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How do you read? An analysis of survey responses.
A big question for me, as a designer of text analysis tools for the humanities is: how do the tools I'm building fit in? Sure, you can have fancy word trees and grammatical search histograms. Sure, they're chock-full of interesting information that you can make an argument about. But where exactly in the humanistic analysis process does a scholar need things like that? I have no idea.
But there's more. I don't just build tools, I build environments. And that means support for reading the text, navigating it, searching it, and (most importantly) "working" with it. And I have no idea what that means either. So over the past few weeks I've been having hour-long chats with late-stage PhD students from the literature and history departments, and asking them to tell me about how they do research. I asked all kinds of confusing and mundane questions like, "How do you decide what to underline?" and , "Can you define formalism for me?" and, "You mean you actually copy it out by hand?" and "How do you organize all the quotes you collect?" and, "How do you go about proving that?" and, "So you scanned in everything in those boxes?"
I only did twelve of those interviews, but patterns began to emerge. So I did a survey. A simple one, with six questions about reading habits. This survey's purpose was to confirm whether some of the patterns I noticed around reading were general. If you just want the charts summarizing the responses, you can find them here (those numbers include around 20 more responses I got while I was writing this post). For a full analysis in which I extract some general patterns in humanities scholars' reading processes, read on.
This was the first page of the survey, with two screener questions. Over two days, I got 153 responses from humanities scholars whose primary sources were mostly textual (and 18 responses from others, but I removed those responses for this analysis).
Working with text
My first question was about copied-out snippets. From what I heard in the interviews, humanities scholars working on a project eventually reach a point where they have some interpretation, some interesting angle they want to take. At this point, they start actively reading and re-reading their primary sources. Snippets begin to collect in their notes in large numbers.
The results are below. An overwhelming 90% of textual humanities scholars surveyed copy out snippets either frequently or occasionally.
What are snippets for?
But why? From what the interviewees said, copied-out snippets seem to be in a different category from other annotations (such as margin notes, underlines, highlights, or circles on the page). In fact, copying out seems reserved for a more important class of items. But what makes these copied-out snippets so special? This was my next question.
The results are below, and the responses confirmed the interviews. Most of the textual humanities scholars surveyed said that snippets were evidence, interesting or thought-provoking passages, or examples of something they were looking for.
In addition to the 4 existing choices, there were 28 "other" responses, which fell into these groups:
- As a way to store quotations I think I'll need (5 such responses)
- Writing it out helps me understand and think about it (2)
- Writing it out helps me remember it (5)
- The snippet is a good summary of an author's point or argument (4)
- They help me outline a longer argument (3)
- I need to translate it into another language (3)
It seems that copied-out snippets play a role very much like the evidence a lawyer lays before a jury. They provoke thought, they justify an interpretation, they are examples that support an argument (or indeed counterexamples that need to be explained away). A scholar amasses many such "pieces of argument" and then organizes them to tell a coherent story.
What do snippets look like?
As a tool builder and an information retrievalist I need to know: how long are these snippets, and is there accompanying information that users will want to add?
Snippet length
Are snippets a few words long? A few paragraphs?
The results are below. They revealed that snippets varied greatly in length.
- Many respondents had "some" or "many" snippets between a few words to a paragraph long
- About 25% of had "some" or "many" snippets that were longer than a paragraph.
Accompanying information
The interviews suggested that in addition to the literal text of the snippets themselves, there were often various kinds of notes as well as visual finding aids and citation information.
The results are below. Notes about why the snippet was relevant were very common.
And so were ideas that the scholars got from the copied-out snippet.
By far the most common was citation information: 76% always added it.
Other markers, such as post-it flags, colored highlights, and tags to enable keyword search were less common, but also done:
For a tool designer, the message is clear. If you want humanities scholars to read text using your tool, you must support all of the above activities.
Collecting evidence
When a scholar wonders, "Where else have I seen that before?" or, "Is this an unusual exception?" or, "Is this a pattern?", my interviewees told me that there are two approaches they can take: they had either thought of this before, and relevant passages were already copied into their notes, or they'd have go back and re-read the relevant texts to search for evidence. To see if this was a general pattern, I created the next two survey question.
The responses are below, and they confirm my interviewees responses. 79% re-read when they had a new idea or interpretation, 65% when they had a new hypothesis, and 67% when they noticed a new pattern.
