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BOZEMAN – Montana State University has launched a new, multidisciplinary center that is designed to help improve diagnosis and treatment of mental illness throughout Montana.
The new MSU Center for Mental Health Research and Recovery was approved today by the Montana Board of Regents. It will draw on MSU's research strength in neuroscience, electrical engineering, computer science, biochemistry, psychology and nursing, among other disciplines, to address pressing mental health challenges in the state.
"The goal of the center is to create a hub in Bozeman, on the MSU campus, that will take advantage of expertise we have at MSU," said Frances Lefcort, the center's interim director and head of the MSU department of cell biology and neuroscience.
The center is being established in collaboration with the National Alliance on Mental Illness for Montana, or NAMI Montana. It will be funded by public and private grants, contracts and gifts.
Lefcort said the center's work will focus on four areas: basic science, which will be focused on neural mechanisms underlying mental illnesses such as depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia; translational research, which will be focused on developing new neurotechnologies for diagnosis and treatment; clinical research, which will be focused on prevention, intervention and identifying populations at risk; and outreach, which includes soliciting information about mental health needs while also providing information about advances in diagnoses and treatment strategies.
Specifically, the center will do the following:
• Work to give health care providers in Montana access to cutting-edge, research-driven techniques for diagnosing and treating mental illness;
• Focus research efforts on the specific challenges presented with accessing treatment in isolated rural communities with limited treatment providers;
• Serve as an information hub for the understanding and treatment of psychiatric conditions that lead to suicidal behavior; and
• Create educational opportunities and jobs through the development of a regional "innovation cluster" based upon advances in neuroscience and psychiatric treatment.
In addition to collaborating with NAMI Montana, the center will draw from the expertise of more than 20 MSU departments or colleges, as well as other offices and entities, Lefcort said.
One of those entities is MSU Extension, which is positioned to help share the center's findings with the public. MSU Extension has a presence in all 56 Montana counties.
The state of Montana desperately needs a research-based center that is focused on mental illness treatment systems, according to Matt Kuntz, executive director of NAMI Montana.
"We work with Montana families every day, and it's clear that technical challenges in diagnosing and treating these conditions need more focus," Kuntz said. "They need a multidisciplinary collaboration."
He pointed to high suicide rates in the state as evidence of the need. Montana consistently ranks as one of the states with the highest rates of suicide and attempted suicide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Kuntz added that it's important that research is targeted specifically to Montana, which is largely a rural state.
"The solutions for families dealing with mental illness that work in New York or Boston or Los Angeles may not even be possible in Montana," he said. "NAMI Montana believes it is really important that neuroscientists and engineers and clinicians work together to come up with cutting-edge tools and techniques that can work here in Montana."
Lefcort said that in addition to generating important research and outreach, the center will also provide valuable educational opportunities for MSU students.
"Students who are interested in going into some aspect of mental health will be able to do internships in the center and be involved in basic or clinical translational research," Lefcort said. "We view this as a great learning vehicle."
As the center grows, Lefcort said it will require additional faculty and staff who can provide expertise in cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, psychiatry, human neurophysiology and psychopharmacology.
In addition, there is a potential to collaborate with additional organizations across the state, including public awareness groups and clinical mental health care units.
Renee Reijo Pera, MSU's vice president for research and economic development, said the university is pleased to use its research enterprise to address pressing mental health challenges in the state.
"Montana State has a history of research excellence, and we are confident that the university has the ability to use research to better understand and diagnose mental illness," Reijo Pera said.
Last Updated on Thursday, 20 November 2014 13:40
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An original theater production created and performed by Montana State University Billings students premiered this week on the university's campus.
Showcased by Let's Talk Billings, "Under the Blanket" with a cast of five, explores suicide, depression and mental illness among youth and young adults as part of an innovative suicide-prevention campaign that pairs student actors with the world of performing arts.
Free and open to the public, two performances were held Nov. 18-19 in the Liberal Arts Building's Black Box Theater. A discussion led by performers, directors and mental health professionals followed the play.
The production director Patrick Wilson said the performance drew from participants and their experiences. The cast included Casey St. Clair, a junior English and creative writing major; Sadie Turner, a pre-pharmacy major; Julie Lanmore, a junior health and human services major; Megan Blanco, a theater major; and Moriah Southard, a freshman communications organization major.
"The students wrote the script based on their own personal experiences of mental illness and suicide," Wilson said, who is also an adjunct communications and theater instructor at MSU Billings. "It's a powerful message."
St. Clair said that after years of battling suicidal thoughts and attempts, she hopes to help others who struggle.
"There is no shame in fighting the battle," St. Clair told a group of students during a rehearsal performance. "The shame is in not fighting."
Turner said she felt a strong calling to reach out after her brother took his life.
"Suicide affects everyone around you," Turner said. "It hurts. It's real. This performance gives an opportunity to speak out and relate to others who have experienced this kind of loss."
For more information and resources, visit www.letstalkbillings.org or contact Sarah Keller, chair of the department of communication and theater, at (406) 896-5824.
Last Updated on Thursday, 20 November 2014 13:33
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BOZEMAN – An MSU Extension MontGuide provides information about the benefits of opening a Montana medical care savings account before Dec. 31.
The guide, "Montana Medical Care Savings Accounts," offers advice on who might benefit.
Have you had any medical expenses during 2014 that are not covered by a health insurance policy or a flexible spending account (FSA)? If so, you can open a Montana Medical Care Savings Account (MSA) by Dec. 31 to cover those expenses. Up to $3,000 of your deposit in the account, per taxpayer, is deductible from your 2014 Montana adjusted gross income, thus reducing your taxes.
"This tax advantage does not apply to your federal income taxes and should not be confused with the Federal Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)," cautions Marsha Goetting, MSU Extension family economics specialist.
People should contact their financial institution, such as a bank, savings bank or credit union, to establish an MSA. A Montanan with taxable income over $17,100 could save about $207 in state income taxes by depositing the maximum $3,000 in a Montana MSA.
"It doesn't matter if you have already paid your 2014 medical bills either by check, credit or debit card," Goetting said. "You can add up those expenses and make a deposit by Dec. 31 of this year and reimburse yourself for those eligible medical expenses from your Montana MSA as late as Jan. 15, 2015."
The key word is paid. You can reimburse yourself for paid eligible medical expenses as late as Jan. 15, 2015. But if you haven't yet paid those bills because your health insurance company hasn't sorted out what it will pay and what you still owe, you still can reimburse yourself for those 2014 expenses after Jan.15.
The amount you can use to reduce your Montana income is the total deposited, not the amount used for medical expenses during the tax year. For example, if you deposited $3,000 in an MSA but only used $100 for eligible medical expenses during 2014, you still get to reduce your income for Montana income tax purposes by $3,000. The remaining $2,900 is available for paying medical expenses in future years.
A husband and wife who each establish an individual MSA can receive a $6,000 deduction if they file a joint Montana income tax return. They will save about $414 on their state income taxes. Joint accounts for an MSA are not allowed. Only individual accounts are eligible for the Montana MSA deduction, thus husbands and wives must open separate MSA accounts.
MSA amounts held in the name of a husband or wife can be used to pay the medical bills of either spouse or their dependent children, Goetting said.
"If a husband had $6,000 in medical expenses during 2014, $3,000 from his own MSA and $3,000 from his wife's MSA could be used for his bills," said Goetting.
