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Some fall yard pics of unusual plants
Grevillea victoriae
Hummingbirds really enjoy the flowers of Grevillea victoriae
Butia capitata bloomed for the fist time
Another Butia pic
Closeup of the immature seeds on Butia
Banksi marginata pushing 9ft tall, still no flowers
Eucalyptus perriniana. One of the hardiest in our area as well as being one of the most beautiful
Acacia dealbata grown from seed of local tree. Blooming this winter for the first time.
Dudleya cymosa. Suprisingly hummingbirds go crazy for this ones flowers in spring.
Cordyline banksii
Eucalyptus dalrympleana x viminalis is getting a little too big for my yard.
Abutilon 'Huntington Pink' virtually blooms all year long.
Yucca aloifolia blooming. Really looks a lot like gloriosa.
Sunday was spring like, and a beautiful day. I hope everyone had a nice weekend in the garden.
I am glad you decided to keep the place. I really enjoy seeing the progression of that Butia. The micro climate of that location is very good for growing some tender plants that other parts of Western Washington wouldn't be able to grow.
I lost my Cordyline banksii a couple of years ago from a 12ºF freeze. My Butia I gave to my sister in law, who lives in Belfair, died last winter either from the weather or my Sister in laws brown thumb. And my Banksi marginata died back to the snow line in the winter of 06-07. So I think you have a great place to grow marginal plants.
Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful pictures! Thanks for sharing. You have a really nice view amazing plants!
I'm excited for my first Grevillea and what it might do this coming year. Just visited the San Francisco Botantical Garden and they had many beautiful Grevillea.
Yes: Waterfront locations can have high minimums due to salt water accumulating heat during the day and giving it off at night.
Recently I noticed there's a Zonal Denial garden right next door to the fish hatchery in Issaquah. Lots of gums (eucalypts), probably these like what is likely to be some hotter days out there than in close to the sound. But then there will be those lower minimums...
That's my garden. You should have stopped in and said hi, either at my house or at the hatchery office, where I work.
Sorry Brian for throwing in some of my pictures.
I enjoy testing the limits of various plants and have been pleasantly surprised by the hardiness of many plants. I have also been disappointed. I have been growing eucalyptus since 1982 and know what to expect with them. A few that I planted back that early are still alive after the 1989 and 1990 freezes. And if they die, so what, they grow so fast that in a couple of years I will have a tree again.
Hi Ron. Ian Baclay thinks sandy well drained soil may contribute to some of the plants successes more than the effect of waterfront, but personally I don't know for sure. I have seen more gardens the last few years with things more tender than anything I grow anyway.
Many of my semi-hardy plants do fine now, but as you know (even right on the water), after one of these winters there will be a lot of dead stuff I will have to dig out, or chop down. As the plants get bigger, the job of removal will of course be bigger after a severe arctic blast. Not looking foward to it one bit.
Hi John. Don't be sorry, I always love looking at pictures. Fantastic Tetrapanax you have there. Is it 'Rex'? I have never tried one, but I have always thought they look very really cool. If I am ever up near the fish hatchery I will make sure to swing it and say hi, if you don't mind. Take care.
You are more than welcomed to stop by, even if I am working, most of the time I can stop long enough to give a short tour of my collection. If you stop by, I have some Tetrapanax potted up that I could give you.
The one in the first picture was from Plant Delight six years ago. It has never sent up root sprouts, but the plant in the above picture which I got at Steamboat Island Nursery, outside of Olympia, sends suckers up all the time. I don't know the reason, whether it is genetics or environmental that causes that. The PD plant is on the north, shady side of a tall P.n. 'Henon" bamboo grove planted in loam, while the S.I. plant is in full sun and sandy soil. Might be the difference. Also the PD plant has never froze back to the ground, while the SI plant has.
I bought both plants as 'Steroidal Giant'. I know the British call a similiar looking plant 'Rex', but I can't tell the difference. If you know what the difference is, please explain it to me, I would like to know.
We didn't go far past the corner of the hatchery building due to the Keep Out (or whatever) sign, but did look into your garden from over the fence etc. Maybe you were one of the workers who let us into the front of the building, which was locked by mistake.
We also saw the native garden, Garry oak and stripebark maples.
There used to be a champion-sized 'Dolgo' crabapple elsewhere in town but it appears to have been removed.
The hybrid crabapple was removed some time this fall. I was driving by that office a couple of weeks ago and noticed that it was gone. My girlfriend is a school teacher that works with the folks working at the office on the property that the tree was growing. I have asked her if her contact could tell why they cut it down. This summer it looked healthy to me. I enjoyed looking at that tree, and eating its fruit, which was tasty, so I will miss it.
I remember letting some people into the locked lobby. If the person letting you in was a white haired guy with glasses it probably was me.
As for the "No Trespassing" sign, it is there so the police can legally remove the people going behind the hatchery building to do drugs, sex, using the brush along the creek as a toilet, and other nasty things.
Come on down, I have two potted up. One in a one gallon pot and another in a three gallon pot. And there are a whole bunch of suckers in the ground. I plan on leaving them there until late winter - early spring before potting them up, since I don't have the room to over winter them indoors in pots. But if you want one of the suckers I could pot one up for you. My email is issaquahfish at msn.com. You can have one without a trade, but if you have anyone of the hardy Schefflera's I would be interested in a cutting or a start. They are very hard to find in North America. They sell them in Europe but for someone like me, it would be impossible to get. Crug Farms out of Scotland sell numerous species and about half of them they credit Dan Hinkley with introducing into the trade. It's too bad he wasn't able to do that here for whatever reason since he lives in Washington State.
Next year I probably will be more aggressive in removing the suckers before they get any size since they are interfering with my collection of hardy and semi-hardy banannas.


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HIV message in rock opera; Theatre extra.
COVENTRY performers are getting ready to rock ... for charity.
Local theatre company Wing-it is staging rock musical Rent next week to help raise money for the Terrence Higgins Trust in Coventry.
The award-winning musical opens at the Woodlands School and Sports College in Coventry on Wednesday and the group will be supporting the charity by donating profits from ticket sales.
Volunteers from THT, which has a centre in Coventry, will also be on hand to give information about the range of HIV and sexual health services they provide in the region.
The rock musical is based on Puccini's opera La Bohme and tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians as they struggle to survive and create in New York's Lower East side under the shadow of HIV.
Ewan McPherson, from the Terrence Higgins Trust in Coventry, says: "We're delighted that the cast and crew of Rent are supporting THT by donating the proceeds from tickets sales to us.
"We hope people will support us by getting down to the Woodlands School and Sports College. Not only will you have a great time, you'll also help support THT's vital work providing information and advice for people living with and affected by HIV."
Callum Roberts, producer of Wing-it Theatre says: "We are glad we can help Terrence Higgins Trust continue their fantastic work."
Rent opens on Wednesday for a four date run. Tickets 075 3181 7222.
FANTASTIC... The cast of Rent.
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Plumbing for laundry set up
Sorry if you have already seen this post in Laundry Rooms. I didn't get any responses so I'm hoping I have better luck here.
My laundry pair is set up side by side next to my water heater in the garage (w/h-dryer-washer). The water heater is in the corner of an exterior wall and an interior wall. When the side door on the exterior wall is open the door covers the water heater. I am in the process of switching out my water heater and need some input from others regarding on my thoughts with the configuration and adding a utility sink since the plumber will already be at the house.
The original thought was to have shelves installed below the water heater. Change the laundry pair to a stacked configuration where the dryer is now and place the sink where the washer is now. However, I was thinking that then we would have the added expense of new w&d because the current ones are not stackable and reconfiguration of additional water lines and dryer vents and gas lines (gas dryer) probably be necessary.
