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NLU taking a lead in 'Teacher Voice' movement
by Mark Donahue
The public debate about education has become more heated than ever: from parents sparring with school boards, to politicians confronting unions about contracts, all the way up to presidential candidates giving their top-down views of what's best for American kids.
It seems more people than ever have a strong opinion about what teachers should be doing to increase student success. And lately it's often the teacher who is being portrayed as the problem — even the villain.
In response to this wave of "teacher bashing" in the U.S., two NLU professors — Steve Zemelman, Ph.D., adjunct and director of the Illinois Writing Project, and Harry Ross, Ph.D., associate professor in the secondary education program in the National College of Education (NCE) — are leading part of an effort around what they call "Teacher Voice." And they've launched a new Web site, www.teachersspeakup.com, to help spread the word.
The idea is that teachers need to get their voices into local and national debates about education, letting the public know what they do and how that's helping children. In an atmosphere of increased finger-pointing, teachers must take on this task, Zemelman said. Even if they've never done it before.
"In previous generations teachers were highly respected; they didn't need to explain themselves," he said. "But we're in a culture and society now where marketing is essential. Everybody needs to have a brand, and strategies for doing this have not been part of teachers' training. That means that other people end up controlling the conversation."
Seeds of a Movement
The idea of Teacher Voice isn't a new one, Zemelman said. Books from a decade ago touched upon the subject of teacher advocacy, and he and Ross wrote their own book — "13 Steps to Teacher Empowerment: Taking a More Active Role in Your School Community" (Heinemann, 2009) — which contained seeds for the work they're doing now.
Ross said that no matter the debate, teachers are often working against an old stereotype held by many that has long dogged the profession: that teachers go home at 3pm, have summers off and do all their work behind a closed door in front of students — as well as the "If you can't, teach" perception.
Many teachers have done a good job of strongly advocating for specific issues, but they haven't really informed the public about what teachers do on a day-to-day basis, Zemelman said. He and Ross are asking that when teachers begin to spread the message about their work, they focus on what happens in the classroom and the whole school community.
It's a deeper, more holistic view of teaching — one that goes beyond what's required on the standardized tests that have risen in importance in recent years. Teachers continue to help students develop life-success skills, such as persistence, which don't show up on any test.
Zemelman and Ross, along with many researchers, believe these more intangible — but essential — aspects of teaching get lost both in the larger debate about education and, more dangerously, when policy decisions are made that could adversely affect certain groups of students.
And though they admit negative policy changes more often hurt poorer students in struggling neighborhoods, the push for teachers to be heard isn't limited to big city school systems. Changing demographics in the suburbs can lead to new areas of need. And even prosperous suburbs have their challenges, Ross said, like when parents pressure administrators to make faculty concentrate on tested subjects — "teach to the test" — to ensure better college placement for their children.
A teacher's voice can easily be lost in this kind of wrangling. That's why Zemelman and Ross said it's more important than ever to get the word out. And do it in a strategic, sensible way.
Learning How
So how exactly do teachers get their voices heard?
One place to start is the excellent Teachers Speak Up site that Zemelman and Ross launched this past summer. Here teachers can find resources on ways to reach out to their school's administration and the greater community.
Strategies such as one-on-one meetings with principals and community leaders are borrowed directly from methods used by community organizers, Zemelman said. He was first exposed to this while responding to the undermining of Best Practice High School starting in 2004 — a small public school on Chicago's West Side that he helped to launch and that NLU extensively supported.
A meeting during Best Practice's final days with Kim Zalent, of Business and Professional People in the Public Interest, led to a subsequent three-year collaboration with the former community organizer during which Zemelman and Ross learned many strategies for public outreach that had never dawned upon them with their education backgrounds.
One key to Zalent's strategies — and now to Zemelman and Ross's — is for teachers to be proactive, inside and outside their schools.
"I think it's essential for teachers to speak out before they have an issue," Zemelman said. "And to tell their story and build relationships in the community, so that when they have an issue they have built understanding and support and will not just be seen as doing special pleading.
If the first time you talk to a principal is when you have a problem, you may be in trouble, Zemelman said. Instead, checking in every couple of weeks to talk to an administrator without an agenda can foster a healthy, continuous conversation built on trust.
Ross also saw how proactive action by teachers can work in the wider community. He cited how a decade ago teachers worked with community members in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago ahead of the opening of Social Justice High School (in 2005). Teachers asked what people in the neighborhood wanted out of the school for their kids, and after it opened, faculty stayed in constant contact with them. When Chicago Public Schools recently fired two popular Social Justice teachers, the community spoke out and the teachers were rehired. Ross said it took a long relationship-building process to get this kind of protection.
Zemelman believes that a multitude of such voices rising to one issue is powerful, but it becomes particularly meaningful when they are individual voices. He added that what really got him energized about moving the Teacher Voice idea forward was the reaction by thousands to the Susan G. Komen Foundation's announcement earlier this year that it was cutting its funding for Planned Parenthood. The outpouring of opposition stopped the Komen Foundation's plan. Zemelman wondered if teachers could do something similar.
Taking the Next Step
It's understandable that a teacher might feel hesitant to voice an opinion in a public forum, whether it's social media, a Web board or a letter to the editor. Building trust beforehand with school administration is key, Ross said, but teachers always need to double-check the message they're putting out there and proceed strategically.
"Our focus is more on telling your story, telling what it's like in your classroom, telling the needs that may be there but then the good work you're doing to meet those needs," Zemelman said. "It's rare that a principal or administrator would hesitate to support that."
In contrast, Zemelman and Ross said that the recent Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) strike was an example of an opportunity to speak up that, while very much touching on the lives of teachers, runs on a different energy. It's heated, passionate and issue specific, with its own set of strong voices ready to take up the fight.
Zemelman and Ross are advocating the more even-tempered work that happens before and after such cathartic moments. They noted that Karen Lewis, the outspoken president of the CTU, did a lot of quiet behind-the-scenes cultivating of relationships with community groups up to two years ahead of the strike. This strategic, intentional action paid off in community support once the teachers hit the picket line.
Strategic relationship-building is key to any Teacher Voice campaign, Zemelman and Ross said. It's the glue that holds things together when greater stresses hit schools. Teachers must always be looking to cast as wide a net as makes sense for their efforts.
"Teachers need to start talking not just to their friends at the school, but to principals and other colleagues — and to do so without an agenda," Ross said. "They have to start by sitting down and finding out what they have in common in order to work toward their future goals."
Beyond this, teachers need fresh thinking, Zemelman said, as well as strategies for how to get their views into the public sphere and concrete examples of how others have done it before them. The challenge as always, he said, is getting the word out to teachers.
Spreading the Word
In addition to the new Web site, Zemelman and Ross have begun a series of podcasts and Webinars on the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) site. But the Internet is only one channel to spread the word, as both work to make connections in person at meetings and conferences. They'll be doing a session at the NCTE convention November 17 in Las Vegas.
Ross said his work on Teacher Voice has also informed his instruction of student teachers in his classes in the NCE. And he's received a grant with NLU professors Carlos Azcoitia and Brad Olson to propose strategies for advancing school-community collaboration in Little Village.
"What I'm trying to do is work on some of these skills that have not traditionally been taught in teacher education," Ross said. "It's important if you're going to be a teacher that you learn the skills of one-on-ones, developing networks, working with parents and community, so if you do have to organize to protect a school from destructive forces, you'll have laid the groundwork for it."
Zemelman and Ross stress that they can't possibly claim to represent the Teacher Voice movement in total, citing other organizations, such as VIVA Teachers and the New Teacher Center, that are working similar ground. The goal for all is to get strategies out to teachers and get them energized about having their voice heard. In the end, it's a group effort, and it could be argued that the direction of American education is at stake.
"This is a big country," Zemelman said. "This is about changing a set of cultural attitudes, and we're one little piece of this."


