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Montgomery Art Guild Museum Exhibition opens Friday, June 12
Juried shows inevitably instigate anxiety among artists. In order to enter, they must select art they hope will resonate with jurors whose taste they do not know. For exhibitions juried from digital images, like the MAG Museum show, artists must photograph their art so that the colors, composition, and textual characteristics are conveyed clearly despite each image being viewed on a computer monitor. Whether the artwork is six inches or six feet tall, durable or ephemeral, the artist has only a digital image or two with which to impress the judge. No wonder that artists complain jurors "just don't get it."
On the other hand, jurors have nothing but that tiny image and the title, date, dimensions, and material on which to base their decisions. Juried shows guard the anonymity of the artist so that decisions are based on the art, not the artist. Most jurors are adept at considering the visual and factual information and then imagining how the art will look in a gallery. Still, they often profess surprise when they see the art in person. "It has a greater presence than I expected." "That frame really enhances the craftsmanship of the relief sculpture." "The digital image did not convey the character of the brushstrokes." Consequently, exhibitions juried from images often ask the juror to award prizes upon inspection of the art in the gallery, as is the case with the MAG Museum show.
Jurors are picked to serve because of their broad experience with art, and perhaps because of their familiarity with the type of art featured in the exhibition (contemporary art in the case of the MAG Museum show), but also because they do not reside in the same community as the artists and thus can bring an independent, and arguably unbiased, eye to the selection process. The juror for this exhibition is Tom Butler, who recently retired from a long career as director of the Columbus (GA) Museum of Art. In his statement for the catalog, he says:
As for my selection process, what were my criteria? …the high quality of the artist's jpgs was critical. Medium, color, scale, texture, and my personal emotional reactions were the essential things I considered…but I also realize that I may have missed some subtleties that are only evident in the actual artwork. However, for four decades I have been looking at slides, transparencies, and now jpgs, so I have come to trust myself in this kind of decision-making process. Whether the work of art selected was based in observations of reality or an abstract composition, the most important factor to me was how honest the artwork was to its own identity.
Butler ultimately selected fewer than a hundred items by 74 artists from the 427 items entered by 127 artists, 38 of whom were first-time entrants. The high percentage of first-time entrants is probably attributable to a new $500 award for first-timers given by the 2014 Junior Executive Board of the Museum in order to encourage emerging artists to participate. It worked. 27 of those first-timers were selected.
That award and 23 others totaling more than $22,000 will be selected by Butler once the art is delivered to the Museum on June 5. Those awards will be announced at the opening reception on Friday, June 12. The party starts at 5:30 with the awards announcement commencing around 6:30.
Once the ceremony is done, listen carefully to the artists in the crowd. Inevitably, from some you'll be sure to hear, "that juror just didn't get it."
Michael W. Panhorst, Ph.D.
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I was taking stock over the weekend, and while I still face a great deal of financial and technical challenges, I realized 2020 is going really really well. I think sometimes we dwell so much on our troubles that we forget to celebrate our wins and achievements. So this year, I am trying to exercise and habit of gratitude and intentionally celebrating even the smallest of wins.
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Consistency is one area that I know I've been failing horribly at, but I'm working on changing this in March. I even did the adult thing and set up a Content Calendar and Schedule ya'll. I'm hoping by using these tools, I will do a better job of bringing you more timely content.
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14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Saturday, January 25, 2014 in Willcox, AZ
Probable Cause Approval Date: 05/21/2014
Aircraft: PIPER PA 18-150, registration: N9683P
Injuries: 2 Uninjured.
NTSB investigators used data provided by various entities, including, but not limited to, the Federal Aviation Administration and/or the operator and did not travel in support of this investigation to prepare this aircraft accident report.
The pilot reported that he and his father had flown to the accident location to camp and hunt. They made three passes over an open area to find a suitable landing spot. The pilot stated that the grass appeared to be knee-to-hip height, but he believed it was safe to land. He set up for landing, and on the landing rollout, about 20-30 knots, the left main landing gear wheel struck an unseen, large embedded boulder that collapsed the left main landing gear. The airplane's wing sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows:
The pilot's decision to land off airport on unsuitable terrain that resulted in a collision with hidden objects.
Pilot John Christopher Smith and his father, Gerald K. Smith, suffered no injuries when their 1975 Piper Super Cub struck a boulder at about 5 p.m. while attempting to land in a field between the Galiuro and Winchester Mountain Ranges northwest of Willcox. John Smith told the Courier the pair had taken off from a Tucson-area airfield and were planing on camping overnight in the wilderness prior to hunting for deer the following day.
John and Gerald Smith are partners at the Smith & Smith law firm in Tucson but are familiar with the area from owning and operating the family's 660-acre Sierra Bonita Vineyards, which is located in Graham County off Ash Creek Road roughly 22 miles northwest of Willcox. The winery released its first wines to the public – 150 cases of Cabernet Sauvignon and 120 cases of Syrah – in January, 2011 after aging the wines in French oak barrels for 18 months.
John Smith, who served nine years as a command pilot in the 144th Airlift Squadron of the Alaska Air National Guard and currently serves as Aircraft Commander of the 161st Air Refueling Wing of the Arizona National Guard, said he has flown the trip from Tucson to his grassy landing strip near the family's vineyards numerous times.
After the crash in the wilderness, the pair hiked for about two hours until setting up camp for the night. The men continued their roughly 15-mile journey to their ranch house the next day, arriving in the early afternoon. Unfortunately, they had lost a key to the house and their cell phone batteries had also run out.
"Our feet are a little tender, but everything is fine," John Smith said.
