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Signature City Kansas City
Program Number:
Start and End Dates:
9/22/2013 - 9/27/2013
5 nights
Kansas City, Missouri
Price starting at:
$895.00 -
Price may vary based on date, departure city
Program Type:
Signature Cities; Art History/Criticism
13; 5 Breakfasts, 4 Lunches, 4 Dinners
Meal Options:
Vegetarian; Low Salt
In Kansas City, beef meets boeuf bourguignon. Dubbed the �Paris of the Plains,� Kansas City is second only to Paris in wide, scenic boulevards and second to Rome with its 200 ornate fountains. Make no mistake, barbecue joints and KC jazz pulse in this metropolitan area of 2.1 million near the geographic heart of the 48 contiguous states. But the KC experience is also its first-rate culture, a spectacular city park twice the size of New York�s Central Park, and an urban revamp organized into 240 neighborhoods.
� Explore the new wing of the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, the studio of artist Thomas Hart Benton and the state-of-the-art acoustics of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.
� At the American Jazz Museum, learn how native sons Count Basie and Charlie �Bird� Parker rocked the �cradle of jazz� in the 1920s and �40s, and put your foot to tappin� during a jazz outing at a Kansas City club.
� Learn at the Truman Library about Missouri farm boy Harry Truman, who succeeded FDR as America�s 33rd president and oversaw the end of WWII and the start of the Cold War.
Activity Particulars
Walking up to two miles a day.
Date Specific Information
Arrive early to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Plaza Art Fair, featuring 240 Artists, 27 restaurants, 3 live music stages and 25 local art organizations. The fair is on the nearby Country Club Plaza, and runs from September 21-23.
Coordinated by University of Texas at Austin.
Kansas City
Straddling the Missouri-Kansas state line, Kansas City was a busy point of departure during the mid-1800s for settlers, missionaries and traders beginning their journey west. After World War I, the city became a hotbed of jazz for the likes of Charlie Parker and Count Basie and today is famous for its steaks, barbecues and thriving music scene.
Comfortable hotel near Country Club Plaza.
Meals and Lodgings
Holiday Inn
Kansas City, MO
5 nights
Holiday Inn
Hotel ideally situated just two blocks from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Art Institute, Country Club Plaza, across the street from the Kemper Museum of Art. Crown Center/Hallmark Cards, Science City/Union Station, Crossroads Arts District, Steamboat Arabia, City Market and downtown area a short ride on the Metro Area Express (MAX). Hotel is four miles from Starlight Theater and Zoo/IMAX Theater.
Contact info:
One East 45th Street
Kansas City, MO 64111 USA
phone: 816-753-7400
Room amenities:
Cable, coffee maker, free morning newspaper, hairdryer/iron/ironing board, work desk with lamp, windows open, cordless phone, high-speed Internet.
Facility amenities:
One king or two queen beds, cable, satellite TV w/movie channel and pay-per-view movies, coffee maker, and complimentary coffee/tea, free morning newspaper delivered to room, hairdryer, iron/ironing board, complimentary wireless high-speed Internet access, individually controlled air conditioning, work desk w/lamp, largest outdoor pool in the area with sun deck, complimentary underground secured parking, local transportation (2-3 miles), full-service restaurant/lounge.
Smoking allowed:
Elevators available:
Additional nights prior:
Best seasonal rate available. Additional nights available by telephoning the hotel at (816) 753-0359.
Check in time:
Additional nights after:
Best seasonal rate available. Additional nights available by telephoning the hotel at (816) 753-0359.
Check out time:
Travel Details
Start of Program:
Registration begins at 4:30PM. You will be staying at
Holiday Inn
that night.
End of Program:
11:00AM at the hotel. You will be staying at
Holiday Inn
the night before.
Required documents:
The Participant Information Form is required. Road Scholar Health and Safety form; Release and Indemnification Agreement. Both must be completed and returned to the University of Texas at Austin no later than three weeks prior to the program.
Parking availability:
Parking is complimentary at the hotel.
To Start of Program
Kansas City, MO
Nearest city or town:
Kansas City, Missouri
Nearest highway:
35 and 70
Nearest airport:
Kansas City International Airport
From End of Program
Kansas City, MO
Additional transportation information same as above
Travel Details
Kansas City International airport
From Airport
Commercial Van/Shuttle
Super Shuttle
phone: 800-243-6383
Per Person/One Way:
$21.00 one-way per guest by phone ($19 one-way per guest by online); subject to change
Prices are subject to change.
Travel Time:
35 minutes depending on traffic
Super Shuttle kiosk is located in the baggage claim area. Reservations made online at www.supershuttle.com receive discounts. $37 per person round trip by phone, $33 per person round trip by online. Advance reservations must be made for the return trip to the airport; reservations can be made on arrival at the Kansas City airport.
Holiday Inn Country Club Plaza
To Airport
Commercial Van/Shuttle
Super Shuttle
phone: 800-243-6383
Advanced Reservations Required
Per Person/One Way:
$21.00 one-way per guest by phone ($19 one-way per guest by online); subject to change
Prices are subject to change.
Travel Time:
35 minutes depending on traffic
Reservations made online at www.supershuttle.com receive discounts. $37 per person round trip by phone, $33 per person round trip by online. Advance reservations must be made for the return trip to the airport; reservations can be made on arrival at the Kansas City airport.
Driving Directions
Take I-70 West to I-35 South. Continue on I-35 South to Broadway/27th Street. Exit (exit left). Travel approximately 2 miles on Broadway to 43rd Street and turn left (east). Follow up the hill to the first stop light, Main Street, and turn right (south). Follow Main Street to 45th Street, turn left (east). Holiday Inn is on the right side of the street.
I-35 Southbound: continue on I-35 to Broadway/27th St. Exit (on left). Travel approximately 2 miles on Broadway to 43rd street and turn left (east). Follow up the hill to the first stop light, Main Street, and turn right (south). Follow Main Street to 45 Street, turn left (east). Holiday Inn in on the right side of the street.
I-35 Northbound: Exit Shawnee Mission Parkway/63rd Street and turn right (east). Follow Shawnee Mission Parkway approximately 5 miles, watch for State Line - directly after you cross over State Line stay in the left 2 lanes and merge on to Ward Parkway. Follow Ward Parkway to Brookside Blvd (also Main Street), turn left (north). Follow to 45th Street, turn right (east). Holiday Inn is on the right side of the street.
