text:
ICPSR Council Minutes
March 8-10, 2006
Council members present: Darren Davis, Charles Franklin, Michael Haines, Mark Hayward, Aletha Huston, Paula Lackie, Nancy McGovern, Sam Myers, Ruth Peterson (Chair), Walter Piovesan
ICPSR staff present: Erik Austin, Rita Bantom, Bryan Beecher, Dieter Burrell, Linda Detterman, Peter Granda, Bree Gunter, Myron Gutmann, Hank Heitowit, Peter Joftis, Stacey Kubitz, Felicia LeClere, Chris Maxwell, Jim McNally, Mary Morris, Asmat Noori, JoAnne O'Rourke, Amy Pienta, Mary Vardigan, Cole Whiteman
Visitors: Dominique Joye, CESSDA Representative; Andrew Kaniki, South African Observer
Approval of Minutes
The minutes from the October 2005 Council meeting were approved unanimously.
Director's Report
Building News
Myron Gutmann noted that the construction of Perry II is almost complete. The move-in is set for the weekend of March 17-19. The telephone unit will move into the lower level of Perry I in late March.
After two years of planning, the secure data enclave will be opening this month. Gutmann explained that the enclave will be a valuable tool to PIs who have confidential and restricted data.
Marketing and Summer Program News
The 2006 fiscal year has seen 24 new members so far, with three drops; this is up from previous years (eight new members in 2004 and 18 in 2005). Gutmann also reported that the OR survey completed by Marketing Director Linda Detterman had very positive results.
Regarding outreach, Gutmann noted that ICPSR staff have attended eight conferences since October and have 20 more planned by the end of 2006. The committee on new product development has begun setting priorities and has come up with 35 new ideas so far. Staff are also looking forward to co-hosting the IASSIST meeting, which will take place in Ann Arbor May 22-26.
Registration for the 2006 Summer Program went live in late February. Current enrollment is on par with previous years. There are several new courses included in the curriculum, including a course on race and ethnicity. The course on maximum likelihood, taught by Charles Franklin, will begin in early April.
Collection Delivery and Collection Development
The Footprints system that tracks user support requests has seen about 200 requests per month since its installation. Of these, 61 percent have been from members and 21 percent from non-members; 18 percent are unknown in origin. The three largest categories of questions relate to users looking for data (20 percent), users asking how to access data (16 percent), and questions about study content (12 percent). Data utilization has increased a great deal from 2005 to 2006 across all categories of users.
718 files have been released since October 1. There are 111 new collections and 62 collections that have been updated. Studies that have been added to the collection since October include the Youth-Parent Socialization Panel, 1965-1997; the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, 1998-2002; and Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods.
Regarding new projects, the Data-Pass project has begun soliciting legacy and at-risk data, and collaboration has begun with the Ford Library to evaluate the Teeter polls from the 1988 and 1992 elections. A poster utilizing the LEADS database of studies will be presented at PAA at the end of March, and a set of new questionnaires and instruments is available on the SAMHDA website. Gutmann also reported that ICPSR has published Working With Data, an online guide about how ICPSR processes data.
The following new proposals have been submitted since October:
- Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic (NSF)
- Northwest Area Foundation Surveys (Northwest Area Foundation)
- Household-Environment Interactions Across Nations and Over Time (NIH)
Preservation and Computing
At the end of January, there was a successful test audit of ICPSR's preservation activities by the Center for Research Libraries. The automation of turnover and release procedures will roll out April 1, and a report on tracking and automation will be presented at the June meeting.
The online registration systems for the Summer Program and the IASSIST meeting are up, and the new SDA Appliance tool is now available for off-line demos.
Finally, Gutmann reported that the recruitment process for a Digital Preservation Officer is underway.
Budget Report
As a supplement to the new Council Orientation, staff presented a brief report on Thursday morning describing ICPSR's financial position. As of 6/30/2005, ICPSR maintained a $2.19 million fund balance. Staff anticipates the organization's reserves will grow to approximately $2.6 million by the end of fiscal year 2006. Although the organization budgeted for a $182K 2006 surplus, we are expecting a roughly $465K gain. Delayed sponsored project spending and cost-cutting practices are the primary drivers of the expected surplus.
In building the 2007 budget, ICPSR maintains its goal to rebuild reserves and in doing so is planning for only a $72k annual gain. Following losses in 2002 and 2003, ICPSR has made concerted efforts to close each year favorably and has done so successfully. Priorities that are reflected in the 2007 budget include: leadership transition, technology development, and diversity activities. Federal budget cuts and the discontinuation of some currently externally funded projects are also reflected in the 2007 draft budget. In conclusion, staff asked Council to consider the budgetary impact of the following: further federal budget cuts, likely reduction in Summer Program tuition from University of Michigan students, outcome of offering training outside the traditional Summer Program timeframe, and results from new product research. Staff reminded Council that they needed to formally approve the 2007 budget at the June meeting.
Present and Future of ICPSR Computing
Bryan Beecher gave a presentation on the future of computing at ICPSR. ICPSR plans to invest in several new computing systems in FY07, in order to replace systems that are nearing end of service; improve preservation and delivery capabilities; and add capacity to meet demand.
ICPSR will also move from a monolithic to a distributed architecture for providing infrastructure (non-desktop) computing services --- from two multiple-purpose machines to several focused-purpose machines, organized around five major functions. The improved architecture is expected to solve a variety of problems, and to cost $75k/year, compared with the current $55k/year. The five functions that we will focus on are:
Database: ICPSR will upgrade its database management system software (to Oracle 10i) and hardware (to a dedicated high-performance server).
Preservation: ICPSR will create disk copies of electronic archival materials, which will make it less expensive to access them, to verify their accessibility and fidelity, and to keep up with evolving storage technology.
Processing: ICPSR will upgrade operating system software and server hardware to meet demand.
Storage: ICPSR will move online storage and backup to a specialized appliance to provide much greater capacity and expandability, consistent access controls between Windows and Unix, and self-service file restoration.
Web: ICPSR will move from a single all-purpose web server to a set of servers with distinct roles: Primary, Backup, Staging, Intranet, and Development. This arrangement will increase performance, security, and reliability; and it will provide a way for staff to preview new content before public release.
Recruitment Process and Strategy at ICPSR
ICPSR Human Resources Director Rita Bantom presented an overview of how ICPSR recruits and manages its workforce. She provided a demographic breakdown of the staff and pointed out that 85 percent of the staff have bachelors degrees or higher. She also stated that 11 out of the 18 minority staff members have been hired since July 2001.
Graphs of open positions, separations, and new hires were provided. ICPSR has fewer open positions than in previous years and has had a modest amount of staff turnover. The number of staff hires in a year depends mostly on new projects and staffing levels needed to get the work done. Bantom enumerated the different job roles and classifications in use at ICPSR and went on to talk about the most important recruitment and selection principles:
- Apply conservative staffing ratios
- Hire for the organization as a whole (so that staff can be reassigned if necessary)
- Value excellence in credentials and skills
- Recognize professional experience
- Generate a diverse applicant pool
- Practice work force planning (the right number of people with the right skills in the right jobs at the right time)
To develop a diverse applicant pool, ICPSR advertises in media outlets like the Chronicle of Higher Education and with network organizations such as the major social science professional associations. ICPSR also advertises at career fairs (e.g., University of Michigan Multicultural Fair, Michigan State Diversity Fair, Atlanta University Center Fair [Clark, Morehouse, and Spelman], and Michigan Collegiate Job Fair). In addition, ICPSR offers a summer internship program to provide an opportunity for an undergraduate to spend 10 weeks at ICPSR processing data and attending the Summer Training Program. Over 100 applicants, including many graduate students, have applied for the 2006 internship.
Bantom also outlined the process to fill an open position at ICPSR, which begins with the appointment of a search committee comprised of a group of about five to six staff. There are two interviews with job candidates: the first interview is technical, assessing a candidate's relevant skills, and the second is behavioral, concentrating on important behaviors in the work place.
To evaluate staff performance, ICPSR uses a Performance Management Communication System (PMCS) with the following objectives:
- Establish clear expectations where performance is objectively measured and recognized
- Encourage formal periodic discussions
- Support a respectful environment that celebrates differences among staff
- Endorse professional development opportunities
This is an annual event in May/June, and is intended to be a communication tool, not a rating based system. The next step is to move the PMCS tool to the Web.
Bantom noted that professional development is essential in a successful organization, and ICPSR offers several forms:
- Tuition support policy (100 percent of tuition is supported, which is in excess of University of Michigan standard benefits)
- Attendance at conferences, workshops, and seminars (presenting papers and staffing the exhibit booth)
- Summer Program attendance
- Center for Statistical Consultation and Research courses (some brought on-site)
- Committee participation
- Special projects and cross-training
- Supervisory and managerial training
Compensation for ICPSR staff includes the standard U-M benefits package and competitive total compensation. In terms of career paths, staff have access to other U-M jobs and to internal career opportunities for promotion and advancement.
Council requested more details about staff advancement and promotion, and Bantom pointed out that there is not a lot of staff turnover, so there may not always be leadership positions available for people who want to move up in the organization. Thus, we strive to provide staff with challenging new projects and recognition when they acquire new skills. We may be able to reward them in compensation but not in title changes. Also, in some cases when advancement is not possible, we encourage staff to seek opportunities elsewhere in the University of Michigan or other venues. We hope that they leave ICPSR having had positive experiences and that they will act as advocates for us.
Several challenges and opportunities remain in the human resources area, including the ongoing commitment to diversity recruitment, retention, and engagement; the growth of the organization; leadership development; succession planning; and coping with technology change.
While our diversity efforts are paying off in recent years, we are still hiring minority individuals most frequently into entry-level positions and then promoting internally into intermediate positions; we still have progress to make in recruiting staff for leadership positions. That is why outreach to groups like the Association of Black Sociologists is so important.
Budget and Policy Committee
Council present: Michael Haines, Mark Hayward, Sam Myers, Ruth Peterson (Chair), Walter Piovesan
Staff present: Erik Austin, Rita Bantom, Myron Gutmann, Stacey Kubitz
Signing Authority Document
Several years ago, the University of Michigan's Office of the General Counsel advised staff and Council that the authority for granting permission to scholars to receive restricted-use versions of ICPSR datasets resided with the ICPSR Council. Agreements outlining terms and conditions of such use are routinely signed by the requesting party and by an ICPSR representative. At the time this advice was received, then Council Chair Halliman Winsborough delegated the Council's signatory authority to a member of the staff (specifically to Assistant Director Erik Austin). The newly-opened ICPSR Secure Data Enclave also requires signed agreement forms for use of the facility. Staff presented to the committee a draft of a letter from Council chair Ruth Peterson, delegating Council's signing authority for agreements of these two sorts to several current members of the ICPSR staff (ICPSR Director Myron P. Gutmann, Assistant Director Erik W. Austin, Associate Research Scientist Christopher D. Maxwell, and Assistant Director of Collection Development Peter A. Granda). Committee discussion of the draft focused on the procedure for enacting these agreements, on the due diligence being exercised to respect confidentiality, and on liability assumed by ICPSR as a result of such agreements. Myron Gutmann described the letter transferring signatory authority from the Council to selected staff members as a relatively routine undertaking.
At the plenary discussion of this item, the full Council recommended reprinting the letter with a date of March 10, 2006, then voted unanimously to approve the letter and have it executed.
FY 2006 Year-End Projection
Gutmann and Business Manager Stacey Kubitz briefed the committee on the state of the budget for the current (i.e., FY 2006) fiscal year. A year ago, staff had forecast a surplus of $182,000 for the 2006 fiscal year. With actual data on income and expenditures in hand for the first eight months of this fiscal year, staff is now projecting a FY 2006 surplus of $465,000. The main contributor to this greater-than-expected surplus is general underspending on numerous accounts, particularly those for sponsored projects (i.e., those funded by grants and contracts.) Kubitz noted that the surplus funds will be deposited into ICPSR's reserve account at the close of the fiscal year. Council discussion focused on reasons for the disjunction of predicted vs actual year-end balances, the desirable level of reserves for the organization, and ways of forecasting more accurately the actual end-of-year balances. In response to a question, Gutmann assured the committee that underspending has not reduced the quality of ICPSR's archival products, nor has it negatively impacted the paying of equitable salaries to ICPSR employees. He proposed that staff prepare for the October, 2006 Council meeting a report delineating the components of FY 2006's greater-than-expected surplus.
Strategic Overview for FY 2007
Gutmann outlined the strategic priorities that went into forming the 2007 budget. The first of these priorities is recruitment of the next generation of senior management (to replace three senior managers who have retired or will retire in the next year or so). Advertisements for two of these positions have been sent out, and applications received. Technology development includes rebuilding core computer systems with more modern hardware, as well as designing a system to protect ICPSR from hardware or software failures or natural disasters. Staff will expend effort on a set of diversity activities to expand services to groups not always well represented in the past. New product development will refine a list of new products and conduct research on the most likely targets for these products.
FY 2007 Draft Budget
Kubitz and Gutmann then presented the committee with a draft budget for FY 2007. They explained that a major goal of ICPSR's annual budgets remains to rebuild its reserves. Staff is now forecasting a FY 2007 surplus of $72,000 of revenues in excess of expenses. Built into the draft budget are known reductions in Federal government support (particularly from NIH); the termination of some sponsored projects; leadership transition costs; and technology replacement costs. Gutmann asserted that the organization is in fairly good budgetary shape for FY 2007, but alerted the committee to likely budgetary stringencies in the FY 2008 ICPSR budget. Committee discussion ranged across definitions of specific line items in the draft budget presented, and included numerous questions from new Council members. Kubitz noted that revisions to the 2007 budget will be made in the weeks between the March and June Council meetings, with final approval of next year's budget occurring at the June, 2006 Council meeting.
Personnel Issues
Gutmann outlined steps already begun or being planned for recruitment of three senior staff members. Efforts to fill a position of Digital Preservation Officer are quite far along, with a top candidate identified and a likely start date of September 1, 2006. Advertising for the position of Associate Director has begun, and discussions undertaken with other ISR Centers to seek agreement on a joint appointment between ICPSR and one or more of ISR's Centers. Gutmann requested suggestions of likely candidates, noting that it now seems unlikely a new Associate Director could start by September 1, 2006. Committee members suggested some disciplines from which likely Associate Director candidates might come (Political Science and Sociology), and pointed staff to past Summer Training Program participants as another potential source of candidates. Gutmann also led a brief discussion of strategies for recruiting the next Director of the Summer Training Program.
Diversity Planning and ISR Situational Review
These items were carried over to future Council meetings.
Grant Applications Submitted Since October
