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Sunday, February 18, 2007
Academic Nepotism?
In my field, there are rare examples of parent-offspring pairs in related fields of research, and I suppose that the famous name is a plus in some ways for the offspring, but I've seen it backfire for father-daughter pairs (the usual sexist rumors that he is really the brains behind all her research). Most often, the situation involves a couple, whether a married couple or long-term partners.
Another variable is whether both members of the couple are being considered simultaneously for hiring, or whether one has already been hired and the other is considered later (i.e., in the case of one member of the couple's not yet being done with his/her Ph.D. at the time the other was hired). The latter situation can be hard on the non-employed member of the couple, and these days still seems to require that a competing offer for both be obtained in order for both to get academic positions.
Nepotism is unavoidable if women are going to be hired in significant numbers at academic institutions. It's important to note that nepotism in this sense involves both the case of a woman offered a job by an institution that is primarily interested in hiring the other member of the couple (typically a husband) and the case of an institution wanting to hire a woman and also offering a position to her partner/spouse. In some cases, the university administration provides funds for the extra position, either permanently or as a 'bridge' to the next retirement in a department. Difficulties arise when departments have to fund the position, the positions are in different academic units of a university (and the higher level administration doesn't help facilitate the hires), and if both members of the couple require large amounts of start-up funding.
In most cases that I am aware of, the 'extra' person is not taking away a position from a 'more deserving' person out there in the applicant pool. It is important not to get into the mode of thinking that unqualified people (substitute name of underrepresented group) are taking jobs away from qualified people (substitute name of dominant group).
However, the Kennedy example aside, the concept of nepotism typically implies that a person being appointed is selected despite their lack of qualifications or abilities, and that's a source of yet more trouble for academic couples.
Most departments and universities hire faculty with the expectation that they will succeed -- faculty will get tenure and do well with whatever the research-teaching-service expectations are for the institution. So what to do if there is an imbalance between the qualifications of members of an academic couple? That is, what if one is qualified to be hired at a major research university and the other isn't?
I don't have The Answer. I don't think it's in anyone's interest to hire an unqualified person in a tenure-track position at a research university, but I think that the definition of 'qualified' needs very careful consideration in these cases. It needs extremely careful consideration, so as to be sure that the usual biases about what makes a successful scientist are not clouding the evaluation of a promising female scientist.
Another pitfall is hiring one member of the couple in a tenured or tenure-track position and the other in a low-level, low-respect position. That doesn't do anyone any good either -- not the couple, and not the department/university.
I stand by my statement that nepotism is required for women science/engineering faculty to be hired in significant numbers at academic institutions, particularly at universities and colleges that are rather isolated, leaving few to no other opportunities for alternative academic employment by one member of the couple. There's no reason, however, why nepotism has to be forced into the existing academic culture without the possibility of changing the culture. Why can't the culture itself change? Why does it have to be an all-or-nothing situation in which you get on the tenure track and either succeed or not in a certain amount of time? Why do non-tenure track positions have to be associated with so much less respect and so much less chance of career advancement? Is there room for other types of positions with different expectations in terms of the balance of teaching-research-service? The academic culture needs to change, and it needs to change at all levels -- administrators need to be creative, and faculty need to be open-minded.
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I have been associated with 3 major physics departments, and have noticed that physicists have less trouble with a 'spousal hire' on the case where the wife must be hired in order to get the husband than the converse. The prevailing idea seems to be that a high powered male physicist might well be worth 2 positions, and anyway hiring the wife might give the department some brownie points at the administrative level for hiring a woman. The converse always provokes an uproar; I think because people are barely willing to concede that the woman might be tolerable, much less that she might be so good that creating a second position for her husband would be worth it.
I think more flexibility in the kinds of positions available, eg part time, research, etc. could be great for two career couples, although I am speaking as a member of such a couple who have achieved the "nirvana" of two regular tenured positions in the same department (I was the spousal hire).
btw I have never commented before but I LOVE your blog and find it quite addictive. I feel like you must be my alter ego your experiences with your colleagues seem so similar to mine.
- FemaleCSGradStudent said...
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- Am I a woman scientist? said...
As uncomfortable as I am with your statement, it seems logical. If academic women are much more likely to be partnered to another academic (the converse is not true for men; there was an article on this in Nature last week)), then the two-body problem for women will be more pervasive.
Here in this Scandinavian country, their academic system is in the middle of being completely overhauled to conform to EU standards (as is the system in all other EU countries). They are doing away with tenure here (!!!), and putting all professor and lecturer positions which used to be permanent onto 5-year renewable contracts. This is to deal with the large dead wood problem they have here, but I suspect also to give the large number of Ph.D.'s they're producing "a shot" at these positions.
They are also drastically increasing the amount of money (both at the national and EU level) for 3-year or 5-year "floater" grants, which pay for salary for the PI plus students/post docs, supplies and equipment, and overhead. The recipients can go wherever a university will have them, and they do not already have to be at a university or research institute to apply (i.e., they are open to those coming off maternity leave and unemployment). The idea is to give researchers greater flexibility in where they do their science, both to increase the movement of researchers across EU borders, but also I suspect to bolster the research roster of the "boondocks" universities.
I have no idea how this will play out in general, nor what it means for women and the two-body problem. With a large number of floating researchers and greater rotation in the professor/lecturer ranks it could mean an easier time for the two-bodies to be co-located, however that location may change more frequently. Perhaps too frequently....
I've never quite understood the argument that spousal hires mean the uni ends up with a less qualified person. After all, the process surely works both way: A department offering two jobs for a couple gets a serious advantage over other less flexible departments, which means that those hiring couples can choose the people. How this is supposed to lead to LESS qualified hires, beats me.
Hi Ann!
Thanks for your comment - I can back it up with personal experience.
Hi, I agree with 'am I a woman scientist' - uncomfortable but seeing the logic. It's hard to see it as completely fair that of two equally good candidates of the same gender, the one whose partner is employed at a place already is more likely to get the job (yes, this is just one small unfairness within a system full of 'luck factors', but still... of course, being single myself and having no other body to trail hence never getting this 'advantage' may bias my thinking a little). Especially as having two members of a couple in the same department can be distinctly UNharmonious and problematic in some cases (yes, I have experience of that). Also, finding the funds for new positions is not trivial, especially in a poorer, regional institution (with a strong research rep - money and quality don;t always match sadly), and has knock-ons for years for the department.
I love your blog too, it's reassuring to see that the grass isn't greener in other places, and to feel that as a woman in science, other people have the same sorts of ex[eriences!
