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NEW YORK — The NBA players rejected the league's latest offer Monday and have begun the process to disband the union.
The decision likely jeopardizes the season.
"We're prepared to file this antitrust action against the NBA," union executive director Billy Hunter said. "That's the best situation where players can get their due process."
He said players were not prepared to accept the NBA Commissioner David Stern's ultimatum, saying they thought it was "extremely unfair."
"This is the best decision for the players," union president Derek Fisher said. "I want to reiterate that point, that a lot of individual players have a lot of things personally at stake in terms of their careers and where they stand. And right now they feel it's important — we all feel it's important to all our players, not just the ones in this room, but our entire group — that we not only try to get a deal done for today but for the body of NBA players that will come into this league over the next decade and beyond."
Fisher, flanked at a press conference by dozens of players including Kobe Bryant and Carmelo Anthony, said the decision was unanimous.
Stern had urged players to take the deal on the table, saying it's the best the NBA can offer and warned that decertification is not a winning strategy.
Over the weekend, he also said he would not cancel the season this week.
Regardless, damage has already been done, in many ways.
Financially, both sides have lost hundreds of millions because of the games missed and the countless more that will be wiped out before play resumes. Team employees are losing money, and in some cases, jobs. And both the NBA and NBPA eventually must regain the loyalty of an angered fan base that wonders how the league reached this low point after such a strong 2010-11 season.
The proposal rejected by the players called for a 50-50 division of basketball-related income and proposed a 72-game season beginning Dec. 15.
On Sunday, the league made a very public push on the positives of the deal — hosting a 90-minute twitter chat to answer questions from players and fans, posting a YouTube video to explain the key points and sending a memo from Stern to players urging them to "study our proposal carefully, and to accept it as a fair compromise of the issues between us."
In the memo, posted on the league's website, Stern highlighted points of the deal and asked players to focus on the compromises the league made during negotiations, such as dropping its demands for a hard salary cap, non-guaranteed contracts and salary rollbacks.
Union officials repeatedly have said the system issues are perhaps more important to them than the split of basketball-related income, but owners say they need fundamental changes in both to allow for a chance to profit and to ensure more competitive balance throughout the league.
The previous CBA expired at the end of the day June 30. Despite a series of meetings in June, there was never much hope of a deal before that deadline, with owners wanting significant changes after saying they lost $300 million last season and hundreds of millions more in each year of the old agreement, which was ratified in 2005.
Owners wanted to keep more of the league's nearly $4 billion in basketball revenues to themselves after guaranteeing 57 percent to the players under the old deal. And they sought a system where even the smallest-market clubs could compete, believing the current system would always favor the teams who could spend the most.
Monday marked the 137th day of the lockout; the NFL lockout lasted 136 days.


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Research publications 2008
Research Publications - 2008 ArchivePage archived at: Mon, 8 December 2008 11:32:21 +1000
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Allender to Christie
Allender, T. (2008). Educational futures: creating a female education space in colonial India, 1854-1934. In A. M. Vicziany (Ed) Proceedings of 17th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA). "Is this the Asian century?" pp. 1-12). Melbourne, Australia (1-3 July 2008) http://arts.monash.edu.au/mai/asaa/index.php.
Amirrachman, A., Syafi'i, S., & Welch, A. (2008). Decentralising Indonesian Education: the Promise and the Price. World Studies in Education, 9(1), 31-53.
Anderson, J. (2008). Teachers' motivation to attend voluntary professional development in K-10 mathematics. In M. Goos, R. Brown & K. Makar (Ed) Proceedings of 31st Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia. Navigating Currents and Charting Directions (vol 1 pp. 51-58). Adelaide, (July 2008).
Anderson, J., Bobis, J., & Way, J. (2008). Teachers as learners: Building knowledge in and through the practice of teaching mathematics. In H. Forgaz, A. Barkatasas, A. Bishop, B. Clarke, S. Keast, W. T. Seah, P. Sullivan & S. Willis (Eds.), Research in Mathematics Education in Australasia 2004-2007 (pp. 313-335). Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
Anderson, M. (2008). Technology, Drama and English Teaching. In M. Anderson, J. Hughes & J. Manuel (Eds.), Drama and English teaching: Imagination, action and engagement (pp. 161-174). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
Arnold, L. S., & Walker, R. A. (2008). Co-constructing classroom environments that improve academic outcomes. In P. Towndrow, C. Goh & T. H. Soon (Eds.), Motivation and practice for the classroom (pp. 165-184). Rotterdam/Taipai: Sense Publishers.
Bachfischer, A., Lawrence, E., Litchfield, A., Dyson, L. E., & Raban, R. (2008). Student Perspectives about Using Mobile Devices in Their Studies. In I. A. Sanchez & P. Isaias (Ed) Proceedings of IADIS International Conference. Mobile Learning 2008 pp. 43-50). Algarve, Portugal, (11-13 April, 2008).
Bagnall, N. (2008). International Schools as Agents for Change. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Begum, M., & Farooqui, S. (2008). School based assessment: Will it really change the education scenario in Bangladesh? International Education Studies, 1(2), 45-53.
Bell, E., Allen, R., Hogan, D., & Martinez, C. (2008). Why risk irrelevance? A translational research model for adolescent risk-taking data. Journal of Youth Studies, 11(4), 461-471.
Bornholt, L. J., Maras, P. M., & Robinson, R. A. (2008). 'I am - we are': Personal and social pathways to further study, work and family life. Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal (Online First), DOI 10.1007/s11218-11008-19085-11218.
Bottrell, D. (2008). Dealing With Disadvantage: Resilience and the Social Capital Of Young People's Networks. Youth & Society Online First, DOI:10.1177/0044118X08327518.
Bottrell, D. (2008). TGG: Girls, Culture and Identity. In A. Harris (Ed.), Next Wave Cultures: Feminism, Subcultures, Activism (pp. 37-62). New York and London: Routledge.
Brew, A. (2008). Disciplinary and interdisciplinary affiliations of experienced researchers. Higher Education, 56, 423-438.
Brew, A., & Ginns, P. (2008). The relationship between engagement in the scholarship of teaching and learning and students' course experiences. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 33(5), 535-545.
Buchanan, J., Gordon, S., & Schuck, S. (2008). From mentoring to monitoring: The impact of changing work environments on academics in Australian universities. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 32(3), 241-250.
Burns, A., Paltridge, B., & Wigglesworth, G. (2008). Review of recent doctoral research in second language teaching and learning in Australia. Language Teaching, 41(2), 275-295.
Callow, J. (2008). Show Me: Principles for Assessing students' visual literacy. The Reading Teacher, 61(8), 616-626
Cassity, E. A. (2008). Cast the Net a Little Wider: Australian Aid in the South Pacific. International Journal of Educational Development, 28(3), 246-258.
Cerni, T., Curtis, G., & Colmar, S. (2008). Information Processing and Leadership Styles: Constructive Thinking and Transformational Leadership. Journal of Leadership Studies, 2(1), 60-73.
Christie, F. (2008). Advanced literacy development for the years of adolescence. In G. Robinson, U. Eickelkamp, J. Goodnow & I. Katz (Eds.), Contexts of Child Development. Culture, Policy and Intervention (pp. 183-195). Darwin, Australia: Charles Darwin Press.
Christie, F. (2008). Genres and institutions: functional perspectives on educational discourse. In M. Martin-Jones, A. M. de Mejia & N. H. Hornberger (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Language and Education (2nd ed., Vol. 3: Discourse and Education, pp. 1-12). New York: Springer Science+Business Media LLC.
Christie, F., & Humphrey, S. (2008). Senior school English and its goals: Making sense of 'The Journey'. In L. Unsworth (Ed.), New Literacies and the English Curriculum: Multimodal Perspectives (pp. 215-237). London & New York: Continuum.
Connell to Ginns
Connell, R. (2008). Masculinity construction and sports in boys' education: a framework for thinking about the issue. Sport, Education and Society, 13(2), 131-145.
