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One of the
traps into which so many who seek to point out societal problems
often fall is relatively common, or so I am told, in the black community.
That trap is blaming others for our plight. Certainly, I do not
want to fall prey to that error.
However, I
find it ironic that people on opposite sides of a debate
such as this one often seem to take actions that lead to the same
result. For example, the statists would accept that the lion's share
of blame belongs to the state. After doing so they would likely
make the mistake of asking for more help from that very organization.
those erstwhile black libertarians who ascribe to a minarchist point
of view — that there exists a just right amount of government
— would caution us to the distinct likelihood that the problems
supposedly so trenchant in the black community have a nexus in the
very culture of that community. So while they would not ask for
help, they would also suggest that blaming the state is unnecessary.
In my view
whether the problems are the sole fault of the state or whether
they have gained a foothold due to flawed beliefs and practices
of black folk themselves, or whether it is some combination of both,
is beside the point. I do not offer these musings in an effort to
lay blame and thereby extract apology, admission of guilt, help,
lowered standards, tax credits, or even retribution.
If, as I believe,
the solution lies in allowing the good to flourish and the bad to
die on the vine, the same medicine would I prescribe. Get the heavy-handed,
negative-incentive-laden, poorly-conceived, and unwelcome grip of
the heinous bureaucracy of the state out of the mix. Let the market
reward those who embrace the logic of personal responsibility and
let the chasm of life swallow whole those who do not.
What Is
the Problem and Is It Real or Imagined?
The "achievement
gap" as I have heard it defined, speaks to a difference in
standardized test scores specifically, and overall academic performance
generally, when one examines the available data with respect to
race. Depending upon to whom we listen, the problem is either larger
or smaller. And not surprisingly, it is generally perceived to stem
from one of two sources, depending upon your political persuasion.
The liberal camp usually thinks the gap comes from the infrastructure
used to deliver the education — the location of the school,
the size of the classroom, the pay of the teachers, the quality
of the library, the attitude of the administration, etc. The conservative
camp usually thinks the gap is a result of the culture of those
who receive the education — the lack of attention to homework,
the acceptance of laxity, the fondness for "bling," the
disinterest of the parents, the ubiquity of loose pants and visible
underwear, etc.
While I would
contend that the state and its well-intentioned minions hold the
lion's share of the blame almost any way we slice it, assigning
blame is not my intent in this article per se. There are
two (2) ways the state could reasonably be blamed for causing, or
at very least exacerbating the achievement gap:
- The legacy
of slavery, and lessons thereby carried through into the black
- The pathology
of affirmative action, and unintended consequences thereof.
Which way appeals
to you is simply a matter of when you think the damage occurred.
If you ask fellow LRC contributor Rob
Wicks, he would tend, I think, to highlight the cultural impact
of slavery. In fact, he said recently, "I feel that the cultural
adaptations blacks made to accommodate slavery made welfare especially
devastating." This logic is certainly hard to deny. Conversely,
if you ask Thomas
Sowell, he would tend, I think, to decry the slavery explanation.
In fact, he said recently, in an e-mail wherein he directly addressed
the point Wicks makes above, "I am afraid the slavery explanation
of the disintegration of the black family will not explain why blacks
a generation out of slavery had intact families far more often than
those a hundred years later." Wicks' opinion not withstanding,
Sowell's logic and the facts that support it are also powerful.
(Please note that this "debate" between Sowell and Wicks
did not really happen. I juxtapose these two views only for illustration
purposes.) So, who is correct?
Still others
would say that any so-called "achievement gap" between
black and white students is largely a figment of the imagination
of those who seek to blame the victim. Quoting Tim Wise, an antiracism
activist and essayist from a recent piece in The
Black Commentator:
school graduation rates for blacks and whites are today roughly
equal to one another. In fact, as sociologist Dalton Conley demonstrates
in his 1999 book, Being
Black, Living in the Red, once family economic background
is controlled for, blacks are actually more likely to finish high
school than whites, and equally likely to complete college. In
other words, whatever differences exist in black and white educational
attainment are completely the result of blacks, on average, coming
from lower-income families. Comparing whites and blacks of truly
similar class status reveals greater or equal educational attainment
for blacks."
Wise continues:
it should hardly have been necessary — after all, the entire history
of black America has been the history of attempting to access
education even against great odds and laws prohibiting it — there
have been a number of recent studies, all of which prove conclusively
that blacks value education every bit as much as their white counterparts."
From Wise's
standpoint, either this achievement gap does not really exist, or
it exists only in concert with and as a result of economics. Again
that is a valid conclusion. And again one might ask who is correct.
