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Broadcasting House
Broadcasting House | |
New Broadcasting House | |
Broadcasting House and the new eastern extension
Alternative names | BH, BBC Broadcasting House |
General information | |
Architectural style | Art Deco |
Location | London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 51°31′06″N 0°08′37″W / 51.518409°N 0.143691°WCoordinates: 51°31′06″N 0°08′37″W / 51.518409°N 0.143691°W |
Current tenants | BBC News BBC Radio 1 BBC Radio 1Xtra BBC Radio 3 BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 Extra BBC World Service BBC World News BBC Vision |
Construction started | 21 November 1928 |
Inaugurated | 15 March 1932 |
Owner | BBC |
Height | 34 m (112 ft) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 9 above ground, 3 below ground |
Design and construction | |
Architect | George Val Myer, Raymond McGrath |
Civil engineer | Marmaduke T Tudsbery |
Website | |
bbc.co.uk/broadcastinghouse |
Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC, located in Portland Place and Langham Place, London. The first radio broadcast from the building was made on 15 March 1932, and the building was officially opened two months later, on 15 May. The main building was built in the Art Deco style, and features a facing of Portland stone over a steel frame. It is Grade II* listed building and includes the BBC Radio Theatre, from where music and speech programmes are recorded in front of a studio audience, and lobby which has been used as a location for filming of the 1998 BBC television series In the Red.[1]
As part of a major consolidation of the BBC's property portfolio in London, Broadcasting House has been extensively renovated and extended. This involved the demolition of post-war extensions on the eastern side of the building, which were replaced by a new wing completed in 2005. The wing was named the "John Peel Wing" in 2012, after the disc jockey. BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1Xtra and BBC London moved from other locations in London to the new wing. BBC Arabic Television and BBC Persian Television were established after the wing was built and broadcast from there.
The main building was refurbished, and a new extension built to the rear of it. The radio stations BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 Extra and the BBC World Service all transferred to newly refurbished studios within the building. The new extension links the old building with the John Peel Wing, and includes a new combined newsroom for BBC News, featuring studios for the BBC News channel, BBC World News and other news programming. All news operations moved from BBC Television Centre in March 2013.[2]
The official name of the building remains Broadcasting House but the BBC now also uses the term new Broadcasting House (with a small 'n') in its publicity which refers to the new extension rather than the whole building, with the old part of Broadcasting House known as old Broadcasting House.[3]
Construction of Broadcasting House began in 1928. Programmes transferred gradually to the new building. On 15 March 1932 the first musical programme to come from BH was given by the bandleader Henry Hall and his Dance Orchestra. The first news bulletin was read by Stuart Hibberd on 18 March. The last transmission from Savoy Hill was on 14 May. Broadcasting House, officially opened on 15 May 1932. George Val Myer designed the building in collaboration with the BBC's civil engineer, M T Tudsbery. The original interiors were the work of Raymond McGrath, an Australian-Irish architect. He directed a team which included Serge Chermayeff and Wells Coates and designed the vaudeville studio, the associated green and dressing rooms, and the dance and chamber music studios in a flowing Art Deco style.
The building was steel framed and faced using Portland stone. The radio studios were arranged in the central core of the building, with the offices encasing them on the outside, so that they could be both away from the noise of the radio operations, and have access to daylight.[4] Objections by local residents also caused the structure to be changed. The east side of the building blocked out the light to local residents, and after complaints and seeking the right of ancient lights, the building was altered so that the east side of the building had a sloped roof. Underground structures, including hundred year old sewers, presented problems during construction. The building was built atop the Bakerloo line of the London Underground, while the Victoria line was in turn tunnelled beneath Broadcasting House in the 1960s, and has since presented problems for construction of the Egton Wing (see below).[5] Noise from passing trains is audible within the radio theatre, but generally imperceptible in recordings.
The ground floor of the building was fitted with floor to ceiling windows overlooking the street, as it was believed that to finance such a project (costing £25,000,000 in today's money) they would need to let the ground floor as a retail unit. The rapid expansion of the BBC meant this never occurred.
The original building also showcases a number of works of art, most prominently the statues of Prospero and Ariel (from Shakespeare's The Tempest) by Eric Gill. Their choice was fitting since Prospero was a magician and scholar, and Ariel, a spirit of the air, in which radio waves travel. There was, reportedly, controversy over some features of the statues when first built and they were said to have been subsequently modified. They were reported to have been sculpted by Gill as God and Man, rather than simply Prospero and Ariel, and that there is a small carved picture of a beautiful girl on the back of the statue of Prospero. Additional carvings of Ariel can be found on the building's exterior in many bas-reliefs, some by Gill, others by Gilbert Bayes.[6][7][8] The reception area also contains a statue of 'The sower' also by Gill.
The original structure is now a Grade II* listed building, and the BBC works with English Heritage on its maintenance.
Broadcasting House has undergone a major renovation, during the BBC's W1 Programme,[9] with the aim of refurbishing the original building and combine a number of the BBC's operations in a newly built extension. This now houses the television and radio operations of BBC News, which has relocated from Television Centre; the BBC World Service from Bush House (relocated 12 July 2012),[10] and BBC Radio, with the exception of BBC Radio 5 Live and its sister station 5 Live Sports Extra, which have moved to Salford Quays.
To make way for the renovation, BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music moved from Broadcasting House to newly built studios in the nearby Western House,[11] where they will remain.[12]
The building work was completed in two phases. It began with the demolition of two post-war extensions to the original building.