Connell, R. (2008). The rise of the global-private: power, masculinities and the new world order. In K. Jurczyk & M. Oechsle (Eds.), Das Private Neu Denken (Rethinking the Private) (pp. 315-330). Muenster: Westfaelisches Dampfboot.
Connell, R. (2008). A Thousand Miles from Kind: Men, Masculinities and Modern Institutions. Journal of Men's Studies, 16(3), 237-252.
Derewianka, B., & Christie, F. (2008). School Discourse. Learning to Write Across the Years of Schooling (1 ed.). London, New York: Continuum.
Dyson, L. E., Lawrence, E., Litchfield, A. J., & Zmijewska, A. (2008). M-Fieldwork for Information Systems Students. In R. H. Sprague Jr (Ed) Proceedings of Forty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) pp. 1-10). Waikoloa, Hawaii, (7-10 Jan, 2008).
Egan, S. (2008). Research for practice in small human service organisations: doing and disseminating smallscale research. In D. Bottrell & G. Meagher (Eds.), Communities and Change: Selected Papers (pp. 303-317). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Ellis, R., Goodyear, P., Brillant, M., & Prosser, M. (2008). Student experiences of problem-based learning in pharmacy: conceptions of learning, approaches to learning and the integration of face-to-face and on-line activities. Advances in Health Sciences Education, 13, 675–692.
Ellis, R., Goodyear, P., Calvo, A. R., & Prosser, M. (2008). Engineering students' conceptions of and approaches to learning through discussions in face-to-face and online contexts. Learning & Instruction, 18(3), 267-282.
Evans, D., & Strnadova, I. (2008). Examining the range of strategies mothers use to cope when caring for a child with an intellectual disability. In D. Bottrell & G. Meagher (Eds.), Communities and Changes: Selected Papers (pp. 141-164). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Ewing, R., & Hughes, J. (2008). Arts-Informed Inquiry in Teacher Education: contesting the myths. European Education Research Journal, 7(4), 512-522, http://dx.doi.org/510.2304/eerj.2008.2307.2304.2512.
Ewing, R., Miller, C., & Saxton, J. (2008). Drama and Contemporary Picture Books in the Middle Years. In J. Hughes, M. Anderson & J. Manuel (Eds.), Drama Teaching in English: Imagination, action and engagement (pp. 121-135). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
Ewing, R. A., Freeman, M. A., Barrie, S., Bell, A., O'Connor, D., Waugh, F. E., et al. (2008). Building community in academic settings: the importance of flexibility in a structured mentoring program. Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 16(3), 294-310.
Farooqui, S. (2008). Teachers' perceptions of textbook and teachers' guide: A study in secondary education in Bangladesh. Journal of Asia TEFL , 5(4), 181-200.
Fawcett, B. (2008). Disability and violence. In B. Fawcett & F. Waugh (Eds.), Addressing Violence, Abuse and Oppression: Debates and Challenges (pp. 155-162). London, New York: Rouledge.
Fawcett, B. (2008). Women and violence. In B. Fawcett & F. Waugh (Eds.), Addressing Violence, Abuse and Oppression: Debates and Challenges (pp. 7-16). London, New York: Routledge.
Fawcett, B., & Hanlon, M. (2008). Child Sexual Abuse and Aboriginal Communities in Australia: A case study of non inclusive government intervention. European Journal of Social Work, DOI: 10.1080/13691450802221048.
Freebody, P., & Bin, B. Z. (2008). The designs of culture, knowledge, and interaction in the reading of language and image. In L. Unsworth (Ed.), New Literacies and the English Curriculum: Multimodal Perspectives (pp. 23-46). London & New York: Continuum.
Freebody, P., & Freiberg, J. (2008). Globalised literacy education: Intercultural trade in textual and cultural practice. In M. Prinsloo & M. Baynham (Eds.), Literacies, global and local (pp. 17-34). Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Freebody, P., Martin, J. R., & Maton, K. (2008). Talk, text, and knowledge in cumulative, integrated learning. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 31, 188-201.
Gibson, R. (2008). Primary-age children's attitudes to art, art making and art education. International Journal of Education through Art, 4(2), 177-193.
Gibson, R., & Anderson, M. (2008). Touching the void: Australian arts education research. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 28(1), 103-112.
Ginns, P., Kitay, J., & Prosser, M. (2008). Developing conceptions of teaching and the scholarship of teaching through a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education. International Journal for Academic Development, 13(3), 175-185.
Gonzalez to Johnston
Gonzalez, C. (2008). Teaching postgraduate distance courses using the web: a study on conceptions and approaches. In P. L. Jeffery (Ed) Proceedings of AARE 2007 International Educational Research Conference, Fremantle pp. GON07381). Freemantle, (26-29 Nov 2007).
Goodwin, N. B. (2008). The design processes of technology teacher education design teams. In H. Middleton & M. Pavlova (Ed) Proceedings of 5th Biennial International Conference on Technology Education Research. Exploring technology education: Solutions to issues in a globalised world (vol 1 pp. 169-176). Surfers Paradise, Australia, (27-29 November).
Goodyear, P., & Ellis, R. (2008). University students' approaches to learning: re-thinking the place of technology. Distance Education, 29(2), 141-152.
Graham, L. J. (2008). Child Rearing Inc? The perils of political paralysis Down Under. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 40(6), 739-746.
Graham, L. J. (2008). Drugs, labels and (p)ill-fitting boxes: ADHD and children who are hard to teach. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 29(1), 85-106.
Graham, L. J. (2008). From ABCs to ADHD: the role of schooling in the construction of behaviour disorder and production of disorderly objects. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 12(1), 7-33.
Graham, L. J., & Grieshaber, S. (2008). Reading dis/ability: interrogating paradigms in a prism of power Disability & Society, 23(6), 557-570.
Han, F., & Stevenson, M. (2008). Comprehension monitoring in first and foreign language reading. University of Sydney Papers in TESOL, 3, 73-110.
Harbon, L. (2008). Chinese students in a 'sea' of change: one teacher's discoveries about Chinese students' learning and emotions through use of song. Evaluation and Research in Education, 21(3), 214-234.
Hart, D. (2008). Trapped within poverty and violence. In B. Fawcett & F. Waugh (Eds.), Addressing Violence, Abuse and Oppression: Debates and Challenges (pp. 25-37). London, New York: Routledge.
Hee, L. S., & Woodrow, L. (2008). International students' out-of-class interaction during the preparation of academic assignments: The case of six Korean TESOL postgraduate students. University of Sydney Papers in TESOL, 3, 35-72.
Holenbergh, R. (2008). Sandstone arches and moongates: Internationalisation and students from China at the University of Sydney. Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, 39-40(1), 264-284.
Horsley, M., & Walker, R. A. (2008). Best practice in designing and managing after school homework support: A sociocultural interpretation of homework and affording learning through homework practices. In D. L. McInerney, A. (Ed.), Teaching and learning: International best practice (Vol. 8, pp. 79-110). Greenwich, Connecticut: Information Age Publishing.
Howard, S. (2008). Teacher Change: A preliminary exploration of teachers' risk-taking in the context of ICT integration. In P. L. Jeffery (Ed) Proceedings of AARE 2007 International Educational Research Conference, Fremantle paper # HOW07187). Freemantle, (26-29 Nov 2007).
Huppatz, K. (2008). Feminism as Capital: gender, class and mobility for women in paid care work. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 3(5), 121-126.
Irwin, J. (2008). Challenging the second closet: intimate partner violence between lesbians. In B. Fawcett & F. Waugh (Eds.), Addressing Violence, Abuse and Oppression: Debates and Challenges (pp. 80-92). London, New York: Routledge.
Irwin, J. (2008). Discounted Stories: Lesbians and Domestic Violence. Qualitative Social Work, 7(2), 199-215.
Jackson, S. A., Martin, A. J., & Eklund, R. C. (2008). Long and short measures of flow: Examining construct validity of the FSS-2, DFS-2, and new brief counterparts. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 30, 561-587.
