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We have access through June 2009. If you like this database and think we should keep it beyond May, please let us know! Email Gretchen Gross, that's ggross at jjay dot cuny dot edu or post a comment below.
Posted Monday, May 4, 2009 - 10:02am
Litfinder contains the full text of literary works from over 80,000 authors, with broad coverage of canonical, contemporary, award-winning and emerging authors. In addition to the 6,000+ works of short fiction in LitFinder, major novels and works of drama are also included. Litfinder also includes a number of secondary materials, including: Biographical Essays, Topic Overviews, Work Overviews, and Images. We have access to Litfinder through August 2010.
Posted Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 4:15pm
We have just added Proquest Platinum to our list of databases. PQ Platinum is an index with full-text, of articles published in over 2,000 journals and magazines, plus some newspapers. It is similar in terms of coverage to the Academic Search Premier database on the EBSCOhost platform. General broad coverage, not discipline specific. New York State is paying for it, through the NOVELNY consortium. Another new comer is Grolier Online, a small database composed of Encyclopedia Americana and 2 other small reference works.
Posted Wednesday, April 1, 2009 - 11:20am
Dr. Paige H. Gordier, Lloyd Sealy Library Fellow for spring 2009, will present her lecture Capital Murder Trials in the Late 1800s: A Reflection of Public Opinion on the Death Penalty. This presentation will focus on the capital murder trials which took place in the county of New York in the late 1800s. Trial transcripts and newspapers of the times were used to determine what crime, offender and victim related characteristics would most often result in a death sentence. Dr. Gordier's study also focuses on the influence of public opinion on the criminal trial process. Public opinion on capital punishment, immigration and the role of women are reflected in the trial process and in particular, in the jury selection process.
Please join us for this exciting event! Monday, March 30, 2009, Room 630T, at 3:30 p.m. A reception will follow the lecture.
Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 - 2:24pm
In partnership with the Center for the Advancement of Teaching, the library has arranged a short series of information literacy workshops for John Jay faculty. Click here for more information.
Posted Thursday, March 5, 2009 - 3:26pm
Ron Arons is appearing in a panel discussion at the Tenement Museum on March 11 at 6:30 PM, entitled Jews behaving badly. Appearing with Ron Arons will be Rich Cohen and Rose Keefe, to discuss gangsters and other notorious law breakers. Their books include The Jews of Sing-Sing, Tough Jews and The Starker: Big Jack Zelig, the Becker-Rosenthal Case, and The Advent of the Jewish Gangster. More information about the event can be found here. Ron Arons is a scholar who has spent a lot of time in the John Jay Special Collections carrying out research for his recent book, The Jews of Sing Sing: Gotham gangsters and gonuvim (call no: Stacks - HV6194 .J4 A76 2008 ). Information about the book can be seen on Aron's website.
Posted Thursday, March 5, 2009 - 3:18pm
The Chief Librarian Larry Sullivan and the Special Collections Librarian Ellen Belcher are making sure Broadway actors wear historically correct NYPD uniforms. The New York Times reports on how the Lloyd Sealy Library was able to help a West Side Story costume designer when other organizations could not. The NY Times article is here.
The Lloyd Sealy library is probably the only place in the world that holds such a variety of historical police manuals and handbooks which were produced for daily use within the departments and likely discarded after they became obsolete. Our special collections holds several general procedural manuals for the NYPD including those dating to 1929, 1940, 1949 and 1956 along with many historical manuals and handbooks from police departments worldwide.
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 4:17pm
The catalog, CUNY+ has been experiencing significant problems during the first days of the spring semester. The university systems librarian has apologized for the state of affairs, and has assured us that the problem has been identified, and a fix to restore normal service is being applied. We expect the catalog to return to normal by the latest, Thursday 5 pm, January 29th. Until the catalog returns, we cannot identify with accuracy the call numbers, locations and circulating status of books in the library. UPDATE: CUNY+ is back. Service should now be normal according to the CUNY director of library systems. Here at John Jay it does seem slow, but working.
Posted Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 9:52am
The latest version of Classified Information, the Lloyd Sealy Library newsletter has just been published.
Posted Thursday, January 15, 2009 - 4:53pm
Eighteenth Century Collection Online. Access the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 26 million pages, it allows new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
The Making of the Modern World. Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850 provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. Full-text searching on more than 12 million pages provides unparalleled access to this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.
The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 is the fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. In 8,000 issues and more than 600,0000 pages, EHA offers full-color images, multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements and surveys, together with a gallery of front covers and a selection of exportable financial tables.
Faulkner Security Management Practices provides reports written by industry practitioners and technical writers on topics like facility security, IT and network security, financial and legal security, business continuity, biometrics, risk and crisis management, public safety, personnel security and security technology. About a dozen new reports are added every month.
Faulkner Advisory for Information Technology Studies provides reports on topics like wireless communications, data networking, security, streaming media, government IT topics, healthcare IT topics, information management, the internet and web. Types of reports include technology tutorials, marketplace insights, product face-offs, product and service profiles, standards reports, comparison and selection guides, and more.
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INLS 501: Information Resources and Services
"The answer is inconsequential. It's how we go about finding the answer." -- Allen Smith
Course description
This course will address sources, services, and systems for providing reference and information service in libraries and information centers. We will examine, create, and evaluate reference sources in a variety of formats. You will gain experience with using, providing, and evaluating reference services in a variety of media.
The course will address the following areas, in varying depth:
- Overview of the reference function and the role of libraries;
- The history and future of reference service;
- Structure, access, and evaluation of information tools;
- Question negotiation;
- Search skills and search strategy; and
- Evaluation of reference services.
INLS 501 is an introduction to reference sources and services, broadly construed. If you are interested in reference work in specific environments, SILS offers a variety of courses: INLS 703, 704, & 705, 708, 709, and others.
