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Tennessee hires Butch Jones as new football coach
Butch Jones wasn't Tennessee's first choice as its next football coach. The Volunteers believe the former Cincinnati coach will prove he's the right choice.
Tennessee announced Friday morning that Jones had agreed to become its fourth coach in six seasons, ending a tumultuous couple of days for both parties. Tennessee has scheduled a Friday afternoon news conference to announce the hiring, which was first reported by VolQuest.com.
"It is truly an honor and a privilege to be a part of the Vol Nation!" Jones, 44, tweeted Friday morning.
Jones has a 50-27 record in six seasons as a head coach. He went 27-13 in three seasons at Central Michigan and was 23-14 at Cincinnati the last three years. He now faces the task of rebuilding a former Southeastern Conference power that has posted three consecutive losing seasons.
Tennessee went after at least two other candidates before hiring Jones.
During the 19-day search to replace Derek Dooley, who was fired Nov. 18 after going 15-21 in his three-year tenure, the Volunteers contacted ESPN analyst and former Super Bowl-winning coach Jon Gruden, who indicated he wasn't interested. The Vols then pursued Charlie Strong, who said Thursday he had turned down their offer and would stay at Louisville.
Jones, meanwhile, was apparently waiting for a job like Tennessee.
On the same day Strong made his announcement, Jones rejected an offer to take over Colorado's program. He also had been linked to the Purdue coaching job before withdrawing his name from consideration.
Jones' hiring means each of the four Southeastern Conference teams that fired coaches this year have filled their vacancies.
Kentucky hired Florida State defensive coordinator Mark Stoops last week to replace Joker Phillips. Arkansas hired Bret Bielema away from Wisconsin on Tuesday to take over for John L. Smith. Auburn selected Arkansas State's Gus Malzahn on Tuesday as the replacement for Gene Chizik.
Jones becomes Tennessee's fourth coach in a six-season stretch, not including offensive coordinator Jim Chaney's stint as interim head coach in the 2012 season finale after Dooley's dismissal. Phillip Fulmer was fired in 2008 after posting a 152-52 record. Lane Kiffin coached Tennessee in 2009 before leaving for Southern California. Dooley lasted three years.
After winning at least eight games for 16 consecutive seasons from 1989-2004 and posting double-digit wins in nine of those years, Tennessee hasn't earned more than seven victories in any of its last five seasons. The Vols went 5-7 this fall for their fifth losing season over the last eight years. This also marks the first time since 1909-11 that Tennessee has finished below .500 three years in a row.
Tennessee athletic director Dave Hart said at the start of the search that head coaching experience was "critically important" and that he wanted a coach who "knows the difficulty of climbing the ladder in the SEC." Jones lacks SEC experience, but he has a career winning percentage of .649. Jones' teams have earned at least a share of a conference title in four of his six seasons as a head coach.
After replacing Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly at Central Michigan and then again at Cincinnati, Jones maintained the momentum his predecessor had established at each school.
In Jones' three-year stint at Central Michigan, the Chippewas won two Mid-American Conference championships and posted a combined league record of 22-3. Jones went 4-8 in his first year at Cincinnati, but the Bearcats are 19-6 since and have tied for first place in the Big East each of the last two seasons. Cincinnati's 2011 season included a 45-23 loss at Tennessee.
Jones signed a contract extension after the 2011 season that includes a $1.4 million buyout if he left before Jan. 1.
Cincinnati has named defensive line coach Steve Stripling its interim head coach for the Dec. 27 Belk Bowl against Duke in Charlotte, N.C., while it begins searching for Jones' permanent successor.
"There is no timetable to make the hire," Cincinnati athletic director Whit Babcock said Friday. "Making the right hire is better than the quickest hire, but admittedly sooner is better if possible."
Jones' background as an assistant is entirely on offense, but one of his biggest challenges at Tennessee initially will be strengthening a defense that allowed the most points (35.7) and yards (471.4) per game of any SEC team this season.
The Vols hadn't allowed that high a scoring average since 1893, when they gave up 42.7 points per game while playing a six-game schedule. They hadn't yielded that many yards per game since at least 1950, the earliest year Tennessee's sports information department has that statistic on file.
The makeup of Jones' first offense at Tennessee also remains uncertain, at least for now.
Starting quarterback Tyler Bray and star wide receivers Cordarrelle Patterson and Justin Hunter all are projected as first- or second-round draft picks if they choose to turn pro rather than returning to school for their senior seasons. Bray threw for 3,612 yards and 34 touchdowns this year to rank second on Tennessee's single-season list in both categories, behind Peyton Manning's 3,819 yards and 36 touchdown passes in 1997. Hunter caught 73 passes for 1,083 yards and nine touchdowns. Patterson gained a school-record 1,858 all-purpose yards.
Junior offensive tackle Ja'Wuan James also has been mentioned as a possible draft candidate.
AP Sports Writers Joe Kay in Cincinnati, Larry Lage in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Teresa Walker in Nashville, Tenn., contributed to this report.


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Today, we start a new series in which every Friday we will post selections from David Bentley Hart's The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth for discussion. Kent and I (James) will simply provide a quotation followed by a few lines of commentary. Disagreement, correction, or affirmation are all welcome.
If you are not familiar with Hart, you should be. Why? Well consider that his first book received the following commendations: "David Hart is already the best living American systematic theologian" – John Milbank; "A remarkable work…This magnificent and demanding volume should establish David Bentley Hart, around the world no less than in North America, as one of his generation's leading theologians" – Geoffrey Wainwright; "I can think of no more brilliant work by an American theologian in the past ten years" – William Placher.
James' Quote and Commentary
After a sustained critique of Robert Jenson's trinitarian theology, Hart arrives at his definition and defense of divine impassibility (apatheia):
God's impassibility is the utter fullness of an intimate dynamism, the absolutely complete and replete generation of the Son and procession of the Spirit from the Father, the infinite "drama" of God's joyous act of self-outpouring – which is his being as God.
Within the plenitude of this motion, no contrary motion can fabricate an interval of negation, because it is the infinite possibility of every creaturely motion or act; no pathos is possible for God because a pathos is, by definition, a finite instance of change visited upon a passive subject, actualizing some potential, whereas God's love is pure positivity and pure activity.
His love is an infinite peace and so needs no violence to shape it, no death over which to triumph: if it did, it would never be ontological peace but only metaphysical armistice (p. 167).
The great strength of this definition, apart from the fact it was penned by David Bentley Hart, of course, is that it defines divine apatheia immediately in terms of the trinitarian life of God, specifically the relations of origin. Hart is an Orthodox theologian, and so the Spirit proceeds from the Father alone (no filioque – note the witty parenthetical jab on p. 153 where he says he will be using the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed "in its unadulterated Greek form"!). Here, impassibility is not emotionlessness, but the eternal joy, love, and passion of Father, Son, and Spirit in holy communion. Thus, Hart avoids metaphysical abstraction by allowing the concreteness of God's triune life to define the term. Mystery determines metaphysics.
The other strength is that it avoids making God's trinitarian life dependent upon history. Hart fears that Jenson, in historicizing the being of God, has drawn evil into the identity of God (for an evil world is necessary for his God to be God, that is the God known in Jesus Christ). This not only legitimizes the postmodern suspicion because "in our story violence would prove necessary, belonging to who God is," (p. 166), it, despite attempting to make God comprehensible after Auschwitz, ironically makes God "the metaphysical ground of Auschwitz" (p. 160). Impassibility is thus a guard against a god who needs evil to be himself, the redeemer, rescuer, and reconciler of the world. The wholeness and perfection of God's triune love grounds the cross, not empathy. Thoughts?
Kent's Quote and Commentary
Having reflected at some length on the divine 'joy' of the triune life, Hart draws the connection between beauty and God's triunity.
The most elementary statement of theological aesthetics is that God is beautiful: not only that God is beauty or the essence and archetype of beauty, nor even only that God is the highest beauty, but that, as Gregory the Theologian says, God is beauty and also beautiful, whose radiance shines upon and is reflected in his creatures (Oration28.30-31). As Dionysius insists, we should not distinguish between God as beauty and as infinitely beautiful, the splendor that gathers all things toward and into itself (De divinis nominibus 4.7).
