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Professor Christopher E Shaw MBChB, MD, FRACP, FRCP(hon)
Professor of Neurology and Neurogenetics
Director of the Centre for Neurodegeneration Research
Director of the Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute
Co-Lead for Clinical Neuroscience Clinical Academic Group for King's Health Partners
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RNA Processing Proteins and Neurodegeneration
Christopher Shaw is Professor of Neurology and Neurogenetics at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. His early training in General Medicine and Neurology was conducted in New Zealand. He came to Cambridge in 1992 on a Wellcome Trust Fellowship to study Neurobiology. In 1995 he moved to the Institute of Psychiatry.
He is Director of the Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute and Director of the Centre for Neurodegeneration Research. He is also Co-Lead for the Clinical Neuroscience Clinical Academic Group for King's Health Partners.
His major area of clinical and research interest is in the genetic and molecular basis of motor neurone disease (MND, also known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gherig's disease). He runs a clinic for patients with MND/ALS at King's College Hospital.
activities and interests
Head of laboratory researching amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD)
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are progressive neurodegenerative disorders that share a common pathogenesis.
His research team are currently hunting new ALS and FTD disease causing gene mutations using genetic linkage, exome capture and next generation sequencing.
Recent findings include the identification of mutations in RNA processing genes TARDBP (Sreedharan et al Science 2008) and FUS (Vance et al Science 2009) confirming that their mis-accumulation plays a pivotal role pathogenic role in the neurodegenerative cascade.
We have generated a range of cellular and animal models of TDP-43 and FUS disease that recapitulate key pathological features in man that influence RNA splicing and neuronal survival (Nishimura et al., Brain 2010; Tollervey et al., Nature Neuroscience 2011; Bilican et al., PNAS 2012).
We were the first group to identify a locus on Chromosome 9p for ALS and FTD (Vance et al., Brain 2006) that was subsequently identified as a massive intronic hexanucleotide repeat expansion mutation in the gene C9ORF72. We have shown that mutant C9ORF72 is the single most common cause of ALS in Europe, arising from a single event around 6,300 years ago (Smith et al EJHG 2012). We also the first to describe the pathological hallmark of mutant C9ORF72 being p62 inclusions in the cerebellum and hippocampus (Al-Sarraj et al., Acta Neuropath 2011) and showed that TDP-43 mislocalisation is essential for neurodegeneration.
We are working with industrial partners to develop cellular models of TDP-43 pathology suitable for drug discovery.
Ten most relevant publications
1. Bilican B, Serio A, Barmada SJ, Nishimura AL, Sullivan GJ, Carrasco M, Phatnani HP, Puddifoot CA, Story D, Fletcher J, Park IH, Friedman BA, Daley GQ, Wyllie DJ, Hardingham GE, Wilmut I, Finkbeiner S, Maniatis T, Shaw CE, Chandran S. Mutant induced pluripotent stem cell lines recapitulate aspects of TDP-43 proteinopathies and reveal cell-specific vulnerability. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Apr 10;109(15):5803.
2. Tollervey JR, Curk T, Rogelj B, Briese M, Cereda M, Kayikci M, König J, Hortobágyi T, Nishimura AL, Zupunski V, Patani R, Chandran S, Rot G, Zupan B, Shaw CE, Ule J. Characterising the RNA targets and position-dependent splicing regulation by TDP-43. Nat Neurosci. 2011 Apr;14(4):452-8.
3. Al-Sarraj S, King A, Troakes C, Smith B, Maekawa S, Bodi I, Rogelj B, Al-Chalabi A, Hortobágyi T, Shaw CE. p62 positive, TDP-43 negative, neuronal cytoplasmic and intranuclear inclusions in the cerebellum and hippocampus define the pathology of C9orf72-linked FTLD and MND/ALS Acta Neuropathol. 2011;122:691-702.
4. Tollervey JR, Wang Z, Hortobágyi T, Kayikci M, Joshua T. Witten JT, Zarnack K, Clark TA, Schweitzer AC, Rot G, Curk T, Rogelj B, Briese M, Cereda M, Kayikci M, König J, , Nishimura AL, Zupunski V, Patani R, Chandran S, Rot G, Zupan B, Rogelj B, Shaw CE, Ule J. Analysis of alternative splicing associated with aging and neurodegeneration in the human brain. Genome Research 2011 2011 Oct;21(10):1572-82
5. Vance C, Rogelj B, Hortobagyi T, De Vos KJ, Sreedharan J, Hu X, Wright P, Nishimura AL, Ganeslingam J, Tripathi V, Smith B, Ruddy D, Al-Saraj S, Al-Chalabi A, Leigh PN, Blair IP, Nicholson G, de Belleroche J, Gallo J-M, Miller CC, Shaw CE. Mutations in FUS, an RNA processing protein, cause familial ALS type 6 Science 2009;323:1208-11.
6. Sreedharan J, Blair IP, Tripathi VB, Hu X, Vance C, Rogelj B, Ackerley S, Durnall JC, Williams KL, Buratti E, Baralle F, de Belleroche J, Mitchell JD, Leigh PN, Al-Chalabi A, Miller CC, Nicholson G, Shaw CE. TDP-43 Mutations in Familial and Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Science 2008;319:1668-72.
7. King A, Al-Sarraj S, Shaw CE. Frontotemporal Lobar degeneration with ubiquitinated tau-negative inclusions and additional a-synuclein pathology but also unusual cerebellar ubiquitinated p62-poitive, TDP-43 negative inclusions Neuropathology 2008, 29:466-71.
8. Vance C, Al-Chalabi A, Smith BN, Hu X, Sreedharan J, Siddique T, Schelhaas HJ, Kusters B, Troost D, Baas F, De Jong V, Shaw CE.. Familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with frontotemporal dementia is linked to a locus on Chromosome 9p13.2. Brain 2006 129:868-76.
9. Broom WJ,. Parton MJ, Vance CA, Russ C, Andersen PM, Hansen V, Leigh PN, Powell JF, Al-Chalabi A, Shaw CE. No association of the SOD1 locus and disease susceptibility or phenotype in sporadic ALS. Neurology 2004, 63:2419-22.
10. Ruddy DM, Parton MJ, Al-Chalabi A, Lewis C, Leigh PN, Powell JF, Siddique T, Postumus Meyjes E, Frank Baas, De Jong V, Shaw CE.. Two families with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis are linked to a novel locus on Chromosome 16q. American Journal of Human Genetics 2003; 73 360-369.
last updated: Monday, May 28, 2012


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Chinese Operatic Art Series launched in June
This year's "Chinese Operatic Art Series" will be relaunched by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department with performances by "Balladmeter Troupe of Wujiang City of Jiangsu" in June.
The series that started in 2001 is aimed at promoting Chinese operatic art in the community. With a wide variety of operatic art forms, the programmes were well-received by Hong Kong audience. The great attractions including Pingtan, Nanyin, Hu opera, Inner Mongolia folk art and masterly skills in Chinese opera.
The launching programme is Pingtan performances by "Balladmeter Troupe of Wujiang City of Jiangsu". The award-winning troupe has performed more than 600 shows and gained a firm following in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai regions. It is made up of a fine cast including major performers Lu Jianhua, Chen Songquing, Xu Xiaofeng, Wang Shixiong and Chen Bihong. In the coming performances, Hong Kong audiences will have a good chance to enjoy the excellence of Pingtan.
