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How long is your typical studio workday? | Q.O.W. for 11/27/2012
Posted 27 November 2012 - 10:17 AM
When you get into the studio......... how long do you typically tend to be able to work? Is it short bursts as a part-time potter? Are you a full-time "Matrathon Man (or Woman)"? Is it all over the place? Does it vary by seasons?
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Posted 27 November 2012 - 11:29 AM
When the weekend rolls around I have glazing, loading and firing, or raku firing time which will use up to 6 or 8 hours on one day. When I took a staycation recently, I was able to spend two 10 hour days out of five making and replenishing stock for an upcoming show. With the cooperation of my lovely bride of over thirty years, I get bisque firing done during the week so I can glaze and fire on a weekend.
When I retire from construction management in two or three years, my plan is to spend 4 or 5 hours per day in the studio; maybe more if the marketing/sales aspect develops well. Currently I have ramped up from one or two art festival/ art center sales per year to four. For 2013 I have three Spring shows and two Fall shows lined up. I will have a busy Winter in the studio as the Spring shows are every other weekend and will allow littel time for making new stock between.
Posted 28 November 2012 - 12:26 AM
The big thing for me was about 5 -7 years ago my wife asked me why I was working so hard-seems its in my DNA as I'm told I'm a type A person. I own everything in my life so it was not for money-it took a few years to answer her question and that simple question has made me slow down some in ceramics and spend more time doing the other passions I have in life.Now I'm down to 8 shows a year and 4 outlets for pottery.
At one time I did 15 shows a year with 6 outlets.
You can make some serious money in clay but it takes serious work
Posted 28 November 2012 - 10:53 AM
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Posted 01 January 2013 - 12:08 PM
As for the original question, I will work from the time I get up until I have to take a shower and go to bed. This is relaxing.
Posted 01 January 2013 - 02:03 PM
I am not a full time potter, but I do two open studio sales at Christmas, and two in the spring. I go to four craft fairs-not the four day ones, the weekend 1-2 day ones. I sell everything I make and supply a couple of galleries, wholesale and consignment. I avoid consignment, as galleries tend to go bust with my work sitting in there. I tend to work more in the winter, and the summers up here are beautiful, so we hit the beach. It is my intention to retire in two years and make pots full time. But, I will also have a pension.
Posted 01 January 2013 - 02:51 PM
Workind a demanding job like mine you need to keep perspective on the things you really want to be doing. I try to only get invloved in things at work that are really important and not get sucked into everyone elses drama and deadlines. Perhaps it is holding me back at my job right now, but I honestly do not care.
I did 4 short shows last year, and I intend on doing about 6 this year, only 1-2 day shows. I would also like to get some wholesale going and have a plan on getting my name out there and hope I can make that happen. I also intend on getting a social Clay Club going in my area which will not take much time except for the big event on May whish will force me to stop throwing for a week or two.
I long for the day that I can be a full time potter, perhaps I will get fired and can make a go if it.
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Posted 23 January 2013 - 10:29 AM
I do make a little side cash doing numerology and reiki, but that's just enough to support my yarn/ starbucks habbit. ha ha!
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Posted 23 January 2013 - 12:50 PM
How long is your typical studio workday?
When you get into the studio......... how long do you typically tend to be able to work? Is it short bursts as a part-time potter? Are you a full-time "Matrathon Man (or Woman)"? Is it all over the place? Does it vary by seasons?
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Hmm as I am retired now, I get out to the shop infreuently as many other things with the wife take president. However, a usual work day is at least 6 hrs long. Many times it will be 8. During the teaching years when I was doing shows, I would be out in the shop at first break of Spring everyday. After getting home, I would start work in the shop until dinner was ready, and then get back out until what I thought was 10 ish, and usually ended up being 1 or 2 am. This went on until July 10th as the Penn State festival was around the 15th. Sadly/Happily those days ended about 8 years later when I started teaching graduate courses for a local college.
Nowadays, I have to have a project to move me. Most of my pots I make now are because I want to, not out of a need to sell or make money. I have several projects in the gestation stages, and have started into prototypes for some of them. New glazes to be worked on, and ideas about slab form/molds for a series of jars and lamps. Once a project is in final stages I will be in the shop for hours with no breaks until completed. A project usually entails a series of pots, not just one.
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This is the second year I've run the Jerry Maher Sr. Memorial 5k for Parkinson's Awareness. Last year I finished in 27:46. It's weird to think of that as a good time now.
This year I went into the race not remembering what I ran last year. I remembered the race and the course but I couldn't remember what I ran and I didn't really care. I have run about 40 miles so far this week and my legs are trashed. I'm four weeks out from Burning River 100 and all I can think about is tapering. So I hoped I'd pull a 25+ minute run out of my behind today. I would have been thrilled with 26-27 minutes too.
When we arrived I noticed every fast local runner was there. Heath, Emery, Dom, Rich, and Dana were all warming up and chatting around the starting area. I saw plenty of women that had that lean, hungry look that usually signifies speed that I didn't know by name as well. I figured I was well out of the awards at this point and just hoped I'd survive without walking.
Shane and I collected our bags and hung out in the car until 15 minutes before the 9am start. Then I did a quick warm up run up the road and back to see what my legs were going to give me today. I had an easy 9 minute mile pace on the uphill and no problem flashing 7's on the way back down so I decided to go out like I was actually racing and let my legs dictate the pace from there.
At the last minute, literally on the starting line, they announced that a tree had fallen on the course and a bridge was out so the course had been diverted and would be almost entirely new. I was a little ticked that this couldn't have been posted earlier, whether online or by sign at the race. I had definitely arrived early enough that I could have run the whole course as a warm up but I assumed I knew it already. Now I was flying blind.
After a couple false starts (no kidding, they actually pulled us back for that) we were finally off. The lead pack was gone in minutes and I was pretty much by myself. There was a group of young kids all around me and I kept waiting for them to die off but they never really did. Every time one fell off the back another one caught a second wind and took their place. I tried to ignore their uneven pacing and labored breathing and focus on running as evenly as I could. I figured even 7:50's would get me a PR but it was still a long shot.
Mile 1: 7:53
The second mile turned out to be a long, gradual uphill. I kept chugging along and hoping for it to end. And it finally did right as I hit mile 3.
*I didn't post this on my blog but there was a guy in this mile pushing a young kid to run up the hill. The kid was coughing and wheezing and sounded like he was having an asthma attack but the guy kept pushing. I slowed down 3 or 4 times thinking I would say something or yell at the guy and then I would worry I was out of line and start moving again. I must have had oxygen deprivation because, looking back, I totally should have said something, especially now that I know the guy was one of the Maher brothers who directs this race. What a jagoff!
Mile 2: 8:51
The third mile was pretty gentle and I picked up the pace. There were a few small out and backs with sharp turns to eat into my steady pace. By 2.5 I wanted nothing more than to stop and walk but there were some older guys urging on the young kids that were still hanging with me and I did not want to get beat by any of them. I started focusing on picking them off one at a time until the finish line was in sight.
