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The Associated Press and NPR have decided to cut back on use of the term "Obamacare," with NPR describing the word as seeming "to be straddling somewhere between being a politically-charged term and an accepted part of the vernacular."
Stuart Seidel, NPR's managing editor for standards and practice, issued his style ruling Tuesday after this columnist contended in a note to him that the term can no longer be defended as neutral.
Separately, the AP went further and said the name of the health-care law, the Affordable Care Act, was also prejudicial in that "its very name is promotional; opponents believe it will not be affordable for individuals or the country. . . ."
Tom Kent, deputy managing editor and standards editor, wrote Tuesday, "In AP news reports, our preference is to use wording like 'the nation's new health insurance system,' 'the health care overhaul' or 'the new health care law.' "
Kent wrote, " 'Obamacare' was coined by opponents of the law and is still used by them in a derogatory manner. It's true that the White House, and even [President] Obama himself, have used the term on occasion. But the administration hasn't totally embraced 'Obamacare' and still uses the Affordable Care Act much of the time. We're sticking with our previous approach to 'Obamacare': AP writers should use it in quotes, or in formulations like 'the law, sometimes known as Obamacare, provides for …' "
The health care law dominated the news this week as enrollment for new online health insurance exchanges opened on Tuesday, generating visits by 2.8 million people to the healthcare.gov website and more to others maintained by states. The number of visits was so high that many frustrated consumers could not get through.
At the same time, House Republicans demanded that the law, referred by most of them as "Obamacare," be delayed, leading to an impasse that resulted in a partial shutdown of the federal government. That sent hundreds of thousands of federal workers from their workplaces and provided more opportunities for journalists to use the "Obamacare" term, which many justified because the president, in a bid to co-opt the word, had begun using it himself.
NPR's ombudsman, Edward Schumacher-Matos, explained on Sept. 6 why NPR was using Obamacare.
Seidel said in that piece, "the term 'Obamacare' has lost its pedigree as a politically charged term."
Schumacher-Matos concluded then, "It is safe to say, in other words, that the term 'Obamacare' has entered the general vocabulary as a largely neutral term. How most of us understand it depends on what we think of the law, and of the president."
However, this columnist wrote Seidel, in Obama's Tuesday speech decrying the government shutdown, the president used the term "Affordable Care Act" 10 times but never used "Obamacare."
In a speech on Monday, Obama used "Affordable Care Act" four times, and again, "Obamacare" not at all.
By contrast, in a House debate on Saturday night, all the Democrats used "Affordable Care Act" and all the Republicans "Obamacare" for the time this viewer was watching. It was consistently "Obamacare" again on Tuesday as Republicans spoke after Obama's speech.
Moreover, since the Sept. 6 piece was written, the president acknowledged that "Obamacare" was still partisan and still negative.
Last Thursday in Largo, Md., Obama said of the law, "once it's working well, I guarantee you, they will not call it Obamacare."
Seidel replied, "You make some good and fair points. I appreciate having them raised. I'm not persuaded that the use of 'Obamacare' is wholly inappropriate, but I am persuaded that good effort needs [to be] made to avoid over-using it. I'm sharing that feeling with NPR's editors and correspondents."
Seidel's memo said, " 'Obamacare' seems to be straddling somewhere between being a politically-charged term and an accepted part of the vernacular. And it seems to be on our air and in our copy a great deal. (I haven't counted, and I'm not going to count: numbers don't add up to good journalism.) But word choices do leave an impression. Please avoid overusing 'Obamacare.' On first reference, it's best to refer to the 'Affordable Care Act' or 'the health care law.' On later references, feel free to use 'Obamacare' but mix it up with other ways to refer to the law."
Journal-isms asked other news organizations for their policies on use of the term. Responses indicated that many had not caught up with NPR and the AP.
NBC: A spokeswoman who did not want to be identified said that once the administration started using the term "Obamacare," the network decided it was acceptable.
Los Angeles Times: Spokeswoman Nancy Sullivan said, "LA Times reporters and editors may consider 'Obamacare' as an acceptable term for the Affordable Care Act. In recently revising our guidelines, senior editors responded to staff requests to allow the usage, in light of widespread public understanding of the term and the use of the term even by the White House and supporters of the act, not just opponents." She said the revision took place last week.
"PBS NewsHour": Anne D. Bell, public relations manager, said, "Guidelines are to use Affordable Care Act as the first reference and then in subsequent references ACA, health care law or 'Obamacare' are acceptable alternatives."
Chicago Tribune: Joe Knowles, associate managing editor/editing and presentation, said he sent the following style entry to his staff on Wednesday: "Obamacare Note the lowercase 'c.' Acceptable in references to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, which is frequently shortened to the Affordable Care Act. Try to use the formal or shortened formal name of the law somewhere in the body of a news story. Allow columnists and editorial writers greater license." Knowles told Journal-isms, "We are still urging people to try to get the official name in the body of the story somewhere, preferably high up."
New York Times: Spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said, "There is no written policy in the Stylebook and we use both terms frequently."
As reported this week, CNBC said it had asked half of 812 poll respondents if they supported Obamacare and the other half if they supported the Affordable Care Act.
"First thing: 30 percent of the public don't know what ACA is, vs. only 12 percent when we asked about Obamacare. More on that later," Steve Liesman reported.
"Now for the difference: 29 percent of the public supports Obamacare compared with 22 percent who support ACA. Forty-six percent oppose Obamacare and 37 percent oppose ACA. So putting Obama in the name raises the positives and the negatives. . . ."
He-Said, He-Said Approach Faulted in Shutdown Coverage
"Appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe just days before the looming deadline for a federal government shutdown, Politico's Mike Allen was assessing the politics of the controversy and predicting which Beltway players would get tagged with the blame for the intentional legislative debacle," Eric Boehlert wrote Tuesday for Media Matters for America.
"Despite the fact that Republicans were refusing to fund the government if the White House balked at the demand to essentially repeal its 2010 health care law, Allen suggested President Obama would be the real political loser.
"Why Obama? Because he's more famous than the GOP congressional leaders whose actions are causing the impasse.
" 'A lot of people in the country don't know John Boehner. There's no one in the world who doesn't know Barack Obama,' Allen explained. 'So when Washington is not working, it's going off the rails in a very visible way, a way that is vivid and touches people, that's not good ultimately for the president.'
"That's an awfully tenuous path to blame Obama for the Republicans' proudly obstructionist strategy to stop funding the government.
"Yet so it goes within portions of the Beltway press corps who are straining to include Democrats in the shutdown blame game; to make sure 'both sides' are targeted for tsk-tsk scoldings about 'Washington dysfunction,' and that the Republicans' truly radical nature remains casually ignored. This media act is getting old. And this media act may be emboldening the Republicans' extreme behavior. . . ."
Dan Froomkin agreed Tuesday in a piece for Al Jazeera America. "U.S. news reports are largely blaming the government shutdown on the inability of both political parties to come to terms," he wrote. "It is supposedly the result of a 'bitterly divided' Congress that 'failed to reach agreement' (Washington Post) or 'a bitter budget standoff' left unresolved by 'rapid-fire back and forth legislative maneuvers' (New York Times). This sort of false equivalence is not just a failure of journalism. It is also a failure of democracy. . . ."
Charles Babington and Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press: Shutdown gives Obama unlikely ally: Big business
Broadcasting Board of Governors: Core BBG Activities [such as Voice of America] to Continue During U.S. Government Shutdown
James E. Causey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Give 'em the boot, Barack!
Michael H. Cottman, BlackAmericaWeb.com: Cold-Hearted: Radical Republicans Shut Down Government to Spite Obama
Joe Davidson, Washington Post: Shutdown means mission stymied, not mission accomplished for federal employees
Jarvis DeBerry, NOLA.com | the Times-Picayune: Obamacare debate shows indifference of haves toward have-nots
Jarvis DeBerry, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune: Congress doesn't reflect America's choice
Lewis W. Diuguid, Kansas City Star: Victims in federal shutdown will keep growing
Tim Giago, indianz.com: The survival of Indian people is taking a new turn
Keli Goff, The Root: 5 Ways Obamacare Benefits Black Women
Juan Gonzalez, Daily News, New York: Obamacare crippled by computer bugs on a forgettable day 1
Emil Guillermo blog, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund: Shutdown Government: American Democracy Is Breaking Bad
Eric Hananoki, Media Matters for America: Fox Fix: In AP Reports, "Shutdown" Becomes "Slimdown"
Anna Li, Poynter Institute: Government shutdown closes websites, affecting data journalists
Trudy Lieberman, Columbia Journalism Review: Exchange Watch: Telling half a story about the federal exchanges
Kelly McBride, Poynter Institute: Don't call it an impasse, stalemate, or standoff
Evan McMurry, mediaite.com: WaPo Editorial Board Changes Its Mind: GOP to Blame for Shutdown
Media Matters for America: 15 Myths The Media Should Ignore During Obamacare Implementation
Courtland Milloy, Washington Post: Shutdown punch: Right-wing fanatics throw haymaker at Pr. George's County
Judy Molland, care2.com: Here's What You Need to Know About the Affordable Care Act
Cedric Muhammad blog, Forbes: The Pyrrhic Shutdown: The Tea Party Injured Itself And Just Won The GOP The White House In 2016
Brendan Nyhan, Columbia Journalism Review: The roots of the shutdown fight
Donna Owens, the Grio: Black federal workers bear brunt of government shutdown
Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune: Washington's 3-party Congress
Jessica Prois & Eleanor Goldberg, HuffPost BlackVoices: How Government Shutdown Hurts The Most Vulnerable, And How You Can Help
Noah Rothman, mediaite.com: GOP Reps Call Out CNN Anchor in Battle over Shutdown: 'Whose Bidding Are You Doing?'