There were also 13 "other" responses, which fell into the following categories:
- Just for fun (2 responses)
- When I teach (5)
- When I find my notes don't have everything I need (3)
- To understand it better (2)
- To compare with other documents (1)
But what do scholars want to do with the text they re-read? This was my final question. I wanted to compare how note-taking behavior varied between first-time reading and re-reading:
The results are below. Compare how frequently scholars copied out snippets the first time (top) with when they were re-reading (bottom). The copy-out rate is pretty much the same, or perhaps even a little higher while re-reading.
These responses reveal an inefficiency in the "finding evidence" portion of the scholarly process. Reading is a great way to understand, to learn, to remember. But it is a very inefficient way to search for something. First, it's very slow (and when you speed it up, it starts to lose its reliability). Second, it's very subject to your state of mind (sometimes things pop out at you, sometimes they don't). And third, it's impossible to do thoroughly for very large collections.Yes, you need to revisit, re-find and re-acquaint yourself with the material. But what I object to is that you often have to re-read in order to do it.
A (partial) solution already exists: full-text digitization and search. Search can take you a long way, especially if your examples are associated with particular words. However, there are a great many sophisticated information retrieval technologies that go beyond keyword search. We can calculate and retrieve text passages by similarity, we can allow you to mark relevant passages and return more like those, we can train classifiers on what you've marked interesting, and have them automatically classify text, we can use the google translate API to help identify foreign words, and online dictionaries to find synonyms.
Based on the answers to these two questions, it seems to me that the following three "finding a snippet-of-text" problems might really benefit from a little information retrieval and visualization, because finding them by reading is especially hard, and formulating them as search queries can be difficult:
- Find me more examples like this
- Find me other other places in the text where this happens
- Show me all the places in the text where this concept comes up
In conclusion
Together, the survey and interviews helped me understand the mechanics of scholarly reading. As I interpret it, humanities scholars working around textual primary sources follow a process like this (and this is why I'm blogging, so you can all violently disagree with me in the comments):
- Scholars begin a project with a (sometimes vague) hypothesis, interest, or interpretation in mind
- They read primary sources to solidify their understanding and find evidence for their arguments
- They notice or realize things while reading passages from the text
- They copy out the passages if they are sufficiently thought-provoking, provide evidence, or are relevant to an interpretation.
- They add information to the passages they copy out:
- Why the passage is relevant/ how it fits into their argument
- Ideas they got from the passage
- Citation information so they can find it and cite it properly later
- If they haven't already collected the necessary supporting material, they search, read and re-read other texts to find more support.
- When they find supporting or relevant passages, they copy them out (see step 5)
- They curate their collected passages ("pieces of argument") into a written product representing their argument
Laying out these steps has helped me come up with design requirements. For example, even if no extra visualizations and analysis tools are added, and the interface only supports reading, these steps told me the basic "reading tools" my system must have:
- Copying out variable-length snippets of text into a note-taking area
- Preserving the link between the copied-out snippet and its place in the text
- Taking notes around a snippet
- Tagging and keyword search
- Exporting all of the above into a format compatible with MS Word or similar, so that scholars can integrate it with their other work
Next, if we're talking about systems with keyword search functionality, steps 6 and 7 make it clear that the ability to save, organize, and annotate search results is key. This is in addition to the ability to switch seamlessly between looking at search results and reading the source text surrounding any particular search result.
If we want to get more sophisticated with information retrieval (which I do), the three "finding snippets of text" problems I identified above need attention.
But what about when you have visualizations? Coming back to my original question, where do these fit in? I'm still not sure, but I think the steps I've found above will give me a good place to start looking for answers.
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Aimée Morrison (@digiwonk) / Oct 10 2012 8:01 am
If this survey is for your academic research, are you not obligated to secure ethics approval from your institution, and does that not usually end up in being required to secure informed consent from all survey participants before the survey is launched? You may not be able to use this date if it is collected without having the necessary approvals ….
Natalia / Oct 17 2012 1:24 pm
I'll concede that re-reading is inefficient, but it's also awesome, and sometimes leads me to new and better ideas. (We're not just trying to find evidence to confirm something we already think, but also understand its context and revise what we think.) So I'm not sad to re-read a lot of the time. I also often have a visual memory of the thing I'm looking for, which makes re-reading a little closer to skimming. (I know not all brains work this way; I often remember exact phrases from my initial reading.)
That said, there are different circumstances in which an alternative to re-reading is helpful; in the initial writing phase re-reading may be very generative, but if you're, say, revising an article for publication or tracking down a citation, it can be a gigantic pain.
DrDavisTCE / Oct 17 2012 2:28 pm
I basically agree with what your survey found. I do wonder though if you would be able to create a key word search that encouraged/facilitated/allowed multiple search terms at one time for the same thing. I don't always label my notes in the same way, depending on what I am thinking got at the time.
