Ancient history professor revives medieval times ? Griffon News

By Michelle Cordonnier

October 30, 2012

Missouri Western recently enhanced the history department by adding a new professor to the staff to teach Ancient and Medieval History and Early Modern History. Eventually, Dr. Jay Lemanski will help to expand the upper level history courses by introducing and teaching classes on ancient Rome and ancient Greece.

Lemanski is originally from Detroit. He came to Western from his most recent appointment as a Senior Lecturer for the history department at the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. From 2003-2012, Lemanski was also a teaching assistant and an instructor at Akron.

?I am from a big city, and I grew kind of tired of living in a larger community,? Lemanski said. ?I enjoy the smaller community; the countryside around St. Joseph is nice. I like the idea of having big city amenities and the small-town feeling that St. Joseph offers.?

Lemanski is enjoying the transition from big city living to the smaller community of St. Joseph, and he is happy with the colleagues he has met since being at Western. Lemanski said the smaller campus gives the college and community a more intimate quality than the larger colleges offer.

?I am very pleased with the instructors and students that I have met since coming to Western,? Lemanski said. ?They are the nicest people, and have made me feel very welcome.?

Junior Kristen Brantley is taking Lemanski?s Ancient and Medieval History course, which she is enjoying this semester. She said she has had trouble in history classes before, but so far this semester she has learned a lot from Lemanski?s teaching style.

?He has a passion for the subject,? Brantley said. ?He?s not just passing out information, but actually making the material more relatable. College is tough, and he makes it easier by providing us with study guides, easily readable maps ?and interesting readings.?

Lemanski is educated in a variety of subjects, such as history and modern languages. He earned his bachelor?s degree at Concordia College in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1983. Lemanski was a dual major in Greek and Hebrew with a minor in Latin.

In 1985, he received his first master?s degree at the University of Michigan in near eastern studies. Lemanski continued to study at the University of Michigan and received his?doctorate?in 1989.

The year 2005 brought Lemanski his second master?s degree in history department. Lemanski passed his Ph.D. comprehensive exams in 2007 with distinctions in Medieval, Early Modern Europe, the Middle East and the United States pre-1877.

In 2007, Lemanski also won a one-year Robert W. Little Graduate Research Fellowship, and in 2008, he was awarded a Graduate Student Government Research Grant from the University of Akron. The year 2009 finally brought Lemanski his Ph.D. in history from the University of Akron.

In addition to his extensive knowledge of history, Lemanski is skilled in many language cultures, such as: German, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Anglo-Saxon, Hebrew, Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic and French.

?Lemanski?s use of other languages helps to illustrate certain points in ancient Greece and ancient Rome,? Brantley said.

Lemanski also has the ability to decipher and translate ancient Greek and Roman clay tablets from the beginnings of written language.

Throughout Lemanski?s years of schooling, he has worked in the education field as an assistant librarian of rare books and as reference librarian. He has also worked for the New York Times as an Indexer for the University Microfilms International and has taught courses in Absolution to Revolution, Ancient Middle Eastern Studies, Renaissance and Religious Studies, Early and Late Medieval European Studies, the Latin Language, Middle Eastern Studies and Humanities in the Western Tradition.

?This is my last history course required for my degree, but if I had to take another one, I would definitely consider taking a different course taught by Dr. Lemanski,? Brantley said.

Lemanski said he?s enjoying teaching at Western more than anything else. He feels that the students are very diverse for a smaller community and is enjoying getting to know them through the classes he teaches.

?The best part of Missouri Western is the students,? Lemanski said. ?I like the students; I enjoy talking to them, and getting to know them. They are very interesting and engaging. I like teaching them. I have great students here at Missouri Western, I couldn?t ask for more.?

Source: http://www.thegriffonnews.com/2012/10/ancient-medieval-history-not-torture-with-dr-jay-lemanski-in-charge/

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McCain Blasts Obama on Benghazi

After nearly 48 hours of squall stall, Sen. John McCain has kicked the the presidential campaign back into gear, ripping the Obama administration's response to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi during a brief speech this afternoon at a "storm relief and volunteer appreciation" event in central Ohio.

"The president is either engaged in a massive cover-up deceiving the American people or he is so grossly incompetent that he is not qualified to be the commander-in-chief of our armed forces," McCain told a gathering of Romney supporters, as first reported by NBC News.

"I think it's interesting to note that when there was a success, such as when, thank God, we were able to get bin Laden, the administration poured out every single detail, even details that put American lives in danger," McCain said, answering reporters' questions later.

It's a familiar line of attack from the Arizona senator, who during a Sunday appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation" called the incident "the worst cover-up or incompetence I have ever observed in my life."

