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The Law for Librarians wiki is for use by attendees of the April, 2006 Law for Librarians seminar. Representatives from ALA state and regional chapters agreed to be responsible for two trainings in their home states, and the wiki is for sharing information about the related activities they're engaged in.
State-by-state activity listing
The Intellectual Freedom Committee of the Alabama Library Association is planning a program for the state association's annual conference, to be held in Birmingham, April 22-25. The title of the IF Committee's program is "When the Feds Show Up, Is Your Library Under the Umbrella of Protection?: Has privacy lost out to national security?". The program description reads: "Librarians, administrators, trustees and others will learn how the U.S. Patriot Act can affect daily life in the library. National Security Letters will also be defined. Guidelines will be provided on what to do should federal law enforcement visit the library. The Honorable U.W. Clemon, U.S. District Judge, will be the presenter. Come and learn. There will be an opportunity for questions and answers."
At the Alaska Library Association conference in February, we had a half-day preconferece to cover a very condensed version of our training last April. Candy Morgan and I discussed 1st Amendment and public fora, plus privacy and law enforcement in libraries. Our audience of eight folks ranged from the fully-credentialed law librarian in Anchorage to a young woman with no formal training from Egegik, population about 125.
Amber Mathewson and Rich DiRusso presented Ensuring Access Intellectual Freedom Training sessions on 11/29/07 and 12/04/07. The first session was presented to the MTLOC21 (Mentoring Librarians of the Century 2001) which is a group of Pima County Public Library employees who are also attending the University of Arizona SIRLS (School of Information, Resources and Library Science). The second session was for new and Librarians and Library Associates the Pima County Public Library System as Part of the Reference University training sessions. The training was based on materials from a training session by the same name from Mary Ross of Seattle Public Library and materials introduced at the Law for Librarians Conference.
California is presenting a series of webcasts via Infopeople, a project of the California State Library, funded by LSTA as administered by IMLS.
Archived webcasts are free to anyone, including free handouts. Viewers in the California library community may participate live.
Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) Spring Workshops: April 28, 2006 - IF Basics, Canon City, CO. May 2, 2006 - IF Basics, Durango, CO
Westminster Public Library Staff Development: August 1, 2006, Westminster, CO
Workshop: October 7, 2006 -- Quinnipiac University School of Law, Hamden
"Take Back Our Rights" Conference
- Workshop:
October 13, 2006--Sussex County Department of Libraries Staff Development Day
Carol Fitzgerald presented Module 1 of "Defending access with confidence" by Catherine Lord.
- Workshop:
November 14, 2006--Delaware Division of Libraries, Dover, DE 9:00am-4:00pm
"Intellectual Freedom Workshop" for public libraries
District of Columbia
Article published in Florida Libraries "Challenging Censorship in Miami-Dade County" regarding the controversial removal of the children's book Vamos a Cuba by the Miami-County School Board.
Presentations and Workshops planned for the Florida Library Information Network (SEFLIN & NEFLIN) in various public and academic libraries. Plans to work with the State Librarian on an IF program is also "in the works!"
The IFC and the GLBT of the Florida Library Association will co-sponsor a program at their Annual Conference in Orlando in April, 2007. Lesléa Newman, author of the controversial Heather Has Two Mommies, will give a presentation on why she wrote the book, the difficulties she had getting the book published, and some of the controversies it has caused. A video detailing what happened to a library in Texas when the book was challenged will be presented.
April 26, 2006. Pearl City, Hawaii. "Petitions and the Library as a Public Forum" = presentation at the Oahu Managers' (public librarians) Meeting. Attendance: 36. No formal evaluation, but the handouts shared at similar meetings on the other islands generated a couple of phone calls/consultations.
Nov. 11, 2006. Waikiki Beach Marriott Hotel. Hawaii Library Association Annual Conference. "What To Do When the Censor Comes." Attendance: 17. Although smaller than the earlier workshop, this audience was more varied with representatives from small private schools, public schools, college and university, as well as public libraries.
Jan. 3, 2007. Pearl City, Hawaii. "What To Do When the Censor Comes." Attendance: 37. Adapted the general presentation from Nov. 11 to this audience of public library managers. Added specific documents such as the Hawaii State Public Library System Collection Development Guidelines.
Mar. 7, 2007. Pearl City, Hawaii. "What To Do When the Censor Comes." Attendance: 22. At a statewide meeting of young adult specialists from public libraries, the presentation given on Jan. 3 was modified slightly for this audience, discussing recent complaints such as those on manga and graphic novels.
Mar. 16, 2007. Liliha Public Library, Honolulu. "What To Do When the Censor Comes." Attendance: 29. This presentation was at a statewide meeting of children's librarians. There was much audience interaction as participants brought up recent challenges from their islands and how the customer concerns were answered.
November 9, 2007. The Idaho Library Association approved guidelines for the creation of an Intellectual Freedom Fund (IFF). Money raised at the annual Intellectual Freedom Auction will support the IFF. ILA members and member libraries can apply to the IFF to receive a grant of up to $250 for initiatives increasing intellectual freedom awareness and/or promoting freedom of access to information.
October 3-5, 2007. Idaho Library Association Annual Conference. Azam Houle (Youth Services Librarian, Boise Public Library) delivered the presentation, "Dare to Read!" Azam discussed censorship and her own experiences growing up in Iran under the Shah's regime, where reading the wrong book could find you in jail for 15 years. The presentation also included role playing between a librarian and an "angry patron" wanting a book removed from the collection.
Also, Michael Greenlee led an Intellectual Freedom Roundtable discussion. Topics included the use (and abuse) of national security letters, current book challenges in Idaho, and the use of library meeting rooms by religious organizations for services.
October 4-6, 2006. Idaho Library Association Annual Conference. Presentation on "Dealing with Materials Challenges." Attendance: 27. Handouts included a thick packet of information, including materials received at Law for Librarians. Also, preceding the annual Intellectual Freedom Auction, two librarians from the Nampa Public Library gave a short presentation on a recent book challenge concerning "The Joy of Gay Sex."
In 2007, the ILA Intellectual Freedom committee gave 7 programs in each of 7 multi-type library systems on March 9, 22, 29, April 12, May 1, 10, and 17 with a total of 139 people attending. These programs were given by pairs of Intellectual Freedom Committee members and focused on Defending Access with Confidence by Catherine Lord. On February 23, two committee members will present the same program to the ILA Trustee Forum. The committee arranges 1 to 3 programs for each annual conference.
- Edie Huffman, representing the Indiana Library Federation's (ILF) Intellectual Freedom Committee, made a presentation to the Knox County Public Library and Knox County League of Women Voter's jointly sponsored Public Issues Forum on balancing intellectual freedom and homeland security (audience of approximately 30 people).
- Doug Archer coordinated three presentations at the Indiana Library Federation District 1 Fall Conference in South Bend, IN on October 3, 2006. Attendance varied from 25 to 45 throughout the three sessions. Presenters were Marilyn Irwin, Associate Dean, School of Library & Information Science, Indiana University, Indianapolis and member of the ILF Intellectual Freedom Committee; Rosanne Cordell, Head of Reference, Schurz Library, Indiana University South Bend and Chair, ALA Intellectual Freedom Round Table and Doug Archer, University of Notre Dame.
- Law for Librarians: Overview. Basic constitutional principles and case law behind intellectual freedom and the freedom to read, view and listen to what we choose in America's libraries. Presented by non-lawyers for non-lawyers.
- Law for Librarians: Use of Your Meeting Room. Just who can legally use our library's meeting rooms and exhibit spaces? What kind of policies do we need? What's legal and what's not?
- Law for Librarians: Youth Access. Are there special legal considerations for serving youth and if so what are they? Does intellectual freedom really apply to everyone?
- Law for Librarians: Part Two. Doug led a follow up session at the Spring District 1 Conference at Valparaiso University on Tuesday, March 13 for about 25 people. It included a review of basic principles, updates on pending CIPA and meeting room court cases, and brief presentations on youth and children's access, DOPA, labeling, and privacy and confidentiality issues.
- Marilyn Irwin and Doug Archer also presented "Intellectual Freedom Basics for Schools" to a small audience (less than a dozen) at the Association of Indiana Media Educators' Annual Conference in Indianapolis, IN on November 6, 2006.
- I (EH) have one planned for April of 2007 at an ILF Small and Medium Size Libraries Conference on patron confidentiality and behaviour.
- Doug and Edie along with other members of the ILF's IFC (including Marilyn Irwin, IU SLIS, Indianapolis) and Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Deputy Director of ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom presented the following "Law for Indiana Librarians" conference-within-a-conference during ILF's Annual Conference in Indianapolis, November 14, 2007.
- Deborah led sessions 1 and 2 and served as resource person for the entire event.
- Session 1 -- Basic Principles: The First Amendment & American Libraries
- Session 2 -- The Internet, CIPA, & Social Networking
- Session 3 -- Exhibits, Meeting Rooms & Literature Distribution
- Session 4 -- Youth and Children: Collections & Services
- Session 5 -- Rights in Conflict: External and Internal Challenges, Policies & Procedures
- The ILF IFC also sponsored a panel on Thursday morning, the 15th, titled "You Put What on MySpace?! Changing Views of Privacy and Confidentiality." Deborah, Chris Charles (a senior communications major at Purdue University), and Doug constituted the panel.
- Attendance at the various sessions ranged from a dozen to almost 150 persons.
- Doug led two "Law for Indiana Librarians" events at ILF District Conferences, one at the District Four Conference (Northeastern Indiana) with approximately 35 attendees on April 24 in Albion and an updated, repeat performance of last year's session at the District One Conference (Northwestern Indiana) with approximately 25 attendees in South Bend, on April 22.
