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Land Girls "Back to the Land" New girl Connie Carter causes mayhem from the moment she arrives. Finch desperately tries to save his beloved pet pig. A visit from a wealthy American industrialist spells intrigue at the Manor House.G
5:00 am
Billy Connolly's Route 66 Billy checks out The Gateway Arch in St. Louis as he continues west where he runs across a Civil War re-enactment, a wolf sanctuary, and a crossbow turkey hunt. In Oklahoma's capital city, he visits the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial. Part 2 of 4G
6:00 am
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood "Environment" It takes the cooperation of many people, but the Neighborhood of Make-Believe's garbage problem is solved through recycling. D
6:30 am
Curious George "Up A Tree/Curious George and the Trash" George tires of table manners and house rules and decides to build a tree house in the country yard.G
7:00 am
Wild Kratts "Attack of the Tree Eating Aliens" The Wild Kratts get an urgent call from a group of North American Wild Kratts kids telling them almost all of the trees in the forest are dying. It's a race against time to solve the mystery and help the forest and the creatures who live there. D
7:30 am
Peep and the Big Wide World/Pocoyo "Current Events/Quack Loses His Hat/Pocoyo - Pocoyo's Ballon" Peep borrows a toy boat from Nellie's yard and sets off for mysterious, unreachable Green Island. In order to save Quack (who's stuck inside a pickle jar-don't ask), Peep must figure out how to float a duck. Then, Pocoyo is taking a walk with his beloved balloon when he is momentarily distracted by Loula and accidentally lets go of the balloon. D
8:00 am
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "A Plan for Sand/Whale Music" A Plan for Sand - Nick and Sally are playing in their sandbox, but there's not enough room for them to build their castles. The Cat arrives to take them to the biggest sandbox they'll ever see! In the desert, they meet Carmela the Camel who teaches them about how camels are adapted to live in the dry, sandy climate. Whale Music - Nick and Sally have made a song to sing to their moms, but they can't get the ending quite right. D
8:30 am
Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps "Angelina and the Dance-Athon/Angelina and the Art Show" Angelina and the Dance-a-thon - Angelina and her friends organize a marathon for the Chipping Cheddar Earth Club as part of their "Camembert Cares" school project. After Gracie accidentally recycles the pledge sheet, Angelina uses her ingenuity to save the day! Angelina and the Art Show - Vici is trying to paint a picture of Angelina and Gracie for Camembert's Art Show, but they just can't stay still long enough for her to finish the painting. Vici can't complete the project with moving models! In the end, Vici uses her imagination to turn her "ruined" project into something even better. D
9:00 am
Bob the Builder "Scrambler's Scouts!" Chip Chipper and Scrambler are taking the Sunflower Valley kids on an overnight "Badger Patrol". Their motto is "Be prepared" - advice that Scrambler is determined to follow. When Roley tells him that the patrol will need shelter, Scrambler rushes to get a tent from Mrs. Bentley - but Chip has already organized the kids to build bivouac shelters. D
9:30 am
Thomas & Friends "Listening and Learning" Thomas In Charge - Thomas wants to impress the Inspector and persuades Percy and Mavis to help him shunt coal at the Docks. This means that Mavis and Percy don't get to do their jobs properly. When the Inspector visits them, they are nowhere to be found. D
10:00 am
Wishbone "A Tale of Two Sitters" This live-action program follows the exploits of Wishbone the dog and his human friends, Joe, David and Samantha through their adventures in their hometown of Oakdale. Wishbone's everyday experiences trigger his imagination and he finds himself in scenes from classic works of literature. In this episode, it is guilt by association when Emily and a friend cut loose and get Wishbone in trouble. D
10:30 am
Martha Speaks "Truman's Mad/Dog for a Day" Truman's Mad When Truman sends away for a science kit, he dreams about all the new inventions he will create. But can reality really live up to his big dreams? Vocabulary: (E) explore, theory, analyz(e)(ing), outcome, effect (I) note(s), lab, kit, finding(s), magnet(ism)(s). Dog for a Day - TD thinks dogs have it easy - no school, no homework, no schedule - but Martha begs to differ. D
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Consuelo Mack WealthTrack "Financial Thought Leaders: Robert Shiller" Guest: Robert Shiller, Professor of Economics and Finance, Yale University; Author, Finance and the Good Society. Why is renowned Yale economist Robert Shiller, who predicted the bursting of the tech and housing bubbles, now calling the bond market "dangerous?" A "Financial Thought Leader" and visionary, Shiller shares his views and advice on the stock, bond and housing markets on this week's Consuelo Mack WealthTrack. D
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Painting and Travel with Roger & Sarah Bansemer "Wooden Boat School" Sarah and Roger are invited to the famous Wooden Boat School in Brooklin, Maine where the director takes us inside the classroom to see boatbuilding and design up-close. Roger sets up his easel to capture an early morning beachscape. D
1:30 pm
Sew It All "Boy's Toys, Angela Yosten" Sew a messenger bag for schoolbooks. D
2:00 pm
Quilting Arts "Modern Quilting and Modern Stitching Explored" The modern quilt aesthetic has many elements that identify its style and we'll take a look at a few of them today. We begin with Penny McMorris and AnneMarie Chaney, and a project that interprets modern quilts and offers a design challenge. Then Angela Walters demonstrates traditional quilting designs with a modern twist. D
2:30 pm
Hometime "Creekside Home Trusses" The HOMETIME team installs trusses and sheathing and visits the timber framers. D
3:00 pm
Woodsmith Shop "Pocket Screw Joinery Projects" When it comes to assembling a project, nothing is quicker than pocket screw joinery. In this episode, the editors of Woodsmith show you how to build two projects with pocket screws. The first is a small outdoor table with a tile top. D
3:30 pm
This Old House "Cambridge 2012/Swedish Details" Tom shows Kevin how he's installing Southern yellow pine board accents in key spots for architectural interest and to coordinate with the prefinished maple flooring that Norm is installing. Tile's going in the master bath, and the roof deck gets PVC porch boards and a custom rail treatment. D
4:00 pm
Ask This Old House "Properly Mulching Garden Beds/Installing A Natural Gas Line" Landscape contractor Roger Cook shows a homeowner how to properly mulch his garden beds. Then, Roger, along with host Kevin O'Connor, plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey and general contractor Tom Silva, asks, "What is it?" Afterward, Richard installs a natural gas line for a barbeque grill. D
4:30 pm
P. Allen Smith's Garden to Table "A Feast for the Season" Allen is getting ready for a feast at the farm! But he wants to spend time with his guests. In this episode, he shows viewers how to prepare some recipes in advance so there is more time with family and friends. Plus, Chef Capi Peck prepares a delicious Butternut Squash Gratin and Allen shares tips on how to decorate an elegant table without going overboard. D
5:00 pm
Moyers & Company "Taming Capitalism Run Wild" Modern American capitalism is a story of continued inequality and hardship. Even a modest increase in the minimum wage faces opposition from those who seem to show allegiance first and foremost to America's wealthy and powerful. Yet some aren't just wringing their hands about our economic crisis; they're fighting back. D
6:00 pm
Fake Or Fortune? "Spoils of War" The finale focuses on a possible Rembrandt painting that's being sold by a South African auction house. The terms of the sale trigger an investigation into whether the painting may have been stolen by the Nazis during World War II.G
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Outdoor Idaho "Idaho's Scenic Byways" Cameras capture scenes from the state's system of more than 2,400 miles of official Scenic, Historic or Backcountry byways. The routes crisscross the state to reveal natural wonders, geologic and historic sites, and the varied topography of Idaho.G
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Oregon Field Guide "Christmas Bird Count, Forest Park BioBlitz, Llama Backpacking" One hundred and forty wildlife experts and volunteers converge on Forest Park to document as many wildlife species as they can find.G
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Call The Midwife "S1 E2" As Jenny Lee settles into her role, there is a new arrival at Nonnatus House - Chummy, a welcome pair of extra hands. But her overwhelming desire to please and her inability to ride a bike prove obstacles in gaining the respect of Sister Evangelina. Meanwhile, a chance encounter with Mary, a pregnant young runaway, forces Jenny to see an unfamiliar, darker side of life. Part 2 of 6G
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Masterpiece Mystery! "Inspector Lewis, Series V: The Indelible Stain" When controversial American academic, Paul Yelland, is invited to speak at Oxford's Department of Criminology, it stirs up a lot of deep-seated emotions. And when he is found strangled in his room later that night, Lewis and Hathaway quickly have several suspects. Motives include politics, ambition and vengeance.G
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New Tricks "Dead Poets" The UCOS team re-opens the case of Sean Docherty, a talented young poet, whose burnt body was discovered 10 years ago in the scrapyard of a known gangster. While Standing is convinced that the murder is related to Docherty's criminal connections, Lane is sure that the answer lies in his poetry.G
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British Antiques Roadshow "Tatton Park 2" Fiona Bruce and the experts return to the Cheshire location. They uncover a silver inkstand reputed to be given to Admiral Nelson by his lover, Lady Emma Hamilton, in 1805, and an oak coffer that arrives via an unusual mode of transport.G


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HIV returns in girl once considered cured of the infection
Guest post by Nsikan Akpan
HIV has reemerged in a child who was previously considered cured of the viral infection. Despite previous reports, a bevy of retroviral medications given a day after birth until 18 months of age wasn't enough to quash the infection, which was detected in the girl's blood during a routine checkup earlier this month. The infant had lived without antiretroviral treatment for a little more than two years, a length of time that doctors from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases described as "unprecedented" in a July 10 press release.

