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News about Constitutions, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Oct. 29, 2015
Nepal's Parliament elects country's first female president, Bidhya Devi Bhandari, who had pushed for new Constitution to require a woman be either president or vice-president. MORE
Oct. 17, 2015
Human Rights Watch report offers details about number of instances of grisly violence involving protesters that took place in Terai region of Nepal as lawmakers prepared country's Constitution. MORE
Oct. 16, 2015
Kathmandu Journal; Nepal is paralyzed by fuel shortage caused by protests over Constitution and related dispute with India, who provides all country's fuel; as lines for gas snake for miles around capital city of Kathmandu, residents find some solace in humor and religion; lack of fuel also hampers ongoing earthquake relief effort, risking disaster as winter approaches. MORE
Oct. 1, 2015
Newly initiated border policy in India, requiring thorough search of every truck passing into Nepal, has some 400 trucks backed up at customs post in West Bengal State; Nepali officials say policy is economic blockade in retaliation for Nepal's adopting of Constitution over India's objection that Nepalese population should be consulted more thoroughly. MORE
Sep. 29, 2015
Fuel crisis in Nepal caused by ongoing protests over Constitution and quarrel with India, requires rationing; officials accuse India, who provides all of Nepal's fuel, of economic blockade, while India claims its trucks are being blocked by anti-Constitution protesters at Nepalese border. MORE
Sep. 21, 2015
Nepal formally adopts constitution and Pres Ram Baran Yadav hails achievement after signing document; political infighting has delayed adoption of constitution for almost decade, and process that led to current document was attended by violence that left more than 40 dead. MORE
Sep. 17, 2015
New constitution is approved by large majority of Nepal's Constituent Assembly over objections of southern and westerners, 40 of whom have died in protests over provincial boundaries. MORE
Sep. 10, 2015
Nepalese police kill four ethnic Madhesis during large protest against how provincial boundaries will be determined in country's proposed constitution; 34 people have been killed in recent demonstrations, while general strike has shut down services in most of the region for nearly month. MORE
Sep. 10, 2015
Supporters of Bolivian president Evo Morales, who is serving third term, seek Constitutional amendment allowing him to run again in 2020; country's first indigenous leader would face referendum if two-thirds of Congress, which is controlled by his backers, passes legislation. MORE
Sep. 7, 2015
Thailand National Reform Council votes down proposed constitution, ensuring continued rule by military junta into 2016; many in country have become cynical about government and are calling process political theater and predicting indefinite military rule. MORE
Sep. 2, 2015
Nepalese police clash with demonstrators protesting draft of new constitution that includes drawing new provinces, resulting in at least five deaths in Birgunj and Kalaiya; ethnic groups say new divisions dilute their political power. MORE
Aug. 27, 2015
Op-Ed article by former Rep Anthony D Weiner of New York calls for change to New York State Constitution to allow New York City more governance over its own affairs, with less meddling from Albany; says holding referendum asking voters if they want to convene constitutional convention is most practical, albeit messy, path to mending broken relationship between Albany and City Hall. MORE
Aug. 25, 2015
Demonstration in Tikapur, Nepal, against draft constitution turns violent, leaving at least nine people dead, after protesters turn on police officers. MORE
Aug. 11, 2015
Agreement reached between four major Nepalese political parties to split nation into six provinces is met by protests across country; lack of division has been obstacle to creating new constitution for Nepal. MORE
Dec. 25, 2014
Prime Min Shinzo Abe of Japan begins new term in office; vows to revise the nation's Constitution, which renounces war, despite opposition from voters and to set up deregulation policies as part of his plan to revive and grow country's economy. MORE
Jul. 23, 2014
Thailand adopts temporary constitution, taking first step toward the return of electoral democracy after two months of military rule. MORE
Jul. 3, 2014
Editorial contends it is disturbing that Japan's Prime Min Shinzo Abe has reinterpreted his country's pacifist postwar Constitution so that military can be more assertive; asserts change has increased anxiety in region that needs to reduce tension. MORE
Jan. 27, 2014
Members of Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly vote to approve country's new Constitution, completing two-year drafting process and opening way for a new democratic era, three years after uprising that set off Arab Spring. MORE
Jan. 20, 2014
Egyptian prosecutor charges liberal intellectual Amr Hamzawy with insulting judiciary after he posts message on Twitter criticizing court ruling against pro-democracy American nonprofits; charges offer glimpse of how military-led government may apply new Constitution's free speech provisions to intensify pressure on dissenters. MORE
Jan. 19, 2014
Secretary of State John Kerry raises concerns about fairness of referendum on Egypt's revised Constitution, which passed with 98.1 percent of vote. MORE
Jan. 19, 2014
Quick History column reviews notable news events of the week, including the funeral of former Israeli Prime Min Ariel Sharon and Egypt's referendum on a new draft constitution. MORE
Jan. 17, 2014
Egypt's official news media says the new constitution revised after military takeover is headed to ratification by more than 95 percent of votes cast, even as authorities step up crackdown on journalists and dissenters that human rights groups say belies charter's promises of free speech. MORE
Jan. 16, 2014
Editorial warns Egypt is on verge of enacting Constitution that would legitimize 2013 coup and enable authoritarian rule by giving power and immunity to military; observes that, by contrast, Tunisia is set to approve one of most liberal constitutions in Arab world; holds impending election of Gen Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi in Egypt may bring stability but it will be at expense of democracy. MORE
Jan. 12, 2014
Egypt's top military officer General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi indicates he will seek presidency if referendum on revised Constitution passes; civilian government is heavily promoting Constitution and has shown little tolerance for opposition. MORE
Dec. 17, 2013
Campaign to win support for Egypt's draft Constitution gets off to an awkward start when observers note several errors on a large banner promoting the campaign, including a misspelling of the word 'Egyptian' in Arabic. MORE
Dec. 15, 2013
Egypt's interim government sets Jan 14, 2014, as start of two-day referendum on a revised Constitution, which will be the first gauge of support for military's ouster of nation's first fairly elected president, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood. MORE
Dec. 5, 2013
Editorial warns Egyptians are squandering another chance to build a broadly inclusive democratic system with their latest constitutional revisions; contends new charter defies the revolutionary promise of the Arab spring by reinforcing the power of institutions that have long held the country in an iron grip. MORE