Eligible expenses include medical and dental insurance premiums, long-term care insurance, dental care (including orthodontists), eyeglasses or contacts, or prescription drugs that are paid during the year. Not covered are medical-related bills that have been already covered by a supplemental, primary or self-insured plan. Basically, Montana accepts as eligible expenses any that are listed in the IRS 502 Publication, "Medical and Dental Expenses," which is on the Web at www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p502.pdf.
An MSU Extension MontGuide will help you decide if you would benefit from a Montana medical care savings account. The publication (MontGuide 199817 HR) is free if picked up from your local MSU County Extension office. Or, download it free from the web at http://msuextension.org/publications/FamilyFinancialManagement/MT199817HR.pdf.
Last Updated on Thursday, 20 November 2014 13:32
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HELENA – Ninety-seven percent for oil and gas, 3 percent for everything else.
An analysis from The Wilderness Society shows that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has made almost all its land within Montana available for oil and gas development. Nada Culver, director of the society's BLM Action Center, said the stats prove that the oil and gas industry has an unfair advantage.
"If you want to manage for conservation, for recreation, for wildlife, all of those things are really difficult when we're faced with such an unbalanced situation in current management," she said.
BLM resource management plans in western states were examined for the report, which found that the agency has strict standards for deciding which lands should be managed for recreation or the environment, but the same standards are not applied to oil and gas leasing decisions.
Culver said the BLM should address imbalances, identify areas for conservation and recreation, and incorporate Master Leasing Plans – which the agency is beginning to do.
"We want to support a direction that the agency is going and can go to really embrace the way the public feels," she said, "that they're their lands, that we all have an opportunity to value them and use them."
She cited another detail from the report: Of the 36 million acres of BLM land under oil and gas leases throughout the West, only about 12.5 million are in production. The report, "Open for Business," is online at wilderness.org.
Last Updated on Thursday, 13 November 2014 09:36
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – "I Want To Be Recycled" is the theme of Keep America Beautiful's 2014 America Recycles Day, which takes place annually on and around Nov. 15 throughout the country.
America Recycles Day, in its 17th year, educates people about the importance of recycling to our economy and environmental well-being and helps to motivate occasional recyclers to become everyday recyclers.
America Recycles Day celebrates the benefits of recycling and provides an educational platform that motivates people to take action to recycle more and recycle smarter, influencing recycling behaviors at work, at home and on the go.
"When material is recycled, you're 'giving your garbage another life' as it becomes something new and valuable," said Jennifer Jehn, president and chief executive officer of Keep America Beautiful.
"For example, a plastic bottle can be recycled into new containers, T-shirts and fleece jackets, park benches, plastic lumber, and more. America Recycles Day can inspire people to reduce, reuse and recycle – and realize that recyclable materials have the potential to become something bigger."
"The United States has embraced recycling since the first America Recycles Day in 1997 and as a result, today, the vast majority of the population has curbside recycling programs. It is time to re-invigorate recycling by promoting more and better sustainable materials management to secure a healthier environment today and for future generations to come," said Mathy Stanislaus, assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. "There is much more to do and communities, businesses, and individuals each have a role to play in making recycling work for everyone. By increasing recycling, and reducing contamination in the recycling stream, we can provide the valuable resources essential to a growing manufacturing sector."
Here are five actions people can take on and around America Recycles Day:
• Take the "I Recycle" pledge and tell us what you pledge to recycle more. Five people who take the pledge will win a park bench made from recycled content.
• Take a recycling "selfie" and post it to your social networks – you just might win a prize! All you have to do is take a photo of yourself recycling and post it with the words "#RecyclingSelfie" on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Tumblr.
• Visit IWantToBeRecycled.org to find your nearest recycling center, and learn the facts about what materials can be recycled and what they can become in their new lives.
• How can you get involved? Find events near you or host an event of your own.
Last Updated on Thursday, 13 November 2014 09:35
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BOZEMAN – Farmers and ranchers gathered in Bozeman last month to learn about how climate change is affecting their livelihood, and what they can do to prepare for risks and manage them.
Montana State University environmental sciences professor Fabian Menalled said one example that everyone has encountered is cheatgrass.
His informal surveys show that almost all ag producers agree it's become more of a problem, and he explained why.
"Cheatgrass grows in an environment with more CO2 and higher temperature," he said, "and the challenges and opportunity is, we have to manage it."
Pesticides can be an effective tool against cheatgrass, but Menalled said their effectiveness declines in certain climate conditions.
Cheatgrass isn't the only challenge. Menalled said less rainfall, different timing for spring runoff and warmer temperatures earlier in the season all can affect production.
"Get engaged and understand what the costs of climate change are," he said, "and eventually design an adaptive management program."
Severe storms and extreme heat were also discussed at the forum.
Event coordinators included the Center for Rural Affairs, the Northern Plains Resource Council and Renewable Northwest.
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Toad, not Mr. Toad, just plain Toad, lives in all his grumpy, gigantic, glory, at Sandstone Gallery. He's one of artist Leo Olson's wrought iron creations. With help from his humans, he hops around the gallery whenever displays are updated, currently crouching on the floor near Cararra marble carvings by William Crain.
That juxtaposition points up one of Sandstone Gallery's great strengths: the diversity of its artists.
Since the gallery's opening as an artist's co-op for the ArtWalk on Oct. 6, 2000, painters, wood carvers, etchers, photographers, stone carvers, jewelers, potters, glass workers and woodworkers have all shown their creations. Styles range from very traditional, to western, to impressionism, to abstract; from colorful flights of fancy to black and white.
The Sandstone Gallery's location at 2913 Second Ave. N. was chosen originally for the amount of space in relationship to the rent as well as for its next-door neighbor, the Artspace Café, now out of business. In a short time, it became obvious that the new gallery was a bit off the beaten track, but the members refused to be discouraged. They got busy doing what every creative person loathes: marketing and promotion.
These days, press releases go consistently to the local papers and magazines as well as the broadcast media, along with paid ads and a telephone yellow pages listing.
The co-op format at Sandstone provides the artists with a place to display and sell their work at a reasonable cost. Retail galleries take a 50 percent to 60 percent commission. Sandstone members pay themselves back just 15 percent to defray rent and marketing costs. The nonprofit mode allows artists of varying levels of skill and experience to sell their work. Retail galleries not only often cater to a certain type of art, they also require a certain price point. Sandstone artists price their own works.
To keep things lively, both featured members and guest artists change every two to three months, and co-op members are required to rotate at least a third of their work for every ArtWalk.
A list of those who've been either a co-op member or guest artist reads like a who's who of artists in Montana: Ben Steele, Leo Olson, Lyndon Pomeroy, Michiko Carlson, Phil Bell, Cliff Potts, Jean Albus and many, many more.
Creative persons love what they do, however tortured and driven the process may be.
"A quiet country scene is the subject of most of my paintings and oil is my medium of choice," says Sue Hammersmark, a 15-year member. "There's something about the way you apply paint to the canvas ... ."
Julie Pederson Atkins, a former co-op member, works with pencil on paper. "It's a matter of caressing the paper," she told Magic City Magazine in 2010. "I baby it. Paper isn't just a surface to me. Right from the beginning I want it to be transformed."
Lana Bittner gave up her day job to concentrate on art. She now works in watercolor with ink alcohol.
