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The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ended in Nome on Monday with the smallest finishing field in 30 years, the second champion from rural Alaska in a decade when rural Alaska has all but abandoned sled dogs, one dead dog, and a future as tenuous as ever.
On the upside, the race appeared to have its first budding Twitter star in an age when the President of the United States of America has made the social media platform the battleground for hearts and minds.
Blair Braverman came to the so-called Last Great Race from a town called Mountain in mountainless Wisconsin by way of California with the perfect surname – Braverman – and a made-for-TV hubby to match – Quince Mountain. She fumbled her way for 1,000 miles north from Willow to finish an oh-so-heroic 36th out of 39 teams to reach Nome, just one more than in 1989.
On the downside there was the dog dead, which brought the predictable expressions of grief and outrage from animal right's activists, and there was to go with it a tangled tale of an unprecedented number of teams that faltered and flailed along the Bering Sea coast late in the race.
Some got going again and some quit.
To the Iditarod faithful, the quitters were rebuttal to the argument that dogs are forced to run. Clearly, as the evidence showed, the dogs have some choice.
You can't push a string
The dogs can, like factory workers, go on strike. How bad things have to get before people, or dogs, unite to take such a stand is fuel for a legitimate discussion about what the Iditarod is in these times and what it should be going forward.
But for the zealots on either side, there is nothing to talk about.
There are Iditafans living in some fantasy land where the race is nothing but the Westminster Dog Show on snow and the mushers beneficent gods.
And on the other side, there are whacked out, vegetarian animal right's activists who think dogs should live on a diet of soy, because apparently industrial agriculture can raise plants without killing anything, and never be told to do anything, let alone be expected to perform.
For the folks in these little camps, the Iditarod is easily defined. It's all good, or it's all bad, and there is no need to discuss anything.
Unfortunately, the issues surrounding the Iditarod are not so simple.
And forget the dead dog. It's just a distraction. Dogs die tragic deaths every day. By the time you finish reading this, several will have been struck and killed on American roadways.
An estimated 1.2 million per year are run down by motor vehicles. That's 23,000 a week, 3,300 per day, 137 per hour, or a little better than two dead dogs per minute.
If you want to do something for dogs, get your nose out of your cellphone and devote your full attention to the road when driving.
On the other hand, let no one be deceived by the Iditarod claim that the Last Great Race "is all about the dogs." The Iditarod is no gift to the canine world. That is as simplistic and wrong as the belief that the race is inherently evil because a dog sometimes dies.
The Iditarod is simply more "all about the people" than all about the dogs.
All of which turns the focus to Nicolas Petit from Girdwood, the man who looked on his way to becoming the 2019 Iditarod winner before becoming the race's biggest loser.
Mental cases?
Petit now stars in a heart-moving, tear-filled video interview in which he talks about the mutiny his dog team staged outside of the village of Shaktoolik on the Bering Sea coast.
On the Iditarod Facebook page, he has attracted almost as much sympathy as Jussie Smollett did after he claimed to have been attacked by bigoted, white, racist thugs because he was a gay, black man.
This not to suggest that there is anything made up about the collapse of Petit's dog team as there was with Smollett's story. It is meant to say people need to give more weight to facts than to emotions.
That is especially important in the Petit case because in that interview he made the case, albeit it inadvertently, for why dogs that struggle on the Bering Sea coast should never run another Iditarod.
The questions that follow are simple: What happens to those dogs?
And that opens the door on other questions: How many races can an Iditarod dog do at the pace the race is now being run? And how many dogs is the Iditarod churning through to field the competitive dog teams that do tow the start line?
Fern Levitt, the director of the controversial documentary "Sled Dogs," has described some Alaska kennels as glorified puppy mills, and the accusation is not wholly off base.
"There's a lot of bad stuff going on in dog mushing," the late Susan Butcher, a four-time Iditarod champ, infamously said at a mushing symposium in Fairbanks way back 1991. "We wouldn't, as a group, pass anybody's idea of humane treatment of animals. As a group, we don't pass my standards of humane treatment of animals.
"These people are out there abusing their animals. I hope this sport does die if we can't, as a group, educate each other and work together to clean up our act."
The sport changed in the years that followed. Mushers got more selective about breeding. Old dogs were adopted out rather than killed. The practice of dumping dogs at animal shelters slowed even if it never fully ended.
Kennel sizes for competitive mushers shrunk. The Iditarod instituted as anti-doping program at the behest of some of the sport's top racers to clean up drug use.
Fairbanks sprint mushers Kathy Frost and her husband the late Lloyd Lowry, showed that some sled dogs dumped at the pound could be turned into race winners as did John Schandelmeier, a dog driver from Paxson who in 1996 won the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, the north's second biggest distance race.
Tough competition
Schandelmeier still keeps a small kennel, and his wife, Zoya Denure, regularly runs Iditarod, but they can't hope to compete in a race that has again become dominated by mushers keeping large kennels as the result of a booming business in sled-dog tours.
Sled dogs pulling people across Alaska glaciers in sleds or in carts on Alaska trails have provided lots of dogs off-season jobs that help pay bills and cover the costs of food and veterinary care for small armies of dogs between Iditarods.
New Iditarod champ Pete Kaiser from Bethel is something of an oddity in that his kennel is reportedly home to only 45 to 50 dogs. The Seaveys – Mitch and Dallas who between them have won six of the last eight Iditarods – keep hundreds of sled dogs. Last year's winner, Joar Liefseth Ulsom, this year's runner-up, has more than 100 around his house in Willow.
Big kennels change the way people think about the race. The mushers with big kennels can afford to burn dogs out because they have replacements waiting in the wings. They can push dogs to the limit in effort to win.
As a result, anyone who hopes to beat them has to do much the same. And then the adventurers at the back of the race, mushers with far lesser teams, have to elevate their pace to avoid getting squeezed out of the competition because they are too far behind the race leaders.
So let's go back to Petit again and what he says happened to his team on the trail from Shaktoolik across the barren flats to Island Point on the edge of Norton Bay.
Potty break
"Puppie gotta poop, and Joey tackles him," Petit said in an Iditarod Insider video before pausing and inhaling deeply. "I had enough of this Joee. Knock it off….There was just a puppy being harassed by a bully, and what do you do?
"Let the bully be a bully? Or do you tell the bully, that's enough? Vocally only."
So Petit stopped the team to disciple Joee. This happens. Dogs can be jerks. Maybe it was all vocal as Petit says. Maybe Petit just yelled at the dog. Personally, I've always grabbed these dogs by the throat, rolled them over on their back, and held them down until their eyes revealed they understood exactly who was in charge of the pack.
But let's accept Petit at his word – a politically correct "vocally only" – and let Petit pick the story up from there again:
"(I) picked up the snowhook, and said all right let's go," and then he starts looking around at the sky in mimicry of dogs ignoring him.
Needless to say, the dogs didn't move.
"I stayed four and a half hours I think, on the side in the wind with the straw," Petit goes on to say "And I decided that was not a good place to spend any more time. It was good that we had the straw, we used it and all that. So I packed up whatever straw I could and tried to go. I tried to go with other teams coming by; that didn't help.
"Joar tried to help me, but we weren't going to jeopardize his race trying to help me. He tried once, I said, 'OK, thank you' and then he went."
One can break all of this down to a few words.
Petit stopped to discipline a misbehaving dog, and his team staged a full on mutiny.
Whether that was a mental issue (as a some mushers and a lot of Idit-a-fans argue) or a physical issue (which is much more complicated) is explored lower down in this story, but to look forward before looking back, let's pursue Petit's explanation that the issue was mental because, in his opinion, "this dog team was not tired. This dog team was not overexerted."
So what is wrong when a professionally trained team just sits down and won't go even though the dogs have plenty of energy because they weren't "overexerted?"
Well. again, here's Petit's explanation:
"We had a very, very tough run last year. We had to find our way through something that we were not expecting….Basically it was a really, really tough run we did last year. And I'm very proud of them for what they did then. And I can't blame them for not wanting to go back to a place where their last experience with it was the toughest run of their lives."
Focus on Petit's words: "I can't blame them for not wanting to go back to a place where their last experience with it was the toughest run of their lives."
This represents an old Iditarod view. When Iditarod dogs struggle and stumble on the coast, they remember. And because they remember, you best leave them at home (or get rid of them) because you can't count on them in future races.
Gone dogs?
