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Michael Eric Dyson
Today is the birthday of Malcolm X. He would have been 87 years old.
Malcolm rarely receives the kind of mainstream press attention that his better known counterpart, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. does. And perhaps that is best. Unlike King, Malcolm has been not been subjected to the ahistorical nostalgia machine of American hero-making. His radicalism remains intact.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Marable Manning
Since its debut in 1943, over 250 million Slinkys have been sold. (Which means hundreds of millions of lost productivity hours due to Slinky untangling, amirite?)
I have no adjectives to describe the latest cover of Newsweek, which declares Obama "the first gay president" after he personally endorsed same-sex marriage.
I'll just let the rainbow halo speak for itself.
Usually this is where I'd post a picture of said cover, but I refuse to perpetuate that crap. Google it if you haven't seen it already and you want to feel sad about American print media.
On a less disappointing and more historical note, George Mason University's History News Network just ran an illuminating article about the real first gay president of the United States. (Hint: it is not Barack Obama)Our real first gay president (History News Network via Salon)
There can be no doubt that James Buchanan was gay, before, during and after his four years in the White House. Moreover, the nation knew it, too — he was not far into the closet.
Today, I know no historian who has studied the matter and thinks Buchanan was heterosexual. Fifteen years ago, historian John Howard, author of "Men Like That," a pioneering study of queer culture in Mississippi, shared with me the key documents, including Buchanan's May 13, 1844, letter to a Mrs. Roosevelt. Describing his deteriorating social life after his great love, William Rufus King, senator from Alabama, had moved to Paris to become our ambassador to France, Buchanan wrote:
I am now "solitary and alone," having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection.
Despite such evidence, one reason why Americans find it hard to believe Buchanan could have been gay is that we have a touching belief in progress. Our high school history textbooks' overall story line is, "We started out great and have been getting better ever since," more or less automatically. Thus we must be more tolerant now than we were way back in the middle of the 19th century! Buchanan could not have been gay then, else we would not seem more tolerant now.
This is a great, great article. Read it!
And if you needed any more convincing that Newsweek has in fact degenerated into a vulgar peddler of sensationalistic tripe:The Most Controversial Newsweek Covers [Slideshow] (Mediaite)
Good lord.
All of the experts seem to agree on one thing. The state of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan is unacceptably precarious.
It has been 14 months since the massive 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country and triggered a triple-meltdown at the Daiichi plant. Japan is still trying to understand the short-term and long-term health consequences of the largest nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl, although the psychological scars of the disaster are already evident. And while much of the 12-mile "exclusion zone" around the power plant is likely to remain uninhabited for decades, there is potential for a much larger disaster that could wreak nuclear havoc on a global scale.
Tonight, six-term U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) lost his reelection primary to conservative challenger and Tea Party favorite Richard Mourdock.
It should be noted that the Senator of 36 years lost the primary handily. Indiana Republican voters broke for Mourdock by a twenty point margin.
After conceding the race, Lugar's office released the following statement. I'm posting it in its entirety because I think it describes the current state of U.S. politics better than anything or anyone I've recently encountered.
Malcolm X
This is an old one from Buzzfeed, bookmarked in my "Always good for a laugh" folder.
W. E. B. Du Bois
In many ways, President Obama is quietly redefining what it means to fight a war. And this transformation, happening largely in secret, has dramatic implications for 21st Century warfare.Where have all the outraged liberals gone?
Warrior in Chief (NY Times)
Drones, drones, drones
The president who won the Nobel Peace Prize less than nine months after his inauguration has turned out to be one of the most militarily aggressive American leaders in decades.
Liberals helped to elect Barack Obama in part because of his opposition to the Iraq war, and probably don't celebrate all of the president's many military accomplishments. But they are sizable.
Mr. Obama decimated Al Qaeda's leadership. He overthrew the Libyan dictator. He ramped up drone attacks in Pakistan, waged effective covert wars in Yemen and Somalia and authorized a threefold increase in the number of American troops in Afghanistan. He became the first president to authorize the assassination of a United States citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico and played an operational role in Al Qaeda, and was killed in an American drone strike in Yemen. And, of course, Mr. Obama ordered and oversaw the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
The left, which had loudly condemned George W. Bush for waterboarding and due process violations at Guantánamo, was relatively quiet when the Obama administration, acting as judge and executioner, ordered more than 250 drone strikes in Pakistan since 2009, during which at least 1,400 lives were lost.
Mr. Obama's readiness to use force — and his military record — have won him little support from the right. Despite countervailing evidence, most conservatives view the president as some kind of peacenik. From both the right and left, there has been a continuing, dramatic cognitive disconnect between Mr. Obama's record and the public perception of his leadership: despite his demonstrated willingness to use force, neither side regards him as the warrior president he is.
For more thoughtful discussion on the rapidly expanding (and largely secret) drone program under Obama:
Drone knowns and drone unknowns (Up with Chris Hayes, MSNBC)
Reporter Michael Hastings: What's driving it [the drone program]? … There's no cost, politically, to using it, you don't put boots on the ground, and it makes it seem like there's no human cost to war … and it's something the Obama administration has embraced.
Search and destroy … by remote (Up with Chris Hayes, MSNBC)
Do Drones Undermine Democracy (NY Times)
One last thing…
In America, our Constitution explicitly divided the president's role as commander in chief in war from Congress's role in declaring war. Yet these links and this division of labor are now under siege as a result of a technology that our founding fathers never could have imagined.
And now we possess a technology that removes the last political barriers to war. The strongest appeal of unmanned systems is that we don't have to send someone's son or daughter into harm's way. But when politicians can avoid the political consequences of the condolence letter — and the impact that military casualties have on voters and on the news media — they no longer treat the previously weighty matters of war and peace the same way.
For the first 200 years of American democracy, engaging in combat and bearing risk — both personal and political — went hand in hand. In the age of drones, that is no longer the case.
The change is not limited to covert action. Last spring, America launched airstrikes on Libya as part of a NATO operation to prevent Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's government from massacring civilians. In late March, the White House announced that the American military was handing over combat operations to its European partners and would thereafter play only a supporting role.
The distinction was crucial. The operation's goals quickly evolved from a limited humanitarian intervention into an air war supporting local insurgents' efforts at regime change. But it had limited public support and no Congressional approval.
When the administration was asked to explain why continuing military action would not be a violation of the War Powers Resolution — a Vietnam-era law that requires notifying Congress of military operations within 48 hours and getting its authorization after 60 days — the White House argued that American operations did not "involve the presence of U.S. ground troops, U.S. casualties or a serious threat thereof." But they did involve something we used to think of as war: blowing up stuff, lots of it.
Without any actual political debate, we have set an enormous precedent, blurring the civilian and military roles in war and circumventing the Constitution's mandate for authorizing it. Freeing the executive branch to act as it chooses may be appealing to some now, but many future scenarios will be less clear-cut.
