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FBI trying to repair image on college campuses
The National Security Higher Education Advisory Board, Marye Ann FoxRadio Clip
Kelli Ferris, Leonard Bull, College of Veterinary Medicine, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Filling
a Tall Order
Earl Deal,
College of Forest Resources, Christmas trees
Town
nears deal on projects
Marvin Malecha, College of Design
RPRS
October Meeting: Panel Discussion on Fundraising
Kathryn Smith Azizi, College of Management
Editorial/Opinion:
Winning the name
David Baumer, NC lottery
Mystery
friend was 'Spider-Man'
Monica Price, Peter Witt - former professor and spider researcher
North
Carolina Dance Festival to Be Presented Oct. 20-22
Robin Harris, dance program
A mouse,
a cookie and a show for kids
Sharon Moore, Mark Tulbert, Center Stage Kidstuff Series
Readers
to help hungry
College of Engineering, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences,
math and
science exhibition
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Song of solidarity
Triangle Chinese-Americans
Durham
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College of Management Graduate Symposium
Excavation
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Mineral Research Laboratory
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Oak Ridge National Laborator
SECU
Members Sponsor North Carolina's State Employees' Awards for Excellence
Karl Hedrick II SECU award winner
Oct. 21, 2005
WUNC
By staff report
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Dr. Kelli Ferris of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Dr. Leonard
Bull of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences were interviewed by WUNC's
Laura Leslie on the NC State Animal Response Team (SART) program. The interview
focused on public policy concerning rescuing companion and farm animals during
disasters and highlighted the NC SART program as a national model.
Oct. 21, 2005
Winston-Salem Journal, WTVD, News & Observer, Myrtle Beach Sun News (SC), WCNC, WVEC (VA), Dateline Alabama (AL), Lexington Dispatch, Charlotte Observer, WFMY News 2, WWAY NewsChannel 3
By staff report
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WASHINGTON - The idea of academics collaborating with the FBI might once have aroused loud complaints on some campuses where agents had spied on student protesters and government institutions were viewed with mistrust.
But when FBI Director Robert Mueller announced he had recruited 17 university presidents to offer advice on the culture of higher education, there were a few laudatory e-mails and a couple of mentions in campus newspapers, but mostly silence, according to several school presidents.
The National Security Higher Education Advisory Board planned to hold its first meeting Friday in Washington. Set to attend are representatives from schools across the political spectrum, from the more liberal University of Wisconsin and its history of protest to the more conservative Texas A&M University with its Corps of Cadets.
The board includes University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chancellor James Moeser and former North Carolina State University head Marye Ann Fox, now at the University of California at San Diego.
The group also includes former CIA Director Robert Gates, Texas A&M's president, and former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, a member of the Sept. 11 commission and president of the New School University in New York.
"The times have changed and they've changed in this case for the better," said board member Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania.
"The idea that we can sit down at a table and have a true dialogue which is open and aimed at mutual understanding across differences is terrific," Gutmann said. "We're under no illusion that we'll agree on everything, but we do agree on the importance of reaching some common understanding."
The group's chairman is Graham Spanier, president of Pennsylvania State University. Spanier said much of the change described by Gutmann dates from the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
"The university community generally has come to feel that they need to be part of the solution," Spanier said.
Gates recalled going to see Vice President Dick Cheney and Andrew Card, President Bush's chief of staff, to discuss problems foreign students were having obtaining visas after the attacks.
"I made the comment that this isn't the 60s and 70s. The universities want to be helpful. We understand the threats to the country and, unlike in the past, there is a real opportunity for cooperation that is beneficial to both sides," Gates said.
The FBI has described the board's mission as offering advice about the traditions of openness, academic freedom and international collaboration. Mueller has said the board also could serve as a recruitment tool for the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.
The presidents see the exchange as an opportunity to press their own concerns about the treatment of foreign students, the international exchange of technology and security issues at laboratories that work with anthrax and other deadly substances.
Yet the terrorist attacks have not completely rehabilitated the FBI's image on college campuses, several presidents and historians said.
The bureau was badly damaged in the 1970s by revelations about its COINTELPRO program, begun under J. Edgar Hoover and aimed at disrupting civil rights, student and dissident groups.
Even since Sept. 11, civil libertarians and student activists have voiced concerns that the bureau again is trying to stifle lawful protest, and that the FBI's presence on campuses could chill open exchanges.
They point to some provisions of the anti-terrorism Patriot Act, including one that allows the FBI to obtain library records, and to bureau documents that detail monitoring of anti-war groups and enhanced cooperation between the FBI and campus police.
"The FBI does have a public relations problem that stems from its past history and extends to concerns raised by federal surveillance policy post-9/11, including the ability to access library records," said Athan Theoharris, a Marquette University historian who has written extensively on the FBI.
John Wiley, the University of Wisconsin's chancellor, said distrust of law enforcement is most pronounced among the many foreign students on his campus. "They typically arrive from places where the police are not viewed as being there to protect you or someone you typically turn to for help," Wiley said.
There were mild protests at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass., in 2003 when a campus officer assigned to an FBI task force interviewed an Iraqi-born professor about his political views. The FBI would not give any details about the episode, and the professor said the questioning was brief and nonthreatening.
RPRS October Meeting: Panel Discussion on Fundraising
Oct. 21, 2005
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By staff report
© Copyright 2005
RALEIGH, N.C. (Oct. 20, 2005) – The October meeting of the Raleigh Public Relations Society (RPRS) will feature a panel discussion on fundraising. The panelists are Kathryn Smith Azizi, director of development for N.C. State University College of Management; Dee Stewart, president of The Stewart Group; and Lauren Hood, director of development and marketing for Prevent Child Abuse N.C.
The meeting will be held from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 25 at the offices of Epley Associates in Raleigh. Discussions will focus on successful fundraising strategies and how to develop successful fundraising campaigns.
If you would like to attend the meeting, please RSVP via e-mail to rsvp@rprs.org by 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 21. Reservations are needed to ensure that adequate seating is available and each guest receives a box lunch. Cost to attend is $8 for members and $12 for non-members and is payable at the door.
The Raleigh Public Relations Society, formed in 1959, is an organization for public relations professionals in the Raleigh area. RPRS hosts professional development opportunities including monthly meetings and an annual awards banquet. For more information, visit www.rprs.org.
Oct. 21, 2005
Winston-Salem Journal
By Monte Mitchell
© Copyright 2005
The tension rose yesterday as the White House's chief usher cast a critical eye to decide whether an Alleghany County Fraser fir measures up to gracing the Blue Room of the White House at Christmas.
The tree has to be the required 18 feet, 6 inches tall and have a nice shape.
