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The Paleolithic Diet, more often referred to as the Paleo Diet, focuses on lean proteins, vegetables and fruit, and healthy sources of fat, such as nuts, seeds, olive oil, fish, grass-fed and game meat, and avocados. The Paleo Diet omits all added sugars and processed foods high in sugar, starch, sodium, hydrogenated fats, and artificial flavors and colors, as well as all grains and legumes (beans, peas, chickpeas, and lentils). In the words of Robb Wolf, one of the best-known advocates of the Paleo Diet, "if it's not meat, fish, fowl, vegetables, fruits, roots, tubers or nuts…it's a 'no-go.'"
Paleo Diet advocate Dan Pardi has outlined five "versions" of the Paleo Diet, as presented in five popular books:
Best bets: Base your diet around lean meats and fish, and eat plenty of green leafy vegetables and other colorful vegetables and fruit. Add in healthy fats from avocados, nuts, and seeds, and avoid all processed foods and food and beverages with added sugars.
The Paleo Diet was first popularized by Loren Cordain, PhD, a faculty member in the College of Health & Human Sciences at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. His original book, The Paleo Diet, was first published in 2002, and was revised, updated, and republished in 2011. Loren Cordain has published additional Paleo Diet books including a cookbook, and versions of the Paleo diet for weight loss and for athletes. The Paleo Diet surged in popularity when it was joined together with the CrossFit approach to exercise and fitness.
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Black Jews remark may dog Sterling even more
Robin Washington | 4/30/2014, 9:14 a.m.
(CNN) "You go to Israel, the blacks are just treated like dogs," the Guy Who Sounds Like Sterling said on the recording leaked by Somebody Perhaps His Mistress.
Here's the full exchange: The Guy: "It's the world! You go to Israel, the blacks are just treated like dogs." The Mistress: "So do you have to treat them like that, too?" Guy: "The white Jews, there's white Jews and black Jews. Do you understand?" Mistress: "And are the black Jews less than the white Jews?" Guy: "A hundred percent, fifty, a hundred percent."
On the surface, Sterling might have a point --- even if no one can make any sense of where he was going with it --- that dark-skinned Jews have experienced adversity in the Jewish state. But to say ''dogs" isn't quite kosher.
Israel touts with pride successes like Operation Solomon, its airlift of Ethiopian Jews in 1991 --- where in one push, more than 14,000 were transported to Israel over 36 hours --- to escape persecution in a homeland where the religion has been practiced since Biblical times. There's no question that life, especially the fact that they are alive, is better in the Promised Land.
Yet it hasn't been overflowing with milk and honey. Ethiopian Jews are among the poorest Israelis, with 72% living below the poverty line and unemployment affecting as many as six in 10 Ethiopian men and three-quarters of women, according to the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston.
Consider also that many came from villages without electricity or running water, and that 70% were functionally illiterate in their native Amharic and never learned to read or write Hebrew. It's obvious they'd have trouble integrating into an industrialized society.
Frustrations boiled over two years ago in the city of Kiryat Malachi, when thousands demonstrated against discriminatory practices, including apartment owners who refused to rent to Ethiopian Israelis.
That's bad. But dogs?
"That's insane. That's disgusting," said Avishai Mekonen, an Ethiopian Israeli filmmaker living in New York.
"Basically, this man is stupid. He doesn't know any history of African people," said Mekonen, who in his film "400 Miles to Freedom" documented his own harrowing escape from Ethiopia as a child, getting separated from his family and nearly dying in the desert.
The other side of the Ethiopian Jewish story counts successes like members of the Knesset, writers and musicians, and Yityish Aynaw, the current Miss Israel.
While acknowledging that assimilation and rejection are real, Mekonen said: "There's a lot of change from what happened in the '80s. We had the issue of language and communication and culture. They see us as different, but year-by-year, it's improved."
That's because the community isn't just sitting there taking it, he says.
"They don't give up. They're doing something. We have a voice."
If it's necessary to prove Sterling wrong (requisite disclaimer again: assuming it's him), Mekonen's message of empowerment flies in the face of the repeated theme on the tape that the world is racist and there's nothing you can do about it.
"It isn't a question. We don't evaluate what's right and wrong. We live in a society. We live in a culture. We have to live within that culture," the guy in the recording says to sum up his black Jew narrative --- which, by the way, isn't clear about who he's referring to.
"Which people is he talking about when he says 'black Jews?'" asked Mekonen. "That could be people from North Africa, Asia, India, Israeli Arabs"--- all with very different cultures.
Shocking. Can't believe that (a guy that sounds like) Sterling would stereotype them.
Robin Washington is a research scholar for the San Francisco-based think tank Be'chol Lashon and co-founder of the Alliance of Black Jews. He lives in Duluth, Minnesota. He was previously the editor of the Duluth News Tribune. You can follow him on Twitter @robinbirk. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
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Black Cat Bones
Barbed Wire Sandwich
Barbed Wire Sandwich is a heavy blues rock album released by Black Cat Bones in November 1969. The original vinyl version of the album is now highly sought after by collectors of rock and heavy blues music of the late 1960s and 1970s. The right place at the wrong time. That could be the epitaph on the gravestone of Black Cat Bones. Having acted as unofficial house band for a number of visiting US artists during the British Blues Boom of the mid to late Sixties and survived a potentially fatal line-up change into the bargain, they finally made it to vinyl rather late in the day. This, their first and only album, reached the racks in the last months of the Sixties, just as progressive rock was in the ascendancy.
Such imperfect timing may have adversely affected their chances of commercial success and consequently their number of column inches in the history of popular music, but in no way diminishes the excellence of their music.
That Black Cat Bones remains a known name is due to two musicians whose names remain stubbornly absent from the credits. Celebrated guitarist Paul Kossoff would go on to superstar status as a founder member of FREE, but started his musical career in earnest in these ranks. And though neither he nor drummer Simon Kirke appear on the album, Koss's featured replacement Rod Price, a player of no mean ability who would later take his axe-wielding skills to Stateside fame and fortune with Foghat.
Buy lets backtrack now to the events that led up to November 1969, when Barbed Wire Sandwich was released on Decca's progressive Nova lael. Though retaining semi-professional status for some time, Black Cat Bones had enough going for them to catch the eye of legendary Blues producer Mike Vernon. His patronage brought them their first recording session, backing Champion Jack Dupree for a Bue Horizon album, "When You Feel The Feeling You Was Feeling" meanwhile, they made a reputation in their own right touring Germany and Scandinavia. Kossoff and Kirke jumped ship, in 1968 after seeing singer Paul Rodgers fronting the similarly unrecorded Brown Sugar; hence by the time Black Cat Bones entered Tangerine and Decca Studios the following year with recording stardom in mind the existing nucleus of brothers Derek and Stu Brooks on rhythm guitar and bass respectively and vocalist Brian Short had been augmented by Phil Lenoir (drums) and Rod Price (lead guitar).
