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Featured Spartans
Our alumni are powering Silicon Valley and their communities worldwide! Each month we feature a member of the Alumni Association and provide a glimpse into why graduates are proud Spartans. Learn more about where their SJSU degrees have taken them and read about their favorite memories while at San José State!
Archived Members
February 2014:
Barbara Jo Navarro
January 2014:
Gadiel Morantes
December 2013:
Donna Covey
November 2013:
Caitlin Kniazewycz
October 2013:
Shaun Tai
Calvin Worsnup
Role: System Engineer, Blackboard Inc.
Major: B.S., Computer Science, '13
Why are you proud to be a Spartan? I am proud to be a Spartan because I believe that our university brings students many incredible opportunities that are unattainable in any other community. The potential for development and networking at SJSU is enormous.
Favorite SJSU memory: I really enjoyed my time serving as the Associated Students President. I really felt I hit my full stride as a student and gave back to my community in the fullest way I could.
What activities/organizations were you involved in as a student? I was on the Board of Directors for Associated Students for 3 years. I was an Orientation Leader assisting Freshman register for classes and become acquainted with the University. I was an involved member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon for 4 years.
Which SJSU professor/staff had the greatest impact on you and why? I would have to give kudos to the incredibly supportive staff in Student Involvement. They always gave me a space to talk, vent, and share my vision and ideas. It was through many of their programs that I grew into a leader and a mentor. I especially want to thank Rich Kelley, the Directory of Student Involvement, for advising me through my time in Associated Students.
What influenced your success in getting a job after college? I was inspired by SJSU's trials in educational technology. It blew my mind that using EdX and the Flipped Classroom, we massive reduced failure rates in an Electrical Engineering Course from over 40% failing to under 9%. That was incredible, I knew that I wanted to help contribute to these technologies.
What is one of your memorable career accomplishments? I've only just started my career, so I hope to have much more to share with you in 5 years. Currently I would say that my most memorable accomplishment is being able to be a lead on a major project within our team and delivering ahead of time. While at the same time being able to develop new friendships and mentor high school students through the Spark Program in San Francisco.
Advice to current SJSU students: My best advice I can give is to take advantage of every opportunity. If there is a meetup or networking opportunity, take advantage of that. If your friends randomly decide to have a beach bonfire in Santa Cruz, GO! These are the times you will learn and grow the most, so seize every opportunity each day brings.


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jwmitchell wrote:The alternative installer ISO with UEK2 kernel has passed QA and is in the process of being released to E-Delivery now. However, as it's month-end, it takes longer than usual to get an ISO published. Once it's published, we'll also be publishing a README on how to prepare the network sources to support a btrfs-based root filesystem.
However I still don't see how to do this. Just as with the full DVD install there isn't an option to use btrfs when laying out the fileystem in the installer. Anyone know how to do this?
952239 wrote:Yeah, that's my fault: I wrote the release notes, but forgot to change them when I held the release of the UEK2-boot ISO. The ISO now creates a btrfs snapshot on install, which is more aligned with best practices when using btrfs for a root filesystem. Obviously, you can install as normal and convert to btrfs, but that is way more tedious than installing onto btrfs from the start. I apologise for the inconvenience, and not editing the release notes. However, given that we're hopefully only a few days away from having the new ISO published and how long it takes to update release notes, I may just leave them in place for now. :)
Dude - I think you're missing our point. It was stated in the release notes it could be done upon install, create btrfs root filesystem, when 6.3 was released. We now know, this was not the case, the supplemental ISO is lagging behind - that's fine, it's just the documentation was wrong. I will follow your guide above; thank you for posting that.
Dude wrote:You don't want to convert with the normal RHCK install DVD: the version of btrfs in the Red Hat kernel is woefully old, which is why we don't use it and why we didn't modify anaconda to allow you to create btrfs root filesystems with it. Please wait until the UEK2-based boot ISO is released, both for normal installs and conversions.
My point is that I see no point to bother setting up a network install just for the purpose to setup a root btrfs filesystem. That's why I posted instructions how to convert the existing root partition using the boot.iso image. But, whatever suits....
Dude wrote:Yes, you can use the current Fedora Live CD without a problem. That's what I did during my demos and until the UEK2-based boot ISO was created.
Ok, I see. Old btrfs version with the existing boot.iso... That's certainly a point. I was actually assuming it was uek2, but did not check. Would it be ok to use the latest Fedora Live CD?
Anyway, I still wonder why it is more tedious to convert the existing root partition. Think I'd still rather convert the file system using the new boot.iso with UEK2 kernel, when it is released, rather than setting up a network install. Ok, LVM is another thing. Is there a network install available with a ULN subscription?You can do a network install without any subscription: ULN is not a network install source. Just copy the contents of the OL6U3 DVD to somewhere on your network that is accessible via HTTP or NFS. Boom, you're done. For the UEK2-based boot ISO, you then need to replace the install images in that source with the new ones from the Boot ISO. We will be releasing a README/how-to with the ISO when it's released.
Dude wrote:Yes, we've been talking about having network-based install sources on public-yum.oracle.com, but haven't made a decision yet. Keep in mind that corporate installs would usually use local install sources over anything on the Internet, as they would already have servers for patching and provisioning. Most corporates already use network-based installs using PXE anyway. It's far more likely that this would be used by small companies rather than large ones.
I think it would be great if Oracle Public yum or another service could also provide a Oracle Linux network install. Perhaps it won't necessarily mean more bandwidth considering that people do not need to download the entire distribution images anymore. Setting up another http or file server may be restricted in some corporate vLAN's.

