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A few months ago I released a mirror of the bug tracker for Adobe ColdFusion written in HTML. It occurred to me shortly after that it would also be useful to have a tracker for CFBuilder bugs.
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The Pinegove 1 is one part of the big Location: Pinegrove in FlatOut 2 and FOUC.
Starting near the BMX stunt track, the road takes you through a narrow gorge- which can prove interesting if you are in the middle with a large bunch of cars.
In FlatOut 2 there isn't too much scenery objects. But the track still fun because of cool configuration. Mad jumps and narow gorge. So interesting!
In FlatOut 2 you can race only by day. Also only 4 laps. In FOUC you can choose 2 to 10 laps.
In FOUC the Pinegrove 1 has been changed.
Now, you can race by day and night. This means that you can change the time of day and play with different map's lights.
you to drive fast and relax. But they are making this track better!


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Survival of the safest: Darwinian conservatism, not derring-do
By Ken Weiss
A mantra for many in life science is 'survival of the fittest'. This phrase, one Darwin liked and used many times after he saw its use by Herbert Spencer, reflects Darwin's view of life as a relentlessly competitive phenomenon. To Darwin, life was an unending struggle for survival (and reproduction) among individuals in every species all the time. Natural selection, a relentless force like Newtonian gravity, always identified the 'fittest', weeding out the others.
Darwin's objective was to show how new characters could arise, that were suited--'fitted'--to their environment, without the intervention of God via special creation events. Because organisms, all and always, were struggling against each other for limited resources, they 'tried' (via their inherited genomic drivers) to be better, different, more exploitive of environmental opportunities than their fellows. Dare to be different!
But in perhaps fundamental ways, Darwin had it very wrong, perhaps inverted from what is really going on. We know this from the analysis of genomes, the presumed source of all evolutionary evidence, since everything that's inherited goes back, at least indirectly and usually directly, to information carried in DNA.
When DNA sequences are compared within or between species, there are segments that are seen to have very little variation among the sequences, and segments with much more variation. Now we have learned how to identify truly functional parts like coding exons, transcription start sites, introns, promoter and some regulatory regions, functional RNAs (like tRNA, rRNA and so on), telomeres, and so on. And we have also identified many parts (the majority, actually) that has far less obvious or strong function, if indeed any function at all. So what do we see?
The clear, consistent pattern is that the more strongly functional, the more highly conserved (there are a few exceptions, like sensory system genes in the olfactory and immune system, but even their variation proves the rule). The less, or non-functional regions vary much more, both within and between species.
Herd of dairy goats, Polymeadows Farm; photo A Buchanan
This has been seen so consistently, that for many purposes (like the ENCODE project to characterize all DNA elements) sequence conservation is the very definition of biological function. The reason is that evolution conserves function but doesn't care about bits that have no function. One can quibble about the details, but the main gist of the message seems unequivocally correct. But this now near-dogmatic principle has some little-digested implications.
Darwinian evolution
The problem Darwin wanted to solve was to explain the differences among species, and the way they were suited to their ways of life, in terms of historical processes rather than Divine creation. He had a deep sense of geological change and biogeography from his trip on the Beagle, that showed the evidence of local relationships that suggested common ancestry. And then he had an idea of a law of Nature, an ineluctable force-like process of adaptive change, the way gravity is a force, that would gradually form the kinds of differences that characterized species.
'Natural selection' was the name he gave to that force. And because it was force, like the way gravity is a force, it could detect the tiniest differences among competing organisms and favor them to produce the next generation.
The idea is that species always over-reproduce relative to their resources (an idea that was already 'in the air' in Britain at the time), and struggle to obtain what become limited resources. Because of inherited variation, the individuals with the best genotype (to use our term for it) reproduced, their poor lesser peers fell to what Tennyson would call 'Nature red in tooth and claw'.
Darwin's idea was that selection always favored the innovator. Relentless striving to be different from the herd, to get the scarce food or mate supply. As the late thinker Leigh Van Valen suggested, the Darwinian struggle was like the Red Queen in Alice and Wonderland--always running as fast as she could, but never getting ahead because the competition was always trying to out-do you with their own adaptations.
This is so entrenched in the biological and evolutionary literature, that it may be surprising to realize how different from what we see in the actual data--the genetic data, our most precise indicator--about how evolution works.
Or is this Darwinian?
What we actually see in the genetic data is not the kind of chaotic variation that an intense, force-like, relentless struggle to be better than your peers would lead us to expect. Instead, what we see is what can only be called herd behavior at the genome level. Our ancestors did, and our contemporaries do, their very best to stay with the herd. The high conservation of functional DNA sequence suggests that mutational variation is mainly harmful to fitness, that what selection really favors is conformism. Don't be very different, or you'll get pruned away from your species' posterity!
Herd of flamingos, the Camargue, France; A Buchanan
Instead of 'survival of the fittest', what is by far mainly going on is 'survival of the safest'. Stay with the mean. Why is that? A standard answer that is likely accurate, is that we today are the product of a long past in which the traits we bear were able to survive. We're very complex organisms, so what evolution hath joined, let no one put asunder except at their peril!
Survival of the safest might suggest that there is no innovation, which is clearly not correct, since different species have different adaptations--fish swim, cats eat meat, bats fly, we write blog posts. So clearly differences do arise and have been favored regularly in the past. However, that seems inconsistent with the high level of genomic conservatism that is so predictably identified.
One way, perhaps the major way, that these apparent contradictions are reconciled is this: As Darwin stressed repeatedly, evolutionary change is very, creepingly slow. That means that either there are occasional short bursts of rapid, major change, brought about by largely catastrophic changes in circumstances, or, only a very minor 'ooze' of the distribution of traits occurs in some favored direction from one generation to the next. This is imperceptibly slow at any given time, because being near the mean is still the safest place to be. Just be a tiny bit different.
Survival of the safest is Darwinian in that it is a form of natural selection. Indeed, it is a lot more Darwinian than Darwin was himself. Selection is more probabilistic and less force-like than he thought (he lived still in Newton's shadow), but it is always at work as he said it was. It's just that it's mainly at work removing rather than favoring what is different. Every geneticist knows this, but it is far from thoroughly integrated into the common view of evolution even by professionals.
If a trait were being strongly driven by selection in some new direction all the time, as in the more exclusive connotation of survival of the fittest, we might expect only a few variants with strong effect in the favored direction would be contributing to its newly adaptive instances. Mapping the variation in the trait would perhaps yield a rather simple genetic causal picture as a result.
But if a trait is being roughly maintained, by survival of the safest, pruning away serious deviants, then any genotypes that are consistent with being somewhere near the average can stay around, with individual variants coming and going by chance (genetic drift). Variants conferring trait values too far from the mean are pruned by selection. But most variants can hang around. Mapping would reveal very large numbers of contributing variants across the genome. And there would not be precise predictability from genotype to phenotype.
This is what we see in biology.