Two more Law for Librarians workshops are planned in 2008, one for the Northwest Iowa Library Service Area, Sioux City, and another for the Central Iowa Library Service Area. Given the excellent reception for the Law for Librarians workshops presented last year, these ought to be terrific events.
At the Iowa Library Association annual conference held last October, the keynote address and concurrent sessions by author Chris Crutcher were standing room only, as was another concurrent session, "Intellectual Freedom 101." It's clear that Iowa librarians are continuing the state's long support of, and interest in, issues of intellectual freedom.
Update: 3/30/07. The first of the IF Workshops at our regional library systems was this morning and it got very good reviews. Topics we dealt with were challenges (including selection policies and reconsiderations forms), successful Internet policies, PATRIOT and meeting rooms. Had a fair number of trustees present and they seemed to get a lot out of the workshop.
Intellectual freedom is riding a wave in Iowa this year. We also have Chris Crutcher as the keynote speaker at the Fall Iowa Library Association conference in Iowa City (that took a little work and a couple of connections) and a major IF concurrent session during the conference.
On Sunday, September 17 at the 2006 Maine Libraries Conference at the Augusta Civic Center in Maine, Melora Ranney Norman presented a program on Meeting and Exhibit Room Policies using June Pinnell-Stephens' PowerPoint presentation on the subject. I handed out paper copies of the PowerPoint along with copies of the relevant policies from Alaska libraries and ALA documents including the LBOR, the LBOR interpretations on meeting rooms and exhibits, and some excerpts from relevant laws.
April 20, 2006. Presentation to the Maryland Association of Public Library Administrators on plans to implement in Maryland what was learned at the "Law for Librarians" conference in Chicago.
May 2, 2007. "Can the KKK Meet In The Library? Law for Library Administrators" preconference, Maryland Library Association 2007 annual conference. Can a religious group use the meeting room? Is it a good idea to label parts of the collection according to genre? This presentation by Carrie Gardner and Daniel Mach was well-received by the library administrators in attendence. The overall ratings were 4+ (on a 5 point scale). The 'big ticket" piece of information that attendees carried away was the importance of having policies in place.
May 2, 2007. "What Is This Filth? Law for Front Line Library Staff" preconference, Maryland Library Association 2007 annual conference. 21 attendees. The presenters for the morning portion of the preconference were Carrie Gardner and Steve Anderson of the Maryland State Law Library. They discussed the topics of privacy and confidentiality and rights of youth access to library materials. Mary Somers and Monica McAbee reprised their popular program "Defending Access With Confidence", based on the training program developed by Catherine Lord. Evaluations were positive for this preconference as well. Along with the perennial "concerns" of a too-cold room and a too-short lunch break were some very positive feedback items. Carrie Gardner's presentation was especially praised. The interactive format of the afternoon workshop portion on "Defending Access" was appreciated.
For the future: Mary and Monica will definitely be taking their show on the road. Carrie Gardner has also been preliminarily contacted about doing a fall 2007 program on Youth Access to Library materials.
For the full conference program, please visit us at : [1]
October 11, 2006. "Pornography and the Interent" during the Michigan Library Association 2006 Annual Conference. A 75 minute program featuring a lawyer summarizing applicable law and court cases followed by brief presentations by an academic librarian and a public librarian on their practical experience protecting First Amendment rights in the face of complaints from other patrons.
October 12, 2006. "Keep It On the Shelf: Diffusing Situations Involving Patron Challenges" during the Michigan Library Association 2006 Annual Convention. A 75 minute program showcasing tips and strategies from school and public librarians on coping with challenges, conducting hearings, and handling sensitive censorship situations.
April 27, 2007. "Street Legal for Patron Record Privacy: Federal and Michigan Law After the Revised USA Patriot Act" This was a full day workshop of overviews presented by six practicing lawyers and/or law school professors. The topics covered in these presentations were, "Library Privacy Considerations under Michigan and Federal Law", "USA Patriot Act: the Federal Challenge to Library Privacy", "Overview of Federal Laws on Electronic Evidence Gathering in Criminal Cases", "Internet Access Policies Under the Library Privacy Act and CIPA", and "Requests for Documents: Policy and Procedure".
PLANNED: Spring 2008 full day workshop tentatively titled, "Porn, Policies and PR". One-half of the day will be a lawyer summarizing current, applicable law and court decisions and the practicalities of creating and implementing library policy and practice implementing that law. A journalist will speak to attendees over lunch about concerns for the impact of Internet pornography on First Amendment freedoms. The bulk of the afternoon is media relations and/or crisis management training conducted by a media relations specialist. A reactor panel comprised of a public, an academic, and a school librarian who have experienced media interest in an internet pornography issue closes the day.
PLANNED: A 2008 Michigan Library Association Annual Conference program on patron data and transaction data security issues arrising from the growing availability of library catalogs and other resources through wireless access.
October 27, 2006. "Not in My Town! Censorship, Privacy, and Intellectual Freedom in Small and Rural Libraries", Minnesota Library Association 2006 Annual Conference.
Representatives from the Minnesota Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee (me), the Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship, and the ACLU-Minnesota came together to discuss issues highlighted at the "Law for Librarians" conference. In this 2-hour special session, they discussed privacy and confidentiality issues in rural libraries, the importance of having well-thought-out written policies regardless of library size, and what to do when the media comes calling. Approximately 30 people attended this event.
October 28, 2006. "Standing Up to Censorship: An Author's Experience," Minnesota Library Association 2006 Annual Conference.
Children's author, Lisa Westberg Peters, discussed her personal encounters with censorship. After being invited to speak at several schools, Ms. Peters was asked at the last minute not to talk about her book, "Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story," which won the Minnesota Book Award for Children's Nonfiction.
October 26, 2006. "Law for Librarians: A Preview" A two-hour program session sponsored by the MLA Intellectual Freedom Committee at the MLA Annual Conference in Tunica MS.
Fall 2006. Law for Librarians pdf documents "First Amendment and Libraries" and "Internet, CIPA, and Sexual Harassment" (both by Theresa Chmara, 2006) were used in two University of Southern Mississippi School of Library & Information Science online courses, LIS651 Introduction to Information Science and LIS664 Government Publications. In addition, these two documents were posted to the SLIS community website for access by faculty and students for purposes of education.
February 2008. Four workshops on "Ethics at the Desk" will be presented at four different public libraries around the state by Tracy Carr Seabold. Topics will include privacy, intellectual freedom, dealing with challenges, and user behavior.
October 5, 2006. "Libraries and the Law: How the First Amendment Affects Your Policies, Programs and Services." A program sponsored by the MLA Intellectual Freedom Committee at the MLA Annual Conference in Columbia MO.Missouri
Follow-up report on challenge to graphic novels at the Marshall MO Public Library. Missouri 2
Marshall challenge resolved (Posted 3/19/07). Missouri 3
April 12, 2007. Pam Klipsch, MLA IFC Chair to speak at Kansas Library Associations Tri-Conference in Topeka KS. (Posted April 3, 2007). Missouri 4
Plans underway for Collection Development Program at 2007 MLA Conference in Springfield MO, October 2-5, 2007 (Posted April 3, 2007). Missouri 5
"Teens, Privacy and Online Social Networks" is a new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project issued April 18, 2007. (Posted May 4, 2007). Missouri 6
October 3, 2007: 2:15-3 p.m. "First Amendment and Collection Development: Designing Policies and Procedures That Are Inclusive, Responsive and Transparent." A program sponsored by the MLA Intellectual Freedom Committee at the MLA Annual Conference in Springfield MO. Updated October 14, 2007. Missouri 7
Check out the MLA Intellectual Freedom Committee's page on the Missouri Library Association website at [2]
Law for Librarians policies review (2 hour) workshop scheduled for the Academic/Special/Public Library Divisions of the Montana Library Association at Chico Hot Springs Resort (MT), October 15. http://www.mtlib.org/pld/retreat.html
2007 Nebraska Library Association/Nebraska Educational Media Association Conference in Kearney, October 24-26. The IF Committee sponsored two programs: Media Relations included a panel of folks representing television, newspaper and radio; and the Legal Director for ACLU Nebraska presented the second program on their activities and issues as they corrolate with libraries.
2007 Launched an Intellectual Freedom blog (www.nlaif.blogspot.com)that the IF Committee hopes to be able to update more often. We're trying to include legal library scenarios involving intellectual freedom with a cooperating Nebraska attorney. http://nlaif.blogspot.com
2007 Collaborated with AFCON (Academic Freedom Coalition of Nebraska) and ACLU Nebraska on Banned Book Week activities, public programs and promotion. It included One State One Banned Book - statewide reading project. One State One Banned Book was kicked off by a Nebraska Governor's proclamation.
Intellectual Freedom program at May 2007 NLA Spring Meetings at four sites across the state: Alliance, Kearney, Norfolk and Lincoln. Adam Prochaska, Attorney with Harding & Shultz (Lincoln) and Brenda Ealey (NLA IF Chair) provided information on free speech issues that effect libraries and discussion with attendees concerning real-life library intellectual freedom situations. Nebraska Library Association Public Library Section helped fund a major portion of the costs in doing this program at 4 sites.
2006 Candace Morgan, Lawyers for Libraries & Freedom to Read Foundation, kicked off IF discussion with a session at the NLA Annual conference in Omaha on October 27th. Nebraska Library Commission funded this program.
August 17, 2006. "Patriot Act." A program presented at the Nevada Library Association 2006 Conference held in North Las Vegas (NV).
October 4, 2007. "Access Denied." At the Nevada Library Association meeting held in Carson City, Nevada, three speakers addressed issues relating to access to government information and took questions from the audience. Their topics included removal of information from the Web, FOIA, and the closing of federal libraries.