I wrote about my answers and thoughts here:
D.A. / Oct 17 2012 4:22 pm
This is such an illuminating post–thank you! One thing that's somewhat missing here, though–and it's something I find missing from most digital reading experiences (and therefore the reason why I still, stubbornly, tend to print things)–is the tactile feel of reading. Sometimes, the notes and movements I make when I navigate a text are less about separating out what will be useful to me later and more about keeping my attention and focus while I read. I underline, for instance, because I find that doing so helps me process what I'm reading; I circle key words; I use vertical lines in the margins for snippets that I think will be especially important (the more parallel lines, the more important). These are all things that I find difficult to do in digital tools, and they occur mostly at a step in the process before copying things out into my notes. I don't know if this is a common practice or not, but it's something that the survey didn't quite capture.
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My weekend is progressing ok ..
Had a very constructive linux user group meeting =) ..
Kind of came out to all of them..
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A lot was expected and one match lived up to the hype, but the second of the ICC World Twenty20 Super 10s clashes at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur last night proved to be an anti-climax as India put on yet another clinical display to post a seven-wicket victory against defending champions West Indies. The Indian bowlers laid the foundation once again for their batsmen to script a comfortable win like they had against Pakistan in the first game.
After a short delay to India's chase of 130 caused by confusion over whether a run had to be added to West Indies' total, India took the match to the last over and won it with two balls remaining, but the fans started to leave the stands long before while Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma simply toyed with the West Indies bowlers. Needing one run from the last six balls, Yuvraj Singh played two dot balls against Marlon Samuels and was dismissed off the third ball, leaving Suresh Raina to finish the job for his side. But before that Kohli (54) and Sharma (62 not out) hit fluent half-centuries and shared a 107-run second-wicket stand after Shikhar Dhawan was trapped leg before by Samuel Badree in the fifth ball of the innings.
There was no shortage of fireworks as bat dominated leather in the first match between Pakistan and Australia, and the same was expected when West Indies were invited to bat first by India skipper MS Dhoni in the second game. It was thought that with explosive batsmen like Chris Gayle and Dwayne Smith leading the charge, defending champions West Indies had the strength in batting to test the Indian bowling attack, which is perceived as being a weak point.
But pacers Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammad Shami tested the West Indies opening pair and applied stifling pressure and the Caribbean outfit could not recover. Kumar was outstanding, giving away only three runs in three overs.
Gayle was the top-scorer for his side with 34 off 33 balls with one four and two sixes and he must thank his luck but it was a very scratchy effort from the explosive batsman, who could barely middle anything on the day. And the rest of the batsmen were nothing short of ordinary.
In the last ball of the second over, Gayle was dropped and Ravichandran Ashwin was the culprit at slip to deprive Shami.
After hitting a six Gayle top-edged a googly from first match hero Amit Mishra in the second ball of the seventh over but Yuvraj Singh dropped a sitter at midwicket. On the third occasion the ball fell just short of Virat Kohli at midwicket off the same bowler.
The Indians eventually got rid of him in the 13th over after Marlon Samuels called him through for an ill-judged single and the slow-running Gayle was run out. Before that Ashwin gave the first breakthrough in the eighth over by removing the struggling Dwayne Smith, who scored 11 off 29 balls.
Magical Mishra then demolished the West Indians by taking two wickets off consecutive deliveries of the 15th over to make sure West Indies were well short of a competitive total against the vaunted Indian batting line up and later received the man of the match award.
Mishra tossed up a leg-break which Marlon Samuels came forward to negotiate but was beaten in the flight and MS Dhoni made no mistake to light up the bails and then Dwayne Bravo was trapped in front by a googly for a first-ball duck.
Lendl Simmons then produced some big shots during his 22-ball 27; two sixes against Ravindra Jadeja in the last over. Jadeja conceded 21 runs in the last over as Sunil Narine smashed another for six to finish with figures of three for 48 in four overs.
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This meeting plan will focus on Native American games. So it will fulfill part of Bear Acheivement 15 – Games, Games, Games and part of Bear Elective 24 – American Indian Life.
Cub Scout Archives: Bear Badge
Helps for the Bear Badge for Cub Scouts.
Why Opossum Has a Bare Tail
This is a Native American story which scouts of all ages can enjoy. It is also a cautionary tale for young men who like to build huge campfires.
