Emperors of Rome: Episode XXIV Cicero

Cicero was a self-made man who rose through the ranks of the Roman senate on the strength of his oration. This episode of Emperors of Rome looks at his life, his career and philosophy.
April 16, 2015 at 3:53 AM
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Peggy Noonan, Two Fierce Americas

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Emperors of Rome: Episode XXII What An Artist Dies in Rome

Nero always seemed more interested in a playboy lifestyle than managing Rome, and this angered the people of Rome, the Senate and the military.
March 23, 2015 at 1:37 AM
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Ian Hunter, ATYD, Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame Closing

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Emperors of Rome: Episode XXI The Great Fire of 64 C.E.

Nero’s biggest test as an Emperor came when a great fire tore through Rome in 64AD. What caused this fire and how Nero acted and reacted is a debate that academics continue to this day.
March 16, 2015 at 12:51 AM
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World War II Lesson Plans

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History of Philosophy Without Gaps: Scotus

Peter hears about Duns Scotus’ epistemology from expert Giorgio Pini.
November 6, 2016 at 1:00 AM
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New Books in Politics & Sociey: Harcourt

The landscape described in Bernard Harcourt‘s new book is a dystopia saturated by pleasure. We do not live in a drab Orwellian world, he writes. We live in a beautiful, colorful, stimulating, digital world a rich, bright world full…
May 17, 2016 at 7:02 AM
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Judicial Watch on Mueller Attempt at a Coup

Web Version  |  Unsubscribe   Judicial Watch Statement on Mueller Report (Washington, DC) — Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement in response to the Muller special counsel report summary made public by Attorney General Barr today: The long, national nightmare is over and President Trump has been vindicated. The corruptly-created and constitutionally abusive Mueller investigation failed to find any evidence to support the big lie that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government. We’re pleased that AG Barr rejected Mueller’s attempt to smear President Trump with obstruction of justice innuendo by concluding that no such charges could be credibly sustained. Frankly, Mueller never had a valid basis upon which to investigate President Trump for obstruction of justice. Let’s be clear, neither Mueller, the Obama FBI, DOJ, CIA, State Department, nor the Deep State ever had a good-faith basis to pursue President Trump on Russia collusion. Russia collusion wasn’t just a hoax, it is a criminal abuse, which is why Judicial Watch has fought and will continue to fight for Russiagate documents in federal court. The targeting of President Trump served to protect Hillary Clinton and her enablers/co-conspirators in Obama administration from prosecution. Attorney General Barr can begin restoring the credibility of the Justice Department by finally initiating a thorough investigation of the Clinton emails and related pay-to-play scandals and the abuses behind the targeting of President Trump. Judicial Watch has long called for the shutdown of the Mueller special counsel operation and has pursued dozens of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits into the illicit targeting and other abuses of President Trump. Judicial Watch FOIA litigation exposed, for example:   The dossier-based Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant applications targeting President Trump   FBI payments to Christopher Steele   FBI firing of Steele   Extensive DOJ (Ohr) collusion w/Steele, Simpson, Fusion GPS   No court hearings by defrauded FISA courts before warrants were issued   Anti-Trump bias by Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann   ###   Manage Email Subscriptions | Unsubscribe Judicial Watch, Inc. 425 3rd St Sw Ste 800 Washington, DC 20024 Judicial Watch is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Contributions are received from individuals, foundations, and corporations and are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. judicialwatch.org

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society: Modern Science

The social practice we call science has had spectacular success in explaining the natural world since the 17th century. While advanced mathematics and other precursors of modern science were not unique to Europe, it was there that Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, and others came up with theories that got modern physics and chemistry off the ground. In his latest book, Wondrous Truths: The Improbable Triumph of Modern Science (Oxford University Press, 2016), J.D. Trout mounts a spirited defense of the claim that the best explanation of the rise of science in 17th Century Europe is that Newton and others got lucky; among other serendipitous factors, they happened to come up with versions of preexisting ideas that were just right enough to explain just enough of the world, and that was enough to get the ball rolling.

Trout, who is Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at Loyola University in Chicago, defends the scientific realist view that scientific theories are successful because they are by and large true, not just predictively accurate. He also sharply distinguishes the psychology of explanation–the Aha! feeling of understanding–from the truth of an explanation. On his ontic view of explanation, we can experience being satisfied with bad (false) explanations, and there are true theories we may never understand.
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October 15, 2016 at 6:00 AM
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New Books in Religion and Society: Hinduism, Pariah Problem

The so called “Pariah Problem” emerged in public consciousness in the 1890s in India as state officials, missionaries and “upper”caste landlords, among others, struggled to understood the situation of Dalits (those subordinated populations once called untouchables). In The Pariah Problem: …
November 2, 2016 at 6:00 AM
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Religions of the Ancient Middle East: Paul

This inaugural episode in series 1 (Paul and his communities) uses incidental autobiographical references in Paul’s letters as an avenue into the study of Paul, his letters, and early Christian groups (approx. 27 minutes).
Podcast 1.1: Paul in his own words (mp3; archive.org page with various downloading options here).
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October 5, 2007 at 3:56 PM
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Emperors of Rome: Episode I Early Years of Julius Caesar

How do Caesar’s formative years shape his decisions in years to come and impact on the Roman Empire?

