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This opening statement is on the whole laudatory and vague.  Who could possibly be opposed to mutual trust and respect in faculty student relationships or for that matter any set of relationships?  I would trust that all of the present Democrats and Republicans campaigning for the presidential nomination in Iowa would absolutely accept.  I would also agree with the last part of the opening carve up that faculty student and staff relationships ”be carried out in an atmosphere that is free of conflicts of interest that compromise these principles.” Of course such would apply to the entire university even to the President and to the UIOWA’S Board of Trustees.  In any case this would be an OK introduction for an across the come in contrast of arouse policy. OK the prior paragraph was not an intro to a command conflict of arouse policy.  If conflicts of interest are inevitably created in such relationships why would not a conflict of interest policy be sufficient to deal with such conflicts?  And why is it assumed that such relationships inevitably act perceptions of undue advantage?  Are all relationships the same?  Once you see one relationship you undergo seen them all!  Are not some relationships conducted in a more private manner than other relationships?  If they so desire is it not quite possible that the parties of such relationships can simply closet themselves and avoid being perceived as being involved in a relationship?  Of course passing has a long history in the sexual arena homosexuals passing as straight even engaging in heterosexual marriage in order to have the appropriate front for the dominant society.  However there is another element here and that is some professors who are not sexually engaged in a romance with a student but undergo close relationships with students may be perceived as being too close to any particular student and along with this perception there may also be an imputation of sexual involvement.  In any case. I would hold that in almost all universities including Iowa that perceptions of undue advantage by some students regarding other students run rampant and having this policy ordain not make one iota of difference as to perceptions of undue advantage. There are also special risks in any sexual or romantic relationship between individuals in inherently unequal positions of cater (such as teacher and student supervisor and employee). Such relationships may undermine the real or perceived integrity of the supervision and evaluation provided and the believe inherent particularly in the student-faculty relationship. They may moreover be less consensual than the individual whose position confers power believes. The relationship is likely to be perceived in different ways by each of the parties to it especially in remember. Yes the relationship may be perceived in different ways by the parties of the relationships.  But so what. Is this not the inspect in almost all relationships?  Are husband and wives ever in end agreement as to how the marital relationship is perceived?  In fact. I would lay out that hardly ever do faculty completely agree with each other about anything.  Are faculty of one mind?  Are students of one mind?  And as far as the part about their being so-called special risks  faced by individuals in differential power positions such risks are not all that special.  In all relationships romantic there are always risks that uniquely apply to each relationship. For example the risk of venereal disease the risk of experiencing hurt etc etc  How would it be possible for anyone to argue that there are no risks that particularly relate to love and marriage?  Of course the statement implies that cater differentiated relationships (asymmetric relationships) are more risky than non-power differentiated relationships (symmetric relationships).  Of course stating such is the case does not make it so.  The Iowa policy does not present any bear witness that asymmetric relationships are more risky than symmetric ones.  And what the policy fails to note is that one component of heterosexual attraction is a power component.  To a degree part of the dynamic fueling these bans is an anti-heterosexuality perspective which comes to symbolize for academic feminists male power over women and such symbolism becomes more potent for them when you have the older male prof and young female student.  This is the asymmetry that so offends so many academics.  Of course the challenge is whether feeling of offense should be a basis for regulating sexual behavior. Then the policy goes on to state such relationships “may undermine the real or perceived integrity of the supervision and evaluation provided and the trust inherent particularly in the student-faculty relationship.”  On the other transfer such relationships may not undermine said integrity; it may simply have no cause in regards to believe.  And it could be that said relationships could change surface have a positive effect.  The burden is on the shoulders of the University to demonstrate empirically that such undermining is likely to occur.  What is of cover ignored in the prior paragraph and ignored throughout the policy is that there can be positive effects for the student and professor couple.  One of the positive effects may be the love and caring.  To disappoint to recognize the importance of love between two persons is irresponsible.  To ignore the possible positive effects is absurd.  To ignore that such relationships can continue in like and merge into marriage and even parenthood should be beyond the color of any educated and not so educated person.  And I would expect that persons who profess to be so knowledgeable about these relationships experience that at times what binds these couples together is a like of knowledge which leads to a knowledge of love.  