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In order to accommodate working professionals, all classes are held in the evenings, Monday through Thursday from 5:30pm-8:30pm. Please note course codes and titles subject to change. Please refer to the Graduate Course Catalogue for schedule details.
CORE CURRICULUM COURSES - 15 credit hours must be chosen from the following:
PUBL 6310 – Administrative Theory (3 credit hours)
The course establishes the theory base for the field of public administration by introducing students to a comprehensive set of historical and current theories, concepts, and approaches in public administration. The course will focus on theory in readings, and it will incorporate the application of theory in class discussions about current events and class papers. In the end, students should have a greater understanding of administrative theory and be able to apply it to the practice of public administration.ARLD 6310 – Fundraising for the Arts (3 credit hours)
The course serves as an introduction to fundraising strategies for leaders of the arts and provides a comprehensive overview of the fundraising process for non-profit organizations. Students are introduced to basic terminology and concepts in the field; relationship building, the solicitation process, the grants process, major gifts process, the annual campaign, corporate giving and the role of planned giving within an organization's overall fundraising efforts.PUBL 6349 – Non-Profit Management (3 credit hours)
This course is designed to facilitate an understanding of non-governmental service/advocacy organizations, or "nonprofit organizations", and the management and leadership skills required to effectively organize, maintain, and grow them. The class will explore the day-to-day management practices required of nonprofit leaders, as well as the leadership qualities required to keep the organization relevant and thriving.ARLD 6315 – Public Relations and Marketing in the Arts (3 credit hours)
Introduction to public relations and marketing for leaders of arts organizations, this introductory course surveys a variety of techniques, from audience research and campaign development to advertising and branding, and emerging online tools. Basic strategies of public relations will be explored along with methods for making the most of social media platforms to develop and deepen customer relationships. The course will cover marketing principles as they relate to building, maintaining and developing audiences for performing and visual arts organizationsARLD 6300 – Fundamentals and Strategic Planning for the Arts (3 credit hours)
The course will serve as an introduction to strategic planning for leaders of arts organizations encouraging students to determine the importance of planning and decision making, creation of mission, vision and value statements; and the development of a complete strategic plan. The course will address the importance of strategic thinking, change management and leadership.ARLD 6320 – Financial Management for the Arts (3 credit hours)
Course investigates fundamental concepts of financial theory and applies to the management of Arts Organizations; concepts include financial statement analysis, profit planning, sources and forms of financing, budgeting and business valuation.
ELECTIVE COURSES - 15 credit hours may be chosen from the following and are highly recommended but not required. Students may select elective course from departments outside of the Arts Leadership Program:
PUBL 6342 – Budgeting for Public Agencies (3 credit hours)
This course provides an overview of public budgeting ideas, concepts and techniques. The purpose is to provide an understanding of public budgeting and a foundation for submitting and reviewing public budget proposals.PUBL 6350 – Public Management (3 credit hours)
Students learn to apply management theory as taught in the Business School while addressing democratic values such as equity, inclusiveness, individual rights, and representation in the decision making process as executed in the public sector. This course focuses on managing a public organization effectively and efficiently within the constraints of democracy and federalism. This course combines practice and theory in case studies, readings, class discussions, and papers. At conclusion of course, students will be better prepared to manage a public organization.ARLD 6350 – Entrepreneurship and Alternative Business Models in the Arts (3 credit hours)
Course explores new business models in arts and culture and the skills necessary to start an arts-related venture, build a business plan, and identify funding to get ventures off the ground.ARLD 6330 – Technology and the Arts (3 credit hours)
Course explores intersections of art and technology across interdisciplinary practices. Through readings, viewings, projects, critiques, and guest presentations, students examine technologically mediated art as well as new media and research.ARLD 6360 – The Arts and Community Engagement (3 credit hours)
Course explores connecting the arts with community need in an effort to learn about issues of common concern including arts education, activism, public art and community development.ARLD 6340 – Law and the Arts (3 credit hours)
Overview of legal issues in the arts subjects including copyright, fair use and appropriation of images/sounds. Students examine moral rights of artists, freedom of speech, privacy cultural and intellectual property.
ARLD 6395 – Selected Topics in Arts Leadership (3 credit hours)
ARLD 6395 – Selected Topics in Arts Leadership-Leading the Turnaround
An intensive study of the current roles and expectations of art and culture leaders, students use case studies to explore major themes, challenges and trends in arts management. Students will acquire knowledge of basic rules and broad ideas for "turning around" distressed arts organizations, revitalizing dated concepts in arts management, managing organizational growth, planning leadership successions and keeping arts organizations strong through challenging economic times.ARLD 6395 Career Development for the Individual Artist/Entrepreneur (Selected Topics in Arts Leadership)
This course will guide students through the process of cultivating a personal artistic brand and developing an inpidualized business model created for long-term viability. We will also investigate various methods of translating artistic worth into product pricing, brand messaging for authenticity and building in brand consistency across platforms. Course will also explore working with presenters, agents and managers, and what to inpidual artists should be mindful of as they develop their work and their careers.ARLD 6398 – Independent Study (3 credit hours)
Summer 2016
ARLD 6691 – Practicum Placement (By Director's Permission)
ARLD 6398 – Independent Study (By Director's Permission)
Fall 2016
ARLD 6395 – Selected Topics in Arts Leadership-Leading the Turnaround- MONDAYS
ARLD 6350 – Entrepreneurship and Alternative Business Models in the Arts- TUESDAYS
ARLD 6320 – Financial Management for the Arts - TUESDAYS
PUBL 6310 – Administrative Theory - TUESDAYS
ARLD 6310 – Fundraising for the Arts – WEDNESDAYS
ARLD 6360 – The Arts and Community Engagement- WEDNESDAYS
PUBL 6342 – Budgeting for Public Agencies - WEDNESDAYS
ARLD 6330 - Technology and the Arts - THURSDAYS
ARLD 6691 – Practicum Placement (By Director's Permission)
ARLD 6398 – Independent Study (By Director's Permission)
Spring 2017
ARLD 6395 – Career Development for the Individual Artist/Entrepreneur (Selected Topics in Arts Leadership)
ARLD 6340 – Law and the Arts
PUBL 6349 – Non-Profit Management
ARLD 6315 – Public Relations and Marketing in the Arts
ARLD 6300 – Fundamentals and Strategic Planning for the Arts
ARLD 6691 – Practicum Placement (By Director's Permission)
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Market Research Report
Afghanistan National Security Markets 2011-2016
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|Afghanistan National Security Markets 2011-2016
|Published: January 30, 2011
|Content info: 250 Pages; 212 Tables & Figures
This publication has been discontinued on July 3, 2017.
2011-2016 Market: $13.7 Billion
To train and equip the Afghani security forces is the cornerstone of the US led coalition strategy, driven by political pressure to ensure the coalition withdrawal plans. It is also driven by economical rational: while the funding of a single US and NATO soldier in Afghanistan costs approximately $1 million per annum, the cost of an ANSF soldier or police officer is less than $50,000 per annum.
Afghani National Security Market Share [%] By Sector
The Afghan military-security infrastructure is in need of everything from troops training, weapons, trucks and aircraft, to military communication gear, C-3I systems and counter-IED technologies. The success of this initiative will dictate the course of the conflict and the depth and duration of U.S.-led coalition involvement. According to our new market report, the cumulative 2011-2016 Afghan national security market is forecasted to reach $13-14 billion.
Along with analyzing the institutions, agencies and procurement services being developed, the report' s 250 pages and 212 tables and figures describe the market by:
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The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has reported that the total clot of global derivatives in existence is now $415.2 trillion, with comes out to 789% of global GDP.
In typical Mogambo parlance, grubby financial bets financed by banks and the financial services industry now total almost eight times the value of every freaking good and service produced on the entire freaking planet in an entire freaking year!
And according to the McKinsey Global Institute, the ratio of global financial assets to annual global output soared from 109% in 1980 to 316% in 2005!
