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Sri-Chol (Sheree) Mickey-Brown, 47, of Hillsboro died Thursday at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita.
She worked at the Social Rehabilitation Services office in Harvey County.
Born Dec. 16, 1965, in Bangkok, Thailand, she married Elmer Mickey on Sept. 11, 1998, in Newton. He survives along with her parents, Jack E. and Porn (Chanthorn) Frist of Sierra Vista, Ariz.; a brother, Jeremiah Frist of California; a sister, Jenifer Fletcher of Lodiburg, Ky.; and a son, Mathew Brown of Washington D.C.
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From the mid-1980s to 2000, Kaplan was the president and an owner of Kay Chemical Company, the leading manufacturer of cleaning and sanitation products for the fast food industry worldwide. Kaplan sold the company to Ecolab in the mid-1990s. Kaplan remained with Kay and served on Ecolab's senior management team until stepping down at the beginning of 2000. Earlier in his career, Kaplan worked as a corporate tax and banking attorney for Caplin & Drysdale in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, Kaplan worked as a judicial clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals (11th Circuit) in Georgia.
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Louis Heilprin Pollak, 89, a U.S. District Judge who, as a young lawyer, played a key role in litigation leading to school desegregation, died May 8 of congestive heart failure at his home in Mt. Airy.
Judge Pollak, who also had been dean of the law schools at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, was widely known for his fairness and humanity on the bench. Judge Guido Calabresi, a former student who succeeded him as dean of Yale's Law School, said Judge Pollak had "that quality of nuance and subtlety that sees everything from every point of view."
Judge Pollak graduated from Harvard College and, after serving in the Army during World War II, received his law degree from Yale University, where he was editor of the law review.
He began his legal career as a clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge from 1949 to 1951. Here he became close friends with William Coleman, the former U.S. Transportation Secretary, who was also serving a clerkship at the court.
The friendship continued when the two men joined the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison. Practicing commercial law during the day, they spent their evenings in Harlem developing legal strategies at the offices of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
They assisted civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall, who would become the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court justice, in writing briefs and preparing oral arguments for the Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation case.
Judge Pollak later would become a board member and vice president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Before becoming a judge, he was well known for civil-rights and civil-liberties law, which became a focus of his teaching and scholarly interests.
He served as dean of Yale Law School from 1965 to 1970, and as dean of Penn's law school from 1975 until he was appointed to the federal bench in Philadelphia in 1978 by President Jimmy Carter. He was named a senior judge in 1991. During his time on the bench, he presided over a wide variety of cases and issues.
Judge Legrome Davis, of Mt. Airy, a friend and a colleague of Judge Pollak on the Eastern District bench, called the judge "one of the most special people I've been fortunate to meet."
"He had extraordinary human compassion and was always looking for the good and the positive," Davis said. "I never heard him utter a cross word."
Davis said Judge Pollak saw the law "as a tool to affect the larger good," adding that his friend "was so unassuming that you'd never suspect he was the legal giant that, in fact, he was."
John E. Savoth, chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association, said Judge Pollak "had a tremendous influence on the quality of justice in the Eastern District."
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Raised in Manhattan, Judge Pollak was the son of Walter Pollak, a prominent civil rights lawyer who had helped to defend nine black men charged with rape in the notorious Scottsboro Boys case.
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A panel discussion held in New York City at the National Society for College and University Planning's 2012 North Atlantic Regional Conference.
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From green roofs to high-functioning outdoor spaces, RIT's Global Village transforms into a sustainable campus gathering place.
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Broadcasting and Orchestra Libraries
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The Broadcasting and Orchestra Libraries Section exists to support the work of members who work in the libraries of broadcasting institutions and performing ensembles, and all librarians who deal with performance materials. Subjects within the Section's remit relate to the day-to-day work of managing collections of performance materials, such as copyright, rental/hire of music, music publishing and new technologies. Whilst attending a congress the Section may take the opportunity to arrange a visit to a local broadcasting, orchestral or opera library.
Our sessions at the congresses always include a visit to a local broadcasting, orchestral or opera library, and a members' working session gives the opportunity to raise issues of concern to our section, offer support and share information. Recent issues raised have been cataloguing software, hire tariffs, copyright law, the effect of computer technology on the employment of copyists and collaborative initiatives within countries.
The open session often includes presentations by a major music publisher, usually covering the subject of music hire, and by a local member who speaks about their own library, and matters of concern to them. We have also heard recently about the work of composer institutes (Martinu) and of MOLA, with whom we continue to foster close links.
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The biennial show of American Meat Institute and International Dairy Foods Assn. is Oct. 28-31 in Chicago.
It only comes around once every two years, but this is the year for Worldwide Food Expo, which calls itself the world's largest food & beverage technology event in North America. Essentially co-located events -- the AMI International Meat, Poultry & Seafood Industry Convention and Exposition and the IDFA Food, Dairy & Beverage Expo – the show will be Oct. 28-31 at Chicago's McCormick Place.
While a few ingredient suppliers may sneak in, it's primarily a processing and packaging show that still has heavy influence from its sponsoring trade associations: the International Dairy Foods Assn. and the American Meat Institute.
The sponsors expect 20,000 visitors, 900 exhibitors taking up some 500,000 sq. ft. of space and more than 75 conference sessions, including technical workshops and plant operations short courses. Subjects will include sustainability, food safety, consumer trends, product development, business fundamentals and regulatory updates.
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Seeing first hand the wrath and destruction of a natural disaster does not set well with most people. For me, that holds true. I had anticipated seeing the occasional tree down, awning gone, and light pole bent. However, I had no idea what to expect nor did I have any method to prepare for what I saw in Pass Christian, Mississippi.
On October 13, when we arrived on the Mississippi Gulf coast, reality hit me. Hard. Until this point, I was accustomed to seeing the news feeds and images during Hurricane Katrina. I was no longer in my comfort zone sitting on my bed watching the coverage. Now, I was interacting amongst one of Katrina's most heavily hit regions. Yes, I had heard on FOX, CNN, and ABC how bad the devastation of the hurricane was, but in reality I had no idea. That changed for me, though, when I was down on the coast seeing that coverage in person.
That Thursday, the 13th, we unpacked all of our gear and then became acquainted with the Americorp team. Just a few short minutes after listening to protocol, 15 Wabash students were put to work. The city, the National Guards, and the relief contractors had recently finished constructing the temporary hard-back tents. They resembled the ones most commonly seen on M.A.S.H. For those familiar with the military life, they know what I am describing. Each of the tents needed four bed frames accompanied by four mattresses, so we hauled the frames and mattresses from the storage units and put them into the tents. After about five hours of that, the team had us visit the distribution center.
