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Sarah Bainter Cunningham, Ph.D., has been director of the National Endowment for the Arts' Division of Arts Education since September 2005. She provides national leadership in the field of arts education, directing leadership initiatives, the NEA Learning in the Arts grants program, and national initiatives, including Jazz in the Schools, Poetry Out Loud, and Shakespeare for A New Generation. Dr. Cunningham directs a number of leadership initiatives, including The Arts Education Partnership (a partnership with the U.S. Department of Education), SEADAE (the network of state education agency directors of arts education), SNAAP (the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project, spearheaded by Indiana University, Vanderbilt University, and the Surdna Foundation), and professional development for arts education managers at state arts agencies.
Dr. Cunningham has spearheaded the NEA Education Leaders Institute, a project to design public education with arts as a central feature of education reform. This project includes state leadership teams from 19 states, with teams composed of state superintendents, lieutenant governors, teaching artists, principals, business innovators, and others. In cooperation with WestEd, Dr. Cunningham leads the first collection of national data related to practices in arts assessment, examining student learning in schools, cultural organizations, and community centers. She also designed the NEA Big Read Teachers Guides and continues to serve as editor and writer.
The core NEA education investment remains grants to arts-education programs nationwide. Dr. Cunningham chairs the peer-panel process for the review of more than 500 applications and eight panels each year, resulting in over 200 grantees annually. In addition, Dr. Cunningham speaks and presents nationwide, and has served as government liaison to a number of task forces on arts education.
Richard Deasy is the recently retired director of the Arts Education Partnership (AEP), a coalition of over 100 education, arts, business, philanthropic, and government organizations that demonstrates and promotes the essential role of arts education in enabling all students to succeed in school, life, and work. Under his leadership, AEP published seminal research studies and reports that are credited with major advances in arts education in the United States. He commissioned and edited AEP's widely acclaimed compendium of research,
Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development, and subsequently commissioned the research for and co-authored the resulting book Third Space: When Learning Matters, a study of the transformative effects of the arts in high poverty schools.
Upon his retirement from AEP in 2008, the National Endowment for the Arts, the U.S. Department of Education, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies created The Richard J. Deasy Award for Partnership in Education and the Arts in his honor. The award will be presented annually to an individual who has significantly advanced arts education in America. Mr. Deasy was also presented with the NEA Chairman's Award for Distinguished Service to the American Public through contributions to the arts. Prior to his leadership of AEP, Mr. Deasy had been a senior state education official in Maryland and Pennsylvania, president and CEO of the National Council for International Visitors, and a prize-winning reporter on politics and government in Philadelphia and the surrounding metropolitan area. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on slum housing conditions in suburban Philadelphia.
Janet Eilber has developed and overseen the Dana Foundation's support to and initiatives in arts education since 2000. Dana makes grants to organizations that train artists to teach the performing arts in public schools, and supports workshops, publications, and conferences that provide access to promising practices in the field. Ms. Eilber has contributed to two of Dana's arts-education books, oversees Dana's quarterly publication Arts Education in the News, and helped launch the Dana-supported research study on how the arts influence cognition.
Ms. Eilber became the artistic director of the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance in 2005, providing artistic oversight to the three divisions of the Center: the Martha Graham Dance Company, the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, and Martha Graham Resources. Her role includes providing artistic direction to the famed dance company, sharing the works of Martha Graham with other arts and educational organizations, and exploring new partnerships and models that utilize the extraordinary collection from Graham's legacy.
Earlier in her career, Ms. Eilber had a close working relationship with Martha Graham. As principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, she soloed at the White House, was partnered by Rudolf Nureyev, and starred in three segments of Dance in America. She danced many of Graham's greatest roles, had roles created for her by Graham, and has since taught the Graham technique and directed Graham ballets internationally. Ms. Eilber has also performed in films, on television, and on Broadway, directed by such greats as Agnes deMille and Bob Fosse, and has received four Lester Horton Awards for her reconstruction and performance of seminal American modern dance. Ms. Eilber, a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and the Juilliard School, is also a trustee of the Interlochen Center for the Arts.
Mariale Hardiman, Ed.D., joined the faculty of The Johns Hopkins University in 2006 as assistant dean of Urban School Partnerships and chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies after serving in the Baltimore City public school system for more than 30 years. Under Dr. Hardiman's tenure as principal of Roland Park Elementary/Middle School, the school was designated a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. While principal, Dr. Hardiman devised a teaching framework, The Brain-Targeted Teaching Model, which connects research-based effective instruction with elements from the brain sciences that can inform teaching and learning. A central feature of the model is the integration of the arts into content instruction.
Continuing her interest of bringing relevant findings from the brain sciences to educators, Dr. Hardiman collaborated with colleagues from across the university and community to develop the JHU School of Education's Neuro-Education Initiative, supported by the JHU Brain Science Institute. The Neuro-Education Initiative includes a new certificate in Mind, Brain, and Teaching, one of the few university programs in the country focusing on the science of learning.
Dr. Hardiman has also continued her interest in supporting urban educators by designing courses and professional development for urban teachers and school leaders. Academic and professional development programs within the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies include STEM education, earth and space science, adult learning, out of school time learning, urban education, and the Baltimore City Leadership Academy.
Jerome Kagan, Ph.D., one of the key pioneers of developmental psychology, is Daniel and Amy Starch Research Professor of Psychology, Emeritus at Harvard University. Dr. Kagan has spent 45 years studying children and their development; his most recent work has been on temperaments in children. Dr. Kagan has shown that an infant's temperament is quite stable over time, in that certain behaviors in infancy are predictive of certain other behavior patterns in adolescence. Dr. Kagan is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His most recent books are The Three Cultures, What is Emotion, An Argument for Mind, and The Long Shadow of Temperament.
Dr. Kagan was born in Newark, New Jersey. He earned a B.Sc. from Rutgers University, a master's degree from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. from Yale University. Dr. Kagan spent a year as an instructor in psychology at Ohio State University. Then, after two years as a psychologist at the U.S. Army Hospital at West Point, he did research in developmental psychology at Ohio's Fels Institute (1957-64) before beginning his career at Harvard University. Dr. Kagan has won the Hofheimer Prize of the American Psychiatric Association and the G. Stanley Hall Award of the American Psychological Association (APA), among many other honors.
Susan Magsamen is an award-winning writer and advisor on family and children's issues. Ms. Magsamen's work is widely recognized as fostering and enhancing the ways people learn, play, create, and grow as individuals, families, and communities. She is the co-founder of The Johns Hopkins School of Education Neuro-Education Initiative. She also developed and chaired the editorial and scientific advisory council for Wondertime Magazine, an award-winning monthly publication for families with an emphasis on child development.
