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When Hyundai-Kia announced they'd overstated EPA mileage for some of their best-selling vehicles on November 2nd you'd have expected a massive selloff as investors reacted to the news. Instead, the massive selloff occurred the day before the announcement, leading experts to wonder if investors weren't leaked the information ahead of time.
It's hard not to notice the volume increase when you look at the chart. There were 2.24 million shares traded on November 1st — the most volume at that point during 2012 — and only 1.15 million the next day. And they weren't buying. In the absence of any other reason to buy or sell, what other explanation is there?
In most Western markets we're trained to think that trading like this is wrong, but as a hedge-funder in Singapore points out "the idea that insider trading is wrong rather than smart is only being ingrained in the current generation of Asian players, not the older generation who are often still in the driving seat."
So, if you got hosed on the announcement, it's possible you don't know the right shady people.


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The Blacklist looks like it's on its way to the pickup list.
The NBC drama drew 12.1 million and a 3.6 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic Monday, slipping a mere 5 percent from last week's series premiere. Lead-in The Voice (14.2 million, 4.6) dropped 10 percent.
Fall TV Popularity Contest: Will you man up for We Are Men?Fellow freshman series Sleepy Hollow (7.9 million, 3.0) also performed well in its third week, dipping just a tenth from last week and building on Bones' lead-in (7.1 million, 2.2), which rose three tenths.CBS had another slow Monday. We Are Men opened to 6.4 million and a 2.0, down four tenths from last year's premiere of Partners and shedding more than a point from lead-in How I Met Your Mother (7.7 million, 3.1), which fell six tenths. 2 Broke Girls (7.6 million, 2.4) and Mom (6.9 million, 2.2) both dropped a few tenths, while Hostages (6 million, 1.5) fell 17 percent.On ABC, Dancing with the Stars (12.8 million, 2.0) fell 13 percent and Castle (10.9 million, 2.2) was flat.
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CBS: How I Met Your Mother 7.7 million viewers (3.1 demo rating); We Are Men 6.4 million (2.0)ABC: Dancing with the Stars 12.8 million (2.0) [8-10 p.m.]Fox: Bones 7.1 million (2.2)NBC: The Voice 14.2 million (4.6) [8-10 p.m.]9 p.m.
CBS: 2 Broke Girls 7.6 million (2.4); Mom 6.9 million (2.2)Fox: Sleepy Hollow 7.9 million (3.0)10 p.m.
CBS: Hostages 6 million (1.5)ABC: Castle 10.9 million (2.2)NBC: The Blacklist 12.1 million (3.6)

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Edited by Bonnie K. Goodman
Paul Samuel Boyer, 9-3-07
What They're Famous For
Paul Boyer, a U.S. cultural and intellectual historian (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1966) is Merle Curti Professor of History Emeritus and former director (1993-2001) of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has held visiting professorships at UCLA, Northwestern University, and William & Mary; has received Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships; and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society of American Historians, and the American Antiquarian Society. Before coming to Wisconsin in 1980, he taught at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (1967-1980).
He has lectured at some 90 colleges and universities in the United States, Western Europe, and Israel. He has appeared on programs on the Public Broadcasting System, National Public Radio, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, the BBC, Canadian Broadcasting System, and others.
His publications include: Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age (1968; 2nd edition with two new chapters, 2002); He was the Asst. editor of Notable American Women, 1600-1950 (3 vols., 1971); co-authored with Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (1974); Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920 (1978); By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age (1985); When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (1992); Fallout: A Historian Reflects on America's Half-Century Encounter With Nuclear Weapons (1998). He was the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Companion to United States History (2001).
Salem Possessed won the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association and was nominated for a National Book Award. When Time Shall Be No More received the Banta Award of the Wisconsin Library Association for literary achievement by a Wisconsin author. The Oxford Companion to United States History was a main selection of History Book Club.
Boyer is the author or co-author of two college-level U.S. history textbooks, The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People (6th edition, 2007); and Promises to Keep: The United States Since 1945 (3rd edn., 2004), and a high-school U.S. history textbook: The American Nation (4nd edn., 2002). His scholarly articles have appeared in the Journal of American History, American Quarterly, American Literary History, The History Teacher, Virginia Quarterly Review, William & Mary Quarterly, and others. He has contributed numerous chapters to scholarly collections and encyclopedia entries, and lectured widely at colleges and universities in the United States and Europe. His articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, Book World, the New Republic, The Nation, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Wisconsin Academy Review, Harvard Divinity School Bulletin, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Tikkun, Policy Review, and other publications.
Active in the Organization of American Historians, he has chaired its Program Committee (1987-88); served on its Nominating Council (1992-94) and Executive Board (1995-98) and on the editorial board of the Journal of American History (1980-83). He served on the national advisory board of the public television series The American Experience and edits the Studies in American Thought and Culture series for the University of Wisconsin Press (1984-94, 2002–). His service on prize committees includes the John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association, the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, and the ABC-Clio Award Committee of the Organization of American Historians.
Boyer chaired the Wisconsin Humanities Council in 2004-06. Biographical entries appear in Who's Who in American Education and Contemporary Authors.
Personal Anecdote
Family stories were my first introduction to history-not articles or books, but lived experience: a great-uncle killed at Antietam; grandmothers' tales of late-nineteenth-century Ohio farm life; my father's account of losing his job during World War I for refusing to salute the flag when co-workers demanded that he do so. My paternal grandfather was a great repository of stories about the past, including his boyhood memories of President Garfield's assassination in 1881.
Paul Boyer is seated in the front row, second from left, next to his grandfather.
My future perspective as a historian was influenced, too, by my very conservative religious upbringing. The Brethren in Christ church, an offshoot of the Mennonite church, took seriously the biblical injunction "Be not conformed to this world." The members did not vote, generally refused military service, and dressed very plainly-no neckties for the men; head coverings, cape dresses, and dark stockings for the women. They avoided the movies and other worldly amusements, and viewed the secular power of the state with profound skepticism. I'm no longer a part of that subculture (which in any event is very different today), but its influence has shaped my life and work.
A grade-school teacher in Dayton, Ohio taught me that history is something people can feel passionate about. A southerner, she informed us in no uncertain terms: "If you get nothing else out of this class, just remember that slavery was NOT the cause of the Civil War." But I can't claim that the study of history initially gripped me very deeply. My copy of David Saville Muzzey's A History of Our Country, assigned in a high-school class, is full of my scribbled drawings and witticisms (e.g., "In Case of Fire, throw this in"). The teacher called him "Fuzzy Muzzey," signaling us that even textbook writers need not be viewed with total reverence. Now a textbook author myself, I appreciate Muzzey a little more. He writes in his preface: "Boys and girls have sometimes said to me that they have 'had' American history, as if it were measles or chicken pox, which they could have and get over and be henceforth immune from. … Do not for a moment think that you are `going over' American history again in high school in order to add a few more dates and names to your memory. You are studying a new and fresh subject, not because American history has changed, but because you have changed. … You are getting new outlooks on life,–new ambitions, new enthusiasms, new judgments of people and events. Life broadens and deepens for you. So history, which is the record of former people's ambitions and enthusiasms, comes to have a new meaning for you."
After high school I enrolled at Upland College in California, a small denominational school that has since closed. Wendell Harmon, who had written his Ph.D. thesis at UCLA on the Prohibition movement in California, taught U.S. history at Upland. Wendell had a skeptical turn of mind and a dry sense of humor. His classes, including a seminar on American Transcendentalism, jolted me into realizing that studying history could be intellectually engaging, even fun. In June 1955, preparing to leave for two years of voluntary service in Europe with the Mennonite Central Committee, I asked Wendell for reading suggestions. His list included Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition (1948). I devoured the book, writing on the flyleaf words that were new to me (salient, milieu, inchoate, sinecure, ubiquitous). Hofstadter's cool-eyed revisionist look at America's political heroes was eye-opening. There is no canonical version of history-all is up for grabs! My copy of this 95-cent Vintage paperback, now falling apart, is still in my library.
