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My research focuses on social communication and behavioral ecology of marine mammals. I record and describe the behaviour patterns of marine mammals in order to elucidate their function, often using novel research tools. I seek to unravel how the marine environment and anthropogenic stressors such as sonar might influence foraging, social interactions, swimming behaviour, and body condition.
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Novel methods to study body condition of cetaceans at sea
Body condition influences how animals trade-off foraging and anti-predator behaviors, and modulates responses to human disturbance. However, current methods for estimating lipid store body condition in cetaceans are descriptive or do not measure full-body fat stores. In this study, we are working to validate, establish and utilize a novel, non-invasive method to measure total body lipid-stores of free-ranging cetaceans by analysis of their underwater swimming pattern. The results of this study will establish and validate an innovative technique to measure body condition in cetaceans, and examine the interplay of body condition with foraging and anti-predator behaviors and reproductive status of females.
Killer whales in the North Atlantic
Killer whales are generalist predators as a species, but each population seems to be remarkably specialized on certain prey types. This project seeks to describe natural behaviour of killer whales in the North Atlantic, focusing upon interatctions between foraging behaviour, social interactions and acoustic communication of herring-feeding killer whales. Work in this area also seeks to explore interactions of killer whales with other speces, and how killer whales respond to underwater noise.
Effects of noise on cetaceans and other animals
The underwater environment is subject to the input of noise from human activities, but there are wide gaps in our understanding about how noise might affect marine mammals. My work within the international collaboration known as '3S' has focused on describing how several species of cetaceans respond to experimental presentation of sonar and various control sounds including killer whale sounds. To aid in management of this important problem, a key component of this work is to determine the levels of noise at which responses start I am using animal models ranging from the fruit fly D montana to long-finned pilot whale to explore how noise influences communication systems and how signallers might respond to noise within ecological and evolutionary time scales.
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Dear Community and Friends of EMU:
All of us in the EMU community mourn with the families and community of Newtown, Connecticut. We are shocked beyond words and we struggle to know how to pray and act, but we must pray (even if in silence) and we must act.
Something is horribly wrong in a society where little children and others regularly fear for their lives. While we are understandably drawn into the story of a mass shooting like this one, let us never forget that many in our nation and around the world are grieving for lost loved ones every single day. May God give us all wisdom and courage to be agents of shalom!
I commend three statements for your reflection: the first by our Vice President and Seminary Dean, Dr. Michael King; the second by Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace laureate and a master's degree alumna of EMU; and the third posted prior to this tragedy by Mennonite Central Committee, announcing an initiative titled "Fear not: Seek peace in our communities."
Dear Seminary Community,
With the rest of you, I've been feeling my way through Friday's terrible news. It has been hard to know what if anything to say amid such a horrifying mix of deaths of children combined with what seems our country's omnipresent temptation to turn anything these days into political warfare.
But one biblical text has kept coming to me, that of Rachel in Ramah weeping for her children. After seeing it referenced this morning for the third time or so, I thought maybe worth passing on the latest encounter with it, this one offered by Mark Galli in Christianity Today.
As Galli puts it, "we live in a world where Rachel weeps for her children. Where mothers wail and fathers curse because their children are no more. Where friends go mute, and bloodied children stand shocked, and a nation mourns, and a President weeps – for 20 innocent children in Connecticut."
My fallible take on the rest of Galli's column is that it eloquently offers us pertinent theological and social commentary but risks not quite getting us from the "Enough is enough" of the "Innocent One," as he puts it, to the changes required for the enough is enough of Christ the prince of peace to ripple out into the social fabric of a nation in which Rachel is weeping far too often.
To say more now risks adding to the political toxins. But I do hope and pray that at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, at Eastern Mennonite University, and in our congregations and other sites of ministry and scholarship, we can seek ways to mourn, to experience a God who with Rachel and all bereft parents weeps in Ramah and in Newtown, and to discern what "Enough is enough" calls us to as individuals, Christians involved in serving and leading or training for it, and participants in or critics of our culture.
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Well, I promised a posting with a few pictures of the house all empty. I didn't take pictures of all the rooms, but this is to just give you an idea. And, for good measure, I'm including some pics of when we first moved in just to give you an idea of how far some of these spaces have come…
Here's the family room prior to us moving in three years ago:
…and here it is when I snapped a few pics of it before we closed the door that last time. It's amazing how much more homey it feels with curtains:
Our dining room/front hallway when we moved in:
…and here it is after lots of paint and a new chandelier:
The room of requirement, looking pretty dark and bleak at move in time:
…and here's what he looked like the day we moved out. With storage and love to spare (and a complete 180 degree turn from the original photo above):
The Guest bedroom, looking pretty sparse on day 1:
..and here it is three years later, with beautiful crown molding and beadboard that we installed ourselves:
…and the Laundry Room, way back in 2009, sans washer/dryer and cabinetry:
…and loaded up with storage, lighting and cabinetry galore that we installed awhile back (more on that project here). We also purchased a couple of used appliances to be used for the future renters that might call this place home:
…and, of course, last but not least, the Master Bathroom back in 2009, all grody and boring and foreclosed upon:
…and here she is all beautiful and gleaming and glamorous. You're welcome, bathroom. You are definitely proof positive that sometimes things do improve with age:
It was an emotional walk-through. Mixed feelings doesn't even begin to describe it. When you put so much of your blood, sweat and tears into a house, it's hard to see it as "just a house". At the same time, I'm also super excited to be tackling a "new" project down in California, but since we're only renting, it will be interesting to see how we can manage that without, ya know, tearing down walls. This house was most definitely ours so tackling a massive project like the bathroom or the laundry room required only the limits of our imaginations and our pocketbooks. Le sigh…Goodbye, house! You were lots of fun, lots of Maalox and lots of Painkillers…but you were worth it. 🙂
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The Mars Volta broke up in January. And considering the last few albums, it's probably for the best.