Course objectives
By the end of the course, students will:
- Be able to identify appropriate information sources and search tools for various types of information needs, and
- Use these sources and tools effectively,
- Evaluate information sources and search tools for quality,
- Evaluate information sources and search tools for relevance to their own information needs,
- Understand the steps of the reference transaction, including question negotiation and search strategy development,
- Be able to create documents for indirect reference.
Jeffrey Pomerantz, Ph.D.
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A note about office hours: I live in Seattle, WA & will therefore not be holding in person office hours in Chapel Hill. I will hold virtual office hours using Google Hangouts. And I am reachable by all of the fine media listed above. Contact me via any means you prefer. I'm happy to schedule a phonecall if you require a longer conversation. | |
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Course management
Sakai site: Only your grades will be in Sakai. All other course content and activity will be on the course WordPress site.
Course LibGuides site (I will provide you with login info in class)
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Textbook & reading
There is one required text for this course:
Bopp, Richard E. and Linda C. Smith. (2001). Reference and Information Services: An Introduction, 3rd ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.
Available in the bookstore and on reserve in the SILS library.
Additional reading
Reference is a central function of libraries, and as a result a lot gets written about it. Bopp & Smith is the textbook that we use in this course, but another good text is the two-volume work by Katz:
Katz, William A. (2002). Introduction to Reference Work, Volume I: Basic Information Sources. 8th Ed. New York: McGraw‑Hill.
Katz, William A. (2002). Introduction to Reference Work, Volume II: Reference Services and Reference Processes. 8th Ed. New York: McGraw‑Hill.
There are several journals dedicated to reference, including:
- Reference & User Services Quarterly (RUSA's journal, formerly titled RQ (Reference Quarterly))
- Reference Services Review
- The Reference Librarian
And pretty much every journal in the field of ILS publishes articles on reference from time to time.
Information Service Evaluation
Internet Public Library
Social Q&A
Course Page
Liaison Librarianship
Grading rubric & other policies
See my course grading rubric.
See my course policies.
See the web.unc.edu Online Class Statement.
Assignments constitute the following percentage of your final grade:
- Information Service Evaluation: 20%
- Internet Public Library: 15%
- Social Q&A: 15%
- Course Page: 20%
- Liaison Librarianship: 20%
- Participation: 10%
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Benjamin Powell Discusses Government Shutdown on Stossel Recorded: Thursday, October 3, 2013
Senior Fellow Benjamin Powell discusses the partial Government shutdown on the Fox Business Channels Stossel show.
Experts: Benjamin W. PowellType: TelevisionIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Economic Policy, Fiscal Policy/Debt, Political Ideology and Philosophy
John Goodman on the Costs of Obamacare Recorded: Thursday, May 30, 2013
Research Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, on CNBC's "The Kudlow Report" discussing Obamacare's promised cost savings and the reality that millions will pay more for health insurance.
Experts: John C. GoodmanType: TelevisionIssues: Economic Policy, Fiscal Policy/Debt, Free Market Economics, Health Care, Public Health/ Consumer Protection
The Challenge of Liberty Summer Seminar is BackWill You Be There? Recorded: Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Anthony Gregory, Research Fellow, Student Programs Director, and author of The Power of Habeas Corpus in America: From the Kings Prerogative to the War on Terror, gives a behind the scenes look at the exciting opportunities available to students at The Challenge of Liberty Seminar this summer.
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What Should the Fed Be Doing?: Myths, Current Strategies and Alternatives Recorded: Monday, November 12, 2012
Research Fellow David Beckworth, editor of Boom and Bust Banking, and Research Fellow Scott Sumner, contributor to Boom and Bust Banking, discuss the role of the Fed.
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Student Perspectives 2012 Summer Seminar for College Students Recorded: Friday, August 3, 2012
These Student Perspectives are from our 2012 Challenge of Liberty Summer Seminar for college students, which was held from July 30 to August 3, 2012, at Notre Dame de Namurs University, Belmont, California. View more videos and information about the Summer Seminars.
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Vern McKinley on the Dysfunctional Banking System Recorded: Monday, February 6, 2012
Research Fellow Vern McKinley interviewed on MSNBCs The Dylan Ratigan Show on the failure of Federal Regulators and the dysfunctional Mortgage/Banking system from the perspective of his new book, Financing Failure: A Century of Bailouts.
Experts: Vern P. McKinleyType: TelevisionIssues: Banking and Finance, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Fiscal Policy/Debt, Political Ideology and Philosophy
Benjamin Powell on Federal Youth Summer Jobs Funding & Consumer Banking Problems Recorded: Thursday, January 5, 2012
Senior Fellow Benjamin Powell on Freedom Watch discusses Federal youth summer jobs funding and consumer banking problems.
Experts: Benjamin W. PowellType: TelevisionIssues: Banking and Finance, Fiscal Policy/Debt, Public Health/ Consumer Protection, Urban Issues
Benjamin Powell on the Payroll Tax Cut and Salt Regulation by the FDA Recorded: Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Benjamin Powell engages with Judge Napolitano on Fox Business Networks Freedom Watch about the payroll tax cut and the FDA regulation of salt.
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Former Utne Reader senior editor Keith Goetzman on environmental issues from climate change to composting.
It's hard to enter a store these days without being visually assaulted by labels, logos, and signs that appeal to our environmental consciousness. It turns out that there's an even more powerful way for marketers to signal an environmental product to shoppers: Make it brown.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Dunkin' Donuts and Target's in-store cafes have switched from white to brown napkins, while Seventh Generation even adds brown pigments to its eco-friendly diapers "to drive home the environmental message."
And Cascades Tissue is about to enter a new frontier with its U.S. rollout of a beige toilet paper called Moka. It might be a hard sell for fussy Americans, though. Writes WSJ:
Consumers in regions outside of North America are more accepting of recycled toilet paper and more readily embrace colored or fragranced rolls. Kimberly-Clark's local brands sell apricot-colored paper in the U.K., green in Poland, "sunny orange" in Switzerland and "natural pebble" in Germany, the company says.
