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Old people never win most reality shows. This is because they get voted off quickly by younger contestants because they're old, and unpleasant to look at, and smell alarming. But don't tell that to "Survivor" producer Mark Burnett, for that canny little maestro has decided that this coming season of the venerable reality show will split the cast between people under 30 and people over 40. That's right: KIDS VS. GEEZERS. No word on if some contestants will be allowed to use their Rascals during the immunity challenges. From Ain't It Cool News:
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Welcome to the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) NewsletterApril 15, 2002
More on the problem of excessive accessibility
The problem of excessive accessibility arises when somebody thinks certain information should be hard to find, even if by law or policy it has to be made public or available to those who need it. In past issues I've covered the problem as it arises for criminal records (FOSN for 10/12/01), court records (FOSN for 11/26/01), phone numbers (FOSN for 1/8/02), and information that might be useful to terrorists (esp. FOSN for 11/26/01). It doesn't arise often for literature and scholarship, but this week it arose twice.
* The Authors Guild is complaining that Amazon sells used books on the same page as new books. The problem is that used books generate no royalties for their authors, and because they cost less shoppers occasionally buy them. However, authors love used book stores, and I've never heard of an author vowing not to buy used copies of books that might still be in print. What the Authors Guild is really protesting, then, is that Amazon is making used book buying too easy.
This is the second time around between the Authors Guild and Amazon. Here's the first (December 2000).
For the purposes of this controversy, it doesn't matter whether we consider links to be information, protected as free speech, or transactions, subject to regulation, even though this distinction is important e.g. for the DeCSS case. The Authors Guild shouldn't be protesting Amazon's used-book links whether they are construed as ads for used books or as miniature used book stores. Does it protest when used book stores move next door to new book stores? What if a new book store adds a wing of used books? If the Authors Guild doesn't object to the first-sale doctrine (which creates a legal market for used books), and doesn't object to selling used books in proximity to new books until the convenience for buyers becomes "excessive", then it is clearly protesting competition and nothing else.
* This week a discussion thread started in the American Scientist ("September98") forum on the question whether the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is harmful to society publishers. Sally Morris for the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) argues that society journals are not threatened when authors put their articles on their own home pages, but that posting articles to OAI-compliant archives is "considerably more alarming". The reason is that making the articles "organized and cross-searchable" makes them excessively accessible. Readers will bypass journals, which will make the journals disappear along with all the "added value" they provide.
Sally Morris against the OAI
Stevan Harnad's reply to Morris
* Postscript. From the standpoint of the Authors Guild, Amazon does make used books excessively accessible, and from the standpoint of priced journals, open-access archives do make articles excessively accessible. If "excess" is judged by the revenues of existing businesses, then the charge is warranted. But in both cases, someone is offering easier accessibility in order to serve readers --and in the case of scholarly journals, also authors. If "excess" is judged from their standpoint, then accessibility can never be wide enough or easy enough; excess is impossible. So the question isn't whether someone is losing money, but whether the interests of sellers must trump the interest of buyers. Should existing technologies carry a veto over new technologies, existing business models over future business models, existing beneficiaries over future beneficiaries? Obviously the same questions come up in the P2P swapping of music and video files, though in both the Amazon and OAI cases the questions do not carry the complication of copyright troubles.
When we're talking about a lawful and even valuable form of information flow, then when is easy access too easy? There seem to be two very different cases in which someone might object that a certain degree of access to information is excessive. The first is when easy accessibility helps criminals, invades privacy, or deters citizens from socially beneficial practices like testifying in court. (We omit the case of infringing copyright because that isn't a lawful form of information flow.) The second is when easy accessibility harms someone's bottom line. In the first case, we can at least acknowledge that there might be rights on both sides. In response, we can at least investigate whether reasonable compromises exist. But the second case is very different. When the strong right to exchange lawful information conflicts only with existing revenue models, there is no reason to compromise.
Society journals would make two additional arguments at this point: that the survival of journals is necessary for the survival of peer review, and that society journals are not just commercial concerns, but that their revenues subsidize the important activities of the professional societies that stand behind them.
The answers to these additional arguments can be very brief. FOS doesn't jeopardize peer review at all, but only peer review performed by priced journals. If the objection shifts to the claim that journals must be priced in order to have the means to support peer review, then the reply is simply that the claim is false, as shown every day by a growing number of journals in every discipline.
It's true that non-profit society publishers deserve more deference from academics than for-profit publishers. Society publishers use any revenues beyond expenses for valuable academic projects. But both kinds of publisher erect price-barriers that limit access to research literature, and therefore both impede the growth and circulation of knowledge. Both compromise what is primary for academics in order to promote something else, and it really doesn't matter much whether their alternative good is secondary or tertiary.
As Edwin Shelock (past chair of the ALPSP) put it in the October 2001 _Learned Publishing_, learned societies should act less like commercial publishers and more like their own members. "Are learned society publishers so much part of commercial publishing now that they take the same attitude to the potential disturbance of the business of publishing as do the commercial publishers who are in it primarily to provide distributed profit for their shareholders? Are the learned society publishers divorced from their societies to the extent that they have a different agenda from the society members?"
As the BOAI FAQ puts it, "We believe that the opportunity created by the internet for open access to peer-reviewed research literature should be seized even if the revenue from priced editions of this literature supports good causes. If a significant public good can be made available free of charge, then it shouldn't be priced simply to subsidize another good. If the second good is worthy, there must be some other way to support it."
