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In which issues concerning the profession of philosophy are
bitched griped about
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Isn't this kinda rubbing my nose in it?
52 comments:
Totally improper. And I always disliked "thanks for sharing your work with us" kind of bs. Ivory Tower must be seen engaged in the "life of the mind" at all times, even when the issue is hiring people for teaching jobs in exchange for money.
Was the letter signed by the chair of SC?
- March 1, 2011 at 5:29 PM
I received an email from what I imagine is the same tone deaf department telling me that they were "pleased to announce" that they hired someone who wasn't me.
- March 1, 2011 at 6:11 PM
I've been wondering about this too. These winner-naming emails are especially rude when the AOS is fairly narrow or when the person hired is similar to you. In those cases, you can only read the email as saying "well look, you have to understand, Dr.X is so obviously better than you. Really, go back to the minor leagues." The role of the PFO is to tell you your status w/r/t a job; it shouldn't be to discourage you from aiming at a certain tier of schools or to give the school a bragging mechanism.
- March 1, 2011 at 6:29 PM
I haven't had many interviews, but the one that stands out as the worst was the interview I had with the department that I think sent this email. I didn't do a great job in the interview. My bad. I think I would have done better if it hadn't started by dealing with an incredibly rude interviewer. While I'd like to live in their city, I get the sense that I wouldn't ever want to work with 2 of the 4 people from that department I've had contact with. Best of luck to the winner.
- March 1, 2011 at 6:58 PM
Huh. I'm not entirely sure, but I think I actually prefer more information to less. With these letters it's always hard (for me, anyway) to tell what the attitude of the sender is, exactly.
I guess I just find the whole process so inscrutable that I would rather have any random bit of detail than over-courteousness.
- March 1, 2011 at 8:55 PM
On a similar note, I recently got an email from a school to which I applied, suggesting that they had narrowed their search down to 12 finalists, and that I was among those finalists. However, there was no mention of an interview, and no response when I responded to inquire about one. Some folks on the phylo wiki suggested that the department may simply forgo first round interviews. If that's the case, i can't decide how to feel about being informed of making the first cut without having any more opportunity to influence the next one. I guess I appreciate the update, but on the other hand, I don't see the point of narrowing down the applicants to twelve, informing them, and then narrowing them down to 3 or 4. Why not just pick 3 or 4 in the first place then? I'm curious what others think about this practice.
- March 1, 2011 at 11:05 PM
My initial reaction to your post was: 'You're being overly sensitive.' (I say that as someone who's also on the market and hasn't yet landed anything). But, after some thought, I can sympathize. If there was no Leiter hiring post nor any update to the hiring department's website in the near future, then the letter you received would be the most immediate way to get the relevant information. But times are changing, and it's not difficult to get that kind of information. So, the letter-writer's approach is a little dated and, perhaps because of that, comes off as bad form. The thing is: a surprising number of SC chairs are oblivious to things like Leiter's post, Phylo, etc. So, perhaps it was on account of ignorance that the author of the letter came off as sounding a little ass-holish.
- March 2, 2011 at 1:56 AM
My situation is a little different. I have a job, and a few years ago I applied for another, "better" (= higher status) one. They offered it to a pretty famous person in my field instead. The department chair phoned me immediately and told me, and said I was second in their vote (but that this didn't guarantee I would get the offer if Famous Dude turned it down).
There was a very clear implication that I shouldn't be offended or anything because obviously nobody was going to pick me over Famous Dude. Although in retrospect this strikes me as quite offensive, in fact it didn't bother me at all at the time. As I said, it's certainly different when you have a job and are applying for a 'higher' one (how could I get all wiggy about the chair picking the higher-status candidate, after all, when I was in effect trying to do the same thing?).
But, in short, I guess I'm agreeing with Mostly Anonymous: more info is better.
- March 2, 2011 at 4:19 AM
I was told that I had an interview and then got a PFO 3 months later with the name of the guy who got the position. Everything was the same about us except that I had more education than him (2 additional grad degrees). As for the Leiter list, does anyone feel sorry for these people with amazing pedigree who end up at shite schools? If I was degreed at Yale I would definitely see it as a disappointment to be hired by Franklin & Marshall College in the ass-crack of PA.
- March 2, 2011 at 5:21 AM
- Mr. Zero said...
I think that starting out a rejection letter by saying how pleased you are is a dick move. I think that it's fine for the rejection letter to say who they hired; I don't think it's wrong ton include that information. But you don't send out a rejection letter to people that says how happy you are to be rejecting them.
- March 2, 2011 at 5:57 AM
Franklin & Marshall is a good school on a beautiful campus in a nice, medium-sized city an hour from Philadelphia. A person could do a fuck of a lot worse. I am the opposite of sorry for the person who got that job.
- March 2, 2011 at 6:03 AM
Anon 5:21,
You are delusional about the job market. That Yalie is probably dancing for joy at the job offer while his classmates who struck out look on in envy. Programs better than Yale are placing about 50% this year (Did you read McMahan's post?)
- March 2, 2011 at 6:36 AM
Agreed that 5:21 is totally delusional.
Yale is a good graduate program, but to think that all of the people coming out of good graduate programs will get positions at graduate-degree awarding programs is delusional.
And if you're not going to get such a job, the next best thing (on the "desirability" metric we all are assumed to accept) is a job at a good SLAC in a nice location. F&M is in a fabulous town a short drive from Philly and has good students, resources, and a beautiful campus.
We should all be so "un"lucky.
- March 2, 2011 at 7:15 AM
Just to follow up on Zero's post, the last two PFOs I've received told me who got the job. The first of these was the classiest PFO I've ever received. It told me who got the job, but it was thoughtful and sensitive. The author made a point to say that they were sorry to have to break the bad news to us. The second I received yesterday. It was tacky and insensitive. It stated how pleased they were that they could have selected someone rather than me. Whereas I'm thrilled to be applying again for a position with the first department, I think I'd regret having to work with some members of the second. The author of the letter, for example, seems like a total clod. To put it in a more personal context, I've been dumped by lots and lots of women. Often, this is because they've met someone else. The one that still gets to me is the one who told me she met someone else and then went on and on about how wonderfully talented he was. I understood the point of that letter. Spite. I don't understand the latest PFO letter.
- March 2, 2011 at 7:19 AM
What sucks is that you end up at F & M and many of your colleagues, hired long before you when the job market was easier, have Ph.D.s from Ohio State U. You're still low man on the totem pole even with a Ph.D. from Yale. Lancaster is a crap hole, BTW. Its proximity to Philly does not make the fact that you're living among Pennsylvania hillbillies any more bearable. I'd only settle for it if I had a Ph.D. from Ohio State U, not Yale U.
- March 2, 2011 at 7:37 AM
If I was degreed at Yale I would definitely see it as a disappointment to be hired by Franklin & Marshall College in the ass-crack of PA.
Fortunately you weren't, eh?
- March 2, 2011 at 7:39 AM
- Mr. Zero said...
Obviously there are some elitist jerks on the job market this year.
- March 2, 2011 at 7:43 AM
Anon 11:05 - I got the same 'top 12' email from that department, and I'm the one who posted on the wiki about the move from 12 to 3 sans interviews. It doesn't make any sense to me. My connection with that department informs me that, yes, they intend to cut the list to 3 without first-round interviews. This seems a bit weird to me, but weirder is the total lack of information given by the department to this effect. If they're going to bother contacting the 12 in the first place, at least come right out and say that they don't intend to do interviews, or give some information about procedure/timeline. Without this, you just have a bunch of people awkwardly writing back to ask about interviews, to be met with no response. It doesn't exactly make you feel great about the department...though maybe this doesn't matter to them, if the purpose of contacting the 12 is *not* so much to let us know that they are interested as it is to find that some people have already accepted positions and so make the narrowing process easier.
- March 2, 2011 at 8:03 AM
"That Yalie is probably dancing for joy at the job offer while his classmates who struck out look on in envy."
Presupposition failure.
- March 2, 2011 at 8:22 AM
Hey, stop picking on F&M! When I was on the market ten years ago with 20 interviews -- yes, different times -- my most philosophically satisfying interview was with F&M. Half of my interviews were at leiter-ranked research departments, and I thought the F&M interviewers (all of whom are still there, I think) were better philosophical conversationalists.
- March 2, 2011 at 8:26 AM
McMahan's post? Anon 6:36, where can I find it?
- March 2, 2011 at 8:28 AM
- zombie said...
Exactly right Zero. I don't mind being informed about who was hired for the position. That kind of information is potentially useful. What I mind is the tone deaf attitude. I mind being told how happy the department is about hiring this individual, and by implication, not hiring me.