The beauty of God is not simply 'ideal': it is not remote, cold, characterless, or abstract, nor merely absolute, unitary, and formless…God's beauty is delight and the object of delight, the shared gaze of love that belongs to the persons of the Trinity; it is what God beholds, what the Father sees and rejoices in in the Son, in the sweetness of the Spirit, what Son and Spirit find delightful in one another, because as Son and Spirit of the Father they share his knowledge and love as persons.
And this is the critical move…
True beauty is not the idea of the beautiful, a static archetype in the 'mind' of God, but is an infinite 'music,' drama, art, completed in – but never 'bounded' by – the termless dynamism of the Trinity's life; God is boundless, and so is never a boundary, his music possesses the richness of every transition, interval, measure and variation – all dancing and delight (p. 177).
Little comment is really necessary here. By grounding beauty in the interrelations of delight between the divine persons, Hart brilliantly overturns the Kantian divorce between beauty and the infinite by offering a framework for beauty that isn't formless, shapeless, or wholly unrepresentable but the formful beautyof intratrinitarian love revealed in Jesus Christ. Simply put, beautiful!
(Jeremy Begbie argues similarly, "Created Beauty" in The Beauty of God : Theology and the Arts (2007), 23-24)

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Bean, Roy
Bean, Roy, c.1825–1903, legendary American frontier judge, b. Mason co., Ky. He left Kentucky in 1847 to seek his fortune in California. Soon, however, he was managing a trading post in Chihuahua, Mexico. In 1849 he was chased back into U.S. territory for cattle rustling. During the Civil War, Roy Bean aided the Confederate cause by joining a band of lawless irregulars. After the war he followed the construction camps of the Southern Pacific RR as a saloonkeeper and gambler. In 1882, Bean settled at the Texas camp of Vinegaroon, had it renamed Langtry (for the English actress Lillie Langtry), named himself justice of the peace (to which he added the title
the law west of the Pecos), and set up court in his saloon, the Jersey Lily. He there began to dispense justice with the aid of one law book and a six-shooter. As a judge, Bean rendered arbitrary and unorthodox decisions, usually tempered with wit and common sense.
See biographies by C. L. Sonnichsen (1943, repr. 1953) and E. Lloyd (rev. ed. 1967).
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Joel Falconer is the Features Editor at TNW. He lives on the Gold Coast, Australia with his wife and three kids and can sometimes be found g Joel Falconer is the Features Editor at TNW. He lives on the Gold Coast, Australia with his wife and three kids and can sometimes be found gaming or consulting. Follow Joel on Twitter.
The holiday season approaches, and it is nearly time to whip out your wallet and spend your year's savings on the people in your life who grudgingly tolerate you so long as you keep them plied with new toys.
This year, we've funded a heap of projects on sites like Kickstarter, and we've seen somewhat fewer finished products than that. But there are more than ever that have successfully navigated the waters from crowdfunding to the market.
There's something particularly cool about the fact that the next gift you buy may have been one validated and funded entirely by consumers, taking back power from giant corporate deciders. Needless to say, Steve Jobs would not be happy about this state of affairs, but there's plenty to like about it.
What could you be stuffing stockings with this year? Here are some of our favorites to get you started.
Here's a low-tech but awesome invention. If you keep a little bit of wine on hand or a lot, the WineHive really is a one-size-fits-all solution. That's because the product's beehive-like structure means you can expand your wine storage perpetually. It's made out of aluminum, so it's sturdy and should last a long time.
Prices range from $95 for a 2-pack to $275 for a 6-pack. Each pack holds six bottles of wine.
Settlers of Catan
Love board games, in particular the classic Settlers of Catan? Check out this Settlers of Catan board, which also comes with many of the pieces involved. They're all made of birch and are laser-cut and etched, and the board itself has a leather backing. You'll need a copy of the game for the cards, cities, roads and so on, but it's a beautiful handmade board for the board game lover in your life.
The price for this one is pretty steep at $430. At least the shipping is free!
The Cosmonaut
The Cosmonaut is a small gift both in price and size. It's a wide-grip stylus for capacitive touchscreens, built for the iPad and iPhone but workable with every device using the same touchscreen technology. It's perfect for jotting down notes and sketching out ideas.
The Cosmonaut will set you back only $25.
There's nothing wrong with the wall chargers that come with the iPhone and iPad, but they could be better. CableKeeps make add-ons for those chargers that secure your USB cable to the adaptor so they don't get separated, and makes it easy to quickly wrap the cord up around the charger before you pack it away. There's the Goldie for iPhones and iPods and the Nibbles for your iPad.
CableKeeps save space, and keep you from losing cords – or breaking them, if you've got some bad wrapping habits! Not bad for $16. You can get all five colors for $60 if you're into that kind of thing.
The WINGStand
There are many keyboards and stands available for the iPad, but many of us already own an unused Apple wireless keyboard. Why not save some money and use that? The WINGStand makes it possible, acting as a stand for iPads and even iPhones and iPod touches that sits perfectly on the Apple keyboard (and probably some others). It's also a perfectly usable stand with no keyboard at all.
The WINGStand will set you back about $15.
GoPano Micro
The GoPano Micro is a pretty crazy piece of technology. It uses a curved mirror to gather light from all around you and funnels it into the iPhone camera. This means you can take 360 degree videos or photographs. This isn't just iOS 6's panoramic photographs – you can capture the action around in all directions simultaneously, without missing things as you turn around.
The GoPano Micro is just $60.
Docks for devices have never really interested me – flimsy bits of plastic that keep something upright on my desk? Meh. But the ElevationDock for your iPhone, which we've covered before, is different. It's a very simple design that looks great and is precision cut out of solid aluminum, giving it heft so your phone isn't thrown around the desk. This is the first product I've seen that makes me want a dock – practical, substantial, and befitting of the iPhone's aesthetic.
It's a little pricy compared to other docks, naturally, at $89.
The WINGStand is a great way to make do with what you have, but what if you want something designed with the iPad in mind? The CruxSKUNK is a super thin, MacBook Air-inspired take on the iPad keyboard case. The housing looks like a laptop, and the product's slogan is "Turn your iPad into a laptop." Functionally, other products do something similar, but this is the only one that's going to feel like you've got a notebook on your lap.
You can pre-order the CruxSKUNK for $179, but its arrival isn't too far off. The current estimate is that the device will ship by December 18th, just in time for Christmas.
Pebble is an e-paper watch for iPhone and Android. Much of the time, Pebble is going to be a device for checking the time – though it'll give you a broader range of well-designed clock faces than any other watch.
The rest of the time, it'll be giving you on-the-fly information from smartphone apps designed to work with it. We're already pretty mobile, but cutting out the step of reaching into your pocket every time you want to see your notifications or other information? Awesome. You can even set up your own custom notifications using IFTTTT or Pebble's own tools.
The Pebble is $150, but won't ship until early 2013. Given the demand for it on Kickstarter, you may know someone who is willing to wait for the late gift.
Lockitron is another one that'll be too late for the holiday season, coming in May 2013. But it's too awesome too leave out. It's keyless entry powered by your iPhone.
Basically, you fit a device over your door lock, which connects to your WiFi. You then use an app to lock or unlock the door, which can be used anywhere in the world. You're on holiday overseas but your mom needs to get inside to feed the dog? No worries.
Like Pebble, Lockitron will have an API that allows you to code and customize to your heart's content. There's a heap of potential for this one.
Lockitron will set you back $179, and don't remember – the second batch goes out in May, 2013.
If nothing here takes your fancy, check out Outgrow.me – a service that keeps track of all the funded and completed Kickstarter projects. While some of these products are pre-order only you can filter down to those products sold by the site.
