal cord injury. The purpose of this Rehabilitation Clinical Trial is to examine the use of variable lower extremity loading during ambulation to enhance neurophysiologic control and facilitate the individualþs ability to walk. Medications and electrical or magnetic stimulation techniques may be used as adjuncts for weight- supported ambulation training. The primary outcome measures must include functional walking in a natural environment without assistive devices other than simple canes or a walker. HEALTHY PEOPLE 2000 The Public Health Service (PHS) is committed to achieving the health promotion and disease prevention objectives of "Healthy People 2000," a PHS-led national activity for setting priority areas. This Request for Applications (RFA), Rehabilitation of Walking after Spinal Cord Injury, is related to the priority area of chronic disabling conditions. Potential applicants may obtain a copy of "Healthy People 2000" (Full Report: Stock No. 017-001-00474-0 or Summary Report: Stock No. 017-001-00473-1) through the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402-9325 (telephone 202-512-1800). ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS Applications may be submitted by domestic for-profit and non-profit organizations, public and private, such as universities, colleges, hospitals; units of State or local governments, and eligible agencies of the Federal government. Foreign institutions and organizations are not eligible as applicants, but may participate in collaboration. Applications may include collaborative arrangements between scientists from a single institution or multiple institutions. Racial/ethnic minority individuals, women, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply as Principal Investigators. MECHANISM OF SUPPORT This RFA will use the cooperative agreement (U01) mechanism. The cooperative agreement is an assistance mechanism in which it is anticipated that the NIH will have substantial involvement with the recipient during the performance of the planned activity. The nature of the NIH's involvement is described under the "Terms and Conditions" of the award. Responsibility for the planning, direction, and execution of the proposed project will be solely that of the applicant/awardee. The total project period for an application submitted in response to this RFA may not exceed five years. The anticipated award date is September 28, 1998. This RFA is a one-time solicitation. FUNDS AVAILABLE Depending upon the scope of work, up to $800,000 (direct costs) per year is available to support this RFA. It is expected that one award will be made. Because the nature and scope of the research proposed in response to this RFA may vary, it is anticipated that the size of the award may be less than $800,000. Although this program is provided for in the financial plans of the NICHD, an award pursuant to this RFA is contingent on the scientific and technical merit of the applications and on the availability of funds for this purpose. RESEARCH OBJECTIVES Background Advances in the effectiveness of acute care following spinal cord injury (SCI) have resulted in an increasing proportion of persons with incomplete losses of sensory or motor functioning. Both basic studies in animal models of SCI and clinical studies in humans with SCI have shown that reducing the loading on the lower extremities (i.e., increasing body weight support) during ambulation training can enhance locomotor patterns. Preliminary clinical studies have also shown functional improvements in walking and stair-climbing that persist after treatment. These changes occur in persons with incomplete losses of sensory or motor functioning, but apparently not in persons with functionally complete SCI. A controlled clinical trial is needed to evaluate the potential of this treatment to improve ambulation in persons with SCI. This RFA is directly responsive to recommendations of the National Advisory Board on Medical Rehabilitation Research that NCMRR implement a strategy of encouraging Phase III clinical trials relevant to medical rehabilitation. Purpose of Proposed Research The primary goal of the proposed study should be to initiate a clinical efficacy trial of body-weight support during ambulation training in persons with incomplete SCI. Research activities should be conducted by clinical investigators skilled in the rehabilitation of people with SCI and knowledgeable about spinal cord neurophysiology, ambulation training, gait analysis, and the assessment of disability. The ultimate goal should be to determine the efficacy of weight- supported ambulation training, and determine its effects on the functional limitations and disabilities of persons with incomplete SCI. Secondary goals may include evaluating the adjunctive effects of various medications or electrical stimulation regimens. Study samples may also include, but should not be limited to, persons with clinically or neurophysiologically complete SCI. Research Plan Objectives of the RFA will be met through the initiation of a randomized, controlled trial to test the efficacy of body-weight-supported ambulation training of persons with incomplete SCI. It is expected that the trial will include an appropriate placebo control condition. Additional treatment comparisons or treatment enhancements (e.g., electrical stimulation) may be added if solidly supported by the research literature and/or preliminary data. The trial must be designed, however, to allow differentiation of the effects of weight-supported training alone from the effects of the additional treatments. Applicants must demonstrate the ability to manage a complex trial, recruit and randomize the required number of study participants, implement the various study procedures, and maintain high rates of follow-up during the course of the trial. The study should consist of five phases: 1) an initial phase during which the protocol is finalized (e.g., study procedure, data collection manuals, data management, training, establishment of the Data Monitoring and Safety Committee, etc.) after consultation with the NCMRR Program Officer; 2) a pilot phase in which the feasibility of study procedures is assessed; 3) a recruitment period; 4) a period of intervention and follow-up; and 5) data analysis and dissemination. Applicants should pay special attention to the choice of an appropriate placebo condition, the issue of masking, and subject inclusion and exclusion criteria. The screening/evaluation protocol for the proposed trial should include a grading system for the levels of impairment, functional limitations, and disability of the subjects which is well grounded in the research literature. Response to treatment may be dependent on the remaining functional capabilities of the spinal cord, so those capabilities must be characterized. It is recommended that the study population include subjects with various degrees of ambulation losses. Subjects who have previously received rehabilitation and/or ambulation training may be included in the study. However, individuals who have received interventions that chronically alter the nervous system (e.g., implantation of pumps for antispastic medication or implantation of stimulation electrodes) should be excluded unless the design of the study can control for possible confounds. Choices of outcome measures (primary and secondary) should be well-defined and clearly justified. Primary outcome measures must include a functional measure of ambulation in a natural environment. Secondary outcome measures must include, but are not limited to: 1) measures of lower extremity impairment such as muscle strength and/or endurance; 2) a measure of global functional status; 3) health status/quality-of-life indicators; and 4) a measure of social/vocational status. It is recommended that applicants also consult with members of the spinal cord injured population to identify related outcomes significant to them for which additional measures need to be included. All costs required for these studies must be included in the application and must be fully justified. These costs include quality control, data management and data analysis, study monitoring, and travel. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS The awardee will be required to submit annual progress reports to NCMRR which may be included in, or submitted as an addendum to, the annual awardee noncompeting continuation progress report. These reports should include recruitment data, indices of quality control, reports of significant side effects or morbidity and changes in the protocol. The Data Monitoring and Safety Committee may require additional information. The awardee also will be requested to present a final oral report to the National Advisory Board for Medical Rehabilitation Research. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE AWARD The following Terms and Conditions of Award are in addition to, and not in lieu of, otherwise applicable OMB administrative guidelines, DHHS grant administration regulations at 45 CFR Part 74 and other DHHS and NIH grant administration policies. Business management aspects of these awards will be administered by the Grants Management Branch, NICHD, in accordance with DHHS and NIH grants administration requirements. The administrative and funding instrument used shall be a cooperative agreement, an "assistance" mechanism (rather than an "acquisition" mechanism) in which substantial NCMRR scientific and/or programmatic involvement with the awardee is anticipated during performance of the activity. Under the cooperative agreement, the purpose of the NCMRR is to support and/or stimulate the recipient's activity by involvement in, and otherwise working jointly with, the award recipient in a partner role, but it is not to assume direction, prime responsibility, or a dominant role in the activity. The awardee will be expected to cooperate with the NCMRR Program Officer and other participating staff at the NICHD, in the design and conduct of the protocol, analysis of data, and reporting of results from the project, and will be expected to disseminate the research findings in a timely manner through peer- reviewed publications. A. Awardee Rights and Responsibilities. 1. Research design and protocol development, including definition of objectives and approaches, planning, implementation, participant recruitment and follow-up, data collection, quality control, interim data and safety monitoring, final data analysis and interpretation, and publication of results. 2. Scientific coordination, development and monitoring of the protocol. All proposed protocol modifications will be submitted by the Principal Investigator to the NCMRR Program Officer for review and approval, subject to negotiation with the awardee. 3. Implementation of the data collection method and strategy. 4. Establishment of mechanisms for quality control and monitoring. The awardee is responsible for ensuring accurate and timely assessment of the progress of their study, including development of procedures to ensure that data collection and management are: (1) adequate for quality control and analysis; (2) as simple as appropriate in order to encourage maximum participation of physicians and patients and to avoid unnecessary expense; and (3) sufficiently staffed. 5. Establishment of procedures to comply with the requirements of 45 CFR Part 46 for the protection of human subjects. The Principal Investigator is responsible for obtaining approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) prior to enrolling patients, and, once enrollment has commenced, from the IRB, and the NCMRR Program Officer prior to changing the protocol. 6. The awardee(s) will retain custody of and have primary rights to the data developed under these awards, subject to Government rights of access consistent with current DHHS, PHS and NIH policies. B. NIH Staff Responsibilities. The NCMRR Program Officer , who will have substantial scientific/programmatic involvement, will: 1. attend meetings of the Data Monitoring and Safety Committee as a non-voting member. The NCMRR retains the option of conducting periodic, external reviews of progress. 2. serve as a resource with respect to other NCMRR activities that may be relevant to the protocol to facilitate compatibility and avoid unnecessary duplication of effort. 3. participate in the planning and coordination of research activities in the following ways: o Assist in reviewing and evaluating each stage of the project before subsequent stages are started. o Assist in the efficient conduct of the trial. o Collaborate in analysis and reporting of results to the community of investigators and health care recipients. o Review the data management and quality assurance systems using consultants as appropriate. Relevant information will be derived from biannual and annual progress reports and site visit findings. 4. monitor protocol progress, and may request that the study be closed to accrual for reasons including: o an accrual rate insufficient to complete the study in a timely fashion; o accrual goals being met early; o poor protocol performance; o patient safety and regulatory concerns; o study results that are already conclusive; and o emergence of new information that diminishes the scientific importance of the study question. The NCMRR reserves the right to curtail or terminate the study and award in the event of: o failure to implement the collaborative protocol in a timely fashion; o substantial shortfall in patient recruitment, follow up, data reporting, quality control, or other major breech of the protocol; o substantive changes in the agreed upon protocol with which the NCMRR does not concur; o reaching a major study end point substantially before schedule with persuasive statistical significance; or o human subject ethical issues that dictate premature termination. The NCMRR will have access to and may periodically review all data generated under an award. NIH policies governing possible co-authorship of publications with NIH staff will apply in all cases. In general, to warrant co-authorship, NIH staff must have contributed to the following areas: a) design of the concepts or experiments being tested; b) performance of significant portions of the activity; c) interpretation of findings; and d) preparation and authorship of pertinent manuscripts. C. Collaborative Responsibilities. An independent Data Monitoring and Safety Committee (DMSC) will be a required component of the study. The DMSC is the main oversight body of the clinical trial and has primary responsibility to review progress, monitor patient accrual, data management, and patient safety, and cooperate on the publication of results. The DMSC will document progress in written reports to the Principal Investigator, and the Director of NCMRR and Director of NICHD through the NCMRR