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PETERBOROUGH, England, November 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Halcyon Software, the global leader in systems management software, has announced the latest release of its iPhone app which now offers full support for the Japanese language. This easy-to-use app enables IT support staff to remotely access the Halcyon Enterprise Console using iPhones or iPads. The new mobile version of the Enterprise Console provides a dashboard of all alerts in a single view and has the same level of functionality as the desktop version enabling issues or problems to be quickly resolved from any location around the clock.
According to Donnie MacColl, Technical Services Director of Halcyon Software: "We have developed this new mobile solution to enhance the functionality of our systems management software and improve the productivity and efficiency of IT support staff who often have to work remotely. The new app allows them to manage their vital IT systems, even when they are in meetings or travelling, and demonstrates our commitment to providing innovative solutions to keep essential IT infrastructures and critical business processes operating at peak performance levels."
Halcyon Software's new app is free to download from the iTunes App Store and is compatible with the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It provides Japanese users with a portable view of their whole IT systems environment, regardless of operating platform. Remote access to the Halcyon Enterprise Console delivers all system alerts, SNMP traps, devices and system status messages in real-time to these mobile devices.
This announcement follows the October 2012 launch of Halcyon Software's new Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) systems management solution that supports the Japanese language for the IBM i platform. This powerful solution also interfaces with recognized Open Source systems such as Security Information Event Managers (SIEM), Log Amalgamators, IBM Tivoli, HP OpenView, CA Unicenter, BMC Patrol and any Syslog or SNMP compliant system.
About Halcyon Software Ltd
Halcyon Software is a global leader in multi-platform systems management software solutions that reduce the complexity and cost of monitoring critical business systems, core applications and processes. They support IBM enterprise-class systems, including IBM® i and AIX®, as well as Windows® and Linux® platforms. Halcyon solutions are used by large multi-nationals, corporate and public sector data centres as well as small- to medium-sized organisations globally to ensure that vital IT systems, business applications and services are available 24/7. With regional offices in Peterborough UK, Philadelphia USA, and Melbourne Australia, Halcyon also has a world-wide network of partners and distributors supporting Europe, the Americas and Asia Pac. For further information please visit http://www.halcyonsoftware.com
Carole Chandler, Halcyon Software, Tel: +44(0)1733-234995, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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It wasn't a highlight goal that gave the Hawks the win, but Allie Hickey's tip of a Samantha Cormier shot redirected the puck past Julia Hannon's left and dribbled over the goal line for what proved to be the game winner at the 12:12 mark of the opening period.
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"They wanted to win a one-goal game," said Duxbury Coach Friend Weiler. "They weren't pushing it. We had our chances with a couple of odd-man rushes and we hit a post. I would have liked to win the game, but I was happy with our effort."
Both teams had brief power-play chances in the first period, with Waltham getting the better opportunity. But a defensive gem by Colleen Connolly on a break in by Dana Centofanti midway through the period kept it a one-goal game.
Duxbury would get its best chance later in the period when Jen Baran broke out on a 2-on-1, only to see her pass slide back over the blue line for an off-sides call.
The Lady Dragons looked like they were on the verge of tying the game early in the middle period when freshman forward Molly O'Sullivan went in on a break-away, but Cormier came up big to keep the score at 1-0.
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Setting up a file server cluster with Samba and CTDB
The Toolbox
The CTDB package supplies two useful programs, ctdb and onnode, along with the daemon ctdbd. The ctdb tool is the client interface for CTDB cluster management. The most frequently used command is bound to be ctdb status, which outputs the general status of the cluster (Figure 2). The ctdb ip command shows the distribution of public IP addresses over the nodes (Figure 3). ctdb lets the admin trigger actions in the cluster, such as enabling or disabling individual nodes, adding or removing public IPs, forcing a recovery, or applying various tweaks. See the CTDB man page [24] for more information.
The onnode script is a very useful tool that lets you run commands on one or multiple nodes:
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onnode gleans the node details from the /etc/ctdb/nodes file. The target can be one or multiple node numbers or a numeric range. Also all nodes (all), connected nodes (con), healthy nodes (ok), and the recovery master (rm) have symbolic names. onnode uses SSH to establish connections to the nodes; password-less SSH logins are thus a good idea on the internal CTDB network.
Using onnode, the admin can easily roll out service configuration files on the nodes or install the same software package after storing the data on the cluster filesystem beforehand:
onnode all cp /shared/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf
Because onnode only needs to reference the nodes file, you can use it to launch ctdbd on all or selected nodes:
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For more, see the onnode man page [25].
To guarantee trouble-free monitoring and failover operations in CTDB, it is important not to use the interfaces or bind interfaces only configuration parameters to restrict the IP addresses or network interfaces you want Samba to listen on. Samba service monitoring requires Samba to listen on the wildcard address, 0.0.0.0, or :: for IPv6.
Listing 2 shows an example of a Samba configuration file that the admin would distribute to all the nodes in the cluster. The smbstatus shows the connections for all nodes in the cluster. To do so, it not only lists the process IDs of the smbd processes, but outputs their node number prefixes (Figure 4). Similarly, admins can influence the Samba daemons throughout the cluster using smbcontrol.
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smb.conf for a Cluster
01 [global] 02 clustering = yes 03 netbios name = cifscluster 04 workgroup = mydomain 05 security = ads 06 passdb backend = tdbsam 07 08 idmap backend = tdb2 09 idmap uid = 1000000-2000000 10 idmap gid = 1000000-2000000 11 12 groupdb:backend = tdb 13 fileid:algorithm = fsname 14 15 [share] 16 path = /storage/share 17 vfs objects = fileid
When running a Samba cluster, it doesn't make any sense to run the NetBIOS name service, nmbd, on multiple nodes – the broadcast would just suffer from a split personality. Also, the WINS service is not cluster-capable because Samba does not handle the wins.dat database with CTDB.
For the first time, and conditional on a freely available clustering filesystem that passes the ping-pong test, Samba 3.3 in combination with CTDB offers a highly scalable CIFS cluster that is easily installable for production use without the need for patches and workarounds. After the basic setup, registry-based configuration and the onnode script make managing the cluster a pleasant task. Read on for more on Samba's new registry configuration system.
