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What follows is PART 13 of a 15-PART series. The remaining installments will appear on Deep Capture in the coming days, after which point the story will be published in its entirety.
Where we left off, we had learned that on March 29, 2007, an FDA advisory panel overwhelmingly voted to approve Provenge, a vaccine Dendreon developed for prostate cancer. As a result, most financial analysts and investors believed that Dendreon had a promising future. However, ten hedge funds (out of a universe of 11,500 hedge funds) held large numbers of Dendreon put options (bets against the company), suggesting they had expected that Dendreon would be derailed. At least seven of those hedge funds can be tied to Michael Milken or his close associates.
We had also learned that Milken himself stood to profit if Dendreon were to experience unexpected problems receiving FDA approval. This is because Milken was the early financier and principal deal maker for ProQuest Investments, a fund that (along with an affiliate) controlled a company called Novacea, which was one of Dendreon's competitors in the race to produce a new treatment for prostate cancer. Meanwhile, Lindsay Rosenwald (a Milken crony who once helped run a Mafia-linked brokerage called D.H. Blair, which specialized in pumping and dumping fake biotech companies) controlled Cougar Biotechnology, which was Dendreon's second competitor in the race to develop a treatment for prostate cancer.
We had learned further that Milken's "philanthropic" outfit, the Prostate Cancer Foundation, which appears to act in concert with Milken's investment fund, ProQuest, had supported Novacea and Cougar, neither of which had shown that their treatments were safe or effective, while turning its back on Dendreon.
In addition, we had learned that in April, 2007, Dr. Howard Scher, who was an executive and director of ProQuest, and the chairman of the Prostate Cancer Foundation's "Therapeutic Consortium", spearheaded an unprecedented lobbying effort to convince the FDA to deny approval to Dendreon's treatment – the first time in history that the FDA had gone against an advisory panel's recommendation to approve a drug destined for dying patients.
In the days before and after the lobbying effort, Dendreon was subjected to a blistering attack by naked short sellers who illegally flooded the market with millions of phantom shares to help drive down the company's stock price. This criminal naked short selling continued intermittently for much of the next two years, while other events conspired to hobble Dendreon, a company that had completed multiple clinical trials that strongly suggested that its product, Provenge, was capable of lengthening the lives of thousands of men with prostate cancer….
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In December 2007, three U.S. Congressmen — Mike Michaud (D-Maine), Dan Burton (R-Indiana) and Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) — called on the House Commerce Committee to investigate why the FDA failed to approve Dendreon's treatment for prostate cancer. Referring to Dr. Scher and his ally, Dr. Hussain, the lawmakers said in a letter that "there are reasons to believe that serious ethics rules were violated by two FDA advisory panel members in their decision [to vote and lobby against Dendreon] and that these violations played a role in the subsequent FDA decision not to approve Provenge at this time."
A bipartisan group of 12 additional Congressmen eventually signed on to the request for an investigation. And in February 2008, as outrage over this scandal spread through the medical community, a group of seven respected doctors, calling themselves "Physicians for Provenge" wrote a letter to the ranking members of the House Commerce Committee, suggesting that the investigation should urgently proceed.
"Please consider why our colleagues and we KNOW that Provenge works and why tens of thousands of men with late stage prostate cancer should be given access to it," the physicians wrote. Noting the "egregious conflicts of interest" of Dr. Scher and Dr. Hussain, the "Physicians for Provenge" added that the "FDA should be carefully assessing risk versus reward for the treatment of terminally ill patients, rather than 'gate keeping' based on outdated statistics, reducing short-term health costs or backroom shenanigans."
Nonetheless, Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell denied the requests for an investigation. To justify this decision, Dingell wrote in a letter to the committee that an "investigative hearing prior to an agency's final decision runs the risk of interfering with the normal regulatory process."
Apparently, it was fine if FDA-contracted doctors and government officials tied to Michael Milken corrupted the normal regulatory process by obfuscating approval standards ("substantial evidence" versus "proof") and by drafting unsolicited post-vote letters with back-channel help from a government employee who was weeks away from taking a new job created by Michael Milken. But investigating such improprieties would corrupt the regulatory process, in the eyes of Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell.
Dingell also pointed out that "a new law strengthening conflict of interest provisions now governs FDA panels." Unfortunately, that law was passed in September 2007, some months after Milken's conflicted allies derailed Dendreon's application.
In any case, it is not clear that the old conflict of interest provisions were not violated in the Dendreon case. Dr. Scher received a conflict of interest waiver, but in his application for that waiver he did not mention his financial ties to Milken's ProQuest Investments. There should have been an investigation into why that waiver was granted. And while he was at it, Representative Dingell should have investigated the illegal naked short selling of Dendreon and the "backroom shenanigans" of Milken's captured officials at the FDA and the National Cancer Institute.
At any rate, while the congressional investigation was being stopped in its tracks, Milken's Prostate Cancer Foundation was becoming more brazen.
In March 2008, for example, the Prostate Cancer Foundation sent out a peculiar mass mailing. Written by a cardiologist on Prostate Cancer Foundation letterhead, the mailing began, "I'll never forget the day my 5-year-old son came home from school, worried. One of the other kids told him I was going to die."
The letter went on to describe the horrors of being diagnosed with prostate cancer. So far, all kosher. But then came the strange part – the charity's solicitation explicitly promoted a mostly untested experimental treatment that was being developed by a public company that was considered to be one of the few competitors to Dendreon. The treatment was called GVAX, and the company developing it was called Cell Genesys.
The author of the letter noted that during his treatment, he had "learned about some of the groundbreaking research projects supported by the Prostate Cancer Foundation, such as GVAX, a drug now in phase 3 clinical trials that boosts the immune system to fight off prostate cancer cells."
Notice that the name of the drug – GVAX – was printed in boldface letters, so nobody could miss it. Notice, too, the underlining, which stressed that this treatment (as opposed to others, such as Dendreon's) was endorsed and supported by the Prostate Cancer Foundation. And, finally, notice the unequivocal statement that GVAX works – that it "boosts the immune system" and is able to "fight off" cancer.
Lest there be any question that Milken was eager to promote GVAX, the Prostate Cancer Foundation, soon after, began distributing flyers at supermarkets and shopping malls with a similar message. "My 5-year-old didn't want to lose his daddy," read the flyers, which then proceeded to describe a "groundbreaking" new medicine – GVAX.
At the time, Cell Genesys was nowhere near bringing GVAX to market. It had just finished phase 2 clinical trials on a total of 65 patients. Lab results showed that GVAX might increase prostate cancer antibodies, but they did not show that the immune system was actually boosted in such a way as to better "fight off" cancer or improve survival. Phase 3 trials, which would determine whether GVAX actually improved the health of patients, had just begun.
But if you were an average Joe who read those flyers – or a wealthy Mary who received that solicitation in the mail – you'd be mighty convinced that Cell Genesys was the next big thing in cancer therapy. You might even be tempted to buy its stock.
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When Milken's Prostate Cancer Foundation began distributing his fliers promoting GVAX, a number of hedge funds had accumulated large numbers of shares in Cell Genesys.
One of these was Millennium Management, the hedge fund that had been founded by the fellow who planned to murder Ivan Boesky when it seemed that Boesky might cooperate with the authorities in their case against Milken. Again, Millennium is one of those seven hedge funds that had the foresight to own put options in Dendreon back in March 2007, right before Dendreon's treatment was unexpectedly scuttled by the FDA.
Another hedge fund with a big stake in Cell Genesys was Forest Investment Management, owned by Michael Boyd, the father of hedge fund shill Roddy Boyd, currently of Fortune Magazine. Michael Boyd, remember, had previously been involved in two big ventures – one with a former Milken colleague from Drexel Burnham; the other with Santo Maggio, the convicted criminal CEO of Refco Securities.
Hedge fund Perceptive Advisors also held a moderately large stake in Cell Genesys. Recall that Perceptive was then run by Joseph Edelman, who was not only another one of those seven hedge fund managers who held put options in Dendreon, but was also simultaneously serving as a trader for Paramount Capital.
As you might recall, the vice president of Paramount Capital was a former employee of Milken crony Steve Cohen, who was also one of those seven hedge fund managers betting big against Dendreon. The owner of Paramount, of course, is Lindsay Rosenwald, who used to run the Mafia-controlled D.H. Blair with Milken's former national sales manager, and controlled Cougar Biotechnology, another Dendreon competitor promoted by the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
Another big buyer of Cell Genesys shares was Mazama Capital, a hedge fund based in California. In December 2006, Mazama also owned 2.1 million shares of Dendreon. It dumped more than a million of those shares sometime before or immediately after the March advisory panel meeting, when it seemed certain that Dendreon would receive FDA approval.
Only one other hedge fund dumped similar quantities of Dendreon shares at that time. It was JL Advisors, which is controlled by the above-mentioned Steve Cohen. This dumping of shares contributed to the selling volume that was amplified by whoever was selling massive amounts of phantom stock in Dendreon.