My two years in Europe-mostly spent in Paris on loan from the Mennonite Central Committee to an NGO at UNESCO–ended with a world trip via ships, trains, buses, and bicycles. On a train in India I met Gloria Steinem, just out of Smith College, also on a Wanderjahr. A comment she later made about how the trip affected her summed up my reactions as well: Eisenhower's America, rich and complacent, she said, seemed like a sugary cupcake perched atop a suffering world where most people struggle merely to survive. Practicing my writing skills, I wrote a series of travel essays for the Evangelical Visitor, the Brethren in Christ denominational paper. The editorial board voted me an honorarium of fifty dollars. Another eye-opener: writing could actually produce income!
Those two and a half years abroad proved transformative. In 1955 I had expected to go into my father's religious-supply business. By 1958, when I entered Harvard as a transfer student, I knew I was not cut out for business. Journalism and teaching seemed appealing, but in a fairly inchoate way. What to major in? I considered English, but History soon won out. The department had a tutorial system for majors, and in 1958-59 I took both the sophomore and junior tutorials. My sophomore tutor, Stanley Katz, was a terrific mentor. We discussed and wrote papers on historians from Herodotus to Marc Bloch, executed by the Gestapo in 1944. Rereading those papers, I'm impressed again by Stan's blend of encouragement and shrewd criticism. My junior tutor, Manfred Jonas, although busy writing his Ph.D. thesis on American isolationism in the 1930s, carefully read my weekly essays on U.S. historical topics, offering perceptive comments. William R. Taylor's stimulating course in American historiography introduced me to Prescott, Parkman, and other classic historians and prose stylists.
My senior-thesis advisor, Roger Brown, steered me to a fascinating topic: the Federalist party's reaction to the Louisiana Purchase. Research at the Massachusetts and Connecticut historical societies gave me a first taste of using primary sources in a milieu redolent of the past. (One elderly lady at the Connecticut Historical Society asked where I was from. When I told her Ohio, she replied, "Oh yes, Western Reserve country.") To my great excitement, Roger Brown mentioned my thesis in a footnote in his 1964 book The Republic in Peril: 1812.
Finishing college in 1960, I entered Harvard's graduate history program that fall. In Frank Freidel's seminar on the 1920s, I choose book censorship in Boston as my research topic. That in turn, led to my first published article (American Quarterly, spring 1963); my Ph.D. thesis on book censorship in America (with Freidel as advisor); and my first book, Purity in Print. Freidel returned my thesis draft with a few stylistic suggestions on the first few pages. "You see the kinds of changes I'm suggesting," he breezily told me; "You can apply them to the rest of the thesis." I'm fairly sure he never read beyond those early pages. (On one page, he had marked a sentence to be cut and then changed his mind, scribbling "stet" in the margin: a printer's term meaning "restore this copy." In dismay I misread it as "shit," concluding that my dissertation director considered my work beneath contempt.)
Inviting the seminar to his home for our last meeting, Freidel offered us career advice. Our first job would probably be at some obscure school, he told us, and our sole objective must be to move to ever-more prestigious institutions through our publications. "Your students will want your attention, and your wife will ask you to do things with the family," he warned, "but you must ignore all that and concentrate on publishing."
In Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s course in American intellectual history, Schlesinger read his lectures from what appeared to be page proofs, pausing occasionally to correct a typo. When he departed for Washington after the 1960 election, newly-hired Donald Fleming inherited the course, delivering erudite, beautifully crafted lectures. (My paper on Andrew Carnegie in that course became a lecture that remained in my own intellectual-history course until I retired.) I later graded for Fleming, reading blue books far into the night.
The European intellectual historian H. Stuart Hughes strongly supported SANE, the nuclear-test-ban organization. When I took his course in fall 1962, he was running as an independent for the U.S. Senate on a nuclear-disarmament platform. (Ted Kennedy won.) Sitting in Hughes' class on October 24, as the U.S. blockade of Soviet vessels bound for Cuba went into effect, we all eyed the clock nervously. Hughes' example as a politically engaged academic probably influenced my own later small-scale participation in Vietnam War protests and the early-1980s' nuclear- weapons freeze campaign.
We graduate students flocked to Bernard Bailyn's lecture course and seminar in American colonial history. At the first seminar meeting, Bailyn proposed a list of research topics. By chance, I got the last choice: a 1754 Massachusetts excise-tax controversy. It seemed unpromising, but actually proved engrossing, particularly the pamphlets describing how lecherous tax collectors would ravish the wives and daughters of virtuous yeomen. The pamphleteers also made ubiquitous references to a 1733 excise-tax controversy in England. When I reported this to Bailyn, he responded with a chuckle that he, too, had noticed that connection, and had put his notes aside for future attention. That seminar paper became my second published article (William and Mary Quarterly, July 1964). Years later, after I had published three or four books, I encountered Bailyn at a convention and he greeted me with: "You know, I see citations to that William and Mary Quarterly article of yours all the time."
Especially salient among these formative influences were Edward and Janet James, the editor and associate editor of a biographical reference work on American women launched in 1955 at the impetus of Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. (Today the positions would likely be reversed, with Janet as editor, but this was the 1950s.) Ed was a very methodical editor, and by 1961 a large back-log of essays had built up. Ed hired history grad students as fact-checkers, and I became one of his minions. I enjoyed roaming Widener Library in quest of elusive facts, in the process learning about the history of women in America-a subject mostly ignored in my undergraduate and graduate training. As I drafted revisions to correct errors or incorporate new information, and sometimes even ventured to rewrite an entire essay, Ed expanded my duties and gave me a desk in his office. Here I edited hundreds of essays (typing and retyping them in that pre-computer era) and wrote twenty-one myself, from Helena Blavatsky to Frances Wright. Ed and Janet generously appointed me assistant editor, so when Harvard University Press published Notable American Women in three volumes in 1971, my name appeared on the title page along with theirs. This editing and writing experience, immersion in women's history, and exposure to Ed James's meticulous attention to detail made my time at Notable American Women an important part-perhaps the most important part-of my graduate training.
By 1967, with Ph.D. in hand, it was time to find a teaching job. Notable American Women was fun, but obviously no lifetime sinecure. I had married Ann Talbot, then a student at Radcliffe College, in 1962, and now our first child was on the way. We hoped to stay in New England, so on a map I drew a semicircle around Boston with a radius of about a hundred miles and sent letters to history departments where I thought I might have a shot. Soon after, Howard Quint, the head of the History Department at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, phoned and invited me out. Howard rounded up a few department members and I gave a "job talk" that consisted of summarizing my Ph.D. thesis. He took me to meet the dean, and after they chatted briefly, Howard offered me a job at the munificent salary of $10,000 a year. That's how things worked in those days.
Antiwar protests and a factionalized department made those early years of teaching the most intense of my career. With campus strikes, moratoria, and marches on Washington, every spring semester from 1967 to 1970 ended with classes disrupted or cancelled entirely. Rashly signing up to give a workshop on Vietnamese history, I crammed the evening before from a book by Bernard B. Fall (killed in Vietnam in 1967). I expected ten or twelve people; the hall was packed. Another evening, several of us led a teach-in on the war in a campus dormitory. As the discussion went on, a young woman said tearfully: "My brother was just killed in Vietnam. Are you telling us this war is wrong?" Again I was reminded that "history" is not just something that we write about. History happens to people.
Just as I was becoming resigned to a life of departmental feuding, cancelled classes, and campus protests, the activism suddenly ended in the fall of 1970. The departmental conflict subsided as well, and my remaining years at UMass brought much satisfaction, with great colleagues, interesting research (including a collaboration with Steve Nissenbaum on Salem Possessed), and rewarding teaching. My graduate training had included no classroom experience and indeed no attention to pedagogy at all, so these years involved a lot of on-the-job training. Fortunately, I found that I loved teaching, whether lecture courses, seminars, or one-on-one meetings with students. (Grading blue books I could have done without.)
New experiences, new projects, and many changes lay ahead, but a course had been set, and I've never regretted how it all turned out. I can't imagine a more satisfying life, and seeing one's students set sail on their own, in history or other fields, is perhaps the greatest reward of all.