In the Insider video, Petit made nicey-nicey talk about how he's going to avoid that model.
"My dog team and I will be flying out to Unalakleet or someplace close to there, running through with there with steaks and T-bones (for treats)….We're going to have a good, old-time going back and forth….We're going to show them this is our new backyard, and there's nothing to be scared of everything's fine.
"And no, I will not get rid of my dogs."
It all sounds good. Unfortunately, practical realities argue against it. It is expensive to fly a dog team to Nome and more expensive to fly it from there to Unalakleet. It might be possible to rehabilitate dogs that have been through what was clearly one bad experience and what Petit now claims were two bad experiences.
But rehabilitation would be an experiment that could well fail. In the cold light of day, it would be much more sensible for Petit to do what other mushers have done and start over with a largely new group of dogs.
Someone who knows Petit well expects that at least some of the dogs of Iditarod 2019 will be sold to mushers in other countries, like Norway where they won't recognize the terrain, or given to junior mushers who run in the treed terrain of the Susitna River valley, or adopted out to friends.
But Petit is also one of those rare mushers with a pretty small kennel of 30 dogs or less. He might be forced to undertake the retraining experiment. Others won't. They will take the easier route, and Petit's dogs were not the only ones flagging on the coast this year.
Not all of the people behind those teams have the same, dog-friendly reputation as Petit, either. Some of them are known for being all about business, and the wise business decision is to move on from a dog team of quitters.
Hopefully, some of the dogs can be rehabilitated or hang on as training leaders or get adopted out to new homes or sold to recreational mushers or skijorers.
And some likely won't.
It would be nice if Iditarod kept track of this churn if for no other reason than to get a handle on whether the Iditarod is truly good for the dogs or not. Andy, five-time champ Rick Swenson's famed lead dog, raced for 10 years and lived to the age of 20. That is beyond a ripe old age for any dog.
Clearly Iditarod and the associated training was good for Andy. But experienced mushers say there don't appear to be many Iditarod dogs lasting more than a few races anymore.
Iditarod dogs are microchipped. Iditarod could keep track of how many races the average dog now does before it is replaced. But Iditarod doesn't keep that data. It's almost like Iditarod doesn't want to know.
Selling the myth
That's understandable. The Iditarod myth of Braverman and brave women challenging the unforgiving wilds of Alaska plays better than the reality of mushers taking their dog teams to the edge of collapse or beyond to try to win a dog race or satiate their egos.
What happened on the Bering Sea coast in this year's Iditarod was unprecedented. More than a dozen teams, almost a third of the field, stalled out between the time the race left the Yukon River at Kaltag and reached Safety, the last checkpoint before the finish.
Teams were quitting all over the place, forcing mushers to make long, unplanned stops. More than half of them managed to get started again and eventually make it to Nome as Brent Sass did in 2016.
But a half-dozen were forced to scratch including 67-year-old veteran Cindy Gallea from Wykoff, Minn., who had appeared for most of the race to be babysitting the back of the pack on the run to White Mountain. After the mandatory, 8-hour rest there, she set out for Nome and ran into trouble.
Twenty miles out, her team stalled, and it ended up taking her more than 22 hours to go the 55 miles to Safety, where she scratched. Behind her, Bethel rookie Victoria Hardwick – whose team made an unplanned, 8-hour stop between Elim and White Mountain plodded on to Nome to wrap up the race.
This sort of chaos happened all over the place. The team of musher Sarah Stokey from Willow took 17 hours to cover the 20 miles from Safety to Nome. The fat-tired cyclists who won the 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Invitational did it in a fifth the time; their average speed for the entire 1,000 mile ride was actually faster than Stokey's average speed for the last 20 miles.
Musher Jessie Holmes, a seventh place finisher as a rookie last year, had a Sass-esque experience on the 50-mile trail from Elim to Koyuk. A run that should have taken his team seven to eight hours took more than 36.
He plummeted from fifth in Shaktoolik to 27th by the finish line in Nome.
"What I am having a bit of a problem with is the often skewed opinions the fan base has, sitting far away, without seeing the firsthand hand events," Iditarod.com reporter Sebastian Schnuelle wrote after Sass stalled in 2016. "It rubs me a bit the wrong way reading comments about how Brent 'did things right by his dogs' with returning to the checkpoint. I am sorry to having to point this out, but it was not Brent who made that choice, it was his dogs who did. When dogs refuse to go, a mistake was made."
Schnuelle and other Iditarod reporters were strangely quiet this year as teams faltered left and right. Maybe it was the magnitude of the failure.
Petit had a lot of company in failing to properly judge the condition of a dog team. And there is no denying Petit's team looked downright phenomenal – barking and pulling at the towline – when he blew through Shaktoolik only a couple of hours before his entire Iditarod comes to an end.
Veteran Iditarod mushers can't remember seeing dogs jumping against their harnesses wanting to leave a coastal checkpoint. To have them then give up only about 10 miles down the trail just buggers the imagination and raises another question.
Could this have as much more to do with the Iditarod dogs of today than the new mushers?
The old Iditarod was run with dogs with a lot of Siberian husky in them. Siberians – or Slowberians as some call them – had a bad reputation for harboring a problematic penchant for self-preservation.
If a musher asked too much of them, they would instinctively back off the speed, or so it seemed, to try to protect themselves. They were like alkaline batteries slowly dimming in a flashlight. They'd keep going and going and increasingly dimming and dimming for a long time before they went out.
On the outside, todays dogs are lot different from Siberians. They are more hound than husky. They have shorter hair and longer legs. They arrive at the starting line as lean, mean, running machines ready to rock instead of packing a few extra pounds intended to be burned off on the way to the coast where the race is to begin.
And there has been speculation that they have changed on the inside, too, that the Siberian, self-preservation gene has been bred out of them, speculation that the new Iditarod dogs might be such that they burn bright like a protected lithium cell until shortly before they entirely shut down.
Managing such a team – whether it shuts down because it is physically spent or, as Petit argues, mentally failing – becomes a lot more difficult. Dogs don't come outfitted with battery indicators.
If you can't tell by looking when the dogs are faltering – and in Petit's defense it bears reiterating that his team looked great in Shaktoolik – the problem of teams crashing on the coast would only seem destined to continue, though after this year it's hard to imagine it could get worse.
The Idit-a-fans seems to think this is fine. The Idit-a-enemies thinks its horrific. And the great middle? Well, Iditarod might want to figure out what they think fast because the future of the financially troubled event hinges on public opinion.
And to have large numbers of teams quitting unexpectedly along the coast is just asking for trouble. The weather was benign this year. What if it had been otherwise?
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"Primitivism Revisited: After the End of an Idea," an exhibition curated by graduate students of Susan Vogel from Columbia University at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York City, is one of many recent shows (1) that reconsider controversial subjects of the past. It acknowledges that Primitivism, as it was once understood, is no longer a convincing framework to evaluate and compare art from different cultures, and reexamines it from the perspective of the 21st century.
Before the End of an Idea
Primitivism refers to a period in the development of modern art that began when a number of young, primarily French artists began seriously to consider the aesthetics of sculptural objects from Africa, Oceania and the Americas. These objects inspired new and meaningful ways of visually inventing and structuring forms, and helped to forge a departure from the naturalism that dominated the art of much of the 19th century. This revolutionary moment in the early 20th century is regarded as the peak of Modernism and influenced such artists as Pablo Picasso, André Derain and Henri Matisse. However, even as certain objects of "primitive" peoples were elevated from ethnographic curiosities to prized artworks, little thought was given to their historical or cultural significance. Those who created the objects, moreover, were still seen through the racist lens of colonialism.
The concept of Primitivism was extensively studied by Robert Goldwater and outlined in his 1938 landmark publication Primitivism in Modern Painting. Goldwater argued that similarities between African and modern art objects were almost coincidental and did not betray any deep cultural or artistic connections. Almost fifty years later, a very different viewpoint was presented at a controversial 1984 exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Organized by William Rubin and Kirk Varnedoe, and entitled "'Primitivism' in 20th century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern," the exhibition produced a torrent of criticism and fueled debates which persisted for years. Unlike Goldwater, Rubin believed that an essential spiritual and aesthetic bond connected African and modern Western art. In pairing the works of renowned modern artists with "tribal" objects to illustrate similarities in form, Rubin and Varnedoe were accused of stripping the non-Western works of their social contexts and meanings and designating them as "low" art within a tradition of "high" arts.