Pingtan is a combination of two regional musical genres of Suzhou. While one is pure narration, rustic and masculine in style, with no singing, the other involves narration and singing and many performing formats. The presentation, however, is more in a lyrical, delicate vein.
The Pingtan performances will be staged at 7.30pm on June 15 to 17 (Tuesday to Thursday) at the Theatre, Hong Kong City Hall. Tickets priced at $150, $100 and $80 are now available at all URBTIX outlets. Half-price concessions will be granted to senior citizens, people with disabilities, full-time students, and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients (Limited tickets for students and CSSA recipients available on a first-come-first-served basis). For other discount schemes, please refer to the programme brochure.
For programme enquiries, call 2268 7323; for ticketing enquiries and reservations, call 2734 9009; for credit card telephone booking, call 2111 5999; for more information, visit
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Chrissizle was a barista at Starbucks who wrote and recorded a ranty, funny song about his job and posted it on YouTube. It "went viral" (oh, how I hate that phrase!) and he got fired.
Welcome to starbucksBarista fired after 'Starbucks Rant Song' goes viral Discuss
my name is Chris
I'll be your barista for the day
Can i make a drink for you miss?
I know you've had a shitty day
well so have I
I really don't want to care
but I get paid to try
Hello rich white lady,
I already know what you want
you want a skinny vanilla latte
young debutaunt
114 Responses to "Barista's "Starbucks Rant" song gets him fired"
Tarliman says:
Events like this are why the IWW is organizing at Starbucks. You have the right to bitch about your job. Any employer who can't stand derision from their employees should and must be driven out of business.
Lobster says:
Employees do have a right to bitch about their job. They do not have a right to freedom from the consequences of that choice, and their job itself is not a right. That's what happens when you bite the hand that feeds you.
fruityboots says:
Actually a JOB is a RIGHT.
In fact, the right to a job is a matter of law—and has been for 62
Lobster says:
Yep. You do have the right to have a job. You just don't have the right to have any job you choose without the employer's consent.
wizardru says:
"In fact, the right to a job is a matter of law—and has been for 62
I think you need to actually read those laws. The 1946 act basically requires the formation of an advisory group on the economy and an annual report of suggestions from the president. The 1978 bill suggests that the president and congress 'work toward' full employment…and creating temporary government jobs to do it. But the only actual requirement the law has is some administrative requirements of again forming councils, publishing papers and now the president needs to release a fiscal plan…which he has no actual power to enact.
None of which constitutes a RIGHT to a job…merely a desire to see that everyone who wants to be employed can be. "Full Employment" is the jobs-market equivalent of "world-peace".
Bottle Imp says:
Doesn't sound like he's deriding Starbucks so much as their customer base. They're a service company. They make money on the image that Starbucks employees are helpful and friendly while they make you your coffee. This guy didn't attack Starbucks directly, he attacked the class of people who go to Starbucks (who, according to friends who've worked at Starbucks are awful tippers). Sure, as employees we all do it. I used to bitch constantly to co-workers about customers. But I never posted a video online where I begin a verse of complaint with "If I have to serve another latino…"
I'm glad IWW is involved with Starbucks on things like recognizing MLK day. But I have a hard time saying that this is something IWW should get all over.
DonnyB2 says:
And in your perfect-world-everybody-belongs-to-a-union, Starbucks costs even more than it does now, and the baristas are free to complain about customers directly to their face. Then gee, I wonder why nobody goes there anymore?
mappo says:
Louis CK has an excellent response rant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl5vihsERDw
samovar100 says:
That's a great bit! Thanks for the link, mappo
Ed Ligget. Tuba. says:
Funny, and I love Louis CK, however, we don't know that this guy didn't do his job well. I "did the shit out of" every job I have had in life, from dish washer at 19 to prepress technician at 35. Doesn't mean I didn't hate some of those jobs. (And in point of fact, I hated the prepress tech job and didn't really mind the dishwashing job. :D )
A lot of his lyrics are about deliberately serving people the wrong coffee. That's not doing your job well.
Ed Ligget. Tuba. says:
Yes but we don't know that he actually did that. Ever heard of daydreaming?
Conspirator says:
Frankly, he knew what he was doing and that it would lead to this and how can anyone be surprised by the outcome? He wore the apron and he mentioned the company. Had he just said he worked in a coffee shop it wouldn't be so bad.
This is quite different from the guy who worked at Best Buy and made the video about people wanting an iphone just because it was an iphone. In that case there was nothing readily identifying the employee or his employer. That kind of stuff should be ok.
Guest says:
Pretty much the lament of all those who interface with the public in the food service industry. Please be nice to them and leave a tip, dammit!
hughstimson says:
Here we go with all the "he should have known better" comments.
Perhaps he should have. Or perhaps not, the line between your professional life and your off-duty life is confusing now that the media you produce for your on-line community can very occasionally cross over.
Regardless, I think employees *should* be able to produce creative critique of their work lives. Just because someone pays you minimum wage shouldn't mean they can decide what you say in your time off.
Obviously in this case Starbucks had the power to do so, and chose to exercise that power. But that doesn't make it right.
Lobster says:
It doesn't make it right, but that's the way the world works. If I'm employed at someone's pleasure, it is not in my interests to displease that person. It's dishonest, it's soul-crushing and it's unfair, but we live in an imperfect world and I can't pay my mortgage with angst.
Ultimately it's the employer's right to say, "if you don't like coming to work, don't come to work anymore. You're welcome."
I think it's right, though. You just don't slate your job, employer and customers on a public forum and expect to be allowed to continue.
What happens when a latino who's seen this comes in and orders a frappuccino from this idiot?
semiotix says:
Here we go with all the "he should have known better" comments.
But he really should have known better! That's actually important!
Someone upthread mentioned the Wobblies trying to organize Starbucks. Good for them! But no labor union in the world, past present or future, would go to bat for an employee who did this.
For that matter, every adorable struggling local mom-and-pop neighborhood coffeeshop in the world would have fired this guy, too.
missourimedic says:
The thing is, he wasn't criticizing Starbucks… he was criticizing the customers. Big difference, and they were 100% justified in firing him. Any idiot knows that when you dress up in your company's uniform and publicly insult your patrons, you are begging to be fired.
Sarah Wells says:
I always order a regular coffee. I hope I am safe from barrista wrath.
Guest says:
As a former barista and lover of triple-shot Americanos and double shot Red Eyes, I think if you order politely, tip generously and say thank you, you're good. :)
Aphotic says:
You're not, well at a real coffee haus. You'll need to add a double shot to that and tip $2 just to be safe. Just to be…
samovar100 says:
Welcome to working with the public, kid. And put a damn shirt on!
Dani4a says:
Ok, he's complaining about things like making sandwiches and adding an extra shot of espresso to a latte. Are those unreasonable requests? I did several years in food service. I've experienced horrible customers, and I've seen awful people at Starbucks. But I fail to see how serving a Latino a caramel frapuccino or giving a rich white lady skim milk is actually something that inconveniences him.
He has the right to complain about his job, but when he readily identifies his employer, the employer has a right to fire him. And the fact that he's a whiney douchebag makes me a little less inclined to sympathize with him.
hughstimson says:
Whiney douchebag?
He wrote a funny calling out some nominally frustrating things about his job. Where I come from that sort of act can be positive catharsis. It's not clear to me that this wouldn't actually be good for barista morale.
Dani4a says:
"Nominally frustrating things about his job" being serving latinos and fat people?
