UVa board to consider reinstating ousted president

University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan, center, speaks to the crowd just after she met with the UVA Board of Visitors Monday, June 18, 2012 in Charlottesville, Va. Sullivan's husband Douglas Laycock, right, looks on. University of Virginia faculty leaders on Monday demanded the reinstatement of the school?s president and the resignation of two officials involved in her ouster. Officials gave no sign of complying, but acknowledged they could have handled Teresa Sullivan?s abrupt departure better. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Mark Gormus)

University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan, center, speaks to the crowd just after she met with the UVA Board of Visitors Monday, June 18, 2012 in Charlottesville, Va. Sullivan's husband Douglas Laycock, right, looks on. University of Virginia faculty leaders on Monday demanded the reinstatement of the school?s president and the resignation of two officials involved in her ouster. Officials gave no sign of complying, but acknowledged they could have handled Teresa Sullivan?s abrupt departure better. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Mark Gormus)

Carl P. Zeithaml, dean of the McIntire School of Commerce and recently named interim president of the University of Virginia, answers questions from members of the media during a news conference Wednesday, June 20, 2012, in Charlottesville, Va. Earlier this week Zeithaml was appointed by the Board of Visitors to become the interim president, after the board's ouster of President Teresa Sullivan. (AP Photo/The Daily Progress, Sabrina Schaeffer)

Hundreds gather in front of the Rotunda for a silent vigil in support of the reinstatement of ousted University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan, Wednesday, June 20, 2012. The Faculty Senate continued its efforts to get the Board of Visitors to reinstate the popular Sullivan. (AP Photo/The Daily Progress, Sabrina Schaeffer)

Members of the University of Virginia Faculty Senate Executive Council stand on the steps of the Rotunda, where hundreds gathered for a silent vigil in support of the reinstatement of ousted university President Teresa Sullivan Wednesday, June 20, 2012, in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/The Daily Progress, Sabrina Schaeffer)

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ? The University of Virginia's governing board will consider reinstating President Teresa Sullivan at a meeting next week, even as the leader of the embattled board defended the unpopular ouster that threw the flagship university into turmoil.

The board has announced plans to vote Tuesday on whether to retain Sullivan, the first female president of the prestigious public university founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and renowned today as much for its white-colonnaded pavilions as for turning out top scholars and leaders in all walks.

Ten of the university's 11 school deans, as well as the Faculty Senate, have demanded Sullivan's reinstatement amid wide condemnations of the board's abrupt firing of the popular Sullivan.

Sullivan, a 62-year-old eminent scholar of labor-force demography whose appointment drew national attention in 2010, was forced out during a closed-door session of the Board of Visitors in which no official vote was taken. The June 10 announcement that she would resign blindsided Sullivan and ignited wide outrage and protests.

Those opposed to Sullivan's removal likened the ouster to a coup d'etat that went against the stately Charlottesville university's longstanding principles of honor, respect and transparency. In calling for the board to explain its actions some repeated Jefferson's 1820 pledge that the school should "follow truth wherever it may lead."

For her part, Rector Helen Dragas publicly disclosed Thursday more detailed reasoning behind Sullivan's ouster. A six-page statement said Sullivan wasn't acting quickly enough to address financial pressures facing higher education, the role of online learning, changes in the health care environment, the increased student-faculty ratio, fundraising, and other strategic challenges. The university lacks long-range plans on several of those fronts, it added.

"No matter how you feel about our actions, these challenges represent some very high hurdles that stand in the way of our university's path to continued success in the coming decade, and they are going to remain front and center for the next board and the next president over the coming years," the statement said.

In comments to the panel earlier this week, Sullivan defended her performance since taking office in August 2010, outlining aspects of her strategy of measured change, including implementing a new budgeting model that decentralizes financial planning.

Sullivan admitted to being an incrementalist, according to remarks released after her appearance at Monday's closed session: "Sweeping action may be gratifying and may create the aura of strong leadership, but its unintended consequences may lead to costs that are too high to bear."

"Corporate-style, top-down leadership does not work in a great university," she said.

But Dragas said U.Va. needs "the rapid development of a plan that includes goals, costs, sources of funds, timelines and individual accountability."

She did acknowledge that the board mishandled Sullivan's removal, and apologized. "In my view we did the right thing, the wrong way," Dragas said.

A majority of the 15-member board would have to approve the reinstatement for Sullivan to remain in office. Messages left for the 14 other board members, as well as for the law firm representing Sullivan, weren't returned Thursday.

On Thursday the 10 deans asked the board to retain the popular Sullivan, who took office in August 2010 after serving as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan, another top public university.

