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Forgiving Partner's Cybersex Addiction
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|Sun, 06-01-2003 - 1:45am
Well, I don't know if he tired of it (or suspected I became aware), but he unplugged the camera and uninstalled all his Instant Messaging software except for one, which lists all his school buddies.
Today, I found a popup from a woman, who left a URL with a photo and her stats. Now, I also have the same Instant Messaging service, and occasionally get these popups. Because I never discussed with him the fact I found out about his online antics, I clicked on it, and then asked him about it. (I clicked on it because if he is in another room, he will ask me to tell him if any messages pop up, especially on nights he goes to his friend's house). He got frustrated and asked me why I am so jealous.
My questions:
1) Did you ever find out about your significant other's cyber addiction, and then lied because you felt badly that you found out about it?
2) Can you ever forgive a partner for a cybersex addiction? To me, looking at porn is one thing, but using a video camera to create the sensation of a threesome or something else is another.
I've wanted to bring up the discussion since I found out about it. It makes me want to throw up when I read what he said to her; it makes me want to throw up when I think of him sharing his body with someone else.
Like to hear others' thoughts and opinions, as well as their experiences.
|Sun, 06-01-2003 - 1:12pm
He obviously doesn't agree (his jealousy comment), so unless you can learn to live with this, it's time to end this relationship.


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On This Day … 9 August
1866 – Magdalena RAASS (20) married Charles RISCHERT (22) in Detroit, Michigan 148 years ago. (3rd great-grandaunt -m)
1876 – Elton DOUGLAS was born in Michigan 138 years ago. (husband of Rose RISCHERT, 1st cousin 4x removed -m)
1889 – Christina HILDEBRANDT Dettloff died 125 years ago in Detroit, Michigan at 31 years old. (wife of Joseph DETTLOFF, 2nd great-granduncle -p)
1896 – August F. SCHULTE Jr. died 118 years ago in Grosse Pointe, Michigan at 33 years old. (2nd great-grandfather -m)
1912 – August E. SCHULTE was born in Detroit, Michigan 102 years ago to Edmund Schulte & Lillian OSTROWSKI. (grandfather -m)
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1887 – Walter GAMEL was born in Detroit, Michigan 127 years ago. (husband of Dora KESSLER, 1st cousin x removed -m)
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1827 – Joseph Lachovski was born 187 years ago in Germany. (3rd great-grandfather)
1862 – George Assmann was born in Port Huron, Michigan 152 years ago to John Assmann & Mary Stitts. (1st cousin 4x removed)
1870 – Twins Frank & Matthew (Martin) Klepaczyk were born 143 years ago in Poland to John Klepaczyk & Mary Kozlawski
1871 – Joseph Lee Brown was born in Chicago, Illinois 143 years ago. (husband of Margaret Sinyard, great-grandaunt)
1873 – Thomas Garlick (35) married Eliza Clark (21) in Will County, Illinois 141 years ago. (3rd great-granduncle)
1877 – Joseph Uttech was born in Michigan 137 years ago to John & Juliana Bartel.
1893 – Proxida Filipiak was born 121 years ago in Alpena, Michigan. (wife of John Hallman, great-granduncle)
1911 – Elton Douglas died 103 years ago in Lapeer, Michigan at 34 years old. (husband of Rose Rischert, 1st cousin 4x removed)
1922 – Charles Peterson Jr was born in Detroit, Michigan 92 years ago to Charles Peterson & Theresa Lachovski. (2nd cousin 2x removed)
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Road Sage isn't perfect. I admit this, so please accept this effort to right the wrongs of the past week.
Q. Your article in Tuesday's Journal Gazette on major projects did not mention a tremendous headache at the railroad overpass on South Coliseum Boulevard as Indiana 930 turns eastward to New Haven. Would you publish some information on the Coliseum project and perhaps an explanation of why it was omitted? – Bill Maxwell, Fort Wayne
A. Bill, you were not the only one to notice this omission. My only explanation is that I simply didn't think to include it, which is a bit surprising considering I drive through it every day.
But better late than never, right? I can provide some details on the project, which I agree is quite the headache, especially with Lake Avenue under construction and Clinton Street partly closed.
Back in April, the state closed the right eastbound lane on Coliseum as it approaches the cloverleaf with Washington Boulevard. The restriction is necessary to allow crews to replace and widen the eastbound bridge deck over the Norfolk Southern railroad.
The ramp to westbound Washington is open – the one that is part of the official detour for truck traffic normally using Clinton Street – although it requires navigating a detour onto the ramp that typically takes traffic from Washington to Coliseum. Obviously, this ramp is closed.
Toni Mayo, spokeswoman for the Indiana Department of Transportation, said Primco is on schedule and about 40 percent complete with the $1.2 million project. In July, the eastbound right lane and northwest loop will reopen, but the eastbound left lane then will be closed. The project is scheduled to be finished by October.
Toll Road work
While I wanted to include it, information about work on the Indiana Toll Road wasn't received in time for Tuesday's special summer construction bonus column, but that doesn't mean I won't share it with my regular readers.
Amber Kettring, Toll Road spokeswoman, said 85 lane miles of pavement will be repaired. The work, fortunately, will not be done during the day between Memorial Day and Labor Day. In our area, most of the work was completed before Memorial Day, although some road striping remains.
The Toll Road plans to start repairs on four bridges as soon as the fall, but they will affect only travelers leaving northeast Indiana. Two of the bridges are in St. Joseph County, one is in Porter County and the fourth is in LaPorte County.
Lima lights
Q. The light at Lima Road and Northbrook Boulevard seems to favor the east-west on Northbrook, much more than the heavily traveled Lima Road. Since Lima construction has been completed for some time, it seems the timing is incorrect. – Dave Knollman
A. According to the state, at least, your reading of the signal isn't correct, Dave.
Mayo, with the state, said the amount of green signal time for Lima Road is about three times as long as the time provided to Northbrook. When there is no traffic on Northbrook, the signal will remain green for Lima.
If you don't think it is working, the city and state plan to re-examine the entire corridor of Lima Road next week. Beginning Monday, the two governments hope to better time all the signals along Lima from Washington Center to Dupont roads.
As part of this effort, the left-turning patterns will be changing at several intersections. Normally left-turn arrows come before a green light for through traffic. But this will change at Lima's intersections with Washington Center, Ludwig Road, Cook Road, Lima Valley Drive, Wallen Road, Rabus Drive/Cremer Avenue, Northbrook and Dupont Road.
At these areas, one or both of the left-turn arrows on Lima will follow the through green-light signal in the sequence. These lagging left turns, which can be found on Coliseum Boulevard, are intended to improve traffic flow in the area.
Drivers are asked to use caution in this area as they adjust to the new signals.
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This week's audio question comes from Lisa England, who asked about the widening of Gump Road. The segment originally aired Friday afternoon on WOWO and can be heard online at www.journalgazette.net/roadsage.


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Boomin' Lyrics - tobyMac
Review The Song (33)
I've been around the way
I've been around the block
I got the keys to the city if the gates are locked
And a freak like me ain't 'bout to stop
I got a hand full of dreams and a heart full of God
Everywhere we go they wonder where we're from
Well its diverse city ya'll welcome to come
It sits high in the hills you can see it for days
And even if you can't you can hear our praise
We go ...Boom chuck da boom boom da chuck
'Cause we're boomin' out the stereo system
This goes out to anyone listening
Boomin' out the stereo system
Here to rep the most high with this one
Boomin' out the stereo system
This goes out to anyone listening
Boomin' out the stereo system
'Cause we rock for sure in stereo
If you're looking to slide, come slide with us
And if you're looking for a ride, it's a big old bus
We got black folk, white folk and Middle East
Mexican, Filipino - Jesus Freaks
Got a Haitian Princess, an Aussie Mate
East Coast, Midwest to left side of the states
And when the bus rolls, it's out the dirty south
Tennessee and we keepin' it good and loud we go
'Cause we're boomin' out the stereo system
This goes out to anyone listening
Boomin' out the stereo system
Here to rep the most high with this one
Boomin' out the stereo system
This goes out to anyone listening
Boomin' out the stereo system
'Cause we rock for sure in stereo
I got portable sounds to lift me up
Portable sounds to take me higher
Portable sounds to lift me up
So don't even try to get in my head
(Shonlock's Rap)
We go boom shacka lacka I got em poppin
and lockin, and lockin and poppin it and thinking
they stopping, bout to shake something
Let me check the technique I speak life
no matter with a flow that's unique,
and like every word that I utter, so tasty
tentalizing make room mister
Now here we go! Check out this scenario with their flow.
