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CHEVY CHASE, MD (October 23, 2012) - The Travel Channel's auction specialists are back for more baggage, more bidding and more battling in the second season of "Baggage Battles"... but this time the unclaimed baggage is even bigger and stakes are even higher! Premiering on Wednesday, November 14 at 8:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. ET/PT, the 14 half-hour episodes will feature more than unclaimed property from luggage, freight containers and cargo palates as automobiles and estate items also make it to the auction block. The new season will continue to follow these shrewd experts as they trust their keen eye for detail to find hidden treasures at the top auctions around the world including airport auctions, unclaimed freight and shipping auctions, police and seizure auctions, vehicular auctions and estate auctions.
"Baggage Battles" provides a glimpse into the very profitable business of bidding, buying and reselling unclaimed property by following three teams of auction experts who travel to some of the most important auctions, where their bids are based on sight-unseen instincts. Season two of "Baggage Battles" brings back the savvy auction experts viewers met in the first season: Laurence and Sally Martin, a married couple who co-own Studio Antiques in El Segundo, California; Mark Meyer, a young entrepreneur in the auctioning business from Long Island, New York; and New York City's Billy Leroy, owner of the iconic Billy's Antiques and Props, one of the last eclectic props and antique stores.
"We've peeled back the curtain on this virtually unknown phenomenon of airport auctions. Now, this new season, we'll be showing audiences where the 'big' stuff gets auctioned off and how our team of experts navigate through unclaimed property auctions that feature items that don't necessarily fit in a suitcase," said Andy Singer, General Manager, Travel Channel.
In the premiere episode (airing at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT), the auction experts are in Brooklyn, New York. Every year, the U.S. imports nearly $2 trillion worth of goods, which is more than any other nation in the world. Ninety-five percent of those goods come by ship. With 65 miles of coastline, Brooklyn is one of the busiest shipping ports in the country. When incoming freight goes unclaimed, it is sold at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Auction.
The Martins travel to Leroy and Meyer's backyard of New York to compete for this valuable international freight. Items up for auction include a solar panel from a water heating system, a mystery sculpture and a solidly-built wooden crate with undisclosed contents. With bids ranging from $200 to $1700, the auction experts are out to out-bid each other and win the highly-desirable goods.
In the second premiere episode (airing at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT), the auction experts travel to Boston, Massachusetts. The city of Boston is rich in American history with notable events including Paul Revere's legendary midnight ride and the Boston Tea Party. In this episode, White's Auctions is putting a variety of items from Boston's colorful and patriotic past up on the auction block. However, not everything sold at this auction is authentic, and bidders may be taking home some nice, yet cheap replicas.
The Martins, Leroy and Meyer are out to test their experience and luck by gambling on these genuine - and not so genuine - historical items at the Boston Estates Auction. The bidding gets underway, and the first big item on the auction block is a document announcing George Washington's death. Other items up for bids include a musket, a uniquely-crafted saw and documents from the 1700's. After the auction experts win their respective bids, they take their historical items for examination and appraisal. And one of the auction specialists goes home with over $4500 in profit!
For a sneak peek of photos of upcoming season two auctions, go to http://www.travelchannel.com/tv-shows/baggage-battles/photos/baggage-battles-fall-2012-sneak-peek.
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ANTHI ANDRONIKOU - Visual Anachronisms in Context: Religious Painting in Venetian Cyprus and Medieval Bolognese Manuscripts (pp. 9–31)
Visual Anachronisms in Context: Religious Painting in Venetian Cyprus and Medieval Bolognese Manuscripts
The article examines four painted churches, almost completely unknown to scholars, dating from the sixteenth century, during which Cyprus was under Venetian rule (1473–1571). The study comprises three parts: the first examines the wall paintings of the churches and through a stylistic and iconographic investigation establishes that, albeit products of different workshops, the frescoes most likely followed similar templates; the second explores the existing affinities between those frescoes and medieval Bolognese manuscript illuminations, an association which is propounded here for the first time; the last part constitutes an effort to suggest an appropriate date for these paintings by taking into account visual evidence from Venetian Cyprus.
DOBROSŁAWA HORZELA - Voluntary Poverty and the Relation of Potential Text and Image in the Stained-Glass Cycle of St Alexis in Königsberg in der Neumark (present-day Chojna, Western Pomerania) (pp. 33–49)
Voluntary Poverty and the Relation of Potential Text and Image in the Stained-Glass Cycle of St Alexis in Königsberg in der Neumark (present-day Chojna, Western Pomerania)
The exceptional multiplicity of literary versions of St Alexis's life-story contrasts with the scarcity of liturgical rites devoted to the saint, dedications of churches and altars, and above all, visual representations. Cycles devoted to the saint are but few and usually limited to a handful of scenes. In this context, the stained-glass cycle consisting of 26 panels with the legend of St Alexis from St Mary's Church in Königsberg in der Neumark (now Chojna, Poland) is quite exceptional. Confronted with a strong literary tradition and weak visual representation of the life of St Alexis, one ought to ask about the relation between the pictorial cycle and the literary source. What specific circumstances could have contributed to the fact that the story was recorded in the parish church in Königsberg in the form of a unique, monumental stained-glass cycle? What role in the construction of the pictorial narration is played by text-scrolls, which appear in just a few out of over twenty scenes? And finally, how could this story have been perceived by laity in the context of the functioning of sacred space in the fifteenth century?
STEVEN J. CODY - Mantegna and the Orators: The Invention of the Mars and Venus for Isabella d'Este Gonzaga (pp. 51–77)
Mantegna and the Orators: The Invention of the Mars and Venus for Isabella d'Este Gonzaga
This paper explores the intellectual and social circumstances that informed the production of Andrea Mantegna's Mars and Venus (1497), the first painting executed for the studiolo of Isabella d'Este Gonzaga. Documentary evidence suggests that Mantegna collaborated on this project with an iconographic advisor, most likely the learned Paride da Ceresara. The author argues, somewhat against the received wisdom, that both Paride and Mantegna are responsible for this painting's invention, and maintains that the collaborative nature of their enterprise invites us to rethink the nature of artistic 'invention' itself. The term, which entered the lexicon of early modern art theory via the writings of Cicero and Quintilian, describes an intellectual process of discovery. Paride, as the paper attempts to show, discovered his iconographic invenzione by using the techniques of humanist philology. Mantegna drew on his knowledge of classical sculpture, as well as a hitherto unacknowledged tradition of textual criticism that linked his handling of a brush to the tenets of ancient rhetorical theory and to the writings of Leon Battista Alberti. Discovering in these contexts a set of poetic, formal, and stylistic devices uniquely suited to the learned environment of Isabella's studiolo, Mantegna and Paride together invented a means of visibly addressing their patron's concerns, concerns that are ultimately tied to the Platonic philosophy of the soul.
ALLISON FISHER - Portraits of Alexander the Great During the Italian Renaissance (pp. 79–96)
Portraits of Alexander the Great During the Italian Renaissance
During the Italian Renaissance, artists sought to recreate portraits of the ancient king of Macedon, Alexander the Great, that were faithful to the classical visual and literary sources. Not only does this interest in the likeness of the king reflect a desire to revive the art of antiquity, but, through the recreation of a likeness of the Macedonian monarch, a modern artist could compete with and appropriate the famed legacy of Alexander's court portraitists, Apelles, Lysippus and Pyrgoteles. This paper explores the interest in portraits of Alexander during the Renaissance, tracing literary and visual models used by artists, the images produced, and the multivalent implications that such works offered artists, patrons, and viewers alike.
