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I'm delivering some iPad training to a school tomorrow, so thought it might be useful to collate some of the links I've been putting together for the session.
The session is concentrating mainly on teachers using the iPads for their own professional use, rather than being used as a classroom resource, but a lot of the apps below will be suitable for use by students too. I'll do another post sometime of great apps for different subject areas.
Here's some of the useful apps I'd recommend investigating. Some are free, others the price of a pint or so. Links are to the UK version of iTunes so other readers may need to do a search in the App Store to find the version for their region.
File storage / Transfer
Dropbox is probably one of the most useful applications I've used in years. It allows me to store files in the cloud. I can put files in my Dropbox folder on my PC and they're immediately copied to an online space. This is synced with my laptop the next time I power it up. In addition, the Dropbox app on my iPad (and phone) allows me to access and view these files on my iPad – as long as I have an active network connection. You can get a free Dropbox account here.
Other apps also work with Dropbox too. So I can open a file for editing. And then save it back to Dropbox afterwards. This makes it much easier to get the files created on my iPad onto my PC.
Word Processing / Office Capability
Microsoft have yet to release an Office app for the iPad – so there's a need to look at alternatives. I use Documents to Go. It's not free – the Pro version is about £12 or so… But this gives Dropbox features so I stumped up the extra. It gives me access to a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation tool.
The spreadsheet would make it possible to set up grade books and student record sheets without having to buy additional gradebook applications.
Note taking
These two are my current apps of choice for taking notes in a meeting. I've just bought a stylus which lets me use handwriting in Notability. I can copy pdf files in from Dropbox and annotate over the top of them.
Evernote is a useful way of managing bits of information – I've used it for taking notes in meetings and also for taking photographs of powerpoint screens in meetings, and parts of documents I need to remember. It syncs with the Evernote website so you can access your notes on your PC later.
Also worth taking a look at these apps too :
There are a lot of options for getting content onto your iPad. In the UK BBC iPlayer is excellent. For accessing blogs try Flipboard and Reeder. iTunes U has a lot of good videos on it. And for teachers you have to take a look at the BrainPop app too! It gives you a new free BrainPop movie every day.
To display content on your IWB you could either use the VGA adaptor, or investigate Apple TV which allows mirroring of your iPad screen. You just need to hook these up to your classroom projector.
I've only just got iThoughts and it looks good. I'm not always great at using some of these brainstorming apps – but as a way of collecting your thoughts and summarising concepts they are very useful.
Audio Recording / Podcasting
Both these apps (and there are others) let you make simple voice recordings and upload them to the internet for sharing with students.
Screen casting
Both these apps let you record short screencasts using the ipad as a whiteboard. Draw and annotate, plus record your voice to make revision guides, information broadcasts, and more.
iBooks comes as standard on new iPads now. It's also worth getting the Kindle app too. Both give you access to a wealth of free books that are out of copyright. For English teachers you'll find a lot of the classics are available for free. Also check out the Project Gutenberg website for e-books and pdf/txt versions of books that you could add to your library or access via Dropbox.
Useful Links
Here's a selection of useful blogs, articles and documents that you might find useful
iPad Apps and Blooms Taxonomy – Excellent post by Sylvia Tolisano
Classroom iPod touches & iPads: Dos and Don'ts – by Tony Vincent. Some good advice here. I love the idea of using wallpaper to simply label up each ipad/ipod. Nice idea.
Getting ready for iPad deployment: ten things I'd wish I'd known about last year
InterAction Education : Some very useful guides for using iPads in the classroom
iPads for Learning– Australian educational site. Nice guides.
Supercharge Your iPad For School: The Apps And Accessories Every Student Needs
15 Favorite iPad Apps As Selected By Teachers
iPads in the Primary classroom
How to Control your IWB from your iPad
and of course there's the excellent 103 Interesting Ways to Use an iPad in the Classroom presentation
You can find more links collated at : http://delicious.com/dannynic/ipad
Got a favourite app for teachers that isn't here? Share them in the comments below!
And for ipad training with your staff – get in touch!

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Term used to describe an odd doggy style method. The male leans down over the female during sex then strongly grips the breasts then says into the ear of the female something that would cause her to frantically try to get away (i have aids, your sister was better, where did this rash on my dick come from?, your a lot better than that cold girl i met in the morgue, etc..)
by Anonymous March 04, 2003
Having sex doggie-style while grabbing her hips, leaning over and calling her by your ex-girlfriends name and trying to hold on while she tries to get away.
I only lasted 10 seconds while doing the Bucking Bronco with with my girlfriend.
by Cuuter May 05, 2010
This is for the girls:
When you're doing it missionary, and he's about to cum, wrap your legs around his waist and yell, "I wanna be a momma!" And see how long you can hold on.
When you're doing it missionary, and he's about to cum, wrap your legs around his waist and yell, "I wanna be a momma!" And see how long you can hold on.
Susie: "how'd you get that black eye?"
Mary: "I tried the bucking bronco on Joseph last night, and he punched me in the face after 10 seconds. It's a new record!"
Mary: "I tried the bucking bronco on Joseph last night, and he punched me in the face after 10 seconds. It's a new record!"
by BishopIII July 27, 2011
Go out drinking with your friends and take home the biggest broad you can find - have your friends get a head start on the way home and get them into your closet. When you get the fat broad on all fours and begin to hammer away doggie style, have your friends jump outta the closet and the goal is to hang on as long as you can!
I was able ride the bucking bronco for 24.3 seconds until I was tossed off any the rodio clowns had to tame the beast!
by Tbone March 20, 2005
while committing fornication from behind a female, also known as "doggy-style", one falsely informs her that one is carrying some sort of sexually transmitted disease, preferable the HIV virus. One then tries to stay inserted and on top the female as long as possible before she is able to "buck" one off.
"Sally has gotten tested for VD 10 times this week after I pulled the bucking bronco on friday night."
by eee-rock September 24, 2009
when the guy is fucking the girl doggystyle, then his friends burst into the room with a video camera. the idea is to stay on as long as possible while the girl desperately tries to get away, aka like riding a bucking bronco.
i knew i was gonna get some action from the town slut at the party, so my friends and i decided to try to get some quality bucking bronco footage.
by Ally Kat August 30, 2006
The Bucking Bronco is an sex position in which the man mounts the girl from the back, and cups her boobs firmly in his hands and quietly whispers into her ear. "These are almost as nice as your sister's!" The girl will then proceed to buck up and down like a wild bronco. You then time how long you can stay in for.
I decided to try the Bucking Bronco last night on my girlfriend, and she threw me off like a monkey throwing shit!
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Pets, Pets, Pets
Westminster Wellstood Mystery Part 1: Sensation, the Pointer synonymous with Westminster Kennel Club, was buried in Babylon at the turn of the last century. An 1879 Wellstood steel engraving of Sensation is the model for the Westminster logo. A daughter and a mate of the prominent Pointer, also from Babylon, play integral parts in the history of the iconic print.
Sensation's image remains ubiquitous during the dog show. Therefore, it is only fitting that a Wellstood print has sniffed his way back to his old stomping grounds, and hopefully will hang one day in the Babylon Old Town Hall History Museum. (More about that print next week.)