Michelle Singletary, Washington Post: Health-care rollout as expected, not as planned
David Swerdlick, The Root: Obama Has Compromised Already
Armstrong Williams blog: Republican firing Squad!
New Miss America Booked for South Asian Journalists Gala
Nina Davuluri, the 2014 Miss America and the first Indian American to wear the crown, is scheduled to participate in the annual awards gala Saturday of the South Asian Journalists Association.
Sovy Azhath, president of the association, which has "nearly 700 active paying members," told Journal-isms by email that a "fellow SAJA board member booked Miss America for our gala — Nina seemed willing and excited to attend."
Soledad O'Brien is scheduled to be keynote speaker and Kevin Negandhi, an anchor on ESPN SportsCenter, is to be master of ceremonies. The event, to be held at the Yale Club of New York City, is sold out, but the association is establishing a waiting list. "The capacity for this year's event is 150 and we have reached that number of guests on sept 28th," board member Jigar Mehta told Journal-isms by email.
Darius Walker Given Vice President Title at CNN
CNN regional bureau chiefs Darius Walker, Pete Janos and Mary Lynn Ryan have been promoted to vice president, Terence Burke, vice president of newsgathering for CNN/U.S. told the CNN staff on Tuesday. There is no change in their duties, a CNN spokeswoman told Journal-isms.
Walker is chief of CNN's largest national bureau, based in New York, which includes 105 people from Maine to Indiana, according to a bio prepared by the New York Association of Black Journalists.
"He also oversees the business and financial news resources for CNN USA," Walker wrote in his LinkedIn profile. "Prior to his New York assignment, Walker was the senior director of newsgathering for CNN's Washington, D.C., bureau.
"Walker previously served as vice president of CNN Business News, where he managed business news coverage for CNN, CNNfn, Headline News and CNN Radio; served as supervising producer for CNNfn's Atlanta operations and as senior producer for the business news program, Lou Dobbs Moneyline. From 1996 to 1998, Walker worked for CNN's national desk in Atlanta as a senior editor and producer. . . ."
Mark Whitaker, the former Newsweek editor who as executive vice president and managing editor of CNN Worldwide became the highest-ranking African American at CNN, resigned in January, saying he wanted to give then-new CNN chief Jeff Zucker "his own team and management structure and the freedom to communicate one clear vision to the staff." No African American held a position at that level under Zucker.
D.C. Anchor J.C. Hayward Suspended in Corruption Probe
"WUSA9 weekday noon anchor J.C. Hayward — once called a 'news anchor legend' by the Washington Post — is among several people being sued by District [of Columbia] Attorney General Irv Nathan for their alleged roles in taking more than $3 million from a D.C. public charter school ," Will Sommer reported Tuesday for Washington City Paper.
"Former officials at Options Public Charter School, including the chief executive officer and chief operating officer, are accused of extracting money from the 17-year-old school through extravagant salaries and sweetheart contracts with companies they controlled. The District wants the school to be placed in receivership, with the assets of some defendants — although not Hayward's — frozen.
WUSA added, "No criminal charges have been filed.
"JC Hayward told WUSA9 she did nothing wrong, and all she did was sign bills in her capacity as chair of the charter school's board, and that she received no money. She says she resigned from the school's board last week.
"WUSA General Manager Mark Burdett says Hayward has been relieved of her duties at WUSA pending further investigation."
Hayward was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame in 2011 [video.]
National Geographic's Faces Offer Racial Guessing Game
"When people ask Celeste Seda, 26, what she is, she likes to let them guess before she explains her Dominican-Korean background," Lise Funderburg writes in the October issue of National Geographic. The author of "Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity" (1994), Funderburg composed an essay that accompanies photographs of multiracial people by Martin Schoeller.
Funderburg's "The Changing Face of America" piece continues, Seda "points out that even then she has revealed only a fraction of her identity, which includes a Long Island childhood, a Puerto Rican adoptive family, an African-American sister, and a nascent acting career. The attention she gets for her unusual looks can be both flattering and exhausting. 'It's a gift and a curse,' Seda says."
Funderburg adds, "If we can't slot people into familiar categories, perhaps we'll be forced to reconsider existing definitions of race and identity, presumptions about who is us and who is them.
"Perhaps we'll all end up less parsimonious about who we feel connected to as we increasingly come across people like Seda, whose faces seem to speak that resounding line from Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself':
" 'I am large, I contain multitudes.' "
Editor Calls Nontraditional Households Bad for Newspapers
Making his argument that "while the decline of journalism coincides with the rise of the Internet, the Internet may not be the primary cause at all," Chris Powell, managing editor of the Journal Inquirer in Manchester, Conn., with a Monday-Friday circulation of 37,668, included this paragraph Saturday:
"Indeed, newspapers still can sell themselves to traditional households — two-parent families involved with their children, schools, churches, sports, civic groups, and such. But newspapers cannot sell themselves to households headed by single women who have several children by different fathers, survive on welfare stipends, can hardly speak or read English, move every few months to cheat their landlords, barely know what town they're living in, and couldn't afford a newspaper subscription even if they could read. And such households constitute a rising share of the population. . . "
"Reached by email, Powell said he is 'out of the country on personal business' and hasn't had time to look at reaction to his column," Andrew Beaujon reported Tuesday for the Poynter Institute. " 'Maybe today,' he writes."
The Hartford Courant answered Powell Wednesday with an editorial, "Chris Powell Can't Pin Newspaper Woes On Welfare Moms."
Frank L. Fouce Dies, Helped Launch Univision Precursor
"Frank L. Fouce, an impresario of Spanish-language entertainment who turned the historic Million Dollar Theater in downtown Los Angeles into a prestigious venue for a burgeoning Latino market and helped launch the television network that became Univision, died Sept. 22 in Los Angeles," Elaine Woo wrote this week for the Los Angeles Times. "He was 85.
"The cause was lymphoma, said his daughter, Paula Fouce.
"Mr. Fouce was a co-founder of the Spanish International Communications Corp., which operated the first Spanish-language television stations in the United States, including KMEX-TV, Univision's flagship outlet and the No. 1 source for Spanish-language news and entertainment in Los Angeles. . . . "
About three weeks ago, the Washington Post Co. sent an email to 63 newsroom employees who have received stock-option bonuses in recent years. Those options are now worth a substantial amount (more than $630 per share at present value), Jim Romenesko reported Wednesday on his media blog. "The person at the paper who sent the email inadvertently disclosed the names of all recipients, I'm told, and now 'there's a sense of haves and have nots, winners and losers' in the newsroom," Romenesko wrote. He listed the recipients, including Ariana Cha, David D. Cho, Hayley M. Tsukayama, Kenisha R. Malcolm, Kevin E. Merida, Terence Samuel, Nikita R. Stewart and Krissah S. Thompson. Meanwhile, "Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos formally took over as the owner of The Washington Post on Tuesday, officially ending 80 years of local control of the newspaper by the Graham family," the Post's Paul Farhi reported.
"If Jay Pharoah had his way, there would've been a black female cast member on Saturday Night Live yesterday," Courtney Garcia wrote Friday for the Grio. "Actually, he's got someone on stand by for whenever the producers give him a word." Garcia also wrote, "Since Maya Rudolph's departure in 2007, no African-American woman has been cast on the Saturday night stronghold, and along with Kenan Thompson, Pharoah remains the only other black actor and on a show with 16 cast members. . . ."
"Mashing up Paula Deen, the Trayvon Martin trial and the NYPD's controversial stop-and-frisk practices in one episode might seem like a stretch, but Law & Order: SVU executive producer Warren Leight says it makes sense," Michael Schneider wrote Tuesday for TV Guide. " 'They're seemingly different stories, but they all involve race,' Leight says of the episode," which was to air Wednesday on NBC.