LIVIO PESTILLI - On The Crucifixion of St Peter Relief in Bramante's Tempietto (pp. 97–125)
On The Crucifixion of St Peter Relief in Bramante's Tempietto
Contrary to a well established artistic tradition that included some expected iconographic details in scenes of the crucifixion of St Peter, such as the two metae, Roman soldiers, lay bystanders, a mound that identified the site of the martyrdom as Janiculum Hill and the inevitable upside-down cross, the marble predella that graces the altar in Bramante's Tempietto presents a number of anomalies that have not been fully addressed by scholars. Most notably, no one has pointed out that Peter is portrayed without a cross behind him. This article analyzes this important marble relief, assesses the specific narrative goals the sculptor tried to achieve, and suggests that it was executed in the late sixteenth century, if not altogether in 1628, as part of a series of changes that took place when a new access to the crypt was created. It also assesses the suggested dating in relationship to the evolution of the Tempietto itself.
STEFANO COLOMBO - Portraits of Sovereignty: Jacopo Palma Giovane and the Doges' Commemorative Cycle in the Doge's Palace, Venice (pp. 127–148)
Portraits of Sovereignty: Jacopo Palma Giovane and the Doges' Commemorative Cycle in the Doge's Palace, Venice
The so-called votive paintings of doges are among the most distinctive compositions by Jacopo Palma Giovane. Executed at the Doge's Palace, Venice, in the aftermath of the fire of 11 May 1574, these canvases are conspicuous for their iconography, characterised by the insertion of a state portrait into a religious scene. This article aims to provide a systematic reading of these paintings as an organic and commemorative series, thereby challenging their traditional interpretation as merely votive or religious. By accentuating the sanctity of the doge's magistracy, Palma's commemorative cycle was conceived of as a privilege of statecraft and became thus a constitutive element of Venice's self-celebratory imagery.
JACK WASSERMAN - Jacopo Pontormo's Virgin and Child with Saint Anne in the Louvre (pp. 149–163)
Jacopo Pontormo's Virgin and Child with Saint Anne in the Louvre
Historians obsessively interpret Jacopo Pontormo's altarpiece as a declaration of Florentine political liberty with Saint Anne its standard bearer. However, a divergent political reality – the autocratic rule in Florence of Leo X and Clement VII – transpires from an examination of the procession in the medallion below the Holy Family, and the painting's paramount ingredient is pious devotion. After all, the recipients of the altarpiece were the Benedictine nuns of Saint Anne in Verzaia.
CYRIL GERBRON - Présences énigmatiques: les natures mortes de Juan Sánchez Cotán (pp. 165–180)
Enigmatic Presences: The Still Lifes of Juan Sánchez Cotán
The article deals with Juan Sánchez Cotán's still lifes and the vexing question of the link between them and the painter's religious paintings. It is argued that the still lifes are not isolated formal experiments, as it has been said most recently, and that a traditional symbolic interpretation is not appropriate either. The first part of the article consists in a re-examination, based on Victor Stoichita's L'instauration du tableau, of the still lifes' formal structure. In the second part they have been compared with a Crucifix by Sánchez Cotán which shows a strikingly similar spatial construction and evokes a like interaction between presence and representation; they have been also related to Luis de Granada's thoughts about the material world that help to understand the paintings, but do not help to find their meaning. In fact, Sánchez Cotán made the choice not to convey any meaning, but to confront the beholder with the mystery of a mere presence, the mystery of a world from which God has disappeared, yet one that was created by him and that reveals his beauty. The third part of the article considers the Spiritual Canticle by John of the Cross, a good model for understanding the still lifes in question: as the mystical poem, they assert the mysterious and invisible presence of God through formal means.
CATHERINE HUNT - The Saltonstall Family: A Study of Time, Space and Memory (pp. 181–193)
The Saltonstall Family: A Study of Time, Space and Memory
David Des Granges' The Saltonstall Family (1636–1637, Tate, London) might be regarded as a family memorial, recording the wives and children of Sir Richard Saltonstall. The presence of two wives, one living, one dead, evokes the traditions of memorial tombs, where several wives often lie side by side. However there are some curious elements to this portrait, most notably the partly open door at the foot of the bed and the gesture placed centrally in the composition in which Sir Richard Saltonstall dangles a glove over the hand of his deceased wife. This article explores both of these elements, arguing that the glove gesture relates to specific concerns about dynasty and inheritance. It will also examine the ways in which the door, in particular, and the compositional structure more generally have been used to convey complex ideas about time.
STEFANO PIERGUIDI - Ferrata e Guidi, 'giovani' di Algardi, in Sant'Agnese: una contesa interna (pp. 195–205)
Ferrata and Guidi, the 'boys' of Algardi, in Sant'Agnese: A Contentious Rivalry
In July 1654, right after Alessandro Algardi's death, his pupils Ercole Ferrata and Domenico Guidi were already working on a model of a scene in low-relief intended for the main altarpiece in Sant'Agnese. According to Carlo Cartari, Guidi's biographer, the latter's work in the church was hindered by someone, probably by Ferrata. And indeed, in 1660, Ferrata managed to achieve a position of absolute authority in the yard of Sant'Agnese, personally assigning commissions for altarpieces destined to the piers under the dome. The chosen artists, of average standing, had all gravitated around Algardi or still around Ferrata, but Guidi was clamorously banished from that assignment. Certainly, Ferrata always aimed to accomplish the great low-relief for the main altar, already commissioned from Algardi in 1654, and when, between 1671 and 1672, Guidi finally managed to obtain the coveted commission, Ferrata left the yard and started a lawsuit against the Pamphilj.
ALEXANDRA LIBBY - Innovation and Identity in Cornelis Gijsbrechts' A Hanging Wall Pouch (pp. 207–223)
Innovation and Identity in Cornelis Gijsbrechts' A Hanging Wall Pouch
For decades it was believed that the life and career of the Flemish trompe l'œil master and court painter to the kings of Denmark, Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrechts ended in 1675. Having left the Danish court around 1672 he is said to have made his way to Stockholm and then Breslau (present day Wrocław, Poland), where he then vanished into obscurity. However, recently transcribed inscriptions on A Hanging Wall Pouch at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, tell an entirely different story. According to trompe l'œil documents tucked throughout the illusionistic pouch, Gijsbrechts executed the work in 1677 and that he did so in the service of the second prince of Auersperg and duke of Silesia-Münsterberg, Johann Ferdinand von Auersperg. This new information not only extends Gijsbrechts' life two years longer than previously believed (and makes A Hanging Wall Pouch his last known work), but it also revises the assessment of his late career and offers insights into two the works most striking features: the painting is cut in the shape of the objects it represents and also has collaged to it a real mirror – techniques Gijsbrechts only ever used while working for the kings of Denmark. Situated in relation to Gijsbrechts' Danish works, A Hanging Wall Pouch sheds light on the nature of Gijsbrechts' production, the intimate relationship that existed between painter and patron, and the ways in which Gijsbrechts selected certain kinds of illusionism to craft his own artistic identity.