"That's a little short," said Chief Usher Gary Walters as the grower held a bamboo measuring pole against the first tree at Smokey Holler Tree Farm.
It's the honor of a lifetime for a Christmas tree grower to furnish the White House tree, but even champion growers have to meet exacting standards.
Earl and Betsy Deal and their children, Buddy and Meg, had earned the right to send a Smokey Holler tree to the White House. With a tree that earned 198 of a possible 200 points, their farm won a competition at the 2004 biennial convention of the National Christmas Tree Association.
But the Deals allowed the contest's runners-up to furnish last year's tree so that their trees would have more time to grow to the required height.
Now here they were on the farm, and the second tree they had measured wasn't quite tall enough either.
"There it is," Earl Deal said yesterday, pointing downhill to where a likely candidate towered.
Buddy Deal lifted his bamboo pole. A ribbon tied to the pole at 18 feet was about 6 inches below the top of the tree.
"Pretty nice, Mike," Walters said, speaking to Mike Lawn, the White House's head gardener. "How's it look at the bottom?"
"No holes, branches to the ground, nice height," Lawn said.
"Beautiful," Walters said.
It was a home run, a shot at the buzzer. They placed a red, white and blue ribbon on the tree, and it's going to the White House.
"Thank you," Walters said.
"Thank you. We are honored," Betsy Deal said.
Walters, personable and impeccably dressed in a gray suit, white and black pinstripe shirt and yellow tie, joked about helping cut the tree.
"Bring your work gloves," Earl Deal told him.
The tree will be cut the day after Thanksgiving. The next day - Saturday, Nov. 26 - a truck from the N.C. Department of Agriculture will take it to the White House.
The N.C. Christmas Tree Association plans to market the state's Christmas-tree success with a "Road the White House" theme. The state last placed a tree in the White House in 1997.
About 90 percent to 95 percent of the Christmas trees grown here are Frasers.
It's a native tree that grows quickly, has sturdy branches and holds its needles a long time, said Linda Gragg, the executive director of the N.C. Christmas Tree Association.
"This is such a wonderful opportunity for people to become familiar with the North Carolina Fraser fir," she said. "We're trying to brand it."
The Saturday that the tree will be delivered to the White House will be a day for Earl and Betsy Deal to remember for more than one reason.
"Don't forget that's our 40th wedding anniversary," she told her husband. "Maybe you can remember that and won't forget it this year."
It's hard for a Christmas-tree grower to celebrate an anniversary during the busiest three weeks of the year, so the Deals usually put it off until February or March.
But they will be in Washington on their 40th-anniversary weekend. On that Monday, the tree will be brought in on a wagon pulled by Clydesdales. The Deals will present the tree to Laura Bush.
For Betsy Deal, it will be from one former schoolteacher to another. Betsy Deal taught for 28 years. Earl Deal is professor emeritus at N.C. State University's College of Forest Resources.
He began tending Christmas trees as a hobby, and took it up full time in 1998. Their daughter, Meg, a certified public accountant in Raleigh, comes up each winter to do the books. The Deals sell exclusively to wholesalers, who will probably advertise the trees as coming from the same farm as the White House tree.
The family gives Buddy credit for managing the contest win in the first place. He had looked at about 200,000 of the farm's 500,000 trees before selecting some likely candidates.
In 1990, he had helped plant the field that grew this White House tree. Before that, the tree had spent three years in a seedling bed and another two years in a transplant bed. It is now 20 years old.
The fields on the 500-acre farm have names such as Earl's Defeat, Ty's Agony and Chuck's Mistake, many of the names reflecting the friends and students who have helped over the years. The field of choice had commonly been referred to as Above the Shed, although its new status has the family calling it the more elegant Smokey Holler Homeplace field.
From this field, the Blue Ridge Parkway is visible through a notch in the trees on a nearby ridge. The Deals also offered to furnish a tree for the Oval Office and the Bushes' private residence. The Blue Room tree has to be tall enough so that when workers remove the chandelier, they can tie the tree to the chandelier's base and run electricity to it.
The two other trees can be a bit shorter.
Yards away from the Blue Room tree, they picked out the tree for the Oval Office. Walters plucked a woolly worm off its branches and held it on his palm. The worm was dark black on one end and brown in the middle, with a little black on the other end.
"It's maybe going to snow on Sunday," Buddy Deal said after examining the worm.
That is the actual forecast, though the temperature yesterday was nearly 80 degrees.
A mile or more away in another part of the farm and in a field that looked like a carpet of green stretching up over a hill, they chose a tree for the Bushes' private residence.
Before they went over there, the White House chief usher would carefully place the woolly worm back under the Oval Office tree.
Betsy Deal would show a few friends the ribbons of red, white, orange and yellow hidden in the branches of the chosen Blue Room tree.
"See the multicolored flag?" she said. "We had tagged this one hoping it would be (the one). This is a dream come true."
• Monte Mitchell can be reached in Wilkesboro at (336) 667-5691 or at mmitchell@wsjournal.com
Oct. 21, 2005
Durham Herald Sun
By Susan Broili
© Copyright 2005
DURHAM -- From the warm tone in his voice, Vincent Simonetti seemed to be reliving that summer day in 1976 when he stood in Duke Gardens and conducted the Durham Symphony Orchestra's very first concert.
"I remember the sun on my face," Simonetti says.
The symphony started that pops concert with Mozart's "Overture to The Magic Flute."
The turnout was good for the symphony's debut, he recalls.
Three decades later, in this its 30th anniversary season, the symphony continues to make music and look for new ways to attract audiences and financial backing.
Though it struggles, as do most arts organizations these days in light of declining donations, the symphony does not have to contend with what the group faced when it first began.
"At the first rehearsal, we had two violins, one viola, one cello, one bass cello, seven clarinets and six flutes," Simonetti said. "Within a few weeks, we had a full orchestra. People could see we were serious and wanted to do something good."
The symphony had no sheet music and had to borrow music from Duke University and N.C. State.
But what members had in abundance was a keen desire to play music -- ardor that has kept some of the symphony's members going for three decades.
Double-bass player Francis Steltzer, who turns 84 in December, joined the first year and has stayed at it, he says, because of "the pure enjoyment of playing and being with some super people."
He estimates that he's traveled 100,000 miles over the years just to get from his home in Burlington to rehearsals in Durham. (He also plays for the Elon College orchestra closer to home.)
It all started at a New Year's Eve party in 1975.
Simonetti heard local musicians bemoan the fact that they had to go all the way to Elon College to play in a community orchestra. They wanted to start an orchestra in Durham but did not know where to find a conductor.
Simonetti volunteered.
