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SCUMM file format specifications and documentation
The Really Useful SCUMM etc. Info File
Maniac Mansion .lfl-files
Additional .lfl info
AKOS format
Preliminary SAN documentation
Monkey Island 1 & 2 costume format
Monkey Island 2 costume format
Monkey Island 2 SCUMM opcodes
SCUMM index files
.bun file format
.lab file format
EMI .lab file format
EMI .til file format
GF/EMI .laf fonts file format
EMI mesh specs
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Escape from Monkey Island file specs v0.01
by Benjamin Haisch aka john_doe (firstname.lastname@example.com)
If you have any questions regarding this text or found out new information just mail me.
In this text I try to describe the file formats of the 3d files used in Escape from Monkey Island.
These files are meshes (.meshb), skeletons (.sklb) and animations (.animb).
I haven't yet looked into the costume files (.cosb) which group all the above files together.
Note that I'm a newbie to 3d coding so many terms are probably wrong.
0. Common definitons
1. Binary meshes (.meshb) specs
1.1 Notes about BoneInfoCount
2. Binary skeleton (.sklb) specs
3. Binary animation (.animb) specs
3.1 Note on bone operations:
3.2 Note on rotations:
0. Common definitons
vector3d = float x,y,z
vector2d = float x,y
long length
byte[length] string data
1. Binary meshes (.meshb) specs
These files contain the actual 3d model model data, i.e. vertices, normals, faces and texture coordinates and optionally information which vertex is connected to which bone in the skeleton.
string MeshName Name of the mesh
vector3d u[4] unknown (maybe for collision detection)
long numtex Number of textures used
string texname[numtex] Texture filenames (incl. path information)
long u unknown, is 0x13 in many files
long numvert Number of vertices or similar
vector3d vectors[numvert] Vertex data
vector3d normals[numvert] Normal data
byte size is numvert * 4 colormap for vertex coloring
vector2d texcoords[numvert] texture coords
long facedatacount Number of texture groups
(for faster texturing, switching textures
only once per texture)
repeated facedatacount times {
long flags usually 0x0304
long textureused 0= not textures; 1= textured
long texture Index of texture to be used
this is only stored if textureused=1
long facescount Number of faces
word faces[facescount] the faces data
long hasbones 0= mesh has no bones; 1= has bones
if hasbones=0 the file ends here, else there's some more to read:
long bonecount Number of bones
string bonename[bonecount] Names of the bones
(they refer to the names specified
in the skeleton file, .sklb)
long boneinfocount Number of "bone infos" (need a better name)
Stores for each vertex which bone it belongs to.
repeat boneinfocount times { See description below for more notes
long incval (Need better name)
long bone The bone the vertex belongs to.
I don't know yet if this index is into the skeleton
file or into the bonename array first and from
there to the correct bone in the skeleton.
float weight The weight the assiciated bone has to this vertex.
(Note: "Usually" means it's the same in all the files I checked.)
1.1 Notes about BoneInfoCount
This is where the bone-vertex relations are stored.
Note that a vertex can be associated to more than one bone.
That's why boneinfocount and numvert may differ (but they may be the same, too).
If incval is one, then go to the next vertex. Otherwise if it's 0, then stay at the current vertex.
All weights added must equal to 1.0.
Example (from mk1.meshb):
BoneInfo[0]: Vertex= 0 IncVal= 1 Joint= 130 Weight= 1.000
BoneInfo[1]: Vertex= 1 IncVal= 1 Joint= 130 Weight= 1.000
BoneInfo[2]: Vertex= 2 IncVal= 1 Joint= 130 Weight= 0.871
BoneInfo[3]: Vertex= 2 IncVal= 0 Joint= 91 Weight= 0.129
BoneInfo[4]: Vertex= 3 IncVal= 1 Joint= 130 Weight= 1.000
BoneInfo[5]: Vertex= 4 IncVal= 1 Joint= 130 Weight= 1.000
BoneInfo[6]: Vertex= 5 IncVal= 1 Joint= 130 Weight= 0.749
BoneInfo[7]: Vertex= 5 IncVal= 0 Joint= 91 Weight= 0.251
Here the vertices 0, 1, 3, 4 are each linked to one bone (each with a weight of 1).
The vertices 2 and 5, however, are linked to two bones, each with different weight factors that add up to 1 (for each vertex).
2. Binary skeleton (.sklb) specs
These files store the skeleton of the model. Each bone is connected to several vertices of the mesh, so if one bone is moved or rotated, so do the attached vertices.
string32 means it's a string with a constant size of 32 bytes, without any length byte.
long bonecount Number of bones in the skeleton
repeat bonecount times {
string32 name Name of the bone
string32 parent Name of parent bone
vector3d position Initial position of the bone
vector3d rotation Initial rotation of the bone
float angle Initial rotation angle
3. Binary animation (.animb) specs
These files contain keyframe data. Each bone has its own keyframe chunk. Each chunk can either be a translation or a rotation (maybe there are other types as well).
vector3d vec translation vector
float time time this translation is finished
quaternion rot rotation quaternion
float time time this rotation is finished
string name Name of the animation
float duration duration of this animation in seconds
long bones Number of animated bones (need another name)
repeat bones times {
string bonename Name of bone to be animated
This refers to the bone name stored in the skeleton
long operation Operation on this bone (see below)
long unk1 unknown (often 0x01)
long unk2 unknown (often 0x00)
long keyframes Number of keyframes of this bone
if operation=3
translation[keyframes] translations List of translations
if operation=4
rotation[keyframes] rotations List of rotations
3.1 Note on bone operations:
If operation is 3 this means the bone has to be translated according to the data.
If operation is 4 the bone has to be rotated instead.
Other keyframe types may be possible but I only found these two.
3.2 Note on rotations:
I think the rotations are stored as quaternions but they might as well be just an axis as vector3d and an rotation angle.


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United States Trustee Gerald McHale recently brought suit against Wachovia Bank, and affiliates, for the recovery of "$43 million of conveyances allegedly made to Wachovia in the form of cash and mortgage liens, and the imposition of equitable liens and constructive trusts on several properties in which Wachovia continues to hold liens, or the proceeds therefrom." Allegations abound that Wachovia not only helped Ed Okun in his scheme but perpetuated it's continuation despite their (Wachovia's) knowledge that Okun was violating many banking laws in his business practices.
Today Gerald McHale announced that he has filed a "Statement of Position and Response" to judge Payne's order in the Ed Okun criminal case. The statement was filed in regards "to the effect of the pending bankruptcy cases of the 1031 Debtors on the likely availability of funds for the purpose of restitution in the criminal case." The statement was filed October 15, 2008.
3 Key Points
1. McHale agrees "concurs" with the presentation set forth in the Government Statement filed September 12, 2008. See US vs Okun (Government Position) pdf bottom of article.
2. McHale submits that the continuation of the bankruptcy proceedings and the criminal proceedings "are collectively serving the interests of justice and judiciary effciency."
3. McHale asserts that "Victims of the criminal case are better served by the bankruptcy process which is well underway and has already resulted in the liquidation of many tangible assets and other recoveries."
Sad But True
The saddest but most likely true statement is the one McHale uttered at the end of his announcement:
"Victims could see some recovery through the bankruptcy process sooner than the time that would be required for the defendant's convictions in the criminal case will be final."

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York County man charged with indecent conduct
Saco undercover operation nets one arrest
York County man charged with indecent conduct
Saco, Maine —
An Old Orchard Beach man accused of engaging in lewd behavior in public is out on bail following his arrest Thursday in Saco.
An undercover police officer arrested Michael R. Smith, 46, on a charge of indecent conduct on Thursday afternoon in the commuter parking lot on the Industrial Park Road.
This is the fourth arrest made by Saco police since the department increased patrols of the Cascade Falls Brooks Trail and the Industrial Park Road parking lot because of complaints of lewd behavior.
Smith was released on $160 bail and is due in court later this month.


