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|2013-11-03, 20:20
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JPOP: Decline and the silence of the fans.
Recently a user by the name of mdo7 have posted an article detailing the decline of JPOP's influence and how it could hurt the industry in the long term, this was the article in question.
|2013-11-04, 06:11
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So your point is? That fans should make more noise?
No one's blind to the fact that Japanese music is for a niche group but what would you do unless you have a couple million to bankroll a major breakout effort
The Japanese music industry isn't the only industry in Japan suffering. The real answer to its problems is a general improvement in the national economy as a whole.
Would you rather instead a horde of AKB48 clones spreading overseas generating mass-produced works which they themselves don't even make and worse, the singers themselves must suffer because of that "idol behaviour idealism" bullshit instead of being able to produce what they really want to? Because in case you are wondering, that's the way it is with most Korean acts as well.
Your source talks of Japan music industry being corrupt and money grubbing....You honestly believe Korean and American ones are not the same? That the industry there isn't a backstabbing jungle as well? The main reason for Korean success isn't because they are artistically superior (as if such thing can even be ranked as superior or inferior) but because of sheer propaganda advertising and acts catered to what the mass audience can easily soak up instead of them actually producing music by heart and soul.
Besides advertising, the reason why Japanese music is not as well known outside Japan, is because their music targets specific audiences; the AKB48 style sections don't overshadow them as much as Korean idol groups overshadow other music acts from their own nation. It's still not that bad in Taiwan where idol groups are relatively not as major. More money for artists and creators won't happen if their art is not the type that can rake in a mass audience. It's similar to why S.H.E is more popular than A Mei for example. It doesn't mean one is technically or artistically inferior, it's about which one appeals to the masses more. And if you say, replace the current artists with a new generation of specially bred idols.....What help is there when you effectively kill off an entire generation of creators?
Do you actually want the Japan music industry to go down that route? Who wins in the end? Not the performers, not the audiences, but as usual, the bigwigs up at the top, the way it is now, and the way it will continue to be to even greater extent if the industry goes all out "mainstream, mass produce consumer good style." More money for creators in the arts industry has long ceased to be true in almost every capitalist economy since a long time.
Japan's industry has survived in good economic times under this model, with it being more conducive for singer/song writers who write or perform what they want as well as for much more diversity in genres as a result. I don't see why if the economy does recover, they won't continue to survive. If the aforementioned happens and the Japanese music scene loses more of it's soul and what people go to it for....well, I'll say it's even more dead from a fan's point of view.
If Japan's economy does not pick up? Then really, instead of worrying about the music industry, worry about the bigger economic hurdle first
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|2013-11-04, 13:18
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Of course, mdo7 felt otherwise, thinking the fame they have found overseas is well worth the cost in the long run since this would in his eyes skew people's opinion of Japanese Music
|2013-11-04, 18:28
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And it isn't fame per se but mass appeal....they are plenty famous enough already within the international community but only within the community of Japanese music fans
|2013-11-04, 21:50
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Wifi hotspots? We're always connected on the net here in Tokyo, at least. Thanks to our phone services. Of course you'll be left out if you're a foreigner who isn't subscribed to their services.
And I just want to add, JPOP caters to select audiences here. Audiences that pay money and not commenting bullshit and refreshing their artists new MV pages on Youtube. Music fans in Japan are the most blessed fans because they're being pandered heavily and get what they want in my opinion.
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Hah, I can't really seem to take Mdo7's opinion seriously at all. Every time he writes something, it's about K-pop and its global success with the wall of text. Could work as a promoter with that enthusiasm of his. My take of K-pop recent popularity seems to me all about the trend that will die down soon hopefully.
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|2013-11-09, 08:46
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Location: Tokyo, Japan
I just want to add that using iTunes as a measuring stick of how much Japan don't embrace the internet and mp3 revolution is stupid and ignorant (as Answerman is always prone to show how narrow of a view of the country/industry he has, and anyone using him as a source for argument can't be very knowledgeable either). Anyone whom had spent some time studying the Japanese and how they like to work will know that they love to build their own little system that is not connected to the rest of the world. For example we know that Japanese people had been downloading songs onto their cellphones way before iTunes even existed (which gave birth to the mega company that is dwango), Youtube don't get J songs voted is because Japanese and fans of Japanese music are probably watching on Nicodouga, Yahoo JP or Gyao instead etc. You don't find anime songs on iTunes store is because they prefer working with Dwango/Animelomix (huge sponsers of any, if not ALL, anime related concerts) over working with Apple/iTunes, not because they hate digital. Also there's another handful of music distribution services in Japan, Sony, obviously, has one which spans their PlayStation and phone product lines, there's a site call Listen Japan which offers up to date DRM free music (and true to Japan style - only usable by Japanese residents) etc etc.
The real issues - to me - really just seems to boil down to money and market - Western countries has the money but also a much richer pick of local music artists such that they have no real need for exotic music from the East, whereas the East, outside of Japan, has little spending power to afford bringing these exotic music from their neighbors. So Japan's caught in this weird situation where they want to expand outwards to the West where the money is but is a place where J music aren't really appreciated, but they don't consider the East market big enough (money wise) to worth taking note and spending effort cultivating.
|2013-11-09, 14:41
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The fact that recently SNSD won by pure voting power at YT Awards says a lot of about Korea's popularity vs Japan.
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At the moment the boom, despite being confined domestically, is still much at its apex, it's never constant, which means the producers and management have to keep coming up with new ideas.
There will be the case of "no export" because the Japanese record companies feel that there will be a small audience outside Japan who care to buy their singles, apparently drawing lessons from the debacle in the attempt to export Pink Lady to an uninformed American audience, and of course the language and cultural barrier.
I'm not surprised that there are those self-proclaimed expert/writers who are actually k-pop shills or outright Japanophile elitists. And of course, Japanophobes.
Also, I find SNSD's extremely high vote count rather disturbing than genuine.
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|2013-11-10, 03:59
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Sega, however, are swimming in money due to vocaloid concerts and merchandise.
I can't say vocaloid is big but they're helping a lot. Specifically to young JP people to be interested in music.
|2013-11-10, 04:47
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JPOP is often associated with anime. So I think the foreign audiences are more concern on the song which represents the anime and the anime that is associated with the song than the singers themselves (at least their name). KPOP is more of the song and the good looking people that sings them.^^
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Hey guys, here with an update.
Jubbles returns with a great entry to win the double prize of 40BP, although there wasn't a lot of competition this time. Probably due to me slacking and having no ads; I'll fix that shortly.
