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Potato Gnocchi - Season 2
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Authentic Pasta From Scratch
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House Vinaigrette Dressing - The Savage Kitchen
01 Aug, 2014
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Savory Sweet Potato Souffle - Season 2 - The Savage Kitchen
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Souffles are one of the dishes that balance precariously between the opposite realms of the savory and the sweet. A diner could possibly have a souffle for every course of his meal - from a rich truffle infused goat cheese souffle with endive for his appetizer to a savory sweet potato souffle served alongside his entree' ending with a decadent chocolate and toasted pecan souffle for dessert.
Vegetable Terrine - The Savage Kitchen: Season 2
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"Hope, heartbreak and a hurricane - all in One Tree Hill's Season 8. So many plans glow with happiness in these 22 Episodes on 5 Discs packed with all the drama that makes Hill fans want to share every minute. Nathan begins an exciting new career. Haley joyfully awaits the arrival of Jamie's little sister. Brooke and Julian invite all their friends to a wonderful wedding - and Skills makes sure this Tree Hill hitching goes off without a hitch. But darkness mingles with the light. After last season's shooting, Quinn and Clay fight for their lives. A financial scandal sends someone to prison. And in an all-time-great episode, a ferocious storm pits loved characters in a thrilling life-and-death struggle against a raging river."
- - Season Eight DVD Blurb
The season chronicles the character's fifth year after returning to Tree Hill. The season continues on from the Season 7 finale. Some of the key plot points are;
- The fate of Quinn James and Clayton Evans after being shot.
- Julian's new project: a documentary about his friends in Tree Hill and what's next in their lives.
- Haley and Nathan Scott dealing with their second pregnancy.
- Brooke and Julian's engagement, marriage, and adoption attempts.
- Chase Adams, Alex Dupre and Mia Catalano in a love triangle.
- Brooke's financial struggle with Clothes Over Bros due to Victoria Davis and Millicent Huxtable's actions.
- A major hurricane will strike Tree Hill before season's end.
Principle Cast
- James Lafferty as Nathan Scott
- Bethany Joy Lenz as Haley James Scott
- Sophia Bush as Brooke Davis
- Austin Nichols as Julian Baker
- Robert Buckley as Clayton Evans
- Shantel VanSanten as Quinn James
- Jackson Brundage as Jamie Scott
- Lee Norris as Marvin McFadden
- Jana Kramer as Alex Dupre
- Lisa Goldstein as Millicent Huxtable
- Stephen Colletti as Chase Adams*
- Credited from Holding Out For a Hero onward, recurring beforehand.
|Asleep At Heaven's Gate
|As the gang returns from Utah, Brooke and Julian are engaged, Haley learns that she is pregnant, Nathan must leave for training camp, and Clay and Quinn are assaulted and shot by Katie.
|I Can't See You, But I Know You're There
|Clay and Quinn discover they've been shot, and as they fight to live, Nathan and Haley struggle with the situation. Meanwhile, Julian tries to preoccupy Jamie, and Brooke's legal troubles mount.
|The Space In Between
|As the situation at the hospital worsens; Nathan makes a huge decision regarding his career. Brooke and Julian take Jamie for the day, while Victoria and Millicent hatch a plan.
|We All Fall Down
|As Brooke deals with the mounting financial troubles at Clothes Over Bro's, Nathan and Haley come to a conclusion regarding Nathan's career. Meanwhile, Julian begins a new film project, while Alex and Chase spend the afternoon together.
|Nobody Taught Us to Quit
|As Clay is discharged from the hospital, Nathan contemplates walking away from the NBA. Meanwhile, Brooke and Victoria disagree on how to handle the company's financial problems, and Chase discovers a secret about Alex.
|Not Afraid
|As Halloween approaches in Tree Hill, Brooke and Julian get an unexpected visitor, and Nathan begins a new career. Meanwhile, Clay and Quinn struggle with life back at the beach house, and Haley and Mia host an open mic night at Tric.
|Luck Be a Lady
|As the wedding approaches, Brooke tries to connect with Sylvia , while Julian looks for his best man at a guys' poker night. Meanwhile, Nathan struggles in his new job, while Haley's counseling abilities are challenged, and Skills returns to town with a new friend.
|Mouthful Of Diamonds
|Nathan's career as an agent takes a big step forward when he visits Atlanta, while Haley consoles Jamie regarding his new braces. The drama between Brooke and Sylvia finally comes to a head, and Chase makes a decision regarding Mia and Alex.
|Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace
|The gang gathers at Nathan and Haley's to spend Thanksgiving with friends and family.
|Lists, Plans
|Brooke and Julian go skydiving, while Haley sets up a concert at Tric featuring Kid Cudi (appearing as himself). Meanwhile, Quinn sneaks out of town to visit a familiar face.
|Darkness on the Edge of Town
|A storm strikes Tree Hill, putting everyone's life in danger.
|The Drinks We Drank Last Night
|After a wild night out on the town for her bachelorette party, Brooke and the girls try to piece together the night before amidst the wreckage of the day after.
|The Other Half of Me
|Brooke and Julian's wedding day is finally here. Dreams become reality, secrets are revealed and wedding hookups are inevitable.
|Holding Out for a Hero
|Brooke, Quinn and Haley decide to use their talents for the greater good. Meanwhile, Julian takes on a directing job and helps out a friend, and Chase mentors Chuck.
|Valentine's Day is Over
|Sex games, secrets and shoelaces all come into play as the couples of Tree Hill celebrate Valentine's Day.
|I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here
|As the girls plan a surprise baby shower for Haley, the guys participate in try-outs for Jamie's baseball team. Meanwhile, Brooke and Julian pursue adoption, while Mouth gets Millicent ready for her first day at work.
|The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get
|As Haley's due date approaches, she takes steps to ensure that all her friends and family will be ready when the time comes. Brooke and Julian also prepare to begin a family, while Chuck turns to Chase for help with a problem.
|Quiet Little Voices
|The big day has finally arrived and the gang gathers at the hospital to await the birth of Haley and Nathan's baby. While they wait, they reminisce about the memories they have shared over the years.
|Where Not To Look For Freedom
|While Haley stays at home to take care of the new baby, Quinn organizes a concert at Tric. Meanwhile, Brooke gets an offer to return to Clothes Over Bros, and Nathan sets his sights on exposing Professor Kellerman.
|The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
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|Flightless Bird, American Mouth
|Nathan, Jamie, Clay, Julian, Chase and Chuck have a camp-out on the Rivercourt. Meanwhile, Brooke, Quinn, Alex and Lauren take a trip to Puerto Rico.
|This Is My House, This Is My Home
|As Brooke and Haley prepare to re-open Karen's Cafe, Nathan and Clay hit the road looking for new prospective clients. Meanwhile, Chase leaves for the Air Force leaving behind a disappointed Alex and Chuck, and Mouth and Millicent begin their new morning show together
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- Music Faced was a cross-over episode between Life Unexpected a fellow CW show which aired between Nobody Taught Us To Quit and Not Afraid where Bethany Joy Lenz as Haley James Scott and Kate Vogele as Mia Catalano starred in an episode of the other show.


