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A career biochemist will take the reins of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore on July 1, the university announced Wednesday.
Juliette B. Bell, the current provost and vice president for academic affairs at Central State University in Ohio, was appointed president of the college, according to a press release from the university system. She will replace Thelma B. Thompson, who stepped down in August 2011.
Bell has two decades of experience in higher education, including research, teaching and administration
The first of her family to attend college — she holds bachelor's and doctorate degrees in chemistry biochemistry — Bell has advocated throughout her career for increasing the number of minority scientists and the opportunities for students to participate in scientific research.
The UMES release said Bell was responsible for establishing the first College of Science and Engineering at Central State University, where she also developed programs to support retention of freshmen and transfer students, the university's first online courses, and the international education programming.
Considered a trailblazing female biochemist, Bell was featured with astronaut Mae Jameson and U.S. Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders in a Chicago Museum of Science and Industry exhibit titled "Defying Tradition — African American Women in Science and Technology."
"As an accomplished scholar and scientist, she has the experience needed to further align UMES' academic, research, and outreach activities with the workforce and economic development needs of the Eastern Shore and the state, especially in the science, technology, engineering, mathematics fields," William E. Kirwan, chancellor of the University System of Maryland, said in the release from the university.
Kirwan also said that Bell's record as a successful grants writer and fundraiser will help "in attracting outside resources and developing partnerships that are so critical, especially during these difficult economic times."


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Round 1
Imperials - Scratch
"Finally found the guts to turn and fight, did you? I thought you would run forever," Cales taunts, but the feat backfires and gives the Drakhirri +1 attack instead of demoralizing them.
Cales' riverside forces begin to advance, preparing to cross the river.
Those on the other side advance like one man.
Bulls - Warhead
The phalanx strafes right to give the elites some room and advances, cutting apart the obstacles in their way. Bull halberds cut through solid rock. Yeah, they do that.
Mumbles does the royal celery dance to keep the Icons in line, and they give a damage buff to the army. I know Mumbles is supposed to still be with Rax, but he's weird like that.
Even with the damage buff, Bull crossbowmen once again turn out to be useless. In their defense, those Drakhirri managed some fine blocks.
The second squad meanwhile repositions, moving behind the catapult (which also misses >.<).
Marnix encourages his elites as they charge.
One got himself killed by a slayer while another clashes with a corporal. The others will have to wait for a bit.
Drakhirri - NPC'd
The champion charges forward and tries to ride alongside the line of the phalanx to knock their pikes out of the way.
He suddenly finds himself in a rather poor position as his weapon is sent flying from his hand.
On this side the slayer engages another opponent while the halberds prepare to defend themselves.
The Drakhirri crossbowmen imitate the Bull crossbowmen's lack of success.
The infantry feels little for charging right into the waiting phalanx formation, so they line up in the woods where their enemies will be a little more obstructed and wait. One slayer tries to go help out the champion but doesn't manage to do a whole lot.
The cavalry for now seem content to hang back and act as a reserve.
This slayer has different ideas and attacks the bull general head on, for now achieving a stalemate.

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|2012-11-20, 18:34
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: New England
Age: 35
I have some questions about cooking a turkey. Maybe someone here can help me.
I was gonna help my dad make a roast turkey for thanksgiving. I was going to use a soaked cheesecloth. You take butter, turkey stock, half an onion (skin removed, the whole half), an entire bulb of garlic cut in half 'at the equator', fresh thyme and fresh parsley, and a lemon wedge, melt the butter and add the rest and bring it to a boil, and then simmer it for 10-15 minutes, and then you soak a cheesecloth in it when it is cooled down a bit, and drape that over the turkey.
They say with this, you don't need to baste the turkey every 30 minutes. What I'd like to know is, if I go with using a cheesecloth, could I still put some butter under the skin? Would that somehow not work out well? Is it just not needed? With the cheesecloth, it should make the turkey plenty tender, even if the turkey skin separates the meat from the cheesecloth?
Also, do I have to worry about the cheesecloth drying out and burning? Should I use a new soaked cheesecloth after about 2 hours to 2 1/2 hours? I ended up buying two cheesecloths today.
This video is about using a cheesecloth on a turkey.
|2012-11-20, 23:16
|Link #563
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: NY
I've never heard of using a cheesecloth, so I watched the vid. I haven't cooked a turkey in some years but I didn't baste that often, maybe twice during the whole process. Saying all that, I'm not sure if just buttering under the skin would do much, herbs can flavor the surface flesh, neither is going to penetrate deep inside.
Guess you'll take a look and see approach to drying out of cloth. For an even like cooking you might want to cover the breasts but leave thighs out, they won't dry out as fast as breast meat.
If it's done cooking you just have to make sure the thighs and breast come to temp, mainly thighs, to around 150º F. If the skin isn't crispy to your liking you can bump up the oven temp to 475-500º F and put it in for 7-10 mins. depending on what it's like after it's ready. Cover with foil loosely after it's all done and rest for like 20 mins. before carving it. Hope it turns out well for you Urzu.
|2012-12-01, 18:37
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: East Boston, Massachusetts
Age: 29
Just cooked myself up some delicious duck legs to break my intermittent fast. Pan-seared at high temp in rendered duck fat for a couple minutes each side, then added chicken broth with a tablespoon or so of sherry vinegar and seasoned with dried garlic, thyme, sea salt, and oregano. Covered and let it simmer on a low temp for approx 15 minutes... Meat was so tender it literally was falling off the bone. Heavenly. Maybe I'll take a pic the next time, but had been fasting for 16 hours so I had little ability/desire to wait before digging right in.
|2012-12-02, 01:17
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: New England
Age: 35
Duck is delicious. I was at a Japanese restaurant in October (one of the best I've been to; a really good one for America), and I ate this shredded duck meat appetizer. It was very good. I'd like to eat more duck.
Lamb is also another good meat that is something different from the norm (chicken, beef, and pork). I should eat more lamb, too.
|2012-12-07, 11:55
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Location: Somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep
So, I was in a mood for a good ol' favorite in Japan... white sauce gratin!
Decent amount of prepping necessary for a single, non-cook man like me, but hey, I had time!
And....... voila. Shrimp & Pasta au Gratin with whitesauce.
Honest to god, this was the best food I've made in years, and even eaten in years. DELICIOUS!
Cooking directions:
1) Making White Sauce. In a microwave safe bowl, mix half stick of butter and half a cup of flour, then microwave for min or two.
Mix well and add 3 cups of milk. Mix, microwave again. Add salt, pepper, and soup stock. Microwave again if needed.