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GCSO Lt. Jerry Nelson, who also heads the Graham County Search and Rescue Team, headed out toward the area and located John Smith walking on Ash Creek Road about a half-mile west of the intersection with Fort Grant Road. Nelson drove John Smith back to his ranch house, where he and his father eventually obtained keys to a vehicle on site and drove back to Tucson.
"It's too bad the plane got crashed, but we're glad everybody was OK," Nelson said.
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Recent documentary flicks paint the advent and advancement of folk-rock in America as quasi-mythical events. And why not, there's a heap of holy happenstance at the root of a movement in American popular music that got going because of a continuing—though sometimes unconscious—
Both Echo In The Canyon and Scorcese's recent look at Bob Dylan and company in Rolling Thunder Revue locate the ultimate essence of the movement—and also the place where it bore the most fruit—as California.
The list of bands and musicians who were ultimately influenced and so absorbed into an ongoing, growing, mutating and evolving genre—now mostly placed loosely though affirmatively under the banner of a thing called Americana or roots music—is amazingly lengthy. Along the way, this particularly American interpretation of popular music has been diverted, detoured and deconstructed through several decades of growth.
Through this complex process, the plaintive power and intimate sensibility of the genre continues to manifest through many of its original practitioners. A classic example of this propensity can be witnessed in the work of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, an outfit that came straight outta Long Beach, Calif. in 1966, right after The Byrds and Dylan electrified the folk scene.
Weekly Alibi had the opportunity to chat with founding member Jeff Hanna ahead of the band's headlining appearance at Albuquerque's official Fourth of July celebration. Of course we talked folk-rock; what else is there these days?
Weekly Alibi: Hey Jeff, where are you all at these days?
Jeff Hanna: We're up in Canada. We've been on the road for a week. We've got our last Canadian show tonight [June 27]. Then we're driving down into Montana tomorrow. And then over to Deadwood, South Dakota.
I bet it's beautiful up North this summer, eh?
It is really gorgeous. About 70 degrees, really nice. How you doing down there in Albuquerque?
It's been a cool summer, cooler than in years past. It should be great weather for your gig on the Fourth.
We're looking forward to it. We haven't played Albuquerque in a couple of years. New Mexico has always been a great market for us. You know we all lived in Colorado for a while. We're kinda scattered now, but we were there for somewhere between 15 and 20 years.
Folk-rock and Americana are huge right now. I've read critics who say your work was essential to the evolution of the genre in the 1970s. Discuss.
I'm glad to hear you say that. I appreciate that. It's good that we did something.
Is it okay if I list those things?
There's a Grammy for best country instrumental. And a version of Jerry Jeff Walker's "Mr. Bojangles" that people will recall for centuries. You guys even backed Steve Martin for his huge hit, "King Tut." How'd you get so funky?
It was fun.
What are your favorite recollections from a storied career making American music?
That's a hard question because there are lot of different sections after 53 years of doing this. Picking one moment is like picking a specific grain of sand on the beach. I'm really in love with what we're doing right now. We're having a great time, we have a couple of new guys in the band who are just killer musicians—my son Jaime on guitars and vocals and and our buddy Ross Holmes, who plays fiddle and mandolin, came over from Mumford & Sons.
Wow, I can dig that!
He had been playing with Bruce Hornsby.
Do those additions really broaden your sonic palette?
It does. Both of those guys are young guys, and it's nice to have that energy around. They're not senior citizens like me and Jimmie [Fadden] and Bob [Carpenter]. That energy is contagious, we all have a better time.
How do you feel knowing that here in the middle of the 21st century, folk-rock, Americana, whatever you call it, is still huge in this nation of restless listeners?
It's great—an honor. Our plan is to never stop doing this.
How would you describe what you do to someone who doesn't know where Laurel Canyon is or who Jackson Browne or Bernie Leadon are?
There's so many elements that go into the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Everything from bluegrass and folk to Cajun music to early rock and roll. And like I said earlier, that California-flavored folk-rock.
Like the golden age of rock in America?
Yeah, yeah, yeah!


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Today I'd like to talk in more detail about certain crosses in life that are real, but that are not always recognized or visible. Number one is the cross of the violated trust--on the part of a parent, a family member, a teacher, a bishop, a stake presidency member, a boyfriend, a classmate, a returned missionary, a girlfriend, and so on. Some of us let an act of mistrust on the part of someone close to us shatter our today's and tomorrows. A friend of mine said, "When my endowed father left Mom for a scheming secretary, it was more than I could bear." She was bitter. This cross was causing her to crumble. She had never looked upon it as a cross, but it was a cross of hatred and resentment: "I can't believe my father would let us down! What is the use?"
Can even these hidden crosses be carried for future strength instead of causing us to fall and not get back up? "Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more" (D&C 58:42). Sometimes it is easier for the Lord not to remember our sins than it is for us. They become crosses because we will not do ourselves the favor of carrying on. "By this ye may know if a man repenteth of his sins--behold, he will confess them and forsake them" (D&C 58:43). Can you carry appropriately the cross of forgiveness? Some of us would rather carry a cross than confess and start anew.
Carry Your Cross MARVIN J. ASHTON Brigham Young University on 3 May 1987
Forgiving ourselves for our sins and forgiving others who have caused you pain frees us of burdens. No longer does the pain live rent free in our minds, hearts and souls. Forgiveness is for us because it sets us free.


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Since the COVID-19 epidemic broke out, under the strong leadership of the Central Committee of China's Communist Party with Comrade Xi Jinping as its core, China has carried out the most comprehensive, rigorous and thorough prevention and control measures. The 1.4 billion Chinese people have united as one to fight against the epidemic, and has effectively alleviated the situation with production and life gradually coming back to normal in the country. The lockdown of Wuhan City was officially lifted from 00:00, 8, April, marking a phased victory of China's battle against the epidemic.
