The weather was on our side for the Páirc Uí Chaoimh Redevelopment Site Visit in January, there was a great turnout of up to 100 engineers from across the Cork Region. The 45,000 capacity Páirc Uí Chaoimh redevelopment includes a new 13,000 capacity three tier reinforced concrete South Stand complete with a 40m cantilever feature steel roof. The North Stand is a single tier stand with a 25m cantilever roof which will accommodate 8,000 spectators and associated facilities. The new Eastern and Western Terraces comprise partial demolition and extension of the existing terrace structures and include piled concourse areas. The site visit provided a great opportunity to observe the stadium under construction and to learn about the key design and construction challenges of this landmark project. We would like to thank the speakers, Seamus Kelly and Sean Breen of Malachy Walsh and Partners and David Cotter of John Sisk & Son.
The Cork Region of Engineers Ireland held our Annual Dinner on Friday 12th February 2016 at the Maryborough House Hotel Cork. Once again it was a very enjoyable evening and the number of guests (236) was up by approx 10% on last year!. Hopefully that's a sign of the rising economy in the Region! Thank you to all those who supported the event.
Pictured at the Cork Region Annual Dinner were (L-R): Councillor Claire Cullinane, Deputy Mayor of the County of Cork, David Keane, County Engineer, Cork County Council, and Kate Lehane, Cork County Council.
The Cork Region held our Annual Dinner on Friday 13th February 2015 at the Maryborough House Hotel Cork. This year we had approximately 220 guests - once again thank you to all those who supported the event. An enjoyable night was had by all that went on late into the early hours!
Pictured at the Cork Region Annual Dinner were (L-R): John Power (Director General Engineers Ireland), Aidan Cronin (Chairman Cork Region Engineers Ireland), Simon Coveney TD (Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Minister for Defence).
Chairman Aidan Cronin pictured at the Cork Region Annual Dinner with a presentation made to John Power on behalf of the members in the Region in recoginition of his contribution to the Institution ahead of his retirement later this year from the role of Director General.
As part of the 2014-2015 Winter Lecture Series a lecture on the above topic was presented by Mr. Paul Enright and Mr. Liam Broderick of HBE Risk Management.
The speakers have created a web page which includes the presentation slides from the talk as well as other relevant information.
We thank the speakers for doing this and if you would like to access this infomration you can do so via the link below.
The Cork Region held our Annual Dinner on Friday 31st January 2014 at the Maryborough House Hotel Cork. Thank you to all those who supported the event. An enjoyable night was had by all!
Pictured at the Cork Region Annual Dinner were (L-R): Brian Cassidy, (Chairman, Cork Region, Engineers Ireland), Catherine Clancy, Lord Mayor, Michael John Shinnick, (Chief Scout, Guest Speaker).
Pictured at the Cork Region Annual Dinner were (L-R): Michael John Shinnick, (Chief Scout, Guest Speaker), Simon Coveney, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Brian Cassidy, (Chairman, Cork Region, Engineers Ireland).
Engineers Ireland has reserved a place on each of the two strands of the Future Professionals Series for CPD Scholarship participants. Applications for CPD Scholarships are open to members (MIEI) from engineering-led organisations. CPD Scholarships will be awarded to cover 75% of the programme fees.
Two Scholarship places will be awarded in each location where the Future Professionals Series runs. One for those taking part in the CPD Certificate in Professional Engineering as well as one for those on the CPD Diploma in Professional Engineering. To apply, complete and return an Application Form.
Over 130 delegates attended this 1-day seminar (20th March 2013) to hear topical discussions and presentations from key industry stakeholders on the ongoing reform of the water services sector in Ireland.
Presentations from the day are now available from our Downloads Page (see link on side bar).
Speaking at the Cork Region Seminar 20th March 2013 were (R-L) Finola McCarthy (RDJ Solicitors), Noel O'Keeffe (Irish Water Programme), Denis Crowley (Chairman Cork Region), Gerry Duane (Water Services Transition Office), Katherine Walshe (Cork County Council).
Up to ten relevant marine policymakers and practitioners, marine economic development specialists, environmentalists, and investors from Ireland and Northern Ireland will be selected to engage with their American counterparts on issues relating to the marine economy. Participants will develop their understanding of the marine environment and the potential for its safe and sustainable economic development in the United States. Energy—both renewable and non-renewable—fishing, transport, and recreational uses of marine resources will be examined along with environmental challenges related to the development of the marine environment.
The program is sponsored by the Irish Institute at the Center for Irish Programs, Boston College, and the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Program-related costs including travel, accommodation, tuition, and the majority of meals are provided.
The program is not open to U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, or past participants of U.S. Government-funded Irish Institute programs. Short-listed applicants must be available for interview either 3rd October in Dublin or 4th October in Belfast. Please note that the program is by necessity highly selective, and that consequently, not all applicants will be interviewed and not all interviewees will be invited to participate.
To apply: Visit our website at www.bc.edu/irishinstitute for an application. The completed form, in addition to a letter of interest, must be returned by email to Ms. Thea Gilien at gilien@bc.edu before 5 p.m. GMT on Tuesday, 25th September. The mandatory letter of interest should include: reason for application, your ability to contribute to the program, and potential for sharing your experience upon your return home. For further information, please visit our website or telephone (353) 1 614 7450.
The recent Young Engineers Society (Cork Region) Golf Outing, sponsored by Omega Financial Management, at Douglas Golf Club was a great success.
For more details see this Link.
The Cork Region hosted our Annual Dinner on Friday 10th February 2012 at teh Maryborough House Hotel Cork. As always this turned out to be a very enjoyable social occasion and our thanks goes to the over 200 guests who supported the event.
The audience is families with primary school kids and the idea is that they will have an opportunity to meet with engineers and find out about the work that you do. We will have a range of hands on activities (maths puzzles, Lego robots, circuit building etc) and we need volunteers to assist groups with these activities. There will also be plenty of bouncy castles, face painting etc to entertain the crowd.
If you are interested and can come along, please email volunteer@engineersirelandcork.ie to discuss further.
19/12/2011 Mizen Head Project scoops top Engineers Ireland Excellence Award and other honours..
The paper first presented as part of the Cork Region's 2010-2011 Night Lecture Series: The Design and Construction of the New Mizen Head Footbridge was awarded Best Paper or Presentation of the Year at the same awards ceremony.
The Paper has also been commended by the Institution of Structural Engineers at their Structural Awards 2011 following a presentation at their Westminister HQ earlier this year. See this LINK for more details.
The Cork Region of Engineers Ireland was delighted to host a stand at this years Discovery Exhibition held in Corks City Hall (12-15 November 2011).
Mark Cotter (Mott MacDonald) and David Gilmour (UCC Student in Fourth Year Civil Engineering) at the Engineers Ireland (Cork Region) Stand at the Discovery 2011 - Schence & Engineering exhibition ,Cork City Hall 12-15 November 2011.
At the invitation of the Lord Mayor of Cork City Cllr Terry Shannon, the Chairman of the Cork Region of Engineers Ireland Dr Jim Robinson paid a courtesy visit to Cork City Hall this afternoon, Tuesday 27th September. Dr Robinson was accompanied by John Power, Director General of Engineers Ireland and members of the Senior Committee of the Cork Region of Engineers Ireland.
Members of Engineers Ireland Cork Region Committee who visited Cork City's Lord Mayor Cllr Terry Shannon. Also present was Mr. John Power, Director General Engineers Ireland.
Dr Jim Robinson Chairman Cork Region making a presentation to Cllr Terry Shannon, Lord Mayor on the occasion of the Region's visit to City Hall.
Engineers Ireland President Mr PJ Rudden attended the official opening of the reconstructed Mizen Head Footbridge on Friday 5th August 2011.
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The following email was received by members of the Cork Region Committee. If it is of interest to you please contact the undersigned..
"We need everyone's help to find suitable sites for a new research project on septic tanks. The EPA funded project aims to find solutions for single household on-site wastewater in areas where conventional septic tanks may not be the most appropriate form of treatment. You might have heard in the news that the European Court is going to prosecute Ireland (lump sum fine of €2.7 million plus a daily penalty of €26,173) for failing to comply with the EU Water Framework Directive relating to septic tanks in single households. The outcome of this project will find applications in the new laws and regulations that are requested by the EU to protect water quality and human health.
We are looking to monitor sites in a range of soil permeabilities but if the site is suitable and in an area of low soil permeability there is the chance to be selected for one of the main sites where we would upgrade the old soakaway to a new modern system FOR FREE!
1. You are living in a house in the countryside, not connected to the main sewer system.
2. You have an on-site wastewater treatment system consisting of a septic tank and a soakaway. This is more likely to be in place in older houses (15 to 20 years).
3. The house is occupied by at least 3 people.
4. You are willing to cooperate with a few researchers in TCD and allow a few probes to be installed around the area of the soakaway with someone coming on a regular basis to take samples.
So please get in touch with us if you think you might know a suitable site. Your help and your time are much appreciated!
Lorna Murphy (General Manager SDL Exhibitions) has contacted the Cork Region Committee and is looking for a suitably qualified and insured Chartered Engineer for inspection of temporary marquee structures as part of TasteFest in Fitzgeralds Park Cork (23-26 June). Interested? Please Contact: SDL Exhibitions, 18 Main Street, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14. (Tel: +353 (0)1 405 5552) (Mobile: +353 (0) 87 2750800) Email: lorna@sdlexpo.com.
A full house of Members and an international audience, via webcam, attended the Engineers Ireland AGM in Dublin last night. PJ Rudden, on his accession to President of Engineers Ireland, gave an insperational speech where he spoke about the Challenges we face, the Leadership of Engineers, the Hope for the future and the role that Facebook, Twitter and Blogs can play! You can read PJ's full inaugural speech and follow his Presidential Year via his Blog.
Members of the Cork Region who attended tonight's lecture by Dr John Barrett CIT were in for a treat. John clearly presented how the Internet has become part of our every-day lives and outlined how the innovative technologies (Things) being developed are opportunities for Engineers to make maximum use of the vast resource that is the World Wide Web!
A thoroughly enjoyable and thought provoking lecture. The lecture was followed by a tour of the Nimbus facility and a behind the scenes look at some of the industry leading technologies being developed at CIT.
Pictured at the lecture in Nimbus, Cork Institute of Technology were Dr John Barrett (Group Director of the Smart Systems Integration Research Group and Head of Studies at the Nimbus Centre for Embedded Systems Research at Cork Institute of Technology) and Brendan Brice (Chairman, Engineers Ireland - Cork Region).
