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The Grove City College Department of Economics will host the Austrian Student Scholars Conference on Friday, Feb. 15, and Saturday, Feb. 16, on campus, featuring keynote lectures by economists Dr. David Howden and Dr. Peter Klein. The event will unite undergraduate and graduate students from across the country to present research papers written in the tradition of Austrian School intellectuals, such as Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, Murray Rothbard and Hans Sennholz. Keynote lectures are free and open to the public.Howden will offer the Hans Sennholz Memorial Lecture at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, in Sticht Lecture Hall of the Hall of Arts and Letters. He is an assistant professor of economics at Saint Louis University in Madrid, Spain. He will speak on the "Legal and Economic Conflicts in Financial Transactions. Klein will deliver the Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, in Sticht Lecture Hall of the Hall of Arts and Letters. He is a professor of economics at the University of Missouri. He will address "Austrian Economics and Economic Research."In 1956, Hans Sennholz, the young protégé of Mises, was hired by former Grove City College President J. Howard Pew to head the College's economics department. Under his direction, Grove City College became the world's leading undergraduate institution for the study of Austrian economics. At commencement in 1957, the College awarded an honorary doctorate degree to Mises. Five years after Mises died in 1973, his widow, Margit von Mises, was asked by their friend, Sennholz, to make Grove City College the permanent home to his papers. Since 1978, the 20,000 page Mises Archive at the College has been the source of four books of his previously unpublished manuscripts.For more information about the Austrian Student Scholars Conference, visit www2.gcc.edu/dept/econ/ASSC.


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I have tried more then once to pass this misson and i have had no success can some one please help?
If this is about the mission in GTA San Andreas, then it's pretty easy. You get into the monster truck( you spawn inches away from it after the cutscene) and drive through the checkpoints. Try going in a straight line from one checkpoint to another and try to not drive too fast. You have 6 minutes to finish the track, and beleive me, it can be done in 3 minutes without even reaching 3/4 of the truck's maximum speed. If a hill seems too steep to climb, don't worry, the truck is 4x4 so go for it!
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Designing an approval process is vastly simplified in Workbench ES2. The ES User service has been deprecated and replaced with single/multi-user versions — specifically the Assign Task and Assign Multiple Tasks service operations. First I'll take a look at the Assign Task operation.
The property sheet for Assign Task contains a few new property groups. The asset and action profile to be presented to the user are defined in the Presentation & Data section.
The User Actions section simplifies the configuration of user actions, which options are presented to the end user and what will happen when a specific option is selected.
You can even define a confirmation message to appear when an action is selected.
The Workspace User Interface contains an Approval Container option that enables features within Workspace that allow end users to see the review status and add comments. This is particularly useful with the Multi-user task when documents need to be reviewed by a number of different people.
Be aware that property sheets in Process Designer now contain a Basic/All filter. When Basic is selected (which it is by default), only the most commonly used property groups for that service operation are displayed.
Here again is my sample application that demonstrates pre-population of a form on process initiation as well as this simple approval process: LeaveRequest.lca


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IT HAS been almost five months since Cadel Evans has pedalled his bike in competitive fury.
That was on August 25, and the sixth stage of the US Pro Challenge when Evans withdrew citing a knee injury. In doing so, he drew the curtain on a season that was hindered by health issues and a lack of form.
For Evans, who turns 36 on February 14, his inconsistent form meant he missed the Ardennes classics in Belgium in April, failed to defend his Tour de France title in July and fell short of impressing in the London Olympic road race before pulling out of the Games' individual time trial.
It made many ask if the best days were behind Evans, who, with his wife Chiara Passerini, also began a new chapter of life by adopting an orphaned Ethiopian boy named Robel.
The answer will come with his results in 2013, especially in the Tour de France, in which Evans' 2011 victory will still be remembered as the crowning moment of his career for the simple fact that he was the first Australian to make the fabled yellow jersey his for keeps.
The fact remains, however, that at the dawn of a new year this season will be crucial to Evans.
What he can or can't do will impact on what he might do next year when he comes off contract with his team, BMC. That could determine how long his racing career lasts.
Evans knows as well as anyone what is at stake. With his health issues reportedly in check, his private life as a parent now more settled and a good off-season of recovery and training behind him, he should be able to see a clear pathway towards producing his best.
Evans may be an absent and missed figure from next week's national road titles and then the Tour Down Under, but in Europe his mind will still be very much on the job of winning.
The key factors to achieving that will be:
Evans has never fallen to the perception that the adoption of his son – from the process itself to actually adapting to life as a parent – was a pressure that may have impeded his preparation. On the contrary, he has openly shown his joy at being a father. But no one can underestimate the pressures from the responsibilities of adoption. Evans should be more settled for the experience one year on since he and his wife brought Robel back from Ethiopia to their home in Stabio, Switzerland.
Evans is also reportedly on top of the infection that seemed to flare up whenever he stressed his body in races. That, with a longer-than-planned off-season, which included returning to Australia from October 29 to December 29 – albeit a trip that required a number of sponsorship appearances and charity rides – should allow Evans to start the year fresher than ever before.
BMC should allow Evans to train and race with his most likely tour squad as much as possible, as basically happened in 2011. This not only enhances camaraderie, but an understanding of what Evans expects as their leader, and in turn his knowledge of what he can expect from them. Who will be in that team?
BMC will have a long list, but don't be surprised if it did not include world champion Philippe Gilbert or former world champion Thor Hushovd, whose ambitions may be better served by focusing on other races. BMC will look to American Tejay van Garderen (fifth and best young rider last year in the Tour) as first lieutenant to Evans, and call up Briton Steve Cummings and Frenchman Amael Moinard for the mountains.
For the flatter stages, look to German Michael Burghardt, Italian Manuel Quinziato and the Swiss duo of Steve Morabito and Micky Schar. American Brent Bookwalter, who rode superbly for Evans in 2011 when the road went up or was flat and was unlucky to miss selection last year, should be called back. While this year's Tour route is mountainous, BMC will also need a line-up suited for the team time trial, and strong riders in mind and body to fill the void of the retired George Hincapie, who had a huge role in marshalling the troops and protecting Evans.
Evans is a creature of habit and, understandably, if a race and training program works, he should stick to it. His career Tour results show one win, but apart from two dips in 2009 and 2010, they have been remarkably high for consistency – from eighth on debut in 2005 and before then-winner Lance Armstrong's disqualification last year for doping, to fourth in 2006, second in 2007 and 2008, 30th in 2009, 26th in 2010, first in 2011 and seventh in 2012. But there has been a suggestion that because of his extended off-season and a desire to get back to racing, the Tour of Oman (February 12-17) might be in the mix of possibilities as an extra race.
Evans' race program should otherwise be similar to what it was in 2011 when he won the Tour – and, yes, last year when he didn't win, but succumbed to health issues. After February, it will likely lead to Tirreno-Adriatico (March 9-15) because of its hills and time-trialling; the hilly Ardennes classics in Belgium in April and then stage races such as the Tour of Romandie and Criterium du Dauphine, which draw on a mix of disciplines that all-rounders like Evans must be strong in to win the Tour.
Pre-Tour training camps are just as important as the lead-up races. Hence, Evans limits the quota of race days he has before a Tour. In a season, he usually has time for three training camps – one early team camp in Denia, Spain, plus two high-altitude camps before, in between or after the Tour of Romandie and Criterium du Dauphine with one or two teammates in either the Sierra Nevada of Spain or the Pyrenees and Alps. The latter are based at locations he keeps secret to maintain privacy between his long mountain rides. This year, with the return of a team time trial, BMC will also likely have a team time-trial camp, as it did in 2011 on the formula one race circuit at Zolder, Belgium, after which BMC was second in the team time trial at the Tour.
