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7 Great Ideas
Two hundred and twenty-five years is a long time for an institution to survive. Founded as Davidson Academy in 1785, what is now Vanderbilt's Peabody College initially existed under various names—Cumberland College, University of Nashville, State Normal College of Tennessee, Peabody Normal College. During those years, Peabody's primary innovation was its continued existence in a region not always responsive to higher education.
The Peabody Education Fund was established by George Peabody in 1867 to promote and encourage education in the South following the Civil War. It was not until 1907 at the liquidation of the fund that the beginnings of the Peabody we know today—George Peabody College for Teachers—came into being. From that point, and at Peabody's present location (which was the site of another institution of higher learning, Roger Williams University), the history of Peabody as a highly regarded school of education began to take shape.
Starting from the modern era in 1914, Peabody's purpose was to serve as an agent for educational reform, particularly in the South, where the infrastructure for education had fallen apart. Peabody worked to train educators who could better the lives of students and their families, using schools as the centerpiece to initiate social reforms and bringing the South to more equal footing with the rest of the country. On the way, innovative new ideas were developed. Peabody's accomplishments soon took on national and international stature.
Emphasis on putting research into action and theory into practice has always been Peabody's strength. There have been many educational innovations that have evolved from research done at Peabody. In these few pages, we showcase seven innovative ideas developed at Peabody that continue to leave a mark on the world of education.
Knapp Farm
In 1915, one year after Peabody welcomed students to its present-day location, its landscape was dotted with chicken coops, a vegetable garden and a barn. The latest in farm equipment was on display in the basement of the Home Economics building and its most eminent professor was the country's leading horticulturist—all in an effort to live up to the reforms suggested by the Country Life Commission created by President Theodore Roosevelt.
Improving the life of rural Americans, particularly those in the South, became an important mission for Peabody. The hero of this movement was Seaman A. Knapp, a federal appointee charged with promoting Southern agriculture. His work eventually led to the establishment of the Cooperative Extension Service that supported farmers and home demonstration agents.
Bruce Payne, Peabody's first president, was an enthusiastic supporter of Knapp's work and wanted to create a Knapp School of Country Life on the campus. The funds for the school never materialized, but Payne was able to purchase 300 acres east of Nashville (near the present-day Nashville International Airport) for a demonstration farm.
The farm flourished with a 25-acre orchard and fields used to experiment with crops suited to the local climate. The farm's pride and joy was its dairy and herd of purebred Holsteins.
Visitors flocked to the farm from all over the South. It provided part-time work for students and fresh food for the school cafeteria. However, the farm that was established to honor Knapp fell victim to his vision. As the Cooperative Extension Service grew, the need for the demonstration farm waned. By the 1930s the dairy operation was the only viable part of the farm.
Peabody held on to the herd until 1959 when it was sold. The land was sold in 1965 for $1 million. Though Peabody no longer has any component quite like Knapp Farm, its faculty continues to do important research leading to both rural and urban social reforms.
For more, visit: http://snipurl.com/knappfarm
Lloyd Dunn and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test doesn't look like a game changer.
It could easily be mistaken for any classroom material—it's just an easel with a series of pictures, four to a page. But this simple test, developed in 1959 by Peabody's pioneering Lloyd and Leota M. Dunn, is still used worldwide and is considered the standard bearer for a fast, accurate measure of how well someone understands language.
Because test-takers answer by simply pointing at a picture, the PPVT can be used with children as young as 2 and adults as old as 90. The 15-minute test accurately measures the receptive vocabulary skills of people with reading or speech problems, multiple physical impairments, developmental disabilities and those who are emotionally withdrawn.
"I don't know of a measure that's used more than the PPVT," says Ann Kaiser, a professor of special education and holder of the Susan Gray Chair in Education and Human Development. "We use it to show early growth in children's vocabulary skills. It's a good indicator of language ability when they're young, and it's an easy test to respond to—they just point to the named picture."
"The PPVT measures receptive language, which is a person's ability to comprehend a message," said Stephen Elliott, Dunn Family Professor in Educational and Psychological Assessment. "It's also a good proxy for measuring intelligence as commonly defined."
Lloyd Dunn was one of the "scholars with a social conscience" who helped found the Kennedy Center in 1965. He established the first doctoral program for special education in the South, and served as its chair from 1953 until 1967. Lloyd Dunn and his wife Leota collaborated on a number of assessment and instructional devices first published in the 1950s and '60s, including the Peabody Individual Achievement Test, Peabody Language Development Kits and Peabody Early Experience Kits. Their son, Douglas M. Dunn, who was a researcher at Bell Labs and later dean of the Carnegie-Mellon University business school, recently collaborated on the fourth revision of the PPVT test, keeping the 1950s test relevant for the 21st century.
For more, visit: http://snipurl.com/lloyddunn
Susan Gray and Head Start
Susan Gray was a small woman, but her influence on education was huge—spanning decades and affecting not only teaching, but policy and decision-making on a national scale. Perhaps even more important, her work led to programs that improved the lives of millions of underprivileged and underserved children.
Paul R. Dokecki, director of Peabody's Community Research and Action doctoral program, was a Peabody student when Susan Gray was breaking new ground with the Early Training Project. That project—an early educational intervention program for at-risk preschoolers—grew from an experimental summer program to one of international repute.
In 1965, Gray co-founded the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center. Soon after, her work with the Early Training Project caught the eye of Sargent Shriver, head of the Office of Economic Opportunity, a government program started by Lyndon Johnson in 1964 to fight the "war on poverty."
"In the 1960s there was optimism about what education and research could do," Dokecki says. "Shriver always credited the work of Susan Gray and the Early Training Project as being the intellectual stimulus for the Head Start program."
In 1970, Gray recruited Dokecki to come back to Peabody as her associate director of the Demonstration and Research Center for Early Education or DARCEE, an extension of the Early Training Project. Dokecki succeeded Gray as director upon her retirement.
"People came from all over the world to our training workshops on campus," Dokecki says. "This was a major research project. We had more than a hundred staff members and a million-dollar budget, and this was back in the early 1970s. Susan Gray created all that."
In later years, scholars studied the long-lasting effects on children who had been in the program.
"There was a national effort to see how the children were doing in their 20s," Dokecki says. "We found that kids who had been in the program were less likely to have been in special education, less likely to have been incarcerated or to have children born out of wedlock."
For more, visit: http://snipurl.com/susangray
Millions of students now call themselves good readers thanks to READ 180, a reading intervention program developed at Peabody. By combining individualized computer-guided instruction, video and sound teaching methodology, READ 180 has proved to be the key for struggling middle- and high-school students across the country.
Ted Hasselbring, Peabody research professor of special education, led the genesis of READ 180 in 1985, when he won a Department of Education grant looking for ways to use technology to help special education students become better readers. Results were so promising that in 1994, the Orange County (Fla.) school district brought Hasselbring and his team down to implement READ 180 in the hopes that helping struggling middle- and high-school students learn to read would lower the district's battles with behavior problems, truancy and dropout rates.
It worked. By using the READ 180 instruction protocol of 90 minutes a day, five days a week, the school system's dropout and behavior referral rate fell significantly while reading scores continuously rose. Word of the program's success spread—students usually improve two to five grade levels in a year—and Hasselbring then partnered with Scholastic in 1999.
"READ 180 works because it combines Ted's sound, proven research with our knowledge of technology and what works in the classroom," says Margery Mayer, president of Scholastic Education. "READ 180 creates a safe place for these kids to learn and grow."
READ 180, used in 15,000 classrooms across 50 states, is now the gold standard for middle- and high-school reading intervention programs. Hasselbring and Scholastic keep READ 180 up to date and are developing partner programs for students who need support to get to READ 180's level and for those who are ready for the next step.