- Samba project: http://www.samba.org
- Samba team: http://www.samba.org/samba/team/
- Samba Team Receives Microsoft Protocol Documentation: http://www.samba.org/samba/PFIF/
- CTDB project: http://ctdb.samba.org
- File locking principles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_locking
- TDB: http://tdb.samba.org
- Ronnie Sahlberg's CTDB repository: git://git.samba.org/sahlberg/ctbd.git
- Samba & clustering: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_&_Clustering
- "Clustered Samba" by Andrew Tridgell and Ronnie Sahlberg at linux.conf.au, 2008, http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/slides/178-tridge-ctdb.pdf
- Samba via Git: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Using_Git_for_Samba_Development
- Web interface for Samba's Git repository: http://git.samba.org
- Git repository mirror: http://repo.or.cz/w/Samba.git
- CTDB RPMs for RHEL: http://ctdb.samba.org/packages/
- CTDB RPMs for other distributions: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/iamobnox/
- ping_pong.c: http://junkcode.samba.org/ftp/unpacked/junkcode/ping_pong.c
- Ping-pong: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Ping_pong
- IBM General Parallel File System: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/clusters/software/gpfs/index.html
- Red Hat Global File System: http://www.redhat.com/gfs/
- GlusterFS (GNU Cluster File System): http://www.gluster.org
- Lustre File System: http://www.lustre.org
- Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS2): http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/
- OCFS2 mailing list posting on Posix fcntl() locking support: http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-users/2008-November/003061.html
- CTDB setup: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/CTDB_Setup
- CTDB man page: http://ctdb.samba.org/~tridge/ctdb/doc/ctdb.1.html
- onnode man page: http://ctdb.samba.org/~tridge/ctdb/doc/onnode.1.html
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VERO BEACH, Fla. - A Florida Silver Alert has been activated for 84-year-old James Giacomuzzi out of Indian River County.
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About 2,100 Hyde County customers of Tideland EMC will be without power for a few hours as crews work on a new substation.
The utility says power will be turned off at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday and restored no later than 3 a.m. Thursday for homes and businesses in Swan Quarter, Engelhard and Fairfield. Homes west of the Swan Quarter bypass and east of Engelhard, including Dare County, won't be affected.
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Actress Angelina Jolie suffered a major make-up malfunction while appearing alongside her partner Brad Pitt for the premiere of his film 'Normal Heart'.
The 38-year-old actress' face powder was not completely blended in with the rest of her makeup. But she still managed to look gorgeous during the premiere at Ziegfeld Theater in New York City, reported E!Online.
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Microsoft has revealed a limited edition Gears of War 3 branded Xbox 360.
The new console includes an exclusive red and black design with two custom-designed Xbox 360 wireless controllers, a 320GB hard drive and built in Wi-Fi connection. The console comes packaged with a standard copy of Gears of War 3 and a wired headset. Microsoft is also throwing in a download token for bonus game content, including the Infected Omen Weapon Pack and the Adam Fenix character for use in multiplayer.
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U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday evening denied a request to stop Washington, D.C.'s new marriage equality law from going into effect Wednesday, March 3.
Anti-gay marriage opponent Harry Jackson and others petitioned the high court to intervene in D.C. government and stop the "Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act" from taking effect until voters can address the issue through referendum.
Roberts said he thinks the argument Jackson's group makes "has some force," it would not issue a stay of the new law. He said the high court typically defers to the local courts concerning "matters of exclusively local concern." He noted that Congress, which has the power to review D.C. laws for 30 days before they take effect, took no action against the marriage equality measure. And he pointed out that Jackson's group still has the option to seek a ballot measure through an initiative process, rather than a referendum.
The D.C. courts and its Board of Election ruled that a referendum on the marriage equality law would violate the city's charter, which prohibits referenda on matters pertaining to the city's human rights act. The group already has a petition before the D.C. Court of Appeals, concerning it request to hold an initiative to repeal the measure.
Roberts issued the decision in the case, Jackson v. D.C., because it came from D.C. and Roberts handles emergency petitions from the D.C. Circuit.
In January, Justice Anthony Kennedy, who handles emergency petitions for the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, engaged the full court in handling issues on two cases implicated same-sex marriage controversies. In one case, a 5 to 4 majority of the full court blocked a plan by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker to allow limited access to a broadcast of the trial involving a high-profile legal challenge of California's anti-gay marriage initiative, Proposition 8. A few days later, the Supreme Court announced it would hear the appeal of anti-gay activists in Washington State who want to seal a public record which has the names of citizens who signed petitions to put a domestic partnership measure on the ballot last year. It takes four justices to agree to hear a case.
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Māori Knowledge and Development
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My original research contribution to Māori Knowledge & Development has been in two main areas, urbanisation and tribalisation. Urbanisation as a phenomenon has received little serious attention outside of the work Joan Metge in the 1960s. There has been a tendency to treat urbanization as the antithesis of traditional Māori life even though 80% of Māori live in an urban situation. My research has analysed what urbanisation has done to and for Māori and how it has reshaped Māori society. As such, I believe this writing to be unique. In terms of tribalisation, I argue that the whanau, hapū, iwi model first proposed by Raymond Firth as traditional has become reified and it is this structuralist model that forms the basis for contemporary tribal organizations and the quest for groups formerly understood as hapū to seek the status of iwi. I believe that this is also a unique approach to understanding Māori tribalisation. In 2003 I took the position of Head of Native Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. With this relocation my intellectual horizons were considerably broadened and placing my work in another national framework and I began developing theories on Indigeneity and Indigenous, this work continues today.
Back in Aotearoa, I have much intellectual property invested in the Wai 262 (the Indigenous Flora and Fauna and Intellectual Property Claim) Waitangi Tribunal Report which has much to say about Matauranga Maori in a different form. My ideas percolate throughout this significant and influential report which looks 20 years into the future.
Much of the research I have been involved with over the past six years has produced findings that contribute to policy development and to bringing about positive change for indigenous peoples. During this period I have undertaken research as part of collaborative international studies, led research teams in both Canada and New Zealand and provided qualitative research expertise on several global research studies and research panels.
For example see: Maaka, R., & Fleras, A. (2008). Contesting Indigenous Peoples Governance: The Politics of State-Determination vs. Self-Determining Autonomy. In Y. Belanger (Ed.), Aboriginal Self-government in Canada Current Trends and Issues (3rd ed., pp.69-104). Saskatoon, Canada: Purich Publishing.
Maaka, R. (2014, June). Co-governance: Perceptions, politics, and pragmatism: Local Māori engagement with local government. In Resource governance: Indigenous rights in a global economy. Public forum conducted at the Rise of the Fourth World: The Internationalization of Indigenous Rights Conference, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Peters, E. J., Maaka, R. C. A., & Laliberté, R. F. (2014). "I'm sweating with Cree culture not Saulteaux culture": Urban aboriginal cultural identities. In F. Trovato & A. Romaniuk (Eds.), Aboriginal populations: Social, demographic and epidemiological perspectives (pp. 285-302). Edmonton, Canada: University of Alberta Press.
