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First Test, Day 3: Alastair Cook, Nick Compton fightback for England after following on
Pragyan Ojha completed his fourth five-wicket haul as England were all out for 191 runs in their first innings but captain Cook and debutant Nick Compton fought back with vengeance in the second
Two innings from England that bore no resemblance to each other left India on top, but working hard, after they bowled England out for just 191 in their first innings and enforced the follow on. Pragyan Ojha, consistently miserly but producing the aggressive delivery exactly often enough, picked up 5 for 45 and R Ashwin snapped up three wickets as England imploded against the sustained pressure of two skilful spinners operating in tandem.
For a team that had just collapsed to 191, England batted beautifully in the second dig. Nick Compton's approach against spin - Ojha bowled the second over of the innings - was markedly different, with judicious use of the feet matching a straight bat. Only when Ashwin packed the leg-side field did Compton improvise, reverse-sweeping well to pick up a boundary.
Alastair Cook, the man on whom so much depended, led from the front, playing the ball late and with soft hands. Cook waited till the last moment and worked the ball round the corner or opened the face of the bat to pick up comfortable ones and twos. India's spinners could hardly believe what was unfolding in front of them as England went into stumps on the third day at 111 for no loss. Cook, unbeaten on 74, was well supported by Compton (34*). Trailing by just 219, England will know that not losing wickets early on the fourth day could be vital to their chances of survival.
The last passage of play on the second day had shown just how frazzled England were against spin, and the story was no different on the third morning on Saturday (November 17). Kevin Pietersen could have been dismissed any number of times in different ways, but somehow dodged the bullet for 47 minutes. Eventually, though, he played a most inexplicable prod against Ojha, hanging his bat well inside the line of a ball delivered from round the stumps that pitched and straightened. With the middle stump out of the ground, Ojha whooped in delight.
Then came the brain-freeze of the match. Scarcely had the ball left Ojha's hand than Ian Bell was down the pitch, playing a pre-determined loft over mid-off. Not quite to the pitch of the ball, Bell only managed to balloon a catch to Sachin Tendulkar, who backpedalled from his fielding position to leave England in shreds at 69 for 5.
Cook, who had hung back on the back foot for the best part of his innings, and survived more than one close lbw shout, was easily the most comfortable of England's batsmen, and when he fell for 41, the follow on loomed large. Ashwin slowed a delivery up, giving the ball enough air to tempt Cook into the drive, and the late dip and turn beat the middle of the bat to take the outside edge. Sehwag held onto the catch and at 80 for 6, England were in danger of being routed.
Samit Patel, who has played spin enthusiastically and efficiently in the warm-up matches, looked to be positive and steadied the ship for a time. With the ball going a bit soft and getting scuffed up, Dhoni turned to Umesh Yadav, who had been ignored thus far, and was immediately rewarded with a wicket. Umesh, running in hard and bowling with more pace than any of England's seamers, got the ball to swing from the word go. Although lucky to win an lbw shout against Patel when the ball appeared to be heading down leg, Umesh had shown that there was a role for quick bowlers in the conditions.
Matt Prior and Tim Bresnan made full use of the softening ball's lack of bite for the spinners, settling into a 47-run eighth-wicket stand that kept embarrassment at bay. But it was only a matter of time before Ojha struck, extra bounce resulting in an edge off Bresnan's bat that Virat Kohli held close in.
Zaheer Khan then produced a high-class exhibition of controlled reverse swing, showing that Umesh's success was no fluke. While he might have had more wickets on another day, he managed just one, courtesy a second bit of largesse from Aleem Dar, when Stuart Broad was deemed to be in front of the stumps with the ball slipping down the leg-side. Zaheer's spell of 7-2-16-1 set things up nicely for Ojha to return and cap off a five-for, and he did just that, beating an inside-out drive from Prior (48).
All out for just 191, losing wickets in a fashion that could not be ascribed to the pitch, England seemed all set to grant Cheteshwar Pujara his wish of an early finish. That was until everything changed in the second innings.


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'Sabres coach Lindy Ruff praised Gerbe after the game. "He's one of the players we think could play for us down the road," Ruff said. "He's got good speed, a good shot. Pound for pound, he may be one of our strongest players. In one-on-one confrontations, he doesn't go down very often. It's not easy to play against a player like that, for the simple reason that a defenceman doesn't have leverage against him."'
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"My advice to fellow students is to be serious," Purity said.
Purity is a first-year student at South Eastern University in Kenya pursuing a bachelor's degree in economics, with help from her sponsorship through CFCA and a CFCA scholarship.
"CFCA has helped me throughout my education by providing school fees and uniforms," Purity said. "I have a good relationship with my sponsor and they encourage me a lot. CFCA has been like a family to me."
Purity and her four sisters grew up in a mud house on a small piece of land in Kenya. Her mother and father are both skilled farmers and they would try to find work as casual laborers on farms.
Although Purity's mother and father found work, the humble income they earned was hardly enough to provide for everyone in the family.
"Sometimes we would go to sleep on an empty stomach," Purity's mother, Martha, said.
Purity remembers the challenges she faced before sponsorship. Her parents could not afford her school fees and Purity would then be turned away from school. Martha recalls these emotional times and how much it pained her to see her daughter so sad because she could not get an education.
Purity was accepted into the CFCA Hope for a Family sponsorship program in 1999 when she was 7 years old, and the family's financial burden was lightened."I was happy because a load was lifted off my shoulders," Martha said.
Purity is not only a sponsored youth but a scholarship student as well. She uses benefits from her sponsorship as well as her scholarship to pay for some of her tuition and other school-related costs.
Without the assistance she receives from sponsorship and her scholarship, she wouldn't have been able to attend school.
In the future, Purity hopes to work in a bank because math is her favorite subject, but her goals don't stop there.
"I would like to change my family's livelihood and in the future, I would like to start up a children's home," she said.
In Purity's free time, she helps out at the CFCA office fulfilling her service hours as required by the scholarship program. She helps by filing, distributing benefits and assisting the children while they write letters.
Being a part of the Hope for a Family program has helped Purity's mother as well.
Martha is a member of a CFCA mothers group in her area and has benefitted from the group.
"We advise and encourage each other," Martha said. "I have grown as an individual since I joined the group.
"I encourage [Purity] and tell her that her future will be bright as long as she stays focused on her goals."


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Medical school wants your body once you're done with it
LEBANON, Ore. - Any doctor will tell you that hands-on learning is the key to success.
And at Western University COMP-Northwest Medical School, that's exactly what they're doing.
"This is the anatomy lab, and when the students are in here, the cadavers are more spread out," said Steve Carmichael.
Carmichael runs the university's Willed Body Donation Program, which gives people a chance to voluntarily donate their bodies to science and research once they pass on.
"Currently we have 23, we're looking to receive 23 more for next year," said Carmichael.
The program is still in its very early stages, starting up in August. Carmichael said the first bodies they received were from their sister school in California, but now they're looking to get Oregonians to donate.
"It gives students a hands on experience," he said. "That way they're able to tell the difference between muscle, nerves, tendon, bone."
And for a first year medical student walking into a room full of deceased bodies draped in green sheets, it can be a little daunting.
"We speak to them beforehand and let them know this is their first patient," said clinical anatomy professor Brion Benninger. "If it gets to a point where they feel like they might collapse or something like that, we actually have stations outside our lab that we actually lay them down on."
Benninger said four to five students work on one body for an entire academic year.
"While one is maybe explaining the theory and explaining where the orientation is, the other one is actually making an incision one would do in a surgical type procedure," he said. "They've dissected, they've learned surgical procedures so there's that clinical component to it."
After a year, the bodies are cremated. "We will return the cremated remains to a family member, mail them to a cemetery, scatter them at sea," said Carmichael.
He said right now they're hoping for more donations. According to Carmichael, the process is simple, with a few restrictions.
"The main restrictions are height/weight proportions," he said. "And contagious diseases is a definite, something we will have to refuse. Hepatitis, things of that nature."
The school currently has 17 donors from Oregon and the Northwest. And for the students, Carmichael said it's something that will benefit their learning for years to come.
"This is a gift that was given to the university, to them and it's something they will carry their entire career," said Carmichael.
For more information on the donation program you can contact Steve Carmichael at (541) 259-0256 or find more here.


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If you want to know what it was really like during the California Gold Rush, this book is a great place to start. It isn't a textbook telling all the facts, this is the inside story of the gold rush told by one of the miners himself, Thomas Hartley. Thomas tells the story from the day he heard about the discovery of gold in California. All the people around him can talk about is gold, "how much and how to get it and how to spend it once you've got it." Of course, they forget to talk about all the work…and the danger. Thomas's story includes blisters and rotting teeth, scurvy, dysentery, scheamers, crooks and murderers. A true adventure that just might end in fortune. Author: Tod Olson Illustrator: Scott Allred
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Faculty Associates Bios
Michael Alan Anderson
Assistant Professor of Musicology
Michael Alan Anderson received his Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Music from the University of Chicago in 2008 and is author of the book St. Anne in Renaissance Music: Devotion and Politics (forthcoming from Cambridge, 2014). He specializes in a wide range of issues related to sacred music from the fourteenth through the sixteenth century, with emphasis on the saints and lay devotion. Anderson is the 2012 winner of the Noah Greenberg Award, given by the American Musicological Society for outstanding contributions to historical performance practices. In the same year, he also received the Deems Taylor Award (presented by the American Society for Composers, Authors and Publishers) for his 2011 article published in Early Music History that illuminates Midsummer rituals referenced in thirteenth-century motets. Most recently, he received the University of Rochester's Provost Multidisciplinary Award, which involves producing first recordings of medieval music to be supplied to the newly installed Medieval gallery at the Memorial Art Gallery. Other awards include the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, the Alvin H. Johnson American Musicological Society 50 Dissertation-Year Fellowship, the Grace Frank Grant (Medieval Academy of America), the Whiting Foundation Fellowship (University of Chicago), and several travel and research grants.