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In March, the io9 Book Club read Kameron Hurley's God's War. Now Hurley is coming to answer your questions about the book tomorrow, here in the comment section of this very post.
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California's attorney general sued the Bush administration Thursday over its management plan for the Giant Sequoia National Monument, home to two-thirds of the world's largest trees.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. California's attorney general sued the Bush administration Thursday over its management plan for the Giant Sequoia National Monument, home to two-thirds of the world's largest trees.
The federal plan adopted in December would illegally allow commercial logging in the 327,769-acre central California preserve, the suit alleges.
The plan also violates former President Clinton's April 2000 proclamation creating the reserve south of Sequoia National Park, which bans logging unless it is "clearly needed" for public or environmental protection, the suit says.
The U.S. Forest Service adhered closely to Clinton's proclamation, responded spokesman Matt Mathes. The timber cuts are needed for fire protection, he said, to safeguard sequoia groves that have been threatened before by wildfires.
"One of these days, a fire is going to get into the smaller trees in the sequoia groves and travel up into the branches and create a crown fire _ and it will kill these giant trees," Mathes said.
Attorney General Bill Lockyer, in a statement, called the sequoias "majestic guideposts to our history and treasured symbols of our state" and accused the Bush administration of trying to turn naturalist "John Muir's big trees into dead wood."
Responded Mathes: "That's very vivid imagery, but our goal is precisely the opposite _ to keep them from becoming dead wood."
Lockyer's lawsuit alleges the management plan violates both Clinton's proclamation and a 1990 agreement negotiated by Bush's father when he was president.
Lockyer's suit contends logging under the new plan amounts to a commercial harvest of at least 7.5 million board feet each year _ enough to fill 1,500 logging trucks, the Sierra Club estimated in a statement hailing the suit.
Trees with diameters of up to 30 inches can be cut under the rules. Giant sequoias reach 30 feet in diameter.
The Sierra Club and five other environmental groups offered similar objections in a January lawsuit.
The 38 sequoia groves account for about 20,000 acres, or roughly 6 percent, of the total monument that Clinton carved from the 1.1 million-acre Sequoia National Forest east of Bakersfield.


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More is More
By Jeffrey Klineman
Three years ago, in an effort to revive the flagging Full Throttle franchise, Coke stripped things down. The company removed much of the taurine, guarana, b-vitamins, and other 'mystery ingredients' common to energy drinks from the product, streamlined the can, and went with a formulation that incorporated sugar, caffeine, and very little else in the way of energy boosters. Pepsi, meanwhile, went the other way, moving its own native brand, AMP, into a multi-sku line and eventually remixing the product to meet a variety of energy-related need states, like "Focus," (with l-theanine and choline) "Active," (with electrolytes) and Boost (with pretty typical stuff).
While the most outstanding energy drink brands remain, by and large, independent, the relative sales performance of big-company entrants AMP and Full Throttle since that time reflect the prevailing wisdom in energy drinks, that more is more. AMP, with its broader focus, has performed better, while Full Throttle is on the verge of slipping out of the top 10.
The divergent results – and the current crop of line extensions and highly-focused category entrants – show that in a category with several large players, much of the growth is coming out of niches. The large scale "hit-em-where-they-ain't" innovations – like adding more caffeine or growing the size of the drink itself (note the success of Monster and Rockstar, both of which initially grew the category by going to 16 oz. cans) have been important for the success of energy brands, but as the category has matured, the growth is coming from innovative remixes featuring a growing array of esoteric ingredients and functional blends.
A look at the brands that have ascended against the Coke and Pepsi entries demonstrates the rule: Monster has grown not just vertically, but has broadened its line horizontally as well, adding an electrolyte-infused Rehab and a coffee-laden Java Monster variety to its core offerings. It is also on the verge of mixing in protein as yet another functional ingredient. Monster competitor Rockstar, which pioneered the energy/recovery category, also continues to break new ground by adding coconut water (Rockstar Coconut Water) and branched-chain amino acids (Rockstar XDURANCE) to other varieties. In a slightly counter-intuitive move, Rockstar has also added a relaxation sub-brand, Rockstar Relax.
The other entrants into the category, new and old, are trying to keep the pace.
"A lot of my customers are trying to differentiate their energy brands by adding a function, or a claim for a function, so that consumer sees a little more value beyond a standard energy drink," said Walter Orcutt, the EVP at NVE Pharmaceuticals, a contract energy drink and energy shot manufacturer. "I think it's happening even more rapidly now than it has in the past."
Take a look at the variety of new ingredients and functions and the energy drink category begins to look like an amped-up mirror image of the entire beverage industry. Sure, there are varieties in cola, coffee, tea, juice, water, and even – for a while, anyway – beer, but there are also on-trend launches and line extension that incorporate, in addition to protein or coconut water, Aloe Vera, acai, GABA, polyphenols, tea catechins and many others, including fat-burning and "sensation"-oriented effects.
The cause of this varietal explosion? Competition, say most beverage executives.
"The addition of new ingredients and flavor components to energy drinks is a competitive move designed to further differentiate products to secure additional shelf space," said John Lennon, CEO of Xyience, the maker of Xenergy zero-calorie energy drinks.
But the energy drink format is one that allows easy adaptation, as well, Orcutt said, both because the margins on the products are so good they are able to absorb different additions, and because from a functional perspective the base of sugar and caffeine is easily felt from the start.
"You've got some room to play around," Orcutt said. "By the same token, where the energy drinks and energy shots are pretty simple, when you drink an energy drink or shot, you feel it. About 20 minutes later, you get the effect. If you're going to do, say, a hangover product or a libido product, the basic energy component makes for a trustworthy package."
The best example of that most trustworthy package is Red Bull, of course, and its success is the exception – as well as the competitive juggernaut — that proves the rule. Red Bull's first to market status codified the notion of what energy drinks should do: since then, it has been able to limit the need for innovation in its own brand to just a few changes in packaging size and reduced sugar versions. Red Bull's competitors, however, are always on the lookout for another edge.
"The existing players have done a great job in dominating the available retail space with pure energy plays," said Bill Meissner, the CEO of Jones Soda, which recently reformulated WhoopAss to add elements related to muscle recovery. "The customer (retailer) will not add products that simply duplicate the offering of the Red Bull and Monster simply because they have different brand treatments."
So where do the ideas for incremental innovations come from? Certainly, consumers' embrace of new ingredients in other beverages or consumer goods can spur the innovation in a brand, according to Orcutt. But in other cases, the brand's particular orientation can dictate the new ingredient set, such as with a "focus" oriented product like AMP. One hot area has been the addition of electrolytes and other recovery-oriented ingredients to products that overlap physical fitness or bouncing back from a hangover. Others have been more esoteric – and less effective from a sales perspective or from a functional perspective, as well.
"Consumers aren't going to scrutinize the variable ingredients – when you get into the exotic extensions, the ingredients are a little more interesting and they have more exotic names," Orcutt said. "There's a lot of botanicals that go in, but does it work any better? Is the function there? The consumer has to decide that."