Got em bangin Boomin out your stereo!!
'Cause we're boomin' out the stereo system
This goes out to anyone listening
Boomin' out the stereo system
Here to represent the most high with this one
Boomin' out the stereo system
This goes out to anyone listening
Boomin' out the stereo system
'Cause we rock for sure in stereo
Boomin' out your stereo
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I love Toby Mac | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/14/12
Awesome lyrics!!!Praise our ALMIGHTY GOD for giving a wonderful singer Toby Mac,for giving him the talent and wisdom to write such beautiful songs like Made To Love,and one million thanks to Him that I could listen to these songs and feel proud of my Creator....!
14 year old TobyMac fan. | Reviewer: Joe | 8/25/12
I have to agree with anonymous. Listening to Toby' has radically influenced my life as a christian, and I'm not sure if I would be where I am today if I had not listend to what he's saying in these songs. Toby's music has spoken to many other kids I know, and I've only met a couple of who don't like the music, but they just said that when I told them it was christian.
I'm pretty sure kids would just lose interest in God etc if it wern't for artists like this Jesus Freak. As a fourteen year old, I can honestly say that God does speak to kids through music like this, and they definetly hear him.
A revival is coming.
p.s. Boomin' is possibly my fovourite tobyMac song!
p.p.s. hi Jack lol!!
crazy love | Reviewer: yes i'm only 14 and you probably wont listen to me | 4/1/11
God has this crazy love for everyone even athiests and to think you are an acident is stupid cause 1) you arent 2) wouldent you rather be a creation than an acident. and there are stupid stupid stupid cristians that bash athiests and thats not right even though ther wrong. (some of this isn't for everyone as you can tell) we should share this crazy incomprehinceble (and i know i didn't spell that right) love rather than hiting athiests and agnostics over the head with it that isn't how you get through to them and maybe youll find i'm right maybe you'll find i'm wrong but i hope you'll find the time to read a book called "crazy love"
speak what you believe | Reviewer: amber wright | 10/13/10
good job on expressing what you believe in song. i love hearing your songs especially when i am sad or don't feel good. this song gives out the way you believe don't let anyone stop you from what your doing. its your believe not theirs. Toby i dance to some of your songs like city on our knees and even this one. i go out and perform these dances at other churches or concerts it all kinds of things. i have a dancing group it all youth from 1st baptist church of cross hill s.c. the names are sierra escudero, me of course, my sister Edna, and my other sister Tiffany. keep up the good work.
your friend,
.amber wright.
Love song...hate overly religious people. | Reviewer: Cameron white | 9/7/10
Ok, I'm often called inteligent so let me clear some things up. Christianity is a religion. Just because people aren't Christian doesn't mean they are lost or bad people, they just have different views then you christians and you should be accepting, like you tell is non religious people to be. Flipside is that there are plenty of evil Christians that have done phsyco stuff. Now you always tell Us to keep our "hate" and opinions to ourselves. Well why don't you do the same and realize that not everyone believes in what you do and stop trying to convert us. That being said, if you can call us lost and try to convert us, we have every right to say what we think about religion and church. Now, I'm going to be the bigger person and not get mad or try to convert you Christians to my way of thinking. I understand that that is your belief and you are entitled to your opinion. I also don't think that this is him trying to convert kids, he's just singing about what he believes and that's fine. However, I live on the bible belt and down here it seems everyone is trying to convert me, especially since people at school learned I wasn't religious. So I ask, please, stop trying to change our ways of thinking. We reapect you, so you need respect us. If there is one thing that I, and most athiests and other non religious people, hate about church, it's the fact that you try to constantly impose your religion on us, and that you convince your followers to believe that YOUR way of thinking is the right way, an everyone else, no matter how great of a person they are, is wrong and lost an going to go to hell, yet a murderer who repents will go to heaven. I honestly don't unerstand. Thank you to anyone who read this all the way through and please carefully consider what I have said here before posting a hateful and mean comment.
God doesn't believe in athiest's... | Reviewer: Luke | 5/12/10
Jacob, sorry you feel that way but our God is not an ethical God... that's just how it is. Christianity is not recruiting. It's a choice on whether or not you choose to dedicate your life to the one and only God of us all. Like it or not, He is real and whether or not you do believe it, He WILL present himself to this world. Take it or leave it world, God has given you the choice of eternal life. Praise God for his infinite love!
Not A religion. | Reviewer: Kaleb age 14 | 4/1/10
As a strong beliver in God I just wanted to day to the guy that thinks Tobyis trying to "recruit kid into a religion". First of all Christianity is not a religion, it a relationship with God. Secound of all he is singing the truth and what he belives so dont listen if you dont like it, it the truth and its ment for praise not recruiting.
TobyMac is awesome | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/18/10
I was raised in church but believe in knowing what i have and what others haven't to all of you out there who think that TobyMac and others like him are trying to recruit kids into some weirdo cult be quiet if you had something you thought was totally awesome and you wanted everyone to know about wouldn't you share or would you keep quiet and not let anyone else have your fun and joy when you have something as marvelous as Jesus and his love you can't help showing it because it's like smiling it's contagious so if you are not a christian okay but please stop saying him and others like him are just in it for the money because that is just rude and even if they are your don't know that only 2 people in the universe know what a person is thinking and that would be that person and God so please don't attack people that share what they love with the world by using their gift
Think About It | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/12/10
What Toby Mac's done is taken the popular music style among our teens today and written something that was uplifting and Christian. If you think about it, everyone wonders why our teens do stupid things. It's because they're lost. They haven't been under Christian influence. They don't know or understand what life's about. They've been taught by the American and many other cultures that whatever they want to do is fine. That they're lives don't matter and so it doesn't matter what they do. They've been told they have no purpose. I don't care how old you are, where you came from, or how you grew up, everyone wants to have a purpose and everyone wants to know that they matter. You're not going to get those teens in Church because they've been taught that religion is pointless and unpopular. Music is one of the few ways left to reach those young men and women. That's the next generation out there and if none of them become Christian and find God's love for them, what do you think our world is going to look like in the next 20years? If you think it's bad now, wait till you get that generation that's never heard the message.
So, to those that think that Toby Mac has done more harm to Christianity then good I say this: If we don't adapt our outreach ministries to this new generation, we're not going to reach any of them. We'll sentence an entire generation and likely all their children after them to Hell simply because we wouldn't accept that this is the 21st century and things are changing.
To those that think that Toby Mac and those like him are "recruiting" kids: That's not what Christianity's about. You've missed the point entirely. It's not about getting more people to wander around like idiots yelling that everyone's going to Hell. It's about sharing something totally amazing that we've found. It's about hope. We only want for you to be given a chance to experience something as amazing and beautiful as God's love and care for His creation.