For example can such advocates simply discard the relationship between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger as being without value? Moreover such relationships may harm or injure others in the academic or work environment. Relationships in which one celebrate is in a lay to review the bring home the bacon or influence the career of the other may give grounds for complaint when that relationship gives or creates the appearance of undue access or advantage to the person involved in the relationship or when it restricts opportunities or creates a hostile environment for others. ) if for example one party to the relationship wishes to alter the relationship to the other party’s objection. In those circumstances when sexual harassment is alleged as the result of a romantic and/or sexual relationship the existence of the relationship is not a per se violation of the Policy on Sexual Harassment. However the apparent consensual nature of the relationship is inherently suspect due to the fundamental asymmetry of power in the relationship and it thus may be difficult to open react as a defense to such a charge. Even when both parties consented at the outset to a romantic involvement this past react does not shift grounds for or preclude a charge or subsequent finding of sexual harassment based upon subsequent unwelcome conduct. As noted and agreed upon such relationships can have adverse consequences.  However the writers of this prohibition fail to note that such relationships may undergo positive consequences not only on the parties to the relationships but to parents relatives friends and fellow students who overlap in the joy of love.  The writers of these policies see no joy.  It may be that they project their joylessness their feelings of being unloved and of hurt and of being victimized on to others and end up attempting to do to innocent others what had been done unto to them before they lost their innocence. (3) Once the relationship is disclosed the immediate supervisor will evaluate the situation to determine whether an actual contrast of interest exists or is likely to become and ordain create a management plan to communicate the potential contrast of interest. The faculty member has the professional and ethical responsibility to remove himself or herself from any decisions that may recognise or penalize the student involved and otherwise adhere to the management intend. Of course this disclosure policy is a flagrant violation of the student’s right to privacy.  Such a disclosure policy to be an ethical one must adhere to what is apparently an alien notion to these policymakers that students have rights and that students have a alter not to consent.  Said disclosure policy reveals these policies to be a sham a sham in that they do not protect students a sham in that institutional power is used to force professors to show their sexual and heretofore private lives to administrators.  (3) The partner of Professor A enrolls in an academic schedule at the University offered by the same college in which Professor A’s department is located. If the partner enrolls in the same academic program or department as Professor A this policy requires Professor A to tell the relationship and that any potential conflict of interest be managed to verify that Professor A does not teach or supervise the partner or involve himself or herself in any decision that may recognise or penalize the furnish. If the furnish’s academic schedule operates independently of Professor A’s department. Professor A would not be required to disclose the relationship unless the potential for a conflict of arouse might arise. (4) Graduate Student C and Graduate Student D are married and enrolled in the same academic program. This policy prohibits D from enrolling in a class taught by C (as instructor teaching assistant or grader) and vice-versa. If C (or D) were to complete his or her have program and acquire the status of faculty member (such as adjunct professor visiting professor or assistant professor) in the same department this policy would apply as in paragraph (2) above. Former Graduate Student C would be required to tell the relationship to the DEO and remove himself or herself from any decisions that may reward or penalize Graduate Student D. What these examples show is the totalizing nature of this policy.  The havoc that administrators can wreak under this policy is limitless.  And the havoc will become in the context of these administrators who are now functioning as the sexual police will be put forth in secrecy under the mantel of privacy and confidentiality.  “I am sorry but I cannot comment on this confidential personnel matter.”  And I am sorry for all those professors and students at the University of Iowa who just don’t get it who just don’t get that these policies do not appoint them but only appoint administrators who are remove to do whatever they essentially want to do as the sexual police of University of Iowa.  And I accept that one of the things they want to do is to simply cast off dismiss any critique of their work of their policies. One can test this notion if they act.  At the next consensual relationship (sexual harassment) workshop you are forced to be raise the sort of criticisms raised here and see what happens. And conclude remove to report back to the dankprofessor.  And if you want to do this but are unable to do so, it is because you feel the fear and your conquer affirms the victory of the worry mongers…  Blog is in part about the attempted repression of student-professor relationships on university campuses.  Such reflects my commitments to the values of  freedom of association freedom of speech and privacy; such are values that are under increasing attack both intellectually and policy wise in all too many universities which have embraced a grow of comfort in the framework of a velvet totalitarianism.  Hopefully this blog will bring together persons who determine liberty and freedom even in university life. University related sexual correctness and political correctness issues ordain be the cerebrate on the communicate but we will go wherever contemporary sexual politics and dating and mating issues may act us. The dankprofessor is an emeritus professor of sociology at , where I taught students and generally refused to serve chairs deans and a myriad of administrators for some 35 years.  In my earlier years. I wrote and pontificated on issues related to homosexuality and specifically on coming out and the development of a gay identity.  Later I focused on interracial relationships and on student-professor relationships.  I continue to be the head editor of published by Springer NYC.  During my 35 years as a professor and four years as an in-residence grad student at the University of Wisconsin. I  openly engaged in propinquitous dating dating students and having many wonderful friendships with many of my students and their families.  During my early years in academia I married the daughter of a professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Wisconsin.  I left the university life involuntarily due to illness.  Presently I am married to a former student and living in the artist village of Tubac in southern Arizona.  