Mile 3: 7:56
I didn't have much of a kick and just tried to hold on through the chute. I ended up with an official time of 24:40 for 43 overall and 2nd in my age group. Considering this was on dead legs and in 80 degree heat plus on a hilly course, I'll take it. If it weren't for that darned second mile of uphill I very well might have PR'ed. I can pretty much guarantee that, if I survive Burning River, my first 5k post-recovery is going to blow my previous times out of the water.
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Gotta be the haircut. Way to recover after that second mile.
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I can pretty much guarantee that, if I survive Burning River, my first 5k post-recovery is going to blow my previous times out of the water.
Congrats on the 2nd AG. I hope that you can crush that PR after recovering, sounds like a good plan.
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Congrats! Great job!
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Gee Wally, that sure sounds like a swell race and all, but I don't think Eddie shoulda pushed that kid so hard.
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Congratulations on your race. It's funny how scoping out the racers beforehand doesn't always yield the expected results. Great job pushing yourself and getting the most out of the race.
I'll keep my eyes open for you at Burning River - I think with the new haircut you'd be pretty easy to spot. I'm just pacing, but should be out there for a good 50 miles or so.
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Congratulations on your race. It's funny how scoping out the racers beforehand doesn't always yield the expected results. Great job pushing yourself and getting the most out of the race.
I'll keep my eyes open for you at Burning River - I think with the new haircut you'd be pretty easy to spot. I'm just pacing, but should be out there for a good 50 miles or so.
Yay! Hope I see you there!
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Nice work!!
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Nice race! I feel terrible for that poor kid, and I don't generally feel for anything. I have a soft spot for kids though, I really hate to see them mistreated.
Your splits are pretty even given the course layout, you are definitely trending in the right direction.


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Dr. Jacqueline Pope-Tarrence
Associate Dean for Accountability and Research / Professor, Social Psychology
Office: GRH 2044
Phone: 270-745-4661
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- Ph.D., University of Louisville
- M.A. in Psychology - Western Kentucky University
- B.A. in Psychology - Murray State University
Primary Responsibilities
- Continued oversight of the institution's obligations to the maintenance of NCATE accreditation
- Monitoring the College's internal and external accountability/assessment efforts
- Liaison between the university PEU and EPSB regarding program development and state requirements
- Prepare PEDS and Title II federal reports
- Prepare unit-wide assessment report
- Preparation of materials for the various professional education units to complete their annual program reports
- Update college PEU information for EPSB
- Assist various departments with the development of program assessment plans and curriculum contracts
- Review all theses and specialist projects within the college
Research and Teaching Interests
My current research focus includes:
- Citizen's Police Academies
- Attitudes Toward Jury Service
- Perceptions of Law Enforcement
- Prejudice Attributional Bias
- Children and the Leniency Bias
Courses Taught
- PSY 350 Social Psychology
- PSY 470 Psychology and Law
- PSY 552 Advanced Social Psychology
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A day after former Mets catcher Brian Schneider signed with the Phillies, the Mets picked up former Phils catcher Chris Coste.
Coste spent the second half of this past season with the Houston Astros.
Coste certainly is not a No. 1 catcher with his paltry offensive numbers, but he could be a solid backup and substitute at first base. The Mets still need to go out and find an offensive catcher.
Below is the official release:
The New York Mets on Dec. 3 announced they have signed catcher/first baseman Chris Coste to a one-year contract and have added him to the 40-man roster.
Coste, 36, spilt the 2009 season between Philadelphia and Houston, batting .224 with two home runs and 18 RBI. He began the season with the Phillies before being claimed off waivers by the Astros on July 10.
Coste hit .263 with 17 doubles, nine home runs and 36 RBI in 2008 with Philadelphia.
In his four-year major league career, Coste has appeared in 299 games with a .272 batting average, 47 doubles, 23 home runs and 108 RBI. The Fargo, N.D. native has started 176 games at catcher and 16 at first base since making his major league debut in 2006.


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Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War explores how Lincoln used the Constitution to confront three intertwined crises of the war—the secession of Southern states, slavery, and wartime civil liberties.
Lincoln: the Constitution and the Civil War, a traveling exhibition for libraries, was organized by the National Constitution Center and the American Library Association Public Programs Office. The traveling exhibition has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Lincoln: the Constitution and the Civil War is based on an exhibition of the same name developed by the National Constitution Center.


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Closet-Sharing Plan: Jeremy , a software engineer, dressed for work as if he were still enrolled at Ridgemont High. His wife, Nadia , had no interest in borrowing Spicoli's look. So we compromised on a suit without actually wearing one. The secret? A vest instead of a jacket! Jeremy can keep his cool swagger with the vest, shirt, and tie (after all, Justin pulled it off). Nadia gets to go a little Annie Hall while maintaining a feminine and youthful spirit when she pairs the vest with a diaphanous chiffon dress.
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:: Introduction to Creative Writing
Spring 2013
@Leeward CC
|Credit Hours:
Melanie Van Der Tuin
455-0338 (Ph)
455-0640 (Fax)
|Course URL:
|Instructional Mode:
|01/07/2013 - 05/01/2013
|Course Requirements:
|Students will be contacted by their instructor by UH email before the first day of instruction. Students must check their UH email for course correspondence before the first day of instruction.
Rec Preparation: Experience in using computers for writing.
|Course Prerequisites:
|Prerequisite: ENG 100 or equivalent with a grade of C or higher; or approval
from the Language Arts Division.
|Course Description:
|Students will practice writing poems, scenes, and short stories.
The course includes creative writing assignments, discussion of
professional works, and discussion of each student's writing. May be
repeated for additional credit. (formerly ENG 201)
|Required Textbooks:
Minot, Stephen. ThreeGenres: The Writing of Fiction/Literary Nonfiction, Poetry, and Drama (9thed.)
Books may be purchased at the Leeward CC bookstore or ordered online at Books may be purchased at the (campus) bookstore or ordered online at (campus bookstore URL). If you do not have access to the Internet or unable to travel to the bookstore, you may also order by phone at 1-800-UHBOOKS. If you do not have access to the Internet or unable to travel to the bookstore, you may also order by phone at 1-800-UHBOOKS
|Technical Requirements:
|The Internet allows students to take a course at home using a personal computer. Familiarity with using a computer and basic Internet skills (browsing, sending e-mail, saving/sending files) is required. Students must have a computer with Internet access. Depending on the online course, students may be required to log in at a specific day and time or at anytime. Students taking an online course should always contact their instructor after registration or prior to the first day of class to get detailed information regarding the course.