The Internet has transformed our lives beyond recognition in the two decades since the term "world wide web" first emerged. However, the current internet and our means of interacting with it are, in developmental terms, relatively primitive and, for engineers, the Internet is of little use as a real engineering tool – it may greatly facilitate the finding and communication of information but we do not truly "engineer" with it in the sense that we understand when we design and construct new structures, systems, processes and machines. The emerging Internet of Things – where embedded systems will allow not just computers but also people, objects, structures, vehicles and machines to autonomously communicate on the Internet – will lead to transformations far beyond those brought about by the current Internet. The Internet of Things will free users from the restrictive and unnatural interfaces of computer screens and keyboards, facilitating many new "natural web" applications and businesses. For all the engineering disciplines, it will be a true engineering tool for fine-grain observation and control and will provide unprecedented opportunities for engineering innovation. This lecture will focus on the Internet of Things, the technologies that are being put in place to build it, the impact it will have on its users and the opportunities it offers for innovation.
The Internet of Things Abstract .
Engineers Week is a week long programme of nationwide events with the aim of celebrating the world of engineering in Ireland. The aim of the week is to create a positive awareness and spark enthusiasm about the engineering profession to people of various ages with little or no engineering background.
This week more than 150 events have been held nationwide. Many events were organised in the Cork area and sincere thanks to all those who organised and took part in these. Yesterday was Volunteers Day and many engineers took the time to visit local schools to help promote engineering. Again, thank you.
The Cork Region hosted our Annual Dinner on Friday 11th February 2011 at the Maryborough Hotel and Spa. Thank you to all those who attended, particularly the companies who sponsored tables.
We hope that you all enjoyed the night.
Follow this link to the Cork County Council WEBSITE for more information.
Also see these photos published in the Evening Echo on Wednesday 16th February CLICK HERE to view.
Pictured at the Cork Region Annual Dinner were (L-R): Jim Robinson (Vice Chairman Cork Region), Kevin Smyth (Chairman RIAI Southern Region), Michael Barrett (Chairman SCS Southern Region), Martin Lowery (President Engineers Ireland), Brendan Brice (Chairman Cork Region), Kieran Horgan (Chairman Thomond Region), Cllr Kieran McCarthy (Deputy Lord Mayor), Cllr John O'Sullivan (Deputy Mayor of the County of Cork).
Pictured at the Cork Region Annual Dinner were (L-R): Martin Lowery (President Engineers Ireland), Brendan Brice (Chairman Cork Region), Cllr Kieran McCarthy (Deputy Lord Mayor), Cllr John O'Sullivan (Deputy Mayor of the County of Cork).
Attending the Annual Dinner were John Power (Director General Engineers Ireland), Kevin Murray, Leo Enright (Guest Speaker) and Peter Langford.
Martin Lowery (President Engineers Ireland) and Brendan Brice (Chairman Cork Region) at the Cork Regions Annual Dinner 2011.
Kevin Smyth and Jim Robinson at the Cork Region Annual Dinner.
Pictured at the Cork Region Annual Dinner were Bernadette Janeczek and Michelle O'Sullivan.
Kieran Horgan and Michael Barrett at the Cork Region Annual Dinner.
The Engineers Week Bus recently visited Patrick Street, Cork. The bus was touring Ireland to highlight Engineers Week, a campaign held annually by Engineers Ireland to promote engineering as a career and the importance of the industry to Ireland. During this week Engineers are encouraged to visit local schools to promote science and engineering. More details can be found on the Engineers Week WEBSITE.
Pictured above are John Barry, Managing Director Bord Gais Networks and Brendan Brice, Chairman Cork Region Engineers Ireland with Joseph and Aishling Murray at the Engineers Week 2011 Bus.
Brian Harrison of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ireland recently presented the Investment & Economic Update (November 2010). See this LINK. In summary Ireland is returning to growth led by durable exporting industries.
The Discovery Science & Engineering 2010 Exhibition took place in Cork City Hall from the 13-16 November 2010. The Cork Region of Engineers Ireland sponsored a stand with exhibits provided by students from STEPS, CIT, UCC and 5th year students from local secondary schools. The exhibits demonstrated Richie O'Shea's novel cooking stove (winner of 2010 BY Young Scientist); a scale model of the new Waterford City Bypass Bridge complete with load sensors; experiments demonstrating Newtons Laws of Motion and some Biomechanical Reserach ongoing at CIT.
The STEPS end of the stand.
Richie O'Shea BTYS with his stove on our stand.
Dr. Michael Creed, Head of School of Engineering, UCC discusses the stove with Richie.
Brian Cassidy & Brendan Brice (Cork Region Committee) testing the sound system.
Seminar Speakers: John Mullins (BGE), Denise Kennedy (CIT Rubicon), Trevor Winckworth (InHand Guides), Linda Hendy (NSAI), Brian Cassidy (Cork Region Committee), Minister Batt O'Keeffe TD, Brendan Brice (Chairman Cork Region Engineers Ireland), Prof. Patrick Cunningham (Chief Scientific Advisor to the Irish Government), Pat O'Brien (Enterprise Ireland).
Minister Batt O'Keeffe giving an opening address to the Seminar.
Professor Patrick Cunningham (Chief Scientific Advisor to the Irish Government) addressing the Seminar.
Mr Pat O'Brien (Enterprise Ireland) speaking on the Innovation Voucher Scheme at the Cork Region's Seminar.
Brendan Brice (Chairman Cork Region Engineers Ireland) winding up proceedings.
Tonight saw the conclusion of the 2010 CPD Series on Alternative Dispute Resolution. The series was well attended and attendees were given a comprehensive introduction into the various forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution. A special word of thanks goes to teh speakers and the organising sub-committee.
Copies of presentations and other supporting material are now available on our DOWNLOADS page.
Our Annual Seminar will be held at the Rochestown Park Hotel on the 8th November 2010. This year our chosen theme is "Innovation - How to Turn your Bright Idea into Revenue".
The Autumn CPD Series commenced this evening at the Rochestown Park Hotel.
This years CPD theme is Alternative Dispute Resolution. Ciaran Fahy FIEI presented the opening lecture providing a thorough overview of the various forms of dispute resolution, their benefits and limitations. Ciaran also gave a brief introduction to the 2010 Arbiration Act. The series is well attended with over 70 delegated attending the opening night. The next session in the series will be held on Monday 11th October at 6:30pm in the Rochestown Park Hotel.
Check out our Diary Page for more Details.
Our winter lecture series will include talks relating to Energy, Water, Marine Research, Bridges, Leading edge Internet research and much more!
Many of our lectures are held jointly with EI Divisions and other Institutions so there should be something for everybody.
Of note is our Autumn CPD series on Alternative Dispute Resolution. This will be held over 4 nights commencing 5th October at 6:30 in the Rochestown Park.
Our Annual Seminar this year will be held on Monday 8th November at the Rochestown Park Hotel. This years topic will be 'Innovation - How to turn your bright idea into revenue'. A strong panel of speakers will be presenting and the event will be opened by Minister Batt O'Keeffe.
Kevin Murray speaking at the 2010 Annual Conference 23rd April 2010.
Brendan Brice chairing the Cork Region's Parallel Session on 'Leadership and Innovation in Practice' at the 2010 Annual Conference 23rd April 2010.
Noel O'Keeffe Cork County Engineer speaking at the Cork Region's Parallel Session on 'Leadership and Innovation in Practice' at the 2010 Annual Conference 23rd April 2010.
Mike Jones Bam Contractors speaking at the Cork Region's Parallel Session on 'Leadership and Innovation in Practice' at the 2010 Annual Conference 23rd April 2010.
Dr Bian O'Gallachoir UCC speaking at the Cork Region's Parallel Session on 'Leadership and Innovation in Practice' at the 2010 Annual Conference 23rd April 2010.
Joe McSwiney Cascade Designs speaking remotely from Seattle at the Cork Region's Parallel Session on 'Leadership and Innovation in Practice' at the 2010 Annual Conference 23rd April 2010.
Pat O'Connor MEDIC CIT speaking at the Cork Region's Parallel Session on 'Leadership and Innovation in Practice' at the 2010 Annual Conference 23rd April 2010.
Paudie Murphy Bam Contractors speaking at the Cork Region's Parallel Session on 'Leadership and Innovation in Practice' at the 2010 Annual Conference 23rd April 2010.
Barry Leach presenting the Cork Region's Conference Resolution proposal 'Irish Infrastructure Report' at the 2010 Annual Conference 23rd April 2010.
Brian Cassidy chairing the Local Government Division's parallel session 'Irelands Water: meeting the challenges' at the 2010 Annual Conference 23rd April 2010.
Jim Robinson speaking at the 2010 Annual Conference 23rd April 2010.
Mary Moloney & Bernadette Janeczek attending the 2010 Annual Conference.
Ronan Duggan speaking at the Conference Resolutions session at the 2010 Annual Conference 23rd April 2010.
John Power Director General presenting the Engineers Ireland CPD Accreditation Certificate to Mr Martin Riordan, County Manager Cork County Council, 21st April 2010.
John Power Director General Engineers Ireland with members of Cork County Council at the presention of the Engineers Ireland CPD Accreditation Certificate, 21st April 2010.
Present at the evening lecture on the development of Castletownbere Harbour were Brendan Brice, Robert Dunsire (Jacobs), Kevin Murray, Simon Brewitt (Mott MacDonald).
Batt O'Keeffe TD, Minister for Education and Science, Dr Chris Horn President Engineers Ireland & Kevin Murray Chairman Cork Region who were present at the Cork Region Annual Dinner.
Present at the Cork Region Annual Dinner were Batt O'Keeffe TD (Minister for Education & Science), Dr Chris Horn, Kevin Murray, Cllr Laura McGonigle (Deputy Lord Mayor, Cork City), Cllr Derry Canty (Mayor of County Cork), Martin Riordan (Cork County Manager), Noel O'Keeffe (Cork County Engineer), Tom McSweeney (Guest Speaker).
St Francis Capuchin College Rochestown, with the Headmaster, Deputy Headmaster and Chaplain.
Scoil Barra Naofa Monkstown with the Principal..
Present at the Cork Electronics Industry Association Lego Robot Competition were (L-R) Paul Deasy (General Manager of Moog and Chairperson of Cork Electronics Industry Association), Kevin Murray (EI Cork Region) & Ken Murphy(MD of Careerwise Recruitment Agency). The winners of the Competition were St Francis College, Rochestown - WELL DONE!
11/02/2010 Evening Lecture by Niall Fitzsimons & Co.
Present at the recent evening lecture on Cork's Inner City Developments were representatives of Niall Fitzsimons & Co., Institution of Structural Engineers and Engineers Ireland Cork Region .
Over the past few months the current Chairman of the Cork Region Mr Kevin Murray Chartered Engineer has been acting as a spokesman for Engineers Ireland on flooding and water supply issues.
Present at the CEF Annual Awards this week were (l-r) Michael Hobbs (Chairman, CEF), Kevin Terry (Cork City Engineer), Kevin Murray (Chair Cork Region EI), Eamonn Walsh (Senior Engineer, Cork City Council) and Patrick Treacy (CEF).
The presentation by Mr Ger Hurley (UCG) to the Cork Region on "Soláthar Cumhachta i gCás Éigeandála do Chórais Rialaithe an Chlaonta i dTuirbíní Gaoithe5MW" is now available for download.
The presentation by Mr John Shine (ESB Networks) to the Cork Region on "A Roadmap for Smart Networks" is now available for download.
Cork City Council would like to notify members of the recent important changes to the Building Control Regulations.
This notification relates to Disability Access Certificates (DAC) that were introduced through SI 351 of 2009 dated 4 September 2009, in order to improve compliance of buildings with Part M of the Building Regulations, currently Part M 2000.