So to close, Toby Mac and those like him are doing what's necessary to tell the world that Jesus loves them in the 21st century. If you can't see that, you've missed the point of Christianity just as bad as Christ's disciples during his ministry on earth.
to Agnostic Jacob | Reviewer: david | 1/12/10
It is too bad that you are an agnostic/athiest. That being said, what do you care if someone wants to believe in Jesus/God???? You don't believe in an afterlife anyway. I don't understand how someone can go about life and not see that the universe was created and not just one big accident, but hey God gave us choice. I hope you find your way before its too late.
Hmmmmmmmmm.... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/15/09
This is one of 3 songs of Tobymac's songs that I like, (music preference, not the messages) but he is a very good artist. Also, if you haven't seen it, check out the video for Lose My Soul. Pretty cool. Also, Jacob, get a life man, and a christian song's review board is not the best place to give YOUR opinion. I hope you get saved before you die, man.
Walking the walk... is tobymac for real? | Reviewer: Stacey | 11/16/09
For the individual who posted that toby mac's music is a "recruiting" mechanism..how about doing a little research before throwing out the false accusations..
now i will admit, it's easy for anyone to sing a song about God. and it's easy to pass judgment if that's all we see. However, how a person lives their life is what really says where their heart lies. Toby went to Liberty University, which is one of the largest, if not the largest, Christian school in the US. He was a student there, pursuing God... long before he was pursuing a career, or even music. Second, some Christian artists do make a significant amount of money from their careers, but what they do with their money is slightly different that what (some) sacral artists do... Building 429, Toby Mac, Jeremy Camp and Newsong are great examples of well known Christian artists that do not donate, but POUR money into changing the lives of orphans, feeding the hungry, and spreading the gospel all of the world. Not "recruiting" teenagers, but telling five year old children in Africa that there is hope, and that hope is Jesus. He is mighty to save.
I will close in saying I sincerely hope you do not feel the way you do because of the lives of hypocritical Christians, because I myself have seen the detrimental affects of that. But, just like the false prophets in the Bible..it's still happening today.
The bottom line is religion is a personal relationship with God. You cannot judge God by what you see, or think you see, people doing. Mere humans are not God, we fall short of his glory, and we let Him & His people down. We're just human and that is why we serve Him.
Toby IS a Christian | Reviewer: Nichele | 10/30/09
Dude, I don't know where you're getting this from, but Toby has a huge heart for God. Have you ever heard him give interviews or even talk about his faith? He's not about the money; it's about using his talent for God.
And as for not having enough talent to make it in the "real world," you are clearly not old enough (if your spelling and grammar are anything to go by) to have heard of dcTalk - a band founded by Toby. If you had heard of the band, you'd realize how ignorant a statement that is. dcTalk was hugely popular both with Christians AND non-Christians in the 90s. The band even racked up 4 Grammy wins and had 5 albums in the Billboard Top 200. In his solo career, Toby has also won a Grammy (and been nominated for 3 or 4 others) and has charted another 5 times in the Billboard Top 200, with one of his albums reaching number 3 on the Billboard rock charts.
So what's my point? Obviously, I'm not gonna argue with you about God here because this is not the place to do it. But you do need to stop being so ignorant and realize that a) a number of Christian singers could (and have) crossover and still have success if they wanted to, and 2) yes, Christian singers are human and they will make mistakes - sometimes public ones - but that doesn't mean they aren't Christians and that they're just in it for the money. Again, I don't know how old you are, but if you're this cynical at a young age, it's sad really.
Being a Diplomat | Reviewer: Jacob R | 8/5/09
As an agnostic/ atheist I truly oppose this song and all others like it as an attemt to recruit yong children into religion, regardless of what type. There is a strong chance Toby-Mac is not a christian because you would be suprised at how much these artist make. Toby-Mac would not be talented enough to make it in the real world, so he probably chose to pretend to be christian to make money. And as a final point, today organized religion is a serious drain on the advancement of modern society and must be stopped on it strays ou of the chapel and begins to effect the real world, as is what happened when G.W. Bush was ellected. Please, as a favor to the greater good, please stop attemting to recruit kids like me and the ones I met a week ago at a christian camp, to use such places as a recruitment center is un-ethicle.
TOBY MAC | Reviewer: Dustin | 3/9/09
Toby is a good role model for younger generation christians. His awesome and it makes me feel good about God being there and leading him. I love God cause he is the bomb yo. HE IS THE KING OF KINGS.
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U2? 81 million Apple iThing-strokers know a place where the Beats have no shame
Missing statistic
What I'd like to know is how many peole took advantage of the iRemove (TM) tool to rid the pesky Bono from their itunes/icloud once and for all.
Even if only to be bloody minded, like wot I did.
First Irish boy band U2. Now Apple pushes ANOTHER thing into iPhones, iPods, iPads
Fill up yer memory
If you don't like the idea of Apple pushing the update file to your iDevice, like they did with iOS7.
On the other hand, they may have learnt their lesson but I doubt lucifer has a snow plough on order.
Apple's ONE LESS THING: the iPod Classic disappears
Killed by lighting?
As it's probably the only device left that connects by the old 30 pin erm, connector.
But it is a pain, mine is nearly but not quite full of legal (lossless) music. Yes I can tell the difference, depending on what it's connected to.
The other pain is the convenience of car use. As a lot of manufacturers have a love in with Apple, you may not be lucky enough to fill a USB stick/SD card with lossless files as support over various manufacturers is patchy.
Update your iThings NOW: Apple splats scary SSL snooping bug in iOS
Re: Not happy
I'm in the same boat.
If it was any other company, a concerted twatterstorm or whatever might embarass them into doing something, but as it is Apple, they'll just unleash the New Model Fanboi Army (TM) to crush the resistance of the non-beleivers with their "Get over it" banners.
But a fix for iOS 6.16 is available. It's not an enhancement - it's a fix for a vulnerability of Apple's making. Perhaps the problem (as Apple would see it) that by making the fix available without upgrading, it would create a precedent. Heaven forfend...
Paul Allen buys lovingly restored vintage V-2 Nazi ballistic missile
I can recommend La Coupole
Which is near St. Omer - ostensibly a combined V2 factory and launch site which sort of conforms to the volcano theme (massive concrete dome to protect it) which is now a great museum.
It never saw operation - constant bombing and the Allied advance after D-Day put paid to that.
One nugget I got from the museum is that Hittler efffectively cut off funding to Von Braun and Co. for over 18 months while he concentrated on the Eastern front - which rather makes you think.
Other sites near La Coupole too - Eperleques (chuffing great factory bunker) and Mimoeques - which was the installation for the stillborn V3 rockets - but 617 Squadron got there first.
Saucy Star Wars strip show - sorry, burlesque - to tour Down Under
Is that a lightsaber in your pocket...
...well you know the rest.
Sorry. So very sorry.
Google buys parcel storage service for Christmas
Re: Too much to hope for
Amazon already offer evening delivery - as long as you live in central Paris and are prepared to pay handsomely for it.
Even so, they still seem to be able to deliver 5 minutes before the cut-off. How DO they do that?
Dr No, Thunderball, Casino Royale? Vote now for the best Bond film
Yes, George was wooden (and was a sacrificial lamb after Schorn)
Fabulous plot (and soundtrack) got my vote - it is after all for best FILM not best Bond/car/girl/WHY - OHMSS is more than the sum of its parts.
Fake sandwich shop's big fake Likes leave Facebook looking flaky
Real people my derriére
Cats, dogs, bears - the're all on Facebook.
More entaining than humans too...
Sky flaunts F1 app with split-screen functions
Academic for me..
but a 4 way split screen on an iPad?
Just too much information in one place - at least it's unlikely Sky will be able to litter it with their frightfully garish graphics during the race as that part of the feed is provided from the other Evil Empire (TM)
Which actor should play Steve in upcoming biopic?
As so many fanbois thought Steve was the second coming anyway.