Minimum Computer Hardware/Software Requirements:
It is also required that you obtain a UH Email account. Please go to the following URL for more information: http://www.hawaii.edu/askus/563
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|DE AA Degree core
Alternate Technology Access Plan: In registering for a Distance Education course (Cable or Web) the student is responsible for finding immediate alternate access to a computer with Internet connectivity or cable television should that student experience technical difficulties. Technical difficulties can include but are not limited to problems with a student's computer hardware/software; inoperability of a student's VCR or DVR; or lack of service by a student's Internet Service Provider (ISP) or Cable Provider. Technical issues do not constitute the extension of an assignment, project, quiz or exam deadline unless agreed upon by the instructor.
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A TACTICAL half-time switch of goalkeepers showed just how ruthless David Flitcroft is willing to be in pursuit of his brand of total football.
With the game finely poised, the Bury boss risked the points by pulling experienced stopper Brian Jensen out of the fray and handing 19-year-old rookie Reice Charles-Cook his league debut.
As Flitcroft explained, he believed Jensen's safety-first approach to clearances, disobeying orders to retain possession at all costs, was at the heart of their below-par display in the Roots Hall stalemate.
"It was the right decision – it wasn't brave," said the 40-year-old Shakers boss.
"I can't keep calling for people to do their jobs and then, when they are not, fail to do anything about it.
"He was giving away possession. If that was a centre-half I would have done something about it."
The only other major talking point of a strangely low-key match was Southend substitute Barry Corr's 83rd-minute red card for an apparent head butt on Bury defender Frederic Veseli, which was missed by referee Lee Collins but picked up by his assistant.
Bury were hamstrung by the absence of their leading goalscorers, Daniel Nardiello and Anton Forrester, and influential midfielders Craig Jones and Tommy Miller, all through injury.
However, they carved out the best chance of the opening half when Andrew Tutte broke Southend's offside trap and tried to roll the ball to unmarked striker Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro, but his centre was cut out and Danny Mayor's shot from the rebound was blocked.
Charles-Cook was clearly nervous following his unexpected introduction and endured a hairy moment early in the second half when his attempted short pass to Jim McNulty was intercepted by Anthony Straker, who found Freddie Eastwood in the box but his shot on the turn went wide.
The debutant grew in confidence as the half wore on, though, and produced a confident take above a ruck of players in the dying moments to relieve some late pressure.
It was a third straight draw for Bury against teams in the top seven following hard-earned points against League Two promotion contenders Fleetwood Town and Rochdale.
Southend manager and former Wanderer Phil Brown, whose side continue to cling to the final play-off spot despite a run of 11 league matches without a win, was certainly impressed by their resilient performance.
"I loved the way David played the game - he was an 'up-an-at-em' character - and he wants his teams to play the same way, but he also wants them to play football and you could see that," he said.
"Tactically in the first half they absolutely baffled me, playing something like a 3-6-1, but don't get me wrong, it wasn't negative, they quickly got support up to Akpa Akpro.
"So David has certainly got a future in the game as a coach and as a manager and I would be delighted if they survive."
Results elsewhere went in Bury's favour as they moved up two places to 17th in the table, but they remain just four points above the drop zone.
SOUTHEND UNITED: Bentley; White, Sokolik, Egan, Coker; Laird, Leonard, Clifford (Atkinson 57); Hurst, Eastwood (Corr 57), Straker (Barnard 75).
Not used: Smith, Prosser, Timlin, Payne.
BURY: Jensen 5 (Charles-Cook 6 46); Veseli 6, Mills 6, McNulty 5; Sedgwick 6, Soares 6, Tutte 6, Hussey 5 (Young 88); Mayor 5; Akpa Akpro 6, Grimes 5 (Platt 5 58).
Not used: Hinds, Carroll, Burke, Dudley.
Yellow cards: Southend United – Leonard 65, Egan 82. Bury – Hussey 43, Mills 52.
Red cards: Southend United – Barry Corr 83.
Referee: Lee Collins (Surrey)
Attendance: 5,680 (181 visiting)
Star man: Reice Charles-Cook – The teenager looked shaky at times and with good reason after being handed a shock league debut in a crucial match for both sides. But, thankfully, manager David Flitcroft's bold decision to replace experienced goalkeeper Brian Jensen on a matter of footballing principle did not backfire and the former Arsenal trainee grew into his gloves as the match wore on. His debut was made all the more special as his extended family – mum, dad, brothers and granddad – travelled down from London to see him and ended up cheering on their pride and joy with the rest of the Bury fans behind the goal.


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The College President
Paul C. Pribbenow became Augsburg College's 10th president in 2006. His articulation of a powerful but simple vision for the College—"We believe we are called to serve our neighbor"—strengthens Augsburg's institutional calling and reinforces the College's commitments to global perspectives, living faith, active citizenship, and meaningful work.
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Augsburg Corporation
The Augsburg Corporation represents the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's constitutional support to the College from Augsburg's four designated synods—Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Southeastern Minnesota, and the Northwest Synod of Wisconsin. The Governing Board of the corporation includes representatives from congregations in the four synods, and Augsburg's Board of Regents, faculty, college administrators, and students.
The Governing Board's primary task is to represent the ELCA for the purpose of electing Augsburg's Board of Regents. The Governing Board meets annually to elect regents, as well as to keep current about the College in order to lend ongoing spiritual and other support.
Augsburg Board of Regents
The Augsburg Board of Regents is the official governing entity of the College and is entrusted with the task of electing Augsburg's president. The regents are elected for four-year terms.
President's leadership team
The President's Leadership Team is the primary administrative decision-making body for the College. This group focuses on strategic discussions and collaboration in order to ensure that decisions are informed as broadly as possible.
Leadership Forum
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How and why is it funny? Any suggestions?
Before I even read your article, I was slightly afraid that, written about an Indian university, this article had the students of that institute as the target audience, and so it wouldn't be funny to a person who knew next to nothing about CIPET. Well, I am glad that I can say I've had a very nice read, and so I would like to help you to make this article as funny as possible!
It is to the humour of the article that I gave the most points. There different comedy themes and techniques used, you have an effective repetition of the word "small" in a few sections (just don't overuse it), but this is far from the only technique you use. The Moon joke ("before mankind yet set foot on the Moon", "in 1968") is very good, as well as the quote ("I am studying in CIPET..."), which I thought would have looked even better before the introduction, the line about Wall-E and a lot of other things that I won't mention for the fear of not being able to finish my review.
However, when you see such level of humour, it is quite disappointing, if at some moments, you feel like the author did not polish the article enough. This generally concerns prose, but not only.
For instance, I found a few sentences not linked to the rest of the article. The already mentioned one about Moon landings loses from not being referenced later. You don't explain why you chose this event to describe the creation of the university. Maybe the costumes and the equipment of the astronauts inspired Brigadier., by showing him that you could engineer plastics? Or did Mr. Eugene think that the Moon was abundant in plastics, which could be used in Indian industry, and so decided to start his university even before the landings, so that he had no competition?
These are my ideas, but you can find many others, and an original approach to a historical event will always be interesting and funny.