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Saul Ingber
Born: April 16, 1921
Moisei, Romania
Saul was born to a Jewish family in the small northern Transylvanian town of Moisei, famous for its 18th-century monastery, to which many Christians came on pilgrimage. Saul's family was religious. His father transported lumber to several mills in the area.
1933-39: My brothers and I attended a Jewish school held at our neighbor's home. A rabbi led us in prayers and we learned quotations from holy texts. After my schooling I needed to learn a trade, so I decided to become a tailor. Jews were not well-liked in my town. Returning home from work, my father was harassed by several townspeople; to humiliate him, they caught my father and pretended to baptize him.
1940-45: In 1940 Hungary annexed northern Transylvania. I was deported to various labor camps until 1944, when I arrived at Ebensee, a subcamp of Mauthausen. I was digging a trench when a guard pulled me out of line. At first he spoke to me in a friendly tone, but then he stepped forward and pushed up my chin, demanding, "Where's your God?" When I pointed to the sky he punched me in the gut. He repeated his question; I answered the same and he punched me in the face. As I spit out my teeth he asked again; I pointed at him.
Saul was liberated in May 1945 when the U.S. Army reached Dachau. After living in Austria for some time, Saul immigrated to Israel and later moved to the United States.


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You may remember seeing this Bishop Gilco Single Speed Cyclocross bike on CycleEXIF? Well…recently the owner of this fine bicycle decided to give it a makeover. While some things may have stayed the same, I believe this overall build is one step closer in the right direction for this bicycle.
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The Pig Farmer - Nick Cross
Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of hand fast!
Latin America Is Redefining Terms of the Drug War
America's War on Drugs has, by most independent measures, been an utter clusterfuck since its inception in the 1970s. You can still by cocaine more easily than you can a package of Sudafed, drug-trafficking cartels are still more powerful than many of the national governments in Latin America, and indigent farmers throughout the region are still caught in the political crossfire. But now, governments throughout the hemisphere are trying something completely different:
Countries across the region are adopting a more autonomous, sometimes nationalistic, response to narcotics control that increasingly questions Washington's priorities and prescriptions. From Bolivia, where drugs are produced, to Mexico and Guatemala, where they transit through, to Brazil, where they are increasingly consumed, officials are forging new policies or floating ideas to deal with a problem they believe 40 years of US-dictated solutions hasn't curbed.
People Passing Out in Public
Well, that's one way to get out of your own wedding/live television interview. [Laughing Squid]
The Wizard of Meh - Pogo
Pogo, of Lead Breakfast fame, is back with this quirky remix of bits and beats from The Wizard of Oz as well as a gigantor maw. Seriously, $5 says dude could totally fit that entire pipe in there. [Neatorama]
The Blue - Mark Peters
Awwwww, just a porpoise pod, really? I was hoping for a pack of laser sharks or at least a few grizzlies wearing snorkels.


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My DIL's Mom was having problems with their older GSD. She is okay, now, but they think it was because of the recalled Glucosamine tablets they have been using for years. Personally, I didn't realize NON FOOD items (such as ear cleaner) could pass on salmonella.
The list is too long to post, but there are some odd things on there that you might be using...so check it out.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - For eleven months per year, Karen Kinnaman '06—a soon-to-be chief resident of the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program—is based out of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women's Hospital. For the other month, she can be found at Mount Auburn Hospital, a community hospital located in a quiet part of Cambridge, which is where she was on Friday, April 19, 2013.
The early morning of April 19 lives in infamy—the date suspected Boston Marathon bombers engaged in a violent standoff with local police officers in Watertown, MA, a Boston suburb less than one mile from Mount Auburn.
While working in the ER, Kinnaman helped save the life of an individual who was wounded in the shootout. For her efforts, she was part of a group of first responders honored by the Boston Celtics as "Heroes Among Us" during their playoff game with the New York Knicks on Friday, April 26. (The Knicks won, 90-76.)
"It was a great honor—so overwhelming," she says. "The emotions from April 19 were still very, very raw. Receiving that fan support was an experience I'll never forget."
A teaching hospital, Mount Auburn's emergency room is not often home to large-scale trauma.
"We weren't given much heads up, which was a benefit because we had no time to worry, only to react," she says. "What happened in the emergency room that night was a positive story of hope. It was a testament to the hospital and the people who work there."
A four-year athlete at MIT, Kinnaman captained the women's basketball team and earned varsity letters in soccer, track, and cross country. During her senior year, she was named the Malcolm G. Kispert MIT Scholar Athlete of the Year. A course 7 (biology) major at MIT, Kinnaman says her undergraduate education and athletic background provided a strong foundation for her medical career. She attributes much of her professional success to lessons learned at MIT.
"Being able to stay calm under pressure is something I learned from to playing sports at MIT," she says. "Working in an ER parallels the experience on an athletic field: following your instincts and working together towards a common goal. The emotional highs and lows that take place in an emergency room are similar to the types of emotions you feel in sports."
At MGH, she has a constant reminder of her time at MIT. Her former basketball assistant coach, Kelly Stubbs, is a nurse in MGH's emergency department.
"My coaches at MIT always believed in me," she says. "They instilled in me how to be a good leader in chaotic situations."
For most Celtics fans, a blowout loss to the Knicks would leave little to cheer about. But the ceremony was a compelling moment that New York and Boston fans shared together.
"I'm actually a huge Knicks fan," she says. "But on that night I was all in for Boston. It was a perfect night."
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Hello all, Happy fall! I have to share these super cards I made for my cousin. She just got engaged and is in full blown wedding planning mode. She asked if I could make some cards for a few bridesmaids as well as her maid of Honor and I was delighted to help. She loves all things fall and sunflowers so these were perfect for her! And I am happy to say all Bridesmaids and Maid of Honor were super happy and excited too! Karla
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Team Montana, no. 1Gary & Matt. Good for them. Awesome.
Someone needs to throw Lance off the boat and into the water.
Quote from: cdfe88 on September 27, 2009, 08:48:15 PMI love the "Pinky & The Brain" monickerwho is this team? I haven't paid attention that much because of the quality XD
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How come they put Flight time and Big Easy?? Wierd..
Erika snapping at Brian. Nice to see Miss USA get mad. This is great. I can feel your anger....
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Quote from: TARAsia Fan on September 27, 2009, 09:04:55 PMErika snapping at Brian. Nice to see Miss USA get mad. This is great. I can feel your anger.... I enjoy watching them SO MUCH... Ericka sometimes remind me of Tyra Banks... LOL!
Jessica & Garrett and Brian & Erika are my favorites thanks to conflict!
Brian says there's two teams left and they need to get at least a bronze medal. Well, Brian, that's third out of two teams and you don't want that.
