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b.down@murdoch.edu.au
The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy
Emeritus Professor Barry Down
BSocSc, GradDipEd, BEd, MEd, PhD Murd.
Emeritus Professor, Murdoch University and Adjunct Professor University of South Australia, Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion CRESI
Barry Down is Emeritus Professor of Education at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia and Adjunct Professor, University of South Australia, Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion (CRESI). He commenced his teaching career in secondary schools before taking up a lecturing position in social studies education at Edith Cowan University (1986-2002). During this time, he held a number of administrative positions as Head of School and Associate Dean at the South West Campus. He graduated with a PhD from Murdoch University in 1993. In 2003 he was appointed Associate Professor at the newly established Rockingham campus of Murdoch University. Shortly afterward, he was appointed to the City of Rockingham Chair in Education (2004-2013), the first such position funded by a local government in Australia. In this period, he worked on four ARC Linkage Projects investigating student engagement, school-to-work transitions (with long-time collaborator Professor John Smyth), early career teacher resilience and the performance arts. His research focuses on young people's lives in the context of shifts in the global economy, employment, poverty, (dis)engagement and school change. He has co-authored eight books, the most recent titled Rethinking school-to-work transitions: Young people have something to say (with John Smyth and Janean Robinson). He is co-editor (with Shirley Steinberg) of The Sage international handbook of critical pedagogies (Volumes 1-3). London: Sage.
I currently supervise doctoral and masters research students, work closely with classroom teachers and school leaders, and are actively involved in a number of school and community organisations including Big Picture Education Australia.
My research interests include:
student (dis)engagement
educational policy ethnography
vocationalisation
youth and popular culture
teachers' work
social science education
My research is located in contexts where there are high levels of poverty, social dislocation and underachievement.
Title: School Exclusionary Policies and Practices and their Impact (ARC DP210100116) (2021-2023)
Project summary: This project aims to investigate how and why Australian schools use exclusionary practices to manage disorderly students. This project expects to generate new knowledge in the area of school discipline about the extent and impact of these practices. It will provide a detailed analysis of the political, legislative and policy frameworks that impact on exclusion rates. Expected outcomes of this project include alternative policy and practice recommendations for legislatures and education systems. This should provide significant benefits, such as reducing youth alienation from schooling; creating inclusive schools; reducing the financial burden of exclusion on individuals and governments; and improving the health and wellbeing of young people.
Chief Investigators: A/Prof Anna Sullivan, Em/Prof Bruce Johnson, Adjunct Prof Barry Down & Dr Neil Tippett
Critical practitioner-scholars, DIO Academic Press, New York. DIO Press.
Completed grants
(2016) Building a research-rich teaching profession for Australia: A joint initiative of ATEA-AARE-ACDE (cADRE). This collaborative project set out to identify ideas, issues, challenges and opportunities in the Australian education 'system' and; provide recommendations for how participants (ie teachers, teacher educators, principals, bureaucrats) and other stakeholders can further develop a research-rich and self-improving education system.
(2012) Big Picture Education Academy Project (2012-2016). This project investigated the experience of students, teachers and parents involved in an alternative 'school within a school' academy based on the innovative design distinguishers of Big Picture Education Australia (BPEA). The academy project was part of a much larger project funded by the Federal Government as a Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIISRTE) Project Grant (2012–2016) called "MAP4U" or Murdoch's Aspiration and Pathways for University Australian Federal Government.
(2010) Getting a Job: Vocationalism, identity formation and schooling in communities at disadvantage (ARC Linkage LP110100031) (2010-2014). This research examined young people's stories to investigate the barriers and obstacles to getting a job, and from their vantage point, identified the educational, policy and practice contexts that need to be created and more widely sustained in order to assist their career aspirations and life chances.
(2011) Curriculum innovation and Big Picture Learning (2011-2013). This research project investigated the implementation of Big Picture Education Australia (BPEA) design principles in Australian schools. This three-year research project is being conducted in collaboration with Associate Professor Deb Hayes (University of Sydney) and Neil Day (Centre for Program Evaluation Melbourne Graduate School of Education University of Melbourne) and funded by the Origin Foundation.
(2011) Young people and arts practice: Impact, evaluation, and the third space. identifying a better way forward (ARC Linkage LP110100619) (2011-2013). This research identified effective ways of developing young people's creative responses to unknown futures in fragile communities. Through this project, the impact and conditions enabling young people's agency and imagination were identified .
2010) The Secondary Engagement Evaluation Project in Low SES Schools (A commissioned report prepared for the Department of Education, Perth, Western Australia). This research describes some of the key the policies and practices implemented at Yule Brook College, Thornlie SHS and Manjimup SHS that appear to be making a significant difference in terms of student engagement in low SES school communities. Chief Investigators: Prof Barry Down with Dr Kathryn Choules.
(2010) School Research Framework and National Research Framework, Big Picture Education Australia (A Commissioned report for Big Picture Education Australia, Melbourne, Australia). This project provides a school based and national research framework for Big Picture Education Australia. It provides guidelines and advice on strategies to facilitate data collection and analysis on student and organisational learning for those schools adopting Big Picture design principles. Chief Investigators: Prof Barry Down, John Hogan and Associate Professor Ralph Straton.
(2008) Addressing the teacher exodus: Enhancing early career teacher resilience and retention in changing times (ARC Linkage Grant ID LP 0883672) (2008-2013). This research produced new knowledge, strategies and recommendations to keep early career teachers in the profession. Australia currently faces a teacher shortage crisis. Many new teachers leave the profession early in their careers. The difficulties faced by new teachers leading to this exodus are well documented. However, there is little research on how early career teachers develop resilience to overcome these difficulties and sustain their commitment to teaching. The research identified a range of policy initiatives and school based strategies to promote and sustain early career teacher resilience.
(2008) Solid Kids Solid Schools: Conceptualising Bullying in an Aboriginal Context as reported by the Yameji Community (ARC Indigenous Discovery Grant ID D10989770). This project investigates the phenomenon of bullying in the context of the WA Yamaji community and the development of Aboriginal specific school and community-based responses. Chief Investigator: Julie Coffin, supervised by Prof Barry Down and Prof Donna Cross, ECU.
(2006) Improving tertiary participation and retention: (Re)engaging students from low socio-economic backgrounds in the Rockingham region (A Murdoch University Research Excellence Grant Scheme (REGS) project). This small study investigates the university and community-related conditions that promote, support and sustain enhanced levels of tertiary participation and retention at the Rockingham campus. Chief Investigators: Prof Barry Down, City of Rockingham Chair in Education and Dr Jane Pearce, Rockingham campus.
(2004) Enhancing School Retention: School and Community Linkages in Regional-Rural Western Australia (Australian Research Council Project ID: LP560339) (2005-2007). This research investigates the conditions that need to be to created and more widely sustained in order to retain young people for twelve years of schooling, particularly in regional-rural areas. Chief Investigators: Prof John Smyth University of Ballarat and Prof Barry Down, Murdoch University.
Adjunct Professor, University of South Australia, Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion CRESI, SA, 5000, Australia
Emeritus Professor, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia
Founding Board Member of The International Institute for Critical Pedagogy and Transformative Leadership
Two Vice Chancellor's awards for Excellence in Research Supervision.
Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Innovation.
Six Australian Research Council Linkage grants.
Inaugural City of Rockingham Chair of Education (2004-2013).
Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Teacher Education (AJTE).
Visiting Fellow Chung Ang University, Seoul, South Korea.
Supervision to completion of 30 Doctoral and Masters theses.
Member of local School Boards and two community education committees.
Consultancies to WA Department of Education and Big Picture Education Australia.
Selected one of best 16 articles in the 50th anniversary edition of Melbourne Studies in Education.
Some recent events and presentations (2015-)
(2021) Hickey, A., Riddle, s., Robinson, J., Hattam, R., Down, B., & Wrench, A. Relational pedagogy and the policy failure of contemporary Australian schooling. Presentation to the Relation Centred Education Network (RCEN) 2021 Conference. https://youtu.be/dxXB7OTEO_I
(2020) Down, B. Building the relational school. Relational pedagogy, disadvantage and the policy contours of Australian schooling research symposium, 21 September. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxA6idzslUo (at 1:14:20)(2018) Critical qualitative research: What is it and why does it matter? Research Seminar Series with Professor Shirley Steinberg, University of Calgary, Murdoch University, 12 June.
(2019) Down, B. Addressing educational inequality in Australia: Implications for research, policy and practice. RESI research seminar UniSA, 18 September(2018) Critical qualitative research: What is it and why does it matter? Research Seminar Series with Professor Shirley Steinberg, University of Calgary, Murdoch University, 12 June.
(2018) Critical youth activism. Research Seminar Series with Professor Shirley Steinberg, University of Calgary, Murdoch University, 19 June.
(2018) White, S., Nuttall, J., Down, B., Shore, S., Woods, A., Mills, M., & Bussey, K. Strengthening a research-rich teaching profession in Australia: International implications. British Education Research Association (BERA), Newcastle, 11-13 September.
(2018) White, S., Nuttall, J., Down, B., Shore, S., Woods, A., Mills, M. Strengthening a research-rich teaching profession in Australia. American Education Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference, New York, 12-17 April.
(2017) Down, B. Towards a pedagogy of personalisation: What can we learn from students? Mandurah Schools Network Conference, Halls Head Community College, Mandurah, 17 July, 2017.
(2016) Down, B. Doing secondary school differently in the North. A forum hosted by Flinders University, South Australian Secondary Principals' Association and the University of South Australia, Adelaide, 16-17 March.
(2016) Robinson, J., Down, B., & Smyth, J. Re-imagining public education. Re-imagining Australia: Encounter, recognition, and responsibility. International Australian Studies Association (InASA) Annual Conference, Perth Convention Centre, 7-9 December.
(2016) Down, B. 'Getting a job: What young people have to say. Employability Workshop. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 15-16 November.
(2016) Down, B. Plenary speaker at the International Institute for Critical Pedagogy and Transformative Leadership (IICPTL) Annual Conference, University of Barcelona, Spain, 13-16 October.
(2016) Down, B. Moving beyond the academic and vocational divide in Australian schools: Towards curricular justice. Resisting educational inequality: ethnographic and critical approaches symposium. British Educational Research Annual Conference, Leeds, 13-15 September.
(2016) Down, B. & Sullivan, A. 'Classroom ready' teachers: gaps and silences in current policy debates about teacher education. Early career teacher retention: A critical examination of the issues symposium. European Conference Educational Research, Dublin, 23-26 August.
(2016) Down, B. Pesonalisation, student engagement and social justice: What's the research showing? Big Picture Education Annual Conference, 31 Aug-2 Sept, Fremantle.
(2016) Down, B. 'Critical' educational leadership in conservative times: Some provocations, tensions and dilemmas. What is educational leadership? Invited Webinar presentation for cADRE, 4 April, 2016.
(2015) Down, B. Rethinking mis/behaviour in schools: From 'youth as a problem' to the 'relational school'. Challenging dominant views on behavior at school. Symposium – Challenging dominant views of behavior at school: Answering back symposium. Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Annual Conference, 29 November – 3 December, Fremantle.
(2015) Down, B. Moving beyond the academic and vocational divide in Australian schools. Reframing policy and practice in schools serving vulnerable communities symposium. Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Annual Conference, 29 November – 3 December, Fremantle.
(2015) Down, B. Moving beyond the academic and vocational divide in Australian schools. Paper presented at the Resisting Educational Inequality: Reframing policy and practice in schools serving vulnerable communities conference, Western Sydney University, 28-30 October, Sydney.
(2015) Carr, D., & Down, B. Youth participation in education research – 'the bricolage'. Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Annual Conference, 29 November – 3 December, Fremantle.
(2015) Hogan, J., Choules, K., Carr, D., Stone, H., & Down, B. A pedagogy of aspirations: Promising practices. Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Annual Conference, 29 November – 3 December, Fremantle.
(2015) Down, B. Rethinking the conditions for young people 'getting a job': Kids have something to say. Engagement Forum, Edith Cowan University, 30 November, Perth.
Book Series Editor
Critical Practitioner-Scholars with DIO Press (with Rob Hattam)
Current School Board
Member – Rockingham Montessori School Board (2010-). Current Vice-Chair.
Member – American Educational Research Association (2012-)
Foundation Member – International Institute for Critical Pedagogy and Transformative Leadership (2011-)
