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NRA affiliate vows fight as key measures of New York's tough new gun law take effect
ALBANY, N.Y. – Key measures of New York's tough new gun law are set to kick in, with owners of guns now reclassified as assault weapons required to register the firearms and new limits on the number of bullets allowed in magazines.
As the new provisions take effect Monday, New York's affiliate of the National Rifle Association said it plans to head to court to seek an immediate halt to the magazine limit.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo calls those and other provisions in the state's new gun law common sense while dismissing criticisms he says come from "extreme fringe conservatives" who claim the government has no right to regulate guns.
"Yes, they are against it, but they are the extremists and the extremists shouldn't win, especially on this issue when it is so important to the majority," Cuomo said in a radio interview Wednesday. "In politics, we have to be willing to take on the extremists, otherwise you will see paralysis."
New York's new gun restrictions, the first in the nation passed following December's massacre at a Connecticut elementary school, limit state gun owners to no more than seven bullets in magazines, except at competitions or firing ranges.
The new regulations in New York commence as the U.S. Senate prepares to debate expanded gun legislation and weeks after Connecticut joined Colorado in signing into law tougher new gun restrictions.
The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, the state's NRA affiliate, has a pending federal lawsuit against the new provisions. It plans to ask a judge Monday for an immediate halt to the magazine limit. The new registrations, required over the next year, will be the group's focus later.
The law violates the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens "to keep commonly possessed firearms" at home for self-defense and for other lawful purposes, the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association said in court papers. It is advising members to obey the law in the meantime.
"We are lawful and legal citizens of New York state and we always obey the law," association President Tom King said. "It's as simple as that."
State Police planned to post forms on their website for registration starting Monday. Owners of those guns, now banned from in-state sales, are required within a year to register them. Alternatively, they can legally sell them to a licensed dealer or out of state by next Jan. 15.
Rich Davenport, recording secretary of the Erie County Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs, said their nearly 11,000 members are united in opposition to the law, which he considers a hasty, illogical and emotional response to the Newtown, Conn., school shooting. He also questioned likely compliance with the registration requirement.
"I'm guessing it'll be pretty low," said Davenport, a longtime hunter. He said that even though he's not personally affected by the registration provision, "I'm offended as an American."
The toughest part of the new statute -- banning in-state sales of those guns newly classified as "assault weapons" -- immediately took effect Jan. 15. The new classification related to a single military-style feature, such as a pistol grip on semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines. Other listed features include a folding or thumbhole stock, bayonet mount, flash suppressor, or second protruding grip held by the non-trigger hand.
It requires owners to register an estimated 1 million guns previously not classified as assault weapons by April 15, 2014, though law enforcement officials acknowledge they don't know exactly how many such guns New Yorkers have.
The assault weapon definition also applies to some shotguns and handguns. They include shotguns that are semi-automatic, or self-loading, and have another feature, such as a folding stock, a second handgrip held by the non-shooting hand or the ability to accept a detachable magazine.
Also covered are semi-automatic pistols that can take detachable magazines and have another feature, such as a folding or thumbhole stock, a second handgrip and a threaded barrel that can accept a silencer.
Many county boards in New York have passed resolutions urging at least partial repeal of the law while warning that new registration requirements would be a costly burden on them.
Herkimer County Clerk Sylvia Rowan said Thursday she had received no registration forms for those guns. "There's a lot of confusion on this," she said.
Rowan noted that she had received few formal requests filed from the holders of the county's 12,000 pistol permits to exempt their information from public disclosure, something else authorized under the new law.
Passed Jan. 15, a month after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., the statute originally banned magazines with more than seven bullets effective April 15. Connecticut officials said that shooter Adam Lanza used a semi-automatic Bushmaster AR-15 and five 30-round magazines to kill 20 children and six adults in minutes.
However, acknowledging that manufacturers don't make seven-bullet magazines, the Cuomo administration and New York lawmakers amended their law on March 29, keeping 10-bullet magazines legal but generally illegal to load them with more than seven bullets.
The new Colorado bill, signed into law last month, bans ammunition magazines that hold more than 15 rounds.


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A teenager worries about sex, acne, his parents and all the people don't appreciate his genius in a British bestseller with intergenerational appeal
The Adrian Mole Diaries: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ and The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole. By Sue Townsend. HarperPerennial, 304 pp., $12.95, paperback.
By Janice Harayda
In the realm of literary prize-giving, comic novels are the neglected stepchildren, traditionally ignored by judges on both sides of the Atlantic. So you won't find The Adrian Mole Diaries on any list of winners of the Man Booker Prize, the next recipient of which will be announced on Oct. 16.
But few of the winners have delighted as many people as this fictional journal of a working-class English teenager, Adrian Mole, which has sold more than five million copies since its publication in the mid-1980s. The Adrian Mole Diaries has little in common with all those dreary American young-adult novels that unpersuasively suggest that – no matter how awful high school is – there is always a wise and understanding adult who can help. And it's not just because the volume deftly satirizes the trends and events of its era instead of sentimentalizing them.
Most teenagers only think they're smarter than their parents. Sue Townsend has created the rare teenage boy who, though entirely normal, really is smarter than the adults in his life. In his first diary entry, Adrian can hardly hide his disgust that his father got the family dog drunk on cherry brandy and that his mother is too distracted to wear the green lurex apron he gave her for Christmas. But his feelings of superiority don't keep him from worrying about all the usual teenage concerns, such as sex, acne, a local street gang and the inability of teachers and others to see his genius. Nor is he too self-absorbed to be kind. He and his off-again, on-again girlfriend, Pandora, spend much of their time trying to help a cranky neighbor and to remedy what they see as social injustices.
Adrian embodies so perfectly the typical adolescent mix of insecurity and grandiosity his diary appeals equally to adults and teenagers. "None of the teachers at school have noticed that I am an intellectual," he writes. "They will be sorry when I am famous." How nice that his words were, in a sense, prophetic: Adrian has become one of the most famous schoolboys in British fiction.
Best line: Townsend shows a nearly pitch-perfect ear for social comedy in this volume, so every page has a "best line." Here's a sample involving Pandora Braithwaite, the love of Adrian's life:
"My precious Pandora is going out with Craig Thomas. That's the last time you get a Mars bar from me, Thomas!