The album kicks off with Chauffer - a dead ringer in both pace and chord sequence for FREEs Walk in my Shadow from their debut, released moths before. And the well-worn blues metaphor of riding (Free rode ponies, Black Cat Bones a car such is progress)indicates the overtly sexual inclinations both shared. Elsewhere, there's a welcome touch of acousticity (on Four Women) to leaven the mixture - owners of well worn originals will thank heavens for non clicky CD here! but overall, the album very much reflects the electric blues of the stage set, as you'd expect for a band that played live so often.
It was producer David Hitchcock, who later guided the careers of Caravan, Camel, Genesis (circa Foxtrot) and more, to supply the studio expertise they needed to give Barbed Wire Sandwich respect, the band fading in and out around the barrelhouse piano of Robin Sylvester. This would have been impossible live, since the BKB's line up didn't feature keyboards (Sylvester was the sound engineer a Tangerine), so was clearly an attempt to diversify and use the studio to greatest advantage. Steve Milliner lends further ivory-tickling skills to Feelin Good and dont forget, FREE eventually added the keyboard talents of Rabbit Bundrick to give them a route to progress.
Talking of progression, the middle section of Save My Love For You, along with the other dramatic mood and/or tempo changes throughout the album suggest that the growth of progressive rock had not passed them by. Rod Price was quite different in approach to Kossoff, his fast, fluid style contrasting with the howling sustain of his predecessor - but he was clearly no slouch either, as he proved on the final track. The self-penned Good Lookin Woman is the one song on which Price tackled lead vocal. More importantly, its a guitar tour de force, fading out prematurely and leaving the listener wondering exactly what would have happened next.
Leaving the audience wanting more was just one of the lessons learned on the boards, so its hardly surprising that those who saw BKB live retain approving memories. One such spectator was Stuart Booth, now a publisher, who caught a show at Londons Marquee Club as the album was readied for release. 'They were a good live band who missed the boat' he recalls. 'The album came out long after other British blues bands' and sunk without trace, so no-one was interested. I was pleasantly pleased to see people still playing that sort of thing. I though it would all come around again - and, of course, it did.
Many years after witnessing Black Cat Bones at the Marquee, Booth had the pleasure of publishing Blues - Thbe British Connection, a definitive rundown of the scene by one Bob Brunning (to be reissued by Blandford as Blues In Britain: The History 1960s-1990s in February 1995). Brunning, as blues scholars may recall, was the original bass player with Fleetwood Mac, the man who deputised for John McVie until he could secure his release from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.
He enters the Black Cat Bones story, albeit tangentially, at this point - because when the album flopped and the band threatened to fall apart, it was a couple renegades from the Brunning Sunflower Blues Band, Pete French and Mick Halls, who were drafted in to make up the numbers after Price, Short and Lenoir left the ranks. (Short, incidentally, cut a hard to find solo album, Anything For a Laugh, for Transatlantic in 1971). With a new drummer, Black Cat Bones metamorphosed in Leaf Hound, Zeppelin-esque heavy rockers who, like their predecessors, produced one excellent album before disbanding. This was Growers Of Mushroom - and in 1994 it joined Barbed Wire Sandwich in the See For Miles catalogue.
So there endeth the story of Black Cat Bones, a band whose mere footnote in the annals of British rock seems a mite ungenerous, given their musical legacy. Even Bob Brunning only rated them a couple of sentences - but as Barbed Wire Sandwich will hopefully prove, music often speaks louder than words.. Mick St. Michael
Track listing
- "Chauffeur" – 5:15 (Andy Stroud)
- "Death Valley Blues" – 3:52 (Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup)
- "Feelin' Good" – 4:58 (Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse)
- "Please Tell Me Baby" – 3:10 (Harrison D. Nelson Jr)
- "Coming Back" – 2:32 (Rod Price)
- "Save My Love" – 4:50 (Black Cat Bones)
- "Four Women" – 5:09 (Nina Simone)
- "Sylvester's Blues" – 3:45 (Price)
- "Good Lookin' Woman" – 7:16 (Price)


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EMS 1913 Colloquium
The Edinburgh Mathematical Colloquium, organised by the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, began on Monday 4 August 1913 and ran throughout that week. It was held in the Mathematical Department of Edinburgh University.
A picture of the Colloquium is available at THIS LINK.
An account of the colloquium in the Scottish press is given at THIS LINK.
The preliminary anouncement is below:
A picture of the Colloquium is available at THIS LINK.
An account of the colloquium in the Scottish press is given at THIS LINK.
The preliminary anouncement is below:
Under the auspices of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, a Mathematical Colloquium was held in the Mathematical Department of Edinburgh University during the week beginning Monday, 4th August, 1913, lasting five days. The following courses were arranged for:
- A Course of Five Lectures by A W Conway, Esq., M.A., D.Sc., Professor of Mathematical Physics, University College, Dublin, on The Theory of Relativity and the New Physical Ideas of Space and Time.
- A Course of Five Lectures by D M Y Sommerville, Esq., M.A., D.Sc., Lecturer in Mathematics in the University of St Andrews, on Non-Euclidean Geometry and the Foundations of Geometry.
- A Course of Five Lectures and Demonstrations by E T Whittaker, Esq., Sc.D., F.R.S., Professor of Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh, on Practical Harmonic Analysis and Periodogram Analysis; an Illustration of Mathematical Laboratory Practice.
No preliminary knowledge was required for this Course beyond an acquaintance with trigonometry. The methods were applied to analyse data derived from physical, meteorological, and astronomical observations.
A report on the Colloquium, written by C G Knott appeared in The Mathematical Gazette later in 1913. The full reference is C G Knott, The Edinburgh Mathematical Colloquium, The Mathematical Gazette 7 (107) (October 1913), 165-167. We give a version of Knott's report below:
The first Mathematical Colloquium held in Edinburgh met during the first week of August, and proved a great success. It was organised by the office-bearers of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, A G Burgess, M.A., F.R.S.E., and Peter Comrie, M.A., B.Sc., F.R.S.E., respectively the President and Secretary of that Society, being also President and Secretary of the Colloquium. The idea of holding such a colloquium was an outcome of Professor Whittaker's announcement that he purposed organising, as part of the Mathematical Honours curriculum in the University of Edinburgh, a mathematical laboratory for systematic numerical discussion of functions and methods of calculation. Several correspondents had expressed the hope that vacation courses in this line of study might be established; and it was decided to make a first experiment. It was resolved, however, not to limit the colloquium to a discussion of one branch of mathematics, but to enlarge its scope by the inclusion of two other domains of mathematical thought. The broad features of the programme we owe to Professor Whittaker; and its variety was such as to appeal to all types of mathematical mind.
