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Perpetual Complaints
This quote complaining about library administrations and services might sound familiar:
The chief librarian who cares about college students and appropriate library and information services for them will endeavor to establish an organization that can identify and be responsive to user and nonuser needs and requirements and then proceed to staff the library with knowledgeable, service-conscious librarians. While imaginative and inventive leadership may be lacking at the top of the organizational structure in academic libraries, there is immensely rewarding growth among younger and beginning level librarians, especially in adopting new work roles in servicing student and faculty information needs. On a recent visit to a community college library I was impressed by the library and information services offered. The entire staff seemed to enjoy working with students and faculty. The library functioned not only as an educational media center, but also as a social and artistic focal point for the campus.
–Haro, Robert P. "The Floating Academic Librarian." American Libraries 2, no. 11 (December 1, 1971): 1170.
The "younger and beginning level librarians" Haro was so enthusiastic about are starting to retire, and they seem to be the object of the same complaints.
On a different note, his "analogy between the war in Indochina and our program or policies of attending to student and faculty library and information needs" was not as informative as he had hoped. However, the notion of a floating academic librarian with a portable media base operating outside of library buildings just needed the advent of laptop computers and the Internet to be an easily viable reality. Complaining about the old guard is perpetual, but the floating librarian concept was rather creative.
Predictions of the Library's Future
I'm working on another library history project and having fun reading through some old library literature. Here's a good example of librarians trying to predict the future, from a 1933 Jesse Shera article in the Library Quarterly, "Recent Social Trends and Future Library Policy."
With the older people constituting an increasingly larger percentage of our population, the demand for leisure-time activities and the services of the librarian should increase, while the children's librarians, relieved of the burden of ever increasing numbers to serve, can shift their attentions from quantity to quality. Further, the curtailing of immigration will not only be reflected in our rapidly falling birth-rate, but our population will more and more become racially homogeneous,* so that library work with the foreign born will become decreasingly important.
*T. J. Woofter, "The Status of racial and ethnic groups," Social trends, I, 553-60I.
He sure got that one wrong.
A Public Private Thanks
While I can't be certain, it's likely that some of you reading this were recently asked to write a letter on my behalf. If you did write such a letter, I want to say thank you very much. Also, I've been officially notified that the potential event which prompted the request for the letter will indeed come to pass. Thanks again for your support.
Tempted, Very Tempted
I haven't gotten one of these for a while. I'm tempted, but a little busy now. However, if you're interested, I'm sure they'd give you a reasonable rate. Based on the writing in the email, the editing is probably top notch, too.
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Being a Man in a Man's World
[This one's been sitting in my drafts folder for a while. I wasn't sure whether to post it or not, and I'm still not sure it's coherent. But what the hell, it's only a blog post.]
It's hard to escape news of rapes by and of high school and college students these days. It almost seems like if you're a girl or young woman within five feet of a group of male athletes you're in serious danger of assault. I shouldn't pick on athletes, though, because the male rape mentality, and the inhuman assumptions behind it, are pervasive throughout most cultures in the world and always have been. Indeed, one of the nastiest rape-related incidents I've read about that didn't involve actual rape was a college student who is supposedly "a junior studying classics and religious studies" holding up a sign on the University of Arizona campus that reads, "You Deserve Rape." It sounds like he spends a lot of time preaching outdoors babbling his incoherent hatred, so he's probably too busy for athletics. Usually the preaching role is reserved for insane old guys who wander around college campuses ranting and being the butt of student jokes, but I guess even those insane old guys were young once.
That story also links to various other rape stories that have happened lately, the saddest one involving a high school girl who killed herself over the shame of the event. Police trying to investigate the crime had trouble finding witnesses who would talk about it. "One girl told investigators, 'I just don't want to throw anyone under the bus.'" It's always sad to see someone complicit in her own oppression. I wonder how worried she would be about buses had she been the victim. Then there was the media sympathy for the Stuebenville rapists. Those poor little boys, raping someone and then having to deal with the annoyance of going to jail for it. Oh, their poor ruined lives. Raping women is a moral evil. Sympathizing with the rapists instead of the victim shares in that evil.
I think about this kind of thing more now that I have a teenage daughter who will be going to high school next year. I've always taught her to stand up for herself, resist bullies, and never let people push her around. I've taught her how to physically and verbally defend herself. Lately I've tried to gently tell her about some of these awful stories, not to frighten her, which I doubt would happen, but just to warn her that the world is occasionally a dangerous place for women and that knowledge and caution help keep people safe. After reading this rather depressing article on Shulamith Firestone, I also decided a little positive feminism was in order and got her this book, which she devoured in two days, her only remark to me about it being, "This is cool. Thanks." I figured a book written by a teenager on "why feminism isn't a dirty word" would be easier going than The Dialectic of Sex. I want her to be as independent as possible, protect herself, and never think there's a role she should take on just because she's female.
I never had to think about this kind of thing as a boy. In another post I mentioned that the claim of male superiority never had a great hold on me because I've met a lot of men in my life and haven't been particularly impressed by many of them. I've also never been much of a joiner, so the natural breeding grounds of group rapist male bonding were out of my demographic. I've never understood the urge to be violent towards women or shared in the "bros before hos" communal misogyny so many men enjoy.
I also never had to worry much about bullying like the kind that drove that poor girl to suicide. The only thing about bullying in school that's changed is people are now trying to do something about it, although based on the very public teen suicides prompted by bullying I'm not sure that much can be done. Through seventh grade I attended what I now sometimes call my violent Christian private school. Fights and bullying among the boys were as common as the daily baseball games at recess. As a bookish introvert, I was occasionally the target of verbal or physical bullies. However, I was also smarter, funnier, bigger, and stronger than most of the other boys, and never one to back down from a fight, so usually one encounter convinced them to leave me alone. I got into a lot of fights with bullies, but even with all that, I still never had to worry about some of the problems girls have to worry about.
A lot of you are probably aware of this, and some righteously angry about it, but I'll point it out anyway. It's pretty easy being a man in a man's world, and it is a man's world. Look at the people in power in just about any non-woman-centered political party or corporation or what have you, and the people in power will mostly be men. That this doesn't seem strange to men is because they've been raised to expect it, like they've been raised to believe they deserve to get the girl because they're the heroic action star in the movie of their life.
It's easier to be a man in so many ways. People take you more seriously, even when that's a foolish thing to do. I remember a contractor who wanted to point out to me some work he was planning to do, but didn't want to talk to my wife. Whatever it was (this was fifteen years or so ago) I knew nothing about but my wife actually did. I've watched auto mechanics explain simple maintenance issues to women like they're infants, and then turn to me and start talking like I know something about cars. If I knew that much about cars, I'd fix the things myself. But, you know, men. If I'm assertive in a discussion, I don't have to be worried about being labelled an aggressive bitch. If I'm speaking during a meeting, other men don't routinely interrupt what I'm saying. No one would ever say I how cute I am when I'm angry. Nobody would ever expect me to make the coffee or clean up the dinner mess after a family meal. Being a man and not being aware of the social bias towards men isn't as morally heinous as rape, but it's still inexcusable. In an ironic example of how much easier it is being a man, I probably get moral points from some people just for writing about this stuff, as if thinking everyone should be treated like human beings is some sort of radically enlightened assertion.