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#1227 Steve Poltz
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Steve Poltz's bio says, "Steve Poltz is not normal." I cannot judge that from one conversation, but I can say that you might know a few of his songs, and be shocked by some of his other work. No matter which incarnation of his music you like, Poltz's fans are dedicated to his songwriting and to each other in ways many artists only imagine. Poltz fans follow him from show to show, country to country, and plan their vacations to meet other Poltz fans that they only know through his shows. In his words, if fans are not coming up to the band after shows to buy CD's and asking, "When are you coming back?" then artists need to re-evaluate what they are doing creatively. The call to action should be so deep, that listeners seek out the band. That said, Poltz's music is not for everyone, and his live shows can be so intense that significant others' of diehard fans make a point of telling him how much they hated it!
As a child, Steve's uncle Louis took him to hear classical guitar, and young Poltz became enamored with the gut-string guitar, while listening to music ranging from the Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack to Janis Joplin, and later depressing Jackson Browne songs and Pink Floyd's The Wall. As a teen, his older sister worked for a college radio station, and brought home Elvis Costello's My Aim Is True, which opened him up to a whole new world of what songwriting could be. As an adult, Poltz's early songwriting drew influences from Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan (Blond on Blond) and Neil Young (Greendale). Steve's years with the Rugburns clarified the power of writing a song that connects with an audience, but it also made clear that he prefers autonomy to a group democracy, and "going solo" opened him up to a lot more work as a musician and the freedom to hire a band when he wanted, but not be tied down by the needs of a group of people. Flexibility became key.
Steve Poltz's latest record Noineen Noiny Noin is newly released, but he has already recorded his next record, in a whirlwind trip through Austin, Texas, during South By Southwest. The current title comes from an Australian promoter he first met while touring Australia with Jewel (with whom he toured and co-wrote for many years), who said, "Well, I reckon I met first met you in 1999," in his thick Australian country accent. Chatting with Steve Poltz careens from politics to beautiful women to songwriting gems, so I can only imagine what a live show must be like. For now, video will suffice, as do his extensive live recordings.
www.Poltz.com
For a limited time, download a bunch of free songs from Steve Poltz HERE.
Songs in this Episode Include:
Steve Poltz Noineen Noiny Noin "Spirit Hands," "Check Your Head," "Croatia"
Neil Young Greendale "Devil's Sidewalk"
Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain "Cut Your Hair"
Arlo Guthrie "The Motorcycle Song"
Elvis Costello My Aim Is True "Watching the Detectives"
Please support these musicians by buying their music.
Steve Poltz