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Hello again everybody!
So Forumwarz superstar Liiiiiight has picked her guest-judge prize to be given out this week. The lucky winner is Mister Zurkon, so congratulations are in order. You are now the proud owner of forty (40) brand new brownie points (BP) with only two previous owners! The first owner being the head honcho over at The Last Stand, the klan that was kind enough to send over the bonus prize beeps. Check them out, and feel free to apply for membership; they're a group of awesome people.
Liiiiiight had this to say:
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The short list for the monthly prize has been chosen, I'm in the process of deciding on a winner. I'll keep you all updated when I figure my **** out.
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Whoops, alt reveal. Ah well.
I'm not THAT Zero_Cool, by the way. Damned Kyoubai bastard.
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The alt of someone famous. Don't worry about it.
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Alright guys and gals, the monthly prize for February has been decided!
As much as I hate giving prizes out to the same person each time, Jubbles is just some kind of mad genius. I hummed and hawwed at other entries, but this one is honestly, hands-down the funniest one this month. There aren't many that make me actually laugh out loud, but this one did.
So congratulations, Jubbles! You continue to rock hard with, presumably, your male reproductive organ hard. It rhymes and all.
This week's prize will be given out tomorrow night, and it's shaping up to be a good start to the new month. Keep it up, people! As always, see the official discussion thread here for the ramblings of a deranged lunatic.
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Hello there, everybody!
The winner of last week is Joseph of Suburbia. All in all, it was a good week for number of submissions, which is nice because I thought everybody gave up on it from last week.
Ah well.
Congratulations to JoS, and see the discussion thread here to see what the hell I was thinking.
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While I have had one so far this week that I think is funnier, I also think it's time to inject some culture up in this ****.
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That made me nearly choke on my coffee. Good show, sir, good show!
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Here you go folks!
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Well then.
Once again, there were fewer than five entries last week, so I'm extending the deadline to the 19th. Zurkon officially has 2 entries in for this contest period now, so nice work on that one.
The prize for this coming week is now 40BP, so get out there and win some damned INCIT.
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Back from the hospital with an update!
I know I've been lacking in keeping up with ads for the contest, and hence interest is down, which is sad. I'll put up an ad shortly and try to drum up entries again, or at least keep the damn thread bumped so people don't forget about it.
Anyway, the winner of the double prize from the last 2 weeks is Mister Zurkon! Congratulations, and I hope you have a good time spending your 40 brownie points. Hopefully some people will put in some entries for this week now! Yay!
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Asian Americans and Education
Benjamin Chang
The communities that constitute the racialized category of Asian Americans consist of approximately 20 million people in the United States, or about 5% of the total population. About 20% or 4 million are of primary or secondary school age, and over 1.1 million are in higher education. Both in popular and academic discourse, "Asian American" generally refers to people who have ethnic backgrounds in South Asia (e.g., Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka), Southeast Asia (e.g., Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam), and East Asia (e.g., China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan). As "Asian American" is an umbrella term used to categorize a very diverse, heterogeneous, and transnational set of populations, Asian Americans as a group present various challenges to education and research in and about the United States. These challenges can concern paradigms of achievement, citizenship, family involvement, access (e.g., higher education, bilingual education), language and culture, race and ethnicity, and school community.
In order to address these paradigmatic challenges, a great deal of scholarship has called for a disaggregation of the data on populations that fall under the pan-ethnic "Asian America" umbrella term, to gain a more nuanced and dynamic understanding of the many diverse populations and their historical, cultural, economic, and political experiences. To further address the problematic framing of Asian Americans in education and related fields, scholars have applied critical lenses to key tensions within conceptualization, policy, curriculum, and pedagogy. More recently, the notions of intersectionality and transnationalism have been generative in the study of Asian Americans, within not only educational research but also Asian American studies, which generally falls under the field of ethnic studies in the U.S. context, but has also been categorized under American studies, cultural studies, or Asian studies. While characterizations of Asian Americans as "the Model Minority" or "the Oppressed Minority" persist, the relevance of such static binaries has increasingly been challenged as the Asian American populations and migrations continue to diversify and increase.
Authenticity in Education
Lauren Bialystok
Authenticity is a concept with an impressive history in Western philosophy and a significant hold on the modern imagination. Inseparable from conceptions of truth and individual fulfillment, authenticity remains a powerful ideal, even as it eludes precise definition. Recently it has also become an organizing principle for many educational initiatives. Education, like authenticity, is opposed to dissimulation, ignorance, manipulation, and related states of misalignment between truth and experience. There is widespread enthusiasm for the promotion of authenticity across different types of education and in the personal identity of educators and students. Most of the scholarly literature pertaining to authenticity in education falls outside the scope of philosophical inquiry. But in all cases, the pursuit of authenticity in education rests on various philosophical assumptions about the nature of truth, reality, ethics, and, ultimately, the aims of education.
With the influence of Dewey and 20th-century progressive movements in education, authenticity entered the vernacular of educational theory and practice. Attention to the relationship between learning environments and the "real" world has generated pervasive commitments to authentic learning, authentic pedagogies, authentic curriculum, and authentic assessment practices. Here, "authenticity" is used to track the verisimilitude of an educational practice with respect to some external reality. It constitutes an ontological claim about levels of "reality," as well as an epistemological attitude toward learning as the construction of knowledge. In this respect, authenticity intersects debates about constructivism and relativism in education. Likewise, teachers are exhorted to be authentic qua teachers, elevating their true selves above institutional anonymity as a key part of effective teaching. This phenomenon trades on the values of truthfulness and autonomy that are prized in Western modernity but also problematized in the personal identity and ethics literature. The authenticity of students has also been championed as an educational aim, even as the methods for eliciting authenticity in others have been criticized as self-defeating or culturally limiting. Personal authenticity stands in a contested relationship to autonomy, which has been promoted as the key aim of liberal education. The project of creating authentic people through education remains an intense site of research and debate, with important implications for educational ethics and liberal values.