Take I-670 East to I-35 South. Continue on I-35 South to Broadway/27th Street. Exit (on left). Travel approximately 2 miles on Broadway to 43rd Street and turn left (east). Follow up the hill to the first stop light, Main Street, and turn right (south). Follow Main Street to 45th Street, turn left (east). Holiday Inn is on the right side of the street.
Elevation Note:
Elevation is 758 above sea level.
Equipment Requirements:
Equipment is not required for program participation.
The prices listed for commercial services and facilities that are not included in the program cost, such as airport shuttles or extra nights lodging, are subject to change without notice. Since Road Scholar cannot guarantee the accuracy of these prices, we strongly suggest contacting the companies directly for the most up-to-date information.
Daily Schedule
Day 1:
Arrival & Registration/Welcome & Orientation
(Sunday, September 22)
ORIENTATION begins in the hotel conference room at 4:30pm. Your arrival packet will contain an updated schedule of program activities, a list of fellow attendees, and your name badge. Start your Kansas City experience with an informative overview of the week to come. The site coordinator will provide contact names and phone numbers of program leaders, address responsibilities, questions, and concerns, review safety guidelines and emergency procedures, orient you to the hotel location on maps and discuss the program schedule and what will be included in the field trips. Begin getting to know the program staff and your fellow participants with a get-acquainted session to introduce each member of the group. If you arrive late, be sure to pick up your packet at the hotel front desk. Breakfast each day in the hotel, lunch and dinner at restaurants in Country Club Plaza and other areas around the city. This Road Scholar program provides opportunities to attend a live Jazz performance, peruse the Truman Presidential Library, American Jazz Museum, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio, Country Club Plaza, engage in lively discussions on Kansas City's famous personalities and regional history with a noted historian.
A nearby restaurant offers multiple entree choices and continuing opportunities to become acquainted with your fellow participants and program staff.
Holiday Inn
Meals Included:
Day 2:
Kansas City History/Walking Field Trip
(Monday, September 23)
Hot breakfast buffet at the hotel.
Start with an overview of Kansas City and its origins before heading out for an expert-led walk through the city�s famed Country Club Plaza. Explore the history, art and architecture of the Plaza, a 15-block district of shops and fine restaurants that is one of Kansas City�s must-see destinations. Enjoy the romantic Spanish architecture and outdoor art as you hear about the work of developer J. C. Nichols, who converted a swampy, unattractive piece of land into an attractive and functional setting. Learn first-hand why Kansas City is called the �City of Fountains.�
Lunch at Winstead's, a local favorite.
Hear about Kansas City�s role in the development of jazz music from a vocalist at the forefront of the local jazz scene, David Basse. David is a tireless and prolific one man promotional machine for the sound of Kansas City. He performed at the 2011 opening of the new Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and plans to return with Bobby Watson and the Kansas City Symphony in February 2013 for an exclusively-written tribute for jazz orchestra. He will share his love for jazz as he describes the unique role played by Kansas City in the evolution of jazz.
Catered dinner in the hotel.
Presentation/reenactment of a famous historical figure from Kansas City's past. Participants always love the respect for the past, compassion, and attention to detail shown in this presentation of a memorable character.
Holiday Inn
Meals Included:
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 3:
Kansas City Jazz/Kansas City BBQ presentation, Union Station, Jazz Museum and Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
(Tuesday, September 24)
Hot breakfast buffet at the hotel.
Guided city bus tour of neighborhoods that show the rich history and diversity of Kansas City. See downtown and notable buildings throughout the city. Hear from local BBQ experts as they guide us through their own personal history and trade secrets. Tour a BBQ sauce factory operated by a local family for generations.
Enjoy famous Kansas City BBQ with all the trimmings.
Guided field trip continues through noted historical Kansas City neighborhoods, Union Station, Liberty Memorial ending with a docent-led exploration of the American Jazz Museum and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. See the historic district around 18th & Vine and learn more about the rise of African-American businesses in the city.
Dinner and live music at popular Kansas City restaurant/club.
Holiday Inn
Meals Included:
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 4:
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art/Free Time/Dinner & Live Jazz
(Wednesday, September 25)
Hot breakfast buffet at the hotel.
Field trip to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, where an extensive collection of American and Asian art is housed in a building recognized for its impressive neo-classical design. Enjoy the sculpture park and grounds as well as the collection of over 30,000 artworks.
Lunch at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Unscheduled afternoon and evening. You may choose to go to the World War I Memorial, or explore one of the city�s many other attractions.
Unscheduled dinner to investigate the multitude of restaurants in Country Club Plaza.
Unscheduled evening opportunity: Lyric opera performance at Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, "The Capulets & the Montagues" by Vincenzo Bellini, 7:30 PM. Tickets: (816) 994-7222
Holiday Inn
Meals Included:
Breakfast, Lunch
Day 5:
Thomas Hart Benton Studio, Kauffman Performing Arts Center, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
(Thursday, September 26)
Hot breakfast buffet at the hotel.
Travel to the home and studio of Thomas Hart Benton, an important American artist. Get an insider�s tour of the artist�s studio and home, which has been untouched since his death. See how he and his family lived as you hear about the influence of his work and murals on other American artists. Visit the spectacular new Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. Enjoy a guided tour of the city�s dramatic and eye-catching arts center, which opened in 2011. Marvel at the beauty of the building and find out how each of the performance halls was specifically designed to enhance the acoustic and visual experience for patrons.
Lunch in Independence, Missouri.
Consider how background shapes a leader on a guided bus tour of Independence, Missouri and the sites that remained important to Harry S. Truman throughout his life and career. Your exploration of Independence concludes with a docent-led tour of the Truman Library. A leader guides us through the life and times of the 33rd President of the United States. Find out more about this influential President, from his modest beginnings, rise to political prominence, and activities after retirement.
Dinner at local restaurant.
Holiday Inn
Meals Included:
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 6:
Kansas History Overview
(Friday, September 27)
Hot breakfast at the hotel.
A popular historian wraps up your week with an overview of the development of of Kansas and the critical role it played in the country at the start of the Civil War. Program concludes no later than 11:00 am.