Program Officer, and will provide periodic supplementary reports to designated NIH staff upon request. An operating budget for the DMSC shall be specified and justified in the application. Applicants should not name DMSC members until an award is made and after consultation with the NCMRR Program Officer; however, within the application, they should specify the process by which DMSC members will be identified and the qualifications of the types of individuals to be sought. The DMSC is organized by the Principal Investigator in consultation with the NCMRR Program Officer and will be appointed by the awardeeþs institution. The DMSC will be composed of external, nonparticipating peer investigators, including those of data coordinating/statistical centers, if any, and the NCMRR Program Officer. An initial meeting of the DMSC will be convened by the Principal Investigator soon after an award is made. The final structure and membership of the DMSC will be established at the first meeting. The Principal Investigator will not be a member or routine attendee of the DMSC after its first meeting. The NCMRR Program Officer will have nonvoting membership on the DMSC and, as appropriate, its subcommittees. Such a Committee usually will meet at least yearly. A Chairperson, other than the NIH representative, will be selected by a vote of the members. The Chairperson is responsible for coordinating the DMSC activities, for preparing meeting agendas, and for scheduling and chairing meetings. D. Arbitration. When agreement between the awardee and the NCMRR staff cannot be reached on scientific/programmatic issues that may arise after the award, an arbitration panel will be formed. The panel will consist of one person selected by the Principal Investigator of the study, one person selected by the NCMRR staff and a third selected by these two individuals. The decision of the arbitration panel, by majority vote, will be binding. The NICHD review procedure in no way affects the right of a recipient of a cooperative agreement to appeal an adverse determination under the terms of PHS regulations at 42 CFR Part 50, Subpart D, and DHHS regulations at 45 CFR Part 16. INCLUSION OF WOMEN AND MINORITIES IN RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN SUBJECTS It is the policy of the NIH that women and members of minority groups and their subpopulations must be included in all NIH-supported biomedical and behavioral research projects involving human subjects, unless a clear and compelling rationale and justification are provided that inclusion is inappropriate with respect to the health of the subjects or the purpose of the research. This policy results from the NIH Revitalization Act of 1993 (Section 492B of Public Law 103- 43). Applicants should read the þNIH Guidelines for Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical Research,þ which have been published in the Federal Register of March 28, 1994 (FR 59 14508-14513), and in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts, Vol. 23, No. 11, March 18, 1994. The Guidelines are available on the Internet at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/not94-100.html . LETTER OF INTENT Prospective applicants are asked to submit by May 11, 1998, a letter of intent that includes a descriptive title of the proposed research, the name, address, and telephone number of the Principal Investigator, the identities of other key personnel and participating institutions, and the number and title of this RFA. Although a letter of intent is not required, is not binding, and does not enter into the review of a subsequent application, the information that it contains allows staff to estimate the potential review workload and avoid conflict of interest in the review. The letter of intent is to be sent to Dr. Stephen M. Tuel at the address listed under INQUIRIES. APPLICATION PROCEDURES The research grant application form PHS 398 (rev. 5/95) is to be used in applying for this RFA. Applications kits are available at most institutional offices of sponsored research and may be obtained from the Division of Extramural Outreach and Information Resources, National Institutes of Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, MSC 7910, Bethesda, MD 20892-7910, telephone 301/710-0267, E-mail: email@example.com. The PHS 398 may also be downloaded over the Internet from https://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/funding.htm. The RFA label available in the application package PHS 398 (rev. 5/95) must be affixed to the bottom of the face page of the application. Failure to use this label could result in delayed processing of the application such that it may not reach the review committee in time for review. In addition, the RFA title (BODY WEIGHT SUPPORTED AMBULATION TRAINING AFTER SPINAL CORD INJURY) and number (HD-98- 005) must be typed on line 2 of the face page of the application form and the YES box must be marked. Submit a signed, typewritten original of the application and three signed, exact photocopies, and the completed checklist in one package to: CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC REVIEW NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 6701 ROCKLEDGE DRIVE, ROOM 1040 - MSC-7710 BETHESDA MD 20892-7710 BETHESDA MD 20817 (for express/courier service) At the time of submission, two additional copies of the application must be sent to: Susan Streufert, Ph.D. Division of Scientific Review National Institute of Child Health and Human Development 6100 Executive Boulevard, Room 5E03 MSC-7510 Bethesda, MD 20892-7510 Rockville, MD 20852 (for express/courier service) Applications prepared in response to this RFA must be received by June 11, 1998. If an application is received after that date, it will be returned to the applicant. The Center for Scientific Review (CSR) will not accept any application in response to this RFA that is essentially the same as one currently pending initial review, unless the applicant withdraws the pending application. The CSR will not accept any application that is essentially the same as one already reviewed. This does not preclude the submission of substantial revisions of applications already reviewed, but such an application must follow the guidance in the PHS Form 398 application instructions for the preparation of revised applications, including an introduction addressing the previous critique. Preparation of the Application The general instructions provided in PHS-398 for the preparation of applications must be used. Because the "Terms and Conditions of Award" will be included in all awards issued as a result of this RFA, it is critical that each applicant provides specific plans for responding to the terms and conditions of award and requirements stated in the RFA. Plans must take into account NIH staff involvement, as well as how all the responsibilities of the awardee will be fulfilled. The following items apply to all applications: 1. Clinical trial designs should include an adequate number of participants and should be of sufficient duration to assure statistical power to address the study questions of efficacy, long-term safety and duration of effect, as well as to address possible gender and minority subgroup differences. To this end, biostatistics and clinical trial design expertise should be included from the first efforts in study planning and design. 