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Thursday, June 30, 2011
"Did Not Attend" Grades
One immediate drawback to the DNA grade is that you have to know that the student never attended, and you have to know when the student stopped. For a number of reasons, I don't collect that information in any detailed or rigorous way.
Why would you assign this grade? Apparently, the DNA grade can fuck up the student's financial aid. You have to maintain a certain credit load in oder to get certain scholarships or student loans. A grade of DNA retroactively reduces the student's courseload. This can make the student retroactively ineligible for financial aid for that semester. Obviously, this can cause all sorts of problems for the student. The DNA grade can be worse than an F in profound ways.
I guess the logic is that Fs are for people who try and fail; DNAs are for people who blow off the entire class. It is, apparently, much, much worse to blow off the class than it is to make a failing attempt to complete it.
I kind of have a problem with this. I see why you'd want a complete failure to attend class to have certain consequences for the student.* I see why you'd want there to be a failing grade on the transcript. I see why you'd want the medical school or the nursing school or whoever to know it's there. I see why you'd want it to be academically troublesome for the student, and insofar as these academic troubles cause personal troubles, it seems to me that the personal troubles are sort of warranted. You didn't attend class all semester and now your parents are upset with you? That seems right to me. You didn't attend class all semester and now you're not getting into nursing school? That seems right to me, too. These things don't seem to me to count against assigning the F. They seem like the negative consequences rightfully associated with earning an F.
But I guess I think getting the student's financial aid yanked is going too far. That consequence seems far worse than what is deserved.
What do the Smokers think?
--Mr. Zero
* I am assuming that there are no mitigating or extenuating circumstances.
23 comments:
Financial aid fraud is a big problem. At my university, the only time a I get a title IV request about a student is if they get all failing grades. Then they want to know why this is and when the last date the student attended.
Part of this is part of federal law and how financial aid works. I take attendance on the first day. After that, I have quizzes, papers, and midterm exams. So, what I do when asked is this: If they didn't attend on the first day, I say DNA. If they did some work, then I put the date that work was submitted.
Student who get subsidized student loans but don't go to school are stealing tax dollars. Now, those who fail are too, but for different reasons.
I would bet that you are only asked about DNA if the student got failing grades in all their classes.
On another note, if I have the option of giving an F or a W (withdraw) grade, I always give the W UNLESS there is a strong reason for the F so as to no prevent a student from coming back to school.
To recap Zero: I don't think you quite have all the financial aid facts. It is the law to report those students who took financial aid and never attended. So, just pay a little bit of attention at the start of the semester and it will make things a bit easier.
- June 30, 2011 at 10:30 AM
- BunnyHugger said...
At my school, we always have to enter last date of attendance for anyone who gets a failing grade (or substitute last assignment submitted if we don't keep attendance records). This is used for the financial aid rules that you mention. I had assumed everyone had to do that, but I guess not! We're always told that it's required to comply with federal rules.
- June 30, 2011 at 10:32 AM
- Mr. Zero said...
Hi anon 10:30,
Yes. That is an important piece of the puzzle.
- June 30, 2011 at 10:34 AM
Another reason it might be important is that the school may not want (or think it accurate) to include DNA students--especially if they were DNA in all their classes--in retention data as well as other measures like actual failure rates in courses. A student who never showed up at school cannot be retained, really. (I don't know whether this kind of stuff, esp. retention, can affect things like accreditation. But if the school wants a picture of "student-success" then separating real failure from mere non-attendance is a legitimate distinction.)
And ditto to anon 10:30 re: financial aid.
(My school has recently instituted a policy which allows instructors to drop first day no-shows who make no prior contact with the prof. I don't exactly like this because shit can happen, but I think there's a couple days' grace period for the prof to use it, and it sends a reasonable message to the students both to come to class and to communicate when shit happens. N.B. retention and basic student-preparedness are significant issues at my school.)
- June 30, 2011 at 11:44 AM
I have direct experience with this legal requirement from my undergraduate years. When I started college out of high school, I had no financial support from my family and insufficient sense to realize my financial situation at college was untenable. The result was the financial necessity of having to withdraw from school in the middle of my third semester or stop buying food. Unfortunately, the timing of my departure lead to all of my government aid and government student loans being sent back. My financial situation was thus made much worse as I was deeply in dept to my former college. I was able to resume school several years later and am now working on my M.A., but this is nothing short of miraculous given my circumstances (I have a loving partner to thank). The penalties built into the DNA requirement are generally understandable, but as with any system that does not take circumstance into consideration, the effects can be cruel beyond justification in specific cases.
- June 30, 2011 at 12:52 PM
Having taught at a school where DNA grades are given, I would point out that you are supposed to take (fairly) detailed rolls.
The reason given (to me) by an administrator for DNA grades is precisely what you assume: to allow financial aid to be pulled for repeat offenders. I once had a student sign up for my class at this school FOUR different semesters. Each time, he would sign up and (I assume) get a loan check, but never attend class and get an F. He was clearly gaming the system: taking money for a course he planned not to take, for a degree he did not care about getting (this was confirmed to me by another student, who was his ex-spouse).
Many schools that do not have DNA grades have another option: my current institution requires that I enter into the school's records (the same thing I used to post grades) any student who fails to attend for the first two weeks of the course. Those who sign up and miss the first two weeks are forcibly dropped, and forfeit their student aid.
- June 30, 2011 at 1:18 PM
- Mr. Zero said...
I guess I don't get why the "gamers" who take student aid but consistently get Fs wouldn't have their student aid revoked or be kicked out of school altogether, on a purely academic basis.
And I guess I sort of think that if the school wants me to keep careful track of who attends my classes and who doesn't, they ought to either pay me more or let me teach smaller classes. Or both.
- June 30, 2011 at 1:51 PM
Zero, 10:30 here:
I would be willing to bet that your university has an attendance policy. I would also be willing to bet that you have a faculty handbook that lists your primary duties. I bet if you look there, you will find some language about following university policies and the like. I would even bet that your university has a syllabus policy that requires you have an attendance policy on the syllabus.
It isn't a lot to ask you to pay attention to who is in your class at the start of the semester. There are a lot of reasons for this. Sometimes students aren't on my roster and don't know that, for some reason, they aren't actually in the class. Calling roll on those first few days lets everyone know where we stand and it can help you learn names if you care.
Some of the things that go on with your blog really indicates to me that most of the commenters are really green and don't understand what professors who don't work at R1 schools do.
Here are some things we do for which we don't get paid more to do, but are part of the standard professorial duties: write assessment reports, go to major fairs, develop general education curriculum, and a whole bunch of other shit that makes being a professor more of a drag. But my point is this.