Joining BMC this year is Australian Allan Peiper as high-performance director. He was previously head sports director at Garmin-Sharp and will oversee equipment testing, training data, wind tunnel testing, velodrome testing, altitude training camps, race reconnaissance and nutritional needs.
He has also worked well with Evans before when both were on the Belgian Lotto team.
Evans likes this year's 3360-kilometre route because of its variety, unlike last year's when there was more than 100 kilometres of individual time trials which suited British winner Bradley Wiggins and his Sky team, which shut down the race from the stage-nine time trial that Wiggins won.
Evans prefers courses that offer unpredictability, and this year's route does that. After starting in Corsica, the race returns to mainland France for the stage-four 25-kilometre team time trial at Nice. The route also includes two individual time trials of 33 kilometres and 32 kilometres, and six mountain stages with four summit finishes. The first three of those summit finishes are: stage eight, 194 kilometres from Castres to Ax 3 Domaines in the Pyrenees; the 242-kilometre and longest 15th stage in Provence from Givors to Mont Ventoux; and the 168-kilometre 18th stage in the Alps from Gap to l'Alpe d'Huez, including two ascents up the famous ski station summit.
The fourth summit finish comes after another mountainous day – 204 kilometres from Bourg d'Oisans to Le Grand Bornand - on stage 20 from Annecy to Semnoz (125 kilometres).
Many believe that Evans, at 36, will be up against it in this attempt to win a second Tour should all contenders be fit and available. They include defending champion Wiggins, who also plans to race in the Giro d'Italia, Wiggins' teammate and fellow Briton Chris Froome, Canadian Ryder Hesjedal, who was the winner of last year's Giro d'Italia, Spaniard Alberto Contador and Luxembourg's Andy Schleck.
However, unlike his doubters, Evans prefers a race with plenty of contenders because it minimises the chances of one team controlling the race and invites a less predictable and more open race. Should they all be at the start in Corsica, Evans will be smiling.


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Hey all,
After having to move residences last year, I unfortunately had to surrender my WSM. Now, for the family reunion this Saturday, I would like to bring pulled pork, as I do every year. However, now I will need to use my father's electric smoker.
This is the smoker that he has, I believe:
http://www.basspro.com/Bass-Pro-Shops-E ... 7894/45432
My concern is, after I've talked to him about his using it, he reports exceptionally shorter cook times--like, 1.5-2 hours for ribs, whereas I would typically do a 2-2-1 smoke on baby backs.
So do I need to reconsider my timing when using an electric smoker? When doing two pork shoulders, I would typically leave them in the WSM for 14-16 hours. Will they cook much more rapidly in the electric? Are there any other significant differences between electric and charcoal smokers in terms of use?
Any advice/info is, as always, appreciated...


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Choose the house
Le-cognac.com proposes you a selection of major Cognacs but also some more discreet Houses with excellent qualities.
Each House has a several generations know-how, and its own 'style' and 'taste'.
This variety is interesting, just as for wines, all Houses have to be discovered and compared.
Maison Jean Fillioux, family domain in Grande Champagne, 'bouilleur de cru'
'Négociant' (Merchant) houses
The 'Merchant' Houses have no or small vineyard. They buy their eaux-de-vie to the vine-growers of the region just after distilation. Then they age and blend their cognacs in their own cellars.
'Bouilleur de cru' cognac
The Cognacs of "Bouilleur de cru" is made by wine-growers who distillate only their own harvest. They also have their Brands, often more confidential but original and authentic. The connoisseurs also appreciate those small Houses with exclusive products.
The Château de Beaulon, family domain in Fins Bois, 'bouilleur de cru'


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Engineering challenges are fun activities that are frequently assigned to students in physics or engineering classes, but they can easily be used outside of these venues. An engineering challenge usually has a simple goal and some rules about what sorts of materials you are allowed to use. These are great ways to get people thinking creatively and to foster teamwork and competition. Try an engineering challenge at a birthday party, office outing, scout meeting, or any other gathering where you want to have fun and exercise your creativity.
The Egg Drop is one of the most famous engineering challenges. Each team is given a raw egg (sometimes light bulbs are used instead) and a small amount of simple building materials such as toothpicks, popsicle sticks, glue, rubber bands, paper, tape, etc. Each team should use the same materials. The teams must then build a device that will protect their egg from a drop of a specified height (at least 10 feet). Set a reasonable time limit and have some small prizes for any team that succeeds in creating something that will protect an egg from breaking upon landing.
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FLOWERS and tributes have been laid after the body of a man was recovered by police in Marlow in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Police confirmed they were called to Ridgeway Close at 5.35am on August 16 after a report of concern for welfare.
An ambulance also attended, with a man - in his late 20s according to officers - declared dead at the scene.
Flowers, cards and a football scarf have been left on an area of land off Woodland Way.
Police say the death is unexplained, but is not currently being treated as suspicious.
An inquest into the death, including identification of the deceased, has not yet been opened by Buckinghamshire Coroners.


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Understand that this page contains [mostly] user-submitted, non-verified content. Hence it barely contains all references that exist, but only a mere fraction. If you've spotted a reference, feel free to add it down below with a compatible description. Add links if needed.
World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria EditMists of Pandaria This section concerns content exclusive to Mists of Pandaria.
Games Edit
- Street Fighter
- There's an NPC by the name of Lun-Chi located in Kun-Lai Summit, near the Temple of the White Tiger. Under his name appears the title, <The Streetfighter>. This would appear to be a reference to the character Chun-Li, from the Street Fighter game series.
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- A quest called Unsafe Passage given by Koro Mistweaver in Krasarang Wilds results in a part of dialog from the game Skyrim, where the guards would repeatedly say "I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee", which also became an internet meme later on. In the quest, while escorting Koro Mistweaver, you are attacked by a group of Riverblades, after which Koro would say: "Help me up, <name>. I... I took an arrow in the knee...".
- Duke Nukem
- An NPC located in The Jade Forest by the name of Dook Ookem is an obvious reference to the main character of the video game series, Duke Nukem. His quotes are also said to be based on the character.
- Pokémon
- The Pet Battle System that was introduced with the launch of Mists of Pandaria World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, is an obvious reference to the Pokémon media franchise.
- Additionally, the achievement I choose you is a clear reference to the series.
- Starfox 64
- The quest Do a Barrel Roll! is Peppy's Popular line from Starfox.
- Diablo3
- The Numbers on Stack of Papers are a date and time stamp for when Diablo3 went online, May 15th, 2012 at 12:01AM PDT.
Movies Edit
- Up
- There's a house on top of a mountain in The Jade Forest, which has a reasonable amount of balloons connected to it. Inside the house, is a pandaren named Kar (which would be a reference to the old man in the movie, named Carl). Outside the house is a single grummle by the name of Rusty Nail, carrying a backpack, accompanied by a fox named Dig - these would be referring to the young boy by the name of Russell, and the dog, named Dog.
- How to Train Your Dragon
- The achievement How To Strain Your Dragon would appear to be a word play of the said movie, How To Train Your Dragon, in which there's a dragon race at the end of the film.
