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Bridgeview RV Resort – Lethbridge RV Campground
Resort OverviewATTENTION: Due to recent flood conditions of The Old Man River. Bridgeview RV Resort is in the process of cleaning up vast amounts of river silt from the campground. We currently have limited availability on full hook up sites but expect to have the resort fully operational shortly. We apologize for any interrupted reservations. Please bear with us as we return this park to its previous condition.
- Open to the public and members
- New for 2014 Free WiFi Hotspot.
- WiFi at your site for only $3/day.
- Onsite General Store
- 213 full and partial hook-up RV sites (including 88 pull-through sites)
- Wilderness, treed and non-treed sites available in three areas: Arizona (paved, non-treed), Cottonwood (treed with shade and privacy) and Wilderness Areas (in woods, fire rings)
- 30 and 50 amp electrical
- Pets are welcome in pet areas
- Tenting sites are available from May 15 to September 15
- **Campfires are permitted in the Wilderness area only
ReservationsATTENTION: Due to recent flood conditions of The Old Man River. Bridgeview RV Resort is in the process of cleaning up vast amounts of river silt from the campground. We currently have limited availability on full hook up sites but expect to have the resort fully operational shortly. We apologize for any interrupted reservations. Please bear with us as we return this park to its previous condition.
Bridgeview RV Resort is a Lethbridge RV Campground that is open year round and reservations are always accepted. Please contact the registration office at 403-381-2357 to reserve your site. Please drive in and check in at the registration office. If the office is closed, simply pick a site and register during office hours the following day. If you are unable to register during office hours, please use the self-registration form in the plastic container on the front door. NOTE: There is a 7-day cancellation policy in effect for non-members and your card will be charged at the time of reservation. Regular reservations are subject to a $10 service fee when cancelling. If less than 7 days notice is given, the cost of 1 night of camping for each site will be withheld.
|Time of year
|Full hook up Power, Water, Sewer
|Partial hook up Power, Water
|High Season May 16, 2014 – Sept. 2, 2014
|Sunday-Thursday $56.00 Friday- Sunday $58.00 Long Weekend $60.00
|Sunday-Thursday $48.00 Friday- Sunday $50.00 Long Weekend $52.00
|Shoulder Season May 1, 2014 – May 15, 2014 Sept. 3, 2014 – Sept. 14, 2014
|Low Season Apr. 1, 2014 – Apr. 30, 2014 Sept. 14, 2014 – Oct. 31, 2014
Resort Features
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- Onsite grocery store
- Washrooms
- Laundromat ($)
- Horseshoes
- Playground
- Sani-station
- Heating outdoor swimming pool
- Clubhouse
- WiFi ($)
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- Campfires are not permitted at anytime except in the Wilderness area, however propane campfires and BBQs are allowed.
- Mats are not allowed in the grassed areas
- Reverse osmosis water filtering is not allowed at any site
- The wilderness area closes for the season on September 5
- Water to the Arizona area is turned off on October 7 and to the front area on October 14 (subject to weather conditions)
- Water will be made available from the west side of building from 9am to 6pm starting October 14. The reel with hose is available in the laundry room.
- The pool closes for the season on September 6, 2013
- Please refer to your site map upon arrival for the full resort protocol
Local Attractions ↓
- Golf courses
- Public swimming pools
- Sightseeing
- Shopping
- Restaurants
- Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden
About Lethbridge ↓
- Lethbridge is named for its bridge, which is the largest railway structure in Canada and the largest bridge of its kind in the world.
- The largest city in southern Alberta, Lethbridge has a population of 73,515.
- Lethbridge home to the Western Hockey League (WHL) Hurricanes.
- Lethbridge's weather is ideal for golfing, and five scenic golf courses are located in the vicinity of Bridgeview RV Resort.
- For more information about Lethbridge, please visit here →


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In something of a surprise move, Apple began selling its new iPad Mini on Tuesday. The tablet is available from Apple's online store, from wireless partners AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon, and select third-party retailers such as Best Buy. Look back at the surprisingly long history of the tablet computer.
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Solebox x Asics Gel Lyte III Teaser
A few months ago, we got a sneak peek at the next upcoming collaboration with Asics and Berlin-based Solebox boutique. One of the models that was previewed with the "Gel Pack" was a Gel Lyte III. Here is an overview shot that will give fans an idea of what to expect. The bottom portion of the black suede upper is accented with a light blue colorway from the eyelets and inner liner. The toe box and upper seems to also be constructed from a nice suede material. No solid release info just yet, but stay tuned to TSG for the latest photos of the upcoming Solebox x Asics Gel Lyte III.
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These look like they're gonna be awesome…they will be impossible to get but I'm sure they will look good!
For the folks over at Solebox, I wear a sz 9.5. You can send it to TSG HQ. Thank you
I dont like what I see so far. I doubt these will look nice
really liking these, and material looks on point, too bed it will be damn near impossible to obtain
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text: Ringo Starr's Birthday Wish 2013 news Ringo Starr's Birthday Wish 2013 It is almost our annual Peace & Love time again - in celebration of Ringo's Birthday this July 7th Ringo invites everyone, everywhere to join him on his birthday to celebrate with a moment of PEACE & LOVE this Sunday, July 7th at 12 noon - your local time! As you all know, when Ringo is on tour during the summer we join forces with the Hard Rock who have generously hosted many birthday's where we invite "everyone, everywhere" to join us at noon their time in a moment of Peace & Love. This time, Ringo is not on tour and will be at home in England with family and friends, so he sent this video message for his fans to let them know that, even though he is at home, he will still be celebrating with a Peace & Love moment at noon and is inviting us all to join in and do the same.


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Good-bye Axiom!
Posted on | July 3, 2012 | 207 Comments
Dear Friends of Axiom,
Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media was originally conceived as a college class project to create an online gallery for artists working at the boundaries of art and technology. While attending the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art, I found myself surrounded by talented, courageous and determined artists who made art that I had never seen in galleries and museums. In fall of 2004, I founded a collective called Axiom who would exhibit this kind of innovative art-work in our large Allston studio space.
We cleared away our couch, plants, desks and studio supplies and mounted our first exhibition, Digital Disclosure. Nearly 200 people attended the opening reception. It was then that I realized the need in Boston not just for a bricks and mortar space, but for a community- an ambitious, welcoming and supportive place that could foster new and experimental media artists.
Spurred by the advice of seasoned local organizers, galvanized by a firm belief in the value of zip-ties, and supported by the Artists Foundation and LEF Foundation, Axiom became a non-profit organization in 2006 and moved from Allston, to Cambridge, and finally settled in 2007 at the Green Street MBTA Station- our home for the past five years. Overall, it has been a profound eight years, watching Axiom grow into a Center for not only the exhibition of visual new and experimental media art, but blossom into a performance and educational venue for experimental and cross-disciplinary approaches to art that include visual arts, sound and music, literature, dance and performance.
Through blood, sweat, tears, and a seemingly endless supply of beer (thanks Harpoon Brewery!) Axiom has organized over 30 major exhibitions and over 100 performances, lectures, artist talks, workshops and other special events. We've presented robotic cows controlled by electricity released from rotting beef, edible art, music generated by the passing of subway trains, full body sound experiences, fried egg fractals, and silver plated brain waves. We've turned the gallery into a virtual Egyptian Temple, a living, breathing cell controlled by the trains below, a treasure hunt, and a pop-up restaurant. Dancers have controlled video with Wii's strapped to their arms. There have been bathtub performances, Butoh dancers, electric cellos, whales in the toilet, and interactive film screenings.
Axiom has been voted Best Gallery in Boston several times by the Weekly Dig, the Boston Phoenix and Big Red and Shiny. There have many reviews in these publications, the Boston Globe and Art New England. Artists have traveled from as far away Japan, Mexico, and Canada to as close as "just down the street" to create the vibrant community that is Axiom today. Above all, Axiom has been fueled by its supporters, and with the dedicated efforts of all our interns, volunteers and patrons, we have weathered obstacles and continued to forge new pathways for contemporary new media art.