Survival of the safest in daily life, too
'Survival of the safest' thus seems to be a better metaphor for adaptive biological evolution. But if you think about it you'll see that we see much of the same regularly in most aspects of our society. We may say heady things like 'dare to be different!', but those who dare to be very different are quickly punished by being ignored or directly slapped down. This is true through history. It's the general fact in religion, government, social behavior. And it's true in science, too. Business as usual is safe, real innovation is a threat to the established. We see the press of society to claim to be different, but not really to be different. Innovation mostly means incremental change trumpeted with exaggerated verbiage. We may even think we want major, rapid change, but emotionally we shy from it, and feel too nervous about what it might mean for our own current state.
Organizations and sociocultural and political systems are very slow to change. or they change in herd-like fashion. This is true even in realms, like the business world, where one often hears a rather self-satisfied pronouncement that allowing free-market Darwinian competition is the way to get innovation. Innovation is often claimed, but much less often really major. It's true in science, too: everyone is playing grantsmanship, to seem different to draw attention or funds, in this case, but you dare to be very different at your peril, lest reviewers suspect, distrust, can't grasp, or are jealous of your idea. Some rapid change may occur, but it's not so common relative to the inertia of survival of the safest.
That is what we see in society.
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Palfreyman1414 said...
This sounds much like a reversion to Stephen Jay Gould, let alone Darwin.
1. Extending evolutionary theory to social ideas can be dodgy.
2. Survival of the safest is subsumed within fittest, whereas fittest allows for the innovations that do occur.
3. The problem with the genome analysis is that, in genomes we analyse, we are bound to see those that survived, whether or not they were genuinely innovative to begin with (within the earlier population in which they emerged).
4. Sexual selection, as far as we know, can genuinely favour the different and keep favouring it.
5. You are absolutely right that extreme variations will probably not survive, but that is part of the standard evolutionary analysis in any case.
So apart from coining a phrase (a possibly less rich one than the original), I am not sure why you make the points you do here.
Ken Weiss said...
Well, you don't have to think the points are important, or you can think they are already known. I think they are worth making. This is no reversion to Gould, and I don't care, per se, what he or others say, if the point is to think about biology and evolution. But if anything our point is a response to the widespread, even if just subliminal, view about selection. It is not we who extend the theory to social ideas; that is widespread, among anthropologists and among popular writers, and is seen all the time.
Your point 2 is of course true, but the pervasive idea that life is always striving mainly for innovation is what we are noting.
The point about genome analysis is that there is no reason, in very adaptationist evolutionary theory to think that the kinds of traits being mapped should be genomically simple or that somehow mappers are misunderstanding something basic in the complexity that is being found.
I don't agree about sexual selection if I understand your comment. I think sexual selection very strongly favors current 'fashion' (to use a human word for it). I think that traits, like human 'racial' traits, that are often attributed to sexual selection, show this conservatism--even (as we noted) if on occasional they can drift into some different direction. We didn't say that positive adaptive evolution didn't occur, just that the stress is misplaced in our view.
Finally, we didn't say anything that goes against
'standard' evolutionary theory, and we noted I think that even conservative evolution is a form of selection.
Personally, I think it is an important corrective to move away from the strong Darwinian phrase (not to mention the ambiguous word 'fittest').
Another couple of thoughts (responding to Palfreman). Gould himself, in his Structure of Evolutionary Theory megatome, said that his own career-defining contribution was 'punctuated equilibrium'. In fact, Darwin recognized the same thing, very clearly, in the 6th edition of the Origin of Species. Both were reflecting an interpretation of fossil data, both not considering what this might mean genomically (during their lifetimes perhaps not even Gould could have known enough).
But there are problems, in my view, even with that, just as there are problems with what I believe is the usual working assumption about life as relentless force-like selection. That is, it is difficult to see why, when, or how complex species traits can stay essentially the same for tens of millions of years or more, with little or no drift. It isn't enough to say generically that 'the environment didn't change'. And such conservatism is found for traits that we know can vary (because of related but variable species).
There are even potential problems with the assumption that sequence conservation is the sine qua non for function of a genome region. But that gets far beyond today's post.
Anne Buchanan said...
Perhaps some semantic issues here. As has been argued by many, natural selection is generally a conservative process, not a creative one, though 'innovation' implies otherwise. And "survival of the fittest" itself is not an accurate description because, clearly, many more than the 'fittest' survive. As we've often said, 'failure of the frail' is a better phrase. So, perhaps the problem here is disagreement about underlying assumptions about the evolutionary process.
Thanks for the derring do correction though, 'derring do' being itself an incorrect rendering of 'daring do,' but one that caught on. An error that now seems like an innovative linguistic step? Back mutations not allowed.
Thanks for your responses, Anne and Ken.
I appreciate that correctives sometimes need to be applied. My concern is that they frequently turn into popularisation/linguistic issues rather than genuine corrections of scientific issues.
I apologise if I sounded too strident in my first response.
Well, thank you right back. I agree with the danger of over-sloganizing if I can put it that way. I would argue that scientists are vulnerable to it, not just the reporters and TV producers etc. Most population geneticists and so on know these things, but they are far less well understood by the large biomedical (and I think, social science) worlds, who we feel live on cardboard caricatures of what is actually known, and this influences a lot of science that is done.
And while 'fittest' is an almost uselessly vague term (as is 'safest'!), in a sense I think we understand evolution better if we realize the reason for conservation and the uphill struggle that real biological innovation faces most of the time.
Or, put another way, if we think about DNA sequence variation and how traits are or can be maintained and how that should appear at the genome level, there are important subtleties that I think deserve a lot more attention. But subtleties don't generally get attention in our current science research environment.
Thanks again for that.
My point about sexual selection was that, given it sometimes appears to have an arbitrary nature in its phenotype expression, small genome changes that are not negatively selected for can result in (very quickly) huge morphological changes. Which is the opposite of conservatism.
Of course we would expect some of the core genetic features to be hugely conservative, those involved in early development, for instance. But if so, doesn't that, drift aside leave a lot of leeway for innovative change (sexually selected or otherwise)?
Last question: you speak of species lasting ten million years or possibly more. Can you give me any genetic examples of such long lived species. I'm guessing palaeontologists believe they have many, but then they're not working in population genetics.
I'm just intrigued by the notion that there might be a record "longest lasting species".
As to persistent species, the horseshoe crab is the classical example. But, really, many others like recently characterized Spinosaurus supposedly lasted, recognizably, for 150 million years. Or what about biofilms that seem, morphologically, unchanged for 3.5 billion years?
Of course, molecular clocks show that these species (or their descendants) are still evolving clocklike at putatively neutral sites. So selection of some sort must be keeping them from phenotypically drifting, and I think that's a serious issue to explain.
Sexual selection, if it is as quick and strong as is suggested, has some problems. Unless you accept the shifting-balance theory, there are problems in accounting for its quickness, given that it is largely based on some sort of mate-choice 'judgment' (conscious or otherwise).
If we could look at mapping data for such traits, what would we find? Single-gene changes making the main difference, and hence great mappability?
I think biomedical GWAS data are relevant. Even traits like stature, that have changed dramatically in just a few generations and should in that sense reflect responses to rapid changes in environmental factors, is very complex and so are other similar traits. This is like s sexual selection in that the environmental changes, whatever they are (probably diet, lower infection loads etc.) should be expected to single out a few major responder-genes. But that's not what is being found. It's not genetically 'conservative' in that sense, at least.