The information could have been relayed otherwise, and in a more professional way: "The department has offered the position to Dr X of Prestigious U., and he has accepted." None of this dancing on the grave of my crushed hopes and dreams business. That's just rude.
- March 2, 2011 at 8:39 AM
I think the comments on this blog have really taken a wrong turn if we are going to criticize specific jobs that specific people took at specific schools. Most of the people here are so bitter that they scrutinize every single rejection letter they get-- yet they are willing to pick out a person on Leiter and talk about how crappy that job must be for him. How do you think that would make this person or people from that school feel? I think it's unclassy, unprofessional and rude. Most of you'd be so lucky to get any position, from what I can tell based on your constant griping.
- March 2, 2011 at 8:48 AM
Right on, Zero and zombie. I appreciated knowing who got the jobs that I didn't, even if it sometimes made me wonder why that person got the job. But there's no reason to make this kind of letter anything other than a nice PFO that also says, preferably near the end, "The department has hired X."
If there's one thing worse than getting a gloating PFO, though, it's having to work with a bunch of dumbasses who got their Ph.D.s at Ohio State.
- March 2, 2011 at 9:08 AM
"Most of the people here are so bitter that they scrutinize every single rejection letter they get-- yet they are willing to pick out a person on Leiter and talk about how crappy that job must be for him. How do you think that would make this person or people from that school feel?"
I agree, sort of. Bad form to talk about how bad a job is for so and so. Most? That, I think, isn't supported by the evidence. Most, I imagine, don't post at all. Even those who do post, we cannot say that over half talk shit about someone who has a job (or doesn't).
- March 2, 2011 at 9:11 AM
Anon 8:48 - thank you. Does anyone else sometimes feel like the analogy between PhilWorld and Mean Girls is just too much to bear? (Maybe my way to job market success is to start a Philosophy Burn Book! Actually, that might be a kind of awesome blog to have. Something tells me that despite being a morally despicable idea, everyone would love it and secretly visit and post to, all while publicly denying it. Like trashy reality TV.)
Newsflash: We don't know people's lives. Or, as I like to put it, "You don't know me!"
I get judged constantly for my job -- which involves teaching philosophy in the ghetto to a bunch of 20somethings with the average literacy level of an 8th grader. I also teach part-time at a local posh private school with fantastically smart froshies. And yknow what? I LOVE LOVE LOVE working with the ghetto 20somethings WAY more than I love working with the posh froshies. Yeah, it's a lot of work, and teaching the posh froshies is in many ways a lot "easier". Would I switch jobs if offered? Maybe I'm the fool satisfied for it, but I'm not gonna take on a life of misery in the Ivory Tower when the Ebony Dungeon seems to make me happy.
Plus, one person's hillbilly nightmare is another person's dream town. I have lots of friends that live in places I'd find completely unbearable (like *shudder* Texas) and totes love it, and I've got many friends that would rather die a thousand deaths than live in my Urban Metro Nightmare, which I quite enjoy.
To the original point of the post: zombie, I think you are right that such an approach is shitty, thoughtless, and totally and completely without class. Cf. above reference to Mean Girls.
- March 2, 2011 at 9:31 AM
The tone-deaf attitude, plus the fact that the most recent winner-naming school was never before in touch - no application acknowledgment, no "sorry, we will not be interviewing you at the APA" - is what makes it especially obnoxious to get their email.
And 5:21, you are an idiot. Beyond the fact that it's inappropriate of you to bring up that specific case, and that F&M and Lancaster county are both great, did you ever stop and entertain the idea that the person might want to work at a SLAC? I very honestly would rather work at F&M than a grad program any day. Congrats to the person who scored the gig.
- March 2, 2011 at 9:41 AM
- zombie said...
"You're still low man on the totem pole even with a Ph.D. from Yale."
I see no reason why being from Yale should cause you to leap ahead of scholars who have more years on the job and more scholarly experience than you do. Yale's not THAT special, and neither is a Yalie qua Yalie. (see: George W. Bush.) You want to rise up on that totem pole? Prove your worth. Do your job well. Get published. Be a colleague who doesn't think he's automatically better than everyone else because he went to Yale.
I happen to know one of those OSUers on the F&M faculty. I was that prof's TA at a different school. He was an excellent teacher, and his students loved him. I learned a lot observing him in the classroom.
- March 2, 2011 at 10:14 AM
- Matt Jordan said...
Um, it's The Ohio State University, 7:37.
Verification: Stionab, as in, "He issued a wicked stionab to that sucker who dissed his alma mater."
- March 2, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- David Merli said...
Matt Jordan in the house!
There's not actually a totem pole. If anything we as a department try to protect the time of junior people by giving them lighter administrative duties and limited course prep. That way they can publish, get tenure, and be mired forever in the hellish cesspool of Lancaster, which, I have to say, is one of the nicer ass-cracks I've been in. And that's saying something!
David Merli
Franklin & Marshall dept of philosophy
- March 2, 2011 at 10:46 AM
- Mr. Zero said...
I approved the comments at 5:21 and 7:37 with reservations. It was my hope that the comment at 5:21 and especially at 7:37 would be seen as harmless, unreasoned ramblings of elitist assholes. It was also my hope that the views expressed would be immediately and decisively demolished. This last hope was adequately realized, I think.
I also hope that if the F&M people read these comments, they will not be hurt by them. And if they are, I apologize for approving them.
Finally, it seems to me that if a job like the one at F&M would really be unacceptable to you for the reasons outlined in the anonymous comments at 5:21 and 7:37--if you think the western edge of eastern Pennsylvania is the "ass crack"; if you think "unbearable hillbilly country" starts within a frisbee toss of the suburbs of Philadelphia; if you can't stand the thought of being untenured in a department that had tenured someone who studied at Ohio State--you aren't cut out for this profession.
- March 2, 2011 at 10:48 AM
(8:48AM here). Thanks, Mr. Zero, for commenting. Though I think some of the comments here are ridiculous, I think it good of you to not censor them, so they can be demolished. (Of course, that's not to say that we couldn't imagine comments worthy of censorship).
9:11AM- I agree with you. The "most people here" claim I made is overreaching. My point is that the main thrust of this blog is to be a place to ask questions, complain a bit and bear some insecurities. No problem in that. When a few people choose to make personal attacks on people and schools-- unfortunately, combined with the above-mentioned kind of entries-- the collective feel of the blog is, as someone aptly put it, that of Mean Girls. But I think we also collectively put those sorts of comments to shame.
Zombie, I wouldn't assume that the person in 7:37AM is from Yale.
- March 2, 2011 at 11:06 AM
- Andrew said...
I also got the email in question (the one that started the thread), and I didn't find it offensive at all.
One reason I'm not offended is that I think *very* highly of the candidate who ended up getting the job. The hiring department made an excellent choice and should be pleased about it; so it doesn't bother me one bit for them to say as much!
- March 2, 2011 at 11:47 AM
+1000 internets to David Merli
- March 2, 2011 at 12:42 PM
First a PhD from The Ohio State University and now a thousand Internets? Now we'll never get him off the totem pole.
- March 2, 2011 at 12:57 PM
David Merli: my fucking hero
- March 2, 2011 at 1:59 PM
"Finally, it seems to me that if a job like the one at F&M would really be unacceptable to you for the reasons outlined in the anonymous comments at 5:21 and 7:37--if you think the western edge of eastern Pennsylvania is the "ass crack"; if you think "unbearable hillbilly country" starts within a frisbee toss of the suburbs of Philadelphia; if you can't stand the thought of being untenured in a department that had tenured someone who studied at Ohio State--you aren't cut out for this profession."
Hear hear Mr. Zero! I would only add: "and no other position worthy of the description 'profession'."
"Colleague" means--or ought to mean--more than "co-worker". I want respectful and even friendly colleagues. And I suspect that I am far from alone on that.
- March 2, 2011 at 2:03 PM
- zombie said...
Anon 11:06 -- quite right. It ought not be assumed that 7:37 is a Yalie, and I will henceforth cease to do so. Likewise, I did not intend to impugn all Yalies. Only the ones who are elitist douchebags, if there are any.
- March 2, 2011 at 4:05 PM
- zombie said...
See, THIS is how you do it:
"I am writing to update you on the status of your application for the tenure-track philosophy position at Claremont McKenna College. We have made an offer to one of the applicants for this position, and the candidate has recently accepted – our search is thus complete. We received almost 500 applicants for this position, and the candidate pool was ridiculously strong. We have been forced to make difficult decisions among highly qualified candidates, many of whom would have been excellent additions to our faculty.
Thank you for allowing us to consider your application. On behalf of my colleagues in the Department of Philosophy at CMC, I wish you success in your philosophical career."
