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On a languorous Sunday in June, low season on the campus of the University of Virginia, Prof. Larry Sabato opened a perplexing e-mail. "My instant reaction," he said, "was that I thought we'd been hacked." The message, sent to the entire university, announced the resignation of the university's president, Teresa Sullivan, obliquely citing a "philosophical difference of opinion" with the institution's governing board. Sullivan had held the job for just two years, without any scandal, and Sabato couldn't believe she had been pushed aside with so little evident justification. "I said that if this was true," he recalled, "this was going to be a P.R. disaster of national proportions."
Sabato is accustomed to offering predictions — a prodigiously quotable political scientist, he maintains a Web site called Sabato's Crystal Ball. And his opinions carry serious weight around UVA, an institution he has been immersed in since his undergraduate days in the 1970s, when he served as president of the Student Council. Sabato called around and discovered that the school's deans had learned of the resignation just that morning at a meeting in which Helen Dragas, the real estate developer who led UVA's board, warned that the university faced an "existential threat."
The professional educators who ran UVA were well aware that public universities everywhere were enduring a crisis. State governments have been slashing funding, driving per-student spending to historic lows, forcing schools to raise tuition, while controlling costs through salary freezes and other austerity measures. Founded and designed by Thomas Jefferson and renowned as one of the country's finest state institutions, the University of Virginia is better off than most of its counterparts: it fears mediocrity, not insolvency. But along with other elite public universities, it is struggling to figure out how to continue providing a premium education with less government support.
If anyone appeared equipped to manage the situation, it was Sullivan: she had come to Virginia after excelling in administrative positions at the University of Texas and the University of Michigan. "Everybody had the same reaction," Sabato told me. "First, shock, and then a sneaking suspicion that there had to be something else." That afternoon, in the 90-degree heat, Sabato looked on as Dragas gave an outdoor news conference. She promised to replace Sullivan with "a bold, strategic, visionary leader" but refused to answer when asked for the reasons behind Sullivan's departure.
Hours later, Sabato reached Dragas by phone. She justified the board's drastic action by arguing that Virginia was falling behind competitors, like Harvard and Stanford, especially in the development of online courses, a potentially transformative innovation. The conversation was agreeable, but privately, Sabato still wasn't convinced that the move was warranted. That evening, he crossed Jefferson's magnificent central lawn to join a dispirited group on the balcony of a university official's home. Sullivan was there, along with her husband, a law professor. Everyone was dumbfounded. Sullivan said she had no warning her job was in jeopardy.
Over the course of many drinks, the mood shifted from bafflement to outrage and finally to talk of rebellion. Someone raised the question: Could the board's decision be overturned? "We went around the group," Sabato says, "and every single one of us said, 'Nah, it's a done deal.' "
On this occasion, though, Sabato's crystal ball was wrong. Over the course of the next two weeks, the slumbering college town of Charlottesville awoke in protests, as students and faculty condemned what they saw as a coup. "This moment of terror came across everyone at UVA," said one professor, who underscored the point by requesting anonymity. "If they can do it to the president, they can do it to anybody."
Conspiracy theories abounded: that Sullivan was deposed by a Republican governor, or good ol' boy alumni, or a cabal of Wall Street donors. Vandals spray-painted the six columns of the school's neoclassical Rotunda with the letters "G-R-E-E-E-D." The national news media seized onto the story, which seemed to dramatize a broader conflict between big money and public education. The conservative editorial page of The Wall Street Journal accused the protesting faculty of trying to create "an academic Green Zone separated from economic reality," while liberal publications held up Sullivan as a symbol of a beleaguered egalitarian ideal.
Hunter Rawlings, the chief executive of the Association of American Universities, calls Sullivan's forced resignation the "most egregious" case of boardroom intrigue he has ever witnessed. But the situation was not unique. "There was once a consensus in America that higher education was a public good," Rawlings says. "What is new now, and radically different, is that after five, six, seven years in reductions in state funding for higher education, the whole system is under stress." He notes that the leaders of a dozen or so other state institutions, including those in Oregon, Wisconsin and Illinois, have recently departed under similar pressure. "It's just one after another, after another," he says.
The drama at Virginia, however, was set apart by a stunning reversal. At an emotional meeting in late June, the Board of Visitors, the politically appointed body that oversees the university, bowed to criticism and reinstated Sullivan. Even then, though, Dragas refused to shed much further light on her actions. In ambiguous triumph, Sullivan was restored to her office, which is where I met her in early August, at a large table surrounded by university memorabilia and a shelf of books related to her discipline, sociology. The president wore the school's colors — blue suit, orange blouse — and spoke cautiously when I asked her the question that had everyone speculating all summer: Why was she pushed out?
"I don't know," Sullivan said, filling an awkward pause with nervous laughter, casting a glance at the university spokeswoman, Carol Wood.
"We've had that conversation around this table many times," Wood added. "We don't get it."
Virginia is a place of many stately traditions; as one faculty member joked, people there refer to "Mr. Jefferson" as if he had just left the room. Students are governed by a 19th-century honor code, and campus buildings are tagged with esoteric graffiti left by the school's many secret societies. These old-fashioned ideals — honor and discretion — contribute to the reticence surrounding Sullivan's ouster, along with more mundane issues of contractual legalities, politics and embarrassment.
For months, news organizations — from The Washington Post to the student-run Cavalier Daily — have been poring over records obtained through the state's Freedom of Information Act, including thousands of pages of internal e-mail correspondence. The documents reveal something of the university's state of mind in the months leading up to the crisis, as administrators feuded over budgets and discontent spread among board members. But they are, by nature, a fragmentary record: the actors were loath to put their true feelings in writing then, nor were they eager to discuss them with reporters now. Few of those directly involved were eager to talk to me, but many did speak, allowing me to piece together a fuller account of the puzzling affair. As it turns out, a "philosophical difference" wasn't just a euphemism: it was an apt description of a clash between two fundamentally different theories of leadership.
The first salient fact about Teresa Sullivan is that she does not look like any of the school's previous presidents, who were all men and mostly native Virginians. To a remarkable degree, they preserved the school's provincial character: it currently has around 14,000 undergraduates, 70 percent from within Virginia, and in-state tuition has remained affordable, around $12,000 a year, less than a third than that of an Ivy League school.
Yet it has been clear for years that the university faced challenges in maintaining its elite identity. When John Casteen, Sullivan's predecessor, took office in 1990, the state government provided about a quarter of the university's budget. By the time he left, 20 years later, the proportion had dwindled to less than 7 percent. Casteen addressed the gap by fund-raising, tapping a devoted alumni network to expand the school's endowment almost tenfold, to $4.6 billion, during his tenure.
Even so, it was clear that the school couldn't rely on charity to fill the budgetary gap. The recession made wealthy alumni less generous and drove down middle-class incomes, putting stress on financial-aid programs. In a farewell letter in 2010, Casteen suggested that the university might need to increase its revenues not only by raising tuition but also by expanding enrollment — a heretical proposal at a school defined by its relatively cozy atmosphere.
Casteen was a Virginian who held three UVA degrees. Sullivan, though, was an outsider: raised in Arkansas and Mississippi and educated in the Midwest. This counted against her with some alumni, but all that mattered to faculty members was her sterling academic reputation. She was previously Michigan's provost, a prestigious No. 2 position, and before going into administration, she did pioneering sociological research at the University of Texas, co-writing books on middle-class debt with her colleagues Jay L. Westbrook and Elizabeth Warren, who has since become a liberal icon.
Sullivan was a demographer by training, a numbers cruncher. In Michigan, a state with severe fiscal woes, she dealt with constricted budgets. That experience was prominent among the factors that appealed to the search committee led by John Wynne, a retired media executive who was then rector — UVA-speak for "chairman" — of the Board of Visitors. Westbrook, still a close friend of Sullivan's, says she told him the board chose her because it wanted "someone who could be hardheaded and put on a green eyeshade."
Mark G. Yudof, president of the University of California system, was a mentor to Sullivan when he was chancellor at Texas, and he recognized the challenges she faced. "Presidents are under a lot of pressure," he says, "to figure out how to get more for the buck without compromising quality or riling the faculty." His system, which includes Berkeley and U.C.L.A., has been forced to raise tuition, increase class sizes and furlough professors. But just as vexing, he says, is a deeper uncertainty about whether the nature of the problem is situational, and thus likely to improve with the economy, or systemic.
"Some people think we've still got it right, and we just need to persevere," Yudof said. "Other people say we really need a radical change in the game plan."
Sullivan is firmly in the perseverance camp. "I think that if you look at the higher-education landscape," Sullivan told me, "generally there is a pervasive sense of crisis." But the way Sullivan sees it, Virginia still ranks as one of the best public universities in the country. It suffers only by comparison to the elite private schools, which can — and do — continually raise their tuition. That avenue is currently closed to Virginia, because state politicians have resisted tuition hikes as well as admitting a greater proportion of out-of-state students, who pay higher, nonsubsidized fees. (Outsiders, for instance, make up around 35 percent of the more than 40,000 students at the University of Michigan, and the school's president is aiming to increase the proportion.) Sullivan herself rejected the option of increasing revenue by greatly expanding the student body. "The alumni and student body believe there is huge value in the relatively small size," Sullivan said. So instead, she economized and retrenched. She hired a consultant to study the university hospital's finances, nearly half of its $2.5 billion budget. As a demographer, Sullivan looked at her personnel and saw a population of baby boomers, as many as half of whom will reach retirement age by 2020. "Technically," Sullivan said, "it's a cohort succession problem."
If she took a cautious and technocratic approach, it was because Sullivan knew the overarching issue — deciding how to divide the shrinking pot of money — was potentially explosive. Should the university, for instance, invest in science programs, which are capital-intensive but also draw grant money, or should it bolster its areas of strength, liberal-arts departments like English and religious studies? Virginia, like most universities, operated less like a modern corporation than a feudal state, and Sullivan could not afford to antagonize its many fiefs. "She had the view that there were going to be winners and losers," said George M. Cohen, a law professor and chairman of the faculty senate. "So she wanted to get people to understand what's going on, and at least accept the process."
Recognizing that she had much to learn about Virginia's idiosyncratic culture, Sullivan attended countless faculty meetings, forums and sporting events. She taught a sociology seminar. But like most modern university presidents, Sullivan spent much of her time begging for money. A tiny sliver of rich alumni contributed most of the school's endowment, and UVA's fund-raising staff maintained a list of 50 "targets" capable of giving at least $10 million. Sullivan met 45 of them in person. The cultivation of such megadonors is a long — sometimes lifelong — process, and it requires more than flattery: for their money, the university's benefactors wanted a say in its future.
One of Sullivan's most promising targets was Paul Tudor Jones, a Virginia alumnus, billionaire hedge-fund manager and philanthropist. Though he had given away countless millions, Jones considered his brain to be his primary asset: he was fond of saying that "intellectual capital will always trump financial capital." He had already given large sums to his alma mater, and he told Sullivan that he and his wife had an exciting new idea: endowing a center for yoga.
"I thought, Oh, man, people are going to be very cynical about this," recalls Bob Sweeney, UVA's fund-raising chief. So Sullivan convened a dinner at her home with professors of religion, medicine and other disciplines. "I said, 'O.K., let us think about it a little bit,' " she said. "We began talking about, wait a minute, it's not just yoga." The group swiftly produced a proposal for a multidisciplinary Contemplative Sciences Center, which was vetted by Jones's paid yoga consultant. In April, Sullivan announced the $15 million gift, one of the largest of her tenure.
Despite this and other successes, though, Sullivan was not considered an inspirational figure. "This is not a president," says one professor, "who was hired for the vision thing." Unlike her predecessors, Sullivan had no talent for Jeffersonian oration; she spoke the dry language of nonprofit administration. The budgetary reform dragged, in part because Sullivan hired a provost and a chief operating officer who couldn't get along. Despite meeting after meeting, it was unclear whether Sullivan's process was leading to a resolution. Sullivan has called herself an "incrementalist," but even some supporters wondered whether her talk of consensus masked a deeper dysfunction.
"You get the buy-in from stakeholders before you move forward," Sullivan says in her defense. "When I came here, I was warned that this was an institution steeped in tradition. People love the tradition, and they would not react well to sudden change."
A higher authority, though, was beginning to lose patience.
The Board of Visitors is an archaic body, a vestige of Jefferson's original conception of his university as an "academical village," governing itself without executive authority. It was not until the early 20th century that the university bowed to practicality and hired a president. Though the board's influence over the school has waned since then, a seat on it remains one of the most prestigious gifts a governor can bestow on a Virginian. Democrats and Republicans alike tend to allot the seats to major campaign contributors.
The board that was judging Sullivan's performance included lawyers, developers, a coal-mining executive and a beer distributor, but no voting member had an education background. Because of rapid turnover in the wake of the election of Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican, it included only four members of the search committee that picked Sullivan two years before. One of them was Helen Dragas, but she seemed less than enthusiastic about the choice. "Helen's comments indicated that she somehow had it in her mind that Terry was more of an administrator than a leader," says Austin Ligon, a businessman who was on the search committee.
"I gave her my vote of confidence at her election, and worked diligently to support both her presidency and the mission of the institution," Dragas told me by phone in late August. "There just came a time when the two objectives seemed contradictory, and I acted in the best interests of the students." Sharp-featured and intense, Dragas holds a bachelor's degree and an M.B.A. from UVA. Her own business experience is in the Virginia Beach real estate firm founded by her father, George, a hard-driving child of Greek immigrants. By all accounts, Dragas inherited much from her father, who himself headed the board of a university, Old Dominion, some two decades earlier. "If a president can't do it," he once said, "we either have to work with him — or replace him."
Helen Dragas saw her father put that blunt philosophy to work, when he hired James Koch as Old Dominion's president. "I followed an individual who was fired using very much the same model that occurred at UVA," Koch, who is now retired, told me. Koch went on to a successful tenure, becoming a national authority on presidential leadership, and he says he discussed the dispute over Sullivan's resignation with several UVA board members, including Dragas. "They looked around and they said, 'There's a revolution going on in higher education,' " Koch says. "They thought that the people in Charlottesville were not responding."
What had the board so worried? In late May, as she prepared to remove Sullivan, Dragas e-mailed a board colleague a link to a Wall Street Journal column, beneath the subject line: "Why we can't afford to wait." The article described a joint venture that offers free, open online courses. In the last year, Harvard, Stanford, M.I.T. and other elite schools have moved aggressively into this arena, drawing significant global audiences, if no actual revenue. While many veteran professors roll their eyes at predictions that online learning will transform the structure of universities, to certain segments of the donor community — the Wall Street and Aspen Institute types — higher education looks like another hidebound industry awaiting creative destruction. "If you're not talking about it," says Jeffrey Walker, a UVA fund-raiser and a former JPMorgan financier, "what's wrong with you?"
This discussion has been influenced by the ideas of Clayton M. Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor and guru of "disruptive innovation," the concept that established companies are often overtaken by upstart competitors because they are incapable of embracing new technologies. In his book "The Innovative University," Christensen argues that higher education could go the way of America's steel industry. Dragas told me she found Christensen's ideas extremely compelling.
"Higher education is one of the last sectors of the economy to undergo this kind of systemic restructuring," Dragas says. She and other board members emphasized, however, that online education was merely a proxy for a deeper concern about the pace of change in higher education. Dragas was equally worried about the hospital, which was competing for market share and facing changes in financing, and a decline in federal research funding. Some board members wanted Sullivan to reallocate resources from marginal to core needs, and while they weren't sure how to achieve that shift, they wanted to hear exciting ideas from the president. Sullivan didn't seem to be willing — or perhaps able — to provide them. Sullivan contends she was given contradictory instructions by Wynne, the rector who hired her, and later by Dragas. Was she supposed to be implementing the many plans the university had devised over the years, or coming up with new ones? Sullivan worked to strengthen her strategic thinking with a pair of business professors, but her dutiful efforts left some board members unimpressed. "She seemed, in a word, plodding," R. J. Kirk, a pharmaceutical billionaire and board member, told me.
Some of Sullivan's allies suggest, discreetly, that she didn't fit the board's image of a chief executive. She is in her 60s and has the fashion sense of an academic. In a personnel review process last year, Dragas, who is immaculately tailored, told Sullivan that she received comments from several board colleagues, questioning whether her wardrobe was occasionally too informal.
"I don't know what the unprofessional dress was," Sullivan said. "I do live here at the university, so when I'm working out or doing something else here, people will see me." It's hard to imagine anyone leveling such criticism at, say, the famously rumpled former Harvard president Larry Summers. "People are very much aware that I'm the first woman president of Virginia," she said. "It would be naïve to think it's not there as an issue." Dragas calls the suggestion that she judged Sullivan by her appearance "ridiculous," adding, "If the president had been a man, I would have conveyed the same sentiments from the board, no question about it."
Sullivan declined to discuss her relationship with Dragas, other than to say that she felt it was "cordial, respectful," until the moment it fell apart. The president was at times visibly frustrated in her interactions with the board. To a degree that administrators find remarkable, Dragas and other board members intervened in UVA's day-to-day management, questioning everything from the cost of historic building renovations to the offering of a course entitled "GaGa for Gaga: Sex, Gender and Identity."
Sometime last fall, Dragas asked Sullivan to prepare a written strategy for the university. "I'm growing increasingly nervous that others are thinking about big trends and long- term prospects for higher education delivery and funding," Dragas wrote in April to the vice rector, Mark Kington, a hedge-fund manager. Sullivan's response was disappointing. Brief and written in a transparently grudging tone, Sullivan's memo warned that "we are not as excellent as our rankings imply" but offered little in the way of a coherent approach to the university's problems.
In mid-May, Dragas received a warning from yet another quarter — a letter signed by about 450 faculty members. It complained that, after years without raises, Virginia's faculty salaries — around $141,000 for full professors — were lagging far behind competitors'. "What was once worry about getting through economic hard times is now crystallizing into hopelessness, cynicism, resentment and anger," the letter stated, demanding "urgent and immediate action." Dragas says the letter read "like a desperate reach around the administration, and a cry to the board for help, and also a concrete plan."
It was around this time that she began gathering support for Sullivan's ouster. Virginia law requires any meeting of more than two board members to be publicly announced. Dragas lobbied board members in one-on-one phone calls, a tactic that critics suggest she used to avoid scrutiny. She also briefed Governor McDonnell. (The governor's office declined to make him available for an interview.) While many, including McDonnell, have since denied participation in the decision, at the time they said nothing that dissuaded Dragas from acting. The rector says she won the backing from 15 of the board's 16 members.
In her back-channel conversations, Dragas also approached some key donors and alumni, including Paul Tudor Jones. Dragas told Jones that UVA needed strategic thinking, and she discussed a position for him advising the board. She disclosed that Sullivan might be on her way out, and Jones — who had some leverage as the donor of Sullivan's largest gift — raised no objection. After thinking about the board position for a week, though, Jones decided he had too many other philanthropic commitments and recommended his neighbor in Greenwich, Conn., Peter Kiernan.
"I knew, but I wasn't involved," Kiernan told me recently. A silver haired ex-Goldman Sachs banker and a fund-raiser for UVA's business school, he suggested to Dragas that he could help the university in devising big-picture priorities, its "20-, 30-, 40-year bets." They discussed raising hundreds of millions of dollars for faculty salaries. "Mission first," Kiernan told me. "That's the way strategic planning ought to be."
Kiernan said it was "absurd" to suggest, as some protesters later did, that Sullivan's removal was a Wall Street conspiracy. "This notion that one or two or three donors could get together and topple a president," he said, "forget whether it's possible; it's not even smart." But some Sullivan supporters see a more subtle chain of causality. Ligon, a former board member and a successful entrepreneur himself — he was a founder of CarMax, a used-car chain — said he thought the board members had fallen under the influence of high-finance mentality. "Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit," he told me. "When you're talking about a well-established university with a strong reputation that is trying to enhance that reputation, that's not how the game is played."
Sullivan's opponents on the board, by contrast, saw themselves in a courageous light. "The easiest thing for us to do as a board would have been to punt," Kington told me. "It's a larger issue that we're dealing with as a society: Do you advance into the field and meet challenges, or wait for them to find you?" They looked at Sullivan, with her talk of "buy-in" and "stakeholders," and saw a bureaucrat captive to an entrenched faculty.
On June 5, Dragas e-mailed her colleagues a "timely article," the text of a graduation address on "failure and rescue" by the physician and writer Atul Gawande. Several replied with praise for Dragas's leadership. Kirk wrote, "The time in which we could be deferential toward an administration that is mostly bent on the preservation of the status quo is at an end."
"Thanks for your encouragement," Dragas wrote back. "I expect to be bullet-ridden by Sunday."
Dragas appears to have presumed that opposition would be fleeting. On June 8, she and Kington arrived on campus for a meeting with Sullivan and asked for her resignation, offering a generous settlement package. Sullivan agonized for a day, signed the papers, and the announcement was issued. Dragas began the process of looking for a new president. "We want this to be a liberating process," she wrote John Simon, the university provost, the day after the resignation was announced, "so that you can act decisively on academic matters."
The university, however, declined to greet Sullivan's enemies as liberators. In response to an initial fusillade of criticism, Dragas brought up the letter on faculty pay, raising the prospect of increased salaries once the university recruited "a stellar new president." Paul Tudor Jones jumped into the fray, writing a column for a Charlottesville newspaper in which he called Sullivan's departure "a clarion call from the Board of Visitors that business as usual is not acceptable anymore. Why be good when there is outstanding to be had?"
Dragas, though, had badly misjudged the faculty. While they love to complain about their salaries, academics typically place a higher value on less quantifiable benefits, like academic freedom and the job security of the tenure system. Though they harbored no great love for Sullivan, she was still one of their own. When a financier like Jones urged them to be "elated" about the change, it only fed paranoia about the creeping influence of wealthy donors. Shortly after Sullivan's removal, Peter Kiernan sent a mass e-mail disclosing that he had been consulted ahead of time and assuring the university that Dragas and Kington — both business-school alums — would be proceeding "with a focus on strategic dynamism."
"I think that was the catalyst for real outrage," Robert Fatton, a comparative government professor, says of Kiernan's e-mail. On June 18, Sullivan gave what was intended as a farewell speech to the board, criticizing "corporate-style, top-down leadership" as a crowd of thousands gathered on the lawn to protest.
"This board comes predominantly from the corporate sector, and they were not used to dealing with people who have academic tenure and can say whatever they want," James Koch told me. "They are used to being able to fire people who do that."
Sullivan's supporters established a "war room" on campus, where they organized a counterattack, focusing on influential alumni and wavering board members. The key mobilizer was Wynne, the rector who hired Sullivan. Though he no longer held any office, he still had deep connections within the university and in Virginia politics and media. "I was unaware that when he gave me the key to the Rotunda, he kept a figurative duplicate for himself," says Dragas, who says she saw herself as the target of a group led by Wynne that was resistant to her attempts to address the university's long-term challenges. "It mutated into a real struggle over who controlled the university." (Wynne declined to comment.)
Dragas's actions suggest that she originally saw the resistance as a public-relations problem. After the resignation, the board retained a high-priced communications firm to handle damage control, but Dragas issued only vague statements. The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources, reported that the board thought Sullivan "lacked the mettle" to make difficult cuts, like the elimination of the classics and German departments. Sullivan told me no such actions were ever discussed, but the story further fired up her supporters.
Governor McDonnell was on a trade mission to Europe at the time of Sullivan's ouster, which allowed him to distance himself, but as the turmoil went on, he called on the board to resolve the issue or resign en masse. By this time, many of Dragas's allies had deserted her. Sullivan was reinstated by a unanimous vote on June 26 and appeared on the steps of the Rotunda to address cheering supporters with an obligatory quote from Jefferson: "It is pleasant for those who have just escaped threatened shipwreck to hail one another when landed in unexpected safety."
In the weeks since, Dragas and Sullivan issued a joint statement declaring themselves "unequivocally united in the belief that the institution's future is brighter than ever," but their reconciliation has been chilly at best. Sullivan's partisans have advanced plenty of theories about hidden motivations behind her ouster, like Republican suspicion of the university's climate-science program. But in recent weeks, many of them have begun to consider the possibility that there was actually no vast conspiracy, just a small circle of meddlers with a naïve faith in the capacities of heroic leadership. "No one wants to believe," the media-studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan says, "that Dragas was both sincere and incompetent."
At the height of the outcry, Dragas was flooded with angry e-mail — "Resign witch!" read one message — and she contemplated stepping down. But she held on, and Governor McDonnell recently shocked many by reappointing her to another four years on the board, though she will serve less than one more year as rector. "I am a very tenacious person," Dragas told me. "Mr. Jefferson said it best: 'In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.' "
Though Dragas has given perfunctory apologies to Sullivan, she has told others that she feels her warnings of an existential crisis will be vindicated. The president is just as unwavering in her convictions. "Being an incrementalist," Sullivan declared in June, "does not mean that I lack vision." Though she is proceeding with online courses — soon after her reinstatement, the university announced a partnership with Coursera, a for-profit online initiative — she is doing it her way: deliberately. "I think it is important to emphasize," she told me, "that they are experiments." When I asked Sullivan how she intended to handle her relationship with Dragas and the board, she responded with just one word: "Carefully."
In mid-August, Sullivan met her chastened opponents for the first time since her reinstatement, at an annual board retreat in Richmond. Terry MacTaggart, a retired university chancellor, was brought in to act as a sort of marriage counselor, conducting seminars on communication. "Let me just acknowledge one thing," MacTaggart said. "This is an awkward environment." MacTaggart's efforts were hampered by the presence of reporters and news cameras. Dragas spoke rarely, her face fixed in a thoughtful rictus, as MacTaggart scribbled bullet points on an easel.
After Sullivan's reinstatement, Dragas complimented her on the speeches she gave during the crisis — Sullivan was a leader, after all — and many board members expressed the hope that the president had emerged in a strong-enough position to tackle contentious issues like tying faculty compensation to performance. Unintentionally, the board transformed Sullivan into the thing it coveted all along: a national star. Larry Sabato, who has pictures of the protests in his living room, says, "She has the potential to be a transformational figure if she chooses — and the board lets her."
For now, at least publicly, no one is standing in her way. On the second day of the retreat, Sullivan gave a confident speech outlining her agenda for the university. "We are not in any financial crisis," she said, in implicit rebuke, making note of the school's pristine bond rating. She discussed the budget, tuition increases, costs at the hospital, the shaky future of federal aid and Coursera. "We have the opportunity," Sullivan told the board, "to combine the best of a liberal-arts college with the resources of a research university." When the president was finished, Dragas called for questions. None of the board members ventured to open their mouths.