Hasselbring keeps a fat ring binder of student success stories on his office shelf. "They tell us that being able to read totally changes their lives," he said. "It's amazing to be a part of this."
For more, visit: http://snipurl.com/sread180
The Adventures of Jasper Woodbury
During a close mayoral race, Jasper Woodbury, a journalist for the Cumberland City Chronicle, covers a story on how nearby Trenton plans to dump its excess garbage in Cumberland City. Two siblings, who are members of their high school's environmental club, volunteer for the mayoral campaign of their mother, who has a plan for how to deal with the garbage. The day of the election, they must hurriedly fill in for a volunteer who has an emergency appendectomy. They must now figure out the schedule for sending get-out-the-vote vans.
The challenge: Find the best plan for the morning and afternoon rush-hour time slots, including when to tell drivers to be at the rental agency to pick up and return the vans.
This is a synopsis from one of the 12 videos that comprise The Adventures of Jasper Woodbury. Developed at Peabody's Learning Technology Center in the early '90s, the series uses real-world problems and technological interactivity to teach mathematical concepts to middle school students around the United States. In studies of students who have encountered Jasper and his adventures in the classroom, assessments have shown that impressive gains in understanding arithmetic, algebra, geometry and measurement were made in comparison with students who did not work on these concepts using the series. Their abilities to work with others and to communicate design ideas also improved.
In the episode above, students are given information about how long it takes to drive from the rental agency to the polling places, how much gas costs at a certain service station on the way, how much each van costs according to its size (how many can be transported) and how many gallons of gas it holds, and aspects related to the election, such as polling results and how many votes a candidate must gain to win the election.
Students work on various adventures within the series during three to four weeks, and each episode provides material for solving a number of challenges.
Mark F. Klassen, a sixth-grade math teacher at Meigs Magnet Middle School in Nashville, uses the videos in his classes. "I have found that The Adventures of Jasper Woodbury teaches math in authentic settings that support students' reasoning, problem solving and communication skills. The way that Jasper introduces the 'challenges' in conjunction with the story leads students to believe they could encounter and solve these problems in real life.
"Math then becomes a life skill," Klassen says, "instead of an algorithm to be used to solve a series of problems that only exist in books."
For more, visit: http://snipurl.com/jasperwoodbury
Responsiveness to Intervention
Forty years ago, a student who experienced severe difficulty in learning to read or in learning math would not have been diagnosed with a learning disability. Today, nearly 50 percent of all students with disabilities are identified as learning disabled. Learning disabilities, which span reading, mathematics and written expression, have traditionally been identified using discrepancies between IQ tests and achievement scores.
Douglas Fuchs and Lynn Fuchs, Nicholas Hobbs Professors of Special Education and Human Development, have been instrumental in developing a multitiered approach for identifying students with learning disabilities called responsiveness to intervention or RTI. Using instructional methods of increasing intensity, such as validated small-group tutoring, as well as progress-monitoring methods for indexing a student's response to that instruction, RTI has gained favor as one of the best methods for identifying students with learning disabilities and for providing preventative education services.
In 2001, the U.S. Department of Education awarded a grant to Doug Fuchs, Lynn Fuchs and Don Compton, associate professor of special education, to establish the National Research Center for Learning Disabilities.
The center's focus was to conduct research on RTI and to provide technical assistance to state educational agencies that implement RTI. Researchers have found that among the 20 percent of children at risk for learning disabilities, approximately 15 percent respond to the prevention services incorporated within RTI.
"RTI has been a useful notion to help researchers like myself and my colleagues rethink methods of identifying children at risk for severe reading and math problems," Lynn Fuchs says. "And if we can identify them more quickly, we can help them sooner."
For their work, Doug and Lynn Fuchs were named to Forbes magazine's list of 14 revolutionary educators in December 2009.
For more, visit: www.nrcld.org
The National Center on Performance Incentives
Changing minds that have been made up for more than half a century won't be easy, but that's exactly what Matt Springer is trying to do. Springer is the director of the National Center on Performance Incentives and assistant professor of public policy and education at Peabody.
In the 1920s the single salary schedule of teacher compensation was introduced. This method rewards teachers based on their years of experience and degrees held. By the 1950s, more than 90 percent of K-12 public schools in the United States had adopted this policy and that figure is true today as well. However, policymakers and others question whether this is really the best compensation method.
"What we've found is that experience and degree only account for 3 percent of the variation in teacher effectiveness," Springer says. "That means that 97 percent of what could explain what makes a teacher effective has nothing to do with how long they've been teaching and what degree they've obtained."
The National Center on Performance Incentives is researching an alternative compensation method—one based more on student performance.
"The design of our project is focusing more on an outcome as opposed to rewarding teachers for board certification or earning an advanced degree," Springer says.
The just-completed three-year study shows, "We tested the most basic and foundational question related to performance incentives—Does bonus pay alone improve student outcomes?—and we found that it does not," Springer says. "These findings should raise the level of the debate to test more nuanced solutions, many of which are being implemented now across the country, to reform teacher compensation and improve student achievement.
"We need six-figure salaries for our best teachers," Springer says. "Until we can differentiate pay and until we can begin to recognize the highest performers, we're not going to change the quality of our teacher workforce. Obviously those top individuals can make a whole lot more money outside of education if we stick with the current model."
For more, visit: www.performanceincentives.org
Charles B. Dreyer
December 31st, 2010
Susan Gray was my wife's aunt. We remember her with love and pride. During the 1960s and '70s we were able to see her work at Peabody. Sincerely, Charles Dreyer


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Portable Power Pods: USB Batteries Keep Gadgets Going
It is a technophile's worst nightmare: being stranded away from home with no power outlet to charge a depleted gadget. Designers Haimo Bao, Hailong Piao, Yuancheng Liu & Xiameng Hu propose Continuance as a brilliantly simple solution to this dilemma.
Continuance is a line of rechargeable batteries with a powerful addition: a USB port on the side. The addition of a USB cord lets the stored power in the battery transfer to another location.
The USB plug allows users to charge gadgets when away from home – provided they can remember to slip one or two of the batteries into their pockets before leaving.
The concept, an iF Concept Design 2011 entry, is a clever answer to a common problem. It may need some further development before it can go into production, but when/if it does we'll be first in line to take some home.

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Holyrood to get new budget powers under Scotland Bill
Scotland will receive major new financial powers worth £12bn under UK government plans which will see it control a third of its budget.
Scottish Secretary Michael Moore outlined the tax and borrowing powers as he published the Scotland Bill.
Other areas, including control over air weapons and drink-driving and speed limits, will also be devolved.
But the SNP Scottish government said the bill was too limited, and branded it a "missed opportunity".
The proposals were backed by Scottish Labour, the Lib Dems and Tories and the parties demanded SNP ministers to make time for an early debate on the bill at Holyrood.
The Scotland Bill, launched in Edinburgh, follows the findings of the Calman Commission review of devolution, which recommended Holyrood should be allowed to raise half of income tax.
Under the legislation, Holyrood will set a Scottish income tax rate each year from 2015, applying equally to the basic, higher and additional rates.
At the same time, there would be a reduction of some 35% in the Scottish budget Treasury grant, worth about £30bn a year.
The bill will also see the introduction of Scottish government borrowing powers for the first time, worth £2.7bn.
Mr Moore said the package of measures represented the biggest transfer of fiscal power to Scotland since the creation of the United Kingdom.
"It is a powerful blueprint which will strengthen Scotland by improving devolution," he said.
"Future Scottish governments will have more accountability to the public for the financial decisions they make and will have access to significant borrowing powers.
"Devolution has worked well over the last decade but today's bill addresses a number of major issues and takes the settlement forward in a powerful and positive way."
