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Dylan’s Life Striving For Excellence In Teaching Dylan was an amazing young man, who lived more in his short 21 years than most people live in a lifetime. He was tragically hit and killed, while stopped with car trouble, by an inattentive driver, who was texting while driving, on October 24th, 2010. He graduated from Sun Prairie High School in 2007 and was a senior at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, at the time of his death. He was very excited about the prospects of becoming a teacher of Spanish in a high school setting. Dylan strove for excellence in every endeavor, in his school work, he had a passion for learning and expanding his education, in his employment, he loved working at Kids 4 cable channel in Sun Prairie and Hot Topic at the East Town Mall. His teaching Philosophy is summed up in his final work written for an education class October 6, 2010, "If we let one student slip through the cracks in the education system, we are failing that student. And if we are failing one of our students, it's not much different from failing them all." A scholarship fund has been set up in Dylan's name at UW-Madison. All donations will be used to help undergraduate students in the School of Education's teacher education program studying World Languages, especially those who are planning to teach Spanish. The first scholarship will be given in 2011. Click here for more information Donation is tax-deductible. Receipts will be sent out by the UW Foundation. © 2016 Dylan Ellefson Memorial Scholarship. All Rights Reserved. Designed by e-Media Resources

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“University of Sarkozy” FRENCH PRESS REVIEW: Libération leads with the announcement of massive state investment to create 10 American-style leading universities in France. It’s been dubbed “le grand emprunt” or “the big loan”, €35 million borrowed from French banks by the State and invested into key sectors in French society to build for the future. The “loan commission” headed up by two former Prime Ministers, Michel Rocard (Socialist Party) and Alain Juppé (right-leaning UMP ruling party) have advised that the money be invested in five different areas, notably in education, research and development. Libération’s headline is “University of Sarkozy”. They focus on the plan to invest heavily in creating centres of excellence with ties to the private sector. France’s universities are almost exclusively state-funded and have fallen behind American and British universities which are heavily funded by alumni and the private sector as well as from student fees. The left-leaning paper’s editorial says that investment in universities is a good thing however the money is going almost exclusively to scientific and development fields. The humanities and social sciences have been left by the wayside. Is this because they’re not viewed as useful or ‘profitable’? The right-leaning Le Figaro calls it Sarkozy’s “big gamble”. It’s editorial emphasizes how indebted France is at the moment and wonders if it’s a good idea to borrow even more money. However it concludes that this measure is “sowing the seeds for the future” and that the money will eventually be recouped. L’Humanité, a Communist daily, is predictably critical of the loan. After successive bank bailouts, this is another example of the state lining the private sector’s pockets, the paper claims. Meanwhile, teaching jobs are being axed. The paper leads with teachers’ demonstrations due to take place across France today to protest against reforms in the education sector. France Telecom has sent a questionnaire to staff to determine their level of satisfaction in the company. The results are far from positive and reveal a general unease amongst employees. The company has seen a spate of suicides amongst staff members in the past couple of years which have cast the spotlight on business practices and the working conditions of France Telecom staff.

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EBacctrack, EBacc-to the Future or Just Misunderstood Reforms? Director of Tutor House These reforms were obviously brought in without any real prior research. Teachers, children and parents alike were not asked how the GCSE's could be improved, they were not informed of the changes taking place and they had no say in the matter. This U-turn is good news for everyone involved in education. Admittedly some GCSE's are a little 'soft' and work is needed to re-think and re-structure them. But changing them completely over night was madness. Many of the new education policies seem to focus on the short-term rather than long-term. Of course a rational person wouldn't want to defend Gove, but he's right about one thing. Change is needed. An increasing number of students find the current GCSE exams easy, of course some don't. But, the majority of GCSE subjects contain coursework and with extra support from teachers, parents and even private tutors, children are rewarded with high grades. A and B grades are becoming more and more frequent when coursework is an option, especially in some subjects where it accounts for 50% of the GCSE. I don't think this sudden change of heart is humiliating for Gove; he was brave enough to implement changes, whereas Blair and his cronies weren't. However, that is where the support from me stops. The Ebacc would have further alienated certain students and made it increasingly difficult for all students to have the chance to achieve high grades. Children with Special Educational Needs (S.E.N's) for example, would really have struggled if the new exam structure had been implemented. The way in which the new Ebacc exams were assessed, at the end of two year period with no or very little coursework, would have been, as Gove said 'A Bridge too Far!' Children with dyslexia for example would not have been able to cope. They rely on short, bite-sized chunks of information. Learning and studying for 24 months and then sitting up to 10 exams over a two-week period would not have worked for dyslexic children, their needs were not considered. The new tiered targets that the Education Secretary has implemented make it increasingly hard for these 'type's' of pupils to succeed. 'A Bridge over the River Kwai' may be more appropriate! Secretary of the NUT, Christine Blowers, Ofqual and every single teacher throughout the country are showing signs of relief. Mrs Blowers went on to say - "The Ebacc was entirely the wrong thing to do, especially in the timeframe Mr Gove had in mind, we're pleased with this new move." I'm not sure Mr Gove has the support of many, if any of the public. He has, so far, made some ridiculous and irresponsible decisions. The GCSE grades row was and still is a nightmare, teachers' pay rises to be based on performance, completely the wrong way to go about things! Why does he think that this will change the performance of Schools? Does he think that punishing teachers will make them learn, and then work harder to make sure pupils pass? What if Mr Gove's pay was based on performance? This is what happened when someone put this idea to him last week...Click I've spoken with a number of teachers, private tutors and parents about this, for them, it is the first bit of good news since Gove took over. Finally, and on a lighter note, I watched this yesterday; PLEASE can someone tell me who the chap on Goves' right is? I'm guessing he has a 14-year-old son! His face is priceless! Video Follow Alex Dyer on Twitter: www.twitter.com/tutorhouse Gcse Tutor Gcses Scrapped Michael Gove Private Schools

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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L Ludgate Stow says, “King Lud, repairing the city, called it after his name Lud's town; the strong gate which he built in the west part he likewise named Ludgate. In the year 1260 the gate was beautified with images of Lud and other kings. Those images, in the reign of Edward VI., had their heads smitten off .... Queen Mary did set new heads upon their old bodies again. The twenty-eighth of Queen Elizabeth the gate was newly and beautifully built, with images of Lud and others, as before.” (Survey of London.) The more probable etymon of Lud-gate is the Anglo-Saxon leode (people), similar to the Porto del populi of Rome. [Lud] Built that gate of which his name is hight, By which he lies entombëd solemnly. Spenser: Faerie Queene ii. x. 46. Ludgate was originally built by the barons, who entered London, destroyed the Jews' houses, and erected this gate with their ruins. It was used as a free prison in 1373, but soon lost that privilege. A most romantic story is told of Sir Stephen Forster, who was lord mayor in 1454. He had been a prisoner at Ludgate, and begged at the gate, where he was soen by a rich widow, who bought his liberty, took him into her service, and afterwards married him. To commemorate this strange eventful history. Sir Stephen enlarged the prison accommodation, and added a chapel. The old gate was taken down and rebuilt in 1586. The new-built gate was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, and the next gate (used also as a prison for debtors) was pulled down in 1760, the prisoners having been removed to the London Workhouse, and afterwards to the Giltspar Street Compter. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894LudditesLuds Town A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related ContentAllusionsForeign Words and PhrasesLatin and Greek Word ElementsNames: Their Origins and MeaningsOld Testament NamesMythologyAncient Greek Literature & MythologyThe Bible (King James version)The Koran (translation by J. M. Rodwell)Shakespeare's PlaysTales from Shakespeare (Charles and Mary Lamb)Frequently Misspelled WordsFrequently Mispronounced WordsEasily Confused WordsWriting & Language

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Community & Business About MVCC College News & Information Center for Corporate & Community Education College Works News & Releases NBT Bank’s John Buffa ’85 named 2012 Alumnus of Merit May 16, 2012 Mohawk Valley Community College has named John Buffa ’85, senior vice president and regional commercial banking manager at NBT Bank, as the 2012 Alumnus of Merit. The MVCC Alumni of Merit Award is presented annually by the MVCC Alumni Association to a nominee who has contributed to the improvement of the community, helped the college, and otherwise demonstrated professional leadership that symbolizes MVCC’s mission of student success and community involvement. Buffa was born and raised in Yorkville, graduating from Whitesboro High School in 1980. Since graduating from MVCC in 1985 with an associate degree in banking and insurance, he has spent 25 years in the commercial banking industry with a focus on commercial lending, business development, and credit risk and analysis. He has been with NBT Bank for 18 years. Buffa is also active in the community, serving as immediate past chair on the Mohawk Valley EDGE Board of Directors, first vice president of the Upstate Cerebral Palsy Board of Directors, and treasurer of the Utica Industrial Development Agency. Buffa also has been involved with the Rotary Club of Utica, Kiwanis Club of Utica, Mohawk Valley Chamber of Commerce, and the Central New York Community Arts Council. He currently lives in Utica with his wife, Nancy, and two children, Tara and Matt. Buffa has remained engaged with the college, and he regularly takes part in the annual MVCC Foundation Golf Tournament. He will receive the award at the Spring Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 18, at the Utica Memorial Auditorium. Return to list ... Marketing & Communications Home College Publications Communitas Web site tour Mail Request Form M&C Staff MVCC Heart and Pride My MVCC My Story Marketing Video Request Marketing & CommunicationsPayne Hall, Office 3451101 Sherman DriveUtica, New York 13501Telephone - 315.792.5330FAX - 315.731.5856 Contact

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HomeArticlesOriginal CommentaryFitzsimon File The politics of the graduation rate The politics of the graduation rate By Chris Fitzsimon - 12/15/2009 - in Fitzsimon File Print This Article Not too many years ago, the slash and burn anti-government crowd used to rail against every kind of public investment, from human services to parks to public schools, all part of the government they loathe and want to shrink so they can “drown it in the bathtub,” as Grover Norquist famously put it. But the government dismantlers kept finding that people supported many of the things that the public sector provides, nothing more so than public schools. That prompted a change a change in tactics for some of the anti-everything politicians who realized they can’t get elected if they advocate slashing budgets of schools and laying off teachers. State Republican legislative leaders, who for years complained about the level of spending on public education, criticized Democrats this summer for cutting education funding $400 million to help address a $4.6 billion budget shortfall. The same lawmakers and GOP Chair Tom Fetzer also blasted Democrats for raising taxes and cutting services for the mentally ill, ignoring the obvious question about how they could balance the budget with lower taxes and fewer cuts to education and human services. Their new approach to talking about public schools is to insist that the schools they never really supported are now failing completely and that it’s the Democrats fault that kids are not getting the education they deserve. The education establishment has given the pretend supporters of public schools plenty of ammunition in North Carolina, most notably a state standardized testing system that has been riddled with problems and mistakes and the lack of investment in low-performing schools and the communities they are in. The most common talking point in the misleading and revisionist campaign is the state’s admittedly woeful graduation rate. The 2008-2009 School Report Card complied by the Department of Public Instruction shows that three in ten ninth graders don’t earn a high school diploma four years later. The numbers are even worse for children of color. Several national education groups say the state’s graduation rate is even lower, around 63 percent. Either way, the numbers are scandalous, condemning one-fourth to one-third of a generation to a lifetime of struggles. The Alliance for Education says that the total lost lifetime earnings for the 46,000 kids who dropped out last year in North Carolina comes to $12 billion. If the state could reduce the dropout rate for males by just five percent, the Alliance says the state economy would benefit by $233 million from increased earnings and less spending on the criminal justice system. Nobody disputes that dropping out of high school paves the road for future problems. And nobody is happy with the state’s current graduation rate, whether it is 70 percent or 63 percent. (Though it is not out of line with most other Southern states. They are struggling too.) But that’s where the consensus ends. Republicans want to use the numbers as political sledgehammers to divert attention from their long antipathy toward public education while blaming Democrats for its shortcomings. Democrats readily acknowledge the dropout problem but so far propose only small targeted programs for schools in the form of dropout prevention grants to address it. A 2007 report from the Center for the Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins included some basics about dropouts that elected officials ought to consider, like the most common reasons kids leave school, from life events like a family crisis or being labeled difficult or dangerous and suspended repeatedly. A recent News & Observer story reported that North Carolina is among the national leaders in rates of school suspensions. Other students leave because they are frustrated at their lack of success or lost without the support they need at home or at school. The Center’s report said that schools with a high concentration of poor and under-achieving students make dropping out more likely and leads to high teacher and staff turnover that makes learning more difficult. Let’s hope the new majority on the Wake County School Board is paying attention. The report also confirms what many studies have shown, that poverty and the struggles that come with it are major contributors to a student’s decision to drop out of school. None of it is rocket science, but the solutions don’t fit neatly into soundbites on the campaign trail or under one budget line in the appropriations bill. It takes bigger thinking, more investments in the programs that support families at home and services that help at-risk kids at school and after it. The decision to abolish the state’s successful after school program for at-risk kids isn’t generally considered an education cut, but it should be. A renewed conversation about what it will take to keep kids in school is overdue. And just as importantly, it’s time to loudly and publicly reject efforts to use the low graduation rate for political gain by people who have never supported public schools in the first place. About the author Chris FitzsimonChris Fitzsimon, Founder and Executive Director of N.C. Policy Watch, writes the Fitzsimon File, delivers a radio commentary broadcast on WRAL-FM and hosts "News and Views," a weekly radio news magazine that airs on multiple stations across North Carolina. [email protected] 919-861-2066Follow @Fitzsimon Previous article The need for public financing Next article EDITORIAL: Don’t Let the State Get Stung Again Featured Policy Watch’s comprehensive coverage of North Carolina’s sweeping anti-LGBT law

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From the fall of 2004 to 2008, a select group of 8th grade students (26 in all) from the Northfield Middle School in Northfield, Minnesota researched and wrote a history and travel guide that chronicles the drama of the James and Younger Gang in their attempt to get out of Minnesota after the failed robbery at the First National Bank. The book entitled, “Caught in the Storm” portrays those two weeks when the wounded outlaws, under dark and rainy skies, journeyed over one hundred miles in their attempt to get out of Minnesota and to a safe hiding place. The gang encountered rain-swollen rivers, unsuspecting citizens, the largest posse in U. S. history, and the most harrowing adventure of their lives. Frank and Jesse escaped on September 14, but the remaining outlaws would meet their defeat a week later at the shootout at Hanska Slough. For 4 consecutive years, a group of students in the SCOPE Program (Student Community Outreach Program Experience) handed off their completed chapters and on-going research to the next student group until all 13 chapters were finished. It’s a thoroughly researched book that tells the tale of the outlaw trail unlike any other account on the subject. The first page of each chapter contains a map, driving directions, mileage, GPS coordinates and a present day photo for the interested traveler who wants to take a personal journey from Northfield to Hanska Slough. “Caught in the Storm,” chronicles in exciting detail, who the gang encountered and the fateful decisions made along the way making it both a field guide and an excellent stand-alone history for readers aged 9 to 90. To purchase “Caught in the Storm” visit our Online Museum Store.

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VISIT Plan A Visit US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center Live Shows at the Stage Door Canteen Dining — The American Sector and Soda Shop Museum Guide Mobile App Beyond All Boundaries GIVE Give to the Museum Capital Expansion Name A Theater Seat Donate An Artifact HONOR Honor Roll of Charter Members Tribute Books Personal Tribute Pages $10 for Them Research A Veteran WWII Veteran Statistics LEARN Teachers & Students Public Programming Knit Your Bit Educational WWII Wargaming International Conference on WWII SEE & HEAR Museum Blog WWII Yearbooks The Science & Technology of WWII The Classroom Victory Garden Project WWII Glossary EXPANSION Capital Expansion Campaigns of Courage Liberation Pavilion Capital Campaign Donors Home Front Friday: The Gifts That Keep On Giving Home Front Friday is a regular series that highlights the can do spirit on the Home Front during World War II and illustrates how that spirit is still alive today! Far from home and making their way through unknown territories, soldiers during WWII relied on hand written notes to communicate with their loved ones back on the Home Front. Since today is National Christmas Card Day, we’re going to give a shoutout to these letters that deliver the holiday cheer. These days we have cards with puns and cute catch phrases capturing feelings of love and joy people have for each other. Hallmark always seems to have some sort of new design that really tugs at the heart strings. During WWII, specific Christmas cards were created to send to soldiers. Many troops carried these cards with them throughout their time overseas because they boosted their morale and encouraged them to continue the fight. Christmas cards were truly a gift that kept on giving hope and served as lights at the end of a long tunnel. US soldiers receive Christmas mail in Italy on 26 November 1943. It was a tough time for many families to be separated by thousands of miles of ocean and land from their loved ones who were constantly in harms way to restore some sort of peace. Troops were nostalgic for home and familiarity while the Home Front desired to give them a piece of home that brought small elements of joy to their tough days. Hand written letters, packages, and recordings were among the most popular items sent, and during the Christmas season, specific cards were made to wish joy and bestow blessings on the troops. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Hallmark Cards joined the Home Front effort with their slogan, “keep ‘em happy with mail.” The company created cards of all sorts, as they do today. These cards were small tokens of affection that held special places in soldiers’ hearts. The United States Army Postal Service collected Christmas items set to be mailed to soldiers way before December in order to be certain that the packages and cards got there in time. This is a special time of year, and although it was just another day of fighting or arriving at new destinations, these soldiers deserved to receive some holiday cheer. Mailed items were their portable pieces of home that allowed a connection with loved ones from afar as well as brought a sense of calmness to otherwise stressful times. These small moments of connection, even if they were from thousands of miles away, made a day in their lives that much better. Courtesy of the National Archives. As all else, Christmas cards during WWII reinforced the patriotic spirit of the Home Front. Cards sent to soldiers typically had a red, white, and blue color scheme as well as an uncle Sam or a Santa Claus dressed as a soldier. This military-esque Santa could also be found on propaganda released during the holiday season that encouraged people to buy war bonds as Christmas gifts. There were also simple cards with a wreath and a, “Merry Christmas,” followed by a space for people to write their own personalized messages. In 1944, General George Patton sent cards out to his troops reminding each of them of the full confidence he had in their strength and dedication to victory. Check out the full card below. In honor of National Christmas Card Day, here are a few ways you can send mail to our troops overseas or to veterans near you. Here are a few links to follow in order to write and mail letters: Operation Gratitude A Million Thanks Operation We Are Here If you want to embrace your inner Santa Claus, try baking some cookies, brownies, or another treat of some sort for your veterans. Posted by Camille Weber, Education Intern and Lauren Handley, Assistant Director of Education for Public Programs at The National WWII Museum. Posted : December 9th, 2016 Post Category : Education Home Front Friday December Classroom of the Month— Get in the Scrap! Each month the Museum will feature a standout classroom participating in Get in the Scrap! Get in the Scrap! is a national service learning project about recycling and energy conservation, inspired by the scrapping efforts of students during World War II. Each class featured has done stellar work to make a difference in their school, home, community and even the planet! This month we’re featuring the Shiremanstown Home School Group from Duncannon, PA. The students sat down and answered a few questions for us about their work with Get in the Scrap! The Shiremanstown Home School group preparing for their big event on December 10th! Number of Get in the Scrap! Points thus far: We have 69 points so far and will receive the 25 points on December 10th, the night of the event when they share all of the work they’ve done and they need 6 more points besides, which will be completed in two weeks. They have committed to doing every activity on the list. They are very excited about this. How has Get in the Scrap! been a good fit for your curriculum? Please explain: This class is a Citizenship class and the students remarked that the curriculum has: Allowed us to work as a group. We learned about the history and sacrifices of the people during WWII. We understand that people need to pay attention to the environment and conserve resources. We combined Penny Wars and Water Bottle Bank activities to collect money for Wreaths Across America so we could pay tribute to the men and women who have served our country. [Blogger’s note: The students have raised over $3,500 so far in memory of the Marines killed in the Pegasus crash in Hawaii.] The Penny Wars helped us learn how to count change and manage our accounting, keeping tabs every week of our collections. Get In the Scrap Day! Is helping us to learn how to organize an event, plan for the people who are coming, and work with the community on a mission that’s important to us. What has been your favorite activity? Why? Our favorite activity has been planning the big event using all of the little activities to help us learn about what we are going to be presenting. We can’t wait to do it! [Blogger’s note: On December 10th, the group will be hosting a traditional holiday meal, followed by a production of “A World War II Radio Christmas.” Proceeds from the event will go to Susquehanna Service Dogs and Wreaths Across America.] Any suggestions on new activities or how to improve the project? We would like you to create a BINGO game like the Jeopardy game. We could even help! This is just one of the many amazing classrooms participating in the Get in the Scrap! national service learning project. You can learn more and sign up your classroom today at getinthescrap.org! Post by Chrissy Gregg, Virtual Classroom Coordinator Posted : December 2nd, 2016 Post Category : Education One week ’til the Pearl Harbor Electronic Field Trip Teachers, December 7th is only one week away—the 75th anniversary of the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. How will you commemorate this important anniversary and remember the “day of infamy” in your classroom? Join The National WWII Museum and New Orleans PBS member station WYES for an interactive webcast focusing on the events of that momentous day. Remember Pearl Harbor—How Students Like YOU Experienced the Day of Infamy will give students from across the country the chance to watch live as two student reporters deliver updates from New Orleans and Hawaii. Produced for students in grades 5-8 Participate through real-time Q&A and live polls Features on-the-scene reporting from students with survivors and witnesses of the attack Explore historic locations and museums, including the USS Arizona Memorial, the Pacific Aviation Museum, the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, and The National WWII Museum FREE to all registered classrooms Interviewing witnesses and survivors at the Pacific Aviation Museum, Pearl Harbor. Learning about Pearl Harbor geography in the Road to Tokyo galleries at The National WWII Museum. Tour the USS Arizona Memorial with child witness Jimmy Lee and student reporter Julia Bresnan. Commemorating the lives that were lost on that infamous day at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Your students will make personal connections to history by hearing memorable stories and passionate testimony from survivors, witnesses, and experts while exploring important sites that are key to the story of the attack and World War II. It’s a unique opportunity not to be missed! There will be two live programs on December 7th. Sign up for the webcast that is best for your time zone. Register today! Posted : November 30th, 2016 Post Category : Education SciTech Tuesday: From Christmas Lights to Proximity Fuses During WWII many factories changed their production from peacetime to wartime products. One General Electric factory in Cleveland, OH, went from making Christmas lights to a top-secret electronic device protected by security surpassed only by the Manhattan Project and the D-Day invasion of Normandy. From 1939-1942 radar researchers in England tested a variety of devices that might be used to improve the effectiveness of anti-aircraft artillery. These artillery cause the most damage when they explode a short distance from their target. Detonation timing was based on a set timer or on impact, neither of which were efficient. The idea being researched in England was that a small radio transmitter, coupled with an equally small receiver, could be mounted on the nose of a missile. The transmitter’s signal would bounce back, and the interaction of the sent and received signals could be used to estimate proximity to a target. These electronics required a battery, and had to be tough enough to withstand launch. The English called the technology VT, or Variable Timer fuzes. It was later called a Proximity fuse. The Tizard mission brought the plans and data from these tests to the US, and the NRDC prioritized development and production of the fuses. Some improvements were made, and by 1944 a significant proportion of all US electronics output was parts for Proximity fuses. These were made by many companies, including RCA, Eastman Kodak, and Sylvania, in the the first mass-production of printed circuits. Julius Rosenberg stole some of this technology and passed it to the Soviet Union. The US military was so concerned about the secrecy of Proximity fuses that they limited its use where German forces might capture unused or unexploded devices. Vannevar Bush, head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during the war viewed Proximity fuses as of special importance to Allied success, crediting them with a sevenfold increase in effectiveness in defense against Kamikaze attacks, neutralization of V-1 attacks, and in its use in the Battle of the Bulge against land troops. The triggers were so sensitive that they occasionally took out unfortunate seagulls. Eventually Proximity fuses were used in bombing Japanese cities, and today’s current weapons use similar principles for detonation. The Germans had been developing similar technology in the 1930s, but dropped it for other weapons with more immediate promise shortly after 1940. A diagram of the Proximity fuse, published shortly after WWII. From Wikimedia Commons. Posted by Rob Wallace, STEM Education Coordinator at The National WWII Museum. Home Front Friday: Capturing The History Whether you compile them into a scrapbook or keep them stored in a box, photos are a special medium of history that keep the past alive. WWII was the first major worldwide conflict that was covered by photo journalists for news outlets like LIFE and Time magazines. Journalists geared up and headed off to battle with infantry, naval, and air soldiers. Rather than carry numerous weapons, they were armed with film and lenses. It was up to them to capture the moments of the war effort and send these photos back to the Home Front in order to inform the public of what their boys were dealing with overseas. Page of a scrapbook kept by a crew member aboard PT 305. Photos courtesy of NWWII Museum collection. A picture has the power to induce a lot of emotion, but through this form of communication, the American public saw what was happening, and turned their emotions into an effort. They were inspired to keep scrapping; to keep following the ration rules; to continue sending supplies to soldiers at war. The broad array of emotions that were captured in the photos of soldiers impacted those on the Home Front in a way that guided them to continue raising the bar and working hard in order to get their loved ones home quicker. LIFE magazine covered WWII with more attention than any other news outlet. According to a recent Time magazine article, they sent a total of 13,000 photographers overseas to the battlefield to take snapshots of the scene, the people, and the events. Their photos and video montages were shown in theaters or put in magazines, newspapers and other forms of publication in order to share the front lines with those on the Home Front. Civilians had every right to know, see, and listen to what was happening on the battlefield. Long gone were the days of solely snapping photos of scenery and day to day life. Photography took an important journalistic approach during WWII and photographers like Robert Capa went as far as landing on Omaha Beach with a platoon to capture first hand footage of the D-Day beach landing. The photos taken by Capa and other photographers alike have lived on and will continue to after our time. Pictures spoke to the Home Front and they speak to us today of a time when teenagers and adults fought side by side to restore freedom. Excerpt from LIFE magazine issued in 1942. Example photo of the motivation to stay in solidarity with one another on the Home Front. American soldiers landing on Omaha Beach, D-Day, Normandy, France taken by Robert Capa. Photo courtesy of International Center of Photography. A Navy Photographer on an aircraft carrier deck in January 1945. Today everybody takes photos of anything and everything: their meal at a restaurant, graffiti on a parking lot wall, or a candid with friends. All of these are history. They are a compilation of peoples’ lives; their interests and their days. Clearly they are not action shots from the D-Day landings or of barrack life, but they do help us remember moments in time and will, in the future, allow us to reflect on particular stages of our lives. Continued use of cameras and film supplies has led to the improvement and innovation of new techniques, like the ability to replay a video or take an immediate glimpse at a photo right after taking it. Typically we use a USB cord, plug it into a computer, and wait for the upload. But, I’m sure some of us have film from old cameras lying around waiting to be developed or just old photos waiting to be pulled out of boxes and used. Here is a cool craft for your weekend that’ll let you add some history to your homes. Give your past some new life. Stick from your yard, piece of wood, or anything that can serve as a steady support. Photos!! (or film) 1. Cut four pieces of twine and tie them to the object you have as the support. 2. Connect the twine from opposite ends over the top of stick and tie a knot. This will allow it to hold onto a hook or what you choose to use to display it. 3. Tape the backs of your photos or film to the twine. 4. Display and enjoy! Robert M. Citino, PhD, joins Museum as Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian Robert M. Citino, PhD, recently joined The National WWII Museum as Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian, a job title that only hints at the many roles he’ll play here. Robert M. Citino. Consider: With Museum Senior Director of Research and History Keith Huxen, PhD, Citino will cohost the upcoming 2016 International Conference on World War II—stream it live at ww2conference.com from November 17–19—and will cap the Conference’s prelude Espionage Symposium by conducting a sure-to-be-fascinating conversation with Major General John Singlaub. With Museum President & CEO Gordon H. “Nick” Mueller, he’ll lead an exciting new 2017 Museum tour of Normandy, the Seine River, and Paris. Dr. Citino was sparked to a lifelong interest in World War II when his father, a veteran of the Pacific war, handed him a copy of Guadalcanal Diary. “So I sat down and read the book,” said Citino of Richard Tregaskis’s classic account of embedding with US Marines for the early stages of the battle. “From there, I couldn’t read enough books on World War II.” He went on to write nine books of his own, with a 10th due soon. Citino comes to the Museum after academic postings at the University of North Texas, Eastern Michigan University, Lake Erie College, the US Military Academy at West Point, and the Army War College. He currently chairs the Historical Advisory Subcommittee of the Department of the Army. Among his areas of specialization as a historian is the German military, a pursuit enhanced by his fluency in the German language, which he began to study as an undergraduate at Ohio State University. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, he went on to get advanced degrees at Indiana University. Among his many academic honors, Dr. Citino was voted the No. 1 professor in the nation on the student-populated website RateMyProfessors.com Dr. Citino is a regular contributor to World War II magazine and other publications, and speaks about the war widely, including as a regular presenter at the International Conference. Among the roles he’ll fill at the Museum, Dr. Citino will play a key part in the formation of the planned Institute for the Study of War and Democracy. “I think the sky is the limit for what this place can achieve in the future,” he said. Here’s an edited Q&A with Dr. Citino: Q: Is there a moment you recall when you started on this path? Was there something you read, or a teacher, or one of your parents, who inspired you? I know your father was in World War II. Was there a eureka moment when you saw your path? A: I get asked that a lot, because I’m an American who writes books on the German army, which is a kind of unusual career path perhaps. In a broader sense, in terms of World War II, you mentioned my father. My father was Army, and he fought on Guadalcanal. The word sounded so exotic to me as a little kid. What is Guadalcanal? I remember my father purchasing Richard Tregaskis’s great book, Guadalcanal Diary. Tregaskis was, at the time, what we would call an embedded reporter, for lack of a better term, with the Marine Corps on Guadalcanal. And my dad handed me this book called Guadalcanal Diary. I was a precocious little boy. I don’t know how old I was, 4th or 5th grade maybe, but my dad told me to read this book. So I knuckled down, sat down and read the book. From there, I couldn’t read enough books on World War II. For me, oddly enough, that was my dad’s war—the Pacific war, carriers, aircraft soaring through the Pacific sky. Even today that stuff gets me going. Not in a scholarly way; I just love reading about it. You might say I’m a buff on the Pacific war. I loved reading books on World War II and that lasted all the way through high school. I went off to university—I was born in Cleveland, so I went down to Columbus—and in those days you had to take a foreign language to graduate. As you may know, that’s not necessarily true at a lot of American universities anymore. I don’t think it’s quite this flippant, I may be inventing it in my mind, but I think German was offered at a time that seemed to fit in the rest of my schedule. It wasn’t at 8 in the morning and it wasn’t 7 at night. I took German and I had an aptitude for it. I learned to read it really quickly and to read it a pretty high level. I feel thankful I was given that particular gift. I have this WWII love and I have this language, so it was two eureka moments—my dad giving me Guadalcanal Diary and that I could access fairly sophisticated literature in another language. That’s what I’ve been doing ever since. I read German-language literature—archival sources, memoirs—in order to get some sense of what was going on in what Wellington famously called “the other side of the hill.” This Museum, of course, is dedicated to the memory of the US Army and US soldier. And I’ve delved pretty deeply into those waters, as well—I’ve taught at West Point, I’ve taught at the US Army War College—I am a US military historian. But my real scholarly bona fides have been putting together that interest—that love, if you will—for studying World War II with some ability to access what the Germans thought they were doing. When you get right down to it, it’s the most interesting question of all: a medium-sized power stuck in central Europe suddenly thought it was capable of conquering the world, and gave a pretty good impression of it in the first couple of years of the war. We look back and it all seems inevitable today that the three great powers—Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States—would crush Germany. It didn’t look inevitable at the time. And so what the Germans thought they were doing on the battlefield, how they thought they were going to construct victory in World War II: that’s what I study. Not just Hitler, but the entire military establishment; I’m much more interested in general officers down to field-grade officers than I am in Hitler. So saying that my dad fought in World War II is not a good answer. I was born in 1958. Everybody’s dad on my street on the west side of Cleveland fought in World War II, and most of the kids my age outgrew their love of World War II and went on to other professions and other endeavors, but I never did. Was your dad one of those guys who didn’t talk about his service? He certainly never gave me any combat stories. My father on Guadalcanal was a medic, so I can only imagine some of the things my father saw. A medic in a jungle environment is the worst possible combination. You’re undersourced, the climate’s horrible, the insect life, the dirt level. My dad didn’t give me a lot of stories. He met Eleanor Roosevelt. She was apparently on some kind of morale-building tour of the South Pacific, maybe on New Caledonia. I’ve never really looked it up. He had a passing encounter with Bob Hope and Jerry Colonna. In terms of combat stories, it wasn’t really a rah-rah thing. I think my dad’s experience of World War II was that it was something he had to do. Everybody had to do it, and I think he was pretty happy that World War II was over. I think that is a fairly standard view of lot of WWII veterans. Probably the ones that come to the Museum are a little more interested, or maybe at this late stage in their life are more interested in talking about it now. When I was growing up, I heard it as a series of vignettes. They were almost never shooting or explosions or combat or dying. I just didn’t hear those stories. He didn’t seem to carry weight. I was the youngest child of five, so it’s tough to psychoanalyze your parents. My dad was a pugnacious guy. I don’t know if he was pugnacious because of his wartime experience or if he was just born that way. We’re southern Italian. Citino. That’s the toe. I always have to ask my students, because many are spatially challenged, does it look like a boot to you? Most people say, yes it does, but there’s always a few people in class who say it doesn’t. But the toe of the boot is Calabria, and one of the first phrases of Calabrian dialog I ever learned means “Calabrians have hard heads.” They’re kind of pugnacious naturally. Whether my dad was carrying the weight of his WWII experience or the weight of 5,000 years of poor peasant ancestors, which is what Calabria still is today, is an open question. He’s passed now. I tell you, when I walked into Road to Tokyo, if my dad were here, I don’t know how he’d relate to the Guadalcanal gallery. I was stunned by it and I have never set foot on Guadalcanal. About your specialty, was it something that was unstudied in Germany after the war? Were German scholars able to study their own army? To their credit, Germans have faced the WWII experience in a really direct and full-on way. Perhaps not immediately, but certainly in the years since 1945. It would be difficult to say that the Germans have been living in denial, compared for example to the Japanese, for whom the subject of World War II and the story of exactly what happened is still not a topic for public conversation. The Germans have faced the WWII experience. By and large, German scholars—not popular authors, but university professors by and large—are not too interested in operations, how and why this campaign took place, what its turning points were, what its pressure points were, how it could’ve gone differently. By and large, German scholars who study war today study atrocity. They study the Holocaust. The Holocaust and World War II become one in the German public and scholarly mind. So if you’re a young scholar and you want to write another book on the Battle of Kursk, that would be a difficult sell in the German scholarly community. I got my PhD in 1984, and that process I’m describing was already well underway. And so you can fill your bookshelf with books on the German army written by American scholars. The vast majority are written by people who don’t read German, who have no ability to access original sources in the original tongue, so there’s a lot of stuff translated. It’s not like you can’t read any German documents. The US Army interrogated virtually all of the junior top-ranking German generals all the way down sometimes to lieutenant colonels about their wartime experience, and they’re all on file at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Those interrogations, those reports, have been translated. But reading something in its original language and reading something in translation are just two different things. I think I developed a kind of feel for military German—specific words used in specific ways; military discourse, if you want to put it that way—describing the German experience. I can say I think I was doing something different. My books are scholarly. I’ve written nine and I’m putting the finishing touches on No. 10. I’ve had pretty good luck in the scholarly community. The books I’ve written have been well-received. I’ve also managed, I think, to reach a more popular audience in perhaps a way that not every scholar does. I’m certainly not talking about a Rick Atkinson level of popularity, but within a scholarly community that has some outreach to ordinary-interest Americans, the general reading public. That’s a phrase that excites all publishers. For World War II magazine, I have a regular column that comes out every two months. With scholarly books, you sell in the hundreds. It gets you promotion to associate professor. It gets you tenure. I’ve been fortunate in doing that. My work on the German army reads a bit different than what people are used to reading. I have a pretty cold eye. Perhaps when I was younger I was enthused about the German operational achievement. I’ve developed a colder eye as I’ve gotten older. It’s always written from the inside, which gives it a slightly different cast. Maybe one of the most impressive things about your career is your ranking on RateMyProfessors.com. It’s an incredible achievement. One of your students wrote, “I went into this class with zero understanding of the specifics of operational warfare, and I didn’t care about it either. By midterms I was driving everyone nuts explaining the nuts-and-bolts of Israel’s Sinai campaign.” That was my Arab-Israeli War class. That’s as good as it gets. What’s the secret? RateMyProfessors.com in an online service. It’s owned by MTV. That was 2007 when I was given that. It wasn’t an award, it was a rating. And then it was a publicity flurry, so it got into USA Today, something we all dream about. It’s a self-selected group that goes online. Amongst professors, we often kind of pooh-pooh it. I take that honor for what it was. A lot of my students over the course of many, many years bothered to take time out of their busy schedules and say something nice about me online. So, I was really pleased by it. The ancillary benefit was that an MTV camera truck pulled into my driveway one day at Ypsilanti, Michigan—at the time I won it, I was at Eastern Michigan University—and I don’t think my youngest daughter cared very much about what I did for a living until I was on MTV. They filmed me. They would read me those comments and they would film what I had to say. It was very funny. Those videos, if you Google “Citino” and “MTVU”, should still be online. I even got to play Fender Telecaster. I whipped off “Black Dog” by Led Zeppelin, or whatever it was they asked me to play. You asked me what the secret is. Any answer you give to that question is probably going to sound self-serving. I really love the subject. I live and breathe the subject. It’s not something I do when I walk into a classroom and then forget when I walk out of the classroom. And it’s not just World War II. It’s history in general. I’m a historian. I’ve taught 500 students in History of Western Civilization 101 all the way to very detailed classes and graduate seminars. I really do love history. If you can’t get geeked up walking into a class to talk about World War II for 45 minutes, and you’re making pretty good bread doing so … Maybe it’s the Italian heritage. I talk with my hands. I love talking to people. I think it’s a combination of loving that experience, loving your ability to express yourself, and then being given a topic that just became an obsession of mine from a very, very early age. I think if you read a lot of comments on RateMyProfessors.com, you hear it again and again: “The enthusiasm level of this class.” “The professor really digs this material. He really seems to be into it.” And I am. So maybe that is my secret. I was given a gift in that my talents matched up perfectly with my obsession. You know, I’d also like to be a power forward in the NBA, but that’s not happening. I had to drop that one early for a whole host of reasons. My question was kind of a bridge to your role here at the Museum. This is a new position, so it’s a work in progress, as I see it. I think everybody has a lot of good ideas about what the senior historian should be doing here. At the first level, I think one of the things I’m going to be doing is showing the flag, the academic and scholarly flag, for this institution, and reach perhaps some venues that it hasn’t really cracked in its 16 years of existence. I’m thinking of scholarly conferences. I give, I don’t know, maybe 10 or 12 public lectures, maybe more than that, a year, and a larger number of smaller talks, sometimes to local groups. I get invited by all sorts of diverse audiences. I’m flying next week to Washington, DC. General Milley, the chief of staff of the Army, read one of my books and told one of his officers, who got in touch with me. I’m addressing a seminar of very senior leaders in the Pentagon next week. So I have that scholarly side. I’m going to continue to publish books and articles, and every time I do that, there’s going to be The National WWII Museum speaking to various public groups. I have my toe in the intellectual military side, and now the Museum is going to be part of that conversation in the future. As you know, Dr. Mueller has some pretty big ideas about this Institute for the Study of War and Democracy that we’re going to be getting underway. I don’t think the Museum will ever be a research library in the way that Harvard has a research library. You have to have hundreds of years and millions of books and another building—another 15-story building, in fact. I don’t think it’s going to do that. But it can have a role as a center of scholarship, as a clearinghouse of information, as a call of first resort for a student. Say a graduate student wants to do something on the Home Front’s industrial mobilization. I or someone in the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy could have information to answer that student or that scholar. If you need a recommendation for a good speaker on whatever topic, the first place you would call would be The National WWII Museum. That’s what I see the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy doing. I think it’s going to require people who love the Museum and love the subject matter but who also have a foot in the scholarly and public community, so you get that synergy. It’s going to part of the Museum, but the displays here are always going to be what attracts people here. Right now, I guess I’m the first investment or the first installation of what the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy is going to be. Here’s why I think the work is important, if you don’t mind me riffing off of your question. I love the operational side. That’s what I write. That’s what I’m really excited about. But the war is a big story, and in essence the war is about human freedom and human liberation. If World War II had been lost and the other side had won World War II, the globe would be a very different place. I know the Museum is going to have a Liberation Pavilion. If you look at how a place like America, or Western Europe, has changed since 1945 and the end of the war, it’s essentially been a story of individual liberation. It’s kind of messy. We don’t often like it. I know that for as many people who loved the 1960s in America, there was an equal number who hated them. Polling numbers for the Vietnam War, if they ever fell below 50 percent, I’d be surprised. I don’t have those numbers, but support for the war was always very high. At any rate, people began to do their own thing, and you couldn’t be doing your own thing in a world run by the fascists. The Museum will always be about the operational side. I think that’s the heart and soul of what goes on here. Road to Tokyo, Road to Berlin—man, those are going to be bringing audiences in forever. But the Museum has to represent the broadcast possible meaning of World War II. We should be open to all approaches, and all themes, and I think the sky’s the limit for what this place can achieve in the future. What kind of a Museum dedicated to World War II, with Higgins boats and aircraft everywhere, also puts up a Canopy of Peace? To me, when I heard that, that was the greatest thing I ever heard. I came here for my interview and saw them laying the pile caps. Unbelievable. The Peace Canopy is nonfunctional. It doesn’t do anything, but it says something. While we celebrate the memory of the heroes who fought World War II, I don’t think anybody should really celebrate the war. The fact that a war had to be fought to maintain our basic freedoms is a human tragedy. It just shows how little we’ve progressed, not how far we’ve come. And that’s why I think putting up the Canopy of Peace is such a great thing for this Museum. I was really, really impressed when I saw they were doing it. Story by Dave Walker, communications manager at The National WWII Museum. Posted : November 16th, 2016 Post Category : Education Spotlight on Staff Travel with the Museum Dr. Alexandra Richie Previews 2016 International Conference on WWII, Germany-Poland Tour Decorated historian Dr. Alexandra Richie is a guest speaker at the Museum’s 2016 International Conference on World War II and will again lead a premium Museum tour, The Rise and Fall of Hitler’s Germany, in 2017. Dr. Alexandra Richie. A 12-day journey through Germany and Poland tracking the ascension then destruction of the Third Reich, the tour visits Berlin, Dresden, Kraków, and Auschwitz, among other destinations. At the International Conference, titled 1946: Year Zero—Triumph & Tragedy and focused on the postwar events that continue to shape our world today, Richie will speak during a session titled The Iron Curtain: The Descent and the Western Response with Conrad Crane, PhD, then again on a panel presentation titled World War II in Memory: Germany, Japan, and the United States Today joined by Gordon H. “Nick” Mueller, PhD, Gerhard Weinberg, PhD, and Hans van de Ven, PhD. Richie’s first presentation, scheduled for 9:25 a.m. Saturday, November 19, is titled The Soviet Subjugation of Eastern Europe. The second panel discussion is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. later the same day. The entire International Conference, scheduled for November 17–19 in New Orleans, will stream live and then be archived at ww2conference.com. Dr. Richie’s most recent work, Warsaw 1944, became the No. 1 best-selling book in Poland and won the Newsweek Teresa Torańska Prize for Best Nonfiction 2014, while her first book, Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin, was named one of the 10 top books of the year by Publishers Weekly. She lives in Warsaw with her husband and their two daughters. She divides her time between the UK, Canada, and Poland, where she is Visiting Professor of History at the Collegium Civitas, an English-speaking university in Warsaw. Here’s an edited email Q&A with Dr. Richie: Q: Can you tell us about your panel? A: I will be on a panel with Dr. Conrad Crane, and we will be discussing the creation of the Iron Curtain which descended on Europe after World War II. Dr. Crane and I have divided the panel to show these events from different perspectives. He will be looking at this history from the American point of view; I will be discussing how the people of Eastern Europe, who had suffered for years under Nazi rule, came out of the war only to find themselves occupied by the Soviets. I will also be putting forward the Soviet perspective in an attempt to explain why Stalin behaved the way he did. You are a Professor of History at the Collegium Civitas in Warsaw. Can you tell us specifically about Warsaw’s experience as it shifted from World War II to the Cold War? Poland’s tragedy is that it lies between Russia and Germany, two nations which have invaded and carved up Poland between themselves for centuries. Many forget that in 1939 Poland was invaded not only by Nazi Germany in the west, but also by the Soviets in the east, a situation that was only ended by Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. As the war progressed, it became clear that the Soviets would liberate Poland. Poles were understandably nervous about coming under the Soviet yoke once again. They did not want to be ruled from Berlin, but they didn’t want to be ruled from Moscow, either. This was the reason for the ill-fated Warsaw Uprising, in which the Poles attempted to liberate the capital city from the Germans just before the arrival of the Soviets so as to act rather as “hosts” to the liberators. Of course, it backfired when the Germans proved much more resilient than the Poles had anticipated, and when Stalin refused to come to the aid of the beleaguered Polish Home Army. In a little-known tragedy of the war, the city was decimated, with the loss of 200,000 civilian lives and the destruction of 80 percent of Warsaw. Worse still, it quickly became clear that Stalin had no intention of allowing the Poles their freedom. Between August 1944 and August 1945, over 100,000 Poles, even those who had fought alongside the Red Army, were arrested by Stalin’s secret police; many were executed or sent to the gulag. At the same time, Stalin lied outright to the western Allies about his intentions in Poland. On October 13, 1944, Stalin, Churchill, and the Polish prime minister in exile Stanisław Mikołajczyk met in Moscow. Stalin played along with the idea that Poland would have free elections and become an independent country when the war was over. The official minutes read, “Marshal Stalin was just as resolute as the British and American Allies in the wish to see Poland as a sovereign and independent State, with the power to lead its own life.” But Stalin also added rather ominously that he expected Poland “to be friendly to the Soviet Union.” It would take some time before the West fully understood that being “friendly” meant that the Poles and others behind the Iron Curtain would be utterly subjugated to the Soviet system. One of the key tenants of the Museum’s mission is defining “what the war means today.” Can you tell us what World War II means in Poland today? For Poles and indeed for others in the former Eastern Bloc, the Second World War was simply devastating and has left deep wounds which have yet to heal. World War II was the deadliest war in history and Central and Eastern Europe were particularly badly affected. Three million Soviet prisoners of war were killed through brutality and starvation. Around 25 percent of the entire population of Byelorussia perished. The Holocaust—the deliberate destruction and murder of the Jewish population of Europe—saw the deaths of six million human beings. The statistics are simply overwhelming, and yet one has to remember that each number represents an individual, a person with parents and family and friends whose life was cut short because of a barbaric conflict over which they had no control. For many in Central Europe, World War II did not really come to an end until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and Soviet troops finally withdrew from Central Europe. At last, people were able to live in free and independent countries and enjoy rights including membership in NATO and the European Union. Throughout the long struggle for freedom, the United States was always a role model; it is no surprise that Poland remains one of the most pro-American countries in the world. In May 2016, I led a tour from Berlin to Dresden, from Kraków and Auschwitz to Gdańsk, to Hitler’s headquarters in East Prussia and to Warsaw, tracing The Rise and Fall of Hitler’s Germany. It was a very moving experience to travel in this part of the world with the wonderful group brought together by the Museum. When we went to places like Auschwitz-Birkenau, we really understood what we were fighting for all those years ago. I look forward to welcoming a new group on the tour next year. Story by Dave Walker, communications manager at The National WWII Museum. SciTech Tuesday: The Battle of the Atlantic Seventy five years ago, although the U.S. was not officially engaged in the war, ships under the flag and carrying U.S. goods and passengers were being attacked by German U-boats. In June 1941 the SS Robin Moor, though carrying no military supplies or personnel, was sunk by U-69 off the coast of Sierra Leone after passengers and crew were given a short time to evacuate on life boats. The U-Boat 552 sank the U.S. naval destroyer USS Reuben James on 31 of October 1941, off the coast of Iceland. The Battle of the Atlantic began in 1939 when Germany began a blockade of England. The balance of power and nature of the battle changed over the years. With the loss of the French Navy and the occupation of Norway in 1940, England lost an ally and the Germans were able to add to the numbers of U-boats in the Atlantic, and to use French bases to launch ships. Germany had the upper hand in the long-running battle from June 1940 until early 1941. The British Navy responded by moving to larger and less frequent convoys, and the U.S. added some escorts to defense of cargo ships. England also shared its developments in ASDIC (later called SONAR) and depth charges with the U.S., but there were great limitations to the early technology. The depth charges went only to half the depth the U-boats could dive, and ASDIC could not be used in close proximity to submarines, or at all on surface vessels. In early 1941 the British changed coordination of convoy escorts, and their casualty rate declined. Radar sets that tracked broadcasting submarines further aided the Royal Navy in locating U-boats. In response, Admiral Donitz, who commanded the German U-boat fleet, moved his ‘wolf-packs’ hunting convoys farther west into the Atlantic, in a gap in air support that left the convoys particularly vulnerable. When, in the middle of 1941, British codebreakers began to reliably translate Enigma codes, the battle swung in the advantage of the Allies, but this reprieve was brief. German production of U-boats overwhelmed that advantage in late 1941 and convoy casualties again began to rise. When the U.S. entered the war at the end of 1941, Donitz directly targeted the ports of the eastern seaboard. In early 1942 U-boats patrolled the coast of the U.S. and sank over a million tons of cargo without losing a single submarine. As the U.S. began escorting convoys, they pushed the U-boats back into the mid-Atlantic. Convoy losses were large, but not critical at this time. Through 1942 and 1943 technological advances by the Allies shifted the balance of naval power. The Allies began to use ‘hedgehogs,’ contact-fuzed bombs, and Leigh lights. U-boats ran on batteries will below and surfaced to recharge batteries, replenish air, and attack. They could move much more quickly on the surface than below. The early RADAR systems could not detect at short range, and so the Leigh lights allowed aircraft to spot surfaced U-boats. Allied losses rose again in the Spring of 1943, as the number of U-boats peaked and the Germans improved the Enigma key, making their code unreadable for a period of a couple of weeks. But further technological advances on the part of the Allies finally decided the Battle of the Atlantic over the Summer of 1943. There were finally long-range aircraft in place that could hunt and destroy U-boats. Anti-ship modified B-24s based in Newfoundland supported convoys in the mid-Atlantic. Additionally, centimeter-band RADAR technology was deployed on aircraft and ships. This more sophisticated RADAR allowed location of U-boats by ships and planes, and was undetectable by German technology. The Allies pressed their new advantage, and focused resources on the Bay of Biscay, where the Germans based most of their U-boats. This finally reduced the efficacy of the German U-boat fleet. Without victory on the Atlantic, it is doubtful the Allies would have been able to move the troops and supplies into position for the invasion of Normandy. In fact, in Spring 1943 there was serious doubt whether England had enough food and supplies to survive even without sending material overseas. Innovation in technology and its deployment won the Battle of the Atlantic. A US patrol boat dropping a depth charge. A U-boat as it is hit by a torpedo. German sailors on a wounded and sinking U-boat all images from the collection of the National WWII Museum. PT-305 gets a colorful—and deceptive—paint scheme One of the final touches to the restoration of PT-305 is a fresh coat of paint. But this isn’t just a fresh coat—it is the camouflage pattern applied to PT-305 in November 1944, called “Measure 32 modified.” During World War II, US Navy ships were rarely painted gray. There were a large and diverse number of camouflage schemes for a number of tactical situations. Generally speaking, camouflage is not intended to make a ship disappear, but rather to make a vessel’s course, speed, and class difficult to determine. For large vessels, the Navy issued specifically designed camouflage patterns. For PT boats, official designs set a general standard but the camouflage patterns of individual boats were ultimately determined by squadron commanders. “Measure 32 modified” was an experimental pattern intended specifically for making torpedo attacks. The “Thayer blue” on the forward part of the hull made the vessel more difficult to see from a distance at night when approaching a target head-on during the initial stages of a torpedo attack. The color transitions to a “deck blue” on the aft part of the boat to aid in the retreat from a torpedo attack. Up close, darker blues are more difficult to see, making class and course more difficult to determine. “Deck blue” also reduces visible shadows from concentrated light sources, such as searchlights and star shells, making it more difficult to determine the boat’s location. The blue painted on the deck was intended to reduce visibility of the vessel when viewed from aircraft. In addition to the three shades of blue on the boat, PT-305 also carried aircraft recognition coloration. “Insignia yellow” was painted on the bow, “insignia red” across the stern, and a large red-and-yellow star was painted on top of the radar dome. This was intended to make PT boats in the Mediterranean easily identifiable to Allied aircraft. More than a year of research using photographs and period documents went into determining the camouflage pattern applied to PT-305. The re-creation of the “Measure 32 modified” applied to PT-305 has restored her unique identity and highlights her combat history. Read more about PT-305: pt305.org Watch a video about PT-305’s paint scheme: http://bit.ly/2d1xUjp Story by Josh Schick, Museum curator. Posted : November 14th, 2016 Post Category : Featured Artifacts Home Front Friday: Rice and Chicken Casserole Plentiful and delicious, poultry held a lot of nutrition that week by week fed the hard workers of the Home Front. While smoked and other red meats were shipped to the Front, people back in the states found themselves eating perishable parts of animals, such as livers or kidneys. They were also encouraged to eat fish because there was no fear of a shortage. As a more tasty option, kitchens also fixed many chicken dishes because they were, and still are, easy to fix as well as pair with many types of vegetables that families on the Home Front grew in their Victory Gardens. All Home Front hands were on deck during this war, so if that meant that they had to learn to raise their own chickens and tend to their own vegetables in order to make their ration coupons last and have access to vegetables and fruits year round, then they learned. For those who were new to the world of gardening, US agricultural companies listed tips on how to make seeds spurt into multitudes. Also, the US government and other companies issued pamphlets, like the ones below, were filled with recipes, instructions on how to get the most out of their rationed ingredients or homegrown items, as well as information on how to buy particular items at the stores. Recipe for the Chicken and Rice Casserole from The Victory Binding of the American Woman’s Cook Book: Wartime Edition 1 large cooked chicken I used chicken breast and sauteed it rather than baking a whole chicken. 2 cups of uncooked rice 1 1/2 of tablespoons butter 1/4 teaspoon of salt Step 1: Preheat oven to 350. Step 2: Bone the chicken and cut the meat into 1-inch pieces. I didn’t bake a whole chicken, but rather sauteed a few chicken breasts and added tomatoes, onions, and rosemary to the mixture. Tomatoes were a popular vegetable grown in Victory Gardens, and rosemary was commonly grown herb. Step 3: Boil the rice in salted water until tender then drain it. Step 4: Stir in the butter, milk, eggs, and salt. Pre-stir Step 5: Place a layer of the rice mixture in greased casserole then add the chicken. Step 6: Top the chicken with the rest of the rice. Step 7: Place in oven and bake for 20-25 minutes. This recipe will serve about 10 people. Although it may not be the worlds’ most photogenic dish, its lack of beauty is made up for in its rich taste. Everyone in my house was just as much a part of the clean plate club as civilians on the Home Front. They may have had many limitations when it came to feeding themselves, but they quickly learned how to make the best of their situation. They were cooking for health as well as victory, and civilians embraced the motto, “Food Fights for Freedom.” Food sent to the soldiers were what refueled their energy levels, and meals on the Home Front were nutritionally made to live a hearty and healthy life while working for the war effort. Food propaganda from Cooking for Health: How to Choose and Cook the Right Foods published by the American Stove Company in 1942 to encourage better nutrition and teach Americans how to get more from their food. TAKE ACTION: RECENT POSTS Home Front Friday: The Gifts That Keep On Giving CATEGORIES 70th Anniversaries Featured Artifacts Kitchen Memories Oral History Spotlight PT-305 Update Red Ball Express Salute to Freedom Victory Ball Volunteering at the Museum Worker Wednesday WWII in the News VOLUNTEER PRIVACY POLICY The National WWII Museum tells the story of the American Experience in the war that changed the world - why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today - so that all generations will understand the price of freedom and be inspired by what they learn. 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Vanguard University names Doretha O'Quinn new provost and vice president for academic affairs May 21, 2014 Updated 10:30 a.m. Doretha O’Quinn will be provost and vice president for academic affairs. COURTESY OF VANGUARD UNIVERSITY By VANGUARD UNIVERSITY Facebook After an extensive nationwide search since September, Vanguard University President Michael J. Beals announced last week the appointment of Doretha O’Quinn to the position of provost and vice president for academic affairs. O’Quinn will take the post in July. “Doretha O’Quinn carries esteemed credentials in higher education, a strong academic commitment to diversity and intellectual passions, which make her a great cultural fit for Vanguard University,” Beals said. “O’Quinn’s engaging personal style and demonstration of mentor relationships will make a transforming impact on our students, our faculty and the mission of Vanguard.” O’Quinn succeeds acting provost/vice president for academic affairs, Mike Wilson. Wilson served in the position since August. O’Quinn currently serves as vice provost of multi-ethnic and cross cultural engagement at Biola University in La Mirada, where she has served since 2011. She also received her doctorate and masters degree from Biola University and a bachelor’s degree from Life Pacific College in San Dimas. Prior to this appointment, O’Quinn served as associate dean of the School of Education of Point Loma Nazarene University. O’Quinn has spent more than 34 years working as an administrator, principal and teacher in public and Christian kindergarten- through 12th-grade schools and universities in Southern California. She brings a passion for advancing the mission of Vanguard University in diverse communities. Honored as the National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa’s “Outstanding African-American Educator of the Year,” O’Quinn was also invited as a fellow of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities’ Advanced Women in Leadership Development Institute. O’Quinn will work closely with President Beals in the leadership of all academic programs, and work to promote Vanguard University’s academic excellence that integrates faith and life. She will work with administration and faculty on a daily basis concerning Vanguard’s undergraduate, graduate and adult degree completion programs. Vanguard University in Costa Mesa is a regionally ranked, private, Christian university of liberal arts and professional studies. The U.S. News & World Report ranked Vanguard a top 10 regional college in the west for 2014 and The Princeton Review ranked Vanguard a 2014 “Best in the West” regional college. Accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission, Vanguard offers more than 30 degrees and certificates through its undergraduate, graduate, and professional studies programs. For more information on about the university, go to vanguard.edu. – Submitted by Vanguard University Contact the writer: Digital & Driveway Delivery - 50% Off Most Popular