Agree with previous posers though - it's too soon...
This Dianamania is a slur on Jobs
Call me a conspiracy theorist but...
...was intruiged to be passing FNAC at St Lazare in Paris about 7.00pm last night and the windows were blanked out by massive posters (2x3 metres?) with a larger than life portrait of Steve along with a personal statement from the boss of FNAC.
I'm sure these things can be done in double quick time - but it does make you wonder...
Benefit commercially form the poor man's untimely end? Shurely shome mishtake.
Murdoch muscles BBC out of Formula One driving seat
Total disaster
What does Bernie think he's playing at? He may want to get into bed with the Murdochs but this is sucidal for the sponsers.
Or COULD be if enough people kick up a stink to them - and FOTA
FOTA already asking questions (but could be a smokescreen) and Brundle has tweeted he is "not inpressed". Does this mean he won't jump ship?
Let's see how committed he is, shall we?
Dam Busters dog dubbed 'Digger'
The easy answer...
..would be not to remake the film at all - no controversy and it wouldn't be as good as the original anyway...
Jaguar hybrid supercar gets green light
In every way.
Seen this in the metal twice now, achingly gorgeous
Becks offloads
Posh Porsche on eBay
Herr Doktor Porsche...
..will be hitting the rev limiter in his grave.
Apple trade marks 'There's an app for that'
There's a word for that
French website surrenders on Bastille Day
Same life as a baguette then.
That is all.
Except to say my local boulangerie is closed for its annual holiday, so perhaps that's it then...
Visa tightens rules for small sellers
Unfortunately not
Bang go the Olympic jokes then...
Want Olympic tickets? Better get a VisaCard then
Erm, no actually
Apparently the Visa "deal" extends to retail outlets and cash machines in Olympic sites - but never fear! Visa will gladly provide you with a pre-paid card if you haven't seen the light!
Which is nice of them...
I'll be the one outside the Olympic park wearing a Mastercard T Shirt
Transport for London gobbles up Oyster
Does that mean with the potential for so many more Oyster points all over the capital, London will have one big pearl necklace?
'Switch to Century Gothic to save the planet'
Yes But...
You can offset the calories by claiming they help a Government backed dictat to lose weight so don't be such a burden on the NHS, thereby saving energy in hospitals.
Points are everything
I just did a back to back in Word too - CG at 12 pt is about 1 pt larger than Arial - reduce it to 11 and it's similar - how many users will adjust the font size?
So if you really must print something, do it in 6pt and buy a magnifying glass...
US Navy plans self-building floating fortresses
The Americans didn't invent Mulberry
Airport scanners face double exposure
This has less to do with discrimination as it has to do with all the lawyers rubbing their hands.
NASA's WISE opens 'candy store of images'
THAT's what happened to R2D2
Note to Captain Kirk: Warp speed will kill you
It's the Hadron Collider Jim.
But not as we know it.
US monster-truck roboguns to blast enemies autonomously
Any chance of a version optimised for "Safety" camera vans?
Steve Ballmer's Windows 7 dance party
Well I celebrated the launch of windows 7...
... I ordered a MacBook Pro.
Beta-blocker 'erases' unpleasant memories
Do you reckon...
.. I could get some to erase the memory of my Ex?
Honda shows off Insight hybrid
All very well but...
...there are an increasing number of cars that can beat 67 mpg without all this Hybrid malarky (the Polo Bluemotion for one) and can it close on emissions whilst being cheaper.
Ye gods, even that leadfoot Clarkson can get 50mpg out of a Jaguar XJ - and that was with the older, less efficient engine.
Their time may come but at the moment, they are only good for people who want to show off their apparent green credentials
Worst offender is the Lexus Rx Hybrid - just buy something slightly smaller (and lighter) than a small country and you'll be set...
6/10 see me after class.
Nintendo whacked with $5m Wii strap lawsuit
Were they...
...designed by a Scotsman?
Lies, damned lies and government statistics
From the R-T-M appendix
"Many fixed cameras had to be excluded from this analysis because they were existing cameras which changed operation to cost-recovery."
Airshow Blighty hits town - 100 years of UK powered flight
Never mind the drones
Bring on the Vulcan!
Paris, because she likes her V Bombers big and noisy..
Asus offers Brits Eee PC 900 battery swap plan
Never mind the beach..
bring on the Chateauneuf do Pape...
Mel Gibson to star in Edge of Darkness
Leave it Alone...
Just don't do it... Same goes for the Dambusters - what is Jackson thinking of?
Paris because she would be dumb enough to remake Casablanca
Starbucks mocha clocked at 628 calories
Champagne it is then..
..as it's only about 540 a bottle.
Doubleskinnymochalattéchinofrappéneverseenacoffebean or a nice bottle of The Widow?
Lightsaber voted top movie weapon
Wot, no Walther PPK?
7.65mm of pure Movie Weapon Pleasure.
Or something like that, Miss Moneypenny..
Batman logo manifests in tomato
Ketchup batman!
Microsoft set to milk mobile Messenger mavens?
Could Matt Champagne be in some way related to that icon of the Readers Digest Prize Draw, the legendary Tom Champagne?
I think we should be told
Ordnance Survey rescues rural towns from juggernauts
There's this brilliant invention..
..called a map.
Kindle, Eee PC top Amazon.com 'most wanted' list
Never mind the poor lass John
..think of the poor Eee - not the view it was expecting!
The hand..
There is something wrong with her hand..
Methinks Frankenstin has been at work... and I need to get my priorities right.
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Help the Literatures in English Section sponsor an LES member's attendance at the ACRL 2015 Conference in Portland, Oregon this spring! We are participating in the ACRL member-supported Kick Start the Future Campaign in honor of ACRL's 75th Anniversary. We seek to raise $635 to provide a scholarship to an early-career librarian to help cover the cost of conference registration and housing. We're over two-thirds shy of our goal. If you have attended an ACRL conference, you know how valuable an experience it can be. Let's give that experience to one of our colleagues.
If we do not meet our goal, donations will go to the general ACRL scholarship fund, and the Section will be recognized for its contribution. Likewise, if we exceed our goal, the excess goes into the general ACRL scholarship fund. More details about the campaign and scholarships can be found here.
Here's how to donate to the Literatures in English named scholarship. Note that the deadline for donations is December 31, so please donate today! Donations are made through the Give ALA link on ala.org, but the process is somewhat shy of intuitive:
Please see this page for step-by-step instructions to donate online, by check, or by pledging. On behalf of the ACRL Literatures in English Section Executive Committee, thank you! We hope to see many of you at ACRL this spring!
Source: Liorah Golomb, Chair, LES Membership Committee, LES-L Discussion List]]>
Please join us at the LES General Membership Meeting at ALA Annual 2014 for an exciting panel discussion about the career paths of literature librarians. As literature librarians our careers may take many different shapes. Our panelists will talk about how their careers developed, the influences that brought them to literature librarianship, the paths they took to a variety of roles including work in special collections and archives, digital humanities, management and administration and more. If you are new to the profession or looking for ways and means to refresh your career this will be an excellent opportunity to explore career options.
Our panelists are:
Jennifer Bartlett, Head of Reference Services, University of Kentucky
Angela Courtney, Head, Arts & Humanities Department and Head, Reference Services Department, Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington
Steven Harris, Assistant Dean of Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno
Rob Melton, Subject Librarian for Literatures in English, Religion and Cultural Studies & Curator, Archive for New Poetry, University of California, San Diego
We will also hear from LES Chair Arianne Hartsell-Gundy and Chair-elect Laura Taddeo about recent and forthcoming LES achievements and initiatives, and Sarah Wenzel will report on our liaison activities with MLA.
