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Behind A Halloween Mask, Even 'Good' Kids Can Turn Into Candy Thieves

Is there an angel or a devil behind the mask? Scientists say it may not matter in terms of anonymous behavior.

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Is there an angel or a devil behind the mask? Scientists say it may not matter in terms of anonymous behavior.

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Vampires and monsters will be out in force tonight, but some of the darkest creatures out there might be your little angels inside those Halloween costumes.

It's been more than a quarter-century since psychologists discovered that the cloak of anonymity of Halloween costumes gives children license to steal ? not just candy, but real money. In a naturalistic experiment published in 1976 into the behavior of 1,352 children in the Seattle area on Halloween, researchers found that virtually all children were willing to join in the stealing ? given the right circumstances. The kids varied in age from 4 and 5 to pre-teens.

In an interview this week with The Salt, Scott Fraser, one of the researchers, says the study challenged an idea that was universally believed at the time and is still widely held today: People who do bad things are bad people; actions derive from character. Not so, Fraser says. Given the right circumstances, both children and adults can be induced to violate social norms. The context, not character, is king.

Among the chief factors that can turn good kids into thieves: anonymity. And that's what led the researchers to study kids at Halloween, Fraser says.

"The basic brainstorm that occurred is that here's a naturally occurring event in our society where children come dressed in costumes," he says. "They would be dressed as ballerinas, holding masks over their eyes ? they essentially were anonymous."

Fraser was a psychologist at the University of Washington at Seattle at the time; he now teaches at UCLA and USC. The study, which was led by psychologist Edward Diener, was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

So, how'd they do it?

The setup was simple. Researchers allowed kids to show up at 27 homes that had been set up for the experiment. A woman welcomed the trick-or-treaters and admired their costumes; she made no effort to identify the children. She then showed them to a table. There were two bowls on the table. One held delectable candies; the other was filled with coins. The woman told the children they were each allowed to take only one piece of candy. If a child asked about the money, he or she was told the money was meant for a charitable cause and was to be picked up soon.

The woman then disappeared into another room. Secretly, however, researchers hidden behind closet doors or decorative curtains watched the kids.

When the kids were confident that they were anonymous, and especially when they were in large groups, nearly all the children made off with more candy than they were allowed, or with money, or with both. There were 416 separate occasions where children took stuff they were not supposed to take.

"In fact we had some groups that came, and they simply turned the bowl over, divided all the candies up, put it in their bags and left," Fraser says. "They robbed us blind."

Leadership also played a role. When children came in a group and a single child was told he or she was responsible for making sure the others took only one candy each ? but no effort was made to identify the leader ? thievery became the norm. The leader knew he or she could act with impunity. And when that happened, nearly all the other kids followed suit.

Fraser says that he sees connections between the kids' behavior and the different ways in which adults break rules, up to and including atrocities committed by soldiers in wartime. Given the cloak of anonymity and unethical leadership, wrongdoing becomes the norm.

"The first thought that comes to mind when an individual commits a horrendous act is to ascribe some kind of character feature that is particular to that individual and that most people feel they don't possess," Fraser says. "[We think,] 'that's a serial killer who's a psychopath [or] that's a very rude person ? but [it's] not me.' "

The psychologists found that when the trick-or-treaters came with a supervising adult, when they came individually and when they were asked for their names and addresses before being shown to the table, honesty levels soared.

So, if you want masked kids to be honest tonight as they reach their sticky hands into the candy bowl, you may want to trust but verify.

Actually, scratch that. Don't trust them. Verify.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/10/31/164030718/behind-a-halloween-mask-even-good-kids-can-turn-into-candythieves?ft=1&f=1007