There are many things, which you start talking about and abandon soon after. CIPET's founder, Brigadier., for example, is not mentioned a single time in the second half of the article, although I find a lot of opportunities to do that effectively. For example, why would a university need to make a male reproduction organ its logo? Maybe, "the logo of CIPET honours a small and impotent thing that female beings usually don't prefer, which Brigadier A F. Eugene carried with pride nonetheless." (This would be my version of the phrase about the logo in the "Others" section, but once again you can find yours.)
There is also a minor issue I wanted to talk about in details. In the introduction, I thought that words such as "rubbish" and "pathetic" expressed your comedy strategy too overtly, because even if it's not necessarily your opinion, students often rant at their university, and so it is not very funny or original. The fact that they are in quotation marks and are stricken out makes it extremely difficult to find out what you are trying to say. Putting a word in quotation marks brings specific attention to it, and usually implies irony. Maybe you were pretending that this was the opinion of students? In this case, striking through proves it false and irony later ("premier", "institute") does not seem very suitable, as it affirms the contrary once again. As if you were giving someone else's opinion and then hesitating on it, suddenly saying exactly the opposite, but then hesitating on that point of view as well. I find this too complicated just for the first sentence, and you?
Concerning quotation marks, I have a suggestion, which might work quite well, but it's up to you if you want to try it: you can pursue the ironic tone with the quotation marks only, by making the use more and more absurd. For example, you could say: "[...] CIPET is the "premier" "institute" of academics of India. It was established by the "Government" in 1968 with a "mission" of cleaning out all the "plastics" lying on the "roads" of the country [...]". In this case, the "rubbish" and "pathetic" part seems
"quite" unnecessary. (Rather confusing, no?)
How good is an idea behind the article?
The concept, in general, seems well thought-out and what is good is the diverse techniques you use and the fact that you are not afraid to make a statement and then play with it in a few lines, which is funnier than if you just made a separate joke every single time, but also keeps the reader in and interested. What I mean is "going to University of Toronto and getting kicked out", next "as you will find out eventually, they get kicked out" and finally the next sentence.
As I said at the beginning, the fact that you were writing this for everyone, not just the CIPET students is, despite the argument on your talk page (which I have read), added to the pleasure I received when reading the page. But I am not sure you went to the end with this idea. I felt that some things still need to be explained, such as the "Kabaadiwallahas", as the word is used three times in the article. From the context, I guessed that it meant unemployed or homeless people, but Oxford dictionary says that "kabbadi" is a name of a special game and "wallah" - a person concerned with something specific. Maybe I was right, and saying that a person is a player of a specific Indian game, is a more interesting way of saying "unemployed", but the reader will never guess, if you don't help him.
On the contrary, some parts could be a lot more subtle. I personally prefer the "IHTFP" abbreviation better than "it sucks", just because it tells the same thing but not too overtly, and guessing what it means is quite interesting, which I can say, as a reader.
You may find such remarks contradictory, but sometimes keeping the balance between explicitness and hidden references, can be achieved by adding a sentence in a few places and removing a key phrase, that spoils the tone, in another. I'll return to this type of phrases in the next section.
How good does it look and how well does it read?
Prose is one of the most important areas of a humour article, and this also is the area you need to concentrate on the most. You can write well and you do that, most of the time. But the overall impression of the prose in your article is importantly affected by how the writing in one part of your article contrasts that in the other and how you can suddenly change your tone and even jargon.
Some phrases an even sections are brilliant, for instance no matter how simply structured the quote of a CIPET student is, it's very concise and very funny, which is brilliant (brevity is the soul of wit). However, while reading the page, I also thought that there were parts that you haven't re-read even once. One of such phrases was the one at the end of Student life section, starting "When asked about..." It had a very complex structure, which was probably the reason why you missed a grammatical error there, but also a language I call too overt, in comparison to the other, cleverer parts. While doing my own proofreading, I modified that construction, removing both the error and the aforementioned "it sucks". Concerning the first one, I would suggest breaking a long sentence in several small ones to avoid a too complex structure, if you are afraid of such issues. Or at least, do it in your mind and check if all the small sentences you get make sense grammatically, if they don't, then maybe you had a problem in the initial one!
I remember a Russian movie, where the protagonist starts a so long-winded compliment to a woman, that in the middle he forgets where he started and stops at the word "because". When it comes to that, it's not hard to make mistakes, and more than once.
Concerning the second point, this is the same one as with the word "noobs" in Academics. It is also what I meant by you changing your jargon. The problem is that these words immediately introduce another, unneeded type of language into a previously well-written article - which is a teenager or a chatroom dialect. It generally does you no good, unless you base your joke on the word you are using, and such joke I don't see here. And I am not talking about encyclopedic style....
Words such as "losers" and "noobs" are the ones that also tend to express your opinion, something you should try to avoid as much as possible in a humour article. If you are writing comedy, then you always express an opinion, because you need one to produce humour, but you express it in a different way than you do in other types of writing. If they simply stated what they thought, it wouldn't have been funny. In CIPET I have noticed many such "opinions" - even "for obvious reasons" at the end of Alumni. What is obvious for you, is not necessarily obvious for me, and I am still trying to figure out why Manufacturing students never graduate, considering that there was no clear difference between Plastic Engineering and Manufacturing students at any time before that point.
To summarize, try to keep explicitness out of your article, as well as the opinion. General opinion about a subject is something that motivates you to write an article on it and should stay behind it, but shouldn't get on paper in any obvious way, - you can consider it, as a taboo, to talk about which you need a certain circumlocution - but "small" opinions about small things are equally dangerous!
Concerning formatting, as in a Pee Review, it is usually described in the same part as prose, you page is well organized in general and I think that you know the basics of wiki coding and even more.
Be careful with sections, though, and their headings: I thought that "Others" should have been called "Trivia" instead and, in fact, shouldn't have been a separate section in the first place. You can mention the logo in the infobox (more about it in the Image part) or add a paragraph just about it, and the railway janitors part can also be somewhere in the actual text, because the way it is now, I don't see what specific joke you are making and how it is relevant to everything else you write.
Alumni section is not about alumni either, but rather about their achievements, and See also is supposed to give links to articles related to your topic, not just the synonyms of "small". You can either use all of them in the article to make "small" appear less often or find pages to which you can link all of the synonyms. However, attention! They should be relevant. India? Toronto? The Moon? You decide.
How are the images? Are they relevant, with good quality and formatting?
After prose, illustrations is the part that, in my opinion, you need to take care of the most. The article has only one image, which is a pity, even though that image is good.
Remember that a well-chosen picture with a witty caption can add a lot to the humour of the text. I propose some images in this review, which you can use, if you like. In general, if it's hard for you to find a proper illustration, you can add anything, from plastics to Indian roads and to the Moon landing. It's always possible to make almost any image look well in almost any article. (Check Objectivity, if you want proof!)