No discussion about Obama's covert and morally-ambiguous warfare tactics would be complete without covering the disturbing and under-reported case of the CIA's fake vaccination program in Pakistan.
To sum up, for any folks unaware of this:
Last year, in its efforts to track down Osama bin Laden, the CIA set up a fake humanitarian vaccination program in Pakistan. The goal was to identify DNA from any of bin Laden's family members living in Abbottabad and thus confirm the terrorist leader's location. In the end, while the CIA collected DNA samples from an untold number of unknowing Pakistani civilians, the elaborate ruse yielded no valuable intelligence.
For more on the human cost of these tactics, which were never approved by Congress and were surely never intended to become public knowledge:
The fallout from the CIA's vaccination ploy in Pakistan (Washington Post)
The CIA's plot — recruiting a Pakistani doctor to distribute hepatitis vaccines in Abbottabad this spring — destroyed credibility that wasn't its to erode. It was the very trust that communities worldwide have in immunization programs that made vaccinations an appealing ruse. But intelligence officials imprudently burned bridges that took years for health workers to build.
To start, the CIA's actions may have jeopardized the global polio eradication program, which has saved thousands of lives and in which billions of dollars have been invested. Americans could one day be at risk again from re-imported polio.
Many Pakistani communities suffer from preventable infections, including ones that have been brought under control or eradicated elsewhere. Pakistan is the last place on Earth where wild polio still spreads in local outbreaks. Only a handful of places elsewhere in the world have sporadic cases, and vaccine campaigns are vigorous in those areas. But if the Rotary Club, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, governments and others working to eradicate polio realize their aspirations, Pakistan is where victory will be pronounced.
Few issues have proven as historically sensitive for global health practitioners as building trust around vaccines, especially for polio, within Muslim communities. About eight years ago in northern Nigeria, mass refusals of polio vaccines led to a resurgence of cases locally. The infection then spread beyond Nigeria's borders. Distrust in the vaccine stemmed from Internet rumors that the vaccine was sterilizing people or spreading HIV; some of these claims were fueled by local religious leaders. It took years of negotiation and education for the World Health Organization, UNICEF and other health agencies to counter the conspiracy theories and regain trust about childhood vaccination.
Trust is both fragile and essential for successful global health outcomes. In Afghanistan, where colleagues of ours are helping to rebuild the national health system, locals often link trust in health services with security — in other words, they trust clinics because they believe they are safe places. But health workers there and in Pakistan may now be suspect or seen as spies. People throughout the region may reject vaccines out of politically derived fear. Health efforts beyond vaccination, including those aimed at reducing maternal mortality rates and bringing safe drinking water to millions of rural residents, could be imperiled.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA): We also know that over 45 percent of the people in this country don't pay [federal] income taxes at all, and we have to question whether that's fair. And should we broaden the base in a way that we can lower rates for everybody that pays taxes.
Remember, whenever you hear a politician talk about "broadening the tax base," that's code for "raising taxes on poor people."
And why are we
broadening the tax base raising taxes on poor people? So that we can "lower rates for everybody that pays taxes."
How can we be lowering rates for everybody if we're raising taxes on the poor? Oh, when you say "everybody" you mean
"successful" rich people.
Cantor: I've never believed that you go and raise taxes on those who have been successful that are paying in, taking from them, so that you just hand out and give to someone else. Those someone else[s] want hand-ups. They want the ability to get up the ladder.
Let's try for a moment to ignore the misleading implication that millions of Americans don't pay taxes.
Personally, I like the assumption that anyone who doesn't make enough money to pay federal income tax is getting a government handout.
Come to think of it, I didn't make enough money at my two part-time jobs with no benefits to pay federal income tax this year. Apparently I should be expecting some sweet handout from the government.
I'm such a bad poor. All I asked from Uncle Sam on Tax Day was adequately maintained roads to get to work, a fire station near my apartment building, decent schools in my neighborhood, and reasonable student loan rates.
Silly me.
See The Atlantic for more commentary on Cantor's tax plan:
Eric Cantor on Raising Taxes on the Poor: 'You've Got to Discuss That'
What would it take to force these lucky duckies to pay positive income taxes? It would mean instantly higher taxes for 70 million Americans. It would mean raising taxes on some of the poorest households by up to $4,000 a year, according to the Tax Policy Center.
If we need to fund the necessary operations of government, why go after where the money isn't? If people naturally want to be richer, why would slightly higher tax rates on income over $330,000 change their mind? If the poor need hand-ups, why make them poorer?
It is a matter of economic dogma that taxes discourage behavior. Eric Cantor has obviously convinced himself that higher taxes on income under $30,000 will discourage poverty. On the issue of ridiculous taxes, maybe we should create a new levy on comments that the tax code would be "fairer" if the bottom 40% did more to support the burden of top 1%. That sort of inanity ought to be discouraged.
And if you didn't click on the link above, read Salon's article, America's True Tax Rate, which features "what is perhaps the single most important and easy-to-understand chart" explaining the U.S. tax system.
As you can see, the top 1 percent of income earners make about 21 percent of the money, and pay about 21 percent of the nation's taxes. Likewise, the next 4 percent of income earners make 14 percent of the income and pay about 15 percent of the taxes. In other words, for most every income segment, the share of total taxes paid is almost identical to the share that the income segment earned.
To know this is a flat tax system is to ponder how differently a genuinely progressive system would operate. You'd have the top 1 percent of income earners making 21 percent of the income but contributing a much higher percentage of total national taxes. But again, that's not the reality because our tax system is effectively flat.
It's been quiet over here on my blog, mostly because of my crazy work schedule. And first, let me say how great having a job is.
Like, really great.
Paying for stuff is so much better than not paying for stuff. I am so grateful to my second home (Jersey City) where I spend most of my waking hours teaching psychology to really cool people. The opportunities I have discovered here not only let me work at something that I love, but (even more importantly) they let me work.
Now we all know that New Jersey gets a lot of hate from us New Yorkers. But Jersey saved my butt this year. Which is why I will defend New Jersey's honor to the bitter end.
Seriously. Take your Jersey-hating self elsewhere.
All that said, I don't want to abandon the blog altogether. I really enjoy writing here, but until now I haven't figured out a way of fitting it in to my limited free time.
I did discover Pinterest a few weeks ago, and I find it's a really great way of bookmarking and brainstorming. I kept thinking to myself how useful Pinterest would be if I was still blogging.
So, in an effort to jumpstart the blog, I'm going to try rethinking this space. I loved writing the roundup posts, where I aggregated and wrote about news, politics, and culture. I'm going to move in that direction, and use more of my blog to share interesting things I see and read about.
Basically, less writing and more linking.
We'll see how it goes, but as of right now I'm excited about blogging again.
Stay tuned!
P.S. I will continue to use my Pinterest boards to bookmark and organize my thoughts. Feel free to follow me there, although you may see some repeat information here on the blog.
