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The Wrong Love
Much is written about love and libraries. There is ILoveLibraries.org, a site created by the American Library Association. The site does many things toward library and librarian advocacy, including the I Love My Librarian award. There is also the Love Libraries website run out of the UK, promoting UK libraries. There is also a We Love Libraries film and Pew has been doing a ton of research on libraries, much of it focused on how much people love and value libraries.
I believe that we are having the wrong conversation.
The conversation we should be having is how much we in libraries love our communities.
We who work in, for, and around libraries know that people love and value the work we do. The loud rumblers, grumpy naysayers, and anti-all-public-service stinkpots are few and far between (though indeed they do be loud). We get validation all the time from our communities, from the small "thank you" after a reference question to a huge donation from a grateful patron. If we know that we're essential to the community, that people love and trust us…why are we constantly expending energy to remind the people we serve of that very fact?
In thinking about this issue, I can't get away from the image my brain conjures up of a librarian hurriedly following someone on the sidewalk shouting pronouncements like "All your neighbors love libraries!" and "You love us. Don't forget that you love us!"
Are we truly that defensive that we feel we have to prove our worth through reminding the people we serve that they think we're so frigging awesome that they'd better keep loving us or else risk societal shunning? This defensive posture does not serve us well. It does not prove our worth, but rather sounds like a whinging adolescent trying to convince himself that he's cool by telling the cool kids "I'm cool – no really I am!"
And that's the crux of the issue. I don't think we focus on "library/librarian love" for the sake of our communities, to remind them of what we do so they'll use us more, as an outreach or advocacy tool, or as a political move to solidify our value in the minds of stakeholders.
We do it to make ourselves feel better.
In a time of decreasing employment for MLIS-holders, reductions or (at best) stagnation of library funding, and a nearly unprecedented increase in demand and workload (my library is a good example of this), I think that some librarians and other library workers are feeling rather unappreciated and pessimistic about the future. But of course we can't say that out loud in public, so instead we mount these library/librarian love campaigns and beg other people to validate our existence.
What bothers me most about this is that nearly everyone I've ever met who works in a library, no matter the position or type of library, believes wholeheartedly in what we do for a living. The way I phrase it is "We democratize information and expertise." We all believe in that goal. We fight for it. We believe in what we do because…(wait for it)…we love our communities and want to serve them to the best of our ability.
Most library staffers I know bend over backward to serve people. We live in the communities we serve. We love our neighbors. We love information, freedom of access, education, and entertainment. We who work in libraries love them more than anyone else. But what do we love more than libraries? The communities we serve.
And that, my friends, is what we should be focusing on. We should be campaigning that "The Library Loves You"…not begging for loving scraps of endearment ourselves.
Shifting that viewpoint, changing the looking glass, is going to be my goal for the beginning of 2014. I hope you will join me.


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The NSW Waratahs have soared to the top of the Super Rugby ladder and won the Australian conference with an emphatic 39-8 bonus-point win over the Brumbies.
But the Waratahs' club-record-equalling fifth straight victory came at a heavy cost on Saturday night, with captain Dave Dennis suffering a suspected season-ending knee injury.
Dennis was helped off ANZ Stadium with a reported torn anterior cruciate ligament after falling awkwardly on his right knee following a tackle on Brumbies winger Henry Speight in the 35th minute.
The former Wallabies flanker has already had two knee reconstructions and it would be a cruel blow if the 28-year-old was ruled out for the rest of the Waratahs' campaign to have a third operation.
The Waratahs are leading the competition with two rounds remaining and are assured of their first finals appearance in three years after putting the injury-ravaged Brumbies to the sword and then seeing the Western Force thumped 40-14 by the Blues.
But stand-in skipper Michael Hooper admitted Dennis's injury soured celebrations.
"It's horrible. Denno's been our leader from the front this year. You never like to see that," Hooper said.
"But the boys carried on and put it out there for Denno in the second half.
"We said we wanted to be top two at the start of the year and we're on track to do that."
Needing to win to retain control of their own finals destiny, the Brumbies entered the pivotal derby with 11 players, including six Wallabies, unavailable.
Their woes were compounded in the opening minutes when Test centre Tevita Kuridrani was forced off following a head knock.
Injuries, though, weren't the Brumbies' only concern, with their lineout a shambles.
Fourth-choice hooker Ruaidhri Murphy – a specialist prop – had four throws stolen in the first half alone and another after the break before being hooked.
The lineout wobbles and ill-discipline at the breakdown handed the Waratahs almost 70 per cent of possession and the home team inevitably made the Brumbies pay.
With driving assistance from fellow prop Sekope Kepu, loosehead Benn Robinson opened the scoring with the game's first try in the 16th minute.
An intercept try to winger Alofa Alofa three minutes later – off a loose Speight pass – doubled the hosts' advantage, with five-eighth Bernard Foley slotting both conversions.
The Brumbies gave themselves hope in unlikely fashion when fullback Jesse Mogg outleapt former AFL player Israel Folau to score from a cross-field kick from Christian Lealiifano.
After the two sides traded early penalty goals in the second half, the Brumbies were still in the hunt, trailing 17-8 before some Folau magic turned the match.
The dual-international beat about half a dozen defenders and carried three over the line after a powerful 40-metre burst, only to be denied a try by the video referee.
No matter, though, with Foley converting the pressure into seven points when he strolled over shortly after.
Alofa clinched the bonus point with NSW's fourth try before powerhouse No.8 Wycliff Palu iced the big win with a well-deserved five-pointer in the dying seconds.
While the Waratahs can secure Australian conference honours – and most likely a home final – next Sunday with victory over the Highlanders at Allianz Stadium, the Brumbies' finals fate now rest with others.
With a bye offering the ACT outfit no competition points next weekend, the Brumbies will likely slip out of the top six entering into the final round.


