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Millennium People
Ballard Man. That's what she called me. Despite the fact I'd only read- no, purchased- a solitary book by the author.
Let me set the scene. It was a time known as "the late 90's." The book in question was Crash, Ballard's controversial exploration of symphorophilia. "She" was a matronly assistant manager at Borders Books, where I was grinding it out as a bookseller. You see where this is going?
Every time she said it, the moniker rustled the wisps of hair on her lip like a prairie wind, her tone hinting at a desire to have cold, fetishistic car sex with me. I was too naive to realize it at the time, but the nickname was both an invitation and a threat. When I finally got around to reading the book, I realized how close I had come to winding up on the back of a milk carton. It would be ten long years before I was able to stomach a second helping of Ballard.
Published in his native England in 2003, Millennium People is finally seeing the posthumous light of U.S. day. It tells the preposterous yet plausible story of David Markham, a psychologist whose ex-wife is killed during an airport bombing. In an effort to assign meaning to the seemingly random act, David sets out to discover the identity of those responsible. He begins by infiltrating a local group of bourgeois activists looking to trade their happiness for intellectual respectability. His first protest, an anti-cat show demonstration, ends in inexplicable violence as housewives clash with police over the caging of pedigree pets. The animals seem happy, but as one woman tells David, "This isn't a cat show, this is a concentration camp!"
Having proven himself at the cat show, David is accepted into the inner circle of the rebellion and is granted audience with its mastermind- pedophile pediatrician (or paedophile paediatrician, for you Brits,) Richard Gould. David can't help but be intrigued by the charismatic kid-toucher, and soon finds himself crossing the line from undercover agent to willing participant.
It's been a while since my traumatic experience with Crash, but Millennium People isn't the cold, plotless affair I remember that book being. It does, however, posses the same bone-dry wit, presenting its absurdities with a deadpan delivery. This allows Ballard to paint the disenfranchised middle-class as a serious threat while simultaneously treating them like the punchline to a joke.
There are other similarities as well. Dr. Gould and his followers strongly recall Dr. Vaughan and his accident enthusiasts, while David Markham is just another incarnation of Ballard himself. And terrorism in the 21st century is just another way for the obsessed author to explore the relationship between modernity and the human condition.
Thematically, the book is like Fight Club set in Middle England. Instead of disillusioned twenty-somethings, it is populated by the midlife crisis set. Lines like, "The people here are gripped by a powerful illusion, the whole middle-class dream. It's all they live for- liberal educations, civic responsibility, respect for the law. They may think they're free, but they're trapped and impoverished," could have come straight from the mouth of an aging Tyler Durden. He just would have said them with a posh accent.
Which makes me wonder if David Markham inspired impressionable middle-class Brits much in the way Durden inspired anti-consumerist American youth. Because at times it is hard to differentiate between the satire and the point Millennium People is actually trying to make. When Richard Gould says, "There's a deep need for meaningless action, the more violent the better," I can't help but wonder if this is Ballard speaking through him. The fact that David and the residents of Chelsea Marina rise up so violently, only to return to their normal lives without any consequence seems to corroborate this. Maybe they didn't need a specific cause to fight for, they just needed to fight. Or maybe this is just Ballard commenting on the futility of revolution in the modern world. Change is a pipedream. Activism is meaningless. It helps the activist more than it helps the cause.
Regardless of the answer, Millennium People presents a complex web of ideas and a healthy dose of black humor. It's up to the reader whether they want to ascribe to any of the rhetoric, and whether they think Ballard would mock them for it. The lack of a definable moral message in a book dealing with terrorism could account for its fashionably late publication in the states, but I say better late than never. In fact, with the benefit of hindsight, American audiences should be better equipped to grapple with such sensitive subject matter. They say time heals all wounds. If that's the case, I might just have to confront my fears and go read Crash again.


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ManBungalow wrote:What is even going on in this map ?
What do you mean by that?
ian, I take it then you want the names changing then to Copenhagen style. Not districts but a general what is in that area feel. PMed the Madrid players that have helped me on this one to suggest some. Will get it done as soon as they respond as this is there city and they know what's what.
But is this something like what you are after? Something more cartoon like.
EDIT: reread your original post, with the moving of the 4 main buildings, zoo, stadium, bullring and station. Will get onto that now. But I think the names that are going to be changed I will keep in the style above. For any major building, it will get that name but for the rest I think a comic style of name would fit the map.

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TOKYO, JAPAN AND CAMBRIDGE, UK – Feb. 23, 2006 – Renesas Technology Corp., a designer and manufacturer of highly-integrated semiconductor system solutions for automotive, mobile and PC/AV markets, and ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMHY)], today announced that Renesas has licensed the ARM11™ MPCore™ multiprocessor, enabling the company to produce and sell Large Scale Integrated (LSI) semiconductor solutions incorporating the ARM® processor.
As computing moves into an era of ubiquitous networks, superior processing power is becoming critical for driving new features in PCs, digital electronics, and mobile telephones. However, as improved performance requires greater processing speeds, processors have a tendency to exceed power-consumption tolerances. One solution currently gaining ground is the multi-core chip architecture, in which multiple CPU cores are mounted on a single chip. By licensing the ARM11 MPCore processor, Renesas can significantly expand its SoC core line-up.
"In its bid to create innovative, comprehensive solutions, Renesas Technology has been developing buses and memory architectures that deliver high-speed data transmission and memory, as well as software and middleware that drive these systems' performance, based on CPU cores and IP systems," said Hideo Inayoshi, senior vice president and executive general manager of Renesas Technology's Systems Solution Business Group. "While Renesas Technology already offers powerful SuperH™ CPU cores, in response to our customers' requests for a broader product range we are complementing our products with ARM's proven line of processors. Our partnership with ARM gives us an optimal solution, enabling us to provide a wide range of CPUs from both Renesas Technology and other manufacturers."
"The choice by Renesas Technology, a world leader in technology, to license the ARM11 MPCore symmetrical multiprocessor further proliferates the adoption of ARM's industry-leading technology," said Takafumi Nishijima, president of ARM K.K. "The MPCore processor is clearly an outstanding solution for the growing consumer device market, as well as other markets that require multimedia processing and simultaneous operation of multiple applications. This licensing agreement will play a key role in accelerating adoption of ARM processor technology in Japan and throughout the world."
Renesas Technology previously licensed the ARM946E-S™ processor and the ARM1136JF-S™ processor. As part of Renesas' multicore strategy, the present licensing agreement forms part of Renesas Technology's bid to broaden its product portfolio in addition to its own CPU core processors and offer customers greater choice.
The ARM11 MPCore processor's open architecture is a proven solution. Its solid development environment, including test chips and an evaluation board, enables developers to create robust system solutions quickly. Renesas plans to roll out its first products using the ARM11 MPCore processor in 2008, with a primary focus on digital home electronics and office-automation systems.