I was thinking that we would just change the water heater and have it mounted a little higher than normal so that we can have the sink or washer installed below it. We could then change the swing of the door to the opposite direction so no one would get hit by an opening door. With the saved expense, we could then just add better storage above the w&d.
There is some space between washer and the entry door into house right now, but DH has been wanting to put his new gun safe there and I like the idea, because I can put my jewelry there as well. That space only fits a typical book case there now that we use for storage.
I know I have been kind of rambling, but any thoughts to help me clarify this would be helpful as the w/h has been making a lot of knocking noises and is making me nervous.
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American Religious Change and Caring for the Dead
[Originally posted on the Religion in American History blog on 1/30/2015]
Burial and caring for the dead has been traditionally something associated with religion. When we teach our introduction or defining religion classes, we frequently discuss what might be called religious behavior of prehistoric peoples. We point to the ways they buried their dead, including objects, arranging the body, and placing materials, like ochre, on and around the bodies. In some cultures, whole religions are associated with death and caring for the dead, such as Buddhism in Japan. In the United States, burial practices have often been influenced by prevailing religious attitudes. For instance, how one behaved in life influences if one can be buried in hallowed ground. In the South, it was not until after the Civil War that the undertaker became professionalized as a mortician who offered the services of embalming, shifting care of the body from a religious concern to a medicalized one. Yet, many Southerners were concerned about the effect of embalming on bodies when they were to be resurrected. As Charles Wilson writes, "The undertaker had trouble convincing many tradition-bound southerners to allow this tampering with the earthly remains of the temple of God."
During this this period, cremation was also introduced to America by the Theosophical Society. The first cremation in America was in Washington, Pennsylvania. Henry Steel Olcott, of the Theosophical Society, organized the cremation of Baron Joseph Henry Louis Charles De Palm (pictured) on December 6, 1876. While Olcott's motivation was a result of his orientalism, the sudden explosion of cremation after De Palm was led by other concerns including sanitation. Yet, there was much concern about whether cremation was compatible with Christianity. Stephen Prothero notes in Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America (2002) that despite many of the first participants in cremation coming from alternative religions, the vast majority were Christian and the debate about the suitability of cremation versus burial was an intra-Christian one (80-81).
Cremation, though, has become more and more popular over the last fifty years. According to the Huffington Post, in 2012, cremation was how 43.5% of all bodies were handled, up 1118.5% from 1958 in which only 3.6% of American bodies were cremated. But this trend intersects with another, the decline in participation with organized religion, and the increase of the spiritual but not religious (SBNR). What do the SBNR do with their bodies after death? It turns out there have been many responses, but most deal with remembering the person while forgetting the body.
Corpses are becoming less and less of an issue for people to be concerned with when a loved one dies. Upon death, the body is quickly taken away by morticians and funeral home staff. More and more, memorials are taking the place of funerals and viewings, meaning that once the body is in the possession of funeral home professionals, loved ones may never see the body again. Instead later they might just see a closed casket lowered into the ground or a box or urn containing ashes. Candi K. Cann notes that this dislocation of the body results in people looking for other means to remember the lost loved one as ways to deal with their grief. In Virtual Afterlives: Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-first century (2014), Cann writes, "Whether it is a memorial located at the place the body was last intact before its death, such as roadside memorials and the Sandy Hook Elementary memorial, or it is a memorial service held with cremated remains and no corpse, bodiless memorials are clearly indicative of the trend towards memorialization without bodies" (17).
Cremation is common with the SBNR and there are creative ways in which bodily disposal reflects the values of the departed. For instance, a recent product on the market targets the environmentally conscious offering a biodegradable urn that also is the basis for growing a new tree. Bios burial urn is made of organic materials which contain the ashes, but also have a place at the top for a tree's seed. Before death, the individual can choose what kind of tree they want to be. Later, as the "spirit tree" grows, its roots spread into the ashes allowing the deceased to become nutrients for the tree. Trees can be planted anywhere, at least theoretically. However state laws vary regarding the disposal of cremated ashes. Other times the body is turned into a manufactured diamond, or combined with tattoo ink and embedded in the skin of loved ones. These types of memorials, whether a tattoo, or a flourishing tree allow people to "remember but not to encounter death itself" (Cann 18). But what about someone's online presence? Most online companies now have policies of how to deal with one's digital demise. One of the most common responses, though, is to create an online memorial. Of course there are companies that help with this.
Another implication of the bodiless memorial is that any place can become sacralized. In the past, the body denoted the places of remembrance, whether buried in a cemetery, or ashes kept in a columbarium. But when bodies are displaced, and the memory of the loved one becomes the focus, anything or anywhere can become embedded within the sacred. This matches how place, space, and objects become sacralized for the spiritual but not religious. No longer is a backyard just a backyard, now it can be the final resting place of mom or a tree becomes the spirit tree of dad. Personal fields of the sacred are negotiated in secular public spaces.
As the role of religion changes in America, so does its place in the care of the body, including its disposal. More and more, Americans are less capable of dealing with death. In the past there have been social customs of grieving over weeks, months or years, and taking pictures with the deceased, cleaned up and staged doing their favorite activities. However, as Cann points out, today society has little patience for prolonged, or complicated grief, as some psychologists call it. One of Cann's points is that our society is so in denial about death that rarely do companies have bereavement policies, and when someone loses a loved one, it is considered a personal issue, no different than taking time off for a vacation. Similarly, just as death has been displaced from the day-to-day lives of people, bodies are displaced, and instead memorials emerge. It is here that the individual can be celebrated without the encumbrance of a corpse. These trends are likely to persist and increase. I also think, in contrast, there might be a back-lash response to the displacement of the body, a movement to bring the body back into view, and for family and friends to have more involvement with the care of the loved one. It remains to be seen. Playing attention to the care of the body will be a useful way to track the way religion is changing in America's shifting religious landscape.
Dismantling the Myths of My Family History
Being trained as an historian of American religion has provided me certain skills and methodologies to look at myth making and understanding its role in identity, and practice. Myths are made sometimes to legitimize, and other times to explain the unknown. As scholars, we are expected to get underneath or behind these myths, to look at their origins, their function, and their impact. But I wonder how often we use these skills to look at ourselves or our families, to get behind or underneath the myths that circulate at family reunions, and are passed down, generation-to-generation.
Over the last couple of months, I have been researching my genealogy, mine and my family's history. In some cases I have been very successful, in others, less so. For instance, through my maternal grandfather, I have found that I am related to the Beebe's of Northampton, Great Britain, and that this line relocated from England to America when John Beebe and his family migrated from Broughton, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England to the American colonies in 1650. Unfortunately he died during the trip on May 18 aboard the SS Speedwell. His family, however completed the migration and became established in Connecticut, and then later New York. Descendants of his fought in the Revolutionary War and helped found new towns in both Connecticut and New York. Much of this is documented in Monograph of the descent of the family of Beebe compiled by Clarence Beebe and published around 1904.
Another interesting discovery has been why my paternal grandmother, Imogene Brothers, was orphaned. Using a variety of records, including various newspapers, I discovered that Imogene's mother died in childbirth, leaving her and her sisters in the care of their father, Marvin Brothers. Subsequently, Marvin was killed when he was hit by a truck. The orphaning of the five girls has had significant repercussions throughout the family history, one that is still present in the lives of relatives today.
While I have found the connection to the Beebes interesting, and the explanation of the Brothers sisters helpful, it has been the direct descent of the name Crow that has been my primary focus. Up until this round of research I could not get farther back in my direct descent line than James David Crow, my paternal great great grandfather, born in Stoddard, Missouri in 1874. I attributed this to the belief that he was, at least in part, Native American—from the Crow tribe—as has always been the assertion in my family. As being Native was a liability in the 19th century, many individuals with this background often ignored that of their heritage. Moreover, record keeping within tribes was inconsistent. As a result I believed this was the main reason I was stumped. I was supported in this belief too. My father lived his life believing he was descended from Native Americans as have my aunts, uncles, and cousins. Yet, I wanted to confirm this and so I kept digging, kept looking. During this round of research, however, I was able to find some connections and they revealed a whole different story.