This agenda item was not discussed in the meeting, as committee members had no questions about supporting material on the item that was provided in the Council briefing book.
Collection Development Committee
Council present: Darren Davis (Chair), Charles Franklin, Aletha Huston, Paula Lackie, Nancy McGovern
Staff present: Peter Granda, Peter Joftis, Felicia LeClere, Chris Maxwell, Amy Pienta
Archiving Data That Are Archived Elsewhere
Darren Davis opened the discussion about how ICPSR deals with archiving data that are archived elsewhere and about the advantages and disadvantages of ICPSR being involved in this process. European observer Dominique Joye presented information on how the Swiss data archive has accomplished this. There was a discussion about MADIERA, which is the distributed archival method that integrates all of the catalogues of the European archives. MADIERA will provide an integrated catalogue that includes all of the collection in Europe. Two issues were discussed, including authenticating users and defining levels of use. This distributed archiving mechanism means that the catalogues are available everywhere but the data resides in a single archive. To achieve this, all studies are marked up in NESSTAR.
There will be a demonstration of the MADIERA website and functionality at the June meeting. At this point we will begin to assess the potential participation of ICPSR in MADIERA.
Discussion of the Minority Data Archive
Davis inquired about plans for the Minority Data Archive. Felicia LeClere, who has been designated as the short term manager of the new archive, described the plans for the archive including the archival development, staffing, and funding plans.
For the June meeting, LeClere and team will provide a detailed plan for the archive including a description of the content, an outline of the web content, and a development plan.
End of the International Archive of Education Data
Peter Granda described the loss of funding from the National Center for Education Statistics for the IAED, which ended in December of 2005. The method of notification and the dialogue concerning the funding was idiosyncratic and difficult to anticipate. Granda shared his experience with the attempts to retain support for IAED. NCES has asked for the return of the data, although ICPSR may retain dissemination copies. Davis suggested that this might be an opportunity to add data to the IAED, which to date was focused solely on data from NCES. Granda noted that ICPSR staff are still pursuing additional funding leads and retaining the archive in its present form. The Committee agreed to monitor the archive and the potential for funding elsewhere.
Changes in NACJD
Chris Maxwell described new efforts on the part of NACJD to acquire data from landmark studies in the area of juvenile offenders. NACJD is currently working with OJJP to acquire these datasets.
Methodology for Acknowledging Depositors
Amy Pienta described new efforts to acknowledge data depositors and identifying especially important contributions to the collection. The Committee discussed a variety of methods including reputational acknowledgement and other ideas. The Committee suggested a simple methodology.
Pienta will provide an evaluation form, a trial slate of depositors, and a brief report concerning the method of selection at the October Council meeting. She also share the LEADS database and methodology with Council and others.
Membership and Marketing Committee
Council: Walter Piovesan (Chair), Ruth Peterson
Staff: Linda Detterman, Mary Morris
Membership Activity & Utilization Reports
Membership activity for FY2006 has continued to be positive with the addition of 24 new members (13 new members have joined since the October 2005 Council meeting). To date, three members have dropped their memberships for a net of 21 new members.
Membership gains in FY06 are running well ahead of previous years. To determine why membership is increasing at such a positive rate, ICPSR staff intends to conduct a "new member" survey during the summer of 2006 to better understand new member reasons for joining as well as how they became aware of ICPSR and made the decision to join. Results of the survey are expected to be reviewed during the October 2006 Council meeting.
Utilization of data (measured in datasets) has also increased relative to earlier years. Note that some of the increase can be attributed to the new download mechanisms and defaults that were introduced with the newly designed ICPSR website. The download default for a study is "all" datasets; thus, it is believe that many users are using the default versus selecting specific datasets for download, thereby increasing utilization statistics that use datasets as the basis for measurement and comparison. ICPSR staff will continue to monitor and analyze utilization.
Marketing & Membership Initiative Updates
The committee briefly reviewed the direct marketing initiatives noting that the At-Risk members mailing was completed as part of the OR Media Kit mailing that launched in late February. Most of the other targeted mailings are scheduled to occur in summer 2006. Brief updates were discussed related to the following:
- Miller Scholars Fund: An additional drive will be conducted in fall 2006. Annual drives to increase this endowment are planned.
- Affiliation Agreement Forms: Updates of the text and membership categories were needed for these forms. The revision of text and design of the forms is nearly complete, and the revised forms will be customized and sent to National and Federation Hubs for review and signatures in the summer 2006.
- New Product Development discussions have been continuing since fall 2005. Over 35 product ideas were generated, and currently the committee is prioritizing these ideas for development.
- The IASSIST 2006 meeting is being held in Ann Arbor and hosted by ICPSR, University of Michigan Libraries and the School of Information. In planning this event, ICPSR staff hope to incorporate some of the procedures to improve the OR Meeting - these include the possibility of sponsorships to defray costs as well as other administrative improvements.
- Dataset Purchase Rates: The price for the purchase of one dataset was set at $500. This price point was selected after a review of utilization rates as a point that would not encourage a significant number of members to cancel membership and purchase datasets a la carte. Note that graduate students can negotiate lower rates if they are unable to meet the $500 price.
- Conferences: Having attended eight since October, ICPSR has 20 more conferences scheduled for exhibition through the end of calendar year 2006.
Individual Memberships
The creation of an individual membership category has been discussed over the course of several months. Collection Development asked Membership & Marketing to consider this category as a means of thanking data depositors for the successful deposit of their data, particularly if they are unable to access members-only data should they not be affiliated with a member institution. If such a category were developed, it was believed that the category needed strict guidelines for use as well as a price point, should non-depositors inquire about the category. Eligibility and costs for this category would be as follows:
- Individual must have no means of institutional membership: no affiliation with a college or university or an institution that could obtain an institutional membership or subscription. For example, self-employed researcher or consultant or retired professor who would be the sole user of ICPSR holdings. That is, no other employed staff, research or administrative, would actively download or use data as these activities would require institutional membership.
- One-year individual membership (free) offered as part of a "thank-you package" to data depositors who have completed the deposit process. Depositors must have no other means of institutional membership (see above). Membership would begin at the onset of release of the data. If depositor desires to continue the individual membership beyond the one year offer, s/he must meet the first bulleted requirement above and pay the individual membership fee.
- The annual rate for a professional membership was recommended at $800.
After some discussion, Council voted to approve the creation of a professional membership rate offered at $800, annually. Also, the membership web page will be updated to include a short description of this category and an affiliation form will be created.
OR Meeting 2005
A brief review of the 2005 OR Meeting was conducted noting that: there were 131 total participants, 94 who were ORs/DRs or subs for ORs/DRs. This is similar to years past. The meeting finished about $3,000 under budget.
Several ORs had approached Council requesting that travel reimbursements be increased or travel be fully covered. Currently, ORs receive $100 toward their expenses. In total, travel expenses represent 38 percent of the OR Meeting budget. Short of covering full travel expenses, which would not be feasible in terms of budget, the committee did not believe increasing the travel stipend, even if doubled, would significantly impact attendance and does not recommend increasing the stipend at this time.
OR Meeting 2007
Several ORs approached ICPSR staff to encourage alternate scheduling of the OR Meeting such that it occur on Thursday/Friday versus Friday/Saturday. ICPSR staff conducted a survey among ORs/DRs to gather preferences related to the schedule. In short, 40 percent preferred the alternate schedule; 19 percent preferred the traditional schedule; and 37 percent indicated either schedule would work. Thus, the committee recommended holding the 2007 meeting using the alternate schedule and assessing whether this schedule positively impacted attendance.
It was noted that a switch to the alternate schedule would require that the October 2007 Council meeting (one day in length) would need to occur either on Wednesday or on Saturday. Since many Council members were missing for this discussion, those present felt that all Council members should be polled about the Council meeting implications prior to approving the switch to the alternate schedule for the OR Meeting.
Ruth Peterson asked that staff prepare an email outlining the options that she will use to poll Council members, since a decision on the schedule will be needed prior to the June 2006 Council meeting to accommodate meeting and lodging reservations for the 2007 meeting. This was identified as an action item.
Hurricane-Impacted Institutions
Approximately eight member institutions are located in or near the hurricane impacted areas. Two of the institutions have been unable to find funds to cover their 2006 membership dues. The committee recommended that these institutions be forgiven their 2006 dues. It is expected that there will be lingering effects in 2007. The committee recommended that staff be given flexibility to react to requests for forgiveness or reduction of dues as they occur.
Preservation and Access Committee
Council: Paula Lackie (Chair), Darren Davis, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Nancy McGovern
Staff: Bryan Beecher, Mary Vardigan, Cole Whiteman
Staff presented a summary of planned enhancements for the biennial renovation of the ICPSR website. Highlights included new hardware systems for the web server, a new search engine, a variety of behind the scenes clean-up tasks, and a handful of new features.
Staff reported on the CRL test audit, noting that ICPSR was the first of three organizations scheduled to test the audit process. The feedback from the auditors was generally very positive.
Staff reported on the current status of the Data Enclave (ready), and on a project to create incentives for researchers to deposit "archive ready" data and documentation (on-going).
The bulk of the meeting was spent discussing the "mirroring the collection" agenda item. It soon became clear that there was not consensus on terminology, and that there was not a shared understanding of what it meant to "mirror the collection." Staff offered two suggestions for "collection":
- The collection of access copies that are distributed through our website
- The collection of archival copies that are not distributed (aka the "Data Library")
Staff also offered two suggestions for "mirroring":
- Maintaining a physical copy of a 'collection' (access or archival) at some location that is a reasonable distance from Ann Arbor for disaster recovery purposes.
- Maintaining a backup web server (which delivers access copies) for use during any period of time where the main web server is unavailable, including during a disaster.
Based on these working definitions, Council requested that Staff prepare several documents articulating the details of the current status of projects underway (e.g., a backup web server) or creating plans for future projects (e.g., maintaining one or more copies of the archival holdings in remote locations).
Training and Instruction Committee
Council present: Charles Franklin (Chair), Michael Haines
Staff present: Dieter Burrell, Linda Detterman, Hank Heitowit
Summer Program Overview
Charles Franklin and Hank Heitowit presented an overview of the 2006 Summer Program. New instructors and new courses were noted, including: Methodological Issues in Quantitative Research Methods on Race and Ethnicity; Longitudinal Analysis of Historical Demographic Data; Statistical Analysis with Missing Data; People, Places, and Environment in NE Thailand; Health Care Change in the U.S.
A brief review of the 2005 Program was also presented. The staff reported that there was a strong possibility that the University of Michigan could impose a new funding formula for reimbursing ICPSR for tuition/credit enrollments. This change could result in a somewhat reduced income/revenue for the Program. If the formula is changed, it is anticipated that it would not impact the Program until the summer of 2007. However, it might be necessary for the Council to consider at the October 2006 meeting a more robust increase in non-credit fees to offset the possible reduction in Michigan funding.
Staff also reported that the Summer Program instructional staff has made significant progress in the area of diversification. In 2006, the Program's instructional staff will be 14 percent minority, and 16 percent women. Special note was made of the new course on quantitative approaches to the study of race and ethnicity. There was optimism that the new course would further increase minority enrollments above the 17 percent in 2005.
Council members asked that the staff team working on "new product developments" in the area of instruction coordinate their efforts with the Committee.
OR Sabbatical
It was noted that the two OR sabbaticals funded for FY2006 were focused on undergraduate instruction related materials. This was cited as a positive synergy between different units in ICPSR.
SIMI Report
There was a continuation of previous Committee discussions around the role of SIMI in fostering innovative products in undergraduate instruction. One model favored is the one that produced the recent SETUPS module for the use of the 2004 NES and an understanding of U.S. electoral politics. Staff and Council were urged to think creatively about what other major datasets and substantive topics might be explored for future projects, utilizing a similar web-based design.
Future Committee Discussions
Franklin set forth a policy agenda for the Committee for future Council meetings:
- Continued attention and support for diversity in the Summer Program
- Attention to the growth potential of the Program and the physical and intellectual limits to the Program
- The implications of such limits on off-site and off-cycle (non-summer) courses
- Continued attention to undergraduate instruction
- Concern over revenue and budget issues
Open Session
Ruth Peterson gave the following summary. This summary was generated during the executive meeting of Council.
- Council is pleased with the progress at all levels (e.g., Summer Program, archives) of the diversity initiative at ICPSR.
- Council advised ICPSR that they would like to see expedited progress on the development of ICPSR's backup systems. Additionally, all reports to Council about these activities should be written in layman's terms. Also, Council asked for an overview of financial costs for each of the various options for the deployment of backup systems.
- Council noted that they are aware that changing leadership is on the agenda for ICPSR.
- Council would like to be involved in how the staffing plan unfolds.
- Council, at Peterson's prompting, will send along names of people, associations, etc., that will serve to help us with recruitment of faculty.
- Council would like ICPSR to be attentive to the cross-fertilization of ideas across Council Committees.
- Council will follow-up on an agenda with James Jackson, ISR Director, for the June meeting.
Andrew Kaniki and Dominique Joye gave brief reports about their experience during the three-day Council meeting. Council also reviewed the following action items:
|Budget and Planning
|Report with more detailed displays about why and where there were deviations from the planned budget
|October 2006
|Stacey Kubitz
|Collection Development
|Presentation on the Madeira Portal & Report on existing policies and issues about international data
|June 2006
|Peter Granda
|Report on Collection Development Policy
|June 2006
|Amy Pienta
|Report on Diversity Archive
|June 2006
|Felicia LeClere
|Trial-run of issues related to important data contributors
|October 2006
|Amy Pienta
|Report on at-risk data identification
|June 2006
|Amy Pienta
|Membership and Marketing
|Resolve date options for the OR and Council meetings for October 2007
|June 2006
|Linda Detterman
|Preservation and Access
|Create timelines of strategies for mirroring the access copies and data library
|June 2006
|Bryan Beecher
|Develop estimate of amount of data on disk vs. tape for long-term preservation purposes
|June 2006
|Cole Whiteman
|Report on putting an uncompressed copy of the access copies Outside Ann Arbor
|June 2006
|Bryan Beecher
|Draft language for arrangements for a collocation site for the warm Backup
|June 2006
|Bryan Beecher
|Invite Margaret Hedstrom to speak about the NSF incentives project For the June or October meeting
|April 2006
|Myron Gutmann
|Create forum on international archival technology standards (carried over from October 2005)
|October 2006
|Myron Gutmann, Kevin Schurer
|Report on Shibboleth-style authentication issues for ICPSR
|June 2006
|Mary Vardigan