"Barry Kent is in trouble for drawing a nude woman in Art. Ms Fossington-Gore said that it wasn't so much the subject matter but his ignorance of basic biological facts that was so upsetting. I did a good drawing of the Incredible Hulk smashing Craig Thomas to bits. Ms Fossington-Gore said it was 'a powerful statement of monolithic oppression.'"
Worst line: Adrian may be too bright to think, as he does at first, that Evelyn Waugh is a woman.
Recommendation? An excellent novel for adult fans of Nick Hornby and Helen Fielding and for bloggers trying to develop a comic style or persona. Many 12-to-14-year-old boys also love this book.
Caveat lector: I haven't read the later books in the Adrian Mole series, which some critics regard as less funny.
Published: 1986 (first American edition) www.harpercollins.com. Read an excerpt and learn about the author and other books in the series at www.adrianmole.com.
One-Minute Book Reviews was the seventh-ranked book review site in the world on Google on Sept. 6, 2007 www.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Reviews_and_Criticism/.
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Republican-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee holds hearing today on diplomatic security in attack that killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans
WASHINGTON - The State Department now says it never believed the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was a film protest gone awry, giving congressional Republicans new fodder for criticizing the Obama administration's initial accounts of the assault.
The State Department's extraordinary break with other administration offices came in a department briefing Tuesday, where officials said "others" in the executive branch concluded initially that the protest was based, like others in the Middle East, on a film that ridiculed the Prophet Muhammad.
That was never the department's conclusion, a senior official told reporters.
The Republican-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee holds a hearing today on diplomatic security in the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans. The attack as become a political football in the final weeks before the election.
The committee's chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has accused the State Department of turning aside pleas from its diplomats in Libya to increase security in the months and weeks before the attack in Benghazi. One scheduled witness today, Eric Nordstrom, is the former chief security officer for U.S. diplomats in Libya who told the committee his pleas for more security were ignored.
Briefing reporters Tuesday ahead of the hearing, department officials were asked about the administration's initial - and since retracted - explanation linking the violence to protests over an American-made anti-Muslim video circulating on the Internet. One official responded, without specifying, that it was a question for others to answer.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly on the matter, and provided no evidence that might suggest a case of spontaneous violence or angry protests that went too far.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Republican lawmakers have increasingly sharpened their criticism of the administration's initial explanation of the attack. They said they never accepted the original explanation.
It was a top administration diplomatic official, United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, who gave a series of interviews five days after the attack that wrongly described the attack as spontaneous.
She said that the administration believed the violence was unplanned and that extremists with heavier weapons "hijacked" the protest against the anti-Islamic video. She did qualify her remarks to say that was the best information she had at the time. Rice since has denied trying to mislead Congress.
A concurrent CIA memo obtained by The Associated Press cited intelligence suggesting the demonstrations in Benghazi "were spontaneously inspired by the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo" and "evolved into a direct assault" on the diplomatic posts by "extremists."
Nordstrom, the former security official in Libya, addressed the diplomatic security issue in an Oct. 1 email to a congressional investigator. He said his requests for more security were blocked by a department policy to "normalize operations and reduce security resources."
A memo Tuesday by the Oversight Committee's Democratic staff provided details of Nordstrom's interview with the panel's investigators. In that interview, Nordstrom said he sent two cables to State Department headquarters in March 2012 and July 2012 requesting additional diplomatic security agents for Benghazi, but he received no responses.
He stated that Charlene Lamb, the deputy assistant secretary for international programs, wanted to keep the number of U.S. security personnel in Benghazi artificially low. He said Lamb believed the Benghazi facilities did not need any diplomatic security special agents because there was a residential safe haven to fall back to in an emergency.
Nordstrom's Oct. 1 memo to the congressional investigator said, "You will note that there were a number of incidents that targeted diplomatic missions and underscored the GoL's (government of Libya) inability to secure and protect diplomatic missions.
"This was a significant part of (the diplomatic) post's and my argument for maintaining continued DS (diplomatic security) and DOD (Department of Defense) security assets into Sept/Oct. 2012; the GoL was overwhelmed and could not guarantee our protection.
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Nobody wants to share a cubicle with a new hire like Dwight Schrute. The beet-farming volunteer sheriff's deputy/paper salesman creates many awkward moments because of his differences with co-workers on NBC's "The Office."
But according to new research co-authored by a Brigham Young University business professor, better decisions come from teams that include a "socially distinct newcomer." That's psychology-speak for someone who is different enough to bump other team members out of their comfort zones.
Researchers noticed this effect after conducting a traditional group problem-solving experiment. The twist was that a newcomer was added to each group about five minutes into their deliberations. And when the newcomer was a social outsider, teams were more likely to solve the problem successfully.
The research is published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
"One of the most-cited benefits of diversity is the infusion of new ideas and perspectives," said study co-author Katie Liljenquist, assistant professor of organizational leadership at BYU's Marriott School of Management. "And while that very often is true, we found the mere presence of a newcomer who is socially distinct can really shake up the group dynamic. That leads to discomfort, but also to a better process that ultimately yields superior outcomes."
The key factor is simply whether newcomers are distinct in some way from the other group members.
"Remember, socially 'distinct' doesn't necessarily mean socially 'inept,'" says Liljenquist, whose co-authors on the paper are Northwestern's Katherine Phillips and Stanford's Margaret Neale. "Dwight's upbringing and past work history – in addition to his bobblehead doll collection – all contribute to the measure of diversity he brings to 'The Office' melting pot."
The paper adds a new wrinkle to the wealth of research on teams, says Melissa Thomas-Hunt, associate professor at Cornell's Johnson School of Management.
"[This research] is groundbreaking in that it highlights that the benefits of disparate knowledge in a team can be unleashed when newcomers actually share opinions of knowledge with old-timers but are socially different," Thomas-Hunt says. "It is the tension between social dissimilarity and opinion similarity that prompts heightened effectiveness in diverse teams."
What explains the results?
According to Liljenquist, newcomers in the experiment didn't necessarily ask tougher questions, possess novel information, or doggedly maintain a conflicting point of view. Just being there was enough to change the dynamic among old-timers who shared a common identity.
When a member of the group discovered that he agreed with the new outsider, he felt alienated from his fellow old-timers – consequently, he was very motivated to explain his point of view on its merits so that his peers wouldn't lump him in with the outsider.
The person who found himself disagreeing with the in-group – and instead agreeing with an outsider – felt very uncomfortable. An opinion alliance with an outsider put his social ties with other team members at risk.