Regular "Pets" readers know that from 1880 to 1904 Westminster Kennel Club (WKC) maintained a clubhouse and kennels, housing up to 200 dogs, on 64 acres just west of Southards Pond. Sensation spent time here in his retirement. When he died in June 1887, he was buried under a flagpole on the lawn of the Babylon clubhouse. Atop the flagstaff was a Pointer weather vane with a statue of a Pointer, pointing always into the wind.
Wellstood prize has ties to Babylon: Mr. Bill Stifel, WKC historian wrote: "At the third annual Westminster Kennel Club show in 1879, a copy of the print was offered by W. Wellstood & Co. "for the best dog, bitch or puppy sired by Sensation." The NY Times of 8 Apr 1879 describes it as "an artist's proof." On the following day the paper noted that above the bench where Sensation himself was on display hung "a very fine steel plate engraving of him, richly framed." The winner of this prize was Dutchess, a two-year old lemon and white bitch owned by George Van Wagenen of NYC. She was by Sensation out of Whisky. We have no idea as to the whereabouts of that print."
During the 19th century, magazines contained detailed pen and ink drawings. One illustration exists showing the Wellstood print on display amid the crowd at the Gilmore Garden. Furthermore, in the first WKC catalogue of 1877, Dutchess, the Wellstood winner, was listed as one of five Babylon Sensation/Whisky puppies at the show. Keep in mind, that her mother, Whisky, was later buried under a rock to the side of Sensation's grave in Babylon.
The famous dog club takes its name from the now gone Westminster Hotel on Irving Place in NYC where the charter members would meet. Charles Dickens stayed there also. Some believe Whisky's lineage helped cement the name "Westminster Kennel Club".
Many of the first WKC Pointers like Sensation and Whisky were imported from England. Whisky's littermate "Juno" happened to belong to the Duke of Westminster. Babylonians might recall that our Village had Anglophile inclinations too. Argyle Lake, once Blythebourne Lake, was renamed for the heir to the Dukedom of Arygll because he was an investor in our long-gone lakeside hotel, birthplace of the Cuban Giants, the first all-black baseball team in America.
Original Wellstood engraving: William Wellstood (1819-1900) was a well-known engraver. Most of his prints were landscapes or historical portraits. His son James, the artist for the Sensation profile, died in 1880 shortly after the prize was offered. This may well be their only piece of "dog art."
No one knows where the original plate is or how many copies were made from it. However, the NY Spirit of the Times in 1881 Jan.-Dec. advertised prints for sale at $2 each. Mr. Stifel added that: "We also know that at some point, Westminster gave a copy of the print to Stephen T. Hammond who handled Sensation to a number of wins in field trials. After Hammond's death, this copy was returned to
Westminster by his daughter, and it hangs in Westminster's office in Manhattan today. Westminster also purchased a copy of the print in the 1930s, which hangs in the Westminster office." I think this one has vestiges of color which may be significant to my mystery print.
Authentic copies have "Drawn by J. Wellstood" under the image in one corner; "engraved by W. Wellstood" in the other corner, and the inscription: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1879 by W. Wellstood and Co. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington." in between. The title underneath reads: "The Pointer;" with (Sensation) below that. The 1879 copies are in black & white. Rare 1879 copies do exist. Several Pointer fanciers have found them at auctions.
1936 Kirkover reprints: I am not certain what year the Hammond family returned the print to WKC but, for a long time, WKC owned no copies of the Wellstood. In 1935, a copy was found in the art collection of Harry Kirkover, a sportsman in Camden, S.C. Mr. Stifel said: "Kirkover was not about to part with it but was willing to lend it to us. It was brought to New York and put in the hands of Richard A. Loederer, a well-known artist of the day. What this man planned to do was written up in the American Field from Jan. 4, 1936: (It) will be reproduced by Arthur Jaffee, Incorporated, under the celebrated Max Jaffee process. A sufficient number of reproductions will be made for the members of the club and a few friends." How many? No one knows.
The Max Jaffee process employed color, and my Wellstood from a dealer in Texas is in color.
This Wellstood print was discovered online by Karen Blasche, historian of the American Pointer Club. I had to bring Sensation home, and by some minor miracle, he arrived via Fed Ex hours before my Westminster program at the Old Town Hall Museum last June. It's as if Sensation knew that he had to be there.
Is he authentic or a cheap copy from Sears? Is he an 1879 or a 1935? Tracing the print's back story has been almost as convoluted as "digging up dirt" about Sensation in Babylon. More next week in Westminster Wellstood Mystery Part 2.
For adoption at Babylon Town Shelter (631-643-9270) Lamar St. W. Babylon: "Miss Piggy" is a plaintive Bulldog/ Pit mix who wants nothing more than to be with someone. She is dog friendly. "Ella" is a timid Chihuahua, overlooked because she is timid.
Female: "Hope" Shepherd mix; "Diamond" Pit mix.
Male: Puggle; "Romeo"- lover boy Pit.
*Correction. Last week I put the wrong date for the Last Hope low-cost vaccine clinic which is this Sun. March 11 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Last Hope in Wantagh. See www.lasthopeanimalrescue.org.
*Upcoming huge Chinese auction fundraiser for Almost Home on Sat. March 24 from 11:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. at the Elks Lodge in Smithtown. Call 631-627-3665.


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What Are Time Connectives? Game to test yourself!
A time connective is something that allows a writer to connect things that happen at different times. They inform the reader that the narrative has jumped in time. Examples include then, next and before.
The hangman-style game below was created to help KS3 English students to learn a range of time connectives. How many will you get right?
Can you think of any time connectives not included in this game? Please leave a comment below to suggest some more.
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The visitors took the lead at the Santiago Bernabeu when Welbeck got the better of Ramos from a corner, and directed his header past Diego Lopez.
|The former Chelsea manager remains optimistic about his side's chances of going through
But while the 26-year-old admitted it was his costly mistake which led to the goal, Ramos said the corner should have never been awarded to begin with.
"He got the better of me but it was not a corner in the first place, that is certain," Ramos told reporters. "The margin for error in the Champions League is tiny."
Nonetheless, the Spain international was buoyed by the performance of Los Blancos on Wednesday and insists that although they never got the result they wanted, there is cause for optimism heading into the second leg.
He added: "We would have liked to be going to Old Trafford with a different result but we have to be optimistic and appreciate the great game Real Madrid played today even in spite of the fact that we missed a lot of chances," the defender told Uefa.com.
"On some days, clear opportunities just don't translate into goals but every player put in a huge effort.
"We will have to travel to Manchester and show the same mentality as we did today while believing that we can win. We have to take into account that we are facing a great rival; we need to show the utmost of respect to them. The main thing is that we convince ourselves we can win."
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Designer makes clothing from clothing
Meet creator of 'Folk Couture'
When most women buy a new blouse at a clothing store, you can be pretty certain they'll wear it for a long time to come. Yet, when Danbury resident Grace Napoleon buys a blouse, it might not even last one day.
In fact, in just a few hours, she may turn that blouse into a sweater, or a tunic, or even a dress.
As part of "Folk Couture," her five-year-old business, Napoleon creates clothing from ... clothing. She makes new wardrobe items from pieces that were previously other articles of clothing.