New Hampshire
The New Hampshire Library Association is presenting as part of its Fall Conference on November 2nd, The Ps and Qs of Talking to the Press: how to handle unsolicited questions from the press with poise, preparation, and plenty of pauses. Mary Ahlgren and the rest of the NH IFC will use suggestions from the Law for Librarians conference and the new IFC manual to generate discussion among the attendees.
New Jersey
New Mexico
October 13, 2006: "Developing an Internet Use Policy: the 1st Amendment, Libraries and the Internet." 1-hour program at the New Mexico Library Association Mini Conference, 15 attendees (5 turned away for lack of space).
October 13, 2006: "NMLA & Intellectual Freedom Issues--a Focus Group Discussion." 1 hour facilitated discussion at the New Mexico Library Association Mini Conference, 25 attendees.
October 25, 2006: "Intellectual Freedom, Libraries and Legislation." 45-minute presentation to the League of Women Voters at their "Lunch with a Leader" program, 10 attendees.
March 16, 2007: "Policy and Practice: How to Avoid the Nasty Bits." Co-sponsored with MPLA at Joint NMLA/MPLA Conference, 50 attendees.
October 12, 2007: "Speaking out at the Crossroads: how to be a library advocate and get your message heard!" 1 hour program at the New Mexico Library Association Mini Conference, 15 attendees.
Other Activities
The Board of the New Mexico Library Association voted to establish a separate Intellectual Freedom Committee at the Annual Meeting in March 2007. The IF Committee had been part of the Legislation Committee. Now with our own team we are able to forge ahead!
Future Activities
Working on a web page for the NMLA website, to be launched at the NMLA Annual Conference in April 2008. Developing a half-day pre-conference for the NMLA Annual Conference in April 2008. Conducting a training needs assessment for members in order to develop regional workshops to be presented 2008-2009.
New York
April 25, 2006 - Intellectual Freedom presentation at SUNY Albany for a MLIS class - 36 in attendance
November 4, 2006 - Defending Intellectual Freedom presentation at NYLA Conference (Saratoga Springs) - 76 in attendance
April 10, 2007 - Intellectual Freedom presentation at SUNY Albany for a MLIS class - 32 in attendance
April 17, 2007 - Intellectual Freedom presentation at St. Thomas Aquinas (Sparkill) for a MLIS class - 8 in attendance
May 5, 2007 - Intellectual Freedom - Why Trustees Should Care luncheon keynote speech at the New York Library Association of Library Boards (NYSALB) Institute (Queens) - 107 in attendance
I am working on two other presentations, one on intellectual freedom and one on privacy, for our member libraries. At this time I do not have dates for these. I will let you know as soon as I have more information. I am thinking that these presentations may be done as interactive web conferences.
North Carolina
North Dakota
The First Amendment, Privacy and Your Library Pre-Conference North Dakota Library Association Annual Conference September 20, 2006 Fargo, ND Also, a session entitle Responding to Intellectual Freedom Challenges North Dakota Library Association September 21, 2006 Fargo, ND
Meeting with Representatives from four state Regional Library Systems to present and review material received at Law for Librarians. Each representative received a complete packet of information, including CD, courtesy of OLC (Ohio Library Council).
Date: July 13
Time: 10 - 3
Number of Attendees: 10
Evaluation of Success: Regional Libraries, state library and Ohio Library Council positioned to work together to raise awareness of Law for Librarians material and offer sessions on the various modules throughout the state as the need arises. Plan to concentrate on making sessions available at Library staff in-service days.
Intellectual Freedom Committee, Ohio Library Council Meeting with current IF committee to present and review material received at Law for Librarians. Each IF member received complete packet of information, including CD.
Date: July 28
Time: 10 - 3
Number of Attendees: 8
Evaluation of Success: State IF members plan to incorporate material into existing presentations and create at least one new session for spring State Chapter conferences. Long-term plan is to create presentations to fill an IF track at biannual statewide conferences.
March 6, 2007 - "1st Amendment -- It's not just for adults!" A full day workshop on youth rights to information access - presented by Dr. Carrie Gardner for the Oklahoma Library Association.
April 4, 2007 - "John Doe Ungagged" Four Connectict librarians vs. the USA PATRIOT ACT! Hear from three of the librarians who were served a National Security letter from the FBI. Listen to them explain how the USA PATRIOT Act took away their constitutional right of free speech. Presented at the Oklahoma Library Assocation's 100th Anniversary Conference.
Oregon Library Association: All-day preconference entitled "Legal Ease: What Staff, Administrators, and Trustees Need to Know about Libraries and the Law."
Wednesday, April 18, 2007, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.
The Pennsylvania Department of Education Office of Commonwealth Libraries and the Pennsylvania Department of Education sponsored two all-day programs on Law for Librarians. They were held in Harrisburg on October 31, 2006 and in Pittsburgh on November 8, 2006. There were a total of 230 school, public and academic librarians in attendance. The programs were very popular and many participants stated that more such sessions are needed. The agenda was as follows:
Introduction – Diana Megdad and Carrie Gardner; Internet Security and CIPA – Carrie Gardner; Youth Access and Materials Challenges – Carrie Gardner; Case Studies – Jan O'Rourke; Internet Privacy and the Patriot Act – Bruce Walter; Meeting Room and Display Cases – Matt Kane; Patron Behavior – Bruce Walter; Wrap Up and Evaluations – Diana Megdad.
Dr. Carrie Gardner is an assistant professor of Library and Information Science at Catholic University of America. Attorney J. Bruce Walter has attended ALA's Lawyers for Libraries program and is a public library trustee. Jan O'Rourke is the chair of the Pennsylvania Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee. Diana Megdad and Matt Kane are advisors with the Office of Commonwealth Libraries.
In 2007 several half-day workshops were held based on Law for Librarians materials. In September Matt Kane presented programs to public librarians in Johnstown and State College, PA, on the topic of meeting rooms and display cases and the First Amendment. Matt Kane and Jim Hollinger, the Director of the Bureau of Library Development at the office of Commonwealth Libraries, presented a program in October in Warren, PA, on the topic Library Policies. In each of the meetings the discussion was lively and librarians went away with the intention of updating their policies to take into account recent court rulings. The total attendance for all the meetings was approximately 55 people.
Rhode Island
Carla Weiss wrote article on Law for Librarians in the Rhode Island Library Association's RILA Bulletin. (http://www.uri.edu/library/rila/SUMMERBULL.pdf)
The HELIN Consortium Access Services Committee sponsored a workshop entitled "Privacy and Confidentiality in the Library" on March 23, 2007 held at Bryant University Library. The speakers were Carla Weiss, Rhode Island College, and Jim Teliha, University of Rhode Island, both members of the Intellectual Freedom Committee of the Rhode Island Library Association.
The Rhode Island Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee sponsored a program for the annual conference, June 7, 2007: "Ssshhh! Patriot Act in Action," presented by Peter Chase, Plainville Public Library, and George Christian, Executive Director, Library Connection.
The Intellectual Freedom Committee is sponsoring a program for the Association's annual conference, June 5-6, 2008: "New Rules for New Spaces: Intellectual Freedom in the Age of Social Software," which will be presented by Jessamyn West, Randolph (Vermont) Tech Career Center.
The Intellectual Freedom Committee plans to publish in 2008 the 6th edition of the Intellectual Freedom Handbook for the Rhode Island Library Association.
South Carolina
South Dakota
The South Dakota Library Association sent a lawyer to the Lawyers for Libraries workshop in November, 2007. He will present a workshop at the 2008 SDLA Annual conference in Chamberlain, SD. This workshop will help libraries understand the laws that may effect libraries and how to write or update their policies.
South Dakota's Attorney General created a task force on open government [3] and this group includes media, law enforcement, government officials, legislators and others. The group has worked for over a year to come to a common understanding and write new open government legislation. Members of the task force had a panel discussion at the 2007 SDLA annual conference. The group has proposed four new laws. SDLA has been working with South Dakotans for Open Government [4] (SDOG) on these new laws.
Todd Quinn will present an overview of Intellectual Freedom issues at the Library Training Institute on June 8, 2007. The Library Training Institute [5] is a four-year program of continuing education for library practitioners, support staff and trustees of small public libraries. No prior formal library science education, or previous college attendance, is required to attend. The Institute is coordinated by the South Dakota State Library.
The South Dakota Library Association has been a member of the board of [6] South Dakotans for Open Government (SDOG) since 2005. SDOG will hold a session on open government at the SDLA annual conference (October 17-18, 2007).
"Law for Librarians" presentation at South Dakota Library Association, September 21, 2006.
November 3, 2006. "Up for the Challenge: Be Prepared at Your School Library/Media Center" Program held at the annual conference of the Tennessee Association of School Librarians on November 3, 2006. Covered practical information useful in dealing with library materials challenges in schools, policies and reconsideration forms, including a discussion of the Intellectual Freedom issues and case law that support our freedom to read. Presented by Dr.Carrie Gardner, Assistant Professor, Catholic University of America. Sponsored by the Tennessee Library Association.
Texas Training activities covering procedures for dealing with materials challenges were held for the Alamo Area Library System in May 2006 and in conjuction with the Annual Meeting of the Northeast Texas Library System in June 2006. In addition, the TLA Intellectual Freedom Committee sponsored two programs during the 2007 Annual Conference in San Antonio: "Robie Harris and Librarians - Freedom to Write and Read" and "Are We There Yet: A Road Map for Dealing with Materials Challenges." On October 10, 2006, the first of several planned Law for Librarians training opportunities was held via videoconference. The title was Internet, CIPA, and Sexual Harassment. Information was provided about: Internet, Unprotected Speech, CIPA, DOPA, Filters, Sexual Harassment, and Internet Safety Policies. Nine remote locations participated in the broadcast. More than 90 individuals preregistered to attend. We are still waiting on actual attendance numbers and evaluations at this time.
