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Property Taxes in the South Bay of Los Angeles County are computed by the standard 1.0% of the property's assessed valuation (in accordance with Proposition 13, a property's assessed valuation is the original purchase price, plus the cost of improvements, based on the value of permits pulled, plus an increase in valuation of 2% per year) plus additional tax rates for voted bonded indebtedness, plus direct assessments such as school parcel taxes.Copies of building permits are sent to the Assessor. New buildings, additions, and other structures require an appraisal. Structural repairs and/or replacement are not appraisable in most situations. The assessed valuation of a property may also be decreased for one or more of the exemptions discussed below. The following is the property tax rates and direct assessments for the cities in the South Bay:
Palos Verdes Estates: The property tax rate for the fiscal year 2018-2019 is 1.073422% plus direct assessments of approx. $1,600 per parcel for such items as school parcel taxes, fire suppression fee, emergency services tax, sewer fees and flood control.
Rancho Palos Verdes: The property tax rate for the fiscal year 2018-2019 is 1.073422% plus direct assessments of approx. $800-$1,000 per parcel for such items as school parcel taxes, etc.
Rolling Hills Estates and Palos Verdes Peninsula: The property tax rate for the fiscal year 2018-2019 is 1.073422% plus direct assessments of approx. $800-900 per parcel for such items as school parcel taxes, etc.
Rolling Hills: The property tax rate for the fiscal year 2018-2019 is 1.073422% plus direct assessments of approx. $1,700-2,000 per parcel for such items as school parcel taxes, etc.The largest item causing the large additional property tax add-on is about $1,100 for trash pickup which is billed through the property tax bills. There is an additional assessment for the Homeowners Association for the City of Rolling Hills of ,2% (two/tenths of one percent) of the assessed value of the property which is billed separately by the Association, with installments due on 12/10 and 4/10. This assessment goes to maintain the private roads, the guard houses and personnel, and other city amenities within this private gated community.
El Segundo: The property tax rate for the fiscal year 2015-2016 was 1.107878% plus direct assessments of anywhere up to about $100-200 per parcel for other misc. local taxes.
Manhattan Beach: The property tax rate for the fiscal year 2015/2016 was 1.087526% plus direct assessments of approx. $500-700 per parcel for such items as school parcel taxes, etc.. Depending on the area, there may also be a direct assessment for the under-grounding of utilities.
Hermosa Beach: The property tax rate for the fiscal year 2015-2016 was 1.036693% plus direct assessments of approx. $200-$300 per parcel for such items as school parcel taxes, etc..
Redondo Beach: The property tax rate for the fiscal year 2015-2016 was 1.104430% to 1.112683% plus direct assessments of approx. $300-$750 per parcel for such items as school parcel taxes, etc..
Torrance: The property tax rate for the fiscal year 2015-2016 was 1.104430% plus direct assessments of approx. $300-400 per parcel for such items as school parcel taxes, etc..
San Pedro: The property tax rate for the fiscal year 2015-2016 was 1.191994% plus direct assessments of approx. $300-400 per parcel for such items as school parcel taxes, etc..
Lomita: The property tax rate for the fiscal year 2015-2016 was 1.191994% plus direct assessments of approx. $300-400 per parcel for such items as school parcel taxes, etc..
Taxes are assessed for the fiscal year running from July 1st through June 30th based on the assessed value as of the lien date of January 1st, with property tax bills payable in two installments on December 10th and April 10th. If a property changes ownership during the year, a supplemental tax bill will be prepared prorating the tax increase due to a change in valuation over the remainder of the fiscal year calculated based upon the first day of the month following the date of the change in ownership. If a change in ownership occurs between January 1 and May 31 this will result in two supplemental assessments and two supplemental tax bills. The first supplemental bill is for the remainder of the fiscal year in which the event occurred. The second supplemental bill is for the subsequent fiscal year. You can calculate your estimated supplementary property taxes by going to http://assessor.lacounty.gov/extranet/guides/supptaxcalc.aspx
Click the link below to visit the L.A. County tax Assessors office web site. Enter an address (or if an address doesn't work, choose two cross streets near the address) and then click on the map parcel to see that parcel's assessed valuation. Then click on the tab for the most recent year's property tax bill. Link: http://assessormap.co.la.ca.us/mapping/viewer.asp
If the current market value is less than the actual assessment, the Assessor's Office may reduce the assessed value of any real property.
The following are the steps to appeal your property tax assessment valuation in Los Angeles County:
1) Request the Application for Changed Assessment form or file on-line. Instructions for form.
2) You may select to see a Hearing Officer which expedites the appeal process or you may meet directly with the Appeals Board.
3) Mail the Completed Form to:
County of Los Angeles
Assessment Appeals Board
P.O. Box 53596
Los Angeles, CA 90053-0596
4) The Assessment Appeals Office reviews the application.
5) An appointment card will be mailed to you.
6) The Assessment Appeals Board recommends you attend a Public Education Seminar to help you with the Appeals process
6) Bring relevant evidence to support opinion of value.Hearings are conducted on a first come first serve basis. Feel free to contact me to obtain a current comparative market analysis of your property indicating its current value.
7) If you do not agree with the Hearing Officer's Recommendation, you can request a Board hearing within 14 days of the Hearing Officer's hearing date
8)The Board makes final assessment decision and approves or rejects Hearing Officer's Recommendations.
Proposition 60, passed in 1986, and modified by Proposition 90, passed in 1988, allows "qualified" individuals over the age of 55 to transfer the base year assessed valuation from a former residence ("original property") to a replacement residence, of equal or lesser value and that meet other certain conditions. Link: http://www.boe.ca.gov/proptaxes/faqs/propositions60_90.htm which discusses this issue in detail. Effective January 1, 2007, claims must no longer be filed within 3 years, however if the claim is filed after 3 years, relief will be granted beginning with the calendar year in which the claim was filed. In addition, any upgrades paid by the buyer outside of escrow and not reflected in the sales price must now be reported on the Preliminary Change of Ownership Report so as to be included in the determination of the "equal or lesser value" test. You must file claim form BOE-60-AH, OWN-89 .
