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Located 3.5mi. north of Lebanon on US 52.
◊ Bethel
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Located east of State Road 421 on State Road 206, east of Waugh.
◊ Cason
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Located in the forest at the junction of 500 W and 450 N on the eastern side of 500 W.
◊ Dover
Cemetery - Veterans (56KB)
Provided by the Dover Cemetery Board, this file indexes veterans buried in the Dover Cemetery.
◊ Moore
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Located on State Road 47 at 900 East in Marion Township, Boone County, Indiana
◊ Jones-Parr
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Located 2 miles east of Waugh on State Road 421.
◊ Old
Eagle/Cox Cemetery (56KB)
Located west of State Road 421 on Oneal Ave/Holliday Rd, north of Zionsville.
◊ Pitzer
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Located in Eagle Township on the north side of 550 S, west of Kissel Rd.
◊ Richardson
(Big Springs) Cemetery (54KB)
Located north of E 200 N on N 1100 E, in Big Springs.
◊ Lebanon Reporter Indexes
◊ Online Index of
Vital Records (Including Obituaries) from1940-1999
The index is divided up by the first letter of the bride's or groom's surname. Please click on the first letter of the last name to be taken to a PDF containing the listing of indexed notices. PDFs are search enabled for quick look-ups!
Online Index of Vital Records (Including Obituaries) from 2000– September 2014
This index is divided up by the first letter of the surname. Please click on the first letter of the last name to be taken to a PDF containing the listing of indexed obituaries. PDFs are search enabled for quick look-ups!.
◊ Lebanon Patriot & Weekly Patriot Indexes
◊ Online Index of Divorce Notices appearing in 1870 (39KB)
◊ Online Index of Marriage Notices from 1870–73 (1MB; sorted by groom's last name)
◊ Online Index of Marriage Notices from 1870–73 (1MB; sorted by bride's last name)
◊ Online Index of Obituaries and Death Notices from 1870–73 (68KB; prints on legal-sized paper)
◊ Online Index of Personal and Real Estate Sale Notices from 1870–73 (49KB)
◊ Index to Other Print/Microfilm Newspapers
◊ Index to Thorntown Obituaries [microfilm &
print]: compiled from a collection of newspaper clippings at the
Thorntown Public Library by Rosemary Peterman.
◊ Jamestown Abstracted Obits & Biographies 1898 - 1902 [print]
◊ Newspaper Index 1856 - 1888 (various Boone Co. newspapers) [print]
◊ Newspaper Obits 1899 - 1902 [print]
◊ Boone County Teachers: 1883–1885 — This index is under construction and will be added to as the records become available.
◊ Boone County Lodge: Roster of Sojourning Members 1917–1925 (46KB)
◊ Divorces of
Boone County, IN, 1830–1879 (77KB)
Abstracted from Civil Order and Judgement Docket books, 1830–1879.
These books are available only at the Boone County Clerk's office, Lebanon, IN.


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AeroVironment Integrates Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Technology Into Its EVSE-RS To Enable Grid-friendly PEV Charging (Photo: Business Wire)
AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV) and the United States Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), managed by Battelle, today announced a commercial license agreement for a technology that supports widespread adoption of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) by helping to stabilize the electrical grid -- the network of electricity generation, transmission and distribution that powers the nation.
AeroVironment integrates Pacific Northwest National Laboratory technology into its EVSE-RS to enable grid-friendly PEV charging (Photo: Business Wire)
The technology may result in lower-cost electricity for plug-in vehicle drivers due to the grid support functions provided during vehicle charging. AeroVironment will use a portion of the licensed PNNL technology in a new prototype version of its industry-leading Level II charging systems.
Wahid Nawabi, AeroVironment senior vice president and general manager of its Efficient Energy Systems (EES) business segment, said, "We are working to broaden the adoption of plug-in vehicles to help achieve America's environmental, economic and energy security goals. While easily and reliably recharging PEVs, this grid-friendly charging system will also improve grid performance, turning PEVs and their chargers into a valuable solution to a broader challenge."
The licensed PNNL technology can help stabilize the electrical grid by continuously monitoring the grid's alternating current (AC) frequency and varying the vehicle charging rate in response. Additionally, in the event of a rapid drop in grid frequency, the charging system stops charging, providing a grid "shock absorber." Such rapid frequency drops, while small in overall magnitude, indicate that a fault condition has occurred somewhere on the grid and that there is an imbalance between load and electricity generation. By reducing load the system can be rebalanced.
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Cost-saving Pilot Programs to Support Warfighter Autonomy
WASHINGTON, June 19, 2013 – A call from the Defense Department to government labs for autonomous technology ideas that support the warfighter has been answered with seven initiatives.
Chosen from more than 50 submissions, the selected ideas will be tested in the Autonomy Research Pilot Initiative, officials said.
The pilot research initiative's goal is to advance technologies that will result in autonomous systems that provide more capability to warfighters, lessen the cognitive load on operators and supervisors, and lower overall operational cost, explained Jennifer Elzea, a DOD spokeswoman. Read more


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Aubrey Hampton
A pioneer in natural hair and skin care, Aubrey Hampton paved the way for a fledging natural products industry in the 1960s by making plant-based, synthetic-free personal care products on his own terms. Today his hair, skin and body care line is sold all over the world, but his connection to natural ingredients goes back to his father's organic farm in southern Indiana, where his mother made her own herbal beauty products at home.
A phytochemist and herbalist, he founded Aubrey Nature Labs in 1967 with just two products Relax-R-Bath and GPB Hair Conditioner simple beginning he quickly grew into the multi-national, multi-million dollar company that bears his name. Through the years Aubrey created over 200 hair, skin and body care products, which are internationally recognized as the most natural herbal products available. Nearly every health food store in the United States and Canada carries his products, which are also sold throughout Europe, Asia and South America.
Aubrey's list of "firsts" in the industry is impressive. He was first to use coconut fatty acids in hair and skin care; first to formulate cosmetic products with jojoba oil, evening primrose, blue camomile, Rosa Mosqueta® and Matcha green tea; first to develop a natural preservative with citrus extract and vitamins A, C and E; and the first cosmetic manufacturer to be certified as an organic processor (in 1994).
A dedicated animal rights activist, Aubrey was strongly committed to operating a cruelty-free company, a commitment that continues at our company to this day. In 1990 he was named "Activist of the Year" by the Culture and Animals Foundation for his work against animal testing.
He was the author of many best-selling health and beauty books, including Natural Organic Hair and Skin Care (now in its sixth printing), What's in Your Cosmetics, and The Take Charge Beauty Book (co-authored with his late wife, Susan Hussey). An award-winning playwright, he published two books of plays, GBS & Company and Wolf Trilogy, and was co-founder of the Gorilla Theatre, in Tampa, FL. He was founder and publisher of Organica, an arts and environmental publication with 70,000 readers nationwide.
Aubrey passed away on May 9, 2011, after a brief illness, but his essential work continues. At Aubrey Organics, Inc. we strive to carry on his important legacy with natural, environmentally sound products that reflect Aubrey Hampton's philosophy, personal values and commitment to the earth.
Curt Valva
Curt Valva began his career with Aubrey® in June 2000 after 17 years in the cosmetics industry. In his current position as General Manager, he is responsible for all corporate operations including sales, marketing, production, planning and development.
Looking to make a significant difference in the beauty industry, Mr. Valva joined Aubrey®, the leader in the all-natural products category. Mr. Valva felt he was in the right place to make an impact, describing Aubrey as "the most respectful brand in the natural personal care arena."
In his time with the company, Mr. Valva has helped establish a true brand identity across a wide spectrum of product categories, keeping it simple and effective for customers. His philosophy: "Know your customers and be true to them. It is important to understand their needs and expectations."
