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Kase Capital's Whitney Tilson has watched k12 (LRN) gain 78% this year. But is he running for the hills? No way. Instead, he's explaining the short case for the stock at today's Value Investing Congress.
Now, bulls are excited about the online learning company because of its fast growth rate, while online learning has a lot of political support and a lot of buzz, Tilson says. "There's a lot to be excited about," he adds.
So why short the stock? Tilson believes that the company has sacrificed its academic rigor in favor of a growth-at-all-costs strategy. What makes sense a small niche business, instead has been supersized with little attention to how well students are doing or whether they are even appropriate for an online learning program. Tilson says. Instead, he believes that K12 has targeted the most at risk students, who are also the most attractive from a business perspective because their parents generally don't complain as much.
Tilson compares K12′s business to subprime lending, another industry that got a big boost targeting inappropriate customers. "The business makes sense on small scale, but funded with government money its runs amok," Tilson says.
But the biggest reason to short now may be the company's growth is set to slow, yet the stock trades at about 49 times its past 12 months of earnings. "[When you that combination] when a stock trades at 50 times earnings, get worried," Tilson says.
So no, Tilson isn't covering his short. "Covering them would be the bonehead capitulation trade of all-time," Tilson says.
Shares of K12 fell 0.7% to $34.90 today.


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I thought you might appreciate knowing that your border security is still a bit spotty. After waiting in line for over two and a half hours to enter your country, I had the following conversation with one of your border guards:
Guard: Where are you from?
Me: Montréal.
Guard: Where are you going?
Me: North Hero State Park, in Vermont.
Guard: Good idea. It's nice there. I hope you haven't been too troubled by this delay.
Me: OK.
And that was it. After waiting in a hot car for that long, it was actually a little disappointing.
Also, we do not have accents. You do. And they're funny. Furthermore, your mosquito population is extraordinarily impressive.
and so on.
Meanwhile, in Canada
Parliament has decided that gay marriage will be legal. Good stuff. My brother went out to celebrate in Ottawa last night, and he sure picked the right place to go, as he wound up schmoozing with Jack Layton, Ed Broadbent, Pierre Pettigrew, Anne MacLellan, Carolyn Parrish, Belinda Stronach, etc. That, I daresay, is awesome.
I'll be in Ottawa on Friday, and then Washington DC for a week. If anybody in DC would like to eat, drink, and talk about linuxy things, please email me.
An Important Note About Grains
Thanks to Rachel Lejeune for supplying me with an informative description of the difference between burghul and cracked wheat. One of these days, Rachel Lejeune, I shall figure out who you are. One of these days.

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FACULTY AWARD: Princeton's Felten elected to National Academy of Engineering
Posted February 12, 2013; 05:30 p.m.
Edward Felten, a Princeton University professor of computer science and public affairs, was among 69 researchers nationwide elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Felten, who also directs the University's Center of Information Technology Policy and its Program in Information Technology and Society, was recognized for his contributions to computer-system security, and for his impact on public policy. Election to the academy recognizes outstanding and innovative work in engineering, and is among the field's highest professional honors.


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|July 5th, 2013, 09:36 AM
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Built Rear JK Swing Bumper(FINISHED PICS)
Well I got the itch to build a rear bumper so I bought some 3/16" plate steel and got started. I made a few original patterns and took some measurements off the original bumper. I cut everything with my angle grinder and some angle iron to make nice straight cuts and took my time.
I still have lots of welding to do on the back and front, then grinding to smooth it out of the front side. I am also going to add some gussets on the back side for some more strength.
I will also be adding some d-ring mounts and some led reverse lights from GENRIGHT. I have the steel for the swing out and the de sta co latch, just need to get my spindle hinge. I think I am going with the COMP4x4 double shear hinge.
I like how everything turned out so far except for the wrap around, it looks to square ish to me, so I am going to be cutting some angles into it then boxing the end off, I think.
I will be adding some more pics as I build the rest.
What do you guys think of it?
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|July 5th, 2013, 09:55 AM
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Looks good so far. Other than using the hitch bolts (which i think is great) are you going to tie it into any other locations? Like where the stock bumper mounts. I normally tie my d-rings plates and frame mounts together.
I like that double shear hinge, can never have to much strength on something like that.
Far as the ends, here's what I did on a JK bumper I built a few years ago.
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|July 5th, 2013, 05:51 PM
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Those are some nice drawings! Looks like I was on the same page as you. I went out this afternoon and made some marks and found something I liked. So I started cutting those ends and I like how it turned out. And now Its pretty close to what you had.
I am actually not using the factory hitch bolts. I thought about it, but I am going to try and use all 6 factory mounting holes, plus 2 more. I cut some
1/2" plate frame brackets to tie it in. Then going to add 1 grade 8 through bolt on the frame where the factory put in the elongated hole each side.
Then somehow make and weld a bracket to the bumper to use the other 2 cross member mounts.
Here are a few more pics of my progress, with more to come over the weekend.
|July 7th, 2013, 05:57 PM
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Got some more done this afternoon. Now I'm at the point of waiting on my hinge for the carrier. But still have lots of welding to do. Here are some more pics.
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|July 25th, 2013, 08:04 PM
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Made some Progress on it. Got all of my parts except for my Wheel studs, they should be here saturday. The main bumper is all welded and ground smooth. The back side is welded and gusseted still need to add my d-ring mounts and the led reverse lights.
For the swing away, I have the double sheer hinge from comp4x4 mounted and welded. The receiver is just tack welded then need to make the plate that mounts to the actual tire. I should have all the big stuff done and welded this weekend, hopefully.
Also, I do my latch a little different than some bumpers but I really like how it works. I have the latch assembly permanent on the bumper instead of the swing part, and put an angle on it, so it has the full pull of the latch to keep tight, it has worked great for me on the bumpers I have built.
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|August 6th, 2013, 03:56 PM
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Well I have been working on this for some time now, and have it all built, painted and mounted. I primed it with 2 coats and have 3 coats of duplicolor spray on bed liner. Pretty much done, just a few small minor things I want to change.
The led reverse lights in the lower section of the bumper have a weather proof quick connect in case I need to take the bumper off. The 3rd brake/taillight/license plate light also has a quick connect for if I have to actually use the spare. You can see the wring ran on the back side of the tire swing. And the tire on it now is the stock spare until I actually buy my full size 37" mud grappler and rim. The mount for the tire is adjustable for the larger width and backspace for my new rims/tires.
Overall I am very happy with how it came out, but I have lots of hours and about a total of $300 into it, but well worth it!
I will be building my front probably this winter, I will post that project when it gets started.
|October 14th, 2013, 09:18 PM
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Other than that it has been great.
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|December 10th, 2013, 07:59 PM
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I did this exact thing to a bike rack I made for my brother worked out pretty good.
I have a trailer project finishing up right now in my barn, when that is out, its time to start the front bumper. Will update this thread when that starts.
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After last month spectrum analyzer work, I also looked at the volume meters again. Handling the updates is a bit tricky as I need to sync them to the audio playback. Now I have optimizations in place to skip updates when the meter is zero or maxed and has not changed. This is actually quite often the case.
I also fixed a small UI glitch; song-io plugins did not tell so far whether they support saving and/or loading. Thus one could end up selecting a format and then getting an error. Now one will see only the formats that plugins can handle.
Finally I got around catching up on the docs too. Now all dialogs have some docs including screenshots.
One refactoring I was actually considering to push for after the next release was getting rid of the GtkListStores and use real GtkTreeModels instead. The disadvantage of a ListStore is that it is static, if the underlying object is dynamic one needs to manually synchronize it. This enlarges the code and also the duplicated data storage uses memory. Writing own models was in the end not so difficult, it is quite some boilerplate code though. The first one I wrote is a object-list-model. It allows to bind object-properties to model columns. If e.g. a field changes, the model notifies and the view updates. The whole thing could become more generic if we would have an iterator interfaces and the collection types (list, array, ..) would be gobjects implementing the iface. Well, I am not the first to notice that :). Next I made 2 specialized models and started to take them into use. As a bonus e.g. the machine model provides a nice logical sorting. One more model to implement and switch to.