While working on the national prevention and control, China is also playing a key role in international cooperation in fighting the epidemic and practicing the international responsibility. China has donated 20 million dollars to the WHO, held video conferences of medical experts with over 100 countries and international organisations, offered such materials as masks, protective clothing, nucleic acid test reagents and ventilators to 120 countries and 4 international organisations, and sent medical expert teams to Iran, Iraq, Italy, Serbia, Pakistan, Venezuela, Laos, etc. In Cambodia, the Chinese medical team has, since its arrival in Phnom Penh on Mar. 23, shared prevention and control experience with Cambodia, helped Cambodia to improve the prevention and control system, and provided medical advice for local patients, playing an active role in Cambodia's prevention and control work. China and Cambodia's hand-in-hand battle against COVID-19 vividly reflected the core essence of the community of shared future between the two countries, writing a new chapter in the China-Cambodia comprehensive strategic partnership of cooperation.
The virus knows no borders, neither does it differentiate any nation. Only by solidarity and cooperation can the international community defeat the epidemic and safeguard the common home of mankind. Faced with such a severe epidemic, however, some out of ulterior motives are vigorously promoting the expression of "Chinese virus", claiming that the coronavirus is a biochemical weapon intentionally created and spread by the Chinese government and that China is a common enemy of the whole world. These absurd remarks are full of prejudice and discrimination, completely ignoring the WHO's authoritative judgement of the coronavirus or the great contribution of China in the international battle against the epidemic. As a matter of fact, since the very beginning of the outbreak, China, with the attitude of openness, transparency and responsibility, has been publishing relevant information in a timely manner, sharing prevention, control and treatment experience with the international community including the WHO without reservation, and enhancing scientific and research cooperation with parties concerned. We have regularly submitted information on the epidemic to the WHO as well as relevant international and regional organisations, shared the genomic sequence of the coronavirus with the international community, invited the WHO experts to field studies in Wuhan… In the face of the epidemic as a global challenge, China's responsible role is beyond question. A lie repeated one thousand times is still a lie. Rumors fabricated out of thin air is bound to be opposed and condemned by the whole international community.
Now the world is still overshadowed by the epidemic, with the number of infection cases on the increase in many countries. While maintaining rigorous national prevention and control measures, China would like to provide more support to the international community and to contribute strength to the global battle against the epidemic. It is my firm belief that, as long as we stand in solidarity and care for each other in this time of serious difficulty, we will defeat the epidemic and embrace a brighter future for all mankind.
H.E. Wang Wentian, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the Kingdom of Cambodia
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National Workshop on Human Subjects, July 28-30, 2003, University of Georgia: "Issues in Social & Behavioral Research" http://www.ovpr.uga.edu/hso/ John Mueller ([email protected]) Division of Applied Psychology University of Calgary "WHY IS COMPLIANCE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EFFECTIVENESS?" http://mueller.educ.ucalgary.ca/Georgia2003 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 1 Acknowledgements Thanks to my colleagues at the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship (SAFS, http://www.safs.ca) who encourage my interests in exploring the ways in which research ethics reviews and grant agencies constrain scholarly inquiry: John Furedy (U. Toronto) Clive Seligman (U. Western Ontario) Steve Lupker (U. Western Ontario) 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 2 Background 35+ years, human experimental psychology Traditional academic, retro even (Tolman: "have fun") Research is about decoding Mother Nature, not dictating to her Chair department research reviews, now "just" a researcher "History of Psychology" instructor: » How sciences advanced/evolved from philosophy » Socio-political influences on inquiry: zeitgeist, paradigms, … politics, censors, etc. What I describe may sound like a "worst case" scenario, but it is disturbing how practices seem to converge on these seemingly ineffective practices. Individual viewpoints, not endorsed by my employer, etc. ( though the world would be a better place! ) 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 3 It's a Bureaucracy: You will be Assimilated From the "Charge of the Light Brigade": Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die. Well, what a choice! But this implies a third option, that someone else can, or must, reason why, so I will volunteer for that! Just remember, IRB is just one letter removed from IRS, another relentless bureaucracy we all know and love! 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 4 Compliance vs. Discernment Two cultures ("solitudes"): 1. Bureaucrats comply, that's a culture of control 2.Researchers ask "why," that's a culture of inquiry Two key characteristics of bureaucracies: 1. Bureaucrats don't get fired for following the rules, but they do for not following the rules. 2. Success in a bureaucracy is not about solving a problem, instead success is about not being blamed for a problem. Ethics reviews today have compliance as the end goal, not inquiry, not balance. In fact, coexistence may not be workable -- our way or the highway, first and second-class citizens, not really "rational" differences (i.e., shortfall of information). 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 5 Communication Networks In the technology innovation area (e.g., Rogers), interaction styles in a business are thought to help or hinder diffusion of innovation: » Homophilius: communicate within same workplace role (techies talk to techies, worker bees talk to workers, marketers talk to purchasers, suits talk to suits) » Heterophilius: communicate across workplace roles and/or adopter category Researchers talk to researchers, ethicists talk to ethicists, with essentially no meaningful dialogue across roles even on campus, much less nationally? And then there is the government, with stone tablets … 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 6 The Good Old Days (circa 1970) Voluntary participation Informed consent Confidentiality, or anonymity Not more than "Everyday Risk" » "harm" beyond routine (not "zero") Departmental review (expertise) Only federally-funded projects » And only AFTER funding was approved (quaint, but efficient) Classroom belonged to instructor and students Mainly medical research ("safety" a true issue) 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 7 It's Not Broken, But Let's Fix It Anyhow Several parallel developments: » Expanding range of control » Redefining focus of reviews » Medical research concerns become the prototype for social sciences, directly or indirectly 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 8 The World Is Our Oyster ALL research, not just federally funded, including classroom demonstrations and "interviewing mother." Forms-R-Us™ -- create that paper trail Adversarial climate, in effect demonizing researchers as untrustworthy and selfish » "We make the rules, comply" » "We don't make the rules, comply" » Napoleonic Code -- presumed guilty, prove yourself innocent. Isn't that "unethical"? It sure is offensive. The IRB preoccupation with ink color, check boxes, and such seems just a variant of what Zimbardo's prison guards did to establish authority. -- make the prisoners do petty and trivial stuff to establish the pecking order? Consider THAT as a selection factor for defining future faculty characteristics -- compliance. The meek shall inherit the universities? 