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The Fort Worth Zoo is announcing the birth of another baby at the zoo -- this time a female jaguar cub named Sasha.
Sasha, born July 16, is the sixth jaguar cub born at the zoo since 2001. At birth, she weighed 2 pounds and immediately began nursing and bonding with her mother, 4-year-old Xochi, zoo officials said in a news release.
Xochi and Sasha lived in a private area away from the exhibit for the first few weeks of the cubs life. She has now grown to a size of nearly 14 lbs and can be seen exploring her habitat, the exhibit in the Brush Country area of Texas Wild!
The latest news from around North Texas.
The Fort Worth Zoo participates in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Jaguar Species Survival Plan (SSP). Sasha will stay with her mother at the Fort Worth Zoo until she is about 2 years old, after which she'll be moved to another AZA zoo to "maintain genetic diversity within the species."
"The Fort Worth Zoo has had a very successful history breeding jaguars," said Ron Surratt, Fort Worth Zoo director of animal collections. "Our participation in the Jaguar SSP has helped ensure guests will be able to enjoy jaguars for years to come as we continue to contribute to the survival of the species."
Sasha is the eighth jaguar born in an AZA zoo born this year.
The jaguar, according to the Fort Worth Zoo, "is the largest cat in the Western Hemisphere (third largest in the world behind lions and tigers) and represents the only "big cat" found in the New World. The jaguar is historically native to the southern United States. Due to habitat alteration, the jaguar can now be found from the U.S./Mexico border south into Central America."
The latest birth announcement highlights the busy summer at the zoo, where two other births of Asian elephants, Bowie and his aunt Belle, were born Aug. 5 and July 7, respectively.
Not to be outdone, the Dallas Zoo has also welcomed a couple of new additions this year including two cheetah cubs and an incredibly rare ocelot.