After the end of Primitivism as a historical moment and more than twenty years since the Rubin/Varnedoe exhibition, "Primitivism Revisited" attempts to explore different connections in light of post-colonial thinking, changes in cultural attitudes and globalization. By juxtaposing examples of traditional African objects with contemporary art, the show offers (not so) new alternatives for viewing and understanding art. As a more fluid approach that centers on content more than form, the attempt falls short of displaying original themes, inspiring works, or cohesion. The show does little to add to the critical discussion that Primitivism initially elicited.
The New and the Not So New
The glaring inconsistency with this academic exhibition is that it takes place within a for-profit gallery, where themes and text are typically scant. Also, unlike the 1984 venture, Oceanic, Native American or Mesoamerican art are omitted, a decision influenced by the fact that Vogel is an Africanist and Kelly is personally vested in African art. The extent to which student curators have creative control within gallery parameters and access to private collections, perhaps could account for the stretched associations between objects and themes. In addition, the questionable quality of some of the traditional African works does not meet the standards that one would expect within a show meant to showcase both genres. Such an undertaking seems better suited at a university gallery in which the students would not be burdened with crafting an exhibition for monetary gain. Locations are not neutral, as exemplified by Primitivism, and one must also question whether the students stumble into the same pitfalls as the original show by hosting it in a contemporary gallery. Afro-centric venues, such as the Studio Museum in Harlem or The Museum for African Art, are environments that have the potential present new interpretations of this subject.
The exhibition space itself is divided into thematic sections, including "Manufacturing Authenticity," "Constructing Culture," and "Beyond the Display Case," each curated by two students. Although these themes may not have been used directly in relation to the concept of Primitivism in over twenty years, they certainty have been investigated in a number of Vogel's own provocative and pioneering exhibitions Đ "Africa Explores" (1991), "Exhibition-ism" (1994), "Art/artifact" (1998) Đ and in the more recent companion exhibits in Monaco: "7000 Years of African Art" and "The Contemporary Collection of Jean Pigozzi" (2005); the widely traveling "Africa Remix" (2005); and "Picasso and Africa" (2006) in Johannesburg. For a casual gallery viewer (or student curator) unfamiliar with this subject matter, these musings may appear to be new innovations. However, they are very much a part of the vernacular that non-Western art historians, museologists and anthropologists are all fluent in today, as a result of the critical dialogue that arose in the post-Primitivism era. New paradigms have emerged for ways of thinking about "primitive art," marking a distinct transformation in how exhibitions are conceived and how display strategies shape audience interpretation.
Some of the exhibition themes highlight the connections between contemporary pieces and traditional works in a direct manner easily understood by the viewer. For instance, one section is dedicated to demonstrating that a gallery is an artificial place for showcasing certain artworks and that many objects cannot be understood without their performative contexts. A masking ensemble of the Bwa peoples of Burkina Faso is paired with masks composed of laser-cut mirrors, Naturalizations Masks (2003), by artist Pedro Lasch, that are meant to be worn by a participatory audience. In the background, a video of the Bwa dancing with their masks and children interacting with Lasch's masks are played on a screen to solidify the idea that, unanimated, the viewer cannot attain a complete appreciation. Although 1980s criticism certainly exhausted this concept, it is one niche that illustrates its argument in an explicit way.
In the same room, the idea of the "fetish" is explored with a Songye personal power figure (nkishi) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, featuring a lively composition of metal tacks that obscures most of its surface, as the centerpiece. This exceptional work was also included in the 1984 exhibition and has been featured in a number of notable survey books of African art. It is juxtaposed with Gavin Turk's Pile (2004), a group of naturalistically and skillfully rendered painted bronze garbage bags displayed on the floor, which deceived many into thinking they were actual rubbish. Pile inverts what is considered a valued object in a consumerist society, especially when it represents the most expensive work for sale in the exhibition. Also featured are Ann Hamilton's unusual portraits from (untitled) body object series (1986, 1984). Despite outward similarities to "fetishes," they are included for the artist's theoretical, not visual, interests.
Yinka Shonibare and El Anatsui, both successful contemporary African artists and the only two represented in the exhibition, are shown to meld cultures through the use of appropriation. Shonibare is known for his sumptuous use of textiles; Anatsui for his glittering textile-like constructions from found materials. Shonibare's Painting 25 (2005) and Anatsui's Key Issues at Buttonline #1 (2003), are clearly at the center of a globalized contemporary art world, yet responding to issues specific to the African continent. Adjacent to these works is an example from a less known contemporary artist, KD. In an advertising sign collected in Kumasi (early 21st century), an amusing portrayal of a clearly agitated man yelling into a phone with the heading "UNEEK Business Centre" is painted on sheet metal. It is a humorous observation on how many businesses in the West operate.
The issue of tourist art and authenticity has been the focus of many ambitious exhibitions developed in the past twenty years. The debate plays out in a display of art made for tourists juxtaposed with traditional artworks highly valued in the art market. Among the tourist art is a reproduction of a Bamana chi wara headdress and an ambiguous contemporary mask from Nigeria with signs of age deliberately added. An object made from recycled materials, a creative genre prevalent throughout Southern Africa, is also featured in the form of a colorfully painted lion constructed from tin.
As some sections employed exhaustive wall text to strengthen vague connections between ideas and artworks, others were inadequately explained, leaving viewers confused as to why certain objects were grouped together. "Primitivism Revisited" is an exercise in theory that wears on viewers' patience to struggle through each densely intellectualized section. Given the relatively short amount of time students were given to mount such a task, the predetermined limitations of the project, and the impossibility of numerous groups working independently to make a consistent whole, one can hope that this endeavor was at least a learning experience for the students.
Primitivism holds a pivotal and infamous place in the study of non-Western art and cultures. Its aftermath spurred a new generation of exhibits that fostered more inclusive thinking. With this in mind, the ideas expressed in "Primitivism Revisited" cannot be considered original or a notable contribution to the already existing discourse on this subject.
1. One of the more notable is "Africa Remix" in 2005, organized at the Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf, which reexamined "Magiciens de la Terre" at the Centre Pompidou in 1989. Both were curated by Jean-Hubert Martin.
"Primitivism Revisited: After the End of an Idea," Sean Kelly Gallery, www.skny.com, 528 West 29th Street, New York City, NY, through January 27th.

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If you are looking for the best PhD & Doctorate Criminal Justice Schools and Programs then the Criminal Justice Online Blog is the best place to find them. Doctoral degrees in Criminal Justice & Criminology are available both online and off.
Even though I tend to focus on online programs, I strongly feel that a proper PhD / doctorate education is in order for the aspiring Law Enforcement administrators and academicians. To me, it's just a matter of perspective.
Top PhD & Doctorate Criminal Justice / Criminology Schools for 2019
1. University of Maryland – (College Park): College Park, MD
2. SUNY – (Albany): Albany, NY
3. University of Cincinnati: Cincinnati, OH
4. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey – (Newark): Newark, NJ
4. University of California – (Irvine): Irvine, CA
4. University of Missouri – (St. Louis): St. Louis, MO
7. Michigan State University: East Lansing, MI
7. Pennsylvania State University – (University Park): PA
9. University of Nebraska – (Omaha): Omaha, NE
9. University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, PA
11. CUNY, John Jay College: New York, NY
11. Florida State University: Tallahassee, FL
11. University of Florida: Gainesville, FL
14. Northeastern University: Boston, MA
14. University of Delaware: Newark, DE
16. American University: DC
16. Arizona State University: AZ
18. Temple University: Philadelphia, PA
18. Washington State University: WA
20. Indiana University: Bloomington, IN
20. University of Illinois – (Chicago): Chicago, IL
22. Sam Houston State University: Huntsville, TX
These ratings are not arbitrary, but rather compiled by U.S. News & World Reports. U.S. News is a very popular and trusted resource for students and parents looking for the best colleges & universities in the country and the world. You'll often see their magazine on store shelves. It is filled with ratings, statistics, and other useful info, however it doesn't get published often. I highly recommend picking it up next time you see it, or even better, you can see the ratings for yourself, online – there may be a nominal fee for this service.
Top Online PhD / Doctorate Criminal Justice Schools for 2019
At present, the online doctorate level education in Criminology and related fields is not up to my standards (read : Online PhD in Criminal Justice – it'll explain a lot). Therefore you don't see me endorsing too many universities and colleges of that kind.