- Fightclub
- The achievement Roll Club is itself a refference and if the needed quest for the achievment is not up the questgiver Kelari Featherfoot tells you the first two rules about the roll club
- Star Wars
- The achievement It's a Trap! is a reference from Star Wars, or more specifically, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, where a character by the name of Ackbar yells "it's a trap!".
- The achievement Hate Leads to Suffering is a quote from Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
- The Dark Knight
- The quest Why So Serious? is a popular catch-phrase by Joker, in the movie, The Dark Knight.
- Short Circuit
- The achievement Number Five Is Alive is a reference to Number 5, a designation given to 1 of 6 robots in the movie "Short Circuit". After being struck by lightning, "Number Five" becomes convinced that he is alive, and not just a machine. The achievement itself is the declaration made by the robot: "Number 5, not a machine. Number 5..... Is alive!"
- Mulan
- Lorewalker Cho's small crimson cloud serpent, Mishi, is a reference to Mushu, Mulan's red dragon guardian.
- Ghostbusters
- The achievement You Said Crossing the Streams Was Bad is a reference to the famous line from the Ghostbusters (1984) movie.
- Alien (film)
- The achievement Face Clutchers is a reference to the Facehuggers from the Alien franchise.
Music Edit
- Adele
- There's an NPC named Adele located in Townlong Steppes, more specifically in an area named The Widening Deep. The NPC moves by rolling on the ground, and with the name of the location, this is an obvious reference to the singer Adele and her song "Rolling in the Deep".
- Limp Bizkit
- The achievement Keep Rollin' Rollin' Rollin' is an obvious reference to Limp Bizkit's song "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)".
- The achievement Every Day I'm Pand-a-ren is an obvious reference to the song "Party Rock Anthem" by LMFAO, in which the phrase "every day I'm shuffling" is presented with a similar syllabication.
- The male pandaren /dance animation is based off of the choreography from LMFAO's music video, "Party Rock Anthem".
- Queen
- The daily quest Red Blossom Leeks, You Make the Croc-in' World Go Down is a play off the lyrics from the song "Fat Bottomed Girls", where the actual phrase would be; "fat bottomed girls, you make the rockin' world go round".
- Caramelldansen
- The female pandaren /dance animation is based off of the ever-so-popular Caramelldansen (The Caramell Dance).
- Paula Abdul
- The achievement One Steppe Forward, Two Steppes Back is likely a reference to Paula Abdul's 1989 single Opposites Attract.
- 311
- The achievement Amber is the Color of My Energy is a line from 311's 2002 single "Amber."
- The Protomen
- The scenario Assault the Shipyard for the Isle of Thunder achievement has Stages named after Songs of the Band. Stage 5 = Keep Quiet | Stage 6 = Light up the Night | Stage 7 / Final Stage = Breaking out
People Edit
- The Yogscast
- There's an area named Honeydew Village located in The Jade Forest. This could be referring to Simon (better known as Honeydew), a member of the YouTube Let's Play group, Yogscast. Yogscast is an internet sensation that has promoted World of Warcraft in many ways, and therefore it would only make sense for this to be a dedication to Simon and the entire Yogscast team.
- Tiger Woods
- An area named Tigers' Wood located in The Jade Forest is an obvious reference to the famous golfer.
Television Edit
- Party of Five
- The achievement Party of Six is likely a reference to the TV show, Party of Five, which had it's run from 1994 to the year 2000.
- Lost
- There is a Isle in the Krasarang wilds on which a bunker is with 7 skeletons around and a Stack of Papers which is a reference to the Log printout from Lost (but the note on the papers is a reference to diablo3 as stated above)
- Dexter's Laboratory
- The achievement What Does This Button Do? is a likely reference to Dexter's sister Dee Dee who would often say, "oooooooooooo, what does this button do?" before pressing buttons at random on various machines in his lab.
Comics Edit
- Ranma ½
- The Singing Pools, an area which is located in the pandaren starting area, The Wandering Isle, could be a vague reference to the Japanese manga series, Ranma ½, as if you fall into any of the pools, you're transformed into an animal.
Books Edit
- The Jungle Book
- There's an NPC located in The Jade Forest, by the name of Kher Shan, which is a reference to a character by the name of Shere Khan from The Jungle Book stories.
- The Hobbit
- There's an NPC located in Valley of the Four Winds, by the name of Guard Captain Oakenshield, which is a reference to the character Thorin Oakenshield.
- Alice in Wonderland
- At Coordinate 43. 16 in Kun-Lai Summit there a tuskarr name Wally and a hozen name Tic Tak the carpenter, Obviously a reference to the walrus and the carpenter from the famed story.
Other Edit
- Lonesome George
- There's an NPC by the name of Lon'li Guju in Kun-Lai Summit. This NPC is referring to the last Pinta Island tortoise, who became world-famous but passed away on June 24, 2012. If a player emotes something such as /wave or /love at the tortoise, he'd start to follow the player for a while.
- Conan the Barbarian
- Cornan <The Barley Barbarian>, an NPC in Valley of the Four Winds appears to be a reference of Conan the Barbarian, a fictional sword and sorcery hero that has been included in many different sorts of media (games, movies, comic books etc.)
- Annie Get Your Gun (musical)
- The achievement Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better... is a reference to the famous song from Annie Get Your Gun.


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Jimmy Chin
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Jimmy Chin is an artist and fursuiter. Originally from South Florida, he received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Florida. He lived in the Los Angeles area for three years before settling in the the San Francisco Bay Area in 1999. He lives in San Jose with his partner, DJ and fellow fursuit performer Croc.
He has been involved in furry fandom since 1990. His first furry party was at NecronomiCon, in October 1990, in Tampa, Florida, U.S.A. His first furry convention was Confurence 2 in January 1991. He was a charter member of the Fursuit Mailing List. He was a guest of honor at Conifur Northwest 1999, Eurofurence 15, and Furry Weekend Atlanta 2013[1].
His main fursuit character is Yippee Coyote who has done numerous local community appearances as well as fandom events since his creation in 1996. He is one of the founding members of the costumed character performing group Critters by the Bay and also participates in Good Bears of the World. He was the Furry News Network's Fursuiter of the Month for July 2011.
An advocate for promoting fursuit performance in fandom, Jimmy has helped run performance panels since 1997, but in 2010 has taken a new approach with his panel "Power of Pretend." While most performance panels offer tips on what to do, "Power of Pretend" encourages the fursuiter to capture their imagination, visualize the character and the childhood game of playing pretend.
- 1 Artist
- 2 Fursuit Characters
- 3 Mascot / Professional
- 4 Furry Fandom
- 5 References
- 6 External links
Jimmy has drawn since a young age, and despite attending college for Engineering, had pursued an art and animation career. In 1995 he moved to Los Angeles and held a few animation studio art jobs until 1997.
- Illustrated Further Confusion con badges every year except 1999 and 2003
- Drew gift art for his opponents in the Fandom's Favorite Fursuit Fracas since 2008
- Wild Life comic anthology, published three comic stories
- Buffalo Wings, occasional guest artist
- Statical Planets Storyboard artist, art film by Mystery Science 3000 creator Joel Hodgson
- Illustrated shirts for the fictional PAFCON.