Was that so hard? Even if the candidate's name had been included here (and I'm not sure that publicizing it wouldn't create some confidentiality issues), this is better than telling me how happy the department is that they didn't have to hire the likes of me.
- March 2, 2011 at 4:24 PM
I thought the same thing about the CM PFO, Zombie. I also like the use of "ridiculously strong." It actually sounded sincere.
Ps ... its seems I applied to the same jobs as ALL OF YOU :-P (Or maybe there's just lots of identically awful PFOs going around.)
- March 2, 2011 at 4:34 PM
I got a letter like this once. Not only did the department identify the person they hired and his research interests (fairly close to mine), they also went on and on about how wonderful he was.
- March 2, 2011 at 4:56 PM
"ridiculously strong" and "500 applicants" in the same paragraph. Generally smells like ridiculously strong doom for a lot of us out there...
- March 2, 2011 at 5:19 PM
FYI: Brian Prince is this year's Rusty Jones. Rice Ph.D. 3-Year post-doc at Oxford. That is badass.
- March 2, 2011 at 7:16 PM
What was the average number of applicants this year for specific AOS and open AOS? What do you think/know? Higher than last year or about the same?
- March 2, 2011 at 8:06 PM
- nlk said...
Anon/Troll 5:21,
Please do not feel sorry for me. I am absolutely thrilled with the job at F&M. But if for some reason your heart still goes out to me, there are some things you can do on my behalf. For example, I'm a terrible at proofreading; so maybe you could help me out by proofreading my dissertation? Or perhaps you could start an ass-crack awareness campaign with my picture on the homepage? In any case, I appreciate your concern and the time you took to express it publicly.
- March 2, 2011 at 8:23 PM
Nlk: congrats!
It's nice to hear a direct refutation of the elitist douchebag
- March 2, 2011 at 9:23 PM
Damn, this is some turbo-charged smackdown. I almost feel sorry for the troll.
- March 3, 2011 at 3:47 AM
- Andrew Smith said...
Anon 11:05 and 8:03, I believe that I am a member of a department that proceeded with our hiring process in the manner that you describe: with an initial list of 12 semi-finalists that was subsequently cut to 3 finalists without interviews. I say I "believe" because I am unaware of certain of the details of our search process even though I was on the committee (I joined late due to an illness). But what you describe is deeply troubling.
I was hired at this institution last year and went through the same process, but semi-finalists were asked to submit additional materials. As a result, the communique from the department did not seem odd--although being told later that I was a finalist without having been interviewed definitely was strange. If no additional materials were requested this time around, then I agree that acknowledgement by us of your status was not only superfluous but unprofessional. For this I apologize. Also, I for one sympathize with your concerns that you were being blown off insofar as you received no responses to your requests from the chair. Suffice it to say that (if we are talking about the same person) s/he does not communicate well even with fellow faculty members about critical issues via email. So the snub was not personal, and the intention was not to test who was still interested in the job--at least as far as I know.
So, again, as a member of a department that MAY have proceeded in the problematic manner you describe (i.e., if no additional materials were requested from semi-finalists who were notified of their status), please accept my apologies for the strangeness of the process and lack of communication. In the future, I for one hope to alter how searches are conducted to avoid such an outcome. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
- March 3, 2011 at 7:33 AM
- zombie said...
Anon 8:06 -- I can only judge based on the PFOs I received this year. The numbers ranged from 250+ to 500 (the 500 being Claremont McKenna). That's a big range. CMC is obviously in a pretty desirable location and would be a nice job, which may skew those numbers higher. That's for ethics jobs. I rarely apply for open positions, unless the school and/or location is especially desirable for me.
So, unless the 500 is the new typical, it seems to be roughly the same as it was last year when, as I recall, the numbers were also in the 200-300 range. But as more and more people graduate into a bad job market, the numbers can be expected to steadily climb (unless there is comparable attrition).
- March 3, 2011 at 7:33 AM
Andrew Smith: 8:03 here. I appreciate your response, though I'm unsure whether we're talking about the same department--since (unless you're using a pseudonym) you don't seem to be listed on the department website. The other odd thing is that the 'top 12' email I received actually ASKED about whether I was still interested--without further request for materials--so it seems like the motive actually was to find out who was still interested. I suppose this makes sense if the goal is to arrive at a list of 3 candidates without having to worry that one of the top 3 may already have taken a job, which maybe makes the process somewhat more efficient for the committee (though I wonder how this cashes out in the long run, since you'd have to factor in the time it took to send and read emails to/from the top 12).
- March 3, 2011 at 10:12 AM
No need for me to pile on 5:21, that is elegantly accomplished. But I didn't notice if anyone explicitly pointed out a more significant (for all of us who aren't 5:21) delusion.
5:21 said "Everything was the same about us except that I had more education than him (2 additional grad degrees)." 5:21 goes on immediately to demonstrate that everything was,in fact, NOT the same. The fact that credentials alone don't give the necessary and sufficient conditions for the best candidate in a particular search leaves room, sadly, for all kinds of injustice. Still, 5:21 shows that search committees have an obligation to make judgments that may not be fully captured by algorithms which are transparent to every candidate. If you don't see why they didn't hire you, that doesn't mean they didn't have a good reason. (Doesn't mean they did either, but...)
- March 3, 2011 at 11:28 AM
- Andrew Smith said...
No pseudonym, 8:03. That's not our dept. So they actually asked if you're interested? Odd....
- March 3, 2011 at 12:29 PM


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LONDON—An American judo fighter was expelled from the Olympics on Monday after failing a drug test, the first U.S. athlete to be sanctioned by Games officials for doping and the fifth competitor overall during the Games period.
Nicholas Delpopolo during the men's 73-kilogram judo contest on July 30.
Several additional athletes, including a Moldovan track athlete, have been expelled by their countries' national organizing committees for doping but aren't included in the official Games count of positive tests.
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He also said in the statement that he was embarrassed by the mistake and apologized to the USOC, his teammates and fans.
Delpopolo had placed seventh at a 73-kilogram judo event last Monday. He is the only one of the banned athletes who actually competed in an Olympic event before being expelled.
On Saturday, Russian sprinter and cyclist Victoria Baranova was banned from the Games and a Colombian sprinter, Diego Palomeque Echavarria, was provisionally suspended after testing positive for testosterone.
The London Games have been touted as the most drug-tested Olympics in history, as officials continue to try and crack down on doping. The IOC said Monday it had conducted 3,486 drug tests so far, out of the roughly 5,000 it expects to conduct during the Games.
The top five finishers in each competition plus two random competitors are automatically drug-tested. In addition, the IOC is at liberty to test around the clock any athletes it wishes, and is also conducting targeted tests on athletes whom it suspects of doping, based on intelligence.
Samples from the Olympics will be stored and potentially can be retested for up to eight years when new tests become available.
The 23-year-old Delpopolo was born in Montenegro and spent the first years of his life in an orphanage there. He was adopted by a New Jersey couple and raised in the U.S.
In high school, Delpopolo "began making poor choices and was gaining a reputation of a 'bad boy'," according to his website, nickdelpopolo.com. "He was caught smoking cigarettes and began hanging out with a bad crowd." Delpopolo credits judo with helping turn his life around.
Entering the Olympics in the 73-kilogram competition, Delpopolo was considered a possible medal contender for the U.S.
Based on his fiery demeanor at the competition last week, Delpopolo seemed like an unlikely candidate to be disqualified for using marijuana.
The 5-foot-8-inch, 161-pound fighter won his first two rounds last Monday, beating judoka from Hong Kong and Belgium. Delpopolo was intense off the mat, too, giving gruff, monosyllabic answers to a series of questions from a reporter between bouts.
Other Olympic judo fighters described him as intense but friendly.
Last Monday, when he lost in the quarterfinals to a South Korean athlete, based on a vote by three referees, he fell to the mat and covered his face in his hands.
"Cheats can never rest," said Mark Adams, a spokesman for the IOC. "The war on doping is a war [in which] we can never declare total victory, it would be like saying can we stop all cheating or crime in the world. But are we doing everything to catch and deter cheats? Absolutely. Are we winning the battle if not the war? You bet."
—Cassell Bryan-Low contributed to this article.
It's that last paragraph which has me busting out laughing. I mean... Come ON! The dude entered competition with a virtual handicap, and still managed to do well.
That said...
I grew up in the sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll generation. Now I work for The Man so I can pay my mortgage and my sons one day will loaf in college on my dough. It's all fine and good to talk about how harmless pot may or may not be. But for my friends out there who offer - and god knows I love you all - you know I always say no. I never know when I'm going to be drug tested, and the result of that test is going to affect my ability to be employed.