Ms. Magsamen is the founder of FamilyStories, a multimedia resource featuring books, workshops, a Web site, and a radio series. She is also the creator of Curiosity Kits, supplemental educational activities that enable children to learn through multisensory experiences in the arts, sciences, and world cultures. Ms. Magsamen has developed successful partnerships and collaborations with many organizations, including Scholastic Inc., the National Geographic Society, Sylvan Learning Systems, the Public Broadcasting Company, the Discovery Channel, and The Walt Disney Company. Her body of work has earned hundreds of national awards and recognition from child-development experts and parenting associations, including Oppenheim Awards, Parents' Choice, Family Fun, and the National Association of Parenting Publications Awards.
Guy M. McKhann, M.D., is professor of neurology and neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. McKhann is the founding chairman of the department of neurology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and also the founding director of The Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute at The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. McKhann attended Harvard University and received his M.D. degree from Yale University School of Medicine. His most recent research has been in the cognitive and neurologic problems after heart surgery.
Dr. McKhann has authored over 200 publications. He is the co-editor of a successful neurology textbook, Diseases of the Nervous System: Clinical Neurobiology, which is in its third edition. He and his colleague (and wife) Marilyn Albert, Ph.D., have published a book about aging and the brain for the general public, Keep Your Brain Young. A noted teacher, he is the only person at Johns Hopkins to win awards for being the best teacher of medical students and the best teacher of college undergraduates.
Dr. McKhann has been involved with a number of scientific organizations. He is a past president of the American Neurological Association and an honorary member of the Royal Society of Physicians. He is currently the scientific advisor to the Dana Foundation. In addition to his work in this country, Dr. McKhann has been involved in research in China related to epidemics of a paralytic disease in children. He has also been an advisor to the Vatican on issues relating to the end of life, particularly brain death.
Mary Ann Mears is a sculptor who has been commissioned to create site-specific art for public sites across a number of states, including Florida, North Carolina, Michigan, Illinois, Connecticut, New York, and Washington, D.C. In her home state of Maryland, her commissioned works are located in Bethesda, Rockville, Cheverly, Belair, Glen Burnie, and at several locations in Baltimore. Her most recent major project, Lotus Columns, was just installed in Silver Spring.
Ms. Mears is also an arts advocate. Her achievements include being a founder of Maryland Art Place and helping to craft and successfully lobby for Maryland's public art bill. She is a trustee of Maryland Citizens for the Arts and the founder of Arts Education in Maryland Schools (AEMS) Alliance. Ms. Mears serves on the Maryland State Department of Education's Fine Arts Education Advisory Panel. She is the recipient of an honorary doctorate in the fine arts from University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
Elizabeth M. Morgan, Ph.D., is currently the superintendent of the Washington County (MD) Public Schools, having served in the position since 2001. She is also very involved in the community, serving on the boards of directors of the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, the Maryland Symphony Orchestra, the Hagerstown/Washington County Chamber of Commerce, and Pen Mar Development. Dr. Morgan is a member of the Greater Hagerstown Committee and the Hagerstown Rotary. She serves on the Governor's P-20 task force and was recently appointed by the Governor as a commissioner of Maryland Public Television.
Michael Posner, Ph.D., is professor emeritus at the University of Oregon and adjunct professor of psychology in psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell, where he served as founding director of the Sackler Institute. Dr. Posner is best known for his work with Marcus Raichle, M.D., on imaging the brain during cognitive tasks. He has also worked on the anatomy, circuitry, development, and genetics of three attentional networks underlying alertness, orientation to sensory events, and voluntary control of thoughts and ideas. Dr. Posner's methods for measuring these networks have been applied to a wide range of neurological, psychiatric, and developmental disorders and to normal development and school performance. His current research involves a longitudinal study of young children designed to understand the interaction of specific experience and genes in shaping attention and self regulation.
William Safire served as the Dana Foundation chairman until his death in September 2009. He was active with the Dana Foundation since 1993. He joined the New York Times in 1973, won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in 1978, and served nine years on the Pulitzer board. He continued to write his Sunday column, "On Language," which appeared in The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until just before his death. This column on grammar and usage led to the publication of 14 books, including the recent Safire's Political Dictionary; Mr. Safire was the most widely read writer on the English language. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, in a White House ceremony held December 16, 2006. Before joining The Times, Mr. Safire was a senior White House speechwriter for President Nixon. He had previously been a radio and television producer, a U.S. Army correspondent, and began his career as a reporter for a profiles column in The New York Herald Tribune.
Gottfried Schlaug, M.D., Ph.D., is associate professor of neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School, chief of the Division of Cerebrovascular Disorders at BIDMC, and director of the Music, Neuroimaging, and Stroke Recovery Laboratories at BIDMC. Dr. Schlaug's major research interests include the neurobiology of music perception and music making; brain plasticity using instrumental musicians as models; the development of musical skills in children; and the use of innovative musical interventions, including singing and instrumental music making, to facilitate recovery from brain injuries and neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr. Schlaug has published over 130 peer-reviewed manuscripts and more than ten book chapters. His research is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, as well as private foundations.
Elizabeth S. Spelke, Ph.D., is the Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology and co-director of the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative at Harvard University. She studied at Harvard and Yale and received her Ph.D. in psychology from Cornell University in 1978. She studies the origins and nature of knowledge of objects, persons, space, and numbers through research on human infants, children, human adults in diverse cultures, and nonhuman animals. The author of more than 100 research articles, Dr. Spelke is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her honors include the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, the William James Award of the American Psychological Society, the IPSEN award in Neuronal Plasticity, and honorary degrees from the University of Umea, Sweden, the École Pratique Des Hautes Études, Paris, and the University of Paris-René Descartes.
Brian A. Wandell, Ph.D., is the first Isaac and Madeline Stein Family Professor at Stanford University. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1979, where he is also chair of the department of psychology and a member, by courtesy, of the electrical engineering and radiology departments. Dr. Wandell's research projects center on how we see, including topics like visual disorders, reading development in children, digital imaging devices, and algorithms. Dr. Wandell's work in visual neuroscience uses functional and structural MRI, along with behavior testing and modeling, to understand the action of the visual portions of the brain. His research includes studies of the organization of the visual field maps in the human brain, color and motion processing within these maps, and the potential for reorganization following injury or developmental disorders.
The Wandell lab is applying diffusion tensor imaging and functional MRI to study human brain development. It is carrying out a longitudinal study measuring the development of structures and signals in the visual cortex of children aged 8-12 as they become skilled readers. The lab's measurements of developmental changes during the acquisition of skilled reading are intended to understand how visual signals become rapidly identified and classified in the process of learning to read. Among recent awards, Dr. Wandell was named Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year by the SPIE/IS&T in 2007, and he was awarded the Tillyer Prize from the Optical Society of America in 2008. Dr. Wandell was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2003.
Ellen Winner, Ph.D., is professor of psychology at Boston College and senior research associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. She received her Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University in 1978. Dr. Winner's research focuses on learning and cognition in the arts in typical and gifted children. She is the author of over 100 articles and four books: Invented Worlds: The Psychology of the Arts; The Point of Words: Children's Understanding of Metaphor and Irony; Gifted Children: Myths and Realities (translated into six languages and winner of the Alpha Sigma Nu National Jesuit Book Award in Science); and Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education (co-authored with Lois Hetland, Shirley Veenema, and Kimberly Sheridan).