The trip from camp (located at the city's Memorial Park on the Gulf of Mexico) to the distribution center gave us our first glimpse of damage on a city scale.
One of the most common images was that of houses on cars. There was not a day went by that we did not see such calamity. Unfortunately, this "image" was one of many. As the bus drove to the distribution center I looked out the window and saw nothing but destroyed homes, homes off foundations, or homes gone completely. An eerie feeling overcame me when I looked at a set of porch steps leading to nothing. It was not uncommon to see homes collided into one another. Homes that were thrown into streets were bulldozed to make the city accessible leaving half of a home on the left side of the road and the other on the right. The closer we got the aid center the worse things appeared to be.
On the distribution center's north side, there once stood a Shell gas station. Here, an entire house was juxtaposed between the price sign and the station itself. Roughly, seventy-five percent of the home was completely under the station awning. This did not settle easy with any of us. The east side of the center was once home to a Dollar General Store. I peeked through remnants of a door and saw a partial roof with inventory thrown throughout the inside like snow in a snow globe. After assessing the damage, we became familiar with the distribution process.
For those wondering, the distribution center provided such things as shovels, toiletries, tools, canned foods, cereals, and medicines, all the way to ice and canned water.
The second and third day of the trip, too, allowed us to assess the damage of 'Pass' (as the locals call it). On day two, we hauled lumber for the city to a secure location. That provided yet another chance to view more of Katrina's wrath. It was the same sight: houses shredded apart like cotton, houses missing, roofs collapsed. Then we drove by Pass Christian High School, or at least what is left of it. The frontal brick facade of the school remained, but the entire middle section had disappeared providing access to a cross section of the school's north side. Outside the school, schools buses were tossed about like old toys. Some were smashed into others while others were drove into the ground.
The third day of helping affected me more than the other two. This day we mucked. Mucking is the term used to describe the process of tearing the interior of a house out. It is essentially the gutting of flooded house. We spent the day at the home of an elderly woman who had lost all the contents of her home to flooding. Her house is five miles from the coast, but as a result of the surge, ten feet of water stormed her region with bay water. She and her son stayed at the home during the storm. She told me that they went to top of the carport and then into the attic after the winds picked up and a section of it blew off. For two days, she said, they survived off vienna sausage and containers of water. She went on to tell me the story of her neighbor, an elder woman bed-ridden with Alzheimer's Disease. Her caretakers could not leave the woman, so they also endured the storm. They carried the women outside and laid her on her mattress. As the flood waters rose the mattress floated. When the mattress was roof height, they pulled the woman and mattress onto the roof. Hearing such a drastic survival story made me emotional numb. This surrealistic feeling grew as the day progressed.
I contribute most of my emotional instability to the fact that we were destroying the home of a women who had lived there since 1962. She raised two sons in the house, and it was also the place where her husband died. To make it worse, she was there watching us do this. I could not get the notion out of my mind that we were stripping the inside of this woman's home while she was watching. I tell people it doesn't matter how "big of a person" you think you are, this type of work will play havoc on the emotions of anyone. It did me, and it sparked a great deal of self reflection for me.
The time I spent in Pass Christian during the fall of 2005 will never leave my mind. I had the gracious opportunity to help fellow Americans in dire need of aid. This, is very self rewarding. Yes, I donated money to the various charities, but to be actually, physically helping rose things to a new level. I met amazing, grateful people thankful for everything being done to rebuild there small, coastal town. I got to know several Wabash men determined to help Pass with 110 percent effort. We were all there for a common cause - helping those in need. The woman who we aided in hauling out flood damaged dry-wall has become someone I will never forget. I urge others to continue their relief contributions as there is still a lot to be done in the Mississippi Gulf coast region of this great country. After seeing the spirit of Wabash students rising to, in the words of President Andy Ford, "help foster the essence of civilization as responsible citizens," I know people will continue support.
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You know, as much as I rag on Scott Neitlich (ToyGuru) for his efforts on the Justice League Unlimited action figure line, I have to give him the ultimate props on what he's done with DC Universe Classics. This line is what the Super Powers line could have been had it lasted, say, as long as Star Wars did and produced 100+ figures instead of the 34 that SP eked out in 3 years back in the mid-1980′s.
If there's one thing I respect, it's passion. Scott and the Four Horsemen have translated their passion for Super Powers into action and not only re-created all (the rest are coming, folks) of the characters that Kenner came out with, but they also have applied that same vision to making the line that Kenner might have produced if they started development in 2007 instead of 1982.
I know a lot of you will hate this idea, but I'd absolutely LOVE them to make a Quadrex, Shockwave, or Silicon in DC Universe Classics. A lot of the proposed Wave 4 characters have already been produced (Man-Bat, Vigilante, Blue Devil, Bizarro, John Stewart, Deathstroke), as well as some of the new deluxe "Power Plus" line that would have debuted in 1987 (Zan, Jayna). Their passion certainly fuels mine in collecting DCUC, and it spills over into the other characters in that line. Case-in-point :
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The Winning Way by Harsha Bhogle and Anita Bhogle marries two fields which even though are very different, they share the same set of core attributes. Management and Sports do not seem to have any relation, but they share many common traits. Instead of me trying to explain, I'll copy-paste part of the book's synopsis:
What do sporting champions do, what makes winning teams, who is a good leader, why do only some teams keep winning while others win only for a while and then lose… The authors dig into examples from sport to see how they can benefit managers… Contrary to popular perception ability is not a major distinguishing factor in success, especially as the level of competition increases.
I have always stayed clear of management books, unless you count the autobiographers of industrialists and pioneers in their fields; I have never been able to enjoy those books as jargon, the heavy words often make the reading laborious. The Bhogles saw that there was a connection between sports and management, and there would rarely be a person who does not understand sports. And this management book borrowed the language of sports, and it is a very easy read.
Sports anecdotes are always fun, and in this book the authors take tales from Cricket, Tennis, Golf, and even Basketball at times among other sports and find a connect between attaining your goals, leadership, winning, sustaining the winning habit, and more importantly – losing. The Australian team of the past decade finds frequent references thanks to their incessant victories, Sachin Tendulkar is mentioned more times than any other individual (deservedly so), Martina Navratilova, Lance Armstrong, Pete Sampras, Steve Waugh, Bjorn Borg, Michael Jordon crop up frequently when the authors are talking about the successful brands and how they achieved their success.