LIANA DeGIROLAMI CHENEY - Giulia Lama: A Luminous Painter and a Tenebrist Poet (pp. 225–252)
Giulia Lama: A Luminous Painter and a Tenebrist Poet
Giulia Lama (1681–1747), a Venetian painter and poetess, was born in the parish of Santa Maria Formosa. At an early age, her father, Agostino Lama, trained her as a painter. Her close friendship with the Venetian painter Piazzetta has mislead scholars in thinking that she was his pupil. However, records show that they were fellow painters. Since the eighteenth century critics have been paralleling Lama's physical unattractiveness of a harelip, snub nose and plainness, with her artistic talents, thus making negative statements about her natural appearance. At the same time she was highly regarded for her multiple artistic and intellectual talents, in embroidering and painting as well as in mathematics and poetry. Abbot Antonio Conti (1677–1749) commented in a letter of 1 May 1728 that 'Giulia Lama excels much in poetry as in painting, and I find in her poems the turn of phrase of Petrarch'.
This essay focuses on two aspects about Lama's accomplishments: as painter, examining some of her self-portraits and martyrdom paintings, and as a poet, analyzing an eulogy honoring and lamenting the death of her friend and poet Antonio Sforza (1700–1735). She also composed three poems and two songs translated for the first time in this essay. Her painterly brushstrokes of tenebrism, somber shadows, and dramatic coloratura are also reflected in her somber poetry. Lama epitomizes a nobil donna of the eighteenth century – the educated woman of the Enlightenment, who is accomplished in making lace, creating drawings and paintings, and composing philosophical poems.
WOJCIECH BAŁUS - 'Je suis celui qui sui'. Text, Ornamental Form, and Epiphany in Józef Mehoffer's God the Father Stained Glass in Freiburg (Switzerland) (pp. 253–263)
'Je suis celui qui sui'. Text, Ornamental Form, and Epiphany in Józef Mehoffer's God the Father Stained Glass in Freiburg (Switzerland)
In the stained glass God the Father by Józef Mehoffer in the chancel of the cathedral in Freiburg (Switzerland), the inscription 'Je suis celui qui sui' specifies the subject of the representation. The text also co-creates the phenomenon of epiphany: the inscription and the Divine countenance either emerge from among an effusion of colours, reminiscent of fire and precious stones from the vision of Ezekiel and Daniel, or else merge with the decorative mosaic of geometrical shapes building up the entire composition. The use of the pronoun 'I' personalizes the relation: viewer–work of art, placing every viewer who looks at the window in the position of someone who listens to the words Yahweh had spoken on Mount Horeb. And finally, the execution of the inscription in the stained-glass technique brings out its visual aspect. A painter's work makes writing visible
CONRAD RUDOLPH, AMIT ROY-CHOWDHURY, RAMYA SRINIVASAN, AND JEANETTE KOHL - FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems – A Feasibility Study of the Application of Face Recognition Technology to Works of Portrait Art (pp. 265–291)
FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems – A Feasibility Study of the Application of Face Recognition Technology to Works of Portrait Art
FACES (Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems) is a project that, after two years of research support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), has established proof of concept for the application of face recognition technology to works of portrait art. In the application of face recognition technology to photographed human faces, a number of difficulties are inherent in a real or perceived alteration of appearance of the face through variations in facial expression, age, angle of pose, and so on. With works of portrait art, not only do all these problems pertain, but these works also have their own additional challenges. Most notably, portrait art does not provide what might be called a photographic likeness but rather one that goes through a process of visual interpretation on the part of the artist. After establishing the initial parameters of the application of this technology, the main goal of FACES has been to test the ability of the FACES algorithm to restore lost identities to works of portrait art, something our research has shown is clearly feasible. Our work has also suggested a number of other potential applications, both using the FACES algorithm and employing basic concept of FACES in an altered form.
The use of the FACES algorithm should not be thought of as limited to facial recognition in the sense of identification alone. An altered form of the technology used in FACES might also be used to study a wide range of other applications such as adherence or non-adherence to widely recognized artistic canons, formal or informal; the identification of variations in the practice of an individual artist (over time, with different subjects, with different genres, after exposure to external influences, and so on); probable bodies of work of anonymous artists; difference in larger bodies of works (art historical 'big data'); even to detect the change of masons in medieval building.
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Study: '21st-Century Learning' Demands Mix of Abilities
The modern workplace and lifestyle demand that students balance cognitive, personal, and interpersonal abilities, but current education policy discussions have not defined those abilities well, according to a special report released this afternoon by the National Research Council of the National Academies of Science in Washington.
A "who's who" team of experts from the National Academies' division of behavioral and social sciences and education and its boards on testing and on science education collaborated for more than a year on the report, intended to define just what researchers, educators, and policymakers mean when they talk about "deeper learning" and "21st-century skills."
"Staying in school and completing degrees clearly have very strong effects," said James W. Pellegrino, a co-editor of the report and co-director of the Interdisciplinary Learning Sciences Research Institute at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Americans get about 7 to 11 percent return in higher career earnings based on their years of schooling, "and cognitive skills don't explain all the effects of schooling. Schooling is probably a proxy for some combination of different clusters of skills," he said.
The committee found these skills generally fall into three categories:
- Cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and analytic reasoning;
- Interpersonal skills, such as teamwork and complex communication; and
- Intrapersonal skills, such as resiliency and conscientiousness (the latter of which has also been strongly associated with good career earnings and healthy lifestyles).
Stanford University education professor Linda Darling-Hammond, who was not part of the report committee, said developing common definitions of 21st-century skills is critical to current education policy discussions, such as around Common Core State Standards.
"Unless we want to have just a lot of hand-waving on 21st-century skills," Ms. Darling-Hammond said, "we need to get focused and purposeful on how to learn to teach and measure these skills, both in terms of research investments and in terms of the policies and practice that would allow us to develop and measure these skills."
Ms. Darling-Hammond said she was pleased with the report's recommendation to focus more research and resources on interpersonal skills such as complex communication and teamwork and intrapersonal skills such as resiliency and resourcefulness. "Those are the things that determine whether you make it through college, as much as your GPA or your skill level when you start college," Ms. Darling-Hammond said. "Putting that back on the table is a particularly useful thing; we have tended to de-emphasize those skills in an era in which we are focusing almost exclusively on testing, and a narrow area of testing."
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Yet the keystone skill, the one that underlies and connects skills in all three areas, may be the trickiest to teach and test: a student's ability to transfer and apply her or his existing knowledge to a problem in a new context.
Transfer is the sort of Holy Grail in this whole thing and it is very challenging," Mr. Pellagrino said. "We'd like to believe we can create Renaissance men who are experts in a wide array of disciplines and can blithely transfer skills from one to the other, but it just doesn't happen that way. We do know how to promote transfer but it is limited in scope."
The committee found students develop the best ways to solve new problems by learning procedures and conceptual models within a specific subject area, and even experts often fail to apply their existing knowledge when a problem is presented in a totally new context.
"Transfer is deeply connected to your knowledge base and your skill in an area," said Christine M. Massey, one of the NRC committee members and the education director for the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania. "It's not the case that you can just practice up a set of generic skills and apply that in a certain area. You have to do it on top of a well-founded knowledge base. We really just don't know how to get that cross-discipline deep transfer."
However, the ability to transfer knowledge can be taught within individual subject areas. "If we really believe that the fundamental proposition here is transfer, it would dramatically affect what we did in curriculum assessment and instruction," Ms. Darling-Hammond said. "In math, for example, we wouldn't necessarily just give kids these problem sets but engage them in identifying, framing and solving real-world problems that would use those problem sets."
The committee pointed to one 2008 five-year longitudinal study of 700 California students in three high schools: one urban and one rural school, each with large proportions of minority and English-language learner students, and another overwhelmingly wealthy, white school. While at the start of the study, incoming 9th graders in the diverse urban school performed significantly below the students in the other schools in mathematics, the school designed its algebra and geometry courses to highlight multiple dimensions of math concepts and approaches to problem-solving, self- and group-assessment and developing good questions. When tested at the end of the first year, the students exposed to the "deeper learning" math had caught up with their peers in algebra, and they performed significantly better than students in the other schools in the following year. By the 4th year of the study, 41 percent of students at the urban diverse school were taking calculus, in comparison to only 27 percent at the other two schools.