It now appears that I am not descended from the Crow tribe, and that my Crow related heritage goes back to Europe. I have traced my Crow lineage to James Crow born between 1771 and 1774 in South Carolina. What is significant about this is that there were no Crow Native Americans in the colonies during the eighteenth century. So while I don't know if the Crow name is coming from Great Britain or Germany, or somewhere else in Europe, I know it is not native. Moreover, I have found that there are seventeen unrelated (in modern times) Crow DNA family groups. They are named after colors. The green Crow DNA group is the oldest going back to Sir William Crow, born 1547 on the Isle of Man. James Crow is in the gold Crow DNA group. For Christmas I received a DNA testing kit as a present. I will be confirming my placement with in the Crow DNA project. (To any of my relatives reading this, I would encourage you to participate in the project too.)
In a strange way, I feel a loss by discovering I do not have a Native American connection through the Crow name. It has been such a foundational myth within my paternal family. To learn it is false has, in a way, stripped us of an important identity marker. I have always looked at my own body, the DNA that composed me, as a living testament to the complexity of the American story. How colonizer and colonized came to terms with the realities of the situation, going so far as to create families together, and spawn a new nation of new, Native-European hybrid people. While this story is still true, it seems it is no longer my story. My story is one of various Europeans coming together, and shedding their continental identity, in favor of one emerging from de Crèvecœur's melting pot. One thing that was confirmed by this research is that my family's heritage is one of agriculture. My distant kin were all farmers. From central Texas, to the Dakotas, from California, to Connecticut, one thing consistent, they were directly connected to the land, or at least until the early twentieth century. The Beebes became wealthy land owners, with numerous holdings. The Brothers were itinerant farmers, renting farm property by the season. To learn who they are and how they lived their lives is the least I can do to honor them since their lives are what have made mine possible. Yet, in doing so I must dismantle myths and rebuild based on fact. It is a stronger foundation to stand on, but it is not without its costs.


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Tens of thousands of people are attending the Cannabis Cup in Denver this weekend, the first time the marijuana festival and trade show is held in Colorado since the state legalized recreational pot in January.
The festival's date is no coincidence – it's a conversion of the pot smoker's favorite time of 4:20 into a date. As a recent essay in High Times magazine notes, for decades, marijuana smokers have "learned that 4:20 in the afternoon was 'prime time' for smokers, the 'pot-smoker's happy hour,' the 'best time to smoke,' or the 'international smoke time.'"
The Cannabis Cup includes panel discussions on topics from making marijuana-infused foods to growing pot plants. There's also a yoga class and a rundown of challenges for pot-smoking parents titled "Won't Someone Think About The Children?" as Ricardo Baca of The Denver Post's The Cannabist blog tells NPR's Rachel Martin on Weekend Edition Sunday.
As the name implies, the Cannabis Cup, which is organized by High Times, also includes a competition to choose the best marijuana strains in "many categories," Baca says, ranging from "the raw green, the flower, also edibles, concentrates, waxes, shatters."
A "shatter," we learned, is "a refined version of [butane honey oil], which typically involves multiple steps to extract all the plant matter and solvents. These steps usually involve a pressure vacuum. Shatter is semi-transparent, usually with a yellow or amber color. It is usually a thin cake, which 'shatters' when you break a piece off, hence the name."
The Cannabis Cup festival is held in other cities, including Amsterdam and Flint, Michigan.
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Local authorities are trying to encourage Cannabis Cup attendees to be safe as they celebrate – the "Colorado Department of Transportation plastered safe-partying advice on free bags of Cheetos and Goldfish crackers, which were a popular item at the Cup," the Cannabist reports.
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One Direction/Twitter
It was 2011, and my college roommate hung a poster of five English boys on the wall. Having no idea who they were, I made fun of her for her obsession with Britain and her love of boy bands. Unfortunately, her prophetic proclamation that this band would quickly become the next "American sensation" fell on deaf ears. However, those same ears are the ones now listening to the new One Direction single "Story of My Life." Isn't karma a b**ch?
As of today, One Direction has amassed a combined wealth of $25 million and is planning a Nov. 25 release of their third studio album Midnight Memories— an American sensation indeed. Their first single, "Story of My Life," was released this morning and it is already trending on twitter the hashtag #StoryOfMyLifeIsPerfect. Check out the song below.
Okay, pretty catchy right? Of course it sounds like all their other songs, but with more of an indie/folk sound. Who knows, maybe these boys are growing up? They are all over 18 now… and we're officially no longer super creepy for liking them.
"Story of My Life" will be available for iTunes purchase on Oct. 28. Until then, just keep playing the video, you know you want to.


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The American Civil Liberties Union states that, in 1898, Utah was the first state to allow women to sit on juries. By 1927, 18 states had followed suit.Know More
According to the ACLU, in 1879, the U.S. Supreme Court gave states the right to refuse to open juries to women. Although some states started opening the doors of their jury rooms to all, this was not universal. Ms. Magazine reports that even as late as 1975, some states were not requiring women to serve on juries. In fact, in some states, women were only called for jury duty if they submitted a written request indicating that they wished to be considered. The Supreme Court disallowed the automatic exemption of women in 1975, according to Ms. Magazine.Learn more in US History
Most of the Native American population of the Shoshone tribe lived along the Snake River in Idaho, but other settlements could be found in Utah, California, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Arizona.Full Answer >
The main line of the transcontinental railroad linking the east and west coast of the United States was completed in Promontory, Utah on May 10, 1869. The project began with the signing of the Pacific Railroad Act in 1862, and took more than 6 years to complete.Full Answer >
A Presidential term of office is four years in the United States, and an individual is allowed to run for two terms. A maximum of 10 years in office is allowed if the person becomes President by order of succession before being elected to the office.Full Answer >
The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 to 1868 created five districts in the seceded states, headed by a military official who had the power to appoint and remove state officials; allowed all freedmen the right to vote; required states to draft documents providing for black male suffrage and permitted Southern states to rejoin the Union with the ratification of the 14th Amendment. President Andrew Johnson vetoed these measures but was overridden.Full Answer >


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Joseph Gray Takes Top Spot on Podium at Mount Washington Road Race and Ryan Bak Places Fifth
Scott athletes did very well at the historic all-uphill run that draws thousands of runners each year.
The GP of Italy was a popular event, numerous fans visited Maggiora creating a unique atmosphere at last weekend's GP. Swiss rider, Arnaud Tonus collected his fourth consecutive podium in the MX2 class, and is a strong second in the series.


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After mechanics at American Airlines failed to find any obvious reasons for a lavatory fire that forced an emergency landing last month, federal arson investigators have been called in to examine the damaged Boeing 767. The June 9 flight from New York to Zurich landed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, after flight attendants used fire extinguishers to put out the lavatory blaze. There were no injuries in the incident, but the fire was considered suspicious, and both the National Transportation Safety Board and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are involved in the investigation.
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For the last two years I have overseen creative direction on the theatrical release of The OSCAR® Nominated Short Films across 350 cinemas in the US and Canada. We devised and created animated presenters for the 2014 release.
The Last Fishermen was featured on the Guardian newspapers website and is part of a Greenpeace UK campaign which ran online and in UK cinemas. Its was instrumental in gaining a fairer quoter from the European Fisheries Policy for British small boat (under 10m) fishermen.
As well as directing, I was also the DOP.