I scream "Gaaaaahhhh!" All of this central bank idiocy of creating more and more money and credit is not news to Jason Hommel of the silverstockreport.com, but a grown man screaming "Gaaaaaahhhh!" at the top of his voice seems to be startlingly novel, judging by his reaction.
Nevertheless, he writes, "Money in U.S. banks, M3, is growing at a rate of about 12% per year, or more. So, in the last 12 months, it grew by about $1.3 trillion dollars, which is $1,300 billion dollars."
So why is a guy who is primarily interested in precious metals talking about the growth of the money supply? Well, we learn why when he wonders aloud how much the 2,500 tonnes of annual world gold production (80 million ounces) is worth at $675 per ounce.
I immediately started sweating bullets, thinking that I was certainly not expecting a damned pop quiz in math, especially one multiplying such large numbers. So I breathe a huge sigh of relief when I learn that he already did the math, and says, "It's worth only $54 billion dollars."
Then he stops and looks at me with this expectant expression on his face, like I am supposed to draw some important conclusion from this or something, but I am sitting there with this big, dumb look on my stupid face, as I don't get it. Sensing my problem, Mr. Hommel helpfully reiterates the facts by saying "$1300 billion of new money printed. $54 billion dollars worth of new gold mined, at $675/oz."
Obviously, this is supposed to mean something to me, but it doesn't. Again, I just sit there, dumbfounded, feeling uncomfortable and trying to look small so that maybe he won't see me.
After what seemed an eternity, he finally got tired of waiting for me to show some uncharacteristic smarts, and just tells me what this means. "So," he says, "the U.S. is actually creating new paper money at a rate 24 times as much as new gold. 1300 / 54 = 24!"
I say, "That's a lot! And thanks a lot!" as I get up to leave in case this breaks out into more math, as I have enough problems as it is, no pun intended. But he is not done with me yet, and grabs my attention with "And of course, this is hardly a fair comparison. I'm comparing U.S. dollars to world gold production. We should compare total world paper money creation rates, to world gold mining rates."
Intrigued, I sit back down to learn more about how much money the world is creating versus how much gold. Then he says, "But that's a lot of work, and I don't know if I can source it all out."
As soon as I heard the word "work" and how he was "sourcing this out", I was instantly scrambling to get the hell out of there. But again, before I could get more than a few yards towards the door in my panic, he lets me know that he was merely toying with me by saying he has, again, already done the work, and, "My well-researched guess is that the U.S. dollar is only about 1/4 of the world total increase of paper money. So, let's multiply by a factor of 4."
By this time I am lost again, and realize that by this time I had forgotten what in the hell he was even talking about in the first place. Again I was saved when he laid it all out in front of me with "$1,300 x 4 / 54 = 96! Thus, the world is creating new money at about a rate nearly 100 times faster than the world's value of new gold." A hundred times more money than gold!
Wow! Finally, a light bulb, albeit low-wattage, goes on over my head! The amount of gold per unit of currency is rapidly falling to record levels, all over the globe, indicating that gold is a Big, Big, Super Big Bargain (BBSBB) right now, and getting more so every day, and for everybody on the planet!
Now you know why I am always screeching that gold will soar, as the dollar is just another of the world's disastrous experiments with a fiat money and unrestrained fractional reserve banking, meaning that it will go to zero in buying power, or (in the original Latin), magnus squatus profundus. And now it is happening all over the world, as we all use fiat currencies!
The fact that gold is not rising in price right now makes me Squeal With Glee (SWG) "Whee! A chance to buy more gold, and at prices effectively cheaper by the minute!"
But gold is so alien to most people that even when you are screaming in their faces about how stupid they are, they still don't go out and buy any! Weird!
Until next week,
The Mogambo Guru
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Turkey: 8 million children to be immunized in one month
Over 8 million children to be vaccinated in Turkey in intensified campaign to eliminate measles
Having set a national target to eliminate measles by 2010, Turkey is intensifying its efforts and conducting a one-time "catch-up campaign" targeting children aged 9 months to 14 years. The aim is rapidly to achieve a high level of population immunity.In December 2003, around 11 million schoolchildren aged 6-14 years were successfully vaccinated, an immunization coverage rate of 97%.
Now, during a month-long campaign from 25 April to 20 May, a further 8.5 million pre-school children aged 9 months to 6 years, and the remaining children under 15 years not attending school, will be targeted.
About 50 000 health care staff will work to vaccinate all eligible children nationwide. A significant reduction in the number of measles cases is expected, in a country where measles is still one of the major causes of childhood disease, disability and death.
This massive effort has been organized by the Turkish Ministry of Health in close collaboration with the Ministry of Education and other relevant public institutions, with financial and technical support from the WHO Regional Office for Europe, UNICEF and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Relevant NGOs have also been involved, especially in reaching the children not attending school.
Measles remains an important cause of childhood mortality and the leading cause of vaccine-preventable deaths in childhood, causing an estimated 530 000 deaths globally in 2003. A WHO/UNICEF measles mortality reduction strategy launched in 2000 aimed for a 50% reduction in measles deaths by 2005; an estimated 873 000 deaths were reported in 1999.
The WHO Regional Office for Europe developed and implemented a regional strategic plan for measles and congenital rubella infection in 2002. The plan clearly sets out the strategies to eliminate measles in all 52 countries of the WHO European Region by 2010.
Immunization is considered among the most cost-effective of health investments. It has a well defined target group; contact with the health system is only needed at the time of delivery; and vaccination does not require any major change of lifestyle. For example, a recent study estimated that a one-week "supplemental immunization activity" against measles carried out in Kenya in 2002 - in which 12.8 million children were vaccinated - would result in a net saving in health costs of US$ 12 million over the following 10 years; during that time it would prevent 3.85 million cases of measles and 125 000 deaths.
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Louise Gare, Technical Officer, Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Immunization, WHO Regional Office for Europe: (+45 39) 17 14 23, email@example.com
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Why Use Digital Pens?
Whether you're a student sitting through an enthusiastic professor's chemistry lecture or a salesperson you're sitting through an important business presentation, taking notes is a vital skill task for many people. Detailed notes allow you to return to important information continually so that you can benefit from the information the most. The note-taking process has evolved with technology to provide you with more control over how you access, archive, share and edit your important information. Digital pens allow you to take notes where in ways laptops and tablets simply can't.
Digital pens are almost as discreet as a normal ballpoint pen. They use real ink and they write on real paper. The only difference between a digital pen and the pen in your breast pocket is the digitization of your pen strokes – every word, doodle, sketch or scribble is converted to a digital page.
Laptops and tablets have become the preferred note-taking device for many people because the information can be easily edited, archived and shared. However, laptops and tablets are also a distraction that many businesses and classrooms have banned from meetings and lectures. The best digital pens, like the Livescribe 3 Smartpen, Sky Wifi Smartpen and the Neo Smartpen N2, allow you to take comprehensive notes without the distractions of the internet or the clicking of a keyboard. To learn more, read our articles about digital pens.
Digital Pens: What to Look For
There are several ways digital pens capture pen strokes. The best digital pens use technology developed by the Anoto Group that uses a camera near the pen tip to track with microdots printed on paper. However, most digital pens use a positional device that clips to the top of your paper and tracks a sensor in the pen's tip as it moves across the paper, allowing you to write on any surface.
Once you've created a digital page and have uploaded it to your computer, you'll want an intuitive desktop program that allows you the most control over how you archive, search, share and edit your notes. The best digital pens provide you with the ability to record the most comprehensive notes for greater retention.
Below are some the criteria you'll want to consider when choosing a digital pen.
A pen, whether it's digital or an antique, must be comfortable to write with. Pen size and weight can affect how long you can take notes without hand fatigue. Unfortunately, this means that the pens with the most features are also the biggest because of the technology packed into the pen's shaft. Many electronic pens are not much bigger than a normal ballpoint pen but lack many of the features that allow you to take comprehensive notes.