The study was partially funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which also supports coverage of "deeper learning" in Education Week.


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It's Official: Webster's Ghana Campus to Open
Sep. 27, 2013
ST. LOUIS – Webster University's new Ghana campus was approved by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), it was announced today. Student recruitment will begin immediately and classes will start in the Spring of 2014.
The approval by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) will ensure Webster University graduates in Ghana will hold degrees that will be recognized in both Ghana and the United States, making it easier for them to seek work in either country and pursue study in either country. Earlier this year, Ghana's Ministry of Education gave approval for the programs that will be offered at the Accra campus.
The opening of the Ghana campus also creates opportunities for students, faculty, as well as businesses and organizations in St. Louis who now will have a direct connection to study and develop opportunities in Accra, Ghana.
"With this important location, we continue in the footsteps of our founders who provided access to higher education in areas of greatest need, meeting students where they are," said Webster University President Elizabeth "Beth" J. Stroble. "As we near the close of our first century and prepare to celebrate our Centennial in 2015, we may take great pride in adding Accra, Ghana to the list of places that Webster students call home."
In addition to its Ghana and North American locations, Webster University also has traditional residential campuses in Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Thailand and the United Kingdom, as well as a global network of international partners in more than two dozen other locations.
"Webster's presence in Ghana will be impactful and felt throughout the region," said Julian Schuster, the provost, senior vice president and chief operating officer of Webster. "Enhanced educational opportunities through robust Webster University programs will further develop and build capacity in this important and fast growing part of the African continent."
St. Louis-based Webster University, founded nearly 100 years ago, has been accredited since 1925 by HLC, a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and one of six regional accreditors of institutions of higher education in the U.S. In July, Ghana's Ministry of Education accredited programs offered at the Webster new Accra campus, which currently is housed in two large, renovated buildings, complete with classrooms, lecture halls, and libraries.
Students will benefit the most from the dual recognition, By having a degree that is recognized in both Ghana and the U.S., Webster-Ghana students will have more options for their future, they will more easily be able to find employment, network, and pursue further educational opportunities anywhere around the world, Schuster said.
The Accra campus also will provide more opportunities for current students from any of Webster's worldwide campuses to study abroad. Nearly one-third of Webster's currents students and faculty take advantage of the University's global presence and study or teach in another country. With the new Ghana campus opening up a fourth continent for the Webster community, it is anticipated that students and faculty from other campuses will visit Ghana, while students in Ghana likely will study for a semester or two in Asia, North America or Europe.
The campus also creates a direct link between St. Louis and Ghana.
"As the St. Louis region continues to reinvent itself into a knowledge-based economy attracting entrepeneurs and start-ups, universities like Webster are opening opportunities for business exchange around the world," said Joe Reagan, president and CEO of the St. Louis Regional Chamber. "Webster's new campus location in Ghana is not only good news for Africa, it good news for St. Louis business and commerce."
Programs offered at that campus were based on interest of students and employers in the region. The first graduate program will be a Webster University George Herbert Walker School of Business & Technology (Walker School) Master of Business Administration, which is offered at every Webster location worldwide, and a Master of Arts in International Relations from Webster's College of Arts & Sciences. Undergraduate programs, which also are scheduled to start next year, include international business from the Walker School, international relations from the College of Arts & Sciences, and communications from The School of Communications.
For more information, visit Webster University Ghana Campus website at http://www.webster.edu/ghana. For photos of the new Accra campus, visit http://websterghana.tumblr.com.
About Webster:
With its home campus in St. Louis, Webster University (www.webster.edu) is the only Tier 1, private, non-profit U.S.-based university providing a network of international residential campuses and a robust online learning program. Founded in 1915, Webster University's campus network today includes metropolitan, military and corporate locations around the world. The university is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence. Webster students have a unique opportunity to study at different campus locations, enjoy small classes and personalized attention resulting in a Webster University degree and a truly global perspective. Student housing is made available and travel scholarships are awarded to qualified students.


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Hi, we have about 300 users in our organization and we need to install Full Teamviewer software to this users.
We use teamviewer for internal chat and eventually for presentations, we have a whitelist for remote control configured in TV settings to allow only IT Support to connect to end users. This settings have been exported to settings.reg. But cant find MSI for TV 14 full version, only for host or quickjoin.
First we would like to deploy MSI Full Package with settings.reg via GPO.
Web need to configure SSO too to allow users to login to teamviewer with active directory credentials. We have alredy configured the API that syncronize active directory users with management console.
Thnak you very much
Solved! Go to Solution.
Hey Diego,
I answer the questions short and to the point :)
- If you cannot see the APITOKEN please see the screenshot from the mass deployment page:
Did you set the "Allow account assignment" checkmark?
- Yes, it is needed to uninstall v12 to install v14.
- an example for the Host would be:
msiexec.exe /i "PATH\TeamViewer_Host.msi" /qn CUSTOMCONFIGID=**** APITOKEN=**** ASSIGNMENTOPTIONS="--alias %computername%"
- an example for a Full would be:
msiexec.exe /i "PATH\TeamViewer_Host.msi" /qn APITOKEN=**** ASSIGNMENTOPTIONS="--alias %computername% --group Desktops"
Those parameters can also be added into the MST file via Orca.
We now have a new article explaining how to do that here
Hello Diego,
the MSI for the full version can be found in the same ZIP file as the Host MSI is. You should be finding two msi files - full and host, and they should have a difference of one having *host.msi at the end of it.
Once you have located the MSI you can deploy the same via GPO if you use Microsoft Orca in order to create the matching MST file to push the parameters.
The parameters you can find here: https://community.teamviewer.com/t5/Knowledge-Base/Mass-deployment-improvements/ta-p/39639
Please beware that the automatic assignment to a Group does not yet work with the full client, so that it needs to be pushed into the group via the ASSIGNMENTOPTIONS.
Best regards,
Rene, than you very much.
I saved the TeamViewer_Settings.reg put it in the same folder where MSI is but it does not apply.
Does it work with the full version or just only with teamviewer host?
Hey Diego,
the reg file has to be in the same folder as the MSI and should then be pulled as well.
Both, Full and Host, need the parameter from Version 14, but Host already needs that parameter from Version 13.2.
For parameter info see here: https://community.teamviewer.com/t5/Knowledge-Base/Mass-deployment-improvements/ta-p/39639
Hello Diego,
don't make your life as complicated! If that is all you need added, then just assign a TeamViewer Policy to the devices. ;)
With that you can push (enforce is important in this case) those settings as well!
You can find that via the Management Console.
Any questions, let me know.
Hi Rene, whats the command line to execute teamviewer_full.msi with id configuration?.
We tried Teamviewer_Full-idc(idconfig).msi but noyhing happened!
Cant find any guide to show me how to deploy teamviewer_full version to desktops and assign automatically to a group created in management console.
The guides found talks about an assigment tool, a JSON file but all of them are incomplete.
Please i need some guide, i generate the token, the custom id but where is suppose to use those configs?
Hello Diego,
to answer the three questions of the previous posts:
Policies do not influence the ability to chat. All you need to have is a TV account and being logged in.
The full client can be rolled out similar to the Host. If you have a look at the Mass Deployment Improvement page I linked above you'll see the comments.