To find what she needs to make new creations, Napoleon looks mainly in thrift stores. She then combines pieces, putting her original touch into them. "I sew everything by hand, so whatever I make is completely original," she said.
Napoleon sells her clothing at craft shows and flea markets across the U.S., where people from all over the world come to shop. "I'm booked for months at a time," said Napoleon, 56.
When shopping at thrift stores, "I never think what each piece will turn into. I buy it because it has something that's going to work for me. I can hold onto an article of clothing for years until I make something out of it," she said. It takes Napoleon one to three hours to make each new article of clothing.
More InformationGrace Napoleon Attended the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan Was Creative Group Assistant at Ted Bates & Company, Inc., an advertising agency Founder of "AV Ladies," a former audio-visual design company Owner of two former Danbury stores: "Best of Times," which sold antiques, and "Coffee, Please" For 16 summers she taught fashion and sewing classes for children in the Summer at Wooster program in Danbury. To view Napoleon's newest designs, book her for a workshop, or learn where her next shows will be, like "Folk Couture" on Facebook.
Napoleon describes Folk Couture as "clothing for women of style. When you're a woman of a certain age, you can't shop where the kids shop. If you go to a chain clothing store in the mall, you'll spend a lot of money on something you'll see on 40 other women or more. My clothing is for women who still want to have fun with their clothes, yet be age appropriate and comfortable," she said.
Shelton resident Lys Guillorn has been a customer of Folk Couture for several years. "Two years ago, when Napoleon had a trunk show at Molten Java (coffee house) in Bethel, one of the items I bought is a knee-length, sleeveless brown dress. It has funky red embroidery and little mirrors on it. I wore this dress throughout the holidays last year and I intend to wear it this holiday season as well," said Guillorn, 39, who works as a singer and songwriter.
"Grace's clothes are funky and quirky, yet graceful. There is nothing like (her pieces) in any store. Her clothing is great for me because I'm a performer and I like to wear something unusual on stage. Her clothes express my individuality. When you look at her clothing rack, there are no two pieces alike. Choosing something is like taking a personality test,"
Laura Kara, a Bethel resident who owns an acupuncture practice in Westport, said she took a sewing class several years ago taught by Napoleon. "She had us making cool bracelets out of wearable art. I made a book bag out of plastic grocery bags and duct tape.
"I live in her clothes all winter long. One item I bought was a printed fabric of chocolate brown and turquoise colors that she sewed onto a sweater. It looks like a dress with a hooded sweatshirt, but it's all attached. It's super comfy and I can wear it to work.
"When you wear her clothes, you're not walking around with the same bag like everyone else, like you're in a uniform. Every time I wear one of her pieces, I get stopped by a stranger and get a compliment. Grace could give (fashion designer) Betsy Johnson a run for her money. I'm hooked!"
Southbury resident Jennifer Kelsey, who discovered Folk Couture at a craft show in Ridgefield about five years ago, has already purchased half a dozen items. One of her favorites is a tunic dress, "which looks like a baseball shirt on top, and has a crazy Japanese tiger sewn onto the front. It's paired with a black satiny skirt. It looks like Japanese animation. I can dress it down or dress it up.
"What I love about her clothing is you can wear it with anything, and you'll never see it on anyone else. She has a great eye for color and pattern. If you saw the pieces separately, you would never think of putting them together, but it works," Kelsey said.
In addition to giving trunk shows, Napoleon has "Recycle your Closet Workshops" in customers' homes.
"Five or more people bring a few pieces of clothing they're willing to cut up. I bring ribbons, threads, pins, trimmings, buttons, scissors and everything else. Within three hours, everyone goes home with a new piece of clothing," Napoleon said.
"I love having person-to-person contact with my clients. I've developed strong relationships that have lasted many years. I know their body type and individual tastes," she said, adding she contacts customers whenever she creates something she thinks they'll like.
"The best part about what I do is making people happy. There's nothing better than watching a woman come out of the fitting room in my booth and seeing her looking fabulous in something I've created."
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Former UPCI here, as well.
My step-family has its roots in Azuza street, so you can imagine how hardcore it was. When I "backslid" - or, more accurately, deconverted, we all pretty much gave up on each other. I haven't set eyes on any of them in over five years. My brother, also an apostate, is the only family I still speak with.
I'm not opposed to skirts, but I do love a good haircut.
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A visitor at the Wayne County Court House would perchance notice an aged silver-haired woman going to and from a grocery store, or in summer she might be seen sitting through the hot afternoon in her willow rocker.
There is something about her that causes one to look the second time. One would naturally suppose that she is a woman with an interesting history, one who has seen much of the growth and history of our county at first hand. She has lived almost a century--ninety-three years, to be exact.
Mrs. Amanda Osburn is her name. Throughout her home and neighboring counties she is known as "Aunt Mandy." Her first husband was Col. Joseph Mansfield, whose death came about in a way similar to that of Stonewall Jackson.
"Aunt Mandy" has seen her county, Wayne, form from Cabell county, and later her state was formed from the western part of Virginia. She has seen the United States in the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the World War. She has lived in old Virginia in that aristocratic period before the Civil War. Later she, with her family, became an immigrant and came to the "west" where she lived in the wilderness which covered this part of the state. In short, she has seen life from many angles and her keen observation and strong memory make her an authority on the history of the tri-state section.
She is something of a philosopher too--but enough of her introduction to you. Hear her story of the tragic death of Col. Mansfield.
"In the spring of '61, Col. Mansfield and I were living in this place then called Trout's Hill, prosperous and happy.
"The war clouds gathered and burst. All was astir in the old town and county. Neighbors suddenly found themselves at war with each other. Finally, ties were broken.
"My husband received orders to gather troops in Wayne and Cabell counties and to march them to Barboursville, where they were to join other companies being formed in the southern part of the state to support the "Stars and Bars."
"Mansfield soon had a company raised and moved on towards Barboursville. They met some Union men at Skurry's Creek, and after a skirmish, the Union soldiers fell back.
"Col. Mansfield had to wait for a company of men being raised in Ohio. After waiting several days my husband decided he would leave his men in camp and ride home one night and see his family--we had four children--before moving on into the south. It was a distance of about twenty-five miles over the hills and he began his ride just about dark.
"He passed several sentries and a mile or two from camp settled down for the long ride, thinking he was through the lines.
"When eight or ten miles from camp, he was much surprised to see a soldier step out in the road and order him to halt. He thought he was surely out of the southern lines by the time and that this must be a Union man. He spurred up his horse and dashed past the sentry.
"The soldier fired his musket and yelled to his comrade who also shot at him.
"Bending low, Mansfield galloped on. The soldiers mounted and gave chase. About a mile farther they came to a riderless horse standing in the road. My husband was lying there on the ground, shot through the chest and bleeding to death. The men, one of them from the old home town here, saw at once that they had killed their commander. In the darkness neither had recognized the other.
"They carried him back to camp. Mansfield told them to turn the horse loose and let him come home. Mansfield died in a short while."
"Aunt Mandy" knows what it means to feed an invading army. Shortly after Col. Mansfield's death, a small body of troops from Indiana came to Wayne, she said.