Meals Included:
Free Time Opportunities
Kansas City, MO
Airline History Museum
The Airline History Museum tells the story of early airline travel, with exhibits of all phases. Extensive airline memorabilia, fully restored Super G Constellation and Martin 404, and a Douglas DC-3 being restored. Admission. Telephone 816-421-3401. For additional information, visit
American Heartland Theatre
Now in its 19th season, American Heartland Theatre is recognized as one of Kansas City's theatrical cornerstones. Each year, the Executive Director, and the Artistic Director travel across the country to find the latest and most popular theatrical works on the American scene. American Heartland Theatre is located in Crown Center on the third level at the south end. For additional information, visit
Arabia Steamboat Museum
The Arabia Steamboat Museum is home to a true time capsule of frontier life in the 1800's. The Arabia was headed up the Missouri River in the fall of 1856 when she struck a tree snag and sank just north of Kansas City. Her cargo hold was full of 200 tons of supplies bound for general stores and pioneer settlements. As the years passed, the river changed course and left the Arabia buried beneath a Kansas cornfield. Finally, in 1988 a group of modern-day adventurers uncovered the lost Arabia and her magnificent cargo. They were amazed to find fine dishware, clothing, and even bottled food all preserved in remarkable condition. Their find has been called the King Tut's Tomb of the Missouri River. Admission. Telephone 816-471-1856. For additional information, visit
Hallmark Visitors Center
See one of the world's most creative companies come to life. Located in the Crown Center Complex, the Hallmark Visitors Center celebrates the Hallmark story in a display of 14 remarkable exhibits, from the Hallmark founder's humble beginning in 1910, to the creation of the world's largest greeting card company. Step inside the Timeline exhibit where you'll view historical artifacts that reflect various eras and trends throughout the 20th century America into the new millenium. For additional information, visit
Kansas City Fire Museum
1910-era fire station housing artifacts, apparatus and hands-on displays, as well as educational activities for kids. Telephone: 816-474-0200. For additional information, visit
Kansas City Museum
Housed in Corinthian Hall, a 50-room Beaux Arts-style mansion, once home to the R. A. Long family. The museum features displays of regional and natural history, a recreated 1910 corner drugstore complete with working soda fountain, and a 50-seat planetarium.
Kansas City Symphony
Founded in 1982 and recognized as "The Sound of Kansas City," the Kansas City Symphony's 80-person orchestra performs more than 50 concerts in three series (classical, family and pop). The Symphony's 42-week season runs September through June. For additional information, visit
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Since opening in 1994, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art has become a leader among modern and contemporary art museums in America. At the core of the permanent collection is the Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, encompassing art created from the time of the 1913 New York Armory Show to today, the collection includes works by such renowned artists as Daly Chihuly, Petah Coyne, Morris Louis, Georgia O'Keeffe, Fairfield Porter, Jaume Plensa, Matthew Ritchie, Wayne Thiebaud, and Andy Warhol. For additional information, visit
Lewis & Clark Overlook at Clark's Point
A marker and statue commemorating the Voyage of Discovery's overnight in Kansas City.
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
Oldest performing arts organization in Kansas City, presents five performances of four works each year in September, November, March and May. Telephone 816-471-7344 for information and tickets. For additional information, visit
Mutual Musician's Foundation
Located in the 18th and Vine Historic Jazz District. The national historic landmark hosts fierce late night jam sessions Friday and Saturday at 1:30 a.m.
Nelson-Atkins Museum
Visit the gods of ancient Egypt. Reflect inside an authentic Chinese Temple. Survey the magnificence of Claude Monet�s vast Water Lilies. You are invited to discover some of the 28,000 pieces in the collection of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. From ceramic objects found in ancient Chinese tombs to whimsical sculptures of badminton birdies, the Nelson-Atkins collection spans over 5,000 years of humanity. For additional information, visit
The Blue Room
A swinging jazz nightclub exhibiting authentic artifacts and featuring Kansas City's finest live jazz entertainment on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening. For additional information, visit
The National WWI Museum at Liberty Memorial
On December 2, 2006, the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial debuted as the first American and only national museum dedicated to the Great War. The 30,000-square-foot museum features more than 49,000 artifacts-the world's second largest WWI collection behind Britian's Imperial War Museum. In September 2007, the U.S. Department of the Interior designaged Liberty Memorial a national historic landmark. For additional information, visit
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Dedicated in 1986 to all Vietnam veterans. Includes a memorial wall of 336 Kansas City area Vietnam veterans killed or missing in action.
Important information about your itinerary:
Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information featured on this website. Itineraries are based on our best information at this time. Circumstances beyond our control may require us to adjust itineraries or other details. We regret any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding. Information will be sent to you from your Program Provider approximately three weeks prior to the program start date. The prices listed for commercial services and facilities that are not included in the program cost, such as airport shuttles or extra nights lodging, are subject to change without notice. Since Road Scholar cannot guarantee the accuracy of these prices, we strongly suggest contacting the companies directly for the most up-to-date information.
Suggested Reading List
Kansas City: An American Story
Author: Montgomery, Rich and Shirl Kasper
Description: The best single introduction to Kansas City history, with lots of great illustration.
The Tummy Trilogy
Author: Trillin, Calvin
Description: Trillin was raised in Kansas City before joining The New Yorker staff. He became famous for writing humorous articles about food, starting with an article about Kansas City cuisine that began with the claim that the best four or five restaurants in the world were in Kansas City. This book is great because it tells you where to find the best bar-be-cue, hamburgers, etc., all over the country, and keeps you laughing.
The Mafia and the Machine: The Story of the Kansas City Mob
Author: Hayde, Frank R.
Description: A well-written account of the evolution of the mob from its start in the �north end� during the Pendergast era to its hey-day after World War II and its decline in the 1970s.
The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
Author: LeSueur, Stephen C.
Description: A fascinating, little known part of Kansas City history, a chapter in the life of Joseph Smith, a major part of the history of Independence, to which Jesus will return at the end of time.
Nelly-Don: A Stitch in Time
Author: O'Malley, Terrance
Description: Kansas City was once an important center of the garment industry. This is the story of the most famous of the garment makers, Nell Donnelly, with lots of illustrations. The book started out as a video project by her nephew. If you are interested in women�s clothes, it is a joy.