First phase[edit]
The first phase consisted of the renovation of the original building, which was now starting to show its age and needed structural repair, and the building of a new wing to the east of the original structure.[13]
In the old building, the sloped east roof was taken off, and many of the rooms stripped back to their walls, although much of the Art Deco architecture was retained and preserved. Much of the work focused on the lower walls and ceilings which did not include Art Deco features. The reception area was renovated to include a new desk, while retaining the message and statue as the attention piece of the room. Many rooms had ceilings removed, such as the south tower, and new reinforcement joists were added.
The new Egton wing was roughly the same shape as the main Broadcasting House building, featuring a modern design and window arrangement, but retaining some features such as the Portland stone used for the building. Towards the rear of the building, a large block was created in the side, mirroring that created in the main building, when the sloping roof was removed.
The design of the new extension, intended to equal in "architectural creativity" that already on site was carried out by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard. Construction was completed in 2005 and the newly refurbished Broadcasting House, and the newly completed Egton wing were opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 20 April 2006 as part of her 80th birthday celebrations.[14] All areas of the Egton Wing were fully fitted out and completed by 2007.
In 2012, it was announced by the then Director-General Mark Thompson that the Egton Wing would be renamed the 'John Peel Wing' to commemorate the late Radio 1 Disc jockey who he described as a "great radio talent".[15] Thompson described the new wing as a "fitting tribute to a man who personified so much of what the BBC stands for". Later that year, the naming of the building was placed in doubt, when Peel was reported to have had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl in the 1960s,[16] allegations which followed in the wake of the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal.
It currently houses the studios of BBC Radio 1 and 1xtra.
Second phase[edit]
The second phase of the project was the creation of the large wing to the rear of the building, joining the two buildings, and creating a plaza between them. The original architects were sacked and replaced by the BBC for not agreeing to cost-related revisions, as Sir Richard MacCormac was unwilling to sacrifice the quality of his design.[17] The construction work was completed by Bovis Lend Lease.[18] Construction was completed in 2010, and control handed over to the BBC in 2011. While the rebuilding process was under way, many of the BBC radio stations moved to other buildings near Portland Place.
The extension contains the BBC News and Journalism departments, and state-of-the-art technical equipment and new studios to house the BBC News bulletins on television, the BBC News Channel as well as BBC World News, the BBC Arabic Television service and the BBC Persian Television service. At the heart of this is a new newsroom, the largest live newsroom in the world.[14]
A walkway above the newsroom allows the public to view the work of journalists, while connecting the foyer to the Radio Theatre and a new café for staff and the public. This, complemented by the outdoor plaza, which could act as an outdoor arena and theatre, is designed to engage the public with the television and radio making process.[14] The extension is glass-covered in the plaza area and curved to contrast both wings either side and to continue the glass found on both sides high up the building. On the Portland Place side, it continues the same use of Portland stone and glass seen in Egton wing.
On Monday 18 March 2013 at 1pm, following the BBC News Channel's final broadcast from Television Centre, the first news programme from Broadcasting house was aired: the BBC News at One, on BBC One and the BBC News Channel. BBC World News, however, was the first of BBC's news services to move into the new building on Monday 14 January 2013, beginning with "GMT" at 12 noon.
Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the extension to Broadcasting House on 7 June 2013.[19] The second phase development won the ' Programme of the Year' award at the 2013 annual awards of the Association for Project Management. [20]
When first built, Broadcasting House contained 22 radio studios[21][22] for all the programme genres and all designed in the art-deco style with a dual emphasis on both looks and practicality. The overall practicality of the studios changed rapidly as a result of the limitations of the time and the changing nature of broadcasting and the uses of the studios. These studios were:
Number | Name | Designer | Designed use |
8A | Military Band studio | Serge Chermayeff | Designed for large band and vaudeville performances.[23] |
8B | Small Debates studio | Serge Chermayeff | A small informally designed studio to encourage lively and confident debate.[24] |
7A | Production studio | Wells Coates | Acoustically dead studio, used for one section of a drama.[25] |
7B | Production studio | Wells Coates | Used for speech in a play or drama or for piano performances.[25] |
7C | Production studio | Wells Coates | Acoustically dead small drama studio.[25] |
7D | Effects studio | Wells Coates | Small effects studio for producing foley.[25] |
7E | Gramophone Effects studio | Wells Coates | Small studio for producing effects from or involving gramophones.[25] |
6A | Production studio | Wells Coates | Double height, large production studio for use in Drama productions.[26] |
6B | Production studio | Wells Coates | Small drama studio.[26] |
6C | Production studio | Wells Coates | Acoustically dead small drama studio.[26] |
6D | Effects studio | Wells Coates | Main effects studio for the production of foley. It was equipped with different floor coverings and coverings on the main table to achieve different effects and contained various items including a wind machine and a water tank.[27] |
6E | Gramophone Effects studio | Wells Coates | Small studio for producing effects from or involving gramophones.[28] |
4A | News studio | Wells Coates | Acoustically dead small studio for reading news bulletins. Contained gramophone records to be played in the event of an interruption.[29] |
4B | News studio | Wells Coates | Acoustically dead small news studio with record players.[29] |
3A | Production studio | Serge Chermayeff | A double-height large studio used for Children's Hour and used for chamber music recitals and by the BBC Dance Orchestra.[30] |
3B | Talks studio | Serge Chermayeff | A small talks studio for unrehearsed debates.[30] |
3C | Talks studio | Serge Chermayeff | An acoustically dead small talks studio for unrehearsed debates.[30] |
3D | Library Talks studio | Dorothy Warren Trotter | A small talks studio for speeches and debates. It was decorated in the style of a personal library or study for the benefit of elderly or lordly speakers.[31] |
3E | Religious studio | Edward Maufe | A double height large studio with a balcony that was designed for religious broadcasts. The studio was specifically designed with a focus on all religions so that any religious member would feel comfortable. The studio was soon disused as listeners preferred the sound of a real church and congregation.[32] |
The concert hall | Val Myer | A very large double-height concert hall for use by orchestras playing classical music.[33] The hall contains a large space for the orchestra as well as a large section and a balcony for seating. The first organ suitable for broadcasting was installed in the studio. It was renamed the Radio Theatre in 1994.[34] | |
BA | Vaudeville studio | Raymond McGrath | A double-height studio with balcony for theatre and variety performances. An audience of 60 could be present for performances.[35] |
BB | Dance band studio | Raymond McGrath | A double-height studio with a small balcony for an audience for use by the BBC Dance Orchestra. It was taken over for experimental television broadcasts on 22 August 1932.[36] |
Following the rebuild and refurbishment of Broadcasting House, several new studios have been added and the studio structure itself has changed dramatically. The current studios are:
Until programmes air information is subject to change. All times listed are either Greenwich Mean Time or British Summer Time depending on what is being used in London.
