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Vermont State Police Log: Man is reported missing; turns up in jail
ADDISON COUNTY — On May 20 Vermont State Police at the New Haven barracks received a report of a missing person. A friend reported that Octavian Graur, 26, had driven her to Ferrisburgh in an older green Mercedes C280 to drop her off and that Graur was expected to drive from Ferrisburgh to his new summer employment in Osterville, Mass., but hadn't reported to work.
After looking into the matter, Trooper Armstrong informed the friend that Graur was in police custody.
State police from the Williston barracks had attempted to stop a vehicle allegedly driven by Graur on Route 7 in Charlotte for speeding, but it got away. The Williston trooper said Graur's vehicle failed to yield and continued on Route 7 at excessive speeds, passing cars and running a red light. The vehicle was later stopped by Shelburne police; and the driver, identified as Octavian Graur of Palm Springs Garden, Fla., was arrested and cited for attempting to elude a police officer and negligent driving. Graur was lodged at the Chittenden Regional Correction Facility for lack of $1,000 bail.
In other recent activity, VSP:
• On May 20 at 4 p.m. responded to a three-car crash on Route 7 near the intersection of Route 53 in Salisbury.
Police said Amanda Baslow, 18, of Middlebury was southbound on Route 7 in a 2006 Subaru Impreza and in the process of turning left onto Route 53, and at the same time Robert Pockett, 30, of Middlebury was driving a 2000 Ford Focus behind Baslow's Subaru and also turning left.
At that point, police allege, 54-year-old Susan James of Orwell was driving a 2005 GMC pickup truck southbound on Route 7 behind those two cars and didn't see the turning cars.
James's pickup struck Pockett's Ford causing it to strike Baslow's Subaru.
Both Baslow and Pockett sustained minor injuries, as did a 4-year-old in Pockett's car. All three were transported to Porter Hospital for evaluation. All three vehicles sustained damage.
Police said quick responses from local rescue and fire agencies ensured the scene was quickly cleaned up and no further accidents occurred while Route 7 was backed up.
• On May 23 at 8:11 p.m. stopped a vehicle driven by Justin Gero, 21, of Ripton on Route 7 in Leicester for driving 67 mph in a 50 mph zone. During the stop, police said Gero was found to be under the influence of alcohol, and that a small child was in the vehicle as well. Ultimately, the trooper cited Gero for driving under the influence, endangering a child and providing false information to a police officer. He was released following the processing.
• On May 24 at 3:26 p.m. were called to a motorcycle/pickup truck collision on Route 7 in New Haven. Police said Royal Clark, 28, of Shoreham was driving a 2011 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle southbound behind Robert King, 35, in a 2009 Chevy Silverado when the pickup stopped behind a vehicle attempting to turn left onto Hunt Road. Clark tried to stop his motorcycle, police said, but was unable to and collided with the bumper of the truck. Several witnesses stopped to lend assistance, and New Haven fire and Middlebury rescue squads responded to the scene. Clark was transported to Porter Hospital to be evaluated for possible neck injuries. Any witnesses to this crash are asked to contact Trooper Cappetta at the New Haven barracks.
• On May 25 at 12:25 a.m. stopped a motor vehicle driven by Karl Davis, 21, of Arlington on Route 22A in Orwell for traveling at 64 mph in a 50 mph zone. Police cited Davis for possession of marijuana.
• On May 25 took two actions wrapping up a two-month investigation. On March 28 the town of Panton had reported a theft of metal gates from the water treatment facility. Last week state police cited Christopher Laflam, 26, of Vergennes into Addison court for possession of stolen property, and police issued an arrest warrant for Laura Armell, whom they said was also involved in the theft.
• On May 26 at 4:30 a.m. were called to investigate a rash of mailbox vandalisms that morning on Royce Hill Road, Fisher Road, Murray Road and several other roads in Orwell. Anyone with information regarding this spate of vandalism is asked to contact Trooper Doxsee at the VSP's New Haven barracks at 802-388-4919.
• On May 27 at 2:48 p.m. were called to a report of an assault in Ferrisburgh. Further investigation led to the arrest of Shayne Thompson, 56, of Ferrisburgh for an alleged domestic assault. Police processed Thompson at the New Haven barracks and lodged him at Chittenden County Correctional Center.
• On May 27 at approximately 7:29 p.m. stopped a vehicle driven by Misti M. Baker, 32, of Leicester on Route 53 in Leicester for operating a vehicle with an expired inspection. Police cited Baker for driving with a criminally suspended license.
• On May 28 at 5:32 p.m. responded to a motorcycle crash on Route 7 in Leicester. Police said Brian Whittemore, 27, of Ripton was northbound on Route 7 from Leicester Four Corners when he brought his Suzuki motorcycle onto the rear tire, lost control and crashed in the middle of Route 7 causing his motorcycle and himself to slide an undetermined distance.
Whittemore sustained non-incapacitating injuries to his legs and back and was transported to Porter Hospital. The motorcycle sustained less than $3,000 in damage.
This accident is under investigation; police ask that any witnesses contact that VSP in New Haven at 802-388-4919.
• On May 28 at approximately 5:26 p.m. received a report of an intoxicated male driver who was behind the wheel of a green Ford Ranger pickup truck with two male passengers on the Lake Champlain cable ferry headed toward Shoreham. Troopers stopped the vehicle on Route 74 in Shoreham and cited David P. Cheney, 42, of Bridport for driving under the influence.
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16th Street's Adobe Books, as you may recall, has been in trouble for some time. But now their rent has been raised, pounding the final nail in the coffin for this chill neighborhood bookshop.
Adobe Books has always been an unusually free, open and artistic-minded spot. Retirees and homeless people often hang out in the front seating area and shoot the shit. The back room often hosted art exhibitions, and one bookshelf featured a hidden compartment containing a secret diorama of the bookstore.
My favorite experience at Adobe: on asking if they sold calendars they told me: "We don't believe in time." Sadly, it looks like time believes in them. Stop by for a book or three before it's too late.


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Choose To Be Great
Ansleigh Mahone, left, and Isaac Stampley, center are contratulated by instructor Cedric Harris afer they completed an anti-gang program at the Boys and Girls
Title I Reward School - White Oaks Elementary
From left are Sharon Liebe, Principal Andy Clarke, Janet Wunner, Gayle Barker, Kim Mitchell, Sheila Bealing and Kim Taylor.
From left are Amy Dawson, Becca Springfield, Wendi Whitehead, Shelene Long, Mary Elizabeth Crews, Sally Brass, Principal Christi Hildebrand, Laura Bass, Jud Baker and Nina Wimbley.
One Roof Outreach
Derenda Rowe, founding executive director of One Roof Outreach, is retiring and moving back home to Alabama.
Dr. David Gregory will become the new director of One Roof Ecumentical Alliance Outreach upon the retirement of founding Executive Director Derenda Rowe.
David Gregory will be spending the next several weeks shadowing One Roof Executive Director Derenda Rowe to learn the ropes before taking over July 1.
Dr. David Gregory, who retired as homeless liaison and director of federal programs for the Coweta County School System, will be the new executive director of One Roof Outreach.
Blood Drive at Coweta County Justice Center
From left are, District Attorney Pete Skandalakis, Katie Cash, LaDonna Arnold, Becky Hyatt, Erika Hesy, Allison Boone, Sheri Williams, and Chief D.L. "Buster" Meadows.
The Newnan Ambassador Program
Statewide Champions - left to right, Sponsor Dr. Allison Hurst, Lexus Butler, Principal Chase Puckett, Kaylee Farr, Maxy Gates, Austin Peley, Adaline Morris, Anthony Bonomi and sponsor Susan Turner.
NHS Student Government Association
Named Gold Council of Excellence. Left to Right, front row: Stephanie Cannon, Sophie Bonomi, Claire Piontek, Danna Subia and sponsor Jenny Welch. back row, sponsor Lori Mayes and Principal Chase Puckett.
Carmen Pagano
Coweta's Carmen Pagano, a Taina of the Higuayagua clan was an observer at the recent 16th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The experience inspired her to focus on the problems faced by indigenous women.