2) Prep shrimp (strip, wash with flour, etc) and dice a whole onion and half as much shrooms. Stir-fry them all.
3) Cook pasta. I did a whole box, but it's a little much. Half-size will probably do. Here I used carrot-flavored farfalle.
4) Mix them all together in a bake-safe pan.
5) sprinkle plenty of mozzarella cheese, and top it with panko breakcrumbs. Now bake at 450F for 15~20 min until the cheese is brown and well baked.
6) EAT!!! Makes about 4 servings. (The plate on the side is beef-potato croquette with spicy cheese... yummy)
|2012-12-07, 19:35
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Just an article about Onions...
|2012-12-09, 00:16
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blinded by blood
@Aohige: Your white sauce (which is actually bechamel sauce) used to make the basis of this dish (and many others) will taste far better if you make certain to cook the flour in the fat a bit before mixing your cold milk into it. This takes out the "raw flour" taste which can make things quite mealy. The microwave won't cook it properly--the roux needs to very slightly brown in a pan (and I mean VERY slightly, caramelizing a roux is only acceptable if you're going to make gumbo) on the stove or it will retain that raw taste.
Adding a small amount of freshly-ground nutmeg to the finished bechamel sauce also makes a tremendous difference in the flavor, even if you add cheese or garlic or spices to the sauce to flavor it.
Personally when I make any sort of "cheese sauce" for any application, be it cheese dip for tortilla chips or sauce for pasta, rice, or even Southern-style macaroni & cheese, I never use a bechamel sauce. I find that even with cookking the roux thoroughly it still retains a very mealy flavor that I find objectionable. I take the much richer (but much more fattening) route of mixing one part heavy cream with one part whole milk in a saucepot on the stove. Season this with salt and pepper (use white pepper if you don't like the black flecks) and slowly bring it up to temperature. Don't let it boil or you risk "breaking" the dairy, especially once the cheese is added. Slowly add grated cheese of your choice and stir until it melts completely. If you don't want the sauce to be too gloopy and treacly, add a small amount of lime juice (about a teaspoon). The citric acid will cut the proteins slightly and prevent them from tangling around each other and becoming very stringy--this is critical if you melt in cheeses like mozzarella.
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|2012-12-09, 19:04
|Link #576
blinded by blood
Cooking is science for hungry people!
Actually I live in the SF bay area but I've never worked in a restaurant around here. I worked in restaurants when I lived in the South, mostly in Birmingham, AL and Athens, GA.
|2012-12-09, 21:28
|Link #577
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: New England
Age: 35
Oh, I see.
I mean, shh you aren't supposed to tell us that. Being a cook in the San Fran food scene sounds really impressive.
|2012-12-10, 17:03
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep
I know cooking flour in a pan with butter is the best way to go, but they're a bit technical and cumbersome. It's easy to mess up and get ugly clumps lol. I'm no chef, so I do the cooking the "easy singleman way".
All the stuff I cook are the "cooking for dummies and chimps" food, I dare not touch anything more complex than something I can just make in a wok and a microwave!
|2012-12-10, 17:24
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Age: 29
What one likes the most about cooking? Eat what you did.
I can cook too some good nice plates but only with motivation and hunger .
I tried to upload some photos but the current server I'm using is blocking any image host posible so I think I'm doing other day.
|2012-12-12, 19:58
|Link #580
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Somewhere in a distant patch of green staring into the luminous starry sky.
I remember recently trying to make fried rice. The rice starting getting fried and burned. Fire alarm went off. And I sat there eating oil tasting crunchy burnt rice because I was the only one who could give it a mothers love.
Seeing the food people make here make my mouth water. Amazing job everyone.
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Thanks for Kaplan remembrance
Thank you for your kind words about Muriel Kaplan, the former owner of Chestnut Hill's Zipf's Candy, who died on July 9th. I'm grateful to hear a little about her life and friendships.
My children and I would stop in to visit with her and, of course, buy a treat or three. She was kind and endlessly patient with little ones who couldn't decide between a lemon or a strawberry lollipop.
She created a shop that was so magical that our family ended up creating a pre-holiday tradition of stopping in to pick up goodies for stockings or the annual "bunny cake."
Of course, her stock had been chosen with great care (how she fit so much into such a tiny space is amazing), but, in retrospect, I realize we came for the conversation and smiles.
We miss Mrs. Kaplan, and will continue to remember her and think of her with fondness and appreciation. Thank you again for sharing your memories of her.
Julia Stein
West Mt. Airy
Old voting rules prevented fraud
I have been the judge of elections for a polling place in Chestnut Hill since 2005, and I am still inspired by seeing my neighbors, of all political affiliations, turn out to vote twice a year.
As I learned my responsibilities, I was impressed by the balance the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania maintains between protecting citizens' right to vote and protecting against fraud.
The safeguards already in place include the matching of the voter's signature at each election with his or her registration signature in the pollbook; the requirement that new voters and voters who have not voted in five years, who are clearly flagged in the pollbook, show additional ID to confirm identity and residency; and, of course, the fact that we have seen all other voters, our neighbors, at previous elections.
The danger of fraudulent voting has not been taken lightly, but the possibility of depriving citizens of an opportunity to exercise their right to vote by changing the ID requirements is also a danger to the integrity of our elections.
Amey Hutchins
Chestnut Hill
Thanks to many for successful Pastorius season
Another season of Pastorius Park concerts have flown by! Unfortunately we were beaten by the weather at our last concert of the season.
Heavy rain late in the day while we were mid set-up made it unsafe to continue with the concert, all that water doesn't go so well with the electrical equipment! And by then it was too late to move to our rain venue. After creating havoc with our concert mother nature then turned on the sunshine. We were all very disappointed but will be back next year for our 65th season!
Aside from that we had a fabulous concert series and enjoyed some wonderful performances in our beautiful Pastorius Park. We had a bumper crowd each wednesday this season – thank you all. I hope you enjoyed the concerts as much as we did!
I'd like to say a big THANK YOU to all the hard working volunteers who gave so generously of their time to make this years concerts happen for the community: my co-chair Neil Scheinin, ably assisted by:Bob Rossman, Brendan Dwyer, Celeste Hardester, Frank Crawshaw, Gerard Tracy, Jane Piotrowski, Jay Valinski, Joyce Lenhardt, Kathy Gannon, Kirstin Bosch, Maria Vecchioli, Marianne Dwyer, Marilyn Paucker, Mark Keintz, Michael Dwyer, Michelle Lordi, Mike Chomentowski, Mike Matthews, Noreen Spota, Steve Feistel, Steve Pearson, and Tom Cullen.
