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Living Learning Communities Provide Home with Like-Minded Peers
Oct. 30, 2013
Living Learning Communities are designed to help new students meet and engage with students who have similar interests.
Making the transition from high school to college can feel overwhelming, but UT Dallas' Living Learning Communities offer new students a ready-made "home" when they set foot on campus.
Organized by academic interest or major, the freshman-year experience gives students the opportunity to live together on the same floor or wing of the University's Residence Halls, where they can study, take classes together and hang out with like-minded peers.
It's like a built-in safety net for students who are new to campus, says Mary Jane Partain, director of the Living Learning Communities (LLCs).
"Their home is established before they get here, with students of similar interests and aspirations," she said.
LLCs are grouped into five academic areas: Arts and Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Management and Pre-Health. A Social Sciences group will be added in fall 2014.
Peer advisors say their LLC students bond more quickly and more tightly than they would with students of other majors because they often share the same social interests.
Cole McCullar, a junior software engineering major and a peer advisor for the Computer Science LLC this year, said computer science majors are a breed unto themselves.
"Computer science students do click together. They have a logical mindset," McCullar said.
"I was afraid I would have residents who wouldn't shower and wouldn't come out of their rooms. It's not that way at all," McCullar said. "They're still nerdy, but they're nerdy together. It's like the inside of a tech company."
Many students who participate in Living Learning Communities enjoyed a Pokémon Tournament held recently in Residence Hall West. The event drew a large crowd of students from the areas of arts and technology, computer science and engineering.
At any given time, a dozen or more of his computer science students take over the lounge area on their floor, working together on applications, playing the "League of Legends" video game or challenging one another in "Artemis," a multi-computer network game in which players take on Star Trek-like roles.
"That's my favorite thing to see," McCullar said.
But the "learning" component of these communities is just as critical, said Shivani Mehta, a neuroscience junior who is a peer advisor for the Pre-Health LLC. Group study times geared toward the classes many of her students are taking – like general chemistry – are invaluable, Mehta said.
"A lot of people don't know the ropes, what the classes entail. When I was in the Living Learning Community, my (peer advisor) would hand down information that was applicable to my life. I really thought that was a huge advantage," Mehta said.
"A lot of people don't know the ropes, what the classes entail. When I was in the Living Learning Community, my (peer advisor) would hand down information that was applicable to my life. I really thought that was a huge advantage."
The concept has been so popular that there is a waiting list to get into Living Learning Communities. This year, 856 freshmen applied for 384 openings. That number will expand in fall 2014, when the program will be housed in the new 600-bed Student Housing Living Learning Center.
Parents are often eager for their kids to apply for an LLC housing spot, as it helps them better adjust to campus life, both academically and socially, Partain said.
"Typically what parents say is, 'I wish I had this when I was in college,'" said Partain. "There are more eyes on you."
The LLCs were developed in response to one of the University's Strategic Initiatives, to help prepare students for the future by providing a holistic learning environment where "the conversation that starts in the classroom doesn't end there," Partain said.
Faculty involvement is critical. They host catered dinners at the residence halls and informal game nights. Some prepare "midterm survival boxes" of goodies for students. Others make an effort to meet and greet parents and new students on Freshman Move-In Day.
Dr. Gopal Gupta, head of the Department of Computer Science, became involved with the Living Learning Communities in fall 2012, when a group was formed for computer science and software engineering students.
Some professors have noticed that students in Living Learning Communities appear more comfortable participating in class.
"This gives us access to our freshman students at the entry point," Gupta said. "They get to know faculty, learn about careers in computer science and probably have less fear of courses and school."
Dr. Marilyn Kaplan, associate dean of undergraduate education for the Naveen Jindal School of Management, sees a difference in management students who are part of Living Learning Communities.
"You can always tell which class has the LLC students: They enter the classroom talking to each other, they are better prepared for class, and they participate more," Kaplan said.
LLC students often experience improved retention rates and better grade point averages. Faculty credit the students' increased comfort level in connecting with faculty and staff for these kinds of results.
"We want to make faculty more human and more approachable. If they're struggling, they need to know they can come to us," said Janell Straach, senior lecturer in computer science.
Faculty and staff advisors also arrange for LLC students to visit local industries to meet professionals in their fields.
Management majors have toured the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, while computer science students are planning a visit to Match.com, a Dallas-based online dating firm with applications on multiple platforms and a need to manage heavy user traffic.
At Reel FX Creative Studios in Dallas, arts and technology majors were able to talk with animation professionals about what their jobs entail.
"When they see that it takes three months to get four seconds of eye movement in an animated film, it really brings it home," Partain said.
Although the Living Learning Community model is a freshman-year experience, many participants keep the same roommates year after year, Partain said.
"They've spent hours and hours together. It's a tight bond. We've even had some marriages," she said.
Media Contact: Robin Russell, UT Dallas, (972) 883-4431, [email protected]
or the Office of Media Relations, UT Dallas, (972) 883-2155, [email protected].


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BOSTON � The Boston Red Sox didn�t just build a World Series champion in 2013.
They also created a blueprint for the team�s next title.
The Red Sox took advantage of last August�s salary purge to add middle-market free agents such as Mike Napoli, Jonny Gomes, Shane Victorino and Koji Uehara � all key contributors to the World Series championship. As he looks to this offseason, general manager Ben Cherington will need to replace some big parts of the �13 team � including center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury � without making the free agent mistakes of the past.
�To be in this position, given where we�ve come from, reflecting back a year ago at this time, there�s been a lot that�s happened in 13 months,� manager John Farrell said after the game.
�Ben Cherington deserves all the credit in the world for what he has done for this roster. To come in and see the energy and the commitment that the (players) had, the buying into a team concept every single day, and the one thing that really stands out more than anything is just their overall will to win. And that was no more evident than in this entire postseason.�
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The Red Sox were still smarting from their 2011 collapse when they traded Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford, Adrian Gonzalez and more than $250 million in future salaries to the Los Angeles Dodgers last August. Although the team finished in last place, with the franchise�s worst record in almost half a century, the rebuilding had already begun.
Instead of showering money on the biggest names to replace the high-priced talent that had departed, Cherington opted to take smaller risks on mid-range players.
It paid off with Uehara, the team�s third or fourth choice as closer, winning the AL championship series MVP and closing out the last three wins in the World Series. It paid off with Victorino, who hit a game-winning grand slam in the ALCS and a three-run double in the Series clincher. And it paid off with Napoli, who had a three-run double in Game 1, and Gomes, whose three-run homer won Game 4.
�I�m a believer,� Gomes said, adding that he knew the team had potential when he first reported to spring training. �As soon as we went to Fort Myers, (I knew) the movie�s already been written, all we had to do was press play. And this is what happened.�
Big-name free agents
But now it�s time for the sequel.
Ellsbury is a free agent and agent Scott Boras is expected to demand a nine-figure contract. Napoli is also unsigned for next year, along with shortstop Stephen Drew and catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia. The team will almost certainly prevent pitcher Jon Lester from becoming a free agent by picking up his $13 million option.
Drew could be replaced at shortstop by prospect Xander Bogaerts, who played his way onto the postseason roster. David Ross wound up as the primary catcher by the end of the Series, but if Saltalamacchia leaves the Red Sox would be looking for a replacement. Jackie Bradley Jr. and Daniel Nava are available to join Gomes and Victorino in the outfield.
Other free agents include onetime closer Joel Hanrahan, who was acquired in a trade from Pittsburgh but missed most of the season recovering from Tommy John surgery. Left-handed reliever Matt Thornton and shortstop John McDonald, who weren�t on the postseason roster, are also eligible to become free agents.
Farrell doesn�t know how the team will replace those who leave.
But he is hoping the improved clubhouse atmosphere will help the team sign any free agents they target.