"Socially, that can be very threatening," Liljenquist says. "These folks are driven to say, 'Wait, the fact that I disagree with this outsider doesn't make me weird. Something more is going on here; let's figure out what's at the root of our disagreement.' The group then tends to analyze differing opinions and critical information much more thoroughly, and that facilitates much better decision-making results."
Another revelation
The experiment also revealed a fallacy in the assumptions we make about our own effectiveness in groups. The subjects in the experiment were members of different fraternities and sororities. In general, when the newcomer was from the same sorority or fraternity as the other team members, the group reported that it worked well together, but was less likely to correctly solve the problem.
In contrast, when the newcomer was a member of a rival sorority or fraternity, the opposite was true – these groups felt they worked together less effectively, yet they significantly outperformed socially homogenous groups.
"What's really distinct about this research is that, from a self-reporting perspective, what people perceive to be beneficial turns out to be dead wrong," Liljenquist says. "The teams that felt they worked least effectively together were ironically the top performers!"
In the workplace
Common "social distinctions" in today's workplace, Liljenquist says, would include:
- One employee from accounting working on a team in which everyone else is from sales
- An employee of a company that had just been bought out finding herself on a team of people from the acquiring firm
- An out-of-stater finding himself on a team full of natives of the company's home state
To help employees in those situations cope, managers would be wise to explain that such conflict can actually generate better results.
"Without that information people just assume, 'This is really uncomfortable. My team obviously must not be working effectively,'" Liljenquist says. "The experience in diverse teams may not always be a feel-good session, but if employees know that from the outset, they can better deal with inevitable conflicts and recognize the potential benefits – that the affective pains can translate to real performance gains."
Although Liljenquist acknowledges many other cases for diversity in the workplace, she contends that "reaping the benefits of diverse workgroups doesn't necessarily require that newcomers bring unique perspectives or expertise to the table. Simply having people around us who differ on some dimension - whether it is functional background, education, race or even a different fraternity – drives a very different decision-making process at a group level because of the social and emotional conflict we experience in their presence."
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Read the rest of the summary here. For a sample of related Situationist posts, see "Racism Meets Groupism and Teamism," "'Us' and 'Them,'" "The Maverickiness Paradox," "Four Failures of Deliberating Groups – Abstract," "Team-Interested Decision Making," "History of Groupthink," and "Some (Interior) Situational Sources War – Part I."


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The Situation of Illusion
Posted by J on June 25, 2008
In a paper that Ronald Chen and I wrote a few years ago (part of our "Illusion of Law" series), we summarized a few of the ways that "magic" happens and the key role played by "the way people think." Here's an excerpt from that paper (note: we are quoting Nathaniel Schiffman's book, Abracadabra! Secret Methods Magicians & Others Use To Deceive Their Audience (1997)).
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Explanations that are outside of our schemas – what we believe or what we want to believe about the things we see – will rarely be activated. It is often the case that we simply cannot fathom that the magician might be doing what he is doing:
. . . when Blackstone did his famous birdcage vanish (a cage with a live bird vanished from his bare hands) he would hold his arms outright in front of him, seemingly presenting the cage to the audience for their inspection. . . . The cage was specially designed to collapse on command. At the appropriate time, Blackstone would toss it forward, and the collapsed cage would be pulled up his sleeve – bird and all. Savvy adults watching the show might shake their heads and say, 'Nah, it couldn't go up his sleeve because he wouldn't want to injure the bird.'. . .
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Actually, in many cases the bird was injured or killed.
Convinced that the magician would never rely on a method that might harm the bird, audience members were unable to see the trick. Their "knowledge" that the magician was not the type to harm a bird simply for the purposes a magic trick blinded them to what was the most obvious explanation for the illusion.
Our inability to see the magician as a particular type of person –- capable of, and willing to do, the unexpected in order to achieve magic –- is, like magic, no coincidence. Relying on our schemas, we make assumptions about the magician and her willingness to follow what we might consider to be the "unwritten rules" of magic. Audiences at a magic show
expect the magician to perform his magic in front of them, in full view, while misdirecting away from those certain actions that constitute the trick-to-the-trick. The audience probably doesn't realize they are making those assumptions, because they have no reason to believe their assumptions are being broken. But very often a magic trick works because the magician has broken the unwritten rules of theatrical performing.
For psychics or "mentalists," the unwritten rules include the following: first, the assumption "that the man on stage alone is performing the magic"; second, "that all the magic is done in 'real time' as the performance is happening"; and, third, "that the magic is done on stage." The mentalist's trick is often in breaking those rules – for example, having assistants eavesdrop on conversations in the audience; collecting juicy morsels of information prior to the time the show begins (and sometimes days before); relaying surreptitiously gathered information from off-stage. Doing unglamorous, tedious detective work prior to the show is often exactly the way that the trick is done.
In the end, magic succeeds when the audience believes what the magician wants them to believe: the idea that "[their] act is so awe-inspiring and mystical and magical that how in the world could that amazing magic be due to such lowly subterfuges as microphones and assistants transmitting information?"
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The July issue of Harper's includes a remarkable article by Alex Stone, "The Magic Olympics." Stone's first-hand account of The World Championships of Magic is stunning, but I want to focus on just a few of his paragraphs that describe a particular illusion (similar to an illusion that we published in a post two weeks ago and re-publish in this post) and that further illustrates the message in the passage above.
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[W]e're entertained . . . by a . . . hair-raisng sawed-in-half effect. I'v seen hundreds of bisections, but nothing like this. Dressed as a doctor, he chainsaws his patient in half, and then an attractive nurse wheels the torso around on an ersatz gurney, waving her arms hrough the void where his legs ought to be. No box. No curtains. No mirrors. Nothing. What the hell?
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Take a look at the brief Youtube video below.
Social psychology and related fields have demonstrated repeatedly that what we are prepared to see strongly constrains what we can and do see. Those constraints on our thinking leave us vulnerable to manipulation and victims of many illusions in including, as the following excerpt from Stone's article suggests, the illusion of an illusion
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I board a small plane back to the States. Several of the artists and competitors are on the flight, all looking as haggard as I do, and feel. After a week of biblical astonishments, I feel hardened. Nothing can faze me. But as I file through business class, I see something for which I am wholly unprepared. In the first row sits the illustionist of last night's sawed-in-half routine, a meaty, florid man with triangular eyebrows and thin red lips. His trick has been gnawing at me since I saw it. No boxes. No mirrors. How? Now suddenly, I understand. Sitting next to him, in th aisle seat, is a slender dark-skinned man who looks normal in all respects save one: his body terminates just below the waist. No legs. No hips. Nothing. I can't help but stare, and for a moment I wonder if anyone can hear my mind snap.