"These men came trooping in and ordered me to cook for them. I had no choice but to obey. I didn't mind feeding them for never in my life have I sent anyone away hungry.
"Twice each year my husband always went to Cincinnati and bought a load of supplies and clothes which could not be had closer. I knew when this store ran out there would be no other, so I hid the whole lot. These soldiers found them, but to this day I have never been able to figure out how they did it. They took everything.
"A friend sent me a dressed hog a few days before the troops came. I hid that also, but they found it and ate it. I got one mess of the ribs from the hog. I tell you this to show how hard it was to keep anything to eat during the war.
"When the soldiers left Wayne, they drove a big wagon up to my front door and took everything of value they could lay their hands on. They took my husband's law library which was worth about a thousand dollars. They piled the books in the wagon like bricks. There was just enough room for the drive to sit on."
Eighty years ago when Aunt Mandy was a little girl her father left Chesterfield County, Virginia, to travel overland by wagon to Missouri. After traveling for six weeks, they rearched a point on the Ohio River near the mouth of Big Sandy. Here they were told that rich farming lands could be bought cheaply on Lick Creek (now Wayne County). The journey to Missouri was abandoned. Her father, John Smith, took the family to Lick Creek where he bought a farm for fifty cents an acre.
She has lived in Logan, Cabell, Boone, and Wayne counties. She moved twenty-four times before she was twenty-one years old.
Her father's home used to be the headquarters of the old time trappers, who were more than welcome for the yarns they always told around the fire side. They always brought news of the other settlements with them. And they always left the carcass of a bear or deer, taking the skin with them. The family's meat supply was kept up in this way during the hunting season.
"Aunt Mandy" recalls that panthers and wolves could be heard howling around her pioneer home at nights. Wild turkeys filled the woods and could be heard almost every day gobbling and calling to each other.
Back in the forties the closest store to those living on Lick Creek was at Barboursville. The trip was made on horseback over narrow paths through the woods.
Mrs. Osburn remarks that the rough pioneer days produced strong and sturdy men and women.
"Hot house posies of the human kind were unknown then," she says. "Our forefathers saw to it that we children were not idle too much and we all grew up with stong bodies and a lot of discipline."
Mrs. Osburn takes an active interest in all public affairs. In the campaign of 1920, the first in which women enjoyed the privilege of voting, she opened the fight with a speech in the court house in support of the Democratic party. She is heartily opposed to the removal of the court house to Kenova.
She is a remarkable woman, and her wife has been spiced with plenty of variety Huntington Advertiser
Transcription by June White
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Gah I'm having massive camera problems! Sorry it's a bit out of focus.
Just playing around with my new Market Village (or my 2 new market villages). The blacksmith shop is pretty much built following directions, as are the trees. The wagon however is my own design. It will be tweaked a bit, widened and another two "oxen" will be added to trail a cannon I'm assembling.
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The Commission is responsible for all classified positions, adopting and enforcing rules, recruitment and testing, payroll and records management, classification maintenance, and conducting hearings upon appeals from employees.
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The Board of Supervisors appoints five citizens to serve as members of the Commission. Members cannot be a Supervisor, officer or employee of the County. Members receive $100 for each meeting they attend; with a maximum limit for 24 meetings per County fiscal year. Travel and other official expenditures necessitated by their official duties shall be approved by the PERS Director.
Members may be removed from the Commission with a majority vote of the Board of Supervisors. The Board must state the reason for removal in writing and allow an opportunity for a public hearing.
Two members are selected by the Commissioners to serve as Chairperson and Vice Chairperson each calendar year. For 2018, these are:
The Commission meets the second Monday of each month at 3:30 p.m. in the Human Resources Conference Room, located at 145 Fulweiler Avenue, Suite 100, Auburn, CA 95603. Special meetings may also be scheduled as required.
We are committed to ensuring that persons with disabilities are able to fully participate in public meetings. Listening devices are available for the hearing impaired. If you require additional disability-related modifications or accommodations, please contact the Executive Secretary. If requested, the agenda will be provided in appropriate alternative formats to persons with disabilities. All requests must be in writing and received by the Executive Secretary by mail or in person at least five business days before the meeting. Requests received within five business days will be accommodated only if time permits.
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Faculty Handbook
Academic Policies and Procedures
I. Course Responsibilities
A. Department Responsibilities
B. Instructor's Responsibilities
The core of the academic program is the student-teacher relationship in the individual classroom. The teacher is free to develop his/her assigned courses as he/she deems best, recognizing that he/she must include the content identified in the official course outline. The individual faculty member:
II. Examination And Grading Procedures And Policies
a. The schedule for undergraduate day course examinations is set by the Registrar.
b. Final examinations should not be the total basis for a student's grade.
a. Requests that final examinations be scheduled.
b. Prepares final examinations.
c. Proctors own examinations and, when assigned, other faculty members' examinations.
d. Briefs proctor assigned to assist him/her
e. Arranges for students with conflicts in exam times.
f. Completes and records grades with Registrar within 3 calendar days from the date of the last scheduled final examinations (see CSU-AAUP contract).
|Excellent: Q.P. (Quality Point) value 4
|Q.P. value 3.67
|Q.P. value 3.33
|Above Average: Q.P. value 3.00
|Q.P. value 2.67
|Q.P. value 2.33
|Q.P. Acceptable for college standards: Q.P. value 2.00
|Q.P. value 1.67
|Q.P. value 1.33
|Barely acceptable for degree credit: Q.P. value 1.00
|Q.P. value 0.67
|Failure: Q.P. value 0.00
|Incomplete – a purely quantitative measure with no quality point involvement for student. Should be applied only when a passing grade is possible for student when missing data are completed.
|Pass/Fail. A grade option carrying no quality points. Some courses are approved to use this grade for all students enrolled. In other courses, a student may secure permission to carry a course under this option. Faculty members are notified of any students exercising this option and grade them accordingly.
|Passing grade in a pass/fail option course
|Failing grade in a pass/fail course
|RM or RP
|This grade is a qualitative grade available for use only in the following courses:
|This grade is used in courses "where the student must demonstrate a level of skill or competence in addition to the formal requirements of the course."
Assigning RM (Remediate) or RP (Repeat) grade
a. Rationale for a student who has been doing all the assigned course work but whose academic deficiencies would need more than the usual time to achieve competence, the RM or RP grade makes it possible for the student to continue improving competence without being penalized for prior weakness.
b. The instructor arranges with the student for:
(1) The type and extent of additional work required to meet the acceptable level of competence.
(2) The time limits within which the work is to be completed.
c. Remediate or Repeat
(1) RM: Remediate. Requirement may include self-directed practice, review, or supplementary assignments administered by the same instructor or another instructor.
(2) RP: Repeat. Requirement is repeating the course with the same or different instructor. This is no limit to the number of times a student may repeat the same course when assigned RP.
(3) When level of competence has been achieved:
(a) RM: Remediate. Instructor submits a "Change of Grade Request Form" to change the RM to a C or better.
(b) RP: Repeat. Original RP remains on record (same as W and grade is submitted by instructor of the repeated course for credit.)