As multicore architectures assume ever-increasing importance in a fast-changing market, ARM and Renesas Technology view their partnership as a key to their success. Renesas Technology's leadership in advanced SoC marketing, development, and mass production is ideal for ARM's advanced CPU core technologies. This forms a solid basis for the companies' collaboration in the development of pioneering semiconductor products.
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WideWorld Mag posted a very cool story yesterday about an adventurous trio of Brits who set off from London this past weekend to drive overland to Cape Town, South Africa in an attempt to break the record for that drive. The current record the drive is 13 days, 8 hours, and 48 minutes, meaning the team will hae to drive almost non-stop if they hope to set a new record.
The expedition is fittingly enough entitled Max Adventure, which seems perfect for this type of journey. The three men making the drive are Mac Mackenney, Chris Rawlings and Steve Mackenney, who will be spending the next fortnight in the cramped quarters of a Land Rover Discovery as they cross through three continents and 21 countries, cover over 16,000km (10,000 miles) in the process.
The expedition isn't just about making an epic drive however, as the boys hope to raise funds for the Help For Heroes organization, non-proft that works diligently to offer practical help for British soldiers wounded while serving their country. You can find out more, as well as donate to the cause, at the Max Adventure fundraising page located here.
On a side note, does anyone else think that this sounds like the ultimate road trip to take with some buddies? Load up in a Land Rover and hit the road? Sounds like a complete blast to me, although I wouldn't want to do it to break any kind of speed record. I'd much rather take my time and see the landscapes and cultures along the way. Maybe I need to upgrade the Adventure Blog Mobile to a Discovery and take this show on the road.
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Nice post!!!Africa is famous for its beautiful services such as the largest natural habitat for various living species. Planning a visit in a specific duration makes the trip to Africa more exciting. Africa promises to be an exciting destiny for tourists.
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Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27, at the First United Methodist Church with Dr. Jeff Thurman officiating. Interment will be at the Gothenburg Cemetery.
Ostergard was born Nov. 20, 1922, at the family farm north of Gothenburg to Samuel J. and Anna M.(Christensen) Ostergard.
He grew up on the family farm, which was located in the Etna area, and attended country school through the eighth grade. He graduated from Gothenburg High School in 1941, and also attended the University of Nebraska.
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On July 7, 1946, he was married to Sara Jane Moore at the Antelope Baptist Church of Gothenburg. To this union four children were born.
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Skip to comments.BREAKING NEWS: Dissenting officials kicked out of Minuteman Civil Defense Corps
Posted on 05/23/2007 4:21:11 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
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If 18 state leaders were calling me on financial and leadership questions, I think I might find the time to squeeze in a meeting during a three week working vacation
You think ?
MCDC Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
I have yet to see or hear of any human enterprise that was free of personality cults and funds disappearing. I used to know a guy who worked for both the Red Cross and the Salvation Army at one point, and he said they are just as bad internally as any corrupt corporation or political organization. I've heard many first-hand stories of internal corruption and feuding within fundamentalist Christian churches, and have worked for many corrupt bosses in the past. I don't think it's possible for any group of humans to ever agree on simply doing the right thing, the job at hand, without personal aggrandizement and profit.
Sadly, you're right.
I was involved with our local Boy Scout Troop. No problems with money but the personality conflicts and silly arguments drove me away.
It's just the way people are.
This sucks no matter who is the 'most right'...
Yep, we have had a few in the California Republican Party this year. However, if I was blindsided by an organized faction, my first reaction would be to "go Roman" and crush the rebellion before it gathered any more members.
Of course the right move for Chris Simcox is to negotiate from a position of strength, while secretly turning the rebels against each other. Not hard to do when you consider the egos these jackasses must have.
The thing Simcox should not do is give in to their demands. If he does, next week they will demand something else.
"The thing Simcox should not do is give in to their demands. If he does, next week they will demand something else."
You have to be kidding. The whole organization has been under a cloud because of reported financial irregularities and he doesn't have to respond to its state directors? He couldn't find time to meet with them? The second any questions arose about the organization's finances, he himself should have insisted on an audit and reported its findings publicly to remove any cloud. They seek funds from the public, so they should account to the public as well as the directors. Sunshine is the best antiseptic.
I am well aware of the MCDC fund raising conspiracies; it's a load of crap. Fund raising is hard and most fund raising companies are crooks. Simcox found the most reputable company at a good rate. If you remember, the original Minuteman Project had no money and couldn't raise more than a few hundred in its first 3 months.
The donations have paid for several projects including the fence, border ops, rallies, political action and issue awareness. No one flies first class, everyone stays in crappy hotels and (as I said before), no one is getting rich from MCDC.
I happen to agree as I've come across this very situation numerous times over the past 30+ years working with volunteer organizations. It is almost inevitable when you operate an organization structured and staffed the way this one is. Egos will get bruised and then they become blowhard's bent of dissension and derision until they get their way. You get those that think they can do the job better and go out of their way to undermine the leadership and the trouble doesn't usually stop until you boot out the trouble makers. Too bad but Simcox is right in this case I believe. Stick to the rules set up and agreed to by all when they joined and wait until the next regular scheduled meeting to air your complaints.
Simcox is apparently assuming the Minutemen is his own little dictatorship. Time for a coup.
Guess the scriptures are right. The heart of man is wicked.
Then why is Simcox running? He should be ready to open the books to anyone who wants to see them, since the group depends on public donations for funding.
I for one will not be giving them one, thin dime until he opens the books for independent audit.
Chris has been swiping the money since the third day of the original Minuteman Project when he "redeployed" about 70 grand that was sent to Jim Gilchrist to support the project back in 2005. Chris has been playing this game of firing anyone that asks any questions at all since he formed MCDC right after the Minuteman Project. That includes donated funds that the State Chapters had sent in and were going to send in in the amounts of tens of thousands of dollars.
Basically, donated funds go in, nothing comes out despite endless promises of equipment and reimbursements. He has probably disappeared roughly $500,000.00 in donations that the folks that volunteered the money were told its all going to the border operations or his infamous fence project. He has been doing this for years and has had entire State Chapters quit MCDC because of it.
Leaving aside legal issues, it has become a public relations issue. This is an organization that solicits funds from the public. Its books should be open, period. Certainly state directors should have access to information on what funds have come in and what funds have gone out. It's a very simple proposition.
I'm well aware of the costs of fundraising, administration, overhead, putting on rallies, etc. But that is not the issue. Most people would hesitate to donate to any organization that operates under a cloud, real or imaginary. It's up to the organization's leadership to remove that cloud. The way to do that is to operate in the sunshine.