For a while, nothing beat the psychedelic, Spanish-tinged prog-rock. In high school, I couldn't get enough of De-Loused in the Comatorium or Frances the Mute. I remember driving right past my house on a summer night, Volta blasting through my '88 Acura speakers, not allowing myself to go home until I got through the few acts of Cassandra Gemini.
Led by the high-pitched Cedric Bixler Zavala and guitar virtuoso Omar Rodriguez Lopez, The Mars Volta split earlier this year when Omar wanted to tour and spend all of his time on a new band, Bosnian Rainbows.
Cedric and Omar have gone their separate ways for now, and Omar brings his incredible musicianship and absolute shredding to more low key, dark and beautiful music. Combined with the vocal talents of Terri Gender Bender, ex-Mars Volta drummer Deantoni Parks and keyboardist Nicci Kasper, they create a sound described as ethereal, yet direct.
The closest music that fits the description is Bat for Lashes, another band that features lush synthesizers, female vocals and layer after layer of atmospheric soundscape.
Cedric has gone his own way too, starting up a new band that couldn't sound more different. He's brought along the former Mars Volta bassist Juan Alderete to create a more groove-worthy, classic rock sound.
Ironically, both bands recently toured San Francisco within a week of each other. Zavalaz played Cafe Du Nord on June 21st and Bosnian Rainbows headlined a show at the Great American Music Hall last night, June 28.
I was lucky enough to catch Bosnian Rainbows live last night at the Great American Music Hall, for the second time in a handful of months (the first at The New Parish in Oakland). Lopez's rapid-fire fingers and deep guitar grooves make him a performer that cannot be missed.
In Bosnian Rainbows, he plays the role of teammate and band member much more than band leader, likely because of the collaborative nature he has mentioned about this group. Omar was basically director of Mars Volta, which tended to mean dictator. The shredding takes a back seat, but is still prominent, and Lopez even lends his voice to a few tracks, something he never did live with the Volta.
Zavalaz, at least on the surface, is the weaker of the two. Cedric is talented, and his omnipresent whines and wild lyrics that thread in and out of Spanish and English lend better to a concept band like The Mars Volta than a straight rock outfit like Zavalaz. I'm eager to see the direction this band goes and whether the sum of the Volta parts is, or is not, greater than the whole.
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Yale vs Saint Peter's (Oct 05, 2010 at Jersey City, NJ)
Yale (4-6-1) vs.
Saint Peter's (3-9)
Date: Oct 05, 2010 Attendance: 379
Weather: 59 degrees, overcast, winds 14mph from the west
Saint Peter's
Officials: Referee: Hossam Saad; Asst. Referee: Demetrios Memos; Richard Champion;
Officials: Referee: Hossam Saad; Asst. Referee: Demetrios Memos; Richard Champion;
Play-by-Play Summary
Yale University
Yale vs Saint Peter's (Oct 05, 2010 at Jersey City, NJ)
|[00:00] Sumiyasu, Ayana at goalie for Yale.
|[00:00] Ronan, Erin at goalie for Saint Peter's.
|[01:58] GOAL by YALE Mullo, Enma (FIRST GOAL), Assist by Forster, Kristen.
|Yale 1, Saint Peter's 0
|[08:17] Offside against Saint Peter's.
|[13:30] Offside against Saint Peter's.
|[16:53] GOAL by YALE Hino, Miyuki, Assist by Macauley, Kate and Forster, Kristen.
|Yale 2, Saint Peter's 0
|[20:38] Shot by SPC Lisanti, Jamie, SAVE Sumiyasu, Ayana.
|[21:02] Shot by SPC Fenice, Emily WIDE.
|[22:37] Shot by SPC Zmolek, Chloe, SAVE Sumiyasu, Ayana.
|[23:19] Shot by YALE Forster, Kristen HIGH.
|[23:44] SPC substitution: Kay, Valerie for Zmolek, Chloe.
|[23:44] SPC substitution: Barry, Jackie for Connolly, Danielle.
|Foul on Saint Peter's.
|[28:22] YALE substitution: Kubiuk, Mary for Hino, Miyuki.
|[28:22] YALE substitution: Schloth, Jessica for Berkanish, Trish.
|[28:22] YALE substitution: Romine, Natalie for Jeffrey, Juliann.
|Foul on Yale.