�I think maybe what�s gone on around the game or what�s happened here probably is taken note around the league,� Farrell said before the 6-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 6.
�And I think, in the eyes of some, Boston might present some specific challenges that might be intimidating for certain players. But I would hope what they�re witnessing would certainly become a place of destination for a number of guys that might have a choice.�


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MOSCOW—To stand among the Tsars is quite an honor–to kneel among them dressed in a judo outfit, perhaps not as much.
The creators of a commemorative series of wax figurines commissioned by the Russian government to depict its greatest leaders, say the Kremlin wasn't a fan of a version showing judo-loving President Vladimir Putin crouched down wearing a black-belted judogi. Mr. Putin's office also took a pass on another model showing him in a casual dark gray blazer over a black turtle-neck sweater and gesturing with a pair of sunglasses in his left hand.
"The customer didn't like these, so we went with one of the president in a suit instead," the head of St. Petersburg's Russian Knight figurine workshop, Andrei Arseniev, told the news agency Interfax.
A Kremlin spokesman didn't immediately respond for comment.
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In alignment with the Catholic and Franciscan character of the University of Saint Francis, the Department of Philosophy and Theology exists to help you integrate faith and reason in service to the church and world. All full-time faculty members are Catholic and each holds a mandatum from the local bishop, which is a commitment to teach in full communion with the Catholic Church.
The Department of Philosophy and Theology offers majors in Philosophy, Theology and Ministry; and minors in Catholic Studies, Theology, Philosophy and Franciscan Studies.
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- The history of philosophy
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KUVO (89.3 FM) will make rare changes to its program schedule with the start of 2013. General Manager Carlos Lando said the intention is to expand the public radio station's locally produced jazz programming into the early evening hours on weekdays in response to listeners' needs.
Beginning Jan. 6, "First Take with Lando and Chavis" will be extended for another hour, airing 6=9 a.m. "The Morning Beat" with Victor Cooper follows, 9 a.m.-noon, with Arturo Gomez's "Lunchtime at the Oasis" noon-1 p.m.
"Take Note," with Susan Gatschet Reese fills the afternoon until 4 p.m., followed by the "Jazz Caravan" with Erik Troe until 6 p.m. "Into the Evening" with Rodney Franks runs 6-8 p.m. followed by "The Night Beat."
Weekend changes beginning Jan. 11 bring "Riverwalk 'Live' from the Landing," 8-9 a.m. Saturdays. "Breakfast Jazz with JJ" will precede that show, 6-8 a.m. "Jazz with Ed Danielson" will start at 2 p.m.
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Academy for Lifelong Learning to Hold Open House on Saturday, January 21
Published on: January 09, 2012
The Academy for Lifelong Learning at Lone Star College-Montgomery, a program for the 50-plus retired or semi-retired community, will host an open house on Saturday, January 21, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., in the Commons Building (Building A). The public is invited, and entertainment and refreshments will be provided.
The open house is a chance to learn about the new and recurring ALL classes offered during the upcoming spring semester, as well as meet some of the class instructors, socialize with other academy members, and register for classes.
Also at the open house, the Volunteer of the Year will be recognized.
"If retirees or recent transplants to the area are looking for something that provides intellectual growth, the ALL program at LSC-Montgomery is the perfect match," said Donna Smith Burns, continuing education coordinator at LSC-Montgomery.
ALL is a membership organization filled with lectures, seminars, and discussions geared toward individuals over 50 interested in remaining "plugged in" to the academic, learning environment. The classes are informal and informational and cover a variety of topics such as art, computer technology, personal growth, languages, history, travel and more.
A small annual membership fee of $35 allows members to take academy courses free of charge or at a minimal rate. The annual membership lasts from September 1 to August 31.
Each of the five colleges within the Lone Star College System offer continuing education for older, active adults through the ALL organization. Course offerings and program events vary with each campus.
For more information about ALL, contact LSC-Montgomery's continuing education department at 936.273.7446, or visit www.LoneStar.edu/all-montgomery.
LSC-Montgomery is located at 3200 College Park Drive, one-half mile west of Interstate 45, between Conroe and The Woodlands. For more information about the college, call 936.273.7000, or visit www.LoneStar.edu/montgomery.
With more than 75,000 students in credit classes for fall 2011, and a total enrollment of more than 90,000, Lone Star College System is the largest institution of higher education in the Houston area, and the fastest-growing community college system in Texas. Dr. Richard Carpenter is the chancellor of LSCS, which consists of five colleges including LSC-CyFair, LSC-Kingwood, LSC-Montgomery, LSC-North Harris, and LSC-Tomball, six centers, LSC-University Park, LSC-University Center at Montgomery, LSC-University Center at University Park, Lone Star Corporate College, and LSC-Online. To learn more visit LoneStar.edu.


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Part VI: An Unnecessary War
Part VII: Peacefield
"Thomas Jefferson Survives"
Six weeks ago, I began this weekly review of HBO's "John Adams" with the observation that Tom Hooper, the series' director, and David McCullough, the project's muse, subscribe to the "Great Man" theory of history, the idea that big events frequently turn on the actions of a few exceptional people. True enough. Yet, as the concluding episodes of this superb film illustrate, even for "great men," history is not entirely of their own making.
Episodes six and seven of the series depict the final years of Adams' life, including his largely anticlimactic presidency and his final reconciliation with Thomas Jefferson, twenty years after his loss to Jefferson in the bitterly contested election of 1800. In both episodes, Adams, accustomed to commanding events, is instead the prisoner of them. The turbulent political fronts of Jefferson and Hamilton have collided, generating a political "nor'easter" that destroys Adams' presidency. In the post-presidential years, his son Charles succumbs to alcoholism and his daughter is consumed by cancer after enduring an agonizing mastectomy without anesthesia. Even his beloved Abigail departs him, leaving him to the lonely, painful torments of an old age.
One approach Adams has to his predicament is to reassert his control over events through an active pre-occupation with his legacy. Always immodest and tactless, he tells a friend, "I wont be in the history books anyway." They'll say that "Franklin smote the ground and out sprang George Washington, fully grown and on his horse. Franklin then electrified him with his miraculous lightning rod and the three of them—Franklin, Washington and the horse—conducted the entire revolution by themselves."
Add Thomas Jefferson to this mix (or is he the horse?) and you have a pretty good telling of American history as most of us have heard it. Until McCullough's masterful work, there had only been a couple of serious biographies of Adams, meaning that Adam's greatest fear had been realized. For as much as he disliked being despised, and he was by many in his lifetime, what he dreaded most was irrelevance. Adam's listless post-presidential years, therefore, provoked in him a great existential questioning. Who am I? What have I become? He asks these questions with greater frequency and greater urgency toward the end of his long life, each question tinged with a hue of regret, for all the time and energy his ambition consumed.
Yet what would he have been without his ambition? "I should have spent my life as a farming, shoemaking deacon like my father," he tells Abigail toward the close of the series. Yet, almost immediately, he knows how absurd this sounds. For all the ill will, the painful separations from his family and the strained relations among them, if it were not for his ambition, he would not have existed as he was or as we have come to know him in the eight hours of this mini-series. Ambition was a constitutive element of who he was and like all human beings it rendered him capable of both the most generous and ignoble of acts.
History may largely be the product of great men and women, but it is always the product of flawed men and women. Its humanity is what makes it so interesting. When we gloss over that fact, when we allow history to become mythology by mistaking the lust of nationalism for the love of patriotism, we do the men and women of history, as well as ourselves, a great disservice. By allowing ourselves to inhabit Adams' life these past few weeks, we have come to know not only the intimate, personal struggles of one of America's founders, but the fearful and faith-filled human reality that is the genesis of America's collective identity. "A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers," John Kennedy once remarked. In honoring such people, we "pay honor to the deepest sources of our national strength." In other words, Adams' existential questioning is at once our own. For that reason alone, his life is compelling.