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91% Holy Motors

"Holy Motors," from French filmmaker Leos Carax, is the best avant-garde film of 2012 so far. But that's not saying much, as it's been a terrible year for avant-garde film. Despite its title, "Holy Motors" really isn't about cars. It's somewhat about technology, with limousines probably meant to represent traditional celluloid cameras -- so big and bulky that they are a challenge to handle. But oh so wonderful. Big wonderful machines. Stretch limos can barely turn a corner in the old sectors of great cities like Paris and New York. But doesn't everyone's heart skip a beat just a bit when they enter one? First and foremost, "Holy Motors" is about people, as was the case with Carax's first film, "Boy Meets Girl" (1984). This is an avant-garde artist with a deep-feeling heart and a deep sensitivity to the people around him. Holy Love. Amen to that. The film documents a day in the life of a man named Oscar. (Perhaps this is a tribute to American cinema and its big, grand Academy Awards. Holy Glamour.) Played spectacularly well by the protean Denis Lavant, Oscar is carted around all day in a white stretch limo, taken to a series of appointments throughout Paris. At each appointment, he becomes a different character. His limo is a dressing room, where he applies make-up and elaborate disguises to become his next character. The first one is an old, crippled woman begging for money on the street. Another is a revolting barefoot troll (half-man, half-beast) who interrupts a high-fashion photo shoot and kidnaps the model (who is played by Eva Mendes). Every sequence is quite thrilling, and each one is so different from the others. Most breathtaking of all is the sequence where his movements are recorded in a stop-motion studio, for use in what appears to be a pornographic video game. Gradually it becomes clear that these appointments are elaborately planned, and everyone he interacts with during each scene is also an actor. While donning his next costume in the limo, he is also reading a file that someone else has prepared, a summary of what his next character will be doing. We even meet a man who appears to be something like Oscar's employer, who critiques Oscar's performances. Oscar announces that he has been having more difficulty staying in character because the cameras have gotten so small that they cannot be seen. This is when "Holy Motors" started to seem like a comment on digital filmmaking. At my screening at the New York Film Festival, Carax was in attendance, as was Kylie Minogue, who has a small role in the film. (I initially thought this was Minogue's first time acting. But not so. She has appeared in a number of television shows and films, including "Moulin Rouge," where she played the Green Fairy. Who knew?) Carax spoke for about a half-hour after the screening, and it became even more clear that "Holy Motors" was primarily meant as an allegory about 21st-century filmmaking and the demise of traditional cameras. At one point, he said the new cameras today are not really cameras. "They're more like computers," he said. He feels sad about the rise of digital filmmaking, claiming that it "looks terrible." But "Holy Motors," which was shot 100% on digital, looked gorgeous. Gradually during his remarks, the object of his ire shifted. What really angers him is that he's been unable to make a film since 1999. He had several projects collapse at the last minute because producers won't back him. This has nothing to do with the 21st century or changing technology. This is the age-old problem of cinema being enormously expensive. If anything, it's gotten easier in the digital age because the new technology costs so much less. It's no surprise to me that Carax finally was able to get a project green-lighted now that digital has triumphed. To me, Carax has digital to thank. Furthermore, I suspect that "Holy Motors" is going to succeed well enough financially that he's going to get another project green-lighted in 2013. Holy Digital. While I appreciate Carax's work and consider myself a fan, I wouldn't put him in my pantheon. There's something still just a bit underwhelming about his work.

October 14, 2012

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/holy_motors/

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Long-oppressed Kurds get taste of freedom

Danny Gold

A new member of the Kurds' Popular Protection Units (YPG) stands in front of a crowd waving Kurdish flags in Qamishli, Syria. The Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without a homeland, totaling more than 30 million people.

By Danny Gold

DERIK, Syria -- From the roof of the new home he is building on the outskirts of the Kurdish controlled city of Derik in northeast Syria, Bashir Said Mohammad can count a dozen or so other structures in different stages of completion. "All this building has happened after the revolution," he says. "Before we were not able to build. You would go to the regime and they would say no, because we are in the Kurdish areas."

In the Kurdish areas of Syria, known as Rojava, people have wasted little time seizing on the opportunities a tentative retreat by President Bashar Assad's government forces three months ago has afforded them. But while a burgeoning civil society independent of Assad's regime continues to grow, the Kurds are desperately trying to avoid the devastating violence that has battered cities like Aleppo and Homs.

The Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without a homeland, totaling more than 30 million people. Spread out between parts of Iraq, Syria, Iran and Turkey, they have been subjected to decades of oppression aimed at erasing their cultural identity in all four regions. Kurds make up around 10 percent of the population in Syria, totaling about 2 million, but have been treated as second-class citizens for generations.

In July, Assad forces made a hasty retreat from a number of Kurdish cities and towns in northeastern Syria. Despite a few skirmishes, the situation has remained relatively peaceful.

Though prices have risen, Derik's cafes are still full and people linger in the streets with little fear. Kurdish flags now fly from shops and houses, Kurdish police forces known as Asayish patrol the streets and community organizations known as People's Houses, "mala gels" in Kurdish, have been set up to solve disputes and act as de facto government institutions.

The Kurdish language, which as little as two years ago was forbidden, is now taught in state schools. Delkesh Resol, a 22-year-old former door-to-door salesman, was preparing one recent Sunday morning to teach a Kurdish language lesson to high school students despite a warning from the regime that language classes were to have stopped the previous Thursday.

'Studying in secret'
His act of defiance, which prior to the revolution would have led to a prison sentence and possible torture, did not concern him. "I'm not worried, there is no fear when you're doing something from your heart," Resol said. "Before this we knew there would come a day when we could do this (teach Kurdish in the schools), so we were studying in secret. If we need to teach Kurdish in the streets, we will."