You can also add more pictures resembling the existing one - that is, depicting some poor place, building or object and presenting it as the pride of CIPET. But what the article definitely needs is the actual logo of the university. The "small" and "impotent thing" joke can be funny on its own, but the reader might think that this is just a random mention of the male genitals, very remotely linked to the topic of the article, unless he sees that you had a reason to mention it.
Nevertheless, one important thing not to forget, is that having too many images is as bad as having too few, as the reader's attention will be dispersed entirely, and so you should try to keep a balance between the amount of text and the number of illustrations you add to the text. But good pictures look very well in articles of a considerable size, which leads me to something else...
The article's overall quality - that indefinable something.
I am using this section to praise you on your inexhaustible amount of original ideas ("a small insect with a gene coded for cellophane", Plastic-man, Indian ink, "small "Hot Wheels" bicycles, "the world famous Kabaadiwallahs' Chamber of Commerce", etc.) and to remind you that if you have so many, maybe you need to make more out of them.
Trust me, size matters.
An overall summation of the article.
To conclude, this article has moments of brilliance as well as some parts that could still be worked on. I wouldn't say that it's entirely ready, but I would love to see it featured, which it certainly will be, after you look at a few more things.
I've mentioned all of the problems I found in the article, which I don't feel the need to repeat. They mostly concerned prose and illustrations, but the page will gain a lot if you just re-read it, as if you were another person, and try to figure out how it could be improved upon in general.
But the main advise I want to give concerns your collaboraton with other users. I know that Spike added a few parts to the article and rewrote some others, and his additions were very good, but I don't think that should stop you from making further edits. As it is your article, it is you who has the "vue d'ensemble", as the French say, basically - the overall picture of where you want to get your article, and so don't be afraid to appropriate others' additions. If you consider Spike's new sections as an encouragement to make your more of your own, for example, then you'll be able to make it something personal.
And no matter how well Spike writes, it is impossible for another person to keep exactly the same tone as you, so it is a must that you, at least, look at others' edits and see if you can make them fit the page better. That being said, you can still analyze what new comedy strategies another writer brings to alter your own a little and get new ideas.
Good luck and I am sure this page will soon reach a great height (even though it depends on your perception of "soon")! Finally, if you have any questions or comments, don't be afraid to contact me on my talk page!


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Cole's blazing fastball thrown Curve
Bucs' No. 2 prospect allows three hits, fans six in six frames
By Sam Dykstra / Special to MLB.com | July 31, 2012 8:49 PM ET
MLB.com's No. 8 prospect allowed three hits and one walk while striking out six over six shutout innings, but the Curve lost to Trenton, 2-1. The outing was his first scoreless start and his first six-inning affair since being promoted from Class A Advanced Bradenton on June 19.
That provided for the best outing of the 21-year-old right-hander's brief career in the Eastern League, after starting 2-4 with a 4.85 ERA. That wasn't lost upon the hurler.
"I would say it's the best I've participated, but not necessarily the best I've felt," he said. "Establishing the fastball was the biggest part of it for me. It was better today than it perhaps has been before, and just having a pitch that I could go to when I needed it really helped. That was the biggest thing."
Cole, who lowered his ERA to 3.94, only allowed one Thunder baserunner to reach scoring position -- Rob Segedin on a sixth-inning double -- before finishing his night after six innings and just 82 pitches (53 for strikes).
The numbers in Cole's pitching line were tight, but the digits that left people in Waterfront Park buzzing came from the stadium radar gun. The 2011 first overall pick hit 100 mph five times Tuesday, including three times in the sixth inning.
The increase in fastball velocity over time, reminiscent perhaps of the equally hard-throwing AL MVP and Cy Young winner Justin Verlander, is no mistake, according to Cole.
"In the start of the game, I'm just looking to apply my mechanics and get a gameplan down," said the Pirates' No. 2 prospect. "But as I get deeper into the game, I can become more aggressive because I've faced these guys a few times and crank it up a little. I almost never get tired too, so I've usually got something left in the tank even late."
Cole's hand was forced as he approached the later innings. No. 20 Yankees prospect Brett Marshall was equal to the task, allowing just one run on four hits in his six innings on the mound for the Thunder. Although he admitted he didn't pay much attention to Marshall's individual performance, Cole did acknowledge that he kept an eye on the scoreboard and tried to pitch accordingly.
"When it's tight like that, you don't want to do anything to let them hit it out or put a runner in scoring position," he said. "It just makes you more cautious about what you're doing out there."
The UCLA product was already being careful on the hill, ever since being plunked by two line drives June 26. A CT scan was negative, and the only resulting injury was a jaw contusion. He made his next start six days later on July 2. Although the physical effects were limited, the mental repercussions still linger a little.
"It was definitely something I was thinking about when I stepped on the mound again [in my next start]," Cole said. "I'm still pretty flinchy when a ball comes back at me though. It was more apprehension than anything, but for the most part, I've calmed my nerves."
Now that the scary event is officially behind him, the only thing Cole has on his mind is putting together more outings like Tuesday's and ending his first professional season on a high note.
"My fastball command can still get better," he said. "I can recognize individual hitters better and how to face them in each at-bat. But it's not about getting better at this point. It's just trying to repeat the success."
The Curve starter did not receive the win, though, after reliever Hunter Strickland allowed two runs (one earned) in the seventh. Zoilo Almonte's solo homer tied the ballgame, 1-1, and JR Murphy drove in the game-winner with a sacrifice fly.
Sam Dykstra is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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One of our most deeply misguided and poisonous policy aims is the desire to reduce income inequality.
Australia's leading inequality expert, Labor politician Andrew Leigh, reluctantly acknowledges the latest research, including his own, shows that more income inequality does not lead to worse health, crime, savings or growth outcomes. In fact, it tends to improve growth. This contradicts pervasive myths peddled in popular academic works like The Spirit Level.
Public policy should absolutely strive to provide equality of opportunity, social mobility and combat extreme poverty. But penalising human exceptionalism by pushing more even wealth outcomes simply because inequality allegedly "strains the social fabric", or because we are inferred to prefer a more egalitarian distribution of income, as Leigh argues, is both illogical and destructive to the national wellbeing.
We should be looking at policy innovations that stimulate more human exceptionalism, not less.
In all areas of life save perhaps financial ones, we prize human endeavour. Families and religions promote aspirational values, like integrity, compassion, and humility, which are non-satiable. The more we possess, the better.
In schools, we ask our children to maximise their potential, and recognise and reward success. We carefully measure performance through objective grading systems. While it might make the average child feel better if we hair-cut the high-achievers' scores, and published artificially narrow results, we don't do this because we'd be smothering merit to advance mediocrity.
We do, however, plough enormous resources into assisting those that are educationally disadvantaged. We also try to ensure all Australians have access to the same basic educational opportunities.
These meritocratic principles prevail in most fields, including sport and academia. We do not handicap an athlete or genius simply because they are abnormally fast or smart. We could do so on the basis of some subjective claim to fairness, but we don't because it would undermine human progress to our collective detriment.