By a curious chance the three courses of lectures provided were given respectively by an Englishman, an Irishman, and a Scotchman. Each day at ten o'clock Professor Conway of University College, Dublin, discoursed on the Theory of Relativity and the new Physical Ideas of Space and Time. At 11.30 Professor Whittaker explained practical Harmonic Analysis and Periodogram Analysis; and at two o'clock Dr Sommerville of St Andrews expounded the mysteries of non-Euclidean Geometry and the Foundations of Geometry.
Professor Conway and Dr Sommerville lectured in the Mathematics Classroom of the University; but Professor Whittaker held his séances in the large basement hall, which has recently been fitted up as a mathematical laboratory. This, indeed, was the first occasion on which it had been used. Each student was provided with a specially designed desk, with a convenient book-rest fixed to the back, and with drawers and shelves for storing note-books, scribbling paper, graph paper, and books to aid calculation, such as Barlow's Tables and Crelle's Rechentafeln. At these desks learned professors, lecturers, teachers, and a few students, nearly eighty in all, totted up their columns of figures and drew their periodographs, and were quite elated when their totals came out right. Professor Whittaker chose for his working data the light periods of two variable stars, the one to illustrate the periodogram method of discovering unknown periods, the other to illustrate the analysis into harmonic components of a given periodic variation. The theory of the Fourier analysis was incidentally given and the last lecture finished with an account of Mäder's Harmonic Analyser.
This hour of practical work, combined with demonstrations involving only the familiar circular functions, gave the necessary balance to the weird imaginings of the other two courses. Without it to bring us back to the obvious world of apparent realities we should have been floundering hopelessly in the Absolute or in Minkowski's Welt. After we had been taught that velocities did not compound according to the parallelogram law, it was a positive delight to find that the Fourier series remained ordinarily additive; and with this in possession we had no great difficulty in apprehending the possibility of a space devoid of parallel lines.
One of our number, who hailed from Dundee, had been renewing his acquaintance the preceding evening with Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience." When an exceptionally imaginary theorem was enunciated and proved, he turned round to his friend in the bench behind and whispered, "Yes, it is nonsense but oh! such precious nonsense!"
Newtonian dynamics, we found, was only a first approximation to the dynamics of our visible universe; while the Euclidean space in which this universe was vulgarly believed to move and have its being was a crude assumption from an axiom of ignorance. Again our Dundee professor hit off the situation with the quatrain,
The classic phoenix, sprung from fire,Sandwiched in between these physical and mathematical heresies came the hour of comparative mental rest and the hour of physical recuperation in the luncheon room, and we were saved from unbelief in the realities of life. We learned many things. We were told that even if the theory of relativity were not true it had taught us truths.
Fable no longer dare we scorn;
Euclid and Newton both expire -
Conway and Sommerville are born!
The tendency of modern Physical Theory was in the direction of still further atomising the atom; yet it was necessary in geometry to have an assumption of continuity, so that all possible numbers might be brought into correspondence with an infinitude of points on a finite line. The dictum of the logician that we cannot define by means of a negation seemed to have no terror to the modern geometer with his glib talk of non-Euclidean, non-Pascalian, non-Desarguesian, and even non-Archimedean.
It was indeed a grand week. Each lecturer surpassed himself; and every one of the audience enjoyed himself or herself to the full. Professors and lecturers of world-wide reputation renewed their student days, and sat and took notes with humble zest. Professor Steggall, in moving a vote of thanks to the lecturers and to the organisers of the colloquium, hoped that this experience of taking notes for one brief week would make us feel more sympathetic with the unfortunate students who had to do the same for weeks and months. Under the leadership of the three lecturers we had been seeing visions and dreaming dreams; and he was sure we would all look back upon this colloquium with the keenest delight.
The three hours' hard mathematical thinking was followed every afternoon by suitable recreation. Mr Burgess and Mr Comrie arranged for golfing parties to the principal golf courses in the neighbourhood - Mortonhall, Barnton, and Baberton. On the Wednesday afternoon it was my privilege to lead a party through the beautiful grounds of the new Scottish Zoological Park at Corstorphine. The lions, bears, jackals, monkeys, parrots, antelopes, and the antique-looking gnu were all duly admired or wondered at. A discussion arose as to whether a certain four-footed creature was a camel or a dromedary. The problem was finally solved by the formula, ln = constant, where l is the name-length and n the hump-frequency. A charming hour was spent taking tea on the lawn in front of Corstorphine House, from which was a splendid view of the Pentland Hills. Reminiscences of college days in Cambridge, Dublin, and Edinburgh formed the nucleus of a varied gossip, which had usually a certain mathematical flavour.
On the Thursday afternoon a large party were shown over the statistical department of the Register House by Dr Dunlop, who demonstrated the striking mechanical methods by which groups of statistics could be sifted and arranged in any required combination.
On the Friday, after Dr Sommerville's last lecture, the whole company were entertained to tea in the Reception Room (the Mathematical Library) by the President and Secretary; and thereafter visitations were made to the University Physical Laboratory under the leadership of Dr Carse, and to the Heriot Hospital School, where Mr Gentle and others of the staff showed what is probably the most complete school laboratory for science teaching to be found in Scotland.
In formally closing the colloquium, Mr Burgess attributed the success of the gathering to the untiring labours of the Secretary, Mr Comrie, to the splendid efficiency of the lecturers, and to the good fellowship which had existed. This was the first colloquium; but he hoped it would not be the last. Possibly next year it might be combined with the Napier Tercentenary Celebration.


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(Phoenix, Ariz. – Sept. 21, 2005) Attorney General Terry Goddard today warned Arizona seniors about improper marketing of Part D Medicare Drug Coverage. This prescription drug plan will be added to Medicare coverage beginning in January 2006.
Goddard said some insurance agents who work for Medicare Advantage Plans are actively and aggressively recruiting new members. They are holding out the promise that if people sign up now,they will have prescription drug coverage next year, and if they don't, they will lose their AHCCCS or lose their chance for a drug benefit.
"Don't believe them," Goddard said. "These insurance agents are trying to use fear of losing benefits to sign up new clients. The reality is that enrollment in Part D doesn't begin until November."
Medicare guidelines require providers to hold off marketing their products until October 1, 2005, and not begin enrollment until November 15, 2005.
