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April 27, 2012
While many students spent their spring break relaxing or hanging out at the beach, members of the Black Student Union at Loyola University New Orleans spent their break in Philadelphia working with the developmentally disabled.
BSU members Jasmine Barnes, Jasmine Jones, LaDadrian Darden, Jessiona Bryant, Tiffany Walker, Teri Conrad and Sabrina Stansberry, along with their adviser Courtney Williams, associate director of the Office of Residential Life, spent four days at the Philadelphia Developmental Disabilities Corporation, an extension of The Arc of Philadelphia, which is committed to providing programs and support to people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. The Arc formed PDDC in 1990 to offer vocational training and competitive employment to these people to improve their quality of life by increasing their independence, inclusion and choices.
For many years, the BSU has taken a traditional "unity trip" during spring break to places such as Atlanta, Chicago, Nashville and New York. BSU spent this alternative spring break volunteering and learning about Philadelphia, as well as reflecting on the experience and creating relationships not only with the PDDC participants, but with fellow students.
"It was something that I hadn't done before. I grew closer to the people I went on the trip with as well as the participants. We developed life-long bonds with them," said Stansberry.
In addition to working with Arc and the PDDC staff to clean the property, the group also worked directly with PDDC participants, and shared with them the history of New Orleans and Mardi Gras, which included staging a building-wide parade.
"We shared the history of Mardi Gras through music, powerpoint presentations and pictures," said Barnes, president of the BSU. "We made masks and crowns for everyone in the parade so they could have the chance to be king and queen of Mardi Gras. We paraded throughout the whole facility and everyone was given Zulu coconuts, doubloons and beads as we played brass band music and danced."
"It was truly a gift to work with PDCC. By working with them and the special needs individuals, we all were able to open our eyes and realize that although they possess special needs, they truly are not all that different from us," said Walker.
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There's nothing small and quaint about this cottage home. In fact, this home feels very spacious and open, which is perfect to welcome family and friend wanting to spend the weekend by the lake.
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One of the casualties of the do-little 113th Congress will be the 2013 farm bill, which is two years overdue.
Without action, parts of the law will revert to the original 1938 and 1949 versions, resulting in milk prices as high as $7 a gallon.
A conference committee has been trying to work out a compromise between a Senate farm bill and what the House passed in two bills. Reports indicate the committee is getting nowhere, though certainly not fast. Talks bogged down before Congress' Thanksgiving recess, leaving only December to get something done.
That's not even as much time as it appears. Ed O'Keefe, who covers Congress and politics for the Washington Post, reported Monday that the House and Senate calendars show only five days in which both bodies will be in Washington at the same time. The House of Representatives has only nine days on its "month," ending Dec. 13, and the Senate will be in town only from Dec. 9-20.
Furthermore, the to-do list for December includes some major legislation like a budget agreement which, if left undone, could result in another government shutdown in January.
Our lawmakers appear to be intent on establishing an all-time record for lack of accomplishment. The Post says that congressional records show fewer than 60 public laws enacted so far this year. The lowest production since World War II was in 1995, when a new Republican majority met head-on with the Clinton administration and the result was that only 88 laws were enacted.
No legislation is more important to rural states like Arkansas than the farm bill, and the 41-member conference committee includes 1st District Congressman Rick Crawford and U.S. Sen. John Boozman, both Republicans. Crawford especially is on the spot, not only because his district depends heavily on agriculture but also because the real hang-up has been in the House and with representatives on whose side he usually votes.
Indeed, when the House adjourned in early August without passing a farm bill, Crawford said: "The agricultural industry in my district desperately needs a farm bill, and the clock is ticking as we move toward Sept. 30 when current law expires. I do not believe it is responsible to leave Washington and leave farmers hanging in the balance …"
He was right then, and now prospects for a bill by the end of the year look no better.
The chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., said as he left for the Thanksgiving recess that it would be "very challenging" to get a final agreement on the House floor by Dec. 13.
It doesn't even seem to be a high priority for him. The front page of his official House website includes a huge box inviting constituents to "Share Your Obamacare Story" and three other links to health care issues, but not a single reference among nine news releases issued since Aug. 2 on the farm bill.
Nothing on the site mentions a farm bill since March 2012.
The real sticking point between the House and Senate is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which provides food assistance for the poor. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says that nearly 48 million people receive SNAP benefits, and 72 percent of those people are in families with children. In Arkansas the percentage is even higher: Of 509,000 participants (1 or every 6 people), 76 percent are in families with children; nearly half are children.
The nutrition program, formerly known as food stamps, has been tied to the farm bill since 1964, when Congress passed a combination bill as a compromise. The idea was to get urban lawmakers to vote for farm legislation and rural legislators to support food stamps, which also indirectly benefit farmers.
Republicans are concerned about the growth of SNAP, which more than doubled between 2007-12, partly because of high unemployment.
In June, the Senate passed a farm bill on a bipartisan vote of 66-27, with both Arkansas senators in favor. It would cut SNAP by $4.1 billion over 10 years and would end direct payments to farmers, thus reducing the federal deficit by $23 billion.
However, a House version of that bill failed by a 195-234 vote, in large part because many Democrats objected to the cut in SNAP benefits. GOP leaders then came back with a farm bill without SNAP and a separate SNAP bill that would cut benefits by $39 billion over 10 years. Each was passed narrowly with all Democrats and a few Republicans opposing.
Here we are, more than two months later, still with a stalemate.
If this were just about money, the House majority could easily find savings of $39 billion over 10 years in military spending, which at $650 billion per year is six times more than China spends, 11 times more than Russia spends. If it were just about welfare, the House majority could surely pare $3.9 billion from our annual $50 billion budget for economic and military assistance to foreign nations, none of whom pay U.S. taxes.
Our lawmakers should stay in Washington until they can pass a farm bill.
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Young Ambassadors for ChemistryIdea by Lida Schoen | added on Nov 30, 2009 06:59PM Discussion
LinksLearn about the YAC projectExplore SAW resourcesReport YAC Malaysia (2010)Report YAC Philippines (2010)
The YAC project intends to train teachers to help students communicate the benefits of chemistry. One aim of a YAC event is to popularize and raise public awareness of chemistry by encouraging young students to act as ambassadors for chemistry. If you know of a similar program, I would love to learn about it.