I co-wrote and directed vwdarkside for Greenpeace UK. They were some of the most shared films on Earth in 2011. As part of the most successful sign up for any Greenpeace Campaign ever (470,000 jedis and counting...). They have garnered a Viral Video Audience Award 2011 and the Lovie Gold Award 2011. Visit www.vwdarkside.com to sign up to the campaign.
An idea that can change the world.
Mr Isola Akay MBE. Mr. Akay founded the All Stars Boxing Gym in London's Paddington basin. Developed for those who were excluded from other gyms because of race, the All Stars Club has produced several local and national champions.
This is a film I made for Aviva, it features David Weir MBE the elite British Paralympic wheelchair athlete.
David Weir currently holds the British record at all track distances up to 5,000 m, as well as on the road at 10 km, half marathon, and marathon.


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Classics > Poetry > Flame and Shadow > Part V
I know the stars by their names, Aldebaran, Altair, And I know the path they take Up heaven's broad blue stair.
I know the secrets of men By the look of their eyes, Their gray thoughts, their strange thoughts Have made me sad and wise.
But your eyes are dark to me Though they seem to call and call — I cannot tell if you love me Or do not love me at all.
I know many things, But the years come and go, I shall die not knowing The thing I long to know.
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Anatomy word of the month: jugular
This is the major vein in the neck draining blood most importantly from inside the skull. The Latin jugulummeant "the throat, yoke or collar". The ancient Greeks referred to this structure as the "sacrificial vein", likely a reference to cutting the throat of animals sacrificed to their gods.— Bill Dyche


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Join Czech Streets
If you're here because you've got an interest in the Czech Republic's roads, you're going to be sorely disappointed. Czech Streets isn't a website about roads at all, but rather about sexy women and the things they'll do for money.
The website is part of a network called Czech AV. You find yourself looking at the content you came for when you first sign in, but it's very easy to access the material from the other sites that make up the network. All you need to do is click on the links on the left-hand side of the page. Sticking with CzechStreets for now, though, it has 74 movies and that's not bad considering the fact that they only update once every one to three months.
Each flick chronicles the adventures of a man who sets out with a camera in one hand and a whole lot of money in the other. The movies show him wandering about and stopping to talk to beautiful women. He asks the girls all sorts of questions, but he's mostly interested in knowing how much it'll cost him to get them to take off their clothes. Some of the babes won't strip, but others are convinced to flash their tits and get naked. Some even agree to give blowjobs and fuck on film.
You can watch the videos online in an embedded player and also download them as MP4s and Windows Media files. You'll probably want to go with the WMV downloads because they offer mostly great-quality playback and they're just as beautiful as the girls who appear in them. Some of the newest vids are even amazing in quality.
There are preview images to go with each video, but there aren't any photo sets. It's disappointing, but given the nature of the site, it isn't so surprising. I suppose the lack of pictures also adds some extra realism to the encounters.
If you do find yourself waiting for new scenes (and obviously you will at some point), you can turn your attention to the 19 other sites that make up the network, including Czech Lesbians, Czech Mega Swingers and Czech Parties. Just keep in mind that some of the other sites aren't updating at all.
It's certainly a fun site with some sensational scenes. It would definitely benefit from updating more often, but at the end of the day, Czech Streets is worth checking out even if it does have some flaws.
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The Great Potential of SAP HANA
The experiment with integrating SAP HANA into teaching and research here at Missouri S&T is paying off. Last week I observed our Business and Information Technology, BIT, students presenting their ERP Simulation projects to a team from Deloitte SAP Service Line. What caught my eye was that the students are now incorporating data from our Autism gene mapping research project, which is a university research project that my IT DBA staff are collaborating on in order to learn how to better support SAP HANA. This goes back to my original strategic decision to invest in SAP HANA to allow our researchers and students to align more closely with the desires of our corporate employers. See my blog post from last year. I elaborated on the concept of IT's changing role as a facilitator of teaching and research in this article published in "CIO Review" last Fall. Observing our students understanding of the potential of SAP's HANA for the Business Intelligence support for their projects is justification enough for the investment. But the excitement is now being generated by how HANA fits into our overall STEM teaching and research environment.
The Autism project was a fortunate opportunity to learn and explore the potential of HANA. Feedback from my DBA's about how HANA is different from their traditional relational database experience is encouraging as well. What I hear is that HANA is initially daunting in it's complexity. However, it makes the initial database layout easier because it shows you so many more possible relationships. Of course this is the Hadoop foundation based on large in-memory utilization. The HP SAP HANA appliance just packages it all into a more effective tool chest. Combine HANA with an already rich set of BI and Visualization tools, then let talented students run with it and you see the potential is endless.
Back to the Autism Project, the study is fascinating, especially to me with my bioinformatics background. The research investigators include: Drs. Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi, Bih-Ru Lea and Donald C. Wunsch. Here is a portion of their abstract:
Several studies conducted on autism gene expression analysis suggest that autism can be linked to specific genes though there are still no genetic markers that are undeniably diagnostic for idiopathic ASD. What is known is that the genetic landscape of autism is complex, with many genes possibly contributing to the broad autism phenotype. Genetic data analysis involves big data analytics. The ASD HANA in-memory database project will facilitate the goal of the ECE researchers to develop novel computational learning models for analysis of ASD genetic data. The genotype data of these ASD patients is available through the Simons Simplex Collection (SSC).
So the research is progressing and we expect significant new funding thanks to the proof of concept work already done. Chalk up a win for stimulating research. But another win is how the students have applied a portion of the data to create BI class projects. Now they see the connection to the Health Science industry. Because we now understand the potential of HANA we have also validated a research connection for the petroleum industry. This was the hope for the HANA investment, a perfect storm matching STEM savvy Business students with corporate recruiters identifying research ideas is a Win for all. This is the type of IT support flexibility needed by the emerging higher education teaching and research model of the future.
SAP Community reference to our use of HANA to leverage research and teaching
TLT at S&T March 12-13, 2015
Fresh back from the ELI Conference I wanted to compare the agenda for our upcoming Teaching and Learning Technology Conference, TLT, scheduled for March 12-13 here at the Missouri University of Science and Technology campus in Rolla, MO. This conference has matured over the years to be a leading regional conference for Education Technology. Under the direction of Meg Brady, Director, and Angie Hammons, Manager, of Education Technology at Missouri S&T, this conference has an all star lineup with extremely relevant sessions.
Plus: TLT will be hosting a CanvasCon by Instructure on the 12th.
The Keynote Speakers:
Robbie K. Melton, Ph.D. — Associate Vice Chancellor of Mobilization Emerging Technology; Tennessee Board of Regents, "The Emergence of Mobile and Smart Devices: Is Your Device Smarter than You?"
Jeff Schramm, Ph.D. — Associate Professor of History & Political Science; Missouri S&T, "MOOC's, LMS, ELI, PRR, CB&Q and EMD: What the history of technology can teach us about the future of higher education."
I love the fact that this conference brings together many innovative professors in higher education along with their Instructional Designers, Developers and Technologists, plus many from K-12 who want to make sure their students are properly prepared for college. TLT does carry some Missouri S&T STEM influence but I believe that it only strengthens how EdTech is applied to the liberal arts community. An exciting area of development in the last year has been with the preparation of virtual labs for chemistry and biology.
OH yes, did I mention that our TLT is FREE….
Educause Learning Initiative 10th Anniversary
I just returned from the Educause Learning Initiative, ELI, Conference in beautiful and warn Anaheim, CA. Another solid conference bringing together higher education teaching and learning innovators. ELI also celebrated their 10th anniversary and said goodbye to their successful president, Diana Oblinger, who will retire at the end of May. I have always been impressed with Diana's leadership, she has been a master of motivation for ELI programs and she has also been a beacon light on future concerns for higher education. In her conference keynote she touched on all that is new and exciting and again reminded us of the growing influence of Competency Based Education. She also brought up some good questions about the state and purpose of the college diploma. An interesting question posed was, should we consider the ability to update a diploma?