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Casey Kotchman in Puerto Rico
For those looking to follow Casey Kotchman's exploits in Puerto Rico, the official web site for the league is www.hitboricua.com. Casey is with
Arecibo. According to the stats link for Arecibo (under "ESTADISTICAS", click on "
Arecibo"), he's 1 for 7 with a walk in his first two games.
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Acknowledgements: big thank you to a lot of members on another forum: RKG, 50BMG, Slowdive and EddieCoyle on awesome insight and ideas for this little adventure, also to (<>) crew.
greeting comrades. Some time ago, never mind how long, I came across problem of slugging many barrels of most glorious Mosin rifle. It is true that you should slug your Mosin barrel as many vary anywhere mostly from .310 to .315. Thus, selecting ammo to fit rifle will provide you with accuracy. Sniper rifles were selected for two parameter: one is how straight the bore was, the other was how close it was to factory ammo (since no sniper ammo existed during WWII)
Before you hunt me down and cut my hands off, keep in mind:
1. These are not ... some of ... my barrels
2. I did not mutilate these most glorious rifles made in defense of motherland
3. They will all be restored to most awesome glory and fire many cartridge of ammo in future!
Anyway, many barrels, very long time to slug all. Thus I made this machine and call it "Slug-o-Tron" Basically, this machine could slug a barrel in 15 sec and provide more information on which I elaborate later.
Here is my original setup, it is a 110V wench that drags steel cable with slug attached to it.
To make slugs, I cut up a bunch of #8 bolts. You can probably make that from a threaded rod, but at my HD the rod was as expensive and I need to have good threads one end.
Before casting, I screw the threaded piece into a 1/4 brass rod:
The mold body is made from scrap aluminum and three drill bits. I drill 1/4 hole all the way through. Then start with 5/16 and round leading edges on another to finish drilling:
The brass plug is inserted into mold like this:
and we are almost ready