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New Sharon is een plaats (city) in de Amerikaanse staat Iowa, en valt bestuurlijk gezien onder Mahaska County.

Demografie
Bij de volkstelling in 2000 werd het aantal inwoners vastgesteld op 1301. In 2006 is het aantal inwoners door het United States Census Bureau geschat op 1308, een stijging van 7 (0,5%).

Geografie
Volgens het United States Census Bureau beslaat de plaats een oppervlakte van 2,4 km², geheel bestaande uit land. New Sharon ligt op ongeveer 258 m boven zeeniveau.

Plaatsen in de nabije omgeving
De onderstaande figuur toont nabijgelegen plaatsen in een straal van 20 km rond New Sharon.

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Plaats in Iowa

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Tactical Review: Real Madrid 1-4 Ajax; 2018/19 Champions League Round of 16
Team exits competition after Ajax's shocking comeback.
By Emily.T.Wilson Mar 7, 2019, 7:00am CET
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Real Madrid players looked distraught after the final whistle
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Every so often, a particular match manages to etch itself into the history books. Manchester United 2-1 Bayern Munich in 1998/99 season, Deportivo La Coruna's 4-0 in 2003/04, Barcelona 6-1 Paris Saint Germain in 2016/17 season and Roma 3-0 Barcelona just last year.
Now, another match is added to the long list of thrillers.
In this years campaign, Real Madrid drew Ajax in the round of 16 matchup and were heavily favoured to move onto the next round. The first leg saw the current title holders win 1-2 in Amsterdam but the team wasn't able to hold onto their lead.
Ajax put on arguably the best performance of their season ripping Real Madrid to pieces with a 1-4 win making the bout 3-5 on aggregate.
It was very clear the young and thriving Dutch side came to the Esatadio Santiago Bernabeu with only one thing in mind: winning. So what went wrong for Madrid? This is supposed to be 'their competition.'
Issues stemming from prior matches
Before making their way back into European competition, Santiago Solari's men had a tough schedule. Throughout February, Los Blancos had to play a Madrid Derby and three El Clasico's, while also playing Ajax in the Champions League and Girona and Levante in LaLiga.
At first, everything was going as planned. They drew 1-1 against Barcelona and the Camp Nou, won 1-3 against Atletico in the Estadio Wanda Metropolitano and beat Ajax in Amsterdam, 1-2.
Everyone was talking about the team's hot streak but eventually, everything came crumbling down.
Losing to your biggest rival not once, but twice in your own backyard without even scoring a goal hurts the ego, no matter what.
In addition to that, the players were building up injury issues due to the lack of rotation on the pitch.
Leading up to the second-leg, players such as Karim Benzema, Vinicius Junior, Luka Modric, Toni Kroos, Raphael Varane and Sergio Reguilon were racking up a lot of minutes on the pitch and their form was decreasing as a result.
Since February 3rd, Benzema averaged 84 minutes per game, Modric and Varane 79 minutes, Vinicius Junior 72 minutes, Kroos 71 minutes and Reguilon 68 minutes.
Brazilian teenager was forced off due to an ankle injury.
With such heavy reliance on these players, Solari strained the physical capabilities of his strong starting XI and did not give enough time for substitute players to get back into their groove,
It is no surprise that a youthful side with players in prime fitness were able to pounce on players who were struggling to maintain their form. The injuries to Lucas Vazquez (29') and Vinicius Junior (35') just emphasized the team's struggles.
Another reason that preceded Madrid's early departure was the lack of leadership on the pitch.
In the first leg, Captain Sergio Ramos carried a handful of yellow cards to his name and knew one more would mean a suspension. So, rather than taking the chance of being dismissed in the quarter-finals, he purposely made himself unavailable for the return leg against Ajax.
The football world's reaction towards the decision was split 50/50. Was it smart or was it foolish? Regardless of the public opinion, the Spaniard would not be able to partake in the match and that left a massive gap in the team not only physically but mentally.
Ramos is the type of player that is able to either summon his teammates or calm them down when need be. He has the ability to dictate on the pitch and unify his club and he bears the armband very well. But without him, the team can easily lack harmony.
Usually the next person to step up and take control of the team is Marcelo, however, the Brazilian was also out of the match so Solari gave the armband to Benzema who just did not do enough on the pitch. He was not able to bring his team together to try and turn the tie around.
As a result, everyone was playing their own individual game, running all over the pitch in and out of position with no real flow or movement with the ball. Modric is a key example of this sporadic playing style. Throughout the 90 minutes, the Croatian was running all over the grass acting as an attacking midfielder, striker, winger and central defender all at the same time.
Ajax's stellar football
Yes, being over-worked and having no leader cause major implications in a match but in the end, everything falls on the ability of two teams on the pitch and Madrid were sub-par.
Erik ten Hag and his team came to accomplish the unthinkable and while it was a mighty task, they had the quality in their squad to make their dreams come true.
One immediate challenge for Solari's men was to find a way to close down Frenkie de Jong.
The 22-year-old Dutch midfielder was in complete control. He won the midfield battle against Kroos and Modric having an 89% pass success rate, 2 completed dribbles, three tackles and played as if the ball was glued to his feet. The German and Croatian looked foolish and inexperienced in comparison.
Dusan Tadic was another player which Real Madrid struggled to stop throughout the game as whenever he was in possession of the ball, he made it worthwhile. Again, due to the lack of leadership on Los Blancos' side of things and the individual mindset, the players weren't really clicking with each other and rather had shots on target themselves.
Tadic on the other had only had eyes for his teammates and the goal and he moved with determination towards Thibaut Courtois over and over. He finished the game with 5/13 keys passes for Madrid, two of which were assists and scored a stunning goal himself.
Ajax had 16 shots compared to Madrid's 20 but made the most of their opportunities. De Jong and Tadic had a hand in creating a lot these chances.
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Then on top of all the work upfront, the Dutch team played solid defence at the back compared to Madrid's gaping one. Adding to the host teams struggle to move forward and successfully convert a goal, Ajax Captain Matthjis De Ligt and co. put on one of the best defensive shows of the season in the competition.
The four defenders made it very apparent that they let the attacking players do the attacking, much unlike Real Madrid's decision to let wing-backs play forward.
Comparison of Real Madrid vs. Ajax's defensive positioning. The Dutch side covered all areas.
WhoScored.com
Noussair Mazraoui, Daley Blind, Nicolas Tagliafico and De Ligt all moved as a unit and covered almost every possible opening that Solari's team could exploit.
On top of this, they cleared the ball more than 30 times, made 22 blocks and keeper Andre Onana made seven saves compared to Madrid's 8 clearances, 11 blocks and four saves from Cortouis.
Combine that defensive masterclass with Madrid's lack of attack after the 35-minute mark and their individual mentality and Ajax were set up for a comeback.
Of course, all the individual efforts made a difference in the match but the biggest discrepancy between the two teams was their mentality.
For years, Real Madrid have almost expected to win these European matches having done so for the last 1,000 days but they entered the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu without any real drive or determination.
Ten Hag's team, on the other hand, visited the Spanish capital full of creativity, enthusiasm and hope.
They played a very unpredictable game unlike the hosts and were looking at different ways to score goals rather than be repetitive in their attack. The free kick from Lasse Schöne is an example of that.
All in all, the loss to Ajax was simply full of flaws. Beyond the lack of rotation, leadership and determination, it just was not Real Madrid's night.
The team went down early, hit the woodwork twice, lost two forwards due to injury, continuously missed opportunities, were part of VAR controversy and eventually went down a man.
While that summary may look like a complaint list, Ajax simply came to get the job done and they succeeded in doing so by being the better team.
Everyone knew it would only be a matter of time until the 13-time champions would fall and the way they did was certainly stylish.
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Galerija Gregor Podnar is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition of B. Wurtz.
Presenting a selection of Wurtz's works from the first two decades of his artistic practice, the exhibition aims to highlight the formation of Wurtz's idiosyncratic formal vocabulary during the 1970s and 1980s. From the 1970s onwards, Wurtz has been using commonplace materials that relate to the basic categories of life – food, clothing, shelter – to create sculptures that probe and explore the notions of monumentality and the quotidian. Combining and amending these materials, Wurtz began to cast the familiar in a new light while preserving the integrity of the used objects. With great attention to the range of the chosen materials and a nuanced sensibility for composition, Wurtz has been since the early works transforming fragments of the ordinary into sculptures of wit and poetic composure.