By Paul Samuel Boyer
- If a scholar a thousand years from now had no evidence about what had happened in the United States between 1945 and 1985 except the books produced by the cultural and intellectual historians of that era, he or she would hardly guess that such a thing as nuclear weapons had existed. … We have somehow managed to avert our attention from the pervasive impact of the bomb on … our collective experience….[P]eculiarities in my background … might plausibly be seen as having particularly 'sensitized' me to issues of war and peace. Reared in the pacifist beliefs of the Brethren in Christ Church …, I had early heard stories from my father of the harassment and even physical abuse he had experienced as a war resister in 1917-18…. Yet … I suspect it is not my particular upbringing, but experiences that I share with most Americans of the postwar generation, that are relevant here. Even a few random probes of my nuclear consciousness have made clear to me how significantly my life has been influenced by the ever-present reality of the bomb: … [T]he afternoon of August 6, 1945, when I read aloud the ominous-looking newspaper headline, mispronouncing the new word as "a-tome," since I had never heard anyone say it; … Standing in a darkened room early in 1947, squinting into my atomic-viewer ring, straining to see the "swirling atoms" the Kix Cereal people had assure me would be visible; … Coming out of a Times Square movie theater at midnight on New Year's Eve, 1959, having just seen the end of the world in On the Beach, overwhelmed by the sheer aliveness of the raucous celebrators; … Feeling the knot tighten in my stomach as President Kennedy, in that staccato voice, tells us we must all build fallout shelters as quickly as possible; … Watching the clock in Emerson Hall creep up toward 11 A.M. on October 25, 1962—Kennedy's deadline to the Russians during the Cuban missile crisis—half expecting a cataclysmic flash when the hour struck; … Overhearing my daughter's friend recently telling how her little sister hid under the bed when searchlights probed the sky a few nights earlier(a supermarket was having a grand opening), convinced that the missiles were about to fall. ….Even my sense of ancestral rootedness is now interwoven with images of nuclear menace and danger. In the summer of 1978, my brother Bill and I, finding ourselves together in Pennsylvania, took a little excursion to find the cemetery where some of our forebears who had migrated from [Switzerland] in the 1750s were buried. As we drove southward from Harrisburg along the Susquehanna, the looming concrete bulk of a nuclear power plant—Three Mile Island—suddenly hove into view. Almost literally in the shadows of those squat, hideous—and soon to be famous—towers, we found the small burial plot we were seeking. …I have been repeatedly struck … at how uncannily familiar much of the early response to the bomb seems: the visions of atomic devastation, the earnest efforts to rouse people to resist such a fate, the voices seeking to soothe or deflect these fears, the insistence that security lay in greater technical expertise and in more and bigger weaponry. I gradually realized that what I was uncovering was, in fact, the earliest version of the themes that still dominate our nuclear discourse today. All the major elements of our contemporary engagement with the nuclear reality took shape literally within days of Hiroshima. … By the Bomb's Early Light, then, is an effort to go back to the earliest stages of our long engagement with nuclear weapons. Unless we recover this lost segment of our cultural history, we cannot fully understand the world in which we live, nor be as well equipped as we might to change it. …
As is appropriate, this book will be read and judged by my professional peers as a piece of scholarship like any other. I hope it will not seem presumptuous to say that it is also intended as a contribution, however flawed, to the process by which we are again, at long last, trying to confront, emotionally as well as intellectually, the supreme menace of our age. Henry Adams once wrote, "No honest historian can take part with—or against—the forces he has to study. To him, even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics." I readily confess that I have not achieved Adams's austere standard of professional objectivity. This book is a product of experiences outside the library as well as inside, and it is not the work of a person who can view the prospect of human extinction with scholarly detachment. —
— Paul S. Boyer from the introduction to "By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age" (1985)
"By Paul S. Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum
- If the large concepts with which historians conventionally deal are to have any meaning, it is only as they can be made manifest in individual cases like these. The problems which confronted Salem Village in fact encompassed some of the central issues of New England society in the late seventeenth century: the resistance of back-country farmers to the pressures of commercial capitalism and the social style that accompanied it; the breaking away of outlying areas from parent towns; difficulties between ministers and their congregations; the crowding of third- generation sons from family lands; the shifting locus of authority within individual communities and society as a whole; the very quality of life in an unsettled age. But for men like Samuel Parris and Thomas Putnam, Jr., these issues where not abstractions. They emerged as upsetting personal encounters with people like Israel Porter and Daniel Andrew, and as unfavorable decisions handed down in places like Boston and Salem Town. It was in 1692 that these men for the first time attempted (just as we are attempting in this book) to piece together the shards of their experience, to shape their malaise into some broader theoretical pattern, and to comprehend the full dimensions of thoses forces which they vaguely sensed were shaping their private destinies. Oddly enough, it has been through our sense of "collaborating" with Parris and the Putnams in their effort to delineate the larger contours of their world, and our sympathy, at least on the level of metaphor, with certain of their perceptions, that we have come to feel a curious bond with the "witch hunters" of 1692.But one advantage we as outsiders have had over the people off Salem Village is that we can afford to recognize the degree to which the menace they were fighting off had taken root within each of them almost as deeply as it had in Salem Town or along the Ipswich Road. It is at this level, indeed, that we have most clearly come to recognize the implications of their travail for our understanding of what might be called the Puritan temper during the final, often intense, and occasionally lurid efflorescence which signaled the end of its century-long history. For Samuel Parrish and Thomas Putnam, Jr., were part of a vast company, on both sides of the Atlantic, who were trying to expunge the lure of the new order from their own souls by doing battle with it in the real world. While this company of Puritans were not purveyors of the spirit of capitalism that historians once made them out to be, neither were they simple peasants clinging blindly to the imagined security of a receding medieval culture. What seems above all to characterize them, and even help define their identity as "Puritans" is the precarious way in which they managed to inhabit both these worlds at once.The inner tensions that shaped the Puritan temper were inherent in it from the very start, but rarely did they emerge with such raw force as in 1692, in little Salem Village. For here was a community in which these tensions were exacerbated by a tangle of external circumstances: a community so situated geographically that its inhabitants experienced two different economic systems, two different ways of life, at unavoidably close range; and so structured politically that it was next to impossible to locate, either within the Village or outside it, a dependable and unambiguous center of authority which might hold in check the effects of these accidents of geography.
The spark which finally set off this volatile mix came with the unlikely convergence of a set of chance factors in the early 1690's: the arrival of a new minister who brought with him a slave acquainted with West Indian voodoo lore; the heightened interest throughout New England in fortune telling and the occult, taken up in Salem Village by an intense group of adolescent girls related by blood and faction to the master of that slave; the coming of age Joseph Putnam, who bore the name of one of Salem Village's two controlling families while owing his allegiance to the other; the political and legal developments in Boston and London which hamstrung provincial authorities for several crucial months in 1692.
But beyond these proximate causes lie the deeper and more inexorable ones we have already discussed. For in the witchcraft outburst in Salem Village, perhaps the most exceptional event in American colonial history, certainly the most bizarre, one finds laid bare the central concerns of the era.
— Paul S. Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum in "Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft"
About Paul Samuel Boyer
- Salem Possessed is a provocative book. Drawing upon an impressive range of unpublished local sources, Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum provide a challenging new interpretation of the outbreak of witchcraft in Salem Village. The authors argue that previous historians erroneously divorced the tragic events of 1692 from the long-term development of the village and therefore failed to realize that the witch trials were simply one particularly violent chapter in a series of local controversies dating back to the 1660s. In their reconstruction of the socio-economic conditions that contributed to the intense factionalism in Salem Village, Boyer and Nissenbaum have made a major contribution to the social history of colonial New England….
Boyer and Nissenbaum have provided us with a first-rate discussion of factionalism in a seventeenth-century New England community. Their handling of economic, familial, and spatial relationships within Salem Village is both sophisticated and imaginative. But the dynamics of witchcraft, not only in Salem Village but also in other Massachusetts towns affected by the outbreak of 1692, still remain a mystery. — T. H. Breen, Northwestern University in "The William and Mary Quarterly," reviewing "Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft"
- Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum have made great contributions to our better understanding of the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692. Their first book, Salem Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England (1972). brought together diverse materials dealing with the outbreak of witchcraft and the trials; Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (1974). was an attempt to place the events of 1692 within the larger context of Salem's social, economic, and political history. This study relied primarily upon community records and family documents, including wills, deeds, and inventories. The Salem Witchcraft Papers is the most recent and most valuable product of Boyer's and Nissenbaum's collaborative research in this important episode of New England history….