This was majorly stupid on someone's part. All that time and work gone down the toilet along with a high that in retrospect probably wasn't worth it. What a shame.
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(2011 edition)
Posted a very belated 2010-in-review last month here which mostly covered the start of (finally) recording. As promised, here's a slightly less-belated overview of what we got done in 2011. And it's shorter.
Essentially, worked all year through, which is to say every day or two for at least an hour or two, and…still not done come new year's. Really, by the end of '11, the burning question on the minds of dozens (counting us & dependents) had become not, "where's the record?" but "did you sell the van?".
Yes, yes we did, thanks. It involved stolen/unreturned license plates, a failed police report and gestures and profanity that embarrass me now, thrown out in the middle of our street to a man who was rolling up sleeves in prep. to kill me. But we sold it.
W/ recording, through 2011 we continued as before / below (tracking Kev's songs w/ drums, then overdubbing & changing those) and we began overdubbing drums onto Charles' songs. An important, if only geekly interesting, distinction between recording drums first & overdubbing them later: most albums you hear, esp. if they're made in say, the last 40 years, are recorded drums-first (usually along with a guitar or two, bass etc., which may or may not be kept through to the final version). Then responsible recording engineers and their band-clients will overdub (that is, record on top of already-existent recorded material, in this case, those drums) the guitars, bass, vocals, cool loops, field recordings, requisite xylophone etc. after that, fitting them in sonically to the initially recorded drums.
Like anything else, this approach has its pros & cons, but trying to not go on for pages, let's come back to that some other time, preferably over a beer and at least a few booths away from the nearest drummer or recording engineer (of which I'm neither).
Anyway, it's sort of way less common to do the song first – that is, record a few hundred guitars, vocals, some low-end meanderings, work out an arrangement etc., and then overdub the drums onto that (and then change the song even more, of course…). But that approach was famously good enough for S&G's Sounds of Silence and it's worked out surprisingly well for us. And was sort of fun done that way to boot. Well, 'fun' if you're me and fun is measured in the ease of drum overdubbing.
That's really about it for us for 2011. The other thing that seemed to happen a lot that year was some friends' & colleagues' beginnings & endings in 2011. Ends first…..
Our good & longtime friend Cory Brown drew the curtain on Absolutely Kosher, the label he founded in 1998, putting out records by a sultan's variety of great bands (Xiu Xiu, the Mountain Goats, Frog Eyes, Jim Yoshii Pile-Up, Pinback etc.). And us. It was our pleasure & honor to release our last record, the Meadowlands, w/ Cory on AbKosh and our love for him knows few bounds.
This article & interview w/ him sums up the standard reasons for the hiatus, mostly financial (here):
And 2011 marked the passing of Alan Meltzer. We got to know Alan when in 1995, he bought out Grass Records, our label at the time (later retooling it into Wind-Up Records), while we were recording our second album, Secaucus.
For a few months that spring, Alan was seeming more and more to be our career-savior, then for a while after that he filled the role of nemesis nicely. Biographically for us, the nemesis part stuck.
Beyond that, for a nemesis and all, I think Alan probably never gave us another thought, being pretty busy releasing Creed's oeuvre.
And we really only thought of him, I don't know, every time we heard one of those Creed songs, which is to say every 6 ½ minutes for 5 years, shaking our fists cartoon-villainly in the air while muttering crap like, "You've made a powerful enemy, Alan!" or "that should have been me, for I am the brightest star in the firmament!".
Ok, hopefully obviously, not serious. We'd gone our separate ways with no regrets on our side certainly. And clearly, the only way we'd ever have been a Creed, or as big as Creed, or had & recorded our own My Own Misprision, would have been locked in a room, with limitless space-time, alongside 100 monkeys typing Pearl Jam.
(Disclaim: these cheap 'n' easy Creed one-liners would have – I think – been ok with Alan. He had a pretty good sense of humor about all of this, at least w/ us. And besides, all career jokes ultimately point back to us).
We met again with Alan a few years back when Wind-Up reissued our earlier albums (to dozens of sales worldwide, presumably), ostensibly to bury the hatchet but I think both sides were relieved to find that the other guy wasn't even carrying one. We're happy that our relationship w/ Alan ended on a positive note. Alan was an interesting dude and our belated condolences to his friends & family.
On the cheerier side, beginnings in 2011….
There were a handful of friends who put out really nice albums, most of them debuts, that in our considered opinion didn't get enough attention, so here's a little list (w/ full disclosure: our own charles played on a couple of these and is married to at least one of them. In spite of that, all highly recommended):
* Palomar, who actually also went on hiatus in 2012; album/ep: Sense & Antisense
* Bird of Youth; album: Defender
* The Former Soviet Republic; album: The Former Soviet Republic Is Made Of This
* Overlake (in 2011, then called Big Lake); EP: Do You Love Me? Yes/No
Well, so much for short.
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CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -- When he was 16 years old, he was a supervisor at a scrap-metal yard, and he served as the captain for his high school wrestling team. Today, he's a sergeant in the Marine Corps and a youth basketball coach.
Leadership has always been part of Cornelius D. Davis' life, and he let that drive guide him when he joined the military in 2009.
A little more than three years later, Davis' list of accomplishments continues to grow. He quickly rose to the rank of sergeant; he's an ammunition technician with Ammunition Company, 2nd Supply Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group; he has a deployment to Afghanistan under his belt; and he still strives to do more.
"I was always leading people," said Davis, a 22-year-old Chicago native. "It's very easy to lead if you're actually setting the example. If you're out there doing what you need to do, it's not hard for people to follow you."
Davis continued to grasp new opportunities to better himself by furthering his education. Soon after joining the military, Davis started taking college classes and is currently a full-time student studying criminal justice on top of his daily duties as a supervisor with his unit.
"Even when I first got here, I was looking at the sergeants and how they did their jobs," said Davis. "I've seen a lot of different leadership styles. I've picked and chosen exactly what I like about each. You can see a lot of my leaders in me if you knew them all."
In addition to work and school, he recently took on the additional challenge of coaching a youth basketball team.
The job proved to be an entirely new kind of test for the Marine who was accustomed to military discipline.
"It definitely helps with my patience," joked Davis, who named his team the Rockets in honor of his position with Ammunition Co. "My team is a different bunch. A lot of teams you see are calm and relaxed. My team is nothing like that. They're ready to go. They're confident and cocky."
The lessons he learned as a coach added to his leadership style as a Marine. He brought his new sense of patience and experience as a mentor into his daily interaction with his junior servicemembers.
"Respect goes a long way," said Davis. "Before I was a Marine, I was a man. If you give a man respect when you give him an order, it's a lot easier. Whether he wants to do it or if you are telling him to do it are two different things … I can trust these Marines. I respect them, and I know they respect me."
Respect, patience and setting a strong example are only some of Davis' leadership strengths. He considers himself fortunate to work with many new Marines. The chance to mentor them comes with the opportunity to foster their enthusiasm for the military.
Their enthusiasm adds to his passion for the Marine Corps.
"I love that I get that," said Davis. "Regardless of rank, I want to know them, I want to talk to them and know what's going on in their lives."
He said he strives to give them the tools they need to succeed – educational opportunities, recognition for hard work, and an example to follow. In return, he demands his Marines take responsibility for their own success.
"Nobody's going to do [their] jobs for them," said Davis. "I'm [only] going to give them the tools.
"It's just like everything else," said Davis. "You've got to want it. If you don't want it, then it's not going to be there."
His busy schedule and dedication to his job come with personal sacrifices, too. Davis spent much of his career separated from his wife and high-school sweetheart, Deandrea, who is currently studying to be a social worker. Deployments, long working hours and college classes severely limited the couples time together during Davis' first three years in the Marine Corps.
The difficulties did not diminish his desire to reach for new opportunities to lead, however. He plans to continue his work in the military and is even looking at reenlisting early so he can move on to another position of leadership as either a recruiter or a drill instructor. He also wants to continue coaching at a more advanced level.


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Barbara Maki
LAKE LINDEN, MI. – Barbara Maki, 68, a resident of Lake Linden passed away at her home on Tuesday April 9, 2013.
She was born on June 2, 1944 in Detroit a daughter of the late Lyle and Eleanore (Schroeder) Radcliffe.
She attended Denby High School in Detroit and graduated from Brimley High School in 1962.
On June 3, 1978 she was married to Sulo Maki. They lived in Harvey for 20 years until moving to South Range and since 2004 they have lived in Lake Linden.
Barbara worked as waitress over the years in different restaurants.
She was a talented artist producing many beautiful oil paintings. She also enjoyed gardening, camping, reading and feeding the birds.