Fursuit Characters[edit]
Yippee Coyote[edit]
Yippee Coyote (Yippocrates Escondido) was constructed by Jimmy with assistance from animator Dave Kuhn. Yippee first appeared at the fursuit wedding of Topfox and Cataroo on Halloween 1996. His convention debut was at LosCon 23 in Burbank, and his public debut was at the 1996 Pasadena Doo Dah Parade, by invitation of Rapid T. Rabbit. Yippee's furry convention debut was at ConFurence 8, January 1997. Yippee has since appeared at numerous community events through Critters by the Bay as well as many conventions on stage and in the halls. In 1998, Yippee was photographed with Weird Al Yankovic at a party thrown by Mystery Science Theater 3000 creator Joel Hodgson. Yippee appeared at the Give Kids the World Village in 1999 and 2004. Yippee was in a reenactment of the Frantics sketch Boot to the Head at Further Confusion 2005, later reprising that role in a cameo in the short video Under the Same Sky in 2008. In 2009 as part of his Eurofurence 15 trip, Yippee appeared at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Yippee owes much of his design influences not to Warner Brothers' Wile E. Coyote, but Bent-Tail Coyote, a minor Disney character from several 1940s Pluto cartoons including Legend of Coyote Rock. In 1997, Yippee tried to pitch himself as a potential mascot for the Phoenix Coyotes hockey team. Yippee appeared in a cameo on a 1999 episode of Adventures with Kanga Roddy.
Although Yippee was not originally intended as his fursona, Jimmy is often referred to by the nickname Yippee, and the name is used on convention badges and online aliases. Yippee was the Fandom's Favorite Fursuit Fracas 2009 Champion after making it to the final 16 but falling to the eventual champion both previous years. Yippee had some minor maintenance to keep him active, including a new muzzle in 1999 and fourth set of handpaws, but he retains the same body and head since his 1996 debut.
Yippee bore the California flag in several fursuit parades including Anthrocon 2008 and Eurofurence in 2009 and 2010.
On April 16, 2011, Yippee marched with Rapid T. Rabbit in his first Ocean City Doo Dah Parade, earning the "Double Doggy DooDah Glutton-For-Punishment" Award and participated in the Soupy Sales memorial "Pieasco" pie toss. Yippee Coyote retired at the age of 14 1/2 at the Pasadena Doo Dah Parade on April 30, 2011.
Walden J. Whitetail[edit]
Walden is a reindeer, originally built by animator Shawn Keller for a Disney cast holiday party in the early 90s during Shawn's fiberglass-head era. Jimmy acquired him in 2003, retrofit and re-debuted him in December 2003. Walden has appeared at holiday events through the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as Megaplex 8 in 2009 for their Christmas in July theme. Walden was featured on the Fursuit Calendar from Sofawolf Press for the month of November 2009. At the San Jose Holiday Parade in 2010, Walden dropped an antler when the aluminum support rod broke.[2] His head was refurbished with steel rods in his antlers, and performed at holiday events in December 2011.
Twilight is a lavender and violet bunny constructed by Jimmy and debuted at Bunny Jam, then Megaplex 7 in March 2008. Twilight sometimes has an earring in his right ear and seven 4-point white stars in his fur. His name was inspired by the Electric Light Orchestra song Twilight, not the young adult vampire series. Twilight was the confluence of several influences (Jimmy's original fursona was a rabbit), coupled with a need to complete him for an Easter weekend event, Jimmy was inspired to finish in about six weeks, minus the feet.[3] He is scented with grape bubble gum body spray, and is sometimes called "purple drank bunny." Twilight participated in the FC2010 Dance Competition.
Baron is a German Shepherd Dog character built by Javachickn, from collaborative designs between Java and Jimmy. The name, as well as the red scarf, goggles, and black fingerless glove/spats markings allude to the German World War I flying ace, the Red Baron. Baron debuted at Further Confusion 2010. [4]
PolkaDog is a sporty dalmatian character wearing a black custom jersey from the defunct Portland Fire WNBA team since 2003. Over the years PolkaDog has had several iterations:
- Version 1 debuted Conifur Northwest 2000. Renamed PepperPup in June 2005. Head re-furred and new body sewn; owned by Theome since November 2006. [5]
- Version 2 debuted Further Confusion 2006. His head was destroyed when trying to update him in October 2009.
- Version 3 (new head only) debuted for Halloween events and Midwest FurFest 2009.
Pachinko is a lop-eared female bunny character. Pachinko's head was made by Mixed Candy, and Cabby built the rest. Pachinko debuted at Further Confusion 2006.[6] Cabby sold Pachinko in June 2011, and Jimmy has performed her since then. [7]
Blip is a "little lost alien" in black, grey and hot pink fur, built by Sophie Cabra. Blip debuted January 2011 (Further Confusion).[8]
Frazzle is a Stitch, husky, and tiger hybrid. It is also known by some as an alien dog. The head was built by Frazzy and the body is made by Rose Quoll. The suit was the winner of the Fandom's Favorite Fursuit Fracas in 2007. Frazzle was adopted and redebuted November 2013 at Midwest FurFest, retaining the name Frazzle, while the former owner goes by Frazzy. [9]
Waji is a grumpy orange, beige and yellow meerkat built by Sophie Cabra in 2010. She was adopted and re-debuted February 2014 at Furry Fiesta.[10]
Retired or former characters[edit]
- Woodruff deWoof - wolf, debuted December 1994, retired January 2004. The first suit Jimmy built, partly from advice from the early Fursuit Mailing List, inspired in part by Minnesota Timberwolves mascot Crunch.
- R.T. Dodger (Roger "Trouble") - fox, debuted Conifur Northwest 1998. Created partly intended to pitch to the Los Angeles Dodgers as a potential mascot when the team was purchased by Fox Entertainment Group in 1998. Not actively performed.
- Pinky - fan recreation of the mouse from Pinky & the Brain, originally built by Dave Kuhn. Featured onstage with Pinky's voice artist and Anthrocon 2007 guest of honor Rob Paulsen.
- Clayton - kangaroo, built by Brokken T. Wolf for Colson Grainger. Jimmy acquired him in December 2004. Owned by OzKangaroo since March 2005.
- PepperPup - dalmatian, formerly PolkaDog version 1, he was renamed to PepperPup when version 2 was created and the name was transferred. To help differentiate from PolkaDog, PepperPup wears a red jersey patterned after the Tabasco logo. Owned by Theome since November 2006.
- Myrrh - purple, orange & yellow phoenix built by Arend Studios from Jimmy's designs inspired by the DC United mascot Talon. Acquired from Croc some time in late 2005. Owned by PacerFox since March 2007.
- Tech E. Coyote - fan recreation of superhero coyote from Kids WB show Loonatics Unleashed, debuted at Comic Con International: San Diego, July 2006. Participated in the masquerade. Not actively performed.
- Bosco - brown bear, debuted at Further Confusion 2008 in the Masquerade, taking second place in the Journeyman category. Bosco features a body pod to add bulk without excessive weight and stuffing. Owned by Drake Duck since January 2010.
- Candy Coon - pink raccoon, debuted Duckon 1998 (retired); version 2 debuted Midwest FurFest 2008. Candy is scented by cotton candy body spray. Candy has appeared twice at Timduru's outing to Disneyland Paris and on the pilot and opening credits for the NBC television show Parenthood. Owned by Jimmy's Critters by the Bay colleague MinnieMe4RL since April 2010.
- Dozer - Rottweiler, built by Media, acquired October 2010 from Tank Weiler and renamed Dozer. Dozer appeared at a few Bay Area events and Further Confusion 2011. Owned by Tsuyoto since March 2011.