|[32:41] YALE substitution: Song, Anne for Mullo, Enma.
|[32:41] SPC substitution: Moose, Samantha for Neiswanger, Maggie.
|[37:39] Shot by SPC Kay, Valerie HIT CROSSBAR.
|[39:55] Shot by YALE Song, Anne BLOCKED.
|[41:00] Offside against Yale.
|[41:19] Offside against Saint Peter's.
|Foul on Yale.
|Foul on Yale.
|[44:16] Shot by SPC Lisanti, Jamie, SAVE Sumiyasu, Ayana.
|End of period [45:00].
|Start of 2nd period [45:00].
|For YALE: #0 Sumiyasu, Ayana, #20 Macauley, Kate, #5 Forster, Kristen, #22 McSweeney, Shannon, #9 Mullo, Enma, #11 McCahon, Anna, #2 Hino, Miyuki, #4 Berkanish, Trish, #10 Jeffrey, Juliann, #18 Brown, Becky, #3 Leroy, Torrey.
|For SPC: #0 Hoffer, Caitlin, #24 Barry, Jackie, #21 Zmolek, Chloe, #6 Sundstrom, Courtney, #22 Gregory, Madison, #3 Neiswanger, Maggie, #11 Moose, Samantha, #2 Tommasini, Maria, #9 Grimes, Dana, #13 Lockhart, Samantha, #20 Lisanti, Jamie.
|[48:07] Offside against Saint Peter's.
|[49:30] Shot by SPC Barry, Jackie, SAVE Sumiyasu, Ayana.
|[50:50] Shot by YALE Jeffrey, Juliann HIGH.
|Foul on Yale.
|Foul on Yale.
|[57:37] Offside against Yale.
|[58:09] SPC substitution: Fenice, Emily for Sundstrom, Courtney.
|[59:34] Offside against Yale.
|[61:28] Shot by SPC Moose, Samantha WIDE.
|Foul on Yale.
|[64:25] Shot by YALE Brown, Becky HIGH.
|[65:49] SPC substitution: Sundstrom, Courtney for Lisanti, Jamie.
|[67:56] Shot by YALE Macauley, Kate, SAVE Ronan, Erin.
|[69:11] Shot by YALE Brown, Becky, SAVE Ronan, Erin.
|[71:31] Shot by YALE Hino, Miyuki, SAVE TEAM.
|[74:33] SPC substitution: Lisanti, Jamie for DeStefano, Brianna.
|[74:33] SPC substitution: Kay, Valerie for Moose, Samantha.
|[74:33] YALE substitution: Schloth, Jessica for Jeffrey, Juliann.
|Foul on Yale.
|[79:03] YALE substitution: Kubiuk, Mary for Macauley, Kate.
|[79:03] YALE substitution: Romine, Natalie for Hino, Miyuki.
|Corner kick by YALE Mullo, Enma [80:35].
|[81:49] Shot by YALE Kubiuk, Mary BLOCKED.
|[83:50] SPC substitution: Connolly, Danielle for Tommasini, Maria.
|[83:50] YALE substitution: Song, Anne for Mullo, Enma.
|[86:13] Shot by YALE Kubiuk, Mary, SAVE Ronan, Erin.
|Corner kick by YALE Song, Anne [86:42].
|Foul on Yale.
|Foul on Yale.
|End of period [90:00].


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For a guy who once said he hadn't played a video game since "Pong," President Barack Obama sure has a lot to say about video games these days.
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Alas, most of the time, the leader of the free world doesn't seem to have much good to say about games.
On Tuesday, during a speech to school children, Obama urged the future of America to spend less time playing video games.
"I've talked about teachers' responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to learn," he said. "I've talked about your parents' responsibility for making sure you stay on track and you get your homework done, and don't spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with the Xbox."
His speech arrived as children across the U.S. have begun fastening thinking caps securely to their skulls and diving headlong back into school. So it's certainly no surprise that the Dad-in-Chief would want to encourage the nation's children to buckle down and focus on their education.
But as GamePolitics.com points out, Tuesday's speech was not the first time Obama has made a point of pointing a judgmental finger at video games. The President has, on numerous occasions, used video games as an example of how the youth of America wastes its precious time. His standard mantra is: Spend less time playing games so you can spend more time doing important things.
In a Father's Day message, Obama told dads everywhere that, "We need to replace that video game with a book and make sure that homework gets done…" And in a speech to the American Medical Association, the prez said that kids should "step away from the video games and spend more time playing outside."
But for many people — children and adults alike — playing video games is important. For them, it's time well spent. So what should video game enthusiasts make of Obama's anti-gaming pep talks. Is he a hater, like, for real?
Nintendo fanboy in disguise?
While gamers tend to start booing and hissing every time Obama utters a half-sentence about their favorite form of entertainment, I say, "Whoa there nelly!"
I think we should thank our lucky stars we have a leader who knows that video games exist in the first place. After all, our commander-in-chief seems to understand that an Xbox is not a device that tells us why airplanes fall out of the sky. And I call that progress.
Don't you see ... it all makes sense now! Clearly the president isn't a hater … he's just a Nintendo fanboy in disguise. What else could explain his repeated dissing of the Xbox?