The sexual politics are much different on the other side as well. Just for fun I Googled two similar phrases: how to get a man and how to get a woman. The first two results for getting a man are "How to Get a Good Man: 12 Steps" and "How to Get a Man to Fall in Love with You: 8 Steps." The 12 steps seemed reasonable to me, and were along the lines of "just be a decent, worthwhile human being and stop worrying about it." The 8 steps had stupid suggestions like "be a little mysterious" and "always leave him wanting more." Maybe it's just me, but I prefer the decent, worthwhile human being who doesn't bother with crap like that. Nevertheless, the majority of the links are about finding relationships. Most of the men's links are about trying to get laid. Sometimes it's more, like this advice: "Do you want a "Total 10"? A "Total 10" is a woman who's beautiful inside and out — she's hot , intelligent, emotionally mature, and knows who she is. If this is the kind of women you want, you're probably not going to meet her at a bar, a club or a strip club." It fails to mention that if you're the sort of guy who browses websites for tips on how to pick up women, you're probably the sort of man that intelligent and emotionally mature women would want to avoid. Women seek a connection with another human being, men seek a pliant object with moist orifices, and everyone goes along like this isn't a perverse state of affairs. The prevailing assumption, as with the rape mentality, is that women are objects to be used. They're not to be considered as human beings by men, just game pieces to be played. Everything I'm pointing out here is common knowledge, but what kind of sick culture do we live in where this is the norm?
And then there's the alleged danger of female sexuality, which is the bizarre pseudoproblem promulgated by traditional religions and cultures from time immemorial. If you've taught college writing, you've probably run across essays that start, "Since the beginning of time people have done [insert action that people have certainly not done since the beginning of time]." However, I believe it might be true that since the beginning of time men have been raping women and then claiming they just couldn't help themselves. Like that egregious buffoon at Arizona or the morally retarded in any country justifying legal penalties for women for not walking around covered in a blanket everywhere they go, the bizarre and absolutely untrue assumption is that men just can't help themselves. When they see a bare leg or a bare breast, they've just got to get them some sex. It's not their fault! They just can't stop themselves! Well, I'm a straight man who likes women and likes sex and I can tell you for sure, men can stop themselves from assaulting women. It's just that in certain morally twisted cultures and subcultures, they don't have to because they've got unaccountable power. Blaming women for the violence men do to them seems to be common everywhere.
The only good I can see coming out of the publicity around all the traumas and trials is that some people, even some men, seem to be waking up to the situation. It's healthy to see the aggressive and vocal reaction to the moral obtuseness of, say, high school principals who want to silence raped girls so the football team won't get in trouble. That's the sort of sick behavior that people don't want known about themselves, which means the threat of publicity might stop some other morally questionable behavior. More brave girls fighting against a system of exploitation and silence might change things for the better.
Even non-traumas are sparking conversations. I remember last summer the controversy after a comedian who'd been heckled by a woman who claimed jokes about rape are never funny replied with the "joke" that it would be funny if that woman was gang raped right at that moment. Another comedian tried to defend it by saying feminists don't have a sense of humor, as if saying a woman should be gang-raped was at all humorous. The woman was wrong that rape jokes can't be funny, and the comedian was wrong that feminists don't have a sense of humor. For example, I thought up a rape joke in response that I bet would get a few chuckles even in the most radical of feminist circles. I'll try it out on you, with the warning that it's a bit crude: "men who fight against women's reproductive rights should be raped with old baseball bats and then denied medical treatment in order to preserve the life of the splinter." I bet some of you laughed at that. You might even feel bad about it because it's violent and disgusting. There are plenty of people who wouldn't laugh, but no one would try to respond, "Republicans just don't have a sense of humor." Except for Bob Dole, that might be true, but not laughing at that joke wouldn't necessarily be an indication of it.
I have no conclusion or special wisdom to offer. It's just that I've been saddened and angered by the spate of stories about the abuse of high school girls and college women, and these were among the thoughts conjured up by all the tragic news. I'd like my daughter to grow up in a world without rape or reactionary gender expectations, but that's not going to happen. All I can do is help her learn how to be careful in a world that can sometimes be dangerous for women in a way it isn't for men and to understand that except maybe for breastfeeding, the idea of "women's work" is a moral prejudice and not the natural state of affairs. Oh, and maybe watch out for football players.
On Librarians Writing
It seems to be the month for librarians to write about writing. Within the past week I've read three different articles or blog posts about librarians writing: Emily Ford's Becoming a Writer-Librarian in In the Library with the Lead Pipe, Trudi Bellardo Hahn's and Paul T. Jaeger's From Practice to Publication: a Path for Academic Library Professionals in College & Research Libraries News, and Joanna June's Learn to Write (Well) at the Hack Library School blog. They're all worth reading for potential writing librarians, and they made me reflect a bit on my own life as a writer. As an experienced writing teacher who has managed to publish some professional writing in a variety of formats, I thought I'd toss out my thoughts on writing as well.
Hahn and Jaeger write for academic librarians wanting to publish research, and their advice is more specific than the other articles. They have a helpful chart of different ways to proceed toward publication, with four categories: A) Highly Competitive Publications, B) Less Competitive Publications, C) Unpublished Presentations, and D) Support/ Service/ Recognition. I've done a bit of A, C, and D, and a whole lot of B. Since I don't care whether my publications are "highly competitive" or not, I can work comfortably in the "less competitive" domain. This is also what they suggest for new librarian writers. "Academic librarians who are just starting out should consider all the options available in column B." Column B includes articles in non-refereed journals, magazines, or newsletters; columns in a journal or magazine (permanent); guest columns; and blogs among others. That seems like good advice. Looking back at my CV, two of my first three publications were in C&RL News itself, and the next few were guest columns or editorials or entries for a column I edited. I was a librarian for years before I published anything peer-reviewed and I avoided tenure-track jobs so I wouldn't have to write before I had something to say. They also give the good rhetorical advice that "a highly competitive outlet is not necessarily always the best fit for a project, and the desire to have materials published in a certain type of outlet should not be prioritized at the expense of the determining the most appropriate outlet and audience." That's hard advice for someone needing to publish peer-reviewed articles for tenure, but still sound. Some topics need a book and some a blog post.
Ford also gives some good advice. The "Writing is Social" section reports about her participation in Academic Writing Month and Digital Writing Month, which provide social incentives and support for writers. I've never been a social writer myself, but if there's one thing I've learned about writing it's that writers use all kinds of different tactics to be productive. I usually don't show my writing to anyone before sending it off for publication, but I'm a good self-editor with a lot of experience. Most people would benefit from a "community of practice," I suspect. "Reflecting on Writing" suggests reading about writing, which might be something librarians don't think about doing. I haven't read her suggestions before, but with 17 years off and on teaching writing, I've read a lot of books on writing. Ford's choices seem concerned with making writers more productive or overcoming blocks. I've never had writer's block or difficulty organizing a writing project, so those aren't issues for me, but I know they are for a lot of people.