Australian Journal of Teacher Education (AJTE)
Bold Visions Book Series, Sense Publishers
Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education
Critical Youth Studies Reader. New York: Peter Lang Publishing
Keeping the best: How school leaders engage and retain high quality early career teachers (ARC Linkage Grant - 2013-2016), UniSA.(www.rqt.edu.au)
Reviewer – Journals
Alberta Journal of Educational Research
Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education
Education Inquiry
Teaching Education
Pedagogies: An International Journal
International Journal of Inclusive Education
Teaching and Teacher Education
Previous School Board and Committee Membership
Member – AARE (Australian Association of Educational Research (1987-2015)
Member - Settlers Primary School Board (2013-15)
Member – Safety Bay SHS Board (Chair 2007-08) (2006-2012)
Member – Rockingham SHS Council (2009-15)
Member – Tranby College Board (2005-2013)
Member – Youth Education to Employment Committee (2010-11)
Member – WA Curriculum Framework Committee (2009-2010)
Member – Big Picture Education Australia Research Committee (2011-15)
Member – Improving the Health and Wellbeing of Children and Adolescents Rockingham /Kwinana Steering Committee (2005-06)
Member – Kwinana Communities for Children Steering Committee (2007-08)
Member – Kwinana Senior High School Governance Working Party (2007)
Member – Kwinana Senior High School Interagency Working Party (2007)
Ex-offico Member – Kwinana Industries Education Partnerships (KIEP) Board (2007)
Member – Kwinana Education Precinct Steering Committee (2005-006)
Member – KIEP Real Life Science Advisory Group (2007)
(16 PhD, 3 EdD, 11 MEd & 4 Hons)
(2021) Murphy, J. Casual conversations: A critical autoethnography of the casualised academic experience within the neoliberal university. MEd, Murdoch University.
(2021) Browning, I. School leadership and language games in neoliberal times: A critical ethnographic case study of the Independent Public Schools Policy in Western Australia. PhD, Murdoch University.
(2020) Telfer, S. Effects of a within-school coaching model on teachers' use of behavioural feedback and opportunities to respond. EdD, Murdoch University.
(2018) Pandey, R. Transformative learning through ethical dilemma stories: An auto-ethnographic study. PhD, Murdoch University.
(2018) Stone, H. Student experiences of relational pedagogy in a Big Picture Education Advisory at Willibe High School. PhD, Murdoch University.
(2015) Jones, P. Engaging science pedagogies: What students have to say about science learning. MEd, Murdoch University.
(2014) Hodgson, D. Raising the higher school leaving age in Western Australia: A governmental analysis of power and practice. PhD, Murdoch University.
(2014) Ditchburn, G. A Critical Analysis of the Australian Curriculum (History). PhD, Murdoch University.
(2013) McNulty, P. Creating a Democratic Classroom: The Reflective Journey of a Student Centred Teacher in a Middle School. MEd, Murdoch University.
(2013) Stachowicz, E. Teaching for Social Justice: Challenging Stereotypes and Prejudice. MEd, Murdoch University.
(2013) Carnes, R. Unsettling White Noise: Yarning About Aboriginal Education in Western Australian Prisons. PhD, Murdoch University.
(2013) Brand, G. 'You Don't Know Half the Story": Deepening the Dialogue with Young Mothers. PhD, Murdoch University.
(2012) Kuteyi, B. Caught in the Middle: (Re)constructing Beginning Teachers' Identities. PhD, Murdoch University.
(2011) Gobby, B. The Governmentality of School Autonomy and Self-Management: A Foucauldian Analysis. PhD, Murdoch University.
(2011) Robinson, J. 'Troubling' Behaviour Management: Listening to Student Voice. PhD, Murdoch University.
(2010) Cunningham, C. Corrupted Principles: A Critically Reflective Journey into Plutocratic Grading Practices in an Elite Bolivian School. PhD, Murdoch University.
(2010) O'Sullivan, D. A Critical Policy Trajectory Study of Local Area Education in Bunbury, Western Australia, 1998-2000. PhD, Murdoch University.
(2008) Coble-Neal, F. Post-compulsory Curriculum Reform and the Changing Nature of Teachers' Work, EdD, Murdoch University.
(2007) Lorrimar, W. The New VET (TAFE) Environment: Implications for Teachers' Work at Meadowbank Campus. MEd, Murdoch University.
(2006) Shanks, P. A Critical Policy Analysis of the Crossroads Review: Implications for Higher Education in Regional Western Australia. MEd, Murdoch University.
(2006) Choules, E. Transformative Pedagogy and Attitudes to Asylum Seekers. PhD, Murdoch University.
(2006) Hodgson, D. Boys in and Out of School: Narratives of Early School Leaving. MEd, Murdoch University.
(2005) Price, A. Chelas, Ansars and Acolytes: Becoming a Teacher In and For a Remote and Culturally Diverse Community. EdD, Murdoch University.
(2005) Robinson, J. A Journey in (Re)claiming Teaching: A Critical Ethnography of Cape Neal High School. MEd, Edith Cowan University.
(2004) Dobozy, E. Education In and For Democracy and Human Rights: Moving from Utopian Ideals to Grounded Practice. PhD, Murdoch University.
(2003) Hubbard, J. The Practice of Homework: A Critical Ethnography. BEd (First Class Hons), Edith Cowan University.
(2002) Ross, D. Enacting My Theory and Politics of an Ethic of Love in Social Work Education. PhD, Edith Cowan University.
(2002) Langridge, M. The Experience of Advanced Nurse Specialisation Education. PhD, Edith Cowan University.
(2000) Voack, C. How Do Family Members Understand and Explain the Experience of Homework? A Case Study of Four Families. BEd (Hons), Edith Cowan University.
(2000) Cameron, F. Reasons for Girls Non-Selection of Upper School Physical Education Studies in Years 11 and 12: Case Studies in a South West Regional High School. BEd (Hons), Edith Cowan University
(1998) Forde, T. A Policy Critique of Student Outcome Statements in Western Australia. MEd, Edith Cowan University
(1998) O'Brien, P. A Critical Analysis of Corporate Managerialism in Western Australian Public Schools: What Level Two Teachers Have To Say? MEd, Edith Cowan University
(1997) Shepherdson, D. School Violence and School Practice: A Case Study of the Experiences of a Lower Secondary Male Student Using the Methodology of Participant Observation, MEd, Edith Cowan University
(13 PhD, 14 EdD, 11 MEd, 4 Hons)
(4 PhD, 2 EdD, 3 MEd)
Wright, P., Down, B., (2021),Youth participatory arts, learning and social transformation: The story of BIG hARTpeople, place and culture,Brill.
Down, B., Smyth, J., Robinson, J., (2018),Rethinking School-to-Work Transitions in Australia: Young People Have Something to Say,springer.
Down, B., (2018),Resisting Educational Inequality,Taylor & Francis.
Johnson, B., Down, B., Le Cornu, R., Peters, J., Sullivan, A., Pearce, J., Hunter, J., (2015),Early Career Teachers: Stories of Resilience,Springer.
Smyth, J., Down, B., McInerney, P., (2014),The Socially Just School: Making Space for Youth to Speak Back,Springer.
Smyth, J., Down, B., McInerney, P., Hattam, R., (2014),Doing Critical Educational Research: A Conversation with the Research of John Smyth,Peter Lang Publishing.
Smyth, J., Down, B., McInerney, P., (2010),'Hanging in with Kids' in Tough Times,Peter Lang Publishing.
Smyth, J., Angus, L., Down, B., McInerney, P., (2009),Activist and Socially Critical School and Community Renewal,Sense Publishers.
Smyth, J., Angus, L., Down, B., McInerney, P., (2008),Critically Engaged Learning: Connecting to Young Lives (Adolescent Cultures, School and Society),Peter Lang Publishing.
Down, B., Steinberg, S., (2020),Introduction: The legacy of Paulo Freire,In: The SAGE Handbook of Critical Pedagogies, Sage Publications Ltd., pages xi to i.
Down, B., Sullivan, A., (2019),"Classroom-Ready teachers",In: Attracting and Keeping the Best Teachers: Issues and Opportunities, Springer New York LLC, pages 39 to 61.
Robinson, J., Down, B., Smyth, J., (2019),Jacinta's story: Challenging neoliberal practices and creating democratic spaces in public high schools,In: Re-imagining education for democracy, Routledge, pages 156 to 173.
Down, B., (2018),Moving Beyond the academic and vocational divide in Australian schools,In: Resisting Education Inequality: Reframing Policy and Prative in Schools Serving Vulnerable Communities, Routledge, pages 31 to 40.
Down, B., (2017),Critically reflective practice: What is it and why is it needed now?,In: Powers of Curriculum: Sociological perspectives on Education, Oxford University Press, pages 119 to 141.
Down, B., (2016),Rethinking mis/behavior in schools: From youth as a problem to the relational school,In: Challenging dominant views on behavior at school: Answering back, Springer, pages 77 to 95.
Smyth, J., Down, B., McInerney, P., (2014),Introduction, Argument and Organisation,In: The Socially Just School: Making Space for Youth to Speak Back, Springer, pages 1 to 19.
Down, B., Smyth, J., (2012),Introduction: From Critique to New Scripts and Possibilities in Teacher Education,In: Critical Voices in Teacher Education: Teaching for Social Justice in Conservative Times, Springer, pages 1 to 9.
Down, B., (2012),Reconceptualising Teacher Standards: Authentic, Critical and Creative,In: Critical Voices in Teacher Education: Teaching for Social Justice in Conservative Times, Springer, pages 63 to 80.
Netherwood, K., Buchanan, J., Palmer, D., Stocker, L., Down, B., (2009),Valuing diversity in children's voice: a case study of children, stewardship and mapping the care of special places in the West Australian cluster,In: Values Education and Quality Teaching: The Double Helix Effect, David Barlow Publishing, pages 83 to 103.
Hickey, A., Riddle, S., Robinson, J., Down, B., Hattam, R., Wrench, A., (2021), Relational pedagogy and the policy failure ofcontemporary Australian schooling: activistteaching and pedagogically driven reform,	Journal of Educational Administration and History, , , pages 1 - 16.
Fasching-Varner, K., Desmarchelier, R., Gerlach, D., Weins, P., Schrader, P., Down, B., Stewart, L., Stone, M., Bagnall, N., Luke, M., (2020), International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present,	International Dialogues on Education: past and present, 7, 1, pages 113 - 127.
White, S., Down, B., Mills, M., Shore, S., Woods, A., (2020), Strengthening a research-rich teaching profession: An Australian study,	Teaching Education, , , pages -.
Robinson, J., Down, B., Smyth, J., (2018), Shaking up neoliberal policy in schools: Looking for democratic alternatives in Jacintas satchel,	Global Studies of Childhood, 8, 4, pages 392 - 403.
Down, B., Smyth, J., Robinson, J., (2017), Problematising vocational education and training in schools: using student narratives to interrupt neoliberal ideology,	Critical Studies in Education, , , pages 1 - 19.
Down, B., Choules, K., (2017), Towards a pedagogy of personalisation: what can we learn from students?,	Curriculum Perspectives (Journal Edition), 37, 1, pages 135 - 145.
Brand, G., Morrison, P., Down, B., (2015), "You don't know half the story": deepening the dialogue with young mothers in Australia,	Journal of Research in Nursing, 20, 5, pages 353 - 369.
Hogan, J., Down, B., (2015), A STEAM School using the Big Picture Education (BPE) design for learning and school what an innovative STEM Education might look like,	International Journal of Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education, 23, 3, pages 47 - 60.
Johnson, B., Down, B., Le Cornu, R., Peters, J., Sullivan, A., Pearce, J., Hunter, J., (2014), Promoting early career teacher resilience: a framework for understanding and acting,	Teachers and Teaching: theory and practice, 18, 2, pages 249 - 262.
Brand, G., Morrison, P., Down, B., (2014), How do health professionals support pregnant and young mothers in the community? A selective review of the research literature,	Women and Birth, 27, 3, pages 174 - 178.
Wright, P., Davies, C., Haseman, B., Down, B., White, M., Rankin, S., (2013), Arts practice and disconnected youth in Australia: Impact and domains of change,	Arts & Health: an international journal for research, policy and practice, 5, 3, pages 190 - 203.
Johnson, B., Down, B., (2013), Critically re-conceptualising early career teacher resilience,	Discourse (Abingdon): studies in the cultural politics of education, 34, 5, pages 703 - 715.
Down, B., Smyth, J., (2012), 'Getting a job': Vocationalism, identity formation, and critical ethnographic inquiry,	Journal of Educational Administrationand History, 44, 3, pages 203 - 219.
Robinson, J., Smyth, J., Down, B., McInerney, P., (2012), Pushed out, shut out: Addressing unjust geographies of schooling and work,	International Journal on School Disaffection, 9, 2, pages 7 - 24.
Pearce, J., Down, B., (2011), Relational pedagogy for student engagement and success at university,	The Australian Educational Researcher (AER), 38, 4, pages 483 - 494.
McInerney, P., Smyth, J., Down, B., (2011), 'Coming to a place near you?' The politics and possibilities of a critical pedagogy of place-based education,	Asia - Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 39, 1, pages 3 - 16.
Pearce, J., Down, B., Moore, E., (2010), Working-class heroes,	Professional Educator, 9, 4, pages 18 - 21.
Pearce, J., Down, B., Aveling, N., Price, A., (2009), 'Critically' reinvigorating teacher education: Issues and dilemmas,	New Community Quarterly, 7, 4, pages 6 - 8.
Down, B., (2009), Schooling, productivity and the enterprising self: beyond market values,	Critical Studies in Education, 50, 1, pages 51 - 64.
Pearce, J., Down, B., Moore, E., (2008), Social class, identity and the 'good' student: Negotiating university culture,	Australian Journal of Education, 52, 3, pages 257 - 271.
Down, B., Ditchburn, G., Lee-Hammond, L., (2008), Teachers' ideological discourses and the enactment of citizenship education,	Curriculum Perspectives (Journal Edition), 28, 3, pages 1 - 12.
Smyth, J., Angus, L., Down, B., McInerney, P., (2006), Critical ethnography for school and community renewal around social class differences affecting learning,	Learning Communities: international journal of adult and vocational learning, 3, 1, pages 121 - 152.
Down, B., (2006), A critical pedagogy of vocational education and training in schools and communities struggling with shifts in the global economy,	Learning Communities: international journal of adult and vocational learning, 3, x, pages 94 - 120.
Down, B., (2006), Educational Science, Mental Testing, and the Ideology of Intelligence,	Critical Studies in Education, 47, 1 & 2, pages 333 - 357.
Down, B., Wooltorton, S., (2004), Beginning Teaching in Rural-Remote Schools: Implications for Critical Teacher Development,	Change. Transformations in Education, 7, , pages 31 - 46.
Smyth, J., Down, B., (2004), Beyond the Divide: Individual, Institutional and Community Capacity Building in a Western Australian Regional Context,	Education in Rural Australia, 14, 2, pages 54 - 68.
Down, B., (2004), From Patriotism to Critical Democracy: Shifting Discourses of Citizenship Education in Social Studies,	History of Education Review, 33, , pages 14 - 27.
Down, B., (2006),Re-imagining Teachers' Work for the 21st Century,In: 14th Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE) Biennial Conference (2006).
Down, B., (2006),Developing critically reflective teachers in "wacky" times,In: 34th Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) Annual Conference (2006).