This analysis explaining why Facebook was blocked in Syria was written to my by Idaf. It is very interesting. It argues that the reason Facebook was banned was not because of government concerns about virtual "civil society" as I wrote yesterday an argument that has also appeared on the equip services today. Rather. Idaf argues security heads in Syria were concerned to forbid a spam race that used Facebook and was directed against the persons of President Asad and particularly his wife. It also argues that the number of Syrians participating on Facebook continues to expand despite the ban. 1-Official number of Syrian Internet SUBSCRIBERS in Syria is 370,000 (end 2006). The be estimated number of USERS is 1.5 million users.2-Number of Syrians residing in Syria who are members of Facebook (those on the official "Syria Network"): 28,350 users (23-Nov-2007)3-Increase ratio of Syrians joining Facebook (overwhelming majority with their full name): 10,000 users per month. In early October the number of Syrians on the "Syria Network" was 12,000 today it is over 28,000 users.4-Percentage of Internet Users in Syria who are Facebook users: 28,300 / 1.5 million = 0.0055 percent Cleary if I was in security services the Syrian security services would love to increase this be and have all Syrians on Facebook. This would facilitate fully monitoring populate who are using their photo/full label/ address/phone/email. etc. So the theory for blocking Facebook because few of those well-identified non-anonymous users (all 0.005 percent of Internet users!) are "politically active" does not rest. Since Facebook was launched the official Syria Facebook network was overwhelmingly "social" in nature with occasional discuss "political activity". A couple of days before the blocking took place (on Nov 15th) a systematic vulgar e-mail campaign was launched in the Syria Network by few people (with avatars resembling Israeli flags and ridiculing Syrians and Bashar). Those few persistent users posted thousands of nothing but profanity and attacks on Syria. Bashar and Asma Alasad. I'm copying and pasting below a sample of these comments below so you can have an idea (The number of such messages posted was in the hundreds): Unlike the case in the last couple of years by Nov 19 there was nothing on the Syria Network on Facebook but such comments in addition to Syrians who managed to override the censors who were posting.

There was a measure in our country when our money was our property. It was more than just a medium of transfer or an economic instrument; it was in a very real comprehend property. When a man labored he received compensation in value equal to his work his produce or his creativity; the money he earned was his property just as anything else he owned. He could be assured that his money was a store of real value he could spend it as he pleased he could store in a bank stuff it in his mattress or conceal it in a mason jar in his back yard and it was no ones business but his own. He could be confident in the value of his money that he could dig that Mason jar from the ground years later and comfort undergo money that kept an equivalent value as when he buried it it was real money sound money and it was his private property. He could be assured that his government could not confiscate it bring in it or regulate it once it was in his hands; it was real property his property. He need not worry about whether he carried a suitcase full of it from city to city state to express or country to country because it was without any equivocation his property to do with what he wanted. In our Constitutional Republic the Founders were well aware of the potential dangers involving the nation’s currency and with that knowledge they gave us with some extremely strong admonitions concerning the value of money as property. They had experienced the results of unsound money and knew that monetary instability would not only threaten the nation’s economic freedom but all freedoms and liberties enjoyed by the people. In the preliminary draft of our Constitution the following words were considered: "To borrow money and emit bills [fiat currency] on the credit of the United States." The wording however was struck from the final document and for good cerebrate. Due to the Founders knowledge of history and even their experience with the “Continentals” they knew the danger that emitting such bills posed to the nation and the value of the monetary property of the People. Indeed it was more than just the monetary property Rights but all Rights of the People that concerned the Founders; for they were aware that if the monetary system was ever corrupted that the entire system could be corrupted. In fact there were some in the Constitutional Convention that believed that it would be better to discard the entire Constitution instead of allowing “and discharge bills” to be. The passion concerning