3. Administrative Grades
W – Withdrawal without penalty. The student may withdraw without penalty through the deadline set by the Registrar. After that deadline, the instructor may give the student written permission to withdraw without penalty.
WF – withdrawal with penalty. This grade is normally given to the student who withdraws after the withdrawal deadline or fails to withdraw officially.
- Standard
The department and/or instructor is responsible for determining and explaining at the beginning of the semester the standard to be met to receive a given letter grade. He/she is also responsible for being sure that students understand these standards and course expectations.
- Incomplete Grades
In order to receive a grade of incomplete, the student must complete and present to the instructor the three-part form provided for that purpose. This form is available from academic departments, the Registrar's Office, and can be downloaded from Western's website under Faculty and Staff, Administrative Departments. One part of the form is to be kept by the student, one by the department, and the third copy should be sent to the Registrar's Office. Incomplete grades must be made up within 6 weeks of the start of the next semester in which the student is in attendance, or within one year if the student does not return. An incomplete grade, if not replaced by a grade by the instructor, automatically becomes an F, or the lower grade indicated on the form, after the time allowed expires.
- Reporting Grades
a. Finals – All students receive grades on the official grade form provided online. These are completed according to the directions provided by the Registrar. A student who has never attended should be given a "W" as a final grade. A student who has stopped attending should be given either a "W" or "WF" and the last date of attendance should be entered.
b. Midterms – All first-year students and all others receiving D's, I's, or F's in any course must receive midterm grades. Because of the large number of transfer students, faculty are encouraged to record midterm grades for all enrolled in their classes. Students may check their grades in Banner. They should regard any grade of D or F at midterm as an academic warning, affecting their GPA for possible probation.
4. Change of Grade
a. Faculty are advised to retain at least two (and preferably three or four) items of evidence (e.g., tests, term papers) of each student's course work, in the event the student requests a change of grade. It is also advisable to notify students in writing--and well in advance--if the grading system in any course will deviate from the general norm for grading.
b. If a faculty member wishes to request a change of grade after the grade has been recorded, such request is sent to the appropriate Academic Dean with an explanation as to why a change of grade is requested. (An official form is available from each Dean's office for this purpose.) Changes of grade from incomplete may be sent directly to the Registrar's Office for processing.
Senate approval: Oct. 16, 1991 (R91-10-4)
Admin. Approval: Revised Feb. 20, 1992
c. The Dean may:
(1) Approve the change and forward it to the Registrar for implementation.
(2) Disapprove the change and return it to the concerned faculty member.
(3) Refer the request to the appropriate School's standing committee for recommended action on the request.
d. If the Dean disapproved, the faculty member may refer the matter to the appropriate standing committee.
e. The School Dean will establish or designate an existing committee to serve in the case of need to act on grade change requests. Such committee will report its decision to the Dean and faulty member concerned.
f. In the event the faculty member involved is unavailable (when grade change is requested and found to be proper, the appropriate Academic Dean and Department Chairperson may jointly resolve a needed change of grade.) Both signatures are required before the Registrar may honor the change of grade request, including a change form incomplete to a letter grade.
An appropriate academic standard for eligibility for Dean's List should be a minimum of 12 graded (standard option) credits satisfactorily completed with an average of 3.5. The only exception is for those students whose minimum of 12 credits includes course work required in his/her program of student that must be taken on a pass/fail basis, excluding course credits that do not count toward graduation and whose semester average and cumulative are both at least 3.5.
Senate Approval: May 26, 1989
Admin. Approval: June 18, 1989
The academic standard for the Dean's List for part-time undergraduate students is a minimum of 12 semester hour credits satisfactorily completed within one academic year (fall and spring semesters) with a grade point average of at least 3.5. The only exception is for students whose minimum of 12 credits includes course work (a) that is required in a program of study, taken on a pass/fail basis, and (b) that does not count toward graduation. For such students, both the academic year average and the cumulative GPA must both be at least 3.5.
Senate Approved R-07-09-03
Administrative Approval 10/26/07
Any student may fill out a course override request form which will be available from the Registrar's Office during the registration period. All requests will be brought to the appropriate department chairperson. The chair will review the requests and, within 8 days, will forward those that they recommend for approval back to the Registrar's Office. Only the approved requests will be processed and only these students will be notified.
Students should be made aware that if they do not receive notification of approval of these override requests within approximately two weeks after filing, that their requests could not be accommodated. (Approved by Academic Council: March 1989, effective as of the May 1989 registration period.)
Examination materials are any materials used by an instructor to evaluate a student's knowledge and mastery of course topics for the purpose of assigning grades. Examination materials may include term papers, homework, computer assignments, quizzes, tests, lab write-ups, and any other tangible items deemed appropriate by the instructor for use in assigning grades. Intangible grading items such as recitals, juries, and physical skills tests are beyond the scope of this policy. All examination materials are confidential and are protected by applicable State and Federal law.
All examination materials are the personal property of the instructor. As used throughout this policy statement, the term "personal property" is meant in a physical sense only. It is like buying a magazine at a newsstand. The buyer owns the physical ink, paper, and other tangible materials out of which the magazine is made, but not the original expressions of others presented within (see 17 U.S. C. Par. 302, 303). Faculty are advised to retain at least two items of evidence (e.g., tests, term papers) of each student's course work, in the event the student requests a change of grade. The instructor should retain them until the end of the semester in which the grade appeals deadline expires (see Faculty Handbook section on Palpable Injustice). In keeping with the primary purpose of retaining these items, reasonable student access to them shall not be denied. In the unusual case of perishable materials, the instructor should properly dispose of the materials and need not retain them.
A grade book is the record kept by an instructor detailing the examination scores or other performance measures used to assign student grades. The grade book may be in any form the instructor wishes to use (e.g., steno pad, notebook, computer spreadsheet). Grade books are confidential and are protected by applicable State and Federal law.
Grade books are the personal property of the instructor. They will be retained by the instructor until the end of the semester in which the grade appeals deadline expires. This responsibility may not be avoided by giving the grade book to the student.
The Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs shall retain copies of course outlines.
Senate Approval: Mar. 17, 1993 (R-92-11-1)
Admin. Approval: Mar. 24, 1993
1. Faculty must comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 to ensure that information on grades, class standing or the like of any student may in no way be shared by the faculty member with any other student. This means that the following practices will not be utilized.
a. Posting course, exam, or term paper grades even if names are omitted and codes are used.
b. Giving the paper or test of one student to another for delivery unless there is a signed request to do so.
c. Putting papers, tests, etc., in a common place for student pick up.
2. Recent confidentiality laws prohibit anyone from divulging the grades of any student to the student's parents or any other individual.
3. Attendance requirements as related to grades awarded--Supreme Court rulings indicate that grades may be lowered for nonattendance only when a direct relationship between academic progress and attendance can be demonstrated. The arbitrary lowering of an earned grade for given numbers of class absences did not meet the Court's legal tests.
Academic grading reflects careful and deliberate judgment of the course instructor. Academic evaluation of student performance requires expert consideration of cumulative information and is to some extent subjective.