Why Do We Say "Cheese" When Having Our Photo Taken? →
In which one American company defines snapshot culture:
We're not sure when or where a photographer first asked his subjects to state the name of the delicious dairy product, but we do know that when you say "cheese," the corners of your mouth turn up, your cheeks lift and your teeth show. It looks like a smile, and since smiling is what we do in pictures, the instruction seems pretty practical.
The deeper question, then, is: why is a smile the default expression for photographs?
As author and mass communication professor Christina Kotchemidova points out, people didn't always smile for photos. Before 1900, some people actually said "prunes" instead of "cheese" to achieve the ideal "small, tightly controlled mouth."
Then, sometime in the twentieth-century, the smile became king, ruling over snapshots with an iron fist.
Prior studies of the smile in photography, Kotchemidova says, relate its rise to "the speedy camera shutter, attractive faces in media and politics, and the rise of dental care," technological and cultural factors that may have begun a process of "mouth liberalization." Kotchemidova, though, proposes that we look at smiling for the camera as a cultural construction of twentieth-century American snapshot photography.
The smile's big moment came when Kodak produced the world's first mass market camera—the Brownie. And of course, like so many cultural innovations, it all comes down to good advertising:
Kodak's ads and photography publications presented taking photos as a happy experience for both the photographer and the subject that served to preserve fond memories of good times. One way that message was communicated was plenty of smiling faces on happy consumers, which conveniently provided "a model for how subjects should look," that quickly spread along with the adoption of the technology.
Kotchemidova concludes that Kodak's position of leadership in the culture of photography and their saturation of the ads, magazines and their own publications with images of smiling faces allowed the company to define the standards and aesthetics of good snapshots, and smiling for the camera became the cultural norm.
So not only did Kodak reinvent the camera, but they reinvented the smile, too.
The Aspartamed #Roundup
Highlighting notable current events and journalism.
The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You'll Ever See →
In which a guy in Oregon beats out National Geographic, the CIA, and the US Census Bureau for cartography's top award:
According to independent cartographers I spoke with, the big mapmaking corporations of the world employ type-positioning software, placing their map labels (names of cities, rivers, etc.) according to an algorithm. For example, preferred placement for city labels is generally to the upper right of the dot that indicates location. But if this spot is already occupied—by the label for a river, say, or by a state boundary line—the city label might be shifted over a few millimeters. Sometimes a town might get deleted entirely in favor of a highway shield or a time zone marker. The result is a rough draft of label placement, still in need of human refinement. Post-computer editing decisions are frequently outsourced—sometimes to India, where teams of cheap workers will hunt for obvious errors and messy label overlaps. The overall goal is often a quick and dirty turnaround, with cost and speed trumping excellence and elegance.
By contrast, David Imus worked alone on his map seven days a week for two full years. Nearly 6,000 hours in total. It would be prohibitively expensive just to outsource that much work. But Imus—a 35-year veteran of cartography who's designed every kind of map for every kind of client—did it all by himself. He used a computer (not a pencil and paper), but absolutely nothing was left to computer-assisted happenstance. Imus spent eons tweaking label positions. Slaving over font types, kerning, letter thicknesses. Scrutinizing levels of blackness. It's the kind of personal cartographic touch you might only find these days on the hand-illustrated ski-trail maps available at posh mountain resorts.
When we think of all the things that have fallen by the wayside in the digital age, cartography isn't one that occurs to many of us. However Slate's strange Cinderella story about one mapmaker's masterpiece offers a compelling argument for why Google Maps shouldn't be the end of cartography.
Yet, barring a miracle, this opus will barely be seen. Specialty map shops are disappearing. Bookstore chains tend to carry only the major map brands. And even if they were somehow made aware of Imus' marvelous creation, most school systems can't afford or can't be bothered to update their classroom maps. A map is a map, right? That circa 1982 Rand McNally wall blob does the job just fine, the thinking goes.
Some might argue that classrooms don't need paper maps at all. That none of us do. The Internet is full of free digital maps that boast amazing functionality. They can dictate driving directions, or help us find stores and hunt for real estate. We can look at these maps on the move—on our mobile phones or on the navigational systems in our cars. What good is an unwieldy paper wall map that can't be pinched, zoomed, or double-clicked?
For one thing, that zooming capability means the makers of a single digital map are forced to design dozens of differently scaled versions. This severely limits how much time they can devote to perfecting the layout at each zoom level. Imus' map never varies from its scale of 65 miles to the inch, but everything you see at that one scale is exactly as Imus wishes you to see it. Besides, if you need to zoom in on a wall map you can just tiptoe closer to the wall.
There's also a certain flavor of geographic comprehension that comes with taking in a map all at once in a large format. Imus argues that you can't truly understand a place if you only use zoomed-in maps on teensy screens. (Evidence for this notion: Although we probably look at maps now more than at any other time in history—thanks to their digital ubiquity—our knowledge of geography hasn't improved at all. Studies show that our kids continue to live in geographic ignorance, in some cases worse than it was 15 years ago.) Looking at Imus' big, richly detailed map offers a holistic sense of what America looks like—how cities spread out along rivers, forests give way to plains, and mountains zigzag next to valleys. In Imus' exuberant view, a map like this might inspire enough geographic curiosity to guide the next generation of students back on course.
Click through the link above to read more about this remarkable work, and to see images that compare Imus's map with others.
Bonus Links: Here's some map humor. If you enjoyed that, then watch this clip. If both of these things entertain you then we can be best friends.
Retired space shuttle simulator to 'fly' again at Texas A&M →
In which the Aggies go to space:
The Shuttle Motion Simulator (SMS), which for more than three decades exposed astronauts to the sights, sounds, and motions they'd experience when they launched and landed on the real orbiters, is being moved 100 miles from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to Texas A&M University in College Station. Once there, the hydraulically maneuvered platform will resume work as a simulator.
"The SMS at College Station at Texas A&M is going to be returned to be an operational simulator," Paul Hill, director of mission operations at NASA Johnson, said. "And there, more students and engineers will have the opportunity not just to see it, but actually use it to develop new operations and develop new equipment to be used by next generation spacecraft."
As an Aggie and a space nerd, I had to share this article. Not only am I proud that the SMS will find a new home at Texas A&M, but I am also excited about how the University plans on sharing this unique piece of history:
"When the SMS does get to College Station and we install it, we're going to preserve it as a piece of living history," said John Valasek, director of the vehicle systems and control laboratory in Texas A&M's aerospace engineering department. "It is not going to be changed or modified in any significant way. The crew of STS-135, the last crew to fly it, will be able to come into the simulator and see it exactly as it was when they were last in the simulator for training."
"It will be living history that many people can enjoy," said Valasek.
And by many, he didn't mean just engineering students.
"We will use it for public school outreach, for university outreach and university education," Valasek said. "It will be used in engineering classes. It will be available to all majors and all students. And most importantly to me, it will be available to the public."