The difference between the full and the Host version (for now) is that the Host is taking the IDC code via CUSTOMCONFIGID, but the full does not yet work with the same parameter. As such you need to work with the APITOKEN to assign the account (same as with Host), but also need to work with the ASSIGNMENTOPTIONS in order to push the device into the group of your choice.
The assignment tool was used prior to version 13.2 (for Host) and 14 (for Full).
Thank you Rene.
I dont see API token in the Design and Deploy when i configure a host.
Is it necessary to uninstall version 12 of tv full in order to deploy v14 or it just update the old version?.
what is exacty the command line i should use to deploy the msi with ASSIGNMENTOPTIONS to push the computer to add to one group, for example Desktops.
Thanks in advance
Hey Diego,
I answer the questions short and to the point :)
- If you cannot see the APITOKEN please see the screenshot from the mass deployment page:
Did you set the "Allow account assignment" checkmark?
- Yes, it is needed to uninstall v12 to install v14.
- an example for the Host would be:
msiexec.exe /i "PATH\TeamViewer_Host.msi" /qn CUSTOMCONFIGID=**** APITOKEN=**** ASSIGNMENTOPTIONS="--alias %computername%"
- an example for a Full would be:
msiexec.exe /i "PATH\TeamViewer_Host.msi" /qn APITOKEN=**** ASSIGNMENTOPTIONS="--alias %computername% --group Desktops"
Those parameters can also be added into the MST file via Orca.
We now have a new article explaining how to do that here
Rene, thank you very much!!
Wonderfull reply. Didnt see the API TOKEN, because i checked the "alow account assignment" but didnt save the module. When i saved the module and edit again then appears.
I try this now and i will comment.
Thanks again!
Hi Rene, i run exactly the command writing the API that gave me the module, i see msiexec running in task manager but nothing happen in my computer.
I tried it on a virtual machine fresh install of windows, same version of windows 10 and it WORKSSS!!!
What may i try in my computer, i uninstall everything. Registry?, Full uninstallation.
What can i do? Because in major f computer i have installed Teamviewer 12
REGARD and Thanks!!
Run from PDQ Deploy and Install Perfectly.
One Last Question.
Can i assign a password to EXTRA/OPTIONS to prevent users from accessing OPTIONES?.
I know doing it from ADVANCED OPTONS, but can i add this option from policy or from ASSIGNMENTOPTIONS or any other way?
Hey Diego,
You have to import the REG file for that. It cannot be done via Policy or Parameters.
Thanks Rene, the only thing im seeing is that i assign that group a policy but computers added to that group didnt take and apply that policy.
What im doing wrong?
When i try to assign to a single computer the policy it says that i cannot move the computer from group and assign a policy at the same time.. (look at the warning at Desktop right side)
Hey Diego,
if you're deploying the full version you'll have to assign the policies by hand afterwards.
Unfortunately the policies cannot be assigned via parameters at this point. However, it is in the works.
Is it posible to lock de Quick Connect Button?. I choose disable in the policy, i applied the policy manually to the computer but the computer can connect to other computer outside the company.
You can lock that down via policy and stop outgoing connections.
Just make sure that you're enforcing those policies so that they cannot be changed.
Tanks Rene,
I could add the computers but I have a problem when applying the policies, some are applied and others tell me that "it was not possible to eliminate the policy (policy)" I do not understand how the policy works, I must apply it when generating the installation files? Should I apply it to the group? Should I apply it individually ?.
Hey Diego,
the recommendation would be to assign it to the group and to set the clients to "inherit from group".
Best regards,
I was told by a TV tech that parameters dont work via GPO and was directed to you PDQ free.
policies and parameters are two different things for us;
- Policies are the policies you can create and assign to devices via the Management Console
- Parameters you use to install the software, be it full client or host.
You can use parameters via GPO as well, but you would have to use a login script or MST files in order to get that done.
This stoped to work on MSI package 14.2.2558.0
It was working on MSI packages 14.1.XXXX
Any advice?
When you use Microsoft GPO Deployments - there is no way to simply add extra arguments to msiexec - since that is all made behind the scenes.
Could Teamviewer be so kind and stop making things difficult.
Right Now it seems that the best aproach will be to install TeamViewer 13 - and than have users upgrade manualy.
Hey Chr,
you could use the login script to push TeamViewer via GPO. That way you can also push it with parameters.
When running that you can use, for example, txt files you create when installing, that way you have something to check against when checking if you need to install or not.
Best regards,
So you are saying that we should use startup scripts to run msiexec instead of the automated MSI deployment of applications - that is in every way consivable a horrible suggestion.


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VocaLive 3 provides singers and vocalists with a suite of 12 real-time professional vocal effects along with a feature rich 8-track recorder/DAW for studio quality sound, a 4-track looper for creative vocal experimentation, plus the ability to re-mike the input microphone with the Mic Room feature to add the sound and color of 20 coveted studio microphones, all in a portable package. The effects can be combined into a chain of 4 processors and saved as presets. A collection of 55 presets is included to get you up and running immediately.
VocaLive 3 includes 5 Vocal Effects – Pitch Fix (for tuning correction or stylized quantization FX), Choir (a 3-part harmonizer), Morph (a formant shifter to change the tonal quality of the voice from subtle deepening to radical gender bending), De-Esser (to remove sibilance from the voice), and Double (by registering) plus 7 Studio Effects – Reverb, Delay, Parametric EQ, Compressor, Chorus, Phazer and Envelope Filter — that together provide unparalleled creative processing power.
With the optional Mic Room feature, VocaLive 3 now lets you "re-mike" your input microphone to add the sound and color from 20 available classic and modern studio microphone emulations. Couple this with iRig microphones and interfaces so that you can "re-mike" your vocals on the fly, play them back and listen to them as if they were recorded through the selected microphone model.
VocaLive 3 features an integrated recording studio/DAW style editor that lets you record and edit audio. It gives you a detailed waveform visualization touch-and-drag looping, easy punch-in and punch-out recording, and streamlined access to all recording and mixing controls. VocaLive also features a new available integrated 4-track looper for creative vocal experimentation and harmony development.
For the best sound quality, use VocaLive with IK's range of pro quality microphones and interfaces like iRig Mic HD, iRig Mic Studio, iRig PRO and iRig Pro DUO dual channel audio interface.
VocaLive also supports digital audio input devices so you can use any standard USB compliant audio interface (Apple CCK required).
Use a MIDI interface like iRig MIDI 2 or iRig BlueBoard to control your vocal processors "hands-free".
VocaLive supports Apple's Inter-App Audio feature.
VocaLive features:
• Real time vocal processor + recording app
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• Import and play songs directly from your Music library or computer
• Studio section (included with Recorder) with waveform visualization and editing, touch-and-drag looping, normalization, punch-in/punch-out recording, simultaneous multi-track recording support and more
• AutoFreeze (allows each track to have its own full effects chain)
• 4-track looper section*
• Apple Inter-App audio support
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• Voice Cancel feature lets you create sing-along backing tracks by removing the vocal track from existing recordings
• Audio Copy/Paste
• 55 presets included with 4 Favorites for fast recall
• Includes metronome and vocal warm-up tools
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Jodi Arias plans to take the stand Tuesday
PHOENIX -- Defense attorneys for Jodi Arias asked the judge to remove them from the case and declare a mistrial Monday, arguing the frenzy surrounding the case has created a modern-day witch hunt.