Goddard offers the following information about Medicare Part D advertising:
- Medicare prescription drug plans will have a "Medicare Approved" seal on their materials.
- People who work for Medicare:
- Cannot come to your home uninvited to sell or endorse any Medicare-related product.
- Cannot enroll you in a drug plan or ask you to pay for a drug plan over the telephone, unless you are adding prescription drug coverage to a current Medicare plan.
- Cannot ask for payment over the Internet. The plan must send you a bill if you enroll over the Web.
If you believe you have been a victim of fraud, please contact the Attorney General's Office in Phoenix at 602.542.5763; in Tucson at 520.628.6504; or outside the Phoenix and Tucson metro areas at 1.800.352.8431. Consumers can also file complaints online by visiting the Attorney General's Web site at www.azag.gov.


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Come to Marblehead for North Pole Idol - a contest to see who has what it takes to win a $500 cash prize with their voice! This live performance competition will take place at
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2012 Finalists Have Been Chosen!
Those listed below will be performing live at North Shore Idol for a chance to win $500 cash:
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CLEVELAND -- The Indians have embraced advanced metrics and have a front office and coaching staff that craves as much information as possible. Data can provide a competitive advantage, and that is made no clearer than through defensive shifts.
Cleveland has implemented shifting based on in-depth charts for several years, joining a growing list of teams that are using the approach more each season. In the dugout, defensive positioning for the outfield is handled by bench coach Brad Mills and infield shifts are in the hands of third-base coach Mike Sarbaugh.
"We are probably a little more aggressive shifting than we have in the past," Indians manager Terry Francona said. "You ask the players to give it their best, to give their all. So we as a staff feel the same way. We need to be prepared and we need to be ready. And there's so much good information now that, if we don't take advantage of it, then I think you're looking at an older manager that's stuck in their ways. That's not good."
A great example of a shift paying off came on the final play of the Indians' 6-4 win over the Blue Jays on Sunday. With the bases loaded, two outs and Edwin Encarnacion facing a full count against Tribe closer John Axford, Sarbaugh had second baseman Jason Kipnis positioned behind second.
With the runners going, Encarnacion ripped a pitch up the middle that might have gone into center field and tied the game under different circumstances. Instead, Kipnis barely had to move as he gloved the ball and fired it to first base for the game-ending out.
"It's just playing to the odds, playing to the percentages of them hitting it there," Kipnis said. "That time, we got fortunate enough where it worked out and worked in our favor. I think a lot of teams have been [doing it], actually. People are seeing the benefits of it."
When a shift works to perfection, Francona said it is reassuring to everyone involved.
"It really helps," Francona said, "because the ones you remember are the [broken-bat hits] that go where somebody wasn't. That's human nature. But, for the very most part, man, the shifting done in the Major Leagues now, it takes hits away. Most teams are doing it."


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Can I do such a think in Windows Forms?
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You will have seen the list sent out by Viv of those standing for re-election for this year's committee. This dosn't mean there are no vacancies for new committee members if they want to join. I am very willing to step aside if anyone else wants to stand, so please don't feel you would be pushing someone out by standing! Go on, you know you want to!!
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Public radio program "This American Life" has issued a retraction for its most popular podcast episode in history, a Mac fanboy and storyteller's investigation inside Apple factories in Shenzhen, China.
Host Ira Glass announced today that Mike Daisey fabricated significant parts of the episode "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory." It aired on January 6 and was downloaded 888,000 times, inspiring a New York Times series with its claims of dangerous working conditions and underage workers at the facilities for Apple supplier Foxconn.
"Daisey lied to me and to This American Life producer Brian Reed during the fact checking we did on the story, before it was broadcast. That doesn't excuse the fact that we never should've put this on the air. In the end, this was our mistake," Glass wrote.
A reporter at a fellow American Public Media program discovered that Daisey's own translator could not corroborate with the story Daisey told, based on his stage show "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," about meeting underage workers outside a factory and showing off his iPad to a man who injured his hand at an iPad factory.
"In our original broadcast, we fact checked all the things that Daisey said about Apple's operations in China," says Glass, "and those parts of his story were true, except for the underage workers, who are rare. We reported that discrepancy in the original show. But with this week's broadcast, we're letting the audience know that too many of the details about the people he says he met are in dispute for us to stand by the story. I suspect that many things that Mike Daisey claims to have experienced personally did not actually happen, but listeners can judge for themselves."
This week's episode will chronicle the retraction with an interview from Daisey about why he misled a journalistic organization with a dramatized "theatrical" account of Apple factory conditions. Rather than coming out on Sunday, it's going up immediately, today… which happens to be the same day as the release of the new iPad.
"It was completely wrong for me to have it on your show," Daisey says to Glass in the interview, "and that's something I deeply regret." He also expressed his regret to "the people who are listening, the audience of This American Life, who know that it is a journalism enterprise, if they feel betrayed."
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Working together with my creative element and missing blog id to post, took me a day extra - is actually the reason to my entry on 23 June. I think, still you can add some more ideas as under, to your list of NSM theme.
This involves a bit of research, an innovation and the key to actually what we do every year. However, here arose a dilemma; I am out with two good themes, actually speaking tagline dedicated to our energy for National Sales Meet.
1. Advance to Pioneer
2. Imagine to Believe
I have taken these two word liner as a suitable tagline to NSM 09-10 theme, with the ease to communicate and grab.
Advance to Pioneer
An idea: Every one of us think to advance further, question comes - How? With all we do and suppose, there needs to be a way out from assumption to success.
We are chasing not only the date to the National Sales Meet 2K09-10; also a day to unite the Pearsonites from every part of
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"Prepare to board the Maddoff?! But I'm a botanist!" cried Earl Grey.
"Not anymore", replied Captain Morse, "you are a pirate. Now do as you are told and prepare to board!"
Earl Grey was scared. No, really scared. It was the type of fear that got hold of you when, after an awfully long time at sea, you started to find the ship's cook attractive. He looked over at Skoob. Christ, how had he come to be so in love with such a specimen? He remembered how they had first met. The 13th Earl Grey had fled the life of a British aristocrat because he had rebelled. Yes, he had passed the port the wrong way! For that he had to leave. Leave the castle. Leave mummy and daddy. And leave Matron.
Normally one would be expected to join the Foreign Legion. But Earl Grey had a letter from Matron that he was allergic to sand. Thus armed, he ventured to Bristol Docks. There he met Hal A. Peno, an accountant. He seemed like a good guy. He told him of the wonderful opportunities on board the luxurious "Buggerall". Impressed, Earl Grey had told the accountant of his love of botany, of how he knew the king and of how he yearned for adventure. For £100 the accountant promised a single berth cabin and a leisurely cruise. That bastard accountant! On boarding "the Buggerall" he had been shocked to find all was not as he had been led to believe. And he could not find the accountant.