It's a different story in the U.S. When Cascades pitched its Moka toilet paper to distributors at a recent trade show, "faces showed disgust" at first, says [Cascades marketing director Isabell] Faivre. "Then they would feel the product and it was, 'Oh, wow, that would be perfect,'" for customers who want softness, but also want green credentials, she says.
Let's not kid ourselves, however: Most Americans prefer bleached-white, super-cushy toilet paper, and the vast majority of the stuff we buy is highly unsustainable. As of 2009, 98 percent of the toilet paper sold in the United States came from virgin wood, according to Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist for the Natural Resources Defense Council, as reported in The Guardian in a story that explores "the tenderness of the delicate American buttock." As Hershkowitz put it: "Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Making toilet paper from virgin wood is a lot worse than driving Hummers in terms of global warming pollution." Christophers Mims at Grist has a solution: Stop using the stuff. I'm going to let him make the case: The solution is straightforward: Do away with T.P. Think that sounds unsanitary? Not as unsanitary as our current approach. This is how a friend put it: What if I pooped on your arm and you wiped it off with a paper towel. Is it clean now? There's nothing even weird about the idea — lots of cultures don't share our freakish obsession with sticking paper up our bums. The French invented the bidet in 1710. Sources: Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Grist Image by CorruptKitten, licensed under Creative Commons.
Let's not kid ourselves, however: Most Americans prefer bleached-white, super-cushy toilet paper, and the vast majority of the stuff we buy is highly unsustainable. As of 2009, 98 percent of the toilet paper sold in the United States came from virgin wood, according to Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist for the Natural Resources Defense Council, as reported in The Guardian in a story that explores "the tenderness of the delicate American buttock."
As Hershkowitz put it:
"Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Making toilet paper from virgin wood is a lot worse than driving Hummers in terms of global warming pollution."
Christophers Mims at Grist has a solution: Stop using the stuff. I'm going to let him make the case:
The solution is straightforward: Do away with T.P. Think that sounds unsanitary? Not as unsanitary as our current approach. This is how a friend put it: What if I pooped on your arm and you wiped it off with a paper towel. Is it clean now?
There's nothing even weird about the idea — lots of cultures don't share our freakish obsession with sticking paper up our bums. The French invented the bidet in 1710.
Sources: Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Grist
The Nature Conservancy is taking a new stripped-down approach to environmental protection: The green group is teaming up with the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue and online luxury retailer Gilt to raise money for beach preservation in an unholy mashup of sex, commerce, marketing, publishing, and environmentalism.
Why the green tie-in? "Because everyone benefits from pristine tropical beaches. Especially when they're occupied by gorgeous women in bathing suits." That's according to promotional prose about the partnership on the Gilt website, in an announcement that is no longer posted. (Though you can still buy a $1,000 ticket to a New York launch party where you can hang out with the swimsuit supermodels.)
Gilt will be selling Sports Illustrated-themed swimsuits, surfboards, photos, and other merch on its site, with all ecommerce sale proceeds going "to preserve the beaches SI features in its pages," reports Folio magazine.
Not everyone is sold on the mission. "What's next for The Nature Conservancy?" wrote a commenter on Folio. "Partnering with porn sites?"
I understand the writer's sentiment. The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue has long been an overhyped exercise in sexual objectification and anorexia induction, and I'm not sure why The Nature Conservancy thinks it will benefit from hitching its green message to the marketing machine that cranks out this cheeseball, throwback brand of softcore year after year. The association seems to risk putting off every potential supporter who doesn't think Mad Men is a look back at the good old days.
Environmental writer Derrick Jensen of Orion already saw this sort of thing coming, having penned a prescient column in the current issue titled "Not in My Name." Go ahead and call him a killjoy, but I think he pretty much nailed it:
Let me say upfront: I like fun, and I like sex. But I'm sick to death of hearing that we need to make environmentalism fun and sexy. … The fact that so many people routinely call for environmentalism to be more fun and more sexy reveals not only the weakness of our movement but also the utter lack of seriousness with which even many activists approach the problems we face. …
Unfortunately, the notion that activism … has to be fun and sexy pervades the entire environmental movement, from the most self-styled radical to the most mainstream reformist.
Sources: Folio, Gilt Groupe, Orion
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To the power brokers of America's right, climate change poses a dire threat to business as usual. Environmentalism, in fact, is seen by many of them as a stalking horse for an even more sinister force: socialism. Progressive thinker Naomi Klein expertly dissects this dynamic in her Nation article "Capitalism vs. the Climate," explaining why the average modern conservative is terrified silly by the prospect of confronting human-caused climate change:
Responding to climate change requires that we break every rule in the free-market playbook and that we do so with great urgency. We will need to rebuild the public sphere, reverse privatizations, relocalize large parts of economies, scale back overconsumption, bring back long-term planning, heavily regulate and tax corporations, maybe even nationalize some of them, cut military spending and recognize our debts to the global South. Of course, none of this has a hope in hell of happening unless it is accompanied by a massive, broad-based effort to radically reduce the influence that corporations have over the political process. That means, at a minimum, publicly funded elections and stripping corporations of their status as "people" under the law. In short, climate change supercharges the pre-existing case for virtually every progressive demand on the books, binding them into a coherent agenda based on a clear scientific imperative. …
Climate change detonates the ideological scaffolding on which contemporary conservatism rests. There is simply no way to square a belief system that vilifies collective action and venerates total market freedom with a problem that demands collective action on an unprecedented scale and a dramatic reining in of the market forces that created and are deepening the crisis.
Klein's essay is well worth reading for anyone with an environmental consciousness who's trying to understand why saving the planet sounds so damn scary to some people. I would say it undermines everything they believe in, but as Klein makes abundantly clear, they don't believe in much of anything except preserving their own privileged, comfortable lifestyles.