The LES General Membership Meeting will take place in the Bronze 3 room at the Bally's Las Vegas hotel on Sunday, June 29th from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. Why not add this to your calendar now: http://ala14.ala.org/node/15074
Thanks to Frank Gravier and the other members of the LES Membership Committee for organizing the panel.]]>
Join the Literatures in English Section (LES) of ACRL at ALA Annual in Las Vegas. LES is composed of English, literature and humanities librarians. Whether you are already a member, or just interested in learning more about LES, please join us! You can easily add the LES-sponsored events to your calendar using the ALA conference scheduler.
Follow us on Twitter and/or Facebook for reminders, and to keep up with what we are doing at the conference.
Saturday, June 28
8:30 am -10:00 am
Executive Committee Meeting 1*
Las Vegas Convention Center, N216
10:30 am — 11:30 am
MLA International Bibliography in Academic Libraries Discussion Group**
Las Vegas Convention Center, N115
1:00 pm — 2:30 pm
"Embedded" Cultural Communities in Europe and the Americas: Challenges for Librarians
(Co-sponsored by LES, SEES, and WESS)
Las Vegas Convention Center, S232
4:30 pm — 5:30 pm
New Members Discussion Group
Las Vegas Convention Center, N201
6:00 pm
LES Social
The Peppermill – Fireside Lounge
2985 Las Vegas Blvd (Map)
Sunday, June 29
10:30 am — 11:30 am
Reference Discussion Group
Las Vegas Convention Center, N203
1:00 pm — 2:30 pm
General Membership Forum
Bally's Las Vegas, Bronze 3
3:00 pm — 4:00 pm
Collections Discussion Group
Las Vegas Convention Center, N202
4:30 pm — 5:30 pm
Digital Humanities Interest Group**
Las Vegas Convention Center, N263
Monday, June 30
8:30 am — 10:00 am
All Committees Meetings
Las Vegas Convention Center, N219
10:30 am — 11:30 am
Executive Committee Meeting II*
Las Vegas Convention Center, N216
* Closed meeting
** Not an official LES meeting but of broad interest to LES membership]]>
Below is a note from Biblio-Notes editor, John Glover, as posted to the LES-L discussion list. Biblio-Notes is the LES newsletter; you must be a member of ACRL-LES to submit contributions.
Biblio-Notes needs your contributions for the Spring 2014 issue! If you'd like an idea of what people have previously written, take a look through past issues: http://bit.ly/1dMxBqg. If you're looking for ideas…
Please send your submissions for the Spring 2014 issue in .doc, .docx, .odt, or .rtf format to email@example.com by Friday, April 18th. And remember — Biblio-Notes is a newsletter, not Critical Inquiry! Brief articles, activity writeups, and any news of your doings in the 250-1000 word range are perfect. If you have questions, please drop me a line.]]>
Are you attending ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia? If so, please join your fellow LES members on Saturday, January 25 from 6-8 PM at Maggiano's in Center City. LES will provide appetizers. Drinks and additional food can be purchased.
Date: January 25
Time: 6PM – 8PM
Location: Maggiano's Little Italy
1201 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, PA
This is also a great opportunity for those interested in the LES section to meet some of our members. Library students, recent graduates, and literature and humanities librarians are welcome to attend!
LES is also hosting virtual discussion group meetings for Midwinter that are open to all. You can learn more about these meetings, and other relevant meetings that will be held at Midwinter at http://www.acrl.ala.org/lesblog/?p=364.]]>
Below is information about ALA Midwinter Discussion Groups (virtual and in-person) to look forward to in January. Mark your calendars!
ACRL LES Reference Discussion Group
This discussion group provides an information-sharing forum for librarians with interests in reference services and materials related to the study of literatures in English.
Date and Time: Tuesday, January 28, 1 – 2 pm CST
Location: Online
Contact: John Glover and Kristen Hogan
More information: http://connect.ala.org/node/214070
ACRL LES Collections Discussion Group
This discussion group serves as an open forum for presentation and discussion of any topic or issue which involves the management, preservation, or use of materials in English-language literatures.
Date and Time: Friday, January 31, 2 – 3 pm CST
Location: Online
Contacts: Judith Arnold and Hazel McClure
ACRL Digital Humanities Discussion Group
This discussion group focuses on the digital humanities in academic libraries. Topics include outreach, tools, projects, user support, librarian training, and much more.
Date and Time: Sunday, January 26, 4:30 – 5:30 pm
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center – 204 A
More information: http://alamw14.ala.org/node/12377
MLA International Bibliography in Academic Libraries Discussion Group
Date and Time: Saturday, January 25, 10:30 – 11:30 am
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center -115 B
Contact: David Oberhelman
More information: http://alamw14.ala.org/node/12492
To browse other discussion and interest group meetings scheduled for ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia, visit the conference schedule online and narrow by: "Type of Library" (Academic) and "Meeting Type" (Discussion/Interest group). To browse other virtual discussion group meetings, search in ALA Connect. If you would like to share other Midwinter discussion group meetings of interest to LES members, post to the LES Facebook group.
Other LES midwinter meetings that you are free to join:
ACRL LES Virtual Participation Committee
This committee explores ways in which LES members can participate in Section meetings remotely and to advise LES committees and discussion groups with plans for virtual meetings and other emerging opportunities for distance participation.
Date and Time: Tuesday, January 7 from 1 – 3 pm CST
Location: Online
Contact: Amanda Rust
Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists
Proposal Submission Deadline: December 15th, 2013
Editors: Arianne Hartsell-Gundy (Miami University), Laura Braunstein (Dartmouth College), Liorah Golomb (University of Oklahoma)
Potential Publisher: Association of College & Research Libraries
The ACRL Literatures in English Section is working on a proposal to sponsor an ACRL publication about digital humanities and subject specialists. Our section has sponsored other ACRL publications, including Literature in English: A Guide for Librarians in the Digital Age edited by Betty H. Day and William A. Wortman and Teaching Literary Research: Challenges in a Changing Environment edited by Kathleen A. Johnson and Steven R. Harris. We are looking for approximately 10-15 chapters that examine the role of the librarian subject specialist in digital humanities.
Digital humanities is changing the way that humanities scholars research and teach, and libraries are in a great position to help support these efforts. Subject specialists who work with humanities faculty are in a unique position because they often have good relationships with these faculty and have a strong understanding of their needs, but many subject specialists may lack the training to provide support for digital humanities work. Some subject specialists are lucky enough to work in a library that has a digital scholarship center and has staff that are specially trained to help with metadata and digital projects, but this arrangement can still create challenges for subject specialists as they figure out how to navigate between their faculty and these specialists. This book aims to examine how subject specialists are meeting these challenges and making the most of the opportunities that come their way.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to the following:
Submission Procedure: Proposal Submission Deadline is December 15th, 2013.
Academic library professionals are invited to submit their proposal of not more than 2 pages. Your proposal should include: 1) the names and contact information for all authors (identify a main contact); 2) a clear description of the topic you are proposing for a potential chapter; 3) reason why this topic would be of interest to subject specialists; 4) a brief description of your academic institution; and, 5) information about the author(s) showing his/her qualifications for writing the case study/chapter. Submissions should be in Microsoft Word. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by January 31st, 2014. If the book proposal is accepted, each chapter will be expected to be about 4,000-5,000 words.
Inquiries and submissions can be sent to:
Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Humanities Librarian
Miami University
208 King Library
151 S. Campus Ave.
Oxford, OH 45056
Guest post by Nancy M. Foasberg. Nancy is a humanities librarian at CUNY's Queens College, and most recently published, "Student Reading Practices in Print and Electronic Media," in the September 2014 issue of College & Research Libraries.
The LES Authors Panel took place during the General Membership Forum at ALA Annual 2013 and featured four LES members with a history of successful publication in the field of literature librarianship.
The panelists were:
Jen Stevens of George Mason University moderated.