However, I also think it's a good idea for potential librarian writers to read nuts and bolts type books they might otherwise skip. Examples I've profited from in the past include: Jacques Barzun's Simple and Direct: a Rhetoric for Writers, Joseph Williams' Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, Richard Lanham's Revising Prose, and Diane Hacker's A Writer's Reference. Hacker is the most basic, and I probably wouldn't have read anything like it had I never taught writing. However, it's still worth the time. I've encountered lots of writing from students and other unpublished writers that still have basic problems with subject-verb agreement or pronoun-antecedent agreement or who don't know whether use which and that with restrictive clauses, or for that matter don't know what a restrictive clause is. Williams' book is an advanced guide to prose style and Barzun's is full of solid rhetorical advice. Lanham's short book is a good guide to revision, which is something lots of writers dread.
June's short blog post contains useful tidbits for writers: read critically, write a lot, step away from your writing for a while before revising, and proofread by reading your writing aloud. All are sound suggestions.
Ford admits that she always wanted to be a writer. I'm sort of like that. I remember in the 5th grade wanting to be a fiction writer, but as I grew up that goal changed as I studied new subjects. At various times from age 13 on I've wanted to be a journalist, a photojournalist, an architect, a musician, a fiction writer (again), and an English professor. But mostly it's been writer. I still write fiction sometimes, and have a couple of finished novels and lots of drafts, but I don't bother trying to publish any of it because it takes too much effort and I don't really care if it's published because I write for my own satisfaction. Librarianship was what I ended up with after I'd abandoned other ideas., and it's turned out that librarianship has offered me plenty of opportunity to write anyway.
When you've done something for so long, it's sometimes difficult to articulate how you do it, but I decided to try. Below are the activities that I think have had the most positive influence on my writing.
Teaching writing
Teaching writing has probably done more to improve my writing than anything else. My writing was already strong in college, and I got through many a class with an A merely by my ability to crank out thousand-word essays at a rapid pace. However, that ability was mostly because of reading (see below). Teaching writing improved that ability significantly because I did two things I'd never done before: I read a lot of writing by inexperience writers, and I studied the nuts and bolts of writing. People who read a lot learn about what good prose reads like, but they don't necessarily think analytically about how writing works. As a teacher, my job wasn't just to grade essays, but to give specific advice for improvement, and to do that I needed to figure out what was wrong. Why didn't that sentence work? What's wrong with the organization of this essay? And what specifically can that writer do to improve? Doing that is a lot harder than you might think. Teaching writing gave me a vocabulary for discussing writing that helps with my own writing, but that I might not have gotten otherwise.
Teaching also exposed me to a lot of bad writing. People who read a lot of published prose might not realize how very bad most writing is. Especially in the pre-blog days, truly awful writing was unlikely to be published anywhere with much of a readership. But wade through a stack of 40 student essays and you realize that writing is a far from natural experience. Reading bad writing makes it easier to figure out what good writing is, though. Reading great novels or polished essays critically can teach you a lot (see below), but reading bad writing gives you a new perspective. If you can figure out why it's bad, you're on your way to looking at your own writing more critically.
Reading Everything
Writers read. This shouldn't even have to be mentioned, but I can almost guarantee you that if you never read, you'll never be much of a writer. By reading, I don't just mean novels or great literature. In fact, unless you want to write fiction, there's not any need to read a lot of fiction. But it helps to read everything: novels, short stories, poems, essays, new articles, encyclopedia entries, cereal boxes, blogs, tweets, comic books, textbooks, book blurbs, and even scholarly articles in library science. I've been an avid and indiscriminate reader ever since I can remember, and every little bit has contributed to my development as a writer.
Reading Critically
On the other hand, being an indiscriminate reader all the time isn't a good idea. You need to learn to read critically. Good writing as well as bad writing can be read critically. Understanding how bad writing works can help you avoid it in your own work, but understanding how good writing works is more important and more difficult. My writing efforts are mostly novels and essays. I'm curious about how both work. My time as an English major and grad student has given me a large vocabulary to understand and describe writing in a critical way, which is sometimes different than how I might think about writing as a writing teacher. Thinking about writing as a critic and thinking critically as a practioner are both helpful.
Writing Every Day
Writers write. This was the advice I once gave someone who was pestering me over drinks about writing. She thought the drunken escapades of her life would make great blog fodder. Maybe. But although writers often like to drink, the most important thing is writing. Writers write, usually every day. It's a bad sign when people keep talking about what they would write if only they could get around to it. It doesn't even matter that much what you write. Sure, if you're working on an article under a deadline, you might focus on that, but writing about anything helps. You can even write about how you want to write and have nothing to write about. It's still good practice. And if you can just write a page a day on a writing project, that still adds up pretty quickly. Writing has been a daily part of my life for 25 years, and that constant practice is part of what makes it so easy for me.
Writing in my Head
Writers write and read about writing, but a lot of writing looks suspiciously like staring into space, or walking, or (in my case) lying in bed early in the morning with your eyes closed. William Wordsworth used to go for long walks composing poetry in his head. I'm frequently thinking about things I might write, conjuring up thesis and motive in my head, pondering possible organization. The actual typing part is often the last and fastest part of the writing process, at least for me. So while you should write every day, you could also spend time every day thinking about whatever you might want to write.
Accepting Constructive Criticism and Editing
Inexperienced writers are often insecure writers as well. They don't like criticism. It offends them that someone would think their writing needs improvement. The writers most resistant to criticism are also usually the worst writers. Experienced writers learn that writing is just words on a page,and they learn to appreciate constructive criticism. This is different from merely negative feedback, which can be dismissed. Someone recently in public called a piece I wrote "pure bilge," but that's the sort of emotional and derisive comment that makes me question the reader's judgment, not my writing.
Writers should also learn to accept editing. I write pretty well, but I've had numerous editorial suggestions over the years. With very few exceptions, I've taken the suggestions and revised accordingly, because good editors aren't trying to change your message but improve its communication. Sometimes writers resist editing out of pride or insecurity, and sometimes it's out of exhaustion. Years ago a librarian asked me to read an article he'd written before submission to a journal editor. I agreed. It was an incoherent 50-page article. That was the bad news. The good news was that with a bit of work it could be turned into two very good 25-page articles, and I suggested how to do that. He was exhausted and said he'd just trust the editor. I replied that if the editor was any good he'd say the same thing I did. Despite considering my comment arrogant at the time, he later sheepishly admitted that the editor was pretty good, plus he got two good articles published instead of one.