After comfort comes accuracy. There's little point in complicating the writing experience with cameras and positional sensors if the digital image of your notes doesn't match the physical image. Accuracy on most pens falls within a 0.3 mm and 0.7 mm spatial difference when compared to the actual pen strokes. However, positional devices can have their accuracy completely distorted if the device moves while you're writing or your finger interferes with the sensor.
When you are finished writing on a page and you turn to the next, you have to also transition from one digital page to another. You want a pen with a smooth transition from page to page so that you don't end up with a single muddled digital page that consists of several physical pages of notes.
The best smart pens provide features like audio recording that syncs to notes to create pencasts – a digital version of your notes that includes the recorded audio. You'll also want to consider battery life and easy syncing features like Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. These are important to your pen's performance because you don't want your pen to die in the middle of taking notes. Likewise, wireless syncing allows you to share your notes across a broad platform of devices in real-time.
Feature Set
The features a pen comes with can vary greatly – some are essentially a computer built into a pen capable of downloading apps, while others are little more than a fancy pen. Newer models are starting to prioritize sketches with features that allow you to have pressure sensitivity and multiple layers for depth and easy syncing with programs like Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator.
If the digital pen includes optical character recognition software to convert your handwriting to text, the conversion should be reasonably accurate. Most pens are bundled with MyScript Notes in addition to their desktop software. Some programs, like MyScript, include language recognition features that recognize dozens of languages.
Each pen has some form of internal hard drive that stores digital pages until you upload the pages to a computer. Storage capacity varies from 50 digital pages to thousands. The best digital pens track memory in hours because of the recorded audio.
Ease of Use
Adding technology to a pen inherently makes it more complicated to use, so the value a digital pen adds to your notes or sketches must outweigh any complications that come with the added technology.
You don't want a pen that makes you feel like you're required to re-learn skills you mastered in the early years of elementary school or a pen that requires extensive training to operate effectively.
The setup and uploading should be straightforward. Pen manufacturers should offer detailed instructions to get you up and running as quickly as possible. In addition, initial product packages should include all the accessories you need for basic functionality. The best digital pens have versatile accessories that you can purchase separately as you become an expert with all the features.
Help & Support
Manufacturers must provide help and support to make the experience with your digital pen as smooth as possible. This should include tutorials, online forums, FAQs, online technical support and contact information. You also want a manufacturer that makes it easy to purchase ink cartridge refills, paper refills (if required) and other accessories.
Digital pens are a great tool for taking notes or sketches in situations that limit the use of a laptop or tablet because they are less intrusive in classrooms and meetings. In addition, the portability of digital pens make them great for collecting information in situations that would be difficult or impossible for laptops or tablets.


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Wed 05.15.2013
The United Nations Security Council Chamber - Iconic Design of International Affairs
When: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM WEDNESDAY, MAY 15
Where: At The Center
Join us for a panel discussion about the UN Security Council Chamber's architectural, artistic and political history.
Designed by Arnstein Arneberg in 1952 as a gift from Norway to the United Nations – then lead by the UN's first Secretary-General, the Norwegian Trygve Lie – the UN Security Council Chamber inspires efforts toward international peace and understanding.
On April 16, 2013, after a three-year renovation process, the Chamber was re-opened by the UN Secretary-General, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon and the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, H. E. Mr. Espen Barth Eide.
A custom drink inspired by power and architecture will be created especially for the occasion by bartender Toby Cecchini.
H.E. Ambassador Geir O. Pedersen, Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations
Loraine Sievers, Former Chief, Security Council Secretariat Branch, Department of Political Affairs, United Nations
Kathy Farbod, Project Architect/Manager, United Nations Capital Master Plan
Jorge Otero-Pailos, Associate Professor of Historic Preservation, Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, and Founder and Editor, Future Anterior
Andreas Vaa Bermann, Director of Norsk Form – Foundation for Design and Architecture in Norway
Ingerid Helsing Almaas, Editor-in-chief, the Norwegian Review of Architecture
Organized by: the Center for Architecture and the Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York
Price: Free for AIA members and MoMA A+D circle members; $10 non-members.
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Google is unveiling early-stage designs, software code, and documentation of a project whose goal is to let users of the company's Chrome OS print documents to any printer from any application.
Called Google Cloud Print, the technology would dispense with the need to install printer drivers by routing print jobs from Web, desktop, and mobile applications via a Chrome OS Web-hosted broker.
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"Rather than rely on the local operating system -- or drivers -- to print, apps can use Google Cloud Print to submit and manage print jobs. Google Cloud Print will then be responsible for sending the print job to the appropriate printer with the particular options the user selected, and returning the job status to the app," wrote Google Product Manager Mike Jazayeri in an official blog post.
While Google Cloud Print is still in its "early days," the company wants to engage interested developers and vendors in the process of developing this technology, according to Jazayeri.
Carl Howe, a Yankee Group analyst, said that it's smart of Google to envision printing as a cloud service instead of as a device.
"That's particularly key for netbooks and tablets that don't have printer ports or room for printer connectors," Howe said via e-mail. "It's just another example of how the new world of 'anywhere' computing is rapidly jettisoning our PC-conceived notions of how to do things."
Google released the open source Chrome OS to developers in November of last year. The first netbooks that run the OS are expected to hit the market late this year.
Chrome OS has been designed from the ground up for cloud computing, so it will only run Web-hosted applications. A big question has been how Chrome OS will interact with peripherals such as printers.
This story was updated on April 16, 2010.


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1. Re: Contracts open interface in R12?Sandeep Gandhi, Consultant Nov 12, 2010 5:43 PM (in response to 501447)Have you checked for OKC_CONTRACT_PUB?1 person found this helpful
2. Re: Contracts open interface in R12?501447 Nov 12, 2010 8:36 PM (in response to 501447)Yes, in fact I've used it for creating warranties. But, while mostly I've been successful creating warranty contracts, there are times when I cannot find a coverage line (lse_id=15) for a warranty. Since these warranties do not carry dollar amount and are solely for the purpose of Preventive Maintenance and basic services on parts and equipment, it's not been a huge issue till now. I mean I can query the contract fine....it just shows up a little different...with some missing information....but no errors. Have you had this kind of issue where the coverage for contract is not created? Following are the APIs that I use, in sequence. I find it odd that for some warranties, I have all the information and for some others there's this line type and others(16 and 59) are missing. I would really appreciate if you could provide some insight into this issue.
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oks_contracts_pub.create_contract_header(p_k_header_rec => l_contract_header_rec
,p_header_contacts_tbl => l_contact_tbl
,p_header_sales_crd_tbl => l_salescredits_tbl
,p_header_articles_tbl => l_articles_tbl
,x_chrid => x_chr_id
,x_return_status => x_return_status
,x_msg_count => x_msg_count
,x_msg_data => x_msg_data);
oks_contracts_pub.create_service_line(p_k_line_rec => l_contract_line_rec
,p_contact_tbl => l_contact_line_tbl
,p_line_sales_crd_tbl => l_salescredits_tbl
,x_service_line_id => x_usage_line_id
,x_return_status => x_return_status
,x_msg_count => x_msg_count
,x_msg_data => x_msg_data);
oks_contracts_pub.create_covered_line(p_k_covd_rec => l_cov_level_rec
,p_price_attribs => l_price_attribs_rec
,x_cp_line_id => x_cp_line_id
,x_return_status => x_return_status
,x_msg_count => x_msg_count
,x_msg_data => x_msg_data);
3. Re: Contracts open interface in R12?501447 Jan 10, 2011 8:56 PM (in response to 501447)FYI, I used the API approach to convert contracts and it's all done now.
Thank you!
4. Re: Contracts open interface in R12?Parag Narkhede Jun 28, 2011 12:10 PM (in response to 501447)I am facing problem in contracts conversion.
Using my code, extra service lines are getting created and coverage_id is not populating in okc_k_items_b table.