Dec. 2, 2013
Experts warn that draft Egyptian Constitution, appearing to afford citizens important new rights, also gives privileged status to institutions that have repeatedly thwarted change during Egypt's years of revolutionary turmoil; such groups include the police, seen as main instigator of abuses. MORE
Mar. 23, 2013
Op-Ed article by lawyer Petina Gappah welcomes new Zimbabwean Constitution, which will mean more curbs on presidential power and a strengthened bill of rights; holds progressive provisions will improve byzantine citizenship rules that have long disenfranchised many of country's rightful voters. MORE
Mar. 20, 2013
Voters overwhelmingly approve Zimbabwe's new Constitution, with more than three million people voting yes and fewer than 200,000 voting no; new charter is crucial step toward holding presidential elections to replace uneasy power-sharing government installed after violent 2008 election. MORE
Mar. 17, 2013
Zimbabweans go to polls to vote in referendum on new Constitution, crucial step toward holding presidential election. MORE
Mar. 12, 2013
Lawmakers from Hungarian Prime Min Viktor Orban's conservative party pass amendment to Constitution that critics fear could undermine judiciary, silence criticism and threaten democratic checks and balances. MORE
Feb. 4, 2013
Prominent Chinese intellectuals and publications are urging Communist Party to enforce principles contained within country's Constitution which was ratified in 1982, but has largely been ignored; strategy reflects emerging consensus among advocates for political reform that taking moderate stand in support of Constitution is best way to persuade Xi Jinping to open up China's party-controlled system. MORE
Dec. 27, 2012
Egyptian Pres Mohamed Morsi takes responsibility for 'mistakes' made during run-up to ratification of country's new Constitution, appealing for unity after bittern national debate and pledging to respect one-third of voters who cast their ballots against it; apparent attempt at reconciliation with opposition represents another notable step in Egypt's political transition. MORE
Dec. 27, 2012
Editorial notes that Islamist-backed constitution that has taken effect in Egypt has only exacerbated divisions and left millions of non-Islamists feeling disenfranchised, angry and determined to force changes in the document; holds that both Pres Mohamed Morsi and his opponents must seek compromise and unity if they hope to set Egypt on a constructive path. MORE
Dec. 23, 2012
Islamist-backed constitution appears to be headed for approval, propelling Egypt's deeply divided political factions into next phase in battle over country's future; all sides predict that charter will win approval as millions of Egyptians go to polls for final round of referendum. MORE
Dec. 20, 2012
Zaghloul el-Balshi, one of officials in charge of overseeing Egypt's vote on contentious Islamist-backed draft Constitution, resigns, citing health problems; move follows boycotts of referendum by judges and others that have left voting process with severe shortage of monitors to oversee it. MORE
Dec. 17, 2012
Supporters and opponents of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi fight over preliminary results of referendum on draft constitution; Muslim Brotherhood says that roughly 57 percent of those who cast ballots voted for proposed constitution, but opposition leaders say voting was marred by irregularities; each side is seeking to frame results as favorable. MORE
Dec. 16, 2012
Egyptians vote peacefully and in large numbers in referendum on Islamist-backed draft constitution; hope is that results will end three weeks of violence, division and distrust between Islamists an their opponents over ground rules of Egypt's promised democracy. MORE
Dec. 14, 2012
Editorial questions whether referendum on Egypt's new constitution will result in consensus needed to lay foundation for enduring democratic change, given fact that process managed by Pres Mohamed Morsi has been so chaotic and divisive. MORE
Dec. 13, 2012
Egyptians living abroad begin casting ballots in bitterly divisive referendum on Islamist-backed draft constitution, start of vote that has become test of country's nascent democracy. MORE
Dec. 12, 2012
Egyptian Pres Mohamed Morsi's advisers and panel of intellectuals struggle to work out last-minute proposals that might broaden support for Islamist-backed draft constitution set to go before Egypt's voters on Dec 15. MORE
Dec. 12, 2012
Thomas L Friedman Op-Ed column states conflict in Egypt over referendum on new Constitution has less to do with role of religion in government than it has to do with freedom; warns Egypt will only be stable if opposition respects that Muslim Brotherhood won election fairly, and resists its excesses with better ideas that win public to opposition's side. MORE
Dec. 9, 2012
Egypt's Pres Mohamed Morsi moves to appease his opponents by offering concessions and rescinding some power; comes hours after state news media reports that Morsi is moving toward imposing form of martial law to secure streets and allow vote on Islamist-backed draft constitution; Morsi does not budge on postponing referendum, critical demand of opposition. MORE
Dec. 8, 2012
News analysis; Egyptian Pres Mohamed Morsi is leaning more closely than ever on his Islamist allies in Muslim Brotherhood, betting on their political muscle to push through decisive victory in referendum on Egypt's divisive draft constitution. MORE
Dec. 7, 2012
Editorial urges Egyptian pres Mohamed Morsi to delay vote on draft constitution as step toward resolving crisis in country; calls on Morsi to rescind his dictatorial edict placing himself above law. MORE
Dec. 5, 2012
Riot police officers fire rounds of tear gas at tens of thousands of demonstrators outside presidential palace in Cairo protesting Islamist-backed draft constitution; clash is clearest evidence yet that new charter has widened divisions that have plagued Egypt since ouster of Pres Hosni Mubarak. MORE
Dec. 4, 2012
Top Egyptian judicial administrator says many judges will cooperate with plans to hold public vote on draft constitution supported by Pres Mohamed Morsi, setback for opposition groups who had hoped to delegitimize charter; announcement reveals split in country's judiciary, which had for most part displayed unity in opposing Morsi's decision to put his edicts above law. MORE
Dec. 3, 2012
Egypt's constitutional court delays its much-awaited decision on legitimacy of Islamist-led legislative assembly that drafted new charter, accusing crowd of Islamists outside courthouse of intimidating them; what actually took place at courthouse is matter of dispute. MORE
Dec. 2, 2012
Egyptian Pres Mohamed Morsi sets date of Dec 15 for national referendum on country's new constitution; Morsi's tone and actions have reminded critics of autocratic ways of his predecessor Hosni Mubarak, and have aroused debate about his commitment to democracy and pluralism at time when he and his Islamist allies dominate political life. MORE
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Virginia's Century-Old Mentality on Race
A state court was wrong in ruling against Gov. Terry McAuliffe's order restoring the voting rights of thousands of people with felony convictions.