"Morgan State University will formally launch its new School of Global Journalism and Communication on October 3 with events that [coincide] with the university's annual Homecoming celebration," the NorthStar News & Analysis reported. As part of the activities, a "symposium will analyze media coverage of pivotal events from 1963 such as the March on Washington, the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and NAACP Field Director Medgar Evers, the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church and the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, as well as campaigns in the city of Baltimore to integrate Gwynn Oak Amusement Park and the Northwood movie theater, the latter located across from the Morgan State campus." Separately, Richard Muhammad of the Nation of Islam's Final Call newspaper profiled Dean DeWayne Wickham.
"Al Día newspaper in Dallas is celebrating its 10 year anniversary," Veronica Villafañe reported Monday for Media Moves. "The Belo-owned sister publication of the Dallas Morning News was launched Sept. 29, [2003] as a paid daily newspaper, Monday-Saturday. At the time of the launch, Gilbert Bailón was the founding publisher, Mike Cano, the founding General manager and Alfredo Carbajal, the founding Managing Editor. Both Gilbert and Mike have moved on, but Alfredo remains at the paper. . . ."
"Northwestern University's journalism school boasts of its prowess in preparing students for prestigious careers — but it also serves as a pipeline for unpaid internships," Kara Brandeisky reported Tuesday for ProPublica. "At Medill, students pay $15,040 in tuition for the privilege of working full-time jobs as unpaid interns. During their mandatory quarter in Journalism Residency, as it is known, students work full time at news organizations such as CNN Documentaries, Self and WGN Chicago. But instead of paying interns, employers pay Medill $1,250 for every student placed. . . ."
On Sept. 11, the Crimson White at the University of Alabama published an investigative piece, "The Final Barrier: 50 Years Later Segregation Still Exists," Kelly McBride reported Tuesday for the Poynter Institute. "The story documented a rush process in which members at several sororities actively tried to pledge" a well-qualified black woman, "only to be thwarted by their alumnae and advisers. The story caught fire on social media. Jezebel linked to it the next day. Within a week, CNN, USA Today, The New York Times and The Guardian of London had published similar stories. It's a remarkable piece of journalism for three reasons. . . ."
"Yale has dropped charges of criminal trespassing against a Brazilian journalist apprehended last week for allegedly attempting to enter a private meeting and misrepresenting her intentions to Yale Police officers," Isaac Stanley-Becker reported Tuesday for the Yale Daily News. "Claudia Trevisan, a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent for O Estado de S. Paulo, spent three and a half hours in a New Haven prison Thursday night, she said, after being handcuffed and escorted out of Woolsey Hall. . . ."
"Amid violent protests in Sudan last week, authorities asked journalists to refrain from publishing news that they said would 'disturb the public,' according to news reports," the Committee to Protect Journalists reported Tuesday. "Several journalists were subsequently detained and multiple outlets shut down, news reports said. . . ."
"Reporters Without Borders is very disturbed by the complete absence of the rule of law and lack of security in Libya, and by the impact this is having on the work of journalists, and calls on the authorities to ensure that recent serious attacks and kidnappings of media personnel do not go unpunished, . . ." the press freedom organization said on Tuesday.
In Venezuela, "Globovisión, a TV station that is used to being harassed by the National Communications Commission (CONATEL) and other government agencies, has been the target of a new CONATEL investigation since 30 September," Reporters Without Borders said on Wednesday. "The station is facing a possible fine of up to 10 per cent of its annual income for its coverage of the shortages of food, electricity and other essentials that Venezuela is currently suffering. Those affected include the print media, especially local newspapers, which are finding it hard to obtain newsprint. . . ."
"The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Saturday's murder of a Colombian newspaper vendor who had collaborated with journalists on exposing misbehavior by guards at a local prison, and calls on authorities to investigate," the press freedom group said Tuesday. "Unidentified gunmen shot José Darío Arenas, 31, multiple times in the town of Caicedonia in the western province of Valle del Cauca, according to news reports. . . ."
"The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a decision by Tanzanian authorities to suspend two leading private Swahili dailies on accusations of sedition," the press freedom group said on Monday. "The government issued a statement on Friday suspending Mwananchi and MTanzania for 14 and 90 days respectively. . . ."
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History and Literature BA (Hons)
UCAS code V21L
What is special about this course?
The joint honours degree in history and literature allows you to turn your passion for the past and for writing into an interesting career.
The BA (Hons) History and Literature covers a range of approaches, from thematic modules that cover a variety of places and historical periods, to concentrated and in-depth studies of a particular group of authors or periods of history.
Over two-thirds of the research conducted by the Centre for History was rated at 4* and 3*, indicating 'world-leading' or 'internationally excellent', in the latest assessment of UK university research quality.
The impact of our research on the broader economy and society was ranked joint 8th, higher than Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh. We are also the highest ranked new History department in the UK.
Special features
- You will explore literature and history in a global context
- The degree can be studied full time or part time to suit your personal circumstances
- You can study individual modules for personal or professional development
We offer modern student accommodation at a number of our locations.
Entry requirements
Entry to year one:
- 3 Scottish Highers at grade BBC or above, or
- 2 A levels at grade BC or above
- At least two should be from the list of relevant subjects
- Applicants with other relevant qualifications or experience will be considered on an individual basis
Advanced entry to year two:
- HNC Social Science (12 SCQF credits) with 3 additional SCQF credits at level 7 which is equivalent to 120 degree credit points, and at least grade C in the Graded Unit will be considered for direct entry to year two.
Access routes
Students eligible to undertake Scottish Wider Access Programmes (SWAP) will be able to apply for entry to BA (Hons) History and Literature with a grade profile of BBC in one of the below courses and 8 units passed at SCQF level 6:
- Access to: Arts and Humanities (Newbattle Abbey College)
- Access to: Arts, Social Sciences and Primary Teaching (Edinburgh College)
- Access to: Arts, Social Sciences and Primary Teaching (North East Scotland College)
- Access to: Celtic Studies incorporating Primary Education with Gaelic (Newbattle Abbey College)
- Access to: Community, Education and Humanities (Dundee & Angus College)
- Access to: Degree Studies (Forth Valley College)
- Access to: Humanities (Arts, Social Sciences and Primary Education) (Fife College)
- Access to: Humanities (Fife College)
- Access to: Humanities (Perth College UHI)
- Access to: Languages with Business (Edinburgh College)
- Access to: Languages, Arts and Social Sciences (Edinburgh College)
- Access to: University Study (Dundee & Angus College)
- NQ Access to: Social Sciences (West Lothian College)
- NQ Access to: Teaching (West Lothian College)
Access to Christian Theology at our university and other relevant humanities access courses will also be considered on an individual basis.
Year 1 - CertHE
You will study the following history modules:
- What is history? Plus
- A middle age: Europe 1000-1500 Or
- People, power and protest: themes in modern British history
You will also study the following two literature modules:
- Theories of literature: an introduction
- Travellers in the wilderness: literature and the theme of exile
You will study two further option modules from a range of history, literature and other humanities subjects.
Year 2 - DipHE
You will study the following history modules:
- Historians and history Plus
- Themes in American history Or
- A curious age: European society and culture, c1500-1750
You will also study two literature modules which may include:
- Male ideals and female desires in medieval poetry
- An introduction to Gaelic poetry
- Theatrical powerplay: classical and modern tragedy
- Heroic literature: epic from classical to contemporary
You will study two further option modules from a range of history, literature and other humanities subjects.
Year 3 - BA
If you want to complete a history dissertation in the honours year, you would must study the core module Public History, otherwise, you can choose up to three modules in history and three in literature.
History modules may include:
- Queer Britannia: gender, sexuality and performative identities in Britain, 1800-1950
- A study of things: material culture of medieval and early modern Europe
- War and chivalry in medieval Britain and France
- Cultural centres and economic powerhouses: London, Hamburg and Amsterdam during the early modern period
- Alps, Hills and Plain? Central Europe to 1918
- Crime, custom and conflict, 1700-1850
- You can choose to take one module from the Scottish history options
Literature modules may include:
- Gaoir nam ban: Gaelic women's poetry 1644-1746
- Imagining new worlds: renaissance literature and thought
- Romantic genius: Scottish and European literature, 1750-1830
- Psychogeography and the city
- Modern times: popular culture and moderism
- Children's literature
Year 4 - BA (Hons)
You will complete a dissertation in history or literature. You will also study one option module from your chosen dissertation subject plus three option modules from the other subject. You may take one Scottish history module in place of one history module.