ELI has served higher education well and Diana deserves a lot of the credit. The next decade in higher education signals a far more disruptive era, will ELI be a guiding light?
Consumer Electronic Show
I am going to attend the Consumer Electronics Show, #CES2015, next week in Las Vegas, which causes me to reflect on why. CES has been around for a long time but for me it never carried enough clout to justify going to it rather then certain computer-tech oriented shows. If I wanted the scoop on major consumer technology it would have been COMDEX which I believe has been absorbed by CES and Interop. I fondly remember going to COMDEX in 1981 in Las Vegas and seeing the Xerox Star. Now I did take in CES in the early 2000s in Indianapolis due to my involvement with smart home technology. In my University CIO life I have juggled various Higher Education tech conferences such as Educause or UBTech. However, today my technology appetite is driven by the need to know what consumers will be interested in. Because those consumers are our students whom we need to stay relevant with for what we teach and for what they experience.
This shift of interest to Consumer Electronics has been rapid and strategic. As the computers that we so love to support fade into consumable electronic devices our challenge shifts to adapting our technology support to the technologies that our students use or want to connect to. Innovation for the sake of competitive advantage or student experience is heavily influenced by Consumer Electronics. Look back on our Research Support Services group 2014 projects and it mirrors what was shown at last year's CES. So bring it on CES and Las Vegas, but for this visit What Happens in Vegas will not stay in Vegas.
Disseminators of information must adapt to the culture of the consumer
I came across a blog article I would never have found on my own thanks to a reference from a colleague I was following. The post, "The world is going digital; Where is Extension going?", by Greg Hutchins, Associate Vice Chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Extension. I was stimulated to open the link since I know what Extension means in the context of Cooperative Extension Service because my father was an Extension Agronomist at Purdue. The actual definition expands greatly but here is Wikipedia's stab at it: the mission is to "advance agriculture, the environment, human health and well-being, and communities" by supporting research, education, and extension programs at land-grant universities and other organizations it partners with. This is a very important service that focuses on farming, food and nutrition with a foundation based out of our land-grant universities. I have always explained it in reference to my father's occupation as he taught farmers how to farm.
The blog post title immediately interested me to compare how this higher education connected service was struggling with their digital future. What I found was an excellent article presenting the reality that change was inevitable and you can look to many similar industries for validation. This post used the decline of the newspaper industry. The connecting thread was the challenges facing those entities whose mission it is to disseminate information for the purpose of creating knowledge. The obvious connection for me would be the struggles facing higher education in general, but this sector touches home. The extension agent's work is based on providing information through personal communication. My father was successful serving the farmers of southern Indiana because they let him into their culture. No academic from Purdue was going to tell these German heritage farmers how to farm. But they did need to be reached so you adapted to their culture of eat, drink and then talk farming.
How does the Extension service reach their constituency today? For the most part same way they always have. And all can agree that their effectiveness is in decline. So do you open your eyes and anticipate the future or do you rationalize the present. The comments to Greg's post were so typical of our industry. Many applauded his vision but many also cautioned against how change could underserve the less fortunate. But the arguments about protecting the less fortunate were really about protecting a way of life that they love. A professor can mount an effective argument about why their lectures are the most effective way to teach students. But all that really matters is the motivation of the student. How does the new farmer of today learn about farming? They go online and look for resources. How about the NFL football player, Jason Brown, who said he learned to farm by watching YouTube. Something tells me that if the Extension Services of the Land Grant Universities coordinated and invested in their YouTube video efforts they would bring great visibility to their mission. And the Extension agent would find a way for the underserved less fortunate customer to benefit from this effort.
I think the most important thing for all of us involved with the dissemination of information for the sake of learning is to to realize that you have to adapt to the culture of the consumer. You must stay relevant with the current generation or your mission will fade away with your generation. My father was never going to understand how to use forms of digital communication, but I think he wanted to. So have an open mind and try to be supportive of change.
Get Ready for WYOD
I kicked off the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD): A Summit for Decision-Makers (summary article) as the keynote speaker last week in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This Summit was put on by Merit, who provides the network service needs of higher education, K-12 organizations, government, health care, libraries, and other non-profits for the state of Michigan. It brought together public and private sector technology and security leaders, as well as experts from academia and a wide array of vendor sponsors, to discuss hot trends for employees who are bringing their own devices to work.
I was interested in presenting on this BYOD topic because I understand the concerns but I also feel we need to put the issue into proper perspective. BYOD is officially defined as the practice of allowing the employees of an organization to use their own computers, smartphones, or other devices for work purposes. This is the valid concern which causes us to question our preparedness for dealing with bandwidth and security issues associated with BYOD. But the acronym has become synonymous with challenges relating to the explosion of mobile internet access devices which tend to pressure our network management more than security risks. My Keynote entitled, BYOD: We just need to keep up, focused on the emerging concerns from Wear Your Own Device (WYOD) and the evolution of The Internet of Things (IoT).
Wearable devices today are not really pressing our infrastructure or security concerns, however, that is the calm before the storm. The focus for these wearables today typically points to some form of activity or health monitoring. Interaction with the Internet or local WiFi is minimal now typically because of power consumption issues. However, the stage is set for these small useful devices to interact with our personal Internet space. And the most significant use will evolve out of the NFC based authentication made popular by the Apple Pay entry for transacting purchases. The key here is the validation of mobile devices, typically today's smartphones, as authenticators of our personal identity. Replacement of the credit card swipe for retail purchases will lead the way, however, we in IT will get to explore and support all of the other uses that will play off this technology. For us in higher education we will see this become our student's ID Card for building access, attendance and even remote test proctoring. The technology challenge is not daunting, however, the shift of our support mentality may be difficult. We will need to protect the effectiveness of these activities along with ensuring the security. It will mean a lot more technology responsibility on our plates.
Return to the One Room Schoolhouse
I have seen a trend with my STEM connected colleagues over the last 6 months wanting to discuss concepts of adaptive or competency based learning, CBL. These discussions evolved for many reasons such as; lack of classroom space, course scheduling problems or issues surrounding non-tenure track faculty. This discussion is right on target when it occurs with younger faculty, however, now older faculty are asking questions and seem to be contemplating how this could work. Generally there is agreement that it is inevitable that education will move in this direction, but then you start talking about the repercussions of what that might look like to the higher education business model and fear returns to the conversation. I guess what is different is that now there seems to be recognition of the value of the learning model and discussions are tending toward how we might implement it.
I decided to write this post after a number of discussions yesterday, some stimulated by those who viewed CNN's airing of the "Ivory Tower" documentary. As we talked about implementing adaptive learning to our STEM courses I was drawn to the vision of the old one room schoolhouse. STEM possibly more then any other academic discipline is based on building blocks or competencies. Math and the sciences dominate this with competency based requirements built into courses as well as with interdependencies between courses. So when I thought of the one room schoolhouse I saw it as similar to the students that we receive. In the one room schoolhouse students have to progress through levels of reading, writing and arithmetic, and they had a built in remediation process. The teacher was there to help at all levels.
How did we get to our current college degree attainment path based on taking a selected number of courses that may or may not actually give you all of the competencies that you or your employer desire? I think we used to have a much more standardized entry path to college. Students from high school, mostly Americans, had very similar competencies due to similar curriculums that could not be supplemented by additional information as is now available via the Internet. The over achievers could go to World Book, but for the most part if a student got accepted to college then they pretty much entered at the same level and the progression through a standard set of courses with a few electives worked fine. That world no longer exists. We have screwed up high school believing that standardized testing validates competencies. Combine that with the financial pressure universities are under to maintain enrollment and you end up with a freshman class that is much more in line with the one room schoolhouse.