Dr. Winner received the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Research by a Senior Scholar in Psychology and the Arts from the American Psychological Association. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 10, psychology and the arts) and of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics. She is currently studying the cognitive and social skills learned from experience in the visual arts and theater, cognitive and perceptual strategies underlying talent in drawing, and the effects of music training on children's brain and cognitive development.
Barbara Rich, Ed.D., a vice president at the Dana Foundation, is responsible for the news, IT, and web office and helps oversee arts education at the Foundation. Rich was a co-editor of Learning Arts and the Brain: The Dana Consortium Report on Arts and Cognition; Transforming Arts Teaching: The Role of Higher Education; Acts of Achievement: The Role of Performing Arts Centers in Education; and editor of Partnering Arts Education: A Working Model from Arts Connection.
Dr. Rich's background in communications and education includes posts at Rutgers University and Marymount Manhattan College, where she was dean and then a vice president. She was senior vice president at the Scientists' Institute for Public Information (SIPI) prior to joining the Dana Foundation.
Dr. Rich has published articles on science and education, and has served often as a discussant on both media and arts education. She earned a B.A. from City College of New York, M.A.s from Rutgers University and Teacher's College, Columbia University, and an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Johanna Goldberg has worked at the Dana Foundation since 2005 and now serves as its public information officer. She copy edited the Dana Foundation publications Learning, Arts, and the Brain and Partnering Arts Education: A Working Model from Arts Connection, and was associate editor of Transforming Arts Teaching: The Role of Higher Education. Ms. Goldberg received a B.A. in English from Goucher College and an M.L.I.S. from Pratt Institute's School of Information and Library Science.
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NCAA Game Night: 12-29-12
No. 11 Cornell Big Red 4 @ Maine Black Bears 6
D/W Kirill Gotovets, COR: 0-0-0, +1, 0 PIM, 1 SOG
Season totals: 11 GP, 0-0-0, +3, 4 PIM
They say a 3-goal lead is the worst in hockey and Cornell proved it yet again, blowing a 3-0 first period lead en route to a 6-4 loss in the championship game of the Florida College Classic in Estero. The victory was only Maine's fourth of the season against 11 losses and a tie.
Northeastern Huskies 5 @ No. 20 Harvard Crimson 1
F Brian Hart, HAR: 1-0-1, E, 0 PIM, 2 SOG
Season totals: 8 GP, 2-2-4, +3, 6 PIM
Brian Hart (pictured, Eric DuBose photo) opened the game's scoring in the first five minutes, but that is all that Harvard would get on the board in a bad home loss to Northeastern. The Crimson (4-5-1) fell under .500 for the season, to a team that was 5-9-1 coming into the game. Not good. Sharks pick Cody Ferriero had four goals for the Huskies. He came into the game with one goal in 15 games this year.
No. 5 Miami RedHawks 0 @ Robert Morris Colonials 1
F Jimmy Mullin, MIA: 0-0-0, -1, 0 PIM, 9 SOG
Season totals: 17 GP, 2-5-7, -2, 8 PIM
Jimmy Mullin played on the top line for the second straight game and had nine shots on goal to lead the RedHawks in that category for the second straight game. Miami outshot the Colonials, 51-21, but couldn't beat senior goaltender Eric Levine (undrafted). Levine came into the game with a 7-2-2 record, 1.98 GAA, and .949 save percentage. He's listed at 6'3" and likely has a pro contract in his future. Robert Morris' 1-0 win gave them the Three Rivers Classic championship in Pittsburgh.
No. 12 Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks 4 @ No. 9 Quinnipiac Bobcats 5
F Matthew Peca, QU: 1-1-2, +1, 0 PIM, 1 SOG
Season totals: 16 GP, 5-2-7, +4, 8 PIM
Matt Peca had a goal and an assist as the Bobcats topped the Mavs, 5-4. Jordan Samuels-Thomas swatted home Peca's centering feed three minutes into the third period to give the Bobcats their fifth goal. Quinnipiac has now won 11 consecutive games. Lightning prospect camper Andrej Sustr had two shots on goal and was minus-1 for UNO. The 6'8" defenseman remains a free agent.
Air Force Falcons 0 @ No. 4 Minnesota Golden Gophers 4
G Adam Wilcox, MIN: Win, 18 saves on 18 shots, *Third Star*
Season totals: 16 GP, 11-2-2, 1.67 GAA, .923 sv%, 3 SO
Adam Wilcox wasn't tested too often, but came up big when needed – like stopping a breakaway – to lead the Gophers to a 4-0 win over Air Force. The Gophers will face top-ranked Boston College on Sunday in the finals of the Mariucci Classic.
No. 8 Western Michigan Broncos 1 @ Michigan State Spartans 1
(Broncos won shootout, 1-0)
D Luke Witkowski, WMU: 0-0-0, -1, 0 PIM, 1 SOG
Season totals: 17 GP, 1-3-4, -5, 14 PIM
WMU advanced to the finals of the Great Lakes Invitational tournament thanks to a fourth-round shootout win over Michigan State at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. Western is looking for their first GLI tournament win and will face Michigan Tech in the championship on Sunday. Witkowski played big minutes against MSU's top line, but took a minus with 17 seconds left in regulation when the Spartans scored on a 6-on-5 advantage. With the puck dumped into the corner, Lightning free agent target Dan DeKeyser chased the puck and his partner, Witkowski, faded to the strong side as a defensemen is supposed to do. WMU's three forwards watched from the strong side near the slot, leaving the backdoor wide open. A cross-crease pass from a forward who outbattled DeKeyser found an unmarked MSU player who banged the puck into the net. WMU had played well defensively throughout the game and that was MSU's best scoring chance. Witkowski had several deep rushes and his confidence with and without the puck is at an all-time high.
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After Contentious Labor Dispute, Machinists Union Reaches Tentative Deal With Boeing
WASHINGTON – A contentious labor dispute between the government and Boeing Co. that spawned a national political fight likely will be settled after the company and the Machinists union announced Wednesday they'd reached a tentative deal on a new four-year collective bargaining agreement.
If the deal is finalized, it would appear to leave in place the work at a new $750 million Boeing plant in South Carolina, a right-to-work state where the company opened a new production line for its 787 airplane.
The National Labor Relations Board filed a lawsuit earlier this year alleging that Boeing violated labor laws by opening the South Carolina line. Acting on a complaint from the union, the agency claimed that Boeing was punishing Washington state workers for past strikes and said the company should return the work to Washington.
Boeing has vigorously denied the charges, claiming it opened the South Carolina plant for valid economic reasons.
The new agreement guarantees that a different aircraft -- the 737 Max -- would be assembled at union facilities in Renton, Wash., said Tom Wroblewski, president of Machinists Union District 751.
Wroblewski said that if union members vote to approve the deal in the coming weeks, the union would inform the NLRB that it has no further grievances with Boeing.
Lafe Solomon, acting general counsel at the labor board, called the agreement "a very significant and hopeful development."