History modules may include:
- War cruel and sharp: a military history of the Hundred Years' War
- Gender in American Culture and Society, 1776-1917
- Death and destruction: the social impact of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
- Lordship, colony, kingdom: the making of Ireland
- Through a glass darkly: the medieval in film
Literature subjects may include:
- Pushing bourndaries
- Postmoderism
- Avant-garde literature
- Past and present: historiography
How will I study my course?
- Full Time
- Part Time (Structured)
- Part Time (Unstructured)
You will learn through a combination of face-to-face lectures and tutorials and online study via the university's virtual learning environment (VLE), with the support of your tutors. There is a weekly two-hour timetabled video conference lecture for each module which students should attend at their home campus.
How long will my course last?
- Full Time: 4 Years @ 40 hours per week
- Part Time (structured): 8 Years @ 20 hours per week
The number of hours per week indicates the total number of hours you should dedicate to the course, which includes a weekly two-hour video conference seminar for each module, online tutor-supported study and self-directed study.
Where can I study my course?
- Argyll College UHI
- Highland Theological College UHI
- Inverness College UHI
- Lews Castle College UHI
- Moray College UHI
- North Highland College UHI - Dornoch and Thurso campuses
- Orkney College UHI
- Shetland College UHI
- West Highland College UHI
Start date
- September
For students normally domiciled in Scotland or the European Union/EEA (outside of the UK) and with a term time address in Scotland, the following fees apply:
|Full-time (120 credit modules) per year
|Part-time (structured) (3 x 20 credit modules) per year
|Part-time (unstructured per module) (per 20 credit module)
Rest of UK students
For students normally domiciled in the rest of the UK (England, Wales and N. Ireland, including Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) and with a term time address in Scotland studying this course full time, the following fees apply:
|Year 1
|Year 2
|Year 3
|Year 4
4th year free only for students studying full-time, on continuous study, who have paid for the previous three years at the University of the Highlands and Islands.
Part-time (per 20 credit module) - £1,500.
Fees are payable in advance each academic year unless otherwise agreed.
There are a number of funding options available to UK and EU students to help you pay for your studies and your cost of living while studying.
International students
For students who do not normally reside in the UK or European Union and with a term-time address in Scotland, the following fees apply:
|Full-time (120 credit modules) per year
|Part-time (structured) (3 x 20 credit modules) per year**
|Part-time (unstructured per module) (per 20 credit module)**
Part-time study is not open to international student requiring a Tier 4 visa to study in the UK.
Further information on international course fees.
A no fee increase guarantee is available for self-funding full-time and structured part-time RUK and International undergraduate students for continuous and contiguous study for the same award, up to the permitted standard time limit for the relevant award.
External scholarships and financial support may be available. Contact the relevant university partner college for more information.
What can I do on completion of my course?
Once you have successfully completed your BA (Hons) History and Literature, you might like to consider careers in:
- Teaching and education
- The media
- Publishing
- Creative arts
- Marketing and PR
- Government (local and national)
- Libraries and Archives
- Museums and the heritage sector
Can I progress into further study?
You can progress from the BA (Hons) History and Literature to the following postgraduate courses;
Is there more information available online?
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The Hope College Wind Ensemble will present its fourth annual Halloween Concert on Wednesday, Oct. 31, at 5 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The concert will celebrate John Williams' 80th birthday (Feb. 8, 1932) by featuring some of his best-known film scores such as "Star Wars," "Superman" and "Indiana Jones." The concert will also include chilling works such as "Incantation and Dance," by John Barnes Chance; "To Set the Darkness Echoing," by Dana Wilson; and "Lost in the Funhouse," by Jeffrey Hass.
"The concert will feature a variety of music for all ages. People are encouraged to come in costume," said Gabe Southard, who is director of the Wind Ensemble and an assistant professor of music. There will be an instrumental petting zoo for younger students interested in trying instruments after the performance.
Southard, who joined the Hope faculty in 2007, completed his Doctorate of Musical Arts in conducting at Michigan State University. Prior to his residence at MSU, he served as wind symphony conductor and flute studio teacher at the University of Michigan-Flint, where he also taught orchestration, music appreciation and advanced conducting.
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January 20, 2011
1985: Montana & 49ers Beat Marino & Dolphins in Super Bowl XIX
The playoffs have often yielded surprises when it comes to Super Bowl participants, but such was not the case in Super Bowl XIX on January 20, 1985. Both the San Francisco 49ers and Miami Dolphins were widely perceived to be the best that their respective conferences had to offer.
The 49ers had roared to the top of the NFC West with a 15-1 record in 1984 and easily dispatched the Giants and Bears in the postseason. Under the innovative guidance of Head Coach Bill Walsh, the club was best known for its offense but was solid on defense as well. QB Joe Montana (pictured above) skillfully directed the attack, RB Wendell Tyler ran for 1262 yards, and there were three Pro Bowlers on the offensive line in C Fred Quillan, G Randy Cross, and OT Keith Fahnhorst. The defense had to make due without star pass rushing DE Fred Dean for much of the season due to a contract dispute, but still had solid performers in DE Dwaine Board and OLB Keena Turner. All four members of the backfield were selected for the Pro Bowl (cornerbacks Ronnie Lott and Eric Wright, FS Dwight Hicks, and SS Carlton Williamson).
Miami, under Head Coach Don Shula, went 14-2 in winning the AFC East and defeated the Seahawks and Steelers in the playoffs on the way to the Super Bowl. The passing game was nothing short of spectacular as second-year QB Dan Marino re-wrote the record book in setting new season records for passing yards (5084) and touchdown passes (48, exceeding the previous mark by 12). WR Mark Clayton set a new standard for TD catches in a season (18) and he and WR Mark Duper each caught over 70 passes and exceeded 1300 yards. The defense included the "Killer Bees", ends Doug Betters and Kim Bokamper, NT Bob Baumhower, and LB Bob Brudzinski, plus Pro Bowl ILB A.J. Duhe.
There were 84,059 fans in attendance at Stanford Stadium along with the usual mammoth television audience. Following a punt by the 49ers, the Dolphins drove 45 yards on six plays, featuring a 25-yard pass from Marino to RB Tony Nathan, and scored the first points of the game on a 37-yard field goal by Uwe van Schamann. San Francisco wasted no time in responding, however, as short passes by Montana and runs by Tyler got the Niners to the Miami 48 yard line. Facing a third-and-seven situation, Montana took off on a 15-yard run for a first down, and on the next play he threw to RB Carl Monroe for a 33-yard touchdown.
Miami went into a no-huddle offense the next time it had the ball and Marino completed five straight passes, including the last for a two-yard TD to TE Dan Johnson (pictured below). The Dolphins held a 10-7 lead after one quarter.
The 49ers punted following their next possession, but a defensive adjustment caused Miami to go three-and-out the next three times it was on offense. Coach Walsh had gone to an "elephant" defense, a 4-2-5 alignment with safety Tom Holmoe as a nickel back and another safety, Jeff Fuller, lined up at linebacker along with Turner, and it proved to be effective. Marino, who had completed nine of his first ten passes, didn't complete another until near the end of the half.
Meanwhile, San Francisco took control of the game. Following a poor 37-yard punt by Reggie Roby from his own end zone, the 49ers had good field position at the Miami 47. Montana again showed off his mobility by running for a 19-yard gain on the first play, and then passed to WR Dwight Clark for another 16 yards. Two plays later, he tossed an eight-yard scoring pass to RB Roger Craig and the 49ers retook the lead at 14-10.
With the 49ers getting the ball in good field position at their own 45 to start their next possession, Tyler and Craig ran the ball for a total of 15 yards and then Montana threw back-to-back completions to TE Russ Francis for another 29. Following a five-yard carry by Craig, Montana ran six yards for a touchdown on a quarterback keeper and the lead was strechted to 21-10.
San Francisco scored once more in the second quarter, on a nine-yard drive that covered 52 yards and culminated in a two-yard run by Craig for a touchdown. Coming down to the last two minutes of the half, Marino began completing passes again, going 7 for 11 as the Dolphins drove to the 49ers' 13 yard line and van Schamann kicked a 31-yard field goal with 12 seconds remaining.
It wasn't over, however, as G Guy McIntyre fumbled the squibbed Miami kickoff and WR Jim Jensen recovered for the Dolphins at the San Francisco 12. Another van Schamann field goal, this time from 30 yards, made the score 28-16 at halftime.
Miami received the second half kickoff but wasn't able to maintain the momentum generated at the end of the second quarter. Nathan was thrown for a one-yard loss, Marino threw an incompletion, and then the quarterback was sacked for a nine-yard loss by Board. Following Roby's punt, the 49ers took nine plays to drive 43 yards and Ray Wersching kicked a 27-yard field goal.
