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|2003-11-22, 03:47
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Otaku Knight
Top 10 Wishlist to see subbed
I don't mean to sound rude or annoying but here is my wish list in top 10 format of what I'd like to see subbed.
10. Sailormoon R #67, ADV was not able to get Toei to put this episode on the DVD set, and it was not dubbed. It's kinda grey area, but come on! Not to mention out of 200 episodes it the olny episode I have NOT seen.
09. Mobile Suit Gundam #15, Tomino asked it to be taken out. I hear it's a good episode.
08. DragonBall GT #1-14, Funimation decided for some reason to take out these episodes which are pretty good (of the ones I saw in old 30mb .rm subs) The DVDs start with a compilation episode and then #15.
07. Pokemon Crystal (not the game), a short one shot OAV with a mostly new cast, which has the same chance so seeing the release here as me winning a beauty contest.
06. Pokemon Station, a short about 6 episode series about what happens to Kasumi (Misty) and Takeshi (Brock) after the go their seprate ways at the very end of Pokemon. More of a drama I hear.
05. Digimon Movies, I know the first three were hacked and shown. I have seen subs of a few others, but keep 'em coming.
04. YuGiOh (first season), just like Funi with Lupin, 4Kids skipped the first series of YuGiOh.
03. Last episodes of SDC Orguss, The first 17 episodes or so where dubbed then the company when under and now the series has been in limbo for over 5 years. Maybe, Orguss II would be easier to understand if I could finish the first series.
02. More Dr. Slump, Dragonar, L-Gaim, and SD Gundam Old is good
01. Daa! Daa! Daa! and Lupin III - complete series in sets
Please consider my requests, I think I'm not the only one who would like these.
Thomas Sargent
sailorteam.com - I can rebuildit make it faster, better and more old-school
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|2003-11-22, 04:50
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Fushigi Mystery!! @_@
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Canada, eh?
I wouldn't mind a GOOD version of #10, i.e. something that isn't RM format.
#8 - I believe Funi has said they'll release those eps after the end of GT. Stupid. Oh well, at least I get to seem them from ep 1 on YTV in here in Canada. Those first 15 are the best part of GT because it goes back to the heart of the series, which is looking for Dragon Balls.
#5 - Subs exist for all 7 Digimon movies, they're just not readily available. I don't know if the latter 4 movies are licensed or not. The US Digimon movie was a hack job of the first three put together into one. Actually it did one sorta good thing tho, it cut out all the boring parts of Movie 3. Man, that one was too long in it's original form.
Movie 4 - eh, good action
Movie 5 - best movie out of the bunch IMO.
Movie 6 - bleh. worst one.
Movie 7 - all right somewhat. Nothing special there.
|2003-11-22, 11:36
|Link #3
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Michigan
Age: 35
Here are the five I can think of right now.
5. Outlanders
Small OVA series that was dubbed by a company about 10 years ago that then went under. No one owns the rights to this anymore but it was pretty cool.
4. Orgus
I hear it's from the same team as Macross, Southern Cross, and alll them (the Robotech series). It's be cool to check out one day.
3. Space Battleship Yamato
AKA Starblazers from back in the day. Classic scifi from Leiji Matsumoto is always good.
2. Dragon Quest Dai no Daibouken
Adventure anime made during the 80's similar to today's Naruto, Hunter x Hunter, and Dragon Ball.
1. Galaxy Express 999 TV
The greatest series that has never been subbed. Some VHS fansubs exist from back in the day but it was never completed. 113 episodes of great stories, characters, and meanings. A classic older tale.
|2003-11-22, 14:05
|Link #4
Otaku Knight
A1. Pokemon - Legend of Dratini - episode left out because of a Gun
A2. Pokemon - Electric Soldier Porygon - sezure episode, fansubber could cover up the lights or something.
A3. Galaxy Express 999 TV - Leijiverse enough said.
|2003-11-22, 14:34
|Link #5
ninj4 from the north
1. huh? this isn't subbed? I have one dubbed (in Finnish) VHS of it... very strange, but good serie... Galaxy Railways is the sequal...
|2003-11-22, 17:13
|Link #6
Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003
I don't think I can come up with a list of 10, but I will mention a couple that can be added:
Ojamajo Doremi: There are four seasons of this, 201 episodes in total, according to animenfo.com. I've seen just the first two, and it's entirely sugary and addictive. Lots of fun, and I'd love to see it all some day.
Grandeek: I saw an episode of this on DC, and missed d/ling it. I've never seen anyone that has it since. There's actually 3 episodes of this, and the animation looks good.
I also would like to see Sailormoon episode 67, as well as more Pokemon and Yugioh released. ^^
|2003-11-22, 18:27
|Link #8
Baka Neko!
1. Faster Kodocha releases - Nuff said
2. Ojamajo Doremi - Even though it's liscensed, I'd like to have more episodes fansubbed than just the first 4. Why? Because 4Kids liscensed it, and you KNOW it's gonna suck dubbed.
3. Boboboubo Boubobo - Someone should do it sooooon :P
I think that's it for me :P
|2003-11-23, 01:54
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Hmm all the ones I'm interested in are said so I'll just copy and paste them.
Galaxy Express 999 TV
Accidently seeing the end of one of the Galaxy Express 999 movies is actually what really got me into anime. Before that point I was a mindless SM fanboi. Although I saw only the ending, it was enough of an impact to make me wanna see the whole thing. Then I looked at Animenfo one day and realized there was actually a series! I would be incredibly interested in watching this one. I don't care if it's just a VHS rip.
Space Battleship Yamato,
Done by the same guy as galaxy express, so it has to be good, I'd be interested in seeing this one too.
Now about the other shows, alot of them are the unseen stuff of already licensed shows. That isn't too ethical. I would rather they just stick with stuff that is not licensed. As that is more ethical.
Hmm there are a few new shows that aren't being translated.
I would be interesting in seeing:
Popolocrois Monogatari - Hajimari no Bouken
It really pisses me off that there are other shows with like a thousand subbers and these shows are ignored.
Last edited by JAppi; 2003-11-24 at 23:10. Reason: edited list due to some one picking up sou nanda
|2003-11-23, 03:54
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003
|2003-11-23, 05:14
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AnimeONE Typesetter
Join Date: Nov 2003
Most of the stuff you mention here is subed or is being subed.
Daa! Daa! Daa! is being done by AnimeONE
If you want it theres a archive bot in their chan named AonE|Elajt
Who has what is currently out.
|2003-11-23, 05:17
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Join Date: Nov 2003
More Dr. Slump and SD Gundam, yeah!
....I'm not really familer with anime that haven't been licensed or subbed...but someone said Hell Teacher Nube was good...
And that Pokemon "more of a drama" sounds good enough for a lark. It's just such an odd concept!
|2003-11-23, 15:05
|Link #17
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003
Dream Hunter Rem
Tokimeki Tonight
Pastel Yumi
Heisei Inu Monogatari Bow
Tico and Nanami
Ochame-na Futago (Twins of St. Claire's)
Sweet Mint
Queen Millennia
Nanako SOS
Legendary Idol Eriko
Minky Momo
Minky Momo 2nd TV series
Kakyuusei TV
Mama is a 4th Grader
Litle Princess Sara
Tonde Buurin
|2003-11-23, 15:43
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Aurora, Colo. fire officials say a man has died after being pinned by 4,000 pounds of glass in two wooden crates at a window company.
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Something seems to be missing from the mix in corporate America: leadership. That's not to say that most executives and managers are treacherously navigating their companies; in fact, just the opposite is true. But some business leaders have forgotten that business is a fiduciary responsibility — a public trust — and not just a way to increase personal wealth.
The Anderson School recognizes the need to help students and corporate executives understand and embrace leadership. For the past six years, our Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies has conducted a Director Training and Certification Program that educates corporate directors and executives regarding Securities and Exchange Commission regulations, Financial Accounting Standards Board considerations and recent legislation, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which has added to the challenges facing America's boardrooms.