Then there was Renaissance Technologies, which held 800,000 shares in Cell Genesys when Milken's "philanthropy" began promoting the company. The CFO of Renaissance is James Rowen, who was previously the chief financial officer of SAC Capital, the hedge fund run by the above-mentioned Steve Cohen, who is known to be maniacal about making sure that his former employees remain satellites of his trading empire.
Meanwhile, hedge funds Balyasny Asset Management and Visium Capital held a combined 12 million shares of Cell Genesys. Balyasny and Visium have overlapping ownership (Dmitry Balyasny is a partner in both hedge funds) though they don't generally disclose that in their SEC filings.
Dimitry Balysasny is a close associate of Steve Cohen. He has employed some of those former SAC Capital traders and managers with whom Cohen maniacally maintains relationships. And he and Cohen have attacked the same companies.
As I mentioned, Balyasny was one of our seven hedge fund managers with large numbers of put options in Dendreon. I will return to him, because this enigmatic Russian might have more surprises in store for Dendreon.
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Three weeks after Milken's Prostate Cancer Foundation began publicly promoting Cell Genesys's virtually untested prostate cancer treatment, Cell Genesys announced that it had signed a gargantuan $320 million deal to develop and commercialize GVAX with Takeda Pharmaceutical, the Japanese biotech giant.
The press reported this deal dutifully and uncritically, making it sound like GVAX was the next big thing. The stock price soared, earning large profits for the Milken-network hedge funds that had invested in Cell Genesys.
But just as there was something fishy about the Milken-invested Novacea and its $500 million deal with Schering Plough, so too did the "$320 million" Cell Genesys deal deserve a hearty dose of skepticism.
For starters, only days before Cell Genesys announced the Takeda deal, Takeda had bought a company called Millennium Pharmaceuticals. Millennium had been transformed into Takeda Pharmaceutical Capital Ventures. It was Takeda Capital Ventures, not the Takeda parent company, that signed the deal with Cell Genesys. In other words, it was almost certain that Millennium's management, most of whom had been retained by Takeda Capital, orchestrated the whopping $320 million deal.
That was rather strange because Millennium had been founded by a man named Mark Levin. It was Levin who orchestrated Millennium's merger with LeukoSite, the biotech company that belonged to Marty Peretz, the Boesky-Milken crony who founded TheStreet.com. And more important to this particular episode, it was Levin who had founded Cell Genesys. He founded the company basically by investing in himself (just as Domain Associates had created the Milken-invested Novacea out of thin air).
So, assuming Levin still had influence over Millennium/Takeda, and assuming he was still invested in Cell Genesys, he had just orchestrated a deal to use other people's money to invest $300 million in himself.
Or, at least Cell Genesys's press release said that Takeda (which was, in fact, Millennium) was going to "pay Cell Genesys an upfront payment of $50 million and additional milestone payments totaling up to $270 million…Takeda [actually Millennium, now known as Takeda Capital Ventures] will pay Cell Genesys tiered, double-digit royalties based on net sales of GVAX immunotherapy for prostate cancer…"
Sounds good, doesn't it? Sounds like those "net sales" are imminent, right? In fact, just as the Milken-invested Novacea's $500 million deal was dependent on clinical trials showing good results, so too was Cell Genesys's big deal with itself dependent on the company producing some evidence that it's drug actually worked. The operative phrase in that press release was "milestone payments totaling up to $270 million."
Of course, just three months later, Cell Genesys announced that it had halted its trials of GVAX after its Independent Data Monitoring Committee, in a "routine safety review meeting," observed "an imbalance of deaths…" In other words, GVAX was not helping patients. It was killing them. And, of course, the $270 million worth of "milestone payments" announced with so much fanfare were unceremoniously canceled.
Either before this announcement, or immediately after, the big investors in Cell Genesys – Mazama, Balyasny, Millennium, Perceptive Advisors – all dumped their shares. Given the big boost those shares got from Milken's Prostate Cancer Foundation promotions and the giddy announcement that Cell Genesys would receive $330 million, we can assume that those investors made a nice profit on their sales, just as Milken's ProQuest and affiliated funds made nice profits on their sales of Novacea.
It seems to me that Cell Genesys, like Novacea, was a sophisticated pump and dump scam, aided by Michael Milken's "philanthropic" outfit, the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
Which brings us to Cougar Biotechnology, the third Dendreon "competitor" promoted by Milken's Prostate Cancer Foundation. Cougar Biotechnology, as we know, was controlled by Lindsay Rosenwald, who used to help run D.H. Blair, the Mafia-linked pump-and-dump shop whose two vice chairman pled guilty to securities crimes, and whose president was Milken's former national sales manager.
D.H. Blair was indicted on 173 counts of securities fraud, and it was notorious for pumping and dumping biotech companies with no real medicine. But who knows? Maybe Cougar has a genuine product. It is hard to say at the moment, and will remain that way for years to come, because its prostate cancer treatment remains virtually untested.
In any case, just last month, Cougar, no doubt aided by the Prostate Cancer Foundation's vigorous endorsements, wangled a $1 billion deal to merge with Johnson & Johnson, so Rosenwald and friends did quite well on their investments.
Remember that while Milken's Prostate Cancer Foundation was using unwitting donors' money to promote Novacea, Cougar Biotechnology, and Cell Genesys, its top officials, and perhaps Milken himself, were actively seeking to derail Dendreon, the one company that actually had a promising treatment for prostate cancer. This was certainly to the benefit of the short sellers (some of whom were illegally naked short selling) and the buyers of put options who were betting big against Dendreon
Meanwhile, it should be noted that Cougar Biotechnology experienced almost no naked short selling, according to SEC "failures to deliver" data. The Milken-invested Novacea also experienced virtually zero naked short selling, even after it announced that its treatment was killing people. The same goes for Cell Genesys — relatively little naked short selling, even when its treatment flopped.
The miscreant party line is that hedge funds do not engage in naked short selling to manufacture phantom stock. The party line is that most "failures to deliver" are the result of mechanical "errors." It's funny how those "errors" tend to occur when miscreants in a certain network are short a company. It's also funny that those "errors" don't happen to companies in which Milken and his cronies are invested.
If only there were a pattern.
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To be continued…Click here for Chapter 14.


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Minnesota Twins BamVino Bottle Holder
Minnesota Twins BamVino Bottle Holder
The BamVino™ captures your love of baseball and wine. Sculpted to look like a baseball player getting ready to hit a home run, the wine bottle fits top down into the player's hands to form the bat. Wearing a baseball cap featuring your favorite team's logo, the BamVino™ is sure to be an instant conversation piece and a spirited addition to your everyday decor.
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The Power Of Thank-You Letters And Follow-Up Calls
Once an interview stage is over, many applicants suddenly feel relief. However, once the initial hospitality or foodservice interview is over, it is time to look to the future. One vital part of getting the hospitality position an applicant wants is effective follow up. With a simple thank you note and phone call, a job seeker can put their name right on top of the interviewer's mind. The strategy is simple, does not take up a lot of time and can make all the difference in landing the perfect hotel or resort industry job.
The thank-you note.
It's no secret that the art of thank you notes has experienced a revival in popularity. Thank you letters express a sincere appreciation for the interviewer's time, and can jog an interviewer's memory at a crucial point in time. The whole name of the game is courtesy and friendliness in the hospitality field. Receiving a thank you letter from a prospective employee would show the employer the applicant has those qualities, plus a thank you note or letter would clearly stand out in a prospective employer's mind.
The note should state the company's name, contact's name and address of the hotel. In addition to including the correct contact information, a thank you letter should be professional in tone, make specific reference to the interview and topics discussed, and kept short. The applicant will want to avoid a long-winded recap of the interview. A simple sentence such as, "I enjoyed our conversation about the new trend in fusion cuisine." would be perfectly acceptable.
The thank you letter could also be used to clear up any miscommunication. For example, writing, "To be perfectly clear, working weekends will not be a problem for me. I was concerned I may have given the wrong impression at our meeting." is more appropriate than a stammered phone conversation. Any additional information would be to again thank the person for their time and assure them the job seeker will be in touch.
An employer in the foodservice industry is always looking for potential employees who consistently go the extra mile. A thank you letter is an excellent way to stay ahead of the other applicants.
Now that the proper format for the thank you letter is in place, it is time to look at timing. The best time for the hospitality applicant to send a thank you letter is within a day of the interview. There isn't anything wrong with an email either. It is up to the individual which method works better for them and the perception they wish to give. The job seeker wants to stay in front of the interviewer's mind and keeping their name and qualifications fresh is what a thank you letter does best.
The follow-up call.