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Last fall, Melia Dicker, 28, went to her middle-school dance. And to third-grade recess. And senior English. For her one-woman project, Reschool Yourself, Dicker revisited her childhood classrooms, shadowing students and interviewing teachers to figure out how school had defined her adulthood.
Dicker realized school had led her to overachieve, sacrificing health and happiness for goals that didn't come from within. She spent the second half of the year learning simple skills she'd never gained in school—like how to slow down, join a community, plant an organic garden, play guitar, and make yogurt.
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The peninsula of Crimea is located in the southernmost part of Ukraine and is surrounded by the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. It is comparable in size to Belgium and has a population of just over 2 million.
About 60% of the population is ethnically Russian, 23% Ukrainian and 12% Crimean Tatar, but in total more than 100 ethnic groups live in Crimea, including Armenians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Karaims, Krymchaks and Germans. Crimea is an Autonomous Republic within Ukraine.
In 1944 the Soviet Government forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of ethnic Crimean Tatars, as well as the smaller Bulgarian, Greek and Armenian communities to the Urals, Siberia and Soviet Central Asia for alleged collaboration with Nazi Germany. Small numbers of these latter groups returned during the 60s and 70s of the last century, but between 1989 and 1993, more than a quarter of a million Crimean Tatars returned en masse to their homeland from their places of exile.
The return of such a large number of people (over 12% of the total population of Crimea) during and immediately following the break-up of the Soviet Union and the subsequent social and economic collapse, created an immense burden on newly independent Ukraine.
As a result, relations between the mainly Crimean Tatar Formerly Deported People and the local ethnic Russian and Ukrainian population and authorities quickly deteriorated to a point where widespread violent conflict seemed inevitable, with serious destabilizing effects for the young Ukrainian state. That in the end such outbreaks of violent conflict remained limited is mainly due to the combined efforts and determination of the Government of Ukraine, the Government of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the Crimean Tatar community and other stakeholders.
The increased political and financial resources devoted by Ukrainian Government to the problems of Crimea, as well as the active presence of International Organizations such as OSCE, UNHCR, IOM, ICRC and UNDP, has further contributed to stabilize the region. Nevertheless, large segments of Crimea's population continues to feel excluded from opportunities to improve their living conditions and participate as full citizens in society. Lack of jobs and land and even such basic services as water, electricity, schools and health posts leave many people with little options and no confidence in the future.
If unchecked, this could result in renewed tension and possible conflict in the peninsula. UNDP CIDP is committed to preventing this by empowering people to take charge of their lives.


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Once-despised Egyptian military finds favor after short-lived democracy
Soha Sayed was once an iconic face in a nation weary of an Egyptian government dominated by the military.
Her husband, an accidental revolutionary, was fatally shot during the country's 2011 uprising that pressed for democracy.
Widowed, she called for former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's conviction for her husband's death.
"Nothing," she insisted, "could happen here without Mubarak knowing."
When Mubarak was convicted last year, a photo of Sayed, joyfully crying behind sunglasses while carrying a poster of her late husband, traveled the world.
No more. The woman who once said Egyptians demanded change, who lost her husband to old norms and who supported Mohammed Morsi's rise as Egypt's first democratically elected leader, on Monday welcomed his ouster by the same military implicated in her husband's killing.
Gen. Abdel-Fateh el-Sissi, the defense minster and de facto Egyptian leader, is "the nation's savior," she said.
She sees the Muslim Brotherhood, the organization through which Morsi ascended to the presidency, as terrorists. And revolutionaries who once urged people to rise up against the government, she said, have done nothing to improve the lives or economic standing of everyday Egyptians.
The 2011 revolution for democracy, at least as typified by people like Sayed, appeared dead Monday.
Egyptians largely welcomed news of Mubarak's potential release and of Morsi's detention stretching out for at least 15 more days. There appeared only growing support for the military takeover – even amid the killing of more than 1,000 Morsi supporters since Wednesday, including 36 detained Islamists killed Monday while in police custody.
Early Tuesday, police detained the supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, according to security officials and state television cited by the Associated Press. Mohammed Badie was captured in an apartment in Nasr City in eastern Cairo, AP reported.
"Wasn't Mubarak released through the law and didn't we call for Egypt to become a state of laws?" asked Sayed, 43. "The revolution failed because it didn't have a strong leader, a lion who doesn't fear or care for anyone, someone like el-Sissi."
The unelected military and the civilian government it put in place enjoy broad public support to eliminate the threat of what many Egyptians perceive from Mubarak's followers. There are no more mass demonstrations against the military or calls for democratic reforms.
Instead, many Egyptians are seeking stability in any form.
News stations on Monday replayed gruesome photos of 25 police officers whose burned bodies were attributed to a rocket-propelled grenade presumably fired by Islamist Morsi supporters. The deaths of the officers fueled public anger and launched calls for retribution against the killers.
Newscasters read the officers' names, preceding each with the word "sha-heed," or martyr, as their flag-draped coffins arrived in Cairo. It was the deadliest day for the police most Egyptians could remember.
Meanwhile at Cairo's overwhelmed Zeinhoum morgue, 638 bodies arrived one day. Then 173 the next day. Then 79 the day after that. And 70 more on Monday. All since the start of the clashes Wednesday, when security forces violently cleared out six-week-long sit-ins by Morsi supporters.
In all, nearly 1,100 people have died since June 26, largely Morsi supporters, according to an Agence France-Presse count. Of those, 54 were members of government security forces.
With no room inside, four refrigerator trucks now sit outside the morgue.
A barefoot man crawled inside one truck, holding a picture over each of the burned remains in search of a loved one. At the main building, every time someone opened the truck doors, the stench of death sent people scurrying.
"Sissi is a killer," someone painted on the front desk of the morgue. Every few minutes, one man after the next would come rushing out, the sound of vomit hitting the ground at what he had seen inside.
The exact circumstances that killed the 36 detained men early Monday remained unclear. The government claimed they suffocated from tear gas. But a morgue official told McClatchy the dead showed signs of torture.
A man who only wanted to be identified as Abu Youssef, a pseudonym for "father of Youssef," said he had cleaned five of the bodies from those 36 killed and there were no signs of suffocation.
"The head and neck are totally black and there are other signs of torture. The mouth is bleeding so much. The whole body has red and blue parts," the 51-year-old said. "They all have the same signs of torture."
For the second day, the Muslim Brotherhood failed to rally mass protests, despite its calls for demonstrations every day until Friday. With the group's leaders arrested or in hiding, the organization may be becoming fractured.
The most prominent name calling for revolutionary change, Nobel laureate and one-time vice president Mohammed ElBaradei, has fled to Vienna. Activists who remain here turned off their phones Monday and refused to speak publicly about recent events.
That, in turn, left the public discussion to people like Sayed.
"We don't deny that during Mubarak's rule there was injustice and corruption," Sayed said.
But where, she wonders, are those who called for change during the heady, early days of the Arab Spring push for democracy?
Where she once screamed at passing police officers for killing her husband, Sayed now believes the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been battling in the streets with the government for power, may have had a role in her husband's death.
"I don't know what happened to him anymore," she said.
On Monday, the Cairo Criminal Court absolved Mubarak, 85, of charges that he abused public funds. That could allow his release this week, his lawyer, Farid el-Deeb, told reporters. Reuters reported that Mubarak could be held for another two weeks.
In fact, whether he would be released remained unclear. He faces charges in several other cases.
Still, it was notable that the possibility that the deposed and once-reviled leader might go free didn't produce public outrage.
Prosecutors also extended their detention of Morsi for another 15 days, as they build new cases of inciting violence against him.
"(Mubarak) can't be in the same jail as Morsi," said an Egyptian fruit vendor in the Zamalek section of Cairo. "We can't have two presidents in jail."
That was typical of the many ways Egyptians justified Mubarak's potential release and Morsi's ongoing detention.
The government has repeatedly called Muslim Brotherhood members terrorists and condemned both the international community and foreign journalists for suggesting it was mistreating its foes. Their forces, government officials have said, have exercised great "self-restraint."
"The symbolism of Mubarak's release at the same time that many of the features that defined his regime are emerging is hard to miss," said Eric Trager, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Studies. "But even without his release, we were still seeing the consolidation of a profoundly undemocratic order underwritten by a profoundly undemocratic ideology."
Sayed's husband, Osama, 44, was never politically active, but the swelling crowds compelled him to leave home on Jan. 28, 2011, and head toward nearby Giza Square. It was one of many protest sites where people called for Mubarak's ouster and police reforms. He last called home at 5:30 p.m. According to hospital records, he arrived at 6 p.m. By 11 p.m., his body was in the morgue.
Where Sayed once had one enemy, the Mubarak state, she now has two more. She believes the Muslim Brotherhood destroyed the nation during Morsi's rule, and that it threatens more harm now as it seeks to reinstate him.
And she blames the revolutionaries for dashing her hopes of change. Her only source of comfort is the military.
"What Sissi is doing today is conquering terrorism. That will put us back on the right route of the revolution," Sayed said. If any revolutionary leader "was strong or managed to lead the revolution, Mubarak would have been put under revolutionary trials and convicted by now."
McClatchy special correspondent Amina Ismail contributed to this report.