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Upcoming CFPs of Interest: Writing and Publishing
November 19, 2018 November 18, 2018 / leaton01
There are some great writing opportunities coming up that we wanted to let you all know about. These CFPs cover a broad range with deadlines between next week and ongoing. Let us know if you end up pursuing any of these and the experience (it might help us better determine what CFPs to share forward int he future).
Call for Chapters: Radio's Second Century: A Reader
Call for Papers: Journal of Digital Media and Policy
Fantasy/Animation Research Network Contributions
Calls for Chapter Proposals: Transmedia Storytelling in Asia and Pacific Region
Call for Chapters: Teaching, Learning, and Leading with Computer Simulations
Digital Resistance: Call for papers for Special thematic issue of the Journal of Resistance Studies
Call for Papers: Nordicom Review Special Issue
Call for Contributors – Public Historians in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching Public History
Call for Contributors: Marginalized Voices in Academia Series
Deadline: ASAP
Seeking a few more chapters to include in the book below to be published by Rutgers University Press. This book is already under contract. If you have a completed study that is relevant, please consider submitting it for possible publication.
Editor: John Allen Hendricks, Stephen F. Austin State University
Book Topic: As radio enters its second century of serving the news, information, and entertainment needs of listeners around the world and despite seismic shifts both internally and externally, it has remained a very robust and vital media industry. Undeniably, the radio industry has witnessed extraordinary changes and challenges since the passage of the Radio Act of 1927, and it remains a primary mass media outlet around the globe.
Recent research indicates that 91% of Americans, or 243 million people, aged 12+ listen to radio weekly, 53% listen to online radio monthly from mobile phones and computers, and 81% listen to radio when they are in automobiles. Research also indicates radio continues to have the ability to appeal to new listeners. Millennials, those born between 1982 and 2004, are now the largest share of the radio audience. Moreover, UNESCO asserts: "Radio is the mass media reaching the widest audience in the world." There are more than 40,000 radio stations worldwide. Undeniably, despite numerous challenges, radio is thriving. This book will explore and explain how the radio industry has been able to remain relevant.
Research from both national and international perspectives of the radio industry will be evaluated. Specifically, the book will examine issues that have played a pivotal role in radio's evolution, and may specifically focus attention on: 1) technological changes and challenges (internet, mobile, and satellite); 2) legal, regulatory, and ownership policies; 3) a shifting and dynamic audience; 4) management/sales; 5) programming; and, 6) the history of the industry. All research methods and theoretical approaches will be considered.
Specific Topics that Could be Explored: Digital music, Pandora, Spotify, iHeartRadio, SiriusXM, Apple and Digital Music, Rdio's partnership with Cumulus, Radio Advertising, Radio Listener Demographics (Teens, Millennials, Gen X, Baby Boomers), Performance Fees, Connected Cars, HD Radio, Social Media, Radio Automation and Localism, etc.
Chapter Guidelines: 20-25 pages, Times New Roman 12 pt. font, APA style guide.
Deadline: 30 November 2018
Special Issue 10.3 (Autumn 2019): 'Interfacing public communications in the digital economy'. Guest edited by Michael Klontzas (University of Huddersfield) and Maria Sourbati (University of Brighton)
Public organizations tasked with the delivery of universal service in communications (e.g. broadcasting) and social welfare (e.g. health services) have been redesigning their service delivery through digital transformation for almost two decades now. At the centre of these systems and infrastructures are digital interfaces enabling the flow of information and data between organizations and their publics, mediating access to services and generating data about service users.
For this special issue, we invite contributions that examine interfaces on the institutional, organizational strategy, technology design and access level with a focus on universal/inclusive public communications and services. We invite contributions that include, but are not limited to, the following themes:
Digital interfaces and the structuring of user choice.
Public service ideals and evolving user interfaces: institutional strategies and alternative innovation.
Social inclusion by design.
Interfaces, aesthetics and configuring the public service user.
Digital interface affordances and public value.
Emerging interface technologies.
Digital interface design knowledge exchange and policy diffusion.
Interface regulation.
Abstracts of 500 words should be submitted to the guest editors, Michael Klontzas and Maria Sourbati , by 30 November 2018.
All proposals must include a title, six-eight keywords, author name(s), institutional affiliation(s) and contact details. To read more information about the journal and find Notes for Contributors.
30 November 2018: Deadline for abstract submission.
15 December 2018: Notification of accepted proposals.
29 April 2019: Deadline for submission of full articles.
27 May 2019: Double-blind peer-review completed. Accepted papers given four weeks for revision.
Deadline: Friday 14th December
This is just a CFP reminder that there is still a month to go for those who wish to contribute to the Fantasy/Animation Research Network, a space that pursues further the relationship between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. We are hoping that the network will open out a critical conversation on the study of the rich legacy and complexity of animated fantasy media, in whatever form this might take, and provide a space for discussion and debate among like-minded academics, practitioners, special interest groups and fans of fantasy and/or animation. More details about the types of post we publish are available on the website, but we are interested in receiving short pieces of around 500-1000 words that fit under the following headings:
a short editorial (movie analysis/critical reflection on an idea or concept)
event/conference reports
Potential methodological/critical approaches within individual contributions are varied, and our concern is not necessarily how animation operates as fantasy or how fantasy operates through animation, but rather how both ideas can be productively considered in dialogue with one another. This methodology allows fantasy and animation to function as a dialectic that critically examines a relationship that has, to date, been assumed, pre-supposed or obfuscated within both popular and critical discourse. If contributors have ideas for blogs, or want to suggest other possible formats for content (interviews/Q&As, pieces to camera, video essays), then please do send them over and let us know the type of post under which it fits, as well as 3-4 keywords that relate to your post. We would welcome any ideas submitted either to us directly (christopher.Holliday@kcl.ac.uk and asergeant@bournemouth.ac.uk) or through the 'Contact Us' Tab on the network's website. The deadline for pitching potential submissions is Friday 14th December.
Finally, the Fantasy/Animation podcast is also available via iTunes: so please do give it a listen as we talk through a series of fantasy/animation film and television titles (with a few special guests thrown in too…).
Deadline: 14 December, 2018 (Abstract)
An edited volume by Dr. Filippo Gilardi and Dr Celia Lam (University of Nottingham Ningbo China). Provisional book title: Transmedia Storytelling in Asia and Pacific Region. Abstract submission deadline: 14 December, 2018. Selection results announced: 14 January, 2019. Full chapters due: Not required until confirmation from the publisher (Palgrave Macmillan).
Introduction: Global transmedia practices are a current and topical issue for practitioners, industry and academics alike. For the most part, emphasis is placed on work emanating from Europe, the UK and US, with transmedia practices from Asia and the Pacific often missing from scholarly inquiry. Two recent books, Global Convergence Cultures. Transmedia (Freeman and Proctor, 2018) and The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies (Gambarato and Freeman, eds, 2018), offer comprehensive discussion of transmedia practice in many regions of the world. However countries like China, South Korea and Singapore are missing from these accounts.
Aim: This volume aims to fill this gap by exploring the current status of the transmedia phenomenon in countries from the Asia and Pacific Region. The chapters of this volume will be looking at transmedia practice in games, fiction, and non-fiction. The selection of the different case studies will be theoretically grounded on Jenkin's definition of Transmedia Storytelling as "a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of creating a unified and coordinated entertainment experience" and in which "each medium makes its own unique contribution to the unfolding of the story" (Jenkins, 2007). The analytical approach should consider the involvement of 1) multiple media platforms, 2) content expansions, and 3) audience engagement (Gambarato & Tárcia, 2016). This will allow us to identify characteristics and boundaries of this phenomenon and see what Countries from Asia and Pacific Region have to add to the most recent discussion that is looking at the interconnections between transmedia practice, transmedia audiences, and transmedia theories. The aim of the volume is to explore how transmedia platforms, content, and audiences are constituted within the Asia and Pacific. While all chapters should address one or more of these areas, these are not restrictive and other areas could be added and explored.
Topics include, but are not limited to, Transmedia world developed around the following:
Games: RPG Games, Moible Games Platform Games, MOBA Games
Fiction: Online literature, TV Drama, Social Media fictions, Animation, Movies
Nonfiction: Education, Cultural Heritage and Museum, Documentaries, Entertainment Parks, Music, Branding, Marketing, Sports, Events
Submission: Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before 14 December 2018 a 500 word abstract and 200 words outlining where and how the chapter fits within the aims of the book to Filippo Gilardi (Filippo.gilardi@nottingham.edu.cn) and Celia Lam (celia.lam@nottingham.edu.cn).
Submission deadline: 14 December 2018
Notification: 14 January 2019
Please direct any inquiries you may have to Filippo Gilardi and Celia Lam.
Deadline: January 11, 2019 (Proposal)
This book examines the recent advancement of simulation technology, explores the innovative ways that advanced simulation programs are used to enhance and transform teaching and learning, collects exemplary cases of digital transformation by adopting simulation technology and pedagogy, and identifies challenges and future directions for practice, research, and theory development in using computer simulation in education and training.
For more information, please visit https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/3542, or contact Dr. Jennifer Qian.
In many spaces, mobile digital devices and social media are ubiquitous. These devices and applications provide the platforms with which we create, share and consume information. Many obtain much of their news and social information via the personal screens we constantly carry with us. It is therefore unsurprising that these devices also become integral to acts of social activism and resistance. This digital resistance is most visible in the virtual social movements found behind hashtags such as #BlackLivesMatter, #TakeAKnee, and #MeToo. However, it would be an oversimplification to limit digital resistance to its most popular expressions. Video sharing on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook have revealed abuses of police power, racist attacks, and misogyny. The same type of device is used to both record, share, and view instances of abuse. The devices and platforms are also used to organize and coordinate responses, ranging from online naming and shaming, online protests, physical protests. The devices and the platforms are then used to share the protests and their results. More and more the device and the platform are the keyhole through which resistance must fit. Our devices and access to platforms enable the creation of self-forming and self-organizing resistance movements capable of sharing alternative discourses in advocating for diverse social agendas. This freedom shapes both the individual's relationship to both power and resistance, in addition to their identities and awareness as activists. It is somewhat paradoxical that something so central to the activist identity and the performance of resistance is in essence created and run as a privatized surveillance machine.
Digital networked resistance has received a great deal of media attention recently. The research field is developing, but more needs to be understood about the role of technology in the enactment of resistance. Our goal is to explore both the role of digital devices and platforms in the processes of resistance. This special edition aims to understand the role of technology in enabling and subverting resistance. We seek studies on the use of technology in the acts of protesting official power, as well as the use of technology in contesting power structures inherent in the technology or the
technological platforms. Contributions are welcome from different methodological approaches and socio-cultural contexts.
We are looking for contributions addressing resistance, power, and technology. This call is interested in original works addressing, but not limited to:
Problems with the use of Digital Resistance
Powerholders capacity to map Digital Resistance-activists through surveillance
How does Digital Resistance differ and/or function compared with Non-digital
Resistance?
Problems and advantages with combinations of Digital Resistance and non- Digital
Resistance to platforms
Hashtag activism & hijacking
Online protests & movements
The use of humor/memes as resistance
Selfies as resistance
Globalization of resistance memes
Ethical implications of digital resistance
Online ethnography (testimonials/narratives provided by online participants)
Issues concerning, privacy, surveillance, anonymity, and intellectual property
Effective rhetorical strategies and aesthetics employed in digital resistance
Digital resistance: Research methods and challenges
The role of technology activism in shaping resistance and political agency
Shaping the digital protest identity
Policing digital activism
Digital resistance as culture
Virtual resistance communities
The affordances and limitations of the technological tools for digital resistance
Abstracts should be 500 – 750 words (references not included). Final articles should be no more than 12000 words (all included). Send abstracts to noramadison@gmail.com.
Abstracts by 15 January 2019
Notification of acceptance 15 February 2019
Submission of final papers 1 April 2019
Deadline: 15 January 2019 (Proposal)
Title: 'Dark Screens: The Geopolitics of Nordic Television Drama'. Guest Editors: Robert A. Saunders (State University of New York); Pei Sze Chow (Aarhus University); and Anne Marit Waade (Aarhus University)'
Nordic Europe's dramatic television series – from Borgen to The Bridge to Occupied- currently serve as a model for the rest of the world. Shaped by public service broadcasting traditions which are rooted in providing social critique, these series provide a rich reservoir of representation of how Norden sees itself. While there is growing interest in Nordic noir, not only within film and television studies, but also across Scandinavian studies, International Relations, and geography, collaborations across these disciplines have been relatively absent. We view this lacuna as an invitation to investigate and interrogate the implicit and explicit geopolitical implications of the series, both within and beyond the region.
In the wake of the highly productive workshop "Nordic Noir, Geopolitics & the North," hosted by the Media Studies Department within the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University on 4-5 October 2018, Nordicom Review invites proposals for a special issue entitled "Dark Screens: The Geopolitics of Nordic Television Drama."
Building on Saunders' (2017) typology of geopolitical television, this special issue invites contributions from scholars from multiple disciplines (media studies, screen studies, literature, cross-cultural communication, geography, IR, Scandinavian studies, etc.) to examine how Norden's television series build lifeworlds (Gavins & Lahey, 2016; Tischleder, 2017; Wolf, 2012), and the role that these visually- and textually-produced imaginaries play in contemporary politics, society, and culture. While television series are the primary medium of analysis, we will also consider contributions that use motion pictures as a comparative medium and/or essays that examine serial films such as Varg Veumand the Department Q series.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Critiques of Norden through crime drama (Forbrydelsen, Beck, Arne Dahl, Lillyhammer, Case, etc.)
Governance, foreign relations and military issues (Borgen, I am the Ambassador, Nobel, etc.)
Ecological concerns, pandemics, disease, human-nature interactions (Jordskott, The Rain, Valkyrien, etc.)
Corporate malfeasance and the neoliberal challenge (Follow the Money, Mammon, Deadwind, etc.)
Local-global connections and their complications (Trapped, Acquitted, Dicte, etc.)
Televisual interventions in national identity (1864, Occupied, etc.)
Border zones and frontier spaces (Bron|Broen,Bordertown, etc.)
Gender and sexuality in the Nordic context (Borderliner, Fallet, etc.)
Regional identities within Norden (e.g. The Look of a Killer, Monster, etc.)
Terrorism and political violence (The Fourth Man, Below the Surface, etc.)
International cooperation in law enforcement (The Team, 100 Code, etc.)
Issues associated with the Arctic and climate change (e.g. Midnight Sun, Fortitude, etc.)
Racial, ethnic and religious identity issues (Blue Eyes, Ride Upon the Storm, etc.)
The geopolitics of international adaptations (e.g. Wallander, The Killing and The Bridge/The Tunnel/Most/Pagan Peak)
The influence of Nordic noir on British, French, Dutch and other 'national' TV cultures (Marcella, Hinterland, Black Spot, etc.)
Changing production cultures among Scandinavia broadcasters and the impact on representation (especially via Netflix)
Please send a 500-word proposal to Robert Saunders, Pei Sze Chow and Anne Marit Waade by 15 January 2019 along with a short CV. Contributors will be notified by 15 February, and their completed articles will be due on 15 April, 2019. Check out the Nordicom Review for more information.
Deadline: February 1, 2019 (Abstract)
In the last two decades, hundreds of scholarly books have appeared on public history, memory, museum studies, historic preservation, and related fields, but few have addressed teaching public history. A vast literature exists within the scholarship of teaching and learning, but these studies tend to examine classrooms from an altitude of 30,000 feet, and few address public history. We have a need for more pedagogical work on the teaching of public history, but we do not need more theory, jargon, or how-to-do-it manuals. What we need are stories.
We intend to edit a collection of first-person, narrative essays that go behind-the-scenes inside graduate and undergraduate public history courses. Inspired by Patrick Allitt's "I'm the Teacher, You're the Student" (Pennsylvania, 2004), we envision 8-10 instructors taking readers through a semester-long journey of teaching a public history course, including inside looks at their thought process, preparations, class sessions, interactions with students, assignments, evaluations, student projects, and community partner relationships. We seek reflective essays that illustrate successes and failures. Instead of advice, authors will recount what they did, and why. These articles will take a variety of forms, but we envision most will mirror journal or diary entries where essayists will summarize what they did in class on particular days, assess how students responded, and mull over what that day's lesson did or did not accomplish. As the semester progresses, authors will be able to contemplate goals, learning outcomes, and how well their students responded overall. We expect to encounter raw emotion at times, and we anticipate as many failure stories as successful ones.
We have identified two main problems that this book will solve. First, through our disparate stories, we will offer case studies that explore a fundamental question that lies at the heart of all public history instruction: how should we teach a subject all about history outside the classroom while our course often meets inside a classroom? This question leads to the second problem this volume will address: what exactly is public history? In a way, we collectively refine public history as we teach it, and by including stories of divergent styles and innovative ideas, we will push our field forward. This volume will be peer-reviewed, and it has received interest from UNC Press. We will remain in exclusive conversation with UNC Press going forward.
Interested contributors: please send a 250-word abstract of your proposed chapter by Friday, February 1, 2019 to Evan Faulkenbury and Julia Brock.
Deadline: Ongoing
The Activist History Review invites proposals for its series "Marginalized Voices in Academia," which features personal essays by scholars from marginalized communities about their experiences in academia.
Academia is often portrayed by conservative media as a haven for liberals, radicals, and social outcasts. While academia can sometimes be a safe space for individuals facing the inequities of their larger society, however, it often replicates those inequities, whether deliberately or unthinkingly, within the ivory tower.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in the fall of 2013 Black men and women account for only three percent each of full-time faculty at postsecondary degree-granting institutions, while Hispanic men and women composed two percent each, and Asian/Pacific Islander men and women made up six percent and four percent respectively. Less than one percent were from First Nations communities, and the remainder identified as having multiple racial backgrounds. Meanwhile, scholars with disabilities only account for an estimated four percent of the academic community according to the The National Center for College Students With Disabilities, and a 2010 report by Campus Pride found that over half of university students, faculty, and staff hid their sexual orientation or gender identity for fear of reprisals.
These numbers are at odds with the demographic breakdown of our larger society, in which these communities account for twice the percentage points that they do in academia. And, though advances have been made in recent years, academia still has much ground to cover to become a more inclusive and secure environment for the members of marginalized communities. Scholars from those communities continue to face systemic and individual acts of discrimination and harassment, and often lack the appropriate resources and support from their university systems and peers to seek redress for those acts.
The voices of academics from marginalized communities cannot be ignored, even when their message brings discomfort. We here at The Activist History Review are committed to providing a space to amplify those voices in the hope that our collective demands will one day be too loud to ignore. So, this call for submissions for our "Marginalized Voices in Academia" series is an open and continuous one. Potential contributors may contact the Executive Director of The Activist History Review, Nathan Wuertenberg.
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Judge apologizes, agrees to pay Tom Siebel $100,000
Apology brings an end to a 12-year legal saga that started out as a wrongful-termination lawsuit against Siebel Systems, now owned by Oracle, and its founder.
Natalie Weinstein
May 2, 2008 9:34 AM PDT
A California judge has issued a public apology and agreed to pay $100,000 to the founder of Siebel Systems for damaging his reputation in a lawsuit she filed as a lawyer in the mid-1990s.
San Mateo Superior Court Judge Carol Mittlesteadt issued a letter of apology to Tom Siebel on Thursday to express her "sincere regret for pursuing claims against you that were determined to be without merit." She also acknowledged that she "may have caused substantial expense and inconvenience, and damage to your reputation and good name."
Siebel founded business software maker Siebel Systems in the early 1990s. He was chairman of Siebel Systems until Oracle bought the company for $5.8 billion in 2006. Siebel is now chairman of First Virtual Group, a diversified holding company based in Palo Alto, Calif.
Mittlesteadt, who became a judge 10 years ago, issued the unusual apology to fulfill the requirements of a settlement that wraps up a legal saga that began 12 years ago when Siebel Systems fired its top sales representative. Mittlesteadt, who represented the employee, filed a wrongful-termination and sex discrimination suit against Siebel and his company. A court later ruled that the claims against him were unfounded.
Siebel told the Associated Press that he hopes that the public apology will teach attorneys not to fabricate claims in hopes of extracting a large settlement.
"This was a single person's effort at tort reform," he said. Siebel added that he is surprised Mittlesteadt is a judge. "I am not sure who is watching the hen house here," he said.
Siebel plans to donate the money to Stanford's law school for the study of legal ethics.
The Lion King remake brings renewed life to a Disney classic: Jon Favreau's version offers incredibly lifelike characters, but at what cost?
SDCC, the biggest convention ever, had a very small start: What started as a gathering in a basement has exploded into one of the world's biggest cultural blowouts.
Discuss: Judge apologizes, agrees to pay Tom Siebel $100,000