Over the next two years, additional Law for Librarian training opportunities were planned. The following is a tentative schedule of upcoming events:
Topic: Privacy & Confidentiality
Date: March 13, 2007
Format: Videoconference
Topics: Religious Issues; Youth Access; Labels and Rating Systems; and Meeting Rooms
Date range: February - May 2007
Format: Face-to-face workshop (in-person)
To be held in at least 10 locations around the state
Topics: First Amendment & Libraries and Challenges to Library Resources
Date available: After September 1, 2007
Format: Online
Plans are underway to offer a "Law for Librarians" training in conjunction with the 2007 Utah Library Association Annual Conference to be held May 16-18 in Provo, Utah. An attorney from ACLU-Utah will be the main speaker addressing important legal issues for libraries that should guide services and policy development (First Amendment, Patriot Act, CIPA, Privacy, etc.). This will be followed by small group break out discussions on how to deal with difficult scenarios in libraries, with the solutions to be critiqued by our attorney speaker and all participants.
We may also include the play developed in Montana "Invasion of the Privacy Snatchers" or a modified version of it. Thanks Montana colleagues for sharing it!
We will soon be posting the ULA IFC "Intellectual Freedom Manual and Action Guide" on our ULA web site: www.ula.org. This publication is intended to be used in local libraries to guide policy development and train staff, trustees, and administrators. We are updating other parts of the ULA IFC web site as well. This updating is greatly needed!
We are also working on developing another IF training to be offered in Utah later in 2007 or early in 2008.
"First Amendment for Librarians" workshop presented at the Brown Public Library, Northfield, VT on July 28, seven in attendance. Another workshop, "Foundations of the First Amendment", covering the same material with an historical overview, is scheduled for May 8 in Stowe. The workshop will be given late summer/early fall also.
On November 10, 2006 the Intellectual Freedom Committee of the Virginia Library Association sponsored a session at the annual conference of the VLA titled "Challenges to Library Resources--How to Prepare and Respond." The session was a panel moderated by Paul Rittelmeyer, co-chair of the IFC, and included Madelyn Wessel, a lawyer from the University of Virginia, and Susan Thornily, Coordinator of Library Information Services from the Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools. Ms. Wessel is the Special Advisor to the University Librarian at UVa and is quite knowledgable in First Amendment law and issues facing libraries. Ms. Thornily, in her experience in Fairfax County, has faced many challenges to books in the school libraries, and has developed policies that do not discourage challenges, but make them more manageable for the librarians. Over forty people attended even though it was the final session on the final day of the conference, and the weather was beautiful. The audience enjoyed the many handouts we had available, and the evaluations indicated the session was quite useful.
WLA Annual Conference, April 18-21, 2007
April 19: "Intellectual Freedom Challenges: Stories from the Frontlines" A public library director and a school librarian describe what it was like to deal with a major challenge over an issue of access in their own libraries. Bruce Ziegman and Eve Datisman describe the issues that were raised, tactics and pressures used in efforts to limit access, and librarian responses, including lessons learned during the process.
April 20: "Net Neutrality" Jonathan Franklin (attorney, University of Washington law librarian, and Law for Librarians participant) presented an overview of net neutrality--what it means, why it's important to understand it, and how it can affect libraries and the issue of intellectual freedom.
Catherine Lord has presented the following workshops for library staff and board members in Washington state:
- 'Intellectual Freedom: Responding to Challenges' for: King County Library System on November 24, 2006, March 2, 2007
- 'Defending Access with Confidence' all-day training for: Kitsap Regional Library System, spring and summer each year in 2006, 2007, and planned for 2008; King County Library System on November 8, 2007
- 'Intellectual Freedom in Public Libraries' for Puyallup Library Board members in spring of 2007
- 'Defending Access with Confidence: History, Philosophy and Policies' for Pierce County Library, January 18, 2008 and February 29 2008 (two half-day sessions each day)
In addition, Catherine is now co-teaching her third 'Intellectual Freedom' course at the University of Washington I-School with Angelina Benedetti, Manager of Collection Services at King County Library System. Catherine and Angie have taught library school students in both traditional classroom formats and in distance education format.
West Virginia
Wisconsin November 2, 2006: presented "Intellectual Freedom: From Principles to Best Practices" to about 35 individuals. Developed new Intellectual Freedom Round Table web pages, with links to ALA and state of Wisconsin resources.
October 16, 2007: Half-day Preconference featuring Judith Krug, plus time for facilitated discussion round tables. About 30 registered for the pre-conference. Judith also presened a program on Wednesday, October 17 on breaking news in IF.
Plans for the 2008 conference are just getting underway, but the Intellectual Freedom Round Table of WLA always plans a few programs on current IF issues. Privacy could be a big one to cover this year, given the changes in the state statutes relating to disclosure of library records in publicly funded libraries. Another bill related to disclosure of records was set to be introduced in this legislative session, but it probably will be on hold until the next session.
Wyoming Library Association Conference,Cheyenne, WY Thursday, September 13, 2007 "It's My Right, Too: Free Speech and Teens" -- Information and discussion about teens' rights to information access.
Mountain Plains
We have two programs for the Mountain Plains Library Association conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 15, 2007. The first is a talk by Kansas Law Professor Michael Hoefinch entitled: "Libraries and Privacy in the Post 9/11 Era>"
The second is a workshop entitled: Policy and Practice: "How to Avoid the Nasty Bits."
New England
"Don't Get Sued: Meeting Room & Display Policies that Work" This program was offered at the 2006 New England Library Association annual conference in Burlington, VT on Sunday, October 22; it was sponsored by the NELA IFC and supported by some of the New England participants at the Law for Librarians. Discussion of issues raised by the recent Contra Costa case took place; June Pinnell-Stephens' PowerPoint on exhibits was briefly reviewed, and relevant LBOR documents distributed.
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Possible EPA takeover seems like a gift to White
AUSTIN — The EPA's crackdown on Texas' air-quality regulation might seem like a gift to Democrat Bill White, but Gov. Rick Perry is seizing on the mess as a way to tie him to what the Republican portrays as big, bad federal government.
The situation is important to anyone who breathes.
The EPA, which delegates authority to issue permits to states, says it could take over Texas' entire program because the state isn't following the Clean Air Act. Texas disputes the EPA's contentions.
"I guarantee you that as governor, I'll ensure Texas complies with the law and I'll bring the ability to regulate the refineries back to Texas where it belongs," White said as the EPA moved in last week.
White's camp blamed Perry for managing the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality "into a ditch" (the governor appoints TCEQ commissioners). It described White's success in the oil and gas business and his fight against air pollution while Houston mayor as a key credentials.
In return, Perry's camp took a gut-punch approach with a press release headlined, "Bill White and Obama Administration Working Together to Kill Texas Jobs." Among its points, it cited a report of White meeting with senior EPA officials while mayor and saying that Texas' procedures should be improved.
Who'll win this PR battle? "It really could cut either way," said SMU political scientist Cal Jillson. "Perry will try to make this another example of federal overreach ... It worked for him against Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Republican primary. The general election is a broader audience, and obviously that opens up the possibility that Bill White will be able to say, 'Look, our educational system is badly lagging, our environmental system is about to be taken over by the federal government, and we don't have enough roads ... We have to do something. Here's my program. Here's where I'd be different.'"
How you feel when you walk into GOP fundraiser Susan Lilly's office depends on your view of killing — and stuffing — baboons. Wait all you want for the punch line, but this one's just a fact. A baboon killed by Lilly's client state Sen. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville, while on a big-game hunt greets visitors to Lilly's office. It holds a Nichols bumper sticker. Nichols said he gave the stuffed creature to Lilly "on extended loan" after noticing that she didn't have any of his posters in her office. He said he's been on seven safaris to Africa — among his trophies is a leopard — but added, "Since I've been in the Senate, it's kind of messed up my big hunts" because of the time involved. Check out Texas Politics for a photo.
Former GOP candidate for governor Debra Medina's "We Texans" group has been denied exhibit space at the state GOP convention in Dallas June 11-12. She's written a strong letter, saying, "Not only is it fiscally irresponsible to reject the money ($5,000), it is a strategically bad business and political decision." State GOP spokesman Bryan Preston said by e-mail, "It's been the practice of the party for more than a decade that if you sue the party, you don't get to exhibit, and she sued the party." Medina while Wharton County GOP chairwoman led a legal fight against the state GOP over the order of business at the 2008 convention.
It's week 12 of waiting for White to release his income tax returns for the time he served as Houston mayor.

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OSHKOSH — King Schools has released a free iPad and iPhone compatible app that connects to King Schools Online Knowledge Test Courses and allows customers to download the course's video lessons.
This means the video lessons can be watched at any time, with or without an Internet connection, company officials said at AirVenture.
The free app is available from the Apple App Store and requires a King Schools iLearn account containing at least one King Knowledge Test Course. Once logged in, customers can navigate through the course and tap to download a lesson (or to unload a lesson to free up space on their device).
"We know customers enjoy the benefits of King Online Knowledge Test Courses, such as the fact that they never expire and are always up-to-date," commented John. "The one thing that folks have asked for, is the ability to view their video lessons when not connected to the Internet."
"Now they have that ability by simply downloading a free app," added Martha. "And since this app works with all existing King Knowledge Test Courses, current customers will get this new benefit immediately, just by downloading the app."
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Hey gang, Natalie Reed — a recent guest on Godless Bitches — is a member of two distinct minority communities. She is both atheist and transgendered. Those communities apparently, at best, share an uneasy alliance. Much like I've learned to expect that any remotely pro-feminism post here will receive vocal disapproval from many atheists, Natalie's trans community has a number of anti-atheists who don't think they should hold back from shouting indignantly at the godless.