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Winbond Electronics Corp (華邦電子), a currently unprofitable maker of memory chips used in laptops and handsets, said yesterday it expects sales to decline on low demand this quarter but forecast profit margins may stay flat as the company continues to make adjustments in its product mix.
"Business outlook for memory chips is grim, with sales projected to decline between 10 percent to 15 percent in the fourth quarter from the third quarter," Winbond president Chan Tung-yi (詹東義) told an investors' conference in Taipei.
Winbond posted fourth consecutive quarterly loss for last quarter at NT$325 million (US$11.09 million), a slight improvement from the second quarter's loss of NT$326 million. It lost NT$41 million a year ago, the financial statement showed.
Gross margin improved to 11 percent last quarter on a non-consolidated basis, from 6 percent in the second quarter. On a consolidated basis, gross margin was 18.1 percent last quarter, up from 15.96 percent in the second quarter, but down from 18.57 percent a year earlier, the statement showed.
The Hsinchu-based chipmaker may fare better than its local peers, based on one-month order visibility and the company's continued effort to tap into business opportunities linked to smartphones, tablet computers and LCD TVs as well as peripherals and networking products supporting cloud services, Chan said.
Memory chips used in laptops, PC peripherals and feature phones are faced with more risks as mobile devices gain popularity with end-users, Chan said.
During the July-to-September period, the company posted NT$6.5 billion for non-consolidated revenue, shrinking 3 percent from the second quarter and 5 percent from a year earlier, as flash-memory business reported small gains but DRAM business saw significant losses, company data showed.
On a consolidated basis, revenue was NT$8.54 billion in the third quarter, representing declines of 5.84 percent from the second quarter and 3.55 percent from a year earlier, data showed.
Sales of specialty DRAM, which generated 44 percent of the company's revenue last quarter, contracted 6 percent from the second quarter and from a year ago, Winbond said.
Revenue from Mobile RAM, which accounted for 13 percent of overall sales, declined 8 percent from three months earlier and represented a retreat of 23 percent from the year-earlier level, while flash memory, which underpinned 43 percent of total revenue, posted a sequential increase of 1 percent in sales, or a 5 percent gain from the same period last year, the company said.
Chan attributed the improvement in flash memory sales to strong demand for mobile devices with 58-nanometer process DRAM taking up more than 15 percent of flash sales.
For the first nine months, the company posted a net loss of NT$1.07 billion, or a net loss per share of NT$0.35. That was compared with a net income of NT$492.44 million, or earnings per share of NT$0.09, for the same period of last year. Consolidated revenue totaled NT$25.096 billion in the first nine months, down 8.3 percent from last year.
"The company is striving to turn a profit and may achieve this goal next year," Winbond assistant vice president Jessica Huang (黃求己) said.
While sales are expected to weaken this quarter, profit margins may flatten or edge upwards amid product mix adjustments, Huang said.


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The web site is great. Just one comment, it is a little graphic rich for those of us still using dial-up. V e r y S l o w f o r m e.
The web site is great. Just one comment, it is a little graphic rich for those of us still using dial-up. V e r y S l o w f o r m e.
Yes, there are better themes than the default for dial-up.
Go to the Your Account link, and click the Themes button.
You might want to try ExtraLite, or Sunset. Even DeepBlue has less graphics than Chronicles. NukeNews is also pretty fast.
Most of the graphics should cache in the browser, though, and not have to load repeatedly.
I'm sorry you are still on dial-up . Dial-up sucks bad. I had dial-up then I found two way Satelite from http://www.directduo.com It is great but a little costly.
If your not living life on the edge your taking up too much space!!!!!!
So far so good for me.
I have a fast computer I guess.
It works great for me the other themes seemd a little off center in some and others just did not look right.
I like the wood grain effect looks like Old Time Radio receiver-transmitters
You just have a bunch of tuning and function buttons now.
So see yas on the trails.
I haven't noticed a big problem with this site, or any php-nuke site, while on dialup. There are some things that can be done to spead loadup - like lowering the size of the few images on the page (most notably the ArkGA logo) and reduce the number of topics/threads per page in the forums.
We have a T1 at school at this page doesn't load significantly slower for me at home on dialup. It is noticiable but not problematic.
I'm useing Cox Cable and have no problems at all bu I download music and videos in less then 30 seconds. So this site is no problem.
If your not living life on the edge your taking up too much space!!!!!!
The site theme you choose can be a significant factor in the site load time. The most graphically intensive theme options on this site are SpacePilot3K, Chronicles, and subBlack3dBlue. The default, which is Chronicles, is pretty heavy on the graphics.
The ExtraLite theme has almost no graphics, and should load really fast even on dialup. NukeNews, Milo, and Sunset have very little more than ExtraLite.
DeepBlue and the rest fall in the middle somewhere, but are also not very intense. Any of them should be fine too.
If the site is loading slow, I'd suggest switching your theme to ExtraLite, NukeNews, Milo or Sunset. You could also try out some of the other themes to see how well they work. I've tried to put a wide variety of options on the site, so hopefully you can find one you like that still loads quickly.
Thanks, ExtraLite speeded things up significantly.