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Local Bank holds a "Five Star Rating"
The quant establishment sits firmly in the same lot it was founded on 103 years ago. Just glancing at it, one would may be surprised to discover that the Bank of Oak Ridge has been awarded the nation's highest rating.
In December 2012 the Bank of Oak Ridge was awarded the "Superior 5-Star rating" by Bauer Financial Incorporated.
Bank president Gene Allen said that his bank also ranked number two in Louisiana based on its "excellent" asset quality in September 2012.
"The 5-Star rating is based on our asset quality, which is excellent," Allen explained. "And assets come from investments, meaning that where we have invested money is very secure and safe. And the capital structure of the bank is very strong."
Allen said he began working at the Bank of Oak Ridge about 37 years ago and the majority of the banks capital comes from the locals of Oak Ridge and surrounding areas.
According to the "Banks of Louisiana" official document, the Bank of Oak Ridge had $53,072 in total assets in September 2012 and is ranked above all other state banks except for a bank in Haughton, Louisiana.
Bank cashier Lynn Wiggins said she began working at the Bank of Oak Ridge about 35 years ago and said that unlike many large banks, the Bank of Oak Ridge is small and she's familiar with most of the customers on a first-name basis.
"One unique thing about this bank is that there are only three full-time employees and two part-time employees," Wiggins said.
Longtime customer Veola Robinson said she has been living in Oak Ridge for 79 years and for as long as she can remember has always banked with the Bank of Oak Ridge.
"It's closer for me to go here and everybody's nice and friendly," Robinson said.
Tommy Rolfe, another established customer, said he would not deal with any other bank.
"I go here because of the personal service," Rolfe said. "I have been going here since 1935 and now I'm retired and have a savings account here."
Allen said the 5-Star ranking is an excellent rating that has almost become customary for his bank.
"We have had the 5-Star rating for 96 quarters, so added-up that makes 24 years running," he said.


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5 Vegetarian Meals To Satisfy Even Mr. Ron Swanson
Vegetarian meals can often feel a little, well, weak sauce when compared to a steak. I often want something more satisfying and hearty and there's one man who agrees with me — Mr. Ron Swanson of the TV show Parks and Recreation. Today we rounded up a few vegetarian dishes that might even be able to satisfy this amazing mustached man.
For those who aren't fans of the hit NBC Thursday night TV show, Parks and Recreation, Ron Swanson likes meat. In fact he likes meat more than anything and thinks vegetables are for wimps. You should probably just give him all the bacon and eggs you have right now. So our quest was to find a few dishes that might satisfy this mighty meat-eater. Check out our findings below:
• 1. Vegan Tofu and Vegetable Pot Pie from The Kitchn
• 2. Cheese Tamales from Meatless Meals For Meateaters
• 3. Pan-Fried Falafel and Homemade Pita from The Kitchn
• 4. Vegetarian Steamed Buns from The Kitchn
• 5. Veggie Grilled Pizza from MyRecipes
Satisfying the meat-eater in your family when you're looking to cut back on your meat intake is all about satisfaction. Thick chewy falafel, chargrilled pizza and comforting tamales. Twists on classics with similar mouthfeels and flavor profiles.
What are your family favorites? Let us know below!
(Editor's Note: Dear Ron Swanson, I know you'd never really eat a meal without bacon — in fact I'm sure you have an emergency supply of bacon in your pocket right now, so please accept my humble apology.)
It's Reader Request Week at The Kitchn! This post was requested by CRFOSTER17.
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WASHINGTON — Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:
ABC's "This Week" — House Speaker John Boehner and Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif.
NBC's "Meet the Press" — Reps. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.; Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis.; Cardinal Francis George of Chicago.
CBS' "Face the Nation" — Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.; Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee chairman.
CNN's "State of the Union" — Reps. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz.; Al Cardenas, chairman of the American Conservative Union.
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Archive for the 'Digital Humanities' Category
Archivist or Programmer?
Is there such a thing as a 'typical Archivist'?
This question was posed by a friend on the Archives NRA Mailing List recently and prompted a series and fairly animated responses, mostly along the lines of 'there's no such thing as a typical archivist'. It was suggested that such a phrase may even be detrimental to the image of Archivists and suggest that the profession is more uniform than the reality. I'd certainly agree that it would prove problematic to define the 'typical Archivist' beyond saying that we list, make available to the public and preserve material of historical significance or otherwise deemed worthy of long term preservation.
I suspect however, that the way in which the Archivist goes about this role has changed significantly, not least in the methods used to make material available. The development of the computer (originally used to manage payroll in Lyon's Tea Shops) and software specifically for the cataloguing of archive material, has fundamentally changed the way people create, disseminate and access information. Without an ability to embrace the face paced development of technology, there was a significant danger of repositories being left behind in terms of how they promote or provide access to their collections. Initatives for putting catalogue records online such as The National Archives' Access to Archives and AiM25 made significant early inroads into tackling the problem.
An awareness of these types of initiatives and an understanding of how they work are becoming increasingly vital in the work of a 'typical' Archivist. But just how far does a 21st Century information professional have to take this understanding? Historians have made some attempt to tackle this issue following the emergence of the field of digital humanities and practices such as the use of XML markup to display material online. There is even an online book available – 'The Programming Historian' – that provides an introduction to programming and the variety of uses that a little but of Javascript can be put to. To me, this is a massive step in the right direction, and one that I think at least some Archivists should be embracing. There has been some discussion on Twitter recently about what sort of demand there might be amongst Archivists for learning programming skills, and it would seem that there are plenty of us out there willing to have a go.
As someone who is confident is using computers and who has a programmer for a boyfriend, I am confident that there are more effective ways of doing things with a computer than those that are currently practiced by most Archivists. A few pointers on how to use macros in Excel and how to program a query in Access could make the world of difference to your average Archivist. Why spend half a day manually searching through various spreadsheets for data when you can run a report from a query in 30 seconds? I appreciate that this may be specific to my work environment, and/or that there are other contributing factors that restrict the use of technology within an organisation, but you get the idea!
The original blog post requesting input from any technically minded Archivists who want to learn to program, posted by Alexandra Eveleigh, is here. Have a read and please do comment on why you would want to learn and what you think it could help with in your day to day work.
I'm certain that there are a whole host of different things that programming (and other general IT knowledge) can do to enhance to work of Archivists, and I hope that something comes from the invite to learn together with a group of like minded professionals.
So, does an Archivist ned to retrain as a programmer? I don't think so, although a little bit of knowledge could go a long way to improving the final output of Archivists in terms of web presence, online resources and use of material. Initatives such as Code Academy will go some way to bridging the gap that exists at the moment, provided people have the time to devote to it. Where this is not possible, meeting with a group of like minded people in a relaxed setting or working through basic tutorials delivered online might well be the solution we are looking for.
To return to my initial point, I am not sure there is such a thing as 'a typical Archivist' but I do think that programming/computer science based skills need to become increasingly 'typical' in newly qualified Archivists if we are going to keep pace with emerging and changing technologies.
I for one hope to be blogging a bit more on this sort of thing and perhaps providing information on a few things that I've found useful, but in the meantime I'm getting my head down on Code Academy and reading 'The Programming Historian'.
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Sophia Grace and Rosie
It's safe to say that we're pretty much totally obsessed with Sophia Grace and Rosie – they're only the cutest girl rappers/singers we've ever seen. First Sophia sang Nicki Minaj, and now she's doing Keri Hilson… seriously, when was the last time you saw such a talented little girl?! Watch this video to put a HUGE smile on your face:
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10 very strange animal mating habits [The Frisky]
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Session 1 - Chicago: City of Big Shoulders
Day 1 Welcome and Chair:
David Scott, Principal, Arup, New York
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The Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago completes this year as the tallest building in the US built in 35 years, since Sears Tower. In addition, it has set new records for what can be achieved with phased occupancy whilst construction continues unabated above. As one project in a portfolio of significant international skyscrapers now built and under development, we hear from the Trump Organization on the motivations behind these projects.
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Tall Buildings have enjoyed an unprecedented renaissance internationally in the past decade or two that has seen their number and height increase across much of the globe. Chicago has been no exception to this, with the downtown core seeing an increase in both average height and density. What are the implications of these increases for the future of the city, and where does Chicago stand in today's world order? This presentation from a highly-recognized authority on the city's economy, will help to put the economic issues of density, height and cities in context.
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For the best part of a decade, Asia eclipsed the U.S. as the leader in the world's tallest buildings. In the mid-2000s, however, a number of U.S. cities once again proposed supertall buildings in a bid to rebrand U.S. skylines and encourage urban revitalization. With initiative from Shelbourne Development Group, and inspiration from Santiago Calatrava, the Chicago Spire has led these efforts on the world stage for Chicago. The project's engineer of record highlights the technical challenges and solutions of the design, which may apply to similar projects in congested urban settings.
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Each year the CTBUH recognizes excellence in tall building design and construction by conferring international Best Tall Building Awards. In this special session we gain an insight into the 4 regional winning projects for 2009: Manitoba Hydro Place, Winnipeg (Americas); Linked Hybrid Building, Beijing (Asia & Australia); Broadgate Tower, London (Europe) and Tornado Tower, Doha (Middle East & Africa).
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Session 5 - Quest for the World's Tallest
Session 6 - Urban, Technical and Environmental Advances in Tall Buildings
The Pearl River Tower was conceived as a 'net zero energy' operating skyscraper i.e. it would generate enough energy to offset its own demand. With the tower nearing completion now, that ambition will not be fully realized, in part due to the regulations of the energy companies involved. In this presentation we hear about some of the opportunities and challenges of building both tall and sustainably in China.
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Successful landscape painter Ann Ruttan usually focuses on Oregon scenery, but a lecture about Lewis and Clark inspired her to go farther afield. She traveled the Lewis and Clark Trail, seeking out locations mentioned in their journals, and created field paintings and photographs to bring back and turn into large finished canvasses. Some are painted from life, and others required her imagination to be portrayed as the first explorers saw them.
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Sister Mary Helen Richstatter doesn't crochet anymore because her hands are no longer able.
Sister Mary Helen Richstatter doesn't crochet anymore because her hands are no longer able.
But before the Sister of Charity was forced to give up crocheting, she created a nativity scene.
"After I first made it, I didn't know what to do with it," she said.
So she kept the 18-piece set stashed away in a box. She later began putting it on display at Christmastime in the recreation room of the Mother House of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth.
This year, she's put it on display in the dining area of Ross Hall, which she said is the nursing home wing for the Mother House.
Richstatter, 89, said she worked on the nativity scene pieces as she took follow nuns to doctor appointments. She said she probably worked on the nativity scene for about two years.
She finished them about six or seven years ago.
"They were kind of fun, and they were a real conversation piece," she said of the crocheted figures.
Richstatter said her favorite piece in the set is a camel. But she said working on the camel nearly drove her crazy by the time she put fringe on it.
She created the nativity scene from a pattern.