If you own a home and occupy it as your principal place of residence on January 1, you may apply for an exemption of $7000 off of your assessed value. This will save you over $70 a year on your property taxes. All you need to do is file a simple one page form with the county tax assessors office. For information click on this link at the L.A. county assessors office:http://www.lacountyassessor.com/extranet/guides/exemptions.aspx . You must file form BOE-266. If you do not know if you have a homeowners exemption on file, go to the assessormap link in the first paragraph above, and review the property tax information for your property.
Under Propositions 98 and 193, property transferred between parents and children (Proposition 58, effective 1986 form BOE-58-AH, OWN-88 ) and from grandparents to grandchildren (Proposition 193, effective 1996 form BOE-58-G, OWN-143 ) is not reassessed for property tax purposes. In order to take advantage of this, however, a claim must be filed with the county tax assessors office. The exemption to reassessment is 100% of the assessed value for the parents/grandparents principal residence plus the first $1,000,000 of assessed value for other property transferred. This is, of course, only for California property.See http://www.lacountyassessor.com/extranet/guides/prop58.aspx for additional information on filing this claim. For estate planning purposes, it is important to understand the details of this exemption. For instance, a family home left to several children as tenants-in-common would be eligible, however if some of the children sell their interest to the other child, the property would be reassessed for this interest sold. The exemption is only for parent to child, not child to child. Therefore, it would be advantageous to leave a family home, with a low property tax basis, to one child, and to leave other assets of comparable value to the other children. You must file forms
If you are a California veteran who is rated 100% disabled, blind, or a paraplegic due to a service-connected disability (or if you are the unmarried widow of such a veteran), you may be eligible for an exemption of up to $150,000 off of the assessed value of your home by filing claim form BOE-261-G (P1-P5), EXM-32 .
Certain new construction may be excluded from supplemental assessment. The property must be for sale and the builder must file the necessary claim form ASSR-9 with the Assessor's Office prior to or within 30 days from the start of construction. If the form is not filed, a supplemental assessment is sent to the builder upon completion of construction.
A severely and permanently disabled person, who buys a new home, may be able to have his/her old assessed value transferred to the new home. You must file a claim form .BOE-62, OWN-112
If a major calamity, such as fire or flooding, damages or destroys your property, you may be eligible for property tax relief. In such cases, the Assessor's Office will reappraise the property to reflect its damaged condition. In addition, when you rebuild it in a like or similar manner, the property will regain its pre-damage valuation basis for tax purposes. To qualify for property tax relief, you must file a Misfortune or Calamity Claim forms ADS-820 ) instructions ADS-820.2 )with the Assessor's Office within 12 months* from the date the property was damaged or destroyed. In addition, the loss must exceed $10,000* of current market value.
The following is a link to other forms for other various property tax exemption requests for Los Angeles County :http://assessor.lacounty.gov/extranet/list/forms.aspx
The County of Los Angeles levies a transfer tax upon the sale of a property of $1.10 per thousand dollars of the sale price. In addition, the City of Los Angeles levies an additional transfer tax of $4.50 per thousand dollars, and the City of Redondo Beach levies an additional transfer tax of $2.20 per thousand dollars.
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Past research students
Ronal Singh
PhD 2018.
Designing for Multi-Agent Collaboration: A Shared Mental Model Perspective
. Cosupervised
with Tim Miller
(PhD 2016, MIT)
Anticipatory Communication Strategies for Human-Robot Team Coordination
. Primary Supervisor was
Julie Shah
Beth Cardier
, PhD, 2013
Unputdownable: how the agencies of compelling story assembly can be modeled using formalisable methods from Knowledge Representation, and in a fictional tale about seduction
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Kevin Brophy
(Faculty of Arts)
Jens Pfau
, PhD 2013, "Towards Computational Models of Cultural Dynamics Based on the Grounding Model of Cultural Transmission" primary supervisor
Michael Kirley
(CSSE), cosupervisor Yoshi Kashima (Psychological Sciences)
Emma Norling
, PhD, 2012,
Modelling Human Behaviour with BDI Agents
Karl Grieser, PhD, 2012,
Computing Relationships and Relatedness Between Contextually Diverse Entities
.- cosupervised with
Tim Baldwin
Fabian Bohnert
, PhD 2010, Monash University, primary supervisor was
Ingrid Zukerman
, Monash University,
Adaptive User Modelling and Recommendation in Constrained Physical Environments
Yen Ting Kuo, PhD, 2010
Surprising Patterns
- cosupervised with
Andrew Lonie
Adrian Pearce
Daghan Acay, PhD 2009,
Extrospection: Software Agents Reason about the Tools in Their Environment,
co-supervised with
Gil Tidhar
Fernando Koch
, PhD October 2009,
An Agent-Based Model for the Development of Intelligent Mobile Services
Utrecht University, primary supervisors
John-Jules Meyer
Frank Dignum
Samin Karim, PhD October 2009
Acquiring plans within situated resource-bounded agents: a hybrid BDI-based approach
(cosupervised with
Philippe Pasquier
and Clint Heinze)
Jonathan Ito
, visiting PhD student from University of Southern California, (June-August 2009)
Jens Pfau
, Masters Student, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany,
Plans as a means for guiding a reinforcement learner
, visiting July-December 2008, cosupervised by
Michael Kirley
Mauro Maiorca, Masters Student Utrecht University, visiting July 2007-Feb 2008, cosupervised by Richard Hall and Ed Kazmierczak, CSSE, working on the
Raymond So
, PhD 2008,
Situation awareness in software agents: Theory and practice
Budhitama Subagdja, PhD 2007,
Intentional learning in bounded-rational agents
(cosupervised with
Iyad Rahwan
Vincent Gaiser, Masters student Twente University, The Netherlands, visiting April 2007 - October 2007,
Improving Spatial Awareness in an
Indoor Environment with Wireless Positioning Technology
, co-supervised by Stephan Winter and Allison Kealey, Geomatics
Wouter Tinus, Masters minor thesis from Utrecht Universiteit, The Netherlands, 2007;
"A framework for agent based user modeling experiments
Utrecht Universiteit Information and Computer Sciences Master Thesis Series.