As to developmental conservation, I agree, and that goes back at least to Waddington. It isn't Darwinian selection, though. It has to do with lack of molecular 'cooperation' (as we have stressed in our book), not struggle for limited resources, and so it is not 'Darwinian' selection. But it probably explains a lot, if not even the bulk, of conservation at the genome level.
Giancarlo said...
Has IQ been selected for in particular populations? Have the genes behind IQ as discovered through the GWAS and GCTA been reliably replicated and found to be result of a positive selections?
My answer is that IQ is a vague measure with various problems. I don't think any seriously manageable set of genes whose normal variation (that is, not associated with real mental impairment) affects 'IQ' have been consistently found. Whatever 'IQ' is, of course it will vary and some of this (roughly, proportional to the estimated heritability) will be affected by genetic variation interacting with environmental conditions. That fraction seems to be modest in terms of individually identifiable effects, and even with people with the same IQ the genotypes will be different.
Different groups from any local population will sample the same gene pool differently and so will differ in the details and the average trait value. That doesn't mean the average difference will be very great--it's a purely empirical question and it has clearly been proven to be very difficult and there's no real consensus about the details.
The more widely separated (in population history) two groups have been, the more they'll differ in the genomic variants that affect IQ and there will, as always, be some difference in mean and variance, as always happens with sampling and evolutionary history (a different form of sampling).
Again, whether the average differences among groups are 'important' or major is controversial, because IQ is so heavily affected by environment. There are temptations to make racist interpretations, with historically (and currently) socially discriminatory consequences, which is why categorical statements about group differences (that usually ignore the majority of the distributions which overlap between groups) are so controversial and should be made with great reservation. Since that rarely happens, and since environmental effects can maximize potential, and so on, I think this is a subject that is dangerous to deal with and, from a genetic point of view except for truly pathogenic variants, shouldn't be.
Hello and thanks for answer. I am personally seeing some problems with your arguments about IQ. I agree there are many, including you, who make the argument that IQ is not necessarily a measure of intelligence. That there is problems with heritability, or twin studies, or GWAS, and so on. I want to counter such arguments, first with this paper by Plomin on IQ: http://t.co/cDcC4SEUQh and this link by some good Biosocial researchers on heritability: http://t.co/iNfN5vRaKl
Perhaps you can read these and tell me what you think. I think you are already agreeing with me that group differences in IQ can be genetically affected, and importantly, be a result of evolution. This argument is not necessarily popular, but it would seem that the data backs it up.
Robert Plomin has a career long interest in the genetic contribution to intelligence and related traits. I would interpret things rather differently and I think the tendency is to treat intelligence and inheritance as far more deterministic than I think they are, and also there is a subjectivity to what one chooses to measure and/or to name it.
Because it is so loaded with sociocultural uses and misuses, I think the subject should be treated with far more circumspection than it receives, and I believe it is a proven excuse for racist or other sociocultural discriminatory attitudes or policies.
'Intelligence' is a cultural, subjective, also inescapably sociopolitical characteristic. That doesn't mean 'it', whatever it is, or whether it is a well-posed trait, has no genetic influences. Everything does. The issues have to do with its degree of determinism, what it actually means in a given cultural context, why it is being measured as it has been chosen to measure it, and so on. And whether saying it is 'genetic' is code for some other agenda, as history proves it has often been.
Group differences always exist, and there will always be genomic influences (in terms both of development and variation); that's always related to evolutionary history; it's the nature of the kinds of processes, sampling, and measurement that are involved that there will be group differences. That is separate from questions about 'importance', which is subjective. Heritability is a notorious problematic metric, widely misunderstood.
But if you're so determined to stress the genetic/evolutionary side, ask yourself why. I don't particularly want to know the answer, because this subject rarely gets anywhere. So we can end this exchange, and make our own judgments about things.
OK. Thanks for the kind and informative responses. I will agree definitely that science and practice of scientific research through the ages has been stricken with biases and political partisanship. We are of no exception, of course. I think we should as a result stick to what's largely agreed upon and obvious. When we say "intelligence" then of course it comes off as arbitrarily defined concept or very ideologically and culturally loaded. That is where, I think, things like IQ, and the g factor come in to clear things up. Fact is that these measures correlate very well to things like success in education, income, and so on. I think national differences in IQ and other group differences reflect that as well. But I agree that you may disagree with this. In fact, I am interested in the fundamental disagreement between us. For example, I would personally agree with a statement like "IQ is heritable." I think it's informative and obviously backed up by decades of research and output in the journals. But the way I interpret it is obviously much different than you, and I am only assuming, but I think you probably disagree that that statement really says much of use. If that is so, I am interested to hear why?
Giancarlo Piceno
These factors are defined in some way based on what we (basically, professors) decide is a good measure for statistical stability and correlation with various things. Let us assume it is so fixed that it (the measure and its correlates) don't change with time. Do they predict (say) skill at basketball or fishing or any number of things we don't associate with career success and so on? I think that we should not call it 'intelligence', and I've read that test scores often do not correlate with job success much of the time (i.e., the correlation is week). And remember that heritability is a relative, not absolute, measure and that many investigators say that IQ scores have been changing rapidly (if they have to keep up with the cultural times, then what's being measured is not some absolute trait).
The ratio nature of heritability, and its definition by western science, are why comparison among groups is problematic.
But any different groups will be different in mean (and probably variance and kurtosis etc) on almost anything and the issue then has to do with 'significance' and 'importance', and these are subjective judgments.
Using these subjective criteria is what leads to societal issues and policy. There is the tendency, that no one can really deny with a straight face, that the almost immediate tendency is to treat group mean differences as if everyone in the group had its average IQ. Could you doubt that this is almost perceptably a major reason for compairing groups? Well, go to Excel and plot a curve of two Gaussian distributions whose mean difference is about 1/2 a standard deviation (I think that is as much, or more, than careful, environmentally controlled studies find). What you'll see is the massive amount of overlap and the relatively useless value of the means.
Also, if we agree, as we must, that even if just because of sampling variation group means will differ, and if what we care about is individual opportunity, or distribution of educational resources, etc., then we need not geneticize these things: we just need to give achieved ability tests and see who's good at what, who needs what sort of assistance, etc.
And do we need to consider, say, 'race' unless we clearly use it as a stand-in for socioeconomic circumstances etc., since not everyone of the 'same' race has the same continental ancestry distribution. There's so much eagerness to map 'race and IQ', but hardly have I ever heard one ask for studies of the IQ distribution of Catholics or Buddhists. They may ask for that for Jews, or Arabs, or Africans....where biological category is what they're after. The subject is never far away from racism of one form or another, and one needs to ask why that is. It's often transparently about resource acquisition and societal status,
We know of many genes in which mutations can lead to serious cognitive impairment (these don't stand out, or are even found as 'hits' in Plomin-like gene mapping studies. Why not?
If you read our posts over the years on GWAS and the issues about what the findings are, and the ephemeral nature of individual genome location contributions, you'll see that the gene-trait connection is far more elusive than most would like to acknowledge.
OK, whether or not we agree, I think it gets nowhere to belabor these points.