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You are hereHome "Won't Back Down" Film Pushes ALEC Parent Trigger Proposal Submitted by Mary Bottari on September 19, 2012 - 10:00am -- by Mary Bottari and Sara Jerving Well-funded advocates of privatizing the nation's education system are employing a new strategy this fall to enlist support for the cause. The emotionally engaging Hollywood film "Won't Back Down" -- set for release September 28 -- portrays so-called "Parent Trigger" laws as an effective mechanism for transforming underperforming public schools. But the film's distortion of the facts prompts a closer examination of its funders and backers and a closer look at those promoting Parent Trigger as a cure for what ails the American education system. While Parent Trigger was first promoted by a small charter school operator in California, it was taken up and launched into hyperdrive by two controversial right-wing organizations: the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Heartland Institute. ALEC brings together major American corporations and right-wing legislators to craft and vote on "model" bills behind closed doors. These bills include extreme gun laws, like Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law implicated in the Trayvon Martin shooting, union-busting legislation, Arizona style anti-immigrant legislation and voter suppression laws that have sparked lawsuits across the nation. The organization's agenda is so extreme that in the last few months 40 major U.S. companies, including Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Kraft, and General Motors, have severed ties with ALEC. Similarly, the Heartland Institute recently suffered an exodus of corporate sponsors after it launched a billboard comparing those who believe in the science behind global warming to the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. As the movie's stars take to the airwaves this week to promote the film, it is unlikely they will discuss the agenda of the film's billionaire backers or the right-wing politicians and for-profit firms who are promoting the Parent Trigger idea, the purpose of which is to promote the transformation of the American public school system into a for-profit enterprise. We provide a primer below. Hollywood Fiction vs. the Facts on Parent Trigger What is a Parent Trigger law? The proposals have varied from state to state, but they generally allow parents at any failing school, defined by standardized testing, to sign a petition to radically transform the school using any of four "triggers." Parents can petition to: 1) fire the principal, 2) fire half of the teachers, 3) close the school and let parents find another option, or 4) convert the school into a charter school. While the details of how the school can be "restructured" vary from state to state, the charter school option is always present. Charter schools are privately managed, taxpayer-funded public schools which are granted greater autonomy from regulations applicable to other public schools, ostensibly in exchange for greater accountability for results, but they have been criticized for uneven and mediocre track records. The film, starring Oscar nominee Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal, reportedly portrays the struggle of a teacher and a parent who work to transform a low-performing Pennsylvania school, despite resistance from the local union -- cast as the enemy of reform. Together, the African American teacher and the white, single mom unite to overcome hurdles and go door-to-door convincing parents to sign a petition to trigger a transformation. While in reality most teachers do not sign the petitions and teachers are likely to get fired under Parent Trigger laws, "Won't Back Down" has teachers uniting with parents to sign the petition and transform the school. Eventually, 50 percent of teachers sign as well as parents and the intrepid duo finally turns the school into a charter school run by the Viola Davis character. The film portrays Parent Trigger laws as a successful way of inspiring and uniting teachers and parents and the community. The real life history of Parent Trigger is quite different. Only two school districts, both in California, have used the petition mechanism: Compton Unified School District and Adelanto School District. In Compton, a new group called "Parent Revolution" founded by a charter school operator paid individuals to collect signatures to hand the school over to a charter school operator, but the courts threw out the petitions. In Adelanto, parents first signed petitions, then had second thoughts. The school board rejected the petition after parents withdrew their support, resulting in a lawsuit. The courts ruled that parents could not rescind their signatures. The parents had advocated for turning the school into a charter school, a plan which was rejected by the school board. Instead, an advisory panel was created and headed by the superintendent. The legal battles are continuing. Instead of prompting reform-minded unity, both petition drives have been criticized for creating "chaos and division" in the community. Charges of fraud and intimidation abound. "This is destroying friendships and all relationships," one Adelanto parent, Chrissy Guzman-Alvarado, told The New York Times. "With our school divided, parents are scared to speak out or sign anything, and our community is falling apart. All for what?" she asks. ALEC Spreads Parent Trigger Nationwide The first Parent Trigger law was enacted in 2010 in California and, with an assist from Heartland and ALEC, the idea is rapidly spreading. The California law was based on a proposal from Ben Austin, a policy consultant for a small non-profit education organization called Green Dot Public Schools, which manages charter schools for the city of Los Angeles. Austin subsequently formed Parent Revolution, which promotes these laws across the country. But this is not your local PTA. Parent Revolution is backed by big money, including receiving funding from the conservative Walton Family Foundation (think Wal-Mart), which has spent over a billion to promote school privatization. The rabid pro-privatization Heartland Institute quickly took up the Parent Trigger idea in 2010. The Heartland version of the bill (PDF) went a step further and gave parents the authority to trigger a school's restructuring regardless of whether it is "failing" or not. Heartland's version of the bill also calls for a "school voucher" option, which allows students to receive a monetary voucher to attend another private or public school. Voucher or "choice" schools have been criticized for diverting funds from public schools to unaccountable private schools, including for-profit religious and virtual schools. When a new wave of school choice supporters were swept into power at the state level in November 2010, Heartland saw an opportunity to put the Parent Trigger idea on steroids by bringing it to ALEC, the controversial corporate "bill mill." While ALEC has a governing board of state legislators it also has a governing board of corporations, packed with tobacco firms, giant pharmaceutical firms, and energy companies like Exxon Mobil. The ultra-conservative, billionaire Koch Brothers, have had a representative on the board for years and Koch-controlled money has funded ALEC to the tune of at least $1 million, according to estimates calculated by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD). The ALEC Education Task Force voted to approve the "Parent Trigger Act" (PDF) at their critical December 2010 strategy meeting in Washington, D.C., and the idea quickly spread. According to CMD's analysis, ALEC members introduced or cosponsored various versions of the bill in 17 states. At the time, ALEC's education task force was chaired by the for-profit education firm Connections Academy, which specializes in K-12 online education. Others on the task force include tech companies, testing companies and higher-education diploma mills like Bridgepoint Education and Corinthian Education, both of which are under investigation by state Attorneys General for aggressive recruiting policies that leave too many students in debt with no degree. We have seen this pattern before. When the NRA finally succeeded in getting its first "Stand Your Ground" gun law passed into law in Florida, a law implicated in the tragic Trayvon Martin killing, its next step was to bring the bill to ALEC which helped it spread to two dozen other states in short order. Parent Trigger and ALEC were a match made in heaven. ALEC's education bills encompass more than 30 years of effort to privatize public education through an ever-expanding network of school vouchers, an idea first advocated by economist Milton Friedman in the 1950s. ALEC bills also allow schools to loosen standards for teachers and administrators, exclude students with physical disabilities and special educational needs, eschew collective bargaining, and experiment with other pet causes like merit pay, single-sex education, school uniforms, and political and religious indoctrination of students. Parent Trigger "A Clever Way to Trick Parents"? But does it work? The support for Parent Trigger, according to University of Illinois Professor Christopher Lubienski, is based more on ideology than empirical data. Lubienski is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Organization. "There is not good evidence that the options given [after the trigger is pulled] improve student achievement. The goal has more to do with changing school governance and giving opportunities for some of these organizations to get control of the public dollar," Lubienski said. "Policymakers need to look at the factors that actually influence student achievement." "Unfortunately, that points to a lot more difficult issues than simply changing the structure of a school. It's relatively simple to fire the staff and bring in a charter operator. It's more important that kids are getting proper medical attention before they are born, that their mothers are getting the right nutrition at that time, that kids are read to at home, and that they are raised in an environment that values education. This is much more difficult to influence through policy." The data shows that the conversion to charter schools, which Lubienski said is the constant theme running throughout the "Parent Trigger" legislation passed in states, has not shown to be effective in improving student outcomes. A study conducted at Stanford University's Hoover Institution presents evidence that students in only 17 percent of charter school show greater improvement in math and reading than students in similar traditional public schools, whereas 37 percent, deliver learning results that are significantly worse than the student would have realized had they remained in public schools. However, the conversion to charter schools has proven profitable to many U.S. firms such as ALEC member National Heritage Academies, a for-profit charter school management organization operating in eight states, and K-12, Inc., which promotes "virtual" charter schools as well as "virtual" voucher schools. K-12, Inc. is under investigation in Florida for improperly certifying teachers and asking them to cover it up. In short, Parent Trigger laws are a "clever way to trick parents into seizing control of their schools and handing it over to private corporations," according to Diane Ravitch, an education historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education in the first Bush Administration. Philip Anschutz, Right-Wing Billionaire, Owns Production Company "Won't Back Down," is a production of Walden Media, owned by billionaire investor and right-wing extremist Philip Anschutz. Anschutz participates in the Koch brothers' secretive political strategy summits and funds David Koch's Americans for Prosperity group, which backed Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's union busting proposal and is working to defeat Barack Obama and other Democratic candidates across the country. Anschutz bankrolls ALEC and ALEC member groups. In 2010, The Anschutz Foundation, gave ALEC $10,000 and his Union Pacific firm was an ALEC sponsor the following year. The Foundation funded three ALEC members who sat on the ALEC Education Task Force which approved the Parent Trigger Proposal: The Independence Institute, Center for Education Reform, and Pacific Research Institute. Anschutz has also supported the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which backs legislation designed to cripple unions; the Discovery Institute, which seeks to get creation "science" accepted in public schools; and the Mission America Foundation, whose president considers homosexuality to be a "deviance." He also owns the conservative magazine, the Weekly Standard. Walden Media was one of the producers of the pro-charter documentary film "Waiting for 'Superman'." This film was criticized by Diane Ravitch as propaganda and as "a powerful weapon on behalf of those championing the 'free market' and privatization." Rupert Murdoch, Media Mogul and Owner of Education Testing Company, Distributes Film The film is being distributed by 20th Century Fox, owned by News Corp. and media mogul Rupert Murdock. News Corp. owns Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post. Murdoch formerly owned the British newspaper News of the World, which imploded once it was revealed that reporters hacked into the cell phones of the family of a murdered child, as well as the cell phones of the royal family, politicians and celebrities. The paper's top editors and reporters were arrested although Murdoch himself has not been charged. As CMD previously reported, News Corp. has been a member of both ALEC's Education Task Force and Communications and Technology Task Force. Wall Street Journal editorial board member Stephen Moore, is an ALEC "scholar" and both the Wall Street Journal and Fox News have gone to bat for ALEC as member corporations began to flee earlier this year. What is less well known is that News Corp. owns Wireless Generation, a for-profit online education, software, and testing corporation, acquiring it in 2010 for $360 million. News Corp is a member of the ALEC Education Task Force (and News Corp's Wireless Generation was listed as a member in 2012, but they claim that was a mistake). Apparently, Murdoch was anxious to get a piece of the nation's education system, which he describes as a "500 billion sector in the U.S. alone that is waiting desperately to be transformed." News Corp's senior Vice President in charge of its education division is none other than former Chancellor of New York City Schools, Joel Klein, who promoted a corporatist model of education reform. Lubienski, for one is skeptical of "self-proclaimed experts on the topic of education" like Murdoch who "aren't accountable to the public" and who have a profit motive coupled with a political agenda of widespread privatization. Michelle Rhee, Former D.C. Chancellor of Schools, Pushes Parent Trigger The film is being promoted by former Washington, D.C., public schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee. Rhee spoke at both the RNC and DNC screenings of "Won't Back Down," and her involvement underscores what is often the bipartisan nature of the modern "school reform" movement. Her tenure as the head of the D.C. school system was so controversial, she is widely credited with losing D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty's reelection campaign. She was credited with greatly improving test scores in Washington, D.C. schools, but this accomplishment was cast into doubt by a USA Today investigation that suggested that test score gains during her term may have been the result of cheating on the part of school officials. The report found extremely high erasure rates that were statistically anomalous. After resigning from her position in 2010, Rhee went on to start StudentsFirst, a 501(c)4 non-profit organization planning to engage in "direct and grassroots lobbying" on education issues including Parent Trigger. Derrell Bradford, a state director for StudentsFirst, spoke on "Enacting a Comprehensive K-12 Education Reform Agenda" at the 2011 ALEC annual meeting. Rhee's group receives funding from Murdoch, who "has pledged to spend more than $1 billion to bring for-profit schools, including virtual education, to the entire country by electing reform-friendly candidates and hiring top-notch state lobbyists." News Corp's Joel Klein serves on her organization's board. Other supporters include New Jersey hedge funder manager David Tepper, and Alan Fournier (reportedly big backers of Romney). Rhee was also featured in Anschutz's film "Waiting for 'Superman'." Reform or Russian Roulette? The movie ends when the hard work of turning around a struggling school begins. The Hoover Institution study discussed above shows that only 17 percent of charter schools do a better job educating students. With no data backing the benefits of the Parent Trigger proposal, many doubt that throwing a school system into chaos is the best way to improve troubled schools. Chaos does however give the privatizers and the profiteers starring roles in the ongoing debate over the future of the American educational system. This article was updated in June 2013 to clarify that Wireless Generation's parent company NewsCorp is the ALEC member. The Center for Media and Democracy is a non-profit investigative reporting group whose work aids public awareness about the people, companies, and groups attempting to shape the media and our democracy. CMD launched its award winning ALEC Exposed project in July 2011. Our websites are ALECExposed.org, PR Watch.org, SourceWatch.org, BanksterUSA.org, and FoodRightsNetwork.org. ALEC ExposedChildrenCorporationsDemocracyEducationFront GroupsIssue ManagementPublic DiplomacyThird Party TechniqueNews lydell replied on September 20, 2012 - 9:41am Permalink We won't back down..Trigger Just view this on the surface; Won't back down.... What would Tom Petty think of this? Then the title"Trigger"what does the NRA think about that?No gun left behind;as long as YOU set YOUR behind down in a Charter school. What would Roy Rodgers (no not the blues dude) but the sing'n cowboy think? This Won't back down-Trigger stuff is a heap of horse manure! Anonymous replied on September 20, 2012 - 8:30pm Permalink immigration Arizona style anti-immigration laws? The WORDING comes from the FEDERAL LAW. Additonally the Florida 'stand your ground' law, is in response to thugs and young hoodlums attacking the retired masses that have moved to the sunshine state to try to live out their remaining years away from the growing crime rates in the northern cities that think the best way to protect an innocent victim is to disarm them. All your leftwing buzzwords make me think this might be a movie to see.... musicislife replied on September 29, 2012 - 10:25am Permalink crime statistics You need a fact check. The Northeast has lower violent crime rates than the sunshine belt. Here's just one source. http://www.cityrating.com/crime-statistics/ Clifford Spencer replied on September 20, 2012 - 9:56am Permalink Education Was the tzar of education, William Bennett, overpaid? Was the Heritage Foundation concerned about teaching science to our schoolchildren? stevor replied on September 20, 2012 - 10:53am Permalink no to parent trigger laws It's kind of funny that Michelle Rhee is for parent trigger laws. Her husband, Ken Johnson, is creating a charter high school in Sacramento, pretty much using a "trigger law", though it wasn't called that. In that same school district,there's Hiram Johnson High, which had low scores year after year. Eventually, they replaced the principal (3 years ago), had the bottom 200 kids go to other schools, had particular faculty removed, and asked other faculty to leave. So, did it help? Sure, removing the bottom 200 kids helped that school but HURT the school that they went to, C.K. McClatchy High. Those kids have to go somewhere. Those kids did NOT work harder at their new school. So, blaming anybody but the kids AND their parents is where the blame ought to go. PS One reason the scores were so low at Johnson was because HALF the kids would move away each year, playing "musical schools", and be replaced with an equal number also playing "musical schools". The parents of those kids were frequently unemployed and were kicked out of their housing so they had to move. It's folks like Michelle Rhee who are CLUELESS as to what the REAL problems are and they're just bureaucrats who think teaching is a Business. Tracy AP replied on September 20, 2012 - 1:41pm Permalink Rhee and Cheating Read more about Rhee and alleged cheating Mpoy v. District of Columbia et al CA No. 09-1140 (JEB) Filed 6-5-11 waterflaws in Denver replied on September 20, 2012 - 8:16pm Permalink There's no way to change a private school into a public one. There doesn't appear to be a mechanism for changing a private or charter school into a public school? It's a one way valve - down the drain. Pretty soon they'll be scamming the parents out of a fortune in school-loans to pay for their "deluxe" education packages. They'll probably change the laws so that the kids will HAVE TO repay the loans if their parents default. The poor-performing kids will either stay in, or be forced back into, the public schools, where they will lower the testing scores. The poor kids will probably stay there, too. Nasty and greedy bunch, those "conservatives". They think "capitalism" is "democracy and freedom". Edit Barry replied on September 23, 2012 - 3:44pm Permalink Parent Trigger The one good thing this film will do is bring discussions of parent trigger laws and the privatization of public schools into the mainstream. I wrote about this on my tiny little blog, Re:education in Baltimore, almost exactly one year ago (see http://editbarry.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/parent-trigger-straight-outta-compton/), and a colorful back and forth with Maryland state senator Bill Ferguson ensued. He is a Democrat who put forward a trigger-like bill called, more palatably, "The Parent Empowerment Act." It's worth noting that Democrats, too, are pushing for parent trigger legislation. reply Concerned Parent replied on September 24, 2012 - 8:30am Permalink Protest this Horrible Misleading Film I found this petition on change.org and I thought fellow readers may be interested in signing and spreading to fellow parents, educators, and friends of public education. http://www.change.org/petitions/won-t-back-down-boycott-the-film-won-t-back-down-and-maggie-gyllenhaal Anonymous replied on September 30, 2012 - 7:50am Permalink Change petition The petition is gone. Guess ALEC's fingers go clear out into the internet

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Home / Articles / News / Features / Disturbing the Pieces Disturbing the Pieces Is New Mexico doing all it can to protect its ancient history? By Laura Paskus Signs of ancient life are everywhere in New Mexico. Consider the Galisteo Basin, just outside the city of Santa Fe, where hundreds of archaeological sites blanket the ground. These range from drawings etched hundreds of years ago onto boulders and scatters of flaked stone—where someone sat and chipped a tool, leaving behind bits and pieces of rock—to entire villages and sacred ceremonial structures. “Large numbers of people moved into the basin and built eight large pueblos; there are many hundreds—if not well over 1,000—rooms in each of these pueblos,” David Eck, trust land archaeologist with the New Mexico State Land Office, says. “So you’re probably talking about a population of a minimum of 10,000 to 12,000 people scattered across the basin, farming the whole basin.” The eight pueblos were built in the very late 1200s or early 1300s; people lived there until around AD 1500 when the weather became drier and warmer—“and it became hard to make a living,” Eck says. Half of the sites, he adds, were no longer occupied when the Spaniards arrived in the 16th century; the sites bear no signs of chapels, churches or other religious structures associated with the Christianity of the Spanish world. One of the pueblos, Pueblo Blanco, was partially excavated by an archaeologist from the American Museum of Natural History during the early part of the 20th century. In 1981, it was placed on the State Register of Cultural Properties—a list of archaeological sites considered important or special enough to be preserved. Nonetheless, Pueblo Blanco was in danger of being destroyed: Pothunters had looted portions of the pueblo and, most alarmingly, a small arroyo running through the site was eating away at the structures, revealing burials and destroying valuable data that might one day be studied to learn more about the people who once lived here. Three years ago, the state land office appropriated $50,000 to protect Galisteo Basin archaeological sites. At Pueblo Blanco, archaeologists and engineers stabilized the site, building retaining walls and backfilling dirt over exposed areas. They restructured a portion of the drainage to stop more archaeological remains from washing downstream. Eck describes the work as a “really good example of what we’ve been doing,” and Assistant Commissioner Kristen Haase says the State Land Office spends $50,000 to $100,000 each year on archaeological projects. But not everyone believes the State Land Office is properly overseeing the thousands of archaeological resources on state lands. As a result, archaeologists say, history is being lost. Under New Mexico law, sites on state lands are not afforded the same protections as those on lands owned by federal agencies such as the US Bureau of Land Management, National Forest Service or National Park Service. A bill before the state Legislature, if passed, would create more stringent oversight regardless of jurisdiction. Critics say the State Land Office is in particular need of such oversight. While Land Commissioner Pat Lyons maintains there is no destruction of archaeological sites, of the estimated 250,000 such sites on state lands (according to the State Land Office’s Web site), fewer than 5,000 have been identified and documented. Furthermore, the State Land Office does not require its leasees to survey for cultural resources before breaking ground on projects. As a result, New Mexico Archeological Council President Deni Seymour writes in an e-mail to SFR: “Many important archaeological sites are damaged or destroyed, without being recorded or studied.” She adds: “It is sad and it is surprising that a state agency does not see the discovery and protection of cultural resources as part of its obligation and fiduciary responsibility.” Continue reading: Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6 | Page 7 | ';

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Keynote lectures are plenary sessions which are scheduled for taking about 45 minutes + 10 minutes for questions. - Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico - Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal - Anisse Taleb, Ericsson AB, Sweden Keynote Lecture 1 Multimedia Representation in MPEG Standards: Achievements and Challenges Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico - Instituto de Telecomunicações Brief Bio Fernando Pereira was born in Vermelha, Portugal in October 1962. He graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering by Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1985. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from IST, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He is currently Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of IST. He is responsible for the participation of IST in many national and international research projects. He acts often as project evaluator and auditor for various organizations. He is a member of the Editorial Board and Area Editor on Image/Video Compression of the Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal, a member of the IEEE Press Board, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and member of the Scientific and Program Committees of tens of international conferences and workshops. He has contributed more than 180 papers to journals and international conferences. He won the 1990 Portuguese IBM Award and an ISO Award for Outstanding Technical Contribution for his participation in the development of the MPEG-4 Visual standard. He has been participating in the work of ISO/MPEG for many years, notably as the head of the Portuguese delegation, chairman of the MPEG Requirements group, and chairing many Ad Hoc Groups related to the MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 standards. His current areas of interest are video analysis, processing, coding, description, adaptation, and multimedia interactive services. The fast evolution of digital technology in the last decade has deeply transformed the way by which information, notably visual information, is generated, processed, transmitted, stored, and finally consumed. The need for standards in this technological area comes from an essential requirement relevant for all applications involving communication between two or more parts: interoperability. The existence of a standard has also important economical implications since it allows the sharing of costs and investments and the acceleration of applications’ deployment. Among the most relevant standardization achievements in the area of media representation are those by ISO/MPEG and ITU-T, some of them jointly developed such as MPEG-2/H.262. Standards are typically the repositories of the best technology and thus an excellent place to check technology evolution and trends. The ISO/MPEG standardization committee has been responsible for the successful MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 standards that have given rise to widely adopted commercial products and services, such as Video-CD, DVD, digital television, digital audio broadcasting (DAB) and MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio layer 3) players and recorders. More recently, the MPEG-4 standard is aimed to define an audiovisual coding standard to address the emerging needs of the communication, interactive and broadcasting service models as well as of the mixed service models resulting from their technological convergence. Following the same vision underpinning MPEG-4, MPEG initiated after another standardization project addressing the problem of describing multimedia content to allow the quick and efficient searching, processing, filtering and summarization of various types of multimedia material: MPEG-7. After the development of the standards mentioned above, MPEG acknowledged the lack of a “big picture” describing how the various elements building the infrastructure for the deployment of multimedia applications relate to each other or even if there are missing standard specifications for some of these elements. To address this problem, MPEG started the MPEG-21 project, formally called “Multimedia framework” with the aim to understand if and how these various elements fit together, and to discuss which new standards may be required, if gaps in the infrastructure exist. In a similar manner, ITU-T defined standards such as H.261 and H.263 for videotelephony and videoconference over different types of channels and it has just finished developing, jointly with MPEG, the H.264/AVC (Advanced Video Coding) standard. This new standard provided significant improvements in terms of (frame-based) coding efficiency. These ISO/ITU-T joint developments highlight the convergence of technologies for media representation, independently of the transmission and storage media and, most of the times, of the application and business models involved. Currently, MPEG and VCEG are jointly developing a scalable video coding (SVC) standard targeting a similar coding efficiency to state-of-the-art non-scalable standards and a multiview video coding (MVC) standard targeting multiview and free viewpoint applications which should provide the capability to change viewpoint freely by rendering one (real or virtual) view. Both these new standards have some degree of backward compatibility with the H.264/AVC standard. Advances in Speech and Audio Coding and its applications for Mobile Multimedia Anisse Taleb, Ericsson AB, Sweden Anisse Taleb recieved the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France, in 1996 and 1999 respectively. His Ph.D. thesis was among the first reaserch studies on blind source separation involving nonlinear mixtures. He was awarded the INPG Best Thesis Prize in 2000. After a short period, from 2000 to 2001, as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Australian Telecommunication Research Institute, Perth, he joined Ericsson as a research engineer in the field of audio technology. Among other things, he was involved in the development of new generic wideband acoustic echo-canceler for mobile phones, as well as the development of speech and audio bandwidth extension algorithms. Anisse Taleb was heavily invloved in the development and the standardization of the AMR-WB+, a low bitrate audio codec specifically targeted for mobile multimedia applications and which has been standardized by 3GPP (The third generation partnership program). He is currently actively involved in the M-PIPE 6th Framwork European Project where he works on scalable audio coding, he is also active in standardization bodies such as MPEG. His research interests include multichannel audio coding, speech and audio coding, and source coding in general. Abstract: Looking back at the evolution of audio compression technology, there has been tremendous progress the last two decades. With the advent of the digital signal processor, the algorithms for removing redundancy and irrelevances in speech and audio signals have become more sophisticated. The progress in speech compression technology has been strongly driven by telecommunications needs. This is especially true for the cellular phone industry with its desire to always maximize the number of channels per MHz spectrum, thus pushing the limits of speech signal compression. On the other hand generic audio compression technology has been driven by the advent of new distribution channels such as Digital Terrestrial Radio, Digital Satellite Radio and of course the Public Internet and the tremendous success of the MP3 compression format. On top of industry needs, there has been an evolution of user behavior; the users have advanced from being passive content consumers to being actively in search for new compressed online audio content and in general media content. This talk will address the recently standardized audio codecs, the technologies behind their successful adoption and how and why it is believed that they will meet the users needs. A clear focus will be given to mobile applications, more importantly an evaluation of how the quality of these codecs is affected when the available bandwidth is reduced, this will be shown especially for audio-visual applications. Copyright © 2005 INSTICC [Home] [Call for Papers] [Program Committee] [Keynote Lectures] [Tutorials] [Special Sessions] [Paper Templates] [Paper Submission] [Authors Only] [Reviewers Only] [LocalInformation]

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| Wednesday , June 11 , 2014 | In Today's Paper Fund threat to literacy centre SUBHASHISH MOHANTY Bhubaneswar, June 10: The state government’s indifferent attitude is threatening the future of the Centre-funded State Resources Centre for Adult Education in the city. With the state government not adhering to the human resources development ministry’s guidelines regarding the appointment of a regular director, the Centre has threatened to stop funding to the organisation. The human resource development ministry, which regulates the affairs of the centre, is upset that the state government did not follow its directives in appointing a regular director selected by the special governing body of the organisation. The ministry had asked the state government to appoint a regular director, underscoring that the absence of one since June 2012 had been affecting the organisation’s functioning. The 11-member special governing body of the centre, of which school and mass education secretary Usha Padhee is the chairperson, were to finalise a name for the post of director. The governing body had shortlisted three persons for the post. During verification of documents it was found that the person who was number one in the list was an MBA degree holder. His degree was not equivalent to a postgraduate degree. Subsequently, he was disqualified. The ministry asked the state government to appoint the second choice candidate. Instead of appointing a full-time director, the state government gave the charge to a joint secretary of the school and mass education department. “This is in complete violation of the guidelines and proceedings of the special governing body meeting,” a letter from the ministry informed the centre. The ministry also threatened to stop flow of funds to it unless the decision to give charge to the joint secretary was reversed. The centre is responsible for providing literacy support in the form of supplying model teaching learning materials and organising training programmes for the district literacy centres and various non-government organisations across the state. The centre has been working in the state for the past 28 years. The centre is supposed to carry out the “Saakshar Bharat Programme” in the state’s 10 districts, including Kalahandi, Balangir, Sundargarh, Mayurbhanj, Angul, Sambalpur, Bargarh, Nuapada, Sonepur and Deogarh, where the female literacy percentage is below 50 per cent. At present, the campaign remains confined to a few pockets of Kalahandi, Balangir and Sundargarh. The newly appointed school and mass education minister Debi Prasad Mishra said: “I am new to this department. I will look into the issue.” More stories in Front Page • Fund threat to literacy centre • Exports up in May, but trade gap widens • JDU sees cash conspiracy • Jaitley ignores V.K. Singh's tweet, says appointment of Gen Dalbir Singh as Army Chief final • Jarring note on demolition • Before BJP serial, a friend stands out • Congress demands dismissal of V.K. Singh from ministry over tweet • Jaitley asks his ministry to explain court statement on Gen Singh, now a fellow minister • Rajat Gupta moves US Supreme Court in last-ditch effort to avoid jail • Just arrived, from Gujarat • Nifty tops 7,700 for first time, Sensex at new high on fund inflows • Another child horror story • Gogoi parries crisis poser • Knock-knock season in Bengal Copyright © 2016 The Telegraph. All rights reserved.

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DONALD J. TRUMP NEXT U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP NEXT U.S. PRESIDENT IOWA GOES FOR TRUMP You are hereHome » CHOIRS GIVE BACK: Show choirs help out fellow performers CHOIRS GIVE BACK: Show choirs help out fellow performers COLUMBIA CITY — For students who are involved in multiple school and extra-curricular activities, time and energy can become depleted. But in the middle of competition season, when Saturdays start early and end late, Columbia City High School’s show choir students have dug deep to find more time and more energy to serve another Indiana show choir.Recently, students held a fundraiser at Dairy Queen, Columbia City, with some $500 raised for a competing choir.Austin High School, in southern Indiana, is the home of Dimensions, a small-mixed show choir. On the way to compete at Northrop High School, Fort Wayne, in January, a slick interstate sent the choir’s equipment truck and trailer in a ditch.With the accident, the choir suffered the loss of its trailer, instruments as well as most of its equipment and supplies.Kathy Sego is Dimension’s director. She said the choir did not own its trailer but rented one. Because of that arrangement, the contents of the trailer were not insured and the choir was left to replace the items at its own cost.As word reached Columbia City choir students of the fate that fell on Dimensions, ideas starting forming on how local performers could help.“All we could do was think of how our kids would be effected if this happened to us,” said Mary Ann Vorndran a choir parent. “We knew we had to do something. The kids were excited to help.” Although CCHS choirs would compete against AHS choirs, scores and trophies were the farthest thing from students’ minds.“When you are in show choir you belong to a family,” said Sego. “When something happens to a choir, it just seems that people pull together. Yes, we compete against each other, but we also know how to work together.”Dimension is a choir located in one of the poorest counties in Indiana. That makes the privilege of being in the choir that much more important to the students.“For some, this choir is the one thing they belong to,” said Sego. “As soon as the accident happened the kids thought we would have to stop our competition season.”But Sego wasn’t going to let that happen. “I told the kids we would figure it out,” she said. “It speaks volumes to these kids that students all the way in northeast Indiana would care. The fact that Columbia City choirs wanted to help us is just remarkable. They don’t even know my kids. The only thing we have in common is show choir. It is just amazing what they have done for us”Austin’s choir will have to replace its backdrop, storage containers, makeup, trusses and more. However, Sego is not disheartened. It’s through this set back that she intends to teach her students that anyone can make a come back.“We just got up and went on. We are not giving up,” Sego said. “No one was badly hurt in the accident ­— that is a blessing. I knwo God will use this as a chance to pull us that much closer together. We will also have a very special connection with the choirs in Columbia City simply because they took time out of their busy schedule to help us and care about us. That means more than any amount of money.”

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The Times Herald (http://www.timesherald.com) WHITPAIN — Greg Meinhardt, a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, doesn’t mince words when describing the transition from the military to college. “Potty training and walking was easier,” he said. “I only had to deal with one person, my mom.” Now, Meinhardt, a Souderton Area High School graduate from Harleysville who attends Montgomery County Community College, finds himself surrounded by other students he describes as “ignorant 18-year-olds.” “Your maturity is so much higher,” said Meinhardt, 25, who spent more than five years in the Marines and was discharged in February 2011. “Being stuck in a classroom with them is awful.” Meinhardt has found support through the Student Veterans Organization, a peer networking group for student vets. Thanks to a $115,000 grant from the nonprofit Collegiate Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development, the college recently converted a building into a Veterans Resource Center where student vets can have a quiet place to study and hang out together. “We wanted to provide a space where it’s OK to be in transition,” said Ann Marie Donohue, associate professor of psychology and adviser to the Student Veterans Organization. As a result of the Post-9/11 GI Bill, which went into effect in August 2009, Montco has seen the number of veterans on campus nearly double, said George Pannebaker, veterans’ academic adviser. In 2008, there were 180 vets on the main campus. Now, there’s about 400. About 85 percent are men and 15 percent are women, he said. It’s remarkable, particularly because Montco doesn’t do any special outreach to vets. During the Vietnam era, the U.S. Veterans Administration had representatives on college campuses to help student veterans ease into college life, Pannebaker said. “After the war, that went away,” he said. “And during this war, the VA has not done anything like that at all.” In early 2008, Pannebaker, a veteran who has experience working at the VA, was hired to help student vets with the transition. Pannebaker has had prospective students call or email him while they’re still serving overseas, trying to plan ahead for when they’re discharged. “It helps having someone here who understands the VA,” he said. “It gives them a contact. They might not understand the benefits they’re entitled to, they don’t trust the big system. The real key to the kingdom is that I see them individually, and see what their concerns are. They’re not always academic.” The transition to college can be overwhelming, Donohue said. “I’ve had vets say to me, ‘I don’t fit in. I don’t belong. I hated it in Iraq, but some days I wish I was still there because at least I had a place there,’” she said. “We are utterly oblivious of what we ask of people when we send them into war,” she continued. “We need to have a better reception, a better bridge.” Matt Benko is a readjustment counseling therapist with the Montgomery County Vet Center. He was discharged from the Air Force in 2002 after serving four years in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. He comes to Moncto’s Veterans Resource Center once a week to counsel student vets. Benko remembers what it felt like to be back in civilian life after serving. “I compare it to a dog being let off the leash for the first time — what do I do?” he said. “In hindsight, something like this sure would have been nice if it had been around when I got out,” he added. He worked as a truck driver and bartender before attending college and obtaining his master’s degree. He now serves in the National Guard. Robert Clark is with Pennsylvania CareerLink of Montgomery County, which helps veterans with training and employment. A Desert Storm vet, he can also understand the difficulty with the transition. At 25, he decided to enroll in college in California, where he is from. “I was older than the other students, I was older than some of the instructors,” Clark said. “The mindset was ultra naive, a mindset of stupidity. I did more by the time I was 22 than most people do their entire lives.” By giving student vets a place where they’re understood, it’s setting them up for success, he said. “We know what true venting is,” Clark said. “This is giving them a safety net, a sense of community.” Meinhardt said he has always tended to keep people at a distance, but he’s glad to have found kinship on campus. “Now that I have people I can talk to, things are better,” he said. “It’s a million times better to know someone is there.”

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Background Off Restore Page Background On Although beautiful year-round, Carolina’s campus is particularly scenic when leaves change color each fall. Search UNC.edu, People or Places UNC.edu People Places Search Text Search Submit Calendar | Libraries | Departments | ConnectCarolina Home » Discover UNC » Inventions Galore Text: Increase font size Decrease font size Dr. Joe DeSimone holds a drum of PRINT(r) molds, which can manufacture customizable and controllable nanobiomaterials for the diagnosis and treatment of disease. PRINT's promising applications include optical films, solar cells and material sciences. Physicists Chris Clemens and Chuck Evans and computer scientist Russ Taylor created photovoltaic systems for utility-scale power generation applications. Each unit makes approximately 1.0 kW of reliable, low-cost DC power. (Coke Whitworth) Former Chancellor Holden Thorp – then professor of chemistry – joined a team of researchers in creating the first liquid form of DNA. Inventions Galore Dozens of groundbreaking inventions have been born at UNC-Chapel Hill, several of them in the medical world. Among them is Joe DeSimone’s nanoparticle drug delivery, a breakthrough using the world’s tiniest man-made particles that could revolutionize cancer treatment. DeSimone is the Chancellor’s Eminent Professor in the Department of Chemistry. Equally revolutionary is longtime former medical faculty member Etta Pisano’s low-dose x-ray machine, which captures higher-quality images while emitting less radiation than a standard machine. Chemist Mike Ramsey’s research has resulted in two successful companies that sell products such as a handheld mass spectrometer, which can be used to detect chemical weapons, spills in hospitals and in other settings. Ramsey is the Minnie N. Goldby Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, director of the Center for Biomedical Microtechnologies and a founding member of the department of applied physical sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences. Michael Ramsey holds his Lab-on-a-Chip. A second invention of Ramsey’s is in the field of microfluidics, which he coined as Lab-on-a-Chip technology. Rather than forming tiny wires and switches for electronic devices such as smart phones, Ramsey formed tiny conduits or pipes, the width of which are on the scale of the diameter of a human hair or smaller, to transport liquids containing chemicals and biological molecules and perform experiments that are normally conducted in test tubes and beakers. The ability to perform laboratory operations on small scales using miniaturized lab-on-a-chip devices has brought a new approach to the world of chemistry and medicine, where they can be used in more efficient drug discovery and low-cost, rapid medical diagnostics. Other faculty member created towelettes that can safely remove difficult-to-clean anticancer drugs commonly found on surfaces in hospitals, pharmacies, clinics and labs. The product, called Hazardous Drug Clean – or HDClean – addresses the safety of health care workers who handle the potentially dangerous drugs. The towelettes were invented by Stephen Eckel, an adjunct professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, and William Zamboni, an associate professor in pharmacy. More than 50 companies based on Carolina inventions have been launched, too. Pharmacy professor Anthony Hickey and Timm Crowder, Ph.D., turned their invention of a dry powder inhaler into a company called Oriel Therapeutics, which now holds eight patents. These are just a few of UNC-Chapel Hill’s advancements that are making the world a healthier place. For more info about UNC inventions, patents and research, visit the Office of Technology Development. Undergraduates & Burning Questions University Operator: (919) 962-2211 | © 2014 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Manage Website

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VQ Home • Write Us• Advertise Alumni News & Service President's Perspective Winter 1998 In Memoriam UVM alumni lost on September 11, 2001 Carlton W. Bartels G’85 “was not afraid of life, was passionate about it and lived every minute of it,” a family member told the Staten Island Advance. Bartels, who earned his MBA at the University of Vermont, was a partner at Cantor Fitzgerald and was CEO of his own dot-com company, CO2E.com, which helped other companies and governments reduce emissions worldwide. “Carlton was one of the top five people in the world in his industry,” said his wife, Jane Bartels. He had a strong sense of fun, was an avid outdoorsman and cook, and was devoted to his family life with Jane and their two daughters, Melina, 7, and Eva, 4. Brandon Buchanan ’99 grew up in the countryside of western New York, but was drawn to the business world and the pace of New York City. He took a job as an equity trader with Cantor Fitzgerald after earning his degree at UVM. Twelve hour days were standard, as was the good life of a young man in New York City. His father notes that Buchanan often had plans to see the Knicks or the Yankees play. Following the September 11 tragedy, several of Buchanan’s friends from his days at UVM headed to Manhattan, where they joined in the search, passing photos around, and scouring hospitals for their friend and fellow alum. Paul Cascio ’94 was on the 84th floor of Tower 2 when he and a co-worker went to the aid of a man in distress, Cascio’s aunt Diane Regan Stuart reported. “That is something Paul would do. His instinct was always to help others. He is a hero in the truest sense of the word,” Stuart said. She added that Cascio’s years at UVM were “some of the happiest in his brief but full life.” Robert Lawrence, Jr. ’82 was remembered as a big-hearted man who had put family at the center of his life. “We have a very large extended family, and Bob was kind of the glue,” cousin David Lawrence told the New Jersey Star-Ledger. “The most important thing to him was his daughter, son, and his wife. And all the rest of his family.” Lawrence was married to fellow UVM alum Suzanne Burns ’82. He had just started a new job with investment banking firm Sandler O’Neill & Partners, with offices in the World Trade Center, on September 10. Rajesh Mirpuri transferred to New York University after beginning his studies at the University of Vermont. Though he was on campus for just one year, Mirpuri made many friends in Burlington and is fondly remembered by those who came to know him. Mirpuri worked in midtown Manhattan, where he was vice president of sales for the financial software firm Data Synapse, but was attending a financial technology conference at the World Trade Center the morning of September 11. Friends described Mirpuri as a man who loved the Manhattan nightlife and fine dining, but who was also devoted to his family, his Hindu faith, and volunteer work to benefit the elderly and homeless. Cesar Murillo ’91 called his wife, Alyson Becker ’92, as he tried to escape from the 104th floor of the World Trade Center. Fleeing down the stairwell, he told his wife that he loved her. The couple had been married just short of one year, their October 2000 ceremony had included many of their friends from undergraduate days at UVM. Murillo, who worked as an equity salesman for Cantor Fitzgerald, studied political science at the university and was a member of Sigma Phi fraternity. A native of Colombia, Murillo was also very active in diversity issues at UVM. In honor of his commitment to diversity, Murillo’s friends have established the Cesar Augusto Murillo Memorial Fund, which will benefit minority students at the university. Martin Niederer ’99 came to UVM with a passion for basketball and left focused on a career in the business world. A sophomore-year field trip to the New York City financial markets inspired Niederer to study business, and after graduation he quickly landed a job right where he wanted to be — working on Wall Street. A year ago, Niederer was recruited to work for Cantor Fitzgerald and he was at his desk early, as usual, on September 11 when Tower 1 was hit. Former Catamount coaches and teammates numbered among the many at a memorial service held in Niederer’s hometown of Annandale, N.J. Joshua Piver ’00 loved to take friends visiting New York City up to the deck atop the World Trade Center, five floors above his office. He was in his office at Cantor Fitzgerald when the first airliner hit the north tower. Attending a candlelight prayer service held at a local church in Piver’s hometown of Stonington, Conn., his friend Leah Dann told a New York Times reporter, “He’s the most easy-going, fun-loving guy. Everyone got along with him. I’ve never known him to argue with anyone, even raise his voice. He’s just the best.” Piver earned his UVM bachelor’s degree in economics and started work at Cantor Fitzgerald shortly after graduation. Eric Ropiteau ’00 was hired by TradeSpark, a division of Cantor Fitzgerald, as a broker’s assistant in June. The art major had moved to New York two months following graduation with hopes of working as a professional model. When that path didn’t appear to be opening, Ropiteau, who also studied economics at UVM, had begun the transition to the financial industry. His classmate Joshua Piver had helped Ropiteau land the job at Cantor Fitzgerald, and both members of the Class of 2000 were on the 105th floor of Tower 1 on the morning of September 11. Matthew Sellitto ’00 worked in Cantor Fitzgerald’s offices on the 105th floor of the World Trade Center. Shortly after one of the hijacked planes hit the tower, Sellitto called his father. “Matthew will be remembered as full of faith and full of love with a strength that led him in his final moments to call his father to say, ‘I love you all,’” said the Rev. Anthony Carrozzo at a Mass held for Sellitto in Harding Township, N.J. In a tribute to his older brother, Jonathan Sellitto dedicated the song “Brokedown Palace,” by the Grateful Dead, one of Matthew’s favorite bands. “Fare you well, fare you well/I love you more than words can tell/Listen to the river sing sweet songs/to rock my soul.” John W. Wright, Jr. ’89 was a managing director for investment banking firm Sandler O’Neill & Partners, where he had worked for five years. He was in his office on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center’s Tower 2 on the morning of September 11. His wife, Martha Oliverio Wright (also a member of UVM’s Class of 1989), said that her husband called her after the first WTC attack and Öve minutes prior to the plane hitting his building. “His voice was calm and he told me that he was all right. He said that he would call me back later, but I never did get to speak to him again.” Wright lived in Rockville Centre, N.Y. with his wife, and their three children, Emily, 4; Robert, 2; and John W. III, who was three weeks old in September. Martha Wright said that in addition to spending time with his family, her husband enjoyed boating, fishing, and skiing.

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PORTSMOUTH SPECIAL EDUCATION Programs and Services ENGLISH AS A SECONDARY LANGUAGE - ESL The Portsmouth School District has a well-established ESL program. The goal of the program is to help students from other language backgrounds learn and use English effectively, succeed academically and become productive contributing citizens while continuing to cherish their cultural heritage. The program welcomes students from all races and nationalities Currently, there are a total of 45 ESL students from 17 different language backgrounds studying in the Portsmouth Schools. The program is staffed by a certified ESL teacher and two, full time, trained tutors. One tutor is stationed at the Dondero School while the other, at the Little Harbor School. It is the responsibility of the teacher to teach all ESL students both at the Middle School and the High School. The teacher also travels to the other three schools to coach the tutors, administer assessments and also perform other related tasks. Most of the ESL students receive individual or small group ESL instruction daily. ESL is a credited course both at the Middle School and at the High School. During 1999, close to 75% of the ESL students at the secondary level were on the school honor roll. A few of them even achieved the highest honor.

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UVA Home People/Web Search UVA Calendar UVA Collab YOUTH VIOLENCE PROJECT YVP Home The Virginia Student Threat Assessment Guidelines Evidence-based program listed with the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices Update: The threat assessment manual, Guidelines for Responding to Student Threats of Violence, is no longer available from the original publisher (Sopris), but new copies are now available from Amazon.com. Provides schools with a safe, structured, and efficient way to respond to student threats of violence Documented effectiveness in two field-tests and three controlled studies Our newest study shows lower rates of suspension and racial disparities in suspensions in schools using our model Reduces long-term suspensions and bullying, an alternative to zero tolerance that keeps students in school Used in more than 2,700 schools in 14 states One-day training for multidisciplinary school teams Dr. Cornell explains what threat assessment is and how it works (Taken from an interview with 1070 WINA's Morning News with Rick and Jane.) Although both the FBI and Secret Service reports made a compelling case for student threat assessment, schools had no experience with this approach and there were many questions concerning the practical procedures that should be followed. In response, researchers at the University of Virginia developed a set of guidelines for school administrators to use in responding to a reported student threat of violence. Threat assessment teams are trained in a six-hour workshop that prepares them to use a 145-page threat assessment manual (Cornell & Sheras, 2006). The Virginia model of threat assessment is an approach to violence prevention that emphasizes early attention to problems such as bullying, teasing, and other forms of student conflict before they escalate into violent behavior. School staff members are encouraged to adopt a flexible, problem-solving approach, as distinguished from a more punitive, zero tolerance approach to student misbehavior. As a result of this training, the model is intended to generate broader changes in the nature of staff-student interactions around disciplinary matters and to encourage a more positive school climate in which students feel treated with fairness and respect. Consistent with this goal, a pre-post survey study of 351 school staff members who completed the Virginia workshop found that participants became less anxious about the possibility of a school homicide, more willing to use threat assessment methods to help students resolve conflicts, and less inclined to use a zero tolerance approach (Allen, Cornell, Lorek, & Sheras, 2008). Similar effects were found for principals, psychologists, counselors, social workers, and law enforcement officers. The Virginia guidelines follow a seven-step decision-tree. In brief, the first three steps constitute a triage process in which the team leader (a school administrator such as the principal or assistant principal) investigates a reported threat and determines whether the threat can be readily resolved as a transient threat that is not a serious threat. Examples of transient threats are jokes or statements made in anger that are expressions of feeling or figures of speech rather than expressions of a genuine intent to harm someone. Any threat that cannot be clearly identified and resolved as transient is treated as a substantive threat. Substantive threats always require protective action to prevent the threat from being carried out. The remaining four steps guide the team through more extensive assessment and response based on the seriousness of the threat. In the most serious cases, the team conducts a safety evaluation that includes both a law enforcement investigation and a mental health assessment of the student. The culmination of the threat assessment is the development of a safety plan that is designed to address the problem or conflict underlying the threat and prevent the act of violence from taking place. For both transient and substantive threats, there is an emphasis on helping students to resolve conflicts and minimizing the use of zero-tolerance suspensions as a disciplinary response. Virginia Youth Violence Project, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia Postal Address: P.O. Box 400270, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4270 Delivery Address: 405 Emmet Street, Charlottesville, VA 22903 Email: [email protected] Guidelines for Responding to Student Threats of Violence Threat Assessment Research Talking to Children About Terrorism Curry’s Cornell Co-Edits ‘Columbine a Decade Later: The Prevention of Homicidal Violence in Schools’ Dewey Cornell, Professor of Education The Virginia Model for Student Threat Assessment Threat Assessment Training 405 Emmet Street; Charlottesville, VA 22904. For the best experience of this site, you will need to enable Javascript. Learn more about Javascript and how to enable it in your browser.

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Davidson Journal Quillen Named to Presidential Advisory Council by Davidson College President Barack Obama has appointed Davidson College President Carol E. Quillen as a member of the newly constituted President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability for Young Americans. She was among 15 members named on Wednesday to the council. It will be chaired by John W. Rogers Jr., the Chair, CEO, and Chief Investment Officer of Ariel Investments. José Cisneros, the Treasurer of the City and County of San Francisco, will serve as vice-chair. President Obama created the new President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability for Young Americans by signing Executive Order 13646 on June 25, 2013. The council is charged with advising the President and the Secretary of the Treasury on ways to promote financial capability among young Americans. It will seek ways to encourage building the financial capability of young people at an early stage in schools, families, communities, and the workplace, and through use of technology. The council will seek to identify ways to build public-private partnerships between various governmental agencies concerned with youth. It will support ongoing research and evaluation of financial education for young people, and determine and disseminate effective approaches. It will identify strategies to promote financial literacy in schools, test promising approaches to increase planning, saving and investing for retirement by young people, and promote the importance of planning for financial success. The council will hold its first meeting on March 10. Quillen was named President of Davidson in August 2011. Previously, she was Vice President for International and Interdisciplinary Initiatives at Rice University. Quillen also was a member of the Rice history faculty, director of its Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance, and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. She earned a bachelor's degree from The University of Chicago and a doctorate degree from Princeton University.

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The Bible Itself Tells Us Ancient People Were Very Superstitious! Many Christians claim that ancient people were not that superstitious compared to our own age. They do this in order to help bolster the purportedly historical claims of their faith. The longest chapter in my book takes the Bible at face value and asks what it says about the beliefs of ancient people. That is, if the Bible is true, and it says ancient people were superstitious, then they were, period.What I found was that Biblical people were superstitious to the core. Now someone might argue that there were literate and skeptical people in the ancient world, and there most certainly were. But the people who were reached by the message of Christianity, the masses for the most part, can be overwhelmingly described as superstitious.Here's just one example of many many I could offer:Acts 19:23-41: The Riot in Ephesus.23 “About that time there arose a great disturbance about the Way. 24 A silversmith named Demetrius, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought in no little business for the craftsmen. 25 He called them together, along with the workmen in related trades, and said: “Men, you know we receive a good income from this business. 26 And you see and hear how this fellow Paul has convinced and led astray large numbers of people here in Ephesus and in practically the whole province of Asia. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all. 27 There is danger not only that our trade will lose its good name, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be discredited, and the goddess herself, who is worshiped throughout the province of Asia and the world, will be robbed of her divine majesty.”While it's probably an exaggeration to say that this goddess "is worshiped throughout the province of Asia and the world," certainly most all people in and around Ephesus did. There were undoubtedly many people throughout the known world who did also.Who is Artemis, anyway? From Microsoft Encarta: “Artemis, in Greek mythology, is one of the principal goddesses, counterpart of the Roman goddess Diana. She was the daughter of the god Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of the god Apollo. She was chief hunter to the gods and goddess of hunting and of wild animals, especially bears. Artemis was also the goddess of childbirth, of nature, and of the harvest. As the moon goddess, she was sometimes identified with the goddesses Selene and Hecate.”“Although traditionally the friend and protector of youth, especially young women, Artemis prevented the Greeks from sailing to Troy during the Trojan War until they sacrificed a maiden to her. According to some accounts, just before the sacrifice, she rescued the victim, Iphigenia. Like Apollo, Artemis was armed with a bow and arrows, which she often used to punish mortals who angered her. In other legends, she is praised for giving young women who died in childbirth a swift and painless death.”Now Christian...tell me this, do you think there is any evidence for the existence of Artemis? Any? Then why did these ancient people believe in Artemis? Because it was a good story, it explained some things, and they were polytheistic people. No evidence. Just a good story to help them through life.....right?28 “When they heard this, they were furious and began shouting: “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” 29 Soon the whole city was in an uproar. The people seized Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul’s traveling companions from Macedonia, and rushed as one man into the theater. 30 Paul wanted to appear before the crowd, but the disciples would not let him. 31 Even some of the officials of the province, friends of Paul, sent him a message begging him not to venture into the theater.”Even though the text attributes financial motive to Demetrius, the overwhelming reaction is that the initial crowd overwhelmingly believed in Artemis.32 “The assembly was in confusion: Some were shouting one thing, some another. Most of the people did not even know why they were there. 33 The Jews pushed Alexander to the front, and some of the crowd shouted instructions to him. He motioned for silence in order to make a defense before the people. 34 But when they realized he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison for about two hours: ‘Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!’”Even if some of these Ephesians hadn't known why they were there, they did know what they believed--with fanaticism! Two hours! Artemis! Artemis! Artemis! It would seem as if they were in a pep rally or something. Did they try to reason with Paul? No! They shouted. It kinda reminds me of Militant Muslims with their guns in the air and shooting off round after round. Fanaticism. Mythology.35 “The city clerk quieted the crowd and said: “Men of Ephesus, doesn’t all the world know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image, which fell from heaven? 36 Therefore, since these facts are undeniable, you ought to be quiet and not do anything rash. 37 You have brought these men here, though they have neither robbed temples nor blasphemed our goddess. 38 If, then, Demetrius and his fellow craftsmen have a grievance against anybody, the courts are open and there are proconsuls. They can press charges. 39 If there is anything further you want to bring up, it must be settled in a legal assembly. 40 As it is, we are in danger of being charged with rioting because of today’s events. In that case we would not be able to account for this commotion, since there is no reason for it.” 41 After he had said this, he dismissed the assembly.”Here's a pragmatic clerk in the midst of fanaticism. But can you imagine any town clerk in America dealing with the same problem...and admitting the things he did: "these facts are undeniable." That's the difference between them and us today, I think. These people were definitely overwhelmingly superstitious, and had no evidence for the existence of Artemis, except religious experiences which can be interpreted according to their own beliefs. These people would believe any good story if told sincerely, wouldn't they? And so, the competition between religious truth claims would be in who had the best story, wouldn't it, even if old beliefs die hard, like in Ephesus.But the Christian gospel story had to win, because it couldn't be topped--about a God who died for the world's sins! And Paul established a church there.My question is whether there is any evidence for the Christian story too. It didn't require any in the ancient past, but it does now. And if that's the case, then why should I believe in any of these religious stories of the past...any of them. I have more rigorous scientific and philosophical standards, as do all educated modern people today. I think you have a very odd definition of superstitious. What you've described from Acts is religious belief, yes. But if you're equating religious belief with superstition then your argument that the Bible shows people are superstitious is lacking a point. The Bible does state that people have religious beliefs. My question is: so what? What difference does it make? What does it prove to say that? John,Here's a bit more. Acts 17:23, Paul makes the point outright: "...men of Athens! I see in every way you are very religious." That would be NIV, KJV uses the word "superstitious" instead of "religious." Paul also has a very odd definiton of superstitious. My point, Calvin, because you missed it, is that these people believed in religious stories without needing evidence, and that to me is superstitious thinking. I know it's true that what one considers superstition may not be considered so by another. But surely you yourself would see how superstitious these people were to whom Paul told some tall tales.And I said no wonder Paul's story won the day--because it was a bigger tale. And so the question for me is why should I consider Paul's story with any more evidential support than their stories?Paul, I know I know. I've documented most all of them. Consider also the fact that these ancient people were quick to think that the gods can take up human form (Acts 14:11 & Acts 28:6). How many people do you know who would conclude this in today's modern educated world?And we today are supposed to believe that Christians had a different (skeptical?) mindset from their contemporaries? It's a legitimate question which I and the bloggers here have answered with a resounding "NO!" What is interesting about this tale is a common reaction to a different religion that we still see predominantly today. It is human tendency not to debunk the other position, but rather to bolster their own. As you point out, the crowd does not question Paul, or point out the problems they view in his religion. Rather they figure whoever shouts the loudest wins.How many Christians have read the Qur’an? Or the Book of Mormon? Or studied Islam or Christian Science? Relatively vary few. The way in which most Christians “debunk” competing religions, is to immerse themselves in their own.In the same way, how many people would have even cared to respond, let alone refute early Christianity? There were at least 20 different sects of Judaism that we know of. They have enough in-fighting among themselves, let alone with the Romans to worry about some new upstart religion. Such Messianic claims came and went.And which Christianity to even be skeptical of? Paul’s claims to the gentiles? James’ hold on the church in Jerusalem? The Galilean church? The Johannine Church? The Nazarenes, or The Way, or Peterine, or Judaizers, or Gnostics, or Apollos’ followers?And then we have the Roman Gods of each town and city, all competing for their piece of the action. We have the mystic cults, the druidic cults, and the Mithra cults.People believed in crying statutes, healing pools, howling at the moon, earthquakes at great events, and virgin births with gods. Even Josephus, who we rely upon as an intelligible historian succumbs to recording the occasional miracle. And now some guy comes to our city and tells of this new religion (sounding similar to another resurrected savior cult) about events that happened years ago in another land? Easiest way to set this straight—“Artemis! Artemis! Artemis!” another post bites the dust for John: http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2006/05/debunking-reading-comprehension.html another post bites the dust for Johnonly in the myopic mind of Paul Manureta John, John-Boy, thanks for exposing the claptrap of the sadistic religion called Christianity. I for one appreciate every time I can come here and have my own thinking challenged beyond the myths Christianity peddle as the “truth” and “revelation” of a god. This blog has helped me to realize their imaginary deity is no less “incredible” or “supernatural” than the Pagan gods, and it bolster my rejection of all that Christianity stands for. My sincere appreciation to all the contributors here. Beyond that, I wasn’t sure if I should get your book, but if it contains material such as this, then I am definitely ordering. I didn’t want to own yet another book that addresses the same apologetics, so I am ordering … I have been doubting Christianity for a while now. I am a minister and have been educated at a prestigious seminary.As I searched the internet for reasons for/against wht I believed, someone referrd me over here.At first I read many posts here nad was stimulated by the content. As I searched through previous posts and saw links to triablogue I started readem them as well. I figured I should keep an open mind.I must say that the guys at triablogue have seriously dismantled the folks over here. I can't tell you what a blessing and encouragment it has been for me to see no-nonsense Christians defending their beliefs. With all due respect, John, you have been completely taken apart. Mike,Thanks for your honesty. If I may ask, of what theological/philosophical persuasion are you? Reformed?Also, what arguments do you feel the Christian religion has better answers for? Our origins? Our morality? The problem of evil?Keep reading, and commenting, if you please.Best regards,Daniel For those interested, the Triabloguers have written three posts and some comments over at their site about this thread. Mike, is this an intelligence contest or something? I do not believe, and the reason I don't believe is because I see things differently. I use my education and intelligence to help others see what I see. But if what I say is doesn't do this then it might not be because I don't have the needed intelligence or the eductational background, because I do. It might be because you are blinded by your faith and want to hear what they are saying. And who's to judge which is true here?Apparently you think they are winning something here. Bully for you. For me it's not a contest. I do not believe, and the reasons I offer are sufficient for me...that's all I can do, and that's all you can do too.Thanks for reading. Comment all you like. John,"is this an intelligence contest?" bingo.One of the things I look for in christians is evidence that they are different from the rest of us. but what i see is the same attitudes, methods that are common to all people. the point becomes 'winning' the argument, saying the most clever thing as opposed to discerning the truth. i went around and around with a christian on another post here, on this topic, and he never got it. i hold christians to a higher standard because thier doctrine does, i.e. "we'll know they are christians by their love", etc. or how about being a "fool for Christ?" (all i see is a desperate effort to seem intelligent) if Jesus lives inside of them, where is the evidence? to me debunking is simply exposing what is false, not beating up on someone (though a fair amount of that happens here to). what we often see here is sparring to 'win' a contest of words, which to me is very revealing, that we're all playing at the same game.