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Disney's Encore! Cast and Choir is at it again, and this time it's to benefit the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts (now under construction — and isn't it great to be able to say that?).
Every year the Disney cast members who make up the Encore! Cast and Choir perform a concert to benefit a local nonprofit. This year it's the Dr. Phillips Center, and the concerts at Disney's Hollywood Studios begin this Friday night. Tickets are $20-$30, and you don't have to pay theme-park admission to see the show. Here are all the details:


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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 120928 - http://bit.ly/V9dIOs yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD
[RT] Guerillas on London Transport - http://bit.ly/NVHAwA many of these are utterly brilliant (v @Thayer @Rchards)#tube
US Copyright Office Seeking Comments On Resale Royalties For Visual Artists - http://bit.ly/SLcg5K 'cos world needs more monopolies
Bürgerdialog – Was fällt dem Netz für die Politik ein? - http://bit.ly/TQsHPz last chance to give your thoughts here
Joint statement from Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia UK -http://bit.ly/UWHrvz getting to grips with things #wikipedia
[RT] Why Everyone Should Care About #DRM's Punishment Of The Visually Impaired - http://bit.ly/OtUXpb this time, it's personal #copyright
#Crowdsourcing #Climate Science - http://onforb.es/VYe61V "analyze past hurricane photos (over 300,000) in a series of controlled questions"
Court: Motorola can't enforce injunction against Microsoft -http://cnet.co/UWIDz1 I look forward to german courts blocking US injunctions...
Do Bad Things Happen When Works Enter The Public Domain? The Data Says... No - http://bit.ly/QBxOj3 yay for #PD
Government support of #opensource falls short - http://bit.ly/VYeSfh deal with those #swpats, please
Bündnis gegen Kinderpornografie im Internet: MOGiS erklärt Austritt aus White IT - http://bit.ly/SqKOsD now this is interesting
Are These The Drones We're Looking For? - http://bit.ly/Ssz0BI the coming#opensource #drone revolution
One month to Droidcon London - http://bit.ly/PMq5Ns a possible date for your diary #android
Hobbyists Embrace #OpenSource Concept For #Drones - http://rww.to/PyRdi5everybody's doing it
Official complaint made re. inaccuracies in #Transparency Register -http://bit.ly/UWKsfo needs sorting
Nokia Looks Cheap As Asha Handsets Help Retain Emerging Markets Foothold - http://onforb.es/UWMnR2 battling against #android here, too
Geheimes Gutachten zu Open Source auch in Freiburg - http://bit.ly/SqM7I4something to hide, perchance? #opensource #transparency
ISPs and Tracking Company Ready to Start Six-Strikes Anti-Piracy Scheme -http://bit.ly/QneYct VPN cos. chortle with glee
The Flipside Of BitTorrent - Why Many Musicians Still Hate It -http://rww.to/UWNlwS worth reading
Business hires of former government employees as #lobbyists -http://bit.ly/NTGX6L truly appalling figures
Hi tech shock absorber legs for multicopeters - http://bit.ly/R1Qo1D lovely#maker moment #drones
X-plane Developer Sued By Patent Troll; Ponders Shuttering Business Or Defending - http://bit.ly/R1Vr2c patents promoting innovation again
Composer Thomas Adès: 'Wagner is a fungus' - http://bit.ly/SqSlrt fab composer; slightly odd interview...
Towards #Transparency - http://bit.ly/V9TYKP kudos: #stripe partners with#chillingeffects; others might like to follow (v @dozykraut)
Kofi Annan: Tony #Blair could ultimately have stopped #Iraq war -http://bit.ly/SVCM7g "What went wrong? What changed him?"
#Chevron Targeting Private Email Accounts of 101 People Linked To #EcuadorEnvironmental Case - http://bit.ly/P24yDA evil much? (v @rmack)
I inherited a da Vinci - http://bit.ly/Sr9Wzv lovely story... #art
Fukushima Reactor 4 poses massive global risk - http://bit.ly/PAmbX6 great example of how corporate stupidity could harm us... (v @techsoc)