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Downtown to Begin Worship Services October 21stOctober 2012
by John Lin
On October 21st, Redeemer Downtown will begin worshipping as a congregation at the Metropolitan Pavilion, which is located at 125 West 18th Street, between 6th and 7th avenues. We are thrilled to be launching both a 9:30AM and a 5:00PM worship service that day. This day marks the beginning of our journey together as a congregation. Because of the outpouring of gifts through the RENEW campaign and the additional funding raised during the Downtown Challenge (over $1.6MM, over 1400 givers), Redeemer is able to begin serving Downtown in a way we never have been able to before. My entire team and I, thank you for your support: financially, through prayer, encouragement and your commitment to furthering the work of the gospel in this City we call home.
I've talked to many lay leaders who are eager to invite neighbors and colleagues to church and are ready to serve in a way that points newcomers to the gospel. Many of you are part of the founding team that will leave the comforts of an established congregation and move out to start something new. More than merely a convenient place for us to attend church, this will become a more effective platform from which we can serve the City, engage our neighbors and seek the peace and prosperity of Downtown.
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Stanadyne was a brand that Moen valves were sold under. The parts, including the escutcheon plate, are standard Chateau parts. You can replace the plate and handles with identical. At one time, Moen was offereing some escutcheons and handles in the Monticello style and finish options which fit the Chateau valve. I don't know if these are still available.
The basic Chateau parts are commonly available in chrome, PB, and BN.
The tub spout probably unscrew. Check the bottom near the wall to see if there is a set screw.


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CardioQ-ODM (oesophageal Doppler monitor) (MTG3)
NICE has developed medical technology guidance on the CardioQ-ODM.
NICE medical technology guidance addresses specific technologies notified to NICE by manufacturers. The 'case for adoption' recommendations are based on the claimed advantages of introducing the specific technology compared with current management of the condition. This 'case' is reviewed against the evidence submitted and expert advice. If the case for adopting the technology is supported, then the technology has been found to offer advantages to patients and the NHS. The specific recommendations on individual technologies are not intended to limit use of other relevant technologies which may offer similar advantages.
NICE has said that the CardioQ-ODM oesophageal doppler monitor can be used in people who are having major surgery or high-risk surgery. It can also be used in people having surgery who would otherwise be monitored with a more invasive method. Hospital teams may want to use the CardioQ-ODM oesophageal doppler monitor because the evidence shows that it reduces the use of central venous catheters, complications after surgery and the length of stay in hospital without increasing the need for readmission to hospital or repeat surgery.
The guidance was amended in May 2011 to clarify that the study by Gan et al. (2002) included patients having general surgery.
Other information
How this guidance was produced
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This page was last updated: 12 August 2013
Guidance formats
CardioQ-ODM (oesophageal Doppler monitor)
Information for the public
Implementation tools and resources
- Costing template
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- QIPP case study: Oesophageal Doppler-guided fluid management during major surgery - reducing postoperative complications and bed days (11/0013)
- Podcast
- Tools developed by the NHS Technology Adoption Centre, which complement this NICE guidance
See this guidance in practice
The summary of the key recommendations in the guidance written for patients, carers and those with little medical knowledge and may be used in local patient information leaflets.
Quick Reference Guide
The quick reference guide presents recommendations for health professionals
NICE Guidance
The published NICE clinical guidance, contains the recommendations for health professionals and NHS bodies.
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SCRA Publications
The Community Psychologist (TCP) is the Society's newsletter, provides an informal venue for SCRA members to exchange ideas and information. It includes briefreports and reflections on the practice of community research and action, as well as updates and announcements of interest to members. Regular features include columns on women's issues, public policy, international issues, students' concerns, racial and cultural affairs, and job opportunities. SCRA members receive three to four issues of TCP each year. Jump to the bottom of the page for full access to pdf versions.
TCP Editor
Maria Chun
University of Hawaii
The American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP) is the official journal of SCRA. The goals of the journal are to foster scholarly dialogue and debate around issues of theory, empirical research, and intervention in the field of community psychology; to document the work of community psychology and to influence its evolution; to foster an understanding of the interdependence of research and practice; and to seek out ways to engage varied perspectives in scholarly debate (Trickett, 1993).
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Search for native plants by scientific name, common name or family. If you are not sure what you are looking for, try the Combination Search or our Recommended Species lists.
Pennsylvania sedge is a low, clumped, grass-like perennial, 6-12 in. high, with a cluster of brown seed capsules clinging high on the stem. Foliage is pale-green in spring and summer, turning sandy-tan in fall.
Rhizomatous turf-forming with pale-green arching leaves. Forms ground cover in forest or savannah (oak/pine or sugar maple) Prefers light-textured soils. Resistant to deer grazing. (Ontario Native Plants 2002)
Small perennials & grasses for a naturalized lawn
October 26, 2009
I am looking for native perennials and grasses that will grow no more than 8 inches tall that can be used in a naturalized lawn in Michigan. What 5 plants would be your first choice?
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Groundcover to reduce erosion for shady area in New York
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We live on a lake with gravelly and clay soils, lots of wind and little sun. I am looking for a native ground cover that will help reduce erosion over some of the steep slopes facing south (under shad...
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Plants for a steep lot in Tennessee
August 07, 2008
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In ShortEstablished in 1982, this chain gained a following for its laid-back atmosphere and generous portions. Patrons settle into comfortable booths and tables in dining rooms…
9436 Waterfront Drive, West Chester
Upscale, casual Italian chain serves a variety of fresh, made-to-order pizzas, pasta dishes and other specialties.
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All around disappointment. This is one of the best examples of small time trying to be big time I have experienced lately. The service at the bar was horrible with the exception…
9484 Civic Center Blvd., Cinncinnati
Pulled pork has a kind of chunky texture instead of pulled. The sauce was very processed tasting. But the side dishes are about the best in town. Must try the chili mac. I have…
8103 Cincinnati Dayton Rd, West Chester
In ShortThese bright white storefronts are accented with green and red details and photos of the chain's boyish founder. The simple menu focuses on standard pies and…
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In ShortFounded in 1982, the Kolache Factory serves a contemporary version of a stuffed pastry roll that originated in Eastern Europe hundreds of years ago. Kolaches are available…
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FBI agents have raided the offices of a Florida doctor accused of providing underage prostitutes to U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, FOX News reports.