Maaka, R., & Gonzales, C. (2012, June). "The last full-blooded one died in. . . .": The invisible indigenous peoples. Paper presented at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Uncaseville, CT, USA.
Maaka, R. (2012, July). Articulating Aotearoa. Paper presented at He Rau Tumu Korero, Maori Historians' Symposium, Napier, New Zealand.
Maaka, R. (2012, September). Transforming the 'c's from comparative to critical, indigenous studies and the politics of indigeneity. Paper presented at the Indigenous Studies Research Network 2012 Annual Symposium, Brisbane, Australia.
Maaka, R. (2012). Indigeneity and locating indigenous peoples: To all our relations: Ki ō tātau karangataha maha. In C. de Zegher & G. McMaster (Eds.), In all our relations: 18th Biennale of Sydney (pp. 365-370). Sydney, Australia: Biennale of Sydney
Maaka, R. (2011, July). Indigeneity as an analytical framework for locating indigenous peoples in society. Keynote paper presented at the 3rd Native Studies Research Network UK Conference, Canterbury, England.
Fleras, A., & Maaka, R. (2009). Indigeneity-grounded analysis (IGA ) as policy(-making) paradigm: New Zealand models, Canadian realities. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 1(1). Available from http:// www.iipj.org/
Maaka, R., & Fleras, A. (2009, Fall). Mainstreaming indigeneity by indigenizing policymaking: Towards an indigenous grounded analysis framework as policy paradigm. Indigenous Policy Journal. Available from http://ipjournal.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/mainstreamingindigeneity- by-indigenizing-policymaking-towards-an-indigenousgrounded- analysis-framework-as-policy-paradigm/
Maaka, R. (2009, March). Indigenous issues in urban areas. Presented at the UNPFII & Un-Habitat sponsored experts workshop at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, Ottawa, Canada.
Maaka, R. (2009, May). Native Studies in North America - A view from the Pacific. Paper presented at the First Meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Minneapolis, MN.
Maaka, R. (2009, October). The tale of twin cities: An evaluation of Māori focused initiatives in Hastings and Napier. Presented at Indigenous Urbanization Internationally: Population, Community and Identity, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
Maaka, R. (2009, December). An indigenous research protocol. Presented at the International Hui on Indigenous Research and Systemic Change, Honolulu, HI.
Maaka, R. (2009, July). Kei te ora te Tiriti, mo ake tonu atu. Hastings District Council, Korongata marae, Bridge Pa, New Zealand.
Maaka, R. (2009, October). Indigeneity: As a conceptual framework for positioning ourselves in a globalised society. University of California Davis, CA.
Maaka, R. (2009, November). Challenges for contemporary Māori Governance. Heretaunga Taiwhenua Board of Trustees, Hastings, New Zealand.
Maaka, R. (2009, November). Māori leadership for the future. Māori Leadership Programme, Hastings Boys' High School, New Zealand.
Maaka R. (2009, November). Taumata K?wanatanga, Taumata Māori. Four presentations at the ERMA & Nga Kaihautu Māori Perspective Training, Tapu te Ranga marae, Wellington, New Zealand.


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|10 Dic 1985
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|27 Jun 1980
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This invention relates to a process and apparatus for washing fibre stock which is especially useful for the de-inking of paper.
The salvage and re-use of waste paper, in particular printed waste paper, is of considerable importance for both ecological and finanical reasons. Thus salvage and re-use are of value in preserving natural resources and, if the operations are performed efficiently, can generate stock for use in paper manufacture less expensively than it can be obtained from natural sources.
A conventional de-inking process involves a number of steps. Thus, the waste may first be pulped with suitable chemicals in dilute aqueous solution, and extraneous material such as pieces of metal and plastics removed, to produce fibre stock. The stock is then cleaned, to produce what is commonly known as "grey stock". At this stage, ink particles will be in suspension. Finally, ink is removed from the stock by a washing or flotation method.
A conventional flotation technique involves the use of stock at consistencies no higher than 1%, although some systems may be capable of handling consistencies of up to 2%. This relatively low consistency requirement, coupled with the slow rate of ink removal by flotation, means that these techniques have several diadvantages.
In a conventional washing technique, the stock is diluted with e.g. clean water to a consistency of say 1%, and water containing suspended ink particles is then filtered off. However, as the stock thickens, and reaches for example a consistency of say 3-4%, it begins to exert a filtering action itself, retaining ink particles so that only clean water is drained off. This internal filtering reduces the efficiency of washing. Thus it proves necessary to re-dilute and re-drain the stock. Several repetitions of the washing technique are necessary before the stock attains the desired degree of brightness. The result is that large volumes of washing water are required, and that the capital expenditure on equipment for the several stages can be high.
A further problem arises in that fibres from the stock tend to block filter screens and the like during the washing process, so that once again the efficiency is reduced and it may be necessary to clean the screens at frequent intervals. This problem will of course be more serious the higher the stock consistency.
U.S. Pat. No. 1,921,080 discloses apparatus for washing stock in which the stock is passed along a perforated cylinder by means of a screw conveyor, water being supplied through apertures in the conveyor shaft. This causes thorough agitation of the stock. Fibres and greasy printing ink will, however, collect in the perforations and means are specifically provided to clean the perforations. This involves the use of additional fluid. It is unlikely that this apparatus could efficiently wash stock of high consistency.
There would be advantages in a capability to wash stock effectively at high consistencies of say, between 2 and 8%. The volumes of washing water required would be reduced; chemicals could be used more effectively since they would not be diluted with unecessarily high volumes of water; and there would be reduced requirements for the thickening of de-inked stock before any subsequent stages, such as bleaching if necessary. On the other hand, the above mentioned problems of ink retention and filter screen blockage would be all the more serious.
It has been proposed in published U.K. Patent Application No. 2009274A to use a filter screen provided with a stirring member, wherein a relative rotary motion is effected between the filter screen and the stirring member, the arrangement being such that the fibres roll about in clusters.
The fibre stock having a consistency in the range of 2 to 8% is passed from an inlet end to an outlet end along a substantially horizontally disposed longitudinally extending filter screen portion curved so as to be upwardly concave in cross-section; washing liquid is introduced into the stock in the space defined by said screen portion at least in a region longitudinally remote from said inlet, by means of a longitudinally extending liquid supply member fixedly mounted so as to be downwardly radially displaced from the axis of curvature of said screen portion and immersed in said stock; and said screen portion is moved around said axis of curvature whereby the stock is subjected to a tumbling action as it passes along the screen portion.