July 31, 2016, Sunday
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Nepal's Prime Minister, K. P. Sharma Oli, Resigns Ahead of a No-Confidence Vote
The government of K.P. Sharma Oli struggled with a new Constitution, post-earthquake reconstruction, and a deteriorating relationship with neighboring India.
July 25, 2016, Monday
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Japan Vote Strengthens Shinzo Abe's Goal to Change Constitution
Whether Prime Minister Abe will be able to pursue his ambition of overturning the clause that calls for the complete renunciation of war remains to be seen.
July 11, 2016, Monday
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A Big Victory for Public Defense in New York
State lawmakers have finally agreed to fully pay for lawyers for poor defendants.
June 24, 2016, Friday
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E.U. Chides Poland for Failing to Uphold Rule of Law
The opinion by the bloc's executive arm, the European Commission, reflected increasing alarm in the West about Warsaw's commitment to democracy.
June 2, 2016, Thursday
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Europe's limits on the content of political expression may be leading to unintended consequences.
May 23, 2016, Monday
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Turkish Parliament Approves Stripping Lawmakers of Their Immunity
Turkey's governing party pushed through the amendment to the Constitution on Friday, a move that is likely to lead to the ouster of Kurdish deputies.
May 21, 2016, Saturday
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Skeptics Jeer After Chinese Couple Bring Party Into the Bridal Suite
The story, with photos, of a couple spending their wedding night copying the Communist Party Constitution by hand was met with scoffs on social media.
May 19, 2016, Thursday
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Rodrigo Duterte, Philippines' New Leader, Plans to Reinstate Death Penalty
Rodrigo Duterte, the nation's presumptive president, said Monday that murderers, robbers and rapists should be hanged twice, until their heads are severed.
May 17, 2016, Tuesday
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President Maithripala Sirisena, chosen by a coalition because he was agreeable and self-effacing, is trying to forge a political solution that for decades has been out of reach.
May 13, 2016, Friday
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Missouri State Extends Contracts for Lusk, Harper
April 4, 2014
SPRINGFIELD -- To help solidify the basketball coaching staffs for the future, Missouri State University has extended the contracts of men's head coach Paul Lusk and women's head coach Kellie Harper while boosting the salaries of the assistant coaches.
"We are extremely pleased with the progress we have made this year with both teams," said Missouri State Director of Athletics Kyle Moats. "Despite a season of adversity and injuries, Coach Lusk led us to 20 wins and a postseason appearance, and we're strongly encouraged by what the future holds.
"On the women's side, Coach Harper over-achieved with this team, and the progress she made in every area was evident. Our efforts to re-establish MSU as the preeminent team in the Missouri Valley Conference are on track, and our recruiting is going to be significantly improved."
University President Clifton M. Smart III also supported the actions, which must be formally approved by the Board of Governors.
"We could not be more pleased with the two basketball programs, both on the court and off," said Smart. "Of course our goal is to be in the NCAA Tournament year in and year out. But Coach Lusk and Coach Harper are building the foundation that will allow that to occur as we go forward. I believe our basketball future is bright."
Lusk's guaranteed five-year contract extension will run through March 31, 2019. Under the terms of the extension, his base salary will be increased $50,000 annually to $305,333, making the estimated economic value of his annual compensation package around $450,000. The increase will be paid from private funds. Lusk's compensation package also includes income from television and radio shows and promotional compensation provided by the University from funds received from the Missouri State Foundation. Lusk also is eligible for achievement payments based on team performance.
A pool of $20,000 will also be provided to increase the base pay of assistant coaches Jermaine Henderson, Derrick Tilmon and Brad Korn, as determined by Lusk. The additional pool was also made possible by private donations.
A native of New Baden, Ill., Lusk helped the Bears manufacture one of the best turnarounds in the Division I ranks this season as the Bears jumped from last year's 11-22 ledger to a 20-13 mark in 2013-14. MSU tied for fourth in a competitive Missouri Valley Conference race and earned a berth in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament. Lusk originally signed a five-year contract with Missouri State -- through the 2015-16 season -- when he officially became the program's 17th head coach on April 1, 2011.
"I want to thank President Smart and our Athletic Director Kyle Moats as well as the many supporters who made this possible," Lusk said. "Our goal is to compete for championships and develop young men on and off the floor. This extension will aid us in that process. I'm excited about the future of Missouri State basketball."
Harper's guaranteed five-year contract takes her current agreement through April 14, 2019. Her base salary will be increased by $15,000 to $160,000 annually. The increase will be funded by an allocation of University funds. The estimated economic value of her total compensation package, including television and radio shows, Missouri State Foundation funds and promotions is around $225,000.
Similar to the increase on the men's side, a pool of $20,000 to increase the base pay of assistant coaches Jennifer Sullivan, Jon Harper and Jackie Stiles is also part of the proposal. The pool will be funded through an allocation of University funds. Senior Woman Administrator Casey Hunt will determine what portion of the pool monies will be used to compensate increases for assistant Jon Harper, while Kellie Harper will determine the increases for Sullivan and Stiles.
The Sparta, Tenn., native recently finished her first season at the helm of the Lady Bears. The 2013-14 campaign resulted in 14 wins, including an 11-4 stretch from Dec. 6 to Feb. 14 that started with a victory over Missouri. Injuries to key players stunted the team's potential down the stretch, but Harper's leadership and program identity were evident in her Springfield debut.
"I love coaching at Missouri State and am thrilled with the support our administration shows the women's basketball program," Harper said. "President Smart and Kyle Moats share my vision for the future of the Lady Bears, and that's very exciting."
The basketball coaching contract changes are subject to final approval by the Missouri State University Board of Governors at its executive committee meeting on April 16. The Board's annual evaluation of salaries and benefits for athletics coaches and staff is held in executive session. The Missouri Open Meetings and Records Law (known as the Sunshine Law), provides public governmental bodies 72 hours in which to announce personnel decisions taken in executive session.

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No-burn day on Christmas: Phoenix's no-burn restrictions crimp celebrations
PHOENIX - Gathering around a fire is a mainstay in many Christmas celebrations. But the tradition could land you a ticket in the Phoenix area this holiday season.