The Salem Witchcraft Papers is an important addition to the growing body of primary and secondary material dealing with the Salem witchcraft scare. Boyer and Nissenbaum have done a great service to all students of early New England history by publishing an important collection that has lain dormant for more than forty years. The ultimate value of the work, however, will be its use as a source book by future historians who seek a better understanding of the Salem witchcraft episode. — Paula A. Treckel in "The New England Quarterly" reviewing "The Salem Witchcraft Papers: Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692"
- "that witchcraft charges . . . were brought principally by members and friends of the tribe with cause for envy, and directed principally against minor members or peripheral connections of the enviable group…. the recent history and practical circumstances which permitted such action are explored, and the whole approach to the Salem disaster is canny, rewarding, and sure to fascinate readers interested in that aberrant affair." — Phoebe Adams in "Atlantic" reviewing "Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft"
- "offers an illuminating and imaginative interpretation . . . of the social and moral state of Salem Village in 1692 . . . . It has the extra recommendation of telling a gripping story which builds up to a horrifying climax." — Keith Thomas in the "New York Review of Books" reviewing "Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft"
- "The authors have produced an explanatory scheme which accounts fully for the events of 1692, renders them significant in a much wider context of social and economic change, and yet allows room for the operation of personalities and accidental influences. . . . Salem Possessed reinterprets a world-famous episode so completely and convincingly that virtually all the previous treatment can be consigned to the historical lumberroom." — Robin Briggs in "Times Literary Supplement" reviewing "Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft"
- "In their book "Salem Possessed, The Social Origins of Witchcraft," Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum present convincing evidence that Salem village, the backwoods adjunct to Salem town in which the accusers lived, was ridden with fear and hatred of the social changes being wrought by mercantile capitalism in the town and especially in Boston. At first, three social outcasts were accused; then some people in the eastern part of the village nearest to and most involved in the new commercialism. Then more and more prominent merchants and politicians were accused in the town, in Boston and eventually in all of Massachusetts. The authors show that on a number of occasions young girls in other Massachusetts communities had bouts of hysteria and that adults turned the affair into religious revivals. Only in Salem, where the adults were themselves paranoiac about the new commercialism, was adolescent hysteria turned – by adults – into a witch hunt, in which the "witches" were, by no accident, prominent "mercantile capitalists." — ROGER HILSMAN in the New York Times on "Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft"
- "Paul Boyer, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, describes all this with care and nuance and includes much that is less well known: appeals for world government; religious protests; dreams of atomic-powered technology; visions of Utopia and its opposite; advice from the professions; literary, cinematic and musical commentary. The sheer volume of the material is astounding. In this five-year period, education journals alone ran 260 articles relating to the bomb. The problem, Mr. Boyer writes, was "deciding when to turn off the tap"….. As careful as he is with the evidence, Mr. Boyer is clear about where he stands. He tells of his own pacifist origins and readily confesses his inability to follow Henry Adams's dictum that to the honest historian "even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics." His depth of concern comes through in sharp prose….
A wide-ranging historian who has written important studies of both the Salem witch trials (with Stephen Nissenbaum) and 19th-century urban reform, Mr. Boyer has closely studied the responses earlier Americans made to perceived threats to their well-being. And he does not omit pointing out "how the early discussions of the bomb's implications often moved in well-worn grooves." Among these grooves was the fear of concentrations of power (Who will control atomic energy?), worry about mass leisure (What will the masses do when the atom does all the work?), hostility to the city (Ruralization is the answer to atomic threats) and warnings of apocalypse (Repent before the fire consumes us all)….
In an epilogue, Mr. Boyer brings the story up to date. When the fallout from atmospheric nuclear testing became apparent in the mid-1950's, it brought about a new round of public concern. This faded away in the wake of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the 1963 test-ban treaty only to reappear in recent years in the form of hostility to nuclear power, and distress at the Reagan Administration's lack of enthusiasm for arms control. The current nuclear debate, Mr. Boyer writes, afflicts him with a "sense of deja vu." Virtually "every theme and image by which we express our nuclear fear today has its counterpart in the immediate post-Hiroshima period," he writes. It is a depressing thought, for why should what proved ineffectual before not prove ineffectual again? But perhaps the old themes and images are the best we can summon. They may not succeed in removing the threat of nuclear war, but at least they tell us something about who we are. — New York Times Review of "By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age"
- "If you believed you knew the essentials about the dawn of the atomic age, this book will change your mind. Based on an impressive number of contemporary sources – including newspaper articles, cartoons, press ads, poems, pictures, letters and opinion polls -Boyer outlines the bomb's sociological and cultural impact on American society from 1945 to the early fifties. Indeed, some strange and surprising connections are revealed, as between the Bikini tests and Hollywood-star Rita Hayworth. His main accomplishment, though, is to show the mixed cultural heritage of the Hiroshima/ Nagasaki incidents; how they created both hopes and fears, self confidence and anger, cynicism and guilt. His account of the Atomic Scientists' Movement is skilled and well balanced, as is his unpassionate discourse on the continuing cycles of anti-nuclear activism and apathy. In short, By the Bomb's Early Light shows the art of socio-intellectual history from its most perceptive and powerful side." — Olav Njølstad in "Journal of Peace Research", reviewing "By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age"
- Of the many books inspired by the 40-year anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, this certainly is one of the best. Boyer, an adept cultural historian, unravels the diverse reactions to the advent of the nuclear era between 1945 and 1950. The enormity of what had occurred caused disorientation among intellectuals and the general public alike. Basic beliefs wavered, contradictions emerged, and attitudes changed in a short period of time. Boyer traces scientific, literary, philosophical, and religious implications of the new weapon, revealing his own wit and commitment as well as historical skill. His neglect of the emergence of Abstract Expressionism as a major cultural response to the bomb stands as one of the few shortcomings in this fine, readable book. Highly recommended — Charles K. Piehl, Director of Grants Management, Mankato State Univ., Minn. in Library Journal reviewing "By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age"
- "In this thoroughly documented and richly illustrated study Boyer has traced the confusions, the ironies and the sometimes humorous and sometimes tragic effects of American efforts to cope with the question of what is permissible and what is taboo in the public morality and in the printed word. Beginning with a brief but penetrating discussion of the state of these matters at the present time, Boyer goes back to the early 1800s and traces the problem and its self-appointed solvers up to the 1930s. Anthony Comstock and John S. Sumner are given full treatment, as are such defenders of a liberal and enlightened attitude as Mencken and Morris Ernst. Boyer makes frequent mention of the psychological factors which motivated the "purifyers" but his approach is principally historical and sociological. Although there have been many other books and articles written on this basic aspect of American culture, this is certainly the definitive study of the subject." — GEORGE K. SMART, University of Miami reviewing "Purity in Print: The Vice Society Movement and Book Censorship in America" in "American Quarterly,"
- "It is less this solid but conventional framework which insures Boyer's study its excellence than the fair mindedness that allows Boyer on every page to rectify old errors, add new insights, and back or qualify recent scholarly conclusions. He makes his reader look in unexpected places for causes and effects, and always to good purpose Deftly disposing of the tired cliches about devious clerical power-plays masked as evangelical reform, he sympathetically charts the demise of active religious and ecclesiastical influence in the city, he shows, nonetheless, its legacy of moral enthusiasm to be the central one in urban reform until the 1920s…. While discovering and sorting the facts of the urban reform movement, Boyer is alert to the language and psychology of the reformers. Again and again, he documents what he perceptively calls "the familiar urban moral control cycle, from initial enthusiasm to baffled discouragement " This is a book which all serious students of the American city and of the nineteenth century will want to read and keep for perusal and reference. — Ann Douglas, Columbia University in "The Journal of American History" reviewing "Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920"
Basic Facts
Teaching Positions:
University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Asst. Prof. to Professor of History, 1967-1980; department chair, 1978-80
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Professor of History, 1980-85; Merle Curti Professor of History, 1985-2002; Emeritus, 2002 –
Concurrent Position at the University of Wisconsin: Senior Member, Institute for Research in the Humanities, 1989-2002; Director, 1993-2001.