It was at this point that the creature now known to him as Skoob had entered. The cook had hit Earl Grey over the head with a rolling pin.
Next thing Earl Grey knew he was far out to sea, and surrounded by as motley a crew as you could ever wish to imagine. There was Captain Morse. A mad, bad leader of men (and women, it should be noted). He had an evil stare, the kind of stare that could rip a man's head off at twenty paces.
Hal A. Peno, the accountant. Well, how many pirate ships had one of those? This accountant clearly hid a dark past. Just look at the way he tapped the figures into his calculator. No. This was no ordinary bean counter. He must be on the run from somewhere. Someone. He constantly twitched and looked over his shoulder. Even this far out to sea.
The brothers. Oh my God, the brothers! Percival and Buck. Now there was a story. Psychotic. Mental. Flatulent. If their blades didn't get you then, by Christ, their smell would. Even onboard a pirate ship with all its crew they could still raise a cry of "Man overboard" as some poor unfortunate jumped ship because of the toxic gas emanating from within their bowels.
Seaman Monkey Woods. The cold stare. The sharp tongue. The heartless villainy. Here was the perfect pirate. If Dr Vic had created such a monster we would have been concerned. But Monkey was not the result of some chemical experiment gone wrong (right?) No. He was natural. And that made him even more of a fiend. They say he had started his piracy on a fishing trawler out of Hull. In the gloom he had raided other ships and stole vast quantities of cod. But he craved more adventure. That was why he was here.
Which brings us on to Dr Vic. Earl Grey had yet to see any evidence that Dr Vic was a bona fide medical practitioner. Indeed when Earl had approached the doctor regarding a minor personality disorder he had been surprised by the suggested cure. Dr Vic had donned a rubber glove, applied some oil and said "Bend over,and I shall have a little examination." This had been the same response that Roy Turse had received when he had complained of toothache. Maybe the good doctor was not all he claimed to be?
Madame Piebottom? Earl Grey was not too sure. He remembers being surprised to hear that there was a stowaway. And that the stowaway was female. On 'the Buggerall"? Was this not a pirate ship? Where all men are men, and some men are botanists? No Earl was really unsure how to react. The only woman he really knew had been Matron. And she was no stowaway.
Able Seaman Roy Turse was an obvious choice for the boarding party. Not because he was particularly nasty (although it could not be discounted) but he was as broad as he was tall. Yes Earl Grey would stand behind him if there was any fighting. With Turse and the flatulent brothers Earl should be safe from harm.
But it was Skoob that Earl was most interested in. The rolling pin wielding cook. At first Earl had resented him, blaming him for getting him on board this bloody vessel. And for his identity crisis-a result of the blow to the head perhaps? But this anger soon subsided. The botanist in Earl Grey could not allow him to hate such a specimen. He had first noticed something interesting one meal time. As Skoob slopped the curious looking substance that passed for dinner on to his plate Earl Grey had noticed his fingernails. "Such fungi" said Earl Grey. "Thanks. Your quite a fun guy also!" said Skoob. Captain Morse had just killed a guy by staring at him for that gag.
"No. Your fingernails. They are magnificent. It's a wonderful example of Absidia. Really fascinating. But I've never seen it on a human before. It's extraordinary" exclaimed the botanist. "That's nothing!. Have a look at this!" and Skoob promptly lowered his pants and showed Earl Grey his Wangiella dermatitidis. It was at that moment that Earl Grey began to feel a strange stirring in his loins. The last time he had felt like this was when Matron had rubbed him with ointment following an accident in the woods. He had been looking for new specimen and had been stung by a bee. Matron was always very thorough. She could teach that Dr Vic a thing or two about applying medicine. Then again, maybe she already had.
No, Earl Grey was disturbed. He knew he could not go back to a life of nobility. He had left it all behind. Just for passing the port the wrong way. On "the Buggerall" you could pass the rum and ale whatever way you wanted. And the brothers certainly did so on a far too regular basis. But Earl Grey was on a voyage of discovery. He was here to find his true self. He had led a far too sheltered life before arriving on "the Buggerall". It was like he had been born again. But. There was this but. He had never doubted who he was before. But others had doubted. This had caused his own identity crisis. And the doctor's 'cure' still caused Earl to remain standing all day. "What am I to do?" asked Earl Grey. "Why are you talking to yourself?" asked Monkey Woods, "don't you know that is a sign of madness?" Earl Grey looked around at the crew. They were all talking to themselves. Yes the whole crew were mad.
"Okay, we need a boarding party. Right, Percival, Buck, Monkey, Skoob and Roy, with me. Dr Vic cover our rear". The last remarks caused groans amongst the crew, who had all had their rear "covered" at some point by the doctor. "Any volunteers to come with us, there will be booty, killing, mayhem and women". "And", thought Earl Grey, "a cook with the most amazing fungi I've ever seen".
The crew buzzed about, preparing for action. Dr Vic went to his surgery to get an extra large bottle of oil. Hal A. Peno prepared himself for the booty count to come. And Skoob rubbed his fungus. There was a battle coming. It was sure to be bloody. It was sure to be brief. But this band of misfits, lunatics, stowaways, and nuts were something to be feared. And Earl Grey was in there with them. Matron would have been so proud.
In all the buzzing about on deck one member of the crew sat and watched, biding his time. Birbee did not like to join in with the others. He was above all that. He was going to take command himself. And his time was now..........


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Also, everybody on the show is wearing the same asymmetrical purple dress and it's super weird. I thought this was another NYU thing but it's not, because Serena is wearing one, and she's now fully made the switch to the Nate Show. After Blair wages serious mental warfare on Vanessa, she gets Dan to uninvite Olivia, then accidentally tells Olivia that he did it because he's embarrassed by her superstar status.
This all comes down the pike because Vanessa's mom -- perfect Gina Torres, from Alias and Firefly -- is twice as Vermontalicious as her daughter, hates NYU for a million reasons including H.R. Dufnstuf, and I guess will only give Vanessa the respeito she desperately needs by seeing her give this speech.
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Blair basically wants it because she is: crazy. Having gotten Duffington Post out of the way via the gaping need Vanessa embodies, she sends Chuck in to secure the lips of the alumni liaison -- not to mention a "Previouslies" quote for future seasons when Chuck finally goes gay ("Did you think I'd never kissed a guy before?") -- but then it turns out because the guy just wanted the kiss for a gay scavenger hunt, which is redundant. However, Chuck's upset because he only likes kissing B.