As anyone who has watched the concluding episode now knows, Adams died on July 4, 1826, the same day as Thomas Jefferson and the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. For all his famous vanity and ambition, his final words were not about himself but about another and as much about a revolutionary idea called America as they were about the wellbeing of his friend. "Thomas Jefferson survives," he said. The line, of course, would not have survived the first draft of a Hollywood screenplay if it were anything but true. "Too saccharin, too cute," they would surely say. But Adams did speak those words and, in doing so, produced one of those moments that historians relish, when the truth is wonderfully stranger and infinitely more captivating than fiction.
Part V: Unite or Die
"I Find Him Much Changed, John."
Popular political discourse, especially in its more jejune forms, relies extensively on the use of buzzwords. Terms like "anti-choice," "tax and spend," "surge" and the all-powerful "liberal" are short currency in political speak, words that immediately demand attention and impress their meanings on the listener. Eighteenth century politics also had its buzzwords and one of them was "faction," generically meaning a clique or sub-group within a larger political unit, but in the context of the raging ideological battles of America's founding, it meant a subversive and destructive force that threatened the fragile unity of a new republic. In federalist paper no. 10, for example, the word appears no fewer than eighteen times.
In the latest installment of HBO's new mini-series, "John Adams," the word appears only three times, yet, in different ways, it is the constant concern of every character. As episode five begins, Adams has been elected America's first vice president, a post he accurately and frustratingly describes as "the most insignificant office ever devised by the mind of man" (until Dick Cheney perhaps). Adams is bored and politically impotent, excluded from cabinet meetings by Washington and relegated to baby-sitting the Senate, barred from participating in its debates and allowed to vote only in the event of a tie. This does not sit well with our anti-hero: he is accustomed to being in the arena, hooking and jabbing his way to political knockouts.
His exclusion from the cabinet is especially painful given that a whopper of a fight is occurring there over the future of the union. At issue is the practical arrangement of political power and the principal concern is the danger of factions. Most founders feared the nefarious influence of factions, but each also had a very different idea about what could be considered a faction and which faction posed the greatest threat. In an expertly choreographed scene in episode five, the principal players—Adams, Washington, Jefferson and Hamilton—are assembled for a luncheon at the president's house in Philadelphia. The polite noontime conversation belies the invective Jefferson and Hamilton are whispering to partisans away from Washington's ear. Jefferson expresses his fears that a political elite is bent on restoring a monarchy in all but name in the form of a powerful federal government. Alexander Hamilton argues in return that only a strong central government can unite the states of America and assure its survival in a treacherous geo-political environment.
Adams' sympathies, if not his affection, are for Hamilton. He too shares a desire to avoid partisanship and faction. "I dread a division of our republic into parties and that is what I see is happening," Adams says at one point. To avoid this, Adams attempts to reconcile Jefferson's and Hamilton's positions (a strategy doomed to failure because of his limited powers), arguing for a strong central government that at the same time respects the sovereignty of the states.
That the positions of Jefferson and Hamilton may be irreconcilable does not occur to Adams. And so it is that in this attempted via media the viewer glimpses a curious paradox in Adams' complex character: He is a realist, agreeing with Hamilton that "if men were angels than no government would be necessary," yet he is at the same time hobbled by an almost quaint naïveté regarding the intentions of both men. He pleads with Jefferson to compromise and gives moral force to his plea with an appeal to their long friendship. It is as if Adams thinks that nostalgia alone could somehow counter the powerful forces at work.
Adams also appears oblivious to the fact that his friendship with Jefferson is not truly mutual. Jefferson distrusts Adams, particularly Adams' association with Hamilton, who leads the party that at the end of the episode nominates Adams for president. Jefferson, like the viewer, is surprised by Adams' inability to see Hamilton's scheming and understandably concludes that since Adams is smart enough to see it, his protests of innocence are intended to conceal his complicity in it. Thus begins the disintegration of their friendship, which will not be re-established for decades. In the demise of their friendship and their subsequent alignment into opposing political camps, we see the personal costs as the country descends into factions.
We also see the two men as we have rarely seen them before. The relationship between Adams and Jefferson reminds me of what was once said of John and Robert Kennedy: "One was a realist disguised as an idealist (John) while the other was an idealist disguised as a realist (Bobby)." In our popular history we tend to think of Jefferson as the great romantic idealist of the revolution. His public sentiments were no doubt noble and lofty. Yet his ownership of slaves and his near bloodlust, revealed in his views of the French revolution, reveal a man comfortable with moral ambiguities and harsh political or economic realities when it suited his interests. Adams, on the other hand, who is frequently depicted in historical accounts as the calculating master of the realpolitik, was in fact a man driven in and throughout his life by an intense, personal devotion to his ideals (David McCullough frequently points out that he was the only founding father who never owned a slave). Could Adams be the true idealist? After all, what could be more romantic than the notion that mutual affection and nostalgia could overcome the fierce political winds tossing the founders? Who but an idealist would be surprised to discover Machiavellian machinations all about him?
The characters of Jefferson and Adams come into clearer focus during a scene in which Adams tells Jefferson that he feared for Jefferson's safety while Jefferson was Ambassador to Paris during the violent Parisian uprisings. Jefferson's response horrifies Adams: "France is in the throes of a violent birth. We should rejoice," Jefferson says, adding later, "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is a natural manure." Are these the words of an idealist, or the rantings of a radical, tinged by a hue of cynicism? There is something dark, brooding and dangerous in Jefferson that Adams, rightly, does not trust.
Abigail notices it too, telling Adams, "You must be careful John. I find him [Jefferson] much changed." Indeed he is. Anyone who witnessed the terrors of Bastille Day and its aftermath, as Jefferson had, would most certainly have been changed. The result is that Jefferson now lives in a heaven-and-hell world in which one is either on the side of right or is its oppressor. Adams cannot subscribe to such a worldview. A titanic battle for the presidency follows and the buzzwords "Democrat" and "Federalist" are added to the American political lexicon.
Part 4: Reunion
"It Is No Small Thing To Build A New World"
The conflict at the heart of American politics began, like the conflict at the heart of the human experience, with a conversation in a garden. At least that's how director Thomas Hooper depicts it in the latest installment of the miniseries "John Adams," running this week on HBO. In the wake of Washington's triumph at Yorktown, part four of the series finds Adams back at the court of France's King Louis XV, negotiating a peace treaty with the British and enjoying the company of Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.
"It is no small thing to build a new world," Franklin says in the garden during a break in the discussions. No small thing indeed, for the founding fathers were attempting something almost entirely new, untried in large measure since the death of the Athenian republic. And compounding the difficulty were the divergent opinions among the revolutionaries about just what this new world should look like.
In the first three episodes, Jefferson and Adams forged an unlikely alliance and friendship, united against their common enemy. In episode four, with America's independence assured, their partnership starts to dissolve as a new battle begins for the idea of the American Revolution. In listening to the conversation, the viewer almost begins to think that maybe Washington had the easier job. He waged war on plain ground, where victory and defeat were objective realities. Adams and Jefferson, however, are engaged in a notional, philosophical struggle for the hearts and minds of their countrymen, a battle in which victory is neither certain nor clearly defined.
The scene begins when Franklin announces that a convention has been called to draw up a binding constitution for the new republic (By the way, the dialogue in the scene has been cobbled together by the screenwriters from correspondence between Jefferson and Adams. That the conversation didn't happen in quite this way, however, should not distract us from its truth.):
Jefferson: I am increasingly persuaded that the Earth belongs exclusively to the living and one generation has no more right to bind another to its laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
Adams: Surely the constitution is meant to establish the stability and the long-term legality essential to the continuation of civilized society.