"The theme of my work is contemporary art for the modern world," she says. She left her job at a local bank in 2001 and joined Sandstone gallery in 2004. "This is my passion, and it's definitely more fun than banking." A current featured artist, she sold three pieces at the October ArtWalk.
Andres Anderson, who has specialized in airplanes for m much of his career, quotes from Robert Henri: "When we look at anything, we see beyond the objects we draw. We should draw with this spiritual sight. The value of a work of art depends from the flight the observer takes from it."
One word describes Sandstone Gallery: Comfortable. Or maybe two words: comfortable and fun.
For every ArtWalk, Sandstone offers heavy hors d'oeuvres and beverages, a potluck of goodies that lures in many browsers. The artists are also there to discuss their techniques and inspiration with patrons as well. Visitors range in age from preschool to octogenarian, and all questions receive a kind and respectful answer. It's an ongoing, nonthreatening soiree.
Musicians lend another dimension to the evening. Just as dusk settled in during this October's ArtWalk, the Dixieland combo, the Second Avenue Stompers, with photographer John Havener on the tuba, entertained on the sidewalk. Patrons flowed around the musicians into the gallery, circulated, picked artists' brains and purchased everything from a greeting card to a painting.
But, alas, poor Toad remains homeless. Could that be why he looks so glum? Why not come in and give him a pat on his rusty head at: Sandstone Gallery, 2913 Second Ave. N. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, telephone 256-5837.
Last Updated on Thursday, 30 October 2014 10:16
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Recently Billings was treated to a debate between the two men running for the lone Montana U.S. House of Representatives seat. Ryan Zinke (R) and John Lewis (D) spent the evening making sure a 30-second commercial could not be the focus of anything they might say. Too late, ad men from D.C. had the ads in the can before the debate was even announced. Accuracy and clarity are not their hallmarks.
To make matters worse the people asking the questions did not know enough to ask good follow up questions. For example, both candidates support the building of the XL pipeline to obtain American energy independence.
A great follow-up question would have been, "Sirs, North American oil from Canada and the Bakken will be delivered to refineries in Port Arthur, Texas, owned by the Royal Saudi and Royal Dutch families. They will turn the crude oil into diesel fuel to be delivered to South and Central American countries. How does that reduce our dependence on the world energy market?"
But alas, the response from both, "I will put America first," went unchallenged.
All six candidates for the two federal open seats were invited to address a germane question each week. On week one, four of the candidates determined not to answer because A) The question was too difficult B) It was their bowling night C) It is none of your business what or if they think D) Their handlers will not let them answer questions embarrassing to their donors E) All of the above.
All answers that were received are printed here with minor edits for clarity.
Question one
Canada has implemented cost containment of prescription drugs while guaranteeing reasonable profits to the pharmaceuticals through a process much like what our Public Service Commission does for energy costs. Canadian citizens have safe pharmaceuticals and enjoy triple digit savings compared to what American citizens have to pay. It would appear that implementing the Canadian system would save taxpayers massive amounts in the Medicaid and Medicare systems as well as personal/family health care costs. Would you favor implementing a cost containment system for prescription drugs in the United States or would you not favor such a system. Please explain.
Amanda Curtis (D): "As Senator, I will fight directing the government to negotiate with pharmaceutical manufacturers to reduce the costs seniors pay for prescriptions. Pharmaceutical corporations should not be making billions off of our seniors. That's why I support the Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act."
Mike Fellows (L): "We will continue to have high cost drugs in the United States, because we are in a sense subsidizing the rest of the world. Having a Public Service-type Commission determining how much drug will cost won't work.
"With the FDA process, getting a new drug on the market can take anywhere from 10 to 12 years, at a cost of over 800 million dollars. Drug patients only last for 18 years, before we see those generic drugs on the market produced by the competition. Streamlining the process will help. We could also legalize obtaining drugs across the border in Canada."
Question two
American citizens and institutions seem to be under constant cyber attack. The attacks of last Christmas season on Target stores claimed billions of dollars and volumes of personal information sold on the black market. It was reported that the attacks came from criminal organizations in the Ukraine and Russia.
The recent attacks against JP Morgan are also thought to come from Russian criminals and, according to Reuters and the New York Daily News, in collaboration with the Russian government (in retaliation for U.S. sanctions imposed for Russian involvement in the Ukrainian civil war).
If proof is found implicating foreign government involvement in cyber attacks on U.S. citizens and financial institutions, or proof is found implicating foreign criminal elements but extradition is not forth coming, what should the response of the U.S. government be?
Roger Roots (L): "Call me skeptical of claims that the federal government needs more power to protect Americans from 'cyber attacks.' The CIA and the defense establishment have been pushing this line for years. Newt Gingrich and Richard Clark (among many others) have even falsely claimed that the power grid can be shut down or that nuclear plants can be hacked by cyber terrorists. Of course such systems are off-line and not connected to the internet. It is propaganda aimed at controlling and censoring the internet."
Steve Daines (R): Montanans have seen firsthand how many federal websites, such as the Obamacare website Healthcare.gov, often make it too easy for hackers to obtain Personal Identifiable Information. That's why I've fought to secure increased accountability on all federal websites and introduced legislation to address the serious security risks that exist specifically with Healthcare.gov.
"As a member of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and as someone with more than a decade of high-tech experience, I know the risks of foreign cyber-attacks firsthand. Cyber breaches pose serious threats, and those responsible must be held accountable. I'm committed to finding solutions that protect Montanans' civil liberties and privacy."
Mike Fellows (L): "Companies need better security to stop these attacks on our information. U.S. sanctions on Russia don't work and diplomatic solutions aren't working either. Better investment in the educational development of computer security systems will help to stop these attacks. If our U.S. foreign policies are being used to foster these attacks, then we should be looking at policy as well."
Ryan Zinke (R): "We live in an era of modern warfare, the likes of which has never been seen before. There are few aspects of our lives that are untouched by technology. We depend on the internet to conduct businesses, power our electrical grid, and even maintain our economy. Should our energy grid or other technological infrastructure components be attacked, it poses a major threat to the security of the United States.
"Should evidence of cyber attacks be uncovered, the response of the U.S. government should be to take a firm approach with the perpetrators of cyber attacks, while also focusing on developing cyber counterattack measures and aggressively pursuing offensive techniques to address cyber security threats. However, while pursuing these methods, there needs to be oversight and accountability that protect and promote information security for individuals."
Last Updated on Thursday, 16 October 2014 12:54
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A cattle drive and parade kick off the Northern International Livestock Exposition at 2 p.m. Saturday. The cattle drive, which goes from downtown to MetraPark, encompasses 75 head of cattle, a trail boss, outriders, chuckwagon and bunk wagon followed by a motor-less parade.
NILE itself begins on Tuesday, Oct. 14. Among the highlights:
Lou Taubert Cattle Drive
A part of the NILE's mission is to respect our western traditions and heritage. The idea of a western parade and cattle drive was born from the desire to share with our modern culture our agricultural roots. The event will encompass a cattle drive assembled by the Yellowstone County Museum, which will also serve as the grand marshal.
The proposed route will go west down First Avenue North and back on Second Avenue North, then continue out to MetraPark.
Ranch rodeo
Elite ranch rodeos from across the region sanction with the NILE. All rodeos are guaranteed a spot for one team to compete in the NILE Ranch Rodeo Finals (with the exception of the Wyoming State Fair Ranch Rodeo Finals that will fill two teams slots).