Surviving are: Her Husband Sulo, Step Sons: Ed Osborn of Lake Linden and Robert (Angela) Osborn of Apache Junction, AZ. Grandson: Phoenix. Brother: Bob (Carole) Radcliffe of New Mexico. Sister: Carol Radcliffe of Florida. Special niece and caregiver: Marilyn Noble of Escanaba. Numerous other nieces, nephews and cousins.
Funeral services will be held on Sunday April 14, 2013 at 2:00 PM in the Erickson Crowley Funeral Home in Calumet with Pastor David Weber to officiate.
Friends may call at the Erickson Crowley Funeral Home in Calumet on Sunday from 1-2 PM.
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I proposed the Health Care Freedom Act last year. Had it passed, it would have given Minnesotans the opportunity to actually vote on whether or not they wanted to opt into Obamacare, rather than have that choice taken away from them. Several states have since passed such an act, but Minnesota Democrats led by Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher decided to prevent Minnesotans from having the same choice that millions of citizens from other states have. …
But frankly, getting the federal government out of our most personal health care choices is just a start. The federal government is too involved in too many aspects of our lives, and is too involved in telling state and local governments what to do and how to do it. …
I believe that our Legislature should have a voice in whether federal laws should be made to apply to Minnesotans.
Emmer is right about exactly one thing. He is not the only "tenther" lawmaker to claim that the Constitution does not apply to him. Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell recently signed an obviously unconstitutional law that purports to nullify portions of the Affordable Care Act, and at least three other states have passed laws purporting to limit health reform (although a massive 25 states have rejected such efforts). Several states have considered so-called "sovereignty resolutions" which claim that the state has the power to ignore laws that conservatives don't like. Four New Hampshire lawmakers introduced a resolution which would invalidate the entire Constitution if Congress ever passed a law conflicting with the right-wing view of federal power.
Though this kind of constitutional ignorance is out of place in the 21st Century, it has a long and sordid history. In 1833, former Vice President John C. Calhoun spearheaded an effort to nullify a federal tariff that the state of South Carolina disagreed with — even inspiring that state's governor to raise an army of 25,000 men to go to war with the federal government. Of course, less than three decades later, South Carolina did go to war with the United States to protest a new president's insufficient loyalty to slavery. Likewise, in the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, nearly every southern Member of Congress signed a "Southern Manefesto" asserting that the states were not bound by the Court's decision. In his "I Have A Dream" speech, Martin Luther King explicitly denounced the doctrines of "interposition and nullification," two doctrines claiming that states can ignore federal laws.
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After a strong first and second season, MTV's hit supernatural drama Teen Wolf claws its way into a third season. The network not only announced the show's renewal this week at Comic-Con – but also that the series episode count has been doubled to include 24 episodes, instead of the 12 they had for the previous two seasons.
Loosely based on the '80s film of the same name, Teen Wolf centers on recently-turned teen werewolf Scott McCall (Tyler Posey), who is learning to cope with his newfound power while trying to maintain a normal life.
[WARNING TEEN WOLF SEASON 2 SPOILERS to FOLLOW]
This season, Scott's life was made even more problematic as he had to not only avoid his girlfriend Allison's (Crystal Reed) werewolf hunting family – but a new lizard-like shapeshifting enemy known as a "Kanima," revealed to be his high school rival Jackson Whittmore ( Colton Haynes). Scott had to make the difficult decision to join current Alpha-wolf Derek Hale (Tyler Hoechlin) to help Jackson before Allison's family could put him down for good.
Teen Wolf currently airs on Mondays nights at 10/9c and draws in an average of 1.8 million total viewers each week. The series also has consistently dominated its timeslot in the 12-34 demographic, since the series premiere last year. MTV's head of programming, David Janollari, had this to say in a press statement:
"Teen Wolf represents a terrific foray into the scripted world for the millennial MTV audience, and marks tremendous success in the continued diversification of our schedule. Renewing the show for a third season celebrates the creative vision of Executive Producer Jeff Davis and the remarkable talent of the cast who bring this bona fide fan favorite to life."
The season 3 pick-up of Teen Wolf is undoubtedly great news for fans of the series – but the plan to extend the show may not be the best thing for a scripted show on MTV, which has always been more in the reality TV business. As a show that doesn't feature the "Freak of the Week" format other similar shows like Smallville, or Supernatural follow, the season-long villains and storylines of Teen Wolf may be at risk of becoming overly drawn out, or could lose some of the less committed viewers.
Jackson in his "Kanima" form
As of late, MTV has put a greater focus on scripted programming - with the renewal of freshman comedy Awkward and the launching of two new comedies The Inbetweeners (premieres Monday, Aug. 20 at 10:30), and Underemployed, which will premiere this fall. Teen Wolf season 3 will mark the highest episode count the network has ever given to a scripted series to date.
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ADOPTED BY: Cub Scout Pack 78 at Harding Academy
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The purple boundary in the map below outlines the watershed of your adopted waterways. When it rains, water that falls within this boundary eventually finds its way to your stream. The yellow lines represent your adopted segment. Your adopted waterways are directly impacted by all land within the purple drainage boundary. Stewardship activities performed on land or water anywhere within these purple watershed boundaries will improve the condition of your waterways.
Information on this page was compiled using resources from iCreek.
Your section of Richland Creek is considered unhealthy by the State of Tennessee, as a result of Pathogens, Dissolved Oxygen, Nutrients, and In-Stream Habitat Alteration. Your section of Vaughns Gap Branch is unhealthy as a result of Pathogens and In-Stream Habitat Alteration.
Pathogens indicate that water is contaminated by human or animal waste. In urban areas, pathogens end up in creeks when dog owners don't pick up their pet's waste or when sewer lines leak. Pathogens typically become a problem during and after heavy rainfall, when storms wash pathogens from pet waste off yards and parks from into our waterways or overwhelm sewer infrastructure.
Low Dissolved Oxygen can be a major issue in a stream environment. In fast-moving streams, rushing water is aerated as it churns over rocks, saturating these environments with oxygen. However, in slow, stagnant waters, oxygen only enters the top layer of water, and deeper water is often low in dissolved oxygen concentration. When algal blooms form in waters as a result of nutrients, the highly productive algae use the dissolved oxygen and leave the environment inhabitable for other organisms. Depleted dissolved oxygen in water will restrict or eliminate aquatic life. While some species can tolerate lower levels of oxygen for short periods, prolonged exposure will affect biological diversity and, in extreme cases, cause massive fish kills.
Nutrient issues in streams result from over-fertilized urban lawns and gardens. Other sources include pet waste, municipal wastewater systems, and dishwashing detergent. When fertilizers exceed plant needs, are left out in the open, or are applied just before it rains, nutrients can wash into our waterways over land or seep into groundwater. High concentrations of nutrients, found in human and pet waste, can contaminate our waters via leaking sewer lines or neglected pet waste. Increased nutrient concentrations cause nuisance or toxic algae blooms in waterbodies, killing fish and aquatic life. High concentrations of nutrients must also be filtered from our drinking water, since they can cause methemoglobinemia, also known as blue baby syndrome.
In-Stream Habitat Alteration refers to lost in-stream habitat due to human modification of a waterway's bed, banks, or flow. Modification of a stream's bed or banks happens when streams are channelized, sent through culverts, dammed, dredged or filled. Out of stream infrastructure, such as curbs and gutters, storm-drains, and concrete ditches alter the rate of flow that enters a stream, quickly ushering water off impervious surfaces and sending it rushing into the stream channel. These modifications to streams result in an alteration of in-stream habitat. These alterations can disrupt aquatic species reproductive cycles or simply make living conditions impossible for some species.
Plant and Animal Species Observations in Your Watershed
Plant and animal species within your watershed depend on clean water for survival. The work you do to improve water quality in your watershed benefits not only the people in your watershed, but also the many plant and animals that live there, as well. When iNaturalist users observe plants and animals species in your watershed they will display below. You can create your own iNaturalist account to start recording observed species in your adopted stream's watershed.
There are many things you can do to help your creek. We've got some ideas and resources below, but don't be limited to these alone. If you've got ideas for other activities or questions in general, feel free to contact the Cumberland River Compact.
In addition to the Compact, Richland Creek Watershed Alliance plays a role in stewarding water resources in your creek. Connecting with them to do activities below or to come up with other stewardship activities is highly recommended.
- Remember to always ensure you have landowner permission before doing stewardship work on public or private land. Feel free to contact the Compact, if you need help obtaining permission.
- Please give the Compact two weeks notice prior to any planned stewardship activity.
Schedule walks/cleanups.