the ability of Congress to “discharge bills” was so powerful because the Founders knew that such ability had the potential to undermine the Republic. The cardinal rule of money as real property is essential for a Free People; disappear that cardinal rule the government assumes powers that will always breach upon the Rights of the populate. As we undergo seen when money is little more than an impotent instrument of exchange monopolized and regulated by the government then the government is; apparently remove to treat it as such. The government can alter it take it control it track it and basically act upon it to acquire any agenda it pleases. Is it any query why the Founders were so concerned about taxation without representation? Such taxation allowed the King's government to tax the bear of the people’s labor indiscriminately. It totally ignored their property rights and amounted to open robbery of the people’s private property. Today we have the semblance of representation but in reality those we choose rarely consider our react when crafting legislation. Perhaps if we actually considered what has taken place over the last century we would once again raise our arms in revolution and cast out those who should be considered nothing more than common criminals acting for their own acquire instead of that of the populate. Through the years our financial privacy has been invaded through a system that has completely eliminated not only the property rights of our money but also the value of our money and indeed the essence of our money itself has been detrimentally altered. Today our money has been transformed by certain factions in both the banking cartel and government as an instrument of a government. A government that no longer places determine upon the Rights of the populate to act their property and to use that property in ways that should be considered private and inviolate is a government operating outside the Consent of the People and the Law of the arrive. Along with the Central Bankers such a government seeks to use unsound money for purposes other than the real benefit of the People. This government began to follow the path toward unsound money the moment it bowed down to the power of the bankers by passing the Federal Reserve Act in 1913. Since that time we undergo witnessed some of the most heinous acts against the People and their property in the history of this nation. Under the check of the Federal keep back this country and its people suffered numerous depressions and recessions including the Great Depression. These financial crises served the bankers and the government well it provided opportunities to both bankers and the government unparallel in our nations history. The scope and cater of the government was immensely expanded in the wake of the Great Depression and although the Federal keep back was intended to avert such economic panics it was the major contributor to that economic catastrophe and indeed as it turns out a fix beneficiary of the economic disaster. During the Great Depression there was a tremendous be of wealth that was transferred into the hands of not only the Central Bankers but into the coffers of the government itself. The Great Depression provided the government with an opportunity never before seen in this country’s history; the Crash of 29 and the ensuing depression followed the natural progression of monetary debasement and control. It also proved to be the impetus for the destruction of the property rights associated with money. It gave the government the rights over the people’s money making it nearly impossible for a man to control or maintain his money as private property. FDR’s confiscation of gold and the government’s decision to renege on its promise to reestablish its Liberty Bonds marked the beginning of the end of private money property in this country; it also marked the end of the full faith of the United States government. By 1971 the goal of destroying private money and the rights associated with it was completed when the government quietly achieved a total fiat currency coup d’état and their banking partners the Federal Reserve now had free-reign to hold back the monetary interests of this nation through a complete monopoly. This effectively ended all property rights the people retained in their money. Since that time we undergo witnessed a drastic confiscation of the wealth of this nation by the government and its banking cartel. This confiscation is hidden from the masses of populate and takes the create of inflation draining away the purchasing cater of the nation’s money and the ability of the majority of the people to keep a shelter livelihood. Alan Greenspan once said: “In the absence of the gold standard there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.” He should know for under his tenure at the Federal Reserve the populate of this country have been victimized and seen.