Danny Gold

High school students in a classroom in Derik, Syria, listen to a teacher giving Kurdish lessons. Teaching the Kurdish language was previously forbidden.

The mala gel in Derik is made up of 40 members, and resolves disputes on everything from agriculture to the distribution of donations received from Kurds in Iraq. There is even a member who specializes in divorces. Additional "houses," such as the Women's House and the Youth House, handle more specialized disputes.

Despite Resol's confidence, it is still necessary to be wary of Assad Mukhabarat, or secret police, in Derik. Though the city is described as liberated, plainclothes intelligence officers still lurk the streets. Just exactly who is in power, and how much power they have, is vague.

The lack of heavy conflict and continued presence of Assad men in some of the cities have led to accusations that the Kurdish leadership arranged a secret deal with the regime, where they were allowed to take over certain areas in exchange for not forcing a third front. Others have argued that the Kurds are simply acting practically.

"The regime has not subjected the Kurdish regions to the same level of violence that it has directed against other parts of Syria,"?said Thomas McGee, a researcher on Syrian Kurds at Britain's University of Exeter, who spent two years living in the region and was there for the first eight months of the revolution.?"Kurds have not gone out of their way to bring this upon themselves, learning from the regime's brutal reaction to the 2004 Kurdish uprising." ?In 2004, Kurdish protests that began at a soccer game led to an assault by regime forces that ended with over 30 Kurdish citizens killed.

"The fact that neither the regime nor Kurds en masse have actively declared war on the other need not mean that there is collusion. Each side has their interests and is pursuing this," McGee added. "Kurds, for their part seek stability and wish to avoid escalation."

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People resisting the army of President Bashar al-Assad in northern Syria cope with loss and prepare for fighting.

Both sides in the Kurdish areas walk a tenuous line, in some areas existing side-by-side while trying to avoid direct conflict that seems inevitable. Regime buildings are still occupied by officials, but the people inside are said to be powerless. In Derik -- which is 90 percent Kurdish -- the mala gel is housed in a building formerly used by a youth committee of Assad's ruling Baath party. It is now adorned with photos of Syrian Kurdish martyrs and Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) who is jailed in Turkey. According to the State Department, "PKK terrorist activity has been responsible for the deaths of more than 30,000 Turkish citizens."

It is also next door to a local headquarters for the Baath party, where spray-painted photos of Assad family members dot the perimeter walls. In other parts of the city, these images have been defaced, as have representations of the Syrian flag.

The small city of Girke Lege, another liberated Kurdish area, lies adjacent to the oil city of Rmeilan, which is heavily fortified with Assad troops. A large Kurdish flag welcomes visitors to the city, but after a ten-minute drive down the road, an Assad flag waves above a fortress-like encampment.

'It feels like a new place'
Kana Berakat, 43, a member of the People's House in Girke Lege, recalls the two times he was imprisoned for Kurdish rights activism. At Aleppo University in 1990, he tried to organize a Newroz celebration and spent 70 days in jail. In 2009, he spent a week in jail after attending a Kurdish rights demonstration. That time, Berakat was arrested because he did not have identification papers. Berakat is one of hundreds of thousands of Kurds in Syria who had their citizenship removed in 1962 and are currently stateless.

"It feels like a new place. Before when I went shopping to get tomatoes, I was very afraid," he said. "I thought the regime would take me. Now I walk around not worried, like I am a free man, but I am worried for the future."

One street in Aleppo: Life goes on as death lurks around every corner

Berakat, though enjoying his newfound freedom, is concerned that as the regime continues to falter, it may one day grow desperate and unleash the troops next door. By then, though, he hopes the Kurdish militia will be strong enough to defend the Kurdish people.

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Bashir Said Mohammad surveys construction on a new home he began building in Derik, Syria, after the revolution started. He had been previously been denied permission because he is a Kurd.

The Kurds' Popular Protection Units (YPG)?patrol the borders and act as a deterrent to both Assad forces and the rebel Free Syrian Army. Established by the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the most powerful Syrian Kurdish political group, the YPG is now distancing itself and trying to be seen as the universal defenders of the Syrian Kurds instead of the party's military wing.

Videos of YPG forces training have shown a noticeable lack of heavily artillery, but the troop numbers are said to be growing every day. The formation of a fourth brigade was just announced.

More Syria coverage from NBC News

The YPG has not hesitated to attack the regime if provoked, and has sought to prevent both the FSA and the regime from entering Kurdish neighborhoods in more contested areas like Kobane and Efrin. After a Kurdish neighborhood in Aleppo was bombed in late July resulting in the death of 21 civilians, YPG forces killed three regime soldiers and captured a number of others.