A gathering outside the historic Rotunda on Monday drew a sea of 2,000 Sullivan supporters who decried her ouster and loudly cheered and serenaded her with U.Va.'s anthem, "The Good Ole Song." She waded into the crowd, all smiles, as admirers snapped photos of her.

The deans said in a letter Thursday to the board that they think the board acted out of the school's best interests but that removing Sullivan and installing an interim president would delay action on the university's pressing fiscal concerns and other needed change.

"We recommend strongly that discussions begin immediately to reset the relationship with President Sullivan, reconstitute the team she had put together over the past year, and accelerate the important decisions to be made," the letter said.

The deans didn't ask McIntire School of Commerce Dean Carl P. Zeithaml to sign their letter because they didn't want to put him in a difficult position. After a marathon session, the board on Tuesday named Zeithaml the interim president to take over after Sullivan's departure.

A glimpse of the roles that Rector Helen Dragas and Vice Rector Mark Kington played in the ouster of Sullivan was detailed in emails between the two top board members in the weeks leading to the June 10 announcement. They exchanged links to articles about online learning, hospital mergers and other issues that surfaced in the reasoning behind Sullivan's removal.

Kington resigned Tuesday, stating it was "the right thing to do and I hope that it will begin a needed healing process at the university."

And Thursday, Sullivan urged that those angered by her ouster cab engage in vigorous debate yet remain civil.

"I know that emotions are running high ... but there is no excuse for abusing anyone with whom you disagree," Sullivan said in a statement.

She also said that the spray-painting of "G-R-E-E-E-D" on six columns of U.Va.'s stately Rotunda early Monday "goes beyond free speech into vandalism."

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Zinie Chen Sampson can be reached on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/zinie

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Microsoft brings true, background multitasking to Windows Phone 8

Well, Microsoft has officially left Apple as the only player in the Mobile field to not support real multitasking. With the next version of Windows Phone, background multitasking will be opened up to all devs, thanks to libraries provided directly by Redmond. During today's presentation two different background tasks were demoed, VoIP and location. The VoIP integration allows users to have calls come in, preferably via Skype if Microsoft has its way, without having the app running in the foreground and have them appear the same as a standard phone call. While watching for incoming calls is nice, a more commonly used feature is location monitoring. Now apps will be able to monitor location in the background while you perform other tasks. One by one, Microsoft is checking off boxes on our list of complaints about Windows Phone.

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The New Age Thinking regarding the use of affirmations can be somewhat frivolous. The idea that you can simply think about or affirm what you want and then get it is decidedly absurd. Yet, there is no doubt that thinking is a formative force in the materialization and fabrication of our world view and the conditioned circumstances in which we exist. How we view the world, and ourselves, as we are in and of the world, determines how we act which in turn results in effects. Our current situation?all the conditions of our present life and the various contexts in which we find ourselves, is a direct result of our past, specifically how we have used language in describing ourselves, our capacities, abilities and goals all of which is a precursor for behavior which, again, is causative meaning it brings about effects.

Language is not only our tool for communication. It is also our tool for thought. We think in words as well as mental pictures. But, language is a rather crude instrument. In English, with a mere 26 letters, we codify and represent all our experience?and communicate that experience, as best we can, with language. How can 26 letters encompass not just decades but ages upon ages of experience?

Language is tricky?it?s not always easy to understand the true meaning of a word or phrase. For example ?love? has many different shades of meaning. When we say we love that new restaurant down the street, is that the same as when we say we love our mother? And when we are told that we should love ourselves, what kind of love do we apply? The kind of love we have towards our pet? Our sibling? One of the most common New Age Affirmations is something along the lines of ?I love myself.? What does that mean? Really? Do we love ourselves the way we love our spouse? The way we love our neighbor? We don?t do those very well, so how could we possible love ourselves any better?

Because thought, which uses language, is a formative force. Affirmations are important. What we say to ourselves, and how we say it, does have an impact upon our mind, our body and our behavior?which, being causative, brings about effects. It behooves us to consider the positive and accurate use of affirmations as part of mental health hygiene. Just as you brush your teeth twice a day, so taking a few minutes to use language and thought in such a purposeful way that the mind is imprinted with positive impressions, is healthy. And, just as toothbrushes come in different styles and choosing one that works well is a consideration, so too designing an effective and accurate affirmation takes some meditation.