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 9 Redefining Reviews The Demotion Of Expertise: » Move to campus-level reviews » Lawyers, lay people, "other voices" » Volunteers (we know they're not "normal") Single-issue activists (the missionaries) Professional "expert-in-all-things" People with "control needs" Career builders, self-anointed "ethicists," etc. Why not at least include true "risk experts," such as insurers? Is it because we no longer care about "risk" and "safety", instead something far more nebulous? Good drivers pay less for insurance, bad doctors pay more, many such precedents. 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 10 If Not Experts, What? Non-experts can't judge risk, safety (nor methodology), so what is reviewed must be changed. Thus a need to "indoctrinate" (not really "educate") to know just what to review, but » Why not Probability 101? Insurance 101? » Why not Ethics 101? Philosophy 101? Logic 101? » Why not Research 101? Statistics 101? » Why not subject-area expertise? » Why just "The regulations say …" ? 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 11 Prime Directive: Abandoned Public Safety replaced by "ETHICS": » Undefined - idiosyncratic, ideological Moralistic: my God is better than yours (my politics too) Not "legal," but "right/wrong" -- "VALUES" » Untestable - is that deliberate? Closed system, theological discussions are futile. Cassell & Jacobs (1987): "My beliefs differ from yours, therefore you are unethical." Is the war in Iraq ethical? (The person sitting next to you disagrees …) 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 12 Reason: Abandoned Zero tolerance -- can't "play favorites": » » » » » Proportionate review … no more Expedited review … no more Exempt research … no more Everyday risk … no more One person, one veto (everyone do it my way - or else … if one person objects to a Christmas tree it comes down -- zero tolerance disorder) » No longer recruiting subjects, or participants, we are trolling for VICTIMS You have to have expertise to exercise good judgment, "regulations" alone can't do it for you. 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 13 Federal-local disconnect Federal authorities like to claim these distortions have local origins, and that they have no authority. Local reviewers can claim this <distorted rule> is a federal requirement . Institutions in a panic, overkill Unaccountable, at all levels If this system worked, it would be a surprise; it wouldn't survive submission to a peer-review journal ! 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 14 Fuzzifying Reviews Is it "worthwhile" research (not is it safe) » Is it socially desirable? Useful? (medical legacy?) » Is it a "waste of time"? ("frivolous" vs. profound) » Is it profitable to the institution? At best, these are a recipe for "popular research," -- "everybody knows" (even experts!) has a long history of being dead wrong, as in flat earth, heavier than air can't fly, and so forth. Good luck getting "breakthroughs" this way, nothing controversial. Basic research seldom seems useful, in the short-term, so again we sacrifice long-term benefits for short-term "gains". At worst it is Lysenko and Galileo all over again, ideology-driven research (whether implicitly or explicitly). 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 15 When you have a hammer? Canadian ethicist: "In too many cases, researchers, members of behavioural science REBs, and directors of research have blandly claimed that the research under review poses no real risks to anyone and that there is no need for quality assurance, accreditation, or enforcement. In one case, a research director told me that the absence of need was shown because, in 10 years, his institution had not been sued by any research participants. This lack of concern over the adequacy of REB review in the social sciences and humanities has disturbing implications for advancing interdisciplinary health research." JM wonders: Maybe it is not "lack of concern," maybe it's just good reality contact, corroboration of a tempest in a teapot, maybe there isn't an unethical researcher under every bed? 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 16 Compliance vs. Effectiveness What evidence is there that any of these changes have improved anything? None? To answer we need to know: »What problem was to be solved? Ill-defined (arguably no problem even) Not collecting baseline data on "incidents" »How do we know it was solved? No data on incident change (pre-post) Researchers expect effectiveness, bureaucrats do not -- can't publish null results. 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 17 We measure everything else "Universities as businesses" at least try to measure: » Key performance indicators » Course evaluations » Promotions and tenure » Annual reports We may often think these are bogus, but the efforts do acknowledge that effectiveness would be nice, and that there should be some accountability somewhere. But not for research ethics boards? 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 18 Pre-post is everywhere Diets, exercise programs, medicines Traffic changes (seat belt, cell phones, air bags) Business investments, stock portfolio Global warming, etc. This is Research Methods 101, not to mention common sense! Why is the research ethics industry apparently exempt? Why is it allowed self-monitoring? 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 19 Is it working? Evidence? If reviews are working, show us some data -- not feelings, not presumptions, not "surely," not "obviously." (Could it be that ethicists don't care about pre-post, they just "know" they're taking us to a better place - missionaries?) If benefits are so obvious, then there must be scads of good data …. Show me some -- show me any. REAL data. Bertrand Russell: "Assumptions have all the advantages of theft over honest toil." 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 20 Sample questions …. Was research in unfunded studies more hazardous than in federally funded studies? Did research become less hazardous when the ethics review was taken out of the department? Is classroom research safer now than before IRBs chimed in? Are things safer now that we review ALL proposals BEFORE they're sent to the federal agency? What baseline will we use to document the benefits of accreditation? What baseline will we use to determine the effectiveness of mandatory education/indoctrination courses? Most of us would be embarrassed to be found doing something inefficient and ineffective! Is it because these ethics reviews are done in a group, behind closed doors, that we/they don't get embarrassed ? 