* As of April 21, my email host, Topica, is making ads mandatory for all its newsletters. So I'm looking even harder for a new host that meets my criteria. If I don't succeed, please forgive the ads while I continue to look.
Here are my criteria. I'd appreciate any recommendations other than Yahoo (already ruled out for its privacy policy), and H-Net, JISC Mail, and the University of Lund (already under investigation).
* Starting with this issue, I'll mark conferences that I've added since the previous issue with two asterisks. (Thanks to Roger Fenton for the suggestion.)
* Mini-FAQ: Doesn't Suber know how to use quotation marks? Answer: I follow the practice of exact quotation, like most writers in my field (philosophy). Exact quotation means we don't put commas or periods at the ends of quoted fragments, inside the quotation marks, unless they are part of the quoted source. We know that grammar books require punctuation within the quotation marks in many cases where we omit it, but we regard these rules as irrational. Quotation marks should mean that one is quoting!
* The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has launched a three-year scholarly communication initiative. "Broad goals of the initiative include creating increased access to scholarly information; fostering cost-effective alternative means of publishing, especially those that take advantage of electronic information technologies; and encouraging scholars to assert greater control over scholarly communications." More details will be published in the May issue of _College and Research Libraries News_.(Thanks to the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog.)
* The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) has issued a call to for-profit and non-profit publishers to launch new open-access scholarly journals. To make this easier for publishers, the Open Society Institute (OSI) is providing funds to authors from 65 developing nations to publish in open-access journals. OSI will announce more details soon.
* Elsevier Science has launched Mathematics Web, a portal of free online mathematics articles, including a preprint archive and a database for mathematical citation tracking.
* The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and Dartmouth University will create a Scholarly Communication Institute, thanks to a new grant from the Mellon Foundation.
* The RDN family of academic subject portals or "hubs" has reached the milestone of indexing 50,000 free online resources, all searchable from the RDN front page.
* Project Gutenberg has released its 5,000th free online full-text book, an English translation of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks. Only six month ago it announced its 4,000th text (FOSN for 11/16/02).
* The University of Michigan will shut down its academic portal, my.umich.edu, on June 30. The reason is simply cost. After June 30, UM will beef up its web site and participate in uPortal (an emerging standard for academic portals) and MIT's Open Knowledege Initiative.
* Version 2.0 of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting is scheduled to be released on June 1.
* Ingenta has named the U.S. contingent to its advisory board. The new members are Mary Case (Association of Research Libraries), Clifford Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information), Andrew Odlyzko (University of Minnesota), Carol Tenopir (University of Tennessee), and Mary Waltham (Nature). A clear majority of the new advisory board is FOS-friendly.
Ingenta is a for-profit purveyor of scholarly journals, and this year reports increased profits and profit margins.
* The Open Technology Consortium (OTC) is a new PAC to lobby in favor of open source software, freedom of speech, technological innovation, and free-market competition, and against all legislation that would constrain any of these or give existing technologies artificial protection against superior, emerging technologies. The OTC welcomes individual ($25) and group ($50) members, as well as donations beyond the membership dues.(Thanks to C-FIT.)
* Open Source Content Management software is on the rise. It is already competing successfully against proprietary packages. This is FOS-related because Content Management packages can be used to support electronic journals, even if that is not their direct focus.
News story from _ContentWire_
OSCOM (Open Source Content Management), a new non-profit developer association
* The Online Information Exchange (ONIX) is the international metadata standard for electronic books, serials, and videos. The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is the international standard for uniquely identifying electronic content. At the London Book Fair last month, the organizations representing the two standards agreed to work toward easy interoperability wherever they overlap.(Thanks to El.pub Weekly.)
* The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) will develop a standard for exchanging serials subscription information. As the _Serials eNews_ put it, this is "an important move that signals the maturing approach to the use of the web beyond the search and retrieve function and into the essential yet badly neglected field of administration of subscriptions."
NISO is hosting a workshop next month to look at the needs to be met by the new standard (Chicago, May 10).
_Serials eNews_ reports that contributions to its discussion list show the need for the NISO standard. "It's as if we have all been given a Ferrari [electronic access to journals] but the tax and insurance systems are delivered via quill pen and the pony express." However, the actual postings show a preference for FOS, not streamlined subscriptions. It's as if we asked that readers should receive for free what writers choose to give away, and instead readers get a simplified bill.
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* The European Commission has launched Europe and Culture, a portal to free online collections, activities, funding opportunities, news, and related links on European culture.(Thanks to El.pub Weekly.)
* The papers to be presented at the conference, Museums and the Web 2002 (Boston, April 17-20), are now online. The discussion covers open standards, open technologies, and open culture.
* RealPlayer video is now available of the March 21 panel discussion at the Guggenheim Museum, "Who Controls New Media? Open Art in Closed Systems".(Thanks to The Filter.)
* The University of Oregon Directory of Organizations was formerly available only as a priced, printed book. Now it is free online. It's an exhaustive catalog of non-profit organizations devoted to any aspect of education management, including the dissemination of information.(Thanks to the Scout Report.)
* The Open eBook Forum has released its study on ebook usability.
Survey summary (10 most desirable ebook features)
The full report is only available to those who take a short survey on how they heard about it. The full report covers the first-sale doctrine, sharing rights, and fair-use copying, but it only says that users want these features.
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* Educause and the Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force are conducting a survey of academics on cyberspace security. The results will inform the Bush administration's Cyberspace Security Strategy. Educause and I2CNSTF will accept responses until April 19.