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California's electorate is going through a huge transformation. Some people are focusing on the electoral system changes that will be installed in 2012, principally the new open primary and independent redistricting processes.
But the most significant change may be the fastest growing set of voters who participate in that system - Latinos.
Two facts make the Latino vote a powerful voice which many still do not understand. First, their numbers. California Latinos comprised 22 percent of the vote and 38 percent of the population in the Nov. 2 election.
Compare these numbers with 1978, when Latinos accounted for only 8 percent of the vote and 19 percent of the population. Slowly but surely, the percentage of the Latino vote is catching up with their percent of the population.
Second, their partisan disposition. According to two exit polls from the last election, somewhere between 64 and 80 percent of Latinos voted for Democrat Jerry Brown over Republican Meg Whitman. Of all the ethnic groups in California, only African-Americans were more loyal to the Democrats, but their numbers pale to the number of Latinos in the state.
This information is critical for both the Republican and Democratic parties. The more that Republicans are unable to attract growing numbers of Latinos, the more that they will have to rely upon shrinking numbers of non-Hispanic White voters, who were 65 percent of the turnout in 2010 compared with 70 percent six years ago. On the other hand, Democrats can not afford to take the Latino vote for granted, lest they bolt to Republicans over policy differences.
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Just ask Gray Davis who won sizable Latino majorities in 1998 and 2002. Yet, after Davis repeatedly refused to sign bills allowing illegal immigrants to apply for driver's licenses, Latinos broke nearly fifty-fifty on the recall. Policies matter.
Over the next few months, the state's leaders will make important decisions on the deficit and budget. All kinds of groups--business, seniors, labor, environmentalists, to name a few--will weigh in on issues ranging from taxation to public education and a panoply of social welfare programs. But few groups will carry the voting clout of the Latino bloc.
That's a new reality in California that public officials dare not ignore.


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Photo: Sunni protesters in Iraq. Source: Associated Press/Hadi Mizban.
Iraq is once again on the edge. Relations between the central government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government in Northern Iraq continue to deteriorate. Last month, President of Iraqi Kurdistan Massoud Barzani personally visited Kirkuk, a contested and oil-rich city that could be the major battlefield in a future war between the two sides.
While talk of war has quieted down in the past week, it is inevitable as neither side is willing to sacrifice its own interests for the greater good of Iraq. The reality on the ground cannot be hidden any longer. Iraq as a unified country is done.
What is interesting is that Turkey is aligning itself with the Barzani government in its confrontation with Baghdad. It is a marriage of convenience, as explained by Prime Minister of KRG Nechirvan Barzani in an interview with Time magazine in December, saying:
Turkey needs something that it doesn't have. We need certain things that we don't have. This has been the proper understanding on both sides. And it doesn't have anything to do with politics. It's an economic matter.The Turkish state is also a major ally of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Their nasty work in Syria could be a precursor to what they have prepared for Iraq. Turkish and Arab Gulf leaders, encouraged by the United States, are desperate to create Sunni-Shiite divisions in both countries in an effort to bring down Assad and Nouri al-Maliki, who has served as Iraq's Prime Minister since May 2006.
Many members of the "Free Syrian Army" came from Iraq, where they orchestrated car bombings and other terrorist acts to weaken the country and keep it in a state of perpetual chaos. Now, having improved their craft in the previously peaceful towns of Syria, this merry band of terrorists could be headed back to Iraq to wage a new Jihad for the benefit of their financiers in the Arab Gulf kingdoms.
Iraq is experiencing new turmoil, and the popular anger is being directed not just at the top but across sectarian lines. Thousands of Sunni protesters harbor anti-Shiite feelings because they are being told by their leaders that Sunnis are being treated like second class citizens under the current government and that al-Maliki is a dictator and a sectarian ruler. It is not true, from what I can tell, but these people don't care about the truth, they want to create chaos in the country. The truth is being sacrificed by the instigators of the protests to fulfill a greater agenda: the destruction of Iraq.
Prime Minister al-Maliki said in a recent interview with Al Jazeera that the protesters have voiced their demands and should end their activities. "Do not tell me it is a national issue, because it is clear that it is a rotten one, it has rotten slogans and is accompanied by rotten practices," al-Maliki said.
But it is unlikely that the protesters and their leaders will listen to al-Maliki. Also, this new uprising is no longer comprised of mainly dissatisfied Sunnis, as it was when it began. On Tuesday, January 1st, in a bold and brilliant political move, Iraq's Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr joined the anti-Maliki protests. It is now a popular movement for change.
"The Iraqi spring is coming," declared al-Sadr. He also said, "As long as the demonstrations are peaceful and don't seek to dismantle Iraq ... we are with the protests, and Parliament should be with them, not against them. The demands of demonstrators are legitimate and popular, so they should be met."
This wise act by al-Sadr was done to diffuse Shiite-Sunni tensions and change the sectarian-driven political conversation. It poured cold water on the anti-Shiite rhetoric that has been used with criminal intent to fire up Sunni protesters and encourage them to do violence against the government.
In light of al-Sadr statements, Sunni leaders cannot rightfully claim that al-Maliki is a dictator who only represents the Shiite constituency since the most popular leader of the Shiite street has put his weight behind the protests. Neither sect is being represented well. The problems are bad management of financial resources, abuse of public trust, and prime ministerial corruption, not repression of minorities and sectarian rule.
Will these problems be fixed, or will Iraq experience an Arab Spring in the South, and a new war in the North?


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"There's a real challenge in the catalysis and conversion process that we face, which is that nature and evolution have already fashioned far better catalysts than we could create on our own—namely enzymes," said materials scientist Christopher Marshall, who leads the Institute for Atom-Efficient Chemical Transformations (IACT) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. "In order to aid the transition away from a petroleum-based economy, we have to take our cues from the catalysts that have existed for millions of years."
Using actual biological enzymes would not be a workable solution, since enzymes work too slowly to be effective. For the purposes of converting biomass to biofuels, researchers need to synthesize biologically-inspired inorganic catalysts that balance the need for molecular specificity and high reaction rates.
"When it comes to catalyst discovery, everything's based around a particular set of trade-offs," Marshall said.
Potential catalysts for biofuel production have traditionally come from the precious metals and their elemental cousins. According to Marshall, scientists have found an increasing spectrum of applications first for platinum, and then for a platinum-molybdenum hybrid. "Slightly different chemistries can produce dramatically different results both in terms of efficiencies and specificities," he said. "We're really just trying to fashion the best molecular jigsaw pieces we can to fit this larger puzzle."
IACT was founded in 2009 as part of the DOE's effort to establish a set of several dozen Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) around the country that would contain five-year interdisciplinary programs focused around discrete scientific challenges. As part of the overall effort to transform the energy economy, Argonne also leads research into improved lithium-ion battery technology and new photovoltaic devices that can better capture solar energy.
Converting biomass to biofuels requires the use of a great deal of hydrogen, an element that Marshall said can be hard to manufacture. "The current methods of getting the hydrogen we need to do the conversion require the input of just as much energy as we'd get out of the fuels we'd be trying to create," he said. "In order to really get biofuels to take off, we first have to tackle the problem of where we're going to get all the hydrogen we need."
Because hydrogen is contained within the carbohydrate backbone of plant matter, ideally scientists hope to find a self-sustaining process in which the hydrogen needed for the conversion of biomass to biofuels can be extracted from the biomass itself. To do so requires the development of robust inorganic materials based on nanotechnology that can improve the multistep process of going from woodchipper to gas tank.
Researchers who collaborate in the IACT come from a variety of different technical backgrounds, including materials design, synthesis and characterization, theoretical chemistry and computational studies. "By combining all of these approaches, we hope to gain an understanding of how these key reactions work and how we can optimize the effectiveness of these catalysts both in terms of their selectivity and their rate of reaction. We want to use these catalysts as scalpels, not chainsaws," Marshall said.