Other powers to be devolved include stamp duty and landfill tax - although plans to hand over powers on the aggregates levy and aviation tax have been put on hold.
Mr Moore said the first tax was currently subject to a dispute in the European courts, while the latter was under review by the UK government.
Scotland already has the ability to vary income tax by 3p in the pound, although the so-called Tartan tax has never been used.
The new legislation would require MSPs to set an annual income tax rate.
The bill also allows Holyrood to introduce new Scotland-specific taxes, subject to Westminster approval, and Scottish ministers will also join a new UK-Scottish tax committee.
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond welcomed the prospect of new devolved justice powers - but argued Scots wanted far greater financial responsibility, like full fiscal autonomy.
"This bill was a great opportunity which the UK government has missed," he said, adding: "Unfortunately, people will be disappointed by a lacklustre Westminster bill that tinkers around the edges, retains the key powers in London, and leaves big questions unanswered.
"The fiscal powers are far too limited, and, for the sake of Scotland's economy and public services, the bill needs to be strengthened either by the Scottish Parliament or the people."
The first minister added: "A big unanswered question is why the Scottish Parliament is being asked to sign a blank cheque, with the Westminster government expecting Scotland to pay for the very limited extra powers."
The Scottish government also published its own commentary on the proposals in the bill.
MSP Patrick Harvie, of the pro-independence Scottish Greens, said the Scotland Bill was part of a "flawed process, dominated by the interests of political parties rather than Scotland's people".
Holyrood opposition groups said parties which rejected independence won 80% of the vote in the 2007 Scottish election.
In a joint statement, the leaders of Scottish Labour, the Tories and Lib Dems - Iain Gray, Annabel Goldie and Tavish Scott - said: "More than a decade after devolution, the time is right to take the next steps in developing Scotland's democracy, its relationship with the other nations of the UK, and indeed the UK's territorial constitution.
"This bill provides the Scottish Parliament with the opportunity to do just that, and so serve the people of Scotland better.
"We intend to work together to make sure it takes that opportunity."
In other areas, certain powers over the running of Scottish elections will be devolved to Holyrood, along with responsibility to determine which doctors can administer specific medication to drug addicts.
A Scottish Crown Estate Commissioner will also be created and Scottish and UK ministers will act jointly when appointing the BBC Trust member for Scotland.
The term "Scottish government" will also be formally recognised, in place of the previously used title, "Scottish Executive".
The UK government chose St Andrew's Day to launch the bill - the planned date for the Scottish government's independence referendum, which was dropped because of a lack of parliamentary support.


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The job of our immune system is to recognize foreign invaders and to eliminate the threat while sparing self-tissues. Such discrimination occurs at the level of T cell receptor (TCR) recognition of peptide/MHC molecular complexes on target cell surfaces. Signals arising from recognition of self-peptide/MHC molecules (self-ligands) by developing thymocytes determine lineage commitment and selection of the TCR repertoire. However, the role of self-ligand interaction in peripheral mature T cells is controversial. Specifically, how the presence of self-ligands influences lymphocyte function and migratory behavior in vivo remains unclear. Until recently, such determination largely comes from indirect experimental evidence. With the aid of 2-photon laser scanning microscopy, however, investigators can now begin to understand intercellular dynamics within an intact tissue microenvironment such as the lymph node. An example of the utility of this powerful imaging tool is the uncovering of the role inflammatory chemokines play in the orchestration of multi-cellular cooperation during the intranodal induction of a primary immune response8. In the current study, we propose to provide direct, high-resolution data addressing the impact of self-ligand surveillance by circulating mature lymphocytes in the lymph nodes. We also plan to undertake a series of studies aimed to delineate the relative contribution of various self-ligand-expressing cells during immune surveillance by naive lymphocytes as well as other specialized cells such as regulatory T cells. This will be accomplished by utilizing the state-of-the-art 2-photon laser scanning microscopy available in our own laboratory, combined with classical immunological techniques and mouse bone marrow chimera manipulations. Success in this endeavor will provide new insights into how self-ligands contribute to the global lymphocyte behavior and function in vivo, and will set the stage for a detailed understanding of how self-peptide/MHC interactions shape the responses of the T cell populations against cognate antigens encountered during infection and vaccination. A detailed understanding of the intricate and complex cellular communication in the tissue microenvironment will allow future inquiries into the in vivo cellular mechanisms that lead to the development of dysregulated state of self-tolerance, such as autoimmunity, cancer and chronic infection.
Recognition of positive-selecting self-ligands plays a crucial role in developing T lymphocytes during thymic education. However, the role of such self-peptide antigen recognition in the periphery for mature T lymphocytes is controversial. The current study seeks to investigate the role self-peptide antigens play in the in vivo behavior of T lymphocytes in secondary lymphoid organs.
We aim to provide high-resolution data addressing the impact of self-ligand interactions, and to seek the relative contribution of various stromal and immune cellular subsets in affecting the migratory behavior of naive and regulatory T lymphocytes in vivo. The proposed studies will set the stage for proper understanding of how self-peptide/MHC interactions shape the responses of these T cell populations against cognate antigens seen during infection and vaccination. Successful execution of this project will also provide new insights into potential mechanisms underlying the development of autoimmunity, induction of tumor tolerance and maintenance of homeostatic immune responses.
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Potential medieval village among Western Isles 'finds'
Archaeologists' chance encounter with an islander has led them to the site of a possible medieval fishing village on the Western Isles.
The site is among potential new historic finds made along the islands' coasts following tip offs from members of the public.
Archaeologists said they were told about the village after bumping into local man JJ MacDonald.
A diver also alerted the experts to 5,000-year-old pottery from a loch.
Last year, fishermen, beachcombers, divers and islanders in the Hebrides were asked for information on where archaeologists might find ancient sites along shorelines.
The project involves the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), WA Coastal and Marine, Historic Scotland and Comhairle nan Eilean Siar.
The experts are now working on confirming, dating and analysing the sites and relics they were alerted to, along with aerial photographs of the locations.
Finds included Neolithic pottery found by a diver in Loch an Duna, on Lewis.
A previously unknown complex of fish traps and evidence of occupation south of Lochboisdale on South Uist have also been found.
The possible fishing village was discovered near Loch Aineort, on South Uist.
The project team said on Ordnance Survey maps the area is called Havn, the Norse word for harbour.
'Incredible knowledge'
Archaeological investigator at RCAHMS, Dr Alex Hale, said it was among the most promising tip offs.
"Meeting JJ MacDonald was one of those fortuitous moments that can only happen when you are in the field," he said.
"We bumped into JJ at his boat shed, by chance, and the amount of knowledge he has of the local environment is incredible.
"He's obviously very knowledgeable about the area where he lives and was able to help us identify sites that we'll now be able to investigate further, such as the fishing station."
Dr Jonathan Benjamin, of WA Coastal and Marine, said local knowledge was key to the first major study of the Western Isles' marine archaeology.
He said: "As full-time archaeologists we don't have the benefit of observing the shoreline between the low and high tides, day in and day out, year after year.
"That's why we're relying on the knowledge of people who live and work on or near the sea, and who might have noticed something out of the ordinary, either in a fishing net, or at an especially low tide.
"We're also explaining to people the sorts of things that we're interested in, because they may have seen or noticed things in the past, but disregarded them as not important."
The Western Isles' coasts have been a rich source of archaeology in the past.
The 12th Century Lewis Chessmen were found beneath a sand dune near Uig on the west coast of Lewis at some point before 1831.
More recently, in 2007, ancient coins were discovered on a beach, giving new clues to the far-reaching influence of the Roman Empire.
Archaeologists believed the pieces of copper alloy dated from the middle of the 4th Century.