Outdoor Library
Celebrating at the opening of the miniature outdoor library at Ruth Hill are, from left, Drakkel Smith, Jonathan Reddish, Ella Trout, Aaron Corley, Max Tinoco and Anne Graner. Corley is the school's principal, and Graner is the media specialist.
Outdoor Library at Ruth Hill
Celebrating at the opening of the miniature outdoor library at Ruth Hill
Relay For Life
Students and teachers from Atkinson Elementary School in Newnan hold a large, handmade sign and take a turn walking around the track at the Coweta County Fairgrounds during the Relay For Life event.


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We have a QFI session on Sunday, 15th October. There will be two quizzes, one will be part of the QF1 series (a solo written quiz), and the other will be a regular general team quiz.
The quizzes this weekend will be by two of our younger members. The QF1 will be by Anantharaman and the team quiz by Atulaa Krishnamurthy. Promises to be an entertaining session, do try to make it!
The venue will be PS Senior School and the session starts at 10 AM. The complete address is at the bottom of this mail.
Note – QF1 is a 30-question prelims format quiz, part of a larger programme called 'QF1: The QFI Points Race'. It will be a part of every QFI session and we plan to have close to 20+ such quizzes every year. Participants attempt the quiz solo. It will be a 30 question written quiz in the vein of the preliminary rounds of popular quizzes like the Landmark Quiz. The written solo quiz will be followed by a regular team quiz in the bounce/pounce format, for all the participants. There will be no elimination or selection based on the written quiz. The teams for the team quiz will be formed on the spot through our random team formation which ensures that everyone present gets to be a part of a team. You do not need to come with a team to participate in either of the quizzes.
QFI Subscription
For the information of newcomers, QFI offers annual subscriptions on a calendar year basis and paying subscribers receive all our quizzes by email. Those of you who are interested in taking up a new QFI subscription/renewing one can do so at our meetings in person. Our revised annual membership fee for 2017 is Rs. 1000. Subscribers get access to an exclusive mailing list in which quizzes from our meetings are circulated.
Please use this link to subscribe: http://subscribe.quizfoundation.com/
Subscriptions are open to everyone, irrespective of location. If you cannot pay your subscription fee in person, it can also be paid online, by bank deposit, or by post, so don't miss out on our quizzes! Subscribers joining at any time of the year can access all of the year's quizzes from the archives. Please email us for details. QFI relies on your patronage and your subscription would be a great way to support us. Please ensure you are subscribed to enjoy all the quizzes from our fortnightly meetings.
Note: To attend the QFI sessions, you don't need to be a paying subscriber. All are welcome! Subscription is a purely optional way to support QFI and receive all our quizzes by email.
Date – 15th October (Sunday)
Venue – PS Senior Secondary School, #33, Alarmelmangapuram, Mylapore, Chennai 600004
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Friends, last week I had every intention of posting one or two recipes, but a bad throat prevented that. I traveled to Cleveland for four days with my laptop, but I tried to get some rest every chance I got. When I collect my thoughts and get my life back in order later this week, I'll try to talk more about my trip. Cleveland is a delicious city, I'll say that much!
This pumpkin bread, which I tweaked from my best banana bread recipe, has already been produced in two batches. It's my secret weapon, and I've been holding off on revealing it until the proper moment. I'm giving it to you right now as a form of atonement for my sporadic blogging schedule.
This quick pumpkin bread is everything pumpkin bread should be: moist but not too oily, with a delectable spiced crumb that rises high in the oven. It's made with 100% whole wheat flour, unrefined coconut oil and sweetened with honey, but you don't have to tell anyone it's healthy—they'll just think it's the best pumpkin bread they've ever had. Topped with a smear of peanut butter or a drizzle of coconut butter, it'll stick with you from breakfast to lunch time.
Also read: Whole Wheat Coconut Waffles
And, bonus! This bread is easy to make and only requires one bowl, hence its title as the "ultimate" pumpkin bread recipe.
I'm sure some pumpkin purists would argue that I should have used homemade pumpkin purée for this recipe. I've heard mixed results on homemade pumpkin purée, though, and I justified my decision to use canned, organic purée by assuming that most of you would use it, too.
If you're interested in learning how to make your own, here's a post that shows you three ways to make pumpkin purée. But hey, if you get a craving and crank open a can of pumpkin in an off season, I won't judge!
See all those pale yellow, round dots in the bread below? It's millet, which you may recognize as bird seed, but people can eat it, too! It took a couple of slices for me to warm up to the crunchy element, but now I really like it.
If you're feeling adventurous, mix some millet into your batter. It's an idea I got from Joy the Baker's whole wheat and millet banana bread recipe.
- ⅓ cup melted coconut oil or extra-virgin olive oil
- ½ cup honey
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup pumpkin purée
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon, plus more to swirl on top
- ½ teaspoon ginger
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon allspice or cloves
- 1 ¾ cups whole wheat pastry flour or regular whole wheat flour
- Optional- ⅓ to ½ cup rinsed millet
- 1 teaspoon baking soda*
- ¼ cup hot water*
- Optional- turbinado (raw) sugar for sprinkling on top
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit (165 degrees Celsius) and grease a 9×5 inch loaf pan.
- In a large bowl, beat oil and honey together. Add eggs, and beat well.
- Stir in pumpkin purée and vanilla, then the salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and allspice. Stir in flour, just until combined. If you're adding millet, stir that in as well.
- Add baking soda to hot water, stir to mix, and then mix briefly into batter until it is evenly distributed. Spread batter into the greased loaf pan.
- Sprinkle with cinnamon, and swirl with the tip of a table knife for a pretty marbled effect. Sprinkle a big pinch of turbinado sugar on top for a light, sweet crunch.
- Bake for 55 to 65 minutes. Be sure to check that the bread is done baking by inserting a toothpick in the top. It should come out clean. If the top of the bread jiggles when you pull it out of the oven, it's NOT done! Let the bread cool in the loaf pan for 5 minutes, then transfer it to a wire rack to cool for 30 minutes before slicing.
- Adapted from my Ultimate Banana Bread.
- If you need a great loaf pan, I love my Le Creuset stoneware loaf pan. It's non-toxic, heats evenly and cleans easily.
- *Update 10/13/14: After several years of being baffled by the hot water/baking soda trick, I can now definitively report that it's an unnecessary step. If you prefer, you can just stir in ¼ cup water or milk (any kind) into the oil/honey/eggs and whisk the baking soda in with the spices.


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Carlos Vassalo
Contact me
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Personal informations
- 38 years old
- Chennevières sur Marne - France
- Network administrator - BCP bank - Paris
About me
fedora Ambassador
My first linux (1997) was a Slackware 3.3 and RedHat 4.2 (Vanderbilt). I used it up to 9 (Shrike). Afterwards, I worked with various distros like SuSE, debian and similars, distros based on RedHat like Mandrake/Mandriva and finally LFS. When Fedora Core 1 was released, I tried it and I felt I had found "the" distro.
Since beginning of 2007, I provide support on fedora-fr and I participate on various events like IP, etc...
This year, I participated with few other members of fedora-fr on the fundation of one user's group : fedora | Paris. The issue of this group is essentially permit to the fedoristas of the region of Paris meet other fedoristas and have diner, every two weeks.


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|Welcome to the Monastery
Basic Input and Outputby root (Monk)
|on Nov 05, 1999 at 05:53 UTC ( #955=perltutorial: print w/replies, xml )
|Need Help??
Perl makes input and output extremely easy. When you know just a few simple things you'll find that you can read from the keyboard and display output to your monitor with ease. Once you get that down you'll find that reading and writing to files isn't much more difficult.
First we will show you how to read a line of text from the keyboard. It doesn't take much. All you need is the diamond, or spaceship operator which looks something like this: <>. You may also have the name of an optional stream inside of the diamond operator like: <STDIN> or <FILE>.
<> or <STDIN> amount to input from the keyboard unless you have redefined <STDIN> or redirected a file to STDIN. The diamond operator by default reads to a newline or what ever is in $/ is set to. Ok enough talking, now for some quick examples.