This particular organization has been successful in its mission against hostile/adverse publicity when it began. It doesn't need to complicate matters by refusing a request that shouldn't have had to be made in the first place. The information should be made available, at the very least to state directors and donors, without anyone having to ask.
Anyone who has ever been to Scottsdale in AZ, (home of the Mayo Clinic) would know that you don't just move a mobile home in and live in a trailer park in THAT city! Where did the money go? Well, I would check for holes in Mr. Simcox's pockets, FIRST.
The hopeful rancher with the skeleton of the beginnings of a fence on his property should sell tickets, to see "The Folly of a Madman".
How many of you sent Simcox money? I sure hope you are smart enough to know that his well should run dry now. Then again, what you do with YOUR money is YOUR business.
If you want to make the border more secure, you should turn your eyes towards the elected officials who are already PAID to TRY to work on behalf of the Security of America in Washington (and I don't mean McCain either!)
I am all for secure borders, the ports and the Northern and Southern borders but I knew too much about and quit coming to Freepers as often because of the hero worship associated with Chris Simcox. I am glad that he has finally shown his hand, now if he will just show his followers the money, maybe he can keep his faithful followers loyal to him.
I am done, and I hope he is too soon. He's a con man and an opportunist (in my opinion) and now people are finding out the truth.
I for one will not be giving them one, thin dime until he opens the books for independent audit."
Your situation is different; as a donor, you have the right to ask questions about how your money has been spent, but you still don't have the right to examine corporate documents. If you don't want to give, don't.
As for the rebellious State Directors, they can start their own organization... I bet they will have the same thing happen to them a year from now.
Now let's talk about the Congressional seat in District 8, vacated by Jim Kolbe,R after 11 terms in office. Because Chris Simcox gave so much of his and the Minuteman's support to the Republican Randy Graf, Arizona filled that Congressional seat with a LIBERAL DEMOCRAT WOMAN, Gabrielle Giffords.
So the next time you have to listen to Nancy Pelosi and you grind your teeth, remember that Simcox holds at least partial responsibility for the Democrats' gain of at least one seat in Congress. If he had stayed out of Politics in AZ's election we may have had different results in the election, Kyl was only briefly mentioned in one of the AZ Minuteman's TV spots, and he got less votes in this past election because the Republicans in Cochise County did not want to support any candidate that had anything to do with The Minutemen or Simcox. Can I prove what I am saying? Well I do know Republicans who claimed that they crossed Party lines so as not to support Simcox in any way.
What many of us have known for certain for a long time is that Simcox is an opportunist.
All of this is based on my observations, what other Cochise County Republicans have told me and of course my own opinions.
We have an Arizona Corporation Commission, if and when Simcox does open the "books", I think you will find some very "creative bookkeeping" and you may also find that many of these dealings have been done in the name of someone other than Simcox himself. Many of us have branded him "foolish" but we also are aware that he is not a "fool" and he is going to try to avoid another criminal conviction in the State of Arizona.
For those who gave with good intentions, we are sincerely sorry that you may not like what you see when a "full account" is finally given.
Rebellious? So you are admitting that Simcox IS setting himself up as a dictator. Got it.
Time for a coup!
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1. Re: Can the halftone box be added to cs6 ?Chris Cox Apr 23, 2012 5:11 PM (in response to Robin j. Chambers)
No: we said that not many printers *supported* it.
Only PostScript level 1 devices supported that option -- Level 2 and 3 RIPs overrode the option.
99% of the people trying to use the feature, weren't getting any effect from it because their printer RIP ignored it.
2. Re: Can the halftone box be added to cs6 ?PECourtejoie Apr 24, 2012 8:02 AM (in response to Chris Cox)
Chris, the question is then, given the need of a whole market, is there a way to create something similar for them?
There is no equivalent/similar option in PS L2 or 3 RIPs, or can it only be set in the RIP/driver itself?
What is the best solution for their problem?
3. Re: Can the halftone box be added to cs6 ?Chris Cox Apr 24, 2012 10:02 AM (in response to PECourtejoie)
That particular feature could only work in PostScript, and only worked correctly on Level1 RIPs (and didn't even work correctly on most of the Level1 clone RIPs).
I just do the halftoning on the document (at printer res) and send a bitmap to the printer.
I'll have to talk to DaveP and see if we can come up with something to simplify the workflow.
4. Re: Can the halftone box be added to cs6 ?PECourtejoie Apr 24, 2012 2:42 PM (in response to Chris Cox)
Thanks, Chris! I think many screen printers would be happy to know you are looking into the issue.
5. Re: Can the halftone box be added to cs6 ?Robin j. Chambers Apr 24, 2012 2:55 PM (in response to PECourtejoie)
I have talked to the maker of the rip I use and it has a feature that allowes you to turn on or off the override feature. I can indeed select the halftone size in PS and it does affect the print as intended without going through my rip. The rip I use is a very high end rip made just for screen printers. It works great with PS, BUT i would prefer to change the settings in PS and not the rip. It is much faster and cleaner when done in PS. I truley hope that you put this feature BACK.
Thanks and see the text below it is from a email from support at accurip. If I can help in any way , I will.
( Yes, Photoshop is moving away from print services (intentionally). We prefer to PLACE a PSD file into Illustrator for output.
Regardless, AccuRIP allow the user to chose to control the halftone and angles in AccuRIP or throws the control back to the graphics application.
Go to AccuRIP's FILE MENU> SETUP. The 3rd Tab "How would you like this screened?" has a feature LOCK SCREENS. When check on - AccuRIP is in control, when UNCHECKED the design program is.
6. Re: Can the halftone box be added to cs6 ?Chris Cox Apr 24, 2012 3:35 PM (in response to Robin j. Chambers)
>> Yes, Photoshop is moving away from print services (intentionally).
That is not the case. We're just having to deal with a lot of bad drivers and OS problems lately -- which sometimes forces us to simplify the print path in order to get things working for most of our users.
7. Re: Can the halftone box be added to cs6 ?Robin j. Chambers Apr 24, 2012 5:10 PM (in response to Chris Cox)
I was talking to another printer that has been around a long time and is involved with this disscusion on other fourms and I was told that adobe has NO plans what so ever to reintroduce this feature even though 1000's of printer have requested it.
As far as having issues lately , that I do not get . You are talking about a program that has bee out for mac for the last 20 plus years and made it's way because of mac. I works fine in cs3 on my ox 10.6. I know that the os's change and it creates issues but to me , just a layman it is such a simple issue when put in scope wilth all the features in PS. I do not want to beat a dead horse but there is a whole segment of this industry that needs this feature. Adobe already took away my freehand please leave us with this simple feature.
8. Re: Can the halftone box be added to cs6 ?Chris Cox Apr 24, 2012 9:04 PM (in response to Robin j. Chambers)
>> even though 1000's of printer have requested it.
We actually have less than 20 requests.