Mr. Valva graduated from Hofstra University in New York and holds a BBA in Marketing and an MBA in Finance from the Zarb School of Business. He has recently been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Natural Products Foundation, where he will be instrumental in the development of standards for natural cosmetics. He is also an active participant in the Personal Care Task Force of the Organic Trade Association and on the Organic Personal Care Committee of NSF International, both of which are chartered with developing national organic standards for personal care products. Mr. Valva is also involved with IFOAM and BDIH to advise on the possibility of global harmonization of organic standards for personal care products.
Susan Hussey
Susan Hussey first came to Aubrey® in 1983 as a temp, typing invoices. Aubrey management quickly realized they would have to find something else for her to do, as data entry was not her forte. A master's degree in English literature, coupled with a strong interest in natural cosmetics served her well. Soon after, she took an active role in the company as editor of Aubrey Hampton's first book, Natural Organic Hair and Skin Care, which went on to sell more than 100,000 copies, and is now in its sixth reprint. In 1990 she was promoted to Vice President of Marketing and Advertising, in charge of all company literaturefrom brochures, catalogs and other sales-related materials, to preparing Organica Press books for publication and editing Organica, Aubrey's magazine of arts and activism. In 2000, she co-authored The Take Charge Beauty Book: The Natural Guide to Beautiful Hair & Skin with Aubrey Hampton, available from Organica Press.
Susan was a member of the Organic Trade Association's Personal Care Task Force, a committee working to develop organic standards for personal care products in the industry. A poet and playwright, she was editor-in-chief of Organica magazine, and co-founder, with Aubrey Hampton, of Gorilla Theatre, Tampa's only equity theater. Her plays have been produced in Tampa and New York City. In 1999 she married Aubrey, and three years later, she gave birth to their son Trevor.
In 2002, Susan took a back seat in the company to raise Trevor. In 2004 she was diagnosed with cancer and fought the disease bravely for five years. She passed away on February 18, 2009. Shortly before her death, she completed The Cancer Journals: Prose & Poetry, a collection of writings detailing her extraordinary journey through the medical minefield of cancer treatment. The Cancer Journals is available from Organica Press.


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While petty crime has jumped in the 106th Precinct since the casino opened in South Ozone Park, legislators and civic leaders say they don't blame the gambling site but instead are pointing their fingers at a lack of police presence and are calling on NYPD brass to ship out more officers to the area.
"We've been asking and asking and asking for more police for a long time," said 106th Precinct Community Council President Frank Dardani. "We needed more police before the casino opened, and we definitely need more police now."
Because visitors have been flooding into the Resorts World Casino New York City — nine million people are expected to have passed through the precinct solely to go to the facility by the end of next year —legislators said police have been pulled to cover the area around the gambling facility, leaving other parts of the neighborhood vulnerable to crime.
"The spike in crime within the boundaries of the 106th is logical since the area around the casino may not have seen an increase, but the [police] detail is emphasizing the area around the casino and isn't in other areas that have seen an increase," state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said.
According to numbers published by the New York Post this week and confirmed by the NYPD, petit larcenies jumped just after the casino opened at the end of October, increasing from 60 in November 2010 to 92 in November 2011. The same report stated that there were 41 misdemeanor assaults in November 2011, which represented a 57.7 percent increase over the 26 in November 2010.
A police spokeswoman said there were 163 petit larcenies from the time the casino opened to the end of the year, seven of which were "casino related." During the same time period, there were 82 misdemeanor assaults, four of which were related to the gambling establishment, the spokeswoman said.
The spokeswoman also emphasized that while the 106th Precinct has not received any additional permanent officers, the NYPD does often deploy cops to the area.
Residents said they would be remiss to say that the casino directly caused the increase in crime.
"If there's any correlation, it's very minimal," Addabbo said of a relationship between any increase in crime and the casino's opening. "We've had waves of crime before the casino got there. We need more officers, and we'll continue to fight for them because we're far below the levels we should be at. Over the years, we've seen an elimination of our beat and community officers. My constituents want a police officer on every corner."
Stefan Friedman, a spokesman for Resorts World, said company heads have worked hard with the community to keep crime at a minimum.
"The safety of our patrons is priority number one, and our commitment to keeping criminal activity out of our project has resulted in extremely few incidents on and around the casino property since our opening," Friedman said.
Still, Councilman Eric Ulrich's (R-Ozone Park) chief of staff, Bart Haggerty, said the issue is not crime on the casino grounds but in the neighboring streets.
"The question is what's happening in the surrounding community," Haggerty said. "We needed more police anyway, and now we have a facility where thousands of people are coming every day."
Dardani said there are about 125 officers in the precinct, though he said that number isn't representative of the number of cops actually on the streets.
"You have officers that are actually retired but are still on the books, or officers on light duty," Dardani said. "All these people are counted on a daily basis, but they're not actually here."
While Dardani said he's not sure how many officers are hitting the pavement in the 106th, he did say that the community council had anticipated receiving about 50 additional officers from the NYPD's most recent graduating class. Instead, the 106th received none.
About 75 percent of the graduates went to "impact precincts," or areas where the city has said there's an especially high demand for a police presence, such as the 103rd Precinct that covers much of Jamaica and Hollis. The other 25 percent went to transit districts, Dardani said.
"We've always been told that we're not a destination, that Manhattan's a destination," Dardani said of the explanation city officials would give when the 106th did not receive additional cops in past years. "We're not a destination? With JFK and Aqueduct, we're not a destination? We're a destination now. People are coming for football on the big screen; they're coming to gamble. They're coming here."
Police and residents have noted that temporary additional officers from a detail of one lieutenant, two sergeants and 20 officers will help to patrol the precinct, though not all the time.
The jump in visitors, petty crime and traffic has taxed the community, including the police, leaders said.
Capt. Thomas Pascale, the commanding officer of the 106th Precinct, "has worked extremely hard with the community and casino and has done everything he can with what he has," Dardani said.
While residents aren't rushing to sell their homes, that has more to do with the sour economy than a desire to stay in the area, Dardani said.
"If sales were good, you'd probably see that," he said of residents scrambling to leave the area around the casino. "People don't go out at night, or they won't take a walk after work and get their exercise because they're fearful."


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TNT Pulls Plug on HawthoRNeby TV Fanatic Staff at Comments
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She's the compassionate and stubborn chief nurse at Richmond Trinity Hospital. As described on the network's official show site, Christina is the sort of nurse who "fights for her patients and doesn't let them slip through the cracks."
Sounds like someone we want on our side!
Hawthorne also isn't afraid to take on on doctors and administrators when situations call for it.


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After a bizarre week of delays and speculation, the Dodgers' deal sending outfielder Matt Kemp to San Diego will finally be made official Thursday night, according to multiple reports.
Kemp and catcher Tim Federowicz will become Padres, and $32 million of the Dodgers' money will go to San Diego to help pay for Kemp's $107 million deal.
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Holiday belongs in every home, everywhere, every day. Here's how Holiday looks in a kitchen in Venice Beach, California, comfortably tucked between the top of the cabinets and the ceiling, where it produces a beautiful and engaging blast of colour:
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One of the least-well-understood features of Holiday is its ability to hook into and listen to social media streams anywhere on the Internet. You can, for example, connect Holiday to Facebook, or Twitter, or Instagram, or Pintrest, or… well, you get the idea.
Why would you do that? Holiday provides an easy way to keep track of your social media mentions. Holiday can even be integrated with other social media management tools – such as Salesforce.com's Radiant6 product – to give you a real-time visualization of how your brand, company or celebrity is faring in the wilds of the Internet.
