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sachachua asks: "I'm a sophomore taking up computer science, and since I'll be graduating pretty soon - March 2003 - I'm trying to figure out what to do in order to better prepare myself for the future. I'm really into programming, and I'm considering going for a practicum or an internship in some software company that can really help me develop my potential. I do a lot of web work with PHP, Java and Perl, and I pick up new languages easily. =) However, it's a bit difficult because I'm way over in the Philippines, which is a Third World country. Since it's so far away, my campus doesn't get visited by all those companies that court other graduates. And even if they do manage to find me, there are all sorts of visas to arrange. But the international exposure will be really great, and I want to meet other geeks. =)"
"I'm also really interested in computer science education and I want to do research. I'm thinking about going for graduate and post-graduate education, and I've been looking for professors who have done research in CS Ed. It's still kinda challenging because education abroad is expensive, so I have to have a good enough record for financial aid. I want to be a teacher, and I want to improve the way computer science is being taught. I know it's _really_ difficult, especially since I'm just a student right now, but if I work hard at it I know I'll find a way.
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Professional Aviation Associates of Atlanta, Ga., has received its International Traffic in Arms Regulations (Itar) certification, the company announced here at NBAA'12. Itar certification allows PAA to supply rotables to military aviation operators of both fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, as well as parts and tooling to foreign militaries. The U.S. government requires all manufacturers, exporters and brokers of defense articles, defense services or related technical data to be Itar compliant.
Florida-based Professional Aircraft Accessories (PAA) will formally unveil its expanded operation at Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville during this year's NBAA show. The FAA/EASA Part 145-certified repair station offers approximately 57,000 sq ft of production space, significantly bolstering the company's landing gear repair, accessories, instruments and avionics service capabilities.
Professional Aviation Associates (PAA) has formed an alliance with Masco Service of Southlake, Texas. PAA, an international supplier of Beechcraft King Air, Beech 1900 and Beechjet parts and accessories, also offers a comprehensive rotable exchange program and inventory support for Agusta, Bell, Eurocopter, MD and Sikorsky helicopters. Masco is an avionics and instrument repair station specializing in the helicopter industry.


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This is a wonderful neighborhood elementary - all of the teachers we meet seemed bright and helpful. The principal was outstanding.
Barksdale Elementary has a well established reputation as a top quality public school. I have had at least one child there since it opened and we have always been happy with the academic programs, the staff, and the principal's leadership. Our children thrived at Barksdale.
My family experience with the school at Barksdale has not been a great one. The school does not offer enough for a child that needs extra help. I am a parent that goes to every meeting for my child and monitors my child's progress in school. Always seeking what's best for my child. The school doesn't offer different resources for a child unless the parent is heavily involved in the PTA . Most parents are working parents and don't have time to volunteer. Most schools keep up with a child's progress and offer different resources to help the family better educate the child. At Barksdale this empathy to help families is not established.
I have three children who are/were students at Barksdale. The teachers are absolutely the best. They are well-prepared, work hard and care very much about our children's success. My only disappointment is with the Principal, who focuses way too much on how things appear to be, rather than than how they really are. Conversations among herself and her staff (about other students and/or their parents, etc.) are readily over-heard by students and parents who are standing in common areas. Her behavior is not what I'd expect from an elementary school principal.
The Children of Barksdale are very blessed to have such wonderful teachers and such a wonderful principal. My child is thriving at Barksdale!
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Alkan (previously known as Number1 Boss) is a high ranked RuneScape player from Ontario, Canada near Waterloo Region. He is currently rank 4 (passing S U O M I in October 2014) overall and rank 389 overall on OldSchool Runescape. He is believed to be the 4th person to achieve 5.2b xp. He also owns an alternate account named "Number1 Boss", on which he is trying to accomplish a Max Cape within 100 days playtime. He completed this goal on 21 may 2013 with 71 days and 1 hour playtime, and mainly uses that account for OldSchool Runescape. On his alternate account he is rank 12880, although he is now trying to get a Completionist Cape on it. He is in a clan called True Maxed. He has a YouTube channel with daily videos.


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Trevor Moore
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The music education section department at Northeastern State University recently collaborated with local Heritage Elementary School principal Lacie Davenport to create a workshop on job interviewing skills for NSU's Collegiate Chapter of the National Association for Music Education. On students on April 29, 2013, Mrs. Davenport met with music education students and provided meaningful insights for music teachers preparing to enter the field of education. Music education coordinator Dr. James Lindroth released this statement:
"Our music education department was excited to coordinate this event with Tahlequah Public Schools and Mrs. Davenport. We are planning more collaboration with Mrs. Davenport's school and other schools in the Tahlequah public schools to provide the best experiences for our music education students. We thank Mrs. Davenport for her time and efforts to help our students become successful in the field of education."
Principal Lacie Davenport is an alumnus of Northeastern State University. She received her undergraduate degree in 2000 and earned her Masters degree in 2006.
Several student singers participated in a recital with guest artist Lenena Brezna and voice professor
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Rebecca Yates
placed third in her division in the 2012 National Association of Teachers of Singing state competition.
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(BA, Performance, 2012) was named a semi-finalist in the 2012 Naftzger Young Artists Audition, sponsored by the Wichita Symphony Orchestra. He was accepted to the Master of Music program at the Longy School of Music in Boston, MA. Hamada is a student of
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Congratulations to this winners of the 2011-12 NSU Concerto Competition: 1st prize:
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Chris Beard
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The NSU Baroque Trumpet Ensemble (Timothy Moore, Kristen Layne, Jared Wallis, Jospeh Tiger, and Dr. Jason Dovel) performed at the 2011 Midwest Trumpet Festival in Kansas. They are the only Baroque (Valveless) trumpet ensemble in Oklahoma and were the only such ensemble at this event.
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Michiko Saiki
(BA, Performance, 2011), has been accepted into the Master of Music degree program in Piano Performance at Bowling Green State University, University of Colorado-Boulder, University of Denver, and University of Wisconsin-Madison. She will be attending Bowling Green State University in the fall of 2011. Saiki is a student of
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Tyler Acord
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Harvey's Gainsbourg Comes Back Around
It seems like it is always reissue time, but here is news of a return engagement that is very worthwhile: "Intoxicated Man (1995) and Pink Elephants (1997) are Mick Harvey's interpretations of the songs of legendary singer, songwriter and poet Serge Gainsbourg and are the first major works translating Gainsbourg's infuential work from French to English. The double CD collection will include two unreleased tracks, 'Dr Jekyll' and 'Run From Happiness.'" I was there when this happened the first time, and the claims made for these records are true: They really did inspire interest in Gainsbourg in a lot of people who had never heard of him before. [...]
Prince And The Computer Revolution
While we await the next credit bubble, and with it the circumstances that justify pursuit of my master's thesis, "Metaphors of Technology in R&B," plz allow me to share some notes for the chapter "Prince//The Komputer."1.