That might be why a balanced approach is best. At Monster, according to VP of Marketing Geoff Bremmer, the ideas drive the innovation some of the time, as with the addition of protein to an already growing recover category. But in other cases, Bremmer said, a particular innovation dictates the development of a new product, as with the company's using Ball's cap free re-sealable can for its Import line.
Regardless, the pace of innovation is likely to continue for as long as the low barriers to entry remain, and marketers continue to think about need states that might go well with a bit of extra caffeine.
The notion of combining energy with other things is powerful," Lennon said.


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Verizon Wireless comes out on top in the PC Mag nationwide speedtest for mobile data. If you think that all 4G networks are created equal, PC Mag begs to differ, as they point out:
The chart below shows Verizon 4G LTE pommeled the competition with superior average download speeds of 9.46 Mbps down, with max speeds up to over 37 Mbps down, and a 1.35 upload. Verizon showed to be the best in almost every region except for "rural America" where AT&T came out on top.But you shouldn't believe the hype: All "4G" is not the same. In a 21-city test across the United States, we found that Verizon's new 4G LTE network is much faster than other mobile Web options, with speeds that often exceed home Internet connections.


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Board of Regents
Emergency Meeting of the Full Board
Wednesday, November 4, 1998; 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
In Anchorage: 751-8040
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I. Call to Order
II. Approval of Agenda
"The Board of Regents adopts the agenda as presented.
I. Call to Order
II. Adoption of Agenda
III. Authorization of Bond Sale for UAF's Coal-Water Fuel Project
IV. Discussion Regarding Future Bond Sales
V. Adjourn
This motion is effective November 4, 1998."
III. Authorization of Bond Sale for UAF's Coal-Water Fuel Project
(Reference Bound Separately)
The administration sought authorization from the Board of Regents on several occasions to finance the Coal-Water Fuel Project; however, due to uncertainties regarding the status and potential outcome of the project, we have not had the opportunity to sell revenue bonds or establish an interim financing alternative. The administration is now confident that the project has developed to a point that completion of the project and co-funding by its partners are reasonably assured. The project is now estimated to cost $52.214 million, $42.3 million of which will be expended by UAF. A more complete description of the project, contractual relationships, and funding associated with the project is provided in the separately bound materials on page 4 of the Preliminary Official Statement, entitled "THE USE OF BOND PROCEEDS."
The university is authorized to borrow money or enter into long-term obligations to complete this project; however, payments in any fiscal year cannot exceed $1.0 million dollars without specific approval of that debt and the project by the legislature. The proposed bond issues will not exceed the authorized limit, even if the annual payment to the Alaska Science and Technology Foundation of $150,000 required under the grant agreement is considered debt.
The bond market is now very attractive for "bank-qualified" tax-exempt bonds, offering potential interest rates \xbc of 1 percent lower than a normal non-bank-qualified issue. In order for the university's bonds to qualify, total tax-exempt debt issue for 1998 must be less than $10.0 million. The administration recommends that the university take advantage of this potential opportunity to lower the debt service on the coal-water project. Because the university has already entered into a tax-exempt equipment lease in the amount of $180,000, the regents are being asked to authorize a bond issue of $9.820 million (Series H).
While $9.820 million will be borrowed at attractive rates, it does not meet all of the cash needs of the project. A complete detail of the sources and uses of bond proceeds is provided in the separately bound materials. The regents are also being asked to authorize the sale of additional bonds shown in the reference tables as $2.705 million that will provide additional funds needed to cover cash requirements during the delays anticipated between the university's expenditures and reimbursement by the Department of Energy ("DOE"). These Series I bonds are sized to be attractive for the shorter term and contain call provisions for early repayment associated with the anticipated reimbursements from DOE but could be used to cover unexpected contingencies over an intermediate term. Any additional cash flow associated with delays in the reimbursement process will be covered with university working capital. The authorizing resolution for Series I will permit up to $3.255 million in bonds to be sold in the event that interest rates allow that amount of additional bond proceeds without exceeding the $1.0 million annual limit.
The administration expects to sell both Series H and Series I bonds on or about December 1. Series H will close before December 31. Series I will close in January in order to preserve the bank qualified status of Series H.
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Having already clinched gold in the men's 62 kg (136.6 lbs) weight class with a total lift of 318 kg (701.1 lbs), Figueroa just missed a clean and jerk attempt of of 179 kg (394.6 lbs), which would have broken his own Olympic record of 177 kg set at the 2012 London Games, where he took home a silver with a total lift of 317 kg.
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Review of ROMANCE IN THE IVORY TOWER
Out of the Campus Closet: Student Professor Consensual Sexual Relationships
Review of Paul R. Abramson: Romance in the Ivory Tower: The Rights and Liberty of Conscience, MIT Press, 2007, 176 pp
Reviewed by Barry M. Dank aka the dankprofessor
The original publication of this review is located at www.springerlink.com
Forthcoming in SEXUALITY AND CULTURE, Vol. 12 #1, March 2008, pp. 68-70
Might one be engaging in utopian thinking if one believes that universities, particularly American universities, are places where matters relating to conscience and liberty and freedom of association are taken very seriously? The answer is unequivocally yes since most American universities are no longer a refuge for persons believing in and wanting to act on these values, values which have been integrally linked to the American ethos. Rather than being a refuge for these values, American universities have embraced authoritarianism with a vengeance, discarding freedoms that have been held by many as taken for granted freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution.
Nowhere have these constitutional rights been more flagrantly violated than on American campuses where there have been concerted efforts, and generally successful efforts, to formally ban intimate sexual and romantic relationships between students and professors. Hardly any of the campus advocates for these bans have given any credence or recognition to the possibility that their agendas represent violations of civil liberties in any form. They have effectively disguised their attack on basic freedoms as a form of protectionism with their feminist engendered slogan that differential power precludes consent, which comes to be equated with the idea that students, particularly female students, are unable to consent to any form of sexual relationship with almost any professor since professors always are in a higher power position. Even if a female student should protest that her consent was given freely, the campus authoritarians believe that they know the mind of the student better than the student does, and that their will must replace the will of the incapacitated student.
The disputation of such views has not facilitated an open and polite exchange of ideas. Rather dissenters have been usually viewed as lecherous professors, whether they are male or female, who wish to have free rein for their alleged predatory behavior. In one way or the other campus sexual code dissenters are considered to be morally suspect while the sexual code advocators and promulgators are held to be above suspicion. Or, to put it in other terms, sexual banning supporters are held to be academic insiders while the banning dissenters are held to be dissident outsiders, outside of the post-modern, feminist ideologies of the day.