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The Center for Global Business at The University of Texas at Austin serves in large part as the McCombs School's "window on the world", dedicated to globalizing business education, not only here at McCombs, but also across the region and the country. As one of 17 CIBERs funded by the U.S. Department of Education to serve as national resource centers for international business education, our mandate is to enhance the global competitiveness of U.S. business.
As you will see as you survey our website, the Center is involved in a myriad of activities:
We are exceptionally grateful for the assistance we receive from a variety of supporters who make our work possible. In addition to U.S. Department of Education funding, Center for Global Business receives substantial support for its work from the McCombs School and its current Dean, Dr. Jay Hartzell. In addition, we are aided by the collaborative spirit and support of the departments, centers, and quality staff of McCombs School.
Across UT Austin we work closely with the Title VI Area Studies National Resource Centers along with faculty from other colleges such as the LBJ School of Public Affairs. We participate with the College of Liberal Arts in bringing business knowledge to language students and language knowledge to business students, as well as jointly host a cross-disciplinary graduate forum that attracts students from other colleges across campus. We collaborate regularly with various international focused offices across campus including the Provost's office, and the Study Abroad and International Offices.
We are also partners with many other external organizations such as other CIBERs, our network of business schools across the world including the prestigious Partnership in International Management (PIM) consortium, the District Export Council and NASBITE.
We hope you find this site helpful, and look forward to seeing you at a Center for Global Business event!
Dr. Linda Gerber Cheryl Lane
Director Assistant Director
The Center for International Business Education (CIBE) program was initiated by the U.S. Congress with the goal of enhancing the United States' competitiveness in global markets by encouraging greater international business education at higher education institutions across the U.S. Administered by the U.S. Department of Education, the CIBE program provided funding to establish national resource centers for international business educations through a competitive grant program. CIBE grant recipients were tasked with creating international business related programming within their universities, providing models and support for other universities to do the same, and offering competitiveness-building globally-focused education for U.S. business. Because research was expected to be an important component of CIBE funding, the new centers became known as CIBERs: Centers for International Business Education and Research.
Since its initial funding in 1990, the Center for Global Business at The University of Texas at Austin has met the purposes of the CIBE program by initiating ever-evolving initiatives designed to respond to the changing needs among U.S. colleges, universities and U.S. business for innovative responses to challenges in global business and business education.
Center for Global Business has contributed to the McCombs School's internationalization efforts in many ways. One of the center's major achievements is the development of internationalization infrastructure in the form of the McCombs Global Network, a group of more than 40 of the world's top business schools (see list in tab "Partner Universities") located throughout Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa and Australia, with whom the McCombs School has developed cooperative relations in various international ventures. The most common for of collaboration is student exchange, but various other collaborative programs are jointly offered Executive MBA programs, course offerings in overseas locations, PhD program cooperation and faculty exchange. To date, the center has provided opportunities for thousands of UT students to gain international education and work experience. Additionally the network has allowed more than 50 UT business faculty members to obtain international teaching experience, resulting in increased faculty international research productivity.
Within The University of Texas, Center for Global Business works collaboratively with the many outstanding area studies Centers on common initiatives. UT Austin is home to some of the most noted international centers of expertise in the nation, including the European Studies Center, the European Union Center, the Center for Russian, Eurasian and Central and Eastern European Studies Center, the Center for Asian Studies and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS). Being able to tap the extensive knowledge resources, faculty, and staff of these Centers has significantly enhanced our centers' ability to meet the goals set for the CIBE initiative.
An area of high priority in the CIBE grant program, and one in which Center for Global Business has particularly accomplished, is in developing mechanisms to incorporate foreign languages and area studies into business education and creating tools to assist other educators and business professionals to teach and learn business language. Another area of distinction for the center has been the creation of systematic tools for cultural analysis. The Cultural Analysis Toolkit and related programming provides an efficient method whereby students and business professionals can assess the cultural environment of business in a given world region and tailor their personal, professional, and business responses for more effective cross-cultural interaction. Center for Global Business continues to provide the Toolkit along with associated training to a wide set of students, educators, and business practitioners.
As 'National Resource Centers', CIBERs conduct outreach programs to businesses and academic institutions throughout the country. Center for Global Business has worked collaboratively with numerous educational institutions, business associations, and local, regional and national governmental agencies to enhance the international expertise of the region's businesses. CIBERs' academic outreach programs take may forms, including those designed for regional K-12 schools on international education, supporting programs that facilitate the internationalization of faculty in other educational institutions, and disseminating innovative curricula and teaching tools to schools across the nation.
The center's legacy can be seen clearly throughout the McCombs School where education has become more global in focus, new internationally-oriented classes are offered, faculty research has a more global dimension, and significantly more UT business students receive international experience. Because we are a well-established partner with local businesses and business organizations, the center has been able to have a material impact on the local business climate. Moreover, the many national initiatives where Center for Global Business has collaborated with other CIBERs and educational institutions has supported international business education on a national scale.
As business has become global, so has business education, and Center for Global Business has been a key player in the internationalization of business education, not only at the McCombs School and The University of Texas, but across the nation. Truly, the center's efforts have helped "bring business schools to the world, and the world to business schools."
Dr. Linda Gerber joined the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin in 1990, where, in addition to her teaching responsibilities, she served as Director of Academic Programs for the Center for Global Business from 1990 through 1999.
During that time she created and managed programs designed to enhance the global perspective of business education. As Academic Programs Director she spearheaded the creation of business language courses across various foreign language departments, supervised all international student exchange and scholarship programs in the College of Business, and initiated a number curricular programs related to international business.
From 1999-2006, Dr. Gerber was the Assistant Director of the Center for Customer Insight while she also served as the Assistant Chair of the Department of Marketing and International Business in the McCombs School of Business. In addition to her teaching responsibilities in international business, Dr. Gerber currently is the Center for Global Business Director and the Faculty Director of the International Business major.
Dr. Deirdre Mendez is Associate Director for Cultural Programs at the Center for Global Business at The University of Texas at Austin. In this role, she oversees the development and implementation of cultural adaptability programs to enhance the competitiveness of U.S. business.
Dr. Mendez is also a member of the faculties of the McCombs departments of management and marketing. She teaches international business and management to undergraduates, MBA students, and executives. She holds a PhD in linguistics, and worked as a consultant to U.S. corporations developing international strategies for 20 years before coming to UT-Austin. Since returning to academia, she has been a leader in work at McCombs to develop resources that strengthen students' and executives' adaptability to the international context.
Dr. Mendez has developed an academic framework and training system to facilitate intercultural adaptability and problem solving. The Cultural Analysis Toolkit is currently used at The University of Texas and other universities to teach international management and leadership courses, help students and businesspeople adapt to new cultural environments during study abroad, international internships, and service learning programs, and facilitate integration of culturally diverse teams of executives.
Orlando R. Kelm is an Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches courses in Portuguese and Spanish, focusing mainly on business language and the cultural aspects of international business communication. Professor's Kelm's research and publications center on the cultural aspects of international business and the pedagogical applications of innovative technologies in language learning, focusing mainly on Latin America and Brazil.
His most recent online materials development projects are entitled "Conversa Brasileira" and "Língua da Gente" and his most recent book (coauthors: John N. Doggett and Haiping Tang) is entitled "When We Are the Foreigners: What Chinese Think About Working With Americans." Prior to that, he published a similar book about Brazilian perceptions regarding their work with North Americans, (coauthor: Mary E. Risner): "Brazilians Working with Americans." His next book (coauthor: David A. Victor), provisionally entitled "The 7 Keys to International Communication: Brazil" should be published through Georgetown University Press soon.
In 2015, Cheryl Lane joined the Center of Global Business as Assistant Director after 11 years with Texas Executive Education where she had responsibility for developing and implementing business education programs for a wide array of international business school groups including many associated with the University's partner institutions. As a result, she is a key administrator who is well versed in UT, College and international business school operations. Most importantly, Cheryl has outstanding relationships among our faculty, staff and our business community.
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Watching Them Watching Us
from the it's-all-connected dept
The idea of watching back those who are watching us is not new. Every time it's brought up, someone points to David Brin's The Transparent Society. Now, Brin has written up a long (and somewhat rambling) piece for Salon that points out, whether we like it or not, technology is forcing everyone to be more open. It's not a question of whether the technology is good or bad, but how it's used. His suggestion is that it's time to embrace the technology of surveillance (and sousveillance) in order to make sure that it's used properly. Simply trying to stop the rise of cameras, RFIDs and closely connected databases is doomed to fail. And, even worse, by fighting against it, many privacy advocates are making sure that these things are set up so only "they" (governments, corporations, someone who isn't you) have access -- leaving out any accountability. In a world where people are freaking out over camera phones, RFIDs and internet tapping, it's certainly an interesting read. Brin points out that all of these technologies have benefits when used properly, and even the negatives can be dealt with, if people really come up with ways to embrace the technology, rather than just deny its existence altogether.