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How to use Validation API to validate Java Swing forms in Netbeans
I was searching for a Swing Forms Validation API in NetBeans and saw one at How to Quickly Add Validation Code to Swing UIs | Javalobby. I downloaded and installed the "Simple Validation" NetBeans Plug-in from Simple Validation: Downloads — Project Kenai, but do not know how to use it, because I cannot find where is it present (in toolbox).
Can anyone kindly help me by telling how where can I find it and what are the steps to apply the validation on my form fields.
I also saw there was a Validation API JAR file and I downloaded and included it in my project. It provided 3 controls (or whatever to call it); "ValidationPanel", "ValidationUtils" and "Problems". I saw an example & followed it. I dragged-and-dropped the "ValidationPanel" and wrote the code as shown in following code
final ValidationGroup group = validationPanel1.getValidationGroup();
group.add(txtUserName, Validators.REQUIRE_NON_EMPTY_STRING,
But it seems JAR file contains incomplete files or there may be other problem, because it gives error: cannot find symbol: variable "Validators"
When I wrote the code in NetBeans it gave same error for "ValidationGroup" class and when I clicked on a balloon on the left side of IDE it suggested me to import the package for it and when I clicked on it, it imported the package, but it does not suggest me to import package for "Validators"
I am sorry I think these are 2 questions, but kindly help me how to solve it.
Thanks in advance
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Now you have to use StringValidators insted of Validators to get the validator constants.
group.add(txtUserName, StringValidators.REQUIRE_NON_EMPTY_STRING,
To use the merge method you have to use ValidatorUtils.merge(..)
I hope it helps you.
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What is a talent community?
According to Wikipedia, a talent community is "a method of social recruiting, by relying on the collection of social cliques (or talent networks) of people that are part of the job seeking process."
In a post on RecruitingBlogs.com Marvin Smith describes a talent community as "a segmented audience of targeted talent that maps to current & future hiring needs contained in the workforce plan."
Additionally, ask the folks over at Talent Minded, and they'll tell you a talent community is "not about the platform, but about the value you're providing and the content you're sharing."
Needless to say, it's clear a lot of people have a lot of opinions about what a talent community is – and what it isn't. And they're all right…more or less. A talent community is what you make it, but it absolutely must facilitate engagement between members.
Check out: Talent Connection Episode 33: Back to Basics: Talent Communities
We've grown beyond establishing what a talent community is and isn't. Now, it's time for us (job seekers and HR pros alike) to establish what works, and more importantly, what doesn't work.
Check out the following three traits of a working talent community:
It's not just about jobs.
A talent community might be the place for job seekers and employers to come together and match skills to jobs, but that doesn't mean the focus has to be entirely about jobs.
Talent communities are about the talent, the people. Members of a talent community view content and jobs, and they connect with the authors of the content and/or recruiters for jobs that interest them.
Check out: Talent Communities 101: How to Use Your Talent Community in Your Job Search
Communication goes two ways.
Let's focus on the second part of talent communities, shall we? Community. This is not employers dictating what they want from desperate job seekers who are willing to do anything to get a job. It's not the job seekers who have posted their resumes on every job board in the hope of catching the eye of a hiring manager. Community is about engagement.
Through mutually beneficial conversation and content contribution, engagement enables employers to see other dimensions of a candidate that are not apparent from a resume alone. Seeing how the candidate interacts and the quality of their interaction with peers and superiors can tell a lot about how they can benefit an organization.
In a successful talent community, employers should feel comfortable answering and asking relevant questions. Job seekers shouldn't be afraid to speak up and voice their opinions, or contribute their expertise to a discussion about their profession or industry. Without productive, mutually beneficial conversation, the "talent community" is nothing but a job board or e-mail opt-in list.
There are repeat visitors.
While this may seem like the most obvious quality, it's no less important. Engagement is key, and the foundation to any successful talent community. If they do not return, then the value of the content and conversations you generated to attract them and capture their interest is lost.
A successful talent community will have a group of like-minded individuals that consistently come back to add value to the conversations with others who share their interests and career aspirations. The key to this is to establish the exact topics and opportunities that will help you to bring talent back to your community.
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What do you think? What other qualities do successful talent communities have? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
Tony Morrison is the Vice President of Business Development at Cachinko, a unique professional community where social networking and job opportunities come together. His roles include sales, marketing, and business development. He is passionate about helping job seekers to find their ideal job and employers to find, attract, and engage their next rock star candidates. Find him on Twitter and Talent Connection. And, connect with Cachinko on Facebook or Twitter.
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Al Stevens is the author of numerous programming books and a long-time contributor to Dr. Dobb's. Al can be contacted at alstevens.com
The "eBook" paradigm is gaining popularity mainly because of the success of Amazon's Kindle e-reader device and the hundreds of thousands of eBooks available for download. This popularity was underscored by Amazon's recent announcement that its eBook sales has for the first time surpassed sales of hard-back (not paperback) books.Other companies are on the bandwagon, including Apple with its iPad and Barnes and Noble's with its nook. eBook reader software is available on PC and Apple platforms. You can download eBooks to your iPhone, Blackberry, and iPod.
At relatively high prices. Kindle books are typically narrative text, fiction and nonfiction comprising mostly words. Programming books have generally lagged behind mainstream books because technical books have requirements beyond that. This article is about using tools available to Kindle authors to write and publish computer programming books for the Kindle.
Pros and Cons
The advantages to using a Kindle are threefold:
- Books are instantly available for wireless download without an external Internet connection
- Books are usually less expensive than their printed counterparts
- You can carry your entire library with you wherever you go.
Many books are free. Many others cost only $0.99.
The advantages to authors are even greater. Kindle authors are typically self-publishers. You write, edit, layout, and publish your work yourself.
Kindle is like a "vanity press," in which authors pay a publisher to edit, produce, and print the book. But with Kindle you don't pay anyone. And you do all the work yourself.
With traditional publishing, you submit a proposal to a publisher or literary agent and wait for a publishing contract. Or a rejection. If your book is accepted, you deal with acquisitions editors, copy editors, production editors, and all that until the book is finally published. Not so with a Kindle book. You do it all. Your book is not rejected simply because a publisher thinks it won't sell. You even decide the price to charge.
Whatever you submit to Amazon gets published, assuming, of course, you have the rights to publish it. If you want to change something later -- content, price, cover -- do so and upload the changes.
Publishing on Kindle gives you access to Amazon's Author Page, which provides an online personal website for you to list your books, both print and Kindle editions. Here's a link to my Author Page on which you can find links to my books.
There are disadvantages to being a Kindle author, too. Some of them align with the advantages just discussed. The good news is also the bad news.
First, you are your own worst editor, which means the book is no better than your ability to write and produce a book. Second, there is no marketing support. No salesmen plugging your book at bookstores. No bookstore shelves for exposure. No reviews in newspapers and magazines. And third, you compete with hundreds of thousands of other Kindle books, many -- perhaps most -- of which are not very good. Remember, this is the poor man's vanity press.
The Kindle is not particularly conducive to research. You can't flip pages, for example, and a traditional index is impossible to produce because there are no page numbers. There being no pages, as such, there can be no footnotes, although endnotes are possible. The page format has limited dimensions and is user-configurable, which can defeat your best formatting intentions. Source code, tables, and such can be a bit of a challenge.
Disadvantages notwithstanding, now is an opportune time for computer authors to join the eBook trend. Print media computer books are on the critical list. Unless you are writing about the latest trendy hot topic, publishers are not as interested in programming and applications books as they used to be.