Journalists' Memorial[edit]
Atop the roof of the new John Peel wing of Broadcasting House, mirroring the radio mast, is a cone-shaped glass structure, reaching into the sky at the same height as the radio mast opposite. It was sculpted by Jaume Plensa and is a memorial to all of the BBC journalists killed in the line of duty. Called Breathing, it includes words from a poem by James Fenton and is illuminated day and night. At 10pm daily, in line with the BBC News at Ten, a column of light shines 900 metres into the sky. It was officially unveiled on 16 June 2008 by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.[38][39]
See also[edit]
- ^ [URL=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158414/]
- ^ "BBC News' television output moves to new studios at Broadcasting House" (Press release). BBC. 18 March 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
- ^ "Her Majesty The Queen officially opens BBC's new Broadcasting House" (Press release). BBC. 7 June 2013. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
- ^ "The Past". BBC. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
- ^ BBC - Press Office - Broadcasting House London development
- ^ "BBC - Press Office - Broadcasting House, London". Retrieved 10 April 2007.
- ^ "Exterior Sculptures - Broadcasting House in 1932". Retrieved 10 April 2007.
- ^ "BBC - Radio 4 - Archive Hour - The Home of Radio". Retrieved 10 April 2007.[dead link]
- ^ "W1 Programme comes to a close". BBC. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
- ^ "BBC World Service leaves Bush House". BBC News. 12 July 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
- ^ "Western House - The new studios". BBC Radio 2. Retrieved 10 April 2007.
- ^ Dan Sabbagh (7 September 2012). "The news from the BBC: its £1bn new base is finally coming on air". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
- ^ "The story of Broadcasting House". BBC. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
- ^ a b c "The Present". BBC. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
- ^ "BBC to name wing of new Broadcasting House after John Peel" (Press release). BBC. 2 March 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
- ^ Eccles, Louise; Ward, Alex (13 October 2012)."BBC to consider renaming Peel Wing at headquarters after claims DJ had affair with schoolgirl, 15". Daily Mail (London).
- ^ Barnett, Antony (13 November 2005). "BBC in political row after sacking leading architect". The Observer (London). p. 2. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
- ^ "Bovis to revamp BBC headquarters". The Daily Telegraph (London). 19 December 2002. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
- ^ "Queen officially opens BBC's new Broadcasting House building". BBC News. 7 June 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
- ^ "BBC Triumphs at Awards". APM. 4 November 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ "Broadcasting House, London". Key Facts. BBC Press Office. May 2004. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ^ Hines, Mark (2008). The Story of Broadcasting House, Home of the BBC (First ed.). London: Merrell. p. 51. ISBN 9781858944210. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
- ^ "Eighth Floor - Studio 8A". Broadcasting House 1932. Old Radio Broadcsting Equipment and Memories (ORBEM). Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ^ "Eighth floor - 8B and Drama Control". Broadcasting House 1932. Old Radio Broadcasting Equipment and Memories (ORBEM). Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ^ a b c d e "Seventh floor - 7B and Music control". Broadcasting House 1932. Old Radio Broadcasting Equipment and Memories (ORBEM). Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ^ a b c "Sixth floor". Broadcasting House 1932. Old Radio Broadcasting Equipment and Memories (ORBEM). Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ^ "Sixth floor - Effects studio". Broadcasting House 1932. Old Radio Broadcasting Equipment and Memories (ORBEM). Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ^ "Sixth floor - Effects studio". Broadcasting House 1932. Old Radio Broadcasting Equipment and Memories (ORBEM). Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ^ a b "Fourth floor - 4A, 4B and office". Broadcasting House 1932. Old Radio Broadcasting Equipment and Memories (ORBEM). Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ^ a b c "Third floor - 3A and 3B". Broadcasting House 1932. Old Radio Broadcasting Equipment and Memories (ORBEM). Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ^ "Third floor - Studio 3D". Broadcasting House 1932. Old Radio Broadcasting Equipment and Memories (ORBEM). Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ^ "Third floor - Studio 3E". Broadcasting House 1932. Old Radio Broadcasting Equipment and Memories (ORBEM). Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ^ "Lower Ground floor - Concert Hall". Broadcasting House 1932. Old Radio Broadcasting Equipment and Memories (ORBEM). Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ^ Hines, Mark (2008). The Story of Broadcasting House, Home of the BBC (First ed.). London: Merrell. p. 121. ISBN 9781858944210. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
- ^ "Sub-Basement - Studio BA". Broadcasting House 1932. Old Radio Broadcasting Equipment and Memories (ORBEM). Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ^ "Sub-Basement - Studio BB". Broadcasting House 1932. Old Radio Broadcasting Equipment and Memories (ORBEM). Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ^ "Priming the pips in studio 40B".