Ji, P. (2008). Pragmatics and Pedagogy in College English Teaching. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
Johnston, K., & Hayes, D. (2008). 'This is as good as it gets': classroom lessons and learning in challenging circumstances. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 31(2), 109-127.
Laing to Martin
Laing, L. (2008). A Perilous Journey: Seeking protection in the aftermath of domestic violence. Communities, Children and Families Australia, 3(2), 19-28.
Laing, L. (2008). 'Violence', criminal justice, the law, policy and practice. In B. Fawcett & F. Waugh (Eds.), Addressing Violence, Abuse and Oppression: Debates and Challenges (pp. 67-79). London, New York: Routledge.
Lawrence, E., Bachfischer, A., Dyson, L. E., & Litchfield, A. (2008). Mobile Learning and Student Perspectives: An mReality Check! In S. Ceballos (Ed) Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB 2008). Creativity and Convergence pp. 287-295). Barcelona, Spain, (July 7-8, 2008).
Le Cornu, R., & Ewing, R.(2008). Reconceptualising professional experiences in pre-service teacher education/reconstructing the past to embrace the future. Teaching and Teacher Education, 24, 1799–1812.
Leahy, W., & Sweller, J. (2008). The imagination effect increases with an increased intrinsic cognitive load. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22, 273–283.
Leung, D., Ginns, P., & Kember, D. (2008). Examining the cultural specificity of approaches to learning in universities in Hong Kong and Sydney. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 39, 251-266.
Li, H., & Bornholt, L. J. (2008). Common or distinct perspectives by parent and child about children's social skills at home? In P. L. Jeffery (Ed) Proceedings of AARE 2007 International Educational Research Conference, Fremantle paper # LI07595). Fremantle, Australia, (26-29 Nov 2007).
Light, R. (2008). Complex learning theory in physical education: An examination of its epistemology and assumptions about how we learn. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 27(1), 21-37.
Light, R. (2008). Learning masculinities in a Japanese high school rugby club. Sport, Education and Society, 13(2), 163-179.
Light, R. (2008). Sport in the lives of young Australians. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Light, R., & Georgakis, S. (2008). Responses of Study Abroad Students in Australia to Experience-based Pedagogy in Sport Studies. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 1(2), 1-15.
Light, R., Hirai, H., & Ebishima, H. (2008). Tradition, identity, professionalism and tensions in Japanese rugby. In G. Ryan (Ed.), The changing face of rugby: The union game and professionalism since 1995 (pp. 147-164). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Light, R., & Wallian, N. (2008). A Constructivist-Informed Approach to Teaching Swimming. Quest, 60, 387-404.
Liu, J. (2008). The Generic and Rhetorical Structures of Expositions in English by Chinese Ethnic Minorities: A Perspective from Intracultural Contrastive Rhetoric. Language and Intercultural Communication, 8(1), 2-20.
Lynch, D. (2008). Violence and the state: asylum seeker children. In B. Fawcett & F. Waugh (Eds.), Addressing Violence, Abuse and Oppression: Debates and Challenges (pp. 122-131). London, New York: Routledge.
Mackenzie, J. (2008). Conceptual learning in higher education: some philosophical points. Oxford Review of Education, 34(1), 75-87.
Mann, S. (2008). The problems of online collaboration for junior high school students: Can the Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) benefit students to learn via online learning? In L. Cameron & J. Dalziel (Ed) Proceedings of 3rd International LAMS & Learning Design Conference 2008: Perspectives on Learning Design pp. 81-86). Sydney, (5th Dec 2008).
Manuel, J. (2008). Invigorating the teaching of fiction through drama. In M. Anderson, J. Hughes & J. Manuel (Eds.), Drama and English teaching: Imagination, action and engagement (pp. 32-49). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
Markauskaite, L., & Reimann, P. (2008). Enabling teacher-led research and innovation: A conceptual design of an inquiry framework for ICT-enhanced teacher innovation. In J. Luca & E. R. Weippl (Ed) Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2008 (vol 1 pp. 3484-3493). Vienna, (30 Jun-4 Jul 2008).
Markauskaite, L., & Reimann, P. (2008). Enhancing and scaling-up design-based research: The potential of e-research. In P. A. Kirschner, F. Prins, V. Jonker & G. Kanselaar (Ed) Proceedings of International Perspectives in the Learning Sciences:Cre8ing a Learning World. The International Conference of Learning Sciences. ICLS 2008 (vol 2 pp. 27-34). Utrecht (2008).
Markauskaite, L., & Sutherland, L. M. (2008). Exploring individual and collaborative dimensions of knowledge construction in an online learning community of practice. Informatics in education, 7(1), 105-126.
Markauskaite, L., Sutherland, L. M., & Howard, S. K. (2008). Knowledge labels and their correlates in an asynchronous text-based computer-supported collaborative learning environment: Who uses and who benefits? Research and practice in technology enhanced learning, 3(1), 65-93.
Marsh, H. W., Cheng, J., & Martin, A. J. (2008). How we judge ourselves from different perspectives: Contextual influences on self-concept formation. In M. Maehr, T. Urdan & S. Karabenick (Eds.), Advances in Motivation and Achievement (Vol. 15, pp. 315-356). UK: JAI Press/Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Marsh, H. W., Martin, A. J., & Cheng, J. (2008). A multilevel perspective on gender in classroom motivation and climate: Potential benefits of male teachers for boys? Journal of Educational Psychology, 100(1), 78-95.
Martin, A. J. (2008). Enhancing student motivation and engagement: The effects of a multidimensional intervention. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 33(2), 239-269.
Martin, A. J. (2008). How domain specific are motivation and engagement across school, sport, and music? A substantive-methodological synergy assessing young sportspeople and musicians. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 33, 785-813.
Martin, A. J. (2008). Motivation and engagement in diverse performance domains: Testing their generality across school, university/college, work, sport, music, and daily life. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1607-1612.
Martin, A. J. (2008). Motivation and engagement in music and sport: Testing a multidimensional framework in diverse performance settings. Journal of Personality, 76(1), 135-170.
Martin, A. J., & Jackson, S. A. (2008). Brief approaches to assessing task absorption and enhanced subjective experience: Examining 'Short' and 'Core' flow in diverse performance domains. Motivation and Emotion, 32, 141-157.
Martin, A. J., & Marsh, H. W. (2008). Academic buoyancy: Towards an understanding of students' everyday academic resilience. Journal of School Psychology, 46, 53-83.
Martin, A. J., & Marsh, H. W. (2008). Workplace and academic buoyancy: Psychometric assessment and construct validity amongst school personnel and students. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 26, 168-184.
Martin, A. J., Marsh, H. W., Debus, R. L., & Malmberg, L.-E. (2008). Performance and mastery orientation of high school and university/college students: A Rasch perspective. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 68, 464-487.
Meagher to Phillips
Meagher, G., & Wilson, S. (2008). Richer, but more unequal: perceptions of inequality in Australia 1987-2005. Journal of Australian Political Economy, 61, 220-243.
Mo, L.-L., & Chung, D.-C. (2008). A content analysis of HIV/AIDS information in social work textbooks in Taiwan. Social Policy & Social Work, 12(2), 41-90.
Moloney, R., & Harbon, L. (2008). I speak therefore I am: Self-perceptions of identity in immersion program language learners as an expression of intercultural competence. University of Sydney Papers in TESOL, 3, 111-130.
Muller, D. A., Sharma, M. D., & Reimann, P. (2008). Raising cognitive load with linear multimedia to promote conceptual change. Science Education, 92(2), 278-296, DOI 210.1002/sce.20244.
Munns, G., Martin, A. J., & Craven, R. (2008). To free the spirit? Motivation and engagement of Indigenous students. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 37, 98-107.
Muspratt, S., & Freebody, P. (2008). Students' perceptions of the characteristics of "good" and "bad" digital learning objects. In P. L. Jeffery (Ed) Proceedings of AARE 2007 International Educational Research Conference, Fremantle paper # MUS07403). Freemantle, (26-29 Nov 2007).