Can you please share code with me at email@example.com?
5. Re: Contracts open interface in R12?Sanya Sep 29, 2011 7:18 AM (in response to 501447)Hi, i need a help as m unable to create service contracts using API by passing hard coded values.
Can anyone tell me the mandatory parameters needed to create a service contract thru API?
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Growing scholarly teachers and educational researchers: A curriculum for a research pathway in pre-service teacher education
Diezmann, Carmel M. (2005) Growing scholarly teachers and educational researchers: A curriculum for a research pathway in pre-service teacher education. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 33(2), pp. 181-193.
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This paper advocates the development of high-level research capability in some students in their undergraduate Bachelor of Education course. The rationale for this viewpoint is presented in relation to three questions: "What is educational research?" "Why should universities develop high-level research capability in some preservice teacher education graduates?" and "What type of curriculum can support the development of high-level research capability in some preservice teacher education graduates?" The first two questions are addressed broadly. The latter question is addressed with reference to an existing Research Pathway within a Bachelor of Education course. The paper concludes with the identification of a priority issue for subsequent iterations of the Pathway and a reflection on the shift in my role as a teacher in this Pathway from 'teacher researcher' to 'scholarly teacher'.
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The World Ends with You: Solo Remix
Already a cult classic on Nintendo DS, The World Ends with You now makes its way on to iOS in this beautifully realised conversion. Set in a virtual Shibuya, Japan, the game opens with typically angst-ridden teen, Neku Sakuraba, waking up to discover he's lost his memory; from there on in it only gets weirder as he finds he's the player of a game within a game, as mysterious beings known as 'Reapers' set daily challenges which he and his partner must solve or else face erasure – from both artificial world, and real one.
Thankfully the Reapers do at least give you a fighting chance by handing over pins which bestow players with psycho and telekinetic powers, perfect for fighting Noise, the term by which the monsters lurking within Shibuya are known. As befitting the eccentric plot, TWEWY features an equally daring control system, with movement and powers carried out via varied swipes across the touchscreen. It's a system which takes some getting used to – expect to be randomly stabbing away at the screen at first – but experience leads to precision, and a good job too with the game getting ever darker as day seven – the day the Reapers' game concludes – approaches.
Throw in a genuinely quirky interface that even sees you planting thoughts into the throngs of humanity, in-game fashion trends that award good taste with more damaging attacks, brash visuals and one of the best soundtracks to grace a videogame and you have a game which more than justifies its underground following.
Score: 5/5
Price: £12.99
Format: iPad, iPhone
Developer: Jupiter/Hand
Publisher: Square Enix
Another year, another entry into the EA's Madden series, which largely does to NFL what FIFA does to football; albeit with an extra side of statistics. This year however EA has really upped its game, the introduction of the Infinity Engine physics system – which sees players rebounding from in each other in a much more realistic manner – creating an altogether more believable experience. Perhaps not enough to convince non-believers, but for devotees the fact that plays now have a randomness to them, where before they were more predictable, adds further value to a game bursting with tactics, chances to tinker and explosive moments.
Score: 4/5
Price: £49.99
Format: PS3, Xbox 360
Developer: EA
Publisher: EA
Reaching back fifteen years to the original Gameboy title, this week Nintendo port Kirby's Star Stacker to the 3DS. A falling-block puzzler similar to the more well-known Dr. Mario, players must stack blocks in pairs, sandwiching the titular star blocks, thus removing them and allowing progress to the next level. The monochromatic graphics inspire a faint twinge of nostalgia, but perhaps Nintendo could have bundled the SNES version in as well for a little colour in the visuals, and the story mode which, while thin, was better than nothing. With four game modes, there's a fair amount of variation, but it's a much less refined title than Tetris and probably for hardened Kirby fans only.
Score: 2/5
Price: £2.70
Format: 3DS via eShop
Developer: Nintendo
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Can You Think Yourself Sick?
Two publications wrote about "thinking yourself sick" this week. Both have a mind over matter angle, in that we can actually think ourselves into having diseases, conditions, and side effects to drugs, even if we are taking a placebo.
The New Yorker wrote about the "nocebo" effect, which is what they call the "placebo effect's malevolent Mr. Hyde." They cite "wi-fi syndrome", which is the mysterious condition in which people say the waves used in mobile communication cause headaches, nausea, exhaustion, tingling, and even gastrointestinal distress, among other symptoms. And while most of us are always looking for a great wi-fi signal, people suffering from wi-fi syndrome (or think they are) will take drastic measures like moving to a cave or a mountain to be as far away from a signal as possible in order to be free of their "symptoms."
According to a new study published in the American Journal of Cardiology, researchers analyzed six studies to see how thinking you are stressed affects your heart. Participants were asked to self-report intense, frequent feelings of stress and then they were followed for 14 years to see if they were diagnosed with, hospitalized, or died from coronary heart disease. What they found: Participants who reported high levels of stress had a 27 percent higher risk of developing coronary heart disease. So were they really stressed or just thinking they were stressed? And is there even a difference?
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Say allo à moi at Taking Action for Animals!
Taking a cue from my fellow SuperVegan blogger – the wonderful Olivia Lane, I'll be setting up shop with my laptop at the Viva! table at the Taking Action For Animals conference this weekend in Washington, DC! And like Olivia, I'll try and see if I'll be able to blog right on site from the conference. So, definitely do stop by and say hello to moi!
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(7/16/2009) By ERIC GERSHON The Hartford Courant
July 14, 2009
Hotel developers have delayed, scrapped and revised projects across America as the recession has scared off guests and financiers, but they're forging ahead in Connecticut's third biggest city.
Downtown New Haven hadn't seen a major new hotel in decades until last November, when The Study, a 124-room hotel, opened on Chapel Street, a few blocks from the city green. These days The Study appears to be on the leading edge of an Elm City hotel renaissance.
Later this summer the Courtyard New Haven expects to finish a 47-room addition and The New Haven Hotel will start top-to-bottom renovations of its 92 rooms. A hotel also figures in Northland Investment Corp.'s emerging plans for the New Haven Coliseum site.
Centerplan Development shelved plans for a "high-end" 250-room hotel last year, citing the economy, but still envisions a hotel on its College Street property, just south of the green.
Now, Hampshire Hotels & Resorts of New York is trying to line up an upscale hotel with 150 to 200 rooms for the 165,000-square foot building it owns at the northeastern corner of the green.
Hampshire has not yet submitted plans for the stately, 14-story red brick building, built in 1928 for The Union and New Haven Trust Co., now partly occupied by a Wachovia bank branch. But the firm has met with city officials to discuss the possibility of a "deluxe hotel brand" in the 205 Church St. property, once home to the venerable, now disbanded law firm Tyler, Cooper.
Developers and economic development officials attribute hoteliers' interest in New Haven to unmet demand for rooms downtown (there are about 800 now) and the potential for the city's thriving health care and education institutions to generate more.
Yale-New Haven Hospital's 156-room cancer center, scheduled to open this fall, is expected to draw patients and their families from around the world. Yale University's plans to grow undergraduate enrollment by 15 percent could increase visits by parents. And planned construction of private office and lab space for biotechnology companies could stimulate business activity generally, they say.
The boom contrasts with circumstances in Hartford, where the Goodwin Hotel, perhaps the Capital City's most distinguished hotel, closed last year.
Dwindling opportunities in bigger cities also may be forcing hotel developers to consider smaller markets, said Kelly Murphy, New Haven's economic director, noting that other types of commercial developers are making major investments in New Haven.
"Someone risking $180 million in downtown New Haven says something," she said, referring to a 500-unit apartment tower now rising at 360 State St.
Hotel occupancy in New Haven rose 2 percent in 2008, to 62.8 percent, even as local supply grew and occupancy nationwide fell more than 4 percent, to 60.4 percent, according to SmithTravelResearch. In Connecticut, occupancy fell nearly 5 percent last year.