72 files changed, 6268 insertions(+), 1250 deletions(-)
I have been refactoring GStreamer's spectrum analyzer. It is now working faster and also allows to get per-channel results. For testing I updated buzztard to check if one has the new version and if so show per channel graphs. While hacking on the analyzer graphs I have also refactored the code, so that now it is possible to probe the final output as well.
I spend the bigger part of the month on the tests again. I had an unref too much somewhere. Even after all the work in refdbg this is still difficult to track down. Eventually I found it and now all tests are green.
43 files changed, 796 insertions(+), 100 deletions(-)
gtk_window_set_transient_for(window, main_window); gtk_window_set_destroy_with_parent(window, TRUE);On my desktop it works fine on the netbook the problem still happens :/ No idea right now. As a good side effect I ensured that all dialogs have a properly set default response.
I was also running the performance tests and did some oprofiling. I knew already that my data-fixup code for buzzmachines caused quite some overhead. It is handling denormals and marking full zero buffers as empty. I now added code that sets the FPU on x86 machines to DAZ|FZ mode from the application and disable the fixup code. On my netbook my 11 min benchmark song renders in about 1 min instead of 1:20 min before. On my desktop most of the change are hard to measure as it already only takes 5 seconds :). Anyway the oprofile runs confirm the speedup. The code disappeared from the top 20.
The pattern editor widget becomes slow when getting large. Some text drawing operations look expensive. For a start I ported the whole widget to use cairo, but that does not take care of the slowness. After more measurements it becomes clear that I need to rework this more. I need to render it offscreen and reply to expose events by copying pixels.
I also worked a bit more on the interaction-controller library. udev/hal code is refactored into extra objects (saves me a lot of #ifdefs). It also has some tests now. I still have a mysterious issue with udev. Run this stand alone example as told in the header - for me valgrind complains about uninitialized data access. It only seems to happen when you have a /dev/input/mice which all my computers have. I have a workaround, but believe more testing from other would be great.
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As there was no project news over x-mas, I have a slightly longer one this time. Before I dive into the usual code changes, something else - tadaa - we have a new webpage. The previous page was a mediawiki with a few customizations. Now we use a combo of wordpress-3 and mediawiki. Both use a similar theme (based on the arch linux one). Wordpres gives as news, forum, social-network features and much more. The first days I was suffering a lot from wordpress account creation spam. Luckily this seems to be under control now. The concept and a lot of the work was done by Joe Pea. We both have quite a few more things on the todo list. One of the next items is single sign in for wordpress and mediawiki. Stay tuned.
In the last two month I improved the song-recovery workflow. The recovery is now giving better feedback to the user and we're properly cleaning up afterwards. The machine machine and pattern view do now have almost full undo/redo.
Quite several times already I had to deal with a dialog containing a treeview showing a list of items. The latest example is the song-recovery dialog. Giving such a dialog a nice good initial size is tricky. The treeview usually goes into a scrolled window. By default one can see the headers and maybe one line. Of course one can resize the dialog a bit, but as the line height is not easy to figure it is still not easy. One approach I came up with is to grow the dialog to show all lines until it would exceed a certain limit. The limit would be e.g. half of screen or window height. The code for that is quite simple:
list=gtk_tree_view_new(); g_signal_connect(list,"size-request",G_CALLBACK(on_list_size_request),NULL); ... static void on_list_size_request(GtkWidget *widget,GtkRequisition *requisition,gpointer user_data) { gint max_height=gdk_screen_get_height(gdk_screen_get_default())/2; gint height=2+MIN(requisition->height,max_height);Another thing in gtk that I wonder if it has a better solution is the disposal of popup-menus. The problem is that gtk_menu_popup is not taking ownership of the menu, but there seems to be now event when the menu is done, so that one can unref it. The only solution I can see is the pre- create the menu and ref-sink it. When the entity that owns it is disposed it can destroy and unref it.
/* make sure the dialog resize without showing a scrollbar until it would * reach half screen height */ gtk_widget_set_size_request(gtk_widget_get_parent(widget),-1,height); }
As we're quite gtk related in this time anyway one more discovery. Listening for key-press-event instead of key- release-event and widgets makes key-repeat work. Have added that to the gtk api docs.
Beside all the things above a couple of bug-fixes went in (make preferences in machines work (e.g. choosing fluidsynth instruments). I did some refactoring on midi controller handling; one can use the pitchwheel now and continuous controllers work better. Finally the dialogs warning about unsaved changes are more user-friendly; they now show the time passed since last saved/created in addition to the timestamp.
50 files changed, 2402 insertions(+), 1183 deletions(-)
Last month I made good progress on the undo/redo. I am now running the undo/redo in sync with the object lifecycle. The downside of this is that undo/redo fails when you have ref-count leaks. This now makes them more apparent. When trying to debug them I noticed that refdbg is not working anymore since quite a while. I was googling what other people use for such problems. Well, apparently everybody hates ref-count issues. Also most of the info you find is how to get traces for refcount activity. That is what refdbg does also. As this did not work for me anymore I've tried systemtap. Unfortunately right now its not useful for user-space work on most distros (except fedora) - bugs filed. Next step: gdb scripting. I managed to get a gdb script running. Now even for simple cases you quickly end up with a log of 150 backtraces. That is a lot to manually review. I went one step further and wrote a script to filter the traces. Over time I got the trace-log down to 20 entries. This is practical. Unfortunately the gdb script only work for tracing the lifecycle of one particular object. If I extend it to work for all refcounting activity I hit a gdb limitation to not allow nested commands :/. Back to refdbg :) I finally figured why it does not work and have started to fix it up. Lets see how far I get next month.
Naturally this used most of my hacking time. Still I managed to make some progress there as well. The buzztard irc channel was much more active this month. People reported small things here and there and most of it got fixed right away. The manual got some more love too to help people to get started and improve the description of several concepts. Finally all the refcount-debugging leads to a lot of code reviews. I found several areas with lots of needless refcount activity - fixes are in the repository.
81 files changed, 2682 insertions(+), 817 deletions(-)
In October I had not much time for buzztard. I went to the GStreamer conference and the CELF Europe. There I gave a talk about the "MeeGo multimedia stack". I also hacked on two GStreamer tool projects; gst-tracelib and gst-mediainfo. In tracelib I worked on a UI to monitor gstreamer pipelines on the fly. My approach to use libgvc (graphviz) for the layout seems to challenge it a bit though - I get very mysterious failures. At some point realloc is failing to e.g. allocate 96 bytes and the lib calls abort(). mallinfo() from libc is telling that the process uses 200 mb and valgind has nothing serious to complain about. That's weired as I was suspecting a corrupted memory list. I have to put that aside for a while until I get some new ideas for tackling it.
gst-mediainfo is the UI for the new discoverer API in GStreamer. I'll make a first release when the current gstreamer core and base is out as it depends on them.
In buzztard I mostly worked a bit on the crash recovery and did some bug fixing. Hopefully will have more time in November.
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WhiskyFest New York 2013: rare and wonderful whiskiesOctober 22nd, 2013
WhiskyFest New York 2013 is over and done, and it sure left some great memories behind. There were great whiskies, the top figures in the industry, and a lot of very happy whisky drinkers. Some of them were lucky — or smart — enough to taste some extra special drams.
Ask the average WhiskyFest New York attendee why they go, and you'll get answers like, "To try new whiskies," or "to compare a lot of different whiskies." Ask the average Whisky Advocate Blog reader why they go…and you'll likely get an answer more along the lines of "To try the stuff I can't find at the store." You can buy a VIP ticket to get some of the special ones, or you can buy a ticket to the Day of Seminars.