The simulator was used to train astronauts on all 135 shuttle flights, and, when installed at A&M, will offer the public an unprecedented look at the history of American space travel.
In addition to this article you can also read the brief NASA press release.
"Colour Like No Other" by Sony Bravia
Also watch the making of this ad.
"The Obliteration Room" by Yayoi Kusama
From Colossal:
This December, in a surprisingly simple yet ridiculously amazing installation for the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, artist Yayoi Kusama constructed a large domestic environment, painting every wall, chair, table, piano, and household decoration a brilliant white, effectively serving as a giant white canvas. Over the course of two weeks, the museum's smallest visitors were given thousands upon thousands of colored dot stickers and were invited to collaborate in the transformation of the space, turning the house into a vibrantly mottled explosion of color.
"Sound Sculptures" by Canon Pixma
And here is the making of this ad.
Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE
1/2 mile tall
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A View from the Top
Dubai in Clouds
Taken from the Burj.
Time-Traveling in the Emirates
In 2008 photographer Martin Becka completed a remarkable project. The artist captured the dramatic and modern architecture of Dubai—but here's the twist—he used only the archaic photography equipment that existed in the 19th Century.
The resulting images are otherworldly and beautiful. By using antiquated technology Becka manages to reveal (rather than hide) Dubai's striking look—strong evidence supporting Dubai's status as one of the world's most modern cities.
See more of Martin Becka's Dubai photography on his website.
This latest high-profile scandal surrounding the newly designed holiday Coca-Cola cans once again reveals that, as a group, our emotional relationship with food is a little extreme:
Salon covered the can-tastrophe in Why Coke's new can infuriated the Internet. My favorite quote:
It may seem a trifling matter, but as we recall from the great New Coke fiasco of '85, there are some things that should not be messed with. And that's the real reason for the outcry. It's not about a lazy inability to distinguish regular from diet. It's about the potent ideal Coke itself perpetuates – solid, dependable, and goddammit, red.
Remember this shocking story from last year?
A Toledo, Ohio woman viciously attacked a McDonald's drive thru cashier when she was told she couldn't order McNuggets at 6:30 in the morning:
Now I'm not saying we all go around busting up drive thrus when we can't get a box of our favorite boot-shaped meat when the craving strikes. But I can confess feeling unreasonably upset after buying the wrong soda, or running out of my favorite cereal, or forgetting those delicious leftovers at the restaurant. Similarly, few things improve my mood like a good dessert. Sure, I'm usually too embarrassed to admit just how emotional food can become. But if I'm being honest, I am certainly guilty of feeling a little too attached to what I eat.
Why are we so emotionally invested in our food? Well I don't know if this last video gives us a complete answer, but I think it does reveal how early in life this unhealthy relationship can develop.
So remember Halloween this year, when Jimmy Kimmel basically punked hundreds of kids across the country? The talk show host encouraged parents to submit videos of themselves telling their little trick-or-treaters how they'd eaten all their candy.
Hilarity ensues:
Funny as this video is, what does it tell us about our food problem?
Diet Coke Cake
For calorie-conscious cakesters:
You can also try substituting other diet sodas—Diet Coke works best with chocolate cake, but Diet 7UP and Diet Sprite work well in lemon and white cakes.
Jean Shepherd, A Christmas Story (The Book)
Jean Shepherd, A Christmas Story (The Book)
Jean Shepherd, A Christmas Story (The Book)


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Eastern Illinois duo looking to hook big one at college tourney
BY DALE BOWMAN email@example.com August 21, 2012 8:20PM
Mike March (left) and Dan Martin, Chicago-area students at Eastern Illinois, finished fourth in a tournament on the Mississippi River to qualify for the National Guard FLW College Fishing central conference championship Sept. 6-8 on Carlyle Lake. | Courte
Updated: September 23, 2012 6:16AM
'This is my last
hurrah,'' Mike March said.
March, who just graduated, and junior Dan Martin qualified Eastern Illinois for the National Guard FLW College Fishing central conference championship Sept. 6-8 on Downstate Carlyle Lake. They did it by finishing fifth on Table Rock Lake, then fourth on the Mississippi River this year.
Martin, who is from Elmhurst, is no stranger to competitive student fishing. As a high school junior, he helped York qualify for Illinois' first state championship in bass fishing.
I think there's a connection to the announcement by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar of an 11 percent increase in fishermen from 2005 to 2011 in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation.
The primary reason for that increase is likely the extended deep recession. But I think the increased level of interest in fishing at the high school and college levels factors in, too. Other states are following Illinois' lead in high school bass fishing. And college fishing has taken off.
''I would say I'm surprised and encouraged,'' said March, who graduated with a degree in psychology. ''Surprised that so many teams are competing. You look around, and every school has a team. And I am definitely encouraged. You see all these sponsors joining in and giving kids TV time, pros lending their time.''
March, a Chicagoan who graduated from Marist, said the Eastern Illinois Fishing and Hunting Club is in its fifth year. March and Martin met last year through the club.
''We decided we wanted to team up for qualifiers,'' March said. ''It's been a pretty good year.''
Different styles help.
''Dan's strength is he is more of a finesse fisherman, drop-shotting, that sort of thing,'' March said. ''I am more of a power fisherman [and like to] whip a spinner bait or crankbait down the shoreline.''
Their combined skills will be tested at Carlyle, a challenging lake for bass fishermen.
''We have put in 40 hours of practice, and we can't figure it out,'' March said. ''It is beating us up. We will make it work come tournament time.''
Twenty college teams will compete the first two days before the field is cut to the top five for the final day. The top prize is a fully rigged boat.
''We will fish one more time and hopefully put something together,'' March said. ''We will have the experience of sponsor day, get to talk to all the sponsors and hang with the pros.''
A good last hurrah.
Wild things
One evening last week, a common nighthawk swooped near my head. First time for that. In the last week, there were reports of nighthawks during night games at Wrigley Field and U.S. Cellular Field on IBET, the birders' list.
Stray cast
Ever wonder if Jose Quintana feels like a guy whose buddy keeps knocking 20-pound kings off the side of the boat with the net? Or if Dale Sveum feels like a guy set adrift on Lake Michigan in a restored wooden skiff?

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Elevator Action, Master System.
That guy's looking very Lupin the 3rd there.
I finally bought Elevator Action Deluxe yesterday. It plays like a good mix between the original Elevator Action (which is bundled with E.A.D.) and the underrated Elevator Action Returns (playable on MAME, Taito Legends 2 and a rare Sega Saturn port with extra goodies). This game was directed by Yosuke Tsuda, the director of E. A. Returns. This is more of a thinking gamer's shooter like Gain Ground since plotting your path to the documents and exit is just as important as having a quick trigger finger.