Again this year, the NILE has sanctioned with the WRCA, which will allow the first place team to compete in the Ranch Rodeo World Finals in Amarillo, Texas.
This year's NILE Ranch Rodeo Finals will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 7 p.m. in the Rimrock Auto Arena.
Cat-Griz Shoot Out
Date: Oct 16
Time: 07:30 p.m.
Location: Rimrock Auto Arena
The biggest sports rivalry in the state of Montana will take on the toughest bulls and broncs at this year's NILE ProRodeo Cat/Griz Rodeo Shoot Out. In a unique competitive style, the rodeo teams from each school will draft Pro-Rodeo Contestants to compete for their school earning points throughout the night.
Up for grabs will be prize money offered by the NILE garnered from $1 of every paid ticket. After the dust settles the winning school will receives 60 percent of the prize money while the other school will receive 40 percent.
The money will be awarded to each college in the form of Scholarships to be given to collegiate rodeo athletes.
Western Expo
Date: Oct 14-18
Time: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
These vendors showcase authentic western art or jewelry, saddles, tack, and western wear as well as livestock equipment, feed and supplements, and cattle genetic based companies.
Don't forget that it's the only place to get NILE merchandise. It all unfolds at MetraPark in Billings.
In 2013, The NILE Stock Show and Rodeo saw:
• Over 1,000 head of livestock on the grounds.
• Total five-day attendance: 40,000 people.
• Visitors were from 38 states, and 85 percent were from Montana.
• Visitors came from several Canadian Provinces and other countries.
Horse Extravaganza
Date: Oct 17-18
Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Ford Super Duty Arena (Montana Pavilion)
The 2014 Horse Extravaganza is a two-day horse showcase Spectators will have the opportunity to view a wide range of equine demonstrations, Stallion Row and peruse the equine based trade show booths and exhibits.
Those include:
• NILE Raffle Filly
• Stallion Row- a breed showcase of horses
•The Newest in Equine Equipment and Tack
• Horse-shoeing Demonstrations
If it's related to horses, the Horse Haven trade show should have it.
Last Updated on Thursday, 09 October 2014 10:57
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Here are hunting outlook reports for antelope, elk and deer in this section of Montana. The reports are from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks.
Things are looking up for Montana antelope with populations continuing to recover from previous years' winter mortality and reduced recruitment in central and Eastern Montana.
This year, there are even a few more special licenses available reflecting that reduced but improving status.
Successful antelope license applicants may recognize increased fawn production in many areas as populations respond to generally favorable weather and habitat conditions in 2014.
Montana's antelope archery season will close Oct. 10 and the general rifle season for antelope will run Oct. 11-Nov. 9.
For more information on antelope hunting in Montana, visit FWP's website at fwp.mt.gov, click "Hunting" then click Hunting Guide.
Antelope numbers throughout south central Montana are stable to increasing from the past couple of years. Fawn production increased dramatically in the spring of 2014 and should result in hunters seeing more antelope than last year. In areas impacted by bluetongue in 2008, population numbers remain below average, but are increasing.
With elk populations continuing to be strong across most of Montana these are good times for elk hunters.
In some areas of Western Montana, where populations have declined, wildlife biologists have recently observed increased recruitment of calves.
In many hunting districts, however, because access to private lands can be difficult, which can affect hunting success given landownership patterns and distribution of elk.
Montana's general, five-week long, elk hunting season opens Oct. 25.
Even if you didn't draw a special permit this year, remember Montana offers numerous opportunities to hunt for elk with just a general hunting license.
Elk numbers along the Beartooth Face and in the Crazy Mountains, Big Snowy Mountains, Bull Mountains and southeastern Belt Mountains are at all-time highs, though most are restricted to private land where access is difficult. Harvest will likely be slightly higher than last year.
Mule deer numbers have experienced recent declines in many areas of Montana but should be improving with favorable weather and habitat conditions in 2014.
Recent seasonal insect-related disease outbreaks have reduced white-tailed deer populations in parts of eastern, central and west-central Montana. Other areas have stable populations with favorable weather and habitat conditions in 2014 enhancing recruitment levels across the state.
Bottom line, deer hunters in Montana will find improving populations but a mix of hunting opportunities when the general season opens Oct. 25.
Mule deer numbers throughout south central Montana are stable or up slightly from last year, though they remain 30 to 40 percent below the long-term average. Harvest likely will be similar to last year.
White-tailed deer numbers are quite low at lower elevations and north of the Yellowstone River, at least partially because of last summer's outbreak of epizootic hemorrhagic disease, commonly known as EHD. Numbers closer to the mountains, where the bugs that spread the disease are not present, remain reasonably strong.
Whitetail buck harvest opportunities likely will be similar to last year, while antlerless harvest will decline due to significant reductions in B-tag numbers.
Last Updated on Thursday, 25 September 2014 10:51
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The 1,200 volunteers who teach Hunter Education remind all hunters there are four basic rules of gun safety.
1. Always point the muzzle of your gun in a safe direction.
2. Always treat every gun as if it were loaded.
3. Always be sure of your target and beyond.
4. Always keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire.
Hunting is a safe activity. It is up to each hunter to make responsible decisions to keep it that way.
Last Updated on Thursday, 25 September 2014 10:50
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The Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee recommends the use of bear spray and urges hunters to learn other bear-aware safety measures.
• Carry bear spray and know how to use it.
• Hunt with a partner, leave detailed plans with someone and check-in periodically.
• Pay attention to fresh bear sign. Look for bear tracks, scat, and concentrations of natural foods.
• Use caution when hunting areas that have evidence of bear activity or areas with scavenging birds such as magpies, ravens, or crows.
Most grizzly bears will leave an area if they sense human presence. Hunters who observe a grizzly bear or suspect a bear is nearby should leave the area. If you do encounter a grizzly, stay calm, don't run, and assess the situation by trying to determine if the bear is actually aware of you. Is it, for instance, threatening or fleeing? Always keep the bear in sight as you back away, and leave the area.
When to use bear spray
• Bear spray should be used as a deterrent only in an aggressive or attacking confrontation with a bear.
How to use bear spray
• Each person should carry a can of bear spray.
• If a bear is moving toward you from a distance of 30-60 feet direct the spray downward toward the front of the bear with a slight side to side motion so that the bear spray billows up and creates a wide cloud that acts as a barrier between you and the bear.
• If the bear is within 30 feet spray continuously at the front of the bear until it breaks off its charge.
• Spray additional bursts if the bear continues toward you. Sometimes just the noise of the spray and the appearance of the spray cloud is enough to deter a bear from continuing its charge.
• Spray additional bursts if the bear makes additional charges.
• A full canister of bear spray is essential for bear encounters.
• The expiration date on the spray should be checked annually.
Selecting a bear spray
Purchase products that are clearly labeled "for deterring attacks by bears," and that are registered with the Environmental Protection Agency.
No deterrent is 100 percent effective, but compared to all others, including firearms, bear spray has demonstrated success in a variety of situations in fending off threatening and attacking bears and preventing injury to the person and animal involved.
For more on living with bears and being bear aware, see the FWP home page at fwp.mt.gov; then click Be Bear Aware.
For information, go to the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee website.
Last Updated on Thursday, 25 September 2014 10:49
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For the 2014 hunting season, about 1,230 landowners have enrolled about 7.4 million acres in Montana's Block Management Program.
The Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks program provides hunters with public hunting access to private land, and isolated public land, free of charge, while assisting landowners in managing hunting activities.
Information about specific Block Management Area opportunities is available at all FWP offices and on the FWP website at fwp.mt.gov.
Hunting Guides and most BMA maps also will be available on the FWP website. Click "Block Management."
Again this year, FWP will publish one statewide Block Management Hunting Access Guide that will list information for all seven FWP administrative regions.
While many BMAs do not require reservations, some do. Hunters can use the Hunting Access Guides to determine how permission is obtained for individual BMAs. While some BMA reservations may be made this season beginning Aug. 22, others won't open reservation lists until later in this fall.
Montana's millions of acres of private land offer some good hunting opportunities—the only catch is gaining the landowner's permission to hunt.
It is Montana law that hunters obtain landowner permission to hunt on all private land.
Here are a few things to keep in mind that will greatly improve results when attempting to secure hunting access to private land.
• Show courtesy to the landowner and make hunting arrangements by calling or visiting at times convenient to the landowner.
• Plan ahead and secure permission well in advance of the actual hunting date.
• Provide complete information about yourself and your hunting companions, including vehicle descriptions and license numbers.
• Explain what type of hunting you wish to do, and be sure to ask any questions which can help clarify the conditions of access.
• Follow the landowner's instructions, and bring with you only the companions for whom you obtained landowner permission.
• Be sure to thank the landowner after your hunt.
Hunters and landowners can learn more by investing some time on Montana's Hunter-Landowner Stewardship Project, an information program for anyone interested in promoting responsible hunter behavior and good hunter and landowner relationships in Montana.
Visit FWP's website at fwp.mt.gov, then click the "For Hunters" tab.
For more information on hunting access in Montana, check out the "Hunter Access" pages on FWP's website at fwp.mt.gov.
Here's a rundown on the current status of Montana's top upland game birds.
• Gray (Hungarian) Partridge: While no formal surveys are conducted for huns in Montana, various observations along with weather and habitat conditions suggest huns will be average to below average again this season. Observations in Regions 4, 6, and 7 suggest average numbers. Observations from Region 5 suggest numbers will be below average and lower than last year.
• Mountain Grouse: Observations in western Montana suggest average to slightly above average numbers of all species. Preliminary information from Region 5 suggests overall blue grouse and ruffed grouse numbers will likely remain below the long term average.
• Pheasants: Montana is experiencing a large decline in CRP acreage along the northern tier of the state, which may have an impact on hunting experiences in Regions 4 and 6. In this area, spring "crow counts"— where wildlife biologists travel specific routes to count and record the "crowing calls" of cock pheasants to determine population trends—were 42 percent above the long term average. Region 7 reported that populations will vary between fair to near the long-term average in good habitat. In northwestern Montana, weather in Region 1 resulted in below average numbers on the Ninepipe Wildlife Management Area. Region 3 reported average numbers for southwestern Montana. In Region 5, pheasant crow counts varied but were below the long-term average. Overall, Region 5 expects the 2014 season will be similar to last year's season.
• Sharp-tailed grouse: Region 6 reported fair to average numbers in good habitat. Lek surveys and other observations in Region 6 indicate sharp-tail numbers will be near the long term average across the region. General observations from Region 5 suggest below average numbers. Region 7 reported that sharp-tail populations will be near the long-term average where habitat conditions are good.
• Chukar: Region 5 reports that chukar numbers remain below average but may have some potential for improvement this year.
Montana's young hunters are the focus of a special weekend youth waterfowl and pheasant hunting season Sept. 27–28. Legally licensed hunters age 12 through 15 will be able to hunt ducks, mergansers, geese, coots and ring-necked pheasants statewide on these two days.
In addition, youngsters 11 years of age who will reach age 12 by Jan. 16, 2015 may participate in this hunt with the proper licenses. A non-hunting adult at least 18 years of age must accompany the young hunters in the field.
The bag limit, shooting hours, hunter safety requirements and all other regulations of the regular pheasant and waterfowl seasons apply.
There is an exception to the youth waterfowl season at the Canyon Ferry WMA near Helena—shooting hours will extend from one-half hour before sunrise to noon Sept. 27 and 28.
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COLD SPRING, Ky. – Ernest L. Flynn of Billings and Frederica Haymaker of Los Angeles, were selected by Disabled American Veterans to receive the 2014 George H. Seal Memorial Trophy for extraordinary volunteerism.
The awards were presented by DAV National Commander Joseph Johnston at the organization's 93rd National Convention Aug. 10-13 in Las Vegas.
"This year's Seal award recipients are dedicated volunteers," said Commander Johnston. "They represent the finest DAV has to offer in serving veterans.
"Volunteerism is one of the most important components of our mission and serves injured and ill veterans and their families," said Johnston. "And DAV has more volunteers than any other veterans service organization. From our hospital volunteers to our Transportation Network drivers, to our Local Veterans Assistance Program; we reach out to deliver assistance to the veterans who need us."
The prestigious awards honor the best of thousands of remarkable volunteers who serve in the Department of Veterans Affairs Voluntary Service Program. The awards are conferred in memory of George H. Seal, who was DAV's Director of Membership and Voluntary Services and the leading organizer and administrator of DAV volunteer programs.
"Our 2014 Seal Trophy winners show what volunteers can mean to our veterans," said Johnston. They are there to honor the promises made to the men and women who have served and sacrificed for our freedom."
DAV empowers veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity. It is dedicated to a single purpose; fulfilling our promises to the men and women who served.
DAV does this by ensuring that veterans and their families can access the full range of benefits available to them; fighting for the interests of America's injured heroes on Capitol Hill; and educating the public about the great sacrifices and needs of veterans transitioning back to civilian life. DAV, a non-profit organization with 1.2 million members, was founded in 1920 and chartered by the U.S. Congress in 1932. Learn more at www.dav.org
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St. Vincent Healthcare has announced that its Clinical Pastoral Education Program has received accreditation by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education Inc. of Decatur, Ga., as a Satellite Program Center.
SV CPE is a satellite of Tri-Cities Chaplaincy in Richland, Wash. The program supervisor of SV CPE is the Rev. Wes McIntyre of Tri-Cities Chaplaincy. The Rev. Terry Hollister is coordinator of ministry formation and CPE at St. Vincent Healthcare.
SV CPE was granted provisional accreditation in December 2013 and offered its first unit of CPE from February through June 2014. In late April, 2014 the Rev. Beverly Hartz, Accreditation Committee chairwoman, made a site visit to evaluate the program's compliance with ACPE Accreditation Standards. Based on her findings and upon her recommendation, the ACPE Accreditation Commission took action to approve SV CPE as an accredited Satellite Program Center at its May meeting.
SV CPE plans to continue offering CPE units in future. An extended unit will be held from October 2014 through May 2015. Eight students will be participating in that unit.
Two of those students will make use of videoconferencing technology as they participate remotely from the two other SCL Heath affiliate hospitals in Montana; Holy Rosary Healthcare, Miles City and St. James Healthcare, Butte. Plans are in progress for a 12-week summer intensive unit, to begin in late May or early June, 2015.
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When we talk about media and broadcast solutions, we often see the phrase "contribution-grade." But what does that mean exactly? It means that IP media technologies are now widely used to transport the highest quality video feeds in the demanding, high-pressure and high-visibility broadcast environments.