Hampshire thinks there still is unmet demand for upscale lodgings and for meeting space, said Brendan McNamara, a company vice president, but is still researching how best to meet it.
Hampshire bought the building in 2006 for $11 million � $6 million less than the 1989 sale price. The company is busy rehabilitating the masonry exterior and replacing windows.
Michael Schaffer, a New Haven real estate developer whose company, C.A. White, owns two hotels outside the city, called an additional 150-200 hotel rooms downtown "a little bit of a reach." But he doesn't consider Hampshire's ambition "unreasonable or unrealistic."
"Clearly, over time, this market will sustain another hotel," he said. "It's not entirely a zero sum game�You're going to create additional room nights with an additional hotel."
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When the ABC's boss, Mark Scott, pulled the trigger on his decision to publish in the "public interest" graphic details of a highly classified but otherwise standard Australian intelligence operation to intercept calls made by Indonesia's leaders, he did not anticipate the chain-reaction he would unleash.
Underlying these discrete but linked dramas is the disruptive and transformative changes wrought by new communication technologies on the information people can access and the ability of governments to conduct surveillance on their own citizens and other states. The media's ethical and legal responsibilities when dealing with mass leaks and the unprecedented difficulties democracies face when trying to protect both individuals' private data and the secrets necessary to preserve their security are also involved.
The release of classified and only partially redacted Australian Signals Directorate slides, which were illegally obtained by
The drama was amplified by Prime Minister
Australian and Indonesian co-operation on people smuggling, counterterrorism, trans-national crime, and potential trade collapsed, military exercises were cancelled, and the Indonesian ambassador recalled. The lives of refugees were jeopardised.
The Lowy Institute's director of international security,
"The diplomatic and security relationship with Indonesia has been set back, Australia's image has been damaged, and many potential targets for justifiable Australian intelligence activities will redouble their countermeasures."
He also believes there could be punitive costs: "Australia's strong intelligence capabilities constitute one reason we have not needed to spend a large amount on defence."
"Many fair-minded professionals in the Australian foreign policy and intelligence community – people whose working lives are all about service, integrity and respect for democratic institutions – are feeling a sense of betrayal and deep unease about what has been published," Medcalf relays.
Yet this was merely the direct damage. The derivative consequences have also been far-reaching. Scott's decision unwittingly re-energised schisms with conservative agents like News Corporation and the hard political right around the role and oversight of a public broadcaster in a world where technology is making the availability of commodity information and media diversity greater than it has ever been before.
The news also animated the debate around the trade-offs between the amorphous concepts of "public interest" and "national security", and the media's obligations to laws that govern the release of confidential information in circumstances where technology has revolutionised the capacity of government insiders to illicitly exfiltrate vast volumes of secrets.
There was nothing remotely discriminating about the 250,000 classified American diplomatic cables, or the 200,000 sensitive National Security Agency documents, that were stolen and transmitted en masse around the globe by Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden.
Yet the sudden expulsion of secrets also presents opportunities for mature media to distinguish brands from rivals by how they synthesise, analyse and project the content.
"Technology has changed the rules of the publishing game," says Max Walsh, the former managing editor of The Australian Financial Review.
"The lowest common denominator – the modern shock jocks – are increasingly the driving force of what is and is not published with responsible media having no choice but to follow on if the information is correct."
The Australian newspaper's influential editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell says: "I really do think editors have to carefully consider what they do and don't publish, and how they publish".
"The ABC behaves like the 'Twitterati,' " Mitchell claims. "They think they can just throw out the first thing they receive and assume America is wrong. I am not sure that is a smart thing to do." The former head of one of Australia's peak intelligence agencies echoes this sentiment, lambasting the media's "latest attempt to portray everything ASD does as malignant, if not illegal".
"A lot of people who have been writing in this area don't necessarily have much experience in dealing with intelligence issues," Mitchell says.
"There is a slightly undergraduate sense amongst some journalists that somehow all intelligence activities are wrong."
Technological change is making these challenges more common in open societies. It is telling that two of the most catastrophic leaks in global intelligence history have occurred in the world's most advanced democracy.
One never reads about a Manning or Snowden in China, Russia, or Iran, presumably because totalitarian regimes can cauterise these threats irrespective of whether they serve a public interest.
The telephone taps the ABC and The Guardian revealed arguably had little to do with debates around privacy, liberty, or overreach by agencies. ASD was fulfilling its core and democratically appointed foreign signals interception function.
Australia's Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Dr
She explains that the Intelligence Service Act requires ASD to "obtain intelligence about the capabilities, intentions or activities of people or organisations outside Australia for the purpose of meeting the requirement of the government for such intelligence."
The key here is that ASD is a foreign, not domestic, espionage entity.
What Snowden and his media accomplices have done is lift the lid on the subterranean daily battle for informational supremacy between the democratic Anglo-Western "five eyes" alliance – comprising Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States – and any other state, including China, Russia, Iran, India, Pakistan and North Korea, that the five eyes think could possibly threaten the stability of the open, rules-based capitalist system that took a world war to put in place, and which has propelled global prosperity ever since.
This is no less than a contest for control of the highways along which all information travels, including, therefore, all vital national telecommunications networks, as China's national champion, Huawei, discovered to its detriment here in Australia.
In an interview with AFR Weekend the ABC's Mark Scott passionately and at times persuasively defends his decision-making process.
"The ABC will broadcast stories that upset people," he says. "That's the nature of independent, robust journalism. Our test is whether in fact the story is in the public interest."
"Fundamentally the issues that are raised by this story are questions that are being addressed in western democracies all around the world. They include the nature of information collection in the current era, what the oversight is for the authority collecting that information, who then that information is shared with, and how it can be kept secure."
Scott draws comfort from his contemporaries' support. "I think most journalists, including some of the most senior journalists in the gallery, have said, 'that was the story.'
"The journalism consensus is absolutely that this is a story in the public interest and anyone who had it would have run it. Fairfax ran Wikileaks extracts – just like The Australian pursued Wikileaks extracts."
And Scott believes there is disunity among those media that have taken issue with the ABC's approach.
"Many journalists at The Australian I have spoken to have been quite bewildered by the attacks unleashed on the ABC for its coverage of this story by senior editorial voices," he claims.
Asked how the disclosure of the details of a vanilla foreign intelligence operation, which many experts assess has materially damaged Australia's interests, is rationalised by a greater public merit, Scott says his yarn was no different to "the revelation that America had been tapping the German chancellor".
"On the back of that story Obama called for a complete review of the espionage procurement activity." There are, however, problems with this logic.
In contrast to the German case, the Australian government and most mainstream politicians have consistently defended the legality and operational integrity of ASD's exercise. Indonesia's spies also acknowledge they do similar things. And there have been no government calls for a review of the intelligence community's activities.
Indonesia itself also appears to be fair game.
Chris Mitchell argues that "waves of Australian history since 1965 – whether it be half a million deaths on the streets of Jakarta under Sukarno, the Balibo 5 in the 1970s, East Timor in the late 1990s, or the 2002 bombings in Bali and Jakarta and the Marriot thereafter – show there would be no more pressing intelligence requirement for the agencies than monitoring what is going on in Jakarta".
"The shock-horror surprise expressed by some journalists that we would be listening into Jakarta is almost unbelievably naive, especially since most of these people were already working at the time of the Bali bombing."
"This is the problem with Mark Scott's answers – he is showing himself to be a neophyte in the area."
Lowy's Rory Medcalf agrees: "The ABC has not convincingly explained why publishing highly classified information about Australian spying activities in Indonesia was in the public interest. Nor has it explained how the public interest stands distinct from the national interest as gauged at the time by the democratically elected Rudd government."
Scott counters that "the release of this information, which was from 2009, created no immediate operational risk".
"It was illustrative of the activity that is being undertaken," he avers. "No one has denied that intelligence activities take place and are necessary. The question is: 'what is the extent of them, who is the information then shared with, and how secure is it?' "
A very senior defence official, who requested anonymity, was more scathing.