Machine guns operated by motorcycle brakes? Get a glimpse at the rebels fighting against Assad's forces in Syria's mountainous Jabal al-Zawiya area.

Last week, Assad's forces bombed a Kurdish area in Aleppo. The FSA and the YPG also clashed, reportedly leaving about 20 fighters dead.

At a recent demonstration in the city of Qamishli, 50 or so new recruits lined up for military exercises. They stood silently, faces covered in scarves as to obscure their identities and surrounded by a crowd of thousands chanting slogans of support. Old women clad in hijabs and young girls in Western-style clothing waved flags, singing and dancing to songs of Kurdish freedom.

The demonstration came a few days after a car bomb exploded outside an Assad base in the city, killing four soldiers. The bombing was later claimed by Jabhat Al-Nusra, a shadowy jihadist organization with ties to al-Qaida that is fighting against the regime. The night before had seen a gunbattle at the airport between the FSA and the regime. These incidents heightened fears that the war was encroaching into Kurdish territory.

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A look back at the violence that has overtaken the country

Some Kurds believe the FSA means to lure the Kurds further into the conflict, forcing Assad to open up another front and possibly using the Kurdish issue to persuade Turkey to further involve itself. Others think that the regime will grow weary of the Kurdish push for more rights and eventual autonomy, and look to reassert control.

Turkey has leveled accusations that the PYD is simply a front for the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), which has been engaged in a guerrilla war against the Turkish government for 30 years. Turkey has threatened to invade the Kurdish areas to root them out. PYD categorically denies that it is simply a front for the PKK, saying that they share ideology but do not take orders.

NYT: Syria rivals in deadly game of cat-and-mouse

Saleh Muslim Mohammed, the leader of the PYD,?also expressed fear of the Islamist brigades and extremists said to be fighting alongside the FSA.

For now, the Kurds appear intent on staving off escalating conflict while attempting to build up enough strength to protect their newfound rights and eventually obtain a level of freedom that has eluded them in Syria.

"Violence is the last choice, but if anything happens here the YPG will answer," said Mohammed Saeed, a PYD official in Derik. "Every family here has weapons. All the Kurdish, not only the YPG, will defend themselves. Without Kurdish rights, there will be no stability."

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Source: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/29/14756648-after-decades-of-oppression-kurds-get-taste-of-freedom-as-assads-troops-flee?lite

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PFT: Peyton better than ever? |? Saints' D stinks

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The Colts kept veteran wide receiver Reggie Wayne for many reasons, primarily to give rookie quarterback Andrew Luck a reliable target.

But Wayne added extra value Sunday, by giving his young teammates a talking-to at halftime of their 19-13 overtime win over the Titans.

Down 10-3 at the half, Wayne had seen enough.

?Sometimes you have to do more than lead by example,? Wayne said, via Mike Chappell of the Indianapolis Star.

?I was [upset],? Wayne said. ?There was no false enthusiasm on this one. I was [upset] because I knew what we were capable of. We should have had a lead at halftime and we were behind.

?I felt like we needed a little fire. I had to speak up.?

It must have helped, because the Colts won their first road game since December 2010, by locking down the Titans and cutting out the mistakes that plagued them in the first half.

?Reggie told us to look at everybody and see if we wanted to fight for each other,? center Samson Satele said. ?It just fired everybody up. I was looking around and thinking, ?I don?t want to leave here with a loss.?

?Not after that speech Reggie just gave.?

Wayne and the Colts are in an interesting spot. While they were generally considered on the upswing, they?re sitting at 4-3 at the moment, level with the other wild card-level teams. They?re two games behind the Texans for the division lead, and no one thinks they?re catching up.

But no one thought they?d still be in playoff contention, either.

Maybe no one but Wayne, anyway.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/29/peyton-manning-is-back-and-better-than-ever/related/

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Researchers engineer cartilage from pluripotent stem cells

Monday, October 29, 2012

A team of Duke Medicine researchers has engineered cartilage from induced pluripotent stem cells that were successfully grown and sorted for use in tissue repair and studies into cartilage injury and osteoarthritis.

The finding is reported online Oct. 29, 2012, in the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and suggests that induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPSCs, may be a viable source of patient-specific articular cartilage tissue.

"This technique of creating induced pluripotent stem cells ? an achievement honored with this year's Nobel Prize in medicine for Shimya Yamanaka of Kyoto University - is a way to take adult stem cells and convert them so they have the properties of embryonic stem cells," said Farshid Guilak, PhD, Laszlo Ormandy Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Duke and senior author of the study.

"Adult stems cells are limited in what they can do, and embryonic stem cells have ethical issues," Guilak said. "What this research shows in a mouse model is the ability to create an unlimited supply of stem cells that can turn into any type of tissue ? in this case cartilage, which has no ability to regenerate by itself."