Examples of this are all around us. Today, Cisco announced that it has deepened its relationship with Level 3. Cisco is providing the Cisco Digital Content Manager Gateway to provide video encoding services including the delivery of uncompressed as well as JPEG 2000 compressed HD video feeds over Level 3's new Vyvx VenueNet+ contribution network infrastructure. This upgrade to Level 3's Emmy Award-winning Vyvx VenueNet transmission service will provide even higher quality HD and SD video encoding, as well as other IP-enabled services in all 31 major professional football venues in time for the 2010 football season.
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Wauwatosa public school teachers would continue to be rewarded for advanced education under a proposal discussed by the School Board last week.
Teachers would earn $1,500 in supplemental pay for a relevant masters degree and an additional $1,500 for a doctorate under a plan presented by Human Resources Director Daniel Chanen.
"It's a recognition as a learning institution that we're recognizing further education of our staff, and I think that's important," Superintendent Phil Ertl said.
Teachers also would be eligible to seek certification from the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards, with the district paying a stipend of $1,000 annually for 10 years, after which the teacher would have to reapply, Chanen said.
Most recently, teachers received $1,415 for a doctorate, and more for a masters, Ertl said. The pay would be retroactive to the beginning of the school year, once the teachers and the district reach a collective bargaining agreement.
Base pay is still a bargainable issue under state law, while most other issues, including benefits and work rules, are not. As a payment beyond base pay, the supplement and stipend are administrative decisions, Ertl said.
Even so, the issue of bargaining rights has been clouded after a recent court ruling in Dane County, which appears to restore full bargaining rights to municipal employees, including teachers. In Madison, the teachers union has demanded that the district begin collective bargaining negotiations in light of the decision.
The state attorney general has said he will appeal the Dane County ruling.
Wauwatosa is seeking a legal opinion on where the district stands in regard to bargaining.
Chanen said teachers seeking advanced degrees will have to take relevant programs to be eligible for supplemental pay. Criteria would include the accreditation of the institution, the courses required for the degree and other factors. While this has always been in place, it has been little applied, Chanen said.
Teachers already embarked on a degree program would be eligible for the pay when they finish, he said. Teachers seeking degrees in the future would have their programs reviewed. Teachers with advanced degrees earned before this date earn supplemental pay at rates that were grandfathered before the change of state law.
School Board member Phil Kroner noted that Tony Evers, the state superintendent of schools, has said that teachers' advanced degrees do not help student learning, but Kroner said he believes they do.
Greater adult learning encourages greater student learning, Ertl said.
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Advocates for the humanities search for the arguments to win federal support, and to stop having their disciplines treated "like a piñata."
A recent news item cut me to the nib. Many public schools no longer teach cursive writing; 46 states no longer mandate that districts must teach cursive in their language arts core curriculum. This comes from the mistaken logic that our keyboard-happy society has made cursive a relic of the past that students no longer need. Numerous public schools now teach only printing, and some don't even bother with lower and upper case – just block letters. Roman Catholic schools still demand cursive, and good for them. For the foreseeable future, kids who don't have cursive will be at a competitive disadvantage. I'm surprised parents aren't on the pitchfork-and-torch brigade over this, but I'd like to suggest that college professors should be (especially if they have kids).
I'm no pen-wielding Luddite waxing rhapsodic about creativity flowing down the barrel of a pen, making allusions to a shared Western heritage, or discoursing on calligraphy as art. Like millions of Americans I hit the keyboard most of the time. Nor do I harbor fond memories of learning cursive. My grade school taught the Peterson Method, a system loaded with unnecessary curlicues, severe angles and precise slants. It required mind-numbing oval drills that began with a roomful of kids rotating their arms from the elbow down as the teacher chanted, "Round, round, ready, touch." We repeatedly penciled the same oval – points deducted for lines that strayed. I hated Peterson Method and couldn't wait to dump its silly W -– a looped double-V – with a more efficient double U construction. I was so bad at penmanship that even my sainted Pennsylvania grandmother called my handwriting "chicken scratchin'." These days I have a hand disorder that makes my scrawl closer to hieroglyphics. But I can read it within 90 percent accuracy and I can pen it very fast.
My defense of cursive is pragmatic, not aesthetic (though I covet elegant script). The first is discipline-specific. The humanities are more text-oriented than most math, computer science, and hard and experimental sciences. We humanities professors tend to demand more prose writing, our content is frequently more subjective, and an ability to take notes is essential. One unexpected consequence of cursive's decline shows up among recent graduate students working in archives. Those unable to write cursively, often experience difficulty reading the script of others. That was difficult enough in past times, but what we are seeing now is quasi-illiteracy in all things cursive. If a document hasn't been transcribed, students won't use it. Need I remind humanities professors how few documents have been transcribed?
A second problem lies with blue-book exams. Count me among those who find blue-book exams an imperfect way of assessing student achievement, but I doubt that they will become obsolete as long as class sizes soar rather than shrink. Large classes present logistical problems. Administrators want professors to be up-to-date, yet they saddle them with classroom structures akin to industrial-age assembly lines. Those with bulging classes of first-year students could assign take-home exams or papers, if they wished also to flunk half of the class for plagiarism. There are other options, but they are limited, which means that today's college students are likely to take numerous blue-book exams. The results won't be pretty.
Students swear they can type far faster than they can "write," by which they mean block-letter printing, and that's correct. Then comes a blue-book exam and with it the instruction, "No, you can't type this on your laptop." (If you allow that, you'd better have an army of test monitors to stare over shoulders.) Many students cannot fill an eight-page bluebook in an hour, which means that their essays are superficial and are graded accordingly.
"Unfair!" they cry. "Incomplete," we reply. "We cannot assign a grade based on what you might have said." Is it unfair? No more so than a math class in which a professor insists that students do their own arithmetic rather than using a calculator. Or a computer scientist who tells students that the code students write must work at the end of the hour. There are numerous other situations that disallow computers, including the GREs, LSATs, and most licensing exams.
Problem three occurs when technology fails. Students use electronic devices so frequently that they've come to assume access. They're often the same ones who don't keep batteries charged, think professors come to class armed with extra power cords, and can't imagine a classroom without empty electrical outlets with their names on them. Heaven help them if their laptops run out of juice in the middle of a class. You know what most of them do? Nothing! The best students try to focus, hoping they will retain enough information to transfer it to their computer once it's recharged. Try that and tell me how well it works. Almost none open their backpacks and pull out pen and notebook. The weakest students ask me to put my notes on the class website. I know that some of you do that, but I refuse.
Problem four is among the reasons I won't. "Good listening skills" generally rank high in lists of what employers desire of new hires. There are still jobs where one cannot use technology all the time. Journalism – even for e-zines – is one of them. I have done freelance music journalism for decades. When I can, I use a recorder and a laptop. But I have conducted interviews in backstage green rooms as noisy as a chorus of jackhammers, in the back of buses, on the street, at the side of stages, and in various other situations where the only thing that makes sense is pad and pen.
Journalism isn't alone. One business leader tests perspective candidates by devising mock scenarios. Candidates must jot down information – no machines allowed – as the interviewer rattles off details, and the candidate must come up with a plan to address the problem. The point isn't revelatory problem-solving; it's a test of listening and short-term memory. Why? Because sometimes you simply need to take notes on the fly – a supervisor barks out an assignment, one is trapped in a no-gadgets environment, verbal directions are given to someone who is lost, or you need to focus on a client, not a screen. (Realtors, doctors, caseworkers, therapists….)