But Menendez's press office has again denied the accusations in a statement issued Wednesday.
Agents descended Tuesday night on the West Palm Beach practice of eye doctor Solomen Melgen, a long-time friend of Menendez who has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to his campaigns, as well as other high profile politicians.
The agents hauled away vans full of evidence as part of an investigation believed to be focused on Melgen's finances.
He owes more than $11 million dollars to the IRS and is accused of providing Menendez with free trips on his private jet, as well as under-age prostitutes during visits to his Dominican Republic mansion.
Menendez has vehemently denied all allegations since the scandal broke in November, calling the allegations "fallacious."
The statement issued Wednesday says, "Dr. Melgen has been a friend and political supporter of Senator Menendez for many years. Senator Menendez has traveled on Dr. Melgen's plane on three occasions, all of which have been paid for and reported appropriately. Any allegations of engaging with prostitutes are manufactured by a politically-motivated right-wing blog and are false."
The story was originally reported in the conservative newspaper, The Daily Caller, with the paper claiming to have interviewed two of the prostitutes.
However, according to a dossier of emails leaked to the press, the allegations stem from correspondence between an anonymous tipster and a Miami FBI agent.
The emails reveal the agent was never able to meet with the tipster or speak to him on the phone, and was never able to find or interview the prostitutes, FOX News reports.
Democrats have dismissed the allegations as a conservative smear campaign.
Flames are tearing through a South Jersey forest right now, and this wildfire is only expected to grow.
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uWiki is a minimalistic wiki engine. All actions are implemented in external scripts. These scripts are wikified, and thus the wiki is extensible by itself. All dynamic access is protected through ACLs. Wiki content and Web content can be mixed in the same directory hierarchy. Markup engines and revision control are plugin-able. Currently, asciidoc as the markup engine and git as the revision control backend are provided. Subdirectories can form independent sub-wikis with own revision control. Features like distributed pages that syncronize between wikis, spam protection, and batch jobs to schedule mirroring of other content (bittorrent, git, rsync, and wget) are in planning.
A LED matrix controller.
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Garden Party was the first Pfaltzgraff pattern to offer coordinating, rather than matching, salad/accent plates. The trellis design complements the flowers in the dinner plate and provides a mix and match look for your table. The most important piece of your dinnerware set! Not just for your main meal, but as a small serving plate. Be sure to have plenty on hand for family celebrations or when extra guests arrive. 10 1/2" dia.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by queenmom70 All my favorite colors I looked long and hard at a lot of Pfaltzgraff patterns and even though I bought Tea Rose in the past I wanted something different yet something that would go well with that pattern; Garden Party works for me; love the colors and the backgrund is not a stark white but more on the beige tone.. December 23, 2013
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Morris County Library > Reference > Scholarships
About FoundationsAccording to the Foundation Center, there are over 36,000 private grantmaking foundations currently operating in the United States. Together they contribute over $10 billion in grants each year. Most larger public libraries stock several foundation grant directories and handbooks to guide you through the grantseeking process. The New Jersey State Library has compiled a list of information sites for charities and philanthropies.
The Basics
Are you a first time grantseeker? Try Foundation Center online tutorials (some free). The Center also offers seminars in all five of their offices located throughout the country. (Closest north Jersey office is New York City.) See also the National Network of Grantsmakers and their Common Grant Application (CGA).
Foundation Directories
Foundations by name
990s (non-profits' IRS filings)
Foundation home pages (try foundationname.org as web address, for example: redcross.org )
In New Jersey, ask for the Mitchell Guide and the New Jersey Grants Guide. These directories contain contact information, basic financial data and sample grants.
Government Money
The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance is the most comprehensive directory of U.S. grant and loan programs. The print version of the Catalog is available at many public libraries. New programs, application deadlines and service updates are tracked by the NonProfit Gateway. Most major federal programs, such as the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Science Foundation have their own homepages.
New Jersey
Dept of Community Affairs--grants announcement and applications
Dept of Health--forms, directory of grant programs and cost principles
Dept of Education--discretionary and entitlement grants
Dept of Labor--worker retraining grants
For data to support your grant application, use the MCL statistics web.
News Sources
Both the NonProfit Times, Philanthropy News Digest, and The Chronicle of Philanthropy are online, full text, searchable and free! These trade publications are excellent sources for practical tips, industry trends, statistics, and employment opportunities.
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Flash mob
A flash mob (or flashmob)[1] is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then quickly disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment, satire, and artistic expression.[2][3][4] Flash mobs are organized via telecommunications, social media, or viral emails.[5][6][7][8][9]
The term, coined in 2003, is generally not applied to events and performances organized for the purposes of politics (such as protests), commercial advertisement, publicity stunts that involve public relation firms, or paid professionals.[7][10][11] In these cases of a planned purpose for the social activity in question, the term smart mobs is often applied instead.