In addition to providing leadership programs to executives, we also know the importance of shaping the leadership skills of students in our M.B.A. programs who are on the path to become business leaders. For years, we've offered elective courses in business ethics (and even added a new, more philosophical one last year). However, business ethics is not the core issue with regard to the corporate malfeasance we've witnessed over the last few years. Leadership is the overarching umbrella with which we need to concern ourselves.
Academics argue whether leadership or even business ethics can be taught. As a former bank CEO, I learned firsthand that ethical dilemmas don't present themselves as neatly packaged issues; rather, they might come as a manager is working on a financial deal, a marketing campaign or a human resources strategy. At Anderson, we understand what our students will face once they're in the global marketplace and, as such, have always incorporated discussion of leadership and ethics as part of our core management courses in finance, accounting, marketing, economics and human resources.
We've continually sought to improve our leadership curriculum and felt we could do more to help our students shape their leadership abilities. So, over the last seven months, several Anderson faculty members have diligently worked to shape a two-unit Leadership Foundations course, which students complete in their first week at Anderson. For this course, students work in groups, perform leadership exercises and discuss leadership cases and scenarios. Their final objective is to create a map that states the student's leadership aspirations, summarizes his or her leadership strengths and limitations, and specifies a leadership developmental plan, which is a living and breathing document that each student will spend the next two years shaping.
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MEDWAY -�More than�100 parents, town officials and educators aired their concerns at Medway Middle School Thursday evening�regarding the Common Core State Standards and the PARCC test.
The forum was organized by Medway Matters � Parents Against Common Core/PARCC, a group of parents that is�demanding more information about the implementation of the standards and the PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers)�test, which is being piloted in 14 Medway classrooms.
The standards, a federal education initiative, detail what students should know in English language arts and mathematics by the end of each grade. Many say the state's standards were already among the best in the country.
Jamie Gass, director of the Center for School Reform with the Pioneer Institute, said Massachusetts, a leader in public education, had "the most to lose in the whole discussion."
He said an independent study comparing the state's standards to Common Core concluded that the latter are "significantly lower." The standards, he said, aim to cut classic literature, drama and poetry from curriculum by 60 percent, and math standards "top out at Algebra II."
"If your child was interested in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) fields, Common Core is a road to nowhere," he said.
The standards, he said, aim to train students for jobs, "not to educate them to be full, thoughtful citizens." Additionally, he contended�the government violated federal law that prevents federal�intervention in local education.
Gass also raised questions about the funding for Common Core, as 90 percent of education funding comes from the state and local level.
For Massachusetts alone, Gass said a team of researchers concluded that it would cost $350 million to implement "demonstrably lower standards."
"The fact is, people that are driving this are in Washington, D.C.," he said. "They think a one-size-fits-all approach is the way to go."
Sandra Stotsky, former senior associate commissioner in the state Department of Education and former member of the Common Core Validation Committee, said the people�responsible for the state�s adoption of the standards in July 2010 were unqualified.
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The public is invited to all services at 10 a.m., 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday, the 17th; and 7 p.m. nightly thereafter.
The church meets at the intersection of FM Road 1972 and Lazy Daisy Lane.
Dr. Lockhart is former minister of the West Erwin Church of Christ in Tyler.
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Located at Crève Coeur Airport in St. Louis, Missouri, the museum\'s collection centers around civil aircraft built in between the two World Wars, from 1916 to 1946. Several aircraft in the collection are the only extant models of their class.The museum is open to the public regularly, with scheduled tours and rides available.
The Planes of Fame Air Museum was founded in 1957 by Edward Maloney. It is the oldest independently operated aviation museum in the United States.
The museum collection spans the history of manned flight. We house over 150 Aircraft and displays. Many of the Aircraft are flyable, including the P-51 Mustang, F4U Corsair, P-47 Thunderbolt, P-40 Warhawk, B-25 Mitchell, P-38 Lightning, F-86 Sabre & Russian Mig 15.
Our Mission is to preserve aviation history, inspire interest in aviation, educate the public, and honor aviation pioneers and veterans.
We are a non profit 501 (c)(3) organization that has grown since 1957 through donations. We receive no monies from the government. For more info please visit: http://www.planesoffame.org
Planes of Fame Air Museum
14998 Cal Aero Drive, Chino, CA 91710
Tel – 909-597-3722
Fax – 909-597-4755
About Classic Fighters of America
For almost 100 years and the advent of flight, man has sought to develop an aircraft that could be both offensive and defensive, and thus allow airborne supremacy. From the early 1900's until after World War II, these aircraft were referred to as "Pursuit" types, and shared a "P" in their designations. Examples were the P-40 Tomahawk, the P-38 Lightning and the P-51 Mustang. After that war and the formation of the U.S. Air Force as a branch separate from the U.S. Army, the designations of these types were changed to "Fighters" having an "F" prefix. Examples are the F-84 and the F-86. Classic Fighters of America focuses almost entirely on Pursuit/Fighter aircraft employed by the U.S. forces in the past.
North American B-25J-25-NC, serial number 44-30733, nicknamed "Sandbar Mitchell" after it crashed on a Tanana River sandbar near Fairbanks, Alaska in June of 1969. With the help of skilled volunteers this B-25J will once again grace the skies over America in honor of the 340th Bomb Group. After spending 44 years resting on the Tanana River Sandbar, Sandbar Mitchell was recovered on July 5, 2013. She is now being restored in the Warbirds Of Glory Museum shop in Michigan.
In addition to the rare flying WWII and Korea warplanes on display at the impressive hangar of the Dixie Wing, there is a room dedicated to the display of artifacts and memorabilia of the Wars of the U.S. in the last century. On display at various points in the museum are mannequins wearing authentic uniforms of WWII. One cabinet displays WWI articles.
Several cabinets display finely crafted plastic models of Allied and Axis warplanes of the last century. This collection was crafted by the late James McConnell of Big Canoe, GA and donated to the Wing by his widow, Betty. A large collection of WWII toys is on display donated by Mr. Richard McNary. During the war, little or no metal was available for toys, so manufacturers used wood, cardboard and even plaster of paris to make these toys.
The centerpiece of the Museum is a 10 foot model of the "USS Enterprise" (CVA-6), the most decorated US warship of WWII and veteran of all but 2 major battles. It is displayed with scale models of U.S. carrier aircraft of WWII.
Various cabinets contain weapons and gear of American, British, French, Russian, German, Italian, and Japanese military services.
A large model of the "USS Missouri" battleship is displayed along with a freighter, the "Aldebarau". Above these is a very large model of the CAF B-17 "Texas Raider".
Aviation art by Col Mark Baldwin is displayed on the walls of the Museum along with newspapers of WWII and military insignias.
Sevearl aircraft engines are displayed including a Fairchild "Ranger", an Allison V-12, a Rolls Royce "Merlin" V-12, a rare Guiberson diesel radial engine and the large Pratt and Whitney Double Wasp R-2800 used on the F4U Corsair fighter-bomber
The museum items supplement the stars of the Dixie Wing Hangar. These fully operational airplanes include the Douglas SBD-5 "Dauntless" divebomber, the North American P-51 D "Mustang" fighter, the Goodyear FG-1D Corsair fighter, the North American LT-6D "Mosquito" spotter attack aircraft, the Fiarchild PT-19A primary trainer, the Aeronca L-16 liason and spotter aircraft, a North American SNJ advanced trainer and two replica Japanese aircraft: the "Zero" fighter and the "Kate" torpedo bomber, these last two built for the movie "Tora, Tora, Tora!"
Museum curators are Col Mark Baldwin and Col Walt Cantrell. The Dixie Wing and the Commemorative Air Force is a 501-c3 tax exempt organization. The museum is staffed by volunteers and supported mainly by donations.