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Language is Important
September 6, 2011 Leave a comment
by lestro
You'd think the guy who as a candidate ran such a successful media campaign based around the words 'change' and 'hope' would recognize the importance of language and phrasing, but sometimes I wonder about this guy.
For example, I am reading over the text of the president's labor day speech from yesterday and this jumped out at me:
And everywhere I went while I was running for this office, I met folks who felt their economic security slipping away, men and women who were fighting harder and harder just to stay afloat. And that was even before the economic crisis hit, and that just made things even harder.
The problem is not that it isn't true, the problem is that it makes it sound as though the 'economic crisis' hit on his watch, when the FACT is that it did not.
By telling people that when he was a candidate times were hard, but that's nothing compared to what happened since, he is essentially telling people "no, you are not better off than you were when I was elected."
and that is NO way to keep the White House.
I mean, I agree with much of what he said – and a lot of it is good, important stuff – but if I were him, I would still be constantly reminding people that he is still trying to clean up someone else's mess, instead of essentially telling them – reminding them "yeah, it's only gotten worse since you gave me the keys…"
The public generally still blames the Republicans – especially President Bush – for the current mess, yet the Republicans are still pushing the exact same plans that got us into this mess as the solutions to get us out.
That's Dumb.
But what's even Dumber is that the president doesn't seem to be trying to counter them by saying things like "and that was before we recognized the depth of economic troubles were were in" or "when I started running for office I met people who felt security slipping away, and by the time I took office, things were even harder thanks to the economic policies of the right wing…"
I mean give me something here, Mr. President. Don't just roll over and take it.
It's like the president has Stockholm Syndrome or something.


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Friday, August 17, 2007
Will They Put Fans Instead of Money First?
While there is a stitch of truth to each argument, we have to ask: Who is behind Putting Fans First? A close look shows that the site acknowledges receiving corporate support from Comcast, which has been involved in a heated dispute with the league over the network. In other words, Putting Fans First appears to be the work of cable companies.
Regardless, this is where we stand at the moment: The Big Ten continues to pressure cable companies (through die-hard and numerous idiot fans and the lapdog press) to carry its network on the basic level of service. This would result in all customers being charged for the network, even those who don't give a hoot about the Big Ten. It would create a money gravy train for the league because every consumer gets charged. Evil stuff, but thankfully, this plan has failed.
Nonetheless, there are fans who want the network, and here is what should be done to make everybody happy in this 11th hour: Put the network on a premium level, allowing those fans who wish to subscribe to the network to shoulder the financial burden. This way, even if your neighbor doesn't want the channel, you can still get it by paying a few extra bucks. Sounds fair enough, doesn't it?
OK, boys, now is the time to get this settled. If you really want to put fans first, you'll do the right thing. It's that easy.
Thanks to the Midwest Correspondent.
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Note that puttingfansfirst.org has admitted that "we currently receive corporate support from Comcast." The site was registered on 06/27/07 and has their information hidden by a registrar proxy service. Given the appearance of the site and the admission of corporate support from Comcast - I hypothesize that it is indeed run by Comcast or at least a cable company interest group.
Given that, I do not completely disagree with what they are trying to get across despite the fact that I am a Big Ten school alumni and fan. I want to be able to watch the games (I have Comcast) so I just want a deal done - but the squabbling from both sides (neither of which are in the right) prevent me from even having a choice to purchase it.
- Trent said...
If its run by Comcast, someone needs to realize that there is no "University of Ohio" rather it is "Ohio University".
"Put the network on a premium level, allowing those fans who wish to subscribe to the network to shoulder the financial burden."
Every cable customer in America is paying for channels they don't want or watch. Why is this any different?
The war heats up between BTN and Comast. For the 2nd week in a row now BTN is keeping Northwestern, Michigan and Indiana football games on it's own network and away from Comcast subscribers in Chicago. Fans in Chicago are the true loosers in this battle. Initially I blamed Comcast for not wanting to pay for the programming but now I side 100% with Comcast and blame the greed of the Big Ten.
I have been paying Comcast for over 20 Spanish channels as part of my basic package - and I don't speak or understand Spanish. I would assume that Comcast has the technology to let individual subscribers choose their own packages. However, they won't even consider doing that. Doesn't seem fair that I can pay for Spanish and not get sports. But, the, I guess life's not fair.


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The Basics for Applying for NRCS High Tunnel Funding
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Steven Soderbergh has caught the 3-D bug.
The director's upcoming film, "Contagion," will go 3-D, Warner Bros. announced on Friday, his first try at the format.
The film has been slated for October 21, 2011, and will star Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard and Jude Law.
Matt, who was once considered by James Cameron for the leading role in "Avatar," will also make his 3-D debut with the film.
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, the thriller – focused on a deadly disease – will follow multiple plotlines a la Soderbergh's Oscar-winning "Traffic."
The director has also been attached to direct another 3-D movie, the musical Antony and Cleopatra retelling "Cleo," though the film — first announced in 2008 — has yet to receive a release date.
Amongst the other release dates unveiled by Warner Bros. were "Twilight" director Catherine Hardwicke's "Red Riding Hood," set for April 22, 2011; "Twilight Saga" star Ashley Greene's horror original "The Apparition," due September 9, 2011; "Final Destination 5," another installment of the horror franchise, scheduled for August 26, 2011; the "Valentine's Day" follow-up "New Year's Eve," due December 9, 2011; and "Journey To The Center of the Earth 2," the sequel to the 2008 Brendan Fraser action film, due September 23, 2011.
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Thanks to Little Nell for babysitting us Sepia Saturday-ers while Alan loafs about drinking delicious beers on holiday with the GLW. I'm sure Nell will do a marvellous job in his absence.
This week's post is allied to Alan's black and white photo of the legs of an embracing couple, with a (probably ginger ) cat stepping between them.
Anyone who even knows me vaguely will have realised that I am Cat Woman. Not the glam one from the film, the bonkers old one with all the polythene bags who befriends stray kittens and wants to bring every unwanted cat in Europe home and look after it. Yes, just like Brigitte Bardot, but with less tan 🙂 As a child, living on a farm, we had our fair share of abandoned animals, but one cat made it his mission to become part of our family. By the time I was 18 months old and toddling, I was feeding this cat, and after our old collie died, he appeared near the house. Needless to say, he wheedled his way in, slept in front of the fire and lived to a ripe old age. We never named him, as we always thought he would disappear one day, just as he had appeared, but he was still around for my 18th birthday.
Subsequent cat boarders were mainly of the "my landlord doesn't allow pets, can you take him for a while?" type and it was a long time before I had a cat to call My Very Own. I rescued Brian from a friend's flat where the flatmates were being less than kind. I didn't like to leave him Home Alone so I used to stuff him down the front of my jacket and travel around Edinburgh with a large kitten buttoned into my top. It was probably the highlight of my life, from the point of view of male attention 🙂 I went to the ABC Cinema in Lothian Road in Edinburgh one night to see a double bill of "Life of Brian" and "Blazing Saddles", and the kitty came with us. He slept throughout the whole thing and was thus named Brian. He had the run of several student pubs in Edinburgh and, even as a sizeable cat, still liked to travel in my jacket. I remember being in a fish and chip shop in Fountainbridge one night when a man came in with a very agitated greyhound. While I was waiting on my chips, the dog kept whining and trying to sniff at me, and the owner kept telling him to shut up. One of them knew I had a large cat secreted about my person – a large cat who was also getting a wee bit annoyed. I suppose my scars don't show much now, after all this time.
Fast forward to the year 2000 and I managed to find a litter of kittens and bagged two – the most inquisitive one, and the cutest one out of the litter. The most inquisitive one went the way of all curious cats, and after he was 18 months old I never saw him again. The cutest one, Bumble, is currently kipping on the bed 🙂 Thankfully. Here he is
When my partner, Adrian, and I got together, he was very blase about Bumble, and I was used to Bumble sleeping on the bed with me. Where he BELONGED. After a few grumbles from Adrian and nights where he shut the cat out of the bedroom (and the cat ripped chunks out of the carpet) Adrian finally accepted that he could either sleep in the cat basket in the hall on his own, or join me and Bumble in the bed. It has been a happy tale ever since 🙂