The University recognizes that in rare instances there may be "palpable injustice(s)" in the determination of a final grade. Students may use the appeals process when they believe there is evidence to show that a) a final grade was determined by methods and criteria different from those used for determining final grades for others in the same class or 2) the evaluation was made as the result of bias or caprice. The student shall first confer with the instructor who awarded the grade no later than the end of the fourth week of the next regular semester. In the case of half semester courses, students shall have the right to begin the appeal process at the conclusion of the course.
If no amicable settlement is reach, the student shall present the instructor with a WRITTEN copy of his/her grievance along with any supporting documentation which shall be considered confidential. The instructor shall respond in writing to the student within five (5) working days. (It is suggested that students prepare a packet of information for the instructor, the chairperson and the Dean).
Students, if they wish, shall have the right to choose a mentor/advisor for the purpose of guiding them through the appeal process. Students shall have the right to present their case at each stage of the appeal process. At the student's request, the mentor/advisor may accompany the student to meetings related to the appeals process as an observer.
If the student is not satisfied, the student, within five (5) working days of receipt of the instructor's response, may present the case in writing to the appropriate department chairperson who may effect a mutually agreed upon settlement with the instructor. The department chairperson shall respond in writing to the student within five (5) working days with a copy sent to the instructor.
If the student is not satisfied, the student may, within five (5) working days of receipt of the department chairperson's response, present the case in writing to the appropriate Academic Dean who may effect a mutually agreed upon settlement with the instructor and department chairperson. The Academic Dean shall respond in writing to the student within ten (10) working days with copies of the decision sent to the instructor and the department chairperson.
If the student is not satisfied, the student may ask, within five (5) working days of receiving the Dean's decision, that the dean contact the President of the University Senate to convene the ad hoc Committee on Grade Appeals. The Dean shall forward the request to the Senate President within five (5) working days of receipt. The Dean shall also notify the Provost/Academic Vice President, in writing, that the Senate is being asked to convene an ad hoc Committee.
The ad hoc Committee on Grade Appeals shall be composed of three members of the instructional faculty in the ranks of tenured professors or tenured associate professors presently serving on the senate, selected in alphabetical order each time the committee is appointed.
The Senate President shall appoint the ad hoc Committee within five (5) working days and shall notify the student and the instructor of that fact. The Senate President shall not discuss the details of the case with the ad hoc Committee. The ad hoc Committee will convene within five (5) working days. It is the responsibility of the student to present three copies of all material, including any additional material submitted later in the process and relevant to the case to the chair of the ad hoc Committee.
The instructor shall submit such materials as requested by the Committee and shall have the right to present their case at any stage of the appeal process. The Committee shall consider the case and reach a decision within fifteen (15) working days of its convening by the Senate President. Following its deliberations, the Committee may deny the appeal in which case the matter shall be closed. If the Committee finds that the grading constituted a palpable injustice, as defined above, the case shall be remanded to the instructor for reconsideration. If the instructor disagrees with the finding of the Committee, the instructor shall inform the Committee and the student within five (5) working days of that fact.
The instructor shall submit such materials as requested by the Committee and shall have the right to present their case at any stage of the appeal process. The Committee shall consider the case and reach a decision within fifteen (15) working days of its convening by the Senate President. Following its deliberations, the Committee may deny the appeal in which case the matter shall be closed. If the Committee finds that the grading constituted a palpable injustice, as defined above, the case shall be remanded to the instructor for reconsideration. If the instructor disagrees with the finding of the Committee, the instructor shall inform the Committee and the student within five (5) working days of that fact.
If either the student or the instructor has disagreed, the Committee shall then forward its recommendation for a grade to the Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs who will implement the recommendation of the Committee within five (5) working days. The action of the Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs shall be final and binding upon all parties and shall be communicated by the Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs to the student and the instructor.
Revised Senate Approval: R97-5-1, 5/21/97
Revised Senate Approval: April 18, 2001
Administrative Approval: May 1, 2001
1. Grades available for use are:
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Historical Hypocrisy: Donkey Kong, King Kong, & The Public Domain
from the monkey-see-monkey-do dept
Chris ODonnell writes in with the historical and hysterical case of Universal suing Nintendo over Donkey Kong shortly after Universal itself had argued that the property the dispute was based on, King Kong, was in the public domain. See, back when Michael Jackson was still best known for his music, Nintendo came up with their iconic Donkey Kong character, admittedly in some part inspired by the famous King Kong character. This inspiration, it turns out, came after the fact, but that didn't stop Universal Studios from filing suit against Nintendo, because they had released a remake of King Kong a few years earlier. While some within Nintendo wanted to simply settle with Universal and move forward, others within sought out the words of a key ally to fight against them, and that ally was Universal Studios.
Universal's King Kong movie debuted in 1976, but it wasn't an original story. Rather, the movie was a remake of a movie with the same title made in 1933 by RKO General. The 1976 remake came with its own round of litigation, with many parties claiming to have at least partial rights over the name, characters, and plot of the movie. Universal, however, argued that no one did, and that the characters and plot were in the public domain. In the subsequent litigation with Nintendo, the court noted this inconsistency, using it as part of the basis for finding that Nintendo's Donkey Kong game did not infringe upon Universal's rights (if any) over King Kong. Nintendo prevailed, and, when Universal appealed, the next court admonished Universal for its inconsistent legal logic.Ah, sweet, sweet hypocrisy. With one hand, hitting Nintendo over the head with the IP hammer, while holding a shield against another IP hammer with the other. The court was not pleased, noting that Universal's president, Sidney Sheinberg, was clearly well versed in the intellectual property status of King Kong via the earlier lawsuit, and to then pretend the company held rights in it was clearly a move to abuse the law:
Finally, Universal's conduct amounted to an abuse of judicial processes, and in that sense caused a larger harm to the public as a whole. Depending on the commercial results, Universal alternatively argued to the courts, first, that King Kong was part of the public domain, and then second, that King Kong was not part of the public domain, and that Universal possessed exclusive trademark rights in it. Universal's assertions in court were based not on any good faith belief in their truth, but on the mistaken belief that it could use the courts to turn a profit.As noted, Nintendo was victorious and Donkey Kong was released, since becoming its own franchise and propelling Nintendo so such status that it can initiate its own legal action based on its intellectual property.
Such a wonderful web intellectual property tends to weave.


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One of the misnomers is that if people are talking about killing themselves, they're not going to do it. (It's) quite the contrary. People should pay attention. —Dr. Scott Hill, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System
SALT LAKE CITY — A large study of nearly 1 million soldiers shows the Army suicide rate surpassed the civilian suicide rate in 2008 and continues to rise.
And Utah is no stranger to military suicide.
Of the 18 Utah soldiers who died in 2013 and were recognized by the state Legislature earlier this year, at least 13 are confirmed suicides, according to Rep. Ryan Wilcox, R-Ogden.
"Would I say that (suicide) attempts have gone up? Absolutely," said Dr. Scott Hill, chief of mental health for the VA Salt Lake City Health Care System.
Better tracking could contribute to the rising numbers, Hill said, but the rates are climbing regardless. Ten veterans have committed suicide since Oct. 1, 2013, in Utah, southeastern Idaho and eastern Nevada, he said. The hotline for veterans in crisis received 283 calls from the same area during the same time frame.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimates 22 veterans commit suicide each day. That number is one per day for active-duty soldiers, according to the nonprofit Stop Soldier Suicide.