He had studied music and conducting at Manhattan College and also acquired some experience in conducting at the North Carolina Symphony, where he played tuba. (He wound up quitting the state symphony in order to concentrate conducting the fledgling Durham orchestra).
For the first seven years, the orchestra consisted entirely of volunteer players, Simonetti said.
Today, half of the 68 musicians get paid. But all are professional musicians in terms of commitment to producing quality music, said Alan Neilson, former principal flautist with the North Carolina Symphony who took over the conductor's baton in 1984 after Simonetti left in 1983.
Over the years, the symphony has played with such stars as Johnny Cash, soprano Kathleen Battle and The Kingston Trio.
But Neilson said highlights were performing in 1987 at the U.S. Special Olympics here, as well as concerts featuring winners of the symphony's annual Young Artists' Competition.
The lowest point, emotionally, came three years ago with the death of cellist Janine Sutphen.
She was reported missing in January 2002 after she failed to return home from a symphony rehearsal. In May of the same year, her body was found in Falls Lake. Her husband, Robert James Petrick, was charged with killing her. His trial is scheduled to start on Oct. 31.
"It affected us a lot," Neilson said. "She was a very gregarious person."
The death has drawn symphony members closer together, the conductor said.
"We talked about it and we kept playing," Neilson said.
Since becoming conductor, Neilson has worked to expand the symphony's repertoire, to continually raise the playing level, and to offer classical and pops concerts that all community members can enjoy.
"Music is meant to be listened to. I want it to sound good. I rehearse with that object in mind," Neilson said.
He also varies programming in a concert.
"You don't want to play a concert of slow, morbid pieces," Neilson said. "I like people to go away feeling good. If we play something unusual and far out, I'll couple it with some standards."
Throughout the years, the symphony has beaten the odds by surviving.
"Some orchestras in this day and age have folded," said Neilson, naming the Tulsa Philharmonic and Florida Philharmonic as examples. "It's very expensive."
Yet, through resourcefulness, dedication and the hard work and commitment of musicians, staff, volunteers, the board and the community, the symphony continues to present concert seasons despite a relatively low budget.
"For the amount of money that's going into this thing, they're doing remarkably well," said Patti Thomas, who became general manager in January.
This season, the symphony is presenting nine events on an annual budget of $157,000 that comes from the city of Durham, Durham Arts Council, foundation grants, businesses, individuals and other fundraisers, Thomas said.
One year, the symphony made $5,000 from yard sales. The orchestra continues to offer Rent-A-Symphony that delivers a string quartet, soloist or full orchestra to local business gatherings or private parties "for a reasonable fee."
The budget includes the general manager's full-time salary, the conductor's part-time salary as well as some musicians' fees.
Typically, the symphony does not make a profit from concerts, Thomas said.
It cost $20,000 to put on a classical concert, and only up to 30 percent of that might be recouped through ticket sales, she added.
The only concert that makes money continues to be the annual Holiday Pops Concert, Thomas said.
In addition to being able to stretch a dollar, other factors figure into the symphony's longevity.
"The players, they want to do it," Neilson said.
The steady pool of musicians who want to play --fed, in part, by area universities and the Research Triangle Park -- has figured into the symphony's ability to keep going, Neilson said.
Doctors, lawyers and people in other fields continue to make up the symphony, as do musicians who once played professionally -- such as the French horn player who had performed with the Chicago Symphony.
And Simonetti returned to the symphony 12 years ago -- as a musician.
"I enjoy playing the tuba. I love classical music," Simonetti said.
The symphony's past board of directors president, Ellen Dagenhart, has cited its work with children as a key to its success.
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THE SCORE
The Durham Symphony Orchestra's 30th Anniversary 2005-2006 Season includes:
-- A classical concert at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 6 at the Carolina Theatre. The concert includes performances by Young Artists' Competition winners Gentry Lasater and Ashley Martin, both violinists. Tickets $18; $6 students; call 560-3030.
-- The Holiday Pops Concert at 7 p.m. Dec. 4 at the Downtown Durham Armory with cabaret seating and dessert buffet. Tickets: $30, $15 adults; $15, $10 youth; call 560-2736.
For a complete concert schedule, see www.durhamsymphony.org or call 560-2736.
Oct. 21, 2005
Durham Herald Sun
By ROB SHAPARD
© Copyright 2005
CHAPEL HILL -- The prospect of dramatically reworking Lot 5 and the Wallace parking deck in downtown is more real than ever.
The excavators and cement trucks aren't exactly revving at the gates. But after several daylong sessions of negotiating over the summer, the town and Ram Development Company have put the basic elements of a real deal on the table.
Chapel Hill officials highlighted the fact Thursday that the town would be responsible for a fixed-dollar amount, not subject to variations from factors such as materials and construction costs.
The town would be on the hook for $7.9 million. That primarily would be for the cost of building underground parking on lot 5, which is bordered by West Franklin, Church and West Rosemary streets, along with other improvements.
It also would have to pony up $500,000 to help pay for building parking spaces specifically for affordable units Ram will build.
However, the town essentially would get the $7.9 million back at the same time it was paying that amount, Town Manager Cal Horton said Thursday.
The town will keep its ownership of the Lot 5 and Wallace deck properties. And the proposed deal calls for Ram to pay the town $7.9 million in up-front money, to lease the sites on which it will build residences, retail shops and public open space. The idea is for the $7.9 million payments by the town and Ram to happen simultaneously, Horton said.
Another element is that, if Ram ended up earning a return of more than 15 percent on its costs, then the town would get 20 percent of the net profits after that point.
The manager pointed to the cash reserves in town funds related to parking and affordable-housing initiatives as possible sources of the $500,000, but that's not yet determined.
The Town Council may decide Monday if it's truly ready to take the plunge with Ram.
If the council approves the key elements on the table, the staffers and lawyers would go back to work on a formal legal document for the town and Ram to consider. Horton would aim to have that document ready by March 31, 2006.
The projects still would have to go through the town's special-use permit process, but jumping ahead by a few critical steps, the goal would be to start construction no later than March 15, 2007, and to finish by Sept. 15, 2008.
"It's exciting," said Councilman Bill Strom, who participated in the negotiations with Ram, along with council members Sally Greene and Cam Hill.
"No one project is going to address all the issues that have been identified, but I think these two projects represent a breakthrough in establishing the tone and style and intensity of development downtown," he said. "I feel we have come up with an extremely fair and positive arrangement."
Lot 5 includes about 1.7 acres. Down on East Rosemary Street, the Wallace deck and a town parcel next door at Henderson Street cover about 1.5 acres.
Under the proposal, Ram would construct three buildings on Lot 5 with "approximately" 124 residential units and 24,000 square feet of retail space, along with about 31,000 square feet of public, open space. There would be at least 400 parking spaces, most of them underground.