Some writers can produce polished prose on the first sitting without any revision at all. I can occasionally do that with short blog posts, but for most writing I revise, sometimes a little and sometimes significantly. Even with writing as informal as blog posts, I often reread the piece several times, making major or minor corrections as I go through. This is where knowing the nuts and bolts of writing helps the most. Writing a draft is sometimes mindless, because the goal should be to get some words down, but revising should be thoughtfully done. For blog posts my goal is clarity and coherence, but when writing for publication I spend more time thinking about everything from sentence structure to organization.
So that's my story. Every writer's story is a little different, but those are the activities that I think have helped my writing the most.
Organizing My Research Life [Updated]
[The following is an updated version of this blog post. Since that one gets a couple hundred hits a month, I figure someone somewhere must find it useful, and since I've changed a few things within the last year–especially by using a nifty new syncing feature in Zotero–I thought I'd update.]
This is the latest configuration in my quest to find, store, organize, and access scholarly information in the safest and most efficient way possible. I'll focus on four productivity tools: the LibX toolbar, Dropbox, Calibre, and Zotero (the reason for this order will be more obvious below). Plus there's an addendum on Evernote and Evernote Clearly.
LibX allows libraries to build a customized library application that runs as an extension in Google Chrome or an add-on in Mozilla Firefox. It allows users to do various searches directly from the application. Some of the obvious searches are for a library catalog, WorldCat, Web of Science, or large aggregator databases, but other searches can be set up. For example, as you can see in the image below of the Princeton University Library version, users can search for databases by title or search for ejournals by title. The links can be to whatever you want, and our version has links to the library home page, ILL, reserves, and our reference chat service among other things.
Once I started using this, I have almost no need to ever go to the library website anymore. (Which is a pity, because we're releasing a new website this summer. I was on the redesign committee, and we stole every good idea any library had and put them together pretty smoothly as far as I'm concerned.)
Once you find stuff, you have to store it somewhere, and after experimenting with multiple syncing applications I've finally settled on Dropbox exclusively. The free storage is 2GB (although with accepted referrals you can get that up to 18GB). I went with the Pro option of 100GB option for $99/year. Right now I use about 30GB on average, but the Pro option allows uploading of unlimited file sizes, so I can transfer video files or large numbers of music files among computers easily. For impecunious grad students (or even impecunious librarians), I might suggest a cheaper option, but it's worth the $99/year for my peace of mind. Also, I've used Dropbox on multiple devices and operating systems and it's never failed me. Now everything I have is backed up in the cloud and on every computer that I use, so there's little chance of losing anything. [For cheaper options, Google Drive offers 25GB for $30/year and SugarSync offers 60GB for $75/year. Or you could set up 32 separate email accounts and send yourself Dropbox referrals to get the 18GB. I realize Google Drive offers 100GB for only $60/year, but I'm doing my best to spread my electronic eggs into as many baskets as possible rather than rely on Google for everything.]
Once you have Dropbox or some other syncing application set up, it's time to think about managing edocuments. I use Calibre Ebook Management. I call it an edocument manager because it allows you to import ebub, mobi, PDF, Doc, DocX, Txt, and just about any other text based document. Once documents are imported, you can edit the metadata, tag them by subject, add notes, and even convert them among formats.( Got an epub you want to read on a Kindle? This is the program for you.) Calibre makes it very easy to organize and find documents.
The other nice thing is the way it imports them. Instead of just importing the metadata while still pointing to the original folder where you had the file, Calibre imports the entire file into a folder called by default "Calibre Library." By going to the Preferences and choosing "Run Welcome Wizard," you can specify where the folder should be. Here's what it looks like for me:
Notice that I keep my Calibre Library in Dropbox. What that means is that every document I import to Calibre is now synced in the cloud and on every other computer I have Dropbox on. If I'm at work using Calibre on my office desktop, files imported and synced through Dropbox will show up exactly the same on my laptop at home provided I have the Calibre settings the same.
The same thing works for the newest version of Zotero (4.0), released last month. Zotero is a relatively simple and easy to use bibliographic citation manager that imports citations from library catalogs and databases. The citations can then be organized by folder or tagged and searched. It's very easy to generate bibliographies in multiple formats and to add citations to things you're writing with the MS Word plugin. It started as a Firefox add-on, but these days I use Zotero Standalone, which has connectors for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.
It also allows you to attach a link to a file, so that if you have a citation to an article and the article stored on your computer, you can right-click the citation, choose Add Attachment, then Attach Link to File, and the linked article will appear with the citation. Then you can just click within Zotero to open the document. With version 4.0, Zotero has made a big improvement. You can now choose the "base directory" where Zotero links to the attached files. Before, you had to do it in the default directory, or attach the file itself and pay for more storage at Zotero. Not anymore. Since you can choose anywhere as the base directory, I chose my Calibre Library on Dropbox. The preferences look like this:
Once Zotero is set up like this on computers you use, the attached links to files sync when Zotero syncs, because the underlying Dropbox folder structure synchronizes across devices as well. Obviously, this could be done without using Calibre. Everything could be managed through Zotero alone, and some other Dropbox folder synced instead. But Zotero is most useful for managing citations, whereas I have lots of edocuments that I want to read and manage, but would never want to cite. By separating out the functions and using separate programs, I can get precisely what I need at any given time. Besides, files can be imported to Calibre and edited in bulk, while attaching links to files in Zotero is a slower process.
So that's what I'm recommending as a great way to keep scholarly citations and documents stored, organized, and accessible for research.
Addendum on Evernote and Evernote Clearly
I've also been using the note-syncing application Evernote a lot, although I haven't come up with any uses that are especially focused on research. You could use it for notes and quotes about sources you're reading, but that wouldn't be my first choice. (I use MS Word for that, and put every quote and note I have about a given source organized by title. Then I turn the title into a Heading and use the Document Map feature to easily navigate between sources.) I've been experimenting using it in student research consultations, where I will put the source we searched, a suggested search strategy, and maybe a citation or two, and then use the sharing feature to email the note to the student. While not scholarly, the feature that allows you to add check boxes to lists sure improved by grocery shopping. Mostly I use it to clip articles from the Internet that I want to save to read later.
Once I go read the article, I use another Evernote application called Evernote Clearly which really has to be seen to be believed. If you do a lot of online reading as I do, you should give this application a try. It's a browser extension that reformats an online article into a pleasant, clutter-free reading experience. Plus, for a lot of articles that span multiple pages, it will reformat them all into the same page. Really, try it. Install the browser button, then navigate to this article on being an Evernote power user. Click the Clearly button and watch all the annoying clutter disappear. Your online reading experience will never be the same again.
Walt Crawford's Big Deal and the Damage Done
I bought an ebook copy of Walt Crawford's new book The Big Deal and the Damage Done and have read or skimmed it all. It analyzes serials and monograph spending from all types of academic libraries every which way. Chart after chart demonstrates the dramatic restructuring of library budgets most likely because of one relatively recent publishing model, the Big Deal. It lends some quantitative support to my contention that Big Deals screw the humanities, and really anything else that isn't a STEM ejournal. The final paragraph:
What I do believe: If things continue along the same line as they have from 2000 to 2010, the damage done may become irreparable, as a growing number of academic libraries become little more than subsidized article transfer mechanisms. That would be a shame.