I don't know where they made their requests, but it wasn't to us.
9. Re: Can the halftone box be added to cs6 ?PECourtejoie Apr 25, 2012 1:17 AM (in response to Robin j. Chambers)
Ask all your peers, or invite other screenprinters in specialized forums/blogs/sites/tradeshows to vote for this request, and explain why it is needed in your workflow. Do post the hints that some rips allow an override of the function, the more information, the better (Been printing at school, and had the opposite problem, so screen changes because of PostScript2 on the printer, but did need the option!) : http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/screen_function_for_separation_outpu t
10. Re: Can the halftone box be added to cs6 ?tman2012 Apr 28, 2012 10:46 AM (in response to Chris Cox)
I will admit I am surprised by the arrogance of Adobe on this one. It is probably not really arrogance but just being out of touch with a specific market segment. Even though "1000s" of users have not complained, it has been loud and clear on the other forum with this topic and as we all know, the world does not always revolve around forums and a LOT of people simply don't know where to go. And, there are thousands of my customers around the world who - guess what - don't speak good English and would never post on a forum. The removing of the screen button is causing most printers/customers I know to stay with CS4 or earlier. I even posted about this on my popular website www.T-BizNetwork.com. Yes, I promoted the roll out of Creative Cloud wich I love but I also commented on the lack of screen button.
I make a RIP for screen printers called T-RIP. It use to be called FastRIP. I have at least 9,000 users of my rip and we have never had a problem. You can turn on or off whether you want the application to dictate the lpi, angle, and dot shape. I have at least 10,000 users of my FastFilms and T-Seps software for color separating. My guess is between me and my competitors there are at least 30,000 T-Shirt printers using industry specific automated separation programs for Photoshop and they all print "Channel Separations" right out of Photoshop. For Adobe to say they can "simply convert the file to a bitmap" is again an ignorance of how we do it. I also do color separations for a living and most of the files I get are Photoshop Layers files because they are usually high-end photos of Nascar drivers, country or rock stars, etc., and the final separations are typically ten colors. That's ten channels to split, upsample, convert to halftones and print. Where is the work flow advantage there? You have just added about 15 minutes to my time. If I split ten channels I better know which channel is which so I can now re-name each file.
And, doing it that way means I have lost any channel header information and the world of screeners use that to place the print order, mesh count, and Pantone color right on the films as a "label." Now the screen makers and press people know the setup because the detail is on the film. Simple. Saves time. No, we do not want to take this file as a DCS2 to Illustrator. Why would we? One more step. And, a LOT of screeners use Corel. I know. Don't go there. But, it is true.
I still use CS4 because I can simply put the "eye" on a channel and print and the channel header information prints on the films. Talk about saving a LOT of steps for the workflow - this is a must.
There are a handful of high profile people in the little and ignored T-Shirt printing world and I am one of them yet I have never had a call or questions from Adobe. With all the active T-Shirt Forums and this topic posted, I am curious why Adobe will not take time to be kind to this little and obviously unimportant market. It would not have taken much for Adobe to talk to the actual RIP makers in this industry like me, Accurip, MultiRIP and a few others. You comment on the problem with RIPs but I think I have sold the most RIPs in this industry and I have never had Adobe talk to me.
Sorry for the long ramble and attitude. You can see it is a sore spot to T-Shirt printers who feel Adobe has turned their backs on them. All we really want is for you get dirty and talk to people in the trenches who make RIPs and to put away your argument that it doesn't work and put the screen button back in. We then will all upgrade to CS6, life will be good and our workflow will be back to normal. Nirvana!
Scott Fresener
T-Biz Network
11. Re: Can the halftone box be added to cs6 ?Robin j. Chambers Apr 28, 2012 12:17 PM (in response to tman2012)
Scott said it well. Most screen printers are small shops busy trying to do the day to day work , they do not have or take the time to do the research on these fourms. I have call adobe about this and I have posted about this. Please will one of you emplyoees please take the time to understand the needs a fairly large user base of your product and reinstall the halftone window. I can not believe that it is such a big problem that those of you who truley inderstand the complexities of photoshop can not over come, You keep making PS a higher and higher end product much beyound the needs and many screen printers all while removing a simple process that is unsurmountable by most of us who just need to get the correct info and angle on our film. PLEASE call Scott Fresener , he knows this program and can explain to you in your language our brick wall with what you have done. If this could be reinstalled I will buy cs6 asap, without it I have no need to upgrade and I have been a legal owner of Adobe AI since 1989 and P.S. since about 1995.
Again thank you Scott.
12. Re: Can the halftone box be added to cs6 ?PECourtejoie Aug 14, 2013 6:09 AM (in response to Robin j. Chambers)
To float up the discussion with a link about a separation method, that one could automate: http://vimeo.com/2811225#at=0


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PRATT — The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) has announced that leftover nonresident deer permits will be sold online and over-the-counter on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 12:01 a.m. June 15. After the initial nonresident deer permit drawing in May, KDWP had 4,395 permits left over in 11 deer management units for the 2011 season. These permits will go on sale for those nonresidents who were unsuccessful in the initial drawing or did not apply.
With these permits, the hunter designates unit and equipment/season choice, as well as one adjacent unit, at time of purchase. They will be sold to any nonresident who does not already have a 2011 permit at license vendors, online at the KDWP website (www.kdwp.state.ks.us under "License/Permits"), or by phoning 620-672-5911 and asking for Licensing.
The number of leftover Nonresident Whitetail Either Sex Deer permits includes the following: Unit 6 — 259; Unit 8 — 448; Unit 9 — 326; Unit 10 — 590; Unit 11 — 872; Unit 12 — 488; Unit 13 — 435; and Unit 14 — 628; Unit 15 — 181; Unit 16 — 118; and Unit 18 — 50.
Hunters who purchase a leftover permit will lose any preference points they may have accumulated for next year's drawing. Applicants who were successful in the nonresident drawing may not purchase a leftover permit. No hunter may purchase more than one permit that allows the take of an antlered deer. An antlered deer permit is required before purchasing a Whitetail Antlerless-Only Deer permit.
Updated information on the number of permits leftover may be found on the KDWP website, www.kdwp.state.ks.us. Click "Hunting/Applications and Fees/Deer/Quotas and Draw Stats." Those without internet access may phone 620-672-5911 and ask for Licensing.


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Thousands Support CNY Wegman's Employee With Asperger's After Customer Yells Over Slow Service
Meet Chris Tuttle, who has Asperger syndrome. The Van Buren man has worked at Wegman's in Clay for years, but it wasn't until recently he experienced a rude customer. A woman yelled at Tuttle and complained to his manager, causing quite a scene. It was all because she felt Tuttle checked her out too slowly. Thousands have now come to Tuttle's defense on Facebook.