Once again the Dolphins had difficulty moving the ball as Marino (pictured at left) faced tremendous pressure from the San Francisco defense. The Niners' offense continued to move effectively – on their next possession following the field goal, Montana hit on five passes, including 40 yards to Tyler and 14 to Francis, and completed a 16-yard TD pass to Craig for the second-year running back's third score of the day.
Miami, desperate to get back in the game, moved to the San Francisco 27 on its next possession, but Marino threw a long pass intended for Clayton that Wright intercepted at the one yard line. The third quarter ended with the 49ers ahead by 22 points.
The Dolphins had to punt at the end of their next possession but got a break when CB Dana McLemore fumbled the kick and WR Vince Heflin recovered for Miami at the San Francisco 21. But on the first play, Marino threw into the end zone and was intercepted by Carlton Williamson. For all intents and purposes, the game was over.
Each team got the ball once more, but there was no more scoring and the 49ers came away the winner, 38-16.
San Francisco ran up 537 yards to Miami's 314 and also had a significant edge in first downs (31 to 19). The 49ers ran a well-balanced attack, gaining 211 yards on the ground and 331 through the air. Meanwhile, the Dolphins, with a suspect running game to begin with, were held to just 25 yards rushing. Marino was sacked four times, especially notable since the quarterback had suffered only 13 sacks during the entire regular season.
Joe Montana, the game's MVP, completed 24 of 35 passes for 331 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions, and also ran five times for 59 yards and a TD. Wendell Tyler led the rushers with 65 yards on 13 carries, catching four passes for 70 yards as well, while Roger Craig (pictured at right) gained 58 yards on 15 attempts and in addition had 7 pass receptions for another 77 yards, both team-leading figures to go with his three TDs. Dwight Clark also gained 77 yards on his 6 catches.
For Miami, Dan Marino threw 50 passes and completed 29 of them for 318 yards with a TD and two interceptions. Tony Nathan caught 10 passes, for 83 yards, to lead the club both in receptions and rushing - albeit with just 18 yards on five attempts. Mark Clayton gained 92 yards on 6 catches, and TE Joe Rose contributed 6 receptions for 73 yards. Mark Duper was held to just one catch for 11 yards.
"Montana is the guy who made it go for them," said Don Shula afterward. "He beat everything we put against him. Whenever they needed him to, he wiggled loose and kept them going."
Montana spoke in terms of the whole team's effort. "All week, all we heard was 'Miami, Miami, Miami'," he said. "That motivated us. We felt we had more tools than Miami – passing, running, a great defense – and we wanted to prove it."
Bill Walsh summed up by saying, "This is the best game we have played since I joined the 49ers. It was a great performance by a truly great team. This is one of the best teams of all time."
For Walsh, Montana, and the 49ers, it was the second championship in four years, and they would win twice more before the conclusion of the decade (although Walsh had stepped aside as coach by the last one).
Dan Marino went on to play 17 seasons in the NFL, all with the Dolphins. Altogether, he passed for 61,361 yards and 420 touchdowns over the course of his Hall of Fame career. But he never again played in the Super Bowl.
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Port-knocking Backdoor
October 21, 2010 6 comments
In this post I'll explain to you how to make a *unix backdoor using a "port knocking" scheme. That is, if we'll "knock" to some TCP ports that we have initially decided, our program will open a backdoor for us (but only for us :) ).
How does the "port knocking" scheme work? The attacker decides a particular sequence of packets that will be sent to a compromised server where the backdoor is running. When the backdoor program will receive this particular sequence then it will give to the attacker the server's shell.
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The brand new original short series was written and directed by Peter Glanz, an award-winning director of short films whose work has premiered at the Sundance, Tribeca and Cannes Film Festivals. In addition to Adam Goldberg (Dazed and Confused), The Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks stars Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development), Pete Chekvala, Laura Clery, Camille Cregan, Wendy Glen, Fabianne Gstottenmayr, Larry Pine, Liesl Gaffney-Dawson and Barry Primus. The series was produced by Neda Armian (Rachel Getting Married), Juan Iglesias, and Glanz himself.


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PGA Tour Rookie of the Year Brandt Snedeker exceeded his expectations in 2007. For the year, the Vanderbilt University grad pocketed $2.8 million and had six top tens, including a victory at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina.
When asked yesterday at the Mercedes-Benz Championship if he was surprised by his early success, Snedeker said, "Yeah, definitely. I certainly didn't see it coming. I thought I had the game, I thought I could compete, but to come out here and have that kind of rookie season was something I really wasn't -- didn't get myself up for, but now that I'm there I have to work even harder and make sure I don't slump back and keep improving."
As for 2008 goals, Brandt is aiming high.
"Ryder Cup is first and foremost in my mind," Snedeker said. "To represent your country is such an honor. If I get Ryder Cup taken care of, it would be a pretty unbelievable year and something I'm looking forward to."
Brandt carded a 71 in the opening round of the Mercedes-Benz Championship. Snedeker is currently ranked 47th in the world and finished 20th in the inaugural FedEx Cup.
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Friday, January 4
Brandt Snedeker Aims for Ryder Cup Team
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He has John Daly's charisma, but with a lot more game.
I like the fact that we are starting to see some good young talent come into the game.
I have been watching the replays of round two of the Mercedes this morning and I can't get over how pretty Aaron Baddley swing is.
- The Armchair Golfer said...
Yes, lots of young talent Down Under.
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New Yorker Michael Santomauro, an indefatigable revisionist writer and activist who resides, improbably enough, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is being targeted by a Zionist terror organization. The misnamed "Jewish Defense Organization" headed by the violent psychopath Mordechai Levy, has been terrorizing revisionist writers with impunity since at least the 1980s.
In 1989, Levy was charged with attempted murder for shooting at three people who were standing outside Mr. Levy's home in New York, one of whom was trying to serve him with court papers in a California slander suit. A 69-year-old man was wounded in that shooting, and Mr. Levy, then age 30, was convicted of first-degree assault. After conviction he was released from prison in record time. Even after the shooting, the Zionist New York Times gave favorable coverage to Levy:
New York: Manhattan: Protest Over Holocaust Skeptic
New York Times | October 25, 2004
About two dozen protesters chanting "evict the Nazi" rallied yesterday in front of the Upper West Side apartment building of a man who has questioned historical accounts of the Holocaust. Some of the two dozen or so demonstrators, who were watched by a similar number of police officers, -- said that the man, Michael Santomauro, had been holding meetings with his supporters in the building, on 72nd Street near West End Avenue. ''We have to take a stand on this hatred being brought into the community,'' said James Vrettos, 55, a sociology professor at Yeshiva University.
Mordechai Levy, above, of the Jewish Defense Organization, said he organized the rally after hearing that Mr. Santomauro had held a gathering at a nearby church last month. A doorman in the building, Jay Roman, said that he knew of no meetings. Mr. Santomauro, who founded a roommate matching service in 1979, could not be reached for comment yesterday, but in an article in The New York Times in 2003, he called himself an ''amateur Holocaust revisionist." (End quote)
Notice that there is no reference in the preceding New York Times report to the fact that Levy is a convicted gunman who has shot people. Almost everywhere Louis Farrakhan speaks, the media report that decades ago he once referred to Judaism as a "gutter religion," while with Levy, the media have amnesia concerning his record of violence.
Mr. Levy has scheduled a "protest" against Santomauro for May 15:
"Like any American, I have the right to host meetings, distribute information, and inquire into subject matters as part of our first amendment. As a free rights activist, I feel that no subject matter should be taboo or criminalized and that especially when a subject matter is controversial and sensitive, like the Holocaust, it deserves even more attention, inquiry, debate and discussion in a respectful manner.
"Like me, the Jewish Defense Organization has a right to free speech, but what they are saying is untrue. I am not a Nazi, and oppose all that Nazism stands for including all other schools of fascism such as Zionism, which the Jewish Defense Organization supports. Why would the Jewish Defense Organization support an apartheid state who seeks a racially pure state? The Jewish Defense Organization is racist! No decent American would or should support the racist government of Israel, unless you are a racist like the Zionist Jewish Defense Organization--they are the Nazis!
"Also, the Jewish Defense Organization is not correct, in that I do not sell Nazi materials or hold Neo-Nazi meetings, or anything of the sort from any location.
"The location they are targeting has nothing to do with my work, so clearly the Jewish Defense Organization is mistaken. The Jewish Defense Organization obviously has a right to rally, as they have in the past at my home on the Upper West Side.
"And nope! I don't pay the Jewish Defense Organization to rally so I can sell more books!"