There are some basic guidelines to the proper use of affirmations: relatively short, first person singular, realistic, and yet not necessarily a present reality, vividness and kinaesthetic intensity, which is feeling. An affirmation is generally no longer than a few sentences and mostly just one simple sentence. The most common beginning of the sentence is ?I am? and this is actually a very good affirmation to start with. After you brush your teeth, look in the mirror and say to yourself ?I am.? After you?ve done that for a couple of months consistently, you can add on to it. For example, ?I Am Healthy.? Of course, exactly what ?healthy? consists of is not detailed, nor should it be. The word ?healthy? is associated with dozens, if not hundreds, of other words, phrases, images and feelings. It?s those associations that gives that word its meanings. As you say ?I am healthy? the subconscious mind automatically conjures images of what that means. As you repeat that affirmation as if it is a mantra, the images and feelings become intensified. But, you ask, what if I am not healthy, as many people in fact are not. You can still affirm this statement. It is not a hope or a want, it can be a statement of fact?even though it may currently be a lie.

Many of the beliefs and world views we hold today were built up through repetitive use of affirmations?simple sentences?which were, at the time, untruths. But, having repeated them so often, in first person singular, with vividness and feeling, these simple statements which were not at the time realities, became so. For example, a child growing up and learning language might imitate their parent who might often say ?I?m such a klutz.? The child begins to imitatively repeat this affirmation and, although not a reality at the time, can easily become one.

To affirm something in the present which is not currently a reality is not a lie. It is simply a conflict. The subjective reality of the affirmative statement, coupled with vividness and feeling, is in conflict with the objective reality of consensual agreement. As the new affirmative statements are repeated the conflict increases. During this period of conflict there may be very strong thoughts attempting to convince one that the objective consensual reality is ?the truth.? By continuing on with daily affirmative statements the creative subconscious mind begins to work towards conflict resolution. One of the two ?realities? must be dissolved. There is tremendous force and momentum behind the objective consensual reality. Yet with simple persistence, the new subjective affirmative reality which was in conflict with the objective consensual reality begins to take dominance. The objective consensual reality?s basis, which is nothing other than established internal, subjective, affirmative statements becomes less rigid?it begins to crack. It becomes subordinate, and diminishes, and eventually dissolves away. Objective indications of the new affirmative position begins to be noticed in the world of consensual agreement?a new personal reality begins to emerge which is also substantiated by growing objective consensual agreements.

So, you may currently be very unhealthy. That does not matter. You can still affirm ?I Am Healthy.? Be warned however, that as the weeks and months pass, as the conflict between the objective consensual reality and the newly forming subjective affirmative statements increases, there may be tendencies to prove to yourself that you are unhealthy. These tendencies need not be acted upon and, like storm moving through the region, they too pass; and then you may find yourself engaging in behaviors which are more aligned with the newly forming subjective reality of being healthy. What these new behaviors are will vary from individual to individual. There is no prescription as to diet, exercise, etc. The behaviors arise from the subconscious mind which is now accepting the newly forming reality. Although some may argue that you must affirm specifics, this writer believes the more generic, the greater the chance of allowing the creative subconscious mind to organize and formulate the necessary components of that reality without undue influence from the conditioned conscious mind.

There are a number of simple, generic affirmations that can be practiced. For example, ?I am competent,? ?I am efficient,? I am relaxed,? are some very simple affirmative statements that if practiced regularly can impact the subconscious mind in such a way as to bring about behaviors that are in alignment with that affirmation. Here is a longer affirmation that can be useful to repeat upon awakening in the morning and upon retiring in the evening: ?I am a unique person, wonderful in many ways. I am gifted with the freedom to make choices and the means to act. I live in a world of possibilities and respond with intelligence. I am alert to what is happening around me. I can communicate. I am able to reason and I can learn. I will often remember?I am a unique person, wonderful in many ways.?

Few would argue the formative power of thought. Every single tool in our culture, from a simple hammer to space shuttles was first a thought in the mind. And clearly language plays a critically important role in thinking. Sometimes crafting an appropriate and accurate affirmative statement requires some assistance by a psychological wordsmither. If you would like help in designing an individualized affirmation specific to your personal and private issues, you are welcome to contact me via my website at http://www.openmindcounseling.com . Also, at the bottom of the home page is an invitation to receive a free copy (.pdf file) of James Allen?s timeless self-improvement classic As A Man Thinketh.

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Maybe it really wasn?t Anthony Hargrove?s voice saying, ?Give me my money.?

The video/audio of a comment supposedly made by the former Saints defensive end during the third quarter of the 2009 NFC title game provides further proof of Drew Brees? point (even if it wasn?t articulated the best way possible) that the media has more power than anyone realizes.

The NFL, however, fully realizes.

And the NFL used the power of the media to make millions believe on Monday that Saints defensive Anthony Hargrove said, ?Bobby, give me my money? after being told by assistant head coach Joe Vitt that Vikings quarterback Brett Favre may have suffered a broken leg in the 2009 NFC title game.