The Museum is home to the 35th Division Museum. It includes 36 pieces of military equipment outside–airplanes, helicopters, tanks, artillery, jeeps, trucks, artillery tractors, etc. The Museum includes over 125 inside exhibits, including exhibits on the Civil War, Indian Wars in Kansas, Spanish-American War, Mexican Border War of 1916, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Desert Storm-Desert Shield, and the Global Wars on Terrorism–Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. The Museum includes the Kansas National Guard Hall of Fame, a MAS*H replica of the "Swamp," an original oil portrait of Adolph Hitler, a Snowgoose UAV, and Maj Daniel Forbes.
The Combat Air Museum is a non-profit institution dedicated to the creation of facilities and resources for the education of the local and regional communities through the collection, preservation, conservation and exhibition of aircraft, information, artifacts, technology and art associated with the military aviation history of the United States of America.
Founded in the 1970's, The Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum has a continually growing collection of over 45 historic warbirds from the beginnings of aviation to the present day. The VAC is a 501(3)c educational organization dedicated to the preservation of, education about and commemoration of Warbirds from all eras and the men and women who flew, maintained and fought in them.
Pappy Boyington Field Museum is dedicated to preserving local aviation histoy and the efforts of veterans and aviators who have sacrificed and contributed to preserving the integrity and peace to which the United States has been graced.
Pappy Boyington Field Museum preserves the military and aviation history of area residents. We are a federal and Idaho 501(c)3 charitable non-profit, and donations are tax deductible. We are looking for military scrapbooks and stories of local veterans. We also pay particular honor to locally born and raised WW2 Ace Greg "Pappy" Boyington.
The Alfred & Lois Kelch Aviation Museum, Inc. is located at the Brodhead Airport (C37), near Brodhead, Wisconsin. Housed in four hangars, the museum contains a unique collection of aircraft and automobiles from the 1920's and 1930's, many of which are one-of-a-kind or sole surviving examples. All of the aircraft are fully restored and most are flyable.
Flyable aircraft, military vehicle collection
Liberty Aviation Museum is a newer museum that opened in July of 2012 at the Erie-Ottawa International Airport (KPCW Carl Keller Field) in Port Clinton, Ohio. Our museum consists our B-25 Mitchell, WWII bomber "Georgie's Gal" built in 1945, recently restored by Aero Trader out of Chino, CA. (The B-25 Mitchell is currently away from the museum until late July 2015) Ground vehicles include a 1941 Dodge ambulance, 2 Jeeps, German 37mm AA gun, German Horch Truck, German Field Kitchen, German Kubel, 3 BMW Motorcycles, Tiger Tank Replica, Hetzer Tank Replica, Panther Tank Replica (currently undergoing restoration away from the museum), & 2 WWII PT boats under current restoration (Currently not available for public viewing until new hangar expansion opens after Memorial Day. View the PT 728 Thomcat facebook page for photos of the restoration of the boat! The PT-728 will be on display in the new hangar expansion when the building opens after Memorial Day. The sister boat, the PT-724 is in storage currently and not available for viewing) The PT-728 Thomcat will be available for boat experiences after restoration is completed! Don't forget to check out the Tin Goose Diner attached to the museum! Open year round, open 7 days a week (7am-7pm), serving breakfast, lunch and dinner! You can fly in or drive in to visit us! When flying in, please radio the FBO to verify that our ramp is open for parking. If it isn't, you can park at the airport and we have a shuttle that will bring you to our facility next door! Ford Tri-Motor rides are available.
We are honoured to have one of only 4 Avro Lancaster bombers, with functioning Merlin engines, left in the world.
Have a look in our Facebook Musée Avion MONTELIMAR……search on GOOGLE or in http://www.meacmtl.com
Hundreds of rare aviation items and artifacts are on display in the Spirit of Flight Hall of Honor representing the past, present and future of flight.
Our mission is to save and display aircraft and flight memorabilia to honor all veterans, and to educate the general public on the significance of aviation and aviation history.
During WWII, the 4146 Base Unit was involved in secret rocket development at what was then known as Dover Army Airfield. The building complex where these military secret operations took place was Hangar 1301. From the 1950s to the 1970s, various fighter squadrons called the hangar home. In the 1990s after restoration and placement on the National Register of Historic Places, Hangar 1301 was given new life as the home of the Air Mobility Command Museum.The Air Mobility Command Museum is a part of the National Museum of the United States Air Force\'s field museum system. Air Mobility Command is a major command of the United States Air Force. Its mission is to deliver maximum war-fighting and humanitarian effects for America through rapid and precise global air mobility.
The Heartland Museum of Military Vehicles (HMMV) is a non-profit organization run by volunteers and funded by donations and grants.The museum has about 100 vehicles including helicopters, tanks, halftracks, ambulances, and a jeep from every branch of the service plus displays of weapons, uniforms, engines, equipment, and more. The everyday necessities of a soldier\'s life, such as MREs, blend with unique vehicles like those used by the German army in World War II.This hands-on museum invites you to see, touch, and even sit in vehicles that have been restored and, for the most part, are operational. Vehicles date from World War II but displays include items from World War I as well.
The Highland Lakes Squadron museum welcomes you to visit our collection of authentic WWII artifacts as well as our "working" aircraft hangar where we bring WWII aircraft back to life. Specific exhibits include a turret from a B-24 bomber, a cutaway radial engine of the type used in the AT-6/SNJ, a WW-II machine for making dog tags, a WW-II instrument flying trainer (Link Trainer), and an air-to-air missile. Guns from United States, Germany and Japan, knives and bayonets, various home front items, newspapers, uniforms, helmets, aircraft and ship models are on display. Our museum emphasizes the contributions of the common soldier, seaman, and airman. All artifacts in our museum have been donated, principally by local residents or people having contact with local residents.Flying aircraft in our hangar include our 1944-model C-47 \"Bluebonnet Belle\", 1944-model SNJ T6 Texan, 1939-model PT-19, and 1946 L-17 Navion. You are welcome to take a guided tour of each of these aircraft.We are an all-volunteer non-profit unit of the Commemorative Air Force and we do ask for a small admission into the museum.
The Delaware Aviation Museum at Sussex County Airport features many World War II aviation artifacts, memorabilia and displays. The museum is also home of the Jeffrey L. Ethell Memorial Aviation Library of over 3,000 aviation related books: the largest aviation library in the east. Vintage aircraft are also on display.
The CAF was founded to acquire, restore, and preserve in flying condition a complete collection of combat aircraft which were flown by all military services of the United States, and selected aircraft of other nations, for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations of Americans.More than just a collection of airworthy warplanes from the past, the CAF\'s fleet of historical aircraft, known as the CAF Ghost Squadron, recreates, reminds and reinforces the lessons learned from the defining moments of American military history.CAF OBJECTIVES1) To preserve, in flying condition, a complete collection of combat aircraft which were flown by all military services of the United States in World War II, Korea and Vietnam.2) To provide museum buildings for permanent protection and display of these aircraft as a tribute to the thousands of men and women who built, serviced, and flew them.3) To perpetuate in the memory and hearts of all Americans the spirit in which these great planes were flown for the defense of our nation.4) To establish an organization having the dedication, enthusiasm and esprit de corps necessary to operate, maintain and preserve these aircraft as symbols of our American military aviation heritage.
The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum was founded in 1982 as the St. Louis Aviation Museum, a tax-exempt, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Initially located at Creve Coeur Airport, then at Spirit of St. Louis Airport, it endured the disastrous floods of 1986 and 1993. The public displays facility was closed in September 2001, at which point its artifacts were transferred into storage.The museum re-opened its doors under the present name at historic St. Louis Downtown Airport in January 2005.


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Please join the Penn Social Science and Policy Forum and the Penn Institute for Urban Research for a roundtable on Detroit's unprecedented municipal bankruptcy and its implications for urban finance, pensions, and the future of American cities. Speakers include Gilles Duranton, Professor of Real Estate and chair of the Real Estate Department at the Wharton School, Robert P. Inman, Richard K. Mellon Professor of Finance, Economics, and Public Policy, Wharton School; Jeremy Nowak, Chair of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and President of J Nowak and Associates, LLC; and Thomas J. Sugrue, David Boies Professor of History and Sociology and Director of the Penn Social Science and Policy Forum. Moderated by Susan M. Wachter, Co-Director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research. This event is free and open to the public. Please register here.
