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San Jose State University has published the findings of a study of its recent experiment with for-credit Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Student performance improved between the spring 2013 pilot program and the following summer program in all three of the initial classes offered (elementary statistics, college algebra, and entry level math), with the percentage of students earning a C or better in two of those classes surpassing comparable on-campus student performance.
However, the overall retention rate for the summer program dropped to 60 percent, compared with 83 percent this spring, which reflected "SJSU's decision to be more flexible when students signaled to instructors that they needed to drop the course," the university said in a statement.
The study, funded by the National Science Foundation, looked at the SJSU Plus program, which was developed by SJSU faculty working with leading MOOC provider Udacity. The initial program ran in the spring 2013 semester and consisted of the three courses, which were structured as MOOCs, though they were limited to 100 students per class. Half those students were already attending the university, and half were non-matriculating students, including veterans, community college students, and even a few high school students. SJSU added two courses to the program over the summer — "Introduction to Psychology" and "Introduction to Computer Programming" — and attracted nearly 2,000 students, including students from other countries.
All five MOOC courses were co-developed by university instructors and Udacity, which itself originated as an experiment at Stanford University. Udacity is one of a trio of MOOC providers currently dominating the market, which includes Coursera, a startup founded by Stanford computer science professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng, and edX, a joint effort of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to create an open-source online learning platform. SJSU also provides edX courses as optional resources for its professors who want to use them for flipped classes.
In July the school announced plans to take "a short breather" from its MOOC experiment to evaluate the model and revealed disturbing pass rates for the first three courses of between 23.8 and 50.5 percent.
"We entered into these pilot programs to test these modalities with our faculty and our students," Ellen Junn, provost and vice president for academic affairs at SJSU, told Campus Technology at the time. "Part of that process is to collect data and then to analyze and interpret that data to get a better sense of how these online learning environments affect student learning, faculty workload, and so forth."
Last week the university issued a statement in which it listed a number of insights gathered from this evaluation of the six-month pilot program. On the positive side, online video proved to be such an effective educational tool that some SJSU instructors are incorporating SJSU Plus materials into their campus-based courses, the school reports. Also, the online model seemed to foster student connections "with each other, instructors and instructional assistants through every means available: text, e-mail, phone calls, chats and meetings," the school said.
On the downside: Students "who are unfamiliar with the demands of college courses" need help preparing for and keeping up with MOOCs. Also, students have asked for more flexible pacing of the classes beyond the traditional semester schedule. "Customized scheduling is unprecedented at SJSU," Junn said, "but we would like to explore this option."
SJSU has added orientation programs for all five of its MOOCs, as well as "tools that help students gauge their progress." Also, the instructors will check in with MOOC students more often in the future.
"Yet with these new results, we still aren't there," Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun admitted in his blog. "There remains so much more that needs to be improved. The summer pilot was the second iteration of a new approach. To all those people who declared our experiment a failure, you have to understand how innovation works. Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation. We are seeing significant improvement in learning outcomes and student engagement. And we know from our data that there is much more to be done."
Junn said SJSU plans to incorporate the lessons learned from its pilot program and resume offering SJSU Plus courses in January 2014.
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Give a quick kiss
Moisten the lips enough to soften them. Because a quick kiss is short and shallow, you do not want the lips to be rough or cracked. Gently run your tongue over them, but make sure they are dry before kissing. If necessary, apply a little of the lip moisturizer on the upper lip and rub it with the lower lip.
- It is important that the lips are soft instead of rough, but they must also be moist and not wet.
Close your lips As you approach to give the kiss, press the lips as if you were holding your breath. You should not open your mouth, and you definitely do not want to stick your tongue out at all. Do not press them hard as if they were sealed, just enough to touch them.
Take your lips a little. This is known as pouting or pursing the lips. Imagine that you ate something slightly sour. Do not remove them so much that the upper lip touches your nose. Only remove them until the inner part of the lips is visible.
Press your lips lightly against your skin. Whether you're going to kiss on the mouth, cheek or forehead, a quick kiss is always superficial and short. You will want to press the lips so that the boy feels them, but not so much that he feels that you are crushing them against him.
- The ideal quick kiss will leave almost no moisture on your skin.
Get away in less than a second. A quick kiss is the shortest of all kisses, so do not rest your lips on the boy. Make the kiss last long enough for your lips to touch it, but get away just after making contact. Practice the kiss so you have an idea of how long it should last. Remember; touch your skin with your lips, and then retreat.
Give a quick kiss at the right time
Give a quick kiss on the cheek after a hug. When you hug a close friend after a long time without seeing him, or if you're going to say goodbye, give him a quick kiss. Make sure both are comfortable with each other and do not take it as a sign of anything other than friendship.
- In many cultures, this is a common way of greeting. In other cultures, it may seem strange to do so, but try anyway.
Give a quick kiss instead of your first kiss. If you have never kissed a boy before, a quick kiss is a good way to start. Follow the steps above, but give him the quick kiss on his lips. If it feels good, give him a full kiss, or give him a second kiss immediately after the first one.
- If it does not feel good, it will be fast enough so you can get away. Just remember: you may have to talk about it later if you do not feel well.
Give a quick kiss to show affection in public. When you are with your partner, you may not want to be very caring in front of people. Give your date a quick kiss on the cheek or on the lips to show that they are together without the need for a prolonged kissing session.
- If you go out to dinner with your friends and your date says something especially sweet, give him a quick kiss on the cheek to show your appreciation.
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The actor has played a Tuskegee airman in George Lucas'
"It was horrible. It's one thing to read about it, to even talk to people who went through it or see the documentary footage. When you have to spend half a night being spat at, kicked, having milkshake or ketchup or coffee thrown at you — there's no way to stage that. You had to do it," said Oyelowo, 37. "Then you think: I can walk away from this. I can wave my hands and cut. These guys couldn't. .... People lost their lives. Or they went back to work and back to school and had to face the kind of prejudice that is indicative of the kind of behavior we're depicting in the film."
In "The Butler," Oyelowo plays Louis Gaines, the son of a White House staffer portrayed by
While some critics have bemoaned the character as an overly simplistic device to give the film heft, Oyelowo's performance has been lauded as "masterful" and "impressive throughout" by reviewers for
He spent months studying the Civil Rights movement, pulling particular inspiration from the life of Rep.
"My character is the love child of John Lewis and Stokely Carmichael," said Oyelowo. "The only part of what I represent in 'The Butler' that John Lewis didn't do is become a Black Panther. And people who were in the SNCC did go on, or become affiliated with, the Panthers. It's not inconceivable. But John Lewis was a big inspiration."
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Daniels didn't make playing such a character easy for Oyelowo. During the film, Louis ages 40 years from a teenager to a middle-aged man, but the director was reluctant to rely on makeup to show the passage of time. Instead, Oyelowo said, Daniels pushed the actor to use more naturalistic means.
When playing Louis at 17, Oyelowo was sure to sleep 10 hours a night and drink large quantities of water; he cut back on both as his character aged. To attain a puffier look for his scenes with King (
"That was all
But the physical transformation for Oyelowo — who has played Henry VI on the British stage, morphing from 14 to 60 over the course of the day — was nothing compared with enduring some of the most racially charged scenes. The most difficult, he said, was the one in which Ku Klux Klansmen attack a Freedom Riders bus.
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Daniels, too, found the bus scene the hardest part of the production.
"I'm laying on the floor of the bus and yelling action — trying to get reaction shots of the fear," he said. "And then they start coming, you see the flames, I'm seeing the KKK and the swastikas and the N-word being hurled and it's terrifying. And I could see the terror — at some point I don't think David and those guys were acting anymore. I stopped them and told them 'cut.' They can't hear me. I go to the window and yell 'cut,' and they still don't hear me. I'm trying to get off the bus."
It was, the director said, "one of those
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While Oyelowo did his formal drama training in London, he spent seven years of his childhood living in western Nigeria, his parents' homeland. Living in a country where he was part of the racial majority, he says, had a major effect on his outlook on life, and his career. It's an upbringing similar to that of his idol, Sidney Poitier, who grew up in the Bahamas. (Ironically, in "The Butler," Oyelowo, as Louis, has to disparage the Oscar-winning actor in one affecting moment.)