- Music
- email@example.com, (585) 274-1124
Jonathan Baldo
Associate Professor of English
A specialist in Shakespeare and early modern studies, Professor Jonathan Baldo regularly offers courses in Elizabethan and Jacobean Shakespeare and Shakespeare's history plays. A secondary interest in twentieth-century literature and culture has led him to develop courses in modern and contemporary poetry and film studies, and seminars on James Joyce, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison at the Eastman School of Music. At the River Campus, he has offered graduate courses in the romantic movement and the theory of the novel for the departments of English and Modern Languages and Cultures, respectively.
Professor Baldo is currently completing a book on nationhood and memory in Shakespeare. His other recent work links parliamentary and theatrical representation in Shakespeare's history plays.
- Eastman School of Music - Humanities
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Sylvie Beaudette
Assistant Professor of Chamber Music & Accompanying
Professor Beaudette has a diversified career as a collaborative artist, vocal and instrumental coach, soloist, and teacher. She has performed with several artists and groups in Canada, USA, and Switzerland. As a member of the Athena Trio, she performed extensively in Northern California, Pennsylvania and New York States, and recorded Fabulous Femmes, a CD of music by women composers released on the Centaur label in July 2000. Their latest disc, (In)Habitation, features settings of Margaret Atwood poems, composed expressly for them by some of the top female composers of our time, including Libby Larsen, Lori Laitman, Amanda Harberg, Elisenda Fábregas, Tania León, and Judith Cloud.
Professor Beaudette is currently working at the Eastman School of Music as Assistant Professor of Chamber Music and Accompanying. She is the founder and artistic director of Eastman's Women in Music Festival and is the new director of Summer@Eastman.
- Eastman Chamber Music
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Elena Bellina
Assistant Professor of Italian
Professor Bellina joins the Eastman School of Music from New York
University, where she is completing a Ph.D. dissertation on
autobiographical writing in confinement, focusing on unpublished diaries
and memoirs written by Italian prisoners of war in British military
camps in Africa during WWII, including a study on cross-dressing POW's.
Her areas of expertise include autobiographical writing, modern and contemporary Italian literature, poetry, literary theory and criticism, and gender studies. She owns an MA in English from Youngstown State University and a laurea in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Bergamo (Italy). She has always been passionate about music, and earned degrees from the Conservatory of Music of Verona (Italy). During her years at the University of Bergamo, she developed an interdisciplinary approach to literature, musical semiotics and self-construction. She has continued to explore the relationships between Renaissance and Baroque music, literature, and cinema over the years. She also works on issues related to the representation of violence, war literature and documentary films.
- Eastman School of Music - Humanities
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Janet Berlo
Professor of Art History; Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
Professor Berlo's research interests include museum representations of indigenous peoples, Native North American visual cultures—particular areas: Plains Indians Graphic arts since 1850, Inuit Art, Women's representational practices, and American quilt history and nineteenth century visual culture. She teaches courses including "The Museum and 'the Other," "Beyond the Boundaries: Folk, Outsider, and Visionary Arts," and "Women, Cloth, and Culture." She served as the Susan B. Anthony Professor of Gender and Women's Studies from 1997-2002.
- Art & Art History
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Joanne Bernardi
Associate Professor of Japanese
Professor Bernardi's research interests include Japanese cinema, literature, and culture; film and media studies; media history and historiography; visual and material culture; moving image archiving and preservation; nuclear culture and the visual image; animation; screenwriting history. She teaches such topics as Japanese culture; film history, theory, and visual analysis; nuclear history, culture and the visual image; animation; history of US-Japan relations; material culture studies; tourism studies; moving image archiving and preservation COURSES: Anime: Japanese Animation; Atomic Creatures: Godzilla; Cartoon Culture (20th c. - present); and The Japanese New Wave.
- Modern Languages & Cultures
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David Bleich
Professor of English
Professor Bleich's research has been principally concerned with language and literature in society, including the history of the university and postsecondary pedagogy; the study of the use of language and the function of literary and other symbolic "written" texts in social contexts; and the history and philosophy of language research and pedagogy. He teaches such classes as Family Repression and Rage in Film and Society, All Is Fair in Love and War and The Changing Genres of Erotica.
- English
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Edward Brockenbrough
Assistant Professor and Director, Urban Teaching & Leadership Program
Professor Brockenbrough directs the Urban Teaching and Leadership Program, a Warner School initiative in partnership with the Rochester City School District that prepares urban teachers with a commitment to social justice. He also teaches courses on concepts and issues in social science research, pre-service teacher preparation, and diversity and social justice in American education.
Professor Brockenbrough's research focuses on negotiations of identity, pedagogy, and power in urban educational spaces, with particular attention to black, masculinity, and queer issues in education. He is currently conducting a critical ethnography on the identities and educational experiences of LGBT youth of color, with an emphasis on youth agency in the midst of multiple systems of oppression.
- Warner School
- email@example.com, (585) 275-5053
Anthony Carter
Professor Emeritus r of Anthropology
Professor Carter has done fieldwork in India on rural politics, kinship and marriage, households and personhood. He has studied the cultures of children in India and the United States. He is currently doing fieldwork in a family planning clinic in the United States. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health, and the National Geographic Society.
Professor Carter is Chair of the Committee on Demography and Anthropology of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.
- Anthropology
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Catherine Cerulli
Director, Susan B. Anthony Center
Dr. Cerulli is the Director of the Susan B. Anthony Center and the Laboratory of Interpersonal Violence and Victimization (LIVV), Associate Professor of Psychiatry, at the University of Rochester. The National Institute of Mental Health awarded Dr. Cerulli a five-year grant to conduct a randomized control trial in Family Court to assess whether enhanced mental health enables intimate partner violence (IPV) victims to better navigate safety. She was also to the Co-Principal Investigator on a National Institute of Justice award to assess whether victim participation in prosecution impacts their subsequent safety. She was formerly an Assistant District Attorney in Monroe County, New York, where she created a special misdemeanor domestic violence unit in 1995. She has been working on issues surrounding domestic violence and child abuse for almost three decades, in a variety of capacities. Dr. Cerulli currently has funding from the Center for Disease Control to work with a national IPV hotline to help address the intersection of violence and mental health. She works internationally to ameliorate violence against women and currently is assisting with a project addressing the health and welfare of sex workers and trafficking victims in Laos. She is a founding and current Board Member for the Crisis Nursery of Greater Rochester, Inc., a grass roots organization providing emergency respite care for greater Rochester area families with young children.
- Anthony Center for Women's Leadership
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Shin-Yi Chao
Associate Professor of Religion
Shin-Yi Chao is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester. She received her PhD from the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia and has conducted research on various topics related to Daoism and popular religion in China. Her publications include Daoist Ritual, State Religion, and Popular Practice: Zhenwu Worship from Song to Ming (960-1644) and articles on Daoist liturgy, clergy and temple networks during the Song-Yuan period. She has also written about various aspects of popular religion in contemporary Taiwan and north China.
- Religion and Classics
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Nancy Chin
Associate Professr of Community and Preventive Medicine (SMD)
Professor Chin use an ethnographic approach at the level of the household and neighborhood to elucidate these pathways. Her MPH thesis research looked at the relationship between household organization, wealth, and child health as reflected in the growth of children five years and under in southwest Tibet. Topics of interest include social class gradient in health; women's position in society and its impact on their health and the health of their children
- Community and Preventative Medicine
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Stephanie Brown Clark
Associate Professor of Medical Humanities (SMD)
Professor Brown-Clark teaches in the Division of Medical Humanities, an interdisciplinary division drawn from the medical specialties and the humanities. Its application of philosophy, history, literature, and jurisprudence to the study of medicine and the care of patients is a part of the University of Rochester's traditional consideration of the social and ethical contexts of medicine. She currently teaches courses in literature and medicine, and medical history topics to medical students. As part of her recent work on the history of the disabled body, Professor Brown-Clark examines the medical explanations of congenital malformations or "monstrosities" at the turn of the 19th century in the nascent science of teratology, and the literary explorations of monstrosity in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein. Professor Brown-Clark is a member of the SBAI Grants Committee.
- Medical Humanities
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Elizabeth Cohen
Associate Professor of Art and Art History
Elizabeth Cohen is an interdisciplinary artist who has shown her work both nationally and internationally at galleries, museums and festivals including The New Museum, Blum Helman Gallery, Nikolai Fine Art, Apex Art and Franklin Furnace in NYC, The Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, The Davis Museum at Wellesley, The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville Florida, Korean American Museum in LA CA, The Bonner Kunstverein in Bonn Germany, Cimelice Castle Czech Republic, and The Bogota Film Festival. Cohen's interests include: Contemporary art and video production, critical theory, three-dimensional media, and new media production.
- Art & Art History
- email@example.com, (585) 273-5998
Elizabeth Colantoni
Assistant Professor of Classics
Elizabeth Colantoni's teaching is focused on Classical archaeology, ancient history, and Latin, and her research interests are in Etruscan and Roman archaeology, ancient Roman religion, and early Rome.