Prince was an early adopter. He got down with l'ordinateur in the early 80s, and quickly established himself as a pioneer of romantic cybernetics. On this extended version of "Computer Blue," from 1983, we hear a Wendy (Lisa?) monologue around the 10 min. mark:
Narrow-minded computer, it's time someone programmed you. It's time you learned. Women are not butterflies, they're computers too. Just like you, Computer Blue.
Chauvinistic computer, it's time [...]
What The People Who Were In The Bands Your Older Brother Liked Are Up To These Days
The Emperors Of Wyoming, "Rebirth Of The Cool"
You don't have to know the original track from the Afghan Whigs' Uptown Avondale EP to enjoy this countryish cover from Butch Vig's new band, but why would you want to remain unaware of something that will so clearly make your life a little bit better? WHY I ASK YOU? [Via]
'Wigwag' Revisited
It was not a likely name for a magazine. A kid's magazine, maybe, but a bold attempt to supplant the New Yorker? Eyebrows were raised. And yet Wigwag was launched anyway, in the fall of 1989. Editor Alexander Kaplen wrote in his introductory note: "The word isn't made up, and the name's no accident. This magazine has a lot to do with home—who lives where, what they do there, what they do there." The definition, according to Kaplen, is, "to signal someone home." Kaplen launched the magazine as a response to the ousting of long-time editor William Shawn in 1987 (detailed extensively by Elon Green last week). If [...]
Veruca Salt, "The Museum of Broken Relationships"
Huh, first Courtney and now this. We are probably weeks away from the Moonpools & Caterpillars reunion.
An Incredibly Long Conversation With Tim Rutili Of Califone
If you don't like reading interviews about musical performers taking mushrooms, washing meat out of semi trucks, and about biblical figure Moses creaming his robe, Billy Corgan's friends, Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock's jaw, or first girlfriends dying way, way too soon, then just don't click on this, or touch it or however you were planning on interacting with this, just stop.
If you like Califone, you know that their new record Stitches is very good, and you love how the music they make is an amalgamation of organic, folksy-type string instrumentation combined with technology (and by technology, I mean broken, misused/abused technology or often just the sound of electronic [...]
Canadians Stoned
More young Canadian kids smoke pot than any young kids from any other country, according to a recent Unicef study. This will not surprise anyone who remembers Len.


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I picked up the Origin Standard Version, what about you? Did anybody throw down for the crazy box set?
Other than the Physical items, Store and the in-game items mentioned are there any other benifits to the CE? If so, what?
Will you be able to purchase the VIP Bracelet from a vendor with credits? (The in-game store/Collectors Edition)
will CE items be available to all your cahracters or just the first? (STAP, Mouse droid, store)
Does anybody have some info/screenshots of the Mouse droid and Digital Edition pet side by side?
Here's the situation. The game comes out the 20th. I pre-ordered it ( CE ) but am leaving the 18th to another country ( for some vacation. ) While I'm...
I know the collector's edition TOR comes with the soundtrack. So why would they release the entire soundtrack for free download online?
I pre-ordered the CE, and I know it comes with a STAP. That said, how much does it cost to train riding at level 25?
I couldn't afford the deluxe or CE version of swtor at the time (had wow sub to pay). I bought the standard with silly color cystall. Can you buy any ...
What do you guys think about these EU guys that have already received the CE box Dude A Glasses Dude B Fake? or true? It's not really the physical box...
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1. Sandra Spicher said on Feb. 15, 2011
Congratulations, Abhijat! I still remember the first story I read by you in class—about a series of executions that took place over a string of days. It took my breath away.
Feb. 15, 2011
AUSTIN, Texas — Abhijat Joshi, an alumnus of the Michener Center for Writers at The University of Texas at Austin and Bollywood's hottest screenwriter, has been named the Graduate School's Outstanding Graduate Alumnus for 2011.
Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies Victoria Rodríguez will present the award at the doctoral convocation in May.
Joshi, who earned a master of fine arts degree in 2002, has written for Bollywood's biggest blockbusters of all time, including "Mission Kashmir," "Lage Raho Munna Bhai" and "Three Idiots." Bollywood is the popular term used for the Hindi-language film industry in India. Joshi's most recent work is the much anticipated English language debut film, Broken Horses (to be filmed in Mexico and parts of Texas). He has been awarded numerous honors for his screenwriting, including a National Film Award and three Zine Cine Awards (shared with producer Vinhu Vinod Chopra, the "Steven Spielberg of India," and director Rajkumar Hirani) for "Lage Raho Munna Bhai."
"Lage Raho Munna Bhai" is one of the biggest critical and popular successes to come out of Indian film. As screenwriter, Joshi worked closely with Chopra to develop scenes and dialog for the film, which is credited with driving a 400 percent increase in sales of literature by and about Gandhi. The movie received India's highest film honor — the National Film Award — and was given a standing ovation when it was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007.
"Three Idiots" recently received awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Story, Best Screenplay, Best Dialogue and Best Supporting Actor at the Filmfare Awards in India. Joshi was awarded the India Abroad Publisher's Special Award for Excellence at the 2009 India Abroad Person of the Year Awards gala.
Joshi balances his screenwriting with his position as an associate professor in the Department of English at Otterbein College in Ohio where he teaches screenwriting and playwriting among other courses.
For more information, contact: Kathleen Mabley, Office of the President, 512-232-3633.
1. Sandra Spicher said on Feb. 15, 2011
Congratulations, Abhijat! I still remember the first story I read by you in class—about a series of executions that took place over a string of days. It took my breath away.
2. Ganesh said on April 12, 2011
Thanks for the info and Congratulations to Abhijat. Check out the India website showcasing the best of India, fairs and festivals, monuments, entertainment, bollywood, travel and tourism.
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Storify: Another Take On Stream Media
A few mentions by Scoble and I have taken a look at Storify. It is a cool tool for aggregating snippets of material into a mixin sort of post, which is delivered as a bit of embedded javascript.
Here's a 'story' created using Storify:
I used the 'Storify This' bookmarklet to pop up an editor with bits of info for the story:
The UX of the tool is straightforward, a drag and drop means to pull elements into a storyline, and optional text sections between them.
Storify attempts to help us pull bits together we find in the stream, tie a string around them, and throw the new collation back into the flow.
You can see the result of that story here, and of course this story starts with a Storified embed as well.
The Bottom Line
Storify is a tool geared to web-based writers, in a sense like my use of Tumblr. And like Tumblr, it publishes my 'stories'. See http://storify.com/stoweboyd. So this is a backwards entrant into the changing publishing tools space.
We are clearly moving past the days of a clear delineation between reading, writing, and commenting. In a stream based world, everything seems to start as a response to something else, and every word we post spreads out through the ether and sparks a dozen reflections.
The product Amplify tried to tap into this, and has done so to some extent, although that is too tied to the feeling of 'bookmarks with annotations'.
Storify attempts to help us pull bits together we find in the stream, tie a string around them, and throw the new collation back into the flow.
I think that there is promise here, but I see obvious parts missing:
- What about the collecting of bits prior to having a specific story? Storify overlaps with Instaper and Feedly style 'read later' functionality, which in my case might be better called 'write about this later'.
- Where there is javascript there much come styling: the embed works reasonably well in my blog, but that won't be the case for all.