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As a freshman (2013): Competed with both the novice eight and varsity four during the spring…sat in the bow seat in all five of the varsity four's races…in six races with the novice eight, she sat at bow three times, the three seat on two occasions, and the seven seat once.
High School: A 2012 graduate of San Gorgonio High School in San Bernardino, Calif…a four-year varsity member of the volleyball, basketball, and track and field teams for the Spartans…was a two-time San Andreas League Athlete of the Year in track and field…a member of the 2009 San Andreas League championship track and field team…ran the first leg of the 4x400 relay team which won the 2010 league title…ran the 100 meter hurdles in 16.4 seconds, and the 400 meters in 59.5 seconds.
Personal: Parents are Bruce and Lisa…a nursing major…was a high school teammate on both the volleyball and basketball squads with current Sacramento State rower Gabrielle Sandate.


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Assessment How-to
Curriculum Mapping / Curriculum Matrix
Part 1. What is it? Why do it?
Part 2. What does a curriculum map/matrix look like?
Part 3. How is a curriculum map created?
Part 4. What are some best practices?
See also: workshop presentation slides and handouts
- Facilitating Program Assessment Decision-making (with a curriculum mapping example) (2013)
- Curriculum Map: An Elegant and Powerful Tool in Your Assessment Toolbox (2011)
- Make the Most of Your Curriculum Map (2011)
- Curriculum Mapping for Graduate Programs (2010)
- An Introduction to Curriculum Maps (2009)
- Learning Outcomes and Curriculum Maps (2009)
- Learning Outcomes and Curriculum Maps (2008)
1. What is it? Why do it?
Curriculum mapping is a method to align instruction with desired goals and program outcomes. It can also be used to explore what is taught and how. The map or matrix:
- Documents what is taught and when
- Reveals gaps in the curriculum
- Helps design an assessment plan
- Improves communication among faculty
- Improves program coherence
- Increases the likelihood that students achieve program-level outcomes
- Encourages reflective practice
2. What does a curriculum map/matrix look like?
It's a table with one column for each learning outcome and one row for each course or required event/experience (or vice versa: each row contains a course and each column lists a learning outcome).
Key: "I"=Introduced; "R"=reinforced and opportunity to practice; "M"=mastery at the senior or exit level; "A"=assessment evidence collected
Courses Intended Student Learning Outcomes Apply the scientific method Develop laboratory techniques Diagram and explain major cellular processes Awareness of careers and job opportunities in biological sciences BIOL 101 I I I BIOL 202 R R I BIOL 303 R M, A R BIOL 404 M, A M, A R Other: Exit interview A
(SLO=student learning outcome)
PhD Requirements SLO 1 SLO 2 SLO 3 SLO 4 Course Requirements X Qualifying Exam X X Comprehensive Exam X X X Dissertation X X X Final Examination X X X Seminar Requirements X XX
Requirements: Track 1 Requirements: Track 2 Requirements: Track 3 SLO 1 SLO 2 SLO 3 SLO 4 SLO 5 Core: CRS 255 (3 credits) I I I I I Core: Three theory courses (9 credits) I I Core: Writing (3 credits) I I I Core: Design (3 credits) I I CRS 310, 312, 350 R R CRS 325 R R CRS 355 R R CRS 405 R R CRS 410 R CRS 450 R R CRS 455 R R CRS 495 A A A A A CRS 215, 315 R R R CRS 316 R R CRS 318 R R R CRS 320, 415 R R CRS 420 R R R CRS 495 A A A A A CRS 352 R R CRS 360 R R CRS 382 R CRS 385 R R CRS 460 R R CRS 480 R R R CRS 485 R R CRS 495 A A A A A
SLO-student learning outcome; I-introduced; R-reinforced/practiced; A-assessed
EXAMPLE FROM CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING that shows the degree each SLO is emphasized in each course (1=some emphasis, 2=moderate emphasis, 3=significant emphasis).
3. How is a curriculum map created?
- Faculty members begin with a) the program's intended student learning outcomes, b) recommended and required courses (including General Education courses if appropriate) and c) other required events/experiences (e.g., internships, department symposium, advising session, national licensure exams)
- Create the "map" in the form of a table
- Mark the courses and events/experiences that currently address those outcomes
- Enter an "I" to indicate students are introduced to the outcome
- "R" indicates the outcome is reinforced and students afforded opportunities to practice
- "M" indicates that students have had sufficient practice and can now demonstrate mastery
- "A" indicates where evidence might be collected and evaluated for program-level assessment (collection might occur at the beginning and end of the program if comparisons across years are desired)
4. What are some best practices?
Build in practice and multiple learning trials for students: introduce, reinforce, master. Students will perform best if they are introduced to the learning outcome early in the curriculum and then given sufficient practice and reinforcement before evaluation of their level of mastery takes place.
Use the curriculum map to identify the learning opportunities (e.g., assignments, activities) that produce the program's outcomes.
Allow faculty members to teach to their strengths (note: each person need not cover all outcomes in a single course). "Hand off" particular outcomes to those best suited for the task.
Ask if the department/program is trying to do too much. Eliminate outcomes that are not highly-valued and then focus on highly-valued outcomes by including them in multiple courses. (The eliminated outcomes can still be course-level outcomes. They need not disappear completely from the curriculum.)
Set priorities as a department/program. Everyone working together toward common outcomes can increase the likelihood that students will meet or exceed expectations.
Communicate: Publish the curriculum map and distribute to students and faculty.
Communicate: Each faculty member can make explicit connections across courses for the students. For example, at the beginning of the course or unit, a faculty member can remind students what they were introduced to in another course and explain how the current course will have them practice or expand their knowledge. Do not expect students to be able to make those connections by themselves.
|The Assessment Office can tailor a curriculum mapping workshop for your program. Call or email firstname.lastname@example.com to schedule.
Sources consulted (July 2008):
- "A Skills Matrix as a Geology Department Planning Tool" by Savina, Buchwald, Bice, Boardman. Carleton College. November 6, 2001. www.carleton.edu/departments/geol/faculty/msavina/Copy%20of%20GSA2001.ppt
- Welcome to Curriculum Mapping 101 by Teach Resources. http://www.curriculummapping101.com/