The Wallace deck would remain. But Ram would build approximately 109 residential units on and around the deck, along with 6,000 square feet of retail space.
The amount of residences sold at officially affordable prices was one of the key elements shaped by the negotiations. Strom said there was a good bit of "give-and-take" with Ram, and that affordable housing was one area that town had to give.
The council had hoped to see up to 20 percent of the residences as affordable. But the proposal sets that amount at 15 percent -- or 35 units out of the total of 233 units.
Strom said that was one of the provisions that helped make Ram willing to agree to a fixed amount for the town's investment.
"I learned in the process that 15 percent is achievable, and 20 percent is pushing it," he added.
The proposal also would give Ram a lease of 99 years on the land for both the commercial and residential elements. That time period already was 99 years for the residential, but the town representatives agreed to bump the commercial ground lease up from 40 years to 99 years, Strom said.
"I don't think it's possible to eliminate all risk," he said when asked about the town's risk. "But as far as the financial exposure, we know precisely what our investment will be, no matter what happens in the marketplace. We have negotiated a set fee for the town's investment that's actually better than the arrangement spelled out in the request for proposals."
Earlier in the process, Mayor Pro Tem Edith Wiggins expressed concerns about the town's risks, saying she didn't want taxpayers somehow to get stuck with a major burden if the projects ever went south. But Wiggins described herself Thursday as "very comfortable" with the current terms.
She said she felt the town's representatives did a good job hashing out the terms, and also praised the decision to get help from Charlotte attorney Glen Hardymon, and Marvin Malecha, dean of the College of Design at N.C. State University.
"I think the town is in an excellent position, and that we've gotten an excellent deal that really protects the town fiscally," she said. "Just bringing [the new buildings] into being is going to be a challenge, but that's down the road."
Ram President Casey Cummings said there clearly were highs and lows during the negotiations, but that he's pleased with the results at this point.
"I feel even better now than when we made the initial submittal," Cummings said. "The town drove a good deal. I'm enthusiastic about the prospects."
North Carolina Dance Festival to Be Presented Oct. 20-22
Oct. 21, 2005
Boone Mountain Times
By staff report
© Copyright 2005
The annual North Carolina Dance Festival is coming to Appalachian State University on Thursday, Oct. 20, through Saturday, Oct. 22, at Valborg Theatre. Each show will begin at 8 p.m. and will present various choreographers and companies from across North Carolina, including students and choreographers from Appalachian.
The dance group alban elved is among the North Carolina Dance Festival’s performers.
Tickets are $6 for students and $10 for all others. For more ticket information,
call the box office at Valborg Theatre at 262-3063.
This year’s festival provides an opportunity to see a wide sampling of the dance being performed and produced on a statewide level during one weekend of performances. “These concerts provide an opportunity to honor our own while getting to know dance artists whose works draw from life in the North Carolina community,” said founder Jan Van Dyke.
The North Carolina Dance Festival began 15 years ago under Van Dyke’s directorship at UNC-Greensboro. Van Dyke’s goal was to promote North Carolina choreographers and dancers as well as to give them a venue in which to perform. In addition, the festival provides quality dance performances to areas of the state that do not readily have access to these artists.
Appalachian’s Department of Theatre and Dance has been an original producer of this event since the touring component was introduced and is proud to be a continuing supporter of the festival.
To commemorate this anniversary year, many of the most popular and well-received artists and companies from past years have been invited to return.
The visiting dance companies on Thursday, Oct. 20, will include Gerri Houlihan, a freelance dance artist based in Durham, and alban elved dance, a company based in Winston-Salem and Brooklyn, NY, that is led by German choreographer Karola Lüttringhaus.
The Friday, Oct. 21, performance features BJ Sullivan, a freelance choreographer and teacher based in Greensboro, Niki Juralewicz, who recently moved to Chapel Hill from New York City, and Nickwalk Dance Project, whose artistic director is Joan Nicholas-Walker of Raleigh.
The Saturday, Oct. 22, performance includes Martha Connerton, founder of Martha Connerton/Kinetic Works based in Charlotte, dance festival director Jan Van Dyke from Greensboro, and Robin Harris, director of the dance program at NC State University in Raleigh.
In addition, there will be several dances presented by Appalachian dance faculty members, and a dance student. Faculty members Emily Daughtridge, Susan Lutz, and Ray Miller have choreographed dances for this year’s festival.
Daughtridge will present “Steadfast,” a new work for five dancers inspired by ancient music from the Isle of Gurnsey. The dance contrasts the brevity of daily life against the longevity of and memory of the landscape
Miller, the new chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance, has choreographed a “sprite-like” piece that has the feel of a glass being full to over-flowing. The music is “Little Pony” by David Moore. The dance explores Miller’s recent move to the High Country.
Lutz has choreographed a modern dance for eight women that explores the layers and complications in life that require people to choose and often change focus.
Student choreographer Emily Montague has set a piece that explores the Myra Hornbacker quote “…and I was holding my breath so as not to cry. I wanted to cry.” The music is “Offering Chant” performed by Lama Gyurme and Jean Philippe Rykel.
Sue Williams, a Department of Theatre and Dance faculty member, has designed costumes for the production. Additional collaboration includes faculty member Jeromy Hopgood and student Cameron Pence as lighting designers.
Mystery friend was 'Spider-Man'
Oct. 21, 2005
News & Observer
By Tim Simmons
© Copyright 2005
Monica Price never knew it, but her family was one of many caught in the web of Peter Witt.
Months ago, Price started looking for a forgotten friend -- someone who had helped her grandparents in 1967 after the Ku Klux Klan poisoned their well and burned a cross in their yard.
What she found was a friend to many, a man with a strong commitment to civil rights and someone who was known worldwide.
"He has a fascinating background," Price said, "and so many people knew the family."
Witt, who died in 1998, was best known for his research involving spiders, which attracted international attention in the 1950s and 1960s. But Price's grandparents did not see Witt as a well-known researcher. They saw him and his family as neighbors who supported them when Isham High, Price's grandfather, decided to enroll two of his children in a previously all-white public school in Knightdale.
Growing up, Price had heard stories of a white family -- possibly a professor at N.C. State University -- who became friends with her grandparents after an attack by KKK members, helping them rally support and raise money to dig a new well. But High didn't dwell on the story. As time dimmed memories and Price's grandparents died, most of the details were lost.
Then Price took a job at NCSU in July and decided she should reconnect with that part of the family's history. Her efforts were detailed in a story last week in The News & Observer that prompted several dozen people to respond. While a German professor who studied spiders might have seemed an unusual target in Price's search, virtually all of the readers said Witt was surely the person she was hoping to find.