This is a video of the dev team playing the game. It isn't translated, but you get to see the game in action. You also get a peek at the free monthly DLC characters: A 3-D pixel version of the old E.A. agent, Sayo-Chan (Pocky from Pocky and Rocky), Reiko from Time Gal and Vaus from Arkanoid. Sayo-Chan is ready for downloading now.
The Graphic Generators and Custom Sprite Galleries have been updated. The VsMaker and GroupShot generators just got a big overhaul I've been working on for months. There's a new screen mode in the GroupShot that demonstrates the user input feature. Lots of Darkstalkers, KoF and even Super Dodge Ball/Kunio-Kun characters and sprites were added along with other things I'm too lazy to mention again. Just read the update log and have fun. Please let me know if find any bugs.
edit: Thanks to anyone who has followed, reposted or just checked out this Tumblr. I've been working this update for a while and haven't had much time to post here.
Scratch-made sprite based on the new Elevator Action Deluxe game for the PS3. The game came out earlier this week. No, I don't have it yet but I plan to get it soon. Elevator Action fans just might recognize the pose.


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1. Wake up, eat grapefruit, babysit Evan for 2 hours
2. Shower, bike to Holmes, help in the class for a little, watch the Thanksgiving play, eat pumpkin pie and carne asada burrito.
3. Bike home,go to dance class with kristen at 24 hour, talk to Sharla and Laura, get on bus, go to UTC, meet laura and liam, shop, go to verizon store, eat, go to Lauras, sleepp
1. Wake up, shower, get dressed, walk to school
2.Go to chicano studies, check online accounts, download music, study for music class, get free food for student appreciation day, go to sign language, do describing excercises, class ends an hour early, ride home with sandy.
3. Alanna comes over and talks to my mom, walk to the bus stop, go to pb, go to buffalo exchange and try on clothes, walk to cotija's to meet the others, only stay for a little, go to trader joes, buy pita and aloe juice and pretzels and cereal, ride the bus home.
4. Eat dinner, watch amanda and adam remodel their rooms, listen to music, talk to justin, watch gossip girl and the office, sleep
1. Wake up at 5am, get dressed, wash face/brush teeth, check bag, eat bagel, leave for train station.
2. Get ticket from station, line up and get on train, leave at 610, read, listen to music, see Carlsbad, San Onfere and Huntington Beach from my window, arrive at Union Station around 850, get on red line Metro, get off at Vermont and Sunset, get on Route 2 bus, go through all of Hollywood, Downtown LA, Bel Air and Beverly Hills and see the beautiful houses, bus drops me off 2 stops too early in Westwood, see a million Twilight fans already lined up 3 days in advance to see the stars, walk to UCLA bus station.
3. Meet Tanya at bus station!, walk up the hill top her dorm, see Hedrick Hall, meet Julia and Lisa her roommates, exchange gifts for each other, go to see if Kyle is awake but fail, come back to 4 South, meet Paul, Young and the wonderful David, look at the posters in the hall, meet John Ma!, get the picture to give to Kyle and write a note, slip it under his door and come back to 4S again, meet Jaideep and Dodge, go to breakfast with Kyle at Hedrick, meet Johnny and his best friend, back to dorms to show him the scrapbook, plan to go to Venice.
4. Walk to the big blue bus, get on number 1, talk about life and catch up, get off and go to 3rd street promenade, look for rain boots and fail but realize they have an amazing AE and that crocs make high heels?, walk to Santa Monica Pier, walk on pier and take pictures, decide to walk to Venice, walk the mile and a half to Venice, see all the shops, medical smoke shops and muscle beach, call Adam to tell him we're where Lords of Dogtown was filmed, try to find the canals and find them, walk into someone's backyard to look for a way through but the plants were too thick, find another path, see the most adorable and colorful houses on the canal and the really cute canal, walk to bus stop and barely catch it, come back to UCLA.
5. Eat dinner at Covel, go to the volleyball game with her floor mates, the bruins lose but they tried hard, watch Kyle win the volleyball contest!, go back to Hedrick Hall, meet Alej, Kieta, Grant, the Ian's, Kedar, the duo of Justin and Alice, Steven and a ton of other people, talk to people in Alej's room, sit in the hallway and talk to people, go to Emily's room to show her Mac Fleet's picture, go back to Alej's room, talk to everyone in there, go to Bruin Café and get smoothies, go back to Alej's and listen to them make clues for Spencer to get his sandal back, listen to stories about Spencer who was in San Diego, meet Mike and his lisp!, ask Mike where he is from and talk more, go back to Tanya's room, meet the amazing Katelyn, talk to Julia about school and midterms and go to sleep at 3.
6. Wake up around 1030, talk to Julia, talk to mom, talk to Tanya, get dressed and get ready, go to breakfast at Covel, eat omlettes, go back to 4S, meet Amy that is best friends with Maryum, get all my stuff and walk through campus to the bus stop, say goodbye, get on bus.
7. Ride bus to Vermont and Sunset, get on red line Metro, get lost in Union Station looking for my train, sit in the waiting room and find my gate, get on train at 410, ride all the way home listening to music and reading, text Sharla and Tanya, get picked up at station, go home, shower, clean, check online accounts and watch movies.
1. Wake up to a garage sale going on at my house?, shower, get ready for work, make tea and toast
2. Drive to work, wait outside for 15 minutes, go in and talk to people, set up for the day
3. Work 10-430, talk to Sarai, check everything on the computer, listen to a lot of customers stories about life, listen to African horns while eating tortilla soup, look at various gift shops, walk to bank, take bus home
4. Listen to music, go to make grilled cheese but we had no cheese, made sandwich instead, talk to Sharla, talk to Amanda, bike and do abs, clean, sleep
1. Wake up to Adam smiling at me, baby sit Evan for an hour and a half, watch baby Signing Time with him, go home, check computer, shower, remember it's Tanya's birthday, run to find phone and text her, ride bike to Holmes.
2. Grade papers, sort papers, help with spelling test, eat quesdilla, organize Mrs. Loebig's desk, grade more, visit Adam on the playground and Amanda in the cafeteria, talk to 5th graders about how I used to babysit them, listen to 2nd grade play rehearsal.
3. Go home, run intervals, get ready and get picked up by Sharla, call Kevin to get my stuff but he's not home, go eat at Wings N' Things, see Angela there and talk to her for a while, go to Target, go to Vons to pick up movie from red box, blast Donk as loud as the car can go, see Pamela and Alexis, pick up Nguyen and Vicky, go to Sharla's and watch 17 Again, play with Mimi and talk, drop everyone off at home.
4. Go to Vons, drop movie back off, get gas, see 6 people we knew, go to Clairemont, go home, watch The Office, sleep
1. Wake up super late, decide to ditch school all day, shower, feed chickens
2. Talk to mom, find out about "bat cave" and PTA moms, check computer, get approved to go to lunch with bat cave, get dressed
3. Go to Thai Time, eat pad thai noodles and listen to the moms talk about Farmville and crap about other moms, go home
4. Realize I have a beast chicken, call Alanna, decide to go Fashion, take bus to Mission first, go to bank and Cold Stone, go to Forever 21, Hollister, sun Diego, Victoria's Secret, Betsey Johnson and American Apparel, meet up with Sharla in AA, take bus back to Alanna's house.