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I need a sanity check here. I was sitting on the train listening to music over 3G, and we went in to a tunnel. Lost the signal, tried to reconnect and couldn't. Now I can't connect to my phone service at all, even though
1) I have a strong signal
2) I can see my phone service in the list of available networks.
When I try selecting the network, it says it's not available to connect, and that I should try later. The thing is, my coworkers have similiar service and phones, and their works.
My question is; can the service ban my specific phone from connecting?


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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
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Monday, May 6, 2013
»Talya Bauer, Business Administration faculty, was a presenter for "When it Comes to Practice, Do Applicant Reaction Models Matter?" and "Distinguished Teaching Contributions Award: Teaching Like it Matters: Applying Newcomer Socialization and Justice Rese
»Christine Cress, Educational Leadership and Policy faculty, presented a session, "Engaged Reflection and Learning: Tools, Tips, and Techniques," at the Continuums of Service Conference in Portland, April 25.
»Julia Freybote, Business Administration faculty, presented "Off-Balance Sheet Financing, Joint Ventures and Cost of Debt in REITs" and co-presented "Institutional Investor Sentiment and Systematic Risk in Office and Industrial REITs" at the 2013 annual co
»Leerom Medovoi, English faculty, gave an invited lecture, "New Directions in Biopolitics," to the Department of English at University of Arizona, April 11.
»David Ervin, Economics faculty, authored "Voluntary Resource Conservation and Environmental Management in Agriculture and Forestry" published in the Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource, and Environmental Economics, Vol. 2, Elsevier.
»Melinda Hutson and Alex Ruzicka, Geology faculty, and student Ryan Brown, authored a paper titled "Stones from Mohave County, Arizona: Multiple Falls in the 'Franconia Strewn Field'" published in Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Vol. 48.
»Ted Khoury, Business Administration faculty, authored an article titled "The Social Construction of Legitimacy through Signaling Social Capital: Exploring the Conditional Value of Alliances and Underwriters at IPO" published in Entrepreneurship Theory and
»Charles Klein, Anthropology faculty, authored "WiLLOW: Reaching HIV-Positive African-American Women Through a Computer-Delivered Intervention" published online in AIDS & Behavior, April 29.
»Sean Kohles, Mechanical and Materials Engineering and Biology faculty, co-authored a paper, "Tracking Knee Joint Functional Axes Through Tikhonov Filtering and Plucker Coordinates," published in the Journal of Novel Physiotherapies: Special Issue on Compu
»David Sailor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering faculty, authored the book chapter "Energy, Buildings and the Urban Environment" in Climate Vulnerability, edited by Roger Pielke and published by Elsevier.
»Elizabeth Almer, Business Administration faculty, earned a Best Paper Award for "The Social Construction 'Off-Ramped Accounting Academics: Remedy to Accounting Faculty Shortage?'" presented at the Western American Accounting Association conference in San
»Cynthia Gomez, Diversity and Multicultural Student Services, has been appointed by Governor John Kitzhaber to the Oregon Commission on Hispanic Affairs. The Oregon Senate has approved her appointment.
»Anousha Sedighi, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented a paper, "Heritage Persian Learners vs. L2 Learners in the Classroom," at the 25th conference of the National Council on Less Commonly Taught Languages in Chicago, April 25-28.
»John Hall, Economics and International Studies faculty, was recently elected to serve as president of the Association for Institutional Thought for 2013 and 2014.
»Berrin Erdogan, Business Administration faculty, participated on many levels at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Houston, April 11-13. She was a presenter for "Examining Overqualification and Positive Outcome
»Mel Gurtov, Political Science emeritus faculty, authored "Dealing with North Korea: A Time for Diplomacy" in the online IFES Forum, April 2013. He also organized and contributed a paper to the conference "Engaging Enemies," at Indiana University, April 18
»Nora Wendl, Architecture faculty, co-organized the symposium Strange Utility: Architecture Toward Other Ends held at Portland State, April 26-27. Her co-organizer was Isabelle Loring Wallace, a University of Georgia contemporary art faculty member. With c
»Elizabeth Almer, Kathy Rupley, and Donna Philbrick, Business Administration faculty, presented "Auditor Selection: Revisiting Public Company Audit Committee Members' Beliefs Post SOX" at the Western American Accounting Association conference in San Franci
»The Oregonian: Portland Startup Weekend -- A 54-hour sprint to new connections, horizons and possibilities
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
»Accounting students win first place honors for student journal and community career workshop projects
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Thursday, May 9, 2013
»Alumni in the News: Wyoming State-Tribune: Wyoming native Jennifer Gill finds success on the opera stage
»The Oregonian: Portland State University students release report, suggestions for North Lombard Street
»Middle East Studies Center Lunch & Learn: Women, War & Human Rights: Lessons from Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine
Friday, May 10, 2013
»The Oregonian: $8 million gift to Portland State University brings new business school construction in sight
Monday, May 13, 2013
»Ellen Shoshkes, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, authored a book, Jaqueline Tyrwhitt: A Transnational Life in Urban Planning and Design, published by Ashgate.
»Shawn Smallman, International Studies faculty, authored an article, "Biopiracy and Vaccines: Indonesia and the World Health Organization's New Pandemic Influenza Plan," published in the Journal of International and Global Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2, April 201
»Christof Teuscher, Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty, was awarded a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant titled "Sparse Adaptive Local Learning for Sensing and Analytics (SALLSA)." The total award sum is $5.69 million for 4.25 years.
»Anoop Miripuri, English faculty, was the subject of an article, "Profile of a Public Scholar: Anoop Mirpuri," published online in the University of Washington's Simpson Center for the Humanities newsletter, March 28.
»Sergio Palleroni, Architecture faculty, was featured in the article "Blazing Trails: A Dedication to Social Justice Propels Today's Young Professionals," published online in Residential Architect, April 8.
»Scott Burns, Geology faculty, presented two papers, "Arsenic in the Soils of NW Oregon" and "Ancient Cataclysmic Floods in the Pacific Northwest: Ancestors of the Missoula Floods" at the Oregon Academy of Sciences in Salem, Oregon at Willamette University
»Juan Heredia, Architecture faculty, co-organized an international conference, "The Place of Theory in Contemporary Architecture Pracitice and Education," in Bangkok, Aug. 16-17.
»Alastair Hunt, English faculty, presented the papers "The Law of Wild Surmise" at the meeting of the British Animal Studies Network, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, April 27.
»Kevin Kecskes, Public Administration faculty, presented "The Role of Academic Leaders in University Development" to senior Saudi Arabian administrative leaders from Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Dubai, UAE, May 2-4.
»Dilafruz Williams, Education faculty, was an invited panelist for the session, "Educating for a Post-Capitalist World: The Interplay of Ecological and Economic Sustainability," at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting in San Francis
»Leerom Medovoi, English faculty, gave an invited presentation, "Developments in the 'Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging' Mellon/CHCI Collaboration," at the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes Annual Meeting, University of Kansas, Ap
»Virginia Butler, Anthropology faculty, organized a session "Preliminary Results from the Tse-whit-zen Project: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of a 2000 Year Old Lower Elwha Klallam Village on the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Washington State" at the Northw
»Inger M. Olsen, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented the paper "H.C. Andersen's story 'Pengegrisen' [the piggy bank] and the Danish State Bankruptcy, 1813" at the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Annual Meeting, hosted by U
»Will Parnell, Curriculum and Instruction Early Childhood Education faculty, presented a paper, "A/r/tography and Action Research: Crisis, Empowerment, and Learning in Early Childhood" in the session "Lending Lives: Arts-Based Educational Research as Imagi
»Daneen Bergland, University Studies faculty, wrote the poem, "Accidents of Trees," published in the book Alive at the Center, an anthology of Pacific Northwest poets.
»Dan DeWeese, English faculty, authored "Burning Bushes," published in Oregon Humanities magazine, Spring 2013.
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»Wichita Business Journal: Wichita sees Portland State program as learning opportunity for downtown.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
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»Leerom Medovoi, English faculty, gave an invited lecture, "Reconsidering Biopolitics: Interiority, Abstraction, Environmentality," at the Sawyer Seminar on Biopolitics, Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., May 3.
»Alastair Hunt, English faculty, gave an invited talk, "The Politics of Wild Surmise," at the Sawyer Seminar Biopolitics: Life in Past and Present, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., May 4.
»Meg Merrick, Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies, presented "Data, Indicators, Visualizations, and the Challenges of Collaboration" at the National Science Foundation funded Social Observatories Coordinating Network Meeting on May 8.
»Louiza Kondilis, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented "Social Media Selection and Adaptation to Advance Heritage and Non-Heritage Learning" at the 25th Conference of the National Council on Less Commonly Taught Languages in Chicago, April 25
»Deborah Peterson, Educational Leadership and Policy faculty, authored "Drafted! An Urban Principal's Tale" published in Educational Leadership, Vol. 70, No. 7, April.
»Laureen Nussbaum, World Languages and Literature faculty, wrote the essay "Ingrepen in Het Achterhuis" published in the revised fifth edition of Anne Frank. De biografie, Amsterdam, Bert Bakker.
»Eva Nunez, Word Language and Literature faculty, authored "Language Minorities and the Right to Languages" published in the Journal of Revista Internacional d'Humanitats, Vol. 16. No. 27, April.
»Kevin Kecskes, Public Administration faculty, and Barbara Tint, Conflict Resolution faculty, received a one-year, $260,000 grant from the U.S. Department of State, Middle East Partnership Initiative for "Action Community Teams!"
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Thursday, May 23, 2013
»Tom Bennett, Civil and Environmental Engineering technician, cited for outstanding service in support of STEM education and research for 2013
Friday, May 24, 2013
»The Oregonian: Ernesto Aguilar brings North Portland middle school students to Portland State University
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