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 21 Is it a waste? Whose cost? If it is not working, then whose loss is it? » Yours, mine, your university -- it's local resources. » Local resources diverted from other activities. Fewer classes, larger classes, … Resources diverted from screening research proposals that actually are risky. Reviewers feel overworked because they are wasting time treating everything as a major risk (like airport security?). Need to do it right, not do it more. If there never were real problems to begin with, then there will still be none, in which case obfuscating the futility of these efforts makes sense, of a sort. If there are real problems, and real benefits, why the reluctance to really document them? 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 22 Problem Finding "Find a problem" (see how clever/moral I am) is not the same as "Is there a problem" (risk assessment). "Problems" are not diagnostic of negative outcomes, nor lives saved, nor a better world. "Revision requested" is not a "negative outcome avoided" -- missed a checkbox, wrong color ink, etc. » but these are ways to establish arbitrary authority, ala Zimbardo et al. The expectation of "zero risk" indicates a lack of reality contact, and we should remind ourselves now and again of just where that famous road paved with "good intentions" too often ends. Setting a goal of "zero risk" assures job security in a way that makes tenure look lame! 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 23 Staying on-task The review is not about: » how "clever" is the reviewer (problem finding) » how "sensitive" is the reviewer (who has the biggest halo) » being more "religious" (ethical) than others » hypothetical problems » whether research "of this type" is safe in general » a reviewer's preference in methodology, etc. » whether "this type of research" is desirable, or profound, or profitable or litigious (anything and everything is litigious!) The mandate is whether this specific research will likely be UNUSUALLY hazardous. Stay focused, stay on-task, have the ethics bull sessions some other time. Need a strong leader or manager in the review committee. 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 24 "Two aspirins" -- solves a lot Do not trivialize "harm" or "safety" Medical side-effects, some quite serious, are readily accepted (by subjects/patients) Psychological side-effects are also a fact of life, and they too "heal" quite nicely Pathologizing unlikely, minor, or rare outcomes is worse than just silly, it is harmful You can't eliminate "human error" You can't control "unforeseen" developments You can't get "zero" risk 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 25 It's not just a waste Waste would be a more or less neutral outcome, regrettable but otherwise not uncommon or harmful. However, there are incidents that reveal a very harmful side of the ethics industry: » harassment of researchers. And there is no sign of willingness to deal with this problem no accountability again. Perhaps this is a symptom that researchers are tacitly viewed as just a "nuisance" to be controlled? Or is it just that there is no regulation covering it, can't do anything without a policy? (Topaz) 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 26 Censorship and more A senior scholar (E. Loftus) was harassed through her University's ethics board because her research findings on false memories of childhood abuse were "not worthwhile" according to some (Tavris, 2002). Was the University sanctioned? Was the ethics committee? Were you born yesterday? 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 27 Just a single case - not. Others have been harassed for going public with findings that embarrass the authorities (Pagliaro) Others have been harassed to the point of suicide in personal vendettas (Sergent) Others have been harassed by the "blue-ink syndrome" (Birnbaum) "Only happening here" -- No, distortion is more general "Couldn't happen here" -- Yeah, sure. "It's a local problem" -- speechless 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 28 Tip of the iceberg We know of these because senior faculty were involved. Junior faculty, and students, dare not publicize such workplace bullying (and that is what it is). The "best" result is that young scholars learn deference: avoid controversy, novelty. The only agenda for which this is desirable is "control," censorship, it certainly doesn't serve discovery. Others find other niches for "scholarship"? 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 29 What does the future hold? Continuing this ideological engineering, how implausible is it that soon researchers will be required to submit their results back to the ethics committee before submitting to a journal? » Drug companies expect it now, why not everyone again? » This would be quite consistent with the control (censorship) agenda, but like other changes would have absolutely no benefit to public safety . Then there is accreditation looming, again without any evidence of need nor any assessment plan: A bureaucracy's main goal is growth. 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 30 It's a duck A primary criterion as to whether a project has to be reviewed is whether it is intended for publication ("contribution to generalized knowledge"). That is, it is not really whether the activity per se is "ethical," or safe ! Looks like, sounds like, censorship to me. Censors always claim a good reason, even the Nazis. 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 31 Politicizing research Censors to the left of me, censors to the right? » Grant funds for this and not for that (vote buying) » Commercial interests (help the university with funding) » Research criticized as "irrelevant," frivolous, elitist, controversial, or undesirable (outcome), etc. » Journals and politicians (e.g., Rind/Lilienfeld at APA, Child Development 2003, etc.) » Morton Hunt (1999) - "The new know-nothings." Are disciplines "better" than 50 years ago? Is life gentler and kinder? Where's the payoff (to disciplinary databases) for all the control we have conceded in order to get federal grants to campus? 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 32 "I like Ike" Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Farewell Address," January 17, 1961: "The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present -- and is gravely to be regarded." "The kept university," http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/03/press.htm 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 33 Research: NOT just a "privilege" ("honor") It's a job requirement (faculty) It's a degree requirement (students) It's a form of learning, and if you must ask someone else's permission for that, in a university, we are in big trouble. Isn't limiting communication between people actually an infringement of the "freedom of association"? 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 34 Am I less ethical than Geraldo? Jason Blair? Amazing double standard between what a trained and experienced academic can do and what the rest of the world can do, e.g., journalists, pollsters -- BBC repeats Zimbardo Consider how robust people really are: » Everyday risk (SARS, West Nile, photo radar, etc.) » Everyday ethics (Mr. "did not inhale" Clinton, et al.) » Everyday deception (Baghdad Bob, Enron et al.) People just don't break all that easily! 