Michael Santomauro
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Who: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
Where: Visiting the Road to 2012: Aiming High exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery London, England
Why we like it: Catherine kept it simple and chic with this electric blue Stella McCartney crepe dress. She completed the event-appropriate look with an Olympic-themed necklace by Cartier and black satin Prada pumps.
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First a little explanation. Linux contains 65536 network ports for both UDP and TCP.
SELinux uses types to group network ports together. If you want to see a listing of the port types on the system you can execute:
semanage port -l
SELinux Port Type Proto Port Number
afs_bos_port_t udp 7007
afs_client_port_t udp 7001
afs_fs_port_t tcp 2040
afs_fs_port_t udp 7000, 7005
Then we write rules in SELinux like
allow httpd_t http_port_t : tcp_socket name_bind ;
This rules says the apache process can execute the bind command using any port that is currently labeled http_port_t.
# semanage port -l | grep http_port_t
http_port_t tcp 80, 443, 488, 8008, 8009, 8443
Now a fairly common question that gets asked is, can I remove these ports. IE I do not want to allow apache to bind to port 8008.
How would I do this?
The simplest thing to do is to redefine port 8008 as a different port type that httpd can not bind to.
The default port type for all unassigned ports > 1024 is unreserved_port_t or ephemeral_port_t (Fedora 16)
# semanage port -l | grep ^unreserved_port_t
unreserved_port_t tcp 1024-32767, 61001-65535
unreserved_port_t udp 1024-32767, 61001-65535
# semanage port -l | grep ^ephemeral_port_t
ephemeral_port_t tcp 32768-61000
ephemeral_port_t udp 32768-61000
Note SELinux will use a more specific port type if the port has been defined, for example when the kernel sees tcp port 8008, it will use http_port_t rather then unreserved_port_t.
But the admin can override this by adding his own port definition.
# semanage port -m -t unreserved_port_t -p tcp 8008
To prove this worked, I tested using apache.
# sed -i 's/Listen 80/Listen 8008/g' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
# semanage port -m -t unreserved_port_t -p tcp 8008
# service httpd restart
Restarting httpd (via systemctl): Job failed. See system logs and 'systemctl status' for details. [FAILED]
# semanage port -d -p tcp 8008
# service httpd restart
Restarting httpd (via systemctl): [ OK ]
Be careful doing this, because you have just changed the definition of http_port_t for ALL domains, not just the httpd_t domain. Meaning if you were running firefox with a sandbox_web_t sandbox on the same machine, the firefox would no longer be able to connect to port 8008, because sandbox_web_t is only allowed to connect to http_port_t and 8008 is no longer defined as 8008.


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Dallas Buyers Club Is a Terrific Libertarian Movie
Tim Lynch was right. Dallas Buyers Club is a terrific movie with a strong libertarian message about self‐help, entrepreneurship, overbearing and even lethal regulation, and social tolerance. Matthew McConaughey, almost unrecognizable after losing 40 pounds, plays Ron Woodroof, a homophobic electrician in 1985 who learns he has AIDS and has 30 days to live. There's lots of strong language in his denunciation of the kinds of people who get AIDS, which he certainly is not. But after doing some research, he asks his doctor for AZT, the only drug for HIV/AIDS then available, but he wasn't eligible for the trials then in process. He turns to the black market, finds his way to Mexico, encounters a doctor who tells him that AZT is toxic and that there are better vitamins and drugs, and beats his original prognosis. As it occurs to him that there are plenty of other people in Dallas who could use these drugs, he sees an opportunity to make some money — if he can only learn to deal with gay people.
Soon he's setting up a "buyers club," in an attempt to evade FDA regulations on selling illegal or non‐approved drugs. He's got customers — oops, potential members — lining up. He's on planes to Japan and Amsterdam to get drugs not available in the United States. And at every turn he's impeded and harassed by the FDA, which insists that people with terminal illnesses just accept their fate. Can't have them taking drugs that might be dangerous! You'll be surprised to see how many armed FDA agents it takes to raid a storefront clinic operated by two dying men.
Here's a Cato study on AIDS and the FDA from 1986. Here's the original 1992 magazine story about the Dallas Buyers Club, published just before Ron Woodroof died.
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As I alluded to in the first post that started this thread, I think Rollei's popularity in the United States is a false way of gauging their overall health. There are many products that do well in the combined global market that don't do quite as well in the U.S., but that doesn't mean the manufacturer is struggling. My belief is that since Rollei does quite well in other regions, there should be no fear of their future compared to the other surviving MF players. Add to that the outstanding nature of the product, and I think it's a solid choice. That 16MP Phase One bundle is a screaming deal, too--although I'm salivating at what Rollei might unveil at Photokina this fall since partnerships seem to be driving the MF digital market right now.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=67227\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
...becuase the people who build it and buy it don't look at the bottom line, otherwise they would have gotten out a looooong time ago, i don't think there was ever a moment when someone said, i want to get rich, i will make cameras using only the best materials and mechanics...[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=67285\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
...there are currently several af lenses available: 50, 80,180, and one (or two?) zooms..the 90macro is coming this summer (in europe) fall in the US
Do you have further info about the AF Macro lens,if it will remain 90mm focal length & APO,or will it be 100mm instead (read that a while back on photo.net)[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=67356\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
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Hi, Jane and Curtis- I feel so blessed to have this most amazing, glorious crystal in my life. Ben and I have never seen such perfection. What an honor, what a gift, what a planet- graced with endless magnificence, and then touched to perfection by the mastery of Marcel Vogel! Thank you for being the 'conduit,' and we shall treasure this exquisite beauty always. With love, Maria and Ben xo
Bonjour Jane, I am writing to you to express my deepest thank you. I have received my parcel today containing the rose quartz angelic star. I was googling online for methods to help to mend a broken heart as my marriage of 14 years just came to an end. I stumbled past your business and studied your products. I have never tried Reiki before but really liked what I was reading and placed the order. The pendant is stunning and I was very touched by your personal message and even more intrigued with the gesture of giving back to mother earth and plant the ruby somewhere suitable. I am truly impressed with your professionalism and will be recommending you further. Wishing you all the best and looking forward to ease my heartache with the help of my beautiful angelic star. Pamela
You two are amazing Light Beings!!!! I could not NOT write and tell you how much I LOVE your newsletters, the work that goes into them and your web site is immense, and your Souls are shining Stars bursting forth with Divine Light upon this Mother Spaceship we call Planet Earth. I fold my hands in front of my heart of Hearts and humbly say NAMASTE to the 2 of you. This month's newsletter was particularly amazing as its words were like "much needed rain to our drought stricken inner landscape" - pun intended! I feel soaked to the Core in a shower of Grace. Deepest gratitude. We'll talk soon, BIG HUG, All my respect, and Hugs from my Heart to Yours……A. W.
Thank you for printing the lost articles by Marcel Vogel. I am a Reiki master Teacher and had an unbelievable opportunity to receive an original set of Marcel Vogel wands (square healer and meditation wand) in a beautiful wooden box. I am printing out your articles on this amazing man. i have used the wands and want to understand more. Thank you deeply, R.
Hi Curtis, I hope you are having a wonderful day! Thank you very much for the Reiki session. I have been paying attention to how my foot has changed since then. Right after the session I could feel a reduction in the swelling which has continued. I also became aware of some anger associated with the injury I had not dealt with. I am aware that I need to make peace with the metal in my foot as that is where the pain is when I walk. I am so grateful for the treatment! I saw so many colors during it and loved that you used your wands. I have not had that experience before! Thank you again!!! R.
I received my blue crystal Tool Of Evolution crystal today and was very pleased with the energy and extra touches you folks put together with it. It has already begun to manifest beauty in my world and I really love the rubies for planting concept. I know I am doing business with the right people and will not hesitate to continue doing so in the future. Thanks and brightest of blessings to all. — H.C.


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Tua3 Phau3 is a Penang Hokkien rhyme often recited by scouts in Penang. It literally means big fire cracker, but is also slang to mean a person who talks big or boasts. The rhyme below can be taken at face value, to mean that various fire crackers make different noise, but can also mean that when a big boaster and a smaller boaster meet, the result is a barrage of boasting.
Big fire-cracker goes, "Phong!"Tua3 phau3 phong3!
Seh1 phau3 phiang3!
Tua3 phau3 seh1 phau3 phing3 phong3 phiang3!
Small fire-cracker goes, "Phiang!"
Big and small fire-crackers go, "Phing Phong Phiang!"
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We haven't seen too much of Jim and Amber Marchese since the reunion episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey. Last week they stepped out to attend the "Tinkerbell and the Legend of the Neverbeast" screening and then stopped off at Buca di Beppo for dinner (and some family photos).