"I literally think [Poitier] achieving what he achieved when he did is because his childhood was in a country other than America, where everyone around him looked like him," said Oyelowo. "He didn't carry himself with any notion of inferiority, or a self-fulfilling prophecy that he's not going to be given the opportunities. He made decisions on that basis, which is essentially the idea that I'm not going to take anything that is beneath what I see myself as."
It's a philosophy that Oyelowo subscribes to himself. In Hollywood some say he is as well known for the parts he's turned down as the ones he's taken.
"He gets offered everything. The guy is the go-to guy at this point," says writer-director Ava DuVernay, who worked with Oyelowo on her 2012 film "Middle of Nowhere" and will partner with him again when he plays MLK in "Selma," which DuVernay is to direct. "He can play 19. He can give you earnest. He can give you sexy. He can do it all."
Though Oyelowo wouldn't go into detail about the specific roles he's declined, he said they were parts that, in his mind, "kept black actors in their place."
"If you perpetually play the sidekick, the best friend, or the token person of color in a film, well it allays any guilt some of these decision-makers have about how few of us are given a platform to display our talent," he said. "And again, it perpetuates the myth that we are an afterthought, a sidebar. That people aren't interested in seeing our interior lives."
Added Daniels: "He understands that he has to represent us in the right way. And I think he's done so. He's very smart about the roles he's chosen. He's very ambitious, but not in a bad way."
One unforeseen result of starring in "The Butler," Oyelowo said, is the relationship he's formed with Oprah Winfrey, who plays his mom in the film. He calls her his "American mother" and he looks to her for career advice.
"I felt a deep connection to him because I can see the ride he is on and I can feel it — it's something you feel when you are around that person who has that thing," said Winfrey. "He has it — a sense of humility, just enough ego to do the job. But most of all, balance. He knows the difference between his art and his life."
Part of that sense of balance, he said, stems from his 15-year marriage to his wife, Jessica. The couple has four children, ages 21 months to 11 years.
DuVernay is hoping to shoot "Selma" later this year, and Winfrey thinks it will make Oyelowo a household name.
"I've seen tapes of him as Dr. King. I've seen him practicing. The resemblance is stunning," Winfrey said. "I thought, 'Whoa, he's going to blow that out.' ... That's my prediction."


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The week before last Evan from San Francisco watched our 'Facebook: Unfriend Coal' video and decided to send a Facebook message to Mark Zuckerberg – CEO and founder of the social network that has now surpassed 500 million users worldwide. Evan told Mark that he was concerned about Facebook's energy choices – more specifically its choice to use coal to power its new data centre in Oregon.Only a few hours after Evan sent his message Mark Zuckerberg replied.And that is why Facebook is such an amazing social platform. It really does let you connect and share with people – even the person who started it all.Facebook has become a crucial space for dialogue - for spreading information, for showing your support for a cause, idea or message and a space for encouraging behaviour and policies that are in the public interest.
Recently Nestlé's Facebook page played a key role in our online Kit Kat campaign (asking Nestlé to change their supply chain policies) because it provided a place for online supporters of the campaign - like you - to publicly voice your opposition to Nestlé policy. On Nestlé's Facebook page your concerns could be seen by anyone – and they were picked up by other concerned consumers, bloggers, journalists, and the food and drink industry itself. What happens on Facebook becomes important simply because of Facebook's iconic social status – now surpassing Google for the average amount of time an individual spends using the site.
For all of the above reasons (and so many others) Facebook is important. And it's growing. As Facebook grows, its energy appetite grows as well. That is what the 'Facebook: Unfriend Coal' campaign is about: ensuring Facebook grows on green, renewable energy. To do that Facebook needs to unfriend coal by announcing intentions to remove coal from the energy mix that is powering our profiles, our status updates, our photos, our Farmville games, etc. This is what Evan messaged Mark about last Thursday.
Thanks for sending that message, Evan. And thanks to all the others who have also voiced their concerns to Mark. All of your messages are important – because we all need to keep demanding a social network that is part of moving on from dirty, old coal and towards a green, renewable energy future. We need to ask Facebook to change its behaviour by changing its energy choices - and luckily it's also the perfect online platform for us to ask for that change.
Keep it up - ask Facebook to unfriend coal: Share the campaign on Facebook Share 'The So Coal Network' video Join the campaign - and help us get Facebook in a relationship with renewable energy!
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I appreciate what you're saying about social media, but Mark is denying that the new power will be derived from coal. Does that mean Greenpe...
I appreciate what you're saying about social media, but Mark is denying that the new power will be derived from coal. Does that mean Greenpeace got this campaign wrong? I'm a supporter but if you did your comment above seems like spin and a little bit of misdirection. Was the power ever going to be derived from coal or was that an error?
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Thanks for following this so closely. Please bear in mind that this is a direct message to a supporter, and was not sent to ...
Thanks for following this so closely. Please bear in mind that this is a direct message to a supporter, and was not sent to us by Facebook. We are looking into this further though.
The claims for this particular data centre site aside, the IT sector is growing at a vast rate. This growth can be a power for good - we all use virtual services and materials that mean that we have to travel less, communicate differently, and buy fewer physical 'things'. We have called on Facebook (greenpeace.org/coalfacebook) and other IT companies (greenpeace.org/coolit) to make sure that their growth is coal free.
Facebook has chosen to go with Pacific Power, unlike other companies who have specifically purchased renewable energy from providers. Until Facebook makes a public choice for renewables over coal their growth will be supporting dirty energy like coal. As the largest internet service, don't you think this is important?
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Mel. Of course I think it's important, or I wouldn't be following the campaign, wouldn't have sent a message to Mark Zuckerberg, and wouldn't have con...
Mel. Of course I think it's important, or I wouldn't be following the campaign, wouldn't have sent a message to Mark Zuckerberg, and wouldn't have contacted you for clarification. With respect to you, that was an unnecessarily patronising question to ask.
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nice one wiltsnature,
txs for asking for clarification and for making your point the way you did in your last post ;-)
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Hi @wiltsnature, First I'd like to apologise for how my question came across., I had intended it to be rhetorical and directed at the blog's larger re...
Hi @wiltsnature, First I'd like to apologise for how my question came across., I had intended it to be rhetorical and directed at the blog's larger readership in order to provoke discussion, but it clearly did not come across as I had intended. We are very interested in your opinion and participation in this issue.
To speak directly to your original question - is Facebook planning to rely on coal fired electricity to power its new datacenter in Oregon? Unfortunately, yes. PacificCorp, which will provide the power for the new Facebook facility, relies on coal for a majority of its electricity generation (close to 60%) which Facebook even acknowledged in a response to Greenpeace Executive Director's letter to Mark Zuckerberg, and has been reported widely elsewhere. Even for its more recent leased facilities, much of that has been made in locations such as Virginia where dirty energy provides the vast majority of electricity (82% coal and nuclear vs 5% renewable) Ultimately, wherever Facebook operates and ultimately expands, our aim is to get the company to take into account the energy source as well as energy efficiency, and to use its considerable size and success in bringing about further deployment of renewable energy to meet the ever-growing needs of cloud computing.
Other companies such as Yahoo! and Google have already started down this path, and with your support and 600,000 Facebook users and still growing calling for change, Facebook will soon follow. Thank you for paying close attention to this issue, and please be sure to see our latest Facebook post on the CoolIT blog that went up Thursday.
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A 15-year-old St. Anne youth will be tried as an adult for the shooting death of a Pembroke Township man. Jayson Caldwell was indicted by a Kankakee County grand jury for the death in July of Thad Wells.
Prosecutors claim Wells was killed when shots were fired through the door of Wells' trailer home.
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Master of Social Work
UW-Green Bay and UWOshkosh have established a Collaborative MSW Program that prepares social workers for advanced practice as facilitators, partners and leaders in planned change activities with service users and community service providers. The program's goal is to educate professionals ready to assume direct practice and administrative leadership roles within this region's increasingly diverse and transforming rural and metropolitan environments.
The program aims to prepare practitioners who can work to strengthen families through services and policies supportive of family and community well being; engage in interdisciplinary learning and coordinated inter-professional practice; provide leadership in the community and encourage and guide the inclusion and representation of Native Americans and members of diverse cultures in the region.