Dr Rhiannon Evans (Ancient Mediterranean Studies, La Trobe University) and host Matt Smith discuss what we know about Caesar’s early life, his entry into the military and his encounter with pirates.
March 28, 2014 at 12:15 AM
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Emperors of Rome: Q&A

We put out a call to the audience for questions and you responded! Here are our answers.
March 12, 2015 at 1:59 AM
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Soul Science

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Emperors of Rome: Episode XX Aggripina the Younger

Agrippina the Younger was well connected in Rome - the sister of emperor Caligula, the wife of Claudius and the mother of Nero, she was at the centre of power for many years - and some say she held it herself.
March 8, 2015 at 8:06 PM
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Christchurch Jihadi Islamist Mosque

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Philadelphia Mosque Child Marriages

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Democratic Socialism

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Learning Methodology Wars: ADDIE vs. SAM vs. AGILE

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How New Zealand Mosque Exploited

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Best Websites for Free Online Content

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BBC4 In Our Time, Religion: The Salem Witch Trials

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the outbreak of witch trials in Massachusetts in 1692-3, centred on Salem, which led to the execution of twenty people, with more dying in prison before or after trial. Some were men, including Giles Corey who died after being pressed with heavy rocks, but the majority were women. At its peak, around 150 people were suspected of witchcraft, including the wife of the governor who had established the trials. Many of the claims of witchcraft arose from personal rivalries in an area known for unrest, but were examined and upheld by the courts at a time of mass hysteria, belief in the devil, fear of attack by Native Americans and religious divisions.

With

Susan Castillo-Street
Harriet Beecher Stowe Professor Emerita of American Studies at King's College London

Simon Middleton
Senior Lecturer in American History at the University of Sheffield

And

Marion Gibson
Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures at Exeter University, Penryn Campus.

Producer: Simon Tillotson.
November 26, 2015 at 6:35 AM
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Informational Interviews

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Obama Collusion with Clinton

In newly released transcripts, FBI witnesses assert that Obama’s Department of Justice deliberately refused to prosecute any crime against Hillary Clinton. The Washington Examiner reports:

Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page testified last year that officials in the bureau, including then-FBI Director James Comey, discussed Espionage Act charges against Hillary Clinton, citing “gross negligence,” but the Justice Department shut them down.
Newly released transcripts from Page’s private testimony in front of a joint task force of the House Judiciary and Oversight committees in July 2018 sheds new light on the internal discussions about an investigation into Clinton’s emails. This goes back to the FBI’s “Midyear Exam” investigation, which looked into whether Clinton committed crimes when she sent and received classified information on her unauthorized private email server while serving as secretary of state.

Comey cleared Clinton of all charges in a press conference on July 5, 2016.
Page told the committee that the FBI “did not blow over gross negligence.” Responding to a question from Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, Page testified the FBI, including Comey, believed Clinton may have committed gross negligence. “We, in fact — and, in fact, the Director — because, on its face, it did seem like, well, maybe there’s a potential here for this to be the charge. And we had multiple conversations, multiple conversations with the Justice Department about charging gross negligence,” she said.

Beyond instigating the Russian collusion falsehood, Obama’s DOJ is now implicated in deliberate corruption to protect one of their own. Will justice be served?

Recycling

You may know that recycling is a widespread practice in Germany, but how exactly does it work? Mechthild Stein tells us what type of garbage goes in which bin, and also explains how different types of garbage are dealt with in Heidelberg.
April 24, 2016 at 12:00 AM
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Prepositions

Yabla's own Diane reviews which prepositions are used when, and what case they require of the noun that follows.
April 19, 2016 at 12:00 AM
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Fire Equipment Part 2

Volunteer firefighter Michael Morano shows us the equipment the fire department in Heidelberg uses to save car crash victims trapped in their vehicles.
April 3, 2016 at 12:00 AM
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Fire Equipment

Volunteer firefighter Michael Morano describes the structure of the fire department in the city of Heidelberg and shows us the equipment on board a fire engine. He then discusses the advancements in technology that help put out fires quickly and efficiently.
March 21, 2016 at 12:00 AM
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Apple Pancakes