This year's VIP ticket got you the chance to try whiskies like Macallan 18 year old, Highland Park Loki, Glenrothes Vintage 1988, Taketsuru Pure Malt 21 year old, Balvenie Tun 1401 Batch #9, Glenfiddich Malt Master, Jameson Rarest Vintage Reserve, Distiller's Editions from Lagavulin and Oban, Four Roses Limited Edition Small Batch, Aberlour a'bunadh, Glenlivet 21 year old, Danfield's 10 and 21 year old, Angel's Envy Cask Strength, George T. Stagg… Pre-fest planning is always a good idea, but plans often fell apart when folks saw the other great whiskies available; there were over 375 this time.
To get the really special stuff, the crazy rare stuff, you had to go to the Day of Seminars. The first two seminars were the kind of whisky amazement that just leaves you grinning, breathless, amazed. As we did last year, the first servings were rare whiskies. Dr. Nick Morgan of Diageo presented a Glenury Royal 23 year old, with a delightful short history of the demolished distillery. William Grant global ambassador Sam Simmons talked to us about a 23 year old Kininvie, distilled the very first day of operations at this rarely seen-as-single-malt distillery. Buffalo Trace head chemist Chris Fletcher led attendees on a tasting of the first bottling (done back in 2000) of Sazerac 18 year old rye. We wound up with a tasting of Stitzel-Weller bourbon — really, distilled in the final days of the distillery — and a comparison bottling of Bernheim, presented by Diageo's Ewan Morgan.
For a break, attendees got to hear whiskey legend Jimmy Russell talking about his 59 years at Wild Turkey; some stories, some insights, and a few laughs. But even that came with a rare whiskey; a 12 year old, 49.5% bottling that was actually not the one he'd intended to sample! It was, naturally, a delicious bourbon; Jimmy Russell made it.
The second seminar wasn't just rare, it was unique. We called it "12 in all the world," and it presented four whiskies, selected and bottled specially for this event; the only twelve bottles of them in existence. Gerry Tosh sampled us on a 1968 Highland Park, vatted from four American oak sherry casks. Ann Miller led us on a tasting of a 21 year old cask strength, single cask Aberlour. Malt Master David Stewart brought us Balvenie "Offspring," a blended malt pulled from three casks laid down in the birth years of his three children! Finally, Dr. Bill Lumsden presented a 1973 Ardbeg, aged in a bourbon cask. Four amazing whiskies, which you simply could not taste anywhere else in the world.
It was hardly downhill from there. We tasted Bruichladdich Feis Ile 2013 with living legend Jim McEwan, and sampled whisky and fine chocolate with John Glaser (Compass Box), Richard Paterson (Dalmore), and Dr. Bill Lumsden again (Glenmorangie this time), along with Ryan Cheney of Raaka Chocolate, and famed chef Daniel Boulud. Then we had a four-Talisker lunch with Dave Broom and Dr. Nick Morgan, including a rare taste of Talisker unaged spirit, followed by a panel on whisky trends, including Blue Hanger, Taketsuru Pure Malt 21 year old, Anchor Hotaling's, and a Buffalo Trace Experimental Collection bottling (extra-seasoned staves).
Before we got to the final seminar of the day, the tasting of seven Whisky Advocate Award-winning whiskies led by the writers who'd chosen them, we had one more very special whiskey legend to honor. Heaven Hill master distiller emeritus Parker Beam came up, with his son, Craig, and joined Whisky Advocate publisher John Hansell on the stage. Parker, who has been diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, has been bravely doing everything he can to raise awareness and money for research for the disease. He didn't say a word this day, and John could barely speak himself.
Fellow Kentucky icons Jim Rutledge, Jimmy Russell, and Fred Noe joined them on stage for a toast with Master Distillers' Unity, a bourbon blended by Parker and his son Craig from whiskeys from all seven major Kentucky distillers. This was the only public tasting of the bourbon (the only other two bottles were auctioned for $8,500 at Bonhams the next day, with all proceeds going to ALS research). It was a deeply emotional moment as everyone drank a toast to Parker Beam and his legacy of good bourbon and personal courage.
It was two great days of whiskies. For those two days, it was the best place in the world for a whisky lover to be.
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John – thank you. You and your team put together another phenomenal event this year. I did not expect to be as impressed as I was with the inaugural day of seminars event from last year, but I certainly was. I'm looking forward to next year!
Hi John.
Too bad I couldn't make it. Just wondering though, were they pouring the Pappy Van Winkle 20 year old?
Van Winkle wasn't there this year. Good selection though. In terms of bourbons the Four Roses Small Batch, Parker Heritage and Angel's Envy stood out as did the BTAC lineup that Buffalo Trace poured for VIP. I thought the baby Stagg was too hot and title flavors muddled. Otherwise the Run and Barry Crockett were memorable and too many others to mention. Great time.
The flavors that is.
And Balvenie Tun that is. Autofill!$#
I was referring to the bottles discovered missing at the distillery, just before Whiskyfest. There had to be some sort of discussion about that here 🙂
Ahh of course. John can shed some light onrhay. I was too busy sampling whiskies! Cheers.
There were several stunning Scotches: both the Bruichladdich Cuvees (Sauternes & PX Casks), the Glendronach 1996 & Batch 2 Cask Strengths, Blue Hanger 7, Compass Box Delilah's Blend…
Oddly, the TUN 1401 Batch 9 and the Highland Park Loki were a bit disappointing to me given how great these series tyically are.
And wow, the Kavalan's from Taiwan were great.
Still for me, best in show was surely the Four Roses Limited Edition Small Batch 2013. Had the chance to introduce Jim Rutledge and Jim McEwan – who loved each other's whiskies. Want to see a Bruichladdich finished in Four Roses barrels in six years or so.


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25th March 2012 05:48 PM #1
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ear cleaning
I am having problems in cleaning the ears and nose of my son whose 2 years old now. When he was younger, I didn't have any problems at all but now he doesn't want his ears and nose to be cleaned. Why is that? I tried explaining to him that we need to clean his ears and nose or else it will get stuck.
I remember so well, we brought him to the doctor just to have those dirt on his nose be removed and even the doctor had a hard time.
So anyone here, please help me how to encourage my son to clean his ears and nose.
26th March 2012 01:03 AM #2
Is it actual dirt (soil) that he is getting in his nose, or is it mucus (like what he gets when he has congestion or a cold)?
As for the ears, we typically don't need our ears cleaned (at least in inside the ear), and if you feel that the part of the ear that you can see need to be cleaned, then that would just be a quick clean of the ear with a wash cloth or your hands during bath time.
Please give more information as to exactly what you are trying to remove (dirt/mucus/ear wax) and in the case of the ear, where you are trying to remove it from, and what your son doesn't like (a washcloth on his ear, a cotton swab in his ear, etc.).
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26th March 2012 08:06 PM #3
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Hi 5Homebirths4Kate. Thanks for the response.
The thing on his nose I guess was a mucus that has dried and the pollution from the outside that accumulated from some time. It was like a size of a mung bean.
Regarding to his ears, it is just the outside part of the ear and I use cotton swabs and that's what irritates him but sometimes I see some ear wax and I have to clean it with swabs.
There are some moments when I let him clean his ears with cotton swabs by himself but of course, as mum it is a bit scary for he might inserted it all the way to the ear canal. Next time, I will teach him to clean his ears with washcloth during bath time.
28th March 2012 01:08 AM #4
I'm a qualified Audiologist (as well as a member of this forum!) so I thought I would offer up my advice and experience.
We tell our patients (and the parents of the children patients) never to put anything into the ear canal smaller than an elbow! It is fine to clean wax if it comes into the bowl part of the ear - you can wipe this away with a flannel. However, we don't advocate the use of cotton buds as we have sadly seen many injuries with these (for example, where the child has suddenly coughed and their hand has jolted and made a hole in the eardrum).
Also, you might find it useful to know that the ear has natural cleaning properties. The skin in the ear canal actually naturally grows outwards very slowly all the time - it will bring with it any wax which is loose enough into the bowl part of the ear.