Duffy the Humphrey Slayer eventually drags Dan to the banquet anyway, just so she can embarrass him in front of Lily and Rufus by acting like a Hollywood jerk. Then V tricks Blair into talking trash over a hidden microphone, embarrassing herself plus everybody else, but especially B for not seeing a total cliché heading straight for her head. Her overheard confession, however, includes the part about lying/pimping out Chuck, which hurts his feelings -- especially poignant once Lily points out that Chuck would get frisky with a dude if Blair asked him to, because he is just that devoted to her, so she shouldn't have lied in the first place.
(Meanwhile, on a different show entirely, everything is crazy: Nate promises to help Serena win Carter back from the Buckleys through poker, and eventually raises the stakes to include a picture of Future Congressman Tripp van der Bilt with a van der bong, but they lose. The reason he's willing to risk so much for a guy who once bet him in a poker game would be more confusing if it weren't Nate. But twist! Come to find out the photo is fake, and the whole thing was a Nate/Grandfather plan to discredit the Buckleys -- meaning S totally got played by Nate! She eventually settles Carter's debts by warning the Buckleys, but too late: Carter throws a fit because he wanted to prove he was a man by settling his own debt, and ends up peacing anyway, dropping a surfeit of smolders on his way out.)
Dan and Shia LaDuff figure out that Vanessa has once again stuck her psycho Navajo jewelry in their relationship, confront her, and before she can cry and lie about it like always, the hits keep on coming: Gina Torres overhears Vanessa talking about what terrible parents she has, and bounces back home on a cloud of self-righteousness and authentic maple syrup. The episode ends with Chuck's trust seriously betrayed, S in tears, Olivia eating Humphrey waffles and Vanessa lonelier than ever, sharing a table at the Bleecker with Blair and watching her not eat a croissant. XOXO.
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Letter from Europe: Here's Looking at You
I am a European Science Professor. Recently I was asked to write letters of recommendation for two aspiring FSPs (FSP1 and FSP2) who both applied to the same tenure-track position at a European university. I know both women well because I have collaborated with both on various research projects. FSP1 just came back from an "informal" seminar she gave at the university, in preparation for the formal interviews that will seal their fate. FSP2 had also visited "informally" a few weeks before.
FSP1 said to me that she felt very good about her visit because there is an excellent academic fit between her field of expertise and where the institution wants to go. Something worried her though. She was told that FSP2, who is also an excellent young scientist, had the preference of a fraction of the (male) faculty because of her looks. FSP1 has never met FSP2 in person and asked me, somewhat nervously, what I think of FSP2's stunning looks. I am not used to taking these criteria into consideration, and the overall story gave me pause. It is bad enough for these men to make comments on FSP2's appearance and use this in a hiring decision, but it is quite incredible to tell FSP1 about it.
This is an extreme situation perhaps, although I don't think it is isolated in our male-dominated fields, but it made me wonder, beyond the fact that the men at this institution are pigs, what is the effect of looks in the hiring process. Here in Europe it is common, and often required, for candidates to include a picture ID in their application file. It is also common, as I did a while ago on a search committee, to hear comments made on the physical appearance of women applicants.
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In my experience at Generic Western State U (GWSU) and then Big Name U (BNU), women professors who receive tenure are always petite, skinny, fashionable, and above average looking, in addition to being absolutely fantastic scientists. The MSPs seem to possess a larger range of looks (ugly to hot), wear unpolished loafers, and be on the ends of weight extremes (too fat or thin) without losing their bids for tenure. Sometimes I wonder if women know that they have to fit some sort of "look" to get hired and then tenure at most universities, and this leads to self-selection of the intelligent and beautiful for tenure-track positions.
However, this is my brief survey of US FSPs. This observation could be a factor of the sample size (5 FSPs out of at least 50 SPs total between GWSU and BNU). Which, of course, goes back to another problem... small percentage of FSPs
Ah yes, the pictures.
I've been on too many search committees, I'm afraid.
Yes, the men *always* make comments on what the women look like, so I have taken, in my cynical style, to making comments on the men. "Gee, he looks hot, let's invite him!" I get nasty comments from the guys, but they don't see that this is somehow related to the comments *they* make. And I have tenure, so I can say what I like.
We had one guy submit a photo of himself in a bathing suit (!!) with a child on one arm (!) and a beachball on the other (!!!!). I tried hard to keep them from inviting this guy for in invitation, but he ended up on the short list. Maybe they liked it that he had a paunch, too?
When the people show up in person for the interviews, it is often disconcerting as the pictures do not actually look like them.
We just had a potential hire turned down because her voice was "too squeaky", although she is a great teacher and a good scientist.
Yes, they use all sorts of irrelevant criteria. That's why I keep being on these committees, to try and knock sense into my colleagues, one by one. My and Sisyphus ...
How long is it going to be before some fucking troglodytic asshole shows up to explain to us that this shit is only natural--the inevitable consequence of human genetics forged in the fires of evolution back in the caveman days--and if men didn't prefer to be around women that are teh hawt, the human race would TOTALLY DIE OFF!!1111!!!1111!11!11!!!!ELEVENTY!1111!!!
When I was doing the interview process to become a US FSP I actually thought that my looks and social skills were a detriment to my getting hired. I was told on more than one occasion that although I interviewed wonderfully, all the faculty liked me, the students loved me, my research ideas were interesting and fundable, I was envisioned to be a great teacher and a wonderful mentor to my future students that I would not be hired because I hadn't convinced a few members of the faculty that my research would bring in heaps of money and I wasn't quite as good at selling it as I should be. Which I understand to a point but so many aspects of being a great researcher/mentor are traits that one can't really learn. And, as going straight from PhD --> Post-doc --> interviewing selling your research isn't something you get heaps of training in. But it is something you can learn, especially in the presence of good mentors. And I think with a great personality and social skills your networking skills will be better.
I was actually told by one of the female faculty at a place I interviewed post-interview that she and her husband did not think the candidate they hired would be as good as I was in all other aspects except the fact that they sold their ideas better. But I guess research is first and foremost.
Back on topic though, I am currently at a EU BNU and although Europe is touted as being more gender equal, I call a huge flaming pile of BS. I'm not surprised at all that a professor would comment on another candidates attractiveness.
- barbara said...
In my (personal and limited) experience, being too goodlooking works against aspiring FSP's. Many established (male) scientists will ignore their talks and discuss their looks, clothes and body features instead. Joint work with male coauthors will often generate bawdy gossip.
Some FSPs in my field are actually beautiful women, but most of them try to deemphasize this with their style choice (no makeup, practical clothing, wide for those with a feminine shape).