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 35 Concluding - I The mandate: the Nuremberg trials for Nazi war crimes. » Does the desire to stamp out mad scientists justify it all? Any mad scientists here? Reviewed any ethics applications from one lately? » None of the modern research ethics rigmarole would have prevented them (even in medical research reviews). Those atrocities can't be used to justify the tactics and minutiae of modern IRBs in regard Social Science research. Ditto for Milgram, Zimbardo, et al. 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 36 Concluding - II However, the Nuremberg trials did establish something else, namely that "just following orders" is not an acceptable defense. » So, again: why is compliance with research ethics regulations more important than knowing "why," more important than knowing about their effectiveness? Further, it is interesting to speculate just what the Nuremberg judges might have said about the practice of "protecting the institution from risk" (Nature, 2001). H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always only a falseface for the urge to rule it." 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 37 Concluding - III Transparency and accountability should be minimal expectations for "ethics" reviews, not » Secretive » Self-policing » Self-serving, Self-indulgent, Self-perpetuating, … Benefits to public safety must be documented for any rules. Expunge the "warm fuzzies" and the "velvet totalitarianism" (Furedy) - that's just a platform for censorship. Give up the "moral panic" (Fekete) strategy: turn down the volume of rhetoric from the ethicists and activists. Honor proportionate, expedited, exempt, and "everyday risk." Lose the medical model (for social sciences) altogether. The word "protocol" is for Consumers Reports. Review boards are a service to research, not vice versa. 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 38 References - I Berry, C. (2001). Risk, science, and society. < http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000002D29C.htm> Editorial (2001). Time to cut regulations that protect only regulators. Nature, 22 (November) 2001, v. 414, p. 379. Fekete, J. (1994). Moral panic: Biopolitics rising. Montreal: Robert Davies, 1994. Furedy, J.J. (1997). Velvet totalitarianism on Canadian campuses: Subverting effects on the teaching of, and research in, the discipline of psychology. Canadian Psychology, 38, 204-211. Hunt, M. (1999). The new know-nothings. Transaction Publishers: New Brunswick, NJ. Kalbfleisch, J. (1994-1997). Articles in the Montreal Gazette (re Justine Sergent suicide). <http://mueller.educ.ucalgary.ca/sergent.txt> 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 39 References - II Mueller, J. H., & Furedy, J (2001). Reviewing for risk: What's the evidence it is working? Observer, 14 (September), 1, 26-28. <http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/0901/irb_reviewing.html> Mueller, J. H., & Furedy, J (2001). The IRB review system: How do we know it works? Observer, 14 (October),19-20. <http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/1001/irbsystem.html> Mueller, J. H., Furedy, J. & Seligman, C. (2002) ABCs of IRBs. Observer, 15 (October), 7. <http://mueller.educ.ucalgary.ca/Observer2002-ABCs.html> Mueller, J. H., Furedy, J. & Seligman, C. (2003) IRBs for Dummies. Observer, 16 (February), 7. <http://mueller.educ.ucalgary.ca/ObserverFeb2003-Dummies.html> Mueller, J. H. (2003). The origins of the riotous elephant barricade (REB). Presented at the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship, London, Ontario, May 3, 2003. <http://mueller.educ.ucalgary.ca/SAFS2003/> 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 40 References - III Mueller, J. H., Furedy, J., & Seligman, C. (2003). Re: 'Accreditation helps.' Observer, 14 (July), 6. <http://mueller.educ.ucalgary.ca/ObserverJuly2003.html> Ravitch, D. (2003). The language police. NY: A.A. Knopf. <http://www.languagepolice.com/> Shea, C. (2000). Don't talk to the humans. Lingua Franca, Volume 10, No. 6 (September), 2000. <http://mailer.fsu.edu/~njumonvi/irb-article.htm> Tavris, C. (2002). The high cost of skepticism. Skeptical Inquirer, 26(4), 41-44. http://www.csicop.org/si/2002-07/high-cost.html 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 41 Why is the sky blue? Asking "why" is not childish. Asking for evidence is not childish. » "The feds make us do it," a local response, is not an acceptable answer. » "Because I say so," the federal response, is not an acceptable answer. Nor is "Who cares," nor is "Trust us." Actually, aren't these answers childish? 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 42 Serenity Prayer, a better mandate than assimilation? "Give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed, courage to change what should be changed, and wisdom to know the one from the other." There is some latitude with regard to local regulations, don't squander it. If nothing else, effectiveness can be assessed locally. Who could oppose that? It should be as noncontroversial as, well, public safety. 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 43 Why the deceptions? "You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time." (Abraham Lincoln) "You can fool too many of the people too much of the time." (James Thurber) 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 44 Disciplinary autonomy gone? Including lay people, lawyers, and others, puts a discipline's identity into the hands of novices, people who have no stake in moving forward the intellectual integrity of the discipline. These "voices" are incapable of judging methodology and other substantive matters. The epistemology of a discipline is a matter for its members, those with requisite expertise, those who stand to lose if the disciplinary database is compromised by other agendas. And this is happening without a shed of evidence that safety is improved at all. 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 45 Why the annual review? Just as she was celebrating her 80th birthday, our friend received a jury-duty notice. She called to remind the people at the clerk's office that she was exempt because of her age. "You need to come in and fill out the exemption forms," they said. "I've already done that," she replied. "I did it last year." "You have to do it every year," she was told. "Why?" came the response. "Do you think I'm going to get younger?" 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 46 "Protocols" atypical? Much of the medical "research" that attracts so much attention isn't really research, it is just product testing. It is like Consumer Reports: is this toaster (drug) better than that one? In such cases there is indeed the PROTOCOL, there is an established right way to do it, innovation is not appropriate. This protocol mindset is not only a barrier for anything new, it convinces some reviewers they know how to and should be allowed to evaluate "methodology." However, in BASIC research the "right" method is not typically clear in advance, not does basic research always have a clear "social contribution" in the short-term. Theory testing and theory development (basic research) is not product testing. "Outsiders" can't contribute meaningfully, even insider experts can get it wrong: that's why you do the research! 7/17/2015 NWHS-Georgia-2003 47


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Ganduje had subsequently filed a N3 billion suit against the newspaper.