Thus, her latest post, "God Does Not Love Trans People", is guaranteed to get a pile of cranky comments from a bunch of members of one group crossing over into the atheist blogosphere. You see, it's like this:
"Lately there have been a number of posts circulating throughout the trans blogosphere making statements to the effect that God loves and accepts His transgender children, and that being trans is not necessarily in conflict with being a religious believer, or even a Christian, Muslim or Jew. While I perfectly understand the motivation behind these posts, and why people feel such a strong need for this message, I nonetheless find it very deeply problematic, and kinda sorta feel a bit of a compelling need to address it. See, I honestly believe that religious faith is inherently dangerous and harmful, that we, the queer community, often are especially victimized by it, and especially ought to understand its potential harms, that the danger is an element of the underlying definition of religious faith itself rather than simply particular sects, beliefs or institutions based upon it, and that we are doing ourselves a pretty big disservice in constructing apologetics (or encouraging them) designed to ease the dissonance between our identities and the belief systems we hold dear."
Go and give these commenters a warm welcome, won't you? Be respectful and please stay away if you're the sort who just wants some other oppositional minority to pick on. But if you see any nonsensical claims about the godless and their habits rearing their ugly head, verily I say to you that you must smack them down with great gusto.


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A Florida woman spearheaded a push to set the world record for most women breastfeeding simultaneously, and at 10:30 am yesterday, success!
"The Big Latch-On" succeeded in getting 60 women to simultaneously breastfeed their babies, garnering a world record, although 60 seems like a pretty small number considering the number of babies in the world and the fact that at any given second, it's probably likely that about that many women are breastfeeding. But I digress!
The purpose of the event, which coincided with World Breastfeeding Week, wasn't necessarily to break a record, but rather to normalize the act of public breastfeeding.
"Breast-feeding is normal and healthy," said Magen Gilbreath, 27, of New Port Richey, who organized the Largo latch-on, held in conjunction with a family fun day hosted by the nonprofit Tampa Bay Birth Network. "Normalizing it is pretty important."
Gilbreath explains that she often gets dirty looks while breastfeeding in public, and that serves to discourage other women from doing something that should actually be encouraged.
Local Women Promote Breastfeeding in World Record Attempt [St. Petersburg Times]


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Popular performer will be in Cougar Room on Thursday at 6 p.m.
Performer Duffy Hudson will be at Taft College with a new show this week.
He'll perform the Cougar room on Thursday at 6 p.m.
Children of all ages are invited see his interpretation of Dr. Seuss, including Horton Hears a Who, The Sneeches, The Zax and others.
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Lamar football looks for its third consecutive win over Southeastern Louisiana as they host the Lions on Sept. 29 at 3 p.m. to open the Southland Conference portion of their schedule. The athletic department is offering a family package for this afternoon game with four tickets, four hot dogs, four drinks and four candies for $70. Call (409) 880-1715.
Lamar is coming off a 31-0 non-conference win over Langston College, and SELA comes to Beaumont after upsetting No. 17 McNeese State last weekend, 25-24. SELA also leads the all-time series, 4-3, and this marks the first time that the Lions have played in Beaumont since 1967.
The game will be broadcast live on Southland Conference Television, which is Time Warner 870 (digital service) and 15 (regular cable). It can also be listened to on 560 AM, KLVI radio.
Men's golf
The Cards finished eighth on Sept. 24 at the Windon Memorial Classic from Skokie Country Club in Glencoe, Ill. with a team total of 50-over 902. Ohio State won the team title with an 881.
Stephane Dubois led Lamar in scoring with a 7-over 220 to tie for 12th place. John Callahan of Northwestern won individual medalist honors at 1-under 212.
Other LU golfers were Luke Jerling (225, T84), Erik Knudsen (225, T84), Marc Dobias (232, T50) and Gustaf Burenstam (240, T68).
For the first time since 1987, the Lady Cards took to the softball field when they hosted Texas Woman's University at Ford Fields on Sept. 22 in Beaumont. The doubleheader of fall exhibition games marked the first two contests for Lamar as they tied 6-6 in Game 1 and won 8-5 in Game 2."I saw some good things and some things we need to work on," said first-year coach Holly Bruder. "It's good to get these first two games under our belt."
No official statistics were kept, but Bruder mentioned that some players really stood out.
"Stephanie Meeuwsen really hit the heck out of the ball," Bruder said. "Marissa LeJune also did a good job at the plate. I saw some good things from our starting pitchers, Tina Schulz and Shannon Millman were strong."
Lamar returns to action at 6 p.m. on Sept. 28 when it hosts Northwood in a single game at Ford Park. Admission to all home games this fall is free.Women's golf
Senior Julie Aime won her third career individual victory at the ULM Fred Marx Invitational by one stroke Sept. 25 in Monroe, La. Aime finished with a 2-under-par total of 214. As a team, Lamar posted its third straight round of 300 to finish in fourth place with a 54-hole total of 900 (+36). Southern Miss won the team title with an 894 total (+30).
Other Lady Card golfers that competed were Nghi Nov (223, T5), Taylor Stockton (231, T30), Katelyn McDougal (234, T40) and Lauren Van Gerven (235, T48).
The Lady Cardinals will continue their fall season at the ORU Shootout from Meadowbrook Golf Club in Tulsa, Okla., on Oct. 1-2.
The Lady Cards dropped both games in the UC Riverside Tournament last weekend in California, losing 4-0 to UC Davis and 2-1 to host UC Riverside.
LU (4-6-1) will open conference play Sept. 28 in Lake Charles at McNeese State at 7 p.m. before hosting Nicholls on Sept. 30 at 1 p.m.Volleyball
LU volleyball dropped to 1-3 overall in SLC play as they lost two home games over the weekend to Northwestern State (3-2) and Stephen F. Austin (3-1). The Lady Cards (9-9) will next travel to McNeese State on Sept. 29 at 2 p.m. and Oral Roberts on Oct. 4 at 7 p.m.
Cross country
Sam Stabler became the third Lamar runner to be honored as the SLC Athlete of the Week after the Leicester, England native picked up his first win of the season at the LSU Invitational on Sept. 15 in Baton Rouge, La. Stabler clocked an 8,000-meter time of 25:51.7.
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California mite becomes fastest land animal
Arachnid outruns cheetah in terms of body lengths per second
Courtesy of J.C. Wright
A sesame seed–sized mite from California can't leap tall buildings in a single bound, and it is definitely not more powerful than a locomotive. But it is quick. New videos have captured the Paratarsotomus macropalpis mite skittering along at almost 30 centimeters per second. P. macropalpis moves 322 body lengths per second and is now by far the fastest land animal in terms of speed for its size. A human running that many body lengths per second could cover about 2,317 kilometers, or 1,440 miles, per hour. For comparison, Usain Bolt, among the fastest humans in the world, runs 45 kilometers per hour (28 miles per hour) at full speed, and only for short sprints. The cheetah retains its title for fastest animal land speed overall, but for relative speed the animal that comes closest to the mite is the Australian tiger beetle, the previous record holder. Studying the biomechanics of the mite


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Huntington Beach, CA – Night Optics USA introduces a new digital night vision monocular.
Night Optics USA, a manufacturer of high performance night vision and thermal imaging systems for over 20 years, has introduced the new Digital Sentry 2x night vision monocular. Based on the very popular PVS-14 (Sentry 14) design, the Digital Sentry monocular features a ¼" CMOS sensor delivering full color images to the 330×224 pixel LED display.
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Before I head off for a sabbatical this summer, I wanted to reflect on the past 11 years, and share with you why I do what I do, and share a story about the birth of my second daughter, Stella, and the greatest accomplishment ever achieved.
See, I'm the luckiest guy on the planet. I have two wonderful daughters and an awesome wife who's into nerds, namely me. I've been lucky enough to find myself on the Photoshop development team for the past 11 years. I started at Adobe in July of 2001. Through the years, I've worked on number of versions of Photoshop, each with their own challenges and each with their own triumphs. From helping to deliver the first version of Photoshop to run on OS X, to asking "Why can't I select more than one layer at time?" to helping rearchitect Photoshop for Mac OS Cocoa/64-bit, to the most recent release of Photoshop CS6 with all its customer driven enhancements. I've even recently realized a personal goal to author a published book. And through all the years and developing many versions of Photoshop, I've worked with many amazing software developers, who above all else, are amazing people. And no-where is it better displayed than in the Photoshop CS6 splash screen:
Who is Stella James Tranberry? And why is she an inspiration?
Stella is my second daughter. She was born three weeks early in mid-August, 2011, with a serious heart defect: Pulmonary Atresia or Blue Baby Syndrome. Thankfully, a pediatrician discovered the problem prior to being sent home. We were rushed to Children's Hospital were she was placed on prostaglandins to keep her ductus arterioles open. Here's Stella and I day one:
I let my boss and friends at work know what was going on. Despite my plan to take 6 weeks off for paternity leave, I was consistently reassured by everyone at every level of our organization – "Do what you need to do. Take as much time as you need. Don't even think about work."
Things were about to become more complicated than we ever imagined. Stella's heart stopped during a catheter procedure when she was just 4 days old. Many of her organs had shut down. She had to be placed on life support in the form of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or ECMO. There was a 50/50 chance that she would make it. The odds of her being blind, deaf or having brain damage were high even if she did survive. We had about 14 days on ECMO before clots would form in the system and the odds of survival dropped lower. They didn't sugarcoat it.
Bleeding on her brain was discovered from imaging done overnight. Babies vascular systems are very delicate and the trauma of CPR/chest compressions after her heart stopped probably caused some bleeding. He left lung collapsed. Things seemed like they were going from bad to worse.