Ericka "I got you suckers now .. I could tell you what I'm eating for dinner tonight ...I'm eating duck"
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Online Marketing PresentationDecember 18, 2008 at 3:09 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
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Alan and I tried out some new stuff for the University of Southampton Marketing DNA 'taster course' series the other night. You can view the slides here:
Free Online Marketing SeminarDecember 15, 2008 at 11:46 am | Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment
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The biggest problem many marketers face today is how to keep up to date with the rapidly changing marketing practice being driven by developments in technology. Blogs, social networks and other user generated content online, makes 'word of mouse' an even more powerful and far-reaching phenomenon.
Lisa and Alan will provide an overview into the latest developments in web-based customer communications. We will also consider customer receptivity to online marketing and the implications of encouraging customer feedback, collaboration and product endorsement at the expense of controlling the marketing message.
Venue: School of Management, University of Southampton
Date: 16th December 2008. Registration from 4.15pm, starting at 4.30pm, finishing at 6pm
Cost: Free of charge
To book a place please phone Chris on 023 8059 8613 or email email@example.com
CIM Presentation on Personal BrandingNovember 27, 2008 at 3:24 pm | Posted in online marketing workshop | 1 Comment
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Alan and I trialled our new Personal Branding Workshops with an overview presentation for the CIM at the University of Southampton last week. We've spared you the video this time but you can check out the slides here:
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Today and tomorrow Hair Cuttery will host Share-A-Haircut for the homeless. Every time an adult or child receives a haircut at any of the Hair Cuttery salons in New England, including the salon in Warwick, a free haircut will be donated to a homeless person in the community.
Hair Cuttery salons nationwide have participated in the annual fall Share-A-Haircut program, where for every child's haircut purchased, a back-to-school haircut is donated to a disadvantaged child in the community. Hair Cuttery is now adding another way to give back to the community with Share-A-Haircut for the homeless.
Through our Share-A-Haircut program, more than 700,000 free haircut certificates have been donated to children in need over the years, said Dennis Ratner, Founder and CEO of Hair Cuttery. "We're anxious to evolve this program so adults in the community, who are in need of a cleaned up look for a job interview or simply added self-confidence as they get back on their feet, can benefit as well."


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Photonic Metamaterials: From Linear to Nonlinear Optics
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Metamaterials open unparalleled opportunities for "engineering" previously inaccessible values of refractive indices from positive to near-zero and even negative values, as well as new avenues for light manipulation. While enormous progress has been made in the field of linear optics of uniform metamaterials, including a negative index of refraction, magnetism in optics, and subwavelength focusing, light interactions with graded-index and nonlinear metamaterials is a fascinating, relatively new, and highly unexplored branch of metamaterials research. In this talk, I will discuss new phenomena that we predicted in so-called "transition metamaterials", or materials with the refractive index gradually changing from positive to negative values, and in nonlinear guided-wave metamaterial structures.
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This edition: The Top Secret Trade Deal You Need to Know AboutTweet
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Original tape date: November 11, 2013.
First aired: November 11, 2013.
You may remember how in the '90's the Clinton Administration talked us into NAFTA – the North American Free Trade Agreement -- with the promise of jobs and cheaper goods. According to economist Dean Baker, in the end, NAFTA wound up helping corporations and didn't do much for American workers. In fact, there are economists who say that in the United States, NAFTA cost nearly a million jobs.
Now, there's another trade deal in the works that's even bigger – "NAFTA on steroids" as some describe it. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a coalition of North and South American and Asian trading partners that many believe could give multinational corporations even greater freedom to ignore borders and run roughshod over individual countries and the rule of law. At least that's what it may be about – negotiations are being carried on in secret and very little about the terms has leaked out. But enough is known to worry about the implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and its possible effect on trade unions and our copyright and patent laws, not to mention environmental, health and safety regulations.
This week on Moyers & Company, Bill Moyers discusses the Trans-Pacific Partnership with two perceptive observers of the global economy. Yves Smith, an expert on investment banking, runs the Naked Capitalism blog, a go-to site for information and insight on the business and ethics of finance. Dean Baker is co-director of the progressive Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. and has worked as a consultant to Congress and the World Bank.
Also on this week's broadcast, a preview of filmmaker Robert Greenwald's new documentary, Unmanned: America's Drone Wars. The release coincided with a first: victims of deadly drone attacks testified at a special briefing for members of Congress. In this week's show we feature clips from the film, which shares testimony, stories, and alarming news on the fatal impact of our drone strategy.
And a Bill Moyers essay on Obamacare's rocky rollout.
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Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
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The perfect reader for ''The Road to Reality,'' I fantasized, would be someone comfortable traversing the highest planes of abstract reasoning, yet who had missed some of the most important landmarks of scientific history -- a being, perhaps, from another place and time.I don't know. It sounds an awful lot like a mathematician to me.
Ruminations on computational geometry, algorithms, theoretical computer science and life
Monday, February 28, 2005
The Road to Reality
Roger Penrose's new book, The Road To Reality, is out. Peter Woit has a detailed review of the book (I am waiting for mine to show up), but in the meantime, consider this amusing quote from the NYT review:
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Educational productivity advancements are possible through continuous learning, but there is often a disjuncture between education research, policy, and practice. This arises for myriad reasons and results in fragmented efforts to improve the system.
Researchers often focus on questions that are not linked to a specific policy or decision point, and therefore not immediately relevant to policymakers or practitioners on the ground. And work that might be useful is not always disseminated in broadly accessible formats or venues. As a consequence, policymakers and practitioners are often swayed by politics or institutional norms, and when confronted with a lack of evidence (perceived or real), tend to default to what is comfortable for adults–not necessarily what is best for children.
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Last week, in an article entitled "Elephants in the Room," Professor Thomas Dumm accused the Amherst College Special Oversight Committee on Sexual Misconduct of having deliberately overlooked scientific evidence that students athletes were disproportionately likely to commit sexual assault. Professor Dumm speculated that a possible reason for the failure of the committee to focus on athletes as perpetrators might be that "contributions to the College are correlated with the relative success of our teams, especially, though not exclusively, the football team." What he was implying was that the committee was perfectly prepared to allow a rape-prone subculture (i.e. male athletes) to operate unimpeded just as long as the teams kept winning and the large checks kept pouring in.
As chair of the Special Oversight Committee, I will leave it to others to assess the credibility of Professor Dumm's charge that we entered into a devil's bargain in return for money, influence and favorable Division III rankings. I would like instead to examine the sweeping claims Professor Dumm makes about those students at Amherst who engage seriously in athletics, and in particularly to look critically at the "scientific evidence" he calls upon to support his position.
History teaches us that if one wants to demonize a particular group there are few better ways to go about it than to claim that its members are prone to predatory sexual violence. Over the centuries this charge was quite often made, on flimsy or no evidence, against Jews, African-Americans and gays, among other groups, and its purpose was always to drum up fear and justify extreme acts of "retribution." Often it was a prelude to efforts to exclude or exile these groups entirely. Depressingly, the historical record also shows how quickly and easily people abandon conventional standards of proof when it comes to alleged sexual deviance among groups they consider different from themselves. Irregular legal procedures, shoddy use of evidence and sloppy or misconstrued science tend to accompany sexual scapegoating as maggots accompany rotting meat.
So has science, as Professor Dumm asserts, demonstrated a "clear relationships between single-sex teams and sexual violence?" As the Special Oversight Committee discovered when it surveyed the literature preparatory to writing its report, science has demonstrated nothing of the kind. A number of studies were done in the 1980s and 1990s that sought to measure college students' and others' tendency to believe "rape myths," such as the myth that a good proportion of rape-charges were actually false or the myth that women routinely said "no" to sex when they really meant "yes." Rape myth acceptance research is much bigger than the study of athletes, but at that time — now 20 and in some cases 30 years ago — some of the evidence from some schools suggested that male athletes were getting slightly higher "rape myth acceptance" scores than their non-athlete peers (Koss and Gaines, 1993). However, as a number of experts have pointed out, many of these early studies were flawed and inconsistent in terms of the definitions they used, how they chose and delimited their test subjects, how they presented their statistical findings and how they assessed the degree to which "rape myth acceptance" was predictive of a propensity to commit sexual assault (Hinck and Thomas, 1999; Buhi, 2005; Sawyer, Thompson and Chicorelli, 2002). In addition there were real questions about how representative they were, since almost all the "athlete/rape myth" studies relied heavily on large Division I and II universities and tended to lump all male athletes together into an undifferentiated mass. It is telling that it has proved impossible to replicate these older studies in the present day.