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The 52-Week Money Challenge is easy way to save almost $1,400 this year
All you need is bank account, little extra willpower
All you need is bank account, little extra willpower
All you need is bank account, little extra willpower
Chances are we could all work on saving more money. And January is a great time to get started. More than 30 percent of people planned to make a financial New Year's Resolution for 2019, according to a recent survey by Fidelity Investments. Of those respondents, 48 percent said their main priority is to save more. Whether it's paying off your mortgage, getting out of student loan debt or working toward giving yourself a much-deserved vacation, we found a pretty darn manageable way to save a significant amount of dough this year. It's called the 52-Week Money Challenge.
What is the 52-Week Money Challenge?
It basically tasks you with saving money incrementally. During week one, put $1 in an online savings account. Week two, put away $2 and so on until week 52.
"Open up a totally different savings account for this goal," says Berna Anat, who paid off $50,000 in student loan and credit card debt in January 2018. Now, she helps others achieve their financial goals on Instagram. "If you can, open it up in a different bank altogether. Whoever invented 'out of sight, out of mind' was on point here. The less likely you are to see this account on a regular basis, the less likely you'll be tempted to dip in and spend it."
Use this chart to see how your entire year will play out:
Another option is to do the challenge in reverse, so you start with $52 on week one, and go down to $51 in week two. By Dec. 31, you should can add just $1 to your savings and reach the same total.
How much money will you have at the end of the 52-week challenge?
If you follow this program for one year, you'll have $1,378 by the end of it. You don't have to stop there, though. If you're willing to save even more, consider upping the week-by-week increase.
Umm, why should I do this to myself?
Aside from becoming more economically responsible, it will probably give you a major ego boost to become so good at saving money. Plus, you'll earn bragging rights like these folks:
How can I save THAT much money?
We could go on and on about the tiny adjustments that can lead to serious savings, but our go-to tips involve falling in love with DIY and cooking at home. And let your friends know about your decision. Even though meeting up for dinner or drinks might be part of your typical social routine, Anat says bringing them in on your goal will give you more support and open up new conversations.
Another effective way to hack the system is to check off the dollar amounts in any order you want. If it's more feasible to drop $52 before December, do it. Keep yourself accountable by setting reminders in your calendar to deposit your savings at the same time each week. If your bank lets you nickname your account, follow Anat's method of giving it a hilarious title, like the "Beyoncé World Tour Fund."
And be sure to reward yourself throughout the year.
"Set up celebration checkpoints along the way!" says Anat. "We often forget to make habits fun for ourselves. For example, if you make it to the 30th of the month and you've done all four deposits that month, treat yourself to something you love that doesn't cost money — you get to binge-watch a YouTube series or turn off your phone guilt-free for a night and take a loooong bath."
Anat also recommends grabbing an accountability partner or someone who can participate in the challenge with you. They'll serve as your support system and sounding board whenever budgeting and saving gets tough.
Is this the same thing as the $5 challenge?
No. Another online challenge out there involves saving all the $5 bills you encounter. And that's not a bad idea. So is the 52-week saving challenge from the blog Gathering Dreams, which will help you save $5,000 by the end of the year.
Not sure if you want to commit to a year-long program? For the month of January, Anat partnered with Evernote to host the #EverBetterChallenge. Her goal is to save $219 to kick off 2019. You can follow along as she shares tips and lessons on Instagram.


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I'm reading E.J Barbeau Polynomials. I'm in a page where he asks a polynomial of degree $-\infty$. Then I thought about $77x^{-\infty}+1$, but when I went for the answers, the answer to this question was zero.
Then I thought about making $n^{-\infty}$ on Mathematica and it outputed $Indeterminate$ as a result.
I thought the problem was in my understanding of exponantiation, then I tried to "algebrize" it. (I guess that's the name of the procedure)
Then I thought:
$2^3=\overbrace{2\cdot 2\cdot 2}^{\text{3 times}}$
That would lead me to:
$a^b=\overbrace{a\cdot a\cdot a\cdot ...}^{\text{b times}}$
And in this case:
$a^{-\infty}=\overbrace{a\cdot a\cdot a\cdot ...}^{{-\infty}\text{ times}}$
But this gave me no insight of what could be done to better understand this. I can't see why $n^{-\infty}=0$ so clearly.
With the last example, I'm thinking that there will be no $a$'s to multiply, can you help me?
I thought about some other thing:
Then considering this example, I would get: $$a^{-\infty}=\frac{1}{\infty}=0$$ Right?


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Beloved, the hope that I owe you — the hope to which you are entitled — is not something I can cloak in gossamer metaphor. I cannot paint you the Pangaea that all parents feel they should.
But neither will I speak to you as though the very sky is a fraud, as though our lives are a set breaking down, are a studio lot in foreclosure. There is no walking away from this, as we would from a dimly lit theatre at the close of a sobering film.
We are real. And for now — just for now — we are still alive.
When the time comes, we will not speak of expectation. I will tell you what happened to the lanky boy down South, taking the shortcut to a home after dark in what once was a sundown town. It will be more than a familiar narrative, even the first time you hear it. It will be an ancestral refrain; it will moan from within your own marrow.
I will tell you: at the moment when his murderer was acquitted, I did not hold you closer, as many black parents do in these seminal moments. I did not hold you at all. For a moment, my arms would not lift. For a moment, you were all but alone. You were smiling, your dark eyes dancing with gorgeous mischief, as you held out a box of Teddy Grahams you weren't supposed to have.
Distracted, I poured you more than a handful. I poured you all that was left.
The murderer smiled when he heard he was free and his lawyers boasted of their own legal prowess. They preened and grandstanded like heroes. They clucked over how long it took for the murderer to be granted his freedom and surmised that he would never have been charged at all if he were black like the boy that he killed.
The State Attorney also smiled, as she had many months ago, when the murderer was in fact arrested — 45 days after he left the boy dying in the grass, of a gunshot wound to the heart. I remember her then and how she basked beneath a press conference halo, being alternately terse and coy, playing to the rafters with actress's affectation. "Those of us in law enforcement are committed to justice for every race, every gender, every person, of any persuasion whatsoever. They are our victims," she'd said.
I recall the "our" clearest of all. (Few words, you'll learn, are more disingenuous than "our" when a black child has died in the street and black folks begin to understand that the law will not hold his killer accountable.)
Last night, before I could reanimate enough to embrace you, I watched the State Attorney grin again, just after she chastised all the parents and advocates and media — both social and mainstream — for raising our voices loudly enough to force an arrest in the first place. "For a case like this to come out in bits and pieces served no good to no one."
Here is all that you should know: we are the only our there is. There would be no case for her to concede had our bits and pieces not been lain at her feet and then cobbled together to give voice to the gun-silenced child.
No, I will not speak to you of expectation. Expectation of any protection at all feels an increasingly empty enterprise for black mothers. But I will find the hope I owe you. It will be communicated with candor, not fear. I will stoke it with dreams of an imagined eternity, where every man gives answer for every of his actions. I will build it, floor up, in communities constructed with care and by choice. We — you and I — will get through this, together. We — us and our own — will invite the bewildered to join us. And when we have amassed enough hope to shore us up, we will run toward this behemoth, which cradles in its bottomless belly a legion of unavenged black bodies.
If we die, we won't do it afraid. We will do it while standing our ground.


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April 14, 2008 — -- Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, seemed to give a thumbs down to bipartisan legislation that would greatly expand educational benefits for members of the military returning from Iraq and Afghanistan under the GI Bill.
McCain indicated he would offer some sort of alternative to the legislation to address concerns that expanding the GI Bill could lead more members of the military to get out of the service.
Both Democratic presidential candidates — Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., — have signed on as co-sponsors, and the bill has gained bipartisan support from 54 senators on Capitol Hill in addition to Webb. A vote on the proposal is expected before the summer.
But the bill, which would dramatically increase educational compensation for American troops, has run into some unexpected resistance, both at the Pentagon and now from McCain, who has remained silent on the issue, saying he had not studied the bill close enough.
Pressure had mounted on McCain to support the bill — a veterans group, which backs the legislation, delivered a petition to McCain's Senate office, signed by 30,000 veterans.
Officials in charge of Pentagon personnel worry that a more generous and expansive GI Bill would create an incentive for troops to get out of the military and go to college.