2. A rationale for selection of the target patient cohort and an estimate of the number of participants required to complete the clinical study should be provided. Criteria and calculations used to estimate sample size should be included. The patient cohort should be described and its selection justified. The cohort should be defined, as appropriate, by age, sex, race, education, geographic location, occupation, etc. An accrual rate should be estimated. If multiple institutions are involved, the proposal should include verification of the co-investigators' willingness to participate, and pertinent additional information regarding the cooperating institutions' staff qualifications, resources, research plans, including patient availability and data flow, as well as corresponding budget requirements. 3. In addition, if multiple institutions will be involved, a description should be presented of how implementation of the trial will be standardized across participating centers. Items that should be addressed include, but are not limited to: o training to standardize the diagnosis, enrollment (inclusion/exclusion criteria) and treatment of subjects; o programs to standardize data management and confidentiality; and o procedures to ensure patient safety. If preliminary data are not available, the proposal should include a pilot phase to validate these items. 4. Any known or potential complications should be described, along with the techniques and procedures to monitor any adverse events. 5. A willingness to work cooperatively with the NCMRR and NICHD staff in the implementation and conduct of the study should be indicated. 6. Applicants from institutions which have a General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) funded by the NIH National Center for Research Resources may wish to identify the GCRC as a resource for conducting the proposed research. In such a case, a letter of agreement from either the GCRC Program Director or Principal Investigator should be included with the application. REVIEW CONSIDERATIONS Upon receipt, applications will be reviewed for completeness by CSR and responsiveness by the NICHD. Incomplete, non-responsive, or ineligible applications will be returned to the applicant without further consideration. Applications that are complete and responsive to the RFA will be evaluated for scientific and technical merit by an appropriate peer review group convened by the NICHD Division of Scientific Review, in accordance with the review criteria stated below. As part of the initial merit review, a process may be used by the initial review group in which applications will be determined to be competitive or non-competitive based on their scientific merit relative to other applications received in response to this RFA. Applications judged to be competitive will be discussed in depth and assigned a priority score. Applications determined to be non-competitive will be withdrawn from further consideration. A summary statement will be prepared, and the Principal Investigator and the official signing for the applicant organization will be notified. Review Criteria o Overall feasibility and the likelihood of achieving the clinical trial goals and the potential for a successful trial. o Adequacy of the experimental design to evaluate the clinical efficacy of body- weight-supported ambulation training. o Adequacy of the statistical features of the study including sample size projections and power estimates, randomization procedures, methods of analysis, and the use of sequential analyses of data. o Availability of suitable subjects for the clinical trial and the likelihood of them participating throughout the study. o Operational aspects of the project including plans for patient recruitment, retention, and follow-up; masking procedures; standardization of data collection, and quality control of data. o Qualifications and research experience of the Principal Investigator, and for multi-center trials, of a core of Center Investigators. o Evidence for appropriate leadership and proposed organization and committee structures of the clinical trial. o Pilot phase experience including evidence of patient accession and retention, and the feasibility of the intervention and study measures. If preliminary data are not available, the proposal should include a pilot phase to validate these items. o Grounding of the project in the relevant literature, including biological mechanisms and supporting clinical data for any adjunct interventions and measures. o Adequacy of the Data Monitoring and Safety Committee. o Adequacy of plans to address NIH policy on inclusion of women and minorities, including addressing possible gender and minority subgroup differences in the response to the intervention. o Reasonableness/appropriateness of the requested budget and project duration in relation to the proposed research. The initial review group will also examine the provisions for the protection of human and animal subjects and the safety of the research environment. AWARD CRITERIA The anticipated award date is September 28, 1998. Applications recommended by the NICHD Advisory Council will be considered for award based upon (a) scientific and technical merit of the application as determined by peer review; (b) program priorities; and (c) availability of funds. Schedule Letter of Intent Receipt Date: May 11, 1998 Application Receipt Date: June 11, 1998 Review by NICHD Advisory Council: September 15, 1998 Anticipated Award Date: September 28, 1998 INQUIRIES Inquiries concerning this RFA are encouraged. The opportunity to clarify any issues or questions from potential applicants is welcome. Additional information on the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research is available on the Web at http://silk.nih.gov/silk/NCMRR/. Direct inquires regarding programmatic issues to: Stephen M. Tuel, MSE, MD National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Building 61E, Room 2A03 MSC-7510 Bethesda, MD 20892-7510 Telephone: (301) 402-2242 FAX: (301) 402-0832 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Direct inquiries regarding fiscal matters to: Mary Ellen Colvin Grants Management Branch National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Building 61E, Room 8A17 - MSC-7510 Bethesda, MD 20892-7510 Telephone: (301) 496-1303 FAX: (301) 402-0915 Email: email@example.com AUTHORITY AND REGULATIONS This program is described in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 93.929 Medical Rehabilitation Research. Awards are made under authorization of the Public Health Service Act, Title IV, Part A (Public Law 78-410, as amended by Public Law 99-158, 42 USC 241 and 285) and administered under PHS grants policies and Federal Regulations 42 CFR 52 and 45 CFR Part 74. 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Columbia University: Faculty Academic Freedom Debate
Category: Free Speech
Schools: Columbia University
Allegations of anti-Semitism in Columbia's Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures Department prompted a letter from the NYCLU addressing faculty academic freedom rights. However, this letter neglected the rights of students and others within the university to, for example, protest dissent from even that which remains protected under notions of academic freedom. In response, FIRE sent a letter to the president of Columbia fully addressing the rights of all interested parties. FIRE received a reply affirming the rights of all parties.