Alina and Sabine show us how to make apple pancakes — German style!
March 13, 2016 at 12:00 AM
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Emperors of Rome: Episode XIX - Nero the Youngest Emperor

At the age of 17, Nero is the youngest Emperor yet. Through influence and guidance he takes Rome through what is called ‘five good years’, but it isn’t going to last.
March 1, 2015 at 8:30 PM
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Emperors of Rome: Episode XVIII - The Life of Claudius

Claudius brings his own style to the emperor which makes him enemies in both his family and the senate.
February 16, 2015 at 3:14 AM
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Emperors of Rome: Episode XVII Claudius Conquers Britainnia

The new emperor Claudius has a strong grounding as a scholar, but little experience as a soldier. He turns his attention to a land that has remained virtually untouched since Caesar's time: Britannia.
February 9, 2015 at 12:07 AM
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Emperors of Rome: Episode XVI Claudius the Unlikely Emperor

With Caligula's brief rule leaving the Julio-Claudians in a sorry state, there isn't much of the imperial family left to become emperor. The title goes to his uncle Claudius mostly be default.
February 2, 2015 at 1:54 AM
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TargetX, NACAC

Brian interviews Jeff Kallay, Co-Founder and Principal of Render Experiences and Derek Luther, Regional Vice President at TargetX on the Exhibit Hall Floor at the 72nd Annual NACAC Conference in Columbus, Ohio.
For more information about Render Experiences, visit http://www.renderexperiences.com.
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For Eric Hoover's article "The People Who Deliver Your Students" visit http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-People-Who-Deliver-Your/237819
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For more information about Dave Evans, Senior Admissions Representative at Harvard University, visit http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/10/17/from-sharecroppers-son-to-colleges-gatekeeper/
And finally, to get Brian's curated higher education news every day, visit http://www.targetx.com/industry
September 28, 2016 at 12:00 PM
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TargetX, Chegg

Brian talks with Gil Rogers, the Director of Enrollment Marketing at Chegg. We talk about admissions technology, the Social Admissions Report co-developed by Chegg and TargetX, and how colleges who may not have a household name can break out and become recognized and considered for enrollment.
To download the Chegg/TargetX Social Admissions Report, go to http://edu.chegg.com/downloads
September 21, 2016 at 12:00 PM
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TargetX, Embry Riddle

Brian talks with Bryan Dougherty, the Dean of Enrollment Management at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. We focus on the importance of student engagement from acceptance through to enrollment - or "yield" as it's called in higher ed.  Bryan shares how Embry-Riddle utilizes the SchoolsApp mobile platform to give these students the means of connecting with each other and with the institution.
To read more client success stories, visit http://www.targetx.com/casestudies
September 14, 2016 at 12:00 PM
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TargetX, University of Texas, San Antonio

Brian talks with Oscar Ferreiro about how he’s been able to automate various processes to help make the recruiting and admissions effort at UTSA more efficient. Brian also discusses the need to review business processes now that colleges have access to new, innovative technologies.
To learn more about TargetX's new Enrollment Process Consulting services, contact TargetX at sales@targetx.com. If you need assistance in assessing, redesigning and even coaching through all of the changes needed to be successful today, TargetX can help.  With new enrollment business process consulting services by TargetX, we can help you align your goals with your people and process with your technology more effectively than ever before.
If you’d like to learn more about the exciting change happening at other colleges across the country, you can download a variety of case studies, on the TargetX website at targetx.com/casestudies.
September 7, 2016 at 12:00 PM
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Conservatives, Republican Party, and Trump

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TargetX, Community College

Brian interviews two experts in the community college market, Fran Cubberley, Vice President of Enrollment Management at Delaware County Community College and Mickey Baines from Fourth Dimension Partners, specialist in adult-focused programs.
To register for an upcoming webinar provided by TargetX, visit targetx.com/webinars where you can also view previously recorded online events as well.
For more information on the 4 Disciplines of Execution mentioned in this podcast, visit the4disciplinesofexecution.com
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October 26, 2016 at 6:09 PM
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Brian Niles, TargetX

Brian interviews long-time higher education administrator, Jim Hundrieser, the Associate Managing Principal at the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. Jim's association helps colleges build stronger and more diversified business models, identify revenue opportunities, review current practices to streamline operations and embed these opportunities into institutional strategic plans. Jim also gives us the motivation to track our gratitude daily with an added twist.
If you’d like to learn more about the exciting change happening at other colleges across the country, you can download a variety of case studies, on the TargetX website at targetx.com/casestudies.
Also register for an upcoming webinar at targetx.com/webinars.
And make sure you like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Just search for TargetX on your favorite social network. Thank you again for joining us this week on the Add Drop podcast.
October 19, 2016 at 12:00 PM
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Is Harvard Racist?