Since I have never had the stomach for management books, I've to admit, that there were times when I was reading for the sports anecdotes instead of the management funda, but then I guess this is the aim of the authors – make people relate to sports and through that help gain insight for management.
The book's subject is very different from Harsha Bhogle's earlier book "Out of the Box", but even this one is an equally engrossing read. Anyone who reads management books, must pick up The Winning Way.
Addendum: This is a requested review. I was contacted by the authors'/publisher's PR agency to review the book.
Manually Generated Related Link: Review of Out of the Box.


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Elite guild on the rise, looking for serious fighters to level this young guild
to the max, right now the only benefits is what you earn on the battle field.
bonuses will come later by staying active. level 5 & up are welcome. with
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An economist would be irresponsible not to decry the war on drugs. There are a number of economic problems with the war on drugs. I'll go through them paragraph by paragraph.
Economists have known for some time that it's very difficult to stop willing buyers from buying from willing sellers. Whenever you try to do this, you end up with a black market. The trouble with a black market is that they are not efficient. Competition is reduced. Transaction costs increase. Advertising is impossible (one might as reasonably put the handcuffs on oneself).
We are told that illegal drugs are addictive, so that there are no drug users, only drug addicts. If this is true, then the demand for drugs will not be sensitive to price. We are also told that one of the reasons to make drug possession and use illegal is to drive up the price to discourage people from using drugs. Well duh, this conflicts with the very principle of price insensitivity. Either people are addicted and will pay whatever is necessary, or else people will reduce their drug use in the face of higher prices. Somebody's lying to us about drugs.
Prosecuting drug distribution causes the job to have two sources of profit: buying drugs at wholesale prices and selling them at retail prices (same as any other business), and accepting a business risk. The risk, of course, is that one's business will be destroyed by the county prosecutor. People have to be compensated for taking a risk, otherwise they won't take the risk. As a consequence, being a drug dealer is quite a profitable business. When a county prosecutor destroys one drug business, those profits seek other vendors. Jailing a drug dealer doesn't reduce the supply of drugs -- it just creates a job opening.
The courts will use the violence of the state to enforce private property rights. It's illegal to steal, rob, or burgle. If someone commits such a crime against you, you can go to the court and seek recourse. There are also civil offenses. If you have a contract with someone to supply a service, and they break that contract, you can sue them in the public courts. This only works for legal goods. Obviously, if you're selling something which is illegal, the courts will not enforce the law.
Fortunately, the violence of the state is used many more times in theory than in practice. Not so for drug dealers. Because they cannot use the proxy violence of the state to enforce their property rights, they must use actual violence. If they make an agreement with a drug wholesaler, and that agreement is broken, they have no choice but to use their guns to decide the issue.
Illegal drug use is what is called a "victimless crime". That doesn't mean that people are not victimized; merely that they do so to themselves. Society has no specific source of income to address victimless crimes. The victim has no incentive to pay to stop themselves because they chose that harm. Therefore, stopping victimless crimes must be paid for by a tax on the general public. If, on the other hand, drugs were legal, they could be taxed, and those taxes used to pay for those people who were truly addicted and needed help to stop.
For all these reasons, and others, economists won't like the war on drugs.


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How Might Japan's Natural Disaster Affect the Energy Sector?
It is still too early to estimate with much precision the quantitative impacts of the devastating events in Japan on the global energy sector, as well as the effects on energy and economic activity in Japan. Nevertheless, some qualitative conclusions can be drawn about the near and medium effects on Japanese and global energy balances. Much more difficult and speculative are judgments about the effect of the nuclear accident that resulted from the natural disaster on the longer-term energy picture.


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Domeland Wilderness
IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Domeland Wilderness (map) in 1964 and it now has a total of 133,720 acres. All of this wilderness is located in California and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service.
DescriptionExtremely rugged country with sparse vegetation, the original Domeland Wilderness was known for its many granite domes and unique geological formations. Additions were made in 1984, primarily on the north side, including a large basin surrounded by rock formations that comprises a gentler region with mixed conifers and wet meadows. The California Desert Protection Act of 1994 added land to the east (and a little to the south); thick pinion-covered mountains, rugged topography, perennial streams, and outstanding opportunities for solitude. Here in Domeland, semiarid mountains dwindle into low desertland. The Wild and Scenic South Fork of the Kern River, one of America's wildest waterways, crosses the Wilderness through deep gorges with bold rock outcroppings and domes interspersed with meadows. The river and its tributaries, which include Fish Creek, attract anglers in search of trout. Although the fishing can be excellent, you often will have to resort to strenuous off-trail hiking.
The Pacific Crest Trail crosses the area north-south and follows the river for about nine miles. Other trails, suitable for foot and horse, give access mostly to the northern section, leaving the south and east seldom explored and difficult to travel. There are about 45 total trail miles.
Planning to Visit the Domeland Wilderness?
- Print a fact sheet
- General things to consider when visiting any wilderness
- Regulations
- Contact the Bureau of Land Management or the Forest Service
- Visit the National Forest wilderness website
Leave No TraceHow to follow the seven standard Leave No Trace principles differs in different parts of the country (desert vs. Rocky Mountains). Click on any of the principles listed below to learn more about how they apply in the Domeland Wilderness.
- Plan Ahead and Prepare
- Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
- Dispose of Waste Properly
- Leave What You Find
- Minimize Campfire Impacts
- Respect Wildlife
- Be Considerate of Other Visitors


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The Bengals added another talented performer to their loaded defensive line, selecting Southern Methodist defensive end Margus Hunt with the No. 53 overall pick on Friday night.
A native of Estonia, Hunt (6-8, 277) was a champion shot put and discus thrower and set the junior world record in the discus. He took up football at SMU in 2009, where he garnered notice for his unique skill set. Hunt, who notched eight sacks as a senior at SMU, blocked 17 kicks — an NCAA record — in college.
Hunt, who will be 26 in his rookie season, could project to left end in Cincinnati. The Bengals are already deep at end, with Carlos Dunlap, Michael Johnson, Robert Geathers and Wallace Gilberry among the veteran options. Hunt figures to work closely with Bengals DL coach Jay Hayes as he tries to learn the finer points of the pro game.
The Bengals have built a superior defensive line without using a single first-round pick on the group. Time will tell if Hunt is another success story, but say this for the Bengals — they clearly understand the value of a deep defensive line, and they clearly have had a knack for evaluating and coaching linemen. Now they have the luxury of patience as they turn their attention to molding Hunt.