The Young Ambassadors for Chemistry (YACs) project facilitates the flow of ideas between chemistry and society using young people as mediators. YAC utilizes a "train the trainers" approach so that teachers can help students communicate the benefits of chemistry, and in doing so increase public interest in chemistry. YAC is a partnership between the Public Understanding of Chemistry subcommittee of IUPAC's Committee on Chemistry Education (CCE) and the Science Across the World (SAW) Network.
Our next stop will be in Ethiopia (February 2011) to 'honour' FASC (Federation of African Societies of Chemistry), that initiated UNESCO IYC 2011, with Dr. Temechegn Engida (Ethiopia) as the president of FASC!
A typical YAC event encompasses four days of workshops and preparation with educators, followed by a one-day public event where students—the Young Ambassadors for Chemistry—share their enthusiasm and interest with passers-by. The initial workshops for teacher trainers and teachers are based upon two topics: "Chemistry in Our Lives" and "Talking about Genetics around the World," for which SAW has extensive documentation and training experience. Later we exchanged 'Genetics' for "Climate Change". The trained teachers carry out SAW projects, including communicating with partner classrooms in other countries and preparing students for interactions with their communities. In carrying out the SAW projects, students research aspects of chemistry in the local context. The culminating public event, usually held in a public square or a busy mall, is where the young students become Young Ambassadors for Chemistry and present their findings and practical work to the public.
We published about many successful events:
Philippines (Manila, 2010): report
Malaysia (Ipoh, 2010): report
Cyprus (Nicosia, 2009): project report in Chemistry International (CI vol.32, no.4, July-August 2010)
Mauritius (Réduit, 2008): project report in Chemistry International
South Africa (Grahamstown, 2007): project report in Chemistry International (CI vol.29, no.4, July-August 2007)
Korea (Gwangju, 2006): project report in Chemistry International (CI vol.28, no.5, September-October 2006)
Russia (Krasnojarsk, 2005): project report in Chemistry International (CI vol.28, no.2, March-April 2006)
Taiwan (Taipei, 2004, 2005, 2007): project report in Chemistry International (CI vol.27, no.2, March-April 2005)
We will visit Ethiopia during the International Year of Chemistry, the Ethiopian Chemical Society with the Federation of African Chemical Societies bringing a resolution to UNESCO! Other African countries we might visit are Tanzania, South Africa and Kenya.
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wow, great! it is also available in our country
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This is a very nice idea!! I hope we can have it here also in the Philippines.
Mar 21, 2011 06:08AM
Well, we need it here in Brazil. Unfortunately my country has a little development in this kind of activities.. It's sad for who cares a lot about science, because we have few tools to construct our better-knowing.
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On 29 July 2011, 20 high school and middle school science teachers gathered for a workshop to learn how to implement the Young Ambassadors for Chemistry program in their classrooms [more] ...
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The trained teachers carry out SAW projects, including communicating with partner classrooms [jocuri 3d]...
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Agreed; if I could get a rogue hopped up on CYDSTEPP clearing the boss hive would be a breeze, but the amount of luck in a rogue run just makes me turn my back on the prospects.
And...I still failed to kill all enemies. (The boss was Tormented One, and there was a level 9 Wraith, Level 7 Wraith, and Level 8 Goo Blob.
Yeah, not getting through that without flaming sword or lots of mana... and with Binlor as your god you've got very few options magic-wise.
If you could somehow pull it off, a rogue who worships the Earthmother would be ideal, but on boss hive that would require so much luck as to be utterly ridiculous.
In Gauntlet runs (above a certain level) you pick between two classes exclusively, and reset if you don't get the deity you need.
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Rain fell steadily in some Bay Area cities on Wednesday morning. In still others, it dumped buckets.
The brief but powerful storm brought pea-sized hail to San Francisco, nearly an inch of rain to some areas of the North Bay and the mountains of Santa Clara County, and amped up the sky near San Francisco International Airport with thunder, according to the National Weather Service.
What it didn't do is make an imprint on California's worst drought in memory.
"It would have to rain five times the normal monthly totals through June to even catch up," forecaster Steve Anderson said. "Going back into the record books, back to the 1800s, no month has ever received the totals we would need. It's going to take a lot of rain over a lot of time."
By noon, the storm had rolled out of most of the Bay Area. A second, stronger system is expected to arrive in the region on Friday and bring its heaviest rainfall on Saturday, Anderson said.
By Wednesday afternoon, 2.06 inches had fallen at high elevations near Woodside in San Mateo County. Rainfall totals in Danville (.93 inches), San Lorenzo (.79) and the San Bruno Mountains (.70) paced Contra Costa, Alameda and San Mateo counties, respectively.
Storm cells varied in the amount of rain and were spread apart, leading to large variations across the region, Anderson said. Only .29 inches fell at San Francisco International Airport and only .09 inches at Mineta San Jose International Airport as of 11 a.m.
On the roads, the rain caused some spinouts and flooding but no serious accidents. A vehicle turned over on Marsh Creek and Morgan Territory roads in Contra Costa County near Mount Diablo, but a man was able to get out of the car without help and suffered only minor injuries, authorities said.
In Orinda, a basketball-sized boulder rolled onto the freeway and broke into several pieces, forcing a some cars to spin off the road, according to the California Highway Patrol. No injuries were reported.
Flooding also blocked a lane on Highway 84 near Hayward on Wednesday morning.
The heaviest of the storm was en route to the Sierra Nevada, but forecasters were unsure about how much snow it might dump. The weather service said snow was more likely to fall near Yosemite.
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The boost given to markets by New Democracy's victory in Sunday's Greek election may not last for long, as the struggling Mediterranean country's problems are far from over.
New Democracy and Pasok, which look likely to form a coalition government with smaller Democratic Left this week, have swapped power between them for almost four decades, and so must take at least partial responsibility for the current Greek morass. And the historical rivalry between the two seems to have been deepened rather than healed by Greece's recent struggles.
"These are not parties who are used to being in coalition together," Pavlos Yeroulanos, former minister of culture and tourism for Pasok, told CNBC.com. "It's going to be very difficult because Pasok will see Syriza taking support from them. Decisions may take too long to make. We could be back here again this year."
Even those who are likely to form the new government don't envisage it lasting for the usual length of time for a Greek coalition. Fotis Kouvelis, leader of the Democratic Left, has said he thinks the new government will last until European elections in 2014 – which many on the ground in Athens think is rather optimistic.
