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Schmidt Meister Posted March 1 Author Share Posted March 1 This seems like a clear case of false advertising ... it clearly states right in the name "webuyANYcar" ... amiright? 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmidt Meister Posted March 1 Author Share Posted March 1 We could talk about the weird fish, which I've never seen before and just found out is a 'Lumpsucker' that lives in the freezing waters of the Arctic, North Atlantic, and North Pacific Oceans. But I feel like I have to mention that the Popeye tattoo couldn't have worked out any better than this. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAKA Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 16 hours ago, Schmidt Meister said: Facebook pulled up one of my memories from the middle of 2023. - LOL BREAKING: After reviewing tapes and tabulating total wiener consumption, Joey Chestnut’s recent title of Nathan’s 4th of July Coney Island hot dog Championship has been revoked after it was revealed that later that day, Kamala Harris actually bypassed Chestnuts record of 62 wieners. Kamala finished 7 wieners ahead of Chestnut at the last minute by devouring Joey’s wiener along with two judges wieners and 4 close bystander wieners. It has not been revealed how the contest time period was delayed but clocks were unexplainably paused and restarted later that day. Did you say C L O C K S or C.........never mind 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAKA Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 57 minutes ago, Schmidt Meister said: This seems like a clear case of false advertising ... it clearly states right in the name "webuyANYcar" ... amiright? No sense of HUMOR If I were Mr Jennings, I'd have thanked Mr Jones, had the note framed and put it on my office wall !! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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janice6 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 On 2/29/2024 at 11:51 AM, Schmidt Meister said: It's another long one ... Columbia University Hospital DEI Chief Is Serial Plagiarist, Complaint Alleges. Alade McKen plagiarized PAGES of material from Wikipedia. Aaron Sibarium - February 29, 2024 The chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer of Columbia University's medical school, Alade McKen, plagiarized extensively in his doctoral dissertation, lifting entire pages of material, without attribution, from sources that include Wikipedia, according to a complaint submitted to the university on Wednesday. The allegations implicate approximately a fifth of McKen's 163-page dissertation, "'UBUNTU' I am because we are: A case study examining the experiences of an African-centered Rites of Passage program within a community-based organization," submitted to Iowa State University's School of Education in 2021. More than two of those pages are a near-verbatim facsimile of Wikipedia's entry on "Afrocentric education," which is not cited anywhere in the dissertation. Other pages lift paragraphs from well-known African scholars, including the University of Rwanda's Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu, while making small tweaks to their prose, such as reordering certain clauses or changing a "were" to a "was." Some of the scholars McKen allegedly plagiarized appear in the dissertation's bibliography but not in in-text citations. Others, like Ezeanya-Esiobu, an expert on "indigenous knowledge" who has worked with numerous international agencies, including the World Bank, aren't cited at all. "The passages you shared can definitely be classified as plagiarism," Ezeanya-Esiobu told the Washington Free Beacon. McKen lifts pages worth of material from Ezeanya-Esiobu's 2019 chapter "A Faulty Foundation: Historical Origins of Formal Education Curriculum in Africa," published in the Frontiers in African Business Research book series. Columbia's research integrity officer, Naomi Schrag, did not respond to a request for comment. Iowa State University did not respond to a request for comment. McKen, who holds a certificate in diversity and inclusion from Cornell University, oversees all DEI programs for staff at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, which includes Columbia's flagship medical school, the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and is the largest campus of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. The center's DEI initiatives include mandatory "antiracism" training for faculty and admissions officers, as well as an expedited hiring process for minority scholars. McKen also works with the Columbia provost's office, according to a fall 2023 bulletin announcing his appointment. That office oversees tenure decisions for the entire university, including the medical school. Columbia did not respond to a request for comment about whether McKen has oversight of faculty and doctors. Before arriving at the medical center, McKen was the assistant dean of recruitment, diversity, and inclusion for Columbia's graduate school of architecture. His current role was created in 2021 when the medical center hired Tonya Richards as its inaugural chief diversity officer. The new position came as the university was embarking on an ambitious plan to address "structural racism" in health care, guided by a 100-person task force drawn from Columbia's four medical schools: the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, as well as the schools of nursing, dentistry, and public health. "It is very clear that promotion of diversity or even the presence of diversity is insufficient to counter deeply embedded anti-Black racism," read the task force's 2020 report. "Our self-reflection and actions at this time must be focused on the elimination of racism in all aspects of our work." The complaint against McKen, which was filed anonymously, marks the third time in one month that a diversity administrator at an Ivy League school has been hit