Environmental regulators have barred people in Maricopa County from starting any wood-burning fires on Tuesday and Wednesday because of heightened air pollution levels.
A small team of inspectors will drive around neighborhoods to seek out violators and respond to complaints of wood burning. First-time violators will receive a warning, while repeat offenders can face fines of up to $250 per violation.
Maricopa County Air Quality Department spokesman Bob Huhn said environmental regulators understand that they are asking some people to crimp their traditions on both Christmas Eve and Christmas. But he said the county's air quality is the overriding concern.
"We don't like putting a damper on celebrations at this time of the year," Huhn said. "But we can't ignore the impact it has on residents' health."
Wood burning is expected to cause significant increases in particulate matter on Wednesday, prompting regulators to issue a high pollution advisory for Christmas. Such advisories are issued when particulate matter levels are expected to exceed federal health standards for air quality.
No-burn restrictions are ordered when stagnant air and winter inversions trap pollution close to the ground. The restrictions include bans on burning wood in fireplaces, outdoor fire pits and chimineas. Gas and electric heaters are allowed.
Sustained winds and rain could break up the pollution, but the National Weather Service says no such weather is in sight for metro Phoenix.
Over the next few days, the area is expected to have high temperatures of just over 70 degrees and lows in the mid-40s.
Given the daytime temperatures, environmental regulators hope it's too warm for people to use fireplaces during the day, but believe some people might try to use them at night when the temperatures drop.


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F-15 Strike Eagle
A twin-engine, all weather fighter with a proven design that is undefeated in air-to-air combat.
A twin-engine, all weather fighter with a proven design that is undefeated in air-to-air combat.
The F-15E Strike Eagle is a twin-engine, all weather fighter that is the backbone for the Air Force's air superiority. Its proven design is undefeated in air-to-air combat, with more than 100 aerial combat victories. Its two engines provide 58,000 pounds of thrust, which enable the F-15 to exceed speeds of Mach 2.5. Boeing has built more than 1,600 of the aircraft for six countries around the world. None of them plan to retire the F-15.
Boeing equipped the F-15 with an advanced infrared targeting and navigation system, which allows high-speed target strikes at night and in bad weather.
The F-15 can carry up to 23,000 pounds of payload, including air-to-ground weapons and air-to-air weapons.
The F-15's two 29,000 pound-thrust engines push it to two and a half times the speed of sound, which make it the eighth fastest aircraft ever built.
The F-15 has evolved into arguably the most advanced, multirole, air-superiority fighter currently in service.
|63.8 ft (19.45 m)
|18.5 ft (5.65 m)
|Wing Span
|42.8 ft (13.05 m)
|Two P&W F100 or two GE F110 turbofan engines in 29,000 lb (13,154 kg) thrust class with afterburning
|45,000 lb (20, 411 kg) class
81,000 lb (36, 700 kg) max gross takeoff
|1,875 mph (3,017 kph)
|F-15A/B/C/D air-to-air:
20mm cannon
AIM-120 (AMRAAM) missiles
AIM-9 (Sidewinder) missiles
AIM-7 (Sparrow) missiles
F-15E Air-to-ground:
precision guided munitions
variety of missiles and bombs
F-15E Air-to-air:
8 medium- and short-range missiles
September 25, 2014 in Defense
A look back at 75 years of the Boeing St. Louis site, through the eyes of a 57-year team member who worked on the first F-15.Learn More
September 15, 2014 in Defense
Boeing design and flight test engineer Nelda Lee reflects on becoming the first woman to record flying time in an F-15, inspiring a new generation of women in aerospace.Learn More
Boeing's F-15 program was initiated at the request of the United States Air Force, who demanded a fighter jet designed to maintain the country's air superiority. Through its variants, the F-15 has also served that mission internationally, for Israel, Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia.


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With X-Ray or Electromagnetic Radiation in general it is not possible
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Cormac McCarthy's style is worthy of a topic all its own. I've read all his books. Hasn't written a bad one, though some owe more or less of a debt to Faulkner. Anyway, to the point: he doesn't use any "quotes", apostrophes, bold, or italics in his prose. His decision to do so certainly has the effect of making the words on the page seem more streamlined and useful.
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When you're kind of fresh with Git (and DVCS in general), and you start exploring history-rewriting changes, you're safe if the repository is only local, but you might run into problems if you work with remotes and try to push such changes.
A feature that I'd expect is the ability to enable a "safe mode" which would basically stop me from doing whatever I shouldn't do... And what do I mean by that? I mean history-rewriting changes for things already pushed to an origin. I can't define it precisely, but this would include such cases as:
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Complaints were registered on another thread that The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism, 672 pp., costs $199.95. Two books are reviewed in the last issue of Commonweal. Gary Dorrien's Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit, 605 pp. long, is published by Oxford University Press, and costs $174.95. Halik Kochanski's The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War, 784 pp. long, is published by Harvard University Press and costs $35.00.
Can anyone explain such drastic differences in price?
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Maybe it's because in 2011 Harvard's endowment was over $32 billion, and the Harvard U. Press is well supportedd.
Here's an interesting item. A used copy of Joseph A. Komonchak's "Dealing with Diversity and Dissagrement" is on sale at Amazon:
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I doubt that pricing has any relation to page count. My assumption is that the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism and Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit are priced expensively because they cover fairly esoteric topics and their publishers expect them to have a limited audience, so the publishers will need to recover their costs on a smaller print run than that expected for The Eagle Unbowed. The audience for the first two books seems like graduate students, professors, and university libraries. The list price for the Wiley-Blackwell Companion seems roughly comparable to the list price for books in the Oxford Handbooks series, so it doesn't strike me as unfairly priced.
By way of contrast, The Eagle Unbowed is written for, and marketed to, a more popular audience (it was reviewed in The Economist and The Guardian). Books on World War 2 (and military history in general) seem to sell well. This book apparently has the advantage of covering a topic that hasn't been well covered in English, and it will probably appeal to many of Polish ethnicity.
It's all about market. I co-edited a volume in the Blackell Companion series and it was outrageously priced as well and I suspect that no one bought it except libraries until all the hardback copies were sold. Then it came out in a more reasonable priced paperback edition. I'm pretty sure it didn't cost $120 less to produce the paperback, but once the library market was exhausted the publisher lowered the price so as to sell some copies to regular human beings or maybe get it adopted for courses.