Egg Carton Caterpillar
This springtime craft could serve as a gathering activity at a den meeting. Use it to fulfill Tiger electives, Bear electives, a construction for the Artist activity badge, or for the Cub Scout Academics and Sports program Art pin.
Pahsahëman – A Native American Field Game
Pahsahëman is similar to football. It has been played by the Lenape of the American Northeast for many generations. These instructions include tips for adapting this game for use with scouts.
The Legend of The Pony Express
The story of the Pony Express at a 3rd grade level – written for use with Cub Scout Bear Achievement 4: Tall Tales
Fire Drill Time!
Fire drills are encouraged throughout scouting programs, from the Tigers to Boy Scouts. Print out a basic plan for conducting a home fire drill.
Leaf Print Craft
Make a print using leaves and paint. Cub Scouts can use this to fulfill or enrich Tiger Requirement 5D, Tiger Elective 2, Tiger Elective 12, Wolf Elective 12, Bear Elective 12, Webelos Artist activity badge, or the Art belt loop and pin.
Picaria – A Native American Game
Picaria is a Native American board game. It is like a cross between tic-tac-toe and checkers. It could be used with Tiger, Wolf, or Bear electives or with a group working on the Indian Lore merit badge.
Cub Scout Nutrition Game – Food Pyramid Go Fish Game
This is basically a go fish game with different types of food. I liked how the kids talked about the different types of food they saw on the cards.
Make a Soda Bottle Terrarium
Making a terrarium is a great springtime activity. Plus – it reuses a plastic soda bottle, which is great for starting a discussion about Earth Day approaching.
Seed Mosaics Craft
Here's a spring craft idea for all of you Tiger leaders. Have the scouts make a seed mosaic to give to mom for Mother's Day. You can even fulfill Tiger elective 2: Make a decoration with your family or den. Display it or give it to someone as a gift.
Helps and Requirements for Bear
Bear is the Cub Scout program for boys in 3rd grade. Find helps and requirements for the Bear program on this page.
Native American Games
I've decided to work on Bear Elective 24 – American Indian Life. They have studied Native American culture this year in school and made model villages.


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Mountmellick embroidery collectionsAround the world you can find examples of Mountmellick embroidery within museum and guild collections. It is always wonderful to see the real thing! You gain a real appreciation of the texture, feel and appearance of the work, that you just can't get from books or webpages. If there is any way you can visit some of these places, I would encourage you to - what you will learn from seeing the real thing is priceless. At most, if not all of these institutions the Mountmellick articles are not on display. You should always contact the curator first, and if necessary make an appointment to view the work. It would be very disappointing to miss out because they simply did not know you were coming. You may need to make arrangements many months beforehand, so plan ahead! It is unlikely that you will be able to touch the pieces, but the supervising curator may be able to show you what you would like to see. If you know of other public or guild collections that include examples of historical Mountmellick embroidery, I would love to hear about them. More contemporary (i.e. worked after 1960) Mountmellick embroidery, while beautiful, is not the focus of these listings. Australia The Powerhouse Museum
The Embroiderer's Guild of Victoria
The Embroiderer's Guild of Queensland
"Meroogal" Historic Houses Trust
Europe The Victoria and Albert Museum
The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
The National Museum of Ireland
The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
An Grianan Adult Education College
Mountmellick Development Association Museum
Hardanger embroideryHistory of Hardangersom (Part 1)
Merezhka embroideryThe Ukrainian Museum, New York
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Please join us again this year for a spectacular
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The Event will be on Sunday, October 19 at the Mahopac Firehouse From 1-4pm.
Together let's help make a difference in this fight to save the lives of all of those battling blood cancers.
Because of the generosity of all those who attended, along with all the wonderful volunteers, we were able to raise almost $10,000 last year.
I know with your help this year will be even more successful!!
We are inviting all kids, parents, grandparents, friends and family to participate in a fun day of crafts. A variety of stations will be set up where kids can participate in making crafts and art projects that they can take home with them. We will have face painting, hair extensions and lots of yummy treats to eat.
We will also be holding a raffle for an iPad Mini and a silent auction again this year.
We are asking for volunteers to donate their time.
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All money raised will be given towards medical research for pediatric blood cancers through FIVE FOR FIGHTING INC., a not-for-profit registered 501 (c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to this cause.


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In an interview with Empire Magazine, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige gave brief details about Thanos' appearance in next summer's Guardians of the Galaxy movie.
"Ronan The Accuser (Lee Pace) is very much the main bad guy. And Thanos is lurking above it all. You will learn more about Thanos in Guardians, for sure. Certainly you'll get more than the one turn-around-and-smirk. You'll get much more than that."