I couldn't bring myself to take a photo of her in this condition. It was too painful. I didn't want any record of this experience for fear that it would only be a reminder of heartache. Stella remained on ECMO – but if there was ever to be a chance for her heart take over for the machines that kept her alive, doctors would need to perform another open heart surgery to repair a valve and place a Blalock–Taussig shunt or BT shunt. (Side note: see the movie "Something the Lord Made" for a touching story on how this procedure was pioneered.) On about day 10 she had stabilized enough for them to perform the surgery. I finally brought myself to snap a photo of her using my phone:
That same day, my buddy Dave Dobish, from our Minnesota office, stopped by the hospital to see how we were doing and also drop of a box of Tibetan style prayer flags that my coworkers had signed with words of encouragement for us to hang in her room. We had flags from coworkers all over the world: Minnesota, San Jose, San Francisco, Seattle, Ottawa, and Beijing. We would need all the encouragement we could get. Time was running out for her heart to regain it's strength and get off of ECMO.
Getting her off of ECMO wasn't a smooth process. The first time they dialed it down, she wasn't keeping up, and needed to dial it back up. Rachel and I were getting worried. It took another 4-5 days, but she finally did it. They were able to get her off of ECMO:
Stella's left lung and kidney function continued to be a problem. She needed yet another procedure to plicate her diaphragm and Peritoneal dialysis (PD) since they could no longer help her kidneys through SCUF-ing her blood on ECMO. OK, one more procedure, and maybe we'll be out of the woods.
More bad news. The ventricles in her brain were growing larger. The bleeding in her brain had stabilized but she was no longer regulating the amount of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in her brain. Hydrocephalus. Her head was starting to swell, she was more tired, and her eyes were sundowning when she was awake. She needed brain surgery to place a catheter and reservoir above her hairline they could tap with a needle to drain the CSF from her brain as needed:
The neurosurgeons told us the reservoir was temporary – with her most likely needing a permanent VP shunt to continually drain the CSF from her brain. The VP shunt would have to wait in any case because it needed to drain into her abdomen which was currently occupied by the dialysis tube. We held out hope that she wouldn't need the permanent VP shunt and used the reservoir for several weeks until her kidneys kicked back in and we weened her off the ventilator that helped her breath:
We eventually weened her off the vent – and started the slow process of teaching her to eat on her own. This was perhaps the biggest challenge we faced as parents. All the trauma she'd been through, having tubes going in her mouth and down her esophagus, had made it nearly impossible for her to take a bottle of even a nook and not have violent gag reflex. We worked for several weeks to try and get her eating on her own by the time we would leave the hospital.
Several days before we were to be discharged from the hospital we made the decision with our care team to remove the reservoir and replace it with a VP shunt. We also had to fit her with a feeding tube so we could continue to fatten her up while she learned to eat on her own:
In all, Stella spent close to 3 months in the hospital. From day one, everyone on my team at Adobe, along with family and friends, had rallied around us with texts, daily posts and comments on Facebook, as well as cards and care packages to help lift our spirits during this ordeal. Stella's recovery was a team effort – a triumph grander than any release of software.
Here is a photo of Stella at home:
What does Stella have to do with software development? Throughout my career, I've faced many challenges while helping develop Photoshop into the product it is today. What I've learned from it all is that challenges require teamwork. They require hard work and caring. They require listening, observing, getting your hands dirty, understanding and always focusing on the the customer. That's what I've always tried to do while working on Photoshop. That's what I do in my current role as a Customer Advocate for our Digital Imaging products. That's how I approached Stella's recovery.
See you in September.
– Jeffrey Tranberry
Product Manager – Chief Customer Advocate – Digital Imaging
@jtranber on Twitter


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Texas Student Television is the only student-run, FCC-licensed, digitally broadcasting college television station in the country. Students can learn camerawork, directing, producing, writing, and so much more. Working with a broadcast adviser, the student staff makes all decisions about programming, use of equipment, marketing, production projects and the future of the station.
No show that interests you? TSTV has also launched a writing incubator program. If you have an idea for a television show or just want to learn how the process works, this is for you. Learn all about the process of creating a TSTV show, from development to airtime.
One of the best parts about TSTV is the fact that it is very flexible and most students can find a way to fit it into their schedule even if they are involved with other activities. After taking only three or more classes, volunteers will be able to get access to the studio, editing lab, and equipment checkout system that they otherwise wouldn't have access to until their last years of school. While the majority of TSTV volunteers are Radio-Television-Film or Journalism majors in the College of Communication, it is by no means a necessity. TSTV provides anyone from any major a chance to work in whatever interests them. Don't want to wait until the next general meeting? CONTACT US! You can be added to our email list and find out when our shows meet.
Whether you are a first-year student or a fifth-year student, there's a place for you at TSTV. At the beginning of the semester we hold an open general meeting where any interested potential volunteers can meet current staff and student volunteers. During the meeting we also play promos for all of the current shows being made at the station and give the producers an opportunity to pitch their show. Then, if new volunteers find something that interests them, they can sign up for that show's email list to find out more about meeting times.


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More stories from the Philips FunHouse Studio
>> Sunday, September 2, 2007
It's a great honor to meet the original developers of CD-i software and thankfully they were involved with the format full of love. The best thing that can happen is that they are getting excited by our website's material and start the conversation. Some of the best interviews available at the vault of The Black Moon Project started like this. So it went with some of the FunHeads, the guys behind the Philips Funhouse Studio and how they were called by their supervisor: Cliff Johnson. We have the pleasure to share some more stories of Funhouse behind the scene, featuring one of the FunHeads: Gordon Brooks.
First a little flashback of Philips Funhouse, told by founder Cliff Johnson: "I shall always love Philips for handing this Fool $4 million dollars to build a team to create and complete three lovingly hand-crafted, puzzle-driven products, the latter two were the kind of Hollywood feature-animation films I'd never made in Hollywood. It should be noted that Hanna-Barbera's Cartoon Carnival was Philips' most popular title — I have the royalty statements to prove it! And though Philips gave up the ghost on CD-I in 1996, it is some consolation that CD-I sold more units than 3DO, a similar machine spawned by Electronic Arts whiz, Trip Hawkins.
Hanna-Barbera's Cartoon Carnival was the first CD-I game to take advantage of Philips' highly touted Full Motion Video cartridge. You could play Huckleberry Hound's Gift Emporium, The Flintstones' Balloon Ballyhoo, Scooby Doo's Adventure Isle, Yogi Bear's Pic-A-Nik Place, The Jetsons' Space Race, and Top Cat's Top Facts to earn letters. Once you earned all 15 letters of the words CARTOON CARNIVAL, one of 60 classic cartoon clips is your reward. Merlin's Apprentice is a challenging tale of medieval sorcery in which you aspire to become apprentice to that great wizard Merlin. Yet you must work through many enchantments and outwit a threesome of clever demons to win his favor.
Labyrinth of Crete is a challenging tale of Greek mythology in which you must appease both the King and Queen of Mt. Olympus. Yet you must conquer the treachery within the walls of the labyrinth and seek the gifts of the Gods and Goddesses who await you in their sacred temples. *FunHouse* was my production group at Philips and is best remembered by Brian Allgeier's outrageous Christmas Cards. Our specialty was puzzle games with sumptuous hand-drawn animation and rousing musical accompaniment. We were the first stop when international visitors toured the Philips facility (which seemed almost daily).
My CD-I career as Director/Producer began when Sarina Simon approached me to do Hanna Barbera's Cartoon Carnival, ostensibly the same concept as another product I had designed — Disney's Cartoon Arcade. I set to work on Cartoon Carnival as a team of one, programming the concept in Hypercard in a tiny office on the second floor near the men's room. I soon created Hypercards for Merlin's Apprentice and Labyrinth of Crete as well and they, too, were green-lighted. Yet I'd garnered a $4,000,000 budget and had no staff whatsoever to create the projects. That's how *FunHouse* came to be. It began as 8 determined FunHeads — Gordon Brooks, Paul Mithra, Brian Allgeier, Doran Fish, Brad Parker, Kelly Holthaus, Clayton Wishoff, and myself — and at its peak, swelled to over 30 artists, animators, and programmers."
Gordon Brooks has been featured before in Interactive Dreams with his Funhouse story. Today I'm particularly intrested in what happened to Funhouse after 1996, when Philips decided to pull the plug out of all its media divisions, including Philips Funhouse. Gordon: "We had started a little bit of development on three other titles, an original interactive story called "The Big Old House," a music disc based on the songs of children's singer-songwriter Joe Scruggs (we had even met with Joe at CES to discuss the project), and an interactive simulation of "The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy," about which I had been corresponding via email with the late Douglas Adams."
What happened to Surf City, a Philips Sidewalk production which had the longest development time of all your titles?
"When you first asked, nothing came to mind, so I pulled out an FPD I have and took a look to refresh my memory. That title is enormous! There is so much animation, and so many complicated moves, and so many things to click on, that ever with many of the games being recycled from older Sidewalk titles, it was just too much project for one small group. And I recall the Art Director, Alex (can't think of his last name as the moment) beings something of a bottleneck when I worked with him."
When I have a look at the release schedule I notice Labyrinth Of Crete was released in 1997, but the copyright was from 1995. What happened in those years?
"Philips Media folded in 1996, so that 1997 release was probably the CD-ROM version. I think the CDi version was probably released just as we were all leaving Philips, but the copyright would have been dated when the title was finished rather that when it was released."
"I am very interested to find out more about your project and its purpose, and I would be glad to tell you anything else I can remember. Are you more interested in the people, the technology, the production techniques, or something else? Please contact me whenever you wish. Although CDi was a commercial failure, I recognize much of our groundwork in the interactive titles being done today, and I'm proud to have been a part of it."