As Axiom's Founder, I have looked back on all of this with such pride. I am continually amazed and impressed by the art community in Boston- the dogged dedication, the wealth of new ideas, and the perhaps Puritanical motivation to just keep working harder, are what make this city such a caldron of creativity and innovation. Recently, Mayor Menino renamed my neighborhood, the Fort Point Channel area- home to the oldest artists community in New England, the "Innovation District." Supposedly, the name arose from the trend for start-up and pharmaceutical businesses to move to the area. I like to think that we all know what the Innovation District really means.
And so, looking back, I have decided that its time for me to refocus my career to pursue my own art. I went to art school to make art, and this is what I need to do. To this end, I will be attending the interdisciplinary MFA Program at the University of California San Diego this fall 2012. After much discussion, we at Axiom have decided that the time has come to close this chapter. It's been eight years, a fairly long time as far as alternative spaces are concerned, and we want Axiom to close on the highest note possible. Our last show, Collision Collective's 17th show, CC17:Transformer, showcased 23 awesomely techy artists, the reception was standing room only, and we literally, ran out of beer for the first time.
In September, Boston Cyberarts, our partner these last few years, will be taking over the gallery space as the Boston Cybearts Gallery, and we are certain that only good things are to come in the years ahead!
Please come celebrate everything that has been Axiom – on July 13th we will have our final reception for a show that features an interactive photo time-line of the last eight years of Axiom programming. A special ten-minute documentary film will also be screened at 7:30 pm, along with the presenting of the gallery key to Boston Cyberarts. So come see the photos, write your own description on a post-it and add it to the time-line, and watch the film – you might even spot yourself amongst the shots!
There are too many people to thank in this letter by name, so you'll have to come to the reception on the 13th to hear those shout outs, but for now: thank you to everyone who has ever helped install a show, organized a show or event, or even mopped the floor! Thanks to everyone who has come through our doors or dropped a dollar in the donation box. And special thanks must go to each and every artist who has showed with and/or contributed to Axiom. Without YOU, this amazing chapter would not have been possible. Thank you all for an extraordinary eight years.
An Axiom can be defined as a foundation for belief and action.
We believed, and we acted.
We hope to see you on July 13th!
So we don't run out of beer, (only half-kidding!) please take a minute to RSVP for the free July 13th event
The show, We Believed, And We Acted, will be up for gallery hours from 2-5 pm on Saturday, July 14th, and Sunday, July 15th, from 11am-4pm, as part of the Car-Free Corridor between Franklin Park and Jamaica Pond day sponsored by the Circle The City program.
What: We Believed, And We Acted
When: Opening Reception: Friday, July 13th, 6-9 pm
Exhibition Dates: July 13, 2012 – July 15th, 2012
Cost: FREE and Open to the Public, Please RSVP !
Where: Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media – 141 Green Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130. Located in the Green Street T Station on the Orange Line
For more information, please call 617-676-5904 or visit www.axiomart.org
We Believed, And We Acted
Posted on | July 3, 2012 | 10 Comments
We Believed, And We Acted will be Axiom's final exhibition! The show will feature a photo timeline of eight years of Axiom programming. Visitors will be asked to write on post-it notes and add their descriptions of the works in the photos, their memories and their thoughts, and add the post-it notes to the timeline. A special 10-minute documentary film of Axiom's history will also be screened at 7:30 pm, which afterwards will be a passing of the key ceremony to give the gallery space over to Boston Cyberarts, who will take over the space as Boston Cyberarts Gallery starting in September.
Read a letter from Heidi Kayser, Axiom's Founder, saying Good-bye Axiom!
Come celebrate eight years of boundary pushing new and experimental media art! Please take a minute to RSVP (so we don't run out of beer!)
COLLISION17:transformer opens Friday, March 2
Posted on | February 26, 2012 | 213 Comments
COLLISION17:transformer assembles a wide range of new work from 6 countries to explore the notion of transformation. Power, signal, material and meaning are altered, recast and impedance-matched to underscore and harmonize with the ceaseless change of our lives. Curated by COLLISIONcollective members William Tremblay and Georgina Lewis, COLLISION17:transformer is the seventeenth COLLISIONcollective show and the sixth held at Axiom. The 26 works that comprise the show span sculpture, photography, video, surveillance, interactivity and research, making this the most comprehensive and far-reaching COLLISIONcollective show to date.
A transformer is a device that changes one form of energy to a different form, then changes it back to an altered version of the original. In COLLISION17:transformer we present the artist as transformer of experience though metaphor, translator of ideas between language modes, and transmuter of physical phenomena into forms optimized for human perception.
Included in the show is work by Natalie Andrew, Ryan Boatright, W. Benjamin Bray, Sophia Brueckner, Alicia Eggert, Juan Escudero, Joseph Farbrook, Antony Flackett, Ben K. Foley, Dave Gordon, Rob Gonsalves, Lori Hepner, Wei-Ming Ho, Faith Holland, Annette Isham, Arnold Koroshegyi, Victor Liu, Andrew Neumann, Bob Kephart, Jean-Michel Rolland, Mark Stock, Wayne Strattman and Topp & Dubio.
Opening Reception: March 2nd from 6-9 pm.
Show dates: March 3rd – April 7th.
Gallery hours: Weds and Thurs: 6-9pm, Fri and Sat: 2-5pm
Eygptian Oracle
Posted on | January 30, 2012 | 19 Comments
February 16th | 6pm
Axiom is pleased to host a performance and discussion of the Egyptian Oracle, produced by PublicVR and Puppet Showplace Theater. It is a mixed-reality reenactment of an authentic public ceremony from ancient Egypt's Late Period. The interactive Virtual Egyptian Temple is projected onto the wall at life scale, extending the physical theater into an virtual space. The high priest (on the right in the image) is an avatar controlled by a live human puppeteer, Brad Shur. The supporting actress (Brenda Huggins) stands in front of the screen, in costume, mediating the experience. Audience members represent the Egyptian populace acting out brief roles in the drama. In the drama, the will of the temple god moves the sacred boat to render judgments, bestow blessings, and make predictions. This 90-second video is better than any explanation:
This project was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and continues to develop, as we seek to broaden the interaction, deepen the narrative, and improve the artwork. The full report and the open source code are available at:
The performance is about 40 minutes long and will begin at 6:00pm. There will be a brief discussion afterward about the show in particular, especially for questions around the Egyptology, the puppetry, and how other cyber artists might employ the open source for the Egyptian Oracle.
After an intermission, Dr. Jacobson, Director of PublicVR, will speak on how we can use technology to extend the psychological space (virtual reality and mixed reality). He will survey the basic methods and approaches and describe the current state-of-the-art. He will introduce methods and tools that the cyber arts community can make immediate use of.
PublicVR is a Boston-area nonprofit dedicated to research in virtual reality for education and the arts. Dr. Jacobson has been involved in virtual reality for 20 years, especially in the area of display design and cultural heritage. For more information see http://publicvr.org.
Update Opens December 2nd
Posted on | November 28, 2011 | 6 Comments
Axiom presents Update, a solo exhibition by artist John Slepian, opening on December 2nd, 2011. Update is an earnest exploration of the past, the present, and our aspirations for art.
The show introduces humor into some of the most serious work of 20th Century, exploring ideas about the sublime, artistic truth, and Modernism in the context of our ubiquitously self-centered, "interactive" and ironic present. Each of the pieces in this exhibition is a humorous take on a painting by a well known Mid-Century Modernist.
Two pieces are interactive animated versions of a famous painting projected onto a canvas and controlled by custom software and a Microsoft Xbox Kinect game controller. Another is a piece of software for a vintage Commodore 64 "personal computer" that generates over 32,000 variations on the form of Josef Albers' famous "Homage to the Square" series.