Confucianism and Education
Charlene Tan
Issues related to the aim of education, curriculum, teaching, and learning are perennial concerns in Confucianism. Within the Confucian canon, two texts, Analects (Lunyu) and Xueji (Record of Learning), are particularly instructive in illuminating the principles and practices of education for early Confucianism. Accordingly, the aim of education is to inculcate ren (humanity) through li (normative behaviors) so that learners can realize and broaden dao (Way). To achieve this aim, the curriculum should be holistic, broad-based, and integrated; students should constantly practice what they have learned through self-cultivation and social interaction. Supporting the curriculum is learner-focused education, where the teacher is sensitive to the individual needs of students. The "enlightening approach" is recommended, where the teacher encourages and guides students using the questioning technique and peer learning. The impact of Confucian education is evident in the creation and flourishing of "Confucian pedagogic cultures" in East Asia. However, a key question confronting a Confucian conception of education is whether such a paradigm is able to nurture critical and creative thinkers who are empowered to critique prevailing worldviews and effect social changes. A textual analysis of Xueji and Analects reveals that critical and creative thinking are valued and indispensable in Confucian education. Confucius himself chastised the rulers of his time, modified certain social practices, and ingeniously redefined terms that were in wide circulation such as li and junzi by adding novel elements to them. Confucian education should be viewed as an open tradition that learns from all sources and evolves with changing times. Such a tradition fulfills the educational vision to appropriate and extend dao, thereby continuing the educational project started by Confucius.
Creativity in Education
Anne Harris and Leon De Bruin
Creativity is an essential aspect of teaching and learning that is influencing worldwide educational policy and teacher practice, and is shaping the possibilities of 21st-century learners. The way creativity is understood, nurtured, and linked with real-world problems for emerging workforces is significantly changing the ways contemporary scholars and educators are now approaching creativity in schools. Creativity discourses commonly attend to creative ability, influence, and assessment along three broad themes: the physical environment, pedagogical practices and learner traits, and the role of partnerships in and beyond the school. This overview of research on creativity education explores recent scholarship examining environments, practices, and organizational structures that both facilitate and impede creativity. Reviewing global trends pertaining to creativity research in this second decade of the 21st century, this article stresses for practicing and preservice teachers, schools, and policy makers the need to educationally innovate within experiential dimensions, priorities, possibilities, and new kinds of partnerships in creativity education.
Critical English for Academic Purposes
Christian W. Chun
With the emergence of critical English language teaching (CELT) in the past 25 years, primarily in the English for academic purposes domain, there have been significant implications for English language learning. ELT approaches have drawn on major premises and assumptions in second language acquisition research from the past several decades, particularly in the institutional context of intensive English language programs in North America in which the dominant conventions and traditional approaches in English language teaching have been enacted. The first incarnation of CELT occurred in the early 1990s, which eventually prompted a key debate over critical pedagogy in English language teaching during the 2000s. The second wave of CELT began in the mid-2000s and addressed the continuing challenges facing students in the context of neoliberal spaces of universities worldwide. New approaches have emerged that address the importance of CELT in the current nationalist and racist backlash against increased global mobility of job- and refuge-seeking immigrants to Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Critical Literacy
Vivian Maria Vasquez
Changing student demographics, globalization, and flows of people resulting in classrooms where students have variable linguistic repertoire, in combination with new technologies, has resulted in new definitions of what it means to be literate and how to teach literacy. Today, more than ever, we need frameworks for literacy teaching and learning that can withstand such shifting conditions across time, space, place, and circumstance, and thrive in challenging conditions. Critical literacy is a theoretical and practical framework that can readily take on such challenges creating spaces for literacy work that can contribute to creating a more critically informed and just world. It begins with the roots of critical literacy and the Frankfurt School from the 1920s along with the work of Paulo Freire in the late 1940s (McLaren, 1999; Morrell, 2008) and ends with new directions in the field of critical literacy including finding new ways to engage with multimodalities and new technologies, engaging with spatiality- and place-based pedagogies, and working across the curriculum in the content areas in multilingual settings. Theoretical orientations and critical literacy practices are used around the globe along with models that have been adopted in various state jurisdictions such as Ontario, in Canada, and Queensland, in Australia.
Curriculum and Place
William M. Reynolds
Place matters. The conceptualizations and analyses of place defined in geographical and metaphorical terms play a significant role in understanding curriculum and are an exciting, important and ever-increasing discourse in the field of curriculum studies. As the discourses have developed, an increasing amount of scholarship has emerged that centers on place and its significance autobiographically, psychoanalytically, culturally, racially, and politically, not only in the field of curriculum but in education and society in general. There is also attention paid to the notion that understanding our place (situatedness) is as important as our positionality. There is a historical discussion on the manner in which studies of curriculum and place have focused on the southern United States; however, as the area has developed, the focus has expanded to place considered not only in terms of the southern United States, but other areas of the country and internationally. The discussion begins with notions of why place matters in curriculum studies and in our general understandings of place as well. A second major emphasis elaborates on the work done in curriculum and place developmentally and historically, highlighting major studies that exist in the area. A discussion of the future of what is called place studies in curriculum is the final area including highlights of the newest scholarship alongside a discussion of the movement toward the parameters of place globally. Beyond the parameters of this article, but significant in the study of place, are the treatments of place in literature, film, and television series; a small discussion of these areas is included.
Deleuze Studies in Education
David R. Cole
Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) was a French philosopher, who wrote about literature, art, cinema, other philosophers, capitalism, and schizophrenia. His wide-ranging oeuvre has begun to be considered seriously in education, because his ideas act as springboards for further elaboration and application in connected areas such as research, learning theory, early childhood education, curriculum and policy studies, and teacher education. Whilst it is impossible to track exactly how, when, and indeed if "Deleuze Studies in Education" will mature and progress to occupy a mainstream position in education, it is worth considering the influence of the French thinker as a mode of renewal and new thought. The questions that concern "Deleuze Studies in Education" therefore shift from positing thought from "the known" to "what can be done."
Deleuze's solo work acts a basis for new thinking in the philosophy of education. His series of philosophical studies track and develop a new philosophy, that redraws Western concepts of the subject, knowledge, learning, and thought. The intent of this new philosophy is to open up fixed Western ideas to their international and historical counterparts and to produce a way of thinking that occupies a middle ground, disconnected from the dominant, intellectual empire building that has predominantly hailed from the West.
Deleuze's writing with the French intellectual activist, Félix Guattari (1930–1992), takes on a distinct shift and urgency away from the rewriting of the Western philosophical tradition until their last joint work called: "What is Philosophy?" and which presents a new philosophy that is sketched out in the second half of this book, and which deploys affect, percepts, concepts, and forms and functions, to move away from the ultimate horror of the present situation as they saw it: "commercial professional training." "Deleuze Studies in Education" is deepened and reinvented through their dual work and is transformed into a mode of critical capitalist and environmental studies, which adds historical/subjective valence to how one understands current shifts in educational practice.