If you keep careful track of grades, you can add this bit with very little inconvenience; and oh, it's the law. Here is a link to the 1998 Amendments to the 1965 Higher Education Act. Scroll down to see title IV stuff on financial aid.
- June 30, 2011 at 2:35 PM
- Mr. Zero said...
Hi anon 10:30,
I would be willing to bet that your university has an attendance policy.
I just checked; it doesn't. Some departments do--I have friends who are required to take attendance and have it count for a certain portion of the course grade. Mine doesn't, and I'm not.
I would even bet that your university has a syllabus policy that requires you have an attendance policy on the syllabus.
You're right about that. But it doesn't say what it has to be. It says that students are expected to attend class, but it doesn't say that professors are required to keep track of attendance.
(Just to be clear, this is not to say that I think attendance is unimportant. I think it's important, and I do things to encourage attendance. I don't take roll, I give pop quizzes about the readings or what we talked about in class recently. If you aren't there for the quiz, you aren't going to do well. If you're there but didn't do the reading the quiz is about, you're not going to do well. If you're there for the quiz but you weren't there for the discussion that the quiz is about, you're not going to do well. My attendance got a lot better when I started doing this.)
It isn't a lot to ask you to pay attention to who is in your class at the start of the semester.
Doesn't that depend on how many people are in my classes? Because I have at least 200 students per semester. Often more.
Here are some things we do for which we don't get paid more to do, but are part of the standard professorial duties...
Those things are actually not part of my duties. That's just because I'm not on the tenure track, of course. And I'd gladly take them on, for two reasons: 1. That would mean that I was on the TT, and I would probably make a lot more money; 2. I would be much more involved with my department if I had these responsibilities.
1998 Amendments to the 1965 Higher Education Act
Title IV is big. Can you point to the relevant bits?
- June 30, 2011 at 3:09 PM
Besides the stealing-tax-dollars bit, which is a big deal, there's a broader question about the fair allocation of scarce financial aid dollars. It's clearly better to give dollars to students who are trying than to those who are not. Since it's extremely difficult to distinguish "genuine trying (but failing)" from "half-assed trying (but failing)," it's reasonable to use attendance as a proxy measure. Maybe that's not enough to justify the retroactive revocation of financial aid, as opposed to the denial of future financial aid. The "stealing" argument, though, does justify clawing back money that's already been disbursed.
One other reason universities might want to distinguish DNAs from Fs, along the lines of 11:44's comment: Many universities scrutinize the proportion of students that fail each instructor's courses. If, say, 50% of the students who actually take your class fail, that might be a problem. If half of those just never showed up, that's different.
- June 30, 2011 at 3:50 PM
I don't take roll, I give pop quizzes about the readings or what we talked about in class recently.
At my school, the DNA grade could be inputted with either last date attended or (if attendance information is not available) the last assignment completed. So, if you don't keep detailed attendance information, you could just go off of the quizzes that were turned in and graded. You may want to check to see if that is an option for you, because I agree it seems fairly ridiculous for you to be expected to keep roll in large classes.
- June 30, 2011 at 4:24 PM
How is this any different form giving an F to a student whose financial aid depends on carrying a certain GPA?
Should faculty ask students about their financial aid situation before assigning a grade that may hurt them?
- June 30, 2011 at 8:06 PM
How is this any different form giving an F to a student whose financial aid depends on carrying a certain GPA?
I might be wrong about this, but I'd assume that aid with a minimum GPA requirement is more generous than aid with no requirements (beyond mere attendance).
More related to the general thread, most of the schools at which I teach avoid the whole retroactive DNA issue by following-up after the first month of classes to see if an enrolled student has never attended. I guess that way they can nip the problem in the bud, as opposed to waiting until the end of the semester to revoke aid.
- July 1, 2011 at 6:38 AM
I received a DNA grade for missing faculty senate meetings...my wages were garnished back to the day I stopped attending...so I've been forced by financial circumstances to eat nothing but Top Ramen noodles and teach Philosophy in the quad for small donations.
- July 1, 2011 at 6:51 AM
Anon 8:06,
I take it the difference is between losing one's future financial aid and having earlier financial aid revoked. The former might force you to drop out of school. The latter could force you out of school and put you in serious debt. So the consequences of a DNA are worse.
Your second question is an apt question, though, despite that difference.
- July 1, 2011 at 6:59 AM
I understand that financial aid fraud is a big problem. Then again, it isn't my job to take care of it. If the university wants it taken care of, then let them hire someone to do it. It ain't my job. Why the fuck should I do work I'm not paid to do? The university is a business, and I'm it's employee. My interests are not its interests.
- July 1, 2011 at 4:17 PM
8:06 here again.
I'm working from the assumption that a bad grade will have negative repercussions. A student who fails a class needed to complete the degree may have to take that class again, and pay for it again. A student who fails a course may lose scholarship money. A student who earns a DNA grade may lose financial aid and have earlier aid revoked. All three cost the student money. The question is, how much money?
Ultimately, it matters not to me. And from what I've seen, it often matters not one bit to students...until they earn that bad grade that costs them more than they can afford. Then they howl like hell at whoever will listen, in an attempt to have that grade changed.
On the flip side, I've met many students who have been smart about their financial aid, knew what their end of the bargain was, and made damn sure to keep whatever GPA, attendance, or other qualifications were needed.
Bottom line: some student take a risk, and the it pays off. Other students take a risk and they lose. But I'm not going to fudge someone's grade because they can't afford a loss that they earned. (Like Zero, I'm working from the assumption that there are no mitigating factors.)
- July 3, 2011 at 4:50 PM
4:50 says,
"A student who fails a class needed to complete the degree may have to take that class again, and pay for it again. A student who fails a course may lose scholarship money."
MAY have to. Exactly. And maybe not. Many students select courses randomly, with no intention of completing them, solely in order to collect the living expenses portion of full time financial aid. So long as the student has need-based financial aid, the student can maintain a minimum GPA and a satisfactory completion rate by functioning effectively in 2/3 of enrolled courses; the student can simply blow off the other 1/3 of enrolled credits every semester and get rewarded with some pocket money for doing so. If your students are anything like mine, a lot of them are buying drugs and alcohol with the money.
Failing to report these students for their fraud has a genuine effect of draining financial aid from the system, reducing what's available to serious students from poor families.
- July 3, 2011 at 9:01 PM
My campus has this policy, but it has nothing at all to do with teaching students a lesson by taking away their financial aid.