Magicians will go to great lengths in pursuit of the ultimate illusion, concealing silk inside a thumb tip, or doves in a coat, or any number of small objects within the delicate folds of a well-hemmed topit. But concealing an entire man–or rather, half a man–and flying him across the glove in service of a five-minute routine is something else entirely, something far stranger, something brilliant, yes, but also sad. Did the half-man, kept hidden in a hotel room, see nothing of Stockholm? What sort of non-disclosure agreement had he signed? Can I, too, buy a half-man at my local magic store?
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Assuming that Stone's revelation helps to explain the same trick that is captured in the video above (and it may not), how does your reaction compare to Stone's? Please comment.
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June 25, 2008 at 11:24 pm
The legs are too real to be fake. He does some sly foot wiggling dance-ish stuff at the end. A whole-man at the end. A half-man in between? Maybe…
June 26, 2008 at 8:18 am
"but also sad. Did the half-man, kept hidden in a hotel room, see nothing of Stockholm? What sort of non-disclosure agreement had he signed?"
This kind of pity is the worst kind of condescension. Just because someone doesn't have legs doesn't make them a half man, and doesn't make them some sort of always-victim unable of independent thought.
The last thing that people who are considered disabled need is some able-bodied person cooing at them with overtures of, "Oh, how sad, did you even get to see Stockholm? Boo hoo." Gross!
Good for him for finding a venue for celebrating his unique value-add!
Too bad Alex Stone is blinded by his own celebration for his own legs to only feel sadness for the man. "And how long have you been emotionally crippled, Mr. Stone?"


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NOTE: This technique will NOT work on cotton. Kool Aid and food coloring will only dye wool, silk or other animal fiber/hair.
Update! See more Kool Aid Popsicle yarn that I dyed with notes and tips on this post.
Awesome! I'm going to try this!ReplyDelete
Oh wow! That is beautiful I am super jealous. This looks like a fun project. On and that hibiscus sounds fabulous. Love what you named the yarn.ReplyDelete
holy crap you're a genius O.O
I've done four skeins of yarn with Kool-aid and it always came out awesome, but i was never very good at splotching it like all you 'professionals' (hard to do when all you have at your disposal is a spoon o.O) So this is perfect! :-D loving it! (i even have tube-shaped ice-cubes instead of the square ones! wonder how well those'd work!??)
This looks so delicious! :) Great idea!ReplyDelete
Just decided to try this, and I think you might have had more water in your ice cubes than I did, because the color just sat in little spots, didn't spread at all, and there isn't any liquid to be clear. I'm gonna try again with the same colors but make bigger (and more diluted) cubes, and make sure there's water so the dye has a way to spread. But. Love the idea! And it smells so good!ReplyDelete
Sublimecreatin- That is interesting! Was your yarn wet to begin with? I also wonder if it's a temperature thing. I'm in Oregon, so when I did this- when it was HOT it was in the 80s. Hot for Oregon but not really the summer temperatures people are getting elsewhere. Did you put the plastic wrap on right away or after they melted like I did? Maybe if the wrap is on in the beginning, it could help with evaporation. Just some thoughts.ReplyDelete
What a clever idea! I've never tried ice cubes before. And the result is gorgeous.ReplyDelete
This is so cool! I wonder how well it would work with superwash wool. My kids would think this is fun!ReplyDelete
Beth- superwash wool won't affect the dyeing process at all. Go for it!ReplyDelete
Very cool! And the yarn turned out so pretty! What did you use it for? I've never tried dyeing my own yarn. I'm too busy creating things with it. LOLReplyDelete
Thanks Dee! I did a giveaway for this yarn, so a lucky reader now has it. Give dyeing a try!ReplyDelete
WOW! I really like this idea but I am allergic to wool :( and I really love the was wool holds color and its water resistance.
My question is this; will this work with cotton yarn? I hope so.
Raggz2baggz- This type of dyeing only works on wool. To dye cotton, you can't use acid dyes (like Kool Aid or food coloring.) You have to use a completely different type of dye- like RIT. I'm not sure but I don't think solar dyeing would work with cotton yarn either. I know from dyeing cotton clothing, that you need the dye bath to be extremely hot. I'm sorry you're allergic to wool. :( Maybe you can try this out while wearing gloves and then gift the yarn to a knitter you love?ReplyDelete
this is a fabulous idea!! Just a quick question: is using Eucalan for that final rinse vital? Or can I just use water or a bit of laundry detergent?
Thanks so much for this DIY! Can't wait to try it.
@Meg- No, the Eucalan isn't important. I use it to help rid of the vinegar smell and give it a lovely scent. I don't suggest using regular detergent as it can be too harsh on wool/knitting. I say either skip it or use some gentle shampoo.ReplyDelete
That is just absolutely brilliant!ReplyDelete
This looks like a fantastic project. Any tips on using the oven? It's winter here in Canada!ReplyDelete
Thanks Allegra Young! To use the oven, keep your temperature low. No hotter than 200F. Just keep checking on it- first for the ice cubes to melt and then for the yarn to absorb it all- you don't want any colored liquid coming off. Any excess moisture should be clear. I would say that it wouldn't take longer than 30-90 minutes using the oven method.ReplyDelete
This is AWESOME! Linking up this Thursday at Tangled Happy. Thanks for sharing this FUN idea. :)ReplyDelete
My kids want to try this! Guess I know what we will be doing this weekend. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
That Looks So Cool !!! I'm Definately Keeping This In Mind For When I Get Some Wool Yarn, I Can Dye My Own Colors
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I have got to try this. I wonder how other fibers will react.ReplyDelete
It will only work with wool or mostly wool fiber. The Kool Aid or food coloring will not adhere to cotton or synthetic fibers.Delete
actually Acid dyes (like kool aid) work well with all protein fibers, including silk, wool, Llama,Alpaca, Bison, camel, horse, dog... but Maia is correct that synthetics and plant based fibers, (including cotton, bamboo, rayon and anything with poly or lycra) will not take acid dyes well.Delete
Koolaid has been used to dye human hair (a trick kids into Punk had used when I was growing up- ages ago), so it makes sense that it would work on anything that was once "hair" of an animal, as doula_char said.