Visiting Appointments:
University of California-Los Angeles, Visiting Professor of History, 1987-1988;
Northwestern University, Henry Luce Visiting Professor of American Culture, 1988-1989;
State University of New York-Plattsburgh, September 1992, Distinguished Visiting Professor Northwestern University, Visiting Professor, Fall 1995;
College of William and Mary, James Pinckney Harrison Professor of History, 2002-03;
Other positions included Coordination Committee for International Voluntary Work Camps, UNESCO, Paris. Staff member, 1955-1957;
Notable American Women, Harvard University, Assistant Editor, 1964-1967;
Area of Research:
American cultural and intellectual history; American religious history; Prophetic and apocalyptic belief in America; Censorship and First Amendment Issues; nuclear weapons in American culture, Salem witchcraft.
Harvard University, A.B. (magna cum laude), 1960, M.A., 1961, Ph.D., 1966.
Major Publications:
- Purity in Print: The Vice-Society Movement and Book Censorship in America, Scribner (New York City), 1968.
- (With Stephen Nissenbaum) Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1974, Italian edition includes introduction by Carlo Ginzburg, published as La Citta Indemoniate, Einaudi (Turino), 1986, published as Salem Possessed, MJF (New York City), 1997.
- Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920, Harvard University Press, 1978, reprinted, 1992.
- (With others) Women in American Religion, edited by Janet Wilson, University of Pennsylvania Press (Philadelphia), 1978.
- By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, Pantheon (New York City), 1985, second edition, contains a new preface by Boyer, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill), 1994.
- Mission on Taylor Street: The Founding and Early Years of the Dayton Brethren in Christ Mission, Brethren in Christ Historical Society (Grantham, PA), 1987.
- (Coauthor) The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People, Volume 1: To 1877, Volume 2: From 1865, Heath (Lexington), 1989, second edition, 1993, interactive CD-ROM editions, developed by Bryten, 1993 and 1996, third edition, 1996, essentials edition, includes text and CD-ROM, Houghton Mifflin (Boston), 1999, fourth edition, Houghton Mifflin, 1999, chapters 22-33 of third edition also published separately as The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People, 1890s to the Present, Heath, 1996.
- When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture, Harvard University Press, 1992.
- Promises to Keep: The United States since 1945 (textbook), Heath, 1994, second edition, Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
- Todd and Curti's American Nation (textbook), Holt (Austin), 1994, annotated teacher's edition published as Boyer's American Nation, 1998.
- (With Sterling Stuckey) The American Nation in the Twentieth Century (textbook), Holt, 1995, annotated teacher's edition, 1996.
- Fallout: A Historian Reflects on America's Half Century Encounter with Nuclear Weapons (collection of previously published writings), Ohio State University Press (Columbus), 1998.
Byer's upcoming projects include an article on nuclear themes in the work of the poets and writers of the Beat Movement, with Professor William Lawlor, and revisions of college and high-school American history textbooks (ongoing).
Editor, Contributor, Joint Author:
- (Assistant editor, with Edward T. James and Janet W. James) Notable American Women: 1607-1950, three volumes, Harvard University Press, 1971.
- (With Nissenbaum; and author of introduction and index, with Nissenbaum) The Salem Witchcraft Papers: Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692, compiled and transcribed in 1938 by the Works Progress Administration, under the supervision of Archie N. Frost, Da Capo (New York City), 1977.
- (With Nissenbaum; and author of introduction, with Nissenbaum) Salem Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England, Wadsworth (Belmont, CA), 1972, reprinted with new preface by Boyer and Nissenbaum, Northeastern University Press (Boston), 1993.
- (Editor and author of commentary) Reagan as President: Contemporary Views of the Man, His Politics, and His Policies, Ivan R. Dee (Chicago), 1990.
- (Editor-in-chief) Oxford Companion to United States History, Oxford University Press, 2001.
Also, general editor of the "History of American Thought and Culture" series, University of Wisconsin Press, 1984-94.
Contributor to reference works and collaborative projects, among them Encyclopedia of American History, essay on Bernard Baruch, Frank Kellogg, and Henry Stimpson, Dushkin, 1974; Notable American Women, Supplement 1: The Modern Era, essay on Dorothy Thompson and Blanche Knopf, Harvard University Press, 1980; Encyclopedia Americana, essays on Carrie Chapman Catt, Henry Blackwell, and Antoinette Blackwell; Dictionary of American Biography, Scribner's, Supplement III, essays on John Macrae and John Woolsey, 1973, Supplement IV, essays on Frank Buck, Frank Crowninshield, Paul Harris, James McGraw, Barney Oldfield, Charles M. Sheldon, Harry Thaw, and Charles Towne, 1974, Supplement IV, essay on Franklin D'Olier, 1977, and Supplement VI, essay on Duncan Hines, 1980; Dictionary of American History, Scribner's, 1976; Encyclopedia of American Political History, Volume 1, edited by Jack P. Greene, Scribner's, 1984; Encyclopedia of American Social History, Volume 1, edited by Mary R. Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, and Peter W. Williams, Scribner's, 1993; A Companion to American Thought, edited by Richard W. Fox and James T. Kloppenberg, Blackwell (Cambridge, MA), 1995; History of the United States, Volume 5, edited by Donald T. Critchlow and Andrzej Bartnicki, Polish Academic Press (Warsaw), 1996; Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, Volume 3, edited by Stephen J. Stein, Continuum (New York City), 1997; A History of the Book in America, Volume 4, edited by Carl Kaestle and Janice Radway, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming; as well as World Book Encyclopedia, American National Biography, and Oxford Companion to American Military History.
Contributor of numerous chapters in coauthored works, scholarly articles, book reviews, and review essays to periodicals, among them American Historical Review, American Quarterly, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Diplomatic History, Historian, History Teacher, Houston Review, Journal of American History, Journal of the American Medical Association, New Republic, Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research in History, Reviews in American History, Virginia Quarterly Review, and William and Mary Quarterly. Also contributor of essays and commentary to periodicals, including Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Chronicle of Higher Education, Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine, Harvard Divinity School Bulletin, Messenger Magazine, Nation, New Republic, New York Times Newsday Books, Policy Review, Tikkun, Washington Post Magazine, and Wisconsin Academy Review.
National Book Award nomination in History, 1975 (for Salem Possessed);
John Dunning Prize, American Historical Association, 1974 (for Salem Possessed);
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1973-74;
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Messiah College, 1979;
Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, 1982-83;
American Antiquarian Society, Elected to membership, 1984;
Society of American Historians, Elected to membership, 1990;
Wisconsin Institute for Study of War, Peace and Global Cooperation, Faculty Award, 1992;
Banta Award for literary achievement by a Wisconsin author, Wisconsin Library Assn., 1993 (for When Time Shall Be No More);
"Notable Wisconsin Author" Award, Wisconsin Library Association, 1999;
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Elected to membership, 1997;
Massachusetts Historical Society, Elected to membership, 1997;
Governor's Award for Excellence in Public Humanities Scholarship, Wisconsin, 2003;
Listed in Contemporary Authors, Who's Who in American Education.
Additional Info:
Boyer has made numerous television appearances on nationally broadcast programs including: "The Menace of Nuclear Weapons," History Channel "20th Century with Mike Wallace"
"Apocalypse," PBS "Frontline" program, Nov. 22, 1999;
"Monkey Trial" [The 1925 Scopes Trial], PBS, "The American Experience" series, February 2002;
"Revelation," Discovery Channel, Jan. 7, 2004; BBC-TV, Apr. 25, 2004;
"Witch Hunt" [Salem witchcraft], History Channel, September 31, 2004;
"Countdown to Armageddon," History Channel, December 26, 2004;
"Antichrist," History Channel, Dec. 26, 2005;
"The Rapture," Discovery Times Channel, Jan. 31, 2006 and rebroadcasts;
"Secrets of Revelation: National Geographic Channel, July 16, 2006 and rebroadcasts;
"The Doomsday Code," Channel 4 (Great Britain). Sept. 16, 2006;
"U.S. Strategic Nuclear Policy: An Oral History" (4 DVD set, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 2005). He has also had national radio interviews on : PBS, CBC, BBC, etc.; and numerous interviews on various topics on local radio stations and TV channels; Wisconsin Public Radio; Wisconsin Public Television.