It's not good for customer engagement though, is it?
hughstimson says:
"It's not good for customer engagement though, is it?"
Depends on whether customers have a sense of humour, and an understanding of (forgive me) "how the world works".
I don't suppose Starbucks customers think their baristas have no personal or creative life, or any passing frustrations. I don't imagine many will be shocked to learn that they do.
I wouldn't expect Starbucks customers to take this song at face value. Most people can recognize a joke (although this comment thread is making me wonder).
There seems to be some confusion here between following the rules and virtue.
Guest says:
Yeah, after watching it, I thought : 'First world problems'… and 'whiny d-bag'.
I mean, it had sexism, racism, and fat-shaming all in one little ditty! Wow! /s
Really stupid to mention the company name. Stuuupid.
holyalmost says:
I don't understand his reasoning: "I saw this as the only way those of us on the lowest rungs of the ladder can make any changes."
Changes like getting latinos to stop buying double caramel frappachinos?
Lobster says:
If the jobs on the lowest rungs were fulfilling, interesting and fun, they wouldn't be on the lowest rungs. There's a reason Starbucks hires teens and kids fresh out of college to be baristas; it's unpleasant work that requires very little skill or knowledge. Your employer is not your parent, and a paycheck is not allowance.
Guest says:
'Little skill or knowledge', eh?
Nice classism and elitism you got going on, there. /s
CastanhasDoPara says:
That's all well and good but how many of say even the top 1000 baristas in the world work at a flippin' starbucks. My completely non-fact based assertion is NONE. I mean I'm sure it's possible that at least a few work FOR starbucks but none work at any old starbucks.
Also that's not to say that all regular starbucks baristas are untrained or unskilled, many are, but the level of skill most have or learn is nowhere near that required to be an olympic level coffee preparer. Because if they did have those skills/talent they would be utter morons to work at a starbucks for near minimum wage and paltry tips. Your argument is as weak and overwrought as coffee from starbucks.
autark says:
10 to 1 this is some kind of viral ad campaign… waiting for it.
Teller says:
Like your cynicism – but I'm betting not an undercover viral. Social media is a big deal to corps like Starbucks and this one doesn't have the fun, grassrootsy vibe they look for, imo.
thepolishpen says:
If you think this dude shouldn't have been fired for naming his employer and then wearing the uniform, you also "don't know how the world works." At this point this kid is double ignorant: he made a public rant about work — identifying his workplace — and then put that rant on the internet, where anyone his age, especially — if they know anything — knows that it could become widespread and that it's there for ALL to see.
There needs to be a new course for all ages, but required for people under 30, called The Marketplace of Ideas in the 21st Century: Social Media, Your Reputation, and You.
Also, a Starbucks employee is the least credible spokesperson for "wage slaves." Starbucks employees get tips and even part time employees get health benefits (I'm pretty sure they still do). I've know many people who have worked at Starbucks and, yes, it sounds like it sucks. But like Louis CK said, "That's why we gave [the job] to you." Now "do the shit out of it." You'll be a better person for it.Having a service industry past myself, I was always courteous to Starbucks employees (even the inept-with-attitude) and I always tipped, even tough I only ever got a tall, black coffee. Then one day at the drive through, I received a tall cup of black coffee — the cups that had the big "YOU" on the side, and somone had written "SUCK." It was the first time I ever spoke to a manager at Starbucks and I haven't gone back since.
Cowicide says:
Also, a Starbucks employee is the least credible spokesperson for "wage slaves." Starbucks employees get tips and even part time employees get health benefits (I'm pretty sure they still do).
You conveniently leave out the actual low wage that's paid. Also, how sick employees will be worked to death under threat of losing said health benefits. The benefits are often used as a stick and carrot to force employees into bad situations that benefit the profits of the megalomanical CEO Howard Schultz at the expense of others.
Then one day at the drive through, I received a tall cup of black coffee — the cups that had the big "YOU" on the side, and somone had written "SUCK."
That's strange, never happened to me or anyone else I know… ever. Maybe you could benefit from some more self-reflection?
He slapped his employer's customers on a public forum. Why should he keep his job? Grow up. If you can't get a better job, you'd better learn to live with the one you've got.
Oh, and it's not funny, and surely he could have got dressed first?
Cowicide says:
Oh, and it's not funny
I thought it was funny. Great, actually.
surely he could have got dressed first?
Hahaha… get off my lawn, whipper-snappers!
David Llopis says:
Racist Dooced in 3…2…
Kevin Sweeney says:
No wonder they fired him. Who wants to be associated with such lack of talent. Dressing up a disgruntled and obscene opinion with a tune does not make a song. Maybe someone out there can write something of value to make this statement, but this ain't it
Navin_Johnson says:
"obscene opinion"
Haha. Hysterical much?
bcsizemo says:
Apparently I'm one of the few people who reads through all that fine print they make you sign when you get a job at a big company. I bet there is a line or clause that says he is not allowed to slander the company in anyway, and his life/actions outside of the company can be a reflection on the company if he is acting in a way that represents them…
So in this case, yes, he screwed up and should be punished.
I worked for Dell, but no where on the internet did I slander them or say how much my job sucked, even if it did.
bcsizemo says:
Tipping… seriously.
I'm not tipping a person behind the counter, whose job it is to take/make my order. That's their job. No one tipped me when I was a cashier or bagger at a grocery store. (Well maybe if I went the extra mile and loaded bags into the car for an old lady while it was pouring down rain, but that was like twice a year.)
I'm already paying for overpriced burnt coffee…I don't think I need to leave you some extra for pretending to be courteous to me. Besides I go to the local coffee shop now, where they really are friendly. (And from time to time I might tip.)
Cowicide says:
I'm already paying for overpriced burnt coffee..
Do you do this while wearing a gimp outfit?
bcsizemo says:
I'm not a coffee person so much, so I just go by generalities. Compared to the local coffee house/chain much of Starbucks coffee taste like it's very heavy on the roast.
But I admit I'm not a good judge of excellent coffee. I just know I prefer the cheaper coffee that I get from the local shop which tastes better to me. To each their own.
Cowicide says:
I was just teasing you. The way you worded it earlier, it sounded like you go out of your way to pay more money for burnt coffee like any good gimp looking for punishment would do.
Plus, if you think the coffee is burnt you should return it and they give you another one from a different batch and even probably a coupon for a free purchase next time.
I admit I'm not a great judge of coffee either and I tend to prefer local shops not really because of the taste of the coffee itself, but more because it supports local shops and I usually enjoy local flavor over corporate conformity.
Nonetheless, I often go to Starbucks when I need coffee and wifi. Some of my favorite local coffee shops have sketchy, very slow wifi and that's frustrating when I've got work to do in a pinch.
bcsizemo says:
Return it? Maybe if it wasn't what I ordered…maybe. Considering my ability to actually make a decent cup of coffee is about 2/10, then whatever they serve me is probably a whole lot better than I could make for myself. Besides I don't drink much coffee, at most once a week.
Lobster says:
Right, and I don't tip at buffets either. Tips are for good service. Allowing me to patronize the establishment is not service. Handing me the item I purchased is not service. If it is, then let me go back there and get it myself.
Navin_Johnson says:
You sound like the kind of guy who probably perpetuates poor service. You come into a place with an arrogant attitude and wonder why the staff isn't friendly to you. That only reinforces your notions of them being "unskilled" or shitty workers.
"Oh great, I have to take time away from my nice tipping customers to deal with lobster guy again….."