»Nora Wendl, Architecture faculty, co-authored Contemporary Art about Architecture: A Strange Utility, Ashgate, 2013.
»Elise Granek and Angela Strecker, Environmental Science and Management faculty; and Bill Fish, Engineering faculty, received a $25,000 Oregon Sea Grant in collaboration with other organizations for "Emerging Contaminants in Oregon Coastal Waters: Landscap
»Jill Rissi and Neal Wallace, Public Administration faculty, served as advisors to a team of three students who won the first annual Case Competition for Graduate Students in Health Care Management sponsored by the Oregon Society of Healthcare Executives.
»Eric Mankowski, Psychology faculty, was appointed by the American Psychological Association to serve on an expert panel that will write a review of the literature on predicting and preventing gun violence.
»Jack Corbett, Public Administration faculty, presented "Negotiating Sustainability: From Commercialization to Dynamic Equilibrium" at The Past for Sale?, an international conference hosted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst Center for Heritage and
»Sheila Martin, Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies, presented "Planning in Oregon, USA: Land of Progressive Environmentalists or Wild West Individualism?" at the Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, May 21.
»Nathan Mealey, Library, presented "Engaging Students in Shaping Learning Spaces" at the 2013 Higher Education Teaching & Learning Conference, Orlando, Fla., Jan. 10.
»Eva Nunez, World Language and Literature faculty, presented "Ergative Languages in Contact with Spanish" at the 66th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April 18-20.
»Kimberly Pendell, Library faculty, co-presented a poster session, "Mapping Standards to Content: Creating Research Guides using ACRL's Psychology Information Literacy Standards," at the biennial conference of the Association of College and Research Librar
»Jennifer Perlmutter, World Languages and Literatures faculty, gave an invited lecture titled "Knowledge, Authority and the Bewitching Jew in Early-Modern France" at Bennington College in Bennington, Vt., May 13.
»Sybil Kelley and Dilafruz Williams, Education faculty, authored "Teacher Professional Learning Communities for Sustainability: Supporting STEM in Learning Gardens in Low-income Schools" published in the Journal of Sustainability Education, Vol. 5, May 201
»Emily Ford, Library faculty, authored "Becoming a Writer-Librarian" published in In the Library with the Lead Pipe, May 8. Ford also authored "Keeping Your Copyrights is Easier than You May Think" published in LPSS News, Vol. 28, No. 2, Spring 2013.
»Suwako Watanabe, World Languages and Literatures faculty, conducted the American Council on Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Writing Proficiency Test Familiarization Workshop at the University of Washington on May 4 and at the Ohio State University o
»Meredith G. Farkas, Library faculty, authored "Accountability vs. Improvement: Seeking Balance in the Value of Academic Libraries Initiative" published in OLA Quarterly, Vol. 19.1, 2013. Farkas also authored "Mobile Learning: The Teacher in your Pocket" p
»Deborah Peterson, Amy Petti, and Susan Carlile, Educational Leadership and Policy faculty, authored "Preparing Future School Leaders to Ensure Racial, Ethnic, Linguistic, and Socio-Economic Equity in Education: The 'Third Way'" published in National Counc
»Rachel Samuelson, coordinator of Student Leaders for Service, authored "Fostering Spiritual Development through Prayer and Meditation Spaces" published in The Bulletin, Vol. 81, Issue 3, May 2013, Association of College Unions International.
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Diedrich Bader (Vampires Suck)
Dee Bradley Baker (American Dad)
Will Friedle (Batman Beyond)
Jason Marsden (Full House)
James Arnold Taylor (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)
Marc Worden (Ultimate Avengers)
Grey DeLisle (The Replacements)
John Dimaggio (Futurama)
Tom Kenny (Super hero Squad)
Kevin Michael Richardson (The Cleveland Show)
Corey Burton (Critters)
R. Lee Ermey (Full Metal Jacket)
Scott Menville (Teen Titans)
Vyvan Pham (Generator Rex)
Bumper Robinson (Sabrina: TTW)
Mikey Kelley (TMNT)
Michael Rosenbaum (Smallville)
Will Wheaton (Powers)
Xander Berkeley (Kick-Ass)
Loren Lester (Batman: TAS)
Phil Morris (Smallville)
Jeff Bennett (James Bond Jr.)
Oded Fehr (The Mummy)
Ellen Greene (Pushing Daisies)
Armin Shimmerman (Star Trek: DS9)
Tara Strong (Batman: The Killing Joke)
Tom Everett Scott (Scream: The Series)
Billy West (Futurama)
Jeffrey Tambor (The Hangover)
Paul Reubens (Gotham)
Diane Delano (Jeepers Creepers II)
Peter Woodward (Crusade)
Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother)
James Remar (Flashforward)
Jeffrey Combs (Gothman)
Ioan Grufford (Ringer)
J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)
William Katt (Carrie)
Clancy Brown (Highlander)
Tress MacNeille (Futurama)
Hynden Walch (The Batman)
Kevin Conroy (Batman: TAS)
Mark Hamill (Batman: The Killing Joke)
Adam West (BAtman 60s)
Julie Newmar (Batman 60s)
Dana Delany (Body of Proof)
Tony Todd (Chuck)
Peter Scolari (Gotham)
Cree Summer (Batman Beyond)
Steve Blum (Wolverine and Thje X-Men)
John Wesley Shipp (The Flash)
Alan Tudyk (Firefly)
Olivia D'Abo (Conan The Destroyer)
Mae Whitman (Independence Day)
Fred Tatasciore (Hulk Vs)
Vanessa Marshall (Star Wars: Revels)
John Michael Higgins (Still Waiting)
Michael Jai White (Arrow)
Morena Baccarin (Gotham)
Tippi Hedren (The Birds)
Gary Owens (That 70s Show)
Ted McGinley (No Good Nick)
Henry Winkler (Happy Days)
There's a gloriously meta moment in the back half of this season of Batman: The Brave and the Bold where the show's producers are raked over the coals at Comic-Con. One of the twentysomethings in the crowd grouses and groans about how the Caped Crusader in the cartoon isn't his Batman, and…well, he's not wrong. DC's comics anymore are joylessly grim and gritty…22 monthly pages of misery and scowling and torture and dismemberment and death and high collars and way too much crosshatching. Batman: The Brave and the Bold, meanwhile, is defined by its vivid colors and clean, thick linework. It's a series whose boundless imagination and thirst for high adventure make you feel like a six year old again, all wide-eyed and grinning ear to ear.
You know all about The Dark Knight's war on crime, and in The Brave and the Bold , he'll duke it out against any badnik, anywhere. He doesn't go it alone, either, with every episode pairing Batman up with at least one other DC superhero. Heck, to keep it interesting, The Brave and the Bold shies away from the obvious choices like Superman and Wonder Woman. Instead, you get more interesting team-ups like Blue Beetle (more than one, even!), Elongated Man, Wildcat, Mister Miracle, Kamandi, and B'wana Beast.
Other animated incarnations of Batman have been rooted in something close enough to reality. Sure, you might have androids and the occasional Man-Bat, but they tried to veer away from anything too fantastic. The Brave and tbe Bold has free reign to do just about whatever it wants. One week, maybe you'll get an adventure in the far-flung reaches of space with a bunch of blobby alien amoebas who mistake Batman for Blue Beetle's sidekick. The next might offer up Tolkien-esque high fantasy with dragons and dark sorcery. Later on, Aquaman and The Atom could play Fantastic Voyage inside Batman's bloodstream, all while the Caped Crusader is swimming around in a thirty-story walking pile of toxic waste. He could be in a Western or a post-apocalyptic wasteland or a capes-and-cowls musical or even investigate a series of grisly something-or-anothers alongside Sherlock Holmes in Victorian England.
Batman has markedly different relationships with every one of those masked heroes. There's the gadget geekery with an earlier incarnation of the Blue Beetle. With the younger, greener-but-still-blue Beetle, Batman takes on more of a mentor role.
More of a stern paternal figure for Plastic Man, and a rival for Green Arrow. Sometime it might not even be the most pleasant dynamic, such as a decidedly adult Robin who doesn't feel like he can fully step outside the long shadow that Batman casts.
There are some really unique takes on iconic (and not so iconic!) DC superheroes here, and far and away the standout is Aquaman. This barrel-chested, adventure-loving braggart is my favorite incarnation of the king of the seven seas, and if Aquaman ever scores a cartoon of his own, I hope he looks and acts a lot like this. Oh, and The Brave and the Bold does a spectacular job mining DC's longboxes for villains too, and along with some of the familiar favorites, you get a chance to boo and hiss at the likes of Kanjar Ro, The Sportsmaster, Kite Man, Gentleman Ghost, Chemo, Calendar ManKing, Crazy Quilt, and Shrapnel. The Brave and the Bold delivers its own versions of Toyman, Vandal Savage, and Libra while it's at it, the latter of whom has the closest thing to a season arc that the series inches towards.
Batman: The Brave and the Bold is every bit as fun and thrilling as you'd expect from a series where every episode's title ends with an exclamation point. Each installment is fat-packed with action, and the series has a knack for piling it on in ways I never saw coming. Even with as imaginative and off-the-walls as The Brave and the Bold can get, it still sticks to its own internal logic, so the numerous twists, turns, and surprises are all very much earned.
The majority of the episodes have a cold open not related to the remainder of the episode. Despite its episodic nature, if you're expecting a big storyline in these 26 episodes, you're going to be pretty disappointed as the extent of an overarching story in the season is the occasional villain that appears more than once, like Starro, but that's really the only connecting bridge between episodes.
Season 2 contains one of my favorite episodes of not only this particular season, but probably in the entire series, "Chill of the Night!", which goes back to Batman's origins as Bruce Wayne learns more about the man who murdered his parents, turning him into the crime-fighter he would become, it's one of the most well known origin stories in media, ever, but it's done so well here. Another reason I love this episode is my blinding nostalgia for the voice cast.
The original 1960's Batman, Adam West, guest stars as Batman's father, Thomas Wayne, while Julie Newmar, who starred opposite of West as Catwoman from the original Batman TV show, plays Batman's mother, Martha Wayne. My favorite Batman of all time, theatrical or not, Kevin Conroy, the voice of Batman from Batman: The Animated Series and various other series/movies/games, voices the Phantom Stranger. Lastly, the baddie of the episode, The Spectre, is voiced by none other than Mark Hamill, the definitive voice of the Joker.
The Episodes in season 3 are wildly imaginative; so much so that purists will probably be put off, at least initially. They range from "Night of the Batmen", where batman is incapacitated and it is up to Aquaman, Green Arrow, Captain Marvel, and Plastic Man to don the cowl, and keep gotham safe. As weird as that may sound, this episode is pure fun, and a joy to watch. Other stand outs are the never before seen in the states "The Mask of Matches Malone", "Shadow of the Bat", "Scorn of the Star Sapphire", and "Powerless".
Special mention has to be made of the final episode of the series however, "Mitefall". In this meta episode, Batmite does a fantastic job breaking down why the series is ending, and the disconnect of the so-called "purists", whose baseless, closed minded, ignorance eventually doomed this excellent series.
When all is said and done, we received three outstanding, and criminally underrated, seasons and it is a joy to see.