The invention provides apparatus for the liquid treatment of fibre stock, comprising a longitudinally extending filter screen, at least a portion of which is substantially horizontally disposed and is curved so as to be upwardly concave in cross-section, means for effecting movement of said screen portion around the axis of curvature thereof, means for supplying fibre stock to one end of said screen portion for passage therealong, means for removing fibre stock from the other end of said screen portion, and a longitudinally extending liquid supply member fixedly mounted so as to be downwardly radially displaced from said axis of curvature, said liquid supply member being provided with means for admitting treating liquid into the space defined by said screen portion, at least in a region longitudinally remote from said one end thereof.
The filter screen portion may for example be defined by a portion of the inner surface of a substantially horizontal rotating cylindrical screen. In use, washing liquid is introduced into the stock, effluent liquid passing through the cylindrical screen, and the stock partially filling the cylindrical screen, is subjected to the tumbling action by the frictional forces between the rotating cylindrical screen and the stock, and the gravity forces acting on the stock as it moves along the passage towards the stock outlet.
It has been found that by subjecting the stock to a tumbling action inside a rotating cylindrical screen, for example partially filled with stock, efficient removal of ink particles can be attained, whilst blocking of the filter screen to any substantial extent can be avoided. In a conventional process there will be a relatively even dispersion of fibres. It is then easy for these to settle on the filter screen, causing blockages; there may also be fibre loss through the screen. In accordance with the invention, although a solid web of stock will not build up to prevent flow through the passage, the fibres are not so dispersed that screen blockage and fibre loss will be substantial problems.
In published U.K. Patent Application No. 2 009 274A for example, it is necessary to use stirring members to effect movement of the stock in the screen. The washing liquid will be mixed with the stock due to the movement of the stock. In accordance with the present invention the movement of the stock can be brought about without any separate stirring members. The stock moves substantially in layers through which the washing liquid flows, thereby displacing liquid containing ink particles. The consumption of washing liquid is smaller and the power consumption lower. Plugging of the screen may be avoided and the apparatus can easily be put in operation after a stop.
In order to bring about the desired movement of the stock, the peripheral speed of the cylindircal screen should be in the range of about 0.5√D to 1.5√D m/s, and preferably about 1.0√D m/s, wherein D represents the diameter of the screen expressed in meters.
The cylindrical screen should be filled with stock to at least 10% of its volume, preferably to about 20 to 40%. A filling ratio of more than 60% should be avoided as this impairs the efficiency of the apparatus.
The washing liquid should preferably be introduced in or adjacent the centre of the tumbling stock, i.e. so that the stock is caused to revolve around the liquid supply member, by means of which the washing liquid is distributed.
In a preferred embodiment, the liquid supply member is provided with a plurality of apertures along its length and is disposed in the lower half of the cylindrical screen at a distance of 5 to 30% of the diameter of the screen to its inner surface. The shape of it should be such as to give a low resistance of flow.
The introduction of washing liquid at least in a region remote from the stock inlet may result in the clean liquid flowing in a generally countercurrent direction to the stock. Preferably, washing liquid is introduced along the length of the stock passage, so that stock therein is constantly contacted with e.g. wash water. This may reduce unevenness of stock consistency.
It may be desirable to set up a consistency gradient in the passage. Thus grey stock may be introduced at about 3 to 5% consistency, and cleaned stock removed at, say 51/2-61/2 consistency. This could be achieved by extracting more effluent liquid than washing liquid is added.
According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, an effluent outlet is arranged so as to permit the withdrawl of effluent liquid from a location close to the stock inlet. The apparatus may then include recirculation means by which some of the effluent liquid may be withdrawn from a region extending from intermediate along the length of the passage and reintroduced to the passage as relatively clean liquid for washing stock, at a region between the region at which this recirculated liquid was withdrawn and the stock inlet. Conveniently effluent liquid for recirculation may be withdrawn from about half-way onwards along the passage. The concentration of suspended ink particles in the effluent liquid is very must greater in the region close to the stock inlet than in the region close to the stock outlet. Thus effluent liquid drained from half-way onwards along the passage is relatively clean and may be used in place of clean liquid for washing stock as it passes through the first half of the passage. An advantage of this arrangement is that it enables one to reduce by about one-half the quantity of washing liquid used in operation of the apparatus. The return of comparatively clean effluent liquid from a later section of the passage to an earlier section may be carried out in several stages if desired.
Instead of being in the form of a cylinder, the screen could be a continuous flexible belt-like member, suitably guided over rollers or the like to give a concave portion.
To achieve the desired advance movement of the stock from the stock inlet to the stock outlet, the screen can be slightly inclined or can be provided with helical ribs on its inner surface.
Two embodiments of the invention will now be described by way of example and with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic vertical longitudinal section through apparatus in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line I--I of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is an elevational view taken on the line II--II of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a transverse section through a second embodiment of apparatus in accordance with the invention; and
FIG. 5 is a vertical longitudinal section on the line V--V of FIG. 4.
Referring now to the drawings, the apparatus generally indicated 1 includes a vat 2 in which is disposed, for rotation about its generally horizontal axis, a cylindrical screen drum 3 comprising a cylindrical woven wire mesh 4 and end plates 5 and 6. The wire mesh is supported from the outside by a perforated structure or other suitable means (not shown). Within the screen drum 3 is disposed a means for introducing washing liquid generally indicated 7. The means 7 includes a flat hollow longitudinally extending member 8 provided with a number of apertures 9 along its length.
The member 8 is located beneath the axis of the screen, i.e. below its centre of curvature, and thus in the lower half of the cylindrical screen at a distance from the wire mesh. The shape of the member 8 is rounded to give a low resistance of flow. The end plates of the screen drum are provided with cylindrical flanges 10 and 11 by means of which the drum is supported on rollers 12 and 13. The drum is rotated by suitable drive means (not shown).
The cylindrical mesh 4 defines a passage 14 along which stock can be passed in the direction of arrow A from an inlet 15 at the end of the drum 3 to an outlet 16 at the other end of the drum. The axis of the screen drum is slightly inclined by e.g. about 1° to accomplish advance movement of the stock.