Problem five is one of keeping up. An accomplished typist cranks out 60-80 words per minute (WPM). I can write faster than that even with my bad hand. To hit 60 WPM, you need to know how to touch-type, another skill that most students never acquire. I often observe students struggling to keep up. Sometimes I can slow down, but there's not much to be done during discussions or AV presentations. Just as violin players can play faster than a cellists because they don't have as much instrument to cover, so too can a cursive writer scribble on paper faster than typists can traverse a 12-18 inch keyboard (especially if one is a hunt-and-peck typist.)
There are limitations even in nontraditional classrooms. The latest rage is the "flipped" classroom, in which students refine what would normally be called "homework" in class. One historian assigns questions to answer in writing outside of class and devotes class time asking students divulge, discuss, and expound upon their answers. They hand in their prewriting and keep a second for themselves. On the second they take notes based on class responses, as this is all they can use to complete papers and exams. The pace is rapid – answer, redirection, and discussion until depth is achieved. When I asked if all students keep up, I was told, "No. And that's not my problem. It's not a remedial course."
Finally, computers can be deadly to discussion and deep comprehension. A mind focused on a screen is less actively engaged with live speakers, be they professors or student peers. (And that's before other temptations from the World of Wireless intrude. Try reading a single e-mail and see how long it takes to refocus on an active discussion.) Many students are great at retrieving information, but extremely slow in analyzing it, partly because they fail to grasp the connective tissue that relates one bit of information to another. The more distracted they get, the less likely they are to find that tissue. Some educational psych studies claim the physical act of writing produces better comprehension than typing. That's not my field, but it rings true.
Again, I'm not a technophobe. But I do think those declaring the death of cursive are wrong -- at least for the immediate future. Today's world depends increasingly upon flexibility, suppleness, and adaptability. I simply see no benefit in retiring cursive, and the potential for harm looms large. It's no fun to teach or practice. Meh! I didn't like learning multiplication tables, conjugating verbs, or discovering how to decode the periodic table of elements, but they were good medicine.
College professors should deliver the message that the decline of cursive reduces student chances for success. Our new Secretary of the Treasury, Jack Lew, might be able to get away with scrawling gibberish across a page, but ask yourself: Would you hire some kid who can't sign his or her own name?
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In 1892, the president of Leland Stanford University, David Starr Jordan, managed to convince Ewald Flügel, a scholar at the University of Leipzig, to join the young institution's rudimentary English department. Flügel had received his doctoral degree in 1885 with a study of Thomas Carlyle under the aegis of Richard Wülcker, one of the founders of English studies in Europe. Three years later, he finished his postdoctoral degree, with a study on Sir Philip Sydney, and was appointed to the position of a Privatdozent at Leipzig.
The position of the Privatdozent is one of the most fascinating features at the modern German universities in the late 19th century. Although endowed with the right to direct dissertations and teach graduate seminars, the position most often offered only the smallest of base salaries, leaving the scholar to earn the rest of his keep by students who paid him directly for enrolling in his seminars and lectures. In a 1903 Stanford commencement speech Flügel warmly recommended that his new colleagues in American higher education embrace the Privatdozent concept:
What would the faculty of Stanford University say to a young scholar of decided ability, who, one or two years after his doctorate (taken with distinction), having given proof of high scholarly work and spirit, should ask the privilege of using a certain lecture room at a certain hour for a certain course of lectures? What would Stanford University say, if – after another year or two this young man, unprotected but regarded with a certain degree of kindly benevolence […], this lecturer should attract more and more students (not credit hunters), if he should become an influence at the university? What if the university should become in the course of years a perfect hive of such bees? […] It would modify our departmental boss-system, our worship of "credits," and other traits of the secondary schools; it would stimulate scholarly life at the university; it would foster a healthy competition in scholarly work, promote survival of the fittest, and keep older men from rusting.
Unabashedly Darwinian, Flügel was convinced that his own contingent appointment back in Germany had pushed him, and pushed all Privatdozenten, to become competitive, cutting-edge researchers and captivating classroom teachers until one of the coveted state-funded chair positions might become available. He held that the introduction of this specific academic concept was instrumental at furthering the innovative character and international reputation of higher education in Germany. Flügel himself had thrived under the competitive conditions, of course, and his entrepreneurial spirit led him to make a number of auspicious foundational moves: He took on co-editorship of Anglia, today the oldest continually published journal worldwide focusing exclusively on the study of "English." And he founded Anglia Beiblatt, a review journal that quickly established an international reputation.
Despite his formidable achievements, however, he could not secure a chair position as quickly as he hoped. Since he was among the very few late 19th-century German professors of English who possessed near-native proficiency, he began to consider opportunities overseas. Even the dire warnings from a number of east coast colleagues ("the place seems farther away from Ithaca, than Ithaca does from Leipzig"; "they have at Stanford a library almost without books") could not scare him away. Once he had begun his academic adventure in the Californian wilderness, he took on a gargantuan research project, the editorship of the Chaucer Dictionary, offered to him by Frederick James Furnivall, the most entrepreneurial among British Chaucerians and founder of the Chaucer Society. As soon as he took over from colleagues who had given up on the project, he found, in this pre-computer age of lexicography, "slips of all sizes, shapes, colors, weights, and textures, from paper that was almost tissue paper to paper that was almost tin. Every slip contained matter that had to be reconsidered, revised, and often added to or deleted."
Undeterred by this disastrous state of affairs, he decided to resolve the problem with typically enterprising determination: Although grant writing was uncharted territory for him, he applied for and secured three annual grants for $7,500 and one for $11,000 (altogether the equivalent of at least $300,000 in today's money!) from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching between 1904 and 1907 "for the preparation of a lexicon for the works of Geoffrey Chaucer," bought himself some time away from Stanford, and signed up a dozen colleagues and students in Europe and North America to assist him in his grand plan.
His and their work would become the foundation of the compendious Middle English Dictionary which now graces every decent college library in the English-speaking world and beyond. Beyond the work on the Chaucer Dictionary, the completion of which he never saw because of his sudden death in 1914, he maintained an impressive publication record and served in leadership positions such as the presidency of the Pacific Branch of the American Philological Association. When Flügel passed away, his American colleagues celebrated his "enthusiastic idealism" and remembered him as "more essentially American" than the other foreign-born colleagues they knew, an appreciation due to his entrepreneurial spirit.
I am relating this story to counteract the often defeatist chorus sung by colleagues in English and other humanities departments when confronted with a request, usually from impatient administrators in more grant-active areas, for at least giving grant writing and other entrepreneurial activities a try. There is no doubt that, compared to the situation in most other Western democracies, government support through the National Endowments for the Humanities and Arts is small in the U.S. Conversely, the number of private foundations, from the American Council of Learned Societies through the Spencer Foundation, makes up for some of the difference.
In my experience, what keeps the majority of English professors from even considering an involvement with entrepreneurial activities is that they deem them an unwelcome distraction from the cultural work they feel they have been educated, hired, and tenured to do. Most grant applications require that scholars explain not only the disciplinary, but also the broader social and cultural relevance of their work. In addition, they entail that scholars put a monetary value on their planned academic pursuits and create a bothersome budget sheet, learn how to use a spreadsheet, develop a timeline, and compose an all-too-short project summary, all grant-enabling formal obstacles many colleagues consider beneath the dignity of their profession.