Thesis available
Andrew Koster, Masters minor thesis from Utrecht University, The Netherlands, 2006:
Impromptu coordination using intelligent software and mobile devices
Wouter Wiegmans, Masters minor thesis from Twente University, The Netherlands, 2006; cosupervised with
Iyad Rahwan
The application of RFID in Context Awareness
Frank Jares, Masters minor thesis from Utrecht Universiteit, 2005,
"Museum Guide Design A Human-Environment Interaction Design Approach", Utrecht Universiteit Information and Computer Sciences Master Thesis Series, INF/SCR-2005-021, 2005.
Thesis available
Matt Pattison, MIS 2005
An investigation of retaliation and reconciliation strategies in the iterated prisoners dilemma
Iyad Rahwan
PhD, 2005,
On interest-based negotiation
Clinton Heinze, PhD 2003,
Modelling Intention Recognition for Intelligent Agent Systems
(cosupervised by Leon Sterling)
Tali Boneh, MCS 2003,
Support for Graphical Modelling in Bayesian Network Knowledge Engineering: A Visual Tool for Domain Experts
(cosupervised by Ann Nicholson, Monash University)
Anne Rouse, PhD 2002,
IT outsourcing revisited
Kathleen Keogh
MSc 2002,
A computational model of disturbance management in anaethesia
Kenichi Yoshimura, MCS 2002,
Towards Real-Time Strategic Teamwork in Robotic Soccer
David Kinny, PhD 2001,
Fundamentals of Agent Computation Theory: Semantics
David Morley (PhD)
Semantics of Actions, Agents, and Environments
, 1999
Gil Tidhar (PhD)
Organisation Oriented Systems: Theory and Practice
, 1999
Dinh Tran Que (MSSE)
Integrating Deliberation and Reaction in Logic Based Agents
, 1998
Rosita Marin (CogSci, minor thesis)
Social Commitment for Agent Organisations
, 1998
Graham Barrington (CogSci, minor thesis)
Modelling reasoning over nested beliefs in the Map Task: a contribution to understanding collaborative task-oriented discourse
, 1998
Todd Mansell (cosupervisor with G Smith, AAII),
Planning under Uncertainty
, PhD 1995
Richard Hagen
Automated classification of student misunderstandings in physics
, MSc 1992
Wilson Wen
Information Theory and Probabilistic Reasoning
, PhD 1991
Nick Belegrinos,
Partial Interpretations of Clauses
, MSc 1989
Abelardo (Larry) Valida
Micro-Computer Based Tutorial System for First Order First Degree Differential Equations
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DECEMBER 2014, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre/Hazleton Edition of The Union News
Northeastern Chapter of the Coalition of Union Women application to be sent
REGION, December 5th- Melissa Matoushek, a Staff Representative for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Union District Council 87, O'Neill Highway in Dunmore, which represents AFSCME members throughout nine counties of Northeastern Pennsylvania, and who is working to form a regional Chapter of the Coalition of Union Women (CLUW), stated the application to the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) labor federation will be sent by the end of 2014.
The newspaper has exclusively published several news articles in previous editions on Ms. Matoushek attempt to form a local chapter of CLUW.
In the previous edition of the newspaper it was reported that enough people have signed-up to become members of CLUW, which is sanctioned by the AFL-CIO. Before a chapter could be awarded enough people must become members of the organization. The minimum amount needed before a chapter would be awarded is 25.
Ms. Matoushek told the newspaper that approximately 27 people have become members of CLUW, including several men. At least 24 of the people that have signed-up to join the organization are women, mostly members of labor organizations throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania.
The first meeting of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Chapter was held in August at the AFSCME District Council 87 building, 1258 O'Neill Highway in Dunmore, Lackawanna County.
CLUW is a organization within the labor movement that is sanctioned by the AFL-CIO. The organization was formed in 1974 and currently has more than 75 chapters throughout the nation and a membership of approxiamtely 20,000 women and men.
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One of the silver linings of having a lung disease is that it means I have to stop frequently to get my breath back. It gives me a moment to look around and see things that in my previous life went unnoticed.
I need to do this a lot in Holmfirth and it is the river that I try to get to for these periods of recovery. A week or so ago, with a friend, I stopped on the footbridge from Crown Bottom car park to the little park. We looked down at the river, as it gurgled away beneath us and then down the river towards us came a creature. It was about two feet long, head and body, with a long tail and was swimming under water. It came near the bridge and put up its head. It looked like a cute miniature seal, with a broader face, and tiny ears. Then it turned towards the bank, climbed out and went into a hole between two blocks of stone that buttress the river bank at that point. We looked at each other and said, in unison: "What was that?" Then a second one followed and did exactly the same and joined its mate or sibling in the hole. Well, were they otters or mink? I felt sure that there was no way that they could have been otters. In a town? In broad daylight? Under a bridge with people thumping over it all day? In the thirty five years we have been here no one had ever mentioned otters in our river. And yet, and yet it kept niggling at me. So I phoned our local outpost of Yorkshire Wild Life Trust, spoke to someone there and described what I had seen. He felt they were river otters. I said that I would try to video them and send it in to them. Then I contacted the U K Wild Otter Trust and again the man I spoke to there was of the same opinion. He said that otters were becoming more common towns and were seen during the day. I think the fact that they were swimming completely submerged was distinctive. They were small, but they could have been young ones or a mother and offspring. Mink have nasty mean, weaselly faces, but I was so wanting to believe they were otters that I think I am capable of subconsciously seeing what I want to see.
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So yeah, this past weekend was pretty awesome…
If we're connected through Facebook, you probably noticed a string of periodic updates, many of them highly excitable, and all of them centered around the fact that I was at a convention in my hometown signing posters and postcards for a project I've been working on for the last few years. Yes, that Miranda Mercury thing again, which as I mentioned awhile back has been turned into Archaia and is now scheduled for release this upcoming summer. I know this because it says so right in the Archaia brochures that were handed out at the booth all weekend. But I'm skipping ahead a bit, so let's back up to Thursday, which is where my great weekend got its early kickstart.