A select group of predissertation students from throughout the United States gathered in Philadelphia for the Penn SSPF's first Summer Institute on Inequality. Held from June 17 through June 26, the program furthered SSPF's mission of fostering policy-relevant scholarship at every stage of development by helping graduate students early in their careers explore key topics and refine their research goals. Students explored cutting-edge qualitative and quantitative research on a variety of topics related to inequality, including poverty, labor force participation, income and wealth disparities, the impact of race and ethnicity, spatial dynamics, educational gaps, and social and economic policies that address inequalities.
Visiting speakers included of the most important social scientists working on inequality today, including demographer Marta Tienda (Princeton), sociologist Sean Reardon (Stanford), incoming ASA president Paula England (NYU), and anthropologist Kathryn Newman (dean at Johns Hopkins). Visit the summer institute webpage for background on the institute participants and faculty.
The talk by Chairman Bair will be followed by a panel discussion on financial regulation featuring Bair and Wharton Professors Franklin Allen, Richard Herring and Susan Wachter.
AS CHAIRMAN OF THE FDIC DURING THE FINANCIAL CRISIS, Sheila Bair oversaw the successful resolution of over 350 banking institutions representing assets in excess of $800 billion. Working in tandem with the Federal Reserve Board and US Treasury Department, the FDIC was deeply involved in the frenetic efforts to stabilize troubled financial behemoths such as Wachovia, Citibank and Bank of America, representing trillions of dollars in assets.
Chairman Bair fought a public --if not always successful -- battle against government bailouts and decried the lack of adequate tools to deal with failing financial conglomerates. She successfully sought new authority in the Dodd-Frank financial reform law to place all large financial institutions under the same type of receivership process the FDIC has successfully used for insured banks, thus shifting the financial burden of failure onto creditors and shareholders, not taxpayers.
"The bailouts, while stabilizing the financial system in the short term, have created a long-term drag on our economy. Because we propped up the mismanaged institutions, our financial sector remains bloated. The well-managed institutions have to compete with the boneheads. We did not force financial institutions to shed their bad assets and recognize their losses. Lingering uncertainty about the true extent of those losses made previously profligate management more risk averse when prudent risk taking and lending were most needed, particularly by small businesses. Only in 2012 did we finally see some meaningful pickup in lending by the big financial institutions. Economic growth is sluggish, unemployment remains high. The housing market still struggles. I hope that our economy continues to improve. But it will do so despite the bailouts, not because of them."-- From Bull by the Horns (2012)
Sheila C. Bair served as the 19th Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for a five-year term, from June 2006 through June 2011. As FDIC Chairman, Ms. Bair presided over a tumultuous period in the nation's financial sector, working to bolster public confidence and system stability. Determined not to turn to taxpayer borrowing during the crisis, the FDIC managed its losses and liquidity needs entirely through its traditional industry-funded resources. In response to the financial crisis, she developed innovative and stabilizing programs that provided temporary liquidity guarantees to unfreeze credit markets and increased deposit insurance limits. In 2007, she was a singular – and prescient – advocate for systematic loan modifications to stem the coming tidal wave of foreclosures. Ms. Bair also led FDIC resolution strategies to sell failing banks to healthier institutions, while providing credit support of future losses from failed banks' troubled loans. That strategy saved the Deposit Insurance Fund $40 billion over losses it would have incurred if the FDIC had liquidated those banks.
Chairman Bair has also received several honors for her published work on financial issues, including her educational writings on money and finance for children, and for professional achievement. Among the honors she has received are: Distinguished Achievement Award, Association of Education Publishers (2005); Personal Service Feature of the Year, and Author of the Month Awards, Highlights Magazine for Children (2002, 2003 and 2004); and The Treasury Medal (2002). Her first children's book, Rock, Brock and the Savings Shock, was published in 2006 and her second, Isabel's Car Wash, in 2008. Bull by the Horns (2012) documents her tenure as FDIC Chairman.
She is also a regular contributor to CNN Money.
IN THE WAKE OF DEBT CRISES IN THE 1980s and a "lost decade" of middle-class growth in the 1990s, and despite the 2002 South American economic crisis and the global economic crisis of 2007, the size of the middle class in Latin America and the Caribbean recently grew by 50 percent—from approximately 100 million people in 2003 to 150 million (or 30 percent of the continent's population) in 2009. Over the same period, the proportion of people in poverty fell from 44 percent to around 30 percent. How has this happened, and what are the policy implications for the region and perhaps the world? Drawing from a recent World Bank report for which he was the lead author, Ferreira digs into the data to explore who has moved into the middle class over the past 15 years, which factors enabled them to do so, and to what extent these same factors explain the drop in poverty. Going forward, there are many potential benefits from a growing middle class, but whether they come to fruition will depend, to a large extent, on whether countries manage to anchor their middle classes in a new, more cohesive, social contract that emphasizes the inclusion of those who have been left behind. Lunch provided, discussion encouraged.
"There is no evidence that the middle class is overly dependent on—or employed by—the public sector. In most Latin American countries for which data exist, public sector employment was more frequent among the rich than among the middle class (although Mexico and Peru were exceptions). The public sector employed more than one-fourth of middle-class workers in only one country: Honduras. It would appear, therefore, that popular images of the middle class—as being made up of either intrepid entrepreneurs (who start their own small businesses and pull themselves up the ladder by their own shoestrings) or lazy bureaucrats (comfortably relying on a government paycheck)— are inaccurate. Typically, the Latin American middle-class worker is a reasonably educated service worker, formally employed by a private enterprise in an urban area." – from Economic Mobility and The Rise of the Latin American Middle Class by Francisco Ferreira, Julian Messina, Jamele Rigolini, Luis-Felipe López-Calva, Maria Ana Lugo, and Renos Vakis
Francisco H. G. Ferreira is a Lead Economist at the World Bank's Research Department. His research interests include poverty, inequality, and the political economy of development, and he has published some 25 journal articles and a number of books and book chapters on these topics. In his World Bank career, he has also served as the Deputy Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean (2009-2011), and as a co-Director of the team that wrote the World Development Report 2006, on Equity and Development. Dr. Ferreira is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economic Inequality and a former editor of Economía, the journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association. He also sits on the editorial boards of the Review of Income and Wealth, the World Bank Economic Review, and the Economic Analysis Review, and on the Councils of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth and of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ). In 2000 and 2001 he received the Adriano Romariz Duarte and the Haralambos Simeonides Prizes from the Brazilian Economic and Econometric Societies, and later the Kendricks Prize for best article published in the Review of Income and Wealth during 2006-07. He was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics. Prior to joining the World Bank's Research Department, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).
IN MAY 2012, PENN LAW SCHOOL AND THE WHARTON FINANCIAL INSTITUTION CENTER (FIC) organized the conference "Is U.S. Government Debt Different?" The event was financed by a Sloan Foundation grant to the FIC. The conference was conceived against the background of skyrocketing U.S. government debt, the standoff over the statutory debt limit between the Congress and the President of the United States in the summer of 2011, and the ongoing debt crisis in the Eurozone. This confluence of shocks and near misses created the urgent need to consider the unthinkable: default, restructuring, or a wholesale reassessment of the U.S. Treasury securities' place in the world. The conference brought together leading economists, historians, lawyers, market participants, and policy makers to discuss different aspects of U.S. government debt, including its role in the global financial markets, its constitutional, statutory and contractual basis, and its sustainability. Now, post-election, with the fiscal cliff debates fresh and more battles over the debt looming, the editors of the conference volume (available as a free e-book) sort through and discuss the conference's most valuable lessons.