- I like the feature to notify anyone who is cited in a story. I tried the Google search capability, but Storify would benefit from a Zemanta-style recommendation engine. (PS I don't know if Zemanta can read content in the embed.)
In a perfect streaming world we could collate bits together like this, and the meta data about the existence of that collation would stream back to the components. This is like the social gestures on Tumblr, where I see a note whenever someone reblogs or likes a post of mine. And that chain of gestures continues outward, so I am informed when my post is reblogged, even from someone else's blog.
So, Jason Calacanis should know that his tweets are appearing in my story, and I guess the response through Twitter is appropriate, since he may not have a Storify account to be notified through. But the mechanism to let him know should be more like a retweet than a mention.
In a world of information fragments, flotsom and jetsom hurtling through a streaming world, there should be a uniform way to indicate that a 'post' has been reused: either in its original independent form, or as an element of a larger collation. In this case, that a tweet (or a group of tweets) were added to a 'story'.
Just as Twitter today keeps tabs of how many times a post has been retweeted (do they?) and Tumblr indicates how many times a post has been reblogged, we need to keep the history of things that are included in others.
I did an experiment on Storify, and adding a story (my Calacanis story) to another story (my Storify story) does not lead to some more elaborate presentation — like a nesting in an outline — and does not lead to a 'reposted' indicator anywhere.
While it sounds complex, there reality is simple: reposting and reuse of posts in other people's stories — tweets, blog posts, bookmarks, whatever — should be indicated on both sides of the reuse, and in a consistent fashion. This is a return to the Tumbleback idea I floated in 2009 (see Tumblebacks: A Call For Interoperable Tumbling). Since it is more general than just 'Tumbling' I am proposing to rename tumblebacks as postbacks, in a nod to the old blogging technique of trackbacks. Note however, the distributed history issue was never handled in trackbacks, so more work is needed.
One last thought: Storify has a minimal analytics capability set up, tracking the clicks onto stories, but I would like a more complex analytics view, showing which story bits are getting accessed.
- There Are Stories Out There On Twitter, Flickr, YouTube - Build Them With Storify (techcrunch.com)
- Storify filters the Internet information firehose into easy-to-read stories (venturebeat.com)
- Storify Filters the Internet Information Into Easy-To-Read Stories (nytimes.com)
- Robert Scoble: Back in March I wrote a post about the seven needs of real-time curators. Over the next week or so no less than three companies are shipping services that will… (scobleizer.com)
WordPress Releases 'Like' And 'Reblog': We Need TumbleBacks, People!
WordPress is following the lead of Tumblr and other blog platforms (like Typepad) and adopting at least one part the 'poststream' model that Tumblr pioneered. The Tumblr poststream model has two 'sides':
The Outside View — When Tumblr users are looking at other Tumblr-hosted blogs, they see several controls that are not visible to non-users. Along with the blog content, they see 'like', 'reblog', 'follow' and 'dashboard' icons, like this:
The 'like' button (the heart) is a way to create a haptic gesture that winds up on the post's 'notes' list, a history of all the ways that the post has been touched by others.
The 'reblog' button makes a copy of the post on the user's blog, and adds that action to the original post's notes history.
Clicking the 'follow' adds the blog to the user's list of followed blogs, which is a perfect segue to the second view in the poststream model.
The Inside View — When the user logs into Tumblr (or when they clink on 'dashboard' after being logged in), they are presented their Tumblr dashboard, which aggregates posts from all the blogs that the user is following, plus posts from their own blog, and notes that other users' actions have left on posts. Here's the third page of my Tumblr dashboard from this morning (I wanted to show a note and the page controls):
The 'like' and 'reblog' controls are displayed on all the posts in the poststream, and work in the same way as described.
You can see that wakeupfromthedramscene has started following my UnderpaidGenius blog. Other notes also are displayed, although their are none in this page of my poststream: reblogs, likes, and answers to questions (any text post that ends with a question mark allows for answers to questions to be accumulated).
WordPress Adopts (Part Of) The Outside View Of The Poststream Model
WordPress announced (without any reference to Tumblr) support for 'like' and 'reblog' — a subset of the outside view.
Today we're introducing a new like and reblog feature enabled across the whole of WordPress.com. When you're logged in to WordPress.com and viewing a post you'll notice a new link in the admin bar at the top of the page. If you really enjoyed the post then you can click the "Like" link to signify this. This will then show the author how many readers liked the post.
Once you've liked the post, the link will change to "You like this" and you'll be presented with some new options via a drop down menu. You can also access this menu at any time in the future by hovering over the "You like this" link in the same way other menu items work.
Wordpress offers up a list of the posts that the user has 'liked' but doesn't seem to implement anything like the outside view. However, I have to imagine that they will trend in that direction, simply based on competitive pressures.
A Growing Divide In Blogistan, And The Need For Tumblebacks
I guess that all WordPress users will be happy with the new features. But as soon as they become used to 'like' and 'reblog' they are going to experience a real annoyance: when they land on a Tumblr blog post they will not be able to 'reblog' or 'like' it. Why? Because the competitors in the blog platform space do not seem to want to play together nicely.
When I first started to gripe about this divided world, last year, David Sippey of Typepad said that he would be willing to support the development of some interoperable means to support cross-platform interoperability, which I started to call 'Tumblebacks'. But I got nowhere with the folks at Tumblr.
A Call For Interoperable Tumbling: Tumblebacks
I would like to expand briefly on what I think is called for.
- A convention — like trackbacks — needs to be established, so that a message can be sent by one platform, like Typepad, to another, like Tumblr, on behalf of an author. I propose we call this 'tumbleback', plural 'tumblebacks'.
- Let's say I want to reblog a post from a Tumblr blog on my Typepad blog. I might use a Typepad bookmarklet that is Tumblr-aware. When I select a post on a Tumblr blog, and use the reblog capability in the bookmarklet, it would a/ post the reblog on my Typepad blog, and b/ send a message to Tumblr, indicating the reblog.
- The cross-platform reblog would look much like a regular, within a single platform reblog, with the name and URL of the source blog displayed.
- The message sent from Typepad on my behalf would be received by Typepad, and the fact that I reblogged the post could be included on the 'notes' history associated with the source blog post. This means that readers of the original post would see that I had reblogged it.
- Tumblr might send a message back to Typepad including information that would allow Typepad to display the notes history of the source blog on the post I created. Alternatively, this could be provided by an API. Likewise, as other Typepad users reblog my post Typepad could pass these notes along. In this way the full reblog history (and favorites or likes, as well) could be maintained at the original source post, and shared by everyone.
- I think some new microsyntax is called for, that would indicate the platform, author, and other metadata associated with these cross-platform trails. More to follow on that.
- The addition of downstream reblogs and likes/favorites could be added to the streams of participants by the various services.
It's a non-trivial technical challenge, and can't be simply accomplished with RSS, as some have suggested. But most importantly, we need a united Blogistan, not three or ten separate worlds, all implementing essentially similar services but not in an interoperable way.