After reading Klein's piece, I didn't have to go far to find someone willing to buttress her argument from the other side of the spectrum. James Delingpole, the London Telegraph reporter who set off the whole ridiculous "Climategate" imbroglio that allegedly exposed the climate hoax—but in fact did nothing of the sort—is now trotting out a book, Watermelons, apparently meant to capitalize on his hero status to climate-change deniers. He tells the libertarian magazine Reason, apparently without a trace of irony:
I call the book Watermelons because they're green on the outside but red on the inside. After the Berlin Wall came down, the communist movement, the global leftist movement, was left in a bit of a quandary. They pretty much lost the economic argument. They needed somewhere else to go, and global warming has become the great proxy issue. It enables them to achieve many of the same aims as before but under a cloak of green righteousness. This book, although it is about global warming, is about something in fact much, much bigger than that. It is about a global takeover by fascism, communism, call it what you will; their aims are much the same. It is about control.
So, let's review. If you're concerned about the future of humanity and the natural world, and you accept the scientific experts' consensus that we're rapidly degrading the planet, and you believe we need to take immediate corrective steps, you're basically a control freak trying to resurrect communism. Wow. I'm going to go for a walk in the woods and try to wrap my head around this one. Care to join me, comrade?
Sources: The Nation, Reason
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Europe's great forests are largely gone, but there's one often-overlooked country where lynx, wolves, moose, and wild boars still roam under dense tree cover: Latvia. Jeremy Hance reports in Mongabay on the Baltic nation's richly diverse forests, and how they're being endangered by an alarming logging spree during these strained economic times:
Facing tough circumstances, the country turned to its most important and abundant natural resource: forests. The Latvian government accepted a new plan for the nation's forests, which has resulted in logging at rates many scientists say are clearly unsustainable. In addition, researchers contend that the on-the-ground practices of state-owned timber giant, Latvijas Valsts meži (LVM), are hurting wildlife and destroying rare ecosystems.
LVM's lumber used to carry certification by the Forest Stewardship Council, or FSC, but FSC booted it from the program in 2010, Hance reports. LVM is attempting to regain full certification, but many biologists are worried that its loggers are rapidly chipping away at Latvia's incredible biological heritage. The country, at the crossroads of western Russia, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe, is teeming with more wildlife than many people might realize:
The nation has the highest population densities of lynx and beaver in the European Union, and not long ago the highest density of black storks. The country is also home to wild boar, red fox, capercaillie, black woodpecker, white-backed woodpecker, and moose, and a few resident bears. In fact, unlike much of Europe, Latvia still retains self-sustaining populations of historic top predators, including 500-1,000 Eurasian wolves.
I visited Latvia in 1990, but it was a tumultuous political time preceding the breakup of the USSR, and I didn't venture far from the tension-filled capital of Riga. I'd like to return one day to roam much deeper into the Latvian wilderness—if it stays wild, that is. Writes Hance:
It may not be long till the great forests of Latvia start to look like those of Western Europe: fragmented and fractured. Some forest species—like the lynx, the bear, the capercaillie, the moose, beaver, black storks, and the wolf—could vanish for good, while others may hang on in a pathetic state. In which case Latvia would have lost not only its splendid wildlife and ecosystems, but also its deep historical and cultural identity.
Source: Mongabay
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The modern wilderness expedition is typically a heavily sponsored, satellite-uplinked, closely tracked affair, with the expeditioners often just a distress call away from rescue. Magazine stories chronicling these canned adventures often rely on dramatic overstatement to punch up their otherwise predictable narratives, so it's a breath of fresh air to read an expedition account that truly takes you to the edge of adventure and to the limits of human endurance.
"Crossing Kolyma" is the understated title of Russian Life magazine's incredible story of two men's 10-month, 2,000-mile trek through remote, far eastern Siberia in 2004-2005. Author Mikael Strandberg and his travel partner Johan Ivarsson set off on their journey with a fair bit of hubris, intending to live off the land by hunting and fishing and, having been "born, bred, and still living in the Scandinavian outback," to outperform the legions of city-born adventurers who have left the short history of polar travel "a record full of frostbites and death."
Their main aim for the trip was a cultural one, "to widen the western world's knowledge about the Russian and Siberian way," writes Strandberg, who is keenly aware of the region's history as the site of Stalin's infamous gulags. Their trip, however, soon turned into a fight for survival and sanity as they endured impenetrable forest, a typhoon-driven flood, menacing bears, frostbite, and frozen stove fuel at temperatures as low as -70 Fahrenheit.
Here's a typically bleak scene from mid-journey:
"That's more frostbite," Johan despaired through his facemask. "That means I've got it on every finger."
He was having another bout of diarrhea. It was the third time in an hour he'd had to squat and drop his trousers. And his three sets of gloves. On every occasion he had experienced that burning feeling followed by numbness in one of his fingers. The first stage of frostbite. I could barely make him out in the eternal darkness of midwinter and I shivered violently. The way I had every day since we'd left the settlement of Zyranka four weeks before, in the middle of November.
"I think we'd better move on," I whispered.
I exhaled, coughed and heard the familiar tinkling sound of my breath turning into a shower of ice crystals. In Kolyma they call it "the whispers of the stars."
Strandberg and Ivarsson ended up spending a month "thawing out" in the Yakut settlement of Srednekolymsk, then forging on to their final destination in Ambarchik Bay.
Amazed by Strandberg's account of this epic trek, I tried to find out what he's up to these days. His website reveals far more about the personal aftereffects of the Kolyma trip than he lets on in the magazine story:
Siberia changed my life completely. And it ruined it. It was the best time in my life. It had everything I have ever dreamt about. The enormous taiga and the extreme cold gave me and my partner Johan Ivarsson unlimited freedom. We hunted and fished to survive. We met the best people on earth, the native Siberians. It felt like I had finally understood. Also, I felt like it doesn't matter one bit if I die now. I have seen all. Returning home was a disaster. It completely ruined my life for the next three years. A tragic divorce with the worst of consequences. I faced bitterness, hatred, shame and personal ruin.