And while that might be great for the individual troop, it could be bad for the military, which is already under stress after more than five years fighting two wars.
On his campaign plane this afternoon, McCain said he and allies in the Senate are working on an alternative to the bill, but would only support something that included incentives to stay in the military.
"We are working on proposals of our own — I'm a consistent supporter of educational benefits for the men and women of the military," McCain said. "I want to make sure that we have incentives for people to remain in the military as well as for people to join the military. ... I've talked a lot about veterans' health care, so we'll continue to talk about those issues and how to care for vets. I know I can do that, having been one."
That is unlikely to sit well with Virginia Democrat Jim Webb, like McCain, a Vietnam vet, who has made the GI Bill legislation his personal crusade. It was the first legislation Webb introduced after arriving on Capitol Hill after the 2006 elections.
When he was a decorated war veteran, just back from Vietnam, in exchange for his service, U.S. taxpayers gave Webb a full ride tuition, housing and living expenses all covered under a different program in place for wounded veterans that was distinct from the GI Bill. Webb received his law degree at Georgetown Law School in the 1970s.
The schooling, courtesy of Uncle Sam, led to Webb's career as Navy secretary, novelist and now senator.
The schooling led to Webb's career as Navy secretary, novelist and now senator.
It's a different story for Matt Flavin, a first-year Georgetown law student today. He might go on to great things, but he'll have a bigger tab to pay when he does it. The government paid for all of Webb's law school, but for Flavin, who got out of the military in August and enrolled at Georgetown, the check that arrives every month at the run-down group house where he lives, is for a little over $1,100 — about 6 percent of what it costs in tuition, books and living expenses at the private school. The benefit is smaller for members of the National Guard and Reserve.
It is a big disparity, and one of the first things Webb pledged to do when he was elected to the Senate in 2006 was push for a more generous GI Bill to give soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines the same kind of benefit that put him through law school.
Since arriving on Capitol Hill, Webb has drummed up support from 54 senators, including Republicans like John Warner of Virginia, and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, both beneficiaries of the GI Bill. Another co-sponsor is Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., who usually sides with McCain where it comes to the war and the military.
Webb is not suggesting that the government pay for everyone in the military to go to private college. He would more than double the GI Bill benefit for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, offering a living stipend of about $1,000 depending on where the veteran lives, and pay the equivalent in tuition of the most expensive state school in the veteran's home state.
It would also give benefits to members of the National Guard and Reserve, who, while they are often deployed overseas, do not enjoy the same benefits as regular troops. The annual cost would be, according to Webb, somewhere between $2.5 billion and $4 billion annually.
Flavin joined the military out of patriotism shortly after 9/11, went to Officer Candidate School and, over the next five years, served tours in Bosnia, Afghanistan and with Naval special forces in Iraq.
While he did not join the military specifically to get benefits from the GI Bill and does not think most troops do, Flavin supports the legislation.
"We owe them something," Flavin said of his comrades. "They've given life, limb, everything there is to give. The people who bore the most pain and suffering are the people who could use these benefits."
At Georgetown, where tuition alone is $39,390 per year for a full-time student, the GI Bill makes a dent, but not a very big one. Figures compiled by Webb's office say the GI Bill covers about 11 percent of the more than $55,000 it costs to attend Georgetown Law School, buy books and live.
President Bush, in his State of the Union address this year, suggested not expanding the GI Bill benefit for current soldiers, but making it easier for them to transfer the current benefits to family members.
The original GI Bill provided a college education to the wave of veterans returning from World War II. It was scaled back in 1956 after nearly 8 million World War II veterans had benefited from it. Since then, the GI Bill has changed several times. The current Montgomery GI Bill was enacted in 1985 and, according to Bush and Gilroy should remain distinct from the World War II version because the military is now an all volunteer force and the GI Bill is a tool used both for the recruitment and retention of qualified troops.
ABC News' Bret Hovell contributed to this report.


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THURSDAY, March 20, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- The first implantable device for adults with a severe or profound form of a condition called "sensorineural hearing loss" has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Sensorineural hearing loss, the most common type, occurs when the inner ear's cochlea is damaged. Aging, heredity, loud noise, certain drugs and some types of illness are common causes, the FDA said.
Symptoms of sensorineural hearing loss may include difficulty hearing faint sounds, problems understanding people with higher-pitched voices, and inability to hear high-pitched sirens, such as those emitted by a smoke detector or ambulance.
The Nucleus Hybrid L24 Cochlear Implant System may offer hope to people with inner ear damage who don't benefit from conventional hearing aids, the FDA said Thursday in a news release.
The device was evaluated in clinical studies involving 50 people with severe to profound high-frequency hearing loss. Common adverse reactions included low-frequency hearing loss, ringing in the ears (tinnitus), electrode malfunction and dizziness.
The device is produced by Cochlear Ltd., based in Australia.
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REYKJEVIK, Iceland, June 19, 2009 -- For centuries, Iceland was a simple fishing society, largely shut off from mainland Europe. The people survived off the sheep in the meadows and the fish in the sea. For cultural sustenance they had elaborate sagas -- intricate tales of fairies and goblins, heroes and ghosts -- that would inspire J.R.R. Tolkien and other fantasy writers.
Then a modern saga began to unfold -- that of a nation of fishermen who became millionaires, only to lose it all and return to the seas.
Watch the full story Friday on "20/20" at 10 p.m. ET
In the early 21st century, Iceland experienced one of the most spectacular cycles of boom and bust in history.
"I don't think it happened overnight, that suddenly somebody woke up and said, 'Here's an idea,'" said Olafur Arnarson, who wrote a best-selling book on the meltdown. "It didn't happen that way."
Instead, the saga began gradually. In 2002, the government decided to take the state-owned banks public and list them on the Icelandic stock exchange. Foreign investors swooped in and bought big stakes in the banks, flooding the country with capital.
"The buyers, they were not bankers," Arnarson said. "They did not have any experience in the world of banking. They were investors. And you could argue that they were speculative investors."
Iceland never had seen anything like it before.
"Greed came into the back door, and when that happened, people started to lose control," said Bubbi Morthens, one of Iceland's most prominent folk singers.
Iceland: The Boom
Suddenly, in a modest land that had never known truly rich people, some Icelandic bankers were pulling in $1 million a month.
During the high times, the streets of Reykjevik were packed with Range Rovers and expensive German sports cars. The bars were filled with fashionable people, and movie stars and pop icons flocked to the capital. Someone paid Elton John $1 million to sing two songs at a party.
"I kind of felt like I had arrived in Pottersville in the movie 'It's a Wonderful Life,'" said Arnarson. "Everything had changed so much, so fast. ... It had become one of the destinations of the jet set, and, well, it was a lot of fun in Iceland."
Even the fishermen got in on the action. Stefan Alfsson left his fishing boat and started trading commodities for an investment bank.
"We could do more. I got a bigger house, bigger and more cars, better snowmobiles," said Alfsson.
Some fishermen even sold off their seasonal quotas -- their livelihoods, which propped up the economies of small villages -- in order to have cash to invest.
While Reykjevik was booming, the Icelandic bankers went forth into the world, a generation of financial Vikings searching for plunder.
Some call it an "outvasion." Icelandic investors bought shares in foreign companies, supermarket chains and soccer teams. Money was no object and they overpaid for most of their assets, as the bubble grew larger.
Back home, prices were going up. The government raised interest rates in an attempt to control inflation, but it didn't work. People realized that they could borrow Japanese yen or Swiss francs, put them in an Icelandic bank and make 10 percent without even trying.
Geir Haarde, prime minister at the time, could only watch as his nation grew fabulously, if dangerously, wealthy.
"The situation with the international financial markets was extremely unusual," said Haarde. "Money was very cheap and easily available everywhere."
Inga Jessen Petursdottir and her husband, Einar Balduinsson, bought a new house during the boom and began spending less time with their kids and more time at their bank jobs.
"Everyone had to have the largest cars, the biggest houses, and people our age, around 30, they were just floating in money," Inga Petursdottir said.