His sister told his story on Facebook:
'What this woman doesn't know is 10 hours later, Chris told me the story as if it just happened, he was just as stressed and just as upset. She has no idea how damaging her actions were to one person. Part of Asperger's is the inability to move on, to not be able to wrap his mind around the fact that this woman isn't worth it. He doesn't understand why someone would be so nasty to him and for him, he takes it personal.'
Read his touching story, through the words of his big sister and show your support for Tuttle on the Turtle Landing Page on Facebook.
Social media isn't the only place Tuttle is seeing support. He's getting it in person, too. According to Syracuse.com, customers have been calling the Clay store and coming in to thank Tuttle, some even dropping off cards. He says he's been getting Facebook friend requests from all over the world including 'Australia, Greece, England and Canada. Someone in Melbourne, Australia invited Tuttle to his house.'
This outpouring of support for Tuttle warms my heart. No one should treat another human this way. I hope this woman sees how her behavior has affected not only Tuttle, but an entire community, and I hope she's ashamed.


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The November 2007 article in this magazine about member loyalty programs dealt basically with the goodies to be derived from offering gifts, points and incentives, rather than with the real reasons consumers actually maintain a course of affinity with a business. I'd like to shed some light on the solid fundamentals of customer loyalty and not just the "sidebars" that the programs seem to concentrate on. Loyalty is created with customers contractually, transactionally, functionally and emotionally — sometimes in combinations of the aforementioned.
Contractual loyalty arrives out of a business agreement — in the health club industry's terms, a fixed-term membership (based on "x" number of payments). This can be very profitable, based on the net present value of the contract (number of payments over the life of the contract), but if not carried out to completion by the customer, contractual loyalty can become a liability to the business. As can be seen by the growing number of month-to-month memberships being sold each year, consumers do not want to feel trapped in a business arrangement.
Transactional loyalty is epitomized by repeat purchasing without any contractual obligation. No-contract, month-to-month memberships are examples. This is easy to stimulate with specials, promotions, discounts and, to a minor extent, rewards programs. However, price, value perception and convenience play large parts in this loyalty factor. The customer may find a better deal at any time, and, if found, some customers will switch without hesitation. The generally higher cost of customer acquisition with this method often means lesser profit to the business, unless the sales team can make up the cost factor with higher volume sales due to less consumer resistance.
Functional loyalty is based on the product's attributes and the differentiation of the offering. This includes niche clubs, fitness-only and women-only facilities. To the degree that you can offer customers something tangibly, palpably different yet relevant, you can often lock up that portion of your marketplace that prioritizes your advantaged function(s). Unfortunately, few club owners truly differentiate their facilities in practice so that customers can experience the difference. If you say that you differentiate but you don't actually do it, you are signing your business's death warrant.
Emotional loyalty is the feeling part of loyalty, in which customers develop preferences for products or services based on their appeals to individual's values, egos, sensibilities and other intangibles. This is the basis for brand identification. If you nail this, you have a different product than your competitors. However, most club operators have only scratched the surface of emotional loyalty. Surveys tell us that only 30 percent of our customers are emotionally tied to us. The rest are up for grabs.
Gifts, points and incentives are only one part of the loyalty issue. They merely support an already-established position in the marketplace, and are, at best, secondary or tertiary to inducing dedication in a customer's mind. It is the creation of the loyalty or loyalties above that make the difference.
Health club operators will have to choose what type(s) of loyalty they seek to build with consumers. Will you stick with contractual obligation in the face of continuing high attrition rates? Will you risk transactional loyalty in an attempt to induce more sales? Can you differentiate your business sufficiently to produce true functional loyalty? And will you ever get to a high level of emotional loyalty among your members?
Satisfaction alone is an insufficient condition for loyalty. As I said in my September 2007 e-newsletter, eNews, "Satisfaction is influenced by a continuing proposition of value, which we know changes with customers' usage patterns and with their experiences inside the clubs each time they use facilities."
Although functional satisfaction is obviously desired, it doesn't automatically insure that behavioral or emotional loyalty will follow. One of the tests of emotional loyalty is its ability to withstand the pressures of economic change, price differences for the same perceived product and the lack of customer service.
Loyalty programs are great — as long as they are put together on a solid business foundation.
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Check out this week's Danger Zone interview with Chuck Jaffe of Money Life and MarketWatch.com.
Office Max Inc. (OMX) is in the Danger Zone this week. Poor capital allocation decisions and the rise of online vendors put Office Max in a precarious position. More on the ETFs and mutual funds that hold OMX is at the end.
Simply put, I think Office Max is going to follow the same path as Circuit City and Best Buy. Physical stores just tie up too much capital. Office Max is at a huge disadvantage to the pure online vendors, who can offer the same selection without the cost of building and maintaining stores.
Close inspection of the financial footnotes reveals the early signs of decay in OMX's business. Two major issues show up on the balance sheet (a good place to hide issues, as the majority of investors focus on the income statement).
For one, OMX has about $1 billion in off balance sheet debt. This is roughly equal to a third of the net assets on the balance sheet, and 10% more than the total market capitalization of the company. Add that to the $1.7 billion in debt already on the balance sheet, and OMX's debt load is much larger than many investors may realize.
More concerning, though, is the nearly $2 billion in asset write-downs. Most of these write-downs have occurred over the past four years, a sign that OMX has been destroying a lot of value recently. With the handicap of having so much capital tied up in bricks and mortar, OMX's management needs to make quality investments with their remaining capital. Instead, they have been making many bad investments.Write-downs can hide management failure because the accounting rules do not require companies to keep track of them properly. For more details on how I track write-downs for over 3000 companies, clickhere.
These issues have helped to drive down the return on invested capital (ROIC) of OMX down to 3%. It would need to nearly triple this ROIC to exceed its weighted average cost of capital (WACC) of 8.2%. I don't see a way for OMX to raise its ROIC by this much, if at all.
Figure 1: Decline In ROIC Is Bad Omen
OMX has only grown its after tax cash flow (NOPAT) by 1% compounded annually over the past 14 years. Over the past five years, the NOPAT CAGR is -12%.
And yet, OMX stock is up nearly 90% in the past year. The valuation is completely out of line with recent cash flows. My discounted cash flow model shows that OMX's share price of ~$10.70 implies the company will grow its NOPAT at 6% compounded annually for the next 16 years.
Those expectations are absurdly high for a company facing the competitive pressures posed by online competitors like Amazon (AMZN).
Figure 2: Beware: Economic Book Value is Negative
Holding OMX stock is betting that this company is going to buck a long trend of poor performance. Even in normal conditions that is a bold prediction. When the online vendors have a leg up on OMX, such a bet appears unduly risky.
I recommend selling and/or avoiding the following ETFs and mutual funds because of their large allocation to OMX and their Neutral or worse rating.