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Update: Katie Duke stopped by and left the following comment that's worth noting:
Thank you for this article and review. I did not violate any aspect of the social media policy or HIPPAA and was technically fired for what my manager calls "we just don't want you working here anymore and you're insensitive" (as referring to the post)
I have been in the spotlight for several years and thoroughly respect the rules and regulations of our profession and it's presence on social media. My goal is to change the portrayal of nursing in the media. We all make mistakes and we must learn from them. Do I feel it was a terminable offense? No- I feel I should have been counseled or even given some constructive criticism. After all- I am a great nurse and was with NYP for 7 years and of their motto is to put patients first then they should advocate more for the retention and growth of the nurses they have. Nurses are NOT disposable. Thank you for this venue to get the dialogue going about this rather controversial and taboo topic.
I applaud Katie's efforts since I've often commented how nurses are an afterthought during an EHR selection and implementation process and that's a pity since they're such an important part of the organization. I imagine this same thing applies to other hospital policies. Thanks for your added comments Katie.
Last night was the premiere of the second season of NY Med on ABC. I saw the previous season and enjoyed it and so I was interested to see the new season. I like all of the show except for Dr. Oz who is obviously there because he has a big name and not because he's actually practicing medicine. I love the quote I read online "Dr. Oz is a fake even when he's scrubbing in. His mask isn't on while he's fake scrubbing." All of the Dr. Oz parts felt very contrived so they could get him involved in the show. When real cardiology was being practiced, he called in the leading expert, or at least someone who actually could help the patient.
Dr. Oz part aside, the 3 ER nurses are my favorite part of the show. I remembered 2 of the 3 from last season and so I was really glad to see that they were back. Those are some firecracker nurses that always face interesting situations in the ER.
While the show isn't perfect since as soon as you turn a camera on, people change, it's still an interesting look into the challenges that many doctors and nurses face on the front lines of healthcare. While Grey's Anatomy is a well written, entertaining drama and sometimes taps trending topics for its story, it's not a good depiction of reality.
With the above review, I was particularly intrigued last night when Katie Duke, one of the ER nurses, got Fired from the hospital for posting a picture on Instagram. It was pretty interesting to see both the other ER nurses and Katie's first hand response to her being fired and escorted from the building.
Since this is EMR and HIPAA, let's talk about the HIPAA implications of what Katie did. They didn't show the picture she posted for very long, but there were no people in the picture. Just a room after they'd had a trauma case in the ER. Basically, at quick glance I can't imagine there's any HIPAA violation with the picture. She did tag the picture with a number of hashtags. The only one that seemed in question was the "#Man vs 6 train" one, but that's not a HIPAA violation either or would be an enormous stretch to make the case that it is a violation.
I think it's fair to say she didn't violate HIPAA with her instagram post. However, that doesn't mean she didn't violate a hospital social media policy. I'd be interested to see New York Presbyterian's (the hospital who fired her) social media policy. It's hard to guess at what the policy might include. I've seen really strict social media policies, really open social media policies and organizations with no policy (that's scary). Given their policy, it might very well have been appropriate to fire her. In fact, if it wasn't, Katie Duke seems like someone who would fight back in court if it wasn't appropriate.
While Katie Duke was fired from New York Presbyterian, she was hired at Roosevelt on the West Side. I wonder what they said to Katie about social media when they hired her. In the NY Med episode they show her doing well. Although, they noted that she was great with patients, but was having a challenge getting up to speed on their computer system. Makes me wonder what EHR they use in their ED. Although, I think it's safe to say that this could be said about any ER nurse in any ER regardless of the computer system they use. It just takes some time to get up to speed on an EHR.
In case you're wondering, Katie Duke has launched a website and on July 1st she's launching a YouTube show, she has an endorsement deal with Dickies and Cherokee scrubs, has speaking engagements around the country, and a line of merchandise around the phrase "Deal With It." I guess that's how she's chosen to deal with the firing. If you look at her Twitter account, you can see a lot of nurses who really look up to her and appreciate her.
The discussion of social media in the workplace is an important one and it's really important that you understand your employer's views on the subject if you're going to take part in it. Although, I think we all have to appreciate the irony of a hospital firing someone for posting a picture to instagram while that same hospital has a bunch of cameras video recording in their hospital for a TV show on ABC. Feels pretty hypocritical, do as I say, not as I do.
What do you think? Did you see the show? Where will social media sharing take us in healthcare and what will be the good and bad consequences of it?