The durability of democracy as a political model, and open market economies as an organisational one, is founded on two critical tenets: competition and individualism. Our society's strength derives from fostering individual liberty and freedom of enterprise within a legal framework that the community has crafted.
These ideas cannot be reconciled with Leigh's highly normative claim that "the risk is too much inequality will destroy Australia's egalitarian spirit".
The essential flaw in the case against exceptionalism is that it assumes the distribution of incomes that emerges from individuals exercising free-will within a market economy is somehow inferior to the narrower income distribution these critics idealise.
An acute irony here is that egalitarianism may be borne from a behavioural bias. In defence of greater equality, Leigh raises the famous "ultimatum game" where, given the choice, people frequently select no monetary rewards over an unequal allocation of rewards. That is, they are "happier" to receive $0 over $100 if it means their rival also gets $0 rather than $500.
Leigh overlooks the possibility these behaviours are both irrational and reflections of personal envy. At the very least, the ultimatum game and anecdotes around Australians' indifference to authority do not supply evidentiary grounds for more redistributive policies.
In a market economy, buyers and sellers come together to put a price on the goods and services they trade. Competitive markets price our exertions through the personal and investment income we realise.
They are the fairest mechanism we've yet devised to enhance social welfare. China's recent rejection of collectivism and embrace of (conditional) market individualism, which has helped lift 500 million people out of poverty, is just one powerful illustration.
The specious belief that greater equality will improve our lot in life has also contaminated Australia's tax system, which thwarts incentives in two ways. First, it disadvantages high-performance personal income relative to investment earnings by applying more punitive rates to the former. The harder you labour, the higher the tax rate you pay. In contrast, no matter how much income companies generate, owners pay the same rate.
Second, our incorrectly classified "progressive" marginal tax scale, where the tax rate rises with income, is actually highly "regressive". By construction, the tax scale drives mean-reversion in incomes, taking more in both proportionate and absolute terms from those that create the most value. If we want to boost national productivity and attract world-class human capital, we should eliminate these asymmetries. A single, and globally competitive, tax rate should apply to both personal and investment income, irrespective of size.
There is a credible case that the untaxed transfer of extreme intergenerational wealth hampers social mobility by entrenching powerful elites and polluting the polity through patronage.
One might, therefore, combine a flat personal and corporate tax regime with a modest inheritance tax that mitigates this problem, and compensates for any revenue leakages.
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In anticipation of the 2016/2017 season (and with single tickets going on sale this Monday!), we're looking at a special memory of Norma that was part of a very exciting weekend at the Met!
For our 10th wedding anniversary we received a weekend at the Met as a gift. It was a full weekend: The Flying Dutchman, Billy Budd, Norma, and Eugene Onegin. All were good performances, but Norma was the most memorable. The arias were breathtaking. After that weekend I went from being a passive listener to becoming an avid opera fan, endeavouring to become familiar with the operas of a given season. This was good practice because in the production of Werther, the tenor singing the part of Werther couldn't reach the high notes of his arias. Had I not heard the recording of this opera, I would have considered it a dud, not worth hearing. However, knowing what the results should be, I consider it pleasing, if not great and wouldn't mind hearing it again.
Tell us about The Opera That Changed Your Life by e-mailing email@example.com your own 100 to 200 word story. It may be featured in an upcoming Parlando post! Learn more here (here for mobile version).
Photo credits (top to bottom): Marco Berti as Pollione and Sondra Radvanovsky as Norma in Norma (San Francisco Opera, 2014), photo: Cory Weaver.
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One of the most amazing abilities of opera is allowing the listener to feel waves of emotion, many times without understanding the language being used. Our contributors this week experienced something truly amazing during their stories, and we felt it was only right to share them with you.
I am a long-time subscriber to the COC and have had many wonderful experiences attending the COC's ever-higher quality programming. However, there is one event which stands out in the recent past, and one which I would like to share.
Four years ago I lost my father rather suddenly, and was still in the raw, painful, recently bereaved state when I attended the marvelous production of Tristan und Isolde at the COC. I am a big Wagner fan but this was the first time I've seen the opera on stage, and in addition to being thrilled by the piece I was struck by how the modern production blended perfectly with the music composed in the late 1800s. I was tearful through most of the last act, particularly during the wonderful "Liebestod," where the large screen visuals showed a body rising slowly up through water, like being brought back to life by the power of love. It was sad, and moving, and beautiful at the same time, and at the end of it I was left with a sense of calm and consolation. Indeed, art heals.
Scenes from our 2013 production of Tristan und Isolde, directed by Peter Sellars with video installations by Bill Viola.
I have been a COC subscriber since forever, it seems, but I was a most reluctant opera-goer for many seasons. In the 1980s, however, I saw Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites on the stage of the horrendous O'Keefe Centre and finally understood the power of this most sublime art.
Dialogues was unlike any opera I had ever seen: the mostly female cast, the brief scenes, the conversations rather than arias. Nothing distracted me from becoming emotionally involved in the lives of the characters, and I recall resenting the intermissions that separated me from them. By the end of the performance, with tears flowing freely, I was convinced that the nuns were walking toward a REAL guillotine off-stage, and resumed breathing only when the audience erupted into applause. I didn't applaud. I couldn't. I still can't whenever I'm in the audience, and it still takes me a long time to return to reality after a performance.
Although 18th- and 19th-century operas will always be my favourites, this 20th-century masterpiece never fails to overwhelm me with its beauty, simplicity, and power. I rejoice whenever the COC announces that Dialogues will be part of its season.
(left - right) Janet Stubbs and Maureen Forrester in our 1986 production of Dialogues des Carmélites, which took place in the former O'Keefe Centre
Photo credits (top - bottom): Melanie Diener as Isolde in Tristan und Isolde (COC, 2013), photo: Michael Cooper; (left - right) Janet Stubbs as Mother Marie and Maureen Forrester as The Old Prioress in Dialogues des Carmélites (COC, 1986), photo: Gary Beechey
Being a young adult can be hard enough, but that time is also an amazing opportunity for exploration and discovery. In honour of this week's release of our Opera Under Thirty presented by TD's nightsOUT packages, we take a look at some of our contributors' moments of discovery that took place in their formative years.
When I was attending Queen's University in about 1960 I took a course in French Literature from the late Dr. Shortliffe who was a wonderful teacher. He was playing La Bohème one day when we walked in for his lecture. It was beautiful and he responded to our interest by telling us about the opera, describing the characters and pointing out the recurrent musical themes. It was transporting, unforgettable.
Now I am a psychiatrist, and finding the themes of opera everywhere in the stories I hear. I attend the COC as a loyal subscriber and make trips to the Met as well to listen to what I love. It's a lifetime joy.