Getting Started with Publishing
At the beginning of the panel, the panelists discussed how they had gotten into publishing. The need to earn tenure played a role for all the panelists. Collaboration, connections and timing helped to provide writing opportunities. Melissa had collaborated with a colleague, Angela Courtney, on an article for The Dictionary of Literary Biography; Angela later encouraged her to contribute to a book series. Faye is a member of the Association of Australian Literary Studies and was able to take over the bibliography for their journal, Antipodes, when the prior author could no longer continue. Liorah saw a play in London that resonated strongly with her and wrote an article about it. Since the play had not yet opened in the United States, her article was the first and had good exposure and recognition.
Choosing Subject Matter
The panelists had very different methods of choosing their subject matter. Harriet talked about how research interests should fit into the current conversations within a field, choosing subjects that will generate interest while still avoiding those that have been overexposed. Harriet's tenure process requires her to have a research agenda to which all her publications must relate. She chose digital humanities as her "umbrella idea" and researched the current issues that were of interest to the field at the time, ultimately choosing to focus on user experience within digital humanities and how digital humanities tools can be improved. This research is closely related to her day to day work. Liorah, in contrast, writes about whatever is most interesting to her at the moment. She has written about Will Self, women graphic novelists, and postcolonial literatures, among other things. Liorah cites calls for papers and inspiration from colleagues as useful sources for ideas. However, caution is necessary when accepting calls for papers. Her book chapter on women graphic novelists was published by MacFarland, which edited it poorly and included chapters of uneven quality. The book Literary Research and Postcolonial Literatures in English, a collaboration among Liorah, Faye, Angela and Melissa, began as a conversation over beer. The other four authors had already written volumes in the series, so they suggested dividing up the postcolonial volume. They agreed that it had been challenging to write but very worthwhile.
Melissa and Faye focused on the audience for their work. It is important to Melissa that her work and scholarly interests are closely related, so she wants her writing to get out to the user groups that she serves. Her first book, Literary Research and the Victorian and Edwardian Ages, 1830-1910: Strategies and Sources, was a way to bridge across all her education in a venue not limited to the librarian community. Another article came from a workshop with faculty in which they designed assignments to help undergraduates understand reference works. Articles on collaborative efforts such as this can help faculty understand what goes on in the library. Faye, too, has worked on projects that have appeal outside of librarianship. She was delighted to find that her book had been on a preliminary exam list for a school in England. Because her area of interest is Australian literature, it can often be difficult to access these materials she covers in the US. She is interested in using her skills to bridge the gap between people doing research in that area.
All four panelists agreed that they were happy that they felt passionate about the ideas they pursued. Melissa pointed out that she always tells students to switch their topics if they are working on something that they hate, because this doesn't do anyone any favors. Why spend time and effort on something you don't care about?
Logistics of Collaboration
Jen asked about the logistics of collaboration, especially over long distances. One way to do this is to divide the work into sections. Harriet and Angela are taking this approach in an article they are writing together, with Harriet merging it into a coherent whole. When Melissa and Angela wrote the DLB article, Melissa did the biography and Angela wrote the summaries. The postcolonial book was divided chapter by chapter, an approach facilitated by the consistent structure of books in this series. Each of the chapters in the book stands alone, so having different voices for different chapters was not a problem. It was still important, though, to look through all the chapters and make sure that they were appropriately cross-referenced and spoke to each other. This is one potential problem with co-authorship. The other approach to co-authoring is to write together. Liorah described collaborating with Aline Soules on an article which compared the MLAIB across platforms. Because they were geographically distant, they did most of the research separately, but they wrote the article together in two weeks during which Liorah visited Aline in California. This article needs to be updated, due to database interfaces and the rise of discovery services, so they will likely write two more articles on the subject together.
Time for writing is a crucial consideration. Harriet has one research day a week, which she is allowed to take off campus. For those who can't negotiate this time, she recommends carving out time in the morning and evenings. Her institution sponsors productivity seminars and invited faculty development expert Kerry Ann Rockquemore to speak to them about techniques for carving out time to write. Liorah did not have the same release time, but writing was a priority for pre-tenure faculty, who weren't required to do a lot of service at her institution. Writing is less urgent now that she has tenure, but she still gives herself deadlines. Melissa took research leave to work on Literary Research and the Victorian and Edwardian Ages, 1830-1920, and also negotiated for some Fridays off campus. This worked well because it provided a big chunk of time for writing. Now that she is not on the tenure track, she can still do research and even request some time, but there is less time available and less support generally. Faye also prefers big chunks of time in which to write. At her institution, librarians are not faculty but can apply for research leave of up to a year, although they only get three months of pay for this. She used her weekends to work on the book, because she couldn't get the big chunks of time she needed during the day. Harriet's tip from Kerry Ann Rockquemore is to plan well and make the writing as important as everything else you have to do. If you want writing to be part of your career, you have to give yourself accountability to make sure you spend time on it.
Suggestions for New Librarians
Finally, Jen asked for suggestions for librarians who want to publish. Harriet suggested co-authoring, finding a topic in which you are really interested, and starting small. Book reviews, BiblioNotes, and guest columns are good places to start. Liorah has written critical reviews for RUSA and little book reviews like the ones in Library Journal Express. At her institution, this is considered service rather than publishing, but it is disciplined writing, so it makes good practice. She recommended caution when choosing partners for collaboration, describing one project which did not happen because her potential writing partner is having difficulty writing and publishing. Melissa recommends joining a writing group or research circle, in order to bounce ideas off of colleagues and talk about the difficult parts of writing. This can be helpful when trying to get past a roadblock, and hearing other people's questions can also help shape things. Don't be afraid to let people read your writing. Harriet has participated in the Library Research Round Table, which pairs authors with each other. Writing groups including faculty from other fields are also useful, because they provide a different perspective. Faye mentioned the new ACRL handbook on academic writing for librarians, which looks like a useful volume and includes chapters on many of these topics.
Liorah mentioned one more unexpected thing about research. When she surveyed the listserv about poetry collections, she had to undergo an IRB process. Harriet said that at her institution, there is a shorter exemption form and she can use that one because the IRB knows that librarians are just asking questions.
During the audience questions, the panelists were asked about their advice for librarians who are not in tenure track positions, especially if people at their institution discourage them from writing. Melissa recommends framing writing as service because it benefits the profession. Faye feels that writing helps her to better understand what her faculty go through when they write books. Harriet recommends collaborating with a faculty member, which makes writing part of the job. Melissa also suggested writing outside of work hours and mentioned that even with the support that she had, she ended up doing a lot of the work outside of business hours. Most of the articles in the literature are written by librarians on the tenure track, which narrows down who we get to hear from in the profession.
There was also a question about editorial feedback. Liorah talked about the lack of editorial feedback when she worked on the MacFarland book. This creates problems because revision suggestions are what show that a publication is peer reviewed. Melissa finds that editorial feedback can vary wildly. With journals, it depends on what the editor tells the reviewers. As a guest reviewer, she wrote a lot of feedback, because she finds it very helpful. Too often, commentary focuses on things that would get worked out in copyediting, but it's really more useful to know about the problems with the argument.
I for one found the discussion very helpful. Thanks to the panelists for participating!]]>
Julie Judkins is a digital curator at the University of Michigan and a poetry advocate. She leads a young adult writing workshop at 826michigan and has taught workshops on erasure poetry and visual storytelling. Visit her blog to view her recent National Poetry Month series, as well as her series on the 2012 Ann Arbor District Library's Summer Game. Julie is the 2013 ACRL LES & Arts Emerging Leader. She'd love to hear from you. Write to Julie at julieju [at] umich [dot] edu or find her on Twitter @thatklickitat.