Syriza's charismatic leader Alexis Tsipras vowed to lead a strong opposition on Sunday night. His straightforward refusal to negotiate with New Democracy for a coalition this time around indicates that he may see a bigger prize months down the line, when his party, formed from a coalition of smaller leftist groups, is better integrated and better able to govern.
"What Syriza should do is plan for power. They gain support when they talk about getting into power, and lose it when they talk about being in opposition," Yeroulanos said. "They could still lose their gains again."
Much will depend on whether the new government can wring any concessions from the troika of the International Monetary Fund , European Central Bank and European Commission, a group that is in charge of its bailout. Troika officials will arrive in Athens once a new government is formed, and it is hoped that they will agree to give Greece more breathing room on their repayments of the 240 billion euros ($305 billion) bailout.
There were already signs of thawing from Germany, viewed as the most pro-austerity of Greece's European partners, on Monday. "It is clear to us that Greece should not be over-strained," German Deputy Finance Minister Steffen Kampeter told German TV station ARD.
The troika is likely to compromise on this year's budget deficit target but insist on measures for continued consolidation in next year's budget, according to analysts at Unicredit – a concession which could ease the pressure for the next six months, but will keep worries about Greece being governed outside its borders to the forefront. Concerns about Greece being ruled from Berlin or Brussels have helped propel far-right Greek party Golden Dawn into its biggest-ever share of the vote.
Any measure to promote growth in jobs would be welcomed by a population struggling with 22.6 percent unemployment.
"So far the problem has relied on revenue management and across the board cuts. Hopefully that will change now because the new government will have to come out with new proposals," Miranda Zafa, former board member at the IMF and chief executive of E.F. Consulting, told CNBC Monday.
While Sunday's election removed the immediate threat of Greece having to default on its debt repayments and crash out of the euro , its fundamental economic and structural problems remain.
"It is difficult to get changes through quickly because of the bureaucracy," Yeroulanos said.
Many on the ground believe that there could be another election by the end of the year.
"We need to be cautious because everything is going to be extremely difficult from now on," Yeroulanos warned.
Written by Catherine Boyle, CNBC. Twitter: @catboyle01


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Abhi Shah '06 was a junior at Indianapolis's Lawrence North High School when he first visited Wabash, but he wasn't here for a tour of campus. Shah was going to court.
A student of Lawrence North government teacher Ron Klene, Shah watched the finals of the College's Moot Court competition in preparation for his own school's version of the event that spring. But he was so impressed by what he saw that, a year later, he enrolled at Wabash. And this past October, the sophomore earned a spot in the finals of the College's competition.
It was a proud moment for Klene, who has staged his own Moot Court for 18 years. When he heard about the Wabash event three years ago, he contacted President Ford and speech professor David Timmerman and began forging a Wabash/Lawrence partnership where high school students observe the College's Moot Court finals in the fall and Wabash students and alumni attorneys serve as judges for Klene's Moot Court in the spring.
Klene was honored for his efforts by the College's Pre-Law Society this fall, as was Moot Court alumni organizer Matt Griffith '89. A driving force behind the event for the past 10 years, Griffith has shepherded a strong partnership between alumni, faculty, and students that continues to strengthen students' critical thinking and speaking skills.


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The Blekko.com website is not malicious itself and it contains links to legitimate web pages; but the trojan rootkit which produces the unwanted redirect can cause a lot of damage. It may harvest stored information such as banking details from your hard drive and cause your computer to respond slowly. If you think that you have been infected with the search hijacker, it is recommended to check you system for Google hijack virus.In case your system has any of the following signs we advise you to check your computer for viruses and rootkits.
- System hangs during start up and and Windows displays an error message
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BRUNSWICK, Maine -(Bowdoin College Athletic Communications, Charles Roy Photo) Chad Sawyer scored the game-winning goal with eight seconds remaining to give the Connecticut College men's lacrosse team a season-opening 13-12 win over Bowdoin on Saturday afternoon at Ryan Field.
The goal rescued the 18th-ranked Camels (1-0), who had squandered a five-goal lead entering the fourth quarter. 15th-ranked Bowdoin (0-1) outscored Connecticut College 6-2 over the final 14 minutes but came up just short in the loss.
Andrew Freedman led all players with three goals and four assists for the Camels. Sawyer added three goals and an assist while John Lyons and Tyler Corcoran each had two goals and an assist. Bowdoin was led by two goals and three assists from Billy Bergner. Franklin Reis had two goals and an assist while Stuart Sheehan also scored twice for the Polar Bears.
Bowdoin scored the game's first three goals before a 5-1 Connecticut College run gave the visitors a 5-4 edge midway through the second period. Bowdoin regained the lead courtesy of tallies from Will Wise and Connor O'Toole late in the period, but Sawyer - in a premonition of the second half - scored with 16 ticks remaining before halftime to deadlock the score at 6-6.
The Camels dominated the third period, getting a pair of goals from Freedman and Corcoran to spark a 5-0 surge that gave the visitors a commanding 11-6 lead heading into the final quarter.
Bowdoin answered quickly with a 4-0 run over a span of 4:24 early in the fourth period. Dan Hanley's goal with 9:03 remaining trimmed the lead to 11-10 before Freedman answered for the Camels to push the lead to 12-10 with 6:41 on the clock. The Polar Bears rebounded with a man-up goal from Berger with 5:49 to go and, after the ensuing face-off, got the game-tying tally from Sheehan with 4:50 remaining.
The teams traded possessions and good chances over the final four minutes until a failed clear by Bowdoin resulted with the Camels gaining possession with under a minute to play. With just under 15 seconds remaining, Sawyer drove to the front of the net where a scrambled ensued. From about eight yards, while falling to the ground, Sawyer wristed a low shot that slipped through the Bowdoin defense for the game-winning score with 8 seconds to go.
Christopher Williamson made 17 saves in goal for Bowdoin, who went 2-4 with the extra man. Nate Roy stopped 13 shots for the Camels, who took advantage of ten Bowdoin penalties to score three with the extra man. Connecticut College's John Hazard was the game's leading face-off winner, claiming 17 of 29 on the afternoon.
Bowdoin will return to action Wednesday evening against St. Lawrence at Georgetown University. Connecticut College will play Tufts in its home opener on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 p.m.