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I recently wrote a post entitled "5 Ways To Use Puppy Linux" which gives a short list of possible uses for Puppy LINUX.
One of the ideas mentioned was to use Puppy LINUX as a small development web server enabling web development on the move. Simply take your laptop/netbook and a USB pen drive pre-installed with Puppy LINUX and the LAMP stack and you can develop web pages whilst travelling on the train. Someone left a comment asking how this could be done.
This is the 1st of a series of posts detailing how to set up the LAMP stack within Puppy LINUX.
Initial Setup
I have taken a 2gb USB drive and I have installed Lucid Puppy on it as this is the easiest and for me most complete version of Puppy LINUX.
I installed Firefox and set up the wireless connection and then I created a 512mb save file and rebooted the PC.
The following steps will show you how to install Apache within Lucid PUPPY.
Installing Apache
1. Click the install icon on the top row.
2. Click the "Configure Package Manager" button in the bottom left corner.
3. Select the 3 Ubuntu repositories and click OK.
4. Exit the installer and restart it by clicking install again.
5. Type Apache into the find box and click "Go"
6. Click the Apache HTTP Server Metapackage
7. Click the examine dependencies button
8. Install the selected packages
9. Run through all the installers until all the packages are installed
10. Open a console a nd type /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
11. You will receive an error stating that libaprutil-1.so.0 could not be found. You now need to install this from the repositories. Click install to bring up the package manager and type libapr
12. Install the libapr-1 package.
13. Install the libaprutil1 package
14. From the console window type /etc/init.d/apache2 restart again. You will get a window just like the one above.
15. Typing Apache2 brings up the real issue which is that httpd.conf could not be found. Go to /etc/apache2 and type "nicoedit httpd.conf". Nicoedit is the default editor within Lucid Puppy.
16. Enter the following line in the Nicoedit window DocumentRoot "/var/www/htdocs"
17. Save the file
NB: You can add all the httpd.conf commands you would normally use within httpd.conf. The steps above create a basic shell required to get Apache running
18. Type /etc/init.d/apache2 restart again. Still it does not work.
19. Type adduser www-data. When asked for a password you can just press return. (Although adding a password would make it more secure the point of this exercise is to set up a development server for when you are on the move).
20. Type /etc/init.d/apache2 restart again. Still it does not work.This time you get an error about missing modules.
21. The above screenshot gives the commands that need to be entered to load the modules in.
a2enmod authz_host
a2enmod mime
a2enmod alias
a2enmod setenvif
22. Type /etc/init.d/apache2 restart again. Still it does not work but we are getting close now. The error is basically stating that the folder we set in httpd.conf does not exist. Enter mkdir /var/www/htdocs.
23. Type /etc/init.d/apache2 restart again. It should now work.
24. Navigate to /var/www/htdocs and create a file called test.html.
25. Enter the following code into test.html
<title>Testing Apache for the 1st time</title>
Testing Apache for the 1st time
26. Open Firefox and type http://localhost/test.html.
It took a fair bit of effort getting Apache working but it is possible to do so and as you can see from the screenshot above it runs.
This guide should not be used to create a production Apache server using Puppy. The concept of this guide is to get a working version of Apache within Puppy LINUX for use as a development platform when on the move.
The next guide will show how to install PHP.
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Hi Lorna! I think "fix twice" actually goes well with "only handle it once" if we're thinking long-term. When a system fails, everyone makes it first priority to get back to the baseline. It's a fire. Drop everything. Stephen Covey would call this quadrant 1 -- important and urgent.
However, once we're back to baseline, there's usually little organizational pressure to do anything more. It takes a special mindset to take the fix further, preventing a future recurrence. This would be quadrant 2 -- important but not urgent.
It's the 2nd fix, preventing a future recurrence, that is most loyal to "only handle it once" because (theoretically) we should never have to return to the issue. That's how I think about it.


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Farewell to an E.R.
[Novice editing (and guitar) here, but this one means a lot to me.]
I am an ER doctor.... A Short Film of life at Mt. Sinai, a level 1 trauma center, where I have worked and taught for eleven years... a home I am poised to leave... a family I am about to embrace... as I depart.
It has been like a medical mission, to the far reaches of Chicago's wild West-side... the murder capital of this fulgent American city.
Our patients are often the poorest the city coldly holds... some without even a home, a family, some.... without even their sanity.
It is an environment where the absurd is expected... and the norm is a surprise.
We can be filled with rage, sometimes even hate, malice, selfishness....
But the wonderment, when compassion,
and even love
bleed through the absurdity...
In my waining days
at a medieval battlefield hospital
a little more
every day
miles from the Kings and Ladies
we suffer the butchery
and the anguish of tears
that no but us
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General Services Administration regional commissioner Jeffrey Neely had a rough Monday as he very publicly invoked his 5th Amendment rights during a Congressional hearing into his agency's spending scandal, and photos of he and his wife doing all that aforementioned spending leaked around the internet, thanks to ABC News' Jake Tapper.
Neely's wife posted photos of their trip to the Las Vegas M Hotel in 2009 on her Google+ account. The trip was one of eight pre-conference "scouting" forays the agency apparently required just to make sure they weren't, you know, wasting $800,000 of taxpayers' money on hotel with small tubs or bad views. Judging from Neely's contented smile in the hotel tub, they weren't. (Insert your own "in hot water joke" here.)
Allegations that Neely took an iPod and other gadgets from a GSA building were reported Friday.


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Penguin Update Peck Your Site By Mistake? Google's Got A Form For That
Was your site hit by Google's new Penguin Update that targets spam? Are you not guilty as charged? Google's got a new feedback form for that, as well as a method to report spam that should have been caught.
I'm Innocent!
The head of Google's web spam team, Matt Cutts, shared the information on Twitter today. The first form is for those who believe they were targeted by mistake. It says:
If your site was affected by the "Penguin" webspam algorithm update on April 24th, 2012, and you don't think it should have been affected, please give us more details below.
It then asks for the URL of your page, an example of a search that you'd expect it to show up for but which instead lists "non-ideal results" and any additional comments.
They're Guilty!
The second form is Google's standard spam reporting page. If you're seeing spam that you think the Penguin Update should have caught, Google says to use that form, bypass options like reporting paid links and use the "Report webspam" button.
Selecting that brings up a form where you can enter the URL of the spammy page, the exact query it shows up for and any additional details. It's important to use the word "penguin" as part of the details field.
Related Articles
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George Jones
Country Music Hall of Famer, Grand Ole Opry member, Kennedy Center honoree, and local born-and-bred singer/songwriter George Glenn Jones died Friday, April 26, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. He was hospitalized April 18 with fever and irregular blood pressure. He was 81.