Letter from Columbia President Lee Bollinger to FIRE
Inquiring Minds
April 15, 2005
By John Gravois at The Chronicle of Higher Education One morning a few weeks back, David A. Sandoval was sitting in his office at Colorado State University at Pueblo and speaking to a local reporter on the telephone. The reporter had called to get the Chicano-studies professor's opinion on Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado at Boulder professor who had recently tripped the switch of national outrage by calling the victims of the World Trade Center bombings "little Eichmanns." In the firebrand's defense, Mr. Sandoval offered the standard-issue rhetoric of academic freedom: Mr. Churchill's words were hurtful and terrible, yes, but […]» Read More
Bollinger Unlikely To Put Restrictions on Political Bias in Classroom
April 11, 2005
Columbia University's president, Lee Bollinger, is unlikely to impose restrictions on political bias in the classroom, according to a professor familiar with the situation. Instead, Mr. Bollinger's strategy in dealing with complaints about politicized teaching appears to rely on revamped procedures for handling student grievances and the hiring of additional faculty members with different viewpoints. "The administration will probably refrain from any steps that would be seen as trying to dictate what any professor says in the classroom," a professor of Middle Eastern history and a former director of Columbia's Middle East Institute, Richard Bulliet, said last week. Mr. Bollinger's […]» Read More
Outsiders Respond To Ad Hoc Report
April 11, 2005
The March 31st report on the controversy surrounding Middle East studies had some strong words for outside organizations that have inserted themselves into the debate, but that hasn't kept those organizations silent. In the week and a half since the release of the ad hoc faculty committee's report on students' allegations of classroom intimidation, groups from the David Project to the New York Civil Liberties Union have responded with a mixture of criticism and spin. While the content of their reactions has varied widely, the uniform intensity with which they have responded indicates how firmly the issue has been seized […]» Read More
A Free-Speech War
March 11, 2005
On February 15, The New York Sun, in a front-page story, reported: "A Columbia University professor who has called Israel a 'racist' state with an 'apartheid system,' and who has supported attacks by Palestinian Arabs on Israelis, is scheduled to lecture a group of New York City public school teachers on how to teach Mideast politics to schoolchildren. "The professor, Rashid Khalidi, is director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University. His professorship is named in memory of Edward Said, a divisive scholar, and is paid for in part with a donation from the United Arab Emirates." Three days […]» Read More
Academic Freedom For Some
March 4, 2005
When it comes to the basic protections of due process and academic freedom, it often appears that students and professors live in two worlds – one world for those who follow the current academic political orthodoxy and another for those who dissent. Take for example, two untenured professors at major universities, Joseph Massad of Columbia and Thomas Klocek of Depaul. Many FrontPage readers are undoubtedly familiar with Professor Massad. Extensively discussed in the documentary "Columbia Unbecoming" and in national media reports, Professor Massad has been quoted as comparing Israelis to Nazis and Prime Minister Sharon's cultural views to those of […]» Read More
N.Y. School Board Bans a Controversial Arab Professor
February 25, 2005
A pro-Palestinian professor at Columbia University, hailed by some Jewish students as a model instructor, is being barred by the New York City Department of Education from lecturing public-school teachers. A spokesman for the school board attributed the move against Rashid Khalidi, the Arab-American director of Columbia's Middle East Institute, to "past statements" on the Middle East. Khalidi "should not have been included" in a 12-week course for public-school teachers on teaching about the Middle East — and "he won't be participating in the future," the spokesman said. The school board's decision was praised by some New York lawmakers with […]» Read More
Defining Free Speech
February 18, 2005
Four months after The David Project released Columbia Unbecoming, Columbia is embroiled in a public fight over allegations against the Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures department. The latest, longer version of the film includes more examples of what it sees as "bias," "intimidation," and "harassment." While The David Project and its supporters have every right to protest and expose perceived abuses at Columbia, it is essential for all involved to understand that nothing described in the film constitutes either harassment or intimidation in any formal sense. Harassment is a badly abused term in higher education. For decades […]» Read More
Speaker Discusses MEALAC And Academic Freedom
February 11, 2005
Open discourse on the controversy in Columbia's Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures department regarding academic freedom continued Thursday night with the appearance of civil rights leader Michael Meyers on campus. Meyers addressed a small group of Columbians on "Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Free Speech in the Academy" in Hamilton Hall. A native of Harlem, Meyers is currently a member of the board of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. He is the former director of the New York Civil Liberties Union and assistant director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and is the […]» Read More