Congratulations to you all, without the dedication of people like you events like the concert series would not happen! We would also like to thank the following groups who assisted us in the park: Bauder Audio, McNally's Tavern, Friends of John Jenks, the Rotary Club, Teens Inc, and XPN, plus our rain venues Springside Chestnut Hill Academy and St Martins Church.
Last but not least, a big THANK YOU to our sponsors, Chestnut Hill Community Fund and Chestnut Hill Hospital, without whose generous support the concerts would not have been possible.
As I mentioned earlier, next year will be the 65th season of our free concerts in Pastorius park, if you'd like to be part of our concert team please contact the community association (email@example.com).
Thanks again everyone for a wonderful concert season, enjoy the rest of your Summer!
Julie Byrne, Co-Chair Pastorius Park Concerts with Neil Scheinin
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An open letter to NCAA president Mark Emmert,
Your decision regarding Penn State is appalling. All you succeed in doing is punishing those who had nothing to do with what happened at Penn State.
The small number of people who were really responsible, and that appears to include Joe Paterno, will not in any way be affected by your decision. The people that will hurt are the innocent, and not just the football players, but all those other students at Penn State. It will hurt the residents of the city.
Perhaps you justify your actions by thinking of all those innocent people whose lives will be seriously hurt by calling it "collateral damage."
Your action is just like that of Spanier's. It is obvious that all you care about is protecting your image. If you really were concerned, you would do something to try to influence those who were really responsible, the leadership. And if you think that cover-ups occur only at Penn State, you must be living on Mars.
What you have done will not influence other leaders who are acting in the same way in many places. It will just make them more careful about the emails they send and how well they cover up.
Your decision was inappropriate, cowardly grandstanding that reflects poorly only on you and damages only those who should be protected.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
What you have done is far worse than throwing out the baby with the bath water. You have thrown out the baby and left the bath water! You and your colleagues have demonstrated a total lack of leadership ability.
George L. Spaeth, M.D.
Chestnut Hill
Regarding: From the Sidelines, "Tempering justice for the Penn State players"
Thanks to Clark Groome for the article. I agree 100 percent.
The total punishment the NCAA handed out reminds me of that old phrase, "the dishrag and dish towel were thown out with the dirty dishwater." The decision hurt many innocent people.
I read or heard somewhere that the family of Joe Paterno has hired someone to do a much deeper investigation than the Freeh Inviestigation did to clear Paterno's name and to show Paterno did not have access to all the information Penn State's higher ups did.
No. Let no one forget all the good Papa Joe did for Penn State.
Tom Woodruff


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The Inaugural World Travel and Tourism Council Americas Summit, held at the Grand Velas Resort in Riviera Maya, was a huge success, and a crucial milestone for the travel industry.
Jointly sponsored by the Mexico Ministry Hinojosa of Tourism and the Mexican Tourist Board, the two day Summit united Travel, and Tourism leaders from across the hemisphere, top representatives from the public and private sectors, Ministers of Tourism, World leaders, MGO's and the media … bringing them together for the first time in a highly informative networking and discussion forum.
Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, President of Mexico gave an impassioned speech at the opening gala dinner, telling the audience: "It is a pleasure for Mexican people to welcome Ministers of Tourism. Tourism is the one industry that can create jobs." Gloria Guevera Manzo, Secretary of Tourism, expressedMexico's deep gratitude to all who gathered
During the two day Summit, focus was on the massive role Tourism plays in economics across the Americas and globally … supporting one in ten jobs and 800 billion dollars in travel investments. "Travel and tourism create jobs and generate prosperity. Freedom to travel stimulates growth." Not a simple solution, the debate was how to lift visa restrictions without jeopardizing security.
Distinguished guests, moderators and panelists included: David Scowsill, President & CEO WTTC, Taleb Ritai, Secretary General UNWTO, Roberto Hernandez Ramirez, Chairman, Banco National de Mexico, Carlos Slim Helu, President Groupo Carso, Ministers of Tourism from Indonesia, Korea, China, Saudi, Brazil, Haiti, Jamaica, El Salvador, Trinidad, & Tobago and the actor/ director Robert Redford …to mention but a few.
The summit identified opportunities for growth of the travel industry, including easing and removing obstacles for obtaining visas and the power of branding as a prerequisite to the success of a destination. Dhiren Fonseca, Chief Commercial Officer, Expedia presented the revolutionizing impact digital and social media is having on the travel business and how mobile technology and social networking are driving and influencing consumer demands. The United States has launched its first National Tourism Incentive to create new jobs and open more visa offices around the world to fulfill demand...
President Hinojosa, told the audience, "Mexico is investing 50 million a year in infrastructure to build highways and airports … to open the market domestically to airlines to bring more tourists to Mexico. We want more cruises to start from Mexican ports. We need to break deadlock to subsidize flights to domestic cities.Mexico is a friend and partner for life ofUSA, part of Global America. Part of my legacy is what we are doing to fight corruption and crime. We are overcoming terrible problems to makeMexico a safer place.
The message was loud and clear: Travel and Tourism create jobs and economic growth. If governments and private sectors continue to build on this vast potential, "freedom and mobility to travel" will have a huge impact on the future of the world economy.


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A winner was selected from 50 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
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Just Ask My Dad.com
I want a logo for my dad's site that I am helping him create.
He is the a super smart handyman and help just about anybody with any household appliance, car etc.
Think a smarter version of Tim Allen in home improvement
but not geeky.
A great dad!
Someone asked what he looks like:
Thanks for asking...
He is tall, beard, (not a long hippy, full beard but, very trimmed) glasses, baseball cap with company name, usually wearing a button down shirt with two front pockets(with pad of paper and a pen in one pocket, jeans. Maybe a little bit of a belly.
short salt mostly and wee bit of pepper hair, thinning on the top.
But, he is one of those guys that all my girlfriends love not necessarily because, he good looking but, because he is a great guy.
Hope this helps. Looking forward to seeing your design.
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FRANKLIN – For 37 years a group of volunteers has hosted Franklin's Fourth of July celebration, and this year the five-day event that kicks off today is headed up by co-chairmen Warren Revell and Mike Kelly.
For nearly a decade Revell has organized the multiple-day July 4th celebration because he said, "It would be a shame to let it die."
"It has always been handled by a group of people from Franklin," Revell added. "It started out very small and has grown into what it is today."
The festival runs through Sunday. All events take place on the town common. Revell said he expects to see at least 1,000 people filter in and out each day.