Note in the while loop above Perl automatically put the input into the default variable: $_. Perl does this whenever a test for a loop consists of only reading input like <..>. If this is the case Perl just plops the line read into $_;
Some useful functions to use with <> are chomp and chop. Both remove things from the end of a string. In chop's case it removes the last character from a string. In chomp's case it removes the suffix of the string only if it matches the input record separator $/ which is by default the newline character(\n). Both can take a scalar or array of strings to act on as their argument. If no argument is used the default of $_ is assumed.
Output is straightforward with perl. Basically the print statement takes a string or list of strings and sends them to standard output. Here are some examples:
The printf function gives you a lot more control over your output. If you're familiar with C you'll know basically how this works. A quick example:
This results in $a getting printed as an integer in a 3 space field followed by a space, then $b printed as a float in a field of size seven with 2 decimal digits, then a space and then $c as 5 character field.
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Gulf Oil Spill "Not Over": Dolphins, Turtles Dying in Record Numbers
Report warns that 14 species are still struggling from the 2010 disaster.
Four years after the biggest oil spill in U.S. history, several species of wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico are still struggling to recover, according to a new report released today.
In particular, bottlenose dolphins and sea turtles are dying in record numbers, and the evidence is stronger than ever that their demise is connected to the spill, according to Doug Inkley, senior scientist for the National Wildlife Federation, which issued the report. (See "Gulf Oil Spill: One Year Later.")
The Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20, 2010, killing 11 people and spewing more than 200 million gallons (750 million liters) of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Since then, various government agencies and nonprofits, including the National Wildlife Federation, have been studying the region's wildlife to track the impacts of the oil.
The report, a compilation of published science since the spill, reveals that "the Gulf oil spill is far from over," Inkley said.
"The oil is not gone: There is oil on the bottom of the Gulf, oil is washing up on the beaches, and oil is still on the marshes," he said.
"I am not surprised by this. In Prince William Sound, 25 years after the wreck of Exxon Valdez, there are still some species that have not fully recovered." (Related: "Oil From the Exxon Valdez Spill Lingers on Alaska Beaches.")
However, BP, which operated the now-defunct oil well, claims that the report "is a piece of political advocacy—not science.
"For example, the report misrepresents the U.S. government's investigation into dolphin deaths; as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's own Web site states, that inquiry is ongoing," BP said in a statement provided to National Geographic.
"The report also conveniently overlooks information available from other independent scientific reports showing that the Gulf is undergoing a strong recovery. Just this week, a study published by Auburn University researchers found no evidence that the spill impacted young red snapper populations on reefs off the Alabama coast."
Hit Hard
The report examined 14 species that live in the Gulf. Those include:
—More than 900 bottlenose dolphins have been found dead or stranded in the oil spill area since April 2010. If you stretched the corpses lengthwise, that's 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) of dead dolphins, Inkley said. Scientists know that is more than in previous years because they've been recording deaths and strandings in the Gulf for a decade.
Ongoing research also shows that dolphins swimming in oiled areas are underweight, anemic, and showing signs of liver and lung diseases. (Related: "U.S. Dolphin Deaths Rise to 300; Cause Still a Mystery.")
A top predator like the dolphin falling ill is a sign that species further down the food chain are also having trouble, Inkley said.
"When you have sick dolphins, it tells you there's a problem here and it needs to be investigated."
—There are five species of sea turtle that live in the Gulf, and all of them are listed as threatened or endangered by the Endangered Species Act. About 500 dead sea turtles have been found in the spill region every year since 2011—"a dramatic increase over normal rates," according to the NWF. What's unknown is how many turtles died at sea and were never recovered by scientists.
—An oil chemical from the spill has been shown to cause irregular heartbeats in the embryos of bluefin and yellowfin tuna. That's a critical stage of development for the fish, so there's a lot of concern that the damage could cause heart attacks or deaths, Inkley said. (Related: "Odd Animal Deaths, Deformities Linked to Gulf Oil Spill?")
—Loons, birds that winter on the Louisiana coast, are carrying increasing concentrations of toxic oil compounds in their blood.
—Sperm whales that swam near the BP well have higher levels of DNA-damaging metals in their bodies than in the past. The metals in their bodies, such as chromium and nickel, are the same ones that were present in the well.
Long Way to Go
Overall, "we have a long way to go in understanding the full impact," Inkley said.
To that end, NWF and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will continue monitoring wildlife in the oiled region—the latter is required to do so by the Oil Pollution Act.
Restoring the oiled ecosystems is a goal, Inkley said, but he added oil is tough to remove, especially in marshes and in the deep ocean. That's why NWF is emphasizing prevention—in particular, adopting alternative energy resources that are not carbon-based and won't cause oil spills.
"I'm still haunted by the 'walking dead' brown pelicans covered head to toe in the oil," added Inkley.
"We must not let this happen again."
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Case Studies
A Firm Grip -- Robots Transfer Vehicle Wheels to Chain Conveyor
| By: Manuela Schall
The KUKA robots in use at Südrad, a manufacturer of steel disc wheels, not only have a "firm grip" on the wheels produced there; they have also mastered the art of transferring them to a circular conveyor moving at a variable velocity. The crucial requirements for implementation of this application were short cycle times, high acceleration capacity and adequate repeatability. Lasting gains in the system's efficiency are ensured by the double grippers used by each of the robots to hang up in a parallel position two steel wheels per cycle.
The Südrad company was founded in 1946 in Ebersbach/Fils, Germany. Today it comprises a holding company, Südrad GmbH, a production company, Südrad Autoräder GmbH & Co. KG, and a sales company, Südrad GmbH Radtechnik, all of which have their headquarters at Südrad's original location near Stuttgart. Their product is steel disc wheels for cars, trucks, tractors, trailers, construction equipment and other commercial vehicles.
More than four million wheels of more than 500 different types leave the plant every year. Primary customers are the entire automotive industry and the German consumer market. Südrad's sales and marketing area, however, extends to other countries in Europe and beyond; exports amount to 30% of all sales. With some 600 employees, the company has total annual sales of DM 130 to 150 million. This success is based on high quality; since its founding Südrad has defined quality as one of its most important company goals. Today, the effectiveness of the manufacturer's quality management systems is attested to by its certification according to both VDA 6, Part 1 and QS-9000, 3rd edition.
Handling "around the clock"
After the mechanical manufacturing processes, the steel disc wheels are placed on a circular conveyor, where they go through cathodic dip painting and the associated preparatory steps. Two KUKA KR 125 robots, working "around the clock", hang the wheels, whose diameter ranges from 13" to 17", on the conveyor. Previously, employees carried out this operation by hand, but today they work in other parts of the company. Although the wheels weigh a maximum of 15 kg, due to the weight of the double gripper the user decided in favor of a robot with a 125 kg carrying capacity.
While the robots themselves were supplied directly by KUKA Roboter GmbH, Augsburg, the end-effectors and periphery were made by Boll GmbH, a KUKA systems partner with headquarters in the town of Elsenfeld in Lower Franconia. Included in Boll's scope of supply were synchronization of the robots with the chain conveyor, locating the wheels before they are picked up, supplementary materials flow components, and the hook monitor for detecting and guiding the hangers of the circular conveyor. Cooperation between Südrad and Boll began in 1998, when Boll designed grippers for two other systems. KUKA was chosen as the robot manufacturer due to its geographic proximity, which guarantees prompt service, its attractive price/performance ratio, the high availability of its robots, and its PC-based controller.
Robots and conveyor synchronized
"Important criteria for the robotic cell were short cycle times, high robot acceleration and precise handling, since each robot has a maximum of twelve seconds per cycle", explains Rolf-Dieter Mansdörfer, Managing Director of Südrad GmbH Radtechnik. "The greatest challenge for Boll, however, was to synchronize the conveyor with the robots, which have to hand over the wheels with an accuracy of ± 2 mm."
In addition, the two KR 125s have to be flexible, since the diameter and thickness of the steel disc wheels vary. The robots handle from 15,000 to 18,000 parts per day; their production is coordinated with downstream processes. The cell, which began operation in August 1998, had to fit in a very tight space, which previously had also been used by the operators. Assembly of the robotic cell, including dismantling of old system components such as the wheel feed system and the circular conveyor track, was accomplished under great time pressure; only 14 days during Südrad's summer vacation were available.