There's no better way to get to know your creek, than by visiting it in person. Whether your wading, paddling, or walking alongside it, you'll end up with a much better sense of where it's healthy and where it's hurting if you pay it a visit.
Resources include:
- Supplies (trash bags and gloves) for cleanups - Cumberland River Compact (Contact email@example.com / 615-837-1151)
- Example Stream Survey Guidelines - Cumberland River Compact
- Consolidated Litter Pickup - City of Nashville can pick up consolidated litter if given two weeks notice. The Compact can serve as a liaison in obtaining this service.
- Report Litter (If it's on or near a road) - TN Department of Transportation
Plant (or allow for) natural growth near your waterway. Remove invasive species.
If permission from property owners along the waterway can be obtained, organize a planting of native trees, bushes, and groundcover. You could combine the event with invasive removals. Allowing a 35′ to 100′ no mow zone on a streams banks can filter pollutants before they reach our waterways and provide other water quality benefits that far exceed those of a mowed lawn. Natives plants also require less watering and fertilizer. Resources include:
If you can't do a planting, consider distributing free trees and educational information to the public somewhere in your adopted segment's watershed. Resources include:
- Free Trees for Properties Near Waterway (Late Fall - Early Spring) - Cumberland River Compact (615-837-1151)
- Shovels, Gloves, and Invasive Removal Tools - Cumberland River Compact
- Free Trees for TEC's Statewide 250K Tree Day (Each year in February) - TN Environmental Council (615.248.6500)
- Purchase Native Wildflower/Grass Alternatives to Mowed Grass - Roundstone Native Seed and/or Seedland
- Tennessee Aquatic Stream Clean Up and Riparian Tree Grant (Scroll to bottom of linked page for more info) - TN Wildlife Resources Agency
- Area plant suppliers advertising sale of natives include: Nashville Natives, GroWild, and Gardens of Babylon, Moore & Moore Garden Center, Native Gardens in Greenback.
Observe and document species in your watershed using iNaturalist.
Your adopted segment has its own iNaturalist page! You can visit it here. This page will show you plant and animal species others are seeing in your watershed. It will also allow you and others in your group to observe and record plant and animal species seen in your watershed. In addition, it can also function like a social media platform, allowing you to interact with others who are making observations and tell them about your adoption or stewardship efforts and opportunities.
You can create an account on iNaturalist and email email@example.com if you'd like to be an admin for your page. This will allow you to better tailor your page to your group.
Each Spring, the City participates in the Nationwide City Nature Challenge. This event is a fun way to obtain species data in your watershed and engage with the larger region within a regional BioBlitz. Contact the Cumberland River Compact if you're interested in participating in the City Nature Challenge.
Distribute stewardship and educational materials in a public place for your waterway.
Consider passing out native wildflower seeds, pet waste bags, free soil sampling kits, and educational materials somewhere popular or public in the watershed. Pet waste bags can help keep out pathogens, native wildflowers and other forms of vegetation can filter out excess pathogens and silt, and soil test kits can help landowners not over-fertilize their lawns.
- Soil Test Mailers (Courtesy of UT Soil, Plant and Pest Center), Pet Waste Bags, Native Wildflowers - Cumberland River Compact (Contact firstname.lastname@example.com / 615-837-1151)
- 1 pager for distribution with general information about your creek - (Contact email@example.com / 615-837-1151)
Support public funding of water treatment plants and sewer infrastructure, as well as stormwater fees. Report sewer leakages and other water quality concerns.
Water related infrastructure is expensive and obtaining funding for necessary sewer and water treatment improvements is often a challenge for communities. However, public dollars are critical to our water quality and public health. Support your community's efforts to properly maintain it's water related infrastructure. If you see pollution occurring in your waterway, call Metro Stormwater at 615-880-2420 or email email@example.com. If possible, send pictures and/or video. Additional resources include:
- America's Infrastructure Report Card - American Society of Civil Engineers
- How Sewage Pollution Ends Up in Rivers - American Rivers
- Greening Water Infrastructure - American Rivers
Organize with others in your community. Make your voices heard and your votes count.
Participate in community planning efforts and advocate for relevant measures that improve or protect water quality. Write to your elected official or to the media and let them know this is a concern or invite them to speak about the impairment with your home-owners association. When elections come up, vote for candidates who will address the problem and hold them accountable to their promises. Support local watershed / environmental associations. Resources include:
- Advocacy Toolkit - TN Environmental Council
- Find Your Legislators - Federal Legislators; State Legislators
- Citizen Action Guide to Watershed Assessment and Restoration - TN Environmental Council
- Area watershed associations include the Cumberland River Compact and Richland Creek Watershed Alliance.
Spread the word!
Do your neighbors, family, or roommates know about the challenges your stream is facing? Now that you know how to be an effective steward, enlist the help of others in your neighborhood. Share iCreek or resources within it with your neighbors and encourage them to join the effort to protect your creek.
The Cumberland River Compact proudly works with Metro Water Services
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The Internet offers a worldwide network of information for educational, business, and entertainment uses. As with anything else, however, parental guidance ensures the most appropriate use for your child.
While many children may be more comfortable with computers than their parents, the following suggestions can assist you in teaching your child to be "street smart" on the information highway and make sure that their experience is a positive one.
- Spend time with your child on the Internet.
- If you do not know how to use it, have your child teach you.
- Spend time on the Internet by yourself. Educate yourself to what is out there.
- Be aware of the risks involved with using the Internet. You can find: inappropriate material, people with bad manners and language, computer viruses, harassment, data theft, advertising scams, etc.
- Understand that there is no real control on the Internet, and no real way for you to completely control your child's access.
- Be aware of the major roles marketing and advertising play in funding the information available.
- Set acceptable use rules for your child.
- Teach your child how to be safe on the Internet. See Child Safety on the Information Highway.
San Francisco Public Library does not monitor and has no control over the information accessed through the Internet and cannot be held responsible for its contents. As with other library materials, restriction of a child's access to the Internet is the responsibility of the parent or legal guardian.
More on the Internet
The Internet is a network of networks. For decades it was text only and used mainly by the military, nonprofit organizations, and educational institutions. Now it is accessed by people of all ages and backgrounds who are finding new and inventive ways to use added graphics, audio, and video capabilities. San Francisco Public Library offers you and your child an opportunity to explore this information technology.
The Internet offers a wide range of possibilities waiting for you and your child to discover. For example, NASA has many Web pages with the latest information about space probes and other space missions. Many public and private schools have their own Web sites where you can find out the current homework assignments or email your child's teacher. Try one of the many search engines to help with homework projects, look for information on sports, movies, and the latest computer game, or take virtual field trips all over the world.
Heavy media coverage over the explosive growth of the Internet may be confusing and frightening. Remember that since no single government or private organization is in charge, no one controls the accuracy of information posted or polices the scams and other potential problems that you or your child may come across while surfing the Internet. It is very easy and inexpensive to publish and distribute information on the Internet to people all over the world. Most laws that cover print also apply to items published on the net, but policing techniques are still inadequate. It is important that you and your child become good information consumers and learn how to protect yourselves.


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Liberty News
On-campus community can watch TV through new and improved IPTV service
Liberty University has announced that its IPTV system, which provides television through an on-campus computer connection, is available for students, faculty and staff, with many recent upgrades.
Although the system has been in place for about three years, teams from Liberty's Construction Technology, Technical Production, Development and Engineering and Network Operations offices, along with the Illinois-based firm Video Furnace, have worked the last month to identify signal problems during high usage times and to make significant improvements.
"They have worked all the bugs out — it's now fully functional and should be a good standard definition signal in every dorm or any place on campus where you can plug into Ethernet," said Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr.
Students, who currently do not have cable service on campus, can now watch TV from any computer using an Ethernet connection on campus and connecting to the IPTV site, iptv.liberty.edu. (The service is also available at the nearby Lynchburg Inn and Conference Center.)
Currently 11 channels are available and there are plans to add three more this semester. The channels are: The Liberty Channel; all local ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX affiliates; and CNN, ESPN and ESPN2, Fox News, CW and Discovery. The main site includes a guide of what's playing in real time and what programs are coming up next. There is also the capability of watching more than one channel at a time.
A video on-demand feature has also been added and videos of campus events, such as convocations, will appear on the channel list.
Currently, IPTV is not available through a wireless connection, but plans are being made to have that feature accessible by next year. Students will also have the option of buying set-top boxes to view IPTV on their own television sets, like the TVs used in the newly constructed Tilley Student Center.
The university is also exploring academic applications for using the improved service. Professors will be able to put a direct link in Blackboard to a video file that accompanies a course.
For more information, go to iptv.liberty.edu. For feedback and to make channel suggestions, email email@example.com.