Cowicide says:
Haha… agreed…
Lobster says:
Umm… is it wrong to suggest that someone with no training, no experience and no higher education is usually unskilled? There's no shame in that. We all start out there, and then we get experience, we get training, we get education, and we move up. I'm actually extremely polite to waiters and cashiers because I know their job is rough. When they provide a service – as in the case of a waiter – and do a good job of it, I tip generously. When they provide a service and do a lousy job of it, I still tip, just not as much.
If it's arrogant of me to think that a tip (and a good job) should be earned then yes, I am arrogant. That's how the world works. It doesn't care about your self-esteem or sense of entitlement.
Cowicide says:
I'm actually extremely polite to waiters and cashiers
Extremely polite? What's that like? Sounds creepy and uptight. How about trying to treat them like anyone else? You know, like normal people? Equals?
samovar100 says:
One thing that I noticed about YOU, Cowcide, is your constant berating of other commentators.
It's like you're always desperately trying to prove some kind of intellectual and moral superiority.
I grow weary of your childishness.
Hint: Find some gainful employment.
Cowicide says:
One thing that I noticed about YOU, Cowcide, is your constant beautification of other commentators. You're always proving some kind of intellectual and moral superiority and that's amazing. I grow horny from your words. Hint: Find some gainful vacation.
Since switch to Disqus:
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Antinous / Moderator says:
I have more likes than anyone. That has to say something about the meaninglessness of the Like system.
Cowicide says:
I have more likes than anyone. That has to say something about the meaninglessness of the Like system.
And I think that says something about your poor self-esteem. Dammit, Antinous!! Won't you realize we love you, man?!?! (I clicked your Like button yet again)
samovar100 says:
You're very welcome, Sir :)
But in all fairness, your annoying agenda doesn't hold a candle to DoctressJulia
Lobster says:
That's generally how I treat people, including close friends. Is that wrong of me? Is it degrading show people courtesy? I joke with them, I thank them, if they're wearing a nametag I call them by name… Is that disrespectful?
Guest says:
Ugh, I HATE nametags. What are we, pets? It makes my skin crawl when a stranger calls me by name and I haven't given it to them. Do I get to call them by their name? Not usually. It's just another way they can treat you like you are lesser than them.
Lobster says:
Julia, if someone's wearing a nametag it's not because I demanded it. I don't call them by their name because I think they're a pet or I want to assert control over them, I do it because they're a human being with a name and by some means I have learned that name. If they want to know my name I'll give it readily and if they don't have a nametag but introduce themselves then I'll use that name too.
Is there ANYTHING I can possibly say that isn't the absolute most monstrous thing to do? Even if I'm doing it wrong, can you at least grant me that I'm TRYING to treat them like people?
Navin_Johnson says:
It doesn't care about your self-esteem or sense of entitlement.
Reading the tone of your posts I'm getting the feeling that you're the one with sense of entitlement and everybody else is probably just trying to get through dealing with you.
Guest says:
Yes, TOTALLY. lol
Guest says:
You're the kind of person service industry workers despise. Really, they hate you.
bcsizemo says:
Really? They hate me because I treat them with respect, don't yell at them, or feel like it has always got to be my way? Naw, they must hate me because I don't tip them for doing their job…
Give me a reason to tip you besides doing what you are paid to do and I might consider it. Now I certainly tip servers/waitstaff, but it's rare I tip people behind the counter.
Trust me when I was on the other side of that counter I was polite, and got yelled at, and in general treated everyone with respect. I've even managed a retail store before, and if you can't treat my employees or me with a little self respect I had no problems telling a customer to leave.
Guest says:
You can't swing a one dollar bill every time you order a drink?
I understand if they are assholes to you (and you should complain), but what if they're not adequately grateful? I see that shit all the time; customers expecting to be fawned over… :/
Nobody in the service industry gets paid to do what they do. That's why they are tipped. The customers pay most of their wages. Would it kill you to give them a buck?
penguinchris says:
Depending on what you order, a drink straight off the menu (nothing extra) at Starbucks can cost you $4-6. Would it kill us to give them a buck as a tip? No, but… that's ridiculously expensive to start with, and if it was considered socially essential to tip, I would just never go (I don't actually ever go to Starbucks as I'm not a big coffee person, unless someone drags me there).
Would it be better, in your mind, for people who don't think it's necessary to tip at a coffee shop (excepting some unusually excellent service) to simply not come at all? We're spending our own hard-earned money on a drink that can't cost more than $0.50-1.00 to make (allowing for exotic ingredients, *and* the employee's time).
So we're already paying an extra $3-4 as the cost of having them provide this service instead of making the drink ourselves.
thepolishpen says:
Yes, they do get paid. Tips are taxed like income. When a person is paying for something they should get what they pay for. Starbucks is flippin' expensive. And the servers (SERVERS) should be at least personable so as to attract return customers so they can get more and better tips. No one is expecting to be fawned over — at least I hope not.
Jennifer Moore says:
starbucks pools their tips and distributes them evenly amongst the employees. you aren't tipping the cashier, you're tipping everyone working that day, including the person making your drink and the person cleaning the dishes in the back room
OneDunya says:
Working with people is very challenging especially in such a fast paced place like Starbucks. When I go to Starbucks I always feel sorry for the barristas but most of them manage to be polite.
Lobster says:
If you think working as a barista at Starbucks is fast-paced and challenging, try dealing Blackjack at a casino.
Navin_Johnson says:
Quite a random apples and oranges comparison…
Guest says:
Have you ever been a barista or a Blackjack dealer?
Lobster says:
I have been a cashier and a blackjack dealer, and while I do not dispute that it is possible to be a proud, excellent and professional barista (and there is no shame in that), none of the baristas I've ever known (of which there have been several) intended to make a career of it. They were all just looking for summer jobs, or to work through university.
I don't think it's classist or elitist of me to acknowledge that, and I would ask you, respectfully, to stop making so many assumptions about me and about others. Calling me a jerk is not going to foster any sort of conversation here.
BBNinja says:
I never got a single tip when I worked as a fast food cook for minimum wages. So…why the hell would I tip someone making coffee for more than minimum wage?
Navin_Johnson says:
Maybe you should have pushed for a tip jar or fairer wages.
Guest says:
There are even crappier jobs than those that come with tips.
I tip because wages (even slightly above minimum wage) are not rising as fast as the prices of rent, transportation, insurance, food and tuition. They are providing a service I could easily do myself. The tip is in gratitude for not having to, and a little extra for the smile, humor and cheerfulness.
Guest says:
And YOU now have a KILLER Bloody Mary, Old Fashioned or whatever you drink you want coming, on me, forever. :)
Guest says:
Vodka martinis, very dry, extra olives. Irish whiskey or single-malt scotch. Irish coffee. Cabernet.
Guest says:
You should have been tipped out. Each server should have given you at LEAST ten percent of their tips. You got ripped off (IMO). Really, that sounds just unfair. :(
But, it isn't fair (nor is it kind!) to not tip others because you got screwed. Reminds me of a certain anti-union sentiment I hear a lot, given my geolocation… "If I can't have those things, why should THEY get them?" :/
fancypantsmemaw says:
He admits to doing a bad job in his song when he admits to not giving the customer what they order. He's wearing the apron over his underwear in "public". Those are reasons enough to get fired, aren't they?