If a department cannot understand that the act of hiring someone is a holistic effort, than they will only be able to hire candidates who have literally no life outside of their careers. The vast majority of successful researchers do have families, lives and interests that are outside of academia and the university and the university does very well to accommodate in some way those parts of their lives in the package, as they have ALWAYS done in attracting all people to the campus--faculty, staff, grad students, undergrads, etc. Would anyone really be happy if their partner could not be helped when it's possible to do so? Doesn't the intelligent department realize that it's a win-win? I like to think we're not just operating on one theoretical pie of finite money or number of positions here: if a department hired me and could hire my spouse as well and we were successful, the department would grow in prestige and in funding and would be able to attract more space and hire even more people, ideally. This, at least, I would like to think.
Hello! I love this blog!
I am a chemistry graduate and am dating another chemist (in another division, and a separate lab). We are discussing when we should get married and our career goals. We are in the same year of school and have both talked about being professors. I think he's rather set on it (and looking for a smaller schoool, not a mega research place like this one), but I have yet to decide - I have had some very positive industrial experience and am considering that or a national lab as well. I think my desire to teach would be statisfied by teaching at a community college later in life, after some "real world" experience.
My question is this: IS it easier to both find jobs when both members of the partnership are looking for professorial positions? Or can it hinder you?
(you can call me "trailing husband")
I agree with the first anonymous above---offering two jobs can be a great advantage for a university.
In fact, in my experience, the best universities are also the best at maximizing this advantage. I found that there was a pretty good correlation between the quality of a University and their willingness to consider hiring my wife and me together. A pretty low one on the list offered my wife a job, told her it was "because she's a woman, and the department got special funds for that", and said there was no way they could accomodate me. The best ones on the list just went ahead and offered two positions. I attributed this in part to better financial resources at the better schools, but perhaps more importantly to the fact that the faculty at the better schools feel more secure about themselves and less threatened by these kinds of arrangements.
- Female Science Professor said...
janeb - Single people have the advantage when it comes to a faculty job search. Some (many?) places won't even consider hiring a couple, and it is an additional stress at an interview when interviewers try to find out (although they aren't supposed to) whether a candidate has a '2 body problem'. In fact, single candidates or candidates with portable/non-academic partners tend to advertise their situation during interviews.
The unstated fact of your piece, which "Am I a woman scientist said is that a significantly larger percent of academic women are married to academic spouses.
Unless this changes, nepotism or not, I think the gender gap will always be a problem for isolated colleges and universities.
I am currently a trailing husband (my nonscientist academic wife is looking to get jobs were I can get a second postdoc). My research involves expensive shared hardware that requires a group of researchers with similar interests. There are probably 60-70 places in the US that would work for me, but many are clustered in cities. Many potentially good places for my wife including some big university towns had nothing for me unless I was willing to radically change my research focus.
To generalize this, even if an isolated university wants to use nepotism to hire a scientist spouse, unless the spouse is in a very similar identical field, probability works against the school having the right resources for both. Add on that isolated college towns often have less job options for spouses makes recruiting generally harder.
- Ms.PhD said...
I'm going to blog about this on my page, so as not to eat up space here. great post!
Forgive me for cross posting this comment. So, after reading your post and the one over at YoungFemaleScientist, I have a question. Both of you and the commentors seem to focus on academic folks in the same department. I'm wondering if anyone has insight into an academic/staff couple. I am interview for faculty positions, but my spouse is in PR and development. Has anyone been involved in hiring a tenure-track faculty member and needing to find employment for a spouse in a staff position?
- Female Science Professor said...
anonymous, that's an interesting situation. I suppose it depends on the institution and their attitude towards recruiting faculty. I don't know of examples exactly like yours, though it's not uncommon for departments/institutions to hire non-PhD spouses/partners in staff positions. I know of examples of spouses being hired as lecturers, technical staff, accountants, and so on. I also know of one case where the trailing spouse started at a low level staff position and ended up being a Dean! That was at a small college.
Although your post was about same-family hires, the worst form of "nepotism," in my opinion, is the sort of virtual nepotism that occurs when a high-ranking faculty member skews the departmental or institution's hiring process to favor only his/her protogees. What's worse: hiring a person because they are married to another individual also being hired, or hiring a person to make one's department the bastion of all things Dr. Bigwig says and believes? Although it is nice to have colleagues who work in the same or similar area as oneself just down the hall, there are whole departments that exist that are so skewed to focus on only one, small concept that the more broad, general-discipline-related title attributed to the department shouldn't even be used.
- Female Science Professor said...
Yes, that is an excellent point about protogee-hiring.
- James Annan said...
Nepotism is unavoidable if women are going to be hired in significant numbers at academic institutions.
No, that isn't what "nepotism" means. Nepotism is when someone grants a benefit to a member of their own family, because of their relationship. If Candidate A says "give my spouse a job or I won't come" and the hirer acts positively on that, then this is no more nepotism than if they say "give me a bigger salary/office/car".
An anti-nepotism law that catches this situation is a poorly-written one indeed (and I wonder if such laws are used as a convenient excuse rather than a real reason). The only authority the candidate has in this situation is to not take the offer, and the unavailability of employment for the spouse is obviously a valid reason for this (not that they even need a valid reason).
Single people have the advantage when it comes to a faculty job search. Some (many?) places won't even consider hiring a couple, and it is an additional stress at an interview when interviewers try to find out (although they aren't supposed to) whether a candidate has a '2 body problem'. In fact, single candidates or candidates with portable/non-academic partners tend to advertise their situation during interviews.
I disagree. Candidates with portable/non-academic partners have the advantage. Single candidates (at least the female ones) are assumed to be inherently portable and require less money to support themselves. As a result, we may be offered the job - but we don't get nearly as nice an offer as the married candidate (i.e. candidate with portable "wife") does.
nepotism can refer to friends and by association colleagues hiring others without due process to find the best candidate for the job. i've witnessed this going on in several universities and its depressing; in the cases i've known its been because of the candidates gender and looks rather than their ability. when nepotism happens within universities it blows out of the water the integrity and purpose of such institutions in fighting (fairly and transparently) inequality. academics (and i am one) are, on the whole, apolitical when it comes to their own environment and conduct as a group, while they lecture everyone else about fairness and the need for equality. i would also go further and say there is an inherent middle class nepotism going on within academia which by default recruits others of the same ilk. don't know about husband and wives, but the problem is much worse than two career couples!


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The fact that this was ever even an honest-to-goodness question, does not bode well for the Obama administration's ostensibly ongoing efforts at improving transparency in a second term. From Politico:
The Presidential Inaugural Committee has announced that President Obama's official swearing-in will be open to the press, allaying the concerns of the White House press corps that had feared restricted access.