It is fine to put a couple of drops of olive oil into each ear once a week to loosen up any wax in there to help with this natural cleaning process.
I hope this helps.
28th March 2012 12:41 PM #5
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Hi ljmarsden, thanks for the info.
As I said, I won't use cotton buds anymore and let my son clean it with washcloth. Don't want anything bad to happen.
I really appreciate your advices, ljmarsden and kate.
28th March 2012 09:47 PM #6
29th March 2012 09:49 AM #7
Great info. Laura-Jane. I never cleaned my children's ears with cotton swabs, and one child had a lot of wax. The grandparents were concerned but I didn't give in to their prodding to clean the ear with cotton swabs, and I just cleaned the outside of the ear.
I think the ears never stop growing (like the nose, is this correct?) and it's interesting to know that the skin slowly grows outward. I also didn't know that the wax has self cleaning properties (this is great!) and I love the olive oil suggestion.
Thanks for sharing!
29th March 2012 11:35 PM #8
Yes that's true Kate. You can actually use any type of food based oil to help keep the ears clean e.g. sunflower oil and almond oil is also particularly good.
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Hi. ljmarsden, how much drop of oil should be used?
Thanks for the info. It helps a lot to learn something new. Really appreciate it.
2nd April 2012 09:33 PM #10
The best way to administer the drops is to buy a pipette (a 3ml capacity pipette will be fine) from the chemist and just put a 1-3 drops of oil in (once a week).
8th April 2012 01:56 AM #11
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Thanks for the info, ljmarsden.
How would you take the water out of the ear? When accidentally, water got in the ear while taking a shower or while swimming?
9th April 2012 03:03 AM #12
Laura-Jane may have a good suggestion for this one, but what I've found is that if water gets in the ear (from swimming, shower, bath) I just try to "empty" the ear by tilting my head to the side and shaking it in hopes that the water clears. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't, I just walk around with a "clogged" ear until it clears on it's own (and it always does... eventually).
11th April 2012 01:03 AM #13
I would advise exactly as Kate says! Just make sure you don't shake your head too vigorously!
Many children also find swimming hats useful - they also protect them from ear infections.
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To Kate and LJ,
Thank you for taking time to answer my posts.


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Liberal MP Gerry Byrne is crying foul, saying that the federal government is moving to pull the rug out from under tens of thousands of people seeking First Nations status as members of the Qalipu Mi'kmaq band.
And Byrne should know; he's one of the people seeking status as a member of the band.
This week, the federal Conservatives introduced a bill that explicitly says that the federal cabinet can remove names from the list of members of the Mi'kmaq band. It also says that the federal government cannot be sued if it removes somebody from the list.
Byrne said he believes that the federal government is setting itself up to revoke the membership claims of many, many applicants.
More than 100,000 people have applied to be members of the band, and Byrne said that "absolutely" the criteria for membership were extremely broad.
"Members can be enrolled without regard to any blood quantum. In other words, you can be 15 generations away from any Canadian aboriginal ancestor and still be eligible. That was specifically contemplated and accepted by the federal government and the federation of indians in the Mi'kmaq community," he said.
"You do not actually have to be Mi'kmaq Indian to be a member of this band, which is explicitly spelled out in the enrolment criteria. You can be an Indian of any Canadian aboriginal descent."
Based on that criteria, Byrne says he applied for membership.
"My ancestry intersects the Mi'kmaq community in five different locations," he said.
"I'm not going to debate this. I'm not going to go into an extensive debate proving my own validity. I'm applying under an existing set of rules that were established by the band, by the Mi'kmaq community."
But if the federal government starts revoking Indian status from applicants, Byrne said that's tantamount to going back on a deal that was negotiated between Ottawa and members of the Newfoundland Federation of Indians.
Byrne equated it to the Upper Churchill agreement, saying that a deal is a deal and you can't go back on it.
The Telegram tried to speak to Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt, but he would not do an interview.
A spokeswoman sent a statement saying that Bill C-25 will "protect the integrity and credibility of the Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation.
It will also ensure that only those with a legitimate claim to membership are registered following the completion of the enrolment process."
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Today I came from Bai Chay by taxi to the Indochina Junk Company office in Hong Gai near the boat docks. Tuyen and I worked on planning the next few days. We emailed our ideas for a poster about the VVV OLPC Laptop Project and for a Certificate to give the Teachers after the teacher training, to Nguyet and her IT team in Hanoi to work on for us. I can't believe what they came up with on such short notice. Thank you Nguyet! Gangsters, I will post the files on the VVV Project page in the OLPC Wiki asap so that others can use them for ideas!
Then I went off to explore Hong Gai for the afternoon. I needed to find some power strips to buy, along with a few other things. In the Hong Gai market I met a lovely couple, Peter and Ty from Hong Gai and Vancouver, BC. Because Peter spoke English to me, I asked him if he happened to know anyone in town who has knowledge about solar power. He told me that he was probably the only person in this city of about 1,000,000 people that knows solar power! Vietnam has alot of sun, and now, for about 2 years there is one company in Ho Chi Minh City manufacturing panels, but not many people know so much about it. He invited me to his home to see the solar power system he built. He brought his panels to Vietnam from Canada.
Wow! An invitation to a foreigner to visit a local home is unusual and is a treasure when traveling. Tuyen and I had a lovely visit with Peter and Ty and Ty's beautiful mother too. Now we have both seen a solar power electric system that really does work. Peter was so generous to volunteer to help our Project. Our Vietnam Power team is in place now. And the power issue is what I was worried most about. Peter will join us tomorrow to see the sunny village school. Sometimes things happen that just can't be explained. Meeting Peter and Ty, well, The Vung Vieng Fishing Village Laptop Project is just meant to be!


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In mid May we'll be adding a male yellow lab to the family, and he will be trained as bird dog too. I'm planning on doing all the training myself, as I'm wrapping up law school in a couple of weeks, and I have plenty of time until I take the bar in August.
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Date Posted: June 8, 2009 - 12:02 am by: coffeeboy
With the release for the first teaser poster for Spider-man 4 hitting the web (pun intended) being discovered as a fake, call me skeptical when announced that Kirsten Dunst who has been feigning interest in reprising her MJ Watson role in the next installment of the multi-billion dollar franchise will indeed be in the fourth Spidey adventure. Rumors of an unbelievable pay-hike to a much meatier role were thrown around as reasons for her not wanting to be involved. Me, I just think she's being a bitch. So if she is indeed going to be in the fourth installment, I am gonna keep a close eye on on-set reports of her behavior because I don't trust this chick for one minute.
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Whatever happened to Hermione? Or, to be more specific, whatever happened to Emma Watson, who played Hermione in the Harry Potter movies?
Here lies the answer: The Perks of Being a Wallflower, the film of a coming-of-age novel set in the early 90s.
Like the movie, the soundtrack is an enticing step back in time. I'm sure none of us needed to hear Dexy's Midnight Runners' Come On Eileen again, but there are some real gems on this compilation, not least of which is Cracker's raucous Low, a yell-along favourite.
There is the welcome inclusion of tracks from Sonic Youth, Cocteau Twins and Galaxie 500. But the highlights have to be New Order's Temptation and the timeless Heroes from David Bowie. This album does what a good soundtrack should do, and takes you there. Spellbinding.
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"I'm gonna lean up against you, and you lean up against me. That way we don't hafta sleep with our heads in the mud"Forrest Gump, 1994
Obama and Netanyahu will be together this week at the UN word is they still wont have a meeting.
Today on Fox News Sunday ... on Tuesday this coming week Obama is going to be on The View. Far too busy to meet with Netanyahu. In fact, so busy this week that there won't be a meeting while Netanyahu is in New York. Far too busy if Netanyahu offered to a meeting in Washington. Ooops, Obama probably won't be in Washington.
Maybe the ladies of the view can get th truth out of him , maybe he will admit we attacked again on 9/11 and it had NOTHING to do with the video. On Univision he was asked about the security situation they said his answer was 2 1/2 minutes long but he never answered the question. He told how sorry he was for the famillies on and on ....but no answer. He loves to talk he just never says anything.