With all due respect to these fine men, who are all studied and
sincere, my answer remains unchanged — I still don't care.
the nexus of what Peter Wood calls, "The
Norm of Minimum Effort," while anthropologically interesting,
is not my goal. Certainly, the findings
of the late John
U. Ogbu, speak to some hard truths and some cultural questions
that might be helpful to address. Still, I find Bill
Raspberry's comments particularly telling:
what we need, if our children are going to make it in this highly
competitive world, is not so much explanation as change. We can
wait for white America to change its attitude toward blacks. Or
we can change the way we respond to what we believe that attitude
to be. Given the fact that white America is doing OK the way things
are, the choice seems obvious."
Indeed. Explanation
is great, but change is better! In fact, John Ogbu was not the only
researcher to study this phenomenon or the only one to publish such
ostensibly negative findings widely. According to the Ferguson
these measures [Academic Behavior and Homework Completion Rates]
whites and Asians appear more academically engaged and leave a
greater impression of working harder and being more interested
in their studies than their African-American and Hispanic peers."
So black students
are less engaged? But the Ferguson study goes on:
the students in all the population groups differed very little
in time spent studying and doing homework, except Asians, and
no group of students – including Asians – expressed a great deal
of interest in schoolwork."
Wait, so the
black students don't care as much but they work just as hard? And
of course, Ogbu's findings have their share of critics, such as
Felicia R. Lee, who states as much in her 2002 article "Why
Are Black Students Lagging?" that:
Ogbu is no stranger to controversy. His theory of "acting white"
has been the subject of intense study since he first wrote about
it in the mid-80's with Signithia Fordham, then a graduate student
and now a professor of anthropology at the University of Rochester.
They studied an inner-city Washington high school where students
listed doing well in school among the "white" behaviors they rejected,
like visiting the Smithsonian and dancing to lyrics rather than
a beat."
Lee continues:
two anthropologists theorized that a long history of discrimination
helped foster what is known in sociological lingo as an oppositional
peer culture. Not only were students resisting the notion that
white behavior was superior to their own, but they also saw no
connection between good grades and finding a job."
So it would
still seem that not only is the existence of the gap suspect, but
the cause is extremely difficult to determine. That a major problem
with using the argument from effect. Each person who looks
at the data can draw a different conclusion. Luckily, given that
I would really prefer to leave it to others to determine the root
causes — and publish them in academic journals — this difficulty
poses no problem for me. Instead, I propose another approach, based
upon my belief that people are all the same — the argument from
morality. Let those who have the desire and the drive to succeed
do so. Let those who are satisfied with less enjoy having it. And
for the love of SportsCenter get out of everybody's way while
we find out who is who!
But Can
You Blame a Guy for Trying to Help?
Now, let us
examine, using simple-minded logic (the only kind I have) both the
folly of digging for reasons at the expense of embracing change
and the lunacy of accepting any state solution for the achievement
gap, assuming for the time being that it really exists. If I were
in a dingy, supposedly paddling for shore and someone from the state
jumped into my boat, claiming to be there to help me, while I would
certainly be surprised, I would likely also be thankful. That is
just human nature.
If however,
the shore began to get farther away versus closer — that would concern
me. If on top of that, my little boat began to sink — that would
really concern me. If this representative of the state —
ostensibly trying to help me — caused my boat to sink even faster
the more he "helped," I just might have to toss his bureaucratic
rear-end overboard! At the very least I can assure you that I would
rather strongly suggest that he stop helping me. There might also
be a little creative use of the oars, but that is probably best
saved for another article and/or website.
Note that even
if I was heading in the "wrong direction" initially, it
is still likely better for me to be left alone to find my own way,
for one simple reason. Unless our bureaucrat-turned-wannabe-hero
knows exactly why I was headed in the direction I was, he
has no clue how to help me. (And even if he does know why,
he still has no idea if his help will result in the outcome I desired,
since he may not know what I was after in the first place!) And
as we already discovered, my boat is now sinking. It does not take
Vasco Da Gama to ascertain that things are just a little
off track.
This nautical
example parallels the plight and performance of black students stuck
in that bastion of ineptitude and bureaucracy, the public school
system. As a matter of fact, this example parallels the plight and
performance of the poor in general and black folk in particular
since the inception of the "Great Society" programs in
the 1960s. When I was a boy the "old folk" used to say,
"I can do bad (sic) all by myself!" In other words, if
you are effectively helping me fail, I would just as soon not have
any help.