* The _Journal of Digital Information_ (JoDI) is conducting an online survey. JoDi has been a free online journal since its launch. But a couple of the survey questions (12-14) ask about the possibility of instituting subscriptions. If you are a JoDI reader interested in keeping it free, take the survey. It will accept responses until April 26.
* The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) are jointly funding projects in international digital libraries research, and invite proposals. Letters of intent are due by July 1, and full proposals are due by August 1.
In other publications
* In the April 11 _ZDNet Tech Update_, David Berlind reports that IBM and Microsoft are moving to position their patented proprietary protocols (SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI) as official or unofficial internet standards. If they succeed, they will have "the right to place a tax on the internet traffic that depends on those protocols." How likely is it that IBM and Microsoft will break with the tradition of making patented protocols for the internet available on a royalty-free basis? Likely enough that Hewlett-Packard cited this likelihood as its only reason for resigning as a co-submitter of the WSDL protocol.
* In the April 10 _SearchDay_, Chris Sherman reviews five services to find books that meet the user's criteria.
* In the April 10 _Chronicle of Higher Education_, Vincent Kiernan reports on how link rot (the death of web links over time) undermines online education. Two researchers at the University of Nebraska have studied this problem and conclude that links on course sites have a half-life of 55 months. That means that about half will die in the first 55 months, half of the survivors in the next 55 months, and so on. One remedy the authors propose is for scholarly societies to host permanent archives of commonly used course materials.
PS: The _Chronicle_ story suggests that the Nebraska study is the first of its kind. But OCLC has had similar data on its web site since at least January (when I covered it in FOSN for 1/23/02). What's especially interesting is that the OCLC data support the 55 month half-life figure.(Scroll to bottom table.)
* In the April 9 _Guardian_, Simon Midgley asks whether ebooks will replace print books, especially in the peculiar submarket of school textbooks. He concludes that ebooks have this potential, because they can be more closely tailored to the needs of individual courses. Moreover, they can be less expensive. But will they be less expensive in fact? Publishers want to price textbooks low enough to be affordable by students and libraries, but high enough to preserve their profits. They have yet to figure out where to strike balance. (PS: Why not price them at 10% above the true costs of producing and disseminating them? If this caused a revolution of falling prices, would that be a calamity? There would still be a 10% profit margin. Or why shouldn't schools and libraries compete with commercial publishers, produce their own books, either on a break-even basis or subsidized by the money saved from textbook purchases? Clearly the same questions arise, and the same answers suggest themselves, for priced journals.)(Thanks to LIS News.)
* The April 6 _News.com_ has an anonymous review of Lawrence Lessig's _The Future of Ideas_. The review is mixed. On the one hand, the reviewer recommends that the book "should be read by all --from lawyers, policy-makers and corporate leaders to software developers, educators and everyday end users." On the other hand, the reviewer criticizes the book for going beyond analysis to a manifesto and jeremiad. Half the review is spent on the history and dangers of jeremiads. No space at all is given to showing that the book is guilty of the charge.
* In an April white paper for Factiva (a joint venture between Dow Jones and Reuters), Mary Ellen Bates collects and analyzes data on free, fee-based, and value-added information services on the internet, focusing on business information. 62% of knowledge workers in business believe that all the information they need is online free of charge. 74% believe that it's hard to ascertain just what is freely available online. 79% seek free information before priced information. More than 82% of archives of business information are are accessible only to paying subscribers. (PS: Overall the paper argues that free information is not as comprehensive or reliable as priced information. While the underlying data may be good, the reader should note that the paper ends up supporting its own sponsor, Factiva.)
* The March/April issue of _Ariadne_ is now online. It contains several FOS-related articles:
Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner, and John MacColl, "Setting Up An Institutional E-print Archive"(The experience of the Universities of Edinburgh and Nottingham.)
Ronald Milne, "The 'Distributed National Collection' Access, and Cross-sectoral Collaboration: the Research Support Libraries Programme"
Suzanne Dobratz, Friederike Schimmelpfennif, and Peter Schirmbacher, "The Open Archives Forum"
Andy Powell and Liz Lyon, "The JISC Information Environment and Web Services"
Robert Baxter, Frances Blomely, and Rachel Kemsley, "The AIM25 Project"
Simon Jennings and Philip Pothen, "News from the Resource Discovery Network"
Roddy MacLeod, "EEVL-ution To A Portal"(On the EEVL mathematics and CS portal.)
* In the Spring issue of _Progressive Librarian_, Dorothy Warner asks why we should keep works in print once they are archived on the web. The answer is the uncertainty of long-term digital preservation. Warner reviews recent writings, standards, and initiatives addressing the problem.(Thanks to New Breed Librarian.)
* In the latest (undated) _New Library World_, Jenny Walker reviews the CrossRef and SFX reference linking services. Only an abstract is freely accessible online.
Following up
To see past coverage of these stories in FOSN, use the search engine at the FOSN archive.
* More on the CBDTPA
More general coverage
In the last issue I cited John Borland's interview with Jack Valenti. Ernest Miller annotates Valenti's answers in _LawMeme_.(Thanks to Mark Pilgrim.)
* Disney CEO Michael Eisner has an editorial defending the CBDTPA in the London _Financial Times_. Here's the quality of the argument: We should adopt the CBDTPA because property is good, because intellectual property is good, because Abraham Lincoln defended intellectual property rights in an 1859 speech (which is why Eisner calls him "my internet guru"), and because Eisner's great-grandfater taught his son not to steal, who taught his son, etc. (PS: I assume that running Disney requires some analytic intelligence and the ability to see two sides of a controversy, compose arguments, and answer objections. Why not show it?)(Thanks to The Filter.)