- Religion and Classics
- email@example.com, (585) 275-9360
Jennifer Creech
Associate Professor of German
Professor Creech received her Ph.D. in Germanic Studies from the University of Minnesota in 2006. She is an Assistant Professor of German in the Department of Modern Languages & Cultures at the University of Rochester, and is an Affiliate Faculty member in the Film & Media Studies Program and the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women's Studies. Her research and teaching interests include late 20th-century German literature, film and culture; cinema studies; Marxist and feminist theories. She has published and presented on East German, Austrian and post-unification cinema. Jennifer's current research explores the critical impulses in East German women's films, and the revolutionary and reactionary aspects of post-unification representations of the East.
- Modern Languages & Cultures
- firstname.lastname@example.com , (585) 275-4251
Douglas Crimp
Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History
Professor Crimp began teaching on the faculty of the Visual and Cultural Studies program and the Department of Art and Art History in 1992 and was appointed the Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History in 2003. He divides his time between Rochester and Manhattan.
He received a doctorate in art history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Between 1977 and 1990 he was an editor of the journal October. Professor Crimp is the author of On the Museum's Ruins and Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics. He is currently completing a book on Andy Warhol's films, scheduled for publication by MIT Press in the spring of 2012. Before Pictures is tentatively scheduled for publication the following year.
- Art & Art History
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 273-5622
Mary Jane Curry
Associate Professor of Education, Teaching and Curriculum
- Warner School
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 273-5934
Kristin Doughty
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Prof Doughty's current research is driven by an interest in understanding how the contemporary global preoccupation with law and human rights as universalizing frameworks for post-conflict reconciliation shape people's own efforts to rebuild their lives in the wake of violence. She is currently working on a book manuscript, entitled Remediation of Rwanda: Decentralizing Law and the Cultural Politics of Reconciliation, which examines the intersection of law, rights, and collective belonging in post-genocide Rwanda. It is based on 18 months of ethnographic research with grassroots legal forums in Rwanda, including genocide courts (gacaca courts) in which suspects from the 1994 genocide were tried among their neighbors before locally elected judges, as well as mediation committees for ordinary disputes (comite y'abunzi) and a legal aid clinic. Prof Doughty has also researched and/or written on memorialization and education in Rwanda, and on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
- Anthropology
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 275-5155
Ayala Emmett
Professor Emeritus Anthropology
- Anthropology
- email@example.com, (585) 275-8736
Marie-Joelle Estrada
Lecturer of Psychology
Marie-Joelle Estrada is a social psychologist with a primary interest in interpersonal relationships – specifically romantic relationship initiation and progression over time. Her general interest within this area began by trying to understand how romantic relationships differ from other close relationships and why some relationships succeed while others fail. She addresses these general questions within two main lines of research. The first addresses the nature of romance, specifically how romantic actions differ from expressions of affection and love, the use of romance in relationship initiation and maintenance, and people's different motivations for behaving romantically. The second line of research examines biases in how partners perceive one another and how their biased perceptions affect the trajectory of the relationship. She examine these biases as in terms of separation of partner specific idealization from generalized romantic idealization, and also as stemming from personality variables such as narcissism and attachment style. Marie-Joelle Estrada teaches Introduction to Psychology, Psychology of Gender, The Psychology of Consumerism, and Behavioral Medicine.
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Roger Freitas
Associate Professor of Musicology
Professor Freitas has presented papers at the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society, Royal Musical Association, Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, and Modern Language Association. He has also spoken at more specialized conferences, including the 13th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music (Leeds, 2008), Attending to Early Modern Women—and Men (Univ. of Maryland, 2006), and Italy's Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour (Clark Memorial Library/UCLA, 2002).
- Eastman School of Music - Musicology
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 274-1458
Thomas Gibson
Professor of Anthropology
Professor Gibson has carried out fieldwork in the Philippines (1979-81, 1985) and Indonesia (1988, 1989, 2000, 2006), and library research in the Netherlands (1994). Support for his research was provided by a grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation and by a Fulbright Fellowship. His work on the Philippines was published in a series of articles and in a monograph, Sacrifice and Sharing in the Philippine Highlands: Religion and Society among the Buid of Mindoro (Athlone Press 1986). His work on Indonesia has appeared in a series of articles and in a series of monographs, the first two of which have appeared as And the Sun Pursued the Moon: Symbolic Knowledge and Traditional Authority Among the Makassar (Hawaii 2005) and Islamic Narrative and Authority in Southeast Asia from the 16th to the 21st Centuries (Palgrave 2007). A third monograph, Ritual and Self-Knowledge in Southeast Asia, will analyze the relationship between the twelve different models of the polity outlined in the first two volumes and the equally diverse models of the inner self embedded in life-cycle rituals. A final volume will contain annotated translations of the myths, oral epics and written chronicles that formed the basis for the analyses carried out in the first three monographs.
- Anthropology
- email@example.com, (585) 275--873
Jeanne Grace
Professor Emeritus of Clinical Nursing
Professor Grace managed the School of Nursing's transformation of nursing education into an evidence-based practice paradigm, developing a progressive curriculum from the undergraduate to doctoral level. In 2006 she received a New York State Nursing Education Award, and the School's chapter of the nursing honor society named an award for evidence-based practice in her honor.
Professor Grace earned her master's degree in women's health care from the University of Rochester and her doctorate in nursing from the University of Rochester School of Nursing.
- School of Nursing
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Susan Groth
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Dr. Groth has used focus groups to gain an understanding of how pregnant African-American women view weight gain, physical activity and diet. She is conducting an observational study of pregnant African-American women to assess weight change, diet, and physical activity during and after pregnancy. The goal of these two projects is to develop interventions to prevent excessive gestational weight gain and a base from which to look more closely at genetic effects on weight.
Dr. Groth is a co-investigator on an EARLY Trials study funded by NHLBI. Electronic technology is being used to intervene with pregnant women to promote healthy pregnancies with appropriate gestational weight gain. Since 1993 she has practiced as a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, primarily with low-income underserved women and teens. Her current practice is focused on teens at Hillside Family of Agencies where she provides gynecological and obstetrical services to girls in long-term residential, emergency placement, and juvenile justice services.
- School of Nursing
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 275--889
Margarita Simon Guillory
Assistant Professor of Religion
Margarita Simon Guillory joined the Department of Religion and Classics in fall 2011 after graduating with a doctorate in religious studies from Rice University in Houston, Texas. She teaches courses in religion and popular culture, American religious history, and African Diasporic religions. She has published articles in Culture and Religion and Pastoral Psychology. Her latest work, 'Spiritually Repressed: Exploring the Historical Repression of African-American Women in Rochesterian Spiritualism,' will be included in a forthcoming edited multi-volume series entitled The Spiritualist Movement: Speaking with the Dead in America and Around the World.
- Religion and Classics
- email@example.com, (585) 275-7780
Susan Gustafson
Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor of German Studies
Professor Gustafson teaches courses
on 18-20th century German literature and culture,
comparative literature, and women's studies, such
as Poe and Hoffmann, Sexuality and Gender, and
Monsters, Ghosts, and Aliens. She has published
numerous articles on Lessing, Goethe, Kleist,
Hoffmann, Kafka, and Dickens. She received a GSA
book award in 2004 for her second book, Men
Desiring Men and a Goergen Award for
Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in
Undergraduate Teaching in 2006. Professor Gustafson was Director of the Institute from 2002-2007.
- Modern Languages & Cultures
- firstname.lastname@example.com , (585) 275--425
Thomas Hahn
Professor of English
Professor Hahn's teaching centers on the sponsorship, production, and interpretation of texts and images from the earlier Middle Ages through the early modern period. Recent papers, publications, and seminars have concentrated on those scattered or huddled at the edges of emerging European identities, including women, Indians, Jews, heretics, Robin Hood and other outlaws, virtuous pagans, popular chivalric heroes, and other monstrous types. This work has entailed engagement with recent theory and practice in feminist criticism, visual and cultural studies, and social history. During the last decade and more he has put much energy into collaborative projects such as the Chaucer Bibliographies and the TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. He continues to work with Latin, and Old and Middle English texts.
- English
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 275--566
Rachel Haidu
Associate Professor of Art History
Professor Haidu studies modern art, with a particular emphasis on postwar European and contemporary art. She has published a book, The Absence of Work: Marcel Broodthaers, 1964-1976 (October Books/MIT Press, 2010) and numerous articles on artists such as Daniel Buren, Gerhard Richter, Edward Krasinski, and Thomas Hirschhorn. She is currently completing a second book.
- Art & Art History
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 275--411
William Hauser
Professor Emeritus of History
Professor Hauser's research interests are both early modern and modern Japanese history. He teach courses on Asian Women's History, Modern Japan, the Asian American Experience, and traditional Japanese society.
- History
- email@example.com, (585) 275-9359
Sarah Higley
Professor of English
Professor Higley's primary interests lie in northern medieval literatures with an early emphasis on language, linguistics, and poetic structure. Her later work in fantasy and science fiction led her to explore medieval and modern notions of magic, machinery, monstrosity, and artifice. Her recent publications investigate the early origins of the werewolf, the medieval concept of the "robot," and manifestations throughout time of "simulacra"—lately, miniatures and artificial languages. This last interest has inspired her book on Hildegard of Bingen's "Lingua Ignota." In the meantime, Higley is investigating the educational possibilities of New Media, especially that of immersive environments and Virtual Realities.