Articular cartilage is the shock absorber tissue in joints that makes it possible to walk, climb stairs, jump and perform daily activities without pain. But ordinary wear-and-tear or an injury can diminish its effectiveness and progress to osteoarthritis. Because articular cartilage has a poor capacity for repair, damage and osteoarthritis are leading causes of impairment in older people and often requires joint replacement.

In their study, the Duke researchers, led by Brian O. Diekman, PhD., a post-doctoral associate in orthopaedic surgery, aimed to apply recent technologies that have made iPSCs a promising alternative to other tissue engineering techniques, which use adult stem cells derived from the bone marrow or fat tissue.

One challenge the researchers sought to overcome was developing a uniformly differentiated population of chondrocytes, cells that produce collagen and maintain cartilage, while culling other types of cells that the powerful iPSCs could form.

To achieve that, the researchers induced chondrocyte differentiation in iPSCs derived from adult mouse fibroblasts by treating cultures with a growth medium. They also tailored the cells to express green fluorescent protein only when the cells successfully became chondrocytes. As the iPSCs differentiated, the chondrocyte cells that glowed with the green fluorescent protein were easily identified and sorted from the undesired cells.

The tailored cells also produced greater amounts of cartilage components, including collagen, and showed the characteristic stiffness of native cartilage, suggesting they would work well repairing cartilage defects in the body.

"This was a multi-step approach, with the initial differentiation, then sorting, and then proceeding to make the tissue," Diekman said. "What this shows is that iPSCs can be used to make high quality cartilage, either for replacement tissue or as a way to study disease and potential treatments."

Diekman and Guilak said the next phase of the research will be to use human iPSCs to test the cartilage-growing technique.

"The advantage of this technique is that we can grow a continuous supply of cartilage in a dish," Guilak said. "In addition to cell-based therapies, iPSC technology can also provide patient-specific cell and tissue models that could be used to screen for drugs to treat osteoarthritis, which right now does not have a cure or an effective therapy to inhibit cartilage loss."

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Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout: Love it or Loath it?It's Harvard's ...

Flags at half staff at Fox News and Tea Party retreats today.? On October 28, 1636 the greatest bastion of ?cultural elitism? in American history came into being and despite stiff competition, it remains a force with tendrils deep into the highest echelons of government, law, business, and the arts.??????

It was on this day that the College at New Towne was created by an act of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.? New Towne was just up the Charles River from Boston would soon be named Cambridge, in honor of the English university where many leading citizens had received their education.? A fitting name for the home of the very first institution of higher learning in North America.

This was only 16 years after Separatist dissenters, known to us as the Pilgrims, established a tiny colony at Plymouth and eight years since the dour Puritans had established themselves.? Despite a steadily growing population due to new arrivals from England and extraordinary fertility, settlements still clung close to the coast and not many miles inland was still a ?howling wilderness? populated by Native tribes and confederacies.? The urgent mission of the school was to train new Puritan divines to fill the pulpits of the town churches that the members of the General Court were sure would be built.? The school began with one Master, Nathaniel Eaton, and nine students.

After just two years of existence and without graduating a single student the struggling College received a startling and totally unexpected windfall.? John Harvard was a young Puritan minister who had arrived in the New World in 1637 and was settled a minister in Charlestown.? He was the son of a butcher and tavern keeper who ?rose in the world.? In 1625, his father, a stepsister, and two brothers died of the plague. Only his mother and one brother survived.? His mother remarried and was widowed twice more by men ?of substance.?? She was able to send her son to the Puritan hot bed of Emmanuel College, Cambridge from which he graduated in 1632.? His mother died in 1635 and his brother in 1737 leaving John the unexpected heir of a small fortune.? Unfortunately the minister contracted the dreaded consumption (tuberculosis) and was dead within a year.? Among Harvard?s closest friends was Eaton the Master of the New School.? In his will Harvard donated his impressive library of more than 400 volumes to the school in addition to ?779 17s 2d, half of the cash value of his estate.? Eaton was entrusted with using it for the benefit of the school.

Eaton put the money to work right away.? He saw to the erection of a fine frame two story building with as stone foundation and a cellar.?? The building could supposedly house the Master and up to 30 students with a parlor for instruction. The property included its own apple orchard, barn, and garden plot.? Eaton was glad to rename the school Harvard College on March 13, 1639.

Eaton was not to enjoy his stewardship of the college for long.? He and his family ran afoul of the notoriously high handed Governor John Winthrop.? Eaton was fired and brought up on charges that he had ?whipped too harshly? two of his students and that his wife had served others hasty pudding contaminated with goat feces?an event which inspired the name for a much later college humor society.? After being convicted, Eaton fled to Virginia and was later accused by the Governor of absconding with ?100 of the Harvard bequest?an allegation that dogged the man until his dying day in an English debtor?s prison.