As our Dean's office repeats regularly, the point is to protect the university against a federal investigation.
How is this any different form giving an F to a student whose financial aid depends on carrying a certain GPA?
It's very different. At least, what I see a lot is students who are planning not only to win Fs in some of their courses (the ones they don't plan to attend), but also to offset the effect of those Fs on their GPAs by securing good grades in their other courses.
- July 3, 2011 at 9:03 PM
(Seeking advice on a different topic): a paper of mine has been under review for seven months. The most recent status update on the online editorial system is now almost six months old ("Reviews Completed"). I've emailed the editor several times over the past four months to ask about the status of my submission but I never received a reply. Here are some questions: (a) how reliable are the online editorial systems? (b) is there any explanation/justification for the editor's apparent policy of not responding to queries from authors? (c) at what point is it reasonable to withdraw a paper and to send it elsewhere? (d) do journal editors view a withdrawal as an "aggressive" act on behalf of authors? (e) suppose one decides to withdraw a submission, is one permitted to send the paper to another journal as soon as one emails the editor/office about one's decision to withdraw one's submission or is one expected to give some kind of "notice" of withdrawal? (f) what would you do if you were in my shoes? Thanks!
- July 5, 2011 at 5:06 AM
I think Zero should get a DNA for doing a piss poor job of moderating this blog.
- July 5, 2011 at 9:39 AM
- Mr. Zero said...
Hi anon 5:06,
you ask:
(a) how reliable are the online editorial systems? (b) is there any explanation/justification for the editor's apparent policy of not responding to queries from authors? (c) at what point is it reasonable to withdraw a paper and to send it elsewhere? (d) do journal editors view a withdrawal as an "aggressive" act on behalf of authors? (e) suppose one decides to withdraw a submission, is one permitted to send the paper to another journal as soon as one emails the editor/office about one's decision to withdraw one's submission or is one expected to give some kind of "notice" of withdrawal? (f) what would you do if you were in my shoes?
(a) Somewhat reliable. If there was a decision in the past few weeks, you'd have heard about it by now.
(b) I don't know.
(c) This point.
(d) I don't know. But who cares? They've had the reviews for 7 months, and they don't respond to your emails.
(e) Yes. You withdraw it by informing them that you've withdrawn it.
(d) I would initially threaten to withdraw it; I wouldn't skip right to withdrawing it. I would send the editor a politely-worded email that mentioned the pertinent details of the case and said that unless I had received some concrete news by [deadline], I would be withdrawing the paper effective at that deadline.
- July 5, 2011 at 10:35 AM
- Mr. Zero said...
Hi anon 9:39,
You have clearly failed to grasp the concept of a DNA grade.
- July 5, 2011 at 10:35 AM


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard women's basketball team downed New Hampshire, 96-63, Friday night at Lavietes Pavilion. The Crimson (5-3) shot a season-high 11 three-pointers and a season-best 51.4 percent from the field.
Brogan Berry was near perfect from the field making 8-of-9 field goals and hitting all five shots from the charity stripe for game-, team- and season-high 22 points. Christine Clark scored a career-high 18 points on a 6-for-11 clip. Victoria Lippert added 13 points, while Miriam Rutzen pulled down a game-high and career-high nine rebounds.
New Hampshire scored the first two baskets of the game to take a 5-0 lead less than a minute into the game. A trey from Christine Matera, a pair of Emma Markley free throws and a Berry jumper put the Crimson on top 11-8, six minutes into the first half. The Crimson took over from there outscoring the Wildcats, 15-2, over the next 6:33 to take a 29-15 lead with 6:48 remaining in the first half. Clark scored eight points, while Lippert and Markley added four each during the Crimson run. A Lauren Wells three-pointer was the only Wildcats field goal during that stretch. After a UNH timeout Harvard extended its lead to 20 (35-15) as Matera drained another trey and Claire Wheeler converted on a three-point play.
The Crimson hit its mark in the first half shooting 48.6 percent from the field which included a 71.4 (5-for-7) clip from beyond the arc. Harvard made all three shots from the free throw line. The Crimson grabbed 20 rebounds in the first 20 minutes.
UNH cut the deficit to 17 on a Wells three-pointer to start off the second stanza, but seven straight from the Crimson have the Crimson a 51-27 lead four minutes into the half. Harvard took its largest lead of the game when Clark hit a pair of free throws and Berry converted on a three-point play to make it 59-31 with 13:07 to play.
Harvard continued to hit from downtown and extended its advantage to as many as 29 several times down the stretch. The Crimson scored 90 or more points for the first time since putting up 90 against Northeastern (Dec. 9, 2009). The Crimson outrebounded the Wildcats, 42-29. Harvard's 64.7 percent from beyond the arc and 86.7 percent from the free throw line.
Harvard has a 12 day break from action for final exams. The Crimson returns to action Dec. 22 against Sacred Heart. Tip-off is slated for 2 p.m.


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Added ground poly under charger IC
Added polygon under LT3650 IC and updated it to new device from kwoolibrary. It now has effectively both a ground pad and a via. Slight areaof no contact right around via may be unavoidable.
Changed center ground pad for DS2786 and LT3650
Changed ground pads for packages 10MSOP and 12TDFN to have through-holepads on the bottom instead of SMD pads. Updated power test board to usethe new DS2786. Drew a polygon of BATT_GND around center pad. Not sure...
Updated power test schematic
Based on feedback from Kevin, added a pullup resistor to !PWR_INT anddecoupling caps to the LDO providing VCC.
Also changed the ground signal on the gas gauge LDO from GND toBATT_GND. Kevin pointed out that having BATT_GND as the ground for the...
Minimized possible inductive loop in power board
Moved trace driving FAULTLED to minimize area of inductive loop invicinity of charger.
Routed gas gauge on power board
Routed signals attached to fuel gauge on power board.
Changed USB port drill holes back to spec
Looked at mini USB port with Dan. Observed that corner drill holes aresupposed to be multiple drills right next to eachother. Decided tochange holes back to specfied radius and ignore long hole for now.
Preliminary power board placement complete
Placed all parts on power test board in what I believe will be theirapproximate final locations. No routing done yet. Board probably won'tget bigger, because I left room to grow.
Partial placement of power board
Placed AVR, FTDI chip, and USB port on power test board, along withtheir accessory components. They are probably pretty close to theirfinal resting place but may move a little bit later.
Changed IO voltage for FTDI IC on power board
Changed VCCIO input for FTDI chip on power test board from USB_VCC tointernally generated 3.3V signal. This should have no power effects, butKevin suggests that it may make the chip behave a litte bit nicer (not...