If you're at all interested in the issue, definitely get a copy. I'll be writing more about it in my Academic Newswire column for next week, so I won't say more about it now.
Unlikely Conversations and Improbable Sources
Recently I've been getting some requests for what I have called The Improbable Source. An improbable source is some source students hope to find that is exactly on the topic of their research essay, especially when that topic is somewhat obscure. The example I used then that still stands out as the top of this category is "scholarly books and articles on email as a form of civic friendship." You can double check the philosophical literature if you like, or you can take my word for it that nobody has ever published a scholarly book or article on this topic. When I first identified the existence of the improbable source, I suggested that the problem "is that they want sources that already do their work for them." To some extent, that's true. Almost always, the improbable source students desire is one that already supports the exact thesis they hope to argue. If they found the source, then they'd have to change their thesis. However, I now think the problem is larger than that. It's not just about a hunt for improbable sources, but also about a hunt for unlikely conversations.
"Scholarly conversation" is a phrase that librarians and writing instructors often use. It's an apt metaphor for what scholars do, and most scholarly work is in a conversation of some sort with previous scholarship, whether arguing with it, building upon it, or whatever. There's nothing controversial about either that claim or the use of the phrase itself as far as I can tell. However, it's very difficult to teach a first-year student who has never participated in such a conversation or engaged in any actual research to understand what's going on.
I've worked with students who are looking for scholarly conversations on topics that are highly unlikely to be conversed upon by scholars. We can stick with the "email as civic friendship" topic. It's not just the source that's improbable. It's the entire conversation that's unlikely to exist. And if there weren't a conversation, there wouldn't be the improbable source, because the scholarly sources often respond to previous research. Students have been taught that scholarly conversations exist. They are perhaps engaged in class readings that demonstrate a scholarly conversation in action. Then they pick a topic and go out to find the conversation that likely doesn't exist.
So that's what is happening. But why is it happening? There could be many reasons, but I suspect the main reason is the backwards approach to research the students are taking. Instead of reading around broadly in an area of scholarship and looking for the conversations that emerge, students are choosing and even narrowing topics at random and then trying to find the scholarly conversation. Librarians have strategies for helping students find the conversations, but they only work if the original topic is pretty broad. Students might make the leap into a conversation about email as civic friendship because they've read an article on civic friendship and need to write about a form of communication as civic friendship, but that's obviously a scholarly conversation that didn't emerge from anything scholarship they'd actually been reading. Another approach is students having to relate some event or thing to two different scholarly disciplines. That can be a very fruitful assignment, but students sometimes have problems figuring out exactly what they should be researching in the disciplines, because it's usually not the thing or event itself. Thus, their initial searches aren't emerging from the scholarly conversations within a discipline. They're hoping to find that conversation based on what they think is interesting about the thing or event, and sometimes it just doesn't exist.
Anyway, I think those are reasons why, but even if not there's still the question of what to do about it. The first response I usually offer is one of assurance, because often enough the student has tried to find the improbable source or the unlikely conversation and failed. That's when I practice reference as therapy, and assure students they're not finding it because it likely doesn't exist.
Then, we analyze, which etymologically means to break something down into its elements. Email and civic friendship has two elements, both of which could be researched separately. However, that topic is really what writing instructors call a "lens essay," which means the student should be examining email through the lens of a theory of civic friendship. Thus, really the topic is email and whether or not it fits the criteria for civic friendship. But other topics that combine two or three areas together are ripe for analysis and research on the separate areas, but even then it might be hard to figure out specifically what to look for sources on without having read a lot. and that's the students' job, not mine. Comparing disciplinary approaches to something can work as well, but again it's usually something that requires more reading by the student than searching with the librarian.
That's where my final advice comes. Sometimes even as I'm meeting with students I realize they don't really need me at all. They don't need to find more sources; they just need to start reading and figuring things out from there, and the only thing I'm good for is to tell them that. So maybe I was right before and the hunt for improbable sources and unlikely conversations is motivated by the hope that someone out there has done all their reading, analysis, and synthesis for them, because that, not library research, is the hardest part of writing a research essay.


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I just wanted to highlight a couple of posts that touch on the idea of investor disgust with the stock market. Yesterday I had a post up looking at how investors giving up on the stock market as one sign that we are getting closer to to onset of a new secular bull market.* That is marked contrast with the ongoing 'lost decade for stocks' that I discuss in my book.
The problem with simply giving up on investing is that you lose the chance to gain some experience in the markets that will likely serve you well down the road. I have a guest post up today at Josh Brown's The Reformed Broker looking at this very issue. I write that we can look at secular bear markets as a laboratory for investing:
Secular bear markets happen to be a great time for investors to learn the lessons of risk and return. Why? Because we see these cycles play out in a much more rapid and concentrated fashion. Secular bull markets are in contrast a tough time to gain much perspective on the true challenges of investing.
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UNDP to Support Equitable, Sustainable and Clean Urbanisation in China
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UNDP to Focus on Social Governance and Water Resource Management in Ningbo
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Support for Ethnic Women's Entrepreneurship Partnership gains momentum
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Moving in the right direction: environmental rights services in China
A joint press briefing was held today to announce the launch of a new 'Guide Handbook for the Maintenance of Environment Rights'. This new publication is part of a joint two-year initiative between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the All-China Environment Federation (ACEF), and is intended to encourage people to learn about and protect their legal right to a clean environment.
10 Feb 2012
Civil Society Organisations make further breakthrough in environment rights protection
Following some major breakthroughs in the promotion of environmental rights, a joint press briefing was organised by the UNDP and the All-China Environment Federation (ACEF) on 10 February 2012, in Beijing.
03 Feb 2012
Deadline extended: Asia-Pacific Cartoon Contest on Climate Change and Human Development
The deadline for submissions to the Asia-Pacific Cartoon Contest on Climate Change and Human Development has been extended, and the call for submissions for the cartoon contest will now run until February 21st 2012.
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Opening Remarks for Rebeca Grynspan, UNDP Associate Administrator Consultative Workshop on Social Organizations and HIV Legal Aid Provision Model
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Opening Speech at the Africa China Poverty Reduction and Development Seminar "China's SEZs and Poverty Reduction"
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Local Governance Innovation and Excellence Recognised at Award Ceremony
As China continues to progress towards its vision of creating a equitable and harmonious Xiaokang society, Ms. Silvia Morimoto, UNDP Deputy Country Director, attended the 6th Innovations and Excellence in Chinese Local Governance Award Ceremony on 8 January 2012.
27 Dec 2011
China-Cambodia-UNDP Trilateral Cooperation Pilot
On 27 December 2011, UNDP and the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) launched a pioneering joint pilot initiative with the Government of Cambodia. More than 30 participants took part in a three-week training course on cassava cultivation techniques, under an initiative established as part of a Memorandum of Understanding between UNDP and China to promote South-South Cooperation.