"[T]here will be media access to the official swearing in on Sunday," a PIC representative told POLITICO. "We are still working out additional details and logistics and expect to be able to share more about media coverage plans for that ceremony and other Inaugural events soon."
The White House press corps had feared they would be restricted from Obama's official swearing-in, which takes place in a small, private ceremony on years that January 20 falls on a Sunday. Inaugural committee officials had privately indicated to reporters that the event could be closed to reporters and cameras, with an official photograph supplied to press by White House photographer Pete Souza, sources told POLITICO. A subsequent email from the PIC referring to the Jan. 20 swearing-in as a "private" event rekindled that concern.
Well, gee, that's good news — it is a historic occasion, after all. On a related note, Obama's inaugural committee decided to ditch their erstwhile commitment to banning corporate donations for the inaugural festivities last week (because pretending like you still care about being the 'people's president' is so last cycle), and they're now not only accepting unlimited contributions but soliciting large donations at that.
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by Brent Smith, Ph.D.
Timothy McVeigh, the Sept. 11 hijackers and Eric Rudolph all had something in common — they selected targets hundreds of miles from where they lived. McVeigh wandered the Midwest living as a transient before making his bomb in Herington, Kan., and driving 250 miles south to blast the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The Sept. 11 hijackers traveled hundreds of miles to their targets. And Rudolph drove nearly 300 miles from Murphy, N.C., to bomb an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala.
For local police departments searching for ways to stop terrorist acts before they occur, this does not bring much comfort. When looking at these attacks, officers might get the impression that there is not much they can do about terrorism other than improving physical security at high-risk targets.
But were these infamous terrorists typical?
Although we know a great deal about the behavior of traditional criminals, little information has been available about terrorists. Are they much different from conventional criminals, who tend to commit their crimes close to home?[1] Research has shown that traditional criminals are spontaneous, but terrorists seem to go to great lengths preparing for their attacks — and may commit other crimes while doing so. How long does this planning take? And do different types of terrorist groups vary in preparation time?
To help answer these questions, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) launched a series of projects to explore patterns of terrorist behavior.[2] In the first of these projects, a panel of experts[3] was assembled to examine 60 case studies involving terrorist incidents in the U.S. during the past 25 years.[4] These cases involved the four major types of U.S. terrorist groups: left wing, right wing, single issue and international.[5],[6],[7] The panel — including this author — looked at the homes of the terrorists, the locations of planning and preparation, and the sites of the terrorist incidents to discover whether any patterns emerged.
What we learned was intriguing: The cases of McVeigh, the Sept. 11 hijackers and Rudolph are actually unusual. In fact, we found that most terrorists live close to their selected targets, and they engage in a great deal of preparation — some over the course of months or even years — that has the potential of coming to the attention of local law enforcement.
Exhibit 1. Distance From Terrorist Residence to Target (All Groups)View larger image
We studied:
According to our analysis, almost half (44 percent) of all terrorists examined lived within 30 miles of their targets. (See
Exhibit 1. Distance From Terrorist Residence to Target (All Groups).) When the types of terrorist groups are examined separately, however, the findings are much different.
International terrorists lived relatively near their targets, whereas right-wing terrorists lived in rural areas but selected targets reflecting the "pollutants of urban life" in nearby cities.
Terrorists most commonly prepared for their attacks with surveillance and intelligence gathering, robberies and thefts to raise funding for the group, weapons violations, and bomb manufacturing. Again, most of these behaviors took place relatively near their homes, which, in turn, were close to the targets. Terrorists may stay close to home because of new immigration status, lack of transportation, lack of knowledge of the urban landscape or a desire to avoid attention. Among single-issue terrorists in particular, 71 percent of the preparatory acts occurred within 12 miles and 92 percent within 28 miles of the target. This finding may also be attributed to the use of "uncoordinated violence" tactics by these environmental and anti-abortion extremists, which often results in local targeting by "lone wolves" sympathetic to the cause.
A separate follow-up NIJ project[8] that analyzed the distance between more than 250 environmental and international terrorists' homes and their targets confirmed the earlier preliminary findings that their spatial patterns are fairly similar. The analysis found that about half of the environmental terrorists and nearly three-fifths of the international terrorists lived within 30 miles of their targets. (See
Exhibit 2. Distance From Environmental Terrorist to Target and
Exhibit 3. Distance From International Terrorist Residence to Target.) Sixty-five percent of the environmental terrorists and 59 percent of the international terrorists prepared for their attacks within 30 miles of their target sites.
Exhibit 2. Distance From Environmental Terrorist Residence to TargetView larger image
Exhibit 3. Distance From International Terrorist Residence to TargetView larger image
Although the terrorists studied committed most of their preparatory offenses near their homes, they conducted robberies, burglaries and thefts much farther away — an average of 429 miles from home. This suggests that most environmental and international terrorists live near the selected target and conduct surveillance and other general preparation near their homes and the eventual location of the attack. Major crimes to procure funding for the group — like thefts, robberies and burglaries — however, are intentionally committed many miles away to avoid drawing attention to the group's location and target choice.
Table 1. Cumulative Percentage of Preparatory Acts Over TimeView larger image
We found that preparations generally began less than six months before the attack and ended with a flurry of actions a day or so before. This pattern varied by group type. Single-issue and right-wing terrorists engaged in substantially less preparatory crime over a shorter period — once again, most likely reflecting the use of "leaderless resistance" and lone-wolf strategies. The planning cycle of international terrorists tended to be longer. (See
Table 1. Cumulative Percentage of Preparatory Acts Over Time.)
In our follow-up study, we took a closer look at the specific patterns of international and environmental terrorists by placing the preparations for all incidents on a time line. For instance, we examined the 21 incidents attributed to the environmental terrorist group known as "The Family," which was responsible for the Vail, Colo., ski resort arson in 1998 and many attacks against Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management buildings from 1996 to 2000. The Family consisted of at least 16 people. Unlike most environmental terrorists who use uncoordinated violence and lone-wolf strategies, the group's actions were more spontaneous than other environmental cases, with a short preparation period and little extended planning. Eighty-five percent of their known preparation activities — typically, inspection of the target, purchase of bomb-making items from local stores and identification of a staging area a short distance from the target — occurred within six days of the planned attack. An explosive device was assembled at the staging area a day or so before the incident and then delivered to the target. Participants usually returned to the staging area to destroy any evidence.
International terrorists, on the other hand, engaged in nearly three times as many preparatory acts per incident as their environmental counterparts. This may be due to the larger number of people usually involved in international incidents, the size and scope of the planned incident or simply a longer planning cycle. Comparing the 10 international terrorist incidents that occurred on American soil,[9] we found that the average planning cycle for international terrorists was 92 days, as opposed to 14 days for environmental terrorists. Averages can be misleading, however, because of significant outliers, such as the multiyear planning cycle of the Islamic extremists seeking to destroy New York City landmarks in the mid-1990s. Whereas environmental terrorists committed an overwhelming majority of their preparatory activities in the week before the incident, international terrorists took up to six months to prepare.