Also, Mark Lipinski sent me over. I wonder if I would be allergic to wool too, but I could wear gloves while couching these fibers down on a wall quilt. I bet if you mixed the grape,reds and yellows in each a different shade for every ice cube that the results could yield some pretty flowers once stitched down.
what was the ratio vinegar to water for the pre soaking?ReplyDelete
I didn't measure. You only need a tablespoon or so. I just pour some into the large bowl as I'm filling it with water.Delete
Incredible! Thanks for sharing this process. I will try this. Just recently I have tried out dyeing handspun with Koolaid. It is great fun!ReplyDelete
I'll be calling KnitPicks fr some blank wool or a wool/silk blend. My aunt in Oregon used t do this type thing when she had her 70 or so head of sheep....lovely.ReplyDelete
Just Lovely! Thanks for the idea!ReplyDelete
Have my yarn in the oven now! Thanks for the idea!ReplyDelete
How much water to one packet of kool aid?
Love the colors!
Each ice cube section is one ounce. So I did 3 ounces to make 3 cubes. You can play around with it. Just have fun!Delete
Thar is just soo "kool"! Thaks for shareing!ReplyDelete
I think I will try this with a piece of fabric instead of yarn.ReplyDelete
If the fabric is cotton, it won't work. The Kool Aid will wash right out.Delete
Have you ever done this with acrylic or cotton yarns? I am allergic to wool, but I think this is awesome!ReplyDelete
It will not work with cotton or acrylic. Not at all. The Kool Aid won't dye it. You need wool or a protein fiber like silk or hair.Delete
I tried this today, very cool. I used to much water with the kool aid, I put as much as if I was actually making kool aid. So my colors were very pale. Next time I'll use the 1 oz per the amount of cubes I want. Thank you for the great idea!!! :)ReplyDelete
This is so awesome! Is the yarn still in skeins when it's in the dying container?ReplyDelete
Thanks! Yes, it's still in the skein it came in.Delete
I had no idea you could dye your own yarn! I love this!
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What beautiful colors! I love dying wool with KoolAid! It's non-toxic & when I microwave it, it makes my house smell fruity!ReplyDelete
What a cool way to Kool Aid dye! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Muy buena idea!!! Lo voy a intentar. Gracias!ReplyDelete
Thank you for posting this info. I have seen others do yarn dying and their method seems so involved that I wasn't sure I would even attempt it. Now I have changed my mind :)
That is so cool, I'm going to try thisReplyDelete
So neat! I've only tried Koolaid/food colour dyes on silk scarves to make play silks. I bet this would be great on some tightly packed silk too!ReplyDelete
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Question from Sweden. Am I right when I think that KA only works with animalistic fibers (not cotton or acrylic)?
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I did it! Mine happened rather quickly because I mistimed the amount of time it would take for the cubes to freeze. Therefore, my prep time for my yarn ended up being closer to two hours! I soaked in water and vinegar, and the yarn took to the cubes IMMEDIATELY. I did one with natural wool (using sherbet colors like lemonade, pink lemonade, blueberry and some creative mixes) and another with a grey yarn base, (using black cherry, grape, grape/blueberry mix). For a first try, I call this a success. Thanks for the tips!ReplyDelete
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Can you do this with a T Shirt?ReplyDelete
Only if it's made out wool, silk or any other animal fiber. Kool Aid and food coloring will not dye cotton. It'll stain (and look like a stain) but you will not get the look of a dyed shirt. Better to use RIT or another type of fiber reactive procion dye.Delete
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Why We Punish
Posted by John Darley & Pam Mueller on January 7, 2008
Our justice system often provides tangled rationales for punishment. Is our system based on retribution or deterrence? Which comports better with society's views of justice?
Previous studies have shown that when individuals are given the opportunity to punish an offender, they sentence retributively, based on the moral wrongfulness of the offender's actions. However, those initial studies did not assess whether people based these retributive punishments on the harm the act caused or the wrongfulness of the offender's intent.
Below we summarize a recent study by John Darley, Adam Alter, and Julia Kernochan that explores that distinction.
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The easiest case in criminal law involves one person intending to shoot and kill another person — who aim, fires, and hits the target. The easiest case, however, is never the most interesting. Criminal law is full of cases in which the intended assassin has poor aim, and winds up shooting the wrong person or no one at all, as well as cases in which a hunting or target-shooting bullet goes awry, making an unintentional killer out of a marksman.
Princeton social psychologists (Alter, Kernochan, and Darley) investigated situations in which the harm done and the harm intended were not the same. How much punishment — or, more specifically, how long of a prison sentence — would subjects impose on actors in these situations? Would the harmfulness of the act or the wrongfulness of the act be the primary factor in these judgments? Such sentencing preferences would tap into moral intuitions about the importance of wrongfulness (intent) and harmfulness (consequence).
Modern criminal law requires both actus reus (a wrongful act) and mens rea (a guilty mind) to coincide for a crime to have occurred. Liability is thus contingent on both harmfulness and wrongfulness. Doctrines such as "innocent agency" allow one person's acts and another person's intent to be consolidated so that a crime can be found to have occurred. In such a situation, a knowing actor manipulates an innocent individual into committing an act that would be criminal if mens rea were present. The person who acted wrongfully with intent in this situation is the one who is punished, not the person who acted harmfully without intent.
Prior studies (e.g. Carlsmith, Darley, & Robinson, 2002) have found that people sentence offenders based on the "just deserts" theory of punishment, in which individuals are punished in proportion to the perceived moral wrongfulness of their acts, rather than the "deterrence" theory, in which acts are punished in proportion to the costs they impose on society. These studies did not, however, separate the distinct factors of wrongfulness and harmfulness within the acts presented to participants.
The more recent set of studies used stimuli that separated harmfulness and wrongfulness. Stimuli were grouped in triads, in which a given act was manipulated to be 1) harmful, but not wrongful; 2) wrongful, but not harmful; 3) both harmful and wrongful. The first two would separate the issues that had been confounded in past experiments, while the third condition would reveal any interaction between harmfulness and wrongfulness in determining sentence length.
The research hypothesized that participants would impose higher sentences on wrongful acts than on harmful acts and that, given those tendencies, participants would also believe that a legal system that emphasized wrongfulness was fair and just, while a system of punishment rooted in harmfulness was unfair. According to those hypotheses, subjects would see a system as particularly unfair if it assigned heavy punishment to a person who caused harm with no intention to do so.