Strandberg wouldn't be the first high-stakes expeditioner to find the transition back to "normal" life challenging. Perhaps the psychological toll of Kolyma was greater than he ever let on, and perhaps the lingering memory of the Siberian cold is what set him on his next great journey: a camel trip across Yemen.
Source: Russian Life (article not available online)
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We ought to put aside our extremism and come together to find common solutions, goes the conventional wisdom—and you can see where that kind of thinking has gotten us.
Well, it's time to reject this middling middle-of-the-roadism and take a stand, writes Paul Starr in The American Prospect. For the "fanatics of the center" are just as dangerous as the fanatics of the margins. They "believe so deeply in the spirit of compromise that their commitment to it is uncompromising," he explains. "Every time Republicans move to the right, Democrats are supposed to be willing to find common ground by moving further to the right, too. Civic virtue positively requires it."
Starr singles out for particular ridicule the Americans Elect third party, which would back only bipartisan presidential tickets, and their most supportive pundit, Thomas Friedman, who last July wrote a breathless column about how Americans Elect will "let the people in."
Don't buy what he's selling, writes Starr:
The history of climate policy and health-care reform is instructive. On climate policy, moderates in recent decades urged Democrats to support a market-oriented approach known as cap-and-trade in the interests of compromise. On health-care reform, they also urged Democrats to accept a market-oriented approach—private health-insurance exchanges and an individual mandate—for the sake of bipartisanship. But when Democrats adopted these approaches, Republicans abandoned them and insisted that they were tantamount to socialism. … Instead of winning over conservative support, compromise has done nothing to discourage Republicans from moving to the right—and nothing to prevent the fanatics of the center from saying that Democrats are equally responsible for political gridlock because they haven't compromised more.
"I don't think you go to the middle," Newt Gingrich recently told Fox's Sean Hannity. "You bring the middle to you." That's not only good strategy; it also describes what conservative Republicans have succeeded in doing over the past 30 years. If Democrats are to reverse the political momentum on the right, they need to bring the middle to them.
Source: The American Prospect
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Lots of people think that farming has gotten too industrialized. But there are others who believe it's not nearly industrialized enough—such as the Iowa inventor who envisions armies of robots growing our food in the future.
Discovery News reports on David Dourhout's new Prospero, a six-legged farm robot that works in teams to plant and fertilize crops. Scuttling across the land like oversized, high-tech crabs, the group of intercommunicating robots resemble an alien invasion more than a farm crew. Watch them at work in this video:
Dourhout, who based his Prospero design in part on the swarming behaviors of insects, birds and fish, believes that robotic farming will help ramp up food production for a heavily populated planet. He "hopes the next step will be to create more advanced robots that can weed, fertilize and harvest the crop," writes Eric Niller at Discovery News.
Count me among those who are skeptical that large-scale robotic farming is the answer to our pressing food-supply needs. While I understand that not every tomato and strawberry can be lovingly hand-picked by an organic farmer in a bucolic setting, it seems equally a stretch to think that complete robotic automation is the future of farming.
The popular science press seems perpetually entranced by the prospect of a heavily roboticized future, to the point where my own response to such stories has become automated. When asked "Should robots grow our food?" I have the same answer as I do to the question recently posed on the cover of Discover: "Should robots run airport security?"
Source: Discovery News, Discover
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MAJOR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: 2013 - FIVB World League. 2012 – Olympic Games... FIVB World League (Silver Medal)... NORCECA Men's Continental Olympic Qualification Tournament (Gold Medal). 2011 – FIVB World Cup… NORCECA Men's Continental Championship (Silver Medal)... London Volleyball International Invitational (Bronze Medal)... FIVB World League. 2010 – FIVB World Championship... FIVB World League. 2009 – NORCECA Continental Championship (Silver Medal)... Tour of Brazil... 2010 FIVB World Championship Qualifier for NORCECA Group F (Gold Medal)... FIVB World League. 2008 – Pan American Cup (Gold Medal). 2007 – World University Games (Gold Medal). 2005 – FIVB Men's U-21 World Championship.
INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS: 2013 - Played in 27 sets in World League, scoring 77 points on 37 kills, eight blocks and four aces. Also credited with 37 digs... Played the winter of 2012-13 for Asseco Resovia and helped it win the Polish league championship. 2012 – Served as backup outside hitter and serving specialist. Played in 56 sets. Finished season with 24 points on 17 kills, six aces and one block. Also credited with 13 digs (1.3. per set)… Played as a substitute and serving specialist in eight sets of the Olympic Games and finished with two points on one kill and one block… Finished World League with 12 points on 10 attacks and two aces in 38 sets... Played in 10 sets and started two of the NORCECA Olympic qualifier and finished with 10 points on six kills and four aces. His tourney-high was six points (four kills, two aces) scored against Trinidad & Tobago. Played the winter of 2011-12 for Asseco Resovia and helped it win the Polish league championship. 2011 – Finished the season as the team's sixth-leading scorer with 130 points on 107 attacks, 10 blocks and 13 aces in 85 sets played. Kill percentage for the season was 48.9 and his hitting efficiency was .411… Played in 13 sets of the FIVB World Cup, finishing with seven points on six kills and one ace… Played in 13 sets and started 12 at the NORCECA Men's Continental Championship in Puerto Rico. Finished with 38 points on 27 kills (46.6 kill percent), six blocks and five aces… Played in 17 sets of the London Volleyball International Invitational, a 2012 Olympic test event, and started in 14. He finished the tournament with 39 points on 36 kills (50.0 kill percent), one block and two aces… Played in 42 sets of the FIVB World League, usually as a serving specialist. He finished World League with 46 points on 38 kills, three blocks and five aces. The U.S. Men finished second in their World League pool and advanced to the Final Round where they finished seventh.Played for Marmi Lanza Verona in Italy's Serie A League during the winter of 2010-11. 2010 – Played in 55 sets for the U.S. Men during the 2010 season. He finished eighth on the team in scoring with 72 points on 60 kills (0.324 hitting percentage), seven blocks (0.18 blocks per set) and five aces (0.09 aces per set). Also had 36 digs (0.65 digs per set), tied for sixth on the team... Played in 30 sets during the FIVB World Championship in Italy. Started nine sets. Finished the tournament with 24 points on 18 kills, five blocks and one ace... Played in 25 pool play sets for the U.S. Men during the FIVB World League and posted 25 kills (1.71 per set). He tallied four aces (0.08 per set) and three stuff blocks (0.04 per set). His 45 "excellents" tied him for 24th among the League's best receivers and third best on the team. He totaled 50 points (.152) in his 25 set appearances. 2009 – Finished the 2009 season with 32 points on 22 kills, seven aces and three blocks in 17 sets played... Helped the U.S. Men to the silver medal at the NORCECA Continental Championship in Puerto Rico... Traveled to Brazil with a U.S. Men's Team made up of veterans and newcomers for five exhibition matches on Sept. 22-27. The team did not win a match. Paul was the high scorer in two of the matches with 12 points in each... Helped U.S. Men win the FIVB World Championship Qualifier on Aug. 15-17 in Irvine, Calif. Paul played in six sets and scored 10 points on nine kills and one ace... Helped the U.S. Men to a sixth place finish at World League. 2008 –Helped U.S. Men win the gold medal at the Pan American Cup in Winnipeg, Canada. 2007 – Helped the U.S. Men win the bronze medal at the World University Games in Bangkok, Thailand. 2005 –Played on the USA Junior National Team that finished eighth in the 2005 FIVB Men's U-21 World Volleyball Championship in Andhra Pradesh, India.