Ann: And to think I don't get any royalties for it. It's a small pamphlet! I think there may be a typo.
Need to lobby for the e-book version of these things
I worked all my life in publishing, starting very briefly in professional books (1970) and moving soon to college textbooks (1972 until my retirement earlier this year). I can explain why college textbooks cost so much, but professional books are somewhat of a mystery to me.
Regarding college textbook publishing, some people will be surprised to learn that it is not really a very profitable business. Although the price of textbooks seems very high, nobody is getting rich in college textbook publishing except perhaps a handful of the most successful authors. The pay in most jobs in textbook publishing is not particulary high. The profit margin is not high.
Many of the very highly priced college textbooks are expensive to produce. One of the most successful books I worked on was the 2nd edition of Gerard J. Tortora's Principles of Anatomy and Physiology, still going stron in its <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Anatomy-Physiology-Tortora/dp/047056510... edition.
 It was elaborately and beautifully illustrated, with many of the illustrations being "reflective art" (basically drawings or paintings) done by a medical illustrator, and this kind of art is very expensive. Printing such a book is vry expensive as well, since it must be printed on quality paper and handled very much like an art book.
Even back in those days a lot of free material was provided to instructors in most disciplines (teachers manuals, resource guides, test banks), and as the years went by, more and more became necessary to be competitive. And of course now almost every textbook has some kind of companion web site. All of that "free" material has to be paid for by hiking up the cost of the textbook. Schools or individual instructors are not going to pay for such material, and even if they don't use it, a textbook that doesn't come with a "package" comparable to others for the same subject is unlikely to be considered.
The lifetime of a textbook is not long—2 to 3 years for the majority—and after the first year, the used book market cuts deeply into the publisher's sales revenue. Added to the used book problem is the fact that publishers give away large numbers of copies of books to potential adopters, and those find their way into the used book market as well. I am brushing up on my math as one of my retirement projects, and I wanted a College Algebra text published by my old employer. The list price is $188.67, but I could have one of my former colleagues order it for me at the company discount and paid about $75 for it. But I went to the Abebooks web site and found a "used" copy for $46. When it arrived not only was it in mint condition, with no marks or scuffs or any sign of use. It was an instructor's annotated copy, with all the answers in it! Of course, publishers do not want those copies to get into the hands of students, and they beg instructors to return complimentary copies rather than sell them to used book dealers, but these books often make it to the bookstores anyway.
Since the lifetime of a textbook is so short, the print runs are relatively small. The fewere copies of a book you can count on selling, the smaller the print run will be, and the higher the cost per book. One of the reasons why, when a hard cover book comes out at $25 to $30 dollars, and a paperback later comes out and costs anywhere from $7.99 up to, say, $17 or so is not that paperbacks are so much cheaper to print. It is that when a book goes into paperback, the print quantities are generally higher. So if a book like one of the Blackwell companions is projected to sell, say, 2000 or 3000 copies, it is going to be priced much higher than if it is is projected to sell 50,000 copies.
One thing that might partially account for the high cost of the Christian mysticism book is the number of contributors. I am assuming that most or all of the selections that appear in the book were written for it. Coordinating the work of a large number of authors is not an easy task (as I am sure Alan Mitchell's wife can tell us).
I would suspect that Wiley expects most sales of a book like this to be made to libraries and institutions. Based on (full disclosure) no knowledge whatsoever, I wonder why the Kindle and Nook versions could not be considerably less expensive, since libraries and institutions are no doubt going to buy print copies, and there might be a significant audience of ordinary mortals like ourselves who would buy the book at, say, $25 or $35, but who are not going to pay $150 for a Kindle book. If e-book sales do not significantly cut into print sales, then there is no reason not to price an e-book significantly lower than the print book, provided more e-book sales at a lower price bring in more revenue than fewer e-book sales at the higher price. College textbook publishers have been selling e-books at about half the price of print books. Partly that is for public relations purposes. My knowledge may be dated already, but college students in the past have tended to buy print books even when e-books are sold at a %50 percent discount. This allows textbook publisher who are accused of pricing their books too high (unjustly, in my opinion) to say, "Look, students can buy this book at half price as an e-book, so how can you accuse us of setting our prices too high?"
Bought a great grammar book circa 1950 (Correct Writing) for $1.01 plus shipping $6.99, for the grandson. It is his grandfather's and (mine) favorite for commas, semi-colons, parenthesis, etc.
I don't understand why this is a big issue. I have always had to pay a lot of money for specialized books in my field, especially grammars and lexica. As an undergraduate at Frodham I paid $100 for a French dictionary of semitic inscriptions, and that was back in 1972. It has only 342 pages. Books published buy the great houses of Europe, Peeters, Brill, deGrutyer, Mohr-Siebeck, Vandenoeck & Ruprecht are all very pricey. Many academics I know just take it for granted the we have to pay such prices to use the tools of our trade.
I just noticed that wonderful Freudian slip "buy" for "by". LOL
If folks will forgive the digression - Alan, I really loved the litte comment where you talked about how proud you are of your wife. It made my day for some reason. Congratulations to her, and best wishes to both of you.
Why the differences? Supply and demand.
OK, I was too brief. But David Nickol explains it. I too have had some experience with academic publishing. There are limited markets for many books, and the fixed costs of production are the same, whether spread among thousands of books or a few hundred.
This is a big issue for people of limited incomes or limited discretionary funds.
Why do authors publish their books in such expensive venues?
If leaders of a field announce that they will stay away from publishing expensive books, they can change the behavior.
Why do authors publish their books in such expensive venues?
Tenure. Promotion. Merit-based raises.
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Thanks. She did a great job getting 40 top notch authors for this volume and in getting them to submit their essays on time, within three years of her invitation to them to write for it. That is a major accomplishment in academia.
Sometimes, as in my wife's case, publishers solicit authors to write or edit the book for one of their series. The Wiley "companions" are extensive, spanning several fields. Also, authors may wish to publish with certain publisers for a variety of reasons.
Also, more and more academic publishers (not vanity presses, but respected publishers in their respective fields) are requiring subventions. This has been common among Eurpoean publishers for a while, but is now hitting U.S. academic shores. So in order to keep your book from costing as much as a Joe Kamonchak pamphlet, you have to pony up several thousand dollars to help cover production costs. Sometimes one's institution will cover part of the subvention, but not always.