FSP1 should not fear - and if any department is really hiring on the base of looks, both FSP1 and FSP2 would be happier out of it.
I am almost speechless about this story. (At first I thought it was going to be some nuance of 'what do you do when you've been asked by two people to write a reference letter for the exact same job' so I did not see this angle coming.)
My own very limited experience (in the dept where I got my MS there were several FP's, but in the department where I did my PhD there were none, and I was the only one in my own department at this institution until just a few months ago - but I know other women FPs in other departments and disciplines) people take the less-stunning FPs more seriously, at least at the outset.
Several bloggers have talked about the tenure process and how the best way to get tenure is to, on top of having done good research and teaching, be liked by the tenured members of the department. Your post doesn't say if the "not-so-good-looking" one is considerably better than the other, but if not together with that I said above, I do not see a big problem. Why can't they have both brains and looks in their department?
I don't think it's as simple as a monotonic correlation between looks and success for women - there's a turnover at some point. In my experience, the most conventionally attractive women often don't get taken seriously as scientists. You know, as if looking good must mean they're ditzes.
I somewhat disagree. My academic career spans 3 BNU, one of them in Canada. In my experience, FSP that are attractive are disadvantaged by their looks. I have gone to the extremes of wearing wide frame glasses and absolutely no makeup, jewelry and very plain clothing that mostly consist of a pair of black slacks and turtle neck…but I am still considered too nice and cute to even be a professor. I did noticed that when a health problem contributed to me gaining weight the reaction I received from colleagues that knew me was very critical (to the point of commenting on my need to exercise more and loose some weight), peers that did not know me in person who would meet me showed me a higher level of attention, and the students called me Professor or Dr more often than Miss. Now that my weight is back to normal, the treatment is back to normal as well, and I have to grin and bare the 'Miss'…
On the other hand my female colleague who is a larger statue woman and has very distinct eastern European features and a wonderful accent seems to fit the professor stereo type quite well; I believe the accent always helps.
- Tom said...
I saw a news broadcast months ago about how good looking individuals, of both genders, are more apt to get hired if all other factors are "considered equal". Though, I'm aghast at the brazenness of the situation that FSP1 has experienced here.
After years of working my butt off to get where I am, I'm not about to rely on the looks I may have, since beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If my wife were doing the hiring, I'd think I'd have a leg up on the competition (I hope!), but we're talking about total strangers.
Almost 24 months ago, I started the application tours from universities to institutions ... anywhere I could get my foot in the door to interview. I tried to make it a point, if it were possible, to get an extra day (preferably prior to my seminar) to allow me to sit with each of the researchers, tour the facility, see the city in the evening. My rationale was simply "If this is going to be a long term marriage, we should get to really know each other, right? Hard to do in one day, better to do it over two or three days if schedules allow."
By going in early, I was afforded the time to understand the positions of each individual I spoke with. Come seminar day, and the eventual peppering with questions, I was able to use that knowledge to frame responses that were applicable to them. To me, that connection proved invaluable. Of the 3 jobs I interviewed for, I was offered all 3. I doubt any of it had to do with looks, but rather with the fact that I took time to meet with them, understand their work ... and show them that by hiring me, I could help them too. I know this to be the case because my coworkers today, when I speak to them about my job candidacy will comment about how I was able to tie in my research (which is a far cry from what everyone else does here) with theirs ... and no other candidate did that.
It's a pity if the final decision in this case boils down to looks.
Grrr! I may have to forward this to the next person who can't understand why I'm not thrilled with their fantastic idea to post pictures of all students, postdocs, and faculty on the department web page. (The issue has come up at least once at each of my past three institutions.)
- Amir said...
I voted yes to both. It's well documented that more attractive people (regardless of gender) tend to be paid more.
From CNN:
"Good-looking, slim, tall people tend to make more money than their plain-Jane counterparts, according to a study released this month by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, with researchers finding that beautiful people tend to earn 5 percent more an hour than their less comely colleagues."
I do, however, think that it is MUCH more overt for women. It's still socially acceptable to discuss a woman's appearance in ways that would never happen for a man.
"Economists also found that women considered obese in terms of their body mass index (BMI) in both 1981 and 1988 earned 17 percent less than women within their recommended BMI range."
It happens in every field. A study called "What to wear today? Effect of doctor's attire on the trust and confidence of patients" found that "The importance of physician's appearance was ranked similarly between male and female respondents (P=.54); however, female physicians' dress appeared to be significantly more important to respondents than male physicians' dress (P <.001)."
There was a reaction piece to the study in the NYT that focused almost exclusively on women doctors' appearance.
I can't believe, in light of all the recent studies done on correlating height and salary, and good looks and promotion, that more people don't think that looks matter for men! Of course they do. It's just more open and may matter more for women.
It should be a practice that we all try to avoid though.
Why do European universities require a photo to accompany the application? I've also seen European CVs which include various personal biographical information. I can't see any legitimate reason why that information is necessary to evaluate a job applicant.
Okay, I have a slightly different take on this. Why is the European Science Professor writing a reference letter for two people for the same job? Apparently both are equally outstanding candidates in every way that matters, right? Wrong?
Appearance is a ridiculous criterion and I share the outrage expressed here. But could it possibly have become an issue because one reference writer spoke glowingly of two people for the same position? Probably best for both candidates to avoid the position. It would not be a good work environment for either.
The last time I saw one reference writer recommend two people, I was thinking, okay, so how am I to judge now. Luckily they were in two different areas and one of the areas seemed like a better match. I wonder if this whole situation could have been avoided.
Just a thought and with apologies for going against the grain here.
I think that being at either end of the distribution of attractiveness is a disadvantage, but much more so for women than for men. I suspect that weight is particularly damaging for women, whereas height has more influence when people are judging men.
As to writing both recommendations, I am currently on a hiring committee that has received two letters from the same person, and we found it very helpful. Both candidates are highly qualified and each would be a good choice, depending on the direction the department wants to go. The writer explicitly compared them in the letters, citing relative strengths and weaknesses, while not definitively endorsing one over the other. This is an approach that was very helpful to the committee. I see no reason a letter writer should try to make the committee's decision for them by refusing to write one of the letters.
Science Cog -- I have no problems writing two letters for the same position. My students are unique individuals, and I do a careful job in explaining their individual strengths. Once an applicant reaches a certain caliber, the decision of who to hire frequently becomes one of "fit" (i.e., who best matches the intellectual direction of the department), and thus my goal as a letter writer is to give the hiring committee enough information to judge that fit. Nothing in the process requires that I make a preselection about the "better" candidate.