April 22, 2013 Bleistein Honored as NESCAC Player of the Week for Camels
April 13, 2013 Hamilton College 5, Connecticut College 4
April 8, 2013 Surging Camels Host Babson Tuesday at 4 on Freeman Field
March 16, 2013 Middlebury College 11, #15 Connecticut College 4
March 6, 2013 Camels Prepare for Saturday's Season Opener at Bowdoin
February 13, 2013 Camels Encourage you to Support V-Day Production
January 13, 2013 Camels Ranked 14th in Lacrosse Magazine Pre-Season Ranking
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A winner was selected from 63 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
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Desalina Allen, Senior Assistant Director at NYU Wasserman Center for Career Development
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When we last left off, you were shocked at the fact that your post-resume writing seminar survey results could have been so misleading. Students reported to have learned the basics of resume writing but, when you followed up with an in-person meeting with one of your attendees, it was obvious that the tips and guidelines you provided were not applied.
Have you ever created or taken a survey with a question or questions like the ones below?
This seminar improved my understanding of resume writing basics:
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I learned something from this seminar:
As a result of this seminar, I now understand what employers look for in a resume:
Strongly Disagree/Disagree/Neutral/Agree/Strongly Agree
What is the problem here? Well, if you are simply looking for evidence that students believe they have learned something from your event there is no problem at all. But, if you are trying to collect evidence that students actually learned something well then …..
Why? Because studies show* that students are not able to accurately measure their own growth or learning. Not only do they incorrectly estimate growth, they tend to overestimate it. It makes sense, right? If someone asks you after a presentation or a class if you learned something, how do you really know if you did?
As a result of this, we cannot use students' self-reported growth as evidence of growth. Instead, we have to utilize other assessment methods to really prove they learned something. How? By doing a pre- and post-assessment of student knowledge (like I did for our etiquette dinner) and comparing results, or coming up with a standardized way to evaluate resumes (via a rubric) and look at the change over time.
Last year, one of our learning goals was to ensure that students were learning career- related skills like resume writing. We did away with our post seminar surveys and instead created resume rubrics to use with students. I'll be sharing that experience in my next few posts, along with helpful resources if your office is look to create your own resume rubrics!
*Thank you to Sonia DeLuca Fernandez, our Director of Research and Assessment for Student Affairs, for this article that can be found in Research and Practice in Assessment, Volume 8.


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Fewer Young Adults Watching Network TV
The broadcast networks have seen an erosion of viewers in the key 18-49 age group - except one. WSJ's John Jannarone has the answer and takes a look at the first several weeks of the 2012-13 TV season.
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Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a surgical treatment in which a device called a neurostimulator delivers tiny electrical signals to the areas of the brain that control movement.
Alternative Names
Globus pallidus deep brain stimulation; Subthalamic deep brain stimulation; Thalamic deep brain stimulation; DBS
The DBS system consists of three parts:
- A thin, insulated wire called a lead, or electrode that is placed into the brain
- The neurostimulator, similar to a heart pacemaker, which is usually placed under the skin near the collarbone, but may be placed elsewhere in the body
- Another thin, insulated wire called an extension that connects the lead to the neurostimulator
DBS requires surgery to correctly place each part of the neurostimulator system. DBS in adults usually involves two separate surgeries.
Stage 1 is usually performed under local anesthesia, meaning you are awake but pain-free. (If the procedure is done in children, general anesthesia is given.)
- Your head is placed in a special frame using screws to keep it still during the procedure. Numbing medicine is applied where the screws contact the scalp. Sometimes, the procedure is done in the MRI and a frame is not used around your head.
- Numbing medicine is also applied to the scalp at the site where the surgeon drills a small opening in the skull and places the lead into a specific area of the brain.
- If both sides of the brain are being treated, the surgeon will make an opening on both sides of the skull, and two leads will be inserted.
- The surgeon may need to send small electrical impulses over the lead to make sure it is connected to the area of the brain responsible for the patient's symptoms. Different neurological tests may be done.
Stage 2 is done under general anesthesia, meaning you are asleep and pain-free. The timing of this stage of surgery depends on where in the brain the stimulator will be placed.
- The surgeon makes a small opening, usually just below the collarbone and implants the neurostimulator. (Sometimes it is placed under the skin in the lower chest or belly area.)
- The surgeon makes another small opening behind the ear and passes the extension wire under the skin of the head, neck, and shoulder.
- The extension wire connects the lead to the neurostimulator.
- The skin is closed, and the device and wires cannot be seen outside the body.
Once connected, electrical pulses travel from the neurostimulator, along the extension wire, to the lead, and into the brain. These tiny pulses interfere with and block the electrical signals that cause tremors and movement disorder symptoms, such as those that occur with Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, or obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Why the Procedure is Performed
This surgery may be an option for patients with very severe Parkinson's disease symptoms that cannot be controlled by medications. The surgery does not cure Parkinson's disease, but can help make reduce the severity of symptoms such as:
- Tremors
- Rigidity
- Stiffness
- Slow movements
- Walking problems
Deep brain stimulation may also be used to treat the following conditions:
- Essential tremor
- Dystonia
- Arm tremors related to multiple sclerosis
- Tourette syndrome (in rare cases)
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Major depression that does not respond well to medicines
DBS is considered to safe and effective when performed in properly selected patients.
Risks associated with deep brain stimulation placement may include:
- Allergic reaction to the DBS parts
- Difficulty concentrating
- Dizziness
- Infection
- Leakage of cerebrospinal fluid, which can lead to headache or meningitis
- Loss of balance
- Reduced coordination
- Shock-like sensations
- Slight loss of movement
- Speech or vision problems
- Temporary pain or swelling at the site where the device was implanted
- Temporary tingling in the face, arms, or legs
Problems may also occur if parts of the DBS system break or move. For example, this may include:
- Breakage of the device, lead, or wires, which can lead to another surgery to replace the broken part
- Failure of the battery, which would cause the device to stop working properly (the battery normally lasts 3 to 5 years)
- The wire that connects the stimulator to the lead in the brain breaks through the skin (this usually only occurs in very thin people)
- The part of the device places in the brain may break off or move to a different place in the brain (this is rare)
Possible risks of any brain surgery are:
- Blood clot or bleeding in the brain
- Brain swelling
- Coma
- Confusion, usually lasting only for days or weeks at most
- Infection in the brain, in the wound, or in the skull
- Problems with speech, memory, muscle weakness, balance, vision, coordination, and other functions, which may be short-term or permanent
- Seizures
- Stroke
- Risks of general anesthesia are:
- Reactions to medications
- Problems breathing
Before the Procedure
You will have a complete physical exam.