with charges of plagiarism. Other complaints have alleged that Harvard Extension School's Title IX coordinator, Shirley Greene, copied paragraphs and tables from other scholars without proper attribution and that Harvard University's chief diversity officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, took credit for an entire study done by her husband. The allegations against both officials followed the downfall of former Harvard president Claudine Gay, who resigned after nearly half her published work was implicated in a plagiarism scandal. McKen's dissertation contains some of the most extreme examples of plagiarism thus far. The 50-page complaint, which was submitted to Iowa State University as well as Columbia, outlines nearly 60 cases in which McKen, who assumed his post at the medical center last year, borrows passages from Africanists, education scholars, and diversity consultants without attribution. One of the plagiarized authors is Kwayera Archer-Cunningham, a "change agent" and "well-being coach" who offers courses on "decoloniality." McKen lifts over five paragraphs from Archer-Cunningham's 2007 journal article "Cultural Arts Education as Community Development: An Innovative Model of Healing and Transformation," in New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education. As with Ezeanya-Esiobu, McKen makes scant changes to the plagiarized text. One passage simply switches the order of two items in a bulleted list while keeping their contents identical, and without citing Archer-Cunningham's paper in parentheses. The passages appear to run afoul of Iowa State University's plagiarism policy, which state that "it is a violation for students to reproduce another person's paper, work or artistry, even with modifications." McKen did not respond to a request for comment. Archer-Cunningham, who founded the Brooklyn-based arts academy on which McKen's dissertation research was based, did not respond to a request for comment. McKen also lifts a jargon-filled passage from LaGarrett King, a scholar of black education at the University of Buffalo who urges the "dismantling" of "white epistemic logic." King is not cited anywhere in the dissertation and did not respond to a request for comment. Another paragraph cribs from a 2002 paper by Michael Adeyemi and Augustus Adeyinka, "Some Key Issues In African Traditional Education," published in the McGill Journal of Education. McKen never cites the 2002 paper, though he does include a different article by Adeyemi and Adeyinka—both scholars at the University of Botswana—in his bibliography. Adeyemi and Adeyinka did not respond to a request for comment. The complaint alleges that McKen plagiarized over 30 authors total, not including Wikipedia. While the allegations only cover his dissertation, McKen has published multiple academic articles, according to his Google Scholar profile, with titles such as "Black Men in Engineering Graduate Education: Experiencing Racial Microaggressions Within the Advisor–Advisee Relationship" and "I Am Because We Are," which explores "how African cultural practices can direct learning toward liberation." In September, McKen outlined his DEI priorities in a news bulletin for the medical center. "Everyone here," he said, "is committed to doing the work." Aaron Sibarium’s Twitter thread on the Alade McKen complaint here: https://twitter.com/aaronsibarium/status/1763192727762509855 The Washington Free Beacon article here: https://freebeacon.com/campus/columbia-university-hospital-dei-chief-is-serial-plagiarist-complaint-alleges/ I think maybe he's committed to COPYING the work. Nothing is as terrible as stealing other peoples ideas and thoughts. This is what makes us unique, each of us has ideas and tries to put those ideas into a reality. When you steal others ideas you have stolen their uniqueness and individuality. This is the worst of things to steal. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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railfancwb Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 On 3/2/2024 at 6:08 AM, Schmidt Meister said: They must be brothers ... Think the one eating is a girl 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmidt Meister Posted March 3 Author Share Posted March 3 4 minutes ago, railfancwb said: Think the one eating is a girl True, most calicos are female. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gwalchmai Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 On 2/21/2024 at 9:12 AM, Schmidt Meister said: The “Peace Sign” was created on February 21, 1958 by British graphic designer and Christian pacifist Gerald Holtom. Holtom was tasked with creating the banners and signs for a nuclear disarmament march in London, and he wanted a visual that would stick in the public’s mind. The peace symbol debuted on April 4, 1958, Easter weekend that year, at a rally of the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War, which included a march from London to Aldermaston. The marchers carried 500 of Holtom's peace symbols on sticks, with half of the signs black on a white background and the other half white on a green background. In Britain, the symbol became the emblem for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, thus causing the design to become synonymous with that Cold War cause. Holtom was a conscientious objector during World War II and thus a likely supporter of its message. The design is, in part, modeled after naval semaphore flags that sailors use to communicate. Holtom combined the codes for “N” (two flags angled down at 45 degrees) for “nuclear” and “D” (one flag pointed straight up and one flag pointed straight down) for “disarmament.” Holtom never copyrighted his design for the peace symbol intentionally, so anyone in the world can use it for any purpose, in any medium, for free. , Gerry. Without nukes we'd all be eating borscht. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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