"The tentative agreement is subject to ratification by the employees, and, if ratified, we will be in discussions with the parties about the next steps in the process," Solomon said.
Boeing spokesman Tim Healy called the new contract with the union "a starting point of a new relationship with the IAM."
Gary Chaison, professor of industrial relations at Clark University, said the union seems to have used the South Carolina dispute as leverage to guarantee other unionized jobs in the Seattle area, but on a different plane.
"I think the NLRB will be very happy to get this case off the table," Chaison said. "This was probably the most controversial thing the NLRB has done in two or three decades."
The labor board brought its lawsuit at the request of the union, so if the union no longer has a dispute, the board likely would stop pursuing the case.
The case became a major political issue, with Republican presidential candidates using it to bash the Obama administration. While the labor board is an independent agency, it is dominated by appointees of President Barack Obama, and settlement of the Boeing case removes a potentially damaging element for Obama in the 2012 campaign.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and the state's congressional delegation had expressed outrage at the NLRB lawsuit, saying it threatened thousands of jobs and millions of dollars invested in the new Boeing facility in Charleston.
Wroblewski was flanked by about two dozen union leaders at the Machinists hall in Seattle as he announced the deal. He said it came after six weeks of secret talks that began with an overture from Boeing management, and he called the job security offered by the deal unprecedented.
"It's hopefully the start of a new day of doing business when it comes to negotiating contracts with the Boeing Co.," he said.
Union members in Washington, Oregon and Kansas are scheduled to vote Dec. 7 on the tentative agreement. It calls for annual wage increases of 2 percent, cost-of-living adjustments, an incentive program intended to pay bonuses between 2 percent and 4 percent, a ratification bonus of $5,000 for each member, and improvements in the pension program. But it also would raise workers' share of health costs.
Boeing is building its new 787 in Washington state, but opened a second -- non-union -- assembly line in Charleston. The NLRB complaint arose because it said Boeing opened the second plant to avoid legal union strikes in Washington.
Boeing appeared to be considering a similar move for an updated 737 it plans to build. Those planes are built in Renton, Wash., now, but Boeing said in July it was studying other locations in addition to Renton for the new 737.
Boeing said on Wednesday that it will make the 737 with the new engine in Renton if workers ratify the new contract.
Haley had insisted that GOP presidential candidates talk about the issue as they courted voters in South Carolina, the first-in-the-South primary state. Candidates slugged away at it early and often. Mitt Romney took an early swing in May as made his first pre-campaign stop and laid the blame Obama's feet.
"How in the world can the president justify the federal government taking power from South Carolina and not allowing South Carolina to compete on a fair and level playing field," Romney said. "It's simply inexcusable."
South Carolina's unemployment rate -- 10.5 percent in October -- has been among the highest in the nation. The Boeing issue gave presidential hopefuls room to talk about something other than that in a state the GOP has firmly controlled since 2002.
Haley spokesman Rob Godfrey said the governor "believes this is a great win for Boeing to come to an agreement with the Machinists, and it confirms what we have always said: The NLRB is nothing but a tool for President Obama to bully our businesses."
After being stung by Boeing's decision to move its headquarters to Chicago a decade ago and by the decision to open the South Carolina plant, politicians in Washington state welcomed the notion of building the 737 MAX in Renton.
Gov. Chris Gregoire commended Boeing and the union for an agreement that "shows a strong commitment by both sides to secure the future of aerospace in Washington state."
"Washington state is, and will continue to be, the world's premier center for aerospace known for building the safest and most innovative planes," she said in a statement. "In the last few years, I'm proud that Washington state has landed the 787, the Air Force refueling tanker, and now the 737 MAX."


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DesignIntelligence released its 2012 landscape architecture graduate and undergraduate program rankings. For the second year, Louisiana State University came in at the top of undergraduate landscape architecture programs and, for the eighth year, Harvard University came in as the best graduate programs in the annual survey conducted by DesignIntelligence on behalf of the Design Futures Council.
Detailed rankings are available in the 12th edition of "America's Best Architecture & Design Schools," which assesses program rankings and education trends in architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, and industrial design.
Respondents from 227 "professional practice" organizations, which are listed in the report, answered questions about how well prepared graduates are from different undergraduate and graduate programs. Some 74 percent said they "very satisfied" or "satisfied" with the state of landscape architecture education in the U.S. Some 64 percent found that graduating students had an "adequate understanding" of biology, biodiversity, and environmental degradation. However, only 51 percent thought recent graduates brought any new ideas on sustainability to their new jobs.
This year, the top five emerging concerns by practitioners are:
- Maintaining Design Quality (51 percent)
- Sustainability / Climate Change (49 percent)
- Speed of Technological Change (39 percent)
- Integrated Design (39 percent)
- Retaining Quality Staff in Design Practices (32 percent)
DesignIntelligence asks us to only list the top five schools for each program. To see the top fifteen rankings for each category, purchase the report.
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Degree Rankings:
1) Louisiana State University
2) Pennsylvania State University
3) California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo; Purdue University; Texas A&M University (tied)
Master of Landscape Architecture Degree Rankings:
1) Harvard University
2) Louisiana State University
3) Kansas State University
4) Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania (tied)
An additional deans and chairs survey asked respondents from 111 academic programs about the top programs and the issues they find significant. According to 84 percent of the professors surveyed, the design professions' biggest concern is climate change / sustainability while another 64 percent said urbanization. Following this, some 68 percent also thought the most significant change in the curricula over the past five years has been an increased emphasis on sustainable design.
In addition, for the first time, DesignIntelligence surveyed more than 670 landscape architecture students to gauge their satisfaction with 20 programs covered.
To see the full responses from professors and students, purchase the report.
Lastly, DesignIntelligence lists their 25 most admired educators of 2012. This year, the list was dominated by leading landscape architecture educators:
- Rod Barnett, Associate Professor and Chair, Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture, Auburn University
- James Corner, ASLA, Professor and Department Chair, Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania
- Hope Hasbrouck, Graduate Advisor and Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin
- David Hulse, Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon
- Judith Kinnard, Chair of Landscape Urbanism and Professor of Architecture, School of Archictecture, Tulane University
- Margaret Livingston, PhD, ASLA, Professor, School of Landscape Architecture and Planning, College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Arizona
- Elizabeth Meyer, FASLA, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Virginia
- Peter Trowbridge, FASLA, Chair and Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, Cornell University
- Charles Waldheim, Affiliate ASLA, Professor and Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Check out the 2011, 2010, and 2009 program rankings.
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The Knicks sucked last night and now they play in San Antonio on a back to back. Great.
Tyson Chandler and Jared Jeffries, the two best front court defenders on the team, will sit out tonights game with injuries. Iman Shumpert will start for Landry Fields, probably in an attempt to slow down Tony Parker. The Knicks come into tonights game only 3 games up on the Milwaukee Bucks for the 8th seed. The Knicks play Milwaukee on Friday and the schedule only gets harder after that. The Knicks need to start winning games. At 18-20, they cannot afford to keep losing or else they may find themselves out of the playoff picture. This is a big game for the Knicks and they will need to provide far better effort than they did last night in Dallas.