Like the chess pieces, they were found in a sand dune, but the location in the Uists has been kept secret to protect the site.


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Following on in my study of South American art and artists here is some formidable Costa Rican artists worth a mention. I particularly like the work of the artist Jorge Gallardo who was a Costa Rican painter and poet. Gallardo's works are among the most important art collections of the Government of Costa Rica as well as many individuals, both domestic and foreign. His art is an irreverent mix in which he uses an impeccable use of color, which many have considered flat and without complexities. He painted many colorful pictures displaying topics such as agriculture in Costa Rica and the working people on landscapes.
Painting in Costa Rica began to grow in the early twentieth century with painters like; Francisco Zuñiga, Theodoric Quiros, and Francisco Amighetti.
At the turn of the 19th century, Costa Rican art was very much associated with the social elite. It was mainly used as social and political tool, heightening statuses or emphasizing noble ancestory. The fashion at the time was to have foreign artists paint personal portraits, and so European traditions began to infiltrate Costa Rican paintings. Foreign artists such as Santiago Paramo, Henry Etheridge and Bigot started to teach Costa Rican painters new techniques. This foundation enabled Costan Rican painters to flourish. The most significant Costa Rican painters of the late nineteenth century were: Ezequiel Jimenez Rojas, Wenceslao de la Guardia and Enrique Echandi. These and other young artists were encouraged and supported by the establishment of the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (National School of Arts) in 1897, which was under the charge of Tomas Povedano, a renowned Spanish painter.
Costa Rican painting began to flourish in the early twentieth century. The painters of the past century had had to overcome difficulties, but this enabled their successors to receive an education in Art and to enjoy a larger and more generous audience for their work. Some of the most famous Costan Rican painters from the past century include: Francisco Zúñiga, Teodorico Quiros, Francisco Amighetti and Margarita Bertheau. Their work didn't just imitate European models, but the Costa Rican art world finally had a life of its own, free of its dependence on the elite and of the rejection from the rest.
via Painting in Costa Rica – Costa Rica Painters | don Quijote


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Talking about Faith
September 21, 2007
Why do we believe?
Why doesn't God show up in a way that would leave no question as to who He is?
What do we grab onto during those tough time when it seems like everything around you is crashing in and it does not make sense?
Why do bad things happen to good people?
Why did God not show up when we really needed Him


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Tag Archives: Los Angeles Public Library
Gathering the tools: Preparing new Information and Library Professionals for Success
Preparing for ALA's annual conference feels particularily important because it is my first chance to catch up with the people, trends and research that I immersed myself in during school since becoming a full time librarian. For the last few … Continue reading
Innovative Leadership Fellow-Karen Pickard-Four
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Musings on Innovation: An introduction
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TWO x TWO 2013
TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art is the contemporary art auction benefiting amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, and the Dallas Museum of Art, held annually at the Rachofsky House in Dallas, Texas. Artsy hosted the online premiere of the OWN it NOW auction October 18 to 24. Online bidding for the OWN it NOW auction on Artsy has closed. For more information, please visit the full TWO x TWO catalogue at twoxtwo.org/catalogue or contact Trish Ireland at email@example.com.


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The product adopt 60 pcs super bright SMD LED as luminous body per meter. Silver anodized aluminium profile. The wires come out from both ends with waterproof connector.
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Release: The Bard's Tale
Beer beer beer tiddly beer beer beer!The Bard's Tale, the pinnacle of comedy among computer role playing games, bundled with the classic DOS-era dungeon crawlers: Bard's Tale 1,2,3, is available for Windows and Mac OS X on GOG.com, for only $9.99.In a world, that's in a desperate need of a hero, one man chooses his own destiny. Yup, that sounds about the same as every other role playing game. Only this time, things go a little bit different. The Bard, a roguish vagabond who only cares for coin and cleavage, has no intention to perform acts of unmatchable heroism and prove that he's larger than life. Neither he has desire for fame and glory that would earn him a place in songs and sagas that would fuel the imagination of the generations to come. After all, he can always come up with songs and sagas praising him, while he enjoys a pint of beer and some female companionship at some cozy inn. Yup, whatever he does, he will be remembered as a great champion of the realm. What would you do in such unique position? Loot riches and woo maidens--it's the correct answer, my friend.The Bard's Tale delivers solid cRPG gameplay, a vast fantasy realm to explore, tons of quests to perform, and hundreds of items to loot. By all means this is a fully-fledged role playing game, but that's not what it's famous for. Brilliant comedy is where this game truly shines among all other titles in this genre. With excellent writing and fantastic voicing done by Cary Elwes (of The Princess Bride fame) as the Bard, and a gaming voiceover veteran, Tony Jay as the Narrator. There's also an extra treat for the die-hard old-school computer RPG fans included with this release: the classic DOS-era hard-as-nails Bard's Tales 1, 2, and 3.There are many cliche RPGs out there, but this is not one of them. As you embark on this adventure, you have no way to anticipate how will it end. One thing's certain though--there will be plenty of coin and cleavage coming your way if you get The Bard's Tale for only $9.99 on GOG.com!
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Barricane beach offers a picturesque and secluded spot, tucked away in between the rocks. It is famous for it'd tiny cowries and other exotic sea shells, rarely found on her larger neighbour Woolacombe beach. These shells travel along the Atlantic jet stream, swept from the shore of a Caribbean island thousands of miles away across the Atlantic and then to be dropped in near-perfect condition in this tiny little inlet on the North Devon coast.
The best pickings for shell seekers can be after large storms.
Around a half a mile from the main Woolacombe beach, Barricane is ideal for rock pooling, sun bathing and taking a dip in the sea.


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The PROFESSIONAL-MCS gives you the ability to stow a spare magazine on your rifle where it can be accessed instantly. Rapidly escalating situations are "come as you are" events and very few individuals are prepared to carry spare ammunition at a moment's notice. You are most likely to have to respond and fight with what is either in or on your rifle. The presence of an extra magazine securely attached to your rifle and instantly available, can make the difference between life and death. Reloading from the on-board magazine well is faster than reloading from most traditional magazine pouches or other forms of load-bearing kit. For the Law Enforcement community, the PROFESSIONAL-MCS can help alleviate many of the training difficulties experienced by instructors as they transition their students over to patrol rifles. For many urban agencies it can also help mitigate some of the public relations concerns the experience when their collapsible stock equipped patrol carbines are perceived as looking "too military" by members of their community.
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I created a collage of my second son's first year. Being a photographer, I didn't want to miss out on all the milestones of my own children's growth and cuteness :)
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Review: About Cherry
PLOT: A teenager from a broken family moves to San Francisco with her best friend and get mixed up in the pornography business.
REVIEW: Stephen Elliot's ABOUT CHERRY is a pointless melodrama that's not half as deep and meaningful as it thinks it is. It is not surprising to learn that it was written by people who have worked in the porn industry, because only they could find profundity in the film's very standard tale of a young, mixed up girl who finds herself immersed in the adult entertainment business; for the rest of us, this is just an After School Special with boobs and coke.
Angelina (Ashley Hinshaw) is an 18-year-old with good looks, a good heart, and traveling a path to nowhere. Her parents are unreliable drunks, her boyfriend is willing to sell her out to a nudie photographer for money, and she has zero prospects. The only small light in her life is her best friend Andrew (Dev Patel), who does what he can to lift her spirits. After the sordid nude photoshoot nets her $500, which she's supposed to share with her boyfriend, she and Andrew split and head to San Francisco on a rather aimless mission to get away from their crummy homes and relations.