ONE FLIGHT WILL CHALLENGE HISTORY. . . .
It was supposed to be a simple mission—deliver six nuclear missiles back to the United States onboard the most advanced Stealth bomber in the world. The B-3 Boomerang is a super weapon that knows no equal. Nearly invisible to radar and lethal, it's a paragon of present-day military technology. And America's enemies want its secrets. What no one expected was an aerial phenomenon that catapults the plane and its crew from the present day to the year 1942 into the heart of Nazi Germany.
With their plane disabled and captured by the Nazis, Major Richard Hartman and his copilot, Captain Deana Crown, are forced to fight for survival in a hostile land decades away from home. With the plane's superior technology and its nuclear onboard arsenal, the Nazis could win the Second World War. The battle for the future will happen in both past and present. The pilots trapped in time now have a new mission: to save history at any price.
B-3 Boomerang is the most advanced Stealth plane in the world flown by the best pilots of the United States Air Force. And on a routine delivery mission, the plane and its top secret cargo fail to reach their intended destination. A former Luftwaffe fighter ace may hold the key to the mystery, just as the American Intelligence and Counterintelligence agencies scramble to find the missing plane and protect its secrets from an old enemy who now wears a new face in the post-Cold War world.
Trapped more than seventy years in the past as a result of an encounter with the mysterious Comet Gabriel, Major Richard Hartman and his copilot, Captain Deana Crown, end up in the heart of Nazi Germany in the middle of the Second World War. With their plane damaged and one of them captured by the Nazis, the two pilots are forced to fight for survival. With the fate of the world as we know it hanging in the balance, the B-3 pilots must come up with a daring plan that will give them only one chance to preserve history and possibly find their way home.
In David Crane's time-travel novel, Boomerang Will Not Return, a mysterious comet named Gabriel passes very close to the earth, and an old German Luftwaffe fighter ace awakens with a painful memory of devastating defeat in World War II. But the most shocking is not the recollections of the terror of the air combat or the friends and family he'd lost. It is the future he's been exposed to through a fateful encounter with the most amazing and most advanced airplane ever created. It is a memory he swore to take to his grave or so he thought.
Major Richard "Longbow" Hartman and his friend and copilot, Captain Deana "Wildcat" Crown, had a simple mission: fly six nuclear missiles out of one of the remaining air force bases in Germany. During the flight, their super advanced B-3 Boomerang Stealth bomber gets caught in Comet Gabriel's radiation tail and vanishes without a trace. Just as the air force and the U.S. military begins to search for the missing bomber, the B-3, damaged during transit, emerges into the year 1942. The Stealth and one of its pilots are captured by the Germans.
In the present, the American NSA, while searching for the missing B-3 along with the CIA, is challenged by the Russian Intelligence, whose ex-KGB members had sworn revenge against the United States for the collapse of the Soviet Union. As the spies try to outmaneuver each other in a dangerous game of wits and luck, the Stealth pilots trapped in time are fighting not just for their own survival, but for the future of the entire human race.
Sprinkled with historical facts, Crane guides the reader into another interesting adventure, where technology and man both take an unexpected turn from the wild and unpredictable forces of nature.
Boomerang Will Not Return was published by Foremost Press. It can be ordered through local bookstores and at ForemostPress.com, Amazon and Barnes & Noble.com.


DEAR should consider Authorize.net integration, similar to Stripe and PayPal, would serve a growing number of small businesses who rely on this trusted and robust payment processor.
This is critical, please add ASAP.
This would be a tremendous addition.
The processing fees from Stripe and PayPal are not at all competitive for B2B. An integration with Authorize.net or similar gateway that allowed business to use their negotiated rates for CC processing would be fantastic, even if only in the B2B portal.
Many vendors can not use Stripe, Square of Paypal due to their business type, such as CBD. Therefore, they are pushed to use gateways like Authorize.net, the world's largest. Creating an integration for Authorize would enable A LOT of businesses to take payments in their B2B. Now, all my clients must take B2B payments manually outside of Dear. This would be a HUGE asset, and a solution to most of my client's Dear B2B problems.


Bands including Dead, Euronymous, and Varg Vikernes, along with sociologists, police officers, theologians and occultists, recount how the satanic Black Metal, a spin-off of the heavy metal underground, devolved into acts of church burning, murder, and suicide in Scandinavia. This second edition, fully revised, discusses the crimes committed by Black Metal practitioners since 1997 in one of the strangest sagas in the history of rock and roll. Over 200 photos and illustrations are included.