Second Verse
Same as the First
Let us now
turn to an example I find rather instructive — sports. As far as
I can tell, no one did a study on why there were so few black quarterbacks
in the NFL up to only a few years back. (At least, no one seriously
wondered why. Truly, was that ever a mystery?) And, not surprisingly,
no one suggested that the rules needed to be changed, or the ball
shaped differently, or the incentives modified to appeal to black
sensibilities. Why not?
Yet now, one
would have to have been under a rock to miss the fact that black
quarterbacks are not even all that "special" anymore.
For example, during the 2006 preseason, the Jacksonville Jaguars
had three quarterbacks on the roster and all of them were
black! (Clearly, white quarterbacks have become victims of discrimination.)
Alert the media.
At the risk
of sounding overly prideful and maybe a little crass as well, let
me put it this way. My people come from sterner stock than to need
any special treatment. From my reading of history, the descendents
of slaves are here because their ancestors withstood the withering
inhumanity of the Middle
Passage. As best I can determine, the descendants of slaves
are here because their ancestors survived the ghastly practice of
chattel slavery. The descendants of slaves are here because their
ancestors were able to endure even as the women were routinely raped
by the slave owners and even as the sons were routinely sold "down
the river" away from the family.
As such, the
idea that we cannot compete in higher education because we need
more nurturing is downright insulting! (Given the choice, I think
we all like nurturing, but I will never be convinced that black
folk need it more, or less, than anyone else needs it.) The very
thought that we somehow would not succeed in life if the requirements
for elite colleges and universities were not somehow modified on
our behalf is equally ridiculous.
Recently The
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education reported that a Brookins
Institute study shows that blacks have "narrowed the I.Q. gap
with whites over the last 30 years." I guess this is good news,
particularly for those who chose to argue against racist theories
like those apparently proposed in books like "the Bell Curve,"
but to me is it largely irrelevant. Regardless of any rubric — that
may or may not be predictive — we do not need special help, and
if the system, and those so interested in providing help, would
just get out of the way, we could all find out once and for all
and sooner rather than later.
I present a
not-so-unique suggestion to all who might be concerned that black
students — in places like Shaker Heights, Ohio — do not perform
at the level their socio-economic status would otherwise indicate,
and that suggestion is: "Thanks, but you've helped quite
enough." To the bleeding-heart liberals who (no doubt) genuinely
care about decreasing the number of u2018underrepresented minorities'
in science majors I have but one simple request: "Can you let
us handle this one alone just this once?" I know your
hearts are in the right place but you are nonetheless excused.
One word of
caution for any who suspect that because I suggest no state help
is needed, they are safe to enjoy the fruits of success without
any competition forever. Just remember, there was also a time when
all the point guards in the NBA and all the quarterbacks in the
NFL were NOT black either. Hey, I'm just sayin'!
Every person
has a decision to make. Does he want to be treated differently because
of his race or not? If so, then he has to accept both the
good outcomes and the bad ones. If not, then the State can get the
heck out of the equation. Certainly black folks, among others, have
been discriminated against in overt and covert ways for about as
long as there has been a United States of America. But by the same
token, we have also embraced the theology of affirmative action
well beyond its expiration date. (By the way, when is that?) If
race is only
an illusion, then we are using a proxy that is of little value.
Otherwise, the steps being taken are simply not working well enough
to be continued.
at the performance and success of Jesse Owens, Tiger Woods, the
Williams sisters, Donavan McNabb and Allen Iverson — not to mention
John Hope Franklin, Dr. Charles Drew, Reginald Lewis, and the Tuskegee
Airmen, among many others — I feel pretty good about our chances!
26, 2006
Alston [send him
mail] lives in Rochester, NY, with his wife and three
children. When he's not training for a marathon or furthering his
part-time study of libertarian philosophy, he works as a principal
research scientist in transportation safety, focusing primarily
on the safety of subway and freight train control systems.


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Definition of PLEAT
transitive verb
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Origin of PLEAT
Middle English pleten, from pleit, plete plait
First Known Use: 14th century
: a fold in cloth that is made by folding the material onto itself
Full Definition of PLEAT
: a fold in cloth made by doubling material over on itself; also : something resembling such a fold
— pleat·less \-ləs\ adjective
Examples of PLEAT
- Her skirt has pleats at the waist.
Origin of PLEAT
Middle English plete
First Known Use: 15th century
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Megan Fox will not be returning for the third installment of Transformers, ET.com reports.
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Why Agile Toolkit is best choice for Business Web Software?