We should all exert pressure on these vendors to agree to interoperability around the blogstream social dimension of blogging. I would be happy to participate in a working group on the subject, and I have had some support — like Michael Sippey — but otherwise, nothing.
While the vendors may think that their interests are served by non-interoperability, consider the instant messaging marketplace, where the three major players — AOL, Yahoo, and Microsoft — effectlively lost their importance when web 2.0 generation social tools came along. Had they done the opposite back in the late 90's and early '00s — created an interoperable set of standards for IM and opened that platform up for developers to build on — they might have benefitted from the social revolution instead of being sidelined by it.
The blog vendors may wind up in the same spot.
Twitter API and Microblogging: What About Tumblebacks?
Like Fred Wilson and Dave Winer, I am extremely excited about the moves by Tumblr and Wordpress to leverage the Twitter API as a way to get tumbleblogging into Twitter clients.
Tumblr's David Karp explains on the Tumblr blog:
Inspired by Wordpress' seriously clever use of Loren Brichter's new Tweetie options, we're launching our own Tweetie and Twitterrific compatible API. This Twitter-like API should make it easy for a lot of existing Twitter clients to start supporting Tumblr.
The really cool thing - because our following models follow a lot of the same principles, we've been able to take advantage of a ton of native features:
- Retweeting = Reblogging
- Replying = Reblogging w/ commentary
- Favoriting = Liking
- "@david" = "http://david.tumblr.com/"
- Conversations = Reblogs
To try out Tumblr in Tweetie 2, tap "Accounts" → "+" → enter your username and password → tap the gear icon → enter "http://tumblr.com/" in both fields.
For Twitterrific, tap "Sources" → "Edit" → "Add a New Account" → enter your username and password → tap "Advanced" → set "Base URL" to "http://tumblr.com/" and disable "SSL".
via staff.tumblr.com
I confess I am more drawn to the Tumblr example since I maintain a number of active Tumblr blogs. I will leave aside the tactical issues of that integration for another post, one probably only interesting to Tumblr heads. For this post I want to focus on the ups and downs of this use of the Twitter API.
Karp's handwave equivalences in the post, where he equates '@david' and 'http://david.tumblr.com', conceal a host of real semantic differences in the various platforms involved in this seeming convergence of many sorts of 'microblogging'. As just one example, David Karp is 'david.tumblr.com' at Tumblr, but not '@david' on Twitter (David Noël, in Germany). But that's not central.
What is central to this discussion is the differences in tumbling and twittering. The two systems share (for all intents and purposes) the open follower model, where any user can opt to follow any other. (One caveat is blocking followers, but leave that to one side as a nit.)
There is also a loose equivalence between reposting and retweeting, which was more tight before Twitter reworked the semantics of retweeting. (Note that the adoption of Twitter fundamentals as the basis of a trans-microblogging suite of social conventions suggests a new reason for Twitter to not fool with semantics of core operations, like reposting/retweeting. But I will leave the Retweet Fail controversy to one side, too.)
But some social gestures and other semantics don't equate nicely across the tumbleblog/Twitter divide. For example:
- Tumblr is a typed blogging system, where quotes, images, videos, audio, and text posts are distinct, and have different capabilities integrated into the user experience for authors and readers. It is the richness of media types and there supports that makes Tumblr (and its competitors) so interesting and engrossing an experience. And they can be arbitrarily long: not limited to 140 characters. Twitter has only one type of tweet, which are all limited to 140 characters. To the extent that Twitter supports media objects, it does so through URLs referencing images, audio, and other media objects. So in a sense, Tumblr has a tighter integration with media, while Twitter's is very loose.
- Tumblr provides explicit history of social gestures — such as 'likes' and reposts — for every post. These appear in a user's stream like other posts. So if you were to 'like' a post of mine on Tumblr, I would see that and other social gestures in my stream, and when users append new text to repostings I would see those as a sort of comment in those messages. (PS An interesting model for Twitter to look at instead of their new approach to Retweet, by the way.)
What I have proposed is a new convention, called Tumblebacks, which would require extension made to these companies APIs, so that cross-following, cross-streaming, cross-posting, and cross-gestures would be supported.
But these issues aside, there seems to be a real possibility of a mashed up mixed up world, based on tumbleblogging platforms leveraging the Twitter API.
But there is a hidden problem. All of these systems are unintegrated.
I recently wrote a post calling for a cross integration of the user experience of tumbleblogging platforms, and not I can include Twitter, as well.
Here's the issue: I can't follow a Typepad blogger (or blog, more correctly) inside of Tumblr, or vice versa. I have to login to two different systems, and interoperability is manual, at the best. I have to manually cut and paste stuff from Michael Sippey's Typepad-hosted blog into my Tumblr-hosted Underpaid Genius blog. And I have two different sets of followers and people that I follow in Tumblr and Typepad. Oh, and in Twitter, too.
This is analogous to the wonderful world of instant messaging, where AIM, Yahoo, and MSN have fought for years to not support a general protocol for instant messaging interconnection. At one time telephone companies would not allow calls to people outside their own network, either, and the US Government gave a monopoly to Bell to solve that mess.
What I have proposed is a new convention, called Tumblebacks, which would require extension made to these companies APIs, so that cross-following, cross-streaming, cross-posting, and cross-gestures would be supported. For a detailed discussion of the proposed convention, see here.
Various companies — Six Apart, Postling, Soup.io, and others — have expressed an interest in discussing this convention, and seeing where it would lead. One contact at Posterous — I can't find the tweet — expressed puzzlement about the idea, and said they weren't a microblogging company. He said something like 'We're a real blogging company,' or the like.
Tumblr's John Maloney and I have had an email exchange about the Tumblebacks Convention, but he seems to think that these other companies are principally or only interested in getting their hooks into the large and growing community of Tumblr users.
[Update: John Maloney emailed today (18 Dec) following this post to say he was only making a wisecrack, and he and his team are going to take a long look at Tumblebacks and circle back with an official response.]
However, my interest is on behalf of users, like me, who are decidedly not better off in a divided world.
We, the users of all these products, which form the paving stones of our shared online city, we would be better off with Tumblebacks implemented.
The vendors of Twitter and tumbleblog clients — like Tweetie, Tweetdeck, Blogo, and Twitterific — may be the place where will see Tumblebacks first implemented.
Imagine this scenario:
- I am logged into a future client, say Tweetie 3, where I have connected to my Twitter, Typepad and Tumblr accounts. I have a single stream of tweets, microblog posts, and social gestures — retweets, reposts, likes — all presented in a consistent fashion.
- I can opt to repost a story from Michael Sippey's Typepad stream to my Tumblr blog, and Typepad records the repost on that story. (Note that in this case, the reposted story on my Tumblr blog has to gain the list of social gestures from Typepad, which is where that list would be maintained.)
- Or I decide to tweet out a link to that post via Twitter, and that would be similarly recorded on the Typepad post, without recourse to third party commenting solutions like JS-Kit's Echo or Disqus' Mentions.