After the resort hopeful has been through the interview and sent a glowing thank you letter, the next step is the follow up call. The follow up call should take place about one week after the initial interview. One key element to remember is to call during appropriate times. If the job seeker has applied in a restaurant, it is crucial to not call the manager during lunch or dinner rush. Doing so says the applicant has no idea of the proper etiquette in this situation and no respect for the manager's time. Typically, if the job seeker has applied for a position higher up in the hospitality company normal business hours should be fine. The follow up phone call should be professional, straightforward and quick. People in the hotel business often don't have a lot of time to talk. The applicant would be smart to remember that and limit the call to again expressing their interest in the job; clearing up any details they feel may have been overlooked in the interview, and most importantly, thanking the person for their time.
In a world dominated by customer service, courtesy and good manner, a thank you letter and proper follow up phone call is bound to put the successful applicant at the top of the list. These steps are imperative to creating an outstanding impression. You are more likely to get it right by going that little step further to create a lasting impression, than to get it wrong.
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December 10, 2012
UCLA Anderson Launches First Business School Magazine Designed Exclusively for the iPad
Custom designed app offers fully digital user experience
LOS ANGELES (December 3, 2012) -- UCLA Anderson School of Management today announced the launch of the first interactive business school alumni magazine designed exclusively as an iPad application. The free app for the redesigned publication, Assets Digital, is fully integrated in the iPad platform to provide users with a multi-dimensional and immersive storytelling experience.
"Assets Digital is an exciting new tool to share information with our students, alumni and faculty," said Judy Olian, Dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management. "Assets Digital leverages the iPad platform to offer mobile and interactive connectivity and convenience to our community of users, wherever they are in the world. We're proud that it's the first of its kind among business school publications."
Developed by the creators of the Fast Company iPad app, the new digital magazine uses Adobe® Digital Publishing Suite, an integration of InDesign CS5 tools with additional Adobe Publishing Technologies.
Features of the new app include:
- Real-time Twitter feeds and an up-to-the-minute calendar of events that delivers fresh content whenever a user returns to the app.
- Original video, photography and animated illustration.
- Control of the viewing experience with every screen so users can navigate and interact with the stories, view photo galleries, listen to interviews or watch videos connected to individual stories.
- An Alumni Hub screen that includes video, web links and access to social networks where alumni can connect—anytime, from anywhere.
- A pool of international award-winning visual artists and a growing roster of contributing writers published in outlets such as The New York Times, Businessweek, Fast Company and Los Angeles Times, providing a lively mix of copy and art that showcases content in captivating and intuitive ways on business, culture and technology.
"Assets Digital brings stories to life with media-rich and interactive features that go beyond standard business school print and digital publications," said Eric Mokover, UCLA Anderson associate dean of external affairs and executive director of alumni relations. "This new app is another example of thoughtful experimentation at UCLA Anderson."
"The new Assets allows our global alumni network of approximately 37,000 the opportunity to connect with Anderson in a dynamic way so that every issue becomes a networking event beyond the magazine itself," said Glenn Lyday ('03), UCLA Anderson Alumni Board of Directors President. "This new publication can now easily connect our global audiences, whether they're in San Francisco, Shanghai or Sao Paulo."
Assets Digital is available now for free from the App Store on iPad or at tinyurl.com/assetsdigital. Tablet and mobile-friendly Assets Digital content is also accessible via the microsite: http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/assets.
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UCLA Anderson School of Management is among the leading business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty members are globally renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides a distinctive approach to management education to more than 1,800 students enrolled in its MBA, Fully-Employed MBA, Executive MBA, Global Executive MBA for Asia Pacific, Global Executive MBA for the Americas, Master of Financial Engineering, doctoral and executive education programs. Combining selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs, and a world-wide network of 37,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson develops and prepares global leaders. Follow UCLA Anderson on Twitter at http://twitter.com/UCLAAnderson, or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/uclaanderson.
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NAC September 2008: Danial Dostal's Greek Myths & Legends
Minotaur by Danial Dostal (Poland)
Choosing the winner was very difficult. After much thought, I've decided to honour the work of Robert Maitland. In my opinion it is a fresh concept, very original and innovative approach to ambigrams. My congratulations to the future Guest Challenger.
'Labyrinth-Minotaur' by Robert Maitland (Canada)
Not far behind is the wonderful 'labyrinth' of Krzysztof Śliwa. The simplicity and the legibility of this piece is delightful.'Labyrinth' by Krzystof Sliwa (Poland)
As ever Nasty Basty's ambigrams turned out near-perfection.'Labyrinth' by NastyBasty (Germany)
I like the simple and modern Awangpurba's minotaur.
'Theseus' by Nemielyn (Philippines)
In Aidash's piece, a style of applied letters appealed to me.
'into the Labyrinth' by Charles Madrid (Philippines)
'Minotaur' by Charles Madrid (Philippines)
'Minotaur-Labyrinth' by Cy Reb, Jr. (USA)
Vector versions of designers' ambigrams in AI format will be sent to all contributors through Nagfa.
One more time, I congratulate Robert Maitland. Thanks to all contributors and first of all for Nagfa."
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The reason I chose the UWGEC committee to present to is because all new gen ed courses are required to explain how information literacy (and other critical skills) will be incorporated into their class. There were a few applications that came through where it seemed faculty were unsure of how to either include IL skills in the class or just how to describe how IL skills would be included in the class. We do have a list of the (soon outdated) ACRL standards to help guide instructors, but there are of course issues with the standards, aside from them not really being intuitive to someone who is not a librarian. Additionally, since we don't have a FYE program, incorporating IL skills at the Gen Ed level would reach more students earlier on.
When badges can be embedded into courses, instructors can more actively understand IL concepts and skills that their students will need and map IL to current course design. Faculty were very excited to hear about this possibility of a mix and match digital badge option for including research skills in their courses. This wouldn't require much additional instruction time on their part, and everyone (faculty and the library) would have access to assessment data. Prior to this presentation, it felt badge talk on campus was stalled or even non-existent, but I found some interested instructors to become part of our Pilot Part II, and was also invited to another working group on campus to include digital badges in eportfolios (actually very similar to what UC-Davis has announced).
Some key points to consider that worked for me when presenting on badges to faculty:
- Focus less on gamification when introducing the concept and more on measuring skills and competency-based education
- If your campus is like ours and upper course level faculty complain that students are lacking research skills when they reach them, highlight how embedding skills early and through scaffolding throughout students' college years will benefit all in receiving better work and helping students be better prepared
- Share as much student feedback as you can. If students are enthusiastic, faculty of course want to use methods students will enjoy and be successful at
- Stress flexibility and cooperation. We are not giving campus mandatory modules that they have to incorporate into every class, it's a mix and match as I mentioned above where badges would be incorporated into classes based on content, skill-level, and need. We want to be strategic and not create more work for ourselves or faculty (or students)
- Reiterate student anxiety on finding jobs after graduation, and how being able to display and describe specific skills could give them an advantage with future employers while also helping students better understand what they have accomplished
And I'll share some student feedback from our pilot:
•"I liked when I did really well on a task when I got a badge for it"
•"I liked badges because they helped me feel accomplished and as if I was doing something worth while"
•"It was more fun than just completing a written assignment"
•"I enjoyed that the badges … were useful in keeping track of my work, but also of what I learned [and] that most of the time they made us really reflect and put our knowledge of the subject to use"
•"In order for me to complete assignments, I have to break them down into tasks. With the badges this was already set up for me. I found it fit into my learning style perfectly and I loved how I could track what I was doing within each badge"
|University of Arizona Libraries: LIBR197R Badges Pilot survey
We will be analyzing our data for these two semesters and then will be starting another pilot for spring if all works as planned and presenting on our findings at ALA Annual 2014 in Vegas. I don't think there is a date or time set yet but the title of our presentation is: But did they learn anything? Using digital badges to create customizable learning experiences for motivation and assessment. Hope you'll join us! It will be an interactive session where audience members will start putting a badging system together for their institutions (and this is through LITA).


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INDIANAPOLIS -- DeAngelo Williams has been a subject of speculation in the last few weeks as a potential salary-cap casualty candidate.
Oh, who are we kidding? We have been doing the speculating.
On Thursday, Carolina Panthers general manager Dave Gettleman offered hope that Williams and fellow running back Jonathan Stewart could remain on the team together.
"Can we keep both of them? Again, decisions have to be made," Gettleman told reporters at the NFL Scouting Combine. "I don't see why not."
Stewart already has restructured his contract, so he's not going anywhere. Williams' status could depend on whether enough other players possibly get cut or restructure their contracts.
"The first thing we have to do is make March 12 and get there. It's a puzzle," Gettleman said. "There's obviously going to have to be some work done. It's no secret. The bottom line is everybody knows we're over the cap and we've got to get there."
Players such as Jon Beason, James Anderson and Chris Gamble also don't have certain futures in Carolina. Gettleman spoke about long-term planning and thinking years ahead. His words indicate that the team still is hoping Williams will be part of that future.
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An elders guide to the Tongariro Crossing
One of the worlds most inspiring walks is not as easy as it is often described - but is worth it.