Lastly, the specific oeuvre of Félix Guattari, which is often less investigated and focused upon in education than Deleuze, serves as a pressing and ethical engagement with theory that can be readily applied to issues such as environmental concerns, inequality, power, and activism. Guattari's ideas are present as a lasting aspect of "Deleuze Studies in Education" because they demonstrate many of the links to practice that Deleuze theorized throughout his philosophy.
Democracy and Justice in Mathematics and Science Curriculum
Paola Valero and Auli Arvola Orlander
How mathematics and science curricula connect to democracy and justice is understood through the examination of different perspectives of mathematics and science education as political. Although frequently conceived of as neutral, these school subjects have been central in recent modern education for governing the making of rational, science-minded citizens who are necessary for social, political, and economic progress. Three main perspectives are identified in the existing research literature. A perspective of empowerment highlights the power that people can acquire by learning and using mathematics and science. A perspective of disadvantage focuses on how the pedagogies of mathematics and science intersect with categories such as ability, gender, class, ethnicity, and race to generate and reproduce marginalization. A perspective of subjectivation examines the effects of mathematics and science curricula within the context of historical and cultural processes for the making of desired modern, rational, and techno-scientific types of citizens, thus creating categories of inclusion and exclusion. All together, these perspectives point to the ways in which mathematics and science, as privileged forms of knowing in contemporary school curricula, simultaneously operate to include or exclude different types of students.
Digital Literacies in Early Childhood
Fiona Scott and Jackie Marsh
The study of digital literacies in early childhood (0–8 years) is an emergent and fast-growing area of scholarship. Young children's communicative practices are today more complex and diverse in scope than ever before, encompassing both "traditional" reading and writing and a growing range of "new" communicative competencies across multiple digital media contexts. Scholars are increasingly interested in children's literacy practices outside traditional print-based texts, and the theory of multimodality helps them to understand children's communicative practices in relation to a range of modes, including those present in digital technology. At the same time, the boundaries between what constitutes "digital" and "traditional" literacies are themselves blurred. Multiple academic disciplines have contributed to our understanding of children's digital literacy practices. Numerous definitions for digital literacy or literacies exist, and scholars have proposed a range of theoretical approaches to the topic. Bill Green's "3D model" of literacy provides a useful starting point for understanding the different dimensions of children's digital literacy: operational, cultural, and critical.
It is acknowledged that children's digital literacy practices are specific to particular social and cultural contexts. In particular, scholars have identified important differences between accepted literacy practices in schools and early years' settings ("school literacies") and children's literacy practices in a socioculturally diverse range of home settings ("home literacies"). A growing field of research is explicitly concerned with the unique skills developed at home, as children learn to produce and interpret a range of "new" digital and multimodal texts. At the same time, numerous scholars have suggested that there is still a general lack of progress with regard to early years' practitioners' use of technology in the curriculum. Gaps and absences in knowledge still exist, and it will be important for scholars over the coming years to continue research into young children's digital literacy practices, both in homes and communities and across early years' settings.
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Sun Microsystems may have dropped a bit of weight by the time Oracle officially acquires the company. According to two people briefed on Sun's plans, the company has cancelled its Rock chip project, putting an end to one of its biggest revitalization bets. Sun has been working on the Rock project for more than five years, hoping to create a chip with many cores that would trounce competing server chips from IBM. and Intel. The company has talked about Rock in the loftiest of terms and built it up as a game-changing product. In April 2007, Jonathan Schwartz, the chief executive of Sun, bragged about receiving the first test versions of Rock. But the two people familiar with Sun's plans say Rock has met with an unceremonious end. The people requested anonymity, as they are not authorized to speak with the press about Sun's plans. Michelle Parkinson, a Sun spokeswoman, said the company had no comment.


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Steam-Punk Work Wear Waistcoat
Added May 14, 2014
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Carlisle, United...
For this year's museums at night event Tullie House Museum in Carlisle are holding a steam-punk circus and I'm running a fancy dress life drawing activity. I thought it important to dress the part but as I'll be running around like a crazy thing I decided I needed something practical so I thought I'd make a steam-punk inspired waistcoat. I'm planning to team it with some lace arm-warmers and possibly some spats to complete the look and I'm hoping for a top hat! I used a pattern from burda style and just made a few alterations; namely removing the tab from the back and inserting velvet loops for lacing instead and changing the front closure to a brooch rather than buttons. I used a thick cotton twill and a pretty bird print then used velvet and satin ribbon for the lace up back.
Material Notes
Cotton twill (main)
Printed cotton (lining)
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May 15, 2014, 09.49 PMby DonnaH21
Very cute. I've been thinking of making this pattern.
Oh, and you might be interested in this free pattern for a mini top hat – http://www.fleecefun.com/mini-top-hat.html
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May 16, 2014, 08.19 AMby stars
Oooo! Thank you, that is very cool. I can see my plan for a productive work day going out the window but on the plus side I'll have a mini top hat!
I found the pattern quite easy to follow and I like the shape of it.
May 15, 2014, 04.51 PMby stars
Thank you!
May 14, 2014, 09.00 PMby maggieg5
Great waistcoat and love the detail you have on it :0)
May 14, 2014, 08.28 PMby IDia
Realy great! LOVE the details!
May 14, 2014, 05.43 PMby Angela Kane
Love it. It's all about innovation!
Good luck with this event.
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May 14, 2014, 06.15 PMby stars
Thank you! I'm really looking forward to it especially now I have my waistcoat!
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2012 News Releases > November 2012 > Amanda Page wins crown as Miss Wayland for 2013
Amanda Page wins crown as Miss Wayland for 2013
November 14, 2012
Amanda Page was named Miss Wayland 2013 Saturday as the university held its annual scholarship pageant.
The pageant was held at Harral Auditorium on the Wayland Baptist University campus and Page, a senior English major from Plano who represented the School of Language and Literature, was one of 16 women vying for the crown.