In the 21st century the monolithic view of "athlete" adopted by most of the earlier studies completely unraveled, largely thanks to a 2002 study led by Robin Sawyer of the Univ. of Maryland School of Public Health. That study did not set out to compare athletes with non-athletes (indeed there was no non-athlete control group), but instead focused on the often significant differences between athletes. So for example, the study showed that Division I athletes, both male and female, scored higher for rape myth acceptance than Division II athletes did (the study did not examine Division III athletes at all). It also showed differences between sports and demonstrated — perhaps surprisingly for those who consider sports teams training grounds for sexual assault — that first-year and sophomore male athletes scored higher for rape myth acceptance than junior and senior athletes did (in other words, the longer a man was on a team the less likely he was to accept rape myths). The study concluded that "like any group or community, student athletes should not be lumped together as a single entity with presumed identical attitudes and behaviors" (Sawyer, Thompson and Chicorelli, 2002).
Many recent studies of rape myth acceptance have followed this dictum and now focus on behaviors and personality traits rather than on whether or not one happens to be an athlete, or, indeed, a member of any other student group. Those recent or relatively recent studies that do consider participation in athletics as a variable have been unable to show any difference at all between athletes and non-athletes, either in rape myth acceptance or in sexually aggressive behaviors. Locke and Mahalik (2005) tested the hypothesis that athletes believed more strongly in rape myths than other groups and committed more sexual assault. Simultaneously they tested the relationship between rape myth acceptance, sexual aggression and a series of multidimensional markers of masculinity. They succeeded in showing that men who drank to excess, avoided emotional commitments, engaged in high-risk behaviors and disliked homosexuals were more likely than other men to report behavior on surveys that sounded like sexual assault to researchers. However, in and of itself being an athlete made no difference at all. These results are pretty typical of what one finds today. In addition, they match the findings of Meegan Mercurio whose BA thesis from Providence College Professor that Dumm, somewhat unwisely, cites in his article as "proof" that athletes as a group are especially prone to sexual violence. Mercurio did indeed try to prove that hypothesis, though only for Division I athletes. But if Professor Dumm had taken the time to read further than the first few pages he would have seen that she does not succeed. I quote from her conclusion: "This research addressed the problem: Does playing as a Division I student athlete affect dating violence attitudes and are student athletes more likely to be perpetrators of violence? The hypothesis inferred that athletic participation may have an effect on dating violence. Instead the null hypothesis was proved and the findings theoretically proved that student athletes are not more likely to be perpetrators of violence, but in fact are less likely to be perpetrators of violence." (Mercurio 2010, p. 25).
Along with charging that our committee neglected the science, Professor Dumm asserts that we did not take seriously the accounts of rape survivors at Amherst. The real story, clearly stated in the report, is that we did interview rape survivors and we heard via email, letter and phone from many others, including a number who are now graduated. We also surveyed every sexual assault complaint made in the last 10 years, the vast majority of which never advanced to the Hearing Board. In those accounts we did find assaults perpetrated by athletes. We also found evidence that teams had sought to silence victims. What we did not find was evidence that either athletes or particular teams were standouts in these respects. Athletes were not disproportionately more likely to be perpetrators than were non-athletes. Most important of all we found absolutely identical patterns of silencing and, at times, retaliation against victims from student organizations that had no connection whatsoever to athletics — and we found them repeatedly.
A lot of people like the idea of fobbing off the problem of sexual assault onto some other group that is not them. One can see why. If the problem can be traced to, say, the football team, why should anyone who is not on that team bother to endorse and work for sexual respect among their own groups or networks? Or encourage more comprehensive reporting? Or try to adopt or get others to adopt less risky drinking habits? Our committee believed and still believes that eliminating sexual assault at Amherst College demands a community response. The notion that the problem is all or mostly to be laid at the door of athletes is at variance with the evidence our committee painstakingly gathered about the past history of assault, and it is not supported by scientific research. If one really wants to eliminate sexual violence and enlist the entire community in doing so, blaming athletes is a truly counterproductive way to start.
And that brings me to opportunism. What is Professor Dumm's purpose in endorsing such a patently futile strategy for eliminating sexual assault, not to mention one that unfairly singles out a particular subgroup? It is no secret that Professor Dumm is a critic of varsity athletics at Amherst College, especially football. It appears that he sees in the sexual assault issue an opportunity to discredit the athletic program, and he hopes that if enough people can be persuaded to believe athletes are natural rapists they will rise up in outrage and get rid of, or at least severely limit the program. He has such an animus against athletes and is so intent on his goal that he doesn't even see the injustice of tarring an entire demographic with the name of sexual predator. Furthermore, he also has no compunctions about enlisting science that is out of date, anything but clear and no longer able to be replicated in order to push his views. It is anyone's right to oppose varsity athletics. It is not, however, all right to do so in such an irresponsible way.
The full citations for the scientific studies mentioned in this article can be found at http://www3.amherst.edu/~mrhunt/
Let's try an experiment. As per the Locke and Mihalik study (2005) cited above, let's admit as many men and women as possible who 1) don't drink to excess, 2) favor emotional commitments, 3) don't engage in high-risk behavior and, 4) have many friendships with homosexuals and see what effect it has on Amherst's sports teams.
If Professor Hunt is correct, it should have no effect at all.
Locke and Mihalik argue that those factors correlate with self-reported, assault-like behavior. Participation in athletic teams, assumedly when controlling for those other factors, does not. If causality is inferred (rightly or wrongly), decreasing those four factors would then decrease self-reported, assault-like behavior across the board.
Hello Professor Hunt, thank you for taking the time to respond to Professor Dumm's article. I would like to point out a couple of ideas of yours that I find problematic.
First, I take issue with your idea that many want to be able to scapegoat athletics and not see themselves as responsible for promoting sexual respect. Missing for you article is any serious consideration of rape culture, what it is, and how it is perpetrated. UMass Boston Professor David Lisak (who focuses his research on sexual assault and rape culture), in his recent study "Understanding the Predatory Nature of Sexual Violence" states what we already know-- that sexual assault is about control and dominance--and yes, is linked to hyper masculinity (Lisak, 7). In light of this, exonerating the subculture of all-male sports teams (and fraternities as well) seems irresponsible. This is not scapegoating, this is deciding to acknowledge the real reasons why rapists rape and why so many get away with it-- often without having any social repercussions (and thus no deterrents). You mentioned you have found that some sports teams had "sought to silence victims." These teams are not teams full of rapists. Rather, they are teams that are collectively perpetuating rape culture.
Even if the data you looked at found no conclusive evidence to indict sports teams or condone them either way, the evidence of conflicting data and the fact that discussions of the real causes of rape and rape culture have been missing from your committee's examination so far (as evidenced by the SMOC report), should merit NOT exempting sports teams and the culture they create and perpetuate. To do otherwise raises serious cause for concern--as I believe that you sincerely want to address this issue on our campus.
On a more argument-fallacy note, trying to discredit his argument by attacking the person of Professor Dumm--whatever his opinions may be about football in other cases-- is a fallacy and does nothing to undermine the argument he puts forth. And characterizing Professor Dumm's comments about alumni contributions in such an exaggerated way also does not contribute to constructive discussion. My take on his comments is that there is an inertia within the administration of this school--whose purpose is to keep the school going (ie financially secure) and successful (not looking bad)--and to dismiss these assertions with a caricature of his statements is irresponsible and unhelpful.