The Tomatohead Challenges in Fortnite are part of the new Skin Challenges. This particular set was released on August 23 when an updated Tomatohead outfit was introduced in the Item Shop. This is also the first purchasable skin that includes its own set of challenges.
Three challenges come packed with the Tomatohead Challenges and completing all three will unlock a new style.
Your standard type of challenges. When collecting XP, remember to play with friends who own the Battle Pass to get an extra bonus each match. Having the Battle Pass yourself will also get you a decent amount of XP each game. Staying alive and getting close to first place will net you the most XP. Getting kills and even reviving helps too.


I can be known for having a lot of crazy ideas and this may be one of them............ thinking of giving this mountain biking lark a shot over the winter (covering all bases here in case we have another gross winter). I thought I would see if anyone in the club would be selling an old ladies mountain bike (size small frame) before I go looking around. Just to flag in advance I wouldn't be looking for anything expensive as lets be honest I am not sure I will survive one cycle without hitting into a tree.
I know someone selling her bike.
Anyway let down serious business. MTB is an awesome sport during in the winter, it's tough and demand a lot of workout on the bleedy hill. For buy second hand bike is a great idea, however I would advice you go to ballinastoe or three rock, they do have man-made MTB trails along with hire MTB bike, so you can test it out for half a day to see if you like it or not. If you love it and want go further than this, then get second hand or brand new bike and get Jamie to teach you on dark art of MTB, Enduro, xc.
I have been into MTB for last 5 years and I love it.
I was half considering giving MTB a go too so give me a shout if you want another n00b along. I had seen some one day introduction courses in ticknock but I can't find them online right now.
No need to look for one day course, I am sure one of WTC is happy to help you out, he is well knowledge stuff on MTB, i will reach him out and see if he can do it or not. If not there is always plenty of gal or guy doing mtb.
That's good advice from Steve, you should maybe just hire a bike and go for a spin round Ballinastoe for an afternoon and see if you like it, I'd be happy to show you around as I MTB there most Monday evenings after work.