Program graduates provide leadership in the social work field:
- through their expertise in the use of skills associated with "best practice" models, particularly those that are family-focused and that serve diverse clientele;
- by taking action to improve services, particularly in the public and tribal practice sectors and in rural social work practice;
- by regularly utilizing research to critically analyze, improve and develop services within their areas of expertise;
- by developing and refining services through collaborative efforts with diverse clientele;
- by developing ongoing and innovative strategies for support of professional peers.
The program offers a full-time curriculum which can be completed in two calendar years for students entering at the foundation level or one year for students entering at the advanced level. A part-time program is also available, which can be completed in nine semesters for students entering at the foundation level or five semesters for students entering at the advanced level. To meet the needs of working students, most courses in the program are offered evenings or Saturdays. Students also integrate and apply their classroom learning in a sixteen-hour per week field experience.
Areas of Emphasis
In addition to requiring a common foundation of courses, the Collaborative MSW Program offers students a choice of two concentrations.
The Advanced Direct Practice concentration prepares students for leadership in the field through their work with and on behalf of individuals, groups and families. Work with vulnerable families who face multiple life challenges is emphasized.
Students may also concentrate their studies in social work Administration and Management. This concentration admits students who are interested in providing leadership in their management roles, particularly in public and tribal settings
Admission Requirements
To be admitted to the Collaborative MSW Program, applicants must meet the following requirements:
- Have a cumulative undergraduate GPA of 2.75, with 3.0 in the last two years of study;
- Have an academic background in the liberal arts and have completed a minimum of 18 credits in the social sciences from among courses in at least three of the following disciplines: psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, and political science (BSW students meet this criterion);
- Through a written statement, three references (including one academic reference), and a relevant professional work/volunteer background, provide evidence of interest in and ability to work with social work clientele and in social work settings; documentation of breadth and depth of professional and/or volunteer experience (usually includes post-baccalaureate experience) that has prepared the applicant for advanced level practice;
- Have completed course work in: biological life sciences, statistics, research methods, and life span development or submit plans for completing this work prior to taking the Advanced Curriculum in the program; students who need to complete more than two support courses will not be admitted;
- For advanced standing, have graduated from an accredited baccalaureate social work program within the last eight years.
Detailed admissions information will be posted on the Collaborative MSW Program website in the fall of 2013.
Steps Toward the Degree
- Prospective student submits an admission application and is recommended for admission.
- Applicant is admitted to the Master of Social Work graduate program.
- The student submits an Official Declaration of Master's Degree (GR-1 Form) to the Office of Graduate Studies no later than the end of the semester in which the first six graduate credits are completed. This confirms the student's enrollment in the program.
- As part of advanced standing coursework, the student registers for SOC WORK 731 Advanced Research Applications in Social Work Practice (fall) and develops a professional project proposal. Proposal is reviewed and approved by the course instructor.
- After successful completion of SOC WORK 731, the student registers for SOC WORK 734 Field Research Consultation (spring) and completes IRB materials and the Approval of Thesis or Project Proposal (GR-2 Form) is submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies by the course instructor.
- The student files an Application for Graduation with the Registrar's Office through the Student Information System (SIS). The application must be completed and submitted to the Office of the Registrar prior to November 1 for fall semester graduates, and April 1 for spring and summer semester graduates.
- Student registers for SOC WORK 732; Field Research Project (summer) and continue work on their project. Upon successful completion, the course instructor submits a grade. The instructor also files the Approval of Thesis Defense or Project Presentation (GR-4 Form) with the Office of Graduate Studies.
- Degree is awarded and graduate receives diploma.
Degree Requirements
For program applicants who do not have a BSW degree completed within the last eight years, 60 credits are required for graduation. This includes a 28-credit two-semester foundation curriculum (fall and spring), and a 32-credit three-semester advanced curriculum (fall, spring, and summer). Applicants who have completed a BSW degree within the last eight years receive advanced standing and recognition for having completed all foundation requirements.
Students in the program are required to maintain a grade of B or better in all required social work courses.
Part-Time Option
Students entering the Foundation Program complete the part-time option in four years. Students entering the Advanced Standing curriculum complete the part-time option in two years.
Foundation Curriculum Requirements, 28 credits
Foundation Courses:
A 28-credit set of foundation courses is required for all non-BSW students and for BSW students who received their degree more than eight years before entering the program. Eight credits of the foundation curriculum involve a field practicum in which students practice as social workers in a supervised field setting, carrying out a variety of generalist practice responsibilities.
SOC WORK 701 Ethical Issues in Contemporary Social Work, 3 cr.
SOC WORK 702 Generalist Practice I, 3 cr.
SOC WORK 703 Skills Lab with Individuals, Families and Small Groups, 1 cr.
SOC WORK 704 Generalist Social Work Practice II, 3 cr.
SOC WORK 705 Skills Lab with Large Groups and Communities, 1 cr.
SOC WORK 706 Social Welfare Institutions, 3 cr.
SOC WORK 707 Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 3 cr.
SOC WORK 708 Social Welfare Policy: Contemporary Approaches, 3 cr.
SOC WORK 709 Field I: Foundation Social Work Field Practicum, 4 cr.
SOC WORK 710 Field II: Foundation Social Work Field Practicum, 4 cr.
Advanced Curriculum Requirements, 32 credits
All students are required to take 12 credits of required advanced course work. In addition, Advanced Direct Practice students are required to take 6 credits of required course work and 6 credits of additional electives. Administration/Management students are required to take 9 credits of required course work and 3 credits of additional electives. Eight credits of the advanced curriculum are associated with a field practicum in which students practice as social workers in a supervised field setting, with either advanced direct practice or with administrative responsibilities.
Advanced Requirements: Required For All Students, 20 credits
SOC WORK 720 Practice Competence in a Diverse Community, 3 cr.
SOC WORK 728 Advanced Social Welfare Policy Analysis, 3 cr.
SOC WORK 729 Field III: Advanced Social Work Field Practicum and Integrative Seminar, 4 cr.
SOC WORK 731 Advanced Research Applications in Social Work Practice, 3 cr.
SOC WORK 732 Field Research Project, 1 cr.
SOC WORK 733 Field IV: Advanced Social Work Field Practicum and Integrative Seminar, 4 cr.
SOC WORK 734 Field Research Consultation, 2 cr.
Advanced Requirements: Direct Practice Concentration, 12 credits
SOC WORK 721 Multi-Level Family Intervention, 3 cr.
Advanced HBSE Selection, 3 credits:
PSYCH 530 (UWOSH) Adult Development and Aging, 3 cr.
PSYCH 690 (UWOSH) Special Topics (see MSW Coordinator), 3 cr.
HUM DEV 544 (UWGB) Dying, Death, and Loss, 3 cr.
WOM STUDIES 550 (UWOSH) Women, Race and Class, 3 cr.
EDUC 552 (UWGB) Social and Family Influences on Early Development and Learning, 3 cr.
SOC WORK 727 Psychopathology and Strength-Based Assessment, 3 cr.
SOC WORK 795 Special Topics (see MSW Coordinator)
Electives, 6 credits
Advanced Requirements: Administration/Management Concentration, 12 credits
SOC WORK 722 Social Work Management and Supervision in the Social Services, 3 cr.
Budgeting Course, 3 credits:
MPA 752 (UWOSH) Public Budgeting & Finance, 3 cr.
PU EN AF 615 (UWGB) Public and Nonprofit Budgeting, 3 cr.
Advanced HBSE Selection, 3 credits:
BUS ADM 589 (UWGB) Organizational Behavior, 3 cr.
MPA 723 (UWOSH) Organization Theory and Practice, 3 cr.
Elective, 3 credits
Advanced Requirements: Electives
In addition to advanced HBSE options, students select electives from the following approved list:
SOC WORK 701 (For BSW Students Only) Ethical Issues in Contemporary Social Work, 3 cr.
SOC WORK 722 Social Work Management and Supervision in the Social Services (for Advanced Direct Practice Students only)
SOC WORK 735 Emerging Issues in Child Welfare, 3 cr.
SOC WORK 737 Social Work and Crisis Intervention with Vulnerable Populations, 3 cr.