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You'd think that with all the solar farms we've been building up and all those solar panels on people's roofs we would figure out how to use solar power to replace those old smoking power plants of ours. But we can't yet. Because of stupid clouds.
The future isn't quite here. Ted-Ed explains why in this cute animation using yarn.
Image Credit: BrightSource Energy, Inc.


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Danville:1 City (1990 pop. 33,828), seat of Vermilion co., E Ill., on the Vermilion River at the Ind. line; inc. 1839. It is a commercial and industrial center in a dairy, farm, and coal area. Coal was once a central industry; agriculture and manufacturing have become predominant. Abraham Lincoln maintained a law office in Danville for five years. Nearby is Kickapoo State Park, with a number of lakes.
2 City (1990 pop. 12,420), seat of Boyle co., central Ky.; settled 1775, inc. 1836. One of the oldest settlements in Kentucky, Danville is a manufacturing center in an agricultural region. Of note is the Dr. Ephraim McDowell House, scene (1809) of the first ovariotomy. Centre College and the first state-supported school for the deaf (opened 1823) are also there.
3 City (1990 pop. 53,056), S central Va., on the Dan River; politically independent of, but surrounded by, Pittsylvania co.; founded 1793, inc. 1870. It is a market and processing point for bright leaf tobacco. The city is also known for its huge Dan River textile mill (begun 1883). During the Civil War, Danville had a Confederate quartermaster depot, a hospital, and a prison camp. In Apr., 1865, Jefferson Davis and his cabinet fled there from Richmond. The Sutherlin Mansion, the "Last Capitol of the Confederacy," is a historical landmark. Other points of interest include the home of Lady Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) Astor, who was born in Danville; the National Tobacco and Textile Museum; and Averett Univ.