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App update
Announcements / App update / Tramlink — — 26 Apr 16
Tram Master Complete!
We polished off the last of our 3D maps of the Tram system yesterday (Wimbledon, below) which means we're now ready to submit them all as part of the Tram Master App to the App Store! Tram Master shows the layout in 3D map style (as per Station Master) of all 39 stops on the Croydon tram network.
Wimbledon Tram Stop
3D Maps / App update / Tramlink — — 15 Mar 16
New Whitechapel 3D
Here ya go then, here's the new 3D map for Whitechapel – where there's a new entrance/exit at the western end of the station, and then from the back of the westbound platform there's a new corridor and steps down to the southbound Overground platforms – which look like they're going to be a permanent addition and not a temporary one!
The new 3D map will be released in the next update to Station Master.
Whitechapel 3D
3D Maps / App update / Overground — — 21 Jan 16
New Station Master Version Out!
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Station Master version 1.10.9 has been released in the last couple of days, with the following updates:
Tottenham Court Road is open again on the Central Line (New 3D map and exit data)
Area Map View improvements
Updates and corrections to the database
Stability and performance improvements
Other refreshed 3D maps – to give 349 in total including all 270 tube stations
Exit the Tube (our 'exits only' companion App) also was updated to contain the same exit data as Station Master.
App update — — 15 Jan 16
Meet … Mapway!
Our exciting festive news which we've been working on for a while and can now be revealed is that we've teamed up with the nice people at Mapway. Formerly known as mxData, you might already have one of their Apps on your phone – The Tube Map App.
We've teamed up with them to provide some of the data (such as exits, and 3D Maps) that's within Station Master so that the Tube Map app can have access to it as well!
And for people that have been asking us for ages "When will your App be on Android", the great news there is that the Tube Map App (including the Station Master data from early 2016) is on the Android platform!
There's more over on the Mapway pages with their press release, including "One of the features we're especially looking forward to sharing with you, is the addition of accessibility information for London Underground stations. And this won't be your usual step-free info, that's for sure. Thanks to Station Master we'll have all sorts of details about accessibility for wheelchair users, people with prams and even travellers with luggage! So you have a clearer view of how easy a Tube platform is to reach, depending on the situation"
We're also working with them on other projects in 2016, which we'll reveal at some point, but until then have a look at the Tube Map App if you don't already have it, and Merry Christmas from the Station Master!
Mapway
Announcements / App update — — 21 Dec 15
Last of the Overground maps
We've been slowly chipping away, adding 3D maps to the App … the last few that need mopping up are the original Overground stations, and we've finally got around to doing the complicated mass of stairs and lifts that is Crystal Palace! It's one of our favourite, most beautiful stations – but it is a little complicated with multiple platforms.
The finished 3D map will be in the next update to Station Master.
Crystal Palace 3D Map
3D Maps / App update — — 17 Sep 15
Disused Tube App
Our new App is out … today! Introducing Disused Tube.
There are over 50 old Tube stations in London, and we've listed them all; where they are, why they closed, what you can still see today – along with a Disused Tube map, audio descriptions for each one, and also two walking tour maps that will guide you if want to to hit the streets on your feet and go and find them yourself.
You can download the App here (it works on the iPhone as well as the iPad – on which it looks great) and learn about where London's disused Tube stations are!
(With huge thanks to to Mark Noad for the exclusive design of the Abandoned Stations Map, have a look at his website for other alternative tube map designs.)
Articles about this also over on Londonist, and Metro Online too.
Disused Tube Map
App update / Disused Stations — — 24 Jun 15
Shepherd's Bush Map
We submitted the latest version of Station Master to Apple for review yesterday – now with quite a few more 3D maps added of London Overground stations. We'll probably get them all done just in time for when all the new Overground stations open at the end of May, and then we're in a dilemma about what to do, and if we add them or not …
Anyway, Shepherd's Bush has had its new map put in too, as it has a new entrance and footbridge at the northern end of the platforms, it now look like this …
Shepherd's Bush Overground
3D Maps / App update — — 30 Apr 15
Tube Status at a Glance on Apple Watch
Your Apple Watch has finally arrived! Oh, you're still waiting too?
But when it does finally land on your wrist, you'll be wanting something to tell you the state of the Tube at a glance won't you!
Well, we have just the thing! Visual Tube Status for Apple Watch!
The Apple Watch is all about (we believe) short (~5 second) interactions, called "Glances". Swipe up from the watch face and you can see a single screen of information at a glance. We spent a long time thinking about how to quickly convey which lines were having problems and think we found the answer, with this target-cum-roundel-style graphic…
The Tube was obviously having a very bad day when we took this screenshot, but it shows the colours of the lines that were having problems. In fact it was early on Sunday 19th April 2015 – the Central, Northern and Overground lines were on weekend closure for maintenance, the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines were having Severe Delays and the Waterloo & City line was closed as usual.
But whatever's going on, Visual Tube generates the image to show you the state of all the lines at the time you glance at it, so you'll quickly know if there's something you need to take into account on your commute.
Want to know more details? Tap the Glance on Apple Watch, and you'll be taken to the lines view where you can see a more detailed list of the lines with the problem lines at the top. Tap a line that's not showing "Good Service" to see all the details. This was Tuesday morning when the Central line had a derailment of an engineers' train. (The Glance showed just a red symbol).
And on the (rare in the last couple of weeks) occasions when there is a "Good Service" you'll be able to see the green tick.
Head on over to the Watch App Store in the Apple Watch App on your iPhone to get hold of Visual Tube for Apple Watch (tap the search icon and search for "Visual Tube").
(Visual Tube works on the iPhone and iPad too, but today's all about the Apple Watch so we'll tell you about those features another time!)
App update / Broken Tube — — 24 Apr 15
New Overground 3D Maps
With the prospect of new Overground stations being added to the official Tube map next month, it kicked us into gear a little when we realised that we still hadn't finished and published all the 3D maps for the existing Overground stations on the network. Hence, these last few days we've been busy designing them and will add them to the next release of Station Master – here Sydenham and its non-facing staggered platforms are clear to see!
Sydenham Station 3D Map
Quite what we'll do when the NEW Overground lines get added to the map is not clear. Will we add this info to Station Master or not? The jury is currently out and we'll have to decide what to do …

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Adil E. Shamoo, PhD
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ashamoo@som.umaryland.edu
108 N. Greene St., 239A
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1962: B.Sc. - (Physics) University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq.
1966: M.S. - (Physics) University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
1970: Ph.D. - (Biophysics) Ph.D. Program in Biology of the City University of New York, New York, N.Y.
1991: Molecular Biology Techniques, Medical Biotechnology Center, University of Maryland at Baltimore.
1992: Certificate, "Regulatory Issues in Biotechnology", Office of Continuing Education, University of Maryland Baltimore County.
1998: Certificate of Attendance, Patent Review Course, Patent Resources Group, Inc.
2001: Certificate of IRB Professional (CIP) by Council for Certification of IRB Professionals
Biosketch
Dr. Shamoo is a professor and former chair at University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore. Shamoo was a Clinton appointee member of the National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee (NHRPAC). He served on the Defense Health Board (DHB) as Bush and Obama appointee, and currently serving a four-year term appointment by Secretary Hagel as the chair of the Medical Ethics Subcommittee of the DHB. In 1988, he founded and is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Accountability in Research and served on the editorial board of many other journals.
Writing often in newspapers and websites on ethics and public policy, Dr. Shamoo's commentaries have frequently appeared in The Baltimore Sun and in Foreign Policy in Focus among many others. He is a blogger for the Huffington Post. Dr. Shamoo has been cited and has appeared many times in the media.
Shamoo was a Clinton appointee member of the National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee (NHRPAC). He has chaired twelve international conferences on ethical issues and testified before Congressional Committees and the National Bioethics Advisory Commission. Since 1994, Shamoo has been teaching a graduate course on, "Responsible Conduct of Research". He chaired the Ethics and Regulatory Forum of the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP). In 1995, he co-founded the human rights organization, Citizens for Responsible Care and Research (CIRCARE). He served on 2006 on Maryland Governor O'Malley's Task Force on Higher Education.
Dr. Shamoo has lectured over 300 times worldwide on topics ranging from issues in ethics, science and public policy. He has held visiting professorships at notable institutions, including Sarah Lawrence College and the Institute for Political Studies in Paris, France and L'Aquila University, Italy.
Dr. Shamoo has written over 300 articles and has authored, co-authored, or edited seventeen books, including his textbook , Responsible Conduct of Research (with David Resnik, 2003, 2009, and 2015); Ethics of the Use of Human Subjects in Research (with Felix Gyi, 2002). His most recent book (2012) is entitled: Equal Worth – When Humanity Will Have Peace.
Dr. Shamoo has held full-time faculty appointments at NIH, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysics, Frankfort, West Germany, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York, and University of Louisville.
Highlighted Publications
Borenstein, J., and Shamoo, A. E., 2015. Rethinking Authorship in the Era of Collaborative Research, Accountability in Research, 22:267-283, 2015.
Shamoo, A. E., 2013. Data Audit as a Way to Prevent/Contain Misconduct, Accountability in Research, 20:369-379, 2013.
Shamoo, A. E., and Ayyub, Bilal, M., 2011. Benefit/Risk Estimates in Clinical Trials, Drug Information Journal, 45, 669-685, 2011.
Shamoo, A. E., and Resnik, D. B., (2006), Ethical Issues for Clinical Research Managers, Drug Information Journal, 40: 371-383.
Shamoo, A. E. (2005), The Need for Better Reporting of Adverse Events for Human Subjects in Research, DIA Today, April 2005, Volume 5, Issue 2, p. 18, 20.
Additional Publication Citations
Resnik, D. B. and Shamoo, A. E., (2005) " Bioterrrorism and the Responsible Conduct of Research", Commentary, Drug Development Research, 63:121-133.
Shamoo, A. E. and Cole, J. (2004), "Ethics of Genetic Modification of Behaviour", Accountability in Research, 11:201-214
Shamoo, A.E., and Tauer, C.A. (2002), "Ethically Questionable Research with Children: The Fenfluramine Study," Accountability in Research, 9:143-166,2002.
Resnik, D., and Shamoo, A.E., 2002. Conflict of Interest and the university, Accountability in Research, 9: 45- 64.
Shamoo, A.E. (2002), "Ethically Questionable Research with Children. The Kennedy Krieger Lead Abatement Study," Accountability in Research, 9:167-175, 2002.
Shamoo, A.E. (2001), "Adverse Events Reporting – The Tip of an Iceberg," Accountability in Research, 8:197-218.
Shamoo, A.E. (1999). "Unregulated Research with Human Subjects," Accountability in Research 6:205-214.
Shamoo, A.E., Irving, D.N., and Langenberg, P. (1997). "A Review of Patient Outcomes in Pharmacological Studies from the Psychiatric Literature, 1966-1993," Science and Engineering Ethics, 3:395-406.
Shamoo, A.E. (1997). "Brain Disorders -- Scientific Facts, Media, and Public Perception", Accountability in Research 5:161-174.
Shamoo, A.E. and Keay, T. (1996). "Ethical Concerns about Relapse Studies" - Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics, 5:373-386.
Dunigan and Shamoo, A.E. (1996). "Identification of the Major Transport Pathway for the Parkinsonism Inducing Neurotoxin 1-Methyl-4-Phenylpyridinium" Neuroscience, 1996, 75:37-41.
Eshleman, C. Dunigan, A. Shamoo, and M. Elderfrawi (1995). "ATP Enhances Catecholamine Uptake into PC12 Cells" Life Science, 56:1613-1621.
D. Dunigan, and Shamoo, A.E. (1994). " Li+ Stimulates ATP-Regulated Dopamine Uptake in PC12 Cells" Neuroscience, 65:1-4.
Irving, D.N. and Shamoo, A.E. (1993). "Which Ethics for Science and Public", Accountability in Research, 3:77-100.
Lockwich, T., Dunigan, C.D. and Shamoo, A.E. (1993). "Uncoupling of Occlusion from ATP Hydrolysis Activity in Sarcoplasmic Reticulum." Membrane Biochemistry, 10:191-201, 1993.75.
Cao, C.J., Lockwich, T., Scott, T.L., Blumenthal, R., and Shamoo, A.E. (1991). "Uncoupling of Ca2+-Transport from ATP Hydrolysis Activity of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase. Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 103:97-111.
Lockwich, T.P. and Shamoo, A.E. (1990). "Identification of a spectroscopic Marker for the Ca2+-Binding Site of (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum in the Occluded State." Membrane Biochemistry 9:61-67.
Shamoo, A.E., Lockwich, T., and Cao, C. (1990). "Tertiary Structure and Energy Coupling in Ca2+-pump System." Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry 99:67-74.
Joshi, N.B. and A.E. Shamoo (1988). Distances between functional sites in cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase. Interlanthanide energy transfer, Eur. J. of Biochemistry 178: 483-487.
Herrmann, T.R. and A.E. Shamoo (1988). "Estimation of Inter-binding-site Distances in Sarcoplasmic Reticulum (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase Under Occluded and Non-occluded Conditions", Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry 8: 55-58.
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Food Science, University of California, Davis, California, 1947 – 1978
Postdoctoral Fellow (NSF), Department of Biochemistry, University of Nice, France, 1978 – 1979
Postdoctoral Fellow (USPHS), Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 1979 – 1980
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 1980 – 1986
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 1986 – 1991
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 1991 – present
Director, MD/PhD Program, Office of the Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 1996 – 2012
Adjunct Professor, Medical Biotechnology Center, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Rockville, Maryland, 2002 – 2009
Executive Director, Office of Research Affairs, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 2014 – present
Assistant Dean for Research Affairs, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 2015 – present