The judge denied both motions, and Arias planned to take the stand Tuesday. Jurors will find out then if she tells them the same thing she told a local reporter: She'd rather be executed than spend her life in prison.
Defense attorneys told the judge they would call no witnesses after a key witness refused to take the stand because of death threats.
They argued the attention the case has received has made it impossible for Arias to receive a fair trial. Defense lawyer Kirk Nurmi alleged the prosecutor has fanned the flames with incendiary attacks on witnesses, stirring up outrage among the public. He noted an earlier defense expert witness also received death threats.
"This cannot be a modern day version ... of witch trials," Nurmi said.
After Judge Sherry Stephens denied their mistrial request, Nurmi and defense lawyer Jennifer Willmott asked to withdraw. The judge promptly rejected that request, too.
It was the second time in the past week that the defense has asked to step down.
The defense attorneys continued with their protest of the unfavorable rulings by saying they had no plans to call any witnesses, sending the court into recess as the lawyers worked to resolve the next step. They later decided Arias would speak to the jury Tuesday.
Arias, a close friend from California and an ex-boyfriend had been expected to speak to jurors before the panel begins deliberating whether to sentence the 32-year-old to life in prison or execution for murdering her lover in 2008.
The same jury convicted Arias on May 8 of first-degree murder in the death of Travis Alexander.
Last week, the panel heard tearful comments from Alexander's brother and sister as they described how his killing has torn apart their lives.
Stephens instructed jurors they could consider a handful of factors when deciding what sentence to impose, including the fact that Arias had no previous criminal record. Stephens said they also could consider defense assertions that Arias is a good friend, had an abusive childhood and is a talented artist.
In opening statements, prosecutor Juan Martinez told jurors none of those factors should cause them to even consider a sentence other than death, given the brutal nature of the killing.
Nurmi explained to jurors that once they understand "who Ms. Arias is, you will understand that life is the appropriate sentence."
Arias acknowledged killing Alexander at his suburban Phoenix home on June 4, 2008. She initially denied any involvement and later blamed the attack on masked intruders. Two years after her arrest, Arias said she killed Alexander in self-defense.
The victim suffered nearly 30 knife wounds, had his throat slit from ear to ear and was shot in the forehead. Prosecutors say the attack was fueled by jealous rage after Alexander wanted to end his affair with Arias and prepared to take a trip to Mexico with another woman.
The jury deliberated for about 15 hours over four days before reaching a verdict in the guilt phase of the trial. The panel later took less than three hours to determine the killing was especially cruel, meaning the death penalty would be a consideration for sentencing.
The ongoing penalty proceedings make up the trial's final phase. Jurors are expected to begin deliberating Arias' ultimate fate this week.
Under Arizona law, if the jury cannot reach a unanimous decision on sentencing, the panel will be dismissed and jury selection will begin anew. Another panel would then be seated to hear arguments in only the penalty phase to determine a sentence. If the second panel cannot reach a unanimous agreement, the judge will then sentence Arias to either her entire life in prison or life in prison with the possibility of release after 25 years.
The most anticipated part of the penalty phase will be when Arias speaks to jurors, though exactly what she will say remains a mystery. Within minutes of her murder conviction, Arias complicated efforts for her defense when she gave the interview to Fox affiliate KSAZ, saying she preferred death over life in prison.
Arizona defense attorney Thomas Gorman, who has handled dozens of death penalty cases, said Martinez may not need to mention Arias' comments in the television interview to jurors, given they haven't been sequestered throughout the trial.
"They just can't avoid it," Gorman said. "If they're at a bar or a restaurant, they're going to see and hear things."
Arias also cannot choose the death penalty. It's up to the jury to determine a sentence. And while death penalty appeals are automatic in Arizona, she could choose not to pursue additional appeals if she indeed wanted to die for her crime.


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HOLOCAUSTO CANIBAL: 'Objetofilia Platónica' Video Released
"Objetofilia Platónica", the new video from Portuguese masters of gore HOLOCAUSTO CANIBAL, can be seen below. The song comes off the band's third full-length album, "Gorefilia", which was released in April via Xtreem Music (in Portugal, the CD was made available through Raging Planet Records and Raising Legends Productions). The 18-song effort was recorded at 213 Studios in Portugal and was mixed and mastered at Hertz Studio (BEHEMOTH, VADER, KRONOS, DECAPITATED, ABORTED) in Bialystok, Poland.
According to a press release, "Gorefilia" showcases HOLOCAUSTO CANIBAL's more brutal and intense, songwriting, with songs varying from one to three minutes without fillers, [with] influences from bands like ABORTED, CANNIBAL CORPSE, early DERANGED, NAPALM DEATH, SUFFOCATION, CARCASS."
HOLOCAUSTO CANIBAL previously described "Gorefilia" as a "concept album [which] involves sexual arousal and gratification towards sexual behavior that is atypical and extreme. As always, you can expect self-torture, bizarre love and loads of sperm tainted with blood. Musically, some big changes are expected; however, the band is still committed to death metal and grind."


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It's taken a while, but NBC and showrunner Bryan Fuller (the creator of Pushing Daisies) have finally settled on an actor to portray Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter, M.D., in their upcoming television series, Hannibal.
The man in question is Mads Mikkelsen, the Danish thespian who broke out onto the Hollywood scene with his turn as the villain (with a bleeding eye) in Casino Royale. Mikkelsen was also recently approached to play an antagonist in Thor 2; his being locked down for Hannibal suggests that might no longer be an option.
Mikkelsen will play Dr. Lecter opposite fellow King Arthur alum, Hugh Dancy, who will portray FBI profiler Will Graham on Fuller's Hannibal. The Lecter/Graham duo originated in Thomas Harris' 1981 novel "Red Dragon," which was the basis for Michael Mann's Manhunter – featuring Brian Cox and William Petersen as the pair – along with Brett Ratner's Red Dragon, which saw Anthony Hopkins and Edward Norton try their hands at bringing those respective characters to life (a third time, in Hopkins' case).
When Fuller previously spoke to EW, he revealed that Hannibal begins prior to the events in Red Dragon. Moreover, the show starts off by portraying Lecter as "more of a peacock [with] a cheery disposition… He's not being telegraphed as a villain. If the audience didn't know who he was, they wouldn't see him coming… We get to subvert his legacy and give the audience twists and turns."
That makes the selection of Mikkelsen as Dr. Lecter only partial type-casting, as the actor is better known for portraying characters whose external appearance very much reflect their dangerous nature – be it the eye-patch-wearing Count de Rochefort in The Three Musketeers or the Viking "One Eye" in Valhalla Rising. (Mikkelsen does seem to have a thing for playing villains with eye issues, doesn't he? Moving on…)
David Slade (30 Days of Night, Eclipse) is locked to direct the pilot for Hannibal, which Fuller will serve as an executive producer on, alongside the owner of the screen rights to the Hannibal Lecter character, Martha De Laurentis, and such television vets as Jesse Alexander (Lost), Sara Colleton (Dexter) and Katie O' Connell.
If all goes according to (Fuller's) plan, then Mikkelsen will be playing Dr. Lecter on the small screen for the next seven years. Of course, that depends in no small part on how receptive viewers are to his take on the infamous, suave, serial killer. Also, NBC's willingness to not cancel Hannibal prematurely, which is something many people have already voiced their doubt about (and with good reason).
For our money: Mikkelsen is a great actor, and his being cast as Dr. Lecter gives us reason to check out the pilot for Hannibal (regardless of what NBC does). That's to say nothing of the additional personnel working behind-the-scenes on this show, which looks to borrow some of the best plot/character elements found in fan-fave series like Dexter and Sherlock. (Intriguing, for sure.)