The three situations that were manipulated to create the experimental stimuli were a theft, a shooting homicide, and a simple assault. Participants separately rated the harmfulness and the wrongfulness of each of the three acts on 9-point scales. They then imposed appropriate sentences for the offenders in each of the situations, using a 13-point rating scale (ranging from no sentence to a death sentence) that has been tested in many prior experiments. Finally, after reading fabricated comments in support of a harmfulness- or a wrongfulness-based sentencing system, they rated their agreement with the statements "The legal system is unfair and unjust" and "If I were a citizen, I would feel anger toward the legal system."
Participants assigned harsher sentences for "wrong only" cases than "harm only" cases, and assigned the harshest sentences in situations where the offenses were both wrongful and harmful. For instance, in the shooting homicide example, participants' mean sentence was 1.07 on the 13-point scale (essentially, no liability) when there was harm without intent; with intent but no harm, the mean sentence was 7.70 (a 1-3 year prison sentence); and when there was both intent to harm and harm caused, the mean sentence was 10.64 (between 15 and 30 years in prison). Analysis showed that wrongfulness was the primary determinant of sentencing, and judgments of wrongfulness were significantly better predictors of sentence length than judgments of harmfulness.
The last dependent measure assessed participants' attitudes toward the justice system. As expected, participants expressed greater contempt for a harm-based system than for a wrong-based system.
In the hopes of ensuring that subjects were carefully considering the implications of the sentencing judgments, a second, smaller study brought the situations closer to home for Princeton students. The experiment manipulated the harmfulness and the wrongfulness of behavior surrounding a breach of the Honor Code. Additionally, the Honor Code Board is a quasi-judicial institution meting out punishments that are more immediately relevant to Princeton students; therefore, it is a better vehicle with which to test the hypothesis that isolated unjust outcomes can cause development of contempt for the justice system.
The paradigm was similar to the first experiment: participants rated the three related situations on harmfulness and wrongfulness scales, and then were asked to make a judgment about punishment on a scale of 0 (full exoneration) to 6 (expulsion). Participants were then asked to rate their contempt for the Honor Code Board if one of two amendments were adopted by the Board, codifying either 1) punishment of offenders based on harmfulness of behavior, or 2) punishment of offenders based on wrongfulness of behavior.
As in the first study, punishments were most severe in the "harm and wrong" condition, less severe in the "wrong only" condition, and least severe in the "harm only" condition. Wrongfulness was again a reliable predictor of sentences, but in this study, harmfulness did not significantly predict sentencing. All participants expressed some contempt for the Honor Code Board, whether as a result of general negativity or, potentially, as a result of a desire for balance between evaluation of wrongfulness and harmfulness in sentencing decisions. However, as expected, expressed contempt was greater in the "harmfulness only" condition.
These findings suggest that when individuals seek to apply an appropriate sentence, they rely on the heuristic of how intuitively wrongful the offense feels. Harmfulness is not completely cast aside in the decision; it also plays a direct, albeit small, role, as evidenced by the harsher sentences for the "wrong and harm" conditions. (This role may have been further diminished by the fact the manipulations for wrongfulness were statistically stronger than the manipulations for harmfulness.)
This study provides further evidence that people prefer a "just deserts" theory of punishment to a "deterrence" theory. Thus, the justice system should continue to use wrongfulness as an important part of its punishment calculus. If an entirely harmfulness-based sentencing scheme were implemented, people would view the legal system very negatively; thus, further amendments to the sentencing guidelines should reflect a concern with wrongfulness in order to gain the most public respect.
The results also provide some insight into jurors' thoughts and behavior in capital cases – the only juries that play a role in sentencing decisions. These jurors are likely to be affected by the same intuitive primacy of wrongfulness over harmfulness. Judges are also likely to be susceptible to these same heuristics, though their behavior will be tempered by sentencing guidelines and other legal duties; certainly, more research is necessary to reliably extend these findings to judges.
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For more information about the study, click here. To link to a related law-review article co-authored by Paul Robinson & John Darley, titled "Intuitions of Justice: Implications for Criminal Law and Justice Policy," click here (pdf).
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Jay Livingston said
"Thus, the justice system should continue to use wrongfulness as an important part of its punishment calculus. . . further amendments to the sentencing guidelines should reflect a concern with wrongfulness in order to gain the most public respect."
Deterrence is concerned with the effect of punishment on criminals and potential criminals. Retribution is concerned with the effect of punishment on non-criminals. The retribution justification for a punishment is basically that it makes us feel better. It expresses our outrage at crimes and criminals. So if you can whip up anger and fear about a category of crime and make people think it's very, very wrong, legislators will fall all over themselves trying to outdo one another in coming up with more and more draconian punishments.
The drug hysteria of the 1980s, now somewhat abated, gave us all those wonderful retribution-based sentences that have filled our prisons (at great cost) but had little impact on drug use. Coddling drug offenders with treatment programs might have been more effective (as a Rand study of many years ago found), but it wouldn't have done a damn thing for our self-righteousness.
The same goes for the death penalty. It's very expensive and has little or no effect on murder rates (despite the claims of recent articles in economic journals); but boy does it make us feel good about bringing "justice" down upon the evildoers.
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Jamie reveals what was really going on. When he went back to the house on the second visit, he visually inspected the duct work to make sure it wasn't pulling in excessive air and humidity from the attic. But when he lifted the scuttle hole hatch it started to float; there were two full size attic exhaust fans in a 6,000 cubic foot attic. They put the entire house on such a negative pressure, they were sucking in moisture from the outside. Says Jamie: "It was like having a blower door on 24/7". Important note: The first time Jamie visited the house for his initial assessment of the broken central air system, it was a cold and rainy day, so the attic fans weren't running. To solve the problem, Jamie disconnected one attic fan and turned the other one to 120 degrees so it would only turn on in extreme heat.
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Leila Fowler's dad wants evidence; believes son is innocent
The father of a 12-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing his 8-year-old sister, Leila Fowler, said he will believe his son is innocent until he sees evidence that proves otherwise.
On Monday Barney Fowler said the family is backing the boy, who was arrested Saturday after a crime that terrified this Northern California foothill community.
"Until they have the proper evidence to show it's my son, we're standing behind him," Fowler said. "If they have the evidence, well that's another story. We're an honest family."
The boy told investigators on April 27 that he encountered a random attacker in the family home while his father was attending a Little League game. He described the man as tall with long gray hair.
The boy said the man fled on foot and he found his sister, Leila Fowler, bleeding.