First flash mob[edit]
The first flash mobs were created in Manhattan in 2003, by Bill Wasik, senior editor of Harper's Magazine.[7][9][12] The first attempt was unsuccessful after the targeted retail store was tipped off about the plan for people to gather.[13] Wasik avoided such problems during the first successful flash mob, which occurred on June 17, 2003 at Macy's department store, by sending participants to preliminary staging areas—in four Manhattan bars—where they received further instructions about the ultimate event and location just before the event began.[14]
More than 130 people converged upon the ninth floor rug department of the store, gathering around an expensive rug. Anyone approached by a sales assistant was advised to say that the gatherers lived together in a warehouse on the outskirts of New York, that they were shopping for a "love rug", and that they made all their purchase decisions as a group.[15] Subsequently, 200 people flooded the lobby and mezzanine of the Hyatt hotel in synchronized applause for about 15 seconds, and a shoe boutique in SoHo was invaded by participants pretending to be tourists on a bus trip.[9]
Wasik claimed that he created flash mobs as a social experiment designed to poke fun at hipsters and to highlight the cultural atmosphere of conformity and of wanting to be an insider or part of "the next big thing".[9] The Vancouver Sun wrote, "It may have backfired on him ... [Wasik] may instead have ended up giving conformity a vehicle that allowed it to appear nonconforming."[16] In another interview he said "the mobs started as a kind of playful social experiment meant to encourage spontaneity and big gatherings to temporarily take over commercial and public areas simply to show that they could".[17]
Precedents and precursors[edit]
In 19th-century Tasmania, the term flash mob was used to describe a subculture consisting of female prisoners, based on the term flash language for the jargon that these women used. The 19th-century Australian term flash mob referred to a segment of society, not an event, and showed no other similarities to the modern term flash mob or the events it describes.[18]
In 1973, the story "Flash Crowd" by Larry Niven described a concept similar to flash mobs.[19] With the invention of popular and very inexpensive teleportation, an argument at a shopping mall—which happens to be covered by a news crew—quickly swells into a riot. In the story, broadcast coverage attracts the attention of other people, who use the widely available technology of the teleportation booth to swarm first that event—thus intensifying the riot—and then other events as they happen. Commenting on the social impact of such mobs, one character (articulating the police view) says, "We call them flash crowds, and we watch for them." In related short stories, they are named as a prime location for illegal activities (such as pickpocketing and looting) to take place.
Flash mobs began as a form of performance art.[13] While they started as an apolitical act, flash mobs may share superficial similarities to political demonstrations. In the 1960s, groups such as the Yippies used street theatre to expose the public to political issues.[20] Flash mobs can be seen as a specialized form of smart mob,[7] a term and concept proposed by author Howard Rheingold in his 2002 book Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution.[21]
Use of the term[edit]
The first documented use of the term flash mob as it is understood today was in 2003 in a blog entry posted in the aftermath of Wasik's event.[12][14][22][23] The term was inspired by the earlier term smart mob.[22]
Flash mob was added to the 11th edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary on July 8, 2004 where it noted it as an "unusual and pointless act" separating it from other forms of smart mobs such as types of performance, protests, and other gatherings.[3][24] Also recognized noun derivatives are flash mobber and flash mobbing.[3] Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English defines flash mob as "a group of people who organize on the Internet and then quickly assemble in a public place, do something bizarre, and disperse."[25] This definition is consistent with the original use of the term; however, both news media and promoters have subsequently used the term to refer to any form of smart mob, including political protests;[26] a collaborative Internet denial of service attack;[27] a collaborative supercomputing demonstration;[28] and promotional appearances by pop musicians.[29] The press has also used the term flash mob to refer to a practice in China where groups of shoppers arrange online to meet at a store in order to drive a collective bargain.[30]
The city of Braunschweig, Germany has stopped flash mobs by strictly enforcing the already existing law of requiring a permit to use any public space for an event.[31] In the United Kingdom, a number of flash mobs have been stopped over concerns for public health and safety.[32] The British Transport Police have urged flash mob organizers to "refrain from holding such events (silent disco) at railway stations".[33]
Crimes associated with flash mobs are rare but occasionally make international headlines. Referred to as flash robs, flash mob crimes, crime mobs, or flash mob violence by the media,[34] these mobs start with the intent or lead to the destruction of private property, rioting, violence, and personal injury. Mark Leary, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University, said, "the illegal and violent component is also not unlike ordinary crimes where a group of people do something illegal. What social media adds is the ability to recruit such a large group of people, that individuals who would not rob a store or riot on their own feel freer to misbehave without being identified."[35] Law enforcement and governments have used several methods to combat these crimes with the use of pepper spray, mass arrests, and criminal charges.[36][37] In the United States, a few cities experienced waves of crimes committed by groups of people.[17] In Philadelphia the riots drew harsh condemnation from mayor Michael Nutter and resulted in curfews being imposed in two local districts.[38][39][40]
Bill Wasik has expressed "surprise by the new focus of some of the gatherings" and said it is "terrible that these Philly mobs have turned violent".[17] Advocates and organizers of legal flash mobs consider "flash mob crime" and similar neologisms used by the media to be inaccurate and damaging to the reputation of flash mobs.[41]
See also[edit]
|Look up Flash mob in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Flash mobs.
- ^ "Facebook flashmob shuts down station". CNN.com. February 9, 2009.
- ^ "Va-va-voom is in the dictionary". BBC. July 8, 2004. Retrieved May 5, 2010.
- ^ a b c "definition of flash mob from Oxford English Dictionaries Online". Oxford University Press. July 8, 2004. Retrieved May 9, 2010.
- ^ "Mixed feelings over Philadelphia's flash-mob curfew". BBC. August 12, 2011.
- ^ Athavaley, Anjali (April 15, 2008). "Students Unleash A Pillow Fight On Manhattan". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 19, 2008.
- ^ Fitzgerald, Sean D. (March 21, 2008). "International Pillow Fight Day: Let the feathers fly!". National Post (Canada). Retrieved May 19, 2008.
- ^ a b c d Judith A. Nicholson. "Flash! Mobs in the Age of Mobile Connectivity". Fibreculture Publications/Open Humanities Press. Retrieved July 15, 2009.
- ^ "Time Freezes in Central London". ABC News. April 30, 2008. Retrieved January 25, 2009.
- ^ a b c d Sandra Shmueli (August 8, 2003). "'Flash mob' craze spreads". CNN.
- ^ "Manifestul Aglomerarilor Spontane / A Flashmob Manifesto". December 5, 2004. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
- ^ Ed Fletcher (December 23, 2010). "Failed choral 'flash mob' may not have qualified for term". Toronto Star. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
- ^ a b Wasik, Bill (January 2012). "#Riot: Self-Organized, Hyper-Networked Revolts—Coming to a City Near You". Wired. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
- ^ a b Goldstein, Lauren (August 10, 2003 (April 18, 2003 issue)). "The Mob Rules". Time Europe 162 (7). ISSN 0040-781X. OCLC 1767509. Retrieved March 14, 2007.