Tom and Jack: The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock
Author: Henry Adams
Description: The drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, trailblazing Abstract Expressionist, appear to be the polar opposite of Thomas Hart Benton�s highly figurative Americana. Yet the two men had a close and highly charged relationship dating from Pollock�s days as a student under Benton. In an epic story that ranges from the caf�s and salons of Gertrude Stein�s Paris to the highways of the American West, Henry Adams, acclaimed author of Eakins Revealed, unfolds a poignant personal drama that provides new insights into two of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.
The Plaza: First and Always
Author: Worley, William S.
Description: Well written history, beautifully illustrated.
Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop-A History
Author: Haddix, Chuck
Description: The only scholarly study of Kansas City jazz by the man who plays blues recordings for Kansas Citians on Friday and Saturday evenings on public radio.
Author: Larsen, Lawrence H. and Hulston, Nancy J.
Description: A scholarly and well-written biography of Kansas City�s most important politician.
The Kansas City Monarchs: Champions of Black Baseball
Author: Bruce, Janet
Description: An important story of the black community here is baseball. The Monarchs were one of the best black baseball teams nationally, famous for Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige.
PBS Documentary- Ken Burns' America: Thomas Hart Benton
Author: Public Broadcasting Corporation
Description: Called "the best damned painter in America" by fellow Missourian Harry Truman, Thomas Hart Benton was known for his colorful murals of everyday American life in the 1930s. This program from director Ken Burns tells the bittersweet story of the artist's life, works and ideals. 86 min.
You can't find a better value than Road Scholar.
As a not-for-profit organization, we are dedicated to providing all-inclusive educational programs at great value. From lectures to gratuities to field trips to accommodations - the tuition you pay up front is all that you pay.
Specifically, this program includes:
5 nights accommodations
13 meals: 5 breakfasts, 4 lunches, 4 dinners
Field trips: 1
Field trips
The world is your classroom, as you're on location with an instructor to pursue your educational theme firsthand.
Plus these special experiences...
History professor introduces Kansas City's history, regional culture and reviews current events.
Expert-led excursion to Kansas City's cultural icons: American Jazz Museum, Union Station, Negro Baseball Leagues Museum, Truman Library, Benton Home.
Docent-led exploration of the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum's extensive collections.
Live jazz at noted Kansas City club.
View the Daily Schedule to see more
And included with all Road Scholar programs:
Learning led by expert instructors who are authorities in the field of study.
An experienced Group Leader attuned to the needs of Road Scholar participants.
Customary gratuities throughout the program that you would normally pay yourself.
The Road Scholar Travel Assistance Plan, providing 24-hour-a-day emergency assistance coverage.
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"Therefore, my beloved brothers, be fim, steadfast, always fully devoted to the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain." - 1 Corinthians 15:58
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Founded 1905, it is one of the Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in New England in the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts.
Beginning in the month of October 2013 and following, the 8:00 AM Sunday Mass will be ALL in English.
St. Mary's PTO Gift Card Fundraiser, Gift cards from hundreds of retailers across the country available for purchase at face value.
Thank you to everyone who worked at any time from September 2012 till the end of this year's carnival. Whether it was an hour here and there or 2 to 3 days a week, your time volunteering was invaluable. Without your help, the Polish kitchen would not have been a success! Our planning for the "30th Anniversary Carnival" is already underway. From September to December, the Polish kitchen would normally become very active processing the 1,200 to 1,500 heads of cabbage needed to supply not only the carnival but also for the Men's Guild and Ladies Guild events with about 500 gallons of kapusta, 5,000 golumki and 3,000 dozen pierogi, which is not an easy task and very time consuming and labor intensive..
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Women's Imaging Fellowship
One one-year fellowship a year is offered in Women's Imaging. The fellowship is based at Parkland Memorial Hospital with additional rotations scheduled at the Meadows Diagnostic Imaging Center.
Diane Twickler, M.D.
Dr. Fred Bonte Professorship in Radiology
Fellowship Director
Women's Imaging Fellowship Training/Responsibilities
Parkland Memorial Hospital delivers more than 12,000 babies per year, and UT Southwestern Medical Center has the largest obstetrics/gynecology residency program in the United States, resulting in an extensive exposure to imaging of women's health issues.
Fellows are exposed to a wide range of imaging modalities with emphasis on obstetric, gynecologic, and breast imaging. Procedures performed include:
- Obstetrical and gynecologic ultrasound
- Fetal MR Imaging
- Hysterosalpingograms (including sonohysterograms)
- Interventional biopsies and drainages with ultrasound
- Breast MR Imaging
- Breast biopsies using ultrasound, stereotactic, and mammotone techniques
The fellowship is structured so that:
- One to two days per week are spent in Breast Imaging.
- Two to three days per week are spent in Obstetrical and Gynecological Ultrasound and MR.
The fellow is responsible for planning, monitoring, and interpreting examinations. Responsibilities also include assisting in resident education and training.
Radiology resident teaching conferences are held twice daily throughout the year and include both didactic lectures and case-based presentations. Fellows are expected to attend and participate in the pertinent conferences.
Radiology Grand Rounds are held monthly with prestigious visiting and local professors, offering the opportunity to meet and learn from leading national authorities on a wide variety of topics.
Informative multidisciplinary clinical conferences in combination with medicine, surgery, pathology, and the various clinical subspecialties are available.
Intellectual vibrancy and technological innovation are core values of the Department. Some time will be reserved for pursuit of academic and research projects, which are plentiful.
Call Duty for Women's Imaging Fellows
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GDS Link Continues Growth with International Expansion and Growth in Key Industry Verticals During First Half of 2011
GDS Link, a global provider of customer-centric risk management and process automation solutions, announced that it ended the first half of 2011 with international expansion, entry into a new market and growth in key industries.
Dallas, TX (PRWEB) August 12, 2011
GDS Link announced its expansion into Latin America with the opening of an office in Buenos Aires. The office is headed up by Gustavo Vercinsky who will leverage his 16 plus years of risk management experience to provide GDS software and solutions to financial service organizations in Latin America.