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There seems to be this crazy misconception in the world of weddings that pink, peach + purple hues are reserved for the warm summer months. But this amazingly beautiful shoot from Blue Lotus + Matt & Julie Weddings throws that idea right out the window. The rustic, earth-toned farm table from Shag Carpet Prop Rentals brings in a bit of fall and the amber + navy glassware help to anchor the set in autumn. Be sure to check out the rest in the full gallery!
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From Blue Lotus... We wanted to create fall a wedding look that was unique and unexpected. Blue Lotus chose floral with warm and cool tones to represent the marriage of the end of summer and the beginning of fall. Soft hues such as pink, peach and even purple don't have to be reserved for spring or summer weddings; they can also be incorporated into fall décor. To offset the soft pink and peach hues, we brought in earthly elements such as plant décor, a honeycomb table number and cholla sticks among the floral. We used rich jewel tones for floral containers and goblets, which is a fun change of pace for fall and winter weddings. The octopus plate serves as a statement piece to breakup the table setting. For the location, we choose a clearing in the woods of a park, where fresh fall leaves covered the ground. Our bride wore a simple, flowing bohemian dress that complemented the earthy, bohemian feel of the shoot.
Photography: Matt & Julie Weddings / Floral Design: Blue Lotus / Paper Goods: Palm Papers / Calligraphy: Chips and Salsa / Table: Shag Carpet Prop Rentals / Octopus Plates: Anthropologie / White Plates: Pottery Barn "Gabriella" / Bride's Earrings: Kendra Scott / Hair + Makeup: Maggie Remer of Salon Twenty Two


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From Haley: Liam Hemsworth was with a bunch of blondes late into the night at Trousdale. My friend and I realized one of the girls was none other than Amanda Bynes! Liam & Amanda were making out on a couch, left together and 'hooked up' at the nearby hotel.
Do YOU think Amanda is an upgrade or downgrade from Miley Cyrus?


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Romney to address conservative conference in March
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney plans to speak at next month's Conservative Political Action Conference, making his first public speech since losing the 2012 election to President Obama.
Organizers say Romney will speak on March 15 at the annual meeting of conservative activists. Romney advisers say it will be a chance for him to express his appreciation to supporters and friends.
Romney has maintained a low profile since the election, spending time at his California home. He met with supporters in Washington after the election and visited Obama at the White House for lunch.
American Conservative Union Chairman Al Cardenas says they look forward to hearing Romney's views on national and global affairs and "the future of the conservative movement."
Romney's speech was first reported by the National Review.


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I am about 6'2" tall and weight about 215lbs...I'm very athletic and I am what I guess you could call a quick learner..took a course in Hatteras ....I live in NJ where I kitesurfed all last summer in the ocean. The winds on avg. are anywhere from 9kts to 15kts.
I have F.One kites both the shadow 7 and 9 along with coffee table directional known as the cheater. I am interested in going to a "blimp" and have heard several different things about a few kites..
taking my info. into consideration what would anyone suggest - the Wipika Hydro 11, or the Fone Mach1 12.1? even throwing around the idea of the Slingshot Fuel..140...
My main area of concern is I want to ride in the ocean and improve greatly on upwind performance and jumps...I am what you would call a beginner in being able to gybe and boost girly airs.. =) but no upwind ability largely due to my gear I would imagine..
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The issue: Downtown housing
The caller was almost too choked up to speak. He had called to thank The Rep for reporting Sunday on the former Hoover Co. plant — its past and future. He had worked there for years, and clearly it had been like a second home to him.
"Home" also is the operative word in plans for 190,000 square feet of the still-vacant portion of the North Canton plant. The owners are working to convert this space into 127 high-end apartments.
You'll see similar plans for housing slowly becoming reality or on the drawing board for the former Hotel Onesto and the former Hercules Engine plant in downtown Canton.
In all cases, the developers are counting on Stark County to follow a trend that is being seen in larger cities, including in Ohio: young people and "empty nesters" moving downtown. It stands to reason that they would enjoy the conveniences and attractions of downtown living here, just as they do elsewhere. The bottom-line question for developers is: How many would?
There are no sure things in these ventures. Housing developers, like all entrepreneurs, have to go in with eyes wide open and a healthy willingness to take a risk. Lenders don't get involved with such ventures without studying their feasibility, so it came as a huge vote of confidence in the potential for housing in downtown Canton when Huntington Bank made a loan of nearly $14 million to the Hercules developer early this year.
There is one sure thing, however: Someone has to be first, and someone has to succeed before the necessary momentum can build.
In the case of downtown Canton, one pioneer is the Canton Development Partnership, an arm of the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce, which invested $1 million in a dilapidated building at 400 McKinley Ave. NW and quickly attracted tenants for six market-rate apartments earlier this year.
As a longtime Hoover employee said after touring the plant recently, it is a bittersweet experience to watch the transformation of old buildings that have contributed so much to the local economy and to the well-being of Stark County families.
In this Thanksgiving week, we choose to focus on the "sweet" part. It is exciting to see the definition of "home" being transformed in the heart of two Stark County cities.