- ^ a b Wasik, Bill (March 2006). "My Crowd, or, Phase 5: A report from the inventor of the flash mob" (Subscription). Harper's Magazine: 56–66. ISSN 0017-789X. OCLC 4532730. Retrieved February 2, 2007.
- ^ Bedell, Doug. "E-mail Communication Facilitates New 'Flash Mob' Phenomenon", Knight Ridder Tribune Business News, July 23, (2003)
- ^ McMartin, Pete (July 12, 2008). "Waterfight in Stanley Park, but are flash mobs starting to lose their edge?". Canwest Publishing Inc. Retrieved July 14, 2008.
- ^ a b c Ian Urbina (March 24, 2010). "Mobs Are Born as Word Grows by Text Message". The New York Times. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
- ^ "The Flash Mob". Cascades Female Factory Historic Site. Female Factory Historic Site Ltd. Retrieved October 23, 2007.
- ^ Nold, Christian (2003). "Legible Mob". p. 23.
- ^ Cosmic Trigger III, Robert Anton Wilson, 1995, New Falcon Publications
- ^ Chris Taylor (March 3, 2003). "Day of the smart mobs". CNN.
- ^ a b McFedries, Paul (July 14, 2003). "flash mob". WordSpy.com. Logophilia Limited. Retrieved March 14, 2006.
- ^ Savage, Sean (June 16, 2003). "Flash Mobs Take Manhattan". cheesebikini. Retrieved March 14, 2007.
- ^ "Henry inspires English dictionary". BBC. July 8, 2004. Retrieved May 9, 2010.
- ^ "flash mob". Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.6). Retrieved April 27, 2007.
- ^ "Putin protest by flash mob". BBC News. February 28, 2004. Retrieved May 3, 2007.
- ^ Musil, Steven (February 11, 2005). "This week in Web threats: The Internet is always good for a little fear and loathing". CNET News (CNET). Archived from the original on July 13, 2012. Retrieved May 3, 2007.
- ^ Biever, Celeste (March 29, 2004). "A Flash mob to attempt supercomputing feat". New Scientist. ISSN 0262-4079 OCLC 2378350.
- ^ Gardner, Elysa (February 27, 2004). "Avril Lavigne, in the flesh, at 'flash mob' appearances". USA Today. Retrieved May 3, 2007.
- ^ "China's new shopping craze: 'Team buying'". Christian Science Monitor. December 5, 2007. Retrieved February 12, 2008.
- ^ "Flash mobs banned in Braunschweig". The Local Europe. July 28, 2009. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
- ^ Robert Leigh (May 19, 2008). "Videos: Police step in to prevent Facebook flash mob events". Daily Mirror. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
- ^ "Rail police criticise flash mobs". BBC News. February 26, 2009. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
- ^ Lawyers.com. "Flash Mobs Step From Dancing to Crimes".
- ^ Leary, Mark. "Why People Take Part in Violent Flash Mobs". Duke University News and Communications. Retrieved September 6, 2011.
- ^ (dead link). chattarati.com. Retrieved December 30, 2009[dead link]
- ^ Maegan Smith 247-4751 (December 11, 2009). "Flash mob takes Old Dominion University campus by surprise". The Newport News Daily Press.
- ^ "'Flash-mob' violence on U.S. streets – John King USA". CNN. August 11, 2011.
- ^ "On the Radar: Meteor shower, flash-mob curfew, custody death – This Just In". CNN. August 12, 2011.
- ^ Zimmerman, Ann; Bustillo, Miguel (October 21, 2011). "'Flash Robs' Vex Retailers". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
- ^ Lawyers.com. "Flash Mobs Step From Dancing to Crimes". Retrieved August 19, 2011.
Further reading[edit]
- Agar, Jon (2003). Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone. Cambridge: Icon.
- Carey, James (1989). Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society. New York: Unwin Hyman.
- "Smart mob storms London". BBC News. August 8, 2003. Retrieved August 11, 2009.
- Dickey, Christopher (March 22, 2004). "From 9/11 to 3/11". Newsweek. pp. 27–28.
- Losowsky, Andrew (March 25, 2004). "A 21st century protest". The Guardian (London). Retrieved October 3, 2010.
- Melloan, George (August 12, 2003). "Whoever Said August was a Dull Month?". Wall Street Journal. pp. A13.
- Shmueli, Sandra (August 8, 2003). "Flash mob craze spreads". CNN.com/Technology (CNN). Retrieved August 11, 2009.
- "Dadaist lunacy or the future of protest?". The Social Issues Research Centre. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
External links[edit]
- Flashmob Documentary Podcast from kablam.tv
- "Manhattan Mob Meets its Maker" – Wired News
- Flashmobs around the world - Flashmob.com


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Now among the hottest of cigar brands, Nashville's C.A.O. began life as a pipe maker
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A waitress brings another round of beers to the big table at El Torito, the best restaurant in Danlí, Honduras. The churrasco steak dinner is a recent memory, and the men reach for dark cigars as they continue talking about tobacco. The snap of several lighters is heard, then cigar smoke begins to rise as raindrops sneak through the leaky roof, plopping to the green tablecloth.
The party includes three career tobacco men, two with decades of experience, but the star of the table is one of the youngest men at the dinner—34-year-old Tim Ozgener. The wide-eyed, energetic former comedian comes to life in the dark of the room, bringing some of the men to tears with his jokes.
Ozgener once called the comedy clubs of California his home, but today he spends increasing time in Central America as a vice president of C.A.O. International Inc., the Nashville, Tennessee, company that owns some of the hotter brands on the American cigar market. Once a sleepy company that made most of its money from pipes and humidors, C.A.O. has redefined itself over the past decade, abandoning the humidor industry, pushing pipes to the back burner and immersing itself in the cigar business. The reason was simple economics.