GDS also announced its formal merger with Modellica, based in Madrid, Spain. GDS and Modellica, a provider of risk management software and scorecard model development, have been working together for over two years. By formally merging, the two companies are able to seamlessly deliver their combined assets to the marketplace. Angel Salamanca, Founder of Modellica, heads up the Madrid division which has been renamed GDS Modellica. "Our two recent wins in Northern Europe involving global market leaders helps to emphasize the importance of increasing our geographical reach as we grow," stated Salamanca.
With its continued focus on developing partnerships that can effectively leverage the GDS solution set, GDS further expanded its international reach by entering into a relationship with an organization in Russia which delivers risk management services to multiple lending organizations. "Through this relationship GDS is able to leverage the footprint of a well established market leader and expand its user base, albeit indirectly, in parts of the globe that would be a challenge to reach on our own," according to Paul Greenwood, President of GDS Link.
GDS Link continued to expand its customer base securing additional clients in the payday lending, auto lending and business leasing markets. Industry expansion included securing an account with a company focused in the prepaid card market. Through this relationship GDS's core offering, DataView360, will be used for the origination of prepaid cards and the extension of a Line of Credit that will be attached to the prepaid card of qualifying cardholders. "We believe the growth in the prepaid card industry represents a significant opportunity for GDS Link as this growth and enhanced product offerings will require the implementation of more sophisticated risk management techniques in order to stay competitive and reduce risk," explained Greenwood.
About GDS Link LLC
GDS Link is a global provider of customer-centric risk management and process automation solutions. The company specializes in advanced software designed to support the access and aggregation of disparate data sources and the rapid implementation of custom credit scorecard models and risk management policies. Its technology acts as the enabler for organizations to effectively manage the risk of their customer throughout its lifecycle. Familiar with the large investments made by institutions in their legacy applications, GDS Link's flagship solution, DataView360â"¢, was architected to derive continued value from these systems while delivering enhanced function and flexibility to the risk management community.
For more information, visit http://www.gdslink.com.
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Welcome to the Houghton County Historical Museum
The Houghton County Historical Museum, once the site of the largest copper milling operation in North America is also home to the Lake Linden & Torch Lake Railroad, the one room Traprock Valley School House, an 1887 Congregational Church building now the HCHS Heritage Center, the WPA era Leo Chaput Log Cabin and the Perl Merrill Research Center which is our archives and genealogical facility.
The Houghton County Museum is located on M-26 in the Upper Peninsula of historic Lake Linden, Michigan and offers three floors of exhibits of local Copper Country mining, logging and cultural history. Some of our outdoor exhibits include a working Calumet & Hecla Mining Co. train with a 3' gauge Porter steam engine that was used to transport various materials at their mill and smelter sites. The steam train is now used for passenger tours and interpretation of the milling operation.
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The mission of the Houghton County Historical Society is to preserve, present, and interpret the history and culture of the Copper Country of Michigan, with emphasis on Houghton County and copper mining, processing and transportation. The society will pursue this mission through cooperation, collaboration, and participation with the community at large as well as other historical groups.
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But the income tax department has ordered collection of tax for such kind of deposit which earn interest above Rs.10,000 a year. It is really a hardship for the depositors who earn Rs.1,000 as interest a month.
Now the individual income limit is Rs.2.50 lakh.
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Tuticorin, Kanyakumari and Tirunelveli districts do not have Citibank branches in their periphery till date. Several graduates from these places are working in cities such as Bangalore and Hyderabad and they have accounts with the bank.
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In fact all these need bank facilities.
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This refers to the write-up in the Reporter's Diary column on the poor growth of south Tamil Nadu vide The Hindu , dated 2.4.2012.
It was painful to read that south Tamil Nadu below Madurai has not attained its deserved growth.
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It is high time that the leaders of all political parties, civic-chiefs and administrators should sit together and chalk out a plan of action for the industrial growth of the southern districts. The entrepreneurs should be assured a trouble-free atmosphere to run their establishments so that more number of new ventures will be started here.
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METAIRIE, La. The Saints followed their tried-and-true draft day philosophy of finding one player out of the blue.
And if history is any indication, Rufus Johnson of Tarleton State could be the next great player to make a name for himself.
He certainly has the confidence.
'...I'm just an aggressive player,' Johnson said Saturday. 'I'm a wonderful pass rusher. My pass-rushing skills are top-notch.'
Johnson, 6-foot-5, led Tarleton State with 10 sacks this past season and 17 1/2-tackles for a loss playing at the defensive end in their 4-3 defense. He earned the Lone Star Conference defensive player of the year for the effort.
And Tarleton State now has two former players on the Saints roster, the other being receiver Saalim Hakim. While the Stephenville, Texas college might be well-known, neither were Hofstra (Marques Colston), Towson State (Jermon Bushrod) or Bloomsburg (Jahri Evans).
The Saints pulled the trigger on the pick and will use him primarily as a pass-rushing outside linebacker. He said Saturday he ran a 4.69 second 40-yard dash during his pro day and said he weighs about 270 pounds.
Area scouts Mike Baugh and Josh Lucas found Johnson. He began to gain steam with his performance in the Texas vs. Nation college all-star game.
That all culminated in going in the sixth round.
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SOURCE: "Mother/Daughter Dialog(ic)s in, around and about Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club," in Private Voices, Public Lives: Women Speak on the Literary Life, edited by Nancy Owen Nelson, University of North Texas Press, 1995, pp. 111-24.
In the following excerpt, Braendlin analyzes how the women's liberation movement has affected mother-daughter relationships, specifically focusing on the mother-daughter dialogics in Tan's The Joy Luck Club.
In the 1970s I became, almost simultaneously, a feminist teacher/critic and the mother of a daughter. While analyzing novels emerging from the Women's Liberation Movement, where daughters struggle to free themselves from enslaving ideologies of wife/motherhood, I tended to identify with the daughters and to deplore the maternal machinations of fictional mothers, often characterized as little more than co-opted wives in cahoots with domineering fathers to coerce rebellious daughters into traditional wife/mother roles. As a mother of a daughter in an era when feminism was demanding a place for women in male-dominated culture, I often felt the conflicts among my perceived duty to socialize her toward survival and success in a masculine world, my determination not to replicate my own mother, and my desire to be my own woman and to let my daughter be hers. And just as often my daughter seemed caught between her need for parental direction and her desire for independence….