Ad Hoc Sessions on Freedom of Speech Controversy Begin
January 21, 2005
Today, and every Monday and Friday until late February, the ad hoc faculty committee founded in response to the controversy surrounding Columbia's Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures department will meet to try to find out just what went wrong. Columbia's MEALAC department entered the national spotlight because of Columbia Unbecoming, a film produced by the Boston-based Zionist group The David Project. The film alleged continued discrimination against pro-Israel students, but the debate that the film inspired between groups of students and defenders of MEALAC has broadened to encompass larger issues of freedom of speech and academic freedom. Now, […]» Read More
Free Speech in Class Under Fire at Columbia
January 21, 2005
NEW YORK — There's a battle going on at Columbia University (search) over freedom of speech in the classroom. The debate began with a documentary film called "Columbia Unbecoming" that said professors in the Ivy League school's department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures harassed pro-Israel students. The New York Civil Liberties Union (search) supported the professors in a letter written to the university president, saying "students have the right to express their own views [but] it is not, except at the invitation of the professor, an open forum for students to express any views they wish at […]» Read More
Democracy on Campus
January 20, 2005
FIRE's involvement at Columbia University was featured on the January 20, 2005, edition of "FOX Report."» Read More
Intimidated Classrooms
January 18, 2005
The New York Civil Liberties Union has blundered into the growing controversy at Columbia University about charges by students in Middle East studies (MEALAC) that they are bullied and silenced in classrooms by certain professors who are vehemently anti-Israel. Professors have the right to compare Sharon with Goebbels or to declare Israel not to be a legitimate state—but do dissenting students have no academic freedom to question those professorial views in class? The NYCLU says that's up to the professor. These charges by students first gained wide publicity in a film, Columbia Unbecoming, produced by the David Project in […]» Read More
Pro-Israel Students Seek Reprieve from Profs' Alleged Anti-Semitic Bias
January 18, 2005
(AgapePress) – Professors in the Middle East studies department at Columbia University are being accused of anti-Semitism and ideological bias. A new documentary film produced by a group called the "David Project" claims Columbia's department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) is rife with anti-Israel professors who attempt to bully and indoctrinate students with their political agenda. In response, the New York Civil Liberties Union has written a letter to Columbia president Lee Bollinger on behalf of the accused faculty, arguing the professors "must retain broad latitude to think as they will and to write as […]» Read More
Academic Freedom Group Enters Fray
January 11, 2005
The New York Civil Liberties Union came under sharp criticism yesterday from another civil-liberties group, which says it is sanctioning censorship in the classroom at Columbia University. Last month, the NYCLU warned Columbia's president, Lee Bollinger, that students and others who have accused faculty members of intimidating students were waging an "assault" on academic freedom. The NYCLU, the New York State affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, also questioned the right of students to challenge faculty members in the classroom. The group's dismissal of the student claims brought it a scolding from a prominent academic-freedom watchdog group, […]» Read More
Sexton Takes On Issues of Tenure, Academic Freedom
December 3, 2004
Proving to be one of the most outspoken university presidents in the nation, John Sexton of New York University has seized upon two hotly debated issues in higher education: tenure and academic freedom. As he presses forward with a plan to create a cadre of full-time teachers who would be ineligible for permanent faculty appointments, Mr. Sexton, former dean of NYU's law school, is redefining the traditional notion of tenure at research universities – in a way that has alarmed some advocates of the tenure system. In re-examining tenure, Mr. Sexton, 62, has also issued a comprehensive assessment of academic […]» Read More
Columbia Embroiled in Academic Freedom Controversy; FIRE Defends Student Expression
January 11, 2005
NEW YORK, January 11, 2005—For the last few months, Columbia University has been debating charges of anti-Semitism that have been leveled against professors in the university's department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC). The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) entered the debate with a letter that defended the MEALAC faculty and argued that students had dramatically limited rights to dissent from campus orthodoxy. Now, at the request of members of the Columbia community, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has weighed in with a letter reminding Columbia President Lee Bollinger that academic freedom is […]» Read More


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Not That There's Anything Wrong With That
Jessica Seinfeld's cookbook is unoriginal, but it's not plagiarism.
Yesterday, Missy Chase Lapine, author of the cookbook The Sneaky Chef, sued Jerry Seinfeld and his wife, Jessica, claiming that Ms. Seinfeld's cookbook, Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Getting Your Kids Eating Good Food, plagiarized content in The Sneaky Chef. Last October, Steven A. Shaw explained why Ms. Seinfeld's book was not plagiarism. That article is reprinted below.