"The ABC continues to report that routine and lawful ASD operations are a scandal," he says. "One of the most significant outcomes of Snowdon in Australia might be the de-legitimisation of the ABC and a growing consensus to reform the organisation."
Similar issues plagued another story published in Australia this week by The Guardian. It sensationally reported that material supplied by Snowden showed that ASD "offered to share [bulk, unselected, unminimised metadata] collected about ordinary Australian citizens with its major intelligence partners". Other media outlets reflexively recycled The Guardian's story.
Yet a careful review of the documents The Guardian cited demonstrated that ASD was actually referring to its foreign, not domestic, signals collection databases. The ASD does not intercept domestic communications precisely because it is prohibited from doing so under the law unless it has a ministerial approval.
Senior government and intelligence officials subsequently confirmed that there are no "bulk" metadata intelligence snooping operations directed at average Australians, as The Guardian inferred. The Guardian's Australian editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner, refused repeated interview requests.
Lowy's Rory Medcalf says The Guardian report was "a mistaken and irresponsible interpretation fuelled by the assumption that everything the intelligence community does is automatically pernicious – as if only authoritarian states have the right to have intelligence services".
"The latest Guardian story is clearly just wrong," Chris Mitchell concurs. "Anybody who understands what ASD have been doing for the last four decades knows it's wrong."
Medcalf concludes that "in a strange way, Wikileaks was perhaps more principled with its cable dump than some mainstream news organisations are being with their calculated releases of the Snowden material".
"What we are seeing is a drip-feed of highly sensitive intelligence information, presumably designed to achieve maximum political impact or commercial advantage at the expense of the national interest. There is no transparency in the timetable of the publication of these leaks."
He believes that it's incumbent on western media organisations to provide some "context about the likely scale and reach of the intelligence activities of other countries that harbour fewer scruples than we do when dealing with the spilling of national secrets and those responsible".
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Curtis High School Junior Isaiah Thomas set a Washington State preps record by scoring 51 points in a game against Franklin HS in the 4A boys basketball semi-finals, but it wasn't enough as the Quakers surged past the Vikings for a 80-76 win. Thomas broke the 1955 record for most points scored in a tournament game, previously held by Bob Beckel of Walla Walla. With 129 total points and one game to go, the 5'9" dynamo also passed up Adam Morrison (2003, Mead) and Jeff Brown (1989, Mead), who both scored 127 in their respective tournaments.
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"I have never seen a more impressive display of heart and desire," said Franklin coach Jason Kerr, hoarse and still shaking his head in disbelief. "I may just have to resign now."


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Maui is your gateway to some of the best whale-watching in the world. The waters off West Maui and South Maui are shielded by the West Maui Mountains and Haleakala, creating calm and clear waters for high visibility. Humpback whales are also drawn to the area's shallow waters, less than 180 metres deep, making Maui an ideal spot to start your voyage during the winter whale-watching season from December to May.
Treat yourself to scenic ocean views as expert guides take you to the best spots to observe whales playfully surfacing, tail-slapping, or blowing spouts in the air. Regulations prohibit boats from approaching within 100 metres of a whale and you should never swim with or touch whales or any other marine mammals.
Lahaina Harbor is home to a wide range of whale-watching tours. From charter boats to passenger rafts, a stroll past the whale-watching kiosks lining Lahaina Harbor reveals a variety of whale-watching options. During the peak of whale-watching season between January and early April, the pier is abuzz with activity. Tours last roughly 2-4 hours long and some even offer early bird specials.
From 1825 to 1860, Lahaina was the centre of whaling in Hawaii. This port town was once the royal capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom before it was moved to Honolulu in 1845. During this time, Lahaina was known as the Pacific's most significant whaling port. At its peak, whalers were hunting thousands of whales each year—to the point of near extinction. Today, conservation has helped to increase the overall whale population in Hawaii.
You can still explore Lahaina's whaling past today. Neighbouring the harbour, the Pioneer Inn—which was built in 1901—recalls the ambiance of whaling days. Echoes of the past can be found throughout this historic town from the modest Lahaina Lighthouse (the oldest lighthouse in the Pacific) to Hale Paahao, the Old Lahaina Prison, where rowdy sailors were rounded up for the night in the 1850's. Off of Kaanapali Beach, the upscale Whaler's Village mall also has an extensive Whaling Museum that is free to the public.
Cruises and whale tours also depart from Maalaea Harbor just north of Kihei. But you don't have to go on a whale-watching tour to spot whales. In fact, there are plenty of areas on Maui where humpbacks can frequently be seen from the shore during whale season. The scenic McGregor Point lookout west of Maalaea and the beaches of Kaanapali, Kihei and Wailea are also great spots to see whales.


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The El Camino Real boys basketball team went undefeated in the West Valley League and beat quality opponents such as Pasadena, Cantwell-Sacred Heart, Orange Lutheran, Alemany and Modesto Christian.
However, it wasn't good enough for the Conquistadores (25-2) to receive the top seed in the City Section Div. I playoffs when pairings were determined Saturday at Roybal High.
Westchester (24-6) was seeded No. 1 despite losses to St. Joseph/Santa Maria and St. Anthony.
"We're disappointed our body of work wasn't good enough in the committee's eyes, but it doesn't matter what the color of the jersey is in front us," ECR coach David Rebibo said. "We are not going to concern ourselves with those issues. We are happy to be in the Div. I playoffs and compete for a championship."
Although the Conquistadores (25-2) would have liked to receive the No. 1 seed, they received a favorable draw. ECR plays host Thursday to No. 15 Canoga Park and is on the opposite side of the bracket of Westchester, Fairfax, Palisades and Dorsey.
ECR is looking at a possible quarterfinal game against West Valley League rival Birmingham and a potential semifinal matchup against No. 3 Crenshaw, the undefeated Coliseum League champion.
"We're ready to go, we're hungry and we're ready to compete," Rebibo said.
Birmingham received the No. 7 seed and will play host to No. 10 Narbonne in the first round.
The Patriots (12-10) beat Taft twice, but hurt themselves with a 69-66 setback Friday against Granada Hills.
Taft, the two-time defending champion, was seeded No. 8 and plays host to No. 9 Washington Prep, the Marine League champion.
Taft faces a likely quarterfinal game against top-seeded Westchester.
Cleveland, which only beat Chatsworth twice in West Valley League play, received the No. 11 seed and travels to No. 6 University.
Despite sharing the Valley Mission League title, Kennedy (24-6) was awarded the top spot in Div. II over rival Sylmar (18-12) mainly because of its victory against Muir, which defeated the Spartans by two points.
The teams are expected to meet for a third time in the championship game March 1 at Venice High.
"I'm disappointed we aren't No. 1, but I was expecting it," Sylmar coach Bort Escoto said. "I don't think it's fair the City Section allows one or two coaches to pick the seeding committee and stack it in their favor. I'm not mad because if I were in the same situation I would stack it in my favor, too. I'm blaming the City for allowing it to happen."
Kennedy plays host Thursday to No. 16 Lincoln and is expected to face No. 8 Venice in a quarterfinal and could match up with No. 4 Bell, last year's Div. III champion, in the semifinals.
Sylmar faces No. 15 Bravo, could have an interesting quarterfinal against No. 7 Carson and might face No. 3 Granada Hills in the semifinals.
Carson upset Palisades in the ECR tournament Dec. 14 and Granada Hills proved it will be tough with its upset of Birmingham.
Granada Hills plays host to No. 14 Reseda in the first round.
Poly's victory Friday over Grant, creating a share of the East Valley League title, helped Chatsworth receive the highest seed among local teams in Div. III.
Chatsworth was awarded the No. 3 seed and plays host to No. 14 Contreras.
The Chancellors, who lost to Grant in the semifinals last year, could face the No. 6 Lancers (20-7) in the quarterfinals.