Others in the pageant included:
•Megan Huerta, a sophomore molecular biology major from Van Vleck, who represented the WBU women's soccer team
•Tomi Abbl, a junior sociology/psychology major from Tucson, Ariz., who represented Owen Hall
•Kathlyn Magallan, a senior communications major from Hale Center, who represented the media broadcasting crew
•Sarah Wennersten, a sophomore fitness management major from Maryville, Wash., who represented the WBU Police Department
•Ama Ott, a junior elementary education major from Amarillo, who represented the Mathematical Association of America
•Katelynn Murga, a sophomore biology major from Bayfield, Colo., representing Kappa Upsilon Chi
•Meagan Gausin, a junior elementary education major from Plainview, who represented the Llano Estacado Museum
•Celia Juarez, a sophomore biology major from Plainview, who represented BAS-BSM records
•Joshalyn Estrada, a junior elementary education major from El Paso, who represented Flemming Mays Tower
•Alycia Leal, a senior elementary and special education major from Portales, N.M., who represented AGC Apartments
•Olivia Bybee, a sophomore vocal music education major from Channing, who represented Human Resources
•Jenna Swift, a junior church music major from Hudson Oaks, who represented Alpha Delta Kappa
•Rachel Smith, a sophomore communications major from Lubbock, who represented International Choir
•Katie Jo Bice, a junior sociology major from Lockney, who represented the WBU Registrar's Office
•Priscilla Topp, a sophomore Spanish major from Mexico City, Mexico, who represented the Baptist Student Ministries.
In addition to Page being chosen as Miss Wayland and receiving a $750 scholarship, other winners for the evening were:
•First Runner-up — Jenna Swift ($450 scholarship)
•Second Runner-up — Sarah Wennersten ($250 scholarship)
•Third Runner-up — Priscilla Topp ($200 scholarship)
•Fourth Runner-up — Katie Jo Bice
•Miss Congeniality — Joshalyn Estrada ($150 scholarship)
•Best Evening Gown — Katie Jo Bice ($200 scholarship)
•Best Interview — Meagan Gausin ($200 scholarship)
•Best Talent — Rachel Smith, who sung "The Girl in 14G" ($200 scholarship)


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The fancy new Last of Us trailer that debuted at the Spike VGAs last week was, by virtue of its delivery method, censored.
So here's an uncensored version. And here's some details on preorder DLC, if you're the type to succumb to those vile temptations. Below? The game's box art.


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The Vegas Pro collection combines Vegas Pro 8, DVD Architect Pro 4.5, and Dolby Digital AC-3 encoding software to offer an integrated environment for all phases of professional video, audio, DVD, and broadcast production. These tools let you edit and process DV, AVCHD, HDV, SD/HD-SDI, and all XDCAM formats in real time, fine-tune audio with precision, and author surround sound, dual-layer DVDs. Vegas Pro software also supports 24p, HD and HDV editing, which is what we are going to look at in this benchmark.
The Sony Vegas 8.0b workload that we are using takes a series of short movie and audio files and creates a single video that incorporated special effects and transitions. It uses a MainConcept HDV encoding profile to render the 24p widescreen video clip at a resolution of 1440x1080x32.
Benchmark Results: Running our custom Sony Vegas 8.0b benchmark showed that memory speed and timings does play a slight role when creating a single video clip from multiple clips.
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Right now, generic Lipitor costs $150 at one major pharmacy chain but the exact same medication is FREE at a pharmacy across the street.
In America, prescription drugs cost too much. Up to 45% of Americans have trouble paying for the prescriptions they require, and 26% of Americans simply don't fill prescriptions because they simply can't afford it. The #1 reason Americans don't take their medications as prescribed is cost.
Even if you can afford to pay, you (or a combination of you, your insurance company, your employer and/or the government) are likely paying too much for your prescriptions. It can cost less than $0.01 to manufacture a pill, so why do we pay $10, $100 or even $1,000 for meds? Even a $10 insurance co-pay can often be 2-3 times what the fair price of a medicine should be.
You probably already knew drugs were expensive. But did you know:
Los precios de medicamentos varían extensamente entre farmacias
Most Americans assume that drug prices are regulated or fixed. That's simply not true. Prices vary wildly in drugstores that are literally across the street from each other, especially when filling generic medications (which make up about 80% of the prescription fills in America).
Uninsured? It's easy to get a better price.
Prices for most drugs at most pharmacies are very high for the uninsured patient. However, there are many ways to save 80% or more - coupons, savings tips, pharmacy discounts, manufacturer discounts, cheaper alternative drugs or even just asking for a better price! Sadly, there's never been an easy way to find these discounts and know the fair price for your drug.
Insured? Your co-pay may not be your lowest price.
Health insurance is great, but it's far from the only way to save money on your meds. For example, hundreds of generic medications are available for $4 or even free without insurance …if only you know where to go. Your insurance co-pay of $10 doesn't sound so great if GoodRx can point you to the exact same drug for 60% less.
Plus, many insurance plans have high deductibles or limited formularies that don't cover the drugs you need. Lastly, even insured patients buying covered brand-name drugs would probably want to know about coupons that could save them $500 or more per year.
El precio de medicinas ha estado disminuyendo, pero usted esta pagando de más.
Many big brand-name drugs (such as Lipitor, Lexapro and Singulair) have recently become available as generics. When brand-name drugs go generic, their price rapidly decreases from potentially hundreds of dollars to as little as $4. However, insurance companies are pushing more of the cost of drugs onto the patient - your share of the cost is now 25-80% more than just 10 years ago as insurance companies make you pay for your drugs.
Su doctor tal vez no sabe cuánto cuestan tus medicamentos.
A doctor's primary job is to make sure that you receive the best care, not track costs. Drug prices change all the time, pharmacies charge different prices, and everyone has different insurance plans - so it's very hard for them to know what you'll pay. But it is important that you know, so that you don't leave the doctor's office with a prescription that you can't (or don't want to) fill.
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Iowa farming may change forever with the increased use of high tunnels.
These simple, plastic-covered, solar-heated structures offer many benefits to farming — some benefits that common row crop vegetable farming cannot provide. Iowa State University Extension and Outreach has released a new publication that describes the cost benefits of high tunnel farming.
Vegetable Production Budgets for a High Tunnel (PM 3025) is available for free download from the ISU Extension and Outreach online store, https://store.extension.iastate.edu/.
Among the many advantages of high tunnel farming, the structures help diversify farming operations, require less capital expenditure than greenhouse production and yield high returns for a relatively low initial investment.
Most notably, these structures extend the harvest season of many high-value crops, said Linda Naeve, program coordinator for ISU Extension and Outreach's Value Added Agriculture program.
Similar to row covers, these larger and taller structures allow room for crops to grow to maturity and for equipment to be operated under them.
"High tunnels were popular in Europe for many years, and they have really caught on here in the last 10 years," Naeve said. "They facilitate a recently renewed interest in local foods.
"The publications Extension provides help farmers determine a budget for their high tunnel farming, and help with managing and recording expenses. This latest publication is very helpful for beginning high tunnel farmers."