I'd booked a meeting that morning with another publisher to talk over a project I've already started writing for them, and to discuss the possibility of some other things. Naturally, I can't say who or what quite yet, but it should release near the end of the year and give me the opportunity to work with an artist I've been a huge fan of for years and years now. Forgive my overwhelming vagueness, but you know how it is.
Anyway, since I was already in the neighborhood, I stopped by the show floor and visited the Archaia crew while they were putting the fancy booth all together and got to hold the first official Miranda Mercury poster in my hands. Which felt pretty damn good after all this time and was a real spark for me heading into the show. Then when I showed up the next day there were these great looking brochures listing all of Archaia's future releases, with the Miranda hardcover settled in amongst the other summer releases. And there were bookmarks that had a number of ISBNs on the back, including the aforementioned Miranda hardcover. All of this adding up to only one thing…The Many Adventures of Miranda Mercury Volume 1: Time Runs Out will be coming out very soon and there's no turning back now. So with that all finally settled, I found my chair behind one of the tables and got to work.
Over the next few days, I touched base with a number of people I've either met in the past or only interacted with online, and met a ton of new folks, lot of them younger kids and many of them black or Hispanic. Friday brought a large group of young brothers to the table as part of a local mentoring group that was at the show, and they all seemed pretty impressed that I wrote comics to begin with, let alone actually created this character. And honestly, every show I do I have a brief encounter like this, and even I can't play it off and pretend it doesn't mean anything. It's the optics of the whole thing you see, and it's only one of several reasons why after ten long years, I'm still at this and have never been more excited or optimistic. Still a ton of work to be done, but I've learned the hard way that every little victory means something, and we ignore them at our peril.
But after an entire weekend of these great little moments of conversation, it really seems like the people are ready and willing to support this book once it releases, which has been a strong assumption of mine for awhile now, but especially these last few months. The closer we got to the conclusion, the more convinced I became that somewhere out there an audience for Miranda Mercury comics exists. It might take some work to find it, and it's probably not where we think it is, but I'm just confident/silly enough to believe we can and we will find it.
Until then though, I made a promise to myself that I'd actually find enjoyment in this next part of the journey—the somewhat frantic anticipation, beginning the outreach campaign, redoing the website, etc., etc. The last thing I want is to be huddling in a corner somewhere so terrified of how the book is going to do financially that I overlook the simple fact that even getting this far is a victory all its own.
And this past weekend reminded me of that over and over again. Even though I didn't have a book, I had a poster, some postcards of my and my wife's (mostly her) own design, a placard with my name on it, and a big ass, nearly uncontrollable Kool-Aid smile. Add in all of the new faces and people I talked to about the book, the people that actually bought #295 when it came out forever ago and came and found me just to tell me so, and the hospitality from the Archaia crew, and it's pretty obvious that I consider the whole thing a rousing success. Just the first step on this next leg of the journey and something I hope we can build upon in the coming months.
Special thanks to: Stephen Christy, Mel Caylo, PJ Bickett, Mark Smylie, Mike Kennedy, Rebecca Taylor, Nate Lee, Tom Pinchuk, Steve Bennett, John Jennings, Bradley Hatfield, Andrew Rolston, Jiba Molei Anderson, Alverne Ball, Shanna Rudnick, Michelle Cahill, Doug Jean, Dan Dougherty, Sanford Greene, and Lloyd Henderson.
My apologies for anyone that was unintentionally left out, and I leave you with an interview I did with the fine people at MTV Geek, who were somehow able to edit the video into something almost watchable. Check it out and more soon…


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This week was stressful, and I cannot even express how excited I am that it's the weekend! (well for me it's the weekend, no class Fridays!).
I spent a good chunk of last weekend trying to get all my schoolwork done for the week so it wouldn't be so overwhelming – but it still was! I had a legal writing assignment due that I thought was due in 2 weeks (don't worry – rocked it out!). I had an interview that I had intended to cancel but was told I was "not allowed to" by the school. This just upset me because I wasn't very interested in working there and I felt like I was wasting everyone's time! And it turns out the 100 page chapter I read for one class was the wrong chapter… winning.
Haha, ok, maybe I wasn't quite as bad as this cat, but I was a cranky mess this week! Part of my stress is caused by the fact that when I feel overwhelmed with everything I have to do, I can't focus enough to get anything done. My mind is constantly racing and I can't focus on anything! I try taking some deep breaths, or changing the location of where I'm working (i.e. going to a coffee shop), but sometimes it just doesn't help.
However, I realized this week that part of why I feel like I can't concentrate is because of the foods that I'm eating. I learned from my nutritionist last week that carbs and healthy fats are important to our energy levels and our concentration. Our brains need healthy fats to function! Although I've been slowly trying to work these things back into my diet, I definitely need to step it up a notch, especially with healthy fats! It's amazing how much the nutrients we eat (or don't eat) affect our daily lives.
What kinds of foods do you think help you concentrate and give you energy to make it through the day? What do you do when you are feeling overwhelmed and stressed?
However, it's time to put this past week behind me and look forward to the weekend! This morning has been nice and relaxing: since I don't have class to scramble to, I got to get up, be lazy, and enjoy a delicious breakfast before my 9:30am Power Sculpt class, which is yoga but with weights!
For breakfast, I had decided last night to finally give Katie's Voluminous Oatmeal trick a try. When I pulled them out of the fridge this morning, they looked like a rubbery mess….
Perhaps I need to add more water next time? I definitely could not have eaten them cold, like Katie does, but I managed to make them work. I added in some cinnamon, a little applesauce, and about an extra 1/4 cup of almond milk and microwaved it for a bit. I also threw in some raisins and ended up having a nice big bowl of oats to enjoy! I also had my last fig with some PB; LOVE those figs!
Now it's time for some much needed yoga, and then lunch with my cousin Allie and my cousin Michele! So excited to see them and get the weekend started!


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Countdown begins for Skipper Expo Int. Galway 2019!
With Skipper Expo Int. Galway 2019 all set to get underway early next March, this 15th anniversary show promises to be another great event for the Irish fisheries sector, with over 120 companies booked to showcase their products and services.