Most important, the user experience for both me as an active tumbler and twitterer is consistent and intuitive, and the experience of those who are approaching this outside the stream — a casual visitor to Michael Sippey's blog, for example — displays the full richness of the interaction going on, with reposts, likes, and other social gestures displayed on the individual posts (and tweets?).
So I guess this latest chapter is an indication of things to come. Two clients developers, Tweetie and Twitterific, create a way to do something cool, that makes the user experience richer and better, and the vendors start to move in a great direction. But we also need a strategic vision, not just tactical advances. And Tumblebacks — to be implemented in the broadest general manner — will require strategic alignment from all the microblogging companies, and we will be the final beneficiaries of their commitment.
More On Cross-Platform Tumbling: Following Is Mostly RSS
In two recent posts (Typepad Goes After Tumblr, A Call For Interoperable Tumbling: Tumbleback) I explored the idea of cross-platform tumbling.
In particular, I suggested a construct I called 'tumblebacks' as part of reblogging, based on an analogy with trackbacks. But I left out the issue of cross-platform following.
My sense is that cross-platform following can mostly be achieved by RSS subscription, although following does include a notification aspect. For example, in both Typepad and Tumblr I can expose the list of those that I am following, and those that are following me. Various platforms need only to notify each other of following and unfollowing, and the identities involved, and then cross-platform following semantics works.
A Call For Interoperable Tumbling: Tumbleback
In an earlier post today, regarding Typepad's release of Micro, a new 'micro blogging' implementation on the Typepad platform, I called for interoperable tumbling between blog platforms:
[via www.stoweboyd.com]
Reblog is not built in to every blog, so even if I am an active Typepad Micro user, I can't reblog every post of every Typepad blog. It requires the blog's owner to change to a Micro template, like Chroma. This is a major problem, and will slow the adoption of Micro. At the very least Six Apart should add a reblog capability to the bookmarklet, so that users can reblog all Typepad blog posts. This might even be extended to support reblogging of other blogging platforms' posts, like Tumblr, Moveable Type, and Wordpress, for example. Ultimately, interoperable reblogging and favoriting are going to be demanded by users. It is a social good for interoperability of this sort to exist. In fact, I am going to kick off a project in Microsyntax.org calling for conventions to be considered that will support this.
I would like to expand briefly on what I think is called for.
- A convention — like trackbacks — needs to be established, so that a message can be sent by one platform, like Typepad, to another, like Tumblr, on behalf of an author. I propose we call this 'tumbleback', plural 'tumblebacks'.
- Let's say I want to reblog a post from a Tumblr blog on my Typepad blog. I might use a Typepad bookmarklet that is Tumblr-aware. When I select a post on a Tumblr blog, and use the reblog capability in the bookmarklet, it would a/ post the reblog on my Typepad blog, and b/ send a message to Tumblr, indicating the reblog.
- The cross-platform reblog would look much like a regular, within a single platform reblog, with the name and URL of the source blog displayed.
- The message sent from Typepad on my behalf would be received by Typepad, and the fact that I reblogged the post could be included on the 'notes' history associated with the source blog post. This means that readers of the original post would see that I had reblogged it.
- Tumblr might send a message back to Typepad including information that would allow Typepad to display the notes history of the source blog on the post I created. Alternatively, this could be provided by an API. Likewise, as other Typepad users reblog my post Typepad could pass these notes along. In this way the full reblog history (and favorites or likes, as well) could be maintained at the original source post, and shared by everyone.
- I think some new microsyntax is called for, that would indicate the platform, author, and other metadata associated with these cross-platform trails. More to follow on that.
- The addition of downstream reblogs and likes/favorites could be added to the streams of participants by the various services.
I will be contacting representatives of Typepad, Tumblr, and perhaps other tumble blog companies to discuss these ideas, and invite them to participate in a Microsyntax initiative to define conventions (and perhaps de facto standards) to allow such interoperability to work.
As I said, this would clearly be in the public interest. We should not have a divided world between various emerging tumbling platforms, despite near-term business interests of the competing companies. I saw this happen in the instant messaging world, and the resulting fragmentation benefited no one, not even the vendors who refused to do the right thing.
Typepad Goes After Tumblr
Six Apart has made an announcement of new capabilities for Typepad:
[via Announcing TypePad Micro]
As part of our ongoing rollout of the NEW TypePad we are pleased to
announce new social blogging features and the launch of TypePad Micro:
a completely free level of TypePad focused on easy sharing of text,
photos, and videos.
A new form of blogging is emerging — somewhere between the status
updates of Facebook and Twitter and the full-length posts of classic
blogs — focused on being easy, fun, and connected. Think of this middle
category as a bridge between blogs and social networks, tapping into
the connectedness of networks with the freedom, control, and
independence of blogs.
TypePad Micro is built for this growing form of blogging, making it
easy for people to curate compelling content from the web — be it text,
photos, or videos — and share it in real-time with people on their blog
and to Facebook and Twitter. We very much see this form of blogging as
a complement to, not a competitor of, these services. Many bloggers
have friends and followers on these great networks but often want to
post more than 140 characters, or share photos and videos, with their
own narrative and their own design.
TypePad Micro comes with a beautiful new theme, Chroma, custom built for this streamlined form of blogging and a new feature: Reblog,
which makes it easy for your blog's readers to re-post items from your
blog on a blog of their own (think of it as the blogging equivalent of
the "retweet").
This micro release of Micro is an effort to go after Tumblr, to catch up to it's phenomenal growth. And in part, it does so.
The inclusion of the 'reblog' social gesture (or function, if you are a functional thinker) is perhaps the single most important aspect of this release. The 'reblog' and the 'like' gestures are two minimal touches that make Tumblr what it is. Mostly the impact of these social gestures are invisible to people who don't have their own Tumblr accounts, because behind the open public face of tumbler is second open public sphere, but only seen by Tumblr users. I refer to this as 'behind the veil', since it also public, but occluded.
In this social plane of Tumblr, I receive a torrent of posts from those Tumblr blogs I am following, and I can see the social gestures related to the posts I have created. Whenever someone reblogs a post of mine, or 'likes' it, that appears as a message in the stream.
As a result of this social stream behind the Tumblr veil is a rich world, where a Tumblr user may spend a great deal of time, reading, examining pictures, seeing reblog notitfications, and so on. Here's my stream for my /Ambivalence Tumblr blog, leaving out the posts from those I am following:
This is the principal user experience of Tumblr, bathing in the stream of images, text, links, and social gestures flowing from those you follow.
To have it work, you need the 'reblog' and 'like' social touches (or the Micro 'favorite' I guess), as well as a stream view behind the veil. Typepad implemented the stream view sometime ago, and has now closed the loop.
It seems, though, at present only the new Chroma template supports reblogging, which seems odd. Why can't I just add reblog to my existing Typepad blogs? My sense is that Six Apart are maintaining a conceptual distinction between micro blogging — which Chroma is designed for — and macro or long format blogging. I think this is a meaningless distinction, and that the important thing is the stream behind the veil, for any sort of blog. It represents a new and richer social dimension to the blogging experience.
Here's a Chroma blog that I created:
It took only a minute to change an existing blog to the Chroma template, and it offered the very cool feature of offering me three color schemes based on the tones in the photo I uploaded as the banner image. You can see the 'Reblog It' button at the bottom of the first post.