"Restructuring of U.S. obligations on Treasuries would face a significant and obvious complication. In general, the U.S. does not know the identity of the holders of its Treasuries that are held in the commercial book-entry system. (By "holders" of Treasuries, I mean the ultimate beneficial owners on the books of a Federal Reserve Bank or on the books of another intermediary with which the holder maintains a securities account, as discussed below.) It is true that we read about the large foreign holders of U.S. debt, including the Chinese and Japanese governments. But these data on holders of U.S. debt come from surveys." – from "United States Sovereign Debt: A Thought Experiment on Default and Restructuring" by Charles W. Mooney
Franklin Allen is the Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has been on the faculty since 1980. He is currently Co-Director of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center. He was formerly Vice Dean and Director of Wharton Doctoral Programs and Executive Editor of the Review of Financial Studies, one of the leading academic finance journals. He is a past President of the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, the Society for Financial Studies, and the Financial Intermediation Research Society, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He received his doctorate from Oxford University. Dr. Allen's main areas of interest are corporate finance, asset pricing, financial innovation, comparative financial systems, and financial crises. He is a co-author with Richard Brealey and Stewart Myers of the eighth through tenth editions of the textbook Principles of Corporate Finance.
Charles W. Mooney Jr. is a leading legal scholar in the fields of commercial law and bankruptcy law. His book (with S. Harris) Security Interests in Personal Property (Foundation Press, 5th ed. 2011) is a widely adopted text used in law schools around the United States. Mooney was honored for his contributions to the uniform law process by the Oklahoma City School of Law and was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers. He also served as U.S. Delegate at the Diplomatic Conference for the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the Aircraft Protocol and for the Diplomatic Conference for the UNIDROIT (Geneva) Convention on Intermediated Securities. Mooney also served as a Co-Reporter for the Drafting Committee for the Revision of UCC Article 9 (Secured Transactions), as the ABA Liaison-Advisor to the Permanent Editorial Board for the UCC, and as a member of Council and Chair of the Committee on UCC of the ABA Business Law Section.
David Skeel is the S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the author of The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and its (Unintended) Consequences (Wiley, 2011); Icarus in the Boardroom: The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came From (Oxford University Press, 2005); Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America (Princeton University Press, 2001); and numerous articles on bankruptcy, corporate law, Christianity and law, and other topics. Professor Skeel has also written commentaries for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Books & Culture, The Weekly Standard, and other publications.
THE RECENT CRISIS IN GREECE has been more than a financial crisis: it has been a social crisis and a crisis of identity that has bolstered the political fortunes of Neo-Nazis and xenophobes and further burdened the already difficult lives of immigrants. An anthropologist and commentator who has worked with migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Greece for over a decade provides a close-up glimpse of the effects of the global economic crisis on a vulnerable population. Lunch provided, discussion encouraged.
Nadina Christopouloou trained as an anthropologist at McGill and Cambridge and researched the Roma in Greece, and their social memory, through their storytelling practices. Since 2002, she has worked in Greece with refugees, asylum seekers and migrant women's networks and organizations. Recently she prepared a documentary series tracing the parallel paths of migrants in Greece and Greeks abroad. She has also compiled a photographic archive of migrant communities in Greece and Greeks in diaspora over the last century, curated by the Magnum photographer Nikos Economopoulos. Since 2011, she has been the general secretary of the Greek Council for Refugees. She also writes a weekly column for a major Greek news website, News 247.
Looking for a quick course on the past, present, and future of the Global Economic Crisis by some of the world's leading economists, political scientists, historians, and sociologists? Thomas Piketty offers a rigorous analysis of the growing income gap; Mark Blythe explores the "dangerous theory" of austerity; Scott Nelson steps back and looks at financial panics in the United States from a long view; Jefrey Frieden examines debt crises in a comparative perspective; Lane Kenworthy suggests a path forward.
The Penn Social Science and Policy Forum's YouTube page is a one stop gateway to cutting-edge social science for scholars, journalists, policy makers and students.
IN THE WAKE OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS, Great Recession and sluggish recovery, good federal policy can help rebuild the American economy and make it both more stable and equitable. Misguided policy could take the nation down a very different road. In an era of divided government and political brinksmanship, many sensible policies don't get the public airing they deserve – much less the legislative action we desperately need. Peter Orszag, Citigroup Vice Chairman of Corporate and Investment Banking and the former head of the Office of Budget and Management, discusses the options facing economic policy makers.
"The negotiations are about more than taxes. There is also the debt limit, which, according to the best guesses of both the Congressional Budget Office and the Bipartisan Policy Center, will be reached in the first quarter of 2013.
So the question for the Democrats is: Even if you win higher marginal tax rates, how do you plan to get the debt limit increased? The Republicans, after all, could cave on raising taxes but still be unwilling to include a debt-limit increase in the agreement, absent any changes to entitlements. In that case, the fiscal-cliff victory would be Pyrrhic, with another crisis arriving in February or March.
In any case, Democrats should affirmatively want entitlement reform that is progressive and puts the crucial programs on a sounder footing.
On Social Security, the Democrats, while they still control the White House and the Senate, should want to lock in the victory they have already won over the idea of keeping private accounts out of Social Security. Plus, as Peter Diamond and I have laid out, it's possible to restore the program's long-term solvency while also making it fairer -- including by having it reflect the growing gap in life expectancy by income and education. Finally, and perhaps most important, Social Security reform can be phased in gradually, thereby minimizing the damage to the labor market from too much austerity too soon."
– from "A Good Deal Will Raise Tax Rates, Fix Entitlements," which appeared December 4, 2012 on Bloomberg View.
Peter Orszag is an American economist, currently serving as Vice Chairman of Corporate and Investment Banking at Citigroup. He also writes a bimonthly column for Bloomberg View, covering such topics such as bipartisanship, the American class divide, unemployment, and other economic issues. Orszag is currently an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He resides and works in New York City. Prior to becoming Vice Chairman of Global Banking at Citigroup, Peter Orszag served as the 37th Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under President Barack Obama, who nominated him to the position. He served as the Director from November 2008 through August 2010, after which he took his current position. Orszag also served as the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) from January 2007 until November of 2008. From 2001-2007, Orszag was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he headed the Hamilton Project and the Retirement Security Project. He was a lecturer at UC Berkeley in macroeconomics in 1999 and 2000. Before this, he worked in the Clinton administration as Senior Economist and Senior Adviser on the Council of Economic Advisers in 1995 and 1996, and as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy in 1997 and 1998. Orszag has also been a columnist for the New York Times, writing about the deficit, Social Security, health care, and other topics.
The collapse of the mortgage market. Deregulation and risk-taking in the financial sector. Widespread unemployment. Instability in the Eurozone. Government deficits and calls for austerity. Trade imbalances. Declining incomes. The 1% versus the 99%. Job creators versus job killing regulations.


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White Sox prospect finding success with newly acquired pitch
By Ashley Marshall / Special to MLB.com | May 30, 2011 9:22 PM
Santiago allowed a lone hit -- a sixth-inning single -- and struck out a career-high nine batters over eight sparkling innings to lead the Double-A Birmingham Barons to a 4-1 victory over the visiting Chattanooga Lookouts.
"This was, by far, the best game I've had as a pro," the southpaw said. "I was excited to be out there and I was hoping for the ninth, but it wasn't to be."
The 23-year-old set down the first 16 batters he faced before issuing a one-out walk to Jessie Mier in the top of the sixth inning. Mier advanced to second on a balk and Ivan Ochoa broke up the no-hit bid with a single to center field. Brad Coon followed with a walk to load the bases, but Santiago retired the final two batters to strand all three runners and keep the Barons' 2-0 lead intact.
"I realized I was perfect through four, but then I didn't really pay any attention to it," the Chicago White Sox prospect said. "Then I fell behind 2-0 [to Mier] in the sixth, and I told myself to settle down and throw strikes. But I walked him and then gave up the hit and then walked another guy. It was huge to get out of that inning."