With the authorship of Romance in The Ivory Tower: The Rights and Liberty of Conscience, UCLA psychology professor, Paul R. Abramson, has fully entered into this fray as an outsider holding that campus predation has run amok in the form of academics discarding basic constitutional guarantees in their quest to "protect" and control both students and professors. Professor Abramson argues that the control they want is to prevent adults on university campuses from choosing whom they date, whom they love, whom they choose as romantic partners. In his words, "Choosing who we love, even on a university campus, is no less a fundamental part of choosing how we live." And such is a choice that cannot in principle be taken away by university authorities since the power to make the choice resides in the parties directly engaging in the choosing. He notes that "For all intents and purposes, many universities throughout the United States have determined that the power is theirs to wield. This book challenges that assumption, arguing instead that the power is unquestionably within the province of the individual…"
For Abramson, taking away the individual rights of conscience is a direct attack on the autonomy of the individual. Rights of conscience go beyond matters of religion and "…can be extended to all matters of substance that require serious deliberations about right and wrong, consensual sex and romance included." In Abramson's view, this individual right of conscience should protect the "…right to make romantic choices without interference or refutation by governmental and institutional authorities." And very importantly, the author argues that this right is embedded in the Constitution in the form of the Ninth Amendment which holds that "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." And Abramson holds that the right to romance is one such important right that is protected by the Ninth Amendment. For those who might argue that the right to romance does not reach the level of importance meriting constitutional protection, he responds in the following terms: "Romance…is a quintessential right retained by the people. It is no less essential to our well-being and happiness, I assert than freedom of speech. It is hard to imagine liberty without either right. Furthermore the right to choose a romantic partner is a prerequisite right to romance itself. Romantic choice is therefore the vehicle via which we exercise romantic freedom."
In terms of defending this interpretation of the Ninth Amendment, Abramson heavily relies on the writings of our nation's founders, particularly Jefferson and Madison with the greatest emphasis put on Madison. For Madison, the protection of unenumerated rights of the people via the Ninth Amendment is of crucial import. If such was not the case, the governmental authorities can do just about anything to their subjects unless such was specifically forbidden by the Constitution. And for Madison and Abramson and for this reviewer, the people should not be subject to the unrestrained arbitrary impositions of a government without constitutional authority. In essence, Abramson takes seriously the notion that citizens are not subjects to be experimented upon, that their will to decide, reject or consent cannot be removed from above. And throughout this volume, the author is ethically engaged as he hopes that the citizenry in general be ethically engaged since for him it becomes axiomatic that an ethic imposed from above is a form of authoritarianism and such authoritarianism should not be employed to mandate what people believe or how people act.
Nor does Abramson hold that matters of individual liberty and autonomy are without ethical and legal constraints. Conduct harmful to others is not protected conduct. Abramson embraces John Stuart Mill's perspective "…that society should only protect its citizens from harms that violate rights. Liberty prevails until someone's rights have been violated." Abramson does recognize that the boundaries defining what behaviors actually represent harmful behavior in the Millsian sense can be quite ambiguous. But for Abramson when it comes down to the issue at hand, there is no question that dating, including, of course, dating between students and professors is a "fundamental life choice." And that "Most serious romantic relationships, in fact, begin with a date. It is therefore a necessary prerequisite to the intimate side of life."
Of course, no matter how elegant he is in the presentation of this viewpoint, and in this reviewer's opinion, he is quite elegant, almost all persons advocating banning student professor sexual relationships will not be impressed since generally they are not impressed by any sort of intellectual dissenters from their ordained truth. What Abramson is facing when it comes to this issue are many persons who are on a moral crusade, and will attempt to deal with him not simply by trashing his ideas but by trashing his very personage. The Chronicle of Higher Education was one of the first media sources to provide pre-publication coverage of the Abramson book and presented an interview with Abramson which functioned on the whole to provide an accurate depiction of his forthcoming book. But what the CHE also did was to publish an adjacent full-page picture of Professor Abramson. Initially I was perplexed as to why the CHE devoted so much space to Abramson's picture; after all, Abramson was not a celebrity, much less an academic celebrity. But then I learned what I believed to be the reasons for the picture publication, and my learning was based on the reader forum that followed said publication in which so many readers were not concerned with the content of the interview but rather were concerned with the picture of Abramson which came to represent for them Abramson as a predatory and lecherous professor or as one reader commented "…looks like a letch right out of central casting." This photo was enough for all too many of the CHE readers to simply dismiss Abramson and whatever he had to say. Unfortunately, appearances do count when they should not, and all too often trump the possibility of intellectual analysis and critical thinking.
Pre-publication dismissals of Abramson's book have generally not reflected any careful scrutiny of the issue, but rather have generally been based on snap judgments and intensely visceral reactions. For example, one blogger wrote that Abramson will apparently do everything to justify sex between students and professors. "Thus, man will do everything to rationalize, normalize, legalize, and excuse everything; such as having sex with a professor…He (the professor) does not want to be told that sex between a student and an adult are wrong." Of course, Abramson is not telling anyone that sex between and adult and child is right, morally or legally. However, the dilemma facing Abramson is that many persons in the general population and in universities will engage in a default assumption translating student into child, professor into adult and therefore feel that they are dealing with sex that cannot be consensual, since one party to the "relationship" is always a child; no matter what the age, student is equated with child. Such thinking most likely goes back into childhood when the teacher is always the adult and the student is always the child. Many persons just cannot get beyond this framework. This is also reflected by the tendency of some professors and some administrators referring to students as "kids" or "my kids," regardless of age.
Abramson is aware of the stereotype of the student professor sexual relationship as representing "the lecherous male professor seducing gullible female undergraduates." He is also aware of the writings and influence of Catherine Mackinnon and her thinking that all workplace romantic relationships represent sexual harassment. What Abramson does fail to represent is that the notion of the female student unable to provide consent was originally popularized by Billie Dziech and Linda Weiner in their 1984 book The Lecherous Professor: Sexual Harassment on Campus. It was this book that became the sacred book for campus feminists and part of the often repeated rant that differential power precludes consent. It was in this context that campus feminists fueled the banning movement in the framework of repeatedly infantilizing female students and presenting female students as victims in the same sense that children are victims of adult male predators. It was this feminist vision that fueled the banning movement and was ultimately combined with the assertion that when professors teach or supervise a student and engage in a sexual relationship with a student then it becomes a conflict of interest.
Abramson does attempt to deal with the conflict of interest issue in the context of the professor engaging in impartial grading of a student with whom he has a sexual involvement. In order to preserve the appearance of impartial grading, Professor Abramson suggests that a colleague may be asked to intervene to provide a third party evaluation of the student. I consider third party evaluation to be problematic since the sexually involved student ends up being treated differently than all other students who are graded by the same professor. In principle, in terms of the course requirements and course process, students should not be treated in any way differentially based on their relationship, sexual or otherwise, with the professor. Invoking matters of appearances is not an adequate rationale for differential treatment. Also, in many cases the usage of a third party evaluator is an impossibility since grading is often in part based on what happens in class, such as class participation, in-class projects, etc. Abramson does not go beyond suggesting third party involvement. As Professor Abramson indicates, some universities operate under a coercive disclose and dispose policy which means that the professor must inform the appropriate administrator of the situation, and said administrator then disposes of the situation with absolutely no consideration given to the privacy and the right of the student to non-disclosure.