COLLEGE HIGHLIGHTS: 2008 –Named AVCA co-Player of the Year along with Penn State's Matt Anderson... Named AVCA First Team All-American... Named MPSF Player of the Year... Led 49ers to the semifinals of the NCAA tournament... Averaged a team-best 5.44 kills per game while adding 1.51 digs per contest, all while hitting 0.326... Paul tallied 20 or more kills 14 times in the season. He tallied double-figures in kills in 29 of the 30 matches... Paul led the team with 60 service aces, a 49er single-season record. Paul finished second on the 49er career service ace chart with 135 aces. He ranked seventh in career kills (1,408) and ninth in career digs (631). 2007 –Named honorable mention All-MPSF after averaging 4.51 kills and 1.60 digs per game... Finished first on the team with 496 kills, 176 digs and 34 aces... Was third on the team with 88 blocks... Named the Most Valuable Player of the Active Ankle/Long Beach Guesthouse Classic (March 16-17) after helping the 49ers to a 2-0 record averaging a .387 hitting percentage, 4.8 kills, 1.5 digs and 1.4 blocks per game... Named the Sports Imports/AVCA Division I-II Men's National Player of the Week and the MPSF Player of the Week on March 19... Recorded double digits in kills in 27 matches with seven double-doubles on the season. 2006 – Had a strong first year as a full-time starter... Averaged 2.00 kills, 1.66 digs and 0.72 blocks per game while hitting .234... Hit double digits in kills seven times... Career-high 18 kills in win at UC Santa Barbara... Finished tied for second on the team with his 204 total digs ... Second on the team with 30 service aces. 2005 – Played in 23 matches and 64 games on the year ... Averaged 1.23 kills per game while hitting .238 ... Seventh on the team with 11 service aces and tied for fifth on the squad with 88 digs (1.38 dpg) ... 36 total blocks in 64 games (0.56 bpg) ... Career-high 11 kills in 25 attempts vs. UC Santa Barbara (1/15). 2004 – Redshirt season.
PERSONAL: Born Paul Michael Lotman in 1985, in Lakewood, Calif. … Mother is Kathleen Lotman. Father Albert Lotman died in 2011... Has two older brothers, Mark and Steven and an older sister, Shelley… Married wife Jasmine in August, 2011... Attended Los Alamitos High School (1999-2003)… Played for the Surf City club team in Huntington Beach… Graduated from Long Beach State in 2008 with a degree in sociology… Chipotle is his favorite food... "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown is his favorite book… Favorite movie is Wedding Crashers and Entourage is his favorite TV show… Steve Nash is his favorite professional athlete and the Dallas Mavericks are his favorite team… Listens to hip-hop and house music… Enjoys beach volleyball… Admires his brother for his recovery from drug abuse… Likes to watch college basketball, volleyball, tennis and college football… His happiest moment in life was playing in his first collegiate volleyball game and his fondest sports memory is playing volleyball.


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Turner leads Marlins in quest to beat Padres for first time in '13
Saturday's matchup in Miami features two of the National League's hottest starting pitchers in recent weeks, the Padres' Eric Stults and the Marlins' Jacob Turner.
While Stults carries a 6-5 record and 3.20 ERA on the season, he has not allowed more than two earned runs in a start since May 24, a stretch that spans his past six starts.
During that time, the Padres have mirrored his resurgence: San Diego was five games under .500 and in fourth place in the National League West on May 24. On Friday, they reached the .500 mark and pulled within 2 1/2 games of first-place Arizona.
"Stults has been, over the last six weeks, probably as steady as any Major League pitcher," Padres manager Bud Black said. "Like a lot of our starters, got off to a little bit of a slow start the first three or four starts in April. But since then, he's been pretty solid, not unlike stretches last year for us where he was arguably our best pitcher.
"He's been steady. He's been dependable. He's throwing strikes. He's not beating himself. He's doing all the things you ask starting pitchers to do. He goes to the post. He's pitching six, seven, into the eighth inning. So, very happy with how he's throwing the ball."
Black can also be happy with the performance Edinson Volquez gave the team in Friday's 9-2 series-opening win. Volquez lasted six innings while allowing just two runs and striking out eight. With the outing, Volquez moved to 6-0 with a 2.37 ERA in his career against Florida-based teams.