Your doctor will order many laboratory and imaging tests, including a CT or MRI scan. These imaging tests are done to help the surgeon pinpoint exact what part of the brain is responsible for the tremor and movement disorder symptoms. The images will be used to help the surgeon place the lead in the brain during surgery.
You might have to see more than one specialist (neurologist, neurosurgeon, psychologist, etc.) to make sure that the procedure is right for you and has the best chances of success.
Before surgery, always tell your doctor or nurse:
- If you could be pregnant
- What drugs you are taking, including medicines, herbs or supplements, and vitamins you bought over-the-counter without a prescription
- If you have been drinking a lot of alcohol
During the days before the surgery:
- Your health care provider may tell you to stop taking drugs that make it hard for your blood to clot, such as warfarin (Coumadin), aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) .
- If you are taking other medications, ask your doctor if it is okay to take them on the day of or in the days before the surgery.
- Always try to stop smoking. Ask your doctor for help.
- Your doctor or nurse may ask you to wash your hair with a special shampoo the night before surgery.
On the day of the surgery:
- You will usually be told not to drink or eat anything for 8 to 12 hours before the surgery.
- Take the drugs your doctor told you to take with a small sip of water.
- Arrive at the hospital at the time specified by your doctor or nurse.
After the Procedure
Most people who have DBS are in the hospital for about 3 days. The doctor may prescribe antibiotics to prevent a possibly infection.
You will return to your doctor's office a few weeks after surgery so that the stimulator can be turned on, and the amount of stimulation can be adjusted, if necessary. This can easily be done, without further surgery. It is often referred to as "programming."
Call your doctor if you develop any of the following after DBS surgery:
- Fever
- Headache
- Itching or hives
- Muscle weakness
- Nausea and vomiting
- Numbness or tingling on one side of the body
- Pain
- Redness, swelling, or irritation at any of the surgery sites
- Trouble speaking
- Vision problems
Outlook (Prognosis)
DBS is generally well tolerated and does not damage nerve cells like other surgical treatments for Parkinson's disease. Many patients report significant improvement in their symptoms after having this treatment. However, most of them still need to take medication, although at lower doses, which improves their quality of life.
This surgery, and surgery in general, is riskier in people over age 70 and those with health conditions such as high blood pressure and diseases that affect blood vessels in the brain. You and your doctor should carefully weigh the benefits of this surgery against the potential risks.
The DBS procedure can be reversed, if needed.


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The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, and it falls on September 30th this year (2012). Although it is still about 1 1/2 months away, preparation for the making the mooncakes has to begin now especially if you are to make the Traditional Mooncakes - the syrup has to be cooked and kept until needed, in fact the longer it is allowed to settle, the better it is. Most mooncakes bakers will cook the syrup last year for this year's baking. If this syrup cooking is too tedious and intimidating, i am sharing this recipe which s full of the fragrance of butter and pure lotus paste/red bean paste and the best part, you don't need any mooncake molds.
I make mooncakes every year and somehow could never find time to post it in time for my readers who would like to try and have a hand in making some for the festival. This year, i make sure that i will post first before i start getting into the actual baking and forget to post. Sorry.................
For the Pastry
180 g cold butter - cut into 1/2 inch cubes
150 g confectioners' sugar
40 g maltose
100 ml milk
1/2 - 1 tsp ammonia powder
360 g all-purpose flour
4 tsp custard powder
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
For the Filling
990 g Lotus Paste/Red Bean Paste
1 egg yolk plus 1 tbsp water
Kua chi/almond flakes
Put all-purpose flour, custard powder, baking powder, salt , ammonia powder and sugar in the food processor and pulse to mix.
Add in the cold butter and pulse until mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
Mix maltose to the milk and add in to the mixture in the food processor. Pulse short pulses until when a tiny piece of dough is pressed together, it binds.
Remove from food processor into a large plastic bag and form dough into a ball.
Leave to rest in refridgertor for at least 1/2 hour.
Wrapping and baking mooncakes:
Weigh lotus paste/red bean paste into 25 g portions (33 portions)
Preheat oven to 375f..
Weigh pastry into 30 g portions. Knead lightly to make the pastry pliable.
Press each pastry piece into a flat round circle.
Place a portion of lotus paste/red bean paste in the middle of the pastry round and wrap the filling inside the pastry by pushing the pastry up and around the filling while pressing the filling inside the pastry, this is to ensure an even thickness of pastry. Shape into a ball.
Eggwash the top of each mooncake and place 3 or 5 kua chi/almond flakes decoratively on top.
Bake for about 15 - 18 minutes, or until light golden brown.


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The first time I watched a Steve Jobs product announcement on YouTube, I was struck by the way the media seemed to hang over his every word without questioning the high price tag, the closed system he advocated or the war metaphors he was using to describe winning over the market share. It straddled the line between Amway pitch and religious revival. Don't get me wrong. It was much prettier. Jobs was a master marketer who understood the Zen of design. But in the end, it was the same li(n)e that many of us experience: "If you consume, you will find happiness."
I don't hate Steve Jobs. For what it's worth, he's never broken any Windows in my home. However, in the euphoria of Apple-philia, I think we need to remember that his company made a ton of money selling very expensive computers to schools. Whether or not they were worth it (and often they were worth the money), it is important that educators remember the reality that Apple has a vested economic interest in public education. It's why I shudder every time I walk into the district office and see the sheer number of Apple stickers branding the public space.
I mention this because I've read many tributes to Steve Jobs describing how he transformed education. Bloggers have gushed about how Jobs was a visionary for 21st Century Learning. However, like Bill Gates and other technocrats, it's important to remember that engineers often make piss-poor education reformers. Simply glance back at history and see how well techies have done in moving education forward. Thomas Edison believed that classrooms would be radically transformed with phonographs and motion pictures. He envisioned a futuristic classroom where students passively experienced the information. Henry Ford was a technological genius, but his vision of factory schools are the very thing that have gotten in the way of authentic learning.
It's important that we remember Steve Jobs accurately. His teardrops did not cure leprosy and his products themselves did not radically transform education; rather, it was only once the full force of the Internet became a mainstream staple of our culture -- decades after the first Apple IIe was ever sold to an elementary school -- that Jobs' products even had an opportunity to transform education.
If we want to look at the values of Jobs, we need to ask, "Are these really what should drive education in the future?"