Also known is at the start of Guardians of the Galaxy that Ronan, Nebula, Korath and Gamora are all working together and for Thanos. While not much is known about Benicio del Toro's character the Collector, this is a tempting spot with a lack of information from Marvel that deserves some thought and guesses.
Perhaps del Toro is really playing Thanos or maybe fans will have to start assuming that Vin Diesel could actually be Thanos, since he is still not confirmed to really be voicing Groot yet. While Marvel has been making announcements through their own website for Ultron and Rocket Raccoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper), they have neglected to announce who Diesel really is.
The conspiracy theories continue... and look to have moved on to Thanos now.


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Around this time of year, we get a lot of questions about the difference between graduation invitations and graduation announcements, so we thought we'd lay everything out here to clear the air in case it's been a while since you were in a cap and gown…
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These are invitations to either the graduation itself, to a graduation party or both. The designs include all of the standard event information, including the time, date, address and other specifics (like whether or not to bring a gift).
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These are the cards a grad sends to family and friends to share the big news about the graduation. It includes information about the graduate, including the school he or she is graduating from, but doesn't include the time, date or location like an invitation would.
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ON SALE FRIDAY 19TH NOVEMBER 9AM Last seen kicking off November in style as support artist at one of the hottest tickets of the year so far, Paloma Faith's show here, we are delighted to announce that Eliza Doolittle will be returning to Wolverhampton to grace the Wulfrun Hall stage next April? Eliza Doolittle - strong of opinion, smiley of face, loud of tights - was born in Camden, north London 22 years ago. Informed by the stresses of modern city life, teenage aggro, classic pop, old soul and the appeal of simple, strong melodies built from clanking percussion and jazzy licks, Eliza's eponymous debut album is bursting at the seams with life and enthusiasm and vigour - just like its creator. Raised by a piano-playing dad and singing mum, Eliza's been writing songs since she was 12. "Mr Mysterious" was one of the first - I was listening to Destiny's Child, and I thought I had to write about a boy. It actually put me off writing about boys forever," she laughs. Another early composition was 'Without Your Presence,' which she still likes and wants to give to Leona Lewis. "It's a bit of a diva song. It's really pretty." Her precocious songwriting talent soon got her noticed, with Eliza signing a publishing deal at 16. As she matured, her songs began to flower into the magical blooms they are today - gorgeous pop songs which mine sounds from the 60's and 70's while managing to sound indisputably fresh. Little wonder: although a diehard fan of classic pop in all its guises - the likes of the Beach Boys, The Kinks, and Stevie Wonder slip in constantly while she gushes about music - she doesn't see herself belonging to the current cut and dried pop mould. "I'd like to be a pop musician in the proper old school vein of pop when there weren't any different genres like there are now, it was all just pop music," she says. Of current influences, she demurs that she can't really think of any. "There's lots of things I do like, like Vampire Weekend, Kid Harpoon, or Arctic Monkeys, but I don't sound like them at all", she insists. As for the name - well, Eliza is her given first name. "I love my real surname but it isn't very pop-starry," says Eliza, explaining why she decided to use her childhood nickname as her recording alias. "And now I just am Eliza Doolittle, everyone calls me it." On her debut album, released earlier this year, Eliza marries breezily beautiful melodies and witty, erudite lyrics with a delightfully off-kilter twist and a knack for a killer hook. Eliza's attitude, whether on-mic, in-studio or onstage, is not that of a high-maintenance diva "You pick up something, you just play it, busker vibe, whether it's a glockenspiel or ukulele. I love tiny instruments. I like the look and the sound of them. On 'Rollerblades' the drums are actually a child's drum-kit." 'Pack Up' boldly raids the chorus of the George Henry Powell marching song 'Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag' and repurposes it to startling effect, creating a gorgeous dance-hall ode to the joys of being the eternal optimist, and 'Money Box' is a beautifully orchestrated rant against senseless materialism, with Doolittle touchingly insisting she won't be "down with no pound?all I need's right here, right here with you my dear". 'Police Car' has a more night-time vibe, a downtempo lament swaddled in melancholy woodwind in which the teardrop in Eliza's remarkable voice is to the fore. "It's about me getting myself into a bit of trouble by being a bit blunt sometimes and saying the wrong thing," she explains. "I do regret my mouth sometimes?but then sometimes I think, well, that's what I think, it doesn't matter. But maybe I'm still learning!" Ultimately, Eliza wants people who listen to her music to have fun. "I want to write songs people can sing along to. I can think of nothing more exciting than travelling the world and playing to audiences and having them sing your words along with you". To that end, she's been developing her live act, now surrounding herself with "the most incredible musicians - they're offbeat, really cool, and they're singing the songs with me too" and is bracing herself for her first ever tour in February. "When I first played live I would shake with fear, and my voice would tremble. But I do it for the love of it. There's nothing I love more than playing live". "Compared to the greatest people I see, I'm just me", she muses aloud on 'Nobody', an outstanding track on the album. She needn't worry; if her first album is anything to go by, she's certainly got the outsize humour, intelligence, talent and the exceptional pop nous to go far. Eliza Doolittle is evidence that the potential for exceptional pop music still exists, and moreover, that you can break the rules and stereotypes while delivering it.