Antagonisms between mothers and daughters in U.S. history and literature became particularly acute during and after the 1970s, when the women's movement—advocating equality in a man's world—defined subjectivity in masculinist terms that privileged independence, self-sufficiency, and autonomy at the expense of traditional "feminine" relational values of nurturing and caring. Because these values had been embodied in an ideology of motherhood defined and dominated for years by patriarchal males, daughters of the liberation movement viewed them as outdated restrictions foisted upon them by their retrograde mothers. Defining themselves in ways formerly allowed only to men, "liberated" daughters wanted to usurp the traditional son's position, to move out of the home and into the workplace, to climb the ladder of success….
Conflicts between mothers of one generation and daughters of another are inscribed in numerous texts of the liberation era, for instance Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle, Alice Walker's Meridian, Lisa Alther's Kinflicks, Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle, and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, all published in the early to mid-seventies. In Kinflicks, independence for the daughter necessitates both divorce and rejection of her own child, and her mother's abrogation of maternal control. The novel represents maternal self-sacrifice as a fatal blood disease, implying that mothers must die in order for daughters to live. Hong Kingston's fictionalized autobiography also portrays the mother-daughter relationship as antagonistic and obstructive to female development, but she at least spares the mother, and at the end her "Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe" unites autonomy, nurturing, and artistry, albeit in a fantasy of utopian female solidarity….
In the eras following the women's liberation movement, we daughters of the seventies have become disillusioned with and conscious of our own co-option in masculinist ideologies and our efforts to replicate our fathers at the expense of maternal values; we've begun to identify with the mothers we had formerly rejected, thus complicating what formerly seemed to be a simple daughter versus mother conflict. Women can now, if they wish, be nurturing without being servile and can encourage men to care about others, protect and nourish relationships. In both fictional and critical texts, moreover, we are moving from antagonistic dialectic arguments—which were often (among critics and between mothers and daughters) really monovocal power plays—to more polyvocal, more dialogic, forms of spoken and written communication.
Dialogism, according to Mikhail Bakhtin, is the constant interaction among meanings expressed in spoken or written communication, insuring that no word, ideology, or discourse is privileged or remains privileged, even when it is supported by some kind of authority. In life, the development of individual subjectivity (personhood or self) occurs in the context of one's social and cultural languages (discourses); during the development process, when adolescents and young adults are encouraged—or coerced—into internalizing the discourses of their elders, conflicts arise because the new generation also resists becoming the old. But while individuation is the process by which a society indoctrinates its young into its value systems, it also creates a space for defiance of tradition and of choice among other, competing ideologies. Resistance to and re-evaluation of old values, coupled with new choices, introduce new voices into society; thus as the young grow up into adulthood, becoming modified versions of their parents, they promote and insure sociocultural change (if not, necessarily, progress). In the novel, Bakhtin suggests, the interaction among discourses appears as dialogues among characters, between an author and the characters, between readers and texts, and among various ideologies that permeate a work, linking text and contexts. Literary characters may be read as representing various subject positions, beliefs and behavior patterns that shift and change as the characters act and react within their fictional milieu. And we as readers interpret literature in the context of our own lives; who we are—our cultural, social, political, and psychological selves—guides our reading. Those selves, of course, change over time, modifying the way we read.
As my daughter grows up, I am changing as a mother, becoming less concerned about guiding her development and more willing to appreciate her as a fellow adult, a young woman who struggles to make her own decisions, to become the person she wants to be, while retaining something of her parents' values and mores. She, I can tell, vacillates between resistance to becoming like me and a desire to emulate those qualities in me she admires. And my reading of literature continues to be guided by my own experiences as a daughter/mother and also by my study of contemporary feminist theory. Increasingly, feminist authors, theorists and critics—as we wrestle with issues of gender, race, and class, of history, ideologies, and aesthetics—are calling into question binary oppositions such as culture/nature, male/female, and mother/daughter. Cultural feminist theorists are redefining these putatively "natural" oppositions as socially constructed and thus dependent upon consensus for their continued existence and also open to modifications. Not only have I changed as a reader and critic since the 1970s, but women-authored novels have changed as well, reflecting the increased diversity of American culture and the literary scene, as formerly marginalized and silenced women and ethnic groups voice their perspectives. Published in 1989, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club both imitates and revises works like Kinflicks and The Woman Warrior, which antedate it by some fifteen years. Tan's novel depicts the socialization of young women as a dialogical process in which the mother/daughter opposition becomes more complicated, with mothers and daughters still antagonistic, but also more accepting of the similarities between generations. Instead of one daughter confronting one mother, Tan creates four mothers (three living and one deceased) and four daughters—contemporary young women caught in the marriage/motherhood discourse of western bourgeois capitalism. In conflict with their mothers, who embody marital/maternal ideologies of old China, the daughters express their desire for individuality and independence, often entailing divorces from marriages that entrap them in "other-defined" roles. While their mothers object to these separations and appear to coerce their daughters into remaining in marital "enslavement," their own stories of their early lives in China reveal a female desire for self-definition and resistance that transcends generations, closing generational gaps. And, unlike earlier novels where the daughters' stories predominated, even to the extent of eclipsing the mothers' autobiographies, The Joy Luck Club foregrounds the mothers as characters and narrators who tell their own stories….
The mother-daughter dialog(ic)s of Tan's novel inscribe various discourses, both traditional (for example, patriarchal ownership of women, the sacredness of motherhood) and resistant (as in the desire for independence and selfhood). These are not exclusively expressed by either the mothers or the daughters; although communication between the two is hindered by differences in language and social orientation, both mothers and daughters share inherited beliefs about wife/mother roles that empower and disempower women. Both are in conflict over simultaneous desires to comply with and to resist society's demands and definitions of women. And although the mothers feel compelled to persuade their daughters to accept prescribed marital and maternal duties, they too resist total compliance with demands made by these roles. Some readers of The Joy Luck Club complain that its ending, with daughters reunited with one another and with the spirit of the dead mother, is too easy, too simplistic, too utopian in light of the continued conflictual relationships between "real" mothers and daughters. As a feminist mother in the nineties, I read the ending of the novel, where Jing-Mei Woo holds her long-lost Chinese sisters in an embrace, as a resurrection and vindication of their dead mother, who longed to reunite her daughters, and as a rewriting of earlier novels where lone daughters repudiated their mothers' desires. Like Kinflicks, Tan's novel kills off a mother, but then replicates her in her daughter, creating a matrilinear genealogy of resemblances less utopian than that in The Woman Warrior. It can also be argued that closure in Tan's novel applies an Eastern philosophy of "both/and" to a Western predicament of either (daughter)/or (mother).