Change is coming and it will be heavily influenced by competency based learning and I think STEM may be well positioned to adapt to this. We have been working on this concept in our general ed core curriculums of math and science. At first it was about trying to figure out online or hybrid learning but now we are starting to see how we may need to change the academic business model. The emerging CBL providers such as Western Governors are built upon a personalized learning foundation that allows the student to progress at their own pace. Tuition is based on a period of time not on credit hours, which creates the incentive of "the faster you progress, the more you save". Maybe there is a hybrid version of this that can work for the traditional residential university.
I'm going to take a stab at what this might look like for STEM degrees. I'm looking at this as realist considering what might be acceptable for our entrenched higher education culture, today's student and the political and financial forces that will inevitably force the change. The first 2 years of most STEM degrees are fairly similar based on the need to build a foundation of math through calculus, basic concepts for the sciences with English and physics typically being foundational as well. This is true for pre-meds through engineering and it is typically fairly challenging to ensure that we are not wasting our time on the students in the upper level of the degree program. So how about a one room schoolhouse for each STEM discipline complete with a set of competency based learning modules designed with assessments that provide adaptive options to complete each step. We have talented non-tenure track faculty always available and still teaching but not on a fixed lecture circuit. The environment would facilitate collaborative learning along with the necessary lab requirements. The student pays the same tuition, and heck we even keep the semester structure. The advanced students finish early or have more time for extra curricular activities such as undergraduate research or experiential learning options. As the student emerges from this general ed core they enter into the more traditional degree completion with the upper level courses and labs taught by tenure track faculty to complete their STEM program.
I'm going to stop here without digging into the obvious questions and details. But what do you think? I think it might be an improvement.
Providing Technology that Students Actually Use
While eating lunch at my desk I opened up the webcam view of our new Nonavitra 6K Visualization Wall we built for use in the library. Three students jumped on the system and proceeded to spend 15 minutes exploring chemical bonding options starting from some periodic table application. I wouldn't say that it was utilizing hi-res graphics but what was important is that the students were having such a great time exploring. This brings me to what I feel is one of the most important reasons for giving our students access to this visualization resource. The opportunity to explore and gain experience in working with resolution that is typically reserved for corporate showcases or expensive research facilities.
The library had an open house a few weeks ago where they introduced Nonavitra and ever since we have seen the reservation schedule for the resource fill up with student groups especially in the evening. In fact one of the first uses for the wall was the rugby club using it to scout a future opponent. But what I love is that student study groups are reserving it.
In the beginning my Research Support team started bugging me to allow them to build some sort of a visualization facility. They wanted to build an immersion visualization experience reminiscent of CAVE2 at the UIC's Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL). And yes that would be fabulous but we need to walk before we run, which is why user adoption is the overriding requirement. Last year's V4DiR focused on 3D data review and the Nonavitra Visualization Wall now allows us to put a powerful visualization resource in the hands of our faculty and students. The one condition that I set was that I would not build a visualization resource that would become relegated to providing campus visitor demos. We seem to be having success with these technology rollouts. The 3D Printer program in the library has been extremely successful. The secret to success is to put your effort into engineering the business process for making the resource available.
Be Supportive not Restrictive
I was outside recently watching our Research Support Student employees fly our helicopter drone over campus capturing some great autumn video.
I also had my dog, Abby, with me since I designated it to be "bring your dog to work friday". Well Abby was generating some interest from students homesick for their pets while I got into a conversation with a couple of our IT Support Services Student employees about their programming ideas. These ideas come from our encouragement for our student employees to explore ways that we might improve our business processes. The idea was about a web app that the student workers could use to trade shifts with their coworkers. The gist of the conversation quickly focused on their perception that IT only recommended development based on Perl. Well he mentioned this to the right guy, actually the boss, but really what a ridiculous perception that obviously had roots from the past. But that type of preferential influence will not fly today.
Perl does have a significant development presence here and there is nothing wrong with Perl, but that should not dictate the requirements of future development. The student asked if he could develop in PHP but was told that PHP was not secure. Well maybe that a general statement with some merit but probably not of concern for a student employment shift sharing application. The student actually wanted to use Python and then our conversation steered toward new ideas like the possibility that WordPress might be utilized. My major point with bringing this up is that we in IT have to be cognizant of the influence we convey and that our way is not the only way. IT should remember when they were the radical adopters of new application platforms. Consider the fights they must have had with cobol and fortran proponents.
IT Facilitating Teaching and Research
Reprint of IT Facilitating Teaching and Research: this article of mine that was recently published in CIO Review Magazine's Education Edition offers my observations about how IT needs to take a more deliberate role in not just supporting academics and research but also to stimulate it. I used our example of investing in a SAP HANA Appliance and committing staff resources to support the use of it for teaching and research. This has proven to be beneficial even without the opportunity for our Business ERP students to get hands on experience or the Autism Spectrum Identification research project now using it. It has been successful by just expanding our staff expertise in this area.
Now we have a few more of our investments showing potential and all of these solutions have been developed by our student employees. We built a 8×10 ft 3×3 video wall that our students named Nonavitra that we have located in the library so that everyone can use it. Here is the Library Guide describing what it is and the procedure for access. We are seeing use range from the ERP business students presenting their SAP Dashboards, examination of gigapan photos from geology, Electromagnetic Compatibility display from ECE, students exploring NASA Eyes to the Rugby Club using it to watch a video of an upcoming opponent.
We are also looking at mounting a LiDAR camera on our new helicopter drone. Again another example where IT provides a tool that can stimulate research, but IT also owns maintenance and operator expertise that is critical for taking advantage of the drone. We have built a digital signage solution that we call MinerBytes based on the Raspberry Pi computer that is being deployed throughout campus. We are also close to finishing our production version Segway. I will save the Segway story for another post, but again another project which provides incredible experience for students that just might translate into something that can benefit our university.
RTD 2014 went Further Faster
My RTD review post as promised is mostly to confirm how satisfied we were with the success of the conference. Attendance doubled from the previous year, the Keynote presentations were right on, the sessions were valuable and well attended and the Fireworks were more spectacular. This is not your normal Research and Technology Development Conference because Missouri University of Science and Technology is not your normal research campus. The difference focuses around S&T's need and desire to collaborate with regional research universities. Missouri S&T confirms this focus by going above and beyond to throw not only a rich professional conference but also an extremely enjoyable experience. All this comes at the expense of S&T staff and partners working hard, but driven by the rewards.
Wesley Chun, from Google and author of the "Core Python" Series of books kicked off with a Keynote presentation that helped everyone understand the value of embracing new technology even if it might be disruptive. Mark Suskin, PhD, from the NSF Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure followed up with a reflective look at our traditional public research funding model and asked us to offer new ideas for what that model might look like.
The three pillars of Computational Science, Additive Manufacturing and Large Scale Visualization provided very distinct and engaging conference content areas. Many new professional connections were established for those seeking information about these pillars.
The talk of the conference again will be the Monday Night Social Event. Anytime you offer some of the finest BBQ in the region along with a selection of local beverages and the finest Pie in the land you have a winner. Follow that with a custom fireworks show put on by your own Explosives Engineering department and end it with a high energy rock band and you greatly improve the technical conference experience. Yes it was a great time, Thank You to all who were involved.
Checkout the Time-lapse of setting up the Video Wall
RTD 2014 Conference – Further Faster
A benefit that I thoroughly enjoy from being the CIO at Missouri University of Science and Technology is the opportunity to promote, support and participate in research activities. The capstone event that represents IT's involvement with research is our "Research and Technology Development Conference", RTD2014, that takes place next week, September 15-16. Putting together a conference such as this is an incredible amount of work which tells you that last year's event must have been successful or we would never have committed to another year. Actually that is true, at this point in the life span of RTD, 4th annual, a negative outcome would cause us to abandon the effort for the following year. But no, this year's RTD will be more amazing and we will probably be motivated to continue the tradition.