text:
You are a fan of pass second ? Come to discover the best forums pass second on the internet and share your experience with a community fan of pass second . You can also build a forum pass second and create your online discussion.
Free forum : 10th PASS AU PERN RPG
white, lightning, weyr, 10th, #pass, pern, roleplay, dragonriders, dragons

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Neurogenesis and affective disorders
Version of Record online: 13 MAR 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07614.x
© 2011 The Authors. European Journal of Neuroscience © 2011 Federation of European Neuroscience Societies and Blackwell Publishing Ltd
European Journal of Neuroscience
Special Issue: Adult Neurogenesis
Volume 33, Issue 6, pages 1152–1159, March 2011
Additional Information
How to Cite
Samuels, B. A. and Hen, R. (2011), Neurogenesis and affective disorders. European Journal of Neuroscience, 33: 1152–1159. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07614.x
Publication History
- Issue online: 13 MAR 2011
- Version of Record online: 13 MAR 2011
- Received 10 September 2010, revised 21 October 2010, accepted 8 November 2010
- Abstract
- Article
- References
- Cited By
- adult neurogenesis;
- affective disorders;
- antidepressants;
- dentate gyrus;
- mood
The neurogenesis hypothesis of depression was originally formed upon the demonstration that stress impacts levels of adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus. Since then much work has established that newborn neurons in the dentate gyrus are required for mediating some of the beneficial effects of antidepressant treatment. Recent studies combining behavioral, molecular and electrophysiological approaches have attempted to make sense of the role young neurons play in modulating mood by demonstrating a potential role in regulating the circuitry in the brain that underlies depression. Here we discuss the work that led to the neurogenesis hypothesis of depression, and the subsequent studies that have sought to test this hypothesis. We also discuss different animal models of depression that have been used to test the role of neurogenesis in mediating the antidepressant response.


text:
The imam of a leading Welsh mosque has resigned after he claimed that it invited a guest preacher from a sect that inspired local students to fight alongside the Islamic State, also known as Isis.
Imam Mohammad Bashir Uddin said his position was untenable after the Cardiff Jalalia mosque invited a speaker he believed was from the extremist Salafi sect. Its followers include Nasser Muthana and Reyaad Khan, both 20, who featured in a recent recruitment video for the Islamic State. Mr Muthana last month posted pictures of homemade bombs on Twitter and said Britain should be afraid of his


text:
Does "cow tipping" actually hurt the cow?(other that psychologically)
closed as off topic by studiohack♦, Lagerbaer, Kevin♦, Timothy Strimple, wyocalboy Jan 28 '12 at 23:28
Questions on The Great Outdoors Stack Exchange are expected to relate to outdoor activities within the scope defined by the community. Consider editing the question or leaving comments for improvement if you believe the question can be reworded to fit within the scope. Read more about reopening questions here.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
Think about it: one to two thousand pounds (450-900 kg) falling about five feet (1.5 metre)? Of course it's going to hurt the cow.


text:
I'm using pt-table-checksum and pt-table-sync to check for differences in my replicas. when I use pt-table-sync with the -print option, I can only see the master values.
How can I show the conflicting slave values as well? I want to see if I can find a pattern of which those diffs occur by.