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A follow up report:
I have had much more success using the shift-keypress-click method. I don't do it all the time, but whenever I have the problem where it's not remembering the shift, I'll do shift-keypress-click and it works more often than not.
I think some of my trouble may be related to static interference. I sometimes have erratic behaviour when returning to my desk chair because of its tendency to produce static electricity. I'm not shocking my keyboard (I'm super careful about that) but I do often do the "palm slap" to reset the keyboard and collapse any static buildup there may have been.
Oh, and it doesn't really seem to matter if I use the shift chord (my preferred method) or the shift key.
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The Alps in my Backpack
Welcome to the page dedicated to a joint Alpine pedagogical tool developed by rangers, educators and staff in charge of education in Alpine protected areas:
The Alps in my Backpack!
A picnic tablecloth, a nap blanket, a parasol or umbrella, a folding-screen?
The tool "The Alps in my backpack " is certainly multifunctional, but it is first and foremost a cross-country teaching support to be taken in the backpack for animations on the field, in connection with the Alps, the mountain heritage and the alpine protected areas!
Measuring 240 x 150 cms and printed on a resistant fabric, it presents the map of the Alps and their main protected areas:
(to view the layout more in details, you can download a PDF version below)
It was created in a collective way by members of the Working Group "Mountain Environmental Education in Alpine Protected Areas", who wished for a long time to benefit from a common, simple and practical tool, allowing to approach the alpine issues on their global dimension, beyond the usual borders, during their animations.
It will be completed step by step by various pedagogical resources and thematic fact sheets, which will be available for free download on this webpage.
The layout is also available for free for the ALPARC members (only) as high definition file ready for print. Beside the fabric versions provided by ALPARC, this allow also the members to print "The Alps in my backpack" on further materials, as large paper posters, wooden boards or large panels for exhibits or visitor centres, etc...
For any question, please contact info [at] alparc.org
Production: ALPARC 2016
Developed in collaboration with members of the Working groups "Mountain Environmental Education in Alpine Protected Areas" of ALPARC and Educ'Alpes
Graphic design & Illustrations: regisferre.com
With the financial support of the German Ministry for the Environment and the Principality of Monaco


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Unbelievably enough, researchers in California have developed an artificial muscle that can expand more than 200% when electricity is applied to it. By using carbon nanotubes, they have added a level of durability that can not be matched by current artificial muscle materials. If an area of the nanotube fails, the region around it becomes non conductive which effectively prevents the damage from spreading.
Plus, these nanotubes generate small amounts of additional electricity after expansion that can be utilized in several ways—including storage in a battery. The muscles also conserve around 70% of the electricity put into it, making them energy efficient. Sure you could use this technology to build better robots and prosthetics—but I can think of a few other parties that might be interested. [Discovery News]


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By far the best piece of consumer electronics we tried at CES was the all-electric Tesla Roadster Sport brought to the show for winners of a Dark Void contest. Not quite as cool as a jetpack but certainly less dangerous.
In addition to myself, it was just two winners in their guests. One winner was an old dude with his wife. He had a NASCAR jacket on and I think he was nervous about making turns in two directions. The younger guy who won went for it, balls to the wall, and was as good around the track as the Tesla guys. He just hammered it around the track.
The first thing I thought when I got in was "when the hell am I going to hit the seat" It's low. There's no graceful way to enter or exit the car. Fortunately, it's so damn sexy that nobody is even going to notice the dork driving it. Even if they do, it's fast enough to outrun any ridicule.
Acceleration is mind-bending. Literally. I think I have a bruise on my brain from where it bounced off the back of my skull. Considering all the extra mass the car sticks to the road not unlike a physics defying video game.
The seats could be a little better at holding the driver and passenger in place and, if it wasn't such a showpiece car I could see it with a 5-point harness and a racing bucket at times.
The transmission is a fixed gear and all of the torque is available immediately. I thought I'd miss having shiftpoints, but didn't even notice once I was in it. The regeneration kicks in as soon as throttle is released and it makes for a feeling of good ol' engine braking.
I drove the car as hard as I felt capable of in five laps and I didn't get anywhere near taking it to the physical limits. This is also because the Tesla person in the passenger seat kept a hand on the emergency brake throughout the entire drive although I'm not sure what they expected to happen if they had to pull it. My guess is it would have gone spinning into a wall, us along with it, but we never found out.
Overall, any thought of this being a "green" car quickly disappears when you spend time behind the wheel.
Curtis Walker, our Jalopnik man-on-the-scene in Las Vegas, filed this report from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway:


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker men's basketball team will kick-off 2014 this Saturday (Jan. 4), as they host South Atlantic Conference foe Brevard College in the Timberlake-Lawton Gymnasium. Tip-off is set for 4 p.m. and the game will be available for a live webcast at www.cokercobras.com.
The navy and yellow enter the new year at 5-4 overall and 2-3 in SAC competition. Four Cobras are averaging double figures this season. Julian Nelson and his 15.3 points per game lead the quartet, while Larry Felder is second on the team at 13.4 points and is pulling down 5.3 boards a game. Teon Beckett and Trey Marshall both average 10.2 points per, while pulling down 5.3 rebounds and dishing out 2.8 assists a game, respectively.
The Tornados dropped their most recent contest against The Citadel and enter the game at 2-7, with a 2-3 conference mark. Darius Moose and Dominique Pickett lead Brevard with 18 and 15.8 points per game, respectively. Trevon Shaw's 66.3 three-point field-goal percentage leads the conference and is good for third in NCAA Division II.
Tickets for Saturday's game can be purchased at the door for $5 dollars for adults, $3 dollars for students, and free to all Coker students, faculty, and staff. It will also be Youth Basketball Day at Coker, with all youth basketball players dressed in uniform receiving free admission to the games.
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The good news first: Michael Voris, founder of The Vortex, RealCatholicTV.com and the Catholic Investigative Agency (CIA) is coming to London. Those who were not able to attend the Catholic bloggers' conference in Rome earlier this year will now have the opportunity to meet him and listen to him. The talk will be on "Living the Catholic Faith Radically", the date is August 24, the time is 7pm, the cost is £5, payable at the door or by Paypal, and the venue is Regent Hall, 275 Oxford Street, London W1C 2DJ. This initiative has been arranged by Paul Smeaton, son of John Smeaton of SPUC, and the email address for enquiries is: [email protected]
So what is the bad news? The bad news is what Michael Voris will talk about: the decline of the Church in the west and what we Catholics need to do to halt and reverse this decline. His message, as those who watch RealCatholicTV.com will know, is very simple: if we Catholics are not prepared to live our faith radically ie be 100 per cent faithful to all the Church's teachings and not pick or choose the bits we are comfortable with – we cannot call ourselves Catholic.
Some of his critics would argue that Voris is too judgmental of his fellow Catholics, laity and hierarchy alike. He takes this on the chin, with the counter-punch that for too long there has not been enough serious talk by the Church's pastors about the gravity of sin and the reality of judgment – and that is why the Church is in a mess today. He maintains that charity is truth and that it is not charitable to avoid the truth when others' souls are imperilled by our silence. He has harsh words for those he calls "professional Catholics", who accept the Church's teaching without deeply believing them, and who have simply forgotten the mission of the Church.
By his own admission, Voris was once a lapsed Catholic. What brought him back were the prayers of his mother as she lay dying of cancer. They proved a powerful wake-up call and he has been trying to wake up his fellow Catholics ever since.
The themes of The Vortex, his short, punchy YouTube presentations, available for free, are not the sort to attract cafeteria Catholics: they often include a mention of Hell; they name indolent or heretical members of the hierarchy; they often discuss the evils of contraception – "evil in its intent and in its execution" – and the other moral disasters it has led to, such as widespread abortion, divorce and the acceptance of other forms of recreational sex, such as same-sex relationships. Indeed, whatever peaceable accommodation Catholics have made with the world you can be sure that Michael Voris has taken a crusading stand against it.
Some traditionalists don't like him because he doesn't make a wholesale return to the Extraordinary Form of the Mass his single issue. He is entirely respectful of the traditional Latin Mass, but follows the Church in maintaining there is one rite, under two forms; both are permitted and Catholics are free to choose. But he does emphasise that reverence needs to be recovered in the New Rite and that "kneeling and on the tongue is the preferred method of reception of the Host in the universal Church".
Others don't like Voris's style, "the way he waves his pesky pencil" as a friend put it to me, or the confident way he declares that The Vortex is "where lies and falsehoods are trapped and exposed". He is too brash, too American, too in your face, too preachy, too un-PC. For me he simply answers the question: why be a Catholic? His sturdy response is: "Because the Catholic Church is the only hope against evil – as that is its God-given mission."