Here is a quick overview of what the RTD attendees can expect.
Keynote speakers this year include:
(Monday) Wesley Chun, from Google and author of the "Core Python" Series of books
(Tuesday) Mark Suskin, PhD, from the NSF Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
The conference content is focused around three major pillars:
Computational Science, led by University of Oklahoma and University of Nebraska
Additive Manufacturing, led by University of Louisville and Missouri S&T
Large Scale Visualization, led by Indiana University and University of Texas
Monday morning kicks off with various workshops focused around our Pillars and a very popular Python workshop provided by Wesley Chun. The sessions scheduled for Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning will be showcasing the latest developments in the 3 Pillar areas driven by the lead institutions.
In addition, the RTD Monday Night Social is a networking event not to be missed. In keeping with S&T interests, there will be catered BBQ (from various vendors across Missouri), music, and an incredible fireworks show by the S&T explosives experts.
So why do we do this? The original driver for such a conference is the need to create an opportunity for your university research community to collaborate. Typically this is called Cyberinfrastructure Days at many research institutions and it is required if you receive government research funding. Last year we decided to expand this to more of a regional event thinking that it would promote more intercampus collaboration. It has definitely stimulated more regional research collaboration with respect to sharing resources such as HPC. The potential for RTD justifies the investment especially with help from our vendor community, but it is our amazing staff and students who make it successful. We plan on launching a number of new projects after introducing them at RTD. I'll follow up with a recap post.
Considering Hire Education
I try to discuss innovation and disruption in higher education on my blog. However, it is difficult at best to dig too deep into these areas since I am digging from the inside. That sounds a bit like digging your own grave and I'll just leave that comment hanging. But I have been accused of being the most innovative and too innovative and because of that I must carefully manage that perception as it relates to disruption. Higher education as it is primarily established today cannot handle the disruption which tends to evolve from innovation. Very sad really, it means that any innovation in higher education must fit into the existing structure which tends to predict its doom. But it is that structure that is predicting higher education's doom.
My motivation to open up this topic comes from my increased interactions with our corporate partners looking to hire our students. This is a good thing that we have corporate partners who want to build a relationship with us because the trend is not necessarily moving in that direction. Two recent Gallup Polls revealed that although 96 percent of chief academic officers believe that they are doing a good job of preparing students for employment, only 11 percent of business leaders agree that graduates have the requisite skills for success in the workforce. I hear the same concerns but thankfully we do produce graduates that are acceptable to employers but we cannot rest on our reputation. The skill sets needed by employers is changing much faster then our curriculums.
It is commonly accepted that higher education is approaching a bubble of dramatic disruption. Theories on what that might look like range across the spectrum typically dependent upon what role one plays in that industry. But when you step back from personal feelings it is hard to understand how this system designed centuries ago can continue much longer without some serious overhaul. Of course change or innovation rarely occurs from within, it will be outside forces that create the bubble. Those forces evolve from our customers and the options that they explore. I think the most significant force will come from the employers of our graduates. The Christensen Institute has helped alert us to disruptive signals over the years and I think they have produced an excellent review of how our employers are shifting their tactics in their latest publication "Hire Education".
The publication as mentioned in the video shifts focus to an examination of online competency-based education. Unfortunately for our traditional institutions of higher education online competency-based education would probably have the most disruptive affect imaginable on our current business model. I do sympathize with the overall value proposition that higher education offers and we should not lose what is working in HE, but I think we know that change is coming, so shouldn't we we planning for it. Read the "Hire Education" report with an open mind and consider how we might adapt our credit hour, semester based approach to conveying a degree. I am fascinated by how we might adapt our ERP systems. I could see year round college campuses where you protect all that is great about a residential and experiential learning college experience. Maybe some of the students are working in a competency based track and given support from subject matter experts and academic staff. It may not be the tenure track dream job but it could still be an extremely rewarding alternative.
Research Support and Student Experiential Learning
The pursuit of a STEM degree has gained significant attention in recent years as we evaluate the ROI for a college degree. A recent article in NerdScholar by Yesenia Rascon, "Top 5 Reasons to Apply to a Research University" highlights the importance of experiential learning, access to research facilities and hands on career development quantifies many of the reasons we allow our IT student workers the opportunity to participate in exploratory projects. This all relates back to a culture that we promote for our very successful IT Research Support Services, RSS, group here at Missouri S&T. I have been fortunate to be in a position to carve out some IT budget to dedicate to research support. However, because some of my funding comes from student tech fees I make sure that the students benefit from our efforts. This translates via the hiring of student workers, but extends beyond tradition tech support jobs. We hire students in RSS who seek out that opportunity and we benefit from important support services that they are able to provide to our university. However, we also reward them with the opportunity to own their own research projects. Our staff does offer advice and support but we also let the students fail.
Our students also earn the right to attend national research conferences such as the annual SuperComputing and Great Plains Network. These opportunities provide them excellent presentation experience which we utilized this summer by having our students conduct a workshop for the CyberMiner camp for high school students. We asked them to present their current projects to about 50 high school juniors and seniors. We designed the workshop to encourage the campers to engage with our students and it was truly an inspiration Geekfest showcasing our future technology leaders.
Here is a quick glimpse of the projects they presented and a sense of the workshop.
MinerBytes which is a digital signage project based on using the Raspberry PI computer connected to any monitor with access control given to designated administrators. This was a project conceived by a biology student last summer and this summer we are preparing it for version 1 production deployment on campus and in our community. Somewhat of a surprise to us was that this project generated the most interest by the high school students as they were intrigued by the coding behind MinerBytes.
The Helicopter Drone Project is in its infancy which was good to be able to show the campers how a project gets birthed. We don't know where this project will go but we believe we should be on top of the explosion in use of drones. We have ideas for using it in creating virtual tours.
The Segway project started out last summer and has proven to be the perfect multi-discipline opportunity for our students. With a heavy electrical, mechanical and software development component we have had many students involved with this one. Our students presenting the Segway gave the campers some excellent advice based on their experience in designing the controller boards which they fried more then once. They told the campers what they appreciate most about their opportunity to work on these projects is that they are allowed to fail, and that has been their greatest learning experience.
The Segway prototype moved to a production design this summer which offered an excellent opportunity to display how they used SolidWorks design software on the new Video Wall that RSS built this summer. The Video Wall currently named MinerView is built on solid computer video display principles but was built from scratch with special attention given to the structure to mount the 9 55 inch high resolution monitors. The students had just a few hours to assemble the video wall in the classroom used for the workshop.
The Video Wall will be used in the upcoming Research and Technology Development Conference, #RTDatSandT on September 15-16 where representatives from Indiana University and the University of Texas will show off the latest in visualization techniques. RTD2014 is another great opportunity for students at S&T.
Of course the Video Wall has many uses and will be an important addition to our Library where it will be made available to the entire campus for visualization. We already know that it will be instrumental as a foundation for our Business and Information Technology department's ERP Center.
Hopefully this gives you an idea of what is possible if your Information Technology department combines the needs of the university with an opportunity for experiential learning.
This New RSS website presents the students projects very well.


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There are some sickos out there, and not the Central American children
Once, it was considered ugly and bigoted to call foreigners dirty or diseased.
No more.
Bolstered by the border-hawk vitriol of Republican blowtorch Dan Patrick, some Texans suddenly find it easy to call trafficked Central American children hateful names.
Their arrival in South Texas has triggered only one epidemic, and that's a statewide outbreak of Hispanophobia.
Regardless how you feel about their status as immigrants — some are legally human trafficking victims or refugees under federal laws passed during George W. Bush's presidency, others are not — there is no excuse for portraying them as broadly contagious, or making them scapegoats for Texans' own mule-headed rejection of vaccinations.