NY Times interview with Morsi, seems to be that they want to be friends and take our aid, but they will do what they want in the terms of their own culture, not ours; and US has to live up to its commitment to an independent Palestinian state. Meanwhile, in Pakistan, they think the US needs to make a law against blasphemy. Of course, in their country blasphemy would only apply to Allah, since other religions are considered invalid. And therein is the crux of the problem. They have no real grasp of allowing all free speech, even when what is being said is offensive.
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According to former UN Ambassador John Bolton, Obama is not even going to the UN Secretary General Luncheon that we pay 22% of the cost of . He wants one thing, to get out of this UN meeting as fast as he can and not say anything that may become news worthy.
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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 5:06 PM GMT on August 03, 2011
In defiance to its forecast, Tropical Storm Emily continues to move due west this morning, and we wonder just how far west it will get before turning toward Hispaniola. Recent Hurricane Hunter missions have shown that Emily is still very poorly organized, and although the center of circulation is plainly obvious on satellite imagery, it's only because it is so displaced from the thunderstorm activity. Wind shear around the storm is just high enough, around 20 knots out of the west, to push the upper levels of circulation and thunderstorm activity to the east, exposing the surface low. In order for tropical cyclones to intensify (or, continue to exist at all), they need to be vertically stacked and standing straight up in the atmosphere. Right now, Emily is tilting to the east. This is bad news for the organization of the storm, and something that Emily will have to work hard at recovering from. In addition to the wind shear, dry air continues to wrap around the north and west of the storm. This isn't as critical as unfavorable wind shear, but it's not helping to create new thunderstorm activity. The strongest winds of 50 mph were found to the north and east of the center this morning, and Emily is not expected to intensify before making landfall in Hispaniola, which is forecast for tonight. The HWRF is forecasting the strongest precipitation to fall on the northeast side of the storm as is passes over Hispaniola. This is relatively good news for Haiti, but the country could still receive up to 5 inches of rain, and since the models have been trending the track west over the past couple of runs, it's something to watch closely. No matter the scenario, Emily is expected to produce heavy rains, flash flooding, and mudslides in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which are all to common on the mountainous island.
Figure 1. Forecast precipitation accumulation from the HWRF high resolution model's 6Z (2am EDT) run. The color contour scale is in inches. The coastlines are a thin, red line. The Dominican Republic is expected to get the most rain out of Emily. You can view the HWRF model runs on Wundermap.
Forecast for Tropical Storm Emily
The future of Emily remains uncertain, and even the National Hurricane Center is using the "if" word when forecasting Emily's track after crossing Hispaniola. "If" it makes it north of Hispaniola. Over the past couple of runs, the models have been trending their forecast tracks back to the west, most likely because Emily has remained on a westward track longer than expected. This is expected—the longer Emily remains shallow and unorganized, the longer it will track west. It will need to build up taller in the atmosphere to be influenced by the steering winds that can push it north. Given its westward track, today's models are likely closer to reality than what we've seen in the past couple of days. This morning, the CMC, UKMET, and HWRF models send Emily on a northwest track to Florida. This is a change from the past couple of days for the HWRF, but the CMC and UKMET have consistently been the western boundary of model consensus. THE GFDL has also taken a huge swing to the west, and now suggests it will come very close to a southeast Florida landfall. The ECMWF and GFS continue to forecast that Emily will take a harder turn north through the Bahamas, not reaching the Florida coast.
Figure 2. Satellite image of Tropical Storm Emily at 11:15am EDT. The surface circulation is visible to the west of the strongest thunderstorm activity.
Consensus of the models falls between the HWRF/GFDL solution and the ECMWF/GFS solution, and the National Hurricane Center continues to use the consensus for the official track forecast, which calls for Emily to take a turn to the northwest and make landfall in Hispaniola this afternoon, after which continuing northwest until Saturday morning when it's between the island of Grand Bahama and West Palm Beach, Florida. At this point, they expect the storm to jog north and then northeast.
Emily's intensity forecast continues highly dependent on the track it takes. Assuming it can survive the wrath of Hispaniola, Emily will enter slightly more favorable environmental conditions to the north of the islands. This is what the Hurricane Center is forecasting, although they remain cautious. There is a very good chance that, if Emily does turn northwest today, it will not be able to reorganize after crossing Hispaniola. If it does maintain organization, Emily could reach hurricane strength as it moves northeast out to the open Atlantic. The other scenario at this point is that the storm keeps moving west, which will be detrimental to its orgnization. The models that track Emily into the far eastern Gulf of Mexico don't suggest any reintensification—the CMC fizzles the system below tropical storm strength quickly, probably because of the long track over Cuba it would have to take. In any case, Emily remains a threat most certainly to Hispaniola, and potentially to Florida.
I'm planning a quick update later this afternoon/evening for an update on new model runs, and potential Hispaniola landfall.
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Lady_Phoenix wrote:Ok after reading all of these messages, it seems that u guys are all confuzed. So am i because i happen to have this small trailer of X/1999, and it links to the manga and the series and it completely has no realtion to the OVA/ so called Movie. there is an acutal movie but i dont know if it is here in the US.
Another thing, in the series, Kakyou did escape to see the death of Hokuto because he saw it in his dream. and that is how he is sleeping most of the time in the series. Its kinda the same incident as with princess and watshisname nephew of the wind guy.
And JHU Battousai what do u mean actual series, is there two or sumthing becuase i have both the movie, the series and a little trailer that links the manga to the series but not the OVA.
Ok, what little "Trailer"? I wanna see this. All the OVA is is a series "teaser". Its entitled Episode 0: An Omen. As a note of interest, when Kamui is "pinned" by Fuma (by now Dark Kamui) in episode 12, he is tied up by cabling. In episode 0 however, you see how it was in the manga - he is pinned to the slab by shards of glass through his body. I wonder why they changed that for episode 12 if it had already been established in episode 0.
If you think the OVA is the 100 minute movie that makes very little sense to someone new to the show, then you're wrong. That is X/1999. Its still based on the same manga, but its modified some parts of the story to make it fit a movie better. What the OVA is is a 25 minute "prequel" episode that began the series, to leave X TV with an odd number of episodes, 25.
The movie has little to no relevance or relation to manga whatsoever. In terms of comparison, it sucks. Still an ok movie to watch though.


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More African-American people than ever are moving to the city—but not without apprehension.
In a glass skyscraper on Park Avenue in New York, executives offered Onay Payne her dream job. The bosses at her real estate private equity firm wanted Payne to oversee a new $650 million fund, a significant promotion.
One catch: the job was in Dallas. What would it be like, Payne wondered, to live in Dallas as a thirtysomething black woman?
At her Brooklyn apartment, Payne picked up the phone and dialed one of the few people she knew in Dallas, a classmate from Harvard Business School who also was black. Did she like Dallas? Payne asked. Are there many black professionals there? A quiet pause followed, then a string of hesitant utterances.
"Um, well, um—" her friend said. "I suppose if it's a great professional move—but socially, I wouldn't recommend it."
At a time of striking growth among the black population in the Dallas area, the city still suffers from an image problem among black professionals who perceive other cities—Atlanta; Chicago; or Washington, D.C.—as being more friendly to blacks.
"Dallas is a tough sell," says April Allen, the friend Payne called, and executive director of KIPP Dallas-Fort Worth, a nonprofit charter school organization that has had trouble recruiting education reformers to the area. "There is definitely the perception that Dallas isn't as progressive as other cities for African-Americans."
Michael Boone, founding partner of the Dallas law firm Haynes and Boone, says his firm still struggles to recruit African-American attorneys to Dallas and has resorted to sending out letters to the top 100 black student law groups in the country, encouraging members to apply. Young black lawyers often are told that if they want to work in the South, they should go to Atlanta, not Dallas, he says.
"We've got to work harder to convince people that Dallas is a good place to be," Boone says.