Walking the Tongariro Crossing
We were six, mad, over fifty year olds who were planning to walk the iconic Tongariro Crossing. Firstly, let me say that although this was a life changing experience, I had not counted on it being a life ending one. Next time, I would take the helicopter....same wonderful views - less risk and effort.
We did a significant amount of research, but did not really grasp the enormity of the project. Having said that, the rest of our group would not have taken the easy way out; they believe that the views appeared even more spectacular because of the experience.
Lonely Planet recommends the Crossing as one of the World's best one day walks "Explore the pulsating volcanic landscape of the Tongariro National Park and tackle the Tongariro Crossing, rated as the World's finest day hike".
The walk is 19.4 kms of which 17 Kms are tiring but easy and about two kms are sheer terror for a whimp. Average walking time without stops is 5 -6 hours although some people run it in far less time. We took 7.5 hours including lunch and stops - well let's be honest, I took that long, a couple of the others had completed it in 6.5 hours.
From the car park at Mangatepopo the track ascends 765m and at the other end, it descends 1126m to the Ketetahi Rd car park. There is no risk of oxygen deprivation at that level, but shortness of breath at the top is often a sign of fitness deprivation.
We had planned to walk the Crossing on Saturday. It came as no surprise that the weather prevented that possibility. Changeable weather is a big risk. Luckily we were able to stay and walk on Sunday which was beautiful. The weather was about as stable and good as it can get. We had been 'weathered-off' once before in February. It pays to allow a few days in the area.
It was sunny but cold. On top of the Volcano that means freezing. We caught the first bus at 7 am from our base in Turangi. Several tour companies run buses to the start of the walk and thousands walk every day (Luckily they are all encouraged to walk the same way).
I should have known this - the entire population of New Zealand must have completed the walk. I know this because everyone we mentioned it to during the preceding weeks would remark 'ah yes, we did that last year'. Or even more disconcertingly 'we do that every few years'. It sounded like a 'doddle' that everyone can do.
We boarded the bus wearing three or four layers of clothing and fought for the remaining few seats. Others watched with silent surprise and it dawned on me that we were older than everyone by a factor of at least three. In addition, they were comparatively naked - compared to us.
We soon discovered the reason. The bus, for only $35 return, offered a full sauna as well as transport to and from the mountain. By the time we piled off the bus, the heater plus our layers of clothing had effectively raised our body temperatures to a level where the freezing air outside the bus would really have its full impact. Still, here we were, ready to set off on a great adventure that would change our lives!
The first part of the walk is deceptively OK. It was frosty but flat and although we could see the path rising up to the ridge ahead - it didn't look too bad. Just a quick tip here - the walk passes a turn off to the Mangatapopo hut.
This is the last toilet for a LONG TIME. It is wise to visit - a few in our party who didn't go (no names mentioned) found themselves seriously looking for a large rock at the top of the Volcano amongst hundreds of others. Do not underestimate the effect of cold.
Beyond the easy bit is the terror- tory. In the route-guide handed out on the bus is simply says: 'It is not a difficult or especially long walk, although one section is quite strenuous. Near the beginning, a 45 minute hand-over-hand climb over raw, black basalt has most walkers sweating and pausing for breath.' In our case, the raw basalt was covered in ice and climbing hand-over-hand was more like hand-and-foot-over-head.
Unable to hold on with gloves and with tramping boots slipping on the icy rocks, young Asian girls were sliding onto the climbers below and everyone was looking for a place to climb without a gaggle of scrambling bodies that might fall on them. I struggled to avoid bayoneting my fellow climbers with a pair of walking poles which, although invaluable for the rest of the walk, turned into an impediment during this part of the track.
To be fair, the fall looked steep below but it probably wouldn't have been a deathly fall. The young climbers looked as if they would 'bounce' off the rocks anyway but I knew for sure that we older climbers would certainly 'splat'. Finishing the last 5 hours of the walk with a broken leg would slow progress considerably even with walking poles and missing the last bus would be a problem.
Walking across the South Crater is easy. Then there is an up and down experience. Down the steep ash scoria slope which could double as a thrill ride at Disneyland, along a ridge where the wind threatens to blow you into the Red Crater and past the unbelievable and aptly named Emerald lakes.
The Red Crater really is RED. The walk along-side the Red Crater is nothing but breath-taking. People appear like ants compared to the massive landscape colours are unreal - the crater lakes are turquoise and green and the mountain red and dark grey.
After 5 hours of walking, the Kaiteriteri hut appears in the distance. The queue for the long drop is never ending and can probably be seen from space. I was pleased that I used the original toilets at the start of the track....and that's an understatement.
It's a strange thing, but the sight of the hut - a small reminder of civilisation - leads one to believe that the end is nigh....but it isn't. Beyond the hut are the makings of an orthopedic surgeons dream.
The downhill stretch meanders for hours and does untold damage to the knees. Apparently, many walkers have booked in for knee replacements immediately after this walk. It isn't hard – but it is relentlessly downhill.
Crawling back onto the bus at Ketetahi car park, we didn't speak. How could we? We had just had a life changing experience - all we could do was open a bottle of wine (or three) after which we could find the energy to brag about our day's exploits to each other back at the motel.
I can honestly say that thrill-seekers will feel as if they have taken Cocaine after this walk but we whimps will be hiring a helicopter next time.....but I must admit to feeling extremely smug that I had a go.....it was the experience of a life time and the photos are incredible.


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Monday: Skateboard, surf, doc-making maverick Stacy Peralta in town
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School begins Monday and we as parents are getting our first look at what public education in Craven County will be like this post-apocalyptic school year.
School begins Monday and we as parents are getting our first look at what public education in Craven County will be like this post-apocalyptic school year.
The first clue: During an open house on Thursday that Sarah and I attended with Mark (our rising third-grader), we found that his class will have to make do with 90 minutes of teacher assistance time a day instead of the full day. The school district had to cut a bunch of teacher assistant positions to comply with the budget imposed by Raleigh lawmakers. But lawmakers didn�t cut back on the amount of paperwork teachers still have to complete.
Just another signal of North Carolina�s race to the bottom in public education.
The second clue came while we were registering Mark to ride the school bus: There will be a whole lot more children riding the bus this year on his route. This could be due to the school district clamping down on inter-district transfers. I don�t have a problem with the clampdown, but I understand a lot of parents do.
The clampdown means that fewer students will attend desirable �B� elementary schools (Bangert, Ben D. Quinn, Bridgeton, Brinson and Bcreekside) and more will attend the other schools that some parents find less desirable.
Meanwhile, I am looking forward to planning higher education for my growing boys. My choices are, cancel retirement or saddle my sons with a decade worth of school loan payments.
People talk a lot about the sad state of affairs in America these days, longing for the good old days and at the same time demanding lower taxes.
Farmers warn against eating your seed corn � temporary relief, long-term disaster. That�s the state of North Carolina these days.
I was raised during those good old days. Taxes were higher then, and my first year of college, classes cost less than the books I bought for those classes. I earned my bachelor�s degree with part-time and summer jobs and some help from my parents, and graduated debt-free.
Seems like the society I grew up under was more interested in educating its children than the society under which my children live. When faced with lower taxes or better education, lower taxes win.
But enough grousing.
As the three of us entered the front door at Trent Park Elementary School on Thursday, the hallways gleamed and the faculty and staff joyously greeted the new and returning students. There was a glowing energy in those hallways and classrooms that can�t be faked and that lawmakers in Raleigh failed to defeat.
For a long time parents and school staff had to fill in the funding gaps for basic school supplies like dry erase markers (my teachers never had to ask my parents for chalk). With far fewer TAs, parents will have to step it up (even more) by volunteering in the classrooms and providing basic classroom supplies (even more).
So be it. Bring it on, Raleigh. I know where my children stand with you. You will not defeat us, and we will not forget you.
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"I am not a perfect man," Atlanta pastor Bishop Eddie Long told his New Birth Missionary Baptist Church flock Sunday, after saying he would fight like David against Goliath the civil claims that he used his pulpit power to coerce four young male parishioners into having sex.
The charges are uncomfortable for Mr. Long and his sprawling, internationally-known megachurch in Lithonia, Ga., which he built from 300 to 25,000 members with a unique brand of "muscular spirituality."
But more critically, black theologians say, the megachurch leader's decision both to deny the charges and claim fallibility in the eyes of God is part of a pervasive "don't ask, don't tell" reflex in the black church, where outwardly stated condemnations inhibit frank discussions about sexuality of any sort.
It's a situation that leads many blacks, by force of culture, religion and tradition, to live double lives: one in the church, and one at home.
"The true tragedy is the black church and its persistent inability to deal openly and frankly with matters of sexuality before [a scandal] where what comes to the surface is that which is underneath," says Kelly Brown Douglas, author of "Sexuality and the Black Church," which was published in 1999. "We have to ask ourselves, what are the structures, the systems, that create these kinds of inhibitions that prevent people from being able to express who they are openly and feel comfortable about it in the black community?"