Note that this post was created in what I consider the most common fashion for 'tumbling'. I went to my /Ambivalence blog selected a picture I posted there, and I used a Typepad bookmarklet to select that image to post in the /Edgewards blog on Typepad. This is how most Tumblr blog posts are made, aside from reblogging existing Tumblr posts.
I used Typepad's bookmarklet:
And that works pretty much the same as the previous bookmarklet.
Perhaps this is the only place where Typepad Micro doesn't operate like a tumblr blog: the posts aren't typed. In Tumblr, image posts are different from video, audio, quotes, links, and text. Typepad posts, even in Micro's Chroma template are all the same. In Tumblr, if you descend down into the guts of the template language (a subject too technical and detailed for this post), each of these post types can be managed differently, with different fonts, styling, and layout. Although I have not tried to dive down into Chroma's template, it doesn't seem like the system is typed. I predict that Typepad will have to be extended to meet the sophistication available to designers in Tumblr.
Six Apart has added some of the small touches that make Tumblr a rich experience externally, like the ability to create a gallery in photos in a single post, by uploading a series of photos or URLs:
At first inspection, Typepad Micro might add up to something very similar to the internal social experience of Tumblr. The combination of a streaming experience for logged in users and the 'reblog' and 'favorite' gestures could lead to an experience nearly as rich as Tumblr. However, there are some serious caveats:
- Posts aren't typed — this will provide a lower lever of design sophistication, even if people can get at the Chroma template's innards, which I have yet to explore.
- Reblog is not built in to every blog, so even if I am an active Typepad Micro user, I can't reblog every post of every Typepad blog. It requires the blog's owner to change to a Micro template, like Chroma. This is a major problem, and will slow the adoption of Micro. At the very least Six Apart should add a reblog capability to the bookmarklet, so that users can reblog all Typepad blog posts. This might even be extended to support reblogging of other blogging platforms' posts, like Tumblr, Moveable Type, and Wordpress, for example. Ultimately, interoperable reblogging and favoriting are going to be demanded by users. It is a social good for interoperability of this sort to exist. In fact, I am going to kick off a project in Microsyntax.org calling for conventions to be considered that will support this.
- The limitation of a single template supporting Micro is dumb. I already had an issue with the limited number of templates in Typepad, and the fact that they were all so similar. This is due to the fractured model of templates that exists below the hood in Typepad. Better to shift to an open model of templates, with one large text file containing the entire template, instead of a structured model. Again, this is a bit too technical for this forum, but I wanted to include it in my list.
[Update: I learned that Six Apart has in fact set things up so that every blog can have reblog enabled. I have turned this on for /Message, too.]
Six Apart has a long way to go to provide an experience as rich and social as that offered by the much younger Tumblr. But I have to say, they have given me hope that I won't have to port my /Message blog to Tumblr in order to ultimately have the same depth of experience surrounding my tech blogging as I do on /Ambivalence, where I tumble everything else. Note I don't say that I blog on /Ambivalence, because the experience is so different, so much more compelling and deep, that it is really something completely different.
I dream of logging into Typepad to have a cascade of other tech writers' thoughts and commentaries stream past, being able to reblog and comment on these posts in a one step fashion. To be in the stream is just a better experience than wandering around, or reading from RSS tools. Six Apart might be on the way to get me there. I hope so.
I plan — as you might expect — to convert this blog over to Chroma, or something like it, just as soon as I explore the implications in a bit more depth.


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Chuck McGill: Local boxers pursue dreams
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FORT VALLEY -- Nearly eight miles up Fort Valley Road sits a boxing gym. From the outside it looks modest, appearing sort of like a garage without a garage door. It's surrounded by uncut grass, with mammoth green mountains serving as the backdrop.
Outside it's quiet, providing not a hint that inside some of the area's best fighters are training with aspirations of becoming world champions.
But once you walk through the door, boxing knocks you over like a left hook from Manny Pacquiao.
A standard-size boxing ring sits in the middle of the open space, which has concrete floors and plain white walls. There are wooden benches for the boxers to sit on while they lace up their shoes or take a breather after a sparring session or stint on the treadmill. Eight gray lockers are tucked in the corner. Four boxing bags hang from the wall, evenly spaced outside the ring. There's even a couch for portly reporters like me to take a load off.
The gym sits on the property of Scott Farmer, the owner of boxing promotional company Left Hook LLC. Farmer is also the primary trainer for his son, Andrew "The Doo Man" Farmer, who is part of the main event of Saturday night's Tomorrow Champions XII at Winchester Sportsplex.
Together they are raising the sport's visibility and interest in the Shenandoah Valley.
Most of the 12 Tomorrow's Champions fight nights have been held in Winchester, but this edition has some extra clout. Let's Get It On Promotions LLC, Pro-Motion Sports and TKO Boxing are all helping Left Hook this weekend. Let's Get It On is run by Terry and Tommy Lane, sons of legendary boxing referee Mills Lane.
The Lane brothers quietly attended the last Tomorrow's Champions fight night in March, unbeknownst to Scott Farmer, and expressed interest about getting involved after seeing the show.
"You hook up with the Lanes, with TKO promotions, and doors open that normally wouldn't open," Scott Farmer said.
The doors that open could eventually lead to Andrew Farmer reaching the top. "The Doo Man" is 11-1 with seven knockouts in his young career.
Last year, Oscar De Lay Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions offered him the chance to fight on the undercard of the Joe Calzaghe/Roy Jones Jr. light heavyweight title bout and the Bernard Hopkins/Kelly Pavlik bout. Farmer was also invited to go to training camp with Ricky Hatton prior to his fight with Paulie Malignaggi in November. He declined all three invitations.
Farmer, you see, is in a tricky situation. He works in construction as a day job, generating the income he needs to survive when he would prefer to be training and boxing full-time. However, he's not yet at the point in his career where he can drop his full-time job and shift full attention to boxing -- like the Pacquiaos and Hattons of the world.
"I want to box full-time, that's my dream," Farmer said. "To get to the point where I can train and box for a living, that's all I want. No going out and cutting your fingers off in construction and then coming into train."
Farmer essentially did that too.
He still has all his fingers, but there's a sizable scar on the base of his left thumb. He cut it with a razor knife hanging drywall three weeks before the March fight at the Sportsplex. He received stitches and wrapped the injury, then continued training by boxing with his right hand. He still wanted to fight.
But then one week before the bout, he unwrapped the hand to remove the stitches. When the last stitch left his hand, the wound opened back up.
Farmer hasn't fought since August.
"I'm looking forward to fighting again," he said. "I've been training steady since the middle of 2008. Even through my injuries I've been in here. I'm definitely looking forward to getting in the ring and actually having a fight."
With his dad in his corner, Farmer will climb through the ropes on Saturday for an eight-round bout. Maybe he'll win, maybe he'll do it convincingly, and maybe someone else who carries weight in the boxing world will once again be disguised in the large crowd expected at the Sportsplex.