Poly is seeded No. 4 and takes on No. 13 Manual Arts.
The Parrots face a potential semifinal game against top-seeded Los Angeles High, a team they lost to in triple overtime Jan. 3.
Fulton Prep, Vaughn, Sun Valley, Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences and SOCES were included in the small-school division.
View Park Prep, the top seed, will be hard to unseat with 6-foot-10 forwards Brodricks Jones and Chance Comanche.


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ColdTowne(ATX) Nerdvana(LA)
Out of Bounds Comedy Festival
Saturday, September 3, 2011 at 11:00 PM (CDT)
Event Details
Saturday, September 3rd
11pm @ The Hideout Theatre - Upstairs
Cast:Justin York, Arthur Simone, Michael Jastroch
ColdTowne has been described as "darkly satirical" and
"explosive." Their long-form improv shows are, first and foremost,
character pieces. ColdTowne believes in the absurd predictability of
human behavior, and enjoys exploring the dark nooks and crannies of made
up people.
Cast:Stephen C. James, Chris Compton
(Sketch) Los Angeles
Science and religion are like Sid and Nancy: two freakishly interesting creatures who won't stop stabbing each other until both are dead. Nerdvana's "Nanotheology" is a sketch comedy tour through both halves of the human brain: the one useless enough to invent the USB Powered Coffee Cup Warmer and the one gullible enough to buy it.
Nerdvana has performed their geektacular brand of improvised and sketch comedy around the country since 2006. They've improvised weekly at IO West's Sunday Social for the past 3 years and hosted Sketch Devils, Second City LA's bi-weekly sketch comedy meltdown for the past year.
Together, they've been seen at Chicago Sketchfest, Austin's Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, the Improlympia Festival and writing for Hulu's "Twentysixmiles". Apart they've been seen/heard in The Blind Side, Cougar Town, the front page of the LA Times and LA's Moth Grand Slam.
When & Where
The Hideout Theatre - Upstairs
617 Congress Ave
Saturday, September 3, 2011 at 11:00 PM (CDT)
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Out of Bounds Comedy Festival
The Out of Bounds Comedy Festival is a 7-day live performance festival that showcases some of the best in improv, sketch, stand-up, and filmed comedy from all over the country. Now in it's 10th year, the festival also includes a miniature golf tournament where performers compete to win the Ridiculous Jacket, a trophy unrivalled in mini sports.


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Theoretical reasons and results of the works: Phys. Rev. A68 013806 (2003), Opt. Lett. 22 52 (1997), Optics Express 14 6963 (2006), Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 198104 (2004), Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 093602 (2003), Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 053601 (2002) prove that the angular momentum flux carried by a circularly polarized light beam with plane phase front equals two power of the beam divided by the frequency. This fact contradicts the standard electrodynamics, which predicts the beam's angular momentum flux equals power of the beam divided by frequency, and means the electrodynamics is incomplete. To correct the electrodynamics, a spin tensor is used.
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While Todd Sharp is driving down the highway between Charlotte and Atlanta, a new sales order triggers a lookup for the customer phone number and salesperson (that would be Todd) assigned to it. The system then polls Siemens OpenScape UC (unified communications) software and checks Todd's presence status, discovering that he's working remotely and available only on his cell. OpenScape kicks off a VoIP call to Todd's cell phone and, using a text-to-speech engine, reads the sales order over the phone. It then prompts Todd to press 1 to autodial the customer. Minutes after the order arrived, Todd is thanking the customer from his car.
"Unified communications is a very overhyped market," says Mark Straton, senior vice president of global marketing at Siemens Enterprise Networks, "and one that will probably take another two to 10 years to roll out in the enterprise."
Zeus Kerravala, a Yankee Group analyst, agrees. "The market is basically where it was two years ago," says Kerravala. "Interest in the enterprise is high, but actual deployments are low."
Why? In part because most organizations have only partly completed the transition from old TDM phone systems to VoIP, the essential ingredient of UC. Plus, ROI numbers for UC remain elusive. Benefits come in fuzzy areas like higher productivity and faster decision-making, rather than revenue and cost savings. As a result, most organizations apply UC to specific parts of the business where a severe lag in reaching certain individuals can negatively affect the business.
"We're seeing early adopters in financial services where seconds lost trying to reach someone can mean lots of money," says David Marshak, senior product manager for unified communications and collaboration at IBM Lotus Software. "We're also seeing it used in the medical field for first responders, to help them quickly find a close, available doctor with this capability and equipment, and that level of clearance."
Enter the software gorillas
Another obstacle to mainstream acceptance: Unified communications solutions have tended to originate with IP PBX vendors. Though IP-based, those systems were still largely proprietary, with software tied tightly to hardware and their own client software for UC functions, including instant messaging, VoIP calls, and audio or Web conferencing. Instead of accessing UC functions from the Outlook, Office Communicator, or Sametime clients they already knew, users had to learn a new client.
Today, however, IP telephony and UC are moving toward a more IT-centric software architecture, laying the groundwork for broader acceptance. A prime example is the software-based OpenScape solution, built from the ground up on SIP and SOA, and interoperable with a variety of third-party VoIP and instant messaging systems. But the traditional software players, including Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle, are also getting into the act.
Microsoft's upcoming OCS (Office Communications Server), which replaces LCS (Live Communications Server), actually includes several SIP-based VoIP calling features typically found in such IP PBXs as Cisco's Communications Manager, along with video and Web conferencing, telephony management tools, and speech recognition. All of that plus Microsoft's trademark instant messaging has been rolled in a single package accessible from Microsoft's Office Communicator client or Outlook. In OCS shops, Office users will be able to click on a person's name in any Office document and instantly obtain presence information, including whether they are on the phone, and then launch an IM, a voice call, or an audio or Web conference. OCS interoperates with mainstream IP PBXs, but on its own, it can even serve as a small office's VoIP system.
Microsoft is betting heavily that UC, including voice, will ultimately revolve around productivity software. "The movement of all communications to software is the uber-level thing that's happening," says Greg Saint James, Microsoft's senior director of UC, "and it will benefit everyone, making it much easier to integrate communications with all your other processes." And of course, Microsoft expects Active Directory to host the corporate dial plan.
Oracle's Service Delivery Platform, an extension of its fusion middleware, provides a J2EE/SOA-based platform for building and deploying multiple IP communications software services, including IP telephony, video, IMS, and presence – all of which can be integrated with standard backend business applications.
One of the smallest players, BlueNote Networks, is also one of the most advanced in enabling IP communications as a service that a variety of applications can consume. The company's flagship SessionSuite provides tools for building IP communications Web services and integrates with Active Directory and RADIUS servers. The capability of linking these services to CRM and other business applications is what could make Todd Sharp's example a reality in many organizations.
The PBX guys go deep
On the other side of this convergence are the traditional IP PBX vendors. An increasing number, including Nortel, Mitel, and Siemens, are moving full speed ahead to build in interoperability with Microsoft LCS and OCS, IBM's Lotus Sametime IM and conferencing package, and good old Outlook.
IBM recently announced it would license portions of OpenScape to bring connectivity and a single Sametime user interface to a number of different back-end IP PBX systems. This enables voice, video, conferencing, presence, and other UC features to be accessed from the software that users already know -- leveraging investments IT has already made, rather than forcing migration to Cisco, Avaya, or Mitel software.
Like Siemens, Mitel is looking to pull apart its hardware and software, allowing IT to run its PBX and UC solutions on Sun servers. Even Cisco is increasing efforts to integrate its communications solutions with those of its chief UC competitor, Microsoft, as well as IBM. "We recognize that no one vendor or developer can deliver all pieces of the unified communications puzzle," says Rick McConnell, vice president and general manager of Cisco's unified communications business unit.
Avaya is also investing heavily in supporting SOA architecture for its UC functions. Last March, the company announced its Communications Enabled Business Processes solution, which exposes an array of voice communications features as Web services.