For law enforcement agencies, the implications of these patterns are significant. Committing an act of terrorism will usually involve local preparations. Although much of this conduct will not necessarily be criminal, early intelligence may give law enforcement the opportunity to stop the terrorists before an incident occurs. Knowledge of the threat — for example, understanding how long environmental or international terrorists prepare for their attacks — will affect the manner in which local officials respond. Identifying preparatory actions by environmental extremists may signal that an attack is imminent, whereas similar behavior by an international group might suggest that an attack is still several months away.
Understanding that most terrorists "act locally" can be important to know as investigative agencies seek to prevent terrorism and arrest perpetrators. These local patterns may be used by agencies to more efficiently patrol known, high-risk target areas and gather intelligence on suspected actions within a specific distance from potential targets. As we continue to deepen our understanding of the relationship among the location of the terrorist's home, terrorist preparation activities and the target, this growing knowledge should help officers prevent and respond to attacks.
NIJ Journal No. 260, July 2008NCJ 222900
Brent Smith is a professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Arkansas. A student of terrorism for nearly 30 years, he created the American Terrorism Study in 1988 with assistance from the FBI. Smith currently serves as director of the Terrorism Research Center (TRC) in Fulbright College at the University of Arkansas. He was assisted on the projects discussed in the article by Kelly Damphousse, professor of sociology and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma; Jackson Cothren, assistant professor of geosciences and affiliate of the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas; and Paxton Roberts, research associate at TRC.
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[note 1] Wright, R., and S. Decker,
Burglars on the Job: Streetlife and Residential Break-ins, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1994; Wright, R., and S. Decker,
Armed Robbers in Action: Stickups and Street Culture, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997; and Reppetto, T. A.,
Residential Crime, Cambridge: Ballinger Publishing, 1974.
[note 2] "Pre-Incident Indicators of Terrorist Group Activities," NIJ Grant # 2003-DT-CX-0003; "Geospatial Analysis of Terrorist Activities: The Identification of Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Preparatory Behavior of International and Environmental Terrorists," NIJ Grant # 2005-IJ-CX-0200; and "Terrorism in Time and Space," NIJ Grant # 2006-IJ-CX-0037.
[note 3] The members of the panel and their areas of expertise were: Ron Arnold, environmental terrorism; Steve Chermak, right-wing terrorism; Kelly Damphousse, terrorism database management; William Dyson, domestic and international terrorism; Mark Hamm, right-wing terrorism; Robert Heibel, left-wing terrorism; Austin Turk, terrorism and political violence theory; and the author, Brent Smith, domestic and international terrorism.
[note 4] Cases were selected primarily from the American Terrorism Study, a project that involves data collection on all persons indicted as a result of an FBI "terrorism enterprise" investigation as defined by the attorney general guidelines for domestic and international terrorism investigations.
[note 5] Left-wing terrorist groups generally refer to those that adhere to a "forward-looking" ideology, one that advocates a political or social system that has not existed before in the U.S. Typically associated with extreme liberalism, examples include the May 19th Communist Party, the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army.
[note 6] Right-wing terrorist groups generally refer to those that adhere to a "backward-looking" ideology, one that advocates a return to a political or social system that is perceived to have existed previously in the U.S. Typically associated with extreme conservatism, examples include the KKK, white supremacy groups like the Aryan Nations or groups like the Sheriff's Posse Comitatus that oppose centralized federal power.
[note 7] Like the name implies, single-issue terrorist groups advocate on behalf of a particular political or social issue, such as anti-abortion or the environment.
[note 8] "Geospatial Analysis of Terrorist Activities," NIJ Grant # 2005-IJ-CX-0200.
[note 9] Temporal data on international terrorists are limited due to the small number of international incidents that have taken place in the U.S. Because of the FBI's success in disrupting plots, the number of cases is small.
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airwalk wrote:That last evening when you pulled up to the shelter to abandon you dog that you were doing more than simply walking away from your best friend?
Did you think that when you tied this senior Rottweiler with very severe hip dysplasia to the tree that you were relegating him to a night on the cold, hard ground where his hip would get more sore?
Did you wonder how he panicked as he saw your car drive away?
Did you sleep well last evening wondering if he was watching for your car to come back and get him?
Did you wonder how frightened he was this morning when I arrived at work and he didn't know who I was?
Did you think that maybe between his fear and bewilderment and pain that it might be very hard to get him off the tree? Did you realize that if he had bitten me when I tried to unclip him that he would have had to suffer through quarantine? Did you realize you might be putting someone else in danger because YOUR best friend didn't know what to let me do?
Did you hope that we would be extra kind and find a way to get him untied without having to use a ketch pole on him?
Did you sleep well last evening knowing that your good friend with his bad skin and sore hips would be shivering by this morning?
Did you sleep well knowing that you had left him in a shelter that is already too full and with his age and health may not ever leave the shelter? Or was that your way of avoiding your responsibility to make the final loving decision for him?
Did you hope we would be kind and would offer him a warm, dry, place with a soft bed to spend the next 7 days while you tried to forget you just abandoned your best friend?
If you slept well last night, shame on you..because he didn't. If you forgot him today while you went about your daily life, shame on you, because he's been looking for you all day.
If you hoped we would be kind and take good care of him and get him off the tree without causing him stress and we would feed him good food and clean water and provide him with a comfy bed to pad his old bones...then you were right..we did.
Shame on you.
I wonder....if the kind of people who would do this are scared away by the posted signs, what will happen to the animals? Will they then be dumped on the side of a road, in a park, etc.
It just sucks.
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FRENNSSS, nie ada info yang sedikit unik.... kata mutiara yang berbahasa inggris...... seperti apa ea.???? simak ajah di bawah Kata
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Love is beauty, but not every beauty have love
Cinta itu indah, tapi tidak selamanya keindahan mengandung cinta
Politeness Is the oil which reduces the friction against each other.(Demokritus)
Did not know it was love!
Whatever you do, make sure your intentions for the good. Because whatever is done by good intentions, who will produce good results.
No matter what problems you face today, while you still can dream, do not forget to pray prayers tonight. All night ..
Do not judge someone just from what he did, because you also have to know the reason why he is doing.
Sometimes, God give thee of heavy trials, because HE believes in your ability than you believe in yourself.
Someone who does not deserve you would never say: "You deserve a better person than me."
Forget him who has given so many wonderful memories is not easy thing, but if it's best, then let it go!