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Ostrowo Szlacheckie Palace is a historic palace in Ostrowo Szlacheckie (Września County, Poland). Since 1977 national heritage site (Polish: zabytek).

History
The palace was built in 1910. Palace park was included in the register in the nineteenth/twentieth century. The first owner was Friedrich Voge. After the death of the heir were Fridrich Voge Paul Voge, wife and children Elsa Ginter, Hilda, Margot. After World War II, the property was nationalized. Currently applying for palace granddaughter of Friedrich Voge.

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Gmina Września
Ostrowo Szlacheckie
Objects of cultural heritage in Poland

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Midland Parks and Pets
If you're in search of a great oil industry vacation, consider Midland, Texas. This city sits in the western part of the Permian Basin, one of the most productive regions in the world. Among its attractions is the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, which includes a recreation of a 1930s oil town. The home of George W. Bush, former president of the United States, has been restored to a 1950s-era appearance, and features interactive exhibits.
There are several parks and hiking trails in Midland, and the city has plenty of restaurants. However, the pace of growth in Midland is putting residents off. Most restaurant owners in the area are worried about shortages of staff and construction workers. The towns are also struggling with traffic. In addition to this, the prices of apartments in Midland are higher than in Houston and Dallas. For this reason, many people choose to live in these places. Because of the lack of workers, Midland residents are also concerned about the cost of living.
The City of Midland is home to several parks. The Museum of the Southwest is the most popular among these. The Museum of the Southwest has four play areas that offer activities for children of all ages. The park is located in the historic downtown area of the city. It also has an indoor and outdoor space, which was constructed in the 1940s. While it is not a Major League team, it does boast an abundance of attractions for families. So, if you're looking for a unique and memorable experience, this is the perfect place for you to visit.
Stand With The Natives – Share Our Millions
The Permian Basin Petroleum Museum is an amazing museum in the heart of the city. The Permian Basin's history is told here, including the oil industry's early beginnings. It's home to the Houston Rockets and the Dallas Mavericks. The museum is also a great place to learn about the history of the region. You'll find a lot of interesting and informative exhibits.
While the city's economy is largely dependent on petroleum, the Midland area's economy has diversified into a regional powerhouse, with many high-rise office buildings. In fact, the city's population topped 92,000 in 1983, making it the second-largest metropolitan area in the country. It has also become the administrative center of the Permian Basin, one of the world's largest petroleum producing regions.
The population of the city is approximately 41,268. Almost thirty percent of the residents of the city are Hispanic. The population of Midland is about 111,149. Its population has been growing in recent years, but it still remains small and is not growing rapidly. It is located on the southern plains of Texas and is home to many people from all walks of life. The county seat is the town of Martin County. In 2010, it had a population of 211,476.
The city of Midland is home to the famous Hogan's Run Off-Leash Dog Park, which features shade structures, benches, and a large dog area. This park is a great place for families with pets and is ideal for RVers. This is a pet-friendly park, as well as being pet-friendly. Besides being pet-friendly, Hogan's is located in a park, and has a great concession menu.
The Museum of the Southwest is the perfect place for families to spend an afternoon. Its location is near the University of Midland, and it is surrounded by a beautiful lake. The museum has a Planetarium and a separate Children's Museum. The children's museum is located in a building built by the city's police department. In addition to this, it features a renowned world-class zoo, and is the city's third largest airport.
As the capital of Midland County, the city of Midland was incorporated in 1906. Its name, "The Sky is the Limit," was chosen because of its central location between the two large cities in the region. As a result, the city's climate is temperate in winter, but warm in summer. The weather in the city can be hot in summer. This climate is a perfect climate for a ranching or farming community.