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- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 3 teaspoons butter
- 2 green onions, chopped
- 1/2 red bell pepper, cut into slivers
- 1 garlic clove, chopped
- 1 pound Yukon Gold potatoes, thinly sliced
- 6 eggs
- 3 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1 pinch dried thyme and oregano
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 1/4 cup Gruyère cheese
- Preheat oven to 400F.
- Place olive oil and butter in a heavy ovenproof skillet (or a well-seasoned iron skillet). Heat over medium heat until butter melts. Add green onions, bell pepper and garlic; sauté about 3 minutes. Scatter potatoes over all. Cover and cook until potatoes are fork-tender, 10 to 12 minutes.
- Whisk together eggs, cream, thyme, oregano, salt and pepper. When potatoes are tender, pour egg mixture evenly over top of potatoes. Jiggle pan slightly to make sure eggs run down between potatoes.
- Sprinkle cheese evenly over top of eggs. Place pan in oven and bake 8 to 10 minutes, until eggs are soft-set and cheese is melted. Remove from oven. Let stand about 3 minutes. Cut into wedges and serve with slices of crusty buttered bread and jam. Serves 6.
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The Padres have Carlos Quentin "on their list of possibilities" for an offseason trade, reports Bill Center of the San Diego Union-Tribune. It seems like a good match, given that the White Sox are thought to have Quentin on the market and the Padres are looking for a corner outfielder. Center mentions elsewhere in his chat with readers that given the Padres' difficulty in luring free agent hitters to Petco Park, a trade would be the club's best chance to add that desired corner outfield help.
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What is the most concise (yet descriptive) way of naming a subclass that only add a specific minor thing to the parent? I encountered this case a lot in WPF, where sometime I have to add a small functionality to an out-of-the-box control for specific cases.
Example: TreeView doesn't change the SelectedItem on right-click, but I have to make one that does in my application.
Some possible names are
TreeViewThatChangesSelectedItemOnRightClick(way too wordy and maybe difficult to read because there is so many words concantenated together)
TreeView_SelectedItemChangesOnRightClick(slightly more readable, but still too wordy and the underscore also breaks the normal convention for class names)
TreeViewThatChangesSIOnRC(non-obvious acronym),
ExtendedTreeView(more concise, but doesn't describe what it is doing. Besides, I already found a class called this in the library, that I don't want to use/modify in my application).
MyTreeView, etc. (doesn't describe what it is doing).
It seems that I can't find a name which sounds right. What do you do in situation like this?


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Hi I am desperately seeking some assistance with this cartoon. Can someone assist me with this very minor translation. I can across this image and I am dying to know what it means. Thanks.
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Discuss the Chinese language.
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LAPD to scrutinize officers' finances
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The city's Police Commission has proposed having officers who handle cash, drugs and other contraband to turn in reports about their income and debts to ensure they are not involved in any illegal conduct.
The plan would cover about 600 officers working primarily in anti-gang and narcotics units, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. It would give officers a two-year grace period before having to disclose their finances, including stocks, real estate holdings and debts.
The five-member panel is scheduled to vote on the proposal Thursday at a special meeting. Commission President Anthony Pacheco declined to comment further on the proposal.
Officers oppose the idea — one of the main reasons why it hasn't been implemented under a federal consent decree that has attempted to reform the Police Department following the Rampart scandal in the 1990s.
While federal agencies require similar disclosures for some of their agents, LAPD union officials said they were unaware of any other police department in the country adopting a policy similar to the one being considered by the commission.
Union officials added that a blanket requirement for all officers in the units would do little to combat corruption and would invade their privacy.
"It is a final piece of the puzzle that we have not yet implemented. We need to move forward on this issue if we are ever going to be in compliance" with the decree, said Assistant Chief Sharon Papa.
Papa wouldn't say whether Chief William Bratton, who is on vacation, backed the proposal. But last year Bratton sided with officers, saying financial disclosures were an "incredible burden."
"The formula to prevent corruption is simple — robust supervision, recruiting and retaining honest cops," Tim Sands, president of the officers' union, wrote in a statement. "We need to have a strong recruiting program that attracts the best officer candidates and not one that requires those officers to have to choose to subject themselves to personal financial risks."
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Sit comfortably in an upright position. Place your hands in front of you, about 12 inches away from your chest. Touch the fingertips of your right hand to the corresponding fingertips of your left hand. Keeping all your fingertips touching, spread out your hands and fingers as far as they can comfortably go. You'll feel a stretch in your hands and between your fingers. Relax and close your fingers together. Repeat, spreading out your hands and fingers as far as they can comfortably go. Relax and close your fingers together.


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At The Underground, Avery goes into the back and comes face-to-face with Dylan. She drops what she's holding and sags against the doorjamb. She gasps, "Is this real?" He assures her it is. She says they told her he died. He knows, and says it's a long story. Meanwhile, Nikki arrives at the club and greets Victoria. Neil and Leslie enter. Leslie makes a beeline for Tyler and tells him Wheeler recognized her at Jabot. Nick goes to the back and sees that Mac met his girlfriend, Avery. He asks Avery to join Vikki and his mother. Mac tells Nick he can stay. Avery and Nick walk away.
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Avery reels after seeing Dylan, Lauren and Michael argue, and Leslie is worried.
At home, Lauren and Michael debate about Jamie's accusation that Fen pushed him off the roof. They begin to argue about what Fen is capable of, and Michael says he saw him lose his temper with Summer - he thought he was going to hit her. Michael's worried he's like him. Lauren says Fen's not capable of being like that, and says if he thinks Fen is, she doesn't even know him anymore! Later, Fen comes home and Michael brings up Jamie possibly pressing charges. Fen treats it like a joke and then asks if Michael would put him in jail. Michael asks if he did it. Fen says he'd only believe Jamie anyway. He taunts Michael about going to prison for trying to rape someone. Michael tells Fen he knows nothing about what it took to change. He admits he's scared for Fen. Fen is appalled. "You think I'm like you." Lauren listens as Michael says he'd do anything he could to make sure that didn't happen.
Back behind the bar at The Underground, Mac makes an excuse to Noah about his prior emergency. Nearby, Tyler tells Leslie about Avery's appeal. Nick and Avery join Tyler, but Avery walks away. Nick follows. "What's wrong?" She pretends she's fine. Nick joins Nikki and Vikki. Nikki apologizes for Victor not showing, and tells them the wedding's postponed. Mac finds Avery in the back and tells her he knows it's confusing, but he came back for her. Leslie interrupts. Mac tries to get Avery to leave with him. She says later he can explain - she has to go back in. She rejoins Nick, and Noah tells Mac he saw him talking to Avery. Mac covers. Meanwhile, Leslie asks Avery about her case, but Avery won't talk. Neil and Leslie head out. She tells him she has to stop by the office. At the bar, Mac tells Avery it seemed like a good way to tell her he was alive. Mac asks her to meet him at the motel, but she can't tonight. She shows him their rock and cries. After, Nick says she's pale and takes her home.
At the penthouse, Victor's frustrated that his investigator hasn't found something incriminating on Marcus Wheeler yet. He's interested to hear he met with Avery at home. Victor wants the court transcripts and to find out if Wheeler wants something kept hidden. Once alone, Victor does an online search on Wheeler. The ad for The Underground opening pops up. Nikki arrives and says she stopped by Nick's nightclub, it was spectacular. He asks about her trip to Chicago. She says the hospital wanted her input on a charity event. Victor doesn't want to postpone the wedding - he wants to get the judge there tonight. Nikki persuades him to wait until the new ranch is built. Nikki goes upstairs and Vikki stops in. She lectures Victor about accepting Nick's new venture. Vikki says Adam and Sharon were at the opening. Vikki mocks Adam, but Victor points out that he was the one who wrested control from Jack. Vikki vows to put him out. Victor is pleased. Later, Nikki plays piano and seems to have issues with her hands.
At Jabot, Leslie tells Tyler that Avery couldn't get away from her fast enough. Tyler wonders if she knows who they are. They worry about 'him' getting out of prison.
At Avery's place, Nick knows something is wrong. She begs off, saying she's tired and unwell. Avery tells him it was an amazing night she'll never forget. He goes and she gasps, paces, and sobs.
Dylan places the rock into his drawer at the motel.
Genoa City Spoilers for Tomorrow on The Young and the Restless:
Cane says to Lily, "Poor Tyler. The player's got a crush on the gorgeous girl at work."
Alex says to Noah, "They care about the money. You know who else does? Guys who really don't know how to play nice."
Avery tells Dylan, "You don't get to hold me and talk to me like this." He asks, "How else should I talk to you when I'm in love with you?"
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Make a cube out of straws and have a go at this practical
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The Cubs look for their fifth straight victory tonight in Houston as they continue their late season surge to distance themselves from the number one pick. I'm just kidding, the Cubs are playing better as of late and it's always nice to see winning baseball. The result however is they will not get the number one pick, that belongs to Houston, they deserve it, yikes. Justin Germano takes the ball tonight, here is how the Cubs will line up behind him.
1. DeJesus – CF
2. Valbuena – 3B
3. Rizzo – 1B
4. Soriano – LF
5. Castro – SS
6. Clevenger – C
7. LaHair – RF
8. Cardenas – 2B
9. Germano – P
Thanks for reading, go Cubs!
– George