A visualization tool like this can help you become aware of incidents before they become issues, problems, or – god forbid – disasters.
In conjunction with the #CloudCrowd event in Sydney this evening, MooresCloud is happy to release Twintrest, a social media monitoring tool for Holiday. Twintrest ties into Twitter's main feed, searching it for hashtag matches. Every time there's a match, a white light chases its way up the string. At a glance you can know just how much of the oxygen of the Internet is being used up to talk about that hashtag.
Come see Twintrest in action this evening – 6pm at the Hotel CBD in Sydney – and grab the source code on our Github account.
Holiday video – see smart Christmas lights in action!
Introducing Holiday from MooresCloud on Vimeo.
Natural Tensions in a Technology Businesses
Quite a debate going on within MooresCloud at the moment. At this point we have two prototype Holidays, which was enough for CeBIT – we didn't have a lot of room, or a a whole lot of apps to show. Two Holidays was enough to show people what we'd done. But it's no longer enough.
We're getting a steady stream of invitations to show off Holiday at public events. Some of these are small affairs, so a few Holidays is sufficient. Others are events with hundreds of people; in order to make a real impression we're going to need more than these two units. With more Holidays we can festoon a ballroom, create some fun interactive games, cover a large Christmas tree, a wedding reception, etc. All of these are target markets for Holiday, and all of them require either a healthy dose of imagination (which can not be reliably depended upon in the buying public) or a lot more Holidays.
Our manufacturing process, spearheaded by Robert Tiller, is barreling along to ensure that we will have lots and lots of Holidays. But we are still very much in the middle of that process. There is no magic switch to be flipped to magic up some more Holidays, because MooresCloud is in the process of building that magic switch. More units means prototypes, like the two that already exist.
Prototypes are expensive. Each of our two prototypes cost nearly 100 times as much as it will cost to mass-produce a Holiday. And that won't really get much cheaper until we're in mass production. There is no mid-point of cheaper prototypes. (There will be pre-production prototypes, as we test our tooling and assembly processes, but by that point we might as well wait for production units.)
As a consequence, a debate is now raging about how much of our limited capital should be spent on more prototypes. Sales and Marketing favor of lots of prototypes, seeing them as our best sales tool. Manufacturing and Engineering see it as a waste of resources, and a distraction from the overall goal of shipping product on time and on budget – because they will be responsible for fashioning these prototypes.
Both points of view are entirely valid. We need to sell product, but we need to make sure we do nothing to interrupt the process which guarantees we will have product to sell.
The natural tensions that exist between 'sales & marketing' and 'engineering & manufacturing' in every technology company that I've worked within have suddenly emerged at MooresCloud. It's a sign of maturity, and, at its origins, indicative that these tensions exist because everyone's trying to do the right thing. For everyone.
(Fortunately, you folks can purchase Holiday by MooresCloud at it's special introductory price of $129 – a lot cheaper than a prototype.)
Road Trip – Touring smart Christmas lights around Australia
Starting Monday 3 June, I'll be two weeks on the road in most of Australia's capital cities (sorry Hobart & Adelaide), with a Holiday by MooresCloud that I'd be happy to demonstrate to anyone who like to have a play with our beautiful smart Christmas lights.
Here's where I'll be and my availability :
- Brisbane Monday 3 June 2013 (early evening)
- Melbourne Tuesday 4 June 2013 (from 9 pm)
- Perth Tuesday 11 June 2013 (early evening)
- Canberra Friday 14 June 2013 (late morning)
If any of you would like to see, touch and play with Holiday, please leave a comment on this post, or send a DM to my twitter account, @mpesce.
Looking forward to sharing an illuminating experience with you – and our special introductory price of $129 is a deal not to be missed!
The Hard Sell for the smartest Christmas lights
Most start out a bit sceptical. Christmas lights? Ridiculous. Frivolous. Cheerful, maybe, and cheap, but really just worthless junk churned out put up, taken down, and basically ignored.
We show them what Holiday can do. Any colour. Any pattern. Any animation – at 50hz!
Ok, they say, that's nice, and pretty, but where's the value?
That's when I take out the big guns. The first of these is a bit of information about the size of the global market in Christmas lights – something on the order of $10 billion annually. When I said that to Sky Business News reporter Nigel Freitas (pictured above) this morning, he said, "I'll be back. We'll do a live interview." People have no idea how big the market in Christmas lighting is. We didn't either, until we did a little research. But there's a lot of people with a lot of trees buying a lot of lights. And a lot of Christmas lights that don't end up on trees, but serve as accent lights inside and outside of the home.
So there's a market here, and it's substantial. That does the trick for the folks who want to talk business.
For the folks who want to talk technology, there's a final demo, which was actually written for the Light several months ago. It's Kate's favourite, and it used to be called 'Holiday'. All it does is make the Holiday by MooresCloud flash different random colours across all 50 globes. Nothing very exciting about that (which is perhaps why Kate likes it). The exciting part is how it's done.
The 'API Demo', as we've renamed it, uses HTML5 & Javascript to generate those random colours in the web app, then uses an AJAX request to send the list of 50 colour triplets – one per globe – to the Holiday, which then renders them to the globes.
This is when the penny drops. This is when the geeks understand that this data could be coming from anywhere, could mean anything. It could be a build light, the queue depth at a call centre, or – when we tie it into Google's NORAD Santa tracker – telling your kids that they have to go to bed because Santa is nearly here.
These are Christmas lights. But they aren't just Christmas lights. Holiday is an ambient interface to any arbitrary information source, Internet-connected, web-enabled, smart enough to ask for data on their own or simply wait for it to be supplied. This is the way all lighting – and all Christmas lights will work in just a few more years.
We just happen to have gotten there first.
You can order your Holiday now at the special introductory price of $129 at holiday.moorescloud.com.
We've had quite a bit of fun playing with Holiday. It can be draped around as a sort of psychedelic necklace (works quite well with the 'rainbow' animation), and Kean has already prototyped a battery pack (this is NOT another product announcement, just a hack) that allows us to use it for several hours without mains power.
I reckon this weekend I'll pop it on and walk around Sydney's VIVID festival. Nothing like being a walking, talking light sculpture.
Big Days
Twenty four hours and twenty minutes to go. But who's counting?
Today I'll head over to the Sydney Convention and Exposition Centre and set up our stand in the NSW Trade & Investment startups booth. It's a great honour (and a fair prize) to be selected to be among the companies within their booth – a booth that dominates the centre of Hall 3 – and we will do our very best to put on a good show. A Next show.
Yesterday, my dining room transformed into a bit of a preview area. With things set up much as they will be in our booth, various friends and supporters dropped by for the big reveal, and learned all about the Next. Even got to have a bit of a play with it. Reactions so far have been uniformly positive. Some giggle, some just smile and nod.
Sometime today I suspect the news about the Next will begin to leak. There are press releases going out – ones which we have no control over – and those will tell most of the tale. So while this bit of secrecy has been useful and even a bit fun (everyone enjoys some suspense) it's almost done.
If nothing else, it ends at 7 AM tomorrow morning. Twenty four hours and twenty minutes from now.
Two More Sleeps
Last night I packed a Next up and went over to a dinner party thrown by some of my closest friends in Australia, a couple who helped clear the path so that I could move to Sydney. After a lovely dinner, I snuck away with their 10 year-old son, who re-entered, a few minutes later, holding the Next.
It was a huge hit. One of the guests said, "You know what you've got here? It's a license to print money." Which is lovely to hear but you never know, when you're among friends, how much they're believing simply because they believe in you.
But that said, it's clear that the Next – which they all had a play with – delighted everyone. "It feels like a product," one said. "It feels done. It feels real."