Jefferson: Yes, possibly, but I fear it could prove a breach in the integrity of our revolutionary ideals through which will pour the forces of reaction.
Adams: Dr. (Franklin), Mr. Jefferson's pet topic is not the artful arrangement of political power, but the cordoning off of a space in which no power exists at all. You, (Thomas), are a walking contradiction.
Franklin: We are all contradictions, Mr. Adams.
Adams: Indeed. And what is government, ultimately, but putting into effect the lessons, which we have learned in dealing with the contradictions in our own characters.
Jefferson: You have a disconcerting lack of faith in your fellow man Mr. A., and in yourself, if I may say so.
Adams: Yes. And you display a dangerous excess of faith in your fellow man, Mr. Jefferson.
Anyone who has ever studied American history should immediately recognize that in this brief, casual exchange during a languid Parisian afternoon, the seminal question of the American experience is revealed: What should be the rights, form, size and direction of government? Shall we be a republic, a democracy or an empire? In short, how should we bring order to the chaos? This conversation brilliantly foreshadows the titanic debates between federalists like Adams, distrustful of democracy, and Jefferson's anti-federalists, champions of smaller government and direct rule by the people.
Yet this question, what form government should take, involves an even more important and most fundamental question, which the scene also reveals: what is the essential nature of the human person? Are we deprived of divine guidance by virtue of our parents' fall in that other garden, with a consequent proclivity toward sin, yet still noble enough to govern our own affairs? Or are we somehow depraved, imprisoned in our own wickedness, in need of a strong government to monitor and control our baser instincts?
What do you think?
Once upon a time in America, this was a question we asked in the public square. In its current incarnation, politics, of course, is not exactly fertile ground for such metaphysical inquiries (sadly, neither is philosophy, but that's another topic.) It's hard to imagine how even Karl Rove or James Carville, those inventive masters of political communications, could fit the question into a thirty second ad during Wheel of Fortune.
That we don't ask the question, however, does not mean that we have answered it, nor does it mean that the question is no longer worth asking. Quite apart from its central theological or philosophical importance, it seems to me that it is in fact the first question we should ask as political people. For how we answer it does much to form our political personalities and inform our answers to other questions ranging from the ultimate purpose of law to the more mundane implications of public policy.
The late John Paul II used to argue that anthropology (our view of the origin and destination of the human being) matters. Jefferson and Adams, though loath to side with any pope (see Jim Martin's blog entry on Adams anti-Catholicism), would likely agree. As America's electoral battle royale continues this year, we would do well to remember that and to find a quiet place amid the din of the public square where we can ask ourselves the most important question a self-governing people can ask: who are we? From that, I think, may come a better sense of who we might become. It won't be easy. It is no small thing to build a new world.
Part 3: Dont Tread on Me
"I Go Because I Love You"
If our founding fathers were subjected to that contemporary test of political preference, which politician a voter would pick to have a beer with, people would likely prefer the cheeky, witty and occasionally vulgar Ben Franklin over dour, staid John Adams. In part three of HBO's seven part series, "John Adams," we learn that the court of Louis XV felt the same way. This is mainly because the Adams that continues to emerge in HBO's new biopic (part three is airing this week) is in many ways an anti-hero. Vain, tempestuous, impatient and overbearing, this Adams lacks many of the heroic virtues we usually associate with modern protagonists. Yet Paul Giammati's Adams has the one virtue most needed for good drama: a fully formed character; a man tempest-tossed by the best and worst within himself, at once generous and ignoble. In other words, he is interesting.
In episode three, Adams sets sail for France to negotiate a treaty in support of the revolution. Having crossed a violent ocean, his ship under ferocious assault by the British navy, Adams arrives in Paris to find that Benjamin Franklin, the toast of the Paris gentry, has already concluded the treaty. "Never has a man endured so much to so little point," Adams remarks, directing his frustration at the French court, where his crude New England manners and rigid Puritanism serve to get him fired and eventually re-assigned to the Netherlands.
To be fair, Adams had endured much to make it to the French court. In the opening episodes, Adams' loyalty was divided between his country and his King, a conflict resolved by his ultimate loyalty to the law and a Declaration of Independence. In episode three, his loyalty is torn between his country and his family. His wife, Abigail, forced to contend with a harsh winter and a smallpox epidemic, pleads with him to stay put in Massachusetts, yet the Continental Congress demands that he go. His children, equally bereft at his departure, even stage a mini-rebellion of their own, at first refusing to kiss their father goodbye. "Why must you go," they ask. "I go because I love you," is Adams' response, a rare expression of affection from a frequently cold and sometimes autocratic father (when he returns over a decade later, Adams will have to be re-introduced to his children).
No public person can ever be divorced from his or her private self. Yet Adams, in order to manage the pain of absence, attempts exactly that and the result is disastrous. His worst mistakes occur when he is separated from his family and especially from Abigail, his moral and political Rosetta Stone. When Adams fails his country in Paris he also fails his lifelong love. Paralyzed by the desire to be absolutely honest and the admission of failure that honesty would require, Adams stops his correspondence. In the aftermath, the viewer sees the moral and psychological complex that is Adams: his great virtue, honesty, in mortal combat with his equally powerful vice, vanity.
The episode concludes with Adams in Amsterdam, removed from Paris by Congress, rejected by the Dutch, heart broken and violently ill with fever. He has also bid farewell to his son, John Quincy, who, at fourteen, has joined the American diplomatic expedition to Saint Petersburg (memo to the current presidential candidates: talk about a lack of experience). The skill of the direction by Tom Hooper almost leaves the viewer to wonder what will happen. We know, of course, what will happen, but that is beside the point. By watching it happen, by entering into the drama on its terms, we enter into a private conflict not at all foreign to our own human experiences, while rediscovering the public conflict that is the source of our national identity. At any time, but especially in a presidential election year, that's worth thinking about.
Pictured above: Stephen Dillane, Paul Giamatti, Tom Wilkinson. Photo credit: Kent Eanes/HBO.
Part 1: Join or Die
Part 2: Independence
"It is As It Was"
Tom Hooper, the director of the new HBO miniseries "John Adams," is in love with his subject, at least as much as David McCullough showed himself to be in his bestselling book of the same title. Not a scene of the seven-part miniseries (which debuted Sunday March 16 on HBO) takes place without Adams or his wife, Abigail, at its center, the camera demanding on their behalf, "look at me, look at me." Yet the two characters, ably played by Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, are worth looking at, if simply because they are two of the more commanding figures in the great and still too little understood drama of Americas founding.
And while the film is clearly the product of a love affair, Hoopers affection, like that of McCulloughs (whose work inspired the film), is neither blind nor fantastical, but open-eyed and realistic. Too often in our historical dramas, and this is particularly true of treatments of the American revolution (the musical "1776" or the Disney melodrama "Johnny Tremain" come to mind), the viewer is indoctrinated into a mythology that nearly dehumanizes its subjects. "John Adams" is not this, but neither is it documentary or an Oliver Stone-esque Freudian fantasy, but rather a compelling historical drama that has an obvious and abiding respect for its subject and the human reality that is the essence of American history.
Avoiding the listless exposition that can plague historical films, "John Adams" plunges the viewer immediately into the middle of Adams life and into the center of a dark, almost barbarous Boston on the eve of revolution. The viewer sees a textured, three-dimensional depiction of a time and place that is sickly, dank and violent. To quote what someone was once reported to have said about another film, "it is as it was." This is no Disney Hall-of-Presidents, animatronic presentation of American history. Viewers are as likely to be repulsed by some of what they see as they are to be inspired.