Here's what to watch for:
- Chandler and Jeffries are out. This means that Amar'e Stoudemire will see a lot of time playing center tonight. Coming off a 26 point effort, playing center tonight may be the thing that sparks the Knicks star to shine the rest of the year. Offensively, he is much better playing center for a variety of reasons. Without Chandler taking up the middle of the floor, Stoudemire will have more space to operate with the ball. In Mike D'Antoni's offense, the center is the primary pick and roll option. Many fans have called for Stoudemire to be running more pick and roll and tonight they should see more of that. I expect Stoudemire to be very involved running the pick and roll with Jeremy Lin and Baron Davis. Josh Harrellson will start in Chandler's place and Steve Novak will see a lot of minutes coming off the bench. Both players can spread the court due to their outside shooting ability and that should also open some things up in the middle for Stoudemire.
- Which Melo will show up tonight? God knows they need him tonight. San Antonio is already a tough team. They become tougher when Tyson Chandler and Jared Jeffries are sitting on the bench. The Knicks need a herculean effort tonight from Melo. I'm not sure they will get it. His effort and demeanor last night were disgusting. His body language gave off the impression that he did not care about the game. His pouting in the fourth quarter was childish and his smiling and joking with fans late in the game almost caused me to hack up my pre-game steak quesadilla. Here's the deal on Melo. I called him Starmelo Manthony last night because that is what he deserved. That being said, that was one game. Melo is generally regarded as a mildly intelligent person. Anybody with mild intelligence should realize that New York is going to destroy Carmelo Anthony unless he pulls his head out of his *** and begins to produce. Even on nights in which he doesn't produce, Melo needs to be a better teammate and display better body language on the court. I don't know how Melo is going to play tonight. He has not been the Melo of old this year. Sure, Richard Jefferson is old but you don't know how Melo is going to play. If he sucks again tonight, so be it. I want to see him show passion for the game. I want him to be pissed if the Knicks are losing. Playing bad is one thing. Having a horrible attitude is another. I'm more worried about Melo's attitude than his play. Stay tuned.
- Steve Novak versus Matt Bonner. I really would love to see this matchup tonight. Slow footed white sharpshooter versus slow footed white sharpshooter. Even better would be if they got into a fight. I feel like it would look like this:
- Is JR Smith the Mike Bibby of March? He's 0/7 on 3's so far… Just saying.
- Iman Shumpert is starting for Landry Fields. I don't think this is a huge deal. I love Shumpert providing energy off the bench but I think Mike D'Antoni made this move hoping that Shumpert can help the Knicks begin games a bit better than they have been as of late. They lost the first quarter 27-15 last night. Shumpert was already playing more minutes than Landry Fields anyways and he has shot better this season. Again, I love Shumpert coming off the bench but I think this is a nice move. Hopefully, Fields will log minutes at small forward now that he won't be forced to play a significant amount of his minutes along side Carmelo Anthony. He is a better small forward than shooting guard and I think, in theory, he should play better there coming off the bench.
- And now, here's a video of Stephon Marbury eating Vaseline.


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Trash cans are the eye sores of city life, like the grimy physical manifestation of popped pimples overflowing with bags and Chinese takeout ooze. The Olympics? A magnifying glass on a city's life. That's why it's not surprising to see a city (in this case, London) introduce new, stylish trash cans as a quick makeover. For London 2012, new bombproof trash cans that have dual giant LCD screens and Wi-Fi hotspots will brighten up the dreary London fog.
Made by Renew, the trash cans LCD screens will display news, stock quotes, weather and are big enough to house a typical bin so trash collectors can easily empty 'em. They'll also provide Olympic goers with Wi-Fi hotspots. 25 of these new trash cans are currently on London streets with the plan to install 75 more before Michael Phelps first dives into a pool. Supposedly, these new digital cans will start popping up in New York City, Tokyo and Singapore too.
The trash cans cost $1800 a pop. I wonder how fast they'll become nothing more than bombproof billboards though? Or more likely, how fast they'll be hacked? [Daily Mail via Neatorama]


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Massachusetts insurance mandate lowers death rate
Since "Romneycare" was phased in, mortality fell by 2.9 percent
After 2006, when Massachusetts put in place a policy aimed at universal health insurance, mortality rates among those affected by the law fell by 2.9 percent, researchers report in the May 6 Annals of Internal Medicine.
The law, enacted when Mitt Romney was governor, is widely seen as a model for the national Affordable Care Act, sometimes called Obamacare. The Massachusetts law mandated coverage and offered subsidized private insurance and expanded Medicaid coverage.
To gauge the law's effect, researchers compared mortality rates among people ages 20 to 64 from 2007 to 2010 with the years preceding the law's enactment, 2001 to 2005. The 2.9 percent decline was the average, with the greatest effect seen in previously uninsured people. The researchers calculated that Romneycare yielded one fewer death for every additional 830 adults covered. Greater coverage led to more clinic visits resulting in better overall health, the authors suggest.


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Amazon, the online bookseller turned online department store, turned e-book-reader manufacturer, turned publisher, turned video streaming service, turning movie-and-TV studio, has posted its first 14 "TV pilots" -- six kids' shows and eight grown-up comedies -- online for your ratings and comments. (That is the Amazon way.)
What is a studio? Once it meant a physical place, with soundstages and a back lot and departments full of craftspeople with crazy skills. Now it requires only a name and money. And executives, I suppose, to move the money around.
Back when "antitrust" was, like, a real thing, it was decided, in United States vs. Paramount Pictures, Inc., 334 US 131 (1948), sometimes called the Paramount Consent Decree, that movie studios could not also own movie theaters -- that controlling both the means of production and the means of distribution constituted an unfair trade advantage. In a similar way, TV networks were once enjoined from making their own TV shows. But that all went out the window some time ago, as "vertical integration" crept into the lexicon, as a thing we were meant to admire, and cable television (and now the Internet) made the field competitive, ostensibly.
Now, the trend is for distributors to become producers. Amazon Studios has come into the world alongside similar efforts by Netflix, Hulu and YouTube, echoing the earlier progress of cable television, where channels that begin as bundlers, repackagers and recontextualizers (of movies, of TV series) have gone on to make shows of their own. It's a kind of TV rite of passage. And among its competitors, Amazon has the advantage of not needing show business to pay for its show business; except for the big store going bust, which is not likely any time soon, there is nothing to shut down the studio, other than Jeff Bezos' losing interest in it.
It's a two-pronged approach: Via its Amazon Studios website (studios.amazon.com), anyone can post a film or TV script, giving Amazon the right to option, perchance to buy it. There is also a community aspect that lets other users submit comments and revisions to a work.