The exhibition also includes digitally printed miniature versions of classic Mark Rothko paintings, and four mock museum posters, one for each of the artists' work included in the exhibition, featuring a thumbnail image downloaded from the Internet. Stay tuned for more on this fun, engaging and interactive exhibition! For additional information about John Slepian's work, please visit http://www.johnslep.net/.
Opening Reception: December 2nd from 6-9 pm.
Show dates: December 2nd – January 28th.
Kaleidoscope Music opens October 6
Posted on | September 19, 2011 | 11 Comments
Axiom is pleased to present a new exhibition by sound artist Ben Houge, featuring his real-time, six-channel, algorithmic sound installation Kaleidoscope Music, on display from October 6 through November 6. An opening reception for the show will take place on Thursday, October 6, from 6-9 pm.
Kaleidoscope Music takes its inspiration from the idea of a kaleidoscope, a device that refocuses attention on our everyday surroundings, transforming them into something unexpected and beautiful. This real-time, computer-based sound installation manipulates ambient sound from around the Green Street subway stop, layering it and running it through a bank of filters to extract harmonic tones in an ever-changing array of chords and rhythmic patterns. The algorithmic nature of the piece ensures that it never repeats itself; rather it is designed to ebb and flow, evoking the rhythm of natural processes like rainfall and tides. The piece runs continuously, with no beginning or end; visitors are welcome to stay for as long as they like. For more information on the piece, visit Ben's successful Kickstarter page.
In addition to Kaleidoscope Music, the exhibition will feature digital prints from Ben's series 29 Giraffes, algorithmic reconfigurations of neon lights from Shanghai's famous East Nanjing Road.
Ben Houge is a recent transplant to Boston, where he has quickly become embedded in the local new media art community, with presentations of his work at the Boston Cyberarts Festival, MIT, Boston Post-Mortem, Opensound, Outpost 186, and Whitehaus Family Record. Prior to moving to Boston, Ben lived in Shanghai for the past six years, where he was active in the experimental sound and art community, performing and exhibiting widely. Previously, in Seattle, Ben founded the Sound Currents concert series and contributed to the award-winning Seattle School composers' collective from its inception. Ben currently teaches video game music at the Berklee College of Music and Boston University Center for Digital Imaging Arts, and this fall he is an Artist in Residence at MIT, working on sonification of real-time sensor data. For more information, visit www.benhouge.com.
You Are My Sunshine Opens August 19
Posted on | August 12, 2011 | 168 Comments
Five artists from the Axiom Group spent five days wilderness camping on Bumpkin Island in Boston Harbor as part of the Bumpkin Island Art Encampment Residency, where they collaboratively worked on individual cross-disciplinary projects. The product of extreme limitations – artists could bring only the materials which they could carry, including five days of camping supplies, food and water – the works ranged from performance to installation to solar sculpture. Works include a border control/processing station for alien invaders to the island, the absurd use of solar power, an installation made of 75 rolls of film shot on the island, text installations integrated into the landscape, and the unsuccessful construction of a winged costume made of burnt campfire wood.
Featuring work by Meghann Hickson, Heidi Kayser, Georgina Lewis, Alex Reben, Sarah Rushford, and Evan Smith. A limited edition print by Evan Smith will also be given away as part of his piece.
Axiom also says BON VOYAGE to three of our artist members as they go to graduate school and a teaching appointment: a huge thanks and good luck to Nick Marmor, Meghann Hickson and Wayne Madsen! Come celebrate with us at the opening for You Are My Sunshine.
Posted on | June 19, 2011 | 5 Comments
Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media is pleased to announce its annual student show, Pattern Recognition. The show features undergraduate, graduate, and recently graduated students working in new media.
Artists were selected from local programs and schools, including the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, MIT, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and UMass Boston and Dartmouth. Exploring a variety of media, themes and strategies, Pattern Recognition showcases the next generation of new media artists in Boston.
How is new media defined for emerging artists who have spent much of their lives in the new millennium, immersed in the web and technologically literate? The artists represented here interpret and alter the massive amounts of raw data they encounter every day, creating meaning from the chaos of contemporary life. Artworks range from digitally glitched photographs to microscopic poetry, appropriated pop songs to musical scores based on bird flight.
Opening reception: June 24, 2011, from 6 – 9pm.
Show dates: June 24-July 16, 2011.
Featuring work by Kevin Benisvy, Ashley Bell Clark, Keegan Grandbois, Aimee Harrison, Zuzana Husarova, Fatima Hussain, Dyllan Nguyen, Victoria Shen, Kyle Thiboutot, Matej Vakula & Matt Kushan, and Amber Vistein.
Move Me Opens April 28th
Posted on | April 6, 2011 | 3 Comments
Opening Reception and Artist's Talk:
Thursday, April 28, 2011 | 6-8 pm | Informal Artist's Talk starts at 7 pm
Move Me, curated by Heidi Kayser, presents the sculpture of Chris Fitch, Arthur Ganson, Tom Haney, Steve Hollinger and Erica von Schilgen. The works explore the intimate, poetic drama created as electricity, clockworks or human interaction physically "moves" kinetic sculpture but also emotionally "moves" an observer. Ranging from the clandestine use of mechanics and electronics to the intentionally obvious revelation of the inner workings, the show explores the relationship created between artwork and viewer when moving sculpture's narratives unfold in real time.
April 28 – May 28, 2011
Artists + Researchers Redux: Radical Reference Librarians
Posted on | March 11, 2011 | 19 Comments
Artists + Researchers Redux: Radical Reference Librarians Offer Research Assistance in Jamaica Plain
Friday, March 18, 7:30 pm: meet and greet and snacks; 8 p.m., presentation followed by discussion
Co-presented by Artists in Context and Boston Radical Reference Collective
Calling all artists, activists and other engaged practitioners. Overwhelmed by the amount of information on the internet? Unable to find the data you know is out there? Confused about the ethics of research? Boston Radical Reference Collective (BRRC) can help! Radical Reference is a collective of volunteer library workers who believe in social justice and equality. They provide professional research support, education and access to information. Join us for our second Researchers+Artists conversation and walk away ready to find and use the wealth of information available.
BRRC members Alana Kumbier and Heather McCann will discuss freely-available online research resources and ways the BRRC can provide local assistance. After the presentation, we will open up the conversation for questions and discussion of ongoing (or potential) projects.
For artists: This event will be especially relevant to artists those whose work and creative practice engages specific social issues, is in some way community- or locally-oriented, or just requires access to information, data, or research resources beyond one's area of expertise.
For researchers: You don't have to be a librarian, or a member of Radical Reference, to participate! We're hoping to create a space in which all kinds of researchers — librarians, data and GIS specialists, journalists, government document sleuths, grad students and intellectually-curious intrepid investigators — can meet local artists, and each other, and instigate collaborations.
Free and open to the public


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Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
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Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
News and Events Details
Dr. Maria Cuzzo is proud to welcome Ms. Emily Levings to CETL's permanent staff in her capacity as University Services Associate II. She comes to CETL from the Department of Educational Leadership and former Teacher Education Department. Emily has years of experience working with instructors of teachers and teaching and we are excited at the possibilities that she brings to continued expansion and development of CETL's ability to serve our key constituencies on campus. WELCOME, EMILY! Emily's office is in McCaskill 124 and her direct telephone number is 394-8548. Emily has completed her cross-training and transition time and is now in CETL full-time!
At the same time, we bid a fond farewell to Denise Denu, who has served as our half time LTE staff person for the two years of CETL's history. Denise has provided many forms of important support and encouragement to the early development of CETL on this campus and we will miss her presence in CETL. We wish Denise well in her future endeavors. CETL would not be what it is without her help and assistance. Good luck, Denise!