Even Morthens, the folk singer, cashed in. He became a judge on "Icelandic Idol" and began hanging out with the financial Vikings.
Iceland: The Bust
Nobody seemed concerned that Iceland's three biggest banks had borrowed six times more than the entire nation produces in a year. Or that they invested much of it in something from America called mortgage-backed securities.
After all, big American banks had done the same. But when Lehman Brothers came crashing down, Iceland's economy followed almost overnight.
"I lost a lot of money," said Alfsson. "I lost my job."
The same thing happened to Morthens.
"I lost millions and, for about three weeks, I was really shocked," he said.
Petursdottir and Balduinsson said their lives were turned upside down.
"It just really changed," Petursdottir recalled. "I lost my job, we didn't have money to buy anything like we were used to, and our apartment and our cars, we don't own anything in them. We just, we owe them, instead of owning them."
They are now bankrupt, and they rent their home from the government.
People looked to the government for help, but the government itself seemed confused, paralyzed.
"Definitely, these were the most difficult months of my life," Haarde said.
The economy started turning for the worse in September 2008. By December, protesters in this placid nation began showing up at the parliament building. The crowds got larger and angrier by the day, burning effigies and banging on kitchen utensils. It was enough to bring down the government.
What became known as "the pots and pans revolution" ended peacefully. There were no injuries, few arrests and the streets ran with thrown food instead of blood. But the prime minister was replaced, and two protesters were voted into parliament.
Birgitta Jonsdottir is one of them.
"We wanted a new government," she said. "We wanted the central bank manager to be fired, and we wanted a few other things. And we got them all."
Iceland: Lessons Learned
Some think testosterone was to blame for the turbulence. It was mostly men who ran the banks and took the risk. Now, two of the three biggest banks are run by women, and a female prime minister replaced Haarde.
There is a lot to be done. Unemployment is high, malls are empty, grand projects are silent and unfinished.
Stefan Alfsson has returned to the sea.
"Maybe you fish a little longer than you should and on your way home, you hit a storm," he mused. "You still have to sail the ship home. ... I mean through the hard times, it's through them that we become who we become."
Morthens is singing protest songs again and said the nation is once again finding solace in simple pleasures.
"I got a newborn baby. I got a beautiful wife. I have friends, I have family, I have my guitar, and that's all I need," he said. "Life goes on."
Petursdottir and Balduinsson are slowly rebuilding their lives and their bank accounts. They say the Kreppa, as Iceland's financial crisis is known, helped them rediscover each other.
Petursdottir now writes an advice blog for other unemployed moms. She said they spend more time together as a family.
"After this, we have learned to focus on the real things in life. And I think this was ... a good kick in the butt," she said. "Even though we don't have any money right now, it got us closer together."


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I could mention that Mike Lupica has a fiction career, too, but there's enough suffering in this world already. The Columnists.com's Stan Issacs has had enough of Don DeLillo's great baseball jones (street). (thanks to Repoz for the link).
On the occasion of the recent opening of the new movie œGame 6 written by the acclaimed and defamed novelist, Don DeLillo, let me refer to a passage from the first chapter of DeLillo™s 1997 novel, œUnderworld. It revolves around the game that has come to be known as œThe Shot Heard ˜Round the World, Bobby Thomson™s home run in the 1951 Giants-Dodgers playoff classic.
FBI boss John Edgar Hoover was at the game, so DeLillo™s overly ripe imagination has Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason and the boorish restauranteur Toots Shor sitting with him in the Polo Grounds.
Immediately after Thomson hits the climactic home run, DeLillo pens this description:
œJackie [Gleason] utters an aquatic bark, it is loud and crude, the hoarse call of some mammal in distress. Then the surge of flannel matter. He seems to be vomiting someone™s taupe pajamas. The waste is liquidy smooth in the lingo of adland and it is splashing freely on Frank™s stout oxford shoes and fine lisle hose and on the soft woven wool of his town-and-country trousers.
As if that isn™t enough, he goes on later: œFrank persists in looking down. He allows one foot to list to port so he can examine the side of his shoe for vomit marks. And, œSays Gleason, ˜Don™t™ think you™re the first friend I ever puked on. I puked on better men than you. Consider yourself honored.™
If it is possible to desecrate the memory of a great baseball game, DeLillo has done it. As one who was at that game, who treasures the sight of Thomson hitting that home run as one of the dearest moments in an adult lifetime of covering sports, I am appalled by the juxtaposition of the celebrities fouling the pages and my memory. I say DeLillo is a blackguard, a wretch, a disgrace, a good-for-nothing miscreant and more than anything else, a fraud.
I™ll note that one critic has called DeLillo œThe great American novelist. And that another has described him as, œAmerica™s greatest unread author.
I don™t care what the critics think of him. I just wish he™d attend to his artistry without having to rely on the built-in interest of great baseball games to whet people™s interest.


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Feb. 3, 2013— -- Former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and his neighbor Chad Littlefield took former Marine Eddie Ray Routh to a Texas gun range to help him, but for some reason Routh allegedly turned his gun on his two mentors, killing them both, police said today.
ABC News affiliate WFAA-TV in Dallas reported that investigators said Routh, 25, was recovering from post traumatic stress disorder, but police today said they could not confirm that.
Routh, a corporal in the Marines from June 2006 to January 2010, was deployed to Iraq in 2007 and Haiti in 2010, according to the Pentagon. His current duty status is listed as reserve.
"Apparently Mr. Kyle works with people that are suffering from some issues that have been in the military and this shooter is possibly one of those people, that he had taken out to the range to mentor, to visit with, to help him, you know, that's all I can tell you," said Erath County Sheriff Tommy Bryant.
"Kind of have an idea that maybe that's why they were at the range, for some type of therapy that Mr. Kyle assists people with, and I don't know if it's called shooting therapy," Bryant said. "I don't have any idea but that's what little bit of information that we can gather so far."
Witnesses told police that Routh left the shooting scene in Kyle's pickup truck. He drove to his sister's home in Midlothian and when he allegedly told her and her husband that he had shot the two men, the couple called police.
When investigators got there, Routh fled in another vehicle, but he was captured a short time later.
Routh was charged with two counts of capital murder and was being held today at the Erath County Jail on $3 million bond.
Erath County Sheriff's spokesman Jason Upshaw said investigators have recovered the alleged murder weapon.
"Right now it appears that he used a semi-automatic handgun," Upshaw said.
Kyle, who had more than 160 confirmed kills as a sniper serving four tours in Iraq, is the author of the best-selling book "American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History."
He helped found FITCO Cares, an organization that provides at-home fitness equipment for emotionally and physically wounded veterans, and was described by those who knew him as tireless and giving in his efforts to help vets.
"We have lost more than we can replace. Chris was a patriot, a great father, and a true supporter of this country and its ideals. This is a tragedy for all of us. I send my deepest prayers and thoughts to his wife and two children," Scott McEwen, co-author of "American Sniper," said in a statement to ABC News.
Remembering Kyle for the number of Iraqi insurgents he killed misstates his legacy, McEwen said.
"His legacy is not one of being the most lethal sniper in United States history," McEwen said. "In my opinion, his legacy is one of saving lives in a very difficult situation where Americans where going to be killed if he was not able to do his job."
Though Kyle was active in FITCO Cares, the director of the foundation said Kyle and Routh had not met through the organization.
"Chris was literally the type of guy if you were a veteran and needed help he'd help you," Travis Cox, the director of FITCO Cares, told The Associated Press. "And from my understanding that's what happened here. I don't know how he came in contact with this gentleman, but I do know that it was not through the foundation."
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Kyle, 38, served four tours in Iraq and was awarded two Silver Stars, five Bronze Stars with Valor, two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals, and one Navy and Marine Corps Commendation.
From 1999 to 2009, Kyle recorded more than 150 sniper kills, the most in U.S. military history.
After leaving combat duty, Kyle became chief instructor training Naval Special Warfare Sniper and Counter-Sniper teams, and he authored the Naval Special Warfare Sniper Doctrine, the first Navy SEAL sniper manual. He left the Navy in 2009.