Just added…
Nova Southeastern University is offering potentially one of the first Criminal Justice PhD degree programs that is online and perhaps right on the money. Regardless, I still think you should consider your doctorate studies at a traditional setting (read the other article + comments at Online PhD in Criminal Justice for more on that). I hope that in the near future this will change and that both the traditional and online mode of learning will have the same "pot of gold at the end of the rainbow" (aka career opportunities).
In the end I am looking for a Doctoral program which will serve me well in my profession and in the academic field. Thus, it is my recommendation that you consider the traditional PhD schools, before you venture out online.
The only exception to this would be a national or private college / university offering an online Criminal Justice / Criminology program. Schools like University of Maryland, Rutgers, SUNY, University of Cincinnati, Michigan State University, and an ivy league favorite, University of Pennsylvania, would be just outstanding for my online doctorate needs. For now, we'll just have to wait.
If you're a quality, regionally accredited, academic institution offering or soon to be offering a PhD in Criminal Justice, please get in touch with me / participate in the discussion.


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GOP delays start of convention until Tuesday
Tampa, Florida (CNN) -- The Republican National Convention has cancelled the program's first day due to Tropical Storm Isaac, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus announced Saturday, August 25th.
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The convention will convene on Monday, August 27th and then immediately recess until the following afternoon, Priebus said in a statement.
"Due to the severe weather reports for the Tampa Bay area, the Republican National Convention will convene on Monday August 27th and immediately recess until Tuesday afternoon, August 28th. After consulting with Governor Scott, NOAA and local emergency management officials, we are optimistic that we will begin an exciting, robust convention that will nominate the Romney-Ryan ticket," Priebus said.
Vice President Joe Biden had announced plans to campaign in Tampa on Monday and elsewhere on Florida on Tuesday. On Friday evening, the Obama-Biden campaign cancelled his Monday events, and Saturday, the campaign announced cancellation of his Tuesday plans.
GOP officials expect 50,000 people to attend the convention where Mitt Romney will officially accept his party's presidential nomination and make the final turn to the November election.
The delay was brought about because Isaac is expected to be west of Tampa in the Gulf of Mexico early Monday morning - the first day of the weeklong event.
Isaac was forecast to bring rain and wind to the Tampa area on Monday and Tuesday and was expected to increase in intensity and become either a Category 1 or 2 hurricane as it passed west of Tampa in the Gulf of Mexico.
Before the RNC announcement, Florida's Republican Governor Rick Scott announced that he was cancelling his activities at the convention but would remain in Tampa to monitor and coordinate the state's response to the storm.
Wind gusts in Tampa were recorded at 30 mph on Saturday afternoon.
As the convention and storm approached, RNC and government officials stressed their preparedness. "I declared a state of emergency for the state of Florida," Scott told reporters Saturday morning. "That's standard protocol to make sure we can coordinate our efforts with federal, state, and local so we can have the proper response."
On CNN's "Starting Point" Thursday, RNC communications director Sean Spicer said the convention had "contingency plans to deal with weather-related and other circumstances that may occur to ensure that the business can go on at the RNC and Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will become our nominees."
Officials were speaking with and distributing pamphlets to delegates and other guests as they checked into the over 15,000 area hotel rooms which had been booked, and encouraged those for whom this would be their first hurricane to be careful.
On Saturday afternoon, the storm had sustained winds of 60 mph with 70 mph gusts.
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Heart condition keeps Feliciano out of activities
Mets lefty says MRI reveals 'little holes,' will wear monitor for two weeks
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Reliever Pedro Feliciano will not participate in any baseball activities for the next two weeks, until the Mets receive an updated diagnosis on his heart condition.
General manager Sandy Alderson cautioned that Feliciano's claim of a hole in his heart may not be accurate, though Feliciano reiterated Sunday that an MRI exam revealed "little holes like outside the heart."
"The doctors have asked that he be monitored over the next couple of weeks," Alderson said. "Until that time, we won't really have a diagnosis. With respect to his comment that he has a hole in his heart, I don't think that's clear at this point."
"They said in the test that I had little holes like outside the heart," Feliciano reiterated Sunday. "Little holes, but I don't feel anything. That's what they said in the MRI."
Feliciano is waiting on a heart monitor, which he will wear for two weeks. He will not participate in any baseball activities during that time.
The left-hander said he does not have an official diagnosis for his condition, which he jokingly referred to as "Feliciano's Condition." Manager Terry Collins noted a day earlier that it "could possibly be very serious."
"I don't feel anything," Feliciano said. "I'm healthy. I work hard. I never feel dizzy or anything. It was surprising for me. But the doctors are the ones who know. I have to wait and be relaxed until they tell me I'm cleared."
In the meantime, four other lefty relievers will compete for what appears to be one open spot in the bullpen. Josh Edgin is a heavy favorite to break camp with the team, leaving Robert Carson, Darin Gorski, Scott Rice and Aaron Laffey to compete for one other spot. Feliciano had been a favorite for that role until tests revealed his condition.
"I was ready, man," Feliciano said. "I was happy to pitch on Friday, and now to be down is hard. I hope when I come back, I'll just pitch good and surprise everybody and make the team."


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The European Commission has asked Google for more information about its planned $12.5 billion deal to buy Android smartphone maker Motorola Mobility, and has suspended its approval process until it has all the documentation it needs, a spokeswoman for the Commission said on Tuesday.
The query means the Jan. 10 deadline for the first phase of the approval process won't be met. A new date will be announced when Google has submitted the documentation, the Commission said.
The Commission needs certain documents that are essential to its evaluation of the transaction, the spokeswoman said via email, without elaborating on what those documents need to detail.
Google confirmed that the Commission has asked for more information, saying that it is routine measure. The company is "confident the commission will conclude that this acquisition is good for competition and we'll be working closely and cooperatively with them as they continue their review," a spokeswoman said via email.
In September, the U.S. Department of Justice also asked Google for more information about the potential ramifications of the deal.
Google announced its plan to acquire Motorola Mobility in August, with Google CEO Larry Page saying the company aims to "better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies."
The deal raised questions about how other mobile phone manufacturers such as HTC and Samsung, which ship the majority of Android-based smartphones, would react. So far, Samsung has announced it will back Tizen, a new Linux-based OS based on MeeGo and Limo.
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What a big release week!
First, a quick update to MapBuddy:
- Translations (French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Polish, Slovak)
- A "Add to addressbook" button on merchant's window (with the help of Jonathon Jongsma)
- A precision circle is drawn around your position
- Kinetic scrolling is turned on
Then, a bigger update for libchamplain 0.4.4:
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- Fix to make Python bindings work out of the tarballs!
- Use shared paths by all tiles consumers on Maemo devices to store tiles (saves bandwidth)
- Load tiles in a spiral manner from the centre (thanks to Jason Woofenden)
- Optimizations resulting in
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Recently, I have configured backups of Hyper-V VM using "Windows Server Backup (WSB)" utility. Windows Server Backup (WSB) uses the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to provide backup and restore support for W2K8 volumes, folders, and files. To make this tutorial Easy and understandable to everyone, I will explain everything in following three parts
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1) Installation of Windows Server Backup.
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5) Press Install to continue.
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I will post Part II and Part III soon… thanks for your Patience.


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On July 13, after 11 days, 17 hours and 22 minutes of non-stop driving, renowned adventurer and off-road driver Rainer Zietlow and his team set a new world record certified by TÜV Nord Mobility for driving the length of the Pan-American Highway as they crossed the road's end in Deadhorse, Alaska. The TDI-Panamericana Endurance Challenge team covered 14 countries and nearly 16,000 miles in a 2011 Volkswagen Touareg TDI® Clean Diesel SUV. Their journey to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Pan-American Highway's establishment breaks the previous record by more than three days.
"Our adrenaline is still pumping after setting the new world record on the Pan-American Highway," said Rainer Zietlow, manager of the German car event agency, Challenge4 GmbH, after finishing the Challenge. "We were able to overcome every weather challenge along the way, and our fueling and transportation stops ran like clockwork. Thanks to our sponsors, we were outfitted with a vehicle that could handle the demanding driving schedule and challenging conditions, and had amazing technical and driver support along the way."