If IQ is so inherently biological, then why is the score changing? Here's a current BBC News story:
http://m.bbc.com/news/magazine-31556802
It's an elusive subject. And who can write about it without having some agenda openly or covertly part of what they write? If this were so simple we would not still be having the same discussion decade after decade (and I don't even here cite the eugenics era literature)
IQ may not be too inherently biological, but what needs explaining is why the popular environmental explanations have so much biological influence? One recent paper is this: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3907681/
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MotoGP™ race winner Alex Rins admits he initially thought team boss Davide Brivio's exit from Suzuki "was a joke" when the Italian told him of his decision. Suzuki confirmed last week long-time team manager Brivio would be leaving the Japanese manufacturer having helmed the squad for the past eight years.
This came days after Motorsport.com revealed Brivio would be quitting Suzuki to take on the role of CEO of the rebranded Alpine Formula 1 team in 2021 – though this is yet to be made official by Alpine and Renault.
Brivio brought Rins to Suzuki in 2017, with the Spaniard winning three races since and aiding the marque to the teams' title last season.
Speaking in an interview to motorsport.com, Rins revealed he found out about Brivio's departure a day before the announcement and admits it took him by surprise.
"If I'm honest, I experienced the news all at once without barely knowing it," Rins said of Brivio's exit.
"At first I thought it was a joke, but it's true and I was very surprised. He has done an incredible job for Suzuki and now a new adventure begins for him. We had and have a very good relationship. The truth is that I am super-grateful for everything he has done over the years and for having given me the opportunity in 2017 after a hard year [in Moto2] with many injuries, and that he continues to trust me."
It is believed Suzuki will not seek out a replacement for Brivio in 2021, instead opting for an internal restructure to share around Brivio's former responsibilities. Brivio's impact on Suzuki has been immense, but Rins doesn't foresee his exit having a dramatic impact on the "harmony" of the team.
"What it may affect or not, I don't know," he said.
"But of course there will be a void, the one that Davide occupied. It will surely [have an] effect, but I think not negatively. The harmony with the team is incredible and that, in part, he has also achieved. It will change because that figure of Davide will not be there, but not much."
On Tuesday MotoGP™ announced its Sepang pre-season test had been cancelled because of COVID-19, though the three-day Qatar test in March is still set to go-ahead.
Rins admits the news came as a shock, but doesn't believe only having the Qatar test will disadvantage him that much given the 2020 GSX-RR will carry over to this season as part of COVID cost-saving measures introduced last year.
"If you tell me that we have to start the year with a new engine, a new chassis, it would be more complicated," said Rins.
"But starting the season with last year's bike, I think three days of testing in Qatar is enough. At least for me; I don't know if it will be as ideal for riders like Pol [Espargaro] or [Danilo] Petrucci, who have to get on a new bike.
"But in my case I think we have enough."
Rins also revealed he did not undergo surgery in the off-season after all on the shoulder he injured at the Spanish Grand Prix in July, having floated the idea at the end of last season.
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LA Times Crossword Answers 22 Apr 17, Saturday
Constructed by: Debbie Ellerin
Theme: None
1. Some conversion targets : PAGANS
A pagan is someone who holds religious beliefs that are different from the main religions of the world. In classical Latin "paganus" was a villager, a rustic.
7. Time to "Run for the Roses" : RACE DAY
The first Kentucky Derby took place in 1875, and is a race modelled on the Epsom Derby in England and the Grand Prix de Paris (now called the "Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe"). As such, the Kentucky Derby was run over 1½ miles, although in 1896 this was shortened to 1¼ miles. The winning horse is presented with a very elaborate blanket made of red roses, and so the Derby is nicknamed "Run for the Roses". The race is held on the first Saturday in May each year, and is limited to 3-year-old horses.
16. Shout from Speedy : ARRIBA!
When I was a kid, Speedy Gonzales was one of my favorite cartoon characters. He was billed as "The Fastest Mouse in all Mexico" and tore around the place yelling "¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! ¡Epa¡ ¡Epa! ¡Epa! Yeehaw!"
17. Devils' playgrounds? : ICE RINKS
The New Jersey Devils are the professional ice hockey team based in Newark. The club was founded in 1974 in Kansas City, originally as the Mohawks, and then quickly renamed the Scouts. The franchise moved to Denver in 1976, becoming the Colorado Rockies. The move to Newark happened in 1982, when the team was renamed the New Jersey Devils.
18. "Losing My Religion" group : REM
R.E.M. was a rock band from Athens, Georgia formed in 1980. The name "R.E.M." was chosen randomly from a dictionary, apparently.
The REM song "Losing My Religion" was released in 1991. The title is a phrase used in the southern US with the meaning "losing my temper, civility".
19. "Kiss of the Spider Woman" star Sonia : BRAGA
Sonia Braga achieved fame in her native Brazil playing the title role in the movie "Gabriela". There followed roles in American films such as "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and "The Milagro Beanfield War". She has also played in the Portuguese version of "Desperate Housewives".
22. Rotten Tomatoes caution : SPOILER ALERT!
"Rotten Tomatoes" is a website that mainly provides reviews and ratings of movies, although it now covers TV shows as well. The site was launched in 1998 and takes its name from the practice of audience members throwing rotten tomatoes at a unappreciated performer on stage.
26. Canonized pope who persuaded Attila not to attack Rome : ST LEO
The first pope named Leo is now known as Pope Saint Leo the Great. Leo I is famous for meeting with the feared Attila the Hun and persuading him to turn back his invading force that was threatening to overrun Western Europe.
27. Accessory for Miss Piggy : BOA
The Muppet called Miss Piggy has a pretentious air, and so refers to herself as "moi". In 1998, Miss Piggy even released her own perfume called "Moi".
30. Half a luau serving? : MAHI
Mahi-mahi is the Hawaiian name for the dolphin-fish, also called a dorado. The mahi-mahi is an ugly looking creature if ever I saw one …
32. Usher's creator : POE
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is perhaps the most famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839. The story is a Gothic tale, an interview with Robert Usher in his house which literally "falls", breaks into two and is swallowed up by a lake. Some believe that the story was inspired by events at a real Usher House that once stood on Boston's Lewis Wharf. When the Usher House was torn down, the bodies of a man and woman were found embracing in a cavity in the cellar, a fact reflected in the story as Robert Usher's sister is supposedly buried alive in the crypt.
35. Thatcher or Blair, e.g. : OXONIAN
An Oxonian is a graduate of Oxford University in England. The equivalent term for a graduate of Cambridge University is "Cantabrigian".
Margaret Thatcher served as Prime Minister of the UK from 1979 to 1990, making her the longest serving leader of the country in the 20th century, and the first woman to hold the office. Thatcher's nickname in the press was the "Iron Lady", a moniker bestowed on her by a Soviet journalist. The "Iron Lady" was born Margaret Hilda Roberts, the daughter of a grocer. She studied chemistry at Oxford University and worked for a while as a research chemist.
Tony Blair was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for ten years, from 1997 to 2007. Blair led his Labour Party from the left towards the center, helped along by the phrase "New Labour". Under his leadership, Labour won a landslide victory in 1997, and was comfortably elected into power again in 2001 and 2005. Blair stepped down in 2007 and Gordon Blair took over as prime minister. Labour was soundly defeated at the polls in the next general election, in 2010.