The house has become a bit of a showroom, with the setup on my dining room table reflecting what we want our CeBIT booth to look like. Guests come over, have a play, render their opinions, and leave smiling. So far, the reaction has been very positive.
And now we're just two sleeps away from sharing Next with the rest of you.
First Impressions
Just about sunset I got the very first prototype Next home from Tiller Design. It took a bit of time – and a firmware update from Kean – to get it working as it should. And then, well…
I really couldn't believe it.
You go through a design process with certain expectations of how things are going to look and work, watching as a design evolves from a vague idea into a very precise – and now utterly concrete – implementation in the material world. It's a dream made flesh. Very often, those dreams don't survive the harsh light of day.
But here – and I'm now speaking purely for myself – the opposite has happened. What I see when I turn Next on, is something that so exceeded my own expectations, I can do little but grin like an idiot when using it.
It's always good to check yourself against others; two folks came by last night. One has been deeply involved in the design process, and when he arrived he said, "You think you know what it's going to look like, then it turns out to be a lot more beautiful!" The second person – a technology journalist who knew nothing about Next – came in, sat on the sofa, and beamed like a child for an hour.
So I don't think it's just me. Next feels special. It tickles something deep within. At least, it has for us. Just four more days until see how everyone else feels.


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Defense wins championships, and the NFL has not seen a defense like Seattle's in a long time.
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With Seattle having just a handful of players listed on the injury report and with Denver in the double digits, things are looking good for the 'Hawks.
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Tiger Woods and his girlfriend Lindsey Vonn, as well as other celebrities are pulling for the Broncos this Sunday. Also, Eric LeGrand gets a chance to experience the Super Bowl in person.
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How Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs Can Comply With the 2010 Census
How Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs Can Comply With the 2010 Census —— Click here to download this PDF
Many drug and alcohol residential programs and half-way houses have been asking how they can cooperate with census takers, as they make their rounds in 2010, without violating the federal confidentiality law and regulations. Programs are concerned about the two ways in which patient-identifying information could conceivably be disclosed: (1) a census enumerator allowed into a program to assist patients in filling out the census forms would learn the identities of patients; (2) the program itself, if it turned over census forms with its residents' names to the Census Bureau, would identify the patients as persons receiving substance abuse treatment.
The Legal Action Center called the Census Bureau to determine exactly what information census takers will be seeking and how they plan to approach residential treatment programs. We believe we have found a way for programs to cooperate fully with census takers without jeopardizing the confidentiality of their patients' identities. In sum, and discussed in more detail below, program staff may obtain training to self-enumerate, thereby avoiding the problem of a census representative interviewing patients directly. In addition, census forms do not require patient-identifying information.
Appointing a program enumerator
According to the Census Bureau program can avoid having a census enumerator visit its facilities if a program staff member volunteers to be trained as a census enumerator instead. That staff member can then conduct the census on the program's premises, distributing census forms to residents, collecting the completed forms (after residents seal them inside individual envelopes), answering any questions, and interviewing residents who cannot complete their forms on their own. This eliminates the first risk to patients' confidentiality -- that an enumerator would learn the identities of patients by visiting the program. We recommend that each program take advantage of the Bureau's offer and designate a member of its staff to serve as a special census enumerator. The Census Bureau provides free training for enumerators through its local district offices. The entire process of being trained and sworn in to conduct the census should take no more than four hours. (You can locate the nearest local district office by calling directory assistance or contacting one of the Bureau's Regional Centers, located across the country.)
Even if a program chooses to conduct what the Bureau calls "self-enumeration," however, the second risk to patients' confidentiality still remains: isn't the program violating the federal regulations if patients' identities are revealed on the census forms?
Fortunately, the census forms do not require any patient-identifying information. According to the Census Bureau, the forms can be filled out using room numbers, patient numbers, or random numbers from one to whatever, if patients do not want to list their names. The Bureau only asks that the program account for each resident somehow. The staff member who is trained as an enumerator should advise patients that revealing their names is optional.
The census forms do ask that people who think they may be counted somewhere else (e.g., as family members or roommates at their permanent home addresses) supply their names and permanent addresses, so that the Bureau can avoid counting people twice. If patients would like to furnish this information voluntarily, they may. (They should know that census data is available only in the form of tabulated statistics, rather than information about individuals, and that the Census Bureau is required to keep all identifying information confidential.) But they are not required to provide their names.
If patients have not given their names, the pro¬gram's enumerator can turn the forms over to the Census Bureau without compromising any patient's confidentiality: the program is not making any disclosure under the federal regulations because there is nothing in the forms to identify any patients. If a patient does write his or her name or home address on the census form, the program should get the patient to sign a consent form permitting it to turn the census form over to the Census Bureau. This is because, although the patient himself is voluntarily disclosing his identity, theoretically the program is making a patient-identifying disclosure when it turns the census form over to the Bureau.
Relying on the Census Bureau enumerator
If a program cannot get a staff member trained and sworn in as an enumerator, one of the enumerators will have to visit the program. Because these enumerators will be visiting a variety of types of facilities, they may not be familiar with the special restrictions on disclosing patient identities that drug and alcohol facilities face. For this reason, we recommend that the program director contact the local district office as soon as possible to discuss the best way for the program to help in the census effort.
Unfortunately, the Census Bureau cannot permit enumerators to leave census forms with program staff who have not been trained and sworn in as enumerators. This means an enumerator has to deliver the census forms by hand to each patient or, if any patients cannot complete the forms on their own, interview those patients in person. Obviously, the program cannot permit this without getting the written consent of every patient in advance or designating a room where the patient can voluntarily go to see the enumerator.
Programs should warn their enumerators that gathering consent forms will take time and should tell patients that they do not need to disclose their names or any other information which might disclose their identity to the enumerator. Programs should also warn the enumerators that, because of the federal confidentiality regulations' restrictions on redisclosure, they may not disclose to anyone else, directly or indirectly, that a person they have seen in the program is a drug or alcohol patient. (Of course, any information the patient provides on the census form itself would qualify as a self-disclosure to the Bureau of the Census and may be redisclosed within the Bureau as that agency's regulations provide.) The enumerators will already be very sensitive to the need for confidentiality, because federal law prohibits enumerators from disclosing any information they receive while performing their duties; confidentiality is one of the focal points of their training and the major subject of their sworn oath.
If some patients do not want to meet with the census enumerator, the program must honor their wishes and shelter them from the census enumerator. The enu¬merator will ask the program or facility director to supply the basic information needed to complete the census forms for such patients. The program should feel free to provide as much information as can be disclosed without identi¬fy¬ing the patients involved. (In fact, Bureau as fully as they can.)
We hope that every program will be able to have an enumerator trained from its own staff. That would be the best way to ensure that everyone is counted in the 2010 census and that the confidentiality of patients' identities remains secure. However, any program that cannot manage to "self-enumerate" should know that it should be able to work out a suitable alternative with the Bureau's enumerators.


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What Did You Learn This Year?
Mar 4, 2014
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Sometimes I think the only dimension of performance that a manager should measure is how much each employee is learning. Most people are intrinsically motivated to do good work. The trick is in knowing how. So the more you know, the more likely you'll perform well. And people who are proactive learners probably have the most potential even if they aren't yet superstars.
How relevant to the job does the learning need to be? I would be generous about that. The nature of knowledge is that everything you learn stimulates and strengthens your mind. And what we experience as creativity is often little more than our brain's natural impulse to combine and compare knowledge from diverse fields. So the more you know, the more powerful your creative potential.