Highlights this year include a laser show Friday night. In case of rain, the laser show will be held on Saturday at 10 p.m.
And on Friday there will be Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson impersonators performing from 4 to 10 p.m.
The laser show, in its second year, offers an alternative to fireworks, Revell said.
A children's day is scheduled for Saturday, with food booths, clowns and various activities geared toward the younger crowd. Musicians, food and other entertainment will be continuous.
The annual parade wraps up the celebration on Sunday and will step off at 2 p.m. at the Town Common.
Revell said he hopes the weather cooperates. For the past three years temperatures in the 90s have kept people away, he said. The forecast calls for possible rain on Thursday and Friday. If so, events for those days could be canceled.
To get the event up and running takes a lot of work, Revell said, and requires donations from residents and businesses.
In order to make this year happen, a small group of four volunteers contacted local businesses seeking sponsors throughout the year. They also created a mailer and sent it out to 13,000 homes and businesses soliciting donations.
It can cost anywhere from $60,000 to $80,000 to run the festival, Revell said.
The money covers everything from insurance, port-a-potties, the mailer, and band and musician fees, to police details and EMT/paramedic fees.
Revell said the coalition is always looking for volunteers to help pitch in, too. "It's a big undertaking," he said.
Revell said he would like someone new to step forward and take over next year, because after 10 years at the helm, he is ready to pass the torch.
To make a donation, checks can be made out to "Franklin 4th of July Coalition" and sent to P.O. Box 152, Franklin, MA, 02038.
Interested volunteers and sponsors can visit www.july4thfranklinma.com for more information. Also listed on the site is a complete schedule of events for the July 4th celebration.


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Chair Korman will call the meeting to order.
Chair Korman will address the committee and ask for approval of the minutes from the March 15 meeting.
Proposed Action:
Approval. Motion and second required.
Chair Korman will offer opportunity for open comments concerning items on this agenda.
Open Comments
: No motion required.
The purpose of this item is to present a list of tenure nominees for university faculty. The President, Provost and the University Promotion and Tenure Committee have reviewed these nominees and are making a recommendation for approval to the Board of Trustees.
Eighteen nominees are being recommended based on a traditional review of their credentials.
Provost Workman will ad
dress the committee and present this this item.
Proposed Action:
Approval. Motion and second required.
An individual can achieve tenure in two distinct ways: 1) tenure through the university's standard tenure review process, and 2) tenure by reason of appointment. The tenure nomination before the committee is being recommended under the tenure by reason of appointment procedures.
Under tenure by reason of appointment, senior administrators or distinguished faculty may be granted tenure upon being hired at UNF. The candidate must receive a positive vote from the tenured faculty in his or her disciplinary department. UNF agrees to award tenure as a condition of appointment in order to be competitive in hiring these individuals. The Provost and the President also conduct a thorough review of all candidates for tenure on appointment.
Under these guidelines the administration recommends awarding tenure to Dr. Asai Asaithambi, director, School of Computing, College of Computing, Engineering and Construction.
The Board of Governors (BOG) has specified that "Each board of trustees shall prepare a multi-year work plan/report for the Board of Governors that outlines its university's top priorities, strategic directions, and specific actions and financial plans for achieving those priorities, as well as performance expectations and outcomes on institutional and system-wide goals. The work plan/report shall reflect the university's distinctive mission and focus on
core institutional strengths within the context of State University System goals and regional and statewide needs."
This item was presented at the March 15 meeting, with a notation that the deadline for the work plan was May 26, 2011. The administration clarified that the Board of Governors had not sent all of the data at that time so this committee would be approving the work plan with anticipated updates and revisions. The administration is now presenting the finalized report, including updates and revisions to the 2011-2012 work plan.
Provost Workman will address the committee and present this plan.
Chair Korman will adjourn the meeting.
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1. The Second World War and free leather boots.
2. A diagnosis and a map.
Thanks so very much Dad!
So beautiful and touching! You captured "it." I don't know where you found that picture of the boots, but it is perfect. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Hi Kathy,
Thanks so much for your comments; they are much appreciated.
Thanks once again Jennifer, I really loved this story when I read it first, and it is still equally moving. The story of the boots really captures how we could easily overlook vital differences in life experiences.ReplyDelete
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Thanks very much for your comments; they are much appreciated. The story of the boots really gave me insight into the man who was my dad. It helped me to understand why he saw certain things the way that he did, and also to understand some of my own motivations.
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Path of Exile
So I'm a big fan of hack 'n' slash RPGs having played all 3 Diablo games, Torchlight, Titan Quest, Too Human (does this count??) and more. Path of Exile is a free-to-play game that is in the same vein as Diablo 2 and is regarded by many as what Diablo 3 should have been (personally I don't understand Diablo 3's criticism but then again I've only just finished it on normal difficulty). I've only played around 30-40 mins of the game so far and it was an interesting experience. While the combat was largely familiar the game has integrated several features that so far feel very different. The first thing to mention is the ridiculous passive skill tree which from what I can tell will require several playthroughs of trial and error to get to grips with the enormity of it.
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BioShock Infinite
So I'm a little giddy about the release of BioShock Infinite. I'm a huge fan of the series having spent many hours playing the first two games and from what I've seen of the latest iteration then it is going to be even better than those set in the underwater city of Rapture. This game is set on the floating city of Columbia (the polar opposite of Rapture) and the aim of the game is to rescue a woman called Emily from the two opposing groups (who seem to come from either side of the political spectrum). If like me you can't wait to play this game then you might like my Let's Play of the very first BioShock on my YouTube channel (Playlist here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNFyoNgGhybYxwT7ddZMcSw5GSIDGliXm)
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Marijuana activists and smokers converged on the Pearl Street Mall Monday, as a group opposing a marijuana sales tax ballot question gave out free joints to both protest the tax and to provide relief for flooding victims.
"We're going to give you some dankness for your dampness," Rob Corry, an attorney who helped organize the event, told the crowd gathered in front of the Boulder County Courthouse near 13th and Pearl streets.
The Boulder event was the second such recent free joint giveaway in the area. Organizers held a similar event in Denver earlier this month. But in addition to rallying opposition to a proposed tax on marijuana sales, Corry said the Boulder event was about helping those impacted by the flood.
"We want to bring some relief to hurting people in this community," Corry said. "We obviously had historic damage form this flood, and marijuana can be a calming, positive influence on people."
The line stretched from the courthouse and around the corner at 14th Street as people waited for organizers to start handing out the free joints at 11 a.m. As they waited, Corry led those in attendance in chants of "Free the weed!" and handed out fliers and signs protesting the tax. Corry said the group handed out about 1,000 free joints.