- High price
- A rejection of open source and open knowledge for everyone
- Closed systems
- An embrace of aesthetics over capacity
- Innovation intrinsically tied to corporate power
- Competition to the point of forcing the issue of monopoly
- Relying on expert-created content (for sale) rather than encouraging user-based content creation (share via Creative Commons)
- Intuitive user experience that demands users intuit alike
- Emphasis on quality and craftsmanship produced on the back of globalization
- Sustainability through products that last until their manufactured obsolescence kicks in
- Centralized organizational structure and corporate secrecy
- Marketing to children
- Lack of Social Justice: Heavy use of manufacturing from under-developed countries
- Selling hardware and software for profit rather than relying on connected networks
It comes down to this: the iPad is a great device; it could be argued that the iPad will be an essential device. But the iPad is not an essential device because of what it physically is. The iPad is an essential device because of what it represents: mobile access to the fruit of the Internet. The idea that the Internet itself is mobile and accessible by all is far more transformative than the number of megapixels in the webcam or the ergonomics of the leather magnet cover.
In the end, we have to remember that Apple made and continues to make products. It's the artists and designers and thinkers who use those products, it's the people who make connections using those products, it's the rebels who subvert and augment and redefine the uses of those products (think the origination of iTunes University) that defines transformation. Jobs himself would likely agree. It has been therefore ever the more disheartening to see the flood of memorializations and hagiographies that seek to portray Jobs' inventions (as though there were no engineering teams working at Apple) the important thing rather than what those inventions represent within the ecosystem of Internet-era technology. And by Apple's own corporate code, those inventions have represented secrecy in an era of openness, closed systems in an era of collaboration, and high price at a time of great financial anxiety.
Steve Jobs couldn't fix your classroom. In fact, he never really had that in mind.


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Plant Information: 3,200 different desert plants are encompassed within the arboretum, from A to Z. Most can be seen along the 1.5 mile main trail. Learn more about the plants of the arboretum. Learn More about the plants of the arboretum.
Animal Information: A ground squirrel hops across your path, a Harris Hawk lands on a saguaro limb, a lizard does "pushups" to expose his blue abdomen from a prominent rock. More than 230 bird and 72 terrestrial species have been tallied over the years as both permanent and migratory Arboretum residents. Learn More about the animals of the arboretum.
Garden Information: The Hummingbird-Butterfly Garden is the first specialized collection visitors encounter along the main trail; others include the Desert Legume Garden, Cactus Garden, Curandero Trail, Wing Memorial Herb Garden, Eucalyptus Forest and Demonstration Garden. Learn More about the gardens around the arboretum.
Desert Information: Visitors are surprised to learn that Boyce Thompson Arboretum is more than a collection of Sonoran Desert species. Learn more about our African, South American, Asian and Mediterranean collections. Learn More about the desert areas around the arboretum.


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Monday, December 17, 2007
A Christmas Convergence - Part 3
What readers were beginning to see more and more, when illustration was being used, was Decorative art. Chief among the rising stars of this relatively new form of illustration, was John Alcorn (below).
If this fairly early example of the emerging decorative style movement doesn't grab you in a big way, consider that in a few short years it would lead to work like this, and you'll better appreciate how the Decorative style was leading the charge in the shifting taste of popular culture of the time and providing a distict illustrative alternative to photography.
Even more dramatic than AD Otto Storch's inclusion of John Alcorn's work in this issue is the piece below, by one of the greatest decorative artists of the day: Walter Einsel.
"But," you say, "this isn't an illustration... what kinda stunt are you pulling here, Leif?!"
In fact, this piece by Einsel is a revelation - and should be given thoughtful consideration by those of us competing in the shifting sands of today's commercial art market. Walter Einsel accomplished an amazing thing with his design of this "Christmas cake house": he managed to use commonly available store-bought materials to creat a three-dimensional sculpture that accurately reflects his illustration style!
Consider this: if you've read the explanation on the spread's left-hand page, you'll understand the challenge McCall's editors faced in providing a solution to the two girls' request. And in doing so, did they come up with that solution themselves? Did they go to the no doubt very able chefs and consultants in their cooking department? Did they call upon a photographer to provide a solution?
No. The asked an artist.
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- Anonymous2:39 PM
Great series on the period of transition in the late-50s. I need to sit down and read every post on this blog, because they are always rewarding.ReplyDelete
I don't know if New Yorker-style gag cartoonists are a particular interest of yours, but today I found some illustrations from a book called "Operation Elvis" by Eldon Dedini. They all feature Elvis Presley and illustrate a slim volume that describes his induction into the Army. I posted them on flickr just now:
Neil H.
Changes in illustration, as Lief aptly pointed out, did reflect the changing times. It was the beginning of the social revolution in America, that took root in San Francisco and Berkley, CA in the 60's, and effected illustration, design, fashion, and many other aspects of the visual arts. John Alcorn's illustrations, and other decorative illustrator's creations of the 70's, were a spin off of the "psychedelic" posters look that became popular in the mid 60's and 70's... wild electrically charged color combinations, with swirling organic designs reflecting visual and psychological illusions, experienced from taking LSD... a potent and popular drug at the time. To be clear, I am not implying that John Alcorn ever took LSD.ReplyDelete
The "psychedelic" look became one alternative to the 50's look, and gradually evolved into a more decorative trend to illustration in general. In spite of the changes, traditional realistic illustration did not disappear altogether... depending on the character of the project. It was a time of adaptation for many illustrators, including myself.
Tom Watson
Neil; thanks for your comment - and for the link. While New Yorker-style gag cartoonists are not central to what I choose to explore here on this blog, I certainly have an appreciation for that sort of work. I appreciate you sharing your scans by Dedini with us!ReplyDelete
Tom, your first-hand experience and eloquent writing style always provide the sort of depth and clarity I wish I could put on the page myself - truly appreciate your input - thanks!
One aspect of what you wrote I want to challenge this time, though:
Artists like Alcorn and Einsel, and a handful of others, began making their mark in the the major mags in the late 50's, well before the Berkley, LSD, and the psychedelic posters of the 60's.
I think of this group as truly being on the vanguard of the next wave in commercial art. Perhaps it was they who influenced the psychedelic poster artists... and not the other way around.
Consider that those artist were children flipping through their parents' magazines ( and of course their own textbooks, childrens books and kid-targeted magazines like "Jack&Jill", "Humpty Dumpty", "Golden Magazine" and for the teen set, "Seventeen" and "Boys' Life" )in the late 50's and early 60's.