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Washington is bracing for a fight in 2013 over immigration reform, a battle that could improve upon -- or threaten to exacerbate -- Republicans' standing among Latino voters.
Gov. Bob McDonnell, R-Va., explains how the GOP can rebrand beginning with its policies on immigration and other issues.
White House and Democratic leaders have begun signaling that they might pursue the type of comprehensive immigration reform deal that has eluded President Barack Obama during his first term in office.
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Their renewed push coincides with a fresh round of soul-searching among Republicans after Hispanic and Latino voters, who made up 10 percent of the electorate, broke for Obama over GOP nominee Mitt Romney by a 44-point margin.
An immigration reform debate next year in Congress could offer Republicans an opportunity to improve upon their 2012 performance, or further push Latino voters into the "firmly Democratic" category.
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A sign points to a polling place inside El Mercado de Los Angeles, a Mexico-style marketplace in the heavily Latino East L.A. area, on Tuesday.
Wider battle
Undergirding this inflection point for Republicans is a broader battle for the soul of the Republican Party. It pits the GOP's conservative wing, which speaks vocally against immigration reform, against leaders who urge the party to adapt for the sake of future electability.
"Republicans should approach it as the party of Reagan and Bush -- the party that has historically been pro-immigration," said Grover Norquist, the anti-tax activist who is also spearheading an effort to sway fellow Republicans toward embracing immigration reform.
"We're up against a president who introduced nothing legislatively. The idea that Obama and Democrats are good on this is all optics and no reality," he said.
The party is a far cry from the days of George W. Bush's presidency, when he urged Congress to pass an immigration reform bill that offered undocumented immigrants a pathway to citizenship.
Republican leaders like Arizona Sen. John McCain were vocal proponents of those sorts of reforms, but the party has drifted rightward since conservatives balked at Bush's 2007 immigration push -- and it has bled Latino voters ever since.
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"The best thing about Republicans losing is that it will likely force them to cut an immigration deal," said former Bush aide Mark McKinnon.
McCain, one of the party's centrist figures on immigration, cut an ad during his 2010 re-election campaign urging the government to "build the danged fence" -- that is, a fence sealing the border between the United States and Mexico.
NBC's Tamron Hall breaks down the results of the NBC News national exit poll, which shows a gender gap that worked in President Obama's favor as well as a boost from the Latino community, from which he received more votes than four years ago.
Republican senators who had supported the DREAM Act -- a piece of legislation offering a pathway to citizenship for children brought to the U.S. illegally -- withdrew their support and voted against the proposal in the last lame-duck Congress, fearing the backlash of the Tea Party at its apex of power.
Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer spearheaded one of the most far-reaching immigration laws in the country, which allowed law enforcement officials to ask anyone whom they suspected of illegally being in the United States for proof of their residence.
The party's shift was even more vividly illustrated during the 2012 Republican presidential primary. In that race, Mitt Romney positioned himself to the right of his opponents, going so far as to characterize his policy as favoring "self-deportation" by making life in the United States so difficult for undocumented immigrants that they would voluntarily choose to leave.
"Should I win a second term, a big reason I will win a second term is because the Republican nominee and the Republican Party have so alienated the fastest-growing demographic group in the country, the Latino community," Obama told the editors of the Des Moines Register in October, adding that it would facilitate a "deep interest" in the GOP to get immigration reform done.
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Added David Axelrod, the senior adviser to the president's campaign, two days after the election: "I think the Republican Party has some soul-searching to do after this election, and all you have to do is look at the nature of our coalition."
The political timing for Democrats is ripe, and they have sent every signal in the aftermath of the election that they intend to seize the moment.
Texas Congressman-elect Joaquin Castro joins NBC's Andrea Mitchell to discuss his election, immigration reform and minorities in Congress.
Vice President Joe Biden told reporters on Wednesday that he was "very optimistic" about the prospects for immigration reform because the election had served as a "wake-up call" for his GOP colleagues.
Gearing up for vote
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Wednesday as well that the Senate should expect to vote on immigration reform this year.
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"The only thing we need to get immigration reform done is a few Republican votes," he said at a post-election press conference. "It's high on my list, and we're going to have a few votes on it."
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Latinos and immigrants rallied in front of the White House on Thursday, calling on President Obama to fulfill his promise of passing comprehensive immigration reform.
Democrats' biggest ally in gathering Republican support, might be the specter of further Republican marginalization among Latinos.
"As a 14-year elected Republican official, I have to say that I'm very concerned about the Republican Party -- not that I didn't see it coming," Republican Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said on a conference call Thursday to address immigration.
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He called on his fellow Republicans to reject the "extreme right," and move forward with some kind of immigration reform.
Norquist said he believes Republicans in Congress can be swayed toward immigration reform -- and even seize the initiative on it -- within a year.
"We need our Paul Ryan on the subject," he said, "the person who understands this issue better than anyone else, and walk colleagues through, step-by-step."
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Doha: A delegate from typhoon-hit Philippines demanded on Thursday that ministers at the United Nations climate talks put aside their political differences and take bold steps to combat global warming.
In an emotional appeal, Naderev Sano spoke of the "heartbreaking tragedy" of Typhoon Bopha, which has so far killed more than 350 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless, and urged participants at the United Nations climate conference in Qatar's capital to stop procrastinating on committing to halting the dangerous trend.
"As we vacillate and procrastinate here, we are suffering. There is massive and widespread devastation back home," Sano said. "Heartbreaking tragedies like this are not unique to the Philippines."
Sano's appeal was the starkest since the talks began nearly two weeks ago in Doha and the latest to connect increasing and more deadly storms such as Hurricane Sandy and climate change.
Climate scientists say it's difficult to link a single weather event to global warming but some say the damage caused by Sandy and other tropical storms was worse because of rising sea levels.
"I am making an urgent appeal not as negotiator, not as a leader of my delegation but as a Filipino," Sano said. "I appeal to whole world, the leaders all over the world. Open your eyes to the stark reality we face. I appeal to ministers. The outcome of work is not what our political masters want. It's about what is demanded by 7 billion people. No more delays. No more excuses. Let Doha be remembered as the place where we found the political will to turn things around."
The appeal came as activists and other ministers at the talks have becoming increasingly alarmed that nothing significant will come out of the conference, which is to end Friday. Rich and poor countries are feuding over financing to help the poorest cope with climate change and commitments from rich countries to tackle emissions in the next few years.
Nations have struggled for two decades to come to agreement that would keep global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), compared to preindustrial times. Temperatures have already risen about 0.8 degree Celsius (1.4 Fahrenheit), according to the latest report by the UN's top climate body.
A recent projection by the World Bank showed temperatures are expected to increase by up to 4 degree Celsius (7.2 Fahrenheit) by 2100.
A deal was never expected at the Qatar meeting but even the minimal goals appear now to be in doubt. Participants are supposed to agree to extend the Kyoto Protocol, which will expire this year.
But so far Japan, Canada, Russia and New Zealand have opted out of the deal leaving the 27-member European Union, Australia and several small countries representing only 15 percent of global emitters.
A work plan is also set be approved to help prepare for what is expected to be a deal in 2015 that would cover all countries and go into effect by 2020.
"Time is running out. I'm getting concerned that ministers are not stepping up to the mark and providing solutions that we need at this stage of the game," Gregory Barkey, Britain's Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change, told The Associated Press.
"We need increased flexibility on all sides and a higher sense of urgency," he said. "Developed countries also need to demonstrate a clear ambition across the board in terms in terms climate goals."
Much of the frustration on Thursday was around the Kyoto extension, with delegates still wrangling over issues like the length of the second commitment period and what countries who signed onto the new pact would do to tackle global warming.