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You know a student who needs to make some cash this summer AND likes programming? The Google Summer of Code project is open for student applications, and PHP is one of the organizations in on the fun.
I use a lot of google's services - gmail for a nice generic address, analytics for my website, google bookmarks to keep my stuff organized. I hadn't had any problems - until today.
yes, goofy name... the goal? All dependencies for PHP (and GTK so PHP-GTK runs smoothly) and PECL compiled on at least Visual Studio 2005 - in a completely transparent process where source changes and project files and built binaries are available to anyone.
For those of you who didn't know - PHP-GTK 2 finally hit a final 2.0.0 release (on leapday of all things). PHP-GTK is a wrapper around GTK, a cross platform library for creating desktop applications. With it you can write desktop apps with PHP. That means no server, just a PHP CLI, the GTK libraries, and …


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Sidney Lumet, the prolific four-time Oscar-nominated director known for guiding strong performances in classic films such as "12 Angry Men," "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Network," died Saturday. He was 86.
Lumet, whose film career spanned more than 50 years, died of lymphoma at his home in New York, his family said.
Sidney Lumet obituary: In some copies of the April 10 Section A, a headline accompanying the obituary of director Sidney Lumet said the year of his birth was 1925. Lumet was born in 1924. —
Once described in Variety as "the...


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Winnipeg Jets Embroidered TriFold Golf Towel Navy Blue
You can tell a lot about someone by looking at their golf bag: previous courses they've played, how seriously they take the game and, of course, their favorite sports teams. Luckily for you, this embroidered trifold Winnipeg Jets golf towel will soon be hanging from your golf bag, so there will be no mistaking the fanaticism you have for the Jets. Thanks to its hook and grommet, it will easily attach to your golf bag and its absorbent cotton velour construction makes it ideal for cleaning clubs or sweaty faces. The next time you're waiting on the green for your playing partners to catch up, everyone will see the large embroidered Winnipeg logo on this towel and know where your loyalties lie. Now that's making a statement on the golf course!
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Amazon.com reported a larger-than-expected quarterly loss on Thursday as it spends heavily to expand existing operations and develop new businesses. Its outlook also fell short of expectations.
The online retailer's shares ell in trading after the closing bell. (Click here to get real-time quotes for Amazon.)
Amazon reported a net loss of $274 million in the third quarter, or 60 cents per diluted share, compared with net income of $63 million, or 14 cents a share, in the period last year.
Part of the loss related to an impairment charge from Amazon's investment in daily deal company LivingSocial.
Excluding items, Amazon reported a loss of 23 cents per share, down sharply from a profit of 14 cents a share in the same period a year earlier.
Revenue jumped 27 percent to $13.81 billion from $10.88 billion a year ago.
But the results missed analyst estimates: Wall Street had expected Amazon to report a loss excluding items of 8 cents a share on $13.92 billion in revenue, according to Thomson Reuters consensus estimates.
"The overriding theme, the shift to third party, is making the revenue number less meaningful. I think revenue is not indicative in figuring out the future profitability of the company," said Jason Helfstein, an analyst at Oppenheimer.
For the fourth quarter, Amazon said it expects revenue of $20.25 billion to $20.75 billion, shy of the $22.79 billion analysts currently expect.
"On the surface it looks pretty weak, (and there are) pretty significant FX (foreign exchange) headwinds," said Needham analyst Kerry Rice. "If you add that back on the top line it looks roughly better-than-expected, but much lower earnings on a GAAP basis. I assume it's likely a result of continued investment in fulfillment centers."
The earnings release also hyped Amazon's signature product, the Kindle, and made numerous comparisons to the iPad mini, Apple's just-released challenger. CEO Jeff Bezos said Amazon's breakeven approach is working, and that the Kindle Fire HD is its best-selling product across the site worldwide, though he gave no specific sales figures.
"Our approach is to work hard to charge less. Sell devices near breakeven and you can pack a lot of sophisticated hardware into a very low price point," Bezos said in the press release.


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Database Impedance Mismatches
Alex Popescu argues that document databases have an impedance mismatch with object-based software. He compares the situation to relational databases:
"One of the most often mentioned issues reported by software engineers working with relational databases from object-oriented languages is the object-relational impedance mismatch. Document databases adopters are saying that one benefit of document stores is that there is no impedance mismatch between the object and document worlds.
"I don't think this is entirely true."
Given that databases and in-memory representations of objects serve different purposes, I don't think we'll ever completely manage to do without mappers of some kind. (Otherwise we'd all be using Java Object Serialization as our database.)
However, to me at least it appears that of all database technologies, graph databases like InfoGrid have the smallest impedance mismatch: a graph of objects is fundamentally closer to what is happening in memory of an object-based application than any other representation (e.g. document-based / hierarchical / relational / key-value etc.)