Tim Gowers, a Fields medalist (the Math version of a Nobel prize) has started a campaign against Elsevier.
All you need to fight unreasonably high costs of books, now that books are so much easier to produce, is to find better, cheaper ways to get information out to potential readers, and to get highly visible people on board. Fritz, tenured professors can lead the way.
Alan, I have no intention to criticize your wife's book!
But I have been struck as well by the cost of both college textbooks and academic books. Sometimes I think that editors are on their way out and that some of them are trying to cash in before their profession disappears.
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"The Eagle Unbowed..." goes for 24.99 at Amazon. In my opinion, worth it just to have in my collection of books "to be read".
I have heard that publishers of serious works of Catholic theology do not expect to sell more than 1,500 to 2,000 copies--and this in the country in which, we are regularly told, we have the best educated Catholic laity in all of Christian history. (What percentage of the U.S. Catholic population is 2,000?) That is why, I presume, the price tends to be high. I wonder what the expectations were with regard to the Wiley book on mysticism. I also wonder whether there might not be a catch-22 operating. They jack up the price because they don't expect many people to buy the book, and many people do not buy the book because the price is too high....
About the small number of buyers of theology books --
I suspect that that non-academics generally do not want to wade through footnotes and counter-arguments of no interest to them. The general public just wants very clear summaries of the basic developments from legitimate authorities. Why aren't there more such popularizations? I suspect it's because it takes a really first rate mind to write simply and clearly about difficult subjects, and most academics, while they're generally highly intelligent don't have that sort of genius. The paradigm of great philosophical writers is Plato -- he wrote both simply and deeply, but how many philosophers even approach his genius?
Consequently there just aren't that many authoritative works that are both relatively simple and deep. And that's what would sell. I might add that a contemporary example in philosophy is Thomas Nagel. He's brilliant enough to write clearly enough for non-specialists, and his popularizations sell nicely. Dawkins works has sold 8.5 mlllion copies, but, again, he's clear (if over-simplified).
Why aren't there more such popularizations?
I suspect it's because many academics are interested, by definition, in exploring ideas and are content to share them with their academic peers in order to foster academic discussions and thus refine or deepen their ideas. Popularization is a different game, with different goals and skills, and academics are not selected based on that. I suppose that one is more likely to encounter people interested in popularization among, maybe, journalists, but then they have no particular reason to be interested in and able to read advanced theological books.
I've always thought that academic publishers existed primarily to serve us, and that the profits they might obtain were merely a mechanism to keep them interested, but I recently had an unusual conversation with a publisher. He uses the profit from large sales to lower the price of some books that are expected to sell in small quantities, in order to sell more of them. How does he choose those books? Based on what subfield he thinks needs to be promoted and to encourage more research in that area. So the editor is actually doing a bit of scientific policy himself!
In any case, in the world of online pdf's and private productions of professional quality, the existence of academic publishers and the concept of spending large amounts of money to have access to the work of another academic is not going to survive much longer, in my opinion.
Claire --
There needn't be a conflict between academic research and popularizations. Some of the top academic scientists have written for the public, e.g., Einstein. biologist Steven Jay Gould, psychologist/economist Daniel Kahneman, not to mention Thomas Kuhn of pardigm shifts fame, and most recently philosopher Thomas Nagel (his Mind and Cosmos was on Amazon's Top 100, or so I've read). Bertrand Russell even got a Nobel prize for literature, and I don't doubt that his influence was so strong because he wrote so clearly for the general educated public.
It happens sometimes, of course,but there is no particular reason why a good academic should be a good popularizer. Not an outright conflict, but not much of a correlation.
I served on the Editorial Board of one of the Elsevier journals and I understand the frustration of Gowers and others with them. Over the years, they have bought up smaller journals and own journals across the entire set of academic disciplines. As the giant in the field, they could dictate policies but folks in narrow disciplines were limited in their opportunities to publish elsewhere. As Deacon Fritz has pointed out above, tenure, promotion and merit raises are tied to publishing. If you don't publish in academia, you perish. Location of the publication and the nature of the writing are evaluated in very quantiative ways now. Publishing in prestigious journals or academic presses are weighted more heavily in the tenure review process, and publications of original scholarly research count more than books published for a general audience. Those two factors contribute significantly to the dearth of writing for a non-technical reader by the original scholars.
As far as remuneration, editors of journals and members of the editorial boards are paid very low salaries, if at all. Generally they do it for the love of the profession and for the visibility it gives them. Sometimes they are given free access to electronic databases which can facilitate their own scholarly work, but doesn't show up in the paycheck. Authors of books and textbooks write for the same reason, not for expectations of great financial benefit. I've written or co-authored several text books and chapters in other books. Let's say that I'm not seeing any financial benefit in my retirement years!
As far as remuneration, editors of journals and members of the editorial boards are paid very low salaries, if at all.
That is one of the reasons why the high cost is a mystery: the writing is done by a scholar, who receives no money for it; an unpaid scientific editor, also a scholar, finds reviewers, who are also scholars and evaluate the writing, also without any financial compensation. None of the academics involved get any direct money from all that work, and nowadays the authors also take care of the formatting, so the publisher does a lot less work than they used to: so where does the money go?
If "Publishing in prestigious journals or academic presses are weighted more heavily in the tenure review process, and publications of original scholarly research count more than books published for a general audience", and if "Authors of books and textbooks write for the same reason (for the love of the profession and for the visibility), not for expectations of great financial benefit", then there is no great obstacle against moving to a to a different way to proceeding that would do away with the cost, something along the lines of putting the pdf file of a book somewhere wher all can access it freely.
I incline to agree with Claire. What she suggests is already being done, of course, when students simply photocopy very expensive books--even at 10 cents a page they could have the book at a third or a quarter of the price. It's illegal, of course, but it goes on. (It might even be a reason why publishers demand so high a price--another catch-22 operating?)
I've been tempted to follow Claire's suggesion for myself. I have at least three books in my computer which I've been unable to liberate. Rather than go through the hassle of getting them published and then priced beyond the means of the 99%, why not just put them out on the Internet?
Joseph, now that Commonweal has dropped its "moral reservations about patronizing predatory companies" that it expressed so movingly in "The Best Case Against Amazon You'll Ever Read," perhaps you could publish your books for Kindle. They would be available at a cost YOU chose, and you would get 70% of the royalties.