[And since you so harshly dismissed the research Professor Dumm cited... If we are going to discuss invalidating the research another argument cites, I would direct readers to your citation of "Mercurio" --a B.A. thesis that, in the same paragraph as the quote you draw on about sports team members not being more likely to be perpetrators, also confesses: "the author of this study had problems getting some Varsity athletes to participate in the survey. Some said that they thought it was 'dumb,' 'waste of time.'" I could argue why an in-person survey of dating violence by sports team members is unlikely to yield confessions of assault, or why those who rejected the author in such disrespectful terms are more likely to have something to hide, but given that the author herself says she can draw no conclusion it's safe enough to say that this piece of research is not nearly sound enough to be used as grounds for your argument. ]
I am honestly surprised that as a WAGS professor in charge of this committee and report, you would produce/contribute to a debate so devoid of the real issues at play when it comes to sexual assault, as Dana Bolger argued in her article (which I would love to hear your response to). I hope that all of this debate moves our collective understanding and consciousness of the issue forward instead of elicits defensiveness.
I don't think Professor Hunt finds Mercurio's piece strong evidence per se, she cites parts of it because it is itself specifically cited by Professor Dumm. She isn't citing it to support the overall argument she is making about rape and rape culture, but citing it to demonstrate that it is both an insufficient piece of evidence and that Professor Dumm's characterization of it was misleading at best, dishonest at worst. It is clearly not definitive proof regarding whether or not athletes are more likely to be perpetrators - but the conclusion the author herself draws is almost the opposite of the one Dumm is suggesting in his piece.
I felt a barely veiled animosity towards athletes, especially football players, throughout Prof. Dumm's piece. I find Prof. Hunt's response a powerful one, and I hope it brings to life a critical self-analysis of our community's prejudices and misconceptions, which I believe have boiled to the surface repeatedly in the name of addressing the sexual assault issue. I was not an athlete at Amherst, but was a fairly mediocre one in high school - I believe the positives of the experience continue to live with me to this day.
thank you. my faith in my professors has been restored
While I agree with Prof. Dumm about the importance of considering athletics teams in the sexual assault discussion, his article was far from providing any good evidence and I was also shocked that he would accuse the committee of willful negligence and a lack of integrity (which now seems rather hypocritical). And so I take my hat off to you, Prof. Hunt. Thank you for exposing his faulty analysis, as many readers such as myself were not able to research the topics on our own and would have taken his assertions at face value otherwise. Prof. Dumm, I do believe you just got served.
Benjamin, your positive experiences on the intramural badminton team in 10th grade are irrelevant.
The committee FAILED to research the impact of sports culture on sexual misconduct on campus. They chose not to look into it. Why? Because they didn't want to. That is Dumm's point. His personal bias aside, the committee didn't do it's homework. Those are the facts.
Athlete GPA, Amherst Leads, all the volunteerism and trophies of these teams are irrelevant. Their positive impact and lasting leadership skills are irrelevant. 40% of the campus has yet to be looked into because the committee doesn't want to.
That's the fact.
The committee investigated allegations of sexual assault and found no relationship between athletic participation and non-athletic participation. Exactly what is it you wanted them to do, other than strip down the athletic department and publicly denigrate them?
Also, I don't know if you intend it, but your more specific claim about my experiences being irrelevant is both laughable and borderline racist.
"40% of the campus has yet to be looked into because the committee doesn't want to.
That's the fact." Actually, your entire comment is unverified accusation. And judging from Profesor Hunt's article, it's pretty clear that they *did* research the impact of sports culture on sexual misconduct on campus--certainly more than Professor Dumm did. By all means, though, continue launching unproductive accusations based on stereotypes and unfounded conspiracy theories.
Thank you Isabelle. I actually could not contribute anything else to this because you hit every point on the head.
The committee didn't do it's research. That is the undeniable fact of this entire thing.
Couldn't agree more Isabelle. As an athlete, I am completely open to the committee looking into our role on campus. I only see positive things coming from it. It's not scapegoating -- it's doing its job. I know my teammates and I have nothing to hide. So let's get to the root of any and all possible sources of perpetuated rape culture at Amherst once and for all.
Did we really just make the jump from suggesting that the committee investigate the most permeating aspect of Amherst social culture to suggesting that Dumm is advocating ethnic cleansing? These arguments are getting desperate. Dumm never "scapegoated" our athletes. He merely raised the FACT that the committee neglected to do the research necessary to ascertain any and all roles that sports culture contributes to rape culture on campus.
Any arguments to the contrary are just emotional driven banter and they dance around the issue and FACT that Dumm raised: the committee neglected to do the research necessary to ascertain any and all roles that sports culture contributes to rape culture on campus.
I'll repeat it again for those of you who are currently drafting your next conspiracy theory, the committee NEGLECTED to do the research necessary to ascertain ANY AND ALL roles that sports culture contributes to rape culture on campus.
Professor Hunt,
"In those accounts we did find assaults perpetrated by athletes. We also found evidence that teams had sought to silence victims....Most important of all we found absolutely identical patterns of silencing and, at times, retaliation against victims from student organizations that had no connection whatsoever to athletics — and we found them repeatedly."
What is the committee planning on doing to unhinge the silence culture perpetuated by the offenders who participate in student organizations on campus -- athletic and nonathletic? You discuss the committee's findings in brief and fail to discuss what will come of them...which is what Professor Dumm accused the committee of doing to begin with.
Lorena, I think you used ellipses to skip over a fairly important sentence. I have quoted Professor Hunt in full:
"In those accounts we did find assaults perpetrated by athletes. We also found evidence that teams had sought to silence victims. What we did not find was evidence that either athletes or particular teams were standouts in these respects. Athletes were not disproportionately more likely to be perpetrators than were non-athletes. Most important of all we found absolutely identical patterns of silencing and, at times, retaliation against victims from student organizations that had no connection whatsoever to athletics — and we found them repeatedly."
As to your point about the silence culture, the Committee makes recommendations from pages 45-52 in its report (https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/sexual_respect/committees/oversight...). Of course, these recommendations are worthless without action from the administration, but for what it's worth, the Committee does say the following:
"The Committee on Educational Policy and the Faculty should take up the question of adopting as a graduation requirement for all Amherst students a pass-fail, half-credit course focusing on issues of sexual respect that may also include bystander training. This course could potentially be offered during Interterm" (45).
They also recommend five other courses of action the college should take with regard to upperclassmen students (46), although these recommendations, generally, are vague, and do not contain concrete goals. There are also recommendations as to First-Year Students; Faculty and Staff; and resources available to students.
Once again, if the administration does not aim to improve Amherst with the committee's recommendations, this is all for naught. But I think that the report was very much a step in the right direction, and Professor Dumm's accusations about the committee fall quite short. I think the following message from Professor Hunt is probably the most important part of her article:
"Our committee believed and still believes that eliminating sexual assault at Amherst College demands a community response. The notion that the problem is all or mostly to be laid at the door of athletes is at variance with the evidence our committee painstakingly gathered about the past history of assault, and it is not supported by scientific research. If one really wants to eliminate sexual violence and enlist the entire community in doing so, blaming athletes is a truly counterproductive way to start."
Just because you use CAPS doesn't mean the POINTS you are MAKING are SOUND. Professor Hunt's article makes pretty clear that the committee did in fact look into the relationship between sports and sexual assault. They found that there was no strong evidence. The studies Dumm cited are outdated, flawed, or entirely odds with his own accusations, and more recent studies--which Dumm unsurprisingly omits from his own article--fail to back up his suspicions. The conspiracy theories are entirely your own.
Professor Hunt has just destroyed everything that that Dana Bloger and Professor Dumm have said since the initial report was released.
Lets stop looking at random studies and focus on the one piece of hard evidence we have. When you look at every sexual assault over the last ten years athletes are NOT over represented. They commit assault in the same frequency as everyone else. The true measure of a student is not how quickly they learn, but how quickly they made a mistake...
All those who are discounting Prof. Hunt's article by claiming that the committee failed to study the "rape culture" in athletics seem to have a problem with basic reasoning skills. I recommend they take a refresher course on these before graduating.
These students are already presupposing a rape culture in athletics unique to athletics and nowhere else on campus. If they actually paid attention to the report, they would see that the committee considered the possibility of a preponderance of sexual assault in subgroups on campus but based on their extensive interviews and research, found none. Therefore, everyone who keeps claiming that athletic culture wasn't examined fails to see the more important point. Whether or not "rape culture" exists on campus or not, it seems apparent that it is perpetuated by the overall student body, not by any single subgroup. As a result, it requires a unified response, not a singling out of any one subgroup on campus. Please point out to me if I have made any logical fallacies.