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A rare fortune-telling machine that reads searchers their fates is perhaps the only one left of its kind, and magician David Copperfield wants it for his own.
The Gypsy, a Zolter-like fortune-teller, was kept at a mining-village-turned-tourist attraction in Virginia City, Mont. It was prominently displayed in Bob's Place, but until recently, no one knew what the eerie figure was worth, not even the owner.
Collectors realized this artifact—which has been undergoing restoration for the past five years—was indeed extraordinary.
In fact, many say it's one of only a handful of "verbal" fortunetellers in existence, according to The Associated Press.
"I think it's only one of one," Copperfield told The AP.
The Gypsy used a record player to "tell" the fates of those who dared to ask, as opposed to Zoltar from the movie "Big," which only gave fortune-seekers a card.
Copperfield, who is famed for several largely publicized television magical feats, has a large collection of turn-of-the-century penny arcade games, and wants this to be his crowning jewel.
Though the magician refused to offer the price he made on the turn-of-the-century trinket, a curator from the Montana Heritage Commission who received a call from Copperfield's assistant, said it was in the neighborhood of $2 million.
Copperfield, it seems, would be considerate of Bob's Place, the original home of The Gypsy. Included in that $2 million would be funds to buy a replacement fortune-teller.


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a day without immigrants
let's not forget, a day without immigrants is incomplete without the europeans who themselves landed on foreign land, america, in 1492. al' maghrib al aqsa, meaning "the furthest west", is one of the ancient names for this land modernly called america.
the only people indigenous to this land are the native americans, the moors and the latin americans. the european who constructs himself as "white" is more immigrant than the latin american who he now deems a trespasser.
it's amazing how truth has been twisted.
but alas, i wish i had a business to close today - thanks neo-colonization, ahem, i mean gentrification. at least it's been made certain by systemic economic oppression that i don't have any money to spend today either. ha!
i ask, are "white" people boycotting work?
so yeah, in solidarity. #xodvf
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Desirée Venn Frederic is a Sierra Leonean born writer and installation artist of Geeche and Maroon ancestry. Her work pulls heavily from her transnational experiences and understandings. The artist and thought leader explores identity, ownership and contemporary ideas in aesthetics. As the founder of Nomad Yard, a globally minded vintage shop in Washington, D.C., Venn Frederic creates a playground for those who love culture, history and rare antiques steeped in stories. She uses her work to negotiate multiple strata of marginalization being both undocumented and an aboriginal indigenous woman. She is an interior designer creating experiential spaces and interiors. She is a community organizer and founding member of Artist Union DC, with a keen interest in cultural studies and artistic expression. She is particurlarly interested in the ways in which fashion, visual culture and critical theory inform, shape and encourage discourses surrounding the socio-economic, political and cultural. Venn Frederic has shared her creative interests as an exhibiting artist with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center drawing parallels of her own personal immigration detention in 2013 to the criminalization of human existence throughout history. She holds degrees in Fashion Merchandising, Business Management and a certificate in Community Advocacy and is fluent in French and Krio. As a speaker, she has engaged TED Talks as well as audiences at University of Maryland's Smith School of Business, The National Endowment for the Arts National Maker Faire, Ted Talks, Made in DC Maker Summit, General Assembly, and Creative World's Creative Economy Summit. As an ambassador with Define American, the activist shares her personal journey to expand the narrative of immigrants. She exists via the internet sphere simply as @xoDVF. She is a mentor to 2 college aged creative entrepreneurs and loves vintage kimonos.


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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A fire erupted and spread at a fuel storage terminal of state-run Indian Oil Corp (IOC.NS) in Hazira in Gujarat on Saturday, a company executive said, an incident which may force India's largest refiner to import fuel.
No casualties were reported from the fire, whose cause was not immediately clear. The Hazira terminal has nine storage tanks - five gasoline and four diesel.
The tank where the blaze started had about 5,000 kilolitres of gasoline, almost half of its capacity, when it caught fire.
"Because of wind the fire has spread to another petrol tank. We can see smoke coming out of second petrol tank as well. It had substantial volumes," said N Srikumar, executive director at the company.
Srikumar had said earlier that Indian Oil was looking into the cause of the fire that broke out in the afternoon and that authorities were trying to cool the other tankers at the depot by sprinkling water on them.
Indian Oil, which meets about half of the country's domestic fuel demand, along with its subsidiary, Chennai Petroleum Corp (CHPC.NS), control 10 refineries accounting for about 31 percent of the national capacity of 4.3 million barrels per day (bpd).
Reporting by Nidhi Verma; Writing by Arup Roychoudhury; Editing by Mark Heinrich


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Miami Dolphins legend Dan Marino admits to fathering child out of wedlock
From Tiger Woods to Brett Favre, the list of philandering pro athletes is long.
But at least publicly, Dan Marino, perhaps the most beloved sports figure in South Florida history and one-time NFL Man of the Year, always seemed above reproach.
That All-American, good-guy image, we learned this week, wasn't the entire truth.
Marino — the Dolphins' Hall of Fame quarterback — is the latest athlete to fall hard from grace, admitting to fathering a child with a former CBS Sports production assistant.
The New York Post broke the story late Wednesday night of Marino's 2004 affair with Donna Savattere, who gave birth to their daughter, Chloe, the following June. Marino has been married to wife Claire since 1985, and the couple has six children.
"This is a personal and private matter," Marino said in a statement. "I take full responsibility both personally and financially for my actions now as I did then. We mutually agreed to keep our arrangement private to protect all parties involved."
The Post reported that Marino paid Savattere "millions" to take care of the child, and presumably keep the story out of the news. That secret was kept for more than seven years before being exposed this week.
Marino, an analyst for CBS, is in New Orleans to broadcast Sunday's Super Bowl — and apparently will not be disciplined for carrying on an affair with a colleague.
"Dan has said all there is to say on this matter and will be in his usual role on our broadcast Super Bowl Sunday," CBS Sports spokeswoman Jen Sabatelle said.
Marino had no public appearances scheduled for Thursday, Sabatelle added.
Back in South Florida, the news surely came as a shock for the legions of Dolphins fans who considered Marino a hero.
Joe Rose, Marino's teammate with the Dolphins and now a sportscaster, was asked about the scandal on his morning radio show.
"He's obviously my friend," Rose said on WQAM. "And his family, wife and kids, the whole group, I've been with forever. He was my roommate, and we go way back.
"I'm aware of the whole thing. I feel badly for everybody, and it's obviously not going to be an easy time. I know what's going on, but there's not much I can say."
Added Channing Crowder, another former Dolphin: "It's a man with a squeaky-clean past who ended up not being so squeaky clean. But it's his life. He's dealt with it financially. He's a good father who supports his daughter emotionally, financially. I don't have a problem with that."
As a player, Marino set more than 40 NFL passing records during his 17-year career that included 10 playoff appearances and one Super Bowl loss to San Francisco. At least nine of his records still stand, including most 400-yard passing games, with 13.
The NFL named Marino its Man of the Year in 1998, and the Dolphins retired Marino's No. 13 jersey in 2000, the season following his retirement. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2003 and Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005.
He briefly returned to the Dolphins in 2004 as senior vice president of football operations, but resigned three weeks later, saying that the role was not in the best interest of either his family or the Dolphins organization.
"This is a personal matter that Dan has addressed," the organization said in a statement Thursday. "We support him and his family and will respect their privacy."
Marino has spent most of his post-playing career working in TV, previously with HBO (2000 to 2008) and for the past 12 seasons as a studio analyst with CBS.
Besides broadcasting, Marino has dabbled in the restaurant business, opening Marino's Town Tavern in Coral Springs and Fort Lauderdale. Both original locations closed, but others opened under different names.
Among former NFL players, few have been more prominent in national ad campaigns. Marino has been featured in spots for NutriSystem, Papa John's and Hooters, among others. As a player, he previously appeared in ads for Isotoner gloves. Locally, he has done ads for Maroone Automotive.
Marino, who received an honorary doctorate degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Pittsburgh in 2008, appeared in the 1994 film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and had cameos in several other films. Hootie and the Blowfish featured Marino in their music video for their popular 1995 single, Only Wanna Be with You.
In April 2012, Marino became the AARP's "Men's Life Ambassador" — a forum that allowed him to share his thoughts on health, fitness and other issues.
Marino and Claire established a charitable foundation in 1992 after their son, Michael, was diagnosed with autism. The foundation provides more than $1 million annually for research, services and treatment programs for children with neurodevelopment disabilities. The organization began an annual Walk about Autism in 2010, raising hundreds of thousands of dollar for several charities.