In one vicious email, the McKinney-based North Texas Tea Party warned of "epidemics across the country," as if only Central American children get sick, even though some come from countries with better immunization rates than Arkansas or Oklahoma.
Patrick, who has ridden immigrant-bashing from talk radio to the Texas Senate and his party's nomination for lieutenant governor, issued a statement decrying the "potential for disease" and then quoting a U.S. Border Patrol union mouthpiece reporting children found with chickenpox, staph and viruses.
So only Central American children have chickenpox or lice?
Other fearmongers quote dire disease claims by a book-peddling Arizona doctor featured on conservative media. (I won't name her. She's not an infectious disease specialist; she's a psychiatrist.)
Fort Worth pediatrician Dr. Mark Shelton, a former Texas House Republican and outspoken border hawk since his first campaign, is an infectious disease specialist.
He's worried about the humanitarian crisis of unescorted children and also the threat from violent offenders among them.
But he wrote by email that no contagious disease has been confirmed, although he added "I would not be a bit surprised" if some children might be sick: "Which also points to how important it is all children be fully immunized."
The president of the Austin-based Texas Pediatric Society, Dr. Mark A. Ward of Houston, concurred and added by email: "There is no confirmed information to suggest that these children pose a public health threat."
At Catholic Charities in Fort Worth, President/CEO Heather Reynolds said the 200 children sheltered here as trafficking victims under federal law and sent on to families had no problems but lice.
"The kids we have cared for have been healthy," she said in a forwarded note.
The North Texas Tea Party hate mail referred to a whooping-cough outbreak in California. But that's in suburban enclaves where some families refuse vaccinations.
Patrick has blamed illegal immigrants before for bringing "Third World diseases," naming tuberculosis. That's generally more prevalent among any foreigners, but more from Mexico or Asia than Central America.
He also has accused border crossers of bringing leprosy, malaria and polio, none supported by even the slightest fact.
They're not the ones who are sick.
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Sunday, February 8, 2015
Flowers Indoors
I love my orchids - they keep giving back. I have 5 flowering at the moment with another just about ready to open. All were dormant for a while and have treated me to a winter garden. They seem to know I need their colour and beauty at the darkest time of year. Flower therapy!
It has been a particularly cold few weeks and the thought of taking my hands out of my gloves to take photographs is a big deterrent to outdoor shots. While I take long walks bundled in layers of clothing, my hands stay warm. As my daughter once wisely said at the age of 6, when I forgot to bring my camera to an event, "You can take pictures with your eyes." I have been on a bit of a hiatus in terms of photography and maybe that is a good thing. Vacations of one sort or another are for renewal. I certainly don't take a photography vacation when I travel so I guess when I am back in my regular routine is the perfect time for a photography vacation.
This orchid used to belong to my much older cousin who passed away over a year ago. I delight in its blooms - a symbolic visit from a cherished person. She would have delighted in its presence.
Each year I plant an amaryllis. It astounds me with its rapid growth. It is a reminder of the importance of cherishing the moment as it dazzles with its splashy colour only to fade in a few short weeks. I stop and stare, captivated by its beauty. Its bright red is an antidote to the greys outside.
One persistent cyclamen keeps flowering. It, too, has a message. New growth is constant.
How does your garden grow?
Monday, January 26, 2015
Walking, I saw this animal struggling to free itself from the snow. Or so it seemed.
Fallen trees like a carefully constructed construction.
Stairways for the forest - leading up the nearby trunks. New uses for old trees. Keep your eyes open in the forest. You never know what you will see.
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Find Me
This time of year, bushes, posts, hydrants, fences all sport single mittens and gloves. Ah, the frustration of getting home only to discover that one mitten is missing. I hope this twosome find their partners. At least, for now, they have each other!
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays to all my online friends. Celebrate what you will. Tis the season to light up your homes - with candles, Christmas lights, flowers and friends. Enjoy the best of the season.
The days are starting to get longer...
Saturday, December 6, 2014
Refuge Faunique Marguerite-D'Youville in December
We bundled up and set off for the Refuge faunique Marguerite-D'Youville on Île St-Bernard. It is a beautiful place to walk in any season. The ponds are freezing up. No more ducks swimming around.
There are lots of birds still here in the winter. Bird feeders attract many from nuthatches to chickadees to woodpeckers.
The nuthatches and chickadees will eat straight from your hand. The chickadees move very quickly - it's hard to catch them. on camera.
Once the birds knew the food was there, it became like a bird highway, one swooping in, taking a quick selection and the next ones coming in quick succession.
This cardinal watched warily as the little birds ate from my spouse's hand. When we through some seeds on the ground, it flew down under a tree and when it felt safe, it came out to eat.
We saw a number of deer. They seem to be comfortable around humans as long as we did not get too close or make any sudden moves.
We plan to go back once there is more snow.
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Ready for December
The scene is changing at Atwater Market. Where once there were flats of flowers, followed by pumpkins, now there are trees springing up and these odd creatures. It is the invasion of the wooden reindeer - a large herd of them.
This year a large moose looks over the area. I'm not sure what its relation is to Christmas. Trees of every size wait for the right customer to bring them home.
The wrapping machine waits. The air is tinged with the scent of spruce. December is around the corner.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
It's Here
Snow fell all day yesterday turning everything white. It will melt away again before winter takes hold for good. For now, it is back to boots as I trudge through the slush.
I am not tempted to sit a while, though I do stop to admire this changed landscape. Bundled up from head to toe, I am insulated against the cold.
It's funny to think, that while the snow feels cold to me, it in turn insulates the plants below from the cold of winter.
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Many claimants for the posts in Telangana, but very few in Seemandhra region
Amid confusion on whether the Congress high command would constitute two separate PCCs or regional committees, the claimants for the top party posts are increasing by the day in Telangana while the Seemandhra leaders are a reluctant lot.
AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Wednesday hinted that two PCCs would be constituted in the next few days. But, State Congress leaders are still awaiting clarity on the issue. With the Union Government having announced the appointed day for creation of two States, the demand for separate PCCs has picked up momentum.
Former PCC president D. Srinivas, who held the reins twice, has thrown his hat once again claiming that he was willing to assume the charge for the third time, if the high command wanted him to do so. There appears to be a mad race for the PCC chief's post as the leaders are confident that the party would come to power in Telangana if not in Seemandhra region, where a complete washout after the division of the State is not ruled out.
Party sources said the high command was looking at two options. First, it is examining the scope for forming two regional committees as the elections will be held in united A.P., the second being to strengthen the party chances by having two separate PCCs.
Former Minister Md. Ali Shabbir, who met Mr. Singh in New Delhi on Wednesday, vehem-ently opposed regional committees. He said when the division was being a reality, where was the need for regional committees.
The list is long with former Ministers – K. Jana Reddy, N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, J. Geetha Reddy, D.K. Aruna and former Deputy Chief Minister C. Damodar Raja Narasimha and former PCC chief D. Srinivas setting their eyes on the coveted position.
Interestingly, all of them were aspirants for the post of Chief Minister. Reliable sources said the party may pitch for a forward caste leader and Mr. Jana Reddy was certainly a front-runner while Mr. Uttam Kumar Reddy could be the dark horse.
The scene is different in Seemandhra region where the party is said to be looking at a backward class or Kapu leader to assume the mantle. Party sources said the race is between former Ministers Kanna Lakshminarayana and N. Raghuveera Reddy.
Keywords: Telangana, Seemandhra, Samaikyandhra, Andhra Pradesh bifurcation, Congress, APCC


text: Good to know! The savings is huge with both the Dining Plan and the TiW. Another question (you can tell me to stop bothering you), the "total cost" line on the DxDDP added approx $800 to the plan. Is that really how much the tax on the plan is? That's about 26% tax. TIA