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Warby Parker Is Sorry About Your Stolen Car, Buys You A Beer
2.25.15 10:35 AM EDT By Chris Morran@themorrancave
one for the road warby parker above and beyond atlanta REDDIT
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When you have a bad day and make a comment about to someone at the store, you probably don't expect anyone to do anything other than nod their head and feign sympathy. But one Warby Parker customer says her visit to the eyewear store resulted in a little more than a "there there."
An Atlanta-area woman named Tess says she recently had her car stolen and smashed into a tree as the thieves made off with it.
That same day she went into a Warby Parker store to pick up her new glasses and mentioned the theft of her vehicle.
Then, according to Tess, she got the above note and gift card to use at a popular bar in Atlanta.
"We were so sorry to hear about your car," reads the note. "Since you probably won't be the designated driver any time soon, here's a round on us!"
Of course, since this is reddit, there are a number of people claiming that this is a plant from Warby Parker intended to go viral; in spite of the fact that Tess has been posting on reddit for two years, including the above-referenced post about her stolen Jeep. And while a number of these eagle-eyed cynics pointed out things like the clean photography, the inclusion of the logos for Warby Parker, the bar, and the name of a particular type of eyeglass frame — some of them managed to miss the fact that Tess is not a "him."
Obviously Warby Parker and every other retailer that does something like this is hoping that the customer will share their story. That's the whole point of making generous gestures to customers — that they will be so happy they feel compelled to tell others. Before the Internet, that was called "going above and beyond," now it's automatically labeled as viral marketing.
UPDATE: When reached for comment by Consumerist, Warby Parker co-founder and co-CEO Neil Blumenthal, said this was not some carefully planned piece of viral marketing.
"The note was totally genuine," says Blumenthal. "Customer service is all about treating others the way you'd want to be treated, and it's great to hear that our Atlanta team did just that. We don't have the expertise necessary to track down a missing Jeep yet, but we are able to provide beer and sympathy."
UPDATE #2: Some reddit users accused the bar of being behind this post. A rep for the bar tells Consumerist, "It is not a marketing ploy by The Porter, I can assure you. I have plenty to do without hoping a random goodwill gesture gets picked up on reddit. I applaud the folks at Warby Parker for having such excellent taste in beer bars and for being so generous and kind to someone who clearly had an awful day."
Back in 2013, multiple reddit threads accused an Olive Garden customer of being a corporate shill for posting a photo of a receipt for a meal that had been comped by the restaurant after learning of a family tragedy. In the end, it was all much ado about nothing, as the receipt turned out to be the real deal.
"I posted the receipt on the Internet, and the Internet is a highly skeptical place," the customer told us at the time, "so I can't really blame anyone for thinking the receipt was fake."
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2.25.15By Chris Morran@themorrancave
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Cinema and Video
The audiovisual programs are intended to counteract the predo mina nt model of the black cube, even at a time in which both film and video have become fully integrated and dissolved into contemporary art museums. Their aim is to explore the projected image using different formats and discourses: historical series that broaden – and question – the narrations told by the Collection, retrospectives that draw attention to other stories in the audiovisual history and programs that examine the close links that film and video have with contemporary artistic practices. At the same time, this programming seeks to define a space for film and video outside of the usual circuits, describing itineraries distinct from the spectacle and its derivatives.
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Thursday, 9 and Saturday, 11 January 2019 - 7pm
Interval 30. Isidoro Valcárcel Medina and Luis Deltell, and Juan Rodrigáñez
A Circumstantial Dialogue and Rights of Man
This new edition of the Intervals programme centres on two recent films which explore how to make cinema by experimenting with performance and with the role and purpose of the actor. The programme is made up of Un diálogo circunstancial (A Circumstantial Dialogue, 2019), the second film by artist Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, co-directed with film-maker and historian Luis Deltell, and Derechos del hombre (Rights of Man, 2018), a feature-length film by Juan Rodrigáñez, made in collaboration with a group of artists and performers.
Film series Film and video Encounter
Thursday, 12 and Saturday, 14 December 2019 - 7pm
Interval 29. Alexander Kluge, in collaboration with Khavn de la Cruz
Happy Lamento
Happy Lamento is the latest film by Alexander Kluge (Halberstadt, Germany, 1932), one of the great intellectuals and film-makers of our time, made in collaboration with Philippine film-maker and enfant terrible Khavn de la Cruz (Quezon City, 1972).
Thursday, 28 November and Sunday, 1 December 2019 - 7pm and 6:30pm
Interval 28. Oliver Laxe
O que arde (Fire Will Come)
O que arde (Fire Will Come, 2019) takes centre stage in this edition of Intervals, a series devoted to screening recent film productions. The film, a story of containment and the wish for destruction based on the life of an arsonist, won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes 2019. Its director, Oliver Laxe, will present the first session and hold a talk after the screening.
4 November - 29 December 2019
Nothing Happens, Everything Changes
A Chantal Akerman Retrospective
Museo Reina Sofía and Filmoteca Española have come together every autumn since 2016 to organise an audiovisual programme. Following retrospectives devoted to Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Dziga Vertov and Early Soviet Cinema, and Chinese film-maker Wang Bing, this series offers the most comprehensive film exhibition to date on the oeuvre of Chantal Akerman (1950–2015).
Film series Film and video
Thursday, 31 October and Saturday, 2 November 2019 - 6pm and 7pm
Interval 27. J.P. Sniadecki and Joshua Bonnetta
This new edition of Intervals, a screening series centred on recent film work, presents the latest film by J.P. Sniadecki (USA, 1979), made in collaboration with Joshua Bonnetta (Canada, 1979). As a member of the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, J.P. Sniadecki melds experimental film with ethnographic research, analyses of the film medium and immersive experiences.
Thursday, 12 and Saturday, 14 September 2019 - 7pm and 6pm
Interval 26. Rita Azevedo Gomes
The Portuguese Woman
The Intervals series, which screens recent film work, welcomes one of the most arresting and poetic feature-length films in recent years, The Portuguese Woman by Rita Azevedo Gomes (Lisbon, 1952), a director who prolongs that constant tension between experimentation and narrative film-making in her work.
Fridays and Saturdays, from 20 July to 31 August 2019 - 10pm
Barrio Lives
Summer Cinema
This year sees the Museo Reina Sofía devote its summer cinema series to ways of appropriating, resisting and imagining the city from the neighbourhood understood as a community with class identity and a shared common history. Taking this main premise as its point of departure, the programme is organised into thematic weeks, in which every Friday and Saturday different films converse.
Film series Film and video Encounter Screenings
19, 20, 21, 26, 27 and 28 June, 2019 - 7pm
Renau, Film-maker
The Museo Reina Sofía presents the first retrospective on the film work of Josep Renau during his time in exile. This output, chiefly shown for the first time on this occasion, has been recovered by Luis E. Parés after his research into German and Mexican audiovisual archives.
Thursday, 6 and Saturday, 8 June 2019 - 7pm
Interval 25. Samuel Alarcón
Oscuro y lucientes
This new session inside Intervals, a programme which screens recent film work, presents Oscuro y lucientes (Dark and Lucientes), the fourth feature by Samuel Alarcón (Madrid, 1980). The film is one of the most fascinating and original works on Francisco de Goya.
Friday, 24 and Sunday, 26 May 2019 - 7pm and 5:30pm
Interval 24. Manthia Diawara
An Opera of the World
The latest edition of Intervals, a programme which screens recent film work, presents An Opera of the World by film-maker and cultural theorist Manthia Diawara (Bamako, Mali, 1953). The film melds opera and documentary genres, reflecting on the historical relationship of migration and displacement between Africa and Europe in successive refugee crises.
11 - 19 May 2019 - 19:00 h
Sarah Maldoror, Négritude Poet and Film-maker
The first retrospective on Sarah Maldoror (Gers, France, 1929) in Spain rediscovers a vital film-maker whose work remains obscure, despite her huge commitment to the decolonial movement and the struggles for social diversity from 1960 onwards.
Thursday, 25 and Saturday, 27 April 2019 - 7 pm
Interval 23. Filipa César
Spell Reel
This latest instalment of the Intervals programme, which screens recent film work, welcomes the first feature-length film by artist and film-maker Filipa César (Porto, Portugal, 1975). Spell Reel (2017) constitutes a reflection on the political history of West Africa, made from precarious film archives of the colonial emancipation of Guinea-Bissau, giving rise to an open question raised on how to write the history of those who have been driven out of the present and the role bygone remnants can play in shaking up our contemporaneity.
Saturday, 30 and Sunday, 31 March 2019 - 6pm
Interval 22. Angela Ricci-Lucchi and Yervant Gianikian
I diari di Angela. Noi due cineasti
I diari di Angela. Noi due cineasti (Angela's Diaries: Two Film-makers) is a posthumous homage from Yervant Gianikian (1942) to his lifelong partner and artistic companion Angela Ricci-Lucchi (1942–2018), in a final elegy and poetic act of love following her sudden death in 2018.
15 March – 12 April 2019 - 5pm and 7pm (check programme)
Me Too. Desire and Crime
Albert Serra's Carte Blanche
In Me Too. Desire and Crime the Museo Reina Sofía invites Albert Serra to curate, for the first time in his career, a series of screenings which run alongside his new film installation, Personalien, made for the Museo's Fissures programme.
Saturday, 23 February and Sunday, 24 February 2019 - 5pm
Interval 21. Ana Schulz and Cristóbal Fernández
The Spy Within
This edition of Intervals, a series which screens and presents recent films, features The Spy Within, a documentary essay on friendship and betrayal during the Years of Lead in Spain and terrorism in the Basque Country. The film narrates the relationship between Juan Gutiérrez, a mediator between the Spanish State and ETA, and his closest collaborator, Roberto Flórez, who turns out to be a spy for Spain's Secret Services. Both sessions feature a presentation and talk by Juan Gutiérrez, the writer Edurne Portela, and the film-makers.


The free AARP Foundation Tax-Aide program will again be available at the DeKalb Public Library and is for people with low to moderate incomes. AARP Foundation Tax -Aide volunteers will be available on a first come first served basis every Saturday starting February 2 through April 13, 2019, from 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
There will be no free tax help on Saturday, March 30.
Be sure to bring a photo ID and all necessary tax documents and last year's return forms with you. For a complete list of important documents to bring click here.
For more information call (815) 757-1800 or contact the reference desk at (815) 756-9568 ext. 2150 or email reference@dkpl.org.