Chris Kohn and Christian McGee were two of the first people in the line.
"We were in the flood, now we're just enjoying happiness in Boulder, Colorado, baby," Kohn said. "Everything's OK."
Kohn said he hoped the event would help to educate people that marijuana was legal and safe.
"We're trying to show these cops out here that it's all OK," Kohn said.
City officials said event organizers had gotten the required permits. There also was a limit of one joint per person, and recipients had to be at least 21.
Kim Kobel, a spokeswoman with the Boulder Police Department, said the crowd was "cooperative," and no citations were issued. But she added the event took away from resources that could have been used to help with flood-related work.
"It's very inconvenient timing, because our resources at the police department are already stretched thin because of the flood emergency," Kobel said.
Denver police watched from a distance at the similar event there earlier this month, staying away even when a few people lit up their joints. Police officials later said that they didn't want to risk inciting a riot over a petty offense.
Proposition AA is a statewide ballot question that will ask voters in November to approve a 15 percent excise tax and an initial 10 percent state sales tax that could be raised up to 15 percent on marijuana sales. That would be in addition to existing state sales taxes.
Researchers believe the state could see as much as $130 million in tax revenues annually from retail sales. The first $40 million collected is earmarked for public school construction. The rest would be split between local governments and the state general fund for enforcement and regulation.
Ben Gregory, of Boulder, said he came to Monday's event mainly for his free joint, but said he agreed with the message being spread.
"I personally buy marijuana, and the tax would bump it up closer to street prices, which isn't what we want as a community," he said.
The Committee for Responsible Regulation, a proponent of the tax, released a statement against the free giveaway.
"The No on AA campaign should be ashamed of itself for trying to capitalize upon a tragedy in order to advance their own political beliefs," Joe Megyesy, spokesperson for the Yes on Prop AA campaign, said in a statement. "We can debate the merits of a free joint giveaway, but I think we should all be in agreement that making light of people's suffering, as if a little marijuana can make it better, is inappropriate.
"The sad irony is that they are attempting to defeat a measure that will provide tens of millions of dollars annually for public school construction. This is money that could benefit some of the communities hit hard by the recent flooding."
While many people waiting in the line voiced their opinion one way or the other on the ballot measure, many were also tourists from out of state who learned about the giveaway.
Shawn Roberts and Abbey Carr were visiting Boulder from Arizona. They said that with the flooding making it impossible to do much in the way of hiking and climbing, they decided instead to stand in line to get their free joints.
Roberts said marijuana laws in Arizona are much stricter, so he was surprised to see people walking in the streets with joints in their hands.
"I thought it was a joke to see how many stoners they could get to show up," he said.
But it was no joke, and sure enough Roberts walked away from the line with a joint of his own.
"It's crazy," he said.
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I have noticed a tendency recently for people to mention Neil deGrasse Tyson when talking about black people doing science, and doing astronomy in particular. There's absolutely nothing wrong with this; deGrasse Tyson is, in fact, black, and is, in fact, an astronomer. Indeed, as somebody who's caught the attention of the media and who evidently has the charisma to hold it, he's the closest thing we have to a modern-day Carl Sagan. So, go on celebrating him!
However, I am brought to mind this XKCD comic, in which Zombie Marie Curie comes back to take people to task for always mentioning her, and only her, when trying to convince people that women can do science.
There are actually lots of black astronomers out there, and I don't know who most of them are. (Just because I don't know who most of all astronomers are.) Yes, blacks do remain an underrepresented minority in astronomy, but that shouldn't take anything away from the individuals out there who are doing solid astronomy. I will mention two I have personally worked with. (There are more famous ones than these two, but my point is just to give a shout-out to a couple of good folks.)
Lou Strolger is an associate professor at Western Kentucky University. I met him in 1999 when I was a post-doc at LBNL and he was a graduate student at Michegan (although in residence in Chile) working with Chris Smith. In fact, Lou was a member of the other team; I was in Saul Perlmutter's supernova cosmology project, and Lou was in Brian Schmidt's team. However, in 1999, Saul's gang collaborated with Chris and Lou (and some others) on a search for "nearby" supernova. (Things less than a billion light-years away. You know, backyard stuff.) Lou went on to be a post-doc working with Adam Reiss (the third guy to share the Nobel Prize with Saul and Brian), and after that to WKU. Had I stayed at Vanderbilt, almost certainly I'd be collaborating with him now. My post-doc, Rachel Gibbons, and I talked to Lou about some collaborative ideas a year or so before I left Vanderbilt. Lou still works on supernovae and cosmology.
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Dr Herbert earned her medical degree at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She holds a doctoral degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she studied evolution and development of learning processes in biology and culture in the History of Consciousness program and then did postdoctoral work in the philosophy and history of science. She trained in pediatrics at Cornell University Medical Center and in neurology and child neurology at MGH. For her neuroimaging research and its implications, she received the first Cure Autism Now Innovator Award. She is co-chair of the Environmental Health Advisory Board of the Autism Society of America (ASA) and directs ASA's Treatment Guided Research Initiative (TGRI). Some of her papers are available on her website, www.marthaherbert.com.
Alternative Therapies (AT): You have a very broad educational background, including your doctoral work on the evolution and development of learning processes in biology and culture. What brought you to study and then practice medicine? More specifically, pediatric neurology and your focus on autism?
Martha Herbert, MD: My PhD is actually from a program called the History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. My dissertation was on evolution and development of learning processes using the texts of some social theorists, including Piaget, Habermas, and Marx. But using these texts as pivot points, it was able to be very broad. When I did my defense, my committee told me that while we are in a "history of consciousness" program where most people ignore the name, I was actually taking the name of the program seriously in what I was studying. I had a remarkable dissertation advisor, John Halverson, who's now passed away, who was able to encompass this approach and led me through a great range of readings. The History of Consciousness pro-gram at that time was a precious interdisciplinary haven, located on the magnificient and vision-inspiring campus of UC Santa Cruz, where this kind of breadth was fostered.
I had a particular interest in emotion, partly from some therapeutic processes that I had been trained in that involved catharsis. This got me fascinated with the biology of laughing and crying and yawning and fear expressions and trembling, which led me to pursue literature on these things, thinking that I wanted to do a dissertation on the evolution of emotions, but I didn't find much that was very useful to the questions I had developed from my observations and experience. I mean, there was Darwin, but there really wasn't enough of a systematic body of literature that could have allowed me to do something like that taking a dynamical approach.