- ^ "Killed reporters' memorial opens". BBC News. 16 June 2008. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
- ^ "Editorial: In praise of... the Breathing light sculpture". The Guardian (London). 17 June 2008. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Broadcasting House, London. |
- Broadcasting House at BBC Online
- History of the BBC - Broadcasting House at BBC Online
- Press Office Key Facts - 1932 Broadcasting House at BBC Online
- Broadcasting House - a potted history
- Old BBC Radio Broadcasting Equipment and Memories - Broadcasting House in 1932
- Details from listed building database (424540) . Images of England. English Heritage.
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Exploring the use of iPads and mobile devices in education.
I'll often get messages from site members asking about ways to get funding for an iPad program at their school. What better way of helping each other out? Share your insights and suggestions...
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One idea would be to seek help from your Rotary Clubs. This organization has funding for local projects in several areas and education is one of them. If you present a simple proposal to the club in your area, they can ask for support to other clubs and together fund your project. Try them.
There are many government subsidy programs that fall under the radar. For example, California schools can apply to the "Teleconnect Fund" and easily get a 50% subsidy on telecommunications expenses. All you need to do is fill out an online form. That's many thousands of dollars that can be saved and then applied to the technology program. Check what's available in your state.
The elementary school district in Fullerton, CA has a 1:1 MacBook program in some schools in grades 2-8 that is funded by the parents who purchased the laptops. An iPad2 program could be modeled after this program at lower cost. I work with a private school which used donations/grants to install classroom infrastructure and teacher equipment in each classroom that consists of an interactive whiteboard, hi-def, wide-screen, ultra-short-throw video projector, teacher's MacBook Pro laptop and iPad2, wireless printer, Internet router, Apple TV unit and a wireless network. Doceri software, Apple TV and Apple's iOS5 operating system make the laptop and iPads wirelessly interactive with the whiteboard.
Parents are charged a tech fee (similar to a registration fee) each year of $350 or $37.50 per month to cover the cost of an iPad2 for their student. Each student received an iPad2 at the beginning of the school year that was obtained through the Apple 2-year, lease/purchase program. The fee covers the cost of the iPad2, an extended warranty, a protective case, and insurance against accident, theft and vandalism anywhere in the world. Students are asked to take the iPads home at night and on weekends and are required to bring them to school fully charged each day.
We are a private school so most of our money comes from tuition. To fund our iPad 1:1 program next year the teachers have to find enough textbook savings to offset the extra money parents will pay to fund to the program.
For example, next year we will use a digital textbook in our American Government classes instead of a traditional textbook. The old book costs $60-$80. The digital book is $15 for a semester subscription.
If the parents have to pay $400 a year to pay for the iPad leases, then we need to save them $400 a year in textbook costs.
Some of us are working on creating our own collections of resources to replace the textbook which we could distribute on the iPads for free. This way the iPad program is actually saving our parents money.
I realize that is is probably not an option in public schools but maybe its an approach that will work in other private schools.
We too are looking at potentially saving money on textbooks that could instead be used to support the iPad program. At this time textbook companies are in the process of adapting their business models to the new digital realities. For example ck12.org has numerous digital textbooks that are free and meet California state standards. Most are for the upper grades. Also Khan Academy is a major resources for teaching materials that may supplant/complement some textbooks.
Our tech fee will probably eventually be made part of the registration fee which has been used to buy textbooks and supplies.
I began my iPad integration with one iPad, yes, one. The next year I wrote another grant (Kiwannis) and got one more. I would suggest that if you can't get funding for an entire cart and 1:1 iPads, start with what you can get! I found that "seeing is believing" and as my district, my PTA, and my parents saw the benefits of using two iPads, they began to "buy in". (Today I have 15 iPads, given by a philanthropist who believed in what he could see.) I was able to use two iPads with 24 kindergarten kids last year with no Wifi. Where there is a will, there is a way. I had no funding for apps, so I found everything I could find for free, shortly thereafter my parents started donating iTunes cards so I could add more apps. The benefit of having only a few iPads, was that I was able to manage them myself, without the district limiting my app selection. (Shhh, don't tell, please) With the iPad cart, the district maintains complete controll and I am not able to purchase all of the apps I want when I find them. I use iPads everyday and don't always need 1:1, so my advice is to start small if you have to.
I have been advised by a woman who supervised a large pre-school program on Long Island last year that there are many apps for kindergarteners and pre-schoolers, but that it is best not to have more than one or two iPads in a classroom at those grade levels. Apple sells iPads in packs of ten and we had a few more than we needed for backup in our 1:1 iPad program for grades 3-8 so we will be giving them to our kindergarten and pre-K teachers to experiment with over the holidays.