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UW-FDL Campus Deans share their memories of the campus
Over four decades, each of the four campus deans who led UW-Fond du Lac from 1968-2008 helped move the campus vision forward.
Bill Henken, Campus Dean 1968-1987
By Monica M. Walk
Visiting campus on a blustery November afternoon triggered a strong sense of familiarity for retired Dean Willard Henken, Ph.D. "I remember that wind," the UW-Fond du Lac founding dean smiled. "Brings back memories."
In actuality, Henken needs no memory aid. At age 80, his recall of the origins of the Fond du Lac campus is clear and articulate. "I can't believe it's been 40 years," he said of the school he grew from the ground up in both bricks and programming.
Talk of a possible two-year campus in Fond du Lac had bounced around for several years before it became reality in 1968. The County Board's gift of land - a former airport site - was pivotal, as were the efforts of the Wisconsin Coordinating Council for Higher Education and a Citizen's Committee of Fond du Lac residents.
"The energy, wit and determination of the people in this city worked to make the campus a reality," Henken stressed. "Once the decision was made, I was fortunate to become a part of it."
Dean and Mrs. Henken have remained committed to supporting the UW-Fond du Lac campus in many ways, including sponsoring an annual scholarship. Dolores Henken (left) and Dean Henken met one of the many UW-Fond du Lac students who has benefited from this scholarship over the years. Joey Kunde (center) was able to thank the Henkens personally at a recent scholarship reception at UW-Fond du Lac.
He was a newly minted Ph.D. in education administration and a rookie faculty member at his Wisconsin State University-Oshkosh alma mater (back when Wisconsin had two state systems of higher education) when he was tapped for leadership in Fond du Lac.
Those fresh credentials were backed by years of applicable experience: building a private K-12 campus as superintendent in New Delhi, India; recruiting teachers and working on-site for a northern Nigeria teacher project as a graduate student; and, prior to world travels, serving seven years as Cedarburg High School's principal - an "outstanding job" he was voted into before he had the chance to apply.
The Fond du Lac campus began as a branch of Oshkosh, a link Henken says helped in creating the new institution's program statement and providing additional resources, including a large library.
"Oshkosh was growing rapidly, and a campus like this served a useful purpose for those not ready for a larger campus," Henken noted. "It also provided quality education at a reasonable price. This was not second best - this was a different choice. It was just as rigorous of a program, but without the large numbers. We had to be sure people knew the quality here."
Initially, he spread the word himself by visiting local high schools; soon enough, satisfied students from Wisconsin State University-Fond du Lac Branch did the advertising. The campus opened with only freshman classes and grew class offerings with the continuing students, another strategy for ensuring quality. This quality was achieved with speed: ground breaking was Sept. 27, 1967, and classes began Sept. 9, 1968.
"We opened amid the sound of construction. The Governor attended our dedication and noted, 'You still have some things to do,'" chuckled Henken, whose building plans and positioning purposefully created a sense of campus, even on a small scale. The facilities were deemed modern in every respect. "But, it was a thrill to open the campus. I made a point of being here to see the first students walk in. Students breathe life into an institution; they are the lifeblood."
Once the campus was operational, Henken turned his attention to instruction and staffing. "It was a positive switch: I became involved with people and not things," he says. He remained focused on continued quality for 19 years, and his tenure included the education of his own three children. He credits high-school sweetheart and wife of 58 years, Dolores, for encouraging his professional endeavors. He retired at age 60 in 1987.
Former students still recognize him. "Hearing that they really enjoyed their time on campus, and that they are so glad they attended, makes my work worthwhile," Henken said. "Those of us in education talk about these 'intangibles' - seeing students grow, mature and gain self-confidence - reading about them, and finding out what they are doing and the successes they are having… hearing them say they are doing well and are glad they came here. These are the things that make me feel good, and make it all worthwhile."
Now retired for more than 20 years - longer than his fruitful deanship - Henken remains connected to campus as a scholarship sponsor and attends a variety of events.
Bradley Gottfried, Campus Dean 1987-1993
By Monica M. Walk
Native grasses bend and tree leaves rustle in the breeze. Coneflowers, black-eyed susans and other summer wildflowers paint the fields in purples, golds and greens. A picture-perfect prairie thrives on the UW-Fond du Lac campus.
This is no mere landscape, but planting with purpose: a recapturing of local terrain once lost to settlement and now again available for study and appreciation.
Turning acres of lawn back to original prairie took root under the leadership of Bradley Gottfried, Ph.D., the second campus dean, whose tenure spanned 1987-1993. A biologist by training, Gottfried felt concern about the amount of campus land being mowed, recalling how one employee would be dedicated to this task for an entire summer.
More importantly, local interest in creating a prairie-style arboretum on the campus land - previously celebrated as a lush and wild hunting ground - already existed.
"It's not so much what I did, but the people who embraced an ideal and vision," said Gottfried of the 37-acre arboretum later named for him. "It turned out better than I ever could have imagined."
Now president of the College of Southern Maryland, a community college with campuses in three counties, Gottfried cited how his commitment to listening to community ideas and striving to meet the needs of the community led to his dedication to make the arboretum a reality in Fond du Lac.
"The intent was to show how the area looked in the 1600 and 1700s," he noted, "before European settlement…and to make it useful for the college, but also for families, and for teachers and area schoolchildren on field trips."
And while Gottfried had the skill and connections to locate a grant to support the project, the community was required to provide
matching funds of $20,000 for that grant to be awarded. Citizens came through with the funds - including $5,000 from the Fond du Lac Noon Rotary - as well as expertise and sweat equity.
Local husband and wife team Connie Ramthun and William Volkert - a natural landscape architect and a Horicon Marsh naturalist - were instrumental in the initial planning, volunteer coordination and planting.
The UW-Madison Department of Landscape Architecture also took on the plan details as a class project. Faculty, staff and community volunteers did much of the planting of the initial 30 acres, beginning in 1991. Community involvement in the arboretum, including ongoing contributions of time and skill from Ramthun and Volkert, continues.
"After the seeds were sown, we needed to be sure no mustard took hold, as that would wipe out the flowers," Gottfried recalled. "I looked out a window one morning and - overnight - the field was loaded with mustard. I had to go out and see what I could do, so I took off my tie and jacket and started pulling. I looked up, and saw that all of these employees had joined in. That vision remains with me."
This type of wide-based project ownership drives him, Gottfried said, noting that he wants the employees, faculty and community of the institutions he heads to find projects enduring and worthy.
The College for Kids summer program that he instigated at UW-Fond du Lac continues to flourish with community support, and was similarly fruitful at two other institutions he led. Activities that brought the Fond du Lac community to campus proved important during Gottfried's tenure, he said, as the campus previously had not been viewed as a community resource.
Sensitive to the fact that his arrival in 1987 made him the first campus leader to take office after Dean Willard Henken's 19-year tenure, Gottfried made a point of involving all employees in analyzing the institution's strengths and weaknesses as they undertook the then-novel process of strategic planning.
"So often a new leader comes in with new orders," Gottfried explained. "But the people who have been here know the community better. We wanted to set the direction for the college, but also engage the college community is a dreaming exercise…to emphasize this is not just a paycheck, but you have a major role to play."
The ensuing "Second Generation Plan" focused on the goals of increased/enhanced academic programs, increased enrollment, improved work environment and increased service to the community. "We implemented most things; they were realistic," Gottfried said, highlighting that UW-Fond du Lac growth was strongest in the system while also acknowledging that he wasn't able to see all the desired changes during his Fond du Lac tenure.
Expansion of the campus-based Foundation office led to the start of locally directed fundraising, as a way to supplement state-generated support. Early fundraising solely supported student scholarships.
Even as dean, Gottfried maintained a teaching link to students, leading the first "student success" course in the freshman year experience program, as well as an optional summer study skills workshop. During his tenure, Gottfried also was asked to oversee the prison education program, a separate unit of the former UW-Center system in which area inmates were able to use Pell Grants to take college courses and earn degrees. He worked closely with the wardens and found the program fascinating.
His professional transition from faculty to department administration led Gottfried to Fond du Lac. At the relatively young age of 37, accepting the position of campus dean in the larger UW System felt like the right next step. He didn't anticipate ill health when he accepted this new challenge, and he refused to let a nearly year-long bout of mononucleosis slow him down. "I was not myself for a year," he recalled, "but I pushed myself to do that job. I never took a day off."
Gottfried considers his time in Fond du Lac nearly idyllic on a personal level, as he and his wife raised two young daughters in the quality of Midwestern life. Former Dean Henken became the Gottfried's neighbor when they coincidentally bought a home on the same street. "He didn't wander over with suggestions. He'd just wave," Gottfried chuckled.
After six years at UW-Fond du Lac, new challenges and the opportunity to "go home" to Philadelphia -- including grandparents, aunts and uncles -- led him to accept the chief academic officer post at Montgomery Community College in Pennsylvania in 1993. He served next as president of Sussex County Community College in New Jersey, before joining CSM as its fourth president in 2006.
He also has authored seven books on a variety of aspects of Gettysburg, noting that his personal dedication to learning and studying led him to return to this topic of interest from youth.
"Those six years in Fond du Lac were among the best in my personal and professional life," Gottfried said. "I learned so much, and wouldn't be where I am now without my Fond du Lac experience. I would definitely do it again."
Judy Goldsmith, Campus Dean 1993-2002, 2009-2010
By Monica M. Walk
Technically, it was a campus renovation. Locally, it is acknowledged as a rebirth.
"It was a dying campus," confirmed Judy Goldsmith, the dean who spearheaded the transformation at the two-thirds mark of her nine-year tenure at UW-Fond du Lac. "Nothing had been done to keep it up. Our enrollment was down, while others' (UW Colleges campuses) grew."
In January 1999, that changed drastically: nearly $13 million was approved for major capital improvements. At 32 years of age, the campus was poised to return to its original position as an institution on the leading edge of education.
The once-fashionable browns and oranges would be lightened and brightened; the noisy heating system silenced; the crowded classrooms eased and enlarged; and the whole campus outfitted with the technology and infrastructure now necessary to prepare students as global thinkers.
Perhaps most significantly, the campus was gaining an additional structure, which would join the existing buildings while providing a new library, theater, music rooms, large group instruction room, book store, and an eating and gathering space. Rising between two existing buildings and joining together all student activity other than physical education, this new building - The University Center - would give the campus a hub, a heart, a connection of people and place.
This campus-altering renovation began with a commitment of $900,000 from the UW System to equip and furnish a much-needed theater. Goldsmith saw the larger possibility. She approached the Fond du Lac County Board - the original funding support, and sponsor of the campus grounds and permanent facilities - with the invitation to analyze the state of the campus.
"We looked at what we had, the condition, the needs…how we were meeting needs," Goldsmith said. "We worked around the clock for a month to do this. We created a detailed analysis of the problems and needs for the next decade-plus. The preparation involved every single person on campus. It was a real work of art when done."
Buechel brought the analysis into the working committees of the County Board; members then visited campus to view the facility described in the report. As the time for the board to vote on funding drew near, Goldsmith worried: the nearly $13 million figure deemed necessary for renovation loomed large.
"But, they were committed," she recalled. Public statements were made to the effect that the renovation would be expensive, but lack of care over the years had led to the current deterioration. "The vote was unanimous. It was extraordinary, magical."
It could be that Goldsmith was the right person to carry the request. With English degrees from UW-Stevens Point and SUNY-Buffalo, she began her career in academia.
Volunteer work for the National Organization for Women (NOW) had bloomed into leadership as national executive vice president (1978-82) and national president (1982-86), where she served as spokesperson and chief administrative officer for the organization - and earned the nickname "The Professor" from reporters in acknowledgement of the complete and grammatically correct quotes she provided. She was, perhaps, uniquely positioned to comfortably talk with legislators about education.
From funding approval to the revamped campus unveiling was a mere 21 months…and in between was a "hellatious mess," Goldsmith laughed. The campus remained open, and while the movement to accommodate classes and offices was sometimes unsettling, it generally was smooth due to the efforts of business manager Marilyn Krump.
"She was so organized…charts and grids," Goldsmith recalled, "and unfailingly nice. She also had impeccable taste in furniture and colors, and she saw that all the intricate pieces were put together with minimal disruption."
The construction, by local and original campus contractor C.D. Smith, was a fascinating process, Goldsmith said: "We would call each other to look out the window at what was happening."
Spirits rose with the building walls. "I took faculty on a tour through the Commons, so they could see the outlines of the soaring windows," Goldsmith said, "and I could see the looks on their faces." Windows - especially the interior windows specified by Bray Associates Architects, offering views of the beautiful campus from hallways and adjoining offices - remain among Goldsmith's favorite feature: "There was now a sense of openness, of transparency…and so much more sunlight."
Timing was impeccable for the unveiling of the renovated campus: October 2000, a new academic year in a new millennium.
Much of the celebration made use of the just-completed stage - dancers, musicians, actors, and singers bringing life to the musings Goldsmith had entertained while sitting on unfinished seating tiers, awaiting the theater's roof.
Giving tours to the public during the dedication week was joyful. "Many had been on campus previously, and their jaws would drop," Goldsmith reported. "It was all positive comments; mostly 'I can't believe this is the same place.' It was a period of extraordinary euphoria. People smiled all the time."
Reactions went beyond this emotional response. "Enrollment went through the roof," Goldsmith said. "People could feel proud to go to school here. The grounds had always been beautiful, but now the science labs were current, there was storage, it was functional. The campus was now the loveliest of the 13 UW Colleges. It was a 21st century educational environment."
Goldsmith, who retired in 2002 and continues to live in Fond du Lac, said she is reminded of the renovation magic each time she returns to campus. "I never walk through the doors without a thrill," she said, including her several stints teaching English and Women's Studies on a part time basis since retiring as Dean.
She currently helps lead the Comprehensive Countywide Diversity Initiative and also serves as an elected member of the Fond du Lac County Board, supporting the community that so remarkably supported the UW-Fond du Lac campus during her tenure.
Leading the college was supposed to be a temporary position for Goldsmith when she accepted an interim appointment in 1993 at the request of then-UW Colleges Chancellor Lee Grugel, upon completing a two-year contract as Special Consultant to the Chancellor for Gender Equity and Affirmative Action at her Steven's Point alma mater. Instead, she saw the vision of what the campus could be and stayed nine years to make it a reality for the community and thousands of students.
"It was remarkable to have seen the building going up and the work by the subcontractors," Goldsmith said. "And then, to see it filled with students! To look down in the University Center Commons and see students by the windows with the sun flooding in…reading, relaxing, sleeping on the sofas. The transformation was glorious beyond words."
One event specifically captured her feelings about the campus and its relationship to the community. The internationally acclaimed Vienna Boys Choir had performed, and people socialized in the Commons after the event. As Goldsmith was leaving for the evening, she held the foyer door for a couple behind her—and continued to hold the door for another 100 to 200 people.
"It was so lovely to stand there and see the looks on their faces," she said. "They had had a wonderful evening, and were feeling high and happy. It was a really lovely experience, and I floated to my car and came home. That was so worth all of the hard work, all of the frustration, everything that went into the work that it took to renovate, to give new birth to that campus."
Daniel Blankenship, Campus Dean 2002-2009
Arriving at the UW-Fond du Lac campus in the summer of 2002 on the heels of a $13 million renovation project, Dean Daniel J. Blankenship, Ph.D. was able to sharpen his focus on what was happening inside of the buildings.
"We had a beautiful campus, the much needed renovation was complete and the focus could move towards expansion of our educational offerings, community collaboration and involvement and adding to the academic support environment for our students," Blankenship recalled.
Moving here from Montana with his wife, Kay, and their two daughters, Blankenship remembers being impressed by the results of the renovation project which transformed an aging institution into what is often referred to as a "jewel" of the community.
"The state-of-the-art classrooms, the Prairie Theater, the University Center with the impressive new Commons area, were poised for the next generations of students," said Blankenship. "We could concentrate on what happens inside of them. It was much easier to do since the renovation work had been completed."
To guide the campus forward, Blankenship began by bringing the entire campus community together to formulate a strategic plan in early 2003. "It was important for the campus to tell me what were priorities and create a shared vision for the future. It prepared us for the challenges we faced."
The resulting plan guided the campus through a time period when it saw strong growth in enrollment while at the same time state support for the UW System declined sharply.
"The budgets certainly make everything more challenging," notes Blankenship. "Students have been faced with steep increases in tuition as the state now provides about one-third of the cost of each student's education and the tuition has been increased to make up the balance. This is almost the opposite of the situation just ten years ago when the state support for the UW System covered almost two-thirds of the cost."
Pointing out that all of these successes are shared, Dean Blankenship recalled several new initiatives that have changed the face of the institution in recent years.
"Several ongoing partnerships have been established in the community through the establishment of a service-learning program" said Blankenship.
Service-learning integrates a community experience into an academic course. Its establishment in Fond du Lac was the result of a joint proposal submitted several years ago in collaboration with the Fond du Lac School District. "This has become an important part of the UW-Fond du Lac experience for students, and the best part is that both the student and the partner organization are benefiting from the experience," explained Blankenship.
The Dean is proud that returning adult students have more options than ever before to start or complete their bachelor's degree right at the local campus. "We continue to work with the UW four-year schools to offer bachelor's degree completions programs through the UW-Fond du Lac campus."
He says that other important achievements for the campus include the establishment of the Work Zone and most recently the addition of mental health counseling services on campus. "Our goal is to create an academic support environment that is second to none found at other campuses and serve the needs of students."
Blankenship is also committed to the ensuring that a liberal arts education is the defining position of the UW-Fond du Lac campus. He encourages faculty members to include a statement on the liberal arts in their course syllabi to help students understand the importance of critical thinking and connecting ideas and concepts with real life. "It is what distinguishes us. It is why we place an important emphasis on study abroad opportunities, internships, service-learning opportunities and assessment."
As the campus celebrates its 40th anniversary year, Blankenship recognizes the importance of the accomplishments of our alumni. "We all feel such a sense of pride when we hear our alumni speak so strongly about their campus experience here. I want everyone to hear these stories. Alumni often say to me that their time here at UW-Fond du Lac was more significant than any other part of their educational experience."
And, as much as things often change, the primary mission to provide access to educational opportunities for the community is as true today as it was back in 1968. "What has changed is the way this is accomplished," said Blankenship. "The technology has certainly opened up more and more opportunities for access."
Each summer, Dean Blankenship returns to Montana where he and Kay still have strong family ties. While there, he often hikes in the Bob Marshall Wilderness area, one of the largest wilderness areas in the continental United States. "I really enjoy the wilderness experience, often hiking 100 miles over the course of a few weeks.
A licensed pilot since 2000 with his own plane, Blankenship did his ground school training in college and then says he really didn't do anything else for about 20 years. Then one day, "A friend had a plane and said 'I'll teach you how to fly,'" Blankenship laughed.
Over four decades, each of the campus deans brought their personal strengths to the campus and moved it forward.
From Dean Henken's vision of how a local University of Wisconsin could positively impact the community, to Dean Gottfried's commitment to expand community outreach and improve the green spaces surrounding the campus, to Dean Goldsmith's dedication to see the campus rebuilt and become a real jewel in the community, Dean Blankenship has worked to see the campus fully engaged and alive with activities and opportunities for students and the community.
Legacy Stories
Scholarship investment returns life-long benefits
Long-time UW-Fond du Lac supporter and scholarship donor Harold LaShay died Feb. 2, 2009. The campus community will miss his dedication and personal presence.
The scholarship provided the gift of education. The benefactors' friendship made life truly rich.
Rebecca Jones Mueller was delighted to receive the UW-Fond du Lac Foundation LaShay Scholarship to support her studies in 1996-97. Eleven years later, she relishes her ongoing relationship with donors Charmaine and Harold (Danny) LaShay.
"I never realized how unique our relationship is," Mueller said thoughtfully, recalling how the friendship began with a thank you note, grew into notes about classes and holiday cards, and blossomed at her graduation from UW-Oshkosh in 2001. "I was standing in a crowded gym, surrounded by hundreds of people, and I heard my name. I looked up to see Charmaine and Harold. I think it was at that moment I realized just how special our relationship was."
The LaShays have since attended her wedding, baby shower, and numerous holiday gatherings. "They have come to everything I have ever invited them to, no matter how far," Mueller marveled. Monthly correspondence cements their bond; Charmaine LaShay carries photos of the Mueller children like a proud grandmother.
"They are almost like grandparents," Mueller said. "The relationship is special because Charmaine reciprocated. She wrote back. We have the same interests and values."
Mueller's time at UW-Fond du Lac provided considerable life enrichment in addition to the LaShays. She met her husband, John, while participating in campus activities. And, most importantly, she came into her own.
"I was so shy and reserved. Thank goodness my parents steered me to UW-Fond du Lac," she said of the campus she initially dismissed as a "fall-back school." While she was accepted at three four-year colleges, she enrolled at UW-Fond du Lac at her parents' urging. Her time on campus included several student leadership roles and work study employment in the dean's office.
"I totally thrived at UW-Fond du Lac," she said. "I really felt part of the campus: I knew the staff and the teachers. It was a confidence booster. Then, I was ready for a bigger campus. I am such a big proponent of the campus, and I tell everyone."