5. Sharla meets Sharla!, drop everything off/change into jackets, go to Rite Aid, buy marshmallows/ skewers/ 50 cent ice cream sandwiches/ chips, take bus to Fashion and trolley to state
6. Think Sbarro is open until 8 at state, sprint up the stairs and to Aztec Center, realize it closes at 7, go to The Grill, decide on Mexican but go to the market for drinks first, decide not to eat Mexican, show Alanna the dorms that aren't as good as hers, eat Sharla's food, talk, get back on trolley, forget everything we bought, go to Mission Valley, go to Target, buy white t's/socks!, not enough time for Old Town, go back to Clairemont
7. Watch Vampire Diaries at Alanna's, go home, asleep within 10 minutes.
1. Wake up, get dressed, make tea
2. Help decorate and cook for the upcoming night, go to work
3. Work from 10-430, go to Dia de los Muertos exhibit, eat mochi ice cream and drink blood orange tea, ride bus home
4. Watch neighborhood kids play in costumes and talk to their parents, eat bbq and fruit, talk to Sharla and decide to go to party, get ready, get picked up by Sharla, Sarai, Ruby and Brittany.
5. Arrive at Laura's, listen to Brittney Spears and the song Steve, eat, talk to people, leave Lauras, go to Yogurtland, go with Nguyen and Felicanna to the high school
6. See guys with masks running into the high school and assume they are trying to do something to homecoming, follow them and lose them, go back to the car, watch various people walk by, find Jaime, Shirley and Jenny.
7. Drive with those 3 to Clarissa's house, meet her dad and uncle, talk for a while, go to the backyard and sit, pretend to take pictures with the various bottles around us, eat, talk, hear music and decide to investigate, meet Clarissa's new neighbors who like to party and tried to invite us over, tried not to sleep so we could be "thug life", TIME CHANGE, Shirley and Jenny leave so they don't get in trouble, sleep on the couch
8. Woken up by Jaime, talk until he gets picked up for rehearsal, go back to sleep, woken up by Clarissa, talk about stuff, watch the orphan with her sister and friend, eat, walk to trolley stop, go to work, work until 430, sleep in back room, go home, read, run 4 miles, talk to Sharla and Sarai, go to Alanna's, come home, sleep.
1. Woke up, showered, ate fruit, checked email
2. Go to Holmes, grade papers, help kids change into costumes, set up for Halloween party, talk to class moms
3. Watch Halloween parade/ be photographer for mom, watch Adam's class party for a little
4. Go help in the "guess what this is" station, eat food, bike home
5. Download new music and put on ipod
6. Run 35 minutes of tempo down Balboa, shower again
7. Skateboard with Amanda to the Schillings' to drop off Adam's stuff for his sleepover, talk to Tami, skate home
8. Get dressed, go to Alanna's house to hang out and wait, get picked up by Zach and Alan
9. Drive to Dominos to pick up coupon, order pizza, go to Blockbuster next door for "blowout sale", drive to Del Mar for Scream Zone
10. See Theresa and Ulysses in parking lot, buy tickets and "magical amulet", go on haunted hay ride, chamber and house of horror, drive home
11. Get home at 1, clean all the bottles out of my room, sleep
1. Wake up an hour and a half early cause mom didn't know, straightened hair and ate.
2. Decided to not go to first class, walked to stores to turn in applications. None were open so walked to coffee bean and tea leaf and bought ginger ale then walked to school.
3. Arrive at school and go to computer lab, checked everything, looked up trains to UCLA, found them and reserved them. Went to lie in grass in front of class and read P&P, talked to Jasmine instead.
5. Go to gym, change, run ramps and 400's, come back and decide not to change.
6. Go to sign language, learn how to describe people, buy cornbread muffin and tea. Ride home with Sandy.
7. Listen to music and play mahjong, leave for bus stop, go to 711 for drink, miss bus, walked to bus stop in front of mesa and wait. Ride bus to fashion get on the trolley to state, get off and wait for the 955. Get off and walk to the Malcom X library for Big Brother, Big Sister meeting.
8. 20 minutes late to meeting, fill out paperwork and listen to meeting, find out I probably won't get matched since I am a middle class white girl and live in Clairemont. Get picked up, go to Home Depot, go home.
9. Make grilled cheese and tea, listen to Adam talk, talk to Charla and Justin, watch scrubs and the office.


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"Does dreaming scare you? Do you ever wonder about the meanings behind it? Do you want to try it?"
01. It was not too long ago that…
I remember shivering so hard that my body collapse onto the frozen ground. My fingers were blue with shades of purple. I was not getting enough blood circulation. The dark shadows surrounding me had look like tall trees, but as I continue to look, the shadows' shape took form of little bats. The flapping wings behind their small heads burst cold air towards me. Coming along with this freezing air was the stench of rotting bodies. It was coming from a rusty wagon that was passing by slowly. Dangling by the corner of the wagon was a small foot. I gasp in fear, shaken by the blood I saw slowly dripping down the wheels of the wagon. The rhythm of the wheels creaking sounded like the small shrieks of children. Along with the disturbing sound was the sound of human feet walking towards me. Chills ran down my spine. The rhythm was in sync with my beating heart. Beating one, stomping another, beating one, stomping another. A pair of worn out boots approaches me. A fresh of hot air blew into my face. That was probably the best scene in this dream. I was aching to leave, aching to–
I couldn't feel anything.
A sharp pain ripped down my chest,
I couldn't see anything.
Darkness engulfs my purple, bleeding hands.
I couldn't breathe.
…right through my lungs.
I couldn't …
couldn't …
I woke up, only to find a large ice pack on top of my chest. It was stinging me.
If only, this fever can leave now. I'm hungry. I want to write again.
I scribbled: "Until my next dream."
written by: whistlei (cheyna)
Paris, France
If they told me to look at you, I'll turn away.
If they told me to smile at you, I'll turn away.
If they told me to love you, I'll run away.
For I am already so in love with you.
"Alone, I stand here in this unprotected place.
War killing everyone around me.
Alone, I fend for myself.
Lend your hand, and take me to my Sanctuary place.
Alone, I love you secretly."


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WWE Champion CM Punk believes Vince McMahon was RIGHT to fire Abraham Washington ... because rape jokes are not funny and have no place in the WWE.
TMZ spoke with the wrestling champ on his way in to Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills last night where he made it clear ... A.W.'s crack about Kobe Bryant during a live WWE event was definitely grounds for termination.
"I don't like to see anybody lose their job," Punk told us ... but says axing someone over a rape joke is "justified."