Maybe that'll open the door for Farmer to go from that simple, workmanlike gym in Fort Valley to the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas. After all, Pacquiao -- considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world -- started his rags-to-riches story in the Philippines, where he lived in a one-room shack. On Saturday, his devastating left hook knocked out Hatton in the second round in an HBO Pay-Per-View event.
Farmer watched the fight with keen interest: Both Pacquiao and Hatton are in his weight class.
"All those guys on HBO Pay-Per-View, most of them come from small towns," Farmer said. "Nobody thought that would happen to them, but it does."
Maybe he's next.
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PLOS Medicine Editorial Director, Virginia Barbour, reflects on the publication of the CONSORT and PRISMA guidelines and reminds us of the importance of checklists to medical publishing.
Gilbert and Sullivan's Lord High Executioner has, sadly given lists a bad name. Rather than tools of revenge, lists in healthcare, however, have the power to do much good. Atul Gawande's book on lists has explained why they should be core to medical practice. I'd argue that in medical publishing too they are critical.
When Robert Boyle, one of the founders of the UK's Royal Society, wrote the Spring of the Air he was probably the first to write in such a way that allowed other men (it was only men then of course) to repeat and test his findings. In this way he was in turn one of the first to legitimize research by making it reproducible.
More than 300 years later we have a fully reproducible literature with everything fully reported, right? Wrong. There is a current crisis of confidence in research, with increasing and appropriate concern that many results, especially the most dramatic, often cannot be trusted. Contributing fundamentally (but not exclusively, obviously) to this problem is that whole swathes of the medical and scientific literature are not described in sufficient detail that anyone else can even test. In medicine this crisis literally is life threatening; patients given treatments as a result of inadequately described studies may at best be treated sub-optimally, at worst harmed or killed.
However, in one important corner of the research endeavor a group of individuals, have, for many years now, been making a determined effort to change this poor reporting and PLOS Medicine is proud to have played its part in it. The CONSORT reporting guidelines for clinical trials and the PRISMA guidelines for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses are, I'd argue two of the most important papers the journal has ever published. The premise behind both of these documents, and the checklists in them and the many other guidelines that we and other PLOS journals have published is very simple: tell us what you did so others can test it.


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Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy those long warm summer days but when we have record high temps for a month straight, well, I'm ready for some crisp fall weather. Plus, who doesn't enjoy the Fall season? I believe it starts at slightly different times for each one of us. For me, Autumn begins the first time I realize I went to bed early with a good book or when I'm excited to put on a sweater. For some reason those simple actions make me feel all cozy inside. I suddenly want to read more, knit more, cook more and run more. Yes, run more.
You see, I basically melt when I run in warm/hot weather so I pretty much give it up for the entire summer. I replace it with other activities like riding my bike, swimming and the like. And now that the mornings have become chilly, it reminds me of those early morning practice runs I use to do and the frenzied ritual I would do before heading out: dressing in the dark, smashing my toe on my bed post, gathering my hydration system, trying to find where I dropped my running shoes, making sure I have my iPod AND earphones, eating (I always eat something small before a run) and heading out the door to meet up with a running group or just by myself. All the while thinking,
Fresh running shoes
I know you thought I was going to say something different here, but no, most of the time I'm looking forward to when it's over. Every run isn't this over-the-top 'runner's high' people talk about, in fact that rarely happens for me. So, yes, I'm human when it comes to exercise. But there are times when I slip into this mode, if you will, and everything just… works.
What I mean by that is I slip into a stride that's automatic. I'm simply just running. I'm not worried about how fast I'm going or how far. Not worried about how I look or should look. I can 'see' those things that have been a burden or worry for me lately and 'see' solutions for many of them, allow myself grace if I don't for others and allow those burdens to which I can't do anything about to simply pass by and loosen their grip on me.
When the season is getting ready to go into hibernation, I'm getting ready to bloom. Shaking off old patterns, worries, stress, set backs and such and letting the chilly air and road under my feet guide me toward a fresh start. Those are the times I realize why I run.
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An ancient river, centuries-old shops and restaurants steeped in a 2000-year history and
culture set the scene. The ambiance seemed divinely contrived to facilitate the purposes of
our meeting and the very fodder from which the greatest poets are sustained.
Not newcomers to the area, Kay P. and I were assigned to the Army Security Agency Field
Station in Augsburg, Germany in 1974. We were colleagues in the intelligence community
with no romantic overtures to our relationship, save an appreciation of poetry and profound
philosophical discussions. Kay wanted to spend the evening with a poet, so we planned the
evening to be appropriate for the purpose.
At the time and place, we quickly found ourselves hopelessly immersed in the philosophical
foundations of my writings throughout the evening. It was the first time since Vietnam that
I'd felt worthy as a person. I still recall sipping the red wine and feeling the warmth of the
large hearth inside the Balkan eatery. I still see the swans gliding by on the Lech flowing by
our café.
When windowpanes begin to weep with autumn's chilly dew,
I'm taken back through seasons passed to one delight held true,
A rendezvous that time allowed, a gentle evening spent
Amid a time of long discord when days were dreary bent.
I feel the stretch upon my lips, the smile returns once more.
Again, I smell the Balkan fare prepared on Lech's old shore,
The mood is cast in high regard, the wine is tart and dry,
As Augsburg ripples in the wake when swans go gliding by.
The ancient windows frame our view and day begins to wane
As rivulets meander down and streak the dampened panes.
The ambiance of ages passed beseeched us not to leave
And held us in its warm embrace throughout the ebbing eve.
My heart was scarred, without regard and hardened by the war
But her esteem unveiled its worth, while nothing had before.
She saw the child that once was me, I'd long since cast aside,
And bade he climb astride his mount, engage his life and ride.
Now, she is but a memory, whose kindness soothed my heart,
For we embarked upon our lives on paths ordained to part.
Her subtle way escaped my eye till time had made it clear
That her esteem had set me free, that night I hold so dear.
The poetry that filled my soul remains these many years,
Impassioned in my warmest thoughts when autumn first appears,
When windowpanes begin to weep, a-glisten with the dew,
And I return to seasons passed, to one delight held true.
Sometimes on the road of life
Change becomes the norm
When you think, "The sky is true"
The horizon brews a storm
Some storms last but a minute
Like a ship they sail right by
Other storms seem to be
As endless as the sky
Some storms come with a flood
As life gets washed away
Other storms shake the ground
As mountains crumble into clay
Storms come in many sizes
They come in many shapes
Storms come in many forms
Some bless while others rape
As we face the storms of life
They change who we are
Sometimes, we're the clouds
Other times we're the stars
Storms have one thing in common
One day they too shall pass
As a car rolls to a stop
Storms run out of gas
After the storm has passed us by
A seed sprouts to a flower
Each petal seems to be
Exuding strength and power
I have weathered many storms
Their lines map my face
In their wake I have found
Love is my saving grace
I don't know what this poem means
I don't know if I ever will
All I know is that right now
This poem is how I feel
As you ponder each turn that has landed you here,
taut tempo will quicken and frail futures loom near.