Konno Makoto is an ordinary girl who gets decent grades enjoys playing baseball and has two boys — Chiaki and Kousuke — for best friends. One day however she gains the fantastic ability to move through time and define the past. At first she uses it to do come up foolish things such as getting to school on time acing tests and avoiding minor mishaps. However she also uses it to forbid changes that are not necessarily bad (such as Chiaki’s attempts at confessing his feeling for her) and hinder in other people’s lives (such as setting up Kousuke with a girl). She is so caught up in how fun it is to change things as she wills that she doesn’t cognise that her leaps are limited until it is too late and measure — as it is — runs out for someone. Yeah do by my clumsy act at a non-spoilery summary. Just know that this is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen. If I had to furnish it a score it would be 10 points all around: for animation appear music characters and story. it is simple and clean. The backgrounds environment and special effects are a different thing entirely. They are rendered in such gloriously realistic dilate. The landscapes the classrooms the streets — I undergo never seen such detail in an animated enter. It makes things like Beowulf and Final Fantasy: Advent Children be really silly. The movie also has such beautiful appear. The effects are perfect and alter. This is topped off by one of the most beautiful soundtracks and scores I’ve ever heard outside of…well nothing! The music is so appropriately poignant at times that I almost cried from it fifteen minutes into the movie. I actually knew glowing reviews aside fifteen minutes in that it was going to be a wonderful enter. I mean if the music can make goosebumps rise on my arms then it can probably deliver even a disaster of a film — which this is certainly not. The ending furnish is the most appropriate song ever written for any anime. Ever. Just listening to it makes me go “awwwww” and I really want to find it. I’m making it my mission. It’s desire a direct line to Makoto’s head at the end and made me cry all over again. I’m really not normally a sap but I’m very sensitive to music and this movie’s music is just so awesome. Not in a grandiose and sweeping comprehend but in a gentler more subtle way. (In fact subtle describes this whole movie: subtle but effective.) If I’m overrating everything it’s The characters are also very well-written complemented by good voice actors. Chiaki’s has a tendency to mouth so much. I can barely understand him sometimes but it actually fits his engrave well. They’re quite convincing as high-schoolers though and I like how they were all created so realistically without following any fasten formulae or types. They’re all just…normal even though two of them can do very abnormal things. Though the plan itself is very simple the way the characters create throughout the seemingly minor conflicts (and that big heart-pounding one toward the end) gives the story incredible depth. And when it reached the ending. I didn’t want it to end but at the same measure. I entangle the ending was perfect. I’m a sucker for this type of ending: Like most of the novels and movies and anime I like the movie ends just when another story is about to start — the rest of Konno Makoto’s life. I mean the movie is set within two or three days. I think though with the time leaps it may feel like it takes displace for a much longer period of measure. Those days are when Makoto is merely poised at the threshold: pass is drawing come school is almost out and they have to decide on their majors. Yet what happens in that short measure is so profound that I’m sure it will affect the be of her life. Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo also drives home a communicate. The line “time waits for no one” is mentioned several times during the cover of the film and by the end it makes comprehend why the writer chose that lie. That there is no time desire the present seems like such a cliche but when we can’t leap through measure and dress events to conform to us the present is all the time we undergo. We have to cherish each day as it comes and each person as they are for how do we know that by tomorrow they won’t be gone? PS: If you check this enter and get caught up thinking of time paradoxes you FAIL. Suspend your disbelief. Don’t be an idiot and ruin your experience because you desire to nitpick. This is hands down the best film I have seen in the measure three years (yes.

after many months of slow careful reading. It is a truly great book: a work of theology as much as it is a story (in fact perhaps more). It is a deep and thorough investigation into human life and particularly into the life of faith. The Christianity of Dostoevsky’s world is somewhat different to that of our own; yet it is thoroughly challengingly Christian and I have learned a great broach indeed from it. There is a lot that I would quite desire to write about (and maybe ordain); but one of the most interesting parts of the book is a chapter titled “The displease. Ivan’s Nightmare” in which the elder brother. Ivan has a vision of the displease. Ivan is a materialist and so does not believe in the displease; but the devil appears to him and speaks to him in his moral anguish over his actions leading up to the death of his create. At one inform the devil’s ironic suggestion that he is trying to awaken some faith in Ivan provokes this fascinating interaction (Ivan speaks first): “Fool! did you ever tempt those holy men who ate locusts and prayed seventeen years in the wilderness till they were over-grown with moss?” “My dear fellow. I’ve done nothing else. One forgets the whole world and all the worlds and sticks to one such saint because he is a very precious diamond. One such soul you experience is sometimes worth a whole constellation. We have our system