Fixed ERC errors from unconnected wires
Some wires created in the previous few commits were not actuallyconnected to the pins they ended at. I fixed them.
Changed Schematic
Tied USB Shield pin to ground
Added activity LED's to the FT232 chip using the TXLED and RXLED pins
Changed Schematic Per Kevin Woo's Email
Changed U5 VSS from GND to VBATT_GND
Added GND PIN connection to ISP header
Switched USB_TX and USB_RX pins on the microcontroller to use the hardwaresupported UART pins. Also switched TX and RX connections.
Updated Schematic File
Added missing capacitor between Vin and GND in the charge circuit.
Fixed some schematic errors identified by the ERC.
Connected capacitor C12 which apeared connected but was actuallydisconnected.
Approved error of VCC being connect to a power input
Added a missing junction
Updated DS2786 footprint in kwoo library
Updated package footprint for DS2786 in kwoo.lbr based on recommendedland placement in datasheet for DFN10 package. DS2786's datasheet listsTDFN10 as its package type but doesn't give placement guidance or auseful package description. Unable to find a datasheet for TDFN10, but...
Increased mini-USB plug drill hole size
Imported MINI-USB- device from Hirose Connectors library into kwoolibrary. In UX60-MB-5S8 package, increased drill hole size on cornerpins from .8 mm to .9 mm. I did not drill out the original too-smallholes on Scoutfly, so I don't know whether this is sufficient or not....
Updated inductor package for power board
Created new package and device in library for MPI4040 inductor to beused in power test board. Updated part on power test board.
Fixed GND pad on LT3650 charger IC
LT3650 package in kwoo.lbr had a polygon around a through-hole pad toapproximate a large SMD pad connected by a via directly to the groundplane. Created a new package that is like this one but has no via, just anormal SMD pad. Used this package in the power test board, which has no...
powerboard placed, needs routing
Fixed gas gauge and charging components
Added extra decoupling capacitor between battery voltage and ground nextto charging circuit to allow board to run with charger but no battery.Connected system side of gas gauge sense resistor to GND to make allcurrent returning to battery go through sense resistor. Removed 0 Ohm...
Added missing components around AVR on power board
Added ISP header, pullup resistor for AVR reset line, and decouplingcapacitors for AVR power lines. Connected ISP header to SPI interface onAVR.
Finished USB interface on power board
Added decoupling capacitors to FTDI chip, changed signaling VCC from USBVCC to AVR VCC so that AVR can signal to FTDI chip. Added USBTX andUSBRX signals between FTDI chip and AVR.
Started to add USB port to power board
Added USB port and USB-UART converter to power board schematic. I thinkthe converter has enough hooked up to it to run without burning up, butit's not hooked up the AVR yet.
Shorted GND to BATT_GND in power schematic
Connected GND and BATT_GND to eachother using a 0 Ohm resistor. I wantto keep the signals separate to ease routing, but they need to beconnected to ensure that all of the current that needs to go through thefuel gauge sense resistor does so.
Fixed ERC errors
Added some missing junctions and a missing label. Approved "no value" warnings for parts for which a value would be nonsensical.
Started making kwoo's recommended changes
Made changes to charging circuit: Connected CLP to VIN on U1. Addeddiodes to charge BOOST capacitor from battery and provide currentsensing inductor with outlet if power turns off (don't really understandhow the latter works). Adjusted inductor to 4.7uH after re-calculating...
Update prefixes and names for two parts
Updated prefixes for DS2786 and MP1702 in kwoo.lbr to U so that Eaglewon't use the default prefix, U$, for them. Also manually updated namesin charging_test.{sch,brd}.
Added pullup resistors and an LED to power test
Added pullup resistors for I2C connections to power test board. Alsoadded a diagnostic LED to indicate when the AVR has power. Stillprobably needs an ISP header and USB controller/port.
First draft of power testing circuit schematic
Fleshed out power testing circuit. It is still missing a few things, andI don't understand every little bit of it, but it probably won't look alot different when it's done. Added some passive components on the...
Updated charging test circuit from kwoo library
Ran update command in charging_test.sch to update parts from kwoo.lbr.
Added kwoo's standalone charging schematic.
charging_test.sch is a standalone circuit schematic for a prototype totest the charging circuit that will ultimately go on Scoutfly. kwoocreated it. It uses some new parts, but I don't know that much about it...


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Georgia man suspected in ex-wife's killing may be in Jacksonville
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Cobb County, Ga., police have reason to believe a man suspected of killing his ex-wife inside her Marietta home on Saturday may be in the Jacksonville area.
After 48-year-old Donna Nations Kristofak died from her injuries, detectives secured an arrest warrant for her ex-husband, 58-year-old John Stephen Kristofak on charges of aggravated assault and murder.
Kristofak was last seen driving a brown Chevrolet Equinox bearing Georgia license plate BUV 2635. Police say he should be considered armed and dangerous.
Kristofak, who is also known as Wayne Beacham and Tom Peterson, is described as 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing 170 pounds. While he is pictured with graying hair, police believe he may have dyed it.
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For Sweden, we can present a large number of yacht charter offers. Whether catamaran or monohull, short or long sailing trip, every yachting enthusiast can find a suitable offer for its sailing holiday in Sweden. The good yacht charter conditions and other numerous water sports activities in Sweden continue to attract many tourists every year. During a sailing holiday in Sweden the crew also gets the possibility to profit from the country-specific cultural features on land, which can make a sailing holiday quite varied and entertaining.
A transfer from or to the airport is offered by many yacht charter companies. In Sweden a yachtsman can use current European payment options. As far as the the large international banks are concerned money can be easily drawn out all around the clock during a yacht charter in Sweden. Furthermore there are good shopping opportunities document Sweden. The licensing requirements in Sweden for a yacht charter is aligned with the European system. So the crew can start relaxing in its sailing holiday. The moderate weather in Sweden secures almost good sailing conditions. The locals in Sweden are considered as very courteous and polite.


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By MaryTherese Griffin, Warrior Care and Transition
ARLINGTON, Va. -- It's likely at some point in life one will hear a phrase like, "two heads are better than one" or "teamwork makes the dream work". However, phrases like these all boil down to a simple four letter word, help.
By Master Sgt. Michel Saure
DENTON, Md. -- The "Old Soldier" has a basement full of history.
At the age of 88, he has to walk gingerly down the steps. Coming around a bend in the stairway, he points to a "Moran St." sign encased behind glass in a wooden box.