Integration is the reason Fred Weber, a highway construction company and materials provider, chose a Nortel IP telephony system when it was time to upgrade its 20-year-old phone system and take advantage of UC. "We use Exchange and Live Communications Server and our staff all uses Office Communicator," says Phil Hagemann, Fred Weber's CIO. "The Nortel solution just laid right on top of what we had very neatly. We didn't have to use a new interface or deal with a large learning curve. With the competing solution we would have had to use their own messenger and presence client."
Fred Weber plans to take advantage of Nortel's unified messaging to receive voice mail and faxes in Exchange, while using presence in LCS and Office Communicator to reach users when they are in the office, in meetings, or on the road. Office Communicator will also be available on staff-issued BlackBerry smartphones, so itinerant users can take advantage of find me/follow me features to route their office calls to cell phones or other preferred devices.
It's all about presence
Whereas UC is about blending different communications media, presence is the engine on which UC runs. Presence is what makes it possible to reach the right person the first time, rather than getting stuck in a morass of e-mail and voice mail. "Thanks to presence, the number of voice mails I get has been reduced to just about zero," says Marshak. "Nobody would even think of dialing me without checking my presence information first."
With UC, presence goes beyond detecting whether a person is online or offline. Integrate presence with voice, calendaring, location capabilities, and find me/follow me features, you can actually locate where people are, whether they're in a meeting or on the phone, and determine the best way to reach them at a given moment. It's also about accessing that information from a variety of applications -- an Office document, a CRM application, or a mobile smartphone client.
With presence and find me/follow me capabilities, users can establish granular rules for who can reach them and how. "If I'm at my mother-in-law's house for a family situation, I can pick up her phone, dial into the system, and associate her phone with my account," says Engage's Todd Sharp. Then all calls to Todd's five-digit office extension are automatically routed to his mother-in-law's phone.
If Todd doesn't answer, calls can be routed to corporate voice mail, so that he has one voice mailbox to check instead of several. Or, Todd can set up rules that route calls from clients to their assigned project managers when Todd is not available. At the same time outgoing calls made from a cell phone or other phone can be bridged with the company phone system, so they appear to be coming from the main office. Global corporations with offices in several countries can save a bundle in mobile phone bills by using this capability.
Extending the reach of business
Clayton State University took advantage of bridging when gas pipeline problems from Hurricane Katrina led to gasoline shortages in the Atlanta area. Staff members simply worked from their home phones or laptop soft phones, but were still reachable from their five digit extensions as if they were in the office. And in fact UC promises to play an increasing role in corporate disaster recovery and business continuance plans.
Presence and find me/follow me features have actually allowed Kuepers Architects & Builders to expand its coverage from a 90-mile radius to 300 miles. By tying a Mitel IP phone system with Microsoft LCS and Exchange calendars, it's now much easier for the company to keep track of and reach its widely dispersed sales people, project managers, job supervisors, and foremen, who formerly moved a peg on a sign-out board when they left the office. When users leave the office, they simply hand off desk phone calls to their cell phones. And if they bring a laptop, unified messaging allows them to receive faxes or voice mails in their Outlook inbox.
Everyone agrees that the increasing penetration of SOA and related integration technologies is setting the stage for increased UC adoption. But UC vendors, including Microsoft and Oracle, recognize this as a long-term process. "Everyone knows that the lifecycle for corporate phone communications systems is typically 10 to 15 years and most are not going to change them out any time soon," says Siemens' Straton. When UC truly arrives, it won't be a platform on its own, but rather a set of services that can be embedded in many different applications.


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2010 Alumni Merit Award Recipient
Sr. Margaret Wright, R.Ph., Ph.D., BSPHA'62
Oct. 8, 2010
Upon first examination of the career of Sister Margaret Wright of the Religious Sisters of Mercy, one is struck by her stellar academic and professional record.
A 48-year veteran of the profession, she is impeccably educated, well-credentialed and widely lauded.
Sister Margaret received a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from Creighton in 1962; a Master of Science in Pharmacy Administration from the University of Colorado in 1971 and her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1998. From hospital staff pharmacist, to director of pharmacy services, to chair of the Illinois State Board of Pharmacy, her career path indicates competence, diligence and professionalism.
Sister Margaret is as adept at managing the people as she is the process, be that a million-dollar budget or a staff of 50. She has effectively applied the study of human resource management to advance the profession and along the way, has left her individual mark in a number of ways, such as designing pharmacy facilities for a new hospital, developing hospital protocols for physician's orders and mentoring newcomers to the profession.
Upon closer examination, it is evident that – quite fortuitously – pharmacy has been the vehicle that allowed Sister Margaret to serve others and to fully experience life as a witness of Jesus in the world.
Sister Margaret is a servant leader who displays qualities of love, mercy and charity for those who rely on her. Joyfulness is central to her character. She is a relationship builder who, in 2004, was awarded the Leadership Mentor Award by the American Pharmacists Association.
Sister Margaret bears the unmistakable influence of her Jesuit education. Nominators speak to her humanness and to her willingness to engage the world and to change it. For nearly five decades, she has championed the quality of life of the people of Illinois and has promoted health care as a basic right.
Using ethical and moral principles to solve problems, Sister Margaret follows what is right, not what is expedient. She has often addressed formidable business and political interests to assure public protection and safety for all.
In the words of one nominator; "Through justice in our laws and social systems, Sister Margaret has worked relentlessly for the common good, mentoring many along the way. Even now as a consultant, she continues to challenge the powerful to care for those in need, and to do right for all concerned."
Creighton University is proud to confer upon Sister Margaret Wright of the Religious Sisters of Mercy the 2010 Alumni Merit Award for the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions.


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A sialogram is an x-ray of the salivary ducts and glands.
The salivary glands are located on each side of the face. They release saliva into the mouth.
How the Test is Performed
The test is performed in a hospital radiology department or a radiology facility. The test is done by an x-ray technician. A radiologist interprets the results. You may be given a medicine to make you calm before the procedure.
You will be asked to lie on your back on the x-ray table. An x-ray is taken before the contrast material is injected to check for blockages that might prevent the contrast material from entering the ducts.
A catheter (a small flexible tube) is inserted through your mouth and into the duct of the salivary gland. A special dye (contrast medium) is then injected into the duct. This allows the duct to show up on the x-ray. X-rays will be taken from several positions. The sialogram may be performed along with a CT scan.
You may be given lemon juice to help you produce saliva. The x-rays are then repeated to examine the drainage of the saliva into the mouth.
How to Prepare for the Test
Tell the health care provider if you are:
- Pregnant
- Allergic to x-ray contrast material or any iodine substance
- Allergic to any drugs
You must sign a consent form. You will need to rinse your mouth with germ-killing (antiseptic) solution before the procedure.
How the Test will Feel
You may feel some discomfort or pressure when the contrast material is injected into the ducts. The contrast material may taste unpleasant.
Why the Test is Performed
A sialogram may be done when your provider thinks you might have a disorder of the salivary ducts or glands.
What Abnormal Results Mean
Abnormal results may suggest:
- Narrowing of the salivary ducts
- Salivary gland infection or inflammation
- Salivary duct stones
- Salivary duct tumor
There is low radiation exposure. X-rays are monitored and regulated to provide the minimum amount of radiation exposure needed to produce the image. Most experts feel that the risk is low compared with the potential benefits. Pregnant women should not undergo this test. Alternatives include tests like an MRI scan that do not involve x-rays.
Alternative Names
Ptyalography; Sialography
Miller-Thomas M. Diagnostic imaging and fine-needle aspiration of the salivary glands. In: Flint PW, Haughey BH, Lund LJ, et al, eds. Cummings Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery. 6th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Mosby; 2015:chap 84.
Review Date 2/9/2015
Updated by: Alan Lipkin, MD, Otolaryngologist, private practice, Denver, CO. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Isla Ogilvie, PhD, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.


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