Interest in the expo (8 and 9 March 2019) has soared since the first show in 2005 which was attended by around 60 companies. This doubling in exhibitor attendance over the intervening years has been attributed to the event being a great place to do business, combined with its friendly atmosphere.
Held at the Galway Bay Hotel, star attractions include the outside Boatmart, which features displays of vessels, engines, as well as trailer stands. Other highlights include pool safety demos hosted by the RNLI and the popular seafood buffet and dance held on the Friday evening of the show.
Sponsored once again by BIM, the event will feature virtually every type of equipment and service available to the fishing industry.
Sharon Boyle of show organiser Mara Media said: "The interest in Skipper Expo Int. Galway 2019 has been amazing and I would like to thank all exhibitors for supporting the event over the years.
"As ever, this show will have something for everyone, and as well as being an all-encompassing fisheries showcase, it also provides a fantastic opportunity to network and socialise with colleagues in the fishing industry."
Skipper Expo Int. Galway 2019 will be held on 8 and 9 March at the Galway Bay Hotel, Galway. Entrance is free. Opening times 10am to 6pm on Friday 8 March, 10am to 4pm on Saturday 9 March.
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Halls 1, 2, 3 & 4, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre – South Bank
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Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre is an easy 10 minute walk from the CBD and has direct access to an efficient transport network.
For information about public transport visit translink.com.au or call 13 12 30
By Train
South Brisbane Railway Station is adjacent to the Convention Centre on Grey Street. The city to airport Air Train operates from the South Brisbane train station, adjacent to the Convention Centre.
Be sure to plan your journey in advance and check the latest service updates at translink.com.au/service-updates or by calling 13 12 30 anytime
By Bus
South Bank is serviced by two bus stations: The Cultural Centre Station on Melbourne Street and the South Bank Bus-way Station corner of Colchester and Tribune Streets, South Bank.
By Catamaran
A popular and speedy way to travel the river. CityCats operate everyday and stop at the South Bank River Terminal on the Clem Jones Promenade. The inner-city ferry travels between the CBD, North Quay and Kangaroo Point, stopping at South Bank Terminal 1 and 2 on the Clem Jones Promenade.
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2-3 Hours: $20
3-4 Hours: $25
4+ Hours: $30
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Taxi ranks are located outside the main entrance to the Convention Centre on Merivale Street, at Mantra South Bank on Grey Street. There is a taxi drop off located at the Convention Centre Grey Street entrance.
Who is exhibiting at the show?
A list of exhibitors will be uploaded to the website a couple of weeks prior to the show.
What time and day is the show open?
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How much does it cost?
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Where can I buy tickets?
Tickets can be purchased online or on the day at the entrance to the show. Online tickets will be available in 2019.
Is the show wheelchair friendly?
The venue is wheelchair accessible, although some assistance may be required should you wish to board a particular boat.
Can I bring food, drinks, alcohol?
Alcohol is not permitted to be brought into the show, however we request that you refrain from consuming your own food while in the venue, where you can purchase food and beverages.
Are dogs permitted?
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Is photography/videography allowed?
We encourage it! Please take lots of photos while at the show and hashtag any social media posts as #brisbaneboatshow or @brisbaneboatshow2019
I'm with the media. Is there a special pass?
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Monday, April 13, 2009
Our Easter
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Weekend with Grandma & Grandpa Kahler
This last weekend we spent Friday night and Sabbath up at Grandma and Grandpa Kahler's farm in Goodrich. Brad preached on Sabbath. We weren't able to play much outside, more because of the crazy wind and chilly-ness than the mud. We were able to see several deer out the window, though, which Leyton thought was pretty neat. And there were endless amounts of blackbirds flying about. It was fun to look at the albums Grandma has put together of the different families. Seeing all the pictures of Brad & his dad as babies, no wonder my boys are pretty cute (at least I think so...).
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Leyton's silly
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Our day in Bismarck
Yesterday, the boys and I spent the day in Bismarck visiting family. We spent most of our day with Grandpa Nick and Great Grandmother.
The boys had fun with Grandpa Nick. Can coolers turned into footballs and they played catch most of the day. And dad was gracious enough to do my taxes this late in the year. Thanks Dad!
We also visited Grandma Mary, Grandpa Dan, and Uncle Paul. It was a great day!
Eating their lunch at Grand's table.
Playing hide and seek with a miniature bronze pitcher.
Leyton was playing that the little window was a store. He would shut the shutter and say he "Closed up shop." They are counting out the paper clip monies.
What a fun & grand great grandmother!
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On Sabbath I awoke before the family (surprisingly, since there is no better sleep than on Sabbath morning it seems). And for some reason, each sleeping boy was so incredibly precious. Leyton was cuddled up with some stuffed animals. And Brannen (who had made it out of his crib and into our bed about 4am) was snuggled way into Brad. It was sweet.
After church, we were invited over to Teree and Jerry Rittenbach's for a fabulous lunch. It was a nice afternoon relaxing with friends. Brannen was fairly low maintenance for a change, quite content most of the day. He just roamed around their house all day and played. When we got home at almost 7pm, he hadn't even napped yet. He was sitting in his high chair enjoying a sucker when he literally passed out in the middle of a bite!
Notice the pile of blue sucker drool!
We finished off the evening with game night at our house. We had three families over and enjoyed Settlers, Boggle, Scattergories, Wii, and some good food - especially Reuben Dip that Josh made, and some yummy caramel rolls from Ben. What fun!
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- liccAsked on December 13, 2012 at 06:49 AM
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Cindy has spent the last 15 years up and down the dial serving up the latest Celebrity Gossip, News and Traffic to the Tri-State area. Cindy's love in radio goes way back to listening to some of her favorite stations as a little girl and calling in to talk to the jocks about how they got in the speaker!
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Orano, formerly Areva, has signed an agreement with Britain's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) defined as a "roadmap of collaboration' according to the company, meant to pave the way for cooperation in advancing civil nuclear decommissioning, clean-up and hazard reduction.
Following the agreement of the Declaration of Intent between the French and United Kingdom governments signed on 18 January 2018, high-level discussions have taken place between Orano and the NDA to develop a common Roadmap of Collaboration, the company said.