38. Capital since 1797 : ALBANY
New York's state capital of Albany was founded as a Dutch trading post called Fort Nassau in 1614. The English took over the settlement in 1664 and called it Albany, naming it after the future King of England James II, whose title at the time was the Duke of Albany. It became the capital of New York State in 1797.
42. "It Don't Come Easy" singer : STARR
Ringo Starr's 1971 song "It Don't Come Easy" was his first release following the breakup of the Beatles. Although Starr is credited as the sole songwriter, Starr has acknowledged that he wrote it with fellow Beatle George Harrison.
44. "Star Trek" record : LOG
The word "logbook" dates back to the days when the captain of a ship kept a daily record of the vessel's speed, progress etc. using a "log". A log was a wooden float on a knotted line that was dropped overboard to measure speed through the water.
49. Dixie elision : MA'AM
"Dixie" is a nickname sometimes used for the American South, and often specifically for the original 11 states that seceded from the Union just prior to the Civil War. It's apparently not certain how the name "Dixie" came about. One theory is that it comes from the term "dixie" which was used for currency issued by banks in Louisiana. The 10-dollar bills had the word "dix" on the reverse side, the French for "ten". From the banknote, the French speaking area around New Orleans came to be known as Dixieland, and from there "Dixie" came to apply to the South in general.
52. Cellular messenger : RNA
53. Soaking solution : MARINADE
Our verb "to marinate" comes from the French "mariner" meaning "to pickle in sea brine", which in turn comes from the Latin "marinus" meaning "of the sea". So, "marinade" is related to "marine".
57. Fashion item used for protection in ancient Egypt : EYELINER
Eyeliner has been used for a long time. There is evidence that the Ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians used a dark black line around the eyes to protect the skin from the sun as early as 10,000 BCE.
59. Leafs, e.g. : NISSANS
The Leaf is an electric car made by Nissan that was introduced in 2010. The model name is an acronym standing for "leading environmentally-friendly affordable car".
60. Yoga class regimen : ASANAS
"Asana" is a Sanskrit word literally meaning "sitting down". The asanas are the poses that a practitioner of yoga assumes. The most famous is the lotus position, the cross-legged pose called "padmasana".
2. "Mad Men" extra : AD REP
"Mad Men" was the flagship show on the AMC television channel for several seasons. Set in the sixties, it's all about an advertising agency located on Madison Avenue in New York (hence the title). "Mad Men" became the first show created by a basic cable channel to win an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series.
4. "The Phantom Menace" boy : ANI
Anakin "Ani" Skywalker is the principal character in the first six of the "Star Wars" movies. His progress chronologically through the series of films is:
Episode I: Anakin is a 9-year-old slave boy who earns the promise of Jedi training by young Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Episode II: Anakin is 18-years-old and goes on a murdering rampage to avenge the killing of his mother.
Episode III: Anakin is 21-years-old and a Jedi knight, but he turns to the Dark Side and becomes Darth Vader. His wife Padme gives birth to twins, Luke and Leia Skywalker.
Episode IV: Darth Vader, comes into conflict with his children, Luke Skywalker and the Princess Leia.
Episode V: Darth Vader attempts to coax his son Luke over to the dark side, and reveals to Luke that he is his father.
Episode VI: Luke learns that Leia is his sister, and takes on the task of bringing Darth Vader back from the Dark Side in order to save the Galaxy. Vader saves his son from the Emperor's evil grip, dying in the process, but his spirit ends up alongside the spirits of Yoda and Obi-Wan. They all live happily ever after …
5. Angler's hope : NIBBLE
We use the verb "to angle" to mean "to fish" because "angel" was an Old English word for a hook.
7. Automaker's bane : RECALL
Today we tend to use the word "bane" to mean anathema, a source of persistent annoyance. A few centuries ago, a bane was a cause of harm or death, perhaps a deadly poison.
8. Preceder of beauty? : AGE
Age before beauty.
9. Stud venue : CARD ROOM
Stud poker is the name given to many variants of poker, all characterized by the dealer giving each player a mix of cards face-down and face-up. The cards facing upwards are called "upcards". The cards facing downwards are called "hole cards", cards only visible to the individual who holds that particular hand. This gives rise to the phrase "ace in the hole", a valuable holding that only the player with the ace is aware of.
10. Prufrock's creator : ELIOT
"The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" is a very famous poem by T. S. Eliot, first published in 1915. The rather odd name of "Prufrock" seems to have just come to Eliot, although there was a Prufrock-Littau Company in St. Louis while he lived there.
13. "Roundabout" rock group : YES
Yes is a rock band from England that formed in 1968 and was most successful in the 1980s. The band's biggest hit was "Owner of a Lonely Heart" from 1983.
15. Tie up in surgery : LIGATE
In the context of surgery, a ligature is a suture tied around an anatomical structure, usually a blood vessel. The term "ligature" comes from the Latin "ligare" meaning "to bind".
23. Youngest of Chekhov's "Three Sisters" : IRINA
Olga, Masha and Irina were the "Three Sisters" in the play by Anton Chekhov. The three title characters were inspired by the three Brontë sisters, the English authors.
27. Oktoberfest setting : BEER GARDEN
Oktoberfest is a 16-day beer festival in Munich that actually starts in September. About six million people attend every year, making it the largest fair in the world. I've been there twice, and it really is a great party …
29. Lhasa __ : APSO
The Lhasa apso breed of dog originated in Tibet and is named after "Lhasa" (the capital city) and "apso" (a Tibetan word meaning "bearded"). The Lhasa apso has been around since 800 BC and is one of the oldest breeds in the world, one very closely related to the ancestral wolf.
30. Safety feature for zoo visitors : MOAT
A "moat" is a protective trench that surrounds a castle, say, or a an exhibit in a zoo. A moat may or may not be filled with water.
36. Problem addressed by counters : INSOMNIA
People with insomnia might count sheep as an aid to falling asleep.
44. Powerball and others : LOTTOS
The Powerball lottery game is available in most states of the US, as is its major rival called Mega Millions.
45. Word in pregame instructions : TAILS
The two sides of a coin are known as the "obverse" and the "reverse". The obverse is commonly referred to as "heads", as it often depicts someone's head. The reverse is commonly called "tails", as it is the opposite of "heads".
47. Setting for "Slumdog Millionaire" : INDIA
The brilliant film "Slumdog Millionaire" is a screen adaptation of a 2005 novel by Indian author Vikas Swarup. This low-budget movie won eight Oscars in 2008. I reckon it turned a profit …
50. Father of Phobos and Deimos : ARES
53. Valets, e.g. : MEN
A "varlet" was an attendant or servant, perhaps a knight's page. The term comes from the Old French "vaslet", which also gave us our contemporary word "valet".
54. Rockport's cape : ANN
Cape Ann is 30 miles north of Boston and is on the northernmost edge of Massachusetts Bay. The Cape was first mapped by the explorer John Smith. Early in his adventurous life Smith had been captured and enslaved by the Ottoman Empire. His "owner" in his days of slavery was a woman called Tragabigzanda, and apparently the slave and owner fell in love. Smith originally called Cape Tragabigzanda in her memory, but King Charles I changed the name to Cape Ann in honor of his own mother, Anne of Denmark.