Napier, L., & Waugh, F. (2008). Older people and violence. In B. Fawcett & F. Waugh (Eds.), Addressing Violence, Abuse and Oppression: Debates and Challenges (pp. 163-173). London, New York: Routledge.
O'Dea, J. (2008). Gender, ethnicity, culture and social class influences on childhood obesity among Australian schoolchildren: implications for treatment, prevention and community education. Health and Social Care in the Community, 16(3), 282–290.
O'Hara, A. (2008). Violence against the self: self harm and suicide. In B. Fawcett & F. Waugh (Eds.), Addressing Violence, Abuse and Oppression: Debates and Challenges (pp. 147-154). London, New York: Routledge.
O'Connor, K. E. (2008). ''You choose to care'': Teachers, emotions and professional identity. Teaching and Teacher Education, 24, 117-126.
O'Keefe, M., & Bobis, J. (2008). Primary Teachers' perceptions of their knowledge and understanding of measurement. In M. Goos, R. Brown & K. Makar (Ed) Proceedings of 31st Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia. Navigating Currents and Charting Directions (vol 2 pp. 391-398). Adelaide, (28 June-1 July 2008).
Odhiambo, G. (2008). Elusive search for quality education: The case of quality assurance and teacher accountability. International Journal of Educational Management, 22(5), 417-431.
Ohashi, J., Ohashi, H., & Paltridge, B. (2008). Finishing the dissertation while on tenure track: Enlisting support from inside and outside the academy. In C. Casanave & X. Li (Eds.), Learning the Literacy Practices of Graduate School: Insiders' Reflections on Academic Enculturation (pp. 218-229). Ann Arbor, USA: University of Michigan Press.
Osborne, R. A. L. (2008). Cave turbidites. Acta carsologica , 37(1), 41-50.
Osborne, R. A. L. (2008). Detailed morphological studies in Netopirjev rov, Predjama Cave: A hypogene segment of a Slovenian cave. Acta carsologica, 37(2-3), 255-272.
Paltridge, B. (2008). Textographies and the researching and teaching of writing. Iberica, 15, 9-23.
Paltridge, B., & Harbon, L. (2008). Intercultural competency and the international student experience. In J. van Rij-Heyligers (Ed.), Intercultural Communications across University Settings: Myths and Realities (pp. 55-65). Auckland: Pearson Education.
Parker, P. D., & Martin, A. J. (2008). Personal capacity building for the human services: The roles of curriculum and individual differences in predicting self-concept in college/university students. Learning and Individual Differences, 18, 486-491.
Parker, P. D., Martin, A. J., & Marsh, H. W. (2008). Factors predicting life satisfaction: A process model of personality, multidimensional self-concept, and life satisfaction. Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 18, 15-29.
Phakiti, A. (2008). Construct validation of Bachman and Palmer's (1996) strategic competence model over time in EFL reading tests. Language Testing, 25(2), 237-272.
Phakiti, A. (2008). Predicting NESB International Postgraduate Students' Academic Achievement: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach. International Journal of Applied Educational Studies, 3(1), 18-38.
Phakiti, A. (2008). Strategic competence as a fourth-order factor model: A structural equation modeling approach. Language Assessment Quarterly, 5(1), 20-42.
Phillips, R. (2008). Feminism(s) and domestic violence within national policy contexts. In B. Fawcett & W. F. (Eds.), Addressing Violence, Abuse and Oppression: Debates and Challenges (pp. 57-66). London, New York: Routledge.
Phillips, R. (2008). Feminism, policy and women's safety during Australia's 'war on terror'. Feminist Review , 89(1), 55-72.
Pockett to Thompson
Pockett, R. (2008). Human service professionals, violence and the workplace. In B. Fawcett & F. Waugh (Eds.), Addressing violence, abuse and oppression: debates and challenges (pp. 174-187). London: Routledge.
Print, M. (2008). Education for democratic citizenship. In J. Arthur, I. Davies & C. Hahn (Eds.), Education for Citizenship and Democracy (pp. 95-108). London: Sage.
Print, M., Ugate, C., Naval, C., & Mihr, A. (2008). Moral and human rights education: the contribution of the United Nations. Journal of Moral Education, 37(1), 115-132.
Proctor, H. (2008). An Aristocracy of Talent? Describing Self and Other at an Early Twentieth Century High School. History of Education, DOI: 10.1080/00467600801914881, 1-14.
Proctor, H. (2008). School Teacher Parents and the Retreat from Public Secondary Schooling: A View from the Australian Census, 1976-2001. Australian Educational Researcher, 35(2), 123-138.
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"Responsible drivers who purchase insurance end up paying for injuries caused by uninsured drivers." –Elizabeth Sprinkel, senior vice president, Insurance Research Council
Here's a growing problem that should worry truckers, whether you are a fleet or owner-operator – a rising number of uninsured motorists on the highway.
According to a study conducted by the Malvern, PA-based Insurance Research Council (IRC), approximately one in six drivers across the U.S. may be driving uninsured by 2010. Although the group said the estimated percentage of uninsured motorists decreased nationally, from 14.9 percent in 2003 to 13.8 percent in 2007, the recent economic downturn is expected to trigger a sharp rise in the uninsured motorist rate.
"An increase in the number of uninsured motorists is an unfortunate consequence of the economic downturn and illustrates how virtually everyone is affected by recent economic developments," said Elizabeth Sprinkel, the IRC's senior vice president.
The IRC study examined data collected from nine insurers, representing approximately 50 percent of the private passenger auto insurance market in the U.S. for its report – entitled Uninsured Motorists, 2008 Edition. She noted the IRC estimates the uninsured driver population using a ratio of insurance claims made by individuals who were injured by uninsured drivers to claims made by individuals who were injured by insured drivers.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if a trucker gets involved in an accident with an uninsured motorist, getting recompense for damages is going to be hard if not impossible. And since car drivers are responsible for causing truck-car collisions about 70 percent of the time, having more of them uninsured increases the business risks for truckers when it comes to accident claims.
In all fairness, we should note the IRC is a division of the American Institute for CPCU and the Insurance Institute of America. Though the IRC's mission is to provide timely and reliable research to all parties involved in public policy issues affecting insurance companies and their customers and neither lobbies nor advocates legislative positions, they are funded by insurance providers – so that may color their work just a tad.
Putting that aside, though, the numbers are still worrisome. The IRC's report found that the magnitude of the uninsured motorist problem varies widely from state to state. In 2007, the five states with the highest uninsured driver estimates were New Mexico (29 percent), Mississippi (28 percent), Alabama (26 percent), Oklahoma (24 percent), and Florida (23 percent). The five states with the lowest uninsured driver estimates were Massachusetts (1 percent), Maine (4 percent), North Dakota (5 percent), New York (5 percent), and Vermont (6 percent).
The report also found a strong correlation between the percent of uninsured motorists and the unemployment rate: An increase in the unemployment rate of one percentage point is associated with an increase in the uninsured motorist rate of more than three-quarters of a percentage point. Based on current unemployment rate projections, the percentage of uninsured motorists is expected to rise from 13.8 in 2007 to 16.1 in 2010.
"Dropping auto insurance coverage should never be an option as a way to save money," said William Pearse, vice president of product strategy and design for Hartford, CT-based Travelers Insurance, in written comments about the IRC's study. "Not having auto coverage could mean financial ruin if you are in an accident where property is damaged or individuals are injured," he stressed.
He also pointed out that nearly every state requires individuals to possess auto liability coverage and every state has laws in place regarding financial responsibility. Therefore, if a particular state does not require auto liability coverage by law, an individual must have the financial assets to pay all claims in the event of an accident, Pearse noted.
That doesn't help the trucker much if a car driver is both at fault and un-insured in a truck-car crash.


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Conspiracy at State College
Joe Paterno thinks the referees are out to get him.
Earlier this year, Joe Paterno was the toast of college football. His Penn State Nittany Lions were playing inspired and brilliant football, and the legendary coach—thought as recently as a year ago to have lost it —seemed to have re-established himself as a master strategist and motivator.