The hollow member 8 is divided into first and second sections 17 and 18 respectively by a partition 19. An inlet pipe 20 is provided for supplying fresh, clean water (or another suitable washing liquid), which is connected to the first section 17. From here the liquid is passed through apertures 9 into passage 14.
The vat is divided into first and second compartments 21 and 23 respectively by a partition 23. Each compartment of the vat has an outlet opening 24 and 25 respectively.
Effluent liquid can pass through the wire mesh 3 into the compartments 21 and 22 from whence it can be drawn off through outlet openings 24 and 25. The relatively clean effluent from compartment 21 is passed along a conduit 26 by means of a pump 27 and into a recirculated liquid inlet pipe 44. This pipe is connected to the second section 18. From here the recirculated liquid can pass through apertures 9 into passage 14.
The end plate 6 at the outlet end of the apparatus is provided with opening 28, helical blades 29, and cylindrically formed surfaces 30, which assist in extracting stock from the drum.
In use of the apparatus 1, clean water is supplied in a steady flow through inlet 20, and grey stock is supplied through inlet 15 so as to partially fill the screen drum 3, in this embodiment to a level below the axis of the drum when not rotating.
The screen drum is continuously rotated at a relatively slow rate. The grey stock which enters through inlet 15 is of relatively high consistency i.e. between 2 and 8%. As the stock advances in the drum, it is continuously brought into contact with washing water. This water takes up ink particles as a suspension, and passes through the mesh 4 for removal as effluent through outlet 25 at the lower end of the apparatus. The effluent in compartment 21 at the outlet end of the apparatus is relatively clean, and is thus recirculated by means of pump 27, for use in washing grey stock at the inlet end of the apparatus. As the grey stock advances up the apparatus, the stock becomes progressively cleaner. The cleaned stock is discharged at the outlet end of the apparatus through outlet 16, this being assisted by the action of the helical blades 29.
A steady state will be reached with grey stock and clean water being continuously fed to the system, and cleaned stock and effluent water being continuously removed. The pump 27 will also function continuously.
As the drum rotates the fibres in the stock near the inside of wire mesh 3 will move, due to the frictional forces between the wire mesh and the stock, in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 2. The stock will follow the movement of the wire mesh until the gravitional forces will cause it to flow away from the wire mesh in the direction of arrow C. The stock tumbles without being mixed in the drum around the hollow member 8 through which washing liquid is introduced in the stock. Liquid containing ink particles is displaced outwardly to and through the wire mesh.
In this manner, effective ink removal is achieved, whilst blocking of the mesh 3, is avoided. The apparatus is thus capable of continuously de-inking grey stock.
According to the quality of stock required, the various parameters such as flow rates, drum speed and so forth, may be varied. In general, the brighter the stock required, the longer will be the residence time in the apparatus. Suitable flow meters or the like could be used to monitor operation of the apparatus.
It has been found that apparatus in accordance with the above embodiment may readily be operated at 2 tonnes or more of fibre per square meter of mesh per day. Thus a 5 square meter mesh will provide adequate supplies without the apparatus being undesirably large.
Referring now to the embodiment of FIGS. 4 and 5, the apparatus includes a vat 31 of semi-circular cross section, provided with an effluent outlet 32. A continuous filter belt 33 of wire mesh is guided over rollers 34, 35, 36 and 37. Between rollers 34 and 35, the belt is unsupported and forms an upwardly concave filter screen portion 38 of substantially semi-circular cross section having an axis of curvature 39. The screen is driven around the axis 39 by the rollers--for example roller 35 being driven by a shaft 40. As the screen is driven, stock filling the lower part of the curved section below axis 39 tumbles as in the previous embodiment. Within the tumbling stock is a liquid supply member 41 similar to that 8 of the previous embodiment. The ends of the screen portion 38 are sealed against end plates 42 and 43 of the vat, by means of flanges (not shown). In other respects the operation of the apparatus is similar to that of the previous embodiment.
Although the apparatus has been described primarily in terms of de-inking, it should be understood that it is not limited to this particular application. It can be used for other washing purposes and can also be used in connection with chemical treatment of fibre stock.
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Riding a five-game winning streak and leading the nation in three-point percentage, California (6-3) opens Pac-10 play on the road at No. 24 Oregon (7-2) Monday, Dec. 27 at 7 p.m. and at Oregon State (4-5) Wednesday, Dec. 29 at 7 p.m. The Golden Bears play five of their next seven games away from Berkeley.
Cal is in search of its second straight conference-opening win, having defeated Oregon at home, 61-57, the same date last year. That victory was the Bears' first Pac-10-opening win since 1994-95 (beat Washington State, 87-83). The last time Cal posted consecutive conference lid lifter wins was when the Bears won three straight from 1990-92.
The Bears have rallied from double-digit deficits in each of their last two games, claiming a 69-64 win over Long Beach State Dec. 12 and a 67-60 decision vs. Hampton Dec. 21. With the win over the Lady Pirates, Cal has won its last 12 home non-conference games, with 6-0 marks the last two seasons.
Four Cal players average double figure points, led by senior forward Leigh Gregory (13.3 ppg, 9th Pac-10) and senior guard Kristin Iwanaga (12.9 ppg, 10th Pac-10). Freshman center Jessica Lawson (10.1 ppg), and senior forward Kiki Williams (10.0 ppg) are also in double figures.
Cal entered the week leading the nation in three-point field goal percentage (51.1%) and didn't hurt its cause by converting 5-8 attempts (62.5 percent) against Hampton. The team average has climbed to 52.0 percent. Iwanaga began the week as the top three-point shooter in NCAA Division I at 76.0 percent and fell only slightly to 75.0 percent following a 2-of-3 performance vs. the Lady Pirates.
The Bears are shooting 46.3 percent from the floor, but what's more impressive is that their team free throw percentage has climbed to 75.7 percent after sinking 20-of-22 attempts (90.9%) against Hampton. That percentage would put them 22nd nationally at the start of the week. In 2003-04, Cal shot only 67.4 percent from the charity stripe.
Iwanaga began the week tied for the national lead in free throw shooting at 95.8 percent and may be the leader now at 96.9 percent (31-32, 8-of-8 vs. Hampton). Williams started the week tied for 14th at 91.7 percent and is now at 92.3 percent (24-of-26, 2-of-2 Hampton), giving the Bears the distinction of being the only team with two players in the top 15 nationally for free throw accuracy.
Cal is averaging 72.6 ppg (4th Pac-10) and has only once scored less 60 points this year - a 59-52 triumph over Saint Mary's. After surrendering 75.8 ppg over the first four games, the Bears' defense has steadily improved, allowing only 56.8 ppg over the last five contests and 65.2 ppg (T7th Pac-10) overall.