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Jones rider Julien 'Pica' Herry and his riding partner Davide Capozzi have had an incredible spring in the Alps. These two bad ass snowboard alpinists laid tracks down six serious lines in the past two months - four first descents, one first snowboard descent and one second snowboard descent!
Here's thoughts from Julien about riding steep new lines and details on all his recent alpine adventures:
First Descent by Julien Herry, Davide Capozzi and Francesco Civra Dano
It was not a great season for steep riding in the Mont Blanc area this year so it forced me to go and look for good snow a bit farther from home. I really enjoyed discovering new places with new lines to ride. An e-mail from my Swiss friend Manu, with a picture showing the West face of the Matterhorn took me to Zermatt. The obvious line starting from 3900 meters at the Dents de Zmutt seemed to be in good condition so we raced a weather window to give it a try.
Julien in his element on the Matterhorn. Photo - Davide Capozzi
We used the lifts up to Schwarzsee and after a short run down, put skins on and hiked up the long valley, meeting many groups finishing the Haute Route. We had to cross two big bergschrunds to climb the couloir. The pitch was quiet sustained, between 45 and 50 degrees, and we climbed it fast on hard snow. We stopped 20 meters under the Zmutt ridge because of a steep rockband. The snow was a bit hard on the first part but slowly got better and softened while going down this long wild toboggan run. Two short rappels got us over the bergschrunds safely and around 4 pm we were back on the flat glacier. It seems surprising that nobody skied this line before with this short and easy access, nevertheless local Swiss and Italian skiers had never heard about any previous descent. Anyway first descent or not, it was a pleasure to ride this 800 meter line on such a mythical mountain.
4/11/2014 - Tersiva - North East Face
Second Descent by Julien Herry and Davide Capozzi
The NE face of Tersiva is an impressive sight from the Aosta Valley in Italy. It was surfed and skied for the first time in June 2013 by two Piedmonte locals. A 15km approach and 2200 meters of climbing brought us to the 3517m summit in seven hours. We were very tired dropping in but happy to find good snow. The start is very steep for about 150 meters then mellows out on to a large ramp before one or two technical passages down low. We found almost perfect conditions all the way to the valley but returning to the car at the bottom was super physical and the most tiring part of the day.
Julien ripping the NE face of Tersiva in perfect alpine pow. Photo - Davide Capozzi
Davide Capozzi and I know each other really well now and usually have the same motivations. I keep an eye on the conditions on the French side of the Mont Blanc and Davide is an expert of the Italian side. Davide has a lot of free time in the winter and is always ready to go and check the conditions by himself and bring back precious pictures of different faces. He has been the principal motivator for the descents we made this winter and he is happy with me leading the technical climbing parts. Thank you Davide for the amazing company on this line. It was an another amazing Italian adventure!
Julien and Davide below the Matterhorn. Photo - Francesco Civra Dano
4/9/2014 - Aiguille de Talèfre - SE Ridge
First descent by Julien Herry, Davide Capozzi and Francesco Civra Dano
The SE face of Aiguille de Talefre is located above the Triolet glacier, in front of the Dalmazzi mountain hut. This area is rarely visited in the winter because of the long approach. We climbed the face on a windy day just after a little snowfall and had to deal with a few spindrifts on the lower part. Then the climb got easier and safer on the ridge with an amazing view of the North faces of the Greuvetta and Grandes Jorasses.
Julien ascending the SE ridge.
A first descent is like resolving a problem, finding the best way and the right conditions to ride the line. Sometimes it comes easily - you see a line and ski it in the following hours or days. Sometimes it takes years and many attempts. Other times it doesn't work out but all those hours spent dreaming about a line are some of the most exciting of the season. The best thing about a first descent is that you're sure to be alone in your run. This is quite a luxury with the new internet generation. No matter where you go, once you make tracks, people will follow you.
Davide negotiates a steep crux on the SE ridge. Photo - Julien Herry
Unfortunately the last section to the summit was a bit dry so we decided to start from a shoulder on the summit ridge. It was time to go down before it gets to warm. After the first technical ridge, the slope got wider but the snow was sliding in large thin slabs which became big avalanches at the bottom of the face. It was not that dangerous for us but it left a very hard layer to ride on. The snow got softer on the lower, steeper part and we were happy to be back on the flat glacier by midday. The line was about 600 meters long and between 35 and 45 degrees, with a few steeper steps.
3/31/2014 - Grivola - SE Face. Nera Grivola - East Face
Second Descent (First Snowboard Descent) of Grivola SE Face and First Descent of East Face of Nera Grivola by Julien Herry, Luca Rolli and Davide Capozzi.
Grivola is one of the most beautiful mountains in the Gran Paradiso massif. When Davide showed me a picture of the SE face a few weeks ago the project started to germinate in our heads. We started the climb at 3:15 am from the refuge Vittorio Sella. The line had pretty good snow despite a hard bottom. The 360 degree unobstructed view from the top was magnificent. We thought about Remy Lecluse who had completed the first descent of this face as his final descent into the beautiful Alps before dying in the Himalayas.
Julien takes over the lead. Photo - Davide Capozzi
The Carbon Solution works great for touring on hard snow and is really light on your back when climbing. And most importantly, it rides really well on the way down. It is super efficient on hard snow which is enjoyable in the steep couloirs but also on any terrain. But you must stay awake, it is a very responsive board.
Julien drops into the face of Grivola riding the Carbon Solution. Photo - Davide Capozzi
We quickly descended the first third of the face in cold snow that was rather easy to surf. A steep crossing on hard snow accessed the second part of the face. The snow stayed hard and the outlet channel was steep forcing us to side slip a bit. We rested for awhile at the bottom of the line and then skinned up to the top of the Nera Grivola. We expected a nice little descent of the East face (400m 40/45 degrees) but it was not so easy. Thankfully the amazing hut keeper was watching us make the descent and had cold beers waiting for us when we arrived!
3/19/2014 - Les Apôtres - NE Face - Voie Scirocco
First Descent by Julien Herry and Davide Capozzi
Davide and I left Lillaz village at 3am to start the long skin up to the NE face of Les Apôtres. We got to the bottom of the face at the first light of day and started climbing the virgin face we had seen in a friends picture who had been there two days before. The first half was not too steep, 40 to 45 degrees, but the top part was much steeper and exposed. The snow was good but pretty shallow and rocky so dropping in we made our turns carefully.
Davide races the sun. Photo - Julien Herry
Riding full speed on big wide slopes is not my favorite style of riding. I much prefer doing slalom runs in the trees or short turns on a steep terrain. When you climb and then ride a long technical line you enjoy every step on the way up and every turn on the way down. It also keeps you occupied all day in a place that you love, far from the busy resorts.
The snow was deeper on the lower part of the line so we moved fast before the snow got too warm. We called this first descent Scirocco because of the sandy yellow snow we could see everywhere.
Check out more insane Alps trip reports from Julien at www.picaguide.com and from Davide at www.snowhow.it