I am 81 years old. Up until the time I was 17 or 18 I hated opera. To me, it was just loud noise and screaming. Then, my best buddy lent me his recording of Turandot and said, "Try it, you'll like it." I did, and it's still my favourite opera. But, more than that, it introduced me to a new and magnificent world of music. However, I still don't care for Wagner, with one or two exceptions.
Franco Corelli singing "Non piangere, Liù" from Turandot
At 15 years old, I did not have too much of an idea what opera was. My friend from my Catholic school played for me some beautiful arias, so at a Sunday matinee I got a stand-up ticket in the fourth ring. No subtitles at that time. It was The Marriage of Figaro—Victoria de Los Angeles and Christa Ludwig—still singing in my mind. The opera that stood my hair up was Turandot with Montserrat Caballé and Birgit Nilsson. After that I spent the rest of my teen years and youth at the theatre ... on my feet … many other legends I've had the honour to see. Also spent a few years studying classical dance with one of the maestros of this opera house. I can't live without music ... Now taking vocal lessons at my age, 67, and discovering my strong bass... A long time I have had season tickets at the COC.
Photo credits (top - bottom): (l – r) Lisa DiMaria as Papagena and Rodion Pogossov as Papageno in The Magic Flute (COC, 2011), photo: Michael Cooper; (l – r) Eric Margiore as Rodolfo and Joyce El-Khoury as Mimì in La Bohème (COC, 2013), photo: Michael Cooper
Sara Fulgoni in the COC production of Bluebeard's Castle. Photo: Michael Cooper © 2001


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MATTAPOISETT, Mass. - The University of Pennsylvania women's golf team finished second in a five-team field at the Harvard Invitational, which took place Sunday and Monday at The Bay Club.
Penn shot 296 on Sunday and led the field afterthefirst round, but the host Crimson fired 286 on Monday to overtake the Quakers and gain the team title at 585. Penn shot 306 on Monday and ended the tournament at 602. Dartmouth was third (310-315--625), Brown was fourth (313-313--626) and Merrimack College was fifth (327-318--645).
Individually, a trio of freshmen led the way for the Quakers. Marissa Kay shot 73-74--147 and was fourth among 28 golfers in the field. Isabella Rahm (72-78--150) and Sophia Chen (75-75--150) tied for sixth, while junior Amanda Chin (76-82--158) tied for 15th. Senior Michelle Lee, in her season debut, scored for Penn on Monday and shot 87-79--166 for the event. Another freshman, Erin Lo, played as an individual and carded 81-78--159 to tie for 17th overall.
Harvard's Anne Cheng took medalist honors, her 143 was two strokes better than her teammates, Christine Lin and Bonnie Hu.
Penn will conclude the fall portion of its season October 26-27 at the University of Delaware Invitational.
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Faculty Research Grants (FRG)
The Faculty Research Grant Handbook is now available: Download Handbook.
- The Purpose and Scope of the Faculty Research Grant
- The Faculty Research Grant Application Process
- Faculty Research Grant Application Forms
- Sample Abstracts
- New Faculty Members
- Intellectual Property and Faculty Research Grants
The Purpose and Scope of the Faculty Research Grant (FRG)
Andrews University, through the Office of Research and Creative Scholarship, competitively awards Faculty Research Grants (FRG) on a yearly basis to qualified university faculty. University faculty members from all disciplines are encouraged to apply. Applications are evaluated based on academic merit, and in accordance with the following funding objectives:
- To assist new (and newly active) faculty in developing and establishing an active research program at Andrews University.
- To enable faculty who are active in research to be more productive than they would be without the financial assistance of a Faculty Research Grant.
- To assist faculty who are active in research to develop their research program with the goal of successfully applying for funding from external sources.
- To assist faculty who are active in supporting student research and student scholarship development.
Faculty members may apply for Faculty Research Grants of up to $5,000 to support research/creative scholarship projects at Andrews University. We encourage collaborative applications that include multiple faculty members. If two full-time faculty members submit a joint application, the maximum support is $5000 per faculty member, or $10,000 total for the application. Adjunct or part-time faculty members are welcome as co-PIs on the grant application, but will not affect the allowed funding limit, which is based only on the full-time faculty PIs. Emeritus faculty members are also welcome to apply, so long as they maintain an active presence on the Andrews University campus, with support limited to $3000.
Faculty Research Grant support can cover expenses associated with the faculty member's scholarly growth activities, such as the following:
- Student labor (undergraduate and graduate). Student labor may be used for support functions, such as secretarial work, literature searching, etc. Additional funds may be available for student collaboration through Undergraduate Research Scholar (URS) awards and Graduate Research Assistantships (GRA), so long as they are doing student-led or student-collaboration research that will result in their coauthoring the presented/published results.
- Travel for research purposes. This includes travel for work with off-campus research collaborators and field-based research, but excludes travel for conference participation.
- Miscellaneous supplies and small equipment, under $2500 (the purchase of computers excluded).
- Allowance for hiring a contract teacher to cover one of your regularly scheduled classes (up to $2400), yielding a one-course teaching release for research. If you choose this option, justification must be included explaining how the additional release time will be used to further your research program.
Further details regarding completion of the application form are available in the following link for a tutorial on the Faculty Research Grant: Faculty Research Grant – Faculty Institute Presentation
The Faculty Research Grant Application Process
Pre-Review of Faculty Research Grant Proposals: In order to enhance the quality of research proposals and provide development and growth for faculty in conceptualizing and planning effective programs in scholarly productivity/research, the Office of Research and Creative Scholarship provides opportunity for a pre-submission review process. The Faculty Research Review Committee will evaluate applications received by the January 31 pre-submission deadline for clarity and completeness, and make recommendations for improvement prior to the final application deadline. Although this pre-review process is optional, it is highly encouraged for all faculty members, and especially for those who have not previously submitted a FRG proposal.
Review Process: All Faculty Research Grant applications and renewals must be submitted by the February 28 deadline. The Faculty Research Review Committee will evaluate all applications, and recommend funding allocations, which will be reported to the faculty applicants by March 31. Funds will be available for use during the fiscal year starting May 1 and going through the following April 30.
Renewal of a current FRG may be requested for a maximum amount of a new funding of $3,000 plus any remaining funding from the current grant, up to a total of $5000. This additional funding may be requested for a maximum of two years, after which a full grant application would need to be submitted for further funding.
The FRG Renewal form should also be used to request the carrying over of current funds for one year. Unspent balances from internal research grants can be carried over to the next fiscal provided that a Grant Renewal Form that provides appropriate justification is submitted in a timely manner; otherwise, all unspent grant balances revert to the Office of Research and Creative Scholarship after the April 30 grant termination date, and will be used as additional funding for the awarding of future Faculty Research Grants.
Faculty Research Grant Application Forms
• Faculty Research Grant Application Form – to be used for all new applications
• Faculty Research Grant Renewal Form – to be used for renewal applications, as well as request for funding extension of previous year's award.