"We are at a make-or-break point. Kyoto is the key to unlocking the deal," said Nauru's Foreign Minister Kieren Keke, chairperson of the Alliance of Small Island States, which includes scores of countries under threat from rising seas. "The second commitment period must have true environmental integrity and raise ambition now. The deal on KP and overall ambition will determine whether we succeed here, or fail."


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Quanell X, Open Carry Texas gun group clash over Houston Fifth Ward rally
Open Carry Texas is coming to Houston and the neighborhood they are planning on visiting is not sitting well with some people.
The gun rights advocacy group, which has made waves for their practice of carrying loaded assault rifles and other weapons at their demonstrations, has announced a visit to Houston's Fifth Ward this coming Saturday at noon.
"There was a false criticism that we only went to rich white neighborhoods, so we planned a Fifth Ward event," says Open Carry Texas leader C.J. Grisham. "We also want to work with the minority community to get them more involved in their right to legally bear arms."
The event on Saturday afternoon is set to be located at the corner of Lyons Avenue and Lockwood, and scheduled to last about two hours, with two guest speakers included. It will not be a march, as past Open Carry Texas appearance have been, but a static event.
On Wednesday night members of the local Open Carry Texas group and Grisham will be meeting with members of the community and the Houston Police Department to discuss what's coming up. Grisham says that he will not subject his members to an unsafe environment.
Meanwhile community activist Quanell X has had some terse words for the Open Carry people. He told KPRC-TV that if the group shows up armed that people from the community will show up with weapons too to counter them.
"Coming like this is totally unacceptable. So if you do come, I guarantee you we will not bring a butter knife to a gun fight," Quanell X told KPRC-TV.
Grisham stresses that this is not meant to be a standoff of any kind.
"We aren't just a bunch of white guys with guns. We're 30 percent Hispanic and we include everyone that believes in gun rights," Grisham says. He thinks that responsible gun ownership, no matter what is carried, would solve problems that he says plague the community.
"I believe that if the law-abiding citizens in the Fifth Ward exercise their right to bear arms they can solve the crime problem there," Grisham adds.
"If this is about gun rights, we can educate our own people about gun rights," X said.
Grisham says that the response has been "supportive and condescending" at the same time for what the Open Carry group has planned. He says the local Open Carry group has a great relationship with HPD and that this is the first time an event has been this controversial in Houston.
Houston, he says, has been one of the most supportive cities for the Open Carry movement. Events in San Antonio and Austin have also been popular.
Grisham finds the gun laws in Texas to be somewhat racist, as he considers the price for a concealed handgun license to be prohibitive for some minority groups.
"Getting a CHL will cost you upwards of $250, not to mention the price of a weapon," Grisham says. His group offers deep-discounted CHL classes for those that would like to take them.
Quannel X told KPRC-TV that he would rather Open Carry members not even show up.
"We don't need somebody from the outside coming in with guns, who historically have not been friends of our community," he told reporters.


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An E-Reader Revolution for Africa?
It is time for a vocabulary lesson in Bernard Opio's sixth-form class at the Humble Primary School in Mukono, Uganda. One new word the students have already learned this year is "Kindle."
Mr. Opio instructs them to pull out their Amazon.com Kindle e-reading devices. Within seconds, most of the teenagers have a digital Oxford English Dictionary open on their screens. "It took the kids just a few days to learn how to use them," says Mr. Opio.


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Where do you live, what do you do, and is it cool? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Where do you live, what do you do, and is it cool? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Germany View previous topic :: View next topic Will you still be in germany a year from now? yea 20% [ 1 ] nea 80% [ 4 ] Total Votes : 5 Author Message istorikJoined: 13 Nov 2004Posts: 8Location: Germany Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:29 am Post subject: Where do you live, what do you do, and is it cool? I thought it would be cool if we all posted and said where we live, what we teach(kids, adults, business english...) and how we like it. Who knows, some of us might be in the same cities. also, are you planning on a long term career in germany or are you going to move on next year or whenever your contract is up? I for one live in Tübingen and teach in a town called Horb. Both of these cities are in Baden-Württemburg. I teach conversational english to a bunch of german engineers at a company called Leuco. It was tough at first because a) they are all über serious engineers and b) they are mostly about 20 years older than me. Tübingen is fun because it is a student-university city with alot to do. But despite that, I am leaning towards moving on. Asia and Russia sound way too interesting to stick around here for another contract period. Also, was denkt ihr? Back to top eslHQJoined: 29 Jan 2005Posts: 43Location: Korea Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 1:47 pm Post subject: oops, wrong country Back to top scot47Joined: 10 Jan 2003Posts: 15343 Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:40 am Post subject: Germany is the wrong country ? Back to top jasoncongaJoined: 01 Dec 2005Posts: 36Location: the black forest Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:04 pm Post subject: i'm in freiburg, far SW part of the country. I can't say the market is bad here, but you've got to be willing to leave freiburg to make money. I have job an hour away by car (80 minutes with train), another 40 minutes away by car and another 15 minutes by train. I do have long days with occasional pauses in the middle but really I feel like I have plenty of work, about 35hours/week with 9 different employers. Freiburg itself is an amazing place, it's one of my favorite spots in europe, actually on earth because of how i'm able to live. if only the finanzamt will leave me alone and let me get out of last year only have had to pay about 500euro in taxes...please please please! p.s. i'll be here in a year most likely Back to top poroJoined: 04 Oct 2004Posts: 274 Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:44 pm Post subject: Speaking as kindly as possible, I found Germany and most Germans ok, but the German state is intensely irritating. They are very bureaucratic, and the system is inefficient. They can make you spit with frustration. Strange, because many of our departments and state organization ideas are modeled on theirs, but ours work without a problem, and theirs drive you nuts. hmmm.... Back to top poroJoined: 04 Oct 2004Posts: 274 Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:52 pm Post subject: But in defense of Germany, Russia is worse. ...from many standpoints Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Germany All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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We have, or had, a total bond.
Erath wine- screw cap, no cork;
bed/floor- spirits and good times;
Constant friends, always in life!
Planted seed of confidence- always knew I mattered, never knew that much. A Paradox! Never wanted to ask, afraid of answer.
Now develop feelings, but know that I am valued more as "someone without" that feeling;
To free the truth would violate expectations;
I thought I could think it away, pretend it away, ignore it away!
Continued to respect your interests, more than my own desires; recognized that your happiness is more important than my desires.
Over time it got stronger- Japan, thought it would fade away- instead I passed the minutes and hours, pressing and pushing at the gym.
Earthquake/nuclear reactor- thought of losing so strong; realized what you meant, realized the pain of losing you.
Came back- tried to play it cool;
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So hard- began to feel awkward, certain situations were mentally and physically intimate. Yoga, working out, even sharing a quick nap in your bed.
Began to feel like I was betraying you; betraying your thoughts of who I was, and who I was to be. Moved – thought maybe that was the opportunity I needed to forget;
Still couldn't- "Nuclear Option."
Destruction of the friendship would be the only way to forget and move on; Still failed. You're everything to me. And have been.
What will do it? Very torn up.
Spent so much time, every hour, and every day…denying, lying to myself, pretending. Is it possible to lie to yourself? Is it possible that I will one day believe the whispers I tell myself? The denial? I hear your voice every day, and I see your smile every night. How to stop this….?
She's gonna read this, and ask: "What do u want me to say? I have another life now. This is in the past."
What do I answer…? How do I face this? This love- it wont die. I've tried everything. I'm afraid it's forever long.


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Those billboards around town you keep confusing for "Love and Basketball 2?" They're actually ads for "Just Wright," an overly simplistic romantic comedy starring two very talented and charismatic rappers, though you wouldn't know it by this film.
Queen Latifah takes the lead as Leslie Wright, a 35-year-old physical therapist who may or may not live at home, and, if she doesn't, her omnipresent parents, James Pickens Jr. and Pam Grier, sure do stop by a hell of a lot. A diehard Nets fan, she meets their alarmingly tiny star player, Scott McKnight (Common) one night at a gas station and they very platonically hit it off. When he suffers a potentially career ending injury, she nurses him back to health, predictably falling for him along the way. The problem is he's already engaged to her vapid, gold digger god-sister and best friend, Morgan, (the unspeakably beautiful Paula Patton).