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MiTools WolvAccess RmScheduling Search – or – go to U–M & Directory search Search Find a person News Bradley Named U-M Senior Fellow in Society of Fellows Dr. Robert Bradley Ann Arbor, MI — June 19, 2013 — Dr. Robert Bradley, professor of dentistry in the Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, has been appointed by U-M President Mary Sue Coleman to serve the University as a Senior Fellow in the Society of Fellows. Bradley is the first School of Dentistry faculty member to be named to the eminent group. Each year four outstanding applicants in the social, physical and life sciences, and in the professional schools are appointed to three-year fellowships. All possess reputations as distinguished scholars, researchers or creative artists. The Society of Fellows is an interdisciplinary intellectual community in which postdoctoral Fellows are joined by Senior Fellows to discuss their work. Fellows are expected to participate in monthly colloquia, attend Society functions and engage in discussions with other members about their intellectual interests. They also participate in the annual evaluation of new applicants for the Society, serve as evaluators for the Distinguished Dissertations Awards sponsored by the Rackham Graduate School, and act as mentors for graduate students completing their dissertations. The Society of Fellows was established in 1970 under the auspices of the Rackham Graduate School. Email Contact Web Admins University of MichiganSchool of Dentistry1011 North University AvenueAnn Arbor, MI 48109734.763.6933

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Tag Archives: Jim Peterson Renaissance Revisited! 20 TagsArnold O. Beckman, best science museums in country, County Supervisor Pat Bates, Dan Bolar, David Horowitz, Discovery Science Center, DSC's Adopt-A-Class, DSC's Eco Challenge exhibit, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Jack and Mary Norberg, Jim Peterson, Joe Adams, Michael Ramirez, National Medal of Service, OC Waste & Recycling, Renaissance: Celebration of Innovation, Richard and Cheryll Ruzsat, Rick Baily, Sandi and Dale Dykema Joining me at the Discovery Science Center’s “Renaissance, A Celebration of Innovation” gala was board member Tom McDorman, left, and DSC President Joe Adams You can always count on guests attending the Discovery Science Center’s annual gala embracing the theme, and this year was no exception. Dubbed “Renaissance, a Celebration of Innovation,” I saw musketeers, beefeaters, popes, padres, knights, court jesters, and ladies dressed in long flowy robes with matching headdresses. There even a few peasants lolling about, and I spotted a Merlin in the crowd with a long white beard! One of my favorites from that period was Robin Hood, and I must admit, Discovery Science Center President Joe Adams looked the spitting image of the heroic outlaw. Thank you, Joe!! More than 350 guests gathered for the costumed affair at Montage Laguna Beach, where “Black Death” martinis were offered by masked waiters during the alfresco reception. The atmosphere was electric as the crowd of supporters were extolling the honor that Discovery Science Center was accorded this past year – the National Medal of Service from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. I found out later it is the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a museum or library and DSC was one of only six science centers to receive the award since its introduction in 1994. It is also the first California science center to receive the honor. Now, that is something to shout about! Once guests were seated for dinner in the Renaissance-themed ballroom featuring Venetian statues, white and gold columns flanked by Italian cypress trees and beautiful masquerade-styled table centerpieces, gala co-chairs Richard and Cheryll Ruzsat welcomed everyone and thanked the gala committee and underwriters for their commitment and support. President Joe Adams and Board Chairman Dan Bolar handled the presentation of the prestigious Arnold O. Beckman corporate and individual awards, named in honor of the late world-renowned scientist, inventor, educator, philanthropist, and business and civic leader, who was a founding donor of DSC. OC Waste & Recycling was the recipient of the Corporate Award for their outstanding leadership and partnership on DSC’s Eco Challenge Exhibition promoting recycling and eco-friendly tactics. County Supervisor Pat Bates accepted the award, jokingly saying, “It’s not often government gets an award for being innovative.” The Individual Award was presented to Jack and Mary Norberg, who have taken a very active leadership role at Discovery Science Center since 2007. I remember the year they chaired the gala and showed up in clothes made from recyclable materials. They are always fun. Jack commented about their involvement upon accepting the award for he and Mary. “We’re doing wonderful things here,” he said, “and we’re having fun doing it in spite of what I wear!” The live auction brought active bidding on tempting trips to Lake Como and a week’s stay in an Italian villa, as well as a five-day vacation stay at the Grand Wailea resort in Hawaii, including American Airlines airfare. I thought the privately catered dinner by Blueberry Hill with special guest and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez (Ramirez was present!) was such a great prize. Sandi and Dale Dykema, who were gala committee members and underwriters, won the coveted evening for $11,000. The “raise the paddle” part of the auction to support DSC’s Adopt-A-Class program was brisk. The monies make it possible for an average of 70,000 students to visit the science center annually from all over Southern California. DSC’s Capital Campaign Co-Chairs Jim Peterson and David Horowitz talked about the science center’s $22.5 million, 40,000 sq. ft. expansion, which broke ground on January 6 and will open March, 2015. It will nearly double the center’s size. Board Chairman Elect Rick Baily of The Boeing Company said of the expansion, “It will take the Discovery Science Center to the next level.” The dance floor was packed, as it always is at this fun-filled evening, and the best news? More than $420,000 in net proceeds was raised for DSC’s Education Fund and its innovative programming. After all, DSC is ranked among the top science centers in the nation with a #1 rating for attendance per square foot and a #3 rating in educational outreach. Hear, Hear!! DSC Goes Construction Chic! 30 Posted by Donna Bunce in Event Coverage ≈ 2 Comments Tagsa, Apples & Oranges Video Production Co., Dan Bolar, David Horowitz, Discovery Science Center, fundraising, Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology, Janet and Walkie Ray, Jim Peterson, Joe Adams, science education I remember 20 years ago when Discovery Science Center was a sleepy little nonprofit. That has changed. Today, the celebrated center with its huge iconic “cube” is rated #3 in outreach science education in the country, had a record attendance of 526,000 visitors last year and is launching a $62 million multi-phase expansion, which will enhance science, technology, engineering, and math education and really put it on the map! DSC’s annual gala is always great fun and is built around a theme. In the recent past, I remember a “Celebrate Earth” theme with guests dressing in “green glam or recycled chic,” and the “Out of This World” theme, in conjunction with the center’s Boeing Rocket Lab opening, brought out the martians, Spocks and Trekkies. This year’s “Under Construction: Building for the Future” theme suggested “construction chic or cocktail attire,” so they do give guests a choice, but, I must admit, I saw many more attendees dressed in hard hats and tool belts than black-tie. Longtime supporters Janet and Walkie Ray, co-chairs of the gala committee, certainly caught the spirit. Costume designer Kim Bowen created Janet’s “cube” hat and Walkie’s paper coat made out of honest-to-goodness architectural plans for the new expansion. DSC President Joe Adams introduced the Arnold O. Beckman Award winners, who he credited with the “vision and foresight that have been instrumental to our success.” Corporate recipient Bolar Hirsch & Jennings LLP was represented by its founding partners, with Dan Bolar, who is DSC board chair, accepting the honor and passionately expressing his belief in the institution. The individual award winner was the David Horowitz family, who has taken active leadership roles since 2006, when they became involved. “It truly is a family honor,” David said. I must tell you that the videos introducing each winner were some of the most clever, humorous footage I’ve ever witnessed. Kudos to Apples and Oranges Video Production Company for underwriting and producing them! Expansion campaign co-chairs Jim Peterson and David Horowitz took the stage to say they predicted the Discovery Science Center would become the #1 science center in the country with the expansion. The live auction featured some hot items, including a VIP party for 300 at DSC’s new blockbuster exhibit, “Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology,” which runs through April 21, 2013, so don’t miss it! The Stonebridge Band drew a majority of the 350 guests to the dance floor, as others departed with the latest copy of OC Metro with Adams on the cover and a great story on DSC’s expansion. Net proceeds were later announced to be an impressive $460,000. Oh, and I loved those cookies and fresh donuts at the valet stand!

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Directory Kids Who Doesn’t Want to Go to Florence? A trip worth considering By Jennifer Landes | September 4, 2012 - 12:18pm The Duomo in Florence, Italy, is one of the many inspiring works of art, architecture, and culture that Stony Brook Southampton students will take in during a short-fiction writing conference in January. Christian McLean If you are an adult and you write, or even if you don’t, Stony Brook South­ampton’s Florence Writers Workshop is a trip worth considering. The trip, planned for Jan. 13 to 23, has as its centerpiece five three-hour short-fiction writing workshops led by Frederick Tuten, a Guggenheim fellow who writes fiction and essays on art. But afternoons are left for exploring and field trips such as a tour of the Accademia, an excursion to Tuscany and a winery, a class on how to describe wine, and a cooking class and dinner at the culinary school of the Florence University of the Arts. To draw attention to the program, on Wednesday at 7 p.m., Stony Brook Southampton will screen “The Tiger in the Snow,” a film directed and written by Roberto Benigni in 2006. It is set in both Italy and Iraq in 2003. Christian McLean, the conference director, said on Thursday that it “made sense to have one of the leading Italian filmmakers” shown in connection with the conference. The fact that Mr. Benigni plays a poetry professor doesn’t hurt either. The screening is free and open to the public. The cost of the conference is $3,600 for three credits and $3,030 for non-credit participants. The cost includes the hotel and the tours and several electives, which may include a night at the opera, a digital photography workshop, a faculty-led walking tour, an introduction to the Italian language, and other possibilities. Daily breakfast and several meals are also included. Class size will be limited to 12 students. Mr. McLean, who did his graduate work abroad in Scotland at St. Andrew’s University, said he enjoyed the opportunity to study British writers he had never heard of before and delve into another culture. “It is part of what inspired me to do this,” he said. After being here full time for some 10 years, he found that January was a good time to be away, he said. “It is great to get away from everyone and everything in your daily life that is taking you away from writing. You are focusing on the things you want to be focusing on and having great cultural experiences. It is also a nice way to go with like-minded people. I often see people bond over a drink explaining where they’ve been for the day.” His own experience with the Southampton campus came several years ago when he took a summer conference playwriting workshop with Marsha Norman. “I felt comfortable here and I kept coming back,” doing work for the school along the way. When the conference coordinator left, he needed a job and it was a simple, organic process. The weather in January is variable in Italy but can be warm enough to go without a jacket or heavy coat. Held during the gap between semesters at Stony Brook University, “it’s a block of time where nothing is scheduled.” The conference expanded last year in order to take 16 poets to northern Kenya with Richard Leakey for 11 days. Mr. McLean said the school will continue to look for unique opportunities such as that and may alternate from Florence to other places biannually, but the model works, “because it fits what we’re doing now here. The Florence University of the Arts echoes our own ideas for a culinary school and visual arts programs. It’s a good fit for what we’re doing and what we want to be doing.”

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HomeRandom WatchlistSettingsLog in About WikibooksDisclaimers Last modified on 10 June 2012, at 16:02 Regents Earth Science (High School)Discussion A Wikibookian believes this page should be split into smaller pages with a narrower subtopic. You can help by splitting this big page into smaller ones. Please make sure to follow the naming policy. Dividing books into smaller sections can provide more focus and allow each one to do one thing well, which benefits everyone. You can ask for help in dividing this book in the assistance reading room. This text was written to prepare students for the New York State Regents Earth Science exam. As such, it closely follows the New York State Standards for Mathematics, Science, and Technology. Introductory ConceptsEdit Observation and InferenceEdit Observation basically means watching something and taking note of anything it does. For instance, you might observe a bird flying by watching it closely. To infer is to draw a conclusion based on what one already knows and on that alone. Suppose you see rain on your window - you can infer from that, quite trivially, that the sky is grey. DensityEdit The concept of density is fundamental to understanding many aspects of Earth Science. Density is a derived unit. That is, the density of a substance must be calculated (or derived) from other measurements. Density is calculated by using the mass (grams) and volume (mL or cm3) of a given sample. Mass is determined by using a balance and volume of a fluid or solid can be determined by using a graduated cylinder. In this course, the equation for density is shown on p. 1 of the Earth Science Reference Tables as: D = m/v, in which D represents density; m represents mass; and v represents volume. Some of the other sciences and engineering disciplines make use of a slightly different form of the equation for density. Solutions to problems that require the use of the density equation should include the corresponding metric system (or SI)units. Density is considered an intrinsic property. That is, the density of a material at a specific temperature and pressure remains the same regardless of the size of the sample being considered. Density may be useful in helping to identify specific materials such as minerals, or in helping interpret or predict the behaviors of materials as they interact with other materials, or are subjected to changes in temperature or pressure. Percent ErrorEdit The concept of "percent error" is also known as "percent deviation from an accepted value", and the second term may be more helpful in understanding what is actually being determined in the equation used to calculate it. All equations that are given in the Earth Science Reference Tables are on page 1. The equation is (|(Accepted Value-Measured Value)|/(Accepted Value))*100, sometimes written as: |(Difference from Accepted Value)|/(Accepted Value)*100, or simply: (Difference from Accepted Value)/(Accepted Value)*100. Because one has already multiplied by 100, the equation will yield a percentage value, so the appropriate unit of % should be shown in your calculated value. One could report the value as positive or negative, and this would give information about whether your measurement is "high" or "low", but usually the absolute value of the percent deviation is reported (the difference is converted to a positive number). The concept of percent error or percent deviation relates to a measure used by some people in statistics in which you determine how close a value that is measured (or that is calculated from measurements) is to a value that is given as "known" or "accepted". Thus the term "error" sometimes leads to a sense of panic that something was done wrong if the percent deviation from the accepted value is high. It is possible to have very high percent deviations if the accepted value is a small number, even if your measured value is close to the accepted. It is also possible that the particular thing one is measuring (say the mass for a mineral sample) may have a density that is slightly different from what is "accepted" because it contains some "impurities" (variations in the elemental composition). If one calculates a high value for a percent deviation from an accepted value, just make sure that the calculation has been done correctly, but never change the values measured to lower this percentage as these are based on actual observations! Sample QuestionsEdit Multiple ChoiceEdit Which of these represents the density of a metal block whose mass is 200 g and volume 150 cubic centimeters? (A) 3 000 grams per cubic centimeter. (B) 50 grams per cubic centimeter. (C) 350 grams per cubic centimeter. (D) 1.3 grams per cubic centimeter. Constructed ResponseEdit (D) 1.3 grams per cubic centimeter Earth's DimensionsEdit Shape of the EarthEdit The Earth is an oblate spheroid. It bulges at the equator and is flattened at the poles. Evidence of its spherical shape comes from photographs of the Earth from space, seeing the shadow of Earth during a lunar eclipse, and the fact that ships seem to sink as they move farther into sea. Also, the altitude of the star Polaris increases with latitude. Evidence for the fact that it is oblate comes from photographs of the Earth from space and variations in gravity along the Earth's surface (stronger at the poles where flattened, weaker at the equator where bulging, also, gravity does not pull directly down). Also, the altitude of Polaris does not vary uniformly when increasing latitude. The best model for the earth is a globe or a ball because Yunis says so though the Earth is oblate, it is only slightly so. On Regents exams, very often there is a question about the shape of the Earth and the answer is a ping pong ball because it is smooth and round. Size of the EarthEdit Measuring the Circumference of the EarthEdit Rocks and MineralsEdit MineralsEdit Minerals are naturally occurring, inorganic, crystalline solids. Inorganic substances are those not formed by living things, and in the majority of cases, this is true of all minerals, though there are some notable exceptions. Inorganic molecules usually do not contain carbon as a component in their atomic structures, though again, there are some inorganic minerals that are exceptions to this general statement. A substance is said to be crystalline if it has a regular, repeating atomic structure. Each mineral has a specific atomic structure and formula, such as is given on page 16 of the Earth Science Reference Tables. The individual molecule made by these atoms forms the most basic structure of that type of mineral, and then typically combines chemically with others of the same kind so that the mineral becomes larger. Mineral samples may be microscopic or extremely large, but all the crystals of a single type of mineral share common chemical and physical properties because they share the same chemical composition, types of chemical bonds, and positions of the individual atoms within each of the mineral's molecules. This fact, that a single mineral, whether large or small reacts similarly to chemical and physical tests is very useful in identification. Minerals are solids. There is actually a group of substances known as crystalline liquids, but those do not fit into the definition needed for this course. Difference Between Rocks and MineralsEdit Rocks - Any natural formed aggregate or mass of mineral matter constituting an essential and appreciable part of the Earth's crust (AGI). Mineral - A naturally formed chemical element or compound having a definite range in chemical composition, and usually a characteristic crystal form (AGI). Properties of MineralsEdit HardnessEdit The hardness of a mineral is measured in several relative scales that are determined by how readily one mineral scratches the surface of another. The Mohs scale of hardness has ten level. #1 Talc, #2 gypsum, #3 calcite...... up to #10 DIAMOND the hardest natural substance because of the internal arrangement of its carbon atoms and the atomic bond forces in its tetrahedral shape. StreakEdit The streak of a mineral refers to the color of the powder left behind when the mineral is scratched across a very hard surface, usually an unglazed porcelain plate. Most streak plates are white, though a few may be dark colored. Since a streak plate has a hardness of about 7 on Moh's scale of hardness, minerals that scratch a streak plate will obviously leave no powder behind (other than that of the streak plate itself). Typically, we group minerals by the colors of the streaks they produce. Oddly, many metallic minerals that appear shiny when viewed in a larger sample leave a dark or colored line on a streak plate. Since very small quantities of an element may cause a mineral to take on different colors, but streak tends to stay more or less consistent, we sometimes say that the color of the powdered mineral, or streak, is a more accurate test for a mineral's identity than using the color alone. ColorEdit The color of a mineral is generally easily influenced by a number of factors such as very small quantities of impurities in the mineral's atomic structure. Weathering of a mineral's surface may also influence how the color appears, so color is generally not as reliable a way to identify a specific mineral as is using tests such as hardness, the way a mineral breaks, or even the streak (the color of the powdered mineral). There are also many other optical properties besides color that minerals may posses that may be unique to particular minerals, or groups of minerals. Cleavage and FractureEdit The way a mineral breaks is controlled mostly by the internal arrangement of its molecules. Though all minerals are considered crystalline and therefore have a repeating pattern of atoms in their structures, sometimes the chemical bonds in these patterns allow a mineral to break along smooth planes. Other times an uneven surface is produced. Since the way a mineral breaks is an expression of the molecular pattern, we can use this visible feature to infer properties about the internal structure of the mineral. Further, how a mineral breaks is a characteristic identifying feature of specific minerals. Breaking minerals may produce surprising results since some minerals may produce smooth crystal shapes as they form, yet break unevenly. When a mineral breaks along smooth planes it possesses the property called cleavage. Minerals may break along one direction of cleavage or several. When there is more than one direction of cleavage, we are also interested in knowing the angles created between different cleavage directions. A single cleavage direction is inferred to extend throughout the entire sample, so it is important to not confuse parallel sides of the same cleavage plane that occur on different sides of a mineral sample. An example would be a mineral such as halite, that breaks with 3 directions of cleavage each at a 90 degree angle to each other. This pattern of breaking will produce a mineral sample shape that tends to be cubic, but any two opposite sides of the cubic shape are actually in the same plane, so the six sides of the broken sample result from three directions of cleavage. It is fun to slowly break a mineral using a tool such as a bench vise and watch the cleavage planes develop as the stress is applied to the sample, though you should wear appropriate safety equipment because sometimes little chips of the sample tend to fly off unpredictably! When a mineral breaks unevenly, and does not break along smooth planes, it is said to break with fracture. Sometimes the type of fracture is itself characteristic, such as with the mineral quartz. Quartz has what is known as conchoidal fracture. Its fractured surfaces look somewhat like broken glass (most glass is made from quartz), and the name conchoidal comes from the word "conch" (like the sea shell) because this type of fracture makes a shell-like depression in the mineral as it breaks. Knowing how specific minerals break and whether they have a certain type of fracture or if they have one or several directions of cleavage is one of the ways to help identify minerals or predict the behaviors a certain mineral may exhibit if it were to break. Useful information on minerals related to cleavage and fracture is found on page 16 of the Earth Science Reference Tables. LusterEdit Luster refers to the way that light reflects off the surface of a mineral sample, particularly a freshly broken or unweathered surface of the sample. The two major divisions in the classification we make are whether minerals have metallic or non-metallic luster. On page 16 of the Earth Science Reference Tables, the only common mineral listed that may have either metallic or non-metallic luster is hematite. Like all physical properties of minerals, the luster of a mineral is due to the particular aspects of its chemical composition and its atomic bonds. RocksEdit SedimentaryEdit Break down (erosion) of rock will yield smaller sized particles (sediments). As sediments are moved from one place to another by a transporting medium (either by wind or water) they are deposited in basins (loactions where deposition occurs). If a cementing material is introduced to these sediments then lithification (formation of rock) will result and the outcome will be a Sedimentary rock. Among the common cementing material is calcium carbonate and silica. Sedimentary rock = Erosion of rock + transport of sediments + lithification. Size of particles of a sedimentary rock indicate the environment of deposition. Coarse grained particle sizes indicate a terrestrial (land) to shallow marine environment. The smaller the particle size indicates the more we move towards the deeper sea environment. Common sedimentary rocks are sandstone, limestone, shale and siltstone. IgneousEdit Igneous rocks are formed when molten rock (magma) cools and solidifies, with or without crystallization, either below the surface as intrusive (plutonic) rocks or on the surface as extrusive (volcanic) rocks. This magma can be derived from either the Earth's mantle or pre-existing rocks made molten by extreme temperature and pressure changes. Over 700 types of igneous rocks have been described, most of them formed beneath the surface of the Earth's crust. The word "igneous" is derived from the Latin ignis, meaning "fire". Magma originat

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The English Magazine for students and teachers of English Welcome to The English Magazine for students and teachers of English The English Magazine website is a vast resource of graded reading and listening material for students and teachers of English. Each original article is written at three levels of difficulty: beginner (level A1-A2), intermediate (level B1-B2) and advanced (level C1-C2. Students can click to change level at any time. There are comprehension questions to test understanding and to recylce important vocabulary from the text. The Language Notes and Vocabulary Notes for each level provide a useful focus for follow-up language work. In addition, in the Language Practice Zone, there are grammar and vocabulary exercises. Students can work on their own, at home or in a computer lab. Alternatively, teachers can freely print the articles and use them in class as supplementary material in their regular language courses. The articles are specially-written for the magazine, not adaptations from other sources. There is a wide range of topics: adventure, business, crime, education, art and entertainment, food, health, history, language, lifestyle, literature, mystery, nature and the environment, psychology, science and social issues. Get an idea of how The English Magazine can help students by viewing the Presentation. :: Turning fear and horror into art: the poets of the First World War. :: How the First World War inspired one of the greatest detective writers ever. :: Is it really possible to compare the quality of education systems around the world? :: Where are the world’s best universities? :: DNA profiling is an essential tool in criminal investigations, but sometimes things can go terribly wrong. :: The strange case of the taxi driver. :: The crazy business of football: the world's top clubs have become global brands, but is business success killing the spirit of the game? :: Given the uncertain nature of the football business, why do wealthy owners of football clubs risk so much of their own money? Science :: The loss of crop diversity is a major threat to food security, leading scientists say. :: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault: the world’s insurance against loss of vital food plants. Privacy - Terms of use - About us - Contact Copyright © The English Magazine. All rights reserved.

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Building Bridges of Friendship First Time Online Donors Return Online Donors Our Board Board President Duane Elmer is director of the Ph.D. program in educational studies and is the G. W. Aldeen Chair of International Studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. In addition to traveling and teaching in over 75 countries, he has provided cross-cultural training to Fortune 500 companies, relief and development agencies, mission organizations, churches and educational institutions. He has also conducted peace and reconciliation efforts in several countries. Recently, he led faculty development workshops at over 25 European and Middle Eastern schools on the theme of Teaching for Transformation. He has taught at Durban Bible College (Durban, South Africa), Michigan State University and Wheaton College and Graduate School. Board member Don Church was the creator and main administrator of Timothy Project before it merged with Faith & Learning International. Don graduated from Wheaton College and continued to be involved with the track and field program and PE program for a number of years. During those years, Don took Wheaton Athletes to a number of countries all over the world to compete against those countries’ native athletes. Through these trips, many people heard the gospel of Jesus Christ and received encouragement. Don continues to oversee various mission programs and serve as a discerning mind for Faith & Learning International. Board member Evvy Campell is an Associate Professor and the Chair of Intercultural Studies Program at Wheaton College Graduate School. Evvy has her PhD in Adult Education from Michigan State, her MS in Nursing Administration from University of Michigan and her BS in Nursing from Columbia University. Along with teaching, Her personal and professional interests include the fields of international health, medical missions, AIDS, holistic mission, and the Christian life. She has given over 300 presentations in these areas have been given to university, college, seminary, hospital, community, church, youth camp, health professional, and retreat groups. Board member Evan Hunter oversees the program work of ScholarLeaders International, an organization committed to encouraging and equipping Christian theological leaders from the Majority World for the Global Church. Before joining ScholarLeaders International, he served as a missions pastor and in various roles related to international leadership development. As part of a doctoral program at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Evan is investigating global theological education with a specific interest in the new doctoral programs in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He and his wife, Becky live in Gurnee, IL where they are raising their 3 active boys and a Bernese Mountain Dog. Board Secretary Gary LaVanchy is a doctoral student in Geography at the University of Denver. He also lends oversight to the Wheaton Football Ministry Partnership—an extension of the Wheaton College football team that partners current players with former players in their far-flung endeavors. This network of partnerships allows Gary to travel extensively throughout Africa to facilitate projects, internship placement, and group service trips. Gary completed a BA in Geology and Education at Wheaton College and an MA in Geographical Studies at the University of Chicago. He has lived in Mexico, Papua New Guinea, and Honduras. He is passionate about mentoring and engaging global issues through the lens of education. In his spare time Gary enjoys triathlons and surfing. Board member Denise Olson is currently a clinical psychologist, working at a faith-based group practice in Wheaton,Illinois. Her areas of professional practice include individual and family therapy, as well as psychological and neuropsychological testing. Denise received her Psy.D. fromWheatonCollege where her main research focus was on the Christian church’s response to the needs of children with emotional disorders. Prior to working in the field of emotional and behavioral health, Denise was an elementary school teacher and principal of a private Christian school in Waukesha,Wisconsin. Denise consults with churches, schools, and youth ministries in the area of youth and mental health issues. Her current interests include the integration of faith and psychological, spiritual development of children and emerging adult issues. © 2014 Faith & Learning International

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Looking for inspirational leadership by Patricia Sellers Leadership is changing–for the better. That’s one good thing that will come out of the global crisis. On Friday I wrote about empathy as a key component of leadership–and got lots of feedback about the post. One senior executive at a Fortune 500 company called me today to say that he shared it with some community leaders in his hometown. “If you can’t empathize, no one will follow you,” this exec told the group. “Even worse, if you’re not empathetic, you’ll make a bad decision.” My point exactly. One reason that AIG’s execs and CEOs like John Thain, who got the boot at Merrill Lynch , violated the public trust is that they failed to read the public in the first place. Dov Seidman, the CEO of an ethics consulting firm called LRN, came by my office today and talked about the big shift to “inspirational leadership.” Carrots and sticks don’t work well anymore, he noted, because everyone is cutting costs. Who can afford carrots? As for sticks, well, Gen Y, especially, won’t be manhandled. Nor will these young workers necessarily respond to regulations. “You don’t have power over employees or customers anymore,” Seidman noted. “There’s a shift from ‘power over’ to “power through.'” Power over is issuing rules. Power through is leading by inspiration–via word-of-mouth marketing, blogging, and being a role model your people want to emulate. Talk about inspiring–I’ll end by telling you about my lunch today with a couple of women leaders. I was at Solera Capital, a Manhattan-based private equity firm, with its CEO, Molly Ashby, and Sherrie Westin, who is EVP and chief marketing officer at Sesame Workshop. Molly and Sherrie are both mentors in this year’s Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership, an outgrowth of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit. In fact, they are co-mentoring a rising-star leader from Namibia–a managing director of a private equity firm there–and wanted to meet to plan a great experience for the young African mentee . Molly and Sherrie didn’t know one another before, and over lunch, they shared their stories. They were amazed to discover that they are both crazy-busy moms with two kids–including adopted daughters from China. Molly’s story moved us practically to tears. She said that meeting PBS journalist Judy Woodruff at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit years ago inspired her to adopt her daughter from China. Woodruff has a son who has spina bifida–a crippling birth defect—and has done wonders raising money and attention around the cause. Molly went to China five years ago and brought home a three-year-old girl who has spina bifida. Doctors in New York literally saved the little girl’s life. Today, Molly’s daughter is a strong and healthy eight-year-old–with a mom who is powerful beyond business. That’s inspirational leadership.

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Halloween becomes career day at Audubon Elementary KRISTINA IODICE • Updated: October 31, 2012 at 12:00 am Doctors, football players, artists, police officers and soldiers took their seats Wednesday in Audubon Elementary School classrooms. Halloween is traditionally a day of dress-up for kids. However, Audubon this year limited costumes to kids’ ideas of the real-life dream jobs. + caption Fourth graders at Audubon Elementary School gather around the computer of Dr. Molly Comiskey to see photos of some of the animals that she has treated. Comiskey is a veterinarian and was one of the professionals talking to the students about what careers they might like when they grow up. For Halloween, the children dressed up like their future professions. Photo by JERILEE BENNETT/The Gazette To add to the fun, several professionals shared with students in third through fifth grade about what they do, and what they had to go through to achieve their chosen jobs. A veterinarian elicited laughs and excitement in a fourth-grade class when she shared photos from her vet trips to other countries. One student in particular was thrilled, since she has been interested in becoming a veterinarian for a long time. “I love animals,” said 9-year-old Justine Taravella. The aspiring veterinarian — who dressed as a vet, complete with stuffed animal — was excited to speak to someone doing the job. She has experience with critters, with five cats, two dogs and lots of fish at home. Learning that becoming a veterinarian takes a lot of class time and work didn’t seem to deter Justine. “I love school a lot,” she said. Audubon Principal Nancy Smith said it is important that kids learn that success isn’t always instant, and that great things can be accomplished with time and effort. Bringing in special guests is one way to bring adventure into the classroom to motivate kids, she said. “I love what I do,” said veterinarian Molly Comiskey, adding that as a 5-year-old she knew what she wanted to pursue. “I remember dressing up as a vet for career day,” Comiskey said. She wanted to get kids excited about the possibilities of her field, while explaining to them that it is worth all the loans — and schoolwork. It was the first time the staff at Audubon, in Colorado Springs School District 11, had tried a more educational approach to Halloween. “They always enjoy dressing up,” Smith said of the kids, so she decided to capitalize on the holiday. Students in lower grades also learned about different fields. First-graders visited the nearby fire station earlier in the week. “The kids are excited,” Smith said. “They seem to be spellbound by all the different things.” Students asked some great questions, she said. They wanted to know what skills were needed for certain jobs, and how much school was required. A few asked about the money made by certain professionals, which included an author, artist, dentist and Air Force chemical weapons specialist. Smith hopes the career day isn’t just on Halloween, and expects to host special guests once each quarter to gets kids interested in different jobs. “These are little kids, they are dreaming,” Smith said. “We need to keep sparking that.” Check out this article on Colorado Springs Gazette: http://gazette.com/halloween-becomes-career-day-at-audubon-elementary/article/146678

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Please enable JavaScript to view this website. September 1, 2014 HBCU INFO HBCU LIST 2014 HOMECOMING DATE 2014 HBCU RANKINGS HBCU EVENTS HBCU DIRECTORY HBCU INFO - HBCU LIST - 2014 HOMECOMING DATE - 2014 HBCU RANKINGS - HBCU EVENTS - HBCU DIRECTORY FacebookTwitterVimeoYouTubeDribbble When you install WPML and add languages, you will find the flags here to change site language. Forgotten your login details? Buzz Killer Dance / Cheerleading Stylish Buzz of the Week Entrepreneur of the Week – Menu –Home Sports - Basketball - Track & Field - Dance / Cheerleading - Marching Bands Entertainment - Music - Fashion - - Fashion Shows Spotlight - Stylish Buzz of the Week - - Entrepreneur of the Week - Artist Spotlight 2014 HBCU TOP 30 UNDER 30 > Headline > 2014 HBCU TOP 30 UNDER 30 30 – Jesse Sneed – Prairie View A&M University Maya Angelou Public Charter School is an Alternative High School in Washington, DC where at-risk students and students who have suffered from traumatic events attend. Jesse currently works there full as a residential counselor in one of two of the school’s male houses, as well as a part time counselor. In his current job role, he is responsible for the well being of about 10 young men ranging from ages 15 to 20 years old Monday-Friday. During the week Jesse, feeds, tutors, counsels, and bonds with the males of his house. More extraordinary is Jesse’s non- profit foundation, The J.E.S.S.E. Foundation- Just Empowering Student Success through Education which aims to empower, equip and expose parents and adolescents to resources and alternatives that are available in the community. This foundation hopes that these resources will provide assistance to members in under-served communities with achieving any goals or dreams to obtain a higher education that will have a significant impact on their future. Jesse has consistently defied the odds by surviving a impoverished neighborhood in Texas, attending and graduating from Prairie View A & M University, attaining a master’s degree at Howard University, and establishing his very on non-profit organization. J.E.S.S.E Foundation – http://jessefoundation.com/home.php 29 – Amber McGill – Bennett College Amber McGill is a third generation Bennett Belle who is excelling in her academics, serving her community with her entrepreneurial gifts and talents, and honoring God by serving Him in ministry. Amber is a Dean’s List Scholar majoring in Business Management with a double minor in Economics and Entrepreneurship. She is the Founder and CEO of a organization called Project Potential. Project Potential, founded in Prince George’s County, Maryland in 2010, is a leadership development and mentoring program for women, by women. Our mission is to educate, motivate, and empower young women to reach their greatest potential. Amber honors God by serving as an active member of the First Baptist Church of Glenarden. Ms. Amber McGill is a Christian young woman who is an outstanding Bennett College student, amazing entrepreneur as well as a beautiful woman of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Ms. McGill has strived for and maintains a 4.0 GPA at Bennett College, was elected as Bennett College’s 2014-2015 Student Government Association’s Financial Secretary, has performed countless of hours of selfless community service both at college, in her college community and within her home community but most recently completed a service project at the Glenwood Recreation Center. She is an awesome entrepreneur and visionary having founded and established Project Potential/G.L.A.M. Girls in three states. Project Potential/GLAM Girls is an organization established to educate, empower, motivate young girls from ages 9-18. She also is an entrepreneur with Younique, an organization established to uplift, empower, validate, and ultimately build self-esteem in women around the world. Website http://www.project-potential.com/ 28 - Reshad Favors | Florida A&M University Reshad Favors is Courts and Criminal Justice Fellow at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. He is a recent graduate of Florida A&M College of Law where he earned his Juris Doctorate. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Marketing from the University of Central Florida. His decision to attend law school came from his passion to help those who were underrepresented. During his childhood, Reshad stood witness to many injustices in his neighborhood and wanted to use his talents to effectuate change. As a result, he fostered his abilities into empirical results. In law school, Reshad dedicated himself to causes such as Homelessness, where he helped indigent clients with legal issues. Reshad was also a part of a collaborative group who explored strategies to best expedite a high-profile federal prisoner’s clemency. Reshad, along with the help of the group, forwarded research on specific legal issues for this prisoner to use in his case. Reshad believes in being a beacon for those in need of his guidance. To further his belief, he served at-risk youth in the community by offering guidance and personal life experiences to bolster mentee morale. Most importantly, Reshad firmly believes in qualities espoused to him by his parents of hard work and dedication to a craft. Reshad used these axioms as a roadmap to guide him on his life journey. Reshad served as an Ambassador for his law school and was a member of the American Bar Association. Reshad proudly hails from the Northside of Jacksonville, Florida. 27 – M. Carson Bryd – Hampton University M. Carson Byrd is a 2013 graduate of the prestigious Global Master’s Program in International Relations from Webster University. Currently, Carson serves as Principal of The Carson Byrd Group, LLC, a global consulting firm. While in pursuit of a Global Master’s Degree, Carson traveled extensively with two-month residential rotations in the Netherlands; Geneva, Switzerland; London, England; Beijing, China; and Vienna, Austria where he analyzed aspects of international law, the politics of global development, and issues related to globalization. During his study abroad Carson achieved membership at The Royal Institute of International Affairs at the Chatham House. Carson excelled through the accelerated 13-month program and obtained his degree, with Honors. Prior to completing his Masters, Carson served as the first Assistant Director of Young Alumni Development at Hampton University and as a Student Development Counselor at Maya Angelou Public Charter School in Washington, DC. Carson Byrd is a 2011 Honors graduate of Hampton University, where he majored in History and served as Captain of the Hampton Pirates football team. Carson is a natural born leader and has held keys roles in various organizations, included but not limited to, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., The League Inc., and Suited Lifestyle, LLC. Beside his work as the head of his consulting firm, Carson is public speaker and a lifestyle brand connoisseur. His brand “Just Know Im Workin” was launched in late 2013 and is currently in product development to accompany the self- development component of the company. A champion at event planning, Byrd has become a Master Brand Developer. With over 100 plus events globally under his belt, Carson has established himself as a credible individual in the world of high-end events. Carson plans to complete his PhD and forge his marketing skills with his passion for community improvement by opening a brand of charters school in urban communities, while he works towards his goal to become a HBCU college president. 26 – Kyle O’Quinn - Norfolk State University American professional basketball power forward with the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played for the Norfolk State Spartans, and led the Spartans to a victory over the #2 seed Missouri Tigers in the second round of the 2012 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament. He was drafted in the second round of the2012 NBA Draft with the 49th overall pick by the Orlando Magic. He recorded just his second double-double of the season, and put together a strong performance overall. He scored 14 points on 6 of 7 shooting and added 13 rebounds, while blocking four shots, and dishing out one assist with one steal in 31 minutes. After appearing in 57 games last season, O’Quinn has seen his role increase. He is averaging 5.6 points and 5.0 rebounds in 64 games. 25 - Brittney Shardae - Claflin University Brittney Carter is a 2011 graduate of Claflin Univeristy in Oarngeburg, SC and has achieved a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Public Relations with a concentration in Communications. With a dedicated work ethic and ambitious persona, Brittney successfully secured professional development opportunities while utilizing professional networks that allowed her to prematurely advance in her career. Brittney S. Carter currently holds the position with DC Office on Aging as Communications Specialist while also owning her own Event Planning business. She is known to go above and beyond in her line of work and this is what led her to become founder, and CEO of B. Carter Event Planning & PR. Brittney. S. Carter was born on April 2, in Allendale, S.C., and then relocated to Mullins, SC in 1996. She attended Mullins High during her four year tenure. Following high school, she attended Claflin University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Relations. Subsequent to college, she left South Carolina to pursue her dreams in Public Relations and Marketing. Carter began working in public relations in 2011, when she was employed as Events and Communications assistant for the largest charter school network in Washington, D.C. After seven months of working, she was promoted to Events and Communications Coordinator. In 2013, she was appointed Public Relations and Event Strategist, serving as lead public relations practitioner for Friendship Public Charter School under the Chief Operating Officer. Shortly after, her communications and event planning skill-set was being noticed all over the Metropolitan area, which led her to her next career journey as Communications Specialist for D.C. Office on Aging. Since October 2013, Carter served as marketing and event planning assistant for the nation’s largest Public Relations Organization; PRSA-NCC. While there, she earned a reputation for being loyal, hard working, and full of fresh new innovative ideas. While she was still working for the charter school, Carter started B. Carter Event Planning & PR, a freelance event planning and public relations firm specializing in planning and creating professional events. Furthermore, she is an advocate for empowering women for professional success. In her spare time she is a fashion/wardrobe consultant and blogger, enjoys reading, nature and traveling. 24 – Farrin Hymon - Spelman College Farrin Hymon is the founding owner of FARRINHEIT Entertainment & Media. FARRINHEIT is a nickname given to Farrin by kids at her school when she was younger, deriving from her name “Farrin Hymon.” Still to this day, she gets called “Fahrenheit” by strangers as reference to remember her name when they first meet her. FARRINHEIT Entertainment & Media (FEM), is a full service company specializing in creative directing, media training, public relations, production, entertainment and media. FEM seeks to help its clients blaze along their dreams, in creating positive buzz in media and the community, as well as memories that will last forever. FARRINHEIT 411 was the beginning vision of FEM. Farrin created FARRINHEIT 411 because of her love and passion for entertainment & popular culture! Her interest in entertainment and music began at a very young age. Although she is a fan of several genres of music, Farrin’s true passion in music and entertainment lies within Hip-Hop culture. Growing up with her father working as a celebrity bodyguard, Farrin became very knowledgeable of the behind scene works of the sports and entertainment industries. She worked along side of her father’s company to learn what it took to become an entrepreneur of her own. Her knowledge of the business along with knowing everything and everyone in it, and her own background in acting and music, inspired her to become an entertainment blogger in college. Determined to blaze her own path into entertainment, she’s explored a new avenue in her career creating FARRINHEIT 411, as a way for her to deliver “the 411” on what’s happening in entertainment. Farrin moved to Atlanta in 2010 to attend Spelman College, where she gained experience working in entertainment which included film & event production, event planning, product placement, and public relations. She began blogging in early 2012 as a hobby, and discovered over time her interest in blogging began to turn into something she really loved doing. It wasn’t until the summer of 2013 she decided to take blogging to the next level and created FARRINHEIT 411. 23 – Nick Arrington – Tuskegee University Nick attended Tuskegee University on a full ride scholarship to play baseball and earned degrees in Business Administration and Sales and Marketing. While at the University, Nick truly made his mark on the campus and around the community both as a part of the general student body and as a member, and later Polemarch, of TU’s Gamma Epsilon chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. What makes Nick most worthy of this title, however, is what he’s done with his life since graduating from TU. Shortly after graduating in 2008, Nick set off to start a career in New York. He travelled through a number of positions with corporate America, but took root as an analyst for Barclays. Though he began his time at Barclays in New York, he was offered the opportunity to work for their London office for a year. He resides in the United Kingdom presently, and will continue in that position until September of this year. Simultaneously, Nick is pursuing a Master’s degree in extension studies at Harvard University. He is taking classes online until he returns to the States in the Fall. Nick is making the most of his time in the UK, having visited Italy, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Australia, and still eager to experience more. But, in all his pursuits and obligations, he never loses sight of his two loves: family and fashion. 22 – Daryl Joy Walters – Wiley College Daryl “DJW” Joy Walters is a native of Shreveport, Louisiana. Daryl Joy is a graduate of the renowned Wiley College in Marshall, Texas and is also a graduate of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale University. Outside of her academic success, her life is dedicated to being politically and actively involved within her community. DJW served five years as the Vice President of Communications to the Young Democrats of Louisiana. In 2012, she was elected to serve the 4th Congressional District of Louisiana at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a student, Wiley College highlighted her as the “Community Servant of the Year” in 2012. The Theta Chapters of Zeta Phi Beta and Omega Psi Phi credited DJW for being selected as their “Female of the Year”. In the November 2012 edition of ESSENCE Magazine DJW was proudly recognized as possibly “America’s 1st Black Female President.” During the summer of 2009, DJW began her journey in the Louisiana State Legislature as a Senate Aide. She has also, interned for U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, Battle Ground Texas, Obama for America. In 2014, she served as a Financial Assistant to Massachusetts Gubernatorial Candidate Juliette Kayyem. DJW has a strong commitment to family values, community engagement and social advocacy. As a supporter of fight against violence on college campuses and research for the cure to Alzheimer’s, she is a leader in her own right. DJW knows that she stands on the shoulders of giants and leaders, who have paved the way for her success. It is for these reasons that she fights passionately for the under-represented and the underserved in our communities.Daryl Joy Walters is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Incorporated, initiated in the Alpha Iota Chapter. She is also a faithful member of the Mount Canaan Missionary Baptist Church, where Dr. Harry Blake Sr. is the Pastor. 21 - Rachel Blanks, M.Ed | Florida A&M University Rachel believes that NO ONE has the right to waste a day in the life of a child and she lives that everyday. She may not be the top promoter, singer, entrepreneur, politician, spokesperson, etc, but because of her passion for teaching and empowering young people to learn and succeed, she is deserving of being listed in the top 30 under 30! -Rachel’s passion is youth and empowering them to be successful—spiritually, academically, physically, socially, and financially. She is known as The Domestic Diva—a name given as a television name by the local station in FL where she regularly taped cooking segments. She is currently finishing her first cookbook and has been featured in the National Pie Championships as seen on The Today Show and Food Network. She serves as a 5th grade teacher within the Dayton Public Schools System and enjoys helping youth reach their full potential. After winning a business pitch competition and receiving a $10,000 grant for her bakery business, Rachel still wanted to give back even more to her school community. She gathered other young entrepreneurs in her network and they designed a user-friendly Young Entrepreneurs curriculum to be used in the summer of 2011 during the 21st Century Summer Program! The students learned basic business principles and received the tools they needed to start their very own business no matter how small. The classes also developed their very own small business in a micro-society setting! In Dayton Public Schools, Rachel has served on the District Academic Achievement Team, Emerging Principals Institute, and her school Building Leadership Team. She is involved with youth empowerment activities that encompass volunteer work, academic prowess, and character building. She Currently serves as the mid-west region representative on the FAMU NAA fundraising committee and actively recruits high school seniors for scholarships to Florida A&M University through her alumni activities. Named School Related Employee of the Year for Bond Elementary School, Leon County School District, and the entire state of Florida in 2011, receiving recognition from the superintendent of local schools and the state. Currently teaches an innovative place based curriculum at Wogaman 5-8 School. She has acquired over $1,000 worth of educational supplies and resources for students in this program through Donors Choose grants and coordinated speakers and visitors for the students from health food experts from community markets to a federal judge. Chosen as local educator for Working for You Spot on channel 2 and is currently a finalist for the National MLB/People Magazine/Target All Star Teachers Program. Her current project is transforming the school cafeteria into The HBCU Dining Hall of Success. The walls will feature each of the 106 HBCUs from across the country, in an attempt to inspire the 5-8 graders to think about college before high school. Rachel is a wife, mother, entrepreneur (owns Cupcake Cookie Couture), teacher, friend, role model, motivational speaker, and advocate for children and minority rights. 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IEEE Global History Network > Topic Articles > Amar G. Bose You are not logged in, please sign in to edit > Log in / create account - Donor information Jump to: navigation, search Biography Amar G. Bose (1929 - 2013) was an engineer, educator and entrepreneur whose name is synonymous with high-end sound systems that produce lifelike audio. Although primarily known for his acoustics patents, there was more to Dr. Bose than meets the ear. As a professor, he was considered a legend at MIT, having influenced thousands of electrical engineering students and even attracting to his classes students pursuing other fields. The teaching award named in his honor is one of the most coveted in MIT’s Electrical Engineering Department. His research on nonlinear control theory led to an electromagnetic active control suspension for automobiles. The Bose suspension system uses motors, power amplifiers, and control algorithms to provide superior comfort by gliding smoothly over bumpy roads, and superior control by keeping the car body level during aggressive maneuvers. Dr. Bose was an IEEE Life Fellow and, among many honors, the winner of the IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award. He was a professor at MIT from 1956 to 2001, and was the Chairman and Technical Director of Bose Corporation. Retrieved from "http://ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Amar_G._Bose" Categories: Engineering education | Fields, waves & electromagnetics | Acoustics Log in GHN Home

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Bookmobile Fall - Winter 2014-2015 Schedule Picture Galleries: Bookmobile Halloween 2013 We encourage you to get your free yellow library card and to use the lending services of the Bookmobile. Schedules are published three times annually: October-January, February-May & June-September. Suggestions for changes can be made to Assistant Director Sonia Araujo: [(201) 547-4549] who supervises this mobile branch. People who live, work, or study in Jersey City are eligible for Library cards. We will need evidence of your Jersey City address, or employment, or college or school registration. The card can be used at all branches of the Jersey City Public Library. Fill out an application and your new card will be mailed to your home address. If you already have our yellow and blue card, you do not need a new card. Bookmobile History On May 8, 2008, the history of the Bookmobile took a major turn in the road, as that was the date when the brand new, custom-designed and -built, disabled-accessible Bookmobile appeared before the start of Casino Night & Silent Auction, the 5th Annual major fundraiser of the Jersey City Free Public Library Foundation, Inc. Parked in front of the Casino-In-The-Park within Lincoln Park, a county park in Jersey City, the new Bookmobile shed its cover to reveal the over 33-foot long vehicle at the ceremonial unveiling. The walls of the Bookmobile are lined with bookshelves that hold 2,000 books, with two small Public Access computers available for patrons to check e-mails. There’s a DVD player in the back of the bus, along with rest facilities. For library staff members, there is a dedicated computer to help facilitate both new and old patrons with their library card accounts and a microwave near the front. The new Bookmobile now can accommodate disabled patrons easily, with a retractable elevator lift that is hidden behind moveable bookshelves within the Bookmobile, so as not to waste any internal space. The road to the new Bookmobile took longer than the Library Foundation would have wanted, tallying three years to amass the necessary funding, which wound up being a total of $222,780.24. But through the efforts of the Jersey City Free Public Library Foundation Board of Trustees – especially Treasurer Michael A. Ryan and Library Foundation Executive Director Priscilla Gardner, for their fundraising abilities and for custom-designing the Bookmobile – in five annual fundraisers, three held at the Casino-In-the-Park, one at Liberty House and the other at Puccini's and two at P.J. Ryan’s, and other benefactors from the corporate, nonprofit and private sectors, the Bookmobile was paid in full – at no tax. The Jersey City Free Public Library and the Library Foundation hold the following elected officials, corporations and nonprofits in high esteem, harboring with much gratitude: Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy, Councilwoman Viola Richardson and Councilmen William Gaughan and Peter Brennan for their attendance and continuing support at foundation fundraisers; and to the major sponsors, Comcast, Goldman, Sachs & Co., PSE&G, The Jerramiah T. Healy Charitable Foundation, The Provident Bank Foundation, and the Estate of Raymond Landis. The Jersey City Free Public Library Foundation, Inc. received its incorporation as a charitable organization on January 27, 2004 to support the mission of the library: to provide services and materials for the education, enrichment and entertainment of the people of Jersey City. The first round of individuals serving as foundation trustees were Chair Sandra B. Cunningham, Ervin Haynes, Joan Eccleston, Domenic Santana, Morris Winograd and Vice Chair James K. Morley, who later became chair. Since Mr. Morley then served in two capacities, as Library Board President and Library Foundation Chairman, in 2005 he relinquished the chairmanship to Kevin J. Ward, and also brought in Michael Ryan to serve as treasurer. It was in that second round of foundation board members, which included Morris Winograd, Kenneth Morrelli, Kirsten Micco, Joseph Panepinto Jr., Corresponding Secretary; Elizabeth Spinelli, Recording Secretary, Joseph A. Turula, Esq., where fundraising for the new Bookmobile took to the open road. The 2008 configuration of the Library Foundation Board is Kevin J. Ward, Chairman; Morris Winograd, Vice Chairman; Michael Ryan, Treasurer; Joseph Panepinto Jr., Corresponding Secretary; Elizabeth Spinelli, Recording Secretary; with Members Joseph A. Turula, Esq., Kathleen Hartye, Samantha Newman-Webster, Robert Burke and Margaret Crimmins. Library Director Priscilla Gardner also serves as executive director of the Library Foundation. The Jersey City Free Public Library Foundation, Inc. is chartered in Jersey City as a 501(c)(3) organization to receive charitable gifts. Benefactors can contribute to the foundation with gifts of cash, property, securities or real estate, trust arrangements, bequests in wills and by naming the foundation as beneficiary of a life insurance policy. The JCFPL Foundation hopes to encourage individuals and organizations to make financial contributions to the Foundation to assure that the library can continue its exceptional service far into the future. Assistant Library Director Sonia Araujo oversees the Bookmobile and its staff, with Five Corners Branch Manager Susan Stewart overseeing the day-to-day management, and the Jersey City Free Public Library Foundation Trustees & Executive Director. The Jersey City Free Public Library’s mobile branch brings library services to patrons throughout Jersey City five days a week during the daytime, Mondays through Fridays. The Bookmobile’s First Run Although the soothsayer in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar warned him, in the descriptive words of the day, “Beware the Ides of March,” it was the patrons of the Jersey City Free Public Library who warmed to the 15th of March in 1954 for the dedication of the first Bookmobile. In a February 26, 1954 article of The Jersey Journal, plans for the dedication were announced. “The bookmobile arrived in the city yesterday but has not been officially turned over to the library. It will have a capacity of from 1,500 to 2,000 volumes. The plan is to have it visit various sections of the city. It will be stationed at certain given points at given hours for the lending of books.” In over a half century of being in operation, the Bookmobile has become a fixture on the Jersey City scene, providing families and senior citizens with recreational reading. In response to popular demand, the Bookmobile now operates on a seven-day-a-week schedule that is set every four months, on alternating weekly schedules (Red Route / Blue Route). In 2002, the Bookmobile received a facelift in the refurbishing of its chassis. New paint and lettering adorned the Bookmobile, as well as its receiving a new generator, thanks to The Provident Bank, Goldman Sachs and East Coast Collision, Inc. of Jersey City. Lending periods We loan books for one month. We visit each stop every two weeks. If we miss your stop because of bad weather, mechanical problems or a holiday weekend, you will not be charged any fines for returning it when we next visit. Fines will not be collected on the Bookmobile but you will receive a bill by mail for any late charges. Summer Reading 2013:

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A-Z :: Off-campus login Keyword Go to Classic ODU Catalog Databases starting with the letter For additional print and web-based resources, see the Subject Provides access to IBISWorld Industry Research reports using Michael Porter's Five Competitive Forces framework providing data on key statistics, industry structure and analysis, and factors that affect the industry. Restricted to ODU ICPSR -- Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research Selected Fulltext Provides access to an archive of social sciences data—including health data. In ICPSR, select Find & Analyze Data to begin searching. ICPSR provides access to Health and Medical Care Archive, Resource Center for Minority Data, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive, and many more. First time users must create an account. ICPSR is funded with support from the ODU Office of Research. Coverage varies Provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 plus select content back to 1950, and all current IEEE Standards. Allows a maximum of 15 users at a time. Restricted to VIVA/ODU Contains the full facsimile run of the world's most iconic illustrated newspaper. The Illustrated London News was founded by Herbert Ingram, an entrepreneurial newsagent, who noticed that newspapers sold more copies when they carried pictures. The ILN commissioned a galaxy of great artists and draughtsmen to cover wars, royal events, scientific invention, and exploration. IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook Current 5 years Includes all the information from the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook, which analyzes and ranks the ability of nations to create and maintain an environment that sustains the competitiveness of enterprises. It covers countries and regional economies using 331 criteria, grouped into 4 main factors: economic performance, government efficiency, business efficiency, and infrastructure. Immunology Abstracts No Fulltext Covers topics from cancer and vaccine research to immune deficiencies and autoimmunity, concentrating on basic science research and its clinical implications. Industrial & Applied Microbiology Abstracts Significant findings and practical applications in agricultural, food and beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries are assembled in this database. Abstracts international journal articles, conference proceedings, reports, dissertations and books from the scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology. Integrated Fertility Survey Series (IFSS) @ ICPSR Offers data and tools for examining issues related to families and fertility in the United States spanning five decades. IFSS encompasses the Growth of American Families (GAF), National Fertility Surveys (NFS), and National Surveys of Family Growth (NSFG), as well as a single dataset of harmonized variables across all ten surveys. Analytic tools make it possible to quickly and easily explore the data and obtain information about changes in behaviors and attitudes across time. International Bibliography of Art Provides scholarly literature on western art. IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) from the Getty Research Institute. International Encyclopedia of Education Of interest to Educators and researchers in education of all backgrounds. Readers will include undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, teachers and lecturers, and professionals. The wide coverage will make it an invaluable source of information for scholars and students inside and outside the discipline. Provides a complete library of continuously updated international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., data on exchange rates, international liquidity, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts. International Studies Encyclopedia Online Published in association with the International Studies Association, is available online (International Studies Online) or as a 12-volume set in print. This resource is the most comprehensive reference work of its kind for the fields of international studies and international relations. See All © 2000 - Old Dominion University || 4427 Hampton Blvd, Norfolk VA. 23529 (757)683-4154 || Feedback

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Bibliography of Agricultural and Rural Life Literature 1860-1945: North Dakota Enter search terms: Introduction This bibliography was developed as part of North Dakota's participation in the National Program for the Preservation of Agricultural and Rural Life Literature. The national project is a cooperative effort of land-grant university libraries, Cornell University, USAIN (United States Agricultural Information Network), and the National Agricultural Library, and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The overall goal of the national program is to identify publications pertinent to agriculture and rural life published prior to 1946, and to preserve those items adjudged to be essential by means of archival quality microfilm. For more information about the national project, its progress, and participating libraries, and for more information about North Dakota's participation, please go to our USAIN/NEH grant information page. The North Dakota bibliography was compiled in 2000/2001. A panel of experts in agriculture, rural sociology, and agriculture examined a working copy in order to rank the entries by importance for preservation; the highest ranked items (if they could be found) were microfilmed by Preservation Resources of Bethlehem, PA. Entries for the items microfilmed by this project are indicated by the note: Reproduction: Microfilm. Bethlehem, PA : Preservation Resources, 2001. 35 mm (USAIN State and Local Literature Preservation Project. North Dakota) Scope The national project established some parameters for inclusion in the bibliography: namely agricultural or rural life published materials by and about the state, and issued prior to 1946. Manuscripts are excluded, as are federal documents. Pamphlets are included in this bibliography, but were not included in the microfilm phase of the project. A detailed description of subject areas included and excluded in included as Appendix XI of this bibliography. Participants The North Dakota project was co-chaired by Kathie Richardson, Agricultural Sciences Librarian at NDSU Libraries, and John Bye, Archivist, NDSU Libraries. Elena Knickman assisted with the compilation of the bibliography; Derek Jorgenson , and Pam Burchell assisted with editing. Page Content: Kathie Richardson Updated: Aug 15 '02

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Connect to articles, online books, and streaming media from off-campus. Click here to download the VPN. Browse current publications and learn more about eScholarship's publishing services for UC. Click image to chat with a librarian now. Local Family Supports UC Merced With the Establishment of 10th Endowed Chair, Library Fundraiser MERCED - The Thondapu family of Merced has committed an endowed chair and spearheaded a major fund-raising campaign to purchase books for the University of California, Merced. To be formally announced tonight (October 5, 2001) during the UC Merced World Cultures Institute Library Fundraiser, the Thondapu Family Endowed Chair is a gift from Ramakrishna Thondapu, M.D.; his wife, Sumana; and their children, Vikas and Ramesh. This will be the 10th endowed chair established at UC Merced, which has received a greater number of such endowments than any other United States university campus prior to opening. The fund-raising effort will raise more than $20,000 to support the purchase of books for the World Cultures Institute section of the Leo and Dottie Kolligian Library at UC Merced. Donors will be honored this evening at a special dinner and program at the home of the Thondapus. Included in the program will be an announcement of special gifts, presentations on "UC Merced's World Cultures Institute and You" and "UC Merced Kolligian Library for the New Millennium." "We feel so privileged to have the Thondapu family participate in our exciting enterprise to develop a premiere university campus and expand educational opportunities for the deserving people of the San Joaquin Valley," said UC Merced Chancellor Carol Tomlinson-Keasey. "Specifically, their generous philanthropy will further the mission of the University of California to conduct world-class research and teaching." The exact academic use of the endowed chair has not yet been determined. Contributions of $100 to $1,000 have been received from more than 100 individuals during the initial campaign to benefit the library. The names of patrons, or those whom they wish to honor, will appear on bookplates inside the covers of library books purchased with their donations. "I would like to share my gratitude for the leadership and vision of the Thondapus and the generosity of so many in this important endeavor to build a strong foundation for the World Cultures Institute Library Collection," said UC Merced Founding Librarian Bruce Miller. "Special collections will prove invaluable for research undertaken by faculty and students, and this particular collection will be a resource unique to the UC Merced campus." A member of the UC Merced Foundation Board of Trustees, Dr. Ramakrishna "Krishna" Thondapu is the medical director of anesthesia for Mercy Medical Center. He and Sumana "Suma" Thondapu were looking to relocate from Flint, Michigan to California when an opening surfaced for an anesthesiologist in Merced, and the family made the move 11 years ago. "We have always been excited about the prospect of UC Merced and believe very strongly in providing access to quality, higher education opportunities for students in the region," said Krishna Thondapu. "To make our contribution toward the success of this tremendous educational endeavor is something we feel is very important." "The inspiration to support the UC Merced library evolved from our recent visit to the UC Berkeley library," said Suma Thondapu. "After that tremendous experience, we wanted to help with the development of the UC Merced library so that everyone in the San Joaquin Valley also can benefit from such a resource." Education, with a special emphasis on reading and books, has long held a position of utmost importance in the lives of Krishna and Sumana "Suma" Thondapu, a value they also have instilled in their sons, Vikas and Ramesh. Krishna and Suma Thondapu pursued studies in higher education in their native India, departing after she had earned her master's degree in anthropology and in time for him to begin his medical residency program in Chicago. Showing evidence of wanting to follow his father into the field of medicine, 17-year-old Vikas began his undergraduate studies this fall at Duke University. Ramesh, 15, is a sophomore at Merced's Golden Valley High School. Spelling has been a specific interest of the Thondapu family, with Vikas and Ramesh both advancing to the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee and their mother helping with fund-raising at the local level. Endowed chairs and professorships at UC Merced will facilitate the hiring and retention of outstanding faculty. Income generated by the endowments assures a continuing income flow to fund the research of faculty member appointed to fill these positions. UC Merced may also seek endowments that will pay the salary of the professor as well as offer research funding. The Thondapu Family Endowed Chair in World Cultures is one of 10 endowed chairs pledged to the UC Merced campus. Other donors and their designated endowed chairs are: William and Dorothy Bizzini of Atwater, Biotechnology/Biological Sciences; Walter and Isabel Coats of Merced, Arts; County Bank (Tom Hawker) of Merced, Economics; Ted and Jan Falasco of Los Banos, Earth Sciences; the late Vincent Hillyer of Los Banos, Early Literature; Margaret and the late Joseph Josephine of Fresno, Biological Sciences; Art and Fafa Kamangar of Merced, Biological Sciences (nutrition and preventive medicine); John Myers of Merced and Beverly Hills, Sierra Nevada Research Institute; Keith and Elinor Shaffer of Santa Cruz, Engineering (chair also named for Bettylou George of Merced). Additional major endowments for UC Merced scholarships have been contributed by Margaret Josephine and John Myers. UC Merced currently employs approximately 85 educators and professionals. The University's main campus in Merced is being planned, and is expected to open in fall 2005 to serve 1,000 students. The campus will grow over coming decades to serve 25,000 students. UC Merced contributes to educational access through the entire San Joaquin region via special educational and outreach centers in Fresno and Bakersfield, and through the Tri-College Center in Merced. A new UC Merced center is expected to open in Modesto in 2002. Information For... Databases: A-Z List Databases: Subject Areas Library Rooms and Reservations Databases: By Format

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Home » Blogs » My blog Sue Perry's blog March 17 - June 12, 2011 The UCSC University Library presents: Shoot the Core An Overview of 2D Space Shooter Games with Professor Jim Whitehead, Computer Science Dept. Thursday May 5, 3-4pm Current Periodicals Room From the early popularity of Space Invaders to recent niche titles such as Mushihimesama Futari, the 2D space shooter, or shmup, remains one of the enduring game genres. Due to scheduling conflicts, the reception scheduled for April 7 in the Science & Engineering has been cancelled. The books selected by this year's faculty honorees will be on display at the Science and Engineering Library April 7-May 6. For more information on the honorees and their book selections please visit the exhibit website. In the Science & Engineering Library, an Owl exhibit is attracting attention. The UCSC Natural History Museum created the exhibit titled "The Owls Around Us", which features various owl species that can be found in the vicinity of UCSC, and spotlights some of their more unique anatomical attributes. Selected 2010 Federal and California State tax forms and instruction booklets are now available free of charge on the 2nd Floor of McHenry Library. The UC Santa Cruz University Library was among the winners of the 2011 John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award. Recipients of the award were announced at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in San Diego. The award, considered the top PR award for libraries, comes with a $5000 cash award for each library. See more information on the Library Journal site. We are delighted to report the temporary wooden "cat-walk" behind McHenry Library has been removed! Library patrons can now use the wooden stairs and wider concrete walkway directly behind the building. The chain-link fencing has also been removed from the north side of the building, allowing bicycle access around McHenry. The library will be open late (until 3am!) starting Wednesday, Dec. 1st, 2010. Here is the exact schedule: Did you know you can check out laptops, iPads, calculators, and headphones from the library? All equipment can be checked out for 4 hours and can be renewed if no one is waiting to use it next. You can leave the library with the equipment (everything except the headphones) and use them outside. Laptops, iPads, and calculators can be checked out overnight after 7:30pm. To get up-to-date information about library news and events on Facebook, Like the Library!