It is unclear when Claire found out about her husband's infidelity.
"This is about the people that you've hurt, that have believed in you, confided in you, trusted you," former NFL coach Herm Edwards said. "Trust is a hard thing to get back. You have to earn people's trust.
"We're a collection of our choices. In life, what we do in the dark comes to the light."


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Hill to IRS: It's payback time
It's payback time for the agency Congress loves to hate.
After two months of pummeling the IRS in the wake of the tea party targeting scandal, Republicans are trying to starve the agency of its funding and ensure $70 million in scheduled bonuses aren't paid out while handing more money to the watchdog charged with keeping tabs on the tax collectors.
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More legislative hits are in the offing.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) wants his chamber to pass multiple bills this month that would, among other things, suspend employees under investigation without pay and allow Americans to record conversations with federal employees, including IRS agents.
( PHOTOS: IRS hearing on Capitol Hill)
Perhaps most importantly, a House subcommittee on Wednesday hit the IRS where it counts: in the wallet.
"Hopefully this will finally get their attention, because they haven't been as forthcoming as we'd like them to be," Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio), a senior Ways and Means Committee member, told POLITICO.
The House Appropriations subcommittee with IRS jurisdiction cleared a spending measure gutting the tax-collecting agency's budget next year by 24 percent in fiscal 2014. That $9 billion allocation is 30 percent less than President Barack Obama requested for the agency charged with rolling out his signature health care law.
Rep. Peter Roskam, the chief deputy whip in the House, called the appropriation a "reckoning for the IRS."
( PHOTOS: 8 key players in IRS scandal story)
"The IRS has abused power, abused the taxpayer, abused discretion and been unwise and foolish in how they've carried out the authority that was delegated to them … and they will be held to account in the appropriations process," the Illinois Republican said.
The spending bill now heads to the full Appropriations Committee before passage on the House floor. It faces more significant hurdles in the Senate, which is controlled by Democrats.
Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.), who sits on the Appropriations subcommittee with IRS jurisdiction, said the budget cuts combined with Cantor's proposals are attempts to "clean house," "send a message" and "try to begin the process to fix the challenges" at the IRS.
The congressional purse strings are "one tool that Congress can use to ensure that agencies do not continue a pattern of mismanagement," he said.
( WATCH: Steven Miller apologizes for IRS)
Rep. Ander Crenshaw (R-Fla.), who crafted the IRS budget cut as chairman of the Appropriations financial services subcommittee, said lawmakers are "trying to make the IRS recognize that they've got to do a better job of what they do."
But Democrats are accusing their conservative counterparts of playing politics.
"Republicans are ready to use any devises to score points," said Michigan Rep. Sander Levin, the top Democrat on Ways and Means. "What they're trying to do is use the IRS. … They've just become a political play-thing for the Republicans."


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Dodgers' skid reaches 6 games with loss at Miami, 6-5
MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Marlins pulled even with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the standings Wednesday night, which shows how sour the season has gone for the defending National League champions.
Los Angeles erased a four-run deficit and still endured its sixth loss in a row when J.T. Realmuto's tiebreaking homer in the sixth inning helped Miami win 6-5.
"It's the same story: We just didn't get it done," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.
Miami clinched the series after another last-place team, Cincinnati, swept a four-game set at Los Angeles last week. The Dodgers and the rebuilding Marlins have identical 16-26 records.
"I think everyone would be surprised," Marlins manager Don Mattingly said.
Justin Bour hit a two-run homer for Miami , his ninth. Starlin Castro tied a career high with four hits to hike his batting average to .300.
Yasmani Grandal hit his seventh home run and singled in a run for the Dodgers, who fell to 4-14 in games decided by one or two runs.
The Marlins' Elieser Hernandez, a Rule 5 draft pick making his first career start, allowed one run in five innings and left with a 5-1 lead.
Los Angeles quickly erased it, scoring four runs in the sixth against Miami's bullpen. Max Muncy's two-run double off Drew Steckenrider made it 5-all.
Steckenrider (2-1) regrouped to retire five batters. Brad Ziegler pitched around a leadoff single in the ninth for his seventh save, with Justin Turner bouncing into a game-ending double play.
The Dodgers' bullpen has struggled all season, and Pedro Baez (1-2) gave up the sixth-inning homer by Realmuto.
"It's disappointing," Baez said through a translator. "You see the team start to get a rhythm going, and then to not be able to contribute — it's frustrating."
Los Angeles rookie Walker Buehler gave up a season-high five runs, four earned, in five innings. That included Bour's opposite-field homer in the fifth.
"I gave up too many runs for us to win," Buehler said. "The ball Bour hit, I don't know if there's another human who can hit that ball out of the ballpark. Just a gigantic, really strong human."
Brian Anderson's two-out RBI single in the first put Miami ahead. An error by Dodgers shortstop Chris Taylor led to an unearned run in the third, which scored on Castro's single.
The Dodgers' Yasiel Puig went 0 for 4 and stranded five runners, including two in the eighth.
"It's on all of us," Roberts said. "For quite some time, to be quite honest, we haven't been synched up."
Realmuto has at least one hit in all 21 career games against the Dodgers.
"You know you've hit them good, and they know you've hit them good," Mattingly said. "I think there's a little psychological factor."
Hernandez was inserted into the rotation, and LHP Caleb Smith's start was pushed back a day. LHP Jarlin Garcia, who has started six games, was available in the bullpen but will rejoin the Miami rotation at some point, Mattingly said.
Dodgers: LHP Rich Hill (blister) threw a bullpen and is on track to start Saturday at Washington. ... LHP Tony Cingrani (left shoulder inflammation) is expected to be activated from the disabled list Saturday.
RHP Kenta Maeda (2-3, 4.75 ERA) is scheduled to start for the Dodgers in the series finale Thursday afternoon against Smith (2-4, 3.63).


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Bulletin HASKINS & SELLS 85
Why the Melon-cutting?
WHEN a unique event affecting some
one business organization occurs, it
is customary to attribute the event to some
internal cause more or less associated with
the organization in question. But when
one corporation follows another in action
of the same character, it is only natural to
seek the reason in some outside source.
The recent series of stock dividends on
the part of companies in the oil group is
not a coincidence. There is undoubtedly
some motive for the action. And the
motive seems to be found largely in the fear
of prospective legislation affecting taxation.
When the Supreme Court of the United
States decided that stock dividends are not
taxable as income, it practically checkmated
the government in its battle with
tax-payers. The decision was a great
victory for the latter, not only moral but
financial. Citizens today, who are fortunate
enough to be recipients of stock
dividends, pay a tax only on the profit
attaching to such of the shares as they sell.
Corporations at present probably have
nothing to fear from a large surplus. The
fear lies in future legislation which may
make some attempt to tax undistributed
profits in excess of the needs of the business.
But what constitutes the needs of the business
will doubtless be a bigger problem to
solve than some of those already encountered
in connection with invested capital.
As to the stock dividend decision, the
government is concerned, not with the
effect on the corporation, since the corporation
pays the tax on profits earned
and accumulated, but with the effect on
the taxation of the individual where the
corporation piles up surplus and then distributes
it as stock dividends. As accumulated
surplus distributed through the
medium of a stock dividend, profits produce
no revenue to the government from
the individuals who receive them because,
in effect, while there is a rearrangement of
share ownership, the profits remain in the
business as additional share capital. That
taxation in the hands of recipient stockholders
would be double taxation, and
obviously unfair, seems to have the support
of the Supreme Court.
There is much agitation over the recent
action of the oil companies, because of the
appearance of evasion which the action
has. Declaring stock dividends and issuing
shares representing such dividends results
in putting into the hands of a shareholder
something of value which he did not have
before, for which he gave nothing, which
is an earning on his investment, and which
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A Foxconn employee jumped to his death Wednesday, marking the first suicide at the notorious Apple supplier since the company began taking public steps to curb a rash of suicides at the Chinese factory.
The 23-year-old worker jumped jumped from his apartment outside the plant in the southwestern city of Chengdu.
The unnamed employee had joined the company last month.
Apple's labor practices have been under the spotlight since a series of suicides and reports of harsh working conditions at the Cupertino company's Chinese supply factory.
Foxconn employs 1.2 million people in China to assemble products such as the iPad, iPhone and MacBook Pro.
The company also builds products for other technology companies such as Microsoft of Hewlett-Packard,
Apple CEO Tim Cook has said it is a priority for his company to improve the working conditions at Foxconn.
In January Apple joined the Fair Labor Association, which was commissioned to conduct an audit of the factory.
Cook has also personally visited the factory on multiple occasions, including when Steve Jobs was still alive and the CEO of Apple.