I recently facilitated a poetry workshop hosted by the Wayne State University Press (in conjunction with the Made in Michigan Writers Series' May 2013 Bus Tour) and the Ann Arbor District Library. If you're looking for an inexpensive way to incorporate poetry into your library's programming, holding a Mad Libs Poetry night is a good option. Even participants who don't consider themselves "poetic" will walk away inspired. Thank you to Gabe Gloden and the WSU Press team for generously sharing their materials with me.
Materials Needed:
Handouts: transcripts of original poems, directions
Paper easel pad(s), prepped (see exercise descriptions for directions)
Markers (for easel pad)
Pens (for workshop participants)
Tables and chairs
Scratch paper
The Mad Libs Poetry session I attended was held May 18th, 2013, from 11:15 AM – 1:00 PM in the Ann Arbor District Library's Multi-Purpose Room. The workshop was free to the public and designed for adults and children ages 10 and older. Workshop partners 826michigan and The Historical Society of Michigan set up informational tables outside the Multi-Purpose Room and a local bookstore sold books from the Made in Michigan Writers Series.
Following a brief reading by an 826michigan student, the attendees broke into four small groups of eight to ten people. Poets Chris Dombrowski, francine j. harris, M.L. Liebler, and Keith Taylor each led a group of attendees through two Mad Libs exercises: "Mad Libs" and "Reverse Mad Libs." Each exercise began with a partially finished work and incorporated random words at suggested points to complete the piece. At the end of each exercise, groups shared their poems with the other participants. The workshop concluded with Dombrowski, harris, Liebler, and Taylor reading their original work.
Exercise #1: Traditional Mad Lib
After workshop participants split into groups, each poet/workshop leader directed their group's attention to a paper easel pad.
This exercise uses two sheets of paper on the easel pad. The top sheet contains the prompts (e.g. name an adjective, name a place) written underneath rectangular cut outs that reveal the page underneath. This allows the scribe to write the chosen Mad Lib word(s) directly into the Mad Lib version, hidden below on the second page. When all of the prompts are completed, the workshop leader flips up the first page, revealing the completed new Mad Lib version on the second page.
To prep the paper easel for this exercise:
1) Flip to the second page on a paper easel pad. Write out the Mad Lib version of a poem you've selected, in a large font that will be legible from a few feet away. Just leave a blank space where a prompt occurs. You'll cue participants in the next step so there's no need to signal what each blank signifies just yet.
For example, here is a Mad Lib version of Tennyson's "The Eagle":
The [Animal]
By [Group Name]
He [Verb ending in "s"] the crag with crooked [Body Part];
Close to the sun in [Adjective] [Place],
[Verb — Past tense] with the [Color] world, he [Verb ending in "s"].
The [Adjective] sea beneath him [Verb ending in "s"];
He [Verb ending in "s"] from his mountain [Noun — Plural],
And like a [Noun] he [Verb ending in "s"].
2) When you've finished writing out the Mad Lib, flip back to the first page and carefully cut out a rectangle that corresponds with where each Mad Lib prompt falls. (Flip back and forth between the pages to get the placement right.) Underneath each rectangle, write the cue (e.g. "Noun – Plural").
3) Have a copy of the original poem on hand so you can read it to participants as a comparison.
You're ready to Mad Lib!
Exercise #2: Reverse Mad Libs
After the completion of the first exercise, each participant at the workshop I attended received a handout with these instructions:
"Now who's ready for Reverse Mad Libs!?
Now you're ready for a bigger challenge. For Reverse Mad Libs, we've given you only a handful of the words from a poem, giving you the freedom to fill in the rest of the poem as you see fit.
A second handout was given to the participants at this time. It contained the prompt for a reverse Mad Lib. This example is a version of workshop leader Chris Dombrowski's "Small Fire in Snow." Participants completed the poem individually by hand before coming together to re-write the same poem as a group.
However arrogant I had to be
to say ___________, ______ poem __, ____
__________________ branch end
_____________ stabbed ___ hot dogs _____
_____________ ketchup.
___________? __________ not enough
_______ cook _______, wrapped ____
______ flames, ___________, charring–
__________________ meal,
______, taking ____, ________ bite, ____
_________, _________ hungry.
Here is my individual version, to give you an idea of what a completed poem might look like:
However arrogant I had to be
to say Molly, who cares how this poem ends, I
am but the branch end
that is stabbed with hot dogs roasted
over a campfire and served with ketchup.
Sounds tasty, right? I think not enough
people cook outdoors, wrapped up in the
flicker of flames, watching their food, charring–
a La Brea meal,
oozing, taking new form, with every bite, cold
then blistering, to answer your hungry.
To prep the paper easel:
1) Transcribe Reverse Mad Lib from handout onto a page of the easel. Make sure you're writing in a legible font that can be read from several feet away.
2) On another page, write the original version of the poem, to be revealed after the Mad Lib is completed, for comparison.
Other ideas:
Additional "Traditional Mad Lib examples" examples:
"How doth the little crocodile…" by Lewis Carroll
How doth the little [Animal]
by [Your Name]
How doth the [Adjective] [Same Animal]
[Verb] his shining tail,
And [Verb ending in "s"] the waters of the [Body of Water]
On every [Color] scale!
How [Adverb] he seems to [Verb]
How [Adverb] spreads his [Plural Noun],
And welcomes [Adjective] [Animal — Plural] in,
With [Adverb] smiling jaws!
"Song of the Witches" by William Shakespeare
Song of the [Group of People]
by [Group Name]
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire [Verb] and [Container] bubble.
Fillet of a [Adjective] snake,
In the [Same Container] [Verb] and bake;
[Body Part] of [Animal] and [Body Part] of frog,
[Body part] of bat and [Body Part] of dog,
[Animal]'s fork and [Animal]'s sting,
[Member of Group]'s leg and [Member of Group]'s wing,
For a [Noun] of [Adjective] trouble,
Like a [Noun] boil and bubble.
"Dandelion" by Hilda Conkling
By [Group Name]
O little [Occupation] with the golden [Tool of that Occupation],
What are you [Verb ending in —ing] on my lawn?
You with your [Color] [Tool of that Occupation]
And your [Adjective] [Body Part],
Why do you [Verb] so [Adjective]?
There is only the grass to [Verb]!
See also:
English Literature Librarian, University of Michigan
Originally posted ato ACRLog (http://acrlog.org/2012/08/23/leaves-of-graph/) by Pete Coco. Pete is the Humanities Librarian at Wheaton College in Norton, MA and Managing Editor at Each Moment a Mountain: Archivally Inspired Art and Inquiry.
Note: This post makes heavy use of web content from Google Search and Knowledge Graph. Because this content can vary by user and is subject to change at anytime, this essay uses screenshots instead of linking to live web pages in certain cases. As of the completion of this post, these images continue to match their live counterparts for a user from Providence, RI not logged in to Google services.
This That, Not That That
Early this July, Google unveiled its Knowledge Graph, a semantic reference tool nestled into the top right corner of its search results pages. Google's video announcing the product makes no risk of understating Knowledge Graph's potential, but there is a very real innovation behind this tool and it is twofold. For one, Knowledge Graph can distinguish between homonyms and connect related topics. For a clear illustration of this function, consider the distinction one might make between bear and bears. Though the search results page for either query include content related to both grizzlies andquarterbacks, Knowledge Graph knows the difference.
Second, Knowledge Graph purports to contain over 500 million articles. This puts it solidly ahead of Wikipedia, which reports having about 400 million, and lightyears ahead of professionally produced reference tools like Encyclopaedia Brittanica Online, which comprises an apparently piddling 120,000 articles. Combine that almost incomprehensible scope with integration into Google Search, and without much fanfare suddenly the world has its broadest and most prominently placed reference tool.