In love, no need to find someone perfect, but someone who loves what they are, who make you feel perfect.
Something that is difficult when you have to smile, just because you do not want to explain to others why you are sad.
We can not make other people grow up, because being an adult is a choice, not coercion.
You do not have to be PERFECT to have a HAPPY life.
Just because you have not found someone who treats you well, does not mean you have shared with someone who does.
The easiest way to find yourself happy is doing what for you laugh and bring you with him who are happy for you.
He who can make you feel better is he who is the reason why you're sad.
Success comes to those who would still try though never do wrong. Those who never give up, because the spirit is still there.
You do not encounter problems need to be as pretty as the other org, Because there were plenty of beautiful people out there, but there is only one you
Sad when you meet someone who you believe true love, but you must let him go because he could not be owned.
Physically, there's always someone who is more beautiful than you. That's why a good attitude & personality is always far more important
In love, find one who loves what they are, not he who you have proved you were worthy of a loved one.
Sometimes, instead of losing who hurt you, but the fact that he did not do anything to defend yourselves.
Bad things always happen in this life, you will be hurt, but behind it all there will be happily awaiting reply.
Easy to care for someone tuk, tuk but make him care about you? HARD! so, do not ever lose someone who cares about you.
Sometimes, not about him that you miss, but the feeling of who you have when you're with him.
Sometimes, no matter how many times you convince yourself that you're better off without him, he still had some of your heart.
Complicate something that you love when he was hurt, but even more difficult when you have to try to hide it.
In fact Men must respect women for who he is, rather than on his physical appearance.
In fact Men should be able to make a girl smile when she was sad.
Sometimes you choose to not easily fall in love, because you are tired of giving everything and end up not having anything.
If you genuinely love someone, listen to your heart, not the people around you. This is your life!
Never sacrifice who you are just because someone does not like who you are.
You do not know what you had until she was gone, though sometimes you know what you have, tp never thought he would go.
Those who are rich are not those who can afford to buy everything, but those who have something that could not buy anything.
If you feel always wrong, do not give up. But go back and check what you've done, because surely there are way wrong.
Do not be proud of what you have. Proud of how you get what you got.
Do whatever you like. Because you will not feel compelled even if you fail you will not feel disappointed.
Routines are sometimes boring. But if it's for good, do not you leave, but do it with great pleasure.
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Johnny Weir is giving Putin and the Mayor of Sochi the figurative middle finger.
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Personal statement, statement of intent, cover letter. Whatever one calls it, this one-page summary often leads an applicant scratching his/her head. What do I write? How do I write it? And most importantly, how does a statement of purpose vary when applied to a graduate application?
So, to the first question: What do I write?
Instead ask, what do I want the admissions to know that is not covered by the CV? That is the real point of the statement of purpose. This can include details about previous research experience and future academic interests and why it's good for the department to choose you. Be specific, but having a thesis topic is not necessary at this stage.
Next question: How do I write it?
This depends more on each subject and requires more research on the applicant's part. The hard sciences tend to want letters that are object specific and to-the-point ("…my involvement with *insert project* gave me experience in *insert subject* due to *insert factor*…"). I cannot say much else for other fields, but fluff should be avoided for a letter limited to one-page. Also, try to make each statement appear unique for each prospective school. Admissions can tell if a letter is a recycled generic letter and may not take said letter as seriously as a letter written specifically for their program.
Third question: How is a graduate statement of purpose different from other statements?
Often, internet searches will give pointers on writing the statement but the information may not apply to graduate applications. Sifting away all the pointers that are not specifically for grad applications can help contend with the confusing and conflicting information out there. I found this site particularly helpful when I wrote mine:
The main difference is that a personal statement for grad school is that grad school is more concerned about content than glamor. This may be reminiscent of Dragnet's "Just the facts, Ma'am." Admissions pays attention to the letter of intent because it's the applicant's chance to speak with the admissions. The readers are interested in the content that the writer took the time to specify.
Now after all this, another question pops up as an afterthought: When am I done?
Be wary.
Don't let this happen to you.
I cannot tell you how many drafts to write, but some signs help determine when a draft is finished or at least close enough. Let your advisor, your peers, other researchers, or just someone you know with good grammar look through it and mark it up. Personally, I do not consider someone to have properly reviewed my early drafts unless the reviewer makes the paper 'bleed' with ink marks. Take the changes with discretion and have the paper reviewed again. I do this until suggestions from reviewers begin to conflict. At this point, the suggestions are due to stylistic differences, rather than clarity or content. Finally, read the letter out loud. It's amazing what little details one can find by reading out loud.


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Today is December 1st and the holiday season is now upon us. One of the great traditions of Christmas in the United States is the Christmas Card, where people send special holiday cards and updates to their loved ones near and far. The tradition actually began in England during the 19th Century and gained popularity on our side of the pond during the 20th Century. Now living in the 21st Century, the use of snail mail and the waste of cards has slowed the Christmas Card mailings. On top of this, many cards are made in China with questionable labor practices. However, there are ways to keep the Christmas Card dream alive and responsibly spread holiday cheer! Below we have outlined a few great ideas for ethical
E-Card: Aww the good ol'e e-card. This is probably the most environmentally friendly replacement for the traditional Christmas card. Plus there are so many great options, you can even send your own audio message. You can even find great Hanukkah e-cards as well! All you have to do is gather you email addresses and hit send! Far more faster and environmentally responsible than purchasing physical cards.
Recycled: Even though e-cards may be easier in some respects, nothing quite beats the romanticism of receiving a card in the mail. When you go to purchase your cards, try to buy those made with recycled paper. You can find many options online and even at your local store. Check out Cards with a Cause, recycled FSC certified cards that benefit charity.
Fair Trade: Believe it or not, there are fair trade holiday cards out there! A great source for fair trade cards is through Ten Thousand Villages, who have a wide variety of choices for the holidays. Another great place to look is your local fair trade store such as Global Exchange or try Cards from Africa, which benefits families affected by AIDS living in Rwanda.
Handmade: You can also purchase local handmade cards at Farmer's Markets and street fairs in your area. If the weather is too chilly for that, try sites such as Etsy for unique handmade cards. It's always great to support your local artisans, especially around the holidays.
Thrift: It may seem odd, but you would be surprised how many un-used holiday cards end up at thrift stores. You can find whole packs of them around the holidays! Also, some thrift stores normally carry bins of old un-used cards, perfect for the eco-responsible shopper. Plus you have the added bonus of finding some odd ones from the 70's and 80's, nothing beats vintage kitch!
Make Your Own: A fun holiday project for the family would be to make your own cards. You can use stamps, old Christmas cards, old wrapping paper, and just about anything you have laying around the house. There are some great ideas online on handmaking cards!