"This administration is very good at touting and giving all the details, like when they got bin Laden but now we know there were tapes, or recordings inside the consulate during this fight ? and the FBI finally got in and took those and now they're classified as 'top secret,'" McCain added, suggesting the president understood the nature of the attack weeks before informing the public.

Speaking at another "storm relief event" earlier in the day, Mitt Romney was more cautious.

"We have heavy hearts, as you know, with all of the suffering going on in a major part of the country," he said as volunteers boxed up food, bottled water, diapers and batteries for storm victims.

Romney is in Florida tonight. He will join Sen. Marco Rubio on the campaign trail Wednesday morning. President Obama is not expected back on the stump before Thursday.

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Yelp's new picture-heavy menus give you a better look at that Baby Back Rib Tickler

Needless to say, we're all well aware of Yelp's popularity amongst people who love a thing or two about visiting restaurants and, in turn, eating some good ol' food. And while the service could be considered relatively great as is, it never hurts to see a few new features added here and there -- especially one as useful as the new "Explore the Menu," which is made possible by everyday users like yourself. The newfangled menu system will allow folks to upload pictures of any grub item they've tried at frequented restaurants, making it easier for future goers to have a slight idea of what to expect should they be interested in trying a particular dish from one of the many places listed within Yelp. The novel menu pages will be rolling out to business pages today in the US, with Yelp noting that this will be the "first time ever" it's simultaneously launching a fresh service across its OG site, mobile website and applications.

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10 Pet Safety Tips For Hurricane Sandy | Babble Pets

Pets need protection from Hurricane Sandy just as we do: follow these pet safety tips.

We can?t stress the advice from the ASPCA more: ?If you are not safe, neither is your pet.?

While those of us on the East coast are preparing for a monster of a storm with the arrival of Hurricane Sandy, we must remember that our pets need to be included in our safety and evacuation plans.

Here are 10 must-read tips:

Take your pets in and keep them inside. While there is no reason that a pet should live outside, at the first sign of an imminent storm, pets need to be secured inside the house ASAP. A doghouse will NOT provide any protection. If you can?t be outside neither can your pet!

Do NOT leave your pets behind ever. If the situation calls for you to evacuate your home there, your pet is not safe there either. Do not rely on thinking animal instinct will protect them.

Call ahead to shelters. If you must escape and go to a shelter, remember that not every Red Cross shelter accepts animals. The time to search for shelters that accept pets is now- before you must leave. Local vets and shelters might know about nearby shelters that accept pets. You can also call nearby hotels and motels who may allowed pets. Please note that if you live in NYC, pets are welcome at all NYC Hurricane Sandy evacuation centers. Please do NOT leave your pets behind!

Lean on friends and family. Friends and relatives who are outside your immediate area might be willing to take in your pet(s). Ask early on when first making your emergency plans.

Create an emergency supply and travel kit.As you pack you ?Go Bag?, make one for your pet with all the necessary items they might need over a period of days.?Click here to see exactly what items should be in it.

Select a designated temporary caregiver. No one wants to think about this but there is always a chance that you might not be able to go back to your home for a while. By predetermining a person who will take your pet in for a lengthy period of time, it not only provides protection for your beloved pet, but also gives you peace of mind that you pet will be taken care of properly.

Secure proper identification for your pet. The ASPCA specifically advises the following: ?Make sure all pets wear collars and tags with up-to-date identification. Your pet?s ID tag should contain his name, telephone number, and any urgent medical needs. Be sure to write your pet?s name, your name and contact information on your pet?s carrier.?

Visually sum up your house and predetermine the safest points in your home. Locate the rooms that are highest if flooding is an issue. Make sure the room is window free and possible flying debris. Your best bet is to choose ?easy-to-clean areas such as utility rooms, bathrooms, and basements as safe zones.?

Provide for sufficient and long-term water for your pet. Just like people, pets will need extra water in case of a prolonged power outage, so fill up bathtubs and sinks with water.

After the storm, do not let pets outside right away. Yes, they will have to relieve themselves after being holed up for hours on end, but check your yard and street for downed power wires, which may electrocute them. Do not let your pets out on their own: dogs should be on a leash and cats need to stay inside. The chances of outside hazards are too great in the days following a hurricane.

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Manufacturing complex 3-D metallic structures at nanoscale made possible

ScienceDaily (Oct. 18, 2012) ? The fabrication of many objects, machines, and devices around us rely on the controlled deformation of metals by industrial processes such as bending, shearing, and stamping. Is this technology transferrable to nanoscale? Can we build similarly complex devices and machines with very small dimensions?