In fact, many of us believe that the entire discipline of English and the humanities in general may have been created so as to counterbalance the entrepreneurial principles and profit motives which, from within the English habitat, seem to have a stranglehold over work in colleges of business, computing, engineering, and science. However, by making English a bastion of (self-)righteous resistance against the evil trinity of utilitarianism, pragmatism, and capitalism, English professors have relinquished the ability to be public intellectuals and to shape public discourse. After all, too many of our books and articles speak only to ourselves or those in the process of signing up to our fields at colleges and universities.
Ewald Flügel labored hard to remain socially and politically relevant even as he was involved in professionalizing and institutionalizing the very discipline we now inhabit. Recognizing that the skills and kinds of knowledge provided by his emerging field were insufficient for solving complex real-world issues, he became a proponent of a more co-disciplinary approach to academic study, a kind of cultural studies scholar long before that term was invented. Most of us would agree that he applied his formidable linguistic and literary expertise to a number of problematic goals, speaking to academic and public audiences about how the steadily increasing German immigration and the powers of German(ic) philology should and would inevitably turn the United States into an intellectual colony of his beloved home country. However, even if his missionary zeal reeks of the prevailing nationalist zeitgeist, I can appreciate his desire to experiment, innovate, and compete to make the study of historical literature and language as essential to the academy and to humanity as did his approximate contemporaries Roentgen, Eastman, Edison, Diesel, Marconi, and Pasteur with their scientific endeavors.
Perhaps his example might entice some of us to revisit and even befriend the idea of entrepreneurship, especially when it involves NGOs or the kind of for-profit funding sources the Just Enough Profit Foundation might define as (only) "mildly predatory" or (preferably) "somewhat," "very" and "completely humanistic." At the very least, Flügel's biography provides evidence that today's prevailing anti-entrepreneurial mindset has not always been among the constitutive elements defining the "English" professoriate.
There are encouraging signs that some colleagues in English studies have begun to abandon that mindset: George Mason University's Center for Social Entrepreneurship (directed by Paul Rogers, a professor of English) and the University of Texas consortium on Intellectual Entrepreneurship (directed by Richard Cherwitz, a professor of rhetoric and communication), generate promising cross-disciplinary collaboration between the academy and society; English professors at Duke, Georgia Tech, and Ohio State, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, are among the national leaders testing the pedagogical viability of the controversial massive open online courses (MOOCs); and Ellito Visconsi of the University of Notre Dame, and Bryn Mawr colleague Katherine Rowe created Luminary Digital Media LLC, a startup that distributes their "Tempest for iPad," an application designed for social reading, authoring, and collaboration for Shakespeare fans with various levels of education. I believe Ewald Flügel would find these projects exciting.
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Really don't understand why they cancelled this show. Yea...there was a corny show or 2, but overall, pretty good. The value you pay for this is awesome.
This is one of those shows that fell victim of poor TV slots and being moved around. This show had alot of potential and I was angry when they cancelled it. Regardless we know good shows get cancelled all the time. This is a Great DVD with Bonus Gotham Girls Season 1 thru 3. That will make you laugh your head off. Birds of Prey had a strong cast and interesing concept. Mia Sara(Ferris Bullers Day off) was interesting choice as Harley Quinn but very appealing. Again the main characters make it enjoyable but in the end the network let us down. Plenty to say, but just buy it. Its a good deal.
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I've just ordered this DVD set. I remember watching this show when it began airing on the now defunct WB network. I had always been a Batgirl fan since she debuted way back in the early sixties in the comics. Thought this show was awesome but did realize that some liberties was taken for the show's format but felt it was very well handled. Enjoyed some if the twists taken with some of the DC characters introduced on here especially with the villians. Harley Quinn, Black Canary and Clayface were present in this TV universe. I recommend this show very highly provided that diehard DC Comics fan keep an open mind while viewing!
Pretty good series, ties in nicely as "What if?" to Batman and Catwoman having a daughter.
Original Music removed, including theme song. All episodes (save 1) are letterboxed. "Great show that aired on the WB back in 2002/2003. Unfortunately it wasn't given it's proper room to grow and ultimately the shows wings were clipped. As per usual with DVDs, most of the songs have been replaced such as the theme song and the "Finale Fight Song" which come as major disappointments to fans. Though lasting only 13 episodes, this show was much beloved by fans.
A great buy overall."
It's very good and I liked waching it alot. The only down was the fact that they changed the music from when it was on TV
One day I was looking up DC related media. I leanr3ed there was one I had not seen "Birds of Prey" I saw a clip on you tube and thought "hmm… looks pretty cool!" so I started looking for it. Not only did Wal-Mart have the best price, but the most details on the product compared to most other websites. Now I haven't finished the series yet, but what I have seen so far I have loved. A good story with an interesting spin on the classic characters. Like stepping into a new world with some familiar faces. I would recommend this for anyone that has really wanted to see some girl crime fighters kick butt and take names! I think it has something for everyone!
This series was easily one of the worst television adaptations of a comic book that I have ever seen. I never saw much of the series when it aired, and I did not remember liking any of what I saw. However, as I have recently found that Smallville (a show I wrote off as irredeemably ruined during the fourth season) has turned out to be far better than I remembered, I decided to give this series a second chance. Sadly, my memories of the series were pretty accurate to the acutal quality of the show, but there were a few pleasant surprises. The series is not entirely without worth. Oracle, Alfred and Harley Quinn were all very well cast, if not always well written. It was also nice to see Clayface and Black Canary on screen. Hearing Mark Hamill's voice for the Joker almost made up for how poorly the actor on screen actually fit the part. The flashback scenes involving Batman, Batgirl, Catwoman and the Joker were the highlights of the show. Some of the villains and supporting characters were rather interesting and played by very talented actors, and the final two episodes were actually pretty good. Unfortunately, most of the series was awful. First of all, I've never liked stories that give my heroes illegitimate children, which happened to be the premise of the series. Both Huntress and Dinah Lance were cast terribly. Dinah's character also got changed to the point she was unrecognizable as the comic book heroine I liked so much. Also, the obsession with "relationships" over plot, acting and character development was infuriating. This is a problem shared by most WB (now CW) shows I've seen. The music, especially the replacement theme song almost never fit with what was on screen. I'm sure the original music was much better, but that does not give much comfort when watching the dvd. As far as special features go, there were only two. The Gotham Girls web series was generally more entertaining than the actual show. The unaired pilot was interesting in that it showed different directions the show could have gone, and makes the actual series seem a little better by comparison. So, while at a very good price for a thirteen episode tv series, I still would not recommend this product very highly.


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Wedged between the upper tributaries of the Mekong and Yangtze Rivers, and the vast Tibetan Plateau, Northern Yunnan is one of the most spectacular regions of China and contains approximately one third of all its minority groups. After Kunming we head to the ancient city of Lijiang set beneath Snow Dragon Mountain. After the dramatic Tiger Leaping Gorge we visit lush Tibetan villages and travel on to the high plateau that defines the borderlands of Tibet. It is here that we view the sacred peak of Kawakarpo in the spectacular Meili Snow Mountains - an important place for pilgrims from Tibet. Staying in character filled hotels this journey takes you a world away from the guidebook itineraries.
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