To wit: In July, Obama had this to say at the NAACP's 100th Anniversary dinner: "For our kids to excel, we must accept our responsibility to help them learn. That means putting away the Xbox and putting our kids to bed at a reasonable hour."
Yeah, like, total burn.
Microsoft has issued the following statement in response to the recent presidential bad-mouthing:
"We agree with President Obama that it is a time for families to work together to ensure kids use media in ways that are safer, healthy and balanced. To that end, earlier this year Microsoft launched GetGameSmart.com, where anyone can get information about using parental controls, such as the Xbox 360 Family Timer, so parents can set limits on what games their kids are play, and how much time they spend online."
(Msnbc.com is a Microsoft-NBC Universal joint venture.)
Hold on a second. Now that I think about it, perhaps Obama is actually an Xbox fanboy. That is, I have a sneaking suspicion that the folks at Microsoft mayhap don't mind the Xbox's new status as the Kleenex of video game consoles. After all, the most powerful man in the world has begun to use the word "Xbox" as a generic term for all video games. Negative message or not, you just can't beat that kind of product placement.
Where's the love?
Ultimately, if we game players are being honest with ourselves, we can't say that Obama's messages have been entirely off the mark.
After all, who among us hasn't spent too much time absorbed in a video game when other, more important tasks were at hand. Tasks like studying and exercising. Tasks like cleaning out the kitty litter and shaving our long-neglected legs. (We here at Citizen Gamer tend to play far too many video games when we're supposed to be busily writing this very column … about video games. Oh, the irony.)
Ultimately, there's nothing wrong with a message of moderation — which is what Obama seems most keen to promote. He understands that kids, more than anyone, need to be carefully shepherded toward that middle road.
Still, the folks at the Entertainment Consumers Association (a game consumers' advocacy group) may be on to something. They've found Obama's ongoing comments so concerning that they recently started a letter-writing campaign.
"Throughout the Presidential race and continuing into his Presidency, President Obama on numerous occasions has said 'put the video games away'," the ECA site explains. "As a gamer and a voter, we're asking you to email President Obama to point out some of the ways that video games have empowered and educated you."
Yes, it would be nice if our president — a modern, tech-savvy leader if there ever was one — could temper his message with a little bit of love for a pastime and an industry that brings so much joy to the masses. Perhaps he's too busy with wars overseas and an economic meltdown to notice that video games are not simply a waste of time — but a vibrant, creative and ever-evolving form of art and storytelling ... that they can make people's lives better and can bring people together. Certainly he doesn't seem to understand that gaming and education don't always have to conflict with one another.
In fact, we here at Citizen Gamer headquarters (all one of us) believe video games and school smarts can hold hands and skip merrily across the playground together. And we're not alone.
"I think games are the future in education," Harvard Professor Edward O. Wilson recently told game designer Will Wright (creator of "The Sims" and "Spore") during an NPR interview. Wilson envisions a future in which gaming allows children to more deeply engage with what they're learning.
Meanwhile in the here and now, there a plethora of "edutainment" games out there — games that use today's technology to stuff our children's head full of smarts. But if those kinds of titles tend to inspire jaded eye-rolls from savvy young game enthusiasts, you don't have to look far to find mainstream video games that encourage players to boot their brains into high gear. Though they may seem like frivolous fun, these games could qualify as some seriously studious homework.
With that in mind …
Dear President Obama, in the spirit of this back-to-school time of year, I'd like to offer you this list of some recently-launched video games. You can feel good knowing the children of America are playing these games and perhaps getting a wee bit smarter in the process.
"Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box"
"Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box"
"Bookworm Adventures: Vol. 2"
Imagine if you will a word game crossed with a role-playing game. In "Bookworm Adventures: Vol. 2" words are your weapons. And the bigger the words you create with the letters you're given, the better you'll do in an ongoing battle against a host of fairy tale baddies. Pump up your vocabulary for English class right here.
Don't put that Xbox away just yet. We can't possibly sing the praises of the new game "Kodu" enough. Available for download via Xbox Live, "Kodu" is both a game and a game-creation tool. It not only teaches youngsters (and not-so-youngsters) the basic concepts behind computer programming in a fun, easy-to-engage way, it also allows them to create their very own video games. "Kodu" is something every budding game developer should own.
"Silent Conversation"
"Silent Conversation"
"Big Brain Wolf"
Nintendo's "Brain Age" game popularized so-called brain-training games a few years back, and ever since there's been no shortage of titles designed to exercise our gray matter while entertaining us at the same time. My new favorite — which is less a pure brain-training game than it is a mix of brain-training, adventure gaming and puzzle solving — is the PC game "Big Brain Wolf." The puzzles are superb and the fairy tale satire that surrounds it is quite funny. But please note, this one is probably best suited for older students.
"Big Brain Wolf"
"Oregon Trail"
"Oregon Trail"
When Winda Benedetti isn't spending too much time playing video games, she's spending too much time tweeting about playing video games on Twitter here.