The governor asked the court to declare the publication as wrongful and a defamation of character.
In its ruling on Monday, the court restrained Jafaar and Daily Nigerian, listed as the first and second defendants, and their agents from "publishing, sharing or spreading videos injurious to the plaintiff/applicant pending the determination of the substantive application slated for hearing on the 6th of December 2018".
The contractor behind the videos had said he was ready to testify before the Kano state assembly panel investigating the matter.
The Kano assembly committee recently halted its investigations following a court order.
Ganduje was on Friday given the Africa Value Award for "effective leadership and economic empowerment".
Despite the allegations against Ganduje, President Muhammadu Buhari passed a vote of no confidence on the governor, describing him as "very responsible".
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i need help .. i've tried everyway of convincing my parents to let me go out and stuff but they always say no, but when my brother asks them they say yes! i dont get it.. i act like an adult but i guess they still dont trust me or something ? :(
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Hi sweetie, I raised 5 girls and 2 boys, As my daughters got older times changed it got scarier by the year. (it seemed) The times got harder to trust whats out there. Not the daughters, altho they were different in their own lttle way. Times got harder less trusting of what the younger ones come in contact with verses the older ones in back times. The best thing you can do is have a talk with them heart to heart. And I agree totally with the doing the chores. showing responsility, show it to be that they can trust your judgement. That is so important. Good luck this is a hard one. I am sure it is to protect you. It is so dangerous. Hang in there. answers will happen.
- 1 decade ago
If you haven't done anything to make them loose your trust, they are afraid that you may can't take care of your-self. Either that or it's just plain favoritism toward your brother. You should sit them down and have a firm but not to firm talk with them. Let them know that you are a big girl now. In so many words tell them you are ready to take responsibility by being responsible in every thing you do every step of the way, O,K...GOOD LUCK......
- beckdawgydawgLv 41 decade ago
some parents go a little over board with trying to protect their little girls. they see that the world is a much different place then when they were young and they see the horrible things that happen to young ladies on the news now. it is scary for them. the only way they know to protect the ones they love is to put certain restrictions on the daughters. for some reasons they think the boys are immune to dangers....it is unfair...but sometimes necessary.
- 1 decade ago
Ask them to explain why they allow your brother to go out and not you. It may help you understand their thinking. It may even help them understand their double-standard (if there is one). You have to prove to your parents that you can be responsible. So make sure you're doing everything they ask (homework, chores, following all their rules). Hopefully, by being responsible they will see that they can trust you more.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
It sounds to me like you are 16 or younger. If that is the case
then it is only that they are protecting you. You have a full life ahead of you. If you remain patient things will change. Do things
to show that you are mature. Like look in sunday paper act interested in it. act like your reading a mature book like the
encyclopedia or something that is factual, while they are watching t.v. Find mature topics to bring up in discussions.
good luck, good luck,
- Anonymous1 decade ago
It's not YOU they don't trust....it's the boys out there that want to sleep with you that they do not trust. By the way, tell them exactly how you feel, that their double standard is not only unfair, but makes them look sexist.
Remind them that they will be old some day and you will be the one picking out which old folks home they will go to!! LOL
- 1 decade ago
are you a girl? if so they tend to be more protective of you. its human nature to be protective of girls even at this age whereby both genders are equal.
gain their trust. maybe, say, you promise to come home at sometime (curfew?) and stick to your promise. this would show your parents that you are more matured and has responsibility on things you do, which will assure them that you can go out alone. :) all the best!
- 1 decade ago
its not that they dont trust u,most of the parents are much concerned abt their daughters,u need to talk to them & make them sure that now you r grown up & they shud let u go out
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I dont know. Im older than my bros and they always got to do what they want. tho I m 17 and was kicked out now
- nanaboobooLv 41 decade ago
the problem isn't you, they don't trust all the creeps out there to keep their hands off you. at least thats how my grandma put it to me when my brother was allowed out while i had to stay in.


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Ok, I want to get out of here. Now. Breakfast was fine and the view´s great too, but I don't want to be here any longer. I´ve seen them all coming in: the man who gets his coffee nonchalantly shuffling on his flipflops without even saying "good morning", the woman with the jungle proof khaki pants and pink sun visor who keeps on following the Ecuadorian staff around until that one missing cup is on the table, the man in a Hilfinger shirt that´s too tight for his belly, who starts drumming with his fingers on the table after two minutes because his fried egg hasn´t arrived yet, and the all American girls in frayed denim shorts who eat only half of their breakfast with an air of boredom and arrogance, while they discuss the best techniques for polishing their nails. Apparently "please" and "thank you" cost extra. As does smiling. From the category: snap your fingers if you desire something and roll your eyes when the kitchen staff doesn´t understand your English orders. I mean, the Ecuadorian kitchen staff in Ecuador, indeed. The guests don´t speak a word of Spanish themselves, and they´ve hired a bus to drive them around. No, no, not around the area. Around the country. A bus. As if there´s not enough buses here already. If it has a mini-bar and Jacuzzi, I don´t know.