In the _San Francisco Chronicle_, Benny Evangelista reports at length on the pro-entertainment and pro-tech (or pro-consumer) sides of the issue. His story is notable for its coverage of the relevant history of copying technology and how courts and legislatures have responded to it.(Thanks to LIS News.)
Marc Andreesen is the latest in a long series of informed people trying to explain to Congress and the entertainment industry that whatever can be viewed on a computer screen can be copied. (PS: On the one hand, this is a critical point and I wish Congress would hear it. On the other hand, Congress has heard and misunderstood. When Leslie Vadasz of Intel made this point at a Senate hearing in February, Disney's Michael Eisner and Senator Ernest Hollings regarded it as a concession to the entertainment industry, as proof of the problem, and as a good reason to legislate. See FOSN for 3/4/02.)(Thanks to GigaLaw.)
Andy Sullivan reports for _Yahoo News_ that Congress has been flooded with faxes and emails opposing the CBDTPA. Quoting Mimi Devlin, spokesperson for the Senate Judiciary Committee: "We haven't received one e-mail in support of the Hollings bill."
Gateway has launched an ad campaign against the CBDTPA. Not coincidentally, Gateway has also launched a pre-loaded, CD-burning Digital Music PC which operates as a full stereo system for downloaded music. There is already a (healthy) debate about whether Gateway is playing into the hands of Hollings/Disney/RIAA by confirming its charge that the PC industry profits from piracy.
Gateway's downloadable music web site includes a "Protect your rights" page.
_LawMeme_ summarizes recent CBDTPA news, with links.
* More on the CIPA trial
Ben Edelman's expert testimony on innocent sites blocked by filtering programs is now online.(Thanks to The Filter.)
The ACLU (co-plaintiff in the case) has posted a day-by-day account of the trial.(Thanks to The Filter.)
In FOSN for 4/1/02 I wrote about a movement in Germany to stop legislation that would require ISPs to filter internet content for all users. The European Parliament has since voted overwhelmingly (460 for, 0 against, 3 abstaining) that ISPs should not filter the internet. Louisa Gosling, a spokesperson for European ISPs, made a statement that applies just as well to library filters and CIPA: web filtering is "technically difficult, democratically questionable and undoubtedly inefficient".(Thanks to GigaLaw.)
Michael Romano defended CIPA in an op-ed piece in the _New York Times_. Romano is a law student at Stanford.
Ernest Miller rebuts Romano's argument point by point on _LawMeme_.
The current poll at _InfoToday_ is on the mandatory web filters at public libraries. The voting is heavily opposed to filters (73% to 27%).(Poll will soon change.)
* More on the Eldred case
Lawrence Lessig gave a 90 minute multi-media presentation at this year's South by South West (SXSW) festival, focusing primarily on the Eldred case and copyright extension. Here's a summary from the _Philadelphia Inquirer_.(Thanks to LIS News.)
Damien Cave interviews IP lawyer Morton David Goldberg in the April 15 _Salon_. Goldberg leads the faction within the ABA to write an amicus brief in favor of the Bono Act. His argument is not that shrinking the public domain through copyright extension is a good thing, but that overturning it would tilt the balance of federal power from the legislature to the courts.(The ABA was supposed to vote yesterday on whether to submit Goldberg's amicus brief. The outcome of the vote should eventually be recorded somewhere on the web site of the ABA's Section on Intellectual Property, though it's not there yet. Has anyone seen a news story on the ABA vote?)
* More on the DeCSS case
Jon Johansen and the other DeCSS programmers won one of this year's three Pioneer Awards from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
* More on Kelly v. Arriba
In the _Financial Times_, Patti Waldmeir argues that the ruling "robs the public domain" and outlaws fair-use linking.
Les Kelly, plaintiff in the case, replies to Waldmeir in an open letter to _Financial Times_, reprinted in _LawMeme_.
* More on the DMCA
The copyright form used by the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) asks authors to promise that their articles do not violate the DMCA. The IEEE publishes 30% of the world's electronical engineering and computing literature. Quoting an anonymous reader of _NewsFoge_: [T]he IEEE's decision to require authors to adhere to the DMCA has the potential to restrict research and discussion of security matters worldwide".(Thanks to Politech.)
* More on the Google-scientology dispute
Google has created a page describing what it will do to comply with the DMCA, what copyright holders can do to notify Google of an alleged infringement, and what content providers can do to restore content deleted from the index for copyright infringement.
Google has also released the original scientology complaint of Xenu infringement not only to the public, but to _ChillingEffects_, an anti-censorship clearinghouse of lawyer-letters threatening lawsuits if the receipients do not remove content from the net (FOSN for 1/30/02). Google will release all future infringement complaints to _ChillingEffects_ as well.
* More on the suppression of information in the name of counter-terrorism
The Association for Research Libraries (ARL) asked lawyer Thomas Susman to prepare a memo on the destruction of federal depository library documents, and the ARL has put it online at its website. Librarians with questions about the legality of government orders to destroy information, and what libraries may and may not do in response to such orders, should read the memo.(Thanks to Red Rock Eater.)