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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the latest edition of its federal sector Digest of Equal Employment Opportunity Law, which is available online at http://www.eeoc.gov/federal/digest/index.cfm. This quarterly publication, prepared by the EEOC's Office of Federal Operations (OFO), features recent Commission decisions and federal court cases of interest. The latest edition also includes a special article on Abuse of Process.
"Our stakeholders have asked for an article that addresses 'Abuse of Process'," said OFO Director Carlton M. Hadden. "This edition of our Digest should be very useful."
The Spring 2013 edition of the Digest contains a sampling of summaries of noteworthy decisions selected by OFO from among the volume of decisions issued by EEOC each fiscal year, including topics such as:
While these summaries are not intended to be exhaustive or definitive as to their subject matter, and may not be given the legal weight of case law in citations, they provide practitioners with relevant information in one place.
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With the education of Marquette students at the very heart of the university's purpose, determining which faculty to recognize with Teaching Excellence Awards constitutes a difficult, but rewarding task each year. "As is normally the case, the candidates were very strong and all had qualities that easily demonstrate why colleagues, and students, hold them in such high esteem," said Dr. Gary Meyer, vice provost for undergraduate programs and teaching.
Debra Krajec, artistic associate professor of performing arts; Dr. Gregory Rajala, associate professor of biomedical sciences; and Susan Riedel, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, have each been honored with the John P. Raynor, S.J., Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence. Dr. Barry Velleman, professor of foreign languages and literatures, received the Robert and Mary Gettel Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence. The award winners were recognized May 5 at the Père Marquette Dinner.
Noted for her influence on students as an instructor, designer and director, Krajec treats the theatre as a lab. "Professor Krajec is one of those teachers whose influence extends far beyond the classroom, whose assignments teach life lessons beyond the goals of the syllabus, and whose guidance gently shapes our identity long after a final grade is submitted," said a student nominator.
"I really love watching the growth of our students into theatre artists," said Krajec. "They go through a period of finding out who they are and what they can do, but by the time they are juniors, they are starting to bloom. By the time they walk across the stage at graduation they have become real artists ready to go out into the world."
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To illustrate Rajala's heartfelt care and commitment to students, one former student recalled talking with Rajala before military deployment to the Middle East. "We shared a hug and shed a few tears," recalled the alumnus. "He told me that I was like a son to him. He wrote to me regularly when I was deployed and offered sanity in an otherwise insane situation."
"She's a pioneer in pushing the envelope in engineering education, experimenting with alternative teaching methodologies, questioning pedagogy and rigorously assessing student learning," said a nominator. Riedel was also praised for implementing new teaching ideas that included problem- and challenge-based learning, peer-learning and student-centered learning well before others, locally and nationally, in an effort to achieve "deep learning," according to a nominator.
"Students learn in many different ways and at many different rates, so it is crucial for me to connect with the learning styles of the students, make my expectations clear, and provide different opportunities to demonstrate mastery of the course material," said Riedel. "I continually attempt to draw connections among the different areas of engineering to illustrate the common features they all share."
Velleman is acknowledged by other department faculty – regardless of which language they teach – as a master teacher who has introduced innovations to make language engagement more powerful and more effective, according to a nominator. Former students praised his knowledge, attention to detail, humor, modesty and commitment to student learning. "He remains a model by which I measure the effectiveness of my teaching and my commitment to my students," said a former student, now a tenure-track faculty member himself.
"As a foreign language educator, I believe that the fundamental goal of study is the development of lifelong learners who value the language and culture and can use what they know in a multilingual/multicultural world," said Velleman. "It is my goal to share with others my own enthusiasm for my field."