text: When I was a sophomore in high school, and My So-Called Life was on TV, I was way wrapped up in the whole Jordan Catalano romance thing. But it wasn't until I started watching the show again on DVD (the box set, which I highly recommend) that I've gotten really into Angela's voiceovers; they're wonderful. Like this: "Like cheerleaders...Can't people just cheer on their own? To themselves?" Or this: "When Rayanne Graff told me that my hair was holding me back, I had to listen. Because she wasn't just talking about my hair. She was talking about my life." And totally this one, from the clip above: "I cannot bring myself to eat a well balanced meal in front of my mother. It just means too much to her."


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Estee Lauder has 16 new shades of nail lacquer – some from the core range and some are limited (see the colour chart at the end of the post!).
Given the chance to choose some shades to try I decided to go for something different from my usual bright pinks and hot corals. I went for Sizzling Taupe, more of a subtle brown shimmer and Wicked Green – because it totally reminds me of Wicked the musical!
Estee Lauder polishes come in these ice cube type containers; it's actually quite handy because they feel sturdy on the table!
Wicked green:
This is a limited edition colour – a really rich deep green and it does totally remind me of Wicked and also of poster paint – the green you would mix up at school with thick paint! I like it – I would consider wearing this despite it being green, I think it's tone means that it's elegant too.
Sizzling taupe is also limited edition and is more of a natural look:
It has some silver pearl running through it – pretty – and I guess a nice change from all the matte or shimmer free taupes that are around.
Colour Charts:
Overall I like the Estee Lauder polishes, they are quite liquid so are easy for me to apply and 2 coats gives an even finish.
The colours are on sale in Harrods and will launch nationwide from the 28th February 2011. They are 9ml each and cost £14.
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Two weeks before the opening night for the fall play, senior Sadie Behrman was walking home from play practice and was hit by a car at the corner of City Line Ave and Route 29. She was rushed to Paoli Hospital, and immediately admitted to surgery. A rod was inserted into her leg and a metal plate into her arm. She was unconscious for three days. Sadie was bedridden for weeks; she couldn't walk, couldn't pick things up, and couldn't do anything for herself. But none of this has dramatically changed Sadie – and she's happy it hasn't.
Sadie doesn't remember the accident. 'My poor mother has just been the best,' Sadie said. 'She's done everything. She's done all the medications, all the doctor's appointments, and all the forms. care of me, then maintaining a house also, somehow. I was an invalid for a really long time.'
After spending a week in the hospital, Sadie went to rehab center for three weeks, and then rested at home. She was out of school for three months. By the end of the first month, she missed going out of the house, and getting to see people other than her family. The main reason she missed school was her friend Isla, though she joked she missed 'the lukewarm food and the oppressive nature of the teachers.'
Sadie has a lot of work to catch up on. 'Right now it just kind of sucks,' she said. She missed a lot of opportunities, one opportunity being the chance to submit a short story for the Scholastic Art and Writing contest. She was also supposed to play the Nurse in the Fall Play, 'Romeo and Juliet.' The part was filled in by Senior Ashley Spina at the last minute.
The hardest part of the recovery for Sadie was the detoxing process. For three months she was on Percocet, which is an addictive painkiller for mild to severe pain. 'For a week I just felt weepy and sobby. I was throwing up and couldn't keep anything down. I was jumpy and bouncing a lot. It was just awful,' she said. She joked, 'So, don't do drugs, and stay in school.'
For Sadie, the most dramatic change in her life is that she is more careful about crossing the street. There are no psychological effects as far as Sadie can tell. 'I'll always have a rod in my leg and a metal plate in my arm, but other than that I don't think it will ever have any long-term effects. I know I'm supposed to say , but I'm really happy that I don't feel any different. I want to be the same person.'
Sadie's favorite subjects are English and Philosophy, but she likes learning about everything. 'I love doing everything,' she said. Her favorite teachers are Ms. Speckhals, Mr. Gamble, Mr. Hughes, and she says Mr. Curley is 'an okay guy.'
Sadie also loves reading. 'I will read till the cows come home,' she said. Her favorite book right now is 'The Miseducation of Cameron Post' and she said, 'I recommend it to girls across the country!' Sadie also enjoys martial arts, playing volleyball, and writing short-stories and essays. Sadie writes poetry for Gazebo. She volunteers, and teaches little kids how to read.
Sadie plans to go to Temple University for English pre-law, and then she is going to go on to law school. She wants to be a lawyer, and maybe work her way into politics.
Sadie may be known for the car accident, but doesn't define who she is. Sadie has a great sense of humor. She likes to volunteer, read, write, and learn. Her three favorite TV shows are 'Breaking Bad,' 'The Walking Dead,' and 'Downton Abbey.' Some bands she likes are Genesis, Cake, and Cold War Kids. She has a younger sister in eighth grade named Fiona. They have a dog named Angel, and two cats named Louie and Pluto. These things make up who Sadie is, not her accident.
Editor's note: Soren DeMartinis is a writer for Phoenixville Area High School's newspaper, The Purple Press.