We will let you know when Hannibal secures an official premiere date.
Sandy Schaefer blogs at Screen Rant.


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(CNN) -- -- Amadou Diouf, an immigrant from Senegal, says U.S. agents injected him with drugs against his will as he was about to be deported in February 2007.
Raymond Soeoth, pictured here with his wife, will receive $5,000 and be allowed to stay in the U.S. for at least two years.
He and another immigrant who made similar claims sued the government, leading to a change in policy that sharply restricts the way such drugs are used against detainees.
Diouf, who came to the United States from Senegal to get a college education, said he went through something no immigrant should have to endure. But in the end, he's satisfied with the outcome.
"To the extent that whatever happened to me is not going to happen to other people, it was well worth it," he told CNN by phone earlier this week.
Diouf spent nearly two years in detention for overstaying his student visa, and in late February 2007 was put on a plane for deportation. Diouf said he had a federal stay of his deportation in his hand on the plane, but his U.S. government escorts didn't care. See Diouf's stay of deportation document
He was wrestled to the ground and injected through his clothes, he said. At the time, the federal agents said they administered the drugs to sedate him because he wouldn't follow their orders, a claim Diouf denies.
"That was a horrible experience," he said. "That experience alone was worse than the two years that I stayed in detention."
Immigration and Customs Enforcement reached a settlement with Diouf and Raymond Soeoth of Indonesia on Monday. As part of the agreement, Diouf will receive $50,000; Soeoth gets $5,000 and will be allowed to stay in the United States for at least two more years.
Just last month, ICE changed its policy and in the future must seek a court order for authority to administer drugs to people being deported.
Soeoth's medical records indicate one of the drugs used on him was called Haldol -- which is often used to treat schizophrenia or other mental illnesses -- although he had no history of mental illness. It's not clear what drug was injected into Diouf.
The government did not admit wrongdoing or apologize in its settlement.
"The settlement does not constitute an admission of any wrongdoing or liability by the government," ICE spokeswoman Lori Haley told CNN. "We agreed to settle the litigation because the agency believes that the resulting agreement is in the best interest of the government."
She added that the settlement and new policy underscores "our commitment to maintaining safe, secure and humane conditions for those in our custody."
Ahilan Arulanantham, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who represented Diouf and Soeoth, called the settlement a "tremendous victory."
"What happened here is really awful by any measure," he said in a telephone interview. "Here we have routine immigration cases -- people with no sense of danger, no violent pasts or anything -- and the government was actually forcibly drugging them. And that's really awful."
The government has previously acknowledged that 56 people facing deportation received psychotropic medications in 2006 and 2007.
"Now, they're not going to do that. We're very, very happy about that," Arulanantham said.
Although the government didn't admit wrongdoing in this case, Arulanantham said the settlement and new policy are about as close to an apology as one can get.
John Torres, the director of ICE's detention and removal operations office, said in a government memo dated January 9 that the new policy on forcible injections means agents can no longer request a medical escort to "administer involuntary sedation to facilitate an alien's removal" unless the government first obtains a court order.
"There are no exceptions. Emergency or exigent circumstances are not grounds for departures from this policy," he said in the memo.
Diouf had attended California State University, Northridge, and later married a U.S. citizen. He was detained on March 29, 2005, for overstaying a student visa.
Diouf, whose deportation to Senegal is on appeal, said his perception about America as a great country has not changed despite what happened.
"I do want to stay," he said.
Soeoth, a Christian minister from Indonesia, and his wife recently lost their immigration appeal and were within days of being deported when the settlement was reached. He and his wife are still seeking political asylum.
"If we don't have the opportunity to stay in the U.S., this gives us time to find another country that will take us," he said in a written statement. "From the first time we talked about filing this case, we didn't want other people to have to go through the same experience. I feel like we won because the government changed its policy." E-mail to a friend
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On the Cool Tools mailing list, Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson (a hardcore maker of cool things, like DIY Drones, and founder of GeekDad) heartily recommends Autodesk's 123D:
Printing in 3D is now no more complicated than printing photos in Picasa. First you design something in Autodesk 123D (in my case, my first project was a device housing prototype). Then pick "Make" from the menu. You can print your object on your desktop printer, like a Makerbot (moderate quality, now), or you press another button to have it printed (high quality, later) on a commercial printer. Enter your credit card (my prototype, shown here, cost $24) and a week later, it's delivered to your house. Wow.
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When personal finance woes were affecting the performance of one of Jil Wyland's employees, she had the employee sit down with her head of operations to learn the basics of budgeting and saving. Afterward, the employee became more productive. Ever since, personal finance education has become a popular employee benefit among the nine workers at Litigation Presentation Inc., an Atlanta legal graphics company Wyland founded in 2001.
Although it's far from her main line of business, Wyland, 35, feels the practice is sensible and appropriate. "We train people to gain better work habits," she reasons. "Why not help them with life a little bit, too?"
Almost half of companies--49 percent--provide some kind of investment advice to employees, according to a 2004 survey by the Society for Human Resources Management and the Employee Benefit Research Institute. That should be some comfort to the more than one-third of workers who said money worries sometimes hampered their job performance, according to a 1998 Virginia Tech University study. The study also found that 56 percent of employees felt their financial situations improved after getting financial education at work.
Workplace financial training comes in a couple of flavors: It may be similar to coaching, giving targeted advice about an employee's individual financial goals; or it can be broader, introducing concepts and techniques such as investing for retirement.
Companies can deliver financial information through a number of channels. Some, like Wyland, tap in-house experts to counsel employees as needed. More structured approaches employ third-party advice through a combination of websites, workshops, telephone hotlines and personal planning sessions.
Phone services usually allow an unlimited number of calls and connect employees with accountants and financial planners for detailed discussions. "As long as it's financial and not legal or psychological, we can answer any question or address any issue you have," says Liz Davidson, CEO of Financial Finesse Inc., a Manhattan Beach, California, workplace financial coaching provider. Advice also generally stops short of providing an actual service, such as preparing a tax return.
Financial information is often included in a benefits package by companies that sell legal services, health and fitness programs, and other cafeteria-type offerings. Richard Chaifetz, chair and CEO of ComPsych Corp., a Chicago employee assistance program supplier, says his company's workplace financial information service is usually sold as part of a bundle including legal advice, and it adds from $1.50 to $3 per employee per year to the cost of the bundle.
Confidentiality is an issue when employees tap employer-sponsored sources for financial advice. Davidson stresses that she doesn't give employers information about individual employees' use of the service. However, she does provide nonspecific data such as the most popular topics employees call about.
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It could be a wild and jumbled baseball season in a conference dominated by Boylan, Harlem and Hononegah for a decade.
Boylan returns six starters, but not its top two pitchers, from its two-time defending NIC-10 champs.
Hononegah, which tied with Boylan last year, has the returning league MVP in NIU-bound pitcher Donovin Sims, but only two other starters back and Illinois State recruit Riley Pawelski is out for the season after having Tommy John surgery on his pitching elbow.
Harlem has only three seniors and is coming off its first losing season in 16 years.
Belvidere North returns seven players, but only four started and the Blue Thunder has never finished higher than last year's third-place showing.
Belvidere has junior right-hander Tyler Lass, who has verbally committed to Northwestern to become a rare local Big Ten recruit.
And then there is East, which returns seven starters from a team that was tied with Hononegah and Boylan halfway through last season after finishing in the bottom three in the league 12 years in a row.