(The person who has been formatting Commonweal's ebooks for Amazon could assist you with preparing your manuscripts.)
While I'm not in the biz, I expect that part of the value-add that an academic publisher provides to an academic author is the ability to promote and distribute. There are many authors aiming for a popular audience who self-publish these days, but getting reviewers to review a self-published book, bookstores to carry it and readers to buy it calls for a different set of skills than writing, and most authors aren't very good at them.
The audio version of Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit costs 39.95 at Amazon, or is free with trial membership.
Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism is $159.96 for Kindle.
Promotion and distribution is not so critical if the book is academic and the author someone already well known. Then word will get out.
More at risk is perennity. Web pages get dismantled, links break, and what about 50 years down the line? For scientific articles the now ubiquitous Arxiv site was a breakthrough in that regard. http://arxiv.org/help/primer


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I often have problems with article words referencing to its correct referent. In the following statement for example:
The touching scenes in the film leaves the audience a heavy feeling, encouraging them to consider charitable acts and the role it plays in our society.
My intention is to have the word "them" linked to the audience, and the word "it" linked to the charitable acts.
I am quite confident that the word "them" does link to the audience. But I am worry that the word "it" may not link to the charitable acts. I find that there is possibility the reader may confuse "it" referring to the touching scenes in the film instead of the charitable acts.
Are the article words in the sentence that I have constructed above correctly linked to its referents?
In general, is there a rule to watch out when identifying references in long and complex sentences?


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In a recent publication, Experimentally Faking the Violation of Bell's Inequalities (Gerhardt 2011) (arXiv version), the statistics of quantum mechanics is faked using classical light sources. But if it is possible for physicists to fake an experiment to imitate QM, how can we be sure that nature doesn't do the same trick on us? Can it be that QM is a fake, and in the end QM turns out to be an artifact of our imperfect measurement devices?
I'm not sure it makes sense to ask if Nature is "imitating" Quantum Mechanics.
Quantum mechanics is a mathematical model that gives predictions that are in excellent, well so far perfect, agreement with what we actually see.
I guess the question is whether QM is just a good approximation to the real world or whether it's an exact description of the real world. We'll never be able to prove it's an exact description, but someday someone may find an experiment where QM gives the wrong answers. If so this would prove it's just an excellent approximation.
We can't be 100% sure that quantum mechanics is exact until we are able to do a quantum computation in a real system that would be impossible to perform on a classical computer roughly of size the universe. This looks like it is possible, there is no indication that quantum mechanics is only approximate, and there is no known classical theory which limits to quantum mechanics for small systems, but becomes something else for large ones.
But our tests of quantum mechanics are limited to a certain extent by our ability to compute predictions of the theory. By definition, we cannot predict the behavior of a quantum mechanical system which takes exponential resources, because the computation is too big. We must resort to approximations which might disguise a failure of the theory. So while it is unlikely, it is possible that nature is not fundamentally quantum mechanical, and that we just have not seen the breakdown of QM yet.
This type of statement is predictive--- it requires that a quantum computer will have mysterious unaccounted for sources of decoherence which are not due to known interactions, but which are fundamentally due to the breakdown of quantum mechanics. If a quantum computer is built which can regularly factor 100,000 digit numbers, this is good enough to establish that our universe is not classical down below, because such a feat would require too big a classical computer to realistically implement inside our universe, were it classical.


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posted at 9:47 am on February 15, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Hot Air readers know that I'm a big fan of Day by Day, the conservative cartoon created by Chris Muir, and today he offers one of his best entries. Chris borrows from Braveheart today to wonder if Republicans feel like fighting a rising tide of statist economic politics:
To be fair, the Republicans did do a remarkable job in fighting Porkulus, the first step towards the "state allocated bed"; out of 219 members of Congress, only 3 Republicans voted to support it. Unfortunately, it was the three that counted in the Senate, but given the amount of political pressure in this economic crisis, Republican leadership did a good job of holding the line.
But Chris' point goes beyond Capitol Hill. If we expect to regain ground in the midterms, we need to start organizing now, committing to candidates, and putting in some hard work. Twitter helps, but it doesn't replace door-knocking, phone-calling, and fundraising.
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April is Autism Awareness Month. That means the focus on autism now shifts to the CDC's most recent findings that 1 in 68 children has an autism spectrum disorder. Multiple news outlets will discuss these new findings and conclude that it's a shame. But this increase also means that more and more of us know someone with autism. So many may ask, who isn't aware of autism? Is a month dedicated to autism awareness even necessary?
My answer: absolutely.
This is not because the general public isn't aware of autism, but rather because there is a significant lack of information and even less understanding about what it means to have autism and how to best support individuals with autism.
Many believe that we should celebrate Autism Awareness Month because 1 in 68 children are identified as having an autism spectrum disorder. I question why so much media attention and societal concern is given to an increase in the number rather than to the lack of resources to help these individuals have a fulfilling life and equal opportunities.
The fact is that 1 child in 68 will mature into an adult with autism, and as he or she does, a bleak employment future awaits. In 2009, a national study funded by the U.S. Department of Education revealed that only 32.5 percent of young adults with autism spectrum disorders worked for pay. Research suggests that the current unemployment rate for adults with autism is between 60 percent and 85 percent. This shocking statistic has received little media attention and no public outrage.
It is certainly important to understand and acknowledge increases in the number of children identified with autism, but that shouldn't receive more attention this April than the real issues that face these individuals. As you attend "light-it-up blue" celebrations, walks and runs for autism awareness, and other special events to commemorate the month, I urge you to also expand your knowledge and understanding of autism.
To change society's long-held misperceptions we must educate our friends and families to see that people with autism can succeed if provided the tools and support to do so. And we must be supportive, and advocate for people with autism to be afforded those tools. Many people with autism accept their diagnosis, some even celebrate it. It's time for the rest of us to see the person behind the statistics, recognize their needs, and most important, help them to tap their potential.
Daniel Shannon is executive director of the Massachusetts Development Disabilities Council.
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Four years and two days ago, we warned that then-Sen. Barack Obama was an unsuitable choice for president because of his extremely liberal policy preferences, scanty government and executive experience, and accomplishment-devoid resume. Unfortunately, that warning proved spot-on; President Obama has compiled a disastrous record.