It's a perception that has long troubled city leaders, this idea that the Dallas area isn't viewed as a place where blacks, particularly high-achieving blacks, would want to live.
Yet, interestingly, this perception is at odds with the data. In one of the more notable demographic shifts of recent decades, blacks have been moving by the thousands to southern cities, including, and especially, Dallas.
The Dallas-Fort Worth metro area ranked fourth for attracting the largest number of African-Americans between 2006 and 2010, drawing a yearly average of 7,678 new residents, according to William H. Frey, a demographer for the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Coming in first was the Atlanta area, with an average of 23,750 new black residents a year; then Houston, with 11,008; followed by Charlotte, with 10,137.
Clearly, Atlanta remains the overwhelming magnet for African-Americans in the South, attracting triple that of Dallas and more than Dallas and Houston combined. But Dallas has emerged as a key player in the migration shift, Frey says.
"Dallas is one of the major magnets for blacks, and professional blacks, in the U.S.," Frey says. "You're talking about Dallas in the same breath that you're talking about Atlanta or Houston or some of the North Carolina cities."
Dallas has benefited from the reversal of a long-term Great Migration north by thousands of black residents throughout the early part of the 20th century, as they went in search of better jobs and more tolerant communities. In the 1990s, demographers noticed that the numbers had fully turned around, with African-Americans leaving former magnets like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and repopulating southern cities such as Dallas. Demographers call it the New Great Migration.
They say the migration has been partly fueled by college-educated blacks, resulting in an overall "brain gain" to certain states, including Texas and Georgia.
Frey believes the Dallas metro area will continue to be a major draw for blacks in coming years. He notes Dallas ranked second nationally for overall black population gain between 2000 and 2010, which included migration and local births. During that period, the area's black population increased by 33 percent, or 233,890 people. Once again, Atlanta was far and away the top gainer, growing by 39 percent, or 473,493 people, more than Dallas and third-ranked Houston combined, according to Frey's analysis of U.S. Census data. During the same period, the black population dropped in the metropolitan areas of New York and Chicago for the first time.
And yet the negative perceptions of Dallas endure among black professionals.
"For all the growth and opportunity and dynamism of Dallas, the racial divide persists," says James Waters, a black attorney who moved to Dallas in 2000 from New York to join Haynes and Boone. "I'm not entirely certain why that is so, but I think many thoughtful people are concerned about it."
Despite significant growth in the black population here, the Dallas metro area is still only 15 percent black. Nationally, it ranks ninth for having the largest black population, behind New York; Atlanta; Chicago; Washington, D.C.; and Houston. For comparison, Atlanta is 32 percent black.
Black professionals who have moved to Dallas say they often don't see other blacks at their corporate headquarters, in their neighborhood grocery stores in Uptown or Lakewood, or at happy hours downtown.
That was Payne's experience when she first moved to Dallas in the fall of 2006. Like many thirtysomethings on a fast-track career path, Payne was ambitious. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, got her MBA from Harvard Business School, and worked 12-hour days in New York before getting offered the big promotion. Despite her social concerns about Dallas, she wasn't going to let them get in the way of her career path.
She bought a one-way ticket, stopped at a BMW dealership to pick up a car, and drove to her newly purchased condominium in Uptown. As the days passed, Payne was pleased with some of the perks of her new life: an easy commute to her office in Uptown and a much lower cost of living, which allowed her to upgrade to a 1,750-square-foot condominium, more than double the space she had in Brooklyn.
But one thing was immediately troubling. In New York, she never had a problem finding a crowd of black professionals, in restaurants, at the gym. Here, when she went out after work, she often was the only black person in sight.
"I quickly realized that if I wanted to socialize with other black professionals, I was going to have to work for it," Payne says.
It's a startling experience that many black professionals say they have after moving to Dallas—the overall lack of black professionals in northern parts of the city.
Attorney W. Keith Robinson moved from Alexandria, Virginia, last August to accept a position as an assistant professor of law at SMU. "Here, I've had the experience that I haven't had in a while, of being the only black guy in a suit in a restaurant," Robinson says. "It's definitely a strange experience. It's not that I feel uncomfortable or unwelcome. It's just, I know there are other black professionals in the city. Where are they?"
When Allen was recruited from Harvard Business School, she tried to avoid this experience by picking a neighborhood with a diverse population of whites, blacks, and Hispanics. She, too, had been worried about the social experience of living in Dallas. She researched neighborhoods online and got excited about North Oak Cliff, with its diverse demographics and older, historic homes. But when she got a call from the relocation real estate agent, the woman tried to dissuade her.
"You really don't want to live in North Oak Cliff," the woman told Allen. "It's not really legal for me to say this, but it's not the right demographic for you. We should find you a nice condo in Uptown."
Allen hung up the phone, confused. "I thought, 'Okay, welcome to Texas,' " Allen says.
She parted ways with that agent and hired one who lived in North Oak Cliff. To find friends, she leaned on her alumni networks, eventually assembling a group of five close black female friends. Over dinners, they talked about living in Dallas and how it fell short in some ways compared to other cities, particularly Atlanta.
"There is definitely a cultural divide, where blacks do the black scene, and whites do the white scene," says former Dallas resident Kari Pinnock, a black professional who left Dallas for her hometown of Toronto last fall. "In other cities, there is more of a cultural mix."
In rankings of the country's top 100 metro areas in terms of black-white segregation, Dallas falls in the middle of the pack, coming in at No. 48 (where No. 1 is the most segregated). Dallas scored slightly better than Atlanta, which came in as the 41st most segregated area. The top spots went to Milwaukee, New York, and Chicago.
"Blacks are still very segregated in the United States," says demographer Frey. "Dallas comes in okay, but the numbers show that it is not exactly highly integrated."
Pinnock says she felt more isolated living in Dallas than she did while living in Atlanta. "It's not that I felt in any way uncomfortable, but I would go into Highland Park or Uptown for lunch, and I would be the only black person there," she says. "No one is giving you the cold shoulder or anything like that, but you know they're looking at you. I didn't feel that way in Atlanta."
Pinnock and her friends felt that the Dallas sprawl made it feel more segregated, because black professionals were spread out across the suburbs. Though Atlanta also suffers from massive sprawl, the women say a more vibrant downtown made up for the suburban divide, with professionals congregating in the city's core for its arts scene and social offerings. The women hoped that perhaps with the continued growth of the Dallas Arts District and the new downtown deck park, a more diverse group of professionals will linger in the city and cross paths. But the biggest difference they saw was that those other cities had a more visible presence of high-achieving blacks in political and business circles.
"One thing that is dynamic about Atlanta is that there's quite significant African-American leadership in the city, across all platforms," Allen says. "I don't know if it's just more media exposure there, but you don't feel that in Dallas. You want to have these role models, to see people who look like you, doing the things you want to do."
Over time, Allen's circle of friends dwindled, as several of the black women left Dallas for other cities, including Chicago and Washington, D.C. One of the women was Lauren Graye, a black professional who moved back to her hometown of D.C. after living in Dallas for four years.
"There just aren't enough examples of African-Americans in high executive positions in Dallas," says Graye, who works in retail merchandising. "It's a turnoff. It seems much more likely for me to achieve a certain level of success in a company that already has African-Americans in executive positions.
"I think unfortunately it's a vicious cycle," Graye continues. "Companies have trouble retaining African-Americans because they don't already have them in leadership positions. So we perceive there is a glass ceiling, and we leave."
These negative perceptions among minorities led a group of business leaders to discussions in the late 1990s. The executives were having trouble recruiting and retaining minority professionals, particularly blacks.
For them, diversity wasn't a buzzword, or even a moral imperative, but a matter of survival. In a time of shifting demographics, and an extraordinarily connected world economy, these company leaders knew they must court diversity for competitive edge. Knowledge of different cultures means access to more consumers. Most simply, clients searching for attorneys, accountants, or bankers like to see a little of themselves in the company ranks.