This would have been cool if he posted it on the day he walked out of his job, but for him to expect to go in to work the next day?!
fancypantsmemaw says:
He admits to doing a bad job in his song when he admits to not giving the customer what they order. He's wearing the apron over his underwear in "public". Those are reasons enough to get fired, aren't they?
This would have been cool if he posted it on the day he walked out of his job, but for him to expect to go in to work the next day?!
Cowicide says:
I nominate this Concern Troll Thread of the Year
My God, you people need to lighten up a little, the video was a joke and you guys are picking it apart to determine whether "he does a good or bad job" based on joke lyrics? Don't you folks have better targets out there for your angst?
Now, head on out to a Starbucks and act like abusive control freaks to the employees there; I'm sure you will all feel much better afterwards.
Cowicide says:
One thing I note about people I'm hanging with offline is how they treat service people. It's a good barometer of what kind of people they are. This thread is pretty telling, some of you posters are real uptight dicks.
bargainoutlet says:
Definitely not a smart move but entertaining none the less.
soubriquet says:
Maybe some of his pissiness comes from the way in which Starbucks try to persuade their workers that they're not mere servers of drinks in coffee-shops. Oh no, they're "baristas".
(Am I the only person who finds that word ludicrous)
I can understand the guy whining about the job, but, to be surprised when his employers aren't keen to further employ a customer service worker who openly despises customers? Whilst wearing his Starbucks apron?
What did he expect?
Ambiguity says:
Oh no, they're "baristas". (Am I the only person who finds that word ludicrous)
Almost everything about a modern coffee shop is ludicrous. When I order coffee (I don't go t Starbucks because I think the coffee is bad, but it's the same everywhere) I just can't force myself to use the affected "tall" and "grande" etc. I use the more modern "medium."
bcsizemo says:
Foamy has been railing again Star-schmucks for years… :-)
Alex Pagliuca says:
I spent two years and change working in a Starbucks. It's by far not the worst job I've ever had, but I understand the kids frustration.
My particular location had one customer who would call and threaten and curse us out every few weeks to claim that her order had been made wrong. Every few weeks. After a while, and making sure there was an extra dose of quality control when she came in the store, we told her we weren't going to serve her anymore. She called a district manager, who then required we provide her with free product, because we'd told her not to come back. Two weeks later, another phone call, more threats.
You can say, "that's how the world works" and claim this kid has no right to complain and so forth, and I get that, but you're essentially selling yours and our first amendment rights down the river at that point because your saying, "The government doesn't have the right to sanction my speech, but these people, a company who has no responsibility to us as a society and no loyalty to our well being, they can sanction my speech, anytime they want."
Don't complain about corporate campaign donations taking over elections and so forth, if you're just going to bend over or kneel down at every opportunity your damn self. Have some self respect.
wizardru says:
What speech was sanctioned? His video is still on youtube. It wasn't taken down. He has no guarantee of the right to keep his job after exercising his free speech…but that has NOTHING to do with the First Amendment. Congress has not abridged his right to speak his mind. Hell, Starbucks hasn't even requested his video be removed or his follow-up video. There's no censorship going on here, just some whining.
Ted Brennan says:
Anyone who has ever worked a customer service job has had to deal with bad customers. That is life, likewise everyone has dealt with people who should not work in customer service. Did he have a right to complain? Yeah. Does Starbucks have a right to fire him for making disparaging remarks about the clientele and implying that he intentionally messed up orders, and did not follow company policies. Yeah.
This isn't about the government action or protected speech. The first amendment applies to Government not being able to arrest or sanction your speech. It does not protect you against due or undue social pressure or your own violation of contractual agreements that you might have made.
heybebeh88 says:
I can do you one better. I also used to work at Starbucks. There was a lady who would come by and crap everywhere in the bathroom. She didn't use the bathroom everytime she was in, but I guarantee you, when she did, we'd have to close it and clean.
All she bought was a large hot chocolate. Not a really big loss if we ban her for shitting, right?
Management wouldn't let us ban her. No, it was better to waste a half hour of my staff time cleaning up her excrement.
I got paid 8.40 an hour, so it was 4.20 to pay me to clean up after her, a hot chocolate costs less.
nosehat says:
I guess if that's how he feels about his customers and the trials of his job, Starbucks did him a big favor by firing him?
Even though this is probably meant to be light–just blowing off steam in a funny, creative way–there remains an undeniable vibe of whiny, self-entitled prick to this video.
But we would react a lot differently if they guy were quitting his job, and this video was his open letter to Starbucks explaining his decision to quit. If that were the case, this would be pure awesome.
dw_funk says:
It's so nice to see everybody coming out to defend that poor, defenseless megacorporation.
Guest says:
waetherman says:
His song is mostly about how awful the customers are, and how miserable he is as a result. It does touch a little on how bad the products are when he makes them, substituting decaf for regular, and feces for whipped cream. And rather than keep his complaints private, he decided to make them very, very public. All in all, its pretty damaging to both Starbucks and his coworkers as well. I dont think he qualifies as some sort of whistle-blower, he's just an asshole who needs to find a job that's not in the service industry.
I'm glad that Starucks encouraged him to find new opportunities; if I see this guy playing at an open mic night, I'll give him a few bucks. But if I see him pulling shots at a Peet's, I'd give him the finger and walk right out the door.
Perizade says:
Okay, I am in education and BOY could I tell you stories. However, if I did in a public way I totally would be fired. I feel bad for this guy because it does sound like a tough job.
andygates says:
Most everyone bitches about their jobs in public – in the pub, on the street. Bitching and public space aren't important and nor's the kid's talent. The thing went viral, and the corporate immune system sneezed.
Now, can you be held responsible for putting something out that is aimed at your fifty netfriends, but which gets enjoyed by umpty-thousands? That seems kinda harsh.
scott ghelfi says:
_Username says:
To be honest i can not even pretend to be interested in this shirtless dweebs rant much less even waste 3 mins watching such bs videos…but I will say this that Dominatrix chix Doc Tress Julie or whatever she calls "herself" sure seems to enjoy getting rantified…maybe a little unwinding of pantys is in order
The Ouroborus says:
This is what happens when you skip your meds.
Antinous / Moderator says:
Imagine there's no Starbucks.
It's easy if you try.
nem0fazer says:
Just came here to say Suport Your Local Independent Coffee Bar! I was in mine yesterday, Momento on fourth in Vancouver. Fantastic atmosphere. Staff and customers chat for ages. Everyone gets on. Its a bit like Cheers only with coffee instead of Beer.
No. I'm not affiliated. Really. I just love good coffee and dislike the homogeneity of corporate coffee bars.
elk says:
I can't believe this kid actually had the nerve to go back to work the next day, much less opting not to quit if it was so utterly painful an experience (which itself is laughable).
sugarsails says:
No joke about predicting people's drinks by race though… I worked at a Starbucks in a B&N for a year.
almost without fail:
Asian people get hazelnut
Hispanic people get caramel
Black people get mocha
White people get whatever's advertised
And when it rains you'd better put another pot of coffee on
Tom Boucher says:
Ouch. Hard to watch. I haven't worked at Starbucks but I've been a housecleaner and in the Army and tried to find some dignity and peace, tried to make the best of a hard situation, which I hope brother Chris can generate. Otherwise? He might be in for a lonnnnnnnng hard life of disappointments.
–A good tipper
Aphotic says:
I think at some point we all want to go "Office Space" at our employers and people who keep us employed, but most of these cases lack one thing – direction. In the movie what they wanted to do to get back at their company was steal the awful fax machine and steal money. Then some nut job burned the place down. That's it!