Our kindergarten and grades 1-2 have the same classroom tech infrastructure as the upper grades except that we use eBeam rather than Doceri for the interactive whiteboard component because the students and teachers in the lower grades have not had iPads.
I specialize in working with education to implement 1:1 iPad and Macbook programs all across the country (for both K12 and higher ed). I find that the greatest challenge is not necessarily in coming up with the initial funds to make the first iPad purchase, but in putting a "system" in place that most cost effectively manages the preferred iPad "refresh" process at any given school, over time. Donations and grants are wonderful, but how will you fund next year's acquisition, and the year after that? How will you track all of the iPads for each student? How will you decommission each iPad when they've exceeded their useful life? How will you manage the obsolescence risk of iPad technology knowing that Apple will most likely come out with newer and better iPad technology almost every year moving forward? Most of the schools we work with put in place a lease-based refresh model for their iPad programs. Over a three year period they're paying only 97% of the actual purchase price for the iPads, they have a process in place which ensures they'll never have an iPad on campus over three years old and they are supplied with all of the support and tracking tools they will need to effectively manage the program (all at no additional cost). As mentioned in one of the comments below, most of these schools pass on the lease cost to the students in the form of a technology fee which coincides with the school's lease payments. Here are two examples of schools we work with who have successfully implemented 1:1 programs. The first is an article in "The Journal" for the Tower School in Massachusetts. The second is a case study video for Xavarian High School in New York City.
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Xavarian High School - New York City
We work with over 300 educational institutions all accross the county so if you would like to learn more about how schools are funding and managing these types of programs, I would be happy to share some insight.
I used Title III funds (ESL) to purchase 17 iPads with 3 more to buy soon. I have about 70 ELLs which gets me about $200 a student. Title III needs to be used to supplement, not supplant the curriculum and technology is an approved method to do this. I'm piloting these now with my high school ELLs, but I hope to buy a few more every year to help grow the idea in my school. We also used School Improvement money to buy a class set of iPod Touches, but these are not in use yet.
Many 1:1 laptop programs use a 3-year lease/refresh cycle because laptops are more expensive than iPads and the useful life may be a bit longer than iPads for which the technological life may be shorter. It is for that reason that we opted for a 2-year lease/refresh cycle for our iPads. Initially we were going to ask parents to purchase iPads for their students but decided not to for the following reasons: 1) the initial cost would be significantly higher, 2) they would be asked to do it again in about 2 years, and 3) we would lose control of what apps and content would be on the iPads. Michael Hoke above makes some other good points for having a 2- or 3-year lease/refresh program. By retaining ownership we have much tighter control of what is on the iPads and how they are used.
I have heard that some schools have a policy in which students bring their own devices to school. With so many different devices available with differing capabilities I fail to see how a teacher can implement an effective learning program. It would either have to be dumbed down to the lowest capability or seemingly be complex and chaotic.
Roger, all great points and I'm very glad to see you're on a 2 year refresh with the iPads. In regards to your comments, I too always highly recommend a 2 year refresh for iPads, for the reasons you stated. Keeping current with technology is no longer a static, or periodic activity. It's very dynamic and constantly evolving (especially for hand-held devices). Therefore, budgeting for the 21st century classroom needs to be a conversation that happens right alongside all discussions about the actual technology in the 21st century classroom. It does a school no good to focus only how they will pay for a particular piece of equipment, if they know for a fact that they'll be refreshing that equipment every 2-3 years. The point being, you can't budget for and pay for technology the same way you budget for and pay for a piece of furniture (which is how most schools pay for technology - year to year - out of the capital budget). The schools with the most strategic approach to keeping current with technology do so with a technology budget that view's keeping current as an ongoing, level and predictable expense, rather than a year-to-year "capital expense" that just so happens to pop up every year. My company recently hosted a peer discussion on Budgeting for the 21st Century Classroom out at EDUCUASE in Philadelphia. We had CIOs from about 40 higher education institutions in attendance to include Yale, Carnegie Melon and Syracuse. From that event we created a white paper on Budgeting for the 21st Century classroom which illustrates the direction many schools are moving in (I've included that white paper below). In regards to 1:1 programs, one cannot lose sight of the "program" that needs to be in place to successfully facilitate what will turn out to be several acquisitions that occur on a regular basis over time. Therefore, "how" we pay for technology becomes just as important as "what" we intend to acquire.
White Paper - Budgeting for the 21st Century Classroom
Many 1:1 laptop programs use a 3-year lease/refresh cycle because laptops are more expensive than iPads and the useful life may be a bit longer than iPads for which the technological life may be shorter. It is for that reason that we opted for a 2-year lease/refresh cycle for our iPads. Initially we were going to ask parents to purchase iPads for their students but decided not to for the following reasons: 1) the initial cost would be significantly higher, 2) they would be asked to do it again in about 2 years, and 3) we would lose control of what apps and content would be on the iPads. Michael Hoke above makes some other good points for having a 2- or 3-year lease/refresh program. By retaining ownership we have much tighter control of what is on the iPads and how they are used.
I have heard that some schools have a policy in which students bring their own devices to school. With so many different devices available with differing capabilities I fail to see how a teacher can implement an effective learning program. It would either have to be dumbed down to the lowest capability or seemingly be complex and chaotic.