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Art History Revisited “Seerveld writes with the learned precision of the academic, but also with the passion and wry humor of a man rationally and emotionally convinced that we are God’s creatures living in God’s world. Above all, he looks. He looks carefully, thoughtfully, in detail, and with a constructively critical eye. The result is writing that brings art and artists to life, whether from this age or from ages past, and makes us reflect seriously about our own lives and practice.” —Nigel Halliday, freelance art historian, lecturer, and teacher, Liss, UK “Now, for the first time, Cal Seerveld’s writings that deal with the methodology and practice of art history are found together in sequence, and expert introductions help the reader grasp how they add up to a uniquely challenging and faithfully Christian approach.” —Dr. Graham M. Birtwistle (emeritus), Department of Art History, VU University, Amsterdam “As a scholar from outside the field, Cal Seerveld brings fresh insights to the methods and motivations of art history. He addresses art history as an enterprise with great importance and urgency. Seerveld’s practice of identifying connections across periods of art history manifests a belief in God’s authority over the entirety of history and culture. His is a pursuit of the divine continuity that binds and gives meaningful significance to the ordinary particulars of historical and cultural moments.” —Dr. James Romaine, Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art (president), associate professor of art history, Nyack College Images from Book

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Eli Epstein Print Page | SHARE PAGE Horn; Chair, Brass; Director, Youth Brass Ensemble; Chamber Music; The Entrepreneurial Musician; Entrepreneurial Musicianship Eli Epstein enjoys a multi-faceted career as performer, educator, conductor, and author. Epstein was second horn of the Cleveland Orchestra (1987-2005) and horn professor at the Cleveland Institute of Music (1989-2005). He has appeared several times as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra.Epstein left Cleveland in 2005, and moved to Boston to devote more time and energy toward educational and creative endeavors. Epstein is currently on faculty of New England Conservatory and Boston Conservatory. At NEC, he is on the college faculty, NEC at Walnut Hill, and Brass Chair of the Preparatory School and School of Continuing Education. His former students hold posts in major orchestras throughout the US and Canada.An active performer, Epstein has appeared on chamber programs at Jordan Hall, Severance Hall, Tanglewood, Philadelphia’s Academy of Music, Kennedy Center, Music Academy of the West, where he was on faculty (2005-2013), and Aspen Music Festival, where he served as principal horn of the Aspen Chamber Symphony (2000-2012). Epstein has collaborated with the Borromeo and Brentano String Quartets, and has been guest principal horn for the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and St. Louis Symphony. He performs with the Boston Symphony Orchestra from time to time and has played on the BSO Community Chamber Concerts series.Director of the NEC Youth Brass Ensemble since 2009, Epstein has conducted college ensembles at Boston Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music, Longy School of Music, Music Academy of the West, NEC, and El Sistema in Venezuela. Advocating the idea that music can be a meaningful and uplifting force in society, in 2009 Epstein won Grand Prize in the Entrepreneur the Arts Contest for his Inside Out Concerts, and appeared on Heartbeat of America with William Shatner. Drawing on years of experience as a performer, educator and entrepreneur, in 2013 Epstein joined the NEC Entrepreneurial Musicianship faculty to teach their survey course The Entrepreneurial Musician.Epstein’s book, Horn Playing from the Inside Out, A Method for All Brass Musicians (second edition published in 2014), was acclaimed in the International Horn Society’s journal as “an overwhelmingly stimulating and productive treatise…that will yield positive influence on legions of horn players—students and professionals alike.” Related links:eliepstein.com2014-08-27 Contact Eli Epstein Brooke Sofferman Eli Epstein

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> Legacy of "Mom" Kodama lives on through Leeward CC's scholarship Legacy of "Mom" Kodama lives on through Leeward CC's scholarshipLeeward Community CollegeContact:Margot Schrire, UH FoundationPosted: Jun 1, 2009"Leeward Community College is very appreciative and pleased to have the Sunao Sandy "Mom" Kodama Memorial Scholarship Fund. For the college to be able to honor this special wife and mother and to provide financial assistance to deserving culinary students is indeed a privilege."—Manny Cabral, Chancellor, Leeward Community CollegeLEEWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE - Students at Leeward Community College will soon have more scholarship opportunities, thanks to the generosity of the Kodama family of Aiea. With a $25,000 gift, Tamateru Kodama and his family have established the endowed Sunao Sandy "Mom" Kodama Memorial Scholarship Fund.This fund will provide scholarships to students enrolled in the culinary program at Leeward Community College, with preference given to students who graduated from a Hawaiʻi high school. The funds shall be used to pay for costs associated with attendance (tuition, books, fees, supplies, etc.).The creation of the Sunao Sandy "Mom" Kodama Memorial Scholarship Fund is inspired by the life and contributions of the late Sunao Sandy Kodama who had an extraordinary gift of making people feel at home. Sandy was born April 24, 1931 in New York and then raised in Wahiawa. She married Tamateru Kodama in 1953 and together they raised five sons and a daughter. When her children were grown, she helped at a friend‘s catering service until her son, D.K., expanded his Sansei Restaurant in 2000 from Maui to Honolulu. She became the hostess at her son‘s restaurant and customers and staff alike embraced her as "Mom" Kodama."Sandy treated people with love and respect, and always encouraged young people to follow their dreams," said Tamateru Kodama. "With this scholarship in her memory, her legacy of love and support lives on. It is our hope that this fund will help make it possible for local students with a passion for the culinary arts to live their dreams and become chefs." Scholarship Criteria:(1) Recipients must be full-time or part-time, undergraduate students enrolled in the culinary program at Leeward Community College.(2) Recipients shall have a cumulative grade point average of 2.5 or above.(3) Financial need shall be a criterion in making this award although not necessarily as determined by federal guidelines.Recipients will be selected by a committee appointed by the Culinary Department at Leeward Community College. The number and amount of awards shall be determined by the selection committee based on the availability of funds.###The University of Hawaiʻi Foundation, a nonprofit organization, raises private funds to support the University of Hawaiʻi System. Our mission is to unite our donors‘ passions with the University of Hawaiʻi's aspirations to benefit the people of Hawaiʻi and beyond. We do this by raising private philanthropic support, managing private investments and nurturing donor and alumni relationships. Please visit www.uhf.hawaii.edu.Leeward Community College - As one of the seven community colleges in the University of Hawaiʻi system, Leeward Community College provides access to higher education and plays an important role in workforce development in Leeward and Central Oʻahu. The College focuses on students, teaching, learning, and responsiveness to community needs. With courses in more than 100 subject areas, Leeward CC offers a comprehensive curriculum for immediate entry into the workforce or for transfer towards a baccalaureate degree. High demand programs include business, education, digital media, computer networking, culinary arts, television production, engineering, visual and performing arts and the sciences. Strong support services, such as free tutoring, career development center, and job placement assistance, are focused on helping students reach their educational goals.

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Home > Peter Costello > Transcripts 11 March 1996 - 3 December 2007 Transcript of 04/10/2007 Interview with Madonna King Thursday, 4 October 2007 10.10 am SUBJECTS: Queensland, child care, pensions, executive bonuses, economic management, Election ‘07, education, water, wages Good morning Treasurer and welcome to 612 ABC Brisbane. Good morning Madonna. Good to be with you. Thank you. Before we go on, it is the eve of the election, you are up in Queensland. Why are you here now? Wayne Swan says you don’t bother to come any other time of the year. Well I am here to support the joint Senate ticket of the Liberal and National Party and I will be doing a speech on that today. And also to support Scott McConnel who is the Liberal candidate for Lilley. But is Wayne Swan right? You go to the other States more than you come here? How many times have you been here in the last year or so? Oh, many occasions. The answer is that Wayne Swan is wrong, but you would expect him to say that. He is a political apparatchik. Okay, we might leave that there and move on. And can I ask you about childcare first. You are in trouble with some of your own backbenchers over the issue of childcare. Have you ruled out full tax deductibility? The point that I have made about childcare is that the Government has a childcare benefit which is paid to childcare centres and they use it to reduce the cost of the childcare. Then in addition to that, the parents are entitled to get a tax rebate of 30 per cent of the balance that they pay. So, you have the benefit which reduces the amount which you have to pay and then you are entitled to a 30 per cent rebate on your out-of-pocket to what you actually have to pay after that benefit. And this, for over 90 per cent of Australian families, is better than tax deductibility. Because most families are on a 30 per cent tax rate, so if you gave them tax deductibility what they would get back would be 30 per cent – they get back the 30 per cent anyway – and they get the childcare benefit as well. So the way in which childcare is set up for the overwhelming majority of Australians, the system is better than full tax deductibility. And if you were to move to full tax deductibility the overwhelming majority of Australian families would be worse off, not... KING: Well it still seems to be an issue though. Is there a fairer system than the current one that you might consider? Well of course we have just announced changes to the childcare rebate – this is where you get the 30 per cent back of your out-of-pocket costs – to bring that forward because some people said that it was taking too long to actually get that rebate. And that system has just taken effect from the end of the last financial year. And I think for many Australian families they will now get two years rebate at the same time and I think that is going to be a much fairer system. All right, from childcare to pensions, I am talking this morning with the Federal Treasurer, Peter Costello. One of the Parliamentary Committees sitting at the moment Treasurer, is looking at the cost of living pressures on older Australians. Do you think the pension is sufficient – that $259 a week or thereabouts – is enough for someone to live on? Well look, I would say that the pension is a very minimal payment. Yes, of course it is. And that is why we are encouraging more and more Australians to take out superannuation and to provide for their own retirement. Why not just give them a bigger pension? Well what we have done with the pension Madonna, is we, we are the first government in Australian history which legislated to fix the pension. At 25 per cent – we understand all of that – but people are still struggling on that amount of money. Does it deserve to be higher? Well let me just make the point that because wages are increasing faster than prices, this has meant that the pension has actually increased faster than the Consumer Price Index because we have fixed it to 25 per cent of wages and that meant that pensioners have been protected against price rises. Now, can we do more to help? Well we do do more to help. In my most recent Budget I announced a bonus to all pensioners of $500… Yes, we know all of that, that is on the public record. But what I am saying is you know, do you think pensioners, should they be satisfied with what they are getting, I guess? Well as I said, it is important that we keep the pension growing faster than prices and where we can do more, that we do do more and that is what we did in this year’s Budget. You keep hearing that – callers to this programme or you would be out and about and hear this – we keep hearing that the economy is really good and the economy is really strong, that perhaps we haven’t had it so good, but people are still struggling under grocery price rises, petrol prices, rising mortgages. Well there are a lot of people that are struggling in Australia. A group of people struggling terribly in Australia at the moment would be farmers who are struggling with drought and have no income at all. You are quite right. People who are on the pension still have limited income. People who are on disability have a limited income. Yes, there are a lot of people that are struggling in Australia at the moment. And you know, it is true that our economy is growing. In normal circumstance with a drought like this we would be in deep recession with mass unemployment. And so what we are saying is that notwithstanding those things, it is good that the economy is growing and it is good that for the majority of Australians there is still the opportunity to get work. But I acknowledge that there are many people that do it tough in a modern economy. All right. Last time we talked I think the issue of executive bonuses and salaries came up. What do you think of the example set this week by out-going Coles chief, John Fletcher to voluntarily forgo about $4 million in bonus payments? A good example? Yes, I think it was a very good example and I pay tribute to him. He took the decision that with his company’s performance it wouldn’t be right to take a bonus, he surrendered that and all credit to him. Should more chief executives follow his example, do you think? Well there are a few others, I think that could, yes. I think that there are some other chief executives who are taking large salaries and whose companies haven’t done so well who might take a leaf out of John’s book and consider their bonuses. Do you want to name any? I better not name them. All right. We are talking about spending. What does your Treasury Secretary think of the amount of spending the Coalition is doing at the moment? Well the Coalition Government will wisely look after the nation’s finances as we have over the last decade or so and I can promise you this, we won’t spend money that we don’t have. We are cutting taxes and we are keeping government spending within the tax base. And we will have another surplus budget this year, it will be the tenth that I have introduced and that is because we are managing to keep expenses reasonable. If you are returned, if your Government is returned, well first of all I should ask you, what do you think the chances are of a victory in the election? Well it is going to be a hard election, I acknowledge that and if you read the polls then Mr Rudd is in front and he is already carrying on as if he has got the election in the bag. But I would say an election is not over until all of the votes have been counted on the polling day and I think it will be a hard fought election. The Australian people will decide who they want to be the next government, who they want to manage their mortgage, who they want to manage their jobs, who they want to manage the Australian economy and that is their decision which they will make on polling day. KING: Well if you are returned, you are expected to become Prime Minister sometime during the next term. And the Australian public know you as Treasurer, we don’t know a lot about you in terms of social policy, your views on education and health. Do you need to broaden the vision that you can offer Australia? I think it is important to talk about where we want our country to go, yes. And I will tell you my views on education. You know, I think we need a first-class technical school system in this country, training people for trades. I think we need improved standards of literacy in our primary and secondary schools and I think we need better facilities at the tertiary level. It is one of the reasons I established the Endowment Fund which will build first-class facilities at the university level for decades to come. And I have very strong views on education. I have, actually for a part of my life, I was a tutor in the tertiary education system and I have the view that we need first-class education for our children to make sure that they have every opportunity in life. I mentioned a few things there. You immediately jumped on to education. Would that be a real focus if you became Prime Minister? I am very committed to education, in (inaudible), with technical education and technical schools, with standards of literacy and numeracy in our primary and secondary schools, and with first class facilities from the tertiary levels up. I am very, very committed to education. My father was a school teacher, I watched him influence generations of students, I know the difference that a good school teacher can make in a person’s life. I believe in the importance of education. Do we put too much pressure on our teachers now do you think? They become almost pseudo parents in some incidences, that we expect teachers to pick up the slack that parents aren’t doing? I think it is tough for teachers. Teachers can’t be parents obviously, they can influence, they can shape a child’s life but they can’t be parents to every child in the class. I think a lot of the teachers feel that they don’t have adequate support; I think with discipline, there are many teachers that say to me ‘oh, we’re afraid that we can’t discipline kids because they will complain to the Education Department, or they will threaten us in some way’. And I do think teachers actually, particularly in secondary schools, do feel they are not getting enough support. I think they feel that they are not getting enough support to upgrade their educational qualifications. More should be done in that area. And you and I, we know don’t we, that you look back on your own career and there will be a couple of teachers who really changed your life for the better. And if a child can have a great teacher in their lives it can really change them. Okay, so you are saying that education would be a big focus on your Prime Ministership. What would be the one other issue that you would focus on? I think water is going to be the key issue for Australia, for our development and our sustainability for the next couple of decades. I think the water, we have to manage our water better, we have to invest in water better, we have to harness water better, we have to price water better. I think we really do have a water crisis in this country and it is something we are going to have to deal with in order to keep our country growing and our lifestyle up in the decades which lie ahead. Should we have been dealing with it a little bit earlier? Oh, absolutely, we know at the State level where they build these dams, there has not been enough investment in dams, there has not been enough investment in pipes and irrigation canals and I think we are going to have to look very, very carefully at desalination plants for our major capital cities. Okay, just, a caller has called in and wants to know a specific question. So if I can ask you that that, that your government quotes that wages are up 20 per cent, is that right? Real wages have increased 20 per cent. Okay I guess they want to know, is that the mean average, what is a real wage? Well this is a measure of average wages and it discounts for inflation. And what it is saying is that real average wages have increased about 20 per cent beyond inflation. What about the minimum wage? How much has that gone up under your Government? The minimum wage has been adjusted both through national wage cases and it has been adjusted through the institutional arrangements for setting the basic, or minimum wage, and it has also risen through the period of our Government. But can you give me a figure? How much has it risen, from what to what? I can’t give you the precise amount now, but it has been adjusted by the national wage case right throughout the period of our Government. Are you able to get your office to get me those figures? Sure, no trouble at all. Okay, and look just one last thing. People know you as Treasurer as I said. At this election it is fairly much a joint ticket, it would seem, voting for the Coalition. The Prime Minister is saying he will step aside at some time. What is something about you that we don’t know, that you could tell me this morning? That I am a lot of fun. I am not sure that always comes across. A lot of fun and good company Madonna, and if we have the chance for a cup of tea and piece of cake you would see that. I think I am a white wine type of girl really. We could easily extend to that. All right, look do you promise next time you are in Brisbane you can come in and take some of our listeners’ calls? I’d love to and I would have loved to have been there but I had some demands from press media this morning, if you know what I mean. We should always come first, all right, Peter Costello, thank you. 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Top News Top News Penn State tops UCF 26-24 with last-second field goal8/30/14Penn State won a thrilling season opener with a 36-yard field goal as time expired to defeat the University of Central Florida 26-24 in front of a raucous 55,000-strong crowd in Dublin, Ireland. Senior Scholar exploring passion for journalism on trip to Ireland8/28/14Senior Schreyer Scholar Bobby Chen explores his passion for photojournalism on a trip to Ireland with the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism. Probing Question: Why is Impressionist art so popular?8/28/14How did Impressionism come to be the crowd-pleasing blockbuster of the art world? According to Nancy Locke, associate professor of art history at Penn State, "I think these paintings are so popular because we see ourselves in them: we see the bustle of the modern city, the rise of the suburb, a very modern concern with fashion. Yet in the nineteenth century, paintings that represented people trying to be modern were a very new thing." Café Laura returns with new look, new tastes and new opportunities 8/25/14From food preparation to healthier eating choices, the newly renovated Café Laura offers the gamut. The cafe re-opened today (Aug. 25) and will hold its grand reopening Sept. 9 after months of extensive renovations. The student-run restaurant housed in the Mateer Building features new fare stations, a revised design, and a variety of novel equipment and technology. More importantly, the $1.2 million renovation boosts the educational experience for students and enhances dining experiences for customers. Lara Spencer to be grand marshal at Homecoming 20148/25/14The Homecoming Executive Committee announced that Lara Spencer, co-anchor of "Good Morning America," has been selected as the grand marshal for Homecoming 2014. The reveal occurred Aug. 24 at the annual Be A Part From The Start event. In Photos: President Barron welcomes incoming class at New Student Convocation8/23/14President Eric Barron and Provost Nick Jones, among others, welcomed Penn State's incoming class during the Fall 2014 President's New Student Convocation on Aug. 23 at the Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus. Convocation marks the beginning of the new academic year and is the official welcome to the University academic community. More reasons to move: Active Lions campaign encourages biking, walking 8/22/14Active Lions, scheduled to launch this month, is a two-pronged research and outreach initiative that includes a social marketing campaign and accompanying smartphone application to encourage active travel -- such as walking and cycling -- for Penn State students, faculty and staff Zombie ant fungi 'know' brains of their hosts8/22/14A parasitic fungus that reproduces by manipulating the behavior of ants emits a cocktail of behavior-controlling chemicals when encountering the brain of its natural target host but not when infecting other ant species, a new study shows. The findings, which suggest that the fungus "knows" its preferred host, provide new insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying this phenomenon, according to researchers. Students urged to put safety first as semester begins8/22/14The start of fall semester can be a wonderful time of new beginnings, especially for first-year students who are entering a new phase of their lives. As they say good-bye to their parents and settle into their residence halls, new students typically are excited to explore their surroundings and meet new people. Penn State reaches milestone in conversion to cleaner energy8/22/14Penn State continues its pursuit of greater sustainability with the conclusion of construction on the installation of 13,645 feet (2.6 miles) of pipe to increase natural gas service to the University’s West Campus Steam Plant. Conversion from its historic use of coal to natural gas will reduce the plant’s total emissions by nearly 50 percent and help meet the University’s ambitious goal of a 35 percent overall reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 (over a 2005 baseline). More than a ‘Fun Boss,' alumnus builds morale on aircraft carrier 8/21/14Josh Watson, a recreation, park and tourism management grad, is the director of recreation on the USS George H. W. Bush naval aircraft carrier. Responsible for planning and implementing morale building activities for more than 5,000 servicemen and women, Watson is casually known as the “Fun Boss.”

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student accomplishments student accomplishments Third annual 'Blue Out' set for Kent State game9/18/13Two years ago, graduate students Laura March and Stuart Shapiro wanted to fill Beaver Stadium with blue shirts to raise awareness of child abuse. This Saturday’s (Sept. 21) match versus Kent State will mark Penn State’s third annual “Blue Out” game, and senior Victoria Smith has taken the torch to keep the tradition alive. Smeal team wins Rutgers supply chain case competition4/10/12A team of MBA students from the Penn State Smeal College of Business bested teams from seven leading business schools to take home first place in the Supply Chain Management Case Competition at Rutgers Business School, held March 30 in Piscataway, N.J. Smeal's team of Mehul Pathak, Raghavan Parthasarathy, Rashmi Sharma, and Yujia Wang beat out teams from Lehigh University, the University of Maryland, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Rider University, Rutgers University, and Syracuse University. Lozano named 2012 Graduate Student Service Award recipient3/13/12Jon M. Lozano, a candidate for a juris doctor degree from the Dickinson School of Law and master of education in the College Student Affairs program, has been honored with the 2012 Graduate Student Service Award. The award, established in 1991, recognizes a graduate student who has best combined high academic achievement with leadership in University or other public activities. Zhang named recipient of 2012 Eric A. Walker Award3/13/12Ce Zhang, a senior majoring in biology in the Eberly College of Science, has been named the 2012 recipient of the Eric A. Walker Award. The award is presented annually to the student who has contributed most to enhancing the reputation of the University through extracurricular activities. Walker was president of Penn State from 1956 to 1970. Ettl, Fracassi, Baker, Collins, Khoury named 2012 Oswald Award winners3/13/12Five Penn State students in their respective areas of leadership have been honored with the 2012 John W. Oswald Award. Natalie Ettl is the recipient in the field of athletics; Adam Fracassi, journalism; James Baker, creative/performing arts; Erin Collins, representing scholarship; and Peter Khoury, social services. The John W. Oswald Award, established in 1983, annually recognizes graduating seniors who have provided outstanding leadership in at least one of several areas of activity at the University. The award consists of a medallion honoring John W. Oswald, president of the University from 1970 to 1983. 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News @ Illinois Springfield The latest news and information Honors received by UIS faculty, alumnus at national CLS meeting Paula Garrott, interim director of the Science Division and Emeritus Associate Professor of Clinical Laboratory Science at the University of Illinois Springfield, received the Robin H. Mendelson Memorial Award at the recent national convention of the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS).Garrott was nominated for the award by the Board of Directors for her continuing advocacy for clinical laboratory science and her work as chair of the Coordinating Council on the Clinical Laboratory Workforce (CCCLW) over the past three years. As chair of CCCLW, Garrott led the cooperative effort of medical laboratory stakeholders to ensure an adequate supply of laboratory professionals.The Robin H. Mendelson Memorial Award was established in 1971 to honor the memory of a young man who struggled for five years to survive kidney dialysis and two transplants during the infancy of the technology. The award honors outstanding service and contributions to clinical laboratory science, and Garrott is one of few people who have received this award multiple times.Only the president, officers and representatives of ASCLS are eligible for the Mendelson Award. The award was presented at the national meeting held July 21 to 25 in Chicago.Also at the national meeting, Dr. Timothy Randolph, a 1983 graduate the UIS Clinical Laboratory Science program, was elected to be Region VI Director and to serve on the Board of Directors of ASCLS. He was also awarded the Grant-in-Aid, Unrestricted, for research in clinical laboratory science. Randolph is currently an associate professor at St. Louis University.ASCLS is the preeminent organization for clinical laboratory science practitioners, providing dynamic leadership and vigorous promotion of all aspects of clinical laboratory science practice, education and management to ensure excellent, accessible cost-effective laboratory services for the consumers of health care.For more information, contact Linda McCown, director of the Clinical Laboratory Sciences program at UIS, at 217/206-7550, or Paula Garrott at 217/206-7348.Labels: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Faculty, Science posted by Courtney Westlake at 10:51 AM News Home Page » Seven students receive awards from EXS-L Programs ... Children at Cox collect school supplies for local ... UIS launches new home page Hall selected as new director of UIS MBA program Derek Schnapp selected as new director of public r... Springfield Area Economy expects below normal leve... UIS announces Spring 2009 Deans' List Tuition increases at U of I campuses UIS approved for membership in COPLAC UIS takes lead role in international symposium on ...

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Search Location This SitePenn State SitePenn State PeoplePenn State DepartmentsWeb Dr. Barbara J. Rolls, Director [email protected] Dr. Barbara Rolls Curriculum Vitae Barbara J. Rolls is Professor and the Helen A. Guthrie Chair of Nutritional Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Rolls also holds positions at Penn State as Professor in the Department of Biobehavioral Health, the Intercollege Graduate Program in Physiology, and the Integrative Biosciences Graduate Program. She is a faculty member of Penn State Hershey College of Medicine’s Neural and Behavioral Sciences Program and the MD/PhD Program. Dr. Rolls is Past-President of both the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior and The Obesity Society. She has been a member of the Advisory Council of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIH). In 1995 she was the recipient of the American Society of Nutritional Sciences Award in Human Nutrition. In 1996, she received the Pauline Schmitt Russell Distinguished Research Career Award from the College of Health and Human Development, Penn State. In 1997 she was the recipient of a MERIT award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for her outstanding research. Dr. Rolls was the 2001 recipient of the International Award for Modern Nutrition, and in 2003 she was awarded Honorary Membership in the American Dietetic Association. In 2006 she was elected a fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science and received the Evan G. and Helen G. Pattishall Outstanding Research Achievement Award, College of Health and Human Development, Penn State. She was selected as the 2007 W.O. Atwater Lecturer at Experimental Biology (sponsored by USDA’s 2007 Agricultural Research Service and the American Society for Nutrition). In 2008, Dr. Rolls received the Centrum Center for Nutrition Science Award at the Experimental Biology Annual Meeting. She was the 2010 recipient of The Obesity Society’s George A. Bray Founders Award and was elected to the American Society for Nutrition’s Fellows Class of 2011. She is the author of over 250 scientific articles and six books, including Thirst, The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan: Feel Full on Fewer Calories, The Volumetrics Eating Plan, and The Ultimate Volumetrics Diet (spring, 2012). Laboratory Main Page Nutritional Sciences main

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Roll Call: A Weekly Round Up of New York Academia By Molly Fischer | 01/11/10 10:31pm In the absence of students (college kids need extremely long breaks), events continue to occur at New York’s institutions of higher learning. Columbia’s J-school, for example, announced that it has raised $15 million to start the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. “With the establishment of the Tow Center, we expect to gain a more substantial understanding of how news media are evolving,” said dean of academic affairs Bill Grueskin in a statement. That sounds like a start. Meanwhile, downtown, Forbes Media sold its Fifth Avenue building to NYU. David Carr notes that as news media evolves, the company “has been struggling to come to grips with the flight of ads to the Web.” Like print media outlets, universities too find themselves in a period of flux. The Economist reviews Columbia professor Jonathan Cole’s new book, The Great American University, which details how America’s “great factories of talent, ideas and technologies are threatened from without and within.” Of course, one of the threats he describes is that universities are “simply too big and too rich,” so the comparison shouldn’t be taken too far. And NYU’s Tony Judt, scourge of the Anti-Defamation League, writes about Lou Gehrig’s Disease for The New York Review of Books. Judt is also profiled in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education. The piece opens with an account of a lecture at NYU’s Remarque institute last fall, which he delivered from a wheelchair. He explained afterward: I have nothing new to say about ALS. I do have something new to say about social democracy, and by saying it in my condition I can maybe have some influence on people’s understanding of sickness. . . . There is something to be said for simply doing the thing you would do anyway, doing it as well as you can under the circumstances, and getting past the sympathy vote as soon as possible. Share this:FacebookTwitterGoogleLinkedInPrintEmail Filed under: Columbia University, Daily Transom, New York University Comment More from our network

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OC› News› Renowned scholar N.T. Wright to speak at OC Dr. N.T. Wright OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – One of the world’s premier theologians will speak at Oklahoma Christian University (OC) March 24-25. N.T. Wright is a best-selling, award-winning author and professor who holds dual doctorates from Oxford University. He will lead a panel discussion on March 25 titled “Paul and the Faithfulness of God.” The event begins at 10 a.m. in OC’s Hardeman Auditorium. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased online at www.oc.edu/ntwright. Wright is research professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St. Andrew’s in Scotland. He holds a doctorate in divinity and a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University. He has written more than 60 books, including his best-selling “Simply Christian,” “Simply Jesus” and “How God Became King.” He also is known for his multi-volume work “Christian Origins and the Question of God,” of which volume four, “Paul and the Faithfulness of God,” has recently been released. In addition to the panel discussion, Wright will speak the night before to a sold-out crowd of 2,700 on the topic of “The Strange Challenge of Truth.” John Harrison, professor of New Testament and Ministry at Oklahoma Christian, said hosting Wright for the university’s latest McGaw Lecture is a significant honor. “N.T. Wright is our generation’s foremost expert on New Testament studies, especially in regard to postmodernity and the reliability of the Biblical narrative,” Harrison said. “He combines scholarship and applied insights in an understandable way that resonates with audiences, as evidenced by his sold-out public lecture.” Those interested in hearing Wright can still attend the panel discussion the next day. “Fortunately, the panel discussion presents another opportunity to hear from this distinguished scholar,” Harrison said. “In addition, Wright will be joined by three scholars in the study of Paul who will critique Wright's new book on Paul. This is truly a rare and unique opportunity to hear from established New Testament scholars.” Accomplished professors Richard Hays, Jerry Sumney and James Thompson will join Wright for the panel discussion. Hays is the dean of Duke University’s Divinity School and the George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament. Sumney teaches New Testament at Lexington Theological Seminary and is the chair for the Pauline Epistles and Literature section of the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Thompson is Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Theology at Abilene Christian University and the editor of Restoration Quarterly. In conjunction with Wright’s lecture, all OC students, faculty and staff members received a free copy of “Simply Christian,” and the book has been integrated into the curriculum of a number of classes. This outreach builds on the university’s commitment to spiritual growth. Earlier this semester, OC launched “WORD: OC’s 60-Day New Testament Plan” through the Edmond-based YouVersion Bible app, which is used on more than 100 million devices around the world. OC’s McGaw Lectures exist to increase national awareness of three of America’s founding core values: faith in God, constitutional government and private enterprise. The lectures are made possible by an endowment fund created by the late Mary and Foster McGaw. Just last month, OC hosted two members of the Little Rock Nine, Carlotta Walls LaNier and Terrence Roberts, for the university’s most recent McGaw Lecture. About Oklahoma Christian University Oklahoma Christian, recognized as one of the best universities in the western United States by U.S. News and World Report and The Princeton Review, offers undergraduate programs in more than 60 fields of study, an undergraduate Honors Program, and graduate programs in accountancy, business administration, engineering, Christian ministry, divinity and theological studies. The last nine years have featured the nine largest enrollments in OC history, including a record 2,424 students this year.

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Clear sky More Weather 10 years of growth and gripes at UGA Posted: Sunday, September 02, 2007 Michael Adams replaced Charles Knapp as president of the University of Georgia on the first day of September, 10 years ago, launching a decade of construction and academic advances punctuated by scandals and actions that angered fans and alumni. While many people always will associate Adams with his decision not to renew legendary football coach Vince Dooley's contract as athletic director, the most visible legacy of Adams' tenure at UGA is the face of the historic campus itself. In the past 10 years, UGA turned roads and parking lots into green spaces while adding the $40 million Paul D. Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences, the $43 million Student Learning Center, the $79 million East Campus Village, a new art school building and an expansion of the Tate Student Center. The $40 million art school building is scheduled to open next fall, and the $52 million Tate expansion is scheduled to open in 2009. AUDIO: Hear Adams talking about the accomplishments he is proudest of at the University of Georgia: var so = new SWFObject('/multimedia/players/flash_mp3_player/mp3player.swf','player','320','20','7'); so.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); so.addVariable("file","/multimedia/audio/090207adams1.mp3"); so.addVariable("displayheight","0"); so.write('MP3player1'); Adams discusses the controversy surrounding his decision to let Athletic Director Vince Dooley go: Adams shares his thoughts on progress concerning the future medical school facility: But criticism of Adams' CEO leadership style and scandals that even Adams admits he could have handled better linger as he tries to move on and make UGA an international player in higher education and bio-medical research. Building UGA Shortly after stepping into office in 1997, Adams formed the UGA Real Estate Foundation as a speedy a way to finance construction projects in order to get more buildings on the ground that would have taken years to wind through state financing channels. As the new president, Adams noticed that plans for the physical campus weren't keeping up with plans to improve academics and other aspects of the university - "That's why we put the strategic plan early on," he said. But Adams also concentrated on who has worked and studied inside those buildings, and what they did. "I did say early on that I thought we needed, particularly from a research standpoint, to be a broader institution given our bioscience strengths," he said. "We needed to go basically where the research money is." Fundraising efforts have tripled the university's endowment to more than $500 million, allowing the university to establish more professorships and scholarships and tap into more federal research grants, Adams said. The University System Board of Regents has rewarded Adams by raising his base salary over the years from $177,000 in 1997 to more than $242,000 in 2007. Adams also receives thousands of dollars each year in supplements, allowances and other benefits, while faculty salaries for years have remained behind in the job market. But while Adams concentrated on raising UGA's academic status, his relationship with Athens stagnated - especially when he moved out of the President's House on Prince Avenue, community and civic leaders said. "Initially, there was some concern about whether or not he could do this job" because he came from a small private school, Centre College in the Bluegrass area of central Kentucky, said Gwen O'Looney, Athens-Clarke mayor from 1995 until 1999. "I think Adams has done his job." County and university officials under Knapp never developed much of a relationship until the 1996 Summer Olympics demanded coordinated planning, which set a precedent for more communication between the two entities. "I don't think (Adams) has pushed to increase that cooperation," O'Looney said. "But it hasn't gone backwards." Adams hired a local government relations liaison and staff from UGA and the county meet regularly about issues that affect citizens both on and off campus. "(But) every place I have ever been there has been some town-gown tension because the lifestyle of the 19-year-old is often not the lifestyle of average citizen," Adams said. Many of the university's top officials and all of the deans have stepped down, retired or resigned in the past 10 years, vacancies that Adams took advantage of to build a more diverse administration. "I don't take personal credit for a lot, ... but I think I have been able to attract a lot of really smart people" who have helped move his goals for the university forward, Adams said. Ten years ago, none of the vice presidents, deans or other top administrators at UGA were black, and the black student population was half what it is today. "I think the last two or three years we have been further along that I might have predicted," Adams said, adding that the university still needs to do more to enroll black and other minority students, especially by offering more financial aid. The Dooley flap Adams gave Dooley a contract for an extra year but eventually decided to cut the cord with the revered Dooley in June 2003, sparking a fervent reaction from Bulldog fans and leaving lingering animosity among fans and alumni. "Things certainly have settled down," said Bob Hope, president of Atlanta-based public relations firm Hope-Beckham Inc., who led an "Axe-Adams" campaign following Adams' decision. "(But) there was more controversy than I thought there would be." Several "high-placed" people in the state asked Hope to lead an organized campaign to petition the regents for Adams' removal, but the president had enough political strength behind him that the campaign failed, Hope said. "(Adams) didn't approach the Vince Dooley thing with class," Hope said, adding that Adams' public response to fans' and graduates' frustrations probably hurt his reputation more than the decision itself. "Michael Adams could be a fine president and still be petty." Hope said he knows several wealthy philanthropists who won't donate to the university until Adams leaves, but others, despite their dislike of Adams, still give to UGA for the sake of the students and their education. The backlash hasn't ever swayed Adams' conviction about letting Dooley go. "I certainly wasn't oblivious to fact that not everybody would agree with that decision, but I don't try and hold my finger to the wind on decisions," Adams said. "I do listen to a lot of people, and I talked to a lot of people about that (decision) before I made it." Ending Dooley's contract received more attention than it deserved - "if you take 100 issues, Vince and I probably agreed on 95 or 96 of them," Adams said. An age of scandal The Dooley controversy came during a period when a new set of problems, beginning in 2003, threw Adams under close scrutiny and drew massive reproach from UGA faculty in 2004. Leaders of the university's then-official fundraising arm, the University of Georgia Foundation, fell out with Adams over the Dooley issue and later ordered an audit of Adams' spending habits. Auditors, and later UGA faculty, criticized Adams' spending of $895,000 on land in Costa Rica and using state funds to throw a graduation party for his son. The University of Georgia's academic reputation was stained after investigators found that assistant basketball coach Jim Harrick Jr. had been giving A's to student athletes who never attended his physical education class, in which he gave a final exam with questions like "How many points does a 3-point field goal account for?" The findings led Adams to pull the basketball team out of the NCAA tournament in March 2003, a decision that devastated fans and players. More than a year later, the NCAA put the team on probation. Harrick Jr. was suspended and his contract later was not renewed while his father, head basketball coach Jim Harrick Sr. - who Adams brought to UGA and who, in turn, hired his son with a nepotism waiver Adams endorsed - resigned under fire. Two years of state budget cuts, a downsized and overworked faculty and salaries that had fallen far behind other institutions added more tension to a university community already upset by the audit results, the Harrick scandal and Adams' response to it all. Seven out of 10 professors in the Franklin College Arts and Sciences claimed "no confidence" in Adams, according to a 2004 survey Franklin College faculty senate leaders developed. While many alumni and Bulldog fans outside of Athens focused their distaste for Adams on his decision over Dooley's contract, faculty were upset over other issues. The relationship between many professors and Adams' administration during those years was filled with "tension and conflict," said classics professor Nancy Felson, who chaired the college's faculty senate at the time. "Not based on Vince Dooley's non-renewal, but on our reaction to several matters in the (audit) report and on a widespread sense among Franklin College faculty that the president was not in touch with our mission and our challenges." Felson understands that Adams and his administration have to deal with the big picture, including budget constraints and politics, she said. "(Still), faculty and staff leaders - along with student activists - have to keep the pressure on the administration if they want to make a difference on crucial issues (including) child care, faculty sabbaticals and salaries, staff wages and benefits," said Felson, who also chaired the University Council's executive committee for the 2005-06 school year. Felson hopes Adams' administration will, in the end, leave a positive legacy when it comes to creating policies that affect the well-being of students and employees. Adams' "deepest personal regret" was getting into a confrontational relationship with Franklin College faculty after thinking he had been working to help them, he said. But the combination of budget cuts, athletic scandals and the audit created "a perfect storm" that divided Adams and the faculty, he said. "Any time I appear to be at cross-purposes with the faculty - that's probably bothered me more than anything since I've been here," he said. "But I think everybody moved far beyond that and maybe I learned some things and maybe they did, too." Sticking around Adams said last year that he planned to stick around for at least a couple more years until some ongoing projects are finished or on their way to being finished, such as the proposed UGA-Medical College of Georgia satellite campus on the Navy Supply Corps School land. The project has stalled as university system leaders decide how and where to spend more than $2 million in state funds to expand medical education - funds that Augusta leaders have fought to try and keep for MCG's main campus. "I do think we've made great progress with the medical school issue," Adams said. "I think to do what we've done, to create a MCG-UGA medical initiative, is exactly the way to do it." University, state and local leaders ought to cooperate rather than fight over the issue, he said. "I think right now were doing this in the right fashion," Adams said. "What it looks like 10 or 15 years from now, I'm probably gonna let somebody else worry about." Even though he's outlived the seven-year average tenure of a university president, Adams said won't give any thought to advice he would pass on to his successor. "I'll probably write a letter to the next person, whoever he or she is - for them to ignore," he said with a laugh. "But I'm not ready to start thinking like that." SATELLITE CAMPUS ATHENS COSTA RICA STUDENT LEARNING CENTER UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA THE 1996 SUMMER OLYMPICS PERSON TRAVEL VINCE DOOLEY CLASSICS PROFESSOR CENTRE COLLEGE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR FORWARD GEORGIA PLAYER HOPE-BECKHAM INC. JIM HARRICK SR. UNIVERSITY SYSTEM BOARD CLARKE TATE STUDENT CENTER EMPLOYMENT CHANGE CONTACT US

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HomeOpinionCommentaryNew Year’s Resolutions Written by Marian Wright Edelman, NNPA Columnist Wednesday, 09 January 2013 12:07 As New Year's Eve countdowns wound down, many people turned to the familiar ritual of taking stock of where they are now to make resolutions for what they can do better in the new year. We all measure our accomplishments and shortcomings in different ways. Some people count numbers on a scale or in a savings account. But what if we decided to take stock as a nation by measuring how we treat our children? If we did that kind of countdown, we'd learn: Every second and a half during the school year a public school student receives an out-of-school suspension. Every 8 seconds during the school year a public high school student drops out. Every 32 seconds a child is born into poverty in America. Every 47 seconds a child is abused or neglected. Every 72 seconds a baby is born without health insurance. Every 5 and a half hours a child is killed by abuse or neglect. A majority of all American fourth and eighth grade public school students can't read or do math at grade level, including 76 percent or more of Black and Latino students. Millions of American children start school not ready to learn and millions more lack safe, affordable, quality child care and early childhood education. If we were counting we'd see that millions of poor children are hungry, at risk of hunger, living in worst case housing, or are homeless in America. And we would find a child or teen is killed by a firearm about every three hours and 15 minutes — more than seven every single day. The devastation at Sandy Hook put the media spotlight on a tragedy that strikes families in communities across America daily as a result of our nation's shameful refusal to protect children instead of guns. In 2010 2,694 children and teens died from gun violence. What do these numbers tell us about who we are and who we hope to be? Why do we choose to let children be the poorest age group in our rich nation and to let millions of children suffer preventable sickness, neglect, abuse, mis-education, and violence? Why do we continue to mock God's call for justice for children and the poor and our professed ideals of freedom and justice for all? It's time for new resolutions backed by urgent and persistent action. In 2013, the United States celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and of the Birmingham movement. Our first African-American president will be inaugurated for a second term, in a public ceremony that will take place the same day as our national holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., our prophet of nonviolence. How will we honor and carry forth our long struggle towards freedom and equality? Let's resolve not to make this another year of platitudes and remembering the dream but make this a year of action to end child poverty and violence as Dr. King called for. Dr. King said: "The Declaration of Independence proclaimed to a world, organized politically and spiritually around the concept of the inequality of man, that the dignity of human personality was inherent in man as a living being. The Emancipation Proclamation was the offspring of the Declaration of Independence . . . Our pride and progress could be unqualified if the story might end here. But history reveals that America has been a schizophrenic personality where these two documents are concerned. On the one hand she has proudly professed the basic principles inherent in both documents. On the other hand she has sadly practiced the antithesis of these principles." He concluded: "There is but one way to commemorate the Emancipation Proclamation. That is to make its declarations of freedom real; to reach back to the origins of our nation when our message of equality electrified an unfree world, and reaffirm democracy by deeds as bold and daring as the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation." Let's match the history of this 2013 moment with bold and daring steps to close the gap between what every child needs to grow to productive adulthood, what we know works, and what we do to ensure their healthy development. It must begin with safety from guns. If the child is safe all of us are safe. [Marian Wright Edelman is president of the Children's Defense Fund whose Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. For more information go to www.childrensdefense.org.] EXPRESS YOUR THOUGHTS: The Journal welcomes Letters to the Editor. 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MenuOffice of News & Information HomeUW TodayArchiveGrant funds educational opportunity center Archive November 7, 2002 Grant funds educational opportunity center Nancy Wick A five-year grant of just over $1 million from the U.S. Department of Education will create an Educational Opportunity Center run by the UW’s Office of Minority Affairs. Educational Opportunity Centers, of which there are 82 nationwide, are designed to help low income adults 19 or older to pursue higher education by providing them with information on such things as admission procedures and financial aid. The centers are especially interested in those who are first generation college attendees. “We were told by some of the other centers that the average age of their clients is 30,” said Julian Argel, who is administering the program. “Some already have college credits but have had to drop out for financial reasons. This program is designed to help them get back on track.” In order to reach the people who most need the services, the UW is partnering with three community agencies — the NewHolly Park Community Center, El Centro de la Raza and the Seattle Indian Health Board. A full-time counselor who will be a UW employee will be placed at each site. According to Argel, the sites were chosen because they are in low-income neighborhoods and serve a diverse population. “We learned from other centers that community-based projects work best,” he said. “These agencies already offer a variety of services, such as Head Start, food banks, etc., so they attract the kind of people who can use our services.” Services offered by the center will include tutoring, mentoring, and assistance in completing college admission and financial aid applications. The aim, Argel said, is to move clients into some form of higher education, not strictly to the UW. For some clients, community college or technical school might be more appropriate. The UW will, however, sponsor campus visits for those interested. The Collaborative Access Network on Diversity and Outreach (CAN-DO), a campus group which includes about 20 departments, has agreed to help out. Argel, who also runs UW Talent Search, a program that provides similar services for middle and high school students, is just beginning to set up the centers with the help of administrative coordinator Fernando Morado. The two plan a reception in late November or early December at the NewHolly Park Community Center. Staff from all three agencies will be invited and will receive information about the new center, which is designed to serve about 1,100 people a year. “We hope they’ll be referring people to us,” Argel said. He and Morado will be working with the agencies as they hire the on-site counselors over the next few months. “We want to get the best fit for each site,” he said. For Morado, the work is a kind of payback. The son of farm workers from Ferndale, he came to the UW because of the presence of Talent Search in his high school and graduated last year. “I can testify that these kinds of programs work,” he said. “I wouldn’t have even thought of going to college if it hadn’t been for Talent Search.”

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Join YFC Resources Give ® Resources Give We are rural and urban and we are always about the message of Jesus. Every day at thousands of community centers, high schools, middle schools, juvenile institutions, coffee shops, and local hangouts, YFC staff and volunteers meet with young people who need Jesus. Our focus as a movement is on multiplying fruitful and sustainable ministry sites across the nation and around the world. YFC reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other like-minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of Jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the Word of God and prayer, passion for sharing the love of Christ, and commitment to social involvement. “The Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”—Mark 10:45 At Youth For Christ, we wholeheartedly embrace the “and” of Mark 10:45. Jesus came to serve and to deliver the message of transformation. He came to embrace and to liberate. We look to Him as we carry out that “and” — the call to act, with an eternal perspective. At Youth For Christ, our passion is to minister in the name of Jesus. We choose to walk the very same bridge He used; the “and” bridge combining Christian service with Christ’s sacrifice. We are liberated by His forgiveness and propelled by His love, to continually declare mercy and truth. We are ministers of His grace, on campuses and in juvenile halls… in wide open spaces and on congested street corners… to the outcasts, the transparent, the terrified. Our focus as a movement is on multiplying fruitful and sustainable Ministry Sites across the nation and around the world. We believe there are five essentials to establishing Ministry Sites. View the Five Essentials View Our Statement of Faith Since 1944, Youth For Christ has had a distinctive history of youth evangelism. 1940s1950s1960s1970s1980s1990s2000sToday The Youth For Christ RallyIn the early 1940s, during World War II, many young men, mostly ministers and evangelists, were holding large rallies in Canada, England and the United States. YFC quickly organized into a national movement. Billy Graham became YFC's first full-time staff member.YFC grew in momentum as revivals popped up around the nation, leading tens of thousands to commit their lives to Christ. The emphasis on evangelism continued as Billy Graham launched the Billy Graham Evangelical Association, and YFC’s World Congress on Evangelism reached its fourth consecutive year.Efforts shifted to campus evangelism, with the first Campus Life staff meeting sparking semi-annual gatherings to develop Campus Life strategy and materials. The coordination of Youth for Christ International was entrusted to a truly international body for the first time in YFC history. Several monumental developments were made, including the publishing of the The Way Bible, and the introduction of both the Y-1 Intern Program, and Campus Life/J.V., a national ministry aimed at ministering to Middle School youth. June Thompson, on staff with YFC from the start, moved into the president’s office full-time.YFC gave the rights to Campus Life Magazine to Christianity Today, and published the Life Application Bible, a Bible Commentary for teenagers, which has sold over 40 million copies in 44 languages around the world to date.A fifth world emphasis area was created to include 22 Middle Eastern and North African countries, and World Outreach Liaison Directors were added for each of the five areas. Strategic definitions for YFC’s core values were developed to focus on poor and displaced young people, and youth of different cultures.A Ten Year Global Ministry Plan was developed and approved, with emphasis on the need to train and develop young leaders for the future of the ministry. Current President, Dan Wolgemuth, was elected by the YFC/USA board to take over, as YFC celebrated its 60th anniversary.The goal of putting 20,000 leaders in authentic, Christ-sharing relationships with 100,000 lost kids by 2015 was surpassed in October 2013. Through the efforts of dedicated staff, individuals, and partners, the ministry of Youth for Christ continues to reach youth in cities around the world. Throughout YFC's history there has been an unwavering commitment to youth evangelism and biblical Christianity. One of YFC's slogans over the past fifty years has been "Anchored to the Rock, Geared to the Times.” YFC strives to both demonstrate and communicate this message of hope, grace and love in a variety of different cultural settings, and always pursuing teens in personal relationships. Your prayers and financial support continue to help change the lives of young people… one at a time. We refer to this pursuit as a 3Story lifestyle, and offer resources and training opportunities to take a “deeper dive” in this way of life. 3Story Way of Life The "DNA" of Youth For Christ. A way of life that guides followers of christ to be good news while telling stories of the good news. It is a way of seeing how the relationships we have with other people and God can be connected and grown. 3Story is not an evangelism tool or method, it is who we want to be and how we want to live. In YFC, 3Story is our living operating system. Our hope is that it becomes our DNA. View Shelby's Story “We are stewards of His message and ministers of His grace…” “Youth For Christ has been a faithful and bold ally of the Church. Our world needs Youth For Christ to be propelled into the future with the same devotion it has shown in the past.”R.C. Sproul, President Ligonier Ministries“There is no doubt that Youth For Christ has been the most significant movement of its time. It has been an instrument in the hands of God to reach multiplied hundreds of thousands of young people for Christ. It has also been the source of implanting in those young people a great vision to keep the light shining and to reach others for Christ. Thousands upon thousands have enrolled in the service of Christ because of the initial challenge that they received in the outreach of Youth For Christ.”David Breese, President Christian Destiny, Inc.“Youth For Christ came into being as a result of a conversation that Torrey Johnson and I had while fishing off the coast of Florida in late 1944. He had the vision and the plans in his mind of what could be done, and he asked if I could join with him and become the first associate and evangelist. It was my privilege to be the first full-time employee of Youth For Christ. The goal in those days was to reach not only young people, but also our servicemen who were on leave from wars. It grew rapidly, and thousands of young people came to Christ. After 60+ years, Youth For Christ continues to communicate the life changing message of Jesus Christ to our youth before it’s too late. We have been fortunate through the years to touch millions of lives and today, more than ever, we need to continue our quest to reach the lost youth around the world. The harvest fields are riper, the grain is thicker, and the instruments that technology has provided are sharper. I see no reason why we could not touch the entire youth population of the world with the good news of the Gospel… let’s make that our goal!”Billy Graham, Youth For Christ Meet Our PresidentNational LeadershipInternationalFinancial Overview For interviews and information, please contact: Jake Bland Vice President, Marketing & Development [email protected] Staff & Volunteers Start YFC in the U.S. YFC/USA has 160 chapters impacting thousands of communities, and is one of 101 member countries of YFC International.7670 S Vaughn Ct Englewood CO 80112303-843-9000YFC Privacy Policy and Conditions of Use© 2016 Youth for Christ/USA. Enter your search term and press the return key on your keyboard.

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The Decline of San Francisco's Public School Population The San Francisco Chronicle reports:Public and private schools alike are losing students. Home buyers spend significantly more for a house in San Francisco than they do for the same house virtually anywhere in the Central Valley. The spiraling cost of living in San Francisco is seen as a primary reason why the schools are losing so many students.Yet San Francisco is not alone. The city's loss of school-age children is part of a vast, statewide movement of young families inland from the more expensive coast. In San Francisco, who is leaving? Why? Mayor Gavin Newsom has gathered experts and convened a blue-ribbon panel -- but is there anything they can do?Many San Francisco parents say they love the idea of public schools -- for other people's children. Nearly a third of kids in San Francisco attend private and parochial schools -- 3 1/2 times the rate of California as a whole. Personal wealth and the city's large Catholic contingent contribute to the phenomenon, but so do negative perceptions about the public schools.The result is a public school system made up largely of minority and poor students, and a shadow school system for mostly white and wealthy students. There is little overlap between the two groups -- even in this most progressive of cities. What kind of education do private schools offer, and are they worth the price? How ironic,the very Blue city of San Francisco should have residents that are true believers in public education but look at the actual numbers.This is a rather high percentage of the population in private schools.What a bunch of hypocrites.I guess modern day liberals are leading the way for getting rid of public education.