- English
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Larry Hudson
Associate Professor of History
Professor Hudson's current project presents the enslaved as patient, hardworking subversives who were able to shape their world as they prepared themselves for freedom. It looks at the work environment, family life, and religious and health practices of the slaves as each of these areas was important to them because they provided the enslaved with the cultural tools with which to ensure more than mere survival of an awful system of human exploitation.
- History
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 275-4557
June Hwang
Associate Professor of German
Research and teaching interests include early twentieth-century literature, film and culture; German Jewish topics; urban spaces; questions of modernity; film theory; critical theory. Professor Hwang's recent courses include The Urban Imagination, Strangers in a Strange Land: German Jews, On the Move: Travelers, Wanderers and Explorers. Her current work explores how discourses of wandering, urban alienation, and the stranger intersect in the figure of the German Jewish intellectual.
- Modern Languages & Cultures
- firstname.lastname@example.com , (585) 275--425
Beth Jorgensen
Professor of Spanish
Professor Jörgensen teaches 20th century Spanish-American literature and culture, focusing on women writers, literary nonfiction, narrative fiction, theater and poetry. Her primary research area is Mexican literature. She is the author of The Writing of Elena Poniatowska (Texas, 1994), co-editor of The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle (SUNY, 2002), collaborator on a revised translation of Azuela's Los de abajo (Modern Library, 2002), co-editor of the summer 2006 issue of Letras Femeninas, and author of numerous articles.
- Modern Languages & Cultures
- firstname.lastname@example.com , (585) 275--425
Rosemary Kegl
Associate Professor of English
Professor Kegl works on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English Renaissance literature and culture. Her research interests include the complicated relationships among the formal properties of Renaissance writing, the tensions in Renaissance society, and the texture of a utopian sensibility; among various models of literary and historical analysis; and among sites and kinds of intellectual activity.
- English
- email@example.com, (585) 275--924
Cilas Kemedjio
Director, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African American Studies
Professor Kemedjio is an expert on Francophone African and Caribbean literatures, French theory, and the French novel during the 20th century. He is the author of De la Négritude à la Créolité. Édouard Glissant, Maryse Condé et la malédiction de la théorie (Hamburg: LIT Verlag, 1999) and guest editor of a special issue of Présence francophone (No. 62, 2004) on Postcolonial Mythologies. Kemedjio's latest work, a biography of Cameroonian novelist and activist Mongo Beti titled The Alien Condition, is nearing completion.
- Modern Languages & Cultures
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Ellen Koskoff
Director, World Music Certificate and Ethnomusicology Diploma Program
Music in Lubavitcher Life, 2000, winner of ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music Scholarship 2001. Editor, Music Cultures in the United States, 2004. Ethnomusicology advisor for The New Amerigroves. General editor, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Vol. 3: United States and Canada. Editor and contributor, Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Publications in Ethnomusicology, Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Yearbook, Worlds of Music, and The Journal of Women and Music. Book review editor, Ethnomusicology (1983-86).
- Eastman School of Music - Musicology
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 274-1454
Christina Koulouglioti
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Professor Koulouglioti's research program focuses on young children's health promotion and especially the prevention of unintentional injuries and obesity. She is currently testing a routines intervention in the community for single mothers with children ages 3 to 5. The intervention is based on self-determination theory and provides mothers the necessary skills to foster and maintain everyday routines and improve their children's quality and quantity of sleep and diet. Professor Koulouglioti is also interested in parental behaviors and practices of mothers from diverse ethnic backgrounds, and is currently exploring safety concerns, practices, and everyday routines of Greek-American mothers.
- School of Nursing
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Jennifer Kyker
Assistant Professer of Musicology
Professor Kyker's doctoral research, supported by a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, explored issues of audience reception in postcolonial Zimbabwean popular music, with a special focus on vocalist and guitarist Oliver Mtukudzi. In addition to her work on popular music, Professor Kyker has a long history of involvement studying the mbira dzavadzimu, an instrument played at various ritual events within Zimbabwe. Among her research interests are how women navigate expectations of gender in mbira performance, as well as the evolution of neo-traditional musical styles, such as the contemporary Zimbabwean marimba.
She is deeply involved in HIV/AIDS research and activism and founded the nonprofit organization Tariro, which works to educate and empower teenaged girls in Zimbabwean communities affected by HIV/AIDS. In recognition of her work on HIV/AIDS, she has been honored with several fellowships and awards, including a Leboy-Davies Fellowship in Women's Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as an alumnae fellowship from Mount Holyoke College.
Professor Kyker has a joint appointment at the College and the Eastman School of Music.
- Music
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 274-1117
Elizabeth LeCuyer
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Professor Lecuyer's research interests include mother-toddler interactions, socialization, and child development.
- School of Nursing
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 273-1897
Ralph Locke
Professor of Musicology
Professor Locke's research interests include history of music; social and cultural contexts, including politics and gender issues; exoticism and orientalism; opera; pedagogy of music history.
- Eastman School of Music - Musicology
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 274-1455
Bette London
Professor of English
Professor London's research has been largely concerned with questions of authorship, broadly conceived, in the context of 19th and 20th-century British writing, especially the novel. She has explored such issues as the cult of authorship surrounding modernist and feminist icons; the construction of voice as a contested site of cultural and aesthetic authority; modes of literary production; and reception history. She regularly engages debates within feminist, gender, and postcolonial theory, and explores the usefulness of these critical practices for the production of close textual readings. While much of her work has focused on highly canonical texts and authors, she has also been interested in authorial practices that have not generally been celebrated, sometimes not even recognized as such. This has led her to the non-canonical writings of some of the most canonized writers: the juvenilia of the Brontës, for example, or the automatic writing of W. B. and Georgie Yeats. And it has prompted her investigation of alternative writing practices, such as literary collaboration and mediumship—practices, she argues, that deserve a more prominent place in our understanding of the social construction of authorship and its literary history.
- English
- email@example.com, (585) 275-3510
Katherine Mannheimer
Associate Professor of English
- English
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 275-2677
Joyce McDonough
Associate Professor, Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Research interests: Phonetics, laboratory phonology, morphology. The sound (phonetic) structures in the Dene languages and phonetic typology; Athabaskan linguistics; morphology and paradigmatic processes; speech production (ultrasound) and online speech processing. Music, speech and language.
Professor McDonough is working on a long-term project documenting and modeling the phonetic and phonological structure of the Athabaskan language, with special attention to the interaction of phonetic and morphological structure. She is also interested in the similarities between rap music and traditional oral history storytelling/chanting.
- Linguistics
- email@example.com, (585) 275-2895
Kathy McGowan
Gender and Women's Studies Librarian
Kathy McGowan is the women's studies librarian at the Rush Rhees Library, she assists with a variety of SBAI projects and committees.
- Rush Rhees Library
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 275-9302
Ernestine McHugh
Associate Professor of Anthropology, The College; Senior Instructor in Community and Preventive Medicine, The Medical School
Professor McHugh's research interests include comparative religion and cultural anthropology.
She specializes in Asia, with extended field research in the Himalayas. Articles and reviews in The Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalaya, Comparative Studies in Society and History, The Encyclopedia of World Cultures, American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Kailash, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Awards from National Endowment for the Humanities (1976, 1995), Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (1980), National Science Foundation (1980), National Institute for Mental Health (1986), and Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture (1992). Faculty member, University of California-San Diego (1988-90); Pitzer College, Claremont Colleges (1990-93); Eastman (1993-).
- Eastman School of Music - Humanities
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 274-1453
Honey Meconi
Susan B. Anthony Professor of Gender and Women's Studies; Professor of Music, the College; Professor of Musicology, Eastman School
A specialist in music before 1600, Honey Meconi joined the faculty of the University of Rochester in 2004 as Professor of Music in the College Music Department and Professor of Musicology at the Eastman School of Music. She served as Director of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies from 2007 to 2014, and was named Susan B. Anthony Professor of Gender and Women's Studies in 2009. Read her full bio here.
- Music
- email@example.com, (585) 275-9399
Anne Merideth
Senior Lecturer, Religion and Classics
Professor Merideth teaches courses in the Old and New Testaments and ancient Christianity, and is a frequent participant in programs sponsored by the Interfaith Chapel. A veteran of the University's excavations in Israel, she has lectured in the Rochester community about the archaeological dig and other topics.
- Religion and Classics
- email@example.com, (585) 275-9367
Lois Metcalf
Professor Metcalf teaches Introduction to Medical Anthropology and also works in financial operations for the Rush Rhees Library.
- Anthropology
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John Michael
Professor of English and Visual and Cultural Studies
Professor Michael's research interests include contemporary relations between academic intellectuals and popular politics, the problematics of national identity in American literary romances and films, and the complex interrelations between the interpretation of literature and the reading of history.
- English
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 275-9257
Deborah Modrak
Professor of Philosophy
Professor Modrak teaches the Philosophical Foundations of Feminism. She is a member of the SBAI Curriculum Committee. Her research interests include Aristotle, History of Ancient Philosophy, and Philosophy of Mind.
- Philosophy
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Karen Mustian
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology (SMD), Community and Preventative Medicine
Professor Mustian's research is focused on the field of exercise and cancer control. She is currently the primary investigator on several clinical trials and is a member of several organizations. She has authored numerous papers and has been recognized for her excellence in research with awards from oncological societies.
- Medical Center
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 273-1796
Lisa Norwood
Assistant Dean, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Lisa Norwood '86, '95 has worked in various capacities at the University of Rochester for nearly thirty years. She is responsible for overseeing the annual recruitment, retention and graduation of nearly 1,600 undergraduate engineering and computer science students.