23 Dec 2011
China and UNDP Extend Technical Services to Sri Lanka
In conjunction with UNDP's efforts to promote South-South Cooperation and export its highly successful Technical Task Force (TTF) model to other developing countries around the world, UNDP China and UNDP Sri Lanka came together to organise a high-level overseas mission for the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and arranged in-depth dialogue sessions with the Sri Lankan Government on 18-23 December 2011.
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China's Young Migrants Receive Support from MDG Achievement Fund
ollowing sustained efforts to support the government's implementation of relevant policies designed to protect the interests of migrant workers, a closing symposium was held by the UN System in China on 15-16 December 2011, to celebrate achievements made during a joint three-year programme under the Millennium Development Goal Achievement Fund's Youth, Employment and Migration initiative.
14 Dec 2011
Emerging Economies Forum on Development Models
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12 Dec 2011
UNDP Assists in First Public Interest Litigation Case on Release of Information
n a major breakthrough of promoting government information disclosure and transparency in China through judicial review in China, UNDP-supported All-China Environment Federation (ACEF) have successfully won the first public interest lawsuit of its kind in China.
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UNDP Co-Sponsors China's First Food Safety Law Summit, Beijing
On 9 December, Ms. Renata Dessallien, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, joined Mr. Li Jianguo, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the National People's Congress; Mr. Luo Haocai, Vice Chairman of the 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; Mr. Chen Jiping, Secretary-General, CPC Committee of China Law Society and Mr. Zhang Yong, Director, Food Safety Law Office of the State Council, in addressing a crowd of senior party, government and academic leaders at China's First Food Safety Law Summit sponsored by China Law Society in Beijing.
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Significant Milestones lead to Celebration of Volunteerism in China
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Four exhibits at Lawndale Art Center close this Saturday including "Washington Avenue: Forgotten to Gentrified," a photo exhibit by Robert Sennhauser that looks at the near-downtown neighborhood and the changes it's currently undergoing. Among the highlights of the exhibit are Sennhauser's taped int ... More >>
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Yes, I have. My ex. I am not a violent person. but one night we were fighting and weve dated for 5 years and so years of disappointment and madness swooped into one argument. He was calling me uneducated even though i am graduating college early. He told me i have gotten ugly because i gained 10 pounds. I used to be tiny but i decided I wanted to gain weight because i personally think curves are sexy. He basically slamed me and hurt me in every way possible with his words and I smacked him so hard in the face. I am not going to lie it felt soo good. and to me it was soo worth it. Nothing can get a huge point across than that, and it did. To this day, i will never speak to him again. If you love one someone you support them. by their side thick and thin, gain weight lose weight they are still the same person. I am not proud of my violent action but it was totally worth it.
He he he...my sister. :)
Yes....many times. Why - because i had to.
yes when i was about 4 or 5, this girl hit my twin sis and i had a fight with her then her mother came to speak with my mum about it cuz she run to her complaining that i started the fight :-)
quite a few times-hate to say it. The neighbor boys-there wer 5-they picked on my brother
Yes, many of times when I was a child and in my teens. I had a chip on my cute little shoulder. I had zero tolerance for people making fun of me or getting in my face or in other's. But now I have learned to handle such situations differently since I am no longer a minor. I went to a really bad school, the type that required metal detectors and teachers counting pencils before the class could be released. So there were times I had no idea why I was fighting and there were times I was fighting because I am a white person. Cracker this, cracker that type stuff. Dont fight, walk away.
D: thank you, Im okay though, i don't hold anger inside me over anything from my past :D
I have thrown things and then remembered what a good shot I am. :(
Yes myself and 3 freinds were randomly attacked by 20 people for no reason other than they wanted to pick a fight in our part of town. At one point i had 5 of them attacking me at once
my sister when we were younger over stupid things
He was a big doody head
I did for fun. :)
Yes and alcohol.
Kind of a woman tried to ****** a dress from me on th first day of the sales she hit me with her shoe....no idea why it was in her hand so I kicked her grabbed the shoe an threw it walked ff with th dress....
Many times, was a professional fighter.
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Hippocratic Oath
The Hippocratic Oath (Greek ὅρκος horkos) is an oath historically taken by physicians and physician assistants. It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts. It requires a new physician to swear, upon a number of healing gods, to uphold specific ethical standards. Of historic and traditional value, the oath is considered a rite of passage for practitioners of medicine in many countries, although nowadays the modernized version of the text varies among them.
Scholars widely believe that Hippocrates, often called the father of medicine in Western culture, or one of his students wrote the oath.[1] The oath is written in Ionic Greek (late 5th century BC),[2] It is usually included in the Hippocratic Corpus.
Classical scholar Ludwig Edelstein proposed that the oath was written by Pythagoreans, an idea that others questioned for lack of evidence for a school of Pythagorean medicine.[3]
Original oath[edit]
This is the original version of the Hippocratic Oath:
I swear by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius the surgeon, likewise Hygeia and Panacea, and call all the gods and goddesses to witness, that I will observe and keep this underwritten oath, to the utmost of my power and judgment.
I will reverence my master who taught me the art. Equally with my parents, will I allow him things necessary for his support, and will consider his sons as brothers. I will teach them my art without reward or agreement; and I will impart all my acquirement, instructions, and whatever I know, to my master's children, as to my own; and likewise to all my pupils, who shall bind and tie themselves by a professional oath, but to none else.
With regard to healing the sick, I will devise and order for them the best diet, according to my judgment and means; and I will take care that they suffer no hurt or damage.
Nor shall any man's entreaty prevail upon me to administer poison to anyone; neither will I counsel any man to do so. Moreover, I will get no sort of medicine to any pregnant woman, with a view to destroy the child.
Further, I will comport myself and use my knowledge in a godly manner.
I will not cut for the stone, but will commit that affair entirely to the surgeons.
Whatsoever house I may enter, my visit shall be for the convenience and advantage of the patient; and I will willingly refrain from doing any injury or wrong from falsehood, and (in an especial manner) from acts of an amorous nature, whatever may be the rank of those who it may be my duty to cure, whether mistress or servant, bond or free.