In episode one, Giamattis Adams struggles to navigate this physically and politically turgid terrain. His loyalties at first appear divided, between his "country," Massachusetts, and his king. Yet his loyalty to the law, and the divine guarantees he sees at its roots, emerges as decisive, facilitating both his adamant and eventually successful defense of the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre trial and his choice to begin on the path of dissent and, ultimately, revolution against the crown. In fact, it is during the depiction of the Boston Massacre trial that we see the films realism most clearly at work. The incident was a complicated human event, and the film immerses the viewer in its political and moral complexities, showing that the crowds abusing and provoking the redcoats were at least as much responsible for the tragedy as the soldiers who fired the shots.
We also learn a good deal about Adams himself in these early scenes as well as his hugely formative relationship with his wife, Abigail. With Adams brilliance as well as his arrogance on full display, his wife admonishes him for his wordiness and his too-eager desire to impress: "You must mask your impatience with those less intelligent than yourself," she says at one point, adding later, "you do not need to quote great men to prove you are one." We also see in the first episode flashes of Adams infamous temper as he thoughtlessly scolds his children three times in forty minutes of film. Also on display is the emotional Adams, angrily yelling "this is barbarism" and coming to tears at one point during the brutal tarring and feathering of a man who did little more than insist that Massachusetts pay the tea tax the king demanded.
McCullough and Hooper clearly subscribe to the "Great Man" theory of history, an unpopular view in this supposedly postmodern age. But it seems great events do frequently turn on the actions of a few exceptional people, actions that are anything but predetermined. The film captures this uncertainty well. One has the sense of watching a film narrated in the present tense. At any moment, McCullough reminds us in his book, these figures could have chosen otherwise and history would have taken a different turn.
Right or wrong (and I suspect McCullough is right) this view of history makes for riveting storytelling. McCullough recently said that his hope for the film is that viewers "will come away knowing more about that all-important time, but will feel the reality of what happened and of what those caught up in the struggle went through." The filmmakers meet this standard and in the process produce a work of art worthy of McCulloughs Pulitzer-Prize-winning biography.


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David Stark's Intern Shares Her Experiences (Part I)
Mixing Egypt and France during the concept stage.
The finalist of our Design Is Not Taught! program is halfway through her summer internship, so we asked her to share her experiences so far. Sounds like she's having a fantastic time with David's team!
Morgane Saout hails from Paris, France, where she has been working as a Brand Director for 5 years. Her experience as an intern this summer has opened her eyes to the world of event design, which is quite different from her day-to-day world.
Read Part I of Morgane's experiences below - in Part II she'll tell us about the second half of her internship and share a few thoughts on her plans for organizing the Apartment Therapy holiday party in December!
Morgane shares a bit about her experiences as an intern on David Stark's team below - we look forward to hearing more about her experiences in the fall:
After 5 years of working in the world of Branding, I'm back as an intern! But not just anywhere: at David Stark Design and Production in New York! What, you don't know David Stark? David and his team produce extraordinary events, everything from planning to production for weddings, bar mitzvahs, and product launches. Event planning is their playground!
I was fortunate enough to be selected as an intern through Apartment Therapy's "Design Is Not Taught" Internship challenge, where they were looking for a candidate to work with David's team for 3 months. What an opportunity! It's been six weeks into the internship so far and I've had a chance to meet David and most of the team. Everyone works to make each event more innovative and creative than the last. At David Stark, we do not have time to get bored!
I report to the Design Director and every day I'm learning more and more about the organization of each event: everything from making plank treads, to looking for textures, materials, colors, choosing furniture and decorative objects, designing custom-made structures, staging proportions, and creating floor plans. As you can see, it's quite diverse! We are in many meetings as we bring the concepts to life.
Ben and Jen working hard on a project.
Another thing I've learned so far is that the Design Department is not just involved in design! It is interesting to see how everything is designed so that it falls within the budget, and changes are made where needed to make sure we remain within the budget. Coming from a printing perspective, the only budget we had to worry about was the cost of paper and printing! Here, there are clearly many more considerations. Everything is calculated precisely, down to the last detail: knowing the exact number of flowers and candles we need, or how much the materials cost to make a custom structure, is essential. I love this attention to details like this! It takes a special organization to keep all these details in line, and David Stark is definitely the place!
A drawing by David.
The Design Department is located on the 1st floor with the strategic planners and coordinators. All of us work together on a regular basis. Downstairs there is a large administration and studio area for storing equipment, preparing the flowers, cleaning the flower pots, and shipping and packing. Everything happens there! Also, in another building there is the production studio. If you want something custom-made, this is where it happens! The team in charge will saw, cut, glue, screw, tape, assemble, and manufacture it all. They put all of their creativity and energy into customers' wildest dreams for their events.
Product from previous project, in David's office.
It's pretty amazing to see a project and implement all of the necessary steps that go into it. I never thought it would take this many people to pull off an event that lasts just one evening. But with the amount of detail and precision they put into every event, it's not surprising. I look forward to seeing what's in store for me in the upcoming weeks, including a small project that I'll get to work on with Apartment Therapy after the internship! I can't wait! Thank you to David and his team for such an extraordinary experience.
About David Stark
David Stark is celebrated for his innovative, imaginative events for a wide range of high-wattage celebrity clients such as Beyoncé Knowles, Martha Stewart, Mariska Hargitay, Glenn Close and Jon Stewart, major corporations such as Target, TBS and Condé Nast, as well as high-visibility fund-raising galas for the nation's most elite not-for-profit organizations including The Museum of Modern Art and The Robin Hood Foundation.
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- A thirty foot tornado constructed from thousands of sneakers donated by Nike created a breathtaking centerpiece at a Robin Hood Foundation annual gala.
- An aerial installation created from thousands of lines of flagging tape established the theme for the American Friends of the Israel Museum's gala.
- For the opening of the new Michael Graves wing at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, a paper fantasy setting referenced William Morris flowers in the museum's collection.


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Hello Folks,
There are many brands out there such as North, Ozone, Cabrinha, Airush, Naish, F-One, Slingshot, Best etc and just wondering the rank based on popularıty, reputation, quality, and being well known.