They would have seen more and more art of the sort Alcorn and Einsel were doing and almost none by people like Bowler, Terpining etc.
Even more so when you consider that modern decorative styles were being adopted by young artists (like the young Robert Crumb, for instance) working at places like American Greeting Cards, Hallmark, Carleton - and that sort of art on birthday cards, valentines and so on - along with other kid's pop culture: bubble gum cards, comic books, toy packaging - might have been even more influential on the next wave of youngsters than magazine illustration.
I'm only guessing... but that's my theory, for what its worth. ;-)
Say... you ought to post the plans for the Christmas cake. I'd love to see how it was constructed...ReplyDelete
Again, you make a convincing point Leif, and you may be right. It's sort of a, "what came first, the chicken or the egg" scenario. I did a little research, and the consensus I found is that psychedelic poster art started in the 60's, and influenced the psychedelic movement into advertising illustration, in the late 60's and 70's. Whether those original psychedelic poster artists (Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso, Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley and Wes Wilson) were in any way influenced by the 50's decorative illustrators, was not documented or addressed in my research. There is a considerable difference however, between the decorative line and flat color of John Alcorn and Walter Einsel's 50's illustrations, and the original psychedelic look. According to my findings, the psychedelic poster art and counter culture movement directly influenced decorative advertising illustration and design, and even underground comix. If anyone is interested in moreReplyDelete
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As much as I would like to think some of the 50's designers and illustrators had much influence on the original psychedelic poster artists, it appears to me that it was the other way around.
Tom Watson
I suspect we are both on the right track... as children, no doubt some of the psychedelic rock poster artists saw the work of the early decorative artists - then they in turn probably influenced those same artists during the next decade.
Interestingly, I found that scenario repeating itself from personal experience (from speaking with younger illustrators in my local market). They have told me that they used to see my work in the Source books, picked up on aspects of what I was doing... now, when I see their more contemporary variations, I try to adapt some of their freshness ( and a bit of that now-pervasive 'Manga' characteristic ) into some of my own current work.


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MACON, Ga. - Lipscomb's women's soccer team ended several dubious streaks this weekend led by the strong play of junior goalkeeper Katie Shelton.
The Lady Bisons defeated Jackson State and Chattanooga for the first set of back-to-back wins for the program since October 2002. Shelton recorded shutouts in both games and on Monday, the conference office named her the first Player of the Week in the Lady Bisons history.
The week started with the Lady Bisons in the midst of a 19-game losing streak, dating back to Sept. 3 of last year, but Shelton put an end to that mark with a 1-0 decision against Jackson State on Wednesday. It was the first home victory since a 2-1 defeat of Winthrop on Sept. 9, 2004, a span of also 19 games.
The win was also the first overtime victory since downing Mercer 1-0 on October 31, 2002.
The win was also head coach Jon Ireland's first at Lipscomb.
Shelton helped the Lady Bisons win back-to-back games for the first time in almost five years when she shut out Chattanooga 1-0 on Friday. It was also the first time she has recorded back-to-back shutouts.
She shares the A-Sun lead with those two shutouts and she leads the league in saves with 39. She is second in saves per game at 7.8.


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You're looking wonderful these days!! Sehr sehr toll!ReplyDelete
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Seeing that it's nearing 50C degrees in my country I'd do anything to wear winter!
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War in Zürich an der Museumsstrasse.
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I currently use the free PAF software from FamilySearch.org. When I started out on this journey I wasn't quite sure exactly what I would want in genealogy software and I can be rather picky when it comes to software, so initially a freebie product was the smart choice.
I've never actually gotten around to moving on though! I've done the rounds of evaluating the various products out there a few times, the last time over a year ago when we moved to Vista Ultimate 64-bit, on which several products refused to install or run even when their vendors claimed they could! I came to the conclusion that I fancied Family Historian, a solid British-oriented program - but couldn't quite justify the price.
RootsMagic is currently offering their upcoming version 4 as a public beta operational to the end of this month, so I decided to take a look. It converted my PAF file without having to first export it to a GEDCOM, and seems to have a clean and efficient use of space in its user interface.
When viewing an individual there's a tab to run a websearch on that individual, with the search string optimised to increase your chances of getting a relevant hit - I will be looking at this a bit more to see exactly how optimised. I sent it looking for one of my COLES ancestors in Google, and hey presto it came back with a Methodist circuit baptism for his son, who shared the same name. Score! Then I sent it off to search Rootsweb and it came back with an Abney Park Cemetery burial entry for both father and son - I had known the son was buried there but not the father, my direct ancestor. Score! (Incidentally if anyone reading this is in London and fancies a trip to Abney Park see if they can find the memorials I'd love to hear from you) I was impressed at how quick and easy this feature was - slightly less impressed at the fact it seems to use the IE interface for the websearch, even though my computer is set to use Firefox as its default browser, but that's a minor quibble.
I was also pleased to see that the individual summary report doesn't abbreviate entries. PAF does this in order to fit any given field's contents into the space allowed in the report, leading to oddities like "Church St, W, B" printing as a residence instead of spelling out Wing Buckinghamshire in full - which, frankly, is pretty important information I want on my printouts! No problems with RootsMagic though, it will print the entire entry by scrolling onto a second line if it has to. On the negative side, the report starts a new page before beginning the source citations - why not have the option to run it directly after the main text of the report so you can save paper?
I do prefer a British-written program though, and here's an example why. RootsMagic has a gazetteer in it, which when you search for Wing will bring up both the Buckinghamshire and Rutland villages with that name - a good start. However, highlighting the Buckinghamshire entry and clicking Online Map sends you off to the LiveSearch Maps website which shows you the Rutland one, not the Bucks one. I had a similar false result when clicking on Great Tew, Oxfordshire (Great Tey Road in Colchester, Essex!). A UK-written program would be designed to integrate with UK resources and to pass instructions to those resources in a way that made sense for UK conditions. If software isn't optimised for UK genealogy I can guarantee there's going to be "features" which are either unusable or will annoy me every time I use the program, and I'm not prepared to pay for that.
I'll be downloading the demo of the next version of Family Historian once it comes out (also imminently) as a comparison.
Friday, March 06, 2009
RootsMagic and Family Historian
I currently use the free PAF software from FamilySearch.org. When I started out on this journey I wasn't quite sure exactly what I would want in genealogy software and I can be rather picky when it comes to software, so initially a freebie product was the smart choice.