TMZ broke the story ... WWE fired A.W. last week, claiming it wasn't just the Kobe joke that cost him his job ... A.W. was habitually exhibiting "poor judgement."
I don't like seeing him trying to get fame off topics everyone agrees on. (the Chris brown thing, now this?) I think someone's mooching a little bit of "Lime Light" here.
This dude seriously needs to get off his high horse preaching about everybody else acting like he's so perfect and never made one mistake before. The joke was actually funny and wasn't a big deal to get fired over. He has no sense of humor.
I'm still waiting for Chris Brown to respond to CM Punk about fighting a man his own size. Brown acted like a child, attacking Punk and sending his moronic Team Breezy after him ... then deleted everything when he realized that CM Punk would destroy him.
But it's ok to tell a fan to "kill themselves" on twitter and still keep your job? Hmmm ok!
You've got to love how TMZ blows **** out of context too gain views right?
I may be wrong, but wasn't there an entire story line where the wrestler that is the real life son-in-law of Vince and Linda McMahon raped a corpse? They made months worth of fun of that if I remember.
And I don't like to see women raped, which Kobe did. AW was awesome and this guy's a twerp. Hope Kobe bends him over a chair and makes him bleed.
If someone asks you a question you are going to respond. CM PUNK is the WWE champion. Rape is no joke.
Of course he is going to side with his boss.
Does anybody else think that the WWE sucks?
just as Janice implied I'm taken by surprise that some one can get paid $9559 in four weeks on the computer. did you read this page LazyPay7.com
Well then CM Punk, maybe you should have been fired when you called a fan a Homo at a WWE event.
I think he's siding with WWE, because if he disagrees, he could get in big trouble. CM Punk is an honest man, and I can see that he wanted to explain more on both sides, but was hesitant, because Vince could fine him at any moment. So of course he has to agree with the boss. He is on of WWE's big merchandise sellers, and he is extremely popular in the world of professional wrestling.
I cry for this man who lost his JOB because other people are whiney sissy babies rocking themselves back in forth in a corner over a HARMLESS miniscule little joke.
I think he was being factual. (allegedly)


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Analog to Digital
When and how to make the change
Digital video systems have many advantages. Digitized video can be transmitted over corporate networks in the same manner other data is sent, making it possible to share live or recorded video between offices located a city, a state or even a continent away.
Internet Protocol (IP) cameras can be added to or moved on a network in much the same as other peripherals, such as printers and PCs. Standard servers can function as network video recorders (NVRs), providing storage capabilities far beyond anything an analog VCR or even a DVR can offer.
With these benefits, one might think all organizations would immediately begin the switch to fully digital security systems. But many companies and government agencies already have six- or seven-figure investments into analog or hybrid systems. The cost of a complete switch out of these legacy systems is often too high for organizations to consider.
That does not mean a digital upgrade cannot begin in a more modest way. Fortunately, security manufacturers are providing solutions that allow more digital and analog components to function together in a single system. With some capital investment, a little patience and the advice of an experienced system integrator, a fully digital security system can be within the reach of most security practitioners.
Several leading systems integrators recently shared their experiences in helping take their customers digital. Their experiences can help serve as a roadmap for making the switch.
Facilities Making the Move
Jerry Albrecht of D/A Central said the migration of analog systems to digital constitutes the majority of his firm's video work. Typically, he recommends starting with the head-end equipment and maintaining as much of the remaining infrastructure as possible.
"That makes the biggest difference right off the bat," he said. "Most of the customers we are working with have a lot of existing infrastructure. They have different products in different locations, and now they want to get everything onto the network. As a rule, the cost of replacing the infrastructure is fairly significant. So we start by replacing the VCRs or DVRs and the matrix switches, and put the video on a network to be recorded by an NVR." In most cases, he said, the networks he helps to design are dedicated to security and not shared with other corporate functions.
"We are going to start work soon at a hospital," he said. "There are about 160 cameras on the site, and right now they have multiple types of VCRs and DVRs recording video. Some of them are local for a particular building. The security staff has told us, 'Let's get this all into one location where we can monitor everything.'" After going digital, the hospital will have a 32-monitor video wall. The console operators will be able to electronically drag and drop a camera from the list and pop it up on the wall. Virtual tours of the facilities will run continuously on the bottom row of monitors. And the access system will be integrated so that a door access problem will pop up the related camera while the virtual tour continues uninterrupted.
Another project D/A Central helped to complete involved an organization using DVRs for its video recording of analog cameras. Officials complained it was not getting enough recording time—they wanted to be able to record and store 180 days of video from 45 cameras.
One day, the DVRs died and no one in the organization was immediately aware of the failure. "The user was faced with a lawsuit and when the staff went to find the related video, there was none," Albrecht said. "So we went in and in two hours yanked out the DVRs, plugged in video servers and hooked them up to a NVR. That didn't rescue the lost video, but it did give the customer the recording capacity it wanted for the future."
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Dear All,
We are delighted to announce that the 8th International Conference on Population Geographies will be held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, from 30 June to 3 July 2015.
Essential details of the conference are available on the University of Queensland website at: http://www.gpem.uq.edu.au/icpg2015. As you will see, we expect to launch the full conference website, with more details, in mid November with the call for abstracts at the start of December.
The ICPG is unique! The previous conference in Groningen was a great success, and with your help we hope to create an equally stimulating and enjoyable event in Brisbane in mid 2015.
We expect to do a more general mail-out to potential participants within the next month. In the meantime, please feel free to publicise the Brisbane ICPG 2015, as widely as possible, and contact us if you have any queries.
We hope to welcome you to Brisbane in June next year.
Very best wishes
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'Myths of Migration: The Changing British Population' at the British Academy, London, on Monday 17 November 2014
An evening meeting organised jointly by the British Academy and BSPS on 'Myths of Migration: The Changing British Population', at the British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, on Monday 17 November 2014 at 6.00-7.30pm.
As part of its celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the publication of The Changing Population of Britain (edited by Heather Joshi), the BSPS has teamed up with the British Academy for an evening meeting on UK migration. This will describe trends over time in both international and internal migration and discuss how these patterns are changing the size and composition of our national and local populations (click here for more information). The meeting is free of charge, but pre-registration is required and seats are allocated on a first come, first served basis. To register, please go to the following webpage: http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2014/MythsofMigration.cfm
A BSPS day meeting on 'usual residence' and alternative population bases, at LSE on Friday 24th October 2014
RGS-IBG Annual Conference, 2014: Learning from the 2011 Census
Learning from the 2011 Census: Sessions (1) through (4), Wed 27 August 2014
The following presentations were delivered at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2014, sessions 'Learning from the 2011 Census'. Presentations are listed in session order.