Scientists from Aalto University in Finland and the University of Washington in the US have just demonstrated this to be possible. By combining ion processing and nanolithography they have managed to create complex three-dimensional structures at nanoscale.

The discovery follows from a quest for understanding the irregular folding of metallic thin films after being processed by reactive ion etching.

"We were puzzled by the strong-width-dependent curvatures in the metallic strips. Usually initially-strained bilayer metals do not curl up this way," explains Khattiya Chalapat from Aalto University.

The puzzle began to unravel when Chalapat noticed, together with Dr. Hua Jiang, that the Ti peak was absent from the EDX spectra of folded Ti/Al bilayers.

Further experiments at the O.V. Lounasmaa Laboratory confirmed that the strips bend upward with strong width-dependent curvatures if the bottom layer of the strips is made more reactive to ions than the top surface.

In nature, similar geometrical effects take place in self-organization directly observable to the human eye. When dandelion flowers bloom, one may try cutting the flower stem into small strips; put them in water, and the strips will fold with observable width-dependent curvatures due to differences in the water absorption between the inside and outside parts of the stem.

"Our idea was to find a way to adapt these natural processes to nanofabrication. This led us to an incidental finding that a focused ion beam can locally induce bending with nanoscale resolution."

The technology has various applications in the fabrication of nanoscale devices. The structures are surprisingly resilient:? the team found them to be quite sturdy and robust under a variety of adverse conditions, such as electrostatic discharge and heating.

"Because the structures are so small, the coupling and the magnitude of typical nanoscale forces acting on them would be commensurately small, reminds Docent Sorin Paraoanu," the leader of the Kvantti research group, Aalto University.

"As for applications, we have demonstrated so far that these structures can capture and retain particles with dimensions of the order of a micrometer. However, we believe that we are just scratching the tip of the iceberg: a comprehensive theory of ion-assisted self-assembly processes is yet to be reached," notes Paraoanu.

The research has been recently published in the Early View edition of Advanced Materials.

Khattiya Chalapat and Sorin Paraoanu would like to give credit to the Aalto University research facilities for microfabrication and imaging at Micronova Centre for Micro and Nanotechnology and the Nanomicroscopy Center in Finland.

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Stewart: Romney binder a 'Notebook of Nipples'

By Craig Berman, NBC News contributor

Jon Stewart wasted no time leaping on Tuesday night's Presidential Debates on "Daily Show" Wednesday -- and he picked two of the most obvious soundbites from the debates to skewer: First, Mitt Romney's?infamous comment about getting ?binders full of women? qualified for jobs when he was governor of Massachusetts.?Stewart played the clip, arranged the papers on his desk, paused, and smiled.

?Couple of things: One the women?s group was called MassGAP and they approached Governor Romney, not the other way around. And two, my guess is they did not refer to what they presented as a binder full of women, but perhaps as an organized collection of qualified resumes,? Stewart said. ?But hey, Binder of Women, Book of Broads, Notebook of Nipples, whatever.?

He had more fun with the Libya discussion, which centered on determining the exact day President Obama first referred to it as an act of terror. Watching Romney walk into a trap of his own devising was almost too good for Stewart to talk about, particularly given that Obama urged him to "please, proceed."

?There?s your first clue -- when you feel you?re about you?re about to spring what you think is the checkmate moment of the debate and your debate opponent says to you, ?Please proceed. Hold on, are you trying to open that door? Allow me to open it wider,?? Stewart said. ?When your opponent does that, you may want to wonder a la Wile E Coyote and Road Runner, (whether) that door your opponent is pointing to is merely paint on a rock.?

From Stewart?s perspective, that?s exactly what it was. It should make Thursday?s interview with President Obama less awkward than it would have been a week ago, when Stewart was still focused on his less-robust performance in the first debate. Odds are good, however, that this will still come up in that conversation.

Stephen Colbert also had some thoughts, although he first told his viewers: ?If you?re an undecided voter who did not watch, just trust me, it?s 2-0.?

Like Stewart, he considered the Libya comment a turning point -- but wasn?t as happy with the outcome. ?No, no ... it?s supposed to change everything the other way!? he said.? ?That should have been Mitt?s moment of chest-thumping dominance over the carcass of his opponent, and it would have been too had it not been for that meddling moderator.?

In that latter comment, he echoed the Fox News spin, which also decried Candy Crowley?s purported fact-checking, which they argued should have taken place only after the event.

?Yes, the time for fact-checking is after the event, when voters have stopped watching,? Colbert said.

He was also sympathetic towards the Fox criticism of the ?random? questions. ?Why are we talking about Lady Issues in the Town Hall? Save it for the Sadie Hawkins debate when the girls are supposed to do the asking.?