Photos: Another somewhat responsible way to go, is to print out a family or fun photo on your own printer. You can use recycled paper to do so! You can just print out your photo and slap a stamp on the back, as photos can be used as postcards and cost less than sending a card in an envelope. Plus this can be a fun and whacky way to update your loved ones on your family adventures of the year.
Recycle and Re-use the Cards You Receive: After all the month of December is said and done and you have a pile of cards you've received, be sure not to just through them out. You have a few eco-friendly options including recycling them. But if you want to do something a little more fun, keep the cards around to make your own handmade cards next year. You can also use them to make a collage, ornaments, wrapping paper, or even gift boxes! Here are some other fantastic re-use ideas!


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"Mad Men" star Christina Hendricks indulged her passion for flowers by working as a florist during a break from shooting the hit TV show.
Hendricks, who shot to fame playing officer manager Joan in the drama, has always harbored an ambition to show off her green-fingered skills, so she took a job in a flower shop during her time off.
The actress admits her co-stars were stunned when they spotted her working in the store, but she was happy to arrange bouquets for them.
She tells Flare magazine, "I always wanted to be a florist. Unless you're buying flowers for a funeral, you're only going in there for a pretty happy reason. In fact after the first season of 'Mad Men,' I worked at a florist.
"We had shot the pilot and it hadn't aired yet. We had to wait a year to shoot because (creator) Matthew Weiner was finishing "The Sopranos." And all these actors that I'd worked with would come in and say, 'Oh … Everything OK?'
"And I said 'No! I've just always wanted to work at a florist'. And they would say, 'OK, can you help me pick out a bouquet?'
And I'd be like, 'I'll make you one!' I've always been pretty good at it."


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What is the Daily Bee?
The Daily Bee is a place where there is information about things happening at our school and around the world. There you can find things like sporting events at school or spirit days even. There is also updates on recent scores sporting events like football or basketball. You can find things for the election or other current events. So if you want to be informed go to the Daily Bee! -- (Mackenzie S. 2/10/16)
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Teacher Interview: Mrs. Heavlin-Martinez
By Sulamita M. (3/7/16)
1st Question: How old were you when you went to college?
Mrs. Heavlin-Martinez's response: I was 18 when I went to college. I went right out of high school.
2nd Question: When did you go to college?
Mrs. Heavlin-Martinez's response: I began college in the fall of 2005.
3rd Question: What college did you go to?
Mrs. Heavlin-Martinez's response: I went to San Francisco State University for my undergraduate degrees and went to Fresno State for my credential.
4th Question: When did you start considering about becoming a teacher?
Mrs. Heavlin Martinez's response: I've always wanted to be a teacher. My grandmother taught 1st grade for 60 years; my other grandmother was a Special Education teacher. Both of my parents worked in schools as well. I worked in childcare from when I was 14 until I was 23. At 24, I decided to get the certificate that would allow me to teach elementary and middle school.
5th Question: What was your favorite subject in school and why?
Mrs. Heavlin-Martinez's response: My favorite subjects were science, history, and art. I love learning about how things work and where we, as a species, came from. I think it's so fascinating to learn about how humanity has grown and changed over the years. Ancient mythology and civilizations are probably my absolute favorite part of history. Science is amazing because, not only does it explain the universe around us, but it helps us discover our history and our place in the universe. Art is fun because I like to make pretty messes and read comic books.
6th Question: What was your favorite class in highschool?
Mrs, Heavlin-Martinez's response: Probably World History or AP Physics.
7th Question: What was your favorite class in college?
Mrs. Heavlin-Martinez's response: Greek Mythology. I love learning the stories.
8th Question: What was a class you succeeded in?
Mrs. Heavlin-Martinez's response: I succeeded in a lot of areas, but I think I was most successful in math, especially Geometry. Not because it was easy, but because I worked hard and did ok, even though it was really difficult for me!
9th Question: What college would you recommend for students?
Mrs. Heavlin-Martinez's response: I would recommend that students do their general education at a community college and then transfer to the university they most like. Not only does it help you get into more college, but it will also save you money in the long run. A 4 year university was very expensive; I wish known that I could transfer after two years!
10th Question: If there was a class in school that you had difficulty in, what was it and why?
Mrs. Heavlin-Martinez's response: I always had trouble with math. I'm a hands-on learner, so it was hard for me to understand equations. This was also before teachers taught students why math was being done the way it was. It was hard for me to wrap my head around the abstract concepts. I feel a lot more confident in math now, thanks to my really patient geometry teacher in high school!


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(CNN) - The McCain-Rumsfeld feud continues with new jabs on both sides, fueled by the release of the former defense secretary's new book.
Quoting from Rumsfeld's upcoming book "Known and Unknown" during an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America," George Stephanopoulos asked McCain to respond to the charge that he has a "hair-triggered temper" and "a propensity to shift his positions to appeal to the media."
The 2008 Republican presidential nominee said "thank God he (Rumsfeld) was relieved of his duties and we put the surge in, otherwise we would have had a disastrous defeat in Iraq."
The two men famously clashed during former President George W. Bush's second term in office. Rumsfeld was the lead architect of the invasion into Iraq in 2003, with which McCain publicly disagreed. The senator was in favor of the war but felt more troops were needed for the incursion to be successful.
"He and I had a very, very strong difference of opinion about the strategy that he was employing in Iraq, which I predicted was doomed to failure," McCain said.
Pphhhttt... both of them led the nation into a disastrous, expensive and utterly unnecessary quagmire. It's a choice of arsenic or cyanide between the two of 'em.
Karl Rove , Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney made the mess still many republicans following their footstep including you Mc Cain
These two are exactly who the current Republican Party still are today – except for the tea-bagger idiots who run arond chanting simple ryhmes about taking the country back, preaching distrust and hatred of our governement and our fellow citizens. These fabricated "memoirs" that keep coming out from the Bush/Cheney years are great for only one thing – to remind us how horrible it was for Americans (and the rest of the world) when the Republican/neo-cons (fascists) ran our country.
Monsters in our White House.
Two failed politicos, one elected, the other appointed. Ten years from now neither will even be a historical footnote.
Two old white farts who are wrong on all the issues. You can actually see when McCain lost his marbles completely...it was during the South Carolina Primary in 2000 when Karl Rove pulled the black baby card on him. After that loss McCain was neither a Mavrick or Honorable any more...he kissed GOP behinds to get to the 2008 election, but by this time he was a shell of a man he used to be...
The War Criminal vs. The P.O.W.