SOC WORK 747 Mental Health Theories, 3 cr.
SOC WORK 757 (SOC WORK 575 at UW-Oshkosh) Treatment and Mistreatment of Offenders, 3 cr.
SOC WORK 795 Special Topics, 3 cr.
SOC WORK 798 Independent Study, 3 cr.
MPA 711 (UWOSH) Introduction to Public Administration, 3 cr.
MPA 752 (UWOSH) Public Budgeting and Finance, 3 cr.
MANAGMNT 750 (UWGB) Team Leadership, 3 cr.
MANAGMNT 757 (UWGB) Leadership and Innovation, 3 cr.
MANAGMNT 776 (UWGB) Organizational Communication and Conflict, 3 cr.
MPA 711 (UWOSH) Introduction to Public Administration, 3 cr.
MPA 752 (UWOSH) Public Budgeting and Finance, 3 cr.
MPA 760 (UWOSH) Administrative Law, 3 cr.
MPA 729 (UWOSH) Health Care Organization and Management, 3 cr.
MPA 797-071 (UWOSH) Nonprofit Management, 3 cr.
MPA 797-071 (UWOSH) Labor Management Relations in the Public Sector, 3 cr.
PU EN AF 615 (UWGB) Public & Nonprofit Budgeting, 3 cr.
SOC WORK 571 (UWOSH) Child and Family Welfare
Advanced Requirement: Professional Project
Students develop their project proposal in the Advanced Research Applications course (SOC WORK 731), and finalize their project proposals in the Field Research Consultation course (SOC WORK 734). Students in the program meet professional project requirements by completing a research project during their final semester in the program in the Field Research Project course (SOC WORK 732).
Akakpo, Tohoro Francis, UW-Green Bay, Assistant Professor. BA. (1986) University of Benin, Togo, West Africa; MPA. (1994) University of Michigan-Flint; MSW. (2002) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; PhD. (2008) Social Work, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
Fields of interest: include at-risk families and juvenile delinquents; juveniles transitioning from residential facilities into community; child abuse and neglect; international social work, child labor and human trafficking; and the role of non-governmental organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Altepeter, Donna, UW-Oshkosh, Lecturer. BA. Theology (1981); MSW. (1983) St. Louis University; CICSW and ACSW.
Fields of interest: social work in health care and severe mental illness.
Aspenson, Karen J., UW-Oshkosh. B.S. Psychology and Sociology, Troy State University, Dothan, Alabama; M.S.W. (2007) UW-Green Bay and UW-Oshkosh Collaborative MSW Program.
Fields of interest: mental health, direct practice methods, and trauma.
Brown, James, UW-Oshkosh, Assistant Professor. BSW. (1992) Northern Michigan University; MSW. (1993) University of Michigan; PhD. in Social Work and minor in Education (2010). Dr. Brown's practice experience has been in relation to: substance abuse prevention, foster care casework, and school social work.
Fields of interest: school bullying and anti-bullying policy, juvenile youth access to mental health care, and prenatal assessment and intervention.
Bruno, David, UW-Oshkosh. Dr. David Bruno received a Doctor of Philosophy in Counseling from Wayne State University. He also holds a Master of Social Work and a Master of Art in Marriage and Family Therapy from Wayne State University.
Fields of interest: children and family therapy, marital counseling, reactive depression, youth mentoring and application of the strengths perspective.
Giesler, Fredi, UW-Oshkosh, Associate Professor. BA. Social Welfare (1981) Pacific Lutheran University; MSW. (1991); PhD. Social Welfare (2002) University of Washington, Seattle.
Fields of interest: prevention science, child welfare, community-based program evaluation and policy research.
Groessl, Joan, UW-Green Bay, Lecturer and BSW. Field Coordinator. BSW. (1984) UW-Green Bay; M.S.W. (1989) UW-Milwaukee; PhD (2013) Marian University; LCSW.
Fields of interest: mental health (particularly seriously and persistently mentally ill); forensic and homeless populations and administration.
Higgins, Doreen, UW-Green Bay, Associate Professor and Collaborative MSW Program Coordinator. BSW. (1990) UW-Green Bay; MSSW. (1991) UW-Madison; PhD. Social Work (2008) University of Kansas.
Fields of interest: health care policy; minority health and health disparities; the racial wealth gap; community reentry of aging ex-offenders; social work education and aging curricula.
Himmelheber, Sarah A., UW-Green Bay, Assistant Professor. BS. Political Science and Sociology (2000) New College of Florida; MSW (2004) University of Georgia; PhD. (2012) University of Georgia.
Fields of interest: community food security, mental health, and community-based, participatory research
Jick, Karen, UW-Green Bay, Lecturer. BS. Social Work (1972); MSSW. (1974) UW-Madison. LCSW; ACSW.
Fields of interest: child welfare; behavior health issues for children; marriage and family therapy; field education for social work students; social work ethics; international studies.
Mattila, Matthew, UW-Green Bay, Child Welfare Coordinator. BSW. (1977) Pacific Lutheran University; MSW. (1985) Portland State University.
Fields of interest: direct practice with children and families, family and divorce mediation, child welfare, forensic social work, and adult education.
Sallmann, Jolanda M., UW-Green Bay, Associate Professor and Program Chair. BSW. (1992), MSW. (1996) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; PhD. (2005) UW-Madison.
Fields of interest: violence against women across the life course, including its broader effects on mental health, substance use, criminal justice involvement, poverty and homelessness.
Trimberger, Gail E., UW-Green Bay, Assistant Professor. BSW. (1981) UW-Eau Claire; MSSW. (1982) UW-Madison; PhD (2013) Marian University; LCSW.
Fields of interest: end-of-life, aging, grief, hospice and palliative care, bioethics.
Williams, Amy F., UW-Oshkosh, Academic Staff, Undergraduate and MSW. Field Coordinator. BA. Psychology (1992) Concordia University; MSW. (1999) University of Minnesota.
Fields of interest: school social work practice, grant procurement, and program evaluation.


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DARTMOUTH, Mass. -- Running with limited squads, the Brandeis men's and women's cross country teams competed in their first big meets of the season, the UMass Dartmouth Invitational on Sept. 19.
The performance of the meet for the Judges was turned in by junior Kate Warwick (Boxborough, Mass./Acton-Boxborough). Warwick had her best-ever indivual perforamance over the 5K course by finishing in third place. With a time of 17:57, Warwick was 23 seconds out of first place, but just four seconds out of second place. The only other Brandeis runner in the women's varsity race was junior Erin Bisceglia (Durham, Conn./Coginchaug), who finished in 14th place with a time of 18:30.
In the men's race, despite competing without several of their top runners, the 10th-ranked Brandeis men placed third overall, finishing just six points behind another nationally-ranked squad, No. 28 Keene State and three points behind MIT. Leading the way for the Brandeis men was junior Marc Boutin (Westford, Mass./Westford Acad.), who covered the 8K distance with a time of 24:53, good for sixth place. Boutin finished 13 seconds out of first place and was among a pack of seven runners within five seconds of second place. Senior Devon Holgate (Cumberland, R.I./Cumberland) placed 11th with a time of 25:03, just one second out of a top-10 placement. Seniors Dan Anastos (Peabody, Mass./Peabody) and Kerwin Vega (Waltham, Mass./Waltham) also earned top-20 positions, coming 18th and 20th, respectively, with times of 25:12 and 25:20. With junior Chris Brown (No. Chelmsford, Mass./Chelmsford) finishing 33rd in 25:38, Brandeis was the first team to get all of its scoring runners across the line. Sophomore Alex Kramer (No. Andover, Mass./No. Andover) was the team's sixth competitor, running in 90th place with a time of 26:50.
Brandeis's next meet is the Open New England Championships on Oct. 9 at Franklin Park in Boston.


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Firebug 1.11 alpha 2Friday, August 24th, 2012
getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.11a2
Firebug 1.11a2 fixes 14 issues.
One nice little fix is related to console.table() method.
Firebug is now displaying horizontal scrollbar if there is too much columns (issue 5832).
This method is quite powerful in rendering tabular data and also flexible regarding the input structure.
Check it out by executing the following expression in the command line (assume there are some scripts on the current page):
Please post feedback in the newsgroup, thanks.