Mascot / Professional[edit]
- 1997-1999 Six Flags Magic Mountain character performer & foreman
- 1999 - San Francisco Giants, mascot escort & backup performer
- 2000-2001 - San Jose Earthquakes, mascot performer
- 2002 - San Jose CyberRays, mascot performer
- 2003 MLS All-Star Game - guest mascot performer
- 2006 San Jose Giants, backup mascot
Furry Fandom[edit]
Stage/Show Participation[edit]
- NecronomiCon 1995 (Tampa FL) - Hall Costume Award (Woodruff)
- LosCon 23 (1996) - Best Soft Sculpture & Use of Fur; Best Critter (Yippee Coyote)
- Confurence 8 (1997) Masquerade - Tied, 2nd Place (Yippee)
- Duckon (1997) - Furry Variety Show participant (Yippee)
- Duckon (1998) - Furry Variety Show participant (Yippee)
- Further Confusion 1999 - Masquerade participant (R.T.Dodger)
- Further Confusion 2001 - Masquerade participant (PolkaDog v.1)
- Further Confusion 2004 - Masquerade participant (Walden)
- Further Confusion 2005 - Furry Variety Show participant (Clayton, Yippee)
- Further Confusion 2006 - Furry Variety Show participant (PolkaDog v.2)
- Comic Con International, 2006 Masquerade participant (Tech E. Coyote re-creation)
- Further Confusion 2007 - Masquerade participant (Tech E. Coyote)
- Further Confusion 2008 - Masquerade participant (Bosco) - 2nd Place, Journeyman
- Eurofurence 15 (2009) - Guest of Honor, Stage Fever participant (Twilight)
- Further Confusion 2010 - Dance Competition participant (Twilight)
- Califur 2010 - Furry Night Live participant (Yippee, Baron)
- Eurofurence 16 - Stage Fever participant (Yippee)
- Furry Connection North 2011 - Furry Variety Show participant (Yippee)
- Califur 2011 - Furry Night Live participant (Twilight, Pachinko)
- Furry Fiesta 2012 - Furry Night Live participant (Pachinko)
Convention Staff/Panelist[edit]
- Confurence - Fursuit Performance panelist, 1997, 1998
- Conifur Northwest 1999 - Guest of Honor
- Further Confusion - Fursuit Performance panelist, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2009
- Further Confusion 2001 - Furry Variety Show Assistant
- Further Confusion 2002 - Assisted in creation of first Critterlympics
- Further Confusion 2006 - Furry Night Live Second
- Further Confusion 2007 - Furry Night Live Lead
- Further Confusion 2008 - Furry Night Live Lead
- Further Confusion 2009 - Furry Night Live Lead
- Anthrocon 2010 - Served as lead or panelist for The Power of Pretend, Anthropoly, Making Your Suit Live, Using Your Powers for Good, and Fursuit Retrospective.
- Midwest Furfest 2010 - Panelist "Power of Pretend"
- Further Confusion 2011 - Panelist "Fursuit Performance" (lecture similar to Power of Pretend)
- Anthrocon 2011 - Panelist: "Fursuit Performance in Public"
- Midwest FurFest 2011 - Panelist: "Fursuiting 101," "Power of Pretend"
- Furry Fiesta 2012 - Panelist: "Fursuit Head Construction," "Fursuit Body Construction"
- Furry Weekend Atlanta 2012 - Panelist: Fursuit Construction 1 & 2, Fursuiting Performance
- Furry Weekend Atlanta 2013 - Guest of Honor
- ↑ FWA 2012 wrapup Retrieved April 29, 2012
- ↑ Parade done, but not without injury Twitpic December 5, 2010
- ↑ Twilight is ready for nosebeeps! LiveJournal entry, March 22, 2008
- ↑ Introducing...BARON LiveJournal entry January 31, 2010
- ↑ Spotted in transit again LiveJournal entry from February 23, 2007
- ↑ Pachinko on the Fursuit Database. Retrieved May 2, 2009
- ↑ Pachinko character page on Fur Affinity. Retrieved April 29, 2012
- ↑ Blip character page on Fur Affinity. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
- ↑ Frazzle character page on Fur Affinity. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
- ↑ Whadda you lookin' at, ya HOCKEY PUCK! new Waji pic on Fur Affinity. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
External links[edit]
|This person is a WikiFur user:
- Yippee at Fur Affinity
- retro art account at Fur Affinity
- Yippee at LiveJournal
- Yippee on Twitter
- Jimmy's art page at Yerf (down)
- Jimmy at ArtSpots (down)
- Jimmy Chin on the Yerf Historical Archive
- Jimmy Chin at VCL
- Yippee's biography on Critters by the Bay


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Multiple Myeloma in the Elderly: When to Treat, When to Go to Transplant
Multiple Myeloma in the Elderly: When to Treat, When to Go to Transplant
Until recently, standard treatment of multiple myeloma (MM) in elderly patients who were not candidates for autologous stem cell transplantation was with the combination of melphalan plus prednisone (MP). Novel agents (thalidomide, lenalidomide, bortezomib) are dramatically changing frontline therapy of MM. Randomized studies have shown the superiority of adding one novel agent to MP, either thalidomide (MPT) or bortezomib (MPV). The combination of lenalidomide with low doses of dexamethasone is another attractive alternative. Recent results show that maintenance therapy with low-dose lenalidomide may prolong progression-free survival. The objective of these improved treatment regimens should be to achieve complete response, as in younger patients. However, toxicity is a significant concern, and doses of thalidomide and of myelotoxic agents should be reduced in patients who are older than 75 years or who have poor performance status. Weekly bortezomib appears to induce severe peripheral neuropathy less frequently than the same agent administered twice weekly. Autologous stem cell transplantation is feasible in selected fit patients over 65 years of age, and its results are improved by the addition of novel agents before and after high-dose therapy. However, considering the progress in non-intensive therapy, autologous transplantation should not currently be offered to elderly patients outside of a clinical trial.
Multiple Myeloma (MM) is a disease of the elderly: the median age at diagnosis is increasing along with the increase in life expectancy in the general population and is currently more than 70.[1] Age is an important prognostic factor in MM, and overall survival (OS) declines continuously by decade from age 50 to ages greater than 80.[1] This decline in OS may be explained in part by the higher incidence of more severe disease in older patients, but it is mainly explained by patient characteristics (eg, performance status, comorbities).[1,2] Elderly patients do not tolerate chemotherapy-related adverse events as well as younger patients, and they are rarely candidates for high-dose therapy (HDT) plus autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT)—which, back in the 1990s, was the first improvement in the treatment of MM.[3] In the context of MM, the definition of "elderly" is generally based on the age limit for treatment with HDT plus ASCT. In most randomized studies that have compared ASCT and conventional-dose chemotherapy as primary treatments for MM, the upper age limit has been 65 years.[3] Thus, the usual definition of an elderly MM patient is one who is over 65 years of age
While the introduction of HDT supported by ASCT has markedly increased progression-free survival (PFS) and OS in younger patients, for four decades now there has been almost no improvement in the prognosis of elderly patients with MM.[4] Until recently, the standard of care has been the combination of melphalan and prednisone (MP).[5]
The introduction of immunomodulatory drugs (the "IMiDs": thalidomide and lenalidomide) and of proteasome-inhibitors (bortezomib) has dramatically changed the management of MM in both younger and elderly patients. The use of these agents in patients who have relapsed and in patients with refractory disease has already improved outcomes,[6] and they are currently added to frontline treatment in patients with newly diagnosed disease.
Recent Improvements in the Treatment of Elderly Patients With Multiple Myeloma
Novel agents have been added to the treatment of elderly patients in three ways: the addition of one novel agent to the MP combination, the addition of one novel agent to dexamethasone, and the use of a novel agent as maintenance therapy after induction treatment.