The purpose of this accord is to establish how Orano and NDA will work together to identify projects they can share expertise and reduce the cost of decommissioning the civil nuclear legacy in the UK and France.
Various facilities involved in the nuclear industry face common technical challenges, such as dismantling of nuclear facilities, management of legacy waste and final estate definition. Orano and the NDA will work on these issues to formulate a basic strategy for common collaborations between the two organisations. Addressing these issues in a timely and economically efficient manner is a key goal of the present agreement.
"The UK and France have unrivaled expertise in the nuclear sector. This Roadmap set the direction towards a brighter future for us to work together with Orano, as we progress our decommissioning missions in the UK and France," said NDA Chief Executive Officer David Peattie.
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Did recent upgrade of 2012 system to 2014. All went well. Was configuring the webacc.cfg file to allow administration access to the app for viewing sessions and such. Did the usual change changing the script from false to true and changing the password for the admin account. Restarted tomcat on the server. When I enter the url:
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Free all radios for great justice!
GNU radio is a free software toolkit for building and deploying software radios; for learning about DSP and communication systems; for creating new kinds of radios, modulations, protocols, development environments; regulatory hacking; exploring.
I'm in it especially for the new kinds of modulations, by the way.
Software radio is: Get the software close to the antenna; turn hardware problems into software problems; defines the waveforms transmitted; demodulates the waveforms received.
The equipment is off-the-shelf hardware. Conventional radio stuff? Spectrum monitoring? Multi channel, mode, morph on the fly, better spectrum utilization, cognitive radio.
With a software model, you have one RF frontend and you suck down an entire spectrum of broadband; it lets you do distributed, parallel multiprocessing of an entire range of frequencies.
AI! Smart radio detection.
What kind of hardware? Narrow: Soundblaster, narrow band RF front end (NFM, USB/LSB, AM, ...); audio output from receiver (packet, PSK31, ...); sub 50 kilohertz. Wide band: high speed A/D (20M+ samples/sec), wide band RF front end (TV tuner).
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Politics: MPAA / CPTWG / BPDG "Broadcast Flag". FCC software radio in general; FCC free software radio.


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Hickory dickory cricket
Shane took every wicket
He downed one pill
it makes you ill
to think this can mean he tried to fix it
If a doctor cannot get it right, and in my case he didn't, what hope did Shane have.
As we are living in a world full of doom and gloom I hoped and prayed that the 'Holier than thou art' cricket board might have just for once seen past the "ooh you can't do that' attitude towards Shane and allowed all of us to continue basking in the glory he brought to Australian Cricket.
Let us hope that collectively we can remove the dragon from Shane's back.
Update: 18/11/03 - Good to see that Shane is back practicising - I bet the Cricket Board wishes his twelve months were already up. All the best for the new year Shane and may you and your family have a very happy Christmas.
Update: 10th October, 2004 - You have my best wishes and thoughts for your count down to the Test wicket - taking record while in Bangalore. I for one have never stopped being one of your cricket admirers.
|Update: 15th November, 2004 It's not cricket Shane for you to comment on our Prime Minister - I was very disappointed and can only suggest as per the cricket board you stick to your knitting and put the needles where they will hurt the most.
|Update: 10th June, 2005 At last the real thing - Congratulations Shane - Fanny Rush has given life to the little man at the Top
Update:27th June, 2005 I never have or never will have time for kiss and tell women regardless of the situations involved. Unfortunately the gutter snipe press of both England and Australia just don't know when to let and let live. Know from this end Shane you always have our best wishes and thoughts for both you and your family.
Update: 30th December, 2006 What else can one say except that I do hope you and your family will have a great year in 2007and many more to follow.
Update: 1st January, 2007 (8.51 p.m.) Thank you Channel 9 and congratulations for a most rewarding programme "Goodbye Warnie" shown here in Melbourne 7-30 p.m (01/01/07).
"In your boot - that's what I say" - Rose C Taylor 23/02/03
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My story
" I have always had a crush on accessories - especially bags, shoes and jewellery"
Founder of Jasper Living, Louise Werling Jasper designs and creates unique garments. On arrival to Singapore in 2011 Louise was immediately inspired by the multi-cultural environment and surroundings. In 2012 the unique garments inspired by the Arabian Keffiyeh scarf became a great favourite among the Expat community in Singapore - and family and friends back home in Denmark. Since 2013 the collection has grown with a lot of cool styles, but all in limited edition.
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Indian iron & steel industry is going through a big transition. On one hand, the demand curve is going up suggesting that it is the right time to think about the capacity expansion, and on the other hand, Indian steel business houses are surrounded by financial crisis. Most of them have huge amount of debt on their head and are not able to service it. Banks and financial institutions have raised their hands and are not willing to give any debt restructuring package to these sick companies. They have rather opted to auction the assets of these companies and recover whatever they can. The common perception about these companies is not very positive and many believe that the promoters have themselves siphoned the money and made these companies sick !
Apart from this financial crisis and ownership restructuring, the industry seems to be doing well on operational front. As mentioned earlier, the steel demand is increasing steadily; thanks to infra projects like bridges, ports, airports, metros etc. and also to the decent performance of other user industries like automobile, transport, construction, engineering, consumer durables etc. The capacity utilization figures of various plants are also becoming better. The raw material crisis erupted few years back is now more or less resolved. The availability of iron ore and coal has sufficiently increased for the seamless metal production.
The other major issue facing the industry is non availability of technical manpower. Ministry of Steel (Govt of India) has announced a target for the capacity creation of 300 mtpa by 2031. This means an increase of around 170 mtpa capacity from the present level of 130 mtpa in just 13 to 14 years. Rather than commenting on whether this target is achievable or not, let us ask ourselves few questions. Do we have sufficient companies to build these steel plants? Does our education system produce those many metallurgists and other technical manpower to run an industry producing 300 mtpa? Is our raw material industry geared up to supply that much quantity to produce 300 mtpa of steel ? To produce a ton of steel, approximately three tons of raw materials have to be moved. Is our transport system geared up for the movement of 1200 mtpa (comprising of raw materials and finished steel)?