Jessica Seinfeld did not write the new cookbook Deceptively Delicious. A team of experts large enough to form a soccer team—a writer, chef, nutritionist, art director, photographer, agent, editor, project manager, and then some—did. Originality and authorship are not salient features of most celebrity or spouse-of-celebrity cookbooks, yet instead of taking Seinfeld to task for that, the media have latched on to a peculiar claim: Seinfeld has, of late, been accused of plagiarism. The allegation: She lifted ideas from Missy Chase Lapine's The Sneaky Chef, which was published earlier this year and is also about hiding vegetables in kids' food. Lapine's contention, published in the Independent, is that "There are uncanny similarities between my book and Ms. Seinfeld's," like the fact that both books suggest concealing cauliflower puree in mashed potatoes. But the plagiarism claim is nonsensical. In order to understand why, however, we first need to understand plagiarism.
Many people equate plagiarism with copyright infringement, yet these are different issues. Copyright is a technical, legal issue. It's about ownership of work—whether written, musical, sculptural, or otherwise. If you copy this article, or a substantial portion of it, without permission, and you sell those copies (stop laughing), you've violated copyright laws. The same applies to audio, video, and other media. However, plenty of works are not protected by the copyright laws, such as the works of Herman Melville. Nothing published before 1923 is protected. Go ahead, make copies.
While Melville's work may not be protected by copyright laws, it is entirely possible to plagiarize it. Just try to pass off Moby-Dick as your own and see what happens. Plagiarism isn't about copyrights, it's about dishonesty. It's about pretending someone else's ideas and work are your own, even if those ideas are paraphrased. (If you paraphrase, you're no longer committing a copyright violation because copyright protection is about the form of expression, not the idea itself.) Plagiarism can't exist, however, if you acknowledge your sources: As long as you say where you got your ideas from, it's just called research. Moreover, it's impossible to plagiarize common knowledge: You can't steal the idea that the sky is blue, because everybody already knows that.
Copyright protection is weak when it comes to recipes. The U.S. Copyright Office states, "Mere listings of ingredients as in recipes, formulas, compounds or prescriptions, are not subject to copyright protection." Explanatory notes—like the paragraph before the recipe where the author reminisces about dinners on the family farm—are protected, but the recipe itself is not. That's why Colonel Sanders has had to work so hard to keep his recipes a secret.
Plagiarism is another story, though. Last year, a chef named Robin Wickens was the toast of Melbourne, praised for the avant-garde culinary creations served at his restaurant, Interlude. I'm the director of the eGullet Society, a culinary arts nonprofit that hosts online forums. One of our members, a chef in New York named Sam Mason, saw several photographs of dishes at Interlude and noticed striking similarities to dishes at WD-50 in New York and Minibar in Washington, D.C. Other members soon noticed parallels to dishes at Alinea in Chicago.
Interlude's dishes were not just inspired by WD-50, Minibar, and Alinea. They were carbon copies, right down to their arrangements on the plate and, in a couple of cases, the use of identical, specially ordered serving pieces. (You can compare the photographs here.) These dishes were not common, like French onion soup or Peach Melba, but were, rather, original creations of three of the most cutting-edge chefs working today. Chef Wickens, by serving those dishes without acknowledging their inventors, was committing culinary plagiarism.
Jessica Seinfeld, however, has done no such thing.
For starters, the timeline is all wrong. Cookbooks take a year or more to produce. Lapine's book came out in April, and Seinfeld's came out in October. (Disclosure: Seinfeld's book was published by HarperCollins, which is also my publisher. However, I have no relationship with anybody involved in the Seinfeld project, and I write my own books.) There was simply not enough time to incorporate Lapine's work into Seinfeld's. In fact, Seinfeld's agent told CBS that her book was already being bound when Lapine's came out.
Much has been made of the fact that Lapine originally showed her book proposal to HarperCollins and that HarperCollins rejected it, only to sign up Seinfeld soon after. To those unfamiliar with the world of book publishing, this may seem meaningful, but it's very unlikely that anybody at HarperCollins would have leaked the Lapine proposal to the Seinfeld team, particularly since the premise of the Lapine book is not original, either. The idea of sneaking vegetables into kids' food is a time-honored parenting trick, and Lapine's book was not the first: The largely unsung book Sneaky Veggies by Chris Fisk, for example, came out in August of 2006.
Spend 10 minutes comparing the Seinfeld and Lapine books, and you won't be able to seriously contend that there is plagiarism. (And in all the articles I've found about this tempest in a teapot, not one has pointed to a specific example of plagiarism.) Sure, the two books are based on the same unremarkable, unoriginal idea. And a handful of recipes employ some of the same obvious tricks (mostly based on hue, such as hiding sweet potato puree in a grilled cheese sandwich or spinach in brownies). But the books are quite different. For example, Seinfeld's recipe, titled "Mashed Potatoes," calls for simple cauliflower puree. Lapine's recipe for "Mystery Mashed Potatoes" specifies "White Puree," which is a separate recipe earlier in the book that consists of cauliflower, zucchini, and lemon juice. In a table comparing recipes, a New York Times blog notes that both books contain "Peanut Butter and Jelly Muffins" without noting that, among several other differences, Seinfeld calls for carrot puree while Lapine calls for "orange puree," based on sweet potatoes with the addition of carrots. Not that either trick is a revelation—fleshy vegetables like sweet potatoes and carrots have long been ingredients in cakes, pies, breads, and muffins.