All completed applications are to be submitted electronically to the Office of Research and Creative Scholarship, at email@example.com.
Pre-proposal submission (Recommended)
January 31
Peer-review response to Pre-proposal
February 15
Proposal submission
February 28
Awards notification
March 31
Fund available for use
May 1
Sample Abstracts
Abstracts of recent and currently funded Faculty Research Grants can be found here: Faculty Research Grants
New Faculty Members
New faculty members who are hired after the March 1 FRG proposal submission deadline are not required to wait an entire year before having the opportunity to receive research funding. For these new faculty (and only these new faculty), the Office of Research and Creative Scholarship will consider Faculty Research Grant proposals submitted outside the normal reviewing timeline. Please contact the Dean of Research at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information and for assistance in completing the FRG Application process.
Intellectual Property and Faculty Research Grants
Under most circumstances (for exceptions, see Working Policy, section 2:383), faculty members who are involved in research and creative scholarship retain the intellectual property rights for their creations. This includes work that is supported by internal Faculty Research Grants. However, faculty members who wish to receive continuing support from internal Faculty Research Grants must report income generated by royalties or sales of products in the "External Funding" section of the Faculty Research Grant application. Faculty members may apply for funding for expenses that are in excess of that which can be covered by royalty or sales income. Research and creative scholarship that reasonably can be funded out of royalty or sales income is not eligible for Faculty Research Grant funding beyond an initial start-up period.


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About the Book
Alison Reyes, a photographer and alumna of Los Gatos High School, was given the opportunity to photograph the graduates on their very special day in June. As a child, she grew up watching graduation ceremonies on the front lawn wishing to one day be a part of the festivities.
She never imagined she would have the chance to come back and document this rare and amazing event that many have to see to believe.
This year, Los Gatos High School graduated almost 500 students, so it was no surprise that the event was very well attended. All present cheered for the graduates as they were rallied by their peers throughout some of the most well-delivered speeches that were both entertaining and inspiring.
As the community, once again, gathered to celebrate these bright minds and future leaders,
the support and excitement could be seen and felt from each corner of the front lawn.
Alison was so honored to be a part of this truly wonderful event and hopes you enjoy the photographs of Behind the Scenes: Graduation Day 2010!
Features & Details
- Category Education
Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
120 Pages
- Publish Date Jul 24, 2010
- Tags class of 2010, high school. graduate., Graduation, students
About the Creator
Alison Reyes has been a member of the Wildcats Field Hockey program since the age of 6. Growing up, she always admired the spirit of each group of girls and longed to be a part of an experience that seemed so special to her. Over the past 18 years, she spent her afternoons getting to know hundreds of athletes that have passed through the gates every season. She valued her position as the Home Time-Keeper in Middle School and as the season's passed, her love continued to grow for the sport, the program, and the community. As a photographer, Alison now enjoy's capturing photographs that only occur for an instant. Though some of her work is Sports/Action based, her passion is capturing candid moments of young athletes in their own element.
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The Amazing Race Adventures of Jennifer and Jack
Jennifer (aka Bravo Fan) and Jack (aka Lobeck) make up this season's virtual team and the second to participate in an Amazing Race series.
If you were a fan of TAR3, you may have followed the adventures of Jennifer and Tracey, the first ever virtual team to participate in The Amazing Race. This season, the virtual team has had a bit of a change. But you'll have to wait for the journal to start to find out how all this came about!
Jenn and Jack will spend a lot of time this season competing and hanging out at their favorite website www.fansofrealitytv.com (the FORT for short) sharing their Amazing Race experiences with members and guests of the site each week. Both are avid fans of reality TV, and Jenn's admiration for Jerry Bruckheimer is well documented at "The FORT." With their vast knowledge and expertise of game strategy and tactics used in reality TV shows, Jenn and Jack are sure to go far.
Q & A with the Virtual Team:
How would you describe your previous travel experience?
Jennifer: Pretty limited before TAR3. Having traveled extensively with Tracey in that series will definitely be an advantage.
Jack: Fairly extensive. I've lived in Canada on two separate occasions. I've also traveled to most of western Europe as well as Egypt, Israel, and China.
What is the most stressful aspect of traveling?
Jennifer: Overcoming the language and currency barriers, and navigating unfamiliar cities under the stress of a timed race.
Jack: Just trying to find your way around a place when you're not familiar with the area and/or the language.
What is the most important item in your backpack, and why?
Jennifer: My Swiss Army SwissCard. Its got everything well need watch out MacGuyver!
Jack: My pocket atlas. I figure with something like that, it'll be hard for us to get really lost.
Why did you want to be on THE AMAZING RACE?
Jennifer: Its a great opportunity to travel on CBSs dime. (and Phil is just too sexy to resist) Plus I enjoyed TAR3 so much I couldnt say no.
Jack: Are you kidding? To travel around the world and not have to pay for it who wouldn't want to do that? Plus, as a huge fan of the show, I was dying to participate myself!
Have you and your partner traveled together before? If so, what was it like?
Youll have to tune in during the series to find out the answer to this one.
What do you fear most about competing in THE AMAZING RACE?
Jennifer: Coming in last and getting sent to sequesterville. That would certainly be disappointing.
Jack: Being the first one sent to Sequesterville.
What strengths and weaknesses do you bring to the Team?
Jennifer: Im athletic and adventurous. Ill try anything once thats probably the strength and the weakness.
Jack: I'm pretty sociable, so I don't really have a problem talking to strangers. That could really come in handy if we get lost, need directions, or whatever.
What languages do you speak?
Jennifer: English of course, and a little bit of Spanish. For instance I can say yes, no, and Juan can swim in the ocean. That should come in handy.
Jack: English, French, and a bit of Spanish. Oh, and I can say "thank you" in Chinese.
What destination are you hoping to visit?
Jennifer: Fiji and New Zealand. They looked awesome in Eco-Challenge. I love Italy so that would be nice. And Ive never been to Spain, but would love it.
Jack: Of the places I've never been, definitely Australia and New Zealand. Of the places I've visited before, I'd love to go back to France.
What country do you feel best prepared for?
Jennifer: Wow. Probably England just because the language would not be a barrier.
Jack: Probably England or France or anywhere that English or French is spoken.
Stay tuned to Fans of Reality TV, where Jennifer and Jack will provide weekly updates of their adventures and experiences in The Amazing Race 4!


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Style icon and acclaimed Italian designer Allegra Hicks, known for her organic and sophisticated designs, began to work with The Rug Company in 2004.
With a long and prestigious history in textile and rug designing, Hicks brought with her years of experience.
Using a unique print vocabulary which is applied to all her collections, her style can be described as timelessly elegant, sophisticated, organic, and eclectic, often with a vintage feel. Her recognizable elegance and style, with pure, earthy tones, translate beautifully into her collectable range for The Rug Company. Allegra Hicks rugs feature soft patterns, mostly inspired by nature, which are enhanced by richness of the wool and silk yarns.