The case isn't just of interest because of Long's alleged hypocrisy, with a large and influential church empire hanging in the balance, but because it's taking place in Atlanta, home to a number of conservative black megachurches as well as the largest population of gay blacks in the US.
That battle came to a head in 2006, when some prominent black leaders, including Julian Bond, then chairman of the NAACP, refused to attend the funeral of Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow, at New Birth, given the church's anti-homosexual stance. Ms. King was an outspoken defender of gay rights.
Mr. Bond, who previously served in both houses of the Georgia legislature, told the Georgia Voice gay newspaper on Saturday that he hoped that the allegations against Long would force many blacks to honestly confront their attitudes toward homosexuality.
"It's sad to say, but if the charges against Bishop Long are true, it's going to be a victory for gay rights in black America. A sad victory," Bond said.
On the other hand, the full-throated support of Long given by the New Birth congregation on Sunday hinted that the case will more likely polarize the black community – at least in the short-term.
"You're not going to convince black Christians to be more open to accepting homosexuality; it's always going to be 'don't ask, don't tell,'" says Shayne Lee, a Tulane University sociologist and author in 2009 of "Holy Mavericks: Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace." "Even when it's visible, like the rumors about choir directors, the view is, 'Hey, you're not going to come out, we'll accept you. We'll pretend that you're hetero and you love women, and we're not going to confront you.'"
"In the particular case of black Christian leaders, exiting the closet is absurdly akin to entering an inescapable dungeon," Mr. Lee, who is black, added in a commentary on CNN on Monday.
Unlike other gay groups, black gays are more likely to stay in their traditional churches over joining a more gay-friendly congregation, reinforcing a pattern of "self-loathing," Bond, the former NAACP chair, said Saturday.
"The unspoken agreement is that gay men get to act as Seraphim, so long as they are willing to shout in agreement as they are being flagellated from the pulpit. It's an indignity some gay men subject themselves to each and every Sunday. Why should they have to live this way?" Joshua Alston, a self-described member of Atlanta's black gay community, writes in Newsweek.
To many of his supporters, claims that Long quoted scripture to entice the four men into sexual acts is simply part of a longer-term campaign to falsely "out" Long in retaliation for his strident views against homosexuality. In 2005, Long was included on an internet "outing" campaign where bloggers pointed out the alleged hypocrisy of major black church figures condemning gays for their lifestyles.
In 2007, Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr., president of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, a conservative black Christian group, defended traditional religious views of many black congregants, telling The New York Times: "I see the growing gay movement in the black community and our culture as almost evangelistic in nature, with what's on television, with their legal agenda, all those things that have made homosexuality more acceptable."
Others are optimistic that the Long case will force black congregations to look more deeply into Biblical and historical perceptions of both gay and straight sex.
Ms. Douglas says the fear of sexuality in the black church harks to historic white oppression of blacks, where the black church came to internalize – and try to correct – white society's view of blacks as hypersexual.
"When you couple the historical narrative with a religious piece, this evangelical Protestant piece that things of the body are bad, you get this reticence to deal honestly and frankly with matters of sexuality," Douglas says. "Until the black church can more honestly deal with these matters of sexuality, we're going to continue to see these kind of issues erupt."


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The Micawber Chronicles
The Diary and Adventures of a Gentleman in Exotic Circumstances.
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Having recovered somewhat from the excesses of the Jubilee Thrash, and in particular from Cousin Marguerite's extraordinary return from Hell to the ranks of the blessed, the time has come to address the latter and various other pertinent matters with regard to Amblewick and its affairs.
Marguerite's re-conversion – or shall we say reversion – to our kind of sanity may or may not be a permanent affair, of course. Parsons is very much of the opinion that it is.
"Mrs Huntington-Smythe is a woman of considerable determination, Milord, and it is my understanding that such a change of attitude is the culmination of months of communion with herself. I think that Your Lordship will agree with me that she is not one to ask for advice or to listen to the arguments of other people. She trusts herself and herself alone. I believe we can therefore reasonably deduce that her recent change of heart may well be long-lasting. After all, Milord, for her to admit to herself that her outburst on the Terrace was mere sentimentality occasioned by temporary intoxication would be, in my view, entirely out of character and destructive to her opinion of herself – an unthinkable state of affairs. People who are always right, find it impossible, Milord, to submit to outside pressure or persuasion. Their decisions have to be their own – that is the law. For these reasons, I believe we can assume that the change of direction will be reasonably long-term."
"Come to think of it, old thing, if that's the case, the old girl could be quite a useful ally in the future – if we find ourselves in need of one…."
"Indeed, Milord, a most valuable secret weapon – if used with discretion, and infrequently. Such fire-power must never be overemployed. The fear factor must never be permitted to fade."
"One other thing's been puzzling me, Parsons, old scout. Why did you insist upon 'Micawber' as title for the Amblewick publicity outlet? Micawber? Why Micawber? "
"During my somewhat extensive career, Milord, I have long-since come to the conclusion that honesty is invariably the best policy."
With which mysterious reply he flits from the presence, so to speak.To my surprise his answer would re-occur to me throughout the day. Eventually it would give rise to extended reverie. The dogs and I have been warming our paws – to mingle the species a dash – before the library fire at Amblewick. Can't answer for the canines, but I've been musing a trifle on the why's and wherefore's of 'Micawber' as a 'nom de whatever-it-is' – rather than, say, 'Lancelot' or 'Quixote', or some other worthy, or perhaps indeed unworthy.
One shares nothing at all with Sir Lancelot du Lac. Apart from anything else, he was a knight in shining armour which we most definitely are not. There's also that slightly squalid and rather modernistic affair he undertook with his employer's wife - for which reason his relevance to 'Happy Isle' affairs has been excised by Charles Peyneer from his 'The Hysterical History of England'. We are both agreed that delivery of such a judgement would render it in extremely poor taste to take in vain his name to furnish the title of a mere 'blog' (dreadful word).
As for the estimable Don Quixote, the problem lies far more with Sancho Panza than with the Don himself. We would have been obliged to create an entirely different Sancho Panza in order to render the Don a suitable candidate for 'blogmeistership' in our cause.
Our Sancho would have to have been far more in the likeness of an amiable bank manager of the old school – such as the modest but heroic Mr Peak of Amblewick Saga fame. The worthy Mr Peak works in a most principled manner always to ensure that 'problems are soluble immediately – impossibilities taking a little longer'. He is also famous in the Castle annals for the following perceptive remark.
'The bank has the most frightful lot of money, and I can see no reason why you, Lord Amblewick, should not have access to some of it."
Mr Peak's somewhat cavalier attitude with regard to fiscal liquidity has enabled us to manage our affairs a great deal more effectively than would otherwise have been possible in these days of post-Bolshevik taxation and egalitarianism wherein the bank manager, as a friend and counselor, no longer exists - having been replaced by a myriad of characterless 'experts" and 'specialists' who take one glance at one's so-called 'credit-rating' and proceed to abuse and inconvenience one before dismissing one in favour of someone further down in the queue whose 'track-record' seems more worthy of their valuable time. One's brief interview with such people is invariably interrupted several times by private and extensive calls, on their 'mobiles' - to their friends and relations – as well as to more 'valued' customers.
No, the classical Sancho Panza would have been lost in his attempts to find solution to problems so foreign to his nature and awareness as ours. The trains of thought to which he would have been exposed at Amblewick would have been the harbingers of extreme mental and emotional distress in an individual of such modest aspiration and experience - whole thing a non-starter for a mere 'Esquire' - and mortal.
While we have been perusing the higher philosophical realms, Amblewick affairs have been proceeding more or less in their normal humdrum and rather predictable manner.
Julian appears to be glued, as has become his habit since our evening readings tooled-off, to "The Mouse and the Gang Saga". He's sprawled on the floor a dash across the room - near the gilded pineapple (or was it a pomegranate), which as yet he has not "sussed", as far as we can ascertain.
Tessa "The Nose" keeps him company – paw on knee, tongue in ear, as it were. We have previously introduced a few of you to "Tessa" in the first volume of the "Amblewick Saga". She is, however, blissfully unaware of the existence of such a document. Her primary concerns have always been 'Bendicks Bittermints', tea at four-thirty – with milk and two lumps of sugar - and considerably more comfort than is vouchsafed to us, her devoted friends and servitors.
Parsons (I gather from Julian - a mine of insider information) is in his pantry sampling a modest and well-deserved beak-full of 'the Talisker' and checking the field for the Ascot meeting. Jolly good show, what? One has to keep abreast of cultural essentials, don't you know?.
But where were we?
Ah yes – Micawber. Pretty sympathetic character, Mr M - staring ruin in the face and yet still quite certain that 'something will turn up!' Apart from being one of Mr Dickens' most well-drawn characters – he is familiar to all of us in 'real' life. We have all met him as he totters across our mental screens in his various disguises. Many of us have also experienced 'close-shaves' such as his on various recurrent occasions……..