Actually, we're fully dedicated to Philips CD-i and every story, anecdote and trivia related to CD-i we all highly appreciate (regarding the visitor stats!). Today, we're trying to share more information about one of the Funhouse prototype software titles: Treasures of Oz. Gordon:
"David McElhatten was the ultimate CDi insider, at least in the California studio. I don't thin much of anything went on there that he didn't know about. There shouldn't be a problem using any of the "Treasures of Oz" visuals; as far as I know, they belong to Philips, unless those rights were assigned to PMPro later, and even then I think it falls under the category of Fair Use. If you have any occasion to use any portion of the soundtrack, however, I'm not clear what the situation would be with the Diana Ross voice-overs; safest I think just to skip over those.
You'll learn a lot more about Oz just by playing it, although I realized when you asked the question that you might not be familiar with the origins of the story other than the MGM musical. Treasures of Oz is based on L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," the first of 14 books he wrote about the magical land. The series was very popular in the US, and generated some interesting imitators in Russia, but never seems to have caught on in Europe. If you are interested in reading the book, you can download a free copy from Project Gutenberg (the Oz books are in the public domain).
To answer the rest of your questions, Oz does not require a DV cartridge, and a diagonal pan is a scene where the camera seems to move in a diagonal direction. Easy to do in live action or traditional animation, but a difficult feat in CDi. Treasure of Oz is the only CD-i title that features diagonal scrolling, something that seemed impossible in the first years of CD-i."
A flashback through the Philips Media employee list brings back memories: "One name I wanted to mention, though, was DR, head of POV. I don't know how to contact him, although some time spent with Google might be fruitful. If anyone would have anything of Voyeur 2, it would be him.
And I'm sure he has some good stories to tell. I also remembered that RN has a website where she promotes her art career, and oddly makes no mention of CDi at all in her biography. She can give you the entire history of Kidspace and Sidewalk Studios. I also have a suggestion concerning SS. She has authored several books on education and child development. Last I heard of SS she was with Leap Frog, the education toy company, although I don't think she's there now."
Can you share some details about the 'lost' Philips Studio: Philips Kaleidoscope?
"Actually, Kaleidoscope started in 1994, overlapping my work on Merlin and Labyrinth for Funhouse. I managed to form my own group in order to continue doing children's titles for Sarina Simon after Cliff Johnson announced that he would no longer be doing children's titles. It started and, unfortunately, ended with Oz, although we had done a couple of concept write-up s for other discs. There were actually three buildings at the time Kaleidoscope was formed, all on Santa Monica Boulevard. We had several executive offices in one (that was where Gordon Stuhlberg, and Bernie Kaufman were), and we comepletely leased out one, and had the entire third floor of the other for production space.
We all moved around a lot among those buildings until the executives finally decided to put us all in one building. There was talk of a warehouse in Santa Monica, which pleased those of us who understood that warehouse space is versatile, just what you need for the ever- changing demands of production. But we ended up spending the last one and a half years of our existence in a very fancy, very expensive office building on Wilshire Boulevard. I don't have pictures, but the building was nothing special. And it did serious damage to everyone's overhead budgets.
There was also a studio in Thousand Oaks, which is where Dave Riordan's group was, and another Philips-run studio in Washington, DC. So, I co-directed Merlin, and directed the character animation on Labyrinth. As a filmmaker and animation director, there are a few things I wince at, although only someone with lots of exposure to the animation business would notice most of it (I've been hanging around with animators for about 25 years; I even married one)."
Many thanks to Gordon Brooks, Cliff Johnson and another anonymous FunHead ;) More to come!


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Iranian-born Anousheh Ansari spent more than $20 million on a trip into space. Although the trip wasn't all plain sailing, she tells BBC Future she is now addicted and will return.
In school, teachers tell us we can be anything we want; we should aim high, they say. Anousheh Ansari's story is an example of why we should maybe listen to them. It is one that will make most of us feel like underachievers.
Ever since she could remember, Ansari wanted to be an astronaut. As a child she would draw pictures of herself sitting in a spacecraft, blasting into orbit. But, as a young Iranian girl growing up in the 1970s, becoming a space-farer was an unlikely career path – particularly in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution.
The goal seemed almost as elusive when Ansari and her family emigrated to the United States in 1984. Unable to speak English, the 18 year old immersed herself in education, graduating with a degree in electronics, followed by a masters in electrical engineering. She started her first business with her husband in 1993 and, less than 10 years later, she sold it for hundreds of millions of dollars. An impressive example of the American dream, but not enough for Ansari. She still wanted to be an astronaut.
In 2002, Ansari pledged $10m on the race to launch the first private spacecraft. When aircraft designer Burt Rutan won the Ansari X Prize in 2004, this started the development of space tourism. Now, at the very least, Ansari hoped she could get a seat on a spaceplane. But as no-one had built one that could carry passengers yet, with the money available and a life-long goal still unfulfilled, she decided to go one better, and spent some $20m with Space Adventures on a trip to orbit.
After six months extensive training, Ansari launched into space on a Soyuz rocket, in 2006, for a 10 day mission. In doing so, she became the first Iranian woman in space, the first woman to take a commercial spaceflight and the first woman to blog from space.
However, in one of her first dispatches from orbit, she revealed that not everything had gone to plan. Describing the feelings of space sickness – disorientation, nausea and vomiting – that she experienced during her first day in space, she wrote that she was angry with herself for getting ill. When I spoke to her recently at the Aspen Ideas Festival, I started by asking whether this anger said something about her character:
"I'm a very competitive person and when I do something I always want to do my best. So here it is, I'm realising my childhood dream, I'm in the Soyuz with these two guys - and as a woman I felt I always had to prove I'm very strong -and I'm getting sick.
"It was my fault because you go through the training and they tell you that for the first few days you shouldn't move around a lot; move your head too much; you should make very small moves. But as soon as I was weightless, and lifted myself out of my seat, I was like a little kid and I couldn't help myself. I go up so fast I hit my head on the other end of the module. Then I turn around and start flipping around and I'm looking out of the window and of course I get sick. And the next two days I can't get over the motion sickness and I was mad at myself, I'm wasting two days of this amazing trip and I can't even look out of the window anymore."
But don't a lot of astronauts get sick – it's just that they never admit it…
"Yes, it's just that everyone – especially people in the astronaut corps – they have to prove that they have the "right stuff". And they are strong, they're amazing people, but there're a lot of things that happen to the human body when you go into space and motion sickness is one of them."
After two days in the Soyuz spacecraft, sharing a very small space with two cosmonauts, you dock with the International Space Station (ISS) and you are asked if you would like to smell space?
"When they opened the hatch, there's a little bit of space captured between the Soyuz side and the space station side. I took a whiff and it smelt like a burnt almond cookie to me. And that became this big thing [among the other astronauts] 'space smells like an almond cookie to her!' Later on I found out it's because the thrusters they fire when they are trying to dock use a fuel that has cyanide in it and cyanide has an almond smell."
So space probably doesn't smell of anything?
"I don't believe so [she laughs]…"
So what does the space station smell like?
"The space station is almost like a bachelor pad, so I don't think they keep it up that well. On top of that you have equipment and wires and experiments. I'm an engineer and I've been in technology labs so it smells of that wire smell and also it's a closed environment, so the air gets recycled and recycled, so it's a very stale environment."
A bit like if you were stuck in an aircraft?
"Imagine if you were stuck in an aircraft and the door wasn't opened for several years – it's something like that."
But in your blog, you describe being on the space station as feeling like home?
"I'd never felt so at home before because it [space] was the destination I always wanted to go to. And I was finally there. It meant I'd accomplished something that everyone told me I couldn't. I described it to some people as being like when people go on a pilgrimage to Mecca. For me it was my pilgrimage and I was there, I finally made it. I did feel at home and I didn't want to leave."
You had eight days on the ISS – you must have felt that was nowhere near enough – but what did you do in that short time?
"You're given a pretty packed schedule. They even schedule your sleep, when you're going to brush your teeth, everything is scheduled. There were a few experiments I was part of for the European Space Agency and there were set times that I performed them. I looked out of the window a lot and I did a lot of outreach because I felt it was important to share this experience. I felt that I was very privileged, that I was very lucky to be there. I know that there are lots of people like me who dream about this, so I wanted to share this experience and take them on the journey with me."
You have been particularly keen to inspire women and must be pleased that Nasa recently announced that half of its latest astronaut intake is female. An announcement made, incidentally, almost 50 years to the day since the first woman, Valentina Tereshkova, flew into space?
"I love to see more involvement from women all over the world in the space programme. I think we bring a new perspective into everything we do because of the way we look at life. I always want to make sure that space and our access into space is used for peaceful purposes and I think by having more women involved, the chances of that happening will be greater. I want to see more women in all fields of science and engineering."
You were brought up in Iran…for women in the Middle East a career in space is not an option and, for many, neither are careers in science and engineering.
"Women in Iran have persevered despite all the difficulties and limitations put on them and that's what inspires me. I'm very proud to say I'm an Iranian woman and I hope that things will start changing and there will be more opportunities for them.
"But when I look at it overall in the Middle East there's this cultural limitation that's put on women saying that there're certain jobs that a woman shouldn't do or certain fields that a woman shouldn't study. But if there are role models young girls can look up to they say 'why not, she did it, she's happy, she seems fine, why not me.' So that's why I hope myself, and other women in science and technology from the Middle East, can try to help them to help achieve their dreams and their goals."
What would be your advice to anyone who wants to go into space?
"When I was looking at different ways of getting into space, I didn't make a decision on one. You want to have plan a, b, c through z – so I would pursue any opportunities and, at the same time, save up. I'm hoping the cost of getting into space will come down and the opportunity will open up to more and more people."
The price of a seat with Space Adventures on a Soyuz has now risen to some $50m but you've made it clear you want to go back into space. You've booked a seat with Virgin Galactic [which costs $200,000] – is that because once is not enough?
"I tell people it's an addiction almost – that's why I'm so happy about sub-orbital flights. I plan to go on Virgin Galactic and not just once but many times. I think there will be many more companies in the future and I'm working on my new business, so I will have enough money to fly with all of them."