His background, they said, helps explain why.
Born in Germany in 1918, Witt was training to be a doctor after the Nazis gained control of the government. Given a Nazi uniform at the end of his studies, Witt chose to burn the uniform and hide from authorities while working at an underground hospital near Berlin.
His wife, Inge, whom he met later, also left Germany during the years of Nazi control. Their friends say the experience shaped their views about social issues. Active in civil rights, it was perfectly natural for them to reach out and support someone like Price's grandparents once High decided the children of a sharecropper were entitled to the same education as other students.
The two men came from entirely different worlds, but they shared a similar sense of justice and determination.
Leaving Germany
After World War II, Witt moved to Switzerland, where a Life magazine article eventually drew the world's attention to his work with spiders. Witt discovered that drugs such as LSD, amphetamines, marijuana and tranquilizers had specific and predictable effects on the webs created by spiders.
Spiders given amphetamines, for example, seemingly lost the ability to recreate patterns they might spin on any other day. Those given LSD created perfectly symmetrical webs that lacked any of the expected variations needed to catch flies. The webs were an excellent tool for measuring the effects of drugs because of a spider's innate ability to spin some of the most efficient designs found in nature.
Witt's work was cited for years by researchers in various fields from the study of behaviors to the treatment of mental illnesses. He moved to Raleigh in 1966 to take a job as director of the division of research for North Carolina's Department of Mental Health.
'Spider-Man' to some
Those who knew about his work in the labs of Dorothea Dix called him "Spider-Man," but at NCSU and UNC-Chapel Hill, he was Professor Witt, an adjunct faculty member. It was this tie to NCSU that Price knew from the family stories.
But to others in Knightdale, the Witts were known for something altogether different -- a 35-acre farm where they kept exotic animals. The occasional escape of the guanaco, which resembles a llama, is still part of the town's local lore among older residents.
While in Knightdale, Inge Witt was also known for her work in low-income schools, which remained largely segregated at the time.
The couple moved to Raleigh in 1988 and built a home near the historically black Oberlin community in 1994, where Witt displayed artwork, said Richard Hall, a local architect and close family friend.
Witt was 79 when he died.
"All of this has been an education for me," said Price, who has exchanged e-mail messages with one of Witt's daughters in suburban Atlanta. "I'm looking forward to re-establishing ties with their family, and I really want to thank those who helped me find this link."
Staff writer Tim Simmons can be reached at 829-4535 or tsimmons@newsobserver.com.
A mouse, a cookie and a show for kids
Oct. 21, 2005
News & Observer
By Bonnie Rochman
© Copyright 2005
If you give a mouse a cookie, what would happen? Fans of Laura Numeroff's children's story can tell you, but you can also find out for yourself on Saturday in a staged production for little kids.
N.C. State University Center Stage Kidstuff Series presents "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie & Other Story Books" at 3 p.m. at Stewart Theatre.
The production is a montage of seven children's stories set to music. Performed by a multi-racial cast, the show explores themes and concepts including breaking stereotypes, cause-and-effect, accepting differences, math phobia and growing up.
You don't have to be familiar with the seven stories to enjoy the show, but it couldn't hurt. The stories, in addition to Numeroff's book, are "Amazing Grace" by Mary Hoffman, "Borreguita and the Coyote" by Verna Aardema, "Imogene's Antlers" by David Small, "Martha Speaks" by Susan Meddaugh, "Math Curse" by Jon Scieszka and "Owen" by Kevin Henkes.
Center Stage coordinates the touring artists who appear at N.C. State. Most of what they do is typical adult fare: jazz, dance, theater, world music.
But twice a year, Center Stage hosts productions for kids. This one is put on by Theatreworks USA, which bills itself as the country's largest not-for-profit theater company geared toward children.
Don't wait to buy tickets until right before the show; Mark Tulbert, assistant of Center Stage, said performances often sell out. That's no small feat since there are 800 tickets available for each performance.
" Years ago, there weren't as many options as there are now," he said. "Now, there's a lot of great kids programming going on."
The second in this season's Kidstuff Series is "Curious George" on Feb. 18. Tickets are on sale. That show is a combination of Curious George stories -- "Curious George Goes to the Hospital" and "Curious George Takes a Job" -- and an original story about how Curious George first met the Man in the Yellow Hat.
Saturday's show incorporates music, singing and acting. There's a 10-minute musical interpretation of each story, with each chapter flowing into the next.
The show opens in a library as young people search for stories to read and get excited about.
" Imogene's Antlers," about a young girl who suddenly wakes up and has antlers, is a thread that runs through the whole production. Imogene thinks it's incredibly cool that she's got these funky projections on her head.
" She does a great little song number where she thinks she is just as hot as can be," said Sharon Moore, the director of Center Stage.
" But when she goes to school, she finds out that everyone else thinks it's weird," she said. "It's about the whole notion of accepting differences among people."
The show is one hour, with no intermission. When I asked Tulbert how long the performance lasted, he answered: "You are a new mother, aren't you? You will learn that every kids show is one hour."
And with good reason.
After an hour, kids are ready to move on to the next activity, like jockeying for autographs. "That's a popular part," Tulbert said. "The actors love to do the meet-and-greet."
When the show ends, the actors come out in costume to meet the children. Save your programs; kids love to get them signed.
After the encore, there's a sweet postscript: cookies and juice, courtesy of Whole Foods Market.
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Info
What: "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie & Other Story Books," presented by N.C. State University Center Stage Kidstuff Series.
When: 3 p.m. Saturday.
Where: Stewart Theatre, N.C. State University, Raleigh.
Tickets: $8 this show, $13 for two-show Kidstuff Series.
Details: 515-1100, http://ticketcentral.ncsu.edu or www.ncsu.edu/arts.
Oct. 21, 2005
News & Observer
By Kinea White Epps
© Copyright 2005
Jones Dairy Elementary School students are buying books for a cause.
The school opened its Read to Feed bookstore last Friday. Students at the school pay a small fee for donated books and at the end of the year the money goes towards the Heifer Project, a charity that gives farm animals to needy families across the world to help with hunger.
Students will get a chance to buy books each Friday. The school is looking for more families to donate children's books.
For more information call the school at 562-6000. To find out more about the organization, visit www.heifer.org.
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Want to see some cool math and science exhibits? Then head out to Math and Science Night from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Stough Elementary School at 4210 Edward Mills Road.
The exhibit includes displays from the Raleigh Astronomy Club, N.C. State University engineering and entomology schools, and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science.
Call 881-4950 for more information.