But now, after two overtime losses in three weeks, he is displaying the outward signs of a man in the grip of some degenerative mental condition. After the first loss, to Iowa, Paterno sprinted across the field—actually, it was more of a rapid series of lurches—to accost a referee. Then, at a press conference last week, Paterno asserted that several of his recent losses were "decided by very questionable calls." He then proceeded to speculate that all this was caused by a conspiracy against Penn State by the Big Ten conference. Paterno mentioned that three Big Ten officials who worked his recent game hail from the state of Michigan. "Those kinds of things are what they should be looking at," Paterno declared, "Not necessarily that anybody is incompetent." In other words, he specifically disavowed the possibility that the mistakes in his games resulted from innocent human error. This sort of display makes you wonder if the walls of Paterno's office are covered with pages of what he claims are football diagrams but in fact are page after page of meaningless, maniacal scribbling.
In evaluating this conspiracy, the first thing we have to determine is whether Penn State's two most recent losses actually did result from bad officiating. The answer is, almost certainly no. Paterno is right that Iowa benefited from two wrong calls in overtime—a juggling Iowa sideline catch erroneously ruled complete, and an acrobatic tiptoeing sideline catch by Penn State erroneously ruled incomplete. But both calls were excruciatingly close—not exactly something so obvious that only willful blindness could have overlooked them. And Paterno is neglecting to mention that, earlier in the game, Iowa stripped the ball from Penn State tailback Larry Johnson and returned it for a touchdown, only to be called back when officials ruled (incorrectly, according to replays) that Johnson was down.
He's on even shakier ground complaining about the Michigan game. His complaint is that, with under two minutes left in regulation, Penn State wide receiver Tony Johnson made a leaping grab on third down at the Michigan sideline, but the play was ruled incomplete. Replays showed Johnson landed two feet in bounds. But, first, there's no conclusive evidence that the officials ruled this play incorrectly—Johnson juggled the ball, and TV angles do not show whether he had control before stepping out. Second, Penn State was able to run that play only because on the previous third down it was granted a highly questionable catch, and the officials failed to call holding on a blatant tackle-from-behind by a beaten Nittany Lion blocker.
Even if you ignore all the wrong calls in Paterno's favor, though, it's hard to sustain the conclusion that officiating "decided" those two games. If the two calls against Iowa were reversed, there's no guarantee Iowa wouldn't have scored and that Penn State would have. Nor is there any guarantee Penn State would have scored on Michigan in regulation had it been given Johnson's sideline catch. Penn State's kicker had missed his previous field goal attempt, missed his last extra-point attempt, and missed his next field goal attempt, which was a 23-yard chip shot. As it happened, Penn State had the chance to win in overtime, which it failed to do. (Incidentally, in the overtime session officials neglected to notice an obvious Penn State delay-of-game that would have negated a 16-yard gain.)
The obvious conclusion from all this is that Big Ten football officiating is simply lousy. But Paterno sees something more systematic at work. In his press conference he complained about the low number of penalties called against Michigan in its last two games against his team. Paterno neglected to mention that Penn State is the least-penalized team in the conference this year.
So, has Paterno completely lost his mind? Not necessarily. While disavowing his conspiracy talk, the media have accepted Paterno's shaky claim that bad officiating caused his last two losses. Paterno "may have a point," opined ESPN's Chris Fowler last Thursday. Indeed, the press has taken up Paterno's call for a "review" of Big Ten officiating, even though nobody has a plausible explanation as to how this would improve things. (Better eye charts?) And while they may think he's paranoid, few reporters are suggesting, as they did a year ago, that Paterno can't coach anymore.
Meanwhile, it's entirely possible that when Penn State takes the field against Ohio State in two weeks, officials will have in the back of their minds the prospect of being throttled by Paterno or excoriated in the press every time a close call arises. Game theory suggests that it can further one's interest to be, or to convince others that you are, irrational. Paterno seems to be proving that game theory applies not only to international relations but also to, well, college football games.


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This is a guest post by artist-activist Pam Longobardi and naturalist-photographer Wayne Sentman, originally posted on NOAA's Marine Debris Blog.
Art can be premonitory; it can be seen as a red flag or a warning as sensitive artists notice and respond to change and impactful events. More and more artists around the world are responding to the degradation of our ocean systems by human-made plastic pollution. Art created from this material is increasingly being used as a mechanism of environmental education, helping to create an emotional connection to the problem among the viewing public, utilizing marine debris as a material to create awareness among multiple communities.
Creative artists now play a role in both interpreting this environmental challenge to the public and helping to inspire creative solutions to what at times seems like an unsolvable problem. Public art installations can help create a new public consciousness that promotes pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors.
On Midway Atoll, a remote National Wildlife Refuge in the North Pacific, Wayne has witnessed the effects of plastic marine pollution firsthand for many years. Albatross chicks' decaying carcasses have filled viewers with a sense of "culpable ignorance." Seeing these decayed bodies laden with plastic where their stomachs would be reminds us that we are connected to the natural world. That plastic toothbrush that we threw out, those bottle caps that we walk past on the street, and the multitude of plastic that we have not recycled ends up where we least expect it.
Over the years artists have been the messengers of the "un-natural" history of this problem so easily viewed in the field at Midway Atoll. The albatross at Midway are a harbinger of the amount of plastic in the ocean since they happen to feed along one of the largest concentrations of marine debris in the North Pacific. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service researchers have estimated that each year at least 5 tons of plastic marine debris is brought to (landfilled at) Midway Atoll by albatross regurgitating to their young. Recent studies indicate that marine plastic pollution is also ending up in fish from these same areas and is now integrated into the marine food chain.
Additionally, artists are starting to work collaboratively with scientists and activists to create a synergistic, multi-disciplinary approach to raising public awareness and defining positive actions that can be undertaken to address the issue. The United Nations Environmental Program and NOAA co-sponsored the 5th International Marine Debris Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the conference was a model of this type of relationship.
The unique thing about this conference was the enormous presence of art at what was basically a scientific conference. UNEP and NOAA invited us to put together the art program, and we were able to raise enough funds to hold a professional fine art exhibition within the conference. Pam also put together a digital stream of nearly 40 other artists from around the world working with this issue. The overwhelming response by artists all over the world to her call for artwork was in itself a wonderful and heartening experience.
The conference brought together the plastics industry, scientists, artists, and activists like Surfrider Foundation and Plastics Pollution Coalition—people from all over the world (440 people from 36 countries). Many of these stakeholders are on opposite sides of the issue, but the conference managed to provide a forum that brought everyone to the table. What resulted was the Honolulu Commitment, which we see as the "Kyoto Protocol of plastic." The artist/activist contingent worked very hard to get specific language about micro-plastics, endocrine disruptors, and heavy metal contamination into the document that all parties agreed to. It felt momentous.
Pam is also working on a project with the Alaska SeaLife Center [leaves this blog] and the Anchorage Museum to send an expedition of artists and scientists to the remote stretch of the Aleutian Islands off Alaska that form the northern rim of the North Pacific Gyre. We had our first planning meeting of all the partners in June and filmed a promotional video that involved a beach landing in Resurrection Bay, with Carl Safina and Pam surveying what was found there. This project is very large scale and still over a year away from being initiated, but Pam and Howard Ferren, Director of Conservation at the Alaska SeaLife Center, have already been working on it for over a year, and it continues to evolve and take shape.
Few people are able to visit remote places such as Midway Atoll or the Aleutian Islands. Art can serve as the bridge to these wildlife populations and the environmental issues that could only otherwise be appreciated through firsthand field experience. When professional artists from around the globe begin to explore the topic of marine debris, the public is made aware that this problem is not simply limited to a remote island group but is global in scale and therefore we all are connected to, and part of, the problem. Once a viewer appreciates this connection, discovered through viewing art, they may become engaged with the marine environment and more invested in finding solutions to reducing marine pollution sources.