Differences don't end at the recipes. The Lapine book is a straightforward cookbook. Seinfeld's is much more elaborate, from its unusual, hardcover-over-spiral binding (in the style of a family scrapbook), to its gorgeous line art and photography, to a writing style that captures the fantasy of Seinfeld as the reader's BFF. Every potentially similar recipe I've compared has had more than token differences—they seem to have been built independently, from the ground up, using different voices. Of those PB&J muffins, Lapine tells the story of Alison, who hates sweet potatoes but was fooled by the muffins: " 'Yum,' she squealed, 'these are great!' " Seinfeld says only, "I don't know who likes these more, kids or grown-ups."
Lapine, who has surely benefited from the publicity given to the Seinfeld book, seems particularly upset that Seinfeld got a spot on Oprah while she didn't. Oprah portraying an unoriginal idea as original does not constitute plagiarism by Seinfeld. But more to the point, there are reasons Seinfeld got on Oprah and Lapine didn't. They're surely the same reasons the publisher bought Seinfeld's book but not Lapine's: Jessica Seinfeld is gorgeous, charismatic, and married to an über-celebrity. Of course Oprah is going to put her on. Of course any publisher is going to buy whatever book she wants to produce. Of course Seinfeld's book is going to sell better than a book written by a normal person.
Plagiarism is a serious accusation. It can get students expelled; it can ruin writers' careers. And if it's occurred, it should. But the news media should take plagiarism seriously enough to not use the word unless it truly applies. Many things can be said of Seinfeld's book and its runaway success. A sad commentary on the state of parenting? I think so. A triumph of celebrity over substance? You bet. Further evidence of the decline of the West? Definitely. But an act of plagiarism? No way.


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Wanting to learn how to knapp flint. Any advice? I live in the ozarks in missouri and from what I gather should have lots of flint in my area.
Wanting to learn how to knapp flint. Any advice? I live in the ozarks in missouri and from what I gather should have lots of flint in my area.
I had a humorous "napping" reply for you, but such a new member, I didn't want to haze you right away. Welcome.
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The standard advice is to check the archaeology sites in your state park system. Missouri has several and they all schedule demonstrations of knaping. I found three sites that do so with a quick google search of your park system.
Even though the parks might only have one day of knaping scheduled, and it might be months away, I know that at the archaeology sites there will be rangers and guides that are involved with these activities and they will be able to connect you to individuals or clubs that will help you.
You can get books and instructions on youtube, but knaping is a skill best learned watching a skilled knaper.
We have several rock crushers here and one of them will be here to help you soon I am sure.
If you didn't bring jerky what did I just eat?
Attending a knap in is great fun. https://flintknappers.com/events.php
Check your local area, there may be a club or a group that can help you. If you have specific questions, don't hesitate to ask.
Try the search feature. There are tons of threads on knapping.
this aug or sept is the boisd'ark or bodark as moswt call it . it is the largest knap'in in the us i believe.
it is in central'mo. google it and see. also try bing images to get a feel of the place.
as for stone you should find plenty of novaculite in your area, btw welcome
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Thanks all! Been flooding here for the last couple days. Have had over 10 inches of rain in the last 24 hours. Too wet to get outside and all roads are flooded so can't go anywhere. Waiting for it to dry so I can get out and see if I can find any rocks to try.
Any way...
Your local museums or collage my have a listing of references and events in your area.
I don't knapp, but work with both our Archaeological Society. and Museum...there is a few knappers that may show up at some events to put on "schools".
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Oh trust me.........there were a whole lot of people thinking the same thing.
I'll do it.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Over a many quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.
While I nodded nearly napping, suddenly there came a knapping.
As of some on gently knapping, knapping at my chamber door.
'Tis some visitor,' I muttered,' knapping at my chamber door-
only this and nothing more.'
Seriously though. This is my first experience with knapping in the wild.
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1-2-3-4-5....they are all there....so what's the big deal?....
(bet that smarted)
Survivors bleed for the sake of fun......right...LOL
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Some years back I bought a flintlock. I figured that in a worst case scenario I could upon finding a sulfur source make black powder or cure all my earthly ills, and have an ignition source (flint). Lead would be great for projectiles but not absolutely necessary.
I figured I could knap out some flints for the flintlock easy peasy. I had done a little bit of knapping and made some crude arrow points but creating a flint that would fit and lock into place on the flintlock was more of a chore than I'd imagined. Yes, it can be done but the skill level is far an above that needed to shape a flint flake into a point. The stock must be clear and free of checks and you have to know what you're doing to get the taper right to strike the frizzen to get the right sparks. I buy my flints.
Never mind, I have nothing to add - I'm just a troll.
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You do it like you would knock big flakes off a core when shaping a big flint blade or point and instead of throwing away the waste you pressure flake it to clean it up and straighten the edges. I have not bought a flint in years.
In an emergency you can clamp a short piece of ferro rod in the jaws of the lock and it will practically explode when it hits the frizzen. Looks like on old fashioned flash bulb going off. Scared me half to death the first time I did that.
If you didn't bring jerky what did I just eat?
I'll give it a try next time I get a chance. Thanks.


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