text:
Dixie's Blake Barney compiled 422 total offense yards, only 17 off the school record set by Lance Pendleton in 1998. Barney has thrown for 6,093 career yards, just two yards shy of 10th place all-time.
A couple of weeks ago, Wasatch's James Delacenserie also missed setting a school record. His 442 yards of total offense on Sept. 14 is second to Payton Davis' 488 in 2009.
Back to last week: Pine View's Prentiss Miller gained 348 rushing yards, the seventh highest for a single game. Prentiss has also carried the ball 527 times during his career. Only six others have more rushes. And he's 10th on the 100-yard game list with 18.
Millard's Jesse Rhodes has 21 of those, which places him in a tie for fourth. He continues to climb the Career Rushing Yards chart as he ranks 11th with 4,203. He'll move to 10th with another 100-yard game. Last week, Rhodes jumped from 18th to a tie for ninth in Career Rushing Touchdowns — he now has 53, only four away from a Top-5 appearance.
Orem's Taylor Camp is but one yard short of reaching the 5,000 career-passing-yard mark.
High-scoring offenses?
Followers of college football are likely aware of some crazy scores last week topped by West Virginia, 70; Baylor, 63; Georgia, 51; Tennessee, 44. The highest-scoring year in college was 2007, at 28.4 points per team per game. Already, this season's scoring average is 30.6. There are other stats to indicate more teams are scoring more points this year.
Has the offensive increase filtered to Utah prep football?
A look at the season scoring average of all Utah high schools shows it has increased over the past decade, but only incrementally. The highest year in Utah was 2009, at 23.6. So far, 2012 is just behind at 23.4. But the scoring average typically drops slightly during the playoffs, as the age-old adage, "Defense wins championships," seems to kick in.
2003 – 20.3
2004 – 22.1
2005 – 22.4
2006 – 20.9
2007 – 21.7
2008 – 21.6
2009 – 23.6
2010 – 22.4
2011 – 22.7
2012 – 23.4
Playoff picture
With postseason spots and league championships still up for grabs, it's time for a region-by-region look toward the playoffs. This doesn't cover every scenario for every team, but it's a good place to start.
Class 5A
Region 1 (six teams, four berths)
With a victory over Fremont, Syracuse wraps up a berth, top-seed and a share of its first region crown with only Weber left to play next week. The winner of Northridge at Layton also clinches if Syracuse wins. The loser and Davis clinch at least a tie if the Darts triumph over Weber — and the Warriors are then eliminated.
Region 2 (six teams, four berths)
The survivor of Kearns at Hunter clinches a tie for a berth and secures a spot if favored Granger and Viewmont also win. In that case, those two and the loser of Kearns-Hunter clinch ties. No team faces elimination.
Region 3 (six teams, four berths)
Sorry Copper Hills, but assuming heavily-favored Alta defeats the Grizzlies, a West Jordan victory at Brighton guarantees a spot for the Jags. If Jordan also wins at Cottonwood, the 'Diggers are in. Should Brighton prevail, and looking at the remaining schedule, this region could easily end up in a three-way tie for the final two spots. No team faces elimination this week.


text:
Meet Ed the Elephant!
Ed the Elephant is the most infamous Cranbrookian of pachyderm fame. In fact he used to be part of a notorious gang of Elephants that roamed the forests near Cranbrook. For real, look it up!
Now Ed spends his days combing through all the different news sources looking for articles of interest, upcoming awesome events and occassional interviews with one of our other notorious local residents.
He'll also tell you what the day is looking like weather wise so you'll always be on point.
You get his email each day at 7:30am and you can read it when you please.
Ed is not affiliated with the City of Cranbrook (Corporation) and currently takes up residence with the fine folks at 1710 Workspace in downtown Cranbrook.
This was built with in Cranbrook for everyone to enjoy!


text:
Log Out
Our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy have changed. We think you'll like them better this way.
Call in to speak with the host
Have we assisted in commercializing the use of such a derogatory term? Is it a neccessity in Urban Fiction? Join us on SWAG Radio as Yara Kaleemah discuss the N word with Shaunta Kenerly !
Sorry we couldn't complete your registration. Please try again.
Please enter your email to finish creating your account.
Receive a personalized list of podcasts based on your preferences.


text:
Carlyle's Rubenstein+Protestors+Wharton MBAs=Drama
Private-equity bosses can't seem to escape their opponents — not even at Wharton.
Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein's opening keynote at the Wharton Private Equity Conference in Philadelphia was disrupted for half an hour Friday morning by Service Employees International Union representatives protesting the firm's buyout of Manor Care. (Click here and here to see past Deal Journal posts on the deal.)
The representatives began chanting "Better staffing, better care, no more money for millionaires" as soon as Rubenstein took the stage.
One union representative with a megaphone mentioned staffing cuts at the nursing home company and asked Rubenstein what he's doing to improve Manor Care. Rubenstein responded that his firm has only owned the company for about two weeks, and hasn't had time to begin making changes.
"The job that we have is to make the company better than it is," he said.
Amid chants of "SEIU," conference organizers took a 15-minute break, during which the protestors were escorted out. When Rubenstein returned to the stage to a standing ovation, he asked the audience, many of whom are Wharton students, how many of them still wanted a career in private equity. About a quarter of them raised their hands. Rubenstein then went on to describe private equity as ocassionally becoming a "contact sport"
Later, referring to the protest and private equity's image problem, he said that "we have to be much more aware of the organizations that deal with our industry."
–Jennifer Rossa is editor of Private Equity Analyst, a publication of Dow Jones & Co. and a contributor to Deal Journal.


text:
Hello again,
is it possible that the FEE will not work if the home and site directory are not the same? I changed an installation home from domain.com/wordpress to domain.com but wordpress still resides in domain.com/wordpress. Suddenly the FEE will not work (doesn't add any classes, despite multipe de- and reactivations).
do you have any idea how to solve this?


text:
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry has given pardon
documents to the family of a man who died in prison after serving
Perry met Friday in Fort Worth with the family of Timothy Cole,
nearly three weeks after the governer granted the state's first
posthumous pardon.
DNA evidence cleared Cole in 2008, nine years after he died at
age 39 in prison of asthma complications.
Perry granted the pardon after the state attorney general
clarified the law in January and the Innocence Project of Texas
submitted a formal pardon request to the Board of Pardons and
Cole's mother, Ruby Session, said she hopes her son's ordeal
will help effect change and improvement in the Texas criminal
justice system.
After meeting with Perry, the family headed to a cemetary to
visit Cole's grave.


text:
Stephen Costello
As the Associated Press observes, Stephen Costello is "a prodigiously gifted singer whose voice makes an immediate impact." The Philadelphia-born tenor quickly established a reputation as a "first-class talent" (Opera News) after coming to national attention in 2007, when, aged 26, he made his Metropolitan Opera debut on the company's season-opening night. Two years later Costello won the prestigious Richard Tucker Award, and has since appeared at many of the world's most important opera houses and music festivals, including the Metropolitan Opera New York; Royal Opera House Covent Garden; Deutsche Oper Berlin; Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin; Vienna State Opera; Bayerische Staatsoper Munich and the Salzburg Festival.
Costello's 2015/16 season includes Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto and Lord Percy Anna Bolena for The Metropolitan Opera, The Duke Rigoletto for Teatro Real Madrid, Des Grieux in Massenet's Manon at Dallas Opera, Edgardo in a new production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the Royal Opera House, Nemorino L'elisir d'amore at the Vienna State Opera, and his Santa Fe Opera début in the title role of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette. Stephen will also sing Alfredo La Traviata at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, return to Dallas Opera as Lensky Eugene Onegin and Greenhorn Moby Dick, and to the Metropolitan Opera as Duca Rigoletto and title role Roméo et Juliette. He will make his Paris Opera début in 2017 as Camille The Merry Widow.
This is for information only. Please contact Camilla Wehmeyer for an up-to-date biography.