Art is a powerful way to increase public participation and awareness of the problems of marine debris by showcasing it in an educational yet judgment-neutral manner across a diverse stakeholder base. When students and community members view and interact with items of collected marine debris in large-scale works of art, the intimacy with the items will facilitate an understanding of individual connectedness to this problem. Art can showcase the problem, helping individuals to become motivated to contribute to solutions without assigning blame to other segments of the community.
–Pam Longobardi and Wayne Sentman
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"The first time I came face to face with enormous piles of plastic debris on South Point of the Big Island in 2006, I was amazed at the beautiful colors against the black lava beach, because that's what plastic does, it charms and seduces us. Then I got closer and I could see what it all was, it was all our JUNK, and it just hit me like a thunderbolt. There was even a toilet seat among the piles, and it was such a sick sad metaphor for how we treat the earth. It changed me right then and there, and I began gathering it up and cleaning beaches, to drag it back and show it, to put it in front of people so we can see what the material legacy of the human race has become. This was the start of the Drifters Project.
As an artist, I have always dealt with trying to understand the psychological relationship between humans and nature. We are in a kind of dualistic isolation from it, at once an integral part of it and yet somehow outside of it. I am interested in the idea of the positioning of the ego in an attempt to locate the self amidst the incomprehensibility of the external natural world at large. Culture functions as a way to try to navigate or map this territory." –Pam Longobardi
After many years working in remote field locations around the globe, where I witnessed the impacts on wildlife related to marine pollution, I have become very interested in the value of art as a way to interpret "hidden" environmental issues to the public. Art has the power to facilitate an understanding of an individual's connectedness to this problem. –Wayne Sentman
The NOAA Marine Debris Program, one of three divisions within the Office of Response and Restoration, serves as a centralized program within NOAA, coordinating, strengthening, and promoting marine debris activities within the agency and among its partners and the public.


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Catalog Description : The final course in the music theory core curriculum. The first part of the course develops and refines analytic skills introduced earlier in the core, applying them to specific works of the tonal repertory. The second part provides an introduction to the structural principles and formal procedures of art music from the early 20th century to the present. Corequisites: MUTH 311, 321.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – The top-ranked King University women's wrestling team hosted their only even of the season, and the Tornado took four more wins. King wrestled two teams, and both teams took victories of Campbellsville University and #9 University of the Cumberlands.
King's top team first faced Campbellsville, taking a 34-8 win over the Tigers. Shannon Constantine got things off to a good start when she pinned Cassidy Ferrell in 50 seconds at 101 pounds. Julia Salata also won by pin at 155, pinning Michelle Organ in 1:08. Haley Augello(116), Sarah Hildebrandt (123) all won by tech fall.
The Tornado then took on ninth ranked Cumberlands, and Constantine took a tough fought 8-0 decision over Sarah Allen. After King fell behind 5-3, Augello and Hildebrandt earned wins by tech fall to give King an 11-5 advantage. Kayla Brendlinger then pinned Siebhan Esquerra in 44 seconds at 130 while Alli Ragan pinned Kerstin Yamasak in 1:11. Amanda Hendey, Salata and Lorrie Ramos capped the 36-5 victory with pins. At 143, Hendey pinned Kristin Harmon in 2:16 while Salata pinned Olivia Cepak in 1:03. Ramos defeated Angelica Hernandez in 53 seconds.
King's second team also faced both schools, taking a 33-9 win over Campbellsville before topping #9 Cumberlands 27-13. Against Campbellsville, Ashley Iliff won by tech fall at 101 while Samantha Klingel pinned Michelle Lomas in 1:24 at 116 to give King a 9-4 lead. Kayla Bartosch defeated Kasey Ricketts by tech fall at 123. Hanna Martin capped King's win with a pin in 1:45 over Organ at 155.
The Tornado fell behind Cumberlands 10-0 before Klingel brought the momentum back to the Tornado with a pin of Sherri Berube as the first period horn sounded at 116. Bartosch then evened the score at 10-10 with a pin of Tia Kinglsey in 1:38 at 123. Katie Germain gave King a lead they didn't relinquish with a pin of Esquerra in 45 seconds at 130. Stacy Martin took a 9-0 decision over Yamasaki at 136 while Hanna Martin topped Cepak on a tech fall at 155.Kerri Bumpers capped the 27-13 win with a pin of Hernandez in 41 seconds at 170.
King will be in action again on Friday and Saturday at the NYAC International Tournament in New York, N.Y.


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Jeffrey Rowe has more than 40 years of experience in all aspects of industrial design, mechanical engineering, and manufacturing. On the publishing side, he has written well over 1,000 articles for CAD, CAM, CAE, and other technical publications, as well as consulting in many capacities in the … More »
Bricsys Insights: ACAD to BCAD
April 27th, 2017 by Jeff Rowe
I spent this week in the beautiful city of Ghent, Belgium for a series of company and product overviews at Bricsys at an event the company called Bricsys Insights.
For me, this was an introduction to and company and product line I had heard about, but didn't have much knowledge about. This week that all changed for the better.
As a company, Bricsys has taken on several iterations over the years since it was founded in 2002, and has emerged today as a real player in the CAD markets for both architectural and mechanical design applications. The company currently has 130-140 employees, the majority being developers, so it is efficiently run and product focused.
Hexagon's Recent Ups & Downs Update
April 20th, 2017 by Jeff Rowe
A lot has gone on in the past couple months at metrology giant Hexagon AB, so let's have a look.
For starters, Hexagon AB, announced recently that it was acquiring MSC Software Corp. for $834 million cash. While not quite as big, the acquisition is Hexagon's largest deal since it bought Intergraph for $2.1 billion in 2010.
MSC Software is the the company that has brought products that include Nastran, Patran, Marc, and Apex to market. For more than 50 years MSC has been a leading provider of CAE solutions, primarily simulation software for virtual product and manufacturing process development, and was one of the first 10 commercial software companies.
As I noted when the acquisition was first announced, acquiring MSC provides Hexagon with a strong foothold in the competitive simulation/analysis market with MSC's diverse portfolio of CAE applications.
Hexagon: Shaping Smart Change
As it has with all recent acquisitions, Hexagon plans for MSC to run as an independent business unit within the Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence (MI) division, that focuses on automotive, aerospace, machinery, consumer electronics, and other discrete manufacturing markets, getting close to offering comprehensive end-to-end solutions in these diverse workflows. About the only link missing is a true CAD component and I can think of several possible targets for closing this gap.
Process-oriented solutions are essential for manufacturers, and MSC's applications definitely address design and engineering processes through simulation and analysis.
COFES 2017 Tackles Complexity, Looks Ahead To Future
April 13th, 2017 by Jeff Rowe
I just returned from Scottsdale, Arizona after a great week at the annual Congress on the Future of Engineering Software (COFES) event.
Over the years I've attended probably 8-10 of these unique events, and they have all been a bit different, but I have always come away with new insights and perspectives on engineering software.
The keynotes are always thought provoking and the roundtable discussions and general conversations are stimulating, because they often provide food for thought and questions for further investigation rather than just simple answers.
One of the aspects I especially appreciate about COFES is that the company behind the conference, Cyon Research, strictly forbids blatant "selling" by attendees. For the most this request is honored, noted a few exceptions, but I ignored them. This event is meant to be more a meeting of the minds than an opportunity to capitalize on a captive audience.
This year's theme was on the many facets of transformative complexity and how to understand it and take advantage of the benefits it can present.
At COFES, Everyone Is Encouraged (and Expected) To Participate
The growth of complexity in everything we do is presenting us with new and difficult challenges, from our constantly changing business environment, to conflicting requirements of more simplicity (to the customer) in products that require more complexity to deliver. New phenomena result from complexity, often requiring consideration of things that were not previously an issue. The demands of IoT, the emergence of additive manufacturing. And it's not just products: emergent properties of complexity occur in processes, in IT, in business models, in politics, and in economies.