Whatever, in the course of my practice, I may see or hear (even when not invited), whatever I may happen to obtain knowledge of, if it be not proper to repeat it, I will keep sacred and secret within my own breast.If I faithfully observe this oath, may I thrive and prosper in my fortune and profession, and live in the estimation of posterity; or on breach thereof, may the reverse be my fate![4]
"First do no harm"[edit]
It is a popular misconception that the phrase "First do no harm" (Latin: Primum non nocere) is a part of the Hippocratic oath. In fact the phrase is believed to have originated with the 19th-century surgeon Thomas Inman.[5]
Modern use and relevance[edit]
The oath has been modified numerous times. One of the most significant revisions was first drafted in 1948 by the World Medical Association (WMA). Called the Declaration of Geneva. "During the post World War II and immediately after its foundation, the WMA showed concern over the state of medical ethics in general and over the world. The WMA took up the responsibility for setting ethical guidelines for the world physicians. It noted that in those years the custom of medical schools to administer an oath to its doctors upon graduation or receiving a license to practice medicine had fallen into disuse or become a mere formality".[7] In Germany during the Third Reich, medical students did not take the Hippocratic Oath, although they knew the ethic of "nil nocere" - do no harm.[8]
In the 1960s, the Hippocratic Oath was changed to "utmost respect for human life from its beginning", making it a more secular concept, not to be taken in the presence of God or any gods, but before only other people. When the Oath was rewritten in 1964 by Louis Lasagna, Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University, the prayer was omitted, and that version has been widely accepted and is still in use today by many medical schools.[9]
While there is currently no legal obligation for medical students to swear an oath upon graduating, 98% of American medical students swear some form of oath, while only 50% of British medical students do. [10] In a 1989 survey of 126 US medical schools, only three reported usage of the original oath, while thirty-three used the Declaration of Geneva, sixty-seven used a modified Hippocratic Oath, four used the Oath of Maimonides, one used a covenant, eight used another oath, one used an unknown oath, and two did not use any kind of oath. Seven medical schools did not reply to the survey. In France, it is common for new medical graduates to sign a written oath.[11][12]
In the United States, the majority of osteopathic medical schools use the Osteopathic Oath as well as the Hippocratic Oath. The Osteopathic Oath was first used in 1938, and the current version has been in use since 1954.[citation needed]
In 1995, Sir Joseph Rotblat, in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, suggested a Hippocratic Oath for Scientists.[citation needed]
While the original Hippocratic Oath explicitly prohibits abortion, it is no longer considered a professional violation of ethics to perform one in countries in which it is legal.[citation needed]
Lethal injection and the Hippocratic Oath[edit]
There has been a large debate on whether a doctor administering or facilitating in a lethal injection to a prisoner is breaking the Hippocratic Oath they took.
In 1991, José High was set to be executed in Georgia, United States. The execution team could not gain access to Jose High's vein due to extreme drug use from his past. The execution team brought in a doctor who had critical care training and was an expert at finding deep veins in the human body. Once the doctor was hired for the sole reason of inserting an IV the doctor at that point became part of the execution team.
Up until this point, doctors would not take part in placing an IV or administering the drugs, they were only there to pronounce the death of the inmate. The execution happened without incident; however, a group of doctors sued the Georgia State Medical Board for not disciplining the doctor, stating that he violated federal law and broke the Hippocratic Oath (although the Hippocratic oath is not legally binding). In response, the Georgia legislature passed laws protecting doctors who take part in lethal injections from civil and criminal prosecution.[citation needed]
Breaking the Hippocratic Oath[edit]
There is no direct punishment for breaking the Hippocratic oath in modern days. It can be said that malpractice is the same thing and it carries a wide range of punishments from legal action to civil penalties.[13] In antiquity the punishment for breaking the Hippocratic oath could range from a penalty to losing the right to practice medicine.[14] While there are no direct laws, doctors can still be held accountable through malpractice and other civil and criminal charges.
See also[edit]
- Declaration of Geneva
- Declaration of Helsinki
- Hippocrates
- Hospital Corpsman Pledge
- Human experimentation in the United States
- Medical ethics
- Nightingale Pledge
- Nuremberg code
- Oath of Asaph
- Oath of the Hindu physician
- Physician's Oath
- Primum non nocere
- Seventeen Rules of Enjuin
- Sun Simiao
- White Coat Ceremony
- ^ Farnell, Lewis R. (2004) [1920]. Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality : The Gifford Lectures : Delivered in the University of St. Andrews in the Year 1920. Whitefish, Montana: Kessinger Publishing. p. 269. ISBN 978-1-4179-2134-8. "The famous Hippocratean oath may not be an authentic deliverance of the great master, but is an ancient formula current in his school."
- ^ Edelstein, Ludwig (1943). The Hippocratic Oath: Text, Translation and Interpretation. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-8018-0184-6.
- ^ Temkin, Owsei (2001). "On Second Thought". "On Second Thought" and Other Essays in the History of Medicine and Science. Johns Hopkins University. ISBN 978-0-8018-6774-3.
- ^ "The Hippocratic Oath". The London Medical Repository 23 (135): 258. 1 March 1825. Retrieved 22 September 2014.. For the Greek text, see Jones, W. H. S., ed. (1868). Hippocrates Collected Works (in Greek) I. Cambridge Harvard University Press. pp. 130–131. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
- ^ Sokol, Daniel K. (2013). "'First do no harm' revisited". BMJ 347 (f6426). Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- ^ National Library of Medicine 2006
- ^ World Medical Association, Inc. "WMA History". www.wma.net. World Medical Association, Inc. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
- ^ Baumslag, Naomi (2005). Murderous Medicine: Nazi Doctors, Human Experimentation, and Typhus. Praeger Publishers. pp. xxv. ISBN 9780275983123.
- ^ "The Hippocratic Oath Modern Version". University of California San Diego.
- ^ Dorman, J. (September 1995). "The Hippocratic Oath". Journal of American College Health 44 (2): 84–88. doi:10.1080/07448481.1995.9937519. ISSN 0744-8481. Retrieved 2013-09-20.[dead link]
- ^ Sritharan, Kaji; Georgina Russell; Zoe Fritz; Davina Wong; Matthew Rollin; Jake Dunning; Bruce Wayne; Philip Morgan; Catherine Sheehan (December 2000). "Medical oaths and declarations". BMJ 323 (7327): 1440–1. doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7327.1440. PMC 1121898. PMID 11751345.
- ^ Crawshaw, R; Pennington, T H; Pennington, C I; Reiss, H; Loudon, I (October 1994). "Letters". BMJ 309 (6959): 952. doi:10.1136/bmj.309.6959.952. PMC 2541124. PMID 7950672.
- ^ Groner M.D., Johnathan (2008). "The Hippocratic Paradox: The Role of The Medical Profession In Capital Punishment In The United States". Fordham Urban Law Journal Library.
- ^ Nutton, Vivian (2004). Ancient Medicine. New York, NY: Routledge.
Further reading[edit]
- Hulkower, Raphael (2010). "The History of the Hippocratic Oath: Outdated, Inauthentic, and Yet Still Relevant". The Einstein Journal of Biology and Medicine. 25/26: 41–44.
- The Hippocratic Oath Today: Meaningless Relic or Invaluable Moral Guide? – a PBS NOVA online discussion with responses from doctors as well as 2 versions of the oath. pbs.org
- Lewis Richard Farnell, Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality, 1921.
- "Codes of Ethics: Some History" by Robert Baker, Union College in Perspectives on the Professions, Vol. 19, No. 1, Fall 1999, ethics.iit.edu
External links[edit]
- Hippocratic Oath, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (h2g2).