While I was doing that work, I took an independent study with a neuro-linguist on the neural anatomy of emotion, and I be-came completely entranced with brain anatomy. It was so intricate and detailed. And it was a welcome relief from some of the more speculative work that I'd been reading in anthropology, philosophy, and psychology. I had started college years before as a biology major, and so I always had kind of a first love of biology, and getting into the brain anatomy while I was in graduate school provided me with a focus that felt like going home and, at the same time, linked to these broader questions.
I had been thinking about medical school, partly because of the science and partly because of the chance to legitimize the clinical side of this therapeutic work that I had done. I resisted this thought because I was getting a PhD and to start over and get an MD was a bit daunting. So I worked with some evolutionary biologists and comparative psychologists studying the evolution of emotion. But the bottom line was that they weren't asking the questions that I wanted to ask. So I bit the bullet and finished off my pre-med degree and got into various medical schools, and I chose Columbia.
When it came time to apply for residency, I wrote about a project I'd done as an elective about the relationship of brain and neuropsychological evaluations to brain localization. When I wrote about that interest in my application for the neurology pro-gram, my application was picked out of a pile at Mass General because the hospital had a lab that was doing exactly that.
When I got there, I still really wanted to study the biology of emotion. But when I finally had enough time late in my training to attend some professional societies that focused on emotion, I found that their concepts of emotion were very static: there's fear and there's anger and there are these behaviors and these facial expressions and these brain regions associated with each distinct emotion. That was really remote from what my own thinking had been, which was that emotion is a dynamical process that in-volves integrating information that's disparate and maybe full of painful cognitive dissonance. The emotional processing allows you to bring different pieces together into some kind of a new synthesis. There was nothing even remotely like that in emotion research. And there was no way that I was going to go into a social-sciences emotional research field; it was completely arid, bor-ing to me.
Meanwhile, I was handed a big pile of brain images of children with autism. I got 93 MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans, and I started analyzing the data. That's how I got into autism. They just basically handed me this giant pile of already col-lected data and said, "Do something with it." So I rolled up my sleeves and did imaging analysis and then data analysis. It took several years. As I got into the data analysis, I realized that this was something very, very different than what everyone had been telling me it was. Because the analyses that we'd initially set out to do were complete failures.
But alongside the lack of significance of the correlations between specific brain regions and specific behaviors there were other things that were crying out to be noticed-in particular, the striking and widely distributed increases in white matter volumes in both autism and specific language impairments, as well as the alterations in brain asymmetry in both conditions that were dis-tributed very widely beyond regions "specific" for language and that were distributed in almost the same way in both ostensibly distinct conditions. These pervasive changes blew the old modular model and also blew the model that these conditions are clearly distinguishable, and I had to fight with my senior colleagues to get them to take these other findings seriously. I really came into my own integrity as I said to myself, "I'm not going to try and look for what I'm supposed to be looking for. I'm going to call what I see and do whatever it takes to say what I think about it." That's when I began to open up to the incredible challenges that autism poses to just about everything. That's how I got into autism.
AT: Were you aware of any other researchers who were translating emotional components to the physical and biological compo-nents of brain?
Dr Herbert: There may have been, but partly it was where I was looking at the time-as an academic graduate student I was look-ing for "scientific" and "rigorous" literature with pretty conservative criteria for meeting those bars. When I looked in the neuro-logical literature for the neurobiology of laughing and crying, I read about things like gelastic seizures (ie, uncontrollable laughter disconnected from emotion) but not emotion as information processing. I didn't find what I was looking for either in the psychiat-ric or cognitive neuroscience literature I read. The closest I came was some neuroanatomical work by Sanides on the evolution of cortical and limbic connectivity that reversed commonly held assumptions about the order of evolution of primary and associa-tional processing and commentaries upon this work, and I still hope to get back to pursuing and writing up what I found in this literature. From time to time I read about things like neurobiology of ritual trance or cathartic therapies where the questions were closer to those my earlier training and experience had posed, but there was a big gap between, say, Wilhelm Reich or Art Janov or bio-energetics and what you can rigorously support or even explain to anyone in an academic situation. There was a yawning chasm. And I didn't see bridges at that time. Then I got into neuro-anatomy, but I got into it in, again, a static framework. We were studying brain volumes as indicators of fixed brain deficits. So while it had its fascinations, it wasn't an immediate bridge. Dama-sio's work on emotion bridged somewhat, but by the time it appeared I was already well down this other anatomical path.
AT: Has your affiliation with Harvard been a boon to your work as a researcher?
Dr Herbert: I got into the residency program at Harvard, and I never left. I went to Mass General, which is a premier teaching hos-pital at Harvard Medical School, to do my neurology training, and I've been there ever since. Mass General has a marvelous aris-tocratic tradition of graciously persistent inquiry and discourse, and I was privileged to learn from some of the senior people in the department who had so deeply shaped the field. I was hired by Harvard to be a trainee, and then I stayed. I stayed in the imaging analysis lab, and now I'm doing all kinds of other things, too. Certainly having this affiliation increases my profile. As for the envi-ronment there, it's tolerant in many ways, which I cherish, and there are remarkable people at Harvard, MIT, and other places to talk with, but it's not nurturing. So you can think broadly, but as a researcher you have to kind of make your own way.
AT: Is the TRANSCEND program the first of its kind in approaching autism and these other neuro-developmental disorders in an interdisciplinary manner?
Dr Herbert: Yes, probably-at least in the way we're doing it. In the brain domain in autism and neurobehavioral conditions, you have a predominance of the gene-brain-behavior model that says, "Oh, it must be genetic, and therefore the gene directly affects the brain, and the brain causes the behaviors." Then there's another part of brain investigation done by neuropathologists, who look at brain tissue in people who have passed away, where they have the resolution to look more at the level of cellular biology and chemistry. There's a little bit of chemistry in brain imaging if you do spectroscopy, otherwise not. And then there are people who do pathophysiology, such as biochemistry or immunology, which is more often than not systemic rather than brain-based.
In much neuroanatomical work in autism, interpretation of data has focused on identifying clues that could suggest develop-mental processes that might have gone awry, that would in turn point to potential genetic mechanisms. I spent a long time trying to do this myself, and I have written a series of literature reviews and read most of what has been there to read. But my work over the years has led me to question the strongly held assumption that autism is a neuro-developmental disorder that is wired in before you're born, a "static encephalopathy."