Three papers related to the National Institute of Mental Health study were published at the beginning of March. The study focused on soldiers who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan war and those who weren't deployed.
From 2004 to 2009, the rates doubled to more than 30 suicide deaths per 100,000 individuals deployed. For those who weren't deployed, the rates tripled to between 25 and 30 suicide deaths per 100,000 people.
The report debunks the idea that combat stress of the two long wars has caused the surge in suicide rates. The study also says relaxed qualifications for new soldiers also don't explain the increase.
The average civilian rate for similar ages and demographics, according to the study, remained about 19 for every 100,000.
The research revealed about a quarter of Army soldiers have at least one psychiatric disorder. About one-third of suicide attempts were related to mental disorders developed before enlisting, meaning more people with mental health problems are joining the armed forces.
Hill said some of the traditional warning signs aren't there like they used to be.
"A lot of these men and women are denying suicidality right up until the point where they kill themselves saying, 'I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine,'" Hill said.
Typical warning signs including an increase in self-destructive or high-risk behaviors, changes in stressors such as a breakup or loss of a job, isolation, suddenly finding peace after a long period of sadness, and preoccupation with dying.
"One of the misnomers is that if people are talking about killing themselves, they're not going to do it," Hill said. "(It's) quite the contrary. People should pay attention."
Struggling veterans and their families can call the Veterans Crisis Line for help at 800-273-8255.
Utah veterans have access to treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and general mental health, marriage counseling, vocational counseling, alternative health care, 24-hour emergency room crisis teams, recovery programs and even evidence-based therapies over the computer for those in rural or remote areas, Hill said.
Now that scientific data is emerging after years of research, the focus is going to be on improving suicide prevention efforts, according to Dr. Craig Bryan, executive director of the National Center for Veteran Studies. The next couple years should bring a shift to programs with demonstrated scientific success, Bryan said.
A U.S. senator and Iraq veteran introduced a bill Thursday aiming to prevent military suicide.
The bill would give veterans 15 years to receive treatment for mental health issues. They currently have five years after active duty to receive care without paying copays. The legislation also looks to improve quality of care.
Hill said a delayed form of PTSD is common, and combat-related suicide attempts can happen years later. He encourages veterans to come in for help as soon as they are discharged.
Also Thursday, military veterans gathered at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and placed more than 1,800 flags to symbolize the service members and veterans who have committed suicide so far in 2014.
"This is an epidemic, and we're tracking it very closely," Hill said.
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
The blind leading the blind by Terry Burns
10 comments:
- Timothy Fish said...
That's part of the reason why there are so many religions in the world. People start teaching stuff without knowing the truth and because the whole group is saying the same thing, they all think that it must be true. Some even go to the point of saying that the truth isn't knowable, so their "truth" is just as good as any. Whether it is the religion of theology or the religion of writing, we should always look for the truth rather than feeding our own ignorance.
- January 26, 2012 at 6:35 AM
- Diana said...
Great post Terry. So glad God is gracious and has placed me on the Hartline Team. Our sharing of information on a daily basis keeps me on my toes, ever learning as well.
- January 26, 2012 at 8:52 AM
- Linda Glaz said...
It's funny you posted this. In every class, online, etc. conferences, everybody talks about my fave pet peeve, growling male characters and I tend to pass along to clients/fellow writers what I've been told when it's by an editor etc. in the know. BUT, and I say this honestly, I have just finished four hist romance novels with more growling and snarling, etc. than I could have imagined. BIG PUBLISHER and great writers. The frustration is so high when trying to help new authors get placed, telling them these are not the things to do and then seeing so many successful at doing it. errgghhh! Sometimes it makes a body wanna scream, growl, snarl, and otherwise regret being in this business. (of course, that on a bad day, I recover quickly)
- January 26, 2012 at 9:04 AM
- Author Jennifer Hudson Taylor said...
I LOVE this post, Terry! It's so true. Many are the blind leading the blind, but the moment we become unteachable, we become unreachable and we limit God. Awesome post!
- January 26, 2012 at 9:23 AM
- Steven Hutson said...
I couldn't agree more, Terry. For many years I had only isolated experiences that I presented as fact. Not a good formula for success.
- January 26, 2012 at 9:39 AM
- Linda Glaz said...
Jennifer, loved that comment. So true. One of the reasons I beat a dead horse about crit groups. You are constantly learning from each other. Even newbie eyes can catch matters that come from the heart, areas that tend to get stale year after year. So very true, we all always learning and if we aren't, we're stale.
- January 26, 2012 at 10:17 AM
Terry, could you cite several examples of the "garbage" you were passing on? I know the writing/publishing business changes constantly, but I was just wondering what a knowledgeable guy like you would have been preaching in error.
I've also learned that in this business, we are constantly learning.
- January 26, 2012 at 10:29 AM
- Terry Burns said...
Oh my, there isn't enough space here. I do entire workshops on subjects that before I would have taught entirely differently. Let me give you an example. Conventional wisdom says that a book of fiction has to be completed before it can be pitched, but a non-fiction book can be pitched with a proposal and some sample chapters. Most conferences will still teach that. But I started sensing that something had changed in the responses I was getting back from such proposals and I sent a survey out to over 400 editors. Guess what? 85% of them came back and said they would rather know the book was complete, even on non-fiction. Now it is very rare that I represent nonfiction just on proposal. See what I mean? Things change and it can be so easy to be teaching material that is outdated.
- January 26, 2012 at 10:38 AM
- Anne Schroeder said...
Thanks for your honesty. This needed to be said. As a beginning writer I attended workshops and classes and got conflicting info by "experts." My favorite was a mystery genre editor that read first pages and dramatically sailed the "bad" ones on the floor after reading a paragraph or two. Her rule was that every novel needed to show the main character, setting, premise and story need in the first 1/2 page. Period.
I remember watching a young writer collect her fallen page (a literary novel) and leave the room, crestfallen. Way to go, Teach!
- January 27, 2012 at 1:32 PM
- Linda Glaz said...
Ann, I have no doubt, expert or wet blanket, she would have had that attitude if she'd been reading To Kill a Mockingbird. A little power goes a long way. If you don't love people, you don't belong in any people-oriented biz, and that's what this is. Our goals should always be to encourage people on their journeys, not crush them. Been there, had that crushing, and didn't like it. But if those hard people long for attention, they'll be remembered, a VERY LONG TIME...
- January 27, 2012 at 1:38 PM


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ENTRIES TAGGED "ereading big data"
Publishing News: NewCo's global spread
A call for NewCo to expand its focus, ereading data is influencing content, and Hugh McGuire talks ebooks at TEDxMontreal.
B&N plans to open Nook stores worldwide; Joe Wikert says their store focus need a technology turn. Elsewhere, WSJ reporter Alexandra Alter looks at data generated by ereading, and Hugh McGuire argues ebooks belong on the web at TEDxMontreal.


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When Michael Young joins the Dodgers on Monday, he will pursue his first World Series championship ring from a new vantage point.
Young, 36, is a 14-year veteran and seven-time All-Star. For the first time in his career, he will not be a regular.