Zietlow and his German teammates, Carlos Fernandez and Marius Biela, started their journey on July 2 at the southern-most tip of Argentina where the Pan-American Highway begins. They traveled through 14 countries – Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, the United States and Canada – and through challenging conditions ranging from a blinding sandstorm in Chile to muddy roads in northern Alaska. The team drove day and night, taking five-hour driving shifts throughout the trip. The TDI-Panamericana Endurance Challenge website shared the team's experiences through blog posts and videos and tracked their progress using a live map.
This world record journey was also one of goodwill. Zietlow will donate 10 Euro cents for each kilometer that was driven this trip to two villages in Latin America managed by Plan International, a charity organization that works in 48 developing countries to promote children's rights and lift millions of children out of poverty.
Zietlow chose the Touareg TDI® Clean Diesel for its durability, high-performance and long-range fuel efficiency. Its turbocharged 3.0L V6 TDI® engine delivers 225 horsepower and 406 lb-ft of torque and is designed to perform on rugged terrain and mixed road surfaces at varying altitudes. The clean diesel Touareg consumes 30 percent less fuel and produces up to 25 percent lower CO2 emissions than comparable gasoline vehicles.
"Volkswagen congratulates the Challenge4 Team on their success," said Rainer Michel, vice president of product marketing, Volkswagen of America. "We knew that the Volkswagen Touareg TDI® Clean Diesel SUV could be pushed to unimaginable limits. The completion of the TDI-Panamericana Endurance Challenge in record-setting time demonstrates the vehicle's durability, reliability, comfort and fuel-efficiency. This is a great vehicle for adventurers, driving enthusiasts and families alike."
From August 1 through August 30, Zietlow will drive the record-setting Touareg to Volkswagen dealerships across the nation where interested public can watch a movie about his journey and look inside the vehicle..


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Book: The Battle of the Labyrinth
Author: Rick Riordan
Series: Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Standing: Book 4
POV: 1st person by Percy, past tense
Setting: New York City, modern day
Genre: Children's fantasy, mythology
Source: Physical copy
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Pages: 361
Release: March 6th 2008
|Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse.
In this fourth installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronos's army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop the invasion, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinth - a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn.
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I will save you the pictures of the mess, and share a couple of pictures I haven't posted.
I made one more pouch before Christmas, and I think this might be my favourite so far.
The Pouch
I have this nail polish addiction, that my (all male) family thinks is kind of charming. So, here are the Christmas Nails.
Etsy. I found this under the tree! Oddly, the tiny pink sparkles don't really show in normal light.
And the annual Kitten in the Tree Picture.
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And now, a lengthy post on something I never thought would happen to me
Okay, so here's le scoop:
Just after the Weardrobe bloggers' Conference had ended, Jessica of WhatIWore referred me to a calling Seventeen Magazine was holding for their style council; which is basically a panel of stylish girls who contribute to the magazine with style tips and other bits of fashion-related curiosities. In all honesty, I had submitted my application thingy just for the hell of it with little hope I would be chosen since I just have this horrid complex of not believing in myself when national publications are involved.
Please excuse the exceptionally crappy scan. I wish you could see my brogues in the first photo a little better along with the vintage scarf and broaches I made in better detail, but life goes on.
I hadn't picked up an issue of Seventeen since I was about 14, so this was a pretty interesting experience. I got to meet the AMAZING staff and work inside the Hearst building where all of the Hearst publications are produced (Esquire,Marie Claire, Redbook, etc.).
((thanks to Sammy for the clarification!))
So, what I have posted below me is a video that I shot and edited myself for Seventeen. I was asked to give an introduction on myself and show off my closets.
I'm just warning you though, I'm pretty good at making a complete ass of myself (as you will see) ENJOY!
I am such a dingbat.
Fun facts about this video:
-This is the first video I have ever shot/edited myself, it took me 4 hours to finish.
-The first shots are in my 3rd floor studio/attic/wreck-room where I shoot most of my blog photos. I pretty much live in my studio, I actually sleep up there and not in my bedroom.
-The I Heart NY poster was given to me the first year I moved to Buffalo. I miss NYC terribly and I keep it up as a reminder of where my roots are.
-The mannequin in my room is from the Pottery Barn circa 2004, it eerily has the same measurements as me.
We are featured in the March issue (The one with Lauren Conrad on the cover) on page 46 & it's out on newsstands now should you ever wanna see the girls for yourself!
My next feature in Seventeen will be in the May issue and the June/July issue. In the meanby, I will be blogging on the Style Council's section of Seventeen's website!
42 comments:
CONGRATULATIONS CLAIREBEAR! This is completely amazing! I don't think I've read 17 since I was 14 either (or perhaps younger!) but I am still sooo proud of you!ReplyDelete
I knew it was you! When I got the magazine weeks ago, I thought it was you but I wasn't sure hehe Good Luck(:ReplyDelete
Hahaha, what I think is great about your video is that not only do you clearly have a sense of style and an enviable closet, but you're still quirky and funny aka a cool dingbat. Congrats on the 17 deal!ReplyDelete
(PS: cute doggie!)
That was such an adorable little film! I don't think you made a fool of yourself at all~ it was great!
(your hair has great movement)
aghhhhhh, that's so awesome :) congratulations and goodluck, even though you don't need it!
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- AnonymousFebruary 12, 2010 at 1:58 AM
OMG i didnt even noticed! but i definitely read that issue! wow thats really cool that you got that spot!ReplyDelete
wow this is amazing!!! congratulations (:ReplyDelete
thats so cool that you got to do that for seventeen! and haha dingbat is one of my favorite words. thanks for using it <3ReplyDelete
congrats!!, love ur video so muchReplyDelete
Very cool, congratulations!ReplyDelete
congrads that is pretty cool!ReplyDelete
I love this post. You're so cute in this video and and so funny. I've already said to you that i'm very happy to you but i say it again : CONGRAAAAAATTSSSS ! xxReplyDelete
wow! congrats, darling! i love the video, great job! :)ReplyDelete
Editing is spot on. Love your cuts to the music and text about your favorite pieces. Lovely! Congrats, girl!ReplyDelete
i'm more in love with you now than i was five minutes ago. true fact.ReplyDelete
congratulations!!! that's huge. you must be so excited. have fun and good luck. :DReplyDelete
I actually saw you in Seventeen and came here to congratulate you. You look great in the magazine and it was cool to see some of your pieces that I have seen you wear on the blog.ReplyDelete
Congrats! Truly well deservedReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 12, 2010 at 11:22 PM
Congrats!!!!! :)ReplyDelete
congratulations! :DReplyDelete
♥ vanilla ice cream ♥
I opened up that baby and screamed "OH MY GOD ITS CLAIRE."ReplyDelete
It was a magical moment.
You are the most fabulous one is there, by the way.
I am going out and buying that issue as soon as I can! (good thing I'm in the states.... Seventeen is impossible to find in the uk!) But anyhoo, well done :) so happy for you! xxxReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 13, 2010 at 5:51 PM
Wow that's cool. i love thw way you are taller than all the other girls. Also love you buckled ankle wedges.ReplyDelete
AAH CONGRATS, I think this is like the third time i've said it but CONGRATS you deserve it!ReplyDelete
Where did you get the fist shirt you're wearing at the end? That is absolutely AMAZING!ReplyDelete
I loved the video, btw. You're adorable.
Ahh, you are so funny in the video, and I think you bring originality to the Syle Council. So happy for you!
congrats, that is so exciting!ReplyDelete
Congratulations on being featured in Seventeen Magazine! :PReplyDelete
hey Claire!ReplyDelete
CONGRATS!!! This is amazing and so deserving. I'm so glad Miss Jessica pointed you in the right direction ;-)
I used to work at Hearst (woo!) and have good friends at Seventeen. Anyway, just a TAD correction. Seriously, no no no offense. But Conde Nast is different than Hearst. The magazines you referenced are not produced in the Hearst building. They are produced in the Conde Nast building at 4 Times Square.
NO BIGGIE THOUGH! But if you do want to correct, just cite Hearst mags like Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Redbook, etc.
xoxoxo would love to gift you some vintage from my collection if ever interested!
Sammy D
Sweetheart, congrats to you!ReplyDelete
And I ditto Sammy. You definitely weren't in the place they publish Conde Nast mags if you were at Seventeen in the Hearst building.
Ah! Thanks guys! That would be a downer to misrepresent the magazine I'm working for & its publisher!ReplyDelete
wow lucky congratulations, take some pictures behind scenes!ReplyDelete
woah AMAZING !ReplyDelete
you're in 17 mag ! that's like one of my favorite all time magazines ! ahahha..