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Lynn Road Elementary School, 1601 Lynn Road, will host their annual Children's Book Fair at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. The event takes place in the school's media center. Kids can wear their pajamas and curl up with their books. Call 870-4074 for more info.
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Oct. 23 through 31 is Red Ribbon Week in Wake County. Red Ribbon Week is a chance for schools and parents to talk to kids about staying off drugs. Ribbons will display the phrase "Show Good Character: Stay Off Drugs."
Ideas for teachers on how to incorporate Red Ribbon Week into classrooms can be found at www.wakeptacouncil.org.
The first Red Ribbon celebration was organized in 1986 in honor of Enrique Camarena, an agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration who was killed while investigating drug traffickers, according to the PTA Web site.
Editorial/Opinion: Winning the name
Oct. 21, 2005
Publication
By staff report
© Copyright 2005
You reported on Oct. 18 that Dan Gerlach, adviser to Gov. Mike Easley, says state officials have looked for an easy-to-remember name for the lottery's online home, but they're all gone. Apparently all of the logical names, such as www.nclottery.com are "locked up."
There are two relatively easy legal solutions to the problem of cybersquatters: (1) the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) of ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and (2) the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA). Both will accomplish the goal of securing an appropriate domain name for the North Carolina lottery.
Under either measure, all the state has to do is apply for a trademark and then begin litigation. Under the UDRP, North Carolina can get a domain name reassigned to it by showing that the domain name registrant has (1) registered a domain name that is identical or confusingly similar to the complainant's trademark, (2) the domain name registrant has no rights or legitimate interest in the domain name, and (3) that the domain name is registered in bad faith.
I don't think that the lottery should begin by spending money to enrich cybersquatters. The state should have a trademark to protect its lottery and with that trademark it can require a reassignment of the domain name through the UDRP and the ACPA can be used to collect money from cybersquatters who are glorified extortionists.
David Baumer
Raleigh
(The writer is professor of law and technology at N.C. State University.)
Oct. 21, 2005
News & Observer
By Ellen Sung
© Copyright 2005
Artist Rick Beck stands in front of a sapphire glass sculpture and answers a burning question: How many of these deceptively sturdy looking pieces of glass -- many taller than he is -- does he break before he finishes one?
"Yesterday? Two," Beck answers with a laugh. "Months of work, lost."
Beck is in the Gallery of Art and Design at N.C. State University, where a show of his sculpture runs until Oct. 30. When one of the works cracks, he says, it sounds like a gunshot.
Despite limited space -- a single large gallery -- the show is a satisfying look at Beck's sculptures, which reinvent the tools of daily life. Forks, spoons, scissors and screws are cast in rich, jewel-toned glass and blown up to hundreds of times their original scale.
The most intriguing works aren't literal replicas, but reimagine the forms in ways that echo iconic sculptures.
Some, like "Lime Green Fork," are stretched so thin and tall that they instantly recall Alberto Giacometti's famous series of elongated women. A pair of scissors, dubbed a "Reclining Form," is a deconstructed shape reminiscent of lounging nudes by Henri Matisse. The scissor blades have become legs and one finger hole is an oval resting head, calling to mind Constantin Brancusi.
Such sculptures could easily become mere whimsy, but they are so technically superb and elegant that viewers can find them thought-provoking even on a third or fourth visit. For those interested in the science of glassmaking, curators Charlotte V. Brown and Lynn Jones Ennis included one of Beck's molds and explained the annealing process. The show seems particularly appropriate for NCSU, where so many students study engineering and sciences.
The show is a fine follow-up to the N.C. Museum of Art's contemporary glass art show this year, which helped viewers see glass as more than a medium for pretty vases. Western North Carolina has become an internationally recognized center for glassmaking; Beck works near the Penland artists' colony with his wife, Valerie, also a glass artist. It leaves you with the hope that more great works of glass will migrate east to the Triangle for exhibits.
Oct. 21, 2005
News & Observer
By Peggy Lim
© Copyright 2005
CHAPEL HILL--As the clock ticked toward 8 o'clock Monday night -- before house lights dimmed, the audience in a sold-out Memorial Hall burst into spontaneous rounds of applause.
They were ready and waiting for the Twelve Girls Band, a multiplatinum act in Asia, making an eleventh-hour stop during their booked American tour.
Determined to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina, Zi-Qiang "Zach" Chen, a Durham resident, state environmental engineer and art and culture coordinator for the National Council of Chinese Americans, was the impetus for pulling the performance together.
But for him it wasn't just about raising money. Chen had a vision of a new Chinese-American community, one that would be a united social and cultural force in the Triangle. To get there, though, it would have to move beyond internal fissures.
As the group began playing, it looked as if it might have succeeded.
" This is nothing short of a miracle," Haipei Shue, an organizer and executive director of the 6-month-old National Council of Chinese Americans, told the audience of about 1,400. Shue drove six hours from Washington, D.C., to attend. "I never see the Chinese community this passionate, this excited about a cultural event," he said.
With a marathon-runner's frame, long, wavy hair and spectacles, Chen is easy to pick out in a crowd.
" He's the guy who makes everything happen," said friend Shue. "He's the guy who will get you in all sorts of trouble."
Although Chinese-Americans were not overwhelmingly represented among the victims of Hurricane Katrina, Chen felt compelled to rally his community to do something to aid relief efforts. After all, he said, generations of Chinese people have been devastated by man-made and natural disasters.
He also thought it was about time his community shed its image as quiet and complacent and got more involved with the larger social welfare of America. Besides Buddhist and other religious groups, the global Chinese diaspora is often perceived as aloof. In countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines, where Chinese make up a dominant merchant elite, it has been a target of criticism and violence.
He thought of a benefit concert and the Twelve Girls Band. The group, which combines jazz, classical and world music with traditional Chinese instruments, has lately been all over the entertainment pages of Chinese-language newspapers and Web portals such as Sina.com. The ensemble has sold more than two million records in Japan alone, packed concert halls across Asia and appeared in television ads for chocolate and cell phones.
To Chen, who grew up in the Gobi Desert near Mongolia, it made sense to use music as a means to mobilize the community.
" Music speaks [to] everyone," he said....
Triangle Chinese-Americans by the numbers
13,804 The estimated number of people of Chinese origin in the six-county Triangle area in 2004.
1 PERCENT The percentage of people of Chinese origin as a part of the total population of the six-county Triangle area in 2004.
9,221 the number of people of Chinese origin in Wake, Durham and Orange counties in 2000.
4,329 the number of people of Chinese origin in Wake, Durham and Orange counties in 1990.
1 the rank of China among all countries that send students to Duke University, N.C. State University and UNC-Chapel Hill.
SOURCE: U.S. CENSUS BUREAU.