The seed was planted and fertilized when a dozen members of the media covering Monday?s appeal hearing received an invitation to witness an encore performance of former prosecutor Mary Jo White?s summary of evidence.? The relevant excerpt from the transcript of the media session contains White?s explanation, comments from NFL Security chief Jeff Miller, comments from NFL spokesman Greg Aiello, and two of the members of the media ? Peter King and Jim Varney.

White initially explained that the video contains Hargrove?s ?voice and picture.?? After the video was shown once to the members of the media, Aiello suggested that the media pay attention to Hargrove winking and smiling after hearing that Favre broke his leg.? White later claims that Hargrove ?smiles and winks and states, ?Bobby, pay me my money.??

Varney asks White, ?How do you know it?s Hargrove?s voice??

White, perhaps not recognizing in that moment the ironic link to a very common lawyer joke, says, ?Because you can see his lips moving.?

But here?s the problem, and I didn?t notice this the first time I saw the video.?

When Hargrove?s lips can be seen moving, his voice can?t be heard.

Only after Hargrove?s face is fully obscured by the head and shoulders of defensive tackle Remi Ayodele are the words ?give me my money? audible.

No one has questioned this because the media present at the session was told ? and in turn told the rest of us ? that Hargrove said, ?Bobby, give me my money.?? Even Peter King, who seemed curious and a bit skeptical in the transcript, affirmatively stated twice in his article following the media session that Hargrove said what the NFL claims he said.

Watch the video.? When Hargrove?s lips are moving, no corresponding voice can be heard.? So if his voice wasn?t picked up by the NFL Films microphones when we could see his lips moving, how can we suddenly hear him say, ?Bobby, give my me money? after his lips and head and mouth are obstructed?

Also, don?t forget that Hargrove didn?t apply the hit that resulted in Favre possibly having a broken leg.? Instead, Favre had been hit low by McCray and high by Ayodele.? So why would Hargrove be asking for any money at all?

None of this changes the fact that, barring evidence that the phrase was added artificially after the fact (I?m not saying it was . . . yet), someone said ?give me my money.?? Which supports the conclusion that there was a bounty on Favre.

But I don?t believe the video shown by the league to the media shows that Hargrove said it.? And I can?t believe that the NFL presumes conclusively that he said it.? And I can?t believe the NFL sold it as fact to the media.? And I can?t believe the media swallowed the hook.

And I can?t believe I didn?t pay close enough attention to figure it out before today.

And given Hargrove?s passionate denial that it?s his voice, I believe him.

This serious flaw in the presentation of the evidence necessarily undermines the league?s entire investigation, further reinforcing the importance of asking tough questions about the proof, the process, and all other aspects of the case.? Regardless of whether the players are guilty or innocent, the NFL has peddled to the public, via the media, a stream of inconsistencies, mischaracterizations, and embellishments that raise legitimate concerns about the competence and/or the motives of everyone whose fingerprints are on the file.

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Parties jockey on healthcare ahead of court ruling

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Eric Cantor pulls no punches about what Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives will do to "Obamacare" if the Supreme Court leaves any of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law intact.

"We're going to take a bill to the floor that calls for the total repeal of Obamacare," the House majority leader said in a nationally televised press conference this month.

Why? "So that we can start over and we can tell the American people: we're on your side," the Virginia Republican explained. "We care about your health care, we want quality care and affordable prices for as many Americans that are there looking for that to happen."

What might sound like music to some voters' ears is also part of the political dance that Republicans and Democrats have started as they await a landmark ruling on the 2010 healthcare reform from the Supreme Court within the next two weeks.

In an election year, the political stakes are high on an issue which, many polls show, has divided the nation.

How the court's decision is framed politically, whether by the Democrats and Obama or the Republicans and their presumptive nominee Mitt Romney, could sway wavering independent voters that each side probably needs to win the November 6 election.

Obama and Democrats might stand to gain electorally from the ruling even if it overturns part of his landmark policy achievement.

But up to now, Republicans have dominated the political message on healthcare with calls to "repeal and replace" the law, condemned by conservatives as a government intrusion into the lives of private citizens that will only waste taxpayer money and drive healthcare costs higher.

The repeal vow seems to be resonating among voters angered by a provision known as the individual mandate, which would require most Americans to obtain health coverage by 2014.

After about a year when polls showed Americans pretty evenly divided on healthcare, surveys may have begun to sway the Republicans' way. A recent CBS News/New York Times poll showed nearly 68 percent want at least some of the law overturned.