"Diversity is now a well-established, well-entrenched idea in corporate practice," says David Lei, SMU associate professor in the management and organizations department. "There is a belief that diversity will result in a much better product long term."
The company leaders who gathered included the executives of BNSF Railway. With an overwhelmingly white work force, company leaders knew they needed to diversify to survive. They had long heard that minorities had a negative impression of Dallas.
"We really tried to understand the root cause of what was going on there, but we were never able to articulate it or figure out what we could change," says Matthew Rose, the chief executive officer of BNSF. "If it is cultural, how do you go about changing that?"
They decided to forsake the nebulous and focus on the concrete: recruiting minorities to North Texas. Their efforts eventually led to the formation of a group called North Texas Leaders and Executives Advocating Diversity (LEAD). Twenty-three organizations, cities, and companies across the region, including American Airlines and Lockheed Martin, pay yearly fees from $5,000 to $68,000 to access a group of heavily vetted minority candidates from across the country. Since the group's inception 10 years ago, it has helped place more than 400 people. But the area's larger issues still pose a problem for LEAD.


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|Santa Margarita HS
TITANS `11: Made her way into 17 sets over seven matches • Set career-best dig totals in back-to-back matches on Oct. 29 and Nov. 1. Scooped seven digs against UC Riverside and followed that with 10 digs at UC Irvine.
TITANS `10: Played in just nine sets over three matches • Set season highs in digs on two occasions, scooping six attempts on Aug. 27 versus Bucknell and then nine the next day on Aug. 28 against Loyola Marymount • Posted a career-best two service aces on Aug. 27 against Bucknell.
TITANS `09: Played in just 18 of the Titans' 106 sets • Did not record a kill or a block in 2009, but did notch a season best three digs on four occasions (Aug. 29 vs. Appalachian State, Oct. 6 vs. Cal State Northridge, Nov. 13 vs. UC Irvine, and Nov. 20 at UC Irvine).
SANTA MARGARITA HS: Was a two-year letterwinner at Santa Margarita Catholic High School (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) under Head Coach Christy Chapman-Uhrig • Was a defensive specialist and team captain for the Eagles that defeated Mira Costa HS in a three-hour CIF championship game in 2008-09 • Was named to the All-Trinity League Second Team as a senior in 2008-09.
PERSONAL: Born June 22, 1991, in Newport Beach, Calif. • Full name is Brenna Kristine Donavan Cygan • Parents are Greg and Phyllis Cygan • Father, Greg, played water polo and team handball as club sports at Cal State Fullerton • Has five brothers and a sister, Ryan (26), Grant (23), Kendall (18), Zach (13), Brent (11) and Calvin (3) • Majoring in business • Favorites include: "Cool Runnings" (movie), "CSI" (TV show), Shawn White (athlete), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (team), pasta (food), and the All-American Rejects (musical artists).


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Records of the Corporation; 1875 to Present
A committee of concerned Philadelphians gathered in 1875 with the purpose of creating a permanent art museum in Philadelphia. They petitioned the Centennial Board for use of Memorial Hall as a Museum. Following acceptance of their organization plans, the Corporation of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Arts received its charter on February 25, 1876.
Initially, the Corporation was managed by a self-perpetuating Board of Trustees of twenty-two members. The officers included a president, two vice presidents, a treasurer, a curator, and a secretary. Standing Committees of the Board included the Executive Committee, the Committee on Museum, the Committee on Instruction, and the Committee on Finance. Through the years, new officers, trustees and committees have been added, but the basic structure of the corporate governance has remained consistent.
The Records of the Corporation include documents of the founding of the Museum, minutes of the Board of Trustees, Resolutions of the Trustees, minutes of the Standing Committees, and records of the Presidents and Secretaries/Treasurers of the Corporation. The records of some committees are located in the Board of Trustees subgroup and some are in the presidents' files. Subgroup descriptions illustrate this. The records of the Women's Committee are maintained in its office.
Generally speaking, there are not many records documenting the Office of the President of the Corporation before those of J. Stogdell Stokes, 1937–47. In trying to reconstruct gaps in the historical record, it is somewhat possible to follow the activities of the office in the Minutes of the Board of Trustees, in the annual reports, and in their correspondence to the Museum staff.
For the early presidential records that do remain, they were not filled separately in individual subgroups. Letters written by the Presidents to the Curator (Director) of the Museum were filed in letter books maintained by Dalton Dorr (DOR) and in the files of later directors. William Platt Pepper's letters to Dorr and Barber were kept in individual letter books and reveal the devotion of one of the Museum's founding members. Incoming correspondence of earlier presidents may be located through the indices of the letter books in DOR, and by name in the records of Barber (BAR), Warner (WAR) and Kimball (FKR).
Presidents that preceded J. Stogdell Stokes were: Hon. John Welsh, President of the Centennial Exhibition, selected as the first President of Philadelphia Museum of Art in March 1876 (resigned immediately); Coleman Sellers, 1876–1880; William H. Merrick, 1880–1882; William Platt Pepper, 1882–1899; Theodore Search, 1899–1920; John D. McIlhenny, 1920–1925; Eli Kirk Price, 1926–1933.
With regards to records produced by later Presidents, individual subgroups may be found for the following administrators: J. Stogdell Stokes (1933–1947), R. Sturgis Ingersoll (1948–1964), Mrs. John Wintersteen (1964–1968), George M. Cheston (1968–1976), William P. Wood (1976–1980), and Robert Montgomery Scott (1980–). The records of Secretary Julius Zieget (1928–1963) are a subgroup of the Records of the Corporation. The records of Secretaries and controllers following Zieget have been combined into an Office of the Secretary subgroup. Note: The records of two early Secretaries (who served as Director and Curator as well), Dalton Dorr (1876–1901) and Edwin AtLee Barber (1901–1916), may be found in the Directors' record group.
- Museum Founding Documents (DOC)
- Board of Trustees Records (BT)
- J. Stogdell Stokes Records (STO)
- R. Sturgis Ingersoll Records (ING)
- Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen Records (WIN)
- George M. Cheston Records (CHE)
- William P. Wood Records (WOO)
- Robert Montgomery Scott Records (SCO)
- Presidents' Office Records (PRE)
- Julius Zieget Records (ZIE)
- Secretary of the Corporation Records (SEC)
- Financial Records (FIN)
Records of the Directors; 1876 to Present
The directorship of the Philadelphia Museum of Art grew out of the position of Curator. The first two Curators, Dalton Dorr and Edwin AtLee Barber, served as Secretaries of the Corporation and performed the duties of a Director. They worked in Memorial Hall where the collections originally were housed. With the death of Managing Director William Platt Pepper in 1909, Barber's title was changed to "Director." Included here are the records of Dalton Dorr (1878–1901) and Edwin AtLee Barber (1901–1916). The records of Director Langdon Warner (1917–1923), Acting Director Samuel Woodhouse (1923–1925), Directors Fiske Kimball (1925–1916), Henri Marceau (1955–1964), and Acting Director Arnold Jolles (1977–1979) continue this record group.
A large quantity of these records is the Museum central file maintained by the Director's Office. Until 1946, the Museum's departments regularly transferred their inactive records to this file. Many of these records have been moved to departmental subgroups. Exhibition files maintained by the Director's Office is another subgroup in this Record Group.
- Dalton Dorr Records (DOR)
- Edwin Atlee Barber Records (BAR)
- Langdon Warner Records (WAR)
- Samuel W. Woodhouse, Jr. Records (WDH)
- Fiske Kimball Records (FKR)
- Henri Gabriel Marceau Director Records (MAR)
- Evan H. Turner records
- Michael Botwinick Records (BOT)
- Arnold H. Jolles Records (JOL)
- Jean Sutherland Boggs Records (BOG)
- Anne d'Harnoncourt Records (ADH)
- Alice Beamesderfer Records (BEA)
- Danielle Rice Records (RIC)
- Exhibition Records (EXH)
Records of the Curatorial Departments; 1917 to Present
Throughout its history under different trustees and directors, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has had various collecting focuses and curatorial alignments. Three major divisions have occurred under Directors Dorr, Kimball and Turner. In 1893 under Dorr, three curatorial departments guided by Honorary Curators were established: American Pottery, Numismatics, and Textiles, Lace and Embroidery. In 1902 Barber added six new departments under Honorary Curators. These departments were maintained with modifications until the arrival of Fiske Kimball in 1925. Kimball changed the organization to include staffed departments within two divisions of European and American Art, and Eastern Art. This structure remained through Marceau's tenure. Turner discarded divisions and established independent departments.