Leila's death set off an intense manhunt in the rural community where some residents had moved to escape big city crime. The Calaveras County Sheriff's Office spent more than 2,000 man-hours amassing evidence and searching door-to-door.
Residents of the rural community began locking their doors and calling authorities when they thought they saw men who fit the description.
They also held fundraisers for the Fowler family and turned out by the thousands for a candlelight vigil in Leila's honor.
"We're thankful to the community and all they've done for my daughter," Barney Fowler said.
He echoed comments made earlier Monday by his son, Justin Fowler, 19, who told the AP the family was in shock and extremely sad about the boy's arrest.
"We're just in a fog," Justin Fowler said.
Rumors began spreading last week around town that the 12-year-old was a suspect. The AP is withholding his name because he is a juvenile.
"I know there were a bunch of rumors going around saying it could possibly be him but nobody wanted to say that he could do that," said Maureen Lourenco, whose children attend middle school with the boy. "I have a 12-year-old son and my daughter's 14 and I just can't fathom them doing that."
Residents say the Fowlers are good neighbors who never caused any problems. Now after fearing for weeks that a random intruder had committed a heinous crime in their midst, they're dealing with another kind of reality.
"To kill a little girl? Eight years old? I don't understand how" they handle that, neighbor Arturo Magallon said.
People across the mountain community were relieved there had been an arrest, and the crime did not appear to be the work of an intruder.
"I see a lot of people now starting to walk again like it used to be before," Magallon said.
Investigators initially maintained the boy was being questioned only as a witness.
The Fowler family is now trying to cope with what could be a double tragedy.
"We're just trying to stay positive, but it's hard," Justin Fowler said.
Days after his sister's killing, the 12-year-old brother appeared at a vigil for her. Justin was photographed with the name "Leila" written on his forearm. Barney Fowler attended with his fiance, Krystal Walters.
"We're a strong family," Barney Fowler said Monday. "We're staying strong."
On Monday, counselors were talking to the siblings' classmates at Toyon Middle School.
"Our kids are experiencing a lot of mixed emotions," said Superintendent Mark Campbell. "We have a degree of ease that it's not a random assailant, but it's a double whammy from our school perspective. We lost a student and we stand to lose another. It's a lot for our kids to process."
Barney Fowler said he planned to address the media Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. at a news conference at the sheriff's substation in Valley Springs.


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Have you noticed how your rope only gets worn on one side? The fraying is uneven because the rope always seems to orient itself so that only one side wears. I've tried twisting it and tying my knot differently, but still the rope always ends up running with the worn side against the draws. Why is that? Answer me now, bitch! —Andrew Beechslap, via rockandice.com
Let's get one thing straight. I am the master!
I, too, have noticed how ropes tend to wear in specific spots, but, for lack of available scientific data, have to wing it here and say that I believe this is simply due to our perception. Ever notice how when you get one of those nearly invisible but excruciating cactus thorns in your finger, you seem to grab stuff with that part of the finger all the time? It seems like you touch that spot on your finger more than usual, but the reality is you just notice it because it hurts. Same thing with your rope. Likely, it doesn't always run with a wear point against a carabiner, but it seems to because you only notice when it runs that way. But, of course, it isn't as simple as that. Once a rope frays or abrades, wear at that point accelerates because there are fewer rope fibers to resist abrasion.
Then again, maybe your rope, due to the butterfly effect in chaos theory, does always run with the fray against the biners. While this action might like the weather appear to be random, it is, due to pre-existing deterministic conditions beyond your control, the only way your rope can run. Even when you tie your rope differently, or switch ends, or take the kinks out, you can't change what must be. No one knows why. Next!


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Mich. now right-to-work; Effects will be delayed
A right-to-work law is on the books in Michigan, a mainstay of organized labor, but those considering opting out of paying union dues will have to wait months or years to do so.
The law, which lets workers choose not to pay to the unions that bargain on their behalf, applies to labor contracts that are extended or renewed starting Thursday — meaning many employees will not be affected until existing collective bargaining agreements end.
"I've got a long way to go until I can exercise my right," said Terry Bowman, 47, who works on the line at a Ford Motor Co. plant in Ypsilanti. Contracts between unions and Detroit automakers are effective until September 2015.
Bowman, who founded a group called Union Conservatives, said he is leaning toward ending his membership in the United Auto Workers — of which he has been a member since 1996 — unless it drops its "political agenda."
He said there are many more blue-collar people like him, but they are scared to publicly support right-to-work because of pressure from union leaders after the law won approval in December from the Legislature and Gov. Rick Snyder.
Though Bowman does not expect a "mass exodus," he said some unions could lose a quarter of their membership.
Michigan, the 24th right-to-work state, has the nation's seventh-highest percentage of unionized workers. Peer pressure and tradition may go a long way to keep the larger, more established unions intact. The UAW, for example, has been intertwined in Michigan's culture of manufacturing cars and trucks for 77 years.
Neighboring Indiana enacted a right-to-work law in February 2012. The early results: Union membership declined to 9.1 percent of the workforce last year from 11.3 percent in 2011, according to federal statistics — a loss of 56,000 people. Most of Indiana's unions have not yet seen a big drop-off in membership, but many contracts are still in place from before the law took effect.
The declines may indicate more of a national trend, as membership across the U.S. has shrunk to its lowest levels since at least the 1930s — a paltry 6.6 percent in the private sector. In Michigan, union membership dropped to 16.6 percent from 17.5 percent a year earlier, a decline of 42,000.
"The labor movement has done a lot of great things for our country. It's not about being anti-union in my view. It's about being pro-worker," said Snyder, who contends more companies will consider moving to or expanding in Michigan because of the right-to-work law.
Multiple lawsuits have been filed to strike down the law. Legal challenges in neighboring Indiana have been unsuccessful. Snyder said Thursday that right-to-work is "done" and "over with."
Legal action also has been taken regarding the recent approval or consideration of lengthy contracts for employees of some of Michigan's public universities and school districts that will allow unions to keep collecting dues long after the right-to-work law is in effect. In response, House Republicans have initially approved budgets cutting state aid to schools and local governments that sign contracts that, in some cases, are 10 years long. Snyder and Senate leaders appear less open to the tactic.
The law cannot be overturned directly in a referendum, yet unions could decide to back a 2014 ballot measure that effectively overturns it. The law's backers expect that a ballot initiative is coming to coincide with the re-election bids of Snyder and GOP legislators next year.