But conflicts of interest issues are not the core fueling the banning movement. Professor Abramson knows that professors in general are not wracked out over conflict of interest issues. Professor Abramson also indicates that professors engage in myriad forms of favoritism that are not at all emotionally tinged. For example, students enrolled in a professor's class may be a daughter or son of a colleague or even one's own son or daughter or a friend or a relative of a friend, or a professor may preach feminist sister solidarity or racial solidarity while grading students who are not part of his or her group or a professor may engage in out of class political demonstrations with likeminded students and prejudicial grading hardly ever becomes an issue. Professors emotionally committed to banning student professor relationships are not conflict of interests obsessed; they are sexually obsessed; obsessed with stopping other professors from engaging in what they consider to be sexual abuse of female students/children. And therefore all of the good legal and historical analysis by Professor Abramson becomes an irrelevancy for them because they see the subjects of these professors as being in an incapacitated state, a state where consent is an impossibility, a state where the subjects must be removed from the power of the offending professor and taken out of the classroom and where the demand is that the lecherous offending professor be removed from all classrooms.
Professor Abramson bemoans the fact that so few professors have spoken out against such sexual banning, particularly the lack of public professorial critiques of the impending UC policy which was passed in 2003, and banned romantic relationships by professors with students who they supervise (teach) and students who are in academic areas in which there is some likelihood that the professor may be their teacher at some future time. Abramson in his 2003 Los Angeles Times Op Ed piece was one of the few UC professors publicly speaking against the impending policy. Abramson notes that student and faculty protest against the UC policy did not even occur at UC Berkeley where protests are almost a fact of everyday life. However, he does fail to note that UC Berkeley Professor of English Catharine Gallagher did initiate a protest of this policy after its passage and was joined by other UC Berkeley faculty in petitioning the UC Berkeley Provost, but the Gallagher protest and petition was too little and too late.
Professor Abramson understands that one of the major reasons there were so few faculty voices raised in protest is that "dissenting" professors are on the whole afraid, afraid of being treated as suspect, afraid of being treated in sexually objectified terms in the manner similar to how Professor Abramson has been treated. And, in fact, I believe that untenured professors at UCLA or at whatever university, whether it be an elite or not so elite university, are extremely unlikely to speak out. Even as a tenured professor and as professor who has strongly spoken out against these sexual bans, Abramson still has some trepidation about being presently identified as a sexual code violator as indicated by his publicly stating that he is out of the dating game, that he leads a staid married life and that at one time, 20 or so years ago, he did have a couple of relationships with students, but now he is beyond that, therefore he is OK. If Abramson takes his ideas seriously, he would be eager to state I am OK now and I was OK then. And I do understand the dilemma that if a UCLA professor wrote a book of the sort of book Abramson wrote and he stated that he presently dated students and such was OK, he would then end up being investigated and probably charged with violation of the UC sexual code.
However, even if there has been minimal response by academics critiquing these fraternization policies, and few persons doing empirical research on faculty student sexual/romantic dyads, Professor Abramson should still have done a more thorough review of this literature and reported on the highlights of this literature and indicated what he considers to be most germane to his concerns. For example, in the area of research on faculty student relationships, he could have cited two important empirical studies of student professor relationships (Bellas and Gossett 2001; Skeen 1983) as well as citing numerous scholarly critiques (Dank and Alberquerque 1998; Dank and Fulda 1998; Hooks 1996; Kincaid 1999, 2000; McWilliam 1996; Nehring 2001; Olivero 1994; Patai 1998, 2002; Pellegrini 1999; Pichaske 1995; Refinetti 2001; Tittle 1998).
Abramson rejects the notion that at the core of the movement to prohibit professor/student relationships is an emotional sexual dynamic which is fueled by an underlying child, adult sexual predator imagery. Rather Abramson embraces the idea that "The real reason for these prohibitions…is that universities want to further reduce their liability in civil lawsuits-no sex and romance means no negligence." Such represents the idea that this movement to ban student professor relationships simply is an instrumental, rational based policy to save universities money. I do not deny that some academics support the banning policy for this reason, but the supporters of banning at UC have not cited any case in which UC was sued in whole or in part relating to a consensual relationship between a student and a professor. And Abramson does not cite such a case. And as Professor Abramson indicates the case employed by ban supporters to get this policy adopted dealt with an off campus sexual assault against a student by the dean of the UC Boalt law school. The invocation of the UC Boalt law school case demonstrates the mental gymnastics that UC ban supporters had to go through to implement their policy; as Abramson notes there were sexual assault laws on the books in California via which the dean could have been prosecuted. The bitter reality is that to get this policy implemented, the supporters had to assault the idea that sexual consensual relationships between adults and sexual assaults are not interchangeable.
For academia as a whole and for the population as a whole, if one takes the sexual out of this anti-sexual policy, interest in the policy would become just about nil. But the sexual component cannot be taken out of this policy. Sexual meddlers and crusaders would not tolerate it. Just as the prohibition of prostitution has never been about the state saving money, nor the prohibition of homosexual acts between consenting adults has ever been about the State saving money, the prohibition of student professor relationships has never been just about universities saving money.
Ultimately the issue is what can save our universities from the moral crusaders, no matter what causes and ideologies the crusaders may embrace. In his book, Professor Abramson has taken an important initial step in terms of elucidating the importance of adhering to basic constitutionally guaranteed sexual civil liberties and sexual rights in American universities. Vigilance in the area of civil rights and liberties is crucial if authoritarian interventionists are to be prevented from controlling the most intimate aspects of persons' lives. But such vigilance must also be combined with an understanding of the social psychological dynamics propelling true believers to seek to control the sexual lives of others. If we are to succeed in affirming and protecting the value of conscience and liberty, those opposing these values cannot be allowed to pass themselves off as feminists just trying to protect those who supposedly cannot protect themselves, or university administrators just engaging in fiscal savings; they must be confronted and critiqued at every possible opportunity and exposed as authoritarians whose power and control agendas are antithetical to the ideals of higher education.
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If you have difficulty staying motivated to continue your fitness program, you should consider mixing things up with a variety of fitness classes. By changing things up you'll be able to try new things while getting fit, and will want to keep exercising. Try taking a yoga or dance class to spice things up. Consider Jazzercise or boot camp. You are not making a long-term commitment to these classes, and each time you try something different, you will be shedding pounds.
Always use your fingers to check out the quality of the pads on a bench before choosing which one to spend time working out on. If you sit on a machine and can feel through the padding, it is time to select another machine. The proper amount of padding will provide back support and help you avoid bruises while working out.
Be certain to wear proper footwear when working out. Doing many kinds of exercises with inappropriate footwear can put you at risk for a lot of different injuries, some of them quite serious. Not only that, but your feet will probably feel strained and uncomfortable post-workout, which can prevent you from wanting to continue your routine.
Shoes with a proper fit are imperative to your workout program. Instead of shopping for shoes in the afternoon or morning, shop for them in the evening, when your feet have become larger. There needs to be at least a half inch between your big toe and the shoe. Check to be sure that you can move your toes a bit.