NEWS RESEARCHERS DAVID RAYNOR AND LAMARA HACKETT CONTRIBUTED TO THIS LIST.
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Resources
Here are online sites for some Chinese-American groups:
National Council of Chinese Americans www.NCCAonline.org.
Chinese-American Friendship Association www.cafa.org.
Triangle Area Chinese American Society www.tacas.org.
ChinaStar www.chinastaronline.com.
Oct. 21, 2005
News & Observer
By staff report
© Copyright 2005
SEMINARS, CLASSES & EVENTS
N.C. STATE COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT: Graduate Symposium, 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. today, Sheraton Capital Center, 421 S. Salisbury St., Raleigh. Keynote speakers are Amy Woods Brinkley, global risk executive for Bank of America, and Matthew Szulik, chairman, chief executive officer and president of Red Hat. Panel discussions 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. and 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Free. Registration required, http://symposium.ncsu.edu/registrant/.
COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS IMPACTING N.C. HEALTHCARE OUTCOMES: N.C. Alliance for a Healthy Community's conference, 8:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. today, Hilton Raleigh Durham Airport. Register: www.ncahc.org.
CARING FOR THE CAREGIVER RETREAT: for professional and family caregivers, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today, Windsong Retreat and Learning Center, Pittsboro. Contact: 542-2611 or windsongretreat@@mindspring.com.
FRAMEMAKER 7.2 NEW FEATURES, DITA APPLICATION, AND XML ROUND TRIP: half-day workshop offered by Bright Path Solutions, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. today, Research Triangle Park offices. Free. Contact: info@@travelthepath.com or 244-8559.
ARTICULATING YOUR ESSENTIAL DNA: THE POWER BEHIND WHO YOU ARE: workshop, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, The Castleton Group, 4101 Lake Boone Trail, Raleigh. $495 if registered before Thursday, $695 after. Reservations: 264-9868.
LONG-TERM CARE: Lunch & Learn seminar offered by Coastal Federal Credit Union, noon Monday, Cornerstone Shopping Center, 2339 David Drive, Cary, and noon Oct. 27, 10850 Wakefield Commons Drive, Raleigh. Reservations: (877) 863-6169.
THINKING OF STARTING A BUSINESS?: seminar offered by Durham Technical Community College Small Business Center, 3 to 5 p.m. Monday, 411 W. Chapel Hill St., downtown Durham. Free. Register: 686-3448 or www.durhamtech.edu.
MEREDITH COLLEGE PROFESSIONAL STUDIES COURSES: "Retirement Plans and Benefits for the Self-Employed and Small Business Owners," two Mondays, Oct. 24 and 31. "Maximizing Your Company Retirement Plan," Tuesday. "An Introduction to Patents and Patent Searching via the Web," Oct. 29. Meredith College campus, Raleigh. Register: 760-8450 or www.meredith.edu/professional/.
"We Have to Exterminate White People"
Oct. 21, 2005
FrontPage magazine, Town Hall (DC)
By Mike Adams
© Copyright 2005
Columnist Jon Sanders of the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, NC, has written a blog entry that reveals just how easy it is to get a job teaching Africana Studies at North Carolina State University. It also demonstrates how the diversity movement is bringing people together in the great state of North Carolina.
Sanders’ recent blog directs readers to C-SPAN online, where they can click on the recent archives and scroll down until they find the “Black Media Forum on the Image of Black Americans in Mainstream Media.” This was a program presented on October 14th at Howard University. Dr. Kamau Kambon makes his appearance about three hours into the four-hour event.
Dr. Kambon's closing remarks – given about twenty minutes before the program’s conclusion - are chilling:
And then finally I want to say that we need one idea, and we're not thinking about a solution to the problem. We're thinking about all these other things, but we're not dealing with a solution to the problem. And we have to start to think about a solution to the problem so that these young brothers and sisters who are here now, who are 15, 16, or 17, are not here 25 years later talking about these same problems.
Now how do I know that the white people know that we are going to come up with a solution to the problem? I know it because they have retina scans, they have what they call racial profiling, DNA banks, and they’re monitoring our people to try to prevent the one person from coming up with the one idea. And the one idea is, how we are going to exterminate white people because that in my estimation is the only conclusion I have come to. We have to exterminate white people off the face of the planet to solve this problem. Now I don’t care whether you clap or not, but I’m saying to you that we need to solve this problem because they are going to kill us. And I will leave on that. So we just have to just set up our own system and stop playing and get very serious and not be diverted from coming up with a solution to the problem and the problem on the planet is white people.
Dr. Kambon also said that “white people want to kill you…because that is part of their plan” and that “the only n**ger on the planet is the white man and the white woman, and our people are not n**gers, they are imitation n**gers.”
An official at North Carolina State University claims that Dr. Kambon – once a visiting professor being paid by the taxpayers of North Carolina – is no longer affiliated with the university. But, if that is true, why is he still listed on the university’s Africana Studies faculty page?
After you visit that site, I bet you’ll have the same question. And, like me, I hope you’ll write the Africana Studies Department demanding an answer. And while you’re at it, ask them why they hired a genocidal racist in the first place.
SECU Members Sponsor North Carolina's State Employees' Awards for Excellence
Oct. 21, 2005
Business Wire
By staff report
© Copyright 2005
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 2005--Members of State Employees' Credit Union were instrumental in providing funding for the 2005 State Employees' Awards for Excellence, sponsoring the awards ceremony and reception held at the North Carolina Museum of History on Monday, October 17, 2005. Thirteen state employees were honored during the ceremony attended by North Carolina officials and hosted by David Crabtree, on-air personality for WRAL-TV.
The Awards for Excellence program was created in 1982 to honor state employees for outstanding achievements in one of five categories: Human Relations, Innovations, Outstanding State Government Service, Public Service or Safety and Heroism. These awards are the highest honor a state employee may receive for dedicated service to the state and citizens of North Carolina. Nominated by their state agencies or universities, the 2005 winners are: Rodney Burton (Department of Correction), Joe Frangiosa (Department of Revenue), Perry Franklin (Department of Correction), Karl Hedrick II (North Carolina State University), Sharon Hicks (Department of Health and Human Services), Suzanne Johnson (Department of Correction), Barbara Orr (Department of Correction), J. Iverson Riddle (Department of Health & Human Services), Bruce Roberts (Wildlife Resources Commission), and the Voluntary Compliance Team of Kay Linn Miller Hobart, Gregory B. Radford, Nancy R. Pomeranz and John W. Sadoff (Department of Revenue / Department of Justice).