Susan Jutz, of Solon, Iowa, began a Local Harvest Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in 1996 that she continues to operate today. She practices traditional row crop farming methods and uses a high tunnel for farming as well.
In spring 2011, cold and wet weather made it difficult for the vegetables in her fields to thrive. The crops she planted in February and March in the protective environment of the high tunnel thrived.
"Thanks to the protective environment of the high tunnel, the CSA was able to provide 125 families in the area with spring vegetables starting in late April," said Jutz. "Without the high tunnel, we would likely have had to cancel much of our spring share season."
ISU Extension and Outreach is looking to create a new publication that will provide advanced high tunnel training for more profitable crops and markets, according to Naeve.
For more information on high tunnels, visit the ISU Extension and Outreach online store or Value Added Agriculture program, http://www.extension.iastate.edu/valueaddedag/high-tunnel-information.


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Founded in 1988 with four colleges, The Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) has grown to be the largest of the higher educational institutions in the UAE, gaining a well-respected reputation for innovative learning.
More than 18,000 students attend 17 modern men's and women's campuses in the cities of Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Dubai, Ras Al Khaimah, Sharjah, Fujairah and the western region of Madinat Zayed and Ruwais. About 2000 people, from about 60 countries, are employed in the HCT community.
HCT offers more than 90 different, English-taught programs in Applied Communications, Business, Engineering, Information Technology, Health Sciences and Education. These programs are offered at the Diploma, Advanced and Higher Diplomas, Bachelor and Master levels, which are, all relevant to the UAE's fast growing and evolving economic sectors.
Since its inception, HCT has focused on meeting the needs of the local economy and community while at the same time meeting international benchmarks and accreditation standards. In this process, HCT has established active and dynamic links, collaborations and relationships with major companies and organizations in the UAE and with many of the world's leading universities and organizations, such as the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Waterloo, Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, University College London, IBM, Boeing, Siemens, TERI, University of Melbourne and the Asia Pacific University-Japan.Less...
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (May 27, 2013) – Ticket information for the 2013 Nashville NCAA Baseball Regional has been released.
The ETSU Ticket Office has a limited number of tickets available for purchase for the regional. To be placed on a waiting list, please call (423) 439-3878. Ticket orders will be filled first by using BASA priority points as well as to baseball alumni on a first-come-first-served basis.
Tickets purchased through ETSU are $20 each. In addition, tickets can also be purchased by calling Vanderbilt's Ticket Office at (615) 322-4653 or by clicking here.
ETSU fans wanting to make a reservation at the team hotel can do so by calling the Courtyard Marriott at (615) 327-9900.
Nashville Regional Game Schedule
Friday, May 31
Game 1: #2 Georgia Tech (34-25) vs. #3 Illinois (34-18), 2 p.m., ESPN3
Game 2: #1 Vanderbilt (51-9) vs. #4 ETSU (36-22), 7 p.m., ESPNU/ESPN3
Saturday, June 1
Game 3: Vanderbilt/ETSU loser vs. Georgia Tech/Illinois loser, 3 p.m., ESPNU/ESPN3
Game 4: Vanderbilt/ETSU winner vs. Georgia Tech/Illinois winner, 8 p.m., ESPNU/ESPN3
Sunday, June 2
Game 5: Loser Game 4 vs. Winner Game 3, 3 p.m., ESPNU/ESPN3
Game 6: Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 4, 8 p.m., ESPNU/ESPN3
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Game 7 (If Necessary): Winner Game 6 vs. Loser Game 6, 7 p.m., ESPNU/ESPN3
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Not sure if I ever posted this before but if I did it must be long time ago... But then I listen to this song again after a long while and it still gets me emotional. It may be classified as 'pop' by some, but I would disagree as it goes way beyond the meaninglessness of the average chart tune.
SNOW PATROL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qen3Xovtfc (and they're from near Belfast which is of course a nice extra)


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October 21, 2010
This is part of a series of articles summarizing presentations from the 1st International Workshop on HIV & Aging, which took place in Baltimore, Md., from Oct. 4 to Oct. 5, 2010. Jump to the table of contents to see the other articles in this series.
Eugenia Negredo, M.D., Ph.D., presented results from a Spanish study which found that, as HIV-positive people age, more women than men (80 percent vs. 60 percent) perceive their health to be affected so much that their daily activities are limited. The main complaint was fatigue.
A German cohort study was discussed at this conference that included 750 men over 50 years of age in 37 treatment centers (250 were HIV positive, 250 were HIV negative but had diabetes, and 250 "healthy controls" had neither HIV nor diabetes). They filled out quality-of-life questionnaires, which included the Aging Male Symptoms Scale (AMS). The higher the score, the more severe a person's perceives their sexual function to be.
Of the three groups, HIV-positive men had the highest AMS scores. Half of them -- compared to 45 percent of HIV-negative diabetics and 28 percent of healthy controls -- complained of sexual dysfunction. No testosterone blood levels were measured, however, to see if this higher AMS score correlates to lower blood levels of testosterone. To answer the testosterone question, the Hypogonadism in Aging Males study is being performed in Germany presently.
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Orbital Mediated Tunneling in a New Unimolecular Rectifier
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In 1997 we showed that hexadecylquinolinium tricyanoquinodimethanide is a unimolecular rectifier, by scanning tunneling microscopy and also as a Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) monolayer, sandwiched between Al electrodes. We have now seen rectification in a new molecule: this rectification can be followed both by conventional current-voltage curves and also by second harmonic detection at 4.2 K of a broad signal, at the same bias as at room temperature, because at forward bias the current is transferred elastically from metal electrode to the lowest unoccupied orbital of the molecule. The same spectrum also shows inelastic electron tunneling due to CH2 vibrations (the dominant feature) and a strong zero bias anomaly (ZBA).
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The Mentalist Review: The Hunt for VolkerChristine Orlando at . Comments
The hunt for Volker intensified on The Mentalist this week... and who knew that a "Little Red Corvette" would take him down?
The murder of Horatio was all the more brutal with Volker standing there watching. The man enjoyed seeing someone die. It didn't even have to be by his hand. It just had to be on his order. That kind of power really seemed to get him off. This guy's a serious sociopath.
This was a man who took out entire indigenous tribes when they got in his way. So he had no qualms about killing a little boy. I found it interesting that even Volker's paid enforcers knew that murdering a child was a whole different level of evil. One in which Volker had no problem descending.
I spent the entire episode silently hoping that Marvin was really still alive. Having Jane visit his mother was heartbreaking. Not only does he relate to kids, but he has such intimate knowledge of what this distraught parent was going through that it almost hurt to watch.