But beyond all of those benefits is my observation that employees who are still learning are almost always happier on the job. I haven't seen any studies on this point, but I'll bet you'd see low turnover among people who feel they are learning. Learning makes people feel connected and engaged. It feels like improvement and growth, and it's good for the ego.
As a manager, you'd still need to fire the total screw-ups and toxic employees. But among the good-enough performers, an appetite for learning probably separates the best from the average.
I've blogged before that I pick projects based on what I will learn. This year was especially educational for me. A few examples...
- I wrote and acted in a
promotional video
for my book. I learned what works on camera and what doesn't. I learned how the audience reacts to different approaches. And I learned a lot about the actual technique of short video production. If you asked me to make another promotional video tomorrow, I'd be far better equipped.
- I created a
Slideshare presentation
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and learned a great deal about the science of making things memorable and interesting. Every bit of that has crossover usefulness.
- I went back on the speaking circuit, but this time with a useful message (success) as opposed to my old just-for-laughs speech. Delivering a motivational message is an entirely different skill. (
See a video of it here
.) My old speech was essentially stand-up comedy with comics.
- I went on a book publicity tour and learned what types of publicity work best in 2014. For example, these days a book signing has little impact on book sales whereas doing a Reddit AMA is a big deal.
- I'm starting a Dilbert.com redesign project and learning about the best ideas in website design for 2014.
- My partners and I launched
this year. I was hands-on for every phase, including concept, design, user interface, testing, redesign, setting up the corporation, funding, online marketing, A-B testing, and tons more. And I picked up a lot of technology knowledge by osmosis. (And because I know you are wondering, yes, the experience is a source of Dilbert fodder.)
- I finished writing my latest book (
How to Fail...
). The "success" genre was new to me as a writer. And I had to learn a lot to tie it all together with research and references. I worked with a medical doctor who specializes in science research to get the science parts right.
- I tried out a new comic strip on this blog (Robots Read News) and learned a lot by experiment. For example, I learned that readers didn't care that the art in each panel was identical.
- I'm teaching myself to play drums. (Technically, a stranger on Youtube is teaching me). I have no end goal. I just enjoy hitting things with sticks, and I have discovered that it lights up a part of my brain that I don't normally stimulate. Five minutes of drumming feels like two cups of coffee.
- I experimented with becoming a well-dressed person, just to see what that was all about. Historically, my normal look would have been described as sort of an athlete-turned-homeless vibe. But thanks to a clever Macy's salesperson I upped my game. Result: Yes, people treat me differently (and better) when I'm stylishly dressed.
- This week I've been researching hardware to split a component video signal and convert one output into a wireless HDMI extender to another room. It doesn't matter why. All that matters is that I learned a lot in the process.
- Blogging is an ongoing learning process. I learn (usually the hard way) which writing approaches work and which ones get me in trouble. And after almost every blog post readers send me links to related and fascinating topics. The entire process is hugely educational.
The list goes on, but you get the idea. For me, learning is living. It's how I feel connected to the world, and I think it's my best strategy for being a productive citizen. Best of all, as a cartoonist, each of these experiences fuels the creative fires.
I'm curious to see what you learned this year. Please list a few things if you have a minute.
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Apr 14, 2014
Please blog about what I should buy from Macy's to look nice.
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Mar 18, 2014
I learned that I can enjoy job hunting and job rejection (well, not the actual rejection moment) and that it is a hugely instructive exercise. I still have my same ill-fitted job, but I feel better about it having put the energy into changing it. The effort continues.
I learned how to keep rats away from my bird feeders.
I learned that I can profoundly change my serum triglycerides with intense aerobic gym-cycle exercise that, coincidentally, has made me an awesome hill climber on my bike.
I learned to eat shrimp with their shells still on. Crunchy!
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Mar 18, 2014
I read and buy A LOT of books every year. I like most of what you do. I think the reason the book is not selling is the cover. When I read it on my ipad you can't read the title, not that I haven't come to put you together with a big foot, and I just think the layout sucks. Content good.
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Mar 12, 2014
I've learned to ask a simple question...
Who planted this story? And what have they got to gain from my believing it?
We live in a world of lies, spin and misunderstandings. Our whole worldview is based on stories which weren't true originally and have been embellished with time.
We also live in a transition.
Our print media is dying. People don't buy newspapers any more. Only 3 newspapers in the US have circulations of over 1 million - together those 3 reach 0.02% of the population. The rest are down below 1/2 million each - the top 100 adds up to under 0.05%, even if there is no overlap.
With plummeting revenues, media companies cannot afford powerful columnists, true investigative journalism and in-depth research. They have replaced it with celebrity columnists, minimum wage reporters and what I call "Twitter scrapers" - people paid to find news on Twitter and write it up as a story. They also copy other newspapers and this becomes a spiral of "I copy you and you copied them and they copied me".
Meanwhile the TV media never tried to be good journalists - they take their lead from the print media and simply read it out on air. On their own they simply have the grisly picture and a few sentence description - nothing in-depth.
Our government, corporate and not for profit systems, however, still work on releasing stories to the press to influence the public.
Fed into this void of journalism, many of these stories take on life way beyond their merit.
We have three days coverage of one missing plane.
A week on one shooting in South Africa, where hundreds happen every day.
And we have planted stories.
The health person who suddenly discovers that sugar is addictive (Duh) and decides this means that the government must tell all soft drink manufacturers to reformulate their product.
The GM crop producer who shows how population growth means a food crisis.
The central bank which plants a story about stolen Bitcoins.
Now health Tsars want to influence government policy and get budgets for their programmes.
GM crops want to create a crisis for which they are the answer.
Banks want to protect their monopoly over the world's money (and power, and prestige etc.)
But they are being a mandate by a pliant, unquestioning media. A media trained, of course, to present everything as a crisis and newsworthy. And it becomes a merry-go-round on planted non-news with everyone copying everyone else in a feeding frenzy.
Where it gets nasty is that these minor non-stories played into a vacuum become mainstream. And they do influence opinions. Most people believe them unquestioningly.
I set up Challenging Concepts. Simple premise - "to challenge the ideas holding your business back". To take on the pre-computer ways of working and thinking about companies and move thinking on so we can leap forward.
I scratched a pimple and found a cancer.
We are being manipulated by a few powerful people taking advantage of a media vacuum.
So, everyone, make one change to your behaviour.
Every time you read a story ask -
"Who planted this and what have they got to gain from my believing it".
You'll be surprised how often news is subverted.
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Mar 8, 2014
Started gardening this year. I began the process with the idea that it would be easy, and that seeds plus water would equal product. Although technically that's still true, I didn't anticipate all that I would learn in the process of planting a garden.
Just learning and watching my vegetable garden grow has been really rewarding. I still have yet to have a big harvest yet, as things are still growing, but it's rewarding in a different way.
I like your 'learning view' on life. Learning might be the most rewarding thing we can receive out of experiences, which is a nice way to look at life.
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Mar 7, 2014
I learned the the U.S. values education a lot more than the U.K. does. I learned that corruption in local government is rife here (I only found out that one yesterday). I learned that incompetent management will always overcome a competent workforce and the workforce suffer (apart from toxic employees who thrive). I learned I should take up drumming.
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Mar 6, 2014
I learned that toilet flushes can throw fecal matter 6 feet or more. So now I always close the lid when I flush at home. Gotta keep that bathroom fresh!
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Mar 6, 2014
In my experience, I feel exhilarated whenever I learn something that fundamentally changes my perspective or model of the world for the better.
I usually know when I've struck gold, because the item of learning instantly clicks with me, seems to be painfully obvious, but is among the last things to try because well...I feel like I've tried everything else which hasn't worked. And still from the outside it looks totally counter intuitive.