Given that, congressional Republicans including Cantor are unlikely to wander far from the repeal message. Some worry that the attack strategy could suffer if the party tried to forge a detailed plan of their own, an effort that could also show disunity within Republican ranks.

Senior Republican House aides say between now and Election Day, leadership will focus on expressing support for general "principles", their basic ideas for replacing Obama's reform.

"I would expect that you'd see that the day the Supreme Court announces its decision," said Senator John Barrasso, a physician who chairs the Senate Republican Policy Committee.

Republican plans include purchase of insurance across state lines, creation of new insurance pools by civic organizations and other groups, insurance portability for people who change jobs, limiting malpractice lawsuits and wellness incentives.

Romney himself, in a tight battle with Obama for the White House, has provided little more than general outlines for a "consumer market" healthcare system.

After 26 U.S. states and an independent business group asked the high court to overturn the law, the justices have three basic choices: uphold it, strike down selected provisions or overturn the entire legislation.

OBAMA'S MESSAGE

Legal experts say the court is least likely to kill the whole law, an outcome that would damage Obama and strongly reinforce Republicans' claims that the lengthy 2009 healthcare reform debate was a costly distraction from the more important priorities of the economy and jobs.

Striking down the whole law could help Obama energize his base of voters. But the effect would likely be less favorable on independent voters, who could be swayed by Republican counter-claims that such a court ruling proves Obama's policies wrong.

"Democrats would not be able to resist the temptation to attack the court as an instrument of a conservative effort to undo not just the Obama administration but 75 years of American history dating back to the New Deal," said William Galston of the Brookings Institution.

A ruling that upholds the law would make Obama and the Democrats uncontested winners by sweeping away allegations that the law is unconstitutional and potentially undermining the credibility of Republican attacks in the minds of voters.

It would also give Obama a stronger hand against Romney, who oversaw a similar state reform law as governor of Massachusetts but who has denied that the same plan can work nationwide.

Analysts say the court could also help Obama if it were to strike down only the individual mandate. Its disappearance would make coverage for some uninsured people more expensive. But politically, it could protect the president and his party from the sharpest Republican attacks by removing the feature that voters find most objectionable.

"There'd be a problem for Republicans, because the ?boogey man' would be gone," said one Democratic adviser.

REPUBLICANS AND INSURERS

Democrats are already seeking to cast Republican calls for repeal of the healthcare law as a partisan defense of an insurance industry with campaign donations that favor Republicans over Democrats by a 2-to-1 margin, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign contributions.

Republican lawmakers and senior aides say they could be ready to put forward "remedial" legislation to allow millions of people already receiving benefits to continue for a time.

Those could include 60,000 people with preexisting conditions now covered by a reform program, senior citizens who receive help paying for prescription drugs and young adults allowed to stay on their parents' plan through age 26.

"Those kinds of things, if they're to be affected, ought to be affected in a way that makes for a smooth transition for people," said Rep. Tom Price, a Georgia Republican and physician who heads the House Republican Policy Committee.

But Republicans would have difficulty extending those advantages to the general populace because of opposition from conservatives including Tea Party members who reject any suggestion of adopting provisions of "Obamacare."

Three leading health insurers - UnitedHealth Group Inc, Humana Inc and Aetna Inc - have decided to retain some of the Affordable Care Act's more popular provisions including low-cost preventive services and a measure allowing adult children to remain on their parent's health plans through the age of 26.

But Republicans would still have to address protections for those with preexisting conditions.

In a filing, the administration has advised the court to strike down popular protections including the one for preexisting conditions if justices do away with the individual mandate. That is because without a mandate to require younger healthier people to buy insurers, companies could face financial risks from large numbers of sicker, older consumers.

Some Republican aides said that fixing the law would be responsibility Democrats, who crafted the legislation and control both the White House and Senate.

But the preexisting conditions protection is extremely popular with voters, favored by 85 percent of Americans, according to CBS and the New York Times.

Conservatives who object to adopting the protection for all with preexisting conditions say Republican leaders have already assured them that any action would be done narrowly for an estimated 60,000 people already receiving coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

"They went out of their way to tell us that they were completely committed to full repeal," said Dean Clancy, vice president for healthcare at grassroots lobby group FreedomWorks, which has been a driving force behind the Tea Party movement.

(Editing by Alistair Bell and Eric Walsh)

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Ronan Farrow Disses Father Woody Allen on Twitter

Woody Allen might be in the news for defending Lindsay Lohan's acting talent, but there's one person you won't find defending him: son Ronan Farrow. The only biological child of Allen and former partner Mia Farrow, 24-year-old Ronan had a scathingly sarcastic message for his estranged dad on Father's Day.

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