Since the robotic cell plays such a decisive role in the complete system, it was absolutely essential that it be ready to begin work on time. For this reason, Boll assembled the complete cell and a circular conveyor at its own plant, and confirmed the system's functionality ahead of time by means of various test runs. This way the requirement for continuous high availability of nearly 100% was addressed from the very beginning. If a robot should nevertheless malfunction, the second robot can continue operation alone. In this case, the other half of the work would be carried out manually.
Controlled process
Two separate roller conveyors guide the steel disc wheels, segregated by type, to each of the two KR 125s. On the conveyor system, the parts are stopped and separated by parallel swivel arms. After that, a locating fixture simultaneously takes hold of two wheels at defined positions, allowing the robot to pick them up securely using its double gripper.
To ensure that transfer to the circular conveyor goes smoothly, the hangers are fixed in place by a holding device; thus clamped between guide belts, they remain in the same orientation until they leave the cell. In addition, Südrad uses light barriers and an inspection gage mounted in front of the first robotic cell to monitor the overhead conveyor hooks; this way the system determines whether the hooks are present and whether they are moving within the specified tolerance. If the controller determines that the tolerances are not being maintained, the robot is instructed via data transfer to let the hanger in question pass through the cell without being loaded.
Getting a grip on a wide variety of types
The KR 125s use their double grippers, which are adapted to the double hanger of the chain conveyor, to transfer the wheels, which are segregated by type and arranged in pairs one on top of the other. The end-effectors are in the form of three-finger grippers, and can handle the complete range of wheel types without retooling. All that is required to pick up a different wheel type is to call up the appropriate program in the robot controller using the KUKA Control Panel. One advantage here is that the Control Panel is equipped with the familiar Windows interface; this makes training and working with the controller much easier.
Safety functions are also integrated into the process; the controller verifies whether a wheel has been picked up by monitoring the positions "Gripper open" and "Gripper closed without wheel". Moreover, the gripper fingers are pivoted, and are equipped with a collision monitoring device. Since the chain conveyor has a stopping distance of up to 1000 mm when an Emergency Stop button is pressed, Boll has also built a predetermined breaking point into the end-effector. This functions as an overload protection device.
The robots generally take turns hanging wheels on the conveyor, i.e. each individual robot loads every second hanger. Other sequences are also stored in the controller, however, for example with priority for one of the two lines. "The robots manage the precise transfer to the moving circular conveyor through the use of a shaft encoder mounted on the conveyor", explains Dipl.-Ing. Ulrich Fischer, Director of Production Planning at Südrad Autoräder GmbH & Co. KG. "This way we can work with different velocities, which is necessary because the treatment times in the associated processes fluctuate, and we therefore also have to be able to adjust the cycle time of the cell flexibly."
A step in the right direction
The company calculates the dual robotic cell will have paid for itself in two years. This time period would have been shorter if fewer changes had been made in the periphery - changes which were necessary for synchronization of the circular conveyor.
On the basis of this experience, the company is already considering automating other areas; one possibility would be the removal of wheels from the conveyor after they are coated. At present this is still done manually, since the shipping carriers specified by the automotive industry vary considerably.
With regard to manufacturing, Südrad considers automation to be a step in the right direction in any case. Evidence for this is provided by the total of 14 KUKA robots which Südrad uses in various production areas, for example two systems for production of wheel discs for commercial vehicles. In each of these systems, three KR 125s load and unload presses and lathes. In addition, the robots carry out so-called orientation tasks, i.e. they detect the rotational positions of the parts. This application uses three robots to replace manual handling by twelve human workers; it makes use of another specially-developed double gripper, which provides long reach and short cycle times.
Author: Jürgen Warmbold, freelance technical journalist, 27327 Martfeld


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Korg has announced the Taktile and TRITON Taktile USB Controller Keyboards. Here's what they have to say about them...
These small, lightweight USB/MIDI controller keyboards provide a wide variety of functions for song production, and are available in either 25 or 49-key variations (semi-weighted). TRITON Taktile takes the full functionality of the Taktile series and adds 512 sought-after Programs from Korg's classic TRITON Music Workstation. This enables musicians to use their controller as a standalone hardware synth or as a sound source in combination with existing plug-ins. Users have the ability to immediately play back MIDI data from their DAW without the need for additional software. TRITON Taktile also offers today's musicians rare access to coveted TRITON sounds.
Various knobs and sliders are available for controlling the numerous parameters of software synthesizers. The onboard controllers include:
A bright, clear OEL screen displays parameters and program names.
Touch Scale functionality lets users automatically generate phrases in the specified key and scale by simply moving a finger on the X-Y touchpad. This practical alternative enables anyone to easily play their software synth by using the same simple gestures as on a Korg Kaoss instrument. The Chord Trigger function allows chords to be assigned to the pads and played back. When utilized in conjunction with the Touch Scale function, users can quickly develop musical patterns/ideas into songs without the need for deep editing.
A generous array of licenses/discount coupons are bundled with the Taktile/TRITON Taktile, enabling users to start performing with popular music software immediately. Included are: Korg M1 Le software; EZDrummer Lite; Ultra Analog Session; Strum Acoustic Session; Lounge Lizard Session; Ableton Live discount coupon; and Reason Limited DAW software.
Pricing and Availability:
The Korg Taktile/TRITON Taktile will be available in June 2014 with US Street prices as follows: Taktile 25 - $249.99; Taktile 49 - $349.99; TRITON Taktile 25 - $349.99; TRITON Taktile 49 - $499.99.
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One of the most controversial things I have said (you're welcome for that straight line) is that I insist my entrepreneurial journalism students at CUNY build only for-profit businesses. When I said that at a recent symposium for teachers of entrepreneurial journalism, I thought some of the gasping participants would tar-and-feather me.
I'm not against not-for-profit, charitably supported journalism any more than I'm against pay walls. I, too, crunch granola (and sell books). But I do not believe that begging for money from foundations, the public, or especially government is the solution to journalism's problems. And I am certain that there is not enough charity in the nation to support the journalism it needs. Lately we are seeing too much evidence that the siren call of not-for-profit journalism seduces news organizations away from sustainability, survival, and success (more on the Chicago News Cooperative and Bay Citizen in a moment).
I insist on teaching our students the higher discipline and the greater rigor of seeking to create profitable enterprises. I also believe they are more likely to build better journalistic products, services, and platforms if they are accountable to the marketplace. When class starts, many students invariably talk about what they want to do. In my best imitation of a gruff old-timer, I tell them nobody gives a shit what they want to do, save perhaps their mothers. They should care about what the public — their customers — want and need them to do. They need to care about the market if they have any hope of the market sustaining them. That is why they start every term talking with the public they hope to serve. They always come back with surprises.
Of course, the market, too, can be corrupting. I'm tempted to use Rupert Murdoch as the best exhibit of the argument, though in that case, it's hard to tell which came first, the rabid chicken or the rotten egg. In the long run, cynically giving the public only what it thinks it wants will not deliver value and will fade like the fad it must be. I have that much faith in the market.
And, of course, we can point to many valuable and well-sustained not-for-profit news enterprises: NPR is the best we have, but as its former CEO Vivian Schiller has said, it is very much run like a business, complete with advertisers (pardon me, [cough] underwriters). Texas Tribune is doing a brilliant job of bringing in the support needed to continue its brilliant work (though I argued with its founder and funder, John Thornton, a venture capitalist, that he'd serve the news industry better by demonstrating profitable models). Pro Publica is already a national treasure (though let's note that it had to get a grant from the Knight Foundation just to figure out how to diversify its funding beyond its original patron, mortgage man Herb Sandler).
But there are other less shining examples. Now we turn to the Chicago News Cooperative, which just announced its closing. It found itself too dependent on a foundation (MacArthur), a customer/benefactor (The New York Times), not to mention the IRS (which needs to clarify the rules for not-for-profit news). Dan Sinker argues that it never met is promise of building news with the community.