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ESPRIT CAM Software: 21st Century CAM
April 6th, 2017 by Jeff Rowe
A few weeks ago at SOLIDWORKS World, I got reacquainted with a CAM company that previously I had only limited experience with – DP Technology. After talking with Don Davies, DP Technology's VP of Americas, I came away from the event impressed with the company, as well as where DP Technology and its ESPIRIT product line are heading as ESPRIT CAM Software.
DP Technology Corp is a privately held company co-founded in 1982 by Daniel Frayssinet and Paul Ricard. The company gets its name from the first names of the co-founders – (D)an and (P)aul. The company's corporate headquarters is in Camarillo, California. The rest of the company is structured by function with offices in France, Germany, India, Italy, China, and Japan. DP Technology is the developer of the diverse ESPRIT CAM system sold and supported via the company's regional offices and its network of resellers throughout the world. ESPRIT has also developed close partnerships with several leading milling, turning, and wire-EDM machine tool manufacturers, such as Okuma, Mazak, DMG Mori, Citizen, Mitsubishi, GF AgiCharmilles, and Sodick.
Hardware Review: HP Z2 Mini Provides Big Performance In A Small Package
March 30th, 2017 by Jeff Rowe
As has been the case for several years, not all computer users need a workstation-class machine, but many do, especially with graphics-oriented and computationally intensive applications, such as MCAD, FEA, and animation. However, high-powered workstations for graphic-intensive applications can come with a price premium. So, you can really pay a relatively high price for higher levels of performance, but is often worth it. There are exceptions, however, and the HP Z2 Mini workstation offers the best of both worlds – a versatile machine with excellent performance at a reasonable price.
I'd classify the HP Z2 Mini as a mid- to high-level machine that provides just about everything most customers would need in a desktop engineering workstation. Then there's added benefit of the small footprint, which can be huge in a tight work environment.
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Xometry: A Different Approach To On-Demand Manufacturing
March 23rd, 2017 by Jeff Rowe
At software conferences it's always fun to catch up with old industry acquaintances, but is more interesting to strike up conversations with new companies with innovative ideas. That very thing happened a few weeks ago at SOLIDWORKS World 2017 when we got introduced to Xometry, a company committed to bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. with its software platform for building a reliable and scalable manufacturing program. It employs a unique machine-learning approach that provides its customers with optimal manufacturing capabilities at the best price based on parameters input by customers.
Founded in 2014, Xometry is hoping to transform American manufacturing through a proprietary software platform that provides on-demand manufacturing to a diverse customer base, ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies. The platform provides an efficient way to source high-quality custom parts, with 24/7 access to instant pricing, expected lead time and manufacturability feedback that recommends best processes and practices. With more than 100 manufacturing partners, the manufacturing capabilities include CNC machining, 3D printing, sheet metal forming and fabrication, and urethane casting with over 200 materials. Xometry's 4,000+ customers include General Electric, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, NASA, and the United States Army.
CNC Machining and How Xometry Is Different
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The Continuing Importance of GPUs For More Than Just Pretty Pictures
March 16th, 2017 by Jeff Rowe
While it seems that central processing units (CPUs) get all the glory for computing horsepower, graphical processing units (GPUs) have become the processor of choice for many types of intensively parallel computations.
As the boundaries of computing are pushed in areas such as speech recognition and natural language processing, image and pattern recognition, text and data analytics, and other complex areas, researchers continue to look for new and better ways to extend and expand computing capabilities. For decades this has been accomplished via high-performance computing (HPC) clusters, which use huge amounts of expensive processing power to solve problems.
Researchers at the University of Illinois had studied the possibility of using graphics processing units (GPUs) in desktop supercomputers to speed processing of tasks such as image reconstruction, but it was a computing group at the University of Toronto that demonstrated a way to significantly advance computer vision using GPUs. By plugging in GPUs, previously used primarily for graphics, it became possible to achieve huge performance gains on computing neural networks, and these gains were reflected in superior results in computer vision.
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A Conversation With Oboe Wu On the Future Of SOLIDWORKS MBD
March 9th, 2017 by Jeff Rowe
A few weeks ago we were in Los Angeles attending SOLIDWORKS World 2017. As usual, it was an overwhelming whirlwind of people, sights, sounds, and information while it was taking place, but has come into better focus now that some time has transpired for letting all of it sink in and make sense. One of the things I wanted to especially sort out was SOLIDWORKS' take on model-based definition (MBD), where it stands today, and where it might be headed in the future
The last day of SOLIDWORKS World 2017 I sat down with Oboe Wu, SOLIDWORKS MBD Product Manager, and we discussed several aspects of MBD. Our discussion on SOLIDWORKS MBD centered around the creation and consumption of MBD data (that are tied to customers' workflows), and the fact that MBD is transitioning from the "why implement" phase to the "how to implement" phase.
In the video below, SOLIDWORKS MBD Product Manager, Oboe Wu, discusses how to eliminate conversion of 3D data to 2D documents and fully leverage 3D design data throughout an organization and partners to reduce redundant tasks. He explains MBD from SOLIDWORKS' point of view.
What is SOLIDWORKS Model-Based Definition?
3D InterOp Suite: Meeting the Challenges of 3D Data Translation and Reuse for Smart Manufacturing
March 2nd, 2017 by Jeff Rowe
Since it began in 1986, Spatial has developed software components – modular software packages that perform a set of specific and related functions. This class of software is designed to work as a functional component of a larger application, such as CAD, CAM, CAE, Additive Manufacturing (AM), and Building Information Modeling (BIM). The goal of component software is to standardize the interfaces between software utility functions so that they can work together efficiently and cohesively.
In developing its software components, Spatial has always realized, too, that the best engineering software excels at optimizing imported data for data reuse. Spatial understands that design data reuse is much more than just data exchange.
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APSX Bringing Injection Molding To The Desktop
February 23rd, 2017 by Jeff Rowe
It wasn't all that long ago that manufacturing machines, such as 3D printers and CNC mills were relegated to the factory floor because of their size and tendency to need or produce undesirable compounds, such as coolants, smoke, chips, solvents, etc. Today, however, there are a number of desktop 3D printers and milling machines available. Until relatively recently, though, one of the major manufacturing processes that hadn't appeared on the desktop was injection molding. That's about to change with the advent of the APSX-PIM desktop plastic molding machine from Advanced Production Systems (APSX).
Injection molding machines are known for being large and expensive machines that require significant infrastructure, steep learning curve, and high maintenance. For these and other reasons most individual makers and small businesses don't have access to an injection molding machine, so APSX decided to make one that could be used by organizations with budget and space constraints.
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Hi Ken,Welcome to the forum. Can you tell us who drove your car in those races?Robert Barg
Welcome to our Trans-Am forum and thank you for the question. It is a complicated issue with no clear cut answers at this time (if ever). The 1972 Lime Rock Trans-Am was the first race of the season and this is where the application of the brass tags and the issuing of log books began. There are some cars however that were at this '72 Lime Rock event and yet did not receive brass tags. I believe Chad Raynal's Camaro is one of them. There are some cars that did receive brass tags at later Trans-Am events during the '72 season. I don't know if you had to pay extra money to get a brass tag, or declare ahead of time that you were going to run a certain amount of races on the Trans-Am schedule, or if there was some other type of factor involved. The highest number I have seen so far for the O-2 class is 72AS49 on the Warren Fairbanks Camaro and this car was not at Lime Rock. He does not show up on the official results until the 6th race of the season at Road America (July 16th). I am asking around for help from others but at this time it is not well understood. If I find out something of interest, I will let you know.
Ken, I see you have no races recorded for '67 or '68. Have you notestablished that history yet or was the car parked for a couple of years? I do have some '71 and '72 race results for the small 2.5 cars which I probably ought to get to you.