Mr. Obama has fostered an anti-business climate. His trademark laws, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, are monstrous and provide for so many to-be-written rules, businesses are afraid to hire or expand, and banks are reluctant to lend. The Obama administration has presided over a regulatory barrage and has paid back its friends in organized labor by stacking the National Labor Relations Board, traditionally an impartial arbiter of disputes between business and labor, with union allies, often in secret.
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BETHANY - King Football is about to make its return to the Ohio Valley.
Sixty-five all-stars reported to begin camp for the annual Rudy Mumley OVAC All-Star Charity Football Classic Sunday afternoon.
All 33 members of the Ohio squad were present and accounted for, while one of the chosen West Virginia players didn't report and since he didn't inform any members of the Mountaineer coaching staff ahead of Sunday, he was unable to be replaced.
"We had a few when we were picking the team that couldn't play for one reason or another, but once we got the team picked, all of the guys have been on board," said Ohio and Shadyside head coach Mark Holenka. "Everyone showed up and we're excited to get started."
Outside of the one no-show, West Virginia and Wheeling Central head coach Mike Young, who has served as the head coach for both states, is anxious to get started.
"There's a lot of paperwork, meetings and we wondered if some kids were going to make it or not, but we've got a great group of kids on both squads," Young said. "This should be a real great football game and a great way to kick off the 2013 season."
For Holenka, it's his first time coaching in the all-star game in any capacity.
He admitted that he didn't sleep as well Saturday evening because he was excited to get started toward this Sunday's game at Wheeling Island Stadium.
"As it progresses to this day, you're really thinking about it a lot, but I really started to get excited the last couple of days," Holenka said. "It has to be the same for these young men. There's a lot of tossing and turning during the night."
The teams spent much of Sunday afternoon going through meetings, over rules and undergoing physicals. Both coaches led their teams through their first practice Sunday evening.
"We just did a few basic things and tried to get to know all of the kids," Holenka said. "We were able to put in some schemes and try to let them know what to expect, so we can set up the rest of the practices to be a little more full go."
Young and the Mountaineer staff spent much of Sunday evening getting to know their players.
"We wanted to be able to put names with faces for both us and the players themselves," Young said. "We wanted to welcome them and explain to them what's going to be required of them this week both as players and as young men."
Similarly to Ohio, the West Virginia squad went through more of a walk through practice where basic offensive, defensive specialty concepts were introduced.
"We want the kids to get a feel for how we do our offense, defense and special teams," Young said. "We want to give them as much information as we can."
After a morning practice today, the players and coaches will go through media day activities. Both will practice at least once more today.
According to Young, he and Holenka worked out a practice schedule so both teams could conduct all of their practices on the artificial turf at the Bison's football complex, instead of one team having to make the lengthy walk to the Bethany baseball field.
The teams will have two fairly quiet days on the Bison campus, but on Wednesday the McDonald's OVAC All-Star Band reports to begin its preparations. The all-star cheerleaders report on Thursday.


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I need some help. During install first steps ubuntu installer stops during HDD detection.(just before he asks about install side by side with win). It is a 750gb seagate with UEFI system and win 7 64 bit, verified ubuntu MD5 and image is correct, trying to install from USB, but as I mentioned Live works fine and everything works can access HDD and partitions no problem. I just cant install as the installer hangs. I have been reading some articles but all mention boot issues and none mention the installer hanging. Anyone has any ideas?
Found a solution credits go to Rod Smith http://askubuntu.com/users/57976/rod-smith Thanks
Your parted output suggests you've got a partition table problem, or at least an issue that libparted (which is used both by the text-mode parted program and the Ubuntu partitioner) is interpreting as a partition table problem. The "Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character" message suggests that parted is having problems interpreting the partition name, which is officially a UTF16-encoded name. Unfortunately, the last time I checked, parted didn't do proper UTF-16 encoding or decoding of partition names; instead, it tried to interpret them as a sort of modified ASCII -- or in practice, a modified UTF-8. This could lead to problems if a real UTF-16 partition name used non-ASCII characters, since they might then look like gibberish when interpreted as a modified UTF-8. Since libparted is very sensitive to errors and offers little in the way of corrective tools, the result is an error, as both parted and the Ubuntu installer demonstrate.
If I'm right (and I'm far from certain that I am), you should be able to correct the problem as follows:
If my suspicion is correct, you should now be able to proceed with Ubuntu installation. If I'm correct, this is a libparted bug, which should be reported to Ubuntu and/or to the libparted developers. Recording the names of all your partitions for inclusion in your bug report is worth doing.
As mentioned in my comment, one thing I would try is to modify the boot parameters. I didn't have this problem with 12.04 or 12.10, but for prior versions of Ubuntu I had to add a boot parameter of "pci=nomsi" to get it to find my hard drive (essentially preventing device drivers from generating a Message Singaled Interrupt).
Here is an article that describes how to alter the boot parameters prior to installation. Basically, you'll need to get to the advanced boot menu. From there, pressing F6 (followed by esc to close the pop-up menu) should enable editing of the boot command. Go all the way to the end of the line and add
Try that and post back if it doesn't work. If it doesn't work another thing to try would be to remove dmraid prior to installation, as mentioned in this post: Ubuntu Install Failing- Hard Drive.


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Dammit I want a Chevy Chase badge.
Dammit I want a Chevy Chase badge.
Check the one i made on a previous page, people don't think it's very easy to tell who it is.
Perhaps a few different takes should be done. Also, you keep making 40x40 images when they need to be 36x36 to account for the border.
I think that looked recognizable, I was just being disagreeable.
Im the worst Tarvu and i don't have the border. I wasn't even aware they had the border on the image untill it was requested. Could you fix it for me?
And here's an example of what I meant by different takes, this one clearly needing a bit of touching up before it would be worthwhile though.
Thank you kind sir.
The one you made looks a bit like Taran Killam to me.
Was calling myself a dumbass, actually I just don't words good today.
And you're a fucking asshole and I hate your fucking guts.
We need an oldfag badge.
Well there's already an old frog badge, so why not? What would it be? Has been an (active) for X years?
Last edited by Tarvu; 12-11-2012 at 11:31 AM. Reason: It's *really* not the offensive word it used to be. And we love the gays on here anyway.


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