Also new to CETL staff is Dr. Suzanne Griffith with a 25% position as Coordinator of First Year Seminars. She will be working closely with the First Year Experience Committee. Dr. Griffith is a Professor of Counseling Professions in the Department of Educational Leadership. Her telephone number is 394-8316 and her office is located in McCaskill 104D.
Dr. Maria Cuzzo continues her leadership role as the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in addition to being a Professor of Legal Studies in the Department of Human Behavior and Diversity. Her office is located in Sunquist 335 and her telephone number is 394-8482.
Dr. Lisa Larson continues her full time position in CETL as Coordinator of Instructional Development. Her telephone number is 394-8051 and she is located in the CETL Office in McCaskill 124.
We look forward in the upcoming academic year to providing more extensive teaching and learning opportunities for the faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin-Superior. We welcome you to stop by the CETL office to visit our staff and to learn more about upcoming events and opportunities.


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Wild Child (film)
|Wild Child
Promotional film poster
|Directed by
|Nick Moore
|Produced by
|Tim Bevan
Eric Fellner
Diana Phillips
|Written by
|Lucy Dahl
|Emma Roberts
Alex Pettyfer
Natasha Richardson
Linzey Cocker
Aidan Quinn
Shirley Henderson
|Music by
|Michael Price
|Chris Seager
|Edited by
|Simon Cozens
|Distributed by
|Universal Pictures
|Release dates
|August 15, 2008
|Running time
|98 minutes
|United States
United Kingdom
|$20 million
|Box office
Wild Child is a 2008 British-French-American teen romantic comedy-drama film starring Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer and Natasha Richardson. Wild Child is Richardson's last film appearance.
Poppy Moore (Emma Roberts) is a seemingly spoiled teenager living in Malibu, California with her father Gerry (Aidan Quinn). In a wild prank with all her friends, she ruins/gives away her father's girlfriend's belongings. Her father returns home and angrily informs her that she is going to an English boarding school to straighten her out.
Arriving at Abbey Mount, Poppy argues with head girl Harriet (Georgia King) and does not get along with the girls in her room. She does not abide by the school rules and sneaks out after lights out. There is a fire drill before she can get back to the room and unknowingly meets the headmistress's son, Freddie (Alex Pettyfer). Later, Poppy and Harriet get into a fight and Freddie flirts with Poppy, making Harriet jealous.
Poppy eventually makes friends with roommate Kate (Kimberley Nixon) and the other girls in the room, who agree to help put together a plan for Poppy to be expelled. After a series of pranks don't get recognition from the headmistress Mrs. Kingsley (Natasha Richardson), the girls decide that the best way to get Poppy expelled is for her to snog Freddie, who is off limits to any of the girls at the school.
After attending a shopping trip - where Poppy changes her hair from blonde to its natural brunette - and a school disco with the girls in her room, they accept Poppy into their group. The morning after the disco, with the girls hungover, Poppy discovers her talent at lacrosse and is made captain of the school team. She goes on a date with Freddie and realizes that he is more than just a scapegoat. However, her emails were hacked and rewritten by Harriet, then given to the girls and Freddie. She loses her friendships and relationship.
Feeling alone and upset, Poppy plays with her lighter after a phone-call back to Malibu. After hearing footsteps, she accidentally starts a fire, but quickly puts it out. When she returns to her room, she sees the building in flames, supposing the flames were not originally extinguished. She and Kate get everyone out of the school, but Jennifer "Drippy" Logan (Juno Temple) is missing. Poppy remembers Drippy's cravings for ice-cream and runs into the building - forgetting her own safety - and rescues Drippy from the freezer.
Freddie finds Poppy's lighter after the fire brigade extinguish the building and returns it to her, still angry. After an assembly with Mrs. Kingsley, Poppy confesses that she started the fire. After confessing, she sits alone looking at past photos from the school. She notices one picture on the wall and gets upset when she realizes that her deceased mother attended the school as well. Freddie and Poppy apologise to one another and make-up. The honour court is called into session, and the girls realise that it was actually Harriet who wrote the emails. They sabotage the court and Harriet is found out to be the actual cause of the fire, and the cause of the footsteps Poppy heard earlier.
The film ends with Poppy and the lacrosse team in the finals. Poppy's father comes to visit and is taken back by how much she looks like her mother. They win the finals and Poppy celebrates with her father, who is proud of the person she has returned to.
The credits show her friends and Freddie in Malibu with her, declining a call from her Malibu friend, deciding her school friends were better anyway.
- Emma Roberts as Poppy Moore
- Alex Pettyfer as Freddie Kingsley
- Natasha Richardson as Mrs. Kingsley
- Aidan Quinn as Gerry Moore
- Juno Temple as Jennifer "Drippy" Logan
- Georgia King as Harriet Bentley
- Kimberley Nixon as Kate
- Johnny Pacar as Roddy
- Shirley Henderson as Matron
- Lexi Ainsworth as Molly Moore
- Linzey Cocker as Josie
- Sophie Wu as Kiki
- Nick Frost as Mr. Christopher
- Shelby Young as Ruby
- Daisy Donovan as Miss Rees-Withers
- Jason Watkins as Mr. Nellist
The boarding school in the film was filmed at Cobham Hall in Kent.[1]
Wild Child was released in the United Kingdom on August 15 taking fifth place at the box office with $2,196,366[clarification needed] from 359 cinemas with an average of $6,118[clarification needed]. In its fourth weekend, it dropped to twelfth place. As of November 2, 2008, Wild Child has made an unexpected $8,235,794[clarification needed]. In Australia, Wild Child was released September 18 taking fourth place with only 93 cinemas, making $315,114.[2] The following week, it made a 60% increase with $566,918[3] but still slipped to 6th place. On October 16, Wild Child fell to 11th. As of November 14, 2008, Wild Child's release in Australia has yet again surprised officials with its success making US$3,268,424[3] (A$4,236,579.[4] The film has been released in many other countries, proving popular in some: the Netherlands ($1,553,825[clarification needed]) and not so popular in others. As of January 4, 2008, the film had grossed $19,786,125[clarification needed] worldwide but was expected to reach $20 million[clarification needed] once released in bigger markets: France, Germany and Russia around December or January. Universal had planned a North American release in the summer of 2009, but canceled it and chose to release the movie directly to DVD.
Wild Child has a 42% "rotten" rating at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 21 reviews with the consensus that "More mild than wild. This tween comedy mess falls flat on its face due to poor characters, poor direction and poor jokes".[5] The Sun Online gave the film 2/5 saying "WILD? More like mild, unless you think short skirts and "horse face" put-downs are outrageous." Though Urban Cinefile gave Wild Child a much more favourable review stating "The film has an energy and honesty about it: it's lively, funny and smart and the characters are appealing."
DVD release[edit]
Wild Child was released on DVD in the United Kingdom on December 8, 2008. In Australia, it was released on January 15, 2009. In the United States, it was released directly to DVD on November 17, 2009.
The "Movie Soundtrack Party Album" is the soundtrack for the film of the same name. The soundtrack was available in the United Kingdom and Australia on August 18, 2008. In the United States, the soundtrack has not been released and it was expected for early 2009.
- Track listing
- "Shut Up and Drive" - Rihanna
- "Let Me Think About It" - Ida Corr feat. DJ Fedde le Grand
- "About You Now" - Sugababes
- "Say It Right" - Nelly Furtado
- "I Know UR Girlfriend Hates Me" - Annie
- "If This Is Love" - The Saturdays
- "Heartbreaker" - will.i.am feat. Cheryl Cole
- "Sweet About Me" - Gabriella Cilmi
- "Can't Speak French" - Girls Aloud
- "Murder on the Dancefloor" - Sophie Ellis-Bextor
- "Ice Cream" - New Young Pony Club
- "Kiss with a Fist" - Florence and the Machine
- "Foundations" - Kate Nash
- "You Think I Don't Care" - Jack McManus
- "Come Around" - Timbaland ft. M.I.A.