"They named a street at Fort Meade after me, too, right there," he says, almost in passing.
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When asked to share their thoughts on the benefits of school choice and their homeschool experience, this military family did what they do every day: they turned the occasion into a learning opportunity. Dan, his wife Jenna, and their six kids gathered at the dinner table to shape a response – as individual, independent thinkers and as a family.
In this interview, slightly edited for length and clarity, the family describes the transformative of impact school choice.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2017 Service members eligible to opt into the Blended Retirement System in 2018 can now take a free course to learn to use the online comparison calculator to aid in determining whether the new BRS or the legacy retirement system is a better choice for their circumstances, Defense Department officials said.
The calculator provides individual military retirement benefit estimates for service members who are eligible to opt into the new system in 2018, allowing them to compare options under both systems.
The Defense Department joins the nation in honoring the commitment, sacrifices and contributions families of service members make every day in support of the military and the nation.
As the nation marks Warrior Care month in November, the Defense Department honors the courage of wounded, ill or injured service members, and highlights the programs that support their return to duty or transition to the civilian community.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2016 - Walgreens pharmacies join the TRICARE retail pharmacy network on Dec. 1, 2016, while CVS pharmacies, including those in Target stores, will leave the network on the same day, according to the Defense Health Agency.
"The network will still have more than 57,000 locations across the country," Dr. George Jones, DHA's Chief of Pharmacy Operation, said in a release. "About 98 percent of beneficiaries still have a network pharmacy within 5 miles of their home."
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2016 - First Lady Michelle Obama hosted nearly 200 service members, spouses, children, veterans and wounded warriors at this year's annual White House holiday décor preview as part of a Joining Forces initiative celebration.
"For the past eight years, celebrating the holidays and having you all be the first that see the decorations … has been one of our favorite White House traditions," the first lady said.
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Despite the fact that the 4th of July is perhaps the most predictably scheduled holiday on the calendar, I still feel blindsided by its seemingly sudden approach. It's hard to believe that it's even July already- What happened to the other 6 months that are supposed to come before it? I can't recall a single one.
No need to panic though, Independence Day is such a laid back and happy-go-lucky event that there's rarely much preparation to be done in advance. Slice up a big watermelon, pack a giant cooler full of ice, sodas, and beer, and I'd say that you're all set for a party. Once your guests come, toss some veggie burgers and dogs on the grill, and then drag the kids down to the beach at night to watch the fireworks. Sounds like a pretty good day, right?
Well, if that's not enough for you, here's one super simple hors d'oeuvre that you can whip up and impress your friends with. Tapenade, a basic paste made of pureed olives, is not a new concept in the least, but only recently have I gained an appreciation for olives and discovered how delicious they can be. Now, I've found myself smearing this chunky dip over crackers, in sandwiches, and even stirred into hot pasta. My version is somewhat heavy on the garlic, but not so much so that you have to worry about garlic breath after enjoying a dollop.
Although some tapenades are completely smooth, I prefer mine with a bit of texture, so I only pulse the mixture in the food processor. You're welcome to puree the heck out it if you prefer.
Roasted Garlic Tapenade
This chunky kalamata tapenade is is somewhat heavy on the garlic, but not so much so that you have to worry about dragon breath after enjoying a dollop.
- 1 Cups Kalamata Olives
- 1/2 Teaspoon Kelp Powder (Optional)
- 1 Tablespoon Balsamic Vinegar
- 4 Cloves Roasted Garlic
- 1/2 – 1 Teaspoon Fresh Rosemary
- 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
- Place all of the ingredients in your food processor or blender, and pulse until everything is well-incorporated but still slightly chunky. Dish it up alongside chips or crackers for a "self-serve" kind of snack, or spoon a dollop on small pieces of toast and top with fresh chives for easy little crudites.
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Nice Libor. Our six-month fixing moved the entire fixing, hahahah
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"Done … for you big boy," read a message sent by a Barclays banker to one of the lender's traders, who had asked him to fix a key lending rate artificially low.
"Dude, I owe you big time! Come over one day after work and I'm opening a bottle of Bollinger," a trader from another firm emailed a banker at Barclays, showing his thanks for the rate set artificially low.
Traders were barking orders like they were at a fast food drive-through and the submitters were so accommodating that they might as well have said, 'do you want fries with that
U.K.-based Barclays has agreed to pay US$453-million in fines to UK and U.S. regulators to settle its part of an investigation into whether banks manipulated the London Interbank Lending Rate, know as Libor.
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Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc trader Tan Chi Min told colleagues the firm was able to move global interest rates, according to court filings.
Transcripts of internal RBS instant messages were included in a 231-page affidavit filed Sept. 19 by Tan, the bank's former Singapore-based head of delta trading for Asia, who's suing Britain's third-biggest lender by assets for wrongful dismissal after being fired last year for allegedly trying to manipulate the London interbank offered rate, or Libor.
"Nice Libor," Tan said in an April 2, 2008, instant message with traders including Neil Danziger, who also was fired by RBS, and David Pieri. "Our six-month fixing moved the entire fixing, hahahah."
The conversations among traders at RBS and firms including Deutsche Bank AG illustrate how the risk of abuse was embedded in the process for setting Libor, the benchmark for more than US$300-trillion of securities worldwide. RBS, 81% owned by the British government, is one of at least a dozen banks being probed over allegations they colluded to manipulate the rate so they could profit from bets on interest-rate derivatives.
Barclays Plc, Britain's second-biggest lender, was fined 290-million pounds (US$470-million) in June for rigging the rate. Chief Executive Officer Robert Diamond and Chairman Marcus Agius resigned in the aftermath. RBS fell 5.4%, or 14.6 pence, to 255.40 pence as of 3:23 p.m. in London trading today, the biggest decliner in the six-member FTSE 350 Banks Index.
Singapore Suit
RBS sent Tan copies of instant-message chats he had with others as evidence of potential wrongdoing in an Aug. 29, 2011, letter telling him the bank was bringing disciplinary proceedings against him, the papers show. Tan said in his lawsuit, filed in December, that the bank had condoned the rates manipulation and sought scapegoats in an internal probe.
The bank asked in a Sept. 24 filing that the Singapore High Court seal the papers until at least one of the probes by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Department of Justice's fraud division and Britain's Financial Services Authority is completed.
Making the documents publicly accessible may have "extensive potential prejudice" on the confidential regulatory investigations, RBS said in the filing. The court documents, inspected yesterday, have now been sealed.
"Our investigations into submissions, communications and procedures relating to the setting of Libor and other interest rates are ongoing," the bank said in an e-mail. "RBS and its employees continue to cooperate fully with regulators."