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A slice of history in an ever-changing world, McCormick School graduated five 8th grade students Friday afternoon. It's the largest graduating class the one-room schoolhouse in Troy has seen in nearly two decades.
"When we have five kids graduating we're talking one-fifth of our school is leaving," explained Shelly Hoisington.
Hoisington has taught most of the students since they were young.
"Here they were, just little tykes learning their ABCs and I've seen them progress," Hoisington said. "I've seen their struggles, we've worked through their struggles and here they are now succeeding. I'm very excited to see that."
The graduates tell NBC Montana that McCormick is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. They're proud of their education and how it has molded them into the people they are today.
"You get to learn what you've missed in the past. You get more attention and you learn more," said Karla Horton.
"When you're interacting with grades older and younger on an everyday basis it helps broaden your mind and open up ideas that you wouldn't normally think of," said Elijah Price. "It changes the way you act."
There aren't many one-room schoolhouses left in the US - times have changed and so did schools. But it didn't in Troy, and that made all the difference for these students.
"They all work very hard. They know what education means to them," Hoisington said proudly. "They appreciate the education they receive here and they all have worked diligently to get where they are."
McCormick School has been educating students since 1909.


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Hitchhiking to the End of the World
Sandwiched between a hulking grey backpack and an expandable bag on my chest, I stand on the shoulder of a steep road that winds up from a surreal aqua lake. I'm on the edge of the pristine Aspen-like town San Martin de los Andes in Argentina's northern Patagonia. I have a purpose here. I just decided one hour ago: I am hitchhiking to Ushuaia, the southernmost tip in South America. I am hitchhiking to the End of the World.
I've been in the country for a month and only hitchhiked once before. I don't know what I'm doing. "Stick out your thumb higher," two passing Chilean hitchhikers call out to me. "You look hesitant!"
I imagine my dad panicking to know his only daughter is on the opposite end of the earth, alone, ready to leap in cars with strangers. Then I imagine him sticking out his own thumb, 40 years ago in the U.S., with his notebook in his pocket and his pen ready for bolts of inspiration, just like me. My blonde waves blow in the brisk mountain wind and I see his jet black curls dancing around in Alaska air: he launched his cross-country hitchhiking journey in the 1970's when he was about my age. He slept on roadsides, smoked drivers' hashish, and picked up stories of strangers who poured out their life confessions on the road. Last year he dredged his old journals for a wildly popular essay in the New York Times about the journey and how it linked him to the "spirit of adventure."
A few months later, I decided to take off for Argentina after working in NYC as a daily reporter. My dad worried I'd throw away my stability and never get it back. "This is like Meredith's 'hitchhike,'" my mom reassured him: it would be a meaningful trip with a safe return to previous life. He had written at the end of his own essay, "My daughter Meredith thinks I should try the journey again. She's as cavalier about risk as I was at her age. I certainly wouldn't want her to do it."
Once in Patagonia I realized—why did this have to be "like" a hitchhike? The trend may have withered in the U.S., but around here I saw plenty of backpackers trying to wave down cars—only no single females. Friends, hostel staff, and even fellow hitchhikers told me to be extra careful, so I pledged not to get into trucks and to ride with as many families as possible. Then I met one Colombian girl who said she'd traveled extensively "a dedo" ("by finger") alone with no problems, so I made her my example.
I wanted to hitchhike solo—I always travel on my own, connecting more intimately with my surroundings and lavishing in the freedom to stop and go on a whim. I'm an only child. I'm a journalist used to approaching strangers alone. I've also never felt truly threatened traveling alone as a female—which I've done since I was 19.
But still I grew hesitant committing to the cross-Argentina trek, until I called my dad up for advice, conveniently leaving out the hitchhiking part.
"What an amazing time in your life, to have nothing but your backpack and to just pick up and go wherever you feel," he said, applauding the trip he'd doubted before I left. "Can you write on the bus rides?"
"Sure," I told him. Without knowing it, he sold me. It was my turn to fly through the unknown.
"Do you have drugs? You better not have drugs or you're not stepping into this car," the stately silver-haired driver in a pressed plaid shirt yells at me in Spanish. "All you guys have drugs and I'm not having trouble with the cops, no way."
"No, I promise, I promise I don't!" I nearly start laughing—I'm supposed to be the nervous one, but he's afraid of me. "Please, I'm just looking for a ride to Bariloche."
He glances me up and down and finally nods in approval. I hop in smiling, expecting an awkward four hours in semi-silence—but he ends up talking the whole ride. He's Domingo, a 61-year-old architect who's spent his whole life in the lakeside city Bariloche, a tourist magnet also infamous for its history welcoming Nazis post-World War II. When I work up the courage to ask Domingo about the Nazi presence, he doesn't hesitate to answer. Many of his friends are children of Nazis, and he even knew Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke, who hid out in Bariloche for decades.
"Humans are animals, but with an essence that is criminal," Domingo passes along his words of wisdom. I'd rather think the opposite.
Domingo is kind to me, pulling over at lush mountain lookouts for me to snap a photo. He instructs me on the history of Argentina and asks about my parents, how old they are and what they do. "What am I like compared to your father?" he asks, when learning my dad is just one year younger than he. What a tough question—I barely know this man, and I know my dad almost too well to describe. I'm also thinking about the 60-year-old and 20-year-old versions of my father at the same time.
"Well, you're a little more logic-based and scientific thinking, and he's a little more whimsical and romantic, like me," I say. "But also—I don't think he would've picked up a hitchhiker on the side of the road. I guess he's getting more cautious."
Maybe he does pick up hitchhikers every once in a while. Maybe he just doesn't tell me.
"Well why do you think you're the way you are?" Domingo asks me.
"What do you mean?"
"You're brave, and curious. And you have faith in people."
"I think it's because of my parents. They always see the good in people."
I want to call and tell them the compliment, since I talk to them all the time even in Argentina. But I know this is my time to keep some secrets to myself, so I scribble notes in my journal.
His dad wanted him to be a lawyer.
Now, when I complain about writing or the journalism business, my dad often half-jokes: "I always told you you could be a lawyer like Grandaddy." After my grandfather died a few years ago my dad—the only son and youngest child in his family—got more cautious, stepping a bit into his father's shoes. My dad never pushed me, but he did see the instability of a writer's life, a journalist's life, when the newspaper where he worked laid off most of its staff.