And then there is the old-school version, where executives take calls from agents and meet with writers over bottled water (I am imagining that part) and develop things in the way more usual to Hollywood. Studio head Roy Price spent several years at Disney, where he was involved with the cartoon series "Kim Possible" and "Teacher's Pet"; programming chief Joe Lewis was formerly at 20th Century Fox and Comedy Central; Tara Sorensen, who runs the children's section, comes out of National Geographic Kids, Sony Pictures Entertainment and the Canadian animation house Nelvana.
Even the public-rating feature, despite being ballyhooed as a striking innovation, is fundamentally old-fashioned, an Internet-age variation on the preview cards and focus groups studios have used since forever. (And the pilot-to-production system resembles that of the humbler short-form-comedy website Channel 101, co-founded by "Community" creator Dan Harmon.) All but one of the 14 pilots, the comedy "Those Who Can't," from the Denver comedy trio the Grawlix, seem to have been developed in the second way. There is a lot of already tested talent involved here.
In fielding its TV slate, Amazon called specifically for half-hour comedies (that is, 22 minutes with room for commercials, should a show wind up on real TV) and children's shows (with an educational bent). Dramas are, of course, more expensive to produce, and there is already a (relatively) long, hearty history of comedy online, including a few creations that successfully jumped from the Internet to television, IFC's "Portlandia" and Comedy Central's "Workaholics" among them.
The comedies, whose production is highly polished, range from OK to excellent -- nothing struck me as an outright failure, and the best I would watch for a season -- and many feature People You Know, including John Goodman (in whose "Alpha House" Bill Murray makes a cameo), Bebe Neuwirth, Jeffrey Tambor and the eternally game Ed Begley Jr., who is no stranger to the Web (see Illeana Douglas' great "Easy to Assemble," in which he plays the ghost of a legendary Ikea designer, and, really, I do mean see it).
The kids' shows are a little harder to judge, coming as they do in various stages of completion. Except for "Sara Solves It," which looks like a finished version of the 2-D cartoon it's meant to be, most rely on rough-sketch "animatics" to tell the bulk of the story, with brief examples of what the finished product would look like: There's puppet animation ("Tumbleaf"), puppets ("Teeny Tiny Dogs," which has Lisa Henson as a producer, so technically they might be Muppets), CGI ("Positively Ozitively") and live action ("Annebots").
I'll write critically and in more detail about these shows in a following post. But overall, it's a good start.


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February 6, 2013
The Smells of Commercial Success
By James Panero
A review of "The Art of Scent 1889-2012"
Museum of Arts and Design
Through March 3
New York
Should "scent art"--perfume, that is--be critically considered alongside music and painting? In "Against the Grain," an influential 1884 novel by J.-K. Huysmans, the decadent character Des Esseintes makes a case that it should. "After all, he argued, it was no more abnormal to have an art that consisted of picking out odorous fluids than it was to have other arts based on a selection of sound waves or the impact of variously coloured rays on the retina of the eye."
Like much of what Des Esseintes says in Huysmans's fanciful and wonderful book, his case for perfume is both logical and absurd--an aestheticism taken to an extreme. But he is right to argue that scents should command a more respectful place alongside sights and sounds, with a critical language that includes more than merely "good" and "bad." By appreciating each sense on its own, says Des Esseintes, we better enjoy its harmony with others, "co-ordinating them to compose the whole that constitutes a work of art."
Just like food and wine, perfume has recently enjoyed a renaissance of sorts among latter-day Esseintes-ists. Independent perfumeries create their own blends. Professionals and amateurs write sophisticated perfume blogs. The 2008 book "Perfumes: The A-Z Guide," by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez, has become something of an Oxford English Dictionary for scent.
Now add to the mix "The Art of Scent: 1889-2012" at New York's Museum of Arts and Design.
Claiming to be the "first major museum exhibition to recognize scent as a major medium of artistic creation," the show strips perfume of its extensive packaging and advertising and presents it as an "olfactory art" in a purpose-built white-cube gallery. Curated by Chandler Burr and designed by the architectural firm Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, the spare exhibition consists of 12 smelling stations seamlessly cast into the gallery walls, a side room with a table of perfume oils, and mouthlike formations sculpted into another wall that spit out scented cards.
The perfumes on exhibition begin chronologically with Jicky, an 1889 blend by the perfumer Aimé Guerlain--considered the first modern perfume for its use of synthetic aromatics and still in production--and concludes with Daniela Andrier's Untitled (2010, designed for Maison Martin Margiela). Along the way we encounter Ernest Beaux's magisterial Chanel No. 5 (1921), Pierre Wargnye's odious Drakkar Noir (1982, for Guy Laroche), Olivier Cresp's diaphanous Angel (1992, for Thierry Mugler) and Jean-Claude Ellena's Osmanthe Yunnan (2006, for Hermès), a scent that starts with an infusion of tea and finishes with a rinse of dental fluoride.
An exhibition of scent is a fresh idea. Too bad "The Art of Scent" is so fishy. With elaborate stagecraft, it is more interested in making the case for commercial perfume as high art, with the rights and privileges accorded therein, than in revealing the artistry of perfume design. For all the hoopla, the show conveys even less than what you would learn walking through the ground floor of Saks Fifth Avenue—which, unfortunately, might be the point.
The urinal-shaped smelling receptacles abstract perfume to absurdity. Paired with illuminated labels that fade to white the moment you want to read them, this is more a show of prestidigitation than olfaction. For a museum of design, MAD seems oddly contemptuous of the design elements that went into these commercial products. "The Art of Scent" gives only passing reference to perfume chemistry and history. It includes an all-too-narrow survey of well-known brands and ignores the independents. It disregards the packaging and advertising that is integral to what these products become. Until the day we have wall-mounted smelling stations in our homes, perfumes are high-end consumables with elaborate marketing campaigns and exotic packaging—a thriving multibillion-dollar industry--and there shouldn't be anything wrong in acknowledging that.
And therein lies the fallacy of this exhibition. Here, everyone is an "artist." Perfumers are "scent artists." Perfumes are "aesthetically influential works of olfactory art." Miuccia Prada, who in 2004 commissioned the perfumers Carlos Benaïm, Max Gavarry and Clément Gavarry to create Prada Amber, is not a fashion executive but a "patron of the arts."
"The Art of Scent" purports to strip away the commercial side of perfume. Instead, it merely adds another layer of packaging, covering over the existing labels and selling the elixirs as high art. At times these gimmicks are all too apparent. The room with the smelling table includes a museum staffer whose hawking of the fragrances is little different from a department-store floor-walker's. The "catalog" of the exhibition is a "limited edition box set" of fragrances that costs $285, with a text that is more sales pitch than scholarship.
Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that "The Art of Scent is made possible by The Estée Lauder Companies--a Founding Major Donor--and other Major Donors, including Chanel, Inc., Givaudan, Hermès Parfums, International Flavors & Fragrances Inc, L'Oréal and P&G Prestige. Additional support for The Art of Scent is provided by Funders Arcade Marketing USA and Guerlain, as well as Diptyque and Women in Flavor and Fragrance Commerce Inc." There is nothing wrong with corporate sponsorship, but here the sponsorship seems to have gone to supporting a nonprofit front for Madison Avenue. With "The Art of Scent," the Museum of Arts and Design has left a good idea smelling rank. Des Esseintes would be the first to turn up his nose at that.