Rockport is a town in Massachusetts located at the very tip of Cape Ann, about 40 miles northeast of Boston. Given its location, the town is surrounded on three sides by the Atlantic Ocean.
14. Blissful : EDENIC
15. Bar talk? : LEGALESE
21. … : DOTS
25. Teen introduction? : PRE-
33. Revolted : ROSE UP
37. Smirks : SIMPERS
39. Expected : DUE
40. Ballpark phrase : OR SO
41. Provider of a small raise : TEE
45. 2008 financial crisis mantra : TOO BIG TO FAIL
51. Plain to see : OVERT
55. Feuding (with) : AT ODDS
58. "I'm a fan" : LOVE IT
1. Still-life subjects : PEARS
3. One who shuns shaking : GERMOPHOBE
6. Close one : SCARE
11. Bump souvenir : DENT
12. Requires : ASKS
20. Bad lighting? : ARSON
24. Like many 32-Across works : EERIE
28. Shared between us : OURS
31. Drive shaft component : AXLE
32. Check phrase : PAY TO
34. Make fun of : SPOOF
37. Power concern : SURGE
39. Club at a club : DRIVER
43. They may be humble : ABODES
46. Refrain part : TRA-LA
48. Has legs, so to speak : LASTS
49. "Allow me" : MAY I?
56. Eggs : OVA
Posted on April 22, 2017 April 5, 2017 Author Bill ButlerCategories Debbie EllerinTags "It Don't Come Easy" singer crossword clue, "Kiss of the Spider Woman" star Sonia crossword clue, Prufrock's creator crossword clue, Shout from Speedy crossword clue, Youngest of Chekhov's "Three Sisters" crossword clue
16 thoughts on "LA Times Crossword Answers 22 Apr 17, Saturday"
2 (not good) errors on this one, about 90 minutes or so clock time, caught about 3/4 of it in the first 20-30 min. Still sleepwalking a bit. Slow on the WSJ too.
Some clever cluing in this one, but I finished it error free in about 45 minutes. Nice end to an otherwise tough week of puzzles. Enjoyed this one out on my back patio in perfect weather this morning with headphones on. Kind of sad when I finished. Maybe I'll go right to the NYT Saturday grid.
Are there women who would admit to wearing Miss Piggy perfume?
More good comma-less sentences yesterday. Joel's was awful….so yes I'll steal it and claim it as my own at some point.
In the spirit of Spiro Agnew (grow a spine), an anagram of T.S. Eliot is "toilets" for those of you who don't like his work…
What does ORSO (OR SO?) have to do w/ ball parks? My baseball fan husband doesn't get this either.
@Jeff
Had to look that up. Funny to see Miss Piggy perfume is really a thing. Meanwhile, I'm doing the Newsday during breaks from some non-crossword related activities I need to do today. NYT will (likely) come tomorrow, of course – along with LAT Sunday.
@Bella
Ballpark as in estimation.
"Please give me an idea of how many head of cattle you have."
"I don't know exactly."
"OK, give me a ballpark estimate."
"I have about 30 OR SO head of cattle."
Ah….usually I get these. Too tired today.
Robert Cohen says:
A ballpark figure is an approximation, so an apt phrase would be "or so".
Bella- Ditto Glenn. It took me a minute to get it as well. Ballpark as in an estimated figure rather than an actual structure. It will cost $1000 OR SO. Ballpark figure. Grrr.
Glenn – NYT yesterday was very tough for me. DNF (without help) and a lot of time. Today wasn't bad at all. I usually can gauge better off of Dave's times which are very consistent, but he's playing on a cruise and shirking his crossword duties these days.
I'd offer up mine, but it'll be about five weeks before I get to those. Of course, I'll see how NYT goes for syndication when I get papers tomorrow. At least I know they'll be good solving even if I can't get them done, since I would rather work towards harder stuff than easier stuff when I got the choice. That's why I got the Saturday Newsday even if I won't be able to solve it completely – if I'm going to do crosswords I need to learn how. Then there's always the dumb errors (which this one and the WSJ were both), which I need to figure out how to eliminate somehow too.
Hopefully Dave will be able to fill you in when he gets back on his thoughts with those grids.
I enjoyed this one. Everything fell relatively quickly, for a finish in a little over 20 minutes. I don't think I've ever actually heard "card room" (but I'm not a big gambler), and I don't know why "ma'am" — as common in Boston, NY, and Wisconsin as it is here in Jawjuh — is a "Dixie" thing. The puz was refreshingly free of PPPs — only half a dozen OR SO. Overall, thanks to Debbie Ellerin for a fine Saturday morning's diversion. @GLEN: I found today's WSJ easier than a typical weekender. And please explain that theme tip "Tie game" to me. After finishing, I still don't get it. @BILL: Thanx for educating me, so to speak, on OXONIAN. And REM randomly chosen? From the start, I thought those Athens boys were alluding to the sleep stage known as REM, for Rapid Eye Movement.
"Tie Game" refers to the belt being tied around the waist of the gi a karate participant wears – as the revealer indicated. And as for difficulty, the WSJ Saturdays have been averaging around 40-60 minutes for me. I sleptwalk that one at 72 minutes with 2 dumb errors. I know if I was more awake I'd probably would have hit around that 40-45 minute mark on it with what I was seeing.
A bit of staring and thinking time, but nothing too outlandish or untoward. Now on to the 21X21 WSJ. Hope everyone has a really nice weekend.
mtnwest says:
This was a good one. Difficult but doable with perseverance. I had a lot of erasures but after staring at a mostly blank grid I just started guessing. And even if the guess was wrong some part of it usually helped with the crosses. I just kept doing that until it was filled in. No idea about the time it took – but waaaay longer than anyone else! 🙂
@Glenn, @Bella – regarding OR SO – thanks. I totally missed that. Even though I had the answer I didn't get it! I was too focused on baseball. LOL
Good puzzle today; took about an hour and a half. Hosed the SW though with a desire to just get it over with. Had INSOMNIA and DRIVER and suspected ANN, MAAM and MAYI, but not much else when I just had to call it quits.
Successful Saturday here. Very nice challenge. I'd certainly never heard OXONIAN. Had Y'ALL before MA'AM, Y'ALL being one of my fave words….?
@Glenn, thanks for the assist yesterday!!! I'd never heard that weird expression….
Hey Joe Bleaux, I think of MA'AM as southern, because Southerners are thought to be more courtly and polite. So, it's apparently said more frequently there. What say you? Are you southern gentlemen more polite, or is it just a rumor??!?
As for REM, I'll bet they hit upon the term R.E.M. when they opened the dictionary, rather than hitting random letters. I'd also bet that they made several tries before landing on something they thought sounded cool…
Anyone else notice that whenever there's a Pope it's a LEO?
Hi mtnwest!!
Sweet dreams~~™???
@Carrie
Never did hear of it myself, to be honest. Not into that sort of thing to know.
As for REM, you aren't far from the truth. The story goes their original names considered were things that wouldn't fit the "breakfast test" (save "Twisted Kites"), so the lead singer opened the dictionary and found the first thing that sounded cool.