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Imagine, high above you, the sleek silhouette of an airplane with a shape more like that of some futuristic spacecraft from a Hollywood blockbuster. You can clearly make out the long, lance-like nose, steeply swept wing and powerful engines as they blast this 21st-century private jet through the stratosphere at twice the speed of Concorde. Inside, well-heeled passengers are whisked in supreme, supersonic comfort toward their destination half a world away. Rather than a bone-rattling sonic boom, the sound you hear is a mere burble as the jet streaks overhead, vanishing beyond the horizon as quickly as it appeared.
The idea sounds like pure fantasy — and yet this is precisely the dream of a handful of bright entrepreneurs, and even many scientists and engineers at NASA and companies such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin, who say a quiet supersonic transport capable of flying from New York to Paris in less than two hours might be closer to reality than any of us could have imagined.
If such an incredible airplane could be brought to market, it would represent the ultimate in luxury travel — and a potentially potent business tool, too. After all, at its essence a private jet is really little more than a time machine, albeit one with a comfortable interior and a wet bar. And a supersonic private jet would be the ideal such conveyance, allowing its owner to move from point A to point B in the minimum amount of time.
When it comes to future supersonic jet design, there are two schools of thought. The first holds that a civil supersonic transport should be able to fly much faster than the speed of sound over the ocean and the uninhabited parts of the earth, then slow down to high-subsonic speed for the portions of its journey over populated regions. The second school — and the one that is quickly winning the upper hand in the debate — says that for supersonic travel to make economic sense, such an airplane should be capable of flying at speeds well above Mach 1 during its entire time aloft, other than takeoff and landing.
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Atherosclerosis is a topic very close to my heart. It is fitting that this issue of Applied Radiology addresses cardiac imaging, given the tremendous strides made over the past decade, particularly with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT).
Much of heart disease is acquired as a result of atherosclerosis. For the past 10 years, there has been a fundamental shift in the way we image atherosclerotic disease, in the coronary arteries as well as in the carotids and any other arteries where flow may be limited by an occlusive plaque.
For the greater part of the last century, imaging was focused on quantitating the degree of stenosis. A 70% reduction in vascular diameter, ie, 50% reduction in cross-sectional area, was considered "flow limiting." This 70% figure was given additional weight by the 1991 NASCET trial, which showed that at least a 70% stenosis of the carotid artery was necessary to justify carotid endarterectomy in symptomatic patients. 1 The NASCET trial used two numbers from a two-view cut-film carotid angiogram: the carotid diameter on the most narrowed view of the residual lumen divided by the normal diameter of the internal carotid artery just distal to the carotid bulb. Although the NASCET trial was based on cut-film angiography, the same number has come to be used with more modern digital imaging modalities, such as ultrasound, CT angiography, and MR angiography. Given the oft-noted point that atherosclerotic plaque can be eccentric and that two views from a routine angiography study may not estimate degree of stenosis accurately, many now favor the use of a cross-sectional area now that the newer digital modalities are being acquired in the axial plane. Thus, instead of a 70% ratio of diameters, stenosis would be measured in square millimeters. This should improve quantitation of stenosis; however, degree of stenosis may not be the most important factor in predicting stroke (as in NASCET) or myocardial infarction.
Over the last decade, attention has been increasingly focused on the vulnerability of the plaque itself, rather than on the degree of stenosis. While chronic narrowing of the coronary arteries may lead to symptoms (ie, angina with exercise) or findings (eg, ST depression/elevation on a stress EKG), such findings, at most, may lead to additional confirmatory testing up to an angiogram on an elective basis.
Of much greater concern than chronic narrowing is acute rupture of the atherosclerotic plaque. This forms a thrombogenic surface, which leads to acute occlusion of the vessel locally by clot or to an embolus being sent downstream. The former is more common in the coronary arteries as a cause of myocardial infarction. The latter is more common in the carotid arteries as a cause of cerebral infarction. Thus, current research in atherosclerosis is less concerned with degree of stenosis than with characterization of plaque stability. Identification of vulnerable plaque, ie, that which is more likely to rupture acutely, should be the goal of imaging, as such lesions are more often the cause of fatal cerebral or myocardial infarction.
The mature atherosclerotic plaque can be characterized simply as a fibrous cap covering a lipid core. The thicker the fibrous cap, the more stable the plaque and the less likely it is to rupture. Vulnerable plaques have thin fibrous caps. In this context, "thin" is on the order of 50 to 100 microns (0.05 to 0.10 mm), which is a much higher spatial resolution than is currently available with either CT or MRI. Stable plaques tend to be calcified on CT. This poses an interesting conundrum: high coronary calcium scores may actually represent more stable disease than low scores do. As expected, large lipid cores are low density on CT. On MRI, a lipid core is bright on T2-weighted images and the fibrous cap enhances with gadolinium. It is hoped that using local coil technology and k-space re-registration techniques, such as periodically rotated overlapping parallel lines with enhanced reconstruction (PROPELLER) MRI, 2 to get rid of motion artifact, the spatial resolution will improve to the point at which the thickness of the fibrous cap can be evaluated and disruptions can be visualized. While plaque characterization will most likely be performed initially in the carotid arteries (which could serve as a surrogate for coronary disease), we should expect the technology to transfer fairly quickly to the heart.


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Many People Underestimate How Long a Cough Should Last
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Sharon L. Sauer
Sharon L. Sauer, age 71 of Washburn, ND, went home to her Lord Jesus Christ on Sept. 6th, 2012 after a courageous battle with cancer.