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"Heroes" star Milo Ventimiglia stopped by CBR TV to discuss the difficulty spelling and pronouncing his last name, working with Top Cow to finish and collect "Rest," the current status of "Berserker," the ending of "Heroes" [...]
CBR TV @ CCI: Tim Kring
"Heroes" creator Tim Kring discusses his new novel, "Shift," the impact technology has had on television watching as a whole and "Heroes" specifically, the final fate of the NBC series and more.
CBR TV @ CCI 2009: Brea and Zane Grant
Brea and Zane Grant talk to CBR TV about their comic, "We Will Bury You," from IDW Publishing. The brother and sister writing team discuss the genesis of their historical fiction zombie comic, the potential for a sequel and adapting it to other mediums.
CBR TV: Behind The Scenes of "Heroes"
In this exclusive video set-visit, CBR News talks with actors Zachary Quinto, Robert Knepper, Ray Park and Dawn Olivieri about the fourth season of "Heroes" and give you a tour of the carnival set!
CBR TV @ CCI 2009: Zachary Quinto
The star of "Heroes" and "Star Trek," Zachary Quinto talks to CBR TV about his role as producer of the Archaia titles "Mr. Murder is Dead" and "Lucid," as well as how his Comic-Con experience has changed since "Star Trek."
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The artist of such classics as "Batman: The Long Halloween" and "Grendel: Devil Child," Tim Sale stopped by CBR's Los Angeles studio to discuss "Captain America: White," his newest collaboration with writer Jeph Loeb, as well as his extensive work on the hit NBC television series "Heroes."
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The star of NBC's "Heroes" and the producer of Devil's Due's "Rest," Milo Ventimiglia stopped by CBR TV to talk about the latest developments on both projects, including de-powering Peter and what exactly a "producer" does on a comic book.
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JeffFebruary 2000 |
Okay -- I'm not going to start this talking about how much I love my boyfriend (mainly cuz I don't have one) or how Valentines day is coming up, and how lovely it is... BLEH! BAH HUMBUG. Call me Scrooge, but I really am not looking forward to this month at all. This is when I will see if I have passed all of my exams, and make up little white lies about how much fun I had on the 14th to all of my friends.
Believe it or not peoples, Jeffie has finally turned seventeen! What a momentous occasion! Now I feel "in" with all those girls who buy that porny "seventeen" magazines. I'm not exactly happy to be getting older though. If I was turning nineteen I might be a little happier, because then I'd be in university, I could go into bars, and I could rent XXX porn legally. Oh woe is me! Jeffie can't buy porn! Oh well -- there's always a collection on my favorite websit... erm... moving right along...
If you've all read some of my past articles, I always whine and bitch and complain that I don't have a boyfriend, and that the guy that I finally do "find" has to be perfect -- blah blah blah-well -- here's news! Jeffie's given up hope. I'm just gonna give love a chance wherever I find it. If the guy seems nice, why not give him a chance, that's what I say! (Of course, he has to fall within CERTAIN age and other specifications)
Again -- moving right along -- interesting.. hmm.. let me thing.. what would YOU (the reader) like to read about?
BAH! Ferget it heheheh
I was just in my one of my favoritest stores -- chapters! I've seriously never had a better coffee. Not only was the coffee good, but I got to peruse the books and most importantly, the boys -- there was this cute blonde boy, with a cell phone -- he was so yummy. I almost tripped while in line for my coffee because I was staring at him... (This is in the London, Ontario Chapters, btw -- so if that cute little blonde boy with the cellphone saw me -- I was the cute one with the stylish attaché (some people DARE to call it a purse) then let's talk!)--yeah yeah yeah -- that was a cheap attempt at finding him, but you can't blame me for trying can you?