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Harvard University’s admissions policy is proof that one can remember negative history, write about it in great and vivid detail, and still be doomed to repeat it. In the name of “affirmative action” and “diversity,” Harvard is doing to Asian-American applicants exactly what it once did to Jewish applicants: discriminate. Lee Cheng explains.

Can you imagine, in this day and age, an educational institution discriminating against a racial minority? Can you imagine what the outcry would be?

"You mean, you're preventing these qualified students from attending your college because of the color of their skin?!"

Well, you don't have to imagine it. It's happening. And at arguably the most prestigious college in America--my alma mater, Harvard.

The ethnic minority isn't blacks or Jews, as it was in years past. The target this time is Asian Americans.

And it's just as wrong.

After millions of dollars in legal fees, millions of records examined, and hundreds of hours of depositions and testimony, Harvard's once purposely opaque admissions policies have been laid bare.

It's not a pretty picture.

Here's what we now know:

Harvard Admissions rates student applicants in three main ways: 1) Academic performance; 2) Extra-curricular achievements; 3) "Personal qualities." That's fine, as far as it goes, if the criteria were applied fairly. But they're not.

Asian American applicants consistently score higher in the first two criteria--academics and extra-curricular activities, which can be objectively assessed--than white students, Latinos and African Americans.

So how does Harvard justify its Asian American quota? With the help of category three--"personal qualities," which include vague and largely subjective factors like "likability," "maturity," "integrity," and "effervescence."

According to Harvard's own internal reports, Asian American applicants are routinely and systematically marked much lower on this personality scale by Harvard admissions officers who almost never meet or interview applicants. But here's the kicker: the personality ratings given to Asian students by admissions officers are vastly different than the personality ratings Harvard gets from its own alumni interviewers, who actually meet the applicants in person. Alumni interviewers score Asian applicants as high as whites.

In other words, Harvard artificially and fraudulently downgrades Asians on "personality" to get the results it wants. And what Harvard wants is to suppress the number of Asian Americans admitted.
Based on the data that Harvard was forced to turn over, economist Peter Arcidiacono of Duke University concluded that with the same application profile in terms of test scores, extracurricular activities and personality factors, an Asian American male applicant would only have a 25% chance of admission--versus 32% if white, 77% if Hispanic, and 95% if black.

What's the real-life result of all this?

In 2013, Asian Americans made up 19% of the incoming freshmen class. According to Harvard's own Office of Institutional Research, if the personality factors had not been rigged, that percentage would have been 43%.

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 guarantees that "No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color or national origin, be excluded from participation in, or be denied benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."
Each year, Harvard takes hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government.

In Grutter v. Bollinger, the Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action policies, deciding that race could be used as a "plus factor" to achieve diversity, but never as a quota. Yet, by placing strict limits on the percentage of Asian American applicants it will admit, racial quotas are exactly what Harvard is using.

One strongly suspects this quota system isn't limited to Harvard. In the last ten years, Asian American students have been limited to an 18-22% presence across the Ivy League. Or maybe that's just a coincidence.

Writing for the majority in Grutter v. Bollinger in 2003, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the Court "expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today."

With less than a decade to go, the Ivy League shows no indication that it's giving up on those racial preferences. Instead, these colleges have doubled down. Objective standards regarding admissions continue to be increasingly disfavored as the illegal goal of racial balancing is advanced. This racial balancing is justified by the left's desire to achieve "racial diversity"--its insistence on seeing every person only through the prism of race, as if the most important thing any of us has to offer is the color of our skin.

Not long ago, that was called "racism." It's still called racism.

It needs to end, once and for all--for the sake of deserving Asian American students, for the sake of Harvard's own integrity, and for the sake of the American principle that the rules must be the same for everyone.

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts said it best: "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."

It's time we did just that. I'm Lee Cheng, of the Asian American Legal Foundation, for Prager University.

 Which of the following areas are Asian American applicants to Harvard routinely marked down on?

Academic performance

5. Extra-curricular achievements

   Personal qualities
6. Family wealth

7. Asian American students have been limited to a ______ presence across the Ivy League.
5%-9%
12%-16%
18%-22%
8. 30%-34%

9. Harvard admissions officers almost always meet and interview applicants in person.
True
10. False

11. Objective standards regarding admissions continue to be __________________.
increasingly disfavored
increasingly favored
raised
12. lowered

13. “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to _____________________.”
love everyone
create racial quotas for businesses and schools
level the playing field
stop discriminating on the basis of race

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References

• Ryan, R. M., & Deci, E. L. (2000). Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being. American Psychologist, 55, 68–78. Retrieved from http://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.55.1.68

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