'Mixed Feelings'
Libor is calculated by a poll carried out daily on behalf of the British Bankers' Association that asks firms to estimate how much it would cost to borrow from each other for different periods and in different currencies. The BBA signaled yesterday it will give up oversight of the rate. The top and bottom quartiles of quotes are excluded, and those left are averaged and published for individual currencies before noon in London. RBS is among 13 banks that set yen Libor.
"What's the call on Libor," Jezri Mohideen, then the bank's head of yen products in Singapore, asked Danziger in an Aug. 21, 2007, chat.
"Where would you like it, Libor that is," Danziger asked, according to a transcript included in Tan's filings.
"Mixed feelings, but mostly I'd like it all lower so the world starts to make a little sense," another trader responded.
"The whole HF world will be kissing you instead of calling me if Libor move lower," Tan said, referring to hedge funds.
'Maybe More'
"OK, I will move the curve down 1 basis point, maybe more if I can," Danziger replied.
Danziger and Pieri declined to comment. Mohideen, who was put in charge of the bank's rates trading for Europe and the Asia-Pacific region in 2010, didn't respond to messages left on his mobile telephone and his office.
In another conversation on March 27, 2008, Tan called for RBS to raise its Libor submission, saying an earlier lower figure the bank submitted may have cost his team 200,000 pounds.
"We need to bump it way up high, highest among all if possible," Tan said.
Tan also asked for a high submission in an Aug. 20, 2007, instant message to Scott Nygaard, global head of RBS's treasury markets in London.
"We want high fix in 3s," Tan said in the message. "Neil is the one setting the yen Libor in London now and for this week and next."
"Go Neil," Nygaard responded. "Hahahaha."
More E-mails
Managers including Nygaard, Todd Morakis, the Singapore-based head of trading for emerging markets, who joined in June 2010, and Lee Knight, the Tokyo-based chief operating officer of global trading, knew derivatives traders were making regular requests to change rates, Tan said in his lawsuit. He's seeking to force RBS to release more e-mails that he says show the bank condoned the activity.
Nygaard and Morakis declined to comment.
Knight said he didn't believe that managers including Mohideen, Nygaard or Morakis would have turned a blind eye if they knew traders tried to influence the bank's rate-setters, according to minutes of an Oct. 17, 2011, meeting he had with an RBS disciplinary manager cited in Tan's filing. Knight didn't respond to phone and e-mail messages.
RBS traders also spoke about Libor with counterparts at other firms, Tan's filing shows.
'Cartel Now'
"It's just amazing how Libor fixing can make you that much money or lose if opposite," Tan said on an Aug. 19, 2007, conversation with traders at other banks, including Deutsche Bank's Mark Wong. "It's a cartel now in London."
"Must be damn difficult to trade man," Wong replied. "Especially you not in the loop."
Michael Golden, a spokesman for Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank, cited previous statements made by the company that it is continuing its investigation into the matter and cooperating with authorities. Golden said Wong declined to comment.
Tan started expressing misgivings about the Libor-setting process in May 2011 as regulators began investigating potential rate-rigging across the industry and RBS started its own internal probe, the transcripts show.
"This whole process would make banks pull out of Libor fixing," Tan said in a May 16, 2011, chat with money markets trader Andrew Smoler. "Question is what is illegal? If making money if bank fix it to suits its own books are illegal… then no point fixing it right? Cuz there will be days when we will def make money fixing it."
"Regulators need to be seen to be doing something but what negative thing can come to this?" Smoler, who declined to comment for this story, said according to the transcript.
The case is Tan Chi Min v The Royal Bank of Scotland. S939/2011. Singapore High Court.


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In a discrete-time financial market setting, the paper relates various concepts introduced for dynamic portfolios (both in discrete and in continuous time). These concepts are: value preserving portfolios, numeraire portfolios, interest oriented portfolios, and growth optimal portfolios. It will turn out that these concepts are all associated with a unique martingale measure which agrees with the minimal martingale measure only for complete markets.


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A tight battle and close finish expected of two top-10 ranked and unbeatens never materialized Saturday in St. Paul. The Tommies jumped off to an early lead and never looked back in Saturday's 37-0 Homecoming football win over No. 9 Bethel.
The victory gave No. 4 St. Thomas (6-0, 4-0 MIAC) sole possession of first place at the halfway point in the conference race. It also left the Royals (5-1, 3-1) in a virtual three-way tie for second with Augsburg and Concordia, which also have one loss.
The Tommies now have won 30 consecutive regular-season games, 23 in a row in the MIAC, and 11 in a row at home. Their only loss in their last 27 at home came 12-7 at the hands of Bethel in a NCAA Division III quarterfinal playoff game in December 2010.
It also was St. Thomas' most consistent performance of the year on both sides of the ball.
The UST defense again suffocated an opponent's running attack. The Royals came into the game averaging 135 yards on the ground but could muster only 31 yards on 17 carries, and they finished 1-for-11 on third-down convensions.
The UST controlled the ball for nearly 41 minutes, including a 22:24 to 7:36 advantage in the first half and had only one fumble after six turnovers against Gustavus last week. The Tommies also had a season-low four penalties for 30 yards after averaging 82 penalty yards a game.
Junior linebacker Harry Pitera had four solo tackles, a sack and a partially-blocked punt to lead the balanced defense.
St. Thomas scored on four of its first five possessions while the defense held the Royals to five three-and-out possessions, 16 plays, no first downs and 18 yards from scrimmage in building a 24-0 halftime lead.
Aaron Terrell-Byrd's 1-yard run gave the Tommies a 7-0 lead, the drive kept alive after a Garrett Maloney punt bounced off a Bethel player's foot and Ryan Deitz recovered at the Royals' 14. It was the sixth straight game in which St. Thomas has scored on its first series.
Wide receiver Dan Noehring recovered Matt O'Connell's fumble in the end zone to extend the lead to 14-0. O'Connell had run 14 yards to the goal line, where a defender jarred the ball loose and Noehring fell on it. It was the game's longest run for the sophomore quarterback, who finished with 89 yards on 20 rushes and completed 19 of 31 passes for 163 yards.
The Tommies took more than six minutes off the clock in the second quarter before settling for a Griffin Snyder 32-yard field goal to extend their lead to 17-0, and then O'Connell worked his last-minute magic again.