text:
Workshops and Sessions in the DSC
Are you looking for Journal Articles? Try:
- Articles by Citation (including DOIs)
- Summon
- Temple doesn't have it? Request it through ILLIAD
- Database Finder (to find databases like Jstor, Science Direct, etc...)
- Guide: How Do I... find articles?
Other ways to find databases and articles:
- Not sure which database to use? Try Summon
- Guide: How Do I... find articles?
Other ways to find Books and more:
- Diamond Advanced Search
- eBooks
- Other catalogs:
- Looking for a textbook?
- Temple Doesn't Have It?
- Guide: How Do I... find books?
Other ways to find Videos and DVDs:
Find Research Guides
Search our extensive collection of Research Guides and How Do I... help resources.
Other ways to find guides:
At a Glance
Don't Know Where to Start to find Library Materials?
- Research Guides
- Try Summon
- Try Academic Search Premier
- Ask a Librarian
- More ways to find Library Materials
About the Libraries
- Faculty Services
- Library Instruction
- Interlibrary Loan
- Forms
- Borrow & Renew
- Course Reserves
- Additional Services
Get help
|Post Title
|Post Date
|Our Staff Recommends: Books, Movies, and Library Resources We Love
|From the Philadelphia Jewish Archives: Friend-Finding Service for Refugees
|Share Your TU Library Story
|Philip Nordell, Collector
|Preview: Fall Programming at the Libraries
|In the News: Upholding Net Neutrality
|Metropolitan Jews
|Death in the Shape of a Young Girl
|Our Staff Recommends: Books, Movies, and Library Resources We Love
6 hours 21 min
#staffpics part two! https://t.co/ytKyEAMSX5
1 day 9 hours
Head to @TempleHSLibs for a workshop on #PubMed tomorrow https://t.co/ElZmtRh4CT
2 days 7 hours
Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious. – John Coltrane #MotivationMonday https://t.co/W28Xu40jgX
2 days 10 hours
From Tues 7/26-Fri 7/29, furnishings & other items on the 1st Floor East of Paley will be relocated. See https://t.co/aOBj3EfqQS for details
2 days 12 hours
This photo and more found at @SCRC_Temple ://twitter.com/TempleUniv/status/757336507543728128
5 days 8 hours
#FBF RT @TempleUniv: Football camp at Temple, 100 years ago. (From @TempleLibraries Digital Collections.) https://t.co/iPnHC1Ewmn
6 days 9 hours
Narrow your search by location, subject, type and more @dpla https://t.co/LwnCFtyUrZ
1 week 4 hours
Findings from the Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center Collection @SCRC_Temple https://t.co/oehTsHFrPQ
1 week 5 hours
Health system fined $650K after employee loses iPhone with patient info https://t.co/W9lQ28pnnz
1 week 11 hours
Look out for an additional think tank for #research and #writing help at Paley this fall! https://t.co/6GpE7w9Ipv
1 week 1 day
@TempleUniv's guide to community resources has info on library offerings and more! https://t.co/YDJhqXI3x9
1 week 1 day
We're looking forward to moving in too! RT @TempleUnivPress: We're looking forward to moving in. @TempleLibraries https://t.co/RxFfigxq3o
1 week 2 days
@templedsc has a great lineup of workshops and sessions coming this fall! https://t.co/qFdk7Wzkom
1 week 5 days
1 week 6 days
The Circus Comes to Town: Images from @EinsteinHealth 150th anniversary. @SCRC_Temple https://t.co/pj0eGhF2Ru
1 week 6 days
RT @TempleLibraries: @philahistory has a cool exhibit this summer on Jewish history on fabric row, featuring items from @SCRC_Temple https://t.co/BBW4dN2Aw8
1 week 6 days
@philahistory has a cool exhibit this summer on Jewish history on fabric row, featuring items from @SCRC_Temple https://t.co/BBW4dN2Aw8
2 weeks 4 hours
From the Philadelphia Jewish Archives: Friend-Finding Service for Refugees https://t.co/aMbvStslo2 https://t.co/AbFKDPdPi9
2 weeks 6 hours
Excited to partner with @TempleContemp, @TempleEcoOwls, Phila Jazz Project, @BoyerCollege, and more for Sustainablity & Migrations programs
2 weeks 1 day
Temple grad students… have you checked out the libraries resources for you? Access temple #dissertations and more! https://t.co/4Ymi3oC3mg
2 weeks 2 days
For your Monday inspiration …https://t.co/wS0uJUqGEQ
2 weeks 5 days
SEL's closing up shop on Monday. More info soon. Check out these accts: #ff @TempleLibraries @templedsc @Temple_COE @CST_TempleU
2 weeks 5 days
#FridayReads that have influenced American life! https://t.co/iMTAfcLsIg
2 weeks 5 days
New Carpet Installation, Ginsburg Library main floor-July 11- August 4-some disruption may occur
2 weeks 6 days
Dive into Philip Nordell's #collection of books on religion, politics and science acquired in 1965 @SCRC_Temple https://t.co/lmNbbXKkpi
3 weeks 7 hours
Dr. Diane Turner, curator of @BlocksonTU talks about her passions and accomplishments as a historian https://t.co/adg8HmLAKk
3 weeks 1 day
Share your Temple #librarystory today! https://t.co/Dh8W9Y8Lu7 https://t.co/WOMFvQy1uF
3 weeks 1 day
RT @PADigitalNews: Happy National #IceCreamMonth! #TuesdayTreat. Photo from @TempleLibraries: https://t.co/XVH1Jan8e6
3 weeks 1 day
New Books! See what the libraries have acquired this month here: https://t.co/gkH16AxsIu
3 weeks 1 day
#ICYMI we will explore preservation and long-term access to open civic #data @knightfdn https://t.co/aOvPeqV9EH https://t.co/FdlVJ7F1zT
3 weeks 2 days
A reminder that the Libraries are closed today in honor of the Independence Day holiday. #4thofjulyweekend
3 weeks 5 days
Have a great July 4th weekend! Photo of a parade in Chinatown, courtesy @SCRC_Temple https://t.co/TzhY14IhTt
3 weeks 6 days
Not too long ago we opened the doors of Paley, and now we are preparing for the opening of the new library! https://t.co/4v8CCsvhvI
3 weeks 6 days
Nordell collection of books: religion, politics & science, 17/18th cen. Briton & New England https://t.co/kTdTI28cxA https://t.co/0ndIlNsinO
3 weeks 6 days
Medical suite opens at Kornberg School of Dentistry | Temple Now https://t.co/nM73dAZ8g6 via @templeuniv
3 weeks 6 days
Get to know more about the #diamondeye collaboration with @egsdrexel! https://t.co/Nk52OmM0SW
4 weeks 10 hours
What does music, technology and plants all have in common? Hear from Emily Cornuet of the @templedsc to find out: https://t.co/kjLJ1JevR2
4 weeks 1 day
Hey @TempleUniv chemistry majors, check out our guide for your chem research needs! https://t.co/38YA3mOSJr
4 weeks 1 day
RT @TempleLibraries: Find @SCRC_Temple copy 1831 edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein @smithsonian Libraries' Fantastic Worlds exhibit: https://t.co/MdgLmmQlDN
4 weeks 1 day
#DYK these 13 things about Octavius Catto? @TempleUnivPress https://t.co/qS7XeGm5f2
1 month 3 days
Dive deeper into projects from this year's Livingstone Award winners in these interviews: https://t.co/3kgbugn2kT
1 month 3 days
Yay, thanks! RT @TempleUnivPress: Congratulations @TempleLibraries and @jplucia on your $35,000 @knightfdn grant! https://t.co/VQAaRU37vI
1 month 3 days
Thanks! @dvarchivists ://twitter.com/dvarchivists/status/746040278780370944
1 month 4 days
Our staff makes recommendations for you all summer long! https://t.co/iZsmBhTXTJ
1 month 4 days
1 month 5 days
Are Stories A Key to Human Intelligence? https://t.co/K3QA4ULK1l
1 month 5 days
Find @SCRC_Temple copy 1831 edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein @smithsonian Libraries' Fantastic Worlds exhibit: https://t.co/MdgLmmQlDN
1 month 6 days
Have a favorite librarian? Nominate them for @ALALibrary 2016 "I Love My Librarian Award!" https://t.co/hnx8Mv2uG7
1 month 6 days
RT @TempleLibraries: Today marks the official start of #summer! How are you spending it, owls? Credit @SCRC_Temple https://t.co/HpveNugg0S
1 month 6 days
RT @TUDr_AS: Write up of #msp4425's work with @SCRC_Temple and @WayGay by @lemurchild: Teaching Zines and Metadata - https://t.co/s2Ab18WPVB
1 month 1 week
Today marks the official start of #summer! How are you spending it, owls? Credit @SCRC_Temple https://t.co/HpveNugg0S
1 month 1 week
The @templedsc has some great how-to guides on #digitalscholarship. Check them out! https://t.co/BMw8qySEih
1 month 1 week
We can't wait! RT @NyashaJunior: Sonia Sanchez celebration @TempleLibraries F Jun 17 https://t.co/evQf7rIE8A #btp #Philly
1 month 1 week
Yay @thelithub has launched "Rotten Tomatoes" for #books! https://t.co/3h4NsLn7dv
1 month 1 week
#DYK that @SCRC_Temple houses first edition copies of Ulysses?! https://t.co/tTqEKXD8aa
1 month 1 week
RT @ARLnews: Good news! US appeals court upholds FCC's Open Internet Order governing #netneutrality https://t.co/UmoRQIppHc https://t.co/yfrFlD29QG
1 month 1 week
Hey science majors, we've got you covered for all your anatomy studying needs @TempleHSLibs Ginsburg! https://t.co/1bDMjvYhnT
1 month 1 week
RT @TempleCPH: VIDEO: Can the soda tax make Philadelphia healthier? #sodatax @davidbsarwer https://t.co/qNqvSK48O6
1 month 1 week
@TempleUniv the construction on the new library building IS ramping up https://t.co/Zvlgqh3L2Q https://t.co/ev5DXw1pMA
1 month 1 week
1 month 2 weeks
Available at TempleU: https://t.co/Ig51cI2zKB
1 month 2 weeks
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life" Muhammad Ali. Credit @SCRC_Temple https://t.co/kbkAZkswf1
1 month 2 weeks
Study on Dermatology Telemedicine apps shows serious diagnostic misses - iMedicalApps https://t.co/UiYEBQ8EMa
1 month 2 weeks
@BookRiot on 100 Must-Read Second Novels: https://t.co/i5qXhffOYS
1 month 2 weeks
Who is your subject specialist? Full list: https://t.co/v25YcieByC #askalibrarian
1 month 2 weeks
Digital publishing platforms you need to know about: https://t.co/949cYycA3N
1 month 2 weeks
We are pleased that our Allied Posters of WWI Coll. is a CONTENTdm Featured Collection. https://t.co/v9FmTkwZzW https://t.co/9LL1nc0qxn
1 month 2 weeks
We are open all summer long! https://t.co/HVg8ehbRUA
1 month 3 weeks
Browse hundreds of current periodicals on Paley's first floor! https://t.co/E4ErImwkvs
1 month 3 weeks
RT @NYSdigital: Remembering D-Day. "D-Day ships shell Normandy beach" @dpla #dplafinds https://t.co/3SebQNg11V https://t.co/hiEM4oogn5
1 month 3 weeks
A great resource to access medical images: https://t.co/LTwH5mxWMd
1 month 3 weeks
A Soldier Writes Home: The Morris Manderbach Letters, 1864. https://t.co/RePL8WtX8s https://t.co/3Rr751ZKAP
1 month 3 weeks
RT @TempleUniv: "Don't count the days; make the days count." ~Ali (photo: @SCRC_Temple Mosley Collection) https://t.co/nbrt6m8eIR
1 month 3 weeks
New Books! See what the libraries have acquired this month here: https://t.co/gkH16AxsIu
1 month 3 weeks


text:
This plugin is great, but I was thinking it'd be nice to have some additional ways to disable colorbox in these ways:
- a checkbox or something per post so I don't have to specify no colorbox on every image within a single page/post
- control per post type (e.g. 'post', 'page', 'customposttype', etc.)
- [gallery colorbox="off"] or something like that to control per-gallery
Also, in the plugin settings, if I understand correctly, there are these options:
- all images
- all galleries
But there's no option for:
- all images but not galleries
I think there should be that option too: so colorbox ONLY works on images within a WordPress [gallery].
I know these enhancements would benefit me and hopefully others.
What'cha think?


text:
Chateau Lake - Pascagoula
Acreage: 4.5
Species Stocked:
Daily Bag Limits:
Hours of Operation:
Open to fishing daily.
From Interstate 10, take Hwy 63 south. Pass through Moss Point
and Pascagoula. After crossing Hwy 90, go 0.6 miles and take a left
on Old Mobile Highway. Go 0.4 miles and Chateau Lake will be on the
right just after Chateau Drive.
2016 Fish Camps
2016 Pond Management Workshops
**New Fish ID Guide
Crappie Tournaments Report 2015
2016 Braggin' Board - Big Fish Pictures


text:
A former senator and a retired high court judge in Romania lost an appeal Monday against sentences received for corruption in protecting two shady businessmen.
Catalin Voicu, who stepped down as senator for the ruling Social Democrat Party in December, was ordered jailed for seven years for using his influence to shield the two businessmen.
The appellate judges added two years to Voicu's original sentence of five years handed down in June last year.
The retired judge, Florin Costiniu, was given a suspended four-year sentence for receiving bribes from Voicu to lobby his former judicial colleagues in cases to do with the businessmen.
Voicu was not present in court to hear the verdict, having been admitted to a hospital emergency ward after complaining of bleeding, the Mediafax news agency reported.
The two men were found to have received 289,000 euros ($377,000) in cash to help out the businessmen, whose own sentences -- four years in prison for one, a suspended four-year term for the other -- were also upheld.
Voicu was identified in a wiretap apologising to one of the businessmen for not being able to get him off a criminal charge.
Romania's declared fight against once-rampant corruption is being carefully monitored by the European Union since joining the bloc in 2007.