There is nothing more I would love to do than publicly lash out at the inane, moste lugubrious gormandizing people I attend to each day vehemently attacking the organization I work for, but alas, where I live, it's not so easy to find another job seeing as there are comforts my job affords. Unfortunately, good coffee is not one of them (and I'm not saying that Starbucks has good coffee, thank you Intelligentsia Coffee).
pbrpunx14 says:
most employers have a clause in their contracts with employees (as mentioned repeatedly above) not to disparage the employer in public (or online… same thing in my book). a previous employer of mine specifically stipulated not mentioning them by name in blogs, etc… I see this as a perfectly reasonable term of employment. whether good or bad, searching the employer should not lead you to a host of employee rants. because i know that my online identity could be traced to location (at minimum), i won't even mention the field i work in currently (especially if i have negative things to say).
his employer had every right to fire him… the real question here is: if he wanted to keep his job after posting this, why didn't he set it a cartoon, or otherwise make his identity anonymous?
carbide73 says:
61,908 views on youtube of his starbucks rant, 311 views of his youtube video about what happened to him afterwards, just saying…
Cowicide says:
311 views of his youtube video about what happened to him afterwards, just saying…
It's now already up to 5,872 … just saying….
Cowicide says:
61,908 views on youtube of his starbucks rant, 311 views of his youtube video about what happened to him afterwards, just saying…
Less than a day later and now it's up from 311 to 31,239…
Just saying…
BBNinja says:
I never considered not getting tips as a fry cook to be fair or unfair. I didn't expect tips. Even thought the cashiers had a little cup on the counter that sometimes got tips it didn't bother me. I just did my job. I was 16-17 at the time so it was a just a job. I worked all the jobs too, front, back, opening & closing, taking apart the equipment. I didn't give people incredulous looks for not tipping and I didn't get snippy about what things were called
"It's not a burger…sir…IT'S A WHOPPER." isn't something you are ever likely to hear at Burger King.
bcsizemo says:
Hey, I drink so little coffee it's good to try something new every now and then. I rarely return food items like that anyway (unless they are not edible). I hate causing other people extra work. Actually that is one of the reasons I always go in to order, so I can see what they are putting in my bag. That way I can just stop them before they have to throw something away.
Guest says:
"Man who argue with cow on wall like car with no wheels, very soon get nowhere".
-Inspecter Sidney Wang ;^)


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Freckle, Mole, or Skin Cancer?
Melissa Flesher was thrilled to be pregnant. She and her husband, Ryan, who met as students at Kansas State, had been hoping for a baby since they got married, in 2003. "We wanted it so badly," she says. On a September morning in 2010, when she was in her seventh month, Flesher noticed something strange as she stood in the bathroom of their Topeka, Kansas, home. "I was trying to avoid stretch marks so I put lotion on my stomach and legs after each shower," she recalls. "Because I was having trouble reaching around my growing belly, I hoisted my leg up onto the bathroom counter. I just happened to look in the mirror and saw a dark spot on the back of my thigh in an area I normally wouldn't be able to see. I thought, 'Oh my God, I have a tick.'
"I freaked out and started picking at it, trying to remove it," she says. When she realized it wasn't a tick, Flesher calmed down. Still, she thought she should have a doctor look at it. "I hadn't seen a dermatologist in at least five years," she says. "I thought, 'Well, I'd better get this figured out now because I'm going to be taking care of someone else pretty soon.' So I called the doctor." That move might have saved her life.
She made an appointment with Joseph E. Gadzia, MD, medical director of dermatology at Laser Institute of Kansas, and he did a biopsy of the spot. When the pathologist's report came back, the news wasn't good. At 36 years old Flesher had a melanoma, the most dangerous and deadly kind of skin cancer. When she heard the diagnosis, she burst into tears. So did the nurse, who had a daughter Flesher's age.
Flesher knew practically nothing about skin cancer. "I was in shock," she says. "We had no family history of melanoma." She has fair skin, though, and as a child she loved the sun. "When I was growing up, I knew I didn't tan well like my friends did, but that didn't stop me from trying. My mother was a teacher and had summers off, so she took my sisters and me to a local pool every day. When I was old enough to drive, I'd often hang at the pool with my friends." She remembers at least one scalding sunburn that made her skin blister and peel. "My goal was to get red because I knew my skin would eventually turn a golden color. I overdid it on a regular basis."
Flesher also used tanning beds in high school and college. "Then twice -- with a guilty feeling -- before my wedding. But that was the very last time," she says. Tanning beds gave her a light golden glow, plus freckles -- never the deep, even tans that she admired on many of her friends. "But yes, it made me feel prettier and sexier," she says.
She never dreamed she would be one of the 30,000 or so women who learn they have melanoma each year, or that she was part of the fastest-growing group to get it: young women 18 to 39. She was lucky that it was caught early, says Dr. Gadzia, but even a small, thin melanoma can spread and become deadly. He wanted to do surgery right away. "The risk of waiting till after the baby was born was much greater than the risk of doing the surgery while Melissa was pregnant," he says.
The next thing Flesher knew she was hugging Ryan good-bye and remembers "lying on my side like a beached whale on the operating table." The news post-surgery was cautiously good -- her tumor was stage 1A, meaning it was no more than 1 millimeter thick. (The only better news would have been stage 0.) "If the tumor had been invasive, I might not have been able to do chemo or radiation while pregnant, so who knows what would have happened?"
Her healthy baby boy was born two months later, in November 2010. "When Tyler arrived it reminded Ryan and me that life is a gift and it motivated us to live differently," Flesher says. Today she embraces her pale skin. She avoids the sun, wears hats, and uses broad-spectrum sunscreen religiously -- and slathers it on Tyler, too.
The three-inch scar on the back of her thigh may not need any further treatment. "I just go back every six months for a checkup. That seems like a small price to pay to ease my mind." She's grateful for the role her baby played in her diagnosis. "I truly believe that if I hadn't been pregnant, I wouldn't have seen that melanoma. Tyler saved my life."


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Annie Wight Upper School announced that two athletes have signed letters of intent for full athletic scholarships with universities. Seniors Kadie Brown and Lani Kalalau publicly signed their contracts on Monday, November 19, at an Upper School gathering.
Kadie Brown of Federal Way will attend University of Washington, joining their rowing team. Brown most recently earned silver in the women's pair race at the Junior World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria this summer. In June, she won a national title with her Commencement Bay Rowing Club teammates.
Lani Kalalau of University Place will attend Western Oregon University, where she will play volleyball. As floor captain and outside hitter, Kalalau recently helped lead Annie Wright's varsity volleyball team to the state playoffs, placing seventh. Kalalau has also played for the Junior Olympic National Championships with six appearances.
"Kadie and Lani have worked really hard and it's been a joy to watch as they pursue their passions," says Jake Guadnola, Co-Director of Annie Wright Upper School. "We are thrilled for both young women and look forward to their future success."
Family joined Brown and Kalalau at an afternoon signing ceremony, where the all-girls Upper School cheered them on. Each girl thanked their families, friends and the Annie Wright community for supporting them in their endeavors to be student-athletes.


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Something funny about our post on Friday featuring Lyla Ashby. Not funny haha but just odd that we somehow didn't know a certain tidbit about Lyla.