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It's been 4 years since I showed up for M50 Enterprise Program (Government program helping start-ups in Ireland) dressed in jeans and t-shirt. I had an idea for on-line project and I wanted to pursue my goal. My belief was that if I write a great software and make it look good, people would certainly start using it. Sometimes it turns out to be like that, but it rather an exception that a rule.
Back then my idea failed, however I have learned two important things about software development:
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A busy professional, Peter McCartney uses energy drinks, in part, to fuel his day.
"Just for extra energy, it always gives you a boost. Come 3 o'clock or maybe just after lunch, have an energy drink. Or maybe first thing in the morning," says McCartney.
A typical can has up to three times as much caffeine as soda or coffee and many contain a stimulant called taurine along with other ingredients. McCartney sampled several, including one that made his heart race.
"When I drink that one, I actually feel like a flush. And it almost tingles on the body," says McCartney.
"People think it's going to burst your energy level, they feel very strong and also they use it as a supplement for weight loss," says Dr. Murali Muppala, cardiologist with Lee Memorial Health System.
To get a true picture of what the buzz is about, researchers took a detailed MRI of healthy test subjects before and after downing a highly caffeinated energy drink with taurine. An hour later they still had significantly increased heart rates.
"All the medications that have a stimulant effect can make your heart go, number one faster; and if you take too much of it, it can make significant cardiac arrhythmias. Sometimes just palpitations or sometimes life threatening arrhythmias if it is toxic levels," says Dr. Muppala.
Downing drinks once in a while may not be an issue, but doctors are unsure about long-term affects of being constantly amped up.
"Every dose adds up. When someone is excited it's what we call sympathetic nervous system hyperactivity. If you have on-going effect this can have a detrimental effect on your heart system," says Dr. Muppala.
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If you work with John Constantine, there's a good chance you might not make it out of a job alive.
That's a refrain John (Matt Ryan) has proven to be true for several weeks on NBC's Constantine, but death doesn't always have to mean the end of a friendship for John. His oldest pal, Chas Chandler (Charles Halford), has the uncanny ability to revive himself after a dance with death.
Chas has to take advantage of his gifts on tonight's episode, "Danse Vaudou." In anticipation of this larger showcase for the character, Charles Halford spoke with EW about what it's like to play a guy who can come back from the dead, his history with the comic book source material, and teased about what fans can expect to learn about Chas as the season continues.


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SPRINGFIELD -- Is your kid foolish enough to be acting like a hood ornament on a moving SUV? In a video sent to us by a viewer from Springfield, the driver is not a teen. She's a 35-year-old mother of two who says there's nothing wrong with posting this stunt on social media.
Riding on the hood of a moving car is known as hood surfing. According to the Centers for Disease Control death has occurred at speeds as slow as 5 miles per hour.
This Springfield mom of two - who wishes to remain anonymous - says the prank was the teen's idea.
"Precious came up with the idea of doing a little skit," The Mom said. "I wasn't driving real fast and she jumped on the hood and I stopped and I didn't stop really hard. She jumped off and rolled."
Although this dismount had a safe ending, in 2007 a Bellbrook teen's car surfing stunt ended in death. Seven years ago this month 17 year old Ryan Keller fell of his friend's truck and died.
An outcome that never crossed the minds of this dare devil family.
"I was going 5 miles per hour. She wasn't hurt. Her parents back me 100 percent."
The Springfield mom posted both of the videos on Facebook and says she got a lot of likes and positive comments.
The mom says anyone who can't see this for the innocent prank that it is is just blowing things out of proportion.