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Rod hamstrung
BOSTON — Blue Jays catcher Rod Barajas is sitting out for Game 2 of this double dip in Beantown, thanks to a sore left hamstring. There's a chance that Barajas will also be sidelined for tomorrow's Fenway finale against the Red Sox.
So, that means Gregg "Grand Slam" Zaun is in the starting lineup tonight and will likely be behind the plate to catch Doc Halladay manana. Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston said Barajas has been bothered by the tight hammy lately, and he aggravated the injury when running from first to third during the sixth in Game 1.
"I'm day to day," Barajas said between games. "We'll see how it feels tomorrow."
Also of note, my Michigan State Spartans were victorious today. So the competition was a tad on the weaker side — big deal. Next week it's on to Notre Dame, and Zaunie — a big Irish fan — was already talking some smack this morning.
Today's lineups:
TORONTO (80-68) at BOSTON (86-61)
at 7:05 p.m. ET at Fenway Park
Joe Inglett, 2B
Marco Scutaro, SS
Alex Rios, CF
Vernon Wells, DH
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Adam Lind, LF
Scott Rolen, 3B
Gregg Zaun, C
Travis Snider, RF
PITCHING: RHP Jesse Litsch (11-8, 3.70)
Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
David Ortiz, DH
Kevin Youkilis, 1B
Mark Kotsay, RF
Jason Bay, LF
Jed Lowrie, 3B
Alex Cora, SS
Kevin Cash, C
PITCHING: RHP Bartolo Colin (4-2, 4.09)
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Litsch.on three days rest may cost us our chance to pick up the wildcard.GOJAYS GOJAYS GOJAYS.
We have to beat the DEVILSOX DEVILSOX DEVILSOX.
Lets hear from some of you people .DO YOU BELIVE.
I think if Litsch can limit to 3 or 4 runs through 6 or 7 innings, they'll have a good chance. I've got a feeling that the Jays are gonna get to Bartolo tonight.
Rene let's hope your right.I DO BELIVE.
See. I'm already right. lol
Just in case a devilsox fan comes on our site JINX BLOCK,JINX BLOCK, JINX BLOCK,
I went on the DEVILSOX blog and put a JINX on them.lol.
Now that's how you welcome back someone to MLB. Now if Jessie settles in and we get 6- 7 innings from him, it will be a great day.
Thank god we got the 5 runs on board,it looks like they lost their bats.GOJAYS GOJAYS GOJAYS.
It would be nice to get another 2-3 runs
Id say Jessie's done
Why Cito didn't have somebody in his bullpen going into that inning is beyond me. If you say you are going to have a strict pitch count, stick to it. I was very disappointed in that decision to leave Litsch in so long, the last thing we need is for a young pitcher to blow out his arm.
Nice slide by Big Papi to disrupt the double play. I wouldn't say it was a clean play by any stretch of the imagination, but it was a good, hard baseball play that saved his team from a double play and helped them score a run. Gotta give the big man credit when he runs hard.
I'm starting not to like the way this looks
I think the 2 double headers in 5 days caught up to us. Tough loss.
devastating loss tonight
Notre Dame will probably have a tougher time with Michigan State than Michigan, man the Wolverines are terrible. Rich-Rod needs a quicker QB to run the spread. Going to love watching Jevon Ringer on NBC, hes good.
Tough game again. I liked Litsch in the 2nd inning try to block the plate on Ellsbury on his wild pitch. That is tough move for a pitcher to make. Too bad Litsch wasn't that sharpe, or Downs for that matter.