text:
Apparently Cain Dingle's long, long, long list of criminal convictions makes him the best person in Emmerdale to dish out legal advice, or so he thinks!
And this week his attentions are turned on Belle as he tries to convince her to change her mind about pleading guilty.
But, seemingly determined to take the rap, budding solicitor Cain knows his only other chance is with grieving dad Dom - who just happens to think the teen deserves everything she gets! No luck there then!
Tempers flare and Dom tries to provoke Cain, who for once manages to curb his anger. But has his visit just made things worse for guilt-ridden Belle?
Elsewhere, love is well and truly in the air in the Dales with more snogging than we can keep up with!
Declan catches Megan and Jai pashing, while Ross sticks his tongue down Victoria's neck.
However, Adam's plan to wine and dine Katie soon begins to crack when he gets carried away with his spending and his card is declined.
Unable to pay, the pair do a runner from the restaurant but are shocked when they learn that Pete has just signed a contract with them... oh dear!
And life is never simple for top chef Marlon who decides he DOES actually want daughter April in his life.
Taking his life in his hands, he jumps in front of Bob's car as Donna and his daughter try to leave.


text:
SDCC EXCL.: Spencer Swears "Civil War II: The Oath" Will Change the Entire Marvel Universe
Comic Books
Showing results 1-9 of 9
BOOM! Studios has provided CBR with advance looks at new titles on sale November 3, including "Irredeemable" #19, "28 Days Later" #16, Don Rosa's "Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion," and more!
BOOM! Studios has provided CBR with advance looks at new titles on sale May 26, including "Incorruptible" #6, Samuel L. Jackson's "Cold Space" #2, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: Dust to Dust" #1, and more!
BOOM! Studios has provided CBR with advance looks at new titles on sale this Wednesday, April 14, including "Irredeemable Special" #1, "Die Hard: Year One" #8, "Farscape: Scorpius" #0 and more!
Courtesy of BOOM! Studios, CBR presents a massive 11 page preview of "Cold Space #1 by co-creators/writers Samuel L. Jackson & Eric Calderon and artist Jeremy Rock.
Superstar actor Samuel L. Jackson spoke with CBR about âCold Space,â his new comic series set to debut in April from BOOM! Studios, which he co-wrote with âAfro Samuraiâ partner Eric Calderon and which features his likeness in the starring role.
Samuel L. Jackson stopped by CBR TV to discuss his upcoming comic book, "Cold Space," which will be published later this year by BOOM! Studios. He spoke about the project's origins, what fans can expect from the story and more.
The âAfro Samuraiâ writer and producer spoke with CBR about reuniting with Samuel L. Jackson for âCold Space,â the BOOM! Studio title debuting in April, and revealed new details about the much-anticipated series.
Archives: All | Comic Books | TV/Film | Video Games | Web Comics


text:
Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other projects:...
Connect any celebrity with Imani Hakim to see how closely they are linked... romantically!
i am sure imani hakim is cute
hi imani im imani ahmed and are u a muslim im am bye
do you know roc royal from mindless behavior real name trey young has a crush on you text me back on fanpop or go on fanopo roc royal side mindless behavior.
thanks guys for all of your support i love all my fans and i couldent be here without u guys
you look so cute your show is better than evrey body i wacth it evrey day
love her movie
I think you are a beautiful and talented person. I would love to meet you and dont worry about people saying negative things about you. They just wish they were you. :)
Imani Hakim Is So Pretty I Hope I Look Like That When Im 16 ;]
Can someone tell me does she have a weave
for kayla you do not know how to spell character you stupid and imani hakim you rock ps.when julious make a face wrinkles come in his head lol.
oh i love u so much u are my biggest fan but u are so grown n cute.
I dont see whats the big deal about her she was on a tv show so what. anybody gets in tv these days.


text:
Bruce Lee-5 by kse332Watch
©2010-2016 kse332
One more Bruce!!!
I like it.
Man... so good~
I can feel "the power" in this one like he just knocked someone out flat on their ass
you are incredibly accurate with the placements of light and shadow... the shading isn't smooth obviously, but he still looks real because of this.
Your style is pretty much how Bruce Lee wanted a fighter to be...like water. It has no boundaries and is flowing with softness but at the same time it is awesomely hard and has a lot of strengh. Please keep on sharing your great artwork with us
this is damn good !
would love to see you do one of brandon lee
Love you re work please tell me there s gonna be a season 4
damn dude
Very nice work my friend!
everytime i see this, i swear i can hear it......
u really did the man justice, great drawing
nice work >>>
I Love that face!!
Incredible, his expression is devastating.
whaa!!! freakin great man
i really like the expresion on this ones besides Bruce Lee rocks
This is sooo sweeeeeet
wow.... Epic piece of work!
always wonderful your style
damn that's a big head)....that's bruce lee's thirth fist))
WOOoaaaaAAaaaahhhh... ooooo..
Nice XD
you've captured him
I like the way you use the lines as part of your shading process it really brings something to each picture... Great work.
seriously how are you doing this?? it's too good
I will be featuring this on www.coolikedat.blogspot.com if you would like me to take it down email me @ firstname.lastname@example.com. But a really dope piece you have here.
rendering = awesome.
i love ur style
i love ur style
Good Job
Wow, awesome drawing! I love your art style.
this looks awesome !!!!
Looks like that face he would put right after he back fisted some chump so hard their momma screamed; MY BEBE!
fantastic .... love evry thing bout it
one of my first comments
one of my first comments
hopn all the practice im doin puts me on ur level of skillz....
Well done that's amazing!
u captured his spirit reli well..
Bruce Lee is a great martial artist and these paintings do him justice! Great Work Bro!
Hey awesome painting...
Is it possible to get a print
Is it possible to get a print
can't get enough


text:
About Us
El Centinela
Sunday, July 31, 2016
Parish/School Life
Nation and World
Pope Francis/Vatican
Submit a Story Idea
Submit a Letter
Living Faith
Archbishop Sample's Column
The Question Box
Ask a Question
Parish and School News
Here's What's Happening Calendar
Churches and Schools Directory
Marriage Announcement
First Communion Announcement
Engagement Announcement
Confirmation Announcement
Baptism Announcement
Anniversary Announcement
Arts and Entertainment News
Crossword and Sudoku
Current Obituaries
Submit Obituary
Parish/School Life
Nation and World
Pope Francis/Vatican
Submit a Story Idea
Submit a Letter
Living Faith
Archbishop Sample's Column
The Question Box
Ask a Question
Parish and School News
Here's What's Happening Calendar
Churches and Schools Directory
Marriage Announcement
First Communion Announcement
Engagement Announcement
Confirmation Announcement
Baptism Announcement
Anniversary Announcement
Arts and Entertainment News
Crossword and Sudoku
Current Obituaries
Submit Obituary
Uneven paths
I've been tripping a lot lately. Sometimes I fall flat onto the sidewalk. It's embarrassing and I wonder if anyone is watching when, in fact, no one probably is. When I get up I rub my hands together so the little pebbles embedded in my palms brush off.
Friday, July 29, 2016
July 28, 2016 13:45
The Capuchin
But we specialize in the ridiculous truth, isn't that so, my young friends? If ever the Catholic idea could be distilled to a line, that would be the one.
Saturday, July 30, 2016
July 28, 2016 14:09
Stand up for the little guy
There's a certain political party, dominant in Oregon politics, which poses a large problem for Catholics.
Thursday, July 28, 2016
July 27, 2016 12:19
'Love is needed': Local views on recent U.S. violence
Oregon Catholics, including priests who gave homilies last weekend, faced hard news: shootings of unarmed black men by police in Minnesota and Louisiana and an African American sniper who responded by killing five Dallas policemen. Like the rest of the nation, local Catholics sought meaning and wondered where the nation should go next.
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
July 28, 2016 14:12
From the Archives
If there is a set of men anywhere who are heartily disgusted with themselves for their dirty work, it is the men who went into the dark lantern wigwams of Know Nothing proscription.
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
July 25, 2016 12:53
To women who've had food thrown at them
I've never felt as isolated and alone as I did when I had two babies under the age of two.
Sunday, July 17, 2016
July 14, 2016 17:03
Thanks, Sister
But let's remember our dedicated women religious year round. Plan a visit. Write a note. Send a check. Frankly, we owe them.
Friday, July 15, 2016
July 14, 2016 16:52
Do not be afraid
In an ongoing national nightmare that got more terrifying in Minnesota, Louisiana and Texas, we can only call on the wisdom of our faith. Not all Oregonians or Americans share a devotion to Jesus, but surely "Love one another" and "Do not be afraid" are what everyone needs to hear now.
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
July 12, 2016 19:50
Something like a saint
I met the son I had again after a long winter and I feel like crowing and singing.
Thursday, June 30, 2016
June 29, 2016 20:55
Free trade needs conditions
Often, the truth is so grand it can be found only in distinctions and conditions.
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
June 27, 2016 21:05
Milligrams of mercy
For some of us the Jubilee Year of Mercy has become our Jubilee Year of Guilt. There have been high expectations placed on our shoulders.
Saturday, June 25, 2016
June 24, 2016 11:32
Mea Maxima Cuppa
Of course there will always be things we don't necessarily want to do. But I submit that God will make them bearable because we are taking up his yoke rather than some newfangled hotness we think he wants us to carry.
Friday, June 17, 2016
June 16, 2016 16:36
Why we Catholics do what we do
Realizing the meaning of what Catholics do during Mass has enriched my faith, and has me looking forward to attending Mass every Sunday.
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
June 13, 2016 17:35
Catholic apps to keep you prayerful, biblical, up-to-date
Of course, one cannot forget their spiritual life amidst this new access to Catholic news. The Bible app is a no-brainer, but there are additional apps that provide the daily readings such as the Magnificat app.
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
June 13, 2016 17:32
To pot smokers: Recall common good
If marijuana use must be legal in Oregon — a big mistake — we should at least make sure those who use the drug don't flaunt the common good. Day after day, regular Oregonians walking, biking or driving down the street must go through pungent clouds of smoke.
Monday, June 13, 2016
June 12, 2016 12:03
Oppose a demagogue
In The Philippines, the bloodthirsty president-elect is showing nothing but ignorance and malice when it comes to Catholicism, good sense and moral behavior. That even though 80 percent of his people adhere to our faith.
Sunday, June 12, 2016
June 11, 2016 11:52
Home is where the Eucharist is
For the first time, I knew exactly what to do, what I was supposed to say and I did not need any guide to point me in the right direction—I was home.
Saturday, June 11, 2016
June 10, 2016 12:05
Evangelize with us
Looking for a simple way to spread the good news in the Archdiocese of Portland?
Thursday, June 9, 2016
June 8, 2016 18:13
What is a priest?
"What is a priest?" is a question I have asked all of my life since I was about six years old and noticed a brief cheerful Capuchin named Father Hugh at our dinner table every few weeks.
Monday, June 6, 2016
June 5, 2016 21:38
An open letter to Ted Wheeler
Dear Mayor-elect,
We thought you might like to meet us, the Catholics of Portland, and learn what we do and what we stand for. You might be surprised.
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
June 31, 2016 12:08
We could not have imagined
On the morning of March 13, 2013, my classmates and I came inside from break to see a live video of Vatican City projected on the board in front of us. Our fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Withers, was fascinated by what was happening and told us that the leaders of the church were about to make their decision on who was to be the new pope.
Monday, May 30, 2016
May 29, 2016 13:14
Advanced Search
Faith & Spirituality
Parish and School Life
Find Churches and Schools
About Us
RSS Feeds
© 2016 Catholic Sentinel, a service of
Oregon Catholic Press
Software © 1998-2016
1up! Software
, All Rights Reserved