And what about Mars – would you sign-up to the plan for a one-way trip to the red planet?
"I would…and I come across so many people that would say the same thing. I can't explain why I want to live in space but it's something inside me."
If you would like to comment on this article or anything else you have seen on Future, head over to our Facebook page or message us on Twitter. You will also be able to hear an interview with Anousheh in the July 2013 edition of my Space Boffins Podcast.


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The General Provisions of Title I primarily concern regulatory and administrative requirements, including provisions concerning state and local flexibility and the development of regulations on the No Child Left Behind Act.
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Part I contains several provisions intended to ensure state and local flexibility in certain areas. It prohibits the federal government from mandating "specific instructional content, academic achievement standards and assessments, curriculum, or program of instruction," and it states that nothing in Title I requires equalized spending for a state, school district, or school. It also requires that state rules, regulations, and policies related to Title I be minimal, that they conform to the purposes of Title I, and that they be reviewed by a committee of practitioners created by the state to help it carry out its responsibilities under Title I.
Other provisions require annual state reports on school dropout rates, disaggregated by race and ethnicity, and annual General Accounting Office audits of at least six Title I districts to examine the extent to which funds were used for instructional and noninstructional purposes.
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The contents of my bag aren't as nice as what's in the treasury below.
I especially like the chocolate!!
What's in your bag?
Friday, August 26, 2011
What's in the Bag?
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
My all Time Favorite Colors
My backpacks were featured in a nice Treasury by Oyeta. See the full set here
I love the stamp "Made with Love"... so cute!
Sunday, August 21, 2011
End of the Baby Phase
I'm not sure whether to cry or jump for joy. Today we got rid of Baby Bunny's crib.
He slept in it about 3 times. I'm so happy to have the space and to have a life back, but sad that this signals the end of the baby phase for my family.
Cheeky Monkey didn't really sleep there either. I don't know why we kept it. It came from Grandma's house and sat in our house now for about 3 years.
Here he is... more interested in the lamp than his crib.
Monday, August 08, 2011
Help Shay Decide...
My toddler backpack was featured in this blog.
Shay is trying to decide which one to purchase.
Help her decide by leaving a comment for the choo choo backpack!!
Saturday, August 06, 2011
Toddler Backpack - Car
I've been working on a custom backpack for little G. I love making things for little boys. It all started out with an email request for a custom order. G's mom and I chatted via email and I sent her sketches. It's a great feeling when you make something for someone and they really like it!
This is the front view.
One side
This side has a pocket
This is the back view
The bottom is quilted
The inside is lined with hippo fabric and has a large pocket
Friday, August 05, 2011
Scarborough Ribfest 2011
This year is the 10th annual Scarborough Rotary Ribfest at Thomson Park.
This means we are vegetarians the week before and the week after!
Every year our friends come down and over the 4 day weekend, we indulge in ribs, pulled pork sandwiches and other treats. When it's all done, we say "Never again!"
We'll be back again next year.
These were from Bad Wolfe BBQ. We chose this place because we thought it was the place with the good cornbread. Whoops... turns out that a lot of them had cornbread. Wasn't a fan of this one. Too greasy.
These guys are new to the scene. When I saw this sign, I thought "Vegas" and because of the deep fried Mars Bars.
The usual cotton candy guy was not longer at Candy World
Cheeky Monkey wanted the Tropical Pop but couldn't understand why the seller kept saying Robo Pop.
So he had a soft serve cone instead.
Well, I had most of it since he abandoned his ice cream in favour of the park.
Pretty day
You can always count on the Toronto Firefighters to bring their truck!
The other kids are hanging out at the back. L'il guy wanted to sit in the front again.
Thirsty Cactus had a pig ride.
It works! Cheeky Monkey had a lot of fun riding it. Baby Bunny cried.
Who did we like the BEST?????
So yummy.
Nice people.
Well done ribs!!
JACK the RIBBER!!!!!
Thursday, August 04, 2011
Wonderful Canadian Crafters
Summer has been so busy over here.
I was featured in a nice Treasury
and now we are just relaxing while the kiddies are sleeping
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There's no shortage of entertainment at this year's Town and Country Festival in Morenci.
You can watch the potential Morenci Idol contestants perform on stage. You can watch the queen contest entries show off their talents or the young cheerleaders demonstrate their skills.
There's the parade on Saturday, July 7, followed by cloggers later in the afternoon. There's softball and basketball and horseshoes.
But three events stand out among others as the leaders in this year's lineup of entertainment: the rodeo Friday night, July 6, followed by two bands the next night.


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For the women Priya Pappu won the 800m in 2:20.69, while Taylor Mason posted a huge new PR in the javelin, winning with a toss of 35.05m.
On the men's side Isaiah Greer won the 1500m with a new PR time of 3:59.32. Burton Elrod won the 110 high hurdles in a time of 17.37. Adam Austin had his best jump of the season, winning the high jump with a leap of 1.98m, while Logan Ray won the 400IH with a time of 1:00.05 and the triple jump with a 13.10m jump.
The Women's 4x400m A Relay of Amanda Twigg, Emily Longden, Priya Pappu, and Sara Stephens, also set a new outdoor school record with a time of 4:00.35. All four are freshmen.
"This was a low key meet at the end of our Spring Break," coach Bill Taylor said. "It was the smallest meet of the year and it was hard to know how the team would react after being gone for a week. I was very happy with our performances. In addition to the event wins, we had other great performances as well.
"I really liked the effort in the middle distance races. The women's 1500m was fun, with two freshmen women breaking 4:50 (Priya Pappu and Emily Longden) and a fifth girl breaking 5:00 for our team (Caitlin Anderson). Shelby Marvel is right there too!"
Taylor also had praise for the members of his men's team.
"Isaiah ran a very exciting 1500m race and showed a lot of guts," Taylor said. "He had the lead for the most of the last lap I think, then was passed with about 120 meters to go. It looked like it was over, but he came back and fought for every inch. Cormac Carolan has really been doing well too with PRs in every distance this year. He's being aggressive in his racing and it's paying off.
"Then Alex Jerkins gets a huge PR in the shot, Taylor gets a huge PR in the javelin and Adam wins the high jump with a great effort. "
After a few days off Taylor was pleased with the aggressive way both of his teams performed.
"That's what we saw a lot of, fight and toughness," Taylor said. "Across the board I was pleased with the way our men and women fought. I could really just read down the list of our athletes at this meet and talk about how each of them put it on the line and fought hard. I really can't ask for anything more from them."
The Bisons and Lady Bisons will travel to Tuscaloosa, Ala., next week for the University of Alabama Relays on March 27-28.
Results from Austin Peay:
100m – Sara Stephens 12.96 3rd
400m – Amanda Twigg 59.21 3rd, Anika Piorkowski 60.99 5th
800m – Priya Pappu 2:20.69 1st, Emily Longden 2:23.54 2nd, Caitlin Anderson 2:25.73 4th, Louisa Van Batavia 2:30.36 5th, Ashley Lehman 2:35.15 8th, Valerie Winkler 2:38.40 10th, Jenny Randolph 2:40.09 11th, Laura Stewart 2:42.79 12th
1500m – Priya Pappu 4:48.29 2nd, Emily Longden 4:49.91 3rd, Caitlin Anderson 4:53.07 6th, Shelby Marvel 5:00.50 12th, Louisa Van Batavia 5:02.70 14th, Jenny Randolph 5:10.76 16th, Ashley Lehman 5:12.74 17th, Laura Stewart 5:23.63 21st, Shannon Shoemake 5:27.95 22nd
4x400 Relay – A) Amanda Twigg, Emily Longden, Priya Pappu, Sara Stephens 4:00.35 2nd B) Anika Piorkowski, Valerie Winkler, Caitlin Anderson, Jenny Randolph 4:22.16 4th
Shot Put – Taylor Mason 10.31m 5th, Caitlin Anderson 7.41m 7th
Discus – Taylor Mason 25.90m 5th
Javelin – Taylor Mason 35.05m 1st, Jenny Randolph 24.63 7th
100m – Burton Elrod 11.83 3rd
200m – Mike Knox 23.37 2nd, Steven Mason 24.63 6th
400m – Mike Knox 51.01 2nd, Steven Mason 53.39 4th
800m – Cormac Carolan 1:59.97 5th, Ashton Fisher 2:00.11 6th, Isaiah Greer 2:00.95 8th, Hunter Hethcoat 2:02.25 9th, Aaron Todd 2:02.71 10th, Jonathan Williams 2:03.13 11th, Paul Wright 2:06.54 13th, Trace Carlson 2:06.96 14th, Tim Muller 2:08.47 16th, Ben Wright 2:08.66 17th, Jared Carlson 2:10.38 18th, Jeff Musick 2:14.42 20th, Chad Martin 2:15.54 21st
1500m – Isaiah Greer 3:59.32 1st, Cormac Carolan 4:05.73 7th, Aaron Todd 4:08.25 9th, Ashton Fisher 4:08.45 10th, Hunter Hethcoat 4:10.86 11th, Trace Carlson 4:13.07 13th, Paul Wright 4:14.56 14th, Jared Carlson 4:17.12 15th, Jeff Musick 4:19.18 16th, Jeff Hoover 4:19.64 17th, Tim Muller 4:20.81 18th, Ben Wright 4:21.22 19th, Jonathan Williams 4:21.93
110HH – Burton Elrod 17.37 1st
400IH – Logan Ray 1:00.05
4x400 Relay – B) 3:32.05 3rd, D) 3:37.12 4th, C) 3:40.73 5th
High Jump – Adam Austin 1.98m 1st
Long Jump – Burton Elrod 6.07m 2nd
Triple Jump – Logan Ray 13.10m 1st