The "static encephalopathy," hard-wired assumption is certainly entrancing. It sort of makes sense because after all, autism does start early, and it sure seems like a life sentence. Even so, I began to realize that there are alternatives to the ways some of the findings being used to support this idea are being interpreted. For example, some brain studies looked at tissue in people who died and saw cellular changes that looked like they probably happened before the individual was born. But this was an interpretation of the ar-rangement of cells. One example is tightly packed cells in the limbic system; another example is changes in the brain stem. These brain tissue changes were found in less than a dozen brains each. So on the basis of a small number of brains, global inferences were made that this must have all happened in the third to fourth week of gestation or the 30th week of gestation. This interpretation be-came a "fact" that actively blocked funding of postnatal processes in autism-I have watched this blocking occur in grant review processes.


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Random House Says Libraries Own Their Ebooks, Really
from the but-what-about-users dept
"We spend a lot of time discussing this with librarians, at conferences and elsewhere, and it's clear that there is still some confusion out there around whether libraries own their ebooks," Dye said. "Random House's often repeated, and always consistent position is this: when libraries buy their RH, Inc. ebooks from authorized library wholesalers, it is our position that they own them."Of course, this raises a question: does that also apply to the public? It would seem inconsistent if it were just for libraries. If I buy a Random House ebook, do I "own" it, or have I licensed it? And... then how does that fit with various ebook retailers, such as Amazon, whose terms seem more like a license? Either way, it's good to see a company like Random House take such a clear position on this matter, when most big copyright holders prefer to avoid the question entirely.
He went on to make clear the distinction with licensing:
"This is our business model: we sell copies of our ebooks to an approved list of library wholesalers, and those wholesalers are supposed to resell them to libraries. In our view, this purchase constitutes ownership of the book by the library. It is not a license."


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Bears and friends will have some fun in Reykjavik, Iceland, the world's northernmost capital in September. Visit BEARS ON ICE website for more information.
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Club Kiki is the only Queer Club in Reykjavik. It is located on Laugavegur 22, the queerest corner in Reykjavik, where many of Reykjavik´s best known gay club have had its home in the past. Kiki offers good music, fun atmo and nice crowd. Kiki is open Fridays and Saturdays from 11 pm to 4.30 am.
Visit Kiki on Facebook to see what they are up to.
Gaukurinn one of Reykjavik's numerous gay friendly bars, it's a live music venue and bar, situated in downtown Reykjavík.
They also host LGBT+ events such as the monthly Drag-Súgur drag and variety shows, main party for Bears on Ice 2016 and queer themed events organized by Whotever Iceland, parties that break the norms.
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The Queer Center is open Thursday evenings from from 20:00 to 23:00. Good place to meet and mingle. Office is open every day from 1 pm - 5 pm. Samtökin '78, The National Queer Organization, is an interest and an activist group. The organisation's goal is for lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual and asexual and / or transsexual or intersex persons to be visible and recognised and enjoy their rights to the fullest in Icelandic society.
Samtökin '78 run a community centre in downtown Reykjavík, located on Suðurgata 3 and open for all. Open house on Thursday evenings, with a varied programme of events advertised on the organisation's website; www.samtokin78.is. Other queer groups and organisations also meet there at different times listed here: social events. We try to include all of these on our Gayice.is event calendar
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Two members of the Houston-area congressional delegation appeared on Houston Newsmakers yesterday, trading sharply differing opinions on the Affordable Care Act in the wake of the landmark Supreme Court decision that upheld the healthcare legislation.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Houston Democrat, called last week's Supreme Court decision "the most thoughtful opinion I think we've had in a number of years."
"The future is, it's the law of the land and no matter how much people bark at it, it's going to be implemented. That's my position on that," Jackson Lee said.
"I disagree with it completely," responded Rep. Pete Olson, a Sugar Land Republican.
He was particularly critical of the tax levied by the legislation, pointing out that "the American people, overwhelmingly, about 60 percent of them, don't favor this healthcare bill."
"The American people don't want more taxes. We've got enough taxes," Olson said. "What we're planning on doing, next Wednesday, when we go back home, we're going to vote again to fully repeal ObamaCare."
The GOP is willing to work together to compromise on this topic, he said, "but the Democrats are not willing to listen."
"When they pushed it through, how many amendments do you think we got on the floor of the House? One. One Republican amendment," Olson said. "We'll replace it with some common-sense legislation that makes sure everybody has access to healthcare, from the doctors of their choice, at the price they can afford."
Jackson Lee countered with caution, pointing out that the all-encompassing and complicated field of healthcare was not one suited for a "piecemeal" approach to legislation.
"You cannot piecemeal healthcare just like you could not piecemeal Medicare in 1965. What I do believe, and look forward to working with my colleague, is that you never come out with the perfect bill," Jackson Lee said. "So what we can do is have this as the underlying bill and work together to assess those issues that may not be structured in the most effective manner."
Before disagreeing on health care, the two lawmakers pointed to areas where they are united. They have a "long-standing mutual advocacy for NASA and its future," Jackson Lee said, as well as a united front on transportation issues.
Olson agreed, pointing to Congress' passed legislation before the July 4 recess as "two very important bills for the greater Houston area," the transportation bill and legislation that extended federal flood insurance.


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A U.S. judge has accepted an agreement by BP Plc to plead guilty for its role in the Deepwater Horizon disaster and pay $4.5 billion in penalties for the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
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The April 2010 explosion on a rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers. The mile-deep (1.6 km) Macondo oil well then spewed 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf over 87 days, fouling shorelines from Texas to Florida.
"The judge has accepted the plea," a court official said on Tuesday.
The company had said previously it would plead guilty to 11 felony counts related to the workers' deaths, a felony related to obstruction of Congress and two misdemeanors. It also faces five years' probation and the imposition of two monitors who will oversee its safety and ethics for the next four years.
With the plea agreement approved, BP has 60 days to send a remedial plan to the Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency laying out how it plans to meet all of its stipulations.
The agencies will then review the plan and likely send it back to BP with proposed changes. The plan could go back and forth among all three parties before a final plan agreed to by all sides is reached.


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"Library show
Make a Splash - READ
See you at the Library.
Every summer I perform at libraries all over the southern California. The reason? Summer reading programs for the children. Librarians, some of my favorite people, encourage reading with a theme. This year's theme is :
Make a Splash - READ
Every year I meet that theme with magic. I'll be doing several magic tricks that involve water and the creatures that live in it. Throughout the performance I'll be emphasizing the power and importance of reading. I'll remind the children that when I became interested in magic I learned my first tricks from a book in the library.
I'll be at 35 libraries this summer. Check your local branch and bring your junior patrons. Don't forget to check out a book.