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This a photo of my husband's great-great grandparents and their family. It was taken in 1884, probably near Worcester, Massachusetts where this family lived.
Front Row: Henry, Frank Joel, Anna, Sarah, Lorenzo
Rear: Asa, Lillie (Herbert's wife), Herbert, Emma, Clarence
This photo includes all seven children of Frank Joel and Anna. Frank went on to have three more children by another wife after Anna died in 1890.
I took a picture of this photo some years ago when a cousin of my husband brought it to a family gathering.
Make sure you don't miss the cat under Lorenzo's chair! He clearly wanted to be known as a member of the family!
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The following diagram summarizes a safe and proven strategy for scaling agile delivery strategies at the team level. There are three features of this strategy:
- Basic agile and lean methods. At the base are methods such as Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Agile Modeling, Kanban, Agile Data, and many others. These methods are the source of practices, principles, and strategies that are the bricks from which a team will build its process.
- Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD). Building on mainstream methods is the DAD process decision framework, providing an end-to-end approach for agile software delivery. DAD provides the process mortar required to combine the process bricks, effectively doing the "heavy lifting" to describe how all of these great agile strategies fit together.
- Agility at scale. Teams operating at scale apply DAD in a context driven manner to address the scaling factors that they face. These teams may be large, they may be geographically distributed in some way, they may face compliance constraints, they may be addressing a complex domain or technical environment, or they may be organizationally distributed in some manner. And usually combinations thereof. Without the solid foundation provided by DAD, agility at scale is incredibly difficult to achieve.
To scale agile successfully you must be able to tailor your approach to reflect the context that you face. To do this you must understand what your process and organizational structure options are and what tradeoffs each of those options has. Unless you're a process expert, this can be challenging. This is where DAD's process goal strategy comes in. Instead of prescribing a single way to do things, as we see in methods such as Scrum and SAFe, DAD instead captures your options in terms of process goals and guides you through making the decisions that best address the situation that you find yourself in. An example of a process goal diagram, in this case for the Inception phase goal Explore Initial Scope, is shown below.
The critical thing is that with a goal-driven approach it becomes much easier to understand how to scale agile. Depending on the context of the situation that a team finds itself in you will address each goal differently. The strategy for a small, co-located team facing a fairly straightforward situation in a non-regulatory environment works well for that team, the same strategy prescribed to a team in a different situation would put that team at risk of failure. Instead of prescribing a single way of working that is optimized for a specific situation we need to instead allow, and better yet enable, teams to adopt strategies that reflect the context of the situation that they face.
We've found that four of the twenty-two process goals seem to take about 80% of the tailoring impact. These goals are:
- Explore Initial Scope. This is sometimes referred to as initially populating the backlog in the Scrum community, but there is far more to it than just doing that. This is an important goal for several reasons. First, your team needs to have at least a high level understanding of what they're trying to achieve, they just don't start coding. Second, in the vast majority of organizations IT delivery teams are asked fundamental questions such as what are you trying to achieve, how long will it take, and how much will it cost. Having an understanding of the scope of your effort is important input into answering those sorts of questions.
- Identify Initial Technical Strategy. This is sometimes referred to as initial architecture envisioning or simply initial architecture modeling. You want to address this process goal for several reasons . First, the team should think through, at least at a high level, their architecture so as to identify a viable strategy for moving forward into Construction. A little bit of up-front thinking can increase your effectiveness as a team by getting you going in a good direction early in the lifecycle. It can also help to avoid injection of unnecessary technical debt as a result. Second, the team should strive to identify the existing organizational assets, such as web services, frameworks, or legacy data sources that they can potentially leverage while producing the new solution desired by their stakeholders. By doing this you increase the chance of reuse, thereby avoiding adding technical debt into your organizational ecosystem, and more importantly you reduce the time and cost of delivering a new solution as the result of reuse. You will do this by working with your organization's enterprise architects, if you have any. This is an aspect of DAD's philosophy of working in an enterprise aware manner.
- Move Closer to a Deployable Release. This Construction phase process goal is important for three reasons. First, it encompasses the packaging aspects of solution development (other important development aspects are addressed by its sister goal Produce a Potentially Consumable Solution). This includes artifact/asset management options such as version control and configuration management as well as your team's deployment strategy. Second, it provides deployment planning options, from not planning at all (yikes!) to planning late in the lifecycle to the more DevOps-friendly strategies of continuous planning and active stakeholder participation. Third, this goal covers critical validation and verification (V&V) strategies, many of which push testing and quality assurance "left in the lifecycle" so that they're performed earlier and thereby reducing the average cost of fixing any defects.
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Jury handed down civil judgement Friday, appeal possible
A Green Castle resident was awarded a $14.6 million verdict by an Adair County jury on her case against the Missouri Department of Transportation stemming from a fatal 2008 crash near Kirksville.
The decision against the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission, MoDOT and employee Larry Finley was issued Friday, bringing a momentary resolution to the three-year court case.
"We're pleased with [the decision]," said Jay Benson, local attorney and local counsel on the case. "We felt it was the right verdict and that justice was served for Ann Ferguson and her family for such a tragic event."
Ferguson, for whom the case was filed in 2009 after being disabled in a rear-end collision with a MoDOT truck, suffers from a severe brain brain injury and is in custodianship and nursing care.
"The quality of life she had before this crash is totally gone," Benson said.
The crash also claimed the life of 10-year-old Allison Pfeiffer, also of Green Castle, and sent another passenger, 8-year-old Shane Ferguson, to the hospital with moderate injuries.
Ann Ferguson was represented by Columbia attorney A.W. Smith.
According to a 2008 Daily Express article, MoDOT trucks were in the area leading up the crash, conducting debris clean up from recent flood waters.
Benson said Ferguson was partially responsible for the accident, given she rear-ended a truck which was carrying a 25-foot log, but due to negligence on the fault of Finley and MoDOT, her injuries were significantly more severe than they would have been.
"The reason is the MoDOT truck had its tailgate down and had a 25-foot log in a 16-foot bed," Benson said. "[If it weren't for those things] we had persuasive evidence she would have had negligible or no injuries."
Benson said the dollar amount is notable, especially given it was handed down in a rural venue given that smaller circuit courts rarely see cases of this magnitude and the more conservative nature of rural juries.
MoDOT's legal representative could not be reached for comment.
It was not immediately known if MoDOT is planning on appealing the decision, although Benson said he would not be surprised given the large amount of the decision.
The jury reportedly attributed 25 percent of the accident's fault to Ferguson, which will reduce the award amount.


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Kevin Grandia | February 24, 2010
By Kevin Grandia • Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 16:23
Not surprising, but all the same ridiculous.
Lou "Mr. Independent" Dobbs said on his show today that Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) deserves a round of applause as a man "utterly vindicated" for his stand against climate change science.
Here's the catch Lou, tell me where the facts surrounding the science of climate change have changed? Where is the science refuting the multiple lines of evidence all showing a dramatic rise in temperatures over the last decade in relation to the continued burning of greenhouse gas intensive fuels like oil and coal.
The only applause Inhofe deserves is from the oil and gas lobby who have donated so much money to his coffers over the years.
Watch it:
climate criminal replied on Permalink
A parody masquerading as the
A parody masquerading as the truth.
I note that Inhofe has turned into McCarthy in a witchunt against climate scientists.
Are there no depths to which this fossil-fuel criminal won't stoop?
The answer, is clearly, no!
Dennis W. replied on Permalink
Inhofe and Errors
It's breathtaking how much of a pass Inhofe gets from the media. While I haven't bothered with this latest document he has produced, his earlier list of scientists who supposedly disagree with AGW is preposterous. Yet, I cannot recall a single major media report that addressed the lies it contains: 1. calling people scientists who are not scientists, 2. calling people scientists qualified to comment on climate change who are economists, etc., and 3. misquoting and mistating what some real scientists have said. Some have gone so far as to publically demand that their name be removed from his document. In response, Inhofe just continues to update his list with more lies.
I think this from Tamino should be disseminated.
He's done two things here, the most important of which, to my mind, is the global temperature time series from raw data only.
His follow-up post should be read, too. http://tamino.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/shame/
That should read NH time
That should read NH time series, not global.
JR Wakefield replied on Permalink
Want to know why the public is turning off?
This is why: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/25/judith-i-love-ya-but-youre-way-wrong/
Let me guess, he's Fox
Let me guess, he's Fox affiliated now, isn't he?
The one thing he said right was,
"This is nonsense! We have to be fact based, we have to be rational, and this nonsense has to end!"
I couldn't agree more! Lou, get the right facts!


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This book is about a 14 year old boy (Alex Rider) who's uncle is suddenly killed in a car accident, or so he is told. He could have survived, the police had said if he had only worn his seat belt. His uncle being a Bank employee always was away on business and was an all together cautions man. Alex knows his uncle always wore his seat belt so is suspicious. He checks the local car junk yard to only see that in fact his uncles car had many bullet holes in it side. It is obvious that his uncle had not been killed by any oncoming vehicle. Later on he is not at all surprised to find that his uncles bank that he worked for never existed, and that his uncle had been a spy. What he is surprised about is that they want him to work for them. They say that there is something suspicious about a man named Herod Sayle and his new computer called the stormbreaker. They want to send him to Cornwall on the same mission that his uncle had been killed on.
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