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The View From 1776
§ American Traditions
§ People and Ideas
§ Decline of Western Civilization: a Snapshot
§ Books to Read
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
In American colleges and universities, truth is equated to a phantasmic view of the world, in which socialism is the ultimate revelation of truth and justice. Harvard's coat of arms bears the motto "Veritas," the Latin word for truth; Yale's, "Lux et Veritas," light and truth. Both institutions since the early 1900s have used the word truth in the same sense and to the same ends as the Soviets employed it in their propaganda journal "Pravda," a Russian word meaning truth.
The following article is scheduled for publication in the forthcoming Republican Voices newsletter.
Socialism that is taught as multi-culturalism and political correctness in our colleges and universities today was planted and cultivated more than a century ago. The bitter fruit of this industry is our liberal Republicans and liberal Democrats, who find repugnant the ethos of 1776 upon which our nation was founded.
Liberal-Progressive anti-Americanism and opposition to national defense are explicit in the doctrine espoused openly from the late 1800s through the Vietnam era. Today's liberal Democrats and liberal Republicans, seeking political advantage even at the expense of emboldening terrorists in Iraq and disheartening our troops, are simply reading from the socialist scripts of 1916-17, the 1930s, and the 1960s.
Even before the 1917 Russian Revolution, leading universities in the United States had begun a transition from the Christian roots of our nation into atheistic, secular materialism in their teaching of the so-called social sciences.
Nominally-Christian theological seminaries were in the vanguard of the movement toward socialism. Rochester Theological Seminary's professor Walter Rauschenbusch, one of the best known socialist spokesmen of his era, was a founder of the Social Gospel movement late in the 19th century. Social Gospel was nothing more nor less than socialism masquerading as Christianity.
Social Gospel embraced the avowed aims of socialism, which sound similar to the results that flow from the Bible's commandment to love one's neighbor as he would wish to have his neighbor love him. The insurmountable problem is that socialism, and therefore Social Gospel, is atheistic and materialistic, i.e., the antithesis of Christianity and religious Judaism.
To believe that Social Gospel is true Christianity is to believe that the Soviet dictatorship of the proletariat was truly democratic.
In "Christianizing the Social Order" (1912), Professor Rauschenbusch wrote:
"The Socialists found the Church against them and thought God was against them, too. They have had to do God's work without the sense of God's presence to hearten them…..Whatever the sins of individual Socialists, and whatever the shortcomings of Socialist organizations, they are tools in the hands of the Almighty…....Socialism is one of the chief powers of the coming age…...God will raise up Socialism because the organized Church was too blind, or too slow, to realize God's ends."
Two other prominent seminaries, among many others, were active promoters of socialism. Their spokesmen also were nationally known figures: Dr. Harry F. Ward of Union Theological Seminary in New York and Dr. Bernard Iddings-Bell of St. Stephens College in Annandale, New York.
Dr. Ward wrote "The New Social Order," to express sympathy for Socialism and to laud the Bolshevik revolutionary movement in Russia, which he regarded as a desirable replacement for the Russian Orthodox Christian Church. Dr. Ward also was chairman of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which actively defended the terrorist tactics of the radical IWW labor organization, whose members murdered more than a dozen employees and executives of industrial companies they sought to intimidate with demands for labor seizure of management control.
Dr. Iddings-Bell in "Right and Wrong After the War," in this case World War I, advocated Sigmund Freud's version of Marxian materialism, in which human life is controlled by hunger and the sex urge. From this theory of secular and materialistic human nature, he concluded that (1) private property should be abolished; (2) income earned from investments, savings accounts, and rental property is robbery; (3) the family as a social unit should be abandoned except as a temporary arrangement for purely sexual relations.
In his sermon delivered on May 23, 1920, at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Dr. Iddings-Bell gave his support to revolutionary labor demands for abolishment of the wage system and control of industry by communistic labor unions.
He declared that the New Social Order had arrived and that people were obliged to accept it. Among other things, that meant that internationalism must replace American patriotism.
The American Federation of Teachers, in the May-June, 1918, issue of its house journal the "American Teacher," carried an article expressing the revolutionary industrial theory that children should be taught to demand "industrial democracy," of which it said, "...it is by the people who do the work that the hours of labor, the conditions of employment and the definition of property is to be made. It is by them the captains of industry are to be chosen, and chosen by the servants, not masters."
The InterCollegiate Socialist Society was organized in New York in 1905. Its monthly magazine, the "Socialist Review" and volumes of socialistic pamphlets, were distributed to chapters in 87 colleges and universities, including, of course, Harvard and Yale. Its influence was even greater than this alone suggests, because its founders included prominent writers Upton Sinclair and Jack London, whose novels became part of the required canon of American literature in university curricula. Their socialistic views still today are being absorbed by callow students who assume that the writers' status in the literary canon confers authority for their views.
According to the InterCollegiate Socialist Society's year book, "...in 1915-1916 John Spargo, Rose Pastor Stokes and Harry W. Laidler spoke in 120 colleges before over 30,000 students and 12,000 others. They addressed some eighty economic and other classes and spoke before over a score of entire college bodies."