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News Seminary rebounds, plans multifaith university: Claremont School of Theology by John Dart May 19, 2009 On the verge of losing accreditation in 2006 during its third straight year of bleeding red ink, the Claremont School of Theology faced an uncertain future. Some faculty members left the United Methodist–related seminary nestled near scenic mountains in southern California, and a new president was hired whose expertise was primarily in directing seminary and university libraries. “We had spent too much, and we didn’t really have a clear pathway out,” said CST president Jerry D. Campbell, recalling in an interview the crisis he inherited three years ago. Once a school goes on probation or, worse, loses accreditation, “you can bet your bottom dollar that the student population will decline,” Campbell added. John Dart John Dart is news editor at the Century. See All Articles May 19, 2009 issue Had the Claremont school not reversed the trend, it surely would have been victimized by the current recession, which has forced drastic budget cuts at many Protestant seminaries. Instead, the school is fresh off probation, enjoying a balanced budget and touting an ambitious plan to build around the seminary a multifaith, multicultural graduate university “to create active rapport among religions” for dealing with world problems. The seminary would be one of five schools in the university project. Campbell, whose last position was overseeing the libraries and computer systems at the University of Southern California, began his Claremont task in mid-2006 by downsizing the staff and finding revenue to support plans for major changes. “Jerry Campbell has done a stunning job,” said Joseph Hough, who was dean at Claremont from 1975 to 1989. “He has the potential to attract significant funding for the school’s new direction.” Hough himself was widely applauded last year for rescuing struggling Union Theological Seminary by raising $30 million in capital funds during his nine-year presidency at the venerable New York City school. Hough then started a long-delayed retirement in California, but was recruited this winter to serve as interim president of Claremont Graduate University. One key to the bounce-back at the Claremont School of Theology is a $5 million pledge by an unnamed donor to support the multireligious university project, Campbell told the Century. “We are not proposing to quit educating United Methodist ministers,” he said. “But we are pretty convinced that steeping people in their own juices doesn’t create a broad-minded leader who can go out and create coalitions and work with other groups,” he said. CST trustees gave the new project the go-ahead in March. Other developments in recent months:• Seminary officials learned in March that the Western Association of Schools and Colleges accrediting agency had lifted CST’s probation. Also, a review team from the Association of Theological Schools that visited the campus in October and February has told Campbell that the seminary is in compliance with its standards as well. • The school, with an enrollment of about 250 students, took two steps in February to ease seminarians’ financial burdens. The board kept tuition at the same level for all degree programs in the 2009-2010 academic year. And the faculty voted to reduce the number of units required for the three-year Master of Divinity degree from 90 to 81, thereby decreasing the chance that students will have to spend a fourth year—a common experience. “We looked at the phenomenal debt load that seminarians are beginning to acquire from student loans,” said Camp bell in faulting the “irresponsibility of the entire system” of training pastors. “It’s almost unconscionable to graduate students into a low-paying environment with large amounts of debt.” • With the help of a Ford Foundation grant, the seminary organized a succession of separate meetings on campus this year for theologians, mainline denominational leaders and seminary officials to explore partnership in “transformative thought for progressive action.” A mixture of noted theologians, progressive evangelicals and emergent-church thinkers met in March, and denominational officials will meet at the end of May. While Claremont School of Theology has been known as a relatively liberal seminary as well as a center for process theology, it is rarely associated with interreligious studies. One exception: professor emeritus John Cobb’s past roles in Buddhist-Christian dialogues. But CST’s latest brochure states flatly that it is “transforming into a university of religion, where scholars and practitioners of all perspectives can . . . work toward the repair of the world.” “I’ve been asked, ‘What does this do for Methodism?’” said Campbell, 63, an ordained Methodist minister who was a library administrator at three UMC seminaries—Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University and Duke Divinity School. For nearly a decade, he worked at USC in Los Angeles, a private university that housed CST’s predecessor Methodist seminary for the first half of the 20th century. Campbell says he suggests to church traditionalists that “it is in the Methodist DNA” to foster interreligious understanding and peace in the world. Founder John Wesley pieced together an ecumenical theology that was “part Moravian, part Lutheran, part Anglican, part Catholic, part Calvinist,” he said. “So I don’t find the proposed university project out of keeping with the spirit of John Wesley.” The existing school of theology and ministry would be complemented by four other schools whose names and descriptions are still in flux. One is tentatively called the “school of ethics, politics and society.” Another, the esoteric-sounding “world spiritualities and healing arts” school, will cover pastoral care, religious education and spiritual formation, according to Jon Hooten, CST director of communications. “We fully expect that process studies will have a strong presence in the schools,” Hooten added, referring to the philosophical-theological thought pioneered by Alfred North Whitehead, Charles Hartshorne and Cobb. While noting with a smile that he’s aware of the saying, “Often wrong, but never in doubt,” Campbell said he believes “the money is out there” for the project—on the basis of his experiences at SMU, Duke and USC whenever large expansions were envisioned. “In all their backroom discussions, there would be people who said, ‘You’re crazy. We’ll never raise this kind of money,’” he said. “There was always someone—typically the president or someone on the board—who would say, ‘If this institution wants to play in the big leagues, then this is what it needs to do.’” Some perspective on the Claremont seminary’s history was provided by Hough, who taught and held administrative posts from 1965 through 1989 not only at CST but often simultaneously at Claremont Graduate University. Hough credited Campbell for “a dramatic initial solution to the fiscal crisis” that has bedeviled the seminary off and on since its founding. Former member of Congress and Methodist pastor Bob Edgar “successfully led the first moves toward financial stability” as CST president before he left in 1999 to lead the National Council of Churches out of its financial perils. Neither Hough nor Campbell mentioned Philip Amerson, Edgar’s successor as CST president, not wanting to fault him for the seminary’s budget relapse. Amerson in 2006 was offered the presidency of Garrett-Evangelical Theo logical Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, and he still leads that Methodist-related school. One of Campbell’s initiatives at the Claremont seminary ruffled feathers at Claremont Graduate University, however. The seminary has received approval from the western regional accrediting agency to award Ph.D.s in New Testament, Hebrew Bible and religion and ethics. Seminary faculty often taught such classes in the past but CGU granted the degrees. Hough, in his temporary post as president of Claremont Graduate University, said in a prepared statement that he was “disappointed” at the “significant disruption” caused by CST’s taking over the three doctorate programs. But the statement also expressed hoped for some new level of cooperation as both schools move ahead “with their own programs featuring interreligious and comparative religious studies.” More by John DartCommentShare

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The Areas Examined By An Organisation Commerce Essay The assignment will focus on three areas to examine what organisations are, why they exist and to the factors which are common to some, if not all organisations. The first part of the assignment will define what organisations are and outline major theories that contribute towards an analysis of why organisations exist. The second part of the assignment will review major theories that contribute to an analysis of the factors of organisations by an analysis of the classical approach, the humanistic and neo-humanistic and the ways they assist the coordination and integration of the human workforce. The assignment will go on to outline and discuss factors which are common or shared by an evaluation of two different organisations, social services and the youth service in the borough of Lambeth. To examine what organisations are, why the exist and the common factors, it is useful to use a definition from Farnham & Horton (2007), Principal Lecturer in Public Sector Studies and Professor of Employment Relations respectively at University of Portsmouth. They state that organisations are; "Social constructs created by groups in society to achieve specific purposes by means of planned and coordinated activities. Those activities involve using human resources to act in association with other inanimate resources in order to achieve the aims of the organisation" Cited, Mullins' (2007) P.75 The definition is useful is analysing that organisations are essentially constructed, construction as discussed by Berger and Luckmann (1970) suggest theories define the ways individuals share a common purpose, and how they interact collectively to achieve specific ambitions and objectives on behalf of themselves, consumers and their organisations. For Mullins (2007) organisations exist according to size, product, origins and service they are all fundamentally distinguished by their nature and have different legal statuses i.e. (PLC's) Public Limited Companies LTD, (Limited Companies), (C.I.C) Community Interest Companies and so forth. From the micro to the macro level, from the local to the global, organisations exist primarily to achieve goals and objectives and or provide commodities and services to individuals and or groups in a coordinated and strategically planned manner. All organisations have a vision and functions. They are governed for Mullins (2007) by a range of strategic external drivers, such as the political, economic and social agenda. These external drivers influence roles which are in some way instrumental to the function of the organisation and are usually overseen by elected members of senior staff such as managers or supervisors. "The importance of achieving productivity is through the effective management of people and their commitment to and involvement with the organisation." (Mullins 1999) quotes To understand organisations their factors and means of existence a comparative analysis is useful. The assignment considers the Local Authority of Lambeth, the statutory legal responsibilities of Children and Families and the non-statutory and non-legal responsibilities of the Youth Service. Both aims to provide a satisfactory and effective service, members of both comply with rigid sets of goals and contrasting levels of accountability. The communication between these bodies represent both open and closed systems and demonstrate different levels of conflicts that arises within the organisation that are resolved using both formal and informal systems. Members possess values which compliment the different organisations and have different approaches to evaluate their own performance in line with the organisations objectives. To understand the different factors in these organisations (Weick 1996) argues that groups can be given the same stimulus / information but the persuasion is the uppermost determining indicator of change or learning and individual responses are always different. He was of the belief that each individual learned in different ways and that assimilation of any new direction was contingent on individual personalities. Weick (1996) was certain that what really counted was the skill and ability of employees to integrate their varying and contrasting opinions to fit in with the aims of the organization. It is apparent that organisations can be complex ventures which require theoretical frameworks to enable managers and other senior staff to gain an understanding of their work force and to assist them with coordinating employees and their specific tasks effectively in their attempt to maximize efficiency for the advantage of the organisation, their customers and the members as a whole. Lambeth is a complex inner city local authority, staff and managers are politically accountable to a democratic elected council, a Public organisation governed by statutory legislation; Children Act 1989, Housing Acts 2006, Education Act 2006 and Criminal Justice Legislation of 1988. Using the the Classical based on the work of Weber (1930) this approach is characterized by three main components which include hierarchical bureaucratic arrangements, where rules are made by senior management and did not usually allow room for consultation with or disputes by subordinates. Then there is the administrative aspect which refers to the flow of information, production of goods and operations within the work setting and finally, the scientific element in relation to structure, rules, productivity, efficiency, procedure, hierarchy and the clear division of labour. (Taylor: 1947). Classical theory examines the largely fixed and impersonal factors that make organisations exist, in terms of adherence to rules and regulations of the organisations and interactions with employees. A classical organizational map of Lambeth reveals clear line management systems and hierarchical levels from practitioners and managers in social services and youth workers. It is a flat and linear hierarchy, formal and paternal. This approach to organisational behaviour and arrangements attracted criticism from the functionalist scholar Merton (1957) who argued that this bureaucratic model, advocated by Weber et al (1947) was flawed. They were dependent on written rules and procedures which largely ignored the social or humanistic aspects of employee's needs and personal circumstances which in turn contributed to employee discontentment. Ironically, this criticism is now leveled at Social Services in the implementation of the 2004 Children Act and the 1990 Community Care Acts as imposing clinical formal and de-personalised forms of structures. In contrast to youth services who governed by loose political structures until the recent move to tendering and privitisation of community services. Merton (1957) argument is that this dependency on written convention discouraged flexibility, individual creativity and initiative is apparent in local government organisations. Weber (1957) further argued that the rigidity of the classical approach prevented employees from influencing any aspect of their work environment or the design or development of their work. Both Social Services are governed by operational plans, assessment procedures and eligibility criteria that substantiate the claim made by Merton (1957). Whilst Youth Service is a community based organisation fluid and negotiate systems of working with young people. In contrast to the classical approach, Mayo (1947) suggests that modern organisations adopt a more humanistic approach which took into consideration employee social and psychological needs as developed from the work of Maslow (1954). At the top of this hierarchy above safety needs is the need to self-actualise in accordance with the work of Maslow (1954) similar to the person centered approach of Rogers (1970). So the common factors in relation to the humanistic and the neo-humastic revolve around job descriptions, appraisals, training and supervision to support the continual professional development of staff. Implicit in these approaches is the need for organisations to have staff that is able to perform specific duties. For example Social services perform a statutory role in the protection of children and exist to promote the welfare of children. This is in contrast to Youth services that perform non-statutory role, they exist to liberate and empower children to make decisions for themselves. Whilst both organisations have common factors, children, they exist and are determined by factors from completely different political and ideological agendas. At the humanistic level Taylor and Weber (1930) suggest the common factors of organisations are based on hierarchal rules, integrated systems and organic system of rule as fundamental to why organisations exist in the capitalist and post-capitalist age. This disguises especially in relation to our case examines the importance of a neo-Marxist analysis from the work of Althusser (1970) who argues organisations exist to ideologically and repressively control individuals. Consequently at the neo-humanistic level whilst Maslow (1954) and Rogers (1970) show the common factors and why organisations exist to meet individual and organizational needs. Althusser (1970) and Foucault (1961) reveal the informal and implicit factors of organisations, the need to control. It has been argued by Bailey and Brakes (1979) that social services exist to control deviance, the role of both social and youth worker should be to empower as opposed to ensure individuals fit into the functional analysis of society as discussed by Spencer (1897) and Both functionalist and Marxists analysis of the common factors of organisations and why they exist on a political level are deterministic, they assume why that they operate before an examination of the actions and constructions of the individuals inside the organisation. For this reason, it is difficult to assess how individuals at these different levels particularly in relation to the case studies of social work and youth work construct how organisation exist at the individual and collective level and the types of performances that are necessary for organisation to exit at the front stage as discussed in the work of Goffman (1956). For Silverman (1970) it is only possible to detect why organisations exist and outline the common factors by examining the meaning of the actions and how they may vary across different parts of the organisation. For Foucault (1961) and his post-modernist approach to understanding organisations, in the area, organisations can exist and have a complex levels of common and different factors that may be determined by the room, the narrative people use and the agreed forms of behaviour in different settings of the organisations. Consequently organisations exist beyond the simple structural and strategic level, the governance and political level. Organisations can change how they exist in relation to a number of external drivers such as the economic, political structures and the whole mission statement of the organisation. If this theory is applied to social work and youth work, whilst they are shaped by complex external political and economic factors at the classical, humanistic and neo-humanistic level their existence and the common factors can be constructed in divergent ways. For example whilst both social and youth services as organisations have been shaped by a new-right economist approach of Freeman (1949) and a post-modernist third way approach of Giddens (1998), this has lead to both commissioning services from external organisation. It has contributed towards a consumer approach to organizational care in which the client constructs the services in which the organisation of social work and youth work who then construct the need and purchase the service. From a social action perspective whilst social care organisations exist to assess the needs of clients, the inter-relationship between the client, the care manager or youth worker is key to the construction of the plan and the intervention of care and how the organisation exists to respond to needs of the client in a cost effective and efficient way. In conclusion organisations exist and have a variety of common factors from a purely theoretical level. From a classical level they have a structure, from a scientific base they have rule, roles, and hierarchies and from a neo-humanistic level they fulfill a variety of individual and organizational needs. When connected to the case studies they reveal that the common factors and means of existence can vary especially in relation to one organisation, Lambeth Council in relation to two different departments. Whilst the classical approach of Weber (1930) reveals the outside formal ways Lambeth operate through management systems, the neo-humanistic approach of Maslow (1954) reveal the challenges in organisations try to exist to fulfill contrasting needs, the needs of the client and the needs of the organisation. This contrast or conflict is best analysed through the work of Althusser (1970) on an ideological level and by Foucault (1961) on a narrative level. Essay Writing Service UKEssaysEssaysCommerceThe Areas Examined By An Organisation Commerce Essay

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More Columbia seeks to change 'whites only' scholarship posted by Claudine Zap | The Lookout This is awkward, to say the least. Columbia University offers a fellowship, launched in 1920, that can only be awarded to someone from Iowa—someone white from Iowa. To rectify this, the university is finally making changes to the Lydia C. Roberts graduate and traveling fellowship, which limits its recipients to the categories of Iowan and "Caucasian." According to the New York Daily News, Columbia filed an affidavit with Manhattan’s supreme court to get the restriction lifted. "Circumstances have so changed from the time when the Trust was established" that complying with the restrictions is "impossible," the Daily News writes, quoting the filing. "Columbia University is now prohibited by law and University policy from discriminating on the basis of race." The money was left to Columbia by Iowa native Lydia C. Chamberlain, who died in 1920. The fund's administrator is now JP Morgan Chase. The fellowships have not been awarded since 1997, according to the Daily News, although it's unclear why. The white-only rule may violate the U.S. Constitution, adds the New York Post. But the fund, now up to $800,000, cannot be changed without going to court. The Post also notes that when the NAACP complained about the "whites only" clause in 1949, the provost at the time, Grayson L. Kirk, defended it as helpful to those who qualify. “We do not feel we are justified in depriving some of our students of the benefits of restricted grants simply because they are not available to everyone,” he said, according to the paper. The Post also writes that when the scholarship was first awarded in 1920 it was for $750, easily covering the annual $180 tuition. In 2013, that same annual tuition is north of $45,000. The trust's bizarre restrictions aren’t limited to race and place, by the way. The Post adds that fellows “must not study law or several other fields, and must return to Iowa for two years after graduating.”

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The view from the campus Vin Crosbie has just completed a year teaching at the Syracuse University journalism school and doesn't much like what he's found.What I found were faculties resistant to change and students whose insights and mastery of new media were being eroded by the authoritative resistance to change of so many professors.Crosbie buried the lede, though:I've also discovered that media academics follow, rather than lead, their industries. Though schools of medicine, law, or engineering lead their industries, developing the new techniques and doctrines their industries use, this isn't so with media and media schools. I realize that there are exceptions, but most schools of media still inculcate students to hew to the past, rather than sow the present or future.There are lots of reasons for this, and please, do not take this as a defense of academe (see an earlier post about the ivy walls). There are some institutional reasons he doesn't mention, but since I've now done this for seven years after leaving industry (and a couple of years earlier at another major school), let me add some context (consumer warning, as with all broad statements, your results may vary):Institutional inertia: Despite all the innovation preached on campuses, you will at the same time find no more hidebound institutions anywhere. Process is often prized over (or mistaken for) progress. Pomp and circumstance, and a caste system, are inherently the result. Exhibit: Take a close look at graduate education and you will find, in many ways, it has not really changed in decades.Inferiority complex: This seems endemic to communications programs.In too many institutions, this is reinforced from above. For instance, the consultant who came to our school several years ago on behalf of the university president and said, in so many words, "Why should a prestigious university be teaching journalism?" Why, of course ... after 9/11 you got all your news from the International Hemorrhoid Review, did you?Too often the communications programs are not looked on as full academic partners but as "service bureaus" -- oh, we need a "communications" component to this or that project. Or, oh, do you have someone who can write/design/edit this?There is valid debate whether "communications" as a discipline really has any organic theories of its own. Yes, we have gatekeeping and framing and agenda setting and the like, but when you look closely, a serious argument can be made that most of those really have roots that go back deeper into psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc. Our basis is really more that of applied theory. That can be a tough sell when other disciplines on campus feel they have a more organic tradition. (And never forget, every professor is at some point going to have to be reviewed by those "others" for tenure and promotion.)Shooting ourselves in the foot. We have some strange shibboleths in this branch of academe:Deprecation of textbooks and similar works when it comes to tenure and promotion (as if writing a textbook is something you dash off in your spare time). This contrasts with some other disciplines that expect their faculty to write a book or two every few years.Emphasis on single-author papers. The powers that be can deny it all they want, but every young academic in journalism/communications has been told that to be the second author on a paper is worth, essentially, squat. This contrasts with some of the hard and biological sciences where "et al." gets as much credit as the lead author (good old "Al"; hope to meet him sometime).Less recognition for getting published in "secondary" journals. Again, in the "hard" sciences (of which I have some acquaintance, having been an astrophysics major early in my career), there certainly are the prestigious journals like Nature, Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, etc. But there also seems to be more recognition given to "lesser" but specialized journals - think of the ol' Hemorrhoid Review. In communications, we have a problem -- many of our lesser specialized journals (such as Newspaper Research Journal, Journalism Educator, etc.) don't really count. The result of which is ...Researchers get lousy citation scores. Why, you say, you certainly can't reduce a body of academic work down to a few numbers, like a FICO score. Think again. It's done all the time and can be determinative of a faculty member's future (rumors abound on many campuses of this or that administrator or tenure committee member being a "score jockey"):A researcher's H score, basically a measure of how widely his or her work is cited by others.A little outfit called ISI (the Institute for Scientific Information) and its journal impact factor. If your journals are not accepted by ISI into this ranking (many of the secondary communications ones, as opposed to those in other fields, are not), woe is you.This has immediate and potentially devastating consequences over the next few years. For the first time, communications doctoral programs are being included in the National Research Council's decennial review of graduate programs. Tons of prestige not just nationally but inside your own university ride on this (not to mention tenure, promotion, etc.) Part of this involves the ISI journals. Woe is us.Lack of industry support. It is one of the delicious ironies of Crosbie's post that he cites a slavishness to following an industry that by and large does not support its academic branch particularly well.The anti-intellectualism of journalists/journalism is long and well-thrashed out. And if I read one more post decrying the value of a journalism education, I think I'll go mad (not that it isn't a valid point for debate -- just enough already). I recommend this excellent retrospective by James Carey. And if you want more, here's a Google search. Knock yourself out. (I fear this estrangement will only grow as most communications/journalism programs are now requiring the Ph.D. for faculty and deprecating professional experience with the master's. I think there probably needs to be a balance, but having a bunch of MAs on your staff doesn't get you power points. The antidote to this, in a bit of irony, may be all the layoffs in the industry. Some of those folks are likely to go back and get their doctorates and bring some significant experience along with them.)Journalists/communicators rarely read the research that applies to their business. Come on, admit it. When was the last time you read Newspaper Research Journal or some of the others focusing on the industry? But, as a for instance, I have an NRJ article from the 1990s, a decade before the recent implosion, basically calling BS on the long-voiced shibboleth that as people got older they read newspapers. So you were taken by surprise why? (I can't speak for other professions, but some, at least, have continuing education requirements that force their practitioners to keep up. Of course, we can't do that in journalism, nor should we. There's that little First Amendment thing.)Industry funding of the academic side pales when compared with other branches of the university. Most funding comes from foundations. So let's compare:Typical foundation grant: four, five, maybe six figures. Few will pay "overhead" or "equipment," etc. Might fund part of researcher's salary and provide GA support. (Now remember, this is in an industry suddenly screaming for R&D to help it get out of this mess.)Typical federal grant (think hard sciences here, the "communication" component of these as opposed to "journalism." Other humanities have access to federal funding, too, but admittedly usually at much lower levels than the sciences.): Five, six, even seven or eight figures. Often fund lab, researcher's salary, research assistants. Oh, and 40 to 50 percent comes right off the top and goes into the university's general coffers for "overhead."So now for the lightning round. You are a top state university administrator. You can choose between the folks bringing in big grants with big overhead funding or those bringing in relative dribs and drabs from foundations. Quickly now -- the legislature's about to cut your state support again.From the miscellaneous pile:Journalism is one of the few professional programs that does not have a license at the end. Again, a good thing, but a bit complicating in the ivy halls. Those other programs have a measurable, rather standard course of study. Journalism has what? In an age when the rage is about measurement and accountability, this complicates things.If you don't look at journalism/communications as a professional program but as an academic one, then, like many of the social sciences and humanities, the gold standard becomes preparing as many for graduate study as possible. That's one of the measures for the more traditional academic tracks -- how many of your students went on and got advanced degrees. But for journalism/communications, see the discussion of anti-intellectualism above. (A further complication is that a good chunk of our students seek out "professional" master's degrees, not the traditional M.A. with an eye toward the Ph.D. This gets a bit muddy, however, because there is no absolute standard nomenclature. Some schools may give an M.A. that is more professionally oriented without a thesis, while others, such as ours, have an MMC track for that.)Journalism/Communications have a Janus problem. Journalism tends to want to be (and the industry virtually demands it) the more professionally oriented program. Communications wants to be the more academically oriented one. That makes for some interesting debates inside the ivied walls.Journalism/communications faculty exist within larger institutions that may have vastly different priorities. You simply have to acknowledge that in any discussion. These are people's livelihoods you are talking about (it's no fun to go through what a tenure-track faculty member has to endure just to find out he or she has diminished chances of tenure because of these external factors). You can rail for or against tenure all you want; that's not the issue here. Peripatetic journalists probably don't see a problem in this -- just find another job. But once turned down for tenure, that complicates things for academics. Let me put it from the academic perspective: I doubt most journalists would survive a six-year "tryout." (Disclosure: I am not tenure-track. I can be fired at any time.)None of this is by way of excuse. But Crosbie's post, while useful, is incomplete, as are many of the writings about journalism education. I thought it useful to pull back the curtains a bit from Oz and discuss all the other things going on, sometimes at cross-purposes.And not everything is quite as flawed as Crosbie paints it. Jeff Jarvis, who has joined the faculty of City University of New York, has a much more upbeat view.(If you want to read more -- and well -- on the crosscurrents and history of journalism education, you can do no better than read all the documents, including Carey's, from the 1996 Siegenthaler Chair course at Middle Tennessee State: Journalism Education, the First Amendment Imperative, and the Changing Media Marketplace. I also recommend Mindy McAdams' The Slow Crawl of Journalism Education from this past November. Her description of how an industry advisory board essentially kept Florida from making major advances into new media instruction for many years puts some further meat on Crosbie's observations about the relationship with industry.)Labels: journalism education posted by Doug Fisher @ 10:48 PM 5 comments| At 5/7/08, 8:34 AM, Mindy McAdams said... Wow, Doug, that's a very thorough post! I think you've hit everything pretty squarely and fairly -- well done.On the subject of our higher degrees not leading to industry jobs: I wonder whether it would be useful to compare sociology to mass comm.? For example, some people go out to become practitioners -- social workers -- while others become social science researchers (equivalent to mass comm. scholars). Are the hardworking social workers reading the scholarly journals in their field? At 5/7/08, 11:04 AM, Doug Fisher said... Mindy:Thanks for the kind words.My daughter-in-law just so happens to be in social work/counseling. I'm not going to tell you she's got the latest journals sitting on her table (nor, probably do most architects, accountants, etc.). But the licensing and continuing ed requirements serve the purpose of making sure there is a transmission channel. In addition, I think if you look at the readings professionals tend to do in those areas, their "popular" publications (as opposed to strictly academic journals) are more inclined to transmit and translate the cutting-edge work.We're just not as good at doing that through whatever channels, be it our conferences or our general-interest professional publications.Interestingly enough, one of the best and most well-attended sessions at ACES for a couple of years was one that discussed what research was out there that applied to copy editors. I wish it were a permanent part of the program. At 5/7/08, 11:03 PM, Brian B said... I liked this comment to the Jeff Jarvis post you linked to:Tenure is, I suspect, a sizable part of the problem. When I was an undergrad, in the early 70’s, there was an electrical engineering prof at my school who was infamous for using strictly vacuum tube-based circuitry examples in his classes. Tenure.I've been in a Ph.D. program for almost two semesters (I'll remove the "almost" when I finish these two term papers by Friday), and nothing in your list was a surprise; I've seen examples of just about every bullet point. Most distressing has been the denial of tenure to a leading new-media scholar, apparently because of, yes, publication in the "wrong" (non-favored) journals.I hope to land somewhere like the CUNY that Jeff Jarvis describes when I graduate. Tenure itself is not the evil. Even tenured profs are supposed to be reviewed every six years to see if they are keeping current. So the system broke down somewhere.Sad to hear about the new-media scholar. Eventually, however, academe is going to have to face some of these issues, including what is "publication" in a social media, digitized world where information is not hoarded but shared. It's going to have to face them because, just as with other institutions, the generation that is growing up with different expectations (now there's an idea for your framing paper - how are those likely to change media framing and are we seeing it already) will eventually be large enough to demand or effect change.As I wrote in an earlier post, the Internet time and time again kills middlemen. Education, as it's now done, is one of the biggest "middlemen" in the world.Good luck getting the paper accepted at AEJMC. Maybe we'll see each other in Chicago. Well, to be honest, I'm not surprised that this sort of attitude is coming out of Syracuse. I attended a (public) j-school not too far from 'Cuse and our students competed with them for internships -- needless to say that they got in because of the name, we excelled because our school is hands-on with learning. Sure we were a public school with very little money, but I have not been impressed with many of my peers coming out of Newhouse. Slideshare.net Recommended reading - Shirky Video - recommended reading Should colleges buy newspapers? The 'well hole looking up' problem PCJ Web site now up More changes at AP Business Reporting 101 - prepositions are importan... Viral video - hilarious

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FDSH choir takes first place Local News Feb 4, 2013 Fort Dodge Senior High’s A Capella Choir won the title of Grand Champions at the Onalaska Concert Choir Classic in Onalaska, Wis., in January. The school’s 55 A capella choir members competed with its 40-member Vox Femina, a total of 95 students. The previous two years, the choir won third place. “They had gone a couple of years previously, this is their third year doing it. And this year they won,” Joseph Svendsen, FDSH vocal music instructor, said. “They were very happy to feel like they were improving, that they were getting better. It was great to see the kids be validated.” For the competition the choir prepared concert music, the same as performed in local concerts. “You try to polish it and be very picky about details. And then when you go to the competition you sing usually for about 15 to 20 minutes, each group,” Svendsen said. Choirs perform before a panel of three judges. Each judge gives a score “based on several different elements of music making,” Svendsen said. The points from all three judges are added and the highest total score wins. To become Grand Champions takes a lot of practice. “One of the things we talk about a lot is the work you do to get there is far more important than the result you get,” Svendsen said. “All of the practice that leads up to something successful like that is really what allows you to be successful. Without attention to the practice and without dedication or that desire to improve, the result isn’t going to come before the attitude.” The students enjoyed their victory, Svendsen said. “We talk about being affirmed, and I think we all seek it,” he said. “All of us, no matter what we’re passionate about, we like to be recognized for the thing we love to do, what we think our gifts are. They certainly felt very affirmed. They were very excited to feel like they were recognized by people who were not necessarily rooting for them, who were there to be objective and still felt they were an excellent group.” The victory was also validating for the students’ teacher. “At the beginning of the year, the choir meets before school starts and we have sort of a retreat,” Svendsen said. “We set out goals for the entire year. They have yearly goals, goals they want to accomplish by the time the school year is done, and goals they want to accomplish on a day-to-day basis, things that will help them achieve the yearly goal.” One of the students’ goals, Svendsen said, was to place first or second at Onalaska. “They made that goal the first week of August,” Svendsen said. “From August to December and January they worked on making the necessary effort they felt they needed to, to achieve that goal. As a teacher, I’m very excited that I get to teach a group of kids that make high goals for themselves and then go about accomplishing them.” The FDSH A Capella Choir will next be one of five choirs in concert Feb. 18 at Phillips Middle School, the last FDSH concert performance ever at that building. “That auditorium is 90 years old, and has seen a lot of wonderful musical performances not only from ensembles here in the community, but from traveling groups that have come over the years,” Svendsen said. “It’s a fun way for us to bid farewell.” In April, the choir will go on tour in Council Bluffs, to Northwest Missouri State to perform with the Tower Choir, and then Roland. “Touring like that is important because it allows (the students) to share music with people who are not their parents or family or friends,” Svendsen said. “It’s a great way for our school to be an ambassador of our community, where our students go forward to these other places in Iowa and in surrounding states.”

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Inspiring Rikers Teacher Runs Afoul of Jail's Rules By MICHAEL WINERIPPublished: January 25, 2006, The New York TImesJEFF KAUFMAN, a teacher at the Rikers Island jail, has a reputation as a good educator who cares about his student inmates. In 2004, without the aid of computers, his students finished first in a citywide stock market game competition against more than 50 high schools.Jeff Kaufman taught at Island Academy, the Rikers Island jail school, for eight years. After a complaint from the principal, he was removed from Rikers and reassigned despite praise from peers and inmates. Elizabeth Lesher, who oversees the competition, said that at most schools, "students gather around computers, research stocks via Web sites such as Yahoo Finance, Market Watch or Nasdaq and enter their transactions online.""The classroom environment at Rikers was very sparse," said Ms. Lesher, a director for the Foundation for Investor Education. "No attractive bulletin boards, no computers with Internet access and no industry specialists visited the classroom to provide investment ideas." Mr. Kaufman's students relied on the newspaper and his class lessons. That, she said, "speaks volumes about the teacher. Obviously I was very impressed."In 2003, Mr. Kaufman's students won a citywide playwriting competition. In 2000 and 2001, he arranged for the student chorus at Louis Armstrong Middle School in Queens to visit Rikers at Christmas and perform for his students.Don Murphy, a fellow teacher, said Mr. Kaufman became so popular during his eight years at the jail that in 2004 he was unopposed in the election for union representative at Island Academy, the Rikers school, which serves about 1,000 teenage inmates.David Lee, an inmate serving time for assault, who earned a General Educational Development diploma with one of the highest scores ever at Rikers, said no teacher worked harder. Mr. Kaufman made special arrangements for Mr. Lee to take college correspondence courses, spent his lunch hours tutoring him and then proctored each of the three-hour exams from Excelsior College.In July 2003, Mr. Kaufman was off for the summer, but made special trips to Rikers so Mr. Lee could take his next college exam. "All the teachers were on vacation and school didn't begin until September," Mr. Lee wrote in a letter sent to this reporter from Rikers. "But Kaufman comes here to Rikers not once, but twice just so that he could give me the test on a hot summer day. He didn't have to come; he could have stayed home with his wife and kids.""Mr. Kaufman wasn't only a teacher or test proctor," said Mr. Lee. "He inspired me to aim higher in life."But on Friday, Mr. Kaufman received notice from his principal that he was no longer permitted to teach at Rikers.His crime? "Undue familiarity."Mr. Kaufman had given Mr. Lee his home address so the two could correspond by mail and try to arrange for Mr. Lee to take another of those Excelsior College exams while the inmate was in solitary confinement in the summer of 2004.There is no allegation of anything improper about the content of those letters. Copies of 20 letters provided to a reporter by Mr. Kaufman and Mr. Lee mainly talked about learning. In one, the inmate thanked the teacher for sending books to him in solitary ("the Bing") and wrote that he was spending so much time reading, up to 12 hours a day, that he was getting headaches. "I don't mind being here at the Bing but I want to be able to take the test," wrote Mr. Lee.Mr. Kaufman wrote back urging patience, saying that he was trying to work out arrangements with correction officials. "If your head begins to hurt from reading, stop. Your body is telling you it's enough."How did school and correction officials know that Mr. Kaufman had given out his home address? Mr. Kaufman told them.On Sept. 12, 2005, the Rikers principal, Frank Dody, sent out a security memo, in which he spelled out in writing, for the first time, what was meant by the prohibition against undue familiarity: "All contact with current/former students outside of the school area (home, upstate facilities) in the form of letters or phone calls must be authorized by the principal."Mr. Kaufman read the memo, requested authorization and showed the principal a recent letter from Mr. Lee. Within days Mr. Kaufman was yanked from Rikers and placed in a holding room in Brooklyn for teachers under investigation.Mr. Kaufman says he thinks the real reason he was investigated was that he had testified at a City Council hearing in December 2004 about how bad the Rikers school's services were for inmates being released. "That really upset Frank Dody," Mr. Kaufman says. "He wouldn't talk to me for months. He's using this incident to get me."Mr. Dody said he was upset, but that's not why there was an investigation. He said that even though he had been principal six years and had only recently spelled out the rules in writing, anyone who had been at Rikers as long as Mr. Kaufman knew you weren't supposed to give out your address. "Teachers here have to live by the corrections rules," Mr. Dody said. "While the rules don't always make sense, even to me, they're in place for a reason, to keep everyone safe."Mr. Dody acknowledged that the letter Mr. Kaufman showed him had nothing compromising in it. "From my reading of it, I didn't really see anything of any nature that would raise my eyebrows," Mr. Dody said.Thomas Antenten, a corrections spokesman, said that once the principal made the decision to refer the case, officials had to investigate. "We take undue familiarity very seriously," he said. "Giving an inmate a personal address could lead to deadly consequences."Inmates like Mr. Lee say Rikers has lost a rare, good teacher. "It was a wrong decision to demote Kaufman," Mr. Lee said. "I'm the one who initiated contact in order to see what options I had in seeking a better education."David Lee was a 16-year-old junior with a B+ average at Francis Lewis High in Queens in January 2002. He says he got mixed up with the wrong people, and was at a Flushing apartment when a fight broke out and a man was stabbed to death. Mr. Lee pleaded guilty to first-degree assault in return for an eight-year sentence and is being held at Rikers pending the trial of a co-defendant charged with murder.Within four months at Rikers, Mr. Lee took the G.E.D. In the middle of the test, he says, a brawl broke out and someone threw a chair at him, bruising a rib. Still, he comes from a family of good students, and even bruised, he finished with a top score. His younger sister, Sonia, is an A student in her sophomore year at George Washington University, and travels from Washington every other week to visit her brother in jail, bringing books he requests.At the Rikers school, Mr. Lee became a favorite. He showed Mr. Murphy, the computer teacher, how to use several desktop publishing programs. He was given a job doing janitorial work. With Mr. Kaufman's help, he took three college business courses and got A's. Neither he nor Mr. Kaufman knew what material was going to be on the tests and which chapters to focus on, so Mr. Lee read everything. "I would read 450, 500 pages of a textbook from cover to cover three to four times so I would truly understand," he said.AS Mr. Lee was about to take his fourth college exam, in May 2004, he was caught with 17 packs of Newports. Smoking was banned at Rikers in 2003; cigarettes are considered contraband. Mr. Lee said he was offered a "slap on the wrist" if he'd give up his supplier but did not. For each pack of Newports, he was given 15 days in solitary, 9 months altogether in a 6-by-9-foot cell. Mr. Antenten, the corrections spokesman, said he did not know the details of the case but added that Rikers makes no distinction between cigarettes and heroin when it comes to contraband. "It can lead to disputes between inmates that have bloody consequences," he said.Mr. Lee said the teacher's letters helped keep him sane those nine months. "Not only did Kaufman help me pursue educational studies, but he offered moral support through the letters," he said.The illegal letters sent to Mr. Kaufman's home are often quite moving. A July 28, 2004, letter begins with Mr. Lee thanking the teacher for the latest package of books. "You want to know what's funny," wrote Mr. Lee. "Before I was incarcerated, I never used to really read. I could honestly tell you that I read less than 10 books during my life outside and it was during my elementary school years. I wouldn't even bother to look at the cover of a book if I came across one."Now that I'm incarcerated, I treasure them. I'm not just talking about novels which enhance your vocabulary and reading comprehension but also self-help books. What I like about self-help books is that from reading just one significant quote which catches your eye, it could change your whole perception of life itself. From reading books you tap into the most brilliant minds of the present and past. In here they're like my most trusted friends."At times, in the letters, Mr. Kaufman sounds like a stern father. Referring to the cigarette infraction that got Mr. Lee removed from the school and landed him in the Bing, Mr. Kaufman wrote, "We were all upset at your sudden leaving, but we have talked about consequences."Mr. Kaufman, 50, said his background - he is a Cornell grad, a former police officer and lawyer for the indigent - makes him well-suited for teaching inmates. He will appeal the decision. "It's a place I feel I can be of most use to my students," he said.In December, after spending more than two months in the Brooklyn holding room, Mr. Kaufman was sent to Queens Academy, where he is mentoring three new teachers. An Education Department spokesman, David Cantor, said Mr. Kaufman would soon be given a job teaching at an alternative high school.Mr. Dody, the principal, said Mr. Kaufman's removal was solely a Correction Department decision.But a November 2005 memo by the department's investigator, Capt. Matthew Boyd, indicates that the principal had a significant role. "Dr. Dody reports that he has determined that Mr. Kaufman's actions violate undue familiarity and I concur," the memo says.Mr. Dody says he's not a doctor and the corrections memo is wrong.Mr. Lee's younger sister, Sonia, wrote about his jail experiences in a term paper at George Washington that won a top a prize and was featured at a student lecture series. The paper includes the hardships her brother knew growing up, including the suicide of their mother, who suffered from manic depression. Sonia Lee plans to get a master's degree in public policy specializing in the prison system. Her prize paper calls for prisons that devote more resources to rehabilitation and education. Fight on Jeff!!! let no good deeds go unpunished ! I'm wondering how it is that Jeff didn't know the rules at Riker's. Anon:I'm wondering why you don't just say whatever slime it is you are implying. Of course we take it from your point that Jeff should have just followed the "rules" and not give out his address and let the kid rot.Why would you even raise such a question unless you are tied into the Unity machine? Winerip didn't touch on the fact of Jeff's opposition to Unity.Your comment exposes Unity and proves to me that whatever words we hear of support for Jeff from UFT leaders are really bogus and backed by the real sentiments expressed by the underbelly of Unity that you represent. If Jeff is looking for a job I know a few schools that would be proud to have him. Friday, January 27, 2006 5:32:00 AM Testy aren't we Norm. If some one questions the ICE people we are all of a sudden tied to the "Unity machine". Is ICE that untouchable? Nice ego trip Jeff! It's odd how sensitive the Unity people are to the truth.It will set you free. Friday, January 27, 2006 3:14:00 PM joe mudgett Finally, a major newspaper article that views teachers in a positive light. The public needs to read, see, and hear more stories about heroic teachers like Jeff Kaufman. He is a true New York citizen. This former lawyer and policeman turned teacher who strongly advocates for his students, inmates at Rikers, is a tremendous asset for our public education system, and I am proud that he's been recognized. You can't buy better press. I take it from some of the comments that Unity people are gloating over the fact that a teacher who was dedicated to his students and staff is in trouble? Figures! Jeff -- I admire you tremendously. You are a highly ethical, stand up guy. The part that I do not understand is why you ever told this supervisor that you were in touch with this student. You should have kept this little known fact to yourself. No one knew but you.Someone once wisely told me how to deal with supervisors. "Doln't interact, don't break the rules, don't ask for help." If you break the rules, don't tell. Friday, January 27, 2006 11:04:00 PM Anon of Thurs, Jan 26: It is not about knowing the 'rules' at Rikers. It is about being a caring, emphatic human being and teacher who wants to help a teenager in trouble. He wants to help him get an education so that one foolish mistake does not ruin his life. Jeff did what he could do. Jeff is really needed at Rikers; by his students and other teachers. Anon: could you last one day at Rikers? Could Randi? Yes anon I am testy. I've been at UFT politics since 1970 and I know the players. I've run into an amazing number of teachers through the years. I know what the average teacher in schools generally know about internal UFT politics. Or care enough to go on a blog an attack Jeff. People might not agree with ICE people but never do they engage in personal attacks like you do. Why would they? And why would they bother? There are relatively very few players in all the caucuses including Unity. So if people make comments like yours they are not just a regular teacher but one of the players. And those who say what you said so snidely are certainly not part of the opposition. So you are either Unity or a Unity wanna be. I would bet my TDA. Big money there. So why not just tell us which Unity person you are (I bet probably an Exec Bd member or one who attends Exec bd meetings) like a good boy? That's right, Norm, someone who has seen Jeff's antics at the DA needs to be in poliical caucus to see how foolish he has been. Seeing ICE people like Jeff screaming horribly unprofessional things to our brothers and sisters at the DAs in Sept, Oct, and Nov I clearly show how destructive, oppotunistic and venomous you guys have been. I would'nt beleive it if I didn't see it myself. Saturday, January 28, 2006 2:32:00 AM Oh, I appologize. Saying what I see must make me a political hack. Hey the Dec DA was really good. Why don't you talk about stuff like that more. You guys only complain about negative things (unless it's about patting yourselves on the back). I think it's in bad taste for any Unity hack to gloat over this.Time to show some class!(Even if you don't teach one) Saturday, January 28, 2006 12:08:00 PM Anon. says:"Seeing ICE people like Jeff screaming horribly unprofessional things to our brothers and sisters at the DAs in Sept, Oct, and Nov"Why don't you repeat one thing Jeff screamed at the DA? Just a few words you might remember Jeff (not someone else) scream out. You had 3 DA's to collate all the horrible things Jeff must have screamed out. Maybe "point of order" is an unprofessional" term in Unityese. And I admit to doing that quite a few times myself when Randi willy nilly ignored any orderly rules of order. I can tell you loads of stories if you really want to hear them (which I know you don't.) Yes, I admit to doing some "antics" at the DA to get heard over the years when Randi intentionally started ignoring me when I turned more critical of her (she called on me all the time before that.)Here's how I know you are tied into Unity - it's the standard tactic of personal attacks on Jeff in particular (and don't we know the reason for that since Unity views him as a possible candidate against Randi.) In fact there are maybe 5 people I can think of at the DA who are directly connected to ICE. They must be pretty loud to drown out the Unity chorus (and by the way, in 20 years as a delegate and chapter leader want to hear what Unity people shouted at me over the years?). So let's be specific about what unprofessional witicisms Jeff may have screamed.And let's distinguish legitimate criticims of ICE which I might even agree with as opposed to attacking people personally as you do. Exactly what policy of ICE don't you agree with? I know. You consider the tactics used as obstructing the work of the DA. But Unity and you (let's say you are just a neutral party for the sake of argument - but how neutral can you be if you find the way the DA is run does not call for some protest?) own such an overwhelming majority. So just call the question and be done with it. Oh, sorry, you guys do that already. Except when the question is called and Randi says "let's not." And then suddenly it's not. Now that would call for a POINT OF ORDER (sorry for cursing.) Gentlemen: Take it easy. We know it is about values which supersede rules. Jeff dealt in the realm of values; Rikers responded in the realm of rules. But I am asking a serious question that can help us in the future. Could Jeff have avoided this situation by never telling the supervisor? I am advocating that if you break the rules, keep it to yourself. Don't tell. Please, someone, lets discuss the issue and the implications it has for how we deal with APs and principals. Sunday, January 29, 2006 12:47:00 AM To Anon-Do you know what an Ex Post Facto Law is? Read Jeff's story closely, he told the principal after the memo came out about what he was doing. If administration would have told him to stop at that point, then maybe you would have a point. However, that's not what happened. Sunday, January 29, 2006 9:56:00 AM Speaking of principals...Does anyone out there know the real story behind the removing of Curtis High's principal??????????It seems she had the backing of both teachers and parents. Yet, the DOE would not answer direct questions about her removal. On the other hand, the morons at Brooklyn Tech still rule the roost.What gives?? Poster of Jan. 26th To Norm:I wasn't implying 'slime,' although you apparently can come up with some on your own.I am not tied to any Unity machine. Why you find it necessary to vilify anyone who doesn't fall into lockstep behind your opinion as a Unity supporter is ridiculous. This is not the way to garner support for your side.I have no idea why Winerip didn't mention Jeff's opposition to the Union. Maybe he didn't think it important.What I said, and reiterate here, is that I find it odd that Jeff was either unaware of the rules, or purposely chose to violate them. Either way, he should not be returned to Rikers. Teachers in sensitive assignments should pay particular attention to the rules and serve as role models for the students.And just for clarification, I'm neither an Executive Board member, nor a good 'boy.' Sunday, January 29, 2006 9:53:00 PM To Anon of 1/29 at 9:56 a.m.Kindly talk to me in a polite tone of voice. I am not stupid.No, I do not know what Ex Post facto Law is. Why don't you explain it to me?In my professional opinion, after years of experience in the working world, i am again posing the question. If you inadvertantly break a rule; if something becomes a rule whereas it was not a rule before and if, in your actions, you mistakenly violate this new rule, what do you do? I think you keep it to yourself. I am talking about how to handle this new contract; how to cope with new rules that may not have been around a few months ago. It seems to me there is only one answer; if you break a rule, keep it to yourself, attempt to rectify it on your own and move on. You cannot be straightforward and honest with these supervisors. It simply does not work. Thank you. Again I don't understand why you guys don't talk about something positive that we can all agree and on? The Dec. DA was really good and allowed for a variety of opinions to be heard. Instead there is alot of negativity. But anon:OK. Let's assume you are not tied to Unity. But in one of your posts you seemed to be outraged by "unprofessional" things Jeff yelled out at 3 DA's. Yet you refuse to say what they were. This is a personal attack on Jeff and not from somone "who doesn't fall into lockstep behind your opinion." That is why I am vilifying you. If you can quote the horrible stuff Jeff yelled out then I might even agree with you that it was unprofessional. Tie your orignal post "I'm wondering how it is that Jeff didn't know the rules at Riker's" with your subsequent ones and it is clear your original post is not innocent but falls in the area of "slime." You clearly have something against Jeff. And you fall into line with the general Unity criticisms of some of the things he does (not all of which I agree with myself) to try to get democratic procedures enforced – that makes you a Unity sympathizer in the sense that you feel there is really no need to make a big deal about democratic procedures or lack of. It is also interesting that the only comment you make on a amazing story that has tremendous impact is to question Jeff's actions. Since the goal of Unity both on the surface and underneath by some union officials – the underbelly of this story is how they have dealt with the chapter at Riker's, even going behind the backs of the acting chapter leader to meet with the principal privately – is to undermine Jeff's integrity, yes your comments make you aligned with Unity. To Anon who want us to talk about the "wonderful" Dec. DA: I sat for almost 3 hours in the visitor section and wondered why I an wasting my life. Randi responded to every single person and ended up speaking about 75% of the time instead of the usual 90%. I guess that's progress. And 30 people got to vent. Or whatever. Clearly a PR move to counteract the outrage of members over the October DA. Basically an extension of the usual Q&A. I was at a small meeting called by a group of teachers at PS 262K who had invited ICE and TJC reps to speak and Randi showed up. Her very presence at a meeting of 10 people demonstrated her concerns about the disaffected members.The PS 261 teachers, (who had joined the demo outside the Oct DA) had a chance to express their feelings in a very intimate setting. This discussion, where Randi actually had to raise her hand and be called on by the chair, was very open and it may even have been me who suggested that DA's should have this type of open, if not intimate, discussion. A week later the "special" Dec. DA was announced and voted on at the Nov. DA. I have no easy answers to how to make a DA more open (following the rules would help), but when Randi and I communicated regularly years ago I used to badger her to reform the DA. Like have her report come at the end of the meeting and have a regular open period for a half hour or so. Or a debate with 2 points of view. I'm sure we can come up with lots more ideas. But that's all for now. johneymorgan33716446 I read over your blog, and i found it inquisitive, you may find My Blog interesting. So please Click Here To Read My Bloghttp://pennystockinvestment.blogspot.com To 12:13 am.An Ex post facto law is to punish someone after the fact. You can't punish someone for doing something that was not a violation at the time the person did it. Jeff told administration what he was doing as soon as the memo came out about undue familiarity. He was punished for what he did before that memo came out. That is wrong, wrong, wrong!I hope this was polite enough. No offense was intended. Principal Dody must have found this blog. Not even the worst of Unity hacks could say something against what happened to Jeff. Norm,You've confused two or more posts. I have no idea what Kaufman said at any Delegate Assembly, and frankly, I'm not sure it's relevant. My post (Jan. 26th, 11:24:54) wondered how it was he didn't know the rules. My post(Jan 29th, 9:53:01)was merely shock at your tone and venom. It seems that if you question anything here, you're instantly lumped into this evil 'Unity' entity. Reading the posts, I can only conclude that you are equally guilty of everything you your opposition of. Sorry I intruded into your hate fest. I actually thought you were an alternative blog open to dialogue between NYC teachers. My mistake. You only want to hear yourself repeated ad nauseum. Correction for above:*...guilty of everything you accuse your opposition of. THE REAL REASON JEFF KAUFMAN WAS REMOVED FROM RIKERS ISLAND FROM SOMEONE WHO WAS THERE!At one time Jeff was a respected union leader at AHMIA then something horrible happened, he became drunk with power. Jeff wanted to be the principal, but guess what, that position was already filled! and when he couldn't get his way, he second guessed every decision his administrators made,in an attempt to turn things in his favor and turn the staff against all of the Assistant Principals, especially Frank. Jeff was at war with Administration over power and not for the good of the teachers but for the benefit of himself. It became apparent that Jeff's war was purely personal when all of the Paraprofessionals were laid off and Frank moved heaven and hell to rehire them. Jeff, 'Our" union leader fought to have the Paraprofessionals removed, citing that their rehiring wasn't fair. his words were "Other people should have a shot at their jobs". Jeff again began to wage his own personal war even at the expense of the hard working people he had been elected by to protect. Someone on the blog stated that revenge is a dish served best cold, well Jeff has had plates of it and he's so full of vengeance that he has become blinded by it. I was a teacher at AHMIA and I know where all the bones are buried and who did the digging and believe me Jeff's hands are far from clean and by no means is he, or ever was a victim. Jeff's sense of fair play? well let me dig up two sets of bones for you;1) In Jeff's absence he ran for chapter chair re-election. Unwilling to give up his seat he and Donald Murphy intentionally mislead the staff into believing that "Jeff would be back any day". all the while both Donald Murphy and Jeff Kaufman were fully aware that Kaufman was not, and could not return to the island because he violated a Dept. of Corrections mandate stating that civilian staff can not fraternize with inmates this is called "Undue familiarity". Every September DOC holds a security meeting and this among other things are outlined and explained to civilian employees. he appointed his friend and cohort Donald Murphy to "unofficially" be chapter chair in his place. It wasn't until the next year that Mr. Murphy won the election after running under the guise of Jeff Kaufman. (Doesn't this have the feel of a Bush election LOL)2) The student who jeff was removed over had received Jeff's address and other personal information and was convicted of a serious infraction while being incarcerated and was placed in solitary confinement for a hundred or more days. This is the innocent kid that knew where Jeff lived. Can anyone imagine why corrections wouldn't want an inmate to have your address? Even after he was personally advised against putting his family at risk, Jeff neglected to heed the warnings and continued to violate DOC regulations.It wasn't until Jeff realized that he had gotten too involved with this inmate that he chose to tell Mr. Dody about "The Situation" who then went through the proper channels of informing DOC and then DOC officially removed him from the island. The rules are the same for everyone and Jeff was treated like any other staff member would have been treated for the same violation.With all of that said, it would behoove me not to mention the underhanded tactics of Donald Murphy; as i said before at one point Jeff was a trusted union official, that is before he allowed his quest for vengeance to cloud his judgment. But even on Jeff's most warped day, which would have included refusing to participate in any school activities with the exception of the stock market game one year. Murphy couldn't wear Jeff's left shoe when it came to the confidentiality of a union members grievance or other personal information. Many union members were afraid to grieve or ask for guidance with a situation for fear that he would divulge their personal business.In one instance Mr. Murphy's response to a paraprofessional in danger of losing her job was " Well that's what she gets, I mean, you know, she doesn't want help, so I'm not going over there!" I have to tell you that I could not believe my ears! There was also a time when Murphy accused the principal of practicing exclusionary tactics when it was he himself who was guilty of that accusation. There were a group of Union reps for each site that were hand picked by him and the staff had no choice in who would represent each building. Many teachers were upset by this, some contacted the union only to be told that there was nothing that could be done about the unfair practice. My 4th year at AHMIA was spent listening to Murphy rant and rave about the principal (Mr. Dody) giving cushy jobs to white people, if i am not mistaken Mr. Murphy is Afro American, and had the cushiest job of them all;he produced a school magazine, and had a very small pull out class of about 5 to 7 students, never had a lesson plan and always had the lights off during supposed instruction. The man was so out of control that in the middle of a staff meeting Mr. Murphy brazenly called the principal a racist. I was utterly shocked and disgusted by his unfair use of the race card and his unprofessional behavior. I must admit that i don't know what AHMIA is like now but this is ju st some of what i experienced as a teacher at that facility. Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:05:00 PM It is difficult to respond to anonymous above because much of what anonymous says is just factually incorrect. Of course he or she if free to draw their own conclusions about my motives but it is important to be clear about what happened on Rikers.It is clear from anonymous's writing that he or she has not been a teacher on Rikers for long. Believe or not I enjoy teaching and have no interest in leaving the classroom. What is perceived as a threat to ultimate principal power and control is just a teacher trying to empower students who face decisions that most of us never dream of facing. When an administration perceives that they are really providing these students with education he would not remove physical education from most of the school (our students were locked in their cells for a good part of the non-school day and could do recreation in the "yard" where only the gang leaders could walk safely. If he cared about our students he wouldn't remove most of the vocational programs that we once offered. He would not lead by allowing his subordinates to run their sites in any hostile manner they chose leading the DOE's own EEO to find that an AP wasn't really racist "but could be perceived by his staff as being racist" after almost 20 DOE and DOC staff complained.If the principal was truly interested in providing education to incarcerated students he would work toward making the transition to home schools possible by providing transferable credits instead of devoting all of his resources toward the GED which only a small fraction of the students could qualify.The paraprofessional example cited by anonymous is a case in point. After the para layoff when we lost 26 paras at the end of the 2002 school year the Union did nothing to guide them toward unemployment. In the fall it became apparent the school could not function without the paras. (As a side note only a couple of paras actually worked in classrooms. None were assigned to Special Ed students and most did office work). I received a call from our sister school on Rikers Island, Horizon Acadmeny's Chapter Leader who told me of a "secret" plan to rehire the paras even though they had been layed off. I said I had real misgivings about it since it violated the contract. At that point the principal from Horizon (who was listening in to the conversation on an extension, unknown to me)began yelling at me. I quickly hung up and I don't think I spoke to that Chapter Leader again.I found myself in a real ethical quandary; Should I permit a clear violation of the contract to go forward to favor colleagues I knew over paras who had the right to be rehired who I did not know. I chose to follow the contract and notified the union that this violation was being planned. After a few days all of the paras that were layed off were rehired so the issue actually became moot but it was a difficult decision which I support to this day. If we "allow" contract violations for our friends in favor of other union members how can we complain when it is done to us. That was and still is my rationale.As for the address issue and "undue familiarity" it appears that our anonymous friend did not go through any of the issues that a large number of struggled with every day....are we teachers or are we surrogate correction officers. The prohibition against undue familiarty was purposely left vague until Sept 2005 when, for the first time at a securtiy meeting it was disclosed that we needed the principal's permission to communicate with former students. Still, without clarity, the first letter I received from a former student I informed the principal. When he demanded that he see it I refused and stated that if he insisted I would consider it an illegal search. He had no basis to believe that the letter contained anything improper. In fact, after I was forced to show the letter I was vindicated and verily believed I would return to Rikers. There were a handful of pro-administration, anti-teacher, members of my chapter who reveled in my removal. The administration even had some of them run against me in my absence. The Chapter held strong and not only re-elected me by a substantial margin began to question a lot of what the administration was doing.Obviously this questioning paid off. While I don't see Dody's removal as a panacea I do see it as potentially positive for education on Rikers Island.Anonymous, as always, you are free to email me if you feel I have not responded properly to any of your points.BTW I don't have an administrator's license and wouldn't dream of getting one. Inspiring Rikers Teacher Runs Afoul of Jail's Rule... Delegate Assembly Misses Opportunity to Stop Impro... UFT Leaders Play Take the Money and Run! WILL RANDI LEAD A UFT RETURN TO MILITANCY IN 2007?...