In response to a few things Isabelle claims:
Isabelle states: "In light of this, exonerating the subculture of all-male sports teams (and fraternities as well) seems irresponsible." What Isabelle apparently fails to realize is that sports teams have not been exonerated from anything. They simply are not unique based on the evidence. The point is that the whole campus is responsible, so no one has been exonerated - I hope this is apparent from Hunt's article.
Isabelle further states: "I am honestly surprised that as a WAGS professor in charge of this committee and report, you would produce/contribute to a debate so devoid of the real issues at play when it comes to sexual assault, as Dana Bolger argued in her article (which I would love to hear your response to). I hope that all of this debate moves our collective understanding and consciousness of the issue forward instead of elicits defensiveness."
Isabelle again seems to think that this "debate" should only be on the terms certain people in the Amherst community have agreed are the "correct" terms, and any other issues others bring up must be wrong - if you want to stifle speech like that, good luck getting anyone to take this effort to improve campus culture seriously. Hunt is in fact directing the discussion in a constructive manner, to not single out athletes as Dumm intends to do, but to focus the discussion on an overall effort to improve campus culture and dispel myths about sexual assault on campus. Singling out any one group when there is a lack of evidence that said group is more responsible is going to just hurt the cause.
"If the problem can be traced to, say, the football team, why should anyone who is not on that team bother to endorse and work for sexual respect among their own groups or networks? Or encourage more comprehensive reporting? Or try to adopt or get others to adopt less risky drinking habits?"
Thank you, this is the kind of community-oriented response we need. It's not only one one group's fault, but everyone's. We're all responsable for this problem and we can only be rid of it if we all work together.
You're so concerned about getting others to "adopt less risky drinking habits"? Why don't you actually spend some time in the midst of the rape culture and the athletic culture that you'd prefer to pretend doesn't exist at Amherst, and them try to deny that incidents of intoxication don't happen around athletes? That athletes don't inculcate an atmosphere of "convivial" competition, particularly w/r/t alcohol consumption and sexual prowess?
Given that your career and your life depend upon the success of Amherst's athletic programs - and Professor Dumm's doesn't - it seems to make sense to a) discount your op-ed on the grounds of vested interest, and b) at least be willing to investigate cultural and social connections between sexual assault and athletic involvement, which, though you take great pains to claim otherwise, the committee did not actually do in any credible way. Claim what you want, the report is public and we can read for ourselves. You should be ashamed.
Excuse me, but how does Professor Hunt's career - let alone her life - rely on the success of Amherst's athletic programs? Her academic accomplishments in her field(s) far outweigh those of Professor Dumm (not that this particularly matters) and she has numerous offers on the table from other universities who would be all to happy to have her...
I suggest you take a quick pick at her CV; and maybe avoid the personal attacks in the future.
Isabelle, I thought it was entirely appropriate of Professor Hunt to respond to Professor Dumm's underhanded insinuations that she considered alumni donations in preparing the report. (As to your point about the administration securing Amherst's 'success': Professor Hunt is not a part of the administration, but rather of the faculty, and could easily secure immediate tenure at almost any institution of her choosing in the case of some implosion here.)
More importantly, you might want to check out her CV before you snarkily express surprise that she's a WAGS professor. If you do, I'm sure you'll find yourself embarrassed that your post assumes the tone of someone who knows oh-so-much-more about cultures and subcultures affecting women's (or, for that matter, other minority groups') rights and safety.
To those of you hiding behind the "we're just calling for a discussion" charade: you're calling for a 'discussion' only about one group on campus towards which you have preconceived prejudices and for which there is no empirical evidence justifying such stigmatization. Why not call for a 'discussion' on the role of the orchestra ('my' group) in perpetrating sexual violence? Only because you don't start with the same assumptions and stigmas about performing artists?
Henrik, great point! We should start a discussion and have the committee do research about the role of the orchestra in perpetuating sexual violence. And every other student organization and permeating facet of life at Amherst, including athletics. It's no charade. We just want the most accurate and developed report from the committee as possible. And disincluding 40% of the student body does not provide this.
Anonymous: that is, to a certain degree, what the committee did. Read what Professor Hunt writes. They found that they were unable to identify any helpful distinctions between the various (sub)groups they examined. Instead, as a campus, we need to take steps including those laid out by the report. As far as I was aware, the steps advocated by the committee didn't exempt athletes any more than it exempted performing artists... So how they are "disincluded" is really confusing me.
Henrik elaborated my viewpoints regarding Isabelle's comments quite well.
Also, most recent anonymous, athletic culture has not been discounted or ignored!! People keep repeating this - maybe they should listen to Hunt or the damned committee report before repeating false claims because they are just going to alienate half the student body. Athletic culture was considered in the report!! But athletes were not found to be a larger source of sexual assault in proportion to their percent of the student body. So every time someone says that athletic culture has been ignored, and we are giving athletes a free pass, you should get your head out of the echo chamber you live in. They are not getting a free pass - they are simply being treated as an equal part of the overall cultural problems at Amherst, and therefore are not being singled out in the report.
TLDR - what those who keep complaining that athletic culture has been ignored, when in fact it hasn't, really want is, in fact, to single out athletes and their "culture of misogyny and hyper masculinity." They don't seem to realize that continuing to complain that athletic culture is somehow ignored will only alienate more and more of the student body from wanting to actually deal with anything.
"Locke and Mihalik argue that those factors correlate with self-reported, assault-like behavior. Participation in athletic teams, assumedly when controlling for those other factors, does not. If causality is inferred (rightly or wrongly), decreasing those four factors would then decrease self-reported, assault-like behavior across the board."
Possibly. But, the hypothesis (which I stated poorly) isn't whether fewer members of male sports teams would self-report assault-like behavior (I'm assuming there would be a correlation as you say - "across the board".) The question is whether they would then be as successful as sports teams?
Henrik, I have a lot of respect for Professor Hunt as a professor and intellectual (I mean, we both had class with her--she's great). But it is because I am aware of her CV, aware that she understands these issues so well, that I would expect more from the committee she heads.
We should definitely not exempt orchestra from our community's look at sexual assault--and that's the point: no group should be exempted. And groups that are all or mostly male (like male sports teams, fraternities, some organizations) are more likely to be a space for expressions of masculinity that might not surface in other, say, co-ed environments, to the same extent. This at least deserves investigation. That's all I am saying. That's all Prof. Dumm is saying, I think.
Also please do not assume that I have an arsenal of stigmas about athletes. It's unfounded and irrelevant to this discussion. This is not a "blame sports teams only" It's an "let's ALSO investigate sports teams and the way in which rape culture might find different expression in these intensely male environments."
While I believe that the injustice in Dumm's indictment of an entire group based on the behavior of individuals within that group (assuming group membership isn't defined by that behavior) should be quite obvious regardless of what statistics/studies say, it is excellent to see a member of the faculty on the right side of the issue. Go Jeffs!
Some people love using terms like "rape (sub)culture" and "hypermasculinity." But they are theoretical and nebulous concepts that are difficult to define and have no demonstrated relationship to actual sexual assaults. The committee actually reviewed the literature and college data and contacted sexual assault victims. To me, that's infinitely more valuable than theorizing about meaningless concepts.
Thank god I'm getting out of this self-important bubble in May.
Let me just say as gay Latino and a very recent Amherst alum: Margaret Hunt your comparisons are absurd and offensive. Comparing a very particular athletic culture at small liberal arts college that abounds with privilege to the oppression that Jews Blacks and gays have faced is utterly ridiculous, small-minded, and deeply, deeply offensive to those communities and to me, someone who has inherited the burdens of real discrimination. You ought to be embarrassed at how narrow-sighted your views remain are after a life dedicated to the mind. Please, please reconsider your viewpoints, and consider how the magnitude of the discrimination that latter group of people faces makes your comparison utterly senseless in the eyes of someone like me -- someone who understands more about these issues on a personal level than you are capable.