Then there's the Bay Citizen, which ran through $11.4 million in 2010 [see this comment for a correction] before collapsing last year; it will merge in still-uncertain terms with the better-run, more penurious Center for Investigative Reporting. When the Bay Citizen started with a pot of cash from investor Warren Hellman, I remember the San Francisco Chronicle complaining that this non-market player could unfairly compete with the paper and hasten its demise, an unintended consequence that didn't come to pass mainly because the Bay Citizen was to terribly run. Non-market entities often are.
I recently judged a contest for an international journalism organization that received a large grant from a very large corporation to fund journalism startups and — here's why I'm naming neither — I was appalled at the complete lack of thought that went into sustainability and responsible fiscal management in every one of the proposals. I urged the organization to not give away one penny and to start over. It didn't quite do that.
The problem is that journalists don't know shit about business. Culturally, they don't want to. I often hear from journalists who are downright hostile to corporations and even capitalism not because they're commies but because they believe they're above it all (there is the root, I believe, of much of their cynicism about Google and other large technology companies). As I've said here before, when I came up through journalism's academy, I was taught that mere contact with business was corrupting. I've had bosses scold me for considering the business of journalism. When I started Entertainment Weekly, I could not protect my baby from the expensive idiocy of my business-side colleagues because I didn't have the biz cred. I vowed that would not happen again. That's why I insisted on learning the business of journalism.
That is why I insisted on teaching the business of journalism. For we journalists have proven to be terrible, irresponsible stewards of the craft and its value to the nation. Feeding at the teat of monopolies, we grew fat and complacent and snotty about the markets we were to serve. We wasted so much money on duplicative, commodity coverage for the sake of our egos. We were willfully ignorant of how our industry operated and thus how it is dying, making us complicit in its death. We have only ourselves to hold responsible.
And that is why I so respect my friend John Paton, a newsman's newsman who learned the business of journalism and is taking responsibility for its fate, as head of Digital First Media (where I am an advisor), which now runs the second-largest newspaper group in the U.S. John does not have the answers but he does have the questions and he's not afraid to challenge executives in our industry with them. He's willing to disrupt and experiment and learn. And he's willing to teach what he learns. "Crappy newspaper executives," he just said, "are a bigger threat to journalism's future than any changes wrought by the Internet."
Yes, it's not just not-for-profit thinking that's dangerous to journalism. It's the unprofitable thinking of for-profit news companies. That is why, again, I insist on holding students and the industry they'll lead to the more diligent standard of true sustainability. That means profitability. There's nothing wrong with that.


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Richard Bernstein is a reporter for The New York Times, where he was, for four years, national cultural correspondent. In 1991, he went on leave from the paper in order to research and write this book. Dictatorship of Virtue is an analysis of the phenomenon known as "multiculturalism," informed by a wide range of examples. Bernstein was a witness to some of the incidents he describes; when he was not, he conducted interviews with people involved, followed press accounts, and dug up collateral material. A large number of his stories concern, as one would expect, educational institutions; but he has found evidence of what he regards as multiculturalist thinking in workplaces, museums, government agencies, and the press as well. Very little in the book is presented merely anecdotally or—even in the case of stories already widely publicized—at second-hand, from some other journalist's account. Almost everything bears the stamp of fresh and unusually detailed reporting.
At the same time, Bernstein is entirely forthright about his own views. He editorializes freely throughout, and he is quite frank about his opinion of multiculturalism. This can be described by saying that he compares it three times to Soviet totalitarianism, three times to the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and four times to the Terror (to which, of course, his title is an allusion). He is quick to note, in each case, that multiculturalism is not on the same scale as these other atrocities. On the other hand, they are pretty much the only analogies he draws.
There is a very broad sense in which almost everyone today (or almost everyone likely to be a reader of Bernstein's book) is some kind of a multiculturalist, and this includes Bernstein himself, who expresses his respect for cultural diversity and his support for programs like affirmative action. In this most inclusive sense, multiculturalism means something like the following: a person's race, gender, or sexual orientation should be noticed when the difference noticing it would make is a positive one, but it should not be noticed when the difference noticing it would make is negative.
Many people feel, for example, that it is a good thing for one of the justices on the United States Supreme Court (assuming he or she is qualified in every other respect) to be African American, on grounds that an African American is likely, for obvious historical reasons, to have a special perspective on constitutional issues, and it is important for that perspective to be represented on the Court. But if someone were to refer negatively to an opinion written by this justice as "an African-American perspective on the law," most people would consider the remark offensive, since it would mean noticing race in a way that implies an accusation of bias—even though "bias" was, in a sense, exactly what that justice was expected to contribute to the Court's deliberations.
It's easy to see how distinctions of this sort can get people tied up in knots, and how quickly disputes over them can become sophistical, since one person's idea of a positive recognition of difference ("It's great to have a woman on the team!") can be someone else's idea of sexism. Many of the celebrated controversies in the vast journalistic literature on multiculturalism arose out of this kind of confusion. Eden Jacobowitz, the University of Pennsylvania student accused of racial harassment for calling a group of African- American women whose noise was disturbing him "water buffalo," explained that the term was not racist because it was an approximate translation of a Hebrew word, beheymah (Jacobowitz was born in Israel), which he would have shouted just as readily if the students bothering him had been white. He regarded himself, in other words, as an equal-opportunity offender. The women he yelled at (understandably, I think) regarded him differently.
The water buffalo case would be much simpler, really, if Jacobowitz had said the term had a racial connotation and defended his right to use it anyway. For once it is clear that Jacobowitz is not a racist, the case falls immediately into the multicultural quicksand: since the women were African American, should Jacobowitz have thought twice about using an expression that might be construed as racially offensive? Or would that have meant noticing the women's race "negatively," by treating them differently from noise-makers who were not African American? Was it more insensitive to care about the race of the people annoying him or not to care about it? And if a remark is taken as racist, is it ipso facto a racist remark? There are no legally meaningful answers to hypotheticals of this kind; and although Jacobowitz was given a rather hard time about an incident that seems to have been blown absurdly out of proportion—an official of something called the Judicial Inquiry Office at Penn pressed him to settle the complaint by, among other things, presenting a "program for living in a diverse community environment"—the charges against him were ultimately dropped.
Universities seem to have a special talent for dealing with these disputes in the most ham-handed way imaginable. But you don't have to be a student or a dean to feel bombarded by them. You only have to turn on the television. Was it legitimate for Clarence Thomas to "play the race card" after listening to Anita Hill's testimony against him? Was Hill justified in feeling "sexually harassed" by the behavior she alleged? Is it inappropriate to raise the subject of race in a discussion of the O.J. Simpson case? Would the first Rodney King jury have let the officers off if King had been a white man? If Robert Mapplethorpe's "X Portfolio" photographs are objectionable, is it because they depict sexual acts, or because they depict homosexual acts, or because they depict sado-masochistic homosexual acts? Exactly how solicitous are we supposed to be about the self-esteem of sado-masochists?
These are possibly questions a society with a lot of other problems shouldn't be quite so obsessed with. But we're obsessed with them anyway, and the consequence is a nearly complete lack of consensus about what's tolerant and fair and what's fanatical and "politically correct"; about what's legitimate criticism or distaste and what's racist, sexist, or homophobic; about what's an excellent pickup line and what's grounds for a lawsuit. It's not just that people don't want to get hauled up before some disciplinary tribunal for what they thought was a perfectly innocent remark; it's also that people honestly don't want to give offense when none is intended (and also, I suppose, want to be sure that they have given offense when it is intended), and they would like to know just where reasonable people think the line ought to be drawn.
The credibility of a book about multiculturalism depends to a considerable extent, therefore, on the author's instinct for distinguishing the innocuous from the objectionable—or, perhaps more often, the objectionable from the more objectionable. Readers not already confident of their own instincts in these matters need to feel that the writer sees the merits in the cases he discusses in roughly the way they would see them, and that he won't excuse offensive behavior just because the response to that behavior is also offensive. I think my attitude toward multiculturalism's claims to represent a cogent and useful educational and social philosophy is fairly skeptical, but I had a very hard time entering into Bernstein's sense of some of the situations he describes.