The chess game between Lisbon and Volker was only made more intriguing by Jane's involvement. Volker was use to scaring people. Poor Anabelle was shaking as she backed away from him and he loved every tentative step.
But Volker couldn't scare Jane. Another psychopath already took everything he'd ever loved. What's left to be afraid of?
And Jane's one of the few people who could shake up Volker's calm exterior as he called him on his bluff.
This entire episode had some stellar moments. Lisbon has never been so accepting of bending the rules. She actually used intimidation tactics against a deputy district attorney and out and out lied to a judge to get a warrant. The Teresa Lisbon from a year or two ago never would have done that.
When Clyde took that phone call from Volker, I knew what he was about to do and it still made me jump when that bus hit him. Even hired killers are scared of somebody.
And what did Volker have on Brenda?!? Not only was she selling out her team at the CBI, but she handed over a little boy to be murdered. Who was he threatening to make her grovel at his feet like that? Will we ever find out?
A couple of side notes…
- How funny was Rigsby stealing Cho's old soda from his car? That man has no self control around food, or drink.
- Please let Amanda Righetti have a healthy, happy baby soon. I miss Grace and I'm tired of seeing her behind that desk.
- Shouldn't Lisbon have had that toy car bagged for evidence? I know Jane isn't very good with those things but I expect more from Teresa.
- You had to love Volker running through the zoo smacking kids on the back of the head as he searched for Marvin. Too funny.
I loved that Jane got to return Martin to his mother although witnessing such things must still be bittersweet for him.
I'm a little sorry Volker's story came to a close so soon. It was fun seeing Jane and Lisbon team up against someone other than Red John and Volker was equally creepy. Then again, with Volker's connections and influence, perhaps his rein of terror isn't over quite yet.
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text: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Rahul Nabar <rpnabar at gmail.com> wrote: > How does one compare different schedulers, anyways? Is it mostly "word > of mouth" and reputation. Feature sets are good to look at but it's > not really a quantitative metric. I would say that, in the spirit of other benchmarks and comparisons discussed on this list, the best way is to try as many different ones as possible and make your own decision based on objective (how much it fits the needs) and subjective (how much you like its interfaces, how comfortable you feel maintaining it) criteria. But of course this is just wishful thinking... most resource managers and schedulers are way too complicated for a simple "let's just install it and run it" scenario, so it takes an excessive amount of time to set them up and to read documentation, pull hair over documented but not working features, contact support or write to mailing lists for help, getting something working only to find out that the users or, even worse, some administrative powers want changes and... start the cycle all over again. One can argue that taking care of a resource manager and scheduler can be a full-time job on a medium/large cluster, somehow similar to a DBA. IMHO, features sets are not a good way of comparing schedulers - much more important is how they map to what you want to achieve and how easy is to interact with them. I can take a lot of time to configure and test (very important part if the admin actually cares about the users ;-)) a medium to complex setup (f.e. several queues, serving several types of nodes with different limits of using the hardware or what users are allowed to do) and often there are several ways of achieving the same result which means that it's quite easy for a beginner to shoot him/her-self in the foot by trying to set too many things at once. The interaction with the scheduler is crucial because usually some results have to be extracted from it (efficiency of usage of the hardware, what ratio of time each user/group has consumed, how well fairshare works, etc.) and sometimes new settings have to be put into effect to change those results; let alone adding new nodes or making changes to accommodate a particular user or software... Another issue is that, although many features are advertised, not all work as you think. At configuration stage and especially while testing (or latest in production...), you can find about all kinds of limitations or implementation details which raise barriers between the resource manager or scheduler and your goals - especially interactions with various other components like MPI libraries (which need to know how to start a process on a remote node, which processors or cores to use, etc.), ISV-provided start-up scripts, existing infrastructure (Kerberos support, username length, number of secondary groups a user can belong to, etc.), but sometimes also inside the resource manager or scheduler itself (how good is it a cleaning up after a failed job, what's the maximum number of queues, etc.). I agree with Mark Hahn about selling a solution that solves a particular site's resource management and scheduling problem and not a generic solution that has to be customized by people who might have a hard time understanding the concepts and maybe limitations of the offered solution. Of course, some academic sites might not want this... to reduce costs, to not depend on a particular vendor, to allow for new ideas to be implemented, while many companies which require resource management and scheduling probably have their staff trained for this particular task. But I see a real need in small academic groups or small companies which don't have enough manpower to dedicate to this... Sorry for the rather negative message, but one would expect that after more than 20 years such an important piece of middleware would reach maturity and be easy to deploy and configure. Cheers, Bogdan _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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Statement: February 17, 2011Docket Nos. RM11-7-000 and AD10-11-000
Statement of Commissioner Philip D. Moeller on proposed new compensation method for regulation service
"Today's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking is an important step in considering how to compensate resources for their contribution to the reliability of the power grid. I attended the technical conference on faster-ramping resources on May 26, 2010, where various stakeholders, including representatives from the RTOs and ISOs, industry, and academia shared their views on the design of frequency regulation markets. At that conference, I was interested in how the frequency regulation markets reflect the value of the service provided, and whether the use of faster-ramping resources for frequency regulation has the potential to provide benefits to the organized markets. I continue to be interested in the potential for new resources to provide efficiency gains to these markets, and I look forward to the comments that will be filed in this proceeding."