- "Tambourine" - Eve
- "Real Wild Child" - Sarah Harding
- "Wild Child" - The Cat Eat Cat Dog Game
- Other songs
The following songs appeared in the movie and in trailers, although they were not included on the soundtrack for the film.
- Imran Hanif - "Set 'Em Up"
- Goose - "Black Gloves"
- Robbie Williams - "Angels"
- Children of Bodom - "Roadkill Morning"
- Britney Spears - "Toxic" (Instrumental only, used on trailer)
- Lindsay Lohan - "Playground"
- Everlife - "Real Wild Child"
- will.i.am - "I Got It from My Mama"
- Belinda Carlisle - "Heaven Is a Place on Earth"
- Adele - "Chasing Pavements"
- ^ Kent Film Office. "Kent Film Office Wild Child Film Focus".
- ^ Australia Box Office, September 1821, 2008
- ^ a b Australia Box Office, September 2528, 2008
- ^ All time Australian box office
- ^ "Wild Child (2009)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 9, 2009.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Wild Child at the Internet Movie Database
- Wild Child at Box Office Mojo
- Official trailer on YouTube
- Production information[dead link] at sadibey.com
- English-language films
- 2008 films
- 2000s comedy-drama films
- 2000s romantic comedy films
- British films
- British comedy films
- British teen films
- American films
- American comedy-drama films
- American teen films
- Elstree Studios films
- Films set in California
- Films set in England
- Films shot in California
- Films shot in England
- Teen comedy films
- Relativity Media films
- StudioCanal films
- Working Title Films films
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Forget the MBA. To truly learn about a business... ¡start one!
by B.R.
IN RECENT years, MBA programme directors have done a lot of tinkering with the degree. Whether adding specialisations, compulsory international trips or more focus on the softer topics, such as leadership and ethics, few programmes look the same now as they did ten years ago.
One area which has changed less than most, however, is the core of the programme. These compulsory subjects, which dominate the first half of most MBAs, are supposed to be the part of the programme that ground students in the fundamentals of business. Some commentators even go so far as to claim that the core of an MBA is nothing more than a commodity; that it matters little where you study it, because everywhere teaches the same thing; and that it is the rest of the programme that adds the value.
If the core of an MBA programme itself has a core, then it is the finance and strategy courses. Nothing could be more fundamental; they are the building blocks on which nearly all other business knowledge is built. Interesting, then, that a new survey of applicants, current students and recent graduates, conducted by Which MBA?, suggests that it is in these subjects that business schools are failing. Sixty per cent of current or recently-graduated students thought that they could have done with more core strategy classes (see chart below). Around 38% cited finance as lacking. For prospective students, the message was even more striking. Three-quarters believed that schools should focus more on strategy and over half wanted more finance.
Of more relief to schools is that relatively few of our respondents thought that any of their core classes were redundant; manufacturing and production was considered the most overdone, with 19% of students saying the course should be either deleted or given less prominence.
Is this a sign that the schools are failing to drag students with them when they design innovative new programmes, and that what students really want is an MBA that goes back to basics? It may be, but it is unlikely to be a message heeded by the schools. There are now more MBA programmes fewer applicants, particularly in North America which sets the tone that the rest of the world follows. What is more, most need to justify inflation-busting tuition-fee increases. Sadly, most will conclude that a tag line of: "we do the basics, better", will differentiate them, and will thus not help in either cause.
About the survey: Of the 713 survey responders, 75% have not yet taken an MBA, 16% are currently studying for an MBA and 9% have already taken an MBA. The geographic distribution is: 36% from Asia; 1% from Australia/Oceania; 18% from Europe; 16% from Middle East/Africa; 21% from North America; and 8% from South/Central America.
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Forget the MBA. To truly learn about a business... ¡start one!
Strategy is necessary for Board Presidents and board members and CEO's.
All others are more concerned with TACTICS.
If you want to learn business, be part of a new business start-up.
...missing ECOLOGY !!!...already now ALL ACTIONS SHOULD BE SUSTAINABLE...
Rolf Raecker
The survey was of "applicants, current students and recent graduates".
Are their opinions important (beyond marketing the programmes)?
Many years ago research suggested that as mangers progressed through their careers their views on the relative importance of subjects shifted from the day to day subjects (I'd include basic finance there) to people subjects to ethics and more philosophical issues. That may have been at least partly due to the changing nature of their roles as they moved up.
What does "sustainable" mean? The world is in constant transition and will eventually come to an end. We cannot sustain it forever...all we can do is slow down the "death". Why should we worry if the end is in 2,000 years' time or 2,000,000(0000000...00)? I don't (and that is not selfish).
I can't fault the conclusion of this survey. Current MBAs should devote more time to core disciplines. The excessive emphasis on softer subjects makes B-Schools turn out opininated, un realistic and superficial professionals who are not particularly mroe ethical or better leaders, and who cannot handle the basic tools of management.
About the disciplines, I'd say that Finance, Marketing and Operations are core subjects (BTW, I'd bundle Accounting with Finance, and Manufacturing with Operations), but not strategy. Strategy is an infrequent exercise in modern corporations and tends to be very industry specific. A couple of strategy courses is appropriate, but no one will leave the School directly to the Board - they'll have time to learn more on the way.
What is sorely missing is a better understanding of tactical processes, that is, how to flesh out the strategy into powerful execution. This requires knowledge of ERPs, S&OP, Activity-Based Costing, and other tools usually not covered in B-Schools.
It is not clear whether the complaint of some, that production courses are overdone, arises from those production courses' low quality or from MBA students' lack of related aptitudes.
In my 1st-year, Harvard Business School section of about 90 students, only about a third of them seemed to have the physical sequence and mechanical aptitudes to understand and do well in the Production course. Most, but not all, of those had engineering degrees. The rest had a real aversion to production, which seems to sum up the attitude of students referred to in the article.
Down the river from Harvard Business School is Sloan School many of whose graduates are MIT engineers. They are eager to start new technology-based companies, not do finance. They understand Finance, but usually leave its details to specialists, whose work they will review.
Perceptions of courses' value change over time.
Just after WWII, when Harvard Business School graduated the highest concentration of eventual, major CEO's, production was its focus. That followed the war's destruction of much of the world's productive capacity outside the US. Even though effective buying power was down in many countries, the US could pretty much sell whatever it made. The Marshall Plan and other government programs helped effective foreign demand.
Through favorable laws, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and Germany have to varying degree made manufacturing for export a key to their economies.
In the 50's, when the US began having problems selling all of its production, Marketing and Advertising courses and careers became the rage.
The next way US corporations pursued in increasing profits was through financial maneuvers and better accounting. Starting in the early mid-'60's, Finance became the most favored field. Finance is a fast field, whose mystique is far greater than its required knowledge. In finance, a few calculations can set vast resources in motion.
Finding a path thru market, regulatory, and risk obstacles, takes some imagination, smatterings of Accounting, of law for investment vehicles, of taxes, and of back-of-envelope Economics. It is a wheeling and dealing field. Accordingly, for nearly 50 years Finance has dominated the US, possibly also the UK as career of choice among those seeking business careers. In Russia this pattern seems to have taken root with a vengeance.
With nearly 50 years of the Finance trend, an explosion of MBA programs, the ease in becoming a finance-type, the excess of financier MBA's and the dearth of marketing and production type MBA's should soon make themselves felt.
Yet what are business schools to do? Business schools whose lists of Finance courses are a mile long are just going with the flow. When financial fields become saturated, what will business schools mainly oriented to finance do then?
Why separate 'mfg & production' and 'operations management'? Ain't they the same thing?
Strategy can assume importance of core if there happens to be 1)A well demarcated ground 2)Crystal clearly visible goal post 3) A team of a players (group with common interest);
1) Ground is infinite, so policy (not strategy) is "BY HOOK or CROOK";
2)Money and that too infinite money (no higher limits to stop, because hook or crook) being the goal, the goal post is not visible (locatable, it can be in any direction, any where);
3) So there are no guarded / directed resources (teams)
Then where is the need for strategy? Fortunes are down-falling, Without strategy. So, no need of educating the strategy!