"American Sniper," which was published last year by William Morrow, became a New York Times best seller.
"We are devastated by the news of Chris Kyle's death," William Morrow executive editor Peter Hubbard said in a statement. "It was an incomparable honor to help share Chris's story of service and faith with the world. Chris was a hero as much on the home front as on the battlefield -- a man who dedicated his life in recent years to supporting veterans and donated the proceeds of American Sniper to the families of his fallen friends. He deserves our deepest respect. Our prayers are with his family and the entire military community. He will never be forgotten."
Kyle was also an advocate for his fellow service members suffering from PTSD, creating a foundation to help with their treatment.
In an interview on Guns.com, he discussed the difficulty troops face coming home from combat zones.
"All of a sudden you don't have no identity," he said "And you have to learn a whole new way to act."
Brandon Webb, a fellow SEAL who knew Kyle from SEAL Team Three then later when Webb was an instructor at the SEAL sniper course, called him a "larger than life Texan" and said he "will go down in history as one of the world's most accomplished military snipers, right next to Carlos Hathcock, and Lyudmila Pavlichenko."
"Chris was very adamant about supporting veterans issues," Webb said. "This was an subject close to his heart, and not many in our community realize how much of his time was spent on veterans' causes. ... Chris will be remembered as a great American Hero, and another friend lost but not forgotten."
Cox said Kyle's wife Taya and their children "lost a dedicated father and husband" and the country has lost a "lifelong patriot and an American hero."
"Chris Kyle was a hero for his courageous efforts protecting our country as a U.S. Navy SEAL during four tours of combat. Moreover, he was a hero for his efforts stateside when he helped develop the FITCO Cares Foundation. What began as a plea for help from Chris looking for in-home fitness equipment for his brothers- and sisters-in-arms struggling with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) became an organization that will carry that torch proudly in his honor," Cox said in a statement.
The fatal shooting comes after week filled with gun-related incidents, as the national debate heats up on what to do about gun violence.
In the past week, a teen who participated in President Obama's inaugural festivities was shot to death in Chicago, a bus driver was fatally shot and a 5-year-old was taken hostage in Alabama, and a Texas prosecutor was gunned down outside a courthouse.
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Physcial Sciences Division
Staff Awards & Honors
July 2012
Johannes Lercher Selected for Prestigious Lectureship in China
Johannes Lercher,
Zhang Dayu Lecturer
Congratulations to Dr. Johannes Lercher, Director of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Institute for Integrated Catalysis, on receiving the Zhang Dayu Lectureship from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Dalian Institute or DICP was established in 1949 by Professor Zhang Dayu and plays a leading role in basic and applied energy research.
As the recipient of Dayu Lectureship, Lercher will talk on catalysis research and spend time discussing research directions with scientists and students. In addition, Lercher will be an honorary professor at the Institute, furthering research and collaboration in catalysis and clean energy.
Lercher was elected for his contributions to understand catalysis in confined space and the use of physicochemical methods to explore elementary steps in this environment. His research includes catalysis for activating alkanes, bio-derived fuels and fossil fuel alternatives. His work focuses on the fundamentals of catalytic materials and processes which are important to industrial applications.


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Icons James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson sharing the silver screen– 'nuff said? Not quite. While I love the glamour, legend, and lore behind the making of "Giant" (and trust me, we'll get to that), it rings the social bell– truly ahead of its time, during the largely superficial values of the 1950s.
George Stevens' 1956 masterpiece "Giant" has been described as– Texas' own "Gone with the Wind." Star-studded, sweeping and epic– that bravely chronicles the evolution of the Mexican people from a subservient status to a people worthy of equal rights, respect and dignity through their hard-fought, slow-earned absorption and acceptance in America. It's a story about social change and ethnic growing pains that was told on the big screen– before the issue was thrust front-and-center in American living rooms during the civil rights movement.
America has a history of making the path to assimilation and acceptance (in this fine country of ours that I love) a downright bloody one. Hatred comes from fear–and fear is born of ignorance. I've been down that road myself– most of us have at some point. Like it or not. Maybe the melting pot analogy is fitting here– throw it all in, boil out the bones, cook under high heat until palatable, and serve up warm.
"In the beginning of "Giant," the rancher Bick Benedict is always correcting his Eastern-bred wife for treatingthe Mexican servants as deserving of respect. By the film's end, however, Benedict, played by a young Rock Hudson, comes to blows with a cafe owner attempting to remove a Spanish-speaking patron from his restaurant. Above all its themes, "Giant" is about social change. Hollywood for the first time addressed anti-Hispanic racism.'Giant' broke ground in the way it celebrated the fusion of Anglo and Hispanic culture in Texas– and anticipated the social gains that Mexican-Americans would make over the next generation. The movie is as much about race as it is about Texas."
—Benjamin Johnson (Author and Historian)
The Reata Ranch House (seen above in the background) in "Giant" is based on a actual Texas mansion– the Victorian era "Waggoner Mansion" that still stands today in Decatur, northwest of Fort Worth, Texas. George Stevens rejected the hacienda architecture of the traditional Texas ranch house (which is how the Benedict place is described in the Ferber novel). Stevens worried that a Spanish-looking house would be alien to non-Texan viewers. via The huge façade (of the Reata Ranch house) was built in Hollywood and shipped to Marfa on flatcars. It was erected in a corner of the Worth Evans ranch, one of the more imposing holdings of the region. And it was a strange sight, its towers visible for many miles, in the middle of the plains. As it was about a half enclosure rather well constructed, Stevens left it to serve the hospitable Mr. Evans as a hay barn. via
1955– Elizabeth Taylor & James Dean in George Stevens' "Giant." –Image © Sunset Boulevard/Corbis
"We were working on'Giant', and we're out in the middle of Texas. It was a scene that takes place just before Dean discovers oil on his land, where Elizabeth Taylor comes by and he makes tea for her. It's the first time Dean has ever acted with her. But even though we're out in the desert in Marfa, there are a thousand people watching us film behind a rope. It's a scene where Dean has a rifle on his back. He brings her in and makes her tea, and then, suddenly, he stops. And he walks a couple hundred feet away to where these people are watching us, and in front of all of them, he pisses– facing them, with his back to the set. Then he comes back in and does the scene. So, later, we're driving back to Marfa, and I said, 'Jimmy, I've seen you do a lot of strange things, man, but you really did it today. What was that all about?' He said, 'It was Elizabeth Taylor. I can't get over my farm-boy upbringing. I was so nervous that I couldn't speak. I had to pee, and I was trying to use that, but it wasn't working. So I thought that if I could go pee in front of all those people, I would be able to work with her.'" –costar Dennis Hopper via


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By Suzanne Kelly
Nada Bakos used to go work with a Glock strapped to her thigh. The former targeting officer for the CIA started her intelligence career as an analyst in 2000. But then September 11 happened.
"Everybody's life changed," said Nada Bakos, who, like many other women who were serving as analysts prior to 9/11, moved to the counterterrorism and eventually made the switch to the operations side, which meant she wasn't just analyzing the data on the bad guys, she was going after them.
She didn't yet have a family when she accepted her assignment as a targeting officer in Iraq, working alongside special forces in the hunt for the now-deceased terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. She won't share the details of exactly what she did to help find him, but she saw definite advantages to being a woman in the arena, noting that she sometimes had a very different experience than her male counterparts when it came to working within the norms of the culture.
"I got a completely different response than the men did," said Bakos, describing one particular effort to gather information. "How is a 26-year-old white male gonna walk up to a woman in the Middle East and say 'Hey, why don't you talk to me?' "
After a couple of years, Bakos realized that she knew more about Zarqawi than she did about many of the other men in her life. That, in part, was a wake up call to do something more: She wanted to start a family. But she was deep into her career on the operations side. That was a problem."The difference between men and women is that it's really hard for women to live the lifestyle of a case officer," said Bakos. "If you have a significant other, it's hard for you both to be employed. I was 37 then and I can't really say, 'Hey, let's interrupt your career and you can carve out what you need."