Sharon L. Sauer
Sharon L. Sauer, age 71 of Washburn, ND, went home to her Lord Jesus Christ on Sept. 6th, 2012 after a courageous battle with cancer. She was surrounded by her loving family at her home.
Sherry was born on January 11, 1941 in East Grand Forks, MN to Lewis "Shorty" & Vera (Laidley) Betts. She graduated from East Grand Forks High in 1959. Following high school, she went to work for IBM on the missile sites working in the office for two years. She was then hired by Northern Pacific Railroad. She borrowed her father's heavy snow boots and mittens and went to work where no woman had worked before, the rail yard, counting and taking inventory of railcars. Back then it was not uncommon to encounter "hoboes" riding the rails. After a year in the rail yard she transferred to the office where she could apply her true skills of typing and shorthand. Northern Pacific merged with Burlington Northern and she became a valued employee of BNSF for some 30 years working as a transportation and payroll clerk. She retired in 1996.
On October 12th, 1991, she married the love of her life, Wesley Sauer in Washburn. She lovingly referred to him as her "sweetie". They lived in Fargo, ND and moved to the Sauer ranch near Washburn in 2000. They moved into town in 2008. Sherry was a member of First Lutheran Church where she sang in the choir and played in the bell choir. She was also a member of the Washburn Lions, a local prayer group and a bible study group. During her retirement, she enjoyed family get-togethers on holidays, watching her grandchildren compete in sporting events, dancing, raising quarter horses, bingo and gardening. Sherry is loved and cherished beyond measure and will be alive in our hearts forever.
She is survived by her husband and best friend, Wes Sauer of Washburn; daughters, Susan Jacobson of Fargo, ND, Kristi Smith of New York, Michele Jacobson of Washburn and Amy (Brian) Zacha of Mandan, ND; sons, Jeff Jacobson of Jamestown, ND and Jason Hejl of Florida; step-sons, Jason (Dawn) Sauer of Florida and Todd (Lauri) Sauer of Louisiana; grandchildren, Jerret, Jennilynn, James, Adam, Jacob, Matthew, Michaela, Tristan, McKenzie, Hayle, Emery and Kaleb; step-grandchildren, Isaac, Derek, Elijah, Sydney and Noah; also surviving is her very dear lifelong friend from the 2nd grade, Rita Emter of South Dakota.
She was preceded in death by her parents and two husbands.
A celebration of her life will be held at 10:30 A.M. Monday, Sept. 10th at First Lutheran Church in Washburn with Rev. Erik Johnson officiating.
Inurnment will be held at a later date.
The family will be accepting friends from 5:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Sunday at First Lutheran Church.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to the music fund of First Lutheran Church, PO Box 218, Washburn, ND 58577.
Provide condolences and sign the guestbook at www.goetzfuneralhomes.com
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We heard from ex-FBI agent Robert Fitzpatrick age 73 who came to Boston in January 1981. He was in charge of among other things the C-3 unit.
When he came to Boston the C-3 unit was just starting up the wiretap on Gerry Angiulo's Mafia group along with that of Larry Baione.
This wiretap would run into April, 1981. Morris testified that the whole C-3 unit was involved in doing that wiretap as would be the case considering what was being done. Fitzpatrick testified about his time in the office during this period and he had not mentioned this.
Just before he left the stand for the morning break we were talking about the Wheeler homicide and how the FBI Boston, FBI Tulsa and FBI Miami were investigating the case. Fitzpatrick said that presented a problem because they would have to reveal that Whitey was an informant. He then said: in the FBI "the informant identity is sacrosanct – revealing an informant's identity is the worst thing that you can do."
It would turn out Fitzpatrick would write and book about his time in the FBI telling how he was the one who was the "FBI Agent Who Fought To Bring Him [Whitey Bulger] Down." There he tells of meeting Dick Lehr on the beach. He tells us that he told Lehr the whole story about Whitey. In effect, here he is telling us that he violated what was most sacrosanct to the FBI.
Much of Fitzpatrick's testimony which is all we've heard about so far involves stories about the wonderful things that he did. He was involved in the arrest of Mafia gangster Carlos Marcello in New Orleans who had words with an FBI agent and found himself lying on the ground after the FBI agent threw an elbow at him or something like that. He said Marcello was coming off a plane having just come back from Cuba, which couldn't have happened in 1966 since such flights were banned. I don't know what Marcello was arrested for. Fitzpatrick didn't tell us.
He was involved in uncovering the "Silver Dollar Club" a secret group within the KKK – he stopped the bombing of a synagogue, got into a gun fight with the bomber who sprayed everyone with a machine gun, his girl got killed sitting in the car, he escaped but eventually was captured.
He didn't tell us about his pursuit of James Earl Raye but did go into his role in the ABSCAM affair where they nabbed a US Senator even though FBI headquarters initially wanted to shut it down. He then went to FBI headquarters where he was involved in transferring everyone from station to station; and he also was involved in some type of profiling people and studying their movements.
He was sent to Boston as ASAC because there were problems here. One of his first things was to visit with Whitey who treated him horribly. He said Whitey indicated to him that he had no intention of testifying which surprised him because informants are expected to testify. That to me was a surprise. He said he couldn't look into Whitey's soul because he wore sun glasses and the room was dark. When he saw John Connolly at Whitey's condo he got upset about it but never confronted Connolly over it but complained to Morris.