That leaves Boylan as the favorite and North the likely runner-up, but it's not nearly as clear-cut as in past years.
"I always love to have that star pitcher," said Boylan coach Matt Weber, who once WAS that pitcher, leading Boylan to a state runner-up finish in 2003. "It's nice to have those as a weapon. It makes it easier when you know you can count on that guy in a one-game scenario.
"None of our guys is going to go out and wow you with their stuff, but Joe Fehrle and Will Troia are good pitchers who have thrown in some tough situations over the years. They are a microcosm of our team; our team is built on a lot of good players who in time could be great players."
North will depend on deep pitching, which is looking more and more like the way to go with games getting backed up by such a late start because of a wet and cold spring.
"With the way the weather is going, whoever wins the title will have to go five or six pitchers deep every week," North coach Dennis Kehrer said. "We don't have 1A horses like Donovin or Lass, but we have three 1B pitchers, three kids (Luke Mitchell, Ben Kolkmeyer and Levon Smith) who are just a rung down the ladder, and some other kids who can get the job done as well."
East is the hardest team to peg after going 17-10 (12-6) last year and winning its first regional title in 21 years.
"Sometimes those programs that have been beaten on for awhile, all you need is one good year to change the culture," Weber said. "They may not win as many games as they did last year, but they should be in every game."
An extra-inning loss to North and a last-pitch loss at Boylan was all that kept East out of at least third place last year. The E-Rabs struggled to hit and didn't strike many batters out, but played great defense.
"We don't walk a lot of guys either; that tends to come back and bite you," East coach Jim Williams said. "Runs are going to come here and there. We have to do the fundamental things all the time. It's up to our hard work to pay off in the field.
"We've got most everybody back. It should be interesting. We'll see what happens.
"We have been down for so long here, we have to prove to people we're here to play and be competitive. We don't set any goals to win conference. We just set goals to get better every day, every game, and not be afraid to play anybody."
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"There are only two things I hate: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures……… and the DUTCH!!!"
Not really- I'm quoting Austin Powers. The Dutch are really lovely. 😛
I've based myself in a coffee shop in Utrecht, where after three days the staff still find my fascination with the hot chocolate hilarious. (In Holland, hot chocolate is made by melting chocolate buttons into hot milk.)
I've had an intense few days of studio workshops that have passed in a slick of latex, and a fantastic shoot with Ardi-foto for Ardita fashion in some amazing locations. (I can't show you the finished results yet as they're for publication, but here's a behind-the-scenes from outfit #2, by Dawnamatrix (bra-top) and HMSlatex (chest-harness)
We were in the local paintball shooting range- I'll tell you all about it later when I've collected up the rest of the BTS shots.
I also visited Rotterdam for one night- I'd arrived on a Friday evening but found it the most peaceful, beautiful place I have been in a long time. My camera died shortly after I began my walk, but I visited the local park, which had green parakeets and just about every river bird I knew (and a few more I didn't). I only wanted to check it out, but ended up sitting by the river for about an hour, watching the sun set behind a tiny peninsula where a family of moorhens had gathered under a weeping willow.
As I have no pictures of one of the most magical evenings of my travels, have some shots of the harbour and a different bird family. (Six ducklings- they must be so proud!) 😀
Oh, and there are sculptures everywhere. Go to the bottom to see a gnome with a buttplug. (See what I did there? *Snigger… Snort…*)
Art Critic Heron is impressed!
Now I'm back in Utrecht, I'm about to go and check out a little boat-cafe I saw a few days ago, but thought you might like to see a couple pictures I forgot to post, from all the way back in January, with Guy Bisson. 🙂
Oh yes! And the voting has ended now for the Deep Down and Kinky Awards- thankyou so much to everyone who voted for me- it really does make me happy to see my work recognised. Many virtual computer hugs to you all. 🙂
On that note, I'm in an advert in Retribution Magazine, along with my good friend Anita De Bauch. Photo by David Long.
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Mythic launches their four-month long Call to Arms live update for Warhammer Online this week, with the Bitter Rivals live event and the launch of their official forums.
Bitter Rivals, running from March 3rd to March 10th, gives players a chance to unlock the new Dwarf Slayer and Orc Choppa classes by completing quests and participating in the new Twisting Tower Realm vs. Realm Scenario. In Twisting Tower, the forces of Order and Destruction battle for control of a ruined Chaos tower while a vengeful god rains fire down upon both armies. The event kicks off the massive Call to Arms live update, which culminates in June with the opening of a brand-new raid dungeon zone, The Land of the Dead.
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HARTFORD -- Ryan Boatright scored a career-high 26 points and added nine assists as Connecticut routed Fordham 88-73 Friday night.
The Huskies (9-2) used a suffocating defense to force 21 Fordham turnovers while making 15 steals. They scored 35 points off turnovers while amassing their highest point total of the season.
The Huskies shot 50.8 percent (31 of 61) from the floor, including 8 of 21 from 3-point range, in winning their third straight game since losing to North Carolina State in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden.
Shabazz Napier added 19 points, seven rebounds, six assists and four steals for Connecticut and Omar Calhoun had 17 points. The Huskies scored 57 first-half points and led by as many as 32 in a game they never trailed.
Branden Frazier led the Rams (2-9) with 26 points.
A 19-0 run by the Rams early in the second half cut the Huskies' 32-point lead to 13 points, 63-50, with just over 12 minutes to play. An R.J. Evans layup and then a Boatright steal and layup with 11:49 remaining stopped the bleeding for Connecticut.
Fordham would get no closer than 13 the rest of the way, and a Tyler Olander layup and back-to-back jumpers by DeAndre Daniels (10 points) pushed Connecticut's lead back up to 73-54.
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Boatright scored nine points in the first five minutes on 4-of-6 shooting, pacing the Huskies to an 18-15 lead.
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The Huskies played their best first half of the year, scoring 21 points off 13 Fordham turnovers, including 11 steals.
Boatright scored 20 points and added seven assists in the first half on 7-of-11 shooting. Calhoun scored 13 first-half points, including three 3-pointers.
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BELOIT, WIS. -- The Peoria Chiefs had best hope their game Wednesday doesn't prove to cost them more than a mark in the loss column.
Trying to hold on to a playoff in the deep stretch of the Midwest League first-half race, the Chiefs blew a save in the eighth inning and dropped a 2-1 decision to the last-place Beloit Snappers before 522 at Pohlman Field.
The second-place Chiefs hold a 1-game lead over Quad Cities and 1 1/2 over Clinton and Burlington with 11 games left in the half.
The Chiefs scratched out a 1-0 lead in the sixth when newly-arrived Ronnierd Garcia doubled to open the inning, and scored on a one-out single by C.J. McElroy.
Peoria reliever Brandon Lee allowed five of eight hitters he faced to reach base, and was replaced in the eighth by Zach Loraine with two runners aboard.
Loraine gave up two singles, the latter a bases-loaded two-run chip to left by BA Vollmuth, who was hitting .189.
** Beloit starter Junior Mendez faced just one hitter over the minimum through the first five innings.
** The Chiefs defense turned inning-ending double-plays in the fifth and sixth innings to help escape jams.
** Peoria relievers Chase Brookshire (who spot-started) and Kevin Herget combined to toss 2-hit, shutout ball over the first six innings.
"(Chase) Brookshire and (Kevin) Herget gave us three good innings each but we couldn't get it done in the ninth. ... The defense came up big today with double plays ... But we didn't get too much offense tonight. I'd say we had some poor at-bats with soft outs early in counts."
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