Jones' funeral was scheduled for Thursday, May 2, at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee, starting at 10 a.m. with services open to the public.
"George would have wanted his fans and friends everywhere to be able to come and pay their respects along with his family," said publicist Kirt Webster.
Among those slated to perform at the services were Charlie Daniels, Vince Gill with Patty Loveless, Alan Jackson, Ronnie Milsap, Kid Rock, The Oak Ridge Boys, Brad Paisley, Randy Travis, Travis Tritt, Tanya Tucker, and Wynonna Judd. Former First Lady Laura Bush, Kenny Chesney, Grand Ole Opry VP&GM Pete Fisher, Governor Bill Haslam, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Barbara Mandrell, and CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer were all also confirmed to make special remarks.
In addition, national television networks CMT, GAC, RFD, and FamilyNet, as well as local Nashville stations WKRN 2, WSMV 4, WTVF 5, WZTV 17 held rights to broadcast the funeral service live, with radio partners WSM 650AM and SiriusXM Willie's Roadhouse (Ch. 56) also broadcasting the service.
Fans not able to attend can leave a special message about George Jones at tinyurl.com/GJtribute. In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that contributions be made to the Grand Ole Opry Trust Fund, 2804 Opryland Drive, Nashville, TN 37214.
"Thanks to George's friends, fans, and loved ones for the outpouring of love at this terrible time," said Nancy Jones. "I love you all."


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Report: Lowest Paid Food service Workers Are Women [AUDIO]
A new Carbon County bridge was built with the help of a Colorado County. Doug Randall reports. A new report shows he lowest paid workers in the food service industry are overwhelmingly women. The report also details a lack of benefits for food service workers. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.


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Craig and Mary Ryder, Owners/Strategic-Partners
Craig Ryder
Craig hails from 17 years in the staffing industry. His focus during his tenure was in the finance arena, but was involved in many financially relevant facets of field operations. These included, but were not limited to, valuations, restructuring and assessing profitability, sales and re-purchase of franchise affiliates. For the 3 years prior to opening our office in April 2011, Craig worked as a financial consultant in the Sacramento area involved in projects related to financial systems migration, implementation and corporate consolidation.
Mary Ryder
Mary came to PrideStaff from a sales and service background. She spent 14 years in inside sales where she was involved in sales, service and support of financial data systems. Aside from sales, she spent several years managing and training a team of up to 20 sales representatives, assisting with merging/migrating and training acquired sales operations as well as consulting to design a new corporate customer service/sales and billing system. Of all the positions held, Mary found sales to be the most gratifying. Not so important were the numbers and dollars that proved to be rewarding, though they certainly didn't hurt, but the daily interactions with her many clients made each day worthwhile. "Sales" is all about relationships…appreciation and enjoyment of helping others. This understanding and state of mind is what fosters success.
The Big Picture:
We strive to be a valuable part of our community, and positive contributors to society. We aim to assist others in not only meeting, but exceeding their goals; both from an individual and business perspective. Providing value to, and valuing every relationship we cultivate.
The Scoop on Staffing:
The staffing industry continues to evolve in this new economy. Companies remain unsure about the future and desire a more flexible workforce than prior to the recession. We derive pleasure in placing appreciative and motivated "good" people into their next opportunity, utilizing their relevant and recent work experience to provide for themselves and their families.
Secrets to Success:
For us, success is doing the right thing at the right time. Integrity, honesty, persistence, an impeccable work ethic and genuine interest in helping others always breeds success.
Stress Relief:
Spending time with our children including vacationing to any place with a pool, playing strategic board and card games or cheering from the sidelines at soccer games, as well as their other activities. Working in the yard always provides daily rewarding reprieve.
Craig enjoys tennis and running. Mary enjoys yoga and swimming (when time allows) or running in the wee hours when time is not on her side. We both enjoy golfing, on occasion, and walking. We love to watch the SF Giants, NY Yankees, and San Jose Sharks.
Oh…and a good glass of wine with dinner, or a really cold beer on a scorching hot day!


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Art Deco in Bloomsbury Walking Tour
Yannick Pucci
Event Details
Architecture in the Machine Age
Come explore Bloomsbury's rich Art Deco heritage, including Charles Holden's iconic Senate House, the former Daimler Car Hire garage and a reconverted petrol station. From sophisticated glamour to severe functionality, we shall make this architectural style roar again!
The Daimler Garage (1931)
While I don't want to give away all of the Art Deco secrets of this tour just yet, I can tell you that our route – as an added bonus – will also take us past a controversial Modernist icon, an Art Nouveau-style lodge as well as London's first pedestrianized shopping street.
For a small taster of the tour, please check out blog features about the walk on The Londonphile, Randomly London as well as Emm in London.
Walk Details
Please note that while the map above shows the meeting point for this walk to be just outside of the square, we will actually be starting off this walk inside of Russell Square. You will find me by the fountain in the centre of the square holding up a sign mentioning the name of the walk.
Premiering at the Bloomsbury Festival 2013, this tour is open to the general public as well as locals who want to learn more about the area's architectural history. This walk is fully accessible and dog-friendly too.
Contact Me
If you have any more questions, do not hesitate to get in touch with me either via EventBrite or send me an email directly to: yannick.pucci[at]gmail.com. You can also find me on Twitter (@ypldn) where I am always up for a chat too.
When & Where
Russell Square
Russell Square
WC1B London
United Kingdom
Yannick Pucci
An expat from Luxembourg, Yannick Pucci is an independent London tour guide and founder of London Unravelled. Constantly inspired by his adoptive city, Yannick is an engaging and enthusiastic storyteller and his walks were named as some of the 'best London walking tours' by LastMinute.com.
Combining his love for architecture and history, Yannick's 'Art Deco' tours explore the sophisticated glamour and severe functionality of 1920s and 1930s design. His popular 'Art Deco in Bloomsbury' tour made its debut during the Bloomsbury Festival 2013 and has been the subject of a Londonist Out Loud radio interview. While 'Art Deco in the Strand' explores posh hotels and towering office buildings, 'Art Deco in the West End', his latest offering in the series, takes a closer look at cinemas, garages and retail spaces.
Combining his love for sweet treats and history, Yannick has also branched out into food tasting tours. While 'Macarons & Mews' explores the history of the (not so) humble macaron, 'Piccadilly & Petit Fours', celebrates the foodie heritage of St. James's and Mayfair. His latest offering in this series, 'Matcha Green Tea', investigates Japanese powdered green tea in Soho and Fitzrovia.