MP-Based Combinations
The first novel agent to be combined with MP was thalidomide. To date, five randomized studies have been published comparing MP with MP plus thalidomide (MPT) as primary treatment in elderly patients with MM.[7-12] The design of these studies, inclusion criteria, and doses of chemotherapy and thalidomide have varied (Table 1). However, the results are quite reproducible. These are shown in Table 2 and can be summarized as follows:
• Response rates—of either at least partial response or at least very good partial response (VGPR)—were significantly increased in the MPT arm in all five studies.
• PFS was significantly improved in the MPT arm in four out of five studies.
• OS was significantly improved in the MPT arm in three out of five studies; however, OS is partly dependent on the efficacy of salvage treatment after progression and on the availability of novel agents for relapse management.
As a consequence of these studies, the regimen MPT is now considered a new standard of care and it has been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) for the treatment of patients older than 65 years with newly diagnosed MM. However, safety may be a concern, especially in very old or frail patients. For example, in the Nordic trial, the median patient age was 78 years, and the proportion of patients with an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status higher than 2 was 30%.[12] This high incidence of more frail patients resulted in a high rate of toxic death (23 deaths in the first 6 months in patients over 75 years of age in the MPT arm versus a rate of 12 deaths during the first 6 months in the MP arm) and lower compliance with treatment (59 treatment discontinuations in the MPT arm versus 18 in the MP arm). As a consequence, PFS was not improved in the MPT arm. One might speculate that higher doses of melphalan (0.25 mg/kg/d for 4 days every 6 weeks) and thalidomide (200 mg/d for 1 week, and up to 400 mg/d) and inclusion of older and more frail patients were the reason that a better response rate did not translate into a longer PFS in the MPT arm.[12]
Conversely, in the French trial in patients over 75 years of age, doses of melphalan and thalidomide were lower (0.2 mg/kg/d and 100 mg/d, respectively) and both response rate and PFS were significantly superior in the MPT arm compared with the MP arm.[10]
The second agent to be combined with MP is bortezomib. Following encouraging data from a phase I/II trial of the combination MP plus bortezomib (MPV),[13] the large randomized Velcade as Initial Standard Therapy in Multiple Myeloma (VISTA) trial compared MP and MPV.[14] Results were recently updated[15] and are summarized in Table 3. MPV was significantly superior to MP for all parameters that measured response or outcome. An important finding from this trial was that the complete response (CR) rate was 30%; this is quite comparable to the rate achieved with HDT in younger patients. Thus, MPV is also now an EMEA-approved standard of care regimen for use in elderly patients.
However, while results were not significantly diminished in patients in this trial who were older than 75 years, safety was a concern. In the MPV arm, the incidence of grade 3/4 peripheral sensory neuropathy was 14%, and 30% of patients had to discontinue treatment or at least discontinue bortezomib because of treatment-related adverse events.[14]
Lenalidomide has also been used with MP (MPR regimen). While a phase I/II study has yielded encouraging results,[16] preliminary analysis of a randomized trial comparing MP, MPR, and MPR plus lenalidomide maintenance failed to show a better PFS in the MPR arm than in the MP arm, despite a higher response rate in the former.[17] Again, this might be explained by higher myelotoxicity and lower compliance in patients older than 75 years.
Dexamethsasone-Based Combinations
The combination of thalidomide and dexamethasone (TD) has been widely used as primary therapy in MM. This combination was compared to MP in a randomized study in elderly patients.[18] While the response rate, including CR rate, was superior in the TD arm, there was no benefit in terms of PFS, and OS was significantly shorter in the TD arm, particularly in patients over 75 years of age (median, 19.8 months—versus 41.3 months in the MP arm) (Table 4). These results were explained by the higher toxicity and lower compliance in the TD arm. In this study, both the thalidomide dosage (50 to 400 mg/d) and the dexamethasone dosage (4-day blocks at 40 mg/d) were probably too high in patients who were older than 75 or who had poor performance status; the elevated dosages might also explain the high incidence of early deaths from infection or cardiac complications.
Determining the optimal dose of dexamethasone to be combined with IMiDs in frontline therapy of MM was the purpose of a randomized study recently published by the ECOG. This study compared lenalidomide plus high-dose dexamethasone (40 mg/d for 4 consecutive days, 3 times a month) with lenalidomide plus low-dose dexamethasone (40 mg weekly).[19] Here, too, while the response rate was superior with high-dose dexamethasone, median PFS and 1-year survival were significantly longer in the low-dose arm (Table 4) because of higher toxicity in the high-dose arm. The incidence of any grade 3/4 adverse events was 52% in the high-dose dexamethasone arm, compared with 35% in the low-dose dexamethasone arm (P=.0001). As a result, there were more early deaths (5% vs 1%; P=.003) and more treatment discontinuations due to adverse events (27% vs 19%) in the high-dose dexamethasone arm. This trend was particularly evident in patients over the age of 70. The fact that the median duration of treatment was 9.7 months in the low-dose dexamethasone arm, compared with only 3.8 months in the high-dose dexamethasone arm, may explain why median PFS and 3-year OS were superior in the low-dose arm.[20] In any event, lenalidomide plus low-dose dexamethasone might be another standard of care in elderly patients and is currently being compared to MPT in an ongoing randomized trial.


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CHINA (Oct. 12, 2011) -- Kerry Logistics, a leading global logistics services provider, has secured a contract with Hugo Boss to manage Greater China distribution of a range of premium fashion and luxury goods.
The new contract will provide for logistics services through two distribution centers; one in Hong Kong for Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong markets and one in Shanghai for the mainland China market.
"We are delighted to be working with Hugo Boss as a strategic partner, one of the world's leading fashion and luxury goods brands. As consumer demand grows for imported brands in China, Kerry Logistics is well positioned to deliver a comprehensive range of warehousing and logistics services throughout Greater China," said Samuel Lau, Director of Kerry Logistics (Hong Kong).
"We have an unmatched flexibility and scalability in the China market which will enable us to deliver optimized services to support Hugo Boss's aggressive growth in the years ahead," he added.
Hugo Boss has been a market leader in China since the early 1990s and is poised for double digit growth as demand soars for luxury brands.
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Kerry Logistics is Asia's premier logistics service provider with a strong focus on China. Based in Hong Kong, Kerry Logistics has offices in 24 countries with over 15,000 employees and a transportation fleet of 8,000 vehicles. Its core business encompasses integrated logistics, international freight forwarding and supply chain solutions. By owning and managing 2.4m sq.m of logistics facilities, it provides customers with reliability and flexibility to support their future expansion and long-term growth. Kerry Logistics Network Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hong Kong-listed Kerry Properties Limited.


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I was wondering why not add some jutsus of konan's like paper wings, airplanes, and paper wrapping? These jutsu maybe a part of the Dance of the Shingami but are still jutsus that are used in the anime. so why not create these new pages for these jutsus? I mean being a member of the akatsuki she should have more jutsu. I mean look it you don't count these, then why add the paper Shuriken or paper clone being that they are also part of the Dance of the Shinigami? --18.104.22.168 (talk) 18:02, September 10, 2011 (UTC)
- Because they are all unnamed, and part of the same jutsu. Paper Shuriken and Paper Clone are named and the Databook even has an entry for paper shuriken. If Kishimoto thought all the little things she does with Dance of the Shikigami were separate techniques, he would have given them Databook entries. If he doesn't consider them important, I don't know why we should. Also, an Akatsuki member doesn't need to have a lot of techniques to be strong. --Deva 27 18:06, September 10, 2011 (UTC)


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PHILADELPHIA - Director of Track & Field/Cross Country Steve Dolan announced the newest addition to the University of Pennsylvania track and field staff on Thursday. Former Montclair State head coach and North Carolina standout Porscha Dobson will serve as the sprints and hurdles coach for both the men's and women's programs.