"He really hasn't been a regular the last few years," said Dodgers Manager Don Mattingly. "He's been a guy playing part time and all over."
The latter is true; the former is not. Young has transitioned from an everyday shortstop into a third baseman into a player who has started at all four infield positions the last three seasons. In 2011 and 2012, before the Texas Rangers traded him to the Philadelphia Phillies, he started most often at designated hitter.
In 2011, however, he led the Rangers with 631 at-bats. In 2012, he had 611 at-bats. This season, he ranked second on the Phillies with 468 at-bats and played in all but 10 of their 136 games. Adrian Gonzalez is the only Dodgers player with more at-bats this season.
Young waived his no-trade clause to join his hometown team, and he comes with what Mattingly called a "sterling reputation" in the clubhouse. As a result, Mattingly anticipates no issues with Young's newly reduced role.
"We're not getting a young kid in the prime of his career," Mattingly said, "and I say that with all due respect. ... We're going to treat him with respect, and I'm going to make sure I'm honest with him about everything."
Vero Beach encore?
Dodgertown was reborn last week, when the new Dodgers owners agreed that their old Florida spring training home could be called "Historic Dodgertown." Since the Dodgers moved out in 2008, the complex had been known as "Vero Beach Sports Village," because former owner Frank McCourt refused to allow the use of the Dodgertown name.
Dodgers President Stan Kasten said the new owners were happy to help, but Kasten called it "unlikely" that the team would return to Vero Beach for an occasional exhibition game.
He declined to elaborate, but such a scenario probably would require the Dodgers to open the regular season on the East Coast, so the team could stop in Florida on the way to its season opener. The Dodgers have opened the regular season on the East Coast twice since 1999 — in Montreal in 2000 and in Pittsburgh in 2010.
Kemp on hold
Matt Kemp, who went hitless in the first three games of his minor league rehabilitation assignment, will not return to the Dodgers on Monday.
"He doesn't feel good yet at the plate," Mattingly said Sunday. "He's not pushing us to say, 'I want to be there tomorrow.'"
Kemp was 0 for 11 at Class-A Rancho Cucamonga through Saturday, including five strikeouts. He had hit one ball out of the infield.
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The Dodgers continue to monitor infielder and Cuban defector Alexander Guerrero, who has yet to be cleared by the U.S. Treasury Department to sign with a major league club. The Dodgers see him as a middle infielder, but a club official would not say whether the team would consider Guerrero ready to succeed Mark Ellis at second base next season. The Atlanta Braves and Minnesota Twins also are reportedly interested. … The Dodgers' first wave of September callups — pitchers Stephen Fife and Peter Moylan, shortstop Dee Gordon, outfielder Scott Van Slyke, and catcher Drew Butera — joined the team Sunday. Pitcher Chris Withrow is expected to be called up Tuesday, when he is eligible.
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FBI Admits It Has Documents On Michael Hastings
Federal agency initially denied it had investigated Rolling Stone journalist
The FBI has tacitly admitted that it possesses documents pertaining to Michael Hastings despite initially claiming that it had never investigated the Rolling Stone journalist, who complained of being under scrutiny by the federal agency in the hours before his death.
"The Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicated that the FBI has likely located responsive records pertaining to investigative journalist Michael Hastings, who died in a tragic car accident in Los Angeles in June, and the agency expects to finish processing the records in about three weeks," reports Jason Leopold, who along with Ryan Shapiro filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the FBI in an attempt to obtain any records the federal agency held on the reporter.
When the FBI failed to respond to the initial request, Leopold and Shapiro filed a lawsuit
"The FBI has completed its search for potentially responsive records and expects to finish processing the records by September 9," the DOJ response states (PDF), confirming that the FBI does indeed have documents pertaining to Hastings.
However, the government's attempt to delay the release of the documents prompted lawyer Jeffrey Light to argue that there is an "urgent need to inform the public regarding records maintained by the FBI about Mr. Michael Hastings."
The revelation goes a long way to confounding claims made by the FBI shortly after Hastings' death that, "At no time was journalist Michael Hastings under investigation by the FBI."
Hastings sent an email hours before his death stating he was "onto a big story" and needed "to go off the rada[r] for a bit." Friends and colleagues confirmed that the journalist was "very paranoid" about the feds watching him.
According to whistleblower organization WIkileaks, Hastings contacted a Wikileaks attorney "just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI was investigating him."
A separate close friend of Hastings also told Infowars that the journalist's home was visited by agents from an unnamed federal agency the day before his death.
Hastings was killed in the early hours of June 18 in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.when his Mercedes crashed into a tree at high speed and exploded into flames, sparking theories that the journalist, who was working on a major exposé of the CIA and had received death threats, could have been assassinated.


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MARTIN, Tenn. – It was the Smith twins show for the Lipscomb men's basketball team on Monday night as junior forwards Malcolm and Martin Smith combined to score 50 of the Bisons 95 points en route to a 95-84 nonconference win over homestanding UT-Martin at the Elam Center.
"Considering the circumstances we played under tonight, this was a great, great win for us," said Lipscomb head coach Casey Alexander. "
When Malcolm Smith and starting point guard J.C. Hampton each headed to the bench with two fouls each in the first three minutes of play, Martin Smith stepped up and raised his game to another level. The Clarksville native drained back-to-back threes on consecutive possessions for the Purple and Gold and those threes would fall all night as he ended the night 6-of-8 from deep as part of a season-high, 27-point night.
"I've got to give Martin a ton of credit for carrying us on his back at a time when we desperately needed him," said Alexander. "He really deserves a lot of credit for a great 40-minute effort."
Twin brother Malcolm would see only five total minutes of action in the opening frame but would log 17 in the final stanza as he scored 17 points. Among those 17 were 11 from the charity stripe in 13 tries that lifted him to a 23-point night for the night.
Hampton added 12 points to round out the scorers in double figures for Lipscomb.
Making a surprise return from a suspension, UT-Martin's Mike Liabo scored 27 points in 22 minutes of action off the bench to lead all Skyhawks.
With a combined 50 fouls called, free throws proved to be a big factor in the contest with Lipscomb hitting a season best 77 percent (28-of-36) from the line. The Skyhawks proved sharp from the charity stripe as well hitting 75 percent (21-of-28).
"We've played six games now and free throws have been really important in four out of the six," said Alexander. "I give our guys a lot of credit for stepping up there and making them. We missed two in a row late but Martin got the critical offensive rebound which in my opinion was the play of the game."
The Bisons narrowly won the battle of the boards 35-34 and also held a narrow 11-9 advantage in turnovers. Lipscomb also won the shooting battle firing a season best 54.7 percent on 29-of-53 shooting compared to 41.9 percent shooting for UT-Martin.
Alexander was especially pleased with the way the Bisons handled the ball against the Skyhawks.
"We talked a lot about taking care of the ball this week," said Alexander. "We did a great job tonight of executing the game plan and sharing the ball. I went right down the line tonight and contributed everybody for contributing to the win because it was a team effort."
Lipscomb continues road action on Saturday in the nation's capital in the first-ever meeting with Georgetown. The 11 a.m. game is set to air nationally on FSN. 94.9 Game 2 will carry the game in the Nashville area.