Usually I collect my breakfast by going to the bakery, the fruit shop and the Colombian (coffee!) café, but family tradition taught me that by the end of a holiday one´s allowed to go "luxury" for one or two days. Well, relatively that is, it must be comfortable after all of course. And hostel Nantú is a friendly wooden building with a nice ambiance and wooden furniture, rugs, wall paintings and oil lamps, with everything you could wish for (ok, my frame of reference ends far before the Hilton :P): a swimming pool, a Jacuzzi, wifi and a pool table. Breakfast for four dollars is served with bread, egg, fruits, coffee, fruit juice, butter and marmalade on the first floor, with huge glass windows and an ocean view. Perfect, but it all feels uncomfortably exaggerated in this company right now.
I don´t know why it´s so hard for me not to be embarrassed by the casual way we deal with all the luxury we have because we deserve it (?), but as most people do, I like to blame my parents for all of my imperfections. Their "being happy with what you have" referred mostly to everything that´s considered normal: health, a family, a house that is a home, presents for Saint Nicholas, going to school, a car and a job… and also luxury holidays. "Luxury" in the sense of driving to Spain in two days with my three brothers and me packed on the back seat with puzzles, walkmans and coloring books and a big case full of toys on the roof. We spent four weeks swimming, playing beach ball or volleyball, reading Donald Ducks and listening to tapes, burying each other in the sand or making fortresses on the water side, and fighting the break with body boards, air beds or an inflatable boat for hours. Luxury in a house with three bedrooms, a garden hose to shower, two pieces of real milka chocolate with the café con leche and a volley/badminton net outside. The luxury of Spanish vanilla deserts, eating out once a week in our favorite pizzeria Antonio, an ice cream on the beach on Fridays and very occasionally a sandwich under the umbrella without going home in siesta time. And even if our holidays were like that for years, we knew very well that it wasn´t normal, that it´s not something one naturally deserves because he can afford it: that it´s a kind of luck that you should be grateful for.
Many people have asked me how you can save money for a trip around the world if you haven´t finished studying yet. I think studying during the week doesn´t mean you can´t work weekends and holidays. And saving money isn´t rocket science: it´s spending less than you earn. I´ve always had a prepaid phone that someone else didn´t want anymore, I don´t have a tablet, a t.v. or dvd-player, a car, an iPod, iPad, iPhone or any other iThing. And I don´t miss any of those things. My whole wardrobe, that consists mainly of donations from friends and family who do like shopping, fits into the three draws of my dresser. I like dinners at someone´s house more than fancy restaurants, and my watch is a real Market®, and it indicates exactly the same time as a Rolex with Sawarowski diamonds. Beautiful!
But that doesn´t mean that there´s no luxury to enjoy every day. I believe that real luxury is not for the richest in terms of money, but in terms of happiness: being thankful for what you have. So I enjoy two pieces of real Milka chocolate once in a while, as I enjoy sleeping in and having breakfast in pajamas, making music together or alone, cycling through the forest, learning new things from books or experiences, fresh coffee, walking in the snow and driving to work on my motorcycle at sunrise. Because it´s a luxury.
But even if you don´t need much, it´s not easy to go on a holiday as a volunteer in Quito. Because how can you sleep well in your ten dollar budget hostel, if you know that the market families share two beds with seven people in a room without windows next to the prison and in front of a red district, for thirty five dollars a month. How can you spend three to five times the amount of money they have for the whole family, on your own, knowing that they´re working seven days a week ten hours a day to pay the rent and food. Because "you deserve it"?
To comfort my conscience, I look for family-hostels that don´t accept credit cards, I buy my water, bread and fruit from as many different tiendas as I can find, and I try the lunches of the little places on the less touristy sideways. And that is how I want it. Because who needs a pool when the sea stretches out for kilometers right at your front door? Who needs a Jacuzzi when you can have a typical coastal Ecuadorian shower with hot water from the tank on the roof after noon? Who wants to have breakfast behind glass walls with impatiently drumming fingers and conversations about nail polishing, if you can also sit on a curbstone in the South American morning activity of the town center instead? Or a cabaña with everything you want (or not) for thirty five dollars, if there´s an elderly couple in the same street that has a room with a broken fan and no bathroom light, but with a private terrace with ocean views for ten dollars a night, that they can add to their non-existing pension? That´s an easy decision indeed.
But here I am, in the wooden room of hostel Nantú, and I really want to leave. I know, people have their different ways, and my judgment is fast and superficial. Maybe they´ve just donated an American salary to some eco-community project before they hired that bus. Or maybe not. Who knows? However, they can at least say "please" and "thank you". It doesn´t even have to be in Spanish. Smiling is allowed too. For free.
Hasta luego, have a nice rest of your holiday and... enjoy.
Life is a luxury.
Greets from Nelly without an iPhone / iPad
sent from a cyber without a swimming pool
on my first world trip destination.
P.S. The contrast with the great people we work with (collegues and market families) was so huge, that I needed to write a song about it! Thanks for the inspiration, here is "Hole in my pocket": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nn95N-M6Eo Hope you like it...


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"Kill My Mind," the latest solo single of Louis Tomlinson, has been released on Thursday (Sept. 5).
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Here's a preview of talk today at Brown University's population center.
My basic argument is that policies intended to prevent poverty by delaying parenthood are mostly misplaced, especially with regard to Black women. Not that delaying parenthood is bad per se, but delaying parenthood in the absence of other improvements in people's conditions is ineffectual in the aggregate, and actually harmful for some populations.
The delayed childbearing argument features prominently in the recent "consensus" on anti-poverty strategy reached by the American Enterprise Institute / Brookings working group I wrote about here. They say:
It would be better for couples, for children, and for society if prospective parents plan their births and have children only when they are financially stable, are in a committed relationship (preferably marriage), and can provide a stable environment for their child.
Isabel Sawhill, a leading proponent of delayed childbearing as anti-poverty strategy, says in her book Generation Unbound
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