Other reality star sightings: GG Gharachedaghi and Reza Farahan hung out at the Stock Exchange as they promoted the new season of Shahs of Sunset while Bethenny Frankel did the afternoon school run with Bryn. Lisa Rinna got in a good workout and Ramona Singer attended the premiere of "Cop Show" in NYC.
We also have new pics from Lisa Vanderpump, Rachel Zoe, Val Chmerkovskiy and many more!
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http://mmajunkie.com His latest move up in weight class now complete, Anthony Johnson (11-4) has his first opponent at light heavyweight.
"Rumble," a former UFC standout at welterweight, will fight Esteves Jones (7-3) at Titan Fighting Championships 24 next month. It will be Johnson's first fight at light heavyweight after two failed stops at middleweight.
Titan officials recently announced the matchup, which first was reported by MMA Fighting. In addition, Brazilian jiu-jitsu standout Braulio Estima will make his MMA debut against Chris Holland in the co-main event.
Titan FC 24 takes place at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kan., on Aug. 24. The card gets a live broadcast on AXS TV (formerly HDNet).
In January, Johnson was cut from the UFC following a first-round submission loss to Vitor Belfort at UFC 142. After 10 UFC fights at welterweight – and two instances of missing weight – Johnson moved to middleweight for his fight with Belfort. But he missed the mark badly, coming in at 197 pounds, forcing a catchweight bout.
After the loss, he was cut with a 7-4 record in the promotion. He soon signed with Titan, but in his first fight for the promotion the weight-cutting issues were back. His May bout against Dave Branch was at a 195-pound catchweight, which he won by unanimous decision.
Earlier this month, Johnson told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) he was excited about the fresh start moving to his new light heavyweight division.
"It is a new start," Johnson told MMAjunkie.com. "It's now or never, and I still have a lot of improving to do, especially being at 205 pounds. There are good strikers, good ground guys. There are guys like Lyoto Machida at 205 pounds. He's a threat to anybody. We'll see. I'm just excited about it, and we'll see what I can do."
Esteves has fought as big as super heavyweight, where he was King of the Cage's champion in that division. He lost that title this past September by fourth-round submission to Tony Lopez. His next fight out, in December, he lost by fourth-round TKO to Lopez challenging for his heavyweight title.
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I'm just kidding, Neal. No worries.
As a ball sucker, I'm not really good at explaining myself (usually all I can manage is "mmmmfrffrmfffrrmbbllt," or if I've had a few drinks, "ssshllsssshslrrthtbbllt")
What are the odds of Pam and Karen hooking up?
January 04, 05:33 PMDear World Wide ReadershipBest wishes and Happy New Year from all of us at Dunder Mifflin Paper Products and Schrute Farms! (Note the exclamation point! I really mean it!!)Before I speak to you about my new years resolutions for 07, lets go over some past resolutions and their current status.99 quit biting fingernails.Outcome? Done. On it. Havent chewed them since. Ever. Not one nibble. Even when I get a hangnail.00 increase farm productivity by 18%.Outcome? Schrute Farms had a record harvest that year surpassing 99 by over 21%. Home run.01 increase farm productivity by additional 4%.Outcome? Not achieved. Profits increased by 7% but productivity when down by 2.5 %. It was a very dark time. Things got kind of ugly. (This was the year Mose gave up his moto-cross dream and hunkered down and committed to doing some serious beet farmin.)02 be more social.This was the year I got into online gaming. Also began 4 year championship laser tag run. Went on more than 3 dates. Spruced up wardrobe. Switched deodorant to the kind that the sailors use.03 - write and record my songs and music.Outcome? Not necessary. Decided against it. Waste of time. Songs are for children and inmates. Switched resolution to increase farm productivity by additional 3%. Achieved new resolution.04 find mate.Outcome? Dated more than 2 different women during this calendar year. Kissed approximately one of them on the mouth.Increased sales, was voted top salesman by Dunder Mifflin, won first Dundie Award , increased farm productivity by 2.7%, asked for and received raise, spent Christmas with Michael Scott, took Mose to the international harvester exposition (and Indian casino), moved up to a daily regimen of 27 pushups and 85 situps.Did not achieve goal of finding mate.Am OK with that.05 Cant remember what I resolved to do.These pages in my diary are covered in chocolate milk.06 Become top regional salesperson third year running and achieve assistant regional manager status.Done and done. Also found potential mate. Also vanquished Jim. Purchased spud gun. Learned Klingon. Personally saved Scranton branch from being downsized.And now, the moment youve all been waiting for. Drum-roll please
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.Dwight Schrutes New Years Resolution 07I, Dwight Schrute, resolve, in the year 2007, to display more wisdom and benelovence to my inferiors.It is said, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Well I say, keep everyone as close as possible to you because you dont know who is your friend or your enemy. Keep the people below you even closer if thats possible. Even if they have to be inside you.Remember: they work for you. They must respect you. If you can fool them into thinking that you really care, you can get them to do anything for you. Even kill if necessary.Now Im not saying I want Ryan or Kevin to kill a competitor or Andy or anything, but it would be nice to know that they would if I asked them to.What are your new years resolutions. You can reply by clicking on something below.That is all.Dwight K. Schrute
02 be more social.This was the year I got into online gaming.
I would probably bitch about it if I could, but I had to suck balls late so I missed it. But Mrs. Sprry75 said it was a pretty good episode.
Dwigt "consoling" Pam was easily the funniest scene.
04 find mate.Outcome? Dated more than 2 different women during this calendar year. Kissed approximately one of them on the mouth.
The only funny scene.
Definitely the funniest, but I don't know about the only one. I was laughing when Toby was mentioning all the people who sent him the email, including his ex-wife. And Andy cutting Phyllis' head off with a chainsaw and then making the chainsaw sound. I'll agree that it wasn't the best episode ever (made more difficult by following the greatest episode of Earl ever), but it was still better than most of the drek on TV nowadays.
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Hollywood, California
Blessed Sacrament Parish is a wonderfully diverse community located in the middle of historic Hollywood, three blocks from the Academy Awards Theater. Its ministry, which began in 1904, is focused both on enriching the community of faith and improving the quality of life of those it serves.
The founding of Blessed Sacrament is credited to Marie Drouet, who is also credited for naming Hollywood. By 1900, Hollywood's population was growing but it did not yet have a designated place of worship for Catholics. Mrs. Drouet met with the bishop in Los Angeles and urged him to assign a priest to Hollywood and offered the use of her home, Drouet Hall. As the community grew, so did the demand for Mass. By 1904 the bishop recognized that Hollywood needed a proper church and approved plans to construct one. The church was dedicated on October 23, 1904, and in 1914 the church was transferred to the care of the Jesuits.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the budding motion picture industry began migrating to Los Angeles, bringing with it a massive influx of people moving to the Hollywood area to work for the studios. A new church was constructed and dedicated in 1928.
As it has for the past century, Blessed Sacrament continues to serve the greater Hollywood community through outreach to the homeless, ESL classes and Legal and Health Clinics, as well as a Social Services Center.


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Kim Kardashian's marriage to NBA star Kris Humphries may be over – but she's apparently keeping her 20-carat engagement ring.
"She is going to keep the ring," People's Assistant Editor Jen Garcia, a guest at Kim's August nuptials, told Access Hollywood on Wednesday, quoting sources that spoke to the mag.
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Since Kardashian was the one who broke it off, etiquette dictates that she should give it back, but according to Garcia, the reality star is attached to the rock.
"It's something that's debatable, obviously, with etiquette, but it was a gift to her, it was a present and it's something very sentimental to her," Garcia told Access Hollywood.
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According to estimates, the ring is actually worth about $2 million, which is nearly $1 million shy of Humphries' reported 2011 $3.2 million salary with the New Jersey Nets.
Humphries yearly salary, however, is dwarfed by his estranged wife's sizable paycheck.
Forbes has reported she made about $12 million last year.
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Despite Being Pirated 4.5 Millions Times, 'Witcher 2' Developer Refuses To Annoy Paying Customers With DRM
from the there's-more-to-serving-your-customers-than-updating-a-spreadsheet deptAs we all have seen demonstrated here at Techdirt, there are several ways to react to piracy. Ubisoft, in particular, has usually found a way to make the worst of it, either through incapacitating DRM or by expressing a firm reluctance to release certain games for the PC.
On the other hand, you have companies like Valve, who recognize that not every instance of piracy is simply someone wanting something for nothing, but rather an opportunity for the pirated company to experiment with pricing and convenience options in order to meet the expectations of underserved customers.