* More on police seizures of library and bookstore records
The Tattered Cover Bookstore went to court to resist an order to turn over its sales records so that police could learn who had bought two books on drug manufacturing found at a raided drug lab. On April 8, the Colorado Supreme Court decided in favor of the bookstore. The court ruled that the First Amendment recognizes a "fundamental right to purchase books anonymously, free from governmental interference."
The decision of the Colorado Supreme Court
The ALA has collected the laws governing the privacy of library records from all 50 states.(Thanks to Red Rock Eater.)
* More on President Bush's November order limiting access to Presidential papers
Three presidential historians have recently spoken out against it. Steve Horn (R-CA) has introduced a bill in the House that would overturn it.
If you plan to attend one of the following conferences, please share your observations with us through our discussion forum. (Conferences marked by two asterisks are new since the last issue.)
* Copyright in the Private Sector: An Engine of Free Expression or a Tool of Private Censorship?New York, April 15
* Licensing Electronic Resources to LibrariesPhiladelphia, April 15
** Biomedical Information on the InternetLondon, April 15
* Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Task Force MeetingWashington, D.C., April 15-16
* United Kingdom Serials Group Annual Conference and ExhibitionUniversity of Warwick, April 15- 17
* Conference on Computers, Freedom, and PrivacySan Francisco, April 16-19
* EDUCAUSE Networking 2002Washington, D.C., April 17-18
* Museums and the Web 2002Boston, April 17-20
* Legal Guidelines for Use of Intellectual Property in Higher EducationOneonta, NY, April 19
* OCLC Institute. Steering by Standards. (A series of satellite videoconferences.)OAIS, April 19. Metadata standards in the future, May 29.
** Digital Landscapes: A forum to discuss the concepts of fair use, free speech, copyright control, and government enforcement in the digital ageStanford, April 20
* Information, Knowledges and Society: Challenges of A New EraHavana, April 22-26
* Current Awareness Services on the NetToronto, April 22 - June 3
** Workshop on the 6th Framework ProgrammeBarcelona, April 23
* DAI Institute on The State of Digital Preservation: An International PerspectiveWashington, D.C., April 24-25
* CLIR Sponsors' Symposium: New Challenges, New Solutions: Libraries for the FutureWashington, D.C., April 26
* The European Library: The Gate to Europe's Knowledge: Milestone ConferenceFrankfurt am Main, April 29-30
* WebSearch UniversityStamford CT, April 30 - May 1; Washington DC, September 23-24; Chicago, Octeober 22-23; Dallas, November 19-20.
* Council of Science Editors Annual MeetingSan Diego, May 4-7
* Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data MiningTaipei, May 6-8
* DLM-Forum 2002. Access and Preservation of Electronic Information. Best Practices and Solutions.Barcelona, May 7-8
** NISO/DLF Workshop on Standards for Electronic Resource ManagementChicago, May 10
* ContentWorld 2002 [mostly for commercial content]San Jose, California, May 13-16
** Copyright for Beginners [among librarians and information professionals]London, May 15
* National Conference for Digital Government ResearchLos Angeles, May 19-22
* Libraries in the Digital Age 2002Dubrovnik, May 21-26
* CAiSE '02. Advanced Information Systems EngineeringToronto, May 27-31
* Workshop on Personalization Techniques in Electronic Publishing on the Web: Trends and PerspectivesMalaga, Spain, May 28
* Society for Scholarly Publishing (AAP)Boston, May 29-31
* Off and Wall and Online: Providing Web Access to Cultural CollectionsLexington, Massachusetts, May 30-31
** Multimedia Content and Tools: Towards Information and Knowledge SystemsLondon, May 30-31
* Advancing Knowledge: Expanding Horizons for Information ScienceToronto, May 30 - June 1
* Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2002Provo, Utah, May 30 - June 1
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We've been pretty wrapped up in the World Series for the last three days so the day off Tuesday was a good time to vote, take a shower, catch up with friends and see what else has been going on in the world. It was a valiant effort but, thanks to the ubiquity of Derek Jeter, an ultimately futile one.
There's a movement afoot to name a bridge being built on East 153rd Street in the Bronx in honor of the Yankee shortstop, according to the New York Post.
"There have been conversations at the community board, and I know the idea is being examined," said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., a Bombers fan who confesses to a "man crush" on the Captain.
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"Derek Jeter Bridge" would stretch 512 feet across Metro-North tracks from Park Avenue to the Grand Concourse and would cost $87 million to build. Assuming the bridge lasts for more than four or five years, that's a bargain given Jeter's current salary. The move doesn't seem wildly out of whack given the many names you'll find on streets, parks and other spots around the city and would have the added benefit of not trying to shoehorn a new name onto an existing road or bridge. That's the fate of the Joe DiMaggio Highway which anyone who isn't Rudy Giuliani still calls the West Side Highway.
A bridge doesn't have much range, and the other odd mention of Jeter made reference to his much-maligned defensive skills. Jeter was the topic of conversation between Larry David and a stonemason (helpfully transcribed by David Appelman of Fangraphs) on Sunday night's episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." If you've seen the show, you won't be surprised to hear it took a hostile turn.
Stonemason: "That guy [Derek Jeter] sucks."
Larry David: "Who sucks?"
Stonemason: "Derek Jeter, he's the most overrated player in baseball."
Larry David: "What did you say?"
Stonemason: "I can't stand Derek Jeter, you know he's the worst defensive shortstop in baseball statistically?"
Larry David: "Oh Bulls---! He's a great clutch hitter, he's a great clutch player!"