Once in San Francisco, it doesn't take long for Angelina to find herself working a strip club as a waitress, which naturally soon transitions to stripper and ultimately leads her in to the unusual world of bondage porn. ABOUT CHERRY is unique in that it shines a light on this kinky fetish and its purveyors, and wouldn't you know it, it turns out that some of these folks aren't so bad. Angelina, now using the stage name âCherry,â hooks up with gentle director and former porn star Margaret (Heather Graham), who doesn't seek to exploit the young girl as much as nurture her way through the business. And Cherry isn't very surprised (and neither are we) to find that she takes to the medium like a fish to water.
ABOUT CHERRY is, when all things are considered, about the gentler side of the smut industry. While Cherry encounters a few dark patches, overall her experience isn't overtly negative. It's to note that ABOUT CHERRY steers clear of the degradation and abuse that would be expected in such a film (no BOOGIE NIGHTS-esque violence or misery here), which brings us back around to the fact that, it's almost like a greeting card from the sex peddlers saying, âSee, there's a nice side to this, too.â
But ABOUT CHERRY's biggest problem isn't that it's showing us the silver lining of porn, it's that it's boringly executed and devoid of serious drama. The early section of Angelina/Cherry's is by-the-numbers boozy parents and sad teenager stuff we've witnessed play out in a hundred other movies, while her immersion in the porn business doesn't move us because it's presented so timidly. You take away the nudity in this film and it's airing on Lifetime. A subplot about the Graham character's tenuous relationship with her professional girlfriend (Diane Farr) seems jammed into the film to pad out the running time, and a small supporting turn by James Franco as a coke-addicted lawyer who courts Cherry is just there to give her something to do other than fool around in front of the camera. Franco isn't even really allowed to go overboard; the movie wastes him.
Hinshaw deserves some praise for hanging in there; the attractive actress exudes equal amounts of vulnerability and self-assurance and essentially does what she can with a flimsy role that strangely deprives her of any significant dramatic moments. (This is movie takes place in the porn industry and we can't get one major freak-out scene?) There is likely a strongly effective movie concerning this subject matter with Hinshaw in the lead that could be made, but ABOUT CHERRY isn't that movie.
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SKY Helicopters, lnc., a commercial helicopter operator and provider of high-definition newsgathering services based in Garland, Texas, has been named the forty-first fastest-growing privately held company in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area by lnc Magazine.
The fast-growing companies, based on revenue growth, are recognized in the annual ranking of the "Inc 5000," published in the September 2009 issue. SKY Helicopters is the only helicopter company to be ranked in the nationwide list of emerging companies.
Founded in 1992, SKY experienced overall sales growth of 280 percent between 2005 and 2008. For consideration in the "lnc 5000," companies must be independent and privately held through 2008, and have at least $200,000 in sales in the base year, 2005, and 2008 sales must have exceeded $2 million. SKY ranked No. 1,118 on the "Inc 5000" nationwide list of fast-growing companies in the United States.
Previously, lnc Magazine recognized SKY's growth in 1999 and again in 2000. "We are honored to be named an 'lnc 5000' company among so many other groundbreaking and entrepreneurial organizations," said Kenneth Pyatt, founder and president of SKY Helicopters. "SKY's 'lnc 5000' ranking is an indication not only of our continued growth, but also of the demand for cost-effective high-definition newsgathering helicopters and services in the United States."
SKY Helicopters operates the Garland/DFW Heliport, the largest public heliport in Texas. The heliport, located on the northeast edge of Dallas, serves local and transient helicopter traffic. Heliport customers include medical, news gathering, energy, telecommunication, and private helicopter operators.
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Keywords: intellectual property, R&, D alliances, opportunistic learning, patents, trade secrets, organisational learning
Managing intellectual property in R&D alliances
This paper deals with the management of Intellectual Property (IP) in R&D alliances, with a focus on two key IP types – patents and trade secrets. Since IP is both inputs to and outputs of R&D alliances, the key is to simultaneously achieve two objectives – IP protection and IP generation. As research inputs, IP could be devalued by partners' opportunistic learning. Thus, IP needs to be carefully selected and protected through mechanisms such as equity arrangement, non-disclosure and non-compete agreements, and monitoring and auditing. Meanwhile, the performance of R&D alliances is mostly measured by their IP outputs. Partner firms face new issues, such as IP classification and ownership. They must decide whether to patent or keep their R&D outputs confidential. In making IP ownership decisions, partners need to consider R&D outputs' potential as the firm's core competencies and the risk of patent interference.
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[UPDATE] LITERARY ECOSYSTEMS AND NETWORKS: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO THE ARTS AND SOCIETY - Extended: January 15, 2012
The Comparative Literature Graduate Student Association invites proposals for papers and visual media projects for its 6th annual graduate conference at the University of Alberta on March 9-10, 2012. Originating from the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, Comparative Literature students aim to bring together the literary ecosystems and networks from a variety of fields, using methodologies spanning different disciplines in relation to the arts and society in Canada and the world. We welcome comparative, theoretical, and applied participation that showcases the societal issues reflected in the arts and humanities research in different contexts.
Individual and panel presentations are welcome in the form of paper, film, photography, or mixed media projects. Please submit a 200-word abstract and a 60-word bio to firstname.lastname@example.com by January 15, 2012. Presentations will be 20 minutes in length, followed by a short discussion. Submissions and presentations are to be in English or French. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by the end of January 2012. We also welcome creative participations for our closing literary evening, "Narrating Society in Fiction and Photos." Kindly (re)visit the conference web page for updates on keynote speakers, venues, literary evening, and early registration details: https://sites.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/coordinatesofcomparison/


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The details about the Marijuana vary place to place since last few years. Along with the America, few other states were appealing the government to legalize the selling of the Marijuana in their respective areas. Many of the laws were enacted regarding the case, but few of them were taken seriously. There are a variety of ailments are associated with the medical influence of the Marijuana, but, finally, in the America, the selling was legalized by the government. Still, the sale and use of this item have remained illegal under the federal law. The result of using the product affects the health of the people, so keeping that in mind; the government has decided not to accept the proposal in accessing the selling of Marijuana in other parts of the country.
Issues raised by the Socialist Party
In the recent days, the efforts of the people are extended to a higher version, beyond the imagination by conducting campaigns as well as events to legalize its recreational use. Many of the Americans hail these types of efforts as the triumph of the average of the citizen over a draconian legal system that consists of the massive amount of nonviolent drugs unnecessarily, that affects the regime as well as the health of the people.
However, the accesses of these claims regarding the Marijuana have got the unique path to legalize the selling with appropriate solutions. Without any types of medical study and scientific knowledge, the production of Marijuana has been allowed by the government in the America. There are no clear guidelines and reliable methods to use the product, or indication of the potential side effects from prolonged use. Therefore, the critics have raised the questions regarding the movement of Marijuana in the city, which is becoming a trend among the citizens.
Critics have vehemently disagreed with facts that are provided by the government as they think that the information is not reliable for a person to use Marijuana in the daily life. The side effects of the product are unknown from the users; the research protocols have failed to show the humanitarian concerns for the suffering patients as well as the profits of selling the product was also not up to the mark. The medical reasons associated with the Marijuana are an essential part as many of the citizens are always affected by the continuous use of the product. As per the survey, many of the citizens are affected by the use of Marijuana in their daily life and quality of the Marijuana is also decreasing day by day. The market condition is even deteriorating. Still, people want to dominate their life on the product. which is why depositories and online smoke shops are exploding at an exponential rate . The majority mode of the Marijuana like the chemical compounds that remains smoking it, the scientists have found out the related number of threats after inhaling the Marijuana. Scientists have added that they have found hundreds of issues after inhaling the Marijuana by a person.


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Time Warner's (NYSE:TWX.DL) HBO confirmed that total viewership for this season of Game of Thrones (18.4 million per episode) passed the 2002 season of The Sopranos (18.2 million), making it the network's most popular show ever. Given what an absolute cultural phenomenon The Sopranos was, that's pretty impressive.