text: Employee Handbook Essentials February 26, 2013 08:46 PM Tweet Take the opportunity to share values and expectations Every day more farmers realize the value of an employee handbook. Too often, they realize this value after experiencing an issue that could have been easily resolved if a handbook were already in place, says Chuck Schwartau, a University of Minnesota Extension farm management specialist. Farmers should think of an employee handbook as a valuable communication resource between the employer and employee. It provides information related to the farm's history, mission, values, policies, procedures and benefits. "Setting the proper tone in your workplace is an essential step to a successful relationship with workers." Tom Maloney from Cornell University says there are four key reasons for having an employee handbook: 1) Improve the image of the farm by conveying that employees are important and that the farm has carefully thought out employee policies. 2) Aid communication with employees. 3) Help assure that all employees are treated fairly and consistently. 4) Encourage farms to face important decisions about employee policies rather than continuing to postpone them. "The first reason shows the farm regards itself as a professionally operated business that values doing things correctly," says Schwartau. "An employee handbook takes time to create and will need fine-tuning to meet the needs of the farm." Studies show worker retention and productivity is highest at businesses that clearly communicate worker rights and responsibilities through policy handbooks, according to the Washington Farm Labor Association. Setting the proper tone in your workplace is key to a successful relationship with workers. Put it on Paper. Developing an employee handbook can be a daunting task, but experts give their advice to help you succeed. First, if you have policies and procedures, then review and use those as a starting point. If you don't have policies, develop them. These policies should be reviewed by legal counsel and a final copy used as the building blocks for the handbook. The second step is to create an outline of what needs to be included in the employee handbook. Topics should include the business' mission statement, equal employment opportunity statement, contractual disclaimer and at-will statement, purpose of the handbook and background information about the farm. Other items are optional, but important factors to include are federal and state laws that affect employees. A few of these are the Family and Medical Leave Act, anti-discrimination laws, Americans with Disabilities Act and Fair Labor Standards Act. Once you've determined what to include, create a summary of each policy. These summaries should be clear and concise, and contain no legal verbiage. Place the summaries in their respective sections. Next, write the company positions, rules or policies under each of the outline topics. It's important to spend time reviewing the handbook to make sure it reflects the business, is accurate and easy to comprehend. Provide the final version to legal counsel for review to ensure that there are no contractual agreements. Once approved, you'll want to select a vendor and have it printed. Finally, a distribution method needs to be determined, such as during new-hire orientation or a manual distribution to employees. Some employers post the handbook online, but it's important to have printed copies for those who do not have Internet at home. The handbook should change as your business changes. Be sure to appoint a person to review and update the handbook yearly or as needed. The content of employee handbooks varies from business to business. Visit www.TopProducer-Online.com/Handbook for more tips. Back to news


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KidWind Project and Wind Education in the Classroom: Wind Powering America Lessons Learned
July 1, 2013
Integrating wind energy curricula into the classroom can seem like a daunting task for educators trying to expand the classroom experience. Wind Powering America interviewed Dan Whisler, a 29-year environmental science instructor at Sterling High School in Kansas, and Michael Arquin, director of the KidWind Project, to ask them about lessons learned regarding wind energy education.
Sterling High School has been a Wind for Schools Project host school since 2008, and Whisler championed the installation of the small wind turbine on the school's campus. In August 2012, Whisler attended KidWind's WindSenator training, joining the ranks of the program's 120-plus trained teachers in more than 27 states. Arquin was a middle school teacher in California, whose dream of inspiring more teachers and students to learn about clean energy technology led to him starting the KidWind Project in 2002 in his apartment basement. To date, KidWind has trained more than 7,000 teachers and impacted more than 500,000 students.
Whisler and Arquin shared the following lessons for anyone interested in bringing wind energy education to a school.
Your first step isn't that important; what's important is that you keep moving. There are multiple ways to approach bringing wind energy into the classroom. Educators may wonder about how to begin: perhaps installing a wind turbine at a school, adding wind energy curricula, or participating in a program like the KidWind Project? According to Whisler, the first thing to do is to put yourself out there.
"It's almost like which came first, the chicken or the egg?" he said. "The opportunities are out there, and you just have to work to help make them happen. As you start, you often find a lot of support that maybe you didn't know about until you started. That's what I've found with both the wind turbine project and KidWind. As we've worked to enhance our energy-related studies with environmental science, it's like a snowball that's gained momentum, and it's really been fun to be a part of that."
Funding is always a challenge. Funding is one of the largest concerns regarding how to implement wind energy into the classroom. With limited budgets, schools and educators may be worried about these costs. Whisler believes that starting small can be the answer to overcoming funding issues.
"Start small and then build," he said. "The KidWind curricula is available online, and the classroom activities are there too. I just did a 3-day workshop where one of the teachers attending had used the KidWind activities in his classroom, even though he hadn't been through the training yet. A teacher in his district attended the workshop that I taught in January and went back with one of the turbine kits from the workshop. He said, 'You have to do these in your physical science classes. Your physics students are going to love them.' This teacher actually started learning with the students. The kids had a great time with it, and then his district's superintendent and principal were supportive of him attending the training as well."
According to Whisler, a good resource for teachers seeking funding can be district grant writers.
"One of the first things we did after I visited with the superintendent and talked to a couple of the board members about the turbine project was visit with our grant writer," he said. "We have a very good one in our district, and I visited with her. I've been doing a lot more grant writing and working with our team on that."
Whisler also thinks about fundraising in terms of the small curricula kits.
"My goal is that when a teacher attends the KidWind workshop, we've secured at least some funding to help with the purchase of the KidWind Turbine Kits. It costs about $130 for the advanced kit, and I've been trying to use grant money to pay for half of the cost of the kits. Then the school districts can cover the other half. That way at the end of the workshop, the teachers go home with a kit that they can immediately start using in their classrooms."
"If you're a teacher who is motivated and willing to look around, you can always find resources," Arquin said. "People want to help educators, but you have to give them a reason to want to. Whether it's through money, stuff, or time, everyone wants to help teachers, but you have to give people something concrete to grab on to."
Be willing to learn with your students. Educators may be fearful of trying new approaches and teaching new materials to students without having prior experience with the topic.
"You have to be willing to learn and welcome the challenges," Whisler said. "I'm not an electrical engineer. I've had a lot to learn as part of the process, but I think that's important for students to see. When we graduate from high school or college, we don't know everything. It's important to be lifelong learners. That's what I've tried to model through the activities. I'm going to get in there and learn and do science."
It's not just about hyping wind energy. With growing concerns about climate change and increasing energy demands, it is currently more important than ever to understand the role that renewables will play in today's energy sector as well as in the future.
"We've rewritten the first three or four lessons to make the connections of why we should care about wind in the scope of global climate change," Arquin said. "What's the bigger point? A lot of our work now is to make sure the curriculum is framed within that lens."
Hands-on learning is valuable for teachers. Whisler tries to provide teachers attending the workshops with hands-on time where they can actually do the activities.
"They're building blades, they're running tests, they're hooking the turbines up in the wind tunnel," he said. "I don't want to just talk about the activities. I want to do them, and that way at the end, the teachers have the turbines and they can go back to the classrooms and do these activities with their own students."
Interested in applying to become a WindSenator?
According to Arquin, "We want teachers with 5 to 10 years experience and a track record of raising money for their classroom and training other teachers and influencing their peers. They have to have a willingness to really get into it and be willing to make some mistakes."
Visit kidwind.org for wind-related activities, lessons, and more program information. Other programs and curricula are available at Wind Powering America Education.
—Julie Jones