For Miami, Turner has contributed to a much-improved starting rotation in recent weeks. He has been a workhorse for manager Mike Redmond, pitching through the seventh inning in three of five starts. He has been at his best at home, with a 1-0 record and 1.93 ERA.
"I've been making those adjustments in starts," he said. "I'd say out of the starts I've had, I'd say maybe there has been one or two where I've felt everything is clicking. The other ones, I've felt like, 'Hey, this is working, maybe this isn't working.' I've been able to make the adjustments, or being able to see what's working on this particular day, and sticking with that game plan. I've been happy with that.
"I think whenever you start pitching well, you get that confidence back."
Turner has not pitched well in all of 2013. He acknowledges that it took time to regain his confidence after a miserable Spring Training, during which he posted an 0-3 record and 9.69 ERA and did not make the Marlins' 25-man roster to start the season.
"In Spring Training, it was tough with the way I was throwing, to be pitching with a lot of confidence when you're struggling as much as I was," Turner said. "I feel like I've gotten all of that back. I'm comfortable with the way I'm feeling on the mound, both mechanically and just going right after hitters. That's always been my strength. It was nice to get back to that."
Marlins: Ruggiano expected back Saturday
Justin Ruggiano is expected to return to Miami's starting lineup and play left field Saturday. Ruggiano has been hampered by a strained left shoulder. He did not start Friday, and because the team was off Thursday, he had two days to rest his left shoulder.
Ruggiano normally starts against lefty pitching, and San Diego is starting southpaw Eric Stults on Saturday. He has been featured as Miami's leadoff hitter recently, as four of his last five starts have come from the top of the Marlins' lineup.
Ruggiano is hitting .228 with 11 home runs and 28 RBIs this season.
Padres: Offense comes to life
San Diego blasted Miami pitching for nine runs on 15 hits in Friday's 9-2 victory.
Logan Forsythe went 3-for-4 with a two-run home run, and Will Venable finished with a 3-for-5 line and three RBIs. Five Padres hitters recorded multiple hits, and only two starters went hitless.
For San Diego, it marked just the second time since May 25 that the club scored nine times. The last time was a 10-9 loss in Colorado on June 7.
The Padres entered the series ninth in the National League in batting average, eighth in home runs and 11th in slugging percentage.
Worth Noting
• Tyson Ross has 20 strikeouts in his first 16 relief appearances since joining the Padres' bullpen. He allowed at least one earned run in just three of those outings, and he has a 1.65 ERA as a reliever.
• Kyle Blanks is hitting .296 (29-for-98) with 16 runs scored, seven doubles, five homers and 18 RBIs in 25 games in June. The Padres are 26-18 in games he has started.
• The Marlins have been outscored by 20-3 in four losses this year to the Padres.
• Giancarlo Stanton is batting .333 with five doubles, five home runs and 15 RBIs at home this year.
Andrew Owens is an associate reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @OwensAndrew. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Where the heart isBy Kevin OConnor
STAFF WRITER | March 31,2013Kevin OConnor / Staff Photo
Paul Mansur says I dont do smiles, but the Vermonters story does offer a message this Easter: Never give up on people.At first glance, Vermonter Paul Mansur appears as prickly as the crewcut atop his tall, camouflage-swathed frame. His eyes narrow with suspicion. His mouth widens but says nothing, revealing only a stream of pungent cigarette smoke.
The woman he eyes on a dark street looks as weak as he is strong.
How ya doing? he asks in a gravelly baritone.
---- you, she replies with a particularly explosive expletive.
So why does his grizzled stubble part for a grateful smile?
Mansur is a night outreach worker. On the job from dusk until dawn, he scours the shadows for wanderers lacking homes, help or hope.
On the top floors of government, spokesmen explain how the state counts its unsheltered residents by surveying local social service agencies each winter, but doesnt expect to update its year-old total of 2,819 homeless Vermonters the highest number per capita in New England until later this spring.
On the ground, Mansur isnt fazed. He relies more on a police scanner, a tank of an SUV and instinct.
You look for the best hiding spots, he says. In the wintertime its easy you look for footprints headed off into nowhere. Summertime its harder you look for people with backpacks, with night rolls, constantly walking all hours of the day. You stop, you talk with them, you find out whats going on.
Or whats not going on. Mansur sometimes reaches out for weeks or months before the most skeptical or scared individual responds. But dont mistake him as patient. Hes just stubbornly if not surlily persistent.
The 45-year-old started work two decades ago when he noticed the lack of a nighttime safety net after social service agencies closed for the day. Talking to leaders of the Brattleboro Area Drop In Center, he volunteered to monitor the most vulnerable from the nonprofits closing time at 5 p.m. to its reopening at 8:30 a.m.
The only thing more surprising than the offer: the fact he followed through night upon night without pay.
Im headstrong, he says. Id see someone on the street, stop and say, How ya doing? If its cold, Id go to their camps and wake them up and ask, Anything you need?
Mansur did so without compensation or complaint for two years before the center figured out a way to obtain a federal Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) grant. Creating a first-in-the-state position, he now covers three southern counties and has trained the only other Vermont night outreach worker, in Burlington.
Setting pay and precedent aside, Mansurs quest has changed little. Delivering small comforts such as coffee, a blanket or 30-below-zero sleeping bag, hes like a postman: Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stops him. Yet unlike a mail carrier, hes also on 24-hour weekend call.
This year, his towns winter homeless shelter (housed in the First Baptist Church that made national news when it sold its Tiffany stained-glass window to avoid closure) is staying open into April because of lingering snow and cold. But just because people lack food or shelter doesnt mean theyll accept a little free help.
Some are mentally ill and fear medication, Mansur explains. Others are simply leery of a society that too easily lumps a complex spectrum of individuals upended by changes in income, relationships, health or insurance into a single stereotype.