Out of this milieu in 1919 came New York City's New School for Social Research, dedicated to teaching manifestations of socialism in all academic disciplines. Among its founders were historian Charles Beard, economists Thorstein Veblen and James Harvey Robinson, and philosopher John Dewey, all active and avowed socialists.
Meanwhile, in the prestigious Ivy League, Harvard set the trend in motion and went farther than most universities toward full embrace of socialism as revealed truth. Given the nature of Marxian materialism, economics was not surprisingly the discipline in which socialism was particularly prominent in the 1920s and 1930s. Harvard was, in fact, the launching pad for Keynesian economics in the United States.
John Maynard Keynes's doctrines have filled many books. The relevant points can be stated as (1) the Depression was caused by people saving too much and not spending enough on consumption items to keep factory workers fully employed; (2) private business (capitalism) was unable in the modern world to sustain full employment at good wages; (3) therefore the government had to assume the role formerly occupied by private business and fund economic activity and research in order to restore full employment via running Federal deficits, the first such outside of war times; (4) government should raise taxes high enough to redistribute private wealth from the rich to the poor, via government transfer payments (the welfare state); (5) government departments should regulate all phases of economic activity, because academically trained administrators were smarter and better equipped to manage business than businessmen, who exploited workers for their own profit.
Harvard's economics department has sheltered some prominent socialists and avowed communists. One of the more notorious was Harry Dexter White, a Rooseveltian New Dealer. Being a professor at Harvard opened the doors to major Federal appointments. White was closely involved in establishing the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and was a friend of John Maynard Keynes, whose socialistic economics doctrines he taught at Harvard.
There was just one small fly in the ointment. After his death, the FBI in 1950 positively identified him via the Venona project as a Soviet spy operating under the code name 'Jurist.' This confirmed testimony of Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers that White had been involved in the Communist party underground in the 1930s and had been an active Soviet spy during World War II.
Lauchlin Currie, another Harvard economics teacher of Keynesianism, was appointed from the Harvard faculty to staff position in the 1930s New Deal at the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board. It was Currie who drafted the 1935 Banking Act which brought the Federal Reserve Board more directly under President Franklin Roosevelt's control.
After World War II, Currie was also identified by Elizabeth Bently and Whittaker Chambers as a Soviet agent. Rather than face trial here, he sought refuge in Columbia, beyond U.S. repatriational jurisdiction.
Yet another of the thirteen Harvard faculty members who spied for the Soviets was Alger Hiss. While at the State Department, he delivered confidential information to his Soviet handlers, as Whittaker Chambers testified and KGB files verified after the end of the Cold war.
Other prominent, or notorious, socialists who taught at Harvard or graduated from that institution were Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, Walter Lippmann (who later saw the error of his ways), Roger N. Baldwin (founder of the ACLU), Stuart Chase (who coined the term New Deal and urged President Roosevelt to run rough-shod over the Constitution in order to abolish private property); Graham Wallas (British socialist leader who coined the term Great Society, later borrowed by President Lyndon Johnson); Bertrand Russell (a dean of world socialism); and Harold Laski (Harvard faculty member and close friend of socialist Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., later professor of economics at London School of Economics, which was dedicated to the teaching of socialism). John Reed, a Harvard graduate (1910) wrote for Max Eastman's "The Masses" and, after the 1917 revolution, went to Soviet Russia, became a Bolshevik convert, wrote "Ten Days That Shook The World," died in Russia, and was declared a hero of the Soviet Union.
In the decades between the two world wars, it was considered respectable for an educated, liberal person to be a socialistic adherent of the policies of British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, a Fabian socialist, or a follower of John Maynard Keynes's economic doctrines. These are the liberals who, like Nelson Rockefeller, are nominal Republicans or Democrats, but in fact are true-blue socialists. People of that persuasion in the inter-war decades abhorred a communist party leader like Earl Browder or Joseph Stalin, or National Socialist Fuhrer Adolph Hitler. Yet all of these people were reading from the same socialistic texts and pursuing the same ends, even if by somewhat different means.
During the Cold War, Harvard's swing all the way to the socialist left was documented by The New York Times on May 16, 1960, when it reported that "1,359 Harvard faculty members and officers urged [President] Eisenhower, at the eve of the abortive Summit Conference, to agree to stop testing nuclear weapons even without inspection or control." The Times article goes on to note that this was exactly the position advocated by the Kremlin in its worldwide propaganda campaign intended to disarm the United States.
By the end of World War II, "Lux et Veritas" (light and truth) had been effectively snuffed out at Yale, as William F. Buckley, Jr. documented in detail in his 1951 "God and Man at Yale." Faculty, textbooks, and course materials had been thoroughly permeated by socialism.
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Forum template for PHPRunner 5.x/6.x download link.
For PHPRunner 7.x or better download it from our marketplace.
Unzip it to <Directory where PHPRunner installed>\templates\business. Then create a new project choosing Forum template from list of templates on the left.
This template is for PHPRunner at the moment. You also need to have CKEditor plugin installed in order to use this template.
A few words on how this forum works. Guest users are able to browse topics. To post a new topic or answer existing one you need to register. No threads or posts can be deleted. Users can edit their own posts though. Admin area and other potentially useful stuff were omitted for the sake of brevity.