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Daily exercise is a must for children - to build healthier bodies and stimulate brain development. These intentionally designed movements can help kids gain the important benefits of increased fitness and greater learning power. Clear verbal instructions, and sequential movements are found in this exciting, high energy musical collection and valuable resource. A bonus section offers song lyrics and melodies for listening, creative movement, and relaxing. The comprehensive guide expands upon the movement actions and their benefits. 32 page guide included. Runtime: 64 minutes.
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ROCHESTER — With a still lagging economy and more needs to be met, The Salvation Army is hoping that its annual Christmas Kettle Campaign will mean a brighter holiday season for struggling men, women and children in the Rochester area.
Funds raised through the familiar red kettles are vital to The Salvation Army's programs and services. This year's campaign goal is $135,500 as The Salvation Army's local staff attempt to meet the increasing demands for assistance.
"The money raised through this effort are critical in securing our services for both the Christmas season and throughout the year," said Captain Frank Nataluk, "but I have faith that the community will respond generously and help us reach our goal."
Volunteers are currently tinkling little bells, reminding shoppers they are in the presence of a red kettle, at shopping venues in several Strafford County communities including Lee, Dover and Somersworth.
In Rochester there are red kettles outside Market Basket, Big Lots, Kmart, JCPenney, Walmart and Care Pharmacy, tended by Salvation Army helpers doing shifts that run for three, four, five or more hours.
"We can always use volunteers," said Nataluk.
One such volunteer is Monique Gowell of Farmington.
"This is my first year as a volunteer, but it will not be my last. I am having a ball," she said, as she stood beside her kettle outside Market Basket, thanking the shoppers who were putting coins and bills through the slot.
She does a five-hour shift — from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. — five days a week and said she would also put in time on weekends, were it not that she has children.
"The people in general are real happy and easy going," she said, breaking off to thank donors exiting Market Basket with their groceries.
"I have had numerous offers of coffee," she continued, "and today, a couple who were both unemployed, put money in."
Gowell started her red kettle volunteerism before Thanksgiving, and will be there right up through Christmas Eve. She dresses warmly, and is thankful that the weather has been kind, so far.
Said Captain Frank, "There are so many in need in this area and The Salvation Army has been a staple for many. We hope and pray that we not only reach our goal, but surpass it to help even more people!"
In Rochester, The Salvation Army's Christmas ministry includes the distribution of toys and clothes to needy youngsters, food baskets and food vouchers, warm winter coats and so much more during the rest of the year. This includes the soup kitchen that serves lunch three days per week, food pantry that is open four days per week, and children's and teen programs twice per week. Last year more than 1,000 people were served by The Salvation Army in Rochester during the holidays and many more throughout the year.
The red kettle has been a long-standing tradition with The Salvation Army and, indeed, said the captain, an endearing sight across the country during the Christmas season. Dating back more than 120 years, the kettle has been an important source of revenue in addition to being an iconic symbol of the holidays.
For more information, or to consider volunteering, please contact Captain Frank Nataluk at (603) 332-2623, ext. 12.
Salvation Army's Christmas Kettle Campaign underway
ROCHESTER — With a still lagging economy and more needs to be met, The Salvation Army is hoping that its annual Christmas Kettle Campaign will mean a brighter holiday season for struggling men, women and children in the Rochester area.


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Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards
The nominees have been announced for the 2012 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards fueled by Monster Energy, and the surfing community is bracing for another epic showdown of the biggest waves and greatest rides witnessed worldwide over the last year.
The 12 months leading up to the end of the annual XXL cycle at the end of the Northern Hemisphere spring on March 19 have been widely regarded as the most spectacular ever seen in the sport of big wave riding. "Biggest-ever" swells were conquered at surf breaks in locations ranging from Tahiti to Ireland and from Tasmania to Portugal along with "just plain huge" days in Mexico, Fiji, California and Hawaii. When whittled down to the top five nominees in each of the XXL's seven divisions, every category is filled with breathtaking moments, all worthy of being named an XXL champion and each with a shot at a share of the $120,000 in prize money at stake.
The nominees for 2012:
FIVE BILLABONG XXL RIDE OF THE YEAR AWARD NOMINEES (click here for videos & images)
Nathan Fletcher (San Juan Capistrano, California, USA) at Teahupoo, Tahiti on August 27, 2011.(Video by Simon Saffigna.)
Ryan Hipwood (Gold Coast, Australia) at Cloudbreak, Fiji on July 12, 2011.
(Video by Nimai Strickland.)
Greg Long (San Clemente, California, USA) at Puerto Escondido, Mexico on May 19, 2011.(Video by Alejandro Berger.)
Garrett McNamara (Haleiwa, Hawaii, USA) at Praia do Norte, Nazaré, Portugal on November 1, 2011. (Video by Jorge Leal.)
Jeff Rowley (Torquay, Victoria, Australia) at Jaws, Maui, Hawaii on January 30, 2012.
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Scalia on unlimited political ads: Turn off the TV
COLUMBIA, S.C. – U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia has a simple solution for people who don't like all the political advertisements unleashed by the court's decision two years ago that ended limits on corporate contributions in political campaigns -- change the channel or turn off the TV.
Scalia was asked about the decision during a presentation before the South Carolina Bar on Saturday, exactly two years after the court handed down the 5-4 decision in the case that led to the rise of Super PACs. They are outside groups affiliated with candidates that can take in unlimited contributions as long as they don't directly coordinate with the candidate.
"I don't care who is doing the speech -- the more the merrier," Scalia said. "People are not stupid. If they don't like it, they'll shut it off."
Scalia was joined on stage by Justice Stephen Breyer, who voted on the losing side in the decision which has become known as "Citizens United," for the group that successfully sued over federal campaign finance laws. Breyer didn't directly criticize the ruling, instead pointing out how it is critical in the American system that people respect the decisions the judiciary makes.
By nature, when a decision isn't unanimous, "somebody is making a mistake," Breyer said.
Breyer also briefly summarized both sides of the argument concentrating on his own.
"There are real problems when people want to spend lots of money on a candidate ... they'll drown out the people who don't have a lot of money," Breyer said.
Money flooding political races was a consequence predicted as soon as the decision was handed down in January 2010.
And so far, it's true. Super PACs have raised more than $30 million just three races into the 2012 presidential race, according to the website opensecrets.org, run by The Center for Responsive Politics. TV advertising alone in South Carolina, which is voting Saturday, is estimated at $12 million, or nearly $27 per voter when calculated using the 2008 Republican primary turnout numbers.
Even U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham poked jabs at the amazing amount of campaign ads on television as he introduced the justices.
"I miss seeing car ads," said Graham, R-S.C.
Scalia said the blame for this type of system shouldn't fall on the Supreme Court, which he said decides merely whether the system is legal under the U.S. Constitution. Instead, he said the ones who have to change things are the politicians who created the system and the voters who often reward the candidates who spend the most money.
"If the system seems crazy to you, don't blame it on the court," Scalia said, during a discussion in front of South Carolina lawyers that lasted for more than an hour.
Both justices refused to talk in detail about the health care legislation case the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear later this year.
Scalia spent more than 10 minutes lamenting the way confirmation hearings for new justices are now held in the U.S. Senate. He said lawmakers are now more concerned with making sure a prospective member of the court will interpret the Constitution they want, instead of the way the founding fathers wrote it.
"It's like conducting a mini constitutional convention every time you pick a justice," Scalia said.
Breyer said it's important for judges to take a flexible view of the Constitution. He said that, depending on a judge's interpretation, the clause allowing everyone equal rights under the law in the 14th Amendment meant making sure someone had the right to a lawyer, or the right to not be forced to give incriminating statements, or even the right to abortion or the right to choose to die when one wants.
"They look at those words and they say they apply to their cases too," Breyer said.


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Opposition party wins Indonesian legislative votes
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The official count confirmed Friday the victory of Indonesia's biggest opposition party in last month's legislative elections, giving its star candidate a boost ahead of an upcoming presidential race.
Chairman of Electoral Commission Husni Kamil Manik announced that the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle of former President Megawati Sukarnoputri garnered nearly 19 percent of the vote in the April 9 election for the 560-seat House of Representatives.