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- SueM said...
Re: RootsMagic4 Individual Summary report. You mentioned that you can't get sources to start at the end of the of the document, but you can! Before you click on the Generate Report button, just click on the Sources button on the right and click the appropriate button.
- 7/3/09 7:30 am
- Alex said...
Hmm, that's where I was clicking! I only see options for no endnotes/footnotes, or endnotes at the end of document (which seem to automatically start on a new page), or footnotes at the bottom of each page (which I find a bit disruptive unless they are short and sweet). I have one where the main data runs onto two pages (just) and the endnotes print as a third page - however the endnotes would also fit on the second page if the program would print them immediately after the main data rather than starting a new page.
- 7/3/09 8:38 am
- Anonymous said...
Re: Family Historian. I have been using FH happily since June 2002, it was the UK authorship that attracted me in the first place. I shall almost certainly be upgrading to v4 when it is released. I'm not sure about v4, but there is very little integration (if any) with the outside world in FH at the moment, but the reporting, queries and diagrams are excellent and incredibly flexible, although not perfect by any means. Another thing I like is that the database is stored in GEDCOM format, which can by edited easily in a text editor (handy for find and replace).
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Two. Is it just me, or does ESPN have less and less credibility with each passing season? One would almost have to conclude from looking at ESPN's website that some higher-up with a vendetta is deliberately trying to erode the integrity of ESPN's sports coverage, and/or is accepting kickbacks from/being threatened or blackmailed by Maverick Carter. Take this, for example:
I mean…really? And what about what passes for "headlines" over there?
Can you imagine what the site would look like if the Jazz got the "ZOMG !!!HYPE TREATMENT!!!"?
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The last Japanese mobster game that Sega released for the PlayStation 3 came to North America noticeably scathed. Missions were missing, as were hostess clubs and any semblance of box art integrity. Fortunately, things are lookin' up for Yakuza 4.
Sega released new screen shots, new video and new, infinitely sexier box art for the forthcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive today, underscoring a game that appears to be on the right track. Sega reiterated in a release that, yes, in-game hostess clubs will remain intact in Yakuza 4.
Also available in the next Japanese gangster game will be karaoke, pachinko parlors and more Tokyo-style adult entertainment. As someone who has played Yakuza 4's sexy ping-pong mini-game and its fantasize while bathing mini-game, Sega's new commitment to Yakuza's stranger side is certainly welcome.
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Denying that it violated its students' free speech rights, Yale is standing by its decision to block a student site that offered an alternative to the university's own course planning tool. But Mary Miller, dean of Yale College, has admitted that the incident could have been handled better.
Last week, Yale began blocking a service created by students (YBB+, also known as CourseTable) that provided course listings and descriptions and a tool for helping students organize their schedules. Beginning last Monday at noon, when anyone tried accessing either site from within Yale's network, they'd receive an error warning against "malicious activity."
The institution also demanded the students pull the site down or face disciplinary action.
A firestorm erupted around the incident.
"Many of you have written to me directly or posted public comments expressing your concerns that the University's reaction to YBB+ was heavy-handed. In retrospect, I agree that we could have been more patient in asking the developers to take down information they had appropriated without permission, before taking the actions that we did," Miller wrote in an open letter to the Yale community posted Monday.
"However," she added, "I disagree that Yale violated its policies on free expression in this situation."
At issue, according to Miller, is the content of the students' site, which, significantly, included faculty evaluations, which Miller said were being used in violation of the university's appropriate use policy.
Miller wrote, "The information at the center of this controversy is the faculty evaluation, which Yale began collecting, not as a course selection tool, but as a way of helping faculty members improve their teaching. When a faculty committee decided in 2003 to collect and post these evaluations online for student use, it gave careful consideration to the format and felt strongly that numerical data would be misleading and incomplete if they were not accompanied by student comments. The tool created by YBB+ set aside the richer body of information available on the Yale website, including student comments, and focused on simple numerical ratings. In doing so, the developers violated Yale's appropriate use policy by taking and modifying data without permission, but, more importantly, they encouraged students to select courses on the basis of incomplete information. To claim that Yale's effort to ensure that students received complete information somehow violated freedom of expression turns that principle on its head."
In an earlier letter, she explained: "Free speech defines Yale's community; the people who belong to it understand that they are entitled to share their views just as they must tolerate the views of others, no matter how offensive. The right to free speech, however, does not entitle anyone to appropriate university resources. In the case of YBB+, developers were unaware that they were not only violating the appropriate use policy but also breaching the trust the faculty had put in the college to act as stewards of their teaching evaluations."
The students, Peter Xu and Harry Yu, argued that the site simply provides a better alternative for Yale's students:
"The contents of the page is in fact, a listing of courses much more usable than the official one at Yale OCI," the students wrote in a post on their site. "The page loads once, and searching for courses and viewing course descriptions happen instantly as the data is all pre-downloaded."
Further, they said, their site was in use by 40 percent of the student body at the time that Yale started blocking it. "Over 2,000 students out of a campus of 5,000 were using it as of today noon, when the Yale administration began blocking it using traffic inspection.... When the site was blocked, 2,000 students no longer had any idea of the courses they wanted to take. They had to go back to using OCI."
Miller wrote that the university's actions were in keeping with its "policies and principles," but, she wrote, "I see now that it erred in trying to compel students to have as a reference the superior set of data that the complete course evaluations provide. That effort served only to raise concerns about the proper use of network controls. In the end, students can and will decide for themselves how much effort to invest in selecting their courses."
In a twist, Miller wrote that Yale had discovered another site offering services similar to those of YBB+ but that does not violate Yale's use policy.
"Technology has moved faster than the faculty could foresee when it voted to make teaching evaluations available to students over a decade ago, and questions of who owns data are evolving before our very eyes. Just this weekend, we learned of a tool that replicates YBB+'s efforts without violating Yale's appropriate use policy, and that leapfrogs over the hardest questions before us. What we now see is that we need to review our policies and practices."
As of this writing, 687 current students have signed an online petition asking Yale to unblock CourseTable.
Yu and Xu, meanwhile, have provided a list of five recommendations for Yale and other university's in dealing with situations like this in the future. That list can be found on coursetable.com/recommendations.
Further details about the incident can be found in the Washington Post's comprehensive coverage from last week.
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