No holds barred finger pointing. I can care less about what either one of them thinks. We shouldn't have been in Iraq in the first place. The surge did work! But it wouldn;t have to work if we didn't invade the country to begin with. One of the major reasons why President Obama was elected was because he was one of the few out of many politicians that voted against this war of fibs and fabrication.
I think that Meghan McCain should just run instead of John in the next election....
I, for one, will not be buying his book or any other political book by those politicians....and people who do are %ools.
I'd rather have a guy with some fire in his belly than a cold, emotionless droid. Yes, I'm talking about McCain and Obama!
They´re both idiots . Rumsfeld for helping to get us into a war we didn´t have to fight
and McCain for bringing Palin into the political picture
I am not a fan of either of these two, but any impartial observer has to admit that McCain was right about the need for more troops. Also, the surge startegy that McCain fought for was the right course
It's true...McCain has a short fuse. Also it is painfully obvious to even the village idiots that McCain constantly changes his mind to appeal to popular opinion. Mostly to prevent loss to primary challengers. First McCain personally launches the immigration bill that endorsed amnesty. Now all of a sudden he is against his own policies featured in his own bill – that has his name stamped on it? Same thing with Cap and Trade... McCain makes me sick. Stick with your principles and quit changing your mind when the wind blows a different direction.
Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, McCain, Palin. Are these really the best people the GOP can come up with?
Rumsfeld and his cronies sent a letter to Clinton when we was President demanding Clinton go to war with Iraq, it's still up on their site. Clinton said no. Rumsfeld only had to wait until a Republican was elected to become the guy to make it happen. NO WMD, just fabricated evidence and lies, not to mention 4000 Americans killed and over 100,000 Iraqis killed.
McCain lining up to take credit for the surge. Rumsfeld blaming everybody else for the Iraq failures. Rumsfeld and Bush getting ready to release their books to make some cash. They should have written their books from prison where they belong. We all deserve blame because we elected those guys and then after we found out they lied to us just to go to war, we re-elected them and patted them on the back.
Powel got it right, got thrown under the bus and rightfully resigned from the Bush administration and voted for Obama next election. If that isn't a telling statement I don't know what is.
why people ask this balloon face mc c. for any military advise?????..he knows crap about it, and he showed it by being shot down in nam, that does not make him not even a war hero or expert onmilitary ffirs, sorry, he is NOTHING.
should have been affairs.....
Senator McCain punched the reporter, put his socks on his hands and stormed out.


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Hi, new to the forum. Starting a thread on a tone circuit I've designed for a guitar I just acquired along with cheap SS amp and some other stuff. The guitar is a 2004 CII Squier Affinity Stratocaster and I'm going to mod the snot out of its controls. Previously I've tried a varitone type circuit in another guitar and didn't care for the rotary switch control, I kept getting cap popping noises when switching. I still wanted a circuit that would alter the tone by changing the tone capacitor value rather than the resistance in series with that capacitor. I found a capacitance multiplier circuit and built on that using Circuit Lab to perform simulations, a great software I couldn't recommend it more if you do this kind of thing on a regular basis.
Here's the schematic I drew up of the circuit,
stratocaster-ultra by ashleyjsmith1996, on Flickr
Followed by some frequency response sweeps
Peak shift sweep,
As you can see the resonant peak can be shifted, the range can be adjusted by altering the resistors in the Variable Capacitor section of the circuit. The Peak VR should be a log Potentiometer but I think finding the part may be tricky.
Peak Sweep by ashleyjsmith1996, on Flickr
Bass cut sweep,
Pretty much a standard bass cut circuit like you would find on a reverend or a G&L, different component values based on my previous experience again would ideally need a reverse log pot.
Bass Sweep by ashleyjsmith1996, on Flickr
Volume sweep,
Just wanted to show that the buffer's doing its job.
Volume Sweep by ashleyjsmith1996, on Flickr
I've played around combining pot positions to make sure that everything behaves well and it does so that's good. I just need to get this thing wired up and then make a few adjustments to some component values if something doesn't sound ideal.
Let me know what you think and if anyone knows where I can get a half decent 500k reverse log pot let me know otherwise I'm wiring them backwards also the OP amp is powered using 2 9v batteries in series with a centre tap to ground.


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Texas on the Potomac regularly shares with you the work of some of Hearst Newspapers' best columnists. Today, we are pleased to share with you this commentary by San Antonio Express-News columnist O. Ricardo Pimentel.
There is a telling paragraph in the U.S. District Court opinion last year that found Texas deliberately discriminated against minorities in redistricting.
"In the last four decades, Texas has found itself in court every redistricting cycle, and each time it has lost."
Such serial stubbornness is a sign of many things, but not redemption. Texas is not reformed of its discriminatory past. It has merely rebranded — in Coca-Cola Classic fashion. Funny, tastes just like the old discrimination.
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case whose outcome will have a profound effect on whether Texas and other states and political jurisdictions with histories of voter discrimination get away with this flim-flam.
That case is Shelby County, Alabama vs. Eric H. Holder, determining whether the federal government, through Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, can continue to stop discrimination in these "covered" jurisdictions before it takes effect. It requires pre-clearance of new election laws.
Alabama and Texas essentially argue that the states and the nation are post-racial. And, in citing the court's and federal government's disapproval of its voter ID law, Texas also uses the others-get-to-do-it (Indiana, in this case) argument.
But the problem is that how Texas does it makes it an over-achieving outlier even among other bad actors.
The U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, in denying Texas redistricting pre-clearance under Section 5, said of Texas's state House maps: "This testimony is concerning because it shows a deliberate race-conscious method to manipulate not simply the Democratic vote but, more specifically, the Hispanic vote."
Just to refresh memories, the 2010 Census revealed that minorities accounted for about 90 percent — Latinos alone, 65 percent — of the growth that netted Texas four new congressional districts. Yet the state did not draw maps representative of the growth. The district court rejected the 2012 maps, a federal court in San Antonio providing interim maps.
And here's what a group of political scientists and law professors wrote in a brief about "covered" states such as Texas:
"….. states that are fully covered by Section 5 are more than twice as likely as non-covered states to adopt policies that make voting more difficult for voters."
Texas notes that the Supreme Court turned back challenges to Indiana's voter ID law, "similar," it says, to Texas' law.
Not so similar, actually. The court that rejected Texas' voter ID law said that Texas' law was more restrictive than either Indiana's or Georgia's. Effects fall disproportionately on low-income voters of color unable to travel long Texas distances to get state IDs and less inclined or able to pay the money for the IDs needed to get the state IDs.
To read a list of Section 5 cases is to read of Texas and its jurisdictions figuring prominently as major offenders. And the bad ol' days of voter discrimination? They occurred just last year, with that D.C. court ruling against Texas in redistricting and voter ID.