I haven't got a chance to grab the magazine though . i will do so and check ur feature there !
nice to get to know ur blog !
am following :D
Woah!! congrats!!! That is so huge!! I have a subscription to Seventeen and sometimes feel it's lacking something. Juts knowing you're behind the scenes makes me so much more excited to get it!! I'm sure you'll add some spice :)ReplyDelete
coool. looking forward to writing it!ReplyDelete
Totally jealous! How amazing for you! I bet it's going to just be amazing times.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 20, 2010 at 2:48 PM
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Wow! Congratulations girl! That's an awesome achievement.ReplyDelete
hey :) i've just discovered your blog and love it! i'm going to follow you...ReplyDelete
I'm a fashion illustrator from Detroit. I hope you'll check out my work on my blog and follow me as well!
Oh, what a great opportunity! Congratulations!ReplyDelete
I actually saw the issue before you posted and was like...I think I know this girl! My friend looked at me like I was insane; I clarified "Not in real life, a fashion blog!" She still rolled her eyes, but I was excited to see a familiar face and obviously it's exciting for you, too. Congrats!ReplyDelete
Claire, that video of you is so charming. You've got great charisma! I found you via weardrobe.ReplyDelete
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I love slow motion videos in general, but there's something extra-satisfying about this one: a fixed Japanese OSG Mega Muscle Drill getting its way inside a block of carbon steel rotating at 3,183 revolutions per minute. I can't stop watching those chips getting away.
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Outwardly Expressed Anger Affects Some Women's Heart Arteries, Says A New Women-Only Study
Researchers seeking to improve diagnostic and treatment tools for women with heart disease have found that the outward expression of anger and hostility is higher in certain women with suspected coronary artery disease. But anger and hostility also are associated with atypical cardiac symptoms in women who do not have angiographic evidence of heart disease. C. Noel Bairey Merz, a cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and principal investigator of the multi-center Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) Study, is available to discuss the research and its implications. She is one of the authors of an article in the Dec., 2006, issue of the Journal of Women's Health.
Los Angeles - Jan. 12, 2007 – While previous studies have shown that anger and hostility, in and of themselves, can increase risk of heart disease in men, little of the research has included women.
Results of a new study, conducted exclusively with female subjects, suggest that anger and hostility alone are not predictive for coronary artery disease in women, but women who outwardly express anger may be at increased risk if they also have any of several other risk factors: age (risk increases as women get older), history of diabetes and history of unhealthy levels of fats (lipids) in the blood.
Cardiologist C. Noel Bairey Merz, M.D., medical director of the Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center and medical director of Women's Health at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said the overt expression of anger toward other persons or objects appears to be the most "toxic" aspect of hostility in women. In fact, the researchers analyzed a variety of measures related to anger, including cynicism, hostile temperament, aggression and suppressed anger. Only expressed anger – described as Anger Out on the rating scale – had predictive value, and only when the age, diabetes or dyslipidemia risk factors also were present.
"Our results appear to differ from the literature on males, particularly young males, in which hostility scores are found to be associated with coronary artery disease. However, the new data, combined with our previous findings, indicate that anger and hostility in women, as in men, do tend to cluster with adverse risk factors," said Bairey Merz, one of the authors of an article in December, 2006, issue of the Journal of Women's Health.
The anger and hostility research grew out of the Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) Study, a multi-center, long-term investigation sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Bairey Merz chairs the WISE study and holds the Women's Guild Chair in Women's Health at Cedars-Sinai.
WISE was designed to study diagnostic testing and pathophysiology of ischemic heart disease in women and how sex hormones and other gender-specific findings influence the clinical aspects of the disease. From 1996 to 2000, 936 women referred for angiograms because of chest pain and suspected ischemia were enrolled. The hostility study included 636 women with suspected coronary artery disease who were referred for diagnostic coronary angiography.
The research team published an article last year showing that hostility and anger are related to coronary artery disease and are predictive of heart-related "events" in women. This study concluded that the outward expression of anger and hostility is higher in, and may be a risk factor for, women with suspected coronary artery disease, based on results of angiograms. But it also found that anger and hostility are associated with atypical cardiac symptoms in women who do not have angiographic evidence of heart disease. The researchers hypothesize that women who have symptoms but no definitive diagnosis or potential treatment may manifest their frustration in increased aggression and anger.
"By beginning to understand the psychosocial factors that play a role in the development of heart disease in women, we hope to develop more effective diagnostic tools. This study also points out the importance of addressing the concerns of women who must cope with atypical, unexplained symptoms and the psychological effects accompanying them," said Bairey Merz, who is available to provide additional information about the study.
The study and article were completed by researchers at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md.; University of Pittsburgh; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; University of California, Los Angeles; National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health; Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh; Atlanta Cardiovascular Research Institute, Atlanta; and the University of Florida, Gainesville.
Financial support was provided by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, the Gustavus and Louis Pfeiffer Research Foundation of Danville, NJ, The Women's Guild of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, The Ladies Hospital Aid Society of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, and QMED, Inc., Laurence Harbor, NJ.


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WASHINGTON – US trades the comedian, Carrot Top, for a truck load of Canadian pennies.
Canadian Finance Minister, Jim Flaherty, recently announced that the Canadian penny would be no more.
"The cost is just too great for us to continue to producing the penny," explained Flaherty in a press conference, "Every year we lose more and more money by making money, which fundamentally makes no sense."
This continual loss of revenue is what prompted the Canadian government to make the decision. The big question now is what will happen to all of those pennies? Luckily Timothy Geithner, United States Secretary of the Treasury, got wind of this change to the Canadian financial system and approached Flaherty with a unique proposal.
Geithner proposed that that the Canadian government give all of its existing pennies to the United States to circulate as an secondary US penny. The Canadian pennies will be considered of equal value to the current US pennies. The only difference being that they will have a maple leaf on one side and a picture of a woman that no US citizen knows on the other. In exchange for the pennies Canada will receive US comedian, Carrot Top.
That's Queen Elizabeth II for those of you who did not know.
"We were really surprised that the Canadians accepted the offer. It was a total crap shoot on our part. But hey, it worked," exclaimed Geithner, "No one really wants Carrot Top in the US anyway so we are really glad that they agreed."
For several years the US Mint has been losing millions of dollars as a result of the continued production of pennies. Each penny produced cost roughly 1.62 cents. Just over six tenths of a cent does not sound like much on its own but when you consider the millions of pennies produced in a given year, the loss is staggering.
"This is really going to help balance the budget at the Mint," said Geithner, "We are extremely grateful to the Canadians for agreeing to this trade."
The stockpile of 30 billion Canadian pennies will be driven to the Canadian/US boarder where the exchange for Carrot Top will take place. It is unclear what Canadian officials intend to do with Carrot Top. Some speculate that they will allow have him do his comedic routine at all important government functions while others speculate that they may just release him into the Canadian wilderness.


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Thursday, April 8, 2010
The Point Of No Return: Sweatshorts
18 comments:
I'd rather robocop one solid pair of sweatpants and just pull them up and peg 'em if I wanted them shorter.ReplyDelete
These are dope.ReplyDelete
-Reformed Sweatpant/short hater.
- AnonymousApril 8, 2010 at 2:55 PM
i've had a pair of these from steve & barry's for a couple years, like to wear them with my baseball tees but it's much easier to get away with something like this while at college.ReplyDelete
not so sure about anyone wearing them in the real world
i do agree with jon though, i would rather pull up some normal sweatpants.
- gogglesgagneApril 8, 2010 at 2:57 PM
I used to have a couple pairs of sweatshorts that were great for lounging, but I only wore them outside if I was hungover and grabbing breakfast.ReplyDelete
On another note, where are those $38 bottoms in Japan? I was in Tokyo last summer and all I learned was that everything there is expensive as hell. Although I must admit I had no clue where to look.
Gogglesgagne- I was just joking that this whole sweatpants explosion seems to have started in Japan and If I lived over there I could look sweet by wearing these J. Crew joints everyday.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 8, 2010 at 3:04 PM
still reppin' the sweats! love it.ReplyDelete
even though i dig these more than the clive sweater pant, i just can't get on board. too "apartment only" for me to spend real dollars...