Just like regular street cars(except Ferrari, Maserati etc.). Let s say for me; 1. Mercedes, 2. Audi 3.BMW and so on
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WrestleMania 24 Flashback - Ric Flair's career on the line vs. Shawn Michaels, Edge vs. Undertaker for the World Hvt. Championship, Big Show vs. Floyd Mayweather, Money in the Bank match
2015-03-29 07:00:15
The following is Jason Powell's review of the March 30, 2008 WWE WrestleMania 24 pay-per-view. Our live coverage of WrestleMania 31 begins at 4:00 p.m. CT with the Kickoff show. Enjoy ad-free access and tonight's members' exclusive WrestleMania 31 audio review by taking advantage of our $3 for one month membership special or score big savings on our six-month and annual membership rates when you visit the Dot Net Membership Sale Page. Aired live on pay-per-view Orlando, Fla. at the Citrus Bowl The WWE battle royal coverage has started at WWE.com. They did rapid fire entrances for the entrants. They did list Khali's height and weight, but everyone else was pretty much introduced by name and that was about it. The ring ropes are orange and the skirting around the ring is aqua blue. 1. Kane won a 24-man battle royal for a shot at the ECW Title at 6:23. Deuce and Domino were quickly eliminated by Festus. The crowd booed when Jim Duggan was eliminated. Stevie Richards was eliminated early. After a lot of rapid fire eliminations, the match came down to Kane, Khali, Hardcore Holly, Tommy Dreamer, and Snitsky. They all teamed up to eliminate Khali and then there were quick eliminations until Kane was left to face Henry and Snitsky. Henry and Snitsky teamed up briefly, but Snitsky mugged for the crowd and Henry turned on him and dumped him over the top rope Kane and Henry battled briefly and Kane eliminated him with a big boot to the head, which sent Henry over the top rope and to the floor. Powell's POV: No sign of Big Daddy V despite WWE.com advertising him ahead of time. Quick and painless match. The actual pay-per-view opened with a shot of military jets flying over the stadium. Lillian Garcia welcomed viewers to WrestleMania 24. On the stage, John Legend performed "America the Beautiful"... Powell's POV: The stadium is totally decked out with WWE flags around the top of the stadium and banners around the walls of the between the levels of seats. WWE did more to dress up the building than many NFL teams, including my Minnesota Vikings, do for their own stadiums. The entrance stage looks awesome. It's mammoth. A WrestleMania video aired... Jim Ross welcomed viewers to the show and said he wished everyone could be there... Lillian Garcia stood in the ring and introduced the opening match. It's definitely cloudy and it looks dreary, but it did not appear to be raining, as there was no sign of rain on JBL's limo... 2. JBL beat Finlay (w/Hornswoggle) in a Belfast Brawl at 9:10. Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler called the match. JBL attacked Finlay as he was entering the ring. Finlay fought back and then went to ringside. He pulled several garbage cans out from underneath the ring and threw them inside the ring, but JBL recovered and used the cans as weapons. JBL also brought the ring steps inside the ring. JBL grabbed Finlay's shillelagh and tried to use it as a weapon, but Horny ran in, swiped it from him, and headed back to ringside. JBL ended up attacking Horny. Finlay checked on him and Horny said he was okay. In a wild spot, Finlay dove through the top and second rope toward JBL at ringside, but JBL was waiting and hit him with a trash lid in mid-air. JBL followed up by throwing a trash can at Horny, which knocked him down at ringside. In the end, JBL hit Finlay with a kendo stick to the knees and then followed up with a Clothesline from Hell and scored the clean pin. Powell's POV: A wild brawl with trash cans, a table, kendo stick, and other weapons. Honestly, though, it's not what I was expecting or hoping for. I could have done without all the weapons. I was hoping for a straight up brawl. Disappointing. Backstage, Kim Kardashian was hyping the Money in the Bank match when Mr. Kennedy interrupted her and said he'd become the first person to win the MITB match twice. He said his name and then backed off. When Kim started talking, he interrupted with the "Kennedy!" She was smiling the entire time... 3. C.M. Punk defeated Chris Jericho and MVP and Mr. Kennedy and Carlito and John Morrison and Shelton Benjamin in a Money in the Bank ladder match at 13:58. There were ladders set up in the entryway. Ross and Lawler pointed out that Kennedy walked under the ladders, which is bad luck. Early in the match, Morrison performed an Asai Moonsault with a ladder at his chest and landed on a group of other wrestler at ringside. Shelton attempted a move off the ladder, but it gave out on him. A short time later, Punk hit him with the GTS. Punk climbed the ladder, but Kennedy caught him and performed a Green Bay Plunge onto a ladder. At 7:00, Shelton climbed to the top of the ladder. Carlito and Kennedy pushed the ladder over and Shelton fell back first onto a ladder that was propped up between the ring and the barrier at ringside. It looked like the ladder snapped. Crazy spot. Carlito sold it brilliantly by standing there with his jaw dropped. Later, Carlito caught Jericho climbing up a ladder and hit him with a Backstabber. With everyone else laid out, MVP smiled and climbed the ladder. Out of nowhere, Matt Hardy ran in through the crowd and hit MVP with a Twist of Fate off the top of the ladder. Hardy was dressed in his ring gear, but he made a quick exit back through the crowd. By the way, Joey Styles and Tazz are also chiming in on this match. There were a series of really good "near grabs" that popped the crowd. It came down to Jericho and Punk battling on top of the ladder. Jericho knocked Punk down by slamming the briefcase into his head. Jericho was close to grabbing the briefcase, but Punk reached through the ladder and pulled Jericho's leg through. With Jericho trapped, Punk grabbed the briefcase to win the match. Powell's POV: Some crazy spots. Shelton never got involved in the match again following his big bump, which was definitely the craziest bump in the match. Not sure if he's hurt or just selling the insanity. The match was every bit as wild as you'd expect and there were some pretty good "near grabs." Separate shots aired of Randy Orton, John Cena, and Triple H... Howard Finkel introduced the Class of 2008. They all stood on the stage area. Ric Flair was represented by his family. Mae Young tried to take her shirt off, but Mike Graham stopped her... Backstage, Todd Grisham asked Snoop Dogg what he thought of WrestleMania so far. Snoop put over seeing stars from the past and present. Snoop introduced Festus as someone he can relate to. Santino interrupted and confronted Snoop about the Bunny match. Snoop pulled out a bell and rang it, so Festus went crazy and chased Santino out of the picture. Snoop said he got the idea from "Mick Fizzle." Mick Foley appeared on camera and joked around with Snoop. He pulled out Mr. Socko, who was decked out with bling... Powell's POV: It's dark in Orlando and the set and light show look amazing. It would look even better if my cable company offered the show in HD, but no such luck. 4. Batista beat Umaga in a battle of the brands match at 7:07. Teddy Long introduced Batista. William Regal introduced Umaga. Michael Cole checked in and called the match with Tazz. No Jonathan Coachman so far and I don't think anyone is complaining. Batista tried to slam Umaga early, but he couldn't do it and Umaga fell on him. Umaga locked Batista in a long nerve hold. He went for a top rope headbutt, but Batista moved. Back to the nerve a short time later. Things picked up when Umaga hit a Samoan drop, but Batista came back with a spinebuster. He went for the Batista Bomb and stumbled backward while hitting the move. It was awkward and clumsy, but he made the pin anyway. Batista clutched his back afterward. Powell's POV: It's a good thing the match was short because the live crowd was turning on Batista. They booed his offense and cheered Umaga's. The Batista backers were louder than the Umaga supporters during the finishing sequence, though. Lame match. Ross and Lawler ran through the tale of the tape for the Floyd Mayweather vs. Big Show match. A shot aired of Mayweather hanging out with his posse backstage... 5. Kane defeated Chavo Guerrero to win the ECW Title in 0:10. Armando Estrada handled the ring announcing for the match, and Styles and Tazz took over on commentary. Kane didn't come down the entrance ramp. Rather, he appeared out of nowhere from the other side of the ring. Chavo saw him and pointed at him. The bell rang and Kane chokeslammed him for the win. Powell's POV: I thought they'd do something special for Kane's pyro, but it was actually really tame. I'm not sure why they had him come out from under the ring or where ever he was, but the battle royal and the ECW Title match took a combined 6:33. They must have some long matches coming up if they couldn't fit the battle royal on the show or give the ECW Title match more time. The Carlito and Maria commercial aired... Raven Symone stood in the ring and yelled a lot. I didn't realize she was so hefty. She quickly introduced the Make-A-Wish children who were in the crowd... The Ric Flair video aired... Mike Adamle interviewed Flair backstage. Ric let out a "Woooo!" Adamle asked him what his game plan was. "My game plan?" Flair asked. "To be the man." Flair "woooo'd" again and departed. He was all smiles... 