But just like Scott, learning non-fundamental skills and engaging in activities I don't normally partake in is still essential though, because its a 'system' of improving my chances of stumbling across such findings.
I often find myself drawing connections between activities that really don't seem to have anything to do with each other. I reason this is because nature employs fractal patterns wherever it can. When you discover a pattern one place, you should be able to apply that same pattern a million other places. The simpler the pattern, the more prevalent it will be.
This also means, that when I learn something one place, I'm learning 10 other places as well.
So for instance, when I watch some dogs sniffing each others butts, I learn how to do conflict management at work.
I usually keep that sort of stuff to myself.
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Mar 6, 2014
This year I've been learning how to manage hardware projects ( normally i just do software). I don't have a clue about hardware but I'm learning ways to get around that lack of knowledge and ensure the project gets managed.
After reading Scott's book i've been making an active attempt to learn more about psychology, specifically the stuff that applies to negotiating as I'm trying to improve my skills there via books and practice at work.
I'm learning new technology as a website I'm a forum admin in needs to change it's backend from one system to another.
I'm expanding my skills by interviewing a broad range of people for a podcast I'm on, including several actors and writers. This also helps my confidence as it was initially a daunting task.
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Mar 5, 2014
I learned years ago that work performance has a lot to do with access to information. Brilliant contributors often just have more data to work with. I've been working as a contract writer for the last couple of years. I spotted an opportunity to work with a good company - in a position that involved interviewing leaders in just about every business division and then doing stuff with that information. I was willing to drop $10/hour off my usual rate because I saw the potential. Fast forward five months and I'm in a great place. Folks look to me for insight and value my contribution. People talk about how darn smart I am. I'm no more or less smart than I have been in any other position. This time around I just happen know more stuff...and I'm good at making connections. And yes, I'm finding ways to leverage that.
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Mar 5, 2014
If you like playing drums to hit things as opposed to creating music or playing in a band, buy Rockband 3 for Xbox 360 TODAY, an electronic drum set, and the MadCatz Midi pro adapter. I like Roland and have a TD-9. You have more money, so go all out and get a td-30. Keep taking your lessons, but man this "game" is a blast.
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Mar 5, 2014
I would love to say I learnt how to connect to my emotions, speak sanskrit and divide by 0 (ala Alice).
Instead, I've learnt micro and macro economics and econometrics, that economists struggle with much more than a straight line mathematically and that the real world is often wrong and is not truly reflective of most economic theories
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Mar 5, 2014
Also learned last year ...
that there likely is a long term clandestine anti-humanity movement afoot, for at least the last 50 years. Yeah, yeah. Sounds crazy to me, too. There seem to be "useful idiots" legislating for this in most, if not all, government bureaucracies, even though nobody seems to be publicly behind the end goal. Not a left versus right thing. The long-term strategy seems to be to legally get us off the open land and into very high density unsustainable communities, like a round-up, where the equivalent of attrition warfare will eventually finish us off. Good grief. Is it followers of Malthus "making it happen"? Perhaps the Daleks (Dr. Who reference) do affirmations, too?
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Mar 5, 2014
PS...what's up with all the people in the responses contemplating suicide...ina and MTBob?
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Mar 5, 2014
I've enjoyed doing carpentry projects for many decades now but have never worked with metal. Thanks to Youtube, I know how to work with metal and build guns in my garage...especially the types they are trying to ban.
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Mar 5, 2014
Slow year Scott?
I turned 50.
Learned that turning 50 is a little like going through puberty again.
Things are leaking and I don't have control over them.
It feels like someone else's body and mind, losing control of coordination, and memory. I don't quite fit in my skin anymore.
I asked my wife to go to couples therapy, to start getting some of the things I want out of life.
I learned I was the one who is wrong and I need to put aside what I want.
"Most people are intrinsically motivated to do good work."
I've been working with some high school students this year. Some are unmotivated and looking to just get out of working at all, some are driven and interested, most are just floating in the middle somewhere. Students and teachers alike.
Many need attention they are not getting.
How their home life, and the examples set for them at home, are very important.
Our educational system is broken and focused on the wrong things.
>>I am seriously contemplating suicide,
Are you just seeing if anyone reads these or are you seriously serious?
Need help? In the U.S., call 1-800-273-8255
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (Just in case)
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Mar 5, 2014
Took a degree in physics and pure math over last few years - part time for my own interest only. It is tough but interesting. It causes looks of astounishment in work when I am able to contribute to administrative and legal problem solving using those techniques, most of them rudimentary. - Worth it just for the looks on people's faces sometimes.
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Mar 5, 2014
A little over a year ago I learned I did not like my job. I quit.
In the past year I went into business for myself. I have been learning a lot. There is no end to the learning and I'm having a blast.
The extrinsic paycheck (money) took a hit.
The intrinsic paycheck (feelings) got a raise.
Learning new things is what is so rewarding. I've learned that I like to learn.
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Mar 5, 2014
This week I learned a lot about Arthur Dove, and American modern painting in general by helpng my son with his thesis. Since January my wife and I have been taking dancing lessons so I learned to Salsa, Bachata, Merengue and Hustle. I've been learning to read and write Japanese. I wrote my first Novel and learned to pitch agents and publishers. I finished my 5th CD as a songwriter and musician and I learned (again) how hard it is to get things right, nevermind perfect. I also learned when travelling around the world it's a lot cheaper to book flights a la carte than to buy a single "round the world" ticket. Etc, etc, etc...
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Mar 5, 2014
Well, I've just learned Phantom II can write an interesting and amusing comment on this blog, if he tries ;-)
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Inside the Veterans Memorial Theatre, one of part of the VMC complex.
|203 E. 14th St. (between Davis Senior High School and the Davis Branch Library)
|For reservations call: (530)757-5626
|February 24th, 1974
The Veterans Memorial Theatre is a 325 seat house and is perfect for meetings, conferences, dance recitals, live theatre and music. The theatre has a box office, concessions area, green room and the trained staff to ensure you will have a successful event. For more information on equipment or theatre specifications go to http://cityofdavis.org/cs/facility/details.cfm?id=D1C19180-BEB0-4FF9-A8DF1CB828A6343F&type=Theatre
For information on upcoming shows go to http://cityofdavis.org/cs/shows/
Adjacent to the theatre, the Veterans Memorial Center contains a 60 foot x 80 foot multi-purpose room which seats 425, a 40 foot x 40 foot club room (seating 120), a large kitchen with commercial food preparation facilities, and a 28 foot x 32 foot game room (seating 75). It is used for the annual Holiday Meal and recently for Davis is Burning. For more information go to http://cityofdavis.org/cs/facility/pdfs/brochure-vmc-2010.pdf
The Veterans Memorial Center is internationally renowned for its Yoga and Pilates classes as well as church services, community meetings, and various multi-cultural weddings. There is a marker stone out front.
For reservations, contact the Community Services Department.
The recently completed addition to the theatre
The dedication plaque in the courtyard listing some of those involved in establishment
The previous sign for the theater, year of replacement unknown
Out front there is the Aileen Johnson Bench and the Chiles Memorial Rose Garden.
Also check out the Davis Veterans of Foreign Wars website: https://sites.google.com/site/vfwpost6949/
Events Hosted
Cardozorama - the annual law school talent show, usually in mid-April.
Davis Double Century - start and end point of the ride, the third Saturday in May.
Acme Theatre Co.'s numerous productions.