For the past six years Yannick has also been volunteering at the British Museum where he has been facilitating object handling and delivering tours ever since, including the Japan eyeOpener Tour, the Highlights Tour and the WCEC 'Behind the Scenes' Conservation Tour. His team-building efforts have been highly commended in the Renaissance London Volunteers Awards 2011, in the category 'Going the Extra Mile'.
In addition to running his own tours publicly and privately, Yannick has developed and led walks for the London Festival of Architecture, Open Garden Squares Weekend as well as for the Friends of the Royal Academy of Arts.
You can find reviews of Yannick's walks on his website London Unravelled as well as interact with him on Twitter (@ypldn) and Instagram (@ypldn).


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Limitation of Liability
By purchasing a ticket to the Palm Springs Pride Festival or any Pride events, you agree to the terms of this Purchase Policy on behalf of yourself and any accompanying minor. You assume all risks incidental to the event for which a ticket is issued, whether before, during or after the actual event.
– Rain or shine
– No refunds or exchanges
– Entertainment lineup subject to change
License; Ejection and Cancellation; No Redemption Value
Palm Springs Pride reserves the right, without refund of any amount paid, to refuse admission to, or eject, any person whose conduct management deems disorderly, who uses vulgar or abusive language or who fails to comply with Palm Springs Pride rules. Breach of terms or rules will terminate your license to attend the event without refund. A ticket is a revocable license and admission may be refused upon refunding the ticket's face amount. No refunds will be made for comp tickets. A ticket is not redeemable for cash.
Recording, Transmission and Exhibition
Cameras are allowed as long as they're not professional (i.e. detachable lens). You agree not to record or transmit, or aid in recording or transmitting, any description, account, picture, or reproduction of the entertainment headliners. You grant permission to utilize your image, likeness, actions and statements in any live or recorded audio, video, or photographic display or other transmission, exhibition, publication or reproduction made of, or at, the event (regardless of whether before, during or after play or performance) in any medium or context without further authorization or compensation.
You Are Subject to Search
You and your belongings may be searched on entry. You consent to such searches and waive any related claims that may arise. If you elect not to consent to such searches, you may be denied entry to the event without refund or other compensation.
The following items may not be brought into any Pride venue:
Alcohol, drugs & drug paraphernalia, controlled substances, knives, weapons, chains, video cameras and audio recording devices, glass containers, camel packs, bicycles, rollerblades, skateboards and animals except for Assistance Animals. No open beverage containers of any variety (unopened water/soda with seal intact is permitted).
Unlawful Re-sale of Tickets; Commercial Purposes
Unlawful resale of tickets (or attempt) is grounds for seizure and cancellation without compensation. A ticket shall not be used for advertising, promotions, contests or sweepstakes, unless formal written authorization is given by Palm Springs Pride, provided that even if such consent is obtained, use of Palm Springs Pride's trademarks and other intellectual property is subject to Palm Springs Pride's consent.


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Monologue - Mountain
Previous / Next
BRIEF To promote and instill the classic adventurous spirit of Land Rover in the next generation of prospective owners. SOLUTION The brand campaign reimagines places off the beaten path like mountain, forest and river as interesting characters who give out incisive warnings. Challenging the determination of Land Rover owners to explore the outdoor world's harshest places.
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We're launching a Web 2.0 ratings site this Spring to enable users and experts to rate anything (people, places, things) through our web and smart phone interface. The site is centered around rating items as "hot" or skipping them (no negative ratings).
The site's secondary focus is bringing people together for events and will include other social networking aspects popular with sites today.
Young, web- and tech-savvy individuals, ages 15-55, non-gender specific, in urban areas. The site will initially launch in metropolitan areas -- New York metropolitan area to start -- and will spread out to more suburban and rural areas throughout 2010.
The logo should feel modern, urban, young, fresh and energetic. It should imply the social aspects of rating people, places, things and be attractive to our target audience.
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HOUSTON (Feb. 29, 2012) – Lone Star College System has been awarded the Gulf Coast Partners Achieving Student Success grant for $1,175,000 over the next three years to aid in college awareness, readiness and education initiatives.
The grant is aimed at helping prepare high school students heading to college and accelerating the progress of college students through the developmental, pre-college level math and English.
The LSCS effort as part of the grant, the LSCS College Awareness Readiness and Education Initiative (CARE), will be led by LSC-CyFair and LSC-North Harris along with the Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District and Spring Independent School District.
The CARE initiative will use a variety of strategies to help high school students avoid having to take developmental study classes while in college and in turn, help raise the students' achievement level.
"Lone Star College System is committed to student success," said Dr. Steve Head, president of LSC-North Harris. "We are excited to partner with our ISDs to make sure students graduate from high school college-ready. "
LSCS has identified several ways to achieve the goals in the grant by addressing both the instructional and student support needs for students. The partnering ISDs will add support from their level for both students and parents – to build college knowledge and understanding about the expectations of college.
Lone Star College will create courses to help first year college students accelerate their completion of developmental coursework to reach college level classes faster.
"Right now, some students spend too much time trying to get up to speed at how to be a college student," said Head. "LSCS wants to work with the school districts to find out how we can better prepare high students for the shift from high school to college level classes that may cause them trouble – primarily in mathematics and English."
The grant, awarded by the Community College Leadership Program at The University of Texas at Austin, has been made possible by Houston Endowment.
With 75,000 students in credit classes, and a total enrollment of more than 90,000, Lone Star College System is the largest institution of higher education in the Houston area, and the fastest-growing community college system in Texas. Dr. Richard Carpenter is the chancellor of LSCS, which consists of six colleges including LSC-CyFair, LSC-Kingwood, LSC-Montgomery, LSC-North Harris, LSC-Tomball and LSC-University Park, five centers, LSC-University Center at Montgomery, LSC-University Center at University Park, Lone Star Corporate College, and LSC-Online. To learn more visit LoneStar.edu.