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Cano, who emigrated to America in 1961, graduated from Columbia University as an engineering major and wished to stay in New York City, but that changed when he met Esen, his wife-to-be. "I love New York," he says. "When you follow a woman in life, many strange things happen to you. She wanted to raise her family in a quiet place."
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C.A.O. made a first attempt at the cigar business, in 1980, with a brand called Casa de Manuel. "We learned everything not to do," says Cano. Consistency problems compounded the difficulties of a dying market, and Cano retreated to pipes and the company's fledgling humidor business. C.A.O.'s first humidors were antique boxes that the company retrofitted with humidification devices, and later it had humidors made specifically for C.A.O. by local Nashville artisans. The company even had its own humidification system. In 1995, C.A.O. began to sell cigars again, a Honduran smoke made by Nestor Plasencia called simply C.A.O.
The cigar boom was in full swing, and getting a consistent product wasn't easy. The early C.A.O.s didn't light the world on fire. Tim remembers being embarrassed during his visits to retailers. "The guys would say, 'Tim, we like you, but look at this box of C.A.O. cigars.' One would be chestnut-brown, the other would be yellow."
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The ADA's popular resources, Something to Smile About: Careers in the Dental Profession, have been revamped for 2010—with newly organized career toolkits, complete with comprehensive educational information targeting students of specific age groups and free downloads from ADA.org.
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Lately "mom" stuff has been up for me. Obviously Mother's Day, and all the ads and emails and reminders to fete the person responsible for birthing us, is bringing "Mom" and all things maternal to mind. However, I don't know if I would be thinking so much about my non-mom status if it were just a regular Mother's day. But these are not ordinary times for me. A few weeks ago I was contacted by the editor of Huffington Post to have two of my posts on infertility featured in their honoring of "National Infertility Awareness Week". I was honored, as the editor told me that they were looking for stories that featured women who thrived after infertility. I was delighted to be asked but even more delighted to be imagined as a "post-infertility thriver". I don't think I have ever been described as a "thriver" before and it was an adjective that I was happy to add to my self-concept.
Having two pieces on Huffington Post, one about the etiquette of infertility and the other about finding peace after infertility, and being interviewed on Fox news about the etiquette of infertility, has brought up a lot of my feelings about being a non-mom, feelings that had been lying dormant or at least taking a long nap of repression and the thriving and all. The mommy-ache feelings got extra activated when very kind people—women whom I have never met and who only know me through my two posts on Huffington–offered to have a baby for me.
I can tell you that getting an email in which strangers tell you that they want to have a baby for you is a very surreal experience. I felt a melange of emotions in response to these emails. I felt grateful, touched, sad, and other emotions that are harder to explain…emotions like confusion and some mild paranoia. I read the emails and told Keith that there were people who wanted to have my baby. He took his glasses off and cocked his head in an attempt to make sense of the words he just heard.
"Huh?" He said.
"Yeah", I repeated, "People want to have my baby." I laughed.
Only after the laughter I started to cry. I started to cry because I could imagine having a baby with Keith. I began to cry because I wish I had met him earlier. I wish we had met when I was young enough to still think having a baby was a good idea( I am objectively too old now. It is true for me. Maybe some people are okay with having a baby at 47, I am not). I cried because of the imaginary daughter that Keith and I talk about. The daughter that I am overprotective of and the daughter that he imagines trying to overprotect from my overprotection. I cried because I'll never meet that girl.
I know these strangers who offered to have a baby for me where doing something kind, selfless, and unspeakably generous. And the sad part was that the only answer to their kind offer was "no". It's too late. My window for traditional motherhood is closed, sealed and permanently shut. Sure, I know, there are lots of ways to mother, and I feel grateful to have the opportunities I do to mother. I get to mother patients, friends, and even, on occasion, my own mother. But I will never be anyone's "Mommy". That may not be news to you. You likely know that. I know that. But there are other times I KNOW it. And today, on Mexican Mother's day, I really know it.
This mother stuff and the pain of not being one—it does get easier with time. But there are times when it hits hard and there are times when the pain feels as fresh as the first time I realized that I would never be a mother. Today is one of those days.
If you haven't seen my pieces on the Huffington Post they are here and here.
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rivalry Why the nature/nurture debate won't go
awayBy Steven Pinker
WHEN THE BRITISH EDUCATOR Richard Mulcaster wrote in 1582
that''Nature makes the boy toward, nurture sees him forward,''
he gave the worlda euphonious name for an opposition that has
been debated ever since. People'sbeliefs about the roles of
heredity and environment affect their opinions on anastonishing
range of topics. Do adolescents engage in violence and substance
abusebecause of the way their parents treated them as toddlers?