I have the version they made a couple years ago in navy. I wear them when hanging around the apartment, or when playing outdoor sports. That's outdoor sports, fellas. Soccer, softball, basketball, etc.ReplyDelete
oh, and I bought them on sale for like $15.ReplyDelete
- the obsolete librarianApril 8, 2010 at 3:54 PM
I bought the ones(on sale)they made a couple of years back as well. Strictly for the house/yard/gym.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 8, 2010 at 4:11 PM
I like these. I like them a lot. I would date a boy even if he wore these.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 8, 2010 at 4:56 PM
Speaking as an adult woman, if I saw a grown man wearing these for something besides yard work, sports, a quick trip to Home Depot for last minute supplies, I'd be disappointed.ReplyDelete
Off the top sweat shorts are comfortable as f--k and if you doubt me, try them out. Go to Wal-Mart, cop some $8 Hanes sweatpants, cut them to the desired length and rock them. They are sooooo sooooft. With that said, the fact that you can do what I just said and achieve the look is a major problem with these shorts. Everyone here has to agree that in wearing shorts you are deciding to be casual for the day. In no way shape or form can shorts be anything more than just plan old casual. If you wear shorts to work you either are an athlete of some sort or work for some parcel service. So there is nothing wrong with the decidedly casual look of these shorts in my opinion. I think something like the ensemble could easily be worn with some canvas shoes (boat shoe or sneaker... doesn't really matter) to a barbeque or crab boil and you would look fresher than the douche with the seersucker shorts, polo shirt, and wayfarers with croakies. You have to own the look though.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 8, 2010 at 6:29 PM
what are croakies anyawyReplyDelete
Anon @6:29- http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/Croakies.jpgReplyDelete
Couple of people have mentioned this, but jcrew has been doing these for a while. Vince and kzo, too. I admit I've worn them out for a shopping trip or afternoon at the park and they are really, really comfortable. Good tshirt, good sneakers and it looks all right.ReplyDelete
Unless I'm getting my workout on, no thanks.ReplyDelete
LOL@ FosterReplyDelete
They are ok to kick around in but I could never take a man seriously if he tried to dress them up. FAIL.


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Story highlights
There is more than the incredible moai on offer
The island's top celebration is February's Tapati Festival
Seafood meals are outstanding
Several eco-lodges are a highlight for many visitors
There are, of course, those massive stone statues of ancient legend lining its coast. Then there's the epic isolation – more than 2,000 miles from the nearest population centers (Chile, Tahiti), it's one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth.
But those aren't the only reasons to rank Easter Island ("Rapa Nui" to locals) high on your list of exotic travel wishes.
Polynesian in culture and Chilean in nationality, this volcanic archipelago in the southeastern Pacific Ocean remains a vibrant center of Polynesian culture and otherworldly scenery.
What's more, it's not hard to get to, with Chile's LAN Airlines making the five-hour flight from Santiago to Easter Island several times a week.
Measuring 15 by eight miles, it's easy to cover all of Easter Island in a single, unforgettable stay. Here are five reasons to start planning now:
1. Moai statues
Numbering almost a thousand, the moai (monolithic human statues carved from a single piece of stone) are scattered all over the island. They're the principal reason people come to Easter Island and truly make any trip a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Carved in the image of the island's Rapa Nui ancestors, the statues date to the twelfth century and measure up to a staggering 32 feet (10 meters) in height. Excavated in the 1970s, they stand in long lines. Some are solitary and all face inland.
Each moai is different. Like caricatures, they're fat, thin, big, small, tattooed – you name it, the Rapa Nui carved them as an expression of an intricate culture that also included petroglyphs, tattooing and ancient Oceania's only written language.
2. Tapati Festival
One of many Easter Island mysteries is how this remote piece of land came to be inhabited. Most historians agree that Polynesian seafarers arrived around 400 A.D., but no one knows for sure – some have posited an extraterrestrial connection.
What is known is that it wasn't until 1722, when a Dutch expedition arrived, that the Rapa Nui had any contact with outsiders. At the time, the moai were still standing and the local population numbered around 20,000.
Today, the islanders number 5,000 in total. That's just four times the number of moai and less than the island's horse population. But the island's one-of-a-kind culture is kept alive with activities and festivals that highlight ancient arts such as spear throwing, tobogganing, dancing and body painting.
The island's top celebration is the Tapati Festival, based on ancient sports.
The highlight is the Haka Pei, in which male islanders (wearing only small loin cloths) toboggan down the Maunga Pui volcano on banana tree trunks. It's a bumpy, crazy ride. The last competitor remaining atop his log is declared the winner.
There are also dance competitions, carnival-style parades, food exhibitions and the crowning of the Tapati queen.
3. Volcanoes
Easter Island is primarily made up of three extinct volcanoes: Terevaka, Poike and Rano Kau.
The youngest of the three, Terevaka forms the vast part of the island. Its slopes served as the Rano Raraku quarry, providing the volcanic tuff from which the moai were carved. Today, 400 eerie, petrified heads poke out of Terevaka's grassy hillside, looking as though they were captured and frozen while trying to climb out of the mountainside.
Poike makes up the island's east "wing" and Rano Kau forms the south.
Rano Kau has a huge, impressive crater. It sits astride the ceremonial village of Orongo, which has breathtaking 360-degree views of the island and Pacific Ocean.
4. Food
Easter Island isn't a gourmet destination – years of deforestation have led to a scarcity of local resources. But being surrounded by ocean means that seafood isn't just a staple, it's outstanding. Fresh beans and yams tend to round out most plates.
In Kaloa, the Hangaroa Eco Village's Poerava restaurant might be the best place to eat on the island. It serves a delicious seared tuna and other local specialties according to the availability of ingredients. It also has sweeping ocean views. The resort also includes a bistro that serves pasta and cocktails.
In Hanga Roa village, Ariki o Te Pana Cafe has excellent empanadas for those seeking simple, local food at reasonable prices. (Note: local restaurants aren't 'budget' cheap – for example, you can expect to pay more than US$20 for a dish of spaghetti at many places).
5. Eco-lodges
A highlight for many visitors is a stay in one of the Easter Island's eco-lodges.
On the southeast side of the island, Posada de Mike Rapu is made entirely of local wood and gets high ratings for privacy.
Opened in 2007, the lodge says it was the first in South America to receive LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification from the United States Green Building Council. The lodge has 30 bedrooms and undisturbed views over fields, red coral trees and the Pacific Ocean.
Situated on a chunk of craggy coastline, Hangaroa Eco Village & Spa has 79 bedrooms and is within easy walking distance of the main village of Hanga Roa. It's built in true eco-style, with adobe buildings topped with grass roofs. Inside, cypress tree trunks form pillars and en suite bedrooms have handmade clay baths. It's like staying in a very luxurious cave.
Posada de Mike Rapu; +1 866 750 6699 (from U.S.) or +56 2 2395 2800; from US$2,385 for three nights (double occupancy); website
Hangaroa Eco Village & Spa in Hanga Roa; +56 2 957 0300; from US$275 per night (double occupancy); website


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OCEAN CITY – The SEED School of Maryland is reaching out to the Eastern Shore to provide students with a supportive structural academic environment.
The school is located in Baltimore and is a five-day-a-week boarding school. It was opened through the SEED Foundation, which opens and supports college-preparatory, public boarding schools that provide a 24-hour-a-day nurturing environment designed specifically for children who would benefit from SEED's comprehensive model and the opportunities it provides.
According to the Head of the School Jerry Kountz, the SEED School of Maryland provides an opportunity for students who may not be achieving their potential in their other school.
"Opportunity is the key word because certain circumstances that are preventing them to be the best that they can be and by coming here we can help them overcome whatever obstacles they are experiencing and reach their full potential," said Director of Student Life Anna Williams.
Kountz explained that the SEED School of Maryland is a public school that works in conjunction with the Maryland State Department of Education. Therefore the school utilizes the Maryland State Curriculum of objective standards that all the kids in Maryland have to master.
"We believe that all of kids can be successful so besides doing remediations we also do acceleration because we know that they have potential and we believe with the right kind of support regardless of where you are academically you can be successful and gain entrance and success in college," Kountz said.
The school provides the traditional courses, such as English, Math and Social Studies that build the foundation of learning but once the student is remediated to their class level they will be introduced to advanced placement courses to prepare for college.
"In courses, we look pretty similar to most schools in the state and in the country but we accelerate it," Kountz said. "We enrich it, we get our kids to be deep thinkers, we know that there are a lot of kids that are deep thinkers but can't produce a product in their regular school, but they can do it here because they have more time and more support and we are really focusing on maximizing their potential."