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Ameena Matthews, Activist and star of 'The Interrupters'
Chicago to the bone yet universal in its implications, "The Interrupters" concerns the antiviolence conflict-mediation initiative known as CeaseFire Illinois. The film focuses on so-called violence interrupters working the streets and in many cases coaxing someone with a weapon, a grudge and a short fuse back from the brink of retaliatory bloodshed. The movie's packed with memorable personalities, none more so than Ameena Matthews, now a five-year veteran of CeaseFire. She's our Chicagoan of the Year in Film, and when the documentary by Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz started traveling around the international festival circuit earlier this year, the cries went up: This woman¿s fantastic. Writing in The Observer, British journalist Andrew Anthony said: "She's so hot on film that she practically burns through the celluloid. Fearless and filled with righteous conviction, she confronts hoodlums and comforts the bereaved with such an extraordinary mixture of sense and sensitivity that you wonder why she isn't involved in a larger scale undertaking, like running the UN or the world." Matthews declines to give her age. She has two kids at home, two out of the house and two more stepchildren, and is married to Abdur Rasheed Matthews, the Iman at the Al Haqqani Mosque & Community Center on East 75th Street. She loves to go roller-rink couples-skating with her husband. "I wasn't looking for notoriety from the film," she told me the other day, on a day off from working the streets. "I just want it to bring action." Action means funding, and CeaseFire deserves more of it, she believes, simply "to stay visible, to stay ahead of the game." With so many social-service agencies and programs scrambling after the same shrinking funding pie, it's tough, she says. "Chicago is a huge city and we need to come together, all of us, and realize we're all trying to make it the vibrant, productive city it's known to be." Matthews says "there's been some talk of my role at CeaseFire changing -- becoming a trainer, going into the public schools more." She's interested in the change. Teachers already have their hands full and if violent confrontation can be prevented in the schools, maybe a few less students will become ex-students. "They get kicked out, they don¿t go back," she says. "And they¿re on the streets." At home, she says, "after we look at the news and scrape our plates after dinner, we sit down and come up with a plan for the next day to make a difference." She adds: "I love what I do." Thanks to a very good film, more and more people have come to know the difference Matthews and her colleagues have been making. -- Michael Phillips
William DeShazer, Chicago Tribune
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The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law (Princeton Studies in American Politics) (Princeton University Press, 2008) begins by juxtaposing the naivety of Nixon aide Pat Buchanan, bragging in a 1972 memo that the 37th president had reoriented the Supreme Court rightward, with the won't-get-fooled-again mentality of conservatives in response to George W. Bush's ill-fated 2005 nomination of Harriet Miers to the High Court. "The contrast between the two vignettes is telling," author Steven M. Teles writes. "The inability of Nixon's four appointees to transform the Supreme Court taught conservatives that electoral success was not enough, in and of itself, to produce legal change: conservatives' failure in the Court reflected a deep imbalance between their forces at the elite level and those of their liberal counterparts."
Teles's then/now comparison effectively highlights the maturation of conservatives. It also illustrates the author's bowdlerization of why that maturation came about. Buchanan's memo strikes modern ears as absurd because just months later the Supreme Court, in an opinion written by an Eisenhower appointee and joined by several Nixon appointees, invalidated the abortion laws of the states through Roe v. Wade. Harriet Miers so offended conservatives primarily because her support for Roe v. Wade was a matter of public record. That this is a crude retelling of the history doesn't invalidate it as the crux of the history. Though not a sin of omission on par with a history of the abolitionist movement containing a few glancing references to slavery, Teles's weird exclusion of abortion—and gay marriage, school prayer, and other moral and religious questions before the courts—nevertheless undermines the idea that The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement is a book about the rise of the conservative legal movement. The book has a narrower scope, ably chronicling the evolution of libertarian-oriented public interest law firms, the emergent scholarly field of law and economics, and the influence of The Federalist Society.
That law and economics, a field virtually non-existent at law schools just a half century ago, is today a subject taught at most major law schools is the product of one man and one well-endowed foundation. Though the aims of Henry Manne and the John M. Olin Foundation coincided, their strategies did not.
If not for the John M. Olin Foundation, the application of economic principles to law might now be regarded as the crank obsession of a few academics. The foundation poured tens of millions of dollars into the fledgling discipline from the 1970s onward, dwarfing the amount given to the field by other conservative philanthropies. Top law schools rushed to milk the law-and-economics cash cow and promptly established such programs with Olin money. "The focus on elite schools was driven by the belief—especially strong at the Olin Foundation—that intellectual credibility and distinction are produced by only a handful of institutions," Teles writes. "This explains the foundation's repeated concern that it create a 'foothold' or 'beachhead' and 'keep a candle lit in the darkness' at top-ranked schools." More than hunch buttressed this view. As Teles points out, three out of every four law clerks serving the Rehnquist Court came from just seven elite law schools.
Rather than act as a missionary amid the heathen, Henry Manne opted to establish his own church, the Law and Economics Center (LEC). Armed with stubborn determination and a clear vision, Manne's tenacity in the face of repeated setbacks is an inspiring tale of the power of perseverance. His 1986 takeover of the George Mason School of Law, complete with wholesale firings of untenured-faculty and buyouts of suspected opponents, transformed a milquetoast law school into a giant Law and Economics Center. Teles's retelling of the "bloodbath" reads like something out of The Godfather. Manne's hardball tactics might appear coldhearted absent of context. Manne, however, played by the opposition's rules. The University of Miami, which enjoyed the prestige but not the politics of his LEC, had reacted to Manne's 1980 decision to depart by changing locks, posting armed guards, and ordering offices vacated. When Olin then encouraged Cornell to consider employing Manne, tenured radicals killed the planned appointment. At Emory, where Manne's LEC relocated after Miami, the Olin Foundation's support for the university's attempt to absorb the LEC undermined Manne's desire for independence. So, the Johnny Appleseed of law and economics witnessed his relationship with another affiliate institution deteriorate—and the travelling Manne was forced to move his LEC again. Rather than deal with yet another ideologically hostile institution, Manne decided to become the institution. Thus, in 1986, Manne transformed George Mason School of Law, a seven-year-old law school, into the fountainhead of law and economics, one of America's most respected law schools, and home to Nobel laureates James Buchanan and Vernon Smith.
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Approved by the Faculty Senate
February 29, 2012
BRIEF SUMMARY: This bill specifies the procedures portion of the existing Faculty Handbook section on Student Evaluation of Instruction (Chapter 3, Section C10). Changes include clarification that faculty may voluntarily choose to report numerical results but are encouraged to develop a response that incorporates students' written comments.
WHEREAS: Faculty Senate Bill 09-A-06 failed without the consultation and support of the Student Government Association.
WHEREAS: The Faculty Senate Academic Affairs Committee has included representatives of the Student Government Association in its discussion of procedures pertaining to student evaluation of instruction and specifically incorporated the use of students' written comments.
WHEREAS: The Student Government Association expressed support of the policy and procedures at its meeting on February 13, 2012.