And that, me dears, is the whole nub (knub?) of the matter. Fully aware that we at Amblewick are all a dash different in our priorities, backgrounds and expectations – but every darned one of us insists on 'survival come what blasted well may!'
Where there is hope there is possibility. When hope has fled – well – that's the end of the conversation, really, isn't it? – bugger that for a game of soldiers!
Never, never, never give up!" (Winston Spencer Churchill) - bless his stubborn great heart!
While we're at it, bugger the balls-up the world's various politicians are making on our behalves – and at our expense……. I mean to say, just look at the Middle-East! Look, indeed, at the entire World…..
Bugger also – to coin a phrase employed by His Late Majesty, King George V with reference to the Bishop (the precise Bishopric eludes one for the moment) – but yes, bugger….. What on Earth were we going to bugger next?
Ah, yes indeed, the tides of memory surge back.
Bugger any footling conviction that we cannot change the way things are.
The only fate there is, is the one we had foisted on us when we were very young by people who had probably had the same demoralizing rubbish foisted on them!
Or were they not so foisted, but part of a distinct and privileged super-group charged – like poor dear Marguerite - with the censuring of those less perfect than themselves?
"The Nose", I believe, is nodding – but then she would, wouldn't she – knowing what all great hounds know of the human race and negative re-enforcement? Try the noble Gelert for size!
At which point in my cogitation Julian's voice - that of a cheerful juvenile chainsaw – intrudes, chirpily enough one has to admit, upon one's philosophical peregrination.
"Eh? Guv?"
"Yes, old thing…..?"
"I reckon I've found 'me' in the 'Saga'.
"Good for you, old chap – and who might 'me' be?"
"Cor! That'd be telling, now wouldn't it?
"It would, indeed, old sport……."
And now, I confess to it, I believe I am asleep……..
Yes, that seems to be the way it is.……..
I say, have any of you guys ever taken off when you're asleep – and then accelerated like a rocket?
Coo-er! Cor! Try it sometime – it's wicked………!
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Digitizing and Preserving Our Family Archives
What we have come up with is that we need to categorize the stuff we have: letters, journals, writings, artifacts like dishes and pieces of furniture, pictures, and whatever else. Ann suggest we have several categories: the first category would be the materials of most immediate interest to family. The second category would be historical material like the writings of Uncle David about the Penrose Canal, Garland, and other such memorabilia. These writings will vanish when the current generation goes, likely, and yet so much information of historical value is contained in them that we need to save it. Third category would be other materials such as Grandpa Wasden's journals.
We would need to establish minimal quality control requirements for scanning in terms of dpi resolution and similar standards. Ann suggests that the minimal output should be CDs of the material each of us has and that these be made available to others. From there, people could print whatever they wanted to print. Some material, like Uncle David's writings, should be made available to the Park County Historical Society and the Wyoming State Historical Library. Liz has volunteered under my direction to contact the Wasden family and see what the proper thing to do is about these valuable writings.
For now, these suggestions are only the beginning. We need to discuss all of the possibilities open to us. We earnestly solicit ideas from any of our readers who have undertaken or thought about undertaking compilation of a family historical archive that goes beyond photos and family tree documents. Now, I am going to rest because it gives me a headache thinking about all of the work that everyone else is going to do. But I think we could make a contribution to our descendants and to ourselves by systematically preserving our heritage and our legacy. I think this is what we are supposed to do.
6 comments:
- Steve Blood said...
This is an incredible idea since I have very little.
- August 17, 2010 at 1:27 PM
- Dwight said...
Well actually, you have a lot. Written memories in some detail are part of the legacy and those are still in your head ready to come out on paper, so get with it (so to speak)
- August 17, 2010 at 2:44 PM
- Ann said...
I think we should start with the oldest family member, and when they/he/she have/has completed their part of the project, the next one should start. That way we can follow by example!
Seriously, I think this has potential. Many of the documents and treasures already appear on the blog. I will soon have the blog completely copied over into a word file and then it could be printed from there. Other treasures not on the blog, like the accounting book, I will get scanned and saved to a disc. Along with taking the photos of the marquetry, this should make for a good winter time project.
- August 18, 2010 at 9:04 AM
- Judy said...
dinnI still want to finish the project that Ann successfully started, that of photographing the marquetry that we each have. Then, I would be willing to work on this......I am so slooooow. But any and all gathering is good.
- August 19, 2010 at 9:33 AM
- Ann said...
That is a good idea, Judy. If we can get the photos of the marquetry that will be a good project to get completed.
Dwight, my offer still goes - I would love to come and go through your stuff with you. Besides, that way I would know what you have. It would be almost as much fun as imagining what was in your chest in your bedroom at Penrose, but probably not as disappointing.
Simplify, simplify, simplify.
- August 20, 2010 at 9:08 AM
- Dwight said...
- August 21, 2010 at 10:13 AM


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text: 01 Dec 2015 15:30 Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, today enhanced its presence in East Africa with the launch of new services between Dar es Salaam, the largest city in Tanzania and Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). On touching down at Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam, the inaugural flight was welcomed with a water-cannon salute, and a troupe of traditional Tanzanian dancers. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held to mark the auspicious occasion, which was attended by: Dr Shaaban Mwinjaka, Permanent Secretary, Tanzanian Ministry of Transport, Dr Adelhelm James Meru, Permanent Secretary Ministry of Tourism and Natural Resources, H.E. Mbarouk Nassor Mbarouk, Tanzanian Ambassador to the UAE, H.E. Abdullah Ibrahim Al Suwaidi, UAE Ambassador to Tanzania, and Daniel Barranger, Etihad Airways' Senior Vice President - Global Sales, Engineer Thomas Haule, Director, Julius Nyerere International Airport Dar es Salaam is Etihad Airways' third departure point in East Africa, along with Nairobi and Entebbe, and its ninth destination on the continent. Operated by a two-class Airbus A320 aircraft with 16 Business Class and 120 Economy Class seats, the new service is designed to provide business and leisure travellers with a direct daily service between Dar es Salaam and Abu Dhabi, with convenient onward connections to key destinations in the GCC region, Europe, Indian Subcontinent, North Asia, Southeast Asia and Australia. Mr Barranger said: "The launch of Etihad Airways' flights to Dar es Salaam is consistent with our strategy of targeting areas of strong growth in emerging markets. "Dar es Salaam is a wonderful destination for tourists seeking to experience the great culture and history of Tanzania, and provides the gateway to numerous national and international tourist attractions, including Mount Kilimanjaro, the wildlife-rich national parks of the Serengeti, and the spice island of Zanzibar. "The UAE is also a major trading partner with Tanzania and our new point-to-point services strengthen the two-way flow of trade and commerce between the two countries. The flight scheduling offers guests convenient onward connections, and caters for the strong traffic flows between Tanzania and key destinations across our global network, such as Ahmedabad and Mumbai in India or Beijing and Shanghai in China. "Not only does this service provide our guests with direct access to an exciting new business and tourism destination, it also further strengthens our presence in East Africa and across the African continent," he added. Etihad Airways has steadily grown its presence on the continent since the launch of its first service to Cairo in November 2004. Since then the airline has introduced services to Casablanca, Entebbe, Johannesburg, Khartoum, Lagos, Nairobi, and Mahé in the Seychelles, and plans to launch to Rabat in Morocco, mid-January 2016. Etihad Airways schedule for Dar es Salaam flights, effective 1 December 2015: Flgt no Org Dep Dest Arr Freq Aircraft EY681 Abu Dhabi 8:20 Dar es Salaam 13:00 Daily A320 EY682 Dar es Salaam 13:50 Abu Dhabi 20:15 Daily A320 Note: All departures and arrivals are listed in local time. Get in touch with us. Contact us Let us know what you think Send feedback Join our community Etihad Facebook Watch our latest videos Etihad YouTube Follow us Etihad Airways


text: Pre registration for the HAS conference (July 11-13 in Cookeville) ends June 19 that is the day after tomorrow. This is a national conference that just happens to be in my hometown - July 11-13, 2013 Tennessee Tech University Cookeville, TN - and its a great opportunity to learn no matter what your current skill level is. It's always a great conference so you should check it out.


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We hit the road on Americruise East
Every time we turn on the TV these days, there seems to be some kind of new crisis. Wars overseas, soaring gas prices, political turmoil, and more can often make it seem like the world is in chaos, which is why it felt so darn good to pound a little pavement on the '03 Americruise East. There's nothing quite like having the wind in your hair, the sun at your back, and the sight of a few dozen gleaming rods and customs snaking around the bend to remind you how great this country truly is. After touring through six states in five days on some of prettiest backroads and turnpikes this land has to offer, we can safely say that the inaugural Eastern tour was a success.