A week ago against Gustavus, he marched the Tommies 43 yards and completed a touchdown pass with 4.8 seconds to go. Saturday, he rolled out and completed a 5-yard touchdown pass to Cole Kelly with 8.8 seconds remaining. That capped a 13-play, 57-yard drive for a 24-0 lead. It was the first career reception for Kelly, a sophomore tight end.
St. Thomas never let the Royals get on track offensively. They didn't record a first down until four minutes into the second half and got no deeper into St. Thomas territory than the 46-yard line.
Neither team scored in the third quarter, but the Tommies added two touchdowns in the fourth. Brenton Braddock finished a 13-play, 79-yard drive with a 1-yard run, and two backup linebackers joined forces to come up with the final six points. Cavan Metzler hit Bethel quarterback Erik Peterson at midfield and Steve Dejewski picked off the wobbly pass and ran it in from the Royals' 49.
St. Thomas goes on the road next Saturday, traveling to Hamline to face the Pipers. They fell to 1-5 (0-5 MIAC) after losing 63-14 at Concordia on Saturday. The UST has back-to-back games with Augsburg and Concordia-Moorhead before closing the regular season against St. Olaf.
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Week 2 of Howard Rheingold's course – Towards a Literacy of Cooperation – focuses on the evolution of cooperation. Here are some notes from Howard's presentation during the live session last week. For wider reading see the Week 2 reading lists.
And for another set of notes I can also recommend Roland Legrand's
Why does cooperation exist?
If Darwinian processes favour successful competitors why does cooperation exist?
Margulis and Kauffman found that cooperation preceded human life; molecules catylse each other to higher levels of complexity. Axelrod and Hamilton using evidence from palaeontology and mathematical biology found that co-operators at all levels can thrive in a competitive environment if they can find each other and benefit from each other through mutualistic relationships. Co-operation is not a steady state. Populations, during the course of evolution move from being largely unco-operative to co-operative and then back to unco-operative in a cycle. There is some evidence from a study of DNA, that humans were down to 2000 breeding pairs at one point in our history. My thought: this makes perfect sense when remembering the various cycles that are well known in biological systems, e.g. water, carbon, nitrogen, etc.
But – humans have the power to overcome social dilemmas. Axelrod and Hamilton, using computer simulations and evolutionary games, found the following characteristics to be important for co-operation.
- Be nice – never be the first to defect My thought: pity about the word nice – a word that was banned from children's creative writing when I was teaching!
- Be provocable – don't be afraid to retaliate appropriately – return defection for defection. My thought: so where did the expression 'be slow to anger' come from.
- Don't be envious – be fair with your partner
- Don't be too clever – or try to be tricky, which enters noise into the system and opens room for misinterpretation, although some noise in system is inevitable
Competing explanations
There are a number of explanations for the evolution of cooperation.
1. Group selection
When humans were hunter gatherers they moved around in extended family groups. A group which was comprised of cooperators had an evolutionary advantage. They reproduced more effectively and these small differences made for a big differences over time.
David Sloan Wilson Cooperation in his book Darwin's Cathedral discussed religious groups as mechanisms for group selection. Wilson demonstrates how religions have enabled people to achieve by collective action what they never could do alone. My thought: good and bad?
The human capacity to create rituals, norms, and institutions that channel our biological urges is one key capability that makes human civilizations different from other species.
2. Reciprocity
Nowak 2006 talks about different reciprocity mechanisms
- Direct reciprocity, meaning if you do something for me I will do something for you. This has been demonstrated in vampire bats, which refuse to feed bats who have not shared food in the past
- Indirect reciprocity, meaning doing something for an individual who has not done something for you in the past. I help you and somebody else helps me. The evolution of cooperation by indirect reciprocity leads to reputation building, morality judgement and complex social interactions with ever-increasing cognitive demands. My thought: there is a lot of evidence of this in online networks.
- Reputation depends on a reliable history and whether cooperators will meet again. Cooperation depends on a reliable history being projected from past to future. Axelrod calls this 'the shadow of the future'. If individuals are unlikely to meet again then propensity for cooperation is much lower.
- Network reciprocity which relies on geographic or social factors and who interacts with whom and how often
If a cooperator pays a cost, c, for each neighbor to receive a benefit, b, and defectors have no costs, and their neighbors receive no benefits, network reciprocity can favor cooperation.
3. Kin selection refers to apparent strategies in evolution that favour the reproductive success of an organism's relatives, even at a cost to the organism's own survival and reproduction . If you sacrifice your life for 3 siblings then your genes are going to be passed along to a future generation more than if you sacrificed your life for only one child i.e. in terms of genetic evolution it would be worth jumping into the river for 2 siblings or 8 cousins. Cooperation is about costs and benefits. Reproductive success is the measure of evolutionary success and kin selection may be a part of the overall equation. My thought: Does this mean that it's not worth jumping into the river if the children are adopted?
4. Social grooming. Primates pick parasites off each other. Robin Dunbar extrapolated his experiments with primate behaviour to human behaviour and found a correlation between the size of a primate group and the part of the brain that is related to reciprocity and reputation. Social grooming is a mechanism for practicing cooperation. Dunbar believes that language grew out of social grooming. When group became too large for all to be groomed this was the start of gossip. Gossip is all about reputation, who to trust and who not to trust. This is related to studies on the relationship between perceptions of fairness and cooperation.
5. Primate fairness. Research has shown that monkeys have a very clear understanding of fairness Capuchin monkeys reject unequal pay – monkeys understand fairness. My thought: this very short video clip is perfect for exemplifying this point and is very funny. We need more humour in learning environments.
Are humans born with a sense of fairness?
Research involving pre-verbal infants has shown that the length of time an infant looks at something strongly correlates with whether it violates their expectations. Infants can see fair and unfair distributions and tend to look longer at unfair demonstrations. The research also showed that infants who pay attention to unfairness are more likely to be altruistic. My thought: these videos are fascinating. Babies are not 'blobs'!
There has also been research into the evolution of fairness
Frans de Waal has suggested that primates and infants have three qualities fundamental for cooperation
- Empathy and consolation – (as shown in the activity of mirror neurones)
- Prosocial tendencies. Primates have hierarchies but also have social lives
- Understanding of reciprocity and fairness
There is a complex relationship between unfairness cooperation and social norms.
Cultural Evolution
Culture is what we learn from each other not what we are born with, but it can evolve in the sense that groups that engage in social learning learn more effectively and so are able to adapt to a changing environment more effectively. Cultural evolution is based on biologically evolved attentional and social capacities.
The evolved capacity for social learning was particularly adaptive during time of radical environmental change
Learning capacities created processes that changed the selection environment in which genes develop. Cultural changes spread faster than biological changes so increasing the propensity to cooperate
There is a reciprocal and evolutionary correlation between our biological capabilities and cultural evolution.