THIS SALES CONTRACT (this "Agreement" or this "Sales Contract"), effective as of [DATE], is made and entered into by and between [BUYER NAME], a company organized and existing in [STATE], with offices located at [ADDRESS] (hereinafter the "Buyer"), and [SELLER NAME], a [STATE] company, with a registered address located at [ADDRESS] (hereinafter the "Seller").
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The Buyer may place orders ("Order(s)") with Seller for Seller products and all such Orders will be governed solely by the terms and conditions contained in this Sales Contract, unless otherwise mutually agreed. Any oral understandings are expressly excluded. Seller shall not be deemed to have waived the terms and conditions contained herein if it fails to object to provisions appearing on, incorporated by reference in, or attached to any Buyer order form, and those provisions are hereby expressly rejected. No contrary or additional terms or conditions contained in any Buyer order form shall apply unless agreed to in writing and signed by an authorized representative of Seller. Additionally, Seller reserves the right to reject any Order submitted to it by Buyer.
Delivery shall be made within the time specified on Buyer's Order or in accordance with Seller's quoted lead time and monthly delivery rate, whichever is later. Transportation charges shall be prepaid and Buyer shall reimburse Seller upon receipt of an invoice for such charges. Seller shall have the right to make early, accelerated and/or partial shipments in advance of the contractual delivery schedule, in its sole and absolute discretion.
The Buyer shall inspect and accept, or reject products delivered pursuant to the Order immediately after Buyer takes custody of such products. In the event the products do not comply with the applicable Seller drawings or specifications, the Buyer shall notify the Seller of such nonconformance and give the Seller a reasonable opportunity to correct any such nonconformance. The Buyer shall be deemed to have accepted any products delivered hereunder and to have waived any such nonconformance in the event Seller does not receive notification that the products delivered hereunder do not comply with the Seller's drawings or specifications, within fifteen (15) days after the Buyer takes custody of such products. Unless otherwise agreed, Buyer shall have no right to conduct inspection at Seller's facility. In the event the parties hereto mutually agree that Buyer may inspect Seller's product at Seller's facility, any such inspection shall be conducted with reasonable prior notice by Buyer to Seller and at reasonable times, on a non-interference basis, and such inspection shall not include the right to establish mandatory inspection points or enter proprietary or competition-sensitive areas of Seller's facility.
PandaTip: The timeframes in the above paragraph can certainly be modified to suit your needs.
Seller at all times reserves the right, and is entitled in its sole discretion, to make changes, additions or improvements to the products being delivered under an Order without liability or any obligation to incorporate such changes, additions or improvements into any item or product manufactured, sold or delivered prior to incorporation of the change, addition or improvement.
Prices and payments will be in United States dollars, and payment shall be made in United States currency. Invoice terms are net 30 days unless otherwise specified. Prices quoted are believed to be accurate; however, Seller reserves the right to correct any inadvertent errors in these prices prior to acceptance of the Order. Seller reserves the right to modify or withdraw credit terms at any time without notice and to require guarantees, security or payment in advance of the amount of credit involved. In the event payments are not made in a timely manner, Seller may, in addition to all other remedies provided at law, either: (1) declare Buyer's performance in breach and terminate this Order for default; (2) repossess the goods for which payment has not been made; (3) withhold future shipments under this Order until delinquent payments are made; (4) deliver future shipments under this Order on a cash with Order or cash in advance basis even after the delinquency is cured; (5) charge interest on the delinquency at a rate of 1-1/2% per month or the maximum rate permitted by law, if lower, for each month or part thereof of delinquency in payment plus applicable storage charges, or inventory carrying charges; or (6) recover all costs of collection including reasonable attorney's fees; and (7) at Seller's option combine any of the above rights and remedies as provided by law.
All amounts that Buyer owes Seller under an Order shall be due and payable according to the terms of an Order. Buyer is prohibited from and shall not set off such amounts or any portion thereof, whether or not liquidated, against sums which Buyer asserts are due it, from its parent affiliates, subsidiaries or other divisions or units under other transactions with Seller, its parents, affiliates, subsidiaries or other divisions or units.
As used in this Section "Nonconformance" means a failure to comply with or failure to operate due to noncompliance with applicable Seller drawings or having defects in workmanship or material. Normal wear and tear and the need for regular overhaul and periodic maintenance shall not constitute a Nonconformance.
Seller warrants that at time of delivery to Buyer, its Products will comply with applicable Seller drawings and will be free from defects in workmanship and material. These warranties shall run to the Buyer, its successors, and assigns. This warranty is valid for twelve (12) months after Seller's shipment of the Product. The warranty period for Seller's repair or replacement of the failed product only, covered by the warranty, shall be the unexpired portion of the original warranty or 6 months after shipment of the repaired or replaced product, whichever is longer.
Buyer must notify Seller in writing of the Nonconformance of any Product within the warranty period and return the Product to Seller within thirty (30) days after such discovery. Prior to return of the Product to Seller, Buyer must obtain a Return Material Authorization (RMA) from Seller. Seller reserves the right to return to Buyer any Product received without a valid RMA. In the event Seller is unable to confirm Buyer's reported Nonconformance, Buyer agrees to pay Seller an Evaluation/No Defects Found Charge, the amount of which shall be as specified in Seller's Return Material Authorization. Seller's obligation and Buyer's remedy under this warranty is limited to either repair or replacement, by Seller's election, of any Product Nonconformance. Seller agrees to assume round trip transportation costs for a nonconforming Product in an amount not to exceed normal shipping charges to the nearest facility designated herein for warranty repair of products delivered under an Order. The risk of loss or damage to all Products in transit shall be borne by the party initiating the transportation of such Products.
PandaTip: The above language provides a fairly detailed return procedure. Feel free to customize this section to suit your needs.
Any damage precipitated by failure of a Seller supplied Product not under warranty or by any Product not supplied by Seller.
THIS WARRANTY IS EXCLUSIVE AND IN LIEU OF ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, WHETHER WRITTEN OR ORAL, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE WHICH ARE HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL SELLER BE LIABLE FOR INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR SPECIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND. NO EXTENSION OF THIS WARRANTY SHALL BE BINDING UPON SELLER UNLESS SET FORTH IN WRITING AND SIGNED BY SELLER'S AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE.
PandaTip: Without the above language, certain implied warranties under law may be essentially inserted into the arrangement. These warranties typically go far beyond what would typically be warranted by a Seller.
The Seller shall be excused from delays in delivery and performance of other contractual obligations under this Order caused by acts or omissions that are beyond the reasonable control and without the fault or negligence of Seller including but not limited to Government embargoes, blockades, seizure or freeze of assets, delays or refusals to grant an export license or the suspension or revocation thereof, or any other acts of any Government, fires, floods, severe weather conditions, or any other acts of God, quarantines, labor strikes or lockouts, riots, strife, insurrection, civil disobedience, war, material shortages or delays in deliveries to Seller by third parties. If the excusable delay circumstances extend for six months, either party may, at its option, terminate this Order without penalty or liability and without being deemed in default or in breach thereof.
Buyer reserves the right to cancel any portion of this Order affected by a default of Seller or any insolvency or suspension of Seller's operations or any petition filed or proceeding commenced by or against Seller under any state or federal law relating to bankruptcy, arrangement, reorganization, receivership or assignment for the benefit of creditors.
Except as otherwise specifically agreed in writing by Buyer and Seller, any dispute relating to an Order placed by a Buyer incorporated in the United States which is not resolved by the parties shall be adjudicated by any court of competent jurisdiction. For Orders placed by a Buyer incorporated outside the United States, the parties shall resort to binding arbitration under mutually agreed procedures.
This Agreement shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Seller's facility accepting the Order hereunder is located, exclusive of any choice of law provisions. The Seller and Buyer expressly agree to exclude from this Agreement the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, 1980, and any successor thereto.
PandaTip: Feel free to change the State of governing law to a specific State in lieu of the above language.
Unless otherwise agreed, Buyer shall be responsible for compliance with the export control laws and regulations of the U.S. Government, and when required by such laws and regulations shall obtain validated export and re-export licenses required for goods, services and technical data delivered under this Order. Seller shall not be liable to Buyer for any failure to provide goods, services or technical data as a result of any following U.S. Government actions: (1) refusal to grant export or re-export license; (2) cancellation of export or re-export license; or (3) any subsequent interpretation of U.S. export laws and regulations, after the date of this order, that limits or has a material adverse effect on the cost of Seller's performance on this Order.
Seller's liability on any claim for loss or damage arising out of, connected with, or resulting from an Order, or from the performance or breach thereof, or from the manufacture, sale, delivery, resale, repair or use of any product covered by or furnished under an Order shall in no case exceed the price allocable to the product or part thereof which gives rise to the claim, except as provided in the paragraph entitled "Patent Indemnity". In no event shall Seller be liable for special, incidental or consequential damages. Except as herein expressly provided to the contrary, the provisions of this Order are for the benefit of the parties to the Order and not for the benefit of any other person.
NONDISCLOSURE AND NON-USE OF SELLERS INFORMATION.
Buyer agrees that it will not use Seller's data for the manufacture or procurement of products which are the subject of this Order or any similar products, or cause said products to be manufactured by or procured from any other source, or reproduce said data and information or otherwise appropriate them without the written authorization of the Seller. Buyer agrees that it will not disclose or make available to any third party any of Seller's data or other information pertaining to this Order which is proprietary to Seller without obtaining Seller's prior written consent.
Except insofar as an Order calls for products pursuant to Buyer's designs, drawings or specifications, Seller agrees to pay the amount of any final judgment against Buyer resulting from a suit claiming that any commercial products manufactured or furnished hereunder, by reason of their manufacture, sale or use, infringes any United States patent which has issued at date of contract, and Buyer's reasonable costs and expenses in defense of such suit if Seller does not undertake the defense thereof, provided Seller is promptly notified of the threat or commencement of such suit and is offered full and exclusive control to conduct the defense or settlement thereof.
Seller's indemnity shall not apply where infringement would not have occurred from the normal use for which the products were designed. No responsibility is assumed for actual or alleged infringement of any foreign patent. Seller's liability for damages hereunder is limited to those computed solely on the value of any products sold to Buyer. In no event shall Seller be liable for consequential damages or costs applicable thereto. In the event of any claim that a product furnished hereunder infringes any United States patent, Seller may at its option and expense (a) procure for Buyer the right to continue using the product, or (b) replace or modify the product so that it becomes non-infringing, or (c) grant Buyer a credit for such product, less a reasonable depreciation for use, damage, and obsolescence upon its return to Seller. Buyer agrees to pay all costs and expenses incurred by Seller in its defense and the amount of any judgment against Seller, in any suit or proceeding against Seller based upon a claim of infringement, resulting solely from the Buyer combining any product furnished hereunder with any item not manufactured or furnished by Seller or from the sale or use of any such combination by Buyer. Seller shall also indemnify Buyer's Buyers and agents for such infringement, if and to the extent that Buyer has agreed so to indemnify them, but to no greater extent than Seller has indemnified Buyer herein and under the same conditions as set forth herein. In the event any product to be furnished under this Order is to be made in accordance with drawings, samples or manufacturing specifications designated by Buyer and is not the design of Seller, Buyer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold Seller harmless to the same extent and subject to the same requirements as set forth in Seller's obligation to Buyer as above. The above is in lieu of any other indemnity or warranty, express or implied by Seller, with respect to intellectual property (patents, trade secret, mask works, trademarks, copyrights, or the like).
PandaTip: If software is not provided, this section can be deleted.
Subject to the terms and conditions herein, the Seller grants to Buyer a nonexclusive, nontransferable license to use the software or software documentation provided herein: (i) in the course of the normal operation in or with Seller products which are installed, or are intended to be installed, on aircraft, (ii) in the analysis or the formatting of reports using data from such Seller products or, (iii) on Seller or non-Seller products that are used to test, maintain, download, or process information compiled by Seller products.
Making copies of software or documentation except for one copy for archive purposes is prohibited unless specifically authorized by Seller in writing. Should such copying be authorized, Buyer will reproduce and include all Seller proprietary and copyright notices and other legends in the same manner that Seller provides such notices and legends, both in and on every copy of licensed software and documentation and in any form.
The software license and rights granted by Seller to Buyer hereunder are personal to Buyer. The licensed software and documentation may not be sub-licensed, transferred, or loaned to any other party without Seller's prior express written consent, except that Buyer may transfer the licensed software and documentation in conjunction with the resale of any flight equipment or Seller supplied test equipment in which the licensed software and documentation is installed or with which it is used. Such permission to transfer is contingent upon the resale or transfer of Buyer's agreement to use and protect the confidentiality of the licensed software and documentation under the same or similar terms as those set forth in this software license. Buyer will, however, notify Seller in writing of the transfer of the licensed software and documentation.
Buyer agrees to utilize all licensed software and documentation only as authorized herein. Buyer may not either itself or with the assistance of others, make modifications to the licensed software and documentation, including, but not limited to, translating, decompiling, disassembling or reverse assembling, reverse engineering, creating derivative or merged works, or performing any other operation on licensed software and documentation to recover any other operation on licensed software and documentation to recover any portion of the program listing, object code or source code or any information contained therein.
Buyer agrees to accept and retain licensed software and documentation in confidence. Buyer agrees to take appropriate action by instruction, agreement or otherwise with Buyer's employees, or agents or other persons who are permitted access to licensed software and documentation as follows to inform said employees, agents or other persons who may come into contact with it of the confidential nature of licensed software and documentation; and to satisfy its obligations under this software license with respect to use, copying, and protection and security of licensed software and documentation.
This software license is effective as of the date of first delivery hereunder and shall continue until terminated by Buyer for any reason whatsoever upon thirty (30) days prior written notice to Seller, provided Buyer ceases using and either returns or destroys Seller software and documentation; or by Seller, if Buyer does not comply with any of the terms and conditions of this software license and Buyer fails to remedy such failure within thirty (30) days after having received notice from Seller of such failure.
Notwithstanding the warranties provided elsewhere herein, Buyer acknowledges that licensed software and documentation may be aircraft or sensor specific and, as such, may require reasonable adjustment or refinement to suit Buyer's specific requirements. Buyer shall provide reasonable aid to Seller in accomplishing such adjustments and refinements. Such reasonable adjustments or refinements shall commence on the date of delivery and be provided by Seller to Buyer for a period not to exceed ninety (90) days unless otherwise provided for in writing.
Buyer agrees that it will not use the license software and documentation in the performance of a contract, or subcontract, with any Government in a manner so as to affect Seller rights to licensed software and documentation. If Buyer desires to use the licensed software or documentation in the performance of a contract or subcontract with a Government, prior to such use, Buyer shall consult with Seller as to the procedures and use of restrictive markings required to protect the ownership interest of Seller.
This license and sale is subject to the laws and regulations, and other administrative acts, now or hereinafter in effect, of the United States and other governments and their departments and agencies relative to the exportation and/or re-exportation of licensed software and documentation. Buyer acknowledges that it will be responsible for compliance as necessary with such laws, regulations and administrative acts.
Seller agrees to use reasonable efforts to secure any licenses or permits as may now or hereafter be required by the U.S. Government in connection with the performance of Seller obligations under this Order, but this will not be deemed to require any performance on the part of Seller which cannot lawfully be done pursuant to the laws, regulations and acts referred to above.
Unless otherwise agreed in writing, all material, software, data processes, equipment, facilities and special tooling, which term includes but is not limited to jigs, dies, fixtures, molds, patterns, special taps, special gages, special test equipment, other special equipment and manufacturing aids and replacements thereof, used in the manufacture of products covered by an Order shall be and remain the property of Seller. Seller retains all rights, title and interest in drawings, engineering instructions, specifications, and all other written data, if any, furnished with the products.
The prices quoted herein do not include sums necessary to cover any taxes or duties including but not limited to Federal, State, Municipal excise, sales or use taxes or import duties upon the production, sales, distribution, or delivery of goods or furnishing of services hereunder. Any taxes or duties that are due and owing hereunder shall be paid by the Buyer. Accordingly, Seller reserves the right to revise its price after the execution of this Order between the parties to include any and all taxes or duties that may become due hereunder and Seller may invoice Buyer for said additional amount. This clause shall survive the acceptance and complete performance of this Order by the parties herein.
Neither party shall assign this Order or any portion thereof without the advance, written consent of the other party, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. The non-assigning party shall not have any obligation to an assignee of the assigning party unless such consent is obtained.
Failure by Seller to assert all or any of its rights upon any breach of this Order shall not be deemed a waiver of such rights either with respect to such breach or any subsequent breach, nor shall any waiver be implied from the acceptance of any payment or service. No waiver of any right shall extend to or affect any other right Seller may possess, nor shall such waiver extend to any subsequent similar or dissimilar breach.
If any provision of these Conditions of Sale is determined to be illegal, invalid, or unenforceable, for any reason, then such provision shall be deemed stricken for purpose of the dispute in question, and all other provisions shall remain in full force and effect.