At least 160 other women feel her pain. Women from the CIA, the National Security Agency, Naval Office of Intelligence and dozens of other agencies met last week in a hotel conference room in McLean, Virginia, to try and find a better way.
The "women in national security" conference was sponsored by Working Mother Media. Carol Evans, president of that group, noted the unique environment in which these women compete.
"These women work in a very unusual industry," said Evans. "National Security is still a very heavily male industry and many of these women as they will say throughout the day, are oftentimes the first in their field to be a woman - the only person in the room who's a woman. So when we bring women together in an industry like this, they just feed off of each other, they catch each other's energy, and they build relationships."
And relationship-building while navigating a career in intelligence and national security is key, according to Letitia Long, the only female director of any of the 16 intelligence agencies that make up the intelligence community in this country.
Long, the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency spoke at the conference. She insists that work-life balance is something she has to work at every day.
"I'm passionate about what I do, so I often want to stay to do that last e-mail or sign that last memo, or ensure that I'm prepared for the next day. But we do have to remind ourselves that if we are going to be at the top of our game, if we are going to be rested and ready to lead, we have to take that step away and ensure we are keeping that work life balance," Long said in an interview with Security Clearance. "These are some of the stressful, some of the most stressful positions that are in the work force and if we are able to balance this, then perhaps there are some secrets that we can share with others so that they can balance also."
Long said that part of the stress is dealing with a culture at the agencies that needs to change.
At the agency Long heads, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, women make up about 31% of the workforce, and the attrition rate is slightly higher than that of men. As director of the Agency, Long feels that balance has to change if the country is going to build a stronger, more diverse, national security workforce.
"I do notice that women bring a different perspective when we're talking about the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and our core mission, of GEOINT, as men and women are looking at imagery, they see things differently," said Long. "We all are a product of our background and our upbringing and women will just tend to notice different things in an image than men will. Or if we're looking at pattern of activity, they might notice something that a man might not and vice versa. A man will notice something that a woman will not, because they don't see it as important or they don't see it as relevant, yet something that's not relevant today, might be relevant tomorrow."
The Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, David Shedd, agrees. With women making up close to 35% of his employees, he sees the distintive advantages of finding a workforce more in balance when it comes to women.
"Women as a rule tend to have stronger intuitive skills and in the world of intelligence, where you are often dealing with less than perfect information, that intuitive nature is important," said Shedd. "Men tend to be more fact-based."
Shedd also offered advice to the women attending the conference. When a woman from the NSA stood up and told him that she personally struggles with how effective she is at her job because when she makes an unpopular decision, instead of being seen as a strong leader, she is referred to as a word that rhymes with 'witch,' he agreed that some misperceptions still exist.
"As a man, I can tell you when no women are around, men still say that type of woman, you used the 'witch' word, but the man, he's just strong-willed and strong-minded," said Shedd. "I am very familiar with that. Changing the culture is critical."
Shedd advocates for women in intel to build a strong team of mentors and then to call on them often and to set clear goals, not being afraid to show their ambition in finding what comes next in their careers.
Bakos, the former spy mom with the Glock, is on that path now. She retired from the Agency and is looking for consulting work.
She still feels like she has much to offer. "I think there has to be a better way," said Bakos, who advocates for changing the culture within the intelligence community, to help allow women to live both lives.
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Joyful Noise review: A squeaky-clean pop-gospel fairy tale
Joyful Noise, a squeaky-clean pop-gospel fairy tale featuring Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah in canned catfights, reflects the inspiration of Glee and God, in that order. The Glee side, at least in my book, doesn't exactly amount to a recommendation, but it does mean that the movie's musical numbers are catchy and rollicking and, in their bright sunshiny way, rather soulful. In the small town of Pacashau, Ga., times are hard — every other storefront is empty — but the Divinity Church choir has lifted local spirits by rising to become a semifinalist in the National Joyful Noise Competition. Can these spunky vocalists go the distance?
Not until they learn to work together in harmony. Which means that Vi Rose Hill (Latifah), the choir's new director, has to stop feuding with G.G. Sparrow (Parton), widow of the former choir leader, over the direction of the group's music. Vi Rose, feisty and smart-mouthed, favors tradition, while G.G., whose grandson Randy (Jeremy Jordan) is the new songbird on the block, is out to shake things up. Parton now looks like a Spitting Image puppet (the film makes plastic-surgery jokes about her so that we don't have to), but she still has a way with lines like "I'd call you stubborn, but that'd be an insult to mules!"
Joyful Noise also finds room for a teenager with Asperger's syndrome (Dexter Darden) who loves one-hit-wonder songs (but can he learn to love himself?), as well as a romance between Randy and Vi Rose's daughter Olivia (Keke Palmer). These two are pretty — and as bland as balsa wood. But each time the innocuousness starts to get to you, you're woken up by Randy and Olivia's swooning "Maybe I'm Amazed" duet, or a kid-choir rendition of Billy Preston's "That's the Way God Planned It," or the final "I Want to Take You Higher" blowout. These numbers create a deep river of feeling, even when stuck in the shallow banks of a movie like this one. B-


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Welcome to the world of the Netherlands Dans Theater's in-house choreographers Sol León and Paul Lightfoot. During this evening, they take you with them to their artistic universe. You can see the characteristic style of the successful Spanish-British choreographer duo in the humorous "SH-Boom", and enjoy the powerful theatrical "Same Difference," set to music by Philip Glass. The closing performance of "Shoot the Moon," also with the beautiful sounds of Glass, gives you a glimpse into the love lives of several characters.
Nederlands Dans Theater "An Evening With Sol Leon and Paul Lightfoot" is not showing in any theaters in the area.


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But all that royalty evaporates in the presence of President Barack Obama. The contrast between Williams roaring like a lion against Obama's Republican challengers at the Reagan Library on Sept. 8, and then bowing gently like a lamb at the White House two days later was jaw dropping.
In California, Williams blasted Gov. Rick Perry with this question: "Texas ranks last among those who have completed high school, there are only eight other states with more living in poverty, no other state has more working at or below the minimum wage. So is that the kind of answer all Americans are looking for?"
Later, Williams went at Perry again: "As you know, your state ranks among the worst in the country in high school graduation rates, as we established. Yet, you recently signed a budget cut for billions in education funding, you pushed for greater cuts than were in the budget that the legislature passed. You've said that education is a top priority, but explain cutting it the way you did, please?"
But Williams' absolute worst moment arrived when he lost all sense of objectivity and fairness on the death penalty issue. "Your state has executed 234 death row inmates, more than any other governor in modern times. Have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent?"
Williams didn't just hammer Perry, he also repeatedly pounded Ron Paul like a haughty Swedish socialist to defend his libertarian views. He even lectured Rick Santorum that as a "devout Catholic," he was supposed to care for the poor, so "where do the poor come in, where do they place in this party, on this stage?"
Then Brian Williams went back to Washington, D.C.
Less than 48 hours later, Williams was calmly asking Obama to assess the 10th anniversary of 9/11 like he was father of the country. He also asked Obama what it's like for the president and his wife to walk through Section 60 of Arlington Cemetery, where the fallen from Iraq and Afghanistan rest.
This would be unexceptional on such a solemn occasion...if NBC had done that for George W. Bush on the fifth anniversary of 9/11. Guess what? They didn't. Matt Lauer secured a Bush interview in 2006 and fought him throughout the entire thing, first on Iraq, and then on Iran.
For example, Lauer began: "In recent speeches, you and Vice President Cheney and Secretary Rumsfeld have seemed to indicate that people who are critics of your policy in Iraq are in some ways trying to appease terrorists. Do you know of any Democrats that, in your opinion, are trying to or would like to appease terrorists?"
In the last few weeks, Obama has jetted around the country insisting that the Republicans aren't willing to put the good of the country ahead of their need to win politically. He's going from city to city questioning their patriotism. But Brian Williams and all his fellow servants in the hope and change brigade have no problem with that, and don't ask about it.