My thought: There are too many questions
Last week I noted that there was a huge diversity of resources and ideas being posted, to the point of distraction. This week there is a huge diversity of questions. The mission for this week is:
1. In the forum topic thread designated for this mission, no later than Monday, Feb 4 Pacific time, post a question that you'd like to see addressed by everybody in regard to the biological and/or cultural evolution of cooperation.
These are the questions that have been posted so far and don't include the questions that were raised in the live session
- Can biological models from other species be scientifically applied to human subjects, or are they metaphors for how we might understand human behaviour?
- I am interested in exploring the notion of "respect" and role it play's in cooperation among us humans.
- Another question that interests me is the role/influence of power in co-operation and cultural evolution.
- Can a culture become self-conscious enough to intentionally evolve itself? Does this change the rules of the game?
- Is it possible and are we likely to evolve in such ways as to constitute different combinations or recombinations (like DNA) in terms of human nuclear family groups? A clumsy way to put it, but something like, will there be more 5 to 10 parents to 1 to 4 children type of arrangements? Will we formalize these? Seems to me in light of fewer people having children, and the high cost of raising a child, and that fact that we could all benefit by helping, and that the kids would benefit by us all helping, that some new reproducing family units might come about. Do you agree or disagree?
- In what circumstances would provocability in the case of an uncalled for defection be the wrong response, in terms of biological and cultural evolution?
- Are there practical benefits of studying the biological evolution of cooperation? To what extent does it provide insights that convert into theories and practices that can be used in formal or informal communities and organizations? Can an individual, beginning from a singular position of conviction, turn a whole population (in a geographic or other social entity) from self-interest or sub-group interest, to broad-based cooperation? If so, how?
The next stage of the task is
2. Instructor will choose one of the proposed questions by Monday night and post his selection in the forum topic. Each student will email to the instructor by Thursday, Feb 7, 11 PM Pacific time, a few sentences to a short paragraph addressing the question. Instructor will post all the answers at the same time in the forum on Friday.
Live session questions:
- What is the role of diversity in regulating stability of cooperative groups and societies?
- How can we learn from deception strategies in the evolution of cooperation?
- What do deception strategies have to do with evolution of communication?
- How can humans override the negatives of social dilemmas?
- What can we learn from the earliest models of cooperation in evolutionary process?
- Would network reciprocity among groups of cooperators be more successful? Why or why not?
- What are the communication mechanisms of initiating reciprocity? Are their ways to predict success or failure of cooperation? or sustaining cooperation?
- What role can social grooming play (role of language/gossip) – hair stylist – does it still have a role?
- What is the validity of behavioral genetics? Which elements of behavior are genetically determined?
- How might the factor of expanding access/decreasing intimacy affect cooperation? How do we build intimacy with tech platforms?
- Can you design for cooperation? If so, through what tools?
- Are humans born with a sense of fairness?
- What are the outside factors that can disrupt cooperation? How do systems protect and resist these forces? (mapped in session)
- Is evolution necessarily progressive?
For me – this is way too many questions! Can diversity be too much of a good thing in a co-learning environment?
This reminds me of discussions we used to have when designing teaching programmes. Do you start with the big picture (as this course seems to have done) and move towards more personal practice, or do you start with personal practice and move to the big picture? The questions that interest me most are those which relate more closely to my personal practice, which is consistent with my interest in the autoethnography and narrative inquiry forum which has been opened by one participant.


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NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Bobby Brown says he left the New Jersey church where Whitney Houston's funeral was held because security moved him and his kids out of the family section.
Brown was invited to his ex-wife's funeral despite tension with the late recording star's family, who reportedly blame him at least in part for Houston's years of drug and alcohol abuse.
But the Newark Star-Ledger reported Brown left the New Hope Baptist Church minutes before the service began because the nine people he brought with him were not allowed to sit with him in the family section of the church.
"They were asked to leave," a person with knowledge of the situation told the newspaper, referring to Brown's entourage.
Although Brown was not asked to go, the insider said, "He left with the other people."
The Star-Ledger said Brown appeared visibly upset as he climbed into a black Cadillac SUV and rode away.
Brown, also a recording artist, issued a statement to CNN after the funeral ended, explaining: "My children and I were invited to the funeral of my ex-wife Whitney Houston. We were seated by security and then subsequently asked to move on three separate occasions. I fail to understand why security treated my family this way and continue to ask us and no one else to move. Security then attempted to prevent me from seeing my daughter (with Houston) Bobbi Kristina. In light of the events, I gave a kiss to the casket of my ex-wife and departed as I refused to create a scene. My children are completely distraught over the events. This was a day to honor Whitney. I doubt Whitney would have wanted this to occur. I will continue to pay my respects to my ex-wife the best way I know how."
In addition to Bobbi Kristina, who was at the church with Houston's family, Brown has four other children, the youngest of whom is 2. He did not say how many of his kids accompanied him to Saturday's service.
Houston died last week at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles at the age of 48. Officials have said they are waiting to determine the cause of her death until after toxicology test results are analyzed. No foul play was suspected.


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One of the more interesting stories at this weekend's Eurovision Song Contest in Baku, Azerbaijan was that of Ukraine's Gaitana. The Ukrainian-Congolese pop star made it to Sunday's finals—which Ukraine won in 2004. Her song "Be My Guest" topped the charts in Ukraine and Russia. It's destined to become a club anthem for the gays in Ibiza and South Beach.
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Gaitana was born in Kiev to a Congolese father and a Ukrainian mother. She lived in the Republic of Congo as a young child before returning to the Ukraine, where she is quite popular and sings in Ukrainian, Russian and English. A far-right politician created a huge controversy with racist remarks last February about the singer, reported the Kiev Times and AFP.
"[Eurovision's] millions of viewers will see Ukraine represented by someone who does not belong to our race, and they will think Ukraine is located somewhere in Africa," said Yury Sirotnyuk of the Svoboda Party. The comments created a "huge outcry from artists and musicians." Ukraine's ruling party and state television later demanded an apology.
Gaitana was the only Black contestant at this year's ESC. There were several Black contestants at Eurovision 2011 in Dusseldorf, including Norwegian-Kenyan singer Stella Mwangi, Italy's Senit who repped San Marino and the abtastic gay fave Simon Webbe of Blue who represented the UK. For a history of Black singers at Eurovision see HERE.
Gaitana placed 15th out of 42. Watch AFTER THE JUMP ...