Take one somber moment, step away from the din:
The voyage, the detours, the past and what's been.
You look back behind you to retrace every mile.
It bring tears of regret and the trace of a smile.
Hang on first, then let go, due to whimsy or age.
What you keep in the end is the test of a sage.
Fools still ignore the supreme ticks of the clock,
in each change in fashion, embraced by the flock.
Walk on and ignore them, don't bother to chide,
these pathetic lemmings swept away by the tide.
Peer off in the distance as you fight off the chill.
You must climb still further to the top of the hill.
Play the tailor to time, cut and trim, make it fit.
Find the time in your life. Take time to enjoy it.
He's staring again, standing by his balcony door
The way he did each morning, even when I was there
Writhing in pain after my heart from my chest he tore
And as I walk away, my heart on my sleeve I wear
The emotional abuse was unconscionable
Yet for years I clung to hope he'd appreciate me
But his anger just grew, attacks became physical
Till I'd had enough and desired only to be free
My clothing, my perfume, many things remain behind
I'm standing now an I'm finally walking away
Wondering why for far too long I chose to stay blind
Proud I had the strength to leave, I greet a new spring day
Have you ever listened to the silence?
Alone in the giant trees
Have you ever experienced your soul?
Being totally at ease
Have you ever stood atop a volcano?
Felt its trembling power
Ever smelled the sulfur boiling in the pits
Man that sure is sour
Have you ever loved with all that you are?
Holding nothing back
Have you ever completely lost who you are?
Trying to find your way back
Have you ever stood atop a mountain?
Cursed the Lord above
Have you ever sat alone in a Prison cell?
Accepting his forgiving love
You know I have been an evil man
Every sense of the word
In my memory I remember screams
Tormenting to be heard
So much I wish that I could forget
So much I have to tell
About the emptiness you feel inside
The pure solitude of hell
My life no longer belongs to me
I am on a quest
To show the world a man can be
Beyond any test
My pain is deep and my spirits are high
Eagle gliding in the sky
Brave enough to fight any man
Strong enough to cry
A rock to those who know me well
A leader in the night
A warrior that would never run
God I love the fight
A tender man of true compassion
My wife taught me well
That's why everything that I can be
I offer to her spell
Angels come with big brown eyes
Strong enough at heart
They encourage you to rise above
Finish what you start
Sometimes when I start to write
I fall into a trance
And the poem becomes a partner
Gliding in a dance
Where the poem goes is with the flow
I just tag along
I try real hard to keep the beat
Swaying with the song
Some parts are good and others bad
Some are in between
But from the first word to the last
The soul in me is seen
I pray before that final curtain call
I will have left my mark
That people will think back and say
The light rose from the dark
Everyone must choose their own way
I am no one to lead
If you wish to make your life a garden
I have some real good seed
Always be totally honest with yourself
The person that you are
Space is a place full of dark matter
Grasp to your own star
Be strong enough to always open up
Let go of what you hide
Because in the overall scheme of things
They're a nowhere ride
If you wish to hold the one you love
Always let it show
Remember that they must be free
We all need room to grow
Trust in them with all that you are
Never forget to show
That they are the one you will adore
To the ending of the show
Due to the length I joined the four line stanzas together
Erase a word
Mundane and wrought
Smoldering fire
Of indifferent thought
Pluck a phrase
Wild and untamed
Primordial howl
Of random flame
Sing a verse
Naked and free
Poetic gale
Of crashing seas
Tell a tale
Endearing and true
Passionate prose
Of life's muse
Ask a heartbeat
Women and men
Who feels
100 shards of pen
A fleeting still small voice tries to warn me
A sudden overwhelming desire to run
The tell tale taste of metallic flakes
Means my nightmare has begun
Everything around takes on a ghostly pallor
A landscape of anguish and corrosion
A moment of silence before the violence
The flash of light, the brilliant explosion
The sound of the Sun fills my ears
Fear, my throat, though none escapes me
And paralyzed I clench my eyes
As my tormentor prepares to rape me
And it's endeavor is absolute
Consumption is its ultimate goal
It exists to chase me so it can erase me
Whilst feasting on my soul
And then that familiar salty smell
The sudden rush of warmth so stings
Engaging me relentlessly
In vile unspeakable things
Over and over and over again
My limbs stretched and wrought
As it's teeth tear my bones bare
It's mind defiles my thoughts
And still wounds beget wounds beget wounds
As in the mouth of madness I suffer
And with every injury he just seems to be
Rougher and rougher and rougher
Then just as suddenly as it began it ceases
And for a moment I am clearer
And then the true horror of it all
Is revealed in a darkly lit mirror
There in front of me stands my destroyer
Face flush with it's fill of my pain
And I find that it's eyes and mine
My God, they're one in the same
My white-washed bars surrounded me -
they held me as I slept;
they soothed me when the days were long,
and mother's blue-eyes wept.
A baby girl, six months or less,
awakened from my sleep -
stood up legs as sure as hope;
as strong as flat is steep.
My hands, my saviors, gripped the rail
so I could peek outside –
the bluest sky I'd ever seen,
As tall as it was wide;
came into view - between the blue,
an airplane gliding by,
its smoky streamer like a flag,
across my memory's sky...
The memory is a simple one -
a window, sky, and plane -
but in my heart, it's heaven's door
and there it shall remain.
I've hung it on my memory's wall
Between that life and this –
It covers every hole I've dug
In sorrow's vast abyss.
This picture brings the special peace
I knew when I was small –
Where mother's just beyond the door,
and waiting for my call…
*Inspired by Danielle's Earliest Memory contest. I have blocked out almost every memory
from my childhood, and only a very few gems remain - this is the first. and I will treasure it
Today I sat in silence gently closing my eyes
Saying goodbye to sounds that makes our world alive
Slowly I started to drift, deeper into an unknown black
Where sound has never been heard, where life also lacked
The deeper and further I went, uncharted by any man
Where silenced echoed it's silence, right back to our future plan
In this void of soundless emptiness, dust particles brushed me so
Prompting me to open my eyes, allowing my eyes to glow
So fortunate I think to myself, being present at the beginning of time
Finding the truth of yesterdays tomorrows, now knowing where man has climbed
I watch the particles spinning, over millions and millions of years
Creating planets we know now, aligned are these magnificent spheres
Gradually I work my way back, enlightened at what I had viewed
Knowing that we are only a blip in time, being here is so misunderstood
So many follow their paths, knowing of their yonder
So today I sat in silence, gladly closing my eyes I wandered
I never knew following dreams could be this lonely,
But up on the hill, looking back, thank God I'm not the old me.
If the tears will fall, let them be;
I believe this is God's plan, follow your dreams.


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Studio Photography students are holding a show in tribute to Sam Holden, a beloved Baltimore photographer who passed away suddenly in late April. Sam was an associate faculty member in the Art department for the spring semester, teaching the studio lighting class. Called "In-Joke: Tribute to Sam Holden," the exhibit will showcase student work that reflects Sam's incredible ability to teach and to challenge his students to create bigger and better art, which he did candidly and with humor–resulting in many inside jokes and laughs throughout class.