And for LEO, it's just a 3 letter word with a number of vowels on the end – only reason it's being used like a large number of other words. You could almost construct one of those old ELHI English class spelling lists with those words and then just say "when in doubt, just put this when it asks for this and it'll work".
There's even a nice blog article on the NYT servers on sports figures that fit the definition (ALOU, AROD, ASHE, ELS, ORR, OTT, SOSA, PELE, TRIS, and YAO).
Honestly, I did the "put this" with one of last week's puzzles and it worked. Just like most of the times I resort to that for whatever reason. Clue says something about sewing and is four letters? Just don't ask any more questions and put ETUI. How it goes with that list.
Another puzzle I couldn't find online and had to reconstruct. I thought it was a bit easy for a Saturday, but the reconstruction process may have given me some help, so I'm not posting my time …
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Hear Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway's Powerful New Song "Guns Are Loaded"
There's been a lot of buzz ahead of Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway's forthcoming album Dictator, which drops later this month on July 20. After dropping the title-track and "Lives" earlier this year, the musician is giving another taste of what's in store, in the form of the powerful new single, "Guns Are Loaded."
The song has actually been kicking around his discography for a while, having appeared in live sets back in 2012. The studio version of the song showcases a significant amount of atmospheric build-up, before launching into a heavier guitar section. Malakian's voice is on point — hitting some intense heights previously unheard from him.
In an interview with Revolver, Malakian explains that he's been sitting on the new Scars on Broadway album for six years, thinking that System of a Down could make a record and that he might want to use the songs for that. "There was always this talk of maybe we'll do something, maybe we won't do something," he says. "So I was like, 'Maybe I should save these songs.' That's the biggest reason why I took so long to release these songs." And he adds, "This album is closer to a System of a Down album than the first Scars album was. I just wanted to make something that was heavier."
Malakian has also been speaking about being upset at the lack of movement in a new System album, revealing Serj Tankian "didn't even want to make Mezmerize and Hypnotize. We really begged him to make those records. At that time, he felt like he was out." Tankian responded to the comments on Facebook, where he wrote that he was "responsible for the hiatus Soad took in 2006," pointing to his desire to create solo work and avoid "artistic redundancy," as well as the lack of equal "creative input and financial revenue splits" within the band.


Index on Censorship is deeply concerned about the impacts that the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill would have on academic research and journalism. If the bill becomes law it will limit freedom of expression significantly and discourage investigative journalism and research into terrorism and related issues.
Many parts of the bill give serious cause for concern from a freedom of expression perspective. For example, a proposed new clause would extend existing legislation to criminalise expressions of opinions that are supportive of terrorist organisations if they are made in a "reckless" way which could encourage someone else to support such an organisation. The vague and unclearly defined new offence would go beyond knowingly encouraging support for a terrorist organisation, but would carry a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
When it comes to academic research, the bill would have far-reaching and damaging impacts.
The bill would criminalise viewing of online content that is likely to be useful for terrorism, even if the content was viewed over another person's shoulder – and no terrorist intent would be required. It could result in a prison sentence of 15 years. It is not clear what exceptions would apply under the proposed clause 3. For example, if a researcher needed to look at a website to research the ideologies of a terrorist organisation, would she be exempted?
"As to the possibility of an academic researcher being prosecuted, much would depend on the circumstances, but there only needs to be a realistic prospect of conviction in order for a prosecution to be commenced. The public interest arm of the test may not be of great assistance because a prosecution will ordinarily proceed unless the prosecutor is sure that the public interest factors tending against prosecution outweigh those tending in favour," McNamara explained, "Being 'sure' sets quite a significant bar, and in the case of terrorism offences one might expect that it could be difficult for a prosecutor to say they are 'sure' of that." Moreover, the courts have made it clear that whether a person had a reasonable excuse – and thus a defence – is a matter that should be decided by a jury.
The Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill is moving forward rapidly in Parliament with the House of Lords now scheduled to consider it in early October. Many are probably unaware of how damaging the bill could be for academic freedom and research – it should not be allowed to slip through.
Index on Censorship joins with seven other human rights organisations to call for an independent review of the UK's Prevent strategy.
While there has been little progress in the House of Lords when it comes to protecting freedom of expression in the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill, a proposed new amendment by Lord Anderson deserves support.
Index on Censorship welcomes the amendments to the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill proposed by the Joint Committee on Human Rights.


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NYU Board of Trustees
Report from the first meeting of the Joint Committee of NYU Stakeholders
Board Officers
Engaging with the NYU Community
TO: Members of the NYU community
FROM: Co-chairs of the Joint Committee of NYU Stakeholders, Board Chair Marty Lipton and FSC Chair Raghu Sundaram
RE: Report from the first meeting of the Joint Committee of NYU Stakeholders
We write to report on the first meeting of the Joint Committee of NYU Stakeholders, which was held this past Friday, November 1. The Joint Committee was created as a pilot mechanism last spring through which the Board and the various constituencies at NYU can communicate with each other. The Board saw this as a way to benefit from the added viewpoints as it considers policy options; the stakeholders will benefit from understanding the thinking of the Board. We were encouraged by this first meeting and believe that the Joint Committee can be an important vehicle for improved input and consultation. We employed a format designed to maximize dialogue, with two rounds of open conversation at five tables, each table having two trustees, 6 or 7 faculty, and a student. An AMC rep also joined us. (A list of those elected is below; note that the FAS representatives present were there on an interim basis.) It is difficult, as you all know, to find a meeting time that works for everyone, but attendance was quite strong and we will poll the group to find the best time for our next meeting.
The meeting opened with greetings from each of us as co-chairs. As Board chair, Marty reiterated the purpose of the committee as surfacing concerns as well as opportunities for improvement related to key university issues. As Chair of the Faculty Senate Council, Raghu expressed appreciation to the trustees for setting up the committee and for the unprecedented effort it represented to increase communication. We both encouraged frank dialogue and expressed the hope that, in addition to hearing critiques, we would bring forward new ideas. We made clear that we would each report what went on at the meeting to our colleagues, urged others to feel free to do the same, and committed to writing this document to the whole community. A steering committee is being created composed of three trustees (Phyllis Putter Barasch, Evan Chesler, and Marty Lipton), three faculty (Raghu Sundaram and two to be elected by those serving on the committee), two students (Mariam Ehahri and Mason Detloff) and the chair of the AMC (David Vogelsgang). The steering committee will help shape the agenda and meeting formats for future meetings.
There was a short briefing from Marty on how the NYU Board of Trustees functions and its committee structure. Board members serve 6-year renewable terms; the board chair has a 4-year renewable term. Marty said his term was up at the end of 2015 and that he would not be standing for another term. In response to a question, Marty reaffirmed that the Board has determined that the search committee for the next President will include faculty, students, and alumni. It will be an open process, with no pre-selected candidate.
There were two 30-minute conversations at the tables, followed by a report from each table after each round. For the first conversation, the participants were asked to focus on specific ideas for improvement at the university; and for the second, on how best to improve communication or any other issues that needed to be surfaced. There was a good deal of overlap in themes that surfaced, including:
Transparency: Where do the University's financial resources come from and how they are spent? What are the practical limits on transparency?