Eaton was succeeded in 1640 by Henry Dunster, the first man to hold the title President.? The first students graduated in 1642. During his tenure, in 1650 Harvard College received its official Charter. Dunster remained in his post until 1654 when he too ran afoul of Puritan authorities in a dispute over infant baptism.

Harvard was never officially affiliated with the church.? It didn?t need to be.? The authorities of Massachusetts Bay assumed that all institutions would be subject to ?instruction? by a virtual theocracy.? A 1643 pamphlet summarized the mission of the college, ?To advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministery to the Churche.?

Even in the early years there periodic eruptions campus misbehavior and scandal?even Puritan boys away from home for the first time were apt to go a bit wild, drinking, gambling, ?whoring,? insulting good townsfolk, and occasionally openly rebelling against bad food, inept instruction, and capricious discipline.? These instances were usually met with canings, expulsions, prosecution by local authorities, and?once in a while?the dismissal of faculty members for being too lax or too harsh.

Despite this, the College was succeeding in supplying new ministers?plenty of them, even more than there were pulpits to fill.?? Its classic education, drawn from the colleges of Cambridge in the mother country, however, was suitable preparation for other professions as well.? Soon the college was producing lawyers in as great abundance as divines, followed by medical doctors.? Even ?failed? students who did not succeed in a profession could fall back upon the calling of the desperate gentleman?school mastering.? Others found their way into business, particularly maritime trade, where a good education in figures stood them well.

In 1664 the College building burned to the ground taking with it all but one of John Harvard?s library books.? It was quickly replaced with grander accommodations.

Concerned with both rowdisim on campus and creeping infidelity, Increase Mather, the powerful pastor of Boston?s North Church, was named Acting President in 1685, named Rector following year, and made permanent President in 1692.? Although not in residence on campus, and seldom even a visitor, Mather instituted sweeping changes in curriculum and discipline.? He purged classic, but heathen Latin writers from the curriculum, instituted study of Greek and Hebrew and emphasized Biblical text and commentaries by Christian writers.? To reign in the unruly students, he enforced rules that they must live and dine on campus.? Mather held sway at Harvard until 1701.

Despite the turmoil and the rigidity of Puritanism, Harvard had done its job well.? At the dawn of 18th Century New England had the highest concentration of college graduates in the world, the most literate general population, and quite likely the highest standard of living.? Although the society had a rigid social structure, it was not a hierarchy of unbreakable class or caste distinction.? The sons of farmers and tradesman, could, and often did, acquire an advanced education and rise to prominence.? A profusion of ministers, lawyers, teachers and merchants trained at Harvard provided a core of educated civic leadership that was unmatched.

However much Mather and his Puritan peers might have wished it, however, an education inevitably caused inconvenient questioning of authority and received wisdom.? Mather?s successor as President was John Leverett, the first non-minister to serve.? He quietly began distancing the college from control by the Boston clergy.? In the next century the ideas of the Enlightenment would begin to percolate through the school, as well as a growing restiveness with Calvinist rigidity.

Graduates of Harvard like Samuel and John Adams were to become leaders of the drive for Independence.? When the notions of Harvard cross fertilized with Virginian aristocrats who had been schooled by tutors and at institutions like the College of William and Mary where the radical notions of the Scottish Enlightenment held sway, there was revolution in political thought as well as simply politics.

The earliest known official reference to Harvard as a university occurs in the new Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.? Undergraduates still attend Harvard College, with the University now offering graduate education in many fields.

Through the last half of the 1700, Harvard and the ministers it was still producing became more and more unorthodox.? Rival Yale, founded the same year as Mather left the helm of Harvard, was soon seen as an orthodox bastion against Harvard liberalism.? In 1805 the Harvard Board of Overseers filled the Hollis Chair of Religion with liberal Henry Ware, Sr. a move that would eventually lead to the rupture of the New England Standing Order and would leave the Unitarians firmly in control of the College, and over most of the churches of Eastern Massachusetts.? The orthodox Congregationalists responded by founding Andover Theological Seminary in 1808 to train reliable clergy.

Over the next fifty years a Unitarian establishment came to dominate the College.? Early on the Unitarians and High Federalists instituted a series of societies and institutions on campus meant to shore up their authority against possible challenges by orthodox Congregationalists.? Ironically, the religious liberals instituted an illiberal regime that was constantly being challenged.? And the challenge was not only from the orthodox.? By the 1840 Unitarians of Ware?s sort were seen as enforces of their own orthodoxy and were the subject of rebellion by a new wave of philosophy?Transcendentalism exemplified by Ralph Waldo Emerson who shocked sensibilities with his Divinity School Address.? Many Harvard graduates became leading members of the New England Renaissance, a cultural phenomenon that gave the nation its first full throated literary voice.