Learning from the 2011 Census (1): Data Delivery and Characteristics
Justin Hayes and Rob Dymond-Green – New and easier ways of working with aggregate data and geographies from UK censuses
Cecilia Macintyre – Scotland's Census 2011
Oliver Duke-Williams and John Stillwell – Census interaction data and access arrangements
Paul Waruszynski – Microdata products from the 2011 Census
Nicola Shelton, Ian Shuttleworth, Christopher Dibben and Fiona Cox – Longitudinal data in the UK Censuses
Learning from the 2011 Census (2): Changing Populations, Changing Geographies
Nigel Walford – Then and now: Micro-scale population change in parts of London, 1901-11 and 2001-11
Darren Smith – Changing geographies of traditionality and non-traditionality: Findings from the census
Thomas Murphy, John Stillwell and Lisa Buckner – Commuting to work in 2001 and 2011 in England and Wales: Analyses of national trends using aggregate and interaction data from the Census
Learning from the 2011 Census (3): Ethnicity, Health and Migration (part one)
Giles Barrett and David McEvoy – Age and ethnic spatial exposure
Nissa Finney and Ludi Simpson – 'White flight'? What 2011 census data tell us about local ethnic group population change
Fran Darlington, Paul Norman and Dimitris Ballas – Exploring the inter-relationships between ethnicity, health, socioeconomic factors and internal migration: Evidence from the Samples of Anonymised Records in England
Stephen Clark, Mark Birkin, Phil Rees, Alison Heppenstall and Kirk Harland – Using 2011 Census data to estimate future elderly health care
Learning from the 2011 Census (4): Ethnicity, Health and migration (part two)
Phil Rees and Nik Lomax – Using the 2011 Census to fix ethnic group estimates and components for the prior decade
Nik Lomax, Phil Rees, John Stillwell and Paul Norman – Assessing internal migration patterns in the UK: A once in a decade opportunity
Myles Gould and Ian Shuttleworth – Health, housing tenure, and entrapment 2001-2011: Does changing tenure and address improve health?
Researcher in Geography of Health/Medical Geography and GIS
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Post based in Wellington
Researcher in Health Geography, GeoHealth Laboratory, based in Wellington
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BSPS day meeting on the 'usual residence' concept and alternative population bases, LSE, 24 October 2014
This forthcomingmeeting will be held at LSE on Friday 24th October 2014, 10.30am-5.00pm. The main question to be addressed is: 'Is the concept of 'usual residence' reaching its sell-by date?' Now that the Government has confirmed that a further Population Census will take place in 2021, it is an opportune time to consider how far the use of alternative population bases should be expanded at the expense of statistics based on usual residence.
The meeting is proposed primarily as a scoping exercise. Speakers will introduce the issues, present the results of work on the 2011 census data on alternative population bases and report on the latest thinking at the UN for the 2020 round of censuses. The meeting also provides a forum for representatives of a variety of sectors to express their views on the relative value of the alternatives in the light of societal change. Already on board are Richard Potter, ONS, Ian White, Ludi Simpson and Tony Champion.
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Opportunities at St Andrews for Population Researchers
Three positions in Human Geography – ML1317
The Department of Geography and Sustainable Development at St Andrews invites
applications for three posts in Human Geography (from Lecturer to Professor). Exceptional
candidates will be considered for Reader or Professorial positions. We welcome applications
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opportunity to engage with staff working on large, externally-funded initiatives – the Centre
for Population Change (http://www.cpc.ac.uk/) and the Census and Administrative Data
Longitudinal Studies hub (http://calls.ac.uk/), whilst those with interests in cities and
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We are seeking to appoint a Research Fellow to work on an exciting project as part of a randomised controlled trial investigating the impact of living in the East Village (a neighbourhood based on active design principles in the Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park) on physical activity and health.
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Closing date: 27th July 2014
PopFest 2014 – Call for Papers
We are pleased to announce that the 22nd annual PopFest conference – the population studies conference organised by postgraduates for postgraduates – will be taking place at University College London this year.
PopFest2014 will be hosted by the UCL Department of Geography from Monday 4th to Wednesday the 6th of August 2014. The conference will provide an opportunity to take stock of recent developments and exchange experience of how population research has evolved in diverse multidisciplinary settings.
Papers are invited from postgraduate students in all disciplines involved in the study of populations including anthropology, demography, economics, health, historical geography, human geography, social policy and social statistics.
Attendance at PopFest 2014 is FREE , but one abstract (250 words) for an oral presentation per attendee is required. Submissions are welcome on all themes relating to the study of populations including (but not limited to):
Global networks
Harnessing open data, social media, 'Big data'
Identifying and characterising populations
Modelling population dynamics
People, place and regions
Understanding population change
Attendees will have the opportunity to chair sessions and may specify their interest during the registration process. Conference attendance will include three lunches, refreshments and two evening meals. Details of other entertainment activities will be published shortly – please visit the UCL PopFest website or follow the PopFest2014 twitter feed for the latest up-to-date information on the conference.
Attendees should book their own accommodation, however details on booking UCL accommodation or local B&B options can be found on the UCL PopFest website.
Please register and submit your abstract via the PopFest 2014 Eventbrite page. The deadline for submissions is 13th June 2014, with notification of acceptance by 20th June.
Workshop on use of probabilistic population forecasts – Royal Statistical Society – 19 June 2014
The main aim of the workshop is to bring together both academics and practitioners of probabilistic population forecasting to discuss barriers to the uses of probabilistic forecasts and possible ways to overcome them. A second aim is to learn from the best practice in other areas of application of probabilistic forecasting.
The focus of the programme will be on various aspects of communicating uncertainty in demographic forecasting, and on developing practical guidelines both for "producers", as well as "consumers" (users) of probabilistic population forecasts.
Confirmed speakers and panellists include (in alphabetical order):
. Dr Isabel Alberts (German Weather Service)
. Prof. Juha Alho (University of Helsinki)
. Dr John Bryant (Statistics New Zealand)
. Dr Thomas Buettner (formerly UN Population Division)
. Dr Patrick Gerland (UN Population Division)
. Prof. Nico Keilman (University of Oslo)
. Dr Giampaolo Lanzieri (Eurostat)
. Prof. Anthony O'Hagan (University of Sheffield)
. Dr Luca Onorante (Central Bank of Ireland)
. Mr Darragh Owens (aviation)
. Prof. Adrian Raftery (University of Washington)
. Dr Hana Ševčíková (University of Washington)
. Prof. Frans Willekens (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)
. A representative of the Office for National Statistics (TBC)
The event is jointly organised by the ESRC Centre for Population Change, the EPSRC Care Life Cycle Project at the University of Southampton, and the Probabilistic Population Projection Group at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
The registration fee is 50GBP per person (25GBP for students). It covers the programme, buffet lunch, as well as morning and afternoon refreshments.
For further information and to register for the course, please see http://www.cpc.ac.uk/events/?action=story&id=307. Registration for the event closes on 31 May 2014. The number of places is limited, so please book early to avoid disappointment.
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