What I want to do in the remainder of this essay is to change the format to reflect the multiplicities of mother/daughter relationships and feminist readings of them in literature. As a feminist critic I object to the authoritarian word of the "fathers," the master scholars who appropriate knowledge, possess it, and (often reluctantly) give it over to their chosen initiates. Thus, instead of insisting upon a position as a mother who replicates the fathers by preaching the authoritative interpretation of a novel, I want to open my text to multiple voices and invite you as readers to interact with them, to participate in a dialog(ic) that "concerns the relations among persons articulating their ideas in response to one another, discovering their mutual affinities and oppositions, their provocations to reply, their desires to hear more, or their wishes to change the subject."
What follows is a scenario I have created as a dramatized pastiche of The Joy Luck Club. Imagine the table around which three of Tan's mothers and one daughter gather to play mah jong and to socialize the daughter into the mother role. Just as Tan increases the number of voices and hence complicates the socialization process by interpolating the stories of other mothers, grandmothers, and daughters, so I wish to complicate (but also illuminate) the issue of mother/daughter relations by gathering together around the table several women for a discussion, mixing in postmodern fashion textual figures and "real" people. I as moderator work to unify the group and focus the discussion, in much the same way as a mother might attempt to orchestrate a dining-table conversation (like Mrs. Ramsay in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, for example) or as a novelist, according to Bakhtin, tries to orchestrate the "Tower of Babel mixing of languages," the "heteroglot voices among which [her] own voice must also sound" in her text.
By illuminating subtleties in the mother/daughter binary opposition, this polyvocal conversation suggests ways in which mothers and daughters may exchange and sometimes change their (and our) ideological positions and thus encourage a better understanding of one another's views. This dialog(ic) inescapably reinscribes but also defies the opposition—socially and textually constructed in the liberation era—through interchange of ideas and identities among women who both adhere to and resist traditional roles, who agree and disagree, exchanging roles and positions so "that [binary] oppositions are only apparent, that the alleged polarities inhabit each other." In the women's discussion, differences may not be resolved, but emerging similarities among the women call into question the divisive mother/daughter dichotomy that plagues intergenerational relationships.
My scenario opens Tan's text to a contextual dialogue that resists the closure of any one interpretation; in the end, there will be no resolution to the discussion or to the generational conflict. But I hope that through the exchanges and in the gaps and interstices between them, meanings will be made and interpretation enhanced by the participants, including you as reader. Here you may participate in the dialogue as one does in any conversation where speakers anticipate answers and exchange ideas, constructing meaning in the process; you are invited not to be "a person who passively understands but … one who actively answers and reacts," offering either "resistance or support," but in either case "enriching the discourse."
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WILLIAMSON – A Mingo County man claims he was involved in a scheme and forced to plead guilty to illegal drug charges to protect former circuit judge Michael Thornsbury.
Albert Warren Childress maintains he was a "victim of corruption and victim of circumstance" in the Mingo County case. Childress has already been released from jail while a petition to have a judge set aside his guilty plea, conviction and sentence is considered. A hearing is set for later in August in Mingo County Circuit Court, where he filed his recent lawsuit.
Childress' attorney David Barney wrote that his client was a "bystander caught in a web of deceit and corruption spun by … Thornsbury in an attempt to frame Williams' private investigator Donald Stevens on a bogus wiretapping charge."
Stevens had earlier sued Thornsbury, Sparks and others, saying they created bogus charges against him because they felt he was investigating the now-defrocked judge. Thornsbury pleaded guilty earlier this year to federal corruption charges and is now housed in a Florida prison camp.
Stevens has maintained that he received a letter from the U.S. Department of Justice saying he had been a victim of deprivation of his civil rights. The private investigator said he was arrested on Thornsbury's orders and given the choice of moving out of Mingo County or going to jail.
Sparks also is serving time in a federal facility after pleading guilty to depriving another man of his civil rights.
Interim Mingo Circuit Judge John Cummings released Childress from his one-to-three-year prison sentence in March 2013. The judge said he needed to evaluate the petition filed by Childress. Cummings no longer lives in Mingo County after the appointment of Judge Miki Thompson, who replaced Thornsbury.
Childress says he was visiting the home of Christina Tidwell Cline on Aug. 9, 2012, when a search warrant was executed at her home. Childress says the late Mingo Sheriff Eugene Crum and former Williamson Police Chief David Rockel provided false information to obtain the warrant. He argues that the warrant was obtained so police could find wiretapping devices to show that Stevens was investigating the judge.
While executing the search warrant, police reported they found quantities of cocaine and marijuana, along with a set of scales in the house. They arrested Childress, Cline and two others.
Knowing the corruption at the Mingo County Courthouse would lead to his eventual conviction, perhaps on more serious charges, Childress agreed to "involuntarily plead guilty to the lesser charge of attempted possession of a Schedule II controlled substance," his narrative says.
Crum, who had also been a Mingo magistrate, was shot to death in April 2013 across from the Williamson courthouse.
Boone County Prosecutor Keith Randolph is the special prosecutor in the Childress criminal case since the attorney who replaced Sparks as prosecutor, Teresa Maynard, was disqualified from the case because she is a former assistant to Sparks.
Rockel left the Williamson Police Department and took a job with the Mingo County Sheriff's Department but has since been terminated.
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Hardly a small role though was it?
Obviously. But his role in the special was the most talked about in the whole year. I even heard about it before I turned into DW this year - and I gotta admit, that did turn my head a little.
In any case, its foolhardy to say that the John Hurt was what made the special so great, and that the thought of him not being in it is, well, unthinkable. I firmly believe the special would've been
effective with Paul McGann as that Doctor, if not more so because of the signifcance of seeing a one-off Doctor have such an interesting history layed upon him.
But Paul McGann wasn't gonna be in it, because who's McGann compared to John
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As stores fill their shelves with toys and houses light up the streets with holiday decorations, the Highland County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition is organizing its annual Christmas Wish drive to help local families in need.
At noon on Thursday, the group met at the Highland County Community Action Organization Inc. building in Hillsboro to discuss the fundraiser.