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text: Student Profiles Brian Fry '10 Brian Fry '10 Major: Economics; minor: Chemistry Hometown: Roanoke, Virginia Why did you choose to come to Bowdoin? After visiting pretty much every NESCAC school and talking to the hockey coaches at each place, I narrowed my choices down to Trinity and Bowdoin. I ultimately made up my mind when my coach at the Hotchkiss School said I'd be an idiot to pass up an opportunity like Bowdoin. The College has such a good reputation that it was really a no-brainer. Why did you choose your major? To tell the truth, I'm not entirely sure. I came to Bowdoin as a science and math guy, expecting to major in biochemistry and go the pre-med path. But then I decided that I didn't want to be strictly a "science" guy, so I decided that economics would be the most useful non-science major for me. I am still interested in a career in medicine, but I wanted to add another dimension to my academic background, preferably one that could mesh well with medicine. A major in economics seemed to provide a universally useful knowledge base, and at the time of my decision, was the only non-science option that was feasible for me. Were I to start my Bowdoin career again, my academic path would probably be very different—I would take more math and Spanish classes. What has been a course you especially enjoyed at Bowdoin? I really enjoyed Chinese Thought in the Classical Period with [now-retired professor] Kidder Smith. I had never taken an Asian studies course before Kidder's class, and history had never really been my strong point, so I was a little nervous about how it would go. In short, the class was absolutely awesome. To get everyone's energy up—because the class began at 8 a.m.—we spent the first 10 minutes of every class dancing. We also did a number of hands-on exercises, and even spent a class learning some basic tai chi. Kidder was a great professor and he always made you feel relaxed and at peace. The class taught me to step back from my life, slow down a little, and appreciate everything that's around. What professor or professors have especially inspired you during your time at Bowdoin? The two most inspiring professors I've had are Deborah DeGraff and Angus King. I only had Professor DeGraff for one class, but she made a potentially boring class—Economic Statistics—pretty interesting and she mixed things up so that we were able to understand and retain the material. She is the fairest professor I've had at Bowdoin, and one of the nicest people I've ever met. I'm glad I got the chance to take a class from her. Distinguished Lecturer Angus King, a former governor of Maine, was fantastic in every sense of the word. He teaches a unique class called Leaders and Leadership, my favorite class I've taken at Bowdoin so far. His anecdotes and one-of-a-kind life experiences brought something special to the classroom, and his style of teaching along with the guest speakers he brought in, made it one of the classes I've gotten the most out of. He held open lunches where people could talk to him about pretty much anything, and he held several movie viewings at his house. Even though he is pretty high up the totem pole, he still reached out to everyone in the class. I will carry the life lessons I learned from him for a very, very long time. What extracurricular or work experiences have you had at Bowdoin? Hockey dominates my life most of the year, as it's one of the major reasons I came to Bowdoin. The experiences I've had and the friendships I've made with the guys on the team have played a huge role in defining my time here. Brian and The Longfellows perform at a fundraiser for Barack Obama. I am a member of The Longfellows, an a cappella group that I randomly auditioned for sophomore year. Auditioning for the group turned out to be one of the best risks I've ever taken. Although I had very little musical background, I somehow managed to make the group and have had a blast ever since. It's a very tight-knit bunch of guys, and I'm happy to say that some of my strongest friendships began in the group. Another group which is important to me is Bowdoin Men Against Sexual Violence (BMASV). I became pretty heavily involved during my junior year and now I'm one of four co-leaders of the group. BMASV has really grown and drastically increased its influence over my four years here, and it has been fantastic to play a part in that. It is unusual to see a group of men advocating against sexual assault, sexual violence, and homophobia; [this type of a group is] something you're only likely to see at a place like Bowdoin. Additionally, I got involved with Sexual Assault Support Services of Midcoast Maine's Peer Education program. We go talk in local middle and high schools about dealing with sexual harassment and sexual violence; it's great because it's really important to get people educated and talking about these issues as early as possible. It's definitely something I'm happy I got involved in because it helps me make an impact outside of the Bowdoin community I also participate in a program called Bears and Cubs, mentoring at-risk youth. It's an awesome feeling to know that just by throwing a football with a kid you're making a difference in his life. What have you done during your summers? After my first year I taught tennis to children ages 4 to 15. That was one of my more fun summers, and I really enjoyed getting to teach and play a ton of tennis. The following summer I couldn't find a job, so I paired up with my strength and agility trainer from home and co-wrote an article about how to train effectively for hockey and how training regimens should be modified as a result of a recent rule changes. The article got published in an online magazine called The Optimal Athlete that year. Even though it wasn't a breakthrough article published in a top scholarly journal, the research and writing process was a great experience to have. Last summer I was a research intern in the surgery department at a hospital in my hometown. I got a feel for what it was like to be a surgeon and got the chance to shadow some medical students and residents. I learned how to navigate medical charts and read CT scans, and observed several surgeries. Overall, it was a great insight into the medical world, both the good and ugly parts. Brian in action at a hockey game in Dayton Arena. What is your best Bowdoin memory? Definitely my first hockey game at home against Colby; I'd never seen Dayton Arena as packed and rowdy. When I first stepped out onto the ice it was so loud I couldn't even hear myself think. The game itself was a blur, and we ended up winning 5-2. Playing Colby for the first time in the new Watson Arena will be absolutely incredible. What are your plans for after graduation? I hope to teach and coach at a boarding or prep school for a year or two, and then obtain some sort of graduate degree. I think teaching and coaching would be an awesome job, and it would give me time to think about what kind of grad school I'd like to attend. I'm considering pursuing a dual MD/MBA degree, but that's contingent on me getting into a medical school and a business school at the same university. It's a bit of a lofty goal, but I think that if I pursued a career in medicine, a business degree would help out immensely, especially given the state of healthcare in the United States. What advice would you give to a prospective student or first-year about the Bowdoin experience? Expand your social circles and get to know all kinds of people from across campus; you'll have a better time here. As I've found out, a lot of my closest friends aren't necessarily from my main social circle. Going out of your way to meet people, join clubs, mentor, etc., will enhance your impact on the Bowdoin community. Spend time appreciating the wonderful staff members we have here on campus, and thank them for what they do. Patty from Moulton Union and Karlene from the mailroom are two of the nicest, sweetest people you will ever meet—get to know them because they're both awesome. What quirky or fun thing do you wish you had known before you came to Bowdoin? I wish I had known that the Café serves milkshakes, and about El Camino, a Mexican restaurant in Brunswick with delicious food; my stomach was missing out. Story posted on November 17, 2009 « Back | More Student Profiles | Go to News Home


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Donald Nalley, 47 - March 08, 2012
Donald "Donnie" Nalley, 47, of Bowman, ND, formerly of Gothenburg, died Thursday, March 8, 2012, at Medcenter One Hospital in Bismarck, ND.
A visitation will take place from 4-8 p.m. on Monday, March 12, at Blase-Strauser Memorial Chapel.
Services will be conducted at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, March 13, at Blase-Strauser Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Larry Viter officiating.
Nalley was born Nov. 3, 1964, at St. Joseph, MO, to William E., Sr. and Shirley Ann (James) Nalley.
His family moved to North Platte where he attended elementary and junior high schools. He then graduated from Maxwell High School, where he participated in football, wrestling, track and baseball.
Following high school, he was employed with various construction jobs throughout the state.
In 1991, he moved to Florida where he met his wife, Jeannie. The couple were married on June 7, 1998. To this union, a son was born.
In 2009, he moved his family to Bowman, ND, where he was working on power lines.
Nalley always had a smile on his face and he loved to spend time with his son playing football or any outdoor activity, family members said. He also enjoyed listening to Hank Williams, Jr., and Johnny Cash as well as Van Halen.
He was preceded in death by: his grandparents; his mother, Shirley; step-father, Robert Buesing; brother, Richard Nalley.
Survivors include: his wife, Jeannie; his son Austin; his father, William E. Nalley, Sr. and stepmother, Ruth; a sister, Patricia Ann (Frank) Roberts; three brothers—William E. (Karen) Nalley, Jr., Barry Eugene (Linda) Nalley and Raymond Lee Nalley; two step-sisters—Tammy Ueligger and Hope Green; two step-brothers—David (Tammy) Buesing and Kevin Haney; numerous nieces and nephews.
Memorials are suggested to the family for a college fund for Austin, 108 SW 11th Ave., Lot 29, Bowman, ND 58623.
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