Stonemason: "There's no way he deserves that kind of money he's making."
The scene tickles the hearts of statistically minded baseball fans by quoting fielding metrics, as well as those of us who think the Yankees could use another assistant to the traveling secretary like George Costanza. Who knows, perhaps the Yankees would have already won the World Series if they were wearing cotton uniforms. It is a breathable fabric, after all.
Those two wildly different but wholly related stories make it clear that there's no escaping the Yankees right now.
Josh Alper is a writer living in New York City and is a contributor to FanHouse.com and ProFootballTalk.com in addition to his duties for NBCNewYork.com.


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Since then, Plantronics has sold Altec Lansing and released the product as the BackBeat 903+. The company also upgraded the 903+ to Bluetooth version 2.1, with new features that include voice alerts, a visual battery indicator when paired with an iPhone, and slightly redesigned earbuds. Overall sound quality continues to be top-notch, but we wouldn't say the same for the call quality. The BackBeat 903+ retails for $99.99.
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BeefTalk: Buy Bulls Based on Data Not Pictures
By Kris Ringwall, Beef Specialist
There certainly is no shortage of bull pictures. Have you ever wondered just how
many bull pictures can be printed in one magazine? A lot, and despite the added
color and enhanced graphics, bulls still look like bulls. Yes, there are some
subtle differences. To the trained eye, those differences may be notable, but
still, there seems to be more similarity than differences in many of the bulls.
We enjoy pictures, but we also should enjoy data. Bulls may be very similar in
phenotype, in other words the picture, but their genotype may have no similarity
at all. Even the color, although fairly indicative of the DNA on one chromosome,
may have no indication of what DNA is on the other chromosome. Because all
chromosomes are paired, the calves that the bull produces each will be products
of only one of the chromosomes. Therefore, black cattle certainly can sire red
In terms of the many other traits, the variation within the particular lot of
bulls can be extreme, even though all the bulls look alike. Some bulls have
high-growth DNA, others low-growth DNA. Some bulls will have DNA more likely to
produce prime to choice grade calves, while a very similar looking bull may only
produce select or low choice grade calves.
Although muscle quantity and expression may be observed in the phenotype or
picture of the bull, the ultrasound data indicating rib-eye area, often
expressed as rib-eye area per hundred pounds of live weight, certainly will tell
the same story.
The point is that true bull selection rests with understanding the data. The
action of buying bulls should be a process of sorting through the data first and
then looking at the bull. Every single piece of data is directly connected to a
strand of DNA somewhere on the chromosome. Positive selection pressure on the
correct traits will increase positive DNA within our bull stud. In turn, this
DNA will combine with the DNA available in the cow herd to produce the calf
Therefore, the process of buying bulls actually is, or at least should be,
fairly methodical. Although data terms may baffle a bull buyer, always check out
what the trait abbreviations and the many expected progeny differences (EPDs)
values mean. The breed association websites have good glossaries or just ask
other breeders.
A personal pet peeve: If there is room for the picture, there should be room for
labeling conveniently the various numbers to make the reading of the information
more doable. All of these notations lead up to some very important notes. Right
up front, a herd should present in the catalog the average EPD values for the
various traits the breed evaluates followed by the average EPD values for the
bulls and heifers being sold.
Additional information could be provided for the breed, such as the trait values
for the top 25 percent of the breed or maybe even the top 1 percent of the
breed, depending on the strengths of the bulls or heifers.
For the new bull buyer who is not aware of the breeders within a breed, those
producers who are willing to print the average EPD values for the calves they
are selling make the initial screening so much easier. Of course, one does need
to look at the individual numbers.
However, there is something to keep in mind. Why not start with those herds that
are selling bulls or heifers that are above average for the desired traits?
There is no quicker or easier way to evaluate the expected future performance
authenticity of potential bull candidates. Once the overall performance of the
herd has been determined in relationship to the breed as a whole, one can select
the desired bulls within the sale offering.
Now that one knows the average value for all the traits analyzed within the
breed, the process of finding and sorting bulls based on their ranking within
the breed is relatively easy. The job is to find the sale prospects by scanning
all the sons of the reference sires that meet our criteria and then scanning all
the bulls for their own performance because the cow and bull ultimately
determine the genetic value of the bull.
Through the years, one vote of confidence is that it is obvious more people are
picking the top bulls because the bidding dollars seem to jump quickly on bulls
that lead the data. That is a good thing for the industry but a little
frustrating when the wallet doesn't have an equivalent roll of money.
Keep in mind that no picture is going to relay the information that is needed.
Only breed association EPD data will, which is critical in making long-lasting
bull decisions. Great bulls have great numbers. Learn to read them and just
don't bid on poor bulls.
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A common sight in America's classrooms is children raising their hands when they know the answer to a question. Teacher, parents, and lawmakers also have answers, especially in Minnesota. They, too, are raising their hands to help solve some of the more challenging issues facing public education, and this could not be more evident than in the city of Bloomington, where NEA President Dennis Van Roekel concluded the second day of NEA's 2013 Back-to-School Tour.
The first stop took the tour to Hillcrest Community School, where fifth-graders Gregory Pedenko and Sara Grosser were tasked to guide Van Roekel, along with Education Minnesota President Denise Specht, Bloomington Federation of Teachers (BFT) President Wendy Marczak, and other school district leaders, through several classrooms.