So when I landed what seemed to be one of the five full-time jobs in all of New York City as a daily reporter—with a salary and health insurance—he was relieved and buoyant. But a few years later I wanted to flee, seeking adventure, unpredictability, and most of all, writing growth. If not now, when? It's time for me to live out of a backpack and watch autumn turn on the opposite hemisphere. His discouragement was the only thing that made me doubt myself, but my mother tells me that back in the States he's now boasting of my adventures. When I hear that, I feel like I've made the right move. People say you should make decisions for yourself, not your parents, but my parents are a part of me.
The family's teen daughters get fake hair wraps and then we all go for ice cream at my favorite creamery. In a minute my old acquaintance, the grey shaggy-haired Spanish ukulele player Roberto, strolls up to join. He's a skinny pseudo-vegan who's sworn off technology (even watches), lives in a tent and spent years following the Grateful Dead.
"Good for you, kid!" the 1970's flower child applauds my hitchhiking mission. "We 'mochileros' (backpackers) know how to live!"
Roberto's life captivates me; I fantasize about denouncing technology, singing for pesos and sleeping in a tent for years to come. My mind already feels clearer in Patagonia, away from the chatter of city life, Facebook and text messages. I think about how my generation has ride-share websites as a secure alternative to hitchhiking, and even Couchsurfing site to connect unlikely strangers—but nothing beats the improvisation and physicality of marching to a roadside to wave down a ride.
It's a 29-year-old Israeli guy with orange sunglasses named Noam, a fellow traveler who's also headed far south. I feel lucky beyond belief.
We soar through the desert, past bushes like bobbing heads of troll hair and sandy speckled hills. There are no humans, but sheep colonies and wild horses leap around gravel bends.I whip my unbrushed hair like my dad to the Doors, screaming his favorite song through the Suzuki's speakers. I jot down thoughts madly in my notebook—writing freely the way he does on the beach in Alabama, where my parents now live.
"It's always so easy for you to write!" I've chided him when home, frustrated at my own lack of concentration. But now I'm on a roll.
"Do you have a tent?" Noam breaks into my thoughts as our car rocks like a boat on the uneven road.
"No!" My arms shoot through the open window to a roller coaster of wind. The western sky's the ominous pink of dried blood, and the east is fading to black.
"Then we may have to share. I don't think we're making it to Rio Mayo tonight."
We make it to a 100-person town with no phone lines or heat even in wintertime. I have no choice but to share Noam's tent and to borrow his blankets as harsh winds rip through our campsite all night, and I realize I could have been stranded with no resources on a freezing roadside if he hadn't stopped for me.
Noam and I quickly become like family, riding the next couple of days together since he's also headed South, and talking for hours and hours about our lives—he just left 10 years in the military and bought a car in Chile to traverse South America for a year. He lends me fleeces and socks and shares his instant coffee and chips, and I make him sandwiches and act as the Spanish speaker.
One day we search for food and halt at a ten-cottage community whose sign boasts a deli and craft shop, but a gap-toothed authority pokes his head out a shack to tell us everything is closed.
"When will they be open again?"
"Tomorrow, from 11 to 11:45."
"Only 45 minutes a day?"
"Yep. That's when the train comes." A rusted railway lines the parched olive green land, and a few kids play on two hollow wood boxcars but dart away when they see me looking. I climb onto one myself, and suspend my body between the beams. Upside-down mountains like Egyptian pyramids feed my eyes, and the solitude sparks a thrill.
That type of moment —hanging on a boxcar; stumbling upon South America's longest lake; racing up a sticker-covered hill on my ride's cigarette break and finding elegant guanacos; watching white dust ghosts kicked up from a pickup truck —is so clear and strong. The landscape is a storyline and I keep wandering south.
I get a little melancholy and can't help but call my parents, my one constant. I let it slip to my mom that I've been hitchhiking. She handles it surprisingly well but begs me to be careful, and I ask her not to tell my dad. For such an independent 26-year-old, I can still feel like a child, needing their support.
I remember asking a boy I once had a fling with, "Do you ever think about how no one else really cares about or sees your whole life, other than your parents? And then they die. So really we're all alone." (He didn't know how to respond and left my apartment soon thereafter.) That thought doesn't depress or scare me as it once did, and the aloneness, I've realized, is a choice.
My dad and I have sat and written side-by-side on our screen porch in Alabama, but there's no way around the simple fact: writing is a solo act. I believe in his wisdom, so my reflex is to consult him over every decision—but I'm learning, sometimes, to hold back.
I have no cell phone service, no Internet, and no one tracking where I am exactly. Fortunately he proves my anxiety outlandish and drives me to my next destination, Rio Gallegos, which is refreshingly void of tourists, but infamous even by locals for its ugliness. It's the capital city of its province, an industrial magnet with trash scattered on the streets.
I find a house that rents rooms. The owner greets me with a glass of wine and I start asking him about the town. He's in his late 60s, lips purple from his drink, eyes jumping like a puppy that's been left too long alone.
"Why did you move here?" I ask him when finding he's from northern Argentina.
"I believe in energy," he tells me, voice getting low and grave. "It's not a decision, not logic, why we are where we are. Why are you sitting across from me like this? Just because you like to travel? Everything is circumstance, and energy. We move, as a part of the world."
I feel it—the chance of life magnified by the chance of travel.
"Remember this quote," he tells me. "La vida es un camino de ida. It's by a Taoist philosopher."
Life is a path of progress forward. I'm moving forward with some purpose, at least one more day: Tomorrow I'll arrive at the End of the World.
"Thanks, Dad," I laughingly sing into the air as I tromp across a graffiti-coated bridge in the same jeans and sweater I've worn the past two weeks. My New York life seems like a secret that even I begin to forget. I am just a lone girl carting a backpack through South America.
I finally settle on a road (the wrong one) and a concerned cop with a teenage daughter stops to pick me up. He tells me I'm making a dangerous decision and drops me at the police station for help getting a ride. Is this what my dad would do, now? I wonder.
At the station a baby-faced guy my age, Eduardo, is the lead officer working and he's checking cars and asking where they're heading—and when he finds out I'm headed to Ushuaia he starts asking drivers with that destination if they'll give me a lift.
I stand 20 feet down the road, not sure whether to hold out my thumb. Does this still count as hitchhiking? Sure enough, the cop finds me my final ride: a Falkland Islands war veteran and his stepson. We spend the next 11 hours jumping through the journey's final hoops, and finally we arrive.