Always sterilize your equipment before you work out. There may be germs from others on the equipment. By wiping the equipment down before using it, you are protecting yourself from getting sick while trying to achieve your fitness goals.
Get quicker results by completing your exercise regimen in 10% less time than you usually do. This will cause your muscles to work harder and will, at the same time, improve your endurance. As an example, during your next workout session, trim 2 minutes off of your 20 minute routine.
Many exercises count as fitness and there are various ways to get you motivated. You have to seek out an exercise that works with your lifestyle. With fitness you can easily create a personalized workout routine that you enjoy. The more you find out about fitness, you will be even more interested in the topic.


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Russian Poster (1989) by V. Trubanov
My good friend, colleague and talented Russian designer Oleg Lyutov was gifted this gorgeous poster for his birthday the other day, and we had to share it as I'm sure many poster fans will love it. I can't find much on the artist/designer, other than that he goes by V. Trubanov, and he was active in the Russian art scene in the 80s, with some work done with the CCCP.
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It's not surprising that Yakuza, a new Northeast Killingsworth Street sushi spot, was broken into two days after opening this fall, as the stylish house-with-glass-windows space screams money. The small restaurant's lush design includes custom-crafted reclaimed wood and an impressive gallery of sake and wine.
Among other things, the thieves made off with armloads of valuable green—hundreds of dollars' worth of whole wasabi.
Chef-owner Micah Camden, formerly of Cobras & Matadors and 750 mL, hopes for some painful poetic justice. "I'd really like it if he or she [the thief] took a big, unknowing bite out of one of those roots—fresh wasabi is really powerful stuff."
So is the menu, which is twofold at Yakuza. Camden works the front-of-the-house hot line while sushi chef Ian Skomski mans the small back-of-the-house sushi bar.
Plump starters include fried shoelace potatoes ($6) and a miso-garlic Caesar ($8) piled high with romaine spears and topped with pan-fried, thinly sliced shallots. Both dishes gather dining-room attention like a well-stacked sundae. A heaping plate of long, paper-thin, salt-dusted potato, topped with fried fresh basil and cilantro, goes well with a crisp Japanese beer—Hitachino white ale ($7) is on tap—and is ideal for honing chopstick skills.
Moving on to sushi, the chef's choice sashimi plate for two ($30) is fresh, diverse and artfully prepared, but more a plate for one unless you've had your stomach stapled. Fill up with the cucumber salad ($4)—a simple and tasty, generously portioned side with large sections of juicy Japanese ribbed cucumber in a rice-wine vinaigrette. The special rolls, unlike the sashimi in general, are worth their featherweight. The pear, avocado and yellowtail roll ($10) topped with thinly sliced (as in razor-thin) chiles is a delicious synergy of sweet, buttery and spicy.
As for cooked-foods, the beer-braised beef short ribs ($16) are rich and savory, served with creamy polenta and a dark, slightly sweet braise sauce. If you can (Yakuza's menu changes weekly), try the fried Chinese long beans ($6) smacked with traditional full flavor—diced scallions, garlic and chiles in a tasty soy-rich sauce.
Drinks are varied and include a nice array of cold sakes ranging from $5 to $9 a cup.
Valid complaints thus far: skinny sushi offerings and uncoordinated service. Some nights when food takes a long time en route to the table, there is little or no communication or apology.
Still, Yakuza is boldly cornering a 'hood niche for itself. And despite the name (Yakuza does mean a member of Japanese organized crime), this Yakuza's only weapons are those sharpened and set to use in the two small, exposed kitchens.
Yakuza, 5417 NE 30th St., 450-0893. Dinner 5-9 pm Wednesday through Sunday. $-$$ Inexpensive-Moderate.


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With market conditions remaining volatile and clients cautious about staying invested or even investing at all, advisors are finding it more important than ever to define the services they offer and how they provide those services. This "know thyself" approach may help them better compete for clients and assets. It may also, through the selection and marketing of these services, help them to operate more efficiently. And that is a great way for advisors to set themselves apart in the financial advice market and get closer to their clients.
In the same way that advisors regularly assess their business offerings, Rydex AdvisorBenchmaking evaluates business practices of RIAs over time. Last December, we supplemented our annual advisor survey that was conducted earlier in 2011 with a short questionnaire on current topics, including advisor ratings of their skills, use of ETFs, reliance on wholesalers and thoughts on the current market environment.
Advisors reported in our mini-survey that they still are not fully confident in the economic recovery. More than half said that the U.S. is still in some kind of recessionary phase: either in a cyclical or temporary recession phase (26%), or a systemic and permanent recession phase (24%); 44% of advisors agreed that the U.S. finds itself in a slow economic recovery phase.
Moreover, a majority of advisors (59%) said that their clients' financial situations have changed little since the recovery started. While this may reflect the fact that many investors have been sitting on the sidelines during the market rally of the past six months or more, it underscores the impact of a range of pocketbook issues, including higher oil prices, Congressional disagreement over taxing and spending, as well as the caution created by the Supreme Court's review of the 2010 health care law and the upcoming presidential election. As for the 41% of respondents who said clients' financial situations had changed, half said their clients' situations are worse while half characterized their situations as 'better.'
Critical to the long-term success of RIA firms is their service offering, which according to our survey from earlier in 2011, has not changed significantly in the last two years. The four cornerstones of advisory firms appear to be relatively stable and include: basic investment advice, retirement planning, investment management and financial planning. The second tier of services includes insurance, estate and charitable giving planning. The table below shows the percentage of advisors surveyed offering key services over the past few years.
Managing the impact of taxes is a growing concern for investors as tax laws are likely to be a source of contention later this year, so we asked advisors about this issue in our December survey.
While most advisors said managing the impact of taxes for clients is important, very few offered tax services or dedicated a significant part of their business to tax-deferred strategies (see chart at left). In our survey, only a third of respondents said they offer tax services or tax advice, and 67% said they do not handle tax work at all. It appears that clients may have to reach out to other service professionals if and when the tax laws change.
We also wanted to see what advisors believed were their strengths in this volatile market period.
The December 2011 survey (see below) revealed, for example, that advisors surveyed generally rate themselves strong on both client relationship management and investment management. In fact the largest share of advisors, 41%, said they feel proficient in both, while about a third (36%) cited client relationships as a core strength and about a fifth (20%) said investment management was their forte.
Advisors gifted in both these aspects of the business do exist, but many find that skills associated with one aspect of the business cannot easily translate to the other, and prefer to team up with or delegate to a colleague.
Regardless of whether an advisor believes he or she is skilled in both client and investment management, there's still the practice to manage. That means determining a service offering while being sensitive to the needs and concerns of clients. And of course there is the pressure for advisors to keep up with the constant stream of new investment products. They want to offer the appropriate mix to their clients, but to do so they must often rely on the expertise that financial wholesalers and other intermediaries provide as a way of learning about the potential in new products and services.
Our brief December 2011 survey showed that advisors continue to expand their horizons in terms of investment vehicles and strategies, with between a fifth and a third of advisors actively seeking more information on new index strategies and a variety of ETF strategies.