Bernstein is generally interested in cases in which people seem to have overreacted to inadvertent, misunderstood, or trivial affronts to their self-esteem. But his idea of what constitutes overreaction is sometimes hard to credit because his idea of what constitutes an affront seems rather limited. He tells us, in his opening pages, about an editorial run by the Philadelphia Inquirer proposing to decrease the number of poor, specifically black children by offering welfare mothers added benefits if they agree to use a contraceptive called Norplant, which makes women infertile for five years. Bernstein regards this rather eugenicist and racially targeted proposition as "the normal expression of opinion," and he cannot understand why both black and white reporters became extremely upset about it,and why the paper decided to run an apology.
Elsewhere, he discusses the case of a teacher of legal studies, named Murray Dolfman, at the University of Pennsylvania, who asked his class which amendment to the Constitution deals with the matter of involuntary servitude, and, when no one answered, remarked that if anyone should know, the black students should. "He then," according to the school's report on the matter, "asked the black students in the class, individually and seriatim, if they could recite the 13th amendment. When none could do so, Mr. Dolfman asked one black student to stand and read the amendment out loud. Mr. Dolfman then expressed surprise that while he, as a Jew and a 'former slave,' celebrated Passover, the black students, whom he likewise called 'former slaves,' or 'ex-slaves,' did not celebrate the passage of the 13th amendment."
Bernstein regards this as something that "could certainly be seen as a lapse of judgment," mitigated by the fact that Dolfman "had, as it were, made common cause with the black students" by identifying himself as a "former slave" as well. But the whole episode seems grotesque. You ought not to call on individual students, chosen by the color of their skin, to recite a text they have already told you they cannot even identify. And it is obviously entirely disingenuous to express surprise at the fact that black Americans do not "celebrate" the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment (which does not, after all, say a word about race, and which did not exactly lead African Americans to the land of milk and honey). To look at a group of young black Americans and see "ex-slaves" is similarly simple-minded. Involuntary servitude is not part of the family history of every black person in America; these students are, in any event, entitled to adopt whatever intellectual and moral relation to their various pasts they choose. The remark about Passover could easily have been taken to mean, "You people don't even know your own history."
The reaction to the Inquirer editorial does not seem to me, even on Bernstein's account, to have been inappropriate. Among other things, the paper decided to require that editorials on controversial topics be approved in the future by the entire thirteen-member editorial board. Bernstein complains that this gives "veto power to the board's three black members." True enough. It also gives veto power to any one of the board's ten non-black members. In Dolfman's case, the response by some members of the university community was plainly excessive, with other professors calling for him to be disciplined even before an investigation could be completed, and with a one-semester suspension and "sensitivity and racial awareness sessions" being ordered. But I find it easier than Bernstein does to understand why people became so upset.
At the same time, Bernstein is rather quick to take offense when he senses an affront to his own beliefs. He attacks, for example, the National Gallery's exhibition Circa 1492, which displayed artifacts representative of the state of world culture in the year of Columbus's voyage, on grounds that it "refused to make any judgment about the greater historical significance of the West, even though it was the West that was . . . demonstrating itself to be the most dynamic and Promethean of the world's great civilizations." This strikes me as applying the same sort of political test to art and history that Bernstein deplores when it is done in the name of multiculturalism. Still, one reason for writing a book on this subject is that opinion is unsettled, so other readers may find themselves in greater sympathy with Bernstein's instincts than I did.
Bernstein is not just collecting stories, however. He has a thesis, which is that we are being threatened by "a growing multicultural bureaucracy"—of diversity trainers, college deans, organized feminists, experts on Afrocentric curricula, educational counselors, arts administrators, and what he calls "the academic club of the New Consciousness," people who are peddling not a simple appreciation of diversity, but "a radical political ideology." "Multiculturalism is a movement of the left," he says, "emerging from the counterculture of the 1960s." It demonizes white heterosexual men and condemns Western culture as racist, sexist, and imperialist, while claiming all manner of imaginary virtue for non-Western, non-patriarchal, and minority cultures. This ideology, Bernstein argues, represents the perversion of the principles of the civil rights movement of the 1960s in the same way that Robespierre represented the perversion of the principles of the Revolution of 1789.
I don't think the counterculture had a thing to do with it, but I think Bernstein is right to regard multiculturalism as both an extension of and a reaction against the American liberation movements of the 1960s. The civil rights movement, the women's movement, and the gay liberation movement were about equity: they based their moral appeal on the principles of liberty and equality that democracies are committed to uphold—the right to vote, to have equal access to educational and economic opportunity, to live where one chooses, and so forth. Those equity movements have not been fully successful, particularly in the case of gay Americans; but, as Bernstein insists repeatedly, they have transformed American life.
Multiculturalism, though, is not about equity. It's about culture. Its moral appeal is based on the feeling of many women and gay and non-white Americans that although legal barriers to equality may have been largely removed, cultural barriers remain. When, in the 1970s and 1980s, women and African Americans started showing up in professional settings like newsrooms and universities, they were entering environments that had been overwhelmingly white and male not for decades, or for generations, but forever. In many cases, I think it's fair to say, they encountered an attitude that said, in effect, "We attach not the slightest racial or sexual significance to the ways we have of doing things, and we don't see why you should either. Those ways work fine for us, and there's no reason they shouldn't work just as well for you. So you can check your race and gender at the door (or, if you prefer, across the quad at our brand-new race and gender studies centers, where we would not dream of disturbing you). Welcome to the club."
But many people in these non-traditional groups felt that the old ways were racially and sexually self-serving—or, at a minimum, were oblivious of the interests and perspectives other people might have—and that they amounted to a subtle form of exclusion which antidiscrimination policies of the civil rights type could do very little to remedy. Some people came to believe, in fact, that it was precisely rights like "one man, one vote" and freedom of speech—rights that had been so crucial to progress in the equity era—that were blocking the path to true equality now, since they protected people whose views were discriminatory, and since women and members of racial minorities, though now at last significantly present, were still invariably outnumbered. The frustration—mixed, as Bernstein says, with anti-liberal ideologies inherited from earlier radicalisms—has fueled an assault on virtually everything in American culture associated with heterosexual white men as racist, sexist, and homophobic, and has led to the climate of aggravation that moved Bernstein to write this book.
I think it was inevitable that new groups entering the professional culture would ask, about the standards and the mores and the "great books" they found already in place there, "Why are these things good for us?" And I think that a culture that cannot answer this question reasonably and persuasively, or see that there are indeed other ways of doing things and other books to talk about, is not a culture entirely worth defending. But I agree with Bernstein that this questioning has been the excuse for the promulgation of a shallow, reflexive, self-righteous political orthodoxy.
I think he is correct in complaining that the multiculturalist call for "diversity" is often accompanied by rigid intolerance for diversity of opinion. I agree, as well, that efforts to suspend the principles of free speech and due process in the name of "politically correct" outcomes are destructive both to the people they victimize and to the people who pursue them. As a merely practical matter, the fish caught in the nets of "speech codes" are (like Penn's water buffalo man) invariably absurdly small; and the notion that the first thing to do upon hearing an offensive remark is to run and report the matter to a dean does not exactly prepare students for life in an open society, in which deans and sensitivity trainers are not available to silence speakers we find obnoxious. What is more dangerous, though, is the abandonment of the principle of free expression itself, which is designed precisely to protect minority opinion, and which it is fatal to compromise simply because one temporarily has the upper hand politically. The censor always rings twice.
And I think, like Bernstein, that the multiculturalist categories of race, gender, and sexual orientation are deeply factitious as accounts of identity, and that the self-conception they teach to students when they are presented in this monolithic form is pernicious. They sponsor an interest-group politics that is fundamentally inimical to the notion of a commonweal; they repeat exactly the biologically determinist accounts of character they pretend, in their attacks on racism and sexism, to be supplanting; and they promote a medicinal view of culture, by which art and literature can be judged according to whether they are politically "good" or "bad" for you.
Bernstein doesn't just want to criticize this militant brand of multiculturalism, though. He wants to persuade us that it has become, as he puts it, "the dominant ideology of the late twentieth century." He thinks that multiculturalism is now the belief system of the baby-boomer "elite," people who first soured on American values in the 1960s. He wants us to believe that our cultural life is now being run largely by doctrinaire multiculturalists and their bureaucratic facilitators and epigones, and that these people have succeeded in intimidating their critics and in chilling the expression of contradictory views.