Are people inherentlyselfish and aggressive, which would justify
a market economy and a strong police, orcould they become
peaceable and cooperative, allowing the state to wither and
aspontaneous socialism to blossom? Is there a universal
aesthetic that allows great artto transcend time and place, or
are people's tastes determined by their era andculture? With so
much at stake, it is no surprise that debates over nature and
nurtureevoke such strong feelings. Much of the heat
comes from framing the issues as all-or-none dichotomies,
andsome of it can be transformed into light with a little
nuance. Humans, of course, arenot exclusively selfish or
generous (or nasty or noble); they are driven by
competingmotives elicited in different circumstances. Although
no aspect of the mind isunaffected by learning, the brain has to
come equipped with complex neural circuitryto make that learning
possible. And if genes affect behavior, it is not by pulling
thestrings of the muscles directly, but via their intricate
effects on a growing brain.By now most thinking people have
come to distrust any radical who would seem tosay that the mind
is a blank slate that is filled entirely by its environment, or
thatgenes control our behavior like a player piano. Many
scientists, particularly those whodon't study humans, have gone
further and expressed the hope that thenature-nurture debate
will simply go away. Surely, they say, all behavior emergesfrom
an inextricable interaction between heredity and environment
duringdevelopment. Trying to distinguish them can only stifle
productive research and leadto sterile
polemics. But moderation, like all things, can be taken
to extremes. The belief that it's simplisticto distinguish
nature and nurture is itself simplistic. The contributions of
thisopposition to our understanding of mind and society are far
from obvious, and manysupposedly reasonable compromises turn
out, under closer scrutiny, to be anythingbut. Let's consider
some of the ''reasonable'' beliefs of the radical
moderates. 'Reasonable'' Belief No. 1: No one
believes in the extreme ''nurture'' positionthat the mind is a
blank slate.Certainly few people today endorse the blank
slate in so many words, and I suspectthat even fewer believe it
in their heart of hearts. But many people still tacitly
assumethat nurture is everything when they write opinion pieces,
conduct research, andtranslate the research into policy. Most
parenting advice, for example, is inspired bystudies that find a
correlation between parents and children. Loving parents
haveconfident children, authoritative parents (neither too
permissive nor too punitive) havewell-behaved children, parents
who talk to their children have children with betterlanguage
skills, and so on. Everyone concludes that to rear the best
children, parentsmust be loving, authoritative, and talkative,
and if children don't turn out well, it mustbe the parents'
fault. But there is a basic problem with this
reasoning, and it comes from the tacitassumption that children
are blank slates. Parents, remember, provide their childrenwith
genes, not just a home environment. The correlations between parents
andchildren may be telling us only that the same genes that make
adults loving,authoritative, and talkative make their children
self-confident, well behaved, andarticulate. Until the studies
are redone with adopted children (who get only theirenvironment,
not their genes, from their parents), the data are compatible with
thepossibility that genes make all the difference, the
possibility that parenting makes allthe difference, or anything
in between. Yet in almost every instance, the mostextreme
position - that parents are everything - is the only one researchers
entertain.Another example: To a biologist the first question
to ask in understanding conflictbetween organisms of the same
species is ''How are they related?'' In all socialspecies,
relatives are more likely to help each other, and nonrelatives are
more likelyto hurt each other. (That is because relatives share
genes, so any gene that biases anorganism to help a close
relative will also, some of the time, be helping a copy
ofitself, and will thereby increase its own chances of
prevailing over evolutionary time.)But when the psychologists
Martin Daly and Margo Wilson checked the literature onchild
abuse to see whether stepparents were more likely to abuse their
children thanbiological parents, they discovered not only that
no one had ever tested the possibility,but that most statistics
on child abuse did not even record the information -stepparents
and biological parents were lumped together, as if the difference
couldn'tpossibly matter. When Daly and Wilson did track down the
relevant statistics, theirhunch was confirmed: Having a
stepparent is the largest risk factor for child abuseever
examined.The finding was by no means banal: Many parenting
experts insist that the hostilestepparent is a myth originating
in Cinderella stories, and that parenting is a ''role''that
anyone can take on. For agencies that monitor and seek to prevent
child abusethe finding of a greater risk with stepparents could
be critical information. Butbecause of the refusal to entertain
the idea that human emotions are products ofevolution, no one
had ever thought to check.''Reasonable'' Belief No. 2:
For every question about nature and nurture, thecorrect answer
is ''Some of each.'' Not so. Take the question,
''Why do people in England speak English, and people inJapan
Japanese?'' The ''reasonable compromise'' would be that the Japanese
havegenes that make it easier for them to learn Japanese (and
vice versa for the English),but both groups must be exposed to
the language to acquire it fully. This compromise,of course, is
not reasonable at all; it's false. Immigrant children acquire the
languageof their adopted home perfectly, showing that people are
not predisposed to learn thelanguage of their ancestors (though
they may be predisposed to learn language ingeneral). The
explanation for why people in different countries speak
differentlanguages is 100 percent environmental.And
sometimes the answer goes the other way. Autism, for example, used
to beblamed on ''refrigerator mothers'' who did not emotionally
engage with their children.Schizophrenia was thought to be
caused by mothers who put their children in ''doublebinds''
(such as the Jewish mother who gave her son two shirts for his
birthday, andwhen he turned up wearing one of them, said, ''The
other one you didn't like?'').Today we know that autism and
schizophrenia are highly heritable, and though theyare not
completely determined by genes, the other likely contributors
(toxins,pathogens, chance events in brain development) have
nothing to do with parenting.Mothers don't deserve ''some'' of
the blame if their children have these disorders, asa
nature-nurture compromise would imply; they deserve none of
it.''Reasonable'' Belief No. 3: Disentangling nature and
nurture is a hopelesstask, so we shouldn't even
try.On the contrary, perhaps the most unexpected and
provocative discovery in20th-century psychology came from an
effort to distinguish nature and nurture inhuman development.
For a long time, psychologists have studied
individualdifferences in intellect and personality. They have
assessed cognitive abilities usingIQ tests, statistics on
performance in school and on the job, and measurements ofbrain
activity. They have assessed people's personalities using
questionnaires, ratingsby other people who know them well, and
tallies of actual behavior such as divorcesand brushes with the
law. The measures suggest that our personalities differ in
fivemajor ways. We are to varying degrees introverted or
extroverted, neurotic or stable,incurious or open to experience,
agreeable or antagonistic, and conscientious
orundirected. Where do these differences come from?
Recall those flawed studies that test for theeffects of
parenting but forget to control for genetic relatedness.
Behavioralgeneticists have done studies that remedy those flaws
and have discovered thatintelligence, personality, overall
happiness, and many other traits are partly (thoughnever
completely) heritable. That is, some of the variation in the traits
among peoplein a given culture can be attributed to differences
in their genes. The conclusioncomes from three different kinds
of research, each teasing apart genes andenvironment in a
different way. First, identical twins reared apart (who share
theirgenes but not their family environment) are far more
similar to each other thanrandomly selected pairs of people.