Davis Children's Nutcracker - Annual production, 3rd week of December


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According to the latest survey results, business activity in Maryland edged lower for a second consecutive month in November. The general business activity index registered −3, up slightly from October but still remaining in negative territory. Survey respondents reported that sales edged lower and that labor market conditions remained soft. However, business spending rebounded from recent declines and business investment firmed. Profit margins continued to come under pressure with input costs rising faster than output prices. Respondents reported that both input and output prices increased at a faster rate than last month. Despite weaker current conditions, expectations for activity in the near future improved for a second consecutive month. Close to 40 percent of respondents anticipate greater business activity six months from now — up from 30 percent last month.
Business activity declined slightly in November as the general business activity index remained in negative territory in November. The index edged higher by two points to −3 from −5 in October. Over the past six months the business activity index has averaged 0 and has been in negative territory in three out of the last four months, highlighting the weakness in the state economy. The sales revenue edged lower to a reading of −2 indicating that sales and shipments declined slightly in November — for just the second time in 2011.
The outlook for business spending and investment improved after weaker readings in recent months. Spending on business services rebounded to 7 from −9 last month while business spending on plant and equipment rose moderately. The total capital expenditures index rose to 11 from a flat reading last month while the index for business investment on equipment and software increased to 11 from 4.
Labor market conditions remained soft in November. According to survey participants, employment was unchanged with the employees index declining eight points to 0. The average workweek rose notably with the index increasing from −2 last month to 10. Despite weak labor market conditions, respondents noted difficulty finding workers with needed skills as well as a notable increase in wages. The wage index jumped to 25 from 14 last month — its highest reading since prior to the recession.
Expectations for future labor conditions remained soft in November. The employment expectations index increased to 8 from its October and September readings of 0 but remained considerably lower than its average of 22 for the first six months of 2011. At a reading of 5, the average workweek index also remained well below its average of 14 for the first half of the year. In addition, respondents indicated that they anticipate having some difficulty finding workers with appropriate skills in the future and anticipate wage increases over the next six months.
Businesses reported that margins remained under pressure in November with input prices rising faster than output prices. Respondents reported that input prices increased 1.9 percent in November, up from 1.3 percent in October but still below the average of 2.6 percent for the first nine months of the year. Output prices rose by half a percent on an annualized basis in November after a small increase of 0.3 percent in October. Businesses expect profit margins to remain under pressure over the next six months with input price growth to continue to outpace increases in output prices.
Expectations of economic activity six months from now improved in November for a second consecutive month. The expectations index for general business conditions increased eleven points to 31 while the expected sales index rose by thirteen points to 25. Roughly 40 percent of respondents in the November survey expect business conditions and sales revenue to improve over the next six months — up from 30 percent in October but still below expectations in the first half of the year where over 50 percent of respondents anticipated higher activity and sales. Overall, the less sanguine expectations in recent months suggest that respondents anticipate weaker economic activity to persist through the end of 2011 and into 2012.
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Since you may be feeling deprived of my Friday Lingerie features Blog Reader (this will resume this week!) I wanted to share some images from a recent shoot with all my favourites from Lasvicious Lingerie and Tamzin Lillywhite.
You can read more about the new spring summer collection from Lascivious here on StyleOnTheCouch, but in this photo set I love how the hot coral Helena collection in particular comes to life – a gorgeous gift to self or other for sure. A stand-out piece here is the Tyra cropped tee with harness detailing, worn in the third image with Tamzin Lillywhite's fabulous pony ear bridle.
More fabulous lingerie collections to come, Blog Reader! Hope you had a lovely weekend..
Lingerie from: Faire Frou Frou boutique, LA.
Model: Holly Parker.
Photographer: William Williams.
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ireallylovemusic interview (UK)
- Thursday 8th March 2007
Mark e from ireallylovemusic sent me a list of questions. I responded.Click here to view …
Phone interview at Turntable Treats
- Wednesday 7th March 2007
Shawn at www.turntabletreats.com has a 3-part phone interview with me. I sound a bit far away (like always), but I'm right there on the same page with Jimmy Castor, Dennis Coffey, and Man Parrish. I'm not worthy, but thanks, Shawn.Click here to view …
Live in Belfast
- Friday 9th February 2007
Clip of me playing in Belfast last year, with a highly distorted soundtrack. Portrait of the artist as a dynamic stage presence.Click here to view Youtube…
Friendsofsound video interview
- Thursday 8th February 2007
Chad and Dave of Friendsofsound came to my studio and interviewed me a while ago. The video is quite good, giving an accurate feel of my claustrophobic basement working environment. I show off some bootlegs and rarities during the interview.
There's a transcription of the full interview here. You have to scroll down a bit, I'm right under Tony Conrad.
Chad and Dave are both heavy-duty…
Grahame Bent reviews The Sugarhill Mix
- Thursday 8th February 2007
Pleasant words about Burning Out Of Control, the mix CD I did using the Sugarhill Records catalogue (legally).Click here to view PlayLouder…
Red Bull Music Academy interview
- Thursday 8th February 2007
Transcription of me getting long-winded with Jeff Mao at the Red Bull Music Academy in Capetown, South Africa. The video archive is available at the top of that page, if you get tired of reading.
Click here to view RBMA…
Patrick Sisson article
- Thursday 8th February 2007
Interview with The Chicago Tribune's Patrick Sisson before my last Chicago gig at Sangagedon, in the Smart Bar with Afrika Bambaataa. Turned out to be a rockin's show, too.Click here to view Chicago Tribune…
Dave Marsh on Nothing To Fear
- Thursday 8th February 2007
Springsteen biographer and music journalist Dave Marsh was generous in his appraisal of Nothing To Fear.Click here to view CounterPunch.org…
No Rights Given Or Implied
- Thursday 8th February 2007
MP3′s of a bootleg comp from way back. I don't have a copy of this myself.Click here to view Back In The Day…
A love song to bastard pop
- Thursday 8th February 2007
Charles Taylor's incredible article/analysis on mashups, with a huge dollop of love for Nothing To Fear.
I still owe this man a drink. Charles, if you're out there, holla.Click here to view Salon.com…


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Last tour of summer
Although summer is not yet officially pronounced dead, this day looked like the last real warm day for the year, with 28° C. So I packed my inflatable canoe, took a train ride of 45minutes and then paddled my way down the Ruhr. It was a lovely trip of 15km, and the Ruhr was quite empty while the shore was crowded all the time... :-)This photo was shot on film. Taken by marcel2cv with a Lomography La Sardina loaded with DM Paradies 200 film in Essen, Germany. These tags describe this photo: la_sardina, ruhr, fluß, river, boat, canoe, kanu, kajak, and sommer. This photo can also be found in the album Last tour of this summer with my canoe and La Sardina.
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Baranek: Coaching moms juggle joy with judgment
By Tony Baranek firstname.lastname@example.com September 20, 2012 8:56PM
Ryann DeJarld, of McAuley, listens to her mother Jennifer DeJarld who is the head coach for the Mighty Macs at Mother McAuley, Wednesday, September 19th, 2012 in Chicago, IL. | Gary Middendorf~For Sun-Times Media
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Updated: October 22, 2012 6:19AM
If the phrase "The best of times and the worst of times" is the perfect definition for a human condition, it's coaching your own children.
The best of it is that you not only get to see your child grow as an athlete from the best seat in the house free of charge, you get to make all the calls and get paid for it.
The worst of it is that you face the daily challenge of switching back and forth between being mom or dad and being the coach. You have to watch what you say around the house in regard to the team and its players. And, worst of all, you have to deal with the haters.
It's a kaleidoscope of demands and emotions that are magnified to the highest degree on two of the biggest volleyball stages in the state, Marist and Mother McAuley.
At Marist, Natalie Holder coached her oldest daughter, Ashley, on the varsity level for three seasons. Her youngest daughter, Taylor, a senior, is in her third season on the varsity.