They visited a music class, a fourth-grade science class, and their very own fifth-grade classroom. Part of what makes Hillcrest unique is that it is the only school in the state to use the Artful Learning model, which extols the life work of Leonard Bernstein as an artist, teacher, and scholar. This model encourages infusing the curriculum of every subject with art.
But the centerpiece of the tour involved Ann Hanson's full-day preschool classroom, which is part of the school's Early Learners Academy.
Aside from its school-wide, art-based curricula, Hillcrest has successfully implemented a full-day early childhood education program that may serve as a model for other schools, now that Minnesota legislators passed a bill earlier this year to fund all-day kindergarten. The law applies statewide and schools are expected to implement a full-day program starting next year.
While many state lawmakers across the country are gutting school funding, elected officials in Minnesota decided to invest more than $15 billion, for the first time in many years, into education from preschool to college.
"The best part about [a full-day program] is kids are in a school setting," said Hanson, referring to her students who are between the ages of three and five. "They know everyone here, from the custodian to the nurse, and they really feel at home."
Studies show that children in full-day early childhood education classes have greater reading and mathematics achievement gains than those in half-day classes. They produce long-term educational gains, especially for low-income and minority students. And in full-day preschool and kindergarten classrooms, teachers have more time to get to know students and identify and address their learning challenges early–saving money and resources over the long run while increasing the odds that students will be successful later in school.
Early learners in Hanson's classroom were eager to share their experiences with Van Roekel. Topics included snacks, story time, animals, and a new water bottle.
Nora Young, 4, explained that her favorite part of preschool is "to play outside." Her classmate Josie Curtis, also 4, agreed, but added "puzzles" to her list.
Bloomington parents have also championed early childhood education programs. Heather Starks, a parent of two students at Hillcrest, is one of them. She also happens to be the president of Parent Advisory Council, a group of volunteer parents and community members who provide support in parenting and parent-child relationships. They operate similar to that of a parent-teacher organization, too.
"All three of my kids have gone through the early childhood programming in Bloomington," said Starks, "and the resources and skills they gained prior to coming to kindergarten were huge because they were ready to jump right into kindergarten."
Harks explained that many other parents have seen the benefits of the city's early childhood education, which is why they are fierce advocates for it.
"I'm so proud of what Minnesota did in the legislative session this year," said Van Roekel. "To step forward while others are cutting and say, 'It's time for full-day kindergarten, it's time to invest in early childhood'–that is a huge gift. You are giving not only to the children of Minnesota, but to every single citizen who lives here."
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Olson Middle School was the final stop on day two of the back-to-school tour. After a meet and greet with dozens of members from the local Bloomington Federation of Teachers, an NEA-AFT merged affiliate, Van Roekel received an overview of the district's school safety plans.
NEA advocates a four-pronged approach to school safety and recommends increasing access to mental health services; upgrading school facilities by expanding programs and trainings for students and educators; taking meaningful action to help decrease gun violence; and increasing training to help educators identify potential mental health needs, bullying, or high-risk behaviors.
And the middle school is on the right track.
"Security isn't just about the one-in-a-lifetime chance of a shooter walking into your school. As educators, we want to do more for our students and include prevention," said BFT President Marczak.
Doing more for students means ensuring that students feel safe. "When kids feel safe and secure, kids learn," she said.
On hand to give the overview was school safety expert Rick J. Kaufman, the district's community relations and emergency management director. Kaufman headed the crisis response team to the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, when two students killed 12 classmates and a teacher.
"Keeping kids safe includes training and preparation," he said. But, "we've really moved to a point in time now that our schools need to be, sadly, more fortified."
Fortified doesn't mean steel bars. Instead, it's a balanced approach to implementing strong security measures while maintaining a welcoming environment. The district has put out recommendations that include three key areas of security: visitor access, a visitor-management system, and staff training.
What does this look like in practice?
At Olson, which serves as a prototype, a security vestibule now funnels visitors to the school into the office. Here, visitors are greeted and signed into a visitor-management system, which allows office staff to determine if the person belongs in the school before issuing a temporary school badge. School staff no longer allow visitors to wander the halls and they have been trained to stop anyone without a badge.
Eye-in-the-sky security cameras are strategically placed in main corridors, and panic buttons have been installed. When a panic button is pressed, fire doors close. Kaufman explained that in a crisis situation it's critical to create barriers because, "It's about protecting students and staff throughout the building."
Much has been done with current resources. But Kaufman is hopeful that come fall voters will approve a referendum that would set aside $2 million per year for safety and security upgrades throughout the school district.
During the overview, Van Roekel emphasized the need for school counselors, saying that school districts across the country need to put counselors back in America's public schools instead of eliminating their positions because of budget woes.
"We need to be able to take care of students' needs as they happen," he said, "that's a huge part of the solution."
The back-to-school tour activities highlight NEA's "Raise Your Hand for Public Education" initiative, which mobilizes educators, parents, and community leaders to ensure success for all students. Through the initiative, NEA is bringing together people, lifting up good ideas, smart policies, and successful programs.
"One of the most often-asked question I get is, 'Why did I choose Bloomington?,'" said Van Roekel. "I can tell you very simply. Bloomington is doing it right about early childhood education and school safety. Instead of talking about it, they are doing it."


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NEWTOWN, Conn., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Gun permits have surged in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children and six adults members were killed in a school massacre in December, government records indicate.
A review of local records found 203 people in Newtown had received pistol permits through July 24, 32 more than in all of 2012, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
The Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection authorized the sale of 127,000 guns in 2012, more than double the number in 2000. The agency has authorized the sale of 91,098 weapons statewide in 2013.