Ushuaia is a touristy city, with a giant casino, expensive restaurants and visitors who've flown in from all over the world. I visit the national park, run my hands along the clams on the shore, and stare out at the canal, waiting for it to hit me. I've arrived.
Instead I feel confused: where do I go from here?
I call my parents, finally ready to tell my dad about the journey—but my mom admits she's already told him. "He's kind of touched that he inspired you to do this," she says, and I can hear her knowing smirk.
But when he talks to me, and I'm mad with ideas for all the things I want to write, he's rational. "Don't get overwhelmed, focus on one thing at a time," he says. He suggests I start with the strongest and simplest story I have: a first-person essay, about hitchhiking to Ushuaia.


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Dr. Andrew Leuchter
If you think you can contribute to making UCLA an even greater place — just do it.
Dr. Andrew Leuchter, new chair of the UCLA Academic Senate, has taken this motto to heart throughout his 25 years on the faculty. "If you think, 'I could fix that problem if somebody gave me a chance to,' then you're obligated to try and do it," he said.
A professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Leuchter has contributed to efforts ranging from enhancing curricula in the medical school to improving support for research. He has served leadership roles as director of the Division of Adult Psychiatry, vice chair of the Department of Psychiatry, chief of staff of the Neuropsychiatric Hospital and associate dean of the School of Medicine.
Several years ago, he enlisted in Academic Senate efforts, in collaboration with UCLA administrators, to overhaul operations in the Office of Research Administration, including the complex arenas of protecting human subjects and managing contracts and grants — the very lifeblood of research.
Through that experience, which led to substantial improvements in that office, Leuchter recalled, "I saw that you can effect change." He also discovered that "it's very fun to do that on the broader campus scale. In the Senate, I get to be in the same room with English and arts professors, geologists and astrophysicists and sociologists… and we're all working together on the university's problems."
Leuchter's post as senate chair may be his most challenging leadership role yet, given the current economic climate.
"The budget crisis that the state faces and that has been passed on to the UC system… is reshaping the university," he said. "It's clear that the public commitment to supporting higher education has eroded significantly and, unfortunately, is likely to continue to erode. So we're on our own more than we have been before."
Faculty, he said, are being asked "to be more selective in what we teach, more creative in how we teach, and more efficient in how we administer." The challenge is to accomplish this without jeopardizing UCLA's core values of excellence, accessibility and diversity.
Academic excellence is threatened by the budget crisis in myriad ways, Leuchter said, not the least of which are faculty recruitment and retention. For faculty, "excellence means having a critical mass of peers who are topnotch leaders in their fields," he said. But with faculty hiring having slowed significantly while senior faculty continue to retire, "it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain the breadth and the depth of our programs. How are we going to sustain a young and vibrant faculty, a new generation of scholars, when we're hiring less and less?"
Added to that, he said, "it can be hard to hold on to outstanding faculty who get very good offers from other institutions. We have done extremely well, better than many of our peer institutions have done in faculty retention, but it's a continuing challenge."
Also at risk, Leuchter said, is faculty diversity — the "representation of a broad range of views and a broad range of sociocultural backgrounds that makes for a vibrant academy and serves as a role model for a diverse student body." And student diversity itself may be impacted by escalating tuition costs, making affordability an increasing issue for the significant proportion of undergraduates who depend on Pell Grants and other financial aid.
"Our extraordinary accessibility has been a strength of the UC system," Leuchter said. "UCLA — where at least a third of our undergrads will be the first in their families to graduate from college — has been an engine for social mobility, taking people who come from disadvantaged backgrounds and giving them access to a leading world-class research university. How many institutions can do that?"
This social mission has special meaning for Leuchter, whose first language was Polish and whose parents came to this country after World War II. "My parents had the advantage of coming to this country with excellent educations. They always taught me that education is the key to success in life," he said.
Having the faculty reach out to the public to tell UCLA's story is one of Leuchter's goals as senate chair.
"Most people don't realize what an engine of social mobility we are," he said, "and what an economic engine we continue to be" as a major employer in the L.A. region, center of research that advances medicine and technology, and launch pad for new businesses. "People in the community don't necessarily know that extraordinary things happen here every day."
Much of this work stems from UCLA's "entrepreneurial environment," Leuchter said. "This is one of the things that has always drawn me to UCLA, and which is an exciting aspect of being on the faculty. If one has an innovative idea, if one has an unorthodox approach to addressing a major problem, there's room to pursue that in our system.
"UCLA has always been very encouraging of risk-takers, people who are pushing the edge of the envelope in the work that they're doing in terms of teaching or research or service," said the Senate chair.
Leuchter's own research, which "seemed a bit out of the mainstream originally," has opened up new approaches to treating neuropsychiatric disorders. For the past several years, he and his colleagues have devoted themselves to identifying biomarkers — such as brain scan data — to enable psychiatrists to personalize medications for individual patients suffering from depression, fibromyalgia and other conditions.
"These are terrible illnesses, in many cases extraordinarily disabling," said Leuchter. "Depression costs $83 billion a year in terms of lost productivity, absenteeism from work and the cost of treatment itself, not to mention causing immense human suffering." When Leuchter and his colleagues first began their research, psychiatrists were successful only about one-third of the time in prescribing the most effective antidepressant to help a particular patient. Today, he said, "We've developed methods that can predict with about 75 percent accuracy whether the medication that we've chosen is the one that's going to get the patient well."
UCLA's bent for risk-taking entrepreneurism has taken on more urgency in recent years, Leuchter said. "Not only do we have to be innovative in thinking of new research questions to ask, but we have to think very creatively of new sources of funding, new ways to support ourselves."
One promising avenue, he said, is the more aggressive pursuit of translating faculty research into practical — and profitable — applications, from life-saving medical devices to cutting-edge technology. "To the extent that we can recognize and capitalize on these opportunities" — via licensing to and partnering with industry through UCLA's Office of Intellectual Property — "these can be tremendous sources of revenue for the campus," he said.
Ultimately, Leuchter would like to see faculty have a greater voice in campus strategic planning in collaboration with the administration — a next step in the system of shared governance that, he said, works quite well at UCLA. "Faculty partner very effectively with the administration. The administration is very open to the faculty's viewpoint, and the faculty frequently are influential in helping set priorities.
"I would like to see the administration and the Senate work together in crafting a strategic plan, making decisions about the direction in which we want to go with our programs," Leuchter said.
"One thing that economic pressures have brought to bear is the sense that we can't necessarily be all things (to all people). We need to decide what are our major strengths, where we need to increase our strength and where we might even want to start new programs. It just comes down to making choices."


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