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Protecting the Forests: The Weeks Act of 1911
Educational Exhibition from Plymouth State University
The exhibit "Protecting the Forests: The Weeks Act of 1911" focuses on the federal act that allowed the national government to purchase private lands for public forests in order to create an eastern National Forest system. New Hampshire's White Mountains were among the first lands purchased under the Weeks Act.
The display is a series of easy to hang panels with text and images and includes a five double-sided free standing panels; there is also a comprehensive website (http://www.plymouth.edu/gallery/weeks-act/). The free touring exhibition includes educational brochures and on-line standards-based curriculum packets for educators.
The exhibition is a means of public education, outreach and engagement prior to and during to the numerous statewide events planned for 2011 to celebrate the Weeks Act Centennial. The Act is of particular importance to New Hampshire because it was named after Congressman John W. Weeks from Lancaster and was vigorously promoted by New Hampshire associations and individuals.
Quality and accuracy of information in the exhibition are insured by Dr. Marcia Schmidt Blaine, associate professor of history at Plymouth State University, and Dr. Linda Upham-Bornstein.
The exhibition is being toured by Plymouth State University, Dr. Catherine S. Amidon, director of the project, in collaboration with Dr. Thaddeus Guldbrandsen, director of the Center for Rural Partnerships.
The exhibition is funded in part by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.
For tour information contact:
Most of the exhibition is online :
There are standards based downloadable curriculum materials for teachers at:
Tour Schedule:
- Plymouth State University
- The Balsams, Dixville Notch, May 24-28, 2010
- The exhibition is touring to:
- Weeks State Park, Lancaster, NH June – September
- Colebrook, place tbd, September
- The Highland Center, Crawford Notch, September – October
- St. Kieran Art Center, Berlin, NH, Jan 16 – March 27, 2011
- Mt Washington Observatory, North Conway, summer
- Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, Concord, September – October
Dates haven't been established but it will also tour to:
- National Forest Service, Campton
- Wentworth Inn, Jackson
The free-standing panels may be folded to 6 feet x 2 ½ feet x 5 inches.


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The Internet of Things (IoT) enables everyday objects – printers, thermostats, pacemakers, cars – to collect and exchange data over the Internet. Like other online data, IoT data can be mined, transformed and monetized. Estimates suggest that by 2019, such data will be worth over $1.7 billion. However, with the exponential growth of IoT comes higher risk and greater scrutiny of data privacy and security.
In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission, the nation's top privacy enforcer, has issued guidance and standards on privacy and has been an active enforcer of privacy and cybersecurity issues.
In its report, Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change, the FTC set out its privacy framework for the collection, use and disclosure of device and personally identifiable information. Key privacy principles under the framework are notice and transparency, as well as consumer choice (in particular related to sensitive data and "unexpected" collection, use and sharing). However, finding ways to provide clear notice and obtain consent can be challenging in the context of IoT and connected devices. Even so, the FTC has made clear that its privacy framework applies in the IoT space. In 2015, the Commission issued guidance on how its privacy framework applies to IoT in Internet of Things:
Privacy and Security in a Connected World. In a recent enforcement action, the FTC went so far as to require a company to delete the consumer information that it had collected unfairly, in violation of notice and choice principles.
Is it spyware?
One risk not directly addressed in the FTC's privacy reports is that of spyware, which the FTC has previously defined as "software that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without their knowledge and which may send such information to another entity without the consumer's consent, or asserts control over a computer without the consumer's knowledge." Connected devices often leverage some type of software-based functionality to track information, but companies should be mindful that they do not deploy their connected devices in a way that could bring them within the spyware category.
Determining when software crosses the line into illegal spyware can be challenging. Significant legal and technical analyses may be necessary to ensure the spyware line is not crossed. Recent FTC enforcement actions in the IoT context do not explicitly mention spyware, yet they do provide indications as to what the FTC considers unreasonable tracking of consumer activities. In a 2017 action against Vizio, the FTC established rules for connected devices and unexpected information collection. Through its smart televisions, Vizio was automatically tracking consumers' TV viewing, without consent or adequate notice, and was also selling the data to third parties.
Vizio settled charges with the FTC and the New Jersey Attorney General for $2.2 million. It also was required to delete most consumer data collected through the tracking software and to establish a data privacy program that is subject to a 20-year biennial third-party audit requirement.
Is it an unfair trade practice?
The criteria established by the FTC in the Vizio case applies to any company collecting sensitive or unexpected data from connected devices. Potentially, this could even apply to a company that has acquired unfairly collected data. If that company, for example, hasn't obtained reasonable assurances from the data collector that consumer privacy rights have been respected in the collection and sharing of consumer data, it may be at risk of claims that it has acted unfairly.
In addition to federal enforcement risks, more than 20 state attorneys general are able to obtain monetary penalties for deceptive practices. While fines average around $100,000 per state, for large-scale or egregious consumer privacy violations, fines can rise to the tens of millions of dollars. Reputational and class action risks are also high in this context, as underscored by the Vizio example, which was widely reported and has been the subject of class action litigation.
Going forward, the scrutiny of data privacy and security issues related to IoT will only grow, and the regulatory landscape will be in flux for some time. Prudent boards will keep this in mind


text: Help Calves Beat The Heat July 8, 2013 03:44 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By News Release Email Source: Dairy Calf and Heifer Association Changes to calf management that improve overall calf comfort and performance become especially paramount during heat stress conditions. According to a new Penn State University factsheet, there are several strategies that can help calves beat the heat this summer. Among them is the use of shade, even for calves housed in hutches. Several studies have shown that shade lowers the temperature inside calf hutches, as well as calf body temperature and respiration rates. Several options for shade exist, including solid roofing, 80 percent shade cloth or simply by positioning hutches in an area shaded by trees. Calf barns with solid roofs offer built-in shade. However, some pens may experience more direct sunlight than others, depending on the layout. If calves are not able to move out of direct sunlight, consider shade curtains. In greenhouse-style barns, clear plastic covered with shade cloth or white plastic have been found to be equally effective in blocking solar radiation. The new factsheet provides a wealth of additional ways to mitigate heat stress in calves: • Move more air. When possible, utilize prevailing winds to take advantage of natural air movement. • Offer plenty of fresh, clean water. • Keep grain fresh. Remove uneaten starter and clean out wet or moldy feed daily to maintain freshness. • Provide a clean, dry resting area for calves. You may want to consider inorganic bedding to help keep calves cooler. • Work calves in the morning when both body temperature and environmental temperature are at their lowest point for the day. • Consider feeding more milk replacer. • For additional information, access the factsheet here. Back to news


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