text:
GMC raising money for footbridgeFebruary 04,2013
GMC raises cash
for a footbridge
WATERBURY CENTER The Green Mountain Club has announced a $50,000 challenge match donation for the planned Long Trail footbridge over the Winooski River.
The club has already raised more than $550,000 from private donors to support the project. This, in addition to the longstanding support of and land protection efforts by the state, has brought the club to within $115,000 of its fundraising goal.
An anonymous donor has offered to match every donation to the project between now and the end of August, up to $50,000.
GMC officials said the club has sought to establish a safe, appropriate and permanent route for the Long Trail over the Winooski River in Bolton since 1912, when the club established the first stretch of the trail from Mount Mansfield to the river.
The club expects to break ground on this project by June and complete it in the fall.MORE IN Central VermontBARRE Joan Black came for the desserts, Shirley Farnham came for the music, Leon Gendron came... Full StoryThe Barre Heritage Festival and Homecoming Days kicked into high gear Friday with numerous events... Full StoryWhite River Junction A Windsor Superior Court judge this week denied a prison sentence... Full Story
- Most Popular
- Most Emailed


text:
I am considering using the Firestorm plugin for a client's site, and I wanted to inquire about adding a feature. I have added the ability to search by zip code myself, but my client also wants users to be able to search within a distance radius that the user selects. Could this be added? If so, what would the time and cost be to do it?
The site is just in a testing stage at this point, but the temporary url is http://adara.candc5.us. If you would like to contact me directly, you can do so at jennifer (at) clickandcreate.us.


text: Sara Azriel is an eclectic singer and songwriter whose music combines the universality of pop, the sincerity of folk, and the richness of soul music. In 2013 she released her debut self-titled EP. "Sara Azriel" was mixed by Grammy award-winning mix engineer James Wisner (Amy Winehouse, Justin Timberlake), and includes musical, writing and production contributions from Davy Nathan (Christina Aguilara, Toni Braxton), Andrew 'Moon' Bain (Snoop Dogg, Major Lazer), and Mike Feingold (Erykah Badu, John Legend). For more information on Sara, please visit www.saraazriel.com.


text:
Launched in October 2005, Feelunique is one of Europe's fastest growing online beauty retailers bringing you outstanding value beauty, grooming and health products straight to your door for free!
Ratings guide
All Feefo reviews are gathered anonymously from genuine customers. Read more about how our review system works.
FeelUnique always provides the best service.
Good product
superb for damaged hair
Évaluation du service : on a une réonse rapide en cas de problèmeProduit : excellent pour cheveveux fragiles
I am familiar with these products thanks to my hairdresser. The Inner Effect products was used by my hairdresser to treat my hair when they was dry and damaged because of bleaching. The serum make my hair soft and alive.
Highly recommend this serum for dry ends. Awesome
Excellent product leaves my hair feeling silky smooth
Fab product excellent value
My hairdresser uses this product when I go, I love how soft and shiny my hair looks!
Delighted. Excellent product.
Great communication. Very good service and quickly delivery. Will use again.
Will need to use product a little longer to get good idea of how effective it is but so far so good!


text:
A subspecialty certification by the Board of Internal Medicine. Practitioners treat diseases of the joints, muscles, bones, and tendons. Rheumatologists diagnose and treat arthritis, back pain, muscle strains, common athletic injuries, etc. They may work closely with other specialists such as orthopaedic surgeons and physical therapists.View More
1-10 of 12
201 N Washington St
Falls Church, VA 22046
110 Irving St NW Ste 1A50B
Washington, DC 20010
7503 Surratts Rd
Clinton, MD 20735
201 N Washington St
Falls Church, VA 22046
1145 19th St NW Ste 504
Washington, DC 20036
1860 Town Center Dr Ste 130
Reston, VA 20190
3800 Reservoir Rd NW
Washington, DC 20007
3800 Reservoir Rd NW
Washington, DC 20007
8130 Boone Blvd Ste 340
Vienna, VA 22182
650 Pennsylvania Ave SE Ste 480
Washington, DC 20003


text:
SDCC: Marvel: Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends Panel
Comic Books
In these last few years, my comics spending habits have changed dramatically. I buy fewer titles from comic shops and more original art and prints directly from artists, without my annual budget changing that much. I'll blame social media for the shift: Once upon a time, original art sales were the preserve of agencies, and you couldn't help but wonder where your money was really going. Now savvy artists can market themselves for free using Tumblr, Instagram, Pinterest, etc., and then sell their own products with minimum fuss through a number of websites, like Redbubble or Society6, or by setting up their own storefronts using BigCartel or Shopify or a similar broker.
There's a human side to this change, too. First through blogs, and now through Twitter and Facebook, social media means you get to know artists like you couldn't even a decade ago. Barriers are broken; they invite you into their lives, you read as they fret about the day-to-day stuff. I suppose if I followed a load of farmers on Twitter I'd probably stop eating at McDonalds, but I don't. I follow British comic artists. Buying art from ethically sourced, free-range creators now makes more sense to me than buying factory-farmed, battery-cage comics.
Mondo, the Alamo Drafthouse's collectible art boutique, is celebrating EC Comics and Tales From the Crypt for Halloween with a gallery show featuring work by more than 30 artists honoring the television anthology and the horror titles on which it was based.
"I care about EC Comics very much. Even though I wasn't around when it was originally published, the HBO Tales From the Crypt was an amazing intro into a demented world of darkly comedic horror stories and vivid artwork," Mondo CEO Justin Ishmael said in a press release. "EC Comics' editor Bill Gaines is one of my heroes and it's so incredibly exciting to combine his creations with 30-something artists that are also fans of that era."
The show, which will run from Oct. 25 through Nov. 23 at the Mondo Gallery in Austin, Texas, will original art and screen prints by the likes of Warwick Johnson Cadwell, Francesco Francavilla, Jeff Lemire, Chris Mooneyham, Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg and Eric Skillman. You can see more names on the postcard below.
I saw this crazy page from Robert Ball on his blog and had to share. Great design meets great drawing meets great gag. ROBOT 6 had the exclusive announcement of Dangeritis on New Year's Day, and there have been regular updates at the book's workblog ever since. The physical edition will be released soon, launching July 20 at the MCM Manchester (that's in the United Kingdom, not New Hampshire). Ball and WJC are two of my favorite illustrators around, and Winter's Knight and Solid State Tank Girl have both absolutely knocked my socks off this year.
I did wonder how the two artists would work together, though: They share clear influences, but then produce very different-looking styles with very different methods. The best examples from the Dangeritis blog show them managing to gel together in interesting ways, from literally splitting duties on double-page spreads …
We've been following the progress of the free U.K. street-press anthology Off Life since July, before the launch of the first issue, and now it's up to its fourth. It's released today in its home city of Bristol (for a cross-cultural comparison, we'll call it "the U.K.'s Portland"), with the digital edition arriving on Thursday; the print version hits London on Saturday.
It may also be their best issue yet, featuring work by such stalwarts of the U.K. indie scene as Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, Dan Berry, Oliver East and Sean Azzopardi; a very entertaining group interview with three more of the best new cartoonists in the U.K., Hannah Berry, Jack Teagle and Isabel Greenberg; and fulfills editor Daniel Humphry's mission statement of breaking some interesting-looking new talent, most of which I'll definitely be keeping an eye on after this. How about some preview art after the break?
It's week two of the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, and ROBOT 6 favorite Warwick Johnson Cadwell is being featured in Mondo's Game of Thrones gallery show (Arrested Motion has some great images from the show on its blog). This is the latest prestigious gig in WJC's long march to stardom, following his appointment last year as the new Tank Girl artist. We caught up with Warwick, who provided us with a series of drawings taking us through his process as he worked up his commission from the design house.
Warwick began by drawing both his favorite characters from the multi-award winning HBO fantasy drama: "I did Samwell first: it was sketched out, then lightboxed with a variety of brush pens (fancy, knackered, cheap and drying out)."
This week, your favorite U.K. comic shops and online retailers should have received Everybody Loves Tank Girl, the latest volume in the ongoing saga of everyone's favorite kangaroo-lovin' chaos magnet (it will arrive in the United States next week). Since co-creator Alan Martin brought the character back in 2007, she's been drawn by a succession of amazing artists: Ashley Wood, Rufus Dayglo and the elusive, legendary Mick McMahon. For this book, Martin has teamed with the great Jim Mahfood, marking the first time the U.K. comics icon has been drawn by an American.
Mahfood has made no secret of his love for Tank Girl, and he has clearly relished the opportunity to draw her and her extended cast of violence-loving misfits, producing some of the best work of his career. ROBOT 6 sat down with Martin to discuss this project and its unique origins, Tank Girl's ongoing momentum, and the rumors that he is again working with the character's co-creator Jamie Hewlett, still the only comic book artist in living memory to have ever quit the business to become a bona fide international pop star.
We followed along as Tank Girl co-creator Alan Martin sought out a new artist before at last finding one in Warwick Johnson Cadwell. Now Titan Comics has announced in May it will debut their first collaboration, Solid State Tank Girl.
The four-issue series, which pits the title character against her "nastiest nemesis," starts out simply enough, with Tank Girl, Jet Girl, Booga and Barney on a mission to save their favorite radio store: "But somewhere along the line Booga manages to electronically summon the gang's evil counterparts, fronted by the darkest bitch on the planet – ANTI-TANK GIRL! The fight is to the death, as each gang member draws on their deepest, most screwed-up powers to eliminate their own personal nemesis. Things are about to get very dark, very bloody… and very stupid!"
The announcement arrives a week after the United Kingdom's Titan Publishing announced the launch of Titan Comics, an imprint devoted to original creator-owned comics and new and classic graphic novels (among them, Numbercruncher by Si Spurrier and P.J. Holden, and Chronos Commandos: Dawn Patrol by Stuart Jennett). That was quickly followed by news that Titan has teamed with Dave Elliott to revive the Atomeka Press line and the well-regarded anthology A1.
"The new Titan Comics imprint is all about taking a chance on new creators and new talent," Steve White, Titan's senior comics editor, said in a statement, "and pairing Warwick's street-art energy to Alan's potty-mouthed imagination has refreshed Tank Girl once again. The results are blindingly good!"
Solid State Tank Girl #1 arrives in print and digital editions May 15. Read the full announcement below.
Two gentlemen making quite a name for themselves on the U.K. small-press and indie-comics scene are Warwick Johnson Cadwell and Robert Ball. The latter's self-published Winter's Knight: Day One was one of my favorite comics of last year, a beautiful, lyrical piece that was equal parts Geoffrey Chaucer, John Boorman and Mike Mignola; and 2013 looks like being the year of WJC, as he works on Alan Martin's Solid State Tank Girl, alongside the possibility of both his long-awaited Hutch Parsons and Gungle books finally appearing at Blank Slate.
The two creators are frequently to be found in each other's company at the U.K.'s comic shows, and this friendship has resulted in Dangeritis. This is a comic, rather than a shared medical condition. In Robert's own words:
I remember that a year or two ago, Chris Weston playing a little game with his Twitter followers: casting an imaginary Carry On X-Men film. If memory serves, I may even have contributed to it myself; I think I might have been the first to suggest Bernard Bresslaw as Colossus. And that was the end of that, we thought — until he updated his blog with this image.
Surely he's not been working on this all that time? Weston is something of a movie poster nut, regularly uploading fine examples from his collection, and I'm also enough of an illustration nerd to realize he's copping the style used by the great Renato Fratini on several U.K. Carry On movie posters.
Another day, another gallery opening an exhibition of loosely-themed pop culture-derived art. This time it's "The Gang's All Here" at the Bottleneck Gallery, Brooklyn, beginning Friday and continuing through Dec. 7 (my birthday, fact fans!), 2012. Above is Chris "Raid 71″ Thornley's contribution. Chris (creator of that much blogged Hellboy/Peanuts mash-up "Hellnuts" a while back) is also a major contributor to the charity Art V Cancer, well worth supporting. That's one e-commerce site you can feel good about using. More comics-quoting work below from the fields of illustration and design, including work by Butcher Billy, Walter Simonson, Wally Wood, McBess and others — including one very famous NSFW image re-contextualized!
The man, the legend, Warwick Johnson Cadwell watched the entire series of Harry Potter films with his family over the Halloween holiday period. Mass sketching ensued, as you can see below.
Alan Martin has posted this short and sweet update to the Tank Girl Facebook page:
Warwick Johnson Cadwell is, of course, the nicest man in the U.K. comics community, so this announcement has been met with no little jubilation from his friends on Twitter and Facebook. Here are some exclusive pieces sent along by Martin and WJC, the tryout art that secured him the gig. Dig that Gatchaman helmet.
By now, everyone's bound to have seen Matt Fraction's Fantastic Four Tumblr, yeah? The writer is publicly working out his background reading for taking over the comic those of us of a certain age still see as Marvel's flagship, and it's highly entertaining. My favorite of all the panels Fraction has flagged up so far has been the one above, which you could imagine being slapped around town on a sticker by Shepard Fairey. Andre the giant has a posse, and it includes Professor X. Much more art, including work by Dan Quintana, Ian McQue, Warwick Johnson-Cadwell and Tim Hamilton, below.
Another day, another guest artist on Scotch Corner:Today it's a massive gallery of work by the underrated Top Cow regular Matt Timson. My favorite is his take on Rom, Space Knight for a Bill Mantlo fund-raiser. As Matt points out, "in the comics, Rom was forever banging on about having given up his humanity to become a Spaceknight, but this was the first time I'd ever thought about what that actually meant – and the horror involved."
(Plenty more art and links below, not all of which is safe for work.)
First, a heads-up on the British Invasion of Toronto: This weekend, Toronto Comics Art Festival will host a number of creators from the United Kingdom, including Sean Azzopardi (Necessary Monsters), Darryl Cunningham (Psychiatric Tales), Joe Decie (Accidental Salad), Tom Gauld (Goliath), Lizz Lunney (Depressed Cat: Nine Miserable Lives) and Luke Pearson (Hilda and the Midnight Giant). Publishers Blank Slate, Nobrow Press and SelfMadeHero will also be in attendance. I ran into some other British creators at MoCCA this weekend; you'll be hearing about that shortly.
Comics | Gary Northfield shows off some of the art from his comic Gary's Garden, which runs in the weekly children's comic The Phoenix:
Part autobiography, part made-up nonsense (well, mainly completely made-up nonsense to be fair), Gary's Garden delves into my favourite thing ever – me spying on the comings and goings of all the little dudes and dudettes who dwell in my garden.
This makes me wish more fervently than ever that The Phoenix would get an app or somehow make itself available outside the UK, digitally or on paper. Adding to my pain: Jim Medway offers a peek at his new comic Chip Charlton & Mr. Woofles of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.