The Core programme should cover most of the basic business courses such as Finance, Marketing, Strategy, Human Resources, Production, Accounting etc. I am not sure about giving certain courses more weight than others since a student will have the option of specialising when it comes to electives.
75% of respondents hadn't started the MBA ... So we're they enrolled or just looking at the brochure? I'm 9 weeks into mine and granted - very early days - but I'm seeing the relevance immediately. I have a corporate social responsibility/ sustainability/environment engineering background and if 'we' want to make a true difference - we've got to learn the commercial and business language. Would encourage all CSR practioners to get into it - it'll make a difference.
Strategy is basic to any businesses success; however a plan to implement and monitor progress against that strategy is even MORE IMPORTANT. For more information on a comprehensive business planning and management approach go to: .
Stuart Bostock's comment about TACTICS is "right on" - the tactics are IMPLEMENTATION, but you also need the ability to MONITOR PROGRESS 24/7 so you can make adjustments "real-time" to those TACTICS to keep the business "on track against plan".
Richard A. Kling
Whilst it is important to teach these subjects well, it is also critical to get the inter-relationships right. Too many MBAs teach subjects in silos, perhaps with a token 'integration exercise', without capturing the diverse and complex nature of real business issues - The Open University MBA teaches strategy and finance in a parallel, interlinked manner - this helps achieve additional depth in each field, and, moreover, provides a more realistic insight into business realities...
Silly article! Did not expect this from the economist.
75% of respondents were prospective students. How will they be able to accurately judge the focus of MBA courses when they would not have even attended them!
Out of the minuscule 9% who have completed their MBA (& hence opinion is relevant in this case), it would be interesting to know their experience yrs after MBA. If they have freshly graduated from a B school, chances are that they would not know how exactly the course they learnt was useful.
And in general, 713 respondents is too small a number and not representative of the entire population, given the # of MBA grads churned out every year.
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- 2B) ELEANOR CORNEWALL, born 1430/5, married 1st, Sir Hugh Mortimer, of Kyre Wyard and Martley, Worcestershire, and Tedstone Wafer, Herefordshire, heir of the Tedstone Wafer Mortimers. He was killed at Wakefield in December 1460, and was buried in the Church of St. Peter, Martley. By him she had a son and a daughter. She married 2nd, Sir Richard Croft (d. 29 July 1509), of Croft Castle, Herefordshire, sheriff of Herefordshire 1471-72, 1477, 1486, MP Herefordshire 1477, and had three more sons and five more daughters. The Crofts had occupied Croft Castle since before the Conquest. Eleanor was the governess of Edward IV's sons at Ludlow Castle. She died 23 Dec. 1519, at an advanced age, and was buried with her second husband in the chapel of Croft Castle (tomb now in St. Michael church, Croft). Issue:
- '2B2) ELIZABETH MORTIMER, LADY DE LA WARR, born 1455/60, married about 1480, Sir Thomas West, 8th Lord De La Warr (c.1457- 11 Oct. 1525), and died 29 June 1502, having had issue at least one son and four daughters.
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- WEST, Sir THOMAS, eighth Baron West and ninth Baron De La Warr (1472?–1554), soldier and courtier, born about 1472, was son and heir of 'Thomas West, eighth baron De La Warr, by Elizabeth, sister and heir of Sir John Mortimer and daughter of Hugh Mortimer of Mortimer's Hall, Hampshire', where West was probably born in 1472 (Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, xiv. ii. 544, 547). In 1492 West was admitted to Gray's Inn. On 25 Jan. 1503 he was one of the esquires in attendance at the wedding feast of the Princess Margaret [see Tudor, Margaret] (Hist. MSS. Comm. 1888, Duke of Rutland's MSS. i. 18). On 30 June 1513 West was a captain in Henry VIII's army at the sieges of Thérouanne and Tournai, and was dubbed a knight-banneret at Lille on 14 Oct. 1513 (Metcalfe, Book of Knights, p. 45). On his return he resided at Halnaker or Halfnaker, Sussex, which he had acquired by marriage with Elizabeth, younger daughter and coheir of John Bonville. Here, on 23 May 1517, he received license to impark three hundred acres (Letters and Papers, ii. 3311). He occasionally attended court, and in 1520 was at the Field of the Cloth of Gold (ib. iii. 237, 241, 243; Chron. of Calais, p. 22), and at the interview of Henry VIII with Charles V at Gravelines on 10 July. At Christmas 1521 he was appointed carver to the king (Letters and Papers, iii. 1899). On 27 May 1522 he was at the meeting of Henry VIII with Charles V at Canterbury (ib. 2288). In 1523–4 he was a commissioner of subsidy for Sussex (ib. 3282, iv. 214, p. 83). On 10 Nov. 1524 he was pricked high sheriff for Surrey and Sussex (ib. 819). He succeeded to the title and estates of De La Warr on the death of his father, whose will was proved on 25 Feb. 1525–6. Having rebuilt Halnaker, he entertained Henry VIII there with 'great cheer' (ib. 2407) in August 1526. These expenses were probably the cause of his constant letters to Cromwell pleading 'poverty' and soliciting leave of absence from parliament (ib. v. 709, vi. 536, vii. 12, 1412, viii. 21). He was one of the peers who on 13 July 1530 subscribed the declaration to Clement VII urging the divorce (ib. iv. 6513). In January 1534, soliciting from Cromwell leave of absence from parliament on the ground of poverty, he adds that his proxy is as good as himself, 'for I can reason no matter, but say yea or nay for the impediment God has given me in my tongue' (ib. vii. 12). Nevertheless, he was summoned to sit upon the trial of Lord Dacre, and joined in his acquittal on 10 July 1534 (ib. 962, x.).
- On 20 April 1534 De La Warr was nominated a commissioner for Sussex to receive the oaths to the act of succession (ib. 518). The nomination was an act of policy, for he was intimate with the Lisles [see Plantagnet, Arthur, Viscount Lisle] (ib. vi. 1179, 1180, vii. 644, 1577), and with Robert Sherborne [q. v.], bishop of Chichester, who were known to be opposed to the ecclesiastical policy of the government. The clerical party spoke of him as 'the whole stay of our corner of Sussex' (ib. vii. 1243). Upon the dissolution of Boxgrove on 26 March 1537 he purchased the goods of the house (Dugdale, Monasticon, iv. 649; Letters and Papers, ix. 509, 530, XII. i. 747), and, having vainly endeavoured to obtain an exchange of its lands for his hereditary estate of Shepton Mallet, Somerset, succeeded (29 Hen. VIII) in procuring a grant of a lease of the priory and rectory (ib. XIII. i. 585).