Now the tricky part. When new topic is created we need to add a record to both Threads and Posts tables. Another trick is to make search function to search across both threads and posts.
1. Database
We have three tables here.
Users - serves as a login table
Threads - stores general thread info
Posts - stores actual posts
Threads and Posts are related as Master-Details.
2. SQL Query
Add a new dummy field to the SQL Query of Threads table. We are going to need this field on thread add page.
SELECT title, description, startedby, ID, '' AS post FROM threads
3. Pages and fields
Uncheck pages and fields we don't need.
4. Security screen
Turn on login page. Users table, username/password fields. Under User Login Settings enable options that make sense for this app.
Under Advanced Security settings enable Guest login and choose 'Users can see other users data; can edit their own data only' mode for posts table (users can edit their own posts). Use ID from Users table and userid from posts table to create a link.
5. Choose theme
Pick one of themes with search box on the top. We decided that Madrid will work the best for this application.
6. Visual Editor
We'll need to modify list pages of Threads and Posts tables to make it visually appealing.
- Threads list page
Remove unnecessary buttons, rename labels (records->threads), add new grid column named 'Stats' and drag number of child records (posts) there.
Now we need to make Title link to posts page. Set 'View as' format to 'Custom' and enter the following code there:
$value = "".$value."";
You might ask where this fancy URL came from. Before I started making changes in Visual Editor I built this app and went to Threads list page. A typical link to details page looks like posts_list.php?mastertable=threads&masterkey1=1. I replaced 1 with $data["ID"] and made it look more prominent (style='font-size: 120%').
A few final touches. Increase row height a bit to make the list of topics more readable. Drag 'Description' field to 'Topic' column and change font color to grey. Remove grid columns you no linger need.
Rename 'Add new' button to 'Start new topic'. To make this button appear on the left switch to HTML mode and find style descriptions in the beginning of the file.
Make #recordcontrols_block look as follows:
#recordcontrols_block{$id} {padding:13px 10px 9px 10px;text-align:left}
- Posts list page
Rearrange fields in similar fashion and remove unnecessary grid columns.
Now we need to pull 'title' and 'description' fields from corresponding Threads record. Put mouse cursor into grid header row, switch to HTML mode and insert two placeholders there separated by space:
{$topic} {$description}
When you switch back to visual mode you can see those placeholders appear as yellow rectangles.
Rename 'Inline add' button to 'Add Reply' and move it to the left modify #recordcontrols_block description in HTML mode the same way we did it on Threads list page.
- Threads add page
Double-click on 'Message' field and set 'Edit as' format to 'Textarea'. Choose CKEditor from the list of Rich Text Editors.
7. Events.
Now the fun part.
- AfterSuccessfulLogin event
We need to save ID from users table in session variable and redirect user to Threads list page.
$_SESSION["ID"]=$data["ID"]; header("Location: threads_list.php"); exit();
- Posts table: BeforeDisplay event
Remember those 'title' and 'description' placeholders we added on posts list page. Now it's the time to populate them using $_REQUEST["masterkey1"] as a pointer to record in master table (Threads).
$rs = CustomQuery("select * from threads where id=".$_REQUEST["masterkey1"]); $data = db_fetch_array($rs); $xt->assign("topic", $data["title"]); $str = "".$data["description"].""; $xt->assign("description", $str);
Values in grid header row will appear bold on the page so we change font weight to normal for description field.
- Posts table: Before record added event
We want to timestamp each reply automatically and populate 'userid' field with ID value from Users table (saved in AfterSuccessfulLogin event).
$values["created"] = now(); $values["userid"] = $_SESSION["ID"]; return true;
- Threads table: BeforeRecordAdded event
The value of dummy field 'post' needs to be saved in session variable as we need to add it to Posts table. Since 'post' is a dummy (non-existent) field we need to remove it from the list of fields to be inserted using unset($values["post"]).
$values["startedby"]=$_SESSION["ID"]; $_SESSION["post"] = $values["post"]; unset($values["post"]); return true;
- Threads table: AfterRecordAdded event
Now we can add a record to Posts table linking it to the Thread we just created.
global $dal; $posts = $dal->Table("posts"); $posts->threadid = $keys["ID"]; // thread ID $posts->message = $_SESSION["post"]; // message we saved in session variable $posts->created = now(); // timestamp $posts->userid = $_SESSION["ID"]; // ID from users table $posts->Add();
If we want to redirect user to another page after new topic was created - we need to do so in this event as well. Right now user stays on the same 'Start New Topic' page.
- Threads page: BeforeSQLQuery event
And the last step - we need to tweak search function a bit so it can search threads title and description fields as well as posts.
IF statement makes sure this code executed only when we run search. We run search on JOIN query and then return a list of thread IDs that match our criteria.
if (@$_REQUEST["a"]=="integrated" && @$_REQUEST["ctlSearchFor"]) { $strWhereClause = " id in (SELECT distinct threadid FROM threads inner join `posts` on threads.id=posts.threadid WHERE message like ('%".$_REQUEST["ctlSearchFor"]."%') or title like ('%".$_REQUEST["ctlSearchFor"]."%') or description like ('%".$_REQUEST["ctlSearchFor"]."%'))"; }
This is it. You can build it now and run it in the browser.