Williams added that the SEED School of Maryland also provides smaller class sizes, no more than 15 students per teacher. Students also have support at night through homework assistance and tutoring.
Through extracurricular activities, the school exposes students to different cultural experiences. The campus provides activities such as clubs, sports, drama, newspaper, debate and cooking.
"Any of those activities that kids are interesting in as well as exposing them to new things and as a school we take a variety of trips," Kountz said.
He said that all the students have seen an opera and have visited museums. The school also focuses on students visiting multiple colleges to experience college life.
"They are sort of living it now by living in our dormitories and walking around campus," Kountz said. "They are translating those skills that they are developing now to what they will be doing in college."
The Seed School of Maryland is a college preparatory school. By the time students hit eighth grade, they are already thinking about college life and what college or university they would like to attend.
Many SEED staff members live on campus full-time. Students eat all of their meals and snacks on campus, and SEED works with students to help them live active and healthy lives.
"The staff spends a lot of time teaching them life skills, club time, we have character education, and we have basic core values on the campus that we look at and practice on a daily basis," Williams said. "There is no television, there are no cell phones, there's no Facebook or videos or anything of that nature so it is very structured program where there's very little down time."
The school opened in 2008 and will add one grade per year and grow to enroll 400 students in grades 6-12.
"Because we are a growing institution, right now we have 240 students," Kountz said. "We will eventually grow to 400. We have plans to build more dormitories…we are always in the change mode adding more facility's to meet the needs of our students."
Kountz believes shore students have a great opportunity with the school.
"There is geographical diversity, it's happy here, people are sharing," Kountz said. "They [students] are very content, they feel very safe, they are learning a lot, and kids who were not successful are reaching new heights in their academic success. Kids who may have had personal relationship issues are dealing with that in much more productive and sound way. Parents are happy they have seen great growth in their children. Last year we saw a 100 percent re-enrollment rate…so we figured we are doing something right."
Kountz said that the school is excited to have more kids join from the shore.
"We do have a few kids that live on the other side of the Bay Bridge…they would be delighted to have more company on the bus," he said.


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'Cosmopolis' Captures Decadent Spirit Of The Age
- Director: David Cronenberg
- Genre: Drama, Science Fiction
- Running Time: 108 minutes
Rated R for some strong sexual content including graphic nudity, violence and language
With: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon, Mathieu Amalric, Jay Baruchel.
A matinee idol for the age of HDTVs and "retina displays," Robert Pattinson has a face that seems to require a higher resolution — glossy and ghostly pale, all sleek lines and alabaster skin. As Edward Cullen, the emo vampire in the Twilight saga, Pattinson plays a creature so immaculately inhuman that he literally sparkles in the sunlight. Edward may be over a century old, but Pattinson has become a thoroughly modern, even futuristic teen heartthrob, looking at all times as airbrushed as his many Entertainment Weekly covers.
Pattinson plays a different sort of vampire in Cosmopolis -- a soulless Wall Street billionaire who inches across Manhattan in a white stretch limousine, oblivious to the turmoil outside his hermetic coffin. His casting remains the most compelling thing about David Cronenberg's cerebral adaptation of Don DeLillo's 2003 novel, both because it's a dramatic left turn from the florid, teen-friendly romance of the Twilight movies and because it so cunningly exploits his robotic beauty. As an unfeeling cipher who operates at a stark disconnect from the world around him, Pattinson embodies that infamous Mitt Romney line from the campaign trail: "Corporations are people, my friend."
Updating DeLillo's book to reflect the contemporary backdrop of Occupy Wall Street, Cronenberg stages Cosmopolis as a series of self-contained dialogues that come together in a patchwork of moral and economic decay. Over warnings of a presidential motorcade clogging up the already busy streets — and a "credible threat" to his own life — Eric Packer (Pattinson) decides to travel across the city for a haircut he doesn't need. It's the kind of absurd indulgence that billionaires like Eric can afford, but on this day he probably needs a break from the office, since his empire is collapsing. He has made a big bet that the Chinese yuan will stop increasing in value, and he's come up snake eyes.
Without always explaining how the other characters get in and out of the limo, the film finds Eric visited by a steady stream of business consultants and available women (including the ravishing Juliette Binoche), as well as his equally wealthy and chilly wife (Sarah Gadon) and a doctor who examines him regularly for "an asymmetrical prostate." Eric philosophizes with his guests and gets physical with a few of them, but beyond the threat to his life and the linked deterioration of his fortune and marriage, there's nothing terribly dramatic about Cosmopolis. And how could there be, with a hero this bloodless?
Cosmopolis is the first screenplay Cronenberg has written for one of his films since 1999's eXistenZ, and while the earlier project is a wholly original repository of Cronenbergian themes about technology and body horror, both films are perfect time-capsule movies, assessing what it's like to live now. Images like Pattinson's one-percenter obliviously discussing financials while "the 99 percent" are outside trashing his limo give the film a very specific time stamp that should resonate as much in the future as it does now. Its value comes more from being a vivid emblem of the era than a dramatic powerhouse.
To some degree, Cosmopolis is another of Cronenberg's semi-perverse exercises in adapting the unadaptable, joining other such screen-resistant works as William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch and J.G. Ballard's Crash. Eric's plotless encounters are compelling scene by scene, but they can feel a bit enervating over the long haul, because there's nothing driving the film forward — certainly not the limo. It's like a dream that engages and drifts, until waking with a start in a finale that's as bracing and raw as the rest of the film is coolly distant.
Corporations may be people, my friend, but Cosmopolis goes deep in trying to understand what that person might be like and how far he'd be removed from the rest of the species. Cronenberg isn't a flame-throwing agitator by nature, but he taps into an undercurrent of paranoia, unrest and class resentment that's sharply political and of the moment. He hasn't made a movie. He has made a vibe.


text: Webroot has revamped its antivirus product line, moving to a cloud-based system that it says is better suited to detect the deluge of malicious software circulating on the Internet.On Tuesday, Webroot launched SecureAnywhere, a security suite that draws technology from Prevx, a U.K. security company it acquired in November 2010.Webroot has "decided to break the cord with signature-based AV," said Brian Czarny, vice president of product management. Many antivirus programs still rely in part on systems that require identification of a piece of malware, which is then further identified by security products once a "signature" is pushed to a PC's security application.But most security experts agree that signature-based detection is fairly ineffective these days due to the sheer number of malicious software samples that are created and the clever ways those applications are manipulated in order to evade security software. Czarny said Webroot was detecting about 40,000 pieces of new malware a day in 2009; these days, the figure is around 100,000 daily."Security companies have done a bad job at protecting users today," Czarny said. "We include ourselves in that."Webroot's SecureAnywhere doesn't rely on signatures anymore. SecureAnywhere downloads a very small client to a PC -- less than 1MB -- which then communicates with Webroot's database of known malware, as well as back-end systems that perform behavioral analysis of suspicious programs. The result is a security application that has a very low footprint and doesn't hamper the computer's overall performance. SecureAnywhere does an initial scan, which takes a few minutes, but subsequent scans take much less time since they only look at modified or new programs.If a suspicious program is downloaded to a machine, SecureAnywhere allows it to execute on the computer, Czarny said. But it does this by wrapping a "pseudo sandbox" around the browser, which prevents the malware from doing any harm, he said.While the program is executing, SecureAnywhere looks at its behavioral characteristics as well as comparing it to known malware in Webroot's data center. If it's bad, the program gets blocked, and SecureAnywhere wipes it from the PC, Czarny said.The small client on the PC also contains a set of rules in case a computer is offline. For example, if a person is offline but inserts a USB stick with a malicious application, it will execute in the sandbox and its behavior is logged. When the computer reconnects, SecureAnywhere checks the database to see if it is bad. If so, it's cleaned from the machine.SecureAnywhere comes in three different versions: a basic "Antivirus," which costs US$39.95 for one PC or $49.95 for three licenses. A next version, "Essentials," includes features such as a cloud-connected firewall, antiphishing and 2GB per user of online file storage. Essentials costs $59.95 for three licenses.The high-end product, "Complete," ups online storage to 10GB per user, plus adds other features such as password and personal identity management tools, file and password sync with mobile devices. That version retails for $79.95 for three PCs and three mobile devices, according to Webroot.Send news tips and comments to firstname.lastname@example.com