6. Shawn Michaels pinned Ric Flair at 20:23 to end Flair's career. Flair's family was shown sitting in the crowd before the match. Reid was in tears. Flair walked onto the stage wearing what appeared to be a new blue robe. He strutted down the ramp and appeared to look around a little more than usual. Fireworks exploded behind the entrance set. Really cool camera shot of Flair opening the robe and posing while the fireworks exploded behind him. Ross noted that Flair was confident and prideful and he certainly looked it. Once in the ring, Flair extended his hand and when Michaels reached out to shake hands, Flair pulled his hand back and "Woooo'd." Two minutes into the match, Michaels slapped Flair and he bled from the mouth. HBK told Flair he could leave now and Flair responded, "First blood, brother." Flair came back with a series of hard chops in the corner and the crowd "Whooo'd" them all. Flair hit a cross-body block and Ross and Lawler roared with approval because he hit a top rope move. Moments later, Michaels dumped Flair to ringside. Shawn went for an Asai Moonsault, but Flair missed and Michaels landed really hard on the announcers' table. The table didn't break and didn't appear to give at all. Michaels beat referee Charles Robinson's count back into the ring. Ross pointed out that Robinson has been a Flair fan all his life. Later, HBK hit a moonsault off the top rope onto Flair at ringside. Flair didn't do much to break's Shawn's fall. Another big bump for Michaels even though it was portrayed as an offensive move. Both men got back inside the ring as Robinson's count reached nine. At 10:40, HBK hit a top rope elbow drop. He shook head and hesitated before he wound up for Sweet Chin Music. He stomped his foot and set up for the kick, but he stopped himself short. Flair pounced on HBK and applied the figure-four leglock. HBK eventually rolled it over and Flair reached the ropes to break the hold. Flair locked Michaels in the figure-four again at 14:00 for a nearfall. HBK sold it well and the crowd stood because they thought Flair was going to pull it off. Michaels tried to reverse it, but Flair rolled all the way over and back into an offensive position. HBK finally reached the ropes and the crowd booed. Flair styled and profiled briefly. When he turned around, he walked into Sweet Chin Music. Michaels made the cover, but Flair kicked out. Michaels "tuned up the band" in the corner again. Flair didn't get so HBK stopped and demanded that he get up. Michaels walked over to Flair, who responded with a kick to the groin. The crowd loved it. Flair went for the pin, but Michaels kicked out at two. A short time later, HBK locked Flair in his version of the figure-four. Flair cried out in pain and the announcers said it wouldn't be right if he lost to that move. Flair reached the ropes and took the bottom turnbuckle pad off. While the ref dealt with the turnbuckle, Flair poked Michaels in the eyes for another big pop. They traded chops in the middle of the ring. Flair was getting the better of it, but HBK hit Sweet Chin Music out of nowhere. HBK went back to the corner and hesitated again. Flair got to his knees and struck a fighter's pose to encourage HBK to bring it on. Michaels mouthed, "I'm sorry" and "I love you" before nailing Flair with Sweet Chin Music and pinning Flair to end his career as an active wrestler. Michaels immediately put his head down by Flair's and the two exchanged words. Flair appeared to be in tears immediately. Michaels left the ring quickly as his music played. Flair stood up and was crying. The cameras showed a shot of his family and they were all crying as well. The live crowd gave Flair a standing ovation. Flair went to ringside and hugged and kissed his family. Once he made it to the entrance area, he raised his hands and smiled. The live crowd continued to cheer. He turned around and blew the crowd a at the mid-point of the entrance ramp and did so again when he was near the top. At the top of the stage, Flair turned around and waved to the crowd one last time. He was crying and the crowd roared in approval as he disappeared into the back. Powell's POV: Fantastic match. Flair and Michaels rose to the occasion. Great drama and the live crowd bought into Flair's nearfalls. A very emotional finish. I loved Michaels mouthing the words "I'm sorry" and "I love you" to Flair before delivering the shot that ended his career. What a way to go out. Sensational. Backstage, Edge cut a promo about attending WrestleMania 6 and seeing his hero Hulk Hogan. "I was the biggest Hulkamaniac in Canada," Edge said. "And on that day, Hulk Hogan lost." He said there's probably a kid in the audience who's there to see Undertaker and he wants to take his innocence just like he lost his that day at WrestleMania... Ross and Lawler noted that they're only halfway through the show... 7. Beth Phoenix and Melina (w/Santino Marella) defeated Maria and Ashley at 5:57. Before the match, the other Divas stood on the stage. Snoop came out in a pimped out golf cart and drove it to the ring. In the ring, Snoop said, "For my main man Ric Flair, somebody say Woooo." The crowd Wooo'd. 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Back in the ring, the match slowed down, as Edge locked Taker in a couple of rest holds. Taker and Edge traded punches and Coach told Cole that it was tremendous. Taker got the better of the exchange and hit Edge with with Snake Eyes in the corner. Taker charged at Edge, who responded with a surprise dropkick. A short time later, Edge hit a great looking DDT on Taker for a nearfall. Edge went for a spear, but Taker lifted his knee and regained control of the match. Taker chokeslammed Taker and went for the cover, but Edge kicked out just in time. Later, Edge regained control of the match, but he got cocky while standing on the second rope delivering punches. Taker picked him up and went for the Last Ride, but Edge slipped out and hit a neckbreaker. Taker came back and hit the Last Ride. Coach blew it by stating we had a new world champion and Cole confirmed it, which let everyone know that Edge was going to kick out. Edge regained control of the offense briefly, but he ran into a high kick from Taker. It was actually sloppy and both men fell to the mat briefly. Taker went for another boot, but Edge ducked and the ref was bumped. Edge went for an inverted DDT, but Taker fell over. Taker stood back up and Edge hit the move. With the ref down, Edge knocked a cameraman down and took his television camera from him at ringside. Edge nailed Taker with with the camera. Edge shoved the ref out of the ring and onto the floor. Meanwhile, Taker sat up. Edge went for the Tombstone, but Taker reversed the move and hit it himself. Referee Charles Robinson sprinted to the ring and made the count, but Edge kicked out. Zach Ryder and Curt Hawkins ran out and Taker quickly knocked them off the ring apron. He turned around and walked right into a spear. Edge got a nearfall. He hit a second spear, but this time Taker held on and locked in his submission move. Edge tried to reach the ropes, but he eventually submitted. Taker knelt in the ring with the title belt as fireworks exploded over his shoulder. Cole thanked viewers for being part of WrestleMania... A WrestleMania recap video aired... Powell's POV: A good match with a couple of sloppy spots or slips. It was a good match and I enjoyed it even though it seemed like one of the more obvious outcomes of the match. If you didn't have a good idea about the outcome of the match, then you probably enjoyed it more than I did. It was pretty much as good as it could have been under those circumstances. They had some good nearfalls and there was some good action, but I just didn't buy into the possibility of Edge winning no matter how hard they tried. It didn't help that Coachman kept telling calling finishes and making it obvious that the match wasn't going to end whenever he said it was going to. He was really bad. It was just one cliche after another. I feel bad for ripping on the guy because he has no confidence and knows color commentary isn't his thing, but there's just no ignoring how bad he was.
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March 11, 2012, 03:06:41 AM »
Hey guys.
I applied to a bunch of schools but my GPA and LSAT scores weren't the best. Despite that I did get into New England Law School (Boston) and Widener Law (Harrisburg Campus). New England Law offered me a full scholarship which is obviously awesome. I've been doing a lot of reading and I'm kind of freaked out because I've been hearing that a lot of recent graduates (from most law schools) are finding it very difficult to find jobs.
Should I just go to New England for free and risk the competitiveness in Boston? Or should I go to Widener and hope that its slightly higher ranking will be more of a guarantee in terms of snagging a job?
I would really like your feedback. I'm so anxious about making this huge decision.
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March 11, 2012, 02:23:25 PM »
If those are your top two choices I would go to NELS as long as the conditions for keeping the full scholarship arnt to harsh. But if you don't have to pay tuition you don't have much to lose.
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March 11, 2012, 02:54:00 PM »
This is my own personal opinion from my law school experience on what to consider when making this decision. There are two main things to realize before reading anything I have to say.
1) Anything you read on the internet from an anonymous source including myself should be heavily scrutinized. I know nothing about you, your situation, your views, your likes or dislikes. In the end it will be you that lives with the decision for at least 3 years and likely the rest of your life, but I am going to fill in some things I did consider when choosing my school along with some things I wish I would have considered.
2) There is no right answer you your question. Many 0Ls think there is some answer out there that will tell them exactly what to do, but sadly there isnt. I personally spent months talking to people, researching so and so on hoping to come to the conclusion of knowing exactly what to do, but that day never came. I had to choose a school and I ended up being happy with it although there are days I wonder what would have happened had I gone to X, Y, Z school. I will never know the answer and neither will you. A choice has to be made and there is no right or wrong answer.