Her work duties include serving as the faculty adviser for students majoring in Engineering Science;
promoting academic opportunities such as study abroad and internships to the University's engineering and computer science students; keeping abreast of faculty and departmental policies, and then interpreting these policies for students. Lisa has used her position to encourage undecided students to persist in engineering, and to promote the importance of increasing the number of women and students of color studying science, engineering and technology.
Lisa is a dedicated alumna who makes an effort to keep in touch with her classmates and former student, serves as an alumni interviewer, and can often be seen on the sidelines rooting for our athletic teams, a cappella groups, and engineering design teams.
- Engineering and Applied Sciences
- email@example.com, (585) 275-4155
John Osburg
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Professor Osburg's research is broadly concerned with the relationship between market economies and systems of cultural value, affect, and morality. His current book project, Anxious Wealth: Money, Morality, and Social Networks among China's New Rich, examines the rise of elite networks in China and documents the changing values, lifestyles, and consumption habits of China's new rich and new middle classes. His research also examines changing gender relations in Post-Mao China and the ways in which money and material wealth intersect with ideologies of love and feelings in people's social, marital, and romantic relationships. His other research interests include consumer culture, political corruption, post-socialism, and organized crime.
- Anthropology
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 273-3229
Dorinda Outram
Gladys I. and Franklin W. Clark Professor of History
Professor Outram's research interests include revolutionary France, women's history, history of science and the Enlightenment and the history of religious conversion in the eighteenth century. She has written five books, and is currently working on the sixth, tentatively entitled Brilliant Light: Conversion in the Enlightenment, which will discuss modern religious controversies. Her teaching philosophy is to welcome and draw students into subject through conversation, toleration, and mutual respect, making a bond with text and subject. Professor Outram is a member of the SBAI Grants Committee.
- History
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Jean Pedersen
Associate Professor of History
Besides her appointment at Eastman School of music, Professor Pedersen has additional appointments in the History Department and the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies of the University of Rochester. Her main research interests focus on the intellectual and cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth century France, and she offers courses on a wide range of topics in French history, European history, and comparative European and American history from the eighteenth century to the present day. Professor Pedersen's course offerings include thematic courses such as Americans in Paris, Comparative Revolutions, and Men, Women, and War in the Twentieth Century; and single author courses on modern literary and philosophical figures such as Virginia Woolf, Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Hannah Arendt. Her seminars in History and Women's Studies at the University of Rochester include European Cultural History, International Human Rights, Approaches to the History of Women, and Gender in Modern Europe.
- Eastman School of Music - Humanities
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 274--101
Terry Platt
Professor Emeritus of Biology
Professor Platt is Co-Director of the Center for Workshop Education. His courses and publications include topics exploring the connection of sex and gender with education and science, including WST 252 Biochemistry of Male-Female Difference. In addition, he is a guest writer for the SBAI blog and serves frequently on the Kafka Prize Committee.
- Biology
- email@example.com, (585) 275--824
David Pollack
Professor Emeritus of Japanese
Professor Pollack is the author of numerous articles on Japanese literature, art, religion, and culture. His current projects include rhetorical strategies in Matsuo Basho's haiku poetry, the cultural history of Kyoto, and studies in various aspects of Edo art and literature. He teaches courses on Japanese culture, literature, drama, art, and urban history.
- Modern Languages & Cultures
- email@example.com , (585) 275--425
Ryan Prendergast
Associate Professor of Spanish
Professor Prendergast's research and teaching interests include the literary and cultural production of both 16th- and 17th-century Spain and Colonial Latin America. Recent articles appeared in Bulletin of the Comediantes and Modern Language Studies. His book, Reading, Writing, and Errant Subjects in Inquisitorial Spain, is forthcoming from Ashgate Press (April 2011). His current research focuses on the entremés and other short theater in early modern Spain.
- Modern Languages & Cultures
- firstname.lastname@example.com , (585) 275--425
Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández
Associate Professor of Spanish
Professor Rodriguez-Hernandez has published extensively on Hispanic literatures and cultures, including postmodern fiction, cinema, alterity and art, and European philosophical traditions in Latin American texts. The aesthetic representation of the "past"—how writers and artists incorporate the cultural remains of the past millennium—are central to his research. His book Mexico's Ruins: Juan García Ponce and the Writing of Mexican Modernity was published in 2007. He is currently writing a book on Latin American architecture.
- Modern Languages & Cultures
- email@example.com , (585) 275--425
Nora Rubel
Director of Susan B. Anthony Institute, Associate Professor of Religion
- Religion and Classics
- email@example.com, (585) 275-7215
Joan Rubin
Dexter Perkins Professor in History; Interim Director of the Humanities Center; Director of the American Studies Program
Professor Rubin's interests include the values, assumptions, and anxieties that have shaped American life, as reflected in both high culture and the experiences of ordinary people. Her present work is in part an outgrowth of her previous study of a neglected aspect of the literary scene in the interwar period: The Making of Middlebrow Culture. She sees herself as having moved over the years from the practice of fairly traditional intellectual history to wider interests in popular culture. Professor Rubin is a board member for the New York Council for the Humanities. Professor Rubin is a current member of the SBAI Steering Committee.
- History
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 275-9347
Jeffrey Runner
Chair of Department of Linguistics; Professor of Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences; Faculty Development and Diversity Officer of Arts, Sciences and Engineering
Professor Runner was the Acting Director of SBAI from 2008-2009. He has been teaching at the University of Rochester since 1994. During that time he has taught both undergraduate and graduate students in a variety of courses, from introductory courses targeting freshmen to graduate seminars in theoretical syntax. In particular he regularly teaches Introduction to Linguistic Analysis, Introduction to Grammatical Systems, a novel and quite popular course he developed called Language & Sexuality, as well as more advanced courses on Syntactic Theory (both minimalism and Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar)
- Linguistics
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 275--262
Joan Saab
Chair, Art and Art History; Associate Professor of Art and Art History/Visual and Cultural Studies
Professor Saab's interests include Twentieth-century American cultural history, media and culture, urban and community studies, popular culture, cultural studies, and aesthetic categories and values. Courses the Professor Saab teaches include Vernacular Architecture in the USA, African American Visual Culture, Politics of Space, and the Modern City. Her current book project is titled How to Take a Picture: The Creation of Photographic Meaning in the United States. She has written articles on Oprah's Book Club and the gendering of public taste, nostalgia and the New Urbanism, and motherhood and anti-feminism in the popular media.
- Art & Art History
- email@example.com, (585) 275-7922
Claudia Schaefer
Professor of Spanish
Professor Schaefer's research and teaching interests encompass all aspects of cultural production in Latin America and Spain of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She has published five books and numerous articles in these areas. Her latest book is a biography of Frida Kahlo (Greenwood Press, 2008). She is currently writing on the Mexican film director Arturo Ripstein, and is completing a volume on anarchism and utopian thought.
- Modern Languages & Cultures
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 275-4251
Joanna Scott
Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English
Scott's interests include character and the motion of thought; the effects of varied narrative form; contradictory perceptions of time and place; the idiosyncracies of voice; mystery and the impact of disclosure; beauty and ugliness; comedy, temptation, collapse, and recovery; the elusive potential of imagination. Modern and contemporary authors she has written about include Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, W.G. Sebald, Maureen Howard, William Gass, and J.M. Coetzee. Her stories have been included in Best American Stories (1993) and the Pushcart Prize. She has won several book awards for her fiction and short stories. Scott has received critical acclaim for her novels. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is a reciepient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and a Guggenheim fellowship.
- English
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 275-2784
Llerena Searle
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Prof Searle's research explores the social, cultural, and geographical changes that have accompanied globalization in South Asia and the ways in which capitalist practices shape urban space. She is currently completing a book manuscript (under contract with the University of Chicago Press) based on her ethnographic fieldwork from 2006-8 and 2014. The book explains the rapid growth of Indian cities and the proliferation of new malls, high-rises, and office parks across India by examining the practices and ideas of those who fund real estate projects. Prof Searle worked with international financiers and real estate developers to understand how they transform Indian buildings into legible assets available to international networks of speculative finance. Building on her interest in cultures of capitalism, urban space, and consumer practices, her next project will investigate the reconfigured image of the Indian housewife visible in advertisements for housing. She plans to examine the relationships between this image and emerging ideals of domesticity, class, and gender in Globalizing India. Her other research interests include cultures of expertise, architectural practices, and material culture.
- Anthropology
- email@example.com, (585) 275-8740
Grace Seiberling
Associate Professor of Art History
Professor Seiberling's research interests include nineteenth-century painting and photography, early British photography, and museums. She teaches courses on Women as Image and Text, Arts in American Culture, and Culture on Display. She is a member of SBAI's steering committee.
- Art & Art History
- email@example.com, (585) 275-4169
Reinhild Steingröver
Chair, Humanities at ESM; Associate Professor of German
Professor Steingrover's teaching and research interests focus on contemporary German and Austrian film and literature, in particular the intersection of art and politics and the role of the artist in society.
Steingröver is the author of a monograph on Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, (Einerseits und Andererseits, Essays zur Prosa Thomas Bernhards. New York: Peter Lang, 2000) and the editor of the anthology Not So Plain As Black and White: Afro-German History and Culture 1890-2000 (with Professor Patricia Mazón, State University of New York at Buffalo). She is currently writing a book on the last generation of film directors of the East German state-run film studio DEFA, entitled Last Features: DEFA's Lost Generation, 1990-92 and editing the volume After the Avant-garde: Engagements with Contemporary German and Austrian Experimental Film (with Professor Randall Halle, University of Rochester).