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Web-Archiving, DPC Technology Watch Report 13-01 March 2013, author Maureen Pennock, Series Editors Charles Beagrie Ltd (PDF file) / Read Online
Digital Forensics and Preservation, DPC Technology Watch Report 12-03 November 2012, author Jeremy Leighton John Series Editors Charles Beagrie Ltd (PDF file) / Read Online
Benefits from Research Data Management in Universities for Industry and Not-for-Profit Research Partners, authors Neil Beagrie and Cathy Pink / Read Online
Biomedical Research Infrastructure Software Service Kit - Towards a cloud-enabled translational research IT Platform , (Brochure-PDF File) / Read Online
Intellectual Property Rights for Digital Preservation, DPC Technology Watch Report 12-02 June 2012, author Andrew Charlesworth Series Editors Charles Beagrie Ltd (PDF file) / Read Online
Economic Impact Evaluation of the Economic and Social Data Service, authors: Neil Beagrie, John Houghton, Anna Palaiologk, and Peter Williams - Charles Beagrie Ltd and The Centre for Strategic Economic Studies (CSES) Victoria University (PDF file) / Read Online
Preserving Moving Pictures and Sound DPC Technology Watch Report 12-01 March 2012, author Richard Wright Series Editors Charles Beagrie Ltd (PDF file) / Read Online
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KRDS/I2S2 Digital Preservation Benefits Analysis Toolkit, (set of documents - various formats to download) / Read Online
Keeping Research Data Safe User Guide, Version 2, July 2011 (PDF file) / Read Online
I2S2 Researcher and Service Benefits Case Studies, (PDF file) / Read Online
E-Journal Archiving for UK HE Libraries: A White Paper, Version 4.0 Final Draft 10/01/2011 (Word Doc) / Read Online
Keeping Research Data Safe 2, Final Report, April 2010 / Read Online
Ensuring Perpetual Access: establishing a federated strategy on perpetual access and hosting of electronic resources for Germany, Final Report, February 2010 / Read Online
UK Research Data Feasibility Study (UKRDS) Final Report, December 2008
UK Research Data Service Feasibility Study (UKRDS): Project Interim Report, November 2008
Digital Preservation Policies Study, with co-authors Najla Rettberg, Peter Williams, and Richard Wright (Joint Information Systems Committee 2008) / Read Online
Keeping Research Data Safe: a cost model and guidance for UK Universities, with co-authors Julia Chruszcz and Brian Lavoie (Joint Information Systems Committee 2008) / Read Online
A Comparative Study of e-Journal Archiving Solutions, with co-authors Julia Chruszcz, Maggie Jones, and Terry Morrow (Joint Information Systems Committee 2008) / Read Online
e-Infrastructure Strategy for Research: Final Report from the OSI Preservation and Curation Working Group (November 2006), National e-Science Centre 2007 / Read Online
National Digital Preservation Initiatives, An Overview of Developments in Australia, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom and of Related In, Council on Library and Information Resources and Library of Congress 2003 / Read Online
Going Digital: issues in digitisation for public libraries, Issues Paper for the Networked Services Policy Task Group, EARL 2001 / Read Online
Preservation Management of Digital Materials: a Handbook, with co-author Maggie Jones, British Library 2001 / Read Online / Review
A Strategic Framework for Creating and Preserving Digital Resources, with co-author Daniel Greenstein, eLib Supporting Study P3, Library Information Technology Centre South Bank University 1998 / Read Online / Review
Managing Digital Collections: AHDS Policies, Standards and Practices, version 1, 15.12.1998, with co-author Daniel Greenstein
Thesaurus of Monument Types: a Data Standard for use in Archaeological and Architectural Records, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England and English Heritage 1995 (joint editor, project director and chair of working party)
Towards an Accessible Archaeological Archive, Society of Museum Archaeologists First Edition 1995, editor Janet Owen, (PDF file) / Read Online
Documentary Research on Industrial Sites, Department of Environment 1994, Contaminated Land Research Report No. 3 (Manager RCHME consultancy team and wrote advice on map sources and industrial sites)
Thesaurus of Archaeological Site Types, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England and English Heritage 1992 (joint editor and chair of working party)
Recent Talks
Preservation, Trust and Continuing Access for e-Journals presentation to Digital Preservation Coalition Briefing Day in London October 2013
Measuring the Value and Impact of Research Data Management presentation to Research Data Metrics for Impact and Citation Workshop at the British Library June 2013
Maintaining a Vision: how mandates and strategies are changing with digital content keynote presentation to Screening the Future 2013 conference: Crossing Boundaries for AV Preservation May 2013
Arkivum Research Data Webinar 2: Inhouse or Outsource? joint webinar presentation with Matthew Addis (Arkivum) February 2013