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City of Elkhart to Financially Support RV Show
June 10, 2010 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on City of Elkhart to Financially Support RV Show
The city of Elkhart, Ind., expects to spend $40,000 to promote an RV show scheduled for Aug. 13-15 on the city's Civic Plaza that is expected to draw 8,000 people.
According to a news release from the city, a total of $80,000 will be spent to promote the show, formerly known as the Midwest RV Super Show, which was canceled last year because of economic conditions.
Elkhart Mayor Dick Moore said the city he leads with a population of 52,000 has been drafting a plan with the Indiana Manufactured Housing Association/Recreation Vehicle Indiana Council (IMHA/RVIC) to host the show in downtown Elkhart.
"It is right that we show our support for our mobile home, RV and manufactured housing industry," Moore said in the release. "In the year of the 100th anniversary of providing recreational vehicles to the world it is fitting that we host this show in the birthplace of the industry."
RVIC will devise a strategic marketing and communications plan that will include television and radio commercials, along with print and online advertising.
"The desire to purchase an RV never went away," Moore said. "Now that the economy is moving forward again, credit markets have loosened, fuel prices have somewhat stabilized, it is creating the perfect atmosphere for RV buyers to come to our city and see the best the industry has to offer."
Moore will send a request to the Elkhart Common Council to support the event by appropriating $40,000 from the Greater Elkhart Fund. RVIC will partner with the city by providing an additional $40,000.


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Demi Lovato: 'Skyscraper' First Listen!
Check out Demi Lovato's new single, Skyscraper!
"This song is so special to me because it's inspired by my journey and the struggles that I've dealt with this past year. I hope people are able to relate to it and realize that they are able to rise above and overcome any obstacle, no matter the circumstances, and shine like a skyscraper," the 18-year-old entertainer wrote on her Seventeen.com blog.
"I am still on a personal journey dealing with my own issues each and every day, but the best advice I can give to anyone going through a rough patch is to never be afraid to ask for help," she added. "My biggest wish for this song is that it's able to inspire others and urge them to keep moving forward no matter what the odds."
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10 Recipes That Remind Us Why Cabbage Is Awesome
Poor, unglamorous cabbage. It doesn't get all the cool-kid attention that kale does, even though it's just as dependable during the dark days of winter, and with its mild sweetness and amazing versatility, maybe even easier to love. These 10 recipes are a reminder of how adaptable and tasty cabbage can be, whether served shredded in an addictive peanut-dressed slaw, stuffed into sausage sandwiches or simmered quickly with yogurt in an Indian-style curry.
With a head of cabbage in the fridge, a good meal isn't far away!
• 1 Peanut, Carrot and Cabbage Slaw
• 2 Roasted Cabbage Slaw with Hazelnuts and Lemon
• 3 Cabbage in Mild Yogurt and Mustard Seed Curry
• 4 Baked Panko Rockfish with Gingery Cabbage
• 5 Crisp Tuna-Cabbage Salad
• 6 Grilled Cabbage Wedges with Spicy Lime Dressing
• 7 Napa Cabbage and Tofu Salad
• 8 Asian Cabbage Rolls with Spicy Pork
• 9 Asian Pickled Cabbage
• 10 BBQ Cabbage & Sausage Stuffed Sandwiches
What are your favorite ways to eat cabbage?
Related: Know Your Cabbages! Green, Red, Savoy, Napa, and More
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