Now you can add CD Projekt, the publisher of Witcher 2, to the growing list of software companies who see piracy as an opportunity, rather than a sinkhole of lost sales. In an interview with PC Gamer, CEO and co-founder Marcin Iwinski came up with some quick math on how many times Witcher 2 was pirated, arriving at a truly jaw-dropping number:
I was checking regularly the number of concurrent downloads on torrent aggregating sites, and for the first 6-8 weeks there was around 20-30k ppl downloading it at the same time. Let's take 20k as the average and let's take 6 weeks. The game is 14GB, so let's assume that on an average not-too-fast connection it will be 6 hours of download. 6 weeks is 56 days, which equals to 1344 hours; and with 6h of average download time to get the game it would give us 224 downloads, then let's multiply it by 20k simultaneous downloaders.Despite the fact that the free version was "outselling" the retail version 5-to-1, Iwinsky remains adamant on his company's no-DRM policy, pointing out that CD Projeckt has always had to compete with free:
The result is roughly 4.5 million illegal downloads. This is only an estimation, and I would say that's rather on the optimistic side of things; as of today we have sold over 1M legal copies, so having only 4.5-5 illegal copies for each legal one would be not a bad ratio. The reality is probably way worse.
From the very beginning our main competitors on the market were pirates. The question was really not if company x or y had better marketing or better releases, but more like "How can we convince gamers to go and buy the legit version and not to go to a local street vendor and buy a pirated one?" We of course experimented with all available DRM/copy protection, but frankly nothing worked. Whatever we used was cracked within a day or two, massively copied and immediately available on the streets for a fraction of our price.There's your "reason to buy." And now, here's Iwinsky stating the obvious:
We did not give up, but came up with new strategy: we started offering high value with the product - like enhancing the game with additional collectors' items like soundtracks, making-of DVDs, books, walkthroughs, etc. This, together with a long process of educating local gamers about why it makes sense to actually buy games legally, worked. And today, we have a reasonably healthy games market.
DRM does not work and however you would protect it, it will be cracked in no time. Plus, the DRM itself is a pain for your legal gamers - this group of honest people, who decided that your game was worth the 50 USD or Euro and went and bought it. Why would you want to make their lives more difficult?Of course, this obvious conclusion still escapes many software companies. In their (usually) wasted efforts to deter piracy, they routinely deliver a product that is crippled by its own protection measures. The DRM is a joke to pirates and an insult to paying customers. So, why do these companies continue to punish their paying customers? Iwinsky has a theory:
[A]s with every growing business, there are a lot of people coming in who... have no clue about games and could work in any other industry. They are not asking themselves the question "What is the experience of a gamer?" Or "Is this proposition fair?" But rather, they just look to see if the column in Excel adds up well or not, and if they can have a good explanation for their bosses.Even with companies like CD Projekt and Valve demonstrating that attempting to punish pirates through DRM or other restrictive measures just makes your customers miserable, others continue to view every pirated copy as a reason to ramp up protection. Iwinsky notes that the "Excel guys" aren't paying attention. The only way to get them to listen is to truly show them what a lost sale is: "Vote with your wallet."
As funny as this might sound, DRM is the best explanation, the best "I will cover my ass" thing... You are asking, "So why is it taking so long for them to listen?" The answer is very simple: They do not listen, as most of them do not care. As long as the numbers in Excel will add up they will not change anything.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Janna Brimmer Mountain Bike Race, Salmon, ID - Field Reporter - Joe Chalmers
Janna Brimmer Cross Country - Wild Rockies Round #2
There was lots of racing action going on up and down the Highway 93 corridor this past weekend. Whitefish, MT attracted Montana road racers for a two day omnium while Salmon, ID played host to the regions mountain bike racers.
The six mile cross country course in the foothills of Salmon had a mix of everything – a road climb, double track climb, loose off camber descents and some great single track along the Salmon River. For this race the Pro,Semipro & Experts lined up together for the mass start. I had a good starting position on the front row along with fellow Missoula racer Bill Martin but when the gun went off Boise pro Dave Harrison shot off the line like a rocket and had everyone fighting to stay on his wheel. Sixty seconds later as we hit the first climb there were five of us off the front but Dave's fast start had created gaps even among the lead group.
Trek factory racer Brett Nichols used his climbing skills to quickly get to the front of the race while I was able to claw my way up to Bills wheel in third at the top of the first climb. A super fast single track descent and we were on climb number two. This is where positions seemed to work themselves out. Brett was off the front by fifteen seconds or so, followed by Dave and Bill with myself and Pacatello's Ryan Butterfield taking turns leading each other up the climb about forty seconds back. The remainder of lap one consisted of hard chasing, body rattling descents and one last grunt climb to the start/finish of the four lap race.
On laps two and three I could always see the racers in front of me on numerous sections of the course but in mountain bike racing you seem to start fast and then settle into your own rhythm and closing gaps can be a big task later in the race. There never seems to be a moment of rest. Your body is either working hard on a climb or when your legs get a little rest you have to stay super focused on a descent or are working your body in a different way to make it through a tough technical section of the course. And then before you know it another hard climb is in your face.
Lap four was about maintaining: maintaining focus to avoid silly mistakes and trying to maintain the gap to Ryan Butterfield in front of me. In the end Brett Nichols took a well deserved overall win followed by hard charging Semipro Bill Martin who had dropped Dave Harrison late in the race. Ryan Butterfield finished fourth and myself in fifth (1st expert). I felt like I was fading pretty badly on the last lap but the next racer to come across the line was ten minutes back so I think our fast start had the other racers scrambling a bit to catch up.
Darrin and his crew with The Wild Rockies series put on top notch races and if you ever get the chance to take part in one of their events you will have a blast. If you are interested you can visit their website at www.wildrockies.com.
Montana's first series race will be June 15th at Discovery Basin. Unfortunately I won't be able to attend but I will be doing race reports from the Granja del Cerdo cross country race in Whitefish on the 21st as well as the big daddy – Deer Valley National on June 28th and 29th. Great job to fellow Missoula racers Garland Thayer, Alsen and Larry. Thanks to Larry Dent for the photo.
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Interesting topics could give you more visitors to your site. So Keep up the good work.
- June 10, 2008 at 8:37 AM
Baw ah, kasagad sa imo maghimo blog. Nalingaw gd ko basa.
- June 10, 2008 at 8:43 AM
- Bill said...
Thanks for the report Joe. Actually there is a typo, it is "Alden Wright" as one of the Missoula mountain bikers instead of "Alsen". Garland is new to the expert field and is racing well. His son Todd got second in the kids race. Alden and Larry Dent both won their age group, Sport for Alden and beginner for Larry. Good job Joe!
- June 10, 2008 at 9:06 AM
- Shaun Radley said...
Gambling thanks for the suggestion.
- June 10, 2008 at 9:36 AM
- ~ Sheepheads said...
Joe, Nice report. Boy, you are correct, you guys cerainly started FAST! Holy Cow! Dust flying everywhere. Going to have to work on my starts! Nice job. Good luck in Deer Valley. Bill, Great race for you too! garland
- June 10, 2008 at 9:43 AM
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Pinterest (without an active link), the body is from Follow the Stray, and the long twirling tail is from Let's Play Music. I did have to change it a bit, though, to fit the bigger body. I made the waist bigger and had it dip down in the middle. I traced my new template onto colored paper. It's just regular paper because I didn't know if thicker paper would hang down after cutting it. For the fish scales of the tail, I had the kids paint bubble wrap with glue.
You can reuse the same bubble wrap for each child. Just have them add a fresh layer of glue!When they were dry, I cut them out. Glitter went EVERYWHERE! And it was a little tough to cut through the glittered glue. My hand was getting sore. But it was worth it.
Here are our finished mermaids (and one merman!):
For the merman, I just used one handprint and glued it on straight up. It was the child's idea to add the nipples. After all, he said, "Boys have nipples, too."
That's mine (with kid handprints for hair) because I couldn't resist getting in on the fun, too! Besides, I had to make sure the glue-on-bubble-wrap thing worked before the kids went through all that trouble.
I hung them from the ceiling with our cupcake liner jellyfish. They look so cool twirling around!
The kids oohed and ahhed when I showed them their finished mermaids. I think the glitter-dot tail really sets them apart from any other mermaid craft I've seen out there.


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This water-resistant case is the perfect cycling or motorbiking companion. This universal case is designed to work with a numerous touchscreen devices without removing it from the case.
It comes complete with a sturdy bracket that will attach to almost any handlebars including motorbikes. The case will detach from the bracket for when you park up.
Made from a water-resistant material, the case will protect your phone in bad weather conditions or from muddy splashes out on the tracks.
Maximum fit of device 140mm x 80mm x 20mm. Please check your device before purchasing.
Important Notice: Please take care if using a mobile phone whilst biking / cycling. Using your phone whilst cycling is not illegal, but you could commit an offence of careless riding or riding without due care and consideration. It is advisable to stop riding to take a call or review your phone.