For years, Google's search algorithm has been making countless, under-examined choices on behalf of its users about the types of results they should be served. But at its essence, Knowledge Graph presents a big symbolic shift away from (mostly) matching it to web content – content that, per extrinsic indicators, the search algorithm serves up and ranks for relevance – toward the act of openly interpreting the meaning of a search query and making decisions based in that interpretation. Google's past deviations from the relevance model, when made public, have generally been motivated by legal requirements (such as those surrounding hate speech in Europe or dissent in China) and, more recently, the dictates of profit. Each of these moves has met with controversy.
And yet in the two months since its launch, Knowledge Graph has not been a subject of much commentary at all. This is despite the fact that the shift it represents has big implications that users must account for in their thinking, and can be understood as part of larger shifts the information giant has been making to leverage the reputation earned with Search toward other products.
Librarians and others teaching about internet media have a duty to articulate and problematize these developments. Being in many ways a traditional reference tool, Knowledge Graph presents a unique pedagogic opportunity. Just as it is critical to understand the decisions Google makes on our behalf when we use it to search the web, we must be critically aware of the claim to a newly authoritative, editorial role Google is quietly staking with Knowledge Graph – whether it means to be claiming that role or not.
Perhaps especially if it does not mean to. With interpretation comes great responsibility.
Some Questions
The value of the Knowledge Graph is in its ability to authoritatively parse semantics in a way that provides the user with "knowledge." Users will use it assuming its ability to do this reliably, or they will not use it at all.
Does Knowledge Graph authoritatively parse semantics?
What is Knowledge Graph's editorial standard for reliability? What constitutes "knowledge" by this tool's standard? "Authority"?
What are the consequences for users if the answer to these questions is unclear, unsatisfactory, or both?
What is Google's responsibility in such a scenario?
He Sings the Body Electric
Consider an example: Walt Whitman. As of this writing, the poet's entry in Knowledge Graph looks like this (click the image to enlarge):
You might notice the most unlikely claim that Whitman recorded an album called This is the Day. Follow the link and you are brought to a straight, vanilla Google search for this supposed album's title. The first link in that result list will bring you to a music video on Youtube:
Parsing this mistake might bring one to a second search: "This is the Day Walt Whitman." The results list generated by that search yield another Youtube video at the top, resolving the confusion: a second, comparably flamboyant Walt Whitman, a choir director from Chicago, has recorded a song by that title.
Note the perfect storm of semantic confusion. The string "Walt Whitman" can refer to either a canonical poet or a contemporary gospel choir director while, at the same time, "This is the Day" can refer either to a song by The The or that second, lesser-known Walt Whitman.
Further, "This is the Day" is in both cases a song, not an album.
Knowledge Graph, designed to clarify exactly this sort of semantic confusion, here manages to create and potentially entrench three such confusions at once about a prominent public figure.
Could there be a better band than one called The The to play a role in this story?
Well Yeah
This particular mistake was first noted in mid-July. More than a month later, it still stands.
At this new scale for reference information, we have no way of knowing how many mistakes like this one are contained within Knowledge Graph. Of course it's fair to assume this is an unusual case, and to Google's credit, they address this sort of error in the only feasible way they could, with a feedback mechanism that allows users to suggest corrections. (No doubt bringing this mistake the attention of ACRLog's readers means Walt Whitman's days as a time-traveling new wave act are numbered.)
Is Knowledge Graph's mechanism for correcting mistakes adequate? Appropriate?
How many mistakes like this do there need to be to make a critical understanding of Knowledge Graph's gaps and limitations crucial to even casual use?
Interpreting the Gaps
Many Google searches sampled for this piece do not yield a Knowledge Graph result. Consider an instructive example: "Obama birth certificate." Surely, there would be no intellectually serious challenge to a Knowledge Graph stub reflecting the evidence-based consensus on this matter. Then again, there might be a very loud one.
Similarly not available in Knowledge Graph are stubs on "evolution," or "homosexuality." In each case, it should be noted that Google's top ranked search results are reliably "reality-based." Each is happy to defer to Wikipedia.
In other instances, the stub for topics that seem to reach some threshold of complexity and/or controversy defers to "related" stubs in favor of making nuanced editorial decisions. Consider the entries for "climate change" and the "Vietnam war," here presented in their entirety.
In moments such as these, is it unreasonable to assume that Knowledge Graph is shying away from controversy and nuance? More charitably, we might say that this tool is simply unequipped to deal with controversy and nuance. But given the controversial, nuanced nature of "knowledge," is this second framing really so charitable?
What responsibility does a reference tool have to engage, explicate or resolve political controversy?
What can a user infer when such a tool refuses to engage with controversy?
What of the users who will not think to make such an inference?
To what extent is ethical editorial judgment reconcilable with the interests of a singularly massive, publicly traded corporation with wide-ranging interests cutting across daily life?
One might answer some version of the above questions with the suggestion that Knowledge Graph avoids controversy because it is programmed only to feature information that meets some high standard of machine-readable verification and/or cross-referencing. The limitation is perhaps logistical, baked into the cake of Knowledge Graph's methodology, and it doesn't necessarily limit the tool's usefulness for certain purposes so long as the user is aware of the boundaries of that usefulness. Perhaps in that way this could be framed as a very familiar sort of challenge, not so different from the one we face with other media, whether it's cable news or pop-science journalism.
This is all true, so far as it goes. Still, consider an example like the stub for HIV:
There are countless reasons to be uncomfortable with a definition of HIV implicitly bounded by Ryan White on one end and Magic Johnson on the other. So many important aspects of the virus are omitted here – the science of it, for one, but even if Knowledge Graph is primarily focused on biography, there are still important female, queer or non-American experiences of HIV that merit inclusion in any presentation of this topic. This is the sort of stub in Knowledge Graph that probably deserves to be controversial.
What portion of useful knowledge cannot – and never will – bend to a machine-readable standard or methodology?
Ironically, it is Wikipedia that, for all the controversy it has generated over the years, provides a rigorous, deeply satisfactory answer to the same problem: a transparent governance structure guided in specific instances by ethical principle and human judgment. This has more or less been the traditional mechanism for reference tools, and it works pretty well (at least up to a certain scale). Even more fundamental, length constraints on Wikipedia are forgiving, and articles regularly plumb nuance and controversy. Similarly, a semantic engine like Wolfram Alpha successfully negotiates this problem by focusing on the sorts of quantitative information that isn't likely to generate so much political controversy. The demographics of its user-base probably help too.
Of course, Google's problem here is that it searches everything for every purpose. People use it everyday to arbitrate contested facts. Many users assume that Google is programmatically neutral on questions of content itself, intervening only to organize results for their relevance to our questions; Google, then, has no responsibility for the content itself. This assumption is itself complicated and, in many ways, was problematic even before the debut of Knowledge Graph. All the same, it is a "brand" that Knowledge Graph will no doubt leverage in a new direction. Many users will intuitively trust this tool and the boundaries of "knowledge" enforced by its limitations and the prerogatives of Google and its corporate actors.
Consider the college freshman faced with all these ambiguities. Let's assume that she knows not to trust everything she reads on the internet. She has perhaps even learned this lesson too well, forfeiting contextual, critical judgment of individual sources in favor of a general avoidance of internet sources. Understandably, she might be stubbornly loyal to the internet sources that she does trust.
Trading on the reputation and cultural primacy of Google search, Knowledge Graph could quickly become a trusted source for this student and others like her. We must use our classrooms to provide this student with the critical engagement of her professors, librarians and peers on tools like this one and the ways in which we can use them to critically examine the gaps so common in conventional wisdom. Of course Knowledge Graph has a tremendous amount of potential value, much of which can only proceed from a critical understanding of its limitations.
How would this student answer any of the above questions?
Without pedagogical intervention, would she even think to ask them?]]>


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