- Oceanstone Fund (OSFDX) – 8.5% allocation and Very Dangerous rating
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Be self-aware. You are the speaker in a room filled with dozens, hundreds, thousands of people. Especially at atheist/skeptic conferences, we are all very interesting people, but out of those dozens/hundreds/thousands of people who could have been chosen to give a presentation, you were chosen. Your opinion and your words are most likely highly valued, because other people want to hear them. Other people want to learn from you. Other people look up to you. Other people have not had the exact same life history, education, experience that you have had, and want to peek into your world, and hear about your perspective for a few minutes.
Not a round-table discussion where anyone can interrupt or disagree– you are a speaker, and the audience has chosen to spend their time with you. Not each other in the bar. Not with any of the other concurrent speakers. You. And if you are invited to be a keynote speaker, the conference stops, and everyone listens to you. All the more responsibility.
That opportunity requires one to be self aware. "Am I using words this audience understands?" "Am I taking the appropriate tone for this audience? Too stuffy? Too casual? Is it age appropriate?" "Will this choice of sentence advance my cause, or unnecessarily confuse the audience? Unnecessarily anger the audience?" "Could I be more articulate?" "Am I 100% this statement is true?" "Is the audience interested in this topic? Even if it is important to me, how can I engage everyone?" "Is this joke necessary? Could someone think this joke is offensive? Racist? Sexist?" "Am I talking down to the audience? Am I talking over them?"
All eyes are on you, so your own eyes need to be on you. Critically analyzing your every move, as critically as you would be critiquing an Enemy Speaker.
Be aware of your potential targets. Especially at atheist/skeptic conferences, we are pretty much always attacking/making fun of someone. Whether its Jenny McCarthy or Michael Behe or Deepak Chopra, or Sarah Palin, sometimes you need to talk about a person and their actions, not just purely vaccines or evolution or psychology or politics. Sometimes you might even feel the need to address the words/actions of someone in the audience. If you chose to do this, from a privileged position as The Speaker, where The Target will not have a fair opportunity to respond, you need to be Dexter. You need to be 100% sure. "Is this attack 100% necessary?" "Will pursuing this attack advance my goals?" "Will this attack take attention away from my primary goals?" "Is attacking this individual the best way to call attention to this issue?" "How would I feel if someone attacked me, maybe even misrepresented me, to a group of hundreds of people, and I wouldnt get a chance to respond?" "Am I 100% sure I understand this persons perspective/position myself?" "Is it possible that this persons opinions are equally valid as mine, I just dont understand their world view myself?" "Is this person really relevant to the topic Im speaking about?" "Am I abusing my position as speaker to 'get back' at someone on a personal level?" "If I pursue this attack, is it possible I will come out looking like an asshole? Have I honestly reflected on this attack, or am I actually being an asshole? (see 'Be self-aware')"
Being a Decent Human Being is actually the best defense you can have against abusing your position as a speaker at atheist conferences. Dont abandon it for short-term gain: youre in a community, and youre going to lose that if you think of yourself as a predator on the make.
What about tactics? Lets say you are super passionate about an issue, but is a keynote speech really the best forum for your issue? Would a moderated, recorded brain-storming session be better? An official debate? An intimate, one-on-one conversation in a quiet side room? A light-hearted, open to everyone conversation in a noisy bar? Or maybe even an online discussion, where everyone can take time to think about their input and responses and questions carefully– where everyone can simply send links to others, so everyone is on the same page, even everyone didnt start on the same page? Using a keynote address to pitch an idea for a skeptics football league is no more appropriate than using a keynote address to confront someone who said something that you found personally offensive (while others did not) is no more appropriate to rant for an hour about how the rent is too damn high. Yes, you have been given the opportunity to give a speech at an atheist conference– but that doesnt mean a speech at an atheist conference is the appropriate tactic for what you are excited about 2 minutes before you give said speech. You need to put thought into this, or you will alienate your audience not because you are wrong or had a bad idea, but because you used the wrong tactic. People will think you capitalized on your invitation as a speaker, not to engage with the audience, but to pursue a personal interest (or vendetta). You abused the forum you were given. They might not be interested in providing you with that same platform in the future.
Of course, if any more experienced commenters would like to offer further suggestions, theyre welcome to continue…as long as they remember these are guidelines for Decent Human Beings, not assholes who will excuse someones bad behavior just because they are friends with the offender.


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Back when she started out, Karen Elson had her eyebrows infamously off-ed at the suggestion of Steven Meisel. She catapulted to international fame fronting high-fashion campaigns and covers from W magazine to Italian Vogue. All this would suggest that the loss of one's eyebrows is actually rather beneficial- a debate being started over on the Daily Mail website. In the latest Givenchy advert, model Adriana Lima shows off a pair of bleached brows and the Daily Mail is as always on the attack.
Unfortunately for my now traumatised retinas, the newspaper made up a few of Britain's biggest stars without eyebrows (image above.) I'm not a fan; waking up without eyebrows would be one of my worst nightmares. I can understand that on someone staggeringly beautiful and Elson-esque, a lack of eyebrows would only increase allure. However, this is most definitely one trend I pray does not make the leap from womenswear to menswear. Let's leave it to the models!
(Image: Daily Mail)


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Article for Universities and Community Schools, published by the Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania
To Change a University, Start with the Community
By Stephen L. Percy and Mary Jane Brukardt
Changing the direction of an institution of higher education is, as a former University of Wisconsin Regent once wrote, a lot like trying to move a battleship with your bare hands. It takes strategic leadership and a lot of people willing to help push.
This is the story of that push, the continuing tale of how the idea of community-university engagement has become an invigorating--and transforming--vision for an entire institution.
Time for a Change
In 1998 the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was ready to consider a change in course. The Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin System's largest urban public university was ending a seven-year term to return to the classroom. Student enrollment was back to more than 22,000 students for the first time in the decade and faculty numbers were stabilizing after years of cutbacks. New student housing and renovations to major buildings promised to highlight the university's enviable location near the shores of Lake Michigan, just minutes from downtown.
As the university looked to the future it was clear it needed a compelling vision, one that would help shape and define its mission as an urban, research university as well as its unique role within the UW-System which also includes the internationally recognized flagship campus in Madison and twelve other four-year comprehensive universities. Despite Research II status and strong undergraduate and graduate programs serving a large contingent of returning and continuing students of all ages, UWM wanted to do better in attracting minority students, outside dollars and innovative faculty. The Search and Screen Committee for the new Chancellor, after many meetings with faculty, staff, alumni and students, determined that what the university needed was a visionary leader who could help UWM become a more responsive, innovative urban university.
