From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V12 #8 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Tuesday, January 16 2007 Volume 12 : Number 008 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: I'm surprised that no one bid on this (Dolby ephemera on eBay) [Me] Re: Alloy: Lene Lovich in performance this year [Robin Thurlow ] RE: Alloy: I'm surprised that no one bid on this (Dolby ephemera on eBay) [Keith Stansell Subject: Alloy: I'm surprised that no one bid on this (Dolby ephemera on eBay) I thought this was really cool: http://tinyurl.com/yeak7x It would have been cool done up in a shadowbox, with an autograph and, perhaps, an AAMB flat in the background. Something fun for your office, eh? But no one bid on it! Unfortunately, I was foiled once again at winning MegaMillions on Friday, so I was out of the bidding, myself... (It's still fun to look at all the goodies out there!) Cheers from DC, where it will be 69 bizarre degrees today. Global warming, global warming... Melissa - --------------------------------- Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with theYahoo! Search weather shortcut. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:11:15 -0800 (PST) From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Re: Alloy: Lene Lovich in performance this year A little bat told me! (i.e., some gothy news network or other, that I'm subscribed to :) xxxx ~robin Chris Good wrote: on 12/1/07 7:17 pm, Thurlow, Robin at rthurlow@binghamton.edu wrote: > I love the largest photo of her with the net veil. What beautiful eyes! Great picture isn't it. Good to hear she's playing in Prague. She played the New York festival. Where did you get the info? 'til the next time, Chris (Room 1 - Blue Hotel) - --- 'thestateless1' - AIM, ICQ, MSN, YAHOO NO MAN'S LAND - http://www.bluehotel.co.uk News - Reviews - Discography - Biography - Pix - Lyrics - Links - more - --------------------------------- TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:28:54 -0700 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Alloy: We (and Thomas) did good. It pays to party By RICHARD VALENTY Colorado Daily Staff Writer Sunday, January 14, 2007 9:05 PM MST Hundreds of Boulderites attending the Twenty Ninth Street grand opening party might not have known that by doing so they would help children learn about the planets, but that's in essence what happened. Twenty Ninth Street (TNS) and its owner The Macerich Company announced last Friday that Macerich and Wild Oats Market donated a total of $34,400 to the Boulder-based nonprofit Impact on Education (IOE) - primarily from grand opening party proceeds. The money will go towards purchasing and supporting a portable planetarium that will be used in the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD). Francie Anhut, executive director for IOE, said Friday that BVSD students will soon be able to study the stars and planets in an inflatable dome that can hold roughly 45 to 60 people, depending on the size of the students. She said BVSD 3rd and 8th-graders have astronomy segments as part of their curriculum, and said the 8th-graders might be using the planetarium as soon as the early part of the next school year. Anhut said the planetarium set-up will include a projection device, and the device will beam information from various modules to the top of the dome. For example, she said one module might show constellations and their different "locations" in the sky during different seasons of the year. But why not just read about Orion in a book? According to Anhut, numerous recent studies and books suggest that American children, on average, aren't doing well in science and math. She said the studies suggest several reasons for the mediocre performance, but one of the key problems is the relative lack of hands-on educational experience after elementary school. "They move into middle school, and the difficulty of the subject matter increases exponentially," she said. "At the same time, the learning becomes something that's almost entirely book learning. The number of hands-on experiences goes way down, and the kids who learn by being hands-on essentially lose interest." She said TNS informed IOE that it would receive the $34,400 just before the holiday season, so the planetarium hasn't been selected or purchased yet, but said the selection team is evaluating planetariums from several manufacturers, including the CUBEX system. According to Anhut, the most expensive component of using the planetarium is actually "professional development" for the teachers - or training them how to incorporate the planetarium into the curriculum. She said BVSD has roughly 20 8th-grade teachers and about 100 3rd-grade teachers who could use the system, but initial fundraising will only cover training for the 8th-grade teachers, so IOE and TNS will need to devise strategies to earn money for the 3rd-grade teachers. And Lain Adams, TNS senior property manager, said on Friday that the retail center is a willing partner and has a science-based focus. The center has a series of interactive scientific kiosks on site known as "The Wonder of Science," served drinks in test tubes at the grand opening, and hired 1980s synth-pop star Thomas Dolby, best known for his hit "She Blinded Me with Science," as the party's headliner. "Our educational outreach committee is strategizing right now to leverage the Wonder of Science exhibits, and our relationships with these scientific organizations, to work with groups like Impact on Education, Boulder Valley School District and CU's Science Discovery to further science education," said Adams. Organizations such as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics and Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics from CU, as well as National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration and the National Institute for Standards and Technology, have created Wonder of Science kiosks at Twenty Ninth. Also, Science Discovery worked with students at Manhattan Middle School to design a very unique way to cut TNS' ceremonial ribbon on Opening Day - using a series of linked scientific physical events, including chemical reactions, to ultimately cut the ribbon without scissors. Adams said TNS might host a lecture series featuring famous Boulder scientists, or ask the scientific organizations to provide demonstrations that illustrate current projects for students or the general public - such as the Boulder-based Space Science Institute showcasing its work on the Cassini mission to Saturn. But one way or another, TNS and IOE intend to find partnerships, and Anhut said the effective use of partnerships has helped IOE execute a mission of brokering better educational opportunities in science, math and technology in the BVSD area. For example, IOE recently partnered with Boulder's Chamber of Commerce to bring Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper to Boulder for a discussion on how the current state of education impacts the business climate. "One presenter after another talked about not being able to find qualified employees, whether it was high-school graduates who are operators for Roche Colorado or engineering talent for the high-tech folks in the Boulder Valley area," said Anhut. "Essentially, if you look at a graph showing the number of U.S. students who have chosen careers in science and engineering, it's a line going straight down." And she said the decline has helped fuel a migration of U.S. science and technology-based jobs to India and China, in part because large numbers of students in the two countries are pursuing careers in science and technology and creating a desirable work force. Anhut's point is not lost on the business community - large donors to IOE have included Amgen Inc., Ball Corporation and Kaiser-Hill Company, among others. IOE has also worked with other Colorado educational foundations to launch a "Support Education" license plate, and proceeds will go towards supporting public education in Colorado. "It's 'stoplight advocacy,' to get the word out that education is important and we need to support it," said Anhut. Contact Richard Valenty in regard to this story at (303) 443-6272, ext. 126, or at Valenty@coloradodaily.com. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:26:28 -0700 From: Keith Stansell Subject: RE: Alloy: I'm surprised that no one bid on this (Dolby ephemera on eBay) Global warming hasn't reached us here in Denver. It's now a balmy 28 degrees F right now. I took a friend to the airport Saturday morning where it was a frigid -5 F. Brrr. The snow from the December blizzard is still all over the place and is in no hurry to melt. - -----Original Message----- From: "Melissa Jordan" Cheers from DC, where it will be 69 bizarre degrees today. Global warming, global warming... Melissa - --------------------------------- Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with theYahoo! Search weather shortcut. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V12 #8 **************************