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Today, all current and former NFL players received an email from NFLPA President Kevin Mawae, planning a day of solidarity on social networking sites tomorrow. @drMLKjr would be proud.
Dear NFL Player:
I want to make you aware of a very important online movement happening Tuesday, January 18th that requires your participation. Active and former NFL players across the league and your fans are participating in a #LETUSPLAY Day, which YOU need to be a part of. It will be an opportunity for players, past and present, to stand together with fans to help prevent the NFL Lockout. Here's how you can help:
· Donate your Facebook status by posting: "Today is LET US PLAY Day. Help NFL Players and Fans Block the Lockout. Visit NFLLockout.com and sign the Petition."
· Tweet the following: "Today is #LETUSPLAY Day. Help #NFL Players & Fans #BlocktheLockout. Visit NFLLockout.com and sign the Petition."
· Post about www.NFLLockout.com on your personal website and ask people to sign the Petition to Block the Lockout.
In addition, please be sure to follow these social media profiles:
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Thanks so much for your help.
Kevin Mawae
NFLPA President


text: Convertible notebooks are cool, but the hinge designs that allow you to flip or rotate into tablet mode always seem to be a bit of a sticking point. Asus has a solution: slap a secondary display onto the back of the primary one.From the keyboard side, the Taichi looks like a pretty standard laptop. It's got a 13.3-inch Super IPS+ display with a native resolution of 1920×1080 which is topped by a webcam, a generous trackpad, and a chicklet-style keyboard complete with the updated, angular Windows logo key. Asus is packing in Intel's Ivy Bridge Core i7 processors, 4GB of RAM, speedy SSDs for internal storage, USB 3.0 ports, and micro DVI and mini VGA outputs.Close the lid of the Asus Taichi and you can fire up Windows 8 in Metro mode on the 13.3-inch tablet display on the back side. It offers the same resolution, and a second webcam is provided so that you can still make Skype video calls without having to revert to notebook mode.Asus is also preparing an 11.6-inch model of the Taichi, and you're not going to sacrifice screen real estate if you go with the more diminutive version. Both of its panels offer 1920×1080 pixels, too.Asus says that despite cramming in two displays the Taichi weighs no more than the Asus Zenbook, which weighs about three pounds. That's great for a laptop, but a three-pound tablet isn't going to be ideal for extended periods of handheld use. It's an intriguing design, however… Now we just need to wait for Asus to announce pricing for the two Taichi notebooks to see if their versatility is going to come at a steep premium.More at Engadget


text: Segovia is an extremely picturesque city. I really couldn't stop taking shots while we were there, and have so many great images that we had to split it up into two posts. Enjoy this second glance of the wonderful city an hour north of Madrid. Our first post on Segovia can be found here.


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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) Stephon Carter had 20 points to lead all five Cal State Bakersfield starters scoring in double figures in an 85-52 victory against UTSA on Saturday night.
In a matchup of Roadrunners, Javonte Maynor scored 17 points, Brandon Barnes 13 and Tyrone White and Adam Young 11 each for Cal State Bakersfield (2-5), which relied heavily on its first five. Maynor and White played 30 minutes, Barnes, Young and Carter 28.
Kannon Burrage scored 18 points for UTSA (3-4), which was plagued my mistakes en route to a 54-23 deficit at intermission. In the first half, UTSA shot 37.5 percent (6 of 16) from the floor - including stretches of 4:10 and 4:15 without scoring - and committed 20 turnovers, which Cal State Bakersfield turned into 27 points.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The federal government asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to decide whether Hobby Lobby and a Christian bookstore chain have to provide a wide range of birth control options for workers as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
The 251-page appeal was filed Thursday by U.S. Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli and other government attorneys.
The Oklahoma businesses have operated under a court order that allows them to avoid fines while they challenge a portion of the new law requiring them to provide the coverage.
Company attorneys object to offering such plans based on religious grounds.
U.S. District Judge Joe Heaton in July granted the Hobby Lobby craft store chain and Mardel Christian bookstore, its sister company, a temporary exemption from a requirement that it provide insurance coverage for morning-after pills, similar emergency birth control methods and intrauterine devices.
Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services filed a notice in federal court this week saying it would appeal, and Heaton had given the government an Oct. 1 deadline.
Lawyers for the companies' owners, the Green family, say following all provisions of PPACA would either violate their religious beliefs or cost them millions of dollars in fines. The Green family believes life begins at conception; emergency birth control methods and the IUD prevent fertilized eggs from implantation. The company's insurance plans do offer 16 other forms of birth control mentioned in the federal health care act.
Heaton last November rejected the companies' request to block the birth-control mandate. He reconsidered his decision after the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the companies were likely to prevail in the case. Heaton ruled in June that the company would not be subject to fines of up to $1.3 million a day for not offering the birth control methods.
A competing case, from the 3rd Circuit, is also at the Supreme Court. That one involves a company called Conestoga Wood, owned by a Mennonite family, and the appeals court in that case ruled the opposite way.
Kyle Duncan, Hobby Lobby's lead attorney, has argued that requiring the company to comply with the mandate would be a burden to religious exercise. A DHS lawyer, Michelle Bennett, said an injunction could create a burden for Hobby Lobby's 13,000 employees and members of their families who would be denied coverage for the emergency contraceptives.
Duncan said Thursday he'll respond to the government's petition within a month.
"Hobby Lobby believes this is an extraordinarily important issue and that the Supreme Court should decide it," he said in a brief phone interview late Thursday.
When he handed down his ruling in July, Heaton said he was surprised 10th Circuit seemed to extend a person's constitutional religious exercise rights to a business but said the injunction should be granted in the public interest so courts could resolve "substantial unanswered questions."
The government filed its notice Tuesday.
See also:
- Appeals court finds for-profit employers lack religious rights
- Judge grants injunction in PPACA benefits mandate case
- Court rules Hobby Lobby can challenge PPACA


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Video: Aviv Eveguy's Dimona will show at Maholohet on August 4
Yes, I know, I already posted one article about Maholohet (SummerDance). But some people might need a reminder that there's still one month left of nearly nightly performances at Suzanne Dellal, and perhaps those of you who are abroad would like to hear a bit more about this Israeli summer tradition.
Although I was lucky enough to see many of the festival's offerings earlier this season, several of this summer's works were new (or new to me), and so in July I found myself walking over to Suzanne Dellal a few times a week. One of the standouts so far was Yoram Karmi and Uri Morag's Man, Woman, Reflections, with its brilliant use of swinging lamps, illuminating projections, and clever choreography involving innovative sets. The two-part Under by Matanicola and Yasmeen Godder also delivered a punch with its intense atmosphere and powerful performances. And just this week, Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak's Rushes caught my eye with images that were simple, striking, and sustained for just the right amount of time.
Even if you've missed these concerts, there's still plenty to come! Read on to see what else will heat up the stage this summer – all of the works I've mentioned below will be performed during August.
The article below was first published as "Some Summer Spice" in the Jerusalem Post on July 12, 2009.
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Some Summer Spice
Even the numbers of the Suzanne Dellal Center's SummerDance Festival are impressive: eight weeks of concerts, 76 performances, 11 premieres and one group of special guests from abroad. But what's behind the statistics – an exceptionally diverse assortment of dance – is even more extraordinary.
SummerDance 2009 (Maholohet, a play on the phrase "hot dance" in Hebrew) has showcased the wealth of Israeli concert dance since its inception 13 years ago. What started as a three-week festival gradually expanded, and now, with the Suzanne Dellal Center celebrating its 20th anniversary, SummerDance is having its hottest season yet.


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White Sox - 100 000 000 - 1 4 0 Red Sox - 103 402 00x - 10 14 0
Cody Ross (3-for-5) hit two three-run home runs - in consecutive innings - and Adrian Gonzalez (3-for-4) drove in Boston's remaining four runs. Jacoby Ellsbury also had three hits, and he and Ross each scored three times.
Felix Doubront (6-4-1-3-2, 96) held the White Sox in check and the bullpen - Matt Albers, Mark Melancon, and Andrew Miller - threw three perfect innings of relief.
Ellsbury doubled to begin the first inning and Gonzalez singled him home.
In the third, Ellsbury and Carl Crawford each singled and Ross nailed a dong off the left field pole. With two outs in the fourth, and Pedro Ciriaco and Ellsbury aboard, Ross hit another tater, to left-center. Gonzalez followed that with an opposite field shot of his own.
Evil Bert added a two-run single in the sixth, after Crawford was hit by a pitch and Ross doubled. ... Gonzalez has hit safely in 22 of his last 23 games; the one exception was July 8, when he left the game after one AB with flu-like symptoms.
Ellsbury, CF
Crawford, LF
Ross, RF
Gonzalez, 1B
Middlebrooks, 3B
Gomez, DH
Aviles, SS
Shoppach, C
Ciriaco, 2B


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pay (someone) on the nail
To pay (someone) immediately, on the spot, or without delay. Primarily heard in UK. I could put the bill on my credit card, but if it's all right with you, I'd rather we divvy it up here and pay on the nail. My lodger is a bit of a noisy fellow, but so long as he keeps paying me his rent on the nail, I don't mind.