Trailing second was Golkar Party with nearly 15 percent followed by the Great Indonesia Movement Party, which pulled almost 12 percent. The ruling Democratic Party of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono garnered 10 percent to place fourth.
The victory gave momentum to Jakarta Gov. Joko Widodo, who was picked by Megawati to run in the July 9 presidential election, where Yudhoyono, whose party has been ensnared in a spate of high-profile corruption scandals, is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term.
Widodo, known affectionately as Jokowi, was the mayor of Central Java town of Solo before being elected last year to govern the Indonesian capital. He is so far the only candidate to have secured a ticket for the election under a coalition between PDI-P and the newly-established Nasional Demokrat, which gathered nearly seven percent.
Jokowi is a newcomer to national politics, but his simple style, humble background and willingness to reach out to the poor have attracted legions of supporters in the world's third-largest democracy after India and the United States.
Two other top presidential contenders include business tycoon Aburizal Bakrie of Golkar and former general Prabowo Subianto of Gerindra.
Parties need to secure 20 percent of the seats in the House of Representatives or 25 percent of the overall vote to nominate a candidate. Otherwise, a coalition must be formed with one or more parties.
Distribution of seats for 10 political parties in the Parliament will be announced May 18, the same day the registration is opened for presidential candidates.
Some 200,000 candidates from 12 parties were vying for nearly 20,000 slots in legislative elections, including 6,607 competing for the 560-seat House and 945 for regional representatives or the Senate. The rest were competing for provincial and local councils.
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Roddin' @ Random
Exactly a year ago, we were wondering aloud how much longer the world's second oldest hot rod show—indeed, any major indoor event—could survive Great Recession attendance levels (July 2012 HRD). Never mind. Call off Dr. Kildare. Cancel the meat wagon.
So many more folks showed up for Sacramento's 63rd Autorama that we're inclined to believe a promoter claiming a sudden 10 percent spike over his best recent year. "We increased our advertising budget," concedes John Buck, who also owns the healthy Grand National Roadster Show. "We also changed the dates to be on Presidents' Day weekend. The folks like the three-day weekend." Perhaps coincidentally, both the quantity and quality of the custom cars for which this city and this show are uniquely known have lately improved, according to John. "The quality is getting back to the 2007 [pre-recession] time frame," he insists.
Three days of springlike weather sure didn't hurt. Though 585 registered vehicles are comfortably viewed indoors, they're distributed among multiple buildings, some spaced far apart. Casual fans considering a winter outing don't want to do that much walking in bad weather, and January can be cold, rainy, foggy, and windy—often all at once. A crappy forecast also discourages participation in the non-judged "Drive-In" program outdoors, for which approximately 200 cars and trucks turned out this year.
Let's hope these favorable trends continue. The original Autorama is often unfairly overlooked in discussions of indoor shows that may attract more magazine coverage. We attribute that editorial oversight partly to the state capital's relatively small media market—especially compared to the megalopolis sitting just 360 miles south—and partly to budget-bound editors content to cover car shows closest to headquarters, year after year after year. They don't know what they're missing in Sacramento.
Rico Squaglia's 1951 AMBR winner, restored and owned by Carter Fisher, joined the freshly crowned Kelly Brown-John Mumford roadster and the perpetual Grand National trophy won by both track Ts, 62 years apart.
Mark Of Zora
After racing V8-60 track roadsters, Rico chose a baby flathead for the street car that he and Harry Westergard built in 1949. Current caretaker John Mumford upgraded to Ardun heads, ultrarare survivors of approximately 30 sets that Zora Arkus Duntov produced for the would-be promoter of a spec-racing series that never materialized.
It's a dirty job, but John D'Agostino sweats the details of every build, right down to spreading road salt just so on move-in night. ("There's nothing like it for showing off paint," he confides. "The salt is bright white, and then you've got al those sparkles.") John's tribute to actress Sophia Loren, a 1940 Cadillac sliced and sprayed by Oz Customs (Oroville, California), was named King of Kustoms and won the perpetual Sam Barris Memorial Award for workmanship.
Had some hip GM and FoMoCo stylists gotten together after work in the late '40s or early '50s, their beer-stained napkin doodles might've looked something like the 1954 Chevy that James Jeff put together six decades later.
Shop Truck
Disguised as a booth prop, this little Crosley just might've contributed more to hot-rod history than any official Autorama entry, in its own way: fetching parts for countless rods, customs, and race cars built by Sacramento's own Dick Bertolucci. We hope Gary Cope keeps it just like this—unless he plans to install his hot-rodded Crosley 'banger, our favorite powerplant at Autorama.
With both first-generation and baby-boom hot rodders reaching a certain, ahem, "maturity" en masse, pioneer pinstriper Herb Martinez, 66, has lately added electric scooters to his applications list. Now surviving his 54th year of custom painting, Herb also continues to present his popular series of "pinstriping boot camps." Enlist at HerbMartinez.com.
Who'd'a thunk that The World's Most Beautiful Custom Car would ever come from outside America? Actually, this left-hand-drive 1960 Dodge Phoenix is a domestic product that young Aussie builder Justin Hills shipped home to New South Wales. Though his Hills & Co. Auto Restoration is known throughout the southern hemisphere for turning out concours-winning exoticars, Justin would rather roll in a hot rod or customs. This one required one year of fabricating virtually everything himself. He finally finished late the night before the car went into the box for a 10,000-mile voyage to Southern California—where its Pomona debut brought the Grand National Roadster Show's Top Radical Custom trophy three weeks before the Autorama.
Bye-Bye, Butch
We've never seen club participation even close to Autorama's annual turnout. This gigantic building—including an entire wing not visible in the photo—was filled with about 230 rods, customs, muscle cars, and restorations representing clubs in and around Sacramento, always a car-club-crazy region. This year, it was named Butch Gardner's Clubhouse in honor of the recently departed local rodder, whose portrait and Ford roadster and convertible headed an impressive collection of cars representing his Thunderbolts, a group active since 1945.
You know you're experiencing the world's greatest indoor collection of customs when you find this kind of craftsmanship and finish in the far-off suede palace tent. Chris Silvera of nearby Roseville cleaned up with his "Cadillacked" 1952 Chevy.
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A Q&A with Nancy Allen, Dean and Director, Anderson Academic Commons, University of Denver
Through a major interior renovation completed just over a year ago, the University of Denver transformed its existing main library, Penrose, into the new Anderson Academic Commons. The project didn't merely update the building with the latest technology — here, Nancy Allen explains how rethinking the use of space has dramatically changed the nature of services and the user experience, allowing DU to focus on building community.
Mary Grush: Could you give me a little background on your main library renovation project?
Nancy Allen: At its opening in 1972, Penrose Library was a flexible library building, and it did serve us well for many years. But it was built 'pre-technology revolution' — there was even a card catalog, and the library didn't have its first local area network until almost 20 years later — so it was definitely a building centered on paper collections and paper-based finding aids.
Technology was simply not in the Penrose Library building assumptions. But any library today is by nature an organization that's technology-dependent and technology-centered, and it uses technology in the workflow and the workplace for fundamentally all staff. And now, the users who benefit from library and information services are fairly savvy about technology, software, discovery, and systems — generational expectations about information and access to information evolve very quickly.
Libraries now find themselves in a position where they must be technology-centered organizations. So DU was determined to take advantage of that in our planning process for the new Anderson Academic Commons, which opened in March 2013.
Grush: It sounds like the move to an academic commons was due for your campus…
Allen: I really feel that we were lucky the renovation 'go ahead' decision was made when it was. We had been planning for 10 years: The campus had this project on the radar, it was identified as part of a capital campaign, and it had a very high priority. But the actual go ahead happened at just the right time for us to incorporate the best of future thinking in the context of information technology to deliver information services, the ability to reposition our tangible collections, and the opportunity to refocus library space on community, communication, services, and collaboration.
Grush: How important was the role of technology in the library renovation plans, and in recasting the library as an academic commons?
Allen: Technology enabled us to make changes, but the changes themselves aren't actually centered on technology. We use the technology offerings from the world around us — digital content, digital communication, increasingly wonderful discovery software, finding systems, document delivery technologies — we use all that to do what we do in better and faster ways, allowing us to rethink how we use our physical library space.