text:
Case Name: St. Louis Effort for AIDS v. Huff
Court: U.S. Ct. App. 8th Cir. Docket: 114-1520
Read Summary and AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF)
Case Result: Missouri law that restricts access to impartial consumer assistance under the Affordable Care Act is preempted by ACA.
Case Name: Shuts v. Covenant Holdco
Court: Cal. Ct. App. Docket: A132805
Read Summary, Decision of Aug. 15, 2012, AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF) and Press Release
Case Result: Class action permitted against nursing facility chain challenging understaffing of its facilities.
Case Name: State ex rel. Cleveland Right to Life v. State of Ohio Controlling Board
Court: Supreme Court Ohio Docket: 13-1668
Read Summary and AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF)
Case Issue: Was the Ohio Controlling Board's vote to approve receipt of federal funding for Medicaid expansion within its statutory and constitutional authority?
AARP Foundation Legal Advocacy
Docket: Health
Topic Alerts
You can get weekly email alerts on the topics below. Just click "Follow."Manage Alerts
Please wait...
Search Legal Advocacy
Legal Cases
Find cases in which AFL has advocated in courts nationwide for the rights of older persons, and filed AARP's amicus curiae ("friend of the court") briefs that help courts decide precedent-setting cases. The cases within the drop-down categories below are in alphabetical order for ease of searching.
Strengthening Law and Policy through
Legal Advocacy
Our legal advocacy initiatives - conducted by AARP Foundation Litigation (AFL) - reflect more than 15 years of work in federal and state courts across the country. Through our efforts, we support the Foundation's four impact areas: Tackling Senior Hunger, Paving the Way to Stable Income, assuring the adequacy and availability of Safe and Afffordable Housing and Reconnecting People to Families and Communities, and ensure that those 50 and older have a voice in the laws and policies that affect their daily lives.


text:
The French champions salvaged a 2-2 draw in the Group B match at the Veltins-Arena courtesy of Souleymane Camara's 90th-minute leveller, which Girard appeared to celebrate by raising his middle finger in the direction of Schalke boss Huub Stevens and his team's dugout.
The two coaches were then seen having a heated exchange of words after the final whistle.
Stevens is quoted by AFP as saying after the match that Girard was "calling for a yellow card after every foul and that's not fair."
Both managers were coy when answering questions about the incident after the game, although Stevens did voice his frustration at letting a team with 10 men hold his side to a draw at home.
"Of course we are upset," the 68-year-old said. "They have two shots on goal and both of them go in. We needed to clinch this game earlier.
"Even against 10 men we should know that at Champions League level you need to make the most of your chances."
A UEFA disciplinary panel will consider the charge when it meets on Tuesday October 9, when it will also look at Montpellier fans who let off fireworks at the ground in Gelsenkirchen.
- Huub Stevens
- Souleymane Camara


text:
Death Cab For Cutie, Avett Brothers highlight Des Moines' 80/35 Fest line-up
Des Moines' eclectic 80/35 Festival is now in it's fifth year, and continues to bring talented, compelling national and local acts to the two-day Iowa music fest. And while the outdoor music festival competition in the Twin Cities this summer will be greater than it's ever been, this year's strong initial 80/35 line-up would once again make the four-hour drive to Des Moines completely worthwhile to area music fans looking to get out of town and see some great music in July.
The Avett Brothers, Death Cab For Cutie, Dinosaur Jr., Fucked Up, Dan Deacon, and Leftover Salmon highlight this year's 80/35 Fest, which will be held at Western Gateway Park in downtown Des Moines on July 6 & 7.
Update: Atmosphere, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Night Moves, Now, Now, and 16 other acts have been added to the 80/35 lineup. Full festival listings and dates below.
Update: Set times have been announced.
Advance two-day tickets for the festival cost $65, while one-day tickets run $39, and both are currently on-sale now. On the day of show, tickets will be $45 per day. There will be more acts announced soon, with the total number of bands featured over the course of the two-day affair expected to reach almost 40.
Typically, nearly 30,000 music fans from all over the Midwest descend on Des Moines for 80/35, and this year shouldn't be any different, even with the extra competition from the upcoming Live Nation Festival in the Twin Cities, in addition to the annual Rock The Garden and Basilica Block Party events scheduled for this summer.
No matter which event(s) you decide to attend, it's nice to have plenty of outdoor festival options available for music fans. We've got to take advantage of the nice weather while we can, and what better way to celebrate the warmer months than with great music under the sweltering summer sky.
Here's the full list of bands scheduled for the 80/35 Fest.
Friday, July 6
Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Stage
5pm - F****d Up
7pm - Dinosaur Jr.
9pm - The Avett Brothers
Hy-Vee Triathlon Stage
5pm - 80/35 Play In Slot *
6pm - Tajh
7pm - Bright Giant
8pm - Pieta Brown
Kum & Go Stage
5pm - Dustin Smith & The Sunday Silos
5:45pm - Dumptruck Butterlips
7pm - Useful Jenkins
8:15pm - Freddie Gibbs
9pm - DJ Eight Ten
10pm - Alex Brown
11pm - John Solarz
Saturday, July 7
Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Stage
12pm - 80/35 Play In Slot *
1:30pm - Christopher the Conquered & His Black Gold Brass Band
3:15pm - Greensky Bluegrass
5pm - Atmosphere
7pm - Leftover Salmon
9pm - Death Cab for Cutie
Hy-Vee Triathlon Stage
12pm - 80/35 Play In Slot *
1pm - Little Ruckus
2pm - The Sun Company
3pm - Mumford's
4pm - Maxilla Blue
5pm - The Sundogs
6 pm - Mantis Pincers
7pm - Leslie and the LY's
8pm - Dead Larry
Kum & Go Stage
12:00pm - Derek Lambert and the Prairie Fires
12:45pm - Now, Now
1:45pm - Delta Rae
2:45pm - Mark Mallman
3:45pm - Night Moves
4:45pm - Jaill
5:45pm - Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
6:45pm - K-Holes
8pm - Dan Deacon
9pm - Jade Reed
10pm - Jesse Jamz
11pm - Brad Goldman
* = Love Songs for Lonely Monsters, Seedlings, and Holy White Hounds will perform in the 80/35 Play In Slots. Set times TBA.
More info here.
Get the Music Newsletter
Keep your thumb on the local music scene each week with music news, trends, artist interviews and concert listings. We'll also send you special ticket offers and music deals.
In Case You Missed It
Popular Stories
Sponsor Content