But The Sopranos was the product of a different television era, with DVRs, on-demand, and online streaming viewing still largely futuristic talking points. At the time, its audience skewed heavily toward first-run broadcasts. In an era where Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) are just as much rivals to HBO as Showtime or Starz, the way we watch television across the past 12 years has changed dramatically. The percentage of people who watch Game of Thrones as first-run TV on Sunday night is relatively low compared with its total audience size, but lots of on-demand, DVR, and online viewings have pushed the series to the top..
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Christopher Nolan's INTERSTELLAR starts one one spectacularly grand premise---that all the speculations that scientists and astronomers make about existence of wormholes in the universe and black holes being conduits for space/time travel are true....to the best of my knowledge all these theories are unproven but the movie assumes them to be true ; or rather it assumes that they will be proven in the future .
.....For it is in the future that the movie is set , though it is not the distant but the near future...
And that future is not the future as we envision it , but it is if fact a bleak future...living standards everywhere have fallen , and humanity has been reduced to trying to eke out an existence by farming because there is lack of food on earth---dust storms regularly imperil even the existing crops .
So the leading actor of the film ( Cooper---played by Matthew McConaughey ) , whose talent of flying a space shuttle has been lying unused because of the lack or resources until now , is selected to command and fly a space mission through a wormhole across space and time . He has to fly it to distant planets in some other part of the universe to find if one of them is fit for supporting permanent colonization of humans , where other humans have already been sent a while ago .
And his selection has not been random ; he has been selected not by the group of scientists who are in charge of the project....but he has been selected for his task by 'they' , and even to the group of scientists who are in charge of the project the opinion of 'they' carries far more weight than their own---due to the belief that the wormhole has been set up in the solar system by 'they' for helping us....
So are 'they' ? Are they extraterrestrials who want to help us ? Or is it God himself ??
And does Cooper and his crew succeed in finding out a planet where he humanity can thrive again ??
Above all , what about his family and crying daughter whom he has left on earth ?? Will he meet them ever again , lost as he is across the mists of space and time ?? What about his pain and anguish about not seeing them grow up , and his daughter's pain and anguish at not being able to be with her dad ??
Watch the movie for the answers , for telling any more will be spoiling the entertainment for you.....
To be honest only some astronomer can tell whether all the science fiction shown in the film can come close to truth in reality .
And frankly I could not fully comprehend some of it .But one has to give credit to Nolan for undertaking a science fiction adventure of such grandeur , and showing it with some nice special effects .
It's not a regular thriller at all....but one which relies on the incredible scope of the undertaking ( travel through space in double quick time to find a habitable planet in another galaxy ) to awe us , rather than rely on giving thrills and shocks every few moments like other thrillers .
....And it does awe us , for the scenes like the visuals of the wormhole and sightings of the black hole and the ride through the event horizon are the stuff that astronomer's fantasies are made of . And that's why---a little bit of basic reading of astronomy , if done in the past , will come mightily handful in watching the movie .
Photography of the movie cannot be called fantastic ; I have certainly seen better efforts...
But some scenes , like the tsunami in the sea on the new planet , and the stark topography of the other planet , are breathtakingly photographed , or rather created by the special effects team---for no one has really traveled to distant galaxies to film anything there .
Music of the movie does inspire you however .
Acting in the film can be called good , especially by the lead actor but also by others .
Maybe the movie relies too much on that fragile emotion called love to propel the story forward , or maybe that's the director's way of keeping the audience interested in the midst of all the advanced science fiction . Some gadgets , like the robot which talked and joked besides walking and leaping and calculating faster than humans ( did the robot even wink in one scene ? ), were nice . The idea of fixing the robot's parameters like honesty and humor etc to a certain percentage was funny and likable .
The ending of the movie was a nice touch ; did it hint at an impending romance ??
And...was the bad guy in the film really a bad guy , or was driven to badness by force of circumstances ??
Once more Christopher Nolan has given us a cerebral thriller , which makes other movies that rely on special effects look shallow in front of it . But has he exceeded his intellectual reach beyond what the audience can fully understand and digest ??
To be honest , I was tempted to give a full four stars to the movie , but reduced it by half a star because the movie is not easy to understand . The movie has the feel of a great movie throughout , as if we are watching something epic---is it because it is a Christopher Nolan movie ?? Has the sheer fact that the movie has been made by HIM weighed on our minds to create the effect of greatness ?? I prefer to believe not , but there is no denying that the publicity that the movie has got and the fact that people in a distant country like India are flocking to the theaters ( almost no tickets were available in Mumbai/Bombay in India---where I live ) to see the film is due to HIM .
Verdict---Good enough .
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NET Guard Dying Quietly
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On Capitol Hill, most bills die young, smothered in their cribs by partisanship, philosophical differences or simple lack of money.
But even with the president's blessing, there's no guarantee a law will achieve its authors' high-minded aims. Some languish in the statute books, unworkable and unused.
That could be the fate awaiting the Science and Technology Emergency Mobilization Act -- at least a key part of it.
Passed last year, the measure calls for a National Emergency Technology (NET) Guard -- a group of tech-savvy volunteers to prevent, or at least mimimize, the sort of network gridlock that added to the confusion and fear the morning of Sept. 11.
"It is essential to ensure that America's anti-terrorism efforts tap the tremendous science and technology talents of the private sector," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said in a floor speech last July.
In early December, Wyden's spokeswoman said it might take a year before the program was running. But now, five months later, nothing has been done, and there's a real possibility nothing ever will be.
The Difference Between Shall and May
Though there are a slew of practical reasons NET Guard has not progressed, the mechanism enabling inaction is contained in the bill's language.
In a town where the definition of "is" has been parsed, phrasing is paramount. Imprecision yanks the teeth from criminal law, opens gaping and unintended loopholes in tax law, and in this case, allows an agency to opt-out of administrative law.
"The law says that our department may enact a system like NET Guard, it doesn't actually require it," said David Wray, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security Department, which is charged with overseeing NET Guard.
The statute says the president "shall" pick a department to keep a list of volunteers, but two paragraphs later says DHS "may" decide to organize them in regional teams and help them contact each other.
Since it's unclear if NET Guard will even be formed, there is no effort to recruit volunteers, and no database to maintain.
"We are looking at it but we have an awful lot to do and have to do," said Wray, adding that the war with Iraq has caused DHS to focus on issues other than NET Guard.
"Conceptually NET Guard has a lot of appeal," said John L. Williams, co-founder and CTO of Preventsys, a Carlsbad, Calif., network security firm. "Say I'm a guy on commercial side of house, I exist to make money, but there's a new world out there where terrorists attack national interests -- and I can do something about it."
Williams cites Howard Schmidt's recent move from Microsoft executive to White House cybersecurity chief, as an example of this new, or perhaps rediscovered public spirit.
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Message from the Chair
Dear All,
At a recent symposium with the Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australasia, it became evident to me that our road engineers are just as much heroes of the front line of road safety as our Police force.
Thanks to champions in the profession in WA, people like Menno Henneveld and Sarkis Petrossian, who were among the first to realise that construction standards were just the beginning when it comes to road safety, Safe System road engineering is now an established discipline in our State.
In possessing this knowledge and insight, the new generation of road engineering champions are to be congratulated for taking up the challenge of going beyond the 'normal' standards to save lives. And even better – we now understand that Main Roads engineers have the track record and know how to include crucial safety feature in their new designs, often at little or no additional project costs.
However, retrofitting will require significant additional resources and that, in particular, is where the Safer Roads Program and part of the enlarged Road Trauma Trust Account should be sharply focussed. In line with the State's road safety strategy, Towards Zero, the results of safe system road engineering show cased at the symposium were consistently outstanding.