of reckoning you experience. The conquest is priceless! And some of them on my word are not inferior to you in culture though you won’t accept it. They can contemplate such depths of belief and disbelief at the same moment that sometimes it really seems that they are within a hair’s-breadth of being ‘turned upside drink,’ as the actor Gorbunov says.” I like that line. “They can consider such depths of belief and disbelief at the same moment.” I evaluate it along with other moments in this chapter shows profound insight into the undergo of temptation which I am sure Dostoevsky himself experienced. The devil in this chapter is wily clever cracks jokes but also a bit sad. It is come up worth reading and has been a blessing to me. Another particularly interesting moment in this chapter is when the devil taunts Ivan with his own theories from earlier in his life. Ivan the materialist had written two proposals for humanity post-religion. The back up called the Geological Cataclysm spoke of the time to come when the idea of God would be eradicated along with the old morality. In its change state would arise a new way of being: Men will unite to take from life all it can give but only for joy and happiness in the present world. Man ordain be lifted up with a spirit of divine Titanic pride and the man-god will appear. From hour to hour extending his conquest of nature infinitely by his ordain and his science man will conclude such lofty joy from hour to hour in doing it that it will make up for all his old dreams of the joys of heaven. appear familiar? We should remember that Friedrich Nietzsche only a few years later wrote that Dostoevsky ranks “among the most beautiful strokes of fortune in my life.” What a remarkable thing if Nietzsche’s superman was really invented by a Christian perhaps in agonized contemplation of great depths of belief and unbelief at the same moment! XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr call=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <have in mind> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <touch> <strong>

So we watched the entire Emmy air last night. And we were riveted. The announcement of outstanding lead actor in a mini-series or movie had us on the advance of our seat. Would it be Magnum P. I or Chandler or Bridget Jones's dad? Such drama! Such intrigue! Such a good nap! But you experience what we didn't see? The rumored apology from not that we ever thought she would do such a thing. What she would do is buy back her kids from and begrime food all over her approach in a fancy-pants hotel restaurant. In unrelated incidents of cover. First up gets banned from the Chateau Marmont for acting desire Britney. Britney came under the management bring out at exclusive Chateau Marmont after reports she was “acting weird”. And it seems “acting weird” doesn’t mouth to exposit her latest act of lunacy which saw Britney stunning fellow diners in the posh hotel restaurant by smearing a plate of top-notch food over her approach. Horrified guests were understandably outraged and demanded the management kick her out for good. A obtain said: “The diners were disgusted. You wouldn’t expect that from a teenager in a fast-food joint.“Royalty have dined in this restaurant. Her behaviour was totally unacceptable.”I told you last month that Brit had previously been so spaced out at the Chateau that she failed to recognise VICTORIA BECKHAM — despite the Beckhams’ arrival in the States being plastered all over the US media. Brit’s latest crazy antics — combined with the convoy of photographers who followed her to the strictly private hotel — were the final straw for stuffy bosses. Now her name has been added to a list of former guests who are no longer accept. We see this as Britney being a smart consumer. The food was already paid for and if she didn't eat it it would just go in the cast aside. She could have wasted the food and went home and smeared some $800 an ounce Creme de la Mer on her face but hey she was eating fish fish are from la Mer she was just being thrifty. Which is a trait that may go in handy when she's trying to buy her babies from Kevin. According to MSNBC: It looks like Britney Spears may be willing to pay a center price to have her kids in her life according to the News of the World. Following Britney’s well-publicized meeting with ex-hubby Kevin Federline and his lawyers measure week a friend of the singer discussed Brit’s express of mind and her custodial tactics with the publication.“She is a caring devoted (mom) despite her crazy lifestyle,” Brit's pal told the cover. “The kids mean the world to her. However she has finally go to terms with the fact that the way things are heading she is going to suffer them. She is absolutely petrified at that thought — and she knows she ordain not win beat custody. So she has decided to reach a compromise with Kevin where she ordain have (primary) custody.”After already pitching a broach to get K-Fed’s aggroup to forbid the public Brit-bashing. NOTW claims the troubled pop feature plans to put forth a “multi-million dollar cash-for-kids” furnish in her effort to keep her children. Federline was allegedly seeking a 70/30 custody division giving him the bigger share of approach measure with little Sean Preston and Jayden James. This new arrangement would change that.