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Intellectuals and Politics
Graham Laidler's series of cartoons on 'The British Character', drawn for Punch in the 1930s under the pen name Pont, includes one particularly pungent work titled 'Importance of Not Being Intellectual'. A bedraggled gentleman in a rather unflattering corduroy suit is shown increasingly isolated in the centre of the room as the great and the good flee in shame, giving all the appearance of having just had a nasty taste of his smell. As a succinct representation of what many take to be the scepticism, and even outright hostility, of British society towards intellectuals it is unmatched.
The British it is thought, frown upon intellectuals as 'too clever by half', swiftly prescribing them a good dose of 'common sense'. In part this supposition reflects the influence of a particularly English, Burkean strain of conservatism and its accompanying scepticism of human nature. When Burke howled that the "age of chivalry" had been replaced by the "age of economists, sophists and calculators" and revelled in the scarcity of Britain's "political men of letters", he prefigured generations of conservative anti-intellectualism. The remnants of this culture still turn up in surprising places. Punch 'intellectuals' into Amazon and the first result is conservative historian Paul Johnson's Intellectuals, in which he harangues such figures for their peccadilloes and misdemeanours, judging them wholly unfit to influence public affairs. Yet if this conservative tendency was a persistent one it was also always an unstable one. Thatcherites treated the intelligentsia with disdain, but Thatcher herself brazenly revealed her intellectual debt when during a party meeting she thumped Friedrich Hayek's The Constitution of Liberty on the table and bellowed "This is what we believe in.". As ever, one must speak of intellectual anti-intellectualism.
The rarely acknowledged truth is that British intellectual culture, and public appreciation of it, is, if not in rude health, certainly in fighting shape. Richard Dawkins's and Christopher Hitchens's best-selling atheist polemics have reignited interest in the oldest intellectual argument of them all, spawning a whole literature of rebuttal and counter-rebuttal. Tickets for the debates organised by Intelligence Squared sell out faster than those for small music festivals. Literary festivals grow in prominence each year, with the jamboree at Hay now exported to Cartagena and Segovia. Newspaper sales may remain stagnant or in decline, but political magazines bask in an Indian summer, with the latest, Standpoint, launched last month. One of them, Prospect, announces the results of its second poll on the world's 'top 100 public intellectuals' this week, with Dawkins and Hitchens likely to feature in the top five once again.
Yet Westminster remains conspicuously untouched by this resurgence, a trend all the stranger given that for the first time since Arthur Balfour, Britain has a prime minister who can reasonably lay claim to the title 'public intellectual'. For an apt demonstration, read Brown's speech on liberty last year or his delivery of the Hugo Young memorial lecture in 2005, the latter in particular is an intellectual tour de force, a panoramic sweep through Locke, Smith, Voltaire, Darwin and Orwell. Nor can this merely be dismissed as name-dropping; Brown remains a voracious reader and where time restricts he orders his staff to digest and summarise key works. After a meeting with Brown on terrorism, an incredulous Paddy Ashdown remarked, "He had already read all the books I had read. He was already ahead of me." At least in this regard, Brown remains the antithesis of the famously light reading Blair.
But beyond such set-piece speeches Brown has failed to harness his intellect to recast Labour, with the result that the party's political strategy remains that of triangulation, its default ideology that of the 'Third Way'. Both are neither intellectually nor politically sustainable, embodying old solutions for old problems. By trading so heavily on their apparent novelty, The Third Way, and its British incarnation New Labour, ensured the rapid onset of diminishing returns. Most have recognised that Labour is suffering a political crisis, few have recognised that it is also suffering an intellectual one.
Both the liberal financier George Soros and Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, argue that the economic shocks of the past year have been unmatched since the Great Depression. The left would do well to remember that it was Keynesianism and social democracy that made the intellectual running in the aftermath of the latter. One of the few bodies attempting to carve out the space for modern equivalents to gestate is the left-wing pressure group Compass. At one point during their conference last week an audience member proposed that each member of the cabinet should be given a copy of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice. The derisory laughter that followed was swiftly transformed into thoughtful murmuring as Helena Kennedy brilliantly itemised the essentials of the 'veil of ignorance'. It those who argue that such ideas have no place in political discourse who are adopting the ahistorical and elitist position here.
The history of politics is more often than not the history of the progression of ideas from dusty seminar rooms to the world. Karl Marx scribbled in isolation in the British library, and only eleven people were at his funeral, but less than a century later governments influenced by his ideas covered a third of the world's population. At times during the social democratic heights of the 1950s and 60s it must have seemed to Milton Friedman and Hayek as if all the true free-marketeers could have fitted into one stagecoach. Yet it was in such solitude that the embryos of the Thatcher/Reagan revolution were formed.
The tragedy of what is likely the denouement of the Labour government is that if it wished to it could draw on an intellectual arsenal, from Keynes to Rawls to Galbraith, more potent than any available to the Conservatives. However many sweet cooings David Cameron makes about 'fraternity' or now even 'social justice', the language of equality is not in the Conservatives ideological DNA; it is a con trick that flatters the very concepts Labour bizarrely shies away from. In his speech to the Compass conference Ed Miliband, one of the more cerebral members of the cabinet, spoke of a growing 'idealism of the mainstream'. If Labour is to recover it must forge an intellectualism of the mainstream too.
Published in the Warwick Boar, 24/07/08


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Zebrawood Teardrop
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All of our jewelry starts with a hand drawn design which then gets cut out of wood by our laser. We then hand-sand and seal each piece to ensure a smooth finish.
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Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuit News: Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon Unit Faces Uphill Battle In New Jersey Trial, Says Legal-Bay LLC
- Expert testifies that J&J ignored his warning about potential problems with Pelvic Mesh, just as Legal-Bay projects total claims in all mesh cases to eventually reach 100K Mesh Lawsuits.
Feb 12, 2013, 05:15 ET
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Legal-Bay, The Lawsuit Settlement Funding Company, which has been a public advocate for women victims of various vaginal and pelvic mesh implants, reported today that industry insiders close to the Ethicon Prolift mesh trial have advised them that the plaintiff's case has raised serious concerns as to what J&J knew about the dangers of their mesh products.
In testimony in early February, Dr. Klinge – who is a world renowned expert in mesh products- advised J&J that he believed their mesh products did not have the correct design in order to ensure safety of the patients. Ethicon did not heed the warnings of Dr. Klinge and began marketing the potentially dangerous mesh in late 2005. This has led to serious complications in thousands of women and already 1800 lawsuits in N.J. Supreme Court alone.
"Our experts close to the trial feel that the plaintiff's case is proceeding very well based on the knowledge that J&J potentially knew the dangers of this product – and still marketed it," said Chris Janish, CEO of Legal-Bay. "If the jury believes that J&J potentially put women in 'harm's way' knowingly, then there is no telling how high a jury award could be."