By the Civil War, Harvard had become the firm foundation of the rule of Boston and Massachusetts by an insular elite?the Boston Brahmins.? The management by a succession of stodgy Unitarian Presidents nearly killed the college by the Civil War however.? Wealthy Bostonians were becoming reluctant to entrust their young men to religious indoctrination and not ?practical training? for the business world.

To the rescue came yet another Unitarian, Charles William Eliot who became president in 1869.? He was a trained scientist and had attended the advanced polytechnic universities of Europe.? He was also a Transcendentalist who determined to secularize the college in order to free the minds of the students.?

Under his long leadership he instituted the New Education meant to enable students to make intelligent choices, but should not attempt to provide specialized vocational or technical training.? He radically reformed and expanded the curriculum, supplementing the traditional Classics education with a broader sampling of the humanities including modern language and literature as well as a firm grounding in science and mathematics.? He instituted an elective system that let students participate in building their own education.? Her reformed graduate schools and added new ones, emphasizing original research as well as instruction.?

An administrative reformer as well, he reorganized the faculty into schools and departments and replaced recitations with lectures and seminars. He encouraged both private and public secondary schools to change their curriculums to prepare for college admission, thus almost single handily inventing the modern High School.? He instituted admission to the school by standardized testing.

A tireless fundraiser, he solicited the generous support of the very wealth to create a huge endowment and build the many new structures his expanding university required.? In doing so he tied Harvard closely to the emerging plutocracy of Gilded Age America.? Although a noted progressive and liberal?he insisted on education Blacks and admitting Jews, for instance, he displayed class loyalty by fierce opposition to unionism and the labor movement and encouraging Harvard students to actively become strike breakers. By the time Eliot?s tenure ended in 1909 Harvard had been transformed into a world class research university.

Jews and Catholics, previously admitted on a strict quota basis, began being admitted in large numbers beginning in the 1960?s.? Black and other minority students became actively recruited and supported as the 20th Century closed.? Harvard absorbed Radcliffe College, founded in 1879 as the ?Harvard Annex for Women? in 1977 making it fully co-educational.? Women now are a majority in the College and are enrolled in large numbers in all graduate schools.? .

Today Harvard remains the most prestigious American University with 2,000 faculty to teach and advise approximately 6,700 undergraduate and 13,600 graduate and professional students in 12 degree-granting Schools in and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.? The Harvard University Library is the largest academic library in the United States, and the second largest library in the country.?

Harvard is?by a wide margin?also the wealthiest school in the world.? In June 2009 the University had an endowment of $25.7 billion despite having lost maybe as much of half of its value in the economic crisis.? The losses have resulted in some major finger pointing?largely at former President Lawrence Summers who departed controversy wracked tenure to become President Barak Obama?s top economic advisor.? The losses caused some belt tightening, the delay of a capital project or two and a review of a previously announce policy that would make undergraduate admission free to needy students.? But the recent up-tick in the stock market has already recovered much of the loss and no one is going to have to hold a bake sale for Harvard any time soon.

Most universities like to list a handful of distinguished alumni in their brochures.? It would take a phone book for Harvard including 8 Presidents of the United States including both George W. Bush and Barak Obama and 18 Supreme Court Justices including five of the nine sitting justices.

The school, even with a far more diversified student body than in the past, continues to pump its graduates into all of the elite institutions in the nation.? Since most of them can read, write, and formulate independent informed opinion, this continues to depress the Right.

Source: http://patrickmurfin.blogspot.com/2012/10/love-it-or-loath-itits-harvards-birthday.html

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Turn Your Smartphone Camera into a Pocketable Photographic Memory

Several apps exist to help you remember the many things you'd otherwise forget, but perhaps none are quite as useful and efficient as your camera. Typing takes time. Snapping a photo only takes a moment, and there are so many ways you can remind yourself better with nothing but a picture.

It doesn't really matter if a picture is worth 1,000 words. If it's only worth 10 it's still a good value proposition when you think about the time and effort of taking a picture compared to that of typing a short sentence on a mobile device. Not only is photography easier and more efficient, it also provides additional details to help you remember important information that words can't capture. When you start sorting your photos into specific albums, you've suddenly got a great set of categorized reminders that only took a few taps to create. In this post, we're going to look at several ways you can use your camera to remember things a lot better and faster.