Santiago recovered from the lapse quickly, working two more perfect innings before reaching 108 pitches and turning over a 4-0 advantage to the bullpen in the ninth.
"My arm felt fine and I had that much energy and momentum," the New Jersey native said. "In games like this, you always hope for one more. I threw 103 pitches my last two games and I had never thrown more than 100 before, so I wasn't planning on throwing 100 again, but it worked out."
Santiago -- who throws a fastball, a change-up, a slider and the screwball -- kept hitters off balance all night in just his second Southern League start, in large part because of the pitch he only started throwing before Thanksgiving.
"I threw everything for strikes and I was throwing off-speed pitches early in the count, sliders on 3-2 and screwballs in and out," he added.
"I didn't have a change-up when I first came into pro ball, but I went to play Puerto Rican Winter Ball with [Gigantes de] Carolina. I was playing with Angel Miranda, who said I had a great arm slot from the left-hand side and eventually that developed into a change-up. My pitching coach there asked me to try throwing a screwball, and when I did, it had a lot of drop and there was a big difference in velocity. It became an out pitch and he just told me to keep throwing it as much as I can."
With Monday's victory, Santiago improved to 4-3 overall and 2-0 in two Double-A starts. He had a 3.68 ERA and 43 strikeouts over 44 innings in eight starts with Class A Advanced Winston-Salem before his promotion. In his Southern League debut Wednesday, he allowed three runs on seven hits and three walks while striking out six over 6 1/3 innings in a 5-4 win over the Carolina Mudcats.
"I'm pretty sure it won't always be this easy," Santiago said of moving up. "I haven't had to shake [catcher] Josh Phegley off in two games, so it's pretty nice to just go right after hitters.
"If I keep throwing first-pitch strikes and getting early outs I'll be okay. Strikeouts are awesome, but first-pitch ground balls are even better."
Charles Shirek lost the shutout when he allowed one run on two hits, a walk, a wild pitch and a passed ball in the ninth.
Phegley finished 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles and two RBIs.
Ashley Marshall is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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As a ski racer, Mikaela Shiffrin is rapidly maturing. Off the slopes, the American still giggles like any other 17-year-old girl.
Her fresh and carefree attitude has kept her grounded in her breakthrough World Cup season, highlighted by her second career victory at Friday's night slalom.
The triumph sent her top of the slalom standings and made her the first American to win two World Cup races before turning 18. No wonder she's laughing a lot.
"I am just trying to find the edge of what I can ski," Shiffrin said. "I am having a very good year. I am very excited about it and I am always hungry for more ... I am really happy and I know anything can happen."
Voted World Cup Rookie of the Year last season by her peers, Shiffrin has lived up to expectations. In 12 races so far, she won twice and recorded six more top-10 finishes.
Along with the victories have come the limelight, but Shiffrin is determined to not let it get to her head.
"I am still going to do the same thing," she said. "I have to remember that I am only 17 and I feel like a baby sometimes and I don't hide that."
Traveling the circuit in company of her mother Eileen makes Shiffrin feel at peace.
"I have always wanted to sleep really deeply and not really worry," Shiffrin said. "I know that some things are going to work and turn out fine. It's not the end of the world."
The same approach has helped her to keep a positive mind on the slopes.
Just a week after earning her first World Cup victory in Are, Sweden, and going top of the slalom standings, all eyes were on Shiffrin at a night event in Semmering, Austria, the last race of last year.
The American was fourth after the opening leg, but failed to finish after straddling a gate soon in her final run.
"A lot of times there is pressure. In Semmering I didn't deal with it very well," she said. "I think it was good to go out in Semmering, it brought me back down to earth ... There is always a next race coming up very soon. I know I will have some mistakes and some bad races, but in general every experience counts."
Shiffrin reclaimed top spot in the slalom standings with her win in Zagreb. She is now even ahead of Lindsey Vonn as the top American in the overall standings — although Vonn just returned to training after a month-long break to get over an intestinal illness.
World champion Marlies Schild has dominated women's slalom for many years but the Austrian is out for the season after knee surgery, leaving the fight for the discipline title wide open.
After six races Shiffrin has 336 points, followed by overall World Cup leader Tina Maze of Slovenia with 310 and Veronika Velez Zuzulova of Slovakia with 305.
"It's still so far away, there is still a couple of races and a lot more training days," Shiffrin said. "I just have to stay in the moment because that's what's working so far and what keeps me grounded. It's definitely one of my goals but it will be difficult to hold on to this bib."
US women's technical head coach Roland Pfeifer has been impressed with Shiffrin's improvement in her second year at top-level racing.
"She is progressing rapidly," said Pfeifer said, who is looking forward to seeing what Shiffrin can do at next month's world championships. "I'd say it's really promising on the way to Schladming."
Apart from peaking in slalom, Shiffrin has racked up three top-10 finishes in giant slalom this season. And it's just a matter of time before she will start entering the speed events — super-Gs and downhills.


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Bay Fest 2012 was a fabulous success. Tens of thousands poured into Downtown Mobile to hear the sounds of Willie Nelson, Pretty Lights, Micheal Franti and Al Green to name a few. On Saturday afternoon our guests enjoyed the beautiful weather and live music in the courtyard provided by local singer/songwriter Ryan Balthrop. Bay Fest is always the first weekend in October. We hope you will join us next year for Bay Fest 2013. Make your reservations early!
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Bomb Blast rocks Somali army base in Balad town
[Shabelle] A huge roadside blast went off on Friday at a Somali army base in the southern town of Balad, a city that has been a hotbed and stronghold for Al shabab over the last three years.
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On a recent Sunday, my family went to several different restaurants before we gave up on eating out. Why? Like 3 million other Americans, my son, Joel, has a peanut allergy.
According to the Mayo Clinic, allergic reactions to peanuts are the most severe of all food allergies followed by shellfish, fish, tree-nuts and eggs. Peanut allergies are responsible for 80 percent of fatal or near-fatal reactions each year.
Shag Club grateful for support
I would like to thank all of you who came out to support the Lancaster Shag Club's Spaghetti fundraiser dinner March 30.
Our chef, Tom Ulrich, cooked up some awesome homemade spaghetti sauce, and our hard-working crew of volunteers saw to it that everyone had plenty to eat. Many of our club members, who are not only good dancers, but great cooks, brought delicious homemade desserts to add to your meals.
I'm so tired of hearing about all the money and effort in regards to animal fighting. Dog, chicken, cat, fish, bug etc. Want to know what I want to hear? I want to hear about programs for people like me – born and raised here, love my state and yet left behind.
I'm 31, single and make less than $25,000 a year. My daughter, mother, father, brother and I all live in the same rented home to try and make ends meet.
I read with interest your article of last week concerning Dr. John Catalano, dean at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster and his great plans for enhancing that institution's collegiate atmosphere, something we've needed for half a century now.
And if anyone can do it, John can. He and I were office mates (of sorts) for some 20 years before my retirement. Believe me, over a period of 20 years, you get to know someone very well. Believe me, John was always far too lively to be the "teacher's pet." The trips he made to the office were not to receive awards.
In a perfect world there would be no need for a cancer radiation treatment center. But this is not a perfect world. And there are many Lancaster County residents who need radiation treatment. To get that treatment, they have to travel to Rock Hill, Charlotte or Columbia.
If you or someone you love has gone through radiation treatment, you know it drains your energy. Driving out of town to get this treatment adds to an already stressful situation. Some people have chosen not to take the treatment because of the drive.
I'll never forget the long, hot summers I spent working in Grace Bleachery to help pay my way through college.
I'll never forget the smell of the dye that was pumped into the big blue barrels, the 120-degree temperatures between the new Zimmer machine and the cinder block wall, the sounds of clacking and whirring as the cloth was printed and processed, and the bright yellow earplugs we wore around our necks that showed that we were all a part of the same team.