As a next step you can add an admin area, give admin permissions to rename/delete topics, add mass email capabilities, add CAPTCHA etc. It also makes sense to allow users edit their own data i.e. change email address.
You are welcome to post questions and suggestions for the next version. If someone wants to take this template to the next level - we'll be glad to provide all required assistance including posting updated versions of template here.


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Demi Lovato Gets Skrillex Hair [PHOTO]
Demi Lovato, a true hair chameleon who has been every color under the sun and not found in nature when it comes to her coif, showed off her new, Skrillex-inspired hair on Instagram.
The singer is on her Neon Lights Tour right now, and clearly, some shenanigans took place. Or maybe it was just some follicular boredom and she wanted to hack off some of her fuschia locks and shake things up in terms of her hair.


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They're called gaffes, blunders, missteps and "misspeak" -- and 2013 served up far more than what can be counted on both hands.
Here is my Top 10 political blunders of the year.
10. At least he's Irish
Vice President Joe Biden, somewhat renown for "misspeaking," didn't disappoint during his May visit to Southeaster Connecticut to deliver this year's commencement speech at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
In recognizing the distinguished guests on stage with him, he gave a special welcome to Connecticut Governor Dan O'Malley.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy nodded politely.
9. The art of political blunders
In the midst of all the controversy over rising health care premiums because of Obamacare, we learned that Connecticut's insurance marketplace paid $79,000 for three murals to decorate the Access Health CT offices.
8. Say it ain't so.
Amid the rash of political sex scandals that arose this year stands former New York Democratic congressman, and would-be mayor, Anthony Wiener who proved once again that there is no shame in public service.
7. Physician, heal thyself.
2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley informally entered the 2014 gubernatorial race serving as his own campaign manager -- and it showed, beginning with his first appearance on WFSB's Face the State where he accused the governor of "unethical" behavior while admitting at the same time he had no proof to back up the claims.
6. More snarkey than snakey
State Rep. Ernie Hewett, D-New London, was stripped of his leadership positions after making an inappropriate comment about snakes to a teenage girl during a Feb. 20 Appropriations Committee hearing. Hewett's defense was that he doesn't like having female interns, they only get him in trouble.
5. Not everyone is on the same team.
After seven former and current University of Connecticut female students filed a federal lawsuit against the school over sexual assault allegations, university president Susan Herbst came to the defense of the school -- not the students, calling their claim that the school didn't care, "misguided and demonstrably untrue."
4. What'd he say?
"If you like the insurance you have now, you can keep it."
3. We'll show you
Proving once and for all, that in politics, it's not the art of compromise that counts, but rather the art of what's possible is all that matters -- even when what's possible is total failure. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and the tea party caucus in the House of Representatives shut down the government for no reason other than to prove they could.
2. What were they thinking?
Some might consider this "the blunder of the year" -- if not, the blunder of all blunders -- but the rollout of the Affordable Care Act enrollment wasn't just a blunder, it was a disaster that should have never been allowed to happen.
How anyone could have signed off on that plan knowing that a complete system failure would be the only likely outcome, defies logic.
And that would have been my Number 1 choice, except there was this other little item that still leaves me shaking my head. I thought that after all these years I've seen it all, and then Toronto Mayor Rob Ford appears on the scene.
After all his antics, admitting to drunken stupors and using illegal drugs, not to mention acting like a complete buffoon, his popularity in the polls rose 5 percentage points.
I guess the joke is on us.
Ray Hackett is The Bulletin's editorial page editor. He has more than 25 years covering Connecticut politics. He can be reached at (860) 425-4225 or email@example.com.


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Chinese regulator pays to bust state internet monopoly
Command economics will see state-funded take on state-owned telcos
China's broadcasting regulator is set to launch a new government-financed broadband and cable TV service provider with a mission to break the monopoly of the country's three telecoms giants … all of which are also state-owned.
The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) – which functions like a Chinese version of the UK's Ofcom, but with a much greater emphasis on censorship – is working on the proposals in response to a directive from the State Council back in 2010.
The project is set to get 4.5bn yuan (£453m) in start-up capital from the government and receive a special license from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, allowing the new company to operate across telecoms, broadband and cable TV networks, according to Sina Tech (via TechInAsia)
Aside from unifying these three networks for the first time in China, it is hoped the Radio and Television Network Company, as the new entity is likely to be called, will break the monopoly of the current incumbents, China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom.
The logic behind this one isn't completely apparent, however, given that these three firms are also state-owned and indulge in the kind of gloves-off competition one would expect between privately-owned rivals.
The choice of SARFT as the government body to run the new broadband and cable TV provider may also raise concerns over the level of censorship that content provided by said firm will be subject to.
The regulator has made a name for itself over the years for first increasing its remit to include areas such as online video and then enforcing strict guidelines banning "vulgar content" and limiting the volume of foreign-made TV in China. ®