She's in the running for Page 3 Idol — Page 3 Idol is a talent contest like American Idol but instead of singing the talent is having great boobs. Yep, it's the search for a new Page 3 Girl to get them out daily in the British tabloid The Sun.
As they say over there, brilliant.
Previous winners include the legendary Keeley Hazell (now in hiding pursuing acting career) and Sam Cooke (now a glamour photographer-slash-model). And of course the two last winners, who are brilliant: Lacey Banghard and Lucy Collett.
Will Lyla Ashby make it a third "L" girl in a row? Looking at the competition, she has got to be considered one of the serious favorites. Peruse the entrants (Lyla's in the "Day 4″ group) and keep up on the contest at page3.com/page3idol.
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X Factor USA Episode 6: Boot Camp Ends Tonight
X Factor USA is back tonight with episode 6 and the end of the Boot Camp phase of this year's competition. Last night we saw 162 singers whittled down to just 100 and tonight the cuts will go even deeper.
By the end of tonight's X Factor episode we'll have just 32 performers left, including groups of course. Those 32 performers will be split in to 4 new groups: Boys, Girls, 30+, and Groups. The divisions will then be assigned to a judge as a mentor and the competition will move on to bigger and better things.
This should be the part of the show where things really come alive. I'm expecting great things from Simon and company so let's hope they don't let us down.
Which singers are you hoping make the cut tonight? Only one third of the entire current set will have a chance to move on so there will be a lot of disappointed fans out there, but hopefully they can find new singers to support and follow.
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I'm kind of the tech geek here at O'Brien Advertising. I love new technology and everything it has to offer. I'm down for anything that can help improve day-to-day workflow.
Ever since my wife and I had our little boy 3 years ago, I've been thinking a lot about my dad and what technology was like for him 30 years ago when I was 3 years old. Did he have a cell phone? What about a computer? Did we even have cable TV? We definitely didn't have the Internet at our house! Running water? That last one was obviously a joke. These are all easy questions to answer now, even without calling my dad, because in today's world all you have to say is, "Just Google it."
Being the geek that I am, I did Google one of my questions. I wanted to know when the Macintosh was invented to see if he had a chance to use one of these, now amazing, machines. And the answer is YES; my dad would have had a chance to own a Macintosh computer. The first Apple computer (Apple I) was sold in 1976, and the very popular Apple II, one year later. But of course, most of the middle class population could not afford the $10,000 price tag. Well at least that's what $2,500 probably felt like 30 years ago.
So then I went a little further and checked out Steve Jobs, Macintosh God, and how he became such a superstar in the tech world today. It's a very interesting bio and I strongly recommend you, "Google it" in your free time. And because no one really has that much free time any more, I'll leave you with a hyperlink to an interview with the Mac-God himself. He talks a lot about what was, what is, and what is going to be.
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If you're a big geek like me and want to see the entire interview, not just the highlights, "Just Google it." You'll be able to find it on the Internet, Pod Casts, Apple TV, iTunes, iPad, and any other Tech-y device you love to use.
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Trip to Trinidad Whaling Station, July-August 1926
About the Trip
In the summer of 1926, museum naturalist Laurence Huey drove up the newly-opened Highway 101 to Trinidad, California, with colleague A. Brazier Howell of the Smithsonian Institute, to study whales at a commercial whaling station. Besides the whales, the other figures in this story were whaling station owner Frederick Dedrick and ship captain Louis Lane. Huey was an enthusiastic photographer and created a scrapbook of about 70 photos, which along with his field notes and letters provide us with a record of this expedition. In the following pages, Huey's field notes are augmented with his photos, additional contemporary photos, and comments footnoted via hyperlinks.
This was just one of many expeditions made by Huey in that year, only a couple of which were outside of Mexico. Although Huey often observed whales and other sea mammals on his numerous trips to the waters around Baja California, many of his expeditions centered around the observation and collection of birds and small mammals. The purpose of this expedition was to gather information about whale anatomy and behavior, and about whaling. Despite the unusual focus of this expedition, Huey still paid close attention to the birds and rodents of the area, and set numerous traps in order to collect specific types of mammals.
In reading Huey's field notes of this trip, it is remarkable how he alternates between dispassionate descriptions of the often slow and obviously difficult deaths of the whales - "a long sharp perforated pipe was stuck into its rectals & soon it was bloated with air and died" – and admiration for the creatures: "Finbacks are rather pretty animals". It is interesting to contrast the tone in Huey's field notes with that in his contemporaneous letters to SDNHM director Clinton Abbott, which are much more informal and jocular.
A. Brazier Howell
A. Brazier Howell, born in Maryland in 1886, spent a total of one year in college, and then dove into a self-funded study of the birds of the Channel Islands. His interests expanded to include mammals, and in the 1910s he sold a substantial set of 5000 specimens to the Dickey collection in Los Angeles. During the 1920s he was officially associated with the Divison of Biological Survey in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, as well as the Smithsonian Institute, but continued his independent studies and trips. His experiences as a field naturalist earned him a position as professor of anatomy at Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1928. In 1930, Howell published a book, Aquatic Mammals, presumably based on knowledge gained both in this expedition and others, such as a 1928 study of captive bottlenose dolphins at Hatteras, NC. The Trinidad trip may have been a result of prodding by his colleagues: in a letter written to Joseph Grinnell several months before the trip, he writes: "[Kellogg] and Miller have chevvied me into some whale stunts". These studies also motivated him to organize the "Council for the Conservation of Whales and other Marine Mammals", which testified before the U.S. Senate in 1931 to spur the government to apply controls to the killing of large whales, which were dwindling to extinction.
In justifying his efforts to save the large whales from extinction, Howell said: "it may be seen that our whale supply is a matter of economic importance, and not merely of aesthetic concern to those with emotional tendencies"
Frederick Dedrick
Dedrick was a Norwegian whaler who founded the California Sea Products Company in 1914, and in the following years he established stations at Moss Landing and Trinidad. Hunting for whales using steam-powered boats and harpoon cannons resulted in their rapid depletion, and after the 1926 hunting season described in these field notes, Dedrick began using floating stations along the west coast. These stations had two advantages: they could be moved to where the whales were known to be, and they allowed the speedy processing of whales without a trip back to the station. Pacific Coast operations were also hurt by an increase in worldwide supply due to the expansion of whaling into the Antarctic: in 1929, worldwide whale oil production was five times greater than in 1919; during this period, the Pacific Coast contribution to whale oil production decreased from 1/10 to 1/40 of the total.
Louis Lane
Louis Lane, captain of the whaler "Hercules", had a colorful past in the Arctic. He was born in Nome, Alaska, around 1879. His initial whaling efforts were from the shore, but he then moved on to powered boats and even claimed to have made the first commercial landing at Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia. In 1913, he made an expedition in his schooner Polar Bear, accompanied by newsreel cameraman Will Hudson and also five aspiring Arctic hunters from Harvard, planning a mix of whaling and sport hunting. The vessel got trapped in ice in the Beaufort Sea, and Lane, Hudson, and two of the hunters hiked across the ice, through the Brooks Range, and all the way to Fairbanks. Lane sailed back to the Polar Bear the next Spring and resumed the trip. This journey was documented by Will Hudson in his book Icy Hell, and also by Polar Bear chief engineer Ben Kilian, in his book The Voyage of the Schooner Polar Bear (edited by John Bockstoce). Lane had further adventures in whaling and fur trading in Alaska and Asia, and on a 1924 trip brought along film maker Sydney Smith, who filmed footage for the movie Mystery of the Arctic. In 1925, Lane moved to California, working as both a whaler and harbor pilot. He was again involved in motion pictures when he commanded the Nanuk in the 1933 movie Eskimo. (from Kilian/Bockstoce)
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- End date: 2011-07-31
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Following on from the successful (OER) phase one project 'Organising Open Educational Resources' (OOER), which developed defensible policies/strategies and tools to enable assessment of resource compliance with good OER practice. Positively influencing the creation of new resources to be OER-ready has much greater potential for long-term sustainability. The ACTOR project seeks to widen the user base and influence the development of new PGCertClinEd programmes by raising confidence among educational leaders. They will in turn pass this knowledge to students on PGCertClinEd who will (over time) influence colleagues, clinicians and NHS Trusts.