- Eastman School of Music - Humanities
- email@example.com, (585) 274-1616
Allen Topolski
Associate Professor of Art and Art History
Professor Topolski's art is constructed primarily of found materials or objects which are reworked and combined through a variety of transformative activities. His interests are in studio production that incorporates found materials and a variety of processes to explore nostalgia and memory in technologies of domesticity and convenience. He regularly serves as a juror on the (en)Gendered Juror Committee.
- Art & Art History
- firstname.lastname@example.com, (585) 275-4287
Sharon Willis
Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies
Professor Willis's interests include feminist theory, film theory and visual analysis, cultural studies, and modern French literature and literary theory. Publications include Marguerite Duras: Writing on the Body (1986), Male Trouble, co-editor, with Constance Penley (1993), and High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Cinema. Professor Willis served as the SBAI Director from 1991-1993.
- Art & Art History
- email@example.com, (585) 273-5621


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Earlier this week, US Soccer announced the new head coach for the USWNT in Tom Sermanni. Taking over from the Olympic winning and team favorite Pia Sundhage, Sermanni has a tall order to keep the USWNT at the peak of women's global soccer. He spoke to USsoccer.com about taking over the team.
And while Sermanni is the coach, for a short while, KICKTV's Jimmy Conrad claimed to be in charge of the team:
While Alex Morgan is no stranger to joking around, it appears at the beginning of the video that she may have bought into the ruse for just a moment.
The actual USWNT will be coming to Portland on Nov. 28 to host the Republic of Ireland in a friendly at JELD-WEN Field. US Soccer announced their ticket pricing information earlier this week and the presale starts today. Neither Conrad nor Sermanni will be at the helm when the team is here, however, as US Soccer women's development director Jill Ellis will fill in in the interim.


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found this in the back room of a house i recently cleaned out for a an older gentle man. I would really like to find out if they are worth anything. The only thing i can find is that they are the same pics on some of the cardboard backs of action figures.


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Birth & Midwifery in Norway
Resources for parents and practitioners
Connect with many more midwives and birth enthusiasts from around the world by joining IAM, the International Alliance of Midwives!
Birth Situation Room Report
Midwifery Today Country Contact*
*To learn what a Country Contact is or to reach any Midwifery Today Country Contact, click here.
Tine Greve received her midwifery education in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1991 and has been an IBCLC since 2000. She has been working in an alternative birth-care (ABC) unit in Oslo, Norway since 1997. Tine also started the first breastfeeding-counselling clinic in Norway in 2000. She has recently been working part-time at the National Breastfeeding Center in Oslo.
Tine's three children are all born in ABC units; the two youngest are waterbabies.
What is the biggest challenge facing normal birth in your country and what is being done to address it?
Even though almost all births are attended by midwives and we do have a great deal of autonomy in our work, we face challenges: increasing cesarean and induction rates, as well as an extended use of augmentation, even in what's supposed to be a physiological birth.
Due to a centralization process, many small birth units have been closed, or are in danger of closing, and the birthing women transferred to larger hospitals. In rural areas it is not uncommon to have several hours of transport to the nearest hospital. All communities are obliged to provide midwifery services to pregnant women, which includes transport in labour.
— Tine Greve


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Building Safety Week in May Focuses on Construction Crane Safety
April 27, 2009
News Highlights
More Information
Following two crane accidents in New York City almost a year ago, Fairfax County will put a spotlight on the safe use of this equipment during International Building Safety Week, May 3-9.
The county will celebrate this week along with five other Northern Virginia governments. To bring safety home, county, city and town officials also will teach homeowners about safe building techniques during the week.
Officials will be at five Home Depot stores to take questions from residents May 3-9, staffing information booths from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the following stores: 6201 Arlington Boulevard, Fairfax; 3201 Old Lee Highway, Fairfax; 1651 Reston Parkway, Reston; and 400 South Pickett Street, Alexandria. They will answer questions about building permits, code requirements and safety in the home.
This is a collaborative effort by Fairfax County; Arlington County; the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax and Falls Church; and the town of Herndon
This week will kick off with a free brunch and presentation on Friday, May 1, at 10:30 a.m. at the Arlington County Central Library, 1015 North Quincy Street, Arlington. Reservations are required.
Tower crane safety in high-rise construction is the topic for the presentation. Speakers include Skip Gardino, Miller and Long; Mike McCaffery, Davis Construction; and Dooley Petite, Morrow Equipment Corporation.
Later in the week, Fairfax County's Department of Public Works and Environmental Services will present its Building Safety Community Partnership Award. Home Depot Inc. in the Northern Virginia region will receive this year's award. The award program, which is in its 11th year, recognizes individuals and organizations for their contributions to advancing building and construction safety in Fairfax County.
To be allowed to use a tower crane in Fairfax County, cranes must be inspected by a private, licensed inspector. Cranes are re-inspected 30 days after they are erected and every 90 days thereafter.
For more information about building week activities, reservations for the May 1 presentation or to schedule a presentation about safe home construction or repair, call the Department of Public Works and Environmental Services' Land Development Services Division at 703-324-1910, TTY 703-324-1877.
Contact: Merni Fitzgerald, Director, Office of Public Affairs
703-324-3189, TTY 711, Media Pager: 703-324-NEWS (6397)
To request this information in an alternate format, call 703-324-3187, TTY 711


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The Margot & Bill Winspear Opera House
"Our dream is that Dallas will have great opera, and that our Opera will help Dallas to become one of the great cities of the world."
—William W. Winspear, May 14, 2002
Directions and Parking Information
The Winspear Under Construction (2008)
It's impossible to miss the flurry of activity and the unmistakable "buzz" in the heart of the downtown Dallas Arts District, where cranes hover over the distinctive horseshoe-shaped auditorium of the new Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts.
The Dallas Opera is already preparing for our anticipated move into this new, permanent location, scheduled to open to the public in the fall of 2009. The Dallas Opera offices will be located on the Winspear Opera House upper floors, above and behind the Margaret McDermott Performance Hall. Beyond the long-term advantages of eliminating annual rental costs, having both the performance and administrative sides of the company in the same building streamlines daily operations and improves overall efficiency.
Designed by Foster + Partners under Pritzker Prize-winning architect Norman Foster and Senior Design Partner Spencer de Grey, the Winspear Opera House is being engineered specifically for performances of opera and musical theater, with stages equipped for ballet performances, as well as other forms of dance.
A 21st century reinterpretation of the traditional opera house, the 2,200-seat Winspear Opera House's principal performance space, the Margaret McDermott Performance Hall, is designed to be the environmentally conscious, state-of-the-art standard against which future opera houses will be measured.
The opera house's principal entrance, known as Rosemary and Roger Enrico Family Gateway, features the Annette and Harold Simmons Signature Glass Façade that ascends to the full 60-foot height of the building, creating a seamless flow between the opera house and the surrounding park. The transparent façade provides dramatic views of McDermott Performance Hall, which will be clad in vibrant red glass panels, in addition to the Grand Lobby, the staircase and the Mary Anne and Richard Cree Box Circle and Grand Tier levels. From within the Winspear Opera House, the Simmons Glass Façade will provide a sweeping view of downtown Dallas and portions of Uptown.
Radiating from the Winspear Opera House on all sides, the Grand Portico will provide shade over three acres of the Performance Park, creating new outdoor spaces for visitors and nearby residents to gather and relax.


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After the commercial...
Seems Lamar Odom has a trade kicker LA didn't know about, which would add an extra $8-9M to his salary. The Screamer (aka Stephen A) thinks it probably won't stop things, but there's a chance Buss will balk at paying him that much.
I agree, in for a penny, in for a pound. If it still goes through, sorry to get anyone's hopes up.
[edit]Note, that's to his overall contract, not per year. I think it's the standard 15%.


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Four-Year Transportation Program Status Report
Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs
12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
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April 9, 2007
Four-Year Transportation Program Status Report Presented to Board of Supervisors
The Fairfax County Department of Transportation (FCDOT) presented its quarterly status report on the Board of Supervisors' Four-Year Transportation Program and other transportation projects within the county at the board's regularly scheduled meeting today.
"Almost four years ago the Board of Supervisors committed to an aggressive, yet achievable, vision for making targeted transportation improvements across the county," said Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerald E. Connolly. "Thanks to record citizen support for our $165 million bond referendum in 2004, we have completed more than half of the identified projects and are under way with the other half."
The Four-Year Transportation Plan, which was adopted by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on Feb. 9, 2004, includes a $215 million commitment of capital funds to improve major highway and transit projects, spot capacity and safety intersection improvements and pedestrian improvements throughout the county. Funding for this significant transportation initiative is a combination of $50 million in federal Regional Surface Transportation Program and Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality funds, as well as $165 million in county general obligation bonds approved by voters on Nov. 2, 2004.
Since 2004, overall, construction has been completed on 46 transportation projects in Fairfax County. Nearly 40 additional projects designed to decrease congestion and improve safety are currently under construction or will begin construction in 2007.
Of the 25 projects in the county's Four-Year Transportation Plan, 13 are completed, seven are under construction and two are slated to begin construction in 2007. Design is under way on the remaining three.
Status of Major Transportation Initiatives
Rail to and through Tysons to Dulles Airport
- The Dulles corridor Metrorail extension completed preliminary engineering for phase I of the project to Wiehle Avenue.