Had there been no Section 5, the state's discriminatory maps would have been in force for elections last year and voters would have had to endure the gantlet of voter ID.
Texas, in urging the high court to eliminate Section 5, is essentially saying that it would prefer no one looking when it does anew what it has a sordid history of doing.
This high court might just let it. And it will still be discrimination by some other name.


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MARIANNA (AP) � Standing in front of a small group eating fried chicken and Southern food, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson recalled how this small town got a fire truck with the help of the federal stimulus.
MARIANNA (AP) � Standing in front of a small group eating fried chicken and Southern food, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson recalled how this small town got a fire truck with the help of the federal stimulus.
Nelson later on the same swing through North Florida stressed the need for federal research dollars when he visited the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in the state capital.
As the lone remaining Democrat elected statewide in Florida, Nelson has no problems defending his votes for the stimulus and other federal programs including President Barack Obama�s health care overhaul.
�This isn�t welfare,� Nelson said about block grants for cities and counties. �What this is is the lifeblood of helping communities when they are coming out of an economic recession being able to take care of their people.�
Nelson�s campaign visit through Northwest Florida this past week was meant to stress his connections to the state�s rural past. One part of the trip included a visit to three family generations buried outside a Baptist Church in rural Washington County.
But along the way Nelson used his twang and folksy style � which includes plenty of stories about his family and Florida history � as a counter to the constant refrain put forth by his Republican challenger, Republican Connie Mack IV, that he is in lockstep with Obama.
�I support the president when I think he�s right and I oppose him when I think he�s wrong,� said Nelson, who is seeking a third term.
He points out he has worked with Republicans on Everglades restoration, the future of the space program and legislation to guarantee the bulk of fines from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill would go to Gulf states. Nelson generally votes with Democrats, but there have been times he parted ways with the majority including over the 2008 bailout of major banks.
Nelson draws a contrast between himself and Mack by contending Mack�s push for budget cuts are a �mindless approach� that would hurt communities and result in job cuts. He says his rival is part of a group that insists �my way or no way.�
�This shrillness and this polarization in politics has got to stop,� Nelson said. �That�s why I am staying in the game.�
The 70-year-old Nelson has had a career arc that stretches to the nation�s capital from his childhood in Brevard County, where he wound up selling cattle to help pay for his college expenses, first at the University of Florida and then Yale. He spent time in both the Florida Legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the first House member to fly on the space shuttle.
But a bid for governor in 1990 almost derailed his career.
Nelson was derided as an �empty suit� in a devastating profile that ran in Florida Trend magazine. Former U.S. Sen. Lawton Chiles jumped into the race late and thrashed Nelson by a two-to-one margin in the Democratic primary.
Long-time friend Charlie Lydecker, who served as a finance chairman for that failed bid for governor, credited Nelson�s religious faith for helping him get over the loss. He said Nelson spent hours combing through Florida law books where he decided he could help consumers by running for insurance commissioner in 1994.
�I think he�s exactly what he appears to be,� Lydecker said. �He is a public servant, true blue and all the way through.�
That view is echoed by Jim Towey, the president of Ava Maria University who worked for former President George W. Bush. Towey has political differences with Nelson over abortion and the health care overhaul. But they have been friends for two decades dating back when the two men held Bible study sessions together in Tallahassee.
�He and I know that we can have political disagreement and still be friends,� Towey said. �It doesn�t run to the heart of who he is ... I think he�s sincere about his faith, he�s sincere about his public service.�
A decade after his loss in the governor�s race, Nelson made his first bid for the U.S. Senate. He defeated Bill McCollum in a race to succeed Connie Mack III � the father of his current GOP rival. He then won a second term by decisively defeating former Secretary of State Katherine Harris, one of the central figures in the chaotic presidential recount of 2000.
George LeMieux said he had a good working relationship with Nelson during the 18 months LeMieux served in the U.S. Senate. But he contended Nelson still needs to be replaced because he sides too many times with Democratic leaders.
�He�s a fine guy, but he votes for the wrong things in my view,� LeMieux said. �On the votes that matter, Bill Nelson voted with the Democrats.�
That doesn�t seem to bother W.K. Johnson, a Republican voter listening to Nelson during his lunchtime stop in Marianna. He said he was sticking with Nelson because of his �humble beginnings� and his willingness to help people regardless of their political affiliation.
�That�s the American way,� Johnson said.
It could be tempting to consider this Nelson�s final election after four decades in politics. But Nelson isn�t ready to say that�s so.
�I don�t want you to limit me in any way,� said a laughing Nelson.


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The Cowboys beat the Redskins 31-16 on Sunday night to move to 3-3 on the year, but they lost a couple of starters on the way to the winner's circle.
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Murray has been diagnosed with a sprained left MCL and will have an MRI on Monday to determine the extent of the injury. After the game, quarterback Tony Romo said, via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, "that's going to be a tough loss" although there's been nothing from the team about how long they expect Murray to be out. If Murray does miss a game or more, it will be the third time in three NFL seasons that he is forced out of the lineup by injury.
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The Rio+20 Earth Summit, our Green Weenie Award winner this week, is grinding along, and has produced a draft declaration entitled "The Future We Want." If the whole thing weren't so insubstantial and unserious (they don't even try any more to offer any rigorous definition of "sustainable development"), it might be worth critiquing. It has 283 numbered points in 49 stupefying pages.
A better way to get through this would be to stage a reading with the Mystery Science Theater 3000 format, with Tom Servo, Mike Nelson, and Crow heckling these self-appointed, self-important clowns. For example, take point number 16 reads, which reads in total:
We reaffirm our commitment to fully implement the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and the Plan of Implementation) of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the Barbados Programme of Action and the Mauritius Strategy for Implementation. We also reaffirm our commitment to the full implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action for Least Developed Countries (IPOA), . . .
Feel free to start giggling at any time you feel like it. . .
. . . the Almaty Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries, the Political declaration on Africa's development needs, and the New Partnership for Africa's Development. We recall as well our commitments in the outcomes of all the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and environmental fields, including the UN Millennium Declaration and the 2005 World Summit outcome, the Monterrey Consensus and the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development, the outcome document of the High-Level Plenary Meeting of the UN General Assembly on the MDGs, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Key Actions for Further Implementation of the Programme of Action, and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
I think they left out the earnest Duluth Community College Faculty Resolution on Behalf of Green Things Everywhere. I'm sure the General Assembly will correct this oversight right away. Right after they stop the killing in Syria. Wait! In fact, point 257 reads: "We request the General Assembly to consider this report and take appropriate actions." Happy day! More resolutions from Turtle Bay.
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