This sort of claim is not only a matter of opinion. It requires evidence, and not just of isolated cases. Bernstein has certainly found cases of unjust treatment, of tendentiously politicized curricula, of herd thinking on multicultural issues, and there are undoubtedly many he hasn't reported on. Even when his sense of what sort of behavior is objectionable seems inadequate, he is right to perceive, in the responses to that behavior, a pattern of prejudging.
One of his stories, for example, a more detailed version of which appeared earlier this year in these pages,1 concerns the disciplining of a tenured professor at the University of New Hampshire, named J. Donald Silva, who was accused of sexual harassment for making bantering remarks with a sexual innuendo (none of which were intended or interpreted as advances) to female students. Two features of the case stand out. The first is the kangaroo nature of the proceedings: Silva was at first suspended by his dean without any investigation at all, and after he was reinstated, following a grievance proceeding, the prosecution of his case was turned over to the head of the school's Affirmative Action Office, who named a panel consisting of people (including two students) she herself had trained. Silva was not permitted to have his own lawyer. This sort of "hearing," conducted by members of the university community most interested in silencing those who are skeptical of or resistant to their goals, is a procedure Bernstein has found elsewhere, notably at Penn.
The second significant aspect of the UNH case involves the punishment meted out. This included "counseling sessions," to be paid for by Silva, with "a licensed and certified counselor selected by the University." The order dictating Silva's initial suspension specified that these sessions be with a "psychotherapist." Bernstein does not tell us what the sessions would have consisted of if Silva had agreed to attend them. But he is right to object to the notion that lapses of what is currently considered appropriate speech (Silva is in his late fifties) must be symptoms of some "condition" for which the invasive procedure of psychotherapy is appropriate. Some people are obnoxious. In a university or any other workplace, a certain degree of cultivated obnoxiousness can be a legitimate cause for intervention. But compelling people to expose their innermost feelings and beliefs to approved experts as a way of punishing them for their offensiveness, or of "treating" them so that they may become more acceptable members of the group, is a violation of their autonomy.
Still, Bernstein is doing more than compiling stories. He is claiming the existence of a systematic and widespread effort to silence dissent, and so he tries to show us not just that various professors and personnel managers and performance artists are spreading the multiculturalist virus, but that the media and some national cultural organizations are complicit in furthering their agenda. The purpose of all his reporting was, clearly, to provide this evidence; but I found Bernstein's way with the facts a little troubling.
In 1993, The New York Times ran a front-page story under the headline: "Rare in Ivy League: Women Who Work As Full Professors." The article surveys the professional situation of academic women nationally and in the Ivy League in particular, and it notes dissatisfaction with the promotion rate of women and reports some of the reasons people have suggested for it, including "subtle discrimination" and a kind of institutional hostility to women in formerly all-male academies. "The Times presented all of this as established truth rather than the debatable propositions that they are," Bernstein charges, and he goes on to provide his own numbers to demonstrate that the overall employment figures for female professors are consistent with the rate at which women have been awarded doctorates since 1970. "Since it takes twenty years or so to rise up the academic ranks to be a full professor," he argues, "the representation of women at that level does not seem, contrary to the Times report, to be due to obstacles to advancement."
But the Times article devotes two paragraphs to the views of Daniel S. Hamermesh, an economist then at Michigan State University, whose own study shows that
on average, women make up 10 percent of the professors in the Ivy League. In the next two ranks—associate professor, which also usually carries tenure, and assistant professor, which can lead to tenure—women are much better represented, with an average of 30 percent of each of those positions. These figures lead universities to hold out hope that, in time, women will move into the most senior positions.
"It takes a lot of time," Hamermesh is quoted as explaining, "to feed through the academic system."2
It is one thing to identify a "multiculturalist" complaint—for example, that the reason there are relatively few female full professors is that women are discriminated against—and to produce data you believe show that the charge is unfounded. But Bernstein wants to do more than that: he wants to convict the press of multiculturalist fellow-traveling, and this leads him to ignore evidence—in this case, the Times's citation of an explanation identical with his own—that might make his claim less persuasive.
In 1992, to take another example of what Bernstein regards as media complicity, an organization called the American Association of University Women issued a report it had commissioned which showed that girls are "shortchanged," because of bias and discrimination, in the American school system. Many newspapers covered the report on their front pages. In taking issue with the report, Bernstein takes issue with the coverage as well.
"The absence of skepticism shown toward the report on girls was remarkable even for journalists operating under deadline pressure," he tells us.
The organization that actually carried out the study was not some neutral institution with an unimpeachable record of disinterested scholarship on the status of women. The Wellesley Center for Research on Women, while not perhaps widely known to reporters, might by its very name and location have suggested a certain partisan attitude on subjects central to feminists' concerns…. [But] none of the press reports identified the Wellesley Center as feminist. Few of them (with the New York Times again an exception) sought any opinions contrary to those in the report.
Now here is the lead paragraph of the article in The Washington Post—a paper whose very name and location, to borrow a phrase, might have suggested a certain partisan attitude:
The most comprehensive report to assess the gender gap in American schools found widespread bias against girls in tests, textbooks and teaching practices—findings that set off an immediate controversy among educators.
The second paragraph quotes the president of the AAUW, defending the report. The next four paragraphs summarize the views of people who dispute its conclusions, including that of the Department of Education, which said the report "lacked perspective and hard data," and comments by Diane Ravitch, then assistant secretary of education, who asserts that "this is a period in history in which there have been the most dramatic strides for women," and who provides two paragraphs' worth of statistics to back up that claim.3
Bernstein says he is particularly concerned that, whatever its merits, the report's focus is on the wrong problem. "Absent from the report, and from the press accounts of it, were some figures on a far more alarming inequity in the educational system," he explains. "A far larger gap than that between American boys and girls exists between American students of both sexes and the students of many other countries…in math and science," and he cites some international rankings released by the Department of Education suggesting the existence of such a gap.
But Bernstein's initial assertion is false. The AAUW report does include figures on international rankings in math and science, and it expresses concern about the standing of American students. It also emphasizes quite explicitly the importance of placing statistics indicating a gender gap between American boys and girls in that larger context.4
If, by noting the absence of figures reflecting those international rankings in newspaper stories on the AAUW report, Bernstein means to imply that the press is eager to run stories alleging gender discrimination but is less interested in stories about more dire inadequacies in the American educational system, this implication is false as well. The Post ran its article on the study of international achievement in math and science from which Bernstein draws his figures on the front page. ("Students Test Below Average: In World, US Fares Poorly in Math.") The Times's story appeared on page A14; it cites the president of the Educational Testing Service as warning "that the rankings were suspect because of differences in the student populations tested."5 This "contrary opinion" is missing from Bernstein's recitation.
Bernstein also maintains that organizations whose duty it is to protect dissent are themselves dominated by multiculturalist partisans. One of these is the American Association of University Professors, whose mission is the protection of academic freedom. But here, again, he has been selective in his reporting.
He devotes his final chapter to a controversy at the University of Texas at Austin over a proposal to make all sections of a required composition course adhere to a uniform curriculum, which was to consist of readings on racial and sexual discrimination. The proposal was approved by the department and accepted by the administration. But a few professors objected, on the legitimate grounds that it was a bad idea to impose an overt political content on a course 40 percent of Texas students have to take. They carried their campaign to the university at large. Memoranda and petitions were circulated, student journalists got involved, and the atmosphere became, by all accounts, extremely contentious. One of the dissenting professors wrote a letter to the local newspaper in Austin, in which he announced that the approval of the course meant that students at Texas "will begin having their social attitudes as well as their essays graded by English Department instructors in what has to be the most massive effort at thought-control ever attempted on the campus." National attention followed,6 and the proposal was eventually dropped. The course has never been given.
Bernstein's account makes it plain that there is blame enough to go around, and that disputants on both sides had reason to feel that their academic freedom had been chilled—in particular, by the practices of accusing colleagues of unprofessionalism and misrepresentation and of conducting the debate about the course in public forums that were hardly appropriate for a clarifying discussion. Alan Gribben, the professor who had written the letter accusing his colleagues of wanting to exercise "thought-control," felt so ostracized by the other members of his department after the affair that he left Texas for a less prestigious school. "One of the most disturbing things about Gribben's case," Bernstein writes, "is that none of the major academic organizations, those supposedly watchful for freedom of expression, took up his cause. Indeed, they took the other side in the Texas battle." The AAUP is one of the two organizations he includes in this indictment.