Janet Fair, Christmas Wish organizer, said the drive is "based on family needs."
Though it is centered in the Hillsboro middle school and high school, the fundraiser benefits all children, including those in elementary and preschool, in deserving families.
When it comes to making sure families are able to celebrate the Christmas holiday, Fair said, "Whatever I need to do, I'll get it out to the kids."
Christmas Wish, Fair said, is designed to help families who cannot get help from other agencies.
In addition, Fair said she monitors the program to make sure no one is "taking advantage of the system."
The coalition, she said, involves all of Highland County, not just Hillsboro. As an example, she said the group's president is a minister in Greenfield. Also, she said that several other local programs are a part of the drive, such as Community Action and Head Start.
"There are a lot of people involved," she said.
Christmas Wish first began, Fair said, about six years ago when she asked a young man about his plans for Christmas, and he responded that his family could not have Christmas because they "had no money."
Since that time, Christmas Wish has worked to not only give local families a holiday, but to also help them through difficult times.
At its start, Christmas Wish helped only a few families. Now, however, that number has grown.
Fair said there are already 16 families signed up for the Christmas Wish program.
The program, she said, is accepting "really anything" as donations. Some items that can be donated include toys, gas cards, or gift cards.
Even a $5 dollar gas card, Fair said, can aid a family in need.
"That little bit helps get people to the grocery store or to doctor's appointments," she said.
Additionally, Fair said any monetary donations would be used to purchase toys and gifts for children in deserving families.
The fundraiser, Fair said, is ultimately a community effort.
The school and its students, Fair said, have played a huge part in the Christmas Wish fundraiser.
"School personnel don't make much money," she said, "but they're always willing to help and assist."
Fair said that groups such as the National Honor Society, the National Junior Honor Society, and the FFA all help needy families during the holiday season, through both the Christmas Wish fundraiser as well as other volunteer activities, such as Adopt-a-Family and donating baskets of fruit.
Fair also said a school group called EPIC gives time to the Christmas Wish fundraiser by wrapping presents. Additionally, during their study hall periods, many other students wrap gifts as well.
"The kids," Fair said, "are learning about helping others."
According to Fair, however, the coalition works to help others, not only during the holiday season, but also throughout the year.
The group has been a part of various community programs, including Red Ribbon Week at local schools.
Fair said Red Ribbon Week is a national program, but that the coalition works to organize similar substance abuse education activities throughout all Highland County schools.
The group also organizes Soles for Students, which runs throughout the year and ensures that students have shoes to wear to school.
"I can't tell you how many kids," Fair said, the Soles for Students program has helped.
Therefore, Christmas Wish, Fair said, is just one of many programs that offers aid to those in need while also encouraging community involvement.
"I get a lot of help from the staff at school and the FRS staff and anyone who wants to help," Fair said.
According to Fair, last year 14 families (more than 75 people) were helped through Christmas Wish.
Additionally, The Cutting Crew Hair Salon has said it wants to offer free haircuts for every gift that is brought in for one of Hillsboro's students on the Christmas Wish list.
The coalition's goal is to have everything to the families by the Dec. 18 or 19.
For more information, Fair can be reached at Hillsboro Middle School at 937-393-9877, or at FRS at 937-393-4562.


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Bamboo Wood iPad Cases Prompt New Business
By Bill Esler | Posted: 07/08/2013 9:27AM
DODOcase sells millions of dollars worth of bamboo cases, precision routed on a pair of CNC machines. In its 10,000-sq.ft. San Francisco production operation, laser machines cut holes to exacting tolerances in those cases.
While DODOcase might not think of itself as a wood products manufacturer, it is actually among the larger firms in the country, with millions of dollars in sales. Founder Patrick Buckley was 29 when he launched the business in 2009, on a hunch that high-tech iPad lovers would like an elegant, low-tech protective wrap for their machines.
Entering a competition at Shopify, Buckley developed his DODOcase, a wood back with a bookcover front. Buckley spent several weeks learning to operate a CNC machine at TechShop in San Francisco, then went to work. When DODOcase netted a reported $1 million in sales in 90 days – they sell for $60 and up at online stores – Buckley and partners Craig Dalton and Mark Manning began manufacturing in earnest. CWB caught up with Buckley to talk to him about the venture into woodworking.
CWB: Patrick, why do consumers want to wrap a high tech iPad in a bamboo case?
I think it is largely the emotional experience of feeling something familiar in your hands. We all grew up holding books in our hands. We all have a nostalgic connection to that experience and it just feels right even now with newer technology.
CWB: In starting your business, you tested the DODOcase product idea at Shopify – what kind of feedback did you get?
Shopify was a great tool for us to get an e-commerce website up and running in under one day. To drive our first customers to DODOcase.com we did some old fashioned feet-on-the-street marketing, handing out flyers at Apple stores the day the iPad launched. Within months we were selling 1,000's of cases; we took that as a sign that people really loved the DODOcase.
CWB: How was DODOcase's design adjusted as a result of Shopify feedback?
Because we launched our iPad case on such a short time frame we had a lot of improvements along the way. Over the first 18 months we probably redesigned the bamboo tray 10 times for an improvement in the strength of the design by over 230% and a reduction of 80% in material costs.
CWB: Working with bamboo, how does it perform in machining or gluing?
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COLUMBIA CITY — Swarming bees, broken windows and a vermin infestation are reasons for a vacant home becoming the concern of Whitley County's Chief Building Inspector Craig Wagner.
At the County Commissioners meeting Monday, Wagner requested county leaders to approve his moving forward in declaring the building unsafe.
The property is located at 8075 S. 200 E. and sits on the corner of Smith Street and 200 E. According to Wagner, the property is owned by William L. Hinen.
"We got a complaint in June about open windows and doors," Wagner said. "Because the property was not sealed, vermin have been able to move in."
Requests were made to have the home repairs made, but when a roof collapse occurred, Wagner acted.
"This is an official order. I don't like to have to go to this extent, but I don't see any other option," Wagner said.
Hinen has received certified letters and communication from Wagner's office detailing the options on how to best take care of the situation.
There is a 60-day period in which the owner can make the necessary repairs or have the structure demolished. Should the homeowner refuse to act, the county can take steps to remove the home.
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