Since 2003 marked the 10th Anniversary of Americruise, which historically has ended up in a central location like Lincoln, Nebraska, the powers that be here at R&C headquarters decided to double everyone's fun and create a second tour, which would kick off in the Lone Star State in San Antonio and head east, through the Deep South, and end up in beautiful Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Jack Chisenhall and Rick Love of Vintage Air agreed to lead the tour (two out of four R&C editors are directionally challenged), and more than 50 cars were originally signed up for the two-lane chingo. It seems word caught on a little faster than anticipated, however, as a flood of people showed up at the Vintage Air kickoff party on Saturday, August 9th, hoping to sign on at the last minute. Our publisher extraordinaire De Ette Crow (who helped start this crazy event in the first place) got things handled, and by the end of the evening everyone was enjoying the great tunes and cool rods that permeated the party.
The next morning things kicked off early with a pre-trip drivers' meeting, where our faithful leader Rick Love explained the route ahead before hopping in his flamed blue Ford and hitting the highway. If you somehow got the idea that this is some kind of leisurely stroll through the countryside, think again. Speeds averaged over 70 mph, with a few of the participants upping the stakes quite a bit higher. In fact, that first day on our way to the lunch stop at So-Cal Speed Shop Texas, just outside Houston, a certain blown Willys and his orange highboy driving buddy were snagged by the smokies traveling well into the triple digits.
After scoping out some super-sano rods at the newest So-Cal Speed Shop, the group continued east to Lake Charles, Louisiana, where we spent the night at the Isle of Capri hotel, situated next to a giant riverboat loaded with slot machines and gaming tables. Apparently, in Louisiana gambling is only legal on riverboats, which made for an entertaining evening. It should be noted here that yours truly was driving the recently completed Real Hot Rod, which had approximately 20 miles on it before leaving for the tour. Things went smoothly that first day, until we pulled into the hotel parking lot where the shifter came off in my hand. After half an hour of thrashing in the Louisiana heat, things were buttoned back up with the help of Jim Rizzo and famed rod builder Roy Brizio, and your now-humble tech editor learned a valuable lesson about using Loctite on everything.
We awoke on a steaming Monday morning and headed off toward our lunch stop in Baton Rouge, hitting a few serious storm cells along the way. This was the first heavy rain of the trip, but certainly not the last. At one point the route took us over an elevated highway that spanned over 50 miles of bayou marshland, and it was without question a gorgeous and eerie sight. After arriving in Baton Rouge, the entire group took a tour of the USS Kidd, a retired Fletcher class destroyer moored on the Mississippi, that is available for tours. After inspecting the small, dank quarters where many men had to spend their nights during the heat of war, all agreed that the upholstery-lined cockpit of a street rod looks downright luxurious. After scoping out the Kidd and munching down piles of gourmet Southern cookin', the group continued east on its trek toward the night stop in Meridian, Mississippi. Along the way we lost a few participants who had to get back to the realities of work and school but picked up quite a few more at each fuel and food stop. We also noticed dozens of bystanders waiting at freeway overpasses and turnouts to get a glimpse of what has become an incredibly rare sight: a mile-long snake of brightly colored hot rods screaming down the highway in a search for fun and freedom.
The next morning after the drivers' meeting, the majority of the Americruisers headed off toward Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the folks at Coker Tire were waiting with a full tour of their amazing facilities, box lunches for all, and a quick glimpse at Corky Coker's astounding collection of old iron. The "roadster gang," consisting of Jim Rizzo in the So-Cal Speed Shop roadster, Roy Brizio in the R&C 50th Anniversary Deuce, and Ray Lark in his gorgeous orange '33 roadster agreed to stay behind when the new-car gremlins cropped up once again in the form of a sticky kingpin on this author's '28 Lakes Modified. A quick trip to Wal-Mart for a grease gun and a sweaty 90 minutes later and we were on the road chasing the group and having a great time doing it. Day Three of the tour ended with a party at Lokar in Knoxville, Tennessee, where company owners Skip and Debbie Walls, along with VP Rick Craze, were gracious enough to not only put on a full spread for the Americruisers but open up their shop for quick maintenance and repairs as well.
The following day was one of the shortest driving days of the trip, with the route taking us north as well as east. After leaving Knoxville, the group headed into Virginia, where we were treated to the sight of gorgeous rolling green hills and clear skies, as well as slightly more tolerable weather for the open-air gang. That afternoon the citizens of Harrisonburg, Virginia, welcomed the group into town with a car show at the local mall, hosted by the local car club Valley Cruisers. After a great evening of Southern hospitality and cool cars, everyone hit the sack early in preparation for the final day of driving. Day Five, the home stretch, was also one of the most interesting. A quick jaunt north landed the tour in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, where Ken "Posies" Fenical opened up the doors to his laboratory and let everyone take a gander at the latest doings in his style-conscious rod shop. Many of Posies' wild rides were on display, and after a lengthy tour the group headed over to a '50s-themed diner, called The Soda Jerk, for lunch. The final stop on the tour was just up the road in Hershey, where the Antique Automobile Club of America recently opened an enormous museum dedicated to the preservation of the rolling art form we all know and love. A few participants (myself included) also elected to head across the street to the Hershey Chocolate complex, which houses not only the factory but a complete facilities tour and chocolate-themed amusement park as well. Finally, a scenic two-hour drive north landed us in Danville, which played host to the Americruise participants while the show kicked off up the road in Bloomsburg.
The actual Americruise East show that took place in historic Bloomsburg was a load of fun for all involved, and while the focus of this event was the drive, kicking back at the lush fairgrounds was a great way to unwind after five solid days of hard driving. The people of Bloomsburg welcomed Americruisers into town as if we were celebrities, even coming out for a parade prior to the opening of the show.
All in all, the inaugural Americruise East was considered a fantastic success. Killer cars, wonderful people, and some of the most breathtaking scenery in the country helped make memories and form friendships that will last for years. If any of this sounds good to you, follow our lead and go for a road trip. Enjoy your rod or custom by wringing it out on the blacktop. Better yet, look for upcoming details on 2004's events and join us!


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DAW Day 2: The Australian Magpie
DAW? Dangerous Animals Week, of course! To celebrate our new Dangeroz app (available in the App Store Tuesday) we're featuring a different animal each day.
DangerOz will be available to download from the App Store on Tuesday, 20th September
If you've been following the news of late, you may have heard of some unlucky Sydney residents being attacked by Magpies outside their local shopping centre. It's well known that some Magpies become much more territorial in the breeding season, the peak being August to November.
During this time, they're primarily looking to defend their nest and newborn. Magpies construct their nests in the outer branches of trees and these can be up to 15 metres about the ground.
Swooping on intruders, including humans, does tend to trigger some debate over whether the birds are actually aggressive or defensive.
Arguments aside, Magpies have a beautifully individual call. Their song is loud, lyrical and flute-like. They often perform as a duet or in groups.
They also have very distinctive features. Their feathers are black and white, but the plumage pattern does vary across the animal's distribution range. The eye of the adult bird is chestnut brown.
No matter how you categorise this bird's behaviour (at certain times of the year), it does possess some beautiful attributes.
So when out and about this Spring, remember: be alert not alarmed.
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- We rate this animal as a 4/10 Danger Rating. Why?
- During mating season, pets and humans watch out!
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Washington, D.C. (October 13, 2011) — Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) President and CEO John Castellani released the following statement on the passage of the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement:
"PhRMA is pleased that the Congress has passed the Korea Free Trade Agreement. This agreement recognizes the 60 years of partnership between our two countries and the important national security ties that we share. The agreement will play a key role in strengthening the U.S. economy and increasing American jobs and exports.
"PhRMA has long viewed the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement as an important opportunity for Korean patients to access biopharmaceutical medicines produced in the United States. With rising living standards and increasingly sophisticated access to information, Korean patients, like patients everywhere, want access to the most advanced medical treatments.
"We believe this Agreement, particularly the transparency and intellectual property provisions, represents a 21st century standard that should be a model for other agreements, such as the Trans Pacific Partnership.
"Korea is an important market for the U.S. research-based pharmaceutical companies, a country where we currently enjoy a trade surplus. This agreement will contribute directly to increased U.S. exports and the expansion of highly skilled, well-paying jobs here in the U.S."
View the 'America's Research-Based Biopharmaceutical Industry Supports the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement' fact sheet.
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Earlier I was setting up a PXE boot server that was connected to two networks and wanted to hand out DHCP addresses only on the second interface which in this case was eth1. The primary interface on the server is eth0 however that Ethernet port is attached to a switch that already has a DHCP server connected to it so I needed to make sure that the DHCP server only replies to requests on eth1. Use the dhcpd.conf configuration option below to specify the Ethernet interface that dhcpd will listen for and reply to DHCP and/or BOOTP requests.