In the past we praised Fort Lawn Town Council for doing an excellent job presenting public information to to the public.
If you attend a meeting, waiting for you is an agenda, a financial report and minutes of the meeting immediately prior to the one you are attending.
It's something all governmental bodies should take as an example.
Freedom of Information is as much a habit and a state of mind as anything else. Doing it right can be learned, but it can take time.
Last week, we saw a great example of this, again at a Fort Lawn Town Council meeting.
I am a Republican living in Indian Land and former County Council member representing District 1. I support Many Powers Norrell for S.C. Senate.
A few thoughts on the subject of animals being mistreated by humans. I've yet to see a dog or a cat throw their owner into the back of a truck and drop the owner off beside the roadway to be run over by a vehicle or left to starve like we humans do to our once beloved pets.
So do we have an animal problem? Or is it actually a human problem? Perhaps we need human control just like we have animal control.
How would we feel if our pets we abandoned survived, returned home and decided to give us owners the very same treatment we gave them?
This is in response to Al Simpson's article "Mulvaney supports public education" in the March 23 edition of The Lancaster News.
Unfortunately, Mr. Simpson, most of the public can see through your attempt to mask the issues. I was raised by a public school teacher who taught in the system for her entire life, and I served as a public school teacher for more than five years before becoming a lawyer.
In the April 4 issue of The Lancaster News, the story about an 18-wheeler hit a car at the intersection of S.C. Bypass and Meeting Street/Camp Creek Road brought back scary, scary moments for me.
Two weeks ago my 5-year-old granddaughter and I were only seconds from being hit by a loaded pulpwood truck.
I was stopped at the stoplight coming from Camp Creek. While I was waiting for the light to turn green for my way, two loaded pulpwood trucks went by really fast.
Our schools need to invest in protecting our students. It's as if Columbine, Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois were not a clear indication.
Lancaster County School District and Superintendent Gene Moore need to take action to prevent another scare like what happened at Lancaster High on April 4.
I would like to respond to Wynette Birchfield's column "Vouchers make education equal" in the April 4 edition of The Lancaster News. To have a genuine discussion regarding vouchers is worthwhile, but to use this subject as a platform to dismiss Mandy Powers Norrell as "haughty" is backhanded and snide.
Most parents want the very best education for their own children, but it is a sign of maturity when we recognize that educating all children benefits our entire society. We do not live in isolation. We depend on each other to make our community successful.
The day – the final Saturday in an out-like-a-lion March – was windy, cold and gray. But for Lancaster Dixie Softball, it was a beaut. Call it Lancaster Dixie Softball's brightest moment on the diamond. March 29, 2008, was a red-letter day for the programs as late director Chuck Solesbee, along with Lancaster Dixie Softball and the Lancaster Southern Belles/ Debs programs were inducted into the Dixie Softball Inc., Hall of Fame.
The occasion highlighted opening day ceremonies for the 2008 Lancaster Dixie Softball season at Springdale Park.
A landscaped, tree-line entrance to the campus. Decorative fencing enclosing campus buildings. Dorms. Additional parking spaces. New education buildings. These are all part of the University of South Carolina at Lancaster strategic master plan USCL Dean John Catalano recently revealed.
Catalano unveiled the plan to about 100 people in the Carole Ray Dowling Health Services Center on the USCL campus.
Catalano said his goal for the campus to have that "college feel."
"I want this place to feel like a major university," Catalano said.
If you happened to catch the Tams performance Saturday night you not only were treated to a fantastic, fun show you saw some acrobatics that rivaled any professional gymnasts.
The USCL Performing Arts Series brought the legendary beach band to the Bundy Auditorium located at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster Bradley Arts and Sciences Building.
The Tams' band 18 Carat played for 48 minutes before band members wearing their traditional Tam O'shanter hats took the stage and gave more than an hour-packed performance.
We would like to thank all of the Lancaster County schools that participated in Valentines for Veterans. We had an overwhelming response this year and our school district should be commended for their continued support and dedication to this program every year. These Valentines mean so much to our veterans.
In addition, we were asked to collect toiletry supplies for new patients who are admitted to Dorn VA Hospital in Columbia. Again the community response that was received was overwhelming.
The University of South Carolina Upstate is in for a treat. Lancaster native Bob Doster, an internationally acclaimed artist, has been selected as the featured sculptor for the 2008-09 season.
The Doster exhibition, featuring six pieces of his work, will be showcased on the Spartanburg area campus starting in April.
The irony of Doster's selection is many of his works are abstractions similar to the sculpture on the campus.
As an educator, I am quite surprised that Al Simpson, chairman of the S.C. State Board of Education, would deceive the voters of Lancaster County.
In his editorial, "Mulvaney supports public education" in the March 23 edition of The Lancaster News, Simpson said he takes "his service on this board very seriously and spends an enormous amount of time in Columbia."
He also said that "Rep. Mick Mulvaney helped craft legislation that eliminated the dreaded PACT test in our schools."
South Carolina is poised to join 28 other states which have closed access to their lists of concealed weapon permit (CWP) holders. In addition to South Carolina, five other states have similar pending legislation.
The S.C. Press Association (SCPA) is opposed to the legislation (H. 3528). It has argued that the public has a right to know who has a CWP, in the same way that a license to operate a vehicle on a public highway is public information.
The SCPA is incorrect.
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List Of Mac OSX Lion screencapture Format Types & Photoshop Image Mode For Each Mac Format
When I got my Macbook about 9 months ago one of the first things I did was change the default OSX screenshot format type from PNG to GIF. I edit a lot of images in Photoshop to post in technical articles and for the GIF's I have been having to change the Photoshop Image Mode from Indexed Color to RGB to apply most filters during the process of editing the image. Photoshop loses a lot of functionality when an image's Image Mode is set to Indexed so each time I modified an screenshot image and say wanted to apply a filter I would first have to modify the Photoshop Image Mode from Indexed Color to RGB. I recently got fed up with having to do that so I was looking for a solution when I realized if I just change the default screencapture format back to PNG the images open in Photoshop with the Image Mode set to RGB or Red/Green/Blue Color Model. Anyhow when doing so I started to wonder what image formats were available to set as the default screencapture format. Below I describe the details of what screencapture image formats are available in Mac OSX Lion and also what Image Mode that Adobe Photoshop opens each format from the Mac in.


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Improving the preparation of science teachers can strengthen the entire curriculum of a biology department.
In some institutions, a dichotomy has developed separating science from science education. This is most noticeable in schools where teacher training is moved out of the content department and into a department or college of education; but even where responsibility for teacher training is housed within a discipline, a "second class" status is often associated with the education curriculum. Furthermore, many biologists perceive that the "current trends" in science education weaken the content preparation of their students and this reinforces their negative attitude towards science education.
Teaching biology content and science process throughout the curriculum should be synergistic, not antagonistic. This article proposes ways that a biology department can contribute to more effective teacher training by integrating new approaches while improving student learning throughout the curriculum.
Integrating new approaches
In recent years there has been a renewed push to emphasize the process of science (i.e., science as a way of knowing) in science teaching.2,6,8 This emphasis has grown from recognition of two factors:
- Too many students view science as simply a collection of factoids to be memorized.
- The fact-driven lecture style of teaching, with only multiple-choice examinations, reinforces students' perception of science as a collection of known facts.
Simultaneously a "less is more" movement has grown among science educators. Numerous reports describe U.S. science education as "a mile wide and an inch deep" and suggest that a lack of depth of student understanding is due to our attempt to "cover" the breadth of facts in the discipline.1,12 Some of the work of me and my colleagues has demonstrated the efficacy of reducing the number of topics covered in a single course to improve students understanding of basic concepts in a single course.13
What content should be covered?
In June of 2002, the U.S. Department of Education produced a report that challenges current methods of teacher training and places a new charge on discipline-specific departments "… the only measurable teacher attributes that relate directly to improved student achievement are high verbal ability and solid content knowledge."7 This reaffirms previous recommendations that scientific knowledge and educational pedagogy should be blended when it is presented to pre-service and in-service teachers.10
Given the breadth of biological science, what content should be covered?