Alternative indexing strategies continue to gain ground, with advisors showing similar levels of interest in a range of approaches: cap-weighted indexing (30%), equal weight indexing (31%), fundamental indexing (23%) and active indexing (27%).
ETFs are gaining in popularity. as the table at left shows, with more than three quarters of advisors (79%) making allocations to these vehicles—and 28% of advisors allocating more than 20% of client assets to ETFs.
To obtain useful information on new products and services, advisors often rely on wholesalers. When dealing with wholesalers, about half of advisors meet with reps at least once a quarter, and advisors value character ("integrity and honesty") and product knowledge over all else. Character and knowledge were the most important wholesaler attributes, with 66% of advisors rating "integrity and honesty" as highest in importance, followed by "depth/breadth of product knowledge," cited by 56% of advisors. Responsiveness and effectiveness in problem solving were the next two most important attributes. More than half of advisors (52%) meet regularly with wholesalers—once a quarter or more frequently.
Shaping a business model is critical for advisors, regardless of the market environment. Our recent mini-survey suggests that advisors take this aspect of their profession seriously and see value in bringing together the right skills and service offering. The markets may well be in a slow recovery, or something even more challenging like a systemic recession. The advisors whose businesses are best positioned to weather uncertainty will focus on their strengths, while choosing the services and the best way to provide services that are in the long-term interests of their clients.
AdvisorBenchmarking is a research and analysis center focused on the registered investment advisor (RIA) marketplace. Study results quoted in this article are based on the 300-plus RIA firms that took the online survey in March-May 2011. The service is aimed at helping advisors grow and enhance their firms by comparing how their businesses fare against other advisors. Advisors also learn best practices of the most successful advisors in the business.
AdvisorBenchmarking is an affiliate of Guggenheim Investments. The analysis on AdvisorBenchmarking.com is based on the number of completed surveys and reflects only information from those surveys. This information is intended to be general in nature, and these overviews are no substitute for professional, legal or consulting advice. This information should not be construed as advice from Guggenheim Investments or any of its affiliates.


text: According to a new study, "working moms who try to be "supermoms" are more likely to be depressed than their counterparts who embrace the idea that they can't do it all." These findings don't seem surprising, but what's the solution? Adjusting your attitude to let some things slide, say the study's authors.


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It has been said that the conductor's most important responsibility is to get everyone to start in time. But that's only the beginning in more ways than one. The actual performance is a small part of the job. Both engineer and contractor, the conductor realises every detail of a blueprint, namely the score, in rehearsal. The conductor determines tempo, adjusts balances (taking into account the tricky acoustic difference between what is heard on the podium and in the hall), shapes musical phrases, regulates dynamics, monitors intonation and, of course, keeps the orchestra together. In performance, the conductor is then that other kind of engineer, driving the freight train of sometimes 100 or more players, all of whom have musical minds of their own.
There is a grammar of conducting, techniques for giving the upbeat, marking time and cueing players, some of whom may do nothing for long stretches and then must come in with split-second precision. But how that is done is personal. Every conductor uses his or her body differently, has individual ideas about eye contact and the choreography of physical expression.
And then there is the extra-sensory perception of conducting which goes beyond intellectual, technical or musical accomplishment. The conductor makes no sound, but the best conductors have their sound, something that can be communicated simply by their presence on the podium (or, in some cases, without the podium). The resultant group psychology has yet to be explained by any of the sciences: the soft ones, the physical ones or even the mystical ones.
The baton makes no sound yet can generate the loudest and most varied sounds in all unamplified music, wielded in a way that 100 or more musicians will instantaneously understand. Yet every conductor does it differently. Typically held between the thumb and first two fingers, batons can be stubby or long. Handles come in varying shapes, often designed by the conductors themselves. The baton, colloquially called a stick, is commonly made of various types of wood or graphite and was first used in early 19th-century orchestras primarily to mark metre and tempo. Today's conductors also employ the baton to convey expression, and a few have been known to get carried away and stab themselves with its sharpened end.


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Mezcal-infused ice cream creates a smoky backdrop for this coffee-fueled dessert.
Smoky Almond Ice Cream
2 cups heavy cream
1 cup half-and-half
⅔ cup sugar
3 Tbsp. carob powder
2 Tbsp. mezcal
6 egg yolks at room temperature
½ cup almonds
Combine the cream, half-and-half, sugar, carob, and mezcal in a heavy medium saucepan. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring often, until bubbles begin to form at the edges, between 180 degrees F and 190 degrees F.
Put the egg yolks in a medium bowl. Add ¼ cup of the warm cream mixture and whisk until well blended. Repeat five more times, until 1½ cups of the cream mixture have been added and the egg yolk mixture is as warm as the remaining cream mixture.
Slowly pour the egg yolk mixture into the saucepan in a steady stream while whisking constantly. Cook over low heat, whisking constantly, until the mixture thickens and coats the back of a spoon, about 10 minutes. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl. Press plastic wrap onto the surface and refrigerate for at least 3 hours and up to 12 hours.
In a heavy medium skillet, toast the almonds over medium heat, shaking often, until fragrant and slightly brown, about 5 minutes. Let cool completely, then coarsely chop.
Freeze the cream mixture in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions, adding the almonds almost at the end of the churning time. Transfer to a container, cover, and freeze until firm, at least 3 hours. The ice cream can be stored in the freezer for up to 2 weeks.
Makes 1 quart.
5 shots (125 ml. to 175 ml.) freshly brewed hot espresso
To assemble the affogatos, divide the ice cream evenly among five cups or bowls and pour a shot of espresso over each. Serve immediately.
Reprinted with permission from The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee: Growing, Roasting, and Drinking, with Recipes, by James Freeman, Caitlin Freeman, and Tara Duggan, copyright © 2012. Published by Ten Speed Press, a division of Random House, Inc.


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Prohibition Against Discrimination on the Basis of Disability (PO9.06.01)
The University of Alaska will provide a learning environment in which no student will be subjected to unlawful discrimination based on disability. No otherwise qualified individual will be denied reasonable access to, participation in, or the benefits of, any program or activity operated by the University of Alaska because of disability. Each qualified student with a disability will be eligible to receive appropriate academic adjustments and programmatic accommodations necessary for the student to access educational opportunities, programs, activities, or services in the most integrated setting possible.
For the full policy please visit the Regents' Policy & University Regulation website.
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In order to receive appropriate academic support services in the classroom, the student must have a clearly diagnosed and documented learning disability. It is the student's responsibility to secure documentation. The University of Alaska Southeast is not responsible for provision of diagnostic services to prospective or currently enrolled students. Recent and appropriate documentation, which addresses the student's current level of functioning, is required. Documentation should be from a school psychologist, clinical or educational psychologist, neuropsychological, or other qualified professional who diagnosed the learning disability.
The documentation should include, but is not limited to, the following:
- A measure of Aptitude
A measure of intellectual assessment (e.g., Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised [WAIS-R]; Woodcock-Johnson Psychoneurotic Battery - Revised: Tests of Cognitive Ability; Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test;
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale [4th ed.])