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Noel P. Amstead Papers
An Inventory of the Collection
Biographical Note
Noel P. Amstead was born on December 15, 1895 in Austin, Texas. His father, Joe Amstead Sr., was the proprietor of the Cuban Cigar Manufacturing Company in Austin. He mother was Maggie Schroeder Amstead. Noel was active in the Boy Scouts of America and worked as an Assistant Scoutmaster and Scoutmaster for the organization. He is credited for being involved in the Field Day event at Pease Park with Austin Troop #1 on February 12, 1916. Amstead married Martha Boerner in the early 1920s. Martha was born in Travis County on December 31, 1897. She worked as the treasurer of the Texas Congress of Parents & Teachers for much of her career.
Martha died January 25, 1989 and Noel followed her on December 31, 1992.
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The collection consists of a combination of personal items and materials related to the Boy Scouts of central Texas. Among the personal items are family photographs, some of which were taken at 503 W. 15th Street, the house next door to where Noel grew up. The majority of the correspondence is from Noel to Martha Boerner during the years 1917-1921, the time period directly preceding their marriage. Additionally there are multiple newspaper clippings about the death of Capt. George H. Cantrell in 1925. Lastly, there are membership cards certifying Noel's membership in the Alpha Ro Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega in the 1930s and three unidentified metal identification tags.
The Boy Scouts series contains a scrapbook of newspaper clippings about Boy Scout events and news in the Austin area from 1922-1927. There is also a folder of newspaper clippings that are organized by month for the year 1928 that were most likely intended to be part of the scrapbook. Some of the pages of the scrapbook were in poor condition and those pages were photocopied to preserve the information and added to the collection. Also included are photographs of Boy Scout events taken in the 1910s and 1930s. In addition there are membership cards certifying Noel's membership in the Austin Area (Capitol Area) Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
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Restrictions on Access
Open to all users.
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Administrative Information
Custodial History
Materials were dontated by Helga Curtis, who found them in a garage.
Preferred Citation
Noel P. Amstead Papers (AR.2009.069). Austin History Center, Austin Public Library, Texas.
Acquisition Information
Donor #: DO/2009/057
Donation Date: 2009
Processing Information
Scrapbook is in very poor condition and is in the queue to be preservation photocopied and will be discarded once this project is complete.
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This lecture will give an overview of some relations between modular forms, especially their Fourier coefficients, and the geometry and arithmetic of ball quotients Y = G\D, where D is the unit ball in Cn and G is an arithmetic subgroup of the unitary group U(n,1). Such quotients Y are quasi-projective varieties with many special algebraic cycles arising as quotients Zx = Gx \Dx of sub-balls Dx Ì D.
By results of old joint work with John Millson, the generating series for the cohomology classes determined by suitable collections of such cycles are modular forms for unitary groups UU(r,r). This gives an analogue of the seminal results of Hirzebruch-Zagier on generating series for divisors on Hilbert modular varieties.
Recently, in joint work with Michael Rapoport, we define arithmetic analogues of the cycles Zx by utilizing the fact that the ball quotients Y can be viewed as the complex points of moduli schemes for abelian varieties. We conjecture that the classes in arithmetic Chow groups defined by suitable collections of such cycles are, again, the Fourier coefficients of certain modular forms.
I will discuss some evidence for this conjecture, particularly for the case of arithmetic 0-cycles.


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Editor: Signature HealthCare of Trimble County celebrated Nurses Week on May 6 and CNA Week, June 14-18. The residents and stakeholders at Signature would like to thank the following people for a job well done: Pam Larimore, Brenda Largen, Carolyn Colbert, Nellie Hewitt, Jessica Dukes, Jo Adkins, Randi Fitzgerald, Becca Hewitt, Barbara Jone
Editor: When I think of what I am most proud of, it is driving along U.S. Hwy. 42, taking me through each county in the 26th District and enjoying the beauty of horse farms along the way. Their important roles in Kentucky's signature industry have always been taken for granted by me, until the last few years. The thoroughbred business and horse racing in Kentucky are in dee
Editor: Those of you that go to the "city" for medical care need to pay attention. We have a jewel of a hospital in Carrollton. We have had the misfortune of having immediate family members in three or four hospitals in Louisville and every hospital in Lexington, plus Madison, Ind. and La Grange. Our 16 day stay in Carroll Co
Editor: You may have heard of Tona Barkley because she and her husband, John Harrod, are local musicians who perform throughout the region. Another reason you may know her is because she is on the ballot to serve as a director of Owen Electric Cooperative. We have known Tona for more than 30 years. She is an intelligent, hardworking an
Editor: On May 1, we held the first annual "Leaping for Connor and Dane" a fundraiser put on for our sons, Connor and Dane who have a rare genetic disease called Fanconi Anemia. It was a huge success thanks to our great family, friends and community. Special thanks to the following for helping to make this happen: National Guar
Editor: To the voters of District 2, your support in the May 18 Primary Election is greatly appreciated. I also appreciate the kindness shown during the campaign, as I always enjoy visiting and talking with each of you. Thanks, also, to those of you who were kind enough to let me display my campaign signs, those who came by and those who phoned. I am grateful to my family, who
Editor: Why did your newspaper have an article in the Wednesday, May 12 issue regarding The Moving Wall Memorial, yet no information in your Wednesday, May 19 issue - not even in the Community Calendar? For Carroll County to host this extraordinary memorial replica should have been front page of your paper since it was the day before the wall's arrival. While detai
Editor: When I think of what I am most proud of, it is driving along Hwy. 42, taking me through each county in the 26th District and enjoying the beauty of horse farms along the way. Their important roles in Kentucky's signature industry have always been taken for granted by me, until the last few years. The thoroughbred business and
Editor: One of the lessons we all should have been learning through the last couple years is that large corporate enterprises can run extremely askew from the public interest. We have even seen them operate against their own best interests as their executives helped themselves to personal financial rewards while steering their companies into
Saturday's going to prove to be a challenging day for one of our community's most important annual events — the Carroll County River Sweep.
Editor: Worthville Christian Church would like to thank the surrounding communities for the outpouring of donations for our yard sale we held May 29. We would also like to thank everyone who came to support or just to visit our church. We raised several hundred dollars that will go toward much needed repairs
Editor: The Medride Program in Carrollton is in need of volunteers. It is operated out of the Senior Center on Sixth Street and the van is parked in front of the center. Volunteer drivers take seniors to medical appointments, usually to Madison, Ind., La Grange, Louisville and occasionally to Campbellsburg or Warsaw. We could use more retir
"If I have to tell you one more time to stop it, I'm gonna turn this car around and we'll go back home!" How many times do we remember that threat – made by our exasperated parents – when we, as children, were behaving badly on a trip in the car? Well, I'm starting to feel like the parent of naughty chil
Editor: Trimble County Youth League Baseball would like to say thank you to Jason Ginn, Jeffrey Scott and Shelby Energy for helping us make our fields brighter at the Trimble County Park. On June 3, Jason and Jeffrey used a bucket truck to replace faulty bulbs and to adjust lamp assemblies to provide the best possible lighting for our games. This would not have been possible wi
Editor: The Carroll County Chamber of Commerce thanks all sponsors, volunteers, and players who made our annual golf scramble a success. Also congratulations to the winning team of Elige Woodall, Ed Goode, Doug McLane and Jim Sesher. Our sponsor's this year were: Naming — First National Bank; and platinum
Editor: As the red buds have faded and the scent of lilacs have waned, the oaks, locust and walnuts have sprouted their leaves again, it can only mean one thing at the John T. Ray Complex in Robert Westrick Memorial Park. That one thing is the sound from the umpire… "play ball" and America's pastime, like the bird
Editor: The management, staff, and clients of New Horizons Assisted Living would like to thank Ghent Fire Department Assistant Chief Robert Hofmman and his dedicated volunteers for the quick and professional response to a fire alarm here at our facility. We are thankful that we did not have a fire, however, a malfunction in one o
Several weeks ago, we received a "poem" – for lack of a better word – that just recently was included in a mass-mailing aimed at Trimble County voters.
Whether the individual or group who sent it to our office meant for it to be published, I don't know. But, we didn't – for two reasons.
Editor: This is in regard to the lovely poem surfacing in our community mailboxes about two of our magistrates and judge. Why do we personally have to attack people? Why couldn't the person or persons responsible for it sign their name at the bottom of it? Or use the correct names of the three people? Do you know these people personally? Do you care if they have famili
Editor: The Pioneer Power Club held it's 8th annual Antique Tractor and Engine Show on May 7-9. It was a show for all tractor enthusiasts and has grown steadily in the last eight years. This year we grew to a total of 201 tractors and antique gas engines, There was a petting zoo, crafts, live demonstrations, kiddie pedal tr
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We recently purchased a Roku Digital Video Player at our office and have been experimenting with it. The Roku remote is very simple with minimal buttons which is nice in most scenarios but whenever you have to type anything into the Roku it is fairly annoying that there is not a keyboard available. To resolve that issue and require you to have one less remote on your coffee table it is worth checking out DVPRemote which is an iPhone application that lets you take full control of your Roku device. Below is more information regarding DVPRemote including some of the benefits of this iPhone application.


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