- On 15 May 1536 De La Warr sat on a full panel of available peers (Friedmann, Anne Boleyn, ii. 274) at the trial of Anne Boleyn and her brother, and his friend George Boleyn, lord Rochford [q. v.] He henceforth acted with the opposition, who disliked the religious changes. After the northern rebellion De La Warr was evidently anxious to strengthen his position at court, and in 1537 was twice an unsuccessful candidate for the Garter (Letters and Papers, xii. i. 1008, ii. 445). He was among the peers who on 14 May 1537 convicted Lord John Hussey [q. v.] and Thomas, lord Darcy [q. v.] (ib. i. 1199, 1207), of complicity in the northern insurrection. On 15 Oct. he 'uncovered the basins' at the christening of Prince Edward (Edward VI; ib. XIII. ii. 911), and was one of the supporters of the canopy over the corpse at the funeral of Queen Jane Seymour [q. v.] at Windsor on 14 Nov. (ib. 1060). He was anxious to display vigilance on behalf of the government, and on 14 April 1538 sent Cromwell information of the disaffected language of the vicar of Walberton, a parish near Halnaker (ib. 759). Yet he was so vehement in his religious conservatism that he dismissed one of his servants who 'were of the new opinions' (ib. ii. 829, 1). It is evident that he was already under suspicion of disloyalty. A letter written by him to Cromwell from Halnaker on 9 Oct. 1538 (ib. 570) excuses his absence from London, and says he is 'evil at ease.' He had reason for the anxiety he felt (ib. 963). His intimate friends Sir Geoffrey Pole [q. v.] and Lord Montague, whom he had been entertaining at Halnaker the previous midsummer, had been arrested on suspicion of treason. Pole's confession implicated De La Warr (ib. p. 266) and George Crofts [q. v.], a prebendary of Chichester (ib. 695, 2, p. 264). Crofts confessed that De La Warr had made the particularly odious charge against the government that it only secured the conviction of Lord Darcy by a promise to the peers that he should be pardoned (ib. 803). On the other hand, De La Warr had expressed disapproval of the northern rebellion, and 'rejoiced when the same was ended' (ib. 822). More serious was the evidence of De La Warr's brother-in-law, Sir Henry Owen, on 13 Nov. Not only had De La Warr frequently denounced 'the plucking down of abbeys and the reading of these new English books;' Sir Henry had 'known much familiarity to have been between the Marquis of Exeter' [see Courtenay, Henry], the arch-suspect, and De La Warr (ib. 821). It is significant that on 4 Nov. 1538 the marquis and Lord Montague were sent to the Tower and on the same day Cromwell received a gratuity of 20l. from De La Warr (ib. XIV. ii. 327). The depositions against De La Warr were collected (ib. XIII. ii. 831–2). At the end of November he was examined before the privy council and confined to his house in London (ib. 968). On 1 Dec. the council wrote to the king apologising for not proceeding 'more summarily' (ib.) On 2 Dec. De La Warr was sent to the Tower. On 15 Dec. information reached the government of mysterious nocturnal visits to Halnaker, presumably to put evidence out of the way (ib. 1062). But the house was not searched, and De La Warr evidently had powerful friends. The clerical party in Sussex boldly predicted his speedy return (ib.) About 20 Dec. he was released (ib. 1112) upon recognisances of 3,000l., the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk and the Earl of Sussex being among his sureties (ib. 1117).
- But De La Warr's opposition had been crushed. Early in November 1539 Cromwell wrote to Lady De La Warr that the king had forgiven her husband (ib. XIV. ii. 481). As a sign of grace his recognisances were discharged on 18 Nov. 1539, before the twelvemonth had expired (ib. 619–45). The pardon was not gratuitous. Henry intimated that he would like to have Halnaker in exchange for a grant of crown land (ib. 481). There was no alternative but prompt submission. Within a fortnight Halnaker was surveyed for the crown (ib. 544). The nunnery of Wherwell, Hampshire, was accepted in exchange, the grant being dated 24 March 1540 (ib. xv. 436–72; cf. ib. p. 219, c. 74). On 11 Dec. 1539 Cromwell received from De La Warr a fee of 50l. for his services (ib. XIV. ii. 328), and the language of Lady De La Warr seems to point to him as the author of the release of her husband from confinement (ib. 481).
- De La Warr now reappeared at court. He was present at Henry's reception of Anne of Cleves on 3 Jan. 1540 (ib. xv. 5). On the following 23 July he purchased from the court of augmentations a house and chapel in the White Friars, Fleet Street (ib. p. 567; Pat. Rolls, 36 Hen. VIII, pt. i.). He had vacated Halnaker, which the king suffered to go to ruin (State Papers, Dom. Edw. VI, i. 30), and had moved to his father's house at Offington, Sussex, where on 22 June he obtained license to enclose land for his park (Letters and Papers, xv. 831–59). In 1541 he again twice became an unsuccessful candidate for the Garter (ib. xvi. 449, 751). His proxies at the opening of parliament on 29 Jan. 1546 were Lord St. John, great master, and Lord Russell, privy seal (Lords' Journals), a proof that he had now surrendered to the court party. But on the opening of parliament on 4 Nov. 1547, and on 24 Nov. 1548, he nominated Lord Seymour of Sudeley and Lord Morley (ib. i. 316, 355), showing that on the death of Henry VIII he had passed into opposition. In this he was perhaps influenced by the marriage of his niece Jane Guildford with John Dudley, earl of Warwick and afterwards duke of Northumberland [q. v.] It was probably through the influence of the earl, then at the height of his power, that on 1 Dec. 1549 De La Warr was elected a knight of the Garter.
- De La Warr, having no children, had adopted as his heir, at some date after 1540, William West, son and heir of Sir George West of Warbleton, Sussex. Sir George was De La Warr's younger half-brother by his father's second wife, Eleanor Copley (Collins, Peerage, v. 16). According to Dugdale, William West was bred up by De La Warr in his own house; but 'being not content to stay till his uncle's natural death, prepared poison to dispatch him quickly' (Baronage, ii. 141). De La Warr thereupon brought in a bill of attainder to disinherit West. The record of De La Warr's attendances in the House of Lords during November 1549, when the bill passed the lords, confirms this (Lords' Journals). The bill was apparently thrown out by the commons, a new bill being introduced on 9 Jan. 1550. On 23 Jan. West, who had been imprisoned in the Tower, was brought to the bar of the house. 'He clearly denied the fact, but confessed his hand to be at the confession, which he did for fear.' Witnesses were called, the house considered his guilt proved, and the bill was passed two days later. It is possible that religious animosities played some part in this case. At any rate, it is certain that De La Warr not only forgave West but left him 350l. a year for life, a house in London, and his manors of Offington and Ewhurst (see West's statement in State Papers, Dom. Eliz. iii. 39).
- It is evident that during Edward VI's reign De La Warr retained his religious convictions so far as they were consistent with his personal security. On 29 Sept. 1550 he denounced a Sussex clergyman to the privy council for irreverent language about the sacrament (Acts of Privy Council). On 14 April 1551 he was nominated, jointly with Lord Arundel, lord lieutenant of Sussex (ib.), probably through Warwick's influence. But when, as Duke of Northumberland, that peer proclaimed Lady Jane Grey, De La Warr declared for Mary. His loyalty was rewarded by a grant of two hundred marks per annum and nomination to the privy council (Rymer, Fœdera, xv. 352). He died in October 1554. Henry Machyn [q. v.] the diarist, a political sympathiser, speaks of him as 'the good Lord De La Warr,' and describes him as 'the best howssekeeper in Sussex' (Diary, p. 71). His funeral was sumptuous (ib.) He was buried at Broadwater, near Offington, close to the magnificent tomb he had erected there to his father. His monument in that church also survives. The 'powr chapell to be buryed in' which he had originally destined for himself at Boxgrove is another splendid specimen of Tudor art. In it was buried his wife, who predeceased him, it being near her ancestral domain of Halnaker. A poetical epitaph, composed in his honour by his friend Henry Parker, lord Morley, is printed in Wood's 'Fasti,' i. 117.
- West's nephew, William West, first (or tenth) Baron De La Warr (1519?–1595), who had been adopted by his uncle, and by act of parliament in 1549–50 was disabled from all honours on the ground that 'he, being not content to stay till his uncle's natural death, prepared poison to despatch him quickly,' was none the less on 10 April 1563 restored in blood, and on 5 Feb. 1569–70 is believed to have been created by patent Baron De La Warr; he was summoned to parliament by writs from 8 May 1572 to 19 Feb. 1591–2, and sat on the trials of the Duke of Norfolk and the Earl of Arundel; he died on 30 Dec. 1595; and a portrait of him, attributed to Holbein, was exhibited at Kensington in 1868 (Cat. Third Loan Exhib. No. 629). His son Thomas, second or eleventh baron, claimed the precedency of his great-uncle's ancient barony, which the House of Lords, by a decision of very doubtful legality, granted (see G. E. C[okayne], Complete Peerage, iii. 48–9n.) The second or eleventh baron died on 24 March 1601–2, leaving, besides other issue, Thomas West, third or twelfth baron De La Warr [q. v.], Francis West [q. v.], John (d. 1659?), and Nathaniel, all of whom went to Virginia and took part in its government (see Brown, Genesis U.S.A., ii. 1047–8).