That's not unique to DU. These are things that just about every academic librarian I speak with is engaged in. But as I mentioned, our project happened at the right time for us, and I'm really pleased at how the renovation turned out because of that.
Grush: How did you plan for your existing paper-based or physical collections, during this time when much of your attention turned to technology-enabled systems and services — the technology offerings you just mentioned?
Allen: The importance of paper collections is very high. But we were able to rethink the amount of space that we wanted to use for tangible collections in our main building on campus. The old Penrose Library had two out of three of its floors entirely dominated by conventional library book stacks. The new building space does not have that emphasis on stacks. Roughly 40k linear feet of monographic collections have stayed with us in the renovated building and are housed on movable shelving on the lower level. Those collections were very carefully considered, and we are able to store the rest of our collections in an off-campus facility. We deliver from that facility on a fast turnaround basis several times per day, which means our Anderson Academic Commons users still have ready access to those materials.
Grush: In general, what are the new space allocation proportions, between tangible collections and other uses?
Allen: Now, only about half of the lower level is allocated to collections, so the rest of that level, plus the main and upper levels are now available for programs and people.
That is a huge transition for this building, and it's a central theme for higher education libraries today: the rethinking of the ways technology can be used to support access to tangible collections, and how technology and digital content can be used to deliver information services that support research and teaching.
Grush: What are some of the uses of space for programs and people — particularly technology-enabled uses?
Allen: The technology that we use in the library building is planned for change over time. At this time, we have dramatically increased the number of group study rooms, from seven to 32. Every one of those group study rooms has A/V technologies including flat panels with cabling allowing almost any device to connect. We have multipurpose teaching spaces that, among others, our librarians often use to do course-embedded workshops. To manage these spaces, we use scheduling software, which we integrate into our digital signage. All this considered, we are really delivering space as a service.
We host exhibits, including an exhibit space with an interactive flat panel and motion-activated, directed acoustics so those studying nearby are not disturbed. And we have meeting and video conferencing spaces equipped with high-quality image capacity and built-in camera and microphone technologies. These are all accessible to students and faculty. All of this adds an important element to our overall thinking about the library building as a community centerpiece.
Grush: Could you describe the event and community spaces a bit more?
Allen: There is a highly visible glass-walled meeting room called The Loft. It is suspended in the building's atrium and has two 4-panel video walls with multiple inputs. It is incredibly popular for both the librarians and people all over campus who want to use the room for very visible meetings, conferences, or other groups of 35 or so. We also have a very large event room that hosts an amazing array of community events, and it has the capacity to stream video of events held there to any other Web or media outlets. It has flexible seating for up to 200 people. When not used for events, it is open as a study space. These are all factors in the success the library has seen as a DU community centerpiece, not just hosting the DU community but truly helping to build community.
Grush: Do any campus programs have a home in Anderson?
Allen: We have an array of academic support services in the building. Most of these partners were actually with us in the old Penrose Library. So, we are benefiting from the long-standing collaborative partnerships of student and academic support centers including the esteemed Writing Program, the University Technology Services help desk, and a tutorial center (with the growing participation of math, physics, chemistry, and engineering groups). We also have a full-service café inside the building — helpful to so many students who spend long hours at Anderson. Plus, the Office of Teaching and Learning is located in the Anderson Academic Commons and is a major partner serving faculty with pedagogy support, assessment, and help on teaching with technology. It bears mentioning that all these programs are not merely housed in our building but are true partners with the Anderson Academic Commons.
Grush: Now that it has completed its first full academic year, is it your impression that the Anderson Academic Commons is meeting the overarching goals it has for service to the DU community?
Allen: The use numbers are clearly demonstrating that the Anderson Academic Commons has been a success. It's been gratifying to see the degree to which students are drawn to the space and spend very notable amounts of time there. We're supporting students holistically — with everything from comfortable seating to collaborative workspaces to ample power (plug-in places) to a whole suite of academic support services as well as standard library services… to 24/5 hours and even to creature comforts like nurturing snacks from the café. All this has added up to a very positive view by students and faculty.
The Chancellor talked with us about his philosophy that the academic library of the future really needs to be an intellectual-academic hub. This building, with its rethinking of space allocation has absolutely been a success in its first year — Anderson is indeed already an intellectual and academic central campus hub. We are building community and offering the library as a place where students love to be, where faculty meet students, and where there is intellectual and academic activity — a lot of learning is taking place in this building!
[Editor's note: The University of Denver will receive a 2014 Innovator award for the Anderson Academic Commons at Campus Technology's annual summer conference in Boston, July 28-31.]
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MONTGOMERY — Next year could be a very bad one for state employees as the Affordable Care Act and higher medical costs could hit their pocketbooks and limit medical choices and providers.
MONTGOMERY — Next year could be a very bad one for state employees as the Affordable Care Act and higher medical costs could hit their pocketbooks and limit medical choices and providers.
"The issue is when looking at the funding program for Fiscal Year '14, we're basically going to hit the fiscal cliff," William Ashmore, CEO of the State Employees Insurance Board, said in an interview last week.
The board that oversees state and municipal government health insurance plans has been discussing options. The SEIB, which has expenses of $424 million this year, needs an additional state appropriation of $66 million next year. Of the $424 million, the state appropriation is $298 million.
Options being discussed, if the Legislature doesn't fully fund SEIB are reduced benefits, the loss of dental coverage within the medical benefit, higher premiums and co-pays, fewer medical and hospital providers, reduced provider reimbursement or a combination of the options.
"There's got to be major changes, draconian-type changes, co-pays and plan designs," Ashmore said. "Nobody is going to be able to walk out of this without feeling the pain."
Not only that, but the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, hit the SEIB with $17 million in unfunded mandates that state taxpayers or state employees, or both, will have to cover.
Those mandates include extending the age of adult children who can remain on their parents' health insurance until 26, providing contraceptives, removing the cap on medical benefits for catastrophic illnesses and preventive procedures with no co-pays.
The expansion of coverage of adults to age 26 "on the surface is a good benefit," Ashmore said, but it costs $3 million.
"We spent $5 million because we cannot have annual limits," he said. "We have to provide preventive care at no cost, $7 million."
Preventive services such as mammograms and colon-
oscopies had co-pays, but under the ACA "we won't be able to put any kind of co-pay on services," Ashmore said.
"Eliminating those co-pays cost us $7 million. Free birth control, we provide it with a co-pay, but when we provide it free it's a couple of million dollars," he said.
"We have additional expenses thrown at us, all this health care reform and Affordable Care Act, layers and layers of additional expenses we cannot afford," Ashmore said. "There's no free lunch."
E.J. Mac McArthur Jr., executive director of the Alabama State Employees Association, said the ACA is good, but he believes the federal government and not state taxpayers or state employees should pay.
"I think, looking at the increase for employees, it's totally unfair and not doable," McArthur said. "Many cannot pay these types of increases. I hope the federal government will pick up that part."
The RSA-managed education employee health insurance plan known as PEEHIP isn't in as bad shape because it started biting the bullet several years ago with increased premiums, increases in co-pays, deductibles, and other out-of-pocket costs, RSA Deputy Director Don Yancey said.
PEEHIP began implementing some of the provisions of the ACA as early as 2010, but SEIB does not have to begin ACA provisions until 2014, Yancey said.
There are also about 3,000 fewer state employees contributing to SEIB than just a few years ago. The SEIB serves about 90,000 active and retired state employees and about 40,000 municipal employees.
Ashmore also said the SEIB has been spending its reserves but those reserves are about to run out.
State employee health insurance used to have a zero monthly premium, but with rising costs and the state of the economy, SEIB has been shifting costs to employees. Still, Ashmore said, Alabama's state employees have the lowest cost plan in the Southeast.
With discounts, current premiums are $15 a month for single customers and $205 for families.
Ashmore said if the state has to take all the increases out of employees in premiums, "you're looking at $100 extra per month."
Sen. Arthur Orr, D-Decatur, is chairman of the Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee. He and his House committee counterpart, Rep. Jim Barton, R-Mobile, are considering finances in advance of the 2013 legislative session that begins in February.