- Hippocratic Oath – Classical version, pbs.org
- Hippocratic Oath – Modern version, pbs.org
- Hippocratis jusiurandum – Image of a 1595 copy of the Hippocratic oath with side-by-side original Greek and Latin translation, bium.univ-paris5.fr
- Hippocrates | The Oath – National Institutes of Health page about the Hippocratic oath, nlm.nih.gov
- Tishchenko P. D. Resurrection of the Hippocratic Oath in Russia, zpu-journal.ru


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Step 1: Burner
Step 2: Convector
Step 3: The Radiator
Cautions this is a combustion heater using un sreened naked flames normal precautions to ventilation explosive atmospheres location etc should be observed, both pots get too hot to touch so you will need an oven glove when changing the tea lights. Also because of this place it away from flammable materials on a non flammable surface as the roasting tray got pretty hot too
I made this with a couple of modifications..I wrapped copper tubing between the pots that was fastened through the outer pot, and then attached a battery powered fan to the tubing, using a reducer fabricated from a 2 ltr. bottle and drilled a hole to match the tubing through the bottle cap. This made the outer pot a bit cooler to the touch, the inner pot is still quite hot because it is directly feeling the heat from the candle flame. The convection current still works its way past the copper tubing coils.. but in the end... I considered it a fail... too many gadgets.... The BTUs produced by the candles are unchanged.. and the best method of heat disbursement is the battery powered fan blowing against the outer pot.
What a great idea....... I love this.
Ok I made it!!! I used this model https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b11dqKJrulk costed me 23 euros or 28 dollars. It is a nice looking "furnitur". Now about the job it's doing. I have 7m2 room in a big old house. Outside is now 10 C or 50 F. You will say it's not that cold, but it was a one night change form 29 C 84 F . It was 14 C in my room before I light up the heater, 3 hours later it's 18,5 C. It's still burning so it may get warmer. I will use it as an alternative. We turn on the central heater every night from 8pm till midnight. The flower pot will sustain the warmth till the morning when I go to work.
I do not imagine having to spend the hole winter entirely on candels, but it will work for what I need it.
This is so cool, the truck drivers would like this. When they get stuck in the snow, they use a coffee tin and candles. This would be great. Not sure if I would like the idea of having a burning candle in a truck.
Great project
I've been experimenting with multi wicking using tuna tinsmy self but I am still trying to come up with a good method of apraising the heat out put of multi wick over larger single wick. The use of oil lamps is quite reasonable as the item that made me think this ideawas woth testing was the memory ofan old basic oil heater for keeping the frost out of a green house which was basicly a 1/4" parafin lamp as used to be used for road works in ametal radiator housing ratherthan a lamp housing.
To modify (compact) the source of heat, the next thing to do is to put the vegetable shortening in the empty 12 oz. tuna fish can and then put an old saucer in a frying pan that was half full of water. Once the water came to a boil, place the can of vegetable shortening on the saucer. As the vegetable shortening melts, vanilla extract or lemon extract is added to the solution; this gives the vegetable shortening candle a very nice aroma while it burns. Keep adding vegetable shortening and the flavor extract until the can is full to the brim.
Cooling the liquid back into a solid is best performed by either placing the can in the refrigerator and/or the freezer. After the solution becomes solid, push four (4) of the small birthday cake candles equidistant from each other into the matrix. The birthday cake candles supplies wicks that are better than any DIY homemade wicks.
By melting the vegetable shortening first, this REMOVES all of the air that the manufacturer places in the product during its production. This will help insure 5+ hours of burn time per oz. for each wick in the matrix.
Now there is one (1) fire unit, instead of four (4) separate fire units, that should give the user 10+ hours of continuous burn time for their flower pot space heater!
The 'secret' to good design of any device is to REDUCE the number of functioning parts down to the bare minimum!
If the user wants to stick more with the original design, the user could also make a {lamp oil and/or cooking oil} candle out of an old 2.5 oz. baby food jar X 4 and use those instead of tea lights since the user can get about 5 hours of burn time for each ounce of fluid! This way the user can refill the fluid candle bottles as needed and there is a much less chance of the heater being knocked over.
Result: change in temperature room ZERO. Still make a nice hand warmer. You might try your gloves or socks over it but still I would not advice to do this for security reasons. In any case you cant' do more than that.
The reason is simple. You got about 1BTU of heat for each candle you light. You measure the power of home heater by THOUSANDS of BTU. Cant' compete.
The video is here (sorry, Italian only)
Still... even if the candles where "super candles" capable of 10 BTU each, or even "magic candles" of 100 BTU each your output would be 400 BTU max (magic included) and is FAR lower of any stove that ranges 8000 to 16000 BTU usually. Otherwise we should tell all those engineers that work at heating companies how dumb they are producing such inefficient systems.
Another version: in 1700/1800 scientists wrote about thermodynamics. They where able to produce steam engines and start the industrial revolution. Still they where so dumb to heat their houses with a fireplace or home stove! Does this make any sense? Not at all to me... Pots and candles have been around a few centuries now, and we get to this only after sending a robot to Mars? Hmm...
Anyway, post me you video with some measurements, I'll be happy to look at it.


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Residents Leeds and Bradford will be able to access a free Wi-Fi service before the end of 2012 after local councils signed a deal with Virgin Media Business to deliver the service using small cell technology.
The firm has already trialled the deployment of the technology in Bristol and Newcastle but this rollout represents the first live services outside London as part of the government's £114m super connected cities programme, of which Leeds and Bradford received £14.4m in a joint bid.
The service will see infrastructure installed on street furniture across the city, with the first services live in time for the New Year in Briggate in Leeds and Bridge Street in Bradford, before further expanding across the cities in early 2013.
This will offer free Wi-Fi access at speeds around three times that of standard 3G connections, Virgin said.
"Small cells can transform the mobile experience by providing the connectivity needed to match the explosive broadband demand from the rapidly growing number of smartphones and tablets," added Kevin Baughan, director of wireless at Virgin Media Business.
Councillors for both districts welcomed the move and said it would provide numerous benefits to their residents.
"I'm delighted our citizens, visitors and businesses will be among the first in the country to benefit from a free, fast, accessible city centre Wi-Fi service," said councillor Keith Wakefield, leader of Leeds City Council.
Councillor David Green, council leader of Bradford Council added: "The super connected city initiative means a great deal for Bradford as we are a growing city with a big economy and the initiative will give existing local companies a greater competitive edge in national and global markets."
Ovum principal analyst Emeka Obiodu told V3 that it was "commendable" that the councils had taken this decisions and that public money was being used to provide the services.
"Ubiquitous connectivity is always a good thing," he said.
However, he also noted that small cell technology was still an unknown in many ways as its rollout across cities could hit problems, such as would councils allow more than one provider to install equipment on street furniture, or who would pay for rollouts if not centrally funded.
The move marks the continued development of Wi-Fi services in public locations, with Virgin also behind the deployment on the London Underground which has proved hugely popular with users.
Dan Worth is the news editor for V3 having first joined the site as a reporter in November 2009. He specialises in a raft of areas including fixed and mobile telecoms, data protection, social media and government IT. Before joining V3 Dan covered communications technology, data handling and resilience in the emergency services sector on the BAPCO Journal.
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