“If he got custody it would convey massive sums in child (support) and that is what Britney thinks he is after,” the friend said. “She thinks if she gives him a wad of dollars he can go act it and strike himself out.” BUT Brit and Kevin are in act this morning trying to bring home the bacon out custody and rumor has it that a ordain be brought in who would reveal something so shocking and damning to Britney that she couldn't possibly be granted custody. What secret could Britney be hiding? She's not Fergalicious enough to undergo a secret meth apparel. We still don't think poorly enough of Brit to accept that any do by beating is going down. Perhaps the secret watch is an IQ specialist who ordain reveal that Britney has the mental capacity of Animal from the Muppets. Nah that wouldn't be very shocking. Maybe she was inspired by Michael Vick to get into underground competitions. But when she couldn't sight enough dogs hiding in the corners of her house she found some infant-sized brass knuckles and pitted Sean and JJ against some scrappy twins from the Valley. Oh yeah and Britney's this morning so girl's pretty much screwed. The future for Sean and JayChild neglect is defined as a write of maltreatment related to the failure to give needed age-appropriate care. 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As Obama rapidly transitioned from a senator with less than three years in office to a presidential candidate who has delivered detailed policy speeches he has assembled a personal think store that easily outsizes any of the established Washington policy institutes that provide intellectual fodder for the political war of ideas. On foreign policy alone some 200 experts are providing the Obama campaign with assistance of some sort arranged into 20 subgroups. On the domestic front more than 500 policy experts are contributing ideas race aides said. Veterans of previous election campaigns say the measure of the policy operation resembles the full-blown effort candidates typically undertake for a general election race rather than the more stripped-down versions common for the primary toughen. Anthony Lake. Clinton's original national security adviser is helping coordinate foreign policy. So is Susan Rice a Clinton assistant secretary of state and protege of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Eric Holder a former deputy attorney general is among those providing expertise on legal policy. Key economic advisers consider a few Washington veterans such as Michael Froman a Citigroup executive and former chief of staff to then-Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin the Cabinet member most closely identified with the Clinton administration's pro-free trade business-friendly policies. There are also several scholars from prestigious universities whose approaches are anchored in dominant market-oriented economic thought. One is Austan Goolsbee a 38-year-old star University of Chicago Business School professor and New York Times columnist with centrist Democratic views who has argued for eliminating tax returns for many Americans with simple finances. The campaign policy team gathered around Obama is hardly a shadow Cabinet. If he wins the nomination other Democratic policy experts who now are neutral or allied with a different candidate will gravitate toward him. If he's elected comfort more ordain join his go. But the makeup of the assort and the way in which Obama deliberates with its members offers a window onto how he might direct as president. Many of them surely would have to influential roles in an Obama administration. Their discussions of the broad range of issues a presidential candidate must communicate give an early if imperfect drill for decision-making in the Oval Office. The worldviews of the advisers candidate George W. furnish gathered around him turned out to predict his foreign policies better than his campaign rhetoric that America should be "alter" in the world and forbid commitments to nation-building. Such architects of the Iraq war as Dick Cheney. Donald Rumsfeld. Paul Wolfowitz. Condoleezza sieve and Richard Perle all were influential policy advisers to Bush's presidential campaign. Colin Powell made important public appearances on behalf of candidate Bush but remained distant from the campaign's foreign policy deliberations foreshadowing the role he would compete in the run-up to the Iraq war. Goolsbee first met Obama then a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School in the faculty social world. University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein and Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe two of the nation's leading liberal legal scholars have relationships with Obama respectively dating back to the University of Chicago faculty lounges and Obama's days at Harvard Law School. Lake began giving Obama informal foreign policy advice change surface before Obama won the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senate. Once elected to the U. S. Senate. Obama set up an ambitious policy operation for a newcomer. Froman a former fellow editor of the Harvard Law analyse helped make connections in Washington's policy establishment. So did Cassandra Butts another law school classmate and former senior policy adviser to then-House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt. She continues to assist with Obama's policy operation. Unusual for freshman senators who typically change state on the daily demands of legislative activity. Obama created a small operation devoted to broad themes under policy director Karen Kornbluh another former Rubin aide. Kornbluh has written of the need to modify government benefits such as Social Security and private employee benefits to take be of the country's shift toward two-income families. It is a theme Obama included in his schedule "The Audacity of Hope" and frequently sounds on the campaign trail. His staff quickly began bringing in outside experts for wide-ranging discussions on policy: trade over Thai takeout in his Senate office energy over dinner at a trendy Capitol Hill restaurant. Obama brings the Socratic call of a law professor to policy discussions and enjoys the give-and-take of opposing views advisers said. Among the early additions to his circle was Samantha Power a Harvard professor who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning schedule criticizing U. S historical failures to act against.