And don?t get him started on assault weapons, or Romney?s spin that two-parent households could help solve the problem.

?The answer to gun violence isn?t getting rid of assault weapon, its two-parent households,? Colbert said. ?Because when a psychopath marches into the mall in Kevlar body armor, slowly lifting the laser site of his Ak-47 towards the Sunglass Hut, the only thing that will stop him from carnage is when he asks himself what would mom and dad think??

And having learned that people on the street will opine on anything if a microphone is in front of them, "Jimmy Kimmel Live" again sent roving reporters out to talk to people not just about a debate that hadn't happened yet (as they did last night, before the second presidential debates even started) -- but on one that would never exist: A First Ladies debate between Ann Romney and Michelle Obama. Naturally, everyone they spoke to was well-informed and happy to talk about who did the best in that particular debate.?

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Public battle over prince's private letters to officials

By Annabel Roberts, NBC News

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A professor says of Prince Charles: "If he led an idle life we would criticize him; when he takes an interest we slap his wrist and say he can't go there."

LONDON - It may come as no surprise that researchers conducting a survey over a four-week period found that the Duchess of Cambridge was featured on the front pages of British newspapers more frequently than anyone else, and her husband, Prince William, came fifth.

It's fair to say Britons' see a lot of the royals in their papers - but what do they know about what the monarch and her heirs think of the country's affairs? The answer is very little. The queen is obliged to remain politically neutral and has no political authority - and keeps her views to herself.

Which is why a rare opportunity to learn about Prince Charles's thoughts on topical issues has generated so much interest; there were calls for the release under the Freedom of Information Act of 27 letters written by the Prince of Wales to seven government departments between September 2004 and April 2005. But this has been scuppered by the government - the attorney general, Dominic Grieve, using a veto to overrule a court decision and keep the letters secret.

Tantalizingly, Grieve said the letters revealed the prince's "most deeply held personal views and beliefs" and were "particularly frank." But he suggested they could lead to Prince Charles being seen to disagree with government policy and so be favoring one political party over another - which clearly he wanted to avoid.

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Grieve added: "Any such perception would be seriously damaging to his role as future monarch, because if he forfeits his position of political neutrality as heir to the throne, he cannot easily recover it when he is king."

Certainly in the past Charles has not been coy about expressing fairly conservative views on issues close to his heart, such as architecture, or farming and the environment. But it seems pretty clear the content of these letters went further. ?

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Rob Evans, a journalist writing for The Guardian newspaper who made the initial request for the letters to be released, told NBC News the letters should be seen, because people have a right to know how much influence the Prince of Wales has.

"Prince Charles is known to lobby government on a wide range of issues, but he's unelected and there has been a lot of concern about how he influences government behind the scenes... the public ought to know how much effect he is having on government policy," Evans said.

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The original court ruling (now overturned by Grieve) in similar vein concluded: "Those who seek to influence government policy must understand that the public has a legitimate interest in knowing what they have been doing and what government has been doing in response."

Evans says he will now take the matter to the high court to try to overturn the government's veto.

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Public opinion is divided. Commentator David Aaronovitch wrote in The Times, "The clever silliness of Mr Grieve's letter says... that you the subject/citizen really don't want to know if your next king or queen's a bit of an idiot because you're getting them anyway."

But Professor Robert Hazell of University College London suggests this protection is useful - even necessary - for the Prince of Wales, as there is no obvious or established path for him to follow to keep abreast with national affairs, and prepare for his future role as king.

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He told NBC News: "We do ask a lot of Prince Charles ... he's meant to be interesting and worthy. If he led an idle life we would criticize him; when he takes an interest we slap his wrist and say he can't go there."

"We're entitled to know his public pronouncements, not his private thoughts - same as anyone else" tweeted Parliamentarian, MP Tom Harris, in favor of the letters being kept secret.

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The issue also raises questions about Charles's role in general - how DOES he occupy himself as he waits to ascend to the throne (it's been a 61-year wait so far)and how does he prepare for the ?job? he will eventually hold?

It's a role Professor Hazell describes as "a blank space."

Royal censorship? BBC says 'sorry' for daring to report UK queen's comments

Last month Britons got an unexpected and revealing glimpse of the queen's personal thoughts when a BBC journalist divulged the details of a private conversation in which she admitted she had lobbied government ministers over the radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza. The BBC swiftly apologized for this breach of confidence, and Buckingham Palace said it would never comment on private conversations involving any member of the royal family. This was an extremely unusual episode.

As for Prince Charles?s letters, the decision to keep their contents secret only has the effect of increasing speculation about what they contain and hunger to find out. It will now be up to the High Court to judge if the public will get a chance to see their contents.?

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