As the months go on, I find myself getting more and more excited for summer --weird eh? I never have enjoyed winter very much. The more summers that come and go, the more excited I am to go away to University -- but I've got one little problem... I was pretty sure that I wanted to go to university for Computer Sciences because I love computers, and I am good at coding and I could see myself doing it for a while. Keyword: a while. I'm not sure whether I would enjoy doing that for the rest of my life... so I'm thinkin' that I might try being an airline steward for a while. It might also be interesting to work for an Internet Service Provider-shrug-I really don't know what I want to do anymore, and it's starting to bother me -- only weeks ago I was sure of what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, and now I'm not so sure... If you have any advice or anything, please send it, cuz I 'm pretty confused as it is now.
Song pick for the month! The selection I chose this month is Bette Midler -- I'm Beautiful, DAMMIT! This is one inspiring song people! I know that Bette can't sing if her life depended on it, but that is not the point! The lyrics rule, and I find this song really really inspiring. If you get a chance to listen to it, not only will you turn it off immediately because of Bette's voice, but you'll be inclined now to turn it back on because Jeffie TOLD YOU that it has good lyrics. Give a listen -- tell me what you think.
This month's article is written on the fly, on the 401 -- also lovingly named "death alley". The trucks are big and scary, and the monitor on my laptop is so bright that I can't see anything else but what I am writing! Anyway...
Jeffie's Final Thought: I want to thank all my guests today... heh. I have to say how happy that I am to actually be out of the closet now. To be able to be open with my parents, my friends, and myself has had to be one of the biggest struggles I have ever had. Now that the weight is all off of my shoulders my state of mind has improved dramatically. I realize that some of you are not in a position to come out of the dreaded closet because it would be a danger to yourself. If you're reading this, you have already taken one of the biggest and most important steps. You are out to yourself, and you're starting to deal with your sexual preference. Coming out of the closet is something I recommend to anyone -- it relieved a lot of stress in my life, and I'm sure that even opening the door a crack can prove useful!
Happy February to all of you, and a happy millennium!
Ya'll stay beautiful now! heheh
Jeff is a 17 year old boy living in Chatham Ontario Canada. He loves getting email from all of his readers, so if you've read this far, then click on this little link: click! and send your comments on this article! You can also send me pictures of you, your pet dolphin or tarantula, what you puked up from going to the bar last night, or porn erm... educational reference material.
Jeffie also has pictures online so you can see exactly how ugly he is. Click here to head on over to the part of his website where you can evaluate his pictures. If he sees any of these on a porn site, I will track you down and make you into a McDonalds hamburger.
This concludes the gratuitous self pitying part of Jeff's article! Tune in next month! EMAIL ME! NOW!


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For the best combination of yield and quality, cut alfalfa as short as possible, advises Daniel Wiersma.
"From a yield standpoint, we're seeing very significant differences, and quality changes aren't that great," says Wiersma, an agronomist at the University of Wisconsin's Marshfield Ag Research Station.
In his tests the past two seasons, total dry matter yield from three cuttings increased an average 1/2 ton/acre for each 1" reduction in cutting height. Lower cutting reduced relative feed value by about four points per inch. But potential milk yield per acre – a combined measure of forage yield and quality – increased by 900 lbs/acre for each 1" reduction in cutting height.
Wiersma's findings are similar to those reported earlier by agronomist Dwain Meyer at North Dakota State University. He found significant yield gains from cutting alfalfa as low as 1".
Meyer says most of the yield gain from close cutting isn't simply due to the fact that more of the plants are harvested each time. It's due to increased growth from stems originating from the crowns rather than from axillary buds on the lower portions of stems.
Wiersma is beginning the final year of the three-year study. Two tests were conducted at Marshfield in 1999, and a trial was added at another central Wisconsin location last year. In each case, cutting-height treatments ranged from 2" to 6".
Average season-long yields both years were 5 tons/acre for the shortest cutting height; 2.5 tons/acre for the longest.
He recommends that growers leave a 2" stubble when cutting healthy, unstressed alfalfa in spring and summer. Adjust cutting height upward when the crop has been stressed by drought or flooding, or in fields that have been cut early and often. If a fall cutting is taken, leave a 4" stubble to catch snow.
Close cutting takes planning, Wiersma adds. "You have to work hard to get rid of rocks," he says. "We seed with a grain drill and press them down with a cultipacker-type roller behind the drill."


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Hey...I'm going on a ski instructor course to NZ in a few days and was just wondering how easy it is to get a part time job down there?