Mark Twisdale, SECU Senior Vice-President of Human Resources represented the Credit Union at the Awards Ceremony and comments, "As State Employees' Credit Union serves the state agency and university employees and their immediate families, it is fitting that SECU's members would want to honor the State of North Carolina's top employees. SECU's "People Helping People" philosophy is seen in each of the 2005 winners, as they have gone above and beyond the call of duty for the citizens of North Carolina, and we are proud of their accomplishments."
About SECU
SECU is a non-profit financial cooperative owned by its members. SECU has been providing the employees of the State of North Carolina and their families with consumer financial services for over 65 years. With more than $12 billion in assets and over 1.2 million members, SECU is the second largest credit union in the United States. SECU provides services to members through 189 branch offices, over 850 ATMs, a call center and a website--www.ncsecu.org.
Excavation of Bulk Sample Completed
Oct. 21, 2005
Market Wire
By staff report
© Copyright 2005
VANCOUVER, BC -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/20/2005 -- i-minerals inc. (TSX-V: IMA) has completed the excavation of a 40 ton bulk sample of potassium feldspar (K-spar) -- quartz material for pilot level processing to create a K-spar glaze product for sale into the ceramics industry. The sample was excavated from the WBL tailings deposit which hosts an Inferred Mineral Resource, as defined by NI 43-101, of 397,000 to 529,000 tons of material, which, based on a density of 130 pounds per cubic foot for wet, packed sand, contains 102,000 to 136,000 tons of feldspar and 195,000 to 260,000 tons of quartz assuming yields after processing of 25.7% for feldspar and 49.2% for quartz (see February 26, 2004 press release). The bulk sample was trucked to Lewiston, Idaho, where it will be packaged into 1-ton super sacks and then sent to the Mineral Research Laboratory at the North Carolina State University ("MRL") where it will be continuously processed at pilot plant scale levels. The resulting product will be sold into the pottery industry for use primarily in glaze applications. Pictures of the bulk sample being excavated are available on the i-minerals website at: www.imineralsinc.com/index.cfm/content/resources.html
Recent metallurgical work at MRL has resulted in the creation of a high quality glaze product as evidenced by the high K2O - Na2O ratio, very low iron (Fe2O3) and high alumina (Al2O3).
Product SiO2(%) Al2O3(%) Fe2O3(%) CaO(%) Na2O(%) K2O(%)
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WBL feldspar product 66.49 17.94 0.04 0.23 1.45 12.04
Custer feldspar 68.5 17.0 0.15 0.30 3.00 10.0
Zemex G-200 feldspar 66.3 18.5 0.08 0.81 3.04 10.75
Test buttons fired by Wendt Pottery, a Lewiston, Idaho-based pottery, resulted in a high quality, very clear glaze. Management is highly confident an exceptional K-spar glaze product can be produced.
K-spar products made through the processing of the bulk sample production will be sold to pottery supply companies throughout the United States and international markets. Given the relatively small volume of material being processed, revenue generated through the sale of the K-spar product will be limited. However, it will serve to generate interest in i-minerals K-spar product in much the same manner as the recently announced plan to deliver soda feldspar products to major industrial companies to generate interest in that product.
"We have demonstrated the amenability of a standard flotation process to the production of high quality K-spar and soda-spar products from the Helmer-Bovill deposits," stated Roger Kauffman, President and CEO of i-minerals inc. "This metallurgical work clearly indicates both K-spar and soda-spar products can be produced through the same flotation process. Accordingly, we are seeking to generate interest in both our K-spar and soda-spar products as part of our ongoing feasibility work."
A. Lamar Long, CPG, is the Qualified Person ("QP") for the Helmer-Bovill project under NI 43-101. He oversees the quality control and quality assurance program and the construction of all samples for metallurgical analysis and reviews all analytical results prior to public release.
Further to the Company's press release of August 19, 2005, the Company has issued 3,049,500 shares at a deemed price of $0.30 and 50,000 warrants exercisable at $0.35 for a period of two years to extinguish outstanding debt totaling $914,865.
i-minerals inc.
per: "Roger Kauffman"
Roger Kauffman,
President & CEO
The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility
for the adequacy or accuracy of this release
This News Release includes certain "forward-looking statements" within
the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. Without limitation, statements regarding potential mineralization and
resources, exploration results, and future plans and objectives of the Company
are forward-looking statements that involve various risks. Actual results could
differ materially from those projected as a result of the following factors,
among others: changes in the worldwide price of mineral market conditions,
risks inherent in mineral exploration, risk associated with development, construction
and mining operations, the uncertainty of future profitability and uncertainty
of access to additional capital.
Oct. 21, 2005
Light Reading
By staff report
© Copyright 2005
CHELMSFORD, Mass. -- Sycamore Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCMR - News), a leader in intelligent optical networking, today announced that the Company successfully demonstrated IP/Optical control plane interoperability at a multi-vendor industry event that featured IPTV and other advanced services running over an intelligent optical core.
At Isocore's 6th Public Interoperability Demonstration, held in conjunction with the MPLS 2005 International Conference, Sycamore SN 16000 intelligent optical switches formed the core of a multi-vendor IP/Optical network configuration interconnected via a Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) control plane. The IP/Optical interoperability demonstration also showcased advanced services and applications such as IPTV, Multicast Layer 3 VPNs, and Virtual Private LANs running over the GMPLS-enabled core.
Standards-based GMPLS control plane protocols, developed in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), enhance coordination between the IP and optical layers of the network, and enable service providers to simplify service provisioning, improve operational efficiencies, and create new, more agile high-speed services.
"The flexible integration of IP and optical networking devices such as optical switches is a powerful tool for network operators," said Dr. Bijan Jabbari, President of Isocore. "Unified control plane technology such as GMPLS provides the efficient framework for this multi-layer integration and enables network operators to lower operations costs and reduce network complexity."
During the MPLS 2005 conference Sycamore also presented a case study on the implementation of GMPLS in a research network testbed designed to support end-to-end provisioning of dynamic optical bandwidth for large-scale eScience and other high-speed research applications. Sycamore SN 16000 optical switches, Universal Service Card (USC), and control plane technology have been deployed in the CHEETAH (Circuit-switched High-speed End-to-End Transport ArcHitecture) network, an experimental high-speed communications initiative sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The four participating institutions in the CHEETAH project are University of Virginia, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, North Carolina State University, and City University of New York.
"The CHEETAH network leverages the latest advances in optical networking technologies including dynamic bandwidth establishment and Ethernet-over-SONET," said Malathi Veeraraghavan, director of computer engineering, University of Virginia. "Sycamore technology plays an important role in this project, which is designed to enhance the productivity of geographically distributed research teams by enabling the fast and efficient transfer of massive amounts of data required for today's eScience and supercomputer applications."