"It appears that he sees in the sexual assault issue an opportunity to discredit the athletic program, and he hopes that if enough people can be persuaded to believe athletes are natural rapists they will rise up in outrage and get rid of, or at least severely limit the program. He has such an animus against athletes and is so intent on his goal that he doesn't even see the injustice of tarring an entire demographic with the name of sexual predator."
Professor Dumm says nothing of the sort. I am shocked that someone of your position would openly make this vicious attack on Professor Dumm's character and purported ulterior motive without any grounding in evidence whatsoever.
Please take time to re-read the article. The evidence is all in there.
The question remains: If no one subgroup has a higher propensity to rape. Then, how are you changing the culture of the men on your campus? Instead of having op-Eds about one group of students, address the bigger issue, focusing on the men at Amherst.


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Elijah, I'm glad you were able to make this product work for you, but that doesn't change the fact that, out of the box, this product makes horrible pizzas, and, more importantly, this insert can be mimicked with a $10 piece of sheet metal and a $30 stone.So... until these folks start selling this device for $40, and include instructions on how to mod it, then it will not be the answer to anyone's prayers.
Two things: First if it cost $40 to make why would anyone go into business and sell it for the same price?
>> Btw, with this type of setup, you could be reaching temperatures that will melt the foil.I have read that melting point of aluminum is about 1220 degrees F.
You could it just becomes heavier. I've used foil to good effect but am having a stainless steel plate made that would double as a grill plate when I need to do that sort of cooking, to sit on the top as a more permanent solution. A local steel company can do the laster cutting for me and it is a reasonable price. Today's lunch cooked on the Kettle pizza with foil layer on second deck: Proscuitto & Buffalo Mozzarella. No particular science to the dough, I just use high gluten bread flour, add some yeast, let it rise, knock it back, make some dough balls and let them rise a bit again before making the pizzas. I removed the hinged portions of the grille and I can slip in wood and push it to the back to re-fuel. The trick to the kettle pizza is to control the wood flame, you can get it too hot, and you can easily burn the pizzas. With a foiled or fully covered top deck, I can cook a 90 sec pizza, and again if you are not careful with the fire, you can burn it in 2 1/2 mins. The Kettle pizza gets up to temp for me in about 20 mins, and I only ever make a max of four to six pies when we have guests, normally 2 or 3 when it is just our family. It does not need insulation, it is designed to get up to the temp, and cook a pizza quickly - so what I do now is to get to close 400 deg C and then I spike the temp with kindling to raise it to about 450 or thereabouts. Slip the pizza in , and with one turn its done. The WF is what makes this contraption work. Frankly I have cooked without wood splits and have used just kindling, it works - the Kettlepizza is not a WF hearth with a long burning fire, it is a WF cooker, - it heats up quicker than a regular WFO and offers you that short window of heat conditions to cook like a WFO when you have it up to desired temp.


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Each generation has its own distinct personality and challenges, and the millennials are no exception. Millennials were the last set of babies born during the 20th century, and they are a much larger and more diverse group than baby boomers. As this generation settles into the new economic realities of adulthood, many are returning home after college to live with their parents while they pursue their careers and transition into independent adulthood.
In part, this trend is influenced by the challenging job market and stingy economy. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of young adults living at home, or "boomerang kids," is at an all-time record high. Many experts agree the economy, including rising debt from student loans and the high cost of living, is the driving force motivating these kids to live at home. But another interesting explanation is the generational mindset shift happening as well, as there is now less of a stigma for young adults to live at home with their parents.
As a psychotherapist, I'm fascinated by cultural shifts in what we consider acceptable and how those beliefs influence our behavior and mental health. The boomerang kid phenomenon is particularly interesting because it is changing how we as a society view homeownership. In the past, recent college graduates accepting their first job has been a lifestyle trigger for a home purchase. Looking at it from a parent's perspective, having children transition into independent adulthood, in the past, has triggered many empty-nester parents to consider downsizing to a home that fits their needs.
To better understand what this trend means, I partnered with Coldwell Banker Real Estate to find out how Americans feel about college graduates living at home with their parents. We surveyed more than 2,000 adults and found that Americans disagree over how long is too long for college graduates to live with their parents. Millennials age 18-34 think it's acceptable to live at home with their parents for as long as five years after college. Older Americans (defined as age 55 and older for the purpose of the survey) disagree, believing these young adults, if they do move back home after school, should move out within three years of graduating.
Two Extremes of Boomerang Kids
Just as the millennials are a diverse group, so are the types of boomerang kids who return home to live with mom and dad. There are the kids who boomerang home to live with a purpose and those who return home to become "perma-children."
"Perma-children" tend to feel like they are living in a state of limbo. Although there is an increasing acceptance to return home to live with parents, these young adults use this time to regress to an earlier stage of development. They fall into old patterns, using the money they earn as disposable income, spending on expensive clothes, cars, dinners and vacations. They have their parents make them dinner and do their laundry, permanently securing their ambivalent status as not-quite-adult yet.
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February 13, 2006
Dark Chocolate Fudge Layer Cake of Love
Dark Chocolate Fudge Cake of Love
3 eggs, at room temperature
2 2/3 cups flour
1 ½ cups sugar
1 ¼ cup very cold water
1 cup light brown sugar
¾ cup butter, melted and cooled
½ cup oil
2/3 cup sour cream
½ cup cocoa (not Dutch processed)
2 tablespoons vanilla
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
Preheat oven to 350. In a medium bowl, combine all dry ingredients. In another bowl, combine the eggs, vanilla and sour cream until well blended. In another bowl, combine cooled butter and oil. Mix thoroughly. Slowly add cold water, mix until combined. Add dry ingredients all at once and mix until well blended. Add the egg/vanilla/sour cream mixture and beat until throughly combined. Pour into two greased and floured* 8 inch round cake pans. Bake 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool and ice.
*we love Pam Cooking Spray with Flour
Excellent with dark chocolate fudge icing.
My thoughts:
My sweet husband made this for me for Valentine's Day. It's an extremely rich and moist cake. You couldn't ask for a better dessert on my favorite holiday.
8 comments:
Ohhhhhhh cake. Come to me.ReplyDelete
What a swell guy! Can I come over and have a peice?ReplyDelete
That sounds delicious.ReplyDelete
Oooh, chocolate cake.... yumyum. *drooling*ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2006 3:10 PM
mmm i made with the dark chocolate icing.. it was amazing..best homeade cake ive ever had.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 30, 2006 5:54 AM
hey, tried it out yesterday. the cake is very nice, but i have a bigger cake pan so it was a bit pain in the ass baking it.ReplyDelete
the icing is nice to, but i made it with a rubbish chocolate, should have made it with a 70% cocoa or more, fine quality chocolate.
- AnonymousFebruary 04, 2008 7:42 PM
How much butter.. It just says 3/4?ReplyDelete
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DOVER — Even though it's still early in the Division II season, the Dover High School boys hockey team knew how big Wednesday night's game against rival Oyster River was going to be.
With the Bobcats and Green Wave both expected to contend for a high seed in the tournament, Dover's 3-1 win at Dover Arena set the stage for what could be a lengthy struggle for a home playoff game come late February.
"It was pretty big," Dover coach Steve Riker said. "There are five or six teams in the division that will kind of be up there. We're all going to be fighting for spots there, so tonight was big to be able to beat them and get two points on them."
Dover sophomore forward Mitchell Welch scored his team-leading fifth and sixth goals of the season on Wednesday, including the eventual game winner in the second period.
"He's a very skilled kid and we've given him more ice time this year," Riker said about Welch. "He's taken advantage of it."
The Green Wave improved to 3-0 while Oyster River fell to 2-1. Bobcats coach Griff Richard agreed that the game loomed large, especially since Dover is one of only three clubs his crew will have to meet twice this season. The rematch is scheduled for Feb. 21 at the Whittemore Center.
"Our strength of schedule is probably the hardest, if not one of the hardest," Richard said. "You can't give away a game. We didn't give this game away tonight. I thought we fought, but we're still young on defense."