- The project is in the process of finalizing negotiations with Dulles Transit Partners for a design/build contract to construct the Metrorail extension, including the aerial section through Tysons.
- An application to commence final design will be submitted to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) in the spring of 2007, with FTA approval anticipated on or before Aug. 1, 2007. This approval will allow the project to begin utility relocation work and advanced land acquisition. This revised schedule of project activities anticipates a full funding grant agreement with the FTA in early 2008, with construction commencing in February 2008 and revenue service beginning in 2013.
Richmond Highway Public Transportation Initiative
- The Richmond Highway Express (REX) express bus service that operates along Richmond Highway from Fort Belvoir to Huntington Metro Station and other Fairfax Connector bus routes was launched in 2004 to serve the Richmond Highway corridor as part of the South County Bus Plan. Through Fiscal Year 2006, daily weekday ridership on these corridor bus routes has increased by 36 percent.
- Pedestrian safety improvements have been made to three intersections on Richmond Highway, with ultimate plans to improve crosswalks, pedestrian signals and other features that provide greater safety for pedestrians as well as greater access to bus stops.
- In 2007, intersection improvements will be made on Richmond Highway at Frye Road and at Kings Highway. Three new bus stop shelters will be installed at these two intersections.
- Approximately 3,000 linear feet of sidewalks have been installed in the vicinity of Belle Haven Towers, Dart Drive, Quander Road and Sherwood Hall Lane.
- Two new prototype REX shelters have been installed at the South County Government Center and a third has been installed at Sacramento Drive; additional REX shelters are scheduled to be installed in 2007.
- Three Richmond Highway bus stops will be upgraded with solar lighting and new shelters, making them more convenient and comfortable for passengers to access transit.
- Bus service along Richmond Highway now moves more efficiently by taking advantage of traffic signal technology that allows extended green lights for buses approaching an intersection to help keep the buses running on schedule.
- FCDOT launched the South County Bus Plan in October 2004, which included major changes to all bus routes in South County, including Richmond Highway, with significant improvements in the level of service – more service later in the evening, during mid-day and on weekends with shorter intervals between trips.
- Through Fiscal Year 2006, daily weekday ridership on the South County bus routes has increased by 40 percent.
High Occupancy Toll (HOT) Lanes and Maximizing Use of High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Capacity
- I-495 – Final negotiation is under way with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) regarding financial closure of the project, which should be completed by early 2008. Construction should start in mid-to- late 2008. Information meetings for residents are anticipated in fall 2007.
- I-95/I-395 – VDOT, in conjunction with local jurisdictions, is doing a transit demand study in the corridor to identify new service potential and funding costs. The capacity of the HOT lanes and an expected increase in demand due to BRAC are being reviewed by VDOT.
Maximizing Bus Use
- A pilot project subscription bus service, called EZBus, with two routes was launched at the Burke Centre VRE in December 2003 to help relieve overparking at the station.
- Two new EZBus shuttle routes were added to serve the Burke Centre VRE Station last fall while the new parking garage is being constructed. They operate between the VRE station and satellite parking facilities located at the new Burke Library site and St. Mary's Church.
- The county is planning to convert non-regional Metro routes to the Fairfax Connector system in 2008. Bus service from the Centreville and Chantilly areas to the Vienna/Fairfax-GMU Metro Station are expected to be operated by Fairfax Connector from a new transit facility under construction on West Ox Road.
- A bus shelter advertising program was approved in February 2007 that will enable bus shelters to be built by allowing advertising on the shelters. The bus shelter advertising program will generate revenues that will be used to improve passenger amenities by providing safe staging areas for bus riders.
Metro Funding
- Increased funding for Metro is a key component of the Four-Year Transportation Plan. In addition to the $110 million in general obligation bond funds for Metro, approved by Fairfax County voters, the region has been working to secure a dedicated funding source for Metro. On April 4, 2007, the General Assembly accepted the governor's substitute for HB 3202. This legislation, if fully implemented, will provide an average of more than $500 million per year in new transportation funding for Northern Virginia. Of this amount, $50 million annually will be dedicated to Metro capital expenses. The approval of this bill is the culmination of many years of hard work by Fairfax County, in conjunction with other Northern Virginia local governments and numerous other advocacy groups and partners.
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Major Transit and Highway Projects
- Route 29/Gallows Road Intersection Improvements – Currently in design phase; construction is expected to start October 2011.
- Burke Centre VRE Station Expansion – On schedule; the garage is scheduled to open March 2008 with project completion in July 2008.
- Richmond Highway Public Transportation Initiative – On schedule; construction expected to be completed October 2007 on phase I improvements. Design and right-of-way is under way on phase II.
- Stringfellow Road Improvements – Design phase ending July 2007 followed by right-of-way acquisition and utility relocation. Construction expected to begin July 2011.
- Centreville Road Improvements – Construction is expected to be completed on Centreville Road from Metrotech to McLearen in October 2007. The construction phase will begin on Centreville Road from West Ox Road to Frying Pan Road in December 2008.
- West Ox Road from Ox Trail to Lawyers Road – Completed July 2006.
- Penderbrook to Ox Trail – Utility relocation in process; construction to begin May 2007.
Spot Intersection Improvements
- Richmond Highway at Engleside Post Office – Completed November 2006.
- I-66 at Route 7 – Completed August 2006.
- Braddock Road at Route 123 – Completed July 2006.
- Old Keene Mill Road at Hillside Road – Completed November 2005.
- Backlick Road at Franconia-Springfield Parkway – Completed August 2005.
- I-95 ramp at South Van Dorn Street – Completed July 2006.
- Little River Turnpike at Beauregard Street – Construction beginning June 2007.
- Braddock Road at Little River Turnpike – Utility relocation started March 2007; construction completion anticipated January 2008.
- Route 50 at Waples Mill Road – At-grade intersection improvements completed December 2006.
Pedestrian Improvements
- Sydenstricker Road at Hooes Road – Completed August 2005.
- Lee Highway under I-66 – Construction expected to be completed July 2007.
- Ravensworth Road – Completed August 2005.
- Little River Turnpike – Completed July 2006.
- Government Center Parkway – Completed October 2004.
- South Lakes Drive – Completed January 2006.
- Chain Bridge Road – Completed October 2005.
Traffic Flow Improvements
- VDOT completed optimization of signals along Dranesville Road from Route 7 to the Herndon town line and also the Route 7/Fairfax County Parkway-Holly Knolls Drive interchange.
- A two-year pilot program to flash traffic signals at night has been implemented and is currently being evaluated.
Pedestrian Safety and Access
- 110 intersections have been retrofitted with countdown pedestrian traffic signals.
- FCDOT, Fairfax County Department of Public Works and Environmental Services (DPWES) and VDOT have completed scoping field reviews on the top 40 pedestrian intersections.
- Preliminary design plans have been reviewed for various projects.
Context Engineering
- Meetings are under way to discuss the framework of the context sensitive solutions guidelines.
Expedite Projects
- As part of the Route 28 Public Private Transportation Act (PPTA) Project, full financing for the final four interchanges has been identified.
- Work is proceeding on design of all four interchanges including Route 28/Willard Road and Route 28/Frying Pan Road.
- Fairfax County Government's telework program has met its goal to have 20 percent (or 1,000) of the eligible workforce teleworking an average of one day a month by 2005.
- The Fairfax County Employer Services Program (ESP) continues to partner with major employers, developers and multi-family complexes in promoting and encouraging alternative commute options.
- 270 Fairfax County employers have implemented a transportation benefits program.
Transportation Funding
- The Board of Supervisors' 2007 Bond Package includes $110 million in potential funding for county transportation projects. The bond package specifically designates $31 million for pedestrian and spot traffic improvements. This includes intersection improvements, bus stops – both new stops and improvements to existing stops – and a wide range of pedestrian and bike access improvements. It also includes $16 million for transit improvements and $63 million for roadway improvements. The transit improvements include additional capital support for Metro and related station improvements. More than 15 road projects, including projects associated with the recent BRAC action, have been included in the package as well.
Additional Projects
- Springfield Interchange – Five of seven construction phases are complete, and the project remains at the $676 million budget mark. One of the final three ramps (eastbound I-495 to northbound I-395) opened in March 2007. Phases VI and VII are well under way and on schedule to be completed by July 2007.
- Woodrow Wilson Bridge – The project is on schedule and under budget. Total project completion (including four interchanges at Telegraph Road, Route 1, Route 210 and I-295) is anticipated by 2011.
- Route 123 Occoquan River Bridge – Construction of a new six-lane bridge is well under way, with completion scheduled for July 2007.
- Huntington Metro Parking Expansion – Construction is under way on a 1,425-space garage to replace 925 surface spaces lost to joint development, plus a 500-space expansion. Construction began in fall 2006 and is scheduled for completion in December 2007.
The projects included in this report are compiled by Fairfax County Department of Transportation staff in consultation with their implementation partners in the Department of Public Works and Environmental Services and the Virginia Department of Transportation Northern Virginia District. These projects are funded through several different mechanisms, including the Fairfax County Four-Year Transportation Plan, the VDOT Six-Year Improvement Program, the VDOT Six-Year Secondary Construction Program for Fairfax County, the governor's Congestion Relief Program and federal funding programs, such as the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality and Regional Surface Transportation Programs.
The status report is available at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/fcdot/.
For media inquiries about the Four-Year Transportation Plan, contact Mary Mulrenan, Fairfax County Department of Transportation, at 703-324-1176, TTY 703-324-1102.
For more news and information, visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/news.