Week 30: it wasn't supposed to take this long! As mentioned in the previous post, with only one (albeit excellent) plasterer, this phase of the work has taken much longer than originally expected – with the odd day off, extra public holidays and the like, 12 instead of 4 weeks. But the plastering is now finished bar a day's work in the passage way containing the stairs, to be done when the stairs have been installed – and the stairs have(has) arrived, all in bubble wrap (not really a picture – but, lying on its side, it made a useful shelf for the kitchen fitters to lay their tools out on). Yes, we now have a kitchen as well, fitted last week, complete with cooker.
Given that there is no gas connected – it's difficult in my view to have a zero carbon house that uses gas – the cooker has either to be a wood burner or to be electric. From friends' experiences with wood burning cookers, this seems to be a "high labour" option. So, as this is also our retirement home, designed for older people, electric it is. For what we understand to be high efficiency, we've chosen one with an induction hob. We've never had one before so this is another step into the unknown. Induction hobs are said to be extremely controllable, like gas or even better. The heat is generated in the pan bottom, so the top of the hob only gets hot where a hot pan touches it. For safety, the induction zones can only switch on if there is sufficient ferrous material above it. A non-trivial down side is that our still-good-as-new, Silcro, copper-bottomed wedding-present saucepans won't work on this stove. We have bought some (pretty cheap) new saucepans, etc.
Further, at long last, the front door has been delivered. To contain shipping costs it came into the country with a consignment of windows for another job and so has arrived without its door handles. We can manage without these for a while – it locks.
Between dining room and downstairs bathroom/ensuite there's a solid wall, part of the thermal mass included in the design (see separate note under Definitions &c). Here the heavy block wall is being rendered (with sand and cement) before being plastered.
Immediately to the right is the wood burning stove in its second-hand brick alcove.
These two sections of wall contribute significantly to the thermal mass in the house. The exposed brick makes a change from what would otherwise be painted wall.
While the plastering has been going on downstairs, we've been painting upstairs. There's a lot of it, it doesn't make for interesting reportage, and it takes a lot of time. It's also quite hot. The MVHR arrived and has been put away safely. Its installation is held until the control room has been painted (which it now has) because it's much easier to paint without it there! Until the MVHR system is installed there's no air circulation in the house, so upstairs is hotter than downstairs. Despite our poor summer, the thermal store is full of hot water and there's heat leakage from the pipes (bit more lagging to do yet) and the inverter gives off heat while it's working – the sun comes out (yes, it does) and the inverter's note changes and its temperature goes up. The house is very well insulated – so you have to open a window. Until the internal scaffolding came down it was easiest to open the roof lights but now you have to find the long pole to do this.
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Hi, I'm just wondering if you still have your Silcro pans? I have been looking for a set to replace the ones my parents got as a wedding present 40 years ago that we're in daily use until they were sadly lost in a move. I would love to be able to find some as an anniversary present, but am struggling to track any down.
If you could bear to part with them, I'd be very interested to buy?


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Henry E. Asp (1856-1923) was an attorney and politician who was instrumental in the founding of the University of Oklahoma.

Early life
Asp was born in New Boston, Illinois, on January 1, 1856.  His Swedish-born parents, John Henry and Christina App, died while he was still young, so Henry was raised by a guardian, George L. Coe, who took him to Winfield, Kansas, where he grew up and learned the trades of making bricks and wooden pails. Disliking these as career choices, he studied law under the direction of the Webb & Torrance law firm, and was admitted to the Kansas bar in 1877. While living in Winfield, he married Nellie Mae Powers, and they had one son, Alfred Alonzo.

Move to Oklahoma Territory
In July 1890, the Asps moved to Guthrie, the capital of the newly created Oklahoma Territory, where he became a lobbyist and solicitor for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. In 1892, Asp and two other Guthrie lawyers, John W. Shartel and James R. Cottingham, became partners in a law firm, handling some of the many land disputes arising after the Land Run of 1889. After most of the land cases were settled in the middle 1890s, Asp spent most of his time representing people who had moved to the Territory because it had more lenient divorce laws than the surrounding states.

Asp also saw an opportunity when the Territorial Legislature provided for a Territorial university to be established in Norman. He handled most of the legal work during the formative years and was soon appointed to its board of trustees. In 1893, he and the school's new president, David R. Boyd, collaborated to obtain federal legislation to provide that section thirteen of each township be set aside for higher education. This was successful, and in gratitude, Norman named streets near the Oklahoma University campus for each of them.

Preparing for statehood
In 1906, Asp spent seven months in Washington D. C.lobbying for Oklahoma statehood, after the proposal to create a state of Sequoyah failed. He also used his rising political influence to ensure that the 1906 Enabling Act provided for his hometown of Guthrie become the capital of the new state. When he returned home, he was elected to the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention as representative from the 25th district. He was also named to several important committees (notably, the Judiciary Committee) and was named Minority Leader for the convention. He had become highly respected by the Democratic Party leaders, especially William H. Murray and Charles N. Haskell.

Move to Oklahoma City
In 1912, Asp moved his home from Guthrie to Oklahoma City. There, he established the law firm of Asp, Snyder, Owen, and Lybrand. and died on July 1, 1923, in Oklahoma City, following an unidentified surgery a week earlier.

Notes

References

Further reading
 John P. Gilday and Mark H. Salt, eds., Oklahoma History: South of the Canadian, Historical and Biographical, Vol. 1 (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1925).

 Orben J. Casey, And Justice for All: The Legal Profession in Oklahoma, 1821-1989, ed. Odie B. Faulk (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Heritage Association, 1989).

External links
 Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - Asp, Henry

1856 births
1923 deaths
People from Mercer County, Illinois
People from Winfield, Kansas
People from Guthrie, Oklahoma
Politicians from Oklahoma City
University of Oklahoma people
Oklahoma lawyers
Lawyers from Oklahoma City
U.S. state supreme court judges admitted to the practice of law by reading law
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Q: Writing C# code to use aspnet_regiis functionality from encryption I have a load of C# code that runs aspnet_regiis from the command line using the following type of code:
        ProcessStartInfo procStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(aspRegPath, arguments);
        procStartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
        Process proc = new Process();
        proc.StartInfo = procStartInfo;
        proc.Start();
        ....

Then I was trying see if I can do the same fnctionality using regular .NET classes. I was able to use .NET classes for the encryption and decryption stuff aspnet_regiis was doing using something like:
        ConfigurationSection section = configuration.GetSection("connectionStrings");
        section.SectionInformation.ProtectSection("RSAKey");
        configuration.Save();

But i can't find .NET classes to do the other functionality i.e.
        //Delete container
        aspnet_regiis -pz RSAKey

        //Create the container
        aspnet_regiis -pc RSAKey-exp

        //Install the key into a machine-level RSA key provider called DealAxisRSAKey
        aspnet_regiis -pi RSAKey pathToKeyFile

        //Grant access to the contrainer
        aspnet_regiis -pa RSAKey "NT Authority\Network service"

Anyone know if this is possible? Or do I have to use aspnet_regiis?

A: sorry, but there is no such class...at least not in .net out of the box. You can build one or maybe someone else has built one.

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Walk into a Lower School classroom and you may be greeted by a tiny owl on a stick. "Baby Echo" is helping teachers make learning fun as students enthusiastically repeat what the teacher says when Baby Echo points their way.
Harpole says even though Lower School only just started using the program in August, teachers have already noticed a significant improvement in student performance, especially handwriting abilities. The program is also proving to be a great tool for students of varying learning styles because of the variety of activities presented. Harpole says the program is sequential and systematic, making it easy to build upon as student skills evolve.
Wilson Language Program research shows that students using Fundations achieve greater gains in literacy skills compared to students using programs previously implemented by schools who have tested it. According to Wilson Language, schools have reported better learning of letter knowledge, larger gains in phonological and phonemic awareness, greater gains in phonological decoding and reduction of risk of later reading difficulties.
As students progress through the school year and beyond, Baby Echo and their teachers will continue to use engaging activities to help them learn the foundations of reading. One exciting example is the third grade Vocabulary Parade!
Episcopal third graders know words! Students recently showcased their vocabulary at the eighth annual Vocabulary Parade. The event kicked off with a second line entrance by students dressed as everything from an acrobat to a yurt. Perhaps most impressive was that each student courageously shared their word and its definition on center stage before a packed VPAC auditorium. That certainly took fortitude for students who are eight or nine years old.
The annual celebration of words is inspired by a study of author Debra Frasier's work. In her book "Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster", students explore misunderstandings that often arise in the world of words. As a special treat this year, Episcopal students received a personal message from Ms. Frasier. From her studio in Asheville, North Carolina she told students that the book was inspired by a real misunderstanding her daughter had in fourth grade. That misunderstanding, and the story it inspired, led to the vocabulary parade movement across the country. Students everywhere are learning new words in such a fun and creative way.
Enjoy this look at the creativity of the Episcopal community!