- [State Papers, Dom., Hen. VIII, Edw. VI, Eliz.; Pat. Rolls, Hen. VIII (Record office); Journals of the House of Lords; Journals of the House of Commons; Acts of the Privy Council, ed. Dasent, 1890, fol.; Nichols's Lit. Remains of Edward VI (Roxburghe Club), 1857; Machyn's Diary (Camden Soc.), 1847; Strype's Ecclesiastical Memorials, 1822, and Annals of the Reformation, 1824; Douthwaite's Gray's Inn, 1886; Foster's Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1889; Dugdale's Monast. Angl. 1830, and Baronage of England, 1676; Nicolas's Testamenta Vetusta, 1826, 2 vols.; Jones's Hist. of Brecknockshire, 1809, 2 vols.; Collins's Peerage, ed. Brydges, 1812, vol. v.; Dallaway's Hist. of Sussex, 1815, vol. ii.; Elwes and Robinson's Castles, Manors, and Mansions of West Sussex, 1879; Cartwright's Rape of Bramber, 1830, 2 vols.; Tierney's History and Account of Arundel, 1834; Collinson's History of Somerset, 1791, 3 vols.; An Account of the Hospitals, &c., in Bristol, 1775; Cranidge's Mirror for the Burgesses and Commonalty of Bristol, 1818; Corry's History of Bristol, 1816, 2 vols.; Birch's Original Documents relating to Bristol, 1875; Carlisle's Endowed Grammar Schools, 1818, vol. ii.; Beltz's Order of the Garter, 1841.] I. S. L.
- Sir Thomas West, 8th Baron De La Warr and 5th Baron West KB KG succeeded to his titles at the age of 19. He had an active military career under both Henry VII and Henry VIII, and was multiply honored as a result. He married three times and fathered ten children, including his heir, Thomas, and Sir Owen West, among whose heirs the Barony of West remains abeyant to this day. He is buried in Broadwater Church in Broadwater Sussex England.
-------------------- Notes: Knight of the Garter. 18 Jan 1477/78 Knight of the Bath in reign of Henry VII. 1497 one of the Chief Commanders at Battle of Blackheath. 1510 Knight of the Garter. 1513 Served in Battle of Spurs. Attended Henry VIII on Field of the Cloth of Gold. Favoured Henry VIIIs divorce and had large grants of monastic lands.
Thomas (West), Lord La Warre and Lord West son and heir aged 19 and more at his father's death. He obtained special livery of his lands, 1 Sept 1476, having served two years previously, in the expedition to France. Knighted by the King 14 Jan 1477/78. He was summoned to Parliament from 15 Nov 1482 to 15 April 1583. Espousing the cause of Henry VII, he obtained from that King, 5 Mar 1485/86 Large grants from the estates in Sussex of the attainted Duke of Norfolk, including the honour of Bramber, the forest of St. Leonards, the towns of Horsham, Shoreham, &c. He was in 1491 one of the commanders in Flanders; aided in suppressing the Cornish rebels in 1497; in 1513 was at the sieges of Therouenne and Tourney, being made a knight in Benneret at the defeat of the French at Guinegate, known as the Battle of the Spurs, 18 Aug 1513. Present at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. Nominated K.G. 23 April and was installed 11 May 1510. Attended the King's sister in 1514 at her marriage to Louis XII of France.
Sources: 1) Some Corrections and Additions to The Complete Peerage www.medieval genealogy.org/uk/cp/index.shtml Rec. 21 Aug 2001, IV, De La Warre. 2) Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, Charles Mosley, Editor-in-Chief, 1999 Rec. Date: 31 Aug 2001, 793. 3) Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr., Fifth Edition, 1999, Rec. Date: 31 Aug 2001, 4-12. 4) Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Briton and the United Kingdom , by G.E. Cockayne, Sutton Publishing LTD, 2000. Rec. Date: 31 Aug 2001, 155-6. XIV: 243. 5) Jim Weber Rec. Date: 31 Aug 2001 6) Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weiss, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 1999 Rec. Date: 31 Aug 2001, 18-35
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Justice Department lawyers are reportedly looking for concessions at key airports throughout the country.
U.S. antitrust authorities want to see a broad package of divestitures from AMR Corp. (AAMRQ) and US Airways Group (LCC) as part of any deal to settle the government's challenge to their merger plan, people familiar with the matter said.
The people said talks are under way between the two sides three weeks before a trial of the antitrust challenge is set to open in Washington.
The Justice Department's antitrust suit, which sought to block the merger of AMR's American Airlines and US Airways, argued that the deal would harm consumers by reducing air service and increasing fares. It listed more than 1,000 routes on which regulators believed competition would suffer.
The opening of settlement talks suggests that the government isn't taking an absolute stand against the deal, and that a trial isn't a certainty. At the same time, however, the airlines might resist the broad concessions that the government is seeking.
A person familiar with the Justice Department's thinking said department lawyers insist that any settlement should include divestitures at key airports throughout the U.S. The department believes that the two airlines would need to divest assets at those airports to ensure that their merger wouldn't limit consumer choices on nonstop and connecting flights or harm consumers by raising fares, this person said.
The airlines are prepared to give up slots at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, where US Airways is already the dominant carrier, and make some divestments at other U.S. airports, two people familiar with the negotiations said last week. A person familiar with the process said Sunday that the airlines' settlement proposal would include divestments at other U.S. airports besides Reagan National.
Some of the busiest U.S. airports have limited room for competitors to expand, either because takeoff and landing slots are limited or because there aren't enough gates. LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy International airports in New York are among those with limited slots, while airports in Chicago and Los Angeles have limited gate space.
Another asset in limited supply is permission to fly to some international destinations. US Airways recently obtained rights to offer service to São Paulo, Brazil.
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The Justice Department's suit challenging the merger warned against overconcentration in the U.S. air-travel market if the deal went ahead as planned, because it would leave the U.S. with just four airlines controlling more than 80% of the domestic market.
Both sides have said they are prepared to go to trial, which is scheduled to begin Nov. 25.
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The Center of Excellence (COE) program, funded through the Department of Health and Human Services, was established to assist designated health profession schools and other public and non-profit, or educational institutions strengthen the national capacity to produce a culturally competent healthcare workforce, whose diversity is representative of the U.S. population.
The Pharmacy Biomedical Preview (PBP) Program is one of the many support programs offered through the COE to meet the needs of Howard University Student Pharmacists. The PBP Program is a five-week on-site non-stipend enrichment activity. The purpose of the PBP Program is to provide students with an early academic experience in pharmacy school while improving the on-time graduation rate of Pharm.D. Candidates. This PBP Program is designed to offer a jump start to students in Pharmaceutical Math, Biomedical Sciences I (Anatomy/Physiology), and Biomedical Sciences II (Biochemistry/Microbiology) while providing first year student pharmacists with an opportunity to prepare, organize and assimilate new scientific knowledge.
Students must have submitted the following:
PLEASE NOTE: This page will be updated periodically. Be sure to check for updates regularly.
Registration for summer 2014 is now in progress. All registered voluntary and conditional students will be granted full access to the PBP Portal on July 1, 2014. The PBP Program 2014 begins on Monday, July 7, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. and will end on Friday, August 8, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time)
Course materials will be supplied free of charge and available under the Resources tab of the College of Pharmacy website.
Click here for the PBP Program Course Syllabus
Elective Course credit will be provided to students who participate in all assessment activities, and successfully complete the program.
Students should make personal arrangements for housing and meals.
Details to access this program online will be available July 1, 2014.
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