UWM found that leader in Nancy L. Zimpher, who came on board in the summer of 1998 from the Ohio State University where she had been dean of the College of Education and Executive Dean of the Professional Colleges. While at Ohio State she had helped direct its Campus Collaborative, working with community groups to transform the universitys neighborhoods. No stranger to the power of community-campus partnerships, Zimpher recognized in UWM its strong history of outreach and service and the potential for finding new purpose and mission in the principles of engagement. Shortly after her arrival, she challenged faculty, staff and students to imagine a future as a new kind of university, one inextricably linked to its community: "Its not just us serving the city. Its not just the city serving us," she said in her first campus speech. "It is the notion of together building a city and university that are the heart of metropolitan Milwaukee. This is the essence of [what we will call] The Milwaukee Idea."
An Old Idea Made New
Of course the idea of community engagement as an animating mission for the academy is not a new one. As Seth Low, president of Columbia from 1890 to 1901 said in his inaugural address, " there is no such thing as the world of letters apart from the world of men." This progressive tradition was the fertile soil in which Wisconsins university system was nurtured in the late nineteenth century. It was at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, that the notion of "The Wisconsin Idea" was first expressed: "the boundaries of the university are the boundaries of the state." From its earliest years to today, The Wisconsin Idea has embodied the universitys mission of research and outreachas well as teachingto provide information, policy and service to the state and community.
When the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was founded in 1956, it continued this philosophy, with the expressed purpose that it be "Milwaukees university," a "powerful partner" with the city. UWM faculty, staff and students have taken that charge seriously, engaging in literally hundreds of projects and partnerships with neighborhood schools, small business, downtown development agencies, community activists and social service agencies. In 1996, for example, UWM received a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to form a Milwaukee Community Outreach Partnership Center (MCOPC) to pursue broad-scale neighborhood revitalization. Administered by the Center for Urban Initiatives and Research, MCOPC brought together an interdisciplinary team from across campus that included The School of Architecture and Urban Planning, the Centers for Economic Development and Urban Community Development, the Employment and Training Institute, and the Department of Sociology.
Since MCOPC was formed, UWM faculty and staff have joined with a community partnership of educators, parents, neighbors, community organizations and businesses to create full-service community centers at three area schools. MCOPC staff and students from the School of Architecture and Urban Planning worked with residents of a home for the chronically mentally ill to design suitable housing. UWMs Employment and Training Institute conducted regular job opening surveys to assist technical training organizations in matching openings to workforce skills, and produced school-to-work and career planning materials for middle and high-school students. Non-profit leaders participated in a year-long seminar called Community Action Scholars and learned "the value and power of shared experience." From community nursing to on-site tutoring, research for business start-ups to studies of welfare reform, UWM continues to demonstrate the effectiveness of "powerful partnerships" to enhance learning and strengthen community.
But as the recently released Kellogg Commission report on the future of state and land-grant universities notes, university engagement goes beyond conventional outreach and public service. Interdisciplinary coalitions and large numbers of community partnerships are important, but are only a prelude to the next step: "integrating engagement into the institutional mission" and "infusing engagement into curriculum and teaching." Such a vision for the "engaged institution" is, in the words of Chancellor Zimpher, "too ambitious to be the property of a single campus entity, like one department or one school." Equally important, engagement at the institutional level must include the community from the very beginning in its design and implementation.
And so, The Milwaukee Idea was born. Over the course of the past year, students, faculty, staff and community members have met to create and implement "Big Ideas"--"new ways in which UWM can join hands with the people of metropolitan Milwaukee." According to Zimpher, the Milwaukee Idea of community engagement will be "woven into the fabric of the university and into the way in which we do our work, adding color and luster to our strong tradition of teaching excellence, research and scholarship, service and engagement." If, as Ira Harkavy contends, "the radical reform of higher education is most likely to occur in the crucible of significant, serious, sustained, active engagement," UWM is testing that hypothesis where it counts: in the academy and on the street.
Step One: Imagine
How do you mobilize an entire university around community engagement? At UWM, it began with 100 people and one word: imagine. Imagine the shared future of Milwaukee and UWM. A "Committee of 100"invited students, faculty, staff and communitymet for the first time in October, 1998, and were tasked with fleshing out The Milwaukee Idea. What is it? What are the big ideas that will mobilize the university? How can community engagement improve student learning and research? Most important, what concrete action can be taken to make the ideas reality?
Over the course of only six months (a mere blink of an eye in traditional academic time!) the Committee of 100 (which soon grew to 200 as more people became excited about the process) organized into ten Affinity Groups to research and debate ways in which UWM could create bold new initiatives. Chancellor Zimpher and Stephen Percy, executive director of The Milwaukee Idea, scheduled a series of monthly large-group plenary meetings and set a March deadline; the rest was up to the members of the Affinity Groups. As Percy recalls, the process was "messy, evolutionary and definitely bottom-up." Groups, led by self-selected convenors, met on campus and by e-mail, shared ideas over the Web and came together to brainstorm concepts with the committee as a whole.
Early on, the leadership team for The Milwaukee Idea developed what came to be called "connectors:" a set of guiding principles that helped the Affinity Groups assess the validity of their proposals. First and foremost, the ideas had to be "big"--they had to result in significant and fundamental change to the campus and the community. In addition, the connectors included a commitment to fostering diversity and multiculturalism, nurturing new partnerships and collaborations, encouraging interdisciplinary relationships, enhancing student learning and campus culture, and supporting more open communication.
Communication became a watchword for The Milwaukee Idea process as the Affinity Groups ideas began to solidify. As James Carr, a senior vice president at the Fannie Mae Foundation reminds us, university efforts to engage the community must often first overcome well-earned and long-held skepticism and mistrust of institutions of higher education. So Chancellor Zimpher took The Milwaukee Idea on the road. She spoke to community and campus groups, at luncheons and breakfast meetings, and to business and civic leaders about The Milwaukee Idea and UWMs desire for change. In addition, more than a dozen meetings were held with community groups on campus and off, sharing details about the proposed ideas before they were finalized. Groups included business leaders, alumni, neighbors, even the media. The goal was three-fold: to get public reaction back to the Affinity Groups for fine-tuning; to signal to the community that UWM valued its input and partnership; and to make UWM accountable for results. "Were working without a net," said Zimpher. "What we are doing is public and must produce action."
Moving to Action
By March, the results were in. Affinity Groups identified ten "First Ideas" that reflected the values of the connectors and offered visionary new directions for the future of the university, grounded in UWMs historic academic strengths. They included major initiatives in education, the economy and the environment: A new alternative general education requirement celebrating the citys multicultural assets and involving community members in the learning process; a consortium for economic opportunity, linking university expertise with the communitys small businesses and entrepreneurs; new partnerships to study and implement programs addressing urban health issues; a "healthy choices" program targeting issues of substance use on campus and in the community; and an international center for freshwater research, among others. The ideas were announced by Zimpher at her inauguration as the sixth Chancellor of UWM and applauded by the mayor, county executive and governor.