Experiences, expectations and service offerings from the funders' perspective presentation to Knowledge Exchange workshop: price of keeping knowledge: financial streams for digital preservation, Amsterdam January 2013
Benefits of Keeping Research Data Safe presentation to PASIG conference Dublin Ireland October 2012
Costs of Keeping Research Data Safe presentation to PASIG conference Dublin Ireland October 2012
Keeping Research Data Safe (KRDS) presentation to the Cost and Benefits of Keeping Knowledge Workshop in Copenhagen Denmark June 2012
An Introduction to e-journals and their Preservation presentation to Digital Preservation Coalition Members' Forum January 2012
The KRDS Benefit Analysis Toolkit: Development and Application presentation to the 7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) December 2011
The KRDS Benefits Analysis Toolkit presentation to the JISC Managing Research Data Programme launch meeting December 2011
Benefits analysis: challenges and opportunities presentation to the 7th Research Data Management Forum Warwick November 2011
The KRDS Benefits Analysis Toolset presentation to the JISC Digital Curation/Preservation Benefits Tools Project Dissemination Workshop London July 2011
Draft Sustainability Plan for Dryad Repository (2010), presentation to the Dryad-UK Meeting British Library April 2011
The benefits of more effective research data management in UK universities presentation to the JISC Managing Research Data (International) programme workshop Birmingham March 2011
Keeping Research Data Safe (KRDS):costs and benefits of research data preservation, presentation to the Good Clinical Practice Record Managers Association Mainz Germany March 2011
The benefits of more effective research data management in UK universities presentation to the JISC Annual Conference Liverpool March 2011
Findings from the Keeping Research Data Safe study presentation to ASERL(Association of Southeastern USA Research Libraries) Fall Membership Meeting November 2010
Business Models and Cost Estimation: Dryad Repository Case Study presentation to iPRES 2010 Vienna September 2010
Archiving Research Data, Dryad,and Publishers presentation to Fourth Bloomsbury Conference - Valued Resources: Roles and Responsibilities of Digital Curators and Publishers June 2010
Supplementary Data and Publishers presentation to the Dryad-UK meeting London. April 2010
Costs and benefits: Views from keeping research data safe - JISC research data digital preservation costs studies presentation to JISC Annual conference. April 2010
Costs, Policy,and Benefits in Long-term Digital Preservation presentation to the Keepit Digital Preservation Training course. February 2010
Policy, Pre-conditions and costs: opportunities and pitfalls in long-term digital preservation workshop at Curating Research 2009 Conference April 2009
The Importance of Digital Preservation invited opening keynote to DPC/RSP/CC/JISC "Tackling the Preservation Challenge: Practical Steps for Repository Manager" Workshop, London December 2008
Keeping Research Data Safe: the JISC research data preservation costs study invited lecture to the 4th International Digital Curation Conference, Edinburgh, December 2008
Keeping Research Data Safe invited lecture to the Alliance for Permanent Access strategic conference on Keeping the Records of Science Accessible: can we afford it? Budapest, Hungary November 2008
The UK Research Data Service (UKRDS) Feasibility Study invited lecture to the Oxford University Institutional and National Services for Research Data Management Workshop. October 2008
Digital Preservation: a subject of no importance? invited lecture to iPRES 2008 conference, London September 2008
Keeping Research Data Safe: A cost model for universities invited lecture to JISC-CNI conference, Belfast, July 2008
Research Data Costs invited lecture to LIFE2 Conference British Library June 2008
Calculating the costs of digital Long-Term Preservation invited lecture to the Max Planck Society's "Aspects of Long-Term Archiving" eScience Seminar, Gottingen, Germany June 2008
Keeping Research Data Safe- the JISC Digital Preservation Costs Study invited lecture to Oxford University Research Data Management Workshop June 2008
"Keeping alert: issues to know today for long-term preservation with repositories" Keynote to Fedora International Meeting, Open Repositories 2008, Southampton, UK. April 2008
Chairman for opening session on National Perspectives, 3rd International Digital Curation Conference "Curating our Digital Scientific Heritage: a Global Collaborative Challenge" Washington DC, USA December 2007
The Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science presentation to Practices and Challenges in Preservation and Access for Scientific and Scholarly Digital Repositories DCC/DPE/DRIVER/Nestor Joint Workshop Berlin November 2007
Digital Preservation: setting the course for a decade of change Keynote to the 60th Anniversary Conference Association Belge de Documentation, "L'Europe face au défi de la conservation des documents numériques à long terme", Brus November 2007
The Digital Lives Project , presentation to the JISC Digitisation Conference, Cardiff UK July 2007