For example, to achieve a 20% reduction in killed and seriously injured (KSI) on the treated areas of Perth to Bunbury Forrest Highway is a great result and we know from other evaluations that reductions as much as a 50% in KSI are achievable with measures as simple as audible edge lining and widened, sealed shoulders on regional roads.
This year, in closing the Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, I made the remark that we need to just "get out there and do it"! We have the evidence and the experts in the field, and so I implore these champions of road engineering to do this as well and continue the life saving work.
It is appropriate that we often see our front line heroes of road safety enforcement, namely our Police, feature prominently in media coverage and public debate, but we very seldom see comment made by the road engineering profession about the crucial benefits that their profession can also offer. This needs to change because design engineers are road safety heroes too.
In fact, it concerns me that our Police are the public face of road safety alone while our engineers remain publically silent. The imbalance leads to a distorted and narrowly conceived impression in the minds of the public about the full range of effective measures available to reduce road trauma.
Road safety engineers have the knowledge and the power to shape the physical road environment to a form that compensates and forgives inevitable human error.
WA's Safe System treatments and engineers behind this work are leaders in their field. Now's the time for our engineering heroes to speak out and to help us influence the social environment as well, through better education of the general public as to what's possible. At the symposium I heard of sometimes perverse political barriers that stood in the way of safety engineering solutions.
The road engineering profession needs to be seen and heard to develop the public support for to overcome such obstacles.The Road Safety Council knows of the life saving work in the profession of road safety engineering and knows these champions have important perspective's to express and highly effective interventions to offer.
The WA public need to arrive at this same appreciation. WA's road engineers are unsung heroes of road safety, so I urge them to blow their trumpets a little louder!
I look forward to 2012 as a time to throw the limelight onto recent successes in all cornerstones of the Towards Zero Safe System strategy.
The recent advances have been small wins compared with where we need to be by 2020, but they show us that advances are possible and have been achieved. Road safety engineering is a crucial column on that advancing front.
I look forward to bringing you more news and topics in the 2012 editions of the Road Safety Council's Network News e-newsletter.
Professor D'Arcy Holman.
Independent Chair of the Road Safety Council.
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Community Education
• Street Smarts – Weekly advertising in Wednesday's edition of The West Australian. Topics include driver distraction, roundabouts, pedestrian crossings, double demerits, back to school, drink driving, fatigue, merging lanes and other road rules and road craft skills. Advertising also appears each month on Saturdays and in the Sunday Times.
• Regional Billboards – Advertising supporting for Drink driving enforcement began on end of November and will run until mid January 2012.
• A new Drink Driving behaviour Community Education Campaign; Drink Driving, It's Never OK' launched on the 27 of November 2011 and ran through to mid December, the campaign will run again in January 2012 through to May 2012 alternating the media placement schedule with 'You Deserve It'
• Aboriginal Road Safety – Including television, radio and outdoor signage. This annual campaign aims to raise awareness of the range of road safety within aboriginal communities.
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• Double Demerits – Community members will be reminded of double demerit weeks prior to long weekends or holiday periods.
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New Drink Driving Campaign Launched
A new education campaign targeting drink driving has been launched, sending the strong message: Drink Driving, It's Never OK.
Drink driving contributes to more than 30 per cent of fatal road crashes each year in Western Australia.
The $1,400,000 campaign, which uses television and outdoor advertising across WA, began on Sunday 27 November 2011.
"The overall goal of the campaign is to support the community's attitudes around the social unacceptability of drink driving," Executive Director of the Office of Road Safety, Iain Cameron said.
"In Western Australia during the 2010/11 Christmas period* alone, 887 of the drivers tested by police were found to exceed the lawful alcohol limit for driving.
"That's an average of almost 50 people a day. This is not OK.
"Consuming alcohol prior to driving impairs driving ability and increases the risk of crashing, too often resulting in death or serious injury on our roads."
Targeting young males, the campaign is inspired by the classic Monty Python films and shows a range of extreme situations in which a male is injured but claims to be 'OK' when clearly not. The final scene has a young male leaving a BBQ after a few drinks and claiming to be 'OK' to drive home.
"We need to educate and remind all people of the risks and consequences associated with drinking alcohol and driving," Mr Cameron said.
"It is important to view drink driving on any level as unacceptable, it is never OK.
"The best advice for all drivers is if you plan to drink, plan not to drive. Nominate a skipper before going out, take a taxi or public transport rather than driving, ask a friend or relative who has not been drinking to pick you up, or arrange to spend the night.
"Think of the consequences of drink driving – not only the penalties, but the effects that death or serious injury can have on yourself, your friends and your family."
To find out more about the campaign and others from ORS, click here.
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IDDL Kit now Available
Year 11 students at Clontarf Aboriginal College – many of whom are in the processing of learning to drive or gaining their licence –took part in the launch of The Indigenous Drink Driving and Licensing (IDDL) resource kit recently.
"The students tested a range of interactive resources specifically developed for Indigenous Western Australians," Senior Policy Office, Julie Dalla-Costa said.
"They include a board game, discussion cards, a streetscape mat with model cars, and a Q&A CD containing practice Learner's Permit theory tests. The resources have options for people with low literacy levels to listen along and a questionnaire to help people prepare for the licence application process."
Other educational materials in the kit include a DVD starring Mary G that explores the issues surrounding unlicensed and drink driving, a poster that encourages alternatives to drinking, and a DVD of Road Safety Council TV campaigns created by Goolarri Media.
It also contains several booklets including the Drive Safe handbook, a facilitator's guide containing easy to understand factual information on the licensing process and drink driving, and a Strong Spirit Strong Mind booklet by the Drug and Alcohol Office containing information on Aboriginal ways to reduce harm from alcohol and other drugs.
The Kit is now available and if you would like to know more please contact Julie Dalla-Costa at the Office of Road Safety on 9323 4690
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South West Road Safety Alliance Campaign Launched
The South West Industry Road Safety Alliance (SWIRSA) has launched its Christmas campaign in an effort to reduce deaths and serious injuries during the holiday period
"The Making the Right Choices campaign includes a series of three television and radio commercials which raise awareness within the community and reinforce the consequences of making the wrong decision when driving," Inspector Lysle Cubbage, Chairman of SWIRSA, said.
The three concepts rolled out state wide on WIN TV this month. Radio spots broadcast on Hot FM and Radio West (Bunbury, Collie and Narrogin) compliment the TV campaign.
"The wrong decision is choosing to drive whilst impaired by alcohol or other drugs, driving whilst fatigued, exceeding the speed limit and choosing not to wear the proper restraints," Inspector Cubbage said.
In addition to the advertisements the Alliance will ensure key messages are adopted in workplaces, reinforced at tool box and safety meetings combined with strategically aligned road policing and enforcement.
"Police will concentrate their efforts in areas where we believe people will make the wrong choices," Sgt Mark Smith, South West District Traffic Coordinator said.
"Our officers will adopt a no tolerance and unapologetic approach to those road users."
The South West Industry Road Safety Alliance was formed in 2009 and comprises of major industry and road authorities around the Collie, Boddington and Peel regions.
Inspector Cubbage is confident that with the support of the community, no Police Officers will be required to conduct the heart breaking 'door knock' to relatives of those who made the wrong decision.
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2012 Road Safety Planner
The 2012 Road Safety Planner is now available for download from the Office of Road Safety website. The planner is produced to assist stakeholders in planning activities with road safety initiatives in mind.
This year, the planner highlights the priority areas of Towards Zero and what is required to achieve the cornerstones and ultimately reduce death and serious injury on WA roads.
To access the downloadable versions, click here.