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By Brian Albright, Business Solutions magazine
A VAR extends an existing POS solution with tablet computers, which amounts to a $20,000 project.
Mobile POS solutions can present both opportunities and challenges to POS VARs. Expanding an existing solution using tablet computers may provide significant add-on revenue from current clients, but many customers are interested in rolling out low-margin, consumer-grade tablet devices like the iPad, which may not represent a sustainable business model for resellers.
Infinity POS, however, recently put together a mobile POS package that not only represented a substantial sale, but also positioned the company to bring in additional revenue by offering the same solution to other existing POS clients. The client, Hope College in Holland, MI, is a long-time customer, and Infinity installed and has supported the school's food service POS system from Micros Systems for several years.
Last year, the school contacted Infinity looking for advice. "They approached us and asked if we could recommend a solution to help them set up a wireless POS system at their field house," says Infinity president Robert Foster. "The contact was actually asking me to just recommend another vendor at first. We brainstormed on it and came up with a mobile solution that would tie directly into the existing POS system and student meal card system."
The food service organization could already accept both credit cards and student meal cards at the dining halls, but saw an opportunity to boost sales at locations where they traditionally accepted cash only. "They had a strategic business need to increase their food service revenue," Foster says. "They had 'brick-and-mortar' dining halls, but there were plenty of other venues on campus like the field house and other areas where they didn't want to just sell for cash, but they didn't want to incur the expense of setting up fixed POS terminals, because they only made sales during special events."
User Interface Provides Flexibility
The college already had a campuswide wireless LAN in place, which Foster says greatly simplified the solution design. Foster and his team came up with a system that used Micros' existing mobile POS product and rugged POS tablet computers, customizing the software so that it could be deployed in multiple environments with different menus and pricing options. "Since we were just extending the existing Micros system, the users were already trained," Foster says.
For the hardware, Infinity selected the DT362 POS tablet from DT Research. "Those units have built-in mag-stripe readers, and the batteries can be hot-swapped," Foster says. The college has deployed six of the tablets so far, although Foster says they will likely purchase additional units as demand increases.
Foster says he selected the DT362 units rather than consumer- grade tablets because they could be locked down to achieve PCI compliance. With the DT362, Foster says the built-in card reader was already in spec with the regulations. Foster also believes that iPad-style devices are not sustainable for either the user or the VAR in these types of deployments. "Consumer devices will ultimately cost a customer more than commercial-grade product," Foster says. "A dealer has to have a sustainable business model, but we have to embrace mobility, too. Serviceability is an important factor. If you break an iPad, you have to basically throw it away and replace it. With the types of tablets we're using, we have full serviceability of that product. So even though it's mobile, it fits our traditional business model in that I can stock it, I can repair it in-house, and I can provide same-day replacement service or a loaner if necessary. And there's margin in that."
Revenue Boost For VAR And Customer
The installation took about a month and was completed at the beginning of the school year in 2012. "Originally, this was just going to be at the field house. Once they saw how well it worked, they asked if they could use it at the hockey rink or out in a parking lot."
Because of the relative ease of deployment and the fact that costs were lower than installing fixed POS stations at each venue, Foster says the return on investment was selfevident. "When you look at the amount of revenue they could generate without spending a fortune to create terminals for the field house or hockey rink, it was a no-brainer," Foster says. For Infinity, this represented a $20,000 add-on sale, one that also showed commercial viability for customers in other markets. "There's a huge opportunity for POS dealers to leverage their existing knowledge and existing systems and create new revenue," Foster concludes.


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Edwin Starr and the NL MVP Race
Most of the MVP attention this year has gone to the American League race, between Miguel Cabrera and Mike Trout and whoever finishes third, maybe Michael Young. And most of the Edwin Starr attention since 1970 has gone to the song "War," which regards what it (war) has generally been shown to be good for, notably nothing, in the absolute sense. Surprisingly, the two—"WAR," and the AL MVP award—have bumped into each other one or twice or all of them.
But there is another MVP race going on this year. And there are other songs that Edwin Starr wrote, and across the country sportswriters are working on columns that bring the two together. I have excerpts of these still-in-development sports columns.
The San Diego Padres drew the third-lowest number of fans in the National League this year. Between their West Coast time zone and their also-ran status, few of their highlights would ever make it onto SportsCenter. Even in San Diego itself, there is a good chance you can't find them on your television because of an ongoing cable war. So you can be forgiven for not knowing all that much about what Chase Headley has done this year, and he can be forgiven for wondering where his name is in the MVP discussion. It's like that old Edwin Starr lyric:
Instead of planning picnics, Headley was quietly putting up a top-10 WARP in the National League, a figure that might actually be low if you are (as I am) skeptical of his defensive metrics. Few voters will give him the proper credit for what his home numbers really mean -- passing jumbo jets have been known to land just shy of the warning track in Petco -- but he's a .297/.388/.536 hitter on the road. No matter. Headley's doing just fine. Like that old Edwin Starr lyric:
The Pittsburgh Folded Newssheet:
The last time a Pittsburgh Pirate finished in the top 10 in the MVP voting was 1992, and it was Andy Van Slyke. Other players who got votes that year: Bip Roberts, Ozzie Smith, etc. Old human beings. But Andrew McCutchen will change that, even with the Pirates collapse, because McCutchen represents everything that went right with the Pirates' season: bunch of young kids having fun. They aren't worried about their bank accounts or their endorsement contracts. They're just living for today! Keep your veterans, your free agents, your Hall of Famers, your expectations. The Pirates have no use for expectations. They just want to swing! It's like that old Edwin Starr lyric:
Look, I'm not against these new stats. I look at all the evidence. All the data, as the smart guys might say. But at the end of the day, the point of the game is to score runs, and to score runs you need to hit, and more often than not I'm just going to pick the best hitter. You know who the best hitter is? It's Ryan Braun. He leads the league in total bases, in OPSBI, in runs created, in game-winning RBIs I assume, and even in the sabermetricians' favorite advanced metric, OPS. He's just a hitter, and, as the Houston Astros proved this year, you can't win without hitters. As a hitter, Braun is slick. He's a slick hitter. He can't be tricked up there. And let me tell you: He ain't never made a mark he couldn't hit. It reminds me of that Edwin Starr lyric:
The St. Louis Not A Blog Online Newspaper:
It was after a big win, and I asked Yadier Molina what it was that made him so good. He looked me in the eye, and put a hand on my shoulder. He told me, "I've got a reputation of being Gentle, but bold. And that's why..."
He paused.
"...they call me Agent Double-O Soul, baby."
As I left, he called my name. I turned.
"Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On!" he called.
The San Francisco Partisan:
Buster Posey should be the MVP because Buster Posey has made me so happy. It's just like that old Edwin Starr lyric:
Sam Miller is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @SamMillerBB
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Why isn't David Wright mentioned as an MVP candidate? If McCutchen and Headley are included then why leave out Wright?
Oct 01, 2012 12:33 PM
I am excited to read Sam's response to this. If it includes more fake articles, or even just song lyrics, then I encourage everyone to petition for your favorite NL player to be included. I am counting on you Mr. Miller.
Oct 01, 2012 13:19 PM
Sam Miller
BP staff
I'm as upset that none of these reporters are writing about David Wright as you are. David Wright is having a great, great season, and he deserves not just MVP consideration but quite possibly the award. Come on, journalists, do your job! It's like that Edwin Starr lyric:
Oct 01, 2012 13:48 PM
Oct 01, 2012 13:16 PM
Re: Andy van Slyke: Barry Bonds finished in the Top 1 in MVP voting in 1992.
Oct 02, 2012 07:01 AM
Sam Miller
BP staff
Well sure I know that but there's nothing antique and old-timey about Barry Bonds.
Oct 02, 2012 07:54 AM
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JERUSALEM — Teva Pharmaceutical Industries announced the launch of an authorized generic of a Type 2 diabetes drug.
The company launched pioglitazone hydrochloride tablets in the 15-mg, 30-mg and 45-mg strengths. The drug is a generic version of Takeda Pharmaceuticals' Actos.
Annual sales of Actos in the United States were approximately $2.7 billion for the 12-month period ended in June, according to IMS sales data.
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SANFORD, Fla. - Judge Debra S. Nelson ruled on Wednesday recordings of previous calls to police that George Zimmerman made to law enforcement will be allowed in Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial.
Zimmerman is charged with shooting and killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford in February 2012.
Nelson ruled against the defense motion, which was filed to eliminate a series of calls Zimmerman made to authorities about suspicious people in his neighborhood months before the shooting.
Prosecutors argued at a hearing on Tuesday morning the previous calls indicate his state of mind the night of the fatal shooting.
State attorney Richard Mantei started his argument on Tuesday morning with the relevance the calls serve, saying it proves Zimmerman had a depraved mind. The state said prior calls help disprove self-defense, showing an ongoing build-up of frustration by Zimmerman.
The state said motive and state of mind are classic jury questions. Mantei said the police did question "suspicious" persons in two of Zimmerman's prior calls and searched the suspicious persons' names for warrants but found none, so they were let go.
Zimmerman's attorney, former Local 6 legal analyst Mark O'Mara, argued that the state is trying to bring in circumstantial evidence and that the state has little or no evidence to support second-degree murder. O'Mara said the state is trying to get prior calls in trial to show ill will, hatred.
O'Mara said the state is asking the jury to make "quantum leap" from responsible calls to police to Zimmerman being "seething with anger," slipping in character evidence, which is inadmissible unless defense raises it.
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