I don't have a work visa because I left it too late to apply (6 weeks!!) but may get a permit depending on how long they take...but how willing are employers to just do cash in hand? Also...I'm 17, nearly 18...how strict are they Re: drinking / bars etc? Cheers in advance J |
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don't count on work. you may be able to swing something but the nz govt have been known to do inspections, especially in hotspots like queenstown. most employers don't want to run the risk of getting busted. that being said i did know people who were working under the table. won't hurt to ask around when you get there.
as far as id goes, i was 25 while i was there and got carded EVERYWHERE, and they would only accept my passport. good luck |
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thats because theres a rule here that if you look under 25 you will be id'd, only some local liquor stores wont as they want to make the sale but the risk is to high for others, huge fines and loss of liceneces
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It is not surprising that, for the next two centuries, manualists concurred with this weighty papal judgement. In the last expiring months of the Old Rite (which had at that point received only two or three trifling modifications - see earlier post), on March 7 1965, a Rite of Concelebration was promulgated for use with the old rite. In accordance with actual words of the Council, the document was less than whole-hearted in its endorsement of daily Concelebration when all the concelebrants are presbyters, but the rite was intended to be used universally at Ordinations, Consecrations, Abbatial Blessings, in Councils, Synods, and Episcopal meetings, and at both Masses on Maundy Thursday.
As far as Maundy Thursday Concelebration is concerned, this is something which had not lost its last foothold in the Latin Church until our own time. The Rite of Lyons, which survived - am I right? - until the Council, provided that on that one day six presbyters had the right to sit with the Archbishop and concelebrate (honor sedendi et offerendi). This was but the last survival of a widespread practice of such concelebration in French cathedrals during the Counter-Reformation period.
So the 1965 provisions seem to me a thoroughly 'organic' liturgical development. They seem to me to draw, not as revolutionary liturgical subversives so often and so cheerfully do, upon dubious reconstructions of 'what the Early Church did', but upon a broad consideration of the Church's whole liturgical tradition, upon the Magisterium and especially (when the meaning of the Roman Rite is concerned) that of Roman Pontiffs, and upon the consensus of reliable manualists.
And (paragraph 10) they concur with the judgement on Mass-stipends of Benedict XIV and those who followed him: Singuli concelebrantes stipendium legitime percipere possunt ad normam iuris.
I withdraw nothing of what I have often said in criticism of the post-Conciliar emphasis on Concelebrations at the expense of the normal discipline of the daily Mass.
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- Michael McDonough said...
As a mere layman I concur about the 1965 "reformed liturgy". Whether in English or Latin, it did not elicit any surprise to me or my family/acquaintances, which may be a sign of an organic development, i.e., that it not elicit overmuch (much less greatly critical) comment by ordinary folk.
- 10 November, 2009
- Christian Rideout said...
I just don't like concelebration, though it has its place in some limited occasions. It works at ordinations to the priesthood, at episcopal consecrations, and at a few unique occasions, such as Lambeth conferences, papal visitations, etc. But there should be no more concelebrants than can conveniently fit around the altar without obstructing lines of sight. But frankly, I believe in a one chasuble rule for most celebrations. It keeps the focus of the faithful and the clergy on the primal event of the consecration of the Eucharist.
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Fr. Hunwicke,
You will be gald to know that not only did teh Rite of Lyons survive until the council, but teh FSSP's apostolate in Lyons has celebrated it---at least that was my understanding when visitin them there many years ago. Further, I undestood they were doing this with the encourage of the then Archbishop and primate of Gaul's encouragement and support. - 16 November, 2009
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Sorry for some reason this went before I was ready. The corrected version reads:
Fr. Hunwicke,
You will be glad to know that not only did the Rite of Lyons survive until the council, but the FSSP's apostolate in Lyons has celebrated it---at least that was my understanding when visiting them there many years ago. Further, I understood they were doing this with the then Archbishop and Primate of Gaul's encouragement and support. - 16 November, 2009


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Yeongam, 6 October – Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa finished the fourteenth round of the World Championship in sixth and ninth places respectively. Only two teams were represented on the podium, with Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel on the top step flanked by the Lotus duo of Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean. The result means that Fernando is still second in the Drivers' championship, but he trails Vettel by 77 points with a further 125 points on offer from the remaining five races. Felipe is seventh, while Scuderia Ferrari remains second in the Constructors' although the Mercedes team has closed to within one point. While Fernando didn't bring home as many points as he would have wanted to, the Spaniard was one of the main protagonists of what was a thrilling, incident packed race, as he tried for much of the race to find a way past the Ferrari-powered Sauber of Hulkenberg, who eventually finished fourth.
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