Calcium is needed by cells in many parts of the body—the brain, heart, nerves, bones, and digestive system. Parathyroid hormone satisfies these needs by taking calcium from bone, where it is stored, and releasing it into the bloodstream.
"Communication" between the parathyroid and bloodstream help keep calcium at its normal level.
Sometimes, benign (noncancerous) growths called adenomas appear on one or more of a person's parathyroid glands. The cause of most parathyroid adenomas is unknown. However, about 10 percent are thought to be hereditary. Radiation exposure of the head and neck also may increase the risk of adenomas (as in the people who were exposed to the atomic bomb in Hiroshima).
Adenomas cause the parathyroid gland to make more parathyroid hormone than the body needs, a condition called primary hyperparathyroidism. Too much parathyroid hormone upsets the body's normal calcium balance, which increases the amount of calcium in the blood stream. A similar but less common condition, called secondary hyperparathyroidism, can occur in people with chronic kidney failure.
Women are twice as likely to develop pituitary adenomas as men, and often after menopause. Primary hyperparathyroidism may be caused by one adenoma, more than one adenoma (hyperplasia), or cancer (which is very rare).
How are parathyroid adenomas diagnosed?
Parathyroid adenomas are usually discovered when a higher-than-normal calcium level shows up in a routine blood test, particularly in people without symptoms. Doctors then confirm the diagnosis of primary hyperparathyroidism with a test that shows parathyroid hormone levels in the blood are higher than normal.
Sometimes the diagnosis of cancer is difficult to make, even after surgery. This is because parathyroid cancer cells look very similar to noncancerous adenoma cells. However, parathyroid cancer is so rare (less than 1 percent of all cases) that many head and neck surgeons (otolaryngologists) never see a patient with it.
How are parathyroid adenomas treated?
The most common treatment is to remove the enlarged gland (or glands). This surgery cures the problem 95 percent of the time.
Instead of surgery, some people with mild or no symptoms of primary hyperparathyroidism may decide to try hormone replacement therapy or medication options. These and other treatments do not reduce the extra amount parathyroid hormone in the blood. Instead, they fight back by preventing the loss of calcium from bone. Hormone replacement therapy or other treatments for this condition must be taken for the rest of your life.
A prescription medication called cinacalcet (Sensipar®) reduces both calcium and parathyroid hormone levels in people with chronic kidney failure (secondary hyperparathyroidism). However, its use in people with primary hyperparathyroidism is still being studied.
If I do not have symptoms, do I need surgery?
Surgery is the usual treatment for parathyroid adenoma, even for people who do not have obvious symptoms. Some people with only mild symptoms, such as feeling tired, forgetful, or depressed, may actually have another medical condition. When primary hyperparathyroidism is the cause, surgery can improve these symptoms and the person's quality of life.
If you have hyperparathyroidism, a specific test (a bone density test) can show if the raised level of parathyroid hormone in your blood is causing serious calcium loss. Calcium loss can cause osteoporosis (thin bones) and increase the risk for fractures. X-rays of the kidney can show if you have kidney stones. The most common cause of kidney stones is too much calcium in your blood. These and other tests will help you and your doctor decide if surgery is appropriate for you.
If I decide to have a surgery, what should I expect?
A procedure called minimally invasive parathyroidectomy has become widely accepted for removing enlarged parathyroid glands on one side of the neck. The benefits of this surgery include smaller incisions, shorter operations, and fewer complications compared with traditional two-side (bilateral) open-neck surgeries.
These presurgical imaging tests are quite accurate but not foolproof, and interpreting them requires skill and experience. If the results are still unclear, the surgeon might order more imaging tests to help pinpoint the location of a parathyroid adenoma.The surgeon plans the surgical approach based on how many adenomas are found and where they are located.
What happens during surgery to remove parathyroid nodules?
Minimally invasive surgery can be done if the patient has only one adenoma or two adenomas on the same side of the neck. Anesthesia may be local or general, depending on the surgeon's judgment and the patient's preference.
On the day of surgery, patients sometimes receive another low dose of 99m Tc-sestamibi to guide the surgeon's incisions. An IV line is installed to measure the amount of parathyroid hormone in the patient's blood before and after the surgeon removes the affected glands.
When the enlarged glands are highlighted by 99m Tc-sestamibi, the surgeon removes them through an incision of approximately 2 cm (less than 1 inch). Parathyroid hormone levels drop dramatically within 10 to 20 minutes after the surgeon successfully removes the glands with adenomas. If parathyroid hormone levels do not drop after the targeted glands are removed, the surgeon may switch to open-neck surgery to look for other adenomas.
The open-neck method is used instead of minimally invasive surgery for patients with adenomas on both sides of the neck or when preoperative imaging fails to locate one or more adenomas. The cure rates for open-neck and minimally invasive surgeries are similar.
Hoarseness from paralysis of the voice box (from damage to the voice box nerve; permanent hoarseness [about 3.5 percent of patients]).
Short-term or permanent low calcium levels in the blood (hypocalcemia).
A device can be used to monitor the nerve's location during surgery.
Hypocalcemia can be treated with calcium and vitamin D supplements or by leaving at least part of one parathyroid gland in the neck.
Careful control of bleeding during surgery can reduce the risk of developing blood clots in the neck.


Pharma Mobi CRM Data access anytime, presentations, work plan, visit reporting, check in, GPS.
Refwell application is a mobile version of Pharma Web CRM. It is available for phones and tablets with Android operation system. The whole client database of a particular representative is stored on the device. It is available offline, i.e. when the telephone doesn't have Internet connection.
Apart from the functions of Pharma Web CRM, mobile application enables giving presentations of marketing materials. Presentations in Refwell are an access to analytical tools, which were so far available for web pages only. It is clear which presentations and pages were most frequently demonstrated to clients, how much time was spent on presentation of particular slides.
Above all, mobile application enables reporting the visits on daily basis. Due to this, the most important conclusions will be noted in the report. The quality of reports added at the end of the day is often notably lower.
Having a whole work plan at hand, a representative can achieve 100% of company objectives. In case of clients vacation or illness one can quickly define the purpose of the following visit, e.g. find people on a target list, whose workplace is situated nearby the current location.
Having arrived to a visited institution a representative should check in at the workplace. Due to this he will have an access to all institutions available in the vicinity. He doesn't have to search for them in the database manually. Finding a current location only takes couple seconds. Geolocalisation of a visit is fast, as Android devices first take into account basic stations of a mobile network, Wi-Fi network identifiers and then GPS satellite signal.
A review of a representatives' route allows evaluating the quality of a working day plan whereas representatives have a tool, due to which they can precisely verify where they were on a particular day and alternatively modify a route plan for the future. A very interesting measure here is an average duration of a promotional meeting.
Counting the time spent on promotional visits and commuting helps to make a decision whether enlarging a sales team in a given region is cost-effective.
Based on reported locations is the mileage in professional purposes calculated. In case of a visit e.g. at the car service, a representative can exclude this place from the visit time. Such a solution allows settling the mileage easily and precisely.


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Home Education Georgetown Middle School language arts teacher named KY Teacher of the Year; 24 teachers honored
Georgetown Middle School language arts teacher named KY Teacher of the Year; 24 teachers honored
Erin Elizabeth Ball, a language arts teacher at Georgetown Middle School in Scott County, is the 2020 Kentucky Teacher of the Year. Ball has four years of teaching experience in Scott County Schools.
Valvoline Inc™ and the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) made the announcement May 20 at a ceremony at the Berry Mansion in Frankfort. Secretary of Education and Workforce Development Derrick Ramsey, Commissioner of Education Wayne Lewis and Valvoline CEO Sam Mitchell were on hand to make the presentation.
Erin Elizabeth Ball, center, a language arts teacher at Georgetown Middle School (Scott County), was named the 2020 Kentucky Teacher of the Year at a May 20 ceremony in Frankfort. (Photo by Danielle Harris)
Melanie Callahan, a 4th-grade teacher at London Elementary (Laurel County), is the 2020 Elementary School Teacher of the Year. Matthew Kaufmann, an English teacher at Marion C. Moore School (Jefferson County), is the 2020 High School Teacher of the Year.
The three joined 21 other teachers from across the state honored with 2020 Valvoline Teacher Achievement Awards.
"These teachers ignite learning and provide exemplary instruction in classrooms throughout our Commonwealth," Lewis said. "They are student-focused leaders and stewards of change. I look forward to working with them as we map a course to close the achievement gap and raise the learning bar to ensure that all of our students reach higher levels of learning."
Ball received $10,000 and a commemorative art-glass statuette from Valvoline, and Callahan and Kaufmann each received $3,000 and a customized art glass statuette. In addition, the KDE will provide an ambassadorship or suitable alternative for Ball, who also will represent the state in the 2020 National Teacher of the Year competition.
The remaining 21 winners each received $500 cash awards. All 24 teachers received framed certificates and were recognized at a luncheon following the ceremony.
Twenty-four outstanding Kentucky educators were recognized May 20 as Valvoline Teacher Achievement Award winners. (Photo by Danielle Harris)
"It is my pleasure to once again recognize the 24 Valvoline Teacher Achievement Award winners and the Kentucky Teachers of the Year," said Sam Mitchell, CEO of Valvoline. "Having the opportunity to recognize and support outstanding teachers that bring energy, passion and dedication to the classroom highlights our commitment to education, especially in preparing students to excel in a global society."
Valvoline and the KDE co-sponsor the Kentucky Teacher Achievement Awards. Applications for the program were distributed across the state, and the first tier of the selection process was completed in March, with 24 teachers selected as 2020 Valvoline Inc. Teacher Achievement Award winners.
The nine top scorers – three each from the elementary, middle and high school levels – were selected, and teams of educators visited their classrooms to view them at work and to conduct personal interviews. From those nine, three were selected as 2020 Kentucky Teachers of the Year. The selection of the overall Kentucky Teacher of the Year was based on the compilation of scores from all phases of the judging.
The Kentucky Teacher Awards program combines the best elements of what was formerly known as the Ashland Teacher Achievement Awards. Now, as an independent, publicly traded company with its world headquarters in Lexington, Valvoline is sponsor of the Teacher Achievement Awards and the Kentucky Teacher of the Year programs. This marks the 19th year the Kentucky Department of Education and Ashland/Valvoline have partnered to honor Kentucky educators. Since 1988, the program has awarded more than $850,000 to 596 teachers in grades K-12.
This article originally appeared in Kentucky Teacher, a publication of the Kentucky Department of Education.
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