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I have an application that prints output for later analysis. Some of the column titles require greek characters. In searching on the internet, I have found that MSHflexgrid is the only flexgrid control that can display unicode correctly. I implemented an MSHflexgrid in my application, and it worked for some time, but now it displays "." instead of display unicode.
Is there a better flexgrid control that can display unicode correctly?
Also, I noticed that MSHflexgrid requires the microsoft forms 2.0 library, which inherently means my user base would need MSoffice to have access to this library and its controls. Is there a control similar to MSHflexgrid that does not require a non-redistributable .dll?


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The Penn State Hershey Clinical Simulation Center includes three departments: the Simulation Center, the Resuscitation Sciences Training Center (RSTC), and the Standardized Patient Program. Each of these departments utilizes simulation as a teaching methodology for many types of learners. These departments provide learning opportunities for practicing physicians, residents physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, paramedics, pharmacists, and other health professions, as well as students in medicine, nursing, and physician assistants schools.
Jointly operated and funded by the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and the Penn State University College of Medicine, The Clinical Simulation Center has a long history of success in simulation-based education and research.
Mission: The mission of the Penn State Hershey Clinical Simulation Center is to improve patient outcomes with effective programs that promote and enhance practitioner skills, clinical competence, teamwork, and interdisciplinary collaboration. To advance the field of healthcare simulation, the Center conducts innovative research into simulation theory, practice, and technology.
2019 Infographic – 2019 Simulation Infographic
Select the links below to view the annual reports for the Clinical Simulation Center:
2019 – Year in Review 2019 (PDF) Year in Review 2019 (Flash)
2018 – Year in Review 2018 (PDF) Year in Review 2018 (Flash)
2017 – Year in Review 2017 (PDF) Year in Review 2017 (Flash)
2016 – Year in Review 2016 (PDF) Year in Review 2016 (Flash)
2015 – Year in Review 2015 (PDF) Year in Review 2015 (Flash)
2014 – Year in Review 2014 (PDF)
2013 – Year in Review 2013 (PDF)
2012 – Year in Review 2012 (PDF)


text: I'm learning how to use layout managers, and I've come to learn that when the GridLayout constructor is set with both the number of rows and columns to non-zero values, it ignores the number of columns I specify and re-sizes them to (numComponents + numRows - 1)/numRows. Setting the number of rows or columns to 0 fixes this orientation problem easily enough, but I am still left wondering what the purpose is for this. Why would GridLayout ignore the parameters of its own constructor? If I want 6 rows and 7 columns I should be able to call new GridLayout(6, 7) and not have to worry about the number of components I have changing the number of columns on me. I just don't see the point, why is GridLayout set up this way?


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Over the past week, I've been asked at least a dozen times about Federated Media's much ballyhooed decision to "shutter" its direct ad sales business in favor or "programmatic buying and native advertising" businesses. In Adweek, Tim Peterson described it as a move that "…could presage a foundational shift in the online advertising landscape."
To which I would say, "Settle down Tim."
Because of Super-Storm Sandy, The Upstream Seller Forum Dinner was rescheduled for Wednesday night November 28th and The Seller Forum to Thursday November 29th at the Thomson Reuters Building. Because of the change, a handful of seats have become available for qualified CROs, EVPs, SVPs and VPs of sales. If your company would like to be represented at this important event, please reach out to us right away.
Let's look at the facts. While the business press loves a good paradigm shift story — and Federated would very much like to run in front of the parade that's already forming — individual publishers are making these kinds of decisions every day. Just without the grandstanding. In the Upstream Seller Forum events we host, there's been a thoughtful running debate for close to four years around the role of ad exchanges and programmatic channels in the publisher's world. To these thoughtful publishers, the revenue world looks like a series of dials and switches to be carefully turned and calibrated.
So why the big announcement and all the breathless press coverage and Twitter chatter about Federated? In one of her press interviews, CEO Deanna gave a pretty good indication when she pointed out "…when you've got an independent company like ours that's venture-funded, we need to make bets that we know will [see] return." I would suggest that the "return" in this case is actually ROIE: Return of Investor Enthusiasm. Federated and its bombastic founder John Battelle have always had a bigger profile on conference stages and inside the boardrooms of Sand Hill Road and Silicon Alley than they have in the daily give and take of the media and advertising world. Tying the company's future to a press release that includes both programmatic and native makes all the sense in the world.
In the past five years, the venture community has been over-funding the ad technology space with the subtle precision of drug dealers handing out stacks of Benjamins. Some kind of "validating event" — like, say, a high-profile publisher firing her high priced sales team and betting everything on technology and self-service — is the hopeful narrative that keeps the house of cards standing a while longer. But the quiet, careful recalibration and streamlining of the media and marketing worlds has been going on for years, and will continue for years more. It's not as sexy and dramatic a story, but it's the truth. The revolution will not be televised.
Will the programmatic, data-enabled buying and selling of ads be a bigger part of our business? Absolutely. Is "native advertising" also a meaningful growth area? The jury is still out: if it is, it's influence will be unevenly distributed to a handful of players. Is it time to start firing direct sellers? That's laughable.
Will we continue to over-react to showy press releases and other forms of corporate misdirection? That's up to us.
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Wff,what kind of pigeons do you have. I have racing homers--my brothers own strain we are developing. that is, if the hawks don't eat them all, although those that survive sure can fly. My friends joke about coming to my place to learn about the birds and the bees.
If you have some Birmingham rollers (aka Black Country Rollers because they come from the coal mine country of England) I would be interested in getting some from you. I love to watch their antics.


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Monster Madness Battle for Suburbia - XBOX 360
Four friends get together for a party while the parents are away, but somebody ... or something, is about to crash the party. In four-player melee action, you will fight off the monster invasion in this top-down action/shooting game. Customize and build your own weapons by grabbing parts from the house and town to create more powerful attack tools, and find rare parts to build some ultimate weapons. Jack abandoned vehicles and deck them out with weapons to ride through the terrain and take out creatures. Visit five locations, including the suburban town, the high school, and the "Shopping Maul." The use of the Ageia NovodeX Physics platform allows you to interact with the environments physics to give yourself an advantage, such as creating barrides or throwing large objects, while the visual system uses the advanced Unreal 3 Engine.


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- Process plants
- Air separation plants
- LNG and natural gas processing plants
- Hydrogen and synthesis gas plants
- Petrochemical plants
- Adsorption and membrane plants
- Cryogenic plants
- CO₂ plants
- Furnaces, fired heaters and incinerators
- Linde Hydrogen
More than 30 years of experience in the POX (partial oxidation) of hydrocarbon feedstocks with twelve installed plants attest to Linde's outstanding expertise in this field. Beyond this, Linde is the only company world-wide that not only plans and installs POX plants but also operates them itself. One of the four POX plants operated by Linde is the world's largest plant with natural gas charge (200,000 Nm³/h H2+CO).