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10 Year Anniversary of 50 km/h Speed Zones in WA
Just one minute has been added to people's average travel time to work but has saved lives and serious injuries, according to Main Roads estimates as a result of the 10 km/h speed reduction on WA roads since 2001.
This month, the Road Safety Council marked the 10 year anniversary of 50km/h speed zones in built up areas.
"Any decrease in speed is a proven measure in reducing road trauma," Independent Chair of the Road Safety Council, Professor D'Arcy Holman said.
"The reduction from 60km/h to 50km/h led to 20 per cent fewer crashes, with 8448 fewer crashes reported in the first two years after implementation."
Driving at safer speeds could save 3,200 people from being killed or seriously injured alone, if fully implemented.
"Speeding is a major factor in serious and fatal traffic crashes with 65 people killed and 410 seriously injured on average, each year due to excessive speed," Professor Holman said.
"The life savings benefits far outweigh any concerns about delays in travel times as the reduction in crashes is evident.
A 2004 state-wide evaluation of the 50 km/h initiative in Western Australia also indicated a 16 per cent reduction in crashes in regional Western Australia.
There were also decreases in the average crash frequency on 50 km/h and 60 km/h roads for crashes involving bicyclists and motorcyclists.
For more information about speed in WA, click here
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Woodpeckers Measuring and Marking- help decide
September 27, 2017, 01:36 PM »
I'm looking for a little advice. I have the 4" Pocket square and love it. Now I'm wanting something bigger... I'm debating between the new release of the 12" triangle, the 1281 square, the T-square or ruler+Hookstop.
I will likely get one long straight edge and one "square"
The T-square would be ideal if the crosspiece can be removed so I can check level across a surface... can it be used like this? Will the rule stop fit it?
I'm not sure on the advantages or disadvantages of the 12" triangle verse the 1281 square though... what would those who have used them recommend?
Thanks - John
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September 27, 2017, 04:36 PM »
Here is what I own....
I own the 900mm (36"ish) rule with hook stop. I am contemplating the 300mm one too, sometimes I need one that is a little shorter. It is excellent. Doesn't flex, consistent, very well made. Probably more play than their t squares to have a perpendicular line drawn, but I don't use it for that. That plus the hook stop, plus the 2" rule stop are significant parts of my amateur work flow. I use the rule stop as a setup for my parallel guides as well.
I own the 1281 square: It is probably my most used for things like checking square on assembled parts, and when I need to do some quick and easy perpendicular lines. It isn't the best to use for measuring and marking (the woodworking rulers are tapered which really helps for the marking side of things.
I own the 18" precision triangle. I use it some, but not as much as the other one time tool I'll describe below. I thought about the 12" and decided the 18" would be better. Besides you can't draw an 18" line with a 12" ruler, but you can draw a 12" line with an 18" ruler. It is useful when setting up your MFT table, or making sure your saw track is square to the edge. Longer lines than the 1281, but still a bit large. If I had to do over, I might consider the
Precision Triangle
or even the Fancier more versatile
MTR-18 Triangle
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instead. It just adds more features when combined with the MFT table. The TSO ones also are more readily available and will reach your workshop sooner. (this is not me knocking Woodpecker, I really like everything I have purchased from them, but the OTT take a while to find their way to your door).
I also own the 26" precision carpenters square. This is a monster, and it is wonderful. Great for marking lines on sheet goods, setting up saw tracks and your mFT table. It won't fit inside of cabinets to check for square assembly, though. But it has it's place and it ain't leaving my tool cabinet any time soon.
The only thing a triangle gives you the 1281 doesn't is the ability to draw that 45* line.
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September 27, 2017, 06:10 PM »
I think the 1281 would probably be the most useful for you at this point, as it is suited for a wide variety of operations.
The T cannot be removed from the T-square, btw. I used the T-square a lot when I first got it, but less so now after I got the larger framing squares.
I have the 24" and 48" rulers, and I'm really glad that I decided to get the 24" one with one of the scales having zero at the center. That way you can set/find the center on wider panels.
For leveling you might also consider go with the serx straightedge rule, which has a thicker body. It's just that the hook stop will not fit on it.
If you ever come across the larger 18" or 26" precision squares, or if they come up again as a OTT, I highly recommend getting one or both them. I use the 26" all the time to square my rail when cutting sheet goods. And when I'm dominoing the vertcials for cabinet shelving, the 26" ruler is big enough to stretch across both boards lain side by side and serve as a backstop to the domino machine, which allows me to create exactly matched mortises on both boards in one go.
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September 27, 2017, 06:38 PM »
I have quite a few of the Woodpecker measuring tools. I also have the TSO MTR triangle. All are shown in the picture below
To your questions...
1 - I would not remove the T-part of the T-square as you will lose squareness. And the end-stop from the rule will not fit on the T-square.
2 - One item I use a LOT that was not in your considerations is the Woodpecker Story Stick. See the photo above. It's great for spacing shelves / dados or even spacing out Dominos across a board. And the ruler is graduated with an end stop. It's not a 'square' but does a great job as a measuring and marking tool - in some ways better than the 4' long Woodpecker rule with the hook stop. The pieces do come off so you could easily use it to measure flatness across a piece given it is an extruded channel and you can stand it on edge.
3 - I have the smaller 12" Woodpecker triangle and the larger 26" square. Both are great. The smaller 12" triangle is handy for smaller areas - think aligning drawer glides in a cabinet where the larger squares might be too large or cumbersome. Or squaring the interior of a drawer during glue-up.
4 - One other item that might be in your considerations would be the TSO triangle. I was involved with their design but I have no financial benefit from their sale. I was excited to contribute given I had not seen some features that I thought could be useful for woodworkers and cabinet makers. I suggested that they offer two aluminum angle pieces that can be attached to the square for additional uses. See the example in the photos of me gluing up a cabinet using the square in this way. You cannot easily do this with the Woodpecker triangles or the Woodpecker square. I use it this way and it's become one of my favorite measuring tools.
When I get a chance, I might adapt the Woodpecker story stick t-slot to attach to the aluminum angles on the TSO square that would give me a LARGE 90 degree square that would offer a square mark across a 4x8 piece of ply. All of these are quality tools. It just comes down to your budget, project demands and needs.
Hope this helps -
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September 27, 2017, 08:20 PM »
I have a large collection of Woodpeckers. The pieces I use most are the 2618 square (one time tool, actually have the pair set with 1812), the rules, all four sizes (metric and centering), have the hook stops but actually use the rule stops the most. I cut a lot of expensive plastics. I use the rules and rule stops to set the size needed from the off cut side (size plus 5.5 mm - 3mm from aluminum rail edge + 2.5 for blade kerf) and the big square to ensure rail square to edge.
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September 29, 2017, 06:35 AM »
I appreciate the feedback and the suggestions you all had. I will do a little more research into a couple of them before making a purchase.
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January 01, 2018, 12:29 PM »
Hi Neil
There's a lot to see in the photos you provided here!
The portable, folding work stand shown looks very substantial. Did you make it or is it a purchased item? Either way, could you please provide me some more info on it?
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January 01, 2018, 05:44 PM »
First, welcome to FOG - nice to have you here, Bill -
The table is a Walko table. More info is here -
You might reach out to them to ask about US dealers or shipping to the US.
Woodcraft used to carry them and I've had a Walko 3 for maybe 8-10 years now. 20mm holes, adjustable wings, top level is within the height of an MFT-3 so great for longer work. Folds flat for cutting panels if needed. Adjustable sides, lots of flexibility.
Really sturdy. My brother has a Walko 4 and he's built several projects with large timbers on one with no deflection. I've made a china cabinet, 2 dining room tables, chests of drawers and many other projects on the table. I recommend it if you can find them.
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