Preservation and Long-term Access for UK Digital Heritage and Scientific Research , Keynote to the inaugural meeting of the Dutch Digital Preservation Coalition, The Hague Netherlands May 2007
Premises for co-operative long-term digital preservation solutions in Europe , Keynote to the European Presidency conference "The Challenge: Long-Term Preservation - Strategies and Practices of European Partnerships", Frankfurt Germany April 2007
Panellist and speaker in Copyright and digital rights management session at the European Commission conference Scientific Publishing in the European Research Area Access, Dissemination and Preservation in the Digital Age, Brussels Belgium February 2007
"The KRDS Benefit Analysis Toolkit: Development and Application", International Journal of Digital Curation - Vol 7, No 2 (2012) pages 64-67 (December 2012), with co-authors Monica Duke,Catherine Hardman,Dipak Kalra,Brian Lavoie,Liz Lyon,Matthew Woollard PDF Publication
"Business Models and Cost Estimation: Dryad Repository Case Study", Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects - (September 2010), with co-authors Lori Richards and Todd Vision, pages 365-370 print Publication
"Research Data Preservation and Access: The Views of Researchers", Ariadne - 60 (July 2009), with co-authors Robert Beagrie and Ian Rowlands html Publication
"Online Archival Sound Recordings from the British Library", ALISS Quarterly - Volume 2 No 2 (January 2007), print Publication
"Digital Curation for Science, Digital Libraries, and Individuals", International Journal of Digital Curation - Volume 1 (November 2006), pages 3-16 PDF Publication
"C21st Curation Spring 2006 Public Lecture Series", Ariadne - Issue 48 (July 2006), with co-author Helen Forde html Publication
"Managing Digital Information", Government Technology - volume 5.7 (July 2006), pages 25-7 print Publication
"Memories for Life: a review of the science and technology", Royal Society Interface Journal - Volume 3, Number 8 / June 22, 2006 Pages: 351 - 365 (June 2006), with co-authors Kieron O'Hara,Richard Morris,Nigel Shadbolt, Graham Hitch, and Wendy Hall pdf Publication
"Digital Policy Management Workshop", Ariadne - Issue 47 (April 2006), with co-author Mark Bide html Publication
"The Digital Library and its Services", Ariadne - Issue 47 (April 2006), with co-author Rachel Bruce html Publication
"National Digital Preservation Initiatives, An Overview of Developments in Australia, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom and of Related In", Archeion - , vol 107,ed. by D. Nalecz, Warsaw 2004 (March 2006), re-published in Polish from CLIR volume with permission from author and CLIR print Publication
"C21st Curation Summer 2005 Public Lecture Series", Ariadne - Issue 46 (January 2006), with co-author Helen Forde html Publication
"Development of Digital Preservation Environments by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)", Local to Global Data Interoperability Challenges and Technologies IEEE Conference 2005 Proceedings - (December 2005), p74-7 with co-author Leona Carpenter pdf Publication
"A digital preservation handbook: best practice and its dissemination", Cahiers de la documentation - 2005/3 (September 2005), pg. 54-9 Publication
"Plenty of Room at the Bottom? Personal Digital Libraries and Collections", D-Lib Magazine - Volume 11 Number 6 (June 2005), html Publication
"Digital Preservation: Best Practice and its Dissemination", Ariadne - Issue 43 (April 2005), html Publication
"The Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Strategy for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)", D-LibMagazine - Volume 10 Number 7/8 (August 2004), html Publication
"The Digital Curation Centre", Learned Publishing - Volume 17, Number 1 (January 2004), pdf Publication
"Web-archiving: Managing and Archiving Online Documents and Records", Ariadne - Issue 32 (July 2002), with co-author Philip Pothen html Publication
"The Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK", Testbed Digitale Bewaring Newsletter - (July 2002), \r Publication
"An Update on the Digital Preservation Coalition", D-Lib Magazine - Volume 8 Number 4 (April 2002), html Publication
"The Digital Curation: digital archives, digital libraries, and e-science, seminar", Ariadne - Issue 30 (December 2001), with co-author Philip Pothen html Publication
"Preserving UK digital library collections", Program - Volume 35, Number 3 (July 2001), pg. 217-226\r Publication
"Digital Preservation Conference: Report from York, UK", RLG DigiNews - Volume 4, Number 6 (December 2000), with co-author Robin Dale Publication
"The JISC Digital Preservation Focus and the Digital Preservation Coalition", New Review of Academic Librarianship - Volume 6 (January 2000), pg. 257-267\r Publication
"The British Experience in Preserving Digital Library Collections", LIBER Quarterly - Volume 10 (January 2000), pg. 367-375\r rtf Publication
"Report from the Warwick2 Digital Preservation Strategy Workshop", National Preservation Office Journal - Issue 4 (May 1999), pg. 5 [ISSN 1461 4154] Publication