Now to the meat of it your question. I would personally choose New England based on the facts you have presented and below is my reasoning, but these are factors that you should consider and plug in your personal situation to see if New England is actually the right fit.
A) Financing:
Law school is expensive and if you can save 100k on tuition that is a lot of money. I am still paying off my loans and remember this 100k is collecting interest usually between 6-8% depending on where your getting the money from. This means in a year you will accumulate 6,000-8,000 on interest alone. If you can save 100k then that is something to heavily consider.
However, I am assuming Boston is more expensive than Harrisburg and I find it unlikely that Boston is offering to pay living expenses and that is a financial factor to consider. Furthermore, if you have friends, family in Harrisburg that you could stay with rent free opposed to paying rent in Boston that is a factor to consider. If you have family in Boston that you could live with plus full tuition then the scales tip even further towards New England.
B) Location:
This is probably the most important thing to consider when choosing a law school, yet so few 0Ls really think this through. Whatever school you end up at is where you will be for a minimum of three years. You are going to develop friends, go to parties, sporting events, concerts, and so on during these three years and your social life is important during law school. Just to set aside some fear you will have a life while in law school, and that is why location is something to consider.
On top of the social aspect law school does not exist in a vacuum. If you happen to be an ultra liberal, gay man, pro-choice, card carrying democrat then attending law school in Alabama might not be the best place for you. On the reverse if you are an ultra-right wing conservative, card carrying Republican San Francisco probably isnt the right place for you either. On a social level it will be an aspect plus when you interview with people in the area those beliefs will be there. I know not everything fits into stereotypes, but there is a reason for them and if you have adamant social beliefs then the location is something to consider.
I know nothing about Harrisburg or Boston or how they are on those issues, but it is something to think about. However, personally Boston sounds like a more enjoyable place to spend three years than Harrisburg so that is another reason why I would say New England. You might have your own beliefs because you likely have been to these cities I havent, but whichever one you enjoy more should play a role in your decision.
Also remember wherever you go to school is likely where you will end up. I know there are exceptions, but you are going to have an apartment, friends, internships, and so on while in school and these will be hard to leave particularly with law school debt hanging over your head. You are probably going to hustle to find a job right out of school and few if any employers are going to come from out of area to recruit you, and as a newly minted J.D. you are not going to have the time or money to fly out to Miami or Seattle for the first interview yet alone a series of interviews, which many attorney positions require. This is just the practical nature of geography, which should also play a role in your decision.
C) Prestige/Ranking:
When dealing with schools of this caliber whatever U.S. News happens to say really doesnt matter. First remember U.S. News is nothing more than a magazine offering an opinion. It does have some clout, but the difference between Widener and New England? I truthfully have no idea what if any difference in prestige there is. The rankings matter if your at a top 50 school and some might say top 100, but the higher up the ladder you go the less relevant it becomes. In this situation choosing between two regional schools it should essentially be a non-factor, because if any prestige ranking difference exists between Widener and New England it is so miniscule that it doesnt warrant consideration.
D) Reality of Legal Education:
This is something many 0Ls dont realize either and that is what you learn at Yale or Widener is basically the same. At almost every ABA law school you take the following courses during your first year. 1) Torts 2) Contracts 3) Property 4) Civil Procedure 5) Criminal Law 6) Con Law 7) Legal Writing & Research. There are some variations to this, but at any ABA law school you will take those courses at some point whether it be first or second year.
Whatever school you take these courses at you will learn the same thing. In Torts you will read Palsgraf, Contracts Hadley v. Baxendale, Civil Procedure Pennoyer v. Neff, so and so on. These are Supreme Court cases and you read what the Supreme Court wrote then your professor will explain it to you. Law school unlike Med School or Engineering does not require any special equipment. All you need our books so if Widener is ranked higher than New England it is not because you are learning anything different or have access to better equipment. You are going to get a textbook and the majority of schools use the same exact textbook so you get the same law, same textbook, same everything from school to school.
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March 11, 2012, 02:55:11 PM »
Continuation of above post
Although there is technically not much difference in what you learn at any school some schools do specialize in certain areas. If you truly know what area of law you want to get into then the clinics, courses, professor experience might be something to consider. However, few law students and practicing attorneys really know what area of law they want to practice, but some people do.
If you really want to be litigator South Texas Law School has all kinds of opportunities for mock trial competitions. They have built their school around that and give students access to a great courtroom, fund numerous competitions, and really emphasize that. Some other schools have a Tax Clinic they run or something of that nature, and if you happen to know exactly what you want to do then this should be a factor in your decision.
If on the other hand you are like the majority of law students and lawyers that really doesnt specifically know what area you really want then it shouldnt be a big factor in your decision.
I personally know nothing about either school or what specialties they might have, but it is something you can look into if you know where your interests lie.
E) Personal Feeling About School
Aside from location each school has its own feel that you are either going to like or not like. When I was visiting schools there were a few places I couldnt stand and a few others I loved. There was nothing particularly great or awful any of these school did I just had a gut feeling of liking it or not. You should visit these schools individually and see how you feel when you enter it. This is probably one of the most important things to do, because if you cant stand it in your first encounter it will probably not improve over three years.
I highly recommend visiting yourself and getting a feel for the school. Talk to any actual students at the school and see how they feel, professors, and so on. Your are making a big investment of time and money so reach out to the school, and listen to your gut.
F) Scholarship Conditions:
This is the ugly business side of legal education. Many law schools offer full scholarships with conditions that could be considered deceptive. Many schools will say you can have the scholarship as long as you keep a 3.0 GPA. Any law student offered a scholarship at an ABA school likely got a 3.0 in undergrad without trying and assume the same will be true in law school. Unfortunately, it isnt.
Most law schools have very stringent curves and only allow 35% of the first year class to get a 3.0 GPA. This accomplishes two things for law schools first gets rid of scholarship offers and second keeps students from transferring up. You might think you will just study harder than everyone and the other 65% arent as hard-working as you, but again you will be wrong. About 99% of law students are smart, hard-working, and have a knack for school that is why they signed up for the madness that is law school. Almost every student does pretty well on the exams, but there is a limited number of As & Bs that can be handed out. The difference between an A and a C can often be a few multiple choice questions or a missed issue on an essay. It is that tight of a curve.
This article actually does a far better job explaining it than I can.
G) Jobs
I wont sugarcoat it neither of these schools likely have a phenomenal OCI schedule, and most students are probably on their own to find jobs. Many people can and do get jobs from regional schools, but it will not be easy. The economy is also not great now, but then again I dont know if it ever is. (Just a sidenote) but I remember Bill Clintons 1992 campaign its the economy stupid during the presidential campaign to address the recession that was going on. A lot has changed since then , but jobs are hard to come by and it seems like they always have been, and always will be.
I think your job hunt will be easier if you have 100k less in debt to worry about, but just my two cents. Also if you graduate, pass the bar, odds are you will find a legal job. It won't be easy and your first job likely won't be 6 figures arguing a 1st amendment case, but you are likely to find work at some point. Just be ready for the reality that lots of other people have J.D's and it is a competitive market and profession.
H) Conclusion:
As I stated at the beginning I am nothing more than an anonymous internet poster and my advice should be scrutinized. I am sure someone out there thinks everything I posted is complete B.S. and maybe they are right. If you go into litigation you will be amazed at how two experts completely contradict eachother.
I also dont know about these schools, but a visit to both of them is certainly in order. However, Boston sounds like a better place to spend three years and if you can save 100k in tuition that accrues interest that is another factor in its favor.
Good luck to you on this big decision and congratulations on being accepted into law school.
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