A de facto biology core has developed which has remained remarkably consistent through the decades.4,5 This core includes:
- cell/molecular biology
- ecology
- evolution
- genetics
- organismal biology
The major change during the past half century placed increasing emphasis on cell/molecular biology and the consequent reduction in organismal biology:
- In the 1960s, half of a typical undergraduate core curriculum consisted of organismal-types of courses (including morphology, physiology, life histories, and taxonomy) and only one-quarter was cellular and molecular in emphasis.
- Today this is reversed. Both cell/molecular biology and organismal biology are essential for teacher preparation, and a person can effectively argue that both are critical for all undergraduates. The biology core for all majors, pre-teaching and otherwise, should include both cell/molecular and organismal courses.
Cell/molecular and organismal biology
The trend toward a molecular emphasis is most apparent at research institutions and selective colleges.
- Molecular biology is modern, cutting-edge science and provides good funding opportunities for researchers and high market-place demand for students.
- Molecular biology is expensive.
Colleges and universities are hiring many molecular biologists, and therefore it is not surprising that the biology curriculum now includes much more molecular biology than it did in the past. Prospective teachers must understand the fundamental concepts and techniques of cell and molecular biology to help their students
- become informed citizenry, who increasingly face public issues related to genetic engineering, biotechnology, cloning, etc.
- realize that molecular evidence provides some of the strongest support for evolution, a perennial hot-button topic in the school curriculum9
As college curricula increase their emphasis on cell/molecular topics, they simultaneously decrease coverage of organismal biology.
Organismal biologists are becoming an "endangered species" at many of those institutions with molecular emphasis.
At some schools, courses that examine the diversity of living things are disappearing from the biology curriculum.
The comprehensive universities and smaller colleges may become our primary resource for learning about organismal biology.
It is just as important for all students, but particularly for prospective teachers, to develop a strong organismal understanding. Even a molecular biologist benefits from an understanding of the biological perspective in which her/his system works.
An organismal diversity course in the core is the minimum content necessary to provide this perspective.
Living organisms engage students at all levels since:
- They can be handled and manipulated with concrete, visible results.
- There can be a direct relationship between the biology learned and care of pets and houseplants.
- "A feeling for the organism," as exemplified by Barbara McClintock, facilitates a better understanding of ecology and evolution as well as molecular genetics and development!
The process of science: student-active learning
One of the great ironies of science education is that the public perceives science as a collection of static facts that one only has to identify and memorize, whereas scientists view science as constantly changing as new information accumulates and new techniques are developed. We perpetuate the former with the traditional, lecture-dominated teaching approach.
- Public perception of science as a process of discovery is one of the goals of the science education reform movement. This is as important a goal for our majors, particularly pre-professionals, as it is for pre-service teachers and non-majors. Most of us need only reflect upon our own experience of not learning how to think scientifically and "do science" until we were in graduate school. All of our students benefit when we teach the process of science, along with the core content, throughout their educational experience. Pre-service teachers will learn that to learn science is not to memorize, it is to do science. Biology majors will begin to hone their scientific skills at an earlier stage in their careers.
- Melding content and process has an additional advantage. Teaching does not necessarily lead to learning, but the latter is an active process on the part of the learner. Inquiry and investigation are the hallmarks of effective teaching and student learning.3,11 Inquiry demands a foundation of prior knowledge (content) upon which to build; the teacher's task is to discover the current level of student understanding to use as a starting point. Of course, inquiry and investigation are the hallmarks of the process of science, thus this pedagogical approach complements the goal of teaching "science as a way of knowing." While some scientist may argue that the decrease in time spent on content coverage necessarily will decrease the amount of information students learn, this is not supported by data. As noted above, teaching students to think critically and to develop a depth of understanding of core concepts leads to greater student learning.13
Promoting high standards
A final example of the benefit of promoting teacher education in the discipline seems almost contrary to a common perception of education by scientists. This perception is that education is a field that attracts our less qualified students and serves as a "safety net" for those who will not make it into graduate school or another profession. In self-fulfillment, courses specifically designed for pre-service teachers may be less rigorous than those in the main stream of the core. Whatever the reality of this perception, there is currently a "push from the top" to reverse this perception.7
"The most talented prospective teachers might also be discouraged by the lack of rigor of the courses offered in many schools of education."7 The call is to challenge our pre-service teachers by raising their standards for achievement. This statement should serve as our call to reexamine our curricula and our level of expectation for all of our students.
- One can argue that the performance standards we set for teachers should be even higher than those for the rest of our majors. This was certainly the case in the past (recall that Gregor Mendel did not pass his qualifying exams for teacher certification!)
- By raising the bar for pre-service teachers, all of our students will be challenged and our standards will more accurately reflect the difference between adequate understanding and exceptional achievement.
- Undergraduate science and science education can be synergistic. Improving the preparation of science teachers can strengthen the entire curriculum of a biology department.
- Core content should include both cell/molecular and organismal course work to provide an adequate foundation for advanced studies.
- Student active learning, through inquiry and investigation, effectively teaches content and process.
- Standards and expectations should be high, with support to help students achieve these goals.
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The hamburger is as American as apple pie. Burgers come in many forms and incarnations, but the gist remains the same: Throw a patty between two buns, add condiments to your liking and enjoy. Where you find your favorite burger is personal choice, and options are plentiful, from fast food to fast casual to upscale. In NYC, the 21 Club's famous burger, a novelty and an institution, sells for $32.
Is Chesapeake Country ready for such a high falutin burger? West, the new restaurant at the Loews Hotel in Annapolis, offers an $18 burger. Are we worthy? And is that and a side of fries all you get?
On a recent visit to West, I was impressed by the transformation of the West Street dining room and patio. Opened in August, the restaurant is urban and trendy with large open spaces, high ceilings and comfy booths and outdoor sofas. The menu follows the farm-to-table movement, featuring local flavors and ingredients.
The bar handcrafts "garden fresh" cocktails. It's a pretty place and a hotel restaurant catering to out-of-towners. Does that warrant an $18 burger?
General Manager Stacy Baird reports West's $18 is dry-aged Roseda beef and served with house-brined pickles, homemade ketchup and hand-cut twice-cooked French fries. Tempting, but without an expense account, I'm not likely to taste this burger in the near future.
Roseda Farm raises grass-fed Black Angus cattle on a 300-acre Monkton farm. Its "natural" product — hormone- and pesticide-free — is a step above the FDA organic certification. If you'd like to try a Roseda Farm burger at home, four eight-ounce burgers are $12.49 ordered direct from Old Line Custom Meat Company (rosedabeef.com). Or pick up patties at My Butcher & More in Annapolis ($7.99 a pound).
As for West, I'll most likely limit my visits to the daily happy hour (5-7pm) for half-price shared plates and pizza and reduced-price drinks, coveting the $18 burger from afar. But if you've tried it, I'd love to hear what you think.
Bonefish Annapolis Makes 170
In other transformation news, Bonefish Grill has opened at the Annapolis Towne Centre at Parole, making it number 170 in the chain. Mike Cash, managing partner, invited media reps to check out the new digs and sample their menu. That's my favorite part of this job. I was fed to the gills on Bang Bang Shrimp, Tuna Sashimi, salmon, swordfish, orange roughy, shrimp, scallops and more. It's not local, but it is tasty.
Bonefish Grill is a warm restaurant with an active bar and very helpful and efficient wait staff. Happy hour is from 4-6:30pm. Don't plan on a lunch date; except for Sunday brunch, Bonefish is only open for dinner.
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Upon scoring, the ball is then turned over to the opposing team. Whirlyball strategy is similar to that of basketball and hockey, but a lot more fun to play! Your teams' violations of the rules will result in awarding penalty points to the opposing team.
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