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Nationals-bound Flying Hornet Team honors Tuskegee Airmen Read more about Nationals-bound Flying Hornet Team honors Tuskegee Airmen Description: (L-r) DSU Flying Hornets team members Will Jester, Isaac Shellenberger, Marc Anderson (faculty advisor/coach), Kenneth Ritchie, and Willie Gonzalez, stand with one of the DSU aircraft adorned with a red tail in honor of the Tuskegee Airmen and the film about them that is being screened in Dover. feature_image: Flying Hornets w red tail 518.jpgBody: The DSU Aviation Program – which will be sending a team to compete in the National Intercollegiate Flying Association’s National Flight Competition in May – is getting really excited about the new film Red Tails that tells the stories of the WWII exploits of the Tuskegee Airmen. The students are so excited, they have applied a new coat of paint to a number of their aircraft that they maintain at the Delaware Air Park. In honor of the African American flyers and the new film, the DSU Aviation Program members have painted the tail section of several of its planes red. Aviation students plan to go to the movies to see the opening of Red Tails. James Otis Handy, an aeronautical technical engineer with the original Tuskegee Airmen, is honored with a cake on the occasion of his 92nd birthday during a Jan. 20 Aviation Program celebration at the Delaware Air Park hangar. To his right is retired Brig. Gen. Ernest G. Talbert Jr. “It is our way of honoring the Tuskegee airman,” said Hans Riegle, assistant director of the Aviation Program. The Aviation Program has also invited Tuskegee Airman mechanic Otis Handy to the Delaware Air Park where the students will celebrate his 92th birthday with a pizza luncheon party on Jan. 20. The program’s Flying Hornets team was among the top three scoring teams at the NIFA Regional Flight Competition in October, and that performance guaranteed the Hornet flyers an invitation to compete in the NIFA National Flight Competition on May 13-17 in Kansas City, Mo. The Flying Hornets, led by their faculty advisor and coach Marc Anderson, include sophomore Willie Gonzalez, junior Will Jester, senior Kenneth Ritchie, and junior Isaac Shellenberger. All four team members are DSU aviation majors, and Mr. Anderson is a 2011 graduate of the program. During the October regional competition, the Flying Hornets finished third in the competition. Mr. Gonzalez finished fourth overall, competing against juniors and senior who already hold commercial and flight instructor ratings. “The fact that our team finished third is amazing and a testament to the talent of our students and the effort they exerted in preparation for the competition, because we had only four team members competing against teams that had eight or nine participants,” said Capt. Stephen Speed, DSU Aviation Program director. Capt. Speed noted that because the team awards were cumulative, the DSU students were at a disadvantage. “If we had one more team member, we would have finished in second place,” he said. Dr. Donald Parks Named Professor Emeritus Read more about Dr. Donald Parks Named Professor Emeritus Description: Dr. Donald Parks has been named professor emeritus. feature_image: Dr Donald Parks Portrait 518.jpgBody: The Delaware State University Board of Trustees has granted faculty emeritus status to Dr. Donald Parks, retired DSU professor of art. The Board unanimously approved the naming of Dr. Parks as professor emeritus during its Jan. 12 regular board meeting. Dr. Parks was a professor of art who began his tenure at DSU (then-Delaware State College) in 1981 after stints as several other schools and art institutions. He achieved the rank of full professor in 1994. During his tenure, he service on numerous committees and work groups. He retired from the University 2010. Dr. Parks was the founding executive director of the DSU Arts Center/Gallery, beginning with its establishment in 1990 to 2008. He served as the associate dean of the DSU College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, and was the director of the University Cultural Programming from 1997 to 2008. When DSU and Wesley College entered into a consortium agreement with the Schwartz Center for the Arts, Dr. Park became the director of development and programming for the Schwartz. In connection with DSU outreach, Dr. Parks served as the regional director of the regional director of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Program, on the Board of Directors for the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, as director of the Congressional Art Awards Program for Delaware, In 2004, Dr. Parks was honored with the Governor’s Award for the Arts in Delaware. He was awarded Art Educator of the Year awards for Delaware in 1992 and 1995; the DSU Excellence in Service Award in 1993, 1994 and 2004; DSU Excellence in Community Service Award in 2004; and the Presidential Medal of Honor Award for Excellence in Service. Dr. Parks has an A.S. in Art from Corning Community College, N.Y.; a B.A. in Art History from Oneonta State University, N.Y.; an M.S. in Art Education from Elmira College, N.Y.; and Ed.D in Art and Art Education from Syracuse University, N.Y. DSU President Harry L. Williams, Wilmington MLK Event photos Read more about DSU President Harry L. Williams, Wilmington MLK Event photos Description: State Sen. Margaret Rose Henry, DSU President Harry L. Williams and state Rep. Stephanie Bolden get together just prior to the beginning of the Organization of Minority Women's MLK Breakfast in Wilmington on Jan.16. feature_image: HW w Sen Henry and Rep Bolden 518.jpgBody: DSU President Harry Lee Williams made a strong case for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and for Delaware State University as the keynote speaker for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast sponsored by the Organization of Minority Women, Inc., in Wilmington on Jan. 16. Click the below slideshow for photos from the event, followed by more text information. During the Jan. 16 breakfast, Dr. Williams pointed out that there would not have been a Martin Luther King Jr. if he hadn’t attended Morehouse College – an HBCU – and been exposed to that institution’s president, Dr. Benjamin Mays. He also touched on a piece of valuable Wilmington history, sharing the details surrounding Dr. King’s address at the city’s Howard High School in 1960. The DSU president’s address was well-received MLK breakfast crowd gathered at the Chase Center on the Riverfront. He was introduced by Ned Brown, president of the New Castle County DSU Alumni Association. Also during the event, DSU student Lentasha J. Jones was awarded a OMW Scholarship Dr. Williams shared the dignitary stage during the event with Gov. Jack Markell, U.S. Sen. Thomas R. Carper, U.S. Rep. John Carney; state Sen. Margaret Rose Henry; state Reps. Dennis Williams, James Johnson and Stephanie Bolden (also DSU alumna); New Castle County Executive Paul Clark; Rev. Christopher Bullock and his wife and the event’s mistress of ceremony Dr. Debbie Bullock; and Lincoln University President Bob Jennings. DSU Holds its First-Ever Parent University Read more about DSU Holds its First-Ever Parent University Description: DSU President Harry L. Williams meets two parents just before the opening session of the inaugural DSU Parent University commenced on Feb. 25. feature_image: PU HW with parents 518.jpgBody: About 140 parents and other family members attended the institution’s first-ever DSU Parent University on Feb. 25. Held in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Center on campus, the event gave parents the opportunity to attend sessions about study-abroad opportunities, the University’s health emphasis, the DSU programs that develop leadership skills, and financial aid. The parents were also able to participate in roundtable discussions with DSU officials on the topics of public safety, advising and housing. Dr. Robin Williams, DSU's First Lady, gave the keynote address, in which she affirmed the important role that parents can play in their children's academic journey. Click on the below slideshow for photos from the inaugural DSU Parent University: Samantha Holsey Serves as DSU's 1st Leg. Fellow in General Assembly Read more about Samantha Holsey Serves as DSU's 1st Leg. Fellow in General Assembly Description: Samantha Holsey will serve this semester as a House Legislative Fellow at the state General Assembly, the first-ever DSU student to serve the legislature in this capacity. feature_image: Samantha-Hosey-at-Leg-Hall-(optimize)-518.jpgBody: DSU senior Samantha V. Holsey plans to go to law school after receiving her diploma in May , but along the way she is getting a taste of politics as DSU’s first-ever Legislative Fellow to serve in the Delaware General Assembly. Samantha Holsey plans to go to law school to become a corporate lawyer after her DSU graduation. Ms. Holsey, a Dover resident and 2008 graduate of Caesar Rodney High School, began her first day as a legislative fellow serving the state House of Representative side of the legislature. Specifically she is working on House’s Economic Development, Banking, Insurance and Commerce Committee as well as on the Housing and Community Affairs Committee. Her first day as a House Legislative Fellow was on Jan. 10. “I will be working on those House committees, but really I work for all 41elected members of the House of Representatives,” said Ms. Holsey, who is completing her undergraduate degree in political science with a minor is law studies. “I could be updating information for the House website, writing minutes, sitting in on caucuses, or doing research on constituent problem that may surface.” State House Rep. Darryl M. Scott, one of two elected House members representing the Dover area, said he was excited to learn that someone from DSU would be participating in the Legislative Fellows Program for the first time. “The Legislative Fellows serve a vital role in the House, allowing our committee meetings to run smoothly and providing important research on the issues we face here at the State,” Rep. Scott said. “It is a great opportunity for those here to see firsthand the quality and talent of the students the University produces. I know Samantha will do her school, community, and state proud, and I look forward to working with her in the upcoming months.” Dr. Jerome Lewis, director of the School of Public Policy & Administration’s Institute for Public Administration (IPA) at the University of Delaware, founded Legislative Fellows Program at the General Assembly in 1982. “Our new partnership with Delaware State University offers students from both of our universities the opportunity to take part in a hands-on learning experience,” Dr. Lewis said. “Our Legislative Fellows are able to observe and contribute to the decision-making process while working with individuals with diverse views and values such as state and local government officials, business and community leaders, and concerned citizens.” DSU Receives $400,000 Welfare Foundation Grant to Upgrade Science Labs Read more about DSU Receives $400,000 Welfare Foundation Grant to Upgrade Science Labs Description: The $400,000 Welfare Foundation Grant will go toward critical upgrades of the Mishoe Science Center's air control systems, HVAC equipment and cover other improvements. feature_image: Mishoe Science Ctr 518.jpgBody: Jan. 12, 2012 Delaware State University has received great assistance in its work to strengthen its already strong emphasis on its Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines with the award of a $400,000 grant from the Welfare Foundation. The generous Welfare Foundation grant will go toward an $826,000 project to renovate the DSU STEM laboratories in the Mishoe Science Center. The original portion of the Mishoe Science Center (north side) was built in 1964, and a south addition was completed in 1995. The building annually serves 350 STEM-related majors as well hundreds of students in other majors who take classes there every year to fulfill their science requirements. In their past there have not been sufficient capital funds to counter the deteriorating conditions of the laboratories of the College of Mathematics, Natural Sciences & Technology in the Mishoe Science Center. The renovation project will include critical upgrades of air control systems, HVAC equipment, and new safety provisions, the installation of a new observatory area that will replace the obsolete one, as well as the necessary computer technologies. The upgrading of the air control system is particularly critical as much of the college’s research in optics, chemistry, neuroscience and biology areas requires stable air quality and the ability to maintain acceptable humidity levels. In addition to improving the research environment and possibilities for DSU science students and faculty, the upgrades will improve the University’s potential for attracting high-caliber researcher to the institution, as well as draw businesses and corporations that might find commercial application with DSU research activities. DSU Mourns the Loss of Honors Student Akiah S. Powell Read more about DSU Mourns the Loss of Honors Student Akiah S. Powell Description: Akiah S. Powell (left), a senior political science major who passed away on Feb. 4, was close friends with Samantha Holsey, also a DSU senior political science major. feature_image: Akiah and Samantha 518.jpgBody: The DSU community is mourning the loss of Akiah S. Powell, a senior political science major who passed away unexpectedly on Feb. 4 due to natural causes. The death of Ms. Powell was made all the more poignant by her projected graduation this upcoming May and her plans to enter law school immediately afterward. Formerly of the Bronx, N.Y., her family had moved to Bushkill, Pa., about five years ago, according to her mother, Marilyn Powell. By all accounts, Akiah was a dedicated student who was known to be service oriented, a faithful friend and destined for success. She was on the Dean’s List throughout her entire academic journey at DSU. Akiah S. Powell would have graduated in May and expected to enrolled in law school in the fall. A political science major with a minor in pre-law, Ms. Powell had already taken the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) and applied to a number of law schools. “When it came to legal studies, I believe that Akiah found her niche and a path to a successful career,” said Dr. Sam Hoff, the director of the DSU Law Studies Program. “She had demonstrated the requisite skills to become an attorney and she was on the precipice of being accepted to law school.” Dr. Hoff noted that Akiah possessed strong opinions about certain cases he taught in her Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties class. “She had a sort of righteous indignation about injustices that cannot be taught,” Dr. Hoff said. “It is a trait that made me confident that she would have been a stellar attorney and would have contributed significantly to the legal profession.” Akiah had been a McNair Research Scholar since the spring of 2011 and within that program had demonstrated a passion for education and her love for fellow students, according to Tonia P. Conley, director of the DSU McNair Program. Ms. Conley said upon becoming a McNair Scholar, Akiah quickly bonded with her peers in the program and demonstrated her leadership and innate strengths among them. “We could always depend on the warmth of her personality and the beauty of her smile,” Ms. Conley said. “Akiah epitomized our program’s slogan: ‘Pursuing Excellence Without Excuse.’ She was certainly more than a student… she was a scholar!” She said as a McNair scholar, Akiah had conducted research with Dr. Hoff (also a professor of political science) on a project entitled “The Continuing Impact of Religion on Public Policy,” and was to have presented that paper at a research event in Nashville, Tenn., in March 2012. Dr. Akwasi Osei, chair of the Department of History, Political Science and Philosophy, as well as another advisor of Ms. Powell, said that she was a grounded and focused student who always had a smile and was eager to help. “She had a quiet strength,” Dr. Osei said. “She was strong in a quiet way and she made her presence felt quietly.” During Akiah’s undergraduate journey, she distinguished herself as an inductee of both the Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society/Upsilon Chapter, as well as the Pi Gamma Mu International Social Science Honor Society/Delaware Alpha Chapter. She was a co-recipient of her academic department’s 2011 George Washington Leadership Award, a Thurgood Marshall scholar, and was a member of the DSU Honors Program. She had been selected to be an alternative legislative fellow at the Delaware General Assembly. Ms. Powell also worked in the Division of Academic Enrichment as a supplemental instruction leader and Writing Lab specialist/tutor during the 2011-2012 school year. According to Kenneth Hunt, a supplemental instruction coordinator, Akiah showed exceptional knowledge in the field of English; and as an English SI Leader and writing lab specialist, she demonstrated outstanding leadership and dedication to each student. “In addition to the students gaining a strong sense of confidence, the overall class average increased as a result of her method of teaching,” Mr. Hunt said. “She gracefully served both positions within the division with honor and distinction.” Akiah S. Powell (2nd from the right) enjoys a fellowship moment with some friends. Jean H. Gilroy, academic support coordinator, added that “Akiah was a role model to all the students with whom she worked. Many lives have been touched, and many students will succeed and graduate from DSU due to her efforts.” Among her student peers she was good friend and someone who could always be counted on to be helpful. Samantha Holsey, also a senior political science major, has been a close friend of Akiah ever since their freshman year when they shared an honors suite in Wynder Towers. Ms. Holsey described her good friend as “very genuine and independent” and as being one who was interested in others’ success as well as her own. “Instead of trampling over you to get to first-place, she would bring you with her,” Ms. Holsey said. Akiah Shekira Powell was born to Hillary (Piper) and Marilyn Powell on March 12, 1990, in Bronx, N.Y. Akiah loved the Lord and was a member of the Smyrna Seventh-Day Adventist Church located in the Bronx. She attended the R. T. Hudson Elementary School and graduated from Northeastern Academy in New York City. She began her academic career at DSU in August 2008. Akiah S. Powell The following is an excerpt of a personal statement that Akiah wrote concerning her motivations and goals for her life: “One of my favorite quotes by Aristotle says, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” This quote inspires and motivates me throughout my educational journey and helps to remove the negative connotation and assertion by some that people are the product of their environment. Rather, I am committed to ongoing studies, research, improving myself, and sharing and encouraging others to do the same; by doing so, I hope to impact not only my community but that of others.” – Akiah S. Powell Funeral services will be held on Sunday, Feb. 12, with a viewing from 3-5 p.m. and a homegoing service immediately afterward at 5 p.m. at Ephesus Seventh Day Adventist Church, 101 W. 123rd St., in the Harlem in New York City. The burial will take place the following day, Monday, Feb. 13) at 10 a.m. at the George Washington Cemetery, Paramus, N.J. Posted: February 7, 2012 DSU Mourns the Passing of Dr. Fatma Helmy Read more about DSU Mourns the Passing of Dr. Fatma Helmy Body: Dr. Fatma Helmy, 1927-2012 Delaware State University is mourning the loss of Dr. Fatma M. Helmy, who dedicated her academic career to preparing some of the University’s top science students to go onto doctoral studies and research careers. Dr. Helmy, the founding director of DSU’s Minority Access to Research Careers Program, peacefully passed away on Monday, February 13, 2012, at her home in Smyrna, Delaware. She was 84. At time of her death she was a full professor in the DSU Department of Biological Sciences, where she taught from 1975 until May 2011. Before she came to DSU, she taught in the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Ky.; Tulane University, New Orleans, La.; and the University of New Orleans, La. It was in the Minority Access to Research Careers, commonly known by the acronym MARC, in which she made her indelible “MARC” on the University, positively impacting the career path of many of the University’s top science students Dr. Helmy made it her mission to ensure the minority students were provided an environment that would make research careers possible for them. Toward that goal, she was awarded the Minority Biomedical Research Support grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 1980 to 1991. She initiated the DSU Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) program through a NIH MARC grant in 1988. That grant that was successfully renewed throughout her directorship of the program until 2008. The DSU MARC Program produced 22 students who went on to earn Ph.D.s in biomedical sciences disciplines from prestigious universities throughout the country. Dr. Noureddine Melikechi, dean of the DSU College of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Technology, said Dr. Helmy’s dedication, passion, drive and love provided energy and a vision that led to major successes for the MARC program for a period of 20 years. “Her hard work provided opportunities for students to be prepared to pursue their doctoral degrees at top institutions in the USA,” he said. “The success of these students is invariably connected to her and the MARC program.” Other faculty peers also express a deep respect and admiration for her dedicated years at DSU. “Dr. Helmy’s skill as an educator, her mentorship to promising young minds, her tenacious commitment to integrity, and her dedication and generosity to Delaware State University are unequaled in my world,” said Richard Driskill, a retired assistant professor of biology who continues to teach at DSU, and was a colleague of Dr. Helmy throughout her entire tenure. “Although I will miss her friendship and kindness dearly, she will remain a wellspring of inspiration for me.” “Dr. Helmy’s dedication to students for over 35 years at DSU has positively impacted thousands of students and set a high standard of teaching for us all to aspire,” said Dr. Leonard Davis, chair of the Department of Biological Sciences. “However, she will be forever remembered for the focus on her MARC students that has created a nationwide legacy of successful scientists.” Dr. Marquea King, a 1997 DSU MARC graduate, completed her Ph.D in toxicology from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University and currently works as an toxicologist/environmental scientist for the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington D.C. She credits Dr. Helmy as being critically instrumental in her academic and professional development. “The enriching environment that Dr. Helmy, a.k.a. the MARC Program, has provided me as a fledgling student while in high school, into undergrad, and onto graduate school has no doubt made a profound impact on my life,” Dr. King said. “The preparations and provisions bestowed upon me by Dr. F. Helmy and to dozens of other very fortunate individuals have laid the foundation for constant success. Dr. F. Helmy has afforded me both the tools and the opportunities to be a true presence and role model in society as well as a key figure in the future of other promising students’ lives.” Dr. Anthea Aikins, a 2004 MARC graduate, said that Dr. Helmy's wisdom and guidance helped her through her graduate program at the University of Missouri. Dr. King noted that the following passage in Dr. Helmy’s most recent NIH Summary Statement sums her standard of dedication: “The strength of this program is the dogged determination of the program director, Dr. Helmy…There is no other institution in the country that can boast such a high rate of success. Her dedication and commitment must be applauded.” Dr. Anthea A. Aikens, a 2004 DSU MARC graduate who has returned to her alma mater as a visiting professor, said Dr. Helmy took on a role as her mentor when she was freshman and continued to be one after she entered graduate school. She said Dr. Helmy's desire to see all of the MARC students succeed was quite evident in every encounter she had with them. "One of the techniques Dr. Helmy used to bring the best out of us was in how she always found creative ways to speak 'life' into us," said Dr. Aikins, who completed her Ph.D. in microbiology in 2010 at the University of Missouri. "This challenged all of the MARC students to live up to her expectations." Dr. Melikechi added that Dr. F. Helmy was an excellent mentor who established long-term relationships with her students, and would be forever remembered for her lifelong commitment and numerous contributions to the educational needs of students, particularly those from minority groups. “Dr. Fatma Helmy has left a mark on DSU, its students, its programs, and its future. I am grateful for her life, her service to others,” the dean said. “As she leaves us, Dr. Fatma Helmy gives us one more lesson: Great educators never die; they simply move on before us.” Dr. Helmy (l) received the Minority Access Inc.'s National Role Model Faculty Award in 2008 from an unidentified representative of the organization. In addition to teaching, Dr. Helmy published 67 scientific articles in scientific refereed journals. She presented her research at 37 international and national professional scientific meetings. She was a member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), International Association for Women Bioscientists, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Association of Anatomist, Sigma Xi, New York Academy of Sciences, and the American Chemical Society. Due to Dr. Helmy’s dedicated work in teaching, research and mentoring, she received the DSU College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Special Award for Excellence in Service for two years, and she was nominated “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.” She was the recipient of the DSU Presidential Excellence Award, the DSU Merit Award, the DSU Alumni Association Making a Difference Award, and the 2008 Minority Access Inc. “National Role Model Faculty Award” for Exemplary Achievement in Educating and Motivating Students. Dr. Helmy received her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and Biology from the University of Cairo, in her native Egypt; her Master of Science degree in Hematology and Histology also from the University of Cairo, and her Ph.D. at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. She was married for 33 years to Dr. Marvin Hack, who died in 1999. She is survived by her sister, Dr. Ehsan Helmy of Smyrna (who is also a longtime DSU professor of physics). There will be a visitation at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 16 at Torbert Funeral Homes downtown Dover location at 61 S. Bradford Street. The family will be there to receive condolences. A vehicle funeral procession will depart from the funeral home sometime after 10:30 a.m. that same morning to travel to the Lakeside Cemetery on South State Street (next to Silver Lake), where a graveside service will begin at 11 a.m. According to the funeral home, memorial donations can be made to the American Cancer Society, 92 Reads Way #205, New Castle, DE 19720. Kickoff To Wellness, Dominique Dawes -- Photo Slideshow Read more about Kickoff To Wellness, Dominique Dawes -- Photo Slideshow Description: Olympic gold medalist Dominique Dawes spent some time with the kids of the DSU Child Development Lab during the Jan. 19 Kickoff to Wellness day at DSU. feature_image: DSC_3340 518.jpgBody: Jan. 19, 2012 DSU held its second annual Kickoff to Wellness on Jan. 19 with a variety of events in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Center during the day and culminated with a motivational address by Olympic gymnast and gold medalist Dominique Dawes in the evening at the Education and Humanities Theatre. Click on the below slideshow to see photos from the day’s activities:

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Repository profile Special Collections Library Email: [email protected] Website: http://libraries.uky.edu/lib.php?lib_id=13 Special Collections is home to UK Libraries' collection of rare books, Kentuckiana, the Archives, the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, the King Library Press, and the Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center. The mission of Special Collections is to locate and preserve materials documenting the social, cultural, economic, and political history of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Materials are acquired regardless of format and include both primary and secondary sources; Kentuckiana is collected comprehensively. Special Collections maintains a records management program for all records generated by the University and serves as its archival repository for permanent records. As part of the mission, Special Collections advances and supports the research, teaching, and scholarship of the University and beyond by preserving and providing access to its holdings.

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Printed on acid-free paper Rebel Literacy is a look at Cuba’s National Literacy Campaign of 1961 in historical and global contexts. The Cuban Revolution cannot be understood without a careful study of Cuba’s prior struggles for national sovereignty. Similarly, an understanding of Cuba’s National Literacy Campaign demands an inquiry into the historical currents of popular movements in Cuba to make education a right for all. The scope of this book, though, does not end with 1961 and is not limited to Cuba and its historical relations with Spain, the United States, and the former Soviet Union. Nearly 50 years after the Year of Education in Cuba, the Literacy Campaign’s legacy is evident throughout Latin America and the ‘Third World’. A world-wide movement today continues against neoliberalism and for a more humane and democratic global political economy. It is spreading literacy for critical global citizenship, and Cuba’s National Literacy Campaign is a part of the foundation making this global movement possible. The author collected about 100 testimonies of participants in the Campaign, and many of their stories and perspectives are highlighted in one of the chapters. Theirs are the stories of perhaps the world’s greatest educational accomplishment of the 20th Century, and critical educators of the 21st Century must not overlook the arduous and fruitful work that ordinary Cubans, many in their youth, contributed toward a nationalism and internationalism of emancipation. Read the introduction About Us Our Books Forthcoming Info for Authors Sample Copies Buying Our Books Free Content Catalog Mailing List Contact @litwinbooks dissertation award travel grants Colloquia Copyright © 2006-2016, Litwin Books, LLC P.O. Box 188784, Sacramento, CA 95818Tel. 218-260-6115 ~~ Fax 916-415-5446 ~ [email protected]

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IUB Newsroom »Indiana University reaches list of top Peace Corps Master's International schoolsIndiana University reaches list of top Peace Corps Master's International schoolsMay 7, 2014FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- By helping restore the forests of Peru, Rachel Schoenian is helping Indiana University Bloomington grow in the national rankings of Peace Corps schools nationwide. IU is making its debut appearance and ranks 10th on the Peace Corps’ newly released list of top Master’s International schools nationwide. Schoenian is one of 12 IU students working as Peace Corps volunteers around the world. The Kokomo, Ind., native has been an environmental volunteer in Peru since September and is working on reforestation, waste management and environmental education projects. She earned her undergraduate degree from IU Bloomington's School of Public and Environmental Affairs last year and is now pursuing a master’s degree from SPEA focusing on policy analysis. The Master’s International program allows students to incorporate Peace Corps service as an integral part of their graduate degree, and the Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program provides returned Peace Corps volunteers with the opportunity to continue to serve in their communities concurrent to earning an advanced degree. “Peace Corps’ partnerships with colleges and universities create invaluable opportunities for students to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom to real-life situations,” Peace Corps Acting Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet said. Schoenian is considering a career closely linked to her service in Peru. “The Peace Corps seemed like an affordable and worthwhile way to find out if international development was right for me,” she said. “Travel always teaches you something new; though sometimes it’s hard to define just exactly what you’ve learned until you return home and reflect properly on it. So far, Peru has taught me how to really, truly be patient and content in any situation that might come my way.” While Schoenian is a SPEA student, the IU School of Education also offers the Master’s International Program to help fill a global need for well-prepared teachers of English as a Foreign and/or Second Language. Now in its fourth year, the program counts a Peace Corps service assignment as six graduate credits toward a master's degree from the Department of Literacy, Culture and Language Education at the School of Education. Faridah Pawan, an associate professor in that department, said the program goes with the School of Education's internationalization mission. “We're giving them early exposure to what's out there,” she said. “We're developing qualified, highly informed individuals to teach English overseas. In addition, the unique hybrid and distance education format of the IU School of Education’s Peace Corps Master's International program enables it to provide embedded and sustained support for the individuals as well.” According to Joan Connor, who gave up her teaching job in Texas to join the Peace Corps to teach English through music in Zuunmod, Mongolia, the online format fits well with her exciting and challenging life as a Peace Corps volunteer. “When thoughts swirl in my head at 2 a.m., how convenient to be able to arise, post, discuss and then sleep more peacefully,” she said. “The value of interacting with similar minds that have similar goals in dissimilar places is comforting when those shards of loneliness cut into a dark and frigid Saturday evening so far away from home. This IU program is my support and PC companion as I grow in myriad of ways.” While the Master’s International and Coverdell Fellows programs are relatively new, IU has a long history of Peace Corps involvement. Since the agency was created in 1961, 1,603 IU graduates have made a difference as Peace Corps volunteers. About the Master’s International program Peace Corps partners with more than 80 colleges and universities nationwide to enable students to earn a master’s degree while serving in the Peace Corps. Students begin their studies on campus; serve overseas with the Peace Corps for two years; then return to school to finish graduate work. As part of a Peace Corps volunteer’s service, the volunteer will work on projects related to his or her master’s studies. For more information, visit www.peacecorps.gov/masters.Related LinksSchool of Public and Environmental AffairsSchool of EducationPrintShareRachel Schoenian with a friend after a hike in PeruPrint-Quality PhotoMedia ContactsJim HanchettSchool of Public and Environmental Affairs Office [email protected] CarneyIU School of Education Office [email protected]@ IUSchoolofEd IU NewsroomArchiveContactNewslettersRSS Feeds

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Higher Education bills now moving in legislature Endowment bill to be heard on senate floor By Susan McKinsey — March 16, 2015 Categories: Inside UNM After struggling mightily to get out of the House Education Committee over a long couple of weeks, the Higher Education Endowment bill, HB 170, has gathered steam and is moving rapidly. This morning, the Senate Education Committee gave it unanimous approval, sending it on its way to the senate floor. The bill makes changes to the Endowment Act and its passage is needed to access the $5.5 million sitting in HB 2, which is sitting in the senate. The House Education Committee meanwhile gave approval to SB 255, which allows UNM-Valencia to build an off-campus facility on donated land west of I-25. The structure will house classes and services for the rapidly growing west side of Los Lunas. That bill now goes to the Ways and Means Committee. The House Education Committee also approved a bill designed to protect proprietary college information, intellectual property and trade secrets, which may be subjected to public records requests. The bill, HB 575, now goes to House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs. In addition, the education committee approved a memorial establishing a task force to study the impacts of public record requests to colleges and universities, making recommendations to streamline the process and protect personal information. Tags: Higher Education endowments Valencia campus Late Night Breakfast set for Sunday, Dec. 11 Gerald W. May Outstanding Staff Awards to be presented Dec. 9 Lobo alum appointed editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society Alan Abramowitz to discuss Donald Trump's victory and what it means

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/ Blog / McGill grad named to the Senate McGill grad named to the Senate Posted on Friday, September 7, 2012 Prime Minister Stephen Harper this morning announced the appointment of five new Senators, including McGill grad (PhD Economics81) Diane Bellemare, filling a Senate vacancy in Quebec. Ms. Bellemare also holds a BA in Economics from the Université de Montréal and a Master’s in Economics from Western University. Ms. Bellemare has been an Associate Fellow at the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire CIRANO, an economic advisor in the office of the Leader of the Official Opposition as well as first vice-president, chief economist and vice-president (research), for the Conseil du patronat du Québec. She has also been a consultant, an honorary professor and a full professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal, She was also a member of the Economic Council of Canada from 1984 to 1990. She also ran in the 2003 provincial elections for the Action Démocratique du Québec, as well as in a by-election and a general election in 2008 for the same party. The Prime Minister’s Office said her Senate appointment is effective immediately.

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Public library Essay Our technology today is on its way to a higher and greater success in the development of different equipment made of machines and electronic devices. Different types and sizes of computers find uses throughout the society. Computers are used nowadays in almost all institution, like hospitals and schools. We live today in the era of technology. In everything that we do technology plays a big part, there are always things that we do that have to include technology in it. Take a look at the computer for example. It is what we call now the hero of the modern era. It is included in every part of our life. Whether it is in academic, scientific, or business purposes. It is very much a part of our life. Thus as we live today, we can’t help but wonder about the things a computer does to help ease the workloads that we have burdened ourselves with. Making researches is not as time consuming as before because of the fact that there is the Internet that is just a click away from every imaginable topic under the sun. If we want to look and see the best example of this so called revolution we do not have to look far. The computer, it is simply one of mans greatest invention and thus so far has been one of the most widely used tool in this planet today. It is in such demand that almost all of the nig businesses today are trying to computerize their systems and even some small businesses are following their lead. It is hard to understand the fact that almost all of the information we need are to found in a computer. Sometimes people think that the books are found in libraries throughout this planet is obsolete because of the fact that we can get all information we need from the Internet. But as they say the new has come so forget the past and let us welcome the future. The reason behind the computerization of their systems is as varied as the businesses they handle but generally it aims to make their jobs a lot easier, make their work a lot faster, thus making the use of their time in a better way so that they can cope up better with their growing clientele. Most of the big businesses today are using computers, even small businesses are trying to get into the mainstream by also using computers in their daily business transactions. The reason behind computerization of their system is to make their work a lot faster, more accurate and precise and thus they save time and effort and devote more of the needed time in dealing with their customers who make their business grow. Learning to use the computer in such a way that you become informed and not be considered an ignorant in the ways of technology. To understand how it works and what are the things that make it work. To make yourself knowledgeable is not saying that you are forgetting the past, but they are just trying to get you into the thick of things. It is just better to be updated and know something than not to know anything at all. It is also an essential part of business if you to be successful at all. Schools have many divisions and, there are the registrar’s office, the accounting office, the admission office, so as the school clinic and library. As I have observed, most public high school are still using the old manual cabinet in order to organize their files. Also, they still manually manage the borrower’s card of the students, so as the input of data to it, Thus, I was convinced to make a Computerize Library Management System. The problem with the manual system still being used today by public school libraries is that they tend to make record management a tedious task for the personnel of the library. Updating and access of records of books available in the library is also time consuming thus extending the workload of the library personnel. Records of books could also be lost and because there are no backup a replacement has to be made again. The proposed computerized library record management system will provide an easier and faster way of storing library records and files. It will be used to organize data effectively, with less mistakes and errors, thus minimizing the time and effort of the librarian and its staff. The proposed study will be efficient and will be very useful for the library. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK Computerized Library Record Management system applications originates from all kinds of academic institutions and points vastly to different academic problems. The computerization of the library record and the use of certain service offered by the institution is one of the most important component of many schools especially in the research and research materials for their students. Many people consider the definition of the problem to be the most significant phase of the project. Since it gives the requirements asked by the examination facilitator, or what the user expects the system to do, and thus setting the pathway for the entire project, it consists of the objectives of the project. It is bound in terms of reference for the project. Limitation of resources is also often specific at this time to indicate the needed funds and personnel of the company available for the said project. INPUT-PROCESS-OUTPUT (I. P. O. ) DIAGRAM FEEDBACK Paradigm of the Study The Input-Process-Output Diagrams the flow of the System from the manual system being used to the construction and improvement of the manual system converting it into a computerized system that will enable the user to use it more effectively and efficiently. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM This study is focused on the design and development of a computerized record keeping system for Divisoria National High School. The researchers are proposing to computerize the system to reduce time and effort in accomplishing the library records management system. Specifically, it sought to find out the answer to the following questions: 1. What are the problems encountered in the present manual library records management system? a. How will the system be designed and developed? 2. How will the present system be implemented? Assumptions. It is initially assumed that the new system will be more efficient, accurate, precise faster and more productive than the system presently implemented by the school. The proposed system will be faster, easier to use and would make the profiling of the students much easier and faster. Records are also harder to tamper with. A password would also protect the system so as to prevent tampering with the records of the system and only an authorized user would be able to access the needed information about the system. Significance of the study. This study is envisioned to serve the following purposes: This software will serve as a powerful guide for the students to a faster easier and orderly way of selecting the needed books to be borrowed. It will make the present system like an old lady to slow compared to the speed of the proposed system. This would also make it easier for the librarian to prepare for reports especially if there is a request from the administration for one. The system would help him/her find the book that is needed to be borrowed because he can browse the records of the books and the borrowed books at the time. For other and future researchers it would also be a great way to find reference materials that they can used for their own research. This study would be a good basis for them in formulating the basic structure for their own studies as well. This software would be a big help to the school in a way that it helps minimize the time used by the librarian in finding the records of a student and easier to locate a book needed by a borrower. SCOPE AND DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY The proposed system is mainly developed for the Library Records Management. System of the Divisoria National High School of Santiago City, Isabela and will be used by the library personnel of the school. A password will protect the system so as to give protection to the records of borrowers and the overdue accounts from being tampered with. The password will also be an assurance for the school and the library that nobody with a restricted access to the system may be able to change the records that are kept inside the system. DEFINITION OF TERMS Analyst – one experienced in identifying the source of problems and suggesting the means to correct them, especially for a computer program. Application Software – software that performs user oriented function as opposed to operating system functions. Bookkeeping – process of recording financial transactions: the activity or profession of recording the money received and spent by an individual, business, or organization Automation – refers to the organization of machines handling of their routines or operation requiring minimal intervention. Browse – scan computer files: to scan and view files in a computer database or on the Internet, especially on the World Wide Web. Code – computer information: a system of symbols, numbers, or signals that conveys information to a computer Computer – electronic data processor and storer: an electronic device that accepts, processes, stores, and outputs data at high speeds according to programmed instructions Computerized – run by computer: operated, organized, controlled, or performed by computer Computer Literacy – is commonly used today to denote some kind of basic understanding of computer concepts and terminologies. It also refers to the attitude about the computers and the actual ability to do some tasks or programs on the computer. Computer information system – a total coordinated information system that includes computers, people, procedures and all the resources necessary to handle input, output and storage of data useful to an aspect of an organization. Encoder – convert computer characters into digital form: to convert input data, for example, analog signals, characters, and commands, into a digital form recognizable by a computer. Hardware – computer equipment and peripherals: the equipment and devices that make up a computer system as opposed to the programs that are used on it Information Science – the study of the processes involved in the collection, categorization, and distribution of data, particularly with reference to computer data. Database Management – a computer program devised to design, create, manipulate, update, control, and interrogate one or more databases, often containing a proprietary query language for extracting data. Data Processing – the entering, storing, updating and retrieving of information, using a computer. File – a complete named collection of information such as a program, a set of data used by a program or a user created document. Flowchart – is a way to represent a design of the computerized part of the system in terms of sequences of black-box processing steps and controls among those black boxes. The graphical form of an algorithm in which standard symbol present the necessary operations and show the order in which it is performed. Hardware – Refers to the physical equipment that makes up a computer system. Information Science – the study of the processes involved in the collection, categorization, and distribution of data, particularly with reference to computer data. Input – data that serves as the raw material for the system processing or that trigger-processing step. Also, to access data and place them into the computer system. Inventory – a record of business’s current assets, including property owned as well as merchandise on hand and the value of work in progress and work completed but not sold. Management Information System – type of computer information system that provides meaningful summarization of data to support organizational management control functions and highlights exception conditions requiring attention or corrective action. Model – mathematical or logical representation of a system that can be manipulated intellectually to access hypothetical change. Also, to make graphic or written representation of an information system and its function, to help people understand its function. Output – a product, or result of data processing. Process – to transform input data into useful information through performance of certain functions. Profile – process of creating and using such a profile. Programmers – professionals who write the instruction that direct the computer to perform its tasks. Program – tells the computer how to accept and manipulate the data in order to turn it into information. Programming – the designing or writing of computer programs, Proposal – suggestions references for acceptance or selection. Record – To retain information usually in a file. Security – refers to the ability of securing something important. Software – refers to the programs that instruct the computer what to do. System – a set of elements, which are functionally interrelated to form a unitary whole, designed to achieve a common purpose. System Analyst – professionals who assist in the identification of business problems and opportunities and in the specification of information system solution. System Software – the operating system and utility programs used to operate and maintain a computer system and provide resources for application programs such as word processors and spreadsheets. User Friendly – a term used for computer software that could be used easily by any person with less help. Workload – this refers to the amount of work or task of a certain employee. Chapter II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES Related Studies Whole Language in an Elementary School Library Media Center. ERIC Digest, “Lamme, Linda Leonard, Beckett, Cecilia”; 1992 This digest examines changes that are involved in an elementary school Library Media Program when the school’s instructional methods move from a basic skills to a whole language approach. These changes are discussed in terms of three curricular foci—theme studies, process writing, and literature based reading—and new demands that are placed on the collection and the school librarian. Because the whole language approach relies heavily on children’s literature instead of textbooks, large numbers of trade books are required, and librarians must work cooperatively with teachers to ensure that the necessary resources are available in the media center when needed. Flexible scheduling in the school media center is important to the success of theme studies as it allows children to seek answers to questions as they arise. Since whole language creates an enormous demand for books, videos, cassettes, and computer programs, library media specialists can expect dramatic changes in collection use as well as changes in their role. Not only must library media specialists become very familiar with the library collection, but they must also serve as a resource to students and teachers during the planning and execution of theme studies, a teacher of information skills, and an instruction leader. (10 references) (MAB) Developing Metacognition. ERIC Digest; “Blakey, Elaine, Spence, Sheila”, 1990 “Studies show that megacognitive strategies can increase learning skills and that independent use of these metacognitive strategies can be gradually developed in people. The school library media center is the ideal place for students to learn how to develop metacognitive strategies; that is, they can learn how to connect new information to former knowledge, deliberately select thinking strategies, and plan, monitor, and evaluate these thinking processes. There are six basic strategies for developing metacognitive behaviors in students: (1) they must consciously identify what they “know” as opposed to “what they do not know”; (2) they must then develop a thinking vocabulary so that they can verbally describe their thinking process; (3) they should keep a thinking journal or learning log in which they reflect upon their learning processes; (4) they must also learn to assume responsibility for regulating their learning activities, including estimating time requirements, organizing materials and scheduling the procedures necessary to complete an activity (the media centers’ resources lend themselves quite well to this tak); (5) they must learn how to review and evaluate these strategies as either successful or inappropriate; and (6) they must participate in guided self-evaluation through individual conferences and checklists focusing on the thinking process. Metacognitive environments must be established in schools if teachers and media specialists are to be able to encourage students’ development of problem solving and learning skills. ($ references and 4 additional readings)(MAB)”; According to the Manila Bulletin, integrating computer as an effective teaching strategy for all teachers in the country now. How the strategy for public and private schools. The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the Department of Education Culture and Sports (DECS) cognizant for the major impact of computer in the Philippines education system has started adopting technical reforms in meeting the demand of the modern technologies of the 21st centuries. Both agencies note that there have been a slow growth of computer expert in the teaching profession and both believed that teachers should now undergo training and acquaint themselves with the latest tent in computer use both hardware and software. With the technical gains in teaching can be facilitated and easily motivate millions of students already, DECS gas started computer utilizing its educational program by tapping leading foreign groups. Lesson plans, library cataloguing and other educational system filling is among the top priorities. With this standard for primary and secondary level will be established, particularly for government run school. The integration of multi media and teaching strategies is surely an integral part of the modernization of our educational system. There is no excuse for our educators not to utilize them for quality teaching. The success of the government programs to update the quality of education of the million of students is anchored to their teachers technical capabilities. The school on the other hand, should utilize its powerhouse, the faculty helping them to be exposed to the latest trend in modern teaching using computers. Related Literature Library (institution) Introduction Library (institution), repository for various forms of recorded information. Although the word library is derived from the Latin liber, meaning “book”, the term now refers to collections of data in many other formats: microforms, magazines, phonorecordings, films, magnetic tapes, slides, videotapes, and electronic media. Types of Libraries Library collections are varied, as are their purposes and clientele. Most developed nations have libraries of several types. Generally, all libraries of one type within a country are linked through professional associations and lending agreements. Libraries of different types are connected through a number of interlibrary systems, through loan arrangements, and through other cooperative programmes. National Libraries National libraries, such as the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the Library of Congress in Washington, D. C. , or the British Library in London, are primarily supported by public tax funds and exist to serve the needs of the government and of a general scholarly public by providing research materials. Research Libraries Research, or reference, libraries are often supported by private endowments and contributions and mainly serve the needs of scholars. Because such collections contain many rare and valuable materials, use is almost exclusively confined within the library buildings. Such libraries often publish scholarly studies of materials in their collections, sponsor lectures, and arrange exhibitions of their most important holdings. Academic Libraries College and university libraries, such as the Bodleian Library in Oxford, differ from research libraries in their need to serve readers with various levels of expertise, and in their responsibility to support the teaching and research programmes of their institutions. They usually obtain most of their financial support from the parent institution. Public Libraries Public libraries attempt to meet a wide variety of readers’ needs. In addition to traditional literature, their collections contain social services information, reference works, phonograph records and CDs, and recreational books and films. Many public libraries sponsor lectures, group discussions, dramatic, musical, or film presentations, and exhibitions. Services to children may include storytelling and even provision of toys and games. Public libraries also provide reading machines and audiotapes for blind people, and large-print books for visually impaired people. Material in the libraries can usually be borrowed without charge, although some charge may be made for films or CDs, for example. School Libraries Like academic libraries, school libraries support the curricula of their parent institutions. They also provide extra-curricular books to encourage the development of reading skills. Many provide a variety of audio, visual, and electronic media. Special Libraries Some countries have special libraries which are designed to serve specific professional needs. Most are an integral part of businesses, corporations, organizations, and institutions, the employees or clients of which require the services of these libraries in the course of their work. Members of staff of a special library are usually trained in appropriate subject areas as well as in library science. History of Libraries Libraries, as repositories for written records, began where writing itself began—in the Middle East between 3000 and 2000 bc. Libraries of Antiquity The oldest libraries were those of the Sumerians, housing clay tablets inscribed with business and legal records in cuneiform. Their libraries were destroyed by earthquakes and fires, but great numbers of the clay tablets survive in museums today. The first Egyptian library, containing 20,000 papyrus scrolls, was founded by Ramses II in 1250 bc. The greatest library of the ancient world, however, was that established by the Greeks in Alexandria in the 3rd century bc. A centre of learning for the entire Hellenistic world, it consisted of a museum, a library of 700,000 rolls on papyrus or linen, and facilities for copying and translating texts in many languages. By the 1st century bc, wealthy Romans began to develop private libraries of Greek and Latin works; with the growing demand for books, copying businesses and bookshops developed, and libraries for the public were established. By the 2nd century ad, such libraries had been established in Rome. Libraries of the Middle Ages Many scientific and mathematical texts were copied and preserved by Muslim scholars in the 8th and 9th centuries. Their adoption of Chinese methods of papermaking lowered the cost of books and facilitated their dissemination throughout the Muslim Empire. By the 10th century, for example, Cordoba, Spain, had a library of 400,000 books. In Western Europe, literature was preserved in monastic libraries such as those of St Gall in Switzerland, Lindisfarne in England, and Fulda in Germany. Each had its scriptorium, a room especially for writing, in which monks produced manuscript copies of classical and religious works. These libraries were enriched with previously unknown classical and scientific works brought back as spoils from the Crusades of the 10th and 11th centuries. The rise of universities in Salerno and Bologna, Italy, as early as the 11th century also stimulated the development of library collections for students and scholars. The 14th century, despite such catastrophes as the Hundred Years’ War and the plague, was a notable period for the establishment of European libraries. In France, Charles V began a collection that formed the basis of the French Royal Library; in England, Richard of Bury, bishop of Durham, described in Philobiblon his method of book collecting; in Italy, the followers of humanism began to copy and collect long-neglected classical texts. From the Renaissance to the 19th Century With the invention of printing in the 15th century and an expanding economy, books became more readily available and reading increased. During this period the Vatican Library in Rome was expanded, an important private collection by the French bibliophile Jean Grolier was built, and the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence, Italy, was developed to house the Medici collection. Western collections benefited from the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453 and the resultant dispersal of Byzantine literary treasures. During the 17th and 18th centuries, national libraries began to be established throughout Europe. The library at the University of Oxford was firmly established by the English scholar and diplomat Sir Thomas Bodley, who arranged for copies of all books printed in England to be deposited there. Learned societies, such as the Royal Society of London, founded in 1660, set up specialized collections for research. The first academic library in the United States was founded in 1638 by the English clergyman John Harvard with a bequest of 300 books to the college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which became Harvard University. A new form of library was also developed, the lending library of popular literature, operated for profit by booksellers and patronized by a large clientele. The first public library, supported by government and designed for the education of the masses, was begun in Manchester, Great Britain, about 1850. Acquisitions Acquisitions departments of libraries obtain materials from a variety of sources: publishers, book wholesalers, and second-hand book dealers. British copyright deposit libraries, such as the Bodleian in Oxford and the National Library of Scotland, are entitled to receive a copy of every book published in the British Isles. Gifts are another source, particularly essential to rare book and historical collections. Cataloguing When material arrives, it is sent to the catalogue department, which determines how the work will be described in the catalogue and where it will be located in the collection. The catalogue descriptions are then prepared, and the material is marked with the library’s name and an identification number or code. For leading material, labels or card pockets are affixed. An indication is made in the library catalogue that the material is available, and the newly acquired item is placed in its proper location. Much of the work of technical services is of a clerical nature. Record keeping, ledger notations, unpacking, typing, marking, and shelving can be done by clerks or, in academic libraries, by students. The cataloguing process, however, is a highly skilled operation and is usually performed by professionally trained librarians. Online public access catalogues are the automated equivalent of the card catalogue, intended to provide efficient access to a library’s holdings while reducing much of the manual work of the traditional card catalogue. Online catalogues provide additional searching possibilities for the users but are still somewhat hampered by the incompleteness of the data included. Such systems can communicate with one another about which materials are held in other libraries and use the computer to borrow various materials from many other libraries through interlibrary loan systems. Binding and Preservation In addition to acquiring and cataloguing library material, technical services sections are also responsible for the physical preparation and preservation of materials. Since World War II, libraries have become increasingly aware of the problem of deterioration of paper and books. Libraries must decide which materials require special handling and treatment to prolong their useful lives. They must then select bindings, wrapping materials, methods of storage, and heating and lighting systems that will contribute to the preservation of these materials. Where important materials are extremely fragile, the library may photograph the contents and thus preserve them on microfilm, microfiche, or in electronic formats. Reference Services Reference work for a librarian is the process of helping users find information; it is one of the professional public services, demanding skill in communication, familiarity with information sources, and a wide general knowledge. In recent years, reference librarians have tried to anticipate users’ questions and to respond to recurring queries by preparing guides, flyers, signs, and audio-visual presentations to aid library users. In academic institutions, reference librarians offer courses in bibliographic instruction, library use, and research methodology. As the computer has changed the forms of the library catalogues, reference librarians have found themselves increasingly involved in helping users with these tools. During most of the 20th century, library catalogues consisted of drawers filled with printed or typed cards. Catalogues are now on microfilm, on microfiche, in book form, and on the computer terminal. A whole new subfield of reference librarianship has developed rapidly in the last decade in the form of database searching, with librarians helping users by searching the commercially and publicly developed databases of bibliographic information about materials in a great variety of fields. Originally devoted largely to the sciences, such automated databases now embrace a comprehensive array of subject fields. The cost of these searches, whether covered by the library or the user, is often offset by the great efficiency. Circulation Computers have also increased the reliability of lending records. The traditional card found in the book pocket inside a book for loan has given way to encoded labels on the book and on the reader’s identification card that are read and recorded by optical scanners. Other methods of automation for circulation and inventory control were being tested and implemented in the mid-1980s. Library Buildings Library buildings have changed over the centuries in response to five major influences: the form in which information is recorded, the nature of the library’s use and readership, technological developments in both architecture and librarianship, the availability of funds, and recognition of traditional architecture as part of the cultural heritage. The Oldest Structures Roman libraries, open to a wider public than the ones in Alexandria and at Pergamum in Asia Minor, usually contained a single large reading room, ornately decorated and lined with shelves for scrolls and codices (bound volumes of manuscripts, the progenitors of books). In the Middle Ages, European libraries were usually housed in monasteries, universities, or, in a few instances, royal households. Books were commonly kept in cupboards or on shelves and were read at counters, at study cubicles, or in alcoves near windows. Since manuscripts were rare and costly to produce, they were often chained to the wall or desk. With the spread of printing and literacy from the 1400s onwards, libraries expanded their reading areas and developed storage systems. Large halls, richly decorated, housed both readers and books or manuscripts. In some libraries, bookshelves or cabinets were arranged in tiers around this central room and were reached by ladder or balcony. Readers sat in stalls and at desks in the grand halls. 19th Century Developments. Drastic changes in library building took place in the 19th century. With the emergence of a large literate public and an enormously expanding stock of books and newspapers, libraries had to extend their storage capacities. Free-standing bookcases furnished with metal shelves became common. Until the early 20th century, readers in larger libraries were accommodated in decorated, fairly large, central reading rooms furnished with rows of long tables and simple wooden chairs. In the larger libraries, smaller rooms housed specialized collections. Contemporary Library Design Today, library buildings are constructed so that they can be easily expanded or modified to accommodate changes in collections, formats, and user needs, including those of users with disabilities. The rapid expansion of information technology since World War II has forced libraries to consider new methods of storage such as compact movable shelving, the microfilming of bulky or deteriorating materials, and the relegation of less-used materials to storage. Library Automation Importance of Library Public Library Library catalog Scavenger Hunt Library INRW Library an Internet Library and Its Uses Library System: ) Library System Library System Essay Topics: Library System Sorry, but copying text is forbidden on this website. If you need this or any other sample, we can send it to you via email. Please, specify your valid email address

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No More Flashcards: Lingua.ly Brings Personalized Language-Learning to Life Danica Smithwick Lingua.ly Cofounder Jan Ihmels pitches at the education semifinals at Challenge Festival 2014. (Photo by Dan Swartz) This Edtech Startup Is Scoring in the Top Percentile Jan Ihmels initially created Lingua.ly as a resource for personal use. Little did he know, the product would eventually become a business serving hundreds of thousands of people around the world. With a background in computational science, Ihmels has worked in physics and genomics most of his life, moving around quite a bit along the way. He grew up in Germany, but he has lived and worked in the U.S., the U.K., Russia and Israel. “I had a very practical need to engage with language learning, and I always liked linguistics as a field,” the CEO and cofounder said. “For people with a passion for languages, the web represents the perfect playground—unlimited content in almost any language imaginable.” Ihmels had been surfing the web in foreign languages for a while, but it was a demanding process—reading foreign materials to keep up language skills, looking up words he didn’t know, making flashcards and remembering to review them. Now many of these features are part of Lingua.ly, which Ihmels cofounded in 2011. “The obvious solution was to build a tool to make (language learning) more efficient,” Ihmels said. “It started as a tool for personal use. Only later did we think of this as a personal business.” Lingua.ly exposes users to newspaper articles from the foreign press, and those articles are selected by algorithms which match them to a learner based on vocabulary. It’s all authentic content written for native speakers. Ihmels’ inspiration for Lingua.ly actually came from his Ph.D. project, which looked at proteins in the human genome and inspired Ihmels to adapt the algorithm for language. On a map of every word in a particular language, Lingua.ly monitors the words with which the learner interacts. In August 2013, the team launched a Google Chrome browser extension that incorporated the algorithm. But what makes Lingua.ly different? According to Meredith Cicerchia, director of communications and e-learning, it is the way that Lingua.ly personalizes content to the learner’s interests and needs. “Duolingo, for example, is one of our competitors, and they teach identical sets of words to every user,” Cicerchia said. “But with Lingua.ly, the idea is that if you work in shipping or hospitality, or let’s say you are learning English so you can get a technical degree at a foreign university, your vocabulary is and should be very different.” Similarly, Cicerchia says that many classes and textbooks don’t offer efficient methods because the user is missing from the equation. When learning a language, it is important to study vocabulary that is relevant to you so you can interact with people and describe your everyday life. With Lingua.ly, users are building their own personal dictionary, and the program reminds them to review their words later so they can better retain the information. Learners should already know 90 percent of the words in any given article, and 10 percent of the words will be new. Cicerchia said users feel good when they read inside the program because they recognize a lot of words and they understand what they’re reading, but they’re being challenged without feeling overwhelmed. “A lot of our users say that Lingua.ly is like a breath of fresh air or a present that they can give themselves after they’ve spent some time studying grammar, because it’s fun,” Cicerchia said. “They’re reading about whatever happens to come into their feed based on the words they’re studying. So they’re getting a language workout, and yet it doesn’t feel like work.” Before April 2014, when the company launched its Android app, Lingua.ly had a fairly small user base. In one year, though, they have accumulated several hundred thousand users. Most users take advantage of all three platforms—mobile, Chrome browser extension and web app—because their vocabulary is cloud-synced. Challenge Festival Lingua.ly competed in last year’s Tel Aviv Challenge Cup and won in the education category. Cicerchia and Ihmels traveled to D.C. to pitch at the inaugural Challenge Festival. During the week, the team members didn’t just sit in a room practicing their pitch—they went out and talked to people, which is what they recommend other participating entrepreneurs do this year. They attended as many events as they could—even ones unrelated to education. If attendees come prepared with a pitch, they can take advantage of the full schedule, learn a lot and have productive conversations. “Every time Jan gave his pitch, it got less technical,” Cicerchia said. “Make sure that from the beginning, everyone can engage and understand. Start off with a problem that everyone can understand.” Challenge Festival also offered Lingua.ly a strategic opportunity: Because the Tel Aviv-based platform operates in almost every other country, the Lingua.ly team did not focus on bringing it to the U.S. until their trip to D.C. Talking about funding education in the U.S. allowed some insight into what they needed to do to appeal to American teachers and school districts. During the trip, 1776 helped Lingua.ly make several connections that proved beneficial even after the Festival ended. One of those connections was with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Last November, Lingua.ly went to an ACTFL conference to introduce their product to foreign language teachers from all across the nation. “They were thrilled with the product and couldn’t believe it was free,” Cicerchia said. “So they all brought back information for other teachers, and we had a massive jump in signups from the event—all thanks to 1776.” What’s next for Lingua.ly Helping teachers use Lingua.ly more in the classroom is the next immediate goal for the team. Foreign language teachers spend a lot of time looking for the right reading material that their students can easily engage with on individual levels. “Our algorithm does all that for them,” Cicerchia said. “It’s our goal to have a dashboard for teachers that keeps track of how the students are progressing and what kind of words they struggle with.” Instead of pushing language on them, students are able to choose content that will cater to their interests and learning levels. Cicerchia said that keeping Lingua.ly’s data doors open is important so students can bring words in and out of the program. Lingua.ly aims to be one piece of the puzzle in a healthy learning ecosystem, rather than the one app that all language learners use. Because Lingua.ly tracks users’ progress and reinforces words they are learning, Cicerchia says it is an essential part of the language learning toolkit for beginner, intermediate and fluent speakers. “We are the kind of platform that grows with the learner,” she said. “You never hit the advanced level where we run out of lessons for you. Even if you’re fluent, you can use our platform to maintain your language skills.” Want to hear more inspiring stories of international startups changing the world? Hear them in person at this year’s Challenge Festival! RSVP for the education semifinals, or buy a weeklong badge to get in on all of the action! As a member of 1776’s editorial team, Danica Smithwick spends her time telling stories and communicating with others. She is a Union University and Washington Journalism Center student who loves…

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This model shows the set designed by graduate students in an architecture seminar last fall. The set features some 150 pieces of surgical tubing that run vertically throughout the stage, as well as scaffolding along the back of the stage. Some 50 costumes are being made for the play's colorful collection of aristocrats, monks, military figures, peasants and other characters. Above left: Director Tim Vasen (third from left) works with cast members in rehearsal. From left, McCarter Theatre technical director Chris Nelson tests the tubing on stage with freshman Becca Foresman and senior Rory Weisbord. Above left: Princeton scholars Simon Morrison and Caryl Emerson are managing the "Godunov" world premiere project. Below left: Peter Westergaard is providing new music for a crucial dreamlike scene that composer Sergei Prokofiev did not complete. Bottom left: The 13-member cast plays some 60 different parts. In this scene rehearsal, (from left) freshman Adam Zivkovic portrays Dmitry the Pretender, junior Kelechi Ezie is a tavern hostess, and junior John Travis and sophomore Sam Zetumer play drunken monks. Web StoriesTo News Archive|« Previous by Date|Next by Date »Creative connections: 'Godunov' project driven by scholarly, artistic collaborations Posted March 5, 2007; 11:49 a.m.by Eric QuiñonesTweet e-mail From the March 5, 2007, Princeton Weekly Bulletin Honoring a legendary Russian director's unfulfilled vision for a classic tale of power and intrigue, an army of Princeton scholars and artists is working this semester to mount a world premiere production of "Boris Godunov." Bringing this new interpretation of the famed Russian play to the stage is a creative team with dozens of members from numerous disciplines, including faculty experts in Russian music and literature, seasoned music, theater and dance professionals, and student actors, singers, dancers, musicians and architects. The production is accompanied by several academic initiatives, including courses, an international symposium and a Firestone Library exhibition (see "By the numbers"). The Princeton premiere, which runs April 12-14 at the Berlind Theatre, is inspired by a version of Alexander Pushkin's 1825 historical play that was conceived by director Vsevolod Meyerhold but abandoned in the 1930s. Though Pushkin's play about the Russian tyrant is one of his most famous works, the full text of "Godunov" never has received a first-class staging in English. The Princeton production also will feature a new translation by Antony Wood as well as an original score by composer Sergei Prokofiev that was commissioned by Meyerhold but never has been used for a live performance of "Godunov." The project exemplifies Princeton's mission to enhance the role of the creative and performing arts on campus, which resulted last year in the establishment of the University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. The center is the major sponsor of the production, along with several departments and offices across campus. Tim Vasen, a lecturer in the Program in Theater and Dance who is directing "Godunov," said the scholarly and artistic collaborations are "unprecedented and completely extraordinary." "I really don't think this kind of thing could happen anywhere but at a university like Princeton. At least in this country, there is no theater company that has these resources to offer," Vasen said. "Back when Meyerhold was creating the original idea for this production, most theaters would have had their own orchestra and a large company of actors and dancers — that was normal, but now would be almost an absurd luxury. "For me, it's absolutely thrilling," he added. "I love collaboration, and I love learning about new areas of the world every time I do a play. This is a quantum leap in that regard, so I'm having a fantastic time." A multifaceted effort The "Godunov" project is managed by Simon Morrison, an associate professor of music who has tracked down lost scores and choreographies by Prokofiev and other artists, and Caryl Emerson, chair of the Slavic languages and literatures department and a leading authority on Pushkin's play (see "From dissertations to collaborations"). It is a collaboration between the University and the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art. The play is accompanied by several initiatives in this multifaceted project. In addition to their rehearsals six times a week, student cast members are participating in a course led by Vasen and Michael Cadden, director of the Program in Theater and Dance. Emerson is teaching two courses — one for undergraduates and one for graduate students — on Pushkin, Meyerhold and Prokofiev. She and Morrison also are leading an alumni studies course focused on the production. A Firestone Library exhibition devoted to the project will open April 1. An international symposium on Pushkin, Prokofiev and Russian theater is slated for April 12-14 to coincide with the premiere. "This is something that no members of the cast have ever experienced," said freshman Nadia Talel. "It's a different type of theater, it's a play in which many of us get to play different genders and different roles, and it's something the University has been working on for a long time. One of the best things about this production is it's so interdepartmental," said Talel, whose roles will include the patriarch (who encourages Godunov's ascension to the Russian throne), a lady at a party, an old woman and a Polish gentleman named Sobanski. "Professor Emerson comes every Friday to our seminar and gives us a lot of history and background," she added. "This is a culture and time period with which many of us are unfamiliar, and we get a lot of different perspectives from the people working on it." Pushkin's play dramatizes Godunov's rise to power, his increasingly tyrannical reign as czar from 1598 to 1605 and the challenge to his throne by Dmitry the Pretender, who claimed to be a son of Ivan the Terrible. For political as well as dramatic reasons, Pushkin's play was not approved for performance until 1866 and then was adapted into an opera by composer Modest Musorgsky between 1869 and 1874. Meyerhold, who became a seminal figure in modern theater through his innovative productions, attempted to stage "Godunov" in 1924-25 and in 1936 but abandoned his efforts in the face of Stalinist Soviet politics. He was arrested on fabricated charges of treason in 1939 and shot a year later. Prokofiev's score was written for Meyerhold's production in 1936, when the composer "was in top form," according to Morrison. The University Orchestra, which will perform in the April production under the direction of Michael Pratt, presented the North American premiere of this score in concert in December as a preview. "The music needs the play," Morrison said. "Prokofiev intended it as an acoustic lining and filter for Pushkin's spoken words." Student singers from the University Glee Club, conducted by Richard Tang Yuk, will serve as the choir for the Princeton production. "The 'above and beyond the call of duty' involvement of the two conductors, Michael Pratt and Richard Tang Yuk, is crucial to this project, which comprises a true synthesis of the musical with the verbal and visual," Morrison said. "Coordination and timing are everything." Emerson said the Princeton project benefits from the interdisciplinary partnerships and the experience of previous theatrical adaptations at the University, as well as technological advances since Pushkin wrote the play and Meyerhold planned his production a century later. Both the playwright and director also knew that their visions for the politically charged production could not be realized in their times. "Pushkin's play features monks — and drunken monks at that — as well as the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, and Pushkin knew that the imperial censorship did not permit the portrayal of ecclesiastics on stage. He dreamed of a kind of production that technically and physically and politically couldn't have happened in his time," Emerson said. "I think Pushkin would have adored the Princeton production." While they are working from Meyerhold's extensive notes on his concept of the production, the members of Princeton's creative team have more flexibility in exploring the historical period that led to Russia's "Time of Troubles," Emerson noted. "The Russian audience for whom Meyerhold directed knew Pushkin by heart, so it was impossible to leave something out. Indeed, omitting lines and scenes would actually draw attention to them, since Pushkin's words are part of the inner soundscape of Russian speakers," she said. "Americans in 2007 do not carry around that equipment. These risks are marvelous ones to confront — the actors, set designers, musicians and producers really are free." 'Intellectual firepower' Vasen said both Emerson and Morrison have been essential in "helping me to understand the artistic impulses behind the writing, the music and the direction. It is a production deeply rooted both in historical Russia and the Russia of the 1930s. I knew very little about that, and they have been fantastic guides in helping me to understand where this play came from and where the music came from and how it all goes together. "Caryl brings history to life like nobody I've ever worked with. Everything in the play is based on detailed historical research Pushkin did. There is a back story to every character, even somebody who appears in the play for two lines, and Caryl knows that back story. That is incredibly helpful because even though the audience is not necessarily going to be able to get all of that, it will make the experience that much richer for the student actors and for all of us," he said. Cadden, who is serving as the production's dramaturg, added, "We wanted to take advantage of the intellectual firepower we have here at Princeton. We feel fortunate to be the beneficiary of their lives' work as scholars." These creative collaborations suffuse every aspect of the production. Because existing recordings are either incomplete or inaccurate, the Princeton team is working with the archival manuscript of Prokofiev's score. For one scene that Prokofiev did not complete, Princeton composer Peter Westergaard is providing new music. Westergaard, an emeritus professor of music, is paraphrasing authentic Russian liturgical chants to create a supernatural musical backdrop for a crucial dreamlike scene, in which the young monk Grigory Otrepiev begins his transformation into Dmitry the Pretender to challenge Godunov for Russia's throne. Vasen said, "I'm working with a great living composer, a great composer from 100 years ago, a great writer from 200 years ago and amazing history from 400 years ago." For the production's main dance scene, students will perform two traditional Polish pieces: a polonaise, which is a stately, procession-like dance; and a mazurka, which is a lively folk dance. Choreographer Rebecca Lazier, associate head of dance, said she is excited about trying to infuse these traditional dances with a more modern flair. "Tim's vision for the production is really wanting to find ways to do it for today, for this audience and this time," Lazier said. Lazier said that, similar to the 2005 Princeton production of the lost Russian ballet "Pas d'Acier," the "Godunov" project "is a true immersion into another world. That's part of the gift of it — to be able to take the time to submerge myself in the history, in the literature, in the ideas, in all the layers that go into the production. One of the challenges about this production, as it is the world premiere, is how to invigorate the aesthetic with a sense of contemporary life." "The process will very much be with the dancers," she said. "There are prescribed steps of how a polonaise and a mazurka are defined. So it will be about taking that prescription, taking those ideas and playing with them for hours to find variations and new versions. Can I find a new version that is a lift, a jump or a turn? That's how I imagine bringing my own contemporary aesthetic to this work." In outfitting the "Godunov" cast, Catherine Cann, costume shop manager in theater and dance, also is working to balance Meyerhold's vision with the need to appeal to a modern audience. She has consulted with Vasen, Emerson and Morrison to better understand the history of the play and Meyerhold's artistic inspiration. "There are many different worlds in the play, and the idea is to help the audience understand why those worlds are important and how they relate to each other — especially in this case, because we're trying to do this through the eyes of Meyerhold and to bring a new perspective to historical events," Cann said. "That does come across in clothes — in how much fabric people wear or what colors they're wearing." Cann also studied the costumes from Musorgsky's operatic version of "Godunov," which Meyerhold disliked, to determine "what bothered him about it and why he thought it was so vile." Cann said, "In the opera, the costumes are re-enacting history to visualize the events as accurately as humanly possible. In the Pushkin play, and in our production, we are using costumes to depict character and stature so that our contemporary audience will understand the history." Emerson added that this concept "is perfect for a play about a pretender to the throne in a culture that believed in external 'signs' for everything." Because each cast member plays several parts — some 50 costumes will have to be made — Cann is designing a "worker-like" base costume for each actor, from which they can quickly transform into aristocrats, monks, military figures, peasants or other characters. "We're actually making more costumes than we have for other theater productions, partly because of their stylized nature," she said. The play's action — 25 scenes, each in a different location — will take place on a set designed by students as part of a graduate seminar last fall led by Jesse Reiser, an associate professor of architecture, in partnership with Vasen. Five of the seminar's 15 students are working this spring to help build the unusual set, which features some 150 pieces of surgical tubing that run vertically throughout the stage, attached to tracks in the floor. The tubes can be pulled together or apart, and actors can climb them as well. "The set creates the most flexible, dynamic environment we could imagine for this play," Vasen said. "It's a jungle gym, with all the playfulness that implies. I think it'll also be better able to tell the story than a more realistic set — one with walls and doors that look like Russia. Even if we'd wanted to go that route, there are way too many locations to illustrate. We'll be able to project supertitles and images that will give the very concrete sense of place our audience will need to know what's going on, while staying true to Meyerhold's insights about the power of abstraction and theatricality." Vasen said the set, like so many elements of the production, was "the result of a bunch of different people bringing ideas to the table and synthesizing them down to a few really simple, really dynamic things." "It was kind of scary in some ways because there was a long period of time that we didn't even know if there was going to be a set because they couldn't put it all together," Vasen said. "But it does what I wanted it to do, which requires a very physical production." Tickets can be purchased by visiting the McCarter Theatre Center box office, calling (609) 258-ARTS or visiting the McCarter website. For more information, visit the "Godunov" project website. 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» A library how-to-do-it manual for disaster planning, response and recovery Send via email Print Cite A library how-to-do-it manual for disaster planning, response and recovery Download Images (Click for full-size) "Library as Safe Haven: Disaster Planning, Response, and Recovery; A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians" "Disaster Response and Planning for Libraries, Third Edition" "Ecology, Economy, Equity: The Path to a Carbon-Neutral Library" Rob Christopher ALA Publishing [email protected] CHICAGO — Libraries have always played a special role in times of disaster by continuing to provide crucial information and services. The Stafford Act of 2011, a federal government directive, designates libraries as among the temporary facilities delivering essential services, making a Continuity of Operations Plan imperative for libraries. “Library as Safe Haven: Disaster Planning, Response, and Recovery; A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians,” published by ALA Neal-Schuman, is a nuts-and-bolts resource that enables libraries of all kinds to do their best while planning for the worst. Deborah D. Halsted, Shari C. Clifton and Daniel T. Wilson pepper their manual with informative first-person narratives from librarians recounting emergency situations, covering such topics as: an eight-step approach to developing a risk assessment plan; how to draft a one-page service continuity plan; information on how to use mobile devices and social media effectively in times of disaster; sample checklists, model exercises, customizable communications and a compendium of additional resources. Halsted has over 30 years of professional library experience, primarily in academic medical libraries. It was after severe flooding in the Texas Medical Center Library in Houston caused by Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 that she became involved in disaster planning and recovery. In 2005 she coauthored “Disaster Planning: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians” based on her personal experiences. She has remained active in disaster planning, especially in extensive training in the National Incident Management System Incident Command System. Clifton has been a health science librarian for more than 20 years and is currently professor/head of reference and instructional services at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center's Robert M. Bird Library in Oklahoma City. An active participant in professional organizations at the state, regional and national levels, she has held a variety of elected/appointed positions and has presented numerous papers, posters and programs at professional meetings. She is a distinguished member of the Medical Library Association's Academy of Health Information Professionals. Wilson is the associate director for Collections and Library Services at the University of Virginia Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Since the summer of 2007, he has served as the coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) National Emergency Preparedness and Response Initiative. In that role, he coordinates the emergency preparedness and response activates of the network and regularly facilitates workshops designed to bring together emergency planners and the library community to discuss roles and plan partnerships. ALA Store purchases fund advocacy, awareness and accreditation programs for library professionals worldwide. Founded in 1976 by Patricia Glass Schuman and John Vincent Neal, Neal-Schuman Publishers, now an imprint of ALA Publishing, publishes professional books for librarians, archivists, and knowledge managers. Contact us at (800) 545-2433 ext. 5052 or [email protected]. Publications, ALA Publishing, ALA Neal-Schuman