"Porscha is a great addition to our staff," Dolan said. "She was a track star and great competitor during her high school career in New Jersey and throughout her collegiate career at North Carolina. And it has been fun to watch her evolve into such a tremendous coach. She made great strides with the program at Montclair State, has great technical knowledge, excellent organization, and her athletes really respond to her leadership."
Dobson comes to Philadelphia after taking over as the women's head coach at Montclair State University in 2009. In three years, Coach Dobson's Red Hawks boasted a national champion, a Regional Track Athlete of the Year, two NCAA All-Americans, four individual national championship appearances, five national qualifiers, 11 school records, 20 conference champions, one NJAC Most Outstanding Athlete of the Year, three NJAC Track Athletes of the Year, four NJAC Rookies of the Year, two Montclair State Athlete of the Year awards and two USTFCCCA Academic All-America honors in addition to five NJAC honor roll selections and over 75 all-conference honors.
In just her second season, Dobson was recognized by her peers as the NJAC Outdoor Coach of the Year for the 2011 season.
Prior to Montclair State, Dobson served as a volunteer assistant at Seton Hall University where she worked primarily with the hurdlers in 2008-2009. At the 2009 Penn Relays, Dobson led the shuttle hurdle relay to a first-place finish in the ECAC section and third overall in the Championship of America.
One of the top hurdlers in the history of New Jersey high school track and field, Dobson took her talents to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she served two years as a team captain for the Tar Heels. She received All-Atlantic Coast Conference honors as she helped UNC to two ACC Championships. Dobson was a finalist in the 2006 Millrose Games as she etched her name into UNC records books among the top five hurdlers in school history. As a versatile athlete, Dobson also showcased her talent as a solid member of the 4x400 relay team.
Dobson dominated the high school scene at Kent Place School in Summit, N.J., where she was a two-time All-American and New Jersey Athlete of the Year. She recorded the second-best 55-meter hurdle time in state history (7.96) and third-best 100-meter hurdle time (13.50). She earned numerous first team all-State and all-Conference honors and won the state championship in the 55 and 100 hurdles in 2003.
Dobson is a USATF Level I Certified Track and Field coach. She earned her degree in Communications and Media studies from North Carolina in 2008. Originally from Roselle, New Jersey, Dobson currently resides in Philadelphia.


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PDF at the University of Lancaster
Lancaster has adopted SEDA-PDF as a key part of the institutional framework for initial and continuing professional development.
We wanted to provide flexibility in how different members of staff could engage with professional development that was supportive of their identified development priorities. As part of this, using the SEDA-PDF allowed us to explore different ways of doing this.
- SEDA awards related to existing programmes – we used the SEDA award learning outcomes as a heuristic for reflecting on our existing provision in terms of University accredited programmes. This involved the Learning, Teaching and Assessing and the Supporting Learning awards.
- Developing independent routes, with tutor support, to demonstrating the award learning outcomes – this responded to a desire to provide staff with a way to recognize work that they were engaged in as part of their teaching role, as well as providing a more rigorous framework within which to undertake that work e.g. project work or curriculum change (EAP award).
- Providing a route for staff to be recognized for engaging in and implementing ideas from what would otherwise be a series of free-standing workshops on a theme e.g. e-learning or postgraduate supervision (ELT and EPS awards)
We found it extremely helpful to use the SEDA awards for creating more modules for the Postgraduate Diploma in Academic Practice. The process was valuable as in satisfying the requirements for SEDA one had to think carefully and reflect about the provision in a rigorous way. This meant that satisfying a course approvals committee and mapping the relevant programmes onto the UK PSF were then much more easily accomplished.
One of the really valuable things about the process of creating the SEDA awards was the feedback from mentors. As they are colleagues from outside the institution, they might ask questions or suggest things that one wouldn't have thought of because of being in a particular context.
As can be seen from the above the SEDA-PDF itself is a very flexible process which can support a team and/or institution in the development of their portfolio of provision for initial and continuing professional development of staff.
A Course Leader's reflections and perceived benefits on the SEDA Programme Review Process, Shrinika Weerakoon, Staff Development Centre, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
SEDA's support to complete the course review process successfully was very helpful and ranged from their informative website, explicit assessment criteria to a reminder email on the expiry status of SEDA accreditation for the two courses (viz., CTHE and ASTHE) with an inquiry on the likelihood of the accreditation renewal. The constructive and development-oriented approach of the SEDA reviewer, Dr David Baume, helped to generate confidence in me by showcasing that the process would help me to improve the courses in the future, through reflection. Because these courses were not from UK, I felt that Dr Baume's experience and knowledge on educational development, and on my Centre (viz., SDC), were beneficial. Steps in the document preparation process made me confident to face the review interview and I clearly felt the benefit of presenting thoroughly prepared documentation.
The result of undergoing the review was to give me a deeper insight into the course-rationale. The review process made me study in detail the elements of the courses and their underlying principles which I may not have done in as great a depth otherwise.
Although the periodic review was beneficial to reflectively evaluate and develop the courses as well as to externally validate the standards maintained by our courses, the SEDA review was an enormous self-imposed pressure on me as I did not want to fail the review and lose the recognition which the former course leader and SDC Director Professor Suki Ekaratne (now in University of Bath) had maintained for 10 years. The pressure was very high as I knew that losing the recognition would greatly demotivate course participants who input a massive effort which results in enhancing quality of learning and teaching nationally in Sri Lanka. Looking back, I realize that marshalling varied resources helped to assuage this pressure and to prepare the needed documentation for a successful Review.
I realized that the most helpful aspects that enabled me to successfully complete the review were the highly reflective nature in course delivery and our courses having benchmarked closely with the Outcomes and Values that SEDA required the courses to address. I realized that it was the breadth of these SEDA requirements that allowed us to continually adapt them to our changing contexts as evidenced by the continuous revisions of the course handbooks done by Professor Ekaratne and which provided clear evidence how the course had responded to External Examiner comments, changing higher education and staff-student needs nationally. The audit reports of international educational developers reinforced my evidence to show how these courses had been run in an exemplary and developmental manner. Having gone through the review process, I feel that course leaders handling relatively new courses and which lack the wherewithal to trace a developmental backdrop may experience some difficulty in successfully completing the SEDA review process, as there are different developmental areas that need to be genuinely addressed in the Review. Unless course/s are aligned to SEDA requirements from the start as a planned approach, or have become so developmentally, courses may not relate to SEDA outcomes in a deeply aligned manner, and I believe it takes considerable reflection and introspection to be able to bring these rewarding outcomes to be espoused in the delivery of a course, that would enable a course to take them beyond the mere act of documenting them.
Therefore, I would not hesitate to recommend SEDA recognize/review process as one that would bring about a considerable developmental benefit to every course leader or to do it again myself.
CTHE and ASTHE are staff development courses that have been SEDA-accredited and offered by the Staff Development Centre (SDC) University of Colombo over the last 10 years for junior and senior academic staff, respectively, from all Sri Lankan universities.