In Newtown, views on the hike in local gun permits range from affirmation to sadness.
"It's sinking in to some folks that 'I need to take responsibility for keeping my family safe'," said resident Bill Stevens, 48, an avid hunter and gun owner.
Dave Ackert, founder of a group advocating for gun control, said the increase is troubling.
"If you look at how many guns the Lanza family had in their home and what that led to, it's a recipe for disaster," he said.
Adam Lanza killed the children and six faculty and staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School after shooting his mother with one of several guns she kept at home.
National surveys have found fewer people had guns in their homes in 2012, and the increase in gun sales is largely attributable to people who already own guns buying more, said Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research.


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OMAHA, NEB. — — Michael Phelps
finished second in the 400-meter individual medley to arch-rival Ryan Lochte in the opening act of the Olympic swimming trials here Monday, but both qualified for the London Games, setting the stage for another duel over their sport's most challenging event.
After a race that began with the Baltimore swimmer, Lochte and Tyler Clary grabbing the lead from one another, Lochte pulled away halfway through and stormed to a 4-minute, 7.06-second finish. Phelps pulled in .83 seconds later.
"This is an event I've done for a long time and something I'm happy to finish my career with," Phelps said. "Coming off of this, I've very pleased. … I'm happy to sort of get that first monkey off my back for the first event and kind of get those first race jitters out."
Phelps had created a bit of drama over whether he would swim the event, and Clary had even said this weekend he would be surprised if he did.
"It was a little painful," Phelps said afterward of the race he loves to hate for its punishing demands. Still, he professed himself glad to have plunged back into the race, saying he didn't want his loss in it during an invitational meet in Austin, Texas, earlier this month to be his final 400 IM.
Phelps' teammate at North Baltimore Aquatic Club, Chase Kalisz, 18, was a surprise racer in the finals, coming in third after the morning preliminaries as he swam in the lane next to the more famous swimmer. The Fallston resident, whose father Mike is athletic director at Hereford High School, finished the finals sixth, with a 4:16.32 time.
"I saw Chase," Phelps said after their morning heat, "and I knew I couldn't let him be anywhere close."
Lochte said he, too, was glad to have gotten the first of his races done.
"The first race is always the hardest," the Floridian said. "I can take a deep breath now and relax. Whatever happens, happens. I'm just going to have fun now."
Not likely, even if he doesn't swim all 11 events he registered for, several of which will likely feature Phelps as well.
Lochte, 27, is highly motivated to make the Summer Games that begin just over a month from now his own. Having spent much of his career in the 26-year-old Phelps' long shadow, he is riding on several victories over him in recent years.
The 400 IM launched the trials with a bang, literally, with flames shooting from the pool deck during a highly-produced opening ceremony. The CenturyLink Center darkened as if for a heavyweight prize fight, which in a sense it was. Lights lit up the pool, turning the water electric blue and the lane lines magenta as sensory overload ensued: LED panels flashed red-white-and-blue, a "water wall" streamed Olympic rings, pounding rock music whipped up a near full house.
"You could hear the excitement in the crowd," Phelps said after his race.
With the medley starting with his signature stroke, the butterfly, Phelps took the lead in the first 100 meters, giving it up to Clary during the second, backstroke leg. After that, though, Lochte powered through the breaststroke and freestyle portions to the finish.
Afterward, Lochte and Phelps, who are friends and hotel-room cards partners during meets, joked in passing about the false alarm at the Hilton Hotel that roused swimmers from afternoon naps.
In the pool, though, neither will take it easy on the other. Phelps, training for his fourth and final Olympics, seems working toward a big finish. While he has said he won't duplicate his eight-for-eight gold-medal performance in the Beijing Games four years ago, he has indicated he'll enter six or seven events.
Many of the big records are already on his side of the ledger — for example, most Olympic gold medals and most world records. But as he has maintained, he still has goals he wants to accomplish, even if he refuses to specify them. Monday he became the first American male swimmer to qualify for four Olympics.
As he said this weekend, "I have always wanted to be the first person to do something."
The 400 IM looms as a way to do that: Phelps could become the first male swimmer to win gold in the same event in three consecutive Olympics.Japan'sKosuke Kitajima will arrive in London with two chances to do that, in the 100- and 200-meter breaststroke. Depending on which races Phelps enters in London, he has multiple opportunities as well, but the 400 IM is first on the Olympic schedule.
(Two women, incidentally, have already accomplished the feat: 100-meter freestyler Dawn Fraser of Australia and 200-meter backstroker Krisztina Egerszegi of Hungary.)
For Phelps, the 400 IM is as punishing as it is iconic. He owns the world record, set in the Beijing Games, where he first made his now-reversed vow never to swim it again. Phelps said he and coach Bob Bowman had a deal that he would get to drop the race from his overstuffed portfolio if he set a record in it, but somehow, he repeatedly found himself on the starting blocks for it time after time since.
But, in the wake of his post-Beijing funk, when he skipped practices and would hop a plane to Vegas on a whim, he lost ground in the medley and other races. Lochte was more than happy to step into the breach, delivering what Phelps has called a "butt-whipping" in match-ups in recent years.
Reclaiming one of "his" races surely will motivate Phelps. As he said Monday night, his loss in the 400 IM in Austin figured into his decision to swim it again.
"After Austin, I was pretty upset," he said. "I didn't want that to be my last 400 IM."
And now, it won't be.


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