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A discreetly positioned music room at the end of the garden is lost behind a grapevine-clad pergola and formal raised pool. Traditional English garden plants border the lawn, with luxuriant Tree ferns making a shady seating space.
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A Reminder: Social Media Best Practices
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Labels: 21stcenturylearning, collaboration, digitalcitizenship, socialmedia, summer
Summer Adventures - Physical and Digital
During those cool down times, or times when the weather won't allow you to get outside and move there's no doubt students will want to use technology, and play on their gaming systems. Common Sense Media has a list of games and technology sites that includes everything from art, to music, to building, to computer programming. These apps, games, and websites are rated for safety and appropriateness, and are categorized by age level so you can find safe digital activities for children that will help them problem solve, and be creative. Keeping our students moving and thinking will help nurture them and develop healthy habits and a well-rounded knowledge base. You never know what talents children may discover!
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Labels: common sense media, engagement, fun, learning, summer, Winston-Salem
Problems Take Time - A Life lesson
They hear me say it, but rarely do they completely believe me. I'm certain to continuously encourage them and tell them it does not matter what level they finish on, but that the only requirement is THEY DO NOT GIVE UP!
What's amazing to see are students who get to the point of frustration, some to the point of tears, won't give up, but show an unwillingness to stop playing the game. Games and gamification are emerging teaching methodologies according to the annual Horizon Report, which yearly identifies emerging trends in educational technology. Students are able to maintain concentration far longer when playing a video game than if they were asked to do some other type of learning activity so why not leverage that in school?
My goals are by having students engage with these types of learning opportunities they build stamina for learning and develop a growth mindset where they authentically believe they can conquer any problem given time and teamwork (sometimes they are allowed to work in groups or teams) and that it translates to the regular classroom.
In processing these experiences I always reference the Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur), who invented the control system for the airplane and talked about how they tested dozens of wing shapes until they found the one that gave them lift. It took a good seven years for the Wright Brothers to invent a fully functional flying machine. Problems worth solving take time. What if they had given up? Encouraging our students to never give up in a worthwhile pursuit! Watch Steven Johnson explain his research about creativity, innovation, and where good ideas come from and see if you don't agree in the video below!
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Labels: learning, mindset, PBL, problem solving, time
Book Club off to a Page-Turning Success!
The discussions were lively and parents were able to identify with just how deeply their children must engage with books as they learn to read and comprehend on a daily basis at school. A book club is a great casual way for parents to build strong relationships with their children.
Some of the students are actually looking up other books by Clements and parents had comments like, "awesome book" - "great opportunity" and "I love this book." Students also made decisions about whether or not the book was fiction or non-fiction and made connections about events in the story, and with local historical events.
The book club is just getting started and will meet again April 11th at 6:30 at the school with 4th grade students reading "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt. The book club is limited to 10 student/parent participants and are chosen by random drawing on entries received. Thanks to Mrs. D'Souza for organizing this event and for Ms. Southerland and Ms. McRae for facilitating discussions.
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Labels: 3rd grade, book club, D'Souza, Frindle, Kimmel Farm, McRae, reading, Southerland
Password Safety
What are the risks? You don't want your personal information public, and that threat remains constant, especially if you are using free and unsecured wireless connections at fast food restaurants or coffee shops. It's amazing how easy it is for others to see what you may be typing into your phone or computer when the wireless is not secure. Computer viruses are another risk which can cause damage to your device which can be costly to repair. Worst of all, people can damage your online identity which is difficult to repair. The way you are seen online is very important and experts have said that your online reputation may be as or more important than your real life reputation because that's how employers and friends close and far will know you. If negative postings or activity under your name appear online it's hard to correct.
So how does one make a secure password? There are a few simple rules. NEVER use the word "password" as your password. Believe it or not, many people use this as their password. Common Sense Media recommends these steps in creating safe passwords. Changing passwords every few months also is smart for particularly important data.
• Don't use passwords that are easy to guess – such as your nickname or your pet's name. People who know you well can guess these kinds of passwords.
• Don't use any private identity information in your password. Identity thieves can use this information to pretend to be you.
• Don't use a word in the dictionary as a password. Hackers use programs that will try every word in the dictionary to guess passwords.
• Do use combinations of letters, numbers, and symbols. These are harder to crack than regular words because there are more combinations to try.
Although we have talked about this at school, talk about this with your students and teach them safe password habits. It's a skill they can use the rest of their lives.
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Labels: common sense media, digitalcitizenship, internet safety, passwords
Pocket Tools to Help Your Child Learn
One of the most useful functions on a smartphone that is least used is the voice recorder. According to the International Reading Association report by Roxanne F. Hudson, Holly B. Lane, and Paige Pullen entitled Reading Fluency assessment and instruction: What, Why, and How? three factors important in reading development are accuracy, rate, and prosody or expression. In the research, it says that hearing ones own voice is a very powerful experience for readers at any age and helps increase fluency.
So while you are riding in the car from place to place, use the sound recorder application to record your student reading a book and then let them listen to themselves. Talk to your student about what the book was about, about how expressive they were when they read. Make a game out of it. Amazing how something you already probably have in your pocket could be very powerful, and an easy way to help your students learn to read and comprehend.
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Labels: audio, reading, recording, smartphones, tools
A Digital Allowance for Your Children!
Common Sense Media recently published a blog post about the concept of giving your children a digital/virtual allowance. The concept gives parents a way to help balance the amount of time students/children spend on digital media while also teaching them the concept of money management. Basically, if your child receives an allowance he or she must decide how to manage their money in order to gain access to their digital media time. While that's not for everybody it is one idea that might work at your house with consistent enforcement.
Just don't forget video games can be good for students too and truly great video games can help your kids grow in ways you never thought possible. Here's more on that concept. So it's a balancing act and one we need to address as a community of educators and parents. These games and tools aren't going away so we need to stay informed as to what to look for, how best to support the growth of our children through these tools and how to balance it all to nurture well-rounded students.