The more important announcement, however, was not the ideas (theyd been publicly discussed for months) but the next step. As Zimpher stated at the very first Milwaukee Idea plenary session "ideas without action are meaningless." The real challenge of change is implementation and so Zimpher asked the impossible: teams of faculty, students, staff and community would work through the summer to create concrete action planscomplete with detailed budgets and staffing plansto implement the ten First Ideas. In only four months, the working blueprints for moving forward would be complete.
While the Affinity Groups were open to anyone on campus or in the community, membership on the Action Teams was by nomination, based on interest, expertise and experience. The goal was to create small teams of about twelve to fifteen people, representing diverse perspectives and backgrounds, able to work intensively to create strategic plans for implementation. The Chancellor and her leadership team made the final selections. All nominees, however, were eligible to serve on advisory councils, which provided feedback to the Action Teams as their work progressed. Team leadership was shared by two UWM representatives and one community liaison.
Taking Stock
As of this writing, action plans for eight of the ten First Ideas are being evaluated by a team of campus and community representatives. The remaining two are gathering more community input. The evaluators are working with the Action Teams to develop realistic plans and launch strategies. Complete plans are now posted on the Web for campus-wide comment before final recommendations are made to the Chancellor. It is hoped that several of the ideas will receive the green light and begin implementation by the new year, less than eighteen months from the start of the process, with more to follow as they are ready. To that end, talks are being held with the Chancellor, deans, and university and academic staff committees to creatively resolve questions of governance, reporting, budgeting and staffing.
It is, of course, too early to assess success of The Milwaukee Idea. By no means has engagement been embraced campus-wide, nor have the many and varied opportunities for enhanced student learning, community participation and faculty research been realized, even in part. There are, however, signs that the "battleship" is beginning to change direction.
Early on in the Milwaukee Idea process, the leadership team identified "Eight Steps to Success"--measures to help assess accomplishments. They are:
1. Establish a sense of urgency
2. Create a guiding coalition
3. Empower people for broad-based action.
4. Develop vision and strategy
5. Communicate the change vision
6. Generate short-term wins
7. Consolidate gains and produce more change
8. Anchor changes in the culture
The sense of urgency at UWM was real. New leadership was in place. The secret to the success of The Milwaukee Idea can be found in Step 3: "Empower people for broad-based action." Chancellor Zimpher recalls the reactions she got as the process unfolded. "People would send me e-mails and say, 'We know you have all these people working on ideas, but surely you have a plan, Nancy.' I had to tell them, the plan is not mine. It belongs to UWM and to the people who create it and then make it happen." Thanks to the work of hundreds of people in the Affinity Groups and Action Teams, the university has a plan and specific strategies to get there.
The process has brought together individuals from across campus and the community, creating new networks and relationships. This has resulted in a cohort of enthusiastic students, faculty, staff and community people who are committed to implementing the ideas and to sharing the vision more broadly. As one participant in the Affinity Group process said at the final session, "The most meaningful result of this process is that it was so open. It allowed anyone who wanted to join in. This enabled people from across disciplines to talk to each otherit hasnt happened before!" A measure of the success The Milwaukee Idea has had in encouraging "bottom up" creativity is that even as the logistics for implementing the First Ideas are being finalized, unsolicited proposals for the next round of ideas are already being received.
Thanks to The Milwaukee Idea, UWM has a new profile in the neighborhood and new ways to communicate with the community. The Milwaukee Idea office fields calls daily from organizations and individuals eager to explore potential partnerships and projects. A new Institute for Service Learning and a revived student volunteer center will provide additional support.
The sixth step to success"create short-term wins"can be measured in the Milwaukee Idea banners that dot the campus, the 100-fold increase in column inches generated in local media, and also in dollars. Corporate and individual donations have increased by 56% over the previous year, and grants for research funding have increased by 23% in the first quarter of the fiscal year alone. In addition, more than $5 million has been pledged directly to The Milwaukee Idea from State and system coffers.
And finally, is The Milwaukee Idea anchored in the culture of the university? That will take time, of course, but two important administrative mechanisms have been put in place to signal that community-university partnerships are the inspiration and the driver behind UWMs aspirations to be a premier urban research university. The Milwaukee Idea office functions within the Chancellors office and a new position, Assistant Chancellor for Partnerships and Innovation, selected from the community and charged with directing community participation with the university, has been created.
So Far...
Chancellor Zimpher likes to tell the story of an encounter she had with a student, early in her tenure at UWM. It was a beautiful fall day and as the Chancellor walked across the plaza to the Student Union, he stopped her, introduced himself and told her how pleased he was with everything she was doing. Then he paused, and added: "So far!"
The challenge for change never ends.
For more information
To learn more about The Milwaukee Idea, see the website at www.uwm.edu/MilwaukeeIdea. Contact the office at 414-229-5916 for a brochure describing the First Ideas in detail.


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(WXIA) - In Australia, a heat wave from the Outback has taken temperatures in Sydney to some of their highest levels ever.
Weather forecasters have been forced to add new colors to their weather maps to more accurately show the level of the heat.
According to AccuWeather, temperatures from the heat wave have topped 119 degrees F in some spots of the nation's seven states. Officials in the state of New South Wales posted extreme to catastrophic fire danger warnings for much of the state, including Sydney and the nearby National Capitol Territory, according to the Australian ABC News website Monday.
Seven News Sydney said Tuesday that while local fire chiefs praised crews affected by bushfires, they were definitely not out of the woods, with extreme conditions affecting at least three states.
Meteorologists with Australia's Bureau of Meteorology have added two new colors to official weather maps - deep purple and pink - to indicate temperatures above 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit).


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Shaker Oval Music Box
A simple gift for the holidays.
By John Wilson
Pages: 74-79
From the November 2007 issue #165
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Two Shaker accomplishments were prolific song writing (there are more than 10,000 extant songs) and gracefully fingered oval boxes. This music box combines both. The song "Simple Gifts" is familiar to many from Aaron Copeland's "Appalachian Spring."
Shaker oval boxes were featured in the August 2003 issue (#135). A set of five nesting boxes was described there, and for those familiar with that set, this music box is the next-to-smallest size, called a #1.
Making this particular oval box project has been simplified so that fewer wooden forms are needed to get it done. It is expected that first-time box makers will find this helpful. Certainly there is more than one way of doing things, and those familiar with alternatives should choose what suits you best.
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The warmth and glow from the tea light candle bring about a wonderful reaction with the natural crystal salt. It causes negative ions to be emitted in the air clearing out positively charged particles that make us stuffy and sluggish.
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Always place the candle holder on a coaster and never leave a candle burning unattended.
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Length: 8"
Height: 4"
Width: 3"


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