At Mother McAuley, Jen DeJarld's oldest daughter, Ryann, is a sophomore playing on the varsity. Her youngest daughter, Jane, is a freshman playing on the JV.
From 2005 to '11, going back to DeJarld's first season as head coach, she and Holder combined to win 445 matches and take four teams to state. There's not much to hate there. But people manage.
Holder has been dealing with the "She's favoring her daughter" crowd since Ashley became a starter as a sophomore. The whispers went viral at the end of her junior season, when we chose Natalie Holder as our coach of the year. The comments section online at the bottom of the story were about as hateful as one could find.
Most, if not all, of the haters used pseudonyms. Presumably, they were disgruntled parents and relatives of kids who either were cut or not playing regularly. But who knows when people go the cowardly route and don't put a name behind their opinion?
At any rate, Ashley Holder went on to have a stellar career at Marist, earning Player of the Year Honors in 2011. She's happy, healthy, and playing and studying at the University of Akron.
Natalie Holder, I have to say, was remarkably strong during the worst of it. She stayed classy, never lashed back, and even when I asked her specifically about it Wednesday wanted to let it rest in peace and said nothing bad about her detractors.
She did, though, express how grateful she was that most of the criticism was aimed at her, not her daughter. It helped in the mom-daughter talks.
"I just kept trying to remind her that it was never about her," Holder said. "The anger was about me and the staff and the decisions that we made. Still, for my daughters to hear things and see things (like that), to them, I'm their mom. My girls have had to toughen up as far as trying to keep all of that separate.
"The sad part is that they learned very quickly that when people are angry they do things that can be very, very hurtful. They learn it more quickly than most people who don't until they're adults in the working world. It was very hard as a mom to watch them struggle with the hurt part of it."
For DeJarld, who is the godmother to Holder's son, Brent, a freshman at Marist, it was a preview of what she could be facing over the next few years. In fact, she expects it.
"I just feel like there is always going to be criticism," she said. "Whether or not they deserve to be on the court, people are going to say, 'Oh, it's politics.' But you know what? I've cut my baby sitters before, friends' kids. No coach in their right mind is going to play a kid with lesser talent than a kid with more talent. No coach does that. Claiming politics is such a copout. But people are going to say what they're going to say.
"The hardest part for Ryann is feeling, 'Well, if I play badly, if I have an off day, people are going to come down even more.' But you can't worry about that. You just have to move on and move forward. She's really done a good job of handling the pressure, and she's surrounded by really great teammates and friends, and that's a good thing."
So, said Natalie Holder, was Ashley. And so is Taylor, who is sharing the setting duties with Ryann O'Mara. When Marist's season ends in November, it will be the end of a long, sometimes magnificent, sometimes arduous journey for two sisters and their mom.
Holder said there are no regrets.
"I wouldn't have traded it for anything," she said. "All of the frustration, the heartache, was worth it because of the joy that came out of being able to see my daughters hug each other on the court at state with all of their other volleyball sisters, and to be up front and be a part of that is irreplaceable.
"For me, to see their joys and to watch them struggle in a gym and then be successful, those memories that are so positive far outweigh anything we had to go through."


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This article on the Decatur Book Festival (Sept 4-6) includes some great comments from poet Thomas Lux - worth reading the whole piece - but here's a couple clips:
Lux thoroughly appreciates poems with humor. "Why shouldn't poetry be funny? Life is funny. I don't like the kind of turd-in-a-punchbowl professor who says 'Poetry can never be funny! It has to be serious!'"
...Lux's classrooms take an approach that offers an easier gateway for students and adult readers alike. "I've always done something Billy Collins described as 'teaching backwards.' You start by having [the students] read the very contemporary poems, the stuff in the language of today, even hip-hop lyrics, then go backward to the classics. For several generations, our students' introduction to poetry was through great poets, essential poets, who nevertheless didn't speak in the language that we speak today."
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Thomas Lux and the Decatur Book Festival
Labels: book festival, poetry
2 comments:
- Suzanah said...
Taken out of context, it appears Lux is saying that Billy Collins doesn't like the way Lux teaches. Quite the contrary. BC and Lux both think that starting with the contemporary stuff is the RIGHT way to teach poetry. BC says that teachers who start with poetry that today's students can't understand or connect with ruins the students' attitudes toward poetry.
Btw, BC and Lux are not just excellent teachers-- they're both amazing poets.
- August 30, 2009 1:51 PM
- Denise said...
Oh, no, I didn't read it that way at all - so I hope no one else takes it "out of context" like that. It seems more a mutual admiration for their teaching, and what sounds like a solid pedagogy.
- September 01, 2009 7:52 PM


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A Change for the Better
posted January 23, 2013 9:12 AM by Julie Steenson
One year ago, I started the GSLIS program worrying about catching up on technology and the laundry, and filled with both anticipation and anxiety about going back to school. It seems like a long time ago.
I am not the same person I was last January. Where there was fear, there is now confidence.
As a future student considering our program, the question you need to ask is, "What happened?" What transformed me from a forty-something who was afraid to get into the car on that very first day of grad school into a confident and comfortable graduate student who embraces challenges and seeks out new professional experiences?
The Faculty
I have been fortunate to have great faculty who have treated me as a fellow librarian regardless of how many credits or how much experience I had. Rather than being intimidating authority figures or haughty experts, they are respectful colleagues. They have helped me to grow, acknowledging that we all come to librarianship from different places. They have encouraged me to step far outside my comfort zone, and that gentle nudge, and the success that followed, has changed me. Students have the opportunity to interact with faculty and other professionals inside and outside the classroom.
The Students
In my classes, I am often surrounded by a group of cheerleaders, my peers. We celebrate each other's successes, share in each other's struggles, and learn from each other every day. We bring a diversity of experiences to the program. In my most recent face-to-face class, introductions revealed one brand new GSLIS student, two "last class" students, and the majority of us who were "about halfway." We also had two public librarians, one medical librarian, one school librarian, and quite a few "haven't worked in a library yet" students. We were male and female, black and white, in our 20s, 30s, and 40s, and commuted anywhere from 10 minutes to 2 ½ hours to be there. One very nice student brought cookies for the class. Go team!
The Resources
I can't say enough good things about Beatley library, whether you visit it regularly as a Boston student, or use it remotely as a GSLIS West student. I loved being there when I took a Boston class, but FedEx to my door when I am not in Boston is a pretty sweet deal, and the online resources are reliable and impressive. Beatley librarians are readily available in person or via chat and email, and they seem genuinely excited to help future librarians grow and learn.
Simmons GSLIS professional reimbursement also pays for my professional memberships and events, conferences and webinars…many of which would be unaffordable to most students. There are also great discounts through Simmons for computers, software, etc., and the GSLIS tech Lab, Beatley, the GSLIS West Office, and our host library at Mount Holyoke College offer a wide range of computer services, classes, and access to software tools.
So what changed me?
Yes, I got braver, but I had help from GSLIS. I had considered other LIS programs, but one year later, I am very happy with my choice, and the change in myself, for the better.


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US military Black Hawk crashes near N. Korea border
Published on Apr 16, 2013 1:08 PM
SEOUL (AFP) - A US military helicopter taking part in a joint South Korea-US drill crashed on Tuesday near the North Korean border with 21 personnel on board. There were no fatalities.
A statement put out by the US Forces in Korea said the CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter had "executed a hard landing" while on a routine flight operation in Cheolwon county, which touches on the border with North Korea.
The precise cause of the accident was not immediately known, the statement said, adding that a "comprehensive investigation" had been ordered.
All five crew members and 16 other service personnel were taken to a US military hospital in Seoul. Fifteen were subsequently released while six remained hospitalised "in stable condition", the statement said.
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