PDF at the University of Central Lancashire
SEDA-PDF has provided a flexible framework for professional development programmes at UCLan. The Professional Development Framework was originally adopted for two postgraduate certificate programmes which targeted firstly academic staff who would be supporting research degree students at the institution and secondly those staff new to HE or the institution who were therefore expectedto gain accreditation and support for their teaching learning and assessment activity. The latter programme subsequently gained dual external status through SEDA and the ILT, the outcomes were very complementary. The foundation element of the latter PG Cert programme, called the HE Teaching Toolkit, was accessible to any and all staff supporting learning in any shape or form. Hence the SEDA-PDF award Supporting Learning was adopted for the front line professional development programme for new lecturers, technical and learning support staff, part-timers, research students who taught, and even people in administrative roles. This meant the university was able to benefit from 3 awards from the SEDA-PDF range.
The institution now houses a further 2 PG cert programmes. One of which has been informed by but has not yet been recognised for Exploring Learning Technologies. The other, a new award for those supporting and guiding students, became the inspiration for SEDA to devise a new award in Student Support & Guidance. Not only has SEDA-PDF a wide range of valuable awards to meet very diverse staff development needs at key points in their career, it is also responsive to new developments and priorities in institutions.The key requirement being that programmes share a commitment to SEDA values and SEDA core learning outcomes and are addressing the continuous professional development of employees across the board.
PDF at the University of Hertfordshire
The University of Hertfordshire (UH) runs a three day workshop which attracts a wide range of participants from across the University. While most are new lecturing staff including growing numbers of hourly paid lecturers, there are many from other areas of the University who provide essential learning support. Locally the workshop is repeated three times a year with something like one hundred participants. Associate Colleges linked to UH also make use of the workshop and in 2005 in excess of one hundred participants in Malaysia and Greece have attended. The workshop is recognised through SEDA-PDF named award Supporting Learning. UH will continue to add other provision within SEDA-PDF.
PDF at the University of Leicester
Leicester has adopted SEDA-PDF as the preferred format for its Developing Professional Practice programmes. These have been targeted, trialled and run successfully for support, technical and young research staff across the Institution, and a sister programme developed and successfully piloted to some acclaim with the University and Colleges network of 24 local Colleges (the DPP in post-compulsory education stream). In 2005, following the success of Leicester Medical Schools' FDTL-funded leadership development programme Developing Leaders in Health and Social Care Education, the University sought accreditation under the PDF Leadership Award to give appropriate recognition to participants completing the programme. Leicester has now also developed, for accreditation, a research module Enhancing Research Practice as part of its Post-Graduate Certificate/Diploma in Academic Practice.As reported in earlier SEDA specials, Leicester sees the SEDA-PDF framework as pivotal to its commitment to a balanced CPD portfolio-ensuring that high quality initial and continuing professional development of appropriate form and content is available to all.
PDF at the University of Ulster
The SEDA-PDF has provided an opportunity for the University of Ulster to develop an inclusive and flexible provision of initial and continuing professional development for all staff who are engaged in supporting the student experience. Engagement with SEDA-PDF has proved positive in enabling a wide range of staff to address their development needs and to gain recognition for their professional practice.
The University of Ulster currently has seven modules recognised by the SEDA-PDF. The modules include: Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Higher Education (Supporting Learning); The Pedagogy of E-Learning (Exploring Learning Technologies); e-Pedagogy: From Design to Delivery (Embedding Learning Technologies); Enhancing Research Practice (Enhancing Research Practice); Supporting the Student Experience (Student Support and Guidance); Leadership in Higher Education (Developing Leaders) and Effective Research Supervision (Supervising Postgraduate Research) and are mapped onto the SEDA-PDF awards listed in brackets. All modules are 20 credits and are assessed at master's level. In addition, to being available as stand alone awards the modules are also components of the institution's post-graduate programme in Higher Education Practice which is accredited by the Higher Education Academy.
It is envisaged that this joint approach to recognition will continue as it maximises the opportunities for staff to acquire recognition for their engagement in Professional Standards and SEDA values.
PDF at the University of Keele
Like many institutions, we had an induction Teaching and Learning programme accredited by SEDA in the 1990s, and this continues for our programmes now recognized for the PDF in Supporting Learning and in Teaching, Learning and Assessment, which are also accredited by the HE Academy. The development of the wide range of PDF awards has been most helpful since 2000. Our second postgraduate certificate programme, Teaching and Learning with Technology, was recognized for the PDF in Embedding Learning Technologies as soon as it was available. Later, to add flexibility for staff who were able to commit less time, we had a half-size version of the course recognized for the PDF in eXploring Learning Technologies. We recently had our programme for contract research staff recognized for the PDF award in Enhancing Research Practice. We ran a pilot programme for external examiners that was recognized for the PDF award in External Examining, and we hope to make that a regular event. We are currently in the process of having a module in Action Research accredited for the PDF award of the same name.
Why have we used the PDF? With the growth of our provision of initial and continuing professional development, there was a danger of uncoordinated developments for disparate groups around the university. Using the PDF awards gives the programmes a common requirement for shared values and shared reflection on professional development. Secondly, as the relevant PDF awards have been mapped onto the UK Professional Standards Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning in Higher Education, we are confident that we are compliant with national standards. Thirdly, and most practically, the recognition process has always been a positive, developmental experience, that has helped improve our programmes, with the SEDA recognizers and mentors being collegially supportive and yet critical friends. Great value.


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Championship: Nigel Adkins praises Reading after win at Watford
Nigel Adkins praised Reading after their five-game search for a win in all competitions ended at Watford.
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Kaspars Gorkss scored what proved to be the decisive goal after only five minutes, heading in a Jordan Obita corner, although Watford missed a number of good chances to equalise after the break.
The Royals boss said: "I thought we started the game very brightly. We were on the front foot, I think we had four crosses in the first couple of minutes.
"It was a good goal from the set play, a good delivery from Jordan Obita and Kaspars on the end of it.
"I thought we played some good football in the first half against what I believe is a good side in Watford.
"We've got a lot of players out who have been out injured for a long time and obviously (it comes) on the back of a couple of disappointing results over Christmas.
"But the resolve that the players have gone and demonstrated again in the second half has shown the togetherness of everybody, the desire to work hard and that started with the front two going all the way through the team.
"We're really looking forward and we've got to enjoy the second half of the season.
"We've had an abundance of injuries all the way through we've had to deal with, there's been an inconsistency in team selection because of that.
"Obviously the form over Christmas with the results going against us wasn't ideal and Leicester are doing a great job now where they are in the league.
"But we're back on track for the play-off positions with 21 games to go and we're really going to enjoy the second half of the season."
The defeat was Beppe Sannino's first since succeeding Gianfranco Zola as Hornets head coach and he was disappointed with his side's first-half performance.
He said: "We started the game 45 minutes late and I'm disappointed for the supporters and for my group. I hope that this will be a starting point to improve and to understand something.
"I would like to see my players always play good football, nice and easy football as well, but we were a little bit slow today.
"It was difficult to come out with the ball. We played a lot of back passes which disappointed me, that was the point I didn't like today. But it is a part of my job. What we saw in the second half is giving me a lot of positives."
Sannino gave a debut to new loan signing Alexander Merkel but he was sent off in time added-on following a challenge on Nick Blackman.
Asked about the red card, the Italian replied: "It's a shame. It was a foul of frustration I think where everybody would like to touch the ball, to recover the ball, to go and attack.
"But the minutes were going very quickly. If the referee did show him the red card, you have to respect the decision."


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