In a similar case against C.R. Bard in Bakersfield, CA, a California jury awarded a husband and wife $5.5MM for their Mesh related problems.
With all the news of large trials and jury awards in the media, Legal-Bay now projects potentially 100K cases to be signed up by lawyers against the 4 major transvaginal mesh manufacturers: J&J Ethicon, Boston Scientific, C.R. Bard, and American Medical Systems AMS. This could lead the total Transvaginal Mesh Litigation to top $20Bil. and go on for many years to come.
"We continue to see new clients needing both lawsuit funding and surgical funding for corrective and revision surgeries for women who do not have health insurance," said Patty Kirby, Head of Client Relations at Legal-Bay. "We have also been taking a lot of calls from women who are just starting to realize the problems of their mesh and need legal advice, and we have been advising them that it is not too late to file a claim, but the time to file a valid lawsuit is ticking." "At this point, we don't see any end to this litigation in the near future", added Ms. Kirby.
Legal-Bay and its financial partners have been committed to assisting victims of the Transvaginal Mesh lawsuit from the very beginning of the litigation for whatever services that they may need. For women in need of lawsuit pre-settlement funding for basic living needs, or for mesh surgical funding to get healthy, plaintiffs can apply 24 hours a day at: lawsuitssettlementfunding.com.
Or if mesh victims have any direct questions -and prefer to speak to a live person- they may call Legal-Bay's toll free hotline 24 hours a day at: 877.571.0405 where an agent can discuss Legal-Bay's Mesh Funding Products or refer you to a leading transvaginal mesh law firm if you have not retained a lawyer yet.
SOURCE Legal-Bay LLC


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NEUBIBERG, GERMANY: The new front-end receiver modules from Infineon Technologies promise to simplify the addition of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) functionality in smartphones and other handheld devices. According to the firm, the three devices in the BGM103xN7 series are the first modules to support either the separate or simultaneous reception of Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) and Globalnaya Navigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema (GLONASS) signals. Although they measure just 2.3 x 1.7 x 0.73 mm, the modules combine the pre-filter and low-noise-amplifier (LNA) stages of the GNSS signal-chain front end (see photo).
The BGM1033N7 provides 14.8 dB gain and a 1.65-dB noise figure. Its sibling, the BGM1032N7, offers that performance combined with optimization to suppress Long-Term-Evolution (LTE) Band 13 signals. (The upper frequency of the LTE 13 band is 787 MHz while the second harmonic falls into the GPS band.) The third module, the BGM1034N7, is a high-gain (17.0-dB) version for systems with high losses in the receive chain. In examples like personal navigation devices and digital still cameras, the potential for jamming due to high-power cellular signals is less critical.
All of the modules feature low current consumption to meet mobile-device requirements (4.0 mA/3.1 mA). In cellular bands, they boast out-of-band rejection beyond -43 dBc and a +30- dBm 1-dB input compression point. Each device is rated for 8-kV IEC electro-static discharge (ESD) at the RF input pin. As a result, designers can achieve ESD requirements with only one external component.
In addition, the modules give engineers the flexibility to place any necessary post-filter (single-ended/balanced with suitable noise figure and attenuation) close to the GNSS receiver. To achieve optimized sensitivity, they can place the pre-filter and LNA close to the antenna. Each module features a low-insertion-loss/high-out-of-band-rejection pre-filter followed by a high-performance GNSS LNA.
"Designers are challenged to deliver rock-solid sensitivity performance for location-based serviceseven as GNSS evolves to a series of systems operated by different entities and handheld devices incorporate more high-powered RF technologies, such as Wi-Fi and LTE," explains Michael Mauer, Senior Marketing Director of RF and Protection Devices at Infineon Technologies Mobile Device. That pressure will not soon abate, as iSuppli calculates that 2012 sales of smartphones will reach 450 millionnearly all of which will support GNSS applications.


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New Products
Backdraft Ventilation System Clears the Air
With its backdraft design, the WeldPro draws the air a from the welder, making sure that smoke is not pulled across his helmet. Add the overhead 4-ft.-long hood and the capture zone is maximized, making filtration extremely efficient, according to company officials. The RoboVent floor-mount WeldPro has two slots on its bottom, allowing for forklift placement wherever the model is needed.
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Want to know more about pursuing a degree in Washington? This comprehensive directory of Washington schools can help get you started when weighing your options.
Located in the Pacific Northwest, Washington offers many fine schools to those pursuing a quality education. The various environments of Washington schools – the flourishing retail and hipster city of Seattle vs. the industrial hub of Spokane – are an evident lifestyle for diverse population that makes up colleges and schools. Washington's cultural offerings also entice students of the more than 100 colleges and schools available.
Washington has a median household income of $56,384. The state's median age is a fashionable 36.8 years old, and the state boasts corporate headquarters of Seattle Seahawks, Inc., Eddie Bauer, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, Amazon.com, Inc., Starbucks Corporation, and Washington Mutual, Inc., which create opportunities for hiring Washington graduates with appropriate degrees.
While most of the citizens in the state work in the service industry, many also work in the stable industries of wholesale and retail trade, government or manufacturing. Biomedical engineers; home health aides; employment, recruitment, and placement specialists; network systems and data communications analysts; and occupational therapist assistants are the top five occupations showing the highest employment increase from 2008-2018. The forest products industry is the second largest manufacturing sector in the state for those interested in environmental degrees.
Nicknamed the Evergreen State, with perfect old-growth forests and lively volcanoes drawing tourists all year long, Washington also boasts close proximity to wonderful Canadian cities like Vancouver and Victoria. Charming Victorian seaports along the Olympic peninsula, Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands support a rich cultural music and arts landscape, along with metro areas of Seattle, Spokane and Tacoma. Opportunities abound in the state of Washington, and Washington schools might just provide the degree you need to make the best of your future.


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PSU-trained automotive student ranks 13th at WorldSkills
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 2:00 AM
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Kieron Kohlman, the Wisconsin automotive technology student trained by Pittsburg State University faculty, received a Medallion of Excellence and ranked 13th in the world at the WorldSkills International competition in Germany earlier this month.
Kohlman, an automotive engineering major at Ferris State University, was coached by PSU automotive technology instructor Mike Elder, who recently succeeded PSU's Ron Downing as the WorldSkills Automotive Technology Expert. In that position, Elder helped to develop and judge workstations in the Automotive Technology area of the competition.
Kohlman trained this summer at the Kansas Technology Center with Elder, Downing and assistant professor Scott Norman, who is the U.S. Technical Delegate for WorldSkills.
"We are very proud of the way Kieron competed at WorldSkills," Elder said. "He represented the United States well, and he represented us very well. I was proud to be his coach through this journey."
Approximately 1,000 competitors from 52 countries and regions competed at the WorldSkills International competition. The 20-member U.S. team earned one silver medal and two Medallions of Excellence.
In November 2012, Kohlman earned the highest score of an U.S. competitor and received the "Best in Nation" trophy at the WorldSkills Americas contest in Brazil.


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