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A measure of information processing (e.g., Woodcock-Johnson Psychoneurotic Battery - Revised: Tests of Cognitive Ability; Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude-3 [DTLA-3]; Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude - Adult [DTLA-A]; information from subtests on WAIS-R)
- A measure of Academic Achievement
A measure of academic achievement (e.g., Scholastic Abilities Test for Adults [SATA]; Stanford Test of Academic Skills; Woodcock-Johnson Psychoneurotic Battery - Revised: Tests of Achievement; Wechsler Individual Achievement Test [WIAT]; or specific achievement tests such as: Nelson-Denny Reading Skills Test; Stanford Diagnostic Mathematics Test; Test of Written Language - 3 [TOWL-3]; Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests - Revised)
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Local councilors in a small Dutch town are trying to stem the decline of tourism dollars by punishing forecasters for "bad" weather predictions.
Councilors from Hoek van Holland, a seaside town in the western Netherlands, have complained that inaccurate forecasts, calling for stormy weather, have caused tourists to cancel their plans. They've proposed a solution: They want forecasters to be fined for their mistakes, The Telegraph reported.
"Last week it was really good weather over most of the country but the weather forecasts were full of heavy rain and thunderstorms, so people stayed home," Joep Thonissen, head of the Dutch tourist attraction association told The Telegraph.
Off-beat news from NBC4.
A spokesman for KNMI, the commercial weather bureau that serves the Netherlands, fired back at Thonissen and others like him in an interview with De Telegraaf (NED), "TV, radio and newspapers use the raw data we deliver but it is up to them to how their forecasts turn out."
Similar sentiments have been expressed in nearby Belgium, where "pessimistic" forecasts have cut into the tourism industry there.


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Worried about the younger generation ever caring about your family history research? Well, I met a smart young gal at NGS 2011 in Charleston this past week who may put those fears to rest for her mom. You've simply GOT to check out Ellie Wood's NGS 2011 video and share this link with your geneafriends and fellow society members.
Congrats to Ellie's genealogy blogging mom Jennifer at the Climb My Family Tree Blog, for fostering such creativity.
Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt :)
Your friend in genealogy.


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The Reward for Fixing Groupon? Not Much
When Groupon's founder-CEO Andrew Mason was booted from the company last month, his interim replacements came from the company's board: Executive Chairman Eric Lefkofsky and Vice Chairman Ted Leonsis were named co-CEO's to steer the company through the search for a new boss for the long run.
That's far from the easiest job in business right now: Groupon is a mess, the daily deals industry is a mess, and it won't be easy finding a great CEO who sees the company as an opportunity, not a career liability. As Warren Buffett once said, "when a manager with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for poor fundamental economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."
(Credit where due: that quote was first resurfaced today by the New Yorker's James Surowiecki in a piece looking at how the troubles at J.C. Penney could end up being the curse on CEO Ron Johnson's bright career — a not-completely-irrelevant read for prospective future Groupon CEOs.)
So are Messrs. Lefkofsky and Leonsis being well compensated for their new responsibilities? Not exactly. According to a Groupon SEC filing today, the two are getting nothing more than what they would have been paid anyhow as board members. Here's the statement:
On March 19, 2013, Groupon, Inc. ("the Company") entered into arrangements with directors Eric P. Lefkofsky and Theodore J. Leonsis regarding the compensation for their services in their respective roles in the Office of the Chief Executive ("Office of the CEO").
Messrs. Lefkofsky and Leonsis are not eligible to participate in the Company's Non-Employee Director Compensation Plan (the "Director Plan") during the time period in which they are serving in the Office of the CEO, and their compensation will match the amount that they would have received under the Director Plan if they had continued to serve solely as directors.
This arrangement will terminate when the Company appoints a new Chief Executive Officer, at which time Messrs. Lefkofsky and Leonsis will become eligible to participate in the Director Plan. Each will receive stock grants on the same schedule through which they would have received their director compensation, which total $200,000 for Mr. Lefkofsky and $210,000 for Mr. Leonsis on an annual basis.
As the WSJ's Andrew FitzGerald noted today, Groupon has a solid history of frugal payment for CEO services: Andrew Mason's annual salary in 2012 was a total of $756.72. Mr. Mason was paid that strange, and comically low, amount "at his own recommendation," Groupon said in a filing. Nobody has worked out how or why he chose that number – although nobody has worked out a lot of things about Groupon, including how to turn the struggling company profitable.
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Parents: U.S. looking into son's Singapore death
- Shane Todd%27s parents met with Washington officials Friday
- Singapore police initially ruled death a suicide
- Coroner%27s inquest has been postponed
WASHINGTON — Officials in Washington promised to give priority to the investigation of an American engineer who died under suspicious circumstances in Singapore, his parents said Saturday morning after a whirlwind of meetings Friday.
"I think we're finally breaking through," said Rick Todd, whose son Shane was found hanging from his bathroom door June 24.
Before his death, Shane Todd expressed concern his Singaporean employer was illegally helping China obtain technology that could harm U.S. national security, his parents say.
Shane Todd's parents, Rick and Mary Todd, traveled from their home in Marion, Mont., to Washington for a day of meetings Friday about the ongoing investigation and to push for the FBI to get involved.
The Singapore police initially ruled the death a suicide, but the Todds believe their son was murdered to prevent him from exposing the plot he had uncovered. The Todds met with Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., as well as officials from the State Department and other government agencies, Rick Todd said.
The Todds' love for their son and their determination is "what's driving me to do everything in my power to make sure no stone is left un-turned in this case," Baucus said. "We have to get to the bottom of this. The family -- and the American people -- deserve answers."
Baucus told them he would discuss the case this week with White House officials, Secretary of State John Kerry and Singapore's ambassador to Washington, Rick Todd said. People in Singapore familiar with Shane Todd's case have begun to come forward with information about the kind of work his employer has been involved in, which could be relevant to the case, Rick Todd added.
"It is our hope and prayer that more people will come forward that will expose the truth," Rick Todd said.
Shane Todd traveled to Singapore in 2010 to work for the Institute of Microelectronics, a government research institution. Todd managed a small team focused on producing cutting-edge devices using gallium nitride, a powerful new semiconductor. The "dual use" technology could greatly boost commercial cellphone towers or military radars and jamming devices.
When Shane Todd's body was found, the Singaporean police collected his computers and cellphone as part of their investigation, but left behind a computer hard drive that his parents later found in his apartment. The hard drive contained documents that showed some of what Todd was working on, including a draft agreement for IME to share his gallium nitride work with Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei.
Huawei's ties to China's military and intelligence services make it "a serious threat" to U.S. national security, Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told CBS' 60 Minutes in October.
Both IME and Huawei have denied collaborating on gallium nitride. A coroner's inquest in Singapore scheduled for early this month has been postponed because the investigation is ongoing, Rick Todd said.
The case has exposed corruption and a threat to U.S. security that cost his son's life because he wanted to expose it, and affects anyone who works or has children working overseas, Rick Todd said.
"This is a fight for freedom to live a life where you don't have to fear what you say," he said.