Orr said the RSA needs money and Medicaid may need $50 million more.
"The SEIB's potential needs are in that mix with the others and it's going to be an extreme challenge to shoulder all of the requests for SEIB," Orr said in a recent interview.
Ashmore said the SEIB will need $66 million more. "That basically would keep the state employee contributions to $15 and $205," he said.
If the appropriation isn't there, the $15 premium would go to $53 and the family rate of $205 would go to $297 a month, he said.
Early retiree rates will be higher than the Medicare supplement, he said. The rate for early retirees is $261 per single and $503 for family.
"When we look at additional funding from the state, we're also looking at additional funding from members, a 2 percent to 2.5 percent reduction in pay for employees," Ashmore said.
Not only that, there are providers and potential major plan changes that cannot be changed immediately.
"We're talking about reducing the amount of reimbursement, and not all providers will be willing to go along with that," he said. "Some providers will completely cut out of the picture.
"When they realize networks are changing and networks are cut and dental is eliminated, you're going to hear from them," Ashmore said.


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Tips for Traveling with Family and In Home Help
The cooler weather that comes with fall makes being outdoors feel a lot more enjoyable; it's not too hot and not too cold. Fall brings the perfect weather for just about anything. This is when traveling becomes a great option for families. What a wonderful way to spend time with those you love than to visit some place new together. New adventures can create lasting memories.
When traveling with elderly loved ones, there are a few things to consider. If your senior loved one is currently on medications, you'll want to make sure that you have enough with you to last the length of the trip and that it's possible to get a refill where you will be traveling in case it does run out. Bring a list of the generic names of the prescriptions as well, if traveling outside of the country. Also keep a list of doctors' names and phone numbers with you for emergency. It's helpful to bring headache medicines, antibacterial ointments, and other remedies for whatever may ail your loved one while traveling. Be sure that your loved one stays hydrated; it's very easy to forget to drink fluids when flying or on long road trips. If your family is traveling by car, be sure to stop every once in a while to stretch your legs and keep the blood flowing.
When flying with an elderly loved one, you may want to bring along a few items to make the flight more comfortable. Because of medications, your loved one may feel a chill a lot easier than you do. Bring a small blanket, travel pillow and perhaps a sleep mask to help them to feel at ease and relax. It is best to keep medications in a carryon bag in case of lost luggage. Be sure to have all medications in a clear bag and follow Travel Security Administration guidelines on allowed liquid rules. Check with current airport guidelines for those adults over 75 years who are traveling; they usually get expedited security clearance to reduce waiting. If your loved one uses a wheelchair, it can be gate checked when boarding the plane. After landing in your destination, the wheelchair will be waiting for easy transition back into the airport.
Some tips for traveling with family include bringing little snacks. When traveling by car, it can grow tiresome to eat at every truck stop and fast food restaurant. Sometimes an apple, granola bar, or bottle of water is all your family needs to feel energized again.
When traveling with family, remember to take lots of photos. The memories may fade, but a photograph lasts forever. And after the photo is taken, remember to put down the camera and enjoy the loved ones who have joined you on your adventure!
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - The Georgia College & State University tennis program and head coach Steve Barsby have set five dates for rescheduled tennis matches.
The women's tennis team will host Lander University Wednesday, March 18 at 3 p.m. Then Monday, April 13 the men's tennis team takes on Lander at the Centennial Center Tennis Facility.
Both teams will travel to face Erskine College Friday, March 20 with matches beginning at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 31 the Bobcat tennis teams will play at home against Newberry College at 2:30 p.m.
Then on Thursday, April 9 the women return to Milledgeville to face Clark Atlanta University.
Visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame. The GCSU Department of Athletics sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement.


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MIDDLEBURY — According to the federal Affordable Care Act, all insurance plans offered in Vermont by 2014 must contain 10 essential elements.
Those are coverage for:
1. "Ambulatory patient services," which refers to outpatient hospital care and walk-in care at medical practices.
2. Emergency care.
3. Prescription drugs.
4. Rehabilitative and chronic illness care.
5. Hospitalization.
6. Maternity and newborn care.
7. Mental health and substance abuse care.
8. Laboratory services.
9. Prevention and wellness care.
10. Pediatric dental and eye care.
These requirements are in addition to the basic mandates in the ACA that insurance companies may not refuse to cover customers with pre-existing conditions or drop customers who develop health problems, and must cover children until the age of 26.


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Good Gracious may be Lou Donaldson's record, but guitarist Grant Green and organist John Patton steal the show. Working with a tight, soulful groove laid down by drummer Ben Dixon, the guitarist and organist trade hot lines that often steal the thunder from Donaldson, who nevertheless turns in a robust, tuneful performance. Donaldson's tone is richer and fuller than it is on many of his early-'60s records, and he really connects with the laid-back R&B grooves and soul-jazz vamps on Good Gracious, turning in melodic, memorable solos. However, Grant and Patton take the songs even further with their intense solos and fills; Patton, in particular, sounds on fire even when the tempo is mellow. Good Gracious still falls prey to some of the lazy tempos that pop up on most Lou Donaldson records, but it remains one of his finest soul-jazz sessions. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine


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Let's face it.  Who really wants to spend $500-$2000 on speaker stands?  I mean, all you need is a base with easy to adjust feet (if you don't have a perfectly flat floor), an inert column that doesn't radiate vibration sound waves, a good solid platform to put the speaker atop, and something that puts the tweeters at ear level in your listening seat.  It shouldn't cost an arm and a leg.  One shouldn't have to buy $500 stands for $500 speakers. Hell a concern block would be good enough if the wife would let you have that in the living room.
Granted some speaker stands are works of art in and of themselves. Â And that is fine if you can afford it. Â But most folks who are going to by a monitor speaker for less than $500 don't want to pay another $500 for the stands.
I've spent the last year hunting at yard sales, furniture stores, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and anywhere really that I could, to find a pair of stands, or something to be used as stands, that wouldn't cost me more than $40.  And I have to admit, I couldn't find a single thing.  Nothing.  Nothing at Best Buy, nothing at any big box store, no garage sale could I find a pair of matching things that would work as a stand.  Nothing.  Maybe just my bad luck.  But I doubt it.  I live in the Inland Empire of southern California, yard sales are as popular as the ridiculously raised monster trucks with Fox Shox and off road wheels.  They are everywhere, and you can find nearly anything.  Except speaker stands. One starts to wonder if people really listen to music at home any longer?
So what to do, where to go? Â There are online options sure, but how good are they? Â Well here is the VSP monitor speaker stand from VPIÂ Manufacturing. Â The VSP is the top of their line, it comes in 24″ and 29″ versions. Â If you have smaller monitors the 29″ would probably do you right, larger monitors and you'll want to go 24″. Â And quickly searching shopping.google.com you can pick up a set, either in silver or black, for any where from $90-$200 bucks. Â Are they worth it? Yes.
The base is made of cast iron. Â It is freaking heavy. Â Powered coated in either black or gray to match the hollow aluminum and sand or shot fillable pillar, and steal top plate.
Construction is very easy.  All the screws fit in to place correctly.  The overall  manufacturing on the pair I got is good but not perfect.  One foot spike placement wasn't created as deep as all the others.  So that spike's fully reduced position is higher than all the other.  Which means, if you didn't want to take the spike out and reduce the thread length with a file and some elbow grease, to even out the feet for a starting position, all screws would be a bit higher in position. And adjustments would thus be more limited.  But like I said, put the spike in a vice, file it down some, and you are good to go.  The manufacturing is done in China, and VTI is aware that sometimes there are quality control issues.  I'm sure if you called them up and asked for a replacement of anything that isn't correctly made they would be happy to help.  As long as you yourself didn't cross thread anything in construction.
After the base plate and pillar were built, with the green fabric stopper between them, the pillars are easily filled with sand or shot. Â I filled mine with sand from Home Depot. Â Paid about $3 bucks for a bag heavy enough to break a back. Â A quick hint, get some masking tape and cover the gap between the base plate and the pillar. Â Sand will get in there as you fill the pillar up (from spilling it over the side) and will be difficult to get out. Â Also make sure to tap down the sand. Â This will get the air out and allow more sand to go in.