Second, identical twins reared together (whoshare their
environment and all their genes) are more similar than fraternal
twinsreared together (who share their environment but only half
their genes). Third,biological siblings reared together (who
share their environment and half their genes)are more similar
than adoptive siblings (who share their environment but none of
theirgenes).In each comparison, the more genes a pair of
people share (holding environmentmore or less constant), the
more similar they are. These studies have been replicatedin
large samples from many countries, and have ruled out the
alternative explanationsthat have been proposed. Of course,
concrete traits that patently depend on contentprovided by the
home or culture are not heritable at all, such as the language
youspeak, the religion you worship in, and the political party
you belong to. But theunderlying talents and temperaments are
heritable: how proficient with language youare, how receptive to
religion, how hidebound or open to change. So genes
play a role in making us different from our neighbors, and our
environmentsplay an equally important role. At this point most
people leap to the followingconclusion: We are shaped both by
our genes and by our family upbringing: how ourparents treated
us and what kind of home we grew up in.Not so fast. ''The
environment'' and ''our parents and home'' are not the same
thing.Behavioral genetics allows us to distinguish two very
different ways in which ourenvironments might affect us. The
shared environment is what impinges on us andour siblings alike:
our parents, our home life, and our neighborhood (as compared
withother parents and neighborhoods). The unique environment is
everything else:anything that happens to us over the course of
our lives that does not necessarilyhappen to our
siblings. Remarkably, study after study has failed to
turn up appreciable effects of the sharedenvironment - often to
the shock and dismay of the researchers themselves, whostarted
out convinced that the nongenetic variation in personality had to
come fromthe family. First, they've found, adult siblings are
equally similar whether they grewup together or apart. Second,
adoptive siblings are no more similar than two peopleplucked off
the street at random. And third, identical twins who grew up in the
samehome are no more similar than one would expect from the
effects of their sharedgenes. Whatever experiences siblings
share by growing up in the same home in agiven culture makes
little or no difference in the kind of people they turn out to
be.The implications, drawn out most clearly by Judith Rich
Harris in her 1998 book ''TheNurture Assumption,'' are
mind-boggling. According to a popular saying, ''as the twigis
bent, so grows the branch.'' Patients in traditional forms of
psychotherapy whileaway their 50 minutes reliving childhood
conflicts and learning to blame theirunhappiness on how their
parents treated them. Many biographies scavenge throughthe
subject's childhood for the roots of the grown-up's tragedies and
triumphs.''Parenting experts'' make women feel like ogres if
they slip out of the house to workor skip a reading of
''Goodnight Moon. '' All these deeply held beliefs will have to
berethought. It's not that parents don't matter at all. Extreme
cases of abuse andneglect can leave permanent scars. Skills like
reading and playing a musicalinstrument can be imparted by
parents. And parents affect their children's happinessin the
home, their memories of how they were treated, and the quality of
the lifelongrelationship between parent and child. But parents
don't seem to mold their children'sintellects, personalities, or
overall happiness for the rest of their lives.The
implications for science are profound as well. Here is a puzzle:
Identical twinsgrowing up together have the same genes, family
environments, and peer groups, butthe correlations in their
traits are only around 50 percent. Ergo, neither genes
norfamilies nor peer groups, nor the interactions among these
factors, can explain whatmakes them different. Researchers have
hunted for other possible causes, such assibling rivalry or
differential treatment by parents, but none has panned out. As
withBob Dylan's Mister Jones, something is happening here but we
don't know what it is.My own hunch is that the differences
come largely from chance events indevelopment. One twin lies one
way in the womb and stakes out her share of theplacenta, the
other has to squeeze around her. A cosmic ray mutates a stretch
ofDNA, a neurotransmitter zigs instead of zags, the growth cone
of an axon goes leftinstead of right, and one person's brain
might gel into a slightly different configurationfrom another's,
regardless of their genes. If chance in development is
to explain the less-than-perfect similarity of identicaltwins,
it says something interesting about development in general. One can
imagine adevelopmental process in which millions of small chance
events cancel one anotherout, leaving no difference in the end
product. One can imagine a different process inwhich a chance
event could derail development entirely, or send it on a chaotic
pathresulting in a freak or a monster. Neither of these results
occurs with a pair ofidentical twins. They are distinct enough
that our instruments can pick up thedifferences, yet both are
healthy instances of that staggeringly improbable,
exquisitelyengineered system we call a human being. The
development of organisms must usecomplex feedback loops rather
than prespecified blueprints. Random events candivert the
trajectory of growth, but the trajectories are confined within an
envelope offunctioning designs for the
species. These profound questions are not about
nature vs. nurture. They are about nurturevs.
nurture: about what, exactly, are the nongenetic causes of
personality andintelligence. But the questions would never have
come to light if researchers had notfirst taken measures to
factor out the influence of nature, by showing thatcorrelations
between parents and children cannot glibly be attributed to
parenting butmight be attributable to shared genes. That was the
first step that led them tomeasure the possible effects of
parenting empirically, rather than simply assumingthat those
effects had to be all-powerful.The human brain has been
called the most complex object in the known universe. Nodoubt
many hypotheses that pit nature against nurture as a dichotomy, or
that fail todistinguish the ways in which they might interact,
will turn out to be simplistic orwrong. But that complexity does
not mean we should fuzz up the issues by sayingthat it's all
just too complicated to think about, or that some hypotheses should
betreated a priori as necessarily true, necessarily false, or
too dangerous to mention. Aswith other complex phenomena like
inflation, cancer, and global warming, when itcomes to the
development of a human being we have no choice but to try
todisentangle the causes. Steven Pinker is Peter
de Florez Professor of Psychology at MIT and author of''The
Language Instinct,'' and ''How the Mind Works." This essay is
adapted inpart from his latest book, ''The Blank Slate.''


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