The current departments are: American Art; Costumes and Textiles; European Decorative Art after 1700; European Decorative Art before 1700; European Painting Before 1900; East Asian Art; Indian Art; Modern and Contemporary Art; and Prints, Drawings and Photographs.
Many records of these departments were transferred from the Museum's central file. Some records of former curatorial departments are maintained by related current departments. Many departments continue to maintain their historical records.
- American Art Department Records (AME)
- American Decorative Arts Department Records (ADA)
- Costume and Textiles Department Records (CT)
- Decorative Arts Department Records (DEC)
- Dutch Tiles Records (DT)
- East Asian Art Department Records (EAA)
- European Decorative Arts before 1700 Department Records (EDB)
- European Decorative Arts after 1700 Department Records (EDA)
- Far Eastern Art Department Records (FAR)
- Former Departments Records (DEP)
- Henri Gabriel Marceau Curatorial Records (CUR)
- Indian Art Department Records (IND)
- Indian and Himalayan Art Department Records (IHA)
- Marcel Duchamp Exhibition Records (MDE)
- Marcel Duchamp Research Collection (MDR)
- Medieval Art Department Records (MED)
- Modern and Contemporary Art Department Records (MOD)
- Painting and Sculpture Department Records (PAI)
- Print Department Records (PRI)
- Prints, Drawings and Photographs Department Records (PDP)
- Twentieth Century Art Department Records (TCA)
Records of the Support Departments; 1909 to Present
The Support Departments are non-curatorial departments that support the work of Executive Offices, curatorial departments, and the Museum as a whole. Some departments also provide outreach functions to the Philadelphia community. Although most of the departments were created or grew greatly in the 1950s or 1960s, the Library has been an important element of the Museum since its beginning. The Archives has not yet received the records of some Support Departments; for instance, most of the Registrar's voluminous records are maintained in that office. Two Support Departments no longer exist, having ceased during the Depression: the Identification Bureau and the Cataloging Department which answered requests for evaluation and identification.
Early records of these departments have been transferred from the Museum's central file while those concerned with development, conservation, and educational activities prior to the establishment of departments may be found in the Fiske Kimball Records.
- Administration/Management Records (ADM)
- Administrative Services Records (ADS)
- Archives Department Records (ARC)
- Buildings Department Records (ADB)
- Community Programs and Urban Outreach records
- Conservation and Technical Research Collection (CTR)
- Conservation Department Records (CON)
- Development and Membership Department Records (ADV)
- Development (transitional) Records (DM)
- Development Department Records (DEV)
- Education Division Records (ED)
- External Affairs Department Records (EXT)
- Facilities and Operations Department Records (FAC)
- Information Services Department Records (IS)
- Library Department Records (LIB)
- Marketing and Public Relations Department records
- Photography Department Records (PHO)
- Public Relations Department Records (PR)
- Publications Department Records (PUB)
- Special Exhibitions Department Records (SPX)
- Volunteer Services Department Records (VOL)
Records of the Schools; 1879 to 1966
Originally entitled the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, the Museum was committed to maintaining schools for the training of young artists. The School of Industrial Art was incorporated with the Museum in 1876 and separated from the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1964. Currently its name is The University of the Arts. The Textile School was created in 1884 and severed ties in 1948. It was then called the Philadelphia Textile Institute, now the Philadelphia University.
Related Institutions and Organizations; 1893 to Present
This record group contains records of branches of the Museum, supporting organizations, and other closely related institutions.
- 69th Street Branch Records (SIX)
- Collab Records (COL)
- Fairmount Park Commissioners Records (FPC)
- Faith and Fine Arts Scrapbooks (FFA)
- John G. Johnson Collection Curatorial Records (JCC)
- Rodin Museum Records (ROD)
- W.P. Wilstach Collection Records (WIL)
- Women's Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Records (WCR)
Manuscript Collections; 1875 to 2006
These collections reflect the lives and work of staff members created outside of regular Museum roles. Other manuscript collections relate to artists, collectors, scholars, and other individuals that have some relationship with the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- A. E. (Albert Eugene) Gallatin Papers (GAL)
- Alexina and Marcel Duchamp Papers (MDP)
- Anne d'Harnoncourt Papers (ADP)
- Anne Terhune Research Collection of Thomas Hovenden (TER)
- Arensberg Archives (WLA)
- Arthur Edwin Bye Papers (BYE)
- Beatrice Wood Collection (BWC)
- Calvin Hathaway Papers (CHP)
- Carl Zigrosser Collection (CZC)
- Christian Brinton Research Collection (BRI)
- Daniel M. Williams Biographical Collection of George Grey Barnard (DMW)
- Dorothy Norman Research Collection (NOR)
- Earl Horter Collection (HOR)
- Edwin Atlee Barber Papers (EAB)
- Elinor Noteboom History of Screen Printing Records (NOT)
- Fiske Kimball Papers (FKP)
- FOCUS archives
- Frances Lichten Research Collection (LIC)
- Francis Bacon Foundation Records (FBF)
- Francis P. Garvan Decorative Arts Scrapbooks (GAR)
- George Grey Barnard Papers (GGB)
- George Kubler Records of the Arensberg Collection Catalog (KUB)
- George Macpherson Genealogical Research (MAC)
- George Roberts Papers (ROB)
- Giuseppe Donato Papers (DON)
- Gloria Braggiotti Etting Photographs (ETT)
- Graham Hood Papers of Bonnin and Morris Porcelain Manufactory (HOO)
- Hannah Anne Zell Scrapbook (ZEL)
- Henry P. McIlhenny Papers (HPM)
- Hollingsworth Pearce Papers (PEA)
- Joan Root Collections (ROO)
- John G. Johnson Papers (JGJ)
- John Raphael Covert Papers (JRC)
- John Stephen Benezet Diaries (BEN)
- Jules Zieget Memorabilia (JZM)
- Julien Levy Gallery records
- Lloyd and Edith Havens Goodrich, Whitney Museum of American Art, Records of Thomas Eakins (LEG)
- Louise Lux-Sions Records to "The Unsullied Dynasty and the K'ang-hsi Emperor." (LUX)
- Martha Crary Halpern Research Papers (HAL)
- Mary Curran Papers (MCP)
- R. Sturgis Ingersoll Memorabilia (RSI)
- Sarah Dickson Lowrie Biography of Eli Kirk Price (LOW)
- The Stella Kramrisch papers
- Titus C. Geesey Papers (GEE)
- Violet Oakley Collection (OAK)
- Yasuo Kuniyoshi Papers (KUN)
- Zieget Shaker Collection Papers (ZSC)
Special Format; 1876 to 1990s
Special Format Records (SF) are those items that, due to special conservation needs or because of unique physical characteristics, require their being maintained separately or specially. SF material from a subgroup is maintained intellectually with that subgroup, but physically maintained in different, appropriate spaces. These series are designated by subgroup codes and "SF"—i.e. GGB/SF, ED/SF, PR/SF, etc. SF material not in a subgroup or lacking definite provenance is maintained in SF collections and arranged by format.
- Architectural drawings (SFA)
- Audiovisual materials (SFV)
- Memorabilia (SFM)
- Photographs (SFP)
- Scrapbooks (SFS)
Archives Reference Collection; 1970 to Present (REF)
Includes vertical subject files, newspaper clippings, and Museum publications compiled by the staff of the Archives for general reference use.