Governance: How does the University conceptualize shared governance and what role each constituency plays? How can inclusiveness be fostered without creating chaos? The need to focus on processes of inclusion, not just outcomes. How to encourage more faculty to step up to governance roles. Some people expressed the view that a small group of faculty has disproportionate voice in governance. The importance of active citizenship and follow-up so that an issue can be discussed and resolution of an issue is clear to all. The possibility was raised of more regular meetings between the President/senior administrators and smaller groups of faculty.
The composition of faculty: Tenure and tenure track as well as contract faculty; the relationship between the two; how contract faculty are connected to and represented in their schools and at the University level. What titles are appropriate for contract faculty at different schools? How does the university visualize the long-term role of contract faculty?
The scale of the University and the connections or lack thereof among the parts; how, as the University has grown, can people feel connected? What are the gains and losses? How can we reduce unnecessary replication, e.g., multiple Economics 101 classes? The difference between information and effective communication; how to learn from best practices. How to create mechanisms so people feel heard. On a practical level, a preference for shorter and more succinct emails from the University with larger font.
The meeting ended with an acknowledgment that many key issues were raised and that the challenge would be for the University to craft solutions that would resolve these issues productively and to the satisfaction of many, if not all.
Each of us felt this first meeting was productive and important and look forward to continued engagement and future meetings.
Joint Committee of NYU Stakeholders:
Awam Amkpa, Associate Professor of Drama, Social and Cultural Analysis, Tisch School of the Arts
Jeane Anastas, Professor of Social Work, Silver School of Social Work
Jennifer Arlen, Norma Z. Paige Professor of Law, Law School
Phyllis Barasch, Vice Chair, NYU Board of Trustees, Stern '81
Maria Bartiromo,NYU Board of Trustees, Anchor, CNBC Business News, WSC '89
William Berkley, Vice Chair, NYU Board of Trustees, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, W.R. Berkley Corporation, Stern '66
Jim Borowiec, Professor, School of Medicine
Tamara Bushnik, Associate Professor, School of Medicine
Heather Cannady, NYU Board of Trustees, Associate, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, CAS '04
Evan Chesler, NYU Board of Trustees, Chairman, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, ARTS '70, LAW '75
Robby Cohen, Professor of Social Studies Education, Steinhardt School
Florence Davis, NYU Board of Trustees, President, The Starr Foundation, LAW '79
Mason Detloff, College of Arts and Science, BA 2014
Vasant Dhar, Professor and Head, Information Systems Group Co-Director, Center for Business Analytics, Stern School of Business
Mariam Ehrari, Chair, Student Senators Council, College of Arts and Science, BA 2014
Joel Ehrenkranz, NYU Board of Trustees, Senior Partner, Ehrenkranz & Ehrenkranz, LLP, LAW '61, '63
Nieca Goldberg, Clincial Associate Professor, Medical Director Women's Heart Program, School of Medicine
Phillip Harper, Professor with Chair, Academic Director, Faculty of Arts & Science
Robert Hoffman, M.D., Professor, School of Medicine
Harris Inskeep, College of Arts and Science, BA 2014
Leila Jahangiri, Clinical Professor, College of Dentistry
Sameer Jaywant, College of Arts and Science, BA 2014
Tim Johnson, Librarian for Africana Studies, Anthropology and Food Studies, Bobst Library
Alexander Jones, Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Martin Klimke, Associate Professor of History, NYU AD
Ned Landau, Professor, School of Medicine
Ken Langone, Vice Chair, NYU Board of Trustees, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Invemed Associates, LLC, Stern '60
Brian Levine, NYU Board of Trustees, Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility Fellow, NY Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center, GSAS '03, MED '08
Martin Lipton, Chair, NYU Board of Trustees, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, LAW '55
Achiau Ludomirsky, M.D., Andrall E. Pearson Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, Director of Pediatric Cardiology, School of Medicine
Ted Magder, Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, Steinhardt School
Joe Magee, Associate Professor of Management, NYU Wagner
Mimi Marziani, NYU Board of Trustees, Associate, Sullivan & Cromwell, LAW '08
Anna McCarthy, Professor, Tisch School of the Arts
Charlton McIlwain, Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, Steinhardt School
Sally Merry, Professor of Anthropology, Law and Society, Faculty of Arts & Science
David Oxman, NYU Board of Trustees, Senior Counsel, Davis Polk & Wardwell
David Poeppel, Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, Faculty of Arts & Science
Michael Rectenwald, Master Teacher of Liberal Studies Program, Liberal Studies
Vincent Renzi, Clinical Professor, Faculty of Arts & Science
Shelley Rice, Arts Professor, Tisch School of the Arts
Joe Salvatore, Clinical Assistant Professor of Educational Theatre, Steinhardt School
Miriam Robbins, Clinical Associate Professor, College of Dentistry
Susan Rogers, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts & Science
Michelle Shedlin, Professor, College of Nursing
Patrick Shrout, Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Arts & Science
Marti Subrahmanyam, Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance, Economics and International Business, Stern School of Business
Edward Sullivan, Helen Gould Sheppard Professor in the History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts
Raghu Sundaram, Chair, Faculty Senators Council, Professor of Finance and Yamaichi Faculty Fellow, Stern School of Business
Jack Tchen, Associate Professor, Gallatin
Richard Thorsen, Vice President Emeritus, Senior Advisor to the President, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
Patrick Totaro, School of Law, JD 2014
Jennifer Trahan, Associate Clinical Professor of Global Affairs, School of Continuing and Professional Studies
Raghu Varadhan, Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematica Sciences
David Vogelsang, Chair, Administrative Management Council, Executive Director, Student Resource Center
Anthony Welters,Vice Chair, NYU Board of Trustees, Law '77
Tom Wisniewski, M.D., Professor, Director Aging and Dementia, School of Medicine
Board of Trustees Communications
A Response to the SSC Resolution on Representation on the Board of Trustees
A Response to the CFSC Resolution on Enhanced Engagement with the Board of Trustees
A Response to the TFSC Resolution on Representation on the Board of Trustees
The Death of John Brademas, NYU's President from 1981 to 1992
The Board of Trustees' Response to the University Senate Resolution on Fossil Fuel Divestment
A Warm Welcome to Andy Hamilton
The Appointment of Andrew Hamilton as the 16th President of NYU
The Members of the NYU Presidential Search Committee
NYU Presidential Search Update


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Q: Rails is overloading path definition inside a gem I have a project and a gems folder in this project, where I have a gem called ip_locator. I then have a class like this:
require 'singleton'
require 'maxminddb'

module IpLocator
  class Service
    include Singleton

    attr_reader :db

    def initialize
      @db = ::MaxMindDB.new('db/GeoIP2-Country.mmdb')
    end

    def locate(ip)
      db.lookup ip
    end
  end
end

I have some rspec tests for this class inside the gem folder as well. they run fine. Also, if I run ./gems/ip_locator/bin/console I can interact with this class fine.
But when I try to run this class from Rails's context (going to root folder and rails console) I get this:
Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen - db/GeoIP2-Country.mmdb

I copied this file to my ROOT/db instead ROOT/gems/ip_locator/db and it worked so I noticed that Rails is actually expecting that this path (db/GeoIp2) is relative to the project root, it is not loading from the gem. How do I deal with it?

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