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To release a substantial amount (>30 credits) of educational content relevant to clinical education programmes to the open education community using open CC licences (by-sa). These will be mapped to standards (such as the UK PSF and the AoME professional standards) using a modified version of the OOER Categorisation and Mapping tool.
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Embedded OER practices with the partners and raise awareness of the issues with stakeholders and at least five other providers of PGCertClinEd; Analysed uptake of resources, gaps in provision and opportunities for sharing especially in relation to generic PGCertHE programmes (linking with other projects funded in this call).
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- Development of inclusive curricula;
- Education for sustainable development;
- Discipline-specific teaching and learning.
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- HEA Subject Centre for Medicine, Dentistry & Veterinary Medicine
Consortium Partners:
- University of Bristol - http://www.bristol.ac.uk/fmd/
- University of Cambridge - http://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/
- Hull York Medical School - http://www.hyms.ac.uk/
- Newcastle University - http://www.ncl.ac.uk/medev/
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If it's true that college students live on pizza and hot wings, then what is a farmers market doing in the middle of the N.C. State University campus?
The stereotype of the student diet, while still common, is changing, market organizers say. The fact that the market is in its second year and has doubled the number of vendors is proof.
"There's a small but growing number of students who are interested in better food, and it's growing quickly," says Eric Ballard, who helped found the market. "We see regulars every week who look forward to the market, and we always get new customers."
Each Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. during the spring and fall semesters, tents go up in a corner of the Brickyard for eight vendors of North Carolina products. They're selling fresh produce, salsa, soaps, cheeses, meats, eggs and more.
The market will be open through May 5 and reopen Sept. 2 and run through Nov. 18. The market doesn't operate at times when the campus is closed, such as spring break.
The market was a student-driven idea. In 2009, Ballard and other students got interested in sustainable agriculture and wanted a way to make good, sustainably produced food available on campus.
The idea of farmers markets on college campuses isn't new - one operates at Duke University, among others - but the NCSU market may be unusual in the level of student involvement in running it.
In 2009, students talked to university administrators about organizing a market, says Ballard, who has since graduated but still works with the market.
The administration and students liked the idea, but a campus market was a harder sell to farmers and vendors.
"At first, we had to beg vendors to come," Ballard says. "Out of about 30 I would approach, four would agree. Now we have vendors calling us."
The market requires that at least 70 percent of the goods vendors sell are their own. Vendors pay a fee of $5 per day.
Ron West of Carolina Grits & Co. in Rocky Mount sells grits and cornmeal each week at the market. "I've been pleasantly surprised at the response," he says.
The Pasta Fairy - aka Andrea Morrell - drives from Boone to sell her handmade frozen filled ravioli. She sees the campus market as a chance to meet customers and other vendors to raise awareness of her product in the Raleigh area.
The market has a blog, http://campusfarmersmkt. wordpress.com/. Market manager Ariel Ruth Fugate, a sophomore, sends weekly e-mail messages about market specials to a listserv with 300 members. Plus, the market has 1,000 Facebook friends and 150 Twitter followers.
Because students do eventually graduate, Fugate says that the group is organizing student committees to keep the market going. There are committees for education, fundraising, publicity and market management, along with a faculty adviser.
She thinks that the interest among students and others in the university community -- maybe beyond, into nearby neighborhoods and restaurants - will continue to grow.
"We think that if students buy this food and taste it, they'll see the difference in flavor," Fugate says.
At a recent market, freshman Elizabeth Wait stopped to buy apples from Wise Farms in Mount Olive, which was one of the first vendors to sign on.
"Living in the dorm, it's hard to get out to get fresh things. It was really nice last fall when they had watermelons," Wait said. "I like the availability. I'm glad the market is here because you can get healthy snacks."
"You can walk right through and get lunch between classes," says sophomore Amanda Wilkins, pointing out different vendors. "There's peanut butter there and bread there."
Faculty and staff take advantage of the market, too.
"I can do my shopping here," says Kim Howell, a research assistant. "This market is the greatest thing in the world."
Even if there isn't a hot wing in sight.
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Laura Park has been making these wonderful "Boo Radley" gifts to deposit around local parks in her Chicago neighborhood. Those kids lucky enough to discover one will have a boatload of my envy.
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Now this is a book of nursery rhymes for me! First Second books has assembled a drool-worthy lineup of cartoonists to interpret classic nursery rhymes in comic form. If the previews are any sign, the contributors didn't disappoint either!
Above: Richard Thompson, Tony Millionaire, Laura Park, and Matt Forsythe.
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Editor's Note: Originally this post ran stating that people who make less than $705,000 per year are not eligible for the Senior Circuit Breaker Tax Credit. That is incorrect. You are ineligible if you make MORE than $705,000. This has been corrected below.
The following is from a press release from the office of Senator Richard Ross.
Senator Richard J. Ross (R-Wrentham), Senator Karen Spilka (D-Ashland) and Representative David P. Linsky (D-Natick) are pleased to announce an informational seminar on the Senior Circuit Breaker Tax Credit will be held at the Council on Aging in Natick on February 25, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. They will be joined by Brian Lynch of the Massachusetts Department of Revenue.
"The Senior Circuit Breaker is an excellent program that delivers much-needed relief for Massachusetts residents," said Senator Ross. "This informational session offers a chance for local seniors to learn how they can take advantage of that savings."
"I encourage all Natick seniors to attend this informative session, which will provide them with the knowledge and tools they need to navigate the Senior Circuit Breaker, a crucial program providing financial relief to help eligible seniors remain in their homes, greatly improving their quality of life" said Senator Spilka.
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"We want to make sure seniors can stay in their homes. Programs like the Circuit Breaker can help ease some of the burdens property taxes can generate," stated Representative Linsky. "This is an informative program where constituents can learn if they qualify for the Circuit Breaker tax credit."
The Senior Circuit Breaker is a tax credit for senior citizens whose property payments exceed 10% of their annual income. Eligible seniors will receive a dollar credit on their Massachusetts tax return for every dollar that their total property tax, water and sewer bills exceed 10% of their income. A maximum $1000 credit is available. Additionally, if the taxpayer hasn't claimed the tax credit in the past, (s) he may claim it for the previous three years.
To be eligible, taxpayers, 65 years or older, must own or rent their residence in Massachusetts and have an annual income of: $53,000 or less for a single filer; $67,000 or less for a head of household; and $80,000 or less for joint filers. If a taxpayer's property is assessed at $705,000 or more, (s) he is not eligible for the tax credit.
In 2011, the Circuit Breaker Tax Credit provided over $67 million in tax credits to more than 85,000 eligible taxpayers.
Please contact the office of Senator Ross with any questions or concerns at (617) 722-1555 or email@example.com.