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The day's top national and international news.
Will these two get together? Will he choose inner beauty over a trophy wife? Will someone please tell us who green-lit this trash?
Seeming less like a film and more like a very loooong tedious episode of a sitcom, the only thing missing from this in-aptly titled flick is canned laughter. Without chemistry or pizzazz, the plot trudges along with painful predictability until all you can do is roll your eyes and whisper to your next door seatmate, "Did they really just do that?" Oh yes, they did.
Let's just start with the main characters' names, shall we?
Wright and McKnight.
Get it, get it? He's her McKnight in shining armor. She's Miss Wright. No really, someone got paid a lot of money to write that. And it's nuances such as those which make "Just Wright" so very wrong. Director Sanaa Hamri, who previously helmed the very loveable "Something New," as well as the offensively awful "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2," turns her leads into caricatures. Forced and unrelentingly cheesy, the only thing worse than the writing is the acting, which is best compared to a basketball groupie's silicone implants: stiff, inorganic, and implausibly overblown.
Queen Latifah was nominated for an Oscar for cryin' out loud. Usually, we would pay to watch her read the phone book. Could this be Common's fault? He may be easy on the eyes and a great musician, but after a solid debut in the otherwise wildly misguided, "Smokin Aces," he's done nothing but recycle the same corrupt cop performance from "Street Kings" to "Date Night." Phylicia Rashad, a sitcom veteran, gives the only grounded performance in the entire film, perhaps because she's so comfortable with the construct, and, sidenote, what the hell was Mercad Brookes' agent thinking? The poor guy is a glorified extra.
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"Warrior," starring Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton as estranged brothers on a collision course in an MMA tournament, was one of the great overlooked gems of 2011. Though its box office take was meager, it was affecting enough to have spawned Kevin James next film.
"Here Comes the Boom" stars James as a teacher at a high school facing massive budget cuts. So James vows to raise the money necessary to save the music program, and eventually decides that pro MMA fighting is his best way to do that.
In "Warrior," Edgerton's character is a high school teacher with an upside-down mortgage who returns to his MMA roots, fighting in bouts staged in parking lots to make $500 a night. One can easily imagine James and Adam Sandler watching the film at home and thinking, "Wouldn't it be funny if he was a fat guy?"
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The tone of the "Boom" trailer is weirdly serio-comic, giving the sense that it's striving for some sort of uplifting message. We'll know for sure when the film opens Oct. 12.
If nothing else, maybe "Boom" will nudge a few more folks toward "Warrior."


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The UK government has showered venture capitalists with £200m of taxpayers' money for high-risk investments, the science and universities minister David Willetts told MPs today.
Willetts said £50m of this cash has already been set aside as an angel investment pot. "For the first time, we've said we'll co-invest," he said.
Altogether, more than £1bn has been directed towards the venture-capitalist industry, according to Capital for Enterprise (CfEL), the fund established in 2008 that's wholly owned by the government's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Willetts' £200m refers to a portion of this: the ECFs or Enterprise Capital Funds, which make investments in small and medium businesses.
Willetts was being grilled by the House of Commons Select Science and Technology Committee, which is conducting an inquiry into innovation, and how ideas can be commercialised.
Earlier witnesses to the committee have included inventor and entrepreneur James Dyson. He said the escalation of tuition fees may deter prospective engineering graduates from higher education – something Willetts refuted. Dyson had also called for clarity over patents, with the enforcement process made simpler and stronger. Here Willetts didn't have such a strong story – he mentioned Patent County Courts, but couldn't give a specific progress update, and mentioned the IPO's arbitration procedures.
"We have tried to make our departmental responsibilities a little easier," he told MPs, which sounds like he's keen to wash his hands of it altogether.
The introduction of punitive damages for patents may help tackle infringement, deterring opportunistic copycats from chancing their luck in expensive court cases. Last week Dyson wrote in the FT that inconsistent court rulings were bad news for inventors, as they increased the risk. MPs enquired whether Willetts had a view. He didn't appear to be up to speed. Ian Hargreaves' "Google Review" had done little to address this.
"We're believers of innovation," said Willetts, resurrecting the New Labour buzzword that's spawned an army of jargon-touting consultants.
The TSB: jargon rich
Two-and-a-half a years into the Coalition, most of Labour's interventionist policies remain intact. Gordon Brown's Technology Strategy Board quango, which styles itself "the UK's innovation agency", has a £390m budget this year.
Yet the most promising is a fillip to the patent system. The "patent box" allows profits derived from patents to be taxed at a 10 per cent rate, and it was introduced in the 2012 budget. It hasn't come into effect yet, but it's very good news for companies such as Cambridge-based ARM.
Bong logic
Venture capital traditionally draws money from high-worth individuals and directs it to long-term, high-risk ventures. Most ventures fail.
The Conservatives' enthusiasm for throwing taxpayers' money at such speculative investments is curious, as it echoes the free spending Labour administrations. Conservatives traditionally only support state intervention in cases of market failure. Yet there's no indication that the wholesale venture capital market is failing - there are always more bad ideas than there is funding for them.
It logically follows, therefore, that the taxpayer is providing a subsidy for bad ideas. It may be the oddest use of public funds ever made by a Conservative minister. ®


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COLUMBIA - The City of Columbia held a public information meeting Tuesday night to discuss the rezoning of 13 acres of land for Boone Hospital Center's new medical park on the corner of Forum and Nifong Boulevards.
The land was first purchased by the Boone Hospital Center Board of Trustees 20 years ago with the intent to one day expand. The proposed project includes four buildings totaling about 130,000 square feet. Fred Parry, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, said the project will most likely include an urgent care facility, a physical therapy office and other services supplementary to the core mission of the hospital. Exactly what will be in each building is still up in the air as Parry said they want to keep up with changes in the health care industry.
"We're trying to see how things are going to shake out," Parry said. "And really, we want to see how business models in health care models are going to be structured.
Parry said the Board is excited about the opportunity the project could serve a larger part of Boone County.
"The big thing with this project is access," Parry said. "There will be more convenient access to health care opportunities for people living in the southern part of the community."
The trustees are requesting to rezone the property to commercial zoning to allow for more flexibility in what can be built. A handful of concerned citizens who live in neighborhoods near the building site came to the meeting Tuesday night. Many worried about the removal of tree lines, and the increased lighting and noise the new development could bring.
Jay Gebhardt from A Civil Group, the company working on the project, answered questions about the specifics of the plan and assured those in attendance the project will have a minimal effect on their property.
The Planning and Zoning Committee will be hold a public hearing on the plans at its February 21 meeting. The plans will then go to the City Council at its March 4 meeting. Parry estimates it will be at least a year before the project begins.


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"Surely I do not misinterpret the spirit of the occasion when I assume that the whole body of the people covenanat with me and with each other to-day to support and defend the Constitution and the Union of the States, to yeild willing obedience to all the laws and each to every other citizen his equal civil and polical rights." ~Benjamin Harrison, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1889.
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Welcome the new Gage Center for Student Success
Over the winter break, several departments moved into the Gage Center on the second floor (link level) of the Lindell Library. This change will provide greater accessibility to services for students and will allow for enhanced communication between departments.
The programs located in the Gage Center are:
- CLASS—Regina Hopingardner, Sheila Fox Wassink, Rick Gubash, Barbara Harvey, Rachel Kruzel, Anne Lynch
- Access Center—Sadie Curtis
- TRiO/SSS—Kimberly Bestler, Kevin Cheatham, Melody Martagon-Geiger, Aly Olson, Sherron Reese
- Academic Skills Office/Tutor Center—Annette Carpenter, Debbie Shapiro, Benjy Kent
On February 6, the academic advising staff will also relocate to the Gage Center. Their offices will be located in room 227, adjacent to the computer area (former home of the Admission Possible coaches).
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All students should check in at the reception desk for appointments with any of these staff members. In addition, students who are using the Groves accommodations lab (for testing) and students who are serving as test proctors or notetakers through the CLASS office should also check in at the desk. Reception desk hours are 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Friday.
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