He tells a very strange story. I can't tell how it is going over with the jury because I know too much about it. I know there is a great danger in Whitey using him if the prosecution cross-examines him. He tells a vicious story about his visit with Billy Bulger in his book which if the prosecution brings out will be the highlight of his testimony. The prosecution has called him a serious historical revisionist.
Time to go back. This could be good.
Fitzpatrick was on the stand all day. The best that can be said is he stood up pretty well on cross-examination, not backing down from any of his assertions even though Kelly kept hammering away at him accusing him of making things up and reinventing reality.
I'm not sure how the jury is understanding this. Kelly seems to have information showing that he is not telling the truth, FBI reports saying something totally opposite, and he says in effect: "I didn't write the report. I was there. I know what happened no matter what some report says."
We started off with the arrest of Gerry Angiulo. Fitzpatrick claims that he was the one who did it; Kelly shows that the 302 says Agent Quinn and another one did it. Fitzpatrick suggests Quinn wrote the 302 and it is wrong (something we've heard before which should not give us a great deal of confidence in the FBI reports) and repeats that he was there and he made the arrest. Kelly reminds him that Agent Quinn is still alive (remember you are testifying under oath) and thus available to come in and contradict him. It doesn't affect Fitzpatrick.
We move over to who found the rifle used by James Earl Ray who killed M.L. King. Kelly had reports suggesting it was the Memphis police; he refers to a 200 page FBI documentary telling about the killing and there's no mention of the FBI recovering it. Fitzpatrick repeats: I was the first FBI agent on the scene. I found it, took custody of it, took it to Washington, DC.
Next as to his reason for leaving the FBI. Apparently he was supposed to investigate a shooting down on the Cape which he did and filed a report. But we know from his direct testimony that he's becoming a little bit out of step with the "get along, go along" FBI mentality. He's complaining bitterly about Whitey being carried as an informant.
He goes to DC to meet with the top brass. They tell him that's the way it is going to be. Not only that, they want him and the people investigating the Wheeler/Halloran murders to coordinate their investigation with the targets' handler, Connolly. He being the good soldier - he keeps reminding us the FBI is a semi-military group and you must do what you are told - tells everyone they have to do that, even though he doesn't like it.
He then gets rock solid proof that the SAC Greenleaf has leaked grand jury minutes to a defense lawyer (not sure how this will be handled in cross-examination because the Boston US Attorney's office has done the same thing to the Globe). He goes to O'Sullivan with his complaint. Anytime O'Sullivan's name is brought up the prosecutors object to us finding out anything he said. After that, he writes up a complaint against Greenleaf and sends it to FBI headquarters. He speaks with one of the top dogs down there, a guy named Glover. Glover tells him to shut up and keep it to himself. Nothing is ever done about his report.
He meets Greenleaf sometime later and he can tell Greenleaf knows about his report. Little things start happening. He can sense he's become persona no grata in the Bureau. This messes with his mind that he can be doing the right thing and yet evil things start happening to him.
Back to the shooting down the Cape, he writes a report saying he interviewed all involve. The FBI gets one or two agents who say he didn't interview them. One of these agents will later admit that he lied when he denied being interviewed, he said he was forced by other FBI agents to say that. (Our wonderful FBI.) He gets a letter from the FBI Director saying nasty things about him. Fitzpatrick says he made a settlement that had as part of it the deal that the letter was not supposed to be disclosed at a public hearing but Kelly is doing it anyway. Fitzpatrick seems mad. It seems he feels he is being betrayed again, like he gave as the reason he named his book.
Fitzpatrick figures he can't stay in Boston so he volunteers to take a pay grade adjustment and a drop in rank and go off to the Rhode Island office. He's got too many family ties in the area to leave. In Rhode Island he learns another FBI agent is being fingered as a bad agent. He files a report with Greenleaf and Greenleaf tells the agent he reported on. That was it, he quit.
Kelly tried to have him admit he quit was because of the FBI director's letter. Fitzpatrick say the reason why he did leave the FBI was because it had become corrupt.
He said he went to the Connolly trial in Florida where he was interviewed by Agent Marra who has been working with the prosecution. He told Marra that Connolly should not have been on trial since it was his opinion Morris was the one who was doing the leaking. He was not called as a witness. (I wonder if this was disclosed to defense counsel in Florida? Certainly is exculpatory.)
When the day ended I must admit I was getting to become a lot more willing to see things through Fitzpatrick's eyes. I expected the cross-examination of him would have been more telling. Fitzpatrick's book really turned me off; but seeing him in person gives me a better feeling for what he is about. I'm going to have to think about this. Maybe listen to the rest of his cross-examination more. But perhaps he is getting a bad rap because he is on the level which we've seen happen before.
Matt Connolly is a former long-time deputy district attorney in Norfolk County under William Delahunt. He lives on Cape Cod. Read his blog, The Trial of Whitey Bulger. Check out our stories about Bulger |


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With the digital release of Jon Boden's 'A Folk Song A Day: July' album almost upon us (available from 8th August), its time for us to ask you to vote for your favourite July Folk Song which we will then leave up on this site as a representation for July.
We've selected the seven most popular songs for you to vote on below (based on page views), however if you think there's an obvious contender for Top July Song that we've missed out then let us know in the comments.
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Voting has now closed, listen to the winner 'Danny Deever' below:
Danny Deever (read full post here).