Mansur relates. Approach him on the sidewalk at sunset and hell chat freely. Add the fact that youre a reporter and he suddenly goes silent. Months later, he chooses his words carefully.
Everybody is so scared of the homeless they dont realize when the economy takes a dive and no ones hiring or you end up in the hospital for a week, youre one of them.
Mansur has seen his share of recent challenges. Nationally, todays poor have suffered the hardest financial hit since the Great Depression. Statewide, Tropical Storm Irene swept away dozens of trailers and tents along riverbanks. Locally, a heart attack took the life of 65-year-old Melinda Bussino, the longtime head of the Drop In Center and mainstay on nearly every Vermont anti-poverty advisory board.
Melinda was like my stepmother, he says softly before going silent again.
Mansur once suffered a mild heart attack himself. When his doctor suggested stress reduction, he frowned on meditation and exercise and instead focused on his camera, taking photos of a hidden world of canvas and cardboard bunkers.
People say, How can you work with them people? That p----- me off. Theyre not them people.
Yet the question persists: What motivates a man to surrender his nights to the darkness and seeming strangers?
At the beginning, when Id see the guys theyd say, You dont know what its like. And Id say, Yeah, I do. Ive been homeless. I was bouncing around because I didnt have the references for a rental. Then I sued the housing authority for discrimination. I thought, This is wrong lets make it right.
Mansurs 1994 federal suit, supported by Vermont Legal Aid, changed several laws. His subsequent outreach work is changing lives, especially among those frightened by the sight or sound of authority.
I show up and they calm down. They know Im there to be on their side. They know Im there because Ive been there.
Which brings him back to the woman of slight frame and sharp tongue. She has been somewhere else: In a medical unit bombed in a war half a world away. Intact yet shattered, the onetime nurse doesnt view any building as safe.
Four walls its flashbacks, Mansur says.
Most people are repelled by her demeanor. But knowing her full story, he responds differently.
If I drive up and she swears, I know shes all set. If she says, Paul, I got a problem, then I know somethings wrong.
Take the frigid night she requested a blanket.
When I give you one, you generally keep it, Mansur says. But that next morning she stopped me and handed back the blanket all folded up nice and neat and said Thank you.
Today is Easter. Shelter workers at the First Baptist Church will roll up sleeping bags from the floor this morning so the congregation can celebrate the promise of rebirth and redemption.
For Mansur, the holiday will melt into another sleepless night. How can people help? Money and materials, his supervisors suggest. But for him, it all starts with mindset.
Sometimes it takes a while to get someone to go to a shelter, he says at the end of one night shift. Youve got to accept people for who people are, and treat them with dignity. Melinda taught me something a long time ago never give up on people, because it could be 10 minutes from a miracle.
The gruff, gentle man pauses to listen to the latest alert on his police scanner.
Still on the lookout for the homeless?
No, he replies he sees everyone as simply human.
Camp for a cause
When Vermonts winter homeless shelters close each spring, directors such as Lucie Fortier ask the same question: Where do folks go?
Many camp in tents and cars, on friends couches or, in Fortiers town next month, on the public common.
Brattleboro homeless advocates hope to shed light on the statewide lack of year-round emergency shelters by holding a Camp for a Common Cause outdoor overnight fundraiser May 3.
A winter 2012 count found 21 percent of Vermonts 2,819 homeless in a shelter, compared with 24 percent in transitional housing, 11 percent in government-funded lodging and 9 percent in no building at all.
But emergency shelters which host homeless who are on waiting lists for more permanent programs or dont qualify because of drinking or drug use are open only during the winter, leaving many to fend for themselves each spring, summer and fall.
People camp out wherever they can, says Joshua Davis, executive director of Morningside Shelter, a 29-bed year-round Brattleboro facility thats always full.
On May 3, advocates will set up tents on the Brattleboro Common so the public can see the situation firsthand. Fortier, head of the Brattleboro Area Drop In Center that offers the homeless respite during the day, hopes the event will resonate statewide: This will bring attention to their plight.MORE IN Local & StateBRANDON — Brandon residents and visitors will use the power of music and rhythm Saturday as... Full StoryCASTLETON Voters will again get the chance to decide the future location of the police department. Full StoryThe former Ladabouche Furniture building will be demolished to make way for a tire store. Full Story -
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People Quotes, Sayings about people
People are probably not happy with their lives if they're busy discussing yours.
A pleasant and nice person is not necessarily a good person. A frank and critical person is not necessarily a bad person.
– Dr T.P.Chia
People are like pistachios. Some of them open up easily, but there are others who need to be really broken to get into.
Negative people tend to belittle what you are doing. Positive people often try to encourage what you are doing.
– Dr T.P.Chia
The only definite thing about human beings is that they change.
People are reluctant to know about their weaknesses and flaws. People tend to exaggerate their strengths and achievements.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Open-minded, optimistic and flexible people always end up winning the battle in life.
– Dr T.P.Chia
People don't change, you just find out who they really are.
Negative people need drama like oxygen. Stay positive, it will take their breath away.
The only people worthy to be in your life are the ones that help you through the hard times and laugh with you after the hard times pass.
Why do people always want to be liked by everyone, instead of really liking themselves first. Because being liked by somebody else comes automatically if you like yourself first.
People may not always tell you how they feel about you, but their actions will speak for themselves. Pay attention.
Some people come into your life and you just know you will never be able to replace them if they left.
Have you realized that people will tell you they care, but they don't seem to show it unless you get sick, die, or become famous.
Nobody is too busy, ever, it's just a matter of priorities.
People can't drive you crazy unless you give them the key.
Don't make permanent plans with temporary people.
You can't change how people feel about you, so don't try. Just live your life and be happy.
Don't worry about what I'm doing. Worry about why you're worried about that I'm doing.
People will judge you no matter what you do…so you might as well do what you want.
Stop worrying about people that aren't worried about you.
Sometimes people don't notice the things we do for them until we stop doing them.