BE IT RESOLVED THAT: subject to the passage and approval of both this bill and its companion bill establishing a corresponding "policy" section, Chapter 3, Section C10 of the Faculty Handbook be amended by replacing the existing content (Faculty Senate Bill 99-A-03) with the following "procedures" section (to follow the companion "policy" in the Handbook):
Student Evaluation of Instruction Procedures
The course/instructor evaluation instrument(s) used within a department during the semesters when a nationally-normed, university-wide evaluation instrument is not utilized must be approved by a 2/3 vote of the faculty of that department. The instrument(s) should recognize the diversity of subject matter, instructional styles, and student groups across and within disciplines. Faculty may add additional questions to the instrument(s) to ensure that all appropriate data needed for instructional improvement are provided.
The student evaluation is to be administered by the departmental chair or designate. Appropriate procedures will be developed by the Center for Scholarship in Teaching and Learning and/or department chairs to require timely administration and processing of the evaluations and to ensure the integrity of the entire student evaluation process. Instructions for completing the instrument and adequate time for the completion in class will be provided. Students will be informed (a) that the data and written comments on the evaluation form are confidential, (b) that the data will be an important part of the information considered in improving instruction at Southeast Missouri State, and (c) that the instructor will not have access to the data until final grades have been processed. The faculty member will not be present during the evaluation, and the results will not be available until after final grades have been processed.
The Center for Scholarship in Teaching and Learning will assist in the processing of the evaluations. The results will be returned to the faculty member, department chair or immediate supervisor, and others as designated by the faculty member to be used for teaching improvement. The Center for Scholarship in Teaching and Learning will receive a copy of the results from the nationally-normed instrument and may receive a copy of the department assessment if the faculty member so desires. The results of the evaluation of the department chair will be distributed to the dean and a faculty member designated by the department. Confidentiality among these individuals must be maintained. Any other use of the results requires the approval of the faculty member, except in cases where the aggregate data are used for specific institutional reporting purposes.
As part of its commitment to improving and assuring quality instruction, the University shall provide instructional professional development resources and assistance. The Director of the Center for Scholarship in Teaching and Learning will be responsible for coordinating effective mentoring systems, seminars, workshops, instructional materials, and other professional development activities and for ensuring that faculty development is suggested and professional development resources provided to support improvement of instructional quality.
In summary, student evaluation of instruction may be viewed as part of a continuous, formative process of assessment used to measure the effectiveness of classroom instruction by faculty members. This process should culminate in an overall view of the instructional and content effectiveness of the courses being examined.
Student Evaluation for Comparing and Contrasting Southeast with Other Universities
A nationally-normed student rating form will be selected by a method recommended by the Faculty Senate and will be designated for this institution-wide purpose. This student rating form will be administered campus-wide, once every other year, in every section of every class taught that semester, except where the use of the instrument is deemed invalid by the developer or where an integrated set of courses may best be evaluated by a single administration of the evaluation instrument. The costs of administration of this form shall be borne by the Office of the Provost. The data collected from this administration will be used to compare and contrast Southeast to other universities. The nationally-normed instrument will be administered campus-wide during specified semesters as described above. Separate departmental evaluation instruments, if approved by the department as previously described, may be administered during these same semesters if so desired by the department and/or the individual faculty member.
Appropriate Use of Student Evaluation of Instruction Information in Personnel Decisions
Faculty members may voluntarily choose to report numerical results from the nationally-normed instrument and/or the specific department assessment form(s) for evidence of teaching effectiveness in personnel decisions (such as promotion, tenure, merit pay, termination, etc.). Faculty members may not be compelled to submit student evaluation results for these purposes (see "Prohibited Use" below). Instead, however, faculty members should describe their responses to the numerical results and/or students' written comments. They may describe the content or teaching techniques that contribute to their success or describe changes in content or teaching techniques they have made or will make, or innovations they have made or planned that might enhance teaching effectiveness. They may describe how more recent results reflect a previous change in teaching activities. They can reflect on what the results reveal or confirm. They may explain the assistance they sought from their colleagues, the Center for Scholarship in Teaching and Learning, and/or professional organizations. The narrative thus developed would be reflective and explain how faculty members used the results of student evaluation of instruction to improve teaching. Narratives would be included in the faculty member's record of service as evidence of the implementation and response to student evaluation of instruction. Developing a response to student evaluations rather than merely reporting the summary numbers is more consistent with the formative intent of student evaluations at the individual faculty member level. It would allow faculty to avoid focusing on maximizing numbers, but rather concentrate on explaining their response to the numbers and students' written comments.
When developing recommendations or making decisions on faculty teaching effectiveness,
committees and individuals must take into account other activities presented by the
faculty member consistent with accomplishment in teaching effectiveness, including
but not limited to:
•peer evaluations
•course improvement activities
•curriculum improvement activities
•team teaching activities
•faculty self-evaluation statements concerning philosophy and teaching techniques •pre-test/post-test measures designed to assess gains in student knowledge •other "value added" outcomes measures
•documented informal or formal mid-semester student evaluations of instruction accompanied by reflections thereon
•other measures of effectiveness prescribed by departmentally-approved criteria
Faculty members may voluntarily choose to report the numerical summary results of student evaluation of instruction with or without a narrative such as that described above. It is, however, improper for individuals or committees to draw inferences about the presence or absence of such data, as explained below. Such individuals or committees should also be aware that, because of the necessity of a transition period to this policy from the preceding one, faculty members could be submitting mixed evidence of teaching effectiveness for a period of several years. This is acceptable, and no adverse inferences may be drawn in such cases.
Prohibited Use of Student Evaluation of Instruction Information in Personnel Decisions
Because standardized rating instruments and department assessments may not adequately capture the nuances and variations across disciplines or between types of courses within a discipline, the use of the results from these evaluations may not be compelled in any kind of personnel decision (such as promotion, tenure, merit pay, termination, etc.) and may only be used if the individual faculty member wishes them to be so used. Individuals and bodies involved in such personnel decisions are expressly directed not to draw any inferences whatsoever about the absence of these results from any faculty member's dossier. Demonstrating teaching effectiveness, however, is the responsibility of faculty members and may be achieved in a variety of ways, such as those listed in the preceding section. It is important to reiterate that student evaluation of instruction is just a part of the total assessment of the teaching effectiveness. Ratings and written comments from students should be viewed as on-going components of the overall process of professional growth and teaching improvement. Relying solely on student evaluations to assess the effectiveness of teaching and learning is inappropriate.
|Introduced to Senate
|Second Senate Meeting
|Faculty Senate Vote
|President's Review
|15 Day Review
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