Instead -- and this is where the jaws should drop --Williams chose to inquire about why the Republicans couldn't be statesmen like Obama on the debt-ceiling debate. Ask yourself on which planet does Williams think the following kind of question to Obama matches the way he "moderated" the GOP debate:
"All of this, of course, is if you get what you want in a highly toxic atmosphere, and it sure looked to me from the outside like you went into the debt-ceiling fight thinking, 'Surely they will do the statesmanlike thing. Surely they won't go there.' And it seemed to me as if Speaker Boehner was coming to you, saying, 'Look, if it were up to me we would do this, but I've got this membership problem.' And they went there, and now that marks our politics."
Move over, Jay Carney. Obama is auditioning press secretaries on the most popular nightly newscast in America.
Let's turn that hopelessly obsequious softball around on Williams. The viewer, after watching Williams swinging a baseball bat at Republican heads on MSNBC, could say, "Surely, Brian will do the hard-hitting fair-and-balanced anchorman thing. Surely, he won't go there, prostrate at Obama's feet. But he went there, and now that marks our journalism."


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Obama's home-turf summits will test his leverage
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will find his diplomatic clout tested at twin summits on his own turf beginning Friday. The big global problems are the economic mess in Europe and finding scarce money to boost a postwar Afghanistan — and in both cases the solutions lie mostly overseas.
Still, given a home field advantage in an election year, Obama will try to use it.
By offering solidarity with Europe and reminders that he is steering the Afghan war to a close, Obama will be promoting his re-election interests as well as national ones, underscoring contrasts with Mitt Romney, his rival for the presidency.
Summit locations rotate around the globe, and Obama has ended up with a bounty of them — first an Asia-Pacific gathering in his birthplace of Hawaii last November and now both the G-8 economic summit at the presidential retreat in Maryland and a NATO security conference in Chicago, his hometown and re-election headquarters.
For four days, Obama will host global meetings on his stages, though the most pressing problems reflect how much is out of his hands.
For voters, Obama will keep the focus on the economy. For the watching world, he will embrace the trans-Atlantic alliance as a cornerstone of U.S. policy at a time when Romney has accused him of taking inspiration from "Socialist Democrats in Europe" and has declared: "Europe isn't working in Europe. It's not going to work here."
Europe's debt crisis poses huge potential to drag down the American economy and Obama's bid for a second term. The financial worries will dominate discussions at the Camp David summit of major industrialized nations on Friday and Saturday, with Obama expected mainly to listen and prod Europe toward more growth and less budget-slashing austerity.
The United States is not in the lead of that fight and does not want to be, strapped with its own unemployment concerns and mounting debt. The White House has put more focus on insulating itself from the contagion by pursuing jobs ideas it hopes to get through a divided Congress at home.
"If he can't offer his wallet, he can at least offer his shoulder," said Lauren Blumenfeld, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund, a think tank that focuses on relations between North America and Europe. "He can feel their pain and offer inspirational support. I think there is an opportunity."
Still recovering from a giant recession, the U.S., through Obama's government, has been sharing its experience with European partners and pushing for what it considers a smarter balance between stimulus and cuts abroad. Obama has been blunt in saying the United States has done it the right way. As he told a campaign fundraising audience: "Europe is still in a difficult state — partly because they didn't take some of the decisive steps that we took early on in this recession."
Expectations for summit breakthroughs are low for a number of reasons, among them that the Group of Eight meeting is no long considered the chief forum for weighing action on global economic challenges. That title belongs to the G-20, which includes developing giants such as India and China and will convene in June in Mexico.
As for Obama, Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser, said: "It's not a question of leverage, because ultimately the incentive for the Europeans to act is their own economic future."
Yet in conversations deep in the mountain woods and away from cameras, Obama may have his best chance to hold sway with the old-guard powers. The G-8 nations are the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Russia and Japan.
"What can Obama do? He can say, 'Look, guys, I'll provide the leadership for America, but you have to provide the leadership where you have to,'" said Karel Lannoo, the head of the Brussels-based Center for European Policy Studies. "The best thing he can do is speak to (new French President Francois) Hollande."
Hollande, a Socialist, just took office on Tuesday after riding an anti-austerity wave and ousting Obama ally Nicolas Sarkozy from office. He will have a sudden relationship with Obama, starting at the White House on Friday before both leaders join their peers for the G-8. Ahead of his arrival in Washington, Hollande met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and said that "everything that can contribute to growth must be put on the table by everyone" — a message the White House likes.
Never before has a president held such a gathering at Camp David; Obama has never even hosted one foreign dignitary there before now. Compared to his first G-8 meeting less than three years ago, he finds himself a senior member: Japan, Russia, Britain, France and Italy have all turned over their leaders since then. New-old Russian President Vladimir Putin is sending his predecessor, Dmitry Medvedev.
On Afghanistan, Obama has already telegraphed the message for Chicago, one which also fits his we're-getting-out-of-war election theme.
NATO will get more specific about putting Afghanistan in the lead of the combat mission in 2013 in advance of the end of the war itself by the end of 2014.
And although the Sunday and Monday summit is not a donor conference, Obama will come seeking money commitments from nations inside and outside the alliance to help the Afghan army defend the country — and potentially prevent it from slipping into a chaotic haven of trouble — when the world alliance pulls out.
The cost is expected to run more than $4 billion a year, and the United States is trying to reduce its share of the burden as Afghanistan's largest patron. The trouble for Obama is that's a tough sell. Many countries have their own strapped economies and diminishing public appetite to build up another nation after a long, costly war.
American voters will hear again that the war is ending. What they won't hear, Obama officials say, are new details on U.S. troop withdrawals.
The United States is expected to draw down to about 68,000 troops by September, and Obama is not yet ready to discuss the pace after that.
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Photo Flash: LYSISTRATA JONES Begins Previews Nov. 12
Broadway's new musical comedy, Lysistrata Jones, will begin preview performances this Saturday, November 12 at 8:00pm at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 W 48th Street). Written by Tony nominee Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn and directed and choreographed by Tony nominee Dan Knechtges, Lysistrata Jones will officially open on December 14, 2011.
Check out production shots from the off-Broadway production below!The Athens University basketball team hasn't won a game in 30 years. But when spunky transfer student Lysistrata Jones (Patti Murrin) dares the squad's fed-up girlfriends to stop 'giving it up' to their boyfriends until they win a game, their legendary losing streak could be coming to an end. In this boisterous new musical comedy, Lyssie J. and her girl-power posse give Aristophanes' classic comedy a sexy, modern twist and take student activism to a whole new level.
Lysistrata Jones stars Patti Murin (Lysistrata Jones), Liz Mikel (Hetaira), Josh Segarra (Mick), Jason Tam (Xander), and Lindsay Nicole Chambers (Robin) with Alexander Aguilar ('Uardo), Ato Blankson-Wood (Tyllus), Katie Boren (Lampito), Kat Nejat (Cleonice), LaQuet Sharnell (Myrrhine), Teddy Toye (Harold) and Alex Wyse (Cinesius), with understudies LaVon Fisher-Wilson, Libby Servias, Charlie Sutton, Barrett Wilbert Weed, and Jared Zirilli.
Set design for Lysistrata Jones is by Allen Moyer (Tony nominee for Grey Gardens; The Little Dog Laughed; Twelve Angry Men; The Man Who Had All the Luck); costume design is by David C. Woolard (Tony nominee for The Rocky Horror Show and The Who's Tommy) and Thomas Charles LeGalley (The 39 Steps at Hartford Stage); lighting design is by Michael Gottlieb (The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged); The Last Session); sound design is by Tony Meola (Drama Desk winner for The Lion King; Wicked; The Wild Party; Les Miserables); and hair design is by Mark Adam Rampmeyer (West Side Story, The Farnsworth Invention). The music director is Brad Simmons with music coordinator Dean Sharenow and the associate choreographer is Jessica Hartman.
Lysistrata Jones is produced by Paula Herold, Alan Wasser, Joseph Smith, Michael McCabe, John Breglio, Takonkiet Viravan/Scenario Thailand, Hilary A. Williams, Broadway Across America and James G. Robinson in association with Tony Meola, Martin McCallum and Marianne Mills.
Photo Credit: Carol Rosegg