As some comments have pointed out, there are data about the effects of appearance on all sorts of judgments, including differential effects for men and women. For example, Heilman & Stopeck (1985) compared how participants explained the success of a hypothetical corporate executive, where the executive was either male or female, and either attractive or less attractive (all other information was kept fixed across conditions). They found (as some have already speculated) that looks helped men but hurt women. In particular, attractive women were less likely to be judged competent and their success was more likely to be attributed to luck. I don't remember the details, but I include the reference below. I suspect many of the same biases play a role in academia, and we also see differential treatment of men's and women's appearance in the media's treatment of Clinton.
Heilman & Stopeck (1985). Attractiveness and corporate success: Different causal attributions for males and females. Journal of applied Psychology. 70: 379-88.
Actually, there have been numerous studies on how looks affect performance evaluation (in the US) and better-looking people are consistently evaluated slightly better for equivalent work. They're also more likely to be hired or promoted, even in jobs such as telemarketing where appearance can have no impact on job performance.
(Sorry if this was a repeat.)
I read once that the number one killer of job prospects was bad teeth. Since then, I've looked around me and haven't seen one visible example of tooth decay or dental problem in a single person in business or academia. Take a walk around a poor neighborhood or farm town sometime. It's shocking the universal difference in "beauty" between these places and the mainstream business/academia world. People have rough, weathered skin. They are missing teeth. Their eyes have cataracts, they limp a little. Most of them are as intelligent as you'll find anywhere, and a large number even have college degrees. Yet, here they are working for minimum wage on a farm somewhere.
The discrimination between two (very likely both good-looking) women in academia pales in comparison with the universal 100% discrimination against people whose teeth or skin aren't up to standards.
That said, discrimination is reprehensible wherever it arises and I hope European universities start getting the message soon.
- Wanna Be Mother said...
This was definitely a jaw-dropping post!
All the comments seem to just reiterate that, yes, prejudice based on looks exists, which I'm sure we all realized. The shocking thing to me is that they are actively participating in this, totally aware that they are judging her based on her looks AND pointing out to FSP1 that she is lacking on that and may not get the job due to it. I'm willing to bet the same thing wouldn't happen for two excellent male candidates. If anyone has experienced this, please correct me.
- Unbalanced Reaction said...
I was quite surprised that the polls only had two choices. Here at LargeU I've seen just the opposite: the pretty female candidates (and grad students, for that matter) are viewed as not as qualified as those not so blessed in the looks department.
- chall said...
Funny enough, I just had a conversation with an old PhDfriend of mine who is currently writing applications for an nonEuropean (non Scandinavian) university. She got a response when sending out a letter for "critique" by a spouse in the country in question. She was ripped apart by the differences in, for example, "not tell anything about your personal life (as we are more use to - like "what I spend my free time doing") and the fact that they did not care about her physical form at all.
In some aspects I have wondered how good it is to fit a photo tpo your application - as I have done in my CV in my native country - and how much it does make prejudice against people. My name is very Scandinavian, not to mention the fact that in the rest of the world I am percived to be male based on it, and I have often wondered about the 'rule' not to write "female" in the CV.
Regarding this issue though, I am more appalled that the Male People arouy in the place" told the _other_ female who applied that the first one was better looking. Seriously? How pathetic.
THen again, I think the "damned if you do, damned if you don't" work very well when hireing women. A too good looking woman, with special attribute as blond curly hair and good looking body will probably not be convincing as "good at her scientific job"... or so I have heard from the hiring processe Ihave been involved in. Both men and women (!) are keen to comment on women physique whereas men can get around lots of things. Being obese though, never think it is good....
Needless to say, I am cynical about the general hireing process. good post though. Neede dto talk about the "reality" of what 'selling our research' really means?!?!
- Unknown said...
I haven't read the other comments yet, but actually, I might think that a woman who looks more like a man is more likely to get hired... At least I have the feeling when there are interviews involving female candidates at our (European) institute, people are more likely to think that a fashionably dressed attractive woman is not serious about her science and won't be taken seriously.
Agree that looks matter for both, but more for women, but being too good-looking can backfire (I tell myself). I actually like the website photos, though, even though I'm not photogenic. But maybe not on the CV. Some engineering journals publish photos at the end of papers, too, not sure why.
My big dilemma when interviewing in my 2nd trimester was whether to dress like I'm 'showing' - was it better to be pregnant (and potentially not thought serious) or be perceived as overweight? I honestly think overweight (which I chose out of privacy) is a bigger detriment...
There was actually an article about this very topic in the New York Times probably about 6 months ago... there is bias toward hiring a good looking person, regardless of the gender of that person... if I recall correctly.
- Ms.PhD said...
I voted that for both men and women, better looks tend to help.
However. I have observed that men who Look Like Professors tend to get jobs (they look like someone smart and trustworthy, but not intimidating, like Tim Russert on Meet the Press).
A recent example from my current lab: of three postdocs who applied for jobs last year, the woman followed her husband and wouldn't have gotten a job otherwise (not for lack of being pretty or talented and accomplished); the balding but fashionable guy went to Europe; the guy who looks most like one of the PIs here (he's like a miniature version both physically and fashion-wise) got the most coveted position of the three.
The few women I see hired are also of the non-threatening variety. Which means they are pretty but not fashionable. In fact the prettiest ones seem to compensate by dressing like men as much as possible. The ones that can manage being fashionable seem to get away with it because they are older or not conventionally pretty at all.
But I have seen very few female hires so it's hard to say much about it.
And you wonder why I'm so cynical about the job market.
I've experienced all kinds of sexism from my advisors so I have every reason to expect more of it. Two harassed me by commenting regularly on my looks. I had by that point already learned to dress conservatively, but then they would comment on my clothes being too boring or on things like how I should wear my hair, what would be prettier, etc.
More recently I have had the exact experience that a couple of your commenters describe, that despite my effort to appear as professional as possible, my physical appearance seems to work against me. It's very clear that I'm not taken as seriously as I would be otherwise (the criticism is exactly what one anonymous commenter mentioned regarding "not selling it" as well as I should.)
Another point not mentioned here is height. I won't hunt for the reference but there were a few studies showing that taller people are viewed as smarter, more trustworthy, more responsible, more respectable, more professional.
I'll probably blog about these other issues on my site so as not to take up any more space here.
Very interesting discussion. Not very cheery, but always nice to know it's not just my imagination.
- Peggy K said...
My impression from my grad school days (so it might be totally off) was that attractiveness was positive, but looking like you spent time working on your appearance - what I would call the "trappings of femininity", like obvious make-up or frilly or trendy clothing - was negative. Is there a perhaps a difference between the US and Europe in how stereotypically feminine a female scientist is expected to appear?


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