"Convergence, Integration and Online Access: The Arts and Humanities Data Service Gateway and Catalogues", Museums and the Web 1999 selected papers from an international conference - (January 1999), Edited by David Bearman and Jennifer Trant [ISBN 1-885626-17-7] html Publication
"Joint RLG and NPO Conference on Guidelines for Digital Imaging", RLG DigiNews - Volume 2, Number 5 (October 1998), with co-author Nancy Elkington, [ISSN 1093-5371]. Re-printed in National Preservation Office Journal, Issue 3 January 1999, pg. 5-7, [ISSN 1461 4154]\r Publication
"Into the Future: The Challenge of Digital Preservation", Society of Archivists Newsletter - No. 112 (September 1998), pg. 8-9\r Publication
"Sixth DELOS Workshop: preservation of digital information", D-Lib - (August 1998), with co-author Michael Day html Publication
"Digital Preservation", Multimedia Information and Technology - vol 24 no. 3 (August 1998), pg. 173-4\r Publication
"Developing a Policy Framework for Digital Preservation", DELOS Working Group Reports - (June 1998), Sixth DELOS Workshop Preservation of Digital Information Tomar Portugal, ERCIM-98-W003 (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics), pg 15-22\r html Publication
"DELOS6: Preservation of digital information", Ariadne - issue 16 (June 1998), with co-author Michael Day\r html Publication
"The Arts and Humanities Data Service: a multi-disciplinary resource for archaeologists", Museum Archaeologist - 24 (January 1998), in Museums for the 21st Century. Conference Proceedings Liverpool 1997, pg. 3-6 Publication
"Copyright and Access", Museum Archaeologist - 23 (January 1998), Conference Proceedings St Albans 1996, pg. 63-7\r Publication
"Making History: Copyright, Archaeology and Electronic Records", Computer Applications and Quantative Methods in Archaeology CAA 1997 Proceedings - (January 1997), Publication
"Excavations and Archives: Alternative Aspects of Cultural Resource Management" in Computer Applications and Quantative Methods in Archaeology CAA", Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia - 28 (January 1996), pg. 81-6 Publication
"Museum Collections, National Archaeological Indexes and Research: information resources, access and potential"", Museum Archaeology- What's New? Museum Archaeologist - vol 21 (January 1994), Conference Proceedings Edinburgh 1994, pg. 28-34 Publication
"The Computerisation of the National Archaeological Record", Revue Informatique et Statistique dans les Science humaines - 29 (January 1993), pg. 9-16\r Publication
"The Archaeological Site Type Thesaurus", Thesauri for Museum Documentation - (January 1992), MDA Occasional Paper 18 (1992), pg. 43-52. with co-author Dawn Abercromby Publication


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23 Jun 2011 12:57 PM #11
Difference with sha256sum result
Difference with sha256sum result
Are you sure your sha256 function behaves ok? Because it gives me very different values from sha256sum (a Linux command)
For the string "123"
Your function: a665a45920422f9d417e4867efdc4fb8a04a1f3fff1fa07e998e86f7f7a27ae3
echo 123 | sha256sum: 181210f8f9c779c26da1d9b2075bde0127302ee0e3fca38c9a83f5b1dd8e5d3b
24 Jun 2011 7:52 AM #12
That has zero effect on real security
That has zero effect on real security
I see no reasons to send a hash of a password instead of the password itself. When your packets are intercepted the attacker will receive the hash instead of password. But that means the attacker will generate the same ajax request from him computer and send it to the server, because instead of comparing passwords your server compares hashes.
Just use https and don't simulate the security.My ODesk profile - https://www.odesk.com/users/~~b3b73482afb3f2c5
26 Jun 2011 11:58 PM #13
echo -n 123 | sha256sum
* = Only "quite secure" because sophisticated man-in-the-middle attacks are still possible.Daniel Jagszent
dɐɳiel@ʝɐgszeɳt.de <- convert to plain ASCII to get my email address
27 Jan 2013 12:54 AM #14
Sencha Touch
Sencha Touch
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Last night, Alternative Apparel and Shopbop celebrated the launch of the "Message Bag," designed by Olivia Wilde and her partner Barbara Burchfield, by inviting editors to get their D.I.Y on. A portion of the sales of each bag will benefit the Academy for Peace and Justice, a secondary school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti — the only one of its kind — funded by Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis's charity, Artists for Peace and Justice. The canvas and leather messenger style was inspired by an army bag Wilde carried around Haiti, made more fashion-forward with the help of Alternative Apparel's way with hardware and fabrication. "We felt that the traditional means of fundraising can get a little tiresome for all parties, and we were excited about a new, creative way of raising money. We love the idea of products for a purpose," the actress explained of the motivation behind the project. And why Haiti? "It is really known for its art, and it's a really creative and beautiful place. It has inspired us and we wanted to give something back."
Alternative "Message Bag," $138, shopbop.com
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