"In all candor, March 28th is just another day leading up to the real showdown that will take place in November 2014," said Scott Hagerstrom, director of the conservative group Americans for Prosperity-Michigan.
"Michigan could be big labor's last stand. If right-to-work can stand in Michigan, it can stand anywhere," he said.


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(1) In order for students to get a ticket for this event (which doesn't even guarantee entry), the University is requiring them to go to the Obama campaign website, provide contact information, and then click on a button that says "I'm In!" In a very real sense, we are forcing them to become participants in the campaign and express their support for the campaign. This is SOP for a campaign event, but it should not be for the University. Having a president visit as an educational public event is one thing. Forcing students to declare their support for a presidential candidate in order to attend the event on campus is quite another. Should we be in the business of helping a campaign farm thousands of email addresses?Note: You also have to give your phone number, which for many/most students means a cell phone number, something that I think most people see as more private, since it doesn't go into the public phone directories.
(2) The location of the rally could not be more disruptive. It hardly seems appropriate to shut the central campus down for an entire day, closing offices and seriously disrupting our mission. I have several colleagues who had scheduled exams for Thursday. Surely there were other venues that would pose less disturbance.
(3) I have learned that classified staff will be required to take a vacation or personal day, arrange to work at another location on campus, or work at home. This is what pushed me into the seriously annoyed category. The UW is penalizing staff (or, at a minimum, dramatically inconveniencing them) for an event that they had no say in organizing or scheduling. That's wrong.
(4) The University is finessing the central point of this visit. It is not a Presidential visit. It is not a Presidential speech. It is a campaign event. It is a major event when a president visits UW. It is, I'm sure you'll agree, somewhat less major when the president comes not as a president, but as a candidate.
This is not a partisan issue (my objections would be the same if it were Romney). I think this should have been handled differently, in a way that welcomed the President but did not diminish our basic purpose.ADDED: Ken teaches a course called "American Presidency," and you can see the subjects covered and the readings assigned here. Here's "The Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency," which is only $33 if you go for the Kindle version.


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Michael Bolling, 23, is a Chicago Cubs fan from Chicago. His love for baseball stems from his mother, who is from the Dominican Republic and got Michael to start playing baseball at the age of four. He played Division II baseball at Lewis University while earning a degree in Multimedia Journalism, and signed a professional contract to play for the Frontier League's Schaumburg Boomers. With his playing days behind him, Michael now works as a baseball video evaluator for NCSA Sports. He lives only six blocks from Wrigley Field, and still gets teary-eyed when he thinks back to what might have been in 2003.
Stanten Jones, 23, is a Chicago White Sox fan from Flossmoor, Ill., who will be leaving his job as a part-time retail sales associate at Nike to join the Fan Cave. He played baseball at Southern University and South Suburban College before transferring the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff to finish out his career, where he also earned a degree in communications. Stanten credits an early memory of seeing Frank Thomas hit a grand slam for his love of baseball. Outside of baseball, Stanten has a passion for learning about travel and food. He enjoys figuring out ways to try new cuisines on a budget.
Serena Sanchez, 21, is a Los Angeles Dodgers fan from Ontario, Calif. Her friends and family call her "Fedex," and she loves her fast food job delivering burgers. She and her dad are long-time Dodgers season-ticket holders, and according to Serena, "all of Chavez Ravine knows me." Luckily, her manager often lets her leave work early so she can get to Dodger Stadium for the first pitch. In addition to her bedroom, which she has turned into a "Dodgers shrine," Serena has also taken over a separate closet in her parents' house just to house all her blue and white outfits. Serena has been dancing for her entire life, and especially loves hip-hop dance
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I'm in my second term of library school. My experience so far is still mostly about foundations and required courses, learning the common language of the library, and coming to grips with core concepts and basic skills. I've had some theory, I've had some history, and I'm getting my first sense of current practices and conventions. These are all necessary and valuable things. These are crucial elements of my understanding of librarianship and my future role as a professional. This is what library school is for.
But sometimes, I just want more.
I mean, we're library scientists, right? So where are our research facilities? Where are the experiments? Shouldn't at least a few of us be library mad scientists? (I know some librarians who totally have the crazy eyebrows for it.) So who do I have to see to get my lab coat and my tesla coil?
The reality is that library school, as valuable as it is, is always going to be mostly about the past and the present, with at most wary/hopeful glances in the general direction of the future. That's not criticism, it's just the nature of the thing. If we library students want to know more about what's going on closer to the cutting edge, we're just going to have to go look for it ourselves. And isn't that what Hack Library School is all about?
Here are a few places to start:
Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory:
This is the stuff, right here. This group of developers and librarians work under the auspices of the Harvard Law School as a sort of think tank for the avant garde of librarianship. And they're doing incredibly cool stuff, from the very promising open-source ShelfLife collection navigator to their consistently great podcasts. This is where I go when I need a solid dose of experimental librarianship.
Harvard Library Lab:
Not to be confused with the above, this Library Lab is run by the Department of Scholarly Communication and is more concerned with supporting research projects in the library and information sciences. A few minutes spent poking around the current projects page always leaves me with new things to think about.
Library Test Kitchen:
Yep, these folks are at Harvard, too, this time a seminar being run out of the Graduate School of Design. The Test Kitchen looks at the future of the library from a perspective of space, use, and the experience of being in a library. Ethereal-sounding stuff, but it also has a lot to do with why many of us came to love the library in the first place.
I'm using InfoCamp as a representative for a whole array of similarly-structured (un)conferences around the country, because I just recently got to attend my first (which was, by the way, co-organized by Hack Library School's own Turner Masland; Zack is pretty familiar with the concept as well.) InfoCamps are springing up all over the place, and that's awesome, because they generate the sort of cross-pollination between information nerds that can ultimately lead to great things for all of us. At the one we just had here in Portland, I heard some talks that were exciting, some that were outside the normal library territory but really useful, and one I didn't even begin to understand. But even getting a look into other ways of thinking about information was more enlightening and inspiring than I'd imagined it could be.
Library Boing Boing:
Hopefully most of us have heard about this one: the ALA is partnering with tech/culture uberblog BoingBoing to support, celebrate, and collaborate on all sorts of cool new library-type things. This one is still in the development phase, but isn't that the best time to get involved?
The natural extension of hacking library school is to hack the library itself. Where do you go when you want something a little more futuristic than what your MLS program provides?
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