After a scoreless first period, Welch put Dover on the board just 1:40 into the middle frame. A scrum in front of the net resulted in a shot by Dover's Cam Crowley from high in the slot. Oyster River goalie Brennan Young made the initial save with his pads, but Welch swept in the rebound through the five-hole for the 1-0 lead.
"It was just laying there in front of his pads and I just hit it in," Welch said.
Oyster River missed out on a few opportunities to even the score. The Bobcats were about to go on a power play that was negated when Patrick McDonough was called for a hit after the whistle, negating the advantage. Later, the Bobcats' Connor McDonough and Julien Pelletier were called for penalties 41 seconds apart, giving Dover a 5-on-3 for 1:19, which they did not convert.
"We've been relying on our skill, hopefully, to carry us a little bit," Richard said. "I think we were panicking with the puck on the power play, not getting set up, which is a high-school hockey thing. We rush to get it to the net."
Dover had trouble staying out the box as well, especially senior forward Eli Cobb, who was thrice sent to the box in the middle frame. On the third penalty, the Bobcats made Dover pay when Trevar Delisle sent a shot from the blue line past Dover goalie Luc Ravenelle for the equalizer at 13:47. That's where it stood after two stops.
"We had some good chances on our power plays," Riker said. "Their goalie made some pretty good saves."
Welch scored the game-winner in the final stanza when he sent in a rebound following a scramble in front of the net for a 2-1 lead at 7:53. Any hope the Bobcats had of tying the game again took a hit when Griffin Sperry was called for tripping at 10:22, giving Dover a power play.
Young was pulled with just over a minute left, and Dover's Sam Bovee buried an empty-netter at 14:29. Young made 29 saves and Ravenelle made 24.
"We didn't have the offense or the defense tonight," said Patrick McDonough, who assisted on Delisle's goal. "We didn't come out hard. This was our first big test this season, and it showed us that we can't just roll through teams."
The Bobcats had beaten their first two opponents by a combined score of 14-4.
Both teams play their last regular-season game of 2012 on Saturday. Oyster River hosts Merrimack and Dover hosts Bow, another team expected to contend for a deep tournament run.
Dover, 3-1
Oyster River (2-1) 0 1 0 — 1
Dover (3-0) 0 1 2 — 3
Scoring: First period: None. Second period: D-Welch (Crowley) 1:40; O-Delisle (P. McDonough) 13:47 (pp). Third period: D-Welch (Henderson) 7:53; D-Bovee (K. Lombard, S. Lombard) 14:29 (en).
Goalies: O-Young (31 shots, 29 saves); D-Ravenelle (25, 24).


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Midwest #34: Anna's Inspired Family Home
Color Tip: Go ahead, paint it. If you don't like it, you can always repaint! Add color you love in every room of your home to tie the spaces together.
Welcome, everyone, to our Fourth Annual Fall Colors Sharing & Contest. We're looking for the most beautiful & colorful home in the world and sharing all of the great ideas we get with our readers. This year we're amping things up and hoping to do things better than ever. There are two basic phases, the Sharing Phase and the Voting Phase…
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The 40 best, completed entries will be posted on a daily basis for three weeks. You can view them all at anytime via our new, improved contest pages under ALL ENTRIES. During this time your comments are VERY IMPORTANT as our six judges will be choosing 16 finalists from each region based on comments and their own colorful opinion.
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Starting October 20th, finalist voting will begin on a daily basis through our new bracketed voting system, which will pit our 16 finalists against one another until only one remains. Sound exciting? We hope so.
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3-year-old nearly dies after swallowing 37 magnets
Doctors in Portland, Ore., thought 3-year-old Payton had swallowed a bracelet, but it turned out to be much worse, according to KPTV-TV. She had swallowed 37 Rare Earth BuckyBalls magnets that look a lot like those little silver candy balls that decorate cupcakes.
"The surgeon came out and said I wouldn't do this unless I absolutely have to but we have to cut your daughter open," explained Aaron Bushnell, Payton's father.
… The magnets were so strong they had already torn three holes in her lower intestine and one in her stomach.
… But doctors were able to save Payton in time who's now on her way to making a full recovery.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission warned people about these magnets last fall, saying they pose a risk to children and teens who have been using them as fake nose and tongue piercings.
As of November 2011, the CPSC received 22 reports of magnet incidents in children between 18 months and 15 years old since June 2009.
They are intended to be desk toys and stress relievers for adults, who can use them to create patterns and build shapes. The products are often sold in sets of 200 or more and are labeled for ages 14 and older. It is extremely difficult for a parent to know if a magnet is missing from a set.
They are not intended to be used to mimic teenage body piercings.
Here's what you can do to avoid a magnet-swallowing injury, according to the CPSC:
Keep small magnets and small pieces containing magnets away from young children who might swallow them.
Look out for loose magnet pieces - regularly inspect toys and children's play areas for missing or dislodged magnets.


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Sweet and Spicy Horseradish Dressing
I'm not a big fan of chili-spiciness--it lingers on my tongue in a way that just feels unpleasant DR Max electronic English. But the quick rush of sinus-clearing horseradish-spiciness makes me swoon. I love this salad dressing so much that I'll eat it straight out of the jar with a spoon.
It's hard not to love a recipe where the only instructions are essentially zest, scoop and shake. As written, it comes out nicely balanced between zippy, sweet and savory, but then linzarella encourages us to customize -- a dash more horseradish for the spice fiends, a dollop more crème fraîche for the indulgent -- and shake again. The two types of dairy -- equal parts tart yogurt and mellow, rich crème fraîche -- are an especially nice touch, bringing a tempered zing to the dressing. We think it would be lovely tossed with some chilled poached shrimp and watercress or alongside some crudités DR Max electronic English.
Makes a modest amount of dressing
1 lemon
3 tablespoons creme fraiche
3 tablespoons plain whole milk yogurt
1 tablespoon honey
2 tablespoons prepared horseradish
2 tablespoons dijon mustard
1 pinch salt
1 pinch freshly ground pepper
Zest the lemon, then juice half of it. In a jar, combine juice & zest with remaining ingredients, stir, then cover the jar and shake. Taste and adjust to make it spicier, creamier, or sweeter to your preference DR Max electronic English.
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2006 News Releases > January 2006 > English Professor Publishes Journal Articles
English Professor Publishes Journal Articles
PLAINVIEW – Dr. Jerome Stueart, visiting professor in English at Wayland Baptist University, has published articles in journals recently and presented at conferences. Stueart's article "Whitman and Teddy Roosevelt: An Unpublished Whitman Manuscript at Sagamore Hill" was published in the summer/fall 2005 edition of Walt Whitman Quarterly Review.
"While working as a park ranger at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site in Oyster Bay, NY this last summer, I found a fragment of Whitman's writing framed on a wall in Roosevelt's house," explained Stueart, who is a 1992 graduate of Wayland. "I contacted Sherry Ceniza, a leading expert on Whitman, to look at the fragment. She discovered that no one had ever seen the fragment before, nor did she remember those sentences ever making it into a published piece by Whitman."
While Ceniza authored the piece with Ed Folsom, she credited Stueart with the discovery of the rare piece.
Stueart's short story, "Lemmings in the Third Year" was printed in an October release of Tesseracts 9, a Canadian science fiction anthology. A longtime writer of short fiction, Stueart explains that the story involves a group of biologists stranded in the Arctic, where the animals they once studied can now talk back to them. The main character teaches lemmings the scientific method to pass the time and learns that she must continue to study even when her findings cannot be published or impress others. Stueart said he took the story from a comic strip about polar bears that he created.
In November, Stueart delivered a paper titled "Evolution, with Occasional Gun: 'Uplifted' Animals, Violence and Moral Responsibility in Lethem's Gun, with Occasional Music" at the 19th Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts in Chicago.
Stueart also assembled a panel for the Associated Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Austin titled "Where Genre and Non-Genre Meet: Texas Writers on Texas Writing." In addition to Stueart, the panel included Stephen Graham Jones, Joe Lansdale, Mark Finn and Craig Clevenger, all Texas writers.
"We discussed the space between writing literary fiction and writing other genres—like science fiction, horror, fantasy—and how authors can go back and forth between them," Stueart added.
Stueart joined the Wayland faculty in fall 2005 to teach English.


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