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!This Porsche 928 got away, but there are more like it here.
No Reserve: 1979 Porsche 928
Sold For $12,000 On 11/19/20$12,000 Sold
Seller: Sig928
Location: Potomac, Maryland 20854
105k Kilometers Shown (~65k Miles)
4.5-Liter V8
Three-Speed Automatic Transmission
Grand Prix White
White and Green Leather
Pop-Up Headlights
16" Phone Dial Wheels
Model Page: Porsche 928
This 1979 Porsche 928 is finished in Grand Prix White over a white and green interior and is powered by a 4.5-liter V8 paired with a three-speed automatic transaxle. Features include pop-up headlamps, integrated fog lights, a rear spoiler, and polished exhaust finishers. The car was imported into the US from Canada by the previous owner, sold on BaT in May 2019, and subsequently acquired by the seller later that year. This 928 shows 105k kilometers (~65k miles) and is now offered at no reserve with service records, a tool kit, and a clean Maryland title in the seller's name.
The exterior was refinished in Grand Prix White during previous ownership. The paint was polished and sealed in April 2020, and close-up photos of the body and trim can be viewed in the gallery. A walk-around video is available here.
Silver 16″ phone dial wheels feature Porsche-crest center caps and wear BFGoodrich G-Force Sport tires. Braking is from four-wheel discs with slotted rotors up front.
The cabin is trimmed in white and green and features power-adjustable leather seats. The car is not equipped with air conditioning or a sunroof, and amenities include a heater, a Sony CD player, hatch-mounted Sony speakers, and power accessories. A video of the interior can be viewed here.
The three-spoke steering wheel frames a 260-km/h speedometer and a 7k-rpm tachometer, as well as gauges for voltage, oil pressure, coolant temperature, and fuel level. The six-digit odometer shows 105k kilometers (~65k miles), approximately 150 of which have been added by the seller.
The 4.5-liter V8 was factory rated for 230 horsepower and 253 lb-ft of torque when new. Modifications are said to include a high-output alternator and auxiliary fan, and the timing belt and water pump were reportedly replaced in 2016. A start-up video is available here.
Power is sent to the rear wheels through a three-speed automatic transaxle. Recent service reportedly includes flushing the fluids and repairing a transmission cooler leak. A video featuring walk-around, start-up, and driving footage is provided below.
Winning Bid USD $12,000	by DamonTian
Auction Ended November 19, 2020 at 2:16PM PT


When Kristine Greer decided to call attention to ovarian cancer in her hometown of Duluth, she looked to the sky.
Folks in Duluth will do the same Sept. 14 and 15, when two city landmarks — the Aerial Lift Bridge and Enger Tower — will sparkle in teal-colored lights.
That includes the 32 enormous bridge lights, roughly 2 feet wide, whose teal-colored lenses required some serious installation skills and cutting of government red tape.
Teal is the official color of the ovarian cancer awareness campaign, and the Duluth event is among hundreds nationwide in September, which is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. In addition to the teal lights, which flip on that Saturday night, a fundraising golf tournament, art sale and dinner cruise are slated for the weekend.
Too many women are unaware of the symptoms of ovarian cancer, sometimes called a "silent killer,'' said Greer, an ovarian cancer survivor whose foundation is named after her friend Charlene Postigo, who died from the disease. Those symptoms include abdominal or pelvic pain and bloating.
Putting the teal spotlight on the cancer, however, took tenacity. Greer said she approached city officials in January, and was given a list of agencies that needed to approve the project. It included the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Coast Guard, the federal government and the Duluth City Council.
"It was nonstop pounding of the pavement," Greer said.
But by June, the government agencies had approved the plan, laying the groundwork for one of the more unusual events for the cancer campaign.
The Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance, based in Minneapolis, also has events scheduled for the month, including a walk/run this Saturday at Rosland Park in Edina. For more information, go to www.charleneslight.org or www.mnovarian.org.


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package org.jayware.e2.event.impl;

import org.jayware.e2.event.api.EventDispatcher;
import org.jayware.e2.event.api.EventFilter;
import org.jayware.e2.event.api.Subscription;
import org.jayware.e2.event.api.SubscriptionFactory;
import org.jayware.e2.util.ObjectUtil;
import org.jayware.e2.util.ReferenceType;

import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;

import static org.jayware.e2.util.ReferenceType.STRONG;
import static org.jayware.e2.util.ReferenceType.WEAK;

public class SubscriptionFactoryImpl
implements SubscriptionFactory
{
    @Override
    public Subscription createSubscription(final Object subscriber, final ReferenceType referenceType, final EventFilter[] filters, final EventDispatcher dispatcher)
    {
        if (referenceType == STRONG)
        {
            return new StrongReferenceSubscriptionImpl(subscriber, filters, dispatcher);
        }
        else
        {
            return new WeakReferenceSubscriptionImpl(subscriber, filters, dispatcher);
        }
    }

    static class StrongReferenceSubscriptionImpl
    implements Subscription
    {
        private final Object mySubscriber;
        private final EventDispatcher myEventDispatcher;
        private final EventFilter[] myFilters;

        private final AtomicBoolean myIsValid;

        StrongReferenceSubscriptionImpl(Object subscriber, EventFilter[] filters, EventDispatcher eventDispatcher)
        {
            mySubscriber = subscriber;
            myEventDispatcher = eventDispatcher;
            myFilters = filters != null ? filters : new EventFilter[0];
            myIsValid = new AtomicBoolean(true);
        }

        @Override
        public Object getSubscriber()
        {
            return mySubscriber;
        }

        @Override
        public EventFilter[] getFilters()
        {
            return myFilters;
        }

        public EventDispatcher getEventDispatcher()
        {
            return myEventDispatcher;
        }

        @Override
        public ReferenceType getReferenceType()
        {
            return STRONG;
        }

        @Override
        public void invalidate()
        {
            myIsValid.set(false);
        }

        @Override
        public boolean isValid()
        {
            return myIsValid.get();
        }
    }

    static class WeakReferenceSubscriptionImpl
    implements Subscription
    {
        private final WeakReference<Object> mySubscriber;
        private final EventDispatcher myEventDispatcher;
        private final EventFilter[] myFilters;

        private final AtomicBoolean myIsValid;

        WeakReferenceSubscriptionImpl(Object subscriber, EventFilter[] filters, EventDispatcher eventDispatcher)
        {
            mySubscriber = new WeakReference<Object>(subscriber);
            myEventDispatcher = eventDispatcher;
            myFilters = filters != null ? filters : new EventFilter[0];
            myIsValid = new AtomicBoolean(true);
        }

        @Override
        public Object getSubscriber()
        {
            return mySubscriber.get();
        }

        @Override
        public EventFilter[] getFilters()
        {
            return myFilters;
        }

        public EventDispatcher getEventDispatcher()
        {
            return myEventDispatcher;
        }

        @Override
        public ReferenceType getReferenceType()
        {
            return WEAK;
        }

        @Override
        public void invalidate()
        {
            myIsValid.set(false);
            mySubscriber.clear();
        }

        @Override
        public boolean isValid()
        {
            return mySubscriber.get() != null && myIsValid.get();
        }

        @Override
        public boolean equals(final Object other)
        {
            if (this == other)
            {
                return true;
            }
            if (!(other instanceof Subscription))
            {
                return false;
            }

            final Subscription that = (Subscription) other;
            final Object subscriber = getSubscriber();

            return getReferenceType().equals(that.getReferenceType()) &&
                   subscriber != null ? subscriber.equals(that.getSubscriber()) : that.getSubscriber() == null;
        }

        @Override
        public int hashCode()
        {
            return ObjectUtil.hashCode(getReferenceType(), getSubscriber());
        }
    }
}

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