The AAUP's president, according to Bernstein, "tried to interest the staff at the AAUP, particularly the staff of Committee A, which is concerned with academic freedom, in investigating the situation at Texas. Ernst Benjamin, who is the senior permanent member of the AAUP staff, got together a committee to look into [the Texas course] and a few other matters…. [But] the committee visited no campuses. It met for a single day and then issued a report, not on Texas or any other university, but on the subject of political correctness…. The AAUP committee, supposedly considering the imbroglio at Texas, ended up making a pronouncement on political correctness in entire agreement with the PC point of view." (This report accused opponents of political correctness of being motivated by an "only partly-concealed animosity toward equal opportunity" for women and minority group members on campus; it was published in the AAUP's journal, Academe.) Under these circumstances, Bernstein concludes, Alan Gribben "was not likely to think that if he brought a complaint to the AAUP, it would get an impartial hearing."
But his account is incomplete. The committee which produced the report on political correctness (though Bernstein does not make this clear) was not connected with Committee A, the group officially charged with investigating violations of academic freedom for the AAUP. It was a small, ad hoc group, appointed by Ernst Benjamin at the request of the AAUP's president; it was not investigating the Texas incident, but was responding to the debate over "political correctness" generally; and the release of its report was not authorized by any standing committee of the AAUP. Committee A had declined to investigate the Texas case in part because the dispute was still in the internal faculty governance system at the university, which is ordinarily allowed to run its course before the AAUP intervenes. When the AAUP's executive council met shortly after the release of the report on political correctness, it ordered that ad hoc committee reports could not in the future be released without the approval of a standing committee; a forum consisting of responses critical of the report was published in Academe; and a year later the AAUP issued a statement unequivocally condemning campus speech codes. It is misleading to say that the AAUP "took the other side in the Texas battle": it specifically did not take any side. And it is wrong to suggest that the AAUP is a politically partisan body.7
Bernstein's report on the Texas affair is also important because of a story he tells, elsewhere in his book, about an incident at Dallas Baptist University. In 1992, an assistant professor there named David Ayers was invited to speak at a faculty colloquium. He gave a talk critical of feminism, and, since it excited interest, a response to it, by an English professor named Deborah McCollister, was arranged and was presented at another meeting of the same faculty gathering. Following the second talk, Ayers distributed copies of his article and of McCollister's remarks in class and made comments critical of her views.
Ayers had distributed McCollister's remarks without asking her permission.8 The talks were evidently supposed to be closed to students, and when news of Ayers's conduct reached the ears of the administration, the dean of his college, John Jeffrey, was ordered by the vice-president for academic affairs to conduct an investigation, and it was made clear to him that he was expected to arrange an apology to McCollister. This Jeffrey declined to do, citing the principle of academic freedom. When it became apparent that neither he nor Ayers intended to act as the administration wanted, both were advanced a year's pay and dismissed. "It seems that the administration was so terrified of feminist wrath at Dallas Baptist University," Bernstein says, "that they preferred to pay Ayers and Jeffrey full salaries to do nothing rather than have them around and risk further debate about the feminist ideology." Bernstein tells us that he has drawn his description of this incident from an article by Joseph Salemi, which appeared in a magazine, not widely known, called Measure, "modifying it somewhat in light of my own interviews."
Now, Dallas Baptist University is a religious institution. The administration's instructions to Jeffrey indicated that an apology was the appropriate way to resolve a dispute between "Christian brothers and sisters," and although Salemi, in the article Bernstein cites, makes many unsubstantiated claims about the influence of radical feminists at Dallas Baptist, the evidence makes it seem most likely that the dismissals were prompted by the conviction that a refusal to apologize under those circumstances was un-Christian. I doubt that feminism had anything to do with the matter.
But the dismissals bear all the marks of a violation of academic freedom. In fact, Jeffrey and Ayers appealed on those grounds to the AAUP, which immediately intervened on their behalf, expressing concern in letters to the university's administration and dispatching an investigative team to the campus. The AAUP's intervention ended when Ayers and Jeffrey agreed to a substantial cash settlement with the university, with which they were evidently happy, for their lawyer sent a letter to the AAUP stating that the matter could not have been resolved so satisfactorily without its efforts on his clients' behalf. Having gone out of his way elsewhere in his book to charge the AAUP with multiculturalist bias, however, Bernstein never mentions its role in the DBU case. But he knows about that role for the same reason I do: because it is reported in Joseph Salemi's article.9
Dictatorship of Virtue is a baffling book. Bernstein accuses multiculturalists of distortion, exaggeration, and the suppression of evidence that shows things are not as bad as they say they are, but he resorts to the same methods himself. "It takes no bravery to be a multiculturalist," he writes. There are some circles in which that may be so. But there are other circles in which it takes no bravery to attack multiculturalism, and the second kind of circles are still a lot bigger than the first. It really is preposterous for Bernstein to pretend that his colleagues in the mainstream press are insufficiently critical of multiculturalism. The mainstream media has been hammering away at this stuff incessantly since the early years of the Bush administration. The subject could use the attention of a journalist who can distinguish hyperbole from principle on both sides, and who does not feel the need to manhandle—excuse me, to personhandle—the evidence in order to give his book an exciting thesis.
A great deal of multicultural talk is facile posturing; but outrage at the mere idea that cultural assumptions might be questioned only encourages greater stridency. American life is not, contrary to multiculturalist boilerplate, more diverse today than ever. From a bird's eye view, it is far more integrated and homogenous than ever. Thirty years ago men and women, black and white Americans, homosexual and heterosexual people, and members of many ethnic groups tended to lead, culturally and socially, largely segregated lives. Today they do so, for the most part, only as a matter of choice.
Down on the ground, though, there is a lot of friction, since people who have never worked side by side before are finding themselves in situations of professional intimacy unimaginable (or only imaginable) a generation ago. We can use more honesty and flexibility in adapting to these changes than we seem to have in supply at the moment. But given people's natural desire to live productively together, things ought to shake out. Meanwhile, if Bernstein keeps insisting on finding a radical multiculturalist under every bed in America, he's going to scare himself silly.
This Issue
October 6, 1994
"Guilty If Charged," The New York Review, January 13, 1994, pp. 11-13. ↩
Anthony DePalma, "Rare in Ivy League: Women Who Work As Full Professors," The New York Times, January 24, 1993, section 1, p. 23. ↩
Mary Jordan, "Wide Gender Gap Found in Schools," The Washington Post, February 12, 1992, p. A1. ↩
How Schools Shortchange Girls: A Study of Major Findings on Girls and Education (American Association of University Women Educational Foundation, 1992), pp. 25-26. ↩
Mary Jordan, "Students Test Below Average," The Washington Post, February 6, 1992, p. A1; "American Children Trail in Math and Science," The New York Times, February 6, 1992, p. A14. ↩
Documents relating to the controversy are reprinted in Debating P.C.: The Controversy over Political Correctness on College Campuses, edited by Paul Berman (Dell, 1992), pp. 249-68. ↩
Information about the ad hoc report comes from my interview with Linda Ray Pratt, former president of the AAUP. My sense of the absurdity of trying to paint the AAUP as a politically correct body comes from my understanding of the facts, reaffirmed by my own recent experience arranging a lecture series on academic freedom for some of its meetings. This is not a group dedicated to the protection of political correctness. ↩
McCollister told me she had not intended her talk to be heard by students. She also told me Bernstein never spoke with her. ↩
Joseph S. Salemi, "Political Correctness at Dallas Baptist University: The Firing of David Ayers and John Jeffrey," Measure, No. 108 (August- September 1992), pp. 1-13. The article is a polemical account, based on information provided by Ayers and Jeffrey; but it praises the AAUP for responding "promptly and vigorously" to their complaint, and quotes from two of its letters to the DBU administration (p. 11). Information about the settlement is from my interview with Linda Ray Pratt. ↩


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