Remember Who Borrowed That Book (or Whatever)

The folks over at Apartment Therapy came up with a clever solution to the problem of remembering who borrowed your stuff: take a picture of them and the thing they borrowed, then save it to an album of borrowed items. When you wonder where it went and who took it, just consult that album and you'll find out in an instant. Presuming you lend things to people you know well enough to recognize, this is much easier than jotting down all the details and setting a reminder in your calendar for some abstract date.

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Whether you're taking pictures of insurance cards or prescription medicine, an emergency photo album can be useful in two important ways. First, if you need any of that information when you go to the doctor or pharmacy, it's right in your phone for easy access. Second, if you're in an emergency and need to provide information quickly, you can tell people that your information is in your phone. (In circumstances where you can't tell them, just write that information on a card in your wallet so they know where to look.) Hopefully you won't have to consult your emergency album too often, but it's always good to know it's there to help keep you safe?or at least remember a few ID numbers.

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We all want a lot of things we can't have, and so we stick them on wish lists for a day when the money's available and our desire to buy is ever-present. When you're on the go and want to remember something to purchase, just snap a photo and save it in a "wish list" album. When you've got a little extra pocket change and want to get yourself something nice, just browse and decide what you want. You can use this same trick when looking for gifts for others, too. On top of the obvious benefits, it's also a good way to deter irresponsible spending. We've previously discussed how instituting a 24-hour policy on your purchases can help you curb excessive spending. Taking a photo can make it a little easier to walk away from the product you want because you know you have a reference to it in your pocket.

Bonus: This also works great for creating a shopping list at IKEA, as you can just photograph that tags and reference the pictures later when you're picking up the items in the self-help area.

Photograph Restaurants (and Other Places) You Want to Visit

When you want to remember a restaurant, or any other place you want to visit, just snap a photo. Not only do you have a visual reference to it, but because most smartphones retain GPS location data you'll know where you took that photo, too. This way you don't need to save an address, the name, or any other details that would take awhile to type in and save. A picture can really save you a lot of time here.

Take Notes

If you need to copy down some text, snapping a photo is much faster than typing it into you phone. On top of that, you can send the photo to an app like Evernote and make that text searchable thanks to the magic of optical character recognition (OCR).

Take Screenshots of Anything on Your Phone You Want to Remember

Although not really a photograph, exactly, screenshots end up in the same place when you take them. Sometimes when you're on your phone, you want to remember an app to buy on a later date, save a map for offline use, save a copy of a movie ticket that came into your email, or remember a specific alert. Save those as screenshots, sort them into the relevant reminder albums, and you won't forget.

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Perhaps you don't want important photographic information easily accessible on your phone. One way to secure your photos is to use a password to lock your entire phone. If you just want to hide your photos, however, there are apps that can help you out. Ben the Bodyguard ($5, iPhone) and Hide It Pro (Free, Android) both get the job done.

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Most often with The Sessions the blunt comedy outweighs the drift toward sanctimony.

It sends viewers out of the theater with a heightened sense of the physical and a real feeling for all the things that sex means in human life.

The achievement of this simply told, exceptionally fine film is the clarity with which it portrays the drama of a good soul in an inert body.

Hawkes' performance is the must-see hook of The Sessions, but Hunt gives this funny, touching movie its soul.

Character actor John Hawkes is often cast as a frightening rustic (Winter's Bone, Martha Marcy May Marlene), but he gives a tender and witty performance here as Mark O'Brien.

The joy of The Sessions goes beyond sexual healing. It makes physical intimacy far more a matter of the heart, and you won't be alone wiping an occasional tear.

... a story of triumph over disability that takes the form of an uplifting sex comedy rather than a depressing saga of a dying man.

That exceedingly rare combination of sexy, clever and sweet, a winning tale of one charming disabled man's quest to get some stank on his hangdown.

The film greatly benefits from Hawkes' tremendous performance. (Full Content Review for Parents also available)

For the entire endeavor to emotionally register, you must buy into the romance that purportedly blossoms between Hawkes and Hunt. I didn't, not for a second.

Hawkes' work here is that good that it carries one away on a wave of emotion that dismisses critical thought. The film around him could have been better but you're unlikely to realize that while you're watching it.

...a perfectly watchable showcase for two undeniably above-average performances.

Uneven and perhaps a little too tidy as it aims to promote one man's extraordinary spirit. It is John Hawkes and Helen Hunt, however, who are most worth seeing.

Practically ignores everything about O'Brien's life except as it relates to his sexual odyssey, turning the life of the man into little more than a curio.

A powerful expression of our common needs, fears, and consolations.

For better and for worse, The Sessions has 'crowd-pleaser' written all over it.

Neither an issue-pushing disability drama or a crude, American Polio-style sex comedy, The Sessions is sweet and winning - 'feel good' minus the fingers down the throat.

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