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|Nutritional Guidelines (per serving)
|Nutrition Facts
|Servings: 2 servings
|Amount per serving
|% Daily Value*
|Total Fat 3g
|Saturated Fat 1g
|Cholesterol 0mg
|Sodium 3069mg
|Total Carbohydrate 58g
|Dietary Fiber 8g
|Protein 15g
|Calcium 257mg
|*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
This Thai-inspired veggie stir-fry is super easy to make, and quick too! Once you have the vegetables chopped, you're nearly done, as the cooking is lightening-quick. The homemade stir-fry sauce is equally simple to make just stir the ingredients together in a cup, and you're ready to go. As a bonus, this vegetable stir-fry can be made with nearly any assortment of vegetables, or just one vegetable (such as broccoli), if that's all you have in your refrigerator (or are in the mood for).
To make this stir-fry into a complete meal, add 1/2 cup cashews, tofu, or cooked shrimp during the last minute of cooking time.
- 6 cups fresh vegetable assortment (such as broccoli, mushrooms, eggplant, carrots, zucchini, etc.)
- 1/3 onion (chopped)
- 1/2 cup chicken stock (or vegetable broth)
- 1 tablespoon canola (or other healthy oil for stir-frying)
- Optional: 1 fresh red chili (sliced thinly)
- For the Sauce:
- 2 tablespoons oyster sauce (or vegetarian oyster sauce)
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce (or tamari)
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 6 to 8 cloves garlic (or 1 tablespoon jarred minced garlic)
- 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper (adjust to taste)
Steps to Make It
Place all stir-fry sauce ingredients (oyster sauce, soy sauce, fish sauce, brown sugar, garlic, and cayenne pepper) together in a cup and stir well—This may seem like a lot of garlic, but you'll need every clove to create this rich-tasting sauce—Set aside.
Place oil in a wok or large frying pan over medium-high heat. If using high heat, be sure to have all your ingredients ready and close at hand, as this dish fries up fast!
Add the onion plus 2 tablespoons of the broth and stir-fry 1 to 2 minutes until the onion has softened. (Using a little broth instead of adding more oil keeps fat/calories lower).
If your wok is dry, add a little more broth plus the firmest vegetables (this would include carrots, mushrooms except for button or brown mushrooms, green beans, eggplant, asparagus, etc.). Stir-fry 2 minutes, or until these vegetables have softened (eggplant should turn translucent). Add 1 to 2 tablespoons broth whenever wok becomes dry.
Add the rest of the vegetables, plus the sauce. Stir-fry until the vegetables are bright green, but still crisp (1 to 2 minutes).
Remove wok from heat and do a taste-test. If your stir-fry needs more salt, add a little more fish sauce. If it tastes too salty, add a squeeze of lemon juice. If too sour, add a little more sugar. Add more cayenne pepper if you prefer it spicier.
Serve with plenty of steamed rice. This is also excellent with a little chili sauce (for those who like it spicy), such as authentic Nam Prik Pao Chili Sauce.


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NewsSchool of Library and Information Science2015FebruarySLIS Students Study in Rome, Italy
Goethe's words capture the timeless romance Western civilization has with its motherland—the Eternal City. Rome is a global city, drawing tourists from around the world to explore its rich offering of monuments, artifacts, history and culture. Italy's capital also surrounds the Vatican, home of the Papacy and leadership of the Catholic Church, attracting its own subset of tourists daily.
This summer SLIS students will again have the opportunity to travel to Rome from May 22nd through June 8th for course LIS 493 Intellectual Freedom/Information Ethics taught by Assistant Professor Laura Saunders. What more appropriate location for a course on intellectual freedom and ethics than in the city that etymologically birthed the concept of censorship? Its roots are found in the ancient Roman word censor: a political position tasked with supervision of public morality.
"The course delves into questions of censorship and intellectual freedom—what gets censored, and why? What is the role of the information professional with regard to supporting intellectual freedom and resisting censorship?' Saunders posited. "We look at 'obvious' examples of censorship such as book banning, but also more subtle examples such as self-censorship; bias in collection development, selection, displays; misinformation and propaganda; freedom of information; and finally how intellectual freedom can intersect with questions of security and hate speech. We will talk about the role of education and information literacy in combating censorship."
The program, initiated by Associate Professor Gerald Benoit, integrates coursework with time for exploration. Students begin coursework online in May, with a final project due 2-3 weeks upon return home. While in Rome, students attend five three-hour classes over the two weeks, in addition to site visits to complement in-class and online content. Students stay at St. John's University's Rome campus located in Rome's Prati district, close to the Vatican and many other historic sites, affording them an opportunity to explore some of the world's most cherished historical landmarks.
The program's relaxed nature and intimacy allows students and faculty to develop strong connections via both classroom and excursion-based experiences. Saunders said it was hard to pinpoint one singular standout memory from her last trip, "The Vatican tour was very good, and so was our visit to the Food and Agriculture Organization library," Saunders recalled. "I really enjoyed our dinners—we had both the welcome and farewell dinner, and then Gerry [Associate Professor Benoit] and I cooked dinner at our hotel one night. It was fun having the time and space to really build a bond with the group."
Yet the trip is not without serious content, addressing vital concepts and dilemmas that intersect with the information science sector and beyond, especially relevant considering the recent terrorist attacks in Paris. "The class is not limited to classic library examples," Saunders explained. "Intellectual freedom and censorship is a perennial problem. It is easy to think of it as a problem of the past—something that happened when the Nazis were burning books or during the McCarthy-era fear of Communism. But the reality is that it continues to be a problem. Of course, Charlie Hebdo is a perfect current example. Information professionals face censorship often in more subtle ways that are more difficult to recognize and thus to counter. We need to know what intellectual freedom and censorship are, and what our professional role is in relation to these issues."
How do we approach these ethical concerns as students, employees, and leaders of the transnational, digital era? Conversations surrounding censorship must take in account variance in international policy, historical perspectives and concerns regarding privacy and security. Awareness of global perspectives is paramount to discussions regarding intellectual freedom and central to the fundamental ethos of an LIS professional.
"I know it sounds like a cliché at this point, but the world really is getting smaller," Saunders said. "Most institutions are emphasizing global experience, including international work and collaboration. All information professionals also need to develop cultural sensitivity and understanding. This study abroad experience is one way to do that." Study abroad trips to Yonsei and Paris are currently being planned for next year.