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Great Arab Revolt Project 2007 Nov 29, 2007 World Features After a remarkably successful season in 2006 GWAG, with its team of 25, are returning to further uncover the archaeological sites of the latter stages of the 1st World War and the Arab Revolt along the Hejaz Railway in Jordan. Ma'an, with its beautifully preserved German-inspired trench systems, will remain a focus of research, whilst the excavations in Wadi Rutm will be expanded to include the railway station at Batn Al Ghoul and the demolished Turkish defences on the escarpment that towers above both. A challenge just getting up there in itself! We will also seek to identify, plot and excavate the battlefield site at the village of Abu Al Lissan – the site made so famous in David Lean's classic film and documented in T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. This site has never been properly identified, much less surveyed or excavated, before. Pre-dig info Advance party has been there for a couple of days now. Everything sounds good, although there are apparently no internet facilities in the hotel. The good news is the Jordanian Department Of Antiquities have promised us access via the university at Petra, which means this blog looks like it will actually happen and be updated live every day from tomorrow onwards. Exciting stuff! A forward party comprising of Neil Faulkner, David Thorpe, David and Angie Hibbitt flew to Jordan on Friday 26 October 2007, arriving at Wadi Musa in the early hours of Saturday morning. Their remit was to prepare for the remainder of the party, who would join us in three days time. This year the Project is fortunate in having the assistance of two lecturers from the Al-Hussein Bin Talal University (Zeyad Al-Salameen and Mansour Shqiarat) as well as Jeyad Kafafi, a Curator at the Jordan Museum. All three will be contributing their expertise and knowledge and will be working on site as part of the team. The University has also kindly agreed to loan the Project a Total Station which will be huge asset to the surveying team. The two Dave’s spent some time on Monday acquainting themselves with this equipment while Neil, Zeyad and Angie went to Ma’an to meet with Mansour and Hani Falahat, who is the Inspector of Antiquities for the Ma’an region. Hani worked closely with us last year and we are pleased to resume our working relationship with him. A site visit followed at the Hajj Fort of Fassu-oh, which is approximately 60km south of Ma’an. The fort is one of a series of Ottoman installations and protected the watering place which was later used to supply water to the Aqabat-Hejaz railway station. We spent some time carefully exploring the fort which is largely intact but has been subjected to some digging by treasure hunters. The fort is isolated, lying at the bottom of a Wadi, surrounded by hills. There are two water reservoirs adjacent, typical of the type found elsewhere in Southern Jordan. The site is ripe for further investigation. A check of the over looking hills revealed two possible observation posts and two trenches. We also visited the site of the Aqabat-Hejaz Station, which is roughly 2km east of Fassu-oh. There some standing building remains here, as a well as a water reservoir which may have had a building on top of it. There also appeared to be a later addition of a fortified wall around these station buildings. These are both exciting new sites that add to our growing knowledge and understanding of the activities of those involved in the Great Arab Revolt in this area. Visiting Jordan 0 Visiting Pompeii 3 ReviewsThe Lod MosaicAfter the Ice: exhibiting life at Star CarrRievaulx Abbey Copyright 2016 Current Publishing / All rights reserved

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Esther Cepeda: For first generations, few miracles Twenty-one years ago this month, my parents drove 332 miles to drop me off at a college campus none of us had ever set foot on. Amazingly -- and despite many fears -- two strict, traditionally minded immigrant parents packed off their only daughter to a far-away university to become the family’s first college graduate. I can hardly believe the series of miracles that had to occur to get me there. And miracles are what most first-generation college students require to overcome their nearly impossible barriers to a university education. Or so I learned from one of the most dismal movies I’ve seen, “First Generation,” a 2011 documentary about four high school students who struggle to get into college, shows what happens when those miracles don’t come through. Adam and Jaye Fenderson, the film’s directors, tell a compelling composite story of how difficult it is for low-income students to even decide to go to college, much less successfully navigate the application and financial aid process. The beauty of the Fendersons’ casting choices is that the students -- an inner-city athlete, a small-town waitress, a Samoan folk dancer, and the daughter of migrant field workers -- are about as far from stereotypes as you can get. These students are much like most other high-schoolers who dream about college. Some are top scholars, while others are middling, at best. They go to work, participate in afterschool clubs, and excel at sports. Some have warm, loving families and others barely speak to their parents -- if they have them in their lives at all. Each experiences the painful dissonance of having loved ones who are at times nominally encouraging about college and then, moments later, guilt-trip them about being left behind at home. But their biggest fears are about money. And the directors show us, in harsh terms, the reality of how low-income families worry about how to pay for an education. Without family members or friends who have graduated from college available to help, a university is a mystical, far-away place. During one gut-wrenching scene, the mother of Keresoma, the hulking but sweetly gentle Samoan dancer, shows her puzzlement. “I don’t know how things go, if you have to have, like, how much the college?” she asks. “You have to have the whole amount at the same time? Is that it? I mean, I don’t know. But I’ll find a way.” Keresoma drops this frightening aside: “I have no money yet saved right now for college but this one guy is helping and, he say, uh, Massachusetts, um, Harvard University, they pay your way to college. So, that’s what I’m thinking of going.” The narrator, actor Blair Underwood, notes for the audience that with a 3.0 grade point average, such a highly selective school is unlikely. In several other instances we watch as students -- one with no home or parents, and two others with only a single mom to rely on -- are asked, in all seriousness, by their school’s guidance counselors if they could ask their families for the money to pay for college. One cluelessly told an orphaned student: “A lot of time family members can provide some money, too. Aunts and uncles, grandparents have saved some money (for college).” And those are just a few of the everyday tragedies detailed in “First Generation.” I hate to spoil the ending, but like 59 percent of low-income students who this documentary says are eligible for first-tier universities, none of our four protagonists makes it into either the college of their choice or one that’s a good fit for their academic abilities. This makes “First Generation” all the more important to see. A limited theatrical release, DVD and on-demand distribution are in the works but the film has already been screened nationwide at film festivals, universities, and nonprofits. It has been broadcast through closed-circuit TV at public schools across the country and on Capitol Hill for members of the White House, Congress and the Department of Education. If you care about making college more accessible for low-income students, keep your eye out for this film or, better yet, act on its plea: Tutor/mentor a student, provide an internship, speak in a classroom, and give to nonprofits, scholarship funds, afterschool programs, and college prep organizations. Esther Cepeda’s email address is [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter, @estherjcepeda. Washington Post Writers Group

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L - Personal and family papers archive DescriptionInformation on the laboratory at the Biomolecular NMR facility at the University of Birmingham. Laboratory Services - Tests A - I Language processing lab facilities DescriptionLanguage processing lab facilities in the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham Lapworth Lectures - Lapworth Museum of Geology - University of Birmingham DescriptionEducation The museum is used regularly by schools, colleges and adult education groups. Activities, including hands-on sessions, can be arranged to suit specific topics and requirements. Loan sets of fossils, minerals and rocks are available for educational use. If you would like to discuss your requirements and how we can help you, please contact the museum. Lapworth Lectures The Lapworth Lectures take place on certain evenings during University term time. These lectures on popular geological subjects are aimed at students, the general public and amateur enthusiasts. For dates and details of the lectures contact the museum. There is no charge for admission to the Lapworth Lectures. Lapworth lectures (for RSS feed) Lapworth Museum of Geology to reopen DescriptionThe long-awaited reopening of the Lapworth Museum of Geology at the University of Birmingham will take place this Friday (10 June), following the refurbishment of the building and installation of new exhibits. Lapworth Museum redevelopment project - Lapworth Museum of Geology DescriptionThe Lapworth Museum of Geology at the University of Birmingham has been awarded a Heritage Lottery Fund Development grant of £130,000 to progress plans to apply for a full grant for a major redevelopment project to create a significantly improved visitor experience and widen its access to young people, the public, and schools. Lapworth Museum secures Arts Council England funding DescriptionThe Lapworth Museum of Geology has been successful in securing funding from Arts Council England (£58k). The funding will help the museum plan for the long-term use of its building and collections through effective business planning, marketing, and the development of a new revenue generation model. Lapworth redevelopment gathers pace with latest grant announcement DescriptionThe redevelopment of the University of Birmingham's Lapworth Museum of Geology has taken another leap forward with the news that the project has received a £100,000 grant from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Wolfson Foundation.

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Meryl Streep to create 2 scholarships for UMass Lowell students - The Boston Globe Meryl Streep to create 2 scholarships for UMass Lowell students Actress Meryl Streep will create two scholarship funds for students at the University of Massachusetts Lowell when she visits the school next month, campus officials announced Wednesday.The Meryl Streep Endowed Scholarship Fund will help English majors pay for their education. Streep will also establish the Joan Hertzberg Endowed Scholarship to support students who excel in mathematics, officials said. The scholarship is named after Streep’s former classmate at Vassar College who transferred to Williams College and went on to become valedictorian of the college’s first graduating class that included women.Hertzberg later earned a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and had a successful career as a therapist, author and teacher in the San Francisco area before she died in October. Streep is scheduled to discuss her five-decade-long acting career at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell on Feb. 5 during an event called “A Conversation with Meryl Streep,” officials said. UMass Lowell English professor and bestselling author Andre Dubus III will moderate the talk with the Academy Award winner, and Streep is also expected to answer questions from the audience.Co-sponsored by the university’s English Department, Theatre Arts Program and College of Fine Arts, it will be the second event of the university’s “Chancellor’s Speaker Series,” school officials said. The first talk featured author Stephen King and raised about $100,000 for a scholarship fund he established for UMass Lowell students.To learn more information about the event and to buy tickets, click here.Matt Rocheleau can be reached at [email protected]. Looking for more coverage of area colleges and universities? Go to our Your Campus pages.

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Friends, colleagues, students remember school band leader - The Boston Globe Friends, colleagues, students remember school band leader Fomer Dedham Middle School music teacher Donald Heald. By Dave Eisenstadter To his students, he was the favorite teacher who could make them learn while having fun. To his fellow musicians, he was the virtuoso who never ceased to amaze. To his family, he was the glue that held them together and brought them joy.Donald V. Heald, the former band director at Dedham Middle School and bass player at Skipjack’s Sunday jazz brunch in Boston, died at age 54 late last month after a long struggle with ALS. His wake earlier this month, however, was not the first gathering in celebration of his life. The Dedham Middle School community, with the help of Heald’s fellow performers, friends, and family, had organized fund-raisers to help him pay his medical bills.Before one such event last spring, Heald was bedridden and understood he did not have long to live. But rather than focus on what was to come, he said he felt fortunate to experience the generosity of his many friends. “Throughout this whole ordeal, the way I have felt is that I just had so much support from so many people who have been so kind and giving,” Heald said at his West Roxbury home. “I feel like I’m being carried through this.” That attitude was typical of Heald, friends and family members said at the wake. He was able to find something good in any situation.The third of four children, Donald Heald grew up on Long Island, N.Y., in a house filled with music. His father played the clarinet and his mother played the trombone. Loud records were always on in the house, and it didn’t take long for Donald to catch on. His mother and aunt saw him standing up in his crib at age 1, shaking his rattle to the music.He got his first instrument in the fourth grade, a banged-up $25 baritone horn that he carried around in a corduroy case.“Everyone played something in our house; there was no other choice. It was, ‘What are you going to play?’ ” said his sister Jane, a cellist for the Fort Wayne Philharmonic in Indiana.Among friends growing up, Heald quickly got a reputation as a practical jokester as well as a truly talented musician. Playing in pit orchestras, he would put in huge rubber teeth and place fake mice on music stands, but he always turned in a solid performance. “Any instrument you gave him, he could play,” said Jerry Cannarozzo, who met Heald while playing in bands on Long Island. He recalled Heald picking up a bassoon for the first time and playing “Take the ‘A’ Train.” Applying to Hofstra University for music, there were no scholarships available for trombone players, so Heald learned the French horn. Tom Engel, a friend and French horn player, said Heald learned the instrument in three months and was soon playing better than he.The day Heald moved to the Boston area in 1996, he found musicians Bill and Bo Winiker in the Yellow Pages and asked Bill if there were any jobs available.It so happened that the brothers were desperate for a trombone player that night for a high- profile gig in Salem, but Bill had never heard of Heald. So he grilled Heald as hard as he could, asking him esoteric questions about the trombone and how to pay it. “He passed the test,” Winiker said, adding that he was great on stage. The Winiker brothers invited Heald to become an integral part of their organization. Heald wrote them a business plan and accompanied them on stage as a bass player for their jazz brunches at Skipjack’s in Boston.“To play alongside of Don, as my brother and I did hundreds of times, it was just pure joy,” Winiker said. “He was a master improviser, which are few and far between.”While he excelled as a musician, Heald’s true calling was teaching.“He was truly a Pied Piper to these kids,” Bill Winiker said. “If a kid didn’t have an instrument, he’d get him one, and with Don’s personality, he made those bands unbelievable.”“His passion was contagious,” Jane Heald added.When he got sick, those who knew him would say his positive attitude became contagious, as well.Heald began going to school with one cane, then two. Gradually, he lost his ability to walk, use his arms, and eventually to eat and breathe on his own. After he retired in 2011, the middle school community rallied around him with fund-raisers in November 2011 and June 2012. The Winikers, Heald’s family, friends, and students performed at those events, with Heald holding back tears as he thanked every person who came up to him.Even after losing use of his hands, Heald continued to teach. Then eighth-grader Noah Littman visited Heald weekly to receive trombone lessons. Littman’s grandfather Dave Malek came along to prepare Heald a meal, and every so often brought out his harmonica to play along.As Heald described how he wanted his funeral to be performed, he was still able to add humor to the situation.“We pretty much get to the end and we’re all really sad, and he says, ‘And please don’t forget to put in my rubber teeth,’ ” Jane Heald said.Those teeth were placed beside him at the wake.Dave Eisenstadter can be reached at [email protected].

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Parenting classes to begin Communities in Schools (CIS) Incredible Years parenting classes are scheduled to start Jan. 31 at Saint Philip’s Church in Southport. Targeted for parents with children ages 5-12 years old, the program is free of charge and includes dinner. Participants will discuss topics such as praise and limit setting and learn when to ignore misbehavior. Role-playing and interactive games make the lessons fun and easy to incorporate into real world parenting situations. Local student pursues love of acting As a junior, West Brunswick High School senior Jon Hill of Shallotte, discovered his talent for portraying various characters. Since this discovery, his interest in school has peaked along with his self-esteem and desire to achieve. Since fall of 2009, he has displayed his acting skills in several school plays and took part in a promotion for a national corporation. Save Our Community has Emancipation Day event The Save Our Community (SOC) organization of Southport hosted its 19th annual Emancipation Day program at Friendship Baptist Church on Jan. 1. Norman Jones, master of ceremonies, opened the program by asking the audience to sing “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Pamela Ferguson of St. James AMEZ read the Scripture from Exodus 3:7-12. Norman Jones of New Hope Baptist prayed and Kyerra Kinsey of Friendship Baptist gave the welcome. Church to have fellowship dinner Harvest Outreach Assembly of God, 3000-4 George II Highway in Boiling Spring Lakes, will host a fellowship dinner beginning at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 21, at the church. Come join in for good food and fellowship. All are welcome...bring a friend. Grace Missionary sets services Grace Missionary Baptist Church, 340 Mulberry St. in Shallotte, has Sunday school at 10 a.m. and Sunday morning worship at 11 a.m. ‘The Gates of Hell: Rodin’s Passion in Stone’ is a real eye-opener Arline Boucher Tehan has aptly titled her book, “The Gates of Hell: Rodin’s Passion in Stone.” It is a detailed description of the life of an artist whose passion both emerged from and led to an anguish that was both hellish and heavenly. His work may have been cast in stone, but its effect on him and the world was, and is, both alive and lively. St. James has rifle, pistol club The St. James Rifle and Pistol Club, with 39 members, has conducted its major safety training under the guidance of NRA certified instructors Rob Jerome (rifle and pistol certification) and Bill Boston (shotgun certification). They have an ongoing safety training program that is mandatory for all members and a new course will begin in early February. The club has afforded all members the opportunity to fire various kinds of sporting and target firearms, including revolvers, semi-auto pistols, rifles and shotguns. Marsh-Proffitt engagement Announcement is made of the forthcoming marriage of Kara Marsh and Brendan Proffitt, both of San Diego, Ca. The bride-elect is the daughter of Dr. Charles and Bonnie Rogers of Tempe, Az., and Mr. and Mrs. John Marsh of Mesa, Az. The prospective groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Proffitt of Bolivia. An April 7, 2012, wedding is planned in San Diego, Calif. A weed you want in your landscape By TOM WOODS Butterfly weed is one weed you want in your landscape. It’s a butterfly magnet. The leaves are the preferred food source for the larvae of several species of butterflies, including Monarchs and the flowers provide nectar for both butterflies and hummingbirds. Get to know the Waccamaw River Blue Trail Looking for a pristine, quiet, secluded place to take a break? How about an adventure with the possibility of spotting common wildlife species such as black bear, deer, wild turkey or American alligator? If the answer is yes, then you need to explore the Waccamaw River, right here in Brunswick County. Blanketing your water heater saves energy By Melissa Hight This winter has been unusually cold and most of us have received our recent electric bills—not a pleasant experience. What can you do to reduce the amount of electricity you use year round? You can begin with adding a water heater blanket, even if the hot water heater is in a part of the house that is not subject to extreme weather. Click here to read more...

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Archive By Section - Education Home schoolers, others eligible for KCSD sports, more Home school, charter school and Governor's school students are now eligible to participate in public school sports and extracurricular activities during the 2012-2013 school year. Miciah KCSD to hold portion of budget The Kershaw County School District (KCSD) will lose $497,000 from the 2012-2013 school year budget due to the exclusion of a "hold harmless" provision from the state legislature's approved budget. Enrollment open for virtual public school South Carolina Connections Academy, a virtual public charter school serving students in grades K-12 from across South Carolina, is now open for enrollment. Connections Academy will host an information session Thursday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the AllStaff Occupational Health Services Meeting Facility, 2513 Broad St., in Camden. Public asked to join 'School Tools' For the past ten years, Kershaw County residents have helped provide school supplies for more than 2,000 local needy students through the School Tools program. In order to make it even more convenient for persons to participate this year, a special account has been set up at First Citizens Bank where donations can be dropped off or sent through the mail. New assistant principals at KCSD schools Three veteran Kershaw County School District teachers have been named as assistant principals for the 2012-13 school year while two other assistant principals will trade assignments. ATEC student earns school's first-ever national Poteat scholarship Applied Technology Education Campus (ATEC) Director Chet Horton congratulates Natalie Harris, a senior at Lugoff-Elgin High School, on becoming the first ATEC student ever to win a national scholarship from the National Technical Honor Society. Harris is one of only 125 students nationwide to receive a $1,000 Jon H. Poteat $1,000 scholarship. Instructor named SCCTEA Outstanding New Teacher of the Year Applied Technology Education Campus (ATEC) instructor Laura Marshall is the S.C. Career and Technical Education Association's (SCCTEA) 2012 Outstanding New Teacher of the Year. Godbold-Nash Memorial Scholarships presented Kershaw County's Kirsten Baker, of Lugoff-Elgin High School, and Kenneth Jamal Jackson, of Camden High School, received this year's annual Godbold-Nash Memorial Scholarship for 2012 school year. KCSD scholarship amounts double in five years Kershaw County School District's Class of 2012 earned more than $10.6 million dollars in scholarship money this year. More than double the figure from five years ago, said Superintendent Dr. Frank Morgan. Teachers learn from lumber plant tour near Camden Twenty-five teachers from around the state of South Carolina toured Canfor Southern Pine, formerly New South Lumber Company. The June 26 tour took place thanks to the S.C. Forestry Commission and S.C. Forestry Association. KCSD free/reduced price applications now online Applications for free and reduced price meals for the 2012-13 school year are now available online. School news - July 4, 2012 Crystal Noelle Johnson had reached the zenith of years of study when on the morning of May 18, she walked across the stage and received her doctor of medicine degree from the Medical University of South Carolina. It was the natural culmination of her life and years of dedication. NCHS announces fourth quarter honor rolls North Central High School has announced its honor rolls for the 4th Quarter. BDK named exemplary writing program school Baron DeKalb Elementary School (BDK) recently earned the Exemplary Writing Program Award. KCSD adult ed program reaches out to young adults Kershaw County School District is "changing the workforce landscape of Kershaw County" through its Adult Education program. June 22, 2012 Articles by Section - Education North Central Middle School announces first quarter honor roll

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Cincinnati professor nominated for Nobel dies By AMANDA LEE MYERS | December 21, 2012 | 8:33 PM EST This undated photo provided by the University of Cincinnati shows professor Elwood Jensen. Jensen, nominated several times for the Nobel Prize for his discovery of hormone receptors while at the University of Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s, died of pneumonia Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012. He was 92. (AP Photo/University of Cincinnati) CINCINNATI (AP) — Elwood Jensen, an award-winning University of Cincinnati professor nominated for the Nobel Prize for medicine for work that opened the door to advances in fighting cancer, has died of pneumonia. He was 92. Jensen died Sunday, the university announced Thursday. He was nominated multiple times for the Nobel Prize for his discovery of hormone receptors while at the University of Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s. Back then, Jensen focused on the impact breast tissue had on estrogen, whereas most other researchers were looking at how the hormone influenced tissue. At the time, the standard treatment for breast cancer was to take out the ovaries or adrenal glands, but after creating a way to radioactively tag estrogen, Jensen found that only a third of breast tumors carry estrogen receptors. The discovery allows doctors today to identify which patients will respond to anti-estrogen therapy and which need chemotherapy or radiation. The ground-breaking finding has helped doctors treat breast, thyroid and prostate cancer. Jensen was repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize and won dozens of awards for his work, including a Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, a prize that is considered America's Nobel. Dr. Sohaib Khan, a professor of cancer biology at Cincinnati and a friend of Jensen's, said Jensen's greatest disappointment in life was not winning the Nobel — he even brought it up during their last conversation about a week before his death. "He was talking about how fortunate he was to live a life like he has," Khan said. "But one qualm he had was that he did not get the Nobel Prize. He felt pretty strongly that he really deserved it, and most people in the field think exactly the same way." Nobel Prizes are not awarded post-humously. Khan called Jensen's work "monumental" and described the man as down-to-earth, humble, funny and always ready to tell an old story from his boxing days in college or when he climbed the 14,690-foot Matterhorn in the Alps in 1947. Jensen also worked to encourage young people to study science and stick with it, including current University of Cincinnati President Santa Ono. The two first met in 1980 when Elwood — by then already an icon in his field — was teaching at the University of Chicago and Ono was a freshman. Ono said that even though he wasn't his student, Elwood "was warm and gracious," spent more than an hour speaking to him about his interest in medical research and offered him advice he'll never forget. "I will forever be grateful for his encouragement of my career," Ono said in a statement. Jensen grew up in Springfield in western Ohio and graduated from Wittenberg College. He got his doctorate in organic chemistry at the University of Chicago. For the past 10 years, Jensen was a professor at the University of Cincinnati's department of cell biology, neurobiology and anatomy. He had been teaching at the university since 2002 after leaving the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, where he was the Nobel visiting professor. He is survived by his wife and two grown children, a daughter living in New Hampshire and a son living in Ecuador. A memorial service is tentatively set for Jan. 10 at the university's Vontz Center for Molecular Studies. Follow Amanda Lee Myers on Twitter at https://twitter.com/AmandaLeeAP Printer-friendly version

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You are viewing an archived issue. Vol. 5 Issue 12 December 2013 Looking for the current issue? About the Atheneum CCU Home CCU gets a new research vessel by Derrick Bracey CCU alumnus left his heart in South Carolina by Russell Alston Dr. Chill’s Arctic Adventure CCU alumnus Rick Simmons is the George K. Anding Endowed Professor of English at Louisiana Tech University. Of the five books Rick Simmons has published, two cover a subject familiar to many at Coastal Carolina University — Carolina beach music. Simmons, the George K. Anding Endowed Professor of English at Louisiana Tech University, fell in love with the music as a kid growing up in Florence and during summer vacations to Myrtle Beach. Those positive associations with beach music never waned for Simmons. “I love classic beach music, and I knew that not much had been published on the subject,” he says. “I thought it would be interesting to write about the stories behind some of the most popular beach music songs.” But Simmons focused on a different type of history at first. As a kid, he would hear adults talking about the rumors of Nazi U-Boats roaming the Intracoastal Waterway during World War II. At CCU, professors such as Charles Joyner nurtured his interest in the past of Horry County. In a history class taught by Joyner, Simmons wrote an assignment titled “Did German U-Boats Patrol the Grand Strand During World War II?” A few years later, he rewrote the paper and saw it published in Alternatives magazine in 1987, thus beginning his career as an author. “That was my first publication,” he says. One tiny detail would stall his burgeoning career as an author. Entering his final semester in the spring of 1983, Simmons needed just a few classes to graduate but was having some difficulties. “I was working full time and finding it hard to finish my degree while working,” he says. With the help of the late Professor Tom Trout, Simmons completed a couple of independent study courses, fulfilling his graduation requirements. He didn’t attend the ceremony, however, due to work. “I remember thinking I needed to pick up my diploma at some point but never did. I was young and because I thought I had a degree, I wasn’t as worried about it,” he says. That was until the early 1990s when he decided to pursue a master’s degree and a Ph.D. at the University of South Carolina.� “I applied to USC and listed what I thought was my date of graduation from Coastal. They got back to me and said Coastal noted I hadn’t completed the process,” he says. “Well, I went out to Coastal, got with professor Trout, and we got it straightened out, so I really graduated in 1992. I hadn’t been in a classroom for almost a decade at that point. Today it is really embarrassing that I let it go like that.” It’s safe to say that Simmons made up for the lost time. In 2007 he published his first book, “Factory Lives: Four 19th Century Working Class Autobiographies,” which originated from his Ph.D. studies in� British literature. Simmons says he still had some things about the Grand Strand to get out of his system, however. “It didn’t matter to me that I was an English professor writing about history, folklore or music – I wrote about what I felt compelled to write about.” His first book about the Grand Strand, “Defending South Carolina’s Coast: The Civil War from Georgetown to Little River,” was published in 2009. The book explores military events such as skirmishes at Fort Randall in Little River and naval assaults by Union soldiers on Murrells Inlet. A year later, Simmons reworked articles written for various magazines and and published “Hidden History of the Grand Strand.” That book addressed some of the local legends, such as the lost villages of La Grange and Lafayette, the U-Boat legends, and the illegal casino in the Ocean Forest Hotel. Having by then used “the old materials as much as I cared to,” Simmons decided to switch it up and return to his first love — beach music. He took a leap of faith and contacted some of the genre’s stars for interviews. “I emailed Brenton Wood, Charles Pope of the Tams and Sonny Turner of the Platters, hoping maybe one of them would write back,” he says. All three would eventually reply, but it was Turner who provided Simmons with the blueprint on how to really gather information. “Sonny asked me to call,” he says, “so I did and recorded our conversations. I realized that was the way to go. After that, I arranged as many personal interviews as possible, and those sessions resulted in the publication of ‘Carolina Beach Music: The Classic Years’ in 2011.” Simmons’ second book on beach music, “Carolina Beach Music from the 60’s to the 80’s: The New Wave,” was published this past spring. “I realized there were a lot more beach music songs to write about, and the artists weren’t getting any younger,” he says. Recently, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill asked Simmons to donate his interviews to its Southern Folklore Collection. “I told them I was honored and would think about it, but I have yet to make a final decision. I did make copies of all of the interviews, so I don’t need to hold onto the originals really. I’d rather see people use them for research. I mean, if you wanted to know what Freda Payne really thought about ‘Band of Gold,’ or just how much Meadowlark Lemon actually sang on ‘Rainy Day Bells,’ or why Jay Proctor of Jay and the Techniques didn’t like ‘Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie,’ isn’t it better to actually hear these people talk about it than look up second-hand information on the Internet?” Simmons is currently considering his next projects, such as a look into the history of North Island at Winyah Bay. Also, he would like to complete his beach music trilogy. “I want my final work in the series to be an encyclopedia/reference guide covering 500 songs.” A permanent move back to the Grand Strand would certainly help in achieving these goals, and it’s something he considers daily. “That would be a dream come true,” he says. “My wife and I are homesick every day of our lives. If the opportunity ever presented itself, I would love to come back to CCU and work there for a day – or forever.” Atheneum Home On Your Calendar News Shorts Your News Please keep your files under 5 MB. What is 2 + 5? (This will help us to fight spam) © 2016 Coastal Carolina University | P.O. Box 261954, Conway, SC 29528-6054 | 843-347-3161 Presented by the Office of University Communication

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Walden University Capella University American Intercontinental University Berkeley College Program Review Berkeley College provides its students with a hands-on approach to taking classes and establishing satisfying career goals. One of the school's mottos is: "From classroom to career...we're with you every step of the way!" Through professional programs, online academics, Bachelor's degrees and Associate's programs, Berkeley College aims to help students succeed at all levels and make education accessible. Traditional-age college students, adults wanting to return to school or begin their studies later in life, and international students are all welcome to take advantage of Berkeley College's many resources. Founded in 1931, Berkeley College recently celebrated its 75th anniversary of turning promising students into leaders. Today, Berkeley College offers classes online and at seven locations in New York and New Jersey, including two in Manhattan, and campuses in White Plains, NY, and Newark, Paramus, West Paterson and Woodbridge, NJ. Online programs offered at the Associate's level include Fashion Marketing and Management, Financial Services, Health Services Administration, Information Systems Management, International Business, Justice Studies - Criminal Justice, Management and Marketing. Additional Bachelor's level courses include Business Administration, General Business, and Management concentrations in Entrepreneurship and Human Resources. Extra online classes are offered in the following areas: math, liberal arts, sciences, English, and computer information systems. Berkeley College fosters relationships with the outside business community to connect students with internships, on-the-job training and contacts for post graduate opportunities. Online students remain connected through regular newsletters, student support services, academic advisors, the Distance Learning library and other resources.

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Business Week List of 'Books That Matter' Includes Work Co-Authored by Al Ries '50 Richard Lugar Calls On DePauw's 532 Graduates to Go Forward With "A Reverence for Life" EPA Chief William Ruckelshaus and Chemist Percy Julian '20 Help DePauw Dedicate New Science and Mathematics Center Billy Joel Entertains DePauw Audience Junior's Article Published in Indianapolis Monthly August 7, 2006, Greencastle, Ind. - The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding, co-authored by 1950 DePauw University graduate Al Ries, is on Business Week's list of "Books That Matter." The publication notes, "We asked entrepreneurs which books were most influential in helping them build their companies. The result: Our summer reading list." Dan Thralow, CEO of Thralow Inc., says The 22 Immutable Laws, by Ries and Jack Trout, "By far... has affected me the most. This book gets right to the heart of the issue of branding, which is simply staying focused. I've got a ton of ideas, but until I read this I didn't know how to focus and stay focused." Access the article at the magazine's Web site. Al Ries is chairman of Ries & Ries, an Atlanta-based marketing strategy firm. He has authored or co-authored eleven books on marketing including Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, Marketing Warfare, Focus, The Fall of Advertising & the Rise of PR, and his latest, The Origin of Brands. Ries consults Fortune 500 companies, leads seminars around the world and writes a monthly column for AdAge.com. A former president of the Association of Industrial Advertisers (now the Business Marketing Association) and the Advertising Club of New York, Ries was named by PR Week magazine as one of the 100 most influential public relations people of the 20th century. A mathematics major at DePauw, Al Ries received an Alumni Citation from his alma mater in 1989. Read more about him here.

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At a special luncheon on July 18, the Virginia Historical Society (VHS) presented awards to individuals who have made significant contributions to research, education and the mission of the society. The Patricia Rodman and Martin Kirwan King Volunteer Award, which recognizes the outstanding volunteer of the year, was awarded to Henrico resident Lee Ball, who has been volunteering in the advancement office at VHS for more than a year. A total of nine VHS awards were presented. The University of Richmond recently ranked 69th out of 96 participating colleges in the Sierra Club’s annual review of America’s greenest colleges. The rank is an improvement from last year’s placement of 84th, reflecting continued efforts to implement green policies. During the 2011-12 school year, the university achieved two advances: discontinuation of coal usage at the on-campus steam plant and establishment of a fund to pay for future energy efficiency and conservation projects. The student body also contributed, placing in the top ten for electricity usage reduction in the spring Campus Conservational Nationals. Deep Run High School graduate Adam White recently headed to Japan on Sept. 3 to begin eight months of intensive Japanese language study. His travel, tuition and other expenses are being funded by a $20,000 Boren Scholarship. A sophomore, international affairs major at James Madison University, White just returned from another six-month stint in Japan, where he was learning Japanese and how to teach English in a program called International Village Study Abroad. White's first trip to Japan was in summer 2008, before starting his senior year of high school. He spent three weeks touring the country and was involved in a 10-day exchange program as part of the U.S. High School Diplomats program. White will continue to study in Asia next fall when he heads to Kyung Hee University in South Korea on a scholarship from the International Network of Universities. Lindsey Leach, a 2004 graduate of the Steward School in western Henrico, has joined the Legal Information Network for Cancer (LINC) as an executive assistant. She is a 2008 graduate of Christopher Newport University, with degrees in sociology and English. Her diverse career experience includes working in the finance department for Henrico County and working for the nonprofit, Campaign Virginia. Leach enjoys reading, writing and painting in her spare time. An experienced traveler, she has been to 11 different countries and recently spent three months backpacking through Europe. LINC helps ease the burden of cancer for patients and their families by providing assistance and referral to legal, financial and community resources. Catherine Vaughan, of Glen Allen, recently served as a first year orientation guide (FrOG) on James Madison University's orientation team. FrOGs are a diverse group of undergraduate students who assist incoming first-year students in their academic, personal and social transition. They are legendary on campus for their annual FrOG dance. Vaughan is a senior whose major is management. *** The American Association of University Women has awarded Karen Zekauskas, a student at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, a $1,500 scholarship. Zekauskas is a science major. World-renowned jazz guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli returns to the Modlin Center for the Arts at the University of Richmond with his wife, Broadway star Jessica Molaskey, and the incomparable Swing 7 in a special holiday performance at 7:30 p.m. in Alice Jepson Theatre. Celebrate the holidays with a post-show reception in Booth Lobby. Tickets are $22 to $45. For details, call 289-8980 or visit http://www.modlin.richmond.edu. Full text

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Overview | 18th Century | 19th Century | 20th Century | Credits Manuscripts & Archives | Yale University Library | Yale University | Copyright Information | Contact Us © Yale University Library, 2008 One evening on the Old Campus in 1819, over 100 years before the gothic imports arrived and when the brick row stood strong, a secession crisis held hostage one of Yale's two literary societies. On the top floor of the Georgian-Colonial brick Lyceum, the university's chapel and library on the Old Campus, a face-off began within the Linonia Society. Two candidates, one northern, one southern, were being considered for president of the society. The northern candidate emerged victorious, and a southern party of 32 students within the Linonia Society walked out and formed the Calliopean Society. Whether the walkout was sectional or personal in origins remains unclear, but the Calliopean became the society of choice for southerners until its dissolution in 1853. Without the residential college system, the dormitories on the Old Campus, or the Political Union, these literary societies formed the major avenues of social and intellectual interaction. Only those who belonged to a society could use its books and attend its meetings and debates. In the same year the Calliopean was formed, the national debate over the admission of Missouri into the Union as either a free or slave state was on the minds of most Americans. The formation of the Calliopean Society foreshadowed the course that history was to take 40 years later.

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MoMiNIS Seminar Series at Dalhousie University Location: Room 430, Goldberg Computer Science Building, 6050 University Avenue (Building E600 on Studley Campus Map), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Time: Tuesday 1130-1300 (Thursday 1130-1300, or other times are also possible, if necessary). The MoMiNIS Seminar Series provides a research oriented forum for prominent researchers to present their current research on the Modelling and Mining of Networked Information Spaces. The seminars are meant to appeal to a broad audience, and present both theoretical results in graph theory, machine learning and text mining, and their practical ramifications in areas such as Web mining, social network analysis, network management and security, and digital libraries. Seminar Co-ordinators: Jeannette Janssen, Evangelos Milios, Nur Zincir-Heywood Date&Time Yahoo! Research, Barcelona Search Engines and Social Media jj, eem June 23 or 24, 2012 Nelly Litvak University of Twente Extremal properties of Web graphs June 23 or 24, 2012 Jennifer Chayes Microsoft Research Cambridge, Mass A weak distributional limit for preferential attachment graphs (tentative) Mourad Debbabi Concordia University Network security protocols nzh PAST SEMINARS Allan Borodin, Univ. of Toronto Personalized Search, Community Extraction in Blog sites George Forman, HP Labs What Are You Talking About? Topic Recognition via Machine Learning Text Classification and Quantification nzh, eem Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech NetMark: Selecting a Benchmark of Network Topologies Aug. 12, 2009, 2.30pm Natasa Przulj, Dept. of Computer Science, UC Irvine From Network Topology to Biological Function and Disease 11:30am Russell Greiner, Dept. of Computer Science, U. of Alberta Budgeted Learning of Probabilistic Classifiers 10:30am Stan Matwin, School of Information Technology and Engineering, U. of Ottawa Privacy and Data Mining: New Developments and Challenges 2:30pm Hugh Chipman, Acadia Univ. Mixed Membership Stochastic Blockmodels for multi-recipient transactions on a network (joint work with M. Mahdi Shafiei). Mar. 30, 2010, 2:30am Aaron Clauset The trouble with community detection in complex networks jj Edo Airoldi Modeling approaches for analyzing complex networks Bernie Hogan Oxford Internet Institute the University of Oxford Capture of online networks ag, jj Frank Tompa Finding implicit lists and tables in web pages eem, nzh Laks V.S. Lakshmanan Musings on Next Generation Recommender Systems Julita Vassileva Sharing experience in Social Computing, Persuasion and Science Outreach Jian Pei Query Friendly Compression and Analysis of Social Networks Using Multi-Position Linearization Denilson Barbosa Towards Summarizing and Making Sense of the Blogosphere Seminars will be announced by e-mail 1-2 weeks in advance. To subscribe to the mailing list, please send an email to cs-seminars AT cs.dal.ca with your name, position, email address and home page. To suggest speakers or topics, or to volunteer for a seminar, please contact one of the co-ordinators. We gratefully acknowledge MPrime (formerly MITACS), NSERC and the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, for their financial and logistical support of the seminar series. Last updated Saturday, 17-Mar-2012 20:20 --------------------------------------- Title: WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Text classification and quantification via machine learning Speaker: Dr. George Forman Hewlett Packard Labs, Port Orchard, WA Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Location: Jacob Slonim Conference Room (430), 6050 University Ave., Halifax In theory, practice is the same as theory, but in practice it is not. In the process of applying proven text classification methods from the research literature to business-driven problems at Hewlett-Packard, I have encountered substantial failures and gaps. Investigating the failures in detail has repeatedly led to new discoveries and perspectives for research that are simply not afforded by the academic benchmark datasets and problem formulations. In this talk, I will describe two interesting applications of supervised machine learning that we have deployed inside Hewlett-Packard, as well as the challenging, fundamental research opportunities they have led to. Short Biography: George Forman is a senior research scientist at Hewlett-Packard Labs. His research interests stem from practical issues that arise in the application of machine learning to industrial problems, e.g. feature selection, robustness, small training sets, and novel problem formulations, such as quantification. His Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering is from the University of Washington, Seattle, 1996 Speaker URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/George_Forman/ Title: NetMark: Selecting a Benchmark of Network Topologies Speaker : Dr. Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech Wednesday, March 11, 9.30am, Colloquium room, Chase building Prof. Zegura's research work concerns the development of wide-area (Internet) networking services and, more recently, mobile wireless networking. Wide-area services are utilized by applications that are distributed across multiple administrative domains (e.g., web, file sharing, multi-media distribution). Her focus is on services implemented both at the network layer, as part of network infrastructure, and at the application layer. In the context of mobile wireless networking, she is interested in challenged environments where traditional ad-hoc and infrastructure-based networking approaches fail. These environments have been termed Disruption Tolerant Networks. Ellen W. Zegura received the B.S. degree in Computer Science (1987), the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (1987), the M.S. degree in Computer Science (1990) and the D.Sc. in Computer Science (1993) all from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Since 1993, she has been on the faculty in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. She was an Assistant Dean in charge of Space and Facilities Planning from Fall 2000 to January 2003. She served as Interim Dean of the College for six months in 2002. Since February 2003, she has been an Associate Dean, with responsibilities ranging from Research and Graduate Programs to Space and Facilities Planning. She has spent five years as the user representative in the planning of the Klaus Advanced Computing Technologies Building, scheduled to open in Fall 2006. Starting in August 2005, she has chaired the Computing Science and Systems Division of the College of Computing. She is the proud mom of two girls, Carmen (born in August 1998) and Bethany (born in May 2001). Title: From Network Topology to Biological Function and Disease Speaker: Natasa Przulj, Dept. of Computer Science, UC Irvine Date: August 12, 2.30pm We discuss our new tools that are advancing network analysis towards a theoretical understanding of the structure of biological networks. Analogous to tools for analyzing and comparing genetic sequences, we are developing new tools that decipher large network data sets, with the goal of improving biological understanding and contributing to development of new therapeutics. We demonstrate that local node similarity corresponds to similarity in biological function and involvement in disease. We introduce a systematic highly constraining measure of a network's local structure and demonstrate that protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks are better modeled by geometric graphs than by any previous model. The geometric model is further corroborated by demonstrating that PPI networks can explicitly be embedded into a low-dimensional geometric space. We also present a new network alignment algorithm. Bio: Dr.Przulj is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, UC Irvine. She is also a member of the UCI Cancer Center, the UCI Center for Complex Biological Systems (CCBS), the UCI's program in Mathematical, Computational and Systems Biology (MCSB), and the UCI’s Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics (IGB). She received an NSF CAREER award for 2007-2011. She is on the Editorial Review Board of the International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics (IJKDB). Dr. Przulj's research involves applications of graph theory, mathematical modeling, and computational techniques to solving large-scale problems in computational and systems biology. I am interested in computational and theoretical solutions to practical problems in many areas of systems biology, planar cell polarity, proteomics, cancer informatics, and chemo-informatics. Title:Budgeted Learning of Probabilistic Classifiers Speaker: Russell Greiner, Dept. of Computer Science, Un. of Alberta Researchers often use clinical trials to collect the data needed to evaluate some hypothesis, or produce a classifier. During this process, they have to pay the cost of performing each test. Many studies will run a comprehensive battery of tests on each subject, for as many subjects as their budget will allow -- ie, "round robin" (RR). We consider a more general model, where the researcher can sequentially decide which single test to perform on which specific individual; again subject to spending only the available funds. Our goal here is to use these funds most effectively, to collect the data that allows us to learn the most accurate classifier. We first explore the simplified "coins version" of this task. After observing that this is NP-hard, we consider a range of heuristic algorithms, both standard and novel, and observe that our "biased robin" approach is both efficient and much more effective than most other approaches, including the standard RR approach. We then apply these ideas to learning a naive-bayes classifier, and see similar behavior. Finally, we consider the most realistic model, where both the researcher gathering data to build the classifier, and the user (eg, physician) applying this classifier to an instance (patient) must pay for the features used --- eg, the researcher has $10,000 to acquire the feature values needed to produce an optimal $30/patient classifier. Again, we see that our novel approaches are almost always much more effective that the standard RR model. This is joint work with Aloak Kapoor, Dan Lizotte and Omid Madani. After earning a PhD from Stanford, Russ Greiner worked in both academic and industrial research before settling at the University of Alberta, where he is now a Professor in Computing Science and the founding Scientific Director of the Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Machine Learning, which won the ASTech Award for "Outstanding Leadership in Technology" in 2006. He has been Program Chair for the 2004 "Int'l Conf. on Machine Learning", Conference Chair for 2006 "Int'l Conf. on Machine Learning", Editor-in-Chief for "Computational Intelligence", and is serving on the editorial boards of a number of other journals. He was elected a Fellow of the AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) in 2007, and was awarded a McCalla Professorship in 2005-06 and a Killam Professorship in 2007. He has published over 100 refereed papers and patents, most in the areas of machine learning and knowledge representation. The main foci of his current work are (1) bioinformatics and medical informatics; (2) learning effective probabilistic models and (3) formal foundations of learnability. Title: Privacy and Data Mining: New Developments and Challenges Speaker: Stan Matwin, University of Ottawa There is little doubt that data mining technologies create new challenges in the area of data privacy. In this talk, we will review some of the new developments in Privacy-preserving Data Mining. In particular, we will discuss techniques in which data mining results can reveal personal data, and how this can be prevented. We will look at the practically interesting situations where data to be mined is distributed among several parties. We will mention new applications in which mining spatio-temporal data can lead to identification of personal information. We will argue that methods that effectively protect personal data, while at the same time preserve the quality of the data from the data analysis perspective, are some of the principal new challenges before the field. Title: Mixed-Membership Stochastic Block-Models for Transactional Data Speaker: Hugh Chipman, Acadia University Time: Thursday, February 18, 2.30pm Transactional network data arise in many fields. Although social network models have been applied to transactional data, these models typically assume binary relations between pairs of nodes. We develop a latent mixed membership model capable of modelling richer forms of transactional data. Estimation and inference are accomplished via a variational EM algorithm. Simulations indicate that the learning algorithm can recover the correct generative model. We further present results on a subset of the Enron email dataset. This is joint work with Mahdi Shafiei. About the speaker: Dr. Hugh Chipman is a Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Modelling at Acadia University, and the director of the Acadia Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computations. His research focuses on statistical models for extracting information from such large and complex datasets. He completed his PhD studies at the University of Waterloo in 1994, and held a faculty position at the University of Chicago before moving to Acadia. In 2009, he was awarded the CRM-SSC Prize for his outstanding contributions to the application of Bayesian statistical inference for data analysis. Title: The trouble with community detection in complex networks Speaker: Aaron Clauset, Santa Fe institute Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2.30pm Abstract: Although widely used in practice, the performance of the popular network clustering technique called "modularity maximization" is not well understood when applied to networks with unknown modular structure. In this talk, I'll show that precisely in the case we want it to perform the best---that is, on modular networks---the modularity function Q exhibits extreme degeneracies, in which the global maximum is hidden among an exponential number of high-modularity solutions. Further, these degenerate solutions can be structurally very dissimilar, suggesting that any particular high- modularity partition, or statistical summary of its structure, should not be taken as representative of the other degenerate solutions. These results partly explain why so many heuristics do well at finding high-modularity partitions and why different heuristics can disagree on the modular composition the same network. I'll conclude with some forward-looking thoughts about the general problem of identifying network modules from connectivity data alone, and the likelihood of circumventing this degeneracy problem. Title: Modeling approaches for analyzing complex networks Speaker: Edo Airoldi, Department of Statistics, FAS Center for Systems Biology, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University Date: Friday Sept 17, 2010, 9:30 a.m. Abstract: Networks are ubiquitous in science and have become a focal point for discussion in everyday life. Formal statistical models for the analysis of network data have emerged as a major topic of interest in diverse areas of study, and most of these involve a collections of measurements on pairs of objects. Probability models on graphs date back to 1959. Along with empirical studies in social psychology and sociology from the 1960s, these early works generated an active “network community” and a substantial literature in the 1970s. This effort moved into the statistical literature in the late 1970s and 1980s, and the past decade has seen a burgeoning network literature in statistical physics and computer science. The growth of the World Wide Web and the emergence of online “networking communities” such as Facebook and LinkedIn, and a host of more specialized professional network communities has intensified interest in the study of networks and network data. In this talk, I will review a few ideas that are central to this burgeoning literature, placing emphasis on modeling approaches available for data analysis, and review some of the recent work that is going on in my group. Speaker Bio: In December 2006, Dr. Airoldi received a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon, working on statistical machine learning and the analysis of complex systems with Stephen Fienberg and Kathleen Carley. His dissertation introduced statistical and computational elements of graph theory that support data analysis of complex systems and their evolution. Till December 2008, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics of Princeton University working with Olga Troyanskaya, David Botstein, and James Broach. He developed mechanistic models to gain computational insights into aspects of the molecular and cellular biology that are not directly observable with experimental probes. He has been working closely with biologists and in the areas of cellular differentiation, cellular development and cancer, since. Speaker URL: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~airoldi/ Title: Facebook as a data capture site: Techniques, Traps, Terms and Conditions This talk will give an overview of the sorts of social network data that are accessible through the Facebook API and some of issues that come with downloading and processing this data. In the first part of the talk, I review several pieces of software that allow for the download and capture of social networks, including NodeXL, NetVizz, NameGenWeb, iGraph and Pajek. I walk through different routines and cover efficiency through FQL queries. The talk will also walk through three recent examples of privacy leaks with the Facebook data (The "Taste, Ties and Time" data set, Pete Warden's open profiles data and the Oxford 100 schools data set) and how privacy issues inhibited their full use. I tie this to the evolving developer terms of use on Facebook, as well as some of the other emergent API issues (such as Twitter's recent decision to no longer whitelist accounts). My intention is to end the talk by reinforcing the importance of careful and minimal data collection efforts rather than a cavalier approach indifferent to the risks of real world data. I also wish to make an appeal to technical fields whose ethics procedures tend to be inadequate for this sort of semi-private and sensitive data. Slides -- Slides from March 25 seminar in the Social Media Lab Bernie Hogan is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute. He specializes in novel methods for online data capture and analysis, especially via social media. Recent work has focused on the capture analysis of Facebook networks, particularly through his application namegenweb, which downloads a social network for visualization in network programs such as NodeXL. Past work included an online audit study of racism on Craigslist, pen and paper methods for visualizing social networks, the analysis of profile photos and techniques for online surveys of spouses and partners. Bernie received his dissertation from the University of Toronto in 2009 under Barry Wellman. This thesis won the Dordick award for Best Dissertation from the Communication and Technology section of the International Communication Association. Speaker's contact info: Dr Bernie Hogan Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=140 Title: Towards Summarizing and Making Sense of the Blogosphere Speaker: Prof. Denilson Barbosa Department of Computing Science, Univ. of Alberta Date: Thursday March 15, 2012 Location: Jacob Slonim Conference Room (430), Computer Science 6050 University Avenue, Halifax The extraction of structured information from text is a fast improving subfield of Natural Language Pro- cessing which has been re-invigorated with the ever-increasing availability of user-generated textual content online. One environment which stands out as a source of invaluable information is the blogosphere–the network of social media sites, in which individuals express and discuss opinions, facts, events, and ideas pertaining to their own lives, their community, profession, or society at large. Indeed, the automatic extraction of reliable information from the blogosphere promises a viable approach for discovering very rich social data: the issues that engage society in thousands of collective and parallel conversations online. Considerable attention has been given to the problem of automatically extracting and studying the social dynamics among the participants (i.e., authors) in shared environments like the blogosphere. In that line of work, the goal is to understand how the network of humans conversing in the blogosphere is formed, evolves over time, and influences others in their own opinions. Our goal, on the other hand, is to extract the network of entities, facts, ideas and opinions expressed in social media sites, as well as the relationships among them. Such structured data can be organized as one or more information networks, which in turn are powerful metaphors for the study and visualization of various kinds of complex systems. In this talk, I will cover the basic NLP tools that are necessary for automatically extracting information networks from social media text, relying to a large extent on the experiences gathered on our ongoing SONEX project. Speaker Bio: I am an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, where I joined in 2008. I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in 2005, working on XML data management and took an academic job at the University of Calgary between 2005 and 2008. I am interested in databases on their own merit, and also on the application of database and information retrieval principles to the management of linked data. I am a member of the NSERC Strategic Network on Business Intelligence, where I work on information extraction, and the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory, where I work text mining, data management for prosopography, and document engineering. Speaker url: http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~denilson/ Host: Evangelos Milios ([email protected])

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Dodgeball now banned in public schools as nanny state goes insane J. D. Heyes The nanny state mentality is becoming more institutionalized in America as evidenced by the recent decision to ban the age-old gym class game of “Dodgeball” in one New Hampshire school – though trust me, others will follow suit. In an incredible four to one decision, the five-member school board panel at Windham School voted to ban the “classic gym class game” which “has been a rite of passage for years” for kids – not to mention a whole lot of fun – according to CBSBoston. At the same time, the board voted to end all other so-called “human target” activities – games with names like “Bombardment” and “Slaughter.” “It’s almost turning into a nanny state,” said school board member Dennis Senibaldi, the lone school board member with enough sanity left to vote against the ban. “What happens when they replace that game with something different that another group doesn’t want to play, do we eliminate that group of games?” Yes, Dennis. The answer is, appallingly, yes. Didn’t you know? Dodgeball equals bullying Oh, of course there were lots of touchy-feely reasons for banning a game that has been around longer than most board members have been alive, to be sure. They include a handful of complaints by whiny parents, who claimed their kids were being “bullied” – targeted by the other kids during Dodgeball games. After “studying” the issue, a “special committee” said the games should go away. After all, we can’t be teaching our kids to be competitive or to learn how to adapt to adversity and overcome because, you know, the world plays be the same rules as the Autobot Society. Needless to say, not a few students were stunned by the decision. “I think they’re really fun because they’re just soft balls so it doesn’t hurt if it hits you,” sixth-grade student Lindsey Stagg, who – at her tender age – spoke more truth and sanity then the four lunatics and their “special panel” who voted to end the traditional game. Stephanie Wimmer, the board’s vice chair, told WBZ-TV the board is constantly “looking at our curriculum” for changes. Sure. “We spend a lot of time making sure our kids are violence free,” Windham superintendent Dr. Henry LaBranche lectured. “Here we have games where we use children as targets. That seems to be counter to what we are trying to accomplish with our anti-bullying campaign.” All of a sudden, Superintendent LaBranche? “It’s an elimination game,” said Andrew Mead, program manager at the National Association for Sport and Physical Education. “Games like Dodgeball and Tag don’t keep kids involved and physically active. They objectify slower students who don’t catch as well.” Raising a generation of pansies who can’t handle adversity Objectify? How about motivate? Challenge? Concepts that encourage those who don’t play so well to find ways to be better? What’s next, ending tackle football, basketball and track because, gee, some kids are just more physically talented than others? There are alternative solutions other than simply banning an obviously popular activity. How about an “opt-out” clause, board members? Let kids who are getting “bullied” opt-out of this ultra-violent contact sport and do something else during gym class. That way, kids who still want to play can play. Why do you have to ban the activity? Do you see where all of this nannyism is leading? We are teaching an entire generation of kids that a) equality means equal outcomes, not equal opportunity; b) excelling at something should not be rewarded but criticized and the playing field “leveled;” c) that they should not have to face difficulty or adversity in life (and we wonder why so many of our kids are on psychotropic drugs); and d) choice, opportunity and freedom are archaic notions that have no place in “modern society.” Meanwhile, children in the rest of the real world are still living in it. Perhaps that is part of the reason why the U.S. lags so far behind those countries in so many categories. http://boston.cbslocal.com http://www.foxnews.com http://www.nytimes.com This article was posted: Monday, April 1, 2013 at 5:01 am

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UCA | University for the Creative Arts Art/Design Category Mini guide The art of R.J. Lloyd Olding, Simon The art of R.J. Lloyd. Edward Gaskell, Bideford, UK. Description/Abstract: This book locates the artist R. J. Lloyd as primarily a painter in the St Ives and Modernist traditions, but also addresses in depth, for the first time, the wider range of Lloyd's creative output represented by his work as a printmaker and illustrator (in collaboration with poet Ted Hughes) and his commissions in glass and ciment fondu for schools and churches across England. The book also comments on Lloyd's life-long career as a collector, principally of North Devon ceramics, and comments on his own ceramic work in that long tradition.The book is a richly illustrated monograph containing the widest and most recent pictorial summary of Lloyd’s work to date. It is based on extensive original research in Lloyd’s Bideford studio, where I had unfettered access to his unpublished materials and archive, including material relating to his major commissions in England.The research offers a comprehensive review of a significant artist's output in a very wide range of media from paintings to stained glass, murals, jewellery, ceramics and printmaking; it also connects this work with the artist’s vigorous career as a collector of studio and historic ceramics. In this project I have built on my earlier research for my edited book The RJ Lloyd Ceramics Collection: artist as collector, which was published to mark the permanent presentation of this collection, one of the largest and most comprehensive of its type in any museum, to the Burton Art Gallery and Museum in 2011. My work as a consultant to the Burton Art Gallery and Museum was the driver for these two publications. I wrote the successful bids for their applications to the Heritage Lottery Fund and The Art Fund (£450,000) to acquire the slipware collection and set up a new permanent exhibition for The RJ Lloyd Collection. School of Crafts & Design Mary-Anne Spalding http://www.research.ucreative.ac.uk/id/eprint/962 University Staff: Request a correction | UCA Research Online Editors: Update this record

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Close Window Youth Pilgrimage to Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary and New York City! DAY ONE - APRIL 7, 2010 We had a pretty uneventful flight, with some of us joining the competition some 35 rounds of Inflight Trivia. Upon arrival to JFK, we boarded our limo minibus and headed to Saint Vladimir's Seminary where were we greeted and welcomed by Fr. David Myzinski, Assistant to the Dean of Student Affairs. After a late night snack, we were off to our respective dormitories for the night. DAY TWO - APRIL 8, 2010 At 9:30 a.m. we gathered in the Seminary Refectory for a delicious breakfast prepared by the seminary chef. We took a brief tour of the campus and met Fr. Steven Belonik, Dean of Students. Then it was scenic walk to the Crestwood train station to board the train to Grand Central Station in Manhatten. As we stood admiring the art and architecture of Grand Central, we were approach by a CW correspondent and camara man, who were excited to meet us and especially to speak to very own Ivana Tasic about her knowledge of various CW television shows. During the interview, which will air on the CW website and the local KTLA station in Los Angeles, Ivana answered various questions about the shows, as the rest of us stood in awe of the unplanned moment. The photos tell the story well. Following the interview, Radovan Dajkovic asked Fr. Nick to do a boot-camp like sprint through Manhatten so that we could get to the historic Saint Sava Cathedral on time. There we toured the Church facilities and took photos of the interior as well as the unique exteror which included bronze busts of Saint Nikolai, Nikola Tesla, and the well known scientist, Mihailo Pupin. After lunch at the famous Malibu cafe, we took a bumpy and speedy ride on the New York Subway, which took us to Ground Zero and a Ferri ride around the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Then we toured Wall Street and the rest of the battery park area sites. When we returned to Saint Vladimir's, we enjoyed a wonderful dinner, composed this journal entry, and had a great question and answer session on various topics on Orthodox Christian Spirituality. Then it was off to a good night's rest to preprare fo the our next marathon trip to the Big Apple. DAY THREE - APRIL 9, 2010 Following breakfast, Tatiana Penkrat, a staff member at the Seminary, gave us a tour of the Three Hierarch's Chapel at Saint Vladimir's. She gave a very informative and impressive presentation on the meaning of icons, explaining their symbols and themes. Then we took the train to New York City for the day's events. We toured the United Nations, Empire State Building, Madison Square Gardens, and then had lunch at Time's Square. Time's Square was everything we imagined and more! After lunch we toured Rockefeller Center where we were pleasantly surprised to see ice skating still going on. We then visited Saint Patrick's Cathedral and Radio City Music Hall. We moved on to Central Park, had dinner in a nearby restaurant, and then walked to Lincoln Center where we saw the musical "South Pacific." This marvellous musical also addressed issues of prejudice and openness to other cultures. The musical was very entertaining and everyone enjoyed it. On our way back to the train station, we saw the famous Juliard School of Performing Arts before we boarded our train back to the Seminary in Crestwood for a good night's rest. DAY FOUR - APRIL 10, 2010 We started our day as usual, with a great breakfast. Afterwards, we toured the Seminary library which is the largest and best collection, other than the Library of Congress, of Orthodox books in the Western Hemisphere. Then we were on our way to CitiField to see the New York Mets play the Washington D.C. Nationals! It was perfect weather for a baseball game, cool with clear blue skies. We returned to Saint Vladimir's for dinner and Vespers. Some of us joined the student choir for the service. After Vespers, Fr. Steven Belonik, Dean of Students met with us and gave us a very thought-provoking talk on vocations and discerning the Will of God. This discussion was held in the Gerich Board Room in the Rangos Building at Saint Vladimir's. Fr. Steven also mentioned the former Deans of the Seminary whose photographs grace the hallway leading to the board room named after Brian and Marilyn Gerich from Saint Steven's Cathedral. After the presentation, one of Father Nick's friends, Ted Bazil who is on the staff of the seminary and director of its Press and his wife Claudia, invited us to their home near the Seminary for a fun evening of relaxation and fellowship. Then our chaperone, Radovan Daikovich hosted us to ice cream at the famous Cold Stone Creamery. DAY FIVE - APRIL 11, 2010 We began our day with the Divine Liturgy at Saint Vladimir's. Father Nick celebrated the liturgy with the Seminary Chancellor, and some of us sang with the Seminary student choir. It was a beautiful and inspiring service. The sermon was about the Orthodox Christian experience of the Resurrection of Our Lord being not just a significant historical event, but a way of life that we embrace at baptism. That way of life, from Sunday to Sunday as we celebrate the Resurrection, was expressed in the words of the Apostle Thomas, who after he experienced the Risen Lord declared: "My Lord and My God!" That is our goal in life: to personally see the Risen Jesus as our Lord and our God. Following the liturgy, we attended the coffee hour where we met the Dean of the Seminary, Father Jon Behr, and talked with students. Then, Father Nick told us that we will be driving to the famous Stew Leonard's. On the way, we asked Fr. Nick to describe the place and he said that he couldn't, "It's hard to describe in words, as I don't even know where to begin. It is unbelievable and great. You have to see it for yourself, and then you will know!" We were not sure what that meant, but now that we have been there, don't ask us to describe it. It is such a great place, we too have to now say, "you have to see it for yourself!" No trip to New York would ever be complete without a visit to Stew Leonard's! Kim and Stew Leonard were traveling out of the country, but their lovely daughter Madison spent time with us there. They were so nice to host a wonderful lunch after our facinating tour! We remembered Madison from seeing her at Saint Steven's, as her mother Kim is the daughter of Paul and Barbara Kral! The visit to Stew Leonard's was the icing on the cake of an unforgetable trip to Saint Vladimir's and New York City! Now, just as a reminder that though everything can go so well and even almost perfect, nonetheless, there will always be moments of disappointment which challenge our patience. This we encountered after we got to JFK Airport for our flight home. When we arrived to JFK we were told our flight will be delayed for three hours! Oh well, it was another opportunity to spend time talking about our fun trip, and of course, to do some homework! Thank you Saint Steven's and Cathedral RCA for a marvellous opportunity and an incredible and memorable pilgrimage and visit to the East Coast. We are so grateful! Close Window

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Sangye Khandro Sangye Khandro is an American woman who studied Buddhist philosophy and Tibetan language with Tibetan masters in India and Nepal. She has studied and translated many important Tibetan Buddhist texts. She is a cofounder of Light of Berotsana, a nonprofit organization for translators of Tibetan texts. AUTHOR'S WEBSITE > Sangye Khandro 9 15 30 90 Meditation, Transformation, and Dream Yoga byVen. Gyatrul Rinpoche The three traditional Nyingma texts and Venerable Gyatrul Rinpoche's commentary included in this book were selected by him for their relevance to the modern-day spiritual aspirant who must combine and balance quality practice time, work time, and rest time… Read More Meditation, Transformation, and Dream Yoga In 1971 Sangye Khandro, intent upon meeting H.H. the Dalai Lama, traveled overland for five months, finally arriving in Dharamsala, India. At this same time the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala began to open its doors to Western students. Completing six months of study at the library, and recognizing her deep commitment to the Buddhist teachings, Sangye took the vows and lay precepts signifying the formal entrance to the Buddhist path. Throughout the next seven years, Sangye traveled to India and Nepal annually to continue her studies of the Buddhist teachings and Tibetan language. "After many years of preparing the field, it is now time to cultivate the depth and breadth of Tibetan Buddhist studies…We have established Light of Berotsana so that we may help with the task of translation from Tibetan into English while highly accomplished Tibetan lamas remain alive and available to teach in the West.” Between 1973 and 1977 Sangye lived and taught at the Nechung Drayang Ling Buddhist Temple in Hawaii, which she helped to establish. Throughout this period, she joined others in bringing many renowned teachers to the Hawaiian Islands. These highly respected and learned lamas included H.H. Düdjom Rinpoche, the Venerable Kalu Rinpoche, and H.H. the 16th Karmapa. In 1977, Sangye met the Ven. Gyatrül Rinpoche while he was visiting Hawaii. Their friendship began in the midst of an illness that nearly took his life. Sangye became Rinpoche's companion and her relationship with him became central to her work and life. Sangye became Gyatrül Rinpoche’s primary translator and together they proceeded to establish Buddhist centers in California and Oregon under the auspices of H.H Düdjom Rinpoche. On a yearly basis, Gyatrül Rinpoche and Sangye traveled to Taiwan, where they taught, translated, and raised funds for the creation of the Tashi Chöling Temple in southern Oregon. For the next two decades Sangye acted as translator for many great teachers, among them H.H Düdjom Rinpoche, H.H. Penor Rinpoche, H.H. Khenpo Jigme Phüntsok Rinpoche, Dungsei Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, Kusum Lingpa Rinpoche, Gyatrül Rinpoche, Lama Ganga, Gönpo Tseden Rinpoche, Chagdud Tülku Rinpoche, Ngapa Yeshe Dorje Rinpoche, Khenpo Palden Sherab Rinpoche, Khenpo Namdröl Rinpoche, Yangthang Tülku Rinpoche, and Gyala Padma Namgyal Rinpoche, accompanying them on numerous teaching tours throughout the world. Sangye has helped to teach many programs and retreats while continuing her personal studies. In the mid-1980s Sangye traveled to the Namdröling Monastery, established by H.H. Penor Rinpoche near Mysore, India, and became the first Western woman to receive and practice the transmissions for the channels and winds in the monastery's previously all male training program. Over the past few years, Sangye has studied and translated several commentaries based upon the Guhyagarbha Tantra. In 1996, she translated for Khenpo Namdröl Rinpoche at the Ngagyür Nyingma Institute in southern India, where he taught commentaries on the Guhyagarbha Tantra to a group that included Tibetan tülkus and young khenpos, as well as Western men and women. In 1999, Sangye again translated for Khenpo Namdröl's teachings on the Essence of Clear Light/Odsel Nyingpo, this time at Yangleshö in Nepal. Also, in 1999 Sangye translated Essence of Clear Light for Khenpo Namdröl at Tashi Chöling in Oregon, marking the first occasion of this teaching and study in the West. With Lama Chönam's assistance, she also served as oral translator for Khen Rinpoche at Lerab Ling in France where he taught Key to the Precious Treasury/Dzod Kyi De Mig to Sogyal Rinpoche's students. As a result of this intensive study, and translation, Light of Berotsana has published three beautiful hardcover books of the root texts and offeres written transcripts and audio CDs of the oral commentaries given by Khenpo Namdrol Rinpoche. (Please refer to these materials available for purchase). Sangye has translated numerous texts and published several books, including A Garland of Immortal Wishfulfilling Trees, a history of the Payül tradition; Generating the Deity; Ancient Wisdom; Perfect Conduct: Ascertaining the Three Vows; Yeshe Lama; The Lives and Liberation of Princess Mandarava, and various cycles of instruction taken from the writings of H.H. Düdjom Lingpa. Sangye was one of three translators who collaborated in the translation of the first three volumes of the life of Gesar of Ling. Additionally, she has translated several commentaries written by Dungsei Thinley Norbu Rinpoche. In 1999, Sangye's vision came to fruition when she was able to help found Light of Berotsana, a nonprofit organization for translators. Currently, Sangye dedicates her time to Light of Berotsana and the translation of essential texts drawn from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. About this work, Sangye says, "After many years of preparing the field, it is now time to cultivate the depth and breadth of Tibetan Buddhist studies. This cannot come about without good translations of the works most relevant to the scholarly and meditative traditions. We have established Light of Berotsana so that we may help with the task of translation from Tibetan into English while highly accomplished Tibetan lamas remain alive and available to teach in the West. Light of Berotsana hopes to keep the presses hot with work of good quality that comes about through scholarship, understanding, and dedication." Over the last 30 years, Sangye Khandro has translated many oral teachings given by the Venerable Gyatrul Rinpoche on various dharma subjects—for example, how to practice ngöndro or the esoteric meaning of Vajrakilaya. Many of these profound teachings have been transcribed and formatted into booklets that are currently sold by Vimala Treasures. Go to Vimala Treasures to see a comprehensive listing of these transcribed teachings.

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Applying new knowledge to real problems for measurable results. > Penn State Executive Programs > Smeal Faculty Bios > Norman Aggon Norman Aggon Assistant Department Chairman, Penn State Smeal College of Business Norman teaches supply chain courses at the undergraduate level including the senior level capstone course and various junior level courses He is a member of the graduate faculty and teaches at the graduate level not only in Penn State’s highly acclaimed Master of Manufacturing Management program and but also in Smeal’s Supply Chain Professional Master’s Degree Program. Prior to joining the faculty at Penn State University, Mr. Aggon had 26 years of experience in various executive and supply chain management positions. He worked for firms such as Pfizer, Engelhard and Tarmac, Ltd. and smaller independent ones such as Chemstone Corporation—a subsidiary of Merriweather Capital Corporation. His diverse senior management experience included positions such as Senior Vice President of Operations and Division General Manager. During his career he had complete P&L responsibility including sales, marketing, manufacturing, sourcing, engineering, etc. He has a B. S. degree in Engineering from Penn State and a Master of Business Administration from James Madison University. In October 2008 he was awarded the Smeal Student Spotlight Award and during the spring of 2006, Mr. Aggon was awarded the Smeal College of Business Administration’s Dillwyn P. Paste III Award for Excellence in Teaching. He was recently elected to Penn State’s Faculty Senate. Additionally, he provides supply chain operational and strategic assistance as an advisor to various companies and provides consulting expertise to companies such as Mid America Energy and Mining Services---a company involved in mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Aggon is a Faculty Affiliate of Penn State’s Smeal School of Business’s Center for Supply Chain Research. He is also member of ISM, SME, AIME and other professional organizations. Open-Enrollment Programs Custom Learning Initiatives Strategic Thinking & Innovation GSVCC Chamber U Leadership Series Macy’s, Inc. executive R.B. Harrison final fall 2016 speaker in Penn State Smeal’s Executive Insights series Finance for Strategic Decision Making Building a Sustainable Supply Chain: Practical Tools for Reducing Cost and Risk Strategic Leadership March 25 - May 20, 2017 SHRM Exam Prep Course April 18 - 20, 2017 Leading in Complex Organizations More Events ››

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St. Clair Association’s Cook Springs marks 150 yearscomment (0) By Deirdra Drinkard Cook Springs Baptist Church in St. Clair Baptist Association began 150 years ago next to a railroad, and through the years, its ministry has stayed on track. On June 1, church members celebrated Cook Springs Baptist’s sesquicentennial anniversary with a new pastor, John Powers, who assumed the position April 13. “Powers is a good leader, and we see a bright future with him,” said Esta McLaughlin, a longtime member and chairwoman of missions. Although the church was organized in 1858, it was two years — June 23, 1860 — before it was constituted with 11 members, according to Daniel Stewart’s book “Sparkling Waters: A History of Cook Springs in St. Clair County, Alabama.” The book tells of one early member, William Prater Cooke, who in 1864 bought the land that became the Cook Springs community. The congregation of Cook Springs Baptist initially met in a small two-room log cabin on a hillside by a railroad sidetrack. In 1866, the second church building was constructed in another location high above the ground. Ascending two flights of steps was required to get to the doors. Music was provided by a pedal-operated organ. Windows along the sides of the building and behind the pulpit let light in for the services. Today the nearly 200 members take the Light of the World outside the walls of their fourth church building through numerous ministries. One of those ministries is providing literature for the Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) at the Village at Cook Springs, a nearby senior living center. A Cook Springs Baptist member, 96-year-old Maizie Bradford, took on the leadership of the center’s WMU when she became a resident, said Shirley Estes, activities assistant at the Village at Cook Springs. In anticipation of the anniversary celebration and accompanying homecoming, St. Clair Association Director of Missions Ben Chandler presented a plaque to the church May 25. PrintThis « back to previous page | return to top Be the first to post a comment. Post your comment Name

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BP ML PT SF USC Published: January 28, 2013 Peters grad to help this summer in Costa Rica Carley Adams Carley Adams, a sophomore at Washington & Jefferson College, has never traveled outside the United States. But, for the recipient of a scholarship from the Vira I. Heinz Program for Women in Global Leadership, that is about to change. A graduate of Peters Township High School, Adams is leaving in May for Cartago, Costa Rica, to work in clinics, helping to treat and educate people with HIV and AIDS. Adams is a studio art and communication arts double major active in theater. “I am not exactly sure what I want to do after college, but I know it has to involve working with people,” said Adams. “I want to help people, educate people, and help them get over the stigma associated with AIDS and HIV.” While in Costa Rica, Adams will work with Cross-Cultural Solutions, a nonprofit organization working to address critical global issues by providing volunteer service to communities abroad. “I just know I want to do what I can to help,” Adams added. In high school, Adams discovered her passion for the theater. She said the most rewarding aspect is the cast camaraderie that comes along with it. “Each member of the cast is unique in some way, and when the combined talents of every man and woman result in something beautiful, there are few places in the world I would rather be,” Adams said.

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College Names New APO Director Harvard Professor Takes Leave of Absence after Internal Investigation 〉 Stanton To Become Undergraduate Education Asst. Dean By Melody Y. Hu and Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS Adela Penagos, an assistant dean at the University of Notre Dame, has been named the new director of Harvard’s four-year-old Advising Programs Office.Penagos, who will take the helm Sept. 1, will replace Interim Director Inge-Lise Ameer, who recently announced that she plans to depart for Dartmouth College in the fall.According to Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris, who chaired the APO director search committee, Penagos’ experience working with a diverse student body—including her previous role as coordinator of Multicultural Student Programs and Services at Notre Dame—will be a strong asset to the APO.“There are differences in cultural groups as far as help-seeking behavior,” Harris said. "She can really reach into the minority communities better than we have."Penagos, who was born and raised in Mexico, wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson that her multicultural experiences have assisted her in relating to individuals from “diverse cultural backgrounds.” “I have been able to work well with all constituencies to date, regardless of a specific cultural background, and hope to continue this trajectory at Harvard,” she wrote.Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds—who has repeatedly expressed a commitment to promoting diversity within the College community—echoed Harris’ sentiments in an e-mail announcing Penagos’ appointment to members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, writing that the new director will be tasked with ensuring that the College is “meeting the advising needs of our students from a broad range of backgrounds.”Penagos’ colleagues at Notre Dame also emphasized her deep commitment to student life.“If there’s anything that characterizes her for me, it is a real attachment to making sure that students are having a really great experience,” said Ava Preacher, assistant dean of undergraduate studies at Notre Dame. “It has been truly remarkable having her in our office.”Although new to the College, Penagos spoke highly of her limited experiences at Harvard.“After interviewing with a number of people during two days, including faculty, staff, and students, I could witness the commitment these individuals have to Harvard and to the advising of highly talented undergraduate students," she wrote. "I wanted to be part of such a wonderful team."—Staff writer Eric P. Newcomer can be reached at [email protected].—Staff writer Melody Y. Hu can be reached at [email protected]. Harvard Professor Takes Leave of Absence after Internal Investigation Tags Harvard Joins Apparel Factory Oversight Group Harvard will soon make a commitment to independent monitoring of overseas factories that manufacture University apparel, a move student protestors Harvard Holds Up In Home Tourney They came, they saw, but they did not conquer the Harvard men’s tennis team. That was the case for Alabama or Notre Dame at the Harvard Fall Classic Tournament this weekend, where the young Crimson squad held its own against some tough competition. Save My Tonic Water, Cheer for Harvard Last Saturday, I was camped out on my trusty futon watching the Notre Dame-Michigan football game. Their rivalry is older ... Men's Tennis to Begin Dual Match Play in ITA Kick-Off The Harvard men’s tennis team will depart the cold Cambridge weather for Norman, Okla. to join Notre Dame, Oklahoma, and Memphis in the ITA Kick-Off this weekend. The No. 28 Crimson will first take on the No. 30 Fighting Irish on Friday, and either the No. 8 Sooners or the No. 31 Tigers on Saturday, depending on the results of the first match. Moral Sin, or Frivolous Appeal? The Catholic Church’s doctrinal position on contraception has lost touch with the health needs of its members, to say nothing of those of Americans more broadly. Men's Lacrosse Travels to Notre Dame for NCAA Tourney

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CZContactMediaScience and researchFor visitorsNewsVilla Tugendhat Calendar News Archive Lectures Film screenings Concerts Programs for students and children Others CITY OF BRNO AWARD FOR THE VILLA TUGENDHAT DIRECTOR IVETA ČERNÁfont size 10.2.2015photo Jef Kratochvilphoto Jef Kratochvilphoto Jef Kratochvilphoto Jef Kratochvilphoto Marie Schmerkováphoto Marie Schmerkováphoto Marie SchmerkováOn Tuesday 10 February 2015, the director of the Villa Tugendhat Iveta Černá received the City of Brno Award from the hands of the Mayor Petr Vokřál. This year, for the twenty-second time, 12 laureates have been awarded (from 54 proposals) in twelve categories from technical and social sciences to sport and merits for freedom and democracy. The award was given among others also to significant haematologist and oncologist and long-time director of the Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute in Brno Jiří Vorlíček or the Brno-born world famous mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená. Director of Villa Tugendhat, architect Iveta Černá, received the award for architecture and urbanism. Iveta Černá (b. 1963 in Brno) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University in Brno and then worked for fifteen years at the National Institute for Monument Protection – the territorial branch in Brno in the position of guarantor for the city of Brno, where she focused primarily on preservation and restoration of monuments of interwar architecture. Since 2002, Iveta Černá has been the director of the Villa Tugendhat, which is administered by the Brno City Museum. She had a significant and irreplaceable share on the renovation and restoration of the villa. She represents the Villa Tugendhat, the only UNESCO monument within the City of Brno and the only UNESCO-listed monument of modern architecture in the Czech Republic, at international forums. Along with the Villa she also promotes Brno functionalism which is more and more appreciated in the context of not only European but also global modern architecture. She is the author, co-author and editor of many scientific texts and publications. She is a member of international organizations DOCOMOMO International and ICOMOS. It is also a member of the Organizing Committee ICONIC HOUSES, a global foundation that brings together exceptional residential buildings of the 20th century architecture that are open to the public. © 2010 - 2016 Vila Tugendhat |

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— Main Menu —Campus News Powering Community More than 1,000 students to graduate at UW Oshkosh’s midyear commencement014 Dec 2010Commencement, Community Outreach, Exceptional Graduates by News BureauMore than 1,000 graduate and undergraduate students will receive degrees at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh’s 46th midyear commencement ceremony Saturday, Dec. 18. Chancellor Richard H. Wells will confer diplomas to the graduating students at 9:30 a.m. at Kolf Sports Center, 785 High Ave. State Representative Gordon Hintz and Michael Falbo of the UW System Board of Regents will participate in the ceremony. A reception will follow for the faculty, new alumni, and their parents and guests in the center’s lower level. Nathan Michael, a supply chain and operations management major from Racine, will serve as class speaker, addressing the importance of gratitude and humility as well as challenges that lie ahead for the class of 2010. The keynote address, given by John Koker, a mathematics professor and dean of the College of Letters and Science, will focus on problem solving. Read more about the class speaker. During the ceremony, the University will award an honorary doctorate to Muriel A. Howard, president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, for her leadership in advancing state-supported institutions, such as UW Oshkosh. Read more about Howard’s accomplishments. Among the more than 1,000 students who will graduate Dec. 18 are a cancer survivor who has already been offered a job as a registered nurse, a communication major who will pursue a career in motivational speaking in spite of speech and learning disabilities, and a first-generation college student who was inspired to return to higher education after her teenage daughter announced she wanted to be a trophy wife when she grew up. Here are the stories of eight exceptional grads: Battle with cancer doesn’t stop graduate from reaching goal Stephanie Pink, a 26-year-old nursing student from Monroe, endured nine months of chemotherapy, one month of radiation and a stem cell transplant to combat bone cancer and leukemia throughout her academic career at UW Oshkosh. After her diagnosis in 2006, Pink took a total of two and half years off from courses to battle the diseases. Faculty and staff members, including College of Nursing lecturer Becky Cleveland, encouraged Pink to look to the future and continue her education. After returning to UW Oshkosh to become a registered nurse, Pink became an intern at Theda Clark Medical Center and, since, has been offered a position in the center’s cardiac and orthopedic sectors in Neenah. She will graduate Dec. 18 with a Bachelor of Science in nursing. Interaction with faculty, campus involvement prompts poli-sci major to go on to grad school Amy Gearhart chose UW Oshkosh because she knew she would be given the opportunity to grow through independent study, study abroad, athletics and student organizations — and she took advantage of all of those outlets. Gearhart, 21, of Salem, will graduate with a degree in political science and religious studies. She credits her experiences in Tracy Slagter’s “International Organizations” course for solidifying her academic path and is grateful for Druscilla Scribner, who gave her the confidence to pursue graduate school. A finalist for commencement speaker, Gearhart said her political science coursework taught her valuable skills that she used while serving as a county board supervisor. Read more about Amy Gearhart and hear her speech. Mom inspires graduate to become motivational speaker After “stumbling across” UW Oshkosh while leafing through college brochures, Andy Hathaway, 22, of Quincy, Mass., decided to give the University a chance. “After my first year, I found that the communication department was one of the most influential and inspiring departments and continued my studies there,” Hathaway said. But he also found inspiration in his mother’s work with autistic children and her positive outlook. “It is my mother’s determination, love and inspiration that taught me that we have the power to make a difference in this world and that it is up to us to lend that helping hand,” said Hathaway, who has speech and learning disabilities. A finalist for class speaker, he will graduate with a degree in communication and plans to pursue a career in motivational speaking. Read more about Andy Hathaway and hear his speech. Human service major takes passion for cause to a professional level After graduating Dec. 18, Eric Salzwedel, of Columbus, will continue to build on his leadership and human service experiences through a full-time district office manager position and continue fundraising efforts for the Muscular Dystrophy (MD) Association. One of Salzwedel’s career goals is to become an event coordinator for a nonprofit organization or even start a nonprofit himself. He also wants to provide motivational and inspirational speeches to schools throughout the U.S. “I have such a passion for helping people, and I guess my whole philosophy of doing so much for others is that if you’re in their position or situation, wouldn’t you want someone to help you?” Salzwedel said. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in human services, Salzwedel plans to continue MD fundraising efforts within the Oshkosh community, including the MD Bowl-a-thon, for years to come. “It’s important to give back, whether it’s your money, time or skills,” he said. Read more about Eric Salzwedel. No ‘trophy wife’ aspirations for this nontraditional student Sarah Koenigs, 40, from Fond du Lac, will be the first of her family to graduate from college, but it has not been an easy journey. During her first semester at UW Oshkosh, Koenigs 15-year-old daughter was diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. Caring for her daughter, working a full-time job and attending college took their toll, but Koenig knew she had to stick with it, for her sake and her daughter’s. “One day, someone asked my little girl what she wanted to be when she grew up. She replied, ‘A trophy wife,’” Koenigs said. “I wanted to show my daughter that she had other options.” That conversation convinced Koenigs, who had dropped out of high school and married young, to pursue her high school equivalency diploma and higher education. “I set a goal of graduating by my milestone birthday and have accomplished that,” said Koenigs, who will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in organizational administration from UW Oshkosh’s Center for New Learning. Pre-med student excelled inside and ‘beyond’ the classroom Marvi Verma, 21, of Kaukauna, set high expectations for herself on her path to a degree in biology/pre-medicine. “I knew that being a pre-medical student was not going to be easy, but I could not see myself fail,” Verma said. “I wanted to make it through the obstacles, I wanted to surpass my expectations and I wanted to succeed.” Verma’s involvement with testing bacteria levels at 34 different beaches in conjunction with the Environmental Protection Agency was highlighted at the November “Beyond Classroom Walls” event. A finalist for class speaker, she said her advice to students is to set goals and take advantage of extra-curricular activities offered at UW Oshkosh. Read more about the high-impact learning opportunities highlighted at “Beyond Classroom Walls.” Read more about UW Oshkosh’s work with the Environmental Protection Agency. Read more about Marvi Verma and hear her speech. Setting early goals helped graduate attain a career fresh out of college Ashley Romenesko, of Hortonville, started setting goals for herself at a young age. The December graduate knew she was going to have to pay for college on her own and started saving at 14, determined not to take out school loans. As a freshman, Romenesko continued to set goals for herself to get involved on campus and develop her resume. Romenesko joined marketing club and served as an official early on, gaining valuable leadership skills. Her participation in marketing club and other groups on campus helped her get three internships and more recently, a full-time job offer from Oshkosh Corp. “The skills obtained through these experiences have directly impacted my performance at work and have helped me to have a successful college career and internships,” Romensko said. She will graduate with degrees in marketing and human resources and is a recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence. Student returns to UW Oshkosh after 17 years to achieve her goal Colleen Monroe, 37, has had a long time to think about the positive impact of higher education. After leaving the UW Oshkosh in 1993, she always wanted to return to college and earn her degree. One semester and two courses later, Monroe will achieve her goal, thanks to the Graduation Project, which helps “stopped-out” students return to the University. Monroe has used her return to college as a chance to connect with her 4-year-old daughter and explore possible areas of study. She will be awarded an associate degree from UW Oshkosh at the December commencement ceremony and will return to UW Oshkosh next semester to accomplish her ultimate aim of attaining a bachelor’s degree. Read more about the Graduation Project. More commencement articles Download video of the commencement ceremony at iTunes U. Snapshots: December 2010 Commencement Keynote speaker: ‘To avoid frustration is to avoid learning’ Class speaker to today’s challenges: ‘Bring it!’ EventsTwitterTweets by @uwoshkosh UW OshkoshUW Oshkosh in the News Kasper motivated by Phoenix’s fight Aurora grants $300K to Oshkosh groups UW-Oshkosh prepares for national semifinals UW-Oshkosh tries to get over hump and into D3 National Championship UW-Oshkosh team discusses Phoenix Bridegroom’s cancer relapse Turnovers help Titans topple Tommies ©2015 UW Oshkosh Oshkosh,

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Elena Campbell Topics in European History Examines special topics in European history. St. Petersburg/Leningrad: City as History This course provides an overview of the political, social, and cultural history of one of Europe's most splendid cities, St. Petersburg. We will focus on the changing world of St. Petersburg from its foundation in 1703 to 1991, and also use it as a window to explore major themes in Imperial Russian and Soviet history. These themes include Westernization and the question of Russiaʼs national identity, urbanization, industrialization, revolution, multinational empire, World War II, Stalinism and socialistic reformism. St. Petersburgʼs history will serve as the landscape to help us think about how historians work. We will analyze texts and images of St. Petersburg in order to understand how history is recorded and written. Student learning goals Last Update by Elena Campbell Date: 10/24/2012 Office of the Registrar

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Print-friendly versionCompletion Joann S. Bakula February 2008 This meditation completes the circle of the year, which as we know, benefits in being seen from many different perspectives. Pisces is called the meditation of the World Savior, the completion of the Christ. What is to be saved? From what? Elaine Pagels, in writing about the gnostic gospel of Thomas (Beyond Belief), often called the fifth gospel, says that there are two basic types of salvation. "The first sees salvation as deliverance from sin and death; the second shows how someone 'ignorant of God and of [one's] own nature,' and mired in destructive behavior, eventually develops a growing awareness of—and need for—relationship with God. Heracleon explains that whoever experiences the first type of conversion may—eventually will—also experience the second, which is what Augustine...meant when he spoke of 'faith seeking understanding.'" It is knowledge of one's spark of divinity or 'Christ in you' that is sought in meditation and the esoteric literature of Alice Bailey and the Tibetan Master for whom she wrote. It is imitation of the life of Christ, not in signs of persecution or body signs, but in terms of higher consciousness and beingness, such as the first five initiations: the birth of Christ consciousness; the baptism or washing away of the glamour of selfish and materialistic values; the transfiguration of the personality as it becomes the true instrument of the soul; the termination of the causal body as the transfigured one forges a direct path between spirit and matter, no longer needing the rainbow of the intermediary soul; and finally, the resurrection and ascension, the overcoming of death, the persistence of the divine element, and the revelation of the ageless Mysteries. "Within the world of illusion—the world of the mental plane—appeared the Christ, the Lord of Love Himself, Who embodies in Himself the power of the attractive will of God. He undertook to dispel the illusion by drawing to Himself (by the potency of love) the hearts of all men, and states this determination in the words, 'And I, if I be lifted from the world, will draw all men unto me' (John 12:32). From the point they then will have reached, the world of spiritual perception, of truth and of divine ideas will stand revealed. The result will be the disappearing of illusion." [Alice Bailey, Glamour: A World problem, pp. 166-7] The Tibetan predicts that when the basic teachings of the East and West are seen as one, and humanity has healed itself from its fractured world of desire and illusion, a revelation will come through which "some potent and far-reaching results will be achieved by the merging of light and love, and by the reaction of 'lighted substance to the attractive power of love'". And that "when an appreciation of the meaning of the words 'transfiguration of a human being' is gained, the realization will come that when 'the body is full of light' then 'in that light shall we see Light.' This means that when the personality has reached a point of purification, of dedication and of illumination, then the attractive power of the soul (whose name is love and understanding) can function, and fusion of these two will take place. This is what the Christ proved and demonstrated....both of these potencies—light and love—will find radiant expression in the transfigured disciple. What is true, therefore, of the individual is true also of humanity as a whole, and today humanity (having reached maturity) can 'enter into realisation' and consciously take part in the work of enlightenment and of spiritual, loving activity." [Alice Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, pp. 359-361] As the mind of humanity itself increases in sensitive, conscious awareness and clarity it begins to see the whole planet, as it is today, and it takes responsibility for its impact and abuse, and sees its place as intermediary between the kingdoms of nature and the worlds of higher intelligence and consciousness, or the kingdom of God. It sees that its work on itself is not finished, and that each revelation of a son of God enables it to reach higher. If a sacred book is interpreted to lead to war and the death of millions, how could it be true? In the words of Rumi, from 800 years ago: "The interpretation of a sacred text is true if it stirs you to hope, activity and, awe; if it makes you slacken your service, know the real truth to be this: it's a distortion...not a true interpretation." In the Vajrayana teachings of Buddhism, a direct path to enlightenment is offered. It teaches that after the stages of deity yoga or yidam, building the master in the heart; comes development and integration; ending in the generation and completion stages of meditation. Generation and completion, are what has to be known and what has to be meditated. Completion is the stage beyond concept, delusion and illusion. The following commentary is from Dilgo Khyenste, The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones. "'We should understand that, in the unborn ground, none of all the many things we perceive—our bodies, houses, carts, and so forth—has any true existence'....If you can develop the complete certainty that this whole unceasing display of illusory appearances is void in nature, that in itself would be the ultimate completion stage." Of the four yogas associated with this stage one is called One Taste (the name of one of Ken Wilber's books), and is described as, "From appearances, cut away the clinging of mind; from mind, demolish the lair of fictitious appearances; where mind and appearances are one is openness; in the realization of one taste, recite the six-syllable mantra." Om Mani Padme Hum. May the light and love embodied in the two Avatars, the Buddha and the Christ, ease humanity upon its way through its distortions and delusions to a true relationship to the kingdoms of nature and of God, East and West, in reality one seamless expression of an underlying unborn truth. May the power of the one Life be yours as we meditate in the completion stage of the spiritual year. home top

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Governor Quinn Signs New School Safety Law Governor’s Public Safety Priority Requires School Districts to Include a Safety Drill for the Possibility of a Shooting Incident CHICAGO – Governor Pat Quinn today signed a new law that requires all Illinois schools to hold active safety drills with local law enforcement to ensure they are as prepared as possible in the event of a shooting incident. Today's action is part of the governor's agenda to improve public safety in Illinois. As one of his top public safety priorities this session, Governor Quinn proposed this legislation during his 2013 State of the State address to increase safety in Illinois schools in the wake of recent school shooting incidents such as the horrific tragedy in Newtown, Conn. “Our students, teachers, principals and school staff can never be too prepared for an emergency situation where a gun is involved,” Governor Quinn said. “If the unthinkable were ever to occur, knowing what to do, where to go and how to respond could save many precious lives. These safety drills will ensure that every Illinois school works with local law enforcement to be as prepared as possible.” Currently, school districts are required to conduct a minimum of six drills: three school evacuation drills, one bus evacuation drill, one law enforcement drill and one severe weather and shelter-in-place drill. Senate Bill 1625 amends the School Safety Drill Act and makes several changes to the official requirements for school safety drills. The new law requires that the law enforcement drill include a shooting incident, and that law enforcement participate in it. The drill must take place in each school building where students are taught, and it must occur during the academic year. The bill was sponsored by State Sen. Jacqueline Collins (D-Chicago) and State Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia (D-Aurora). "In addition to addressing the root causes of shootings and other threats to student safety, we must be prepared for the worst," State Sen. Collins said. "Unfortunately, safety drills need to prepare our schools to respond not only to acts of nature, but to acts of violence." “This legislation is good for the welfare of the children of Illinois, and I applaud Governor Quinn for making this a top priority and for signing this bill today,” State Rep. Linda Chapa La Via said. Following the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn. in December of 2012, Governor Quinn convened top experts from across the state for a School Safety Summit to develop short- and long-term actions to further strengthen school safety. The summit included school district organizations, law enforcement agencies and state agencies, including the Illinois Emergency Management Agency. Today's legislation was developed by the governor and supported by the summit. Senate Bill 1625 takes effect immediately. RAW TAPE: Governor Pat Quinn signs new school safety law. Audio includes: Governor Pat Quinn, Sen. Jacqueline Collins, Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia and Sen. Don Harmon. RAW TAPE: Brief Q & A w/Governor Pat Quinn.

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Apply University Relations Administration 302 UCM Home » News & Events » Archive » 2013 » March News UCM President UCM Magazine Online Getting to UCM News Bureau Contacts UCM Daily Related Links Extra, Extra! Contribute an event notice... Send us a story idea... eaa.awards UCM Captures Seven Higher Education Marketing Awards Contact: Jeff Murphy WARRENSBURG, MO (March 7, 2013) – Competing against some of the most prestigious colleges and universities in the nation, the University of Central Missouri captured seven honors, including a Gold, three Silvers and a Bronze, in the nation’s largest educational advertising awards program. Choose Red Television Ads Listen to the radio ads that were part of the series: Ad 1 Award results for the 28th Annual Educational Advertising Awards, sponsored by the Higher Education Marketing Report, were announced this month. Nearly 3,000 entries from more than 1,000 colleges, universities and secondary schools from all 50 states and several foreign countries were considered in the competition. UCM was one of 167 institutions that received Gold Awards. Judged in the category for schools with 10,000 to 19,999 students, Central Missouri captured the top honor for Total PR Program, based on a promotional campaign for the fall 2012 Show Me Justice Film Festival. Working in cooperation with University Relations staff members and the Department of Communications and Sociology, two students in the Innovative Public Relations group coordinated an advertising plan and outreach to relevant audiences through news releases, social media and distribution of print material. The IPR group also coordinated a kickoff event three weeks prior to the festival. “What’s significant about this award is that it represents a strong collaboration between students, professional staff, and an academic department,” said Robin Krause, director of marketing and promotion in the Office of University Relations. “Students planned and executed an excellent campaign while getting great support from other students, faculty members, and professional design staff.” He added, “It’s also worth noting that for this award and for many others, UCM entries were judged in competition with entries that were created by professional advertising and marketing firms.” Silver awards were presented to 158 institutions, including UCM, which received separate awards for its Choose Red Radio Advertising Series and for its Choose Red Social Media entry. It also received an award for the “Escojo Rojo” Newspaper Advertising Series, which appeared in metropolitan area media. UCM earned a Bronze Award for Total Recruitment Package. This entry included a variety of pieces that are used by admissions personnel, including a view book, items for admissions representatives to take on the road, promotional brochures and postcards. Three Merit Awards were received by the university, including recognition for a promotional brochure that was created for the Department of Theatre and Dance, and recognition for the Choose Red Television/Advertising Series. The other award winner was in the Direct Mail category. It featured a student-designed postcard for the UCM Foundation to promote The Cambium Society, a new giving society open to UCM students. P.O. Box 800, Warrensburg, MO 64093

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Motivational techniques used within an organisation According to Robbins and Coulter (2005), "The processes that account for an individual's willingness to exert high levels of effort to reach organizational goals, conditioned by the effort's ability to satisfy some individual need." On the other hand, Weihrich and Koontz (2003) identified motivation as "a general term applying to the entire class of drives, desires, needs, wishes, and similar forces." If we consider the Content perspectives of motivation according to Griffin (2005), which focus on the following question What workplace factors motivate people? According to this criteria motivation deals with needs and need deficiencies. Brown (2000) argued that, 'motivation can be more effectively enhanced by providing employees with more autonomy and greater responsibility.' The most widely known theories of motivation are Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, Fredcrick Herzberg's Two Factors Theory, Douglas McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y, The Expectancy theory, The Goal Setting theory, The equity Theory etc. these theories of motivation are briefly described below: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Abraham Maslow a human relationist, argued that people are motivated to satisfy five need levels. They are, Physiological needs, Security needs, Belongingness needs, Esteem needs, and Self-actualization needs. This is known as Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs theory of motivation. This theory shown in the figure below: Figure: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Source: http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/maslow.html Through this theory, Maslow mentioned that, when an inferior rank need is satisfied (for example, assuring food, clothing, the need of breathing, etc), the next level need becomes dominant, and the attention of the person is dedicated to the accomplishment of this higher rank need. The need of self-actualization can never be satisfied; Maslow mentions in this sense that "man is a perpetually wanting animal" and only an unsatisfied need can motivate the behavior, the dominant need being the primary factor for behavior motivation. During the evolution of needs towards the top of the hierarchy of needs, there is also a psychological evolution, but it doesn't happen necessarily as a direct progression. The inferior rank needs continue to exist, even if temporarily in a latency state as motivation factors, and people constantly come back to previously satisfied needs. Maslow's theory has had a great influence over the organizations, but it was also very criticized, especially for its rigidity, because people are different and have different priorities. Even Maslow mentioned that it is hard to accept that people's needs advance progressively and constantly towards the top of the pyramid, in a very orderly manner. Another motivation theory is Frederick Herzberg's Two Factors Theory. He made an investigation about the sources of professional satisfaction and dissatisfaction for accountants and engineers. Hertzberg ascertained that their statements about the good periods were mostly related to content elements of the professional activity, especially professional acknowledgement, achievements, promotions, responsibilities and the nature of work itself. The frustrations of the interviewees were frequently related to the context of their work: the company policy, the management, the surveillance system, the salary, and the work conditions. Hertzberg considers that motivation and the increase of work performance can be only obtained through the action of the motivational factors, which directly reflect the content of the executed work by the employee on his position. The contextual factors represent only the conditions necessary for the execution of work processes. This theory was often criticized, especially because it does not make any evaluation of the relation between satisfaction and performance. Many critics also suggested that Hertzberg drew deductive conclusions, with general incidence, unjustified by the utilization of significant interviewees. Douglas McGregor developed one of the best known motivational theories, Theory X and Theory Y. In the process of work, McGregor separate employees in two categories. Employees that align to the X theory are predisposed to negligence, by avoiding work as much as possible, by lacking ambition and avoiding responsibilities. Considered a medium level person, the X employee is indifferent to the needs of the company that he belongs to, and has certain inertia towards change, by resisting it. In consequence, at the workplace, the X employee must be forced, threatened with punishments, permanently controlled and penalized in order to be determined to make the efforts necessary to attain the company objectives. According to the Y theory, the employees consider it normal to make physical and intellectual efforts at work, by voluntarily taking upon themselves different assignments and responsibilities and by being motivated by the associated rewards. The Y employee must not be forced by different means to obtain performance, because he is motivated by the content of his work. McGregor's view can, of course, be considered simplistic, because external and internal factors can often decisively influence his work performance. Along with those three content theories, there are also different process theories. If in the content theories the accent is on the specific factors that motivate the employees regarding certain necessities and aspirations, in the process theories the accent is laid on the processes, on the psychological forces that have an effect on motivation. They start from the premise that motivation begins with the wish of doing something, generating expectations. The process or cognitive theories are more useful to the managers than the content theories because they offer more realistic principles regarding the motivation techniques. The best known process theories are: the expectancy theory, the goal setting theory and the equity theory. The expectancy theory, also named the VIE theory was initially elaborated by Vroom (1964) and then developed by Porter and Lawler (1968). This theory establishes a connection between the employees' motivation and the certitude of their expectancies. The motivation is possible only when there is a clear relation between the work performance and its results and the results are means to satisfy a certain need. The goal setting theory, developed by Lotham and Locke (1979) states that, the level of motivation and performance is higher when the individual has specific objectives established and when these objectives, even with a high level of difficulty, are accepted and are offered a performance feedback. The human resources specialists have an important role to play in establishing organizational objectives. The employees must participate in the process of goal setting in order to obtain their approval when setting higher and higher targets and the human resources people can help them to understand the consequences of these targets over their entire activity. Feedback is also vital to maintain employees motivation, especially when targeting even higher objectives. The equity theory, speaks about the people perceptions regarding the way they are treated in comparison with others. Actually, the theory states that the people are higher motivated when they are fairly treated and less motivated when there is no equity between employees. This theory only explains one of the features of the motivational process, but an important one at an ethical and moral level. From many perspectives this theory is contrary to the general theories developed by Maslow and Herzberg. They put into light only the intrinsic and extrinsic motivation of an individual. The Fifty - Fifty rules enlarge the motivation understanding and suggest that 50 per cent of our motivation lies without us. Of course, this does not mean that it is pointless to study the very much known theories. The two researcher's contribution lies in the fact that they map out the internal needs and motivations of an individual, many times accomplished through work. Maslow's sketch map is more general and more original. Herzberg continued and applied Maslow's theory into practice. He dichotomized the human needs into satisfiers and dissatisfiers, or motivational and hygiene factors. The Fifty - Fifty rules covers both perspectives: the internal perspective of an individual and its inner motivational factors and also the external perspective, when the employee motivation is influenced by others and the instant circumstances. Adair (2006) argued that, "When someone is motivating you, he or she is consciously or unconsciously seeking to change the strength and the direction of your motive energy". Discussion of the relevance of Motivational techniques on my organization I design this work by constructing a hypothetical organization of mine. That will have business of Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG). As for doing business as FMCG the organization needs to increase efficiency in production and marketing. Though these two sectors are totally different in structure so I need to use different motivational techniques for different departments and also need to consider that these techniques should have relations with each other and while using monetary factors as motivational tools this should be equal for each of the divisions. In my organization I would like to use following motivational tools: Monetary Incentives Job design As per my concern by using these factors I will become able to increase my profitability and productivity. In the first if I discuss about monetary incentives this will motivate the employees to perform at a standard level and also motivate them to increase their efficiency. Locke et al. (1980) conducted a research on the significance of monetary incentives on performance improvements and the result of this research was "The median performance increase found in the field studies they reviewed was 30 percent." Management by objectives (MBO) is now one of the most widely used motivational techniques. It establishes standards for employee performance and offer feedback of the employees about the extent to which the standards have been achieved. Locke et al. (1980) attribute a 16 percent median improvement in performance (with a range of2 percent to 57.5 percent) as a result of goal setting. They also emphasized that feedback about progress for goal setting to regulate performance effectively. According to Hackman (1977) Job design involves the structuring of various aspects of the job content. It increases the responsibility, task autonomy of the employees and distributes the authority which flattens the hierarchy. Theoretical Limitations: As all the techniques and tools is suitable for each and every situation. On the other hand we can say every motivational technique has some limitations. As if we use the monetary incentives as motivational tools it will reduce net profit after tax of the company and also encourage managers for window dressing which may cause Agency Problem. On the other hand, while implementing MBO approach as motivational tools, the objective should be dynamic, otherwise the profitability and efficiency of the organization will be hampered at a specific stage. While setting the goal we must consider several difficulties such as, First, goal setting often is an important prerequisite of effective performance appraisal and monetary incentives. Second, goal setting offers one of the primary routes to personal significance reinforcement because it creates a mechanism by which individuals can observe their contributions to organizational success. Third, goal setting is an attractive alternative to monetary incentives, which, in the long run either could fail for lack of adequate financial rewards or might detract from public interest values. Fourth, goal setting might be an efficient alternative to monetary incentives in that it offers a high rate of return for quite limited investments. In case of Job design approach, Locke et al. (1980), argued that, "Evaluating the effectiveness of job design is more difficult than evaluating the effectiveness of other motivational techniques because it usually is implemented in conjunction with feedback and other structural changes." And he suggest that, by controlling the goal setting component job design program can be controlled without having any effect on the performance. In conclusion it is clea Essay Writing Service UKEssaysEssaysBusinessMotivational Techniques Used Within An Organisation Business Essay

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MYUML BeyondU Workshop Explores Booming Biopharmaceutical Industry PressroomFeatured StoriesIn the NewsVideosAlumni MagazineNewsLineNewsLine ArchiveStudent NewspaperPhoto GalleryToday@UMass LowellTell Us About ItSearch News Archive Campus Event Raises Visibility of UMass Lowell The Biopharmaceutical Summit was held March 9 at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center in downtown Lowell. By Edwin L. Aguirre According to IndustryWeek, in 2010, “America’s biopharmaceutical research companies invested a record $67.4 billion in the research and development of new medicines and vaccines.” Biopharmaceuticals are medical drugs manufactured using biotechnology methods, that is, the products are derived from biological sources, usually involving live organisms or their active components. They include all recombinant proteins, monoclonal antibodies, vaccines, blood/plasma-derived products, nonrecombinant culture-derived proteins, cultured cells and tissues. To discuss the most relevant challenges facing today’s biopharmaceutical manufacturing, leaders and experts from academia, industry and government gathered at UMass Lowell for the Biopharmaceutical Summit on March 9. More than 150 professionals from 60 organizations across the country participated in the event, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center and major biopharmaceutical firms such as Biogen Idec, Genzyme, Pfizer, Momenta, Millipore, GE and SAFC. “This was the first New England regional event in which academic researchers, biopharmaceutical scientists and engineers, technology/system developers, raw material suppliers and regulating agencies got together to address how to overcome hurdles and challenges and drive innovation in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, as well as share success stories and new breakthroughs,” says chemical engineering Asst. Prof. Seongkyu Yoon. “It was the first such event managed by UMass Lowell and it increased the visibility and awareness of research at the University,” he says. “It also provided a great opportunity to network with industry professionals and learn about groundbreaking research in genomics.” Yoon is head of the Biopharmaceutical Process and Quality Consortium (BPQC), an interdisciplinary and multi-university research collaboration based at the Massachusetts BioManufacturing Center at UMass Lowell, which hosted the workshop. The program included 20 invited speakers and panelists as well as 22 posters by BPQC graduate students and researchers. In addition to challenges in biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing, other topics that were taken up included developing and implementing innovative technologies to overcome these hurdles and developing advanced, next-generation biopharmaceutical processes. “We plan to host the workshop twice a year,” says Yoon. “Our aim is to develop more industry-focused research and education programs as well as increase collaboration with other academic institutions in the New England region such as MIT, Worcester Polytechnic, Northeastern and the UMass campuses.” Check out a photo gallery from the day's event. For more information, go to the BPQC website. Biopharmaceutical Summit 2012 Photo Gallery Request Information Apply Check Application Status Visit Menu University Relations - Cumnock Hall, 31 University Ave., Lowell, MA 01854 Phone: 978-934-3224 Fax: 978-934-3033 Contact Us

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Mentor of the week: Ashley Powell Nov. 2, 2013 at 6:02 a.m.Ashley PowellWant to be a mentor? Call the Victoria Business and Education Coalition at 361-572-8232.Ashley Powell is a Victoria Business and Education Coalition mentor at Victoria West High School. Powell, a teacher at Victoria West, mentors students weekly. Powell has been a mentor for the Victoria school district for one year. "I see how much students struggle in math on a daily basis," Powell said. "I am certified in math, and I figured I could help students on a one-on-one basis to try to fill in the gaps that they are missing."Powell said she mainly wants to let students know that there are people who want them to succeed in life. "I enjoy the break in my day in which a positive goal is achieved," Powell said. "I also enjoy bringing a smile to a young person's face. I love seeing them gain confidence in themselves."SHAREComments

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A Deadly Cobra (Animal Instincts) By: Tom Jackson (author)Paperback Follow a cobra's life cycle, from birth to finding a mate and old age. Learn about the different aspects of the biology of a cobra: how they sense the world, find their food, reproduce and communicate with each other. Sections of the text are written in first-person narrative, giving a clear understanding of the way animals behave and how they grow, learn, move, fight, rest and play. Tom Jackson has been a writer for 20 years. He has written more than 80 books and contributed to hundreds more. Tom gets to write about a wide range of subjects, everything from axolotls to zoroastrianism. However, his specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. Tom spends his days finding fun ways of communicating these kinds of facts, new and old, to all age groups and reading abilities. Tom lives in Bristol, England, with his wife and three children. He studied zoology at Bristol University and has had spells working at the zoos in Jersey and Surrey. Tom has also worked as a conservationist, which saw him planting trees in Somerset, surveying Vietnamese jungle and rescuing wildlife from drought-ridden Zimbabwe. Writing jobs have also taken him to the Galapagos Islands, the Amazon rain forest, the coral reefs of Indonesia and the Sahara Desert. Nowadays, he can be found mainly in the attic. series: Animal Instincts» publisher: Hachette Children's Group» imprint: Wayland (Publishers) Ltd»

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Faculty Members Honored The following faculty awards were presented at Commencement on Saturday, May 19: Frederick C. Kohlmeyer Distinguished Teaching Professorship The Frederick C. Kohlmeyer Distinguished Teaching Professorship was presented to Professor of Art Steve Thomas. Dr. Kohlmeyer, through a gift to Augustana upon his death in 1990, established this distinguished professorship to recognize and to reward outstanding teaching. The recipient receives a summer stipend of $5,000 for each of the two years of the award. Thomas earned his bachelor's degree from Augustana (1980) and has a Master of Fine Art from the University of South Dakota. He has done continued studies at the University of Minnesota and in Italy and has taught sculpture in France and Great Britain. He has a passion for art education and the development of creating thinking skills in children. Steve has public art works in Sioux Falls and throughout the region. He is a recipient of the Sioux Falls Mayor's Award in the Arts and has been a member of the Sioux Falls Board of Parks and Recreation for over ten years. Thomas also oversees the pre-architecture program within the art department. Vernon and Mildred Niebuhr Faculty Excellence Award The Vernon and Mildred Niebuhr Faculty Excellence Award was presented to Dr. David O’Hara, associate professor of philosophy and classics. The Vernon and Mildred Niebuhr Faculty Excellence Award was established to provide an annual award to recognize excellence in teaching. The winner is chosen for brilliance in the classroom. O’Hara specializes in Ancient Philosophy (Plato), American Philosophy (Charles Peirce), and Philosophy of Religion. He is the author of a number of articles and book chapters. His most recent book is "Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C.S. Lewis" (U. P. Kentucky, 2008). He is currently preparing an edited volume of the Religious Writings of American philosopher Charles S. Peirce. Dr. O'Hara is a graduate of Middlebury College (B.A., Spanish), St John's College (M.A., Liberal Arts), and The Pennsylvania State University (M.A., Ph.D., Philosophy). Jane and Charles Zaloudek Faculty Research Fellowship The Jane and Charles Zaloudek Faculty Research Fellowship was presented to Dr. Margaret Preston, associate professor and chair of the History department, and Dr. Rocki Wentzel, assistant professor of classics. The Zaloudek Faculty Research Fellowship was established in 2007 by Jane Hemmel Zaloudek and Dr. Charles Zaloudek to provide an annual fellowship to support research by a member of the Augustana faculty. The purpose of the fellowship is to support with a $5,000 stipend, faculty scholarship that extends the scope of research beyond the normal confines of the classroom. Preston earned her Ph.D. from Boston College in 1999. Published in 2004, her book "Charitable Words: Gentlewomen, Social Control and the Language of Charity in Nineteenth-Century Dublin" focused on the intersections of race, gender, class and social control within the language of charity. Her research has been published in The Historian, Eire-Ireland and New Hibernia Review. Most recently, she authored "A Journey of Faith, A Destination of Excellence: Avera McKennan Hospital’s First Century of Caring,” in observance of the hospital's centennial. Wentzel joined Augustana in 2008 and teaches ancient Greek, Latin, and classics courses, such as mythology and drama, that utilize texts in translation. She taught for a year at The Ohio State University, where she also earned her Ph.D. Her dissertation was on the reception of Virgil’s Aeneid in Augustine’s Confessions. Her areas interests include gift theory, desire, and gender. The following faculty awards were presented at the close of the 2011-12 academic year: Carol Bland Cultivating Faculty Excellence Award Dr. Jennifer Gubbels, assistant professor of biology, has been named the recipient of the 2012 Carol Bland Cultivating Faculty Excellence Award. Established in 2009 and named to honor the life and work of Carole Bland, longtime Board of Trustee member, alumna and great friend of the College, the award provides funding for research to help create and sustain a culture of inquiry about teaching and learning at Augustana College. The award focuses on an aspect of cultivating excellence in teaching, and the intersection between research or creative work and classroom teaching. Previous recipients were Dr. John Pennington, 2009; Dr. Harry Thompson and Dr. Ann Pederson, 2010; and Dr. Darcie Rives-East and Dr. Olivia Lima, 2011. The award comes with a $5,000 honorarium. Gubbels teaches introductory biology, human physiology, general physiology, and immunology. Her research focuses on mechanisms of metastasis and immune escape in epithelial ovarian cancer. She earned her bachelor’s degree in biological research from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, and her Ph.D. in endocrinology and reproductive physiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Global Education Award Jaciel Keltgen, assistant professor of business administration, and Dr. John Pennington, professor of music, have been named recipients of the 2012 Global Education Awards. The awards are designed to encourage faculty to enhance a course’s global and international aspects. Keltgen earned her undergraduate and master's degrees from SDSU. Prior to joining Augustana, she worked in government, journalism and market research. She served as director of research, press secretary and lobbyist for two South Dakota attorneys general, and worked at the Argus Leader in various reporting and editing positions. Her marketing credits also include three years as director of marketing at the University of Sioux Falls as well as conducting market research for an international wholesale company and working as creative director for a local advertising agency. In addition to teaching marketing, Keltgen is also the president of her marketing firm, Jaciel Keltgen and Associates, and she specializes in health care marketing and admissions marketing for private colleges, universities and seminaries. She has won state and national advertising awards for her work. Pennington is an orchestral percussionist, who currently performs with the South Dakota Symphony and the Music in the Mountains Music Festival Orchestra. He also serves as a cultural envoy for the State Department in the Middle East (most recently Lebanon), where he presents concerts, clinics and masterclasses. With more than 30 recordings to date, he has recorded for the Ensemble 21, Summit, Cristo, OCP, and Equilibrium labels. Recent recording releases include: Brasileirinho, South American Music for Guitar and Percussion (co-produced composed and arranged, 2010), Steps (co-produced composed and arranged, 2008), Music for Trumpet and Percussion with Stephen Dunn, Lou Harrison, American Gamelan (produced, conducted and performed, 2007), Compassionate and Wise (co-produced, composed and performed, 2006, Equilibrium Press). With performances on four continents and over twenty-five states, he has performed on “Prairie Home Companion” and has been a featured performer at three Percussive Arts Society International Conventions. Active as a composer and arranger, Pennington has more than 25 compositions for soloist, duo, chamber and films and dozens of arrangements for numerous instrumental and vocal combinations. Extensive studies in world music have included experience in African, Middle Eastern, Indonesian, Cuban and the South Indian Karnatak tradition. He recently studied the Northern Hindustani tradition of music in Haridwar and Delhi, India and the